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Self Portrait
I'm not sure where this post came from as it isn't usually my style to be so frankly self-absorbed. However, it is good to take a look at oneself from time to time and do an inventory, as it were. I had an encounter this weekend which prompted a bit of soul-searching, while at the same time I'm reading Alice Kaplan's amazing biography Dreaming In French: the Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis. I've just finished the first part on Jacqueline Bouvier, and I was captivated by the exerpts of her writing submission for Vogue Magazine's Prix de Paris competition. One of the assignments was a "Self Portrait", which is always an important exercise in the visual arts, but not as frequently considered in writing. Like a visual self portrait, the assignment should be honest and forthright, not couching anything or being coy. Young Miss Bouvier's submission was appropriately frank and surprising, which prompted me take stock of a few things myself. For me, this is far more creative than a mere outfit post, which is a level of self-absorption that's definitely not my style.
And so...
Self Portrait:
I don't know what it is about me that people first notice because I don't have any one feature that's a particular standout. My face is sort of a rounded square, with most of the strength of the square in my chin and jaw. This certainly makes me look more German than Irish, but my pale pale skin is definitely of Irish descent, as are the myriad of freckles I host. They aren't freckles of the ginger-copper variety, just pale spots. Most of them are unseen at first glance, but they're definitely there. To me they bring contours and shadows to the most unwelcome of places, such as my jawline, nose and upper lip, but oh well. I've started using a whitening serum this past year but I have no idea if it's working or not. I do have a few darker freckles on my face which I enjoy because they look like beauty marks, but they aren't really. The one on my left cheekbone I think is kind of awesome.
I've been told I have beautiful skin, and it does have a nice rosy-creamy color to it and very small pores. But, the texture leads to problems which have been preoccupying me of late. Small pores mean small blemishes that absolutely do not go away. I spend a fortune on cleansers and Clarisonics, but my skin is never as smooth and perfect as I see it on other girls. This is something I've dealt with for ages – I recently looked at a picture of myself from 15 years ago and the same damn bumps were on my forehead. You'd think I'd have figured it out by now.
My forehead is high and my eyebrows are somewhat sparse, especially on the sides. The upper line is strong and full, but the side angle gets thin, requiring a daily penciling-in. Indeed, my hair isn't the best; it's thin and fine, and up until a few years ago I thought I was going bald but that was remedied by my departure from the corporate world. It's amazing how a decline in stress creates an increase in hair follicles. Still, I cannot grow the long luscious locks that most women have. I've tried and it just looks awful on me. I keep my hair short and bobbed with a set of long bangs that meet my brows or go a little longer. This is for two reasons: 1) camouflaging the aforementioned skin blemishes that always seem to grace my forehead, and 2) hiding the gray hairs that have started coming at my right hairline. Yes, when my hair started growing again the grays started to show up too. The irony is that while the growth is great, the grays make my hair look even thinner, if that were possible. While I spend a small fortune every few months to color my hair, the grays need to be hidden in between times, thus the bangs. I wish my hair were more fun or funky or stylish or bouffant or volumized, but it is what it is and I have come to accept my "junior newscaster" hairstyle. I accept it with a multitude of volumizing shampoos, mousses, texturizers, and sprays, but at least all that keeps me looking presentable.
My eyes are an olive green color. I don't know what color people think they are, but I do know that depending upon what color I'm wearing, people remark on my eyes more. I've had a number of friends say "wow…I guess I've never noticed your eyes before…" I don't know why they say this as it's not as though I wear eye patches. I suppose it's again because my eyes aren't that remarkable in the day-to-day and unless you're looking you wouldn't notice them. I play a lot with eye makeup. I'm kind of stuck in the smoky eye thing, but I do it with browns and golds for daytime. I've been trying to do the cat-eye thing, but I always mess it up and it looks just smudgey and weird instead of cool and retro. Perhaps the main drawback of my eyes are the dark circles underneath them. These dark circles are the scourge on my life and my cross to bear. I have tried using any number of eye creams, changed my diet, increased my sleep, and yet they are still there. I've been told it's because my beautiful pale skin is especially pale around my eyes, which makes it difficult to hide the blood vessels there. Whatever. All I know is that I seem to apply a touch more concealer every day. I'm considering buying some PreparationH to see what it can do.
I wear glasses. My vision is not so good and has been declining steadily over the last decade or so, especially for seeing things at a distance. I always choose "nerdy" looking frames for my glasses. This is perhaps because I had an art professor in college who always had nerdy glasses, or simply because they look good on me and are on-trend. My latest pair are big and bold and have lenses that stretch from my eyebrows down to just below my eyes – effectively covering my dark circles. This is perhaps why I wear them so often. It could also be that I think I look better in my glasses, but that may be because I cannot see myself as well without them.
Otherwise, I'm blessed by not having any wrinkles apart from a few laugh lines. These aren't enough to make me ever consider botox. Faces should age and take on their proper character. Of course, if I write something like this in 20 years I reserve the right to say something else.
My mouth is nice, very cupid's bow and it would surely be popular during the 1920s. For today's standards I think it's somewhat small, but it has a nice shape even if the corners tend to be drawn downward when I'm not smiling. I have small, delicate ears, and a nose that more than one person who's "had work done" has told me "is perfect". I think it has a weird curve at the end, but that's just me.
My décolleté is impressive. That's what happens when you're busty but not overflowing your cups. I cannot go without a bra, but oh well. Yes, the neck-clavicle-bust region is pretty good, but I'm not crazy about my shoulders and arms. My build is athletic to begin with, and this makes my shoulders very square and somewhat broad. We're not talking Joan Crawford broad, but they're broad. (Forget about when I was training for triathlons and I looked like a football player.) This would be fine if I liked my arms more, but I don't, so I'm always trying to cover them up. I see sleeveless and I walk away, unless it's something for evening and then it's fine, only because I usually wear jackets in the evening. I love anything with a sleeve.
The rest of my figure is…well, take it or leave it. My torso is long and so are my legs. This should make me willowy, but it doesn't. I'm tall, but I feel shorter due to my curvy, athletic build, which has given me very muscular thighs and a butt that sticks out more than I'd like. However, this is a main attraction for certain men, so I cannot really complain. My legs are okay and getting better due to weekly sessions with my gyrotonic trainer and lots of walking, but I am still very wary of short short dresses. (They're great in the fall & winter when I can wear tights, but I'm too afraid of them bare-legged.) Indeed, between the thighs and the butt it's difficult to find pants and skirts that fit. That's also because I have the belly of one of Ingres' Odalasiques. There, I said it. If we lived in Paris in the 1870s, I'd be generally delectable, but we don't. Ergo I really try not to eat pasta above once a week and bread even less. But being Odalaisque, I do enjoy myself and I'm not ashamed of it. My waist is not small and sits somewhere higher than on the average body, while my butt is somewhat low. This proportion is either desirable or off-kilter depending upon your perspective. My back is long and lovely, but since I always have to wear a bra, it makes those "plunging back" styles verboten.
I've had a multitude of sports injuries as I've gotten older and all of them have changed me in different ways. My left knee gets painful here and there after over-doing it on a bike ride a few years ago, and I've noticed both knees creaking as I climb the many stairs to my apartment. I've been battling my heel spurs and their associated plantar fasciitis for five years now, and while mostly this is fine, sometimes it flares up and makes me miserable. Last winter I had a huge bout of back and neck pain which is mostly under control, but my sacro-illiac joint continues to get painful from time to time. I have very close relationships with my trainer, my chiropractor, my acupuncturist, and my reiki healer…all of whom are amazing and generally agree on my state of health at any given moment.
I'll be 36 in five months and I'd be lying if I said this number didn't scare me.
Apart from the makeup, hair styling, and eyeglasses mentioned before, I utilize any number of other tricks to disguise my many imperfections. Most of these are of a sartorial nature. I love great clothes and fun costume jewelry as I'm sure many of my friends will confirm. But while I'm navel-gazing I think I should assert the obvious: my love of these "shiny objects" is merely because they distract from the main event, which is of course, me. If you're looking at my arm party or necklace or brightly colored top, it's because you won't notice me as much.
In fact, all of it's a ruse of some sort or another. My wit, my intelligence, my humor, my smile, my style…it all leads you away from seeing me. If I throw enough quips and bling your way you won't notice anything else and I'll escape unseen. At least that's the idea. This tactic is mostly unconscious on my part, so I suppose it's a bit unfair. I'm sorry for this, because I don't really mean it. I definitely DO want people to know the real me behind it all. Still, I have a tremendous fear that someone will come along and see through the smoke and mirrors and call me out on myself, which would be uncomfortable to say the least. Why would they want to do that? Do they know what they're getting into?
Probably not. It's even difficult for me sometimes.
Images: Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q., 1919; Cindy Sherman Untitled #96, 1981; Friday Kahlo Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940; Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1889


text: Okay, here is the last of the easy lessons that will be going up today. My next tutorial is going to show you "how to draw an easy frog", step by step. Frogs are another animal species that is extremely fun to draw because you can make them as big, small, and as colorful as you want. Since amphibians are not part of the reptile family, they are in a whole other bracket of their own. There are poisonous frogs, tiny frogs, large frogs which are also called toads, and there are plain old brown frogs, and these types can be found anywhere there is marshy waters like brooks, and water patches. This frog is going to be wicked easy to draw because I made sure to make it that way. Artists of all skill levels should have no problems whatsoever completing this lesson on "how to draw an easy frog". You can make a background to your liking, or just color in a solid image to keep things simple. I hope you have fun with this submission, and I look forward to returning with my last lesson for the day. Peace out people!

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Christmas Farm Inn is a sanctuary from stress -- a place where you can simply relax – but it can also serve as a portal to developing yourself by learning a new skill or developing the skills you already know.
With such busy lives, fitting in time to better ourselves seems like a real challenge. Why not combine a getaway with a hands-on experience that helps you grow? Christmas Farm Inn refers our guests to some local partners that offer such an experience...
Art – Jackson Art offers 3-hour paint classes or weekend workshops taught by professional and at times renowned artists. You can take your masterpiece home with you and display the souvenir of your visit on your wall as a conversation starter. Classes include drawing, painting, jewelry-making, and more!
Wellness –Christmas Farm Inn Aveda Spa now offers Reiki and Zero balancing, two treatments that work with energy fields and do not require the customer to get undressed. Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. Zero balancing involves kneading of the muscles with finger pressure or traction to enable relaxation. All our spa treatments and product applications are now uniquely customized to the specific requirements of the individual, and our Aveda spa rituals will ensure deep relaxation, physical rejuvenation and spiritual renewal.
Cooking – Professional Chef Kendra Stanley at the Taste of the Mountains Cooking School at the Bernerhof offers many different courses. Each class offers creative tips and techniques for everyday cooking to bring back home to your kitchen, whether you are a fastidious foodie or a first-timer. The class sizes are intentionally kept to a maximum of 8 students to allow plenty of individual attention from Chef Kendra.
Photography – Guided tours are available for photography enthusiasts. Jackson provides a picture perfect setting for your camera to focus on. It's why couples choose the area for their weddings and groups tour to see the autumn colors, not to mention the beauty of snow-capped mountains. When you get ready to share your images online, be sure to tag us with #christmasfarminn so we can share your photos!
Science – Mt. Washington Observatory offers many seminars on the flora, fauna and history of the White Mountains and Mt. Washington in particular. Past workshops have included White Mountains geology, landscape photography, land navigation, and alpine biology.
Whichever route you choose to reinvigorate yourself, we hope you will think of your visit to Jackson, N.H. as an opportunity to rekindle a passion and realize the best possible version of yourself.Written by Steven Stiefel


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Repairing Mopar Rust - Metal MagicWritten by on January 25, 2012 The Right Way to Repair Rust
Of the many attributes of steel, the major component used in construction of the body and structural members of all but some of the most recent Mopars, one downside of this product is certain: Steel will rust. And if the Mopar you're driving or restoring is like some of the ones we've seen lately, chances are it suffers from a rust hole or two in one of the body or floor panels. Even with the best paint job, a tiny imperfection due to a rock chip or scratch can allow water to migrate to the metal, causing rust, which if left untreated can lead to panel rust-through.
While some car manufacturers got a bad reputation for their cars rusting more than others, in reality it depended more on where in the world the car was located, and whether or not it was garaged, cleaned regularly, and driven on salty roads. In our state of Florida we see some extremely rusty cars from salty coastal locations as well as some surprisingly rust-free Mopars from the inland parts of the state. But as these cars continue to age, even a "rust-free" Mopar is likely to have an area or two that needs attention, and we don't mean filling the rust hole with a gallon of body filler. We mean repairing it properly, with metal.
To properly repair rust, the rusted area must either be cut away completely and replaced, or ground down and treated, depending on the severity and location of the rust. Minor scaling and pitting on body and floor panels can generally be removed with a grinding stone on a power grinder, while major areas of rust-through and rusted frame or structural parts require completely removing the affected area and welding in new steel.
Either way, the surrounding area must be chemically treated with a rust neutralizer containing phosphoric acid to ensure any remaining surface rust doesn't reappear through the new paint, causing unsightly bubbles. Depending on the size and number of the rusted areas needing to be repaired, at some point the decision needs to be made about whether it's less work and expense to simply replace the entire body panel. Of course this method only works if the panel is available for your vehicle, and fortunately companies like Auto Metal Direct offer new panels for most popular Mopars.
Once you've decided to repair a rusted area, beware of what you find underneath. Areas like the lower rear quarter panels are welded to an inner quarter panel, which might be rusted as well. If the rusted area you're repairing is small enough, it's fairly easy just to cut the section out and weld in a new piece of steel. We get our steel from the wrecked panels piled up behind J D's Paint and Body Shop, but steel sheet metal is available at most metal or body shop supply stores. A trick we use, especially if the rusted area requires cutting around a body line, is to match up the same shape of the panel with one of the used panels, so we don't have to shape it so much by hand.
Of course another easy way to fabricate your metal repair patch is to purchase a new panel or just a patch-panel, and then simply cut the piece you need from the new panel. This method saves some time because your body contours and lines should line up properly, but it adds the cost of the new panel to the repair bill. Fortunately, body panels are relatively inexpensive for most of these cars, so we don't mind spending the money to have the pre-stamped panel we can cut our repair patches from.
Whether you decide to purchase the panel or fabricate your patch from sheet steel, it will need to be welded into the hole. We tend to prefer a wire feed mig-welder for this operation, set on a low voltage and wire-speed to create less heat. We then tack the patch in place and stitch-weld the panel in varying areas around the perimeter so the heat generated by the welding process doesn't warp our patch or the adjacent metal. There are tools that will crimp the metal adjacent to the patch in order to form a recess, but making a nice tight fitting patch and butt-welding it in place is the preferred method. If priming the bare metal, be sure to use a weld-through primer in areas that will be welded.
Once the metal patch is welded in place, the welds can be ground flush and the panel can be massaged with a hammer and dolly, but the repair will likely need a skim coat of body filler before being primed and painted. We've all heard claims that "this or that car is all metal, no filler". And while these claims may or may not be true, we've found most repairs, no matter how skilful the body man or how accurate the patch, require at least a little fill to ensure straightness of the paintjob.
Speaking of paint, the best time to repair the rust in your Mopar is before you paint it, not afterwards. But if a small rust spot or hole does appear after your car is painted, don't panic. Chances are you, a friend, or a competent body shop can repair the affected area and paint it to match without having to repaint the entire vehicle. Over time our cars will rust, but it's nice to know that with the right parts, products, and procedures our Mopars can stay looking their best indefinitely.
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6. For extensively rusted areas, or to ensure the patch has the correct body lines and contours, another option is to purchase the entire panel from a company like Auto Metal Direct, then cut the pieces you need for your repairs.7. Small holes, like those for trim or tiny rust holes, can often be repaired by welding the hole closed. Using a piece of brass on the back side of the hole makes welding easier. The weld won't stick to the brass.8. When welding metal patches in place, stitch welding is the preferred method as making short welds across from each other and slowly working around the patch generally won't warp the patch or adjacent metal.9. We prefer to use Vice-Grip style clamps to hold the repair pieces in place, but if necessary and in a pinch, we have used sheet metal screws to hold a patch in place until it's welded. Once welded, the screws are removed and the holes can be welded shut.10. After welding the patch completely and grinding down the welds, the area can be straightened initially with a hammer and dolly. Chances are the area will need at least a skim-coat of body filler as well to ensure complete straightness before paint is applied.11. Once the patched area is welded and skimmed with body filler, block sanding is required to ensure the panel is straight. This process involves using finer and finer grades of sandpaper, and multiple coats of primer to fill small imperfections and low spots. Once sanded, the area can be final primed and prepped for paint. After a final coat of primer, the repaired area should be invisible and smooth to the touch. With new metal in place, water will have a difficult time getting under the paint to cause future problems. mm


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STEUBENVILLE - Members of the Temple Beth Israel congregation began their final services at the synagogue with Rosh Hashanah ceremonies Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Yom Kippur services will be held next Friday night and all day Saturday when members of the local Jewish community says good bye to Temple Beth Israel on Lovers Lane.
The building that has served as a synagogue since 1966 was sold last year to Tri-State Health Services, which has opened the Prime Time Senior Citizen Center in the facility.
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BLOWING THE SHOFAR — Rabbi Janet Roberts practiced blowing the shofar Thursday morning for the Rosh Hashanah services at Temple Beth Israel. The semi-retired rabbi from New York was asked to lead the Rosh Hashanah services this week and Yom Kippur services next week for the local Jewish community, whose members are preparing to close their synagogue. - Dave Gossett
"This is a building," said visiting Rabbi Janet Roberts. "As significant as any house of worship, it is really in the Jewish home where we learn our values. It is in our homes where our traditions are passed on. There will be a sense of loss when a congregation closes its building. But the people here will still constitute a congregation."
"We don't feel this is about loss. The building may close, but the people will go on," added Roberts.
According to Myron Chijner, "We made the decision a year ago to sell the building. We formed a board and made the decision. We were fortunate to be able to sell the property in the current real estate market and environment."
"We then made decisions on where some of the items here would go. Our memorial boards have been sent to a congregation in Pittsburgh, and several items were sent to the congregation in Wheeling. The Torahs will be donated in the names of former temple presidents to different congregations. And we will be sending our paperwork to Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati for its archives," explained Chijner.
Chijner has been a member of Temple Beth Israel since 1980.
"I was a member of Congregation B'Nai Israel on South Fifth Street until it merged with Temple Beth Israel. It is sad to see our temple close, but it is something that has evolved over time. It's life. You see it coming because we started running out of people. The Pittsburgh congregation has given membership to anyone interested for the rest of the year," said Chijner.
The two-hour service Thursday marked the beginning of the 10-day period known in the Jewish faith as the Days of Awe.
Roberts said it is a time of intense personal reflection.
"We examine our actions during the past year and make amends saying we are sorry to anyone we may have injured in some way in the past year. It is a time of prayer and introspection. Jews are asked to Tzedakah, or to be charitable. But it is more than charity. It is charity because you are moved to be charitable. For Jews Tzedakah is a Biblical commandment. This is also a day of remembrance when we sound the shofar," said Roberts.
Jennie Bernstein was recognized at the end of the services for her 28 years of work at the temple.
"Arthur Recht and I may be the temple co-presidents, but Jennie really ran this place. I hate to put her out of a job, but the end comes for all of us," said Co-President Sanford Berman.
Bernstein said she has been a member at the Temple Beth Israel, "since I moved to Steubenville in 1972."
"It is sad to see the temple close, but I think the senior citizen center is going to be a really nice place. There is a lot of excitement since the center opened. I will still be here for another month or so cleaning out my office and the final paperwork," Bernstein said.
"The Jewish community has left a legacy in the form of the senior citizen center. The Jewish community in our area will continue in Wheeling and Pittsburgh. It is time for a change for us," said Berman.
"Shalom," said Roberts in her closing comments.
The visiting rabbi from New York, who was asked to come back for the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, lead the congregation to the Steubenville Marina to cast their symbolic sins onto the water.


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What are the applications of theory of fusion systems to finite group theory or representation theory of finite groups? More concretely, is there any important result in finite group theory or representation theory of finite groups whose prove uses fusion systems in the essential way?
Lots of results in group cohomology only have topological proofs using the techniques of Bob Oliver and his (generalized) collaborators. For instance, many results along the lines of "controls fusion iff controls cohomology" only have topological proofs using the same techniques that Bob Oliver called fusion systems (though I think some of the papers stick to the topological language). "Controls fusion" is a very old term predating fusion systems by 50 years, so I think of this as a pretty pure finite group cohomology result.
I think it is common to call these topological results by the name "fusion" results, even if fusion systems are not used directly, but rather p-completed classifying spaces are used (also known as p-local groups and such), even if the fusion system used to define the topological space is not prominent. Allowing such abuse of language, one of my favorite examples is the topological proof that the famous Z*-theorem holds for odd primes too: MR1125010. It was proven later using more pure finite group theory, but I suspect lots of people prefer the topological proof.
In modular representation theory, the work of Puig on nilpotent blocks is (as far as I know) literally defined in terms of fusion systems and gets results on the representation theory using only conditions on the fusion systems. One also has some nice descriptions of the representation type of blocks of dihedral defect in terms of the fusion system induced on the block (I believe Linckelmann's introduction gives this as an example).
More historically, the classification of finite groups with dihedral (and then for semi-dihedral/wreathed) begins by dividing clearly into cases based on which fusion system occurs. This just organizes the (couple hundred page) papers, so I guess whether it is essential depends on how practical you are.
Perhaps the most "exciting" answer is not quite ready yet, but Michael Aschbacher and collaborators have begun to recast the classification of finite simple groups in terms of fusion systems. It is quite surprising and comforting that several very important steps in the classification are radically easier in the fusion system case. The fusion system theorems would also have as side-effects corresponding theorems in modular representation theory and the theory of p-local groups.
Let me know if you want references for any of the wishy washy terms, but basically read Linckelmann's introduction, read a few papers of BLO (Broto–Levi–Oliver), and check out the slides from any recent finite group theory conference, and you should have some pretty convincing evidence that fusion systems are opening up a very bright future for finite group theory.
I think a fair amount of the work of Bob Oliver and his collaborators fits this description. You might start by looking at:
MR2203209 (2007c:55014) Oliver, Bob Equivalences of classifying spaces completed at the prime two. (English summary) Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 180 (2006), no. 848, vi+102 pp.


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Any amigos care about President Obama's new norm? Gas is at $3.82 a gallon, electric bills are soaring, beef is in the $5-$6-a-pound range - Did wages increase, was there no tax increase (as he promised)? Wait until Obamacare kicks in - you ain't seen nothin' yet.
I watched the State of the Union address and thought I had the comedy channel on by mistake. If you looked closely, you saw the applause button Obuma held to make his minions jump up and down. I could write a book on his deceptive speech, falsehoods and misdirections, but there are scores of them already in print. "I'll cut deficit in half by end of first term," "I'll close Gitmo," "I believe marriage is between a man and woman." All lies to suck in votes from the ill-informed, misguided, gullible voter. Obama's good at running, but he can't run a country. He can run fast away as he did after Benghazi, by dissolving his jobs council (it only met four times in two years - we must have enough jobs) and away from hard-question interviews. Oops, the lame-stream media doesn't ask hard questions. They remind me of Russia's star publication Pravda - lying by omitting the truth. If any of the valley amigos had reasoning powers they would see this man as he really is: a Saul Alinsky-wannabe. But they are so brainwashed they can't see what this guy is doing to America.
He said under him there were 6.1 million jobs created, but he didn't say under him there were 4.9 million lost. He doubled the gas mileage on cars - not true. He paraded out an old woman who voted, but didn't tell America about the poll worker in Cleveland who voted three times for him, one by mail, one at the poll and absentee for her uncle. Do you wonder why he won? He's so narcissistic he says he will control climate change. Have you looked out your window lately?
He threatens and uses executive orders at his whim, even though a majority of Americans doesn't agree with his policies. He said we'll take care of all the poor , but we can't take care of our poor.
Colin Powell is now showing his true colors. He claims the GOP keeps blacks down. Gee, wasn't he the Army chief of staff, chief national security adviser and secretary of state?
Why is Obama determined to take away guns from law-abiding citizens but willing to give 20 F-16s and 200 tanks to Egypt? Is Egypt under attack from Ethiopia? He claims water boarding is torture, but blowing up American citizens without due process with drones is OK. Watch out legal gun owners, he'll drop one on you if he says you're a terrorist.
Isn't Hillary Clinton a wonderful person? Her quote on Benghazi, "What does it matter?" will haunt her in 2016. Quoting Whoopi Goldberg on 24 Jan. from "The View" - "The b. is back." Sorry, Whoopi, she never left.
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Just bought it ! Woot, sucks it takes 2-3 weeks to deliver (are they hand delivering it?)
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I'm a developer at a small web agency that works primarily with charities. We tend to put a simple textsize widget on every site (eg. top right on www.embraceme.org). I find myself wondering if that's necessary: if someone has difficulty seeing, then there's a number of tools at the OS/browser level to help them out. If each website reinvents the wheel then that's a new tool the user has to keep relearning (not to mention extra and unnecessary complication on the site). We don't have an accessibility/usability specialist, so would love to hear people's views on this.
Providing such font size options within individual websites isn't as important nowadays than it used to be (for instance when IE6 was a more common browser as it didn't really have a suitable font resizing option) but that doesn't mean it no longer has its place; it is particularly useful if the target audience for the website is more focused to users with disabilities - such as for the London 2012 Paralympics.
However your main priority with font sizes is to ensure you put your site together using correct modern HTML standards rather than focusing on minor 'widgets' here and there.
The main accessibility requirement around text resizing is that:
This can be achieved in a variety of ways, all using good HTML standards. For example, use standard readable fonts, don't set your default font size too small, keep your fonts in
There are some good suggestions about how to keep your text accessible at the w3c site - Understanding SC 1.4.4 Resizing Text as well as at webaim.org
Check your target audience for your project. If the users are more likely to benefit from the in-page font resizing due to minor visual disabilities or those that suffer from dyslexia, or (and I hope this isn't the case anymore) if they're locked into using IE6 then yes, it's probably going to be useful to provide that option, but for current web design it's more important to get your code in shape and use good HTML and you can let the users take control of how they want to experience the web.
I recently attended a Nielsen/Norman Group conference and this question was asked. The answer they gave was that in the many usability tests that they have done, very very few, if any, users ever actually used the feature.
That said, if you did want it to be used, placing it in the upper-right location makes it much less likely that a user will find/use it.
You might want to try testing some different placements or configure GA Event Tracking to see if people are using the feature at all.
If you don't set the font size of the main text, it will use the font size specified in the browser settings. It looks like your site does not set this so it will use browser settings font size, making a text widget somewhat redundant.
(So in the future ensure it remains this way, the font size for the main text is not set in the CSS to keep it working the way it is.)
If you built the site in that way that the font-size (*) can be increased/decreased by the user's browser, there is no need for a widget.
*: Note that font-size zoom is not the same as the page zoom (the latter is the default in many browser today, but it can be switched to font-size zoom by the user).
If your site's font-size cannot be changed by the user's browser (because of a special way you built your site, which should be a very rare case), you should provide a widget.
I'd say you include it, not on the right top though. Why? Because older people using the web might not understand very well how to change settings on their browsers and something they can see available right there would be more helpful for them. It doesn't interfere with magnifier software such as Zoom Text, however I don't know how would it interact with screen readers such as Jaws.


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I keep hearing the terms "character development" and "characterisation", but I'm still not sure what they mean? How does one "develop" a character?
Character development can refer to either the task of sitting down and creating a character (working out their appearance, history, mannerisms, and so on), or it can refer to the change a character undergoes during the course of a story.
In the first instance, the idea is to create a fictional person, complete with flaws and weaknesses, history, mannerisms, hopes, fears, someone that is often even more real than people you meet in real life. This is (generally) a person you will use in your story, whether as a protagonist or antagonist. It's like you getting to know someone so well that you know absolutely everything about them. Just how much you need to know depends on how important the character is to the story, but generally speaking, the more you know about the character, the better able you'll be able to write about them in relation to your story.
In the second instance, character development describes the change an individual undergoes through the course of a story as a result of the conflict or conflicts that person encounters. Think of the character Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, who begins as a crotchety, tight-fisted, greedy old man, but over the course of the story, various "conflicts" force him to change his ways so that, by the end, he becomes a better man, generous and kind.
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Do you know what is the difference between Cleanse and Clean? I don't have a clear idea of when to use one or the other as verbs or nouns, or if there is some key difference I'm not aware of.
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They are very similar in meaning, but as a rule, Cleanse has a sense of a more thorough or radical clean. So, for example, I might clean my mug by washing it up, but I might get it cleansed by chemical treatments, boiling water or whatever. It is a more thorough sense of dirt removal — a deep clean, if you want.
So in this term, Ethnic Cleansing is about a rooting out of all aspects of the ethnic group being cleansed. Colonic cleansing is (I am guessing, not ever having had or wanted it) removal of all the colonic gunge, not just a wipe down.
Similarly, you might clear your desk with a cloth, but a cleansing — to remove years of ingrained dirt — would probably involve steam cleaning.
Which to use? It very much depends on the context. Cleansing does have some negative connotations, so some care should be used.
'Cleanse' is an old word, going back to OE. 'Clean' is a newer word that appeared in the 15th century and largely displaced 'cleanse'.
The result of the displacement is that 'clean' is now used in literal applications of removing dirt, and 'cleanse' has retreated into figurative use, such as the ethnic cleansing or spiritual cleansing that Matt mentions in comments.
These two words are really equivalent.
I think you'll find that clean is used more commonly. For the most part, cleanse would be considered a little more old fashioned or technical, depending on the context.
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I am developing an application which demands around 100 images or maybe more to be pre-inserted into the Core Data database along with other related information.
Now I can easily add other data by just writing a few lines of code but for UIImages I am unsure how to do it without writing a lot of code. I was wondering: is there anyway to do this easily, or if there isn't what's the best way to achieve this with the least amount of effort.
Also, is it okay to store images in a Core Data database or should we only only save the addresses of images on the local file system?


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Does anyone know of any packages out there that implement a pure python method to convert lat/long coordinates to MGRS coordinates?
PyPi has a package, but it requires some c-extensions from another source, and I didn't want to use that. I figured before I go an recreate a complicated process, I'm hoping the community can make my life a tad easier.
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I have a friend that is allergic to hops and can not drink our beer (or just about any others for that matter). What alternatives do I have if I want to make a beer for him? What could I substitute for bittering? What would my options be for aroma and flavoring hop alternatives? If I could even just get a bittering component into the beer, I would have
I'd recommend the book Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers. Don't let the name put you off, it's packed with lots of useful historical information on brewing before the advent of hop usage. The Homebrewer's Garden is also a good book on this subject, and a bit more succinct.
Yarrow is good for bittering, and grows wild throughout the US. It can be more of an 'upper' compared to hops, which have a sedative effect.
Artemesia vulgaris, aka mugwort, is a good bittering option and was used extensively before hops gained prominence.
Artemesia absinthia, aka wormwood, the signature ingredient in absinthe, is powerfully bitter, and somewhat controversial as an ingredient. I once made a tea out of it to test it's bitterness ,and... goddamn. Bitter, bitter stuff. Use caution with this one, since it contains a supposed neurotoxin, thujone, which is also cited for the magic 'green fairy' effect of absinthe.
For an aroma addition, there are lots of options. Moonlight brewing makes an interesting spruce tip beer. Juniper berries can also be used. You could do a wit-like beer with coriander, orange peel and pinch of chamomile for aroma additions. Maybe focus on yeast estery styles, such as saison, belgians, hefeweizen, etc. that don't call for a strong hop flavor and aroma addition.
Many of these brewing herbs can be bought from Seven Bridges online.
You'll want to take a look at brewing Gruit, a style of beer brewed with herbs in place of hops.
Personally I haven't had any practical experience brewing a Gruit but this site has a few recipes you could use as a starting point, good luck!
I made a beer a while back in which I substituted tea for hops. Tea seems to have similar properties in that if you boil for a long time, you'll get bitterness, and less time will give you flavor and aroma.
The result was interesting (I used green tea and a bud light clone recipe because I wanted to make sure I tasted the tea). In hindsight, the tea flavor was fairly robust and could have stood up to a stronger beer.
I've heard of heather being used, though never used it myself.
Heather has been used in a variety of beers; even one without any hops at all in the Iron Brewer contest in Toronto 2014. It really is interesting and the amount of heather needs to be tuned-in due to its intense taste. A combination of hops and heather tasted - as far as I could say - not as good, or let me say more unexpected. Heather might serve as an alternative, I think.
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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Bad for Business: How Mississippi's Proposed Anti-Immigration Laws Will Stifle the State Economy
While proponents of harsh immigration bills in Mississippi claim that passing these laws would save the state money, experience from other states shows these immigration laws will actually cost the state millions of dollars. Implementing the laws and defending them in the courts would cost Mississippi's taxpayers millions they can ill afford. The laws would make it more difficult for businesses to operate in the state and would deter investment. The loss of taxpayers and consumers would devastate Mississippi's economy.
After the legislatures in Arizona, Alabama, and other states approved their immigration-control bills, these states experienced negative economic consequences. Meanwhile, other states have considered similar proposals, but abandoned them after concluding that the economic and enforcement costs would prove too high.
Harsh immigration laws will harm Mississippi's economy.
- Anti-immigrant laws have a negative impact on a state's economy. If unauthorized immigrants leave, the state loses workers and consumers who earn and spend money in the state. Unauthorized immigrants comprised roughly 2.9% of Mississippi's workforce (or 35,000 workers) in 2010, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center. Experiences from other states that have passed harsh immigration laws tell a cautionary tale:
- According to Prof. Samuel Addy at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, Alabama's HB 56 could shrink Alabama's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by up to $10.8 billion. It will result in "a shrinking of the state economy and will be seen in lower economic output, personal income, and fewer jobs than would otherwise have been." Prof. Addy estimates that a loss of 40,000 to 80,000 unauthorized immigrants who earn between $15,000 and $35,000 annually could result in:
- 70,000 to 140,000 lost jobs;
- $2.3 to $10.8 billion reduction in Alabama GDP, or 1.3 to 6.2 percent of the state's $172.6 billion GDP in 2010;
- $57 to $264 million loss in state income and sales tax collections; and
- $20 to $93 million loss in local sales tax collections.
- Mississippi could experience a major blow to tourism, gambling, and conventions, a $2.5 billion industry responsible for 10 percent (110,615) of the state's nonfarm jobs. After Arizona passed SB1070, major groups and associations cancelled events and conventions in the state. A report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) estimates that Arizona will lose $45 million in lodging revenue alone, and Mississippi could experience similar losses to Gulf Coast tourism. Arizona was eventually forced to spend $250,000 for a marketing campaign to help improve its image after SB1070 was enacted.
- After passing its immigration enforcement bill (HB 87), Georgia's agriculture industry experienced severe labor shortages. Early reports from the state estimate economic losses for the 2011 growing season to be between $300 million and $1 billion. Agriculture is not only a key industry in many states, but losses in the agricultural sector tend to have multiplier effects that ripple throughout the entire state economy.
Harsh immigration laws would result in lost tax revenues for Mississippi.
- Mississippi stands to lose millions of dollars in tax revenues if unauthorized immigrants—as well as legal immigrants whose lives are made difficult by the law—were to leave. Unauthorized immigrants in Mississippi paid $52.4 million in state and local taxes in 2010, according to data from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, which includes:
- $8.1 million in state income taxes;
- $2.6 million in property taxes; and
- $41.7 million in sales taxes.
- According to Professor Addy, a similar law in Alabama could result in a loss of between $56.7 and $264.5 million in state income and sales tax collections and up to $93.1 million lost in local sales tax collections.
Harsh immigration laws will create an unfriendly environment for investment in Mississippi.
- Mississippi's prospects for economic growth rely heavily on the expansion of manufacturing, which will require business-friendly public policy to succeed. In 2003, Nissan USA opened Mississippi's first auto plant, which now employs approximately 5,300 Mississippians, and Toyota will soon build a plant of its own. In the last two years, five clean energy producers and green building manufacturers have created more than 3,000 jobs in Mississippi. If such growth is to continue, investors need to expect a hassle-free experience for work permit-holding foreign management and workers alike, which cannot happen when state officials and law enforcement officers are required to verify immigration status.
- According to Gerald Dial, Alabama State Senate Republican whip and former HB 56 supporter, an unintended consequence of the legislation in that state has been to make other states more attractive for investors. "Other states will say, 'Hey, you don't want to go to Alabama now,'" said Dial. "We're probably going to lose those people. We won't know about it. There won't be a big red flag: 'Hey, we didn't go to Alabama, we're going to go to Arkansas or we're going to go to South Carolina.' That's probably the most detrimental part of the whole bill."
- According to the Tax Foundation, Mississippi ranks as the 11th most favorable state for low corporate taxation. The increase in public spending that would likely accompany the implementation of the law may require Mississippi to raise its corporate tax rate, making the state less attractive to entrepreneurship.
Harsh immigration laws would be harmful to Mississippi businesses.
- A survey of farmers conducted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture found 56% of those surveyed were experiencing difficulty finding workers. A Georgia Restaurant Association survey found that nearly half (49%) of surveyed restaurants reported labor shortages, and 88% were concerned about future shortages. Lack of workers and related business losses have cut some restaurants' revenue by as much as $80,000 per month.
- The law gives the state greater power to enforce the already mandatory use of the E-Verify employment verification system. Bloomberg estimates that implementing E-Verify costs small businesses an average of $435 per year. There are also costs to U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who are erroneously flagged as not eligible to work by E-Verify and must take time off of work to navigate the bureaucracy to fix the error.
- State immigration enforcement laws mean businesses must incur additional costs. Economist Jeremy Thornton of Samford University points to the "shadow costs" employers incur when they take steps to protect themselves from the law's stiff penalties. Businesses will spend more on employee screening to protect themselves from provisions of the law that bar them from knowingly hiring unauthorized workers. There could also be increased litigation costs for businesses because any legal worker could sue the employer if they have hired an unauthorized worker. "Every business that now has to comply with this legislation, that's just extra cost. And anytime you raise costs, businesses shrink." Businesses will likely have to spend more on third party assistance for employment eligibility paperwork and extra human resources staff.
Implementing harsh immigration laws would cost Mississippi millions.
- Implementing immigration enforcement laws will be very expensive at a time when Mississippi is already struggling financially. Potential costs include costs to schools, which must determine the immigration status of students and their parents; costs to jails, which would have to detain more immigrants; costs to the court system, which would have to prosecute violations of the new law; and legal costs to the state to defend against lawsuits.
- Some states that considered immigration enforcement laws in 2010-2011 backed off once they considered cost estimates for implementation.
- In Kentucky, an enforcement bill died after an estimate showed it would cost the state $89 million per year to enforce.
- In Louisiana, a bill was withdrawn when it was estimated to cost $11 million to implement.
- In Tennessee, the General Assembly Fiscal Review Committee found that their proposal would increase expenditures by $3 million for the first year and $1.8 million every year after that.
Mississippi will have to spend millions to defend laws in the courts.
- If proposed laws were to pass, they would immediately be challenged on constitutional and other grounds. Defending the law in the courts can be very expensive.
- In Arizona, seven lawsuits were filed to stop implementation of SB1070, and other states are likely to see numerous lawsuits against similar legislation. At the end of February 2011, Arizona had already spent more than $1.5 million defending SB 1070.
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How would you describe the pronunciation of r to somebody who speaks English as second language?
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The pronunciation of [r] is very difficult for some Asians, especially r in the middle of a word such as " murder". Also Germans pronounce [r] completely different with the forms existing in English, also it's different in many other languages. It's a good idea to teach them with Visual aids and graphical content. Also that would be helpful to teach them the differences that will happen in meaning by wrong pronunciation of [r] in some of the words.
To pronounce [r]:
It's good to tell them
(Edit: American English. Sigh. One day I will learn to read the tags.)
'r' is pronounced in a number of different ways in English. Like 'l' there are two basic forms; a short consonant and a longer, more vowel-like "darker" sound. Consider the differences between the two 'r's in "reader" (and similarly the two 'l's in "little").
Try pressing both sides of your tongue against your molars (the bottom of them, not the top), then hold your tongue rigid in the middle of your mouth. There should be a noticeable space between the roof of your mouth and the middle of your tongue.
The other option is to do the same as before, except move your tongue farther back in your mouth (kind of "bunching" it to the back). The front of your tongue can kind of hang, but you still need the space in the middle.
I'd also suggest looking at some diagrams. I've found linguistics as a whole extremely helpful with pronouncing unfamiliar sounds.
That depends on where that person comes from. People from some Asian countries for example can seem incapable of pronouncing r in the way that westerners do, but this is simply because it's considered utterly unsophisticated, not because the sound doesn't exist in their language or because they don't know how to do it.
Just imagine if you were told that r should be pronounced by sticking out the tounge and making a loud noise. I imagine that this is what some Asians feel when someone tries to make them pronounce r in English.
So, describing the sound itself should be easy by just playing a sound file. Explaining that the prononciation does not make you seem like a hairy barbarian screaming RRRRRRRRRRR might be more difficult...
First, by stating that as with learning English generally, there is not one form of the language that all English speakers speak. You should know of this, even before starting to learn. How you pronounce something in English, depends on which form of it you learn. There are two, major forms: American English and the English of the UK. There are also, other, smaller forms, such as Australian English and South African English.
Pronunciation is greatly influenced by accents. Certain English speakers do not pronounce the language in the same way as others.
This applies to the letter r, as well. There is such a thing as rhotic accents. This means, accents in which the letter r is pronounced more strongly, than in non-rhotic accents. It is often said (incorrectly) that the r is not pronounced at all, in non-rhotic accents. This is not so; it is just pronounced gently and in more nuanced ways. This is usually said by people with strong, rhotic accents, such as Americans. The pronunciation of r, as with the rest of the English language, will depend on if you learn an accent and, if so, which accent.
Once you decide, you should look for resources that teach pronunciation in the form of English, that you have decided. For example, if you decided to learn American English, try listening to American films or television programmes. If you learn another form, look for resources that teach pronunciation in that form of English.
In general, r in rhotic accents will be pronounced strongly. In American English, it is normally pronounced harshly. To describe it to someone, for example, someone learning English, you can say that it is pronounced in American English, as harshly as possible.
In general, r in non-rhotic accents will be pronounced gently. It's like the sound when a dentist tells a patients to open their mouth and say "aah". How gently it is pronounced, depends on the position of the letter r, in a word. The r in heart, would be more gentle than the r in rabbit; for example.


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Washington, Conn. Musical event drew a fine turnout
A grand time was had by all who attended the Washington Friends of Music's Third Annual New Year's Day Concert and Champagne Reception with the New Baroque Soloists and soprano Christine Buras, at First Church in Washington, Conn. The mission of Washington Friends of Music (WFM), a non-profit organization, is to bring world-class musical events to Washington.
We had a great turnout and are in a good position going forward. We are even hoping to offer a Spring Concert, before the Summer Concerts series in July and August.
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I want to see how much time I spend on my computer every day and be able to browse past days' activity levels as well.
I've been using http://www.manictime.com/, which tracks nearly everything I do. But the main data that I find myself using is how much time my computer is active. So while it is a great program, most of its specific data that it's tracking will be unused by me.


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We are trying to build a test version of a production database by restoring the production backup using RMAN and renaming the database to
We've successfully restored and opened the database as production (with different IP from the real production server).
When using the
NID utility to rename the database to
test, we are encountering this error:
NID-00135: There are 1 active threads.
We've been having difficulty getting the database to shutdown normally using the
SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE command. After an hour or so of waiting for the damn thing to die, we are forced to resort to grepping all the
ora_* processes and killing them.
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WELLSBURG - Wheeling Park used big plays offensively, huge hits defensively, and a gigantic effort on special teams to put away Brooke, 52-25, Friday night at Brooke Memorial Stadium.
Zach Phillips threw for 195 yards and two touchdowns, four Park runners jaunted for scores, and the Patriots defense held the Bruins to 176 yards of offense, half of which came during the second half.
''The effort was really good,'' Park coach Chris Daugherty said. ''We haven't played four good quarters of football yet, but when that day comes I think we're a pretty good football team.
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GETTING TACKLED — Brooke's Justin Loughrie is tackled by a Wheeling Park defender during Friday's Homecoming game in Wellsburg. The Bruins fell to 0-5 after the Patriots' 52-25 victory.
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''On the whole, I thought our intensity was good.''
Was it ever.
Zach Phillips hit Eric Banks for a 59-yard touchdown strike on the Patriots' first play from scrimmage and they never looked back.
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Wheeling Park 52, Brooke 25
Wheeling Park 21 0 21 10 - 52
Brooke 0 3 6 16 - 25
W: Banks 59 pass from Phillips (Casey kick), 9:34
W: Phillips 20 run (Casey kick), 5:27
W: Pugh 77 punt return (Casey kick), 2:19
B: Moore FG 35, :10
B: Loughrie 1 run (pass failed), 11:51
W: Ingram 16 run (Casey kick), 7:39
W: Myers 1 run (Casey kick), 4:38
W: Dent 20 pass from Phillips (Casey kick), 2:31
W: Casey FG 20, 11:52
B: Walker 80 kickoff return (Moore kick), 11:37
W: Blackston 69 run (Casey kick), 10:04
B: Hildreth 24 pass from Buchmelter (Moore kick), 6:27
B - Safety, Park kicked bad snap out of end zone, 4:20
Rushing: Wheeling Park 30-156-4td (Blackston 4-74-td, Phillips 5-18-td, Myers 3-1-td, Dent 4-9, Paige 2-17, Ingram 9-36-td, Wolfe 1-0, Luff 1-5); Brooke 37-60-td (Loughrie 11-20-td, Buchmelter 13-33, Walker 1-(-5), Hartman 8-26, Lazear 1-(-2), Sole 1-(-12).
Passing: 9-15-196-2td (Phillips 8-14-195-2td, Coyne 1-1-1); Brooke 13-22-116-td-x (Buchmelter 11-20-100-td-x, Sole 1-2-16).
Receiving: Wheeling Park (Banks 4-145-td, Pugh 1-17, Ingram 1-10, Dent 2-25-td, West 1-1); Brooke (Wallace 4-32, Cole 3-18, Loughrie 2-14, Staffileno 2-12, Hildreth 1-24-td, Bowman 1-16).
First Downs: Wheeling Park 9; Brooke 11.
Penalties: Wheeling Park 5-45; Brooke 5-45.
Fumbles-Lost: Wheeling Park 0-0; Brooke 2-1.
Phillips scored on a 20-yard run on Park's next possession. And when Quashad Pugh returned a Brooke punt 77 yards to paydirt moments later, Park had a 21-0 lead with 2:19 left in the first quarter.
Meanwhile, Brooke's offense struggled early for the Homecoming crowd, picking up only two first downs during the first 12 minutes.
That changed somewhat during the second quarter when the Bruins used 11 plays to march inside the Park 20. Bobby Moore's 35-yard field goal capped the drive and cut the deficit to 21-3.
Then, on the second half kickoff, the Bruins caught another break.
Park (3-2) failed to gain control of Moore's boot and Brooke got the ball on the Park 1. Justin Loughrie scored on the next play. The conversion failed making the score 21-9.
But Park rebounded with four straight scores, capped by Liam Casey's 20-yard field goal that made it 45-9. Casey was also 7 of 7 on extra points on the night.
Aaron Walker returned the ensuing kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown to make it a 45-16 game. But, three plays later, Theo Blackston, on a third-and-9 play, shot down the field for a 69-yard touchdown to up Park's lead to 52-16.
''I thought our kids did a great job rebounding from last week,'' Daugherty said. ''And it's been a tough week to be a Wheeling Park Patriot. These guys have battled through a lot and I'm just really proud of them.''
Wheeling Park student Kurt Myers died Sunday. His brother, Greg, scored on a 1-yard touchdown in the third quarter.
Daugherty presented the game ball to Greg, a senior, after the game.
''We definitely had heavy hearts for his family and him,'' Daugherty said. ''We wanted to come out and play well for the Myers' and Greg. It was a hard week for our team because our kids care so much about each other and care so much for Greg.''
Alec Buchmelter finished with 100 yards passing for the Bruins, the TD strike going to Heath Hildreth in the fourth quarter.
''We're a lot younger than people realize,'' first-year Brooke coach Sean Blumette said. ''The way the season has unfolded due to injuries, etc., we've been forced to play younger than we are.''
Blumette pointed out two freshman are starting and, due to injuries, other players are being thrown into the fire earlier than expected.
''In a perfect world we'd like to develop them a little more slowly,'' he said.
However, considering the circumstances, Blumette is seeing positives despite the 0-5 start.
''Even though the results haven't bee there we are seeing some good things,'' he said. ''We've taken some lumps and given up some big plays, but when you play younger kids that happens.
''But we've also seen some bright spots where we've really battled and brought it.''


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We've got overbred, overspecialized dancers and as Alexandra might put it (this is her point, and an excellent one) a "mannerist" art form obsessed with technique at the expense of content. It's still a great art form, but I think we need desperately to back off from form and re-explore content.
I think actually that was what Sarah Kaufman meant in her Something Else Besides Balanchine, please, article. NOT that Balanchine was responsible for this, or less than a great article, but that we're still stretching him, exploring (to an absurd degree, sometimes, which is why I call it Mannerism) things that he did so beautifully.
Re classroom steps, as I wrote, there are times where it's appropriate, but today, I think if a new Petipa did a new-style, but classical, Jardin Animee, and it was the same level, with genius as well as steps, most of the critics writing today would say it was just classroom steps. If a company danced Jardin Animee in bicycle shorts (because then most people wouldn't recognize it; I know I'm being cynical), they'd say it was just classroom steps. I don't think the current critical climate is helpful -- and it would be equally unhelpful if critics wrote that anything that had classical steps in it was great art (and I don't mean to imply that that's what Leigh is suggesting, of course.)
papeetpatrick, I'm sorry thet I wasn't clear. The "musical comedy" reference was mine, not Balanchine's, and I didn't mean that he was referring to Broadway or that genre, but I gather he did not approve of the 1940s version of the Ballet Russe programs, and was worried that the emphasis on drama at the expense of classical dancing was killing ballet and he wanted to get it back to choreography and a cleaner technique.
Re Forsythe, there have been several "choreographers of the decade" that haven't become The One -- Tetley in the '60s (with his consciously crafted blend of modern dance with ballet); Jiri Kylian in the '70s, who was always a blender; and Forsythe in the '80s. I was less enamored of Forsythe than many others because I'd seen some of his early work, where he tried to deal with content, and I thought it awful (his "Daphnis and Chloe" and "Orpheus" for Stuttgart; he tried to tell a story and, to my eyes, couldn't.) I thought (think) he had nothing to say except steps. The all Forsythe program that the Kirov brought was the same ballet four times over, the Work for a Ballet Company ballet. Not to bring up another contentious topic