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DaimlerChrysler Named Title Sponsor of Tour de Georgia
ATLANTA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Tour de Georgia today announced that DaimlerChrysler, one of the world's leading automotive, transportation and service companies, will be the title sponsor of the six-day, annual cycling stage race debuting April 22-27, 2003. The tile sponsorship represents both a significant funding commitment and contribution of an assortment of passenger, cargo and light-duty vehicles to support the event.
Specific sponsorship and support will be through the company's Dodge brand, as the event will serve as a prominent forum to promote and showcase a variety of new products including, but not limited to, its line of new Sprinter Vans. The agreement designates Dodge products as the "Official Event Vehicles of Tour de Georgia."
"I am very pleased that DaimlerChrysler's commitment will assure the 2003 Tour de Georgia," said Gov. Roy E. Barnes. "Tour de Georgia promises to have one of the greatest economic impacts across Georgia since the 1996 Olympics. Most importantly, the event will carry the Georgia Cancer Coalition's message of education, awareness, prevention, detection and treatment throughout Georgia -- a 'call to action' for every citizen to get involved to defeat this horrible disease."
The 2003 Tour de Georgia will cover more than 600 miles (965 km), going through the host cities of Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Pine Mountain (Callaway), Rome, Dalton, Gainesville and Atlanta. In addition to being the start and/or finish to each day's stage race, each host city will also be home to a celebration of events and activities.
Tour de Georgia is the only stage race of this length in the U.S. sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) for 2003, and one of only five races in the U.S. on the official UCI calendar. Not since the Tour duPont ended in 1996 has there been a major U.S. stage race sanctioned by the UCI.
The race will begin on Tuesday, April 22 with a prologue through Savannah's downtown squares and parks, in which cyclists will compete individually against the clock in a time trial. The first stage of Tour de Georgia, where the racers will compete together, will start on Wednesday in Augusta and finish in Macon. Stage Two will see the teams leave Macon on Thursday and race to Columbus. Pine Mountain (Callaway) will furnish the start for Stage Three on Friday, which finishes in Rome. The north Georgia mountains play host to the cyclists on Stage Four from Dalton to Gainesville on Saturday, which will be a stern test for the riders. The race promises an
exciting finish on Sunday, April 27, with Stage Five planned as a circuit race around Atlanta.
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Fiftyshadesofhay wins Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
Fiftyshadesofhay closes with rush to claim narrow victory
Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram and Paul Weitman's Fiftyshadesofhay closed with a rush to claim a narrow victory in the 89th running of the $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) at Pimlico Race Course.
Trained by Bob Baffert, the daughter of Pulpit rated off the pace under jockey Joel Rosario before launching an outside stretch run and reeling in Marathon Lady by a neck at the finish. Fiftyshadesofhay ran the 1 1/8-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies in 1:52.73. Toasting, who pressed the pace under Javier Castellano, finished third.
"I wasn't sure, turning for home, because I told Rosario that she usually runs 1-2-3, but ride her the way you feel you should ride her. Rosario sort of did his own thing today, but it was the right thin," Baffert said.
"It was kind of a perfect trip, but she was kind of slowing a little bit from the dirt in her face. I got her on the outside and she looked like she was really comfortable. Right when I went past the three-eighths pole before turning for home, she kind of got away from me a little bit. I was kind of worried about it, but she was able to get it back together and she kept going. Bob (Baffert) told me, 'She's just one-paced, so keep her going.' So I think it was a little bit better to keep her on the outside. When I passed the sixteenth-pole I could see that the horse in front of me was backing up a little. That's when I felt better," Rosario said.
Emollient, the 4-5 favorite ridden by Mike Smith, had trouble leaving the starting gate and was never a serious factor during a sixth-place finish.
"She stumbled out of the gate really bad, and she caught her leg. It was pretty much over for us after that," Smith said.
"She had a pretty good stumble leaving the gate, which didn't help. Obviously, she got back a little further and had to overcome that. It looked like to me she might have been fighting that racetrack. The main track may not be her best surface, so you might see her try the turf course next time," said Bill Mott, trainer of Emollient.
Others remarked:
"She ran huge. She ran her tail off. She had a great trip. I don't know what we could have done any different," said Steve Hobby, trainer of Marathon Lady, which finished second.
"I had a lot of horse under me the entire race. Something must have happened to Mike's (Smith) filly (Emollient) in the gate, because I thought she'd be up front. I found myself lying third and very comfortable at every point. I thought I had it won until right before the wire," said Robby Albarado, jockey, Marathon Lady.
"She was great today. They put the blinkers on her and she pulled me all the way. I'm happy with what she did against the best 3-year-olds in the country. She stepped up and showed us her class today," said Javier Castellano, jockey, Toasting, which finished third.
Fiftyshadesofhay broke her maiden at Hollywood Park last year and won the San Ysabel (G3) at Santa Anita in January. She most recently finished third in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) on April 6.
Fiftyshadesofhay paid $6.60.

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As described in Use Threads Correctly = Isolation + Asynchronous Messages[1]), to use threads well we want to follow these best practices:
- Keep data isolated, private to a thread where possible. Note that this doesn't mean using a special facility like thread local storage; it just means not sharing the thread's private data by exposing pointers or references to it.
- Communicate among threads via asynchronous messages. Using asynchronous messages lets the threads keep running independently by default unless they really must wait for a result.
- Organize each thread's work around a message pump. Most threads should spend their lifetime responding to incoming messages, so their mainline should consist of a message pump that dispatches those messages to the message handlers.
Using raw threads directly is trouble for a number of reasons, particularly because raw threads let us do anything and offer no help or automation for these best practices. So how can we automate them?
A good answer is to apply and automate the Active Object pattern [2]. Active objects dramatically improve our ability to reason about our thread's code and operation by giving us higher-level abstractions and idioms that raise the semantic level of our program and let us express our intent more directly. As with all good patterns, we also get better vocabulary to talk about our design. Note that active objects aren't a novelty: UML and various libraries have provided support for active classes. Some actor-based languages already have variations of this pattern baked into the language itself; but fortunately, we aren't limited to using only such languages to get the benefits of active objects.
This article will show how to implement the pattern, including a reusable helper to automate the common parts, in any of the popular mainstream languages and threading environments, including C++, C#/.NET, Java, and C/Pthreads. We will go beyond the basic pattern and also tie the active object's private thread lifetime directly to the lifetime of the active object itself, which will let us leverage rich object lifetime semantics already built into our various languages. Most of the sample code will be shown in C++, but can be directly translated into any of the other languages (for example, destructors in C++ would just be expressed as disposers in C# and Java, local object lifetime in C++ would be expressed with the using statement in C# or the "finally dispose" coding idiom in Java).
Active Objects: The Caller's View
First, let's look at the basics of how an active object is designed to work.
An active object owns its own private thread, and runs all of its work on that private thread. Like any object, an active object has private data and methods that can be invoked by callers. The difference is that when a caller invokes a method, the method call just enqueues a message to the active object and returns to the caller immediately; method calls on an active object are always nonblocking asynchronous messages. The active object's private thread mainline is a message pump that dequeues and executes the messages one at a time on the private thread. Because the messages are processed sequentially, they are atomic with respect to each other. And because the object's private data is only accessed from the private thread, we don't need to take a mutex lock or perform other synchronization on the private shared state.
Here is an example of the concurrency semantics we want to achieve for calling code:
Active a = new Active(); a.Func(); // call is nonblocking … more work … // this code can execute in parallel with a.Func()
Next, we want to tie the lifetime of the private thread to the lifetime of the active object: The active object's constructor starts the thread and the message pump. The destructor (or "disposer" in C# and Java) enqueues a sentinel message behind any messages already waiting in the queue, then joins with the private thread to wait for it to drain the queue and end. Note that the destructor/disposer is the only call on the active object that is a blocking call from the viewpoint of the caller.
Expressing thread/task lifetimes as object lifetimes in this way lets us exploit existing rich language semantics to express bounded nested work. For example, in C# or Java, it lets us exploit the usual language support and/or programming idiom for stack-based local lifetimes by writing a using block or the Dispose pattern:
// C# example using( Active a = new Active() ) { // creates private thread … a.SomeWork(); // enqueues work … a.MoreWork(); // enqueues work … } // waits for work to complete and joins with private thread
As another example, in C++ we can also express that a class data member is held by value rather than by pointer or reference, and the language guarantees that the class member's lifetime is tied to the enclosing object's lifetime: The member is constructed when the enclosing object is constructed, and destroyed when the enclosing object is destroyed. (The same can be done by hand in C# or Java by manually wiring up the outer object's dispose function to call the inner one's.) For example:
// C++ example class Active1 { // outer object Active2 inner; // embedded member, lifetime implicitly // bound to that of its enclosing object }; // Calling code void SomeFunction() { Active1 a; // starts both a's and a.inner's private threads … } // waits for both a and a.inner to complete
That's what we want to enable. Next, let's consider how to actually write a class with objects that are active and behave in this way.


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Perhaps not the best to way to prepare yourself for words you know you'll soon be penning on a specific artist is to throw yourself into their back catalogue. In this case, however, when I say "back catalogue" what I really mean is the two shimmering nuggets of laptop-pop genius Marc Bianchi has posited in his 12 years trading as Her Space Holiday, namely: 2001's 'The Ringing In My Ears' (last.fm) and 2003's 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend' (video). Although surrounded by relatively transient album tracks, Bianchi's sporadic prowess with a tune – as well as the company he keeps – has always endeared him to this critic, and the announcement of XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival heralded if not a double-footed leap of joy, certainly a raised eyebrow and fuzzy, dual sense of a) knowing exactly what to expect and b) being pretty happy about it.
Cut to: cursory perusal of the press release and the cryptic biography on the official website, which reveal he's ditched the laptop and gone for an organic, folk-inspired full band approach. Which, to revert to this increasingly convoluted scribbling's opening suggestion, saw me not emphatically chucking on the album, but instead bathing in the pop-savvy finesse of those earlier tracks. For while sensitive singer-songwriter types with acoustic guitars remain a fundamental weakness of mine, surely – surely by this point we have enough of them? I mean, seriously. There are loads. Sorry Marc?**
"There are no more good ideas in me" – 'No More Good Ideas'
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The self-explanatory incantation of the above little number would, however, be a falsity on Bianchi's part. For while this album is guilty of many things: unwieldy of title, at least three tracks too long and hardly replete with groundbreaking new ideas, it's also warm, pleasant and undemanding – in a manner that's totally fine. There's nothing that matches 'The Ringing In My Ears' in terms of first impressions, but there's plenty that charms, the melancholy that enveloped much of his earlier output all but absent. The acoustic guitar and toy-piano lilt of love letter 'My Crooked Crown' veer dangerously close to cloying but get away with it – just, while the subsequent 'Four Tapping Shoes And A Kiss' is more expansive, fuzzier, dirtier than much of the preceding and all the stronger for it.
Bianchi's delivery, in its unmistakeably West Coast inflections and bright, unabashed tone is sure to vex many, but in its evocation of countess sunshine-pop aficionados (the likes of Beulah, Fiver, Grandaddy and all the cues from where they drew inspiration) it exhibits worth through association alone. Also, torpor shrugged off, it's strong and assured on this record (which, it soon becomes apparent, pitches itself a concept album of sorts), particularly as it nears its jubilant close.
"So we sa-a-at and we talked about how we spent our years, with the laughter and tears / On big white beds with old grey sheets, it was just like being back on that swim / This is la-la-la-la-la-la-la-love" – 'Two Tin Cans And A Length Of String'
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Again. Read the above again. Seriously. The thing is, these are just the kind of lyrics and suggestions that, by dint of his appeasing melodies and production nous, Bianchi pulls off with ease. By the time the album comes full circle with 'One for My Soul (Good Night)', we find him again proclaiming the "start of the new kid revival", and it's hard to doubt his conviction, optimism – simply, how much of himself you feel he disseminates into his work. Save this and the opening, there isn't another track with the same wistful appeal of that earlier pair, and as stated, 14 of them pushes it some. Yet for successfully broadening his palette Bianchi deserves plaudits aplenty – after all:
"If life is one big symphony, don't play your part too cautiously" – 'The Day In Review'
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Revision as of 23:06, 17 September 2009
- Remove the skins table temporarily. Waiting on a bug fix and the update should be posted here
- Guidelines for taking photos needs to be expanded on
- For subway color usage as well as Korean colors for tables. Grey and white tables can look dull after a while.
- Videos or animated gifs showing conjugation in action for irregular verbs as well as the differences in V + 다가 vs V + 았 / 었 + 다가 (etc).
- Similar to the learning 한글 section, a step by step section for learning Korean.
- Section that makes comparisons for grammar, for example when to use each future tense and 하다 vs 되다 verbs. What do we name it?
- If we don't mind using outside content, we could include nice videos done by people like KoreanClass101.com on relevant pages. For example, I think they have a video Hangeul lesson. Along with providing information, we can also organize the great stuff on the net. That would help make it so we don't have to create so much original content (at least in the beginning).
- How about making our own youtube videos for completed vocabulary pages? This would have to be in the future after we get all the basics done. - Bluesoju 02:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- That could be very useful -Mstrum 01:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Also similarly to how you use youtube videos on your site, how about some clips for slang and perhaps idioms. We can display the subtitle in Korean and English and show a short clip from a movie or show. For example at the beginning of Old Boy one of the cops says that "this guy must really want to eat 콩밥" and that could be added on the 콩밥 page. Perhaps we might want to create a separate youtube account so these little clips don't clutter your old account. -Bluesoju 00:12, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- More userboxes, like "This user is a level 3 student at SNU/Yonsei/Sogang."
- Quiz for vocabulary pages
- Vocabulary pages translated for individual programs, i.e. microsoft word, utorrent etc
- Korean name page. List common Korean names and rules about how to tell the gender of a person based upon the name.
Getting the word out
To-do before campaigning
- Complete guidelines, standards and help
- Professional video introduction(?)
- Translating important pages to Korean.
- Send messages to K-bloggers
- Find other language learning sites and post a message
- Posting a flier at Language schools in Seoul
- Emailing other Korean university programs and asking them to join.
- Emailing Korean university clubs.
Software or extensions
- Anti bot and spam filter for registering.
- Set up forums (either vBulletin or phpBB would be fine)
- Add link from Top (to the main page) and HelpTop (to a help section)
- A section on words that are considered feminine or masculine. For example it's mostly women who say 미워 to men. Also the interrogative form A/V + 니 sounds feminine where as men mostly use A/V + 냐 instead.
- Good idea, maybe this could be one part of a new section like 'Spoken' or 'Conversation'
- The search on here sucks, it can't even find the pattern A/V + (으)ㄹ지도 모르다 using the search term n(으)ㄹ지 모르다. Needs to be fixed or users to effectively find grammar patterns.
Logo and Background
- New logo, something more complex and unique.
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Luxembourg girls' day
Monday 30 September 2013
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Luxembourg's commitment to developing female football was demonstrated through its successful Girls' Day, where youngsters were given training and showed off their skills.
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Each of UEFA's 54 member national associations is working hard to entice girls and women to become involved in football – Luxembourg was among the latest to show its dedication to developing women's football by organising a successful Girls' Day.
Despite unfavourable weather, 55 girls came to the Luxembourg Football Federation's (FLF) National Training Centre in Mondercange. They were given expert training and advice during the day by the association's national coaches, members of its women's football committee and players from the senior, Under-17 and U15 women's teams. The Girls' Day also allowed the youngsters the chance to play in mini-tournaments and test their skills.
The event was open to girls born between 2000 and 2005, who took up the FLF's invitation to enjoy a day showing their passion for the game. They also had the opportunity to have their photos taken with national-team players, and left Mondercange with a bag full of souvenirs including T-shirts and national-team tops.
Women's football is flourishing in Luxembourg, as it is across Europe, thanks to the cooperation between UEFA and the national associations under the UEFA women's football development programme (WFDP). There are 43 clubs in the Grand Duchy, as well as nearly 1,800 registered players, a ten-club Women's First League and two other divisions, with a domestic cup competition providing a further occasion for success at national level.
In March this year, the FLF launched its championship for girls born between 1999 and 2003, with six sides entering the competition. This season sees nine teams of girls born between 1999 and 2004 setting off on a new campaign. A futsal tournament for women players is also to be staged in 2014 as part of future activities, and the FLF is hoping to arrange a women's football seminar in the coming months.


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Baseballs and bats which magically appear …
… when Mr. Singy is near
I don't know any magicians personally, but I have watched baseball fans pull out bats and baseballs from thin air when they stumble across Ken out in public.
After the Yankees-Orioles game in Baltimore Saturday night, a friend of a friend named Don – a devoted Orioles fan – was able to meet and shake hands with Ken after the game. We walked to our cars in the parking lot and Don (who had given me and two friends a ride to Oriole Park so I could ride home with Ken) conveniently whipped out a baseball and asked Ken to sign it. (He did not have a pen, however. Ha! An unprepared fan.
I lent him one … because a writer always has a pen.)
Although not so surprising that Don happened to have a baseball in his truck, being that he was attending a game (and probably hoping to meet hubby), over the years I cannot name how many times this very thing has happened in a non-baseball setting.
It's amazing.
Once on my birthday, Ken and I dined out with four good friends in downtown Baltimore, and when a guy spotted Ken in the restaurant, he ran over to our table with a baseball bat to ask for an autograph.
I had to laugh and asked, "You just happened to have a baseball bat with you?" and he chuckled in return and said, "No, but I just got it for my birthday!" and as we looked over at his group of friends a few tables away, they were clearly in celebration mode.
Another time while waiting for a movie to start, Ken and I stopped for a beverage next door to the theatre and a fan spotted him. He walked over, introduced himself and whipped out two baseballs from his pockets.
Who goes to the movies with baseballs in their pockets?
And if fans don't have a tangible thing to autograph, they make do with napkins, scraps of paper, menus, or whatever else nearby they can grab fast enough before the baseball celeb gets away.
All part of the territory – and most interesting to watch.
However, sometimes fans can cross the line a little bit. Last summer a Yankees fan ran after us on the streets of Baltimore's Little Italy and wanted Ken to follow him back to the restaurant a block back to meet all his friends.
I stepped up to the plate. "Uh, we're kinda on a date here?" (I wasn't trying to be rude, I just wanted to be on a date with my husband.)
Though here's the best one … and this is the truth: once a hospital staff employee asked Ken for an autograph at totally the inappropriate moment – while I was in labor having our first baby.
Oh boy! (And it was a boy) … if I could have pulled a bat out of thin air myself …
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Oh my, how I love your writing style. I just stumbled upon your blog and I am enthralled. I never even thought of a Mrs. Singy. I guess I knew there was one (maybe) but Ken never really talks about you on air. If he did, I apologize because I missed it.
Please, please, PLEASE keep writing. I love it.
Fred from PA
(formerly a Pastor from Baltimore)
Hi, I also just stumbled onto your blog. Fun stuff!
I actually met your husband in the parking lot of Alliance Bank Stadium in Syracuse, NY maybe three years ago. (Justin was playing for the Chiefs at the time).
Ken had just gotten out of his car and looked, to me, as if he had just come from the golf course. I remember noticing the license plate — I won't say what it was — thought it was interesting but didn't really get the reference. Now I see it again in your publishing company. Is there a story there you could tell us?
Anyway, I was thrilled to see him but had no pen, no ball, no magically appearing bat. And I really didn't want to bother him because (as you suggest above) I figured he is routinely hounded. So I just stuck out my hand and told him I really appreciate the work he does on the YES Network. He was gracious and warm and that was the end of it.
I've often wished I could have gotten a picture with him, or an autograph, but I'll always have the story to tell, and I take comfort in knowing I didn't pester him.
He's a pleasure to listen to, and I think I'm going to enjoy reading your posts as well. Thank you!


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Let's face it – football was created for men.
Even those women who like a good football game cannot outlast those men whose only waking thought is how many channels of football they can flip between in a single Sunday.
While the Super Bowl offers a lot more entertainment options in the form of amazing musical performances and hillarious commercials, making it through four quarters can still be a little overwhelming.
With the following Super Bowl survival tips, any woman can come away smiling when the teams finally leave the field.
•Make sure that a TV and VCR/DVD player are available in another room.
An entire full-length film can usually be watched in the time it takes for the pregame show to be over.
•Arrange a girls-only Super Bowl party and send the men elsewhere.
Watching the game with like-minded women can lessen the pain and allows for equal distribution of the remote control.
•Bring a pillow and take a Sunday snooze through two of the quarters.
Any significant plays missed will always be rerun on SportsCenter.
•Even if you want to watch the Super Bowl with a significant other, make sure you still complain regularly about how much your man watches football.
If you don't, next year you may be expected to watch Monday night football every week without complaint.
Surviving Super Bowl Sunday: a woman's guide
Let's face it – football was created for men.


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I have been working on a project, where I started with a Name and place of a person and he was a Civil War veteran. My goal was to determine who his parents were, then to extend that back to a Revolutionary War soldier. The problem is that his surname was very common in the area where he "was from". Finding him in the 1850 Census Records might have been simple, if the information I has was is FIRST NAME, but it turns out that the name I started with was a middle name. but that's another story. What I was looking for was a way to track relationships, starting with Census Records but can be expanded to other records that we might find along the way.
For this task, I thought about making use of Fact Notes.
When I do these things, I consider two items, Input and Output. How do I want to Share, or Do I want to Share this information.
In this case, these are My Notes, but I do want to be able to see and print them. What I decided to do, it is use the NAME Fact Notes.
The example here is the Name information for David Ridgely Howard. You will see that I have found his name reported a number of different ways, which is why I wanted to figure out how to make sure I had the "right guy".
Below, is from the People Workspace, Person View. On the right side of the Fact list are three columns of numbers. I have talked about them before. It's the 3rd column that is of interest here. It has the number 1, meaning that there is One Note for the Name (Preferred Fact).
If the Note tab isn't displayed, there is a setting in the Tools, Options menu so the Notes tab will be displayed.
Thinking about the Output of the Notes, I chose to use a bullet list for the various entries.
For every name listed in the 1850 Census, that same information appears
in the Name Fact. It has the Head of Household, his name and age,
followed by everyone else in the household and their age at the time.
Remember, I don't know the relationships, yet.
I created a "standard" format for each Census Record year, as the information would be different, where it wasn't until the 1880 Census where those relationships would show up, but the 1850, 1860, 1870 Census records had Ages listed.
I used, for example, the following for recording this information.
1850 Census shows Head of Household - < name > ( age ); and < name > ( age );
1880 Census Shows Relationships with Head of Household - < name > ( age) ; < name > ( age ), < relationship >;
For output, I created a Custom Report to show this information for review later.
The DRH1 is the Person ID number that established for this file, another feature of Family Tree Maker.
Note: That over time, as the name is clarified, I will Cut and Pasted this Note to the Preferred Name Fact. In this case, the notes started with the Ridgely Howard Name fact, but after I found additional information it moved to where I have his complete name, David Ridgely Howard.
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On 7 Nov 2012, at 18:19, Henry Story <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The TPAC meeting in Lyon was I think quite clearly a great success. So to follow up on this the WebID XG is organising a Teleconf on the W3C system to help move things to the next stage. > I got the following slot for this Friday: > > Fridays 15:00-16:00 UTC (10:00am-11:00am Boston local) > Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 93243 ("WEBID") > 30 participants > other timezones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2a4w > ( there are phone numbers for other parts of the world, does anyone have a list of those? ) There are no more teleconf numbers in the rest of the world, but that's ok because you can use free voice over IP calling to connect. This is explained here: http://www.w3.org/2006/tools/wiki/Zakim-SIP There are a number of VOIP clients around. For example on apple there is http://icanblink.com/ > > Here is the proposed agenda for this teleconf: > > 1) Overview of what happened at TPAC > The summary is online, but there are some things that are difficult to put in writing. > http://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/TPAC-Lyon-2012 > ( eg. how the W3C process works and why it is useful ) > > 2) The LDP group has to create a note laying some basic principles for what an > Access Control System should look like, but they don't want to get sidetracked in > an implementeable spec. Should we as part of the RWW take on to put something together here? > > 3) The WebID definition was changed at the meeting, but this lead to a lot of pushback on the mailing list. I proposed this as a compromise > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2012Nov/0020.html > Is this an improvement? > > 4) Most important: is this date ok to continue having WebID/RWW/SocialWeb meetings for > everybody? We could have those topics take turns so that we don't get tired with the same topic, and as this would help us enlarge our horizons. > > > Henry > > Social Web Architect > http://bblfish.net/ > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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Woman dies in morning crash in Village of Bristol; baby survives
A car crash in Kenosha County on Tuesday morning left a 4-month-old baby girl without her mom.
Haley Reitz, 20, was driving eastbound along Wilmot Road (Highway C) in the Village of Bristol with her baby girl when she lost control on the snow-covered road, slid into the oncoming lane and was hit by another car, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office.
The driver of the other car, a 48-year-old woman from the Town of Salem, was taken to Froedtert Hospital with serious leg and hip injuries. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
WISN 12 News spoke with Reitz's father, who said the baby is home and fine, but he misses his daughter who he described as a "happy-go-lucky young woman."
A spokesman for the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office said Reitz's baby was in her car seat at the time of the crash. He didn't know for sure if Reitz was wearing a seat belt.
He also told WISN 12 New News it does not appear Reitz was driving too fast for the conditions.
The Sheriff's Office also told WISN 12 News that Reitz went to Wilmot Union High School and still has a sibling who attends there.


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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP) St. John's has hired assistant Gary Fasching to replace John Gagliardi, the all-time college football leader in coaching victories.
Fasching's hire was announced Friday by the Division III Catholic university in central Minnesota. He will succeed Gagliardi, who ran the Johnnies for 60 seasons and retired last month with a record of 489-138-11.
Fasching was an assistant under Gagliardi for the last 17 years, mostly working with the defensive line and also serving as recruiting coordinator. Fasching was a starting linebacker for the Johnnies from 1978-80 and later coached St. Cloud Cathedral High School from 1986-95, winning two state titles.
Former Carleton coach Kurt Ramler and current Eden Prairie High School coach Mike Grant were the other finalists. They also played for Gagliardi.


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|Cheif Minister Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa being sworn
in as the First Chief Minister of Democratic Sikkim by Governor
B.B Lal on 16th May 1975.
The political upheavals of 1940s precipitated into protest movement of 1973 that finally led to the merger of Sikkim into India in 1975. As the political era from 1919 up to 1947 is referred as Gandhian era in the Modern Indian History, the period of 30 years i.e from 1945 up to 1975 can be regarded as Kazian era in the Democratic History of Sikkim. It is because from 1945, late L.D. Kazi single handedly guided the democratic movement of Sikkim till its merger.
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa was born at Pakyong, East Sikkim in the ancient and noble Khangsarpa family in 1904. As a pious Buddhist he entered the Rumtek monastery at the age of 6 years. His uncle Tshurfuk Lama Rabden Dorjee was the then Head Lama of the famous Rumtek Monastry and young Lhendup became his disciple. During his visit, Sidkeyong Namgyal the then Maharaja of Sikkim took a great liking to the young monk Lhendup and took him to Gangtok, where he placed him in a Tibetan School. At the age of 16 Kazi Lhendup returned to Rumtek monastery and underwent strict training of Lamaism for two years. Thereafter, on accomplishment of his training he succeeded as the Head Lama of Rumtek Monastery and its estates on the retirement of Lama Ugen Tenzing. Kazi Lhendup remained as Head Lama at Rumtek monastery for 8 years, and then left the monastery to work with his brother Kazi Phag Tshering, who founded the Young Mens' Buddhist Association at Darjeeling. The two Kazi brothers founded a large number of schools in West Sikkim and were instrumental in bringing about a number of social and other reforms.
The 40's of the last century witnessed a heralding change world wide. A person with the feeling of service to mankind, Kazi Lhendup founded a Political Organization known as Rajya Praja Mandal at his native place at Chakhung in West Sikkim. In 1947 the amalgamation of the three petty political organizations of Sikkim Rajya Praja Mandal, Rajya Praja Sammelan and Praja Sudhar Samaj took place. On 7th December 1947 they held a joint meeting at today's Palzor Stadium (then Polo Ground) and decided to form a compact body to combat lawless feudalism. The huge gathering of 7th December 1947 led to the birth of first ever political Party of Sikkim known as Sikkim State Congress. Tashi Tshering also popularly known as Tashi Babu of Gangtok was the elected President of Sikkim State Congress.
In 1953, Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa (people of his native place fondly called him Kancha Kazi) became the President of Sikkim State Congress and held that post till 1958. During his President ship he led a delegation to Delhi in 1954 to call on the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The Sikkimese had been fighting for political and economic reforms and these were discussed by the delegation with Pandit Nehru, who was deeply impressed by the sincerity of Kazi Lhendup Dorjee. The Indian Prime Minister promised to give assistance for the progress and economic welfare of the Sikkimese populace and assured Government of India's support towards political reform in Sikkim.
After the foundation of the Sikkim State Congress (which was a pro-peasant party) the pro feudalists founded another political party in 1948 to curb the rising tide of democratic ideas. The new political party was known as Sikkim National Party and it was basically patronized by the palace. The Sikkim State Congress had branded this party as the "party of palace". Kazi Lhendup Dorjee realizing the futility of the communal approach in the political scenario of Sikkim, and having dear to his heart the welfare of the people, decided to form another party, called the Sikkim National Congress in 1960. His main approach was to form a non-communal party which could give the Sikkimese peace, prosperity and progress. Contesting on this platform his party secured 8 seats out of 18 in the third General Elections of Sikkim in 1963. Kazi Lhendup Dorjee formed the opposition in the Sikkim Council and tried to bring about a feeling of communal harmony.
In the General Election of 1970, Kazi Lhendup Dorjee was appointed as an Executive Councillor and was allotted the portfolio of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Transport Authority. He, after being realized that Sikkim was an agricultural country, tried to bring about certain reforms to reorganize the economic conditions of the farmers. He was however, removed from the Executive Councillor in 1972. It is to be noted here that the Late Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa had his second wife from Belgium. Her name was Kazini Eliza Maria (also known as Kazini Sahiba of Chakhung) who also had played a vital role in guiding and assisting Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa in his day to day affairs. She was an influential woman who used to do most of the paper works of the party of Kazi from their cozy bungalow at Kalimpong. The General Election of 1973, the last general election based on the notorious parity formulae, did not satisfy the Sikkim National Congress. This led to an agitation in April 1973which ultimately led to the merger of two influential political parties of Sikkim the Janata Congress and Sikkim National Congress giving birth to Sikkim Congress.
In the elections of 1974, Sikkim Congress secured 31 out of 32 seats in the Sikkim Assembly and formed its government based in principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. He became the first Chief Minister elected according to the credence of Democracy. The Sikkim Congress delegates used to attend the annual session of the Indian National Congress. After the merger of Sikkim in 1975 the political party of Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa was also merged with the Indian National Congress at Kamagatamaru Nagar in Chandigarh.
|Kazi Lhendup Dorjee with the Chogyal of Sikkim
to sign the Government of Sikkim Act 1974
Personally Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Khangsarpa and Kazini Eliza Maria lost everything -- perhaps not really everything -- because the people of Sikkim still remember him with fondness. The father of democracy in Sikkim was even not allowed to enter Sikkim as he lost the election in 1979 due to some political reasons. The memorable Kazi expired on July 29, 2007. He did not live for personal gains; he lived for the people of Sikkim. "By merging Sikkim with India Kazi Lendhup Dorji Khansarpa of Chakung brought new prosperity to the people of Sikkim, restored their rights and gave India a jewel in the crown studded with the silvery Kanchenjunga". (M. K Dhar, If not for Him Sikkim would not be a part of India)


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Piers Morgan has denied ordering any illegal hacking when he was editor of London's Daily Mirror tabloid--but now the paper is being sued by some who claim otherwise.
Sven-Gran Eriksson, former coach of the English national football team; retired football player Garry Flitcroft; actress Shobna Gulati; and Abbie Gibson, who used to work as a nanny for David Beckham's family, have filed suit against Trinity Mirror, claiming that reporters from the company's papers hacked their voice-mail accounts.
"There might not be a documentary smoking gun, but we will show there is a smoking bullet, the consequence of the actions," an attorney for the group, Mark Lewis (who also represented plaintiffs who sued News of the World parent News International over hacking), told Britain's Sky News.
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The lawsuit, filed with London's High Court, alleges that the hacking took place while Morgan was editor, between 1995 and 2004.
Trinity Mirror, which puts out the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and The People, has previously denied engaging in the sort of behavior that tripped up the now-defunct News of the World after more than a century in business.
Testifying at a government inquiry into hacking last year, Morgan denied every ordering staffers to illegally acquire information.
Heather Mills slames Piers Morgan's phone-hacking denial
"It doesn't necessarily follow that listening to someone else talking to someone else is unethical," he replied when grilled over how he obtained recordings of Paul McCartney's ex-wife, Heather Mills.
In May, meanwhile, BBC presenter Jeremy Paxman told a media ethics panel that Morgan taught him how to hack a mobile's voice-mail account a decade ago--and Paxman told a story that involved Morgan teasing another TV personality about a conversation she had with Sven-Gran Eriksson.
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What a journey it's been so far…the courtship, the whooing, the wedding, the gambling, drinking, womanizing, lies and so much more…and HE REALLY WANTS TO GO BACK?
Go Back; how do we go back after all this hurt? Could counseling really help our situation? Would ROB really be honest to the counselor? Would ROB really listen to what I was saying and accept & understand my feelings? One will only know by showing up and going to the appointments. So that's exactly what I did. Chin held high and at stern backbone, I walked into that waiting room and decided to make this the FIRST day of my new marriage & happy life.
When ROB walked through the door, I thought thank goodness, 1/2 the battle is over, he did show up. He seemed to be in good spirits although with the wrenching of his hands, I knew he was nervous. Why would he be so nervous? Did he finally realize that he would have to open up about everything and tell the truth? Did he even know what the truth was anymore? Was he just going to lie about everything again today and say he did what I asked so that was that? I guess I would find out in the next 5 minutes.
Sitting in that waiting room, neither one of us said anything to each other. I hope this wasn't any indication as to how the meeting was going to go. I looked up and there she was, our counselor. ROB said he wanted to see a women so I made sure that we did that to make it easier on him. Yep, you heard me right, make it easier on HIM…why, I have no idea. She brought us back to her office and we all took our seats. The conversation started out very light and then like a flu coming on in full strength, everything just started pouring out of my mouth! I couldn't help it nor could I stop it! All the lies, hurtful things said, gambling, drinking and more was put in front of us and her. I remember looking at ROB with tears streaming down my face and then when I finally stopped our counselor handed me a tissue and asked ROB what he had to say about what I just said. He said he had no idea…NO IDEA? Who the hell are you kidding? I have yelled at you, written you notes, given you the silent treatment, had my parents talk with us and you have NO IDEA??? I just looked at the counselor. She kept a very unbiased look on her face, but I could see the pain in her eyes and that's when things changed. She asked me about my upbringing and I told her my parents were happily married; oh yes, they had their issues but always worked through them, I have one sister that got married when she was 20 and was still very happily married with 3 lovely children, I had a great up bringing and am VERY close to my family. We talked about the health issues and the strain it put on our marriage that first year. She told me that I can't feel guilty for that as it was out of my control and that I should expect nothing but the full support of my husband during those tough times.
That's when she looked at ROB; you could see the fear in his eyes. He did not want to go any further. The counselor explained to him that we had to go all the way back in order to move forward…it made me question, did HE REALLY WANT TO GO BACK? ROB started to talk; telling about his parents; their turmoil relationship, the drinking and being taken to bars while they got drunk, the domestic abuse his mom endured, his sisters issues with drugs, alcohol, her having a child at 19, how he moved out at 16 didn't graduate high school and never got his GED is insecurities being around people who had them and how he never felt he measured up, the failure of his first marriage, the walking out on his son and not being apart of his life for the first 5 or so years. Even though I had heard most of this it still shocked me that one person had gone through so much. For some reason when I listened to ROB talked, I saw & heard the hurt that almost 40 years had over ROB, but I also had a VERY unsettling voice YELLING at me from my gut!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING AND HOW DO "YOU" THINK YOU CAN FIX THIS? I thought I was going to throw up. How could we ever get past all of this and how much more was I going to have to endure in order to get to those happy times? Again, that thought…HE REALLY WANTS TO GO BACK?
I am not sure why or where my need to feel like I have to fix EVERYTHING has some come from. I was raised in a very supportive family; and when I say family I don't just mean my immediate family, but my extended also and let's just say that they are not only supportive but VERY protective. They would do anything for any of us if we just asked for it. Why can't I ask for help when I need it? To this day, I am a very proud woman who has the most difficult time asking for any sort of help.
Back to the story, HE REALLY WANTS TO GO BACK? Back to what? Does he even know how to live with out the lies, deceit, gambling & drinking? Does he know how to live happily without having to be drunk all the time to get that happiness? Does he realize people like him for him; not for the person he thinks they all want him to be? Can he live in a real world where he may not be the richest, funniest or big man on campus all the time? Then it hit me…CAN I LIVE WITH A MAN WITH THIS MANY DISFUNCTIONS?
It is amazing what can all come out in just one hour and how you can view things differently when you are listening to someone and hearing them tell someone who knows how to ask the correct questions. Our session ended. I was surprised when the counselor asked us to make another session in a couple of weeks and if we would do some homework before our next session and ROB said YES. I think I almost gave myself whiplash when I did the double take at his words.
On our way out, ROB asked if I would go have lunch with him and talk about what happened in that last hour. I got the biggest wave of warmth over my whole body and I wanted to cry! Did it happen? Did ROB finally see what was going on and truly want to make a new beginning and a new beginning with me? Of course I wanted to go to lunch and talk about this. This was going to be our course to betterness & change. Have a session and then talk about it, how we were going to work together to become stronger and work TOGETHER to make this marriage not only the best ever but one that was so strong nothing would EVER come between us again.
When we got to the restaurant, we talked about everything. ROB loved the counselor and felt very comfortable with her. He actually said he was excited to go back to our next session. I didn't think anything could have wiped that smile of my face that I was so proudly shinning from my face. After about another hour of rehashing over what was said, asking questions of each other and feeling like we could move the world, we both agreed we had to get back to work. We walked out and ROB gave me the biggest and longest hug, looked me in the eyes and told me how much he loved me. YES!!! THIS was the man I married and cared about.
I remember THAT DAY; all the happiness, genuine heart-felt feeling & passion it brought and have to wonder, CAN HE REALLY GO BACK AND CHANGE OR IS HE JUST BUYING MORE TIME? More time for what though?
Would this happiness, honesty and communication last forever, until the next session or just for that day? Only time would tell. Would we or could we even make it to the next session?
Look for my next entry as we come closer and closer to the conclusion to this marriage!
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LETTER- Film review cast wide stereotype
I found part of Steve Warren's review of The Hurt Locker to be highly offensive [August 13 capsule reviews].
He writes, "You'd never guess a woman directed The Hurt Locker from the evidence on the screen. Kathryn Bigelow adds neither 'women's touches'– there's very little talk about the men's feelings– nor..."
Besides Warren's implicit prejudice that male directors are the only ones able to successfully represent war on screen (he certainly could have found a less backward way to compliment Bigelow), the phrase "women's touches" is particularly reductive and essentialist, recalling a time when women ornamented their husband's homes with frilly pink curtains and warm apple crisps. Warren makes it worse by qualifying that phrase with his "evidence," viz, "there's very little talk about the men's feelings," –as if we expect the sole, obvious mark of a woman's touch in a movie to be scenes of characters all sitting around the kitchen table, gushing about their pre-menstrual feelings and weeping into their aprons.
Not to mention that men are some of the most emotive and affective creatures I know, it's insulting to characterize women (and their purported 'touches') so broadly and so stereotypically these days.
It's 2009, Steve. Get with the program.
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The Crew and Ohio State Buckeyes will once again meet on the field Tuesday, May 4, in the ninth annual Connor Senn Memorial Match. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on the campus of Ohio State. Tickets for the event are $5 for adults and $3 for children and groups and can be purchased online at OhioStateBuckeyes.com, through Ticketmaster or by calling 1-800-GO-BUCKS. In addition to the exhibition match, the event features a silent auction that consists of a wide array of Ohio State, Columbus Crew and Major League Soccer memorabilia, including many autographed items, as well donations from a variety of Columbus businesses and organizations.
The Connor Senn Memorial Fund was established by Dr. Lance Senn, Connor's father and a former member of the Ohio State tennis team. Connor collapsed during Ohio State's match at Akron Sept. 26, 2001, and died that night from a congenital heart defect. A native of Granville, Ohio, Connor was a freshman walk-on defender who had earned a starting position for the 2001 season. A plaque honoring Connor hangs outside the Buckeyes' locker room door and Connor's chair hangs in the locker room, which all the players on the 2001 team signed with personal messages to Connor, who was known for his tremendous work ethic, positive attitude and selfless play.
Those wishing to make a contribution to the Connor Senn Memorial Scholarship Fund can do so by sending a check to Kristyn Carman, The Ohio State University, Gift Processing, The Ohio Union, Room 125, 1480 W Lane Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 (fund # 246475). Please include your name and return address so you may receive documentation of your charitable contribution from Ohio State for your tax records.
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oh hey, look! New blog…
I make no promises, I probably won't update this iteration any more frequently than I did my old blog. But i am going to try, whatever that's worth. Why the move? A couple of things. Mainly I got really tired of having to upgrade wordpress every time I wanted to use it. So I'm lazy and will let wordpress.com do it for me. This also frees up my slicehost for some other things I want to do with it, hopefully the results of that will end up here. My tiny slicehost was getting hammered by bing and google whenever they did indexing. Mysql would freak out apache would refuse to keep up and things would spiral. It was annoying. If you read this regularly (all 2 of you) you saw a 'shoo' page up for a while, this was me seeing if the spider/mysql interaction was the culprit of my slicehost panicking about once a week. Turns out it was, or it's plausible enough to be a reason. I never really liked running mysql just for a tiny blog on a little server anyway. So here we are. I'm actually going to try to blog more, now that my job is new and exciting and I'm doing some interesting things rather than trying to figure out the best way to gouge my eyes out during a meeting I hopefully will have some interesting (at least to me) things to talk about.
If I've done something horrible to the rss feed or anything let me know in the comments. I'll likely leave the redirect around for a while, I doubt that I'll shell out for the domain premium, especially considering wordpress.com want's you to move registration rather than just an A record…. Hello? No.
The new address is https://onastick.wordpress.com hopefully I'll do more with it.
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Choose the the settings you want to test yourself on and click Start a New Game.
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As a follow-up to the earlier entry, SOPA and PIPA were pulled from congressional vote in their current form. The sponsors of the bills acknowledged that a more nuanced discussion is required prior to putting more legislation forward. To get an idea of what the critics of the old legislation would like to see addressed in new talks and legislation, a CNN-Panel discussion addressed the lack of understanding that proponents of the old bill had, and questioned the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed solutions in the old legislation.
"Activists talked about the potential consequences if the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are approved by Congress. Both pieces of legislation are similar and target Web sites that commit or facilitate online piracy."
Although the panel convened before the vote was pulled, their discussion points offer an overview of what major concerns would need to be addressed in any future legislation.
Markham Erickson, Partner, Holch & Erickson LLP, and Executive Director, NetCoalition
Michael Petricone, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics
Mike Masnick, Founder and President, TechDirt
Casey Rae-Hunter, Deputy Director, Future of Music Coalition
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Superman II
1978's Superman began to the era of the superhero film. It would still be another decade before they would become a summer rite of passage at the box office, but Superman helped usher them from small screen, low budget affairs to big splashy tent poles with classy casts. Its first and only watchable sequel, Superman II, has had a fascinating history. It was already in production while the first film was being made and its director was fired halfway through, replaced by journeyman Richard Lester. Superman II may be the last of the quality "comic" comic book films, before the much darker Batman would change the landscape.
You may recall at the beginning of the first Superman flick Marlon Brando as Superman's old man, Jor-El, sentenced three criminals - General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and the big mute, Non (Jack O'Halloran) - to a life of hurling through space stuck in a square bubble (the kind Queen used in their Greatest Hits album cover). Superman II opens with Superman (Christopher Reeve) making a big boo-boo. He tosses a terrorist's hydrogen bomb into space and its explosion frees the prisoners who make their way to Earth. But first, back on Earth, Lex Luther (Gene Hackman) escapes from prison, finds Superman's North Pole getaway, and learns much of his secret history. Meanwhile, on a trip to Niagara Falls, Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) finally looks past Clark's Kent's glasses and realizes he's Superman, they go back to his ice pad and get jiggy.Continue Reading
Superman: The Movie (Director's Cut)
MEANWHILE IN A LIVING ROOM... I must say that I have never been much of a Superman fan. Into Batman. Superman, not so much. However, after stumbling into a friend's living room screening of Superman: The Movie (Director's Cut) one Saturday afternoon I can definitely appreciate the super guy more than I ever have, for several reasons.Continue Reading


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SUNY Potsdam & SUNY Canton Hold First Simultaneous Civility Sit-In Two Campuses Stand Up for Civility through Joint CARE & BEAR Projects
SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam are joining together for a unique show of solidarity—the first-ever simultaneous Civility Sit-In. Students, faculty and staff from both campuses will sit down to demonstrate their commitment to civility, by protesting intolerance, ignorance and disrespect. Then, participants at both colleges will stand up together, in a display of common cause and purpose.
The joint event is sponsored by two initiatives with the same goals on both campuses: SUNY Canton's CARES Committee, and the BEAR @ Potsdam Project.
CARES stands for Character, Acts of Kindness, Respect, Environment and Spirituality. BEAR @ Potsdam is short for Be Ethical And Responsible at SUNY Potsdam. Both organizations support efforts to create campus environments rich in courtesy and respect for others.
The simultaneous Civility Sit-Ins are scheduled for noon on Thursday, Oct. 18, on both campuses. At SUNY Canton, the event will be held at the Roselle Academic Plaza. At SUNY Potsdam, the event will be held at Minerva Plaza.
There will be campus speakers at both events, and students will decorate T-shirts proclaiming what they "won't stand for" at their college.
"SUNY Potsdam is one community, bound together by respect and integrity. We are dedicated to upholding the values in our Potsdam Pledge, and encouraging our students to help lead the way for all concerning civility. This unique event will offer an opportunity for the SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton communities to show our neighbors in the North Country what we stand for," said Dean of Students Chip Morris.
SUNY Canton's Dean of Students, Courtney B. Bish said, "The Civility Sit-In will
showcase theimportance of respect and tolerance within our campus community and will be the first of many events sponsored through our CARES Project. We are proud to co-host this event with SUNY Potsdam through their BEAR @ Potsdam initiative, and are looking forward to the student support at the event and future collaborations with the other area colleges."
To end the sit-ins, the colleges' two mascots—Max C. Bear and Roody Roo—will encourage everyone to rise at once, to show that they stand for civility.
"It is so exciting to be promoting the concept of civility with SUNY Canton. This Sit-In shows the North Country community that we are institutions dedicated to making the communities both on- and off-campus the best they can be," said Annette Robbins, director of student conduct and community standards at SUNY Potsdam.
To mark their commitment to the project, faculty and staff from SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton gathered recently along with the college mascots. As seen in the accompanying photo, the officials included: (from left) SUNY Canton Vice President for Student Affairs Molly A. Mott, SUNY Potsdam Dean of Students Chip Morris, SUNY Canton Director of Diversity Lashawanda Ingram, SUNY Potsdam Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards Annette Robbins, SUNY Potsdam Counseling Center Director Gena Nelson and SUNY Canton Dean of Students Courtney B. Bish.
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PixelJunk and Art Style game creators Q-Games have a new, original project heading to the DSiWare shop next week. Reflect Missile looks to combine Arkanoid-style brick smashing with missile management strategy, which sounds potentially fascinating.
The official Nintendo of Europe web site has details and first screens on the Nintendo DSi downloadable title, promising 200 stages of action-puzzle-strategy in the Q-Games fashion. With the developer's recently released Art Style: Digidrive making DSiWare a better place, we're looking forward to giving Reflect Missile a shot.
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Ufo Update
Posted by dandare on January 13, 2008
Welcome to this weeks Update..
The first article to catch my eye (not sure what the other one was doing) was "UFO allegedly splashed down in Kazakhstan " (posted 8th january 2008). The event was on the 5th january 2008, and the witness was from the local police, who saw "a shining flying object falling into the river" (extract from article). Divers searched the area, but found nothing.
This is old news, but i thought i'd just sneek it in here, "Father of sci-fi rekindles alien debate" (december 17th,2007; ABC news).
We are back to the headlines of the green men variety again; "At last, the truth about little green men " (posted 7th january 2008; telegragh.co.uk ). It mentions that we might learn much about what really happened over the Rendlesham Forest incident…. but as i have said before, this is already out and available on the MOD site for all to see. See Here for the MOD files. There is also a suffolk police file available here .
BlueRidgeNow.com (posted 11th january 2008) states "Include me with UFO believers".
In shieldsgazette.com (posted 9th january 2008) another mature article can be read at "why is Sunderland a UFO hotspot"…. as far as i was concerned, i didn't know it was? It covers the same old "stuff" on ufos..sorry unimpressed.
Wired.com covers "Lake Erie UFOs are Stars on You Tube" (posted 11th january 2008); it mentions "Waves of UFO sightings over the waters of Lake Erie are earning the great lake a reputation as a UFO hot spot. But the lake's new popularity may have more to do with a string of popular videos on YouTube than sightings of little green men" (extract from article). A telling comment, at the end of this article, which is true of alot of sightings says:
""The problem is anyone can post anything and call it a UFO, a ghost, but there's no filter," he says. "You don't know if that person has a history of hoaxes or mental illness. What happens is a real case is drowned out by a sea of hoaxes, mistakes or misidentifications"" (extract from article). I'm afraid to some extent that is true, although alot of witnesses generally believe, what they see is a UFO, but with a little investigation, this ufo (quite alot of the time) changes into an IFO.
The heraldtribune.com has an interesting article entitled "The Limits of Liberalism?" (posted 11th january,2008); it also has a good article "Everything old is old again" (posted 10th january,2008), in which it talks about the MOD releasing ufo files… It basically is saying that journalists fail to realise that alot of the information, for the well known cases, like rendlesham forest, are already available to read (see earlier telegragh article, above, for a typical example of this).
tcpalm.com has "Dom Armentano: Intelligent extraterrestrial life: The other inconvenient truth?" (posted 8th january,2008).
stockportexpress.com reports on "Did you spot any out of this world visitors?" (posted 9th january,2008)… again it seems, that they were chinese lanterns, especially as this was reported on new years day (and the descriptions given for them). One witness was so adament that they were ufos that he said
"They were moving across and not up, and if they were lanterns I'd have thought they'd be moving upwards," he said. "And they were definitely round." (extract from article). I'm afraid he's wrong on that one?
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http://www.ufomystic.com/index.php A great website, full of interesting information..
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The journalists seem to be using the phrase "Little green men" like there is no tommorrow; a term i particularly dislike; i have a feeling it will not go out of fashion any time soon.
This is the new look Update; do you prefer this format? (although i will be doing a couple more articles, about the origins of some more photos soon, anyway).
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January 15, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Something is going on at Stephenville, Texas right now. I have no reason to doubt what the witness says in the second movie (see ufospider.com – not meant to be spam)


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The idea for this book came about after many requests from my customers and people I meet through the System Center community asking how to get started on the basics with their OpsMgr/SCOM deployments once they have it deployed.
SCOM is a complex beast of a product and a lot of deployments I've seen out there aren't using even half of the capabilities it has to offer (distributed applications and dashboards in particular). You'd be surprised how many people simply install it, deploy agents to everything in their environment, import as many management packs as they can find and then configure a single SMTP notification subscription that forwards all alerts to their inbox.
This only leads to alert noise, frustration, the inevitable cursing of the product by users and eventually, it'll be replaced with a different monitoring tool. Thankfully, with the correct guidance, these deployments don't have to be assigned to the monitoring tool graveyard. With a little know-how and help in the right direction, SCOM can be transformed into an IT enablement tool that can deliver full monitoring visibility and streamlined management into your environments.
Hopefully, this book can equip readers with the know-how they need to make the most of their new SCOM environments!
What's Inside?
This book contains detailed content to help you get up and running with new deployments of both SCOM 2016 and SCOM 2012 R2. I've tried to keep things as simple as possible with each chapter building on the previous one while delivering tips, tricks and best practice recommendations along the way.
Here's the chapter list:
Chapter 1 - Introduction to System Center Operations Manager
Chapter 2 - Installing System Center Operations Manager
Chapter 3 - Exploring the Consoles
Chapter 4 - Deploying Agents
Chapter 5 - Working with Management Packs
Chapter 6 - Managing Network Devices
Chapter 7 - Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications
Chapter 8 - Alert Tuning the Easy Way
Chapter 9 - Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards
Chapter 10 - Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports
Chapter 11 - Backing Up, Performing Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Target Audience
The target audience for this book is the IT Pro or System Administrator who wants to deploy and use SCOM but has no previous knowledge of the product.
As a 'Getting Started' book, the primary objective is to equip you with the knowledge you need to feel comfortable when working with common monitoring scenarios in SCOM. With this in mind, deep-diving into less-common features such as Audit Collection Services (ACS), Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has been intentionally omitted.
If you're already familiar with SCOM and have a good grasp of the basic concepts, you should still find the content useful - particularly the chapters that discuss configuring your distributed application models, tuning alerts and creating dashboards from the ground up.
Where Can You Get It?
The book is available in both paperback and e-book format and can be downloaded from all of the usual suppliers. If you have an Amazon account, then you can order it directly from the following links:
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Despite a straight-forward name like Newspapers.com, announced a few minutes ago by its parent organization Ancestry.com, several questions come to mind about this new US newspapers website. Most significantly, why would Ancestry spin off a newspaper collection when "newspapers" are a significant part of Ancestry.com's World Deluxe and other membership plans at Ancestry.com? Probable answer: More paying subscribers ($75US annual) and a different "doorway" for folks to find an Ancestry.com property.
Ol' Myrt pays for an $299 annual subscription at the "World" level, which includes both a US Newspaper and UK Newspaper collection.
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Access to only the US Newspaper collection at Ancestry.com would run $12.95 monthly or $155.40 annually. So Ancestry values its US Newspaper collection at nearly half the value of it's "World" access.
It would appear from the landing page description at the new Newspapers.com website that the collection is US newspapers, covering the 1700s-2000s (see screen shot below), and it is roughly the same as the description of the US Newspaper Collection at Ancestry.com (per screen shot above).
Does this mean Ancestry is spinning out its US newspaper collection to the Newspapers.com website? Why would a "World" Ancestry.com subscriber pay an additional $79US for annual access to Newspapers.com? Why wouldn't a US Newspapers Collection subscriber at Ancestry.com jump ship in favor of a similar subscription at Newspapers.com. (Maybe because one could not then link a newspaper article to an ancestor's profile in an Ancestry.com Member Tree.)
It would appear so, though I'd like a line item comparison of the Ancestry.com newspaper collection titles with those at Newspapers.com. Me thinks the 1,000 titles listed at Ancestry.com may include 200 "web" searches, if this listing from the catalog is any indication. (See below.)
Scenario 1: If the newspapers collections are indeed the same, Ancestry.com should provide free access to its World and US Newspaper Collection subscribers at their new web property Newspapers.com. This affords us a different "skin" or "interface" with which to find ancestors. However, if the search algorithms are the same at both sites, it won't matter, but access would be nice for comparison purposes.
Scenario 2: If Ancestry.com wishes to promote Newspapers.com and will eventually funnel all additions to newspaper collections there, as it appears primed to do, and if Ancestry doesn't add to it's Ancestry.com US Newspaper collection, then our Ancestry.com subscriptions should be reduced by the cost of the annual Newspapers.com subscriptions so that we may subscribe there.
I think it's all about the number of paid subscribers. If Ancestry.com can spin off parts and require membership, then it is the "owner" of more subscriber sites, even though many of those subscribers are duplicates. Why not just KISS and make it Ancestry.com period?
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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