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I am looking to make web development, currently a passion of mine, into my full time career. I have several years of experience and have generated five sites for profit but have never worked for a company/firm in the industry, nor have I taken any formal classes. 100% self taught PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript coder.
I have been looking into online degree programs and so far have only found BS-IT degrees in Web Design & Development, not BS-CS. A traditional brick & mortar four year degree is not in the cards right now. My question - should I go for an online (regionally accredited, not for profit) BS-IT degree or attempt to continue with self education and enter the job market with what I already know? Or perhaps go for a BA in Graphics Design so that I have a degree in a field related to Web Design & Development that could also serve as a fallback?
A degree is always a good idea. It shows that you accomplished something and completed a course of study in your field. While that alone typically won't get you a job, the degree plus experience will certainly put you at the top of the stack.
That said, where do your interests lay? Do you like diving into code, or do you like working with art and design?
Both are important for web development. However, if you're more interested in programming, the BS-IT degree sounds like it will be closer to what you are aiming for. Graphic design by itself has little to do with web development directly. It tends to introduce you to graphic arts programs (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, flash, etc). It might be better taken as an elective in the BS-IT degree than as the entire focus of a degree.
Thanks for your reply!
My thoughts exactly. And, since posting this question, I actually found a few online CS degree programs (UMUC looks good, so far). Math is a very weak area for me and I am not sure if it would really be a deal breaker for a CS degree. My concern with the BS-IT is that potential employers may not find it very appealing for the simple fact it isn't a BS-CS.
Code, hands down. My strong suit is back-end programming, mostly with PHP, and I absolutely love absorbing new languages and practices. Right now I'm teaching myself Object Oriented Programming, Subversioning, and MVC frameworks.
I began to consider the BA in Graphics Design for several reasons. First, I am fairly strong in web programming but severely lacking in layout and presentation. If I decided to try the path of freelance Web Designer & Developer, having a stronger foothold in those areas would help attract new clients. Second, if things do not pan out as a developer, it would be something that I could fall back on. And lastly, I would be able to apply for a position as a developer with experience in all areas - years of programming and a degree in a design related area.
Having said all of that, my GOAL is that of a programmer, preferably working with a small firm (<20 employees). I've been going back and forth trying to make up my mind for over a month, I was accepted to Southern New Hampshire University just because I applied but they seem to be a fairly reputable institution, regionally accredited and not for profit.
The IT might be more useful if it includes a bit of networking and server management As a web developer, you will most likely encounter it. And if you intend to be part of a smaller organization, it helps to be a little generalized. The more things you can do, the more attractive you will be as a candidate, as it would be cheaper for an employer to hire one generalist rather than two (or more) specialists.
The CS/IT degree discussion has been debated ad nauseam. The name of the degree isn't all that important--just that you have one and that the curriculum helps further your goals. Don't get hung up on the name.
I still think a class or two in graphic arts might be more beneficial taken as an electives, rather than an entire curriculum of study. An entire degree in graphic design doesn't seem like it would further your goals.
I cannot thank you enough for your advice. I'm starting to get excited about going for the degree again, I started to have a lot of doubt when it occurred to me I was looking at BS-IT program.
If it is not too much trouble, would you mind taking a look at the program I have been looking at? Unfortunately, the material listed on this page appears to be very dated, but I have been assured that the program itself is up to speed (hopefully this is true). If you PM me, I will try to get the course overview to you (does not appear to be on their site).
Thanks again!
The course descriptions seem a little dated.
Are they offering ASP or ASP.NET? ASP is obsolete.
Coldfusion isn't used much these days either. Typically, I've seen job postings asking for help with converting an old coldfusion site to PHP or ASP.NET.
I would confirm what exactly was being taught in each course. If you're learning outdated stuff and not current languages and techniques, it won't help you much in the job market, unfortunately.
Those were my concerns exactly. After quite some time going back and forth with the admissions rep, I finally received a phone call from an "expert," as the rep put it, to answer my questions. I am kicking myself for not recording the call, it came at a very inopportune time and I could not take notes, either. I believe he said that he was the former department head or possibly a former faculty member - I just remember "former" being in there somewhere.
The admissions rep told me that the department head would be contacting me prior, and after the call seemed to think that is who called me. Either way, the gentleman that called told me that it did indeed look like the description of the course needed to be updated (you think?) and said that the course material is more current. He also told me that the school is more business than technology orientated and suggested that I look at the Software Engineering program instead. His reasoning for this was that I would "learn more programming languages" - which would be great if I was looking to become a software engineer rather than a web developer. Essentially, he seemed to think that I was too advanced for the Web Design & Development curriculum, although he did not seem to know very much about the program.
The only other school I have looked at that is offering an online BS (I'm assuming it's also a BS-IT, they do not specify) is Full Sail University, www.fullsail.edu. They're for profit, lack regional accrediation, and do not appear to have the best track record. But their curriculum looks very current, if not a little geared toward Adobe products (they require you to buy a MacBook Pro and an Adobe suit - about $2.5k). Southern New Hampshire University has ranked highly and seems to be a good institution, I just cannot find anything at all specific to their Web Design & Development program. I was, however, able to find at least one positive review of their new Graphics Design BA.
Guess I will try to get someone else to talk with at Southern New Hampshire University..
The issue with a non-accredited school is that the degree might not be fully recognized. But, regional accreditation takes years to actually acquire, so a brand new school might not have it yet simply for the reason that it's a new school (that's the optimistic view of the situation, anyway).
Also keep in mind that the lack of accreditation doesn't mean the courses are useless--they could very well be helpful. Full Sail University at least appears to have reasonably up-to-date web development courses.
I would balk at the requirement of a purchase that large. It sounds like they don't offer an academic discount (I'm guessing that the school might need to be accredited for that. But I couldn't tell you for sure, since I've never encountered that situation before).
As for IT vs engineering vs CS vs web design vs web development--you will have to look at what the actual courses are. Each school labels their curriculums differently. Don't depend on the name to tell you what is covered in each course/curriculum.
Have I said thank you enough times? Nah. Thank you! The course overview they sent me was actually an HTML file, so I just removed my name and contact information and posted it on my domain. Take a look at it here - http://opheliadesign.com/snhu.htm. Their class listing is here - http://www.snhu.edu/5681.asp
Many many thanks for looking over this with me.
just an opinion about fullsail. I took the fullsail web design/dev curriculum online. I got about 2/3 od the way through it, but had to take a break due to financial considerations. I loved a lot of things about it, and hated some stuff as well. Most of the curriculum was very good and coding to me now is second nature because of the courses, but again, it is online so you really need to push yourself to not only do the assignments but study on your own as well. With an online course, you can become complacent and lazy if you let yourself...but then of course your grades will suffer too. I havent gone in 8 months, but hope to return soon...one thing is, it is very expensive but things being what they are I was not able to go to a "real" school due to time constraints. They do have a physical campus in Winter Park, FL (orlando) and it is very beautiful. While I was attending, they did not teach PHP and taught xhtml 4.01, but seeing as html 5 is not set in stone yet I guess I'll give them a pass on that. Not too hard to teach yourself 5 once you have the basics down anyhow.
The reason you need a MAC is that the school teaches flash, PS and AI...and you do get a student discount. If I remember right, I upgraded form CS 4 to CS5 for about $35. I think that if you already have a MAC then you dont need to but another or if you have CS5 on windows I dont think you need to buy one (could be wrong). There is some other classes like the server and networking course that required work on your laptop such as installing Downloading virtual box and installing debian and apache, but you could do that on a PC as well but the course assumes you have a MAC.
I am very grateful I had the opportunity to attend fullsail and hope to return and complete my degree soon, not a bad school at all, but expensive. Hope this helps.
Thanks for chiming in on Full Sail, human151. They were the first school I looked at but I started to look elsewhere when I realized that they are not regionally accredited and read that their degree may not be as valuable as one from a more established, regionally accredited institution.
The problem with Full Sail, and with Southern New Hampshire University, is that they have such a wide array of courses that it is hard to really get an idea for the quality of the school without having had some experience with them. For example, I have read horrible things about Full Sail's various programs but not specifically about Web Design & Development. The fact that there is a site dedicated to bashing them does stand out, though. On the other side of the coin, I have read a lot of great things about Southern New Hampshire University but cannot find anything about their Web Design & Development program. So, a school that has been beat up a lot (Full Sail) may have a steller Web Design & Development program while one that is highly ranked (SNHU) may have a lousy one. Either way, an employer may be swayed by what they can find on either school. It's frustrating..
From what I understand, Full Sail forces you to buy their Launch Box, complete with a Mac Book, no matter what. I read somewhere about a student that had a fairly new Mac Book Pro (less than a year old) and they still required him to buy theirs. Bit sketchy, if you ask me. But SNHU and Full Sail are pretty comparable in terms of tuition, with SNHU not requiring any hardware or software for their Web Design & Dev program (that I can tell).
I have asked to double check who contacted me regarding the program at SNHU and to have someone active in the program call me if the last person was a former faculty member or department head. They really need to update their website and possibly their curriculum.
Yeah, Im not really sure if you have to buy the mac or not, cant remember really, but their courses do assume that you have a MAC. Im sure a addmin rep of theirs could find a way to work around it if you were really serious and already had a MAC but Im not really sure.
Yeah there are sites bashing fullsail...but what can I say, haters gonna hate. If you had a bad experience or didn't really learn what was taught, is that really the schools fault? Im not they're advocate or anything but for the most part I really did enjoy it and hope to return soon to finish. SOme courses were better than others or course. The way the courses are set up, you are not on your own so to speak. Each class has 15 students and you can see their profile and communicate with them via email or chat. You can email the instructor or chat with them during specific hours. During certain courses we had WIMBA sessions where the entire class would meet and with the instructor for a session, its like GOTO Meeting if you're not familiar with WIMBA.
Regarding accreditation, this is just my opinion, does it really matter? Unless you went to Harvard or something do employers really care what school you went to? Or do they care that you can do the job? I have my opinion, but cant really know the answer. I mean, its not like were trying to work for Goldman Sachs...haha.
anyways, best of luck to you with whatever you decide. I know its a tough decision.


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I wasn't sure where to ask this. It was between this thread and Topics that dont deserve a whole thread. I am trying to offer a box of childrens books on freecycle. Some of them are scary(ish), think Goosebumps. Some of them are funny. I bought them for DS when he was much younger, but they are for a variety of reading levels. I don't want to offer the box, because people could probably get more use out of them by picking which kind they want. I want to list each title individually and ask each person to pick X number of books. How do I offer this? Should I make separate offers or can I put all this in one offer?
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i'm sure you already saw this... but if you boot into your ubuntu system, what does the fstab say about your root partition?
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i'm thinking if you have the issue listed above, try the ext3/ext4 change in /etc/fstab and then try to boot BT again to see what happens?
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Fifty-seven years ago today, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Roth v. United States, the preeminent obscenity case of the time. That Roth isn't Philip—not that he's any slouch when it comes to indecency—but Samuel, a widely reviled publisher perhaps most remembered today for bootlegging portions of Ulysses. As Michael Bronsky described him in a piece for the Boston Phoenix,
Roth became so notorious as both literary pirate and smuthound (the word in use at the time) that he was attacked in The Nation and The New Yorker as a literary fake and social nuisance. Vanity Fair included him, along with the up-and-coming Adolf Hitler, in its 1932 photo essay titled "We Nominate for Oblivion."
In the course of his long and thoroughly ribald career, Roth often found himself dragged to court—this particular case saw him violating a federal statute that banned the transmission of "obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy" materials using the postal service. Roth had been doing just that: his magazine American Aphrodite ("A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free," the covers of later editions said) was the finest in literary smut. (And trust us: The Paris Review knows a thing or two about literary smut.) Read More


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12th August 2012 07:45 AM #1
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How is Sexual Desire related to Fertility
Can the low libido (sexual desire) affect a woman's fertility?
Though I wanted to spend more intimate moments with my husband, I sometimes feel having low low libido (sexual desire) during our intercourse. Will this condition affect my capability to conceive?
20th August 2012 06:50 AM #2
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I love your question. So you're asking if low sexual desire can affect a woman's fertility. There is definitely a connection, but the connection is that if a woman's hormones are out of balance this can cause low sexual desire. It's not the low desire that causes infertility - it's infertility that can cause low sexual desire.
There was a study published that showed that women tend to buy sexier clothing when they are close to ovulation than any other time of the month. This is because the hormones are changing as you get closer to ovulation - you have more estrogen in your body during that time, and this creates more of a sexual desire. Isn't it amazing how God did that? He wanted us women to have a heightened sex drive at ovulation to help ensure the human race would continue.
Warm regards,
23rd August 2012 02:47 AM #3
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Hi Kate,
Once again, I learned something from you. The last time I bought sexy lingerie was more than a year ago. After a month or two, I got pregnant with my second child. The study you've mentioned above was really true.
Again, thank you.
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Private room 2 (single/double) in shared house 10mins from city centre
Size100 ft²
Floor No.0
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Lockable room
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Indoor fireplace
- Kitchen
Accommodation summary
|St Mobhi Rd, Dublin 9 Dublin, Ireland
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|2 days ago
Can cater up to two people (one double bed)
Good bus route outside house every 5mins, free off street parking,drumcondra train station nearby, 10mins from city centre and close to all amenities, beside all major universities, hospitals,parks, national botanic gardens, croke park, glasnevin museum, zoo, point depot, aviva stadium, pubs, restaurants etc.
incs elec, gas, bins, tv, wi-fi broadband
Please be aware this not B&B, it s self catering with access to kitchen
Please specify when booking for two if it is double or twin bed required.
See other room listings 1,2 and 4
House rulesNo smoking, parties, general common sense rules
|Weekly rate for 1 guest
|Monthly rate for 1 guest
|Price for > 1 guests
|$ 29 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Very nice host and great cosy room. Highly recommendable. The house is close to a bus stop so the city centre is easily reached.
Clean, small rooms. The ride to the city center by bus takes 20 rather than 10 minutes.
Sauber, kleine Zimmer. Die Fahrt ins Stadtzentrum per Bus dauert eher 20 als 10 Minuten.
very clean and well decorated house, communal kitchen that allows to meet people and to speak English!
hosts and wanted (students and others) sympathetic
calm neighborhood
one downside: the price of the bus to the center of Dublin (2.35 one way), to be considered for a large family
a good address!
logement très propre et bien décoré, cuisine collective qui permet de faire des rencontres et de parler anglais !
hôtes et colocataires (étudiants et autres) sympathiques
quartier calme
un seul bémol : le prix du bus pour aller au centre de dublin (2,35 trajet simple) ,à prendre en compte pour une famille nombreuse
une bonne adresse !
Edel is just great, the house and the room were amazing and the other long-term guests are great as well! You can't go wrong with this choice, we'll definitely be back!
Very charming and cosy place with lovely people and dogs :-) We enjoyed our time at Edel´s and Rita´s house to the fullest and hope to come back one day :-)
Thank you once again, we had good craic.
Marina & Sebastian
PS: go raibh maith agat Marguerite, you are great craic (see, I didn´t mention the bad f... word)
The hotel corresponded fully to the announcement. We have felt very comfortable, the house was a nice atmosphere, clean and well equipped rooms. Very good transport connections. Edel makes ideal for its guests, all highly recommended.
Die Unterkunft entsprach voll der Ankündigung. Wir haben uns sehr wohlgefühlt, im Haus herrschte eine nette Athmosphäre, Zimmer sauber und gut ausgestattet. Sehr günstige Verkehrsanbindung. Edel sorgt bestens für ihre Gäste, alles sehr zu empfehlen.
cozy accommodation, hospitality and very helpful!
"Own" kitchen, good bed, close to the center (15 min by bus, stops in front)
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to enjoy the city, but was put on his sleep!
knusse accommodatie, gastvrije ontvangst en zeer behulpzaam!!
"eigen"keukentje, goed bed, dichtbij het centrum (15 min met de bus,stopt voor de deur)
Een aanrader voor een ieder die wil genieten van de stad, maar gesteld is op zijn nachtrust!!
The house is very clean. My room was comfortable and well furnished and had an own sink. The landlords and the people who live in the house are very friendly and helpful. The location of the house is very good, because there are four busroutes (4,9,11,13) who have a stop next to the house. The area is very quiet- there are nice parks around the house (for example the botanic garden). There are also shops near the house (tesco, euro giant, pharmacy...). i would recommend the house to everybody!
I had a great time staying at Edel's house! I felt very safe and comfortable there. My room was very cozy, everything was more than clean and above all: everybody was really caring and made me feel home!
I can strongly recommend staying at this house for short- or long-term stays! For me it was an outstanding begin of my Erasmus semester in Dublin!
I was very happy to have found this accomodation. The room was very clean and had his own lavatory. Besides, you had several bath rooms for choice. The kitchen was very large (only to share with other guests) and had all equipment needed.
The accomodation is situated in a good location, not too far away from the Town Center and with good bus connections. Absoutely to recommend!
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Regardless of his heinous crimes, Robinson says Ramirez remained the most popular inmate at San Quentin.
Triplett had a very weird connection to Robinson through Joe Tapsic.
Glass bottles rained down on the police, as members of the EDL, including Robinson, gathered near the scene of the crime.
Since the publication of Elect Mr. Robinson, dystopic fiction has become something of a fad.
"She could not have two more experienced guides to take her around the premises," said Mr Robinson.
"And where are you hunting next year, Larson," Robinson asked.
Robinson Asbury looked at him and smiled, and then he told a few things of him.
"Look here, my son," Robinson said, as he laid his hand on the lad's shoulder.
At that time there was shooting, and Robinson called out, 'Boys, close in!'
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Concepcion finds form after rocky start
Cubs prospect finishes pro debut with four scoreless innings
By David Heck / Special to MLB.com | April 25, 2012 8:51 PM ET
The Cubs prospect allowed five runs in his first inning as a pro Wednesday, then settled down to toss four scoreless frames. Overall, he yielded eight hits and a walk while striking out two as the Class A Peoria Chiefs fell to the Lake County Captains, 6-3.
Concepcion gave up hits to the first three batters he faced, producing one run, then yielded a sacrifice fly to Indians No. 12 prospect Alex Lavisky. Jordan Casas followed with a single and Robel Garcia launched a three-run homer to make it 5-0.
"I think if you leave the ball up in the zone and hitters are aggressive, they're going to get good swings and put the barrel on the ball," Chiefs pitching coach Ron Villone said. "And that's what they did in the first."
The 20-year-old left-hander got out of the inning without further damage, retiring Jerrud Sabourin on a popup and Zach MacPhee on a grounder to third base. He then scattered three hits and a walk over the next four innings while keeping the Captains off the scoreboard.
In the third, Lavisky led off with a single and Garcia worked a one-out walk, but Concepcion got consecutive pop flies from Sabourin and MacPhee to escape trouble. The southpaw saved his only perfect frame for last, setting down Lake County in order in the fifth.
"He started to get the ball down in the zone," Villone said. "I don't want to say he settled in, but he knew he had to pitch down and pitch ahead. He pitched inside also -- I think that's a nice little factor that's going to happen for him.
"Guys got some good swings on him. He's going to have to learn to pitch inside to keep them honest and he did that tonight after the first couple innings."
Born in Havana, Concepcion defected last June during the World Port Tournament in the Netherlands -- the same event at which Aroldis Chapman defected in 2009. The Yankees, Rangers and White Sox expressed strong interest in the left-hander, according to Concepcion's agent, but the Cubs agreed to terms with him on March 11. He received $6 million over five years -- $3 million as a signing bonus and $3 million to be spread over the life of the contract.
Concepcion had enjoyed success during his brief experience in one of Cuba's most competitive leagues, the Cuban National Series, earning Rookie of the Year honors last year. In 21 games for Industriales de la Habana, he went 10-3 with a 3.36 ERA.
"He's got a fastball, curveball and changeup in his repertoire," Villone said. "I think he's just got to understand he's got to pitch off his fastball and that'll make his curveball and changeup that much better. He already has an average curveball, it's just a matter of pulling it in and getting an understanding of it. I think left-handed hitters will have a tough time. Righties will, too. It's just a matter of time, maturity and experience."
Concepcion does not speak much English, but Villone said it would not affect his ability to tutor the youngster.
"I've been around enough for 20 years, so I understand a little bit of the baseball lingo," Villone said. "He understands some words, especially baseball terminology. ... He's not the only one -- he won't be the first and won't be the last. Plenty of guys come here who can't speak a lick of English.
"I'm talking to our guys, saying you have to communicate as best you can. Speak a little Spanish, make him feel comfortable. We're all in this together. We're going to do some hard work, but we get to play baseball and have some fun."
As a left-hander who pitched in the Major Leagues for 15 seasons, Villone said he is looking forward to working with Concepcion. That's partially because he has plenty of wisdom to impart but also because Concepcion already has proven to be a very willing student.
"One of the most valuable tools is my experience," Villone said. "It's not so much what I'm going to bring to him but how he's going to receive it. From day one when he got here in Spring Training, he's been a hard worker with a good ethic. He's a great nucleus of a baseball player. And being 20 years old with a gifted arm and talent does help, but with the other items, it's the work ethic and the willingness to learn. He's an eager young man who wants to work hard."
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University of Dayton - Marketing.... last semester to go I hope.
I do plan to go back for my MBA assuming I can get whoever I sucker into employing me to also pay for some or all of my future education.
University of Dayton - Marketing.... last semester to go I hope.
I do plan to go back for my MBA assuming I can get whoever I sucker into employing me to also pay for some or all of my future education.
Ohio State University
BA Communications
U of Louisville--Writing
Washington U in St. Louis--MFA Writing
U of Chicago--Ph.D English Literature
That name makes me smile.Jacques Lecoq
Bowling Green State University (class of 2002)...degree in Telecommunications.
In other words, I partied like a rock star for 4 years.
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Indiana University 1999 Accounting/Management
I thought league average bullpen arms looked better than this
Vincennes University associates Law Enforcement, bachelors Homeland Security
Probably headed to Long Island University for my masters in Homeland Security Management.
University of Kansas - B.A. - English (Creative Writing Emphasis)
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
The ohio state University
Electrical Engineering (2009)
Barry Larkin = Future Hall Of Famer
[QUOTE=vaticanplum;1728487]Drew University - BA, History and Theatre Arts
L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq - Certificate in Physical Theatre
A pseudo internets beer to anyone who's ever heard of either of those schools.
All the founding member of the Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis (Vincent Gracieux, Dominique Serrand, Barbara Berlovitz (played a great Medea) and Robert Rosen) all went there. Maybe you are familiar with them? Great Training. Its a famous Commedia Dell'Arte school. You must be a pretty accomplished actress.
Sadly this theatre just declared bankrupcy earlier this year.
Cal State Fullerton... 2 years...majored in sitting on the bench in baseball and economics. So since i knew baseball was not in cards for me and economics bored me (stats i love...too bad there was no baseball history/saber classes when i went)
Transfered to Pasadena College.....liberal arts...after that.
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'After a poor playoff in 2010, Roy came back as a better-conditioned, more mature player. Let's see if he can build on that next season. He still has something to prove. But it seems to me that Leino, not Roy, has more to prove as a No. 1 center in the NHL.'
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Downtown Hilo is Hawaii Island's biggest small town featuring centuries-old wooden storefronts — many of which are on the National Register of Historic Places — housing a variety of sophisticated galleries, shops, restaurants and cultural sites.
Start your visit with a stroll down Kamehameha Avenue facing beautiful Hilo Bay and discover a variety of local shops, restaurants and attractions including the modern aloha wear at Sig Zane Designs, the neo-classical Palace Theatre built in 1925, and the bustling Hilo Farmers' Market. You'll also find a variety of art galleries featuring paintings, woodwork, glasswork and jewellery from artists with a unique island point of view. Visit the East Hawaii Cultural Center, the central hub of the Hilo art scene, dedicated to preserving and sharing cultural, creative and traditional arts on the island.
Historic Hilo also has notable museums, some looking into Hilo's past and others looking toward the future. The Pacific Tsunami Museum chronicles the cataclysmic natural disasters of 1946 and 1960 forcing Hilo to rebuild further inland using parkland as a buffer. The Lyman Mission House & Museum features a historic house built in 1839 by American Christian missionaries. The Mokupapapa Discovery Center brings to life the culture, history, natural science and virtually untouched environment of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
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At week's end, polls shows that only 40 percent of Americans believed President Obama was telling the truth when he promised that anyone who liked their health insurance plan could keep it. Fifty percent of those surveyed said they thought the president had "knowingly lied."
I'm neither an elitist nor a White House apologist, but I'm with the 40 percent on this one. Having covered the White House during the Clinton and George W. Bush years, I've seen this movie. A president promises something, it doesn't happen, and, boom – he's branded a liar.
The truth is usually more complicated. Still, when a president doesn't deliver on his promises, however well-intentioned, we learn a great deal about him.
Let's start with Bush. It was ludicrous, this notion that he "lied" about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction. First, saying he lied suggests that most prominent politicians in this country, and the leaders of many other nations, were also lying – even those who opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion. Some of Saddam's own military commanders thought Iraq had chemical weapons; they carried gas masks into battle.
Most importantly, it defied logic. Do Bush's critics believe that Bush thought no one would notice when the promised stockpiles of WMD never materialized? Are they saying no one would have asked?
The same principle is at work regarding the Affordable Care Act of 2010. If you believe the president was lying when he made all those promises, you must think him stupid – the very word Obama used himself when asked at Thursday's news conferences about the discrepancies between his happy rhetoric and the unhappy reality in two areas: the sorry rollout of the health care website and the cancellation notices hitting Americans' mailboxes.
"I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to," he told CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett, "Had I been informed, I wouldn't be going out saying, boy, this is going to be great. I'm accused of a lot of things, but I don't think I'm stupid enough to go around saying, this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website opens if I thought that it wasn't going to work."
That answer sounded right to me. But in his response to the second part of Garrett's question – and this is really the crux of the matter – the president was less persuasive.
He rambled, taking some 800 words to reply, but the gist of his explanation was that, when he thought about Americans who had health insurance, he scarcely thought about those who purchased their plans on the open market.
"Keep in mind that the individual market accounts for 5 percent of the population," Obama said. "So when I said you can keep your health care, you know, I'm looking at folks who've got employer-based health care. I'm looking at folks who've got Medicare and Medicaid. That accounts for the vast majority of Americans."
He's right, but that 5 percent translates into millions of people. What did he think would happen to them? Two things, he said. First, the president claimed his "working assumption" was that the majority of such policyholders would find better and less-costly insurance plans in the government. For those who didn't, he said he thought the grandfathering clauses would suffice.
"It didn't," he conceded. "And …that's on me."
Shouldering blame is admirable, and one wouldn't want to discourage it. Yet, this explanation is both wanting and revealing. It's wanting because it demonstrates only a passing familiarity with the intricacies of an issue Obama always claimed was near to his heart.
Furthermore, the president's whole approach to this issue, even now, is instructive for a more important reason: his boundless confidence in big government to deliver the goods.
You'd think such enthusiasm would have been tempered by the $600 million health care website that didn't work. No such luck. Sounding more like a Republican than a Democrat, Obama figuratively scratched his head Thursday while discussing the regulations that make information technology procurement so cumbersome.
"On my campaign, I could simply say, 'Who are the best folks out there? – Let's get them around a table," he said. "At the federal government level, you're going through, you know, 40 pages of specs and this and that and the other – and there's all kinds of law involved … it's part of the reason why federal IT programs are chronically overbudget, behind schedule."
Unfortunately, the president didn't follow this reasoning where it logically goes, didn't question the risk of having government oversee almost all aspects of the nation's health insurance. The reason he didn't is his abiding belief in government.
Such faith is more akin to religious tenet that a management theory. It's reminiscent of George W. Bush's core beliefs about Iraq, which ranged from his conviction that its dictator was stockpiling WMD to his certitude that merely tasting freedom would motivate Iraqis to unite under the banner of democracy.
Barack Obama said what he did about his health care law because somebody handed him those talking points, and he dutifully delivered them. He did so for the same reason Bush did, because he wanted it to be true. Bush and Obama's optimism is an attractive trait, but their failures demonstrate the drawback of a faith-based presidency.
Register opinion columnist Carl M. Cannon also is Washington editor of the website RealClearPolitics.


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Mariners crushed in 12-4 loss to Rangers - Aug. 27, 2014
Rougned Odor #12 of the Texas Rangers is congratulated by Michael Choice #15 after hitting a grand slam in the third inning against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field on August 27, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. The Rangers defeated the Mariners 12-4. (Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)
Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) - Endy Chavez drove in two runs while James Paxton and Danny Farquhar combined for a four-hit shutout as the Seattle Mariners grabbed a 5-0 win over the Texas Rangers in the second of a three- game set.
Paxton gave (4-1) gave up four hits and three walks while striking out four in 6 2/3 innings the Mariners, who have won four of their last five. Farquhar allowed just one walk in the final 2 1/3 frames.
"You could see him getting stronger as the game went on," said Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon about Paxton. "I wanted to give him as much work as I could because he's not all the way back, but he's getting there."
Nick Martinez (3-10) allowed all five runs on six hits with four walks in five innings for the Rangers, who had won their previous two coming in. Adrian Beltre had two hits in the loss.
"He just didn't command the baseball the way he had been earlier," Rangers manager Ron Washington said of Martinez.
Cano's 12th home run of the season in the first gave Seattle a 1-0 lead, and the Mariners made it a 2-0 game in the second on an RBI groundout from Jesus Sucre.
In the fourth, the Mariners padded their advantage. Logan Morrison walked and Chris Taylor singled before Chavez followed with a double to chase them both home, but was thrown out at third on the play. Austin Jackson tripled two batters later, and scored on a Dustin Ackley single for a 5-0 advantage.
Paxton left men on first and third in the third inning, then stranded two more runners in the fifth.
Following a 1-2-3 sixth, Paxton was pulled with two outs and a man on in the seventh for Farquhar, who got Rougned Odor to fly out and end the inning.
Farquhar pitched a flawless eighth, then worked around a one-out walk in the ninth to nail down the shutout.
Game Notes
Seattle has won just six of the 14 games with Texas this season ... Texas stranded seven and went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position ... Martinez is 0-2 against Seattle this season


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I'm currently developing a site which is www.printingshoppers.com and I want to animate the navigation bar "Member Discounts" that slides out and slides back when not clicked.I was thinking, if that would be a good idea to make the site more catchy.Can you help me? Thanks!:)
Hi abbeygilmore. Welcome to the forums.
One thing you could do, for a simple little effect, is change the HTML to this:
<div class="butt">

and then add this to your CSS:
.butt {
.butt a:hover img {
padding-left: 6px;
.butt img {
-webkit-transition: all linear .3s;
-moz-transition: all linear .3s;
-o-transition: all linear .3s;
-ms-transition: all linear .3s; transition: all .3s;
You could use CCS3 with pseudo classes. Using this code, when someone hovers over the button, a pop appears that is generated completely by CSS3. Note, I just included some arbitrary colors and transparency settings. You can change those to whatever you wish.
So your menu item could be

And your corresponding CSS could be
.menuitem a{
display: block;
width: 26px;
height: 26px;
margin: 0 2px;
outline: none;
background: transparent url(../your-button-img.jpg) no-repeat top left;
position: relative;
.menuitem a{
background-position: 0px 0px;
.menuitem a span {
width: 200px;
height: auto;
line-height: 20px;
padding: 10px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -64px;
font-family: 'Century Gothic', Georgia, serif;
font-weight: 600;
font-style: bold;
font-size: 14px;
color: #000000;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
text-align: left;
border: 2px solid #719DAB;
background: #FFFFFF;
text-indent: 0px;
border-radius: 5px;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
bottom: 100px;
opacity: 0;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
visibility: hidden;
.menuitem a span:before,
.menuitem a span:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
bottom: -15px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -9px;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 10px solid transparent;
border-right: 10px solid transparent;
border-top: 10px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
visibility: visible;
.menuitem a span:after {
bottom: -14px;
margin-left: -10px;
border-top: 10px solid #719DAB;
visibility: visible;
.menuitem a:hover span {
opacity: 0.9;
bottom: 70px;
visibility: visible;
Hope that helps,
Hi ralph.m and smanaher,
Thank you for your help! Here I updated my site http://www.printingshoppers.com/ tell me if it's fine.
It just may not work for some people, such as those on smaller screens. It's possible that the button itself won't be seen, but a lot of smaller screens won't see that popup (it will be off screen). Perhaps you should put the popup on the left instead.
Hi Ralph,
That's a good idea! I'll update you soon I finished updating the site. Thank you.


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Dutton, Sep 2003, 23.95, 336 pp. ISBN: 0525947612 Santa Fe Chief of Police Kevin Kerney looks forward to the vacation with his beloved pregnant wife US Army MP LTC Sara Brannon. The couple is at odds over her next assignment at the Pentagon only six weeks after their baby is due. However, their time alone is put on hold when the murdered body of attorney Jack Potter is found on the streets with the crime scene contaminated by a moronic media ...
Hermit's Peak
Kevin Kerney, county sheriff, goes out to inspect his newly inherited property near Las Vegas, New Mexico. While there, he discovers a skeleton. He also finds someone has been harvesting his timber. Later he finds another man shot to death on his property and a marijuana crop growing behind a cabin. How is it all connected?...
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Some of you — especially those of you in the U.K. and in Europe — may have already heard this, but a trio of former Linux Format writers are banding together to produce a new monthly Free Software and Linux magazine called Linux Voice scheduled for a February 2014 release.
The three — Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard — are funding Linux Voice through an Indiegogo campaign that comes in well under Canonicalesque $32 million (though I'm sure these guys would take $32 million if they could get it). However, the most interesting part of this, the unique twist to their business plan, is outlined specifically in these two items:
— Half the profits will go back to Free Software and Linux communities, and our readership will choose where the money goes. As it says on the site, "We want to sponsor projects, events, developers, and evangelise the cause. We want to build long-term relationships with the people we sponsor, so there's less uncertainty for projects year-on-year."
— Content will be published for free after 9 months, and they aim to use an open source/Creative Commons licence. "We want to create a library of our tutorials, interviews, features and code that is accessible to everyone, whether that's a Python tutorial for a 10 hour flight, or a Raspberry Pi class guide for a school club. We don't believe in charging several times for the same 'evergreen' content," the proposal says.
This campaign happened across my radar while reading the CrunchBang forums. CrunchBang lead developer Philip Newborough (corenominal) posted it there, and he has a more-than-slight interest in this. The guys who are starting the magazine have been good to CrunchBang in the past, and if you look at the cover on the Indiegogo page, there's already a review of CrunchBang seemingly slated for the edition. So corenominal has replaced the usual "be excellent to each other" forum fortunes with an ad to this campaign and he will leave the ads running for the remainder of the Linux Voice funding run, which ends near Christmas.
Well, two can play at this game, Mr. Newborough 🙂 I'll do the same on this blog, keeping an ad or a mention for Linux Voice's Indiegogo campaign until the campaign ends. It will run at the bottom of each Larry the Free Software Guy blog item, like this:
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)


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Is it just me . . .?
A lot of times we see or hear things and wonder whether we're the only ones who get the peculiarity or irony in what has revealed itself.
Is it just me, or has Ubuntu 7.10 made a significant number of people hit a proverbial "speed bump" in this latest upgrade? The reason I ask — my "upgrade" resulted in getting only a shell that I had never seen before, and as a result I had to revert to reinstalling the prior version of Xubuntu running on this machine — is because others who had done the upgrade had significant problems with their machines shortly afterward (many of whom, of course, righted their machines after a significant amount of adjustments, but is that how upgrades are supposed to work?). Don't get me wrong: I like all the flavors of Ubuntu, even Kubuntu, but rather than drinking the Kool-Aid, you have to bring this stuff up when it happens for the good of the distro.
Is it just me, or do the these two people deserve more credit than they're often given: Pamela Jones of Groklaw, and Ken Starks of HeliOS Solutions (also the blogger known as "helios")? The former has earned my unwavering respect for doing what those in the both the legal and journalistic professions, by and large, have stopped doing; i.e., stopped doing the right thing in their professions. The latter — who as I've blogged in the past I have joined in a business venture — is tireless fighter for FOSS in the face of health issues that would floor the strongest of us.
Is it me, or is blogging, as I perceive it, harder than it looks?
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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"The journey to full agile development often begins with a hybrid approach" - Steve Pieczko
Have you noticed how some organizations claim to be agile … but when you peel back the layers they're really a waterfall shop with aspirations to become agile?
For the last three years, I have been working for a Chicago-based IT consulting firm that specializes in custom software development. As a consultant, I've found that we often end up using the methodology that is in place at the client site but, when given the choice, I usually chose agile over waterfall methods. However, the reality is that most development organizations are still waterfall shops.
So why do so many organizations aspire to become agile yet are still only implementing a few aspects of it? Most likely, they're not given enough time to plan the process of becoming agile. Or, it may be because agile is usually introduced by the development community in a bottom-up style that isn't understood or appreciated from the top-down. Regardless, many teams end up implementing a hybrid methodology.
Hybrid approaches to solving problems are not all bad. Case in point: The auto industry needs to find alternatives to high gas prices and knows that the market is ready for an electric car. However, they started with a hybrid car, known as the Toyota Prius, before introducing a full electric version like the Chevy Volt. So perhaps the reality on how we make that quantum leap to full agile development starts with a journey that begins with a hybrid approach.
I created a new term to describe waterfall shops that either aspire to be agile or are in the transition process. I call these shops " WetAgile". Individual people can also be described as WetAgile. For example, perhaps you're an aspiring agile guru doing so many waterfall projects that you find yourself implementing the pieces of agile that you most understand or believe your waterfall team can easily embrace.
When I look back at some of my own most productive teams, they all had one thing in common: Each project team was using one or more aspects of agile.
Paired Programming Works Great for Both Newbies and New Technologies
For example, we recently completed a large electronic content management (ECM) implementation for a client . The team consisted of highly skilled Java developers who had just completed product training. Soon after their training class, the developers moved on to their programming tasks but had difficulties figuring out how to wire it all together. They quickly discovered that working together was faster than working independently. Although I would like take credit for telling them to work together, it was something that they tried on their own. They started with one developer searching the product knowledge base while the other developer implemented code fragment. Within a few days, they were sitting side-by-side, coding and refactoring each other's code. In the end, paired programming techniques allowed them to complete all of their deliverables faster than if they had worked independently of each other. I quickly became a proponent of paired programming and have since encouraged subsequent project teams to give it a try.
The traditional approach to bringing a project newbie up to speed is to ask them to read technical documentation and ask them to check back in a few hours later. Hands-on learning via paired programming and having someone available to answer questions is far more productive in the long run because most of us learn faster by doing than reading.
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Montreal Student's Academic Future is "Ruined" by Responsible Disclosure
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Over 250,000 user records could have been compromised due to the negligent security
When people wonder why some hackers
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, one only needs to look at the numerous troubling stories of hackers who went on what is supposedly a more responsible route of discrete disclosure, only to be punished.
I. Student Goes From Hero to Harassed Over Discrete Disclosure, Testing
The latest such unfortunate victim of incompetent and belligerent staff is Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a student at
Dawson College
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As part of a school project, Mr. Al-Khabaz was recruited to create a mobile app that would allow students to access their student accounts on a system called "Omnivox" used by most of Quebec's CEGEPs (General and Vocational Colleges). But he and a colleague discovered a serious security flaw that would put nearly 250,000 students' personal information at risk.
Dawson College is located in Montreal, Quebec. [Image Source: Dawson College]
Looking to do the right thing, he scheduled a meeting with Dawson College's Director of Information Services and Technology, François Paradis. Mr. Al-Khabaz recalls, "I saw a flaw which left the personal information of thousands of students, including myself, vulnerable. I felt I had a moral duty to bring it to the attention of the college and help to fix it, which I did. I could have easily hidden my identity behind a proxy. I chose not to because I didn't think I was doing anything wrong."
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a star computer science student was initially praised for finding a serious security flaw, but was subsequently condemned for checking if it had been fixed.
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Mr. Paradis commended him for his work, as was his colleague, Ovidiu Mija. Mr. Paradis promised that the university and the third-party software partner who produced the software, Skytech, would immediately fix the gaping hole.
But that praise soon turned to condemnation. Days later Mr. Al-Khabaz looked to test if the flaw had been indeed fixed, by probing the system with a vulnerability toolkit, Acunetix.
At that point he received an angry call from Skytech. He recalls in
an interview
with Canada's
National Post
, "It was Edouard Taza, the president of Skytech. He said that this was the second time they had seen me in their logs, and what I was doing was a cyber attack. I apologized, repeatedly, and explained that I was one of the people who discovered the vulnerability earlier that week and was just testing to make sure it was fixed. He told me that I could go to jail for six to twelve months for what I had just done and if I didn't agree to meet with him and sign a non-disclosure agreement he was going to call the RCMP and have me arrested. So I signed the agreement."
The non-disclosure agreement (NDA) both forbid Mr. Al-Khabaz from future access of the company's servers, and forbid him from revealing the security flaw he found to the public.
Mr. Taza disputes Mr. Al-Khabaz's account, commenting, "All software companies, even Google or Microsoft, have bugs in their software. These two students discovered a very clever security flaw, which could be exploited. We acted immediately to fix the problem, and were able to do so before anyone could use it to access private information."
He expresses frustration at Mr. Al-Khabaz's decision to probe Skytech's network, but even he dismisses the action as harmless, commenting, "This type of software should never be used without prior permission of the system administrator, because it can cause a system to crash. He [Al-Khabaz] should have known better than to use it without permission, but it is very clear to me that there was no malicious intent. He simply made a mistake.
II. University Expels One of Its Brightest
But here comes the truly disturbing twist -- while Skytech at worst threatened Mr. Al-Khabaz into signing an NDA, his college did far worse. They called his actions in probing Skytech a "serious professional conduct issue", proceeding to expel him.
He recalls a meeting, commenting, "I was called into a meeting with the co–ordinator of my program, Ken Fogel, and the dean, Dianne Gauvin. They asked a lot of questions, mostly about who knew about the problems and who I had told. I got the sense that their primary concern was covering up the problem."
The final decision to vote on the expulsion was put before a panel of computer science professors. 14 voted to expel the student for check if the flaw had been fixed, while 1 voted against it. Mr. Al-Khabaz was expelled, and university managers twice denied his appeals.
Only one computer science professor out of 15 voted not to suspend Mr. Al-Khabaz for discrete disclosure and vulnerability testing. [Image Source: National Post]
A distraught Mr. Al-Khabaz comments, "I was acing all of my classes, but now I have zeros across the board. I can't get into any other college because of these grades, and my permanent record shows that I was expelled for unprofessional conduct. I really want this degree, and now I won't be able to get it. My academic career is completely ruined. In the wrong hands, this breach could have caused a disaster. Students could have been stalked, had their identities stolen, their lockers opened and who knows what else. I found a serious problem, and tried to help fix it. For that I was expelled."
The university has generally refused to discuss the case, though it did release a brief statement to the
, saying it stands behind its decision and calling Mr. Al-Khabaz's actions inappropriate. It says its typical procedure is to send a warning about conduct-related issues. It did not specifically state whether Mr. Al-Khabaz had received such a warning or whether they were aware of his sanctioned work on the Omnivox app, which triggered the discrete disclosure and testing of the flaw in question.
III. Appeal is Pending, But Mr. Al-Khabaz's Future Remains in Jeopardy
Morgan Crockett, director of internal affairs and advocacy for the Dawson Student Union, calls the action atrocious. He remarks, "Dawson has betrayed a brilliant student to protect Skytech management. It's a travesty that Ahmad's academic future has been compromised just so that Dawson and Skytech could save face. If they had any sense of decency, they would reinstate Ahmad into [the] computer science [program], refund the financial aid debt he has incurred as a result of his expulsion and offer him a full public apology."
A copy of the expulsion letter is seen below:
The Dawson Student Union is actively appealing the decision.
No one is advocating that hackers take illegal or destructive routes in "encouraging" businesses or academic institutions to fix their flaws. But when responsible individuals are punished and anonymous destructive disclosures often result in no action against the perpetrators, one must wonder whether the wrong message is being sent.
If Mr. Al-Khabaz's account is accurate one must wonder why any student in their right mind would want to attend such an abusive institution.
Editor's Note
: Dawson College's webpage is currently inaccessible, although it is unclear whether it pertains to the story.
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Nine times out of ten, battle-of-the-bands competitions don't mean dick. If the judges aren't clueless industry hacks or buddies with one of the bands, the categories seem straight out of a high school talent show. (Audience participation? What, should they play "Kum Ba Yah"?) But when the Freakin' Hott won the National Production Group's "Champions of Rock" contest last April, it was because of one thing and one thing only -- the Freakin' Hott freakin' rocks. And it does so with the barest of bare-bones structures -- two vocalists, one guitar, and a drum kit. There's no rack of space-age effects... not even a bass guitar. (OK, so there is a keyboard on the band's latest recordings, but it's not synth.) What the band does have, however, are incredibly catchy songs (think '60s-styled pop), loose and loud guitar riffs (think '70s-style glam-rock), and an ability to fuse the two into a sound all its own. It's the kind of music that makes you want to hum along and play air guitar.
When you're a busy chef/restaurateur and a father of four, the swingin' nightlife is pretty much limited to sticking your nose in a saucepan. Extracurricular entertainment or museum browsing? That's pretty much limited to a few stolen hours with the kids on an off-day afternoon. Kevin McCarthy, proprietor of KM at the Grapevine in Plantation, stumbled into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame in Dania Beach one day with his kids -- all of them under 12 -- and discovered a serendipitously harmonious environment. "All of our relatives are big fishermen, and the kids related the place to going out to a pond with their uncles and cousins," says McCarthy, known for his dazzlingly original, Southwest-influenced entrées and desserts. The family has been back numerous times since. The place is a symphony of anglerphilia (love of fishing), with mounts of world-record sport fish floating overhead in eye-popping formation, touchscreen displays of the exploits of famed fishermen (like Ernest Hemingway and Zane Grey), and fishing-related games and toys. There's the outdoor Wetlands Walk, meticulously constructed wilderness environments, and, the McCarthy kids' favorite, the Catch Gallery. Here's where "fishing simulators" give you a sense of what it's like to catch a marlin or a sailfish. "The kids flip out every time we go by the building now," McCarthy says.
We will not use this space to lament the loss of Awesome New Republic to the lure of the Big Apple and that distraction from music-making called "a normal life." (OK, just this space: Come back! Please, we need you! Like the Heat needs Shaq!) But there's no doubt about it: There hasn't been anything as original as ANR's jazzo-pop electrofunk soul-boogie that's come out of the South Florida music scene since, well, maybe ever. The band went through several iterations before rouletting into the two-man, drums-n-keys format found on its full-length debut, ANR So Far. And two is definitely better than one or five or seven or even 69 in this case. Find a song more hilarious and on-point than "Kill South Beach Dead" or effortlessly hummable than "Wheels, No Engine" -- made by anyone, let alone a pair of young UM virtuosi -- and, um, I guess you'll have another entry into this Best Of category. Our money says there's nobody out there anywhere that's doing smart, funny freak-pop better than these two. Yeah, it's sad to see them go, but at least we have ANR So Far to remember them by.
A seriously tough call had to be made in this category this year, as South Florida underground hip-hop took some major strides toward a consistent, quality sound. Neck and neck at the front of the pack were Lauderdale's verbal acrobat Butta Verses and Hollywood freestyle general Wrekonize. Both MCs are definite crowd-pleasers, confident and aggressive on stage yet flaunting a wicked and often self-deprecating sense of humor. Both have climbed their way through the local scene, gaining national attention but continuing to respect their subtropical roots. And both have taken that personal experience -- Butta's kinship with De La Soul and the Native Tongues clan; Wrek's dominance of MTV's 2004 freestyle battle -- and churned out track after track of streetwise insight into life just short of the big leagues. Stylistically, the two counter each other beautifully: Where Butta's unpredictable, hopscotchy flow is risky and often thrilling, Wrekonize stays perfectly on-point, smoothing out the beat like a warm iron over a silk shirt. So what gives Wrekonize the edge? It's his spectacular Waiting Room mixtape, a supertight showcase of every reason why this 22-year-old is major-label material. It's the best local hip-hop release of the year, and that makes Wrek our hip-hop artist of the year.
So the Galapagos of the music world (i.e., the bottom three counties of Florida, gentle readers) produces a band that combines ridiculously heavy guitar riffage by way of Maiden, AC/DC, and Black Flag with the number-one soul/metal drummer in the area and tops it off with gang-warfare-style live shows. Good God, yes! Tim Moffatt, Tyson Griffin, Chris Maggio, and Russ Saunders go on a few tours and, after a few years of nearly constant gigging and even more constant drinking, promptly implode, never having produced a proper release. Oh Lord, no. Welcome to the South Florida music scene, Charles Darwin. We eat our young.
In 2004, there wasn't a band in town that thought it would ever perform at a bikini bar called Gumwrappers. But in 2006, many of those bands have already played there... and continue to do so on a near regular basis. These aren't testosterone-fueled, cock-rock bands we're talking about. Nope. Gumwrappers regulars include female-backed groups like Friendly Fire and makeup-clad goth rockers like Death Becomes You -- not the kind of people who hang around frat parties. However, what's most surprising is that the whole thing took off the way it did. When Gumwrappers held its first live music night in January 2005 (featuring Southern Flaw and Trapped by Mormons), the odds were stacked against it lasting more than a few months; the idea of babes and bands seemed like a novelty that would soon lose its charm. Now, the shows are such a fixture, the bikini show is held only when the bands aren't playing. And thanks to the tireless efforts of Cherry Sonic Promotions, the local rock scene has found a new home.