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Each year, as our family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving, Mom always asks each of us to declare what we are thankful for before we begin eating.
Each year, as our family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving, Mom always asks each of us to declare what we are thankful for before we begin eating.
Our table now tables boasts three generations so you can imagine the variety of Thanksgiving declarations that are spoken.
This year Thanksgiving will be a little different for all of us. Our matriarch has selflessly offered to accompany her lifelong childhood friend to Indianapolis, on what could be her friend's final trip to see her adult children.
Mom's friend is suffering from the ravages of lung cancer and macular degeneration. One of this woman's adult children is unable to travel, and the other will play host to the two travelers
over the Thanksgiving holiday.
This year, in addition to being thankful for my family, our health and my ability to continue to provide for those who rely on me in this downward spiraling economy, I am especially thankful for my mother. She is an inspiration in her choosing to kick off the season of giving by setting an example for us all to follow. I am thankful that she is the kind of woman who would choose to give her time, herself and her compassion to a friend in need especially when it comes to sacrificing precious time with her own family.
In these busy times, it is a rarity that the schedules of four adult children, three spouses and a variety of grandchildren all can converge at one place at one time.
We did all get together for a pizza party on Saturday and no, it wasn't turkey pizza to send her off in style. There was no aroma of turkey cooking in the air. There was no formal dinner setting or dressing up for dinner. It was, however, a nice laid-back family get-together with talk of years past and how we'll spend next Thursday.
Each of us has decided to cook at home this year so that we all have a bit of those coveted leftovers for late-night turkey sandwiches. As for me, I'll take my daughter down to the nursing home, where mom's friend's 90+-year-old mother is now living, and we will spend some time with her so she has family around on the holiday.
Thanks, Mom.
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Clinton delivers a tour de force
Months ago, Mitt Romney and his campaign team adopted a curious strategy. Hoping to undermine President Obama, Republicans would elevate former President Clinton, giving him unrivaled credibility and stature, as a way of positioning him as the good Democrat, as compared to that rascally Obama.
As was clear last night in Charlotte, Romney's plan was a spectacularly bad idea.


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Mel Evans / AP, file
People stand in front of the closed Pathmark supermarket Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Old Bridge, N.J., where employees, Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, were shot and killed during the overnight shift Friday by co-worker Terence Tyler who committed suicide at the store.
Employees at a New Jersey supermarket hid in storage spaces, snuck out through back exits and ran through parking lots as they begged 911 dispatchers to hurry and send help when a co-worker started shooting at them.
"I don't want to die, please," a woman hiding in a back room softly told a 911 dispatcher.
The calls from the Aug. 31 shooting at the Pathmark in Old Bridge were released Thursday. They paint a scene of chaos and fear — a woman whispering and breathing heavily, others in the store afraid the gunman might sneak up on them.
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"Guy with a shotgun," one man, apparently winded from running into a nearby parking lot, told a dispatcher. "He's blowing the place apart."
Authorities say employee Terence Tyler, a former Marine, shot two co-workers and then killed himself. Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, each died of a single gunshot wound. Both were Old Bridge residents.
Investigators determined that Tyler shot Breen and LoBrutto with an assault rifle then turned a handgun on himself. Family members said Tyler, 23, who also lived in Old Bridge, was discharged from the Marines after suffering from depression and had never gotten over his mother's death.
Employee shoots 2 dead at NJ supermarket before killing himself, police say
People on the calls identified the shooter as an ex-Marine named Terence who started working at the store two weeks earlier. No one knew his last name.
One caller said Tyler was wearing "riot gear" and started shooting as he approached the store from the parking lot. The shooting started around 4 a.m.
Julio Cortez / AP, file
Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce Kaplan inspects the scene of a shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, N.J., Friday, Aug. 31.
'He seemed very angry tonight'
One co-worker said Tyler seemed angry while working the overnight shift.
"He seemed very angry tonight. He didn't say anything to me. He walked right past me," an employee told a dispatcher.
The employee said he did not know if Tyler had gotten in an argument with someone that night. The man said Tyler walked out of the store.
Police report at least three people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
"Where did Terence go?" the man said he asked his friend. "We just thought he quit. Like he walked out. All of a sudden we started hearing shots."
Some callers didn't see Tyler but hid when they heard gunshots or ran when another employee yelled for them to run.
One man said he ran outside but came back in the store and hid in a back room. He exited the store while on the phone with a dispatcher and held his hands up as he walked around the store.
A woman said she heard about 20 shots fired while hiding in a storage room at the end of aisle four. She heard more on the phone.
"He just shot again," she told a dispatcher. "He just had two more shots."
Another woman hiding in the store worried that the gunman would discover she was there.
"He can find me," she said. "He can find me."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Misfortunes Never Come Singly
In regards to this imperial palace, Feng Yu Heng really liked it. The Emperor was good and imperial concubine Yun was good. Every time that she saw them, her heart would fill with joy. The two most important people in the imperial palace were already managing their own lives in this manner, and they were enjoying it quite a bit.
When they left Winter Moon Palace, it was already later in the day. Feng Yu Heng proposed walking a bit, thus the three simply continued on foot.
For a long time, nobody said a word until Feng Yu Heng's imperial daughter's manor was already before them. Only then did she manage to squeeze out: "Seventh brother is not suited to fighting in battle."
This was not the first time that these words were said. The two at her side could only smile bitterly. When they brought her to the entrance, they stopped, and Xuan Tian Ming said: "Seventh brother, the East has always been important. You know that if anything was to happen to you, Heng Heng and I would rush over to save you even if it meant abandoning the North."
The happiness became even more apparent on Xuan Tian Hua's face; however, he still faintly said: "It's fine." He then looked at Feng Yu Heng and paused for a bit. In the end, he still reached out and patted her head, saying: "Take care of yourselves." He then turned around and left.
Feng Yu Heng choked up, especially when she saw Xuan Tian Hua's bleak and lonely figure. An unbearable feeling of sadness washed over her.
Suddenly, her vision went dark, as a palm tightly covered her eyes, completely blocking her line of sight. Xuan Tian Ming's voice, filled with sorrow, rose once more: "This is the fate of the imperial family. Nobody is able to escape it."
She grabbed the hand before her but did not move. She just held it tightly for a moment then calmed herself down. Turning around, she said with a faint smile: "Let's go in."
After this trip, the two realized the importance of "Bring more when heading out." Feng Yu Heng decided to have the chef work overnight to prepare some more food for her to place inside her space. She also placed more bowls and chopsticks inside her space. There were also some newly arrived fruits that could also be placed inside.
She entered her space with her consciousness, finding that Yao Xian had found a way to treat Ban Zou's poison and was in the process of treating him. She looked around and decided to clean out a counter on the second floor, placing its contents into another drawer. The recently-cleaned counter was now a place to put things that had been brought into the room after the fact.
After the orders were sent to the kitchen, the two quickly returned to Feng Yu Heng's courtyard then entered the medicine storage room. Upon entering the room, Feng Yu Heng brought Xuan Tian Ming into her space. At this time, Yao Xian had already injected Ban Zou with an anti-toxin. Although Ban Zou had not yet woken up, his complexion had improved greatly.
Yao Xian told her: "He can be brought out. He can wake up at any moment."
Feng Yu Heng nodded and brought the group out of the space. Ban Zou was settled into the medicine storage room with Yao Xian left to take care of him. Feng Yu Heng told Yao Xian: "We will be leaving for the military camp tomorrow morning. Zi Rui will be coming with us… Right, where is Zi Rui? Did he come back?"
The three exchanged glances, and a question was written very clearly on Xuan Tian Ming's face: Who are you asking?
Feng Yu Heng facepalmed. She had forgotten that Zi Rui had gone to the Feng manor. Opening the door, she asked the servants: "Did the young master comeback?" After asking, she began to wonder, that child wouldn't return to the Yu Palace, right?
As a result, a maidservant told her: "Young master returned long ago and is resting in his own courtyard."
Only then did she let out a sigh of relief, leaving Yao Xian to keep an eye on Ban Zou. She and Xuan Tian Ming then went toward Zi Rui's side.
She was feeling uneasy, telling Xuan Tian Ming: "I keep feeling that Zi Rui's trip to the Feng manor this time was not a pleasant experience. Un… The unpleasant experience that I am speaking of is not Feng Jin Yuan. Rather it is…"
"I understand." Xuan Tian Ming took the initiative to interject then express his own opinions, "In this world, all relationships require effort from both sides to maintain. This includes familial ties. What of blood relations? Those brothers of mine still tried to kill father Emperor in order to ascend the throne. That's why there is no need for you to feel such a great burden. If you can be together as mother and daughter, do it. If not, then forget about it."
Feng Yu Heng naturally understood this reasoning, but sometimes, things just worked out like this. By remaining aloof of a matter, anyone was capable of remaining at peace. When one was at the center of things, who would be able to remain calm?
When she saw Zi Rui, the child was currently sitting on his bed with his legs curled up and arms wrapped around his knees, as his body quivered. Feng Yu Heng was extremely scared, quickly running over. It seemed as though the child had been given a shock then saw that it was his elder sister. The grief that he had felt welled up. His small mouth flattened, and tears began to stream down.
Xuan Tian Ming went to the side and watched the brother and sister. He also felt helpless. It really was too much to have ended up with this sort of a mother.
Zi Rui told his elder sister about the grief that he had suffered while at the Feng family home. After he finished his story, he said with concern: "Sis, just mother alone not acknowledging you is nothing to fear. I am worried that when our uncles return, what should we do if they also do not acknowledge you?"
Before Feng Yu Heng could respond to this question, a "bang" sound came as the door was pushed open. Turning around to look, Yao Xian fiercely walked in. While walking, he said: "Don't acknowledge? If they don't acknowledge her, I will break all of their legs!"
With this interruption, Zi Rui's grief was reduced by a great deal. The group no longer needed to mention Yao shi. Either way, Yao Xian was in the capital. No matter what happened, Yao shi would not be in any danger, she would not be able to do anything too improper. Feng Yu Heng just secretly said to Yao Xian: "No matter what, I hope that she can live happily."
The next day, Feng Yu Heng, Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Zi Rui climbed into the imperial carriage and set out in the direction of the military camp. Huang Quan had returned overnight and went with Wang Chuan to accompany Feng Yu Heng.
Before the imperial carriage left the capital, they happened to meet up with Xuan Tian Hua. Xuan Tian Hua was going straight toward the East and did not bring his imperial carriage. He was only sitting in a simple carriage. Wang Chuan lifted the curtain, and Feng Yu Heng happened to see Xuan Tian Hua looking over. Their eyes met, and a simple message was seen in his eyes: Take care of yourself.
She nodded and watched the carriage pass by. Xuan Tian Ming quietly whispered into her ear: "The East has remained peaceful, but once it becomes chaotic, it will be comparable to the lowly Qian Zhou."
The imperial carriage left the capital and raced along the official road. Because Xuan Tian Hua left everyone feeling a little down, thus they did not speak much. Huang Quan felt that the atmosphere was truly very awkward, thus she took the initiative to speak up: "When we were on the boat, we bought a servant, right? This servant has already given her the order last night, and she was sent to the residence in the suburbs today. She will be learning about medicine with Tian Dong."
Feng Yu Heng nodded and did not have any objections to Huang Quan's arrangements. It was Zi Rui that asked: "What servant did you buy on the boat?"
Huang Quan smiled and chatted with him: "Young master is resourceful. Didn't you give a red string at a girl at the dock?"
Zi Rui's eyes lit up, as he immediately remembered. He quickly said: "Right, right, right, there was something like that. Hah, you don't know, but the situation at that time was very urgent. Fortunately, I was able to act resourcefully. Seeing that the girl seemed quite clever, I tossed the string out."
Feng Yu Heng saw that he was about to begin boasting, she quickly grabbed some seeds and prepared to listen.
Who knew that at this time, just as the seeds were held in her hand, it seemed that the wooden board under her butt had moved. They then heard a crisp child's voice loudly shout: "Little elder brother! Sure enough, you have not forgotten about me!"
She threw away her seeds in surprise and asked Xuan Tian Ming in surprise: "What is this?"
Xuan Tian Ming expressed that he did not know; however, Huang Quan's face turned white. She said with some uncertainty: "Why does it sound like that servant's voice?"
At this time, the voice spoke up once more: "Little elder brother! Quickly, quickly help pull me out. Hah, here! Look down!"
Everyone looked down and saw a thin, white arm reach out from behind the seat. With the five fingers splayed, they were reaching for Feng Zi Rui.
The corners of Feng Zi Rui's lips twitched, as he stepped back, asking with a trembling voice: "You… what sort of monster are you?"
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "Right, what sort of thing is this?"
The little girl called out once more: "Little elder brother! Little elder brother!"
Feng Yu Heng wiped the sweat off her forehead. Why did this sound as though it was chased after a soul? However, it did indeed sound like the servant that she had bought, but she did not understand: "Huang Quan, didn't you say that you handed her off to a servant to send her off to the residence in the suburbs?"
Huang Quan bent over to pull the person out from under the seat. While pulling, she replied: "Young miss, believe this servant. It really was arranged that way." While speaking, the person was dragged out. Once the girl popped out, she did not say anything and rushed toward Feng Zi Rui.
Feng Yu heng trembled, and Zi Rui was knocked over.
"Little elder brother, are you alright? I really missed you!" The little girl servant that had been purchased on the boat suddenly appeared inside Xuan Tian Ming's imperial carriage. She even managed to prevail by overwhelming Zi Rui.
Feng Yu Heng facepalmed, "People are capable of hiding in our carriage now? Xuan Tian Ming, do you want to ask who it was that was in charge of inspecting this imperial carriage this morning? Was it that Bai Ze guy?"
A certain person that was driving the carriage had sharp ears and immediately shouted: "Princess, this matter was not this subordinate's fault. That girl said that she was with Huang Quan and would be going to the military camp."
Huang Quan also became frantic, "You believed everything that she says?"
The person outside was rather indifferent, "Isn't it just a girl. Bringing an extra person will help relieve the young master of his boredom."
Upon hearing this, the girl immediately nodded, "Right, right, right, I can be little elder brother's partner. Little elder brother, you also think so, right!"
What could Zi Rui say? This girl was currently on his body. Looking at her, she looked extremely thin, but why did she feel so heavy?
"That uh… get up to speak." Zi Rui helplessly spoke up. Seeing the girl finally get up, only then did he quickly sit up straight and begin to reason with her: "Back then, you did indeed save me and helped me a great deal. You can ask for anything for this grace, but we are going to a military camp this time. That is not a place that young children can go. Just listen, in a little while, I will have someone send you back."
The girl did not understand: "Aren't you also a young child?"
"How… How can I be the same as you? I am a male!"
"Then aren't they all female?" The girl reached out and pointed in the direction of Feng Yu Heng, "Young miss is a girl. Elder sister Huang Quan is a girl. Elder sister Wang Chuan is a girl. What exactly is the difference?"
These words rendered everyone speechless. That's right, what was the difference?
Xuan Tian Ming, however, was quite entertained, waving his hand, "Forget it, it's just one girl. Just let her be a close friend to Zi Rui. That way, Zi Rui will have a companion."
The girl smiled brightly upon hearing this. Shouting loudly, she moved to dive toward Zi Rui once more.
Feng Yu Heng was speechless. Why was it that she had not seen through this child's personality back then? She looked sideways at Huang Quan, and Huang Quan told her with a bitter look: "After she became familiar, she became like this."
As the saying goes, misfortunes do not come singly, thus messes would not come alone. On this side, someone had hidden under a seat in the imperial carriage. On the other side, a movement also came from under Xuan Tian Hua's seat.
He had been sitting well, but he suddenly felt as though there was something bumping against the seat. Following this, he heard an extremely irritated voice say: "This One was stifled to death."


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Ace Frehley Calls Paul Stanley a Cranky Backstabber, Says He's Lost His Chops
In a new interview, former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley told Guitar World that he really wants to "keep everything light and be happy," but that didn't stop him from firing off a few more rounds in the ongoing war of words between himself and his former bandmates Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons.
Although he accused both Stanley and Simmons of "scratching their heads trying to come up with new ways to insult me" now that he has years of sobriety under his belt, Frehley saved particular scorn for Stanley, saying, "Paul has been so goddamn cranky lately. I mean, what's wrong, Paul, aren't you happy? I know they must be frustrated because people are always writing about how Ace was the real guy or Ace was the real deal. It's gotta rub them the wrong way. ... I'm a straight shooter -- I tell it like it is. Gene is that way too. He'll sit across from you in a room and say this or that and tell it like it is. Whether you like it or not, he lays it out, right to your face. Paul will tell you one thing, then walk out the door and stab you in the f---ing back. That's Paul Stanley."
For example, continued Frehley, there's the matter of Stanley reportedly trying to take credit for creating the Kiss logo. "I designed the logo," insisted Frehley. All he did was draw straighter lines. And you know, I told Paul to wear the star on his eye. Do you know what his makeup was before he put the star on his eye? It was a round circle. He looked like the dog from the Little Rascals [Pete the Pup, a.k.a. Petey]. I told him it looked kinda silly and that he should put one star on his eye. But do I go around taking credit for that? No. I let him say he designed it. Who cares, you know? Let's not be petty."
Saying that "you're gonna make enemies when you put down Ace Frehley" and speculating that the band has lost fans due to its refusal to perform with the original lineup at its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Frehley added, "You would think that if Gene and Paul had half a brain, they would realize what's going on and start saying good things about Ace. I mean, keep bad-mouthing me. No one's gonna show up at your f---ing tour this summer."
Frehley has no such fears about his new solo effort, 'Space Invader,' due Aug. 19. "I'm writing great songs and I'm singing great, and I'm super excited about this new album," he enthused. "I played some tracks for a couple of guys I was considering using for mixing, and the first thing out of their mouths was, 'God, your voice sounds like it did on your 1978 solo record.' Unlike some other people, whose voices aren't maybe what they used to be. Not to name names, or anything."


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200 would be the number involved in the original attack, not supply runs. [and yes, absent humans the eastern Caribbean is not teaming with large animals. snack-food is about the size of it, if you're a dragon]
At ~1000T & 200'x33', corvettes were not boats.
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Now I know I'm nit-picking here, but I just have to say it. Cuba is North West of the bulge of Brazil, way north west.SS: But if the portal is in Cuba, why isn't the flight path for dragons from Cuba > Puerto Rico > St. Lucia > Guyana and points forward along Brazil's coast? It would seem to save a lot of time.
HTM: Excellent point, SS! The Leeward/Windward Islands route is indeed much shorter. Let's see ... dragons are carnivores, who need big animals to eat. Maybe the hunting on those relatively small islands isn't good enough for so many dragons, more than two hundred of them. Maybe Weber & Evans decided that it wouldn't be, when they set the Central American Route for the dragons, way back in Book One. But a single Courier Dragon might go that way.
What? 200 dragons? Uummmm.... it seemed that they were lucky to have a couple of dragons flying to Hells Gate. So I don't think it would be a question of food for the dragon. Besides, the dragons go days with out feeding. Surely they could last the few island hops till they reached South America again.SS: As for a boat, I figure the Sharonan's would only need something with a 4" gun up front and a pair of borfors guns aft. That's not too big... They can ship it forward in parts, some assembly required, kind of thing.
HTM: I am not a Naval Architect, but I know better than to make Thomas Jefferson's mistake, that a single big gun can be successfully used on a small gunboat. The big gun will have a Big Recoil, which will damage or destroy a small boat. That is why 4" guns are put on Navy destroyers, which mass about a thousand (1000) tons. For a 5" gun, the warship mass will be at least 1,500 tons.
A 4" gun isn't that massive, the British easily mounted 4" guns on corvette class ships. Those aren't that big of a ship. Something that I think could easily be brought forward in parts and assembled


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Not really ADRIFT related but did anyone see this recent announcement on the Quest blog? It looks like Quest might well be shutting down in a couple of months.
ElliotM wrote:I saw that, he is looking for a buyer of the different resources, assets, and services he had created.
Lumin wrote:People there are so desperate I see they're just flat out posting their email addresses in threads now. Have fun with the spam guys.
But actually, yeah, I did wonder a lot what motivated dropping the program. Could always be RL stuff but handing it off completely seemed odd, when it's not like people are expecting or clamoring for regular updates. Just maintaining the site shouldn't have been that time consuming and would have left him free to pick up development on Quest at any point in the future. So I hope it wasn't really a case of picking up his ball and going home, but, I guess there's no way to ever know.
Lumin wrote:Actually I'm not sure what's going on with that site at all these days, on a number of levels. Most of the games listed on the front page weren't even made with Quest.
Lumin wrote:I hadn't even realized about Merk, damn, I really have been out of the loop. For every bit of drama I witness it seems like there's even I only hear about after the fact. Of course it doesn't help that they're deleting entire threads. How did that even happen, though? It was his forum. Seems like he needed to be a little more judicious with the banhammer, or hell, if nothing else shut the whole place down and toss up some donkey porn. Or a copy of 1984.
Lumin wrote:Oh...but to keep the thread on topic...speaking of Quest, this amused me:
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SIAC Announces the Official Release of the SIAC Rules 2016
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce the official release of the sixth edition of the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC Rules 2016"). The SIAC Rules 2016 will be available on the SIAC website from 1 July 2016, and will come into effect on 1 August 2016.
The SIAC Rules 2016 were jointly produced by the SIAC Secretariat working closely with the Rules Revision Executive Committee and various subcommittees of the Court of Arbitration of SIAC, and following extensive consultation with SIAC's global Users Council and a public consultation exercise. SIAC received nearly 1,000 comments during the course of extensive public consultations in multiple forums in, among others, Asia, Europe and North America.
Some of the key highlights of the SIAC Rules 2016 include: new provisions on consolidation, multiple contracts, and joinder of additional parties to facilitate the cost-effective and efficient resolution of disputes; the introduction of an innovative procedure for the early dismissal of claims and defences, making SIAC the first amongst the world's major commercial arbitration centres to adopt this provision in its Rules; and delocalisation of the seat of arbitration. In addition, further enhancements have been made to the popular Expedited Procedure and Emergency Arbitrator special procedures (both of which were first introduced in July 2010), to better serve the needs of users from all over the world.
A brief summary of the notable features of the SIAC Rules 2016 is here.
Gary Born, President of the Court of Arbitration of SIAC, commented, "We are delighted to be launching the SIAC Rules 2016, which incorporate progressive and user-friendly processes to ensure that SIAC continues to provide world class, cost-competitive dispute resolution services and consolidate its position as the forum of choice for parties from diverse legal systems and cultures. We take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved in this project for their invaluable contributions and extraordinarily useful feedback. These Rules provide a state-of-the-art procedural framework for efficient, expert and enforceable resolution of international disputes of all kinds, in all parts of the world."
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In 1994, then San Antonio Mayor Nelson Wolff proclaimed the San Antonio Mastersingers "one of the crown jewels within the San Antonio Arts community." The chorus continues to delight audiences during its sixty-fifth season. Dr. John Silantien is their director. This upcoming week features the group in two different programs.
This Sunday (March 28 at 7 p.m. at the Basilica of the Little Flower) the San Antonio Mastersingers will perform a Palm Sunday concert called "From Passion to Resurrection." They will sing:
Heinrich Schütz, "Psalm 100", "Jauchzet dem Herren"
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, "Peter's Denial"
Heinrich Schütz, "Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross"
Matthew Armstrong, "Elegy for Dachau"
Arr. H.T. Burleigh, "Weeping Mary"
Henryk Gorecki, "Totus tuus"
Arr. Byron J. Smith, "Lift Him Up"
Next weekend the Mastersingers join the Symphony at the Majestic Theatre on April 2 and 3 in two beautiful English choral works by Vaughan Williams and Holst.
Here is a photo taken this past September of the Symphony and the Mastersingers performing Carmina Burana.
This weekend (March 26 & 27) The Symphony features Principal Bassoonist Sharon Kuster in the Mozart Bassoon Concerto. For more information call (210) 554-1010 or visit sasymphony.org.
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If you implement the custom security extensions and configure to use forms authentication in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services (SSRS 2016), you will find that the Report Server web portal URL is working fine. However, the Report Server Web service URL is getting truncated with a dropped query string when it redirects to the authentication page for unauthenticated users which makes the user authentication to fail.
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.


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With the new year right around the corner, it's the perfect time to think about habits that could be delaying a promotion or interfering with developing a better relationship with your boss. It's easy for habits to form over a period of time where you automatically react without much thought.
Habits definitely can affect your career path at work even though you may have had good performance reviews and worked steadily for years.
What habits could be sabotaging your career? Employees often engage in career-damaging habits such as poor time management, holding grudges against coworkers and not taking the time to ask questions.
Here's an example of how a habit can affect your relationship with your boss. Do you leave every meeting with your boss with a clear understanding of what's being asked of you? The habit of assuming you know — instead of clarifying what is expected of you — can set you up for failure.
In order to break a habit, you must recognize those behaviors that could be holding you back, and this requires some self-reflection. Pay attention to cues around you. If you have expressed a desire to take on more responsibility and you keep getting passed over for projects, it could be a sign that a habit is blocking your growth. Habits such as rigid thinking or the tendency to be an independent contributor instead of a team participant, also can hold you back.
This is a great time to start thinking about your career goals for 2012 and the habits that could be preventing you from reaching them.
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Are Expectations Too High at Oracle?
Enterprise software giant Oracle will report earnings today after the markets close for trading in New York. The consensus of Wall Street analysts calls for Oracle to report per-share earnings of 61 cents on sales that are slightly north of $9 billion.
While it's true that Oracle has fared better than most of its rivals amid a crash in global IT spending, analyst Brendan Barnicle of Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Ore., argued in a research note to clients last week that analysts may have set the bar a bit high. He expects EPS of 60 cents and sales of $8.94 billion. "In checks, we heard about more large deals than we have in the recent past. Nevertheless, it is likely that macro uncertainty made it difficult to close all the deals. Therefore, we expect November quarter results generally to be in line to slightly lower than consensus," he wrote.
On top of that, he thinks the outlook for the quarter ahead is too aggressive, given the state of the world economy. "Oracle has a clear practice of guiding conservatively, and in the current macroenvironment, we expect the same," Barnicle wrote. With that in mind, he thinks the current consensus that calls for earnings of 66 cents on sales of $9.3 billion is a little too high.
Even so, Barnicle expects mostly positive news from Oracle today. With the shares trading at $32.43 this morning, up more than 26 percent this year, he still thinks there's room to grow. His price target is $36.


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Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs.
The advances have led to widespread enthusiasm among researchers who design software to perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking. They offer the promise of machines that converse with humans and perform tasks like driving cars and working in factories, raising the specter of automated robots that could replace human workers.
The technology, called deep learning, has already been put to use in services like Apple's Siri virtual personal assistant, which is based on Nuance Communications' speech recognition service, and in Google's Street View, which uses machine vision to identify specific addresses.
But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just "neural nets" for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain.
"There has been a number of stunning new results with deep-learning methods," said Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University who did pioneering research in handwriting recognition at Bell Laboratories. "The kind of jump we are seeing in the accuracy of these systems is very rare indeed."
Artificial intelligence researchers are acutely aware of the dangers of being overly optimistic. Their field has long been plagued by outbursts of misplaced enthusiasm followed by equally striking declines.
In the 1960s, some computer scientists believed that a workable artificial intelligence system was just 10 years away. In the 1980s, a wave of commercial start-ups collapsed, leading to what some people called the "A.I. winter."
But recent achievements have impressed a wide spectrum of computer experts. In October, for example, a team of graduate students studying with the University of Toronto computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton won the top prize in a contest sponsored by Merck to design software to help find molecules that might lead to new drugs.
From a data set describing the chemical structure of thousands of different molecules, they used deep-learning software to determine which molecule was most likely to be an effective drug agent.
The achievement was particularly impressive because the team decided to enter the contest at the last minute and designed its software with no specific knowledge about how the molecules bind to their targets. The students were also working with a relatively small set of data; neural nets typically perform well only with very large ones.
"This is a really breathtaking result because it is the first time that deep learning won, and more significantly it won on a data set that it wouldn't have been expected to win at," said Anthony Goldbloom, chief executive and founder of Kaggle, a company that organizes data science competitions, including the Merck contest.
Advances in pattern recognition hold implications not just for drug development but for an array of applications, including marketing and law enforcement. With greater accuracy, for example, marketers can comb large databases of consumer behavior to get more precise information on buying habits. And improvements in facial recognition are likely to make surveillance technology cheaper and more commonplace.
Artificial neural networks, an idea going back to the 1950s, seek to mimic the way the brain absorbs information and learns from it. In recent decades, Dr. Hinton, 64 (a great-great-grandson of the 19th-century mathematician George Boole, whose work in logic is the foundation for modern digital computers), has pioneered powerful new techniques for helping the artificial networks recognize patterns.
Modern artificial neural networks are composed of an array of software components, divided into inputs, hidden layers and outputs. The arrays can be "trained" by repeated exposures to recognize patterns like images or sounds.
These techniques, aided by the growing speed and power of modern computers, have led to rapid improvements in speech recognition, drug discovery and computer vision.
Deep-learning systems have recently outperformed humans in certain limited recognition tests.
Last year, for example, a program created by scientists at the Swiss A. I. Lab at the University of Lugano won a pattern recognition contest by outperforming both competing software systems and a human expert in identifying images in a database of German traffic signs.
The winning program accurately identified 99.46 percent of the images in a set of 50,000; the top score in a group of 32 human participants was 99.22 percent, and the average for the humans was 98.84 percent.
This summer, Jeff Dean, a Google technical fellow, and Andrew Y. Ng, a Stanford computer scientist, programmed a cluster of 16,000 computers to train itself to automatically recognize images in a library of 14 million pictures of 20,000 different objects. Although the accuracy rate was low — 15.8 percent — the system did 70 percent better than the most advanced previous one.
Deep learning was given a particularly audacious display at a conference last month in Tianjin, China, when Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft's top scientist, gave a lecture in a cavernous auditorium while a computer program recognized his words and simultaneously displayed them in English on a large screen above his head.
Then, in a demonstration that led to stunned applause, he paused after each sentence and the words were translated into Mandarin Chinese characters, accompanied by a simulation of his own voice in that language, which Dr. Rashid has never spoken.
The feat was made possible, in part, by deep-learning techniques that have spurred improvements in the accuracy of speech recognition.
Dr. Rashid, who oversees Microsoft's worldwide research organization, acknowledged that while his company's new speech recognition software made 30 percent fewer errors than previous models, it was "still far from perfect."
"Rather than having one word in four or five incorrect, now the error rate is one word in seven or eight," he wrote on Microsoft's Web site. Still, he added that this was "the most dramatic change in accuracy" since 1979, "and as we add more data to the training we believe that we will get even better results."
One of the most striking aspects of the research led by Dr. Hinton is that it has taken place largely without the patent restrictions and bitter infighting over intellectual property that characterize high-technology fields.
"We decided early on not to make money out of this, but just to sort of spread it to infect everybody," he said. "These companies are terribly pleased with this."
Referring to the rapid deep-learning advances made possible by greater computing power, and especially the rise of graphics processors, he added:
"The point about this approach is that it scales beautifully. Basically you just need to keep making it bigger and faster, and it will get better. There's no looking back now."


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DEER PARK, Texas – An explosion and fire were reported at a Deer Park chemical plant.
Officials said the level-three emergency happened at the Akzo Nobel polymer chemicals plant in the 700 block of Independence Parkway at about 1 p.m. on Monday.
Plant officials said there was an explosion in a unit that produces butyl ethyl magnesium, a component used to produce plastic.
The company was not sure how many people were in the unit at the time of the explosion, but one contract worker was hurt. He was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. His condition has not been released.
The Deer Park and La Porte fire departments were initially called out to help, but the plant's in-house fire department was able to handle the blaze itself.
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Importing Bulk Data by Using BULK INSERT or OPENROWSET(BULK...)
This topic provides an overview of how to use the Transact-SQL BULK INSERT statement and the INSERT...SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) statement to bulk import data from a data file into a Microsoft SQL Server table. This topic also describes security considerations for using BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET(BULK…), and using these methods to bulk import from a remote data source.
When you use BULK INSERT or OPENROWSET(BULK…), it is important to understand how SQL Server 2005 and later versions handle impersonation. For more information, see "Security Considerations," later in this topic.
BULK INSERT Statement
BULK INSERT loads data from a data file into a table. This functionality is similar to that provided by the in option of the bcp command; however, the data file is read by the SQL Server process. For a description of the BULK INSERT syntax, see BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL).
For BULK INSERT examples, see:
Using a Format File to Map Table Columns to Data-File Fields
OPENROWSET(BULK…) Function
The OPENROWSET bulk rowset provider is accessed by calling the OPENROWSET function and specifying the BULK option. The OPENROWSET(BULK…) function allows you to access remote data by connecting to a remote data source, such as a data file, through an OLE DB provider.
To bulk import data, call OPENROWSET(BULK…) from a SELECT…FROM clause within an INSERT statement. The basic syntax for bulk importing data is:
When used in an INSERT statement, OPENROWSET(BULK...) supports table hints. In addition to the regular table hints, such as TABLOCK, the BULK clause can accept the following specialized table hints: IGNORE_CONSTRAINTS (ignores only the CHECK constraints), IGNORE_TRIGGERS, KEEPDEFAULTS, and KEEPIDENTITY. For more information, see Table Hints (Transact-SQL).
For information about additional uses of the BULK option, see OPENROWSET (Transact-SQL).
For examples of INSERT...SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) statements, see the following topics:
Using a Format File to Map Table Columns to Data-File Fields
Security Considerations
If a user uses a SQL Server login, the security profile of the SQL Server process account is used. In contrast, if a SQL Server user logs on by using Windows Authentication, the user can read only those files that can be accessed by the user account, regardless of the security profile of the SQL Server process.
For example, consider a user who logged in to an instance of SQL Server by using Windows Authentication. For the user to be able to use BULK INSERT or OPENROWSET to import data from a data file into a SQL Server table, the user account requires read access to the data file. With access to the data file, the user can import data from the file into a table even if the SQL Server process does not have permission to access the file. The user does not have to grant file-access permission to the SQL Server process.
SQL Server and Microsoft Windows can be configured to enable an instance of SQL Server to connect to another instance of SQL Server by forwarding the credentials of an authenticated Windows user. This arrangement is known as impersonation or delegation. Understanding how SQL Server 2005 and later versions handle security for user impersonation is important when you use BULK INSERT or OPENROWSET. User impersonation allows the data file to reside on a different computer than either the SQL Server process or the user. For example, if a user on Computer_A has access to a data file on Computer_B, and the delegation of credentials has been set appropriately, the user can connect to an instance of SQL Server that is running on Computer_C, access the data file on Computer_B, and bulk import data from that file into a table on Computer_C. For more information, see Understanding Impersonation.
The way in which SQL Server 2005 and later versions control access to files addresses a security issue that was present in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and earlier versions. Formerly, after a user was authenticated, access to external files was based on the security profile of the SQL Server process. When the SQL Server process had read access to a file, for a user that did not have access to the file but was a member of the bulkadmin fixed server role, the user could import the file by using BULK INSERT and access the contents of the file.
Bulk Importing from a Remote Data File
To use BULK INSERT or INSERT...SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) to bulk import data from another computer, the data file must be shared between the two computers. To specify a shared data file, use its universal naming convention (UNC) name, which takes the general form, **\\Servername\Sharename\Path\**Filename. Additionally, the account used to access the data file must have the permissions that are required for reading the file on the remote disk.
For example, the following BULK INSERT statement bulk imports data into the SalesOrderDetail table of the AdventureWorks2008R2 database from a data file that is named newdata.txt. This data file resides in a shared folder named \dailyorders on a network share directory named salesforce on a system named computer2.
BULK INSERT AdventureWorks2008R2.Sales.SalesOrderDetail
FROM '\\computer2\salesforce\dailyorders\neworders.txt';
This restriction does not apply to the bcp utility because the client reads the file independently of SQL Server.
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So, hands on the GT sports steering wheel! In easy reach: the mode switch, where you can select your preferred driving mode – from Normal, SPORT, SPORT PLUS and Individual. The shortened gear lever reinforces the sporty appeal of the interior with its shift pattern in red.
The interior: black and pure. On the steering wheel and gear lever: smooth-finish leather for a comfortable feel. On the doors: understated door pull loops. The trim strips on the dashboard and centre console painted in Black (high-gloss), harmoniously round off the design.
Switch off: yes. Slack off: no. Made possible by the Sports seats Plus (two-way) with elevated side bolsters and seat centres in durable Sport-Tex – or, optionally, the adaptive Sports seats Plus (18-way). Could it get even sportier? Yes – sports bucket seats or ultra-lightweight full bucket seats in carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) are also available as an option. The headrests on all seat variants feature the '718' logo.
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The mechanically regulated rear differential lock included with PTV has an asymmetrical lock factor. This helps to provide greater traction, for example when accelerating out of corners and driving on road surfaces with varying grip. The result: considerable lateral dynamic vehicle stability and exceptional traction. Impressive agility at every speed – with precise steering response and balanced load transfer characteristics. And, of course, tremendous fun on corners.
Flip the switch. Step out of the four walls, onto the open straights and into the bends. Thanks to the mode switch on the GT sports steering wheel, you can select one of four settings: Normal, SPORT, SPORT PLUS or Individual mode, to adapt the vehicle even more precisely to the way you want to drive.
In SPORT mode, the electronic engine management demands a sharper response. Engine dynamics become more direct and the sports exhaust system is activated.
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Individual mode follows your driving style: you can select and store various vehicle settings to suit your preferences.
Thanks to Real-time Traffic Information, the optional navigation module including
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Found this Beautiful item in a garage sale !! It is in perfect working condition and very well preserved. Wish the label inside were still in order but looks like someone may have tried to spray some laquer or something on it to preserve it which in turn deteriated it. Mohogany veneer is in really good shape. I love it !! It is pre-1850 and distinctly says Plymouth Hollow, Connecticut inside. Anyone else have one like this ?


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Road Worlds - Verona, Italy
Men's Road Race
There are approximately 75 kilometres left in the men's 265 kilometre race. Currently there are 5 riders off the front of the peloton - Sylvain Calzati (France), Steve Zampieri (Switzerland), Koos Moerenhout (Netherlands), Bartosz Huzarski (Poland), Frank Hoj (Denmark). They have just over two minutes on the peloton. Charles Dionne attacked the peloton at the end of lap 13, but was quickly brought back.
Five kilometres in, French rider Christophe Le Mevel attacked, and was joined on lap five by Vladimir Efimkin of Russia. The duo managed to carve out a maximum lead of seven and a half minutes, but by the halfway point the peloton were starting to crank things up. On the tenth lap (of 18) the peloton had a small split over the top of the Torricelle climb, with 25 riders getting clear and closing on the two leaders. The chase group caught the leaders at the end of next lap, but the peloton was chasing hard and caught everyone on lap 12. This set the stage for counter attacks on the climb, and the current lead group formed.
One of the more interesting developments has been ongoing problems suffered by Olympic champion Paolo Bettinin (Italy). bettini has been back to his team car multiple times for mechanical assistance and with an apparent knee problem. he is still with the peloton, but at the back on the climb, and has been brought back up more than once by his team mates. This brings back memories of last year, when Bettini was also the designated leader of the Italian squad, and didn't have it at the end.
Star Crossed Cyclo-cross - Redmond, WA
Courtesy Giant-Maxxis
The UCI cyclocross calendar officially kicked off the season at the Marymoor Velodrome in Redmond Washington this past Saturday evening. Held under the lights, through the Tona Cerveza Garden and up and around the velodrome, the third annual Star Crossed drew the top talent in North America.
Team Maxxis-Giant rolled out the big guns with all riders in attendance. Geoff Kabush, Adam Craig and Jonny Sundt rolled to the start line aboard their new Giant TCX bikes, Zipp wheels and Maxxis rubber. At the gun, Sundt and Kabush immediately went to the front of the group with Craig just off the leader. As the protected rider for the night, it was Craig's job to stay out of the wind and out of trouble until late in the race and a hopeful victory.
As the pace wound up, Sundt maintained the high pace at the head of affairs riding in support of his teammates. The fast pace took its toll on the competitors as the lead group slowly dwindled down to a select few. Todd Wells (Hyundai-GT) took a good flyer and opened an immediate gap to the chasers with Kabush, Sundt, Russell Stevenson (BRI Racing) and a distanced Carl Decker (Giant-Peal Izumi) working feverishly to reel him back to the group. Accelerations from other riders spread the chase with Kabush working each lap to bring back Wells.
With only four laps remaining, Kabush made contact with Wells leaving Sundt, Stevenson and Decker together at a 10 second deficit. Wells and Kabush worked smoothly together but their pace had slowed enough that Decker made contact within a laps time. The three leaders rode together as Sundt dropped Stevenson and accelerated in an effort to bridge the gap.
At two and a half laps to go, Kabush bobbled in a corner, laying his bike over and losing contact with Wells and Decker. With two and then a single lap remaining, Kabush worked valiantly to bring back the escaped duo to no avail. At the finish it was Carl Decker escaping from Todd Wells to claim the prize. Kabush and teammate Sundt tolled across the line in third and fourth, Stevenson in fifth and Adam Craig in thirteenth.
Men's A
1. Carl Decker Giant-Pearl Izumi
2. Todd Wells Hyundai-GT
3. Geoff Kabush Team Maxxis-Giant
4. Jonny Sundt Team Maxxis Giant
5. Russell Stevenson BRI Racing
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Is the Internet Killing "Real" Chess?
From the northern suburbs of New York City, the epicenter of American chess, comes a cri de coeur from veteran tournament player Polly Wright, who laments the decline of two local chess clubs in her area. According to Polly, the culprit is the Internet, which has made it so easy to play online that fewer people are venturing out to chess clubs.
It's not the first time the Internet has been linked to the downfall of over-the-board (OTB) chess. Glenn Panner sees the trend here in the Chicago area, Jack Le Moine raised the issue in a forum on Susan Polgar's blog, and someone named The Parrot claimed as long ago as 2004 that the Net had killed adult OTB chess. Two summers ago I chatted with some of the regulars at the North Avenue Chess Pavilion about this. These were players who had been going there for years, and some of them were convinced that the Internet was hurting attendance at the popular lakefront chess venue.
I too have mixed feelings. The Internet is a great boon to chess. It enables anyone with online access to play anytime of the day or night, something that would have been impossible in the past. I play at several Web sites, and I enjoy it.
Yet as seems to happen with so many technologies that improve our lives in certain respects, the Internet also "bites back," as it were, triggering unintended adverse consequences that make things worse in other respects. The problem isn't limited to chess: We humans are simply better at developing new technologies than we are at controlling those technologies and making sure they serve our conscious and considered human needs. No one wants the Internet to hurt traditional chess, yet it may be doing just that, and our prospects for reversing the trend don't look good at the moment.
What do you think? Feel free to leave comments below.
Postscript I. I haven't been following the World Youth Chess Championships in Turkey, where a number of American kids are competing and holding their own. Fortunately, Chessdad64 is covering it, so I don't have to.
Postscript II: The whole world is watching as Garry Kasparov remains in custody in Moscow. In an unusual twist that has his wife and mother extremely worried, his jailers have not allowed anyone to visit him.
"Of course we are very worried, especially after hearing the police at the court say they had been ordered in advance to arrest Garry specifically," Dasha Kasparova, Garry's wife, told The Other Russia. "Who knows what they have planned for him? And why can't we visit him? We are asking everyone to get this story out and to let Putin know that the world is watching and that he will be responsible if any further harm comes to Garry."
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer: Garry's family gets worried, I get worried. See our previous post about how to contact the Russian consulate in New York to lodge a protest. The Other Russia and Mig Greengard's blog seem to be the places to go for updates.
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The Armenian Research Center at The University of Michigan-Dearborn is the first Armenian Research Center attached to an American university, and thus it has traditionally exhibited a leadership role in the field.
The center serves the local community, along with the national Armenian community. This fortunate confluence of university resources and public interest presented a unique opportunity for the expansion of internal collaboration and external partnerships in research, teaching, and service. It provides this community with a valuable learning resource, provides educational materials, and helps to serve its cultural needs. It is this community which has provided the Center, and thereby the campus, with a valuable resource as a gift.
The Armenian Research Center certainly adds a multicultural and international perspective to the educational process for students, which will help Americans in general to better understand the world and define their proper role in it.
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Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst
Department: Finance
Reports To: Assistant Controller/Financial
Develops, interprets, and implements complex financial and accounting concepts, or techniques for financial planning and control. This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
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Bachelor's degree (B.S. or B.A.) in Finance or Accounting; 3 to 5 year's experience in a financial analyst capacity; hospitality or gaming experience preferred; and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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To perform this job successfully, an individual should have strong knowledge of Accounting software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
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Must be able to read, write, speak and understand English.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Making the best of a bad situation
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Some photos from Egypt
Here are some of our photos from Egypt. If you're on facebook, you may have already seen these and others. But for those of you who aren't (ahem, Paige), here they are.
Here we are on our first day in front of the Sphinx and the Pyramids in Cairo. It was crazy hot when we landed, 40C. Typical for March is between 25-30. The pyramids are right in Cairo, which is strange. In this photo we are standing right across the street from a jewelry shop, a Pizza Hut, and some souvenir stores.
After Cairo, we traveled to the south of Egypt where we took a Nile cruise. I was very surprised by how incredibly beautiful the Nile was. Here's a shot from the boat. We would typically sail in the afternoons and evenings. Most of our sight-seeing took place in the early morning before it got really hot.
Here is the ceiling of the one of the temples we visited. The black marks are from the torches of Christians who hid in the abandoned temples to escape Roman persecution. Unfortunately, they also defaced many of the temples. I was so impressed with how well-preserved the temples were after 4000 years. We don't have any photos but in the Valley of the Kings where the Pharaohs were buried, the paint on the walls is so vibrant it looks as though it was painted yesterday.
We traveled a bit by bus. We usually travelled in convoys and were always accompanied by guards with AK47s. They even checked under our buses with mirrors to check for bombs. Anyway, at one truck stop, there was a Bedouin woman who stood there with a baby goat riding on top of a donkey. I LOVE IT WHEN ANIMALS CATCH A RIDE ON OTHER ANIMALS! When I spotted her, I almost lost it. I think this was the most excited I was all trip. The donkey didn't like me and kept trying to walk away with its goat. The Bedouin woman also had an albino son, which was interesting. I wondered how they kept him from getting sun burnt.
Here we are riding our donkeys into the valley of the Kings. It was a very bumpy ride and as I wrote earlier, mine was crazy and ran off into traffic. It was a lot of fun and I giggled most of the way.
Our really enjoyed the end of our trip when we went to the Red Sea and Sinai peninsula. We did some snorkeling in the Red Sea, which was incredible. I got stung by a jellyfish while we were snorkeling. Kyle valiantly offered to pee on the sting but I declined.
On our last day we woke up at 1am to climb Mt. Sinai. We started from an ancient (but still working) monastery at the base of the mountain and climbed for three hours. The paths were filled with tourists, camels, and chanting pilgrims. We climbed in the dark with the help of Bedouin guides and flashlights. There were tea houses along the path where you could pull over for a cup of tea or a snack. We got to the top while it was still dark and watched an amazing sun rise. It was a fantastic way to end our time in Egypt.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Not feeling so well
Jamie: Oh you're burning up. Can I get you something?
Kyle: No. I want to take a bath. A bath would be soothing.
Jamie: So why don't you? Do you want me to run you a bath?
Kyle: No, I don't like our bath. It's sketchy and dirty.
Jamie: No it's not.
Kyle: It has chips in the porcelain and there's that brown stain...
Jamie (interrupting): Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's dirty.
Kyle: ... and I pee in it.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Home For a Rest
As we touched down into Calgary yesterday afternoon after 46 hours in transit, my heart warmed as I gazed at the Rocky mountains and the city's skyline. As we taxied down the runway, I squeeled with joy when I spotted a gopher skittering around in the grass. That sealed it...for the first time in the seven years I've lived here, Calgary felt like home.
Last night I considered downloading some photos from our new camera so that I could post them on here. But as I toyed with the idea, I was incapacitated by the fear that I would somehow delete all 600 of the photos that Kyle took on our trip. If that happened, Kyle would sneakily sew a kilogram of cocaine into the lining of my jacket, send me on an errand to his mom's elementary school and then call the cops on me. That way, I would never be able to leave the country again.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Just wanted to post to say that Kyle and I are still alive and enjoying our trip. Today we are in Luxor and took a donkey ride into the Valley of the Kings to see the tombs of the Pharoahs. It was pretty incredible. The donkey ride was hilarious but my donkey ran into traffic and Kyle' s also tried to get him killed. What Kyle calls his "deft donkey handling skills" spared him from certain doom while I was saved by a motorcyclist's swerving skills.
Tomorrow we set off to the Red Sea to do some snorkeling and then on to climb Mt. Sinai. More later!
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Al Franken, a satirist known for his biting political humor, is headed to the U.S. Senate, the survivor of an epic legal struggle that opponent Norm Coleman finally conceded he couldn't win.
Franken's triumph followed a 5-0 decision Tuesday by the Minnesota Supreme Court declaring him the winner and a quick concession by Coleman. Franken, a Democrat, could be sworn into office soon after the July 4th holiday.
"I don't know if it has really sunk in," said Franken, appearing at his home in Minneapolis shortly after receiving a congratulatory call from Coleman, a Republican. "He said it was a very hard-fought campaign. I said, 'Norm, it couldn't have been closer.'
"It was a nice way to end this."
Franken's arrival in the Senate could give Democrats a 60th vote on many issues, a filibuster-proof majority that could help advance President Obama's agenda.
Conceding defeat outside his St. Paul home shortly after the court ruling, Coleman sidestepped questions about whether he would turn his attention to running for governor in 2010. "We'll talk about the future in short order," he said.
The ruling and concession ended a bitter eight-month fight over the 2008 election, its recount and a trial that lasted seven weeks. The two candidates and their allies spent over $50 million on their campaigns, the recount and the trial.
Some Minnesotans were relieved to see it all come to an end.
"It's definitely about time," said Craig Harris of Minneapolis, strolling on the Nicollet Mall Tuesday afternoon. "We've had a missing voice [in the Senate] for several months, and that can't be a good thing."
In recent months, Coleman had left open the possibility of appealing a state court decision against him to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Minnesota's highest court gave him little grounds for hope.
Standing by lower court
It rejected point by point Coleman's claims that inconsistent practices by local elections officials and rulings by a lower court during the trial prevented perhaps thousands of valid absentee ballots from being counted. The lower court ruled in April that Franken had won by 312 votes.
In upholding that ruling, the Supreme Court said Coleman had "not shown that the trial court's findings of fact are clearly erroneous or that the court committed an error of law or abused its discretion."
The Supreme Court concluded that "Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled under [Minnesota law] to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota."
At the heart of Coleman's appeal was his insistence that the varying treatment of absentee ballots violated voter rights to equal protection under the Constitution.
But the justices said voter rights weren't violated because local officials merely applied state election law differently for the convenience of their residents. There has to be evidence of an intent to discriminate, they wrote.
"Coleman neither claims nor produced any evidence that the differing treatment of absentee ballots among jurisdictions during the election was the result of intentional or purposeful discrimination against individuals or classes," the court said.
"No claim of fraud in the election or during the recount was made by either party," the high court wrote.
It added that the trial court -- a three-judge panel -- didn't discriminate when it excluded certain types of absentee ballots from being counted. Coleman had claimed that the trial court should have been more lenient, accepting flawed ballots cast by some voters because local officials had done so on Election Day.
"But the law ... requires strict adherence," the Supreme Court wrote, adding that Coleman hadn't proven that local elections officials had been more lenient.
The Supreme Court also rejected Coleman's comparison of the Senate election to vote problems in Florida during the 2000 presidential race. Florida had no standards for determining voter intent on ambiguous ballots, but in Minnesota, "There were clear statutory standards for acceptance or rejection of absentee ballots," the justices wrote.
The high court gave short shrift to Coleman's argument that he should have been allowed to inspect ballots in some Minneapolis precincts to see whether there was any double counting. Justices also dismissed his complaint about 132 missing ballots elsewhere in Minneapolis, saying he "introduced no evidence of foul play or misconduct" and that the ballots were represented in machine totals on Election Day.
Two of the seven justices assigned to the state Supreme Court -- Eric Magnuson and G. Barry Anderson -- did not take part in the decision because they had sat on the state Canvassing Board that oversaw the recount.
Reaction and speculation
In the weeks before the decision there was uncertainty about whether Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, would certify a Franken state court victory if Coleman appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Coleman's concession rendered Pawlenty's role anticlimactic, and he signed the election certificate at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The White House issued a statement from President Obama that read, "I look forward to working with Senator-Elect Franken to build a new foundation for growth and prosperity by lowering health care costs" and promoting renewable energy.
The state Republican Party issued a statement after Coleman's concession, saying, "Norm's commitment to Minnesota will never waver. He is a good man who has fought the good fight."
Since Pawlenty announced he would not run for another term, Coleman's future in politics has been the subject of increased speculation. He didn't do much to discourage that speculation Tuesday.
Asked when he would talk about his plans, he replied, "Soon. I presume sometime -- we'll get through July 4 -- sometime next week, I presume, I'll be talking a little bit about what the future is."
Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said the earliest Franken would be seated is next week because the Senate is out of session for the July 4th holiday.
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Wrong number sends potential Sac Bee subscribers to adult chat line
Subscriber line was one digit off from correct number
When Citrus Heights resident Jim Johns got an ad in the mail to subscribe to the Sacramento Bee he called the 1-800 number and was shocked at what happened.
"Welcome to America's hottest talk line," a sexy voice says when the 1-800 number is dialed.
Instead of connecting him with the Sacramento Bee, the number sent him to an adult chat line.
"It kind of pissed me off," said Johns, who called the line several times thinking he misread the number in the ad. "I had to call probably about five times."
It turns out the 1-800 number was off by one digit. The right number was on another ad that was sent out to residents in the same area.
Most residents KCRA spoke with didn't catch the mistake, but were shocked when they heard proof.
"It's nasty, like seriously nasty," said Amanda Stratful, a Citrus Heights resident. "Especially a respectable business like the Sacramento Bee."
Citrus Heights residents such as Keith Miller thought it was entertaining.
Miller said he laughed out loud when he heard the adult chat line. "I think it's pretty dang funny, myself."
A representative from the Sacramento Bee said the wrong number was human error, a simple typo. All the remaining ads with the wrong number that have not been mailed have been located and will be destroyed.