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For this year's Indianapolis 500, the marketing brains at Hot Wheels will attempt to break the world record for longest jump by a four-wheel vehicle. Doing so requires a 90-foot ramp mounted on a 10-story-tall bedroom door. Dear. Lord.
To make this kid's dream a reality — and to construct a vehicle that can survive jumping more than 301 feet — Hot Wheels enlisted a California firm which has been built the orange track and a Baja-style truck over the past few months. The driver, whose real identity is kept secret by Hot Wheels, will have to hit at least 90 mph by the end of the ramp to clear the record. As builder Jack Murphy told Wired.com's Playbook:
"This has been my life for the last 22 years, jumping people off of stuff...What really excited me is that no one else but Hot Wheels can own a stunt like this."
The current record is held by Johnny Greaves, the Toyota Baja racer who set the record back in 2009 on a dirt track (For comparison's sake, Travis Pastrana's 2010 jump in his Subaru rally car was just 269 feet. Slacker.) If things go according to plan, the jump will go off following the end of the Indianapolis 500, after which Hot Wheels will also reveal the driver's identity, unless Ben Collins writes about it first.
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A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music
University of California Press, 22 dic 1998 - 278 pagine
One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now there has been no extended appreciation and critique of Seeger's work as a whole, nor has an accessible guide to his texts been available.
Exploring the entire corpus of Charles Seeger's writing, A Question of Balance highlights the work of those persons who most influenced him, especially Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ralph Perry. Invited to inaugurate the music department at the University of California's Berkeley campus in 1912, Seeger became keenly aware of his deficiencies in general education and put himself on a rigorous regimen of intellectual development that included studying history, anthropology, political theory, and philosophy. For the remainder of his life his ideas about music heavily influenced the development of ethnomusicology and systematic musicology.
Charles Seeger is perhaps best known as the father of the folk singers Pete, Mike, and Peggy Seeger and as the husband of the innovative American composer Ruth Crawford. This book makes clear that Seeger was an extremely important thinker and educator in his own right. Seeger's intellectual curiosity was as eclectic as it was enthusiastic, and Greer skillfully weaves together the connections Seeger made between music, the humanities, and the sciences. The result is a luminous tapestry depicting Seeger's ideal schemes of musicology. At the same time it reflects the turbulence and vitality in American musical life during the early decades of the century.
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AFC Wimbledon's George Francomb reckons winning games without playing well is a sign the Dons can sustain a promotion bid this term.
Boss Neal Ardley's men, currently fifth in League Two host Hartlepool United on Saturday looking to make it three wins in a row after successive 1-0 triumphs at Luton Town and Southend.
And Francomb, who hit the winner at the Shrimpers on Tuesday night, is hoping a return to home comforts will give everyone a lift this weekend.
"We haven't played as well as we know we can, but it is about going to these places and coming away with the three points," he said.
"If you are going to do anything in this league, they are the important results you have to grind out with your backs to the wall.
He added: "When we get at home we are the team that has to be on the front foot.
"We can play more attacking football when the crowd is behind us."


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Mary Ann Stankiewicz named National Art Educator of the Year
Mary Ann Stankiewicz named National Art Educator of the Year
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The National Art Education Association has named Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Penn State professor of art education, to receive the 2014 National Art Educator of the Year Award. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes the exemplary contributions, service and achievements of one outstanding NAEA member annually at the national level. The award will be presented at the NAEA National Convention in San Diego, Calif., March 29-31, 2014.
NAEA President Dennis Inhulsen states, "This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator. Mary Ann Stankiewicz exemplifies the highly qualified art educators active in education today: leaders, teachers, students, scholars and advocates who give their best to their students and the profession."
Stankiewicz is internationally recognized for her scholarship in art education history. Her research on art education history and policy has been published in major professional journals, and funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation and the Oregon Center for the Humanities, among others. Her book, "Roots of Art Education Practice," a history of art education for K-12 art teachers, has been translated into Korean. She co-authored the chapter on 19th-century art education for the "Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education" (2004), and wrote the first essay on international history of visual arts education (Bresler, 2007).
Stankiewicz served on the Board of Directors for the National Art Education Association for six years and was NAEA President in 2003-05. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Art Education Foundation, the Advisory Board for "Arts Education Policy Review," and is a reviewer for other professional journals. A past-president of NAEA's Women's Caucus, she received the 2003 June King McFee Award from the Caucus. For more about Stankiewicz, click here.
NAEA is the professional association for art educators. Members include elementary, secondary, middle level and high school art teachers; university and college professors; education directors who oversee education in our nation's fine art museums, administrators and supervisors who oversee art education in school districts, state departments of education, arts councils; and teaching artists throughout the United States and many foreign countries.
For more information about the association and its awards program, visit the NAEA website at www.arteducators.org.
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And the Babe of the Week is…Nicky Fleites!
Nicky, Nicky, Nicky can't you see…sometimes your butt just hypnotizes thee.
Nicky Fleites and her amazing ass(ets) pulled out a victory in last week's "Babe of the Week" competition over other gorgeous gals like Natalie Marie, Samantha Olmsted, Marie Blanchard, Olena Marlene and Amber Lancaster.
Nicky moves on to fight for August "Babe of the Month" in just a few weeks. "Butt" who will she face? We'll find out soon enough. Until then, enjoy more pics of the Florida fox.


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OK, you see my lovely bottle of Trooper Ale, a premium British beer created by Iron Maiden, specifically Bruce Dickinson, and Robinsons Brewery, a family brewery from the Manchester town Stockport crafting brews since 1838. If you're reading this website and are a fan of any genre of Metal, then I will assume that you know who Iron Maiden is. I will also assume that you know that Iron Maiden has a song titled 'The Trooper' from their 1983 album Piece Of Mind. And, of course, if you know all that, then you know that the dead soldier on the label carrying the Union Jack is Iron Maiden's famous mascot Eddie. Basically, this beer was created because Bruce Dickinson is a beer enthusiast and the band was approached about creating their own brand of beer. It's that simple. Bruce did his research, hired Robinsons and off they went to create beer and Metal history.
So what's so special about Trooper Ale? Well, for me, I wanted to find out what an Iron Maiden beer would taste like and that Iron Maiden logo and Eddie label made it very easy for me to drop down $7.99 per bottle at the local liquor store. Two bottles and $16 later and I have my beer! So the only real reason I bought this was because of the band/brand. I'm not a big drinker, nor am I a beer connoisseur, but I do occasionally like to have a few brews and when I do I'm very particular about the kind I drink. I like to taste my beer, I like a dark beer with different flavors and layers…..do I sound like a connoisseur? Seriously, I like to drink mainly British beer with the exception of a few local New England beers. My regular beer right now is Hobgoblin, another specialty beer I pay a lot for, but it has a distinctive taste…..that's what I'm hoping for with The Trooper.
Like I said, I enjoy dark beers and The Trooper has a nice dark amber color to it so we're off to a good start. I don't usually sit and smell my beer but each brand is unique and this one smells very rich…..malt, caramel, toffee and some citrus to it. It's not a fruity beer but a little citrus added in to the brew makes for a unique flavor, I think it's a bit of lemon in this beer. What do I know? I could be totally off on the smell and it could be anything but that's what I think. The only reason I smell the beer anyway is because someone told me to do it once and it would enhance my drinking experience. It doesn't have the same effect if you're sniffing the Coors Light or Natty Ice but it's cool if you try different brews. First swig…..second swig…..a decent bitter ale. Definitely has a bit of an after taste but that's where you can taste the different flavors. Do I sound like a beer connoisseur yet? Reminds me of Hobgoblin a bit, Trooper is a very rich beer, very smooth, 4.7 % alcohol…..so it goes down easy.
All in all, in my uneducated and Heavy Metal biased opinion, I think it's a decent beer. I like the color and taste and I've downed my first bottle as I wrote this. Will I make The Trooper my beer of choice? Not at the import price of $7.99 for a pint but maybe I'd grab a bottle from time to time while I was getting a sixer of Hobgoblins or something else in the British section. If I found it on tap somewhere I would definitely give it a go a couple rounds but I've tried it, enjoyed it and now my bottle will be washed out and put in my Metal collection for posterity. Beer #2 is saved for the football game tonight!
If you want to get more information on Trooper Ale, head to Iron Maiden Beer. If you live in the Rhode Island/southeastern Massachusetts area, you can buy Trooper Ale at Yankee Spirits in South Attleboro, MA.


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NASA Released this single image of a super-massive black hole taken by the imaging spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The super-massive black hole is large enough for 300 million of our suns, which is called 300 million solar masses, to fit within the black hole and is in the galaxy called M84 which is part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. M84 black hole is about 26 light years from the center of its galaxy and about 50 million light years from Earth. This same super-massive black hole is moving at 880,000 miles per hour. The relatively close by galaxy called M87 also has a super-massive black hole relatively near its galaxy's center.
The heavens truly declare the Glory of GOD and this is regularly confirmed by the Hubble telescope as well as others both in orbit and on the ground. The Bible has been confirmed by scientific data such as this. More and more scientists are at least secretly acknowledging the fact that creation is the only possible conclusion available but might lose their tenure or their job altogether, if they speak their minds. May GOD be glorified through His wonderful creation day by day even in this secular society. May the LORD be glorified.


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Swing, Top-Down (With GridBagLayout)
For this second stage I am exploring, and discussing, a number of different features of, and approaches to, Swing. I have kept the term top-down in the title because each section still provides a broad overview. My target audience remains an experienced programmer, perhaps with experience of building GUIs in another language. This topic list suggests what will be covered:
- Labels and Association
- Listening at the Window
- Using an Inner Class to Listen
- Handling Secondary Objects
- Using Helper Methods
- To Help, Overload or Extend
- JFormattedTextFields and InputVerifiers
Here is how the final frame will look:
Rather than starting a new GUI/frame completely from scratch I've taken the one from my previous tutorial, removed a couple of components and moved things around a little. I don't want to be distracted with concerns about the design, and appearance, of the frame; I want to concentrate on new features and functionality. (Design and appearance are, obviously, very important, but I've already discussed these in part 1.)
Copy and paste this code to a new class MyGui2:
The driver is the same as before but using MyGui2():
There are only a few changes:
This includes the code that shows/hides the "US" label.
firstName and lastName have been replaced with a single fullName field.
genderGroup is now a member-variable.
There are a couple more countries.
JComboBox is now JComboBox<String>. Without this change JDK 5+ produces a warning message:
JComboBox is a raw type. References to generic type JComboBox<E> should be parameterized
This is discussed further here at SO.
Build and run this code as it is the starting point for what follows. Read through it to make sure you are comfortable before we add extra features to it. It looks like this initially:
As we add new features to our application, and run and test it, don't worry if the frame is shorter than you expect, or components don't appear exactly where we will want them. (You could, if you really wanted to, use NORTHWEST instead of just WEST to push a component higher up on the frame, but it is not necessary, and I don't advise it.) When the tutorial is completed everything will be in the right place.
Remember that you should use pencil and paper (or software tools) to design your GUI first, as discussed in the first tutorial.
As you progress through the tutorial, if you are not sure where to place new code, refer to the full code at the end.
Labels and Association
Labels are usually paired with another component, and we should make this association clear using setLabelFor():
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Often, a label describes another component. When this occurs, you can improve your program's accessibility by using the setLabelFor method to identify the component that the label describes. For example:
We cannot use this method with anonymous inner classes, such as:
addGridItem(panel, new JLabel("Full Name:"), 0, 0, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.EAST);
This label, and the fullName text-field, should be associated, so we need to remove the anonymity:
JLabel fullNameLbl = new JLabel("Full Name:"); addGridItem(panel, fullNameLbl, 0, 0, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.EAST); fullName = new JTextField(20); fullNameLbl.setLabelFor(fullName);
fullNameLbl doesn't need to be a member-variable though, as we won't be doing anything else with it.
I haven't done this elsewhere for this tutorial but you should certainly do so for your own projects. It would be good practice to modify my code to use this method consistently, once you've completed the tutorial. I'll remind you about this at the end.
Listening at the Window
We have only used ActionListener so far, responding to button-clicks and combo-box selection, but there is also WindowListener. This, of course, responds to Window events which, in effect, means frame (or application) level events. If our frame-class were to implement WindowListener then an IDE such as eclipse will offer to add unimplemented methods for us, producing the following code:
It is very helpful that modern IDEs can generate these code-stubs for us. However, for most applications, we will only need one or two of the events. Most often windowClosing and/or windowOpened. (windowActivated will fire every time the frame is activated, including when it is first opened.)
Instead of implementing WindowListener we can use a WindowAdapter. This provides default method-implementations for us, so we only need to override the one or two we need.
The following code resolves the issue of the combo-box possibly showing "US" when first opening the frame/window, even though "United States" may not be selected in the list.
I also ensure that exiting the application by any means will exhibit the same behaviour as clicking our Exit button. This is achieved by calling doClick() on this button. In order for this to work we need to change EXIT_ON_CLOSE to DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE. The Exit button only produces a goodbye message, if it did any more than this then I would prefer to create and call a separate method, with a name such as beforeExit.
Using an Inner Class to Listen
Rather than the JFrame implementing ActionListener we can use an inner class. One advantage is that we can use more than one of these. This way we could, for example, have one listener that responds to certain button clicks and another that responds to changing the selected-item of combo- or list-boxes. (This was discussed in a few comments at the end of my first tutorial.)
Modify the current actionPerformed as follows, as it will now only respond to the combo-box:
MultiListener Example :tutoracles
Handling Secondary Objects
By secondary objects I mean, for example, Border, Font. That is, objects that work with or tailor components. I will re-examine the GridBagConstraints object for this discussion.
Currently our helper-method addGridItem() creates, and then discards, a GridBagConstraints object. We pass significant arguments for it: x, y, width, height and alignment (anchor). Other values are set consistently in the method, or are left as their default-values. This is a good approach because:
- For a specific panel (and specific frame) we are likely to use the same constraint-values consistently.
- We can modify or add constraint-values within the method to change the overall appearance of the panel(s).
The disadvantage is that if we need to tweak a constraint-value for a particular component we're in trouble. We can:
- Modify the method to account for a specific component. This is a terrible approach.
- Ignore the method and create a constraints-object just for this particular component. This grates. If we do this more than once then it might tempt us to abandon the method altogether.
- Having used the method it may be possible to reach inside the panel to locate and modify the constraints for this component.
(To be honest, I haven't investigated this third approach. I'm assuming it is possible, but it is not something that excites me.)
The other approaches are to create a new constraints-object whenever we add a component to the panel. This leads to huge, illegible, code. Or we can create and modify a single constraints-object. This is better but we would still need to modify a number of values each time, and it is very easy to forget one; finding this particular value could be tricky (there won't be any errors to help us).
I will take the following approach:
- Create and maintain a single GridBagConstraints instance.
- Set the default, common, values that we want.
- Continue to use out addGridItem() method when adding components.
The advantage is that we can change any constraint-values that we need to before calling the method.
This still isn't perfect. If we change some constraint-values before calling the method then we need to remember to set them back to the previous values (or some other values) before calling the method again. Nevertheless I like this approach, particularly bearing in mind that we shouldn't need to change constraint-values very often.
Also refer to the section below on overloading and extending.
Using Helper Methods
I want to add some radio-buttons for "Marital Status". These will be styled in the same way as the "Gender" buttons.
Have a look at the current code:
We could just copy and paste this code but instead will create a helper-method. The advantages are:
- The code will be neater and easier to read.
- If we decide to add a third radio-group it will be straight-forward.
- We can change the styling for all the radio-groups in one place.
- We could possibly copy and paste the method into other projects.
We can create a method that returns a Box, passing it the list of choices and a title. Then we can just add this Box to the panel using addGridItem(). However, there is a complication. We might need to refer to the ButtonGroup later, as we do for the genderGroup. This does make it slightly messier, but we can just pass a ButtonGroup to the method.
Before you modify the code though, there is another complication. Because the radio buttons are created in the method, we no longer have individual references to them. The line:
in the actionPerformed method can no longer be used and needs to be deleted. If we still want to set the focus we can use:
//genderBox.requestFocus(); // or genderBox.getComponents()[0].requestFocus();
The second method is preferable because, with the first, it is not clear that the radio-group has the focus. Also, with the second approach, we don't actually care which radio has the focus, so it is sensible just to highlight the first one in the list.
This discussion, and the code amendments that follow, are worthwhile. However, for something as fixed, and brief, as gender and marital status, I would probably stick with the copy/paste approach. If values were being obtained from a database (or other source) I would create the helper-method, because the individual items would not be known in advance anyway.
Here is the revised section of member-variables:
Here's the helper-method:
and here is the revised and new code in the constructor:
What about aligning things horizontally rather than vertically? We could add an additional argument to the method. Alternatively, we could create a second method, copying and pasting the first. Aligning things horizontally may require some different styling to vertically.
A Conclusion About Helper Methods
We are building an application, and a GUI for this application. If helper methods help us to keep the code neat, and give us some flexibility to add other, similar, components, then we should use them.
We are not building a Components-Library for use in other applications. Our helper-methods do not have to be completely flexible and portable. (It is not possible to make them completely flexible anyway, as we could only achieve this by completely reproducing the Swing Object Model.) However, if our helper-methods are well thought out, it is likely that we will be able to copy and paste them for use in future projects.
To Help, Overload or Extend
This brief discussion is relevant to, and follows on from, the previous sections on secondary objects and helper methods.
Referring back to our discussion of the addGridItem() helper-method, and the need to tweak it, there is another approach which is more Java-esque. That is, to overload the method by providing different versions of it with different parameters. This is certainly an option that we should be aware of.
However, in my opinion, we are only building a form/frame, not a rocket-ship. These extra methods add complexity. Besides, the methods are likely to be very similar and I have already demonstrated an alternative approach to tweaking the method; that is, to maintain an instance of the object (or objects) that the method uses.
Bottom-line: Be aware of the option to overload methods, and make use of it if it suits your purpose.
Almost every Swing Component can be extended. We have already extended JFrame to provide our GUI. We could have:
- Created a class which constructs and displays our JFrame without actually extending it. The construction and display of the form could be from a static method as in the example here.
- This class could instead include a getFrame() method to return the frame to be displayed by the caller.
- This class could include inner classes which extend, typically, JPanels, and maybe other components, which are then added to the JFrame.
- Even with our current approach we could extend JPanel, and perhaps other components, using an inner class.
I will state clearly that I am not suggesting anything definitive about these approaches. They continue to be discussed and debated by wiser heads than mine. I only have some, hopefully, common-sense advice:
- The first approach is a very common alternative to our current one. I am happy to take either approach.
- The second approach concerns me a little, and we would need to be careful to avoid any potential cross-threading issues.
The issue with extending components is, firstly, that of complexity. It would need to be a fairly complex frame to warrant extending anything more than a JPanel or two. Secondly, we are not, actually, extending the class(es). That is, we are not adding extra functionality. (Well, let's say that "most of time" we won't be adding extra functionality.)
Anyway, I will leave the discussion at this point. You might do some research if it interests, or concerns, you.
JFormattedTextFields and InputVerifiers
JFormattedTextField extends JTextField to enable formatting of the text to represent, for example, a valid date, number or phone number. If an invalid value is entered it will, on losing focus, simply revert to its original, default, value. This behaviour isn't particularly useful.
We can attach an InputVerifier to this component, to verify the value and take appropriate action. I am briefly introducing this component and a verifier, but please note that InputVerifiers can be used with many of the Swing components, including the simpler JTextField.
There is much more to a JFormattedTextField than I am discussing here (as well as to all the other Swing components!).
Validating/ verifying user-input is a big subject and I am just providing a brief introduction. There is an interesting tutorial here at Javalobby (although it is from 2005), and a library discussed here at dzone.
Let's add a 'date of birth' field. We will use a SimpleDateFormat() to specify the formatting for display of a date, and default it to today's date (new Date()). If we are not able to parse the value the user enter's to a Date-value we'll beep and select the text they have just entered.
I used NORTHWEST/NORTHEAST (temporarily) rather than just WEST/EAST so that it might be less distracting for you, seeing components apparently in the wrong position, and perhaps jumping around. Nevertheless, I recommend that you DON'T do this. Just build the frame, and the panel/GridBagLayout, in accordance with your original pencil-and-paper design. Once the frame is fully built, and the components tested, then, at the end of the whole process, you can correct any alignment issues.
I want to emphasize this: it is inevitable that you will build and test the frame, and its components, in stages. You WILL encounter alignment issues. There is little point in trying to fix these until the frame is complete. If you do take this approach then you will probably find that you have to reverse most of the adjustments that you made! Have faith in your pencil-and-paper design.
I was briefly tempted to include code that would verify that the person was at least than 18 years old. This is not as straight-forward as it should be. Nevertheless, I recommend that you investigate this for yourself.
Rather than just selecting the date of birth I want to display an error message. We will add a JLabel and use setVisible() to show or hide it.
Adding a JLabel directly to a cell, and hiding and showing it, won't work. (That is, not without considerable effort.) The other components on the panel will jump around. Using another component (a container) will resolve this. I'm using a Box, which might seem a little odd as it only contains a single component; you could use a different container if you prefer.
A better approach could be to put both the date-of-birth field and the error-label in the same container. If using a Box you could use a strut to separate them, and the Box could span two rows if appropriate.
Please note that I wouldn't use a JFormattedTextField for a date-value. I would probably either use three separate combo-boxes or find a calendar (a date chooser) plug-in. I'm just using it for illustration. Here's an example for a phone number:
Don't neglect the Java Tutorials and documentation:
Trail: Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing
Package javax.swing
A reminder about the setLabelFor() method mentioned much earlier in this tutorial. I believe it would be a good exercise for you to modify the final code to use this method wherever appropriate.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
All for one and one for all!
The lineup peppered the ball all around and got contributions from a host of folks. Thirteen hits and three walks led to five runs. It seemed like it should have been more, but five is an explosion for the Giants. It's the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts offense. Our old friend Jerome Williams was on the hill for the LAAs. I was happy to see him despite the ugly, ugly uni. He was the 39th pick in 1999, and pitched for the 2003 NL West winners. Kruk pointed out that LaTroy Hawkins, who we saw in relief, came to SF from the Cubs when Williams was traded (with David Aardsma) in 2005. Jerome was signed and released by several clubs and was out of the bigs for a long time and even played in the independent leagues for a bit before climbing back. In an unfortunate turn of events, we learned in the 9th that he'd been hospitalized after leaving the game for "shortness of breath." Let's hope he's OK.
Brilliant relief work (twelve straight outs!) preserved the win for the good guys. And how about zero errors? It took a superb team effort tonight to prevail over a good team. The Giants sit at 38-30, the fourth-best record in the National League. Cain gets his 9th win despite a sub-par start (Game Score 43). The guys "had his back" as they say.
p.s. Did you see that R.A. Dickey pitched his second consecutive one-hitter? Crazy!
2 comments:
- nomisnala said...
They had our signals. They were hitting all kinds of pitches Matt was throwing hard. Than Kruk and Kuip noticed it, and Bochy changed the signals. Cain still struggled but at least they were not hitting bullets off of him after that. The inning he walked two, showed some unlikely squeezing by the umps. To top it all off, the relief crew, in his honor, pitched 4 perfect innings, thus procuring the win for Matt Cain who is now 9-2 on the year. If only Timmy were Timmy this year the giants would be running away with it.
- Mon Jun 18, 11:09:00 PM PDT
- Brother Bob said...
When I pronounced Cain the All Star starter I was pulling facts from my usual source. Dickey is having a monster season, better than Cain.
Hooray for our Perfect Bullpen yesterday. And Melky is still a hit machine. Keep it going!
- Tue Jun 19, 10:06:00 AM PDT


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A Michigan woman is suing a Washington man for emotional distress after saying that he led her on for a few months on Facebook, accepted gifts and then dumped her and posted derogatory comments about her.
Cheryl Gray, 50, an unemployed paralegal from Livonia, Mich. filed a lawsuit against Wylie Iwan, 35, an Applebee's employee in Kennewick, Wash., for $8,386.88 in Michigan civil court for "misrepresentation, promissory estoppel, defamation of character and intentional infliction of emotional distress" on May 18, according to the Seattle Times. Gray said that a week before her planned trip to visit Iwan, he told her he met someone else in a Kennewick bar.
The two met online on Facebook playing the popular Zynga social network game, "Mafia Wars," and eventually began messaging one another for hours each day, Gray said.
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She said Iwan used the word "friend" or "best friend," while at the same time saying, "I love you" or "I'm falling in love with you," and making plans for the future. "He led me to believe for a number of months that our meeting was to explore a potential relationship between the two of us," she said.
She sent him and his sons gifts for Christmas, his birthday and flowers on Valentine's Day. She bought airplane tickets and reserved a rental car for a trip to Kennewick from April 6-11 and reserved a hotel room in Seattle and got tickets to the Mariners' opening home game.
On March 30, Gray said Iwan told her he had met someone else four days earlier.
"I was just really devastated ... and I guess I was angry," she said. "He supposedly met this person on Saturday, but I don't believe that. I believe he was already involved in a relationship. ... I felt like this guy is taking me on a ride."
Iwan says that Gray was simply a friend and nothing more and that she seemed at first OK with the news he found someone new -- until she allegedly started a hate group about him and called him an online predator. "I want this lady to move on and leave me alone," Iwan said. "It's a completely frivolous lawsuit."
So, perhaps those of you thinking of starting an online relationship could learn a few things about this episode. Don't spend significant amounts of money on people you meet online and don't say, "I love you" to people you meet online unless you want someone to show up on your doorstep expecting a relationship.


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- The Creative Coalition Ball on Monday will be the biggest celebrity draw
Everything about the second inauguration of President Obama is expected to be more low-key than four years ago, including the size of the crowd (probably half the 1.8 million of 2009) and the quota of entertainment stars, celebrities and other boldfaced names.
Here's where you might find some of these elusive creatures:
St Jude Ball: A fundraising ball at the Hamilton Hotel to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Hosted by CNN's Roland and Jacquie Martin, expected guests include Eva Longoria, Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson.
Kids' Inaugural Concert: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden host event for the children of military families and invited guests at the Washington Convention Center. Among the performers scheduled are Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley, Far East Movement, fun., Glee cast members, John Legend, Katy Perry, Marc Anthony, Mindless Behavior, Nick Cannon, Smokey Robinson, Soul Children of Chicago, Stevie Wonder and Usher.
Blisspop Inauguration Party: Moby will be the DJ at the U Street Music Hall.
Latinos In Performance at the Kennedy Center: Actress Eva Longoria co-hosts, with a coalition of leading Latino organizations, a celebration of Latino contributions to American culture and politics, and especially how they were crucial to the re-election of President Obama. Among the performers participating are Raúl Esparza, José Feliciano, Melanie Griffith, George Lopez, Rita Moreno, Chita Rivera, Robert Rodriguez, Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, Ballet Hispanico, the Esperanza Azteca Youth Orchestra and the Pan American Symphony Orchestra.
Pennsylvania Society Inaugural Gala: Queen Latifah will perform at the Ritz-Carlton.
Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball: Russell Simmons and Pharrell Williams are scheduled to appear at the Harman Center for the Arts.
Swearing-in Ceremony: Beyoncé will sing the National Anthem. James Taylor will sing America the Beautiful. Kelly Clarkson will sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee.
Inaugural Balls: There will be two this time (compared to 10 last time), both at the Washington Convention Center.The Commander-in-Chief Ball will be the smaller (about 4,000 people expected), for military invited guests. The Inaugural Ball will be for everyone else (about 35,000). Planners have not yet said which entertainers will be performing, but they will be from the same list as the Kids' Concert: Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley, Far East Movement, fun., Glee cast members, John Legend, Katy Perry, Marc Anthony, Mindless Behavior, Nick Cannon, Smokey Robinson, Soul Children of Chicago, Stevie Wonder and Usher.
Creative Coalition Ball: A fundraising gala at the Harman Center for Arts (tickets cost $10,000 — $100,000) is expected to be celebrity central. The Goo Goo Dolls will headline but a long list of other film, TV and musical artists will be there, including David Arquette, Kirsten Dunst, Ashley Greene of Twilight, Chelsea Handler, The Big Bang Theory's Johnny Galecki, Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet, Nashville star Connie Britton, Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Paula Abdul, Omar Epps, Alan Cumming, Taraji P. Henson, Marlon Wayans, Tim Daly, Matt Bomer, Giancarlo Esposito, John Leguizamo, Alfre Woodard, Evan Handler, Richard Schiff, Wayne Knight and Richard Kind.
The Recording Industry Inaugural Benefit: Ke$sha will headline the musicians charity benefit at the 9:30 Club in Washington.
Artists Making an Impact: Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham, Will.i.am, Chris Tucker, Sophia Bush, Kate Walsh and Allison Williams are among those scheduled to be at a cocktail reception and buffet dinner at the restaurant Oya.
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Colleges Cut Prices by Providing More Financial Aid
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
The average "tuition discount rate"—the reduction off list price afforded by grants and scholarships given by these schools—hit an all-time high of 45% last fall for incoming freshmen, according to a survey being released Monday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
"It's a buyer's market" for all but the most select private colleges and flagship public universities, said Jim Scannell, president of Scannell & Kurz, a consulting firm in Pittsford, N.Y., that works with colleges on pricing and financial-aid strategies.
It is likely that some private colleges will be forced to be even more generous with discounts this fall. As of the May 1 deadline for many high-school seniors to commit for their freshman year of college, early reports suggest some non-top-tier schools fell 10% to 20% short of enrollment targets, said Mr. Scannell.
The jump in aid shows that many colleges are losing pricing power as more families focus on cost and value, with about 65% increasing their discount rate in the fall of 2012. Except for the most exclusive schools, private colleges increasingly are vulnerable to the stagnant wages of many families, deepening student debt, the uncertain job market, growing questions about the value of costly four-year degrees and unfavorable demographics.
About one of every eight U.S. undergraduates is enrolled at a private nonprofit college. Such schools provided 70% of all grant aid to undergraduate students in 2009, the most recent year for which data are available, Nacubo says.
The average discount rate at private colleges has climbed for seven years in a row, and the latest increase was smaller than the jump in 2011, said Natalie Pullaro Davis, the study's author. But colleges also are having a tougher time boosting their sticker prices. That makes it harder for colleges to generate enough new revenue to offset the impact of higher aid and their own rising costs.
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Because of economic factors and political pressure on colleges to hold the line on tuition, "we have hit a tipping point on price," said John Nelson, managing director at Moody's Investors Service. Last year, the median sticker price at about 280 private colleges and universities tracked by the debt-rating firm rose 3.9%, the smallest increase in at least 12 years.
Tuition increases for the 2013-14 year at these schools are likely to be about the same or slightly smaller, Mr. Nelson said.
Meantime, at four-year public colleges and universities, tuition and fees for in-state students rose 4.8% in the 2012-13 academic year, the smallest increase since 2000-01, according to the College Board. Tuition at these schools for out-of-state students rose 4.2%.
The discount rate for public universities fell modestly in 2012, said Mr. Nelson of Moody's, after rising from 2007 to 2011.
Last fall, enrollment fell at 46% of the 383 private colleges in the new Nacubo survey as the pool of high-school seniors declined. John Walda, the group's president, said the financial squeeze from fewer students is forcing such colleges to find ways to boost revenue, control costs and seek a way to stand out from the crowd. Some of those that can't eventually will shrink, merge or fold, he predicted.
Bill Hall, president of Applied Policy Research Inc., said about 10 of the 20 undergraduate colleges he advises on pricing and aid strategies still are scrambling to fill seats for this fall's freshman class. Officials at some schools are asking accepted applicants who haven't said yes or no if "there are financial issues within reason where we can make an adjustment," he said.
Some private colleges are seeing just 20% of the students they accepted actually enrolling, down from about one-third of accepted students five years ago, Mr. Scannell said.
The economic downturn boosted the number of families who qualify for aid. In addition, even those earning too much to demonstrate need under aid formulas "expect to see some sort of merit aid," unless the school is highly selective, said Trey Chappell, a college adviser in Scottsdale, Ariz.
John Ames said the College of Saint Benedict increased his daughter's scholarship to $17,800 from $14,000—and added a $2,800 work award—after he told the St. Joseph, Minn., school about student-athlete awards she had won and a better offer she received from another college. The school's tuition and fees are $37,926 this fall.
"The end result indicates that I had more power than I thought I did," he said, adding that he appreciated the college's "willingness to meet us in the middle."
Saint Benedict's executive director of financial aid, Stuart Perry, said he couldn't discuss individual students. In general, the roughly 2,000-student college makes "a very small number of revisions to academic-based scholarships," typically in response to new information, and revises need-based awards due to changes in a family's financial situation.
Discounting can help private colleges compete against public institutions. Maureen Anderson, who lives in Detroit Lakes, Minn., said a $55,740 scholarship, which covers tuition, fees and certain other expenses, sealed her daughter's decision to attend New York University instead of her other top choice, the University of California, Berkeley, which made her a less-generous offer. NYU's tuition and fees are about $44,800 for the 2013-14 year.
"Money talks," said Ms. Anderson, host of a syndicated radio program. "Many people look to private colleges because they have those pools of money to draw from."
A Berkeley spokeswoman said 40% of undergraduates pay no tuition because of grants and scholarships, while 65% get at least some financial aid.
Some colleges are trying to raise their appeal by experimenting with new pricing. Sewanee, the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., cut tuition 10% to $41,500 in the 2011-12 academic year. While it raised it for freshmen arriving this fall to $45,900, it guaranteed that rate for four years.
As part of the new pricing strategy, Sewanee no longer negotiates merit-based scholarships. "Our first offer is our final and best offer," said John McCardell, Sewanee's vice chancellor. "We have deliberately removed ourselves from the bidding wars."
Sewanee's tuition revenue rose $1.5 million to $33.5 million in the current academic year, after a decline of about $920,000 in the first year of the tuition cut.
One reason: Last fall's entering class of 453 students was 13% larger than two years earlier. The applicant pool rose by nearly 500 to roughly 3,400 last year, allowing the school to take more students while being more selective, said Mr. McCardell, who believes publicity surrounding the new pricing played a roll.
Meantime, Sewanee's current tuition discount of 42% is down from 45% before the price cut.
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My name is Yola Monakhov. I am a photographer working in both color and black-and-white film, mostly in large format, but in medium format, as well. I consider myself a traditional photographer, in that I follow the code of photographic investigation, never knowing beforehand how something should be pictured, but discovering meaning through the process of photography.
I was born in Russia and grew up in New York, where I immigrated as a child with my family. I completed my MFA in 2007 at Columbia University in New York, where, in 1998, I also received an MA in Italian Literature. In the intervening years, I worked as an editorial photographer primarily overseas and in crisis areas, and increasingly started devoting time to the pursuit of my own work. I am a contributing photographer to The New Yorker magazine and teach photography at Columbia University and at Mercer County Community College.
My latest project, of which I am including five images, is still very open. Since I have been teaching Photo 1, I have become deeply enamored with black and white film and its possibilities. I am photographing in uptown Manhattan, around where I live, and downtown, in the financial district, where I currently have a studio residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. For this work, I am focusing on architecture as landscape, and on portraiture, in the studio and in the streets.
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Some of the most prolific books written today are paranormal romances. There are thousands of them, all trying to be the next Twilight. There are other vampires also, those that haunt the Internet and pop up regularly, like bar girls who steal or kidneys or how sending a chain letter to Bill Gates will make you rich. One of those vampires is the one about business ebooks. According to many experts, if you write an ebook for your business customers will beat a path to your door. Let's hope that they are not there for your kidneys!
Nobody may to ready your business ebook. Have you ever read one? Did you download it before that long airplane ride to have something to read on the trip? There were 200,000 books published in 2011. According to Fast Company, the following were the best selling business books of 2012:
1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
2. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
3. Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, by Robert Pozen
4. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don't, by Nate Silver
5. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown
6. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg
7. Renegades Write the Rules: How the Digital Royalty Use Social Media to Innovate, by Amy Jo Martin
8. Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business, by Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington, Tsun-Yan Hsieh
9. The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World, by Frans Johansson
10. Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, by Frank Partnoy
11. The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
12. 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, by Nilofer Merchant
How many of these have you read? Do your customers read them? What products did you buy because you read one of these books?
Writing a book is about telling the world a story and why it is important. You write because you have a story to tell and because you love to write. You write to entertain your readers.
Your story about your business and what it took to start it and how you keep it going may become a bestseller. But, not if you write it, or have a cheap ghostwriter hack it out to help visitors to your website buy new lawn furniture. But, if the lawn furniture is haunted and the garden gnomes are wise gurus of life in the suburbs, then maybe people will read it.
The Staples Easy Button is a great marketing idea. The story about how it was created, and how American pop culture seized on it might very well make a great chapter in a business book about advertising. If you can write that story, then write it and promote that book on your web site.
Writing a bad, throw-away ebook to sell your business may do more harm than good. Vampires are like that. The writing quality, story quality, format quality, and grammar quality of the book reflect your business.
Write your business book because you have to write it and are willing to spend the months and months needed to write, edit, rewrite, package, and promote the book as something more than your business, not to just sell lawn furniture. The gnomes know when you are faking it. Just remember that.
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Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Roll out the pastry so it is large enough to fit a deep 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin, then line the tin with the pastry. Chill for 30 mins. Line the pastry with greaseproof paper, fill with baking beans and bake for 15 mins. Remove the paper and beans and return the tin to the oven for 5 mins until golden, then remove and set aside. Reduce oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan, add the onions and potato and cook over a very gentle heat for 10-15 mins, turning occasionally, until golden and tender. Season if you want to, then add the garlic and thyme leaves, and cook for a further 3 mins. Tip into the pastry case along with the goat's cheese and spread out evenly.
Whisk the eggs and crème fraîche together, season if you want to, then pour into the pastry case and bake for 30-35 mins until lightly golden brown and just set in the centre. Serve warm, with rocket leaves scattered over if using.
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Ron Paul hounded while Scandal that undermines Santorum's "family values" swept aside
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, January 9, 2012
While the establishment media has ceaselessly smeared Ron Paul for the controversial content of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him, the comparatively shocking scandal of Rick Santorum having sponsored alleged child molester Jerry Sandusky has been almost universally ignored.
Santorum, who has cultivated an image as a clean-cut social conservative trumpeting family values, nominated Sandusky for a "Congressional Angels in Adoption Award," after Sandusky had already been accused of at least five cases of child molestation.
"Its philosophy is simple," said Santorum of Sandusky's charity, "It is easier to develop a child than to rehabilitate an adult."
"Since the scandal broke into the news, Santorum has been circumspect in his comments about it. He has said he does not know Sandusky personally," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported back on November 9.
Following the revelation of the charge that a Penn State graduate assistant spotted Sandusky allegedly anally raping a young boy in a shower and then told head football coach Joe Paterno, Santorum defended Paterno, who did not inform the police of the alleged incident.
Despite Santorum's surge before last week's Iowa Republican primary that enabled him to virtually tie with Mitt Romney in first, the establishment media has uniformly failed to highlight how his sponsorship of Sandusky underscores Santorum's hypocrisy when it comes to "family values".
On the other hand, Congressman Ron Paul has been hounded by the media for weeks about the contents of decades-old newsletters that were not even written by him.
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Almost every day, the corporate media contrives to manufacture a new smear against Ron Paul – today it's the ludicrous claim that Paul was to blame for having to abandon a meet and greet at a New Hampshire diner after the media itself caused a fracas.
And yet establishment candidates such as Santorum and Romney have virtually been given a free pass despite their past associations and policies being far more odious and abhorrent to conservative values than Paul, who has the most conservative voting record in Congress.
"Why has Rick Santorum not been questioned about his connections and support of Jerry Sandusky?," asks the Daily Paul.
"Ron Paul overlooked a couple sentences that went into his newsletter decades ago, and has been scrutinized and questioned repeatedly about it for the last 14 years."
"So why not the same scrutiny for Santorum's sponsorship of Sandusky to receive the congressional angels in adoption award? Paul has disavowed anything to do with the racism that appeared in his newsletter which he never knew about, but we still haven't heard if Santorum disavows his outright honor of Sandusky."
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Something finally went right for Mel Gibson: The embattled actor just sold his 75-acre home in Connecticut's toniest town for a whopping $24 million.
The "Braveheart" actor, currently going through a bitter split with the woman he left his wife of 29 years for, bought the Tudor mansion and vast tract of land in 1994 for $9.3 million.
"I think it's encouraging that the high end of the market still has activity this year," local real estate agent Renee Gallagher, whose partner had the listing, told the Greenwich Time.
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Gibson could need the profits soon, as he and piano-playing Russian hottie Oksana Grigorieva are headed to court to battle over custody of their seven-month old daughter Lucia. Grigorieva recently got a restaining order against Gibson, claiming the actor punched her and broke her teeth, a charge Gibson denied.
The property, known as Old Mill Farm, includes a rather indulgent and large chess set in the yard.
The house has been on the market since 2007, when it was listed for $39.5 million, and it was recently advertised for $29.7 million.
Cosette Property LLC bought the property, which includes a 16,000-square foot Tudor-style mansion that was built in 1926 for financier George Lewis Ohstrom. It also has a five-horse stable, log cabin, 60-foot swimming pool and a stream-fed pond.
Designer Tommy Hilfiger sold a nearby estate, with a 20,000-square-foot home, for $20 million last year, and earlier this year, another nearby property went for $31.4 million.
Gibson is known for snapping up land, owning an island in Fiji, properties in Australia and Costa Rica. In addition, he owns several properties in Malibu.
The Oscar-winning director and acclaimed actor has been trying to rehabilitate his image this summer with a string of new movies. But even before he left his wife and the mother of six of his kids in 2009, his reputation was on the rocks. He was busted in 2006 for DUI, and went on an annti-semitic rant against the officer who arrested him, blaming Jews for starting wars and making a sexist comment to another, female cop.


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Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.
"Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."
People who earn a college degree before getting married are much less likely to become obese than those who graduate from college after getting married, according to a new study.
Heavily marketed as a safer, healthful alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are under fire from California health officials who have declared "vaping" a public health threat, hoping to head off the type of deceptive manipulation that tobacco companies succeeded with for decades, according to researchers.
Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.
Same-sex couples encounter more obstacles to treatment for infertility than opposite-sex couples, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Recent research has shown that racial segregation in the U.S. is declining between neighborhoods, but a new study indicates that segregation is manifesting itself in other ways — not disappearing.
A new study finds some surprising ways in which women's health at midlife is connected to when they had their first child and to their marital history. Researchers found that women who had their first child in their early 20s didn't report better health at midlife than those who had their first baby as a teen.
In an era where popular culture is increasingly recognized for its impact on lay understanding of health and medicine, few scholars have looked at television's powerful role in the creation of patient expectations, especially regarding pregnancy and birth.
When members of the U.S. military leave the service, they tend to settle in neighborhoods with greater overall diversity than their civilian counterparts of the same race, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
A new study of young people finds that, with one exception, whites are more optimistic — sometimes drastically so — than their minority peers about their likelihood of living to 35.


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WASHINGTON—Pope Benedict XVI was saddened to learn of the death, devastation and suffering caused by the April 25-28 tornadoes across the Southern United States and sends his prayers and support to victims and those engaged in relief and rebuilding efforts, according to a message from the Vatican.
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On the brink: Save this JPA mansion!
SIZE: main house: 3,148 fin. sq. ft., 1,552 unfin.
cottage: 678 fin. sq. ft.
ADDRESS: 1730 Jefferson Park Avenue
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Margie Burris, Stevens & Company, 296-6104
This house was built in 1920 for a family undoubtedly a well-to-do family and it must have been a glorious place to come home to in those days. Situated on a small rise on JPA, its shady lawn sweeping grandly down to the street, the property has all the attributes of a manor: four stately columns almost three stories high, beautiful four-over-four windows throughout, and an elegant over-the-entrance balcony.
But like so much else these days, this once-elegant mansion has fallen on hard times. For a while, it was used as a fraternity house, an unfortunate stop along the road to ruin, and then it did time as student housing. To add the ultimate insult to those injuries, it has sat empty, abandoned to the elements, for the last five years.
What's here to work with? Lots of potential, that's what. Nearly twelve-foot ceilings, for starters. Multiple (but not currently working) fireplaces, hardwood floors, an enormous dry basement under the entire house (unfortunately with a low, 7-foot ceiling), a separate cottage at a comfortable distance from the big house, and– best of all in some people's estimation train tracks right at the edge of the back yard.
Carrollton Manor, as it was called in its heyday, is now divided now into three one-bedroom apartments and two two-bedroom apartments. One of them is particularly charming: a combined upstairs and downstairs unit that contains what must have been the back stairs to bring the kitchen help to their duty stations. In that apartment, the kitchen and dining room are on the first floor in a space that's been added– so that the walls are the cast-cement walls of the original house and an upstairs consisting of the bedroom and bath.
The house has oil heat. Most of the original windows are in place and unbroken. The original wrought-iron railing, probably around the front porch back in the day, is still there to be reinstalled when the house returns to its former grandeur.
But then there's the downside. The bathrooms and kitchens, like much of the rest of the place, show the effects of the many years of neglect. Many of the walls have been stuccoed by resident artisans, apparently under the effects of mind-altering substances. And the cottage, while not as old as the house, suffers from many of the same disabilities.
Unfortunately, the configuration and condition of the various rooms probably doesn't matter much, because it's unlikely that the house will emerge intact from this sale. Jefferson Park Avenue being a hot student housing zone, and the city's zoning allowing higher density in that area, it's possible that the house will be leveled to make way for a multi-unit building.
Which, if it happens, will be an architectural tragedy. Over in that part of town there are already enough monolithic apartment buildings that all look alike boring– and none of which have the character of this house. At this point in Charlottesville's evolution, one would hope for preservation of existing treasures, even at great cost, rather than demolition to make way for construction of utilitarian maximum tax-producers.
Money is, of course, the problem. Apparently, taking into account the asking price for this parcel and the cost of even minimum renovations the agent says estimates she's heard range from $30,000 to $75,000 the number of units possible if the house remains rental property may not be cost effective.
But one can always hope. For the same money one would spend on some gargantuan plastic McMansion in a swishy subdivision northwest of town, a person with plenty of money and vision could buy this house, hire an architect and builder to bring it back to life, and end up with an elegant residence within walking distance of the University and a hop, skip, and jump from downtown.
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James Hetfield Recalls Fan Spitting on Him After "One" Music Video
By Andrew Magnotta
November 7, 2018
Making music videos is standard operating procedure for any artist nowadays, but that wasn't the case before 1988.
In a recent interview surrounding the reissue of their ...And Justice for All album, members of Metallica recalled their reservations about even shooting a music video for their song "One."
At the time the band knew that releasing a music video and potentially getting on MTV would be construed as a betrayal by certain corners of its fanbase. After weighing the pros and cons with its management, the band agreed to make the video, and "One" became a legitimate hit.
Front man James Hetfield said the new level of success came with a surprising level of vitriol.
"I think there was one moment when I was at the Stone on Broadway in San Francisco there to see some band, some metal band," he recalled. "Some kid came up to me and he spit on me and he says, 'You sold out, you made a video.' And right there, I went, 'Yes, we did. F--k you."
By that time, Metallica had rationalized it's decision. And while the band didn't want to be lumped with the likes of "Asia or Toto," as Hetfield said, it also saw an opportunity too important to pass up.
"That's when I started to realize, 'Okay, you can stay small and in this thing, but if you have something to say that's really important, you need to utilize these things,'" he continued. "Whether it's video, whether it's the Internet, whatever's coming our way — a movie — that's what you've gotta do. You've got to go for it."
Drummer Lars Ulrich discussed the band's consternation and eventual logic at the idea of releasing singles or radio edits for tracks from the album.
"The thing was always, if this can open up and bring more people, it will expose them to what we're doing," Ulrich explained. "Then they discover the record, then they discover [Master of] Puppets, then they discover [Ride the] Lightning, then they discover Slayer, then they discover Diamond Head, then they discover Merciful Fate."
He added that major record labels in American weren't "serving" the heavy music marketplace, and as a result the public at-large had no idea that world existed.
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Charlie Sheen is determined not to let last year's "meltdown" — his word — prevent a comeback.
"I couldn't have the 'Two and a Half [Men]' thing be my television legacy. I couldn't have it end on that note," he told Matt Lauer on "Today" Thursday, before he began discussing his new sitcom "Anger Management."
"If this is gonna be the swansong, it's gotta be a beautiful experience," he insisted.
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That's not to say the small screen's erstwhile loose cannon isn't admitting to and apologizing for his disastrous 2011, which saw him feuding with and fired from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men" amid his spiraling substance abuse problems.
"It was a little cringeable, because I didn't recognize parts of who that guy was," he confessed to Lauer, in between chuckles at his own muttered jokes.
"is it weird to have looked back and experienced what seems like an out of body experience?" Lauer asked.
"Yeah, it is! I just wish it was somebody else's body," Sheen said.
He revealed that on his first day on the set of "Anger Management," he made a speech to his castmates to defuse tensions — and defray any fears they might have of some future meltdown.
There's still work to be done, Sheen admitted.
He has no plans to quit drinking completely. "I don't believe that whole piece of fiction that they insist that you have an allegiance to," he said of the notion he should swear off alcohol.
But Sheen does plan to work through what he said might be some lingering bitterness toward Ashton Kutcher, who replaced him on "Two and a Half Men."
As for the news that Kathy Bates will play his ghost on the show? "I was honored!" Sheen said.
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The wizard is one of the four starting classes in Desktop Dungeons. Wizards are natural magic-users, being able to more easily find, prepare, and use magic glyphs, although they do less damage than other classes.
- Magic Sense - Can see location of all glyphs
- Magic Affinity - Skills cost -1 mana, attack -25%
- Magic Attunement - +1 glyph on map, +1 glyph slot
General Strategy
The Wizard's Magical Affinity disadvantage can be entirely offset by the BYSSEPS glyph, or being a Human, making the wizard highly effective at physical combat when maintaining his available enchantments. The Wizard also benefits highly from the already cheap costs of most physical combat glyphs, getting a 50% reduction of mana cost in BYSSEPS, and a 33% reduction in cost of GETINDARE and HALPMEH.
Since BURNDAYRAZ is always generated, finding it is one of the chief priorities for a wizard. Once you do, you'll be in a much better position to fight enemies of all sorts, especially the otherwise-dreaded physical resistant enemies.
Race and Deity Choices
Since wizards are almost completely defined by their magic, it stands to reason that magically-adept races make the best wizards. More importantly, the extra glyph on the map can amount to an extra glyph conversion, assuming you don't play to use it. Elves make for good wizards that can use their favorite spells almost endlessly, while gnomes can turn unwanted spells into valuable mana potions. If you want to have a decent physical attack to fall back on, humans can also work.
Wizards are one of the best-suited classes for Mystera Annur. This does not mean that Mystera Annur is always the best choice for a wizard, however, since it turns your normally subpar (but still usable) physical attack into a completely useless one. Be sure to convert all the glyphs you don't need before joining her. The magic-hating gods, Taurog and Binlor Ironshield, are naturally poor choices for wizards. The other gods can be useful in the right situations.
Challenge Modes
Using BURNDAYRAZ vs Animated Armour helps Wizard beat Factory with Experience Catapult strategy. Since the armours only have one health and don't replenish their death protection, a wizard can even defeat a level 9 one as early as level 1 if they're lucky.


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Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans
Katy & Russell Caught Smooching?: VMA host Russell Brand joked about hoping to get a kiss from singer Katy Perry during Sunday's VMAs – and according to The New York Post's Page Six, he got one! A source claims the duo behaved rather cozy following the awards show at NYC hotspot Avenue. "They were sitting very close together, flirting and whispering to each other with their faces very close. Then Russell leaned in for a long kiss. It didn't look like this was the first time. He was looking extremely pleased with himself," the source said. Well, now she's kissed an unfunny VMA host… but, did she like it?
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Mr. Big Tried To Get Not So Big!: It's not just the ladies of "Sex and The City" who worry about their body – Mr. Big is watching his figure too! "I went to a place called the Island Experience in Brazil on Ilha Grande. It's two hours drive from Rio and 40 minutes by boat," Chris Noth recently told Us Weekly. "It was a total vegetarian diet. Basically, you spend all day doing yoga, hiking, kayaking, eating vegetarian food, no coffee, no alcohol, no meat." Mr. Big goes granola?! What's next? Samantha goes celibate? Let's hope this has nothing to do with the actual movie, and is just about him looking good in the sequel.
'Harry Potter' The Theme Park!: The lives of Muggles just got a little more magical! Actor Tom Felton announced details on the planned "Potter" theme park on Tuesday, which will live on 20 acres at Islands of Adventure at Universal in Orlando, Florida, People reported. The park will include a 15-story Hogwarts Castle, a roller coaster, a real Hogwarts Express, an Owlery, a Three Broomsticks restaurant, an Ollivanders wand shop and a Hogs Head pub – which will serve Butter Beer! We're hoping there's a non-virgin version of the Butter Beer for the adults who are forced to fork over $50 bucks for a stick that their kids think is magical.
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Drew, Drew, Drew!: Oh Drew, keep shaking that two-tone hair and we might not notice that dress you're wearing! XOXO – Roll Call!
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