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More Starters…
October 25, 2013 § Leave a comment
Last week I posted a few comments pointing to a frustrating phenomena I've seen with the acceptance (dare I say popularity?) of open source software: we've got too many new projects (over a million) in categories already inundated with viable options. Rather than joining an existing project, folks are creating their own. I used 230+ open source learning management systems (and apparently at least one open source "authoring tool") to make my point.
However, the phenomena is not limited to learning management systems (or authoring tools) or, for that matter, even software, as the problem appears to have crossed over into other sectors capitalizing on "openness" (fauxpenness?) as a development and distribution (promotion?) method. The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement suffers as well from the "starters over joiners phenomena." Thankfully, there is tremendous interest in both the use of OER broadly and, just as importantly, open source's foundational practices that enable it–OER is all good and I am way for it. Massive Open Online Courses (OK, I'm not too "for it" with MOOCs–but that's another post), Creative Commons licensed learning objects, open access journals, open courseware, etc., all harness the collaborative and community processes of co-creation first ascribed to open source software.
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Joiners, Not Starters
October 16, 2013 § 3 Comments
In an ongoing theme with this blog (I can't help myself) I've lamented, while the acceptance of open methods for development and distribution has grown across a variety of sectors, the result has been an influx of new projects (i.e. starters), by well meaning converts/proponents, rather than the creation of broader communities of collaborators/contributors (i.e. joiners).
Well another open source LMS announcement was made today by The Adapt Learning Community…
Linux on the Desktop
August 5, 2013 § Leave a comment
After my previous post, I received a few comments about the "real costs" of open source, a-la, "open source isn't free," and "open source actually costs more due to a loss in productivity."
Basically folks said to run Linux on the desktop, required a high skill set, and that "the average user" could not maintain a Linux-based operation system. These "maintenance cost," i.e. hours wondering through discussion forums chasing down answers for complex Linux issues, leads to decreased productivity, thus costing folks more in lost time (when they could be earning money), than other "out of the box" options. In addition, folks argued, because open source applications are feature poor compared to commercial options, there are things you just can't do with open source tools, again reducing productivity.
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It's "Revise, Remix & Redistribute" not, "Repeat, Redo & Replicate."
July 29, 2013 § 4 Comments
I just updated my desktop from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS) to Precise Pangolin (12.04 LTS) and like always after any new version or functionality from Ubuntu (Linux), excited by the new features, I can't help but leap up on my soap box (well, to be honest, my "high horse") to bemoan the lack of awareness and adoption of Linux on the desktop–OK really to chastise and ridicule many in IT (especially decision-makers), but especially those working in and with open communities of practice who don't eat their own dog food.
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Innovation or Replication?
June 1, 2013 § 1 Comment
Why those excited by the Stanford & edX open source platform collaboration (and many other "open" initiatives) don't get it. It's "reuse, revise, remix, redistribute," not "reinvent, redo, redundant, replace." The below article appeared just this week, in
2004 [May, 2014].
Sakai Project [EdX] launches groundbreaking open source collaboration
Nancy Connell of News Service [Patrick Masson] The Sakai Project [EdX], a landmark venture to create open-source course management tools and related software for the higher education community, has been launched by a consortium of four [three]universities, with U-M [Stanford] in a leading role.
The project—a collaboration of
U-M with Indiana [Harvard University], the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford—will release its first software next summer. It has received a $2.4 [$60] million grant from the Mellon Foundation and $300,000 from the Hewlett foundation in funding, and it has attracted the interest of at least 13 additional colleges and universities since its launch in December [May of 2012], says Joseph Hardin [Anant Agarwal], director of the Sakai [edX] project.
OSS Watch launches Open Source Options for Education Index
January 17, 2013 § 1 Comment
I've been in this really good MOOC for the past 20 years, it's called "The Internet."
August 1, 2012 § 12 Comments
I'd like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around for years. It is "massive" (nearly a half million members); it is open–as in free (no charge); it is open–as in anyone can participate (no enrollment requirements/restrictions); it is open–as in shareable/reusable (there is no copyright: all content by all contributors is in the public domain); it is open–as in community driven (topics and direction are self-organized by peers); it is open–as in transparent (all information is available to all); it's online (www.linuxquestions.org), and it provides over 200 "courses" (tutorials, resources and related discussions) across a variety of areas:
– Applications / GUI / Multimedia
– Hardware
– Networking
– Programming
– Security
Some of the programming tutorials include: Beginning with Java; BSD Sockets programming in C with examples; Building C programs on Linux; Building C++ programs on Linux; Emacs for an IDE, etc.
There is even a process for credentialing where peers rate the activities of others in order to establish users' reputations. Those who provide helpful insights are rewarded, while those who offer less helpful support get neutral or even negative reputations. This peer to peer assessment model is something many MOOCs are struggling with.
So why isn't this recognized as a MOOC? The cynic in me says, well because MOOC's are really marketing tools to promote a university's "innovation," garner financial support (e.g. grants, investment funding, etc.) and/or drive online enrollments (i.e. take a MOOC, then enroll in a "real" course). Why does every college or university need a MOOC or other OCW/OER initiative, rather than really take advantage of the openness of shared resources to enhance, contribute and redistribute?


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To process a return: Simply send back the unused parts to our address, shown below. Please include a copy of your invoice as well. The parts must be unused, in original packaging, and in new, saleable condition. For your protection, we recommend that you use insure your return and record the tracking number for your reference. A credit will be issued when we have received the part and verified that its condition is acceptable.
If you receive a wrong part due to an error or mistake on our end, we will cover shipping expenses and re-send the item to you. If the order mistake is the customer's, charges for shipping and handling are not refundable.
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Major gift workshop
The University of Alaska Foundation hosted a major gift solicitation workshop for academic leaders and development professionals at the Fairbanks campus earlier this month. This was the second part of a two part series focused on acquiring and deploying private support. If attendance and enthusiastic participation was any indication, the event was a huge success.
The CASE on Campus workshop featured guest presenter Penny Hunt, vice chancellor for development at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior vice president for the University of Illinois Foundation. Hunt spent the entire day Ocober 6 with nearly 40 UA and UAF staffers, including the UAF chancellor, several deans, the UAF provost and development officers from both the Foundation and UAF. Staff from Public Affairs and UAF Marketing and Communications also attended. CASE stands for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and is the professional organization dedicated to fund-raising, alumni relations, marketing and communications.
The first part of this series was held in Fairbanks in June, as well as both parts of the series conducted at UAA in May.
"As we build a culture of philanthropy in Alaska and the university, it's important that we all understand the roles we play," said Foundation president Mary Rutherford.Ā "The Foundation is proud to partner with the campuses in bringing these high quality programs to Alaska.Ā By hosting them on campus, many deans, directors and staff who would not otherwise be able to participate can join. Also, learning together helps create a sense of camaraderie among faculty and staff."
The workshop covered a variety of issues, such as how to cultivate potential donors to the university, how to solicit major gifts and proper stewardship. The workshop also included brainstorming and role-playing sessions, with some participants taking on the role of donor and others as the development officer.


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Raspberry PI units are cheap, incredibly powerful little computers. $50CDN each, although the full kit required to get one up-and-running wanders into the $100CDN territory - but that is for an entire computer, one capable of running basically anything that the world of computing came up with before 2005, including Asterisk, the powerful, open-source telephony suite.
Although, if you're going to buy a Pi, obviously the first thing you should build is a RetroPie.
Melissa: Each one of these Raspberry Pi units is running Asterisk and some autodialer code that I wrote, and I've been sneaking them on to unattended phone lines around the city.
Lain: What do they do?
Melissa: They call every nine minutes and play a sound that is my best approximation of Gilbert Gottfried making tender yet passionate love to a set of off-key bagpipes.
Lain: Dang, Mel, who could possibly deserve that?
Melissa: Let's see… Trump hotels, landlords who've kept my security deposit, CANIPRE, Patent Trolls, Steve, Oracle, people who use single character variable names, teenager with luxury sports cars, and anybody who's ever used the term "alpha" unironically to describe themselves.


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NWSB Insider Jason Green and Pac 12 hoops blogger Jason Green has his WSU Cougars recap article. Five things he learned about the Cougs hoops team. This season gives WSU fans hope for next season. The players that are coming back give the Cougars a lot of high hopes. Brock Motum (18.1 ppg 6.5 ppg) had a good season and he and 3rd leading scorer Reggie Moore (10.2 ppg) will be back.
Things We Learned about Washington St. Cougars Hoops in 2011/12
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So much has been made of Tiger Woods' 79 on Saturday that some seem to think the 14-time major winner and 2013 player of the year might as well just pack it in and call it quits.
Not to sound like a Tiger apologist -- as some have tried to suggest this in the past -- but settle down people, it was just one round.
Sure, it was an awful round that is uncharacteristic from Woods, but there's no reason to hit the panic button on his game just yet.
A seven-over 79 is not good for any touring pro, but maybe it's just because he has been so good and consistent over his career that this one sticks out.
It's one of Woods' five-worst scores as a professional, but does this one really mean anything? Did the others?
Woods' worst score was in the 2002 British Open at Muirfield, where he shot an 81, the only time he has failed to break 80 over his career. Did that break him? No, he shot 65 the next day and tied for 28th, then won his next event, the Buick Open.


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So-called "world music" radio programming in the pre-internet era frustrated me. The majority of the specialty DJs on college and public radio stations condescendingly prized rigid stylistic purity. Performers like Angelique Kidjo who dared to incorporate contemporary styles into their sounds were dismissed in favor of "authentic" artists. Selections like "Give Me a Reason" on Ibibio Sound Machine's Uyai that betray the influence of acts ranging from Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band to Thomas Dolby would never would have been played by those patronizing gatekeepers. And that's a large part of what makes Uyai wonderful.
I reviewed Art Garfunkel's concert at Helzberg Hall.
I reviewed Joseph's concert at the Madrid Theatre.
I write weekly concert previews for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
I wrote an extended concert preview about Sunny Sweeney for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
I commended the popularity of the Elders on KCUR.
Dave Valentin has died.
Tommy Page has died.
The Kansas City rapper CB channels Atlanta on his latest track.
Would you rather be an elite name in an esoteric realm or a mid-tier performer in a more popular format? José James has opted for the latter. He discards almost every trace of the sound that once made him a rising star in the jazz world on his fine neo-soul album Love In a Time of Madness. RIYL: Robin Thicke, successful transitions, Ledisi.
No matter how hard I try, I just can't get with the new wave of stylish rock-informed jazz bands led by Snarky Puppy. Kneebody's Anti-Hero makes me wish I was listening to my old James "Blood" Ulmer, Billy Cobham or King Crimson albums instead.
Chicano Batman's Freedom Is Free may be my all-time favorite Grateful Dead album. Here's "Friendship (Is a Small Boat in a Storm".
Fat Joe and Remy Ma's Plata O Plomo is old-school fun. RIYL: Big Pun, 2000, New York. Here's "Money Showers".
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Everglades Chapter
"A Pontiac car club"
Welcome to the Everglades Chapter of the Pontiac Oakland Club International. We primarily serve the Pontiac Owners of Southwest Florida. However, everyone is invited to join and participate. Members own all types of Pontiacs, from old to new. While our primary focus is to support and encourage the preservation and restoration of Pontiac vehicles, we also focus on having a good time. Car shows, cruise-ins and social gatherings are just a few of the activities we enjoy. Join in the fun and print an application from the "Join Us" section.
There is a cruise-in every Saturday from 4 to 7pm in the K-Mart Plaza, behind McDonalds (located at 4245 North Tamiami Trail). Many clubs participate in the cruise-in and everyone is welcome to participate.
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This statement was originally published on bianet.org on 24 November 2014.
Nine media outlets released a joint statement to protest a ban on reading and accessing certain publications in Turkey's prisons. The ban includes all periodicals received by inmates via mail or through visitors.
The statement was made at the Human Rights Association (IHD) headquarters located in downtown in Istanbul and signed by the following media outlets: Atılım, Halkın Günlüğü, Kızıl Bayrak, Mücadele Birliği, Özgür Gelecek, Siyaset, Türkiye Gerçeği, Barikat Dergisi and Yarın.
The meeting was attended by Semiha Şahin from Atılım newspaper, Mehmet Ali Karabulut from Kızılbayrak, Neriman Çelik from IHD's Prison Commission, inmate relative Gülşah Tağaç, advocate Sezin Uçar and Arzu Demir from the Journalist's Union of Turkey (TGS).
No official order
Speakers of the event noted that the ban has been imposed in early November. According to information obtained from inmates' letters and visitor sessions, authorities based the ban on Justice Ministry ruling Number 172740 dated on 10 November 2014.
However, no such order was available, claimed the speakers.
They also added that various prisons based the ban on reasons associated with helping the "continuation of order in prison" [in Tekirdağ High Security Prison] and cutting the communication between inmates and "illegal" organizations [in Sincan Prison].
The statement also underlined that the ban targeted silencing "revolutionary, socialist and dissident" press by obstructing the revolutionary prisoners from dissident publications.
Why a ban?
Advocate Sezin Uçar said that their efforts to obtain the aforementioned ruling from the Justice Ministry yielded no results.
"If we [find] the ruling," she continued, "we will take legal actions for its suspension."
Recalling last year's book limitations and their suspension after inmate protests, Uçar added that inmates are as reactant to this ban.
Arzu Demir from TGS said that the ban concerned the right to obtain information and news.
"We will be on the chase," she said.
Gülşah Tağaç, a relative of an inmate, on the other hand, compared the ban with practices during Turkey's Military Coup in 1980 and said: "Why this ban?"
"[Authorities] already put them between 4 walls. They could only read a limited selection of books. It is not a solution to take those from them. We can't [get] anywhere with bans."
Neriman Çelik from IHD underlined that they were unable to track down such a ban order on periodicals in prisons.
"Arbitrary bans resume in Turkey's prisons," she said. (BK/BM)
Click here to read the article in Turkish.
Turkey: Inmates banned from accessing, reading certain publications in prison
This statement was originally published on bianet.org on 24 November 2014.


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Christie - posted on 11/15/2013 ( 1 mom has responded )
My son is 7 months old today. He uses my breast to comfort him and pacify him at night. I don't know what to do. We have tried to sleep train him, and he literally screams bloody murder for 3 - 5 hours at a time. It's not the milk that he wants, it's the comfort. And it is taking a toll on me. Being a mother that works full time, I have finally just started giving into him and fall asleep with him on my breast in my bed. I need sleep! How do I break him of this? Any suggestions would be great!


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Right when I was walking into the stadium, a guy came up and asked for a couple of autographs for his son. I looked at his name tag and realized it was Mack Strong, the ProBowl fullback that had played his entire career for the Seahawks! It was really cool to be a part of the event and connect with other athletes like that. By the way, the Seahawks totally destroyed the Jets... it was fun to be with the home crowd there!
Now I'm looking forward to visiting Milwaukee, one of my favorite cities with one of the best race tracks in the country, for a couple of hospital visits for World Diabetes Day tomorrow!
|Meeting Seahawks fans before the game!


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Disabled Home Adaptations
If you would like this information guide in another version then please contact us and we will post or email you a copy. You can also view it online below; we have split it into sections to make it easier to read.
1. Overview
2. Where do I start?
3. Local Authority tenants
4. Housing Association tenants
5. Homeowners
6. 'Mandatory Grants'
7. Private tenants
1. Overview
Housing adaptations can:
- Reduce the risk of accidents at home.
- Reduce the need for home care or going into a care home.
If you are disabled, or someone in your home is disabled, you may get help with a wide range of adaptations to your home. Examples of adaptations include:
- Replacing a bath with a level access shower.
- Making it easier to get into and out of the house by widening doors or making a ramp.
- Fitting lower worktops in a kitchen.
There are different arrangements for getting help with other smaller changes, like fitting grab rails or getting help with equipment, such as a shower chair. Your local social work department will be able to explain more about these options.
Information updated May 2016. Please note that information may be subject to change. All information is provided in good faith but Disability Information Scotland does not endorse any product or service referred to within this resource.


text: It's so weird to write this out because I've never even told anyone else, but every time I see you do the little things you do I die inside because I know that all of that isn't mine and that I'll probably never hear you say my name or even talk to you at all and that kills me. Whenever your not around I feel like a part of me is missing too because it's with you and stubbornly, I don't know what to do. All I know is that I really, really want you, but at the same time I'm afraid to look at you. It's definitely not meant to be for us, and I guess I'll just wait until I never look at you the same way again.


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It is wise to take precautions when visiting a country that is not known to you. This article will give you some idea of the healthcare situation when in Morocco.
Facilities in most Moroccan hospitals outside the main towns are basic and old-fashioned compared to those in the UK. Standards of medical care are acceptable, although specialised equipment/treatment may not be available, but most hospital staff are unlikely to speak English.
Although some initial emergency medical treatment may be given free, British nationals are likely to be charged for the majority of expenses incurred whilst in Morocco (including tests and investigations, medication and overnight stays in hospital, whether state or private).
It is strongly recommended that you take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance to cover the full period you will be in the country, and which includes evacuation to the UK if necessary. You should be aware, however, that most insurance companies will not authorise medical evacuation as a matter of routine, or because local hospitals are not up to UK standards. Make sure you check for any exclusions in your policy, and that you are covered for the activities you want to undertake in Morocco.
There are no specific vaccinations needed for Morocco, but if you are venturing to out of the way areas – it would be wise to be inoculated against tetanus.
For further information on health, check the Department of Health's website at: www.dh.gov.uk
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Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette fights familiarity on "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook" (Anti). Ms. LaVette, 64, now rivals Aretha Franklin as her generation's most vital soul singer. She uses every scrape, shout and break in her raspy voice, with a predator's sense of timing, to seize the drama of a song. On "Interpretations," Ms. LaVette and her co-producers jettison the original arrangements. They rip away the old self-satisfaction and reach into the songs to find them grappling for love, for meaning, for consolation and for redemption. Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy" was a jaunty throwaway; Ms. LaVette turns it minor-key and bluesy, wrenching out lines like, "I don't ask for much/All I want is trust." She finds gospel supplication in Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and in the Who's "Love Reign O'er Me"; she finds seething funk in the Animals hit "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and oracular tidings in Led Zeppelin's "All My Love" and Traffic's "No Time to Live." The songwriters may not have known they had it in them; Ms. LaVette surely does.
Tracey Thorn
The matter-of-fact acceptance in Tracey Thorn's voice only brings out the heartache on "Love and Its Opposite" (Merge), a collection of songs about romance and its aftermath among grown-ups. In them, Ms. Thorn watches friends getting divorced, sees a daughter coming of age and recognizes the irretrievable passage of time, allowing herself neither self-pity nor self-delusion. "I'm not a novelty/You know every inch of me," she sings in "Late in the Afternoon." "Please don't begin to doubt me/Or forget what you loved about me." Ms. Thorn's understated melancholy defined Everything but the Girl, the mutable English duo that had its greatest success in the 1990s with the club hit "Missing." But "Love and Its Opposite" largely sets aside electronica. In Ewan Pearson's thoughtfully modest production, the songs are played by small groups, usually just three or four musicians recorded cleanly, as unglossy and intimate as Ms. Thorn's songs. The music does shimmer and swell, with layers of voices and washes of cymbal, in the finale, "Swimming," which envisions a seascape after a hurricane: "It's all over, let's carry on," Ms. Thorn sings. "Right now we are just keeping afloat/But soon we'll be swimming, swimming."
Janelle Monáe
Don't expect the rest of Janelle Monáe's debut album, "The ArchAndroid" (The Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy/Atlantic) to echo the taut, conga-topped funk that drives its irresistible first single, "Tightrope" (featuring her mentor, Big Boi of OutKast) or the neo-new-wave rock behind its second one, "Cold War." This is a concept album, complete with recurring musical themes, that follows through on Ms. Monae's 2008 EP, "Metropolis." It continues the story of a cyborg determined to bring dancing and love back to a repressive world, and of a performer — Ms. Monáe — who has the voice(s) and initiative to put dibs on genres galore. She swings through social-commentary rap, garage-rock, orchestral pop, phase-distorted psychedelia, spy-movie theme and more — all while clinging, more or less, to the plotline. Only Ms. Monáe would enlist Big Boi, the arch glam-rockers Of Montreal and the hard-nosed poet Saul Williams as collaborators on the same project. The 70-minute album sags by the end, and every listener will probably find one must-skip song. But Ms. Monáe gets away with most of her metamorphoses, and the sheer ambition is exhilarating even when she stretches too far.
Matthew Houck, Phosphorescent's rickety-voiced singer and songwriter, lists a lot of things he doesn't care about in "I Don't Care if There's Cursing": "I don't care if you like me/I don't care if you don't." His protestations of apathy grow less convincing with each album. "Here's to Taking It Easy" (Dead Oceans) follows through on Phosphorescent's 2008 album, "To Willie," a collection of Willie Nelson's more obscure and desolate songs that was endorsed by Mr. Nelson himself. Now Mr. Houck is writing his own country waltzes and quasi-honky-tonk songs, including the Nelson-like "Heaven, Sittin' Down," which wishes "these nights of pleasure and these days of pain weren't so tightly bound." He has made his lyrics slightly more straightforward and recorded with his full band, including pedal-steel guitar and vocal-harmony chorales. Yet his voice still ambles all around the beat, and the production is calculatedly bleary, with horns, guitars and piano all entangled, as if two or three bands are playing the same song. Phosphorescent's perpetually woozy aesthetic is intact.
The Joy Formidable
As the frontwoman for the Joy Formidable, Ritzy Bryan is both the calm and the storm on "A Balloon Called Moaning" (Black Bell), this Welsh band's eight-song debut EP. She sings cryptic lyrics that glint with urgency — "All these things about me you never can tell/Make me sleep so badly, visible friend" — in a clear, chipper voice. But at the same time, she's furiously strumming her guitar, making the chords well up and peal around Matt Thomas's drums and Rhydian Dafydd's bass lines; sometimes Mr. Dafydd sings the other side of a lover's quarrel with her. The music regenerates the turbulent haze of 1990s shoegazer rock, but this time around it's less tormented and more anthemic, confident of the pop structures at its core. In "Last Drop," Ms. Bryan repeats, "How come it's all around me?" Because she and the band put it there, frenzied and triumphal.
Chris Pureka
Song titles like "Wrecking Ball," "Shipwreck" and "Landlocked" sum up the tone of Chris Pureka's third full-length album, "How I Learned to See in the Dark" (Sad Rabbit), a testament to bitter longing and the ravages of lost love. In a gaunt voice with an impassioned quaver, she wails, "The damage done — where do we go from here?" in "Broken Clock." Ms. Pureka works the folk circuit, and the measured strumming and stark picking of her acoustic guitar are at the center of most songs, flanked by Appalachian-tinged fiddle and a snare drum played with brushes. But she and her producer — Merrill Garbus, a k a Tune-yards — aren't ascetic. Electric guitar, pedal steel or bowed bass turn up in the background, just enough to widen and deepen the emotional chasms where Ms. Pureka stares down her sorrows.Continue reading the main story


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Check out the first pics of Jenna Dewan-Tatum filming her latest movie 'Setup' (a drama about a group of friends who are catapulted into the middle of a diamond heist that turns deadly) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The movie, which also stars Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, and 50 Cent, took over the corner of Monroe Center Street and Ottawa Avenue to film a three-car crash on December 5, 2010.
After countless rounds of ammunition and several takes of the bad guys yanking Jenna out of a black Ford Crown Victoria, MLive.com reported that the production "capped the day with a shattering finale by blasting out the windows of Madcap Coffee in a blaze of blank bullets".
Dozens of onlookers battled snow, 30-degree temperatures, and a bitter breeze to watch quietly while cameras rolled. You too can watch the action in pics from JustJared.com and MLive.com on today's post in the Channing Tatum Unwrapped Photo Gallery.
Fans can click on the image at the top of this post to check out pics of Jenna filming one of her action-packed scenes. Enjoy!!!
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Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time: On Assignment Challenge (SNTODBD23)! First of all, I would like to thank Lori Ulrich for hosting the last SNT Challenge! Thanks so much, Lori! Now it is time for another assignment/challenge. The assignment is Our Daily Bread Design stamps. It is time to start mailing all those wonderful Christmas cards we have made so far this year. However, I am sure that many of us still need to whip up a few more. I am challenging everyone to make Christmas cards! You can create one or several. You can enter as many times as you like. You can mass produce a style or create a very detailed stand alone card. The choice is yours! If you have any Christmas card creating or mailing tips, please share with us in your blog post. Anything to make the process easier is a good thing! While ODBD stamps are required, others are allowed. We looking forward to seeing what you create using Our Daily Bread Design stamps!
In addition to the challenge, since it is the most wonderful time of the year, we would like to give everyone a chance to win a very special ODBD stamp set. It is called Blessed Christmas! Remember, anyone can win!
This is what you have to do for a chance win this wonderful set.
- Leave a comment on each designer's blog who has a sample in this post(links provided).
- Return here and leave a comment sharing one of your favorite Christmas Traditions.
- That is all there is to it. You do need to hurry, though. The option for winning this set closes Sunday, Dec. 5th. at 6pm EST. I will edit within this post the name of the winner shortly afterwards. You will need to check back and see if it is you so I can get your addy and get this set out to you asap Monday morning!
Here are your random numbers:11 Time: 2010-12-06 01:56:31 UTC
Becky Durham! Contact me gbedwrightatembarqmaildotcom to give me your address and I can get this in the mail tomorrow! Thanks so much to everyone for playing and for your wonderful comments!
Now, on to more samples by the ODBD designers!
This week's Stamping In Time Winner! Thanks so much for everyone who played along. You all created amazing things with the think quilt challenge. It was so hard to choose. This week's SNT Winner is Heidi. Congratulations, Heidi! Heidi combined different Christmas designer papers and created a unique layout and quilt styling look. She even did some hand stitching. Check out her card and and give some lovin' and congrats! Heidi, please email Kelley at email@example.com to claim your $15 stamp gift certificate. You can grab the winner button at the left to sport on you blog if you like! Again, congratulations! Thanks so much for playing Stamping In Time!
Thanks so much to everyone who played along! Never know, the next Stamping In Time WINNER could be you!
- You must use ODBD Stamps! Other stamps allowed, but ODBD images need to be the focus!
- Use keyword codes SNTODBD23 and ODBD when linking to SCS or public gallery.
- Be sure to use the LINK to be eligible for the gift certificate drawing!
- If you use either your blog link or online gallery, please give a link back to this challenge page.


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Another birthday is almost over. Thank goodness! I am always ill-at-ease when it comes to my birthday. I don't really know why. It's not because I realise I'm getting older. Well, that too. But it's at this time that I look back at my life and ask myself whether I have achieved anything so far.
I did find my facebook wall flooded with messages with some coming in as I type this. That indicates that I am not forgotten. Yet, I just don't know why I can't see the point in celebrating my birthday. After all, today wasn't such a great day. I had to stay home because I sustained an injury during a weekend conference on Saturday.
I did enjoy the conference mind you. It was a training session for disabled people to help in conducting disability equality training (DET). You've probably never heard of DET. In a nutshell, it involves raising awareness about the issues pertinent to disability, such as the barriers and negative attitudes that prevent disabled people from participating in society and which exclude us from society.
I met other disabled people and shared ideas and experiences. Apart from being one of the presenters at the conference, I got to be a participant as well. On the whole, the hotel we stayed in had good food and in my accessible room, I managed on my own. Indeed, after making a risk assessment, I decided that I would attend without a personal assistant. Even if I say so myself, I did fairly well and managed to survive the weekend. The fact I was in my own country helped me in opting for a PA-free conference.
What about the accident? I have to mention that inasmuch as our hotel was great, it had terrible lighting conditions. And long corridors... I was making my way to my room for an afternoon rest and, yes, I took a wrong turn left. How was I to know there was a 20cm step there? In a matter of seconds, me and my electric wheelchair crashed on to the hard floor. That changed my good relationship with gravity. I screamed and shrieked until assistance came to help me.
I am lucky in a way. I was also thrown off my electric wheelchair. That sounds like bad luck. But, believe me, if that heavy thing had fallen over me, I would probably be in hospital right now - or worse! True, I felt excruciating pain in my knees and elbows. I banged my head which confirms that I have a hard head. I had some bleeding too. It was a traumatic experience I admit that. I realised that this wasn't good considering I was just recovering from hospital.
Thankfully, I managed to wash, dress and prepare myself for Sunday. Admittedly, I was on a diet of Panadol that day. That meant I was more tired than usual with my body temperature fluctuating. Today, it's my birthday and I'm still in a little pain. However, my body appears to be reacting well to the medication. I think I need to stay at home for another day.
I think getting all that out of the system changed my gloomy mood. There are a few hours left... I need to start the celebrations!
PS: In spite of all the tempting offers, I regret that I must refuse to become a stunt man for your next movie blockbuster.


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Written by: Sheena Jeffers for Ballet Shoes & Bobby Pins
My uncle recently sent me an e-mail with this quote: "The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do." - Jim Fannin
After I walked across that graduation stage and accepted those two degrees I had worked oh-so-very hard for, I had this cocky confidence and a head full of ideas of exactly what my twenties were supposed to look like. I had already secured a great-paying job (for a recent graduate), and I had already planned on purchasing my first new car. I was 22-year-old, armed with two degrees, a solid GPA and job experience! This was going to be great.
Then four years went by. And I learned so much. And I realized to be a champion, I had a lot to learn, and I had many battles to win before I could be truly successful.
1. Give up your Coulda-Woulda-Shouldas. Everything you feel like you regret (even just a little bit), let that go. You can't let shame hold you back from creating a beautiful and powerful future. Everything you experienced were valuable lessons, and they shaped you into who you are right now. But here's the thing about life... with every new minute and day, you get a second chance. You get a chance to re-write the story.
2. Give up on those negative voices in your head. Turn them off, completely. You don't need them. I was once told that sometimes all it takes is 20 seconds of insane courage to change your entire life's track. If you can't trust yourself, if you can't believe in yourself, who will? Shut those voices down, before they shut you down. Don't allow those voices to lead you into black holes. "The shell must break before the bird can fly."
Source: nikilynn
3. Give up your "idea" of what your twenties are supposed to look like. Sure, I signed a lease for a fancy-schmancy apartment where I lived by myself in all of my fabulosity! Sure, I bought a new car and new clothes and life insurance. Eventually, that makes you pretty poor. I had to give up the image of "young twenties lifestyle" that was sold to me in movies and media. I didn't renew my fancy new lease, and I moved back home in order to become debt free and save tons of money and put myself ahead of the curve. I finally realize I didn't want my twenties to be fake and materialistic. I wanted it to have meaning, and to me that meant growing as an individual and placing myself on solid financial ground. Because, yeah, I'm young, but that didn't mean I had to be stupid and make poor life decisions.
4. Give up comparing your life to all of your other friends. Our lives are not even slightly the same. Yes, we all grew up in the same generation (high-speed Internet, cell phones, slap bracelets and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). But our marketable skills are different, our salaries, our goals, our visions, our desires are all very different. The twenties is when our lives start to split off and go on individual paths. Don't let someone else's path discourage you from yours. Each path comes with different timetables and different lessons to learn.
5. Give up your stubbornness. This one was hard for me. But at some point, I had to admit that people older than me were... well, wiser than me. I started to actually HEED the advice given to me, because I actually started to see it not as just advice but as life warnings. I started to see that people who loved me were warning me from making huge financial, job-related, life-related mistakes (mistakes that they lived through, and may still be paying the consequences for). I started to really absorb their experiences and I looked out for the red flags they warned me about and I (gasp) witnessed my life changing for the better.
6. Give up your obsessive need for control. This does not mean be disorganized and accept whatever happens, no. Still be organized, still be prepared, still have goals and a focused plan on how to get there, but accept that some things are beyond your control. Things will go wrong (and also go right, maybe just in a different "right" than you envisioned). You'll be thrown curve balls and you'll be sent over mountains and through deep, deep valleys. Take these all as experiences and don't even worry about labeling them as "good" or "bad." That is just you trying to control it. Instead, accept it as your life and learn from it.
7. Give up extreme emotions. You must learn to respond instead of react. You are responsible for (and will have to deal with the consequences of your actions) no matter what gets your blood boiling. Let go of those strong, sweeping emotions that push us into rash decisions and harmful lash outs. Breathe, let the moment pass, and then think on it. Many times we don't think, we just feel. "I feel like you are doing this..." or "I feel like you left me out" or "I feel like this is the wrong time." Sometimes, try (just for a minute) to stop feeling and start thinking. I am not suggesting you ignore your feelings, I'm just suggesting you use your thoughts as an equally powerful decision-making tool.
8. Give up your anger. Whatever bitterness you have... let that fade away. Bitterness will steal your sweetness and your motivation to be successful. You don't want to end up there. It's miserable. Anger also shifts your focus from everything positive, creative, lovely and good to "revenge-y things." Not a healthy place to reside. Figure out what you need to do: Forgive, Breathe, Talk, Write. And then do it. Do whatever you need to do to not harbor such a destructive toxin.
9. Give up your anxieties. If something makes you nervous, face it. If something scares you, learn about it. Anxiety causes our body physical reactions, which end up making us tired and groggy. Nobody can take on the world feeling like they're carrying around weights. Get rid of it. Figure out the source and then, give it up, let them go. Know yourself so well, that if the anxiety tries to come back (which it will) you know how to be stronger.
10. Give up bad people. They may not be "bad" people, but they may be bad for you, or it may be a bad time. Walk away from them. Only hold those in your life who will lift you up to new levels; those who will tell you the truth; those who will help you grow and learn from mistakes and successes. Bad people can be corrosive to a life of someone full of good intentions. You may not even realize it until you are left feeling empty and weak, but once you know it -- walk away. Find the good, and stay there.
Source: Thomas Saliot
Giving up isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. It doesn't matter what or who or when you give something up... it's difficult and it hurts and it's uncomfortable. But that is growing up, and that is doing what's best for you.
I still work on giving up those things listed above, each and every day. But ever since I have... my life has been more clear and less heavy than its ever been. I owe so many thanks to the people who have helped me come to these conclusions, and supported me as I learned the lessons the hard way.
Giving up so much negative has made room in my life for an overwhelming about of good. And for that, I'm forever thankful.
Written by: Sheena Jeffers for Ballet Shoes & Bobby Pins


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Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes About NightmaresQuotes about: Nightmares
Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not? (Kyrian) Because I am not some scared little Daimon to run cringing from you. I am your worst nightmare. (Desiderius) Must you resort to cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, couldn't you think of anything more original than that B-movie dialogue staple? (Kyrian)
Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You're not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)
You're not the only one who's loyal and decent, Ture. It's why I won't betray Darling. He wouldn't betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They're there to stand with you to the end. I don't just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska


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Before we sell a product, we first need to learn something about the people who we are selling to. At the same time, we need to focus on our strengths.
Here, I'm going to try to categorize the Perl market, so that we can decide which one to focus on, and work on it.
One way to categorize is -
- Existing users
- New users
We want both to use Perl for new projects. And we want existing users to stay with Perl on their current projects.
- Perl project maintainers
- Job creators / Managers / Decision makers on new projects
- Job seekers / Programmers / Testers
- Students
- Open Source project creators / maintainers
- Scientists
- System Administrators
- Computer Science teachers
Each of these markets has different requirements, and we need to focus on different things while selling to each of them.
For a manager in a company to seriously consider a language, he must know that he will be able to find people with experience in that language, or who can pick up the language and become productive in it quickly. If we target students, they would include Perl in their resume right in the beginning of their careers and not delete it for many years.
Programmers / Testers
Most programmers would stick to the language which their work needs them to use. And it would be very difficult to convince them to learn a new language. So, students are our best bet.
In companies, Perl is already used for testing. A look at the job ads show that though Perl developer jobs are few, there are a lot of openings for Perl testers.
We need to do our best to make the Perl testing team one of the most productive and efficient teams in the company.
A student may be interested in
- Doing what everyone else is doing (peer pressure)
- Getting a good job
- Impressing her professor
- Getting that class project done on time
- Learning new concepts
- Easily able to get books and reference material, preferably for and online
- Getting help easily
If you can help with all of this, you will attract new students to Perl
But, as a person the student may be interested in other things like, say, getting a date.
Now, if Perl can help the student do that, you can guarantee that they will be devoted to Perl!


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My sick heart and my sick soul I'd gladly fasten in a bag and drop into an ocean-hole to float in darkness as a rag. Would it learn to make its light? Maybe in a million years. A million years of constant night in which it can't stop its fears flaring their nightmare tentacles and bioluminescent eyes as cold
Michael Ryan
In 1946, Michael Ryan was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame, an MA from Claremont Graduate University, and both an MFA and PhD from the University of Iowa. While studying at Iowa, he was the Poetry Editor of The Iowa Review.
Ryan's poetry manuscript, Threats Instead of Trees (1974), was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and was a finalist that year for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, In Winter (1981), was a National Poetry Series selection. Since then, Ryan has published two other collections of poetry, God Hunger (1989), which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), which received the 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
About Ryan's work, the critic William H. Pritchard said in The Nation: "Unlike too many poets who tumble into print at the first twitch of feeling, Ryan takes time to listen to himself, and such listening contributes immeasurably to the subtlety of his address to the reader. [He] reminds us on every page that poems can be about lives, and about them in ways most urgent and delicate."
Ryan is also the author of an autobiography, Secret Life (Pantheon Books, 1995), which was highly acclaimed and became a New York Times Notable Book. He has also written a memoir, Baby B (Graywolf Press, 2004), excerpted in The New Yorker, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing, A Difficult Grace (University of Georgia Press, 2000).
"Ryan shows himself to be a superior formalist—" the poet David Baker said in The Kenyon Review, "that is, subtle, effective, various—for whom formality is less a quality to flaunt than a necessary means of articulation and control, whose best work is severe and taut, and whose gift is to be able to turn the apparently personal into the public and important."
Ryan's honors include a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, and the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing since 1990.
He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.


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Hello Reader,
Today, I am sharing the short version of my story of what brought me to this blog. I hope it's a journey some of you can relate to in your own ways.
Ironically, some monumental positive change in people's lives can start with a very negative catalyst.
Several years ago (2009), my life hit the "restart" button after a very personally challenging 6-months. I never would have believed you in the middle of it, if you told me, it would be one of a few things that I am most thankful for.
I was living in Boston, Massachusetts with my husband and two young kids, feeling pretty insignificant and invisible as an individual. I had gained about 30 pounds just before and during our move to the North East from Carolina. I had been married for almost 10-years and had been a stay at home mom for more than half that time. I was depressed but I wasn't aware of that, at the time. My life for several years prior had been all about caring for small kiddos and dealing with some childhood illness (including high BMI), buying and fixing up a home, coping with a traveling husband, normal Mom-of-Two stuff that before you know it, has slowly and almost unnoticeably, changed you so fundamentally that you one day realize, you forgot to reinvent yourself. And now, you don't know who you are.
When suddenly, things fell apart in my marriage and I found myself struggling to figure out where it all went wrong…
One of the darkest times in my life began with me realizing I was a little broken. Then ensued a mission of reading all the self-help books I could get my hands on, obsessively, of course. I read about depression, gratitude and positive energy, just to name a few in the short space of time we have here… One of the things I realized during this phase of self discovery is the 30-pound weight gain was a symptom of my unhappiness, not the cause of it. Duh. The food was, simply put, trying to fill a hole.
I began to see a professional for talk therapy.
During the next few months, the pounds melted off of me, in the most unhealthy of ways. I was not eating. At all. I was a disaster on the insides and when I would eat, I didn't feel well. So, I didn't. And I began to run. I ran the anger off, I ran the stresses of each day off, I ran the hurt and pain of realizing I was contributing to my unhappiness off. It was how I began a love affair with running, a sport I had been trying for years, unsuccessfully. ~more about the running sometime in the future.
After the worst of this was over, things began to change. I started to treat myself the way I should have been treating myself all along. AND, I began to really put myself first, sometimes and guess what? It's not selfish. Contrary to what I thought. All moms out there can relate to the phenomenon of "taking care of everyone else first". I also had this ridiculous vision of what a mom should be, that really wasn't me, at all (this girl was too perfect). But what it was, was exhausting. I had to call in a search and rescue to find myself.
After weight loss, my body should have looked better, I thought. But, since we're being totally honest here, it really looked unhealthy. Devastating. And I didn't even lose that much weight, but I didn't lose it in a healthy way. My body was tired, mostly.
I decided to try to change that. I began to really pay attention to what I was eating and learning about the foods and what they really did for me. Nutritional value is what drove what I decided to put into my body. I began a rigorous routine of strength training to tone my unhealthy body. I began changing the way I fed my kids, much to their dismay. I stood my ground. We started new habits, like no sugar breakfast and began to turn the TV off. I stopped buying processed foods and tossed anything with high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils or artificial sweeteners. Slowly but surely, our diets changed. Eventually, we were eating the way I believe you should:
at least 80% of whole, nutritious, natural, vitamin filled foods
less than 20% processed, sugary, animal, dairy, fatty or no value/empty calorie foods (basically, whatever you wish) or alcoholic beverages
And that, my readers, is how I eat, today and it's what keeps my body ready to do … anything. The funny thing now, is processed foods taste terrible to me. And I'm glad since it's such an easy thing to resist, even for me, a girl raised in the 70's and 80's when TV Dinners and Pop Tarts were abound.
In the present, I eat right (80%) and have inspired my husband (yes, it's the same one) to do the same. I also try my best to maintain my exercise regimen. I am consistently more happy, than ever before. I credit both of those factors.
This blog is my way of sharing with the world, what I know and learn, along the way. Thanks for visiting.


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The Trevor's Star Terminus was the entry point of the Manticore Wormhole Junction in the Trevor's Star System.
It was the second terminus to be discovered during the survey of the junction. (Companion)
In 1900 PD, the terminus was the object of concern for the People's Republic of Haven because the Star Kingdom of Manticore could send its Navy to a system deep in Havenite space. (HH1)


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Seeing if the RIDES protocol is near suited for masking.
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This protocol requires Firmware 1.20 of greater
This protocol measures a series of factors that allow us to estimate: ATP synthase conductivity, pmf parameters through DIRK(ECS) The rate of turnover of the cytochrome b6f complex through DIRKP(700) Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters Phi2, NPQ(t), PhiNPQ, PhiNO, qL(t) Saturation pulse e...
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My 14 year old has her first boyfriend. I do not want to overreact or interfere but how can I make sure she is 'safe'?
I know this can be a worrying thing and as I dont know your daughter, i.e. what her friends are like, her hobbies and if she is a mature or young 14 wear old, it is hard to say. But I would just let her know that you know what its like to be a 14 wear old with a first boyfriend and that you are there. If you allow him to come into the home you can also keep an eye on them which will help to ease your worries without her thinking you dont trust her. I hope this helps because all teenagers are not the same. Good luck!
Answered by: Corrance, a mum of 2 teenagers, each of them wonderful! Lives in the UK
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referees under the spotlight
The dust has only settled after the Tyrone game and it's time again to put our Ulster crown up for grabs once again.
Armagh have been waiting in the shadows ever since the draw was made. It's been a while since Armagh were Kings of Ulster and their patience must be running out. Contrary to what many might believe Kieran McGeeney and the Armagh players will have been looking forward to this game. They came very close in last year's quarter-final in Croke Park. Indeed it was only a last minute point from Paddy Mc Brearty that got us over the line.
They will have taken great heart from running us so close and they will have gained a lot of experience from the encounter. Most everyone will realise by now that this will not be one for the purists. There will be very little room for the gifted players to show off their wares. Llike the Tyrone game it will all be about what team take their chances and who can limit their mistakes.
Donegal have the experience and their players have been through this on many occasions in the last few years so you would figure there shouldn't be much of a problem but that's not the way sport works especially Gaelic football.
Kieran Mc Geeney waited a long time to get his hands on the Armagh job,.His reputation was damaged a bit when his time with Kildare was up. As a player and a captain he led from the front and didn't accept second best as an option; expect his players to be on the same wavelength come Sunday afternoon.
Rory Gallagher and the Donegal players will realise that this is one of those games where they're expected to win and if they're to give the likes of Kerry and Dublin a run for their money this year they have to overcome this sort of challenge. We know where Donegal's strengths are. We know how they will set up. We know they will not panic even when things might not be going as well as they might want and we know that when they get their chance there is no better team in Ulster to take advantage, but the big question is have Armagh figured out a way to stop them. Have they got what Tyrone didn't have and have they the wherewithal to do it.
In last year's quarter-final match referee Joe McQuillian came in for a lot of criticism from the Armagh supporters. To be fair to the Armagh players or management they didn't go down that road but watching the game last week you could understand where that frustration came from.
David Coldrick will be under the same pressure next Sunday especially after the Derry-Down game where match referee Eddie Kinsella was criticised by BBC analysts Oisin McConville and Marty Clarke as being unable to keep up with the play and for his handling of the red card for Down's wing half back Conall Mc Govern.
I have to say I enjoyed the comments of the two lads as they were extremely honest in their criticisms of every aspect of the game and just didn't have a go at the players for a change. Indeed the comments on the fitness of the referee are not new. In the last ten years or so the fitness and conditioning of players has surpassed anything that has gone before. Indeed it is acknowledged that your intercounty hurler or football is now as fit as any professional team player.
Teams have fitness and conditioning coaches. Their fitness levels are checked on a weekly basis; their bloods and dehydration levels are checked constantly; they are at a completely different level yet we still expect one man to control the game.
I know the answer to the question I am about to pose but do you think the referees or match officials are given the same opportunities to enhance their physical fitness. Of course not; it would not be feasible but I would have to agree after watching the game last Sunday he struggled.
It's easy for most to see there is a problem but we will get the same usual mantra from the referees' board that every referee is assessed on their performance and their fitness levels but who does the assessing? What level of fitness do you need to keep up with the demands of the modern game and will they ever admit that there is a problem?
The other talking point from last Sunday was the sending off. It was clear from the television replay that it was never a red card. The umpire got it wrong and Down supporters, players and manager could suggest that his call cost them the game. They could be right but it will be put down to an error of judgement and Down will just have to get on with it.
What happens if that call was made in an All-Ireland final or semi-final? On how many occasions do they see the whole incident and not just the tail end? If umpires are told to report what goes on you would wonder what the hell the umpires were doing in Ballybofey for the Tyrone game.
I have no doubt that as the summer goes on more mistakes will happen; we will be told it's just part and parcel of the game and those involved are doing their best, but very little will change.


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From John Adams to Alexander Wedderburn, 25 April 1774
To Alexander Wedderburn
To Mr. Alexander Wedderburne.
Your Defence of Messrs. Hutchinson and Oliver before the Lords Committee of his Majestys privy Council for Plantation affairs, against the Address of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay, has arrived in Boston,: and as it is very curious, interesting and extraordinary, you will excuse a fair Discussion of its Merits, before the Trybunal of the Public.
Whatever may be your real Character, in private or in public Life, (which however is better known in America than you imagine) you shall be treated, with all that Respect, which is due, to his Majestys Solicitor General.
"The Question is, you say of no less Magnitude, than whether the Crown shall ever have it in its Power to employ a faithfull and Steady Servant in the Administration of a Colony": But this is, begging the Question Mr. Wedderburn. The Question is whether Mr. Hutchinson is a faithfull and Steady Servant of the Crown. If he is let him be Supported, but if he is not the Petition of the Massachusetts Assembly ought to have been granted.
"In the Appointment of Mr. Hutchinson," you say his Majestys Choice followed the Wishes of his People! Do you mean, the good People in England Mr. Wedderburn? These for want of true Intelligence, are not competent Judges. Can you mean the People of the Province? If you do, I Sincerely pity you! You must have been deceived by false Informations; you must have been ignorant, to an unpardonable Degree of a Country and of Characters, about which you, dogmatise with so much Confidence.
At the Time, when Mr. Hutchinson was appointed to this Government, he was the Object of the political Hatred of the Body of this People. For this I appeal to every Thing, which can be an Indication of their Sentiments. If We look into the Pamphlets which have been written, in this Province, for these last Ten Years, We shall find him to be the principal Object of Jealousy and Aversion. If We look into the Boston Gazette, which even Mr. Oliver allows to be the oracle of the People and a sure Indication of their Temper, We find that Mr. Hutchinson has been, more remarkably the Object of their Aversion, and Jealousy than any other Man.
If We turn over the Records of the general Assembly, We find the House of Representatives, the most infallible Proof of the sense of this People, engaged for this whole Period, in an uninterrupted Opposition to him, his Views, Designs and Measures. In 1764 his Friends, exerted their Utmost Address and Influence and in Repeated Attempts to get him, appointed Agent for the Province, at the Court of Great Britain. But every attempt of this Kind was defeated, by the Popular Members of the House, though they had a most formidable Combination of that Gentlemans Family Connections, and all the Influence of the Prerogative, and the then Governor Bernards Friends to contend with.2 In 1766, his Character ran so low, with the People, that he was disgracefully discarded from the Council, together with the wholly united Phalanx of his Friends—and neither he nor they have been able to procure an Election Since that Time, tho repeated Attempts have been made in their favour.3 In the same Year or the next, upon his assuming a seat at the Board as Lt Governor, tho without claiming a Voice, Such was the Jealousy of his Ambition, and such the opinion of his Guile and Artifice, his Dissimulation and Hypocrisy, his falshood and fraud, that the People universally and their Representatives took the Alarm, and by a determined and Spirited opposition to him, defeated him in that attempt ascribing it to a "Lust of Power,"4 which those who know best Supposed to be his predominant Passion.
After, the Departure of Sir Francis Bernard, Mr. Hutchinson assumed the Chair as Lt Governor, And every session of the general Court, nay almost every day of every session exhibited Proofs, of the aversion of the People and their Representatives to him, he not being able with all his Advantages, his Extensive Connections, his numerous personal Votaries who were attached to him because they had been promoted by him, and all his Prerogatives, to carry a Single Point of Consequence in the assembly.5
Let your Informers blush then, for their Disregard to Truth, who have led you to expose your Character, to the World and to Posterity, by saying, that the Choice of Mr. Hutchinson followed the Wishes of the People. If you, should take the Pains, to learn the true History of this Province you will certainly retract an Assertion, so entirely repugnant to Truth.
I will not descend into more Particulars to shew aversion of this People to Mr. Hutchinson, which has been growing for Ten years past, unless I should be further called upon to do it. If I am I will, and I will undertake to prove, more of this Kind, than Mr Wedderburn can do, relative to a Strafford and a Laud, who fell Bloody Victims, to the Hatred of the People.
I propose to do my self the Honour to accompany the solicitor General through his whole Argument, and to examine the Choicest flowers of his Rhetoric. But I shall take, my own Time, and follow my own Humour in it.6
A Disciple of Dr. Franklin
Dft (Adams Papers); an accompanying sheet docketed by CFA: "Original Draught of a Newspaper Article upon the examination of Dr Franklin before the Committee of the Privy Council On Plantation affairs. 29 January 1774."
1. On 19 April a vessel from England brought Boston the news of Benjamin Franklin's ordeal at the hands of Alexander Wedderburn (1733–1805) before the Privy Council's Committee on Plantation Affairs the preceding January (Boston Post-Boy, 25 April). In August 1773, as agent for the Massachusetts House, Franklin presented that body's Address to the King, seeking the removal of Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver as governor and lieutenant governor. Shortly after the Address was referred to the Privy Council in December, Franklin was forced to admit publicly that he was "the person who obtained and transmitted to Boston the letters" written to Thomas Whately by Hutchinson and Oliver, the very letters which had prompted the House to demand the dismissal of those officials (Franklin to the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 25 Dec. 1773; [Israel Mauduit], Franklin before the Privy Council, White Hall Chapel, London, 1774 . . . , Phila., 1860, p. 67–73). At the Privy Council committee's final hearing on the Address, 29 Jan., Solicitor General Wedderburn acted as counsel for Hutchinson's and Oliver's agent Israel Mauduit. Wedderburn's hour-long speech to the committee was less a defense of Hutchinson and Oliver than a denunciation of Franklin's role in obtaining the Whately letters and transmitting them to Boston. (For a vivid description of Franklin's experience in the Privy Council chambers in the "Cockpit," see Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, N.Y., 1938, p. 467–476.)
Not surprisingly, the committee voted later that day that the Massachusetts Address was "groundless, vexatious, and scandalous, and calculated only for the seditious purposes of keeping up a spirit of clamor and discontent in the said province" ([Mauduit], Franklin before the Privy Council, p. 120). The next day Franklin was notified that he had been dismissed as Deputy Postmaster General (Van Doren, Franklin, p. 476), and on 7 Feb. the King, on advice of the Privy Council, accepted the recommendation of the Committee on Plantation Affairs and dismissed the Address of the Massachusetts House ([Mauduit], Franklin before the Privy Council, p. 116–121).
The first report of the incident printed in Boston appeared in the Massachusetts Gazette description begins Massachusetts Gazette: and the Boston Weekly News-Letter. description ends , 21 April. Four days later, the Boston Gazette and the Boston Post-Boy carried similar accounts of the affair, along with notices that the proceedings of the Privy Council committee and the "Substance" of Wedderburn's speech would be available the next day, 26 April, at the offices of Mills & Hicks, the Post-Boy's proprietors. JA's use of direct quotations from Wedderburn's speech in this unpublished newspaper essay indicates that he drafted the article after seeing the Mills & Hicks publication of 26 April, "Proceedings of his Majesty's PRIVY-COUNCIL on the Address of the ASSEMBLY of Massachusetts-Bay . . . with the Substance of Mr. Wedderburn's Speech relative to said Address" (MHi:Broadside Coll.).
2. In January 1764 the General Court chose Hutchinson as a special agent to present the province's objections to the Sugar Act in London. Hutchinson asked to be excused from this duty, although he apparently expected the legislature to postpone action on his request until he could determine whether his private affairs would allow him to leave the colony. Instead, his opponents in the House mobilized their forces and voted to excuse him from the agency. The Council did not concur in this vote, but the lower chamber's action effectively destroyed Hutchinson's hopes for the post (Hutchinson, Massachusetts Bay, ed. Mayo description begins Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, ed. Lawrence Shaw Mayo, Cambridge, 1936; 3 vols. description ends , 3:76–77; Malcolm Freiberg, Prelude to Purgatory: Thomas Hutchinson in Provincial Massachusetts Politics, 1760–1770, Brown Univ. doctoral dissertation, 1950, p. 59–63).
3. The removal of Hutchinson and the other chief executive officials from the Council in 1766 had important effects upon the structure of Massachusetts politics for the rest of the pre-revolutionary era; see Francis G. Walett, "The Massachusetts Council, 1766–1774: The Transformation of a Conservative Institution," WMQ description begins William and Mary Quarterly. description ends , 3d ser., 6:605–627 (Oct. 1949). For Hutchinson's account of the affair, see his Massachusetts Bay, ed. Mayo description begins Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, ed. Lawrence Shaw Mayo, Cambridge, 1936; 3 vols. description ends , 3:107–113.
4. Hutchinson's attempt to sit with the Council while lieutenant governor was so described by the House in its reply to Gov. Bernard's message at the opening of the General Court session, Jan. 1767. The representatives remarked that even had Hutchinson acted at Bernard's request, "the happiest means of supporting the authority of the Government or maintaining the honor of the province were not consulted therein: But if he came in and took a seat of his own motion . . . it affords a new and additional instance of ambition and a lust of power, to what we have heretofore observed" (Mass., House Jour. description begins Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715–], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919–. (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) description ends , 1766–1767, p. 233).
5. For Hutchinson's difficulties with the General Court in its first session after he had become acting governor, see Editorial Note, JA's Service in the House, 7 June 1770–16 April 1771, above.
6. This essay was not published nor, so far as is known, did JA draft any successor pieces. While Boston's immediate reaction to the Franklin-Wedderburn affair was one of deep indignation, that cause was soon overshadowed by a more important one. On 2 May the Boston Gazette reprinted the pro-Franklin essays of "A Bostonian" from the London press in February; on 5 May the Massachusetts Spy published an anonymous letter to Wedderburn. The last extensive press notice given in Boston to the incident came on 9 May, when the Gazette offered an additional piece by "A Bostonian" and an anonymous defense of the publication of the Whately letters. The next day, Tuesday, May 10, the ship Harmony arrived from London with "the Severest Act ever was Penned against the Town of Boston" (MHi:John Rowe Diary). The news of the Boston Port Act and, in coming weeks, of the other Intolerable Acts, left the colonists of Massachusetts little time to ponder the sufferings of their agent in London.


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From Case Western Reserve University Athletics
Senior rightfielder Ashley Parello (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) hit a two-run home run in the third inning and drove in four runs to lead the Case Western Reserve University softball team to a 14-9 win over Rhodes College to remain undefeated. Parello finished 4-for-5 with two runs scored.
The Spartans advance to 3-0, while Rhodes dropped to 1-10.
The Spartans, who pounded out 18 hits, scored five times in the first inning. Sophomore pitcher Annie Wennerberg (Avon Lake, Ohio/Avon Lake) and senior outfielder Gena Roberts (Miami, Fla./Palmer-Trinity) each finished with three hits, inclusing two hits. Wennerberg scored three times and drove in a pair of runs on a RBI double in the third inning and a solo home run in the seventh inning.
The Spartans were set to play a second game this afternoon against Rhodes, but the game was cancelled due to inclement weather.


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After some trial and error, we came to this recipe for the "So-called Banana ice cream".
This is the strawberry-banana variation. So my hubs enjoyed this so much, that he went out and purchased more bananas to try new flavors. haha
- 4 bananas (2 sliced and frozen, 2 sliced but NOT frozen)
- 2-4 ounces of your "flavor" (see below)
Flavors variations:
- strawberry jam
- peanut butter (some honey with the peanut butter probably is a lot better tasting than straight up pb & bananas)
- chocolate syrup
- mangoes (we used the frozen mangoes, and if you use this one, use 8 ounces of frozen mangoes)
- caramel
- honey
Slice up 2 bananas, then stick them in the freezer. After about an hour or so, slice up 2 more bananas and take the frozen ones out of the freezer. Throw all of the bananas (frozen and not frozen) into the blender. Add your "flavor" to the blender mixer and mix till consistency of a think milkshake. Then freeze for another 1-2 hours (or longer). Now you have the "So-called Banana ice cream."
So far my favorite was the banana/mango- as it was more of a sorbet than an ice cream. Most of these are more of that way, and not really "creamy" like most ice creams are, since there is no real milk involved. However this is a GREAT alternative to ice cream for those who are lactose or who are on Weight Watchers (bananas are zero points all!).
Have a happy day all!


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Town Manager John Klimm will keep that title until 2015.
Manager, finance director take no pay increase for 2010Town Manager John Klimm will keep that title until 2015. At the end of the Jan. 22 town council meeting, five-year contract extensions for Klimm and Finance Director Mark Milne were approved. The council went into executive session and returned with orders approving both contracts. The council made a point to include in its approval that neither Klimm nor Milne would get cost-of-living pay adjustments for 2010 at their request. Klimm was hired as Barnstable Town Manager in fall 1999. His last contract extension came in 2005. Milne was hired in fall 1997. "I'm deeply honored to have received the extension," Klimm said this week. "These are very challenging times, and I look forward to being a part of that." The extension was granted as the town council wrapped up the first formal evaluation of Klimm since 2005. Klimm provided a copy of the evaluation's compilation, which has yet to be released from executive session by the council, to the Patriot. He said the intention was to make the summary report available to the public. The Patriot is pursuing other documents related to the evaluation through public records requests. The unattributed comments in the compilation cover the 13 areas of performance councilors were asked to assess. The selections are intended to show the range of praise and criticism of the manager's performance. The overall evaluation, based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest, was 4.16. Individual assessment areas ranged from a low of 3.72 for "Supervision," to a high of 4.36 for "Productivity." The last evaluation of Klimm was completed in 2005 under Town Council President Gary Brown. That was also the year of the last five-year contract extension for the manager. According to his contract and the town charter, Klimm is supposed to be reviewed annually. Klimm said he thought the process and relationship between the council and manager "was harmed" by the gap in time between evaluations. "Because it really is a helpful tool," he said. He said that the delay in comments that "could and need to be made" in that relationship should happen in a more timely fashion." He said the comments, both supportive and not, are helpful in assessing his performance. "Any commentary can be valuable," he said, adding that there wasn't anything that took him entirely by surprise. "It really truly is a very helpful exercise," Klimm said. Klimm said that he expects to go back to the town council with comments from the evaluation to develop goals and objectives for him in the coming year. He also said that he's pleased the evaluation is forcing that to happen, which has not occurred in recent years.


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The frame itself measures 7 inches and has a full one gigabyte of internal storage capacity. The frame can store up to 2,000 photos and features auto-resizing to make all of your photos fit. It has 800 x 480 WVGA resolution and supports JPEG and RAW (SRF, SR2, ARW) image file formats. To get your photos onto the frame, just plug the frame into your USB port on your computer. Like most photo frames like this it has various playback options and a remote control. The frame will be out this October and will cost you $150.
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The USB connectivity DON'T WORK.
Sometimes the device was detected. All of the rare detection the device was not recognized as a mass storage device, i.e. there was NO ACCESS to the memory via USB.
I've tried with several cables, all long less than 3m.
I've tried in several computers (2 PCs, one Ubuntu and a MAC mini)
I've tried different orders for plugging cables and turning on and off, including the steps from the manual.


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With his work hours cut and an investment portfolio in the tank, Arnold Zimmerman is considering the unthinkable: ditching his blazing-fast cable Internet service and going back to dial-up.
"I didn't think I would ever go back," said Zimmerman, 66, of Davenport, Fla. "I had to wait to get online. It was terrible. But with this economy, you got to look to cut wherever you can."
You remember dial-up, don't you? It's the beep, crackle, pop method of sending e-mail and browsing the Web that was pretty much the only option in the early days of the Internet.
In today's media-rich world of social networking, online videos and music, going from high-speed to dial-up is like switching from a Maserati to a horse and buggy. But some people say the hundreds of dollars they would save might just be enough to make them go back, especially for those who have access to high-speed Internet at work.
Although there's no hard and fast data about how many people are switching from high-speed to dial-up, there are signs that it is becoming an option for cost-conscious customers.
United Online, which owns dial-up providers NetZero and Juno, recently launched an advertising campaign in which CEO Mark Goldston says the average family can save $300 a year by switching to NetZero's $9.95-a-month dial-up Internet service.
The company reported that during the fourth quarter of last year, the percentage of customers dropping its services hit an all-time low at just 4.3 percent.
"This is not the iPod crowd we're talking about," Goldston said. "It's the e-mailing group and people doing casual surfing around the Internet. I am not for a minute suggesting that dial-up is better than broadband, but when it really comes down to it, the real question is: How powerful is your need to save money?"
Goldston said interest in dial-up is the highest it has been since its heyday about 10 years ago. He likened switching to dial-up to buying generic brands or putting regular gas in a car that calls for premium only.
Shortly after NetZero started running ads, dial-up competitor PeoplePC - owned by EarthLink - announced a dial-up plan at $7.95 a month. Kevin Brand, senior vice president of product management, said EarthLink has seen an increase in dial-up customers. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 57 percent of Americans have broadband at home, while 9 percent have dial-up.
But officials at these companies said that although there is renewed interest in dial-up, it's still not a robust, growing segment of the Internet-service business.
Jeff Kagan, a telecommunications analyst in Atlanta, said there isn't a mad rush of people from high-speed to dial-up. When people look to cut costs, they typically slow their Internet speed or switch from cable to DSL.
Dial-up Internet provides a connection of 56 kilobits per second, while broadband Internet (DSL or cable) typically ranges from 768 kilobits per second to 15 megabits per second. That's about 15 to more than 270 times faster than dial-up.
Plus, using the Internet at home has become so ingrained in people's lives that many see high-speed as a necessity.
"Right now, it is the beginning of a trend toward dial-up to save money for a segment of the users," Kagan said. "That trend will continue to grow as long as the economy is screwed up. Once the economy gets repaired, that will drop off quickly because high-speed Internet will be the first thing they add back."
But for many people looking to save money, going back to dial-up won't ever make sense.
Irene Walther, 60, of Orlando was laid off in July from her job as an administrative assistant. She switched from dial-up to high-speed Internet about a year ago and said she won't go back because it's so slow.
"My nephew would send pictures of the baby, and it would take an hour or an hour and a half to download my e-mail," Walther said.
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Consumers with one of these drain covers in their pool or spa, and builders, installers or service companies who have installed any of these drain covers should refer to the manufacturer websites for recall information. Click here for the manufacturer websites.
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No long post tonight. Side hustle is popping. I've got four blog posts to write about infertility and I'm scared and nervous. EEeeeeeee!!!!!
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