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Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, new releases on Friday, September 30, 2011
As we move into a new month additional hunts are on the horizon. So many these days it is difficult to choose which to follow. But especially for those of you who shy away from searching and such there is goodness of the go and gather variety at Paradisis. This very cute "Falls" top and socks (see below) in all layers in both violet and wine can be found HERE for free. There are plenty of others colors to be had of course as well as a super short coordinating mini-skirt, just out (not shown).
The socks are asymmetrical which is fun. I especially like the sleeve extensions -- nothing new there.
If violet is your color, you will love these pretty flower earrings from .:CoLLisions:. So pretty!
Ah, the "milestones" in the title refers to moving past the 2,200 blog post mark. Always nice to get to replace that number. I am looking forward to post 2,222 :D.
Poses by: Vista Animations
Four To Go
Posted by Chic Aeon in color challenge
We are nearing the end of the road in our fifty-two week trek through the color wheel. Congrats to those that started at the beginning and are still in the game. My moss is made up of old favorites, most but not all named "moss". It is a fitting color for this time of year in the Northern climes. Mother Nature gives us a wild burst of color and then we move into the calm and hopefully serene days of late Autumn and early winter.
I have to admit that I have a few colors on my personal list that seem to be missing. It will be fun to see if they appear in our last four weeks.
Pose by: LAP
Victorian Red
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts
I finished -- in my manner -- the On The Hunt hunt last eve. While there were several nice prizes in the mix, this is my pick for today -- a saucy Victorian burlesque outfit with shoes from Blackhearted Clothing.
It is just before dawn and all is quiet in New Toulouse Jardin.
Poses by: Juxtapose
Last Days of Summer
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases on Thursday, September 29, 2011
We have a few more days of warm weather in my neck of the woods. The mornings are crisp; the afternoons a remembrance of bright summer days. My outfit made up of new releases echos this time. Of course we can have warm weather all year in our virtual land and some of you on the other side of the equator are working your way into it as I write.
Hair: Pomme d' Amour (formerly I Love Olive) SOMEDAY HAIR / NATURAL RED
Top: e! Eclectic Seda Wrap Top (Teal)
Skirt: JANE - mini skirt.lil patches.pinks (MESH)
Necklace and ring (earrings are also in the set - exclusive For XYROOM) by *I <3FashiOn*: Find them here.
Poses by: Vista Animations Most Wanted AO
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
My early morning tip of the day is this super feminine hunt dress from Utopia on the Four Seasons Plaza Hunt. It is a frilly number but still very sophisticated with nice detailing. I love the slits and ties. There are some giant belts in the front (optional).
I can't say it was an easy early morning jaunt. I tried several new hunts including the Make Her Over Hunt which while several days underway does not seem to actually BE underway. My frustration level got a little high finding hidden boxes with only landmarks inside. I doubt they were decoys as the stores were familiar and don't normally do that. So my advice is to wait until the weekend when hopefully the kinks will be ironed out. Note: According to a note from a reader (see comments) the MHO hunt is a GROUP ONLY hunt. Not too obvious, I must say.
Poses by: LAP
The Quest - Ist Act
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, hunts, new releases, places on Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I went out tonight on a quest. The prize? An impressive complete avatar from Ist Act. Follow the clues, pick up the shards and claim your very nice prize. THIS, however, isn't the prize, it is my hunting outfit -- a new release from Beautiful Dirty Rich. When I arrived at Ist Act I was still in Victorian garb. That would simply not do. So after finding the first shard in the store proper, I TPed home to change. This NeurotiKat outfit was perfect attire. It comes in a large variety of colors and includes enough mix and match options -- even a skirt, ears and tail -- to keep you playing for a long while. I chose the brown version as it seemed to reflect the nature of the role play sim.
The game within a game is quite simple really and I suspect my total time exploring was under an hour. I took a detour along the way -- at least on the quest for THIS complete avatar. There are four prizes in all with the three being for the guys. Gals could wear them too of course, just not the skin and shape. I am using my own skin and shape here; I feel most comfortable being "me".
Choose the avatar you want to claim, follow the clues on the HUD provided and then come back and retrieve your prize.
Your journey will take you into the role play area, both city and desert -- at least that is where the gal's clues lead. There is much to explore. The build is nicely done and I love the desert. I will absolutely return. No doubt there. So venture over, pick your avatar of choice or go for all four if you are a greedy person *wink*. The quest is worth the time, the prize is simply a bonus.
Poses by: Vista Animations Most Wanted AO
Fall Fete
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, new releases, places, props
I journeyed over to the Fall Fete this morning, a week long fair put on by the 25 Linden Tuesday bunch. I haven't been on any Tuesday treks in a long while and it sounded fun. My photo doesn't look like it has much to do with Fantasy - Gorean role play, but it does. My baking table, complete with three animations and props was one of those 25 Linden bargains.
While most items definitely reflect medieval eras, this baking table can easily span the centuries. It is mod and I have downsized it a bit and made the legs taller to fit my size perfectly. There are /1a adjustments too. The original table is a light grayish worn wood. I have tinted to go with my other furnishings. Yeah for MOD. You could easily turn the whole table a solid color paint to go with your more modern house. The typist just ordered a new baguette pan so perhaps that is what put us in the baking mood. It looks smashing in my 1900s swamp shack! Pick it up amidst other 25 linden bargains at the Roawenwood booth.
My attire, while perhaps a bit too fancy for actual baking is a lovely new release from Sangre Noir -- simply entitled "35". I especially like the ladylike top with tiny buttons and intricate collar. The set comes with a short skirt as an option, but really -- this is vintage; for me at least. So happy to have a new outfit for teas and such.
And here is the last photo in the story told from end to beginning which seems perfectly OK for a day filled with fantasy.
The fair is VERY crowded (53 folks when I was there) and while walking was OK, textures were loading very slowly which is not a normal condition for me. I weighed in at 300 ARC and no scripts after taking off my mermaid necklace shortly after this shot. The winner of the overdressed category during my morning trek topped at at 19754. And no, that is not a typo :D.
The fair is at an adult sim, so not everyone will be able to get in. You do not need to be age verified, however. So feel free to get a bit naked and help the lag some. Others will not be, but at least you'll know you did your bit.
Poses by: baking table, LAP and Vista Animations Most Wanted AO
Mermaids - Take Two
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Monday, September 26, 2011
There's lots of news over at Yasum Designs. Happily I listen to the group chatter. There are so many things happening over there that it is easy to miss out. This gorgeous mermaid outfit with very nice floaty spinning AO (only one animation as far as I can see but very nice) was a fashion show event gift. It is now upstairs in the new freebie area. There are lots of free skins mixed in with some low cost ones also. Group gifts abound in that area so take a look if you haven't been there before.
I really can't say enough about this tail; it is spectacular! Make you way to the teleporter HERE. Then when you arrive at the freebie and sales room, go up to the next floor. The mermaid gift is in a bag on the floor next to a skin vendor. You will need a group tag on to claim your present.
And if you picked up the FAWN avatar the other day, there is now one for guys out to match. His and her fawns (or maybe we better say "stag" for the fellows). Find it next to the lady's version on the main floor near the lucky chairs.
Poses by: the included AO
Foggy Morn
It's a foggy Fall morn in the Louisiana Bayou. Harvests are underway and roadside carts are being filled with squash and pumpkin, melons and corn -- all the hearty vegetables that announce the change of seasons. Just out from JANE, this super cute mesh dress. It comes in two patterns and color choices within those styles. This it seems is my favorite although I have to admit it was difficult choosing. For the record, this is the "cinch waist dress.austin.browns". Four sizes to choose from and demos at the shop so if this looks like your style, you know the drill.
The harvest cart in the background is a hunt prize from Hanya. I have forgotten which hunt, but you will want to find all the available prizes anyway while you are there! Along with the filled cart, you get an empty version as well as the crates of veggies separately. I think a few of those crates will find their way to my front porch soon :D.
Poses by: LAP
There is a new retro bar prop in town. Perfect for role play or decorating your vintage club, it comes with lots of poses built in.
Stools are separate and contain their own menu. The bar comes in regular and low prim versions. Drinks to hold are included. Find it at (*chanimations.
My impressive and sultry dress is a freebie from Yasum Designs.
No group required, just pick it up at the marketplace. Two sizes are included; I am wearing the smaller of the two. I have to admit that I needed to lose a point in body fat to keep from popping through the seams of the dress *wink*, but dieting is good sometimes.
The dress is a sexy number and can span the time differential in style from classic vintage to modern day clubbing attire.
This is a MESH dress if you haven't guessed. And in the mesh news, Phoenix will be joining the mesh viewers soon. Thanks to the work of the Cool Viewer's Henri Beauchamp the newest big news in SL will be backported into Phoenix. Great for the die hard Phoenix folks that don't want to move onto Firestorm, it is good news for everyone in that more folks will have the ability to see mesh and therefore its success is pretty much assured.
Read more about the news here.
Poses by: (*chanimations
H is for Hunting
I've been On The Hunt some more and have a few great things to show you. Up first is a complex couples animation from X-CLUSIVES ANIMATIONS (adult sim) called "body shots". It is very nicely done and quite lengthy with lots going on. Honestly, you probably have better drink and lime props in your inventory, but the animation is stellar!
Also in the animations and prop category is one of my favorites of the hunt so far, this Cuddle Hipbar from Off Brand Furniture. It is both texture change for the padded rubber piece, and full of great single and couple's animations and poses. You have the ability to sit as "A" or "B" should you be doing poses with friends of difficult sizes and you can even fiddle a little and get interesting combinations.
My outfit is new and includes pants from Trapt (part of prize) and a bra top from Gothica (some nice panties and a very feminine corset comes with the set). My extremely cute cap and hair is a freebie at Ronsem. No hunting required; just find it on the wall.
These are two of the single poses and animations included with the bar. So many choices. So much fun!
Last up on this much longer than usual post is a very impressive fantasy scene from DramaZone. This is actually on the Twisted Hunt. I found it by accident while looking for the On The Hunt prize. I was amazed as I seldom find Twisted prizes :D. 117 prims in the build plus the deletable rezzer (a rock). It takes up space though so 512 lots need not apply *wink*.
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies
Long ago and far away in SL times, I featured the Menstuff Group. Now there is good news for the gals, as a Womenstuff group has just started, complete with its own board of freebies in the lounge. I have been busy hunting and making props for my next video, but Sami took the time to open all those boxes and improve her oldtimer wardrobe. I challenged her to put together her favorite look from the current gifts, and here it is. She reports that there are two other skins, several shapes and poses, some very nice western jeans from Lashware as well as dresses and bikinis. Enough to give a good start to a newbie gal or spruce up an aging wardrobe.
Here are her personal picks and the designers.
*Maverick Skin ~ Destiny ~ Pale ~ White-Scarlett/hair(cleavage)
[...[D&B]...] Tattoos & Body shop Face tattoo "Floral heart"
.:EMO-tions:. *VIVIEN *ponytail
VERO MODERO / WomenStuff gift (whole outfit shown)
AIDORU BlackGothKross necklace
For those of you with a partner -- or even those of you that just like pretty Fall themed furniture and have a friend, there is a new bench for you. The Autumn Couples Garden Bench is from -Hanaya- . The bench comes with three synced animations and my tests showed that it worked well even with avatars of unequal sizes.
The bench is quite lovely as a garden decoration. You can sit by yourself, but in order to use the animation above, you seem to need a partner who has left you. Perhaps this title should be contemplation :D. The new release is available for testing at the shop. /1a adjustments are included. The bench is mod and I have tinted it darker here to go with the Bayou decor. There are lots of hunts going on there, so keep an eye out for goodies as you peruse.
Also in the couples arena, there is a very nice Endless Love Walker from Kabuki. It is on a dollarbie hunt that started mid-month. I figured out where the prize "should" be when I was hunting there for STEAM and happily remembered to go back and check. The clue has something to do with "relaxing after a long day" and the prize vendor is on the second floor. Easy to figure out really. The good looking two prim tree comes with the poseball set. You can use the walk with or without the tree. You could even use the tree without the walk - LOL.
Late Night Hunting
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts on Friday, September 23, 2011
I was On The Hunt today. Here are a couple of quick pics of my favorite things. I will say that the hunt is generally easy in that the blog has both SLURLs and hints so if you can't find a prize you can easily move on to the next stop. Along with the items shown which of course may not be YOUR favorites *wink*, there are several nice pose ball sets for couples.
Photo one includes a very (VERY) nice smallish studio skybox from {Bastian}. The textures are premium and the skylight wall definitely staves off claustrophobia. I am wearing the gals gift from Wilson's Designs. The gift for the guys is right by the gals so no extra hunting needed. I added a belt from Eclectica.
Also on my personal favs list is the very classy bar with drink giver from Low Prim Living. The textures and sculpts are extremely nice and it is fairly thrifty on your prim budget. This is a no copy item so you may want to pick up a spare; I went back. Paranoid on losing things these days :D.
That's my quick evening report.
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases
I have lots of goodies in my "New Stuff / Jewelry" folder. Some have been lingering too long, waiting in the partnering game. So, I've decided to show them off on their own -- no clothes, minimal background. First up is this Kiowa set in amber from Elemental Earth Designs. Bracelets and a ring are included in the set. Definitely bright, distinctively bold, this set will add some pizazz to the simplest of outfits.
Both feminine and refined, this necklace is part of the Cassana set from Magpie (currently at the Jewelry Fair). Bracelets, earrings and ring come with the set. Choose from four colors and wear with your everyday garb or for fantasy role play. You can pick up just the ring in a Jewelry Fair gatcha machine. The purple version of the Cassana earrings are a free subscribo gift. Good job, Nissa!
A new arrival, this ~*Star Kindler*~ Filigree Platinum Mask is available now at the Jewelry Fair. Many sizes are included so fitting is a breeze. A similar gold mask is the charity item. So very pretty and quite magical, I filed it under jewelry :D.
Poses by: Vista Animations Most Wanted AO
What Color IS Khaki?
Posted by Chic Aeon in color challenge on Thursday, September 22, 2011
Our color for the upcoming week is Khaki. What exactly is khaki? It has little to do -- in my mind at least -- with Luna's color swatch which looks like a palish yellow on my computer screen. So much for technology. Actually I posted my personal idea of khaki long ago when we were doing taupe. I added a second outfit to that post when I decided I was highlighting the wrong color.
In the end, I opted to go with the majority's idea of the hue. Most of the items I am wearing are labeled "khaki" by their designers. The color seems to be a bit greener and cooler than my version and can be a variety of values (light to dark). So I am smarter now, but I doubt that my idea of the color will actually change much.
Most of my outfit is old, but my beautifully rendered hat is new. It is what I think of as a fisherman's hat. [Soren Jaakobs] - Shuan's Boonie Hat {Camo Commando} is a wonderful example of what mesh can be. The detail is astounding. The typist is heading to bed as I proof this post, but I couldn't resist going over to see what else might be at the shop. It is a small, modern and tastefully decorated establishment -- a store for men. Well of course "I" don't care, I wear guy garments all the time. But especially if you are of the Y chromosome set, journey over and take a look. Happily the hats are all rezzed and on display, so you can see exactly what you might be purchasing.
My other bit of newness is the ring I am wearing. Just out for the Jewelry Fair from Magpie, it is just one piece of a full set I hope to show you soon. My long time blogger buddy (although she isn't blogging much these days -- hint, hint) Nissa sent it over. It is a very pretty set, just a bit too fancy for my camp gear attire of the eve.
Photo taken at the aviary at Ctrl+Shift+H.
Neutrals On The Dock
Decked out in some new mesh releases, I ventured over to The Looking Glass -- Viewer 3 (the Firestorm version) as my constant companion.
Gogo will appreciate the backside shot (her latest challenge) and you will most likely appreciate the details on the mesh mini. The hadlee denim mini skirt hales from JANE and comes in light, classic and ebony denim. This is a great basic skirt for moving through the seasons with ease. I needed to move up a size in this item, most likely because of my height -- I am not exactly what most folks would think of as "petite". There is a more summery release in this same general style that I really like, but coordination won the coin toss and this worked best with my other show and tell items.
These new mesh shades are both striking and classic. The SG 90's from Role Optic come with a hud that includes a kill script option as well as these features:
▪ Elegant size changing through the menu
▪ Move "On Head", "On Nose" and a custom position + optional Avatar Animation
▪ Adjust the whole frame or single parts of it
▪ Colors of frame
▪ Colors of lenses
▪ Gradients of lenses
▪ Lens Flares
▪ Transparency
▪ Reset back to manufacturer settings
Now to be honest, I didn't read the notecard until after shooting :D. But once I did, I definitely wanted to try the on head option and see what the animation was about. So cute! (/me things of ways to work this into a machinima) The animation has you pushing the glasses up to sit on your head or bringing them down to wear as glasses. Clever! I love it. With rhinestone trim, these are definitely an uptown, stylish accessory.
Last but definitely not least (except that they are FREE) are these great shoes from Flax Pye . They come with a complex but very easy to use HUD that lets you change not only skin and nail color, but allows you to choose how much detailing and contrasts you want in your look. Change the color of the studs or have them disappear, your choice. I really like the shoes in this shop. A little retro, a little boho, a little today -- it all works. Find the magnifying glass for On The Hunt and get these as your prize. Thanks to riri for the photo and the word "hunt" which lead me on my journey of the morning.
Poses by: Vista Animations Most Wanted AO and the purse.
I am so loving this skin! Such a pretty color.
A quick post in the early morning hours to let you know that the group gift, Playful Faun, that was supposed to disappear at 1 pm yesterday is still out and on the floor at Yasum Design. The full avatar includes a shape (I am wearing my own) and hooves (just not a hoof gal here) as well as a minimal forest fae outfit and ears with hud.
I didn't post about this when the 1.5 hour call went out as the sim was packed; so packed it seems that my purchase of the gift never actually completed. Happily, when I went back to check, it was still on the floor.
So zip on over, but hurry!
Poses by: Vista Animations Most Wanted AO
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, new releases, poses, props on Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Last weekend I suggested that Chandra and I should do something fun. She knew what that might be. I only knew that it entailed getting a mermaid outfit (pun intended). Luckily I had seen a post on the feed showing a pretty mermaid set for free. I hadn't been in a camp chair for a very long time, but was perfectly willing to sit for an hour for my choice of fishy attire.
Our dual photo shoot was this morning. It is always fun doing these. We see things so differently that our photos are always surprising to compare. I admit that this underwater shooting was difficult for me. I cycled through my very long list of Windlight settings trying to find some that didn't make us complete black or green *wink*. I am fairly happy with the results, the top photo being both my favorite pose of the set and my favorite shot. I got a little dreamy with my post processing software, but it seemed fitting.
Along with the free mermaid gear that I picked up at the Haven of Mermaids camp chairs, I am wearing some pretty natural pearl bracelets from [Acide!]. These are actually the prim part of the new Enlace moi - Gris gloves, so a double duty accessory and very fitting for mermaid attire. Chandra is wearing a mix of old and new including a ancient but still impressive fish avatar outfit from Tekeli-li (still available) with Deviance - Mermaid Tail and Shell Top - Fairy Moss (sold separately). Her skin is from Anglerfish and hair from RedQueen. Note: See Chandra's comment if you are interested in the details of her outfit.
The real star of the show -- besides the lovely fishy women -- is the new pose prop soon to be released, (*chanimations - The Siren's Song. Lots of nice poses including swimming are available by clicking on rocks. There are versions for above water and beneath as well as an indoor pond version. /1a adjustments let you move those tails as needed *wink*. The poses, as always, come separately also.
Poses by: (*chanimations
Catching the Moment
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sometimes -- when you are very lucky -- the perfect moment just happens.
I had taken my photos for the eve, a collection of nice fashion shots processed and ready to post -- when I spied the swing. It was a hike away, but I knew it offered possibilities and so I took the time to explore. I was happily rewarded with this shot.
Not only is it a lovely moment in time, it is a perfect example of the upside of mesh clothing. So natural. So beautiful. I don't want you to think I have jumped completely on the mesh bandwagon, but when it works it is a glorious thing. My maxi skirt? It is from Jane, a store I featured complete with demo signs *wink* not long ago. There are many new releases, but this lillith maxi skirt is my personal favorite. It might just be that I lived in these skirts a decade or so ago. Memories are powerful things. The patterns are lovely, delicate and vintage, the colors soft as the fading summer.
Fit is the key with mesh clothing. Get the size wrong and you look like a kid playing dress up in her mom's clothes. With four sizes to choose from and demos in the store, you have a very good chance of finding the perfect fit at Jane. Once you know your size, it's a breeze to see if the style is for you. Viewer 3 or equivalent is needed of course, but you KNEW that :D.
My earrings are also mesh, one of several style recently released at PixelDolls.
Poses by: Vista Animations and the swing


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By PETER ATKINSON, Deputy Editor
Anew Navy League council is
being formed in the Black Sea
region of Europe, with members
representing Bulgaria, Romania and
the United States. The Black Sea
Council already has signed up the
25 members required to receive its
Navy League charter, as well as several community affiliates.
Organizers expect the council, the
first of its kind in Eastern Europe, to
receive its formal charter this spring.
A half-dozen Black Sea Council
members were in the Washington
area in early December, and
stopped by Navy League headquarters in Arlington, Va., for a tour
and to meet with National Vice
President for Strategic Planning
John Tozzi, who welcomed them
in the stead of National President
J. Michael McGrath, who was
Executive Director Stephen R.
Pietropaoli and Salvador Chai-rez, senior director of Membership, also met with the council
From the left, John Tozzi, national vice president for Strategic Planning; Black
Sea Council member Dragos Draghici; Mircea Basescu, a member of the
Black Sea Council's Executive Board; Jack Maybank, president of Maybank
Industries LLC, a Black Sea Council community affiliate; and David K. Shimp,
the Black Sea Council's first president, stand with the bust of President
Theodore Roosevelt at Navy League headquarters. The Black Sea Council,
the Navy League's first in Eastern Europe, will be chartered this spring.
The group included three
Americans with strong ties to the
region — Jack Maybank, president
of Maybank Industries LLC, an
international maritime professional services company based in
Charleston, S.C., that is a Black Sea
Council community affiliate;
David K. Shimp, vice president for
program development with Maybank Industries, who will be the
council's first president; and Cmdr.
Gary Herbert, U.S. naval attaché to
Romania, who will join the council
upon his retirement from the service this year.
Joining them were Mircea Basescu, a member of the council's
Executive Board and the brother of
Romanian President Traian Basescu, and council member Dragos
Draghici, both of Bucharest. Each
received his Navy League membership pin during the visit from Tozzi.
"Having a council like the Black
Sea Council is a wonderful thing to
hear," he told the group. "Thanks
for considering doing this."
The strategic and commercial
importance of the Black Sea has
grown dramatically in recent years
as nations along its shores have
emerged from decades of Communist rule, according to Herbert.
Constanta, Romania, and Varna,
Bulgaria, are now key commercial
ports, and the U.S. naval presence
has increased in the region. Last
summer, the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul and U.S. Coast
Guard Cutter Dallas delivered humanitarian supplies to the Georgian port of Batumi after fighting
broke out between Georgia and
Russia over the breakaway region
of South Ossetia.

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Several Maryland schools receive federal honors
Blue Ribbon award recognizes dramatic gains in student achievement
The U.S. Department of Education honored several Maryland schools Friday with the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award.
This year, the Blue Ribbon award goes to two Catholic schools -- St. Augustine Catholic School in Elkridge, Howard County, and Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, Baltimore County -- and Woodholme Elementary School in Baltimore County.
St. Augustine becomes the 15th Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to receive the honor over the years. Notre Dame Prep, an independent Catholic school, previously received the designation in 1984-85.
The Blue Ribbon designation is the highest academic honor bestowed upon a school by the U.S. Department of Education, and it honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that are either academically superior or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement to high levels.
The Archdiocese released a list of its 14 other schools honored with the Blue Ribbon award, including:
Mercy High School, Baltimore, 1984-85
Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, 1984-85 and 2012-13
Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, 1984-85 and 1988-89
Loyola Blakefield, Towson, 1986-87
St. Rita, Dundalk, 1986-87
Archbishop Keough High School, 1987-88
Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, 1988-89
Trinity School, Ellicott City, 1989-90 and 1998-99
Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, 1992-93
The John Carroll School, Bel Air, 1995-96
St. John the Evangelist, Severna Park, 2008-09
Resurrection-St. Paul School, Ellicott City, 2009
St. John School, Frederick, 2009
St. Louis Catholic School, 2010
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Your old-world grandmother will refuse to believe it. Your Southern cousin will likely shake his head like he's throwing off lice, completely unwilling to process. Rick Santorum will, with any luck and God's good graces, spontaneously combust. And of course, the NRA will shudder and reload in a panic because, honey, they're afraid of everything.
It does not matter. Let the reactions come, the paranoia ensue, the bitter ashes of past injustices dissipate into the wind. For lo, a raft of hard-fought – and fairly radical – cultural changes hath finally come, and the changes are good and the changes are righteous and the changes, as MLK knew and your Republican friends are loathe to admit, are toward the progressive and the just. You know, just like always.
Perhaps you've heard? Perhaps you've noticed? The infamous "culture wars" officially declared in the Reagan era and then hissed forth through the years by everyone from George W. Bush to Rick Warren, the Tea Party to groupthink megachurches, Rush Limbaugh's giant mouth to Bill O'Reilly's sad little book, Palin and Bachmann and Karl Rove, too, all ultimately landing with an inglorious splat on poor Rick "please don't Google my last name" Santorum's head, the culture wars of yore are essentially over.
And the Republicans lost.
The culture wars! What a silly idea. What a ridiculous and lopsided fight. All about gay marriage, women's rights, pornography, censorship, "elitist" higher education, support for the arts, for science, immigration, the environment, legal marijuana, gays in the military, a black president, self-determined spirituality versus the deep poison that is organized religion.
The culture wars! Been around for ages, but most recently determined to mean constricted, God-fearing, red state "family values" versus "immoral" '60-style open-mindedness, all spinning off the timeless argument that the moral fabric of this great nation would surely be shredded to bits if too many Americans were allowed to have a free abortion after enjoying joyful sodomy in church with their college-educated gay husband's blasphemous public sculpture that looks like a freedom-loving handgun shaped like a recreational vagina. Or something.
Evidence of the GOP's glorious, ongoing loss? Everywhere and palpable. Gay marriage, to the vast majority of the nation and certainly to nearly everyone under 30, is a foregone and no-big-deal conclusion. Gays are now allowed to serve openly in the military and attend military academies (though not, of course, in the NFL), and now we hear that women have just been given the OK to serve in combat, too, which of course means we are all doomed – because as everyone knows, women are too weak and easy to rape, and gays just want to have sex with the enemy.
But never mind that now, because even the numbly prejudiced Boy Scouts are, at the behest of at least a few very powerful, wealthy donors/members, reconsidering their hateful ban on gays. Can you hear that? It's the avidly bigoted South, losing cultural traction by the second.
Would you look at immigration reform? Suddenly back on the table like a Frankenstein monster getting struck by a miracle bolt of lightning, all due to the fact that the GOP just realized if they don't try to make nice with the new multicultural majority that spanked them so hard in the 2012 election, they'll vanish faster than an ice shelf in Greenland.
On it goes. From environmental awareness to legal pot to abortion rights, movement is toward the progressive – or at the very least, away from the regressive (not quite the same thing, but in this climate, you take what you can get). Even many leading Republicans don't want to discuss the classic cultural issues that defined them for so long, recognizing them as toxic to their future, realizing that the younger generations simply don't believe in the harsh institutions and repressive dogmas of yore.
They know the nation has changed. Immigrants and women dominate anew, rural values are metamorphosing, gay culture is here to stay, the gun debate is back in play thanks to far too many dead children, the church is sour and impotent, you don't f–k with Planned Parenthood, the arts are still thriving (well mostly), sexuality is more unfettered and experimental, for better and worse.
Do not misunderstand. It is far from a complete or perfect victory. Many battles remain, many ugly shards will slice at the veins of the culture for years to come.
Women may be succeeding like never before, but many steadfastly backwards states (hi, Mississippi) and even US congressmen are so antagonistic to women's rights they might as well be Saudi Arabia. Gays may be gaining in every category, but hate crimes persist and the church's nasty homophobia is more entrenched than the Vatican's secret fetish dungeon.
While the Catholic church has lost nearly all sway over American social mores (praise Jesus), its stranglehold on the uneducated third world is as oppressive and misogynistic as any time in 500 years. Backwards, anti-science thought persists throughout huge chunks of America. Even Marco Rubio, Florida's hotshot Republican and one of the "Gang of Eight" who designed the new, bipartisan immigration reform proposal, recently mouthed various idiocies about evolution and the "real" age of the Earth. You stay intellectual, Florida.
Oh, and the reason the younger generation care so much about the environment? It's not because they're all liberal tree huggers. It's because they have no choice; to this very day, no major nation has taken significant steps to prevent global warming and the ensuing catastrophe. Climate change is here. Mother Nature is furious. The culture war over the environment is insipid and irrelevant, blasted away by extreme hurricanes and death.
And of course, the South, despite flickers of progress in various college towns, remains as racist, anti-smarts, and gun-lovingly homophobic as ever. The good news? This used to be a problem. The South used to have enormous influence on culture and politics, acting as the genteel, racist heart of "real" America. But as the new rainbow constituency takes hold and a calm, intellectual black man enters his second term as president, that influence is waning; the South is now more isolated, emasculated, increasingly meaningless in the new America dialogue. This much we know: The South will not rise again. Ever. Praise.
The larger truism remains: The culture wars are mostly over, and the GOP largely lost. And continues to lose. And in the grand scheme, always will. Why? Because younger generations always lean away from the more oppressive ideas of their elders. Because civil rights are always in humanity's best interest. Because it's never been about godless self-indulgence and liberal hedonism defeating hard work and respectful restraint. It's far more about intellect, love, and shared humanity defeating a beloved trio of conservative American demons: constriction, paranoia, and fear.
MLK put it best: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Which we might amend as: The arc of human evolution is gorgeous and messy and strange, and it bends toward love, expansion, barely controlled chaos and continuously exploding everything you thought you knew. Don't tell your grandma.


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Caption: A day's clouds. The shape and texture of the land. The living ocean. City lights as a beacon of human presence across the globe. This amazingly beautiful view of Earth from space is a fusion of science and art, a showcase for the remote-sensing technology that makes such views possible, and a testament to the passion and creativity of the scientists who devote their careers to understanding how land, ocean, and atmosphere—even life itself—interact to generate Earth's unique (as far as we know!) life-sustaining environment.
Drawing on data from multiple satellite missions (not all collected at the same time), a team of NASA scientists and graphic artists created layers of global data for everything from the land surface, to polar sea ice, to the light reflected by the chlorophyll in the billions of microscopic plants that grow in the ocean. They wrapped these layers around a globe, set it against a black background, and simulated the hazy edge of the Earth's atmosphere (the limb) that appears in astronaut photography of the Earth.
The land surface layer is based on photo-like surface reflectance observations (reflected sunlight) measured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite in July 2004.
The sea ice layer near the poles comes from Terra MODIS observations of daytime sea ice observed between August 28 and September 6, 2001.
The ocean layer is a composite. In shallow water areas, the layer shows surface reflectances observed by Terra MODIS in July 2004. In the open ocean, the photo-like layer is overlaid with observations of the average ocean chlorophyll content for 2004. NASA's Aqua MODIS collected the chlorophyll data.
The cloud layer shows a single-day snapshot of clouds observed by Terra MODIS across the planet on July 29, 2001. City lights on Earth's night side are visualized from data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program mission between 1994–1995.
The topography layer is based on radar data collected by the Space Shuttle Endeavour during an 11-day mission in February of 2000. Topography over Antarctica comes from the Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project, version 2.
Most of the data layers in this visualization are available as monthly composites as part of NASA's Blue Marble Next Generation image collection. The images in the collection appear in cylindrical projection (rectangular maps), and they are available at 500-meter resolution. The large images provided above are the full-size versions of these globes. In their hope that these images will inspire people to appreciate the beauty of our home planet and to learn about the Earth system, the developers of these images encourage readers to re-use and re-publish the images freely.
NASA images by Reto Stöckli, based on data from NASA and NOAA.


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Preface Convex analysis is one of the mathematical tools which is used both explicitly and indirectly in many mathematical disciplines. However, there are not so many courses which have convex analysis as the main topic. More often, parts of convex analysis are taught in courses like linear or nonlinear optimization, probability theory, geometry, location theory, etc.. This manuscript gives a systematic introduction to the concepts of convex analysis. A focus is set to the geometrical interpretation of convex analysis. This focus was one of the reasons why I have decided to restrict myself to the finite dimensional case. Another reason for this restriction is that in the infinite dimensional case many proofs become more difficult and more technical. Therefore, it would not have been possible (for me) to cover all the topics I wanted to discuss in this introductory text in the infinite dimensional case, too. Anyway, I am convinced that even for someone who is interested in the infinite dimensional case this manuscript will be a good starting point. When I offered a course in convex analysis in the Wintersemester 1997/1998 (upon which this manuscript is based) a lot of students asked me how this course fits in their own studies. Because this manuscript will (hopefully) be used by some students in the future, I will give here some of the possible statements to answer this very question. - Convex analysis can be seen as an extension of classical analysis, in which still we get many of the results, like a mean-value theorem, with less assumptions on the smoothness of the function. - Convex analysis can be seen as a foundation of linear and nonlinear optimization which provides many tools to handle concepts in optimization much easier (for example the Lemma of Farkas). - Finally, convex analysis can be seen as a link between abstract geometry and very algorithmic oriented computational geometry. As already explained before, this manuscript is based on a one semester course and therefore cannot cover all topics and discuss all aspects of convex analysis in detail. To guide the interested reader I have included a list of nice books about this subject at the end of the manuscript. It should be noted that the philosophy of this course follows [3], [4] and THE BOOK of modern convex analysis [6]. The geometrical emphasis however, is also related to intentions of [1].^L


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Artist's Reception: Wednesday, March 25, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
From the second day of Passover until the harvest festival of Shavuot there are seven weeks, each of seven days. Jews commemorate these forty-nine days marking the period between the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah at Sinai. These forty-nine days counted the spiritual ripening of the Jewish people as they themselves matured to receive the Five Books of Moses, the source of all knowledge, the word of God. Psalm 67, which has seven seven-word phrases, is traditionally recited when the Omer is counted each day. This seven-week period is known as the Sefirah, the counting.
Countdown to Perfection-Meditations on the Sefirot is a limited edition fine art unbound book contained in an individual, linen clad, oyster box. Each of the 49 pages measures 16" x 10", including the 5" x 8" image, plus the text and can be accessed as an individual piece. Judith Margolis states, "The works are done with the understanding that each soul will respond to the colors, shapes and universal iconic forms (a stone wall, a human hand, a staircase, tree roots, chaotic or calm colors) in a unique way. The images become both a focus of attention and a mirror for the viewer to learn from his or her own associations and thoughts, emotions and senses, what the day offers and requires." Drawing from many aspects of Jewish religious tradition, kabalistic mysteries and basic principles of faith and practice, the accompanying texts offer a path of spiritual transformation.
Margolis has been inspired by the meditation texts written by Sarah Yehudit (Susan) Schneider, the founding director of a correspondence school called "A Still Small Voice." Since 1991, Jerusalem-based Schneider provides weekly teachings in classic Jewish wisdom to worldwide subscribers. Schneider, a student of the noted Orthodox Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, is the author of "Kabalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine."
In the medieval, mystical understanding of theology known as Kabbalah, the Hebrew word Sephirot ("enumerations") symbolizes the attributes or emanations of God into the physical and metaphysical universe. At a fundamental level, the ten Sefirot (ten being the number of divine perfection) represent the modes of connection with God that human beings may access through spiritual practice, religious experience, and text study of specific works that unlock divine secrets.
Judith Margolis, an Israel-based American artist, makes one-of-a-kind and limited edition artist's books. This exceptional Omer Counter identifies forty-nine personality traits that, taken together, map a mystical journey of change. An examination of Kabbalistic insights and meditations offers personal inspiration and spiritual discipline. Since 1996, Margolis has been the Art Editor of Nashim: The Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, published by the University of Indiana Press. Born in New York City, she is the Creative Director of Bright Idea Books, which produces limited edition and unique artist books. Judith Margolis has had numerous one person exhibitions, has been included in outstanding museum exhibitions, and is in leading fine art book collections. She has been a faculty member of colleges and universities in the U.S., Moscow, and Israel.
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Then and now: How'd they meet, how'd they mate?
Whether married for five years or 50, the couples on the following pages still have the spark that first brought them together.
Jane and Pat Foy
October 3, 1998
Love can find you in mundane places. That's the lesson Jane and Pat Foy learned.
"We met at a big meeting in Pittsburgh where committees were being formed for a fundraiser," says Jane, co-host of talk-radio stations WINA's morning show, adding that the two didn't begin dating for several years.
After about six months in love with Jane, Pat, an avid fox-hunter, visited Virginia and fell in love with the countryside. The pair moved to Middleburg where they ran a steak restaurant called Reynard's Grill and Hunt Country Inn. One night, as they stood by the door waiting for their first patrons to arrive, Pat popped the question.
"He looked at me and said, 'I'd really like you to be my wife, and I'd like you to think about that,'" Jane recalls. "It was really cute."
Proposal accepted, Jane and Pat married at Jane's sister's home in Ohio.
"We decided, 'Let's inconvenience everybody equally,'" Jane laughs.
Though their honeymoon in Key West was nearly ruined by Hurricane Georges, which had swept through days before their arrival, Jane says the newlyweds eventually made it down from Miami and came home with a special souvenir: 85 pounds of wood from a famous banyan tree on Ernest Hemingway's Key West property.
"We still have it," laughs Jane. "We just don't know what to do with it."
Anne and Sean O'Brien
May 8, 1993
The O'Briens met as grad students in UVA's environmental science department in 1989, but if first impressions had prevailed, they might never have dated.
"I spotted him, but I thought he was terrible," recalls Anne, who believed Sean– now the executive director of the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership at UVA– was "cocky" and in possession of a "cool and beautiful girlfriend."
In fact, says Sean, neither was the case: he was simply shy.
A year ahead of him in the program, Anne was the "experienced hot graduate student in the environmental science department," he says. "She was very intimidating to a new guy coming in."
Fortunately, fate, in the guise of friends, stepped in.
"Two of our friends decided they should set us up," says Anne. "After several failed starts, we did go on a date," she adds, and it didn't take long for them to know they'd be sticking together.
The following summer, Anne decided to join Sean on a trip to Alaska. The two stayed in a tent for two months– with no access to bathing facilities. "It was beautiful to be in Glacier Bay," says Anne, adding wryly, "and a good way to get to know someone."
A year later, Sean proposed, and Anne accepted.
More than a dozen years later, Anne says she's glad she didn't stick with her first impression.
"He's as nice as he seems, but funny too," she says. "And that's important."
Paul and Mary Gaston
June 29, 1952
Though a mutual friend had suggested that Paul meet Mary when they were both students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Paul says he would have spotted Mary on his own at a dance: she was on a date with his roommate.
Gaston describes Mary as "soft, intriguing, enigmatic, quietly beautiful, and irresistibly entrancing." It's no surprise, then, that he cut in on his roommate.
Later that night, Gaston says, he asked his roommate whether he'd enjoyed his date with Mary.
"Oh, yes, very much," said the roommate. "Well, I'm glad you did," Gaston reports he replied, "because it was your last." And, he notes triumphantly, "It was."
There are two sides to every story, and Mary says their meeting wasn't quite so dramatic. In fact, she says, the two met in the Swarthmore library, and although she wasn't immediately impressed with young Gaston, they began dating a short while afterward.
"Did [Paul] tell you about all the women who came up and warned me he was too fast?" she laughs. "I said, 'I'm an English minister's daughter, and I can cool anyone down.'"
Though they may disagree on their meeting, the pair can agree that it was a fortuitous event.
And as for Gaston's seemingly luckless roommate? That story has a happy ending, too.
"He married Mary's roommate Marquita," Gaston laughs.
Eugene and Lorraine Williams
August 14, 1949
From their stately home high up on Ridge Street, Eugene and Lorraine Williams can look out over much of Charlottesville, a city they've watched experience momentous changes over the course of their 56-year marriage.
Now 78, Eugene says the Charlottesville of his youth was a vastly different place. His childhood home on Dice Street lacked indoor plumbing, and segregation permeated every aspect of life.
Lorraine, now 80, lived near Ivy at Mechum's River, but the nearest school for black students was more than three miles away– a brutal walk even in good weather, and buses provided rides only to white students. Eventually, Lorraine's parents sent their daughter to live with her aunt and uncle on Hartman's Mill Road off Ridge Street in Charlottesville so she could attend Jefferson School on Fourth Street.
Lorraine soon had an admirer.
"She walked past my street every day on the way to the Jefferson School," says Eugene, who made sure he was at the corner of Dice and Ridge so he could walk with her.
In the late 1940s, blacks attended the Jefferson School, though the Midway High School was closer to Williams' home. Watching white students riding by on buses is a painful memory, Eugene says, but one that should never be forgotten.
"It's important to remember the way things were back then," he says.
After graduating from high school– Eugene in 1944, Lorraine in 1945– the pair parted ways for college. Eugene went to Southern University in Baton Rouge, and Lorraine attended the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University. But despite the distance, they never lost touch. During an 18-month-stint in the army, Williams was stationed at Fort Eustis, just down the road from Lorraine.
"That," says Eugene, "is when things got serious."
Following Lorraine's 1949 graduation, the pair married at Lorraine's aunt and uncle's house on Hartman's Mill Road.
They briefly moved away– to Chicago and to Baton Rouge, where Eugene finished his degree– but they came back to Charlottesville in 1953, in time to make history.
In 1956,the Williams were one of the African American families who filed suit to force Charlottesville schools to integrate. Eugene remains an outspoken civil rights activist.
David Toscano and Nancy Tramontin
July 30, 1977
Perhaps there was something in the wedding punch on July 30, 1977 at 11am, something that would drive young grooms to pursue careers in politics many years later. How else to explain this coincidence?
"My wife and I were married on the exact same date and the exact hour that Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife were married," says Toscano, a Democrat who was elected to Mitch Van Yahres' 57th District seat in November.
Toscano met Tramontin, now UVA's webmaster, when both were students at Boston College in 1974. Working toward his PhD in sociology, Toscano was a teaching assistant in an undergraduate anthropology class that Tramontin was taking.
"I thought she was just the most beautiful and smartest person I'd ever met," he recalls, "but I wasn't sure if she felt the same.
"It took a while," Toscano says, but eventually the two started dating, and in 1977 they married in a Catholic church in Elmira, New York.
"It rained up to when we got to the church," Toscano says, "and then the sun came out."


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Hello all,
Well FREESCOsoft has gone through a major upgrade. It is almost propogated to all of the mirror sites, all but two.
The new site is PHP run and a lot less work. I am hopeing that with this upgrade, the site will stay up-to-date better, sine I do not have to manually do the work as I used to (or very shortly will not be).
One thing that this does, is make it a bit harder to get packages and files onto the FREESCOsoft site in the first place (well easier than the form submissions). There are a couple requirments now. One is to run a specific script that creates (or re-creates) the packages.txt file, so that it is compliant with the process. It also requires that your site be 'probed' every so often for new or updated packages. This can be discussed more when the script is obtained (not yet on the Fs site).
ALSO, the default package location in most of the FREESCO 03x systems out there, is incorrect (to an extent). I have linked it to be correct, but if possible it should be changed to reflect the correct URL. The modification needed to the URL is to have the " home/ " removed, that is it, just moved them up one level. As far as I am aware, this should make no changes to the package location on the mirror sites (besides the main site).
The site is still under construction, as different parts are tweaked to work better or look better, if you have any suggestions, let me know. I will not say I will follow every suggestion, but every one of them will be read and thought about for consideration as an addition or modification.
As a note to all the current package authors out there, please contact me here (via PM) or via any of my IM accounts (ICQ MSN AIM YAHOO) and we can talk about getting your packages added to FREESCOsoft. Understand that the process is easy, the steps are less than I had before, the work on your end is 'practically' eliminated.
The only requirement AFTER starting, is to keep the packages.txt compliant. The old process included submitting a form on the main site for each package, this is no longer needed (except for updates to your global setting) and is virtually handled 100% automatically, no human intervention needed. I like that and I am sure you would too.
Since the site upgrade and the general update process was the main concern, the actual process of updating of the packages is a bit rough, at this point, but will be tweaked as the process is used and streamlined.
Thanks and Happy FREESCOing
( OH - go vote for FREESCO in the CCA08 on SourceForge )


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text: Two of the titans of UK cricket with a side-splitting show full of memories from within the Test Match Special commentary boxes all over the world. The fun spills out from the globe's most famous grounds to taxis, buses, beaches, deserts and hotels. Anecdotes never before heard of the most legendary players, in every sense of the word, from the last forty years are finally aired. A sporting institution, Peter Baxter was the organising brain behind BBC Radio's Test Match Special for 34 years and Henry "My Dear Old Thing" Blofeld, OBE is one of Britain's most loved broadcasters. He has commentated on the show since 1972.


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Although I've been in these forums for 3 years, my "desire" for programming started more or less 4 years from now. I remember looking with wonder/curiosity at a snippet of code called "Glossomatheia"( Γλωσσομάθεια ) which was just a translated, simplified version of Pascal for high-school education here in Greece( Hellas ). At that time I was attending a computers class and I suddenly, the reason is unclear to me yet, opened the interpreter program for that language and asked the teacher: "How can I write a program with this?!". She demonstrated by typing a tiny program, which I unfortunately don't remember, and when she hit the "Run" button, it actually printed something!! I was intrigued because I couldn't perceive how a few lines of text could actually do something meaningful!!! ( Let me say that THAT class had nothing to do with programming )
Needless to say, after that day I dived into the concept of making programs a.k.a programming. Firstly, I studied the book that accompanied the specific language they were teaching at school. Concurrently I has searching around the web( mind you, I didn't have internet at that time, therefore I had to regularly visit net-cafes ), trying to find information. I firstly stabled upon an interpreter called "Just BASIC", which interpreted a simplified dialect of BASIC. Do you remember the feeling that you had when you looked for the first time to an unfamiliar language? There were a lot of example programs downloaded along, but I COULDN'T OPEN THE HELP FILES! Darn you Windows Vista!!! Anyway, no 24/7 available internet, I started trying to understand this code all by myself. After a lot of trial and error, I started achieving something, even if it was just some puny little programs. But the real tackle with programming was when I started learning C++.
My first encounter with C++ was when I clicked on a link for "C++ Game Programming". I still have the pages! I used to get into a site that I liked, download the pages and take them with me to read them at ease when I got home... Anyway, I started reading the tutorials, writing the code, compiling it, altering it etc( Forgot to say, my first IDE was Dev-C++ ). Then I stuck on the Allegro tutorials that continue after the 11th part I think. A little after that is when I found cprogramming. At first, it was an ordinary site, but as I started reading the tutorials, tips and everything, I knew that there was much knowledge in here. Much of my elementary and deep understanding of C and C++ comes from this site! That's when I registered at the forum and, as any newb, started posting questions on many trivial subjects.
After half a year or so, I started reading more about programming in general. Data structures, UML modeling, optimizations, graphics, computer's theory. Mathematics, calculus, algebra, matrix & 2D/3D/4D math, physics, and what I perform right now, hardware ports & interrupts, x86 assembly while building my very own operating system! o_O
While studying all these, I spontaneously returned to cboard in order to ask for opinions or to solve a big problem. I felt obliged to this site, and of course to many of you members who helped me along the way, therefore I started answering( or rather trying to answer ) to other's questions.
Around 2 years before today, I was trying to write many different programs, small and big. What I really feel ashamed of is that I completed only 3 or 4 of around 50 different projects that I have started. Sometimes I didn't have the necessary knowledge or experience, other times ( in the case of graphics for example ) I didn't have the resources, while sometimes I got bored of a project or had made a fatal design error and had to build everything from scratch again!...
Right now I'm at the 2nd year ( of 4 years ) of my college, which is about "Technology, Computer science and Telecommunications". At first, it was fine. That is, until the programming classes. Please don't think that I exaggerate when I say that from the 6 different programming professors( two for each "lab" and one for each theory ), only one was actually better than me!( C & C++ ) Do you think I was happy for that?! I went there to learn!! Do you know what I felt when I realized that I would learn next to nothing there?! I felt betrayed!!! Believe me that 25% of the time ( mostly at theories ) I argued with the professors, trying to show them the error of their ways! They where making such n00b mistakes, both in programming in general and in C/C++ in particular, that it wasn't funny!! Being with C/C++ for some years, I can't say I have much experience but I undoubtedly have much knowledge on these languages, at the very least. Just as we here correct any answer that we consider wrong, I was doing the same at class. That resulted in many arguments with the professors... Anyway, that's OUR "educational" system, I don't want to trouble you any more with that, I just mentioned it to give you an overview.
Why am I writing all these? you may ask. Well, putting aside that I wanted to get those memories off my chest, I recently noticed that the original "flame", the long & strong love for programming that I had, has started "fading away". All potential projects seem either too easy, too hard or too boring to undertake. I have drop to a "theoretical" state, by only answering questions and still searching for more things to learn, but never practicing anything. I would like to hear( read ) your personal opinion on this. Thanks for reading!


text: This video is an extension of the main StopMoStudio Stop-Motion Animation Workshop tutorial and provides more information on how best to prepare your classroom for stop-motion animation activities. It also offers useful tips on set design, character construction, the technical aspects of production and the creative side of things. Stop-motion animation is an excellent hands-on learning activity that encourages teamwork and develops creativity. This video is complementary to the StopMoStudio main video.


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NEC Display Solutions to showcase retail signage applications at EuroShop 2017
Innovative visual solutions for attracting and engaging with retail customers on show in Düsseldorf
Munich, 28 February 2017 – NEC Display Solutions Europe will exhibit its line of high performance digital display applications for retail signage at this year's EuroShop trade fair. The show takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 5-9 March 2017.
In an increasingly competitive retail marketplace, attracting customer attention with intelligent content delivery solutions is essential for success. Displaying the very latest offers and information at the point of sale has become essential for improving customer satisfaction, acquiring new target groups and increasing revenues. Retail signage solutions from NEC Display Solutions help retailers address these needs. Its solutions encompass in-store installations for shopping centres and retail establishments, as well as solutions for external applications, such as sports and concert venues or malls.
Visitors to the NEC's stand (E54 in Hall 3) will have the opportunity to experience many retail signage innovations, including:
- Context-aware Retail Signage designed for increased in-store customer interaction
- The captivating Magic Mirror Display for attracting and engaging with audiences
- Interactive InGlass™ touch table for engaging with customers
- High brightness displays ensuring visual excellence in bright environments
- New Digital Signage displays featuring coloured bezels, to suit design and décor requirements
- Interactive Display consultancy screen surfaces
- Open Modular intelligence (OMi) solutions that allow smart and seamless integration of computing, output and processing hardware directly into a display
Andreas Brückner, Business Development Manager Retail Signage & Food and Beverage at NEC Display Solutions Europe commented: "EuroShop is an important platform for us to showcase how innovative visual solutions can transform the retail experience for customers and in turn support sales revenues for retailers. Visitors to our stand will find out how to gain a competitive advantage with an effective digital content delivery strategy backed by trusted, tailor-made technology solutions."
EuroShop is one of the biggest and most influential retail trade fairs, gathering visitors ranging from industry market leaders to young start-ups from emerging markets. With over 2,500 exhibitors from around 60 countries it is both the trendsetter and an indispensable information and communication platform for decision-makers in retail


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Mobile phones and tablets aren't exactly "green," but you can use them to work toward the cause with Earth-friendly apps. Whether you're looking for a recycling center, hunting down a charitable cause or just learning how to be a little more green, these apps can steer you in the right direction.
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iRecycle is the easiest way to find out what you can and can't recycle and where you have to go to do it. Use your current location to find drop-off sites (and directions to them!), pick up times and contact info for local recycle companies. This app is created by Earth911, so you'll also have access to their latest articles about living green. Use this app to connect to social networks and let your friends know you're doing your part!
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Your home makes a massive carbon footprint, but Green Outlet can help you reduce that (along with your electric bill). Simply enter your current per-killowat-hour electric rate along with any appliance from a baby monitor to a freezer to find out what it's costing you to run it. Once you know what your biggest offenders are, you'll know what to turn off more and what to replace with a newer, more efficient model. This app also adds up your monthly carbon footprint and lets you know if you're exceeding the recommended amount of energy usage.
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Getting to ESOC
ESOC is located a few hundred metres West of the Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (Hbf - Main Train Station).
Use the form below to plan your arrival at Darmstadt Hbf via local public transportation (bus, rail):
Arriving by air:From Frankfurt-Main International Airport (Flughafen)
- By taxi: Driver will meet your flight - contact ESOC Reception for booking and details.
- By train: The airport local station is underneath Terminal 1; there are frequent trains to Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof. You can also take a local train (S-Bahn) to Frankfurt-Main Hauptbahnhof and there change to the regional train (Regionalbahn) to Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof.
- By bus: Take the "Airliner" bus from the Busbahnhof outside Terminal 1, or from the curbside Haltstelle (bus stop) outside Terminal 2. The Airliner stops in Darmstadt at the Maritim Konferenz Hotel and at the Hauptbahnhof; both are just a few hundred metres from ESOC (see walking or taxi directions below). The Airliner runs between Frankfurt International Airport and Darmstadt twice per hour at peak times, otherwise once per hour; see link at right for details.
- By rental car: See driving directions below; also, see Google Map link at right.
From Frankfurt-Hahn International Airport (120 km from Darmstadt)
- By bus: Use the Bohr Omnibus coach service from the Haltstelle (bus stop) just outside the main terminal; it runs to Frankfurt-Main Airport and Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof; see link at right for details on schedule.
Arriving by train:
Darmstadt is served by the German Railway (DB - Deutsche Bahn) with frequent local, regional and ICE (InterCity Express) connections from Frankfurt-Main, Frankfurt-Main Airport and other major cities. For more information, access the German Railway site Deutsche Bahn (English).
Arriving by city bus/tram:
Luisenplatz is the central public transportation hub in Darmstadt. From there, take any bus (Bus H, F, etc.) or tram (Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 9) going toward the "Hauptbahnhof." Buses drop you at the east or west side of the station. Tram Nos. 2, 3 and 5 drop you off at the station's east side and you must then walk through the station to the west side - "Weststadt."
Tram Nos. 4 and 9 from Luisenplatz go in the direction of Griesheim and stop at TZ Rhein Main and Maria-Goeppert-Strasse, both of which are very close to ESOC.
For more information, access the Rhein-Main Region Transport Authority site RMV (English).
Walking from the Hauptbahnhof:
ESOC is located just west of the Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof. From the east side of the station, walk through the station to the west side ("Weststadt"), go out, then head diagonally across the pedestrian plaza to the left and pick up the next street, Lise-Meitner-Strasse.
Follow Lise-Meitner-Strasse two blocks until it runs into the ESOC fence (you'll see the building with all the flags ahead of you). Turn left and go approximately 50 metres to Robert-Bosch-Strasse, then turn right; the ESOC main gate is just ahead on the right.
Arriving by car:
- Via A5 (Basel-Heidelberg-Frankfurt-Kassel, Frankfurt-Main Airport/Flugahfen)
Coming from autobahn A5, take exit No. 26 (Darmstädter Kreuz) and follow the A67/A672 towards Darmstadt Stadtmitte.
The A672 leads into highway B26/Rhein Strasse heading towards the city centre. Look for the small white sign on your right marked "ESOC" (you may also see a sign marked "TIZ") located just after an overpass.
At the sign and just past the overpass, turn right onto the Eifelring and circle above and across the B26 roadway. Follow the signs (on your right) to ESOC.
- Via A67 (Mannheim-Mainz-Karlsruhe)
Coming from autobahn A67, take exit No. 6 (Darmstädter Kreuz) and follow the A67/A672 towards Darmstadt Stadtmitte.
The A672 leads into highway B26/Rhein Strasse heading towards the city centre. Look for the small white sign on your right marked "ESOC" (you may also see a sign marked "TIZ") located just after an overpass.
At the sign and just past the overpass, turn right onto the Eifelring and circle above and across the B26 roadway. Follow the signs (on your right) to ESOC.
- Via B45/B26 (Hanau-Aschaffenburg)
Follow the B26 into Darmstadt. The B26 turns into Hanauer-Strasse and then Landgraf-Georg-Strasse. Continue following, and:
-> turn right into the Schlossgraben
-> turn left into the Zeughausstrasse
-> continue straight onto Bleichstrasse
The B26 ends and you turn left into Kasinostrasse, now the B3. Leave Kasinostrasse after a few meters and turn right into the Rheinstrasse (now the B26 again), heading towards the autobahn (follow the blue autobahn signs).
At the first lights past the bridge over the railway tracks, turn right into Zweifalltorweg (just before the large Morzartturm tower), heading towards the Hauptbahnhof "Park & Ride" park garage. Before reaching the P&R garage, turn left into Robert-Bosch Strasse.
Visitors`Parking: The visitors`parking is located opposite the ESOC Main Gate, on the other side of the street.
Arriving by taxi:
Tell the driver you wish to go to ESOC, located at Robert-Bosch Strasse 5, 64293 Darmstadt.
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A copy of this page in printable format (PDF) is available via the link at right.
The ESOC is located at Robert-Bosch Strasse 5, 64293 Darmstadt.


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Philly.com reports that State police said MTV star Brandon "Bam" Margera was "stopped at a properly posted stop sign" at 1:48 p.m. on southbound Locust Grove Road at Corrine Road in Pocopson Township, close to his home. An unidentified driver of a Ford pickup who was turning onto Locust Grove sideswiped Margera's 2011 Porsche Panamera, police said.
April Margera said her son, who immediately called his parents to get insurance information, saw the crash coming.
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"He told Bam he was looking at his GPS," April Margera told Philly.com. "And then he got excited and happy when he realized who he hit."
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Clayton's Place
Here's a cool note from Jayson Stark of ESPN…
Not sure if you've noticed, but 21-year-old Dodgers phenom Clayton Kershaw seems to be under this nutty impression that he's never supposed to give up a hit. He's now made SEVEN starts this year in which he's gone at least five innings and allowed either two hits or one.
And according to baseball-reference.com's fabulous Play Index, only one other pitcher, age 21 or younger, in the last 55 years has cranked out that many starts of two hits or fewer in a season. That was the Giants' Matt Cain, who also had seven in 2006.
But no one else that young has had more than FOUR in a season. The group at four: Dennis Eckersley (1976), Storm Davis (1983), Steve Avery (1991) and CC Sabathia (2001).
And in case you're wonder about the most starts like that by a pitcher of any age in the division-play era, it's 10, by Nolan Ryan – age 44 at the time – in 1991.
Here's the lineup for tonight's opener at Arizona…
Furcal, SS
Martin, C
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Blake, 3B
Loney, 1B
Kemp, CF
Hudson, 2B
Kershaw, P
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I'm not seeing where batting Martin 2nd is helping anything except to give him the opportunity to make an extra out a game.
Bat Dre 2nd, move Kemp to 3rd and give a guy that can actually DO SOMETHING with the bat an extra opportunity.
Here's a pre-series song. Starts out about the Snakes, but morphs into a song about the Blues' management….
(Sing to "Flakes!" by Frank Zappa)
Snakes! Snakes!
Snakes! Snakes!
They don't do no good
They never be winnin'
When they oughta should
They waste your time
They're wastin' mine
Arizona's got the most of them
Boy, they got a host of them
Swear t'God they got the most
Of all the ballclubs on the coast
Swear t'God they got the most
Of all the ballclubs on the coast
They got the Snakes
Blues! Blues!
They can't go nine frames
You ask 'em, "Where's our win streak?"
"Well we was beaten by snakes . . ."
You can curse 'n' bitc& 'n' spit
But Joe won't be pitchin' Schidt
Mota's groovin' and lazy
Martin is drivin' us crazy
Swear t'God they got the most
Of all the ballclubs on the coast
Swear t'God they got the most
Of all the ballclubs on the coast
[Take it away, Ned. . .]
I asked as nice as I could
If my job would
Somehow be renewed this season
Well, the whole dam_n year
Came 'n' went, Frankie
[Wanna buy some PEDS, Ned?]
'N' I didn't do nothin'
But I charged Frank double for Vargas
You know, no matter what I do
I'm gonna cheat 'n' rob you
And I'll sign you a Phew
That'll get your head steamin'
And I'll sign a blown Schidt
And I'll sign a fat cow
That'll get ITD so crazy
Til your blog'll go molt into a cult
Yes it will!
[Take it away, Frankie. . . ]
I am a moron 'n' this is my wife
She's buyin' three homes
Has a plastic life
All what we got here's
Picked by Logan White
The pitching isn't easy
Juan ain't always played
Well we don't get excited when it
Rumbles 'n' shakes
We just get on the phone
And call up some PVLs
They rush on over
'N' wreck it some more
'N' we are so dumb
Loaiza, Proctor, Nomore
Well, Joe Torre went crazy
With the bullpen
The bloggers they say
"Don't let Andre Arbitrate"
This great information
Cost me half a week's pay
Manny's female PEDS blew up
Early in the Month of May ay-eee-ay
Blew up the Month of May WOO-OOO
We owe millions 'n' millions
We're coming to charge you
We're protected by Selig
So don't let it upset you
Can't escape the conclusion
It's probably God's Will
That baseball the great past time
Will grind to a standstill
And we are the people
Who will make it all happen
While yer Torre is sleepin',
And Martin is crappin'
You might call us Snakes
Or something else you might coin us
But you know we're so greedy
And you just gotta feed us
We're comin' to let you down, we're comin' to let you down
We're comin' to let you down, we're comin' to let you down
We're comin' to let you down, we're comin' to let you down
AM I seeing double or are they two threads named "Clayton's Place"?
Go Kershaw! Go Dodgers!
Good evening ITD, Dodger Faithful and Our beloved Boys in Blue…..
It is good to see everyone having fun writing the songs again….Good job!!
Lets keep this wave of wins rolling along tonight in Arizona!!
JOSH – Thanks for the Double post….:-)
CRASH – That's probably the longest song!
~Wishful Thinking: NO! MARTIN will NOT be CRAPPIN' tonight….4th HR BABY!
Let's Go Dodgers! Let's go on the WINNING STREAK!
It looks like we've had 2 threads tonight, I guess it's better to use the most recent.
Well we're facing the familiar Dan Haren tonight on the mound, who claims he's not doing to well recently, pitchingwise , that's good news and I hope he doesn't find the Dodgers his cure.
And, Rockies are losing 5 – 1 !!!
I guess we have another new thread.
I'm a little confused here, I keep going back to a different thread.
Just checking.
Hi everyone ~ Boy that was a lousy inning. I hope Kershaw can settle down. Damn with both the Rockies & Gnats losing the Dodgers can add to their lead.
I know oldbrooklynfan, but they have a chance to put some distance between them and the other teams.
Is it just me and you oldbrooklynfan?
Kershaw – so lousy one inning, so go the next.
Well the worst that could happen tonight is the lead remains at 5.
I guess we should click the "back to blog", if we don't have a comment, at least nobody is on the other thread except me, but I'll check this out now and then.
It seems to be a typical Kershaw outing except for 4 runs.
He's generally a little but was hit very hard in the 2nd inning.
Maybe K E M P can wake the guys up.
That a boy Matty! That's the way to wake us up!
Good evening TBW, OBF, MsRussyD4L, (anyone else)
I guess Kemp said to Haran "Keep smiling fool".
Don't feel bad Kershy. You will have plenty of good games for the Blue! Let's go Tron (Lechero)
So good have a game and to have Vinny!
Great AB by Raffy!
Hey Trueblewil are we the only ones here tonight?
Where is everybody?
Damn! What is Martin swinging at? That was in the dirt.
This is very unusual, must be a technical problem.
The server is now on a blink again.
I don't know oldbrooklynfan. I guess we'll have to hold down the fort until reinforcements come.
I hope the Dodgers can fight their way back into this one.
I think post are floating on the air 'cause I don't see mine from a few minutes ago so I am out of here. Double for Manny!
Damn! First pitch DP! Way to kill a rally.
Hey guys, I'm here!
Hi again.
There are bad spirits afoot – I've been kicked off the site four times since my first post.
James has been having his ups and downs for sure. Matt should be hitting in front of him, but there's nobody to protect Matt if he moves up in the line-up.
I would LOVE to see Ausmus play more, too. I think we can expect him to catch Haeger the knuckleballer. It would just be too hard on poor Russy!
The Dodgers are having their usual troubles with Haren.
Hi Sparple!
Torre needs to move Loney to the 8th spot. Maybe he will improve like the other hitters that were moved there.
Good to see we have a sparkle.
Good evening all.
I sure hope Loney gets out of this funk he's in. He sure has been streaky this season. Hot & cold.
Martin has been the biggest disappointment on the entire club. Torre should play Ausmus more than he does.
Oh the crazy ones here, how ya doin' kid.
Guilty as charged on the crazy verdict!!! S.S.D.D.
I think it you have to be pretty much half a bubble off level to be a die hard Dodger fan on the ITD blog.
Today is the other bday boy also Happy bday to Loretta to.
Happy birthday Juan P. and Loretta.
Kemp wiped out that lead off walk.
I was referring to crazyblu, not you vi4.
oldbrooklynfan ~ Haren Is 3-4 with a 3.99 ERA coming into tonight's game. So they have scored some runs against him in the past. So far tonight when they've had a rally they haven't come up with the big hit.
Whew! Guess I have a guilt trip on my lunacy.
Guess I'll take my toys, and go play else where.
Adios & Good Night…………………..
The way things are going (but it could change), if it keeps up this way, the Dodgers, Giants and Rox will go down to the wire as usual, and in no particular order.
Ouch! Haren didn't have to hit Andre . . . . but I do like having him on first with Manny up!
Manny, please make him pay!!!
Ah well, so much for that . . . .
sparkle ~ Looks like Manny just missed that one.
I know Will, but Haren is on, when he's pitching well he does well against the Dodgers.
This game illustrates exactly why, that IF (because that's not a certainty anymore) they make the playoffs they'll be out in 4 games – they can't beat the other teams best pitcher(s), which is all they'll face in the playoffs. Last year the could be Haren and Webb and Zambrano. This year they just flop around like a fish out of water.
And it's a friggin joke having Martin bat 2nd.
HI OBF! I am doing fine! I could do better if the Blue score! I almost went to AZ but my friend could not make it and I considered driving the 4 hours by myself but Idecided against it. I will see the boys soon on Monday. They better be ready on Monday to pluck some birds.
Oh no! they hit Andre. If looks could kill
Will Mota be an enforcer again and drill a Snake?
MATTY! Great catch!!!!!
There is nothing the Marvelous Matty can't do.
VL4! Don't go!!
Matty is putting on a show!
That was punk a**. Belly didn't hit Reynolds on purpose.
Of course I get to listen to Matt Williams who is the D-Bags announcer. & also an x-Giant who has done nothing but share his hate for the Blue. & he was complaining that Belly threw at Reynolds.
Oh how sweet would that of been for Manny to of put that in the seats.
Sweet catch Matty!
WTG Matty! Nice catch! Boy Mota is starting scare me lately.
wohooooooooooo that the guy I went to high school with.
Just so you know, I did see Dre' get drilled. The Arizona broadcast team said it was Andre because "he is the guy right now" So, Andre…………………take that as a compliment, you did good.
Now, for the game………………………yuck!!!!
So you get to hear these guys also Nelly. Wifey said she dislikes them more than the Giants K&K…
Well Nelly, based on the Snakes record, I guess we can't really retaliate since they don't have "the guy". 🙂
Let's get some!!!!
Well, nice effort in the 9th, hopefully we can continue to make their closer look vulnerable, and get some runs off him if needed. Everyone have a great night!!
No present for us either.
Vin says:
"No presents for the birthday boys" "For all of you from all of us a very pleasant evening"
Good night Vin!
Good night everyone! We'll do the skinning of snakes tomorrow!
NSB — Great post at the end of the last thread regarding the Giants announcers. Us in Norcal have a hard time describing what jokers these guys are, but you really nail them.
I've noticed that many announcers around the league these days are pretty much homers and really pathetic.
A lot of imitation of one another with the over hyped calls as well as the disparaging comments for the other team, complaining about calls and just plain poor announcing.
So with hearing Vin for awhile & seeing how well loved he is & how successful he has been with being in the HOF and getting rewards and such, why isn't he imitated?
I as a Dodger fan really hope that when he retires we can have some good announcers and not get what some of these other teams have.
Hersh is pretty good on the College World Series and I wouldn't mind seeing him as part of a team.
But Frank needs to get someone classy in the ranks.
Very disappointing game. We could have increased our lead over both teams and after two good wins in SF we lose the next two. That makes us 13-15 since the all-star break. That's not going to cut it. We're letting the Rocks & Gnats back into it. We need to win 8 out of 10 and put this thing away.
Well, that was just a yucky game.
I still can't believe they drilled Ethier. He is a hometown Phoenix boy too.
Is about time this dude got signed.
Collie: Hershiser would be a good choice. I know we have other options in the ranks, but I fear having to hear "Tinkle Hitter" for the Next 50 Years after Vin decides to see how much golf he could play.
Here's the post that was new-threaded, in case anyone's curious (just edited out one word I now feel is an uneccessary personal attack):
Dost my eyes deceive me, Kahli? An objective sportswriter in the Bay Area? One who owns up to the fact that Pablo Sandoval was not hit, as opposed to cheerleading and overreacting when they thought Sandoval was ejected, which he wasn't. Now we know where our SF import got his itchy trigger finger.
I wish I could've DVR'd it and taped it for all Dodgers fans to see. The way they blew up the frames from J-Mac's inside pitch to Sandoval so large, it was pixelated like a scene from the Atari 2600. The way Kruk and Kuip, the biggest babies/aspiring Umpires in the league, hooted and hollered at a massively blurry picture as conclusive proof that a Dodger runner was out at 1st in the 9th. A freeze frame, mind you, that looked like someone put an impressionist painting in a Spirograph.
This is further proof for me that Jim Miller is a hack. And he deserves to spend his weekends next to Joe Morgan. I used to feel sorry when Morgan would make him look the fool on National Television… but for once, Morgan might be telling the truth of Miller's foolhardiness.
We are beyond spoiled to have Vin Scully calling the games for us. And he grew up a diehard Giants fan in Washington Heights, NYC. I guess when Horace Stoneham picked up the stakes and moved the Giants to San Fran, he left any vestige of classiness back in New York.
What a circus lifestyle following the Giants must be. As objective as World Wrestling Entertainment. I know I shouldn't be surprised having lived here for 8 years, but I try to think the best of humanity and what our potential is, and to see a culture repeatedly fail… it's downright depressing.
By northstateblues on August 14, 2009 3:46 PM
paperbag already made the point: our guys struggle to score against the league's best. The Kid has one bad inning and we're shot. At least that was the story last night. Next time it could be different.
Interesting how Ethier got hit, although he might use a different word for it. I think the d-backs, even though their season is long gone, had to show some fight to their fans and to their selves.
you are up early Knouff.
Let's hope the batting order improves and the boys bring their bats. There have been too many HBP lately.
Go Kuroda the warrior!
Go Dodgers!
Ever since the All-Star break our record sucks. In spite of our overall record, I'm pretty sure that for instance the D'Backs have a better record since the AS Game than we do. Do we even deserve to go to the playoffs? In my mind, unless we turn it up several notches before the end of the season, my answer would be decidedly NO. Besides Manny*roid only Andre and Matt are contributing to the team in a manner you'd expect from a playoff contender. Our team does not have the one-two punch of a dominant pitcher or two – we do it well by committee, especially with our bullpen, but no team should be afraid to go up against us, and it shows. If missing the playoffs gets Ned fired, I'm actually all for it. If it gets Torre to retire early, and I use the word retire loosely, I'd be jumping with glee. I hate those two management components of the Dodgers even more than I do Frank. Frank only did what comes naturally to a real estate developer, that being to use borrowed money anytime he can – the real culprit was Selig for letting baseball deteriorate to the level of letting Frank become an owner. Frank obviously will not invest any more money for players on the field, and that probably portends that a lot of our beloved young guys will be playing someplace else in a few years. Mr. MCCHEAP is here to stay, and may all the great Dodgers up in the sky curse him.
Emma- we're in the mtn time zone, but I do get up around dawn and try to figure out the previous night's game. I keep track with game day and mlb.audio.
Good Morning ITDland ~ I am also very concerned about our play since the All-Star break. I do think, however, if Mr. Know-it-all Torre would put the lineup out there, that many of us have suggested, mainly keeping Dre, Manny and Matty batting together, we would have had a much better record. Why give Russell more at bats per game than Matt? DUMB!
That being said, have a great day everyone and let's give Kuroda a win!!!!
Can I just say I am still mad they intentionally hurt Andre – LOL!!! Maggie better give those Phoenix natives a piece of her mind, hurting her husband and Dreson's daddy like that. (JK) – She is probably proud because her hubby is "The Guy", according to the dbacks.
messagebear – always great to see what you are thinking.
Obviously Joe likes the way that Martin handles his job, including his bat. Actually with Furcal and Martin at the top, no real offensive threat is likely to develop until Andre's turn comes up. I'm also very disappointed in Furcal – not only his lower batting average this year, but his seeming inability to steal bases. What an odd combination for a leadoff hitter. You would hope with a three year contract that he's still somehow affected or recovering from the back surgery, but if that's not the case, we have another half healthy loser in the lineup for another two years.
Nothing like two wussy-bats at the top.
Time warping still. I wrote that after messagebear's 10:20 post.
Bear ~ remember last year before Manny came to us and Pp was hurt….Joe had Matty and Andre batting 1 – 2 and it was not bad at all? Matt is as speedy as Furcal, if not better. Andre knows how to work the count. However, I think Dre 2nd, Manny 3rd and Matty 4th is pretty damn good! Or, depending on who's pitching, you can switch those 3. I'd surely put Loney and Martin way down in the order!
At least Furcal not on the DL yet lol.
Why in the hell he's not stealing bases when he does get on?
I'd rather Kemp bat lead off and Ethier 2nd Manny 3rd
Joe, for the love of sanity, quit trying to WILL Martin into a productive year. Is it a "catcher" thing, you know, some sort of weird fraternity? And quit pretending Casey Blake is a feared hitter. These two guys effectively clog whatever remnants of a potent batting order you still have. You said, oh, let me see, all of a week ago, that batting Ethier in the 2-hole was smart and that you should have gotten smarter a long time ago. Geez, are you ever maddening. Your attention span–or lack thereof–is alarming. Senility is tough, huh Joe? So, in summary, quit wedging that albatross Martin in at the top of the line-up and quit hallucinating that Blake is going to protect Manny. Furcal is a necessary evil at lead-off, then you follow with your three best hitters: Ethier, Manny, Kemp. There, how hard was that?
I just got the title of this thread duhh, I am slow.
Kemp has 23 stolen bases to Furcal 6! Even Martin has 9. Sometimes Torre drives me batty with the batting order.
I agree bear – this team has showed me absolutely nothing since the all-star break.
Because of September's easy schedule, I'm sure the team will schlep its way into the playoffs, then schlep its way out in 4 games (I'll concede them one win in a 5 game series.
But hey, Joe will make it into the playoffs for what, the 100th year in a row and be hailed yet again as a genius.
Why you don't have Dre-Kemp-Manny batting 2-3-4 I'll never know. Why you don't put your most dynamic player up in the order to get an extra AB I'll never know either. But ask me that in another 15 years when I'm as senile as Joe and maybe I will.
Emma ~ I just got the title of this thread now after you did, only because you made me go back and look at it again. I am slowest.
As far as the batting order goes, Kemp has 17 RBI in 13 games in the month of August so far. The point being he must get up with men on base no matter how the batting order is configured. Lately the Dodgers have been very inconsistent offensively, they have to get back to what they were doing in the first half of the season and score more runs in order to win more consistently.
Well, bpb, I wouldn't worry about getting as senile as Joe in 15 years or whatever – Joe really excells at being senile, and that probably doesn't have anything to do with age, just being an IDIOT, as you often observe.
One thing this team doesn't seem to be doing anymore Tru is making the other teams pitcher pitch. What happened to working the count? What happened to running up their pitch count? Everything they were doing the first part of the year they've totally gotten away from this last month and a half.
You mean the crying hawaiian
I hate watching saturday baseball
I hate when the Giants playing on ch 11 but go Mets
The Mets wearing those NY Giants jersey. Gosh damn those stupid Panda mask.
I love how the Giants got dissed.
The Giants just got dissed on National TV when they showed the FACTS:
Giants OFFENSIVE NL Ranks This Season…
Average .260 = 10th
Runs/Game 4.0 = Tied-14th
Home Runs 76 = 15th
Walks 260 = LAST
There are only 16 teams in the NL.
That's pretty amazing, shad on how ineffective the Giants rank offensively. On the other hand, I suppose it shows you what a couple of good and consistent pitchers can do for you.
BPB ~ the only ones on the team who do work the count are Andre and Manny.
Giants Pitching
910 Strikeouts = Most In ALL MLB.
.237 OPP. AVG. = 2nd in ALL MLB.
3.51 ERA = 1st in ALL MLB.
Dang it Cain you trying to kill Wright
Dang it Santana