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The Georgia Capitol is going to get a little taste of the wild this Tuesday as sportsmen's groups from around the state gather to meet with legislators for the annual "Sportsmen's Day at the Capitol."
A broad spectrum of sportsmen's and conservation groups will participate with displays, educational materials and interactive activities. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will also participate with a 3D fishing simulator and a special appearance by the World Champion National Archery in the Schools Program Archery Team from Woodlawn Elementary in Chatsworth, GA.
"This is our 10th annual sportsmen's event at the Capitol and it looks like it will be our biggest yet," said Scott Tanner, the event organizer. "We are especially excited to help kick off the DNR's Centennial Celebration at this event. The Georgia General Assembly created the Department of Game and Fish in 1911 and we are thrilled to help them celebrate 100 years of conservation."
Governor Nathan Deal, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and House Speaker David Ralston are scheduled to speak at the event at 9:20 a.m. Governor Deal verbally issued the proclamation for DNR's 100th Anniversary to help kick off the agency's celebration.
"This event is an opportunity for the sportsmen of Georgia to say thank you to the sportsmen legislators for their leadership and support in defending and advancing hunting, fishing, and conservation issues," said Jennifer Lundy, State Caucus Manager for the National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses.
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Boys roundup: Canny's 33 leads Torrington boys
David Canny scored a team-high 33 points as Torrington downed Woodland, 82-74, Tuesday in NVL action in Torrington.
Austin Kelson scored 14 points while John McCarthy contributed 13 points for Torrington (3-5).
Rahmi Rountree registered a game-high 34 points while Dave Uhl finished with 23 points for Woodland (5-4).
Crosby 85, Watertown 61: Tyshon Rogers led the Bulldogs with 31 points, 10 rebounds, seven steals and five assists in the win at home.
Lex Perez scored 16 points for Crosby (8-0), while Asiem King added 13 points and five assists. Devin Stallings also recorded 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Stephon Dunbar chipped in with nine points and six assists.
Jonathan Mitchell netted an NVL season-high 41 points for the Indians (3-5).
Litchfield 33, Lewis Mills 31: Matt McCarthy netted 15 points, including the go-ahead basket late in the final period, to lead all scorers for Litchfield as it held off a buzzer-beater attempt by Lewis Mills and earned it's first victory of the season in Burlington.
Darrin Newbury added six points for the Cowboys (1-7), and Steven Rinquist chipped in with five.
Dan Kryzanski led the Spartans (3-4) with 10 points, while Alex Daigle recorded nine.
Sacred Heart 73, Derby 44: Malik Petteway recorded a double-double with a game-high 25 points and 13 rebounds as the Hearts took care of the Red Raiders at Alumni Hall.
Vincent Lombardi, Isiah Rascoe and Tyran Flowers all scored eight points for Sacred Heart (2-7).
Dillon McMahon had 18 points while Eric Hicks contributed 17 points for Derby (2-7).
Wilby 90, Ansonia 46: Walter Wright netted a game-high 32 points as the Wildcats jumped out to a 50-18 halftime advantage at Wilby.
Denzel Mitchell scored 14 points while Taifa Wright registered 12 points, six steals and five assists. Erick DeJesus had nine points and nine rebounds for Wilby (7-0) and Stanley Foote had eight points.
Vinny Constantino scored 12 points while Rashawn Pender and Claude Perry each had nine for Ansonia (3-6).
Kennedy 68, St. Paul 60: Don Jarrett scored a team-high 20 points for the Eagles in Bristol. Jairo Suarez added 14 points for the Eagles (6-2), and Isaiah Wright added 10.
Tyler Jones scored a game-high 21 points for the Falcons (5-3) and Brendan Carroll added 13.
Naugatuck 75, Seymour 55: Husani Foote scored a game-high 25 points for the Greyhounds in Seymour. Brandon Kuczenski added 22 points and Mick Pernell chipped in with 12 points for Naugatuck (4-5).
Tyler Stevens scored a team-high 21 points for Seymour (0-8) and Mike Tuscano added 14.
Northwestern 77, Shepaug 18: Peter Persechino tallied a game-high 12 points as the Highlanders took down the Spartans in Winsted.
John Stevens and Ted Bremer both scored 10 points while John Lippincott contributed nine points. Connor Guiheen and Kyle Gain both notched eight points for Northwestern (7-0).
Sam Krebs had six points and Spencer Ylagan five for Shepaug (2-5).
Thomaston 79, Housatonic 43: Drew Gagne collected a game-high 25 points, including a pair from beyond the arc, to lead the Golden Bears in Falls Village.
Alex Gagne scored 12 points while Tyler Donofrio finished with nine for Thomaston (4-3).
Chance O'Niel had 20 points while Jeremy Stiewing knocked in 14 for Housatonic (0-6).
Terryville 63, Wamogo 32: Tyler Trillo registered a game-high 23 points as the Kangaroos took care of the Warriors at home..
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Nick Nemergut had 13 points while Mark Davis finished with eight for Wamogo (4-4).
Bunnell 88, Oxford 50: Matt Nolting had a game-high 24 points for the Bulldogs in Oxford.
Jason Mraz had a team-high 17 points with 10 rebounds and five blocks for Oxford (2-5), and Steven Mahoney had nine points.
Masuk 68, Pomperaug 56: Dom Migliaro scored a game-high 28 ponts for Masuk in Monroe. Lucien Fortier had 16 points and 13 rebounds for Pomperaug (2-4) and Nate Rubinstein added 15 points.
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The important thing is that a design pattern isn't intrinsic to a language; it's quite literally just a code pattern at which many developers have independently arrived. The design patterns that emerge in a particular language are considered the idiomatic, preferred way of solving certain kinds of problems.
Sure, there are countless MVC "frameworks" out there, but they're really just using MVC as a label for the underlying good practice—modularity and orthogonality between data model, presentation, and user interaction.
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Tautologically: in a more expressive language, it's easier to express yourself.
Design patterns (idioms) are usually a symptom of a programming languages short-commings. As languages improve, patterns will become intrinsic.
I don't think it's the language feature to offer design pattern, infact no language does that. Developers themselves design patterns and makes use of the language in that. MVC, MVP, MVVC are design patterns which can be applied to any language.
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7 Great Foods (That Were Created Thanks to Dick Moves)
#3. Rhubarb
Your average, ordinary rhubarb has been around since 2700 BC, and for a time it was widely sought on account of its supposedly magical healing abilities. When someone started growing it in England in the 1500s, though, it tanked almost immediately thanks to a noticeable lack of magical healing powers, improperly planted strains, and just general non-tastiness. Basically, it was the 16th century version of Crystal Pepsi.
Imagine this, but a vegetable and somehow worse-tasting.
By the time the 1800s rolled around, the rhubarb was totally unpopular and on its way out. One of the few places in Britain where they were still being grown was the Chelsea Physic Garden. One day a bunch of laborers were digging an irrigation trench to water the plants; unfortunately, the direction of the planned ditch crossed paths with the rhubarb patch. Since they were sensible workman who didn't want to destroy the gardens, they checked with their supervisor and then altered the trench so it went around the rhubarbs. Nah, just kidding. They plowed right through the fuckers.
"Fuck it."
Even if they thought initially that the rhubarb leaves were just weeds, they must have realized at some point that they were digging up vegetables instead of daffodils. This didn't stop them from completely covering the entire rhubarb patch with dirt and leaves.
What's more, they didn't even get called out on it since the head gardener only noticed weeks later that part of his garden had been totally obliterated. When he brushed off the rubble, he noticed that the rhubarbs looked way more tender and delicious; when he tasted one, he found that its flavor had improved tenfold. This process of "forcing" rhubarbs by covering them from sunlight also allowed them to be grown out of season; the combination of tasty food and the ability to eat it whenever you wanted created a popularity explosion for the rhubarb.
Prairie Home Companion is just an arm of the powerful Rhubarb Cartel.
#2. French Dip Sandwich
The French Dip Sandwich sprung into existence in Los Angeles somewhere in the early 1900s. However, there are two mutually independent stories of exactly where, when, and how it came about; fortunately (well, fortunately for this article), they both deal with dick moves.
The first story is that in 1918, a chef in popular LA diner "Philippe the Original" was making a sandwich for one of his regular customers. He somehow managed to drop the entire thing into a vat of beef broth, an impressive feat of butterfingery considering that the sandwich he was making involved no broth whatsoever.
Next, on Cooking with Quaaludes.
After he fished it out, the sandwich had gotten incredibly soggy and was ruined, and clearly the only reasonable option was to apologize to the customer and make a new sandwich. But since you've read this far, you've probably already figured out that he just served it up anyway.
"Fuck it."
What you almost definitely didn't know was that the customer in question was a cop (who presumably could have called in a whole bunch of health inspectors), making this the equivalent of sending a computer virus to your IT guy: it could have intentionally pissed off the one guy who could shut you down for good. Thankfully the cop liked extra beef sauce with his beef sandwich, no one got shut down and the dish became a regular on the menu.
The second origin story takes place in 1908 in competing LA eatery "Cole's Diner." Cole's mainly served (surprise!) sandwiches, but the main difference between Cole's and Philippe was that the bread at Cole's was about as soft as a diamond-studded brick. The older patrons of Cole's simply couldn't chew the bread-shaped rocks, and eventually one of them complained to the head chef that his bread was pretty much inedible.
"Seriously, you can kill a man with it."
Now, he could have gone back to the kitchen and learned how to make sandwiches that didn't break your teeth if you even looked at them the wrong way, but that would simply involve too much effort. So he dunked the sandwich in some beef broth and handed the soggy mess back to the whiny old man in order to make him shut up for a bit. Not only did he shut up, he scarfed the entire thing down and asked for more, and a tradition was (possibly) born.
And what a wonderful looking tradition it was.
Regardless of who's right, this proves what we've said for years: there's no problem that can't be solved with the addition of beef.
#1. Worcestershire Sauce
Back in 1835, the British still ruled India and had started to realize that Indian cuisine was a damn sight better than spotted dick, toad-in-the-hole, or any of Britain's other terrible, terrible, native dishes.
What the hell, guys?
So when the ex-Governor of Bengal, Lord Marcus Sandys, returned home to Worcestershire, he started missing good food almost immediately. In order to fill the curry-shaped hole in his soul, he commissioned two pharmacists by the names of John Lea and William Perrins to make a recipe he had acquired in his two-year stay. Lea and Perrins gamely tried to figure out the weird foreign concoction Sandys wanted, and eventually wound up with an odd-looking, strange-smelling sauce.
It's a good idea to view any addition to British cuisine with extreme suspicion.
They looked at each other, shrugged, held their noses, and tasted a couple drops...and yeah, it tasted about as good as it smelled-namely, awful. They couldn't possibly give the sauce to Lord Sandys (unless they wanted to be arrested for intentional food poisoning) and there was really only one possible course of action: throw out the evil-tasting slime.
But we don't want to belabor the whole "British cooking" bit.
But apparently the walk from the pharmacy to the garbage can was simply too far, because Lea and Perrins decided to just chuck the jars in their cellar and employ the tried-and-true "we'll deal with it later" method of problem solving. In this case, later turned out to be two years, when they stumbled upon the sauce again. And since they were apparently in a 19th century version of Jackass, they decided to taste it again... and this time, it was delicious. Lea and Perrins quickly set up a company, unimaginatively titled Lea & Perrins, to sell their new Worcestershire Sauce.
Are you noticing a theme in this article? If you find an unknown and possibly dangerous substance, don't throw it out without shoving a little in your mouth first. If you survive, riches could await!
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Mitt Romney says coal country is his country. He's wrong. It's our country.
I'm a third-generation coal miner from the small town of Nemacolin in the mountains of Southwest Pennsylvania, not too far from here.
From my parents and grandparents and my friends and neighbors, I learned the nature of hard work, of creating value out of a hole in the ground. I learned that actions have consequences, that my word must be my bond. As a miner myself, I learned that mines are inherently dangerous. I also understand that miners will always protect the safety of our coworkers, and owners will too often put profits first.
Let me tell you, Mitt Romney doesn't know a thing about hard work or responsibility, and he sure doesn't know anything about mining coal.
I'll never forget the day I told my father I landed a job in the mines. He was angry with me. He said if I went down there once, the coal would creep down into my soul, and I'd never get it out.
Back then, I didn't understand why he was mad. But now I do. My father died from black lung. And now I understand, too, that he worked that job to give me a better life. I did the same for my son. It's the same thing that millions of us do, every day, as we work hard to make a better life for our kids.
There are a lot of tough jobs in this country, and if I know one thing it's that Americans know how to work, how to create value - not by investing money or gaming the system, but by using our skills, our knowledge and our own two hands.
Mitt Romney got rich by making America poor. And he doesn't support safety regulations for coal mines. He doesn't honor the rights of working people on the job.
He wants fewer firefighters, police officers and teachers.
Romney may put on a good show, parading through our towns, but we've seen how much he respects us when he's behind closed doors - his job, as he sees it, is not to concern himself with the "47 percent" - that is, retirees, those in military uniform or hard-working people whose low pay makes them eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Romney said, "Let Detroit go bankrupt."
Romney's investment company led the way outsourcing good jobs to China.
Romney wants to voucherize Medicare and privatize Social Security.
Today Romney says he'll be a coal president? Well, he's also anti-coal. Not too long ago, he stood in front of a coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts and said "coal kills people." He said he'd never support the coal industry.
While he was governor, Massachusetts sued the EPA forcing them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through regulations that kill coal jobs.
Who is this guy?
Do you want to know what Mitt Romney is really like? It's not pretty. He'd sell out America in a heartbeat for a buck.
He's the same man whose company forced factory workers in northern Illinois to take down the American flag while training Chinese workers who would eventually take their jobs. Only when the Chinese workers left were those American workers allowed to raise our flag again.
Maybe Wall Street is OK with someone like that, but I wouldn't want that man anywhere near the White House.
The truth is, Mitt Romney's entire life has been one of entitlement and privilege. And now he believes he's entitled to becoming president. He thinks it's for sale.
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Support American jobs. Keep mines safe and miners alive. Don't forget to vote on Election Day.
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Palladino: Teams' tribute to Tirado highlight of great night
There have been thrilling overtime periods, buzzer-beating baskets and last-second game-winners. But after two remarkable games between the Crosby and Wilby boys basketball teams, the finest moment of all did not take place with the clock running.
Before game two Thursday, won by Crosby in overtime, 88-87, the Bulldogs and Wildcats stood arm-in-arm at midcourt for a moment of silence.
We have used these pages to talk about the death on Jan. 25 of former Wilby athletic director George Tirado, but words pale when compared to the singular image of two city basketball teams standing in tribute to friend, coach, educator and mentor.
Thursday, the Tirado family had the emotional funeral during the day, but later that evening more than 30 family and friends came to the Crosby Palace for a final tribute to George.
And Crosby did it well.
Athletic director Dave Ieronimo blocked off four rows of seating for the Tirado family. Both teams wore black socks with the letters GT, provided by Crosby coach Nick Augelli. And before the game, Augelli delivered an emotional address to a sold out gymnasium, saying, "George I know you are up there in Heaven looking down on us."
George saw one heck of a game. He saw his eight year-old grandson, Anthony, dressed in Wilby gear, going through the warm-up line with the Wildcats before each half. Anthony even took part in a ceremonial jump ball before the game.
"My wife said (Friday) morning that it was probably the worst day of Anthony's life, and the best, all on the same day," said George Tirado Jr. "It was an opportunity for him to see how other people appreciated his grandfather. I wish he was a little older so that he could grasp what was really going on."
Tirado praised both Wilby and Crosby, and the coaches, Alan Piccolo and Augelli, for "taking the time to honor my father and involve our family. I was thinking of my dad when I was taking pictures of all the players. These teams are rivals, but I loved how they were willing to embrace each other and respect each other. They battle, but they are respectful, and they shake hands, and they love each other. That is how the city should be."
If Waterburians are, indeed, like that on our best days, it is through the efforts of men like George Tirado, whose influence was seen in every facet of this remarkable evening that was filled with basketball, and with compassion.
We have now watched Crosby and Wilby play twice, before a total crowd of more than 2,500, and that is a conservative estimate. The series is tied 1-1. The combined score is 170 to 170.
But for all the thrills and drama, the most memorable moment may well be when players from both teams stood together at center court, arm in arm, heads bowed, and paid tribute to a man who was a friend to us all.
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jdviglione wrote on Feb 3, 2013 6:27 PM:
" Why is it that the only one with their hand over their heart during the national anthem is Tirado's 8 year old son? Shameful to say the very least! "
Richard Bellemare wrote on Feb 5, 2013 6:48 PM:
" I could not agree more with jdviglione. You'll also notice that the fans in the background are also inattentive to the National Anthem. Is this a measure of the intellect/mentality of basketball fans? -God help us. "
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Warsaw, Poland (CNN) -- European football's governing body took a tough line against soccer-related disorder Wednesday, as it imposed a penalty on Russia for "improper conduct" by its fans at the Euro 2012 tournament.
The ruling by UEFA relates to the opening game of the tournament in Wroclaw, Poland, on Friday.
Its officials are still considering what action to take over allegations of racist abuse by Russian fans at the same game, and violence before and after a Euro 2012 game in Warsaw on Tuesday.
Police detained 184 people after clashes broke out in the Polish capital before and after the Poland-Russia game, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
Interior Minister Jacek Cichocki told reporters that more arrests could come. "Police officers continue to watch recordings from CCTV and police cameras to identify other hooligans who disturbed public order," he said.
The suspended six-point deduction imposed on Russia by UEFA will apply to the qualifying campaign for the Euro 2016 tournament, rather than the current one.
Russia's national football body was also fined 120,000 euros ($150,000), UEFA said. It has three days to appeal the decision.
The penalty is in response to "crowd disturbances, the setting off and throwing of fireworks and the display of illicit banners," UEFA said.
"The ruling does not take into account the alleged racist abuse of Czech defender Theodor Gebre Selassie by Russia fans during the same game or incidents of crowd violence before the game against Poland on Monday. Both incidents are currently being investigated by UEFA and could result in further penalties being handed out."
Russian football expert James Appell told CNN the penalty showed UEFA was taking Russian fans' behavior "very, very seriously."
UEFA earlier condemned what it called "isolated incidents" before and after Tuesday's game in Warsaw "when some groups of known troublemakers pelted the police with missiles and attacked fans irrespective of the team they were supporting."
The body said its focus was to ensure that genuine football fans were able to enjoy the games peacefully, while isolating the handful who wanted to cause trouble. It is determined that the "overwhelmingly peaceful and festive atmosphere" that has so far prevailed will continue through the final on July 1, it said Wednesday.
Cichocki said Tuesday's violence had been the biggest public order challenge so far of the tournament -- which Poland is co-hosting with Ukraine -- but he praised police efforts.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed those who tried to disrupt the match as "fools," according to public broadcaster Polish Radio's press agency.
Law enforcement officials will be ruthless in suppressing the kind of "limited" trouble seen so far, he is quoted as saying.
Joanna Mucha, Poland's sports minister, told reporters she was appalled by the violence in Warsaw.
"I feel ashamed for those who came not to enjoy sport, but to cause trouble," she said. "They are hooligans, they aren't even fans -- certainly not fans wanting to support Poland. They will face charges and we will not let them ruin this celebration for us."
Russian supporters had organized a march through Warsaw before the match Tuesday evening to mark Russia's June 12 national day.
Euro 2012 soccer live blog on CNN.com
Former Polish striker condemns racism
The disorder broke out as about 5,000 Russian fans reached Warsaw's Poniatowski Bridge, on their way to the National Stadium, the Interior Ministry said in a statement, with "hooligans" from both sides seeking to start a fight.
More than 5,600 police officers were on duty in Warsaw, and riot police took "decisive" action to stop the violence from escalating, it said. Ten police officers were injured in the violence and received medical treatment.
The 184 suspects detained include more than 150 Poles, more than 20 Russians, a Hungarian, a Spaniard and a citizen of Algeria, the statement said. Some of those arrested had dangerous objects with them, including brass knuckles and clubs, as well as mouth guards.
Those responsible for violence can expect swift justice, the Interior Ministry statement said.
"The hooligans will be sentenced by the end of the week. In the case of foreigners involved in the incidents, speeded-up penal proceedings will be instituted," it said.
Those from outside the European Union's Schengen passport-free area will be deported and will receive a ban on entry to the European Union, the statement said. Their visas will also be withdrawn.
Polish journalist Michal Pol, who was there when the clashes on the bridge broke out, told CNN that the Russian supporters had been moving peacefully toward the stadium when "very aggressive Polish hooligans" provoked them.
Then, out of the middle of the Russian fans, came a number of "hooded and very well trained young guys who knew exactly who they wanted to fight" among the Poles, he said.
Russian media focused on the role of Polish fans and police in their reports Wednesday.
A headline on state news agency Itar-Tass reads, "Russian Football Union hopes Polish police will defend guests."
The president of the Russian Football Union, Sergei Fursenko, is quoted as saying that "well-trained groups attacked the Russian fans," who he says were behaving perfectly correctly and should have been protected by Polish authorities.
However, Appell, the football analyst, said Russia has a poor track record when it comes to soccer-related violence.
Questions should be asked about why 5,000 of its fans were allowed to march through Warsaw in what could be considered a provocative act, given the long and troubled history between Russia and Poland, he said.
However, when Russia hosts the 2018 World Cup, it is likely to organize it to a "micro level," he said, in order to avoid similar issues with fan violence.
Russian state-run broadcaster RT reported that Polish police fired warning shots and used water cannons and tear gas as they sought to break up the clashes in Warsaw.
Mikolaj Piotrowski, director of communications for Poland 2012, told CNN he felt "anger and shame" that a small group of "hooligans" were trying to spoil the tournament for Poland's 37 million citizens and their visitors.
"I was really, really angry but we must be aware of the scale -- almost 200 persons were taken under custody by Polish police and at the same time, almost 200,000 people were having fun here in Warsaw," he said.
He defended the policing of the game, saying officers did a good job in closing down the disorder when it kicked off, and said Poland would continue its "zero tolerance" policy on fan violence through Euro 2012 and beyond.
Everyone is determined there will be no repeat of the violence seen Tuesday, he said.
Authorities stress that the vast majority of football fans in Ukraine and Poland have supported their sides peacefully.
In the course of Tuesday, about 150,000 fans visited the Warsaw "fan zone," an area away from the stadium where games are shown on big screens for those without tickets, Poland's Interior Ministry said.
Tens of thousands of more fans watched the Greece-Czech Republic game, played in Wroclaw, from that city's stadium and fan zone, it said.
Altogether, more than a million supporters have flocked to stadiums and fan zones in Poland since Euro 2012 kicked off Friday, it said.
However, Russian officials had already called for better behavior from the country's supporters after the unrest during Friday's opening 4-1 win against the Czech Republic team.
"Those who choose the sports arena for the declaration of their personal political and other positions have no place in the stands," read a statement on the Russian Football Union's website Monday.
"The Russian Football Union and the national team of Russia kindly request all the fans of these provocative actions to confront bullies and to cooperate fully with the organizers of the match in matters of security.
"We appeal to all fans who are in Poland. Remember that you represent your country. Respect yourself, your home and your team."
CNN's Claudia Rebaza, Harry Reekie, Laura Smith-Spark, Stephanie Halasz and Pedro Pinto contributed to this report.


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FALLS VILLAGE — When Gib Lassen was in seventh grade in 1974, he moved with his mother to the farm in Lakeville run by her new husband. Even though Lassen was used to the farming life in Cheshire, where he'd lived since birth, the Northwest Corner was a bit of culture shock for him.
"I liked the outdoors," said Lassen, "but, my god, the closest McDonald's (at the time) was 60 minutes away. That was something else."
But if he was uncertain at first about the change of scenery, they were clearly happy to have Lassen, already a rugged 6-footer, at Salisbury Central School. He joined the basketball team, which won the season-ending tournament between the six Region 1 grade schools.
And that was just a prelude to his years at Housatonic, where he finished as the school's all-time leading scorer (1,226 points) while also setting records for points in a game (47 vs. Gilbert), points in a single season (560) and single-season scoring average (25.5 ppg.).
And he probably did it on less sleep than any other player in the Berkshire League.
"He'd get up at 5 in the morning to do his farm chores, then come to school, go to practice, get home at 7, and he had more chores to do when he got home," remembered his coach, Bob Gutzman. "He did that every day and he never complained."
At 6-foot-3, Lassen was a workhorse on the farm and on the glass, ranking third all-time at Housy with 639 career rebounds. On offense, though, Lassen roamed far from the basket. Most of his points came from long range.
"He was far and away the best shooter I've ever coached," said Gutzman. "And he had no conscience, like all great shooters. It's too bad the 3-point line wasn't around because he would've tripled his points."
Two scoring binges stand out. Against Gilbert as a junior in 1979, he scored 47 points. At halftime, someone told Lassen he already had 30 points, so in the second half he decided to start passing. "I felt I was a team player," Lassen recalled with a grin. "Now I wish I had shot more."
He made two foul shots with 22 seconds left to eclipse Frank Hadsell's previous school mark of 45. Lassen finished 20-of-25 from the floor, 7-of-8 from the line, and also had 15 rebounds in a 99-85 win.
The other memorable night came in the 1979 state tournament, when he matched up against Litchfield's Dave Vigeant in a Class S regional semifinal. Lassen poured in 33 points, but Vigeant bettered that total with 35 and the Cowboys won, 88-81.
"We always seemed to be on the other side of the fence against that team," said Gutzman. "Gib was in a good zone that night. That was the closest we ever came to beating Litchfield."
The Mountaineers had a better team in 1979-80, even though Lassen's senior year was slowed early on by a hand injury. In the state tournament, they were up five on Lewis Mills with 1:31 left. But Mills rallied and Housy lost on a buzzer basket, 63-61, to finish 15-9. Lassen averaged 20.6 ppg. and was a first-team All-BL pick for the second straight season.
After high school, Lassen came back to Cheshire and worked in his family's dairy business for 20 years until it was sold. Now 51, he works as a carpenter and still resides in Cheshire.
Golf has replaced basketball as his game of choice. His son, Gil, won the Republican-American City Championship last summer, and Lassen himself was runner-up in the R-A first flight in 2011.
He thinks back fondly on his basketball career, but is not unhappy his farming days are behind him. "I don't miss it," he said, again with a grin. "Now I sleep in until 8."
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Bowling Green's city commission plans to sign an agreement with Mandalay entertainment to study the prospects of a minor league team in town.
The feasibility study will survey the public's interest in supporting a minor league team, and put hard dollar figures on who would pay what for a downtown stadium complex.
Mandalay's efforts come on the heels of the "Play Ball 'o5" committee that sold hundreds of season ticket packages but has been unable to raise the funding needed to buy land and build a ballpark.
City commissioner Brian "Slim" Nash says the agreement doesn't mean the city is sold on the idea of a minor league team, but it will give city leaders some hard numbers without costing taxpayers any money.
"Until all the answers have come in, it's very difficult to say whether it's a good idea or not a good idea for Bowling Green. It's an exciting prospect, in my opinion, if it's something we can afford to do because it will spur redevelopment downtown," said Nash.
The study's results will be presented to the commission in the fall.
Their agreement with Mandalay Entertainment also gives Mandalay the right to match any competitors offers for developing a ballpark.


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Fort Campbell's hospital will be cutting a popular medication service and reducing hours at its pharmacy as the hospital prepares for looming military budget cuts.
Blanchfield Army Community Hospital said in a news release on Wednesday that to meet mandatory budget reductions, they had to make changes to extra services that were previously provided to soldiers and their families.
One popular program that is being cut is a self-care program that allowed patients to get free over-the-counter medications, like cold and flu medications or aspirin, from pharmacies at the hospital. Effective immediately, those medications will have to be purchased at local drug stores.
The main hospital pharmacy will also close one hour early at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. starting next week.


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Hi Prakash,
Do i need MPI runtime environment for sure to ue those perl modules??
Cant i use some other clustring software.?
Where can i get MPI::Simple??
>My users use Parallel::MPI and MPI::Simple perl modules consistently
>without issues. But I am not sure of the support for MPI-2 standard with
>either of these modules. Is there someone here that can answer that
>question too? Also those modules seem to work only with MPICH now and
>not the other MPI distributions.
Prakash Velayutham <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Renato Golin wrote:
> On 9/13/06, imran shaik
>> I need to run parallel jobs on a cluster typically of size 600 nodes and
>> running SGE, but the programmers are good at perl but not C or C++. So i
>> thought of MPI, but i dont know whether it has perl support?
> Hi Imran,
> SGE will dispatch process among the nodes of your cluster but it does
> not support interprocess communication, which MPI does. If your
> problem is easily splittable (like parse a large apache log, read a
> large xml list of things) you might be able to split the data and
> spawn as many process as you can.
> I do it using LSF (another dispatcher) and a Makefile that controls
> the dependencies and spawn the processes (using make's -j flag) and it
> works quite well. But if your job need the communication (like
> processing big matrices, collecting and distributing data among
> processes etc) you'll need an interprocess communication and that's
> what MPI is best at.
> In a nutshell, you'll need the runtime environment to run MPI programs
> as well as you need SGE's runtime environments on every node to
> dispatch jobs and collect information.
> About MPI bindings for Perl, there's this module:
> http://search.cpan.org/~josh/Parallel-MPI-0.03/MPI.pm
> but it's far too young to be trustworthy, IMHO, and you'll probably
> need the MPI runtime on all nodes as well...
> cheers,
> --renato
My users use Parallel::MPI and MPI::Simple perl modules consistently
without issues. But I am not sure of the support for MPI-2 standard with
either of these modules. Is there someone here that can answer that
question too? Also those modules seem to work only with MPICH now and
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F-Zero SNES for Wii U Virtual Console for $0.30 + free shipping
Special offer from Nintendo - not a typo - for this racing title from the 16bit Super Nintendo (SNES) as a virtual console title for Wii U only. Same title for original Wii remains at 800 Nintendo points ($8).
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Loved this game!
One of my all-time favorites back in the day!
As someone who owns a PS3, Gaming PC, Vita, xbox360, wii, 3DS, and Wii U, i can honestly say that the wii u is going to have one of the most promising futures for gamers. I love gaming the wii U is the best machine I own, and will probably be my favorite "NextGen" with which ever other console I will buy next... Maybe even both, after like 5 years, assuming they can play used games, as that is the only way I can even afford games lol,
In all seriousness, there something about the game pad that just makes the console so fresh, and MiiVerse really puts a fun spin on having a new console, I haven't been this excited since I got my gaming pc, (Starcraft 2). Soo anyways, if this deal doesn't show you why Nintendo also loves gamers, and treats their fans well, then let me tell you, Buy a Wii U and get this deal!
0.30 cents?! You can't even super size for that! And this is WAYY more fun!
@uclabru1: I own all also and I have to disagree with you. I think it will do decent this year but when the PS4, Xbox 720, and Steam Box come out I think it will be completely ignored by most people. Now if it would have come out about 3 years earlier then maybe.
@segafanalways: I completely disagree with your assertion. There's becoming less and less reason to buy the Sony and Microsoft consoles, and this upcoming generation makes that even more clear.
A very strong majority of Sony and Microsoft "exclusives" show up on PC. A dominant majority of Nintendo exclusives do not.
Paying to access services they already pay for has caused a growing uproar with Live Gold members.
"Streaming" backward compatibility that we may or may not have to purchase a second time is not going to sit well with many PS3 owners who thought digital purchases would be accessible forever. What is the incentive for gamers moving to digital game purchases if they're going to cost the same as physical media AND they won't carry over to future consoles?
I don't suppose this is usable on the standard Wii Virtual Console?
@sezyrrith: It does not apply to the standard Wii version. Regular Wii version for FZero is still 800 nintendo points ($8).
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"The universe hands you things and says run with it," Moore says.
Brandon Bradshaw's father, Troy Bradshaw, posted on Christian Family Radio's Facebook page that Brandon suffered a brain injury, due to a loss of oxygen.
He says the next 48 hours are critical to determine whether Brandon will recover, and he says Brandon has shown no improvement.
As the youth theater educator at SKyPAC, several say Brandon Bradshaw is a kid at heart.
"He inspires kids throughout the region through theater," says Andee Rudloff, SKyPAC Education and Visual Arts Director.
"They love him. He'll go some place and all the kids will just flock to him," Fountain Square Players Board Member, Rick White says.
Two weeks ago Brandon started casting kids and teens for the latest performance "Bridge to Terabithia."
Kelli Murphy's daughter, Abby, would get the lead role.
"He knew that this was her first big deal. When he made the cast list he contacted me before posting because he knew that this was a big thing for her and we were talking about different ways to tell her," she says.
Brandon surprised Abby with her big role by showing up at a local take-out restaurant, and it was a day she would never forget.
Now, someone else will fill Brandon's shoes.
"We were on the phone pretty much most of last night trying to figure out what could be done. So, I will direct the performance," says Fountain Square Players President, Jeff Moore.
The Bowling Green youth theater community is missing their mentor.
"I pray everytime I'm in class, just trying not to break down in tears," says 17-year-old, Will Parker Carter.
"The universe hands you things and says run with it," Moore says.
Moore says he will try to portray "Bridge to Terabitha" the way Brandon would have.
The theater community hopes Brandon will be in attendance during a "Bridge to Terabithia" performance.


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I heard a lot of rumors about Portal series and Half-Life series plots relation but I didn't found any link.
Can you describe which relations exists between this two stories?
I heard a lot of rumors about Portal series and Half-Life series plots relation but I didn't found any link.
Can you describe which relations exists between this two stories?
Aperture Science (which is the firm that developed the Portal gun) is in direct competition with Black Mesa (which is the firm for which Gordon Freeman worked) for military contracts
See the section Other facts on this link
EDIT: Here's an excellent guide on Half Life: http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/
This site is not official but it's a great analysis IMO.
This page has a timeline of the rivalry between Black Mesa and Aperture Science
In HL2 Ep 2, You are told about an aperture ship called Borealis, it is suggested that this ship will appear in episode 3.
So both games take place in the same universe, and Valve seem to be intertwining the two stories. There has also been rumour of a portal gun appearing in episode 3
In Portal 2, when Chell gets out at the end, it shows the outside for a brief moment and it almost looks like this must take place after the Half Life saga and after the Apocalypse. There is nothing but the Aperture Science lab, so i think Aperture Science must be the Combine's; if it wasn't, they would have destroyed it, right?
At the end of Half-Life ep 2 the borialis has a cargo contaner thith th aperture logo on it I replayed the game and saw it again also near the end they reply to go to th borialis
I found something extremly cool! One day i went on the internet and then went on YouTube, i wached a videa about Cell and the fan made theres about her and even though i have played Portal 2 it was the first time i saw the picture of caroline. The next day i bought Half Life 2 Ep 1 and 2 and saw the video clip of the ship that was apertures ship and i was stunned that and looked for news for Ep 3 adn then i hade a brainstorm...
Search for "Family Picture half Life 2" and "Caroline portal 2"
See anything alike?


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Imaging I am running a mail server, e.g. exim4 (or a database, a syslog daemon...). Now, while updating this package I would assume the application has to be stopped or at least restarted after update. If one would send an email during this time, it would fail. Is this case considered during updates, are there any countermeasures taken or is it up to a software sending mails to send the mail again later?
Normally it's up to the software sending an email to queue it up until the service becomes available. When the server is inaccessible there are multiple possible causes which means that the software sending i.e. connecting to the server has to have mechanisms to reconnect and retry the transaction(s).
On top of this I would have to ask for the logic of why are you upgrading any piece of software on your system if you know that you can't take downtime? You are downloading(?), unpacking(?) and replacing executables and possibly shared libraries for this particular piece of software, which could fail leaving you with an unusable system, so if you can't take downtime on it why are you doing this?
There is software that can be updated without downtime. Therefor the software has to be capable to run both versions - the new and the old one - at the same time. During the update the old version still serves the clients connecting to it. After the update the new version takes over control and handles new clients. The old version is shutted down after the last client disconnects from it and then can be removed (or stay in the background as fallback mode if the new version does not work right and there are mechanisms for graceful degradation implemented.) But those mechanisms are implemented in very few use cases.
Otherwise jordanm is right with his comment about redundancy.
It depends entirely on the capabilities of the software and on the package's install/update scripts.
Some programs will keep on working as normal during an upgrade and will only need a restart when the upgrade is completed....and, usually, package maintainers take advantage of that fact with their packaging scripts.
(I usually report it as a bug when I see a package being unnecessarily stopped during upgrade as this can lead to extremely long outages on, e.g., an
Other programs are not so forgiving of their environment changing while they're still running and need to be stopped during the upgrade process. Again, this is usually handled automatically by the package-maintainer's scripts.
In both cases, it is the package maintainer's job to know the software they are packaging well enough to take the most appropriate action.
Most MTAs operate by dropping emails in a queue directory, then picking up the queued files and sending them when possible. During an MTA upgrade, the daemon that sends the emails will be stopped for a short time, but if a client program sends an email, it will still be queued for processing when the daemon restarts.
In the other direction, if another server tries to contact this server and gets no answer because of the ongoing upgrade, the other server will queue the email and retry after a short interval. Email delivery is designed to be highly reliable (though it isn't as reliable as it used to be, to a large part because of the weight of spam and spam countermeasures).
For other kinds of software, there might be a small downtime while the daemon is being restarted. Such downtime is generally handled by having multiple server machines and balancing connections between them. Such redundancy is necessary for high-availability systems anyway (hardware failures can always happen).


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Fallarbor Town (Japanese: ハジツゲタウン Hajitsuge Town) is a small town located in northern Hoenn. A Contest Hall is located here, which is replaced by a Battle Tent in Pokémon Emerald.
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in our lectures we have seen the following:
Let $(M, J)$ be a complex manifold, i.e., $J$ is an integrable almost complex structure. Then a real vector field $X$ is an infinitesimal automorphism of $J$ if and only if its component $X^{1,0}\in \Gamma(T^{1,0}M)$ is holomorphic.
Now let $(M, J)$ be an almost complex manifold and $X \in \chi(M)$ be an infinitesimal automorphism of $J$, i.e., $[X, JY]=J[X, Y]$ for all $Y \in \chi(M)$.
Can we then conclude that the mapping $X^{1,0}f$ with $X^{1,0}:=\frac{1}{2}(X-iJX)$ is pseudoholomorphic for every pseudoholomorphic mapping $f: M \to \mathbb{C}$?
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5 Ways to Avoid Your Terrible Parents' Mistakes
Many of you who don't yet have kids are avoiding it out of a sense that you're not ready. After all, what do you when your kid tries to set the cat on fire with a lighter and a can of bug spray? What do you say when your son stumbles across your porn? How do you know you're not handling it in a way that will screw your kid up for life?
Well, most of you will use your own parents as a guide -- you'll raise your kids the way you were raised. But that's not so easy for some of us.
I grew up in two abusive households, one with a neglectful mother who would spend her days sleeping off a hangover. The other was spent with my dad, who was drunk, violent and had some pretty severe mental problems, which he treated with the, "doctors are for pussies, get me a beer" method. So, for example, when Dad decided it was time to teach us about sex, he didn't want to have an actual conversation about it, so he put in an instructional video. And by instructional video, I mean one of his hardcore porn VHS tapes.
In the middle of it, my grandma decided to pay us a visit, walked in without knocking and went absolutely apeshit. My brother and I later had to hear her explanation of what a homosexual was after my dad yelled at her his defense of, "Well, what the fuck do you want me to do? You want them to grow up to be a couple of queers?!" I was six. My brother was five.
But more on that in a moment. My point is everything I knew about parenting, I learned from these two fuckups. So where do people like me turn when we have questions? Well first of all ...
#5. Remember What Dad Did, Then Don't Fucking Do It
If you didn't grow up in a bad situation, you surely know at least one kid who did. His dad was probably also abused as a kid, and so on. What you may be wondering is how, when these people remember how horrible their own childhood was, they can then inflict the same on their own kids?
It's because growing up in that situation changes your concept of what's normal. You're a kid, you don't think of fists and violent threats as "abuse." You think of it as "life." You have nothing to compare it to. Even as you grow up and realize that other people don't live this way, you still have it programmed into you at some primal level.
I always assumed he was getting beaten during the commercials
So when one of my kids does something that trips my temper, there is this quick and insane urge to grab him by the shirt, pin him against the wall, and put the fear of God into him so he never messes up like that again. And I have to stop that shit before it starts.
Remember when you were learning to ride a bike, and you hadn't quite mastered the brakes? And you're speeding down the street when suddenly a tree jumps out in front of you, and before you can remember how to stop, BAM! It hurt like a motherfucker and you considered not getting back on, for fear that it would unleash another attempt at child murder. But sooner or later, you got back on, and your fear of hitting that tree again made you instantly know where those brakes were and how to operate them.
That is, you can use fear. Not to keep the kids in line, but to keep yourself in line. In that split second I remember the absolute fucking terror that shot through my body when I was that age, that utterly horrifying, sickening feeling of raw fear when I knew what was coming... and I stop. I suddenly remember where the brakes are.
If you can do that, then congratulations, fellow parent who had shitty parents. You've graduated from "destined for jail" to "now what? Where do I go to find out how to do it right?"
#4. The Internet
You wouldn't think you could just Google around for how to raise a child the same way you'd troubleshoot video card driver conflicts, but believe it or not the internet does in fact have a few rare places with a very good ratio of good advice to absolute goddamned morons. Places like parenting.org which have straight up articles about the simple how-to of being a normal dad. There are also countless online support groups that you can pick and choose as you please with a simple Google search.
Those communities helped me in a pretty bizarre way. I found myself in one forum around people who went through pretty much the same nasty shit that I did, so there was one section in particular where the members could just voice their old war stories. It always turned into the same thing. "You think that's bad? My dad set my legs on fire for my eleventh birthday!" "Oh yeah? Well to celebrate the New Year, my dad broke my entire head off and used it as a beer huggie!"
Just carry one of these into those conversations. They'll end up needing it.
It was in one of these threads that I brought up my dad's porno Sex Ed story from earlier. I had always told that as a goofy, funny story about Dad, but hadn't until then realized that in most of civilized society, forcing kids to watch triple penetration porn is considered a form of sexual abuse.
To be clear, it's not that I would have otherwise shown my own kids XXX pornography when it came time to have the talk ("Here comes your passage into manhood, boys. Let's get right to the lesbian scenes"). It's that you still walk around with that skewed idea of what's normal, so having a place where you can hide behind a fake name and compare stories really opens your eyes.
Still, nothing compares to talking to a real-life parenting expert, right? That's why many suggested ...
#3. Parenting Classes
I tried this, despite the cost and the fact that they make you wear pants. On your legs.
I found myself in a room full of middle class white people who had such urgent questions as, "My daughter is only eight, but she really wants a cellphone. Is it too early for her to have one?" and "My son complains about his allowance, what's a fair amount to give him?" It was at this point that I realized I was not going to hear someone asking, say, what type of porn was best to teach their kids about sex ("Or should I just make one so I know the content is to my standards?") I suppose the parents who would consider doing that wouldn't have their shit together enough to go to a parenting class.
At one point, we were going around the room, talking about things that our own parents did that accidentally taught the wrong lessons. They were all telling these boring stories that seemed like pretty much nothing, so when it came to me, I searched through my childhood and tried to do the same.
That's when the turkey story popped into my head.
I told them about the time my dad and uncle drove around in the country at three in the morning, drinking straight vodka and looking for a specific turkey farm that they knew left the barn doors unlocked at night. When they found it, my uncle manned the getaway car while dad snuck up to the barn with a sawed off baseball bat (always in the trunk, in the event of a bar fight). He opened the door, clubbed the biggest turkey within reach, and ran back to the car with it by its feet, flinging the bleeding, limp carcass into the back seat. He told us how he and my uncle gutted it, skinned it, and cooked it over an open fire out in the middle of nowhere.
When dad told the story, he always laughed his ass off, saying, "Man, when I opened that door, every turkey head in that barn turned right towards me. It's like they knew what was coming. And I tell you what, that was the best damn turkey I ever ate."
That was the last time I went to that class. When it comes to sharing amusing Dad stories, there really is something to be said about internet anonymity.


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The Top 10 Secret Celebrity Scientologists
Best Known For: The shrill, but perplexingly attractive wife of human-sized sandwich receptacle Kevin James on King of Queens.
Why You Wouldn't Expect Her To Be a Scientologist: Having watched King of Queens, we're more than a little surprised that they actually wanted her. You can almost picture her at some Scientologist retreat, nagging away at John Travolta for fucking up his tone scale.
That said, she's earned her Hubbard stripes, having been a vocal supporter of Scientology in the past. Remini gave the Church of Scientology a loving, 40-minute tongue-bath when she appeared on Janeane Garafolo' short-lived Air America show Majority Report to plug some manner of Scientology-endorsed "detoxification cure" nonsense. More surprising: that airwaves could handle that much brittle, sarcastic estrogen occupying the same space and not implode like a black hole.
Connections: According to Remini, she was the first person to have seen Suri Cruise in person, even though she's never been known to be on even "nodding acquaintance" terms with Tom or Katie. She did not comment about whether Tom Cruise has since eaten the baby.
Presumed Operatng Thetan Level: Three or Four (is able to regulate her "meat body" for thetans, and can rid self of the "effects of drugs on the spirit")


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LAMPASAS (December 3, 2012)—The search continues for a man described as armed and dangerous who's wanted in connection with a car theft in Lampasas County.
The man fled on foot Sunday after a chase that started in Burnet and ended in a crash south of Lampasas.
The man is wanted in connection with the theft of a 2004 Thunderbird convertible over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend from a residence in Lampasas County where he was staying.
The chase started late Sunday morning after a Burnet officer checking on a report of a reckless diver tried to pull over the car in which the man and a woman were riding.
The driver sped off, but the car ended up crashing on Highway 281 south of Lampasas.
The woman stayed in the car and was taken into custody, but the man ran into a wooded area.
Police searched for him until dark Sunday.
A records check showed that the car was the same one stolen late last month.


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Día de los Muertos
Meet Morty, our yarn version of a Día de los Muertos sugar skull! He will be featured in this week's issue of KnitBits as we wrap up our Global Gifting series. I made Morty with about a dozen paper clips and the Ultra Alpaca left overs from my Sarape Shopper. There was no knitting involved and I expect that it would be a totally manageable fine motor skills activity for kids ages 6+ (adult supervision, please).
First, gather your supplies:
Assemble the bod, using a chain of paper clips:
Then start wrapping!
At the head, wrap halfway up the paper clip and then bend it in half.
Wrap as you would to make a yarn ball, turning to make sure it's building up into a nice even sphere.
Finish your doll with some 'bone' embroidery using stem stitch or running stitch. Norah assured me that my clumsy needlework was 'folksy' and 'authentic'…I'm going to go with that! Secure a knot at the back of the doll:
Then do your best stitchin':
You might want to bend the exposed edges of the paper clips slightly so that the wrapped yarn doesn't slip off. You can use your Morty doll as a charm on a bag or as a pendant. He's awfully jangly so I think I'll turn mine into a marionette puppet!
Carole #
Super! These will go with my knitted spiders and pumpkins! Thank you for a great idea. Morty would be great on the carry-all bag as well!October 31, 2008
Deborah MacDonald #
I think this would be nice to make just as an ordinary doll. The kids would enjoy making a whole family!!October 31, 2008
Katrina #
What a great cute and quick project. Thanks!October 31, 2008
knittaphantom #
Arrgh, really my kind'a guy. Usefull idea indeed.October 31, 2008
debbie #
this is so cool my grandkids will love thisNovember 2, 2008
Donna #
Was wondering if anyone knew what the global gifting would be for Peru?February 5, 2009
Paula Zeszotarski #
I made some of these last year with a few variations. I made the "skull" in white yarn and used six-strand embroidery thread to make a crown of rosettes (triple french knots) and leaves (petal stitch).
This year, I'll be making some all white "mummies" with my god son and niece.October 7, 2009


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Not-so-rare sighting of a common loon
|A common loon. Credit: Contributed
I think that's why the common loon is such a well-known bird among the general public here in the Nutmeg State, even though it doesn't breed within our borders. People from all over our state have heard its haunting calls while enjoying a summer respite on the wooded lakes to our north.
There's nothing quite like the yodeling of a common loon, but I'm partial to another way of enjoying their presence. During migration, both spring and fall, they fly across Connecticut enroute to wintering sites in saltwater.
Common loons, and the smaller red-throated loons as well, can be found during winter in good numbers along our coast, and I enjoy watching them get there.
On my Monday hawk-watch vigil at Ligthouse Point in New Haven, I saw several undertaking their daytime migration.
They flew over the point, heading toward Long Island Sound or maybe the open Atlantic beyond.
Loons are easy to identify in flight. They move directly, displaying an inelegant posture. Legs and large, paddle-like feet protrude from behind, and the head and neck are held at a slightly downward angle that gives them a stoop-shouldered appearance.
At this time of year common loons have molted out of their glossy black-and-white breeding plumage. They're drab but distinctive with their rapier-like bills, knobby heads and low carriage in the water.
The red-throated loons, which nest farther north on the tundra, are also in drab plumage now, but they're smaller, slimmer and paler than the powerful-looking common loons.
A visit to the Sound in late fall and winter will often provide a chance to view them side-by-side.
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If $K/\mathbb{Q}$ is a number field which is not $\mathbb{Q}$ or a quadratic imaginary field then, by the Dirichlet unit theorem it has a unit of infinite order. Is there a simple proof of this fact which doesn't haul in all the machinery of the unit theorem? In a related question is it true that such a $K$ is always generated over $\mathbb{Q}$ by one unit (which might not be of infinite order -- cf. the case of a full cyclotomic field), and if it is, is there a simple proof of this fact?
The answer to question 2 as stated is no. Let $K = \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p},\sqrt{-b})$, with $p$ 1 mod 4. By Frohlich and Taylor, p. 196, the fundamental unit group is generated by a unit from the real quadratic subfield. It then suffices to show that we can pick b so that K contains no roots of unity other than $\pm 1$. But the only possibility is that K contains a 3rd, 4th, or 5th root of unity, and so we just pick $b$ to avoid ramification at 2, 3, or 5.
Dirichlet's unit theorem is a relatively straightforward extension of the well known proof that the Pell equation has a nontrivial solution by a clever use of Dirichlet's box principle. The "machinery" is only needed to control the combinatorial explosion, or, as far as geometry of numbers is concerned, as a natural generalization of the box principle.
As for your second question I first thought that the answer is no. Take for example a biquadratic number field $K = {\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{m},\sqrt{n}\,)$, with $m,n > 0$ chosen in such a way that the unit index (units of K : units from the subfields) is 1. This implies that the only units in K are multiples of those coming from the three subfields. But you still get generators of the field by taking the product of two units coming from different subfields, so your question is still open.


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Andover Public Library's birthday party on Saturday was filled with fun, food and high-flying entertainment.
The Flying Debris Show performed a juggling act, complete with comedy and a magic show, at the celebration to commemorate five years in its current location.The day was rounded out with snacks, prizes, party hats and blowout noisemakers.The Library opened at its new location at 1511 E. Central Avenue in October 2008. Prior to that, it was located in what is now the Andover Historical Museum.
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When I upvote an answer, a message shows up saying "You haven't voted […]." It just fades out so fast that I am unable to get the full message.
What's that message? Why does it fade so fast?
it is :
Look at the blog entry : Vote For This Question or The Kitten Gets It for more information.
It says you haven't voted much on questions. That means you are getting close to running out of answer votes but do have some question votes left.
Here is the question that relates to the change of max question votes:


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Current Consensus Items
This is a page for hosting consensus items currently under debate, with their formal wording.
The Consensus Items History is the public record of consensus items that have been decided on in the past. Please move the records from the "Current" page to the "History" page once they've been approved/blocked.
|Date First Discussed
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|Adopt the draft anti-harassment policy in its current form in the git repo.
| 1. Consensus items at weekly meetings can be stopped from advancing by three member stand-asides or one block. Those objecting are encouraged to meet with proposal author(s) to develop mutually agreeable alternatives.
2. Membership meetings shall be scheduled and announced in advance. If a proposal cannot reach consensus or resolution at weekly meetings it may be added to a membership meeting agenda with sponsorship of three members. To take effect a proposal would require approval of 75% of members present physically or by proxy.
3. All current associate members shall be converted to full members, and the associate membership role abolished.
|Ban Dan from the space for a pattern of verbal abuse against Al.
|Danny O'Brien
|That the Tuesday Meeting be streamed in audio when possible, with the aim of encouraging online involvement. By the consensus of those present, the meeting may be limited to those in the space for privacy reasons. The responsibility for streaming will be that of the secretary.
|Danny O'Brien
|Madelynn Martiniere, Al Sweigart
| 1) This proposal would abandon consensus as the decision-making process used by Noisebridge. In its place Noisebridge will make decisions using a majority vote of the membership.
2) All current associate members will be converted to full members, and the associate membership role will be abolished.
|Al Sweigart
|Noisebridge should attach an expiration period of 90 days, beginning October 29, 2013, to the consensus decision to create an Associate Member role. All subsequent mutations of the original consensus should be brought for a second consensus, beginning February 4, 2014. If no consensus can be reached, Noisebridge will revert to being open to the public all day, every day.
|Tom Lowenthal
|It is the responsibility of all users of Noisebridge (guests, Members, and Associate Members) to contribute to Noisebridge as they are able. An individual's contribution should be proportionate with that person's use of Noisebridge and its resources. A reasonable monetary contribution from a member or associate member may be $80 per month, but it is each person's responsibility to determine what contribution is reasonable for them.
|Tom Lowenthal
|Tom Lowenthal
|Renaming the category "Noisebridge Members" to the "Noisebridge Council", and renaming the category "Associate Members" to "Noisebridge Members". This change extends not only to our operations, but also to our bylaws, so that the effect is only a change of name but does not change the rights or privileges of any person or category of people.
|Tom Lowenthal
|Al Sweigart
|In order to validly pass the consensus process, proposed consensus items will be written down on the Current Consensus Items wiki page the day of the meeting they are introduced. Only this exact wording of the proposed consensus item can be consensed on at the next week's meeting. Any change, even small ones, to the wording will be considered a different and new consensus proposal and will require another week before it can be consensed on. The spirit of this proposal is to prevent changes (small or radical) to consensus items being made and consensed on without notice to the larger community.
|Al Sweigart
|Jake proposes a change to the previous consensus agreement regarding access to Noisebridge. (originally posted 2013/11/4 to discuss)
Noisebridge's space shall be open only to members and associate members at any time. A member or associate member may at any time invite a person into Noisebridge and host that person at Noisebridge as long as that member or associate member remains at Noisebridge. No other person shall be permitted at Noisebridge at any other time.
Noisebridge is open to Members, Associate Members, and guests sponsored by same, at all times. Any person who is not one of the above may be asked to leave if no Member or Associate Member present wishes to sponsor them at that time, with no other justification being necessary.
People coming to Noisebridge who don't know anyone should be introduced to members who are present so that sponsorship can occur if members present choose to do so at that time. Noisebridge should present itself as "open to public visitors and guests as often as possible".


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Rare progress The savings are not extravagant and the inconvenience not inconsiderable, but the mentality driving new scheduling at Waterbury's Silas Bronson Library is cause for celebration. Rather than paying some employees overtime to work Saturdays, library Director Emmett McSweeney has devised a schedule in which some employees will work Tuesday through Saturday on straight pay. One result will be better service to the public, since the library will be open longer hours on Saturdays. The new schedule also will save an estimated $40,000 a year. Mr. McSweeney said the change reflects a larger citywide effort to reduce overtime pay. "In tough economic times," the Republican-American reported, Jan. 13, paraphrasing Mr. McSweeney, "everybody has to sacrifice and learn how to do more with less." Too few public-sector managers think that way, and even fewer act on it as forthrightly as Mr. McSweeney has.
Carneyval "Most Americans agree that a president's children should not be used (by the National Rifle Association) as pawns in a political fight," says White House spokesman Jay Carney. "But to go so far as to make the safety of the president's children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly." But apparently, it's not repugnant or cowardly for the president to use other people's children as pawns, props, human shields or whatever you want to call them, to wage his own political fight aimed at depriving law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
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Team: Leavenworth girls' tennis
Coach: Shad Langfoss
Key returners:
Christina Dominique, senior
Maggie McDonald, senior
Newcomers to watch:
Meagan Brucker, freshman
Sydnie Lundy, sophomore
Team Outlook: STRENGTHS — Thanks to numerous Sunday night hit-arounds throughout the summer, the Lady Pioneers development is ahead of schedule.
On top of that, coach Langfoss cited the fact that several girls went to tennis camps and put in extra work with private lessons this offseason, increasing their improvement.
WEAKNESSES — Besides Dominique and McDonald, the squad does not return much experience from last year's squad.
Big games: Leavenworth Quad, Aug. 30; DeSoto Invitational, Sept. 22; Sunflower League meet, Sept. 27
Coach says: "I am very anxious for this season to start. We will hopefully have 20-plus girls on the team with over half being underclassmen. If they stick with tennis and put some hard work and time into it, I can see great things in our future."
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KSBW Action News 8 worked together with Union Bank to honor volunteers on the Central Coast with the 16th-Annual Jefferson Awards. Regina Mason was selected to represent the Central Coast at the National Jefferson Awards in Washington D.C. this summer.
VIDEO: 2013 Jefferson Award honorees spotlighted at reception
2013 Jefferson Awards honorees:
Congratulations to this year's honorees! The Jefferson Awards' mission is to encourage and honor individuals for their achievements and contributions through public and community service. Honorees are ordinary people who accomplish extraordinary things without the expectation of recognition.
Every neighborhood has "unsung heroes," volunteers who go above and beyond their expected duties to make their neighborhoods and communities a better place to live.
The Jefferson Awards are a well respected recognition system honoring individuals who perform community and public service. The American Institute for Public Service was created in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft Jr. and Sam Beard. The public foundation established the Jefferson Awards, a Nobel Prize for community and public service. In 1977, the Jefferson Awards embarked on a media partnership with local newspapers and television stations to highlight community service in America.
VIDEO: 2013 Jefferson Award honorees announced