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CAMBRIDGE - After six frustrating innings, the Tuscarawas Central Catholic baseball team needed a plan.
Trailing 1-0 going into the seventh inning, veteran coach Jeff Fondriest came up with one.
"Get the leadoff man on, bunt him to second and get some key hits," was how starting pitcher Andrew Cugliari explained it.
The Saints' gameplan produced four runs in the top of the seventh and they closed it out from there for a 4-1 win over Toronto in the Division IV district championship game at Don Coss Field.
Central, now 22-5, plays in the regional for the third time in four years at Lancaster. The Saints play Mowrystown Whiteoak Thursday at 2 p.m. at Beavers Field.
"We followed the plan to perfection," Cugliari said. "We knew we were going to get to the top of the order and we knew this could happen."
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Tusky Central Catholic 4, Toronto 1
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TCC: Andrew Cugliari (WP).
TORONTO: Tyler Owens (LP) and Solomon. Antinone D.
Sophomore Max Fragasse, the No. 9 hitter, led off with a single up the middle and he moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Michael Lawless.
Cugliari bounced a single to right to score Fragasse to tie the game and suddenly, the Saints had new life.
Gage Miller followed with a single to right and Alex Lawless singled to right to score Cugliari with the go-ahead run.
Cade Cummings got a third straight hit to score Miller and Matt Fondriest beat out an infield single to load the bases.
A grounder to third by Dan Fuller resulted in an out at third, but drove in Alex Lawless with the final run of the game.
"I believe in this bunch," Fondriest said. "I may have coached better teams, but this team just doesn't quit."
Toronto got a man on second base in the bottom of the inning, but Cugliari got the final out on a fly ball to center.
Toronto broke open a scoreless game with a run in the fifth.
Tyler Antinone reached on an error to lead off the game and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Nate Stewart.
Chez Glenn beat out a bunt that moved Antinone to third and he scored on a sacrifice fly to right by Blaze Glenn.
"That was one heck of a baseball game," said Toronto coach Brian Perkins.
"We were able to scratch out a run, but you have to give them credit for coming back like that."
The early part of the game was a battle between Cugliari and Toronto senior Tyler Owens.
The Saints had two runners on base in the first, second and fourth innings, but Owens got key outs to keep the game scoreless.
"We had opportunity after opportunity, but just didn't put it together," Fondriest said. "We finally picked a great time to put it together."
The Toronto starter gave up just two hits through the first six innings.
Cugliari was equally as good. He gave up just two singles and hit a batter through the first six innings.
"He told me before the game that his arm was really feeling good," senior catcher Alex Lawless said of Cugliari. "He pitched a good game. I was proud of him."
The Saints are making another trip to the regional tournament, but are looking for better results.
"The last two times, we lost in the first game," Fondriest said. "Our goal is to go there and have a better showing. We think the Division IV tournament is the best in the state, so we feel we have something to prove."
The Red Knights end a fine season at 21-7.
"Tyler pitched a heck of a game and he'll really be missed," Perkins said. "He's been our horse all year long and we've looked to him every time we needed a big game.
"I'd also like to give a special thanks to my assistant coaches Mark Ferrell, Josh Danko, Cody Sutton, Jake Booth and Jonathan Durand. "They really had our kids ready to play today."


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Should questions about Magento be flagged for migration. New questions of course. I know http://magento.stackexchange.com is in beta, but should we flag to migrate questions to there?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
No. Just because the questions may now be on-topic for another site doesn't make them any less on-topic for Stack Overflow. They should remain on the site the user asked them on. If the question doesn't fit into the scope of one site but does fit into the scope of the other, then they should be migrated.
I don't know the Magento community, but when I look at the garbage that comes in on the tag on SO ("My boss told me to implement feature xyz in Magento how to do plz send code") I'd say the Magento site will have to be very careful about quality, and routinely migrating questions from SO may hurt it more than help it.
The first rule we all should have in mind is don't migrate crap, even if a question would be on-topic on the receiving site and is off-topic on SO.

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Hello from DC!
April 16, 2012
Well I made it to Washington, D.C. today and through the first day of the Arthritis Advocacy Summit. Most of the day was spent traveling though, so I am really exhausted (I only got about three hours of sleep last night, which didn't help). I made it in time for the group dinner and first advocacy training which outlined our agenda for the rest of the summit and especially our Senate and House meetings on Capitol Hill. Tomorrow are the Senate meetings. This morning and during my flights I was feeling kind of anxious and nervous about participating in the summit – not knowing what to expect, I suppose. But after meeting up with my friend Trish (who works for the Arthritis Foundation's Upper Midwest Region chapter and is our group leader) and then meeting the other people in our group, I feel much more comfortable and excited about being here. Listening to other leaders speak about what we'll be doing on Capitol Hill was also really inspiring. So yes, I am VERY GLAD I decided to do this! I'm excited to see how the meetings go tomorrow and to just be on Capitol Hill and being a part of our governmental process. I hope I'll be able to pull myself together and sound halfway intelligent when I have to speak to the legislators to tell them about my passion for arthritis advocacy and about my own personal story of how arthritis affects my life. I think I can do it though.
Anyway, I just wanted to give a little update on Day 1 of the summit. I've already met some really nice people from all over the country who all have incredible arthritis stories of their own. And I'm quite impressed with the event so far. I'll try to update every day while I'm in D.C., but now I must collapse into bed.
3 Responses to "Hello from DC!"
April 17, 2012 at 9:56 am
I'm glad you are having fun Angela! Don't be nervous when talking to the legislators or their HLA's. Everyone is very nice and willing to listen. Last year just my presence as a thirty something with RA made a huge impact on them. You don't have to say much, just your story which you already know and then pick one of the goals to talk about. Last year I talked about funding for NIH since research is a passion of mine. What are the goals for this year's conference? Wish I were there!
April 20, 2012 at 11:49 pm
I am so glad you are having such a good time. I watched some of it live on the web. it is all very interesting.


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I'm linux user and I'm thinking about it's vulnerabilities to malware.
Can I get any malware if I run only trusted applications from distro's repository?
This is a question likely to generate better feedback at Security SE.
Packages are generally signed; if the signing key has been compromised (by breaking in into the computer where private key is stored), all bets are off. Then an attacker may craft a package with malware inside, sign it with the key, hack one or several mirrors, replace the packages and wait for infection to spread before it is found out.
A threat may come as a source-code patch that is committed without due review process and introduces a vulnerability into a piece of software, and then this attack vector is exploited in the wild.
Existing applications may have a score of vulnerabilities that allow malware to install itself on a given computer.
As a bottom line, there is no such thing as a "trusted application" anywhere, anytime. You as computer owner and maintainer bear the ultimate responsibility for the overall safety and security of your system, especially if you keep it connected to the 'Net where there be dragons. Would suggest starting reading on computer security, and again, a nice starting point is the Security StackExchange site.
Yes, you can get malware.
Imagine combining a PNG-library-flaw like CVE-2007-5259 with a glibc-problem like CVE-2011-1089. Into an execution under your normal user account with a priviledge escalation triggerd by - lets say viewing a PNG-picture in the
There might even be a backdoor programmed into your OS by a regular programmer.
The other side of what @Deer Hunter has said, and what I think you are getting at, is "can malware install itself and get executed like so many similar malware programs Windows gets?". The answer to that is no. Without direct user involvement giving permissions for installation and, then, execution, this cannot happen.


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Anyone else NOT receiving e-mail notifications TODAY?
Have not received an email notification since late yesterday. Have checked my settings; they are fine. Wondering if they're not working for everyone? Again. Or is it just me? ::sniffle:: I posted an answer about 1/2 hour ago requesting a response so I could see if it was just a fluke. No answer, so I'm assuming (could be SO wrong) that all em notifications are not working again.
Anyone receiving notification on comments added to deals & answers added to questions?
History of 3 recent notification questions follows on next post.
19 Answers answer
History from 9+ days ago:
@baqui63 asked this question 9 days ago.
About 17 hours after @baqui63's question, I asked this one
8 days ago I asked if notifications was permanently stopped
Obviously, notifications was fixed at that time.
Original reply.
Please confirm notification.
@gmwhit: Reply to answer.
Please confirm notification.
@jumbowoot: Thanks so much for responding!! No notification...yet. It sometimes takes more than 5 minutes. Problem is deeper; have not received any notifications on comments or answers since late yesterday.
@gmwhit: Sent in a bug report.
@jumbowoot: Appreciation, kudos & a box of Pocket Coffee espresso candy. BTW: @inkycatz is 'pinging' on this, too. ;-)
Update: Starting receiving notifications a few minutes ago. Many, many thanks!! Since no one else responded, I may have been the only one. :-(
@gmwhit: You were not the only one. In addition, I have been having problems since yesterday. It started with the infamous and deadly "joined today and only bought one thing" which went away after a bit. I then noticed that people had responded to me, and that nothing after that was sent.
Sure enough, the checkboxes for notification had come unstuck, and they now seem to revert back to no no matter how many times I click yes. :-(
Perhaps The Great One (aka @jumbowoot) would be kind enough to respond, so that I can see if this has now righted itself.
@shrdlu: Happy to hear it's not just me. Not happy to hear you're having problems, too. After I posted above that I had started receiving notifications, they seem to have stopped. I say 'seemed' because I did not receive a notification of your answer. May be fixed, may not. :-/
@gmwhit: No, I just checked and my settings are messed up. It won't let me select 'yes' to mentions.
EDIT: What @shrdlu said.
@gmwhit: There's a magic window where, if you're active in a thread, and someone responds to you, and you respond back, they aren't always sent as notifications. I received the two just now, for this question. I'm still afraid to go look at the settings on my account page (just looking at them seems to break them all over again).
@jumbowoot My statement that I had started receiving notifications was correct. Have NOT received any more. Still broken. :-( Please look into this again; my response was premature... TIA
An aside: For some reason, I find it perversely amusing that someone voted this question down. Perhaps they don't want or need notifications, and they're relieved?? ;-)
ya, we are looking into it. A bit short staffed with the Holidays and all...
@josefresno: Much appreciation! I think you were the one that fixed it 9 days ago. Happy you're here; sorry about the short staff. How tall are you, anyway? JK ;-)
@gmwhit: FYI, notifications are set to a 10 min delay. If, however, you add a comment or answer to the deal or question before the 10 min period expires, the system assumes you have already read the comment or answer and will not send out the notification..... That is, if things are rolling along as they should.
[Edit] As the alter-ego test account for @josefresno says, if you trust those alter egos that is. (I wouldn't)
@ironjelly: :-D Finding it difficult to believe alter anything. Or is that altar? Not receiving notification LONG after a 10 minute delay. Even on those I have not responded to or looked at, etc. Interesting name ironjelly...hard, yet jiggles ;-)
@ironjelly: I trust you. I'm not just being kind, either. Here's the logic (might as well be entertaining while we wait):
1. I know that @josefresno, being a member of staff, and one of the head developers, is perfectly able to change whatever it is that is in your comment, and
2. I have always found him (@josefresno, that is) to be truthful.
Ergo, there is ample evidence that you, @ironjelly, may be trusted, and that in addition, you may be trusted to be a genuine alter ego.
[Edit] In addition, it seems like I remember this account from the Beta Test...
I had a very long hard day at work and was unable to check deals.woot or email even once during the day.
Be that as it may (is that even a valid phrase?) I've gotten very very little email from deals.woot today (less than I would have expected), though I DID get the mention notification from the first comment above at 4:59PM today. (I got no other email for this question, though I wasn't subscribed to it until just now.)
@gmwhit: Ya, ironjelly was the name of my previous company during the fun dotcom boom. I did not realize I was logged in as that user when I posted the comment. Anyways, seems like things are rolling along smoothly now. Happy Holidays!


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Yesterday we wrote of the plight of a U.S. citizen who had fled the fighti ng during the Bush-backed invasion of Somalia only to find himself "renditioned" into the sinister prisons of the Ethiopian invaders -- despite the fact that U.S. officials declared that there were no charges against him. (See the second half of that post.)
Now The Independent reports that Amir Meshal -- the 24-year-old New Jersey man renditioned by U.S. officials because he refused to confess to being an al Qaeda agent -- is not alone in being subjected to the lawless procedure so beloved by the defenders of civilization. (For an early example of this, which also involved Somalia, see Render Unto Caesar.)
Anger at US 'rendition' of refugees who fled Somalia (Independent)
Excerpts: At least 150 people arrested in Kenya after fleeing violence in Somalia have been secretly flown to Somalia and Ethiopia, where they are being held incommunicado in underground prisons, human rights groups say...
Several of the suspects are understood to be held in underground prisons at Mogadishu airport where they are held shackled to the wall. Most have since been sent on to two detention facilities in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia has been accused of routinely torturing political prisoners. A further 50 or 60 people accused of belonging to Ethiopian rebel groups fighting alongside Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts were sent directly to Ethiopia....
The suspects deported from Kenya were interrogated beforehand by American FBI officials in Kenyan prisons, where they were accused of having links with al-Qa'ida. "This is extraordinary rendition," said Maini Kiai, chairman of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission. "Britain and America are involved in interrogating suspects."
Following the US-backed invasion of Somalia by Ethiopian troops, thousands of Somalis have tried to escape the violence by crossing the long, porous border with Kenya. Many of those caught on the Kenya-Somalia border were accused of belonging to the Islamic Courts and refused entry.
At least 150 of those who managed to get through were detained by Kenyan police, including 17 women and 12 children, one a baby of seven months. Many needed medical attention but did not receive it, including a pregnant Tunisian woman who had a bullet lodged in her back.
All were held in Kenyan prisons for several weeks without access to lawyers and family members. As well as being interrogated by the FBI, human rights groups in Nairobi also claimed British officials were involved.
"The Americans had direct access to the prisoners, one on one," said Al-Amin Kimathi of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, adding that US diplomatic vehicles carried the suspects from Nairobi police stations to be questioned. "Senior Kenyan police officers told us they had nothing to do with the operation," said Mr Kimathi. "It was out of their hands."
The US has claimed that Somalia's Islamic Courts, which controlled much of the country until December, was run by an al-Qa'ida cell. Ethiopian troops, backed by US intelligence and logistical support, overpowered the Islamic Courts within a few days of fighting at the end of last year.
This latter claim is baseless. It is simply a reflection of the Bush gang's primitive tactic of labeling any inconvenient Muslim group or individual as "al Qaeda," which then "justifies" any action taken against them: military invasion, assassination, rendition, indefinite detention, torture.
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It's clear that no nation on earth will be allowed to organize its own society as it wishes, or work out its own internal conflicts, if the American elite decides they have some financial or strategic interest in the matter. The only nations immune to this power-mad interventionist philosophy are those who can strike back hard enough to upset the elite's apple cart. And thus we have Bush's "war on terror" -- which is, as we've often noted, simply an escalation of the long-running, bipartisan foreign policy of the "National Security State" that has ruled America for 60 years.
This year marks the anniversary of this coup d'etat: the 1947 "National Security Act." Writing on the 50th anniversary of this supplanting of the Republic, Gore Vidal wrote:
Fifty years ago, Harry Truman replaced the old republic with a national-security state whose sole purpose is to wage perpetual wars, hot, cold, and tepid. Exact date of replacement? February 27, 1947. Place: The White House Cabinet Room. Cast: Truman, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, a handful of congressional leaders. Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg told Truman that he could have his militarized economy only IF he first "scared the hell out of the American people" that the Russians were coming. Truman obliged. The perpetual war began. Representative government of, by, and for the people is now a faded memory. Only corporate America enjoys representation by the Congress and presidents that it pays for in an arrangement where no one is entirely accountable because those who have bought the government also own the media. Now, with the revolt of the Praetorian Guard at the Pentagon, we are entering a new and dangerous phase. Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all. We honor no treaties. We spurn international courts. We strike unilaterally wherever we choose. We give orders to the United Nations but do not pay our dues...we bomb, invade, subvert other states. Although We the People of the United States are the sole source of legitimate authority in this land, we are no longer represented in Congress Assembled. Our Congress has been hijacked by corporate America and its enforcer, the imperial military machine..."
Obviously, the situation that Vidal describes didn't begin with the illegal implantation of the Bush Regime by the rightwing faction of the Supreme Court (two of whom had family members profiting from the Bush campaign) in December 2000. It has gone on for decades, under "liberal" Democrats and "conservative" Republicans. But it has reached a new pitch of intensity, audacity and recklessness today.
Somalia might seem an odd choice for "the path of action" -- the Hitlerian phrase that Bush incorporated into the official "National Security Strategy of the United States" in formalizing the doctrine of "preventive" -- i.e., aggressive -- war. (It was also then that he declared that his version of corrupt crony capitalism to be the "single sustainable model of national success.") But as "blaqfather," a commentor on the previous points out, before Somalia collapsed into anarchy in 1991, it was being actively explored by major oil companies: "A World Bank and U.N. survey that year of eight northeastern African countries' petroleum potential ranked Somalia second only to Sudan as the top prospective commercial producer. Northern Somalia lay within a regional oil window reaching south across the Gulf of Aden, the geologists said." So Somalia's affairs are not entirely without interest to a Washington regime populated by professional oilmen.
What's more, Somalia's geographic location gives it heightened importance in the Bush Regime's strategy to control the Horn of Africa and dominate the continent's ever-more-vital oil supplies. The Pentagon recently set up its first-ever "African Command," adding it to the string of regions under the command of a military proconsul. (Bush has also created the first such satrapy covering the United States itself, which has never before been the subject -- the target? -- of a military "command.")
And finally, Somalia was "doable." You can crush it without cost, squash it like a fly, and not only do it on the cheap -- with Ethiopian troops and local warlords serving as your proxies -- you can do it without notice. The entire Somalian campaign -- and America's very extensive involvement in it -- has passed virtually unremarked in the U.S. media, and plays no part at all on the national political scene. It is simply a non-event, something happening far away to a bunch of darkies -- Muslim darkies, on top of that -- so who cares? It's not even worth a joke by Leno or Letterman.
But "doability" is a major factor in the "War on Terror" strategy. The Bush gang thought Iraq was "doable," as the BBC's John Simpson noted in 2006:
It was a few weeks before the invasion of Iraq, three years ago. I was interviewing the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in the ballroom of a big hotel in Cairo...he described to me all the disasters he was certain would follow the invasion. The US and British troops would be bogged down in Iraq for years. There would be civil war between Sunnis and Shias. The real beneficiary would be the government in Iran.
"And what do the Americans say when you tell them this," I asked? "They don't even listen," he said.
... I asked him why he thought the US was determined to invade Iraq.
He said he had put the same question to Vice-President Dick Cheney. Mr Cheney had replied: "Because it's doable."
The Bushists were wrong about Iraq, of course, because they are stupid, arrogant, third-rate characters, blinded by their greed and by the ignorant prejudices that boil up in their "guts," which Bush cites so often as his guide. But Cheney's remark is a perfect expression of their approach, which is the way of the coward and the bully, who only beat up people who can't hit back.
That is doubtless the only thing delaying the attack on Iran for which they have openly prepared: they're trying to figure out, with their crabbed little minds, if they can get away with it with all their apple carts intact. Anyone not blinded by greed or drunk on imperial arrogance knows that such an attack will be a costly, ghastly moral horror and a vast strategic mistake. But then, that was also the case with the attack on Iraq, which millions of people across the world marched against, in an outpouring for peace never seen before in human history. But the Bushists -- and their drunken sycophants in the American political and media establishments -- were still stupid enough to pull the trigger. And although some of those Establishment figures have sobered up a bit since then, why should we think that the Bushists themselves -- who rejected the wan Establishment attempts to rein in the Iraq war and instead "surged" into an escalation -- are any smarter now?
Meanwhile, they have slaked their constant craving for "regime change" with this little "do-able" appetizer in Somalia. And they have gotten away with it.
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Nintendo is putting its full marketing might behind the upcoming Wii U exclusive Mario Kart 8 in an effort to boost sales of its struggling console and to give Wii U owners enough compelling reasons to pick up the game at launch.
Earlier this month the platform holder announced a special Mario Kart 8 promotion whereby fans who buy the game before July 31st can download one free title from a selection that includes New Super Mario Bros. U, Pikmin 3 and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.
More recently Nintendo released three entertaining Mario Kart 8 TV spots advertising some of its new features such as anti-gravity racing and the Super Horn which finally gives players the power to defend themselves against pesky power-ups like the Spiny Shell. Check them out below:
Mario Kart 8 will be released exclusively for Wii U on May 30th in North America and European territories. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this highly anticipated kart racer for screenshots, trailers and more details.
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WEST LIBERTY - An annual community food drive, a tradition that began nearly three decades ago in the town of West Liberty, will give 35 local families in need a few extra groceries in their cupboards this Christmas.
Every Christmas season several churches in the West Liberty area, as well as the elementary school and the local Lions Club, collect a variety of groceries for families in need during the holiday season, said event organizers Kristi Capp and Joyce Arnold.
Capp said organizations throughout the town participate in the annual event, including the West Liberty Christian Church, West Liberty Federated Church and the Short Creek Methodist Church.
More than a dozen volunteers boxed and bagged groceries throughout the morning Monday in a dining hall located in the basement of West Liberty Christian Church. Some of the many items donated included milk, eggs, bread, fruit, ham and a variety nonperishable canned items.
"The Lion's Club gives us a lot of donations ... the churches bring in a lot of stuff ... and the kids at the school. For a month, they bring in stuff each week," said Capp, who is a member of West Liberty Christian.
She said each year they are able to obtain names of local families in need - some through the school and others through parishioners at local churches.
The Rev. Dennis Arnold of the West Liberty Christian Church said, "The amazing thing about this is the community all comes together and there are people from all the different organizations out there putting the food baskets together. It's just easy for our facility to distribute it, but it's a community effort and that's one of the things that's unique about our community."


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The general circulating collection is located in 9 different stack areas throughout the building. Adjacent to the reading room in rooms 3210 & 3206 are the "Main" collection that include the subject areas of: History, Geography, Museum Studies, Anthropology and the general periodicals in science, natural history and zoology.
There are 8 departmental/divisional collections located near the departments they primarily serve. They are: Botany, Geology, & the 6 divisions of Zoology (Birds, Mammals, Insects, Invertebrates, Fishes, Amphibians & Reptiles). While these collections are not housed among the main library collection, they are still maintained by library staff. See associated file below to locate the call number ranges for each collection.
Here are more collection locations (with descriptions) that you will find on our online catalog:
- Ref. - The Reference collection is located in the main reading room. It includes: foreign languge dictionaries, oversized atlases and encyclopedias. These materials are non-circulating.
- Arc. - This collection is located in the Director's office. It includes: Field Museum publications, exhibition guides and published materials specifically pertaining to museum history and collections history. These materials are non-circulating.
- R.R. - This collection is located on a small group of shelves behind the reference desk (under the elephants). It includes: sound recordings, video and unique items that would otherwise be damaged or lost in the main stacks.
- CRPT. - This collection is housed in the "crypt" or caged in area in room 3210. It includes: "rare" and fragile materials.
- CRPT. Ref. - This collection is housed in the "crypt" or caged in area in room 3210. It was formerly part of the rare book room reference collection and could still be used as such. Space issues and easier accessibility warranted their move to this location.
- R.B. - This location is housed in the rare book room. Items cataloged in the rare book room do not follow the Library of Congress Classification System. Most rare book call numbers include: R.B., Collection Name, Year of publication and Number of slot when item was acquired (ex., Gen. 1810.2). Collection names include: Gen. (General), Laufer, Ayer, Kunz, Misc. (Miscellaneous).
- R.B.(R.) - This collection is also housed in the rare book room and serves as a frequently used reference collection. These materials are non-circulating.


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The Apollo Program was designed to safely ferry astronauts to the Moon and then back to Earth. The Apollo spacecraft had three sections: the command module, which housed crew quarters and flight control; the service modules, which held the propulsion and support systems; and the lunar module, which could detach from the rest of the craft, land on the moon, and then return to reconnect with the rest of the ship before heading back to Earth. Apollo 11 was the first to accomplish that task, in 1969.
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**FILE** In this June 21, 2008 file photo, a woman rides her Harley Davidson during the "Hamburg Harley Days 2008," in Hamburg, Germany. Harley-Davidson Inc. said Wednesday, July 16, 2008, its second-quarter profit fell sharply as a weak economy, record-high gas prices and lower consumer confidence continued to hobble the iconic motorcycle maker's shipments and sales. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)
TOPEKA -- Governor Brownback invites motorcyclists to join him for the First Governor's Flint Hills Freedom Ride on Saturday, June 16th. The 70-mile ride will begin at the Capitol Building in Topeka; travel along the 48-mile Native Stone Scenic Byway through Dover, Eskridge and Alma (K-4 and K-99 highways); and end at Wamego City Park. The ride will benefit three worthy causes – Fort Riley's Hearts Apart program, Brothers in Blue Re-entry, and the Native Stone Scenic Byway.
On-site registration begins at 8:00 a.m. on the south lawn of the Capitol (online pre-registration is strongly encouraged to minimize delays at the event). A group photo will be taken with the Governor at 9:30, followed by a Blessing of the Bikes at 9:45. Kickstands Up is at 10:00, and the ride will end at 1:30 p.m. In the concluding ceremony at Wamego City Park, Governor Brownback will honor all veterans, Fort Riley soldiers and families for their dedication to freedom. The public is encouraged to attend the event to help recognize those who have sacrificed for our nation's freedom and to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Big Red One (237th anniversary of the Army).
Online pre-registration is strongly encouraged. A $25 fee per person is required to participate. Participants pre-registered by June 2nd will receive a Flint Hills Freedom Ride t-shirt with their registration fee. Additional t-shirts will be available the day of the ride on a first come, first served basis. Complete ride details and registration are available online at fhfreedomride.ksoutdoors.com.
Vendors are invited to set up at Wamego City Park. Corporate partnerships opportunities are also available. Visit the website above for vendor and sponsorship information.
The partner groups organizing the ride include the Governor's Office, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism; Kansas Department of Corrections; Brothers in Blue Re-entry; members of the Wamego community and community leaders; Ellsworth Correctional Facility; ABATE of Kansas; Pottawatomie County Economic Development; Wabaunsee County Economic Development; and Fort Riley.


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What design pattern is best for implementing trophies in a game? I am not a games developer, but is it easy for each player's action to check and update conditions that satisfy 50-100 trophies at any time aside from everything that goes on in the game engine? How is it best done?
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I think the best way to design something like this is first to inspire yourself from the best, Assassins Creed 2 is a good example.
You find a trophy for each chapter and one for completing the game on each difficulty. These are generally 'Complete Chapter x' or 'Defeat Boss xyz'. I would prefer having really exmplcit names eg 'Complete Chapter x', as you don't want the player to check his trophies every time he finishes a chapter because he thinks he got someting cool.
You also should have trophies that will push the player to play how YOU want him to.
For exploration you will have a collectible trophy, for fighting you will have a 'Kill x Guards' etc. These can help to force the player to explore more, and even learn to play better.
The biggest difficulty in my sense is Hidden Trophies. The name needs to imply what needs to be done but without spoiling any of the game. You don't want for example 'Kill the Traitor' when you only have one Ally in the game. These should also be some of the hardest trophies where people could rarely get them without specifically trying for it.
There can often be half of the total trophies that are secrets.
Of course, 'Lolphies' are also good and will inspire or reward a certain type of play.
Trophies are very game-dependant though and require a lot of thought!
Basically you want at least 3 types of data structures:
Counters: This happened. A gun was fired. An enemy was killed. This polygon was touched.
Conditions: If Counter X > 500. If Counter Y = 0.
Trophy: If condition A is met, this condition is visible. If condition Y is met, this condition is invisible.
In your game code you sprinkle counters firing where appropriate and forget about it.
Some other class either in response to an event of the counter firing or periodically will check the list of conditions and see if they've been met. After, again either in response to an event or periodically trophy's will check if all their conditions are met. If so it gets rewarded.
Your UI can iterate all trophies and display the visible conditions. If no conditions are visible, then the trophy is hidden.
Everything is separate and during the update loop all you need to do is increase a number and maybe flag the data as changed, anything else can be deferred to when there's more time / even a separate thread.
If you are asking for a technical way: I'm a very, very noob game developer, but this is how I implemented my AchievmentManager (I think it's the observer pattern):


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I make plans, todo lists, etc. about the technical stuff which I have to study. I am not, but I do wish to become an excellent C++ programmer.
Now, when I am pretty excited about learning the stuff, I sit down for studying and find myself browsing irrelevant websites! Have already blocked the major sites I was addicted to, but then I find myself browsing wikipedia just for the heck for it!!
Then I start studying finally, and after two minutes I again start browsing the net (15 minutes). I come back to studies for 2 minutes, and waste time for 15 minutes.
Okay, reading technical stuff isn't my "hobby", but my profession requires it.
I wish to know the reasons - Why am I doing this, and what to do about it?


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte softball team closed out the fall 2012 season with high hopes and expectations of a bright 2013 campaign.
The Niners compiled a 7-1 mark during the fall season which lasted two weeks. Charlotte saw its offense come alive with the long ball in addition to depth in the circle.
The 49ers seized a major 6-5 win over South Carolina on Saturday. Jessica Plemmons propelled the 49ers to the victory with a grand slam. Pitcher Katie Watkins recorded the win for Charlotte.
Charlotte finished Saturday with a 6-1 win over Greensboro College. Pitcher Katie Lang went the distance for the Niners, recording a game-high eight strikeouts in the win. Offensively, Lang was 2-for-three with two doubles. Alex Rogers, Jackie Kleinsmith and Courtney Carroll each recorded two hits.
On Sunday, Charlotte fell to South Carolina 8-0. Natalie Capone and Jessica Plemmons both finished with hits.
The Niners rebounded with a 4-1 victory over Elon. Watkins had eight strikeouts and allowed just four hits in seven innings. Charlotte's offense exploded as Natalie Capone, Alex Rogers, Brianna Gwaltney, Plemmons, Chelsea Lisikatos and Lindsey Holloman all recorded hits.
The 49ers begin the 2013 season against Notre Dame on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the D.L. Phillips Softball Complex.


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Is the following correct?
Both of these essentially act as a WebKit wrapper.
Or should it be the following?
Both of these essentially acts as a WebKit wrapper.
Is the following correct?
Or should it be the following?
The word both is a determinative (in the terminology of CGEL). Determinatives are not per se singular or plural (except these and those), but they select singular or plural nouns. When both appears without the head noun, as it does here, there is a fusion of functions and it becomes both the determiner and the head of the plural NP. The verb then agrees with the plural NP.
(ignore the clumsy grey line above Head)
It acts only like plural because, unlike each1 and none2, "both" refers to all of the elements and not to one of them.
Read these examples from the OALD:
(1) - Each is usually singular: "each of us knows about you".
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Both is definitely plural.
Here's an explanation on using both. Although this explanation is irrelevant to the OP's question, none of the examples there uses both as singular.


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Part of the Filmmaking For Dummies Cheat Sheet
A pre-shooting checklist is a must for any filmmaker. Using a checklist helps you to prepare certain things before even setting foot on your set. Increase your chances of having a successful shoot by using this checklist:
Make sure the money's in the bank (is your investor for real?).
Hire a great cook or caterer.
Buy insurance (for crew, equipment, and locations).
Book a professional still photographer for film stills (needed for advertising and posters when you set up distribution).
Secure location permits if necessary (so the police don't bust you).
Make sure all contracts are signed with cast, crew, and location owners, and get releases from everyone on camera — especially background people.


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If you feel cramps in your abdomen (the area around your stomach), don't panic right away. Sometimes cramping is nothing more than a gentle reminder to take it easy, and at other times it might be a sign of digestive problems. Occasionally, however, cramping can be an emergency signal that says you need medical attention.
The muscles and ligaments that support your uterus are being pulled and stretched in all directions during pregnancy. This can cause occasional cramping. The pain might be mild or sharp. It might be particularly noticeable when you make a quick move, get up out of a chair, cough, or sneeze. This is nothing to worry about. Some women get cramps when they exercise and put additional stress on muscles and ligaments that are already strained. If you feel cramps while exercising, listen to your body. Stop and rest. This is not the time to work through pain.
Cramps can also remind you to watch what you eat. As in your prepregnancy days, poor digestion will cause cramps. If you overeat or eat the wrong foods, you might feel stomach cramps. If you are constipated, you will feel cramps that can be very painful.
Sometimes cramps are a danger signal that shouldn't be ignored. There are three specific medical conditions that are usually accompanied by cramping:
If your cramps are severe and/or persistent, call your doctor immediately.
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In Beauville's "Complex Algebraic Surfaces", given an elliptic surface $f : X \to C$ with a generic fiber $E$. Then either $\text{Alb}(X) \cong \text{Jac}(C)$ or there is an exact sequence of abelian varieties
$0 \to F \to \text{Alb}(X) \to \text{Jac}(C) \to 0$
with $F$ being isogenous to $E$.
Assume that $X$ is a properly elliptic that is in the second case. Does anyone know an example where $F$ is isomorphic to $E$ (and $X$ is not a product), and an example where $F$ is not isomorphic to $E$?


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Eric Zorn's account ("The mark of true friends," Mar. 8) of how Chicagoan Michael Duplessis got a misspelled "Chi-tonw" tattoo shows how badly our public schools are failing, since that's an error a third-grader should catch. But neither Duplessis nor tattooist Sam Hacker realized "tonw" was incorrect until someone else pointed it out to them.
How could two grown men miss such an obvious error? Because it's likely they were taught to read by recognizing whole words, rather than sounding out letters. To whole word readers, "town" and "tonw" don't look that much different, while the misspelling is obvious to phonics readers.
Reading failure like this is widespread in Chicago. A 2005 national assessment (NAEP) revealed a staggering 40 percent of 8th-graders in the city's schools can't even read at a "basic" level. Not surprisingly, almost half of Chicago's public school students become dropouts.
Read "Chi-tonw" and weep -- not just for Duplessis and Hacker, but for all the children whose lives are being stunted because Mayor Daley's schools can't even do a good job of teaching them how to read.
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I have read that whole hops impart less bitterness than pellet hops by weight. I have used pellet hops for all of my brews thus far. I have a recipe that I am happy with, and I want to switch to using whole hops. Is there some reliable conversion between appropriate weights for whole hops vs. pellet hops? Is it perhaps 20% more — or some other number?
When using whole hops, do you need a larger amount than you would hop pellets to achieve the same bitterness?
You will get more utilization from pellet hops since they are pulverized, giving them more contact with the wort during the boil. However there isn't a hard and fast conversion rate, since there are a lot of variables with hops. Brew Dudes suggests you get 10-25% better utilization with pellet hops, and 10% is the typical number I've heard, so working off of that, you can use about 10% more whole hops to make up the difference.
I'm not sure what scale you are working on, but instead of buying another ounce of hops to get an extra .2-.4 ounces, I might just increase the boil time for the existing hops to bump the IBUs.
I'd say just experiment with slightly more hops or a slightly longer boil until you get something that tastes about right, but unless you have a sensitive palate you may not even notice the difference.


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Berry Sorbet Pie
Categories: Entertaining, Low-fat, Make ahead, Valentine's Day
Type: Valentine's Day
Type: Valentine's Day
This berry pie is sweeter than sugar, but a healthy treat.
Serves: Serves: 8
- 2 cups vanilla or strawberry nonfat sorbet, softened
- 8-ounce container Cool Whip, divided
- 3/4 cup frozen strawberries or raspberries, chopped
- 9-inch low-fat graham cracker pie crust
- 1 1/4 cups cold skim milk
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- Combine sorbet and 1/2 cup Cool Whip in medium bowl; fold in strawberries or raspberries and mix until completely blended. Spoon sorbet mixture into crust.
- Place in freezer 15 to 20 minutes, until hardened.
- Pour cold skim milk into large bowl; add pudding mix and beat vigorously with wire whisk until blended and smooth.
- Fold in 1/2 cup Cool Whip just until ingredients are mixed.
- Spoon pudding mixture over sorbet; cover and freeze overnight.
- Remove pie from freezer 10 to 15 minutes before serving. Serve with additional whipped topping, if desired.
- We all know milk does a body good--the question is, just how good? One glass of milk provides 30 percent of the RDA for calcium; 25 percent of the RDA for vitamin D; 20 percent of the RDA for riboflavin; 16 percent of the RDA for protein; 13 percent of the RDA for vitamin B and 11 percent of the RDA for potassium.
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It is relatively easy to estimate the parameters of an autoregressive $AR(p)$ process. How do I do with a moving average $MA(q)$ process?
Estimating $MA(q)$ models is significantly harder than $AR(p)$ models. Eviews, MATLAB and R can use multiple algorithms which are all based on some form of maximum likelihood estimation. You can look at the source of MATLAB and R or the excellent Eviews documentation.
However, I strongly advise against rolling your own since efficient and well tested algorithms are widely available.
For the interested, this paper describes the method (with code) used by the R arima package. You can see from the abstract the method it is quite complicated.


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5 Mind-Blowing Scientific Answers to Life's 'Big Questions'
#2. Primate Operas Gave Us Language
All right, so now humanity is in its infancy. So how did we get from being a bunch of screeching, filthy nomads hunting gazelle with sharpened sticks to the kind of species that can sit down and have a conversation and eventually create the written word?
Eat wheel, dolphins.
After reading Shakespeare, or a poem by Yeats, or getting called a "fuck-boob whore" by a crazy hobo, it's only natural to marvel at the invention of language. How, in such a short period of time, did we possibly go from mutely hitting women on the head and hoping for the best to creating sounds meant to trick them into thinking we own a Ferrari?
The Theory:
Singing came first. Talking came second.
Something tells us this guy only does covers of Holy Diver.
According to neuroscientist Dr. John Skoyle, singing had to come first, because all you need to sing is a mouth, vocal chords, some breath control and a big heart. Speech, on the other hand, requires vocabulary and syntax and a host of other complex brain and throat functions to work. In other words, singing is easy, which is why it's evolved dozens of times among dozens of different species. Speaking is hard, which is why it's only happened once.
According to Skoyle, Darwin and others, humans couldn't have learned to talk first, because singing prepped our vocal tracts to one day handle more complex sound formations, which eventually became words and dick jokes. Then, understanding intonation and repetitive patterns taught the early humans syntax, which was the last step on the road from rhythmic animal grunts to bona fide language.
So it only makes sense that humans figured out crooning before they figured out talking.
And why it took so long to figure out rapping.
#1. Laughter Was a Deadly Serious Matter
And so here we are. A species that can think and converse. But what about laughter? How did we start joking with one another?
Has man always laughed at other men taking hits to the groin?
After all, laughter is one of those things we take for granted as natural, but is weird as hell if you think about it. Why would we go into a spasm of uncontrollable verbal nonsense every time we see somebody accidentally hit themselves in the crotch by stepping on a rake?
It turns out that, like everything else in our evolution, it was literally a matter of life and death.
It's also an excellent way to test whether or not someone is British.
The Theory:
Before we laughed at fart jokes, droll puns or adorable kitties playing peekaboo, we laughed in relief that the noise in the bushes wasn't a saber-tooth tiger ready to rip our throats out.
To understand the origin of laughter we have to first define "humor." The most popular definition of humor is "incongruity" -- the state where something isn't quite right. It can be anything from a difference of expectations between a joke's build-up and the result (the punchline) or just general absurdity (an armadillo riding a scooter made out of dildos).
It's leaning against a tree just out of frame.
OK, but how about this: a guy marries his high school sweetheart and the next day he tortures her to death. That's definitely incongruous, but it's not really funny (unless he did it while wearing a Big Bird costume). So there's definitely something missing in this theory, and according to psychology professor Peter McGraw, that something is the key to laughter itself: safety.
And monkeys doing people jobs.
According to McGraw and other researchers of humor (which is apparently a thing and no one fucking told us about it), if people don't feel safe and secure, then they won't laugh. And back during the early days of man, that is exactly what laughing was used for: to signal that the situation was under control.
Say our ancestors heard a rustle from the nearby bushes and one of them checked it out, only to find out it was just the wind. He would then laugh to tell everyone, "There are no tigers there, man, so chill." If he just said (or sang) it with a straight face, everyone would assume that he's lying to get a head start for the jungle as it feasted on the rest of the tribe. But with a "Ha ha ha, it was only Enlil, the wind god, fucking with us," everyone could relax and go back to lice picking.
So be sure to tune in tomorrow for more reassuring and safe laughs with Cracked, as we tell you about the 6 Deadliest Parasites That Live Inside Your Brain Right Now.
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The buck is worth it. Hop on their site afterwards and click Hide, then reboot the phone so if it gets stolen people won't realize you're tracking the device.
@antipode: Just upgraded to the Droid 2. Should be here tomorrow. I'm not in the habit of losing things, but this looks very appealing to me - even at the regular price!!
@ojulius: Yeah, while I've never lost a phone before I can't afford to start now. Just got my Evo Shift on Friday.
I've been looking for a good lost phone recovery app & this one has all the bells & whistles with a clean GUI. I also like how, compared to other apps, this app doesn't rely on text messages. N41!
Lookout mobile security also can locate your phone, has antivirus and backup, and is free.
And Lookout works on everything from 1.6 up (in the very least. Maybe even earlier).
Lookout is free, but you need premium to wipe your phone. On the up side, you can pay for premium on their website when that happens. I love lookout, and have used the scream feature to find my phone while on silent or vibrate a few times.
My daughters next phone (this one isn't an android)will have this, she goes through phone every few months.
I just use where's my droid, it's free
doesn't have all the bells and whistles but it tells me where my phone is.
still 99 cents. picked it up for peace of mind.
Decent looking app. Definitely going to put this on my wife's Droid. We have a Squaretrade warranty that is great, but does not prevent against loss or theft. This helps give a little more peace of mind.
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Seek Droid >> Wheres My Droid. Web interface, no SMS crap, more features.
I just bought it and works great. It has no monthly/yearly fees like Lookout does for the Wipe and Lock options.
This looks like a good deal. I've been using Prey, which is free and functional, but this one seems to have some advantages. I like that it takes measures to hide itself, and you can block installs, I assume also, uninstalls?


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A truck driver confronted flames billowing out from beneath his semi-trailer near the rear axle of his Liberty, Kan., truck Tuesday night at the south intersection of highways 2 and 75.
When Nebraska City Police and Otoe County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 911 call of a truck on fire, smoke was impacting visibility at the intersection and flames were being whipped by the wind up against the back of the cab.
Nebraska City firefighters used a portable tank to provide water to pumper engines. They were able to knock down the flames shortly after 8:20 p.m., but contents of the trailer continued to smolder past 9 p.m.
The driver of the truck, painted with the name Lopez, appeared uninjured.
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Love in The Times Of Cancer
By Ms. Jovanna Kahn*
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I had envisioned my twenties to be full of 'life's big challenges; a degree, a small enterprise of my own, getting married to the man I would fall in love with, may be even have a lot of children of my own. Never did I know that another challenge lay ahead in my life that would transform a little girl into a warrior.
I have always tried to be a virtuous daughter. I am an anti-smoker, a pure environmentalist, no drinking. While girls my age chased their latest love interests, I preferred reading books. I had a great childhood many toys and a healthy lifestyle. I never knew that my quiet life would turn into a battle and me into a warrior.
After my 23 rd birthday I started feeling sick, weakness and persistent cough prevailed. I went to many doctors we knew and was given antibiotics, flu tabs and allergy medicines. Slowly I sensed something was wrong-my sixth sense became active and with basic medical knowledge I started having the hunch that it's 'CANCER'.
During my last year of my MBA degree I had three months of coughing. My diagnosis-X-ray revealed a mass in my chest. I then had a CT for further investigation and a chest biopsy. I felt the cancer cells poisoning my blood. After much debate the doctors concluded surgical extraction of mass and diagnosed the tumor as malignant. I started mentally preparing for surgery, went into deep prayer and meditation asking GOD to grant Paradise if I didn't make it.
My Father decided to take me to Europe for the operation. I was taken to a place of which I had no experience or emotions for. Having reached our destination the case was re-evaluated concluded that I had 'Hodgkin's lymphoma'—I had no problem accepting it but my family was shattered. My main concern was that is it curable and whether I will ever be NORMAL again -My oncologist promised me that.
What inspired me to go through the ordeal was my Parents immense support, belief in GOD, support from our family friends and my oncologist.
Cancer doesn't care what dreams are, it doesn't care that you are not married and do not have children. It doesn't care that you are an Asian or westerner-It doesn't care that you still haven't found your ideal man.
My treatment commenced consisting of 4 cycles (2 chemo per cycle) of ABVD.
Following Chemo, I had 17 sessions of radiation which was't that bad but did give me a sore throat and fatigue but I was ecstatic to be ALIVE.
I responded very well all praises to GOD and I credit this to my oncologist and dear friend Dr.Vincent*.He made the entire process positive and saved me when I was about to slip into depression.
Coming to a foreign land, having this illness showed me things had been searching for years; honestly it is the small things I noticed, like I was no longer scared to take chances, of sleeping with lights off or scared of swimming alone in the pool- I also learned that that love is the greatest thing GOD has made for us humans-it was love that inspired and healed me. And love is not owning a person but touching ones life forever.
Once my treatment was over, I needed a way to continue to be involved but due to my short stay I couldn't do much. Once back home I discovered that this disease is still a taboo in society and there is no propogation.This makes me feel lonely so I surf the net all reliable cancer sites and collect info for my research. But I really wish to get in touch with other survivors like me for support and inspiration.
My Life Now
I am battling with aches and fatigue that don't seem to leave me alone plus 3 month follow-up check-ups and tests. I feel isolated because I cannot contribute in any cancer awareness activities in my country.
I continue to be as virtuous as I was before.
Having survived treatment doesn't mean the battle is over-another battle has begun; the fight to have an equal share in this life with other people; the fight to stand up for our rights-I know I cannot change the fact that I had lymphoma but I can work to make my life better than before and for others through awareness and support. I do refuse to accept that just because I'm a survivor and doesn't know how long I'll be alive that I compromise my whole life-I will not give up on studying further.
I am proud to be a survivor and I cannot give up on loving my ideal man and marry just anyone who comes along and accepts me. I can not stop dreaming so GOD help me. Amen
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Ms. Kahn lives and loves in Saudi Arabia.
*name changed for privacy
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Working cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska
Filipino salmon processing workers in Alaska were known as the "Alaskeros"
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Cannery Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union Local 18257 founding members 1933
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Labor day float from late 1930s with Margaret Ray Duyungan wife of president Virgil Duyungan
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After initially affiliating with the AFL, the Cannery and Farm Laborers union in 1937 joined the CIO
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This is the Open Forum Coffee Talk. That means ... anything goes. Ask a question, make a suggestion, share a story, offer some advice -- the floor is yours!
How do you observe Advent in your home? We buy a tree on the First Sunday of Advent, light it the 2nd Sunday, decorate the 3rd. We also do nightly prayers around a lit Advent wreath, and place a Jesse tree ornament, though on the real tree. At least that's the plan. Sometimes the schedule gets away from us.
Looking for Advent projects for 2nd-4th grade Faith Formation Class. Thank you!
This is the first year my kids (at least one of them!) will be old enough to have a sense of what's going on (she's turning 3 soon). So, I'm excited to hear what others have planned! My ideas have been: a) Advent wreath lit at dinner every night b) Night prayers include a verse of "O Come O Come Emmanuel" (if hubs will go for the singing!) c) sticker Advent calander d) Framing some old Christmas cards with pretty Nativity scenes, and putting them up in the play area e) Christmas music at home and in the car f) Christmas lights g) Christmas wreath for front door h) Advent activities including Christmas shopping, gift wrapping, gingerbread house making, hot chocolate drinking, etc. I don't have a real good sense of when it would be good to start each of these (all on the 1st Sunday of Advent with a bang?!) And some are just "winter things," but we live in the far south... so we kinda have to make the cocoa and fireplace happen, since the weather is really NEVER so cold you naturally think of those things...
I would have my 2nd - 4th graders make an Advent calanader that they could use year after year. Something really pretty.
Since I just discovered F&F coffee talk this morning, I was reading through conversations from last week. I just want to comment on those who posted about feeling down, stressed, nervous, etc. due to the bleakness of our culture, the dangers promulgated in the news, etc. I have really spent a quiet and sad last month pondering all this & have concluded that the best thing I can do for my children is to help them develop relationships in which they know they are loved, cared for, and (when they are older) to have deep friendships built on mutual respect and enjoyment of wholesome interests. This is the long way around saying I have decided not to focus on preparing my kids for life by focusing on the sickness of the culture they will/may face as adults, but by fortifying them with goodness, beauty, and above all loving relationships with family, God, and friends. That has become my focus. Not academics (although that is important of course), not broadness of experiences (such as traveling), not comforts and entertainments, but relationships. If things get really ugly or if they don't, I want them to know they are loved, to have experienced the goodness of others, and to know that they are never alone because God is always with them... As an aside, I have also been listening to Christmas music ever since the election. I have needed a little "Come Lord Jesus!" in my life, so we started Advent early.
We recently moved into an older home. For the 1st time, we have a glass shower door. Its in pretty good condition, except that there is some clouding on the glass (beyond the frosting that is supposed to be in some spots, of course). I would like to remove the clouding, but have been unable to find a product that works. Even a professional housecleaner did not have a product that removed the water spots. Has anyone had success in this area?? I plan to start "squeegee-ing" the shower door after each use to prevent additional water spots, but I would like to get rid of what's already there, too!
Try rubbiing a cut lemon over the shower door where it is clouded or maybe vinegar - both are acidic and the acid is supposed to help remove the clouding. Hope that helps.
Will try it for sure! Thanks!
It's nice to "see" some new faces here at CD Coffee Talk. Spread the word, eh? Our aim is to build a kind and supportive on-line community to help each other walk this Catholic walk. Think of it as a living room full of the like-minded with which to share, seek, and pray. Each day of the week has its own topic, and until some forthcoming website changes make it easier to find, I'll post the link on our FB page each morning to make things simple. So glad you all are here!
Rebecca, I think it would help get the word out if Danielle changed the post on F&FL tab.
Wondering about cleaning - try LimeAway - it's really helpful for taking off old mineral build-up. I think you can get it at Walmart.
So happy to find you back! But I just stumbled on it. I have really missed the coffee talk blog posts, they were an important part of my day. I would recommend changing the F&F Live tab on the home page, and is there any way the regular bloggers could mention you are back on their own blogs? I subscribe to a lot of them, and saw no mention of this being back up. Anyway, happy preparing for Advent to my F&FL friends, I for one am just thrilled that we had a whole 10 days after Thanksgiving to get ready, I always feel like I am catching up when it starts the Sunday after hosting a huge family holiday. Looking forward to future posts.
Thanks for the tip Liz & Danielle M. I agree and will try to get that taken care of. Site changes happen a little slowly around here.... Sorry! And thanks for your patience.
Yay! I'm glad that you are back! I missed the coffee talks a lot!
Does anyone have suggestions on a good book about St. Nicholas for children (currently 2.5 and 4)?