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A way with the fairies
Irish author and creator of the Artemis Fowl books, Eoin Colfer.
Photo: Rebecca Hallas
EOIN COLFER thinks he may have lost it, but his readers know where to find it - in the pages of his books.
The creator of the technological, fairy thriller Artemis Fowl collection is referring to his sense of humour. "Sometimes I think all my humour goes into the books and I end up grumpy all the time." Recently, Colfer had dinner with another funny bloke, Paul Jennings. "We should have been rolling on the floor laughing but we were talking about serious things. We had a great time but perhaps if Morris Gleitzman had have been there, we would have had a hilarious night!" But Colfer can't help but be funny, even when he's lamenting the fact that he's not.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1965, Colfer and his four brothers grew up enjoying holidays in the small fishing village of Slade and says that, no matter what his age, there was always something to do. "At five I played with crawlies and little crabs, at 10 I'd jump off the high walls and, when I was 15, I'd cycle into the village to try to meet girls at the disco."
As a boy he was an odd mix of introvert and extrovert. Colfer loved art, writing and drawing and would often go off on his own to copy the bat on the Meatloaf album in meticulous detail, but he also loved meeting people. Small for his age, Colfer says he became a bit of a smart alec by way of compensation. "I was lucky I was never bullied at school - I had a great gang of friends."
He went to a Christian Brothers school and met his future wife, Jackie, at a Ceilis, an Irish version of a Blue Light disco where the music came via a man holding a microphone up to a tape player. Under the watchful gaze of the brothers, Colfer said boys would try to sit out a dance but a brother would come over and say "Up you get, there's a girl over there waiting to dance." He gets a dreamy look in his eye as he recalls seeing Jackie. "She had great spiked hair and blue eyeliner. I said to my mate, "Who is that girl?" Lucky for Colfer, the girl was his best friend's cousin.
They married in their 20s after he studied teaching in Dublin and he was still working full time in 1998 when he wrote his first book Benny and Omar, a story about a sports-mad Irish lad who's forced to move from Wexford to Tunisia with his family. By all accounts it sounds like an intense period of his life. "It was a difficult time because I felt that every spare minute had to be used to write the book". By then the Colfers had two children and he was teaching by day and writing by night. But, in the end, the hard work paid off and his book sales began to climb.
Colfer describes the first Fowl book, published in 2002, as "Die Hard with fairies" with a wonderfully evil but brilliant central character, Artemis Fowl.
Only 12 years old, he's an uppity, yet charming adventurer with a passion for fairies and finding ways to add to his already significant wealth. He's part Indiana Jones, part James Bond and, with the help of Butler (his butler), Artemis travels to Ho Chi Minh City to track down an ageing sprite and her precious book that includes all there is to know about the fairy world. Everything goes according to plan until a sassy elf, Captain Holly Short, becomes involved. A member of the elite LEPrecon Unit, ("a branch of the Lower Elements Police"), what Short lacks in size, she makes up in weaponry and smarts.
Colfer's latest book and the fourth in the series, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception continues the adventure and has as many laughs and fairies as it does extravagant explosions. Once again Colfer proves that, when it comes to writing, he only has one speed: fast.
He credits part of his success to that other famous children's author, J.K. Rowling. "I think she brought many people back to reading - people who hadn't picked up a book since they were in school." Colfer adds that every time a Harry Potter book hits the shelves, his sales get a boost too.
As well as the Artemis books, Colfer has written eight books for children and young adults including The Supernaturalist, Benny and Babe and The Legend of Spud Murphy. All have attracted critical acclaim and awards, especially The Wish List, a story about two teenagers who die while robbing an old man's apartment. One goes to heaven, the other to hell. "I think children respond to the idea of redemption. They like a character with imperfections and the idea that you can make a mistake but come back from it."
When it comes to writing, Colfer admits to being a bit of a perfectionist. Over time, he's learned to relax a little but initially, no one read his manuscripts until he was completely satisfied with the result. These days he shows Jackie the final draft. "I'm terrible because she'll laugh and I'll say, 'Which bit?', or she won't laugh and I'll want to know why not." Colfer says he used to be a lot like his son, who would draw a picture but not want his dad to look at it. "He'd cover it with his arm and say, 'Don't look! Don't Look!' and if I looked he'd get so upset and yell, 'You looked! You looked!' "
He also suffers from the odd bout of writer's block that occurs about two-thirds of the way into a new book. "I panic and think, 'Oh God, I don't have enough material. This is the book that's going to let me down!' Then I get past it." He agrees it's a self-inflicted torment that has something to do with locking yourself away for a year and spending too much time in your head.
Right now, on tour, Colfer is missing his wife and two kids but says it would be churlish not to appreciate the wonderful opportunities the Artemis Fowl books have presented him. At this point, he thinks he'll write two more books in the series and then he'll put Artemis to rest. "I'll be a bit sad when it happens. I've spent a lot of time in his company, but I have lots of other things I'd like to do." One idea is a detective series for young adults and a musical based on an Irish legend. Still living in Wexford, on the south-east coast, Colfer says Ireland is a great place for artists because they're respected. "People are very supportive and it's not just a class thing - everybody, the common man can be creative and it's OK, you can be young and say, 'I'm writing a play', and people will say, 'Good on you'. Some other countries, they wouldn't take you seriously."
Increasingly, Colfer's eight-year-old son is becoming aware of just how popular his dad is. When Colfer took him to a book event with 600 school children, Finn was surprised to hear them chanting his dad's name, but he took it in his stride. During question time, Finn raised his hand and asked, "Mr Colfer, where do you get your ideas from?" At the end of the event, Master Colfer suggested that next time, things might work better if he accompanied his dad on stage.
"He uses it against me, too. One day he said, all those other kids have their books signed by you, so will you sign all of mine?" Colfer says Finn can be remarkably sarcastic for such a small boy but adds, with unmistakable pride, "He takes the mickey out of his own dad but I have to admire him 'cos that's what I'd be doing".
Born May 14, 1965, in Wexford, Ireland.
Education Wexford Elementary School; bachelor of education, 1986; education diploma, 1987, Dublin.
Lives again in Wexford (although has lived in Saudia Arabia, Tunisia and Italy) with his wife Jackie and their two boys.
Career primary-school teacher, Wexford.
1998: Publishes first book, Benny and Omar.
1999: Publishes sequel, Benny and Babe.
2000: Publishes The Wish List, wins Bisto Merit Award .
2001: Publishes Artemis Fowl. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award.
2001: Leaves teaching and writes full time.
2002: Publishes Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. Winner of the W.H.Smith Children's Book of the Year and winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year.
2003: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. Winner of the W.H. Smith People's Choice Award.
2004: The Legend of Spud Murphy, The Supernaturalist.
2005: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.
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So, the government and Fannie/Freddie want to help homeowners with overpriced mortgages stay in their homes.The rich get richer, it seems.
Suzanne and I have been renting for 2+ years specifically to wait until homes come back down to reasonable purchase price.
Where's the government *home buying* program for those of us fiscally responsible enough to have avoided an overpriced mortgage?
Next up the American auto industry that has been pimping Hummers and SUVs for way too long.
For people to be free to have success there also needs to be a freedom to fail.


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Author Notes: My husband is from Texas, and Texans are picky about their beans. This is our recipe that evolved to suit his Texan taste buds, and to please a house full of kids. This is an inexpensive meal, and takes very little actual time to prepare, as long as you remember to soak the beans the night before.
This recipe will feed 8-10 people, and was a Friday night favorite because we often had "spare" kids to feed. When our children were teenagers, it was not uncommon to see one of their friends at the stove inspecting what was cooking! My husband would refer to a large pot of beans as a "vat o' food". The picture is one I took of His and Hers Beans. —mamusa
Serves 8-10
- 1 sixteen ounce bag of pinto beans
- 4 cups water
- 1 individual packet of Goya powdered chicken bullion
- one 32 ounce box vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 ten ounce can Rotel tomatoes with chilies
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 sweet onion
- 3 celery stalks and a palm full of chopped celery leaves from the heart of the celery
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 2 1/2 cups fresh green beans snapped
- 1 sixteen ounce package of smoked link sausage – country style, mild
- 1 sixteen ounce bag of yellow rice.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil for frying vegetables and sausage
- 2 tablespoons olive oil for frying burrito wraps
- 8 - 10 small burrito wraps
- corn relish or chow chow for the table
- Soak beans overnight in 8 cups of cold water. In the morning pour off soak water.
- Add 4 cups of water that has had the bouillon packet mixed in, the vegetable broth, bay leaf, sugar and salt to the beans and bring almost to a boil. Then turn to low for 2 to 2 ½ hours. When the beans are soft but still firm in the middle they are ready for the rest of the ingredients. Check the liquid frequently while cooking and add water as necessary to just cover the beans.
- The amount of liquid it takes to cook beans varies depending on the beans. At this point: before you put in the rest of the ingredients it is the time to adjust the liquid. Check the liquid on the beans: the liquid should just cover the beans by ½ inch above the beans. If there is more discard, if less add water.
- Chop the yellow pepper, onion, celery including leaves, oregano and mince the garlic. Cut bite sized rounds of sausage. . Sauté the vegetables lightly in 2 tabllespoons of olive oil in a large fry pan. Add the sausage to the sautéing vegetables and quickly brown the sausage. Add sausage and veggie mixture to beans. Add oregano, pepper, chili powder, cumin, snapped beans, one can of Rotel tomatoes with chilies and bring almost to a boil, turn down to low and cook for another 30 minutes.
- At the same time as you add the veggies and sausage to the beans, start the rice if it is 20-30 minute rice.
- 10 minutes before you serve, add a tiny bit of olive oil to coat a fry pan, and brown both sides of the burrito wraps, adding olive oil as needed, when you remove them from the pan fold them in half.
- Serve the beans over yellow rice, and if you are fancy add some corn relish or chow chow on the top.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dirt Cheap Dinner
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Everyday I get a few emails asking about the specifics of some piece of software or hardware I use.
I change up things fairly often, so this page will serve as a living document and a place to point curious developers to when I get asked.
If there is something missing leave a comment below or ask in my AMA — happy to chat and help you figure out your own situation.
Editor + Terminal
- Visual Studio Code is my current editor which I switched to in September 2017 after years of Sublime Text.
- Sublime Text V3 beta is used in most of my video tutorials — I write more about my setup in my book.
- I created a theme called Cobalt2 for VS Code, Sublime Text and iTerm2 v3 which I use.
- I'm currently using Operator Mono for a font. Yes I paid the $200 for it. Before that I used Inconsolata for many years.
- I use Operator Mono in Sublime, iTerm2 (with these settings: http://wes.io/fYY8), and in Chrome Dev tools with Dev Tools Author
- I'm currently switching over to Hyper for my terminal.
- The JavaScript suggestions you see in my videos is called JavaScript Completions – you might have to play with the settings to get it to not popup some of the node completions.
Desktop Apps
- I use Text Expander for canned responses and for most of my code snippets
- I'm a huge Alfred fan and have many workflows.
- I use Things App with a GTD mindset for managing my tasks.
- I design almost entirely in Sketch
- I backup with 2 time machines local HDDs, Dropbox for most files, and BackBlaze for my entire hard drive.
- I write in Sublime Text and use Marked to preview. I have an entire series about this.
- The cool Emoji picker you see me use in my videos is Rocket
- I use ScreenFlow to record and edit my screencasts
- I wrote about my animated gif workflow here
- My mic is a Heil PR40 on a PL2T boom arm. Many of my videos were recorded on the cheaper but still amazing AT2020
- I use a DBX286s to do almost all my audio compression and processing as a I record and pipe it into my computer with a Focusrite 2i2
- My webcam is a Logitech HD Pro c920
- All this gear is pretty demanding, so I use an
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- I run a Dell 4k P2715Q as my main with a cheap vertical 22″ to my left and an open loaded macbook pro nested on a Rain mStand
- I sit on a polished aluminum Herman Miller aeron
- My desk is an 8 foot oak butcher block countertop on legs
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- After a lengthy search for the perfect backpack for both traveling and schlepping gear around the city I bought the Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L and it's incredible (and very expensive 😑).


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The familiar King Akbar, Chimpan-Z and Kairobot are back. The new title by Kairosoft moves away from the heavy simulation and strategy building of Mega Mall Story, Pocket Academy and Hot Springs Story to return to the basics of the beloved Game Dev Story. But what could make it better than any of their games released on the App Store so far?
Grand Prix Story [iTunes Link] by the mysterious Japanese developer Kairosoft is the Formula 1 management game where you direct a team to win the most exciting races around the world. The theme complements perfectly the mechanics seen in their first game, since you must develop a unique car researching parts, install upgrades and train your team to become a serious contender for the championship.
Don't think Grand Prix Story has anything to do with actual driving: this is a pure management sim where you use your intuition to improve stats, seek sponsorships and hire pilots and mechanics within a budget. Notice how I say intuition. Like other cryptic Kairosoft games, the game tutorials, dialogs and in-game text aren't going to help much. It's up to you to experiment with different parameters until you get it right - I can't deny that this lost in translation element is an important part of the fun.
If you have played any of their games this won't be a problem since everything looks very familiar. The menus and interface, which still haven't been improved for iOS resolutions, are located in the same place. You also get the strange touch controls used in the mysterious Japanese smartphone this game was originally developed for. The game currencies continue with the same success formula, mixing money and research points, serving as restrictions to upgrade and buy new items or skills that actually give you a direction to follow during the game.
The same game mechanics you already know
I got the impression that research points aren't as important as in previous titles, probably because they're very easy to earn. Every time you race - should I say, watch a race - your drivers will gain individual skill points and research skills to be used in development. Since you can race as many times as you like, this is an easy source of XP. The only drawback is repairing the car after every race, which also earns you XP and skill points for your team. Easy, right?
The game starts in a humble garage where you assemble your first car and get a team of mechanics and pilot to participate in races. Finishing first will unlock new parts or skills and will get the attention of the equivalent of Bernie Ecclestone, who will call you with an invitation to participate in new circuits and eventually the Formula One Grand Prix.
Having gone through these routines, Grand Prix Story becomes a fairly easy and predictable game as long as you keep upgrading and researching continuously. Just like everyone imagined, this makes for the most dangerous combination where you play for hours in a single sit without even realising. The general pace is also pretty slow, but I find it quite similar to Game Dev Story, where you could launch, perhaps, three or four games per year.
Racing through the Japanese perspective
As far as realism goes, Grand Prix Story takes many cues of the real Formula 1 and industry players, including familiar-sounding company names, F1 pilots, the usual colours you see on the grid and the world's most famous circuits. The most questionable game design decision was to mix on-road, off-road and icy tracks on the same championship. I'll explain: you can develop a maximum of six cars (three per pilot) to compete in a GP. The performance of every car is conditioned by several factors, such as the road conditions, laps and amount of turns. You'll need to tweak your car with more handling to take on curvy circuits, use studs and chains for icy roads or equip the best tyres for dirt roads.
As a team manager, this means that you need to develop at least three different type of cars to have a chance to score points in every race. Simply changing tyres before a race (like in real life) won't be enough because your mechanics won't have enough time to repair and install new parts before the race starts. This ensures that you research and develop the righty technology before moving on to more competitive races, but limits the freedom you could have planning and developing just one amazing car. I would have preferred having a dedicated GP for off-road circuits - like a Rally Championship.
There's also a fairly unrealistic and rather confusing part in the game, which is down to the type of car you can bring to a race. In earlier competitions, everyone will use the simple models, but as soon the difficulty increases, other teams will use their whacky models, making you doubt about your own development decisions. From the basic Roadster, you can move up to the Buggy, Proto car (my favorite) and Super car, maybe go for the Dragster technology tree with the Cigar and Spiral cars or go for the F1-looking Wing, Sonic and Aero bodies. You also get a bunch of crazy special models thrown into the mix, but I won't spoil for you in this review.
Road to the championship
The trick here is to aim low and max out the performance of the simple models before taking on the most advanced ones. The "Tech" parameter of your racing team will define how the new car developed will turn out, meaning that an unexperienced team won't be able to handle the better models. This completes the cycle of development, racing, racing and more racing, upgrading and then develop a new model with all the new stuff learned in the process. This doesn't provide the same satisfaction feeling one gets developing a game console in Game Dev Story, but for me it's the most interesting part of the game - prepare a new car for a GP and see if it can obliterate the other teams.
If you liked the previous Kairosoft releases, Grand Prix Story is a stop you shouldn't miss. Having a very specific theme doesn't mean that it's only for racing fans, since there's little realism and a lot of management and strategising involved to cater for wider audiences. My biggest complaint is, again, the overall quality feel of the end product, which plays well but is along the worst examples of game porting to iOS. At least this time they used a Retina Display ready icon, so maybe next time they'll fix the UI too. The game runs OK on iPads at double resolution, but I don't see any reason not to release a Universal or HD build for the price being asked.


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My ceiling used to have glow and the dark stars on it. The sun always seemed hesitant when it set, like it was waving goodbye to an absent world, but I was too young to realize that it was just showing off its beauty. And when it was dark, I stared at those stars and wondered if I could be part of that world, and maybe if I fell asleep quick enough I could go on a journey to the moon. Nothing sparkles anymore, and when the sun goes down, it means times up. Life is a series of moments that are insignificant, small happenings, and yet, it always seems like the small things end up making the biggest difference. The other day I saw a bind man walking on the sidewalk in the city, the only thing guiding him, a white stick and the blaring of car horns. I looked up at the buildings above me, and I knew that even the dullest of things shine, when compared to total darkness. What does an artist do? Do we notice things that no one else can, or is it simply that we give meaning to things that are put on earth to defeat beauty? I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe I'll be an accountant.
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Metro police believe an early Monday morning traffic stop may have prevented a much more serious situation.
When Officer Brandon Whittaker spotted a car leaving Silverado's Saloon and Dance Hall at 1204 Murfreesboro Pike around 3 a.m. Monday and stopped it nearby for excessive window tinting, he couldn't have immediately known of the amount of firepower and contraband that was inside.
A subsequent search of the vehicle allegedly turned up an AK-47 rifle, a stolen .40-caliber Glock handgun, a .357-caliber revolver, about 230 grams of marijuana, about 1 gram of crack cocaine, other drug paraphernalia, $880 in real U.S. currency and another $500 in counterfeit U.S. currency.
Police arrested the five occupants inside the vehicle: Brian Anthony Leggs, 25, of Oakwood Avenue; Arista Rochelle Lewis, 21, of Wynnhaven Court; Donald Lee Peoples, 18, of Heiman Street; Steven Deshawn Kimbro, 22, of Rose Hall; and Christopher C. Bridges, 19, Chesapeake Drive. Each was charged with drug and gun possession as well as theft.
As Whittaker approached the car, he spotted one of the individuals holding the assault rifle, said police spokesman Don Aaron.
Backup officers arrived and helped take the five individuals into custody before a search of the vehicle allegedly turned up a box in the backseat containing 229.4 grams of marijuana, 1.2 grams of cocaine, a digital scale and some plastic baggies.
Police also charged Kimbro with evidence tampering and criminal simulation after he allegedly tried to hide five counterfeit $100 bills under the backseat of a police cruiser while he was in custody.
"None of the five would detail what they were doing," Aaron said. "The female said she'd been called to pick them up."
Metro police are working to determine any potential gang affiliations with the individuals, but Aaron said the officers involved are certain they stopped a more serious crime from taking place.
"With that much dope and that significant firepower in that car, there's no doubt that they were up to no good," he said.
Significant firepower HUH???
Keep in mind that the guns aren't the villians
"Metro police are working to determine any potential gang affiliations with the individuals, but Aaron said the officers involved are certain they stopped a more serious crime from taking place." C'mon Don Aaron, the previous police Chief Ronald Serpass ended gang violence with his Stratford High summit a few years ago.
Let's see, I have a spare tire and jack in my trunk. Both could be used as weapons. By Aaron's logic, I must be up to no good.
GUARDIAN-If the windows were tinted that dark how did the officer see the AK in one of the guys hands in the dark of the night from outside the vehicle? Just asking.
I suppose this bust is justification for the many bogus traffic stops that are based merely on profiling technigues - neither probabe cause, nor reasonable suspicion. Indeed, the focus on pretext traffic stops continues to interfere with the response of police officers to 911 emergency calls, even where violent acts result in injury or death.
I agree completely consult. Why do police and citizens need to worry about drug dealers with assault rifles and stolen weapons??? I mean, the police shouldn't be burdened with street crime while responding to true 911 emergencies.....regardless if they're out committing robberies, dealing crack, and killing people.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think is more serious? Let me guess, someone that broke into your car or littered in your yard??
That's one of the most ridiculous posts I"ve read in a long time....come out of your little bubble..there's a lot more going on in this world outside of your heavily obscured reality.
Courier.....comparing a tire jack to an AK47, an assault rifle commonly used in gang shootings AND a stolen handgun, is well, retarded.


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Ambitious, She Graduates at 15: Her Plan: Start Med School By 18
By Benjamin Niolet, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
Jun. 9--RALEIGH -- There's a lot to learn in this world, and Sindhu Sevala is eager to get going.That's why the 15-year-old is graduating from Green Hope High School today. That's why she's headed to N.C. State University with plans to get a degree -- or two -- in three years.
She wants to start medical school when she's 18.
Those who know her say there's more to the driven girl than studying and grades. At the heart of her achievements is a sincere desire to learn and to do well.
"She's not your typical bookworm," said Elizabeth Martin, who taught Sindhu in a civics and economics course and advanced placement comparative government and politics. "I think that might be the difference in what makes her so well-liked among her peers. She's not doing it to outdo them. She's doing it because she enjoys it."
Sindhu has interests outside the classroom. She likes dance, films, music -- she played the violin in a chamber group -- and sports. She admits she'd like to be better at basketball and figures that if she had more time to practice she'd make a few more baskets. That attitude -- that she can excel in anything with enough effort -- is part of what drives her.
"If I ever tell myself I can't do things, I don't do as well," Sindhu said.
She was born in Toronto. The family was visiting relatives in India when Sindhu, then 6 months old, became ill and had to stay in the country. Her parents moved to the Triangle in 1995 while Sindhu stayed in India with her grandparents and aunts.
In 2000, when Sindhu was 8, she left India and now lives with her parents in Cary. Sindhu is now a U.S. citizen. Her parents, who are Canadian citizens, have permanent residency here.
Her mother works in a transplant research lab at the UNC School of Medicine. Her father does research on the central nervous system in Boston, and spends his weekends in the Triangle.
They've long known their daughter was driven.
When Sindhu left schools in India, she was performing at a sixth-grade level. School officials here had her start in the fifth grade, in part because they worried about her ability to make friends. She has been racing ahead ever since.
Her mother, Mayura Sevala, said she and her husband have worried about their daughter moving too fast. They have discussed the benefits and disadvantages of early graduation, she said. The choice was Sindhu's.
"By graduating a year early, she's kind of missing some things," Sevala said. "My daughter, she's a very strongly motivated kid."
Sindhu's friends at school tend to be older, she said. Her teachers don't often think about her age.
"I didn't realize until she turned 14 how young she was," Martin said. "The way she carries herself is not like a 14- or 15-year-old."
She's not alone in getting an early diploma. Several students at Green Hope are graduating early, said Allison Tibbetts, a school counselor. It requires extra credits, which can be earned through a university or through online or correspondence classes. Sindhu took classes at NCSU.
On her first day at the university, Sindhu was just 12. Her parents, worried about their sometimes shy daughter, decided to wait outside. Sindhu walked into the classroom then turned to her parents.
"She just waved and said, 'I'll be OK,' " Sevala said.
Sindhu said that at NCSU she intends to pursue degrees in biomedical and chemical engineering. She wants to become an anesthesiologist after medical school. For now, she said, she plans to live with her parents. She said she may try living in a dorm later.
Sevala said that her daughter's early graduation is not an unheard-of achievement. They expect Saturday's graduation to be the first step.
"Right now we are both extremely happy," Sevala said. "Always there is room for some more excellence."
Sindhu is bracing herself for larger classes, high expectations and the bustling pace of university life. But first she hopes to get her learner's permit.
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is the ability to send and receive email messages. I had an experience once where users at remote locations were encountering some difficulty when they tried to access the Exchange server. They would receive a prompt for user credentials, a dialog box prompting the user to enter information such as:
This can be annoying, especially for non-technical users, to have to enter these credentials on every login. But you can solve this problem relatively easily if you're having it happen, and it may if you are equipping users with Outlook 2002.
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I live on the south shore of Long Island in one of the hardest hit areas.
During the storm I had 4.5 feet of water in my house. Also during the night of the storm my neighbors house caught on fire and my brother and I swam through 6 feet of freezing water to save them. Then the fire department couldn't get to us, because of the flood. My family fought the fire with garden hoses for 8 hours. It is a miracle that I am writing this today, because my house almost burned down. There is a video of the fire on youtube. If you want me to post the name of it I will, but I don't want this to seem like an advertisement.
Share your stories from Hurricane Sandy here.
stories should be told in the tavern. no?
World Events, party. It's a world event, so it should go in the World Events section.
I wish I had some interesting stories, but the storm missed me by about a dozen states.
World Events, party. It's a world event
Truth be told, it hit Canada and parts of Greenland as well.
Truth be told, it hit Canada and parts of Greenland as well.
Back then? Wait, what? You mean in November? Not quite sure what you mean.
Many people here (like me) are still getting their lives together, and as this is the first time I have been on a computer scince the hurricane, I figured others would be in the same situation. You would be amazed how much it helps to talk about it you know.
Back then? Wait, what? You mean in November?
You would be amazed how much it helps to talk about it you know.
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Hi, I'm Laurie from Lawton, Oklahoma. I have been quilting for about 6 years. This will be my first mystery quilt. I am currently working on a block of the month quilt and a jelly roll quilt. Also contemplating a quilt from my quilting calendar. Sounds like a lot, but I am retired now after 34 years of civil service and raring to go! My 4 children are grown, and I now have 9 grandchildren who are from 1 to 16 years old. They are all local now, and constantly dropping in, but I have the girls started sewing and they are wanting to make beautiful quilts too. When will the instructions for this quilt be out for us to start? Are there weekly steps? (Forgive me, I haven't done this before.)
Laurie:When will the instructions for this quilt be out for us to start? Are there weekly steps? (Forgive me, I haven't done this before.)
Welcome Laurie! Isn't retirement grand?!! The steps will be posted at about 12:05 a.m. each Friday. Happy quilting!
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I love the red and white. This will make a very dramatic quilt.
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I live in Southern California and am retired. Quilting is my passion. I did the Modern Mystery Quilt and loved how it turned out. This one looks to be a lot of fun.
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Ms. Phyllis Buckingham, age 62 of Jackson, passed away on Saturday, August 11 2012 at her home.
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Phyllis grew up in Jackson, graduated from South Side High School class of 1967, and later retired from Woolworth Department Store as a department Manager. She was an avid collector of Baseball Cards and a member of North Bemis Baptist Church.
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Chris Mohr has officiated at more than 7,000 ceremonies, straight and gay, at the cozy Foothills Wedding Chapel, and he's heard every reason why people want to get married.
Love comes up a lot, and financial security, but there's something else. Brides and grooms tell him they want to be part of an institution that connects them to each other and the ages, too, something that is testified, certified and sanctified, if not fully guaranteed.
"The vows themselves carry a certain power. People feel different after saying them," Mohr said. "They're not fundamentally different, but something has changed."
With the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday, saying the federal government must treat all legally married couples the same regardless of gender, that change is going come to scores of new Americans. Gay couples in Colorado may have to jump over hurdles — travel to one of 12 states where marriage is legal and file for a civil union here — but they should soon be able to obtain government-granted rights and privileges long available to any married couple.
For the gay rights movement, the decision accomplishes a goal so audacious few thought it possible even a few years ago as voters in state after state — 30 in the past 15 years — passed sweeping bans on same-sex marriage. It is a victory, clear and simple, over powerful social conservatives who fought the idea bitterly, religious leaders who chided the public's evolving morality.
But for many gay men and lesbians, the decision is personal, promising economic benefits and an affirmation of citizenship in a country where disdain may be rampant but civil rights are sure.
"I just feel that this is the most significant thing to happen in my lifetime," said Courtney Welton-Mitchell, a professor at the University of Denver who married Denver public defender Sarah Welton in 2011.
No doubt, gay Americans stopped needing approval to exist a generation ago. They live openly in tiny corners of the U.S. when they once could not, they join the Army and the PTA where their kids go to school, and yet they campaigned relentlessly for the public sanction of marriage because they felt they needed it.
It can't be overstated how much the move could fundamentally change the lives of many gay people, saving huge sums in estate and income taxes, easing immigration for non-citizen spouses, allowing spouses to retire because they can collect on the social security and military pensions earned by their married partner.
Still, Welton-Mitchell speaks of less tangible advantages, the sort that inspired her and Welton to travel to Nepal for a Hindu ceremony. Same-sex marriage is not legal there, though the country is rewriting laws in favor of gay civil rights.
The couple marched in the Gay Pride parade in Denver this month, pushing their 2-year-old daughter in a stroller.
"It's just so incredibly symbolic," she said. "To be able to say you are a legitimate couple, a legitimate family, you are people who count."
Marriage does not solve all the problems gay Americans face. It won't keep seventh-graders who wear eyeliner from getting bullied, and it won't let a gay man be a Boy Scout leader. Bakers in Lakewood can still refuse to sell you a wedding cake, as happened to David Mullins and Charlie Craig last year.
"It's not going to make people happy in their relationships, and it's not going to do away with Grindr or Manhunt," jokes Harvard historian Michael Bronski, referring to two websites where gay men famously connect for "dates."
Bronski, the author of "A Queer History of the United States" views marriage in the context of a movement that took shape with the formation of the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights group, in 1950. The most important advances, he said, already happened as gays and lesbians integrated themselves for the first time in society.
"Not getting beat up, not losing your job, being able to just look gay without being arrested," those were the important things," he said.
But now "marriage is the really big one." Gay rights pioneers would never have thought to ask for it.
He compares the quick change in public opinion on the matter to the rapid turn against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and credits two simultaneous events: the increased openness of gay people — sons, sisters and dads are now out — and a devaluing of marriage overall. According to the U.S. Census, 44 percent of American adults are single.
"People don't care about marriage anymore," he said.
Whether scores of the newly enfranchised rush to wed remains to be seen. Many gay men and lesbians, especially the feminists among them, have been skeptical of marriage. Even Welton-Mitchell admitted she's "in a strange position to be advocating for it."
How they will marry is a question, as well. In advocating for same-sex unions, gay operatives worked hard to separate marriage's civic attributes from its sacred ones. But gay couples of faith will no doubt want old-fashioned church weddings.
That's delicate. Catholic churches, in particular, are not going to host gay unions, though other denominations are making accommodations.
James Fouther Jr., senior pastor at United Church of Montbello, hopes gay people will marry in church settings because he believes a spiritual component makes for a more thoughtful union. It's not about gender; it's about two souls moving closer to God.
He's been married to his wife for 21 years and knows all marriages require selflessness and commitment. He thinks a spiritual component will assist gays navigating a world that can treat them harshly.
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PostgreSQL 8.3 vs. 8.2 - a simple benchmark
I ran across an interesting post that benchmarks the newest version of PosrgreSQL (8.3) versus the previous release (8.2). PostgreSQL is one of the most used databases for web 2.0 startups (behind MySQL).
The below is from the post.
With 8.3 just around the corner more and more people are actually starting to test 8.3 with their code base and wondering if it will be worth to switch/upgrade and so did I.
The following is not really an in-depth benchmark but meant as a simple testing of 8.3 on a very specific (but not uncommon) workload and with small set of different configuration parameters.
All the testing is done on a DL380 G5 with two Quadcore Intel Xeon CPUs (X5345 - so 2,33Ghz per core) 12GB of RAM and 6 disks in a RAID1+0 with 512MB BBWC on a Smartarray P400.
The box is running Debian/Etch AMD/64 with the debian supplied kernel (2.6.18 more or less) and a current -HEAD snapshot of PostgreSQL (more or less BETA4 code) compiled as a 64bit binary.
The benchmark database is initialized with a scaling factor of 100 (equals to 10M rows) which seems to be a reasonable size for a table in an OLTP style database) all testing was done with 100 clients and 100000 transactions/client which comes out to 10M transactions and an average runtime of about 1,5 hours.
The first test is a simple comparison of 8.2 vs 8.3B4 in both the default (ie. unchanged postgresql.conf) and one with a somewhat reasonable tuning:
* checkpoint_segments=192
* maintenance_work_mem=128MB
* shared_buffers=1536MB
* wal_buffers=1024kB
* effective_cache_size=3084MB
* filesystem(ext3) mounted with noatime
what we can see here is that 8.3B4 is about 2.2x faster than 8.2 out-of-the-box for this very update heavy workload and is able to keep that advantage after similar tuning is applied to both instances.
The main reason for this rather large improvement is HOT. pgbench is one of the workloads that benefit most from it and a bit of preliminary testing with similiar real-life workloads (session tables or stuff like the SQL-Bayes support in Spamassassin) show equally impressive gains.
the second thing I tried to test was the effect of various shared_buffer settings on the transaction rate(the other parts of the configuration stayed the same as in the "tuned" variant above):
there are two main things to note here - one is the obvious one that the scaling on the x-axis is not linear.
The other one is that the best performance seems to be around 1,5GB of shared memory which is about the size of the database on-disk in 8.3. Higher settings to not help and in fact cause a slight performance degeneration.
From these tests it looks like 8.3 is going to very good release. With databases performance tuning is critical to having your application run its best.
As always if you have any questions about the above you can comment on this post or message me on Social Ajaxonomy. Also if you have an interesting site, library or story you can use the link on the side bar of the blog (or click here) to submit the item.
[...] PostgreSQL 8.3 - Finally Released! By David Hurth - Posted on February 4th, 2008 Tagged: Ajax After much waiting ProstgreSQL 8.3 has been released. This is a much better performing release from version 8.2. You can find some benchmarks that I wrote about previously here. [...]


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direct link: Tidal Fury Guernica Launch 2016
Here is a video of my set for my book, Tidal Fury, at the Guernica Editions launch Dec 4th. The talented and lovely Karen Shenfeld introduced me and she said such nice things I was blushing. The MC was Anna Geisler, gorgeous hard-working lady. The Publisher, Michael Mirolla, is a literary force in his own right and has brought much fine writing to public attention with an substantial yearly publishing schedule. I am honoured and fortunate to be a Guernica author. Many thanks to all!
'Tidal Fury' by Brenda Clews
Introduced by Karen Shenfeld
MC Anna Geisler
Guernica video trailer in the background
by Gabriel Quigley
at the Guernica Editions book launch
December 4, 2016
Supermarket Restaurant & Bar
in Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada
Michael Mirolla, Publisher
Tidal Fury is available from all major booksellers:
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ocean waves
from freesound.org
videoed & edited
by Brenda Clews


text: We should consider having generic: linux_compat linux_base linux_x11 linux_gtk and so on. Then have a setting in bsd.pkg.defaults.mk, like: LINUX?= suse # Used by Linux compatibility to choose distribution of pre-made packages. # Possible: suse, debian, redhat, unity # Default: suse I could help pkgsrc up "debian" and it would be a good test of our compat_linux(8). On a related note: since I have most of these "Linux" files now in (my) pkgsrc, I could probably automate the building of the Linux-related binaries too! (In other words, no need to use outside, like Suse Linux, packages.) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/


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It has always been my dream city, the ultimate desire (together with Japan of course), and I am sure you are all into the metropolitan of the big movies.
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Salmon Fishing in Yemen
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Written by: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Paul Torday (novel)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristen Scott Thomas and Amr Waked
A fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheik's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the Yemeni desert. This unlikely and seemingly impossible task 'upstream' is a leap of faith in work, life and love.
Usually inept advertising/marketing actually makes films better for me when I see the whole product. There are exceptions of course, namely Contraband, where the film cut's the trailer to look like something that the movie isn't. Very rarely you get a film where the trailer actually tells you in a very concise way THE ENTIRE STORY of a film, effortlessly giving you the 140 character abridged version of the 80,000 word novel, making your entire viewing experience redundant. Welcome to Salmon Fishing In Yemen. ***Warning, if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the film***
Director Lasse Hallestrom (Chocolat, Ciderhouse Rules, Dear John) does a fine job of aesthetically contrasting the bleak, dark and drab London origins of the story to the luscious, majestic greens of the Sheik's Scottish Castle grounds and lakes that inform his passion for fishing. Writer Simon Beufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) rights great dry verbal sparring between the characters that allows/relies the actors to convey the intent.
Ewan McGregor is a fine dramatic actor that for whatever reason is at the mercy of rubbish casting a lot of the time. His stuffy, sardonic, bitingly sarcastic Dr Alfred Jones was a refreshing turn for him that gave him the opportunity to expose a rich dramatic core of a lead character protected in the comfort of what's not possible. He's a character that's hard to read, and in the beginning hard to like -but I found it one of McGregor's strongest performances.
Emily Blunt does a good job as Harriet, who is an antithesis of the abrasive (but very funny) characters that she's been type cast into since The Devil Wears Prada. It's an emotional rollercoaster of a role for her character who in the beginning of a film is dating a solider that goes missing in action in Iraq. Blunt shows her range working through the uncertainty and constant grief very well. Blunt is an actress that I enjoy watching in Rom Com fluff far more than a Kate Hudson, SJP etc.
Kristen Scott Thomas plays Patricia Maxwell the head of PR for the British PM and in the openings of the film is a 'one-liner' comedic machine. She well and truly showed her comedic chops in the British classic Four Weddings and a Funeral and her bluntness and political incorrectness does make for some great, literal, laugh-out-loud moments. As the film progresses however, her character's necessity to be the comic relief becomes a little tiresome and some of the story telling techniques, her instant message chats to the PM, also wear out their welcome.
The glaring problem that I had with this film was it's portrayal of Yemeni/Arab people. Amr Waked played a pragmatic, likeable, faithful Sheik and he carried the role with sincerity. However, without spoiling too much, I'm immediately put off when an Arab character is portrayed in an unrealistic, orientalist, mystical manor that has two binaries. One, the religious mystical wise character, and the second a fanatical terrorist. It's frustrating and these kind of portrayals are lazy and stupid. This really jarred me out of my viewing experience.
So it's with that frame of mind that I saw Salmon Fishing In Yemen, which apart from some glaring orientalist, sweeping generalisations and characterisations of Yemeni and Arabic people was a cute and painfully predictable British comedy featuring a measured accomplished performance from Ewan McGregor.
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auntie o for president?
well it could happen.
oprah sat down with david rubenstein on his show,
"the david rubenstein show: peer-to-peer conversations",
and he asked if she would consider running for the potus position.
an f-bi hipped me to what her answer was via the huffington post…
Tag: might
auntie o for president?


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We've been mercifully distracted from preparations for the start of school, and have spent all our free time over the last few days foraging in hedgerows. The unusual combination (for England, anyway) of endless sunshine interrupted by intense downpours of rain has ensured that nature is putting on a glorious show as the seasons turn; blackberries are everywhere you look; acorns are likely to fall from the sky and render a nasty ding to your forehead should you be foolish enough to stand still, and the air is perfumed with cider as a million windfall apples quietly ferment in the grass. (Do I sound a little tipsy and effusive? Blame it on the apples..).
Harry has proven to be a stoic and unflappable blackberry-picker; whilst I bumble along, shrieking and tossing my pail in the air with fright every time a bug walks over my hand, Harry tuts gently and gathers our fallen harvest before starting over again. We returned home a little sweaty and scratched up, but with enough blackberries to fill several baskets and make for a weekend of berry-tastic cooking. We started with our favourite… JAM!!
I've found through trial and error that presentation is everything when it comes to homemade jam, and minimises the chance of recipients gingerly clutching their gift whilst stealthily examining the jar for mould, unconventional ingredients or smeary fingerprints. I made berry coloured labels for ours and then cut disks to cover the lids from a print-out of the photo above (at least there's no doubt about the contents..). Sparkly thread covered the rubber band and completed the look.
with approximately a bathtub's worth of berries leftover we decided to invent a new recipe; blackberry crumble bars, which combine sponge cake, blackberries, jam and crumble, and thus contain all the main food groups. All the ones we're interested in anyway..
Exhausted – and deliciously full – we decided to abandon all further attempts in the kitchen and instead to package up our leftover berries and take round to friends and neighbours. I found these pretty trays on sale and added labels with recipe suggestions, and then Harry practised his balance and co-ordination skills with moderate success…
And now, in a further fit of procrastination as I avoid all school-related thoughts; what to do with our first apple harvest? We taste-tested these, and once we'd managed to un-shrivel our taste-buds, roll back our eyes and breathe without gasping, decided that they are probably a little too tart to be eating apples. If you have any to-die-for recipes for cooking apples I'd love to know; at the moment I'm just enjoying their beauty and scent as they adorn our kitchen table (but I know I need to act soon….).
Have a great weekend, when it arrives!


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I had my boys just shy of 21 months apart at the time it
was a bit of a struggle, two little ones in nappies, lots of sleepless nights,
dealing with teething and toddler tantrums in tandem. Getting out of the house was not any easier; hubbie let me invest
in a double pushchair, but measured the doorframe wrong! So I used a combination of a baby carrier, a
buggy board on a pushchair, my shoulders and basically whatever would placate
the pair of them.
all I wanted in that time was a decent double buggy one which would have made
it through the door and made my life that much easier! I wish now I had spent more time researching
my options (and possibly taking care of working out the measurements
myself!). Double pushchairs seem more affordable
these days as you can see on Argos. After I blew our budget on an unsuitable
one, I was not allowed another, but with more affordable options hubbie might
have indulged me to make up for his little error!
the thing about being parent you always wonder how you would have done things
differently, even when you are just trying your best, you keep wondering if you
could do it better. Despite the lack of
double pushchair my boys grew up fine, we found a way as you do. I know people with considerably more
children with even smaller age gaps who seem to juggle everything like true
professionals. To those individuals I
salute you!
part of me is tempted to have another, through every meltdown there are so many
magical moments, cuddles and kisses to cherish! Plus with two transporting themselves number three would be a
breeze; I would have two willing volunteers to help! Although they might argue over who gets to push the baby…
(Perhaps it's a good thing hubbie will never agree to it!).
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One year ago, an alliance led by House Inverted and the Wardogs caused a region of our fair lands to rebel and claim independent rule. Now we call upon all the troopers of the Emp… I mean Kingdom… to storm the ramparts of their rebel stronghold and help Us return these lands to Our loving care. They must learn that what can be seized by force can be re-taken by the same means at Highlands War XVI – The Northlands Strike Back.
The Barony of Ered Sul in the Northlands of the Kingdom of Atenveldt will host the 16th Annual Highlands War from June 3rd to 7th 2010. The event will return to the incomparable site in Mormon Lake, AZ ( 30 miles south of Flagstaff, AZ). Please join us for a unique respite from the heat of the deserts and stress of the cities and enjoy the cool of the meadows, forests, and mountains of Northern Arizona!
Site Information
The Site for war is the incomparable Mormon Lake approximately 40 miles south of Flagstaff, AZ on route SR 487 (aka Lake Mary Rd) Further information on site details are forthcoming, please check back soon! GPS is not recommended to find Mormon lake Lodge, as there have been many people stranded by the bad roads these routes can take you on. Be forewarned: the most direct routes ( and therefore GPS routes) often traverse unmaintained forest service roads!
Driving Directions:
From I-40 traveling East or West: Take the Sedona/Phoenix south turn-off and get onto 1-17 South. Take the first off-ramp Sedona 89A/Pulliam Airport exit and turn left and cross back over the freeway and get back onto I-17 North. The first off ramp is Lake Mary Hwy. At the off-ramp stop sign turn right and travel according to the following directions.
From Flagstaff: Take the Lake Mary Hwy (FH3) about 21 miles (towards Payson) to the Mormon Lake Village turn-off sign. Turn right and travel about 7 miles to the lodge. You will see the roping arena, campground and RV Park on your left and you will not miss the lodge.
From Camp Verde and I-17: Head East on Hwy 260 through town and continue up the mountain approximately 31 miles. Once you reach AZ-87, turn left toward Clint's Well approximately 12 miles. Continue with the following directions from Clint's well.
From Payson: Take Hwy 89 north and go through Strawberry and Pine to the little village of Clint's Well. Just past the store and gas station, turn left and take FH 3 (Lake Mary Hwy) north towards Flagstaff. Travel about 35-40 minutes and you will pass the Stoneman Lake Road turn-off. About seven miles past the Stoneman Lake Road turn off you will see the south entrance to Mormon Lake Village - watch for the Mormon Lake Village sign on the right side of the road. Turn left and travel two miles to the lodge. You will not miss the lodge. From I-17, on the Stoneman Lake Road: Get off I-17 on the Stoneman Lake Road turn-off and travel about seven miles on paved road to the end of the paving at a T-intersection with unpaved road. Turn left at the stop sign and travel about eight miles to the next paved road - FH3 (Lake Mary Hwy). Turn left and travel about seven more miles to the south entrance to Mormon Lake Village. Look for the Mormon Lake Village sign on the right side of the road. Turn left and travel two miles to the lodge. You will not miss the lodge.
NOTE: Stoneman Lake Road, while well traveled, is only paved for 7 of 16 miles at the I-17 end of the road; the rest of the road is graded cinder road and might not be suitable for some cars or may be closed in severe weather conditions. But, this route will cut 40 minutes off a trip through Flagstaff. This route is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR LOW PROFILE CARS.


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You know I didn't get a lot of sleep last night and this morning I had to get up and do laundry. There aren't many things that I dislike more than doing laundry, but it is a necessary evil. What made it worse is that today I did it all, the towels, the bed sheets and all and it sucked. That is kinda a precursor as to what the game was going to be like today for the Pirates, the game was going to suck. It did.
Raul Ibanez drove in four runs, including the game winner for the Phils as they beat the Pirates in extra innings. Not only did we go into extra innings again but the best reliever on the team, Joel Hanrahan, didn't touch the ball in crunch time. I have defended this before, but it is really starting to get old. The Pirates now fall 4.5 games back of first place heading into August and it will be the biggest month of games that they have played since like 1997 or some junk.
What this series did was show that the Pirates still have a good bit of work to do in order to become a true contender. They went from the worst team in the league to a team that is in the hunt for the NL Central in the beginning of August but I still don't think they are true contenders. They went out and got Derrek Lee and Ryan Ludwick today so that will help the offense but is that really enough? Probably not. It does make the team better but until Jose Tabata, Alex Presley, Ryan Doumit, Ronny Cedeno, etc come back from being on the DL it is still going to be tough.
The Pirates get seven games at home against the Cubs and Padres before they start a really tough NL Central slate with the Cardinals and Brewers so it will be so important to play well and get some big wins there.


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Skip to comments.Stranger than fiction: George Zimmerman emerges from hiding to rescue victim of car accident
Posted on 07/22/2013 11:40:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ever wonder whether reality is an illusion and we're actually living inside a simulation run by an omnipotent being? Well, here's the proof that it's true. And that the omnipotent being is Tom Wolfe.
Alternate headline: "George Zimmerman hasn't moved out of Florida yet?"
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where he shot Martin.
Actually, if this were a Tom Wolfe novel, the guy Zimmerman pulled from the truck would be a reporter who'd been especially loathsome in demagoging the trial's racial angle. And then, once news of the accident and rescue broke, Zimmerman-hating nuts would descend on the site to protest, claiming that it was all a stunt arranged to rehabilitate his image. (Which, in fact, is already happening in the comments to the ABC story linked up top.) Then the reporter would face a crisis of conscience: Tell the truth about how the whole thing is legit and risk antagonism from his colleagues in the media, or keep quiet to protect his leftist cred and let Zimmerman go on languishing in hiding? If you've ever read a Wolfe novel, you know how that story ends. Write it, Tom.
Now we wait to find out what the race of the rescued man was and whether any narratives will need to be "adjusted" in the wake of it. (Here's one adjustment to expect.) I also want to know if Zimmerman was part of a group working at the scene to free the trapped driver or whether it was basically a solo act. The only way this story could get any more surreal is if there was a crowd there and he was recognized. The ABC story does say that he "helped" rescue someone, not that he did it all by himself.
Exit quotation: "When will he learn to stay in his car?"
Update: Kerry Picket of Breitbart has more details. It was a family of four trapped in an SUV, and Zimmerman was indeed recognized at the scene:
The deputy reported, when he arrived on the scene that one of the two men there was George Zimmerman. According to Sanford Police Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher and helped assist the family to get them out of the vehicle.
"Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash, which was why he was not referenced in the police report," a Sanford Police spokeswoman told Breitbart News. "He left after making contact with the deputy. There were no reports of injuries of any of the vehicle's occupants," she said.
Prosecutors said to be looking into what charges to file ...
This is starting to make the rounds all over the place now.
Butthurt racists don't care but it does go to show that GZ is a good guy trying to do the right thing. Thank GOD he had the means to defend his life against an attempted murder. Yes, I think bashing someone's head on the concrete over and over is attempted murder.
All staged to get his image rehabilitated
Right? Here comes the DOJ to investigate. lol
Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of a family of four — two parents and two children — trapped inside a blue Ford Explorer SUV that had rolled over after traveling off the highway in Sanford, Fla. at approximately 5:45 p.m. Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route Route 46, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where Zimmerman shot Martin.
By the time police arrived, two people - including Zimmerman - had already helped the family get out of the overturned car, the sheriff's office said. No one was reported to be injured.
Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash and left after speaking with the deputy, police said.
It's the first known sighting of Zimmerman since he left the courtroom following his acquittal last week on murder charges for the death of Martin. Zimmerman, 29, shot and killed Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012. The jury determined that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
Yea sure.
First of all his image doesn't need rehabilitated. He was found not guilty and the majority of people agree with the verdict. The hate mongers on the left would not care if GZ recused 100 people from a burning building because they need their lie about him to stick for other political reasons.
Now kindly take off your pathetic tin foil hat.
I assume George hustled back to his APC (Armored Personnel Carrier)after the rescues.
meant rescued.
that's what all of the Skittles crowd is claiming in the comments to these articles.
That, and claiming that George actually caused the wreck in the first place
Some sites are reporting that the victim in this crash was black. If that is, indeed, the case, we will never hear about it in the Lame-stream media. That is for certain.
Like Batman!!!
Doesn't sound like he's in one or cares to be. Good for him for living his life and not changing.
A few comments at the following thread if anyone is interested.
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue
also "wannabe fireman" for the rescue.
If you were being sarcastic then I apologize.
George Z really IS a good, stand-up guy!
Pretty strange that Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher with him. I guess he's a wannabe fireman too. He should have stayed in his car and called fire rescue. /sarc
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WASHINGTON. — Washington -- Last weekend, President Bush met at Camp David with his top political advisers to plan strategy for an expected re-election bid. While the success in the gulf war and the rapprochement with the Soviet Union will be at the top of the list of accomplishments trumpeted by the administration, the president should return to the bread-and-butter domestic issues taxing and spending that he abandoned in last year's fraudulent budget agreement with Congress.
That agreement reduced neither spending nor taxes. Instead it raised both at the federal level and caused state and local governments to follow suit.
As Rep. Bill Archer (R-Tex.)notes in the current issue of Policy Review,liberal Democrats have obtained a free ride in the press with their contention that the ballooning deficit was caused by tax cuts for the rich in the 1980s under Presidents Reagan and Bush,that federal spending on social programs was greatly reduced,and that family income declined. None of this is true and the administration needs to say so.


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Hollywood stars make magic on, off screen
Updated 2:56 pm, Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Photo: Jon Kopaloff, Getty Images
SAN ANTONIO – Hollywood's hottest pairs ooze sexuality and perfection.
From their flawless skin, to svelte figures, these incredibly beautiful people prove that when the hottest celebrities hook up with one another, it's magic.
Click through to see superstar duos - including couples from Hollywood's yesteryear.