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A little weedcutting – 2.3 macro changes
While there are several changes scheduled (see the forum post for more) there are two that have caught my eye. Nothing big – for us – but interesting nonetheless.
First, and actually a comment brought from another thread, Blizzard is trying to do something that makes the /stopcasting line in macros unnecessary. "* The spell casting mechanism will be improved to remove the need for /stopcasting workarounds on high-latency connections or 'fallthrough' instant cast macros. " is the actual quote. More accurately, is trying to counter the lag problem with this being a consequence. What this will mean is space savings.
You may have noticed some of my macros getting really dense. There's a hard limit of 255 characters that forces this. Each /stopcasting line is 13 characters (12 typed plus a carriage return) taking up valuable real estate – almost 5% of my limit. Not a big deal for most of you, of course, but for us macro hounds it's a pretty big deal.
Second, and of more use to druids than to us, is this line. " * UPDATED – /cancelform will be recognized instantly (as /dismount is currently)."
What this means for the shadowpriest is that they can set up a macro – say:
/cast [target=player] Greater Heal
And it's a one-click macro that starts GH instantly. No wait for the GCD, just "poof".
Now, I said it's going to be most useful for the druids – particularly the druid tanks and cats. From Nandini's post in the forum referenced comes this macro:
/use Super healing Potion
/use Master Healthstone
/cast Dire Bear Form()
It is – grab your chairs – a one-click macro. Currently that takes two clicks. The bear (and cat) still lose rage/energy for changing form, but… Hey, BBB and Karthis (to name two druid tanks I know read this blog), think you can get by with an instant macro that lets you grab health like that?
Based on various comments there are other bombshells in the macros which I hope to find. But I thought I'd bring these to your attention as well.
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"Hey, BBB and Karthis (to name two druid tanks I know read this blog), think you can get by with an instant macro that lets you grab health like that?"
Being a tankie druid it is of minor use to me, since I often cannot risk hopping out of bear form even for a second. There are some fights (Moroes, Oz, Curator) where I could use it to speed up my innervate/battle res sequences.
For soloing it is awesome though – I could see converting all of my healing spells into little /cancelform macros.
I'll post more on my blog a little later on.
Actually, there is a druid practice called power shifting.
Most druids who tank / feral DPS have talents to give them rage / energy when they go into bear/cat.
So when they hit their macro, the go to caster form then back to form againthey have 40 energy again, and a little less mana. Or more rage.
This change just made sustained druid DPS / OTing much easier.
FYI, no need to put /cancelform before a /cast command. Unless you have the feature disabled, casting a spell will automatically take you out of a shapeshift form.


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My wife has a master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has lived in four countries, speaks a good deal of Arabic and some Italian, and has been either teaching or conducting education research for the better part of a decade. She taught at a private school in Seattle so esteemed that Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (the founder of Amazon.com) sent their children there.
Yet according to box-checkers at Maine's Department of Education, she is not yet qualified to teach 10-year-olds in the state's public schools. Because she studied history and art as an undergraduate and has not undergone public school certification in another state, the state of Maine denied her application for initial certification to teach, insisting that she must first complete an undergraduate English course at her own expense. This is only for initial, temporary certification, after which she must take no fewer than five additional college courses, five standardized tests, and complete a year of supervised "student" teaching.
Just about anyone considering teacher quality in the United States laments that classroom instruction needs substantial improvement, and low teacher pay is often cited as the reason the profession doesn't attract and retain talented candidates. This is no doubt part of the problem; in Maine, a starting public school salary pays like a full time job at a Waffle House.
Another major problem, though, is that states often make it unconscionably difficult for qualified teachers to work. The result is that would-be teachers often do something else or they work for private schools, where teachers don't need the same bureaucratic stamp of approval. For that same reason, private schools often attract highly qualified, educated individuals who may not have the traditional teaching certification.
Four days after arriving in Maine, my wife was offered a job at a prestigious private school that is less shackled by the state's bureaucratic vise grip. She accepted.
Maine should be sending cookie bouquets to talented teachers. The state's 4th-graders have the lowest reading scores of any state in New England except Rhode Island, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. (Wholly related: My wife's master's degree is specifically in childhood literacy).
But Maine officials can take heart that other states chase good teachers away, too.
Bureaucratic restrictions frustrate talented teachers even after they've gotten their foot in the door. A friend of mine eventually quit his job teaching biology at a public high school in North Carolina and as a cross country and track coach, in part because the state wouldn't pay him the standard increase in salary for having a master's degree. He was teaching biology courses, and was told that his master's degree in physiology didn't count as a graduate degree in his area of educational certification.
Not only did he have a master's degree in the sciences from a major research university, but he had previously coached a high school cross country team to four state championships in California, where he was an "All-American" runner in college.
States should certainly have high standards regarding who can teach their children, but high standards need not be synonymous with needless restrictions. States can have a system for evaluating aspiring teachers who don't have traditional certification, without being punitive and pushing talent away. That can and should involve case-by-case considerations.
While alternate certification programs exist, aimed at getting talented individuals into the classroom, those programs often require candidates to jump through another set of bureaucratic hoops and demanding commitments. These programs also have limited regional scope and may demand would-be teachers spend significant money up front simply to start the ball rolling.
Maine's Bangor Daily News ran a July editorial arguing that when it comes to demanding high-quality teachers, America's states could learn from Finland's approach to improving its schools, where "every teacher got a master's degree, not in education but a content area" and "[o]nly one in 10 applicants was hired to be a teacher." But Finland's demands worked in large part because of systemic and cultural factors that don't exist in the US. The country's tough standards got high quality teachers into the classroom, rather than keeping them out.
Rigid standards are fine as long as state officials have broad authority to use common sense and wave requirements for exceptionally trained applicants. Red tape will always exist, but it doesn't have to bind and gag talented professionals eager to serve as teachers.
Justin D. Martin, Ph.D., is the CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism at the University of Maine and a columnist for Columbia Journalism Review. Follow him on Twitter: @Justin_D_Martin


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I didn't write this, but it makes sooo much sense. (Originally posted on mmo-champion by lleet)
"Did you know? Jaina Proudmoore allowed her father to die so that the Horde could continue to grow in strength. Is she then a double-agent for the Horde?
The answer is no. Jaina Proudmoore is in fact the true villain, the mastermind behind all the evils of WoW.
She watched on as Admiral Proudmoore died because she wanted a proper challenge. The Horde was too weak for her, and needed to become stronger…
And Varian Wrynn? He's nothing but Jaina's puppet. Wrynn said nothing to reprimand Jaina after she forcefully teleported him out of the Undercity. Why? Because he knew that she could have chosen never to release him from the ice…
Of course Jaina would never harm Wrynn. After all, Varian Wrynn and Thrall are both her precious little toys. You think Thrall is safe, tucked within his little fortress? Think again. Jaina showed in the 'Battle for the Undercity' questline that she could teleport to Orgimmar any time she wished, at her leisure.
You're probably shaking your heads by now, recalling how Jaina saved the players in the Pit of Saron and cried over the deaths of the soldiers. How could such a kind soul ever be evil? But remember this. In the Undercity, she showed that she could easily teleport at least a dozen soldiers on short notice. But… In the Pit of Saron? She only saves the five players. The reason is simple. She did not want any disturbances in her duel with the Lich King. If Falric and Marwyn had not held us behind, she may have murdered us players as well.
Another scary fact. It is well-known that Jaina is a mage with epic skills.
Yet we only see Jaina meleeing the Lich King when we come upon their battle.
But the Lich King, with Frostmourne, only managed to take away 5000k of Jaina's HP… Whereas Jaina took out 7000k of the Lich King's HP. With only a staff. Jaina tells the players that she cannot keep the Lich King frozen for long. Yet as long as you don't speak to her, she can keep him frozen until 10:00 AM the next morning.
If the Skybreaker had not collapsed the tunnel, the fall of the Lich King may have come much sooner than Blizzard intended. The final evidence. Look at the final bosses of the two expansions. The Burning Crusade? The final boss was Kil'jaeden, yes, but it was Kael'thas who summoned him into the Sunwell. The Wrath of the Lich King? The final boss is the Lich King, obviously, but the man beneath is Arthas Menethil.
These two men have just one thing in common, and that is that they both fell in love with Jaina as she studied magic in Dalaran. Now do you understand? Kael'thas and Arthas may have thought they were acting under their own ambitions, but in reality they too were mere puppets of Jaina Proudmoore.
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Kansas City's weekend loss has officially set the playoff field. Over the next week, MLSsoccer.com will publish quick synopses of how each team arranges itself tactically and a few words about why it works.
First, let's take a look at the four seeded teams — those that will finish first and second in their respective conferences. Next week we'll handle the rest.
Hint: The 4-4-2 will dominate the postseason, with two slight dissenters.
LA Galaxy: Personnel options aplenty
As far back as a decade ago, some soccer insiders began regarding the diamond-shaped midfield as passé. Never mind that Dominic Kinnear won two league titles using a midfield diamond, and that Real Salt Lake won using a diamond as the basic shape (even if it was just a loose starting point for Jason Kreis' side).
[inline_node:319959]Galaxy manager Bruce Arena loves his diamond, too. In his case, the basic shape is less predictable because he has abundant options. David Beckham has mostly played along the right but also in the middle. Brazilian midfielder Juninho has generally been on top of the diamond, but lined up once as a defensive anchor. And there's the weekly Landon Donovan decision: Where to station MLS' reigning MVP? Last weekend it was as a withdrawn striker, tucked in behind Edson Buddle. But he's mostly been a wide midfielder this year.
If a looming first-round matchup with Seattle comes true, would Donovan still be on the outside, where he would have to spend significant energy chasing the Sounders' fleet wingers?
Real Salt Lake: A formless midfield that works
Kreis' arrangement is a loosey-goosey 4-4-2. And it works.
The starting points look like this (moving clockwise): Kyle Beckerman sits deep, Will Johnson lines up left, Javier Morales rides the top of the diamond and Andy Williams or Ned Grabavoy sets up right. Johnson and the right-sider swing inside at will (but always with attention to offensive spacing). So possession becomes a weapon, and, for opponents, locating the runners becomes problematic.
Johnson has jumped forward for goals this year and Grabavoy did the same last week, inserting himself into more goalscoring positions and notching a matchwinner for his efforts. Fullbacks capable of attacking and forwards with a variety of skill sets all add up to lots of pressure on defenses.
New York Red Bulls: The value of the deep-lying playmaker
Manager Hans Backe hasn't settled on the best way to use his three-headed attack monster (Juan Pablo Ángel, Thierry Henry and Mehdi Ballouchy). If he sticks with his 4-4-2, as expected, one of the three may be on the bench. Everything else looks settled, assuming good health for Rafa Márquez.
[inline_node:319620]Márquez has become the MLS standard bearer at deep-lying playmaker, helped greatly by the richness of the targets around him. Dane Richards' speed on the right, Joel Lindpere's energy and industry on the left, Henry's ability to spot the early balls out of midfield and Ángel's shrewd target play makes it all work.
So, the opponent that cuts off supply into Márquez will leave rookie Tony Tchani to pull the Red Bull strings—and that's asking a lot. You can bet San Jose Earthquakes manager Frank Yallop is watching a little Red Bulls video this week; those teams are currently matched in the first round, although that could change based on results this week.
Columbus: Still a work in progress
Not much has changed around this team since Columbus won it all in 2008. It's still a 4-4-1-1 system that revolves around Guillermo Barros Schelotto's free role behind a striker.
But lately a stronger presence is missing from a second central midfielder alongside Brian Carroll. Adam Moffat's effectiveness is way down, and Kevin Burns hasn't shown himself to be quite up to the task yet. This creates a missing link into Schelotto.
So the Crew are limping to the finish line. Six weeks ago they were talking "Supporters' Shield" on the banks of the Scioto River. Now they probably won't even finish tops in the East.
Manager Robert Warzycha has options. Utility knife Eddie Gaven could play inside while attack-specialist Emmanuel Ekpo mans the outside. Robbie Rogers' recent return along the left makes that possible.
Warzycha could deploy a 3-5-2 to get an extra midfielder as he did Saturday in Toronto. Then again, he needed a goalkeeper to rescue the afternoon with a late equalizer, so maybe that's not the best way forward.
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Two boys surviving winter in Norway in a small wooden hut
Connor (Year 9)
I first came across this extraordinary independent film at the 2014 Banff Mountain film festival. It's won countless prizes and awards and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. It's downloadable at Vimeo on demand from this link. The teaser pretty much sums up the plot line…
I was curious to see how the film would be received by students of different ages and took the opportunity of an enforced absence to set it as cover. I set three simple tasks to complete after watching:
1) Where's the geography? (Why do you think you are being shown this film?)
2) What questions do you have after watching it?
3) Sum up the film in a sentence
Collating the key words from the responses to the first question highlighted interesting variations in the way the film spoke to different year groups. Despite evidence to the contrary, Year 7 have not done any work on recycling, although the landscape project is still fairly recent in their collective memories and we did make reference to Svalbard at the start of the year. It does look as though they've been exposed to a degree of "greenwashing" (though hopefully not in my lessons.) Year 8 on the other hand, did weather last term, and clearly thought that the film was being shown for that reason. Year 9 have just finished a unit of work on development which included a reference to Bhutan's slogan "Gross National Happiness is more important than GNP" so I was very happy to see several students reflecting on the film's references to quality of life vs standard of living.
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Responses to the second question were perhaps more predictable, with many students asking somewhat disappointingly what the two characters were trying to "achieve". It's quite telling that few students seem to be able to conceive of outdoor adventure and fun being an end in itself. Encouragingly, several wanted to know where the beach was located, which is slightly more encouraging and would make a good piece of detective work. (I found it in about 15 minutes on Google Earth) More interesting was the student from year 8 who wondered if they could have managed without mobiles and a supermarket.
As a potential offering for the four word film review site, Ellie from Year 7 managed to be the most concise with…
"Surfing til dawn"
and Kathleen from Year 9 offered…
A truly amazing winter
I'm certain that there's a great deal of potential learning to extract from this wonderful film. Despite the prevailing orthodoxy, occasionally there is a strong argument to be had for not splitting films into bite sized chunks, and instead just give students the chance to be captivated. Whether the theme is landscapes as part of a "fantastic places" – type unit, the impact of latitude on weather and seasons, a comparison place study, or extreme tourism at GCSE, the film has a lot to offer. I suspect it could be a good precursor for introducing the John Muir Award into a school.
If you do discover the location of the beach – do keep it a secret. I might even see you there next summer!


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We've shown you bone-conduction headphones of different shapes and sizes before, but these new Audio Bone 1.0 ones may be the first genuinely stylish-looking ones (though you'll undoubtedly get people asking why you've not got your earphones in your ears.) They're a development on the version we showed you ages ago, hanging around behind your head, and making contact with the bone just in front of your ear: hence you get your MP3 sounds directly delivered to your inner ear without blocking the sounds around you. They've got a frequency response range of 50-12,000Hz, and come in different colors for $189.00. [Product page]
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Huh. I've already been pulled over on my bike for using headphones. I wonder if these would fly, or if I'd get that ticket next time.
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calls for ethics reform, assault weapons ban
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[February 07, 2013]
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn
boosted his populist credentials on Wednesday as he looks toward a
2014 re-election bid, calling for tougher conflict-of-interest
controls on lawmakers, increasing the minimum wage to $10 per hour
and banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity
ammunition feeders.
In the annual State of the State address to a joint session of
the General Assembly, Quinn said state law should prohibit lawmakers
from voting on issues where they have a conflict of interest. He
urged the Legislature to impose the same kind of ethics requirements
on itself that it previously approved for judges and administration
officials in a state that has seen its past two governors jailed on
corruption charges.
But lawmakers weren't keen on what's perceived as a direct challenge
to the Legislature's authority, and even government watchdogs
pointed out it's a thorny issue that isn't as clear cut as it seems.
Quinn made only scattered references to the state's most pressing
problem -- a stifling public-employee pension deficit, but the
squeeze it puts on other government spending was an undercurrent
throughout the governor's fifth State of the State address. Quinn
pointedly named Senate President John Cullerton's latest legislation
that includes a fallback plan if the first is declared
unconstitutional as "the best vehicle to get the job done."
"Do we want, in the years to come, a prosperous Illinois where
working people continue to have good jobs, where businesses thrive,
and where all our children have a world-class education?" Quinn
asked. "Or do we want to stop the progress and watch our economic
recovery stall?"
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Elevated to the job after his former running mate, Gov. Rod
Blagojevich, was impeached and removed from office in 2009 and
elected to a full term the next year, Quinn will face not only stiff
Republican competition but a possible primary challenge from one or
more high-profile Democrats next spring. GOP lawmakers were keenly
aware of the upcoming political season.
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Last week my daughter came home from kindergarten wearing a large sticker proclaiming "Hugs! Not drugs." I asked her what the sticker meant and she explained that she's now a member of D.A.R.E and that if people try to sell you drugs you should say, "No, thank you" and hug them. And while I appreciate the sentiment, I can't help but thinking that snuggling with rejected drug dealers might not be the safest move for a kindergartner. I asked my daughter if she even knew what drugs were and she admitted that she wasn't really paying attention but she thought they were "like bears, only smaller." I think the point here is that the D.A.R.E. system is fundamentally flawed and that my child might need Ritalin.
Regardless, it is disconcerting that the information our children get about drugs is often wrong or lacking and it leaves them ill-equipped to make rational decisions about whether or not to do drugs and so I've created a small outline of the most popular drugs and their effects that you can share with your children. You're welcome.
Remember, knowledge is power.
- Cocaine. Cocaine will get you really high but can be quite expensive. It's a white powdery substance made from the bones of crushed, tortured baby kittens. Snorting cocaine is like eating tuna made of murdered dolphins except worse because dolphins can't hide in your shoes and end up on funny Internet videos. Cocaine is snorted through the nose, exactly like that weird kid in your class who snorts his milk through his nose and who no one likes to sit next to at lunch. So yeah. It's that sexy.
- Crack. Crack is just like cocaine except cheaper because it's made out of kittens who died from contagious diseases. Unfortunately all the money you save buying crack will end up going toward medication though because crack causes herpes. Crack herpes. Some people will try to tell you that crack herpes isn't as bad as regular herpes and they're right. Because it's worse.
- Heroin. Heroin is one of the worst drugs around because it's impossible to spell. It makes you really skinny and vaguely hot but sometime between the 1st and the 28th time you use it your genitals will fall right off. True story.
- Marijuana. Marijuana is considered one of the least harmful drugs but it's still something that should be avoided because it's a gateway drug. It's called a "gateway drug" because every time you smoke it the gateway to fairyland opens and a fairy is decapitated. Your fairy. And I know right now you're probably thinking, "But I don't even have a fairy" and that's because when a fairy is murdered, all of the memories of that fairy are erased from the world and are replaced with unnecessary, mandatory algebra classes. If you have no memory of ever having a fairy and you've never done drugs, then it's probably the result of second-hand smoke. This is why it's important to stop your friends from doing marijuana. When you see a classmate lighting up, you should immediately stop them and explain that they are murdering fairies and inventing math classes and most likely they will stop immediately or at least stop hassling you to join in since you're obviously on much better drugs than they are. Everyone wins. Except for all the fairies that you murdered.
- PCP. PCP is more commonly called "fairy dust" because it's made of the remains of decapitated fairies, you sick, sick bastard.
In conclusion, drugs are bad and if you use them your genitals will fall off and then we all end up having to take more math classes because of all the fairies you murdered. Also you should really never hug drug dealers because it's a bad idea to lean against people who carry dirty needles and also because crack herpes is highly contagious.
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Okay these aren't your average cupcakes. To be honest they're not cupcakes at all - but I'd spent too long calling them "those potato pastry bacon things" and decided they needed a better name.
I can't claim credit for these - they were originally introduced to me from my pal Sandra - and they're amazingly simple and extraordinarily delicious.
Irish Cupcakes
Frozen puff pastry
6 potatoes
1 tub of cream cheese
4 strips of bacon
Okay to get started you grab some frozen puff pastry, let it thaw out a little and slice each sheet into nine squares. Push the squares into greased muffin trays.
Then, in a saucepan, make some mashed potato. Add in the cream cheese and the butter (obviously the more you add, the more delicious but less healthy they become). Add salt and pepper to taste and spoon the potato mash into the pasty cups.
Sprinkle the cups with chopped up chives and add a small strip of bacon to each one. Then pop them in a 170 degree oven until they get crispy and golden.
They're perfect for picnics or parties where you need to bring along some finger food.
I guarantee that at least three people will ask you for the recipe.


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I'm really sorry for the lack of updates, but it hasn't been a great week for me. I ended up in the hospital (again) after a seizure, cut my head open, just when I thought I could leave that annoying disease behind me, it appears to be back again. Just gotten my driver's license back, been seizure free for over a year. Don't remember what happened, just woke up on the floor. So a little shaken up, but slowly getting back on my feet. I refuse to let this disease take over. x Chantal
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For as long as I can remember, I've been an introvert person. It's a way of dealing with things, and sometimes a way to hide myself. It's started in school, when I realized I was a bit different: my style, my hair, I wasn't an outgoing type. People would make fun of me, look at me different, call me names, and I started to question myself. Why can't I just look the way I want to, and be as quiet as I want to? I started to doubt myself. Somehow people always find it hard: a girl that has an outspoken way of dressing and styling herself,who is a professional singer, who entertains people for a living, is a quiet and introvert girl in her daily life.
I have accepted myself, and know that I'm an introvert person, but am super social when it comes to my person social life or when I'm working as a vocal coach or as a singer or songwriter for other artists.
I still I have my insecurities. Last week I went into hiding. I was tired, had some really bad breakouts on my face and wasn't comfortable in my own skin. I just needed a week to find some inner peace and battle things out. Please excuse me for being a crappy blogger, but sometimes life isn't perfect or about Instagram edits and photoshop cannot save everything.
So for today I'll sharing some of my insecurities and awkwardness.
I thought it would be fun to share 10 things about me that you might not know. If you are new here, you will get a glimpse into who I am and if you have been following me for a while, you can maybe learn something new. Let's see if I surprise you!
Three Tips For Aspiring Musicians & Singers
I've been making music for quite some time now… I just wanted to share some of the things I've learned a long the way. In a way these are tips that can be useful for anybody doing something creative!
Bye Bye 2015!
Hi everyone,just wanted to wish you all the best for 2016!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog, all the love and support since my epilepsy diagnosis has been so amazing. I'm happy to see how much my blog has grown thanks to all of you. Thank you! I hope 2016 brings us more love, health, peace, style and more of those amazing memorable moments.
Hope you all have a fabulous NYE!
Personal // Life with epilepsy.
Today's blogpost is a personal story. My personal battle with an invisible illness: epilepsy.
A year ago, on a friday night, I watched some stuff on Netflix and went to bed. I woke up with my boyfriend sounding stressed out in the middle of the night. Apparently I was shaking and having some kind of an episode in my sleep. "We're going straight to the doctor in the morning, this is scary and not good." I agreed and was scared as hell,but managed to fall asleep. The next thing I remember is waking up to hear my boyfriend calling the doctor, asking for help. I was confused, felt sick, I couldn't understand what happened. What the ?? I had another seizure, and before I knew it, two doctors were standing next to my bed, asking questions, checking me out and telling me I needed to go to the Emergency Room."They already know you're coming"..Wait.. WHAT?! Noooo, there's no way you're taking me to the hospital, I DON'T DO hospitals! But then I realized I had no choice. This was the day everything changed. Life changed.
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Hi there! Since I'm new to the blog world, I thought it would nice for you to get to know me a little…..
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Deputy chairwoman of the upper house of parliament, the Senate, Miluše Horská, has said she is optimistic that funds will be found to buy up and close a pig farm at the site of camp where Roma were interned and died from 1942. The comments came during an annual commemorative event near the site of the Lety camp where hundreds of Roma perished due to disease and ill treatment. The closure of the pig farm has been a subject of debate for years. Last year Minister of Culture Daniel Herman promised that the question would be resolved. The director of the Lidice memorial, who also has responsible for the Lety memorial, pointed out Monday that the issue is not just a question of money to buy out the farm, estimated at sever hundred million crowns, but also the demand of the owner for a new site and suitable for the farm to be found nearby.
The state budget surplus in the first seven months of the year climbed to 25.7 billion crowns from 22.6 billion a month earlier, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday. The figure is a record for July since the creation of the Czech Republic in 1993. At the same time last year, the state surplus stood at 4.5 billion. Two main factors contributing to the level of the recent surplus are around 50 billion extra in incoming EU funds and around 12 billion in extra social contributions.
The German Association for Exilees the (BdV) on Monday welcomed Czech and other commemorations in Central Europe of the expulsion of German communities at the end of WWII and recognition of the fact that this was often accompanies by violence. The association made the statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Potsdam Conference at the end of WWII. The association recalled that the Allied powers agreed at the Potsdam Conference in late July and August 1945 to the expulsion of German populations from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland but stressed that it should be done in an orderly and humane fashion. The conference did not legitimize the violence that had started even before the conference began, the association said in a press statement. The statement specifically mentioned massacres of Germans at Ústí nad Labem, the death march from Brno to the Austrian border, and attacks on Germans at Žatec and Lanškroun. A commemorative service was held at Ústí on Friday. Earlier this year the city council at Brno apologised for the death march and expulsion of former German citizens.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the VIZE 97 foundation linked to former president Václav Havel have come to an agreement on use of the iconic president-playwright's name. The agreement on Monday follows controversy after the foundation indirectly sought a payment of around 30,000 crowns from the ministry after the Israeli city of Haifa named a square after Václav Havel. In future, embassies will inform the ministry of such projects abroad and approval will then be sought from the chairwoman of the foundation Dagmar Havlová. Many foreign cities and institutions have sought to honour Havel by naming benches or places after him. The foundation said it was not warned about Haifa's intentions. The ministry protested that it was just a go between in the affair.
A techno party which attracted around 4,000 people instead of the expected few hundred came to an end at a former camp for immigrants at Červený Újejd around noon on Monday. Those living near the event over the weekend complained of the load noise and disorder. Police did not make any arrests. The local council near Teplice in northern Bohemia is now seeking ways of banning future events. Many of the ravers came from Germany and further afield to the event held on private land.
Around 62 percent of Czechs are happy with their lives with 15 percent discontented according to a survey by the CVVM polling agency. The rest described themselves as neutral. The proportion of contented fell by three percentage points compared with June last year when a similar survey was conducted. The Czech Republic counts as the most contented post-Communist country in Central and Eastern Europe, according to United Nations figures. On the world level it is placed 31st and ahead of Spain and Italy. The proportion of contented Czech dipped during the economic crisis in 2011 and 2012.
The Czech Foreigners Police detained 197 illegal immigrants between Friday and Monday morning, the Ministry of Interior has announced. The daily average has now risen to 42 illegal immigrants, foreigners' police spokeswoman Kateřina Rendlová told the ČTK news agency. Since checks were increased in mid-June, the total of illegal immigrants detained in the Czech Republic stands at 996. The ministry is discussing the provision of extra capacity for illegal immigrants. The number of those detained is expected to reach 3,500 by the end of this year and could double in 2016.
Industrial confidence in the Czech Republic firmed in July from June according to the latest survey of producers by the Markit financial services company. The monthly index climbed to 57.5 points in July from 56.9 in June. Manufacturing industry is growing at the fastest pace since April 2011, the company said in a commentary. New orders are at their highest level since May 2014, production has hit a peak for the last year but prices of raw materials are under control, the assessment added.
Convicted former judge Ondřej Havlín acquitted politician Karel Březina in exchange for the promise of a diplomatic post or money, the judge who handed Mr. Havlín a jail term, Petr Sedlařík, told the weekly Respekt. Mr. Sedlařík said recordings indicated that Mr. Březina and Mr. Havlín had reached a deal prior to the former's trial in connection with his activities on the supervisory boards of two companies. Mr. Březina, who became a government minister in his late 20s, had stood to go to jail for two years if found guilty. Last week Mr. Havlín received a six and a half year sentence for influencing cases in favour of perpetrators, most of them drunk drivers.
Last month was the hottest July seen in the Czech Republic for nine years. Temperatures in July were 3 degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average, the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute said on its website. Rainfall was at just 40 percent of the average level for the month, making July the fourth month in a row in the Czech Republic with below-average precipitation.


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When I last wrote about "smart power", I was taking US business and especially political leaders to task for failing to craft comprehensive, forward-looking energy policy. They seem to be more concerned with drilling for today's dwindling oil than planning for tomorrow's growing needs. Meanwhile, citizens feel powerless to do much about it.
Part of the problem is one of scale. Our energy dilemma is big and not easily solved. There's a great deal of economic inertia keeping us stuck in hydrocarbons. As I said before, I believe it's largely the role of government to help "unstick" us– to provide incentives, tax or whatever, in facilitating a transition from a polluting power paradigm to one more responsible and sustainable.
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Last month an interesting review was published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences arguing that 'predictive representations of temporal regularities constitute the core of auditory objects in the brain.' A possible consequence of this argument is that auditory sensory memory and (temporal) predictions are simply two sides of the same coin.
The authors (among which István Winkler and Sue Denham that collaborated with our Amsterdam group in the EmCAP project; see earlier blogs), review much of the recent literature using brain imaging and electrophysiological techniques. They support their hypothesis on the basis of at least five observations (and I paraphrase the authors here):
First, auditory regularity representations are temporally persistent; they have been shown to connect sounds separated by up to circa 10 seconds and persist for at least 30 seconds.
Second, auditory regularity representations encode all sound features with a resolution comparable to perception, since perceptually discriminable deviations elicit a Mismatch Negativity (MMN).
Third, when two sound streams are perceptually separated, MMN reflects the perceived sound organization, its elicitation dynamically follows perceptual fluctuations between two alternative sound organizations and the effects of priming sequences on perception.
Fourth, regularities are extracted from acoustically widely different exemplars in a sequence, including the natural variation of environmental sounds.
And finally, violations of predictive rules have been shown to elicit the MMN. For example, delivering a low tone after a short one elicited the MMN, when for most tones the rule "short tones are followed by high-pitched tones, long tones by low-pitched tones" held.
Interestingly, violations in the form of silence (i.e. no sound) - such as omissions in a natural drum-pattern - also show a MMN. And in addition, these effects are also found when attention is directed to other aspects than the sound /music or when participants are unattentive (such as in the case with sleeping neonates).Winkler, I., Denham, S., & Nelken, I. (2009). Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13 (12), 532-540 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.09.003


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Chicken Dinners: Chicken Pasta e Fagioli with Smoked Paprika
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I've been eating the vegetarian version of this Italian dish for years. Pasta e fagioli simply means "pasta with beans." An old ex-boyfriend's mother turned me on to this simple, easy to make, and satisfying dish, as she made it for the family almost weekly. Kidney beans and canned tomatoes are simply flavored mostly with garlic and a bit of chili flakes (sometimes also onion, sometimes also oregano), and then cooked pasta shells are stirred in to finish the soup-like dish.
As much as I like the classic, I've gotten a little bored with it, so I took the core ingredients and added a little flair. To start, this wasn't going to be meatless anymore. I fried up cubes of tasty pancetta, tossed in onions and garlic, and then quick cooking ground chicken. (Why not beef? Aside from this being a chicken post, the combo of beef, tomatoes, and kidney beans is too similar to a standard quick chili.) In went the tomatoes, the beans, and some extra broth for cooking the pasta directly in the soup.
The flavor still needed a little something more, so I pulled out my favorite tomato sauce secret spice: smoked paprika. I always sprinkle some into my meatless sauces. Its meaty, umami flavor was exactly the touch, even if a fusion touch, that I was looking for.
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Nationals knock off D-backs 5-1
PHOENIX (AP) — Ian Desmond likes to be aggressive early in the count, often swinging at the first pitch.
Facing a side-arming right-hander, one who had not allowed a run in 19 games, Desmond's approach worked out quite well for the Washington Nationals.
Desmond and Tyler Moore each lined two-run singles off Brad Ziegler in the ninth inning, helping the Nationals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Wednesday to salvage what started as a difficult road trip.
"He's really good, has some good numbers over the past few years, has been effective," Desmond said of Ziegler. "I just wanted to make sure I got something up in the zone and let the hands do the work."
Washington had a hard time solving Brandon McCarthy, who locked into a pitcher's duel with Doug Fister for the first seven innings.
Ziegler (0-1) hadn't allowed a run in 18 1-3 innings, so pulling off another late-inning victory appeared to be a daunting task.
Denard Span got it started with a gritty at-bat, drawing a walk after fouling off four straight pitches. The Nationals loaded the bases and Desmond came through, lining a single through the left side. Moore followed with another two-run hit, breaking his bat on a single up the middle.
Jayson Werth homered and Tyler Clippard (4-3) tossed one scoreless inning for Washington, which took two of three from Arizona after being swept in Oakland.
"We needed this one," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "It salvages the road trip. It started off really bad and it's nice to get this one and head home on a positive note."
The Diamondbacks had just come off a solid road trip and McCarthy put them in good position to win four straight series for the first time in nearly three years.
Arizona lost to Washington in the ninth inning Monday night, and then had a surprising meltdown in the series finale by one of baseball's best relievers over the past few seasons.
Aaron Hill homered and made several spectacular plays at second base for the Diamondbacks.
"I had a lot of swing and misses over the top and a lot of balls chopped foul," Ziegler said. "I felt like I had decent stuff. Just didn't execute pitches that well."
Fister was sharp after a rough debut for the Nationals.
Acquired from Detroit in an offseason trade, the right-hander spent the first six weeks on the disabled list with a back strain. He returned Saturday against Oakland and was hit hard, allowing seven runs and nine hits in 4 2-3 innings.
Fister worked around a couple of baserunners the first three innings until Hill, swinging on a 3-0 pitch, hit a drive to left for his fourth of the season.
Fister allowed five hits and struck out six before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the eighth inning.
"Great job by Doug," Desmond said. "After his last start, I'm sure he needed that one. He did an excellent job of keeping the ball down, using his sinker a lot."
McCarthy was hit hard by the White Sox on Saturday, giving up seven runs and nine hits in 3 1-3 innings.
The veteran right-hander was sharp against the Nationals.
Keeping them off balance with big breaking curveball, McCarthy was perfect until Desmond led off the fifth inning with an infield single up the middle.
Washington had a runner on third with one out in the sixth after an error on Arizona shortstop Chris Owings and a sacrifice bunt, but Hill saved a run with a diving stop in the hole on a hard-hit ball by Anthony Rendon to end the inning.
Hill nor anyone else had a chance to reach Werth's tying homer in the seventh inning, a screaming liner to right-center that got out in a hurry.
McCarthy continued to get outs after that and got some more help in the eighth from Hill, who dived and scooped the ball in the same motion on a slow roller by pinch-hitter Kevin Frandsen.
McCarthy allowed two hits and struck out seven in eight innings.
"Some of the changes I wanted to make off last week I felt I was able to execute and do a better job, and make it a high priority," McCarthy said. "The results kind of followed after that."
NOTES: Arizona LHP Randy Wolf exercised the out clause in his contract and was granted his release. The 37-year-old signed a minor league contract with the Diamondbacks after missing last season due to reconstructive elbow surgery. ... Washington leads the majors in run differential from the seventh inning on at plus-38. ... Arizona has Thursday off before RHP Wade Miley opens a three-game series against the Dodgers on Friday. ... Washington has Thursday off and has yet to announce a starter for the start of a three-game series against the New York Mets on Friday.


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The official platform language poised for approval at next week's Republican National Convention doesn't fully represent the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Tuesday.
On the heels of Rep. Todd Akin's incendiary remarks on rape, NBC News has confirmed that next week's Republican National Convention platform could include calls for the "Human Life Amendment," which would outlaw abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus discusses.
Republicans are gathered this week in Tampa to draft official platform language, and potential language calling for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to curb abortion rights has drawn newfound scrutiny.
The RNC's platform committee is set to vote Tuesday evening on draft language related to abortion, which calls for "a human life amendment to the Constitution," along with "legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus unveils the stage for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida August 20, 2012.
"I think as far as the details of some of these things, like an exception for rape or life of the mother, these are not uncommon differences that candidates have and don't share some of the detail on some of those exceptions," Priebus said on MSNBC. "This is the platform of the Republican Party; it's not the platform of Mitt Romney."
The party adopted identical language in its 2004 and 2008 platforms, which doesn't talk about exceptions or granular details, but also doesn't specifically stipulate an exception to bans on abortion in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother.
The RNC platform has invited renewed scrutiny because of an uproar this week over comments made by Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP candidate for Senate in Missouri, in defense of his opposition to abortion in instances of rape. He said that "legitimate rape" rarely results in pregnancy, a statement for which he's since apologized and said was factually incorrect.
(The Romney campaign said in its statement Sunday disagreeing with Akin that the former Massachusetts governor would not oppose abortion in instances of rape.)
Republicans are especially sensitive, though, to the revived debate over abortion in part due to the fact that President Barack Obama holds a healthy lead over Romney among women voters.
"Although these particular comments have led Gov. Romney and other Republicans to distance themselves," Obama said of Akin's comments during a press conference on Monday, "I think the underlying notion that we should be making decisions on behalf of women for their health care decisions -- or qualifying forcible rape versus non-forcible rape -- I think those are broader issues, and that is a significant difference in approach between me and the other party."
The Obama campaign also launched a TV ad making issue of presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's voting record in Congress, which called for stripping funding for Planned Parenthood, and other efforts to curb abortion rights.
"I don't really buy the fact that a pro-abortion stance means that you're pro-women," Priebus said in his MSNBC appearance. "I think the pro-life position is a positive for us with women, not a negative."
Republicans could still change the draft language before tonight's platform committee vote; the full convention is slated to vote on the platform on Monday.
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My top ten active sophomores were busy during the 2-day Breeders' Cup on Nov 2-3 and Unbridled's Note produced the best effort with a runner-up finish in the BC Turf Sprint.
Trinniberg and The Lumber Guy join my list after finishing 1-2 in the BC Sprint. To make space for them, I dropped BC Dirt Mile also-ran Fed Biz and Summer Front.
Alpha loses the top spot after back-to-back poor showings in the PA Derby and BC Classic.
Neck 'n Neck is my new number one after a pair of sharp wins in the Indiana Derby and Ack Ack.
Jarrod Horak's Top Ten Active 3-Year-olds
1. Neck 'n Neck (Flower Alley) – Exits back-to-back wins in G2 Indiana Derby (95 BSF) and G3 Ack Ack (98 BSF). He loves Churchill Downs and is a logical threat in the upcoming G1 Clark 'Cap.
2. Paynter (Awesome Again) – Gave Union Rags a run for his money in the Test of Champions and looked great capturing his first graded stakes in the Haskell. Hopefully his well-documented health issues are behind him and he may return next year if all is well.
3. Bourbon Courage – He put together a trio of strong efforts in the G2 West Va. Derby (2nd), G2 Super Derby (1st), and G2 Indiana Derby (2nd). The aforementioned Clark is probably next.
4. Unbridled's Note (Unbridled's Song) – G3 Eddie D (92 BSF) winner gamely landed the place in the G1 BC Turf Sprint. Asmussen's late blooming sprinter handles turf and dirt.
5. Nonios (Pleasantly Perfect) – Haskell place finisher was also second best in the G1 Awesome Again at SA on 9-29. He ended up a respectable 6th of 12 in the BC Classic.
6. Dullahan (Even The Score) – Ran his Polytrack record to a perfect 3-for-3 in the Pacific Classic but never picked up his feet in his last two G1 turf starts (Jamaica, BC Turf).
7. Alpha (Bernardini) – Jim Dandy/Travers hero tailed off badly in last pair (PA Derby, BC Classic). He clearly does his best work in NY and his long campaign has seemingly caught up with him.
8. Trinniberg (Teuflesberg) – 7f specialist jumped up and won the BC Sprint (108 BSF) at almost 14-1, beating fellow 3yo The Lumber Guy. The fleet colt is based at Calder and will probably show up at the Gulf this winter.
9. The Lumber Guy – G1 Vosburgh winner proved that effort vs. older was no fluke with a game place finish in the BC Sprint. He is supposed to hang around in SoCal and compete in the G1 Malibu at SA on opening day (12-26).
10. Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor) – Mandella's $900k purchase rallied for the show vs. salty older sprinters in G1 SA Sprint Championship on 10-6. I knew he lost the BC Sprint after the draw (finished 9th from post 2) and he is probably a major player in the 7f Malibu if he goes there as expected.


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Honor Harrington: Officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy of the 401st century, tactical genius, and star of 13 best-selling scifi/military books by David Weber. Now Honor comes to conquer comics with help from Image and Top Cow. (Read our exclusive interview with Weber.) But Honor's tale isn't the only scifi epic in this week's comics…
New Issues
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• The Veil #1: A beautiful girl wakes up in a New York City subway station naked, alone, without her memory, and the ability to kill anyone who tries to harm her.
• Other releases: Bad Blood #3, Catalyst Comix #9, Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight #6, Juice Squeezers #3, Lobster Johnson: Get Lobster #2, Terminator Salvation: the Final Battle #4, Victories #4.
• Forever Evil: Arkham War #6: Scarecrow unleashed the mutated ex-prisoners of Arkham upon Gotham City.
• Batman/Superman Annual #1: The Batman and Superman families fight for control of Mongul's flying fortress.
• Other releases: Action Comics #29, , Batwing #29, Detective Comics #29, Earth 2 #21, Forever Evil #6, Green Arrow #6, Green Lantern #29, Hinterkind #6, The Movement #10, The Phantom Stranger #17, Scooby Doo Team-Up #3, Stormwatch #29, Swamp Thing #29, Trillium #17, The Vampire Diaries #3.
• Rogue Trooper #1: On a world devastated by chemical warfare, the last genetically engineered solider stands watch.
• Other releases: Gate Way #3, Sinister Dexter #4, Wild Blue Yonder #4.
• Tales of Honor #1: On the eve of her execution, Honor Harrington recalls her epic, galaxy-spanning adventures.
• Starlight #1: Mark Millar starts his own comics universe beginning with this story about a cosmic superhero who must come out of retirement to save it.
• The Darkness: Vicious Traditions #1: A barbarian leader whose tribe was killed a Roman legion rises for vengeance in this one-shot.
• Other releases: Apocalypse Al #2, Burn the Orphanage: Born to Lose #3, Clone #15, Drumhellar #5, Invincible Universe #11, Jupiter's Legacy #4, Revival #18, Saviors #3, Secret #6, Velvet #4.
• Magneto #1: Having lost everything, Magneto decides to protect mutant-kind by finding threats to them… and eliminating them one by one.
• Moon Knight #1: All three of Moon Knight's personalities prowl the streets of New York City at night, trying to solve the Marvel universe's weirdest mysteries.
• Wolverine and the X-Men #1: New faculty, new students, and new threats for the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning.
• Other releases: Avengers AI #10, Captain America #18, Iron Man #22, Loki: Agent of Asgard #2, New Warriors #2, Night of the Living Deadpool #4, Nova #14, The Punisher #3, She-Hulk #2, Uncanny X-Men #18.
• Adventure Time: Flip Side #3, Afterlife with Archie #4, Archer & Armstrong #18, Auteur #1, Day Men #3, Evil Empire #1, Grimm Fairy Tales: Code Red #4, GFT #95, GRT: Tales from Oz #3, God Is Dead #8, The Green Hornet #10, Hit List #5, Lady Rawhide #4, Miss Fury #9, Noir #5, Quantum & Woody: The Goat #0, Rover Red Charlie #4, The Shadow Now #5, Suicide Risk #11, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #2, Twilight Zone #3, Warlord of Mars #34, Westward #6.
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• Buffy Season 9 Vol. 5: The Core: When the only thing that can cure Dawn is the magic she banished from the world, Buffy and crew take a visit to Illyria's home dimension.
• Other releases: Avatar: The Last Airbender Vol. 7: The Rift Part One, Captain Midnight Archives Vol. 2: Saves the World, Dream Thief Vol. 1, Gasoline Alley Vol. 1: The Complete Sundays 1920-22.
• Harley Quinn: Welcome to Metropolis: Harley Poison Ivy and Bizarro visit the big city.
• Other releases: Animal Man Vol. 4: Splinter Species, Hawkworld, Hellblazer: Shoot, The Phantom Stranger Vol. 2: Breach of Faith.
• TMNT Villains Vol. 2: Featuring Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady and more.
• Other releases: GI joe: Cobra Files Vol. 2, Michael Recycle Meets Bootleg Peg, Powerpuff Girls Classic Vol. 3.
• Satellite Sam Vol. 1: A son tries to sober up long enough to solve his father's murder in the shockingly sleazy world of '50s children's TV shows.
• Other releases: Bedlam Vol. 2, Fatale: Deluxe Edition Vol. 1, the Walking Dead Vol. 20: All Out War Part One.
• The Muppets Omnibus: All of Roger Langridge's award-winning, gag-filled adventures of Kermit and the gang.
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WEST PALM BEACH — An appeals court ruling in favor of Wellington homeowners in foreclosure is causing "calamitous confusion," according to bank attorneys who say it could snarl hundreds of thousands of pending foreclosure cases.
The bank is asking for a rehearing and clarification of the Sept. 7 decision by the 4th District Court of Appeal, which said a foreclosure affidavit submitted by a bank employee was hearsay because the person relied on computerized information and did not have personal knowledge of the case.
The lack of personal knowledge of foreclosure documents is the foundation of the robo-signing controversy that continues to delay foreclosure proceedings.
The bank is not challenging the court's decision in Gary and Anita Glarum vs. LaSalle Bank, but it said the ruling has been misinterpreted to mean that the person relying on computerized records must be the one who actually entered them into the computer or the direct custodian of the record.


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Founded in 1983 as the Cloverdale Citrus Fair Wine Competition, the event has evolved over the years, broadening its base to a greater number of wine regions. In 2000, the Cloverdale Citrus Fair entered into a title naming sponsorship agreement with the San Francisco Chronicle with the wine competition. The wine competition was renamed the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition with the award tasting of the medal winning wines to take place in San Francisco. In 2006 over 900 United States wineries entered a record breaking 3,318 wine entries for the competition from wine regions throughout America. The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is the largest wine competition of American wines in the world.
Established in 1892, the Cloverdale Citrus Fair is one of the oldest municipal fairs in California. It takes place every President's Day weekend, giving it the distinction of being the first fair of the calendar year. The Cloverdale Citrus Fair is located in California's Sonoma County Alexander Valley, named after a prominent grape growing pioneer, Cyrus Alexander.
In 1982, two wine industry insiders sat down over a glass of zinfandel and laid plans for the first Cloverdale Citrus Fair Wine Competition the following year. At that time, Cloverdale Citrus Fair board members Bob Del Sarto which was currently the general manager of the historical Italian Swiss Colony winery in Asti, California and Bob Bogner (general manager of one of the largest grape grower cooperatives of that day, Allied Grape Growers) conceived the competition to fulfill the needs of the burgeoning wine industry in northern Sonoma and southern Mendocino Counties.
Del Sarto and Bogner considered Cloverdale to be the hub of some historical but growing wine regions of that immediate area which included the northern area of Sonoma County (primarily Alexander and Dry Creek Valley's), Mendocino County (which included the Anderson Valley and Hopland wine regions) and Lake County which included the Guenoc Valley wine region. They drew the competition's boundaries to include all wineries within a twenty-mile radius of the fairgrounds, "as the crow flies".
The first competition was modest in size — 15 wineries entered 45 wines, and a single panel of five judges awarded 30 medals. Invited judges included winemakers Dick Arrowood, John Parducci, Robert Keeble and Mike Lee, wine writer Millie Howie, and wine marketer Joe Vercelli. The first few competitions were primarily staffed with the Citrus Fair board members pouring wines to the judges out of paper bags… quite simple but yet with credible and fair wine award results.
The event was growing in size and scope and the Citrus Fair Board in 1984 realized they needed professional help. They turned to Bob Fraser, current chair of Santa Rosa Junior College's Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, which had recently joined the College staff in the early 1980's and resided in the community of Cloverdale. Fraser implemented the "West Coast style" of professional wine judging used by SRJC colleague Rich Thomas, at that time coordinator of the Sonoma County Harvest Fair, which Bob assisted for a few years. This system employs five-member panels consisting of a winemaker, a wine trade representative, a wine writer or wine media professional, a wine educator, and a culinary or tourism professional. Wines are poured in a "back room" staffed by professional wine volunteers who bring the wines into the judging area in flight boxes, glasses numbered to correspond with the individual numbered wine bottles. The judges come to a consensus for individual awards through discussion facilitated by a professional panel coordinator. This methodology of judging which is often called the "West Coast Style" of professional wine judging is very elaborate but effective and has been the model for many other professional competitions organized thereafter throughout the country.
The competition rapidly grew in the 1990s to over 100 wineries. Eligibility was gradually increased to include all wineries in Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Counties. Consequently, it was renamed the Tri-County Wine Competition from 1996–99. The competition expanded to the entire North Coast Appellation in 2000 as the California North Coast Wine Competition. This area included all wineries in the counties of Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Solano and Marin. During this period of time, wineries and wine entries exploded and the Cloverdale Citrus Fair was now the dominant wine competition in Northern California, dwarfing even the prestigious Sonoma County Fair Wine Competition. Major problems arose with the Cloverdale Citrus Fair Wine Competition as the competition outgrew the public tasting at the local regional fair during the Presidents Day Weekend in Cloverdale. Bob Fraser, organizer of the wine competition, met with Dennis Banks, Advertising Executive of the San Francisco Chronicle and a seed was born for a future collaboration of the Citrus Fair and the Chronicle and to bring the wine competition tasting "out of the country to the City", San Francisco.
In 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle became the naming sponsor of the competition with the Cloverdale Citrus Fair remaining the host, and the addition of winejudging.com becoming the producer of the new San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The public tasting shifted from Cloverdale to San Francisco, one of the largest wine purchasing metropolitan regional demographic in the world. The 2001 competition was limited to Northern California but was expanded to the full state of California from 2002-2004. The 2004 competition had over 2,500 entries from 565 California wineries.
In 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle Competition expanded the wine competition to include California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for the 2005 competition. The total wine entries for the 2005 competition was over 3,200 wine entries which made the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition the largest wine competition of American wines in the world.
In 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine competition expanded its geographical base nationally. Records were broken in 2006 with number of wineries entered, entries of wines, and awards. The public tasting in San Francisco is the largest tasting of American wines in the world and a tremendous attraction for San Francisco Bay Area lovers of fine wine, food, and entertainment.
The beneficiary of the San Francisco Chronicle Competition annually is the Santa Rosa Junior College Wine Studies Program and Culinary Arts Program. The competition salutes these two programs for educational excellence in the field of wine studies and culinary arts.


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ONARCHITECTURE- Big Squeaky Wheel: Neighbors form new alliance
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris welcomes the newly formed Alliance of Neighborhoods. "Right now," he says, " the squeakiest wheels tend to get the grease, and that's not always fair."FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
When local government cooks up some plan–say, a brand new reservoir, a new YMCA, or a Downtown Mall brick replacement project– doesn't it always seem like public concern, and often outrage, comes when construction is about to begin, or when an approved plan has moved into its final phase? Folks complain that they weren't informed about the plan, or weren't aware of the details, while government officials insist there was sufficient public notice and community input.
That dynamic may be a thing of the past if a new group has its way.
"This issue seems to grow year by year," says Jack Brown, a history professor at UVA and spokesman for the new group, Alliance of Neighborhoods. Brown believes that projects like the proposed water supply plan, Albemarle Place, and the replacement of sewer and water infrastructure became problematic long after they were first announced because we have a "divided government" made up of the city, county, and UVA.
"There are issues that simply can't be addressed when we have this divided government," he says. "We want to encourage neighborhood associations to bridge the city-county-UVA divide."
Brown says Alliance founders "decided that neighborhoods were too split up," and that some neighborhood associations "were too weak." Brown says the mission of the Alliance is to strengthen existing neighborhood associations (he says homeowner's association are also welcome to join), help create new ones, and bring them all together so that collectively they can speak with a louder voice to government.
As an example of a recent project that needs greater public input, Brown cites the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority's Meadow Creek sewer line upgrade project, which will replace 22,800 linear feet of old piping and require 69 easements from city property owners.
"The RWSA has not really done sufficient public outreach on this project," says Brown. The Alliance, he explains, would be an organization the RWSA or any other government entity could come to for help in getting the word out, to let people know about the specific project details and how it will eafect them.
The group has already won fans among elected officials.
"I like the fact that they're trying to bring together city and county residents to work on issues of mutual concern," says Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris. "The arbitrary city-county divide in Virginia is a profoundly disfunctional one, and we need to be working together more across jurisdictional lines."
As Norris points out, Virginia is one of the few remaining states in the country that operate under this "artificial" city-county divide, where the governments and services of each run separately and are often duplicated, even though they serve the same general populace. While Norris cites the city-county Revenue Sharing Agreement as a saving grace, he suggests the two entities are more often at odds and jockeying for position on projects and plans that affect the same people.
In an ideal world, Charlottesville would simply be a part of Albemarle County and all services would be combined, says Norris.
"But that isn't going to happen anytime soon," he acknowledges. "We're wedded to this idea that cities and counties have to be wedded to each other."
As a result, it can be more difficult for citizens to unravel what's going on city-county wide, never mind making their voices heard.
Indeed, as Norris points out, "Right now, the squeakiest wheels tend to get the grease, and that's not always fair."
In fact, if you had to boil down the Alliance's mission statement to a catch-phrase, you could say they want to be "One Big Squeaky Wheel."
As Brown says, "This organization will make sure the voices of neighborhoods will get significant amplification."
County supervisor Ken Boyd had not yet heard of the new organization, but like Norris, he says, he welcomes its input.
"I'm always in favor of our citizens being involved in our government," he says.
However, Boyd points out that many attempts have already been made over the years to organize the neighborhood associations in the county, most to no avail. Still, there are some existing collaborative efforts already in place between the county, city and UVA, he points out, and he hopes the Alliance will take advantage of such connections.
Norris says the city has "made good strides in recent years" to keep the public better informed, but adds "there's always room for improvement."
However, the Alliance's mission won't be easy, says Norris.
"The challenge for any group like this," he explains, " is to sustain the energy it needs to keep functioning for the long haul."
To that end, Brown hopes that eventually individual neighborhood associations will take over the organization, which is now made up of 8-10 interim board members, including president Bruce Odell from the Martha Jefferson neighborhood, treasurer Paul Brant from the Belmont neighborhood, and secretary and long-time squeaky wheel Colette Hall from the Downtown neighborhood.
"Anybody who cares about the strength of neighborhood life and public policy in the area are encouraged to join," says Brown. And though the Alliance may be squeaky, Brown says that doesn't mean it has to be whiny or oppositional.
In fact, he wants the Alliance to remain independent and strictly nonpartisan. "We don't want to be obstructionist," he says. "We want to be a positive force."
If you're interested in joining, or simply finding out more, the Alliance's first meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 9 at the County Office Building, room 246, from 6-8pm. You're also welcome to contact Jack Brown at 434-962-9790 or email@example.com or check out the Alliance's website at www.allianceofneighborhoods.org.
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Good article, Dave. One correction though: You have me saying "We're wedded to this idea that cities and counties have to be wedded to each other," when what I actually said was more along the lines of "We're wedded to this idea that cities and counties have to be INDEPENDENT of each other," which is the gist of my gripe about the disfunctional system that we have here in Virginia (as the rest of your article makes clear). Thanks.
Thanks to Dave McNair for covering the Alliance. This is the result of a lot of hard work from some very dedicated and talented individuals, and is definitely a huge step in the right direction.
Agreed with Dave Norris on the dysfunctional nature (and, I would add, utter stupidity) of the city/county divide. I'm president of the Woolen Mills Neighborhood Association, which is located primarily in the city. However, I live in the oldest, most historic part of the neighborhood, which is located in the county-- it's the portion that Charlottesville "forgot" to annex in the early 60s. The city/county line runs across my front yard.
The Woolen Mills will be getting our national and state register historic district soon, and then some form of local district after that. Sadly though, the county portion will be left unprotected because the county is lagging so far behind the city in preservation efforts. Short of seceding from the county, our hilltop has been left with zero options. Thank goodness for great City folks like Dave Norris and Mary Joy Scala-- otherwise the entire neighborhood would be sunk.
If the city is interested in getting ample public input, it should cease the practice of holding joing public hearings with the Planning Commission. If citizens only hear of an issue AFTER it goes to the PC, the council will not allow any public speech in its meetings since it has already had a public hearing. The practice of holding joint public hearings is less than ten years old. Also, council's attendance at these joint public hearings leave a great deal to be desired.
Looking back at my notes I see I did have you saying wedded to each other instead of independent of each other...of course, that's not to say you didn't say or mean independent...could of just been my thought process, as I kept thinking that all you were telling me sounded like a BAD marriage. And yes, the city and county are required to be independent, but in reality they are wedded, wether they like it or not, no?
Still, sorry to have got your meaning wrong...and thanks for the post correcting it.
Dave McNair
The area should have a web page for all proposals on a time ine with a message board under each one so that the debate can be held over a course of months. That way most questions are answered by the time a formal hearing is held. Seems easy, inexpensive and logical. Perhaps the computer classes at the local community collge could design and monitor it for credt.


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In the interest of balance, VFC has invited Lord Reginald Hamilton Rawley Tooting-Jones III, (Jersey Conservative Party Chairman)
to deliver a special New Year's address.
As Party Chairman, he explains how it has actually been an excellent year for the Jersey government. Despite a year filled with dozens of examples of incompetence, broken promises, U-turns, flip-flopping, giving the public's money to amateur con-men and giving away public land for the benefit of rich financiers, all against the public's wishes, not one of them has had to resign, let alone apologise. Like all good Jersey Tories, they remain arrogant and unaccountable, even in the face of numerous failures which would have seen governments elsewhere fall.
So, Lord Reg's message to you all is, don't worry your little heads about politics. Keep watching Strictly, X-Factor and the soaps. It could be worse: you could live in Albert Square.
On behalf of Lord Reg and Team Voice, Happy New Year!


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StarCraft: Secret Missions by Christie Golden – Description
I don't know where Lon-Ami gets his magic source from, but he rocks. Digging through Simon & Schuster, Inc. website he managed to obtain the book description of StarCraft: Secret Missions. It proves this book is a StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm tie-in.
The Queen of Blades is gone. On the hellish planet Char, Jim Raynor harnessed the power of an ancient Xel'Naga artifact in a desperate bid to stop the zerg Swarm from overrunning the Koprulu sector, and the relic restored Sarah Kerrigan to her human form. Without their queen to guide and unify them, the Swarm has fractured into several broods scattered throughout the Koprulu sector. One of the greatest threats to the galaxy has been neutralized…or so it seems.
Sarah Kerrigan is on the loose. Even without the terrible powers of the Queen of Blades or the might of the Swarm at her command, the former Ghost remains a foe not to be taken lightly. But if the artifact really did set her free, then why is Kerrigan seeking out zerg broods scattered throughout the Koprulu sector? Is she still pursuing her quest for vengeance, or has her transformation given Kerrigan a new purpose? Just who is Sarah Kerrigan?
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New York Times bestselling and award-winning author CHRISTIE GOLDEN has written more than thirty-five novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world (Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, and The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm), with more in the works. She has also written the StarCraft Dark Templar Saga: Firstborn, Shadow Hunters, and Twilight, as well as the most recent hardcover, Devils' Due.
Golden is also the writer of three books in the major nine-book Star Wars series Fate of the Jedi (in collaboration with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning). Her first two books in that series—Omens and Allies—are available now. Golden lives in Colorado. She welcomes visitors to her website: www.christiegolden.com.