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Los Alamos Monitor
2 April 2008
Spotlight on Los Alamos: She's right on schedule – her own schedule,
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By Katy Korkos
Many women follow a path from high school to college, marriage in their
20s, a career and then retirement in their 60s, sometimes paired with
a withdrawal from public life. Not so for Gloria Cordova, longtime Los
Alamos resident, who has charted her own path, and followed many of
the same rites of passage, only in different decades.
Her mother, Cora, was a strong believer in the power of education, perhaps
all the more because she had to leave school in the 10th grade to help
raise her siblings after her mother died.
Cora learned to play the piano from watching her daughters at their
lessons, and learned along with them in academic lessons as well.
"Cora's Kitchen Table" was the informal neighborhood school, and eventually
became the title of a scholarship established in her name.
"My mother always said education is something no one can take away from
you," Cordova said.
However, Cordova's father felt that college would be a waste of time
for his daughters, who were likely to marry and never use their educations.
He always encouraged them to study, but thought that business classes
would be more useful than college prep subjects. When she graduated
from high school, she sought the college education she wanted in a convent.
"Growth and development" have been the lifelong goals for Cordova, who
got her college education from the Sisters of Charity in Ohio, where
she lived inside convent walls throughout her 20s.
In addition to earning her bachelor's degree, Cordova was trained as
a teacher. She was eager for the order to change and modernize, but
the pace of change was too slow for her to tolerate, so she left after
a long struggle with the church.
She says that many of the changes she advocated at the time came about
10 years later.
"When I look back, I often say my roots of feminism were planted in
the convent," Cordova said.
The Sisters of Charity had equipped her with a good education and a
career, but it took a while for her to learn skills like driving a car
and renting an apartment.
Nevertheless, Cordova came to Los Alamos to teach chemistry at Los Alamos
High School, fresh from the convent, with a few possessions in a small
She taught for several years before moving on to a job at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, where she was first a section leader in training
and development and later in the public information office.
Cordova grew up in a traditional Hispanic family in Trinidad, Colo.,
a family with hundreds of years of history in northern New Mexico and
southern Colorado.
An ardent genealogist, Cordova has traced her roots through the Cordova,
Santistevan, Barron and Carmona families, to many of New Mexico's founding
Although in many cases it is the father's stories that are recorded
in history, it is the women's stories that have always intrigued her
more, she said.
Those women's stories became the basis of her Ph. D. dissertation, completed
after she had retired from the lab, the year she turned 65.
In the field of transformational phenomenology, "Norteña de Nuevo Mexico:
Finding Voice and Claiming Identity" is the title of the dissertation,
in which she explores common threads in the experiences of the women.
"Women's stories are unique, yet universal," Cordova said, adding that
simply telling their stories has been a powerful process for the women
who were interviewed for the dissertation.
"People told me, 'I didn't think my story mattered," she said.
After getting her doctorate, Cordova married her dear friend Dan Winske.
The storybook wedding was complete with the white gown, traditional
cake and reception.
They have been friends for such a long time that she still introduces
Dan as "my friend" rather than "my husband," she said.
Cordova has been active in women's issues through the American Association
of University Women, helped to organize the Women in Science program
at the laboratory and joined Mana del Norte as a charter member.
She said she realized that she had identified herself as a woman and
as a member of a community when she was in the convent, but did not
identify herself as a Latina or Chicana until her consciousness was
raised during a conversation with Carmen Rodriguez, founder of the local
organization that works to promote and support leadership and development
for Latina women.
Cordova's happiest pastime now is getting to know two-year-old Laurel
Elena Souders, who is the granddaughter she never had. Souders' grandmother,
Anita, Cordova's first cousin, passed away from cancer shortly after
Laurel Elena was born.


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Qatar's 2022 World Cup organising committee has denied being aware of any alleged payments by the disgraced former head of the country's soccer association to an ex-vice president of FIFA.
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday that a company under the control of Mohamed Bin Hammam paid $1.2m to Jack Warner, the former president of North American soccer's governing body CONCACAF and a member of the FIFA committee which chose the 2022 World Cup hosts.
One of Warner's companies requested that payment in December 2010, the Telegraph said, two weeks after a FIFA vote selected Qatar to stage the 2022 tournament ahead of rival bidders the United States,Australia, Japan and South Korea.
Qatar's organising committee has always denied any wrongdoing and on Tuesday again reiterated that its practices were above board.
"The 2022 Bid Committee strictly adhered to FIFA's bidding regulations in compliance with their code of ethics," the Committee said in a statement.
"The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy and the individuals involved in the 2022 Bid Committee are unaware of any allegations surrounding business dealings between private individuals."
The Committee declined to comment on further questions asked by Reuters.
The Telegraph also alleged that $750,000 was paid to Warner's sons, citing documents it says indicate the various payments to Warner family members were to "offset legal and other expenses" and "professional services provided over the period 2005-2010".
It was reported in March 2013 that an FBI probe into corruption in international soccer had recruited Warner's son Daryan as a co-operating witness.
Opting to host the world's biggest soccer tournament in a tiny desert state where daytime summer temperatures rarely fall below 40 degrees Celsius has provoked widespread anger.
Among those opposing the decision have been Europe's leading clubs and human rights groups highlighting dire working conditions in Qatar's construction sector.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter previously admitted the governing had made a "bad mistake" over the bid processes for choosing the 2018 and 2022 World Cup venues, which were held simultaneously and led to the suspension of two Executive Committee members who attempted to sell their votes for cash.
Qatari Bin Hammam, the ex-president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and a former member of FIFA's executive committee, challenged Blatter's re-election as president, but days before the 2011 vote Bin Hammam was accused of trying to bribe Caribbean officials to vote for him in a plot orchestrated by Warner.
Bin Hammam and Warner both denied wrongdoing, but Warner subsequently quit his FIFA and CONCACAF positions and Bin Hammam was banned for life from all FIFA and soccer activities.
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Brand new baby griffin pattern is now in my shop.
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Crochet griffin when finished is more or less 32 cm (12.6 inches) from the front paws to the end of tail. The griffin is a creature with the back of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle - I know eagles don't have ears like that :) I just couldn't resist making those floppy ears for him. If you want you can skip them, he will be cute anyway I give a guarantees for that :)
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================================================================ Title : Null Space Filename : nulspace.wad Distributed As... : nulspace.zip Release Date : 6th December 2001 Author : Russell Pearson Email Address : email@example.com Website : www.duellist.net Description : 1 single player level. A large wood and stone structure frozen in the void. You've just arrived here to be greeted by a less than friendly reception. Additional Credits to : Playtesters Rez and Richard J Sham (Rez's website can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/allsites.htm) Other Files By Author : Tunnel Run (tun-run.zip) Blastem 2 (blastem2.zip) DoomTown (doomtown.zip) Close Kill (c-kill.zip) Voidtest (voidtest.zip) Deleted Scene (deleted.zip) Wood gfx (woodgfx.zip) ================================================================ * Play Information * Advanced engine needed : No, designed for normal 'vanilla' Doom2 New Levels : 1 Episode and Level # : Map 01 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (but not really tested) Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes (again not tested, 16 starting locations, but it is probably too large for dm). Difficulty Settings : Yes Recommended Difficulty : Ultra Violence (skill level 4) New Sounds : No New Graphics : Yes New Music : Kinda Dehacked/BEX Patch : No Demos Replaced : No Other files required : None * Construction * Base : Built from scratch Editor(s) used : WadAuthor, Wintex Known Bugs : None ================================================================ * Copyright * Authors may NOT use the contents of this file as a base for modification or reuse. Permissions have been obtained from original authors for any of their resources modified or included in this file. This level is copyright Russell DD Pearson (2001). You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. ================================================================ * Blah de blah de blah * Null Space...... I started building this level shortly after releasing Tunnel Run in October 2000. If you're paying attention to this file you'll see that from start to finish this level has taken me over a year to build. Not that I've been designing this level consistantly through that time period, it has been a slow and bitty process. Of course buying a PS2 and copies of SSX and GT3 kinda got in the way for a while and sucked up huge ammounts of my spare time ;-) My main criteria for this level was that it had to run under vanilla Doom2. This meant that many design compromises had to be made, certain areas had to be redesigned to avoid falling foul of Dooms limitations. Surprisingly, VPO's weren't that much of a problem. It was HOM effects that turned out to be my bane during the design. Although this map does run under vanilla Doom2, due to the size of the map it can't be saved (savegame buffer overrun). If you like to save your game whilst playing levels you'll have to play using a source port. A lot of the areas in this map, espescially the early rooms, are too box like in appearance IMHO. I was trying to focus my efforts on making the floor interesting and thus had to minimise ceiling detail to cut down on sectors and linedefs. Unfortunately the design process (mainly adding archiectural detail) was halted abruptly when the level started creating venetian blind crashes. The level runs a LONG distance north to south and the northern area became unstable when the sector count approached 1700. :( I didn't want to drastically alter the levels layout to bring the far boundaries inwards so I decided to leave the level at the state it had reached. This level contains 4 distinct areas; Area 1 (Southern Structure) - early rooms, box like, linked to the second area by a large wooden causeway in the void. Area 2 (Northern Structure) - better architecture linked to the third area by a teleport. Area 3 (Showdown Arena) - this is really the big final battle of the level, beat this and you've effectively completed the level. Then it's a quick trip down in the lift to the final area... Area 4 (epilogue) - Some may veiw this as a bit of an anti-climax. But manouvering in this area is tricky and putting monsters in this area would have been unfair on the player (it would have been annoying getting this far and then dying in a stupid fashion). It should be possible to get 100% kills. In the causeway area there are imps in towers that are tricky to kill, but these teleport out and become accessable later in the level. The caged imps in the yellow key area do not teleport but are shootable (if being a slight pain in the arse, a better option is to lure some caco's in there and get them to do the job for you). I was planning to teleport them, but the sudden restriction on sectors meant that I had to abandon this idea. But 100% kills are possible so no moaning ;) This level is less linear than my previous designs and I found it more tricky than usual getting the monster/ammo/health balance and placement correct. I decided to enlist the help of some willing playtesters. This is the first time I have ever sent a level out for playtesting before releasing it, but I immediately saw the benefits. Luckily I was fortunate to get the help from what turned out to be two very experienced and knowledgeable playtesters. Their suggestions and comments were a great help in balancing and refining this level. Thanks guys :) Whilst the level was out for playtesting I decided to learn how to use patches in textures properly. I should have looked at this stuff 5 or 6 years ago, buy never got around to it. Having taken the time (all of 10 minutes) to understand it, I now look at the texture replacement in this level and have to cringe. Arrrgghh, bloody awful and very embarrassing ;) Oh well, i'll know better in future! A note concerning source ports: Prior to writing this text file I thought i'd better load the map up in a couple of ports to see how it ran. In ZDoom (1.22) it appeared as if some of the sound blocking linedefs wern't functioning properly, it could be my imagination but it appeared that certain monsters had woken up and decided to migrate across the map. In Legacy cetain transparent textures i have included were suffering from a tuttifrutti effect (most noticeable in the cage textures), this could be down to my dubious style of texture replacement ;) dunno really. -Russell Pearson (6th December 2001) email: firstname.lastname@example.com Note: A section of of this level was removed during design because i felt it was too linear compared to the rest of the map. This removed section was modified into a small single player level entitled 'Deleted Scene' (deleted.zip) and can be downloaded from my site at www.duellist.net
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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors work in the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck disorders. The department's medical and surgical services range from treatment of sinusitis and tonsillitis to removal of tonsils, cancerous growths or benign tumors and other complex head-and-neck surgeries. Audiology services include hearing tests for adults and children and other hearing services.
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The London Gay Men's Chorus celebrates 21 "glorious years of harmony" with a big gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night, entitled A Band of Brothers.
Alongside their famous arrangements of power pop songs (expect Lady Gaga and Madonna) is a diverse repertoire spanning classical, folk, jazz, pop, R&B and show tunes with (and without) hand claps, jazz hands and interpretative actions. Sunday's concert will also see a new composition by composer Conor Mitchell and playwright Mark Ravenhill make its debut. Shadow Time is a trip through the history of the LGMC and the gay community itself and ends with a choral kiss-in, which the audience are welcome to join in with.
LGMC were featured in today's Guardian and you can expect another in the Independent on Sunday but Londonist is lucky enough to have two LGMC members on its contributor list. We asked our own Johnny Fox and Nicolas Chinardet why they joined the Chorus and what their most memorable moments might be:
Johnny Fox: I actually joined it for a bet: the guys on a 'life begins at 40' course I'd joined challenged me to try a new activity and having never sung before, it was a choir. I kept the details secret from my partner, in case it wasn't a success and I gave it up as a bad job, and the night of our first concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall he was so jealous that he left me. After 8 years.
Johnny led an unforgettable, epic, dangerous, gin and pork-heavy LGMC expedition to Poland in 2010 to sing in the concert hall Joseph Stalin had given to the People of Warsaw and to march in the Pride parade. Read about the group's adventures here.
Nicolas Chinardet: I joined the Chorus in an attempt to kill two birds with one musical stone. I was new to London and wanted to make gay friends but I had also been part of a small (very) amateur singing group and I missed the opportunity of an artistic expression. Making new friends is, I think, the main reason for people to join, either because they are new to London or after a break-up or even the loss of a partner. I think it works for most people and we've even had several couples forming along the years.
The Chorus provides also us with with amazing opportunity that even professional artistes will only dream of. In my first 6 months with the Chorus in 2002, I had sung at the Sydney Opera House, the Aussie Stadium with KD Lang, The Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and had released a CD (not alone obviously).
Happy 21st birthday London Gay Men's Chorus, and may there be many more happy returns.
The photos in the gallery show moments from LGMC's history. You can see more on their Facebook page. And here's a video of them doing A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square at their Ensemble concert "With a Song in My Heart" at St-Giles-in-the-Fields Parish Church London, March 2012.
Tickets are still available for Sunday night's concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets from £20. Visit www.lgmc.co.uk for more info about the choir.
There's a whole weekend of free singing events happening this bank holiday weekend.


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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Georgian recipes: fried Suluguni cheese
This recipe is mostly for my readers in countries where you can easily buy the Georgian Suluguni cheese. That pretty much means former USSR, as well as countries with sizeable number of Georgian or Russian migrants (look for "Russian shops" then). Although there are other cheeses that can be fried like this, they wouldn't taste the same, so I'm not even going to suggest any other alternatives.
If you are based in Tallinn, then please look for the cheese at Tallinn Central Market, where several vendors sell white cheese rounds, weighing about 1 kg/2 pounds each, at the main market hall. There are two main makers - the Kehra cheese being slightly saltier and the Vaida cheese slightly milder in flavour. It's recommended you buy the whole round - use half of it for for this recipe and the rest for making khatchapuri, the Georgian cheese bread.
Fried Suluguni cheese
(Praetud Suluguni juust)
Serves six to eight as nibble
500 g Suluguni cheese
2 Tbsp plain flour
butter, for frying
finely chopped fresh mint or tarragon
Cut the cheese into thick slices, dust with flour.
Heat butter on a heavy frying pan over a moderate heat. Fry the cheese slices on both sides, until golden brown.
Sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve at once.
For a gluten-free alternative: omit the flour (you won't get as nice and crispy finish, but it'll taste as gorgeous).
11 comments:
- Elis said...
See on lihtsalt imehea! Sulugun on üldse üks suurepärane juustusort, aga sellisel kujul vist isegi kõige parem.
- 9:26 am, March 23, 2010
- easy recipe said...
Can I use basil in this recipe?
- 1:31 pm, March 23, 2010
- Pille said...
Aitäh, Elis!
EasyRecipe - of course you can use any herbs you like, but mint or fresh tarragon would give a more 'authentic' flavour :)
- 2:15 pm, March 23, 2010
- Kalyn said...
Never heard of this cheese, but I wish I could taste it!
- 5:07 pm, March 23, 2010
It looks a bit like halloumi. Do you know how it differs from halloumi in flavour?
- 7:59 pm, March 23, 2010
- Pille said...
Kalyn - come visit! :)
A in NL - it's not as much the difference in taste (both are rather salty and acidic), but texture. Halloumi is much more squidgy and "crisper" and not nearly as melting as suluguni. Mozzarella, on the other hand, would be too creamy and soft for this recipe...
- 8:38 pm, March 23, 2010
Thanks for the explanation. If I'm ever in Estonia maybe I'll try making my favorite halloumi salad[*] using this cheese!
[*] Salad with Halloumi
- mixed lettuce leaves
- strawberries or pomegranate, depending on what's in season
- basil
- halloumi
- crema di balsalmico
If using strawberries, cut them and marinate a bit in the crema to get a nice deep color. If you're using the pomegranate instead, use that time to remove all the seeds (I recommend immersing it in water so the pith floats to the top). Mix the fruit in with the lettuce when ready to serve. Put some crema on it as well. Cut the halloumi into small pieces and stick a piece of basil on top of each. Fry until light golden, then turn over and get the basil side until it, too, is golden. Arrange the halloumi around the salad. The salty flavour of the cheese contrasts nicely with the fresh fruit.
- 11:27 pm, March 23, 2010
- Capability Mom said...
Wow - this looks amazing! Glad to find your site.
- 2:39 am, March 24, 2010
- cheese India said...
Hey that's a good blog. There are many cheese company in the local market. The recipe is very good. I will try it. Thank you.
- 9:37 am, March 24, 2010
- Kelly K said...
That looks SO delicious -- anything like Kaseri cheese (saganaki?) When I made it I used a little beaten egg before the flour . . .
- 3:15 am, March 30, 2010
- LD said...
Easy to find this cheese in parts of New York City, Brighton Beach has lots for example, and probably the Queens communities too.
Have to try is fried as straight it's not very distinctive...
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It will be a boy band bonanza if this reunion comes to pass.
Justin Timberlake and the remaining members of famed '90s band 'NSync are apparently set to reunite for a performance this Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards, according to the New York Post.
MTV previously announced that Timberlake will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and also perfrom during the ceremony, and now the NY Post has been told that former bandmates Joey Fatone, J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick are scheduled to join the "SexyBack" singer onstage for a reunion performance.
Timberlake's nominations include video of the year, best male video and pop video for "Mirrors." The 20/20 Experience crooner is tied with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the most nominations, with six each.
Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke are also scheduled to perform.
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On Aug. 11, 75 health professionals, city officials, and civic representatives gathered at the Gary Comer Youth Center on Chicago's south side to discuss ways to reduce HIV/AIDS among young black men who have sex with men (MSM). Entitled "Conversations: A Discussion on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the Impact for Black Gay/Bisexual Men in Chicago," the event was hosted by the Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus (CBGMC).
CDC figures released in August show new HIV infections among black MSM ages 13-29 increased 48 percent between 2006 and 2009. In Chicago, infections among this group rose by 62 percent between 2005 and 2008, city Department of Public Health records indicate.
Factors that could be contributing to the spike include unemployment, substance abuse, inadequate sex education, mental health concerns, and lack of access to health care, according to a presentation by Dr. John Schneider, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Chicago.
Attendees drafted a list of suggestions that could help community leaders, health care providers, and city officials. Working to reduce homophobia in the black community was a common concern, as was funding. "We don't have the collaboration we need," said Veronica Brown of the governor's office.
Green said CBGMC would host a second event aimed at incorporating young people's voices and creating youth-led solutions.
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Great job, Aaz! And this is the easy one???!!! It's pretty funny and addictive to take the quiz. Congratulations to the top three!!!
Awesome! A worthy substitute of the PSP game.
Prof Aaz is such a hardass! His test was impossible, and he didn't even tell us it was coming so we could study! I should have stayed awake during his lecture-posts...
Is that the "Resident Evil CV" "You died" theme when your time runs out?
*psst* Link, what answer did you get for question one???
Congratulations to Griff for being the first to reach a perfect score! And he deserves it, believe me.
Congrats Griff. I'm still climbing the ladder... There seem to always be 2-3 in any given test that I just can't get correct...
after a while I was convinced that there was some kind of intelligent design sabotaging me with questions I'd yet to answer correctly!
It took a really long time, but I finally got 30. I should probably get some sleep soon, it's nearly 5am.
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Deja Vu !!
Others | 5 September 2010
I was in Egypt when Mr. Sadat set up that same meeting in the Mena House Hotel more than 30 years ago, he invited everyone to come including the traitors...sorry I mean the Palestinians and of course the Syrians too....The conference room was set with the name of every country and their flag, at that time I was very .. More
This is an inside Job
Others | 1 September 2010
I have said it before !! look inside the museuem., specially at the people who were not there at that day, or they called sick or got an excuse 24 hrs before....I said it before and I will say it again and again ...the .. More
Human Being
Others | 29 August 2010
A question, is there any Islamic authorities or organisations that are addressing these types of concerns with people that claim to have the same Islamic faith yet cause such pain to those who are not? would really like to know... More
One more time!!
Others | 19 August 2010
Sheik Toba Imam must be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity. I know this is difficult to believe to do as people who are charged with these crimes should first be "human" this man is a thug and a killer. Again, I should not blame him as he is doing the work of his child molester thief,killer and of course .. More
It is time !!
Others | 15 August 2010
This thug al-badri should have a warrant for his arrest and should be put in prison for all the sick and hate speeches that he makes against Christians and moslims, Since the moslim people are used to hating and killing each other from the time of their child molester profit , then my consern will switch to the Chrsitains .. More
What Now !!
Others | 8 August 2010
The British want the veil banned !!!! Let us see what the moslims want to do, they will, for sure, refuse to obey, so let me see, they go to a country were the infadils live, then they want to change the way the British live, even though 67% of people in the UK want it out .....now try as a Christian woman to go to Saudi"The Wahabi Land' ware a .. More
Time to Go....really
Others | 1 August 2010
Our beloved 80 year old president still have unfinished work to be done to get Egypt back on track !!!! please let me tell something, it HAS BEEN 30 YEARS since you took charge of this country and you could not finish the job ...for 30 years. This is the definition of a crazy person who keeps doing the same thing over and over...may be for 30 years...and expect a diffrernt result...don't you think it is time to go.....really. .. More
Copy right Vs. Money
Others | 28 July 2010
The rah bany's heirs are just looking for money. but Fayrouz has the copy right too. they just can\\\'t tell her not to sing the music the Mansour Al Rahbany supposedly sold her to sing it. when she sang the songs according to his will she got the copy right... More
Here we go again !!
Others | 25 July 2010
The Palestinians will never learn, either they are that stupid, or they do not want peace.Sadat had them on the negotiating table in the 70's . They decided to hold for all or nothing, now they have nothing !!! They also lost 1/2 their" not occupied land to Iran "Gaza". So now they have less than when they started with Sadat, after the 1973 war.....There is an opening now to get some peace,.. More
The Tombs Thieves!!
Others | 18 July 2010
This is what we gained from the arabs, they concered Egypt by the sword in 642 A.D. They then turned on the Churches that they burned or took over and converted them into Mosques, then they start getting into the Pharaoh's tombs to rob them of all what is valuable and sell them to anyone who will pay a few shillings !!.. More
Does anyone miss Sadat ?
Others | 11 July 2010
Mr. Abul Gheit does not know what he is doing, or even saying. This man has failed in everything he touched and try to do with the Palestinians, Africans,Arabs and even Turkey. We need a leader in this position !! The Egyptian diplomacy has failed in every aspect..is this because Mubarak, or Mr. Abu Gheit ? You know , it .. More
Health in danger
Magdy Malak | 4 July 2010
The last statement launched by the chief of Egyptian association for liver cancer proclaimed that there is like 10.000 thousands per year being sick for liver cancer and it means that we live in disaster if the ratio will .. More
Praise to the living God
Others | 27 June 2010
This sounds so encouraging but is it very true really? As a christian i was really touched and yeah i believe jesus is the lord and he is alive.. More
It is about time !
Others | 23 June 2010
Challending this law is very important, not because it allows the Moslim courts to control, or try to control, Copts in Egypt, but it will make this case a sample of human rights and non constitunal laws , against.. More
Let's assume !!
Others | 20 June 2010
Let us, for one minute, believe the Interior Minister is correct and this young man did fail to carry out his military service ! and had a record of convictions !!let us also add that this man is a drug dealer !!! and .. More
Really this is not an issue of religion!
Others | 16 June 2010
Since the egyptian court seems to be so pro-freedom, let it interfere with muslim marriage and rule in favor of muslim women marrying up to 4 men. or is that tabu based on religious (islamic) belief. or let it limit the .. More
The Rule of Law
Others | 13 June 2010
Is any one surprised about what is happening in the Egyptian court system ? The fact of the matter is that there is' no rule of law in Egypt'. From history, I will give you a story during the Britsh rule in Egypt...This is a story about a few farmers that attacked British soldiers ond one of them was killed...!.. More
What can I say ?
Others | 9 June 2010
This is the result of the " Lack of leadership" in Egypt. Since 1952 Egypt had no leaders, except for Sadat, all the so- called leaders were busy trying to make names for themselves and never did care about EGYPT. Nasser was the most over rated man in all the whole World. Egypt is the most unique country in the world, .. More
Coptsunited | 6 June 2010
The Church respects the freedom rights of those who want to divorce outside the Church, therefore, those who want to divorce should respect the Church's freedom rights as well. If a man divorces his wife, the Church does not force him to take her back, therefore such a man has no right to force the Church to .. More
What Laws !!
Others | 2 June 2010
Would the Moslims that live in Christian countries obey the law of the land ? All over Europe they want to apply the "Shariah" law !! So what law should they obey ? In Egypt they want Islamic Laws, in Europe they .. More
This is not new !!
Others | 30 May 2010
These holagans , that left their Middle Eatern countries were they had no shoes to wear and no toilet seats to use. They came to Sweden, they live off the people of Sweden and abuse the system. Can you tell me, .. More


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A Thousand Kisses is a new radio play by Frederic Raphael, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist, author of films from Darling (with Julie Christie,1965) and Two for the Road (Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, 1967) to Eyes Wide Shut (Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1999). Built around Catullus's now beautiful, now obscene poetry, the play tells the story of Gaius Valerius CATULLUS's love affair with Clodia, the most beautiful woman in Rome, whom Catullus called "Lesbia" in his torrid poetry. Featuring luminaries of Ancient Rome like Cicero and Julius Caesar, the play brings to life the complex world of patrician Rome as the backdrop for one of the world's most famous romances.
We can live, my Lesbia, and love; and love!
People will talk? Greybeard prudes;
Their chat's worth not a toss.
Suns can set; they they come up again;
For you and me, once our brief light goes out –
It's night forever: sleep, sleep, sleep.
Give me a thousand kisses, plus a hundred,
Plus another thousand, plus a hundred,
Then a thousand more, and add a hundred.
Then all our thousands thousanded
Can jumble up the figures, lose the count;
Make sure no sour puss can hiss us,
Or tax us for kissing our kisses and kisses.
Parents are cautioned that this play contains a small amount of mildly obscene language.
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GVC: John Given
Clodia: Danielle Bryan
Male Narrator: Shane Ernst
Female Narrator: Anna Froula
Caelius Rufus: Joseph Horst
Cicero: Craig Brown
Calvus: David Wilson-Okamura
Julius Caesar: Peter Green
Lucius: Jeffrey Johnson
Valerius: Charles Fantazzi
Melissa: Susanne Grieve
Aurelius: Sean Morris
Flute: Alyssa Grace
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LeAnn Rimes Finally Speaks Out: Why I Cheated On My Ex Husband!
Well, it's about time! LeAnn Rimes, 28, is finally coming clean about cheating last year on her ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, with CSI:Miami hottie Eddie Cibrian.
"I did one of the most selfish things that I possibly could do, in hurting someone else," LeAnn tells Shape's October issue. (The country singer finalized her divorce in December, after being married for nearly eight years, and has since moved in with Cibrian.)
But LeAnn says that Dean too felt that the marriage was on shaky ground, even prior to her infidelity. "It wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us," she told the magazine. "As we got older, we grew apart."
Aside from hurting Dean, LeAnn says she's well aware that she let down her fans. "I understand why people are disappointed in me, especially since I grew up as America's sweetheart."
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Recent research indicates that farmers can not only get by with a few less seed per foot of row, but that returns on investment may be equal to or better than higher rates.
Peter McGuill, county Extension agent in Wharton County, Texas, says three years ago farmers were planting a lot of seed, up to 70,000 per acre, in his area. "From 52,000 to 54,000 is closer to where we need to be," McGuill said during a cotton section presentation at the Texas Plant Protection Association annual conference in College Station last December.
"We started looking at a full rate versus a half rate and a grower agreed to plant different populations for several years to establish an acceptable population of cotton seedlings."
He said the increased cost for enhanced technology cotton seed raises production costs. "We wanted to evaluate plant population, costs, yield, and quality and compare the dollar returns for various seeding levels."
They worked with three seeding rates, 2, 4 and 6 seed per foot of row, all Phytogen 440 W, the grower's choice. "We'll look at other varieties in other tests to examine Bt Flex and to check different seed costs," McGuill said.
He said actual plants per foot of row from those planting rates came in at 1.7, 3.2 and 4.6. "The more plants per foot of row the higher the seed cost and total production cost."
Higher populations also meant more days to cutout and fewer fruiting sites, but no difference in total number of bolls. He also noted no "statistical difference" in turnout, quality or loan value.
Returns for the three final plant populations were: 1.7 plants per foot of row, $318.70; 3.2 plants per foot of row, $320.83; and 4.6 plants per foot of row, $305.89. The lower return for the higher plant population resulted from higher seed cost, McGuill said.
"We saw no significant difference between seeding rates on growth factors," he said. "The dollar return per acre above seed and technology costs was better with lower seeding rates."
He said the optimum seeding rate probably will be 4 per foot of row. "At 2 seed per foot, we have very little security. But a 4 per foot of row rate is a good bet and gets us to 52,000 to 54,000 per acre, where we should be.
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Intel chip boffins in litho brainstorm
Let's gets pixelated
Intel R&D Day Your digital camera is more powerful than you think. Using the basic concepts of digital photography, Intel researchers are reinventing the art of silicon lithography – the technique used to etch circuit patterns onto PC microprocessors.
The company's new "pixelated masks" method - showcased this week at Intel's annual R&D day – is one of the many ways Intel hopes to extend Moore's Law well into the next decade.
"We have a working product," said researcher Vivek Singh, from the crowded R&D day floor, "and it has the potential to squeeze out even more resolution from the existing lithography setup." Singh and his team have already demonstrated the technique with a 65 nanometer manufacturing process, but they plan on applying it to a next-generation process that will shrink chip parts to well below 45nm.
Lithography has been the primary means of building microprocessors since the 60s. Manufacturers print circuits onto silicon wafers by shining ultraviolet light through a "mask" - essentially a cutout of the circuit pattern being printed.
The trouble is that as the cutouts get smaller, more and more light gets scattered this way and that. The result is a blurring of the circuit pattern. As Singh explains, if you're trying to a print rectangle, you end up printing an oval.
Manufacturers have long used masks whose cutouts are purposefully misshapen to account for this scattering effect - a technique known as optical proximity correction (OPC). A serrated shape, for instance, is used to produce a perfect rectangle. But in recent years, as Intel reached 45nm, even this method has proved problematic. "OPC is running out of gas," says Singh. "We have to build something new."
Intel's solution is to build a mask that takes after a digital camera. With this pixelated mask, the circuit pattern isn't a single cutout. It's a collection of tiny holes. As light shines through the mask, the circuit is built from a series of pixels.
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ionic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
ionGrid, Inc.
We're looking for a very modern but corporate-friendly design for our tech company. We build software to allow iPads and similar touchscreen tablet devices to connect to each other and run more business-oriented applications.
Think: Game company meets Corporate, with a touch of chemistry or physics. We expect people will look at our software and think part of it is magic.
Our products are going to change the way people interact with technology. We hope your design can introduce us to the world in the right way.
Our current web site has nothing on it, though we don't dislike the image we used for the site's logo (http://www.iongrid.com). However, it's too busy for a real logo, of course.
Brands with logos we like include:
- Intel (modern type, whoosh looks like an electron spinning around a nucleus)
- Lexus (simple, easily distinguished)
- Sasol (but not animated and less busy)
- Newmarket (http://www.newmarket.ca/en/townhall…anding.asp)
We're looking to sell to forward-looking mid-size companies (probably largely US-based initially, but hopefully Japan/Korea/EU afterwards). The product buyer would be marketing people or mid- to upper-level management.
Our customers are people who love their iPad, or lust after one or something like it, but haven't figured out how to justify using it in the workplace yet for anything other than email and basic web reading. They probably love to show off the latest cool gadgets or applications to their co-workers, and always want the latest cool toys.
Not overly colorful. Probably largely greyscale with a splash of color to liven it up, or a gradient based on one dominant hue. Probably stylized type-based logo, where "ionGrid" is the core but the G might be stylized, especially with the theme of electrons spinning around an atom, a planet orbiting a sun, or other science-like visuals.
We would like the logo to be simple but also fit well in a square (perhaps if you remove the type (see http://www.icis.com for an example)).
Colors that resonate with us for the highlights include cornflower blue (http://www.trelleborg.com/upload/Ru…ue_big.jpg) with maybe a touch of green or orange if appropriate, and greys, to appease our corporate overlords who will buy our products. Feel free to surprise us with something different, though.
Fonts we like include Futura, Calibri, and Candara, but again, please feel free to choose whatever you think is great.
As implied above, for now, we just need a logo, but we'd love to work with the designer again for more complete corporate identity services as we grow.
I've never done a contest on this site before, but I'd expect the winner will deliver an Illustrator file (or similar) of the design... Please also give us your contact info in case we want to ask you to do more work later.
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing your ideas!
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These jobs range from sales engineer to hydraulic system engineer, business development director down to automation engineers.
And last week came the news that Bosch Rexroth Corp. will be doubling its production at its Fountain Inn, S.C., plant, with an $80 million infusion in a new building and 160 new jobs in the next five years. The facility produces hydraulic components for the North and South American markets.
Berend Bracht, regional president of Bosch Rexroth Americas, attributes the future growth to double-digit percentage increases in sales and orders this year. "Bosch Rexroth has gained additional market share, especially in the field of mobile machines for agriculture and construction," said Bracht. "We adapted to the technological shift toward low-emission machines early on and can now offer the right products and solutions at the right time."
All manufacturers of mobile machines are currently revising their concepts in order to meet the new, significantly more stringent TIER 4 Final emissions regulations for off-highway vehicles. Bosch Rexroth offers a complete series of innovative system solutions for working and drive hydraulics that help achieve significant reductions in fuel consumption and exhaust gas emissions for mobile machines—while at the same time maintaining the machines' operational performance level. The axial piston pumps made by Bosch Rexroth in Fountain Inn are a core component of this approach. They are also used in energy-efficient stationary applications.
The outfitting of the additional building with production machines is set to be completed in the third quarter of 2012.
Let's hope we hear more reports like this and start to see unemployment figures slowly (or quickly!) drop.


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These slides are part of the Australian Inland Mission Collection, held by the National Library of Australia. The AIM (also known as The Australian Presbyterian Mission) was a movement established by Rev. John Flynn to evangelise rural and remote Aboriginal communities. It ran from 1912 into the mid-Twentieth Century. Their collection comprises of 1) slides, made mostly from photographs missionaries took their remote outposts in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland and 2) commercially manufactured slides, which were shown to indigenous communities. Read more here: https://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/australian-inland-mission . The image associated with this entry has been harvested from Trove, where it was cropped around the photograph, rather than the glass plate's perimeters.Maker
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Title text: Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
The super hero from just two comics ago, Etymology-Man, returns. And just like that comic, Etymology-Man is explaining the origination of words instead of actually helping. Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
Who they want is Entomology-Man because they are fighting a giant praying mantis and an army of smaller praying mantises (which are nonetheless much larger than a typical praying mantis - compared to the size of the people in this comic the smaller mantises appear to be 8-12 inches long). Entomology is the study of insects.
In the title text, we find out they accidentally call a superhero focused on the story of Adam and Eve in the Biblical book of Genesis. This is probably Etiology-Man (the study of causation and attribution), but might be Ontology-Man (the study of being and existence) Ethology (the study of human character and with its formation and evolution), or (as a pun) Adam-ology-Man.
- [A giant praying mantis attacks a team of scientists, along with its legion of smaller-but-still-unusually-large mantises. Two of the scientists fight back, with a gun and a baseball bat respectively, while a third is in the mantis' clutches, held aloft by his foot, his goggles falling off his face. Bullets whiz by the giant mantis' head, and a fourth scientist hides behind a desk, on which rests a microscope and an Erlenmeyer flask. A man in a cape approaches the hiding scientist.]
- Etymology-man: Ah, no—you wanted ENTOmology-Man, spelled with an "N". See, it's from the Greek entomon, meaning "insect", which is itself the neuter form of entomos, meaning "segmented" or...
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Maybe they wanted to know what the plural form of mantis is, if more were to show up? Looks like a job for etymology man. Davidy22(talk) 14:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
So what is the title text referring too? 22.214.171.124 14:54, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
The title text is referring to Genesis 2:20: "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." In Biblical terms, this verse explains how all names of creatures (including praying mantises) came to be. Apparently Etymology-Man has studied this. -- Npsych (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
adam-ology make more sense than the other guesses126.96.36.199 07:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Didn't Portal 2 make a reference to giant mantises in one of cave johnson's prerecorded messages? maybe the comic is a bit of a reference to that. --Flamewolf (talk) 19:50, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Maybe the title text is a pun on arthropodology[1] and (theological) anthropology[2]? 220.127.116.11 18:20, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
I suggest they asked for another hero fighting the mantis, but who came was "man-theology-man" (not manteology-man).


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Advice from Aunt Kathi
Many speaking engagements!
I have several speaking events coming up, and I would love to see you there!
First of all, I'll be speaking at SQL Saturday #122 in Louisville next week. I will be involved in three sessions: Features of 2012, 2012 T-SQL Features, and the Women in Tech Panel. http://www.sqlsaturday.com/122/eventhome.aspx Louisville… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 11 July 2012
Running a script on multiple servers
One of my favorite features of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the ability to run a script on multiple servers at once. This feature came in handy recently when I was installing some maintenance scripts and jobs on about a dozen servers. One of the challenges I faced was… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 2 March 2012
SQL Saturday #87 Report
I drove the over 250 miles from my home in Edwardsville, IL, to attend the SQL Server 87 in Louisville, KY. Even though I am not a fan of driving, the beautiful fall day with lots of colorful trees made the drive more of a pleasure than it might have… Read more
0 comments, 1,288 reads
Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 2 November 2011
PASS Summit, more people and lots of newbies!
Once again I am back at home recovering from another PASS Summit. This year the attendance has exceeded all expectations with over 5000 registrations. I don't have the numbers from past years, but I it doesn't seem that long ago when that number was closer to 2500. I began to… Read more
1 comments, 1,377 reads
Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 16 October 2011
SQL Saturday #91
This weekend I attended my 5th SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday #91 in Omaha. Every SQL Saturday I have attended has been fantastic, but each is unique in its own way. If I had to come up with one word to describe this particular SQL Saturday, then I would say "smooth." Read more
3 comments, 1,186 reads
Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 28 August 2011
PASS Prof Dev Blog
In case you hadn't noticed, PASS has a number of virtual chapters. Many of the virtual chapters broadcast LiveMeetings about once a month on topics related to their special interest. This is just one more way that PASS supports the amazing SQL Server community with free technical content from the best… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 20 March 2011
SQL Saturday #45 Report
This past weekend I attended another SQL Saturday. This one was held in Louisville, KY. Malathi Mahadevan and her volunteers put on a fantastic, well organized event. There were four tracks with a total of 24 technical presentations.
This particular SQL Saturday is an example of just how impressive a… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 January 2011
PASS Summit Report 3: Women in Technology Rock!
Last year I was honored to be a member of the Women in Technology (WIT) Panel at the PASS Summit. This was a very big deal for me and one of the best experiences I have had at the Summit. My dear friend Jessica Moss was also on the panel.… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 17 November 2010
PASS Summit Report 2: Seattle Again?
There is always a lot of talk about the fact that we have been in Seattle several years in a row and why can't the Summit move around more. I really think it needs to stay in Seattle. At the board member meet and greet Thursday evening, Microsoft's Mark Souza… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 16 November 2010
PASS Report 1: Why you should have been there!
PASS Summit 2010 is now history. This is my eighth summit but the first one since leaving the DBA world and joining Microsoft. This summit ranks as either number one or number two for me personally. The 2006 Summit is high on my list as that is the first year… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 15 November 2010
SQL Saturday #49 report
This past Saturday, I spent the day at SQL Saturday #49 in sunny Orlando. Since Orlando is way out of my district, I had to pick up the travel costs for this one. I decided to wrap a Disney vacation around the event, and otherwise, I would not have attended.… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 18 October 2010
SQL Saturday #53 review
The KC PASS chapter has successfully executed the latest SQL Saturday. Thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for a wonderful event! The amazing thing about SQL Saturday is that it gives the local attendees a taste of the PASS Summit without traveling or spending any money, save a few… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 3 October 2010
SQLSaturday #50 Report
I attended my first SQLSaturday yesterday in Iowa City, Iowa. I spoke on two topics: "What's New with Reporting Services" and "Designing a Data Mart 101." I also was a member of the Women in Technology (WIT) panel – more about that later.
First of all, congratulations to the organizers… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 19 September 2010
Can you believe that I have never attended a SQLSaturday (http://www.sqlsaturday.com)? Well, that is changing very soon. You will see me at SQLSaturday #50 in East Iowa September 18th, #53 in Kansas City October 2nd, and #49 in Orlando October 16th! Wow!
Why would you want to attend SQLSaturday? Well, the price… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 8 September 2010
PASS Pre/Post Con Selections
One of my favorite people in the SQL community, Andy Leonard, posted a blog criticizing the selection process for the pre and post cons at PASS. http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/05/30/pre-conference-sessions-at-the-pass-summit.aspx . Andy says, hey why don't they just make it by invitation only since that what they will do anyway?
I disagree. As someone… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 31 May 2010
What would get over 400 techies to give up a beautiful Saturday and spend the day inside learning about SQL Server and .Net? It was the IndyTechFest held in Indianapolis yesterday! Brad McGehee, Jessica Moss, Kevin Kline, Jimmy May, and I joined several other MVPs, Microsoft employees, and local experts… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 May 2010
If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining Microsoft next week as a Data Technology Specialist in St. Louis. It was really hard to leave my job as a DBA at Bryan Cave. Bryan Cave was my world for… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 29 April 2010
MVP Summit Review
I was lucky enough to attend the MVP Summit held last week in Redmond and Bellevue. I attended the Summit in 2008, but had to miss 2009 because I couldn't get away from work. The cool thing about this Summit was the number of my friends attending that I know from… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 February 2010
T-SQL Speed Phreakery Explained
If you haven't seen the Simple-Talk newsletter (it's free, so sign up!) you may not have seen my article on their site. http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/writing-efficient-sql-set-based-speed-phreakery/ Writing this article has been probably the most fun I have had writing. Basically, I had to take the winning solution to a T-SQL programming challenge… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 8 February 2010
PASS 2009 DVDs
I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back in 2003 or 2004, and the quality was just not very good. So, this is the first time since then that I actually decided to buy the DVDs in addition… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 5 February 2010


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The French have always respected intellectuals. Unlike many nations that even today use the word as a term of contempt, in France - and especially Paris - to refer to someone as an intellectual is high praise indeed. He is someone for whom all doors are open and who is honoured at all levels of society.
The fact that Mr Jean Cocteau was one of the great French intellectuals of the 20th century certainly didn't stop him taking an active interest in his appearance (in the many portraits and photographs of him from Mr Amedeo Modigliani to Mr Andy Warhol he is never without a stiff collar and a tie) or in fashion during the mid years of the 20th century when Paris couture was considered a true art form, albeit a minor one. French intellectuals found nothing inconsistent in sitting in the front row of a show, surrounded not by current TV or pop stars but fellow intellectuals, scholars and influential thinkers and commenting with knowledge on what they were looking at with the same sagacity as they would at a private view of an art exhibition.
Mr Cocteau at actress Ms Francine Weisweiller's
Côte d'Azur villa, January 1957
Mr Cocteau, despite his assertion that fashion bored him, was fascinated by the great couturiers of his time, including Ms Coco Chanel, Ms Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Mr Christian Dior. And he was close to them creatively as well. His thin, aesthetic figure was frequently perched on a small gold chair in the front row of the prestigious social evening shows at which the belle monde of tout Paris - aristocrats, politicians, and the great names of the theatre and literature - appeared in all their glory, finding nothing strange nor demeaning in supporting an art form that at its most creative had belonged to Paris alone since the 18th century.
The fact that Mr Cocteau was one of the great French intellectuals of the 20th century didn't stop him taking an active interest in his appearance, or fashion
It is from this background that we can assess Mr Cocteau as a style figure whose clothes were observed and copied by more ordinary men of fashion. Narrow shouldered, stick thin, with a large head surrounded by a mass of thick wavy hair, he was by no means a conventionally handsome man but, because this was France, his aura was the result of respect for his brain and, above all, his wide-ranging creativity. He drew his inspiration from multiple sources that encompassed novels, films, poetry, painting - and his own boundless sexuality. He loved both beautiful young men and women and had two great homosexual love affairs - firstly with Mr Raymond Radiguet, and then with Mr Jean Marais, an actor considered the most beautiful man in France in the 1940s.
Mr Cocteau also had an affair with Princess Paley who to his eternal sorrow aborted their child. There were rumours he might even have had a brief liaison with Ms Lee Miller, who he met at Le B?uf sur le Toit, the nightclub he made famous as an artistic gathering point in Paris in the 1920s (in the 1950s, French intellectual Mr Jean-Paul Sartre would make a similar hub with Les Deux Magots).
Mr Cocteau on the ocean liner Île de France, March 1936
Messrs Sergei Diaghilev - whose famous command, "Étonne-moi" (astonish me) was actually aimed at the young Mr Cocteau - Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Ms Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and Ms Edith Piaf knew and admired the genius of Mr Cocteau, even when they did not find him particularly appealing as a personality. His novels, such as Les Enfants Terribles, and films such as La Belle et la Bête (starring Mr Marais) spread his fame as one of the true intellectual movers and shakers of the 20th century.
It would therefore be reasonable to expect such an intellectual maverick to be a social and political one, too. But no, Mr Cocteau leaned much more right than left, politically and socially. In the 1930s, he supported Hitler and was much more a reactionary than a revolutionary. And yet, he was in love with the avant-garde wherever he found it and refused to be pigeonholed. He rejected all attempts to claim him as a pillar of the surrealist movement despite his close friendships with many of its leading lights.
Skinny and energetic, Mr Cocteau looked immaculate in English tweeds, French tailored silk ties, pyjamas and dressing gowns by Charvet, and handmade shoes crafted in the backstreets of the Left Bank
So, how would such a man dress? Like the Establishment, but less so the French than the English one, as many other upper class, powerful men in France did before WWII. In fact, Mr Cocteau was an English dandy as much as a creative schoolmaster of French intellectual and cultural life. He wore his clothes with great precision, again as many men of his time and class (who all had valets) did. Skinny and energetic, he always looked immaculate in an array of English tweeds, French tailored silk ties, pyjamas and dressing gowns by Charvet and handmade shoes crafted by his own "little man" somewhere in the backstreets of the Left Bank. Style mattered to him a great deal, no matter how intellectual he might have been in other things.
When it comes to style, Mr Cocteau continues to be a mentor for our times just as he was in France so many decades ago. How? Because the Jean Cocteau look is absolutely right for now. He was all about lean, clean lines, skinny proportions, narrow-cut trousers and a slightly town-meets-country mood of fine tweeds, soft lamb's wool and elegant leather shoes. And so too many young men at the moment, who wish to look city-sure but not city-slave, an attitude that Mr Cocteau would have surely both understood and heartily endorsed.


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Checking in on… the ACCPosted by Brian Goodman on December 22nd, 2010
Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC.
A Look Back
- No news on Kyrie Irving or his toe, but Sidney Lowe did pipe in on Tracy Smith's injury: per Brett Friedlander of Star News Online, Lowe said, "It's a tough deal… It's very frustrating, but I think it's frustrating for Tracy as well. This was a big year for him, a big year for us." Now, I don't want to read too much into a coach's postgame interviews following a tough loss to Arizona (who had their way with the Wolfpack inside), but it sounds like Lowe is starting to feel some hot seat pressure. He continued: "I just think it's one of those things where Tracy is going to have to decide he can play with a little bit of pain. That's up to him… Certainly we don't want him out there limping and everything. I think his biggest thing is getting over the fear of the injury itself…Structurally, everything is okay, but it's his first real injury, so we have to be patient with him. The doctors say he's okay, but they can't feel his pain. So we have to go with what Tracy is saying." While I can feel his pain, Lowe really should stand by his players (read: not make it sound like he thinks they're soft or faking injuries). His job might be on the line, but Tracy Smith could have declared for the draft last year and never given Lowe the opportunity to complain about his injury.
- Mike Scott of Virginia, Demontez Stitt of Clemson and Tony Chennault of Wake Forest are all out with injuries. Scott underwent ankle surgery and his return time is still to be determined; Stitt required arthroscopic knee surgery and should be back before the end of the month; and Chennault is out for another month or so while his foot heals.
- In other news, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski tied Dean Smith at second on the all-time win list with 879 after Duke soundly beat Elon in Durham Monday. This is obviously a testament to the job that Coach K has done over his career at Duke, and there are sure to be plenty more wins for the Blue Devils as the season progresses.
- Team of the Week: Virginia Tech sneaks past Georgia Tech for the award this week. This is partially because I've ripped Virginia Tech the past couple weeks for being totally out to lunch. But the Hokies got a very impressive (and much needed) win over Mississippi State on a neutral court. Mississippi State was supposed to be the pride of the SEC West, but has come out with a slow start. That said, a dominating win is a dominating win, and the Hokies won 88-57 with five players scoring in double figures. Seth Greenberg should take note: his team is a whole lot better when Jeff Allen, Erick Green, Dorenzo Hudson and Manny Atkins produce on offense. Malcolm Delaney only took 11 shots. So when Virginia Tech starts back with losing ways because Delaney is the only one with any interest in trying to score, don't be surprised. However, if this team has finally figured out that they have the talent to win real games and they just need to utilize it, look out. There's a reason (albeit a somewhat misguided one) that this team had so much hype in the preseason, and they finally lived up to it.
- Bizarro Team of the Week: Wake Forest – It was actually a fairly good week for the ACC overall. But Wake Forest continued their epic struggles. I really do hate choosing them week in and week out, but the only other losses in the conference came against good schools (Central Florida, Arizona and Texas). Meanwhile Wake, almost lost to UNCG (yes, the 0-9 school out of the Southern Conference that hadn't lost within double figures of an opponent all season). Wake followed one almost loss with an actual loss at Xavier, which is much more excusable as the Musketeers are probably a Tournament-bound team. Wake has to find some answers and find them fast. Two of their next four games (Richmond and Gonzaga) are going to be very tough. Wake legitimately has a strong case to be one of the top five worst major conference schools (along with Auburn, Oregon State, DePaul and South Florida). Tony Chennault may hold the key for Wake to establish some decent guard play, but that remains to be seen.
(ed. note – following the submission of this week's check-in, Wake dropped a game to a team known as the Presbyterian Blue Hose to continue its nightmare campaign)
A History Lesson: In case you hadn't heard, the ACC and Raycom Sports teamed up to produce the ACC Vault. We covered the Vault on its official opening last week, and I highly suggest you spend some time perusing the website. It's very easy to use (whether you want to find a specific play or a game). I'll be promoting one game a week with a few of my thoughts. This week, I'm going to stick with the 1997 ACC Championship between North Carolina and North Carolina State. You can see most of my thoughts on the game in the article on the site's release, but the game has some historical significance. It was Dean Smith's last ACC game, and one of Herb Sendek's first. The Tar Heels brought star power with Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter and Shammond Williams, while N.C. State countered with a more deliberate offense that led to far more open looks than one might have expected in such a David vs. Goliath game. Please feel free to comment if you have any suggestions for great games too!
Power Rankings
- Duke (11-0) beat Elon handily in their one game of the week. Offense still lacks a real flow without Irving, and Coach K might need to investigate switching Nolan Smith back to the two guard. Seth Curry would take some time but has a point guard build, or he could try running the offense through Kyle Singler. Not sure either is ideal, but it's definitely worth trying a couple things out before getting too deep into conference play.
- Florida State (9-2, 1-0) beat Stetson and Loyola Marymount this week to continue their winning ways. They have games at Hawaii and Auburn (go ahead and chalk that one up) before heading to Virginia Tech to continue conference play.
- Boston College (9-2, 1-0) beat Bryant 93-77 in their lone game of the week. Should be interesting to see how this team holds up in conference play.
- North Carolina (8-4) gets a boost in the ratings for playing a talented Texas team very close. After watching the game, I literally have no idea why Roy Williams continues to play Larry Drew II at point instead of Kendall Marshall. Marshall played much better than Drew II, but still only saw significant playing time when Drew II was sidelined with foul trouble (it's no coincidence that the Tar Heels lost the lead when Marshall went out).
- Georgia Tech (6-4) got a much needed win over Richmond this week. The Yellow Jackets still look like they're very much on the wrong side of the bubble, but beating a team that looks like a contender in the A-10 is a quality victory. Now a win this week against Siena would give Paul Hewitt another good win against decent mid-major competition.
- Virginia (8-3, 1-0) soundly beat Oregon and eked out a win over Norfolk State without the aid of Mike Scott who is averaging team best 16.3 points and 10.4 rebounds a game. For the Cavaliers to be relevant, they desperately need Scott's production.
- Virginia Tech (6-4, 0-1) took care of business in the Bahamas this week. Now they need to sustain this level of play.
- Miami (8-3) lost a tough game against Central Florida this week. The Hurricanes struggled with foul trouble inside with Reggie Johnson and Julian Gamble fouling out in 16 and 25 minutes, respectively. Central Florida is undefeated so far, but the Hurricane defense was vulnerable with Johnson and Gamble playing very limited minutes. Keep an eye on their foul trouble in ACC play.
- Maryland (7-4, 0-1) didn't play this week, but they have three cupcakes before continuing conference play at Duke. The Terrapins really need Sean Mosley to step up and give them a more consistent second option beyond Jordan Williams. They are still a leaderless team right now, so winning close games (or games on the road) will be pretty difficult.
- N.C. State (7-4) missed out on a huge chance to add a resume victory over Arizona this week, and Tracy Smith's absence in the paint was evident. The Wolfpack and Sidney Lowe really need Smith's production and ability to open up the floor for jump shooters.
- Clemson (7-4, 0-1) won two creampuff games this week with Demontez Stitt in recovery. Jerai Grant had two excellent games off the bench.
- Wake Forest (6-6) continues to struggle. Here's to hoping that Tony Chennault has the answers.
A Look Ahead
Finals are over! That's good news for everyone–especially college basketball fans. We still have a couple more uninteresting weeks before conference play really begins. Probably the best chance for good games comes from Florida State, who will probably take on Butler (or Utah) and then most likely Baylor or Washington State in the Diamond Head Classic, a tournament that should give the Seminoles an opportunity to build their at-large resume. All three match-ups are very intriguing because each team has shown significant defensive strength so far this season.