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Chapter 9. The Common Speech
> 1. Grammarians and Their Ways
H.L. Mencken
The American Language.
The Common Speech
1. Grammarians and Their Ways
So far, in the main, the language examined has been of a relatively pretentious and self-conscious varietythe speech, if not always of formal discourse, then at least of literate men. Most of the examples of its vocabulary and idiom, in fact, have been drawn from written documents or from written reports of more or less careful utterances, for example, the speeches of members of Congress and of other public men. The whole of Thorntons excellent material is of this character. In his dictionary there is scarcely a locution that is not supported by printed examples.
It must be obvious that such materials, however lavishly set forth, cannot exhibit the methods and tendencies of a living speech with anything approaching completeness, nor even with accuracy. What men put into writing and what they say when they take sober thought are very far from what they utter in everyday conversation. All of us, no matter how careful our speech habits, loosen the belt a bit, so to speak, when we talk familiarly to our fellows, and pay a good deal less heed to precedents and proprieties, perhaps, than we ought to. It was a sure instinct that made Ibsen put bad grammar into the mouth of Nora Helmar in A Dolls House. She is a generals daughter and the wife of a professor, but even professors wives are not above occasional bogglings of the cases of pronouns and the conjugations of verbs. The professors themselves, in truth, must have the same habit, for sometimes they show plain signs of it in print. More than once, plowing through profound and interminable treatises of grammar and syntax during the writing and revision of the present work, I have encountered the cheering spectacle of one grammarian exposing, with contagious joy, the grammatical lapses of some other grammarian. And nine times out of ten, a few pages further on, I have found the enchanted purist erring himself.
The most funereal of the sciences is saved from utter horror by such displays of human malice and fallibility. Speech itself, indeed, would become almost impossible if the grammarians could follow their own rules unfailingly, and were always right.
But here we are among the learned, and their sins, when detected and exposed, are at least punished by conscience. What are of more importance, to those interested in language as a living thing, are the offendings of the millions who are not conscious of any wrong. It is among these millions, ignorant of regulation and eager only to express their ideas clearly and forcefully, that language undergoes its great changes and constantly renews its vitality. These are the genuine makers of grammar, marching miles ahead of the formal grammarians. Like the Emperor Sigismund, each man among them may well say:
Ego sum supra grammaticam.
It is competent for any individual to offer his contributionhis new word, his better idiom, his novel figure of speech, his short cut in grammar or syntaxand it is by the general vote of the whole body, not by the verdict of a small school, that the fate of the innovation is decided. As Brander Matthews says, there is not even representative government in the matter; the
posse comitatus
decides directly, and despite the sternest protest, finally. The ignorant, the rebellious and the daring come forward with their brilliant barbarisms; the learned and conservative bring up their objections. And when both sides have been heard, there is a show of hands; and by this the irrevocable decision of the community itself is rendered.
Thus it was that the Romance languages were fashioned out of the wreck of Latin, the vast influence of the literate minority to the contrary notwithstanding. Thus it was, too, that English lost its case inflections and many of its old conjugations, and that our
came to be substituted for the
gea-se (= so be it
) of an earlier day, and that we got rid of
whom after man
the man I saw,
and that our stark pronoun of the first person was precipitated from the German
And thus it is that, in our own day, the language faces forces in America which, not content with overhauling and greatly enriching its materials, now threaten to work changes in its very structure.
Where these tendencies run strongest, of course, is on the plane of the vulgar spoken language. Among all classes the everyday speech departs very far from orthodox English, and even very far from any recognized spoken English, but among the lower classes that make up the great body of the people it gets so far from orthodox English that it gives promise, soon or late, of throwing off its old bonds altogether, or, at any rate, all save the loosest of them. Behind it is the gigantic impulse that I have described in earlier chapters: the impulse of an egoistic and iconoclastic people, facing a new order of life in highly self-conscious freedom, to break a relatively stable language, long since emerged from its period of growth, to their novel and multitudinous needs, and, above all, to their experimental and impatient spirit. This impulse, it must be plain, would war fiercely upon any attempt at formal regulation, however prudent and elastic; it is often rebellious for the mere sake of rebellion. But what it comes into conflict with, in America, is nothing so politic, and hence nothing so likely to keep the brakes upon it. What it actually encounters here is a formalism that is artificial, illogical and almost unintelligiblea formalism borrowed from English grammarians, and by them brought into English, against all fact and reason, from the Latin. In most of our grammars, perhaps in all of those issued earlier than the opening of the twentieth century, says Matthews, we find linguistic laws laid down which are in blank contradiction with the genius of the language.
In brief, the American school-boy, hauled before a pedagogue to be instructed in the structure and organization of the tongue he speaks, is actually instructed in the structure and organization of a tongue that he never hears at all, and seldom reads, and that, in more than one of the characters thus set before him, does not even exist.
The effects of this are twofold. On the one hand he conceives an antipathy to a subject so lacking in intelligibility and utility. As one teacher puts it, pupils tire of it; often they see nothing in it, because there
nothing in it.
And on the other hand, the schoolboy goes entirely without sympathetic guidance in the living language that he actually speaks, in and out of the classroom, and that he will probably speak all the rest of his life. All he hears in relation to it is a series of sneers and prohibitions, most of them grounded, not upon principles deduced from its own nature, but upon its divergences from the theoretical language that he is so unsuccessfully taught. The net result is that all the instruction he receives passes for naught. It is not sufficient to make him a master of orthodox English and it is not sufficient to rid him of the speech-habits of his home and daily life. Thus he is thrown back upon those speech-habits without any helpful restraint or guidance, and they make him a willing ally of the radical and often extravagant tendencies which show themselves in the vulgar tongue. In other words, the very effort to teach him an excessively tight and formal English promotes his use of a loose and rebellious English. And so the grammarians, with the traditional fatuity of their order, labor for the destruction of the grammar they defend, and for the decay of all those refinements of speech that go with it.
The folly of this system, of course, has not failed to attract the attention of the more intelligent teachers, nor have they failed to observe the causes of its failure. Much of the fruitlessness of the study of English grammar, says Wilcox,
and many of the obstacles encountered in its study are due to the difficulties created by the grammarians.# These difficulties arise chiefly from three sourcesexcessive classification, multiplication of terms for a single conception, and the attempt to treat the English language as if it were highly inflected. Dr. Otto Jespersen puts them a bit differently. Ordinary grammars, he says, in laying down their rules, are too apt to forget that the English language is one thing, common-sense or logic another thing, and Latin grammar a third, and that these three things have really, in many cases, very little to do with one another. Schoolmasters generally have an astonishing talent for not observing real linguistic facts, and an equally astonishing inclination to stamp everything as faulty that does not agree with their narrow rules.
So long ago as the 60s Richard Grant White began an onslaught upon all such punditic stupidities. He saw clearly that the attempt to treat English as if it were highly inflected was making its intelligent study almost impossible, and proposed boldly that all English grammar-books be burned.
Of late his ideas have begun to gain a certain acceptance, and as the literature of denunciation has grown
the grammarians have been constrained to overhaul their texts. When I was a school-boy, during the penultimate decade of the last century, the chief American grammar was A Practical Grammar of the English Language, by Thomas W. Harvey.
This formidable work was almost purely synthetical: it began with a long series of definitions, wholly unintelligible to a child, and proceeded into a maddening maze of pedagogical distinctions, puzzling even to an adult. The latter-day grammars, at least those for the elementary schools, are far more analytical and logical. For example, there is Longmans Briefer Grammar, by George J. Smith,
a text now in very wide use. This book starts off, not with page after page of abstractions, but with a well-devised examination of the complete sentence, and the characters and relations of the parts of speech are very simply and clearly developed. But before the end the author begins to succumb to precedent, and on page 114 I find paragraph after paragraph of such dull, flyblown pedantry as this:
Some Intransitive Verbs are used to link the Subject and some Adjective or Noun. These Verbs are called Copulative Verbs, and the Adjective or Noun is called the Attribute.
The Attribute always describes or denotes the person or thing denoted by the Subject.
Verbals are words that are derived from Verbs and express action or being without asserting it. Infinitives and Participles are Verbals.
And so on. Smith, in his preface, says that his book is intended, not so much to cover# the subject of grammar, as to
it, and calls attention to the fact, somewhat proudly, that he has omitted the rather hard subject of gerunds, all mention of conjunctive adverbs, and even the conjugation of verbs. Nevertheless, he immerses himself in the mythical objective case of nouns on page 108, and does not emerge until the end.
The New-Webster-Cooley Course in English,
another popular text, carries reform a step further. The subject of case is approached through the personal pronouns, where it retains its only surviving intelligibility, and the more lucid
object form
is used in place of
objective case.
Moreover, the pupil is plainly informed, later on, that a noun has in reality but two case-forms: a possessive and a common case-form. This is the best concession to the facts yet made by a text-book grammarian. But no one familiar with the habits of the pedagogical mind need be told that its interior pull is against even such mild and obvious reforms. Defenders of the old order are by no means silent; a fear seems to prevail that grammar, robbed of its imbecile classifications, may collapse entirely. Wilcox records how the Council of English Teachers of New Jersey, but a few years ago, spoke out boldly for the recognition of no less than five cases in English. Why five? asks Wilcox. Why not eight, or ten, or even thirteen? Undoubtedly because there are five cases in Latin.
Most of the current efforts at improvement, in fact, tend toward a mere revision and multiplication of classifications; the pedant is eternally convinced that pigeon-holing and relabelling are contributions to knowledge. A curious proof in point is offered by a pamphlet entitled Reorganization of English in Secondary Schools, compiled by James Fleming Hosic and issued by the National Bureau of Education.
The aim of this pamphlet is to rid the teaching of English, including grammar, of its accumulated formalism and ineffectivenessto make it genuine instruction instead of a pedantic and meaningless routine. And how is this revolutionary aim set forth? By a meticulous and merciless splitting of hairs, a gigantic manufacture of classifications and sub-classifications, a colossal display of professorial bombast and flatulence!
I could cite many other examples. Perhaps, after all, the disease is incurable. What such laborious stupidity shows at bottom is simply this: that the sort of man who is willing to devote his life to teaching grammar to children, or to training schoolmarms to do it, is not often the sort of man who is intelligent enough to do it competently. In particular, he is not often intelligent enough to deal with the fluent and ever-amazing permutations of a living and rebellious speech. The only way he can grapple with it at all is by first reducing it to a fixed and formal organizationin brief, by first killing it and embalming it. The difference in the resultant proceedings is not unlike that between a gross dissection and a surgical operation. The difficulties of the former are quickly mastered by any student of normal sense, but even the most casual of laparotomies calls for a man of special skill and address. Thus the elementary study of the national language, at least in America, is almost monopolized by dullards. Children are taught it by men and women who observe it inaccurately and expound it ignorantly. In most other fields the pedagogue meets a certain corrective competition and criticism. The teacher of any branch of applied mechanics or mathematics, for example, has practical engineers at his elbow and they quickly expose and denounce his defects; the college teacher of chemistry, however limited his equipment, at least has the aid of text-books written by actual chemists. But English, even in its most formal shapes, is chiefly taught by those who cannot write it decently and get no aid from those who can. One wades through treatise after treatise on English style by pedagogues whose own style is atrocious. A Huxley or a Macaulay might have written one of high merit and utilitybut Huxley and Macaulay had other fish to fry, and so the business was left to Prof. Balderdash. Consider the standard texts on prosodyvast piles of meaningless wordshollow babble about spondees, iambics, trochees and so onidiotic borrowings from dead languages. Two poets, Poe and Lanier, blew blasts of fresh air through the fog, but they had no successors, and it has apparently closed in again. In the department of prose it lies wholly unbroken; no first-rate writer of English prose has ever written a text-book upon the art of writing it.
Note 1.
Sweet, perhaps the abbot of the order, makes almost indecent haste to sin. See the second paragraph on the very first page of vol. i of his New English Grammar. [
Note 2.
Yale Review,
April, 1918, p. 548. [
Note 3.
Yale Review, op. cit.,
p. 560. See also Is Grammar Useless? by Walter Guest Kellogg,
North American Review,
July, 1920. [
Note 4.
The Difficulties Created by Grammarians Are to Be Ignored, by W. H. Wilcox,
Atlantio Educational Journal,
Nov., 1912, p. 8. The title of this article is quoted from ministerial instructions of 1909 to the teachers of French
Note 5.
Op. cit.,
p. 7. Mr. Wilcox is an instructor in the Maryland State Normal School. [
Note 6.
Chapters on English; London, 1918, p. 49. [
Note 7.
See especially chapters ix and x of Words and Their Uses and chapters xvii, xviii and xix of Every-Day English; also the preface to the latter, p. xi
et seq.
The study of other languages has been made difficult by the same attempt to force the characters of Greek and Latin grammar upon them. One finds a protest against the process, for example, in E. H. Palmers Grammar of Hindustani, Persian and Arabic; London, 1906. In all ages, indeed, grammarians appear to have been fatuous. The learned will remember Aristophanes ridicule of them in The Clouds, 660-690. [
Note 8.
The case is well summarized in Simpler English Grammar, by Patterson Wardlaw,
Bull. of the University of S. Carolina,
no. 38, pt. iii, July, 1914. [
Note 9.
Cincinnati, 1868; rev. ed., 1878. [
Note 10.
New York, 1903; rev. ed., 1915. [
Note 11.
Even Sweet, though he bases his New English Grammar upon the spoken language and thus sets the purists at defiance, quickly succumbs to the labelling mania. Thus his classification of tenses includes such fabulous monsters as these: continuous, recurrent, neutral, definite, indefinite, secondary, incomplete, inchoate, short and long. [
Note 12.
By W. F. Webster and Alice Woodworth Cooley; Boston, 1903; rev. eds., 1905 and 1909. The authors are Minneapolis teachers. [
Note 13.
Op. cit.,
p. 8. [
Note 14.
Bulletin No. 2; Washington, 1917. [
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Padres president and CEO Tom Garfinkel took time out from the Padres' spring training in Peoria, Ariz., Wednesday for a radio interview with Scott Kaplan and Billy Ray Smith that fortunately focused on the TV fiasco and unfortunately offered no hope it would end before the team's first game on April 1.
In fact, Garfinkel said he's not optimistic that Time Warner Cable and Fox Sports San Diego will play ball and repeatedly suggested the only way a deal gets done is if Time Warner customers quit in droves. He added that the team is "arm in arm" with Fox Sports San Diego. No surprise since it owns a fifth of it. (Tellingly, Garfinkel's remarks mirrored comments a Fox Sports San Diego spokesman shared with U-T reporter Bill Center Wednesday.)
Intrigued? Here's my transcription of the relevant part of the Garfinkel interview, which starts about three minutes in.
SK: "We could talk about the team. We could kind of scout things out, and that's cool, but let's, let's talk about a priority that I'm sure a lot of fans are thinking about before this season starts. Tom, can you tell us where you guys are or how deeply involved you are with any negotiations that might be going on with Time Warner?"
TG: "Yeah, we met with them at their new beautiful RSN (regional sports network) offices in Los Angeles. They spent billions up there for the Lakers and the Dodgers and they've got wonderful new offices up there. I think they characterized the meeting well in their quotes in the paper. They said, you know, I think they said something to the effect of our offer of last year to Fox for carriage of the Padres stands. They haven't really moved off their position from a year ago. Yet Fox, DirectTV, now AT&T and Dish have all chosen to pick up the games, much to the credit of Fox, frankly, and you know consumers, fans have choices now, I think. For 12 years there was about over 30 percent of the market that couldn't get the games and didn't have a choice. They had no one to switch to. Now it's about 22 percent of the market or about 20 percent of the market are Time Warner customers and they do have a choice. They can go to DirectTv or AT&T or Dish. I think Time Warner, you know, we want them to pick up the games. We asked them directly, but they gave us really no indication that they plan to pick up the games. In fact, they suggested it's not likely unless there's a critical mass of their customers who leave to their competitors so I'm not terribly optimistic they're going to pick up the games before Opening Day. I hope they will. You know, it was a very cordial meeting, but they're definitely very focused on Los Angeles right now."
SK: "Can I just ask this...."
BR: "Wow."
SK: "Billy Ray, I have to...."
BR: "I can't believe it."
SK: "I've got to get you to switch to AT&T U-verse. I promise you. It is so much better of a service."
BR: "Done."
SK: "But Tom, what is it, I want to just back up for a second, for people who are hearing this for the first time and I hope that you'll go into it with us. But what is the big problem here? What does Time Warner want from who?
TG: "Well again, that's probably a question for Fox, I think. From what they indicated to us, you know, the offer that they made a year ago is the offer that they've made to pick up the games...."
SK: "The offer that Time Warner made to Fox Sports San Diego?"
TG: "Yeah, Fox made them an offer and said, 'Hey, here's what it cost to carry the games.' And Time Warner came back and said, 'Here's what we're wiling to pay.' And Fox came back with a counter offer that was then accepted by the other four carriers and Time Warner hasn't really moved off their position from a year ago."
SK: "So Time Warner will not move off the offer that they made. The offer stands. Do you think, Tom, do you sense, that they've put so much money and energy and effort into the Dodgers and the Lakers that frankly they just don't care?"
TG: "Well, that's a question for them, I think. They've certainly invested a lot of money in Los Angeles. I mean, billions of dollars. I think that's a question for them."
SK: "OK, let me try and rephrase the question."
BR: "Ooo."
SK: "What do you think they think...."
TG: (laughs)
BR: "Nice question."
SK: "Wasn't that good? Wasn't that really good? See how I kind of flipped that because first I started with..."
TG: "Very nice people, smart business people. From what they told us, you know, again, they suggested that there needs to be a critical mass of people down here of their customers who leave to their competitors before it's worth their while to pick up the games. That's kind of what they've indicated to us. But again we hope they pick up the games. We want them to."
SK: "You know what they're saying though, Tom. We're talking to Tom Garfinkel, the president of the Padres. I mean you know what they're saying. Everybody who's listening to you hears what you're saying they're saying. What they're saying is, you know, Tom, we don't really think that San Diego cares that much about the Padres."
TG: "I don't know that that's right as much as... That's not really what I heard them say. They don't, you know, they don't like the price although again the other four distributors have agreed to the price, and I think, you know, they've certainly spent a lot of money in Los Angeles again. They've got a business decision they've got to make. In the meantime, you know, we want all our fans to have our games and that's something that we're trying to work on, and we're hopeful that Fox and Time Warner will be able to come to resolution on it."
SK: "Just, I guess, my final question on this would be, and we really do appreciate you talking about it, but if it's between Fox and Time Warner, what are you guys doing there?"
TG: "We wanted to meet with them face to face and have the conversation, hear directly from them. You know, oftentimes, things can be.... A lot of times you want to get face to face with people and have that convention and that's what we were trying to do. We're trying to understand their position better and just let them know how we felt, and that we are arm in arm with Fox on this thing, and that we're disappointed that they haven't chosen to pick up the games, and we wanted to hear from them why. Again, it was a very cordial meeting, you know. They didn't really give us any indication that they plan to pick up the games any time soon."
SK: "This is a shame. Tom Garfinkel, the president of the Padres, sharing with us what is seriously, it's just not good news for Padres fans. Time Warner is a very, very difficult company to work with. All you have to do is look at how many years the NFL was in existence, the NFL Network. It took Time Warner 10 years to finally pick up the NFL Network. and for all the fighting and bickering about 'We're not going to ask our subscribers for more money,' ultimately what they did is they come back and they said, 'Hey guess what? You've got the NFL Network, and it's free.' So all those years of bickering over nothing, and now where we are today, in Del Mar, you're talking about Del Mar, Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos, Rancho Bernardo, lots of places that have Time Warner that will not be able to see Padres games again this year. You've got to switch your service."
TG: "Yeah, they can see them. They just can't see them currently on Time Warner Cable."
SK: "Billy Ray, I've got to hook you up with AT&T U-verse."
BR: "Done."
SK: "So much better."
BR: "Alright, let's do this."
SK: "Alright, let's do it. Alright, Tom, couple other things that are going on, now that we've exhausted you with Time Warner Cable talk. I can always tell when you don't want to talk about something, when you start talking softer and slower ad quieter and...."
BR: "So at least he knows when you're uncomfortable. It's not that he's going to pull back...."
TG: "I'm not uncomfortable. I mean, I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed just like our fans are. I'm disappointed that they haven't picked up the games, and certainly I hope they do."
For #PadrestothePeople updates and more, follow me on Twitter @SDuncovered.
Disclosure: U-T TV airs on AT&T U-verse and Cox Cable but negotiations continue to get the station on Time Warner Cable.

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The Associated Press out of Richmond, Va. is reporting : The trustee in Michael Vick's bankruptcy case is seeking repayment of at least $2 million that the Eagles quarterback doled out to friends and family members in the months before he was sent to federal prison.
A complaint filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newport News says Vick knew his lucrative NFL career was in jeopardy and that he would be facing huge legal bills.
Yet the complaint claims he continued to give money and gifts to his mother, siblings, fiancee and friends that should have gone to Vick's creditors.
Vick's bankruptcy attorney, Paul Campsen, did not immediately return a phone message yesterday.
Vick served 20 months for a federal dogfighting conspiracy conviction. A judge approved his bankruptcy plan last summer.


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Athlete of the Week – Ellie Benson, Washington Warriors
A point guard is often a leader on the court, and Ellie Benson relishes that opportunity every time she suits up in black and orange for the Washington Warriors.
"As a point guard, I think it's really important that you keep your team together. You need to communicate with them from the coaches, and relay it on to your team. I feel like it's important to be the leader on the team," says Benson.
Leadership has become natural for Benson. In fact, when she answers a question about herself, she often responds with 'we,' or as a team. She is unselfish on and off the court, and will strive to make others better.
"Ellie is a vocal leader, but she is also an example," says head coach Nate Malchow. "At 5'8", she's our leading rebounder and is not afraid to get in there, play hard and that just permeates through the rest of the team with how hard she is willing to go. A vocal leader plays with a lot of enthusiasm, with a lot of emotion, and rubs off on her teammates in a positive way."
Benson's passion and work ethic on the basketball court reflects her love for the game. Ellie's parents, and grandparents played, and has been dribbling a basketball since she was a little girl.
"I love the energy and the emotion that goes into it. Coach Nate at Washington likes it when we are passionate when we play. I love being with my teammates, scoring a point, and everyone involved. It's not about you."
Malchow appreciates Benson's hard work and he remembers telling Ellie that she was going to have a chance to lead the Warriors.
"I'll never forget at the state tournament when she was a freshman, and her and I were walking out after watching the state championship game between Brandon and O'Gorman, telling her she was going to be in this position and that day is going to come sooner than later. It happened the next year for us. She has been starting every game since she was a sophomore and I have seen her improve in a lot of different aspects. I think in one area, basketball-wise, she's always been a great leader for us, but her shooting has improved a lot. She had a big game in Minnesota when she hit three 3's for us. Teams have to get up and honor that. All the intangibles and everything she brings to our team."
Benson's earned the respect of her coach, and teammates. As a senior, she has had the chance to play with six other senior teammates, (Hannah Nieman, Kelsey Knecht, Sydney Koel, Michaela Mayer, Lauren Farritor, and Peyton Vandebrake), and is loving every minute she gets to play with them.
"It is different than any other team. That is a lot people that have played and know what to do. The maturity on the court is strong and we have had a really great connection together for awhile."
Benson loves her teammates, and when she's on the court, her favorite way to contribute is getting boards, and creating plays.
"What I really enjoy doing is like I to rebound. We play a 2-3, and I'm always down low. When I get a rebound, it's nice that I'm the point guard because I can get an outlet pass, and then run with it."
Her ability to rebound has also led to her scoring, as she is averaging 12.1 points per game this season. Malchow says both of those skills lead to her biggest strengths on the basketball court.
"She's in the bottom part of our zone. We let her be in that spot, reading plays, and she's just a playmaker. Our leading rebounder leads us in about every statistical category. I think Ellie's biggest attribute is she makes people better around her in way she them organized, and involved in what we do."
"It would mean everything. I've never won a state title in basketball or volleyball, and this is my last chance to do it, so it would mean everything."
When Ellie is not playing basketball, she enjoys watching college basketball, or South Dakota State. Her favorite subject is psychology, and has played volleyball and track at Washington. In May after graduation, she plans to play volleyball and major in nursing at SDSU.


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#newscycle – day 11, Hobro to Frederikshavn
Day 11 of @journalismnews owner @johncthompson's epic 11-day ride from Brighton, UK to Oslo, Norway in aid of @JournoCharity (Journalists' Charity), @CR_UK (Cancer Research UK) and @GistSupportUK.
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About Grape Hyacinths This small but very important bulb is the landscapers dream. Every really good bulb display includes them. It's because planted close together, these little jewels create a true carpet of deep vivid blue, and are the perfect foreground contrast for almost any larger bulbs. A river of Grape Hyacinths in front of a bed of golden daffodils or red tulips makes the display twice as dramatic. Curving beds of these blue beauties are a mainstay of the famous gardens in Holland and here in our own public parks. You can easily do the same thing at home. Just plant in the Grape Hyacinths! They never disappoint.
|Common Name
|Grape Hyacinth Pink Sunrise
|Botanical Name
|Muscari Pink Sunrise
|3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
|Ships As
|Bulb, Rhizome, Tuber
|Light Requirements
|Full Sun, Half Sun / Half Shade
|Flower Color
|Mature Height
|6-8" tall
|Bulb Size
|5 cm
|Bulb Spacing
|16 bulbs per sq. ft.
|Planting Depth
|Plant 5" deep
|Bloom Time
|Mid to late spring
|Plant Type / Life Cycle
|Planting Time
|Soil Type
|Loamy Soil
|Soil Moisture
|Average, Well Draining
|Deer Resistant, Squirrel Resistant, Easy to Grow, Fragrant, Cut Flowers, Containers, Groundcover, Multiplies / Naturalizes
|Ships to Hawaii, Alaska & Canada
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During the 1960s and 1970s, exhibitions in New York City helped to set the national scene for contemporary fiber art. The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, for example, mounted several influential fiber exhibitions under the aegis of its new director, Paul Smith, and New York galleries were exhibiting solo shows of noted fiber artists. But by the 1980s, fiber art, along with other craft-related media, had largely fallen out of favor. Today, the intense cross-medium juxtaposition and mingling of materials experienced in the 60s and 70s, which have reappeared in the postmodern art world as historical divisions between "craft" and "art," are disintegrating. Contemporary fiber illustrates the ubiquitous nature of visual art as a trans-cultural phenomenon expressed in a variety of media.
Six artists—Cummings, Curran, Koenigsberg, Logothetis, Puerta, and Sklar-Weinstein—made new work for the exhibition. Both Alava and Sivan created site-specific installations of manipulated thread. The forty-seven works on display comprise three main categories: abstract, representational, and Neo-Funky (bridging the first two modes), with nearly half of the artists working in abstraction or semi-abstraction. Of the nine representational pieces, four clearly impart a narrative message. The seven examples of what could be termed Neo-Funk art are infused with metaphorical and symbolic themes, like many other works in the show. As might be expected from artists embracing "craft" materials and experiencing urban environments, populist themes abound.
Gema Alava laboriously creates a gossamer effect of black-and-white thread, enticing viewers into a private space invigorated by ambiguity. Also using thread, Vered Sivan transforms the relationship between space and the human body with subtle erotic overtones. Through a process that she describes as "crochet painting," Norma Minkowitz defines form and volume in delicate, translucent sculptures suggesting containment. The semi-abstract quality of these works enhances their enigmatic presence. Nancy Koenigsberg visualizes her manipulated-wire pieces as drawings in space, linear evocations of shadow and light.
In hooked textile constructions, Marilyn Henrion visually interprets noise, from the cellular to the interstellar level. In Xenobia Bailey's crocheted and embroidered Medicine Mandala, a twisting snake insinuates itself into the symmetrical structure. Carole P. Kunstadt has the only piece of book art in the show, with stitches emphasizing the repetition of lines of text, to an incantatory effect. Fragments of text and image appear in Patricia Malarcher's mixed-media piece, in a celebratory gesture toward ceremony and ritual. Faint images in bleach prints spark the earthen colors of Ann Shostrom's large-scale Wheatfield, an expressive textile assemblage informed by collage in modern and folk art. Trained as a painter, Erma Martin Yost now uses felt as her canvas, inspired by nature and natural forms. Several artists in New York Fiber work in contemporary quilt art, including Ludmila Uspenskaya, whose densely stitched surfaces vibrate with color that interprets emotion and natural forces.
Perfection in mathematical patterns and progression can be seen in works by three artists. Donna Sharrett's circular forms, symbolic place-holders of memory, mirror the Buddhist mandala and the geometric schemes of Gothic rose windows. Larry Schulte bases his work on the Fibonacci Sequence, which he relates to the Golden Mean and sequential patterning in nature. Seeing pi by conceptual artist John Sims (in collaboration with Amish quilt makers) relates the digits of pi to specific colors, spiraling out in dynamic movement from the digit "3" in the center.
Andrea Dezsö narrates female folk "wisdom" through embroidery, a time-honored technique modernized here by the artist's ironic attitude. Michael Cummings's quilt, depicting sharecroppers, pays tribute to his mentor Romare Bearden in both technique and subject matter, on a grand scale. Ai Kijima subverts narrative structure through multiple images, both iconic and found, confounding the concept of a storyline. Don Porcella projects environmental concerns through his signature pipe-cleaner sculpture, apprehensive and yet prophetic.
Quilt artist Katherine Knauer repurposes a traditional quilting pattern to express modern themes. Repression of homosexuals by Nazis is symbolized by pink triangles in the Flying Geese pattern, also an oblique reference to "Gänsel" (little goose), the Yiddish term for gay men. In Mott Street Opera, Arlé Sklar-Weinstein creates a joyful paean to New York's Chinatown, punning on "opera" as both the theatrical genre and the thriving street life in this urban neighborhood. Margaret Cusack's stitched images couch social and political commentary within innocuous frameworks, luring in viewers with the prettiness of her presentation. Ruth Marshall interprets through knitting the skin of an ocelot, a symbol of her concern for endangered species and her homage to these beautiful, elusive animals. Gothic Coat by Erika Baker, executed in hand-dyed yarn, envelops the wearer in subtle color and texture. The wearer represents a sacred site, with both architectural and painterly imagery.
Looking somewhat like a souvenir shop in moonlight, Dindga McCannon's Magical Night in Senegal has the quirky sensibility and pop art appeal of Neo-Funk. Like several of the works in this section, the artist's textile art suggests autobiographical associations. Aristide Logothetis creates several simultaneous references to contemporary culture, including weapons and sexuality, in a bundled structure with transformative aspects. Lisa Curran's gigantic chain-like strands of crocheted wool seem both organic and mechanical, alien appendages that remain friendly but reserved.
Sandra Sider has written about fiber art for three decades and is the author of Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960-1980: A New Direction in American Art (2010).


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1907 A. C. Dietsche Detroit Tigers Postcard Near-Complete Set (15 of 16)
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $2,115
Outstanding high-grade near-complete set of fifteen (out of 16) 1907 A. C. Dietsche Detroit Tigers Postcards (Series 1). Dietsche postcards are rarely seen in such high grade. These were obviously put away in 1907 and never touched. Missing only one of the two Cobb poses (the rare Ty Cobb fielding pose variation) for completion. Cobb is the only player with two poses in the Dietsche set, and for some reason the Cobb fielding pose is far rarer than the Cobb batting pose, to such an extraordinary degree that we can only assume the Cobb fielding pose was replaced with the batting pose early in the print run. To most collectors, this core collection of fifteen different 1907 Dietsche Detroit Tigers postcards represents a set. Produced by the Dietsche Postcard Company of Detroit to commemorate the Tigers' participation in the 1907 World Series, this is a particularly interesting set in that the Ty Cobb card included really does lay claim to being his true rookie card in the eyes of most collectors. The other Hall of Famers in the set are Sam Crawford and Hughie Jennings. This group is in far superior condition to those normally found. All are in Excellent condition, with just a hint of corner wear, which is characteristic of the set due to the flush-to-the-border black-background design of the cards. This is about as sharp and clean as we have ever seen them. All also have clean unused reverses. Dietsche also issued a companion set of the Cubs. The Dietsche Detroit Tigers postcard set represents an outstanding value, all the more so because it includes Ty Cobb's rookie card, and is one of the most distinctive sets of the era. Total: 15 cards. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $2,115
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Jay-Z and Beyonce: Hip Hop's Bonnie & Clyde
In matching black and white attire, Jay-Z and Beyonce arrive to the 77th Annual Academy Awards elegant and sophisticated. Just another day out the office or off stage for the couple.
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When speaking of the first cosmonaut in space, Nikita Khrushchev declared, "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any God there." The story goes that at the time, a man asked his grandson, a young priest, why God was not in fact encountered, especially since the Bible itself says Jesus ascended right up there into the sky. His clergyman grandson responded, "Grandpa, when the Bible talks about Jesus ascending into the sky, this is a spatial metaphor for the transcendentality of the divine."
"Oh, I see," said his grandfather. "So you're saying those danged Ruskies just didn't fly high enough."
Thus are the typical results of good theology mixed with bad pastoral practice.
There is a problem in expressing the theological meaning of the Ascension. Put simply, how do you speak historically about something that eludes the physical categories on which history depends? The answers the Evangelists would give include "freely!" This is most assuredly the case with Luke. In his Gospel, Luke says that Jesus ascended on Easter evening at Bethany. But in Acts, the same Luke tells us that Jesus ascended from Mt. Olivet 40 days after the resurrection. In our Gospel reading for today, Mark suggests that the ascension took place on Easter evening from the upper room.
What seems obvious is that the empty tomb is fact and that the disciples experienced powerful, overwhelming experiences of the risen Lord. This raised Christ, however, was also profoundly different. Mary Magdalene did not recognize him until he called her by name (Jn 20:16); other disciples both worshiped him and doubted at the same time (Mt 28:17). The raised body is a mystery, Paul insists. And to anyone who tries to figure it out, his inelegant response is, "You fool!" (1 Cor 15:36). It is also obvious that the disciples' direct, palpable experience of the risen Lord became more indirect. Acts describes this latter period as having happened after 40 days, symbolic of a holy period. He was "lifted up" into heaven, much like incense, prayers and sacrifices rising to God.
Now that the Lord is at the right hand of the Father, is he no longer with us? No, he is still with us. We even see in the Gospel today that after the ascension "the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs." One tradition has Jesus needing to leave in order to send the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7), while another seems to blur the two: "the Lord is the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:17). The confusion comes precisely because we are dealing with a reality that eludes tidy concepts.
I take the truth of the Ascension to be that the Lord Jesus has gone cosmic. He is not isolated by time and space as he was when he walked the roads of Palestine: "Even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no longer" (2 Cor 5:16). For Christ now reconciles all things to himself that he may be "all and in all" (Col 1:20; 3:11).
The feast of the Ascension is not about getting the historical facts down, as they themselves reside in utter mystery. What is important is engaging the reality of the Ascension. That Christ is no longer with us "according to the flesh" allows us to know him widely, from the indwelling in our souls to the life and sacraments of the church to the breadth of the universe.
Today we celebrate the lordship of Jesus Christ as one who has penetrated the whole universe and holds all things in his love. He is there when the Muslim bows to pray. He is there when the scientist pursues a cure. He delights with a child who laughs, and he guides a senior in her wisdom. He is "all and in all."


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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotelNewly renovated, elegant all-suite hotel on North Michigan Avenue
Popular property highlights
On the Magnificent Mile
Omni Chicago Suites - Magnificent Mile is at the center of Chicago's most prestigious neighborhood, 3 blocks from the shores of Lake Michigan and around the corner from St. James Cathedral. The Museum of Contemporary Art is a 5-minute walk, and the "L" train stop is at Chicago and State, 4 blocks away.
Rooftop garden and views
The sundeck on the rooftop offers sweeping views, and drinks and light meals are served by the indoor pool. 676 Restaurant & Bar offers Midwest American farm-to-table food, using produce from local farmers and the organic garden on the 5th floor. Online room service runs around the clock.
Recently renovated, room to move
Renovated in March 2015, the spacious suites offer plenty of room - at least 400 square feet (37 square meters) - for guests to stretch out, and have separate sleeping and living areas. There is a work desk and 2 42-inch LED TVs with cable and on-demand movies.
Languages Spoken
Omni Chicago Suites - Magnificent Mile
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Omni Chicago Suites - Magnificent Mile features newly renovated guestrooms, lobby area, and restaurant. The hotel also features an indoor pool and a health club. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Business amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a business center, limo/town car service, and 9 meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 7000 square feet (650 square meters) include conference space. This luxury hotel also offers multilingual staff, concierge services, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Onsite parking is available (surcharges).
Omni Chicago Suites - Magnificent Mile is a smoke-free property.
- Express check-in
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Conference space
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Meeting rooms 9
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Year Built 1990
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 650
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 7000
- Concierge services
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 347
- Number of floors - 25
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour health club
- Free newspapers in lobby
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 9.95 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 9.95 per day )
Languages Spoken
- Spanish
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Room service (24 hours)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room massage available
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Sofa bed
- Cable TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Number of bedrooms -
- Number of bathrooms -
- Daily housekeeping
- Sofa bed size
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Separate bedroom
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
676 Restaurant and Bar - Onsite restaurant. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Sailing nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4:00 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 30.0 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 100 per accommodation, per week, plus a deposit of USD 100 per week
- Dogs and cats only
- Up to 25 lb
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 25 for adults and USD 15 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 70 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet deposit: USD 100 per week
- Pet fee: USD 100 per accommodation, per week
- An in-room refrigerator is available for an additional fee
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 30.0 per night
Hotel Name
- Chicago Hotel Omni
- Chicago Omni
- Chicago Omni Hotel
- Hotel Omni Chicago
- Omni Chicago
- Omni Chicago Suites Magnificent Mile
- Omni Hotel Chicago
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Special Notes on the Professional Pharm.D. Program
- The successful completion of the professional Pharm.D. program curriculum in the College of Pharmacy as well as the practice of pharmacy requires that the accumulation of scientific knowledge is accompanied by the simultaneous acquisition of skills and professional attitudes and behavior. Therefore, all didactic, laboratory, and pharmacy practice course requirements of the curriculum in the College of Pharmacy are applicable to all students and cannot be waived.
- Only students who are currently enrolled in the College of Pharmacy may attend the professional Pharm.D. program classes in the College of Pharmacy without permission from the Dean of the College of Pharmacy.
- Students enrolled in any experiential components of the professional Pharm.D. program must adhere to any specific policies, procedures and/or requirements of the assigned pharmacy practice site. The Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) courses are conducted at off-campus teaching facilities affiliated with the College of Pharmacy. Any added costs (i.e., required liability and health insurance, practice site requirements, supplies, housing, food, transportation, etc.) incurred through this dislocation must be borne by the student. Enrollment in these courses is limited by the availability of facilities and faculty. Therefore, students will be assigned to these courses based on the number of students that can be accommodated. Problems associated with the College of Pharmacy Regulations that affect the student may result in a delay in enrollment in these courses.
- The IPPE courses are graded as Pass or Fail and do not affect the GPA calculations in any area (e.g., probation, suspension). The IPPE courses cannot be used for full-time course load or Pharm.D. program residency requirements for any semester.
- Professional Pharm.D. program students who have complaints regarding the standards or policies and procedures of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (http://www.acpe-accredit.org/) must submit written documentation to the Associate Dean. If the student and Associate Dean cannot resolve the complaint, the complaint will be referred to the College of Pharmacy Policy Committee for review. The College of Pharmacy Policy Committee will make its recommendation to the Dean and the Dean of the College of Pharmacy will communicate the recommendation to the student.
- Professional Electives are to be selected through consultation with the advisor and must be taken as part of the professional Pharm.D. program.
- All students in the Pharm.D. program must be certified as pharmacy interns by the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy.
- All students in the professional Pharm.D. program must complete all required documentation, which includes background checks, immunizations and vaccine series, drug screens and the SWOSU Health Record, in the prescribed time periods.
- The cost of attendance for the professional Pharm.D. program includes the specific tuition and other costs for the professional Pharm.D. program as well as all SWOSU cost requirements.


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Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Linux Instances
Let's get started with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by launching, connecting to, and using a Linux instance. An instance is a virtual server in the AWS cloud. With Amazon EC2, you can set up and configure the operating system and applications that run on your instance.
When you sign up for AWS, you can get started with Amazon EC2 using the AWS Free Tier. If you created your AWS account less than 12 months ago, and have not already exceeded the free tier benefits for Amazon EC2, it will not cost you anything to complete this tutorial, because we help you select options that are within the free tier benefits. Otherwise, you'll incur the standard Amazon EC2 usage fees from the time that you launch the instance until you terminate the instance (which is the final task of this tutorial), even if it remains idle.
The instance is an Amazon EBS-backed instance (meaning that the root volume is an EBS volume). You can either specify the Availability Zone in which your instance runs, or let Amazon EC2 select an Availability Zone for you. When you launch your instance, you secure it by specifying a key pair and security group. When you connect to your instance, you must specify the private key of the key pair that you specified when launching your instance.
To complete this tutorial, perform the following tasks:
Related Tutorials
If you'd prefer to launch a Windows instance, see this tutorial in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Windows Instances.
If you'd prefer to use the command line, see this tutorial in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide: Using Amazon EC2 through the AWS CLI.
Before you begin, be sure that you've completed the steps in Setting Up with Amazon EC2.
Step 1: Launch an Instance
You can launch a Linux instance using the AWS Management Console as described in the following procedure. This tutorial is intended to help you launch your first instance quickly, so it doesn't cover all possible options. For more information about the advanced options, see Launching an Instance.
To launch an instance
Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
From the console dashboard, choose Launch Instance.
The Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page displays a list of basic configurations, called Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), that serve as templates for your instance. Select an HVM version of Amazon Linux 2. Notice that these AMIs are marked "Free tier eligible."
On the Choose an Instance Type page, you can select the hardware configuration of your instance. Select the
t2.microtype, which is selected by default. Notice that this instance type is eligible for the free tier.
Choose Review and Launch to let the wizard complete the other configuration settings for you.
On the Review Instance Launch page, under Security Groups, you'll see that the wizard created and selected a security group for you. You can use this security group, or alternatively you can select the security group that you created when getting set up using the following steps:
Choose Edit security groups.
On the Configure Security Group page, ensure that Select an existing security group is selected.
Select your security group from the list of existing security groups, and then choose Review and Launch.
On the Review Instance Launch page, choose Launch.
When prompted for a key pair, select Choose an existing key pair, then select the key pair that you created when getting set up.
Alternatively, you can create a new key pair. Select Create a new key pair, enter a name for the key pair, and then choose Download Key Pair. This is the only chance for you to save the private key file, so be sure to download it. Save the private key file in a safe place. You'll need to provide the name of your key pair when you launch an instance and the corresponding private key each time you connect to the instance.
Don't select the Proceed without a key pair option. If you launch your instance without a key pair, then you can't connect to it.
When you are ready, select the acknowledgement check box, and then choose Launch Instances.
A confirmation page lets you know that your instance is launching. Choose View Instances to close the confirmation page and return to the console.
On the Instances screen, you can view the status of the launch. It takes a short time for an instance to launch. When you launch an instance, its initial state is
pending. After the instance starts, its state changes to
runningand it receives a public DNS name. (If the Public DNS (IPv4) column is hidden, choose Show/Hide Columns (the gear-shaped icon) in the top right corner of the page and then select Public DNS (IPv4).)
It can take a few minutes for the instance to be ready so that you can connect to it. Check that your instance has passed its status checks; you can view this information in the Status Checks column.
Step 2: Connect to Your Instance
There are several ways to connect to a Linux instance. In this procedure, you'll connect using your browser. Alternatively, you can connect using PuTTY or an SSH client. It's also assumed that you launched an Amazon Linux 2 instance, per the previous step, which has a specific user name. Other Linux distributions might use a different user name. For more information, see Connecting to Your Linux Instance from Windows Using PuTTY or Connecting to Your Linux Instance Using SSH.
You can't connect to your instance unless you launched it with a key pair for which you have the .pem file and you launched it with a security group that allows SSH access. If you can't connect to your instance, see Troubleshooting Connecting to Your Instance for assistance.
To connect to your Linux instance using a web browser
You must have Java installed and enabled in the browser. If you don't have Java already, you can contact your system administrator to get it installed, or follow the steps outlined in the following pages: Install Java and Enable Java in your web browser.
From the Amazon EC2 console, choose Instances in the navigation pane.
Select the instance, and then choose Connect.
Choose A Java SSH client directly from my browser (Java required).
Amazon EC2 automatically detects the public DNS name of your instance and populates Public DNS for you. It also detects the key pair that you specified when you launched the instance. Complete the following, and then choose Launch SSH Client.
In User name, enter
In Private key path, enter the fully qualified path to your private key (
.pem) file, including the key pair name.
(Optional) Choose Store in browser cache to store the location of the private key in your browser cache. This enables Amazon EC2 to detect the location of the private key in subsequent browser sessions, until you clear your browser's cache.
If necessary, choose Yes to trust the certificate, and choose Run to run the MindTerm client.
If this is your first time running MindTerm, a series of dialog boxes asks you to accept the license agreement, confirm setup for your home directory, and confirm setup of the known hosts directory. Confirm these settings.
A dialog prompts you to add the host to your set of known hosts. If you do not want to store the host key information on your local computer, choose No.
A window opens and you are connected to your instance.
If you chose No in the previous step, you'll see the following message, which is expected:
Verification of server key disabled in this session.
Step 3: Clean Up Your Instance
After you've finished with the instance that you created for this tutorial, you should clean up by terminating the instance. If you want to do more with this instance before you clean up, see Next Steps.
Terminating an instance effectively deletes it; you can't reconnect to an instance after you've terminated it.
If you launched an instance that is not within the AWS
Free Tier, you'll stop incurring charges for that instance as soon as the
instance status changes to
shutting down or
If you'd like to keep your instance for later, but not incur charges, you can
the instance now and then start it again later. For more information, see
Stopping Instances.
To terminate your instance
In the navigation pane, choose Instances. In the list of instances, select the instance.
Choose Actions, Instance State, Terminate.
Choose Yes, Terminate when prompted for confirmation.
Amazon EC2 shuts down and terminates your instance. After your instance is terminated, it remains visible on the console for a short while, and then the entry is deleted.
Next Steps
After you start your instance, you might want to try some of the following exercises:
Learn how to remotely manage your EC2 instance using Run Command. For more information, see Tutorial: Remotely Manage Your Amazon EC2 Instances and Systems Manager Remote Management (Run Command).
Configure a CloudWatch alarm to notify you if your usage exceeds the Free Tier. For more information, see Create a Billing Alarm in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.
Add an EBS volume. For more information, see Creating an Amazon EBS Volume and Attaching an Amazon EBS Volume to an Instance.
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Coming Events...
Bake Sales
Mother's Day bake sale and Chinese Auction on May 10 – 11, 10 a.m. - ? at Jaime's Place Salon & Spa, 36 Main Street, Wyalusing. Hosted by Cancer Kickers team. All proceeds go to Wyalusing's Relay for Life. R18- 2p/S19p
Bake Sale, Saturday, May 25, 8 a.m. until ? at Connie's Market, Rt. 6, Wyalusing, sponsored by "Rowdy Ross's" Relay for Life team to benefit American Cancer Society.
Relay for Life team, "Grammy's Gang" will hold a Dice Run on Sunday, May 11 starting at New Albany Social Hall. Registration from 9 to 11 a.m. $10 per rider and per driver. There will be basket raffles, chicken BBQ and a community yard sale. Doan's Greenhouse will be selling 13 in. petunia pots for $13. preorders preferred by calling 570-363-2526. Contact Randy Wilcox at 570-637-0254 for details. All proceeds benefit Relay for Life.
First Annual "Eric's Ride" Motorcycle Run. This is a 85 mile poker run on June 22, starting at Ernie's Restaurant and Lounge, Stevensville. Registration, 9:30 to 10:30. Cost is $20 driver, $10 rider, includes tshirt, ride and pork BBQ dinner. All proceeds going to Eric Latini's Scholarship Fund. (Eric tragically died in a motorcycle accident.) Register at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 570- 746-1897.
True Friends Animal Welfare Center will hold a benefit walk "In Memory of Zeus" on Sunday, June 2 at 1 p.m. at their location on Route 706 and 29 in Montrose. All proceeds benefit the True Friend's medical fund. Pledge forms at the shelter or email them at email@example.com.
Genesis Salon, located Wyalusing's Creek Plaza offering haircuts for $12 Sunday, May 19 from 2 to 6 p.m. Walk-ins only. All proceeds will go to the Loaves & Fishes, the ministry that owns and operates Brewed Awakening. R19- 2p/S20p
Blood Drive
Blood Drive, Claverack Rural Electric, Rt. 6, Wysox on Monday, May 13, 1 to 6 p.m. Enter raffle to win a $50 gift card from JC Penney. Walk-ins welcome, but appts. suggested. Call 570- 265-2167.
Book Sale
Monroeton Public Library holding a Book Sale at the library on Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Books for everyone.
Monthly Breakfast at the Herrickville Fire Hall, Sunday, May 26, 2013, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. All you can eat: pancakes, French toast, ham, sausage, eggs, home fries, sausage gravy and biscuits, coffee, orange juice, real maple syrup and sugar-free syrup. Adults, $7; children to 12 years, $3; preschool, free. Benefit: Herrick Twp. Vol. Fire Co. - Dept. 4.
Knights of Columbus Mother's Day Breakfast, May 12, from 8 to 11 a.m. at St. Basil's Hall, Dushore. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, home fries, bacon, sausage links, chipped beef, toast, fruit cocktail, orange juice, coffee, tea, milk and water. Mothers -free; Adults, $7; children, 12 to 6, $3; under six, eat free. Everyone welcome. Eat in or take-out. Proceeds benefit local activities. Sponsored by K of C, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406.
Mother's Day All You Can Eat Breakfast, 8 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 12 at the Towanda Elks Lodge, South Main St. All welcome.
Car Wash
The Car Wash scheduled for Saturday, May 11 at the NAPA store in Wyalusing has been cancelled.
The Second Sunday Vesper Service will be held on May 12 at 5 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, corner of Church and Chestnut Streets, Montrose. The Mothers' Day Chorus of over 20 ladies will be special guests. A simple supper will be served in the Parish House immediately following the service.
Clam Bakes
Knights of Columbus Clam Bake, Saturday, June 8. Donation of $23 per ticket includes 6 doz. clams, steak and sausage sandwich, beer and soda. Served from 2 to 6 p.m. at St. Francis Pavilion, Mildred. Limited tickets available until May 18 at Dushore Agway or Bill's Hardware, Dushore or call Paul, 579-928-8911 or Ron, 746- 9498. Everyone welcome. Proceeds benefit local activities. Knights of Columbus, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406.
The Stevensville Community Club is hosting a two-day AARP Driver's Safety Course, May 16 and 17, 1 to 5 p.m. in the hall. The cost is $12 for members and $14 for non-members. Space is limited, so call Luke Vande Mark at 570-746-3188 to register now.
Join us and work on your favorite craft at the Stevensville Craft Corner, Wednesday, May 22, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the hall. Bring a dish to share for lunch. Call Eileen, 570-744-1918 or Jean, 746-3188 for questions.
Chicken and Biscuit Dinner, Spring Hill Community Hall, May 11 at 4:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Over the Hill Plus Gang to benefit Wyalusing Relay for Life. Adults, $8; 6 to 12, $4; preschool, free.
Community Dinner at the New Era United Methodist Church on May 15 at 11:30 a.m. Chicken and stuffing bake plus more. A speaker from Area Agency on Aging will be attending. For more information, call 570-363- 2496.
The WVHS Class of 1951 will meet for lunch on Friday, May 17 at noon at Bishop's Restaurant in Ulster.
Pancake Supper on Tuesday, May 21 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Adults: $6; under 12, $3; preschool, free. Pancakes, sausage, farm eggs. New Era U.M. Church, Wyalusing-New Albany Road.
Election Day Chicken Biscuit dinner on May 21, p.m. until. Adults, $9; children, 6 to 12, $5; under 6, free. Jenningsville United Methodist Church Hall, Chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas, cole slaw, cranberry sauce, pies, coffee, tea. R19-2c/S20- 2c
Pro Musica will present their 2013 Spring show, Music . . . Music . . . Music, a trip down a musical memory lane at the Independent Baptist Church on Saturday, May 11 at 7 p.m.
Loaves and Fishes of Wyalusing is hosting a "Tea and Talent," a Mother's Day weekend special event showcasing the amazing vocal and instrumental gifts of local teens and adults. It will be held in the Tuscarora Wayne Room of the Wyalusing Chamber Building on Main Street on May 11 at 3 p.m.
For Your Information
Seeking Area Artists: The Vintage Theater, in downtown Scranton is seeking area artists to take part in their upcoming "Works in Wood" visual exhibit. All pieces must be made entirely or at least primarily with wood. All those interested in exhibiting should submit images and descriptions of their works or proposed "works in progress" to email@example.com or by physical mail addressed to 326
Spruce Street, Scranton PA 18503. The submission deadline is May 20 2013 (noon). Installation will occur June 3 and 4. The exhibit will run from June 7 – 30, 2013.
Events at Woodbourne Forest and Wildlife Sanctuary, Rt. 29, Dimock. May 18, Saturday Morning Bird Walk, 8 to 11 a.m. May 25, 7 a.m. to noon; Bird Walk and North American Migratory Bird County, May 11, 8 a.m. to noon.
Bookmobile Schedule May 9, Ulster Mather Memorial Library, 10:45 a.m.; Sayre Lockhart Apts., 12:15 p.m.; Bradford Co. SAM Head Start, 2:30 p.m.; Athens Chemung View Apts., 3:30 to 5 p.m. May 23, Sayre Hopkins Commons II, 9 a.m.; Commons I, 10:30 a.m.; Sayre Keystone Manor, 1 p.m.; Athens Kozy Kastle, 3 p.m. May 28, BLaST IU 17, 9 a.m.; Bradford Co. Manor, 1 p.m. May 29, Park Place Apts., Wyalusing, 9 a.m.; Wyalusing Library, 10:30 a.m.; Sugar Run P.O., 1 p.m. Wysox C&N Bank parking lot, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Come out to Mt. Pisgah on May 10 to view the stars and planets. The park is pleased to announce two amateur astronomers will be at the park beginning at dusk with their telescopes, weather permitting. Pre-register by calling 570-297- 2734.
Meeting Notices
S.O.S. Al-Anon — Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
Recovery House Meetings — AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends — of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 965-0901 (evenings) or 278- 1658 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock: Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.
Diabetes Support Group - meeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
TOPS PA #1134 — Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 965-2493 or 869-1834. Toll-free 1- 800-932-8677.
AA Meeting — Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
MOPS — Mothers of Preschoolers meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children
in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory. Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
AA meeting, Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
AARP Meetings #4423 are held at the Wysox EMS Building the second Tuesday of every month with the exception of special meetings combined with a luncheon. Executive meeting is 1:15 p.m. and regular meeting at 1:45. On May 14, the club will hold their Spring Banquet at Bishop's Restaurant in Ulster at noon. You don't need to be a member as guests are always welcome. Any questions, contact Secretary Merna Colwell at 570-833-2567.
Grief Support Group: Jan.- Dec. 2013. A bereavement support group meets monthly, the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. The meetings are located in the library in the lower level of Memorial Hospital in Towanda. Any questions, call 570-268-2233.
Twin Tier Antique Tractor and Machinery Association will meet on May 16 at 7 p.m. at the grounds in Rome.
Calling all Active and Retired Members of the Armed Forces. An accredited Veterans' Service Officer will present a free program for veterans covering: veterans' healthcare, the veterans' healthcare system, disability and widows' pensions, veterans' benefits to pay for longterm care and how to protect your home and assets. This takes place at the Pioneer Campground Activity Center in Laporte on Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m. This seminar is open to campers and the general public.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit #534 — will not hold their monthly meeting on May 9 due to renovations of the post home. They will meet June 13 at the post at 6 p.m. Members are urged to attend as this will be election of officers.
Caregivers' Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a long term care facility welcome. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570- 746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265- 6121. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 14.
Wyalusing American Legion Post 534 will not hold their
monthly meeting on May 12.
Come Join the Depression Support Group at the Herrickville Fire Hall, Thursday, May 9 at 2 p.m. For more information, contact Colleen Taylor, 570-746-3021.
The American Red Cross Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties Chapter announces its next Red Cross Youth Club meeting on Thursday, May 23 at 6 p.m. at the Wyoming County EMA building, located at 3880 SR 6, Tunkhannock. Youth, ages 13 to 18 from the Tunkhannock and Lackawanna Trail school districts are encouraged to attend. For additional information, visit http://redcrossyouth.org/ or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Open House
Wyoming County Historical Society 22nd Annual Open House on Sunday, May 19, 1 to 4 p.m. Located at the corner of Bridge and Harrison Streets, Tunkhannock. For more information, call 570-836-5303.
Penny Socials
Penny Social at LeRaysville Community Hall on May 11. Doors open at 6 p.m. Drawing at 7:30 p.m. Benefits Relay for Life, Arrow United Industries team. R19p
RTL Opening Day, May 11 at Wyalusing Borough Park. Games will take place all day starting at 10 a.m. Chicken barbecue will also take place, halves or a meal. Concessions available all day.
Twin Tier Antique Tractor Pull on Saturday, May 18 at Rome grounds. Weigh-in at 8:30 a.m. pull at 9:30 a.m. (weather permitting). Questions, call 570- 637-1311 or 363-2496.
The New Albany Children's Fund is sponsoring the Annual Charlie Wiles Fishing Derby on June 1, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Behrend-Wiles pond in New Albany. Community youngsters from four to 13 are invited to come out with their fishing poles, tackle boxes and bait. In addition to free fishing, the day will feature food and beverage, prize drawings and a casting contest.
Donations needed of glassware for the Wyalusing Carnival dime pitch. Donations can be left by the double doors at the fire hall. Limited pick-up is available for elderly/homebound by call 570-721-1265.
Work Bees
Laddsburg Cemetery Association will hold a work bee at the cemetery on Wednesday, May 15 (rain date 5/16), 9 a.m. to noon. All welcome to come and help. For more information, call 570-363-2841. Older decorations should be removed by May 15 by family or at discretion of caretaker.
Look Good, Feel Better sessions in honor of Mother's Day. In Towanda, a workshop at Memorial Hospital in library from 1 to 3 p.m. on May 13 by Jan Bouse-Stoddard. In Sayre, on the fifth floor conference room at Guthrie Cancer Center on May 13. Bev Vasey will lead the workshop, which begins at 2:30 p.m. and runs until 4:30. Pre-registration is required. Call 1-800-227-2345.
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Tommy Osier, 18, a popular but indifferent student, was still a year from graduating from high school, and that was no sure thing. Farm work paid him $7.40 an hour, taught him discipline and gave him new skills.
But he hated the chore he drew on Memorial Day of last year, working inside the silo at Pine Grove Farm. The corn was damp and crusted. It tended to hang up on the sides of the old six-story cement bin and had to be busted up with a steel rod before it would cascade to the bottom to be shoveled out.
That morning, just after 9, the phone rang in the Osier home. "Tommy's in the silo," his sister relayed to their mother, Linda, unsure of what it meant.
Ms. Osier grew up on a hog farm and knew right away. "He's dead," she said, slumping to the floor. "Tommy's dead."
Since 2007, 80 farmworkers have died in silo accidents; 14 of them were teenage boys.
For more, see: Silos Loom as Death Traps on American Farms


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Topic Title: Corned Beef and Cabbage
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Does anyone have a great CB&C recipe for the Holland? Please don't reply if your recipe includes wrapping anything in tin foil. Thats not grilling, we have ovens for that. The O in my signature is very Irish but I'm tired of the crock pot on St. Patty's day. I bought two corned beefs so my wife feels safe doing one on the counter top in the ceramic boiler but I'm looking for something to truely impress the guests. Thanks!
Okay- there is a recipe for cooking a boston butt- its in the cookbook, on the free dvd (now offered on the home page) and I think, on line too. I believe you could cook the corned beef like a boston butt, filling the grill pan with water and slow cooking it for several hours- then you put it in a cooler which holds the heat and cooks itself- please let me know how this comes out- I want to try it too-0 btw we had the cabbage with butter and ice cubes and greek seasoning for dinner last night- iomg it rocked! but alas we did have to use tin foil to hold the juice!
What are corned beefs anyway? If I want to "truely" impress people I cook something that tastes good. They never ask which appliance I used to make it. Thanks!
Last St. Paddy's day, I bought an "American-style" Wagu corned beef brisket from Byerly's in the Twin Cities, and cooked it on my Holland Tradition grill - it turned out to be the best corned beef I have ever eaten! I filled the bottom tray with water, and steamed it for about 4 hours, and only once opened the cover to look at it & add more water. As a note, I added some Mesquite Flav-o-buds to the chip drawer for a little extra kick. The end result was tender, moist, and you could cut it with a butter knife. I will be repeating this for years to come - Holland Grills ROCK!
Repeated the traditional "American-style" Wagu corned beef brisket from Byerly's in the Twin Cities today, and it was again outstanding! The only downside was waiting 4 hours - but the end result was worth the wait! Did I mention it is 10 degrees outside? The grill doesn't care, and is used year round. As previously stated, Holland Griils ROCK!
Mrs Ness
I haven't tried it yet, but it seems the guy steaming the corned beef has the right idea for the beef. While you're steaming the beef, just half a head of cabbage and lay it flat side down on the grill and steam the cabbage at the same time the meat is cooking. Of course, you wouldn't need to steam the cabbage for as long a period of time. But it will be delicious. Slainte!


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(Gulo gulo)
Facts about this animal
The Wolverine is shaped vaguely like a large, robust marten. They have a head-body length of 70-85 cm. The bushy tail has a length of about 25 cm. Weight can be up to 30 kg, but females are smaller and considerably lighter than males.
Wolverines have a dense, long-haired, dark-brown fur with lighter bands extending from the shoulders to the flanks.
The feet are large for the size of the animal and help them move over deep snow. Like many other martens, wolverines can produce a unpleasant odour from anal musk glands for marking and defense.
Mating season is from May to August with a peak in June. Implantation of the embryos is delayed, most births taking place in February of the following year. Wolverines are slow breeders as average litter size is just 2.2 cubs. The cubs are born blind and weigh about 100 grams at birth. They leave the nest at 9-10 weeks, and are almost independent at 6-7 months.
The wolverine's diet consists of hares, ptarmigans, small rodents, and, depending of snow conditions, reindeer.
Did you know?
That breeding occurs in the summer, but birth, however, does not occur until the following winter/spring? Active gestation is 30-50 days, but because of delayed implantation, full gestation period may last 215-272 days.
|Name (Scientific)
|Gulo gulo
|Name (English)
|Name (French)
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Local names
|Finish: Ahma
Norwegian: Jerv
Swedish: Järv
|CITES Status
|Not listed
|CMS Status
|Not listed
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|Canada, China (Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia), Estonia, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, and United States (Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon and California)
|Forests, mountains, plains, brushlands and tundra
|Wild population
|Unknown, but decreasing (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|90 reported to ISIS (2008)
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
Transportation during the warm summer months should be avoided and preferably be delayed to late autumn or winter.
For air transport, Container Note 82 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
Find this animal on ZooLex
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U.S. National Park Service
Why do zoos keep this animal
European zoos keep the wolverine, which is a vulnerable species, in the framework of a coordinated ex situ-breeding programme. The species is more common in Scandinavian zoos, many of which display native species only.


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Forums : MFLS Central Forum Thread : Mugs O' Suds 2015
from Hounds FC
on Tue 5/26 10:34 ET
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It is time to take this home for the AAPL. from Hounds FC
on Tue 5/26 10:36 ET
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But, in all seriousness, good luck in the final Dave. And thanks for running the tournament Dan, I have really enjoyed it. from Arrows SC
on Mon 6/1 16:19 ET
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Top Shelf is crowned the 2015 Mugs O Suds champion. The final game ended in dramatic fashion. The Hounds picked up goals from Benny Feilhaber and Kei Kamara, while Top Shelf registered a pair of goals from Marco Pappa and a strike from Gyasi Zardes. In stoppage time on Sunday, Hounds forward Clint Dempsey sent a ball curling inside the far post for what would have been the tying goal, only to have Chad Barrett tap the ball in from the goal line. The goal went to Barrett, and the Mug went to Top Shelf. This is Top Shelf�s third Mug trophy.
from Seattle SC
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If that had been Dempsey's goal would it have been the first final replay in Mug history? from Shaolin Mystigods
on Mon 6/1 20:22 ET
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gotta be the cruelist Mug in history in terms of
Barrett's "goal" being decisive
if that play costs Duece the Golden Boot, Chad
better disappear for a few days
from Mohawks
on Mon 6/1 23:05 ET
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I best Top Shelf on a quiz question awhile back. Not a replay
but a strange win..
from Hounds FC
on Tue 6/2 0:31 ET
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Congratulations. I thought I was going to take it this year. It was still a great tourney though. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. from Top Shelf
on Tue 6/2 17:47 ET
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Thanks Tim. I saw that goal Barrett stole and that was rough. Not going to complain though! from Top Shelf
on Wed 9/23 15:30 ET
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Just received a very cool mug in the mail for winning the Mug this year. Top class tournament. Thanks Dan! from Arrows SC
on Thu 9/24 18:56 ET
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Your welcome. You know the drill ... get me a picture!
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Time to Give and Wish List for Dec. 29.
Time to Give
Veterans' Hospice of Tuscaloosa
The Veterans' Hospice of Tuscaloosa, which focuses on providing health care to improve the quality of life for veterans with terminal disease, seeks volunteers. Includes opportunities for one-to-one contact and helping with clerical tasks in the bereavement program. Call Teresa Worthington at 205-554-2000, ext. 2806.
Tuscaloosa Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The Tuscaloosa Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy needs volunteer speakers who have experienced being teen parents, or who are choosing abstinence until marriage. Volunteers must have transportation. Young adults preferred. Call 205-366-0207.
Comfort Care Hospice
Comfort Care Hospice, 935 Highway 80 West, Demopolis, needs volunteers to help with administrative, patient care, handy work and bereavement services. T-shirts, name badges, training/certification provided. Call Leann Teel, LBSW, at 334-289-2106.
Tuscaloosa Housing Authority
The Tuscaloosa Housing Authority needs volunteers to work with students in after-school programs at the Crescent East and Hay Court housing developments. Volunteers must have a high school diploma or equivalent and be at least 18. Volunteers are needed between 3 and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call LaKeda Smith at 205-345-9622.
Northport Heritage Museum
The Northport Heritage Museum needs volunteer docents (hosts and guides). The training is short, and the time commitment is flexible. Retired teachers may call Becky Sandel at 205-330-1508.
Wish List
The Arc of Tuscaloosa
The Arc of Tuscaloosa County, a nonprofit that serves adults with cognitive, intellectual and developmental disabilities, needs the following items: paper plates, paper towels, napkins, big Solo drinking cups, copy paper, acrylic paints of all colors, canvasses of any size, paint brushes, colored pencils. For more information, call Kristin Werner at 205 556-4900 or email email@example.com.
Volunteer knitters
Stitches from the Heart seeks donations of yarn. The national organization of volunteers knits, crochets or quilts blankets, sweaters and hats for babies in need and donates the items to hospitals all over the country. For more information, call 877-985-9212, visit www.stitchesfrom theheart.org or email email@example.com.
Future Living Community Services
Future Living Community Services, a nonprofit agency that provides residential services to people with developmental disabilities, needs the following for its certified residential facility Sensory Stimulation Program: computer, printer with supply of ink cartridges, computer station and sensory stimulation lights. Also needed are a fax machine, copy machine and four sets of walkie-talkies. For more information, call Donna Foster at 205-344-5662 or 205-454-2338, or Debra York at 205-310-2896.
Good Samaritan Clinic
Nebulizers and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) ventilation machines either new or in good working condition are needed for the Good Samaritan Clinic, which is at 3880 Watermelon Road. For more information, contact Mary at 205-343-1667 on Tuesday or Thursday.
The Tuscaloosa YMCA Summer Camp needs 50 folding rest mats. Call Racquel Walker at 205-345-9622 or email email@example.com.


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Minnesota Gophers Set to Open Basketball Season In Maui
For the beginning of the 2013-2014 NCAA college basketball season, the Maui Invitational bracket was announced on Wednesday, and the Minnesota Gophers will be playing in Hawaii to kick off their season.
Before Minnesota travels to Hawaii, the Gophers will face Coastal Carolina at Williams Arena in Minneapolis as part as Maui Invitational on November 19.
In Maui, the Gophers will play the second game on November 25 against Syracuse for the second time in their program history. Game time is set for 5:30 p.m. CDT.
Three other first round games will include: Arkansas vs. California at 2 p.m., Chaminade vs. Baylor at 9:30 p.m., and Dayton vs. Gonzaga at midnight. All first-round games are set for November 25.
The tournament runs from November 25th through November 27th.


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IT Management Slideshow: The Cloud, Mobility, Social Media: The New Mainstream?
By Don Reisinger | Posted 12-20-2010
The end of a calendar year invariably brings with it a flurry of prognostications about the 12 months ahead. In 2011, the cloud, mobility and social media look to be the trio to watch. Most likely, you've got a healthy skepticism about how big an impact any of these will actually have on your enterprise. Market-research firm IDC, however, is extremely bullish on all three points. In its report "IDC Predictions 2011: Welcome to the New Mainstream," the firm predicts that cloud services, mobile computing, and social networking will mature and coalesce in 2011, creating a "new mainstream" for IT. The company predicts double-digit-percentage growth in enterprise spending in each of these key areas. With the cloud, mobile devices, and social networks gaining popularity, IDC senior vice president and chief analyst, Frank Gens, says that combined, "they are rapidly becoming the market itself and must be addressed accordingly." If IDC's estimates prove accurate, you can expect to be operating a vastly different organization in the years ahead, one that relies upon a variety of services that, at least right now, few firms have brought wholesale into their enterprises. Here are nine highlights from the report.
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