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It would be really nice to have a consistent defender and shooter this year. Hammond blew it again when he didn't re-up Delfino. Now the Rockets are surging with Delfino playing a major role. Meanwhile, we have Sammy, Drew, and Joe Alexander II (Tobias).Hide replies
Hammond is definitely subject to criticism for the roster he has constructed. But let's not overreact to losing Delfino. He's averaging 9 points a game for Houston, playing 25 minutes, and shooting 40% from the field. If he is a loss, it's not a major one.
While not disagreeing with any of your premise ... when was the last time a Milwaukee Buck made 6 of 7 3's in one game? Delfino did it last Friday night.
definition of 'major role' ='s accepting wide open c00kies from The Beard.
I'm not saying Delfino is an All-Star, or would be the best player on any team--just a solid player who shoots well, passes well, is athletic, and plays great defense. Also he enjoyed playing for the Bucks, but Hammond still didn't re-sign him.
so if Scotty liked D3n0's game and Hammbone did not want him, who is wearing the 'big boi pants' in this dysfunctional family?
Perhaps that very situation led to the mistrust of each other that seems to exist today.
Time and again Delfino's sporadic shot making seems to define, for many,
his entire game. When in fact Carlo's game is everything beyond shooting.
Hear the compliments by Skiles and now his present coach in McHale,
and "he's a guy any team would be...proud/happy...to have..."
The guy does struggle at times with his shot. Let he who is without
such fault stand up. I miss the guy>
Delfino's fate was determined when Kohl made Skiles stay for another season. Something had to be done to get him out of the starting lineup.
I don't care what compliments Skiles or McHale give Delfino. Delfino is a role player. The Bucks are already filled with role players. That is one of their many problems. A lot of role players, no stars.
...and he had Fun, Fun, Fun, till Ol Hammy took Delfino away...............
I never labeled his role {B.R.A.)
He did what he had too, and was asked of. That is part of the point.
Start? Sure. Bench? OK. No muss. No fuss. Just hard work.
I get the log jam issue here. Another Hammond creation. Hence, sacrifaces are made. Del Fino being just that. Decisions / choices
needing to be made. My sense is Skiles wanted to keep him, and was
out voted? Just a guess. And keep in mind...we are talking about a guy who makes around Three Mill> a year. Peanuts.
Re: Kstein & Skiles clearing out his office:
"A week or so ago {Unkc}
and I were lamenting on this issue whose roots were in May/June. He sited
RealG/M has having the story. RealG/M simply quoted and built a story around
the --YAHOO--piece which was the primary resource in the inception of this topic"
Not true, Kstein.
I was reading RealGM Bucks forum at the time (May/June) when the "insider" posters at that site had first hand information on Skiles clearing out his office.
Re: BCJ & no accountability from Skiles:
I'd say there is a double standard. There is plenty of accountability for any player not named Jennings, Ellis or Dunleavy. But when it comes to those three, has anyone ever read or heard Skiles complain about shot selection, running plays or defense? As I have said before, the Bucks offense has been totally greenlighted.Hide replies
U r correct sir.......................RealGM moderator, Paul Pressey was all over the Skiles Saga last spring.
I would agree with your assessment on Jennings, Ellis or Dunleavy.
I wouldn't. Skiles has, if not openly criticized, certainly mentioned to the press, his opposition to faulty shot selection from his backcourt, especially Jennings. And expressing innuendo of all players many times.
So, Yahoo got the story from R/GM?
Either way, source aside, it was news to me up until a week or two ago.
Why is Skiles still our coach?!!!!! At the end of the article I read by Luke Adams he states not only does Skiles not want to return because he too questions the direction of the team(We don't build through the draft but we also don't attempt to sign a high price free agent or trade for one. Just middle of the road guys year in year out.)but it finishes with we want to do what we can to resign him even if he's not interested at this point. Why can't we fire an owner?! with talent on our roster we brought in guys like Terry Porter, Stotts, Coach K etc....and then with a roster that obviously is ready to be rebuild with youth we bring in another coach who is better at coaching veterans then rookies. Skiles has benched Harris for the last month, benched Henson until the last few games and chose to play players early that will not be part of our future. Jennings will be resigned. Sanders, Mbah a moute, Harris, Henson, Lamb, Udoh. Those guys need to be playing in the position that they can succeed in and be getting significant time there. Udoh looks great! as Sanders backup, not our starting PF. Mbah a moute looks great! as our starting PF not SF until Henson is ready to take over. Lamb looks very good. at SG or nothing. cut Joel Pryzbilla and sign a pg cause this kid is not our backup PG when theres an injury! Harris Should be backing up Dunleavy who offensive can score whether hes on the bench or in the starting lineup. Enough with bench bull**** so once we're down we can put in offense. Start with offense and let the other team come back while we're resting our offense. That feels better! Lets trade our expiring contracts and draft pick for Cousins. He has an attitude problem but players coming to Milwaukee usually squashes that. or if we don't want a superstar quality player then trade everyone not in our future for draft picks. Choose a f***ing path and stick with it Herb and John!!!!!!!!!!!Hide replies
First of all, we'd have to know if Kohl actually cares about the Bucks improving and winning.
First of all, we'd have to know if Kohl actually cares about the Bucks improving and winning.
Just for the remainder of the year {dan}.
Then, you'll be free of the man>
Fabulous uPside for the Faker game if sUPA man Or other big Men are out:
"Howard has a torn labrum in his right shoulder, and Gasol has a concussion after taking an elbow in the face late in Sunday night's loss to Denver. Hill, a key backup to both starting big men, has a right hip injury."Hide replies
Kobe-Wan Kenobi has them right where he wants them, he doesn't appreciate having to share the spotlight.
What's Smush doing these daze??? maybe he's like to give The Mamba a hand?
The Lakers are a mess.
Karma...kicking in>
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.Too bad theres nobody to be opportunistic with on that roster.
Fogerhtey, we could have had Robert Sacre to add to our stable of BIGG men but now the Fake Show is gonna need him!!
He// I'd be looking long and hard at Royce White at this point.
Maybe Dr. Buss can borrow the Madden Bus so they can drive him 'coast to coast'?
I said it before, sign him to a "home games only" contract. Half the price and it'd create a special home atmosphere.
Theres alot of roster spots and he can be inactive till they fix him.
So we have a coach who doesn't want to be here, a gm who needs to make a major move to balance his roster, again, and an owner who quite frankly has a track record of not making the right moves.Hardest thing to do is ell the team. GM needs to bust a move big time and someone brought up Rudy Gay. Why not? Whats it going to take?Putting a very capable sf in the lineup is intriguing to say the least.A26 year old 18 pt., 6 rebound decent defender that has career 45% shooter seems like the guy I want. I really want to see what effect that would have on the twins game. I'd make them throw in Tony Wroten to boot.Who would they take? Ersan,Gooden,Harris? I mean c'mon no risk no reward.A talent in the top 50 in the league is whats needed, and theres not many available. As for Skiles, the search had better be on.I still think Skiles is a good coach in the right place , this just isn't it.Hide replies
Sorry, but this season reeks of 2008 when everybody in the world knew that Larry Harris was going to be fired after the season and Kohl shut down any possibility of trades, regardless if they would have helped the team or not. And predictably, the results this time will be the same.
Stay the course, don't do anything until after the season, remain mediocre- nothing ever changes with the Bucks.
The Titanic is sinking and the owner is on the phone with his insurance company making sure he's covered at replacement value.
Jennings,Ellis,Gay,Henson,Sanders.......Bench ...Udrih,Lamb,Dunleavy,Moute,Udoh.
good work, Special Agent Man 20, you just managed to get Rudy for G00dBar, Sammy and Sova?
Had to throw in Harris and a case of PBR.
Actually {Shivas} now is the perfect time to dump salaries, and thus,
make moves. Rid yourself of what hasn't worked, free up cash, dump
old contracts, and do whatever you can to clear house thus making
Options available for incoming suits. Sammy D / Pryz to contenders.
IF ya cant' rid yourself of Gooden by way of trade, then he'll be an amensty
man come July; least this team is saddled for two more years? Move Ellis. Create space. Widen the FA Money gap. Loose the dead wood.
What this team needs right now is one giant cleansing enema, right down to Drew's wierd beard. Or a win, which will of course drag back out the Phenom 4 All Star Cult....
Gotta get that nurse from Blink 182's 'Enema of the State' to administer.
We're all calling for a decision and a direction but the franchise refuses to put their foot down one way or the other. This hemming and hawing is depleting the fan-base in Milwaukee and wearing thin on the diehards.
Whether or not this JS running blog commentary agrees on BJ, Ellis, Skiles, Hammond, Kohl or a new arena is a moot point but we all are deadset on seeing some sort of direction for our beloved franchise.
What is the point of this season if Skiles is out? What is the point of this season if Hammond can't put it together? What is the point of this season if our leader Jennings doesn't want to try and/or be here?
It's getting old folks.
Please release Skiles, Hammond, and move the dead-end or repetitive pieces.
Let Joe Wolf run double duty. Keep Henson, Larry, and possibly Luc. That's it. The rest aren't franchise builders and are expendable for picks or young unproven players. If you happen to get Jarrett Jack, Millsap and D. Wright in there go with it.
Go after Budenholzer for coach Nikola Pekovic in free agency. Reset.Hide replies
The very questions that very well should have began in MAY / JUNE of last summer...The very reason I kicked this thing up a week ago having not heard this piece of -gossip/news/whatever. It certainly was "new" to me.
Hence, my deliberation as to ALL the implications such an issue as, and the crossroad-issues it presents.
At that crossroad are the questions (rural) asks above. This is the arguement that should have created a sheet-storm in the summer into the new season.
"WHY" indeed {rural}?
Found within Aldridge's NBA.com piece on Skiles not returning.
"Keeping Ellis and Jennings together would be crucial to any long-term hopes of building a contending team. "
Shall we agree to disagree Mr. Aldridge? Long-term!?
JS not touching the Skiles hullabaloo.
Headline I 'd like to see. Herb donates $200 mil. to new arena fund,donates the team to the state to be run as the Packer organization is.
On the other hand, the Bucks have only $30 million in guaranteed salary next year, mostly tied up in young developing talent, value priced mid level talents(and Drew Gooden), both GM and Coach at the end of their contracts, and an owner probably ready to head south to God's Fillibuster. They haven't traded away all their picks, don't owe $40 million to Pau, or $60 million to Amare, and don't have any talented prima-Donnas in management that will need to be eased out to pasture.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Bucks offered on Craigslist Miami, looking to trade for an upscale place near the Sea Isle Marina......
Meanwhile, if you got the scratch, could you imagine a more low drama entrance into the world of Stern Hates Me?Hide replies
I bet whoever has the stuff to fix this broken blog, could be just the Internet Savant, ready to make a quick Billion and buy him out.
'head south to God's Fillibuster'? Git back in that spidey hole Glemm!!!!
I think that the JSonline TIA is busy working in conjunction with the Bigg SteinWay in order to eradicate the puppet brigade. Mundane tasks such as anonymous posters will have to take a back seat.
Why must any "anonymous" post immediately be attributed to a "puppet"? Puppets don't need to post anonymously as they are puppets........
I feel like a an ultimately triumphant antagonist from a JS Online game of whack-A-mole. Whack this, Nickels! That post was me, BTW............
Hey dubya, have you noticed JS is selling sponsorship in words over on the Jennings post? "Backup" brought to you by cloud.com???? This new money making enterprise brought to you by the letter "F" and the letter................?
Holy Poulan Weadeater Independence Bowl brought to you by MasterCard, Batman!
That's an outstanding marketing ploy, Bucker00!! I was thinking of putting WingNutt Enterprises branding on some of those buggies but then I saw the damage that Levi and his boyz could do with a titanium Louisville Slugger. The fabulous uPside is that now I finally know what the colloquialism 'Fix your Buggy' really means.
The puppets are like flies at a pick-nic.
Ya know there there/ wish they weren't/ and carry on enjoying the day.
Outside of that I have no issue with them. At this stage wingo, seriously,
I rarely partake. Makes for an improved experience. Something I fear
(bcj), and others chose to handle diffferently.
They Just Left>>>
Actually, you paint a favorable picture of why NOW is the time to make some of those moves just echoed in the 'reply' below. Its a nice beginning for the new regime to NOT be saddles with such things.
I have my moments..............
Now lets get those damn puppets, are ya with me?
Maybe the Skowling1 should hang out witt those Amish Mafia dudes and learn to speak in that strange dialect? That might scare the glimmer twins into sh00ting straight?
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- 1993: Ron Weasley attempts to telephone Harry Potter, but fails to understand the concept and instead shouts deafeningly into the receiver.
- 1995: Cedric Diggory's memorial service takes place at Hogwarts.
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Soto Zen teachers like to say Practice is Enlightenment Itself. In other words, we sit Zazen and practice Buddhism, not to realize Enlightenment, but because Zazen and practice are already Enlightenment fully realized! Whats more, totally piercing and bringing to life the meaning of that is . finally realizing Enlightenment!
Sounds complicated, but to explain the meaning, I sometimes say that our Practice is like piloting a plane thats already arrived with every inch of sky
Most people think that the reason to fly the plane is to get to the airport over the horizon. Most people are flying flying flying to get to that airfield of realization, where the runway is lit up with enlightenment. Once they get there, the trip will be complete and they will have finally arrived!
But in Zen Master Dogens view, the point of flying the plane is to fly the plane. Each moment by moment of flying is a constant arriving at the destination right here and right here and, now, right here. Every inch of the trip is complete in itself, nothing to add to it or take away. Nonetheless, the constant moment-to-moment flying must be done skillfully and with care, diligently.
The plane has no place to get to, yet the skillful pilot keeps the plane in the air in fair weather or foul, while the deluded pilot runs into unnecessary turbulence and, perhaps, puts life into an out of control spin. We must keep flying diligently, not taking our eyes off the instruments for a second yet each instant is Total Arrival, fulfilled and complete no terminal from which we first departed, no goal over the horizon that is not right here.
If you think that the destination is distant, well, it always is. On the other hand, if you just rest complacent and take your hands off the controls now because we are already arrived, the plane will crash! Quite the high-flying Koan!
Whats more, from time to time we see clearly that the plane is Buddha, as is the pilot, as is the air and the clouds, as is the flying: going going going, yet ever arriving --and-- arrived at the port of perfect realization.
Turn the plane left, Buddha goes left. Turn the plane right, Buddha goes right. Up down up down; Buddha. Keep it level and balanced; Buddha. Lose balance, fly while drunk, go into a spin, run out of fuel, hit life's mountain; Buddha.
Oh, sure, we have a far off destination to get to called "Buddhahood International" ... and it may take long flying, maybe countless lifetimes of flying to get there. Yet this Practice teaches us that every inch of sky along the way is "Buddha" too ... and that we just arrive back where we left, and where we never left ... but also better than we were and closer to our goal than before.
Thus we fly with Captain Buddha, and seek to avoid the mountains. That is practice-enlightenment.
Have a good flight.
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U.S. Seeks to Reassure Trade Partners After Obama Cancels Trip
Secretary of State Kerry Stands In for the President in Indonesia
NUSA DUA, Indonesia—U.S. cabinet members sought to reassure trade partners over the weekend that the partial government shutdown won't affect America's long-term foreign engagements, after President Barack Obama backed out of a pair of summits in Asia to deal with the crisis back home.
Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting that is being held in Bali, Indonesia, placed the blame for the shutdown squarely on Congress and urged lawmakers to end it, saying they "need to think long and hard about the message that we send to the rest of the world when we can't get our own act together."
Mr. Kerry, who will stand in for Mr. Obama at the meeting of 21 countries that is focused mostly on trade issues, said Saturday that other leaders had expressed understanding of Mr. Obama's predicament, which comes as China is also seeking to extend its influence in the rest of Asia.
"Our efforts here are ongoing and very focused," Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker told reporters here Sunday, adding that the talks in Bali wouldn't be affected by the shutdown. She said U.S. businesses were hoping "this will all get resolved in the next week or so."
Mr. Obama has canceled major overseas visits to Asia in the past. In 2010 he called off trips to Indonesia and Australia amid a debate over health care at home and also the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Last year, he skipped APEC in Russia because it clashed with the closing stages of the presidential election campaign.
But his administration has repeatedly affirmed the U.S.'s commitment to building stronger ties in the region, often referring to America as a Pacific power.
Mr. Kerry said scrapping the trip upended an opportunity to build Mr. Obama's dialogues with President Vladimir Putin of Russia and China's President Xi Jinping. But he played down the potential fallout, calling the government shutdown a "moment of political silliness" that would pass. He stressed that U.S. commitments to maritime security and trade talks in Asia are intact.
Separately, the U.S. and Russia are set to hold their first high-level talks since sealing a deal to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and the onset of an apparent warming between Iran and the West, according to the Associated Press. Mr. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss both issues on the sidelines of the summit in Indonesia. They will be comparing notes on progress made since they negotiated the Syria agreement, and also talk about Iran and efforts to get it to come clean about its nuclear program, according to the AP.
Meanwhile, the consequences of the shutdown are mounting. Hours after the White House said Friday that Mr. Obama wouldn't travel to Asia, the administration's lead trade negotiator canceled a round of talks in Brussels for what would be the largest-yet bilateral free-trade agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, between the U.S. and the European Union. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said his team lacked the staffing and financial resources to make the trip.
On Sunday, leaders largely brushed off Mr. Obama's absence and suggested that talks were advancing on a nascent agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The pact, which includes the U.S., Japan and 10 countries that together make up almost 40% of global economic output, would be the biggest in the world since the Doha round of WTO talks stalled a decade ago.
Negotiators say the trans-Pacific talks are in their final stages after several years of increasingly intense negotiations, but that the sensitivity of the remaining issues makes the goal to complete talks by the end of the year ambitious.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on a panel that "we prefer a U.S. president who is able to travel and fulfill his international duties to one who is preoccupied with his national domestic preoccupations," but also that he understood Mr. Obama's priorities.
On the ground in Bali, the cancellation has meant a change in logistics for a trip that was months in the planning. At the Grand Hyatt resort where officials said Mr. Obama had planned to stay, U.S. diplomats and other officials said they were reeling with the realization that the trip was off. On Sunday, some said they had been at the hotel for a week and had been waiting to move off-site once Mr. Obama arrived to accommodate the president's huge security detail and staff.
But for area residents, who have been subject to gate checks and prohibited from driving into the resort community on their motorbikes and private vehicles for days, little has changed.
One restaurant employee at the Hyatt said she wasn't disappointed, pointing to Mr. Obama's visit to Bali for regional summits two years ago, when his popularity was sky high in a country in which he lived for a time as a boy. "He was just here," she said. "I saw him then."
Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo pointed out that the shutdown began Oct. 1, after negotiators from the U.S. had already made the trip halfway around the globe to Bali. "I think they were all here before" the shutdown, he said. "So I don't know if they have tickets to go back, but at least they're here."
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1 Mar 2012 5:40 AM #1
How do create a sencha build from designer 2.0 generated files
When i use the commands from the 'Getting started with Ext JS 4" guide, to create a production build from the designer 2.0 generated files:
sencha create jsb -a designer.html -p app.jsb3
sencha build -p app.jsb3 -d .
I end up with empty files, the jsb3 file doesn´t list any files in the files array.
What am i doing wrong ? Do i have to add the files manually to the jsb3 file ?
Best regards
7 Mar 2012 6:41 PM #2
Something will need to change in order for the designer and the SDK build tools to work together.
I found out from this post
that the SDK tools do not work when you put a store or model into the app.js file (designer.js). However, there is no way to put those into a controller class with the designer.
7 Mar 2012 7:29 PM #3
7 Mar 2012 7:33 PM #4
If I were writing my controller by hand, I would do something like this:
Ext.define('MyApp.controller.MyController', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', stores: [ 'MyStore' ], models: [ 'MyModel' ] });
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Ah, I didn't notice that down there in the properties. Thank you.
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Coggins' return sparks Sacred Heart over Crosby
WATERBURY — David Coggins was really nervous before Friday night's game, wondering out loud, "Is this real? Am I really out here?"
It was a natural feeling. Soon those nerves faded and reality set in for the Sacred Heart High wide receiver in a good way.
Coggins caught first-half touchdowns of 64 and 22 yards, added a third score on the opening kickoff of the second half and also intercepted a pass to lead the Hearts to a 33-14 win over Crosby at Municipal Stadium.
"I just tried to give it my all," said Coggins. "It felt great to finally be out there."
It was Coggins' first game since having his right ankle surgically repaired in August 2011.
He also missed the first four games of this season after the CIAC suspended him for the first month of the season because of his part in recruiting violations involving Naugatuck High.
He said recently that he was prepared to make the most of the final six games of his high school career. From the outset Friday, Coggins appeared to have suffered no ill effects from his injury, tracking down Crosby's Roshawn Gainey on the opening kickoff to prevent a touchdown after a 61-yard gain.
"I had absolutely no problems with the ankle," said Coggins. "It felt great to be back with my teammates. I can't believe it's been 14 months since I was hurt (during a
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scrimmage). I just tried to prepare myself the best that I could."
Sacred Heart quarterback Javon Martin, also making his first appearance following a four-game suspension, didn't waste any time in looking for Coggins on the Hearts' first scoring opportunity. The left-handed Martin hit Coggins in stride near the Crosby 19, completing a 64-yard scoring strike with 1:27 left in the first quarter.
"That seemed like old times," said Martin.
They connected on a 22-yard touchdown, off a swing pass, in the second quarter to up the Hearts' lead to 13-0.
Coggins used his speed again to start the second half, taking the kickoff along the left sideline and crossing the center of the field before sprinting the rest of the way untouched.
"David is an elite player and a special kid," said Sacred Heart coach Cortez Johnson. "It's not just his athletic talents. He also has great leadership abilities. He's not a big vocal guy. He's a doer. He made some really big defensive plays, too. The other players gravitate toward him. He makes everyone better around him. They all stepped up their game."
Including Martin and fullback-linebacker Xavier Woods, who were also suspended four games by the CIAC.
"I was really excited to be out there," said Martin. "We all were. Tonight was a total team effort."
Woods felt that he needed to get sharper on defense, but that will come soon enough.
"It was good to see all three of us out there again," said Woods. "We all knew how important this game was for us. We are back."
After the game, about a dozen Sacred Heart female fans serenaded Coggins with "Happy Birthday" to commemorate his 18th birthday.
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How would the meaning in the following phrase change if "monies" is replaced with "money"?
universities would be diverted from basic research by the lure of new development monies from "the marketplace,"
How would the meaning in the following phrase change if "monies" is replaced with "money"?
Garner in Modern American Usage has a good entry on this. He says:
While money generally functions in collective senses (we made a lot of money on that deal), moneys is frequently used, especially in financial and legal contexts, to denote "discrete sums of money" or "funds" (many federal and state moneys were budgeted for disaster relief).
So if you want to emphasise that the funds are coming from various sources, use the plural moneys or monies, otherwise use money as the more common and unmarked variant.
The collective noun dilemma again.
Soils = types of soil
Monies = instances of money
Equipments = instances of equipment
IMO, the plurality of instances of equipment should still be "equipment" not "equipments".
Datas & Schemas? Why can't the engineers in Google and Microsoft get it? That
Money is the more logical and the preferred form, but monies is a frequent variant.
In the "Oxford Dictionary of English", Second Edition, Revised - eBook Copyright 2010, we read:
Also, in "The New Oxford American Dictionary", Second Edition - eBook Copyright 2008, we read:
Considering that your sentence is not expressed in financial context, I would say that money fits better your case.
Use monies when referring to money collected from different countries' denominations. Otherwise, money is considered plural (just look in your wallet)! That's not a collection of monies, but an assortment of money (US dollars/cents). Universities may collect tuition for national and international students. Thus, they've collected monies; national and international funds.
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The general Ethnic Studies minor comprises 6 courses:
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ES 144 – Collegiate Seminar –Multicultural Thought
ES 196– Capstone Project
One Upper Division Elective from each area below*:
Ethnic Groups & Identity: This area includes courses
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Communication 106: Intercultural Communication
Politics 110: Minority Politics
Arts & Literature: Students will examine competing notions of identity and community that emerge in the literary and artistic expressions of U.S. writers and artists of color, e.g.
Modern Languages 150: Chicano/Chicana Literature
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What was the last video game that got you really excited prior to release?
I haven't been "on edge" for a video game release since StarCraft II, however I feel as if Diablo III is on a whole different level. Waiting 12 years since Diablo II for a sequel is enough to get any hardcore Diablo fan excited. I have 5 copies of the LE edition pre-ordered (for myself and friends).
So what was the last video game that got you hyped up?
FYI: Diablo III release date is: May 15, 2012 :) WOOT WOOT!
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Gran Turismo 2. It's been a while since I was a gamer, and I wasn't much of one to begin with.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ruined my excitement for game releases. I am permanently scarred.
ME3. Which I can't currently play due to my system crashing last night with the yellow light of death. :/
Left 4 Dead 2. Last time I also pre-ordered a game.
I was pretty excited for the Battlefield 3
And it lived up to my expectations
Modern Warfare 3.
I try to avoid pre-release and pre-order hype for the sake of my wallet and my expectations. Since you can spend $60 and get a complete dud or an incredible gem, i'd rather wait and have a little better idea of what I will get for my money and wait for the price to come down. Also, I have a big backlog of games I haven't played or finished yet, so I try not to get too excited for new stuff when I have so much to take advantage of already.
That being said, I did pre-order a couple of games last year with Battlefield 3 being the one I was unusually excited about. I was not disappointed.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Good game, but didn't quite live up to the hype IMO.
Most recently Mass Effect 3, and Skyrim.
RAGE... turned out to be a disappointment :(
Now waiting for Borderlands 2 :)
I've got guild wars 2 pre-purchased.
First open beta is next weekend, can't wait :)
Duke Nukem Forever
Pac Man on Atari 2600. Man was that a disappointment.
Im pretty excited for Diablo 3 mainly because I grew up playing diablo ii. The only game ive ever preordered though was portal 2
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Kings Quest 2. After the first one I couldnt wait to get the next and it kept going with each one after. I almost got that excited over Myst 2 but nothing can top Kings Quests for me-not even all the fancy games they come out with now.
Spelunky for the Xbox currently has me excited
The games I'm currently most excited about:
Guild Wars 2
Bioshock Infinite
I'm excited about the release of Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition (for iPad). I don't know if I'll play it, but it means that Planescape: Torment might be next.
Also, I'm somewhat excited by The Last of Us, the same way I was excited about Dead Island. I don't think I'll be AS disappointed with The Last of Us, but I've learned to temper my excited about post-apocalyptic games which are (not) about zombies.
@okham: That sucks bro, I had to send my Xbox360 twice! ME3 is pretty good though
Gears of War 3 for me. I actually went to the midnight release, and took the following day off work. Only time in my life I've ever done that.
Mojang's (of Minecraft fame) new game: 0x10c.
As a programmer/engineer, I think this game is going to do some great things for the those interested in starting up in software. It's also going to be super fun!
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I'm very excited for Bioshock Infinite and Octodad: Dadliest Catch, atm. Last game to release I was excited for was Skyrim, as I'm a huge elder scrolls fan.
Maybe "Space Quest IV", but only because some friends and I played through the first three over the course of a few weeks in our highschool computer lab (to which, I had an unauthorized key...oh yeah - we were cool!)
Either Portal 2 or Homefront. Not sure which.
None... Most of the time I am out of the loop when news and hype comes of a new game. And I am also (most of the time) sitting on hardware way out of spec to be able to play the latest games.
This has changed recently, just spent too much money (I refuse to add up the cost of the parts) building myself a new rig specifically to play some of the latest games. We will see how long that lasts before I am out of date again.
Counter strike source. Now? Cs:go. Seriously cant wait i dream about it sometimes
Most recently, that has been released: Mass Effect 3. Still excited, and waiting: StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (and, after that, whatever the 3rd one is going to be called)
Shadowrun Returns
Technically it's "backing" the game on Kickstarter, with a 9 month wait.
Man, wow... 9 month pre-order... AND I'm SO !#$%'ing EXCITED. I've been waiting for. This game since the early/mid 90's, after Shadowrun for SNES promised a Shadowrun 2, that nevermaterialized.
The best part is, Jordan Weisman - original creator of the whole Shadowrun universe is making the game with his new company. Man, just the prospect of a simple 2D RPG that doesn't even have a screenshot yet, is makin me squeal like a fraggin grade school girl. Can't. Wait!
I was excited for Gears of War 3 when it came out and am currently waiting for Bioshock Infinite to come out :)
Q-bert for the Colecovision. Many others count as "anticipated", but that one is the last "really excited" one.
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition.... been awaiting it anxiously for the past 2 months and it's more then living up to the expectation!
Hubby and I have been waiting for Diablo III since we finished DII & the expansion, DII:LOD. So, we're VERY excited about DIII's release next month, and even more so after playing the beta all weekend. One CE & one DE pre-purchased.
We're even more excited about Guild Wars II. No release date yet, but we did pre-purchase and will be playing the beta for the first time this coming weekend. :::squee!!!:::
Otherwise, I can't really say there've been any games that we were on pins & needles waiting anxiously for... last one probably was DII:LOD, actually.
Starcraft 2 and now Diablo 3. And Guild Wars 2.
Myst. Don't like shooters, did enough in real life.
Portal 2. Was a long before that when I really looked forward to a game, probably Kingdom Hearts 2 years ago.
Arkham City, before that I honestly can't remember, maybe Halo 2. Arkham City kind of brought me back as a gamer.
I got really excited for Hellgate: London thinking it was going to be a huge advancement from the Diablo series (I know they're seperate games/worlds, but there were similarities besides the people who made it).
What a huge let down...
Now, I'm actually looking forward to D3.


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The description sly as a fox has special meaning for some residents of Folsom Place on Durango�s east side.
Beginning sometime in May, their copies of The Durango Herald would not always be waiting in the driveway, on the porch or on the lawn when they started their day.
�My paper would sporadically be missing,� Bill Bolden said. �It was a mystery because Liz (carrier Elizabeth Bollins) has delivered it for 10 years.�
Across the street, Jerry Poer and John Malarsie also didn�t get their newspaper from time to time.
Bollins was as puzzled as her customers.
�I know I delivered the newspapers,� Bollins said. �I tried different locations, but the papers sometimes were missing.�
It turns out that a fox that had dug a den under Malarsie�s backyard shed was bringing newspapers home from pre-dawn excursions.
Even shreds of orange delivery bags were found.
�I filled the hole and she dug it out again,� Malarsie said. �I also found single garden gloves, a fuzzy toy unicorn and a dish towel.�
No one in the neighborhood has been missing a newspaper for a couple of weeks, leading residents to think that maybe the fox and her kits have moved on.
Bollins, who has had the route for 13 years but hadn�t seen foxes in town until three years ago, thinks a dog flushed the foxes from their lair.
�I think the mom moved the kits to a new den,� Bollins said.
It�s hard to tell where foxes will be seen, Patt Dorsey, Colorado Parks and Wildlife area wildlife manager in Durango, said Friday.
The red fox adapts well to populated areas, Dorsey said. It finds food such as mice around houses, and people afford them protection against larger predators such as coyotes, she said.


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Can someone please share their experiences if they have developed Sencha App using VS2010(.Net C#). I am wondering if it is possible to dev Sencha App using ASP.Net MVC?
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I was working on an NPC summoner for our 4E game this week and am a bit mystified. Given that controlling a summoned creature requires a standard action and characters only get one standard action, only one summoned creature can be directed per turn (though there are a few with "default" actions). Ignoring the theme & logistics of this design decision, is there any feat/power/combination that would enable a summoner to direct more than one summoned creature per turn?
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From an NPC side, the best decision is to call the person a summoner, but have them summon fully-fledged enemies as a standard. The enemies will come out of the encounter budget, and generally would work like a standard encounter.
From a PC side, there are many feats to assist in the action economy. The Druid's creatures all come with an instinctive action, allowing a very hands-off approach. The Druid Commanding Form feat provides a free minor-action for summons. And the Druid's Epic Primal Summoning Expertise allows a free standard as minor action.
The Wizard Tome of Forty Steps provides a free move.
The thing to remember is that a summoned creature will be doing more damage than an equivalent at-will. If it does less, then the action cost will be reduced to, for example, a minor action. (See the remarkable Artificer power Animate Arbalester). Also note that various class features can inform the capability of summons.
So if by "direct" you mean "tell them what to do" you certainly can direct more than one a round. If you mean "direct them to attack", though that is different.
Usually the attack actions require a standard action from the summoner because the summoned creature is the vehicle for the summoner's attack and that is by design. Getting more attacks in that way would require high level time altering effects. If you want multiple attacks in a round, you can move the the summoned creature to maximize the chances of opportunity attacks occuring.
If the summoner is an NPC, you're basically free to do whatever you like because monsters (including NPCs) don't have to follow the same rules as PCs.
There are already several examples for this. One example can be found in the Scales of War adventure Den of the Destroyer[DDI] where an Elf bounty hunter NPC uses 2 figurines of wonderous power to summon 4 (!) creatures that act as individual monsters and are not dependent on their master's actions.
If - for whatever reason - you need a rules conform way of doing that you could easily give the summoner a special ritual that allows his summons to act on their own. Of course, this ritual would require components that are unavailable to the players (virgin sacrifices, etc.). ;-)
Since you seem to talking about an NPC, you might want to try a magic item of some type. Maybe something like a wand or staff that changes the control action requirement to a minor action on the summoned creature.
This would give the NPC a stronger impact in each round. Give the item a restriction of some type so the party can not use it.
They can still convert it to residuum or, the item can be some part of the story line and the party has to deal with it, if they can. This would give the item a reason for existing.


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The ladies of "Basketball Wives" Miami is threatening to shut it down unless VH1 pays up. According to TMZ,filming began last week for the 5th season, but Shaunie O'Neal, Evelyn Lozada, Tami Roman and Suzie Ketcham contracts are not locked in.
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The "Wives" are in the process of renegotiating their contracts and they all want major pay raises, claiming the show does quite well for the network.
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A classic example of homeomorphism is between a sphere missing one point and a plane
To see this, place a sphere on the plane so that the sphere is tangent to the plane. Given any point in the plane, construct a line through that point from the "north" pole (assuming the point of tangency is the south pole); this necessarily intersects the sphere in a unique point other than the north pole. Similarly, given any point on the sphere other than the north pole, the line through the north pole and that point will intersect the plane at a unique point. Thus, the homeomorphism is established.
Since there is a homeomorphism between a sphere missing one point and a plane, does it make sense to say that a sphere has one more point than a plane, even though both sets are infinite and uncountable?


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Tatiana Obeso began ballet training in her native Peru at the age of seven. Her career there included eight years of training and performing around the world with the Ballet Nacional of Peru. She received a Kennedy Center Fellowship of the Americas award in Ballet in 1996.The prestigious fellowship brought her to the United States where she trained and dance with the Boston Ballet and Suzanne Farrell Dance Company in Washington, DC. Ms. Obeso later served as a lead dancer with Margot Parsons Dance Company, Cadence Dance Project, Impulse Dance Company, Ace Entertainment Dance Company, Northern Ballet Company, and the Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble in several performances and different venues between 1996 and 2005. It was with this last group that Ms. Obeso participated in special performances for Pope John Paul II at the World Youth Day in Toronto, Canada in 2002.Her ballroom career started in 2000 when she began training with Studio 665 owner and former National 10 Dance Champion Mark Nocera.
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NEW ALBANY, Ohio — Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Wednesday that overseas strength pushed its net income to $25.1 million for the first quarter, compared with a loss of $11.8 million a year earlier.
As previously reported, revenue rose 22% to $837 million, helped by a 64% surge in international revenue.
Mike Jeffries, CEO and chairman of the board of Abercrombie & Fitch Co., said, "We are pleased with our first quarter results, which exceeded our internal objectives and reflected broad strength by brand, by channel, and by region. These strong results give us a solid start to achieving our goals for the year."
Abercrombie, which also runs the Hollister brand, is closing struggling stores in the United States and looking for other ways to trim costs, including combining its two U.S. distribution centers and trimming the size of its Gilly Hicks stores. The retailer is targeting new locations in China, Hong Kong, Paris and Dublin, among others.


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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Manhattan murder suspect was back in court Friday but this time, he went before the judge on a new rape charge.
Justin Taylor, 25, made his first appearance in Riley County District Court Friday afternoon by video conference from the jail. Judge David Stutzman conducted the hearing.
Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom.
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Riley County authorities named Taylor the suspect in the 2010 rape of a 57-year-old woman in Manhattan. He was already in the Riley County Jail, charged in a 2011 murder case.
A Riley County Police Department issued Wednesday stated: "On 6/25/2010 at 1:10 a.m. officers from the Riley County Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of Denholm and Kimball in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas for the report of a rape of a 57 year old female.The matter has been under investigation since that date. As a result of this investigation a suspect has been arrested by the Riley County Police Department and a charge of Rape, contrary to K.S.A. 21-3502(1)(A), was filed against Justin Charles Taylor (d.o.b. 12/29/1986) of Manhattan, Kansas on 2/22/2012 by the Riley County Attorney's Office..."
At his first appearance Friday, Judge Stutzman appointed a member of the Public Defender's Office to represent Taylor in his rape case. Another hearing was set for March 6, 2012 at 1 PM.
Riley County police and prosecutors won't reveal what led them to charge Taylor with the sexual assault, saying only that their investigation has been ongoing since June of 2010 when it was reported.
Justin Taylor is also preparing to stand trial for murder this April, stemming from a deadly beating in Manhattan's Aggieville district last summer. He is being represented by Larry McRell, Chief Public Defender for the North Central Regional Public Defender's Office.
Taylor has pleaded not guilty to Intentional 2nd Degree Murder. He is charged in the death of 31-year-old Kevin Cockrum, a former Army combat medic, who was brutally beaten in Manhattan's Aggieville district in the early morning hours of August 11, 2011 and died from severe head injuries the next day.
Taylor was arrested and charged in the case the week after Cockrum died and has been in the Riley County Jail as the case has progressed in court. Prosecutors say Taylor struck Cockrum in the head with a Maglite flashlight during a confrontation in an alley.
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Throughout Tell Me More's series, "Social Me," Rey Junco shares the research he's done as a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society into how how young people interact online.
While some parents might think that their kids are wasting time on social media sites instead of doing their homework, they could actually be helping to shape their own education. Junco describes for NPR's Michel Martin a potentially revolutionary educational tool. The technical term is 'learning analytics.' Junco says that is "the use of student-produced data to predict outcomes and tailor education."
Students leave a trail of data behind them as they navigate the Internet. Junco believes that there is a big opportunity here. His own research has already shown that "we can use things like how much time students spend on Facebook and what they do on Facebook to predict academic outcome."
Junco says this is already at play in our daily lives. "Think about how a website like Amazon.com knows the kinds of things you like, based on your shopping habits." He says we should imagine the same idea, applied to education. "We've got data well before a student will flunk a first exam or a quiz," he says. "So we can make some predictions about the things that they're doing, and how we might intervene before we get to that point."
That said, Junco admits that educators are not using learning analytics much. He explains that it is generally applied to course management systems — basically a fancy term for an online discussion board — to monitor the level and frequency of a student's interaction. But, this data is "very, very basic," Junco says, "so the predictive models are not as accurate as they could be."
Junco explains that this analysis requires resources. But he does point to consumer applications and services, like digital pedometers, that can monitor what you do online. "We know from the research that the act of monitoring and tracking your own behavior changes your behavior," he says.
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A lot of papers use these terms but I do not find a proper explanation of them. Can somebody tell the meaning / difference / intuition / application and if possible with an example.
Unified addition means that the formula you use for adding two points doesn't depend on whether they are equal. Simplifying point addition in the Weierstrass form somewhat $s=(y_A-y_b)/(x_A-x_b)$ when $A\neq B$ - this is "Adding". Otherwise $s=(3x_A^2-p)/{2y_A}$ when doubling a point.
The implementation of these steps would normally involve different code paths and this can lead to problems as information about the private key is leaked if you can monitor the power consumption or timing to work out which path was taken even if you can't see the numbers involved. See section one of Barbosa & Page. Also, Bernstein ,on page 3 talks about a stronger but related property called "completeness".
Page 15 of the same Bernstein paper explains "differential additions". Another Bernstein quote is
They are used to support fast addition on elliptic curves in the Edwards form.


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Racism - 12-25-2009, 09:09 AM
Decided to make this thread after the one millionth racism comment out of my mother. To discuss the topic of racism, discrimination based on origins and so on.
so, I'm raging at this: In Ireland, loads of people are completely racist against travelers just because they are. this is the mother of all Hypocrisy because the English treated us like animals when they occupied Ireland and now we're turning around and being similarly racist towards the traveler community. They have every right to their culture.
Oh and: Neo-F*cking-N@zis. they're f*gs, end of story =/ And if anyone thinks different after the events of WWII, then I pity that fool. In my opinion, nazi notions and/or political opinions are not to be entertained for three seconds, and any and all nazi demonstrations should be crushed before they begin. What right have they to their opinions if their opinions are that racism should be encouraged and people of certain religions should be killed on sight?
Yeah. That's two things I wanted to rant at something.
In short, I hate all racists. With a vengeance.
WikiLink: Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick. ~ Valkyrie Cain
Ill buy you a stick for Christmas. - Skulduggery Pleasant
racism is ridiculous. to me, i don't know how to explain it, it like dosn't exist as in it makes no sense. Thats like saying calico cats are dumb for eating because every color and breed of cat eats. as in purple,yellow,green,pink,brown,blue,caramel colored people (at least one if not more) do whatever the racist person is saying they do(as in only _______[<insert race here] colored people do this while at least one person of every race does that if not many many more!). Everyone can be trashy. everyone can be rude. Its not skin, blame it on the brain ;]. if racism should exist it should exist in the sense of wow that *brain* is rude. I dont know how to say what im trying to say but this is the best i can describe how i feel about the whole thing. :P
While I find the opinions of naz.is offensive, they do have a right to voice their opinions, within reason(that is if their speech incites violence in that moment or will put people in immediate danger). I know that sounds terrible, but freedom of speech also means we have to listen to the words of those who are bigoted, hateful, and completely full of it. I've seen KKK meetings in the south and while I always cringe inside at the thought, they technically are not breaking the law in any way, even if I find them distasteful. These type of groups never go away, they only morph into new hatreds, new fears.
For example, after 9-11, suddenly the US went into super crazy "I hate Muslims/Arabs" mode, which I think is ridiculous. It bothers me when these people are targeted just because of their ethnicity when that doesn't automatically make them terrorists(just like me being white doesn't automatically make me a part of the Aryan Brotherhood or the KKK). It used to be that the Jewish were the target of every ounce of hatred. They were per.secuted in witch hunts, blamed for plagues and failed crops, and all manner of ridiculous things. Catholics were per.secuted in the US when they immigrated here because we were a predominantly Protestant country. The Irish notoriously could not get a job when they came and had to work the worst jobs, similar to how we treat Mexicans today.
Its a matter of education. When people are uneducated, they simply associate a skin colour or ethnicity with certain traits without any further consideration of the actual person behind it all.
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Plus, something that a lot of people don't realise, is that racism is not confined to white people. Everyone, no matter what their colour or creed, can be racist. I hate it when for example, a black person rails about how awful racism is, and then calls a white person "cracker" or "honky" and does not seem to realise, that's racism too!
Exactly. Nowadays, racism against white people is practically at an equal level with racism against blacks. I've been called discriminatory white names, and heard black people being called discriminatory names as well. I hate how "racism", in the minds of many, is always "whites discriminating against blacks" when there are all sorts of racism.
That brings up the fact that in most rap songs I listen to the rappers, sometimes black, use the "N" word in the song, but then flip out if someone calls them that.
I also hate that whenever I call someone black or someone white I'm called racist. Thats not true at all, and its not used to descriminate against anyone. Black or white is used in our textbooks, so I'm sure its not racist.
i agree that associating whites against African americans (as in racism) is not all the racism that happens in the wrold(and it mainly doesn't happen anymore that much compared to about 40 years ago :[)
but that time in history was so major and had such an impact on the way people saw racism and saw how terrible it was between the two races that they automatically associate it with that time of great impact in the world or racism (i assume of course). But that doesn't make it right.
Also, the white man didn't create slavery. It already existed for centuries before the whites made it a business. Where do you think they bought the slaves from? From black tribes, of course. It just kind of bugs me that there are people who, even now, talk about "evil whitey" in that respect.
I once had this black girl come up to the bar and order a beer. I asked her for ID and she didn't have any. She said, "You're only asking me cuz I'm black." Actually no, dear, I'm asking you for ID cuz you don't look eighteen. I'd ask you whether you were black, white or rainbow coloured. -.-
Yeah, and I'm sure there's more types of slavery than black people being enslaved, not just them. There was also attempts to make slavery less harsh like the Code Noir in France, which said that all masters who killed slaves be punished. Yes, some of the things on this document were racist, but it had some rules for the masters to follow.
Everyone gets a first impression when they meet someone no matter what race they are, we make a assumption. Its the way we are as humans.
What's interesting, actually, is I have found less racism in NYC than in my small town. I think the overexposure to different races helps people since upstate, you basically only see white folks. I can walk into a store and not see anyone who is of a different colour, literally. It doesn't matter where, I can just guarantee it. It really helps to ferment stereotypes since no one really knows better truthfully. When your only exposure is bad exposure, you aren't going to think great.
I'll admit that the few black families in my town have not given me the best of impressions, though I've always genuinely felt it was them and not some "black" culture, which I find to be a ridiculous idea. Since moving to NYC, one of my closest friends is a black fellow. Me and him talk all of the time about everything. He certainly does not fit into the stereotype... He's far from it! Taking economics classes, has a stock portfolio from my understanding, and goes to techno gigs(and tries to recruit me as well).
That's true, Delaney! We come into situations with assumptions we have learned. Its almost impossible to do away with the bad lessons we have received since they are always nagging in the back of your mind.
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Mark down 2014 as the year the Canadian Opera Company put out an album with Broken Social Scene and Fucked Up. No, really. Broadsheet Music: A Year in Review is a collaborative effort between the The Globe and Mail and renowned record label Arts & Crafts, with the COC as a presenting partner, to create a diverse mix of songs based on the big issues and stories that affected the lives of Canadians this past year. These songs are collected in a free album featuring original songs created by diverse artists including celebrated indie collective Broken Social Scene, Polaris Music Prize winning hardcore punk band Fucked Up, Calgary's Reuben And The Dark, and songstress Tamara Williamson, among others.
Topics explored in this unique project include missing aboriginal women in Western Canada, the divisive battle for Jerusalem, sexual violence and a culture of silence, and the loss of comic Robin Williams. The project comes to life in audio, video, photography and editorial, with elements featured both online at globeandmail.com as well as in print. The album is made available as a free download for a limited time from Arts & Crafts.
"Broadsheet Music bucks the trend of traditional year-end best-of lists in a massive and meaningful way," said Jared Bland, Arts Editor of The Globe and Mail. "Together with our project partner Arts & Crafts and presenting partner Canadian Opera Company (COC), our goal was to commission a peerless collection of timeless songs, built by musical peers in a crystallized time. It is our gift to our readers, and the fans of these diverse and extraordinarily talented Canadian artists."
Working in collaboration with Arts & Crafts and music director Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene), a collection of unique Canadian artists assembled in late fall to create distinctive and impactful songs. You can hear the COC Ensemble Studio's own Karine Boucher and Owen McCausland on Fucked Up's song, "Voce Rubata", a seventeen-minute Italian opera in six acts looking at the misleading illusions of liberty and the voice.
"We are honoured to partner with The Globe on this ambitious and creative idea," said Jonathan Shedletzky, Project Manager of Arts & Crafts. "The project provided the opportunity for a diverse collection of our artists to collaborate on the creation of meaningful and challenging pieces."
This collaborative effort resulted in a 38-minute album of six songs covering a breadth of topics vital to our country and our time:
Visit tgam.ca/broadsheet to listen to Broadsheet Music: A Year in Review and read related content.
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By Ian Kyer
Don Giovanni is considered one of the greatest operas of all time. The French composer Charles Gounod referred to is as "that unequalled and immortal masterpiece." Virtually all of the lavish praise bestowed on this masterpiece is for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, its composer, but Don Giovanni is the work of two creative geniuses, not just one. The librettist Lorenzo da Ponte often does not get his fair share of the credit for this work. Da Ponte was quite a character. He was a fallen cleric, a womanizer and a gambler who regularly wore out his welcome in the cities where he worked (a character not unlike Don Giovanni himself). But there can be no doubt that he knew how to write for the opera. His other work for Mozart included The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.
Da Ponte's achievement with Don Giovanni is all the more amazing when you learn in his memoirs that he wrote its libretto at the same time as he wrote librettos for Vincente Martin y Soler's L'arbore di Diana and Antonio Salieri's Axur, Re d'Ormus – all three were hits at the time. In fact, they were all so successful that da Ponte would later wonder which was "the most perfect in words and music." Like life itself they were a mixture of happiness and sadness, tragedy and comedy.
How da Ponte carried off this triple play gives us an insight into his genius. He did not conceive of these stories afresh. In each case he built on the work of others. For Don Giovanni he started with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati that had been set to music not long before by Giuseppe Gazzaniga. Da Ponte, however, did not copy Bertati's work. He refined, improved, shaped and focused it.
His skill and sense of musical theatre is clearly demonstrated in how he turned Tarare, a French opera with libretto by Beaumarchais and music by Salieri, into one of the most popular operas of the day, Axur, Re d'Ormus. He and Salieri realized that Beaumarchais' approach would not suit the Austrian Emperor and the operagoers in Vienna – it was just too sparse for their taste. So they set out to adapt the words and the music for Viennese audiences. The original French version of the opera, for example, began badly. The opening was flat and did not capture the interest of the audience. Beaumarchais began his work with a prologue, followed by a dialogue in recitative. There was no drama. Da Ponte dropped the French opera's dull prologue and began his Italian version for Vienna with a lovers' duet, which served as an introduction to the returning war hero and his soon-to-be-abducted wife. This touching duet was followed by the wife's musical declaration of her love culminating in a further duet thereby setting the stage in a far more appealing and dramatic fashion. That was the creative genius of da Ponte and that is what he brought to Don Giovanni.
By the way, da Ponte's attempt to write all three operas simultaneously was not entirely successful. It was then customary for the composer and the librettist to work together on a new opera almost up to the time when the curtain was raised. It was a collaborative effort, important to the successful opening. The problem was that Don Giovanni was being staged in Prague. Da Ponte went off with Mozart to Prague only to be called back to Vienna days before Don Giovanni was to be debuted. The premiere of Axur, Re d'Ormus had been moved up in Vienna because of a royal visit, and Salieri, as the Imperial Kapellmeister, had first rights to da Ponte's services as the Court Poet. This was one of the cruel "tricks" that Salieri was said to have played on his rival Mozart. If, however, there was anyone to blame, it was the three-timing librettist. Even da Ponte with his theatrical genius could not be in two places at once.
In June 2008, the COC presented Giuseppe Gazzaniga's rarely-seen Don Giovanni (on which da Ponte based his libretto), performed by its Ensemble Studio members.
COC Ensemble Studio members Melinda Delorme as Donna Elvira and Jon-Paul Décosse as Pasquariello in Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni, 2008.
COC Ensemble Studio members Lisa DiMaria as Maturina and Adam Luther as Don Giovanni in Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni, 2008. Photos by Michael Cooper.
For more information about the COC's upcoming production of Don Giovanni in 2015, visit here.
Ian Kyer is the author of the novel, Damaging Winds about Antonio Salieri (ePub file available here). You can also listen to him as a guest on the National Arts Centre podcasts.
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The honeybees that live on the roof of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts have a great view, but they're probably too busy to notice it. Beekeeper Fred Davis reports that about 150 pounds of honey have been collected so far from the Four Seasons Centre hives. One thing he's noticed is that the honey that has been produced this year is darker and this indicates that it's gathered more from flowering trees and bushes and less from flowers. This same darker honey is being gathered from other downtown Toronto hives as well.
Darker honey is very flavourful and Fred finds that it tends to have more body than the lighter honey he gathers from some of his other hives. Some say that the health benefits of the darker honey made from the nectar of flowering trees is greater than honey that comes from wildflowers.
The honey is being bottled and will be ready for sale at the Four Seasons Centre bars sometime in the new year.
A big thank you to Fred, and the honeybees!
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Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001


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Tip Puts Lobbyist's Career on Hold
WASHINGTON— Mark Hayes was a Washington policy wonk on a long and steady ascent: a senior Senate health-care aide, a role writing President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul and a spin through the revolving door to a lobby firm where he banked 20 years of contacts.
A series of emails to a client was all it took to put that carefully crafted career on hold.
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On April 1, Mr. Hayes sent messages to an investment-research firm predicting a change in Medicare policy. The tip, forwarded to Wall Street, sparked a surge in health-insurance stocks and landed Mr. Hayes at the center of a federal investigation of Washington's political-intelligence business.
The lobbyist, 46 years old, has since been fired by one of his clients and is on leave from his employer, Greenberg Traurig LLP, according to people close to the firm. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing whether his actions violated insider-trading rules. Mr. Hayes didn't respond to requests for comment. His lawyer and the SEC declined to comment.
The episode is sending tremors through Washington's world of policy experts, lobbyists and Wall Street researchers. The investigation has signaled that federal prosecutors are trying to clamp down on what they see as the capital's loose oversight of market-moving information.
More broadly, it has shaken a city where acquiring and sharing information is a basic tool of business. Some insiders say the traditional ways of operating may need to change.
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It "is astounding that so many in Washington view the trading of unreleased government information as simply 'business as usual,'" said William Pewen, a former Republican health-care aide who also was on the Senate Finance Committee.
Among those leading the investigation into Mr. Hayes's activities is his former boss and friend, Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa). Mr. Hayes worked as Mr. Grassley's top health-care aide for over six years and the lawmaker once considered him a protégé.
Mr. Hayes, who hasn't been charged, has been interviewed twice by Mr. Grassley's staff.
"I valued Mark Hayes greatly on my committee staff, and I know him to be a good person," Mr. Grassley said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.
At issue for Mr. Hayes is whether his tip came from government officials, which legal experts say could violate insider-trading rules, or whether the email reflected his own analysis, which is legal.
Mr. Hayes told Mr. Grassley's investigators his prediction came from his own analysis, not a specific tip, Mr. Grassley's spokeswoman said. Mr. Hayes said one of the facts he used to make his call came from Mr. Grassley's current health-care aide, Rodney Whitlock, the spokeswoman said. Mr. Whitlock worked for Mr. Hayes for several years when the latter was a Grassley staffer.
During a meeting in March and in subsequent emails, Mr. Whitlock passed important information to Mr. Hayes, including that the Senate was planning a confirmation hearing for the interim head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the spokeswoman said.
"Rodney and Mark have talked regularly, as might be expected, given their positions," the spokeswoman said. "Rodney had no advance notice or knowledge" of the decision and didn't know Mr. Hayes worked for a political-intelligence firm, she said.
Friends of Mr. Hayes say he got in trouble partly because he did what he had been trained to do: build a network of contacts to ferret out policy information.
Mr. Hayes, born in Missouri, earned a pharmacy degree before getting a job with home-state senator, Kit Bond, a Republican. By the mid-1990s, he was drafting the Republican answer to the Clinton health-care plan. In 2003, as a staff member of the Senate Finance Committee, he helped draft the Medicare prescription-drug benefit bill.
He and his Democratic counterpart, Jonathan Blum, were known to former senate aides as the bill's "godfathers." Mr. Blum is now a senior official at the CMS, the agency that oversees Medicare. A spokesman for CMS declined to comment.
On the Finance Committee, Mr. Hayes played a significant role crafting Mr. Obama's health-care law. The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call said a former aide dubbed him "The 101st senator" due to his influence.
The Finance Committee has become a training ground for health-care lobbyists. More than 100 former committee aides have worked as lobbyists, more than any other committee, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Many of them gather once a year at the health-care "prom," a Health Policy Ball at a Ritz Carlton. Mr. Hayes has attended in the past, said a friend. Among other attendees is Katherine Hayes, his wife, a former a health-care lobbyist herself and now director of health policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit policy organization.
"To survive the hard times in this town, you have to be smart, respected and liked. Mark has all three attributes in spades and will be fine," said Chris Jennings, a longtime Democratic health-care consultant. Mr. Jennings once employed Mr. Hayes's wife as a lobbyist. He now advises the Bipartisan Policy Center, where she works.
In 2010, Mr. Hayes became a lobbyist. At Greenberg Traurig, he represented Humana Inc., among other health-care interests. Two years later, Mr. Hayes helped Greenberg Traurig land a contract with Height Securities, one of a rising number of firms that gathers information in Washington about policy on behalf of Wall Street traders.
On April 1, Mr. Hayes's services were required. At 3:09 p.m., Height policy analyst Justin Simon emailed asking about rumors the government would reverse course on previously announced cuts in funding for health insurers. A few minutes later, Mr. Hayes responded he had learned from "very credible sources" that CMS would restore the funds.
Height shot the news to Wall Street, prompting the stock spike. After the Journal reported the chain of events, investigators from the SEC, CMS and Mr. Grassley's office began looking into the matter.
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