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Nonnewaug's road warriors bring home a win in luxury
As the Nonnewaug High football teamed boarded the luxury rented coach in Stafford late Friday night to begin a two-hour trek back to Woodbury, junior Colin Milano had a question for coach John Oko.
"Coach Oko, how can we behave on the ride home because we've never won a road game before?" Milano asked after the Chiefs' 35-16 win.
Oko paused for a moment.
"I kind of laughed and stopped, and said that he was absolutely right," Oko related. "I told them that they could joke and talk and have a good time, but there can be no pointing out the window. I said that they needed to have appropriate conduct."
Oko certainly didn't want to spoil the celebration as the kids rejoiced by eating pizza bought by the parents. But after a short while, the excitement was short-lived, and the noise turned to silence.
"It was a long day. We left the school at 3:10 p.m., and about 20 minutes into the ride home, most of the kids sat back in their seats and fell asleep."
The team arrived at the high school at 10:45 p.m.
The Nonnewaug parents group rented the bus for $1,000. Two regular buses would have cost the same amount of money, according to Oko.
John Gombos rushed for 148 yards on 16 carries and scored TDs on runs of 15 and 12 yards for the Chiefs against Stafford. Gombos also returned an interception 52 yards for a score in the second quarter.
The Chiefs (2-4) are at Granby on Friday and at Old Saybrook-Westbrook the following week.
"We consider ourselves a second-half-of-the-season team and expect to be in every game from here on out," said Oko.
Nonnewaug beat Haddam-Killingworth, 26-6, in its season opener Sept. 21.
The Chiefs won two home games last year, including an 8-7 win over East Hampton-Vinal Tech, which was their first varsity win in four seasons.
In 2011, Nonnewaug went 0-10, and the previous two seasons the program played a subvarsity schedule due to lack of numbers. Prior to 2012, the previous varsity win came in 2008 when Nonnewaug beat Wolcott Tech, 50-22.
Salemme watch: Seymour tailback Joey Salem-me has rushed for 1,230 yards and 11 touchdowns through seven games, leaving him exactly 800 yards shy of Edwin Esson's school-record single-season mark of 2,030 yards set in 1980.
Seymour has four regular-season games remaining, including Friday night's game with visiting Crosby. In four of his games, Salemme has rushed for more than 220 yards, including a career-best 240 in a 42-0 win over Watertown.
By the numbers: Wolcott's passing attack is evenly balanced between receivers Adam Santopietro (36 receptions, 591 yards, 7 TDs), Jayson Matos (36 receptions, 604 yards, 6 TDs) and Jason Pelletier (28 receptions, 404 yards, 5 TDs). Junior quarterback Vince Gambino has thrown for 1,755 yards and 20 TDs. Place-kicker Joseph Keeley has booted 31 of 34 PAT kicks.
Where are they now?: Penn fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone of Cheshire was sidelined Saturday against Yale with a foot injury. Ragone had thrown a touchdown in 11 straight games, and owns a Penn record with 55 career touchdowns (20 rushing, 35 passing).
For his career, Ragone has accumulated 6,526 total offensive yards. This season, he has thrown for 896 yards and seven TDs. Ragone was the Republican-American Red Zone Player of the Year in 2008.
Last year, Ragone broke his ankle in the Ivy League championship-clinching win over Harvard last fall.
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I hear that at google, people get to do creative, interesting work. All google job ads ask for a high level of drive,creativity and intelligence. Now I am thinking that in a company like google, which is so huge in size....there is bound to be work that is just boring.Drivel.Grunt work to be precise. How does google get around this? Have they built an automated tool for every repetitive and boring chore known to man? How come they can continue to boast doing only creative work?
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I haven't worked at Google, but in every company there are positions that are more or less "creative", and even in highly creative positions, there are still tasks which will not tax your creativity.
Google may be better at having more creative tasks, and may be more open to creative solutions than other companies, but to expect every task of every position to be creative is not the right view to take - regardless of what their job ads say.
Keep in mind that not everyone likes creative work. Some individuals work best in work that is perfectly bound and described, leaving nothing to the imagination. Some people take a certain kind of joy in work that is repetitive and rote. These people may be very, very smart, and very, very good at what they do. I can't imagine a company like Google would pass on that talent and not leverage it to their advantage.
Lastly, tasks which one person finds creative and uplifting I find a little boring. I can't imagine myself doing software testing on an operating system, but they almost certainly have expert software testers performing those tasks, and hopefully loving it.
It's likely that Googlers can find a job they like. It's a big company.
Let's say that you despise technical editing. Some people will gladly dig into a manual, set of online instructions, etc., and make the text clear and well-written.
Although it's possible that every Googler writes as well as the prose suggests on google.com, I suspect they have a team of top-notch technical editors that review everything before it hits the Web. I can't recall ever finding a spelling or grammar error on any page that is part of Google proper. Most of it is very enjoyable to read.
For some people, technical editing is how they create. For others, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. To each his/her own.
The primary reason Google gets a lot of press for being a creative company (and I believe it is), is because of their "20% time."
Basically, in theory, 20% of an employee's workday is allowed to go to anything that they want that interests them and may move the company forward. During that time, they do not have to work on projects they were assigned (unless they choose to), and they do not have to worry about creating Google's next most successful project (though it doesn't hurt). This allotted time ideally allows employees to find more pleasure in their work, but it does not mean they do not have to complete menial tasks or "grunt work." Google is like any other company in that these tasks need to get done.
However, Google is perceived as more innovative, inspiring, and creative because of this policy which allows employees to exert their creative energy. See resource I'll post in comments for more information.

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WINGATE, N.C. – Following a 5-4 win over Catawba on Friday, Anderson University women's tennis dropped a 7-2 decision to South Atlantic Conference foe Wingate Saturday afternoon at the WU Tennis Complex.
The setback snaps a brief three-match winning streak and drops the Trojans to 7-6 overall and 6-3 in conference play. Wingate, which entered the match as the No. 38 ranked team nationally, improved to 16-4 on the year and a perfect 9-0 in the SAC.
In the match against Catawba on Friday, the Trojans started strongly, as they captured two-of-three doubles matches. Senior Avery Owens and junior Karen Ching cruised to an 8-4 win at the No. 1 position, while junior Lindsay Gregory and freshman Rebecca Bruning notched an 8-3 victory at the No. 2 spot.
In singles, AU grabbed the necessary three matches to secure to victory as Ching notched a 6-1, 6-2 decision at No. 2, while Bruning added a 6-1, 6-2 win at the No. 3 slot. Gregory sealed the narrow win with a straight set, 7-5, 6-2 triumph at the No. 5 position.
On Saturday, Anderson was unable to earn a team point in the doubles round, suffering setbacks in all three contests. The Trojans corralled two singles wins, as Bruning increased her singles winning streak to nine-straight with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Wingate's Becca Thomas at No. 3. Gregory rounded out AU's scoring on the afternoon with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Tiffany Williams at the No. 6 spot.
Anderson looks to get back on the winning track on Monday when it hosts Limestone. First serve from Max Grubbs Memorial Courts is slated for 2 p.m.


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Throughout history, Chinatown has always been dubbed as a hub of activity, a pillar of the economy, and a key element in each city. Situated in the district of Taman Sari in West Jakarta, in the capital city of Indonesia, Glodok is touted as the largest Chinatown region in the country and one of the largest in the world. This section of The Old Batavia City is home to many people of Chinese descent and has been known as Chinatown or Pecinan since the Dutch Colonial Era. In modern times, Glodok is best known as the electronic trading center of Jakarta.
Strolling through the streets, visitors to the area can revel in the rich history encased in this city within a city. Follow a trail of historical buildings, ancient temples and traditional Chinese architecture.Learn, observe, and go shopping along the way. The name Glodok comes from the Sundanese word "Golodog," which means'the entrance to a house,' as Sunda Kelapa, (now Jakarta,) was once the gateway to the ancient Sunda Kingdom.
During Colonial times, commercial opportunities created by the Dutch attracted thousands of people from areas of what is now Indonesia, who flocked towards the city. This also included an enormous influx of immigrants from China who were contracted as skilled artisans, sugar mill workers and shopkeepers. With the number of Chinese risiing rapidly, the Dutch colonial government and locals began to feel threatened by their number.
When in 1720, global sugar prices were reduced by 50% due to increased competition and export from the West Indies, Dutch lords then set a standard price for sugar which caused unrest amongst Chinese sugar merchants. On October 7, 1740, hundreds of ethnic Chinese, mainly from the sugar trade, rose up against the Dutch, killing 50 soldiers. On October 9, 1740, the tragedy now known as Geger Pacinan struck. Rumors of a further uprising caused Dutch soldiers to open fire on Chinese homes where nearly 10,000 ethnic Chinese were massacred. The following year, the remaining Chinese were settled outside Batavia's city walls, in the area now known as Glodok.
As the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta offers a myriad of choices of accommodation, easily adjustable to suit your needs, desires and budget. Here are a few hotels located in the Glodok area.
Mercure Jakarta Kota is located in Chinatown, 5 minutes' walk to the Glodok Electronic Mall and Batavia. Smoking and non-smoking rooms are available, each complete with a comfortable bed, bathroom with bathtub, International TV, safety deposit box and security alarm system. Function rooms and a Ballroom are available for your meetings, gatherings and parties.
Address: Jl. Hayam Wuruk No. 123, JAKARTAPhone: (+62)21/6248680
Email: email@example.com
Website: http://www.mercure.com/gb/hotel-2013-mercure-jakarta-kota/
The Plaza Hotel Glodok is located on the 3rd floor of Glodok Plaza in the heart of the Glodok Shopping District. Rooms are complete with showers with hot and cold water as well as WiFi access.
Address: Glodok Plaza Lantai 3, Jl. Pinangsia Raya No. 1, West Jakarta
Phone: 62 21 6255999
Website: www.plazahotelglodok.com
Best Western Mangga Dua Hotel and Residence is a newly completed 4-star hotel located within the largest shopping district in Southeast Asia. Hotel facilities include a swimming pool, meeting room, restaurant, high-speed internet, room service and complimentary breakfast.
Address: Jl. Mangga Dua Abad No. 111, Jakarta, 10730, IDPhone: 62 21 6122 999Website: www.bestwestern.com
Getting to Glodok Chinatown is fairly easy. Located not far from Stasiun Jakarta Kota, visitors may either take a taxi or ojek (motorbike taxi) or try public transportation such as the TransJakarta Bus, Metromini,or 3-wheeled Bajaj.


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MARAUDER .25 - You Don't Have To Spend A Grand Or Two For A great Performing .25
Posted 18 September 2010 - 09:21 AM
Posted 18 September 2010 - 10:17 AM
Posted 18 September 2010 - 11:17 AM
Posted 18 September 2010 - 03:43 PM
Been too hot to hunt much in the dog towns. I'm at 7000 foot elevation, but the dog towns are at about 5300 foot elevation. When it's an 85 degree day here, it'll be 97 there. It's cooling off now, so I'm starting to hunt again. Plus, tree squirrel season opens here Oct. 1st, and I'm really looking forward to that.
Hey, Cliff, been wondering where you have been. Nice shooting, and a very nice .25. Thanks for posting.
Posted 18 September 2010 - 03:50 PM
He seems to have more website issues than most. Sometimes it's better to just give him a call. Most of my long range shooting is done in these dog towns, and it can get pretty windy. I like a heavy rifle, with a heavy scope to give some ballast against the wind. I've tried hunting with my light rifles, like my AA 410 CRBSL Carbine, but I get blown all around. A heavy rifle is easier to hold on target in those windy conditions. I have several of the MTC Viper 4x16-50mm scopes with 30mm tube that I like a lot, but they are no longer available here, so I recently picked up a CenterPoint 4x16-56mm Power Class scope with 30mm tube, and I'm really liking it a lot. It's the scope on the .25 Marauder I used in this last hunt.
What is your favorite scope on your long range air rifles? Going to go ahead and get me a PCP pretty soon! Tried to get on Mac 1's site today, but it said server was not responding.
Posted 19 September 2010 - 09:19 AM
Posted 19 September 2010 - 12:23 PM
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Really a fun gun to hunt with. I haven't touched the settings on mine. Factory stock settings, and it's doing 46 fpe with the Kodiaks. As you can tell from the target and the video, it shoots these things lights out. It never used to bother me much, but since I've gotten older, the heat just kicks my fanny.
As always very informative and entertaining video and write up. I've got to get one of those .25 marauders! I know what you mean about the heat, I went out tree squirrel hunting last week and it was in the high 80s. By the end of the hunt I was a sweaty mess and out of water. Hope it cools off soon.
Posted 19 September 2010 - 02:22 PM
Posted 19 September 2010 - 04:30 PM
The scope has a mildot reticle. The MTC Vipers have what they call their,"SCBR" Small Caliber Ballistic Reticle", it is more like a christmas tree type reticle. It gave more hard aim points than a mildot type, but the mildots work fine too. I don't click. Don't have time to, so I have my trajectory plotted from 65 yards, out to 100 in 10 yard increments, and hold over based on that data. Using an accurate laser range finder really helps for getting good range data to work with. Except for the MTC Viper scopes that I own, all of the rest have mildot reticles, so I'm very familiar with using them for hold over. I don't worry much about hold under data, because I very seldom get a shot under 55/60 yards or so. My zero range for prairie dog hunting is 65 yards.
Are you dialing the scope for elevation, or does that scope have a special reticle in it?
Posted 19 September 2010 - 07:17 PM
Posted 19 September 2010 - 08:07 PM
Thanks, I really appreciate it. I've been very fortunate to live out west my whole life. I've been varmint hunting since 1962. Mostly ground squirrels, prairie dogs, and rock chucks. With some coyotes and jackrabbits thrown in for good measure. Ground squirrels in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Prairie dogs in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Rock chucks in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. Coyotes, and jackrabbits in pretty much all of those states. Getting pretty close to fifty years, 2012 will be the fiftieth anniversary of when this fun journey really started. What a ride, I wouldn't have missed it for anything. I'm hoping to squeeze out a few more years, before I leave for the big prairie dog hunt in the sky.
Great work again cliff man your living a dream and are a varmints worst nightmare .Some of those shot made me go whooooooooo nice shot .
Posted 25 September 2010 - 12:05 PM
Posted 25 September 2010 - 03:35 PM
For what I do here in Arizona, I prefer the .25. The shot count on my .25 is 16 on a 3000 psi fill. The shot count on my .22 Marauder is 30 on a 3000 psi fill. The .22 has to be adjusted to run on 3000 psi, out of the box they are set to run on 2500/2600 psi fills, and will give you about 25 shots. Shot count isn't really an issue over here, because the shooting isn't high volume. If I get 8 or 9 prairie dogs on a mornings hunt I've done well. Tree squirrel season opens here next friday, and the limit is 5. I don't plink or target shoot, other than to get the gun sighted in, so again, within reason, shot count isn't important to me. Accuracy on the other hand is paramount. The accuracy of my .22 Marauder is very, very, good, but the .25 is absolutely amazing. It's as good as the most accurate Eurogun I own, and that is my .22 caliber FX 2000.As far as trajectory is concerned, I don't see much difference between the two calibers, shooting the pellets that I do. In the .22, I'm shooting the 18.1 grain JSB's, and they have a BC of .038. In the .25, I'm shooting the 31 grain Kodiaks, and they have a BC of .037. I'm driving the 18.1 JSB's at an average velocity of 867 fps, and the 31 grain Kodiaks at an average velocity of 821 fps. That's only 46 fps faster at the muzzle for the .22, and the 18.1 gives up its velocity a bit faster than the .25, so down range I don't think there is very much difference at all. I like the fact that I'm pushing 13 more grains down range with the .25, and the retained energy is higher at 100 yards. My .22 Marauder generates 30 fpe at the muzzle, while the .25 generates 46 fpe at the muzzle. I do use a laser range finder when hunting, and I believe that is critical for consistent long range results.If I could only keep one of my Marauders, it would be the .25, but then I also have other .22 cal PCP's to hunt with. My .25 is definitely a bit more accurate at long range than my .22 is. If you plink a lot, you might want to consider the .22, if you primarily hunt, and realistically, don't get a lot of high volume shooting, I would definitely give serious consideration to the .25.
Hey Cliff, I am finally going to buy a marauder, probably this week. I was wondering now that you've had some time with both the .22 and .25 marauders which do you prefer? I'm leaning towards the .25 because of the the stories of barrel problems with the .22s and also I have been very impressed by your recent videos. I was wondering how is the trajectory on the .25? I don't have a rangefinder yet so I'm concerned about trying to gauge holdover without one as opposed to the .22 which shoot pretty flat. Also how does the shot count differ, how many more do you really get with the .22?
Posted 25 September 2010 - 03:52 PM
Posted 25 September 2010 - 04:04 PM
I don't know what the limit on tree squirrels is in California these days, but years ago, when I hunted them, as I recall it was four. The most shots I've used here to take a five squirrel limit is 8, and one of those was to knock a squirrel out of a tree, where it got hung up on a branch. Sixteen shots is a couple of days worth of tree squirrel hunting over here, but it's a moot point, because I'm always back at my vehicle for lunch, and if need be, I just top off the air then.The .25 is an absolute air hammer. I'm loving hunting with mine.
Thanks for the info. I think I'm going to go with the .25. Most of the hunting I do is for tree squirrels at relatively close range so hats why I haven't got a range finder yet. 16 shots should be more than enough for hunting might be rough pinking but I can always buy a bigger scuba tank.
Posted 25 September 2010 - 04:13 PM
Posted 25 September 2010 - 05:51 PM
It was pretty much a toss-up between the Kodiaks, and the JSB .25's at 50 yards. The JSB's are 25.4 grains, and the Kodiaks are about 31 grains. I went with the Kodiaks, because I wanted the extra thump at long range (80/100 yards), and they buck the ever present winds in the dog towns a bit better. The Benjamin dome heads had promise too, but prairie dog season opened, so I went with the Kodiaks.
The limit is 4 here, and I usually don't get 4 in one day around here. I get about 20 good shots out of my mac1 disco and rarely run out of air hunting so 16 should be fine. I've got a small pony tank I can take in the woods too, fits in a pack and is very lite. I know every gun is different but what pellets does your .25 like best?
Posted 25 September 2010 - 06:18 PM
The pony tank is nice to have. I've got one of the AirHog Pigmee tanks that I can take with me, if I think I'm going to get some hot and heavy shooting, but I haven't used it in a couple of years. I've only limited out here twice in the three years I've been hunting tree squirrels. They are tough to come by. Game and Fish figures the Abert's tree squirrel density here at about one squirrel per 50 acres. They tend to be pretty solitary critters. On occasion I've found a couple of youngsters still hanging around the nest with mom, but mostly I get singles. We have six different types of tree squirrels here in Arizona. Five of them are okay to hunt. The Mount Graham Red Squirrel is protected. One of my goals over the next couple of years is to hunt all five of the ones that are legal. It will require going to a few different areas in the state, but should be a fun project. I'm on the south side of the Grand Canyon. The Abert's squirrels are the ones that we have in the forests around here. A couple of hundred miles north of here, on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, we have a sub species of the Abert's squirrel, called the Kaibab squirrel. It has evolved with a different colored coat than the Abert's. The Abert's are grey and brown on top, with white on their belly's, and the underside of their tails. The Kaibab squirrels have more of a black or charcoal and brown body, with an all white tail. I'm heading up there the second week of October to hunt them for three days. Should be fun. Here's a picture of an Abert's squirrel I took last year with my .22 cal Marauder.
The limit is 4 here, and I usually don't get 4 in one day around here. I get about 20 good shots out of my mac1 disco and rarely run out of air hunting so 16 should be fine. I've got a small pony tank I can take in the woods too, fits in a pack and is very lite. I know every gun is different but what pellets does your .25 like best?
Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:13 AM
Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:39 AM
An AZ squirrel grand slam! That's pretty neat. Love that picture, it's a good looking squirrel.
... One of my goals over the next couple of years is to hunt all five of the ones that are legal. It will require going to a few different areas in the state, but should be a fun project...
Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:52 AM
Yes I do. Just go here: http://varmintair.ty...hunting-videos/ and scroll down through the different hunt stories. Each story also has videos embedded that you can view. Just click on the arrow in each story, and the video will load and play.
I like the camera mount. Do you have vids?
Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:58 AM
Yeah, that's what I'm calling it too. We have the Abert's, Kaibab, AZ Grey, Chiricahua Fox, and the Chicaree Red squirrels here. So far I've got the Abert's, going after the Kaibab in October, and may have a shot, (pun intended) at the Chicaree Reds in November. Should be fun, and I'm really looking forward to the challenge.
An AZ squirrel grand slam! That's pretty neat. Love that picture, it's a good looking squirrel.
Posted 26 September 2010 - 12:31 PM
Thanks again for all the input, that will give me a place to start if I do order the .25.
It was pretty much a toss-up between the Kodiaks, and the JSB .25's at 50 yards. The JSB's are 25.4 grains, and the Kodiaks are about 31 grains. I went with the Kodiaks, because I wanted the extra thump at long range (80/100 yards), and they buck the ever present winds in the dog towns a bit better. The Benjamin dome heads had promise too, but prairie dog season opened, so I went with the Kodiaks.
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The NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) Mobile Dental Van, Smiling Faces, Going Places, now in its 12th year, has brought critically-needed dental services, oral health preventive care, and educational programs to over 20,000 New York City children through visiting more than 60 public schools, community centers and local health fairs and events in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island annually.
The Van is on the road five days a week, 48 weeks per year, during school hours and after school hours from 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 pm, bringing care to children in federally-designated, medically-underserved areas in the five boroughs. Youngsters from 1 month to 17 years of age receive comprehensive preventive, educational, and primary health services designed to improve their oral health and well-being. The need for dental care is especially acute among these children, who have 60 percent more untreated cavities than their peers at higher socioeconomic levels.
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5 Corporate Promotions That Ended in (Predictable) Disaster
#2. $1,000 Cash Grab
Detroit farm team the West Michigan Whitecaps invited a helicopter to drop $1,000 cash in small bills over their ballpark in an effort to lure people to their crappy Class A baseball match-up.
Hell, what could go wrong with that?What Went Wrong
People will push a nun down an elevator shaft for a handful of free money. Example: Jim Carrey only made a measly $350,000 for his role in Ace Ventura: Watch Me Make My Ass Talk To Tone Loc, so imagine what a non-famous populace will do for a fistful of cabbage.
When the helicopter opened up its belly and rained down cash, two seven-year-old children ended up getting trampled in the melee, including one Tino Rodriquez, who had to be rushed to the hospital.The Backlash
While the injury of two minors did dampen spirits at the home of the West Michigan Whitecaps, the organization was able to avoid any legal action because all Cash Grab participants were forced to sign waivers before congregating under the helicopter.
It was technically YOUR FAULT!
Tito's grandfather blamed the rowdy 12-year-olds who were allowed to participate in the Cash Grab, noting, "It's like playing football. You can't put a 12-year-old versus a seven-year-old."
Uh, given the fact that free money was involved, Tino is lucky no one brought a shotgun, let alone 12-year-old ringers.
#1. Disco Demolition Night
The Chicago White Sox, another MLB franchise that never really lit a fire under anyone's ass, needed some kind of hook to put butts in the seats at Comiskey Park. So Mike Veeck, son of Sox owner Bill Veeck, conjured up a promo event to play on America's sudden rebellion against disco. He invited folks to bring their unwanted ABBA/Gloria Gaynor records to a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers in exchange for cheaper admission and the chance to see said records exploded on the field between games. Evidently nothing brings people to baseball games quite like gross criminal negligence.
What Went Wrong
Baseball fans are like puppies and teenagers; get over 75,000 of them (the official head count for Disco Demolition Night) worked up and something's going to get broken or pissed on. So many people showed up for the White Sox's "Fuck Disco" rally that the off-ramps of the nearby Dan Ryan Expressway had to be shut down to keep anyone else from attempting to come to the stadium.
When local rock DJ Steve Dahl finally detonated the unholy records, fans immediately poured onto the field, tearing down batting cages and starting fires while insisting the disco albums they contributed to the destruction were gifts and had not been intentionally purchased. Sox announcer Harry Caray tried desperately to convince fans to leave the field, but like most events in the Chicago area this one wasn't over until the cops showed up.The Backlash
Chicago ended up having to forfeit the second game of their doubleheader that night to Detroit. Adding hilarious insult to that injury was the fact the Sox had to play the rest of the season on Comiskey Park's nearly destroyed field (evidently their maintenance staff were huge disco fans and staged a walk-out). As for Mike Veeck, he was blacklisted from the sport and never again detonated so much as a fart anywhere near a baseball stadium.
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I sometimes have long running processes that I want to kick off before going home, so I create a SSH session to the server to start the process, but then I want to close my laptop and go home and later, after dinner, I want to check on the process that I started before leaving work. How can I do that with SSH? My understanding is that if you break your SSH connection you will also break your login session on the server, therefore killing the long running process...
You want to be using GNU Screen. It is super awesome!
CTRL+a , d to detatch from your screen session
When you come back to your laptop:
Then check out the progress of your long-running process!
If you haven't planned ahead and setup
What you want to use is screen or even better a user-friendly wrapper around screen called byobu.
Screen allows you to run multiple virtual terminal sessions in the same ssh session. A tutorial and help pages are available.
byobu is a wrapper that allows to easily open new screens with a simple function key instead of key combination from ctrl-a. It also shows a status line with all the open virtual terminals which can be named.
Another nice feature is the fact that all your screen can stay up while your ssh connection is disconnected. You just connect again via ssh and call byobu and everything is like before.
At last some screenshots of byobu.
It might be worth noting that
ssh -t lala screen -rxU moo will attach to the moo session on host lala
ssh -t lala screen -S moo will create the moo session on host lala
ssh -t lala screen -S moo quux will create the moo session on host lala and run the program quux, quitting the session on completion.
I use NX NoMachine, which is free for me because it's only me. Essentially, it runs an X session on the server which you can connect to and disconnect from over and over. The X session keeps running when you're not connected. Connections can be made from anywhere. You can choose between floating windows or a single window containing a whole desktop (eg a complete Gnome desktop). The client (which you would run on your laptop) can be run on Linux, MacOS, Solaris or Microsoft Windows. In the latter case if you choose floating windows they appear individually on the Windows Taskbar.
I use my Windows XP laptop (which I need for certain Windows-specific hardware I have) as a front end for my two Linux servers using NX Nomachine. I can even print to the printer attached to my Windows laptop from Linux.
Old question, strange still nobody advised tmux, which acts as a wrapper for n consoles and keep them open until needed. This allows more control, beside a number of functions tmux has. It's easy to manage it, you just execute tmux, which brings you in its shell, start your looong job, then press ctrl+b followed by d (detach) (


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While spending yesterday on Roosevelt Island with his sons, alleged serial party-crasher Bill Murray decided to take in a game of kickball.
That is, someone else's game of kickball.
According one of the twentysomething-year-olds whose ZogSports league game Murray infiltrated, the actor was invited to join by a referee whom he met on the Roosevelt Island tram.
"He was dressed kind of like a homeless guy going to play sports," recalled Courtney Beard, "but apparently he does this all the time."
The whole thing lasted about ten minutes, with Murray pinch kicking and getting on base. The team didn't win, "but we still felt like winners at the end," said Chris DiLella
Bucking the trend, the kickballers managed to grab a few shots of Murray in action for mythbusting purposes.
"I was able to play it cool," DiLella added, "but everyone else ran to grab their cameras. He ate it up – I think he secretly loved it."
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BROCKTON -- A Brockton man has been charged with stabbing another man inside the Alamo Cafe on Legion Parkway in Brockton Friday night, police said.
Brian Anthony Pettiford, 47, of 49 West Elm Terrace, Brockton was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The incident happened inside the Alamo Cafe at 49 Legion Parkway in Brockton at 10:34 p.m. The victim was a 40-year-old male from Brockton, police said.
Brockton Police Sgt. Scott Besarick said Pettiford was trying to sell the victim stolen cigarettes when they began to argue and Pettiford took out a black folding knife and stabbed the victim in the chest. Police said the two were known to each other and that it was not a random attack or a robbery.
Patrons at the bar called police and held Pettiford down on the ground until officers arrived, Besarick said.
The victim was taken to Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital and then was taken to Boston Medical Center with serious injuries. Besarick said the victim was in serious but stable condition.
The victim's identity has not been released.
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I'm looking for a way to turn an HD video clip into 80's style VHS low-quality. Here is an example of the look I'm desperately looking for:
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I'm looking for a way to turn an HD video clip into 80's style VHS low-quality. Here is an example of the look I'm desperately looking for:
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Every decent video editor has built-in filters (like Color Correction, Film Effects, TV simulator, Color Curves, etc.) that can be used to achieve the desired 'look'. There are plug-ins and tools that contain many ready-to-use presets, such as:
This is certainly more work, but if you want a truly authentic and "organic" VHS look:
Digitizing analog video is a little more complicated, but really any TV tuner card will do. Your graphics card may already have RCA composite or S-video component input. Or if you have a set-top DVD recorder, then you can "digitize" it that way, and then rip the MPEG2 video from the DVD on your computer using DVD Decrypter (a fantastic tool and completely legal if you're using it for video that you own the rights to).
Check out VirtualDub for a good general video capture and processing tool to help you with this.
Besides the plug-ins and preset looks (which are great and life saving most of the time) you can manually create such looks by observing some example videos. The video you showed, for example, has some blur, and overall diffuse. It has plenty of colour noise. It is pretty brightened up, with lower contrast. There's a visible shift in color channels. It has a reddish and yellowish look etc..
Also you can add some bad VHS tape artefacts as mentioned here.
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MFA faculty member Amy Hempel and Fiona Maazel MFA '02 have both received $30,000 literary prizes for their contributions to fiction.
Hempel, who has published such acclaimed short story collections as Reasons to Live and The Dog of the Marriage, was named this year's winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story for her "significant contribution to the discipline of the short story form."
"Amy Hempel is one of our masters of the dire emotional state rendered with an offhandedness that, combined with tenderness, results in fiction that's at once dispassionate and compassionate," the Rea judges said.
The award, named for Michael A. Rea, a passionate reader and collector of short stories, is considered one of the most prestigious of the genre, with past winners including Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff, Grace Paley and John Updike.
Hempel's latest book, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, was a finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Award and named one of the Ten Best Books of the year by The New York Times.
Fiona Maazel, who studied under Hempel while at Bennington, received the 2009 Bard Fiction Prize for her first novel, Last Last Chance, the story of a young drug addict trying to navigate the American landscape in the wake of a lethal virus spread by terrorists.
"This sprawling, wonderfully digressive novel is up to the task at hand: love at the end of the world as we know it," says Hempel.
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to an emerging American writer under the age of 40. Maazel, the former managing editor of the Paris Review, will be the writer in residence at Bard College for the spring 2009 semester.


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Premature Speculation
I just love the title of this post, which is in fact the only reason I am writing it.
I just saw the two words used in conjunction by Karthis from Of Teeth and Claws in a comment to The Rambling Bear's post It's Raining. I Swear!
I thought it really summed up the whole WoLK speculation thing.
A WoLK bedroom scene
A few moments of heated grunting and cheering, followed by hours or days of disappointment.
Was it good for you?
No, I am a Mage and it sucked, how about you?
No I am a <insert class here> and it sucked for me too!
Bigger Highs and Lower Lows
I have noticed an upswell of posts around the blog sphere lately which teeter from pure joy to pure anguish and back again.
I have noticed a whole lot of QQ and stop the QQ posts.
I have even read BRK's latest brain post, where he tries to convince his brain that there is no point in testing various hunter skills, because they are still so out of whack, that one might as well enjoy the ganking.
I'm not fussed anymore
I must admit I have stopped worrying & getting excited. I figure that I wont be entering Northrend until next January, at which point the (in game) Beta testing will hopefully have finished, and things will have settled down enough that I can just enjoy the game.
So my question for you all is…
What news from WoLK has made you go either:
- Ohhhh Yeah! to Ummm errrr?, or
- Ummm errrr? to Ohhhh Yeah!
Doesn't have to be Mage specific, just wondering what has given you a case of premature speculation, or have you taken your daily dose of Viagra, and you find you just keeping on going?
Gnomer and Out!


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AP's chief photographer in Asia, David Guttenfelder, has been in North Korea for the past week. It's not his first time—it's his 20th, dating back to 2000—and it's not the first time he's been there with his phone, either. But it is the first time he's taking geotagged Instagram photos. He writes on his blog:
Fast forward to this week when North Korea's mobile phone service provider Koryolink announced that all foreigners visiting North Korea will be allowed to bring in their phones and connect to the internet on the DPRK's 3G network.
It's a powerful way to connect directly with the outside world from one of the most isolated countries on earth. The window on to North Korea has been opened a small crack.
Meanwhile for all North Koreans, who will not be allowed access to the same service, the window remains firmly shut.
Here's the first geotagged photo he took, of a tour guide:
The AP just put together a package of Guttenfelder's "real" photos from the country, but I like the immediate, everyday quality of the Instagram photos he's been taking as he traverses the country. You can find his feed here.
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* Austin Energy has found itself stuck with surplus renewable power because the Texas city's residents have declined to sign up for the GreenChoice program—with rates up to three times the cost of conventional power.
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Since the financial crisis, Death of a Salesman has enjoyed a resurgence in American theater.
Save for some period references, Arthur Miller's masterpiece could well encapsulate this generation: older workers cut loose, young people set adrift, primed by their parents for a golden future that no longer awaits them. Perhaps never more than since this play debuted, Willy Loman's fate feels frighteningly tangible.
David Ralphe's fine rendering, playing through Mar. 17 at Santa Paula Theater Center, remains faithful to this American classic while revealing new dimensions. Ralphe held out for a top-notch cast, and his patience has been rewarded — not one weak link can be found among the stellar ensemble gathered onstage.
Everything Taylor Kasch does onstage looks so effortless, it's possible to underestimate the skill that goes into shaping his Willy. Not as washed-up in appearance as his Hoffman predecessors (Dustin and Philip Seymour), Kasch doesn't immediately register as an object of ridicule or pity. He almost seems too grounded for the man who declares that his father's absence left him feeling "kind of temporary about myself." For Willy, nothing comes easily; he spends his life trying to replicate the apparently effortless ease with which other, grander men make their livelihoods.
Kasch doesn't let us forget it. His Willy limps slightly as he trudges toward home. We see the flicker in his eyes at reminders of past infidelities, and his naked joy at seeming a hero to his boys. When he's reduced to pleading with his boss (Peter Krause) for his job, we squirm with misery. Quick to anger, slow to forgive, Willy forgets there are no shortcuts, and passes on to his sons all the wrong lessons.
This failure becomes evident in sons Biff (Eric Stein) and Happy (Eric Mello), a bum and a philanderer who haven't lived up to the promise of their golden youth. Throughout the play, we view the action in their second-story room through the enormous trophy on their nightstand — an inspired touch by set designer Mike Carnahan, and a telling symbol for their delusions of grandeur.
Stein's soft, earnest face suits the man-child Biff has become, drifting from job to job since high school. Shuttling between cocky exuberance and resigned irritation, Stein shows us a man at war with his father and himself. Though his last breakdown seems extravagant, Stein offers a powerful counterpoint for Willy and Biff's seesaw relationship. Meanwhile, Happy, the perennially overlooked younger child, plays peacemaker. By curtain fall, we know he's doomed to repeat his father's mistakes.
Throughout, artful staging and production values support the onstage dynamics. When Willy and Biff meet in a restaurant, Happy sits sandwiched between them. Beautifully lit by Gary Richardson, the show unfolds in dim amber light — as if the glare of reality would reveal Willy's distorted perceptions.
As dutiful wife Linda, Anna Maria Strickland gets one of the great roles in American theater and the play's final word. Her famous declaration in Act I that "attention must be paid" needs more iron in it, but Strickland is no Stepford wife. Her expressive eyes betray anxiety even when her face breaks into a smile. Strength and pain lie behind her good nature. By the time she declares at Willy's graveside that she can't cry, you'll be in tears.
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What to do with a lot of olive oil?
We have friends and family who like to give us food gifts. Normally this is great, however I now have a stockpile of olive oil that I will never be able to use up in normal, daily cooking before it goes bad.
I am looking for some creative, interesting, and/or useful ways to not let all this olive oil go to waste.
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What a coincidence. I was just discussing this topic with some people last night. Apparently, you can shave with it? You can also make lip balm out of it by mixing it with some beeswax. Also, for some reason, putting a bit in the bath is helpful? Also, if you wanna try going no 'poo, there's a bunch of homemade conditioner recipes that use it. Personally, I'd just make gallons of salad dressing.
Here are 25 ways to use olive oil and a few more.
You can make a really nice sea salt scrub with it.
Olive oil pound cake - lemon and other citrus flavors pair well with olive oil, you could make a couple different types of pound cake
Olive oil ice cream
Aioli - you can make a couple different types of aioli - garlic, red pepper, chipotle, etc.
Poach fish or chicken breasts in olive oil - instead of frying, slow cook a nice piece of fish or chicken in olive oil with some aromatics, like rosemary, citrus, basil, oregano, or your favorite herb.
Fry everything in it.(Good fats don't make you fat) Make mayonnaise. We use it in our marinades and when we grill fresh vegetables. It makes the seasoning stick better.
Best of all, portion it out and FREEZE IT! I promise you it will NOT go bad. If you won't take my word for it, then read this: http://www.oliveoilsource.com/page/freezing-olive-oil
Olive Oil actually isn't very good for regular pan frying, it burns up to quickly and isn't the butter/vegetable oil replacement many people think it is, so be careful.
Pesto. Lots of pesto.
My brother-in-law's grandmother apparently uses it as a face moisturizer. My sister and mother are doing it too, now, though you'd think they'd just stop tanning if they wanted to look younger.
Pesto. Hummus.
Don't think I'd feel comfortable putting it on my skin. Just a mental thing.
And I don't think it's a good oil for deep frying. Think is has one of the lowest flash points of all oils. Expect lots of smoke.
@lordwoot: #20 I'd like to hear that discussion.
Stage an oil wrestling event
Sounds like you need to go all Hedonism bot from Futurama with it.
Bathe in it. Guzzle it straight. Slather it all over your body and be a glistening specimen of... well, whatever you'd like to be that day. Just warn me because I can't unsee it.
@lordwoot: Thanks for the useful link.
I love to make olive oil muffins. They're so moist and have amazing flavor, its one of my favorite recipes.
Bread. Make lots and lots of home made breads.
Give it to Popeye.
@firebirdude: Yep, it is indeed a bad oil for deep frying.
You can use it in salads and general cooking, but unless you're up to using it in every single meal, it will probably go bad like you said.
Beyond what's already suggested, you could always consider regifting or donating to food drives. I imagine it would be gladly received
convert your car to run on it.
Make salad dressing. Use about 3/4c Olive Oil, 1-2tbsp lemon juice, some garlic, cracked pepper and let it sit for a day or 2 after making an emulsion. Goes best with chopped romaine, sliced almonds, bacon, and freshly grated parm.
Pour some onto a small plate and grate some parmesan cheese over it and ground some black pepper over it. Dip warm crusty bread into it.
Chug it!
I use it to make popcorn in the microwave...
Sell it and use it as a front for a Crime Syndicate like Frankie "Five Angels" Pentangeli from the Godfather.
Wow! So many interesting uses. And some fun responses too.
Our day is just starting here, so I will read those links a bit later, ty.
Earthy type wimmins use it as a 'personal moisturizer'.
@lavikinga: Quote: (Good fats don't make you fat)
Actually, all fats, good or bad, can make you fat. All fats contain heavy doses of calories and so too much of even good fats can lead to obesity by means of greatly increasing caloric intake.
Using olive oil correctly delivers plenty of heart healthy Omega-3 fatty acids without overloading your dishes with waist expanding calories.
@thetexastwister: Correct. Just about everything one eats has the potential to cause the body to store it as fuel if eaten in excess. When I said "fry everything in it," I did not intend that to mean everything you eat needed to be fried in olive oil. I was referring to using olive oil in an otherwise well balanced diet.
If Kophia was going to pan fry food, then sure, it would be a great use of the olive oil. Since such small amounts of fat satiates so well, one would have to purposely over indulge with the olive oil.


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- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.
- The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them with a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative. "If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes.
- The Prairie (1827)
- 'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!
- The Deerslayer, Ch. 2 (1841)
- Those families, you know, are our upper crust—not upper ten thousand.
- The Ways of the Hour, Ch. 6 (1850)
- One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.
- A Letter to His Countrymen (1834)
- God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
- The Pathfinder (1840)
- For a time our efforts seem to create, and to adorn, and to perfect, until we forget our origin and destination, substituting self for that divine hand which alone can unite the elements of worlds as they float in gasses, equally from His mysterious laboratory, and scatter them again into thin air when the works of His hand cease to find favour in His view.
Let those who would substitute the voice of the created for that of the Creator, who shout "the people, the people," instead of hymning the praises of their God, who vainly imagine that the masses are sufficient for all things, remember their insignificance and tremble. They are but mites amid millions of other mites, that the goodness of providence has produced for its own wise ends; their boasted countries, with their vaunted climates and productions, have temporary possessions of but small portions of a globe that floats, a point, in space, following the course pointed out by an invisible finger, and which will one day be suddenly struck out of its orbit, as it was originally put there, by the hand that made it. Let that dread Being, then, be never made to act a second part in human affairs, or the rebellious vanity of our race imagine that either numbers, or capacity, or success, or power in arms, is aught more than a short-lived gift of His beneficence, to be resumed when His purposes are accomplished.
- The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific (1847). Ch. XXX
- Trust to HIM. There are days in which the sun is not seen—when a lurid darkness brings a second night over the earth. It matters not. The great luminary is always there. There may be clouds before his face, but the winds will blow them away. The man or the people that trust in God will find a lake for every See-wise.
- The Lake Gun (1851)
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)[edit]
- There is an uneasy desire among a vast many well-disposed persons to get the fruits of the Christian Faith, without troubling themselves about the Faith itself. This is done under the sanction of Peace Societies, Temperance and Moral Reform Societies, in which the end is too often mistaken for the means. When the Almighty sent His Son on earth, it was to point out the way in which all this was to be brought about, by means of the Church; but men have so frittered away that body of divine organization, through their divisions and subdivisions, all arising from human conceit, that it is no longer regarded as the agency it was so obviously intended to be, and various contrivances are to be employed as substitutes for that which proceeded directly from the Son of God!
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1824); Preface
- It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1829); Preface
The American Democrat (1838)[edit]
- Some men fancy that a democrat can only be one who seeks the level, social, mental and moral, of the majority, a rule that would at once exclude all men of refinement, education, and taste from the class. These persons are enemies of democracy, as they at once render it impracticable. They are usually great sticklers for their own associations and habits, too, though unable to comprehend any of a nature that are superior. They are, in truth, aristocrats in principle, though assuming a contrary pretension; the ground work of all their feelings and arguments being self. Such is not the intention of liberty, whose aim is to leave every man to be the master of his own acts; denying hereditary honors, it is true, as unjust and unnecessary, but not denying the inevitable consequences of civilization. The law of God s the only rule of conduct, in this, as in other matters. Each man should do as he would be done by.
- An Aristocrat and a Democrat
- The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
- On American Equality
- The Americans … are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
- On Civilization
- Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
- On Slavery
- Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs, equally to the honest man and to the gentleman : to the first, as doing to others as we would ourselves be done by; to the last, as indispensable to the liberality of the character.
By candor we are not to understand trifling and uncalled for expositions of truth; but a sentiment that proves a conviction of the necessity of speaking truth, when speaking at all; a contempt for all designing evasions of our real opinions; and a deep conviction that he who deceives by necessary implication, deceives willfully.
In all the general concerns, the publick has a right to be treated with candor. Without this manly and truly republican quality, republican because no power exists in the country to intimidate any from its exhibition, the institutions are converted into a stupendous fraud.
- Ch. 23 : "On Candor" p. 115
- The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
- On the Disadvantages of Democracy
- A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
- On Deportment
- The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
- On Language
- Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
- On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy
- America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. The quakers, or friends, proscribed the delightful and elevated accomplishment of music, as, indeed, did the puritans, with the exception of psalmody. The latter confined marriage ceremonies to the magistrates, lest religion should be brought into disrepute! Most of those innocent recreations which help the charities, and serve to meliorate manners, were also forbidden, until an unnatural and monastic austerity, with a caustic habit of censoriousness, got to be considered as the only outward signs of that religious hope, which is so peculiarly adapted to render us joyous and benevolent. False and extravagant notions on the subject of manners, never fail to injure a sound morality, by mistaking the shadow for the substance.
- On Prejudice
- Another motive peculiar to this country, for freeing the mind from prejudice, is the mixed character of the population. Natives of different sections of the United States, and of various parts of Europe are brought in close contact, and without disposition to bear each other's habits, association becomes unpleasant, and enmities are engendered. It ought never to be forgotten, therefore, that every citizen is entitled to indulge without comment, or persecution, in all his customs and practices that are lawful and moral. Neither is morality to be regulated by the prejudice of sects, or social classes, but it is to be left strictly to the control of the laws, both divine and human. To assume the contrary is to make prejudice, and prejudice of a local origin too, more imperious that the institutions.
- It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- On the Disadvantages of Democracy
- The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.
- On Demagogues
- The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
- On Demagogues
- That one man is not deemed as good as another in the grand moral system of providence, is revealed to us in the Holy Writ, by the scheme of future rewards and punishments, as well as by the whole history of those whom God has favored in this world, for their piety, or punished for their rebellin. As compared with perfect holiness, all men are frail; but, as compared with each other, we are throughout the whole of sacred history made to see, that, in a moral sense, one man is not as good as another. The evil doer is punished, while they who are distinguished for their qualities and acts, are intended to be preferred... We are then to discard all visionary theories on this head, and look at things as they are. All that the most popular institutions attempt, is to prohibit that one race of man shall be made better than another by law, from father to son, which would be defeating the intentions of providence, creating a superiority that exists in neither physical nor moral nature, and substituting a political scheme for the will of God and the force of things. As a principle, one man is as good as another in rights.
- On The Duties of Station
- Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. . . With an equality of civil rights, all men are equal before the law; all classes of the community being liable equally to taxation, military service, jury duties, and to the other impositions attendant on civilization, and no one being exempted from its control, except on general rules, which are dependent on the good of all, instead of the exemption's belonging to the immunities of individuals, estates, or families. An equality of civil rights may be briefly defined to be an absence of privileges.
- On Equality
- The private duties of the citizen, as connected with social station, are founded chiefly on the relations between man and man, though others may be referred to a higher source, being derived directly from the relations between the creature and his creator.
A regard for the duties of private station, are indispensable to order, and to the intercourse between different members of society. So important have they always been deemed, that the inspired writers, from the Saviour through the greatest of his apostles down, have deemed them worthy of being placed in conspicuous characters, in their code of morals.
The first direct mandate of God, as delivered on Mt. Sinai, were to impress the Jews with a sense of their duties to their Heavenly Father; the next to impress them with the first of their social duties, that of honor and obedience to their parents.
- On the Private Duties of Station
- Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
- On Individuality
- The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.
- On Individuality
- All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
- On Individuality
- Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
- On Party
- It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
- On the Press
- In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.
Religion's first lesson is humility; its fruit, charity. In the great and sublime ends of Providence, little things are lost, and least of all is he imbued with a right spirit who believes that insignificant observances, subtleties of doctrine, and minor distinctions, enter into the great essentials of the Christian character. The wisest thing for him who is disposed to cavil at the immaterial habits of his neighbor, to split straws on doctrine, to fancy trifles of importance, and to place the man before principles, would be to distrust himself.
- On Religion
- As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
- On Religion
- Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
- On Religion
- The old political saying, that "the people are their own worst enemies," while false as a governing maxim, contains some truth... It is , therefore, a public duty of the citizen to guard against all excesses of popular power, whether inflicted by mere opinion, or under the forms of law. In all his public acts, he should watch himself, as under a government of another sort he would watch his rulers; or as vigilantly as he watches the servants of the community at home ; for, though possessing the power in the last resort, it is not so absolutely an irresponsible power as it first seems, coming from God, and to be wielded on those convictions of right which God has implanted in our breasts, that we may know good from evil.
- On the Duties of Station
- Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.
- On Language
- Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
- On Language
The Wing-and-Wing (1842)[edit]
- There is something so gratifying to human vanity in fancying ourselves superior to most around us, that we believe few young men attain their majority without imbibing more or less of the taint of unbelief, and passing through the mists of a vapid moral atmosphere, before they come to the clear, manly, and yet humble perceptions that teach most of us, in the end, our own insignificance, the great benevolence as well as wisdom of the scheme of redemption, and the philosophy of the Christian religion, as well as its divinity.
Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block of the young is a disposition not to yield to their belief unless it conforms to their own crude notions of propriety and reason. If the powers of man were equal to analyzing the nature of the Deity, to comprehending His being, and power, and motives, there would be some little show of sense in thus setting up the pretence of satisfying our judgments in all things, before we yield our credence to a religious system. But the first step we take brings with it the instructive lesson of our incapacity, and teaches the wholesome lesson of humility. From arrogantly claiming a right to worship a deity we comprehend, we soon come to feel that the impenetrable veil that is cast around the Godhead is an indispensable condition of our faith, reverence, and submission.
- Preface
Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848)[edit]
- For ourselves, we firmly believe that the finger of Providence is pointing the way to all races, and colors, and nations, along the path that is to lead the east and the west alike to the great goal of human wants. Demons infest that path, and numerous and unhappy are the wanderings of millions who stray from its course; sometimes in reluctance to proceed; sometimes in an indiscreet haste to move faster than their fellows, and always in a forgetfulness of the great rules of conduct that have been handed down from above. Nevertheless, the main course is onward; and the day, in the sense of time, is not distant, when the whole earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, "as the waters cover the sea.
One of the great stumbling-blocks with a large class of well-meaning, but narrow-judging moralists, are the seeming wrongs that are permitted by Providence, in its control of human events. Such persons take a one-sided view of things, and reduce all principles to the level of their own understandings. If we could comprehend the relations which the Deity bears to us, as well as we can comprehend the relations we bear to him, there might be a little seeming reason in these doubts; but when one of the parties in this mighty scheme of action is a profound mystery to the other, it is worse than idle, it is profane, to attempt to explain those things which our minds are not yet sufficiently cleared from the dross of earth to understand.
- Preface
- Parson Amen's speculations on this interesting subject, although this may happen to be the first occasion on which he has ever heard the practice of taking scalps justified by Scripture. Viewed in a proper spirit, they ought merely to convey a lesson of humility, by rendering apparent the wisdom, nay the necessity, of men's keeping them-selves within the limits of the sphere of knowledge they were designed to fill, and convey, when rightly considered, as much of a lesson to the Puseyite, with abstractions that are quite as unintelligible to himself as they are to others; to the high-wrought and dogmatical Calvinist, who in the midst of his fiery zeal, forgets that love is the very essence of the relation between God and man; to the Quaker, who seems to think the cut of a coat essential to salvation; to the descendant of the Puritan, who whether he be Socinian, Calvinist, Universalist, or any other "1st," appears to believe that the "rock" on which Christ declared he would found his church was the "Rock of Plymouth"; and to the unbeliever, who, in deriding all creeds, does not know where to turn to find one to substitute in their stead. Humility, in matters of this sort, is the great lesson that all should teach and learn; for it opens the way to charity, and eventually to faith, and through both of these to hope; finally, through all of these, to heaven.
- Ch. XI
- Let a man get once fairly possessed of any peculiar notion, whether it be on religion, political economy, morals, politics, arts, or anything else, and he sees little beside his beloved principle, which he is at all times ready to advance, defend, demonstrate, or expatiate on. Nothing can be simpler than the two great dogmas of Christianity, which are so plain that all can both comprehend them and feel their truth. They teach us to love God, the surest way to obey him, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Any one can understand this; all can see how just it is, and how much of moral sublimity it contains. It is Godlike, and brings us near the very essence of the Divinity, which is love, mercy, and truth. Yet how few are content to accept the teachings of the Saviour in this respect, without embarrassing them with theories that have so much of their origin in human fancies.
- Ch. XVI
- The powers, and faculties, and principles that are necessary fully to comprehend all that we see and all that surrounds us, exist and have been bestowed on man by his beneficent Creator. Still, it is only by slow degrees that he is to become their master, acquiring knowledge, step by step, as he has need of its services, and learns how to use it. Such seems to be the design of Providence, which is gradually opening to our inquiries the arcana of nature, in order that we may convert their possession into such uses as will advance its own wise intentions. Happy are they who feel this truth in their character of individuals! Thrice happy the nations which can be made to understand, that the surest progress is that which is made on the clearest principles, and with the greatest caution! The notion of setting up anything new in morals, is as fallacious in theory as it will be found to be dangerous in practice.
- Ch. XXI
The Sea Lions or The Lost Sealers (1849)[edit]
- I do not pretend to understand why such a sacrifice should be necessary, but I believe it, feel it; and believing and feeling it, I cannot but adore and worship the Son, who quitted heaven to come on earth, and suffered, that we might possess eternal life. It is all mystery to me, as is the creation itself, our existence, God himself, and all else that my mind is too limited to comprehend. But, Roswell, if I believe a part of the teachings of the Christian church, I must believe all. The apostles, who were called by Christ in person, who lived in his very presence, who knew nothing except as the Holy Spirit prompted, worshiped him as the Son of God, as one 'who thought it not robbery to be equal with God;' and shall I, ignorant and uninspired, pretend to set up my feeble means of reasoning, in opposition to their written instructions!"… I do not deny that we are to exercise our reason, but it is within the bounds set for its exercise. We may examine the evidence of Christianity, and determine for ourselves how far it is supported by reasonable and sufficient proofs; beyond this we cannot be expected to go, else might we be required to comprehend the mystery of our own existence, which just as much exceeds our understanding as any other. We are told that man was created in the image of his Creator, which means that there is an immortal and spiritual part of him that is entirely different from the material creature One perishes, temporarily at least--a limb can be severed from the body and perish, even while the body survives; but it is not so with that which has been created in the image of the deity. That is imperishable, immortal, spiritual, though doomed to dwell awhile in a tenement of clay. Now, why is it more difficult to believe that pure divinity may have entered into the person of one man, than to believe, nay to feel, that the image of God has entered into the persons of so many myriads of men?
- Ch. XII
- The idea of not having a Deity that he could not comprehend had long been one of Roswell Gardiner's favourite rules of faith. He did not understand by this pretending dogma, that he was, in any respect, of capacity equal to comprehend with that of the Divine Being, but simply that he was not to be expected or required to believe in any theory which manifestly conflicted with his knowledge and experience, as both were controlled by the powers of induction he had derived directly from his Creator. In a word, his exception was one of the most obvious of the suggestions of the pride of reason, and just so much in direct opposition to the great law of regeneration, which has its very gist in the converse of this feeling --Faith.
- As our young master paced the terrace alone, that idea of the necessity of the Creator's being incomprehensible to the created, recurred to him. The hour that succeeded was probably the most important in Roswell Gardiners life. So intense were his feelings, so active the workings of his mind, that he was quite insensible to the intensity of the cold; and his body keeping equal motion with his thoughts, if one may so express it, his frame actually set at defiance a temperature that might otherwise have chilled it, warmly and carefully as it was clad.
- Roswell Gardiner has never wavered in his faith, from the time when his feelings were awakened by the just view of his own insignificance, as compared to the power of God! He then learned the first, great lesson in religious belief, that of humility; without which no man can be truly penitent, or truly a Christian. He no longer thought of measuring the Deity with his narrow faculties, or of setting up his blind conclusions, in the face of positive revelations. He saw that all must be accepted, or none; and there was too much evidence, too much inherent truth, a morality too divine, to allow a mind like his to reject the gospel altogether. With Mary at his side, he has continued to worship the Trinity, accepting its mysteries in an humble reliance on the words of inspired men.
- Chapter XXX, conclusion of the novel
Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)[edit]
- Genesis. What an extraordinary history! It is impossible for us to appreciate conduct, when a power like that of God is directly brought to bear on it. Obedience to him is our first law.
- Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848
- Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
- Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848
Quotes about James Fenimore Cooper[edit]
- Speaking of their reading the Bible together, [my mother] says it was on his birth-day, about five or six years since that they began to read it together, regularly ; not by chapters but a hundred verses every morning before breakfast, unless the close of a chapter occurred to break or prolong the reading. He admired the Psalms inexpressibly. The Book of Job also. The prophesies of Isaiah, and the Epistles to the Hebrews struck him very forcibly. He admired the Epistle of St. James very much, calling it a beautiful pastoral letter. He told Mother once, "I used to think a great deal of St. James when I was a boy." He was deeply impressed with the book of Revelations. The allusions to Melchisedec always interested him particularly. He said, speaking of the definition of faith by St. Paul : "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," that it was so noble, so comprehensive, so just, so full, that the words themselves seemed to have been sent directly from Heaven.
Speaking of the admiration he had always felt for the Liturgy, dear Mother mentioned his most deep sense of the excellence of the Lord's Prayer. He loved particularly the anthem, "God be merciful unto us, etc., etc." "The Liturgy was a blessed service to him," I observed. "Oh," cried dear Mother, "Blessed indeed ! He lived on the Collects for the last few months !" They were in the habit of saying together every morning for years "Direct us O Lord, etc., etc."
They knelt together, Father's arms about Mother; when he grew feeble she knelt, and he leaned his head on her shoulder.
On the morning of his death dear Mother kneeled at the bedside and said the prayers they had been accustomed to use together. He seemed to understand, and follow, though with effort — partially conscious to the very last hour.
For many years before separating, for even a short business absence of dear Father's, they always said together the prayer in the Marriage Service. Dear Mother added this prayer to others the last morning of his life. He seemed to understand but could not speak. The morning of his death when I came into the room dear Mother said, "Here is Susie, come to kiss you!" He partly opened his eyes, made an effort to smile, and put up his lips to kiss me — but his voice was gone.
- Note written by Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper, James' eldest daughter, after the death of his father. See Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper. Yale University Press


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30 Aug 2012 9:54 PM #1
Error when attempting to write/sync a record with a null date value
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- Sencha 18.104.22.168
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This is a bit involved, but it seems that Writer.js doesn't know how to deal with null values for dates when dealing with my proxy.
If I try to sync a record that has a particular value for a date (which is optional on my back-end), the code works fine. However, when trying to sync a record that does not have a date in this field, the error occurs.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
* Read some records from JSON with dates...some dates should be filled, some null
* Write a record with a null date
Test Case:
Here's my model definition...if I get back a 'null' value for 'due_date', then try to write that record again is where the bug happens.
Ext.define('CbMobile.model.LineItem', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', labelCodes: [ 'neutral', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow', 'orange', 'red' ], config: { fields: [ {name:'id', type:'int'}, {name:'comments_count', type:'int'}, {name:'created_on', type:'date', dateFormat:'c'}, {name:'description', type:'string'}, {name:'due_date', type:'date', dateFormat:'c'}, {name:'estimate_id', type:'int'}, {name:'flat_fee', type:'float'}, {name:'invoice_line_items_count', type:'int'}, {name:'is_complete', type:'boolean'}, {name:'is_taxable', type:'boolean'}, {name:'label_code', type:'int'}, {name:'markup_percentage', type:'float'}, {name:'person_id', type:'int'}, {name:'price_actual', type:'float'}, {name:'price_per', type:'float'}, {name:'project_id', type:'int'}, {name:'project_list_id', type:'int'}, {name:'quantity_low', type:'float'}, {name:'quantity_high', type:'float'}, {name:'rank', type:'int'}, {name:'time_entry_minutes', type:'int'}, {name:'title', type:'string'}, {name:'type_code', type:'int'}, {name:'unit_label', type:'string'}, {name:'updated_at', type:'date', dateFormat:'c'} ], validations: [] } labelColor: function() { return this.labelCodes[this.get('label_code')]; }, isComplete: function() { return (this.get('is_complete') == true); }, toggleCompletion: function() { this.set('is_complete', !this.isComplete()); } });
I've attached a screenshot of the error trace from the Chrome javascript console.
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31 Aug 2012 6:39 AM #2
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I don't see a proxy or writer or anything here. Do you use a store? Can I get code that I can run locally?Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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31 Aug 2012 10:06 AM #3
Yo Mitchell,
Like I said, it's pretty involved, and not sure you'll be able to get code that runs locally, but I've created a gist with all the moving parts, and some sample data here:
You'd need an account/login to access the API anyhow.
Let me know if that helps.
Basically, writing works for any records that have "due_date" set in the response from the server, but if I attempt toCode:
item.set('some_property'); store.sync();
31 Aug 2012 10:37 AM #4
Really, I don't even think you need my code, as the error is happening here, assuming that "date" isn't being passed a null value.
(Writer.js line 87...)
writeDate: function(field, date) { var dateFormat = field.dateFormat || 'timestamp'; switch (dateFormat) { case 'timestamp': return date.getTime()/1000; case 'time': return date.getTime(); default: return Ext.Date.format(date, dateFormat); } },
writeDate: function(field, date) { if(!date) return null; var dateFormat = field.dateFormat || 'timestamp'; switch (dateFormat) { case 'timestamp': return date.getTime()/1000; case 'time': return date.getTime(); default: return Ext.Date.format(date, dateFormat); } },
Last edited by subimage; 31 Aug 2012 at 10:47 AM. Reason: Figured out how to override in Ext
17 Nov 2012 5:05 AM #5
Confirmed. I have the same issue. A field of type 'date' and e.g. a dataFormat: 'c' should be able to have a null value. writeDate should return null in this case.


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