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Bohemian Nights Announces 2014 Colorado Music Lineup
Bohemian Nights announced a 10th anniversary lineup of more than 70 Colorado bands slated to perform during this year's Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest, a free community festival in downtown Fort Collins Aug. 15-17.
The Colorado artist lineup for Bohemian Nights at New West Fest was announced on Thursday, June 5. The national headlining acts will be announced on Monday, June 9.(Photo Credit: Bohemian Nights)
The music portion of the festival will feature a diverse offering of new, emerging and established Colorado bands on six outdoor music stages. Now in its 10th year, Bohemian Nights showcases a variety of music across popular, contemporary genres. Artists in the lineup will include the Subdudes, a band whose original members will reunite for the festival performance; Ian Cooke, a Denver artist whose book and short film package have just been published; emerging musician and Fort Collins native Katie Herzig; Slow Caves, a new Fort Collins band whose work has recently received national recognition; and Slim Cessna's Auto Club, returning festival favorites.
Music performances will run 5-10 p.m. on Friday, August 15; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. on Saturday, August 16; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sunday, August 17.
Each evening, a national headliner will be featured at the Mountain Avenue Stage. The three national headliners will be announced Monday, June 9.
For more information on Bohemian Nights, visit bohemiannights.org for the festival schedule and for more information about Bohemian Nights music events.
The Featured Bands This Year Include:
Featured Colorado artists for this year's Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest are as follows: (Click on the BOLD lists to preview the artist in the Radio 94.9 Local's Lounge)
- Arthur Lee Land
- Blue Canyon Boys
- Blue Grama
- Bonnie & the Clydes
- Calder's Revolvers
- Carlton Pride & Mighty Zion
- Cary Morin
- Chicano Heat
- Chimney Choir
- Chris Daniels & The Kings with Freddi
- Danielle Ate the Sandwich
- Danny Shafer
- David Williams
- Doctor Noize
- Drag the River
- Esmé Patterson
- Eufórquestra
- Fierce Bad Rabbit
- Grant Sabin Band
- Gypsy Swing Revue
- Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams
- Ian Cooke
- In the Whale
- Jason Downing
- Jennifer Lane
- Joe Johnson
- Joe Sampson
- Julie Hoest
- Jumpin Jazz Kids
- Katie Glassman and Snapshot
- Katie Herzig
- Ken Walker Sextet
- Knocean
- Liz Barnez
- M.Florea
- Mama Lenny and the Remedy
- Mary Sue Thompson
- Matt Campbell
- Matt Skinner Band
- Megan Burtt
- Mosey West
- Native Daughters
- Pandas & People
- Post Paradise
- Prime Element
- Qbala & Dominic Deadbeat
- Richie Furay
- Shellist & Hundt
- Shannon Fitzsimmons
- Shatterproof
- Slim Cessna's Auto Club
- Slow Caves
- Soul School
- Sour Boy, Bitter Girl
- SuperCollider
- Taylor Scott
- The Burroughs
- The Holler!
- The Jekylls
- The Patti Fiasco
- The Reminders
- The Ryan Fourt Trio featuring Briana Carrasquillo
- The Subdudes
- The Swashbuckling Doctors
- The Widow's Bane
- The Wild After
- The Yawpers
- Von Stomper
- Wasteland Hop
- West Water Outlaws
- Wiredogs
- You Me & Apollo
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A gown worn by Judith Durham in The Seekers joins the line-up of music memorabilia on show in the Melbourne Gallery.
The Seekers were Australia's biggest music group in the 60s and the first home-grown group to hit the big time in the UK and America. They formed in Melbourne in 1962 with Judith, a traditional jazz, blues and gospel singer, as lead vocalist.
The band's enormous success, with its unique folk-pop fusion and sweet melodies, was thanks in large part to Judith.
"It was Judith's voice that really made the band," explained Michael Reason, Assistant Curator, History & Technology. "It is her voice that people remember when they think of The Seekers."
Judith's dress, on loan from the National Film & Sound Archive in Canberra, consists of a cream lace and pin-tucked pleated blouse and matching skirt, with a pink pleated waist sash. It was typical of the Edwardian Victorian revival happening in fashion at the time.
"Judith wore longer skirts from the early 60s, and introduced mini-skirts to her wardrobe in 1966," said Michael.
The outfit was only ever worn once, for the filming of the Morningtown Ride sequence at Como in Melbourne for the Channel 9 special The World Of The Seekers.
A still photograph from that sequence was used for the cover of a compilation album, The Best of the Seekers, which was released after the group split in 1968. It reached Number One in the UK and remained in the charts for 125 weeks.
Judith resumed her solo career for the next 25 years, and The Seekers unexpectedly reunited in the 1990s for a 'Silver Jubilee' tour and recordings lasting throughout that decade.
Judith's outfit will be on display for two years and is replacing the Marcie Jones dress on loan from The Arts Centre, Performing Arts Collection. Outfits in the exhibition need to be changed frequently since clothing is susceptible to fading.
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HERSHEY, PA -- Hershey Co.'s Lancaster Soft Cremes -- its first new brand in 30 years -- are now available nationwide. The soft caramel candies are offered in caramel; vanilla and caramel; and vanilla and raspberry. They come in 4-oz. and 8-oz. bags with a suggested retail price of $2.49 and $3.99, respectively.
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Historian to discuss 'The Southern Way of Life'
University of Mississippi historian Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson will give the keynote address at a Southern history forum Saturday, April 10, at the University of South Carolina.
Wilson will deliver the keynote lecture, titled "The Southern Way of Life: The History of a Concept," at 7 p.m. in the Palmetto Room at The Inn at USC. His talk is free and open to the public. The address will conclude the daylong "Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History," which will feature historians from around the country and is sponsored by the university's Institute for Southern Studies.
All sessions are free and open to the public. The complete schedule is available online at www.cas.sc.edu/ISS/forumonhistory.html.
Wilson is the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at Ole Miss. and directed that university's Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998 – 2007.
A prolific author, Wilson has written and edited many books, including "Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920," a study of the memory of the Confederacy in the post-Civil War South, and "Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis," which studies popular religion as part of the culture of the modern South. He co-edited the "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" and "The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture."
For more information, call 803-777-2340.
"The Southern Way of Life: The History of a Concept"
- What: Keynote lecture on "Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History"
- Who: University of Mississippi historian Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson to deliver lecture
- When: 7 p.m. Saturday, April 10
- Where: Palmetto Room at The Inn at USC


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|Name: bash-loadables
|Distribution: openSUSE 12.1
|Version: 4.2
|Vendor: openSUSE
|Release: 1.8.1
|Build date: Thu Nov 10 11:14:18 2011
|Group: System/Shells
|Build host: build06
|Size: 184920
|Source RPM: bash-4.2-1.8.1.src.rpm
|Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org
|Url: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
|Summary: Loadable bash builtins
This package contains the examples for the ready-to-dynamic-load builtins found in the source tar ball of the bash: basename Return non-directory portion of pathname. cut cut(1) replacement. dirname Return directory portion of pathname. finfo Print file info. getconf POSIX.2 getconf utility. head Copy first part of files. id POSIX.2 user identity. ln Make links. logname Print login name of current user. mkdir Make directories. pathchk Check pathnames for validity and portability. print Loadable ksh-93 style print builtin. printenv Minimal builtin clone of BSD printenv(1). push Anyone remember TOPS-20? realpath Canonicalize pathnames, resolving symlinks. rmdir Remove directory. sleep sleep for fractions of a second. strftime Loadable builtin interface to strftime(3). sync Sync the disks by forcing pending filesystem writes to complete. tee Duplicate standard input. tty Return terminal name. uname Print system information. unlink Remove a directory entry. whoami Print out username of current user.
* Wed Nov 02 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Disable last patch as it seems a bit broken (bnc#725657) * Tue Oct 25 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add direxpand patch from upstream (bnc#725657) * Fri Oct 07 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add patch from upstream mailing list to avoid memory leak by reassigning associative array variable * Mon Sep 19 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - remove autoreqprov and author lists * Tue Jun 21 2011 email@example.com - Add fix from upstream mailing list to avoid crash * Fri Jun 17 2011 email@example.com - use original source URLs * Thu Jun 16 2011 email@example.com - Fix the fix for bug bnc#681286 to be able to avoid both a not expanding glob as well as the infinit loop in multi byte locale * Thu May 12 2011 email@example.com - Update bash 4.2 to patch level 10 - Add patch from upstream to avoid loosing quoted-nulls - Add modified patch to avod endless loop in UTF-8 locale * Tue Mar 22 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Remove patch to avod endless loop in UTF-8 locale as it breaks glob expanding (bnc#681286) * Tue Mar 15 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update bash 4.2 to patch level 8 - Add Ctr-C patch from upstream - Add fix for endless loop in UTF-8 locale * Wed Mar 09 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Avoid siglongjmp, compare with http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-03/msg00070.html use temprary solution from Chet * Tue Mar 08 2011 email@example.com - Much better solution for saving history for system with sigsetjmp * Tue Mar 08 2011 email@example.com - Reintroduce history saving at SIGHUP * Mon Mar 07 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update bash 4.2 to patch level 7 * Thu Feb 17 2011 email@example.com - having a bash man page is recommended (bnc#672528) * Mon Feb 14 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to bash 4.2 -- changelog see entry for bash 4.2 rc1 * Mon Jan 17 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to bash 4.2 rc1 * `exec -a foo' now sets $0 to `foo' in an executable shell script without a leading #!. * Subshells begun to execute command substitutions or run shell functions or builtins in subshells do not reset trap strings until a new trap is specified. This allows $(trap) to display the caller's traps and the trap strings to persist until a new trap is set. * `trap -p' will now show signals ignored at shell startup, though their disposition still cannot be modified. * $'...', echo, and printf understand \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX escape sequences. * declare/typeset has a new `-g' option, which creates variables in the global scope even when run in a shell function. * test/[/[[ have a new -v variable unary operator, which returns success if `variable' has been set. * Posix parsing changes to allow `! time command' and multiple consecutive instances of `!' (which toggle) and `time' (which have no cumulative effect). * Posix change to allow `time' as a command by itself to print the elapsed user, system, and real times for the shell and its children. * $((...)) is always parsed as an arithmetic expansion first, instead of as a potential nested command substitution, as Posix requires. * A new FUNCNEST variable to allow the user to control the maximum shell function nesting (recursive execution) level. * The mapfile builtin now supplies a third argument to the callback command: the line about to be assigned to the supplied array index. * The printf builtin has a new %(fmt)T specifier, which allows time values to use strftime-like formatting. * There is a new `compat41' shell option. * The cd builtin has a new Posix-mandated `-e' option. * Negative subscripts to indexed arrays, previously errors, now are treated as offsets from the maximum assigned index + 1. * Negative length specifications in the ${var:offset:length} expansion, previously errors, are now treated as offsets from the end of the variable. * Parsing change to allow `time -p --'. * Posix-mode parsing change to not recognize `time' as a keyword if the following token begins with a `-'. This means no more Posix-mode `time -p'. Posix interpretation 267. * There is a new `lastpipe' shell option that runs the last command of a pipeline in the current shell context. The lastpipe option has no effect if job control is enabled. * History expansion no longer expands the `$!' variable expansion. * Posix mode shells no longer exit if a variable assignment error occurs with an assignment preceding a command that is not a special builtin. * History expansion no longer expands the `$!' variable expansion. * Posix mode shells no longer exit if a variable assignment error occurs with an assignment preceding a command that is not a special builtin. * Non-interactive mode shells exit if -u is enabled and an attempt is made to use an unset variable with the % or # expansions, the `//', `^', or `,' expansions, or the parameter length expansion. * Posix-mode shells use the argument passed to `.' as-is if a $PATH search fails, effectively searching the current directory. Posix-2008 change. - Update to readline 6.2 rc1 * The history library does not try to write the history filename in the current directory if $HOME is unset. This closes a potential security problem if the application does not specify a history filename. * New bindable variable `completion-display-width' to set the number of columns used when displaying completions. * New bindable variable `completion-case-map' to cause case-insensitive completion to treat `-' and `_' as identical. * There are new bindable vi-mode command names to avoid readline's case- insensitive matching not allowing them to be bound separately. * New bindable variable `menu-complete-display-prefix' causes the menu completion code to display the common prefix of the possible completions before cycling through the list, instead of after. * Mon Oct 18 2010 email@example.com - fix czech message * Thu Oct 14 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update bash 4.1 to patch level 9 * When declaring an associative array and implicitly assigning a value to element "0", bash does not correctly allocate memory, leading to a segmentation violation when that element or the array itself is unset. * An arriving SIGCHLD will interrupt `slow' system calls such as write(2) to or read(2) from a terminal. This results in an error message and truncated input or output. * Fri Sep 03 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - builtin "man2html"generates html manual with a timestamp that causes the package to be published over and over again. * Mon Aug 16 2010 email@example.com - A modified version of the pipe patch which should handle the PIPESTATUS array * Fri Aug 13 2010 email@example.com - Disable the pipe patch from Thu Jun 24 10:40:09 CEST 2010 as this resets the PIPESTATUS array to the status of the forground process only * Thu Jul 29 2010 email@example.com - Add fix from mailing list to avoid crash * Mon Jul 19 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Comment out recommendation of bash-completion, as I'd like no to see the bugs of bash-completion in my bugzilla * Sat Jul 17 2010 email@example.com - Do not package static libraries - Fix Recommends/Suggests * Thu Jun 24 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add fix from upstream: restore the parser state over changing readline editing mode otherwise e.g. set alias before the change are lost. * Thu Jun 24 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Avoid running the last member of a pipe command sequence to run in its own subshell, this makes know lines like the simple echo 1 2 | read a b; echo $a $b work as expected by the users * Tue May 25 2010 email@example.com - Update bash 4.1 to patch level 7 * Bash did not correctly print/reproduce here documents attached to commands inside compound commands such as for and while. * A typo caused bash to not honor a precision specification in a printf format. * Mon Apr 12 2010 email@example.com - Add fix for memory double free in array handling * Tue Apr 06 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update bash 4.1 to patch level 5 (related to bnc#522351) * If command completion is attempted on a word with a quoted globbing character (e.g., `*' or `?'), bash can reference a NULL pointer and dump core. * When running in Posix mode and executing a shell function without local variables, bash will not propagate a variable in a special builtin's temporary environment to have global scope. * When the `read' builtin times out after the timeout specified with -t is exceeded, it does not reset the flags that tell signal handlers to process signals immediately instead of deferring their handling. This can result in unsafe functions being called from signal handlers, which can cause bash to hang or dump core. * Tue Mar 09 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add patch from bash-bug list to avoid crahs on some strange TAB completions * Mon Mar 01 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - fix warning no return statement in function returning non-void to fix build (in bashline.c) * Wed Feb 24 2010 email@example.com - Avoid hang due malloc()/free() within signal handler (bnc#522351) * Thu Feb 18 2010 email@example.com - Add patch to reflect the usage of /etc/bash.bashrc (bnc#577221) * Mon Feb 15 2010 email@example.com - Update bash 4.1 to patch level 2 * Here-documents within $(...) command substitutions may once more be delimited by the closing right paren, instead of requiring a newline. * Bash's file status checks (executable, readable, etc.) now take file system ACLs into account on file systems that support them. * Bash now passes environment variables with names that are not valid shell variable names through into the environment passed to child processes. * The `execute-unix-command' readline function now attempts to clear and reuse the current line rather than move to a new one after the command executes. * `printf -v' can now assign values to array indices. * New `complete -E' and `compopt -E' options that work on the "empty" completion: completion attempted on an empty command line. * New complete/compgen/compopt -D option to define a `default' completion: a completion to be invoked on command for which no completion has been defined. If this function returns 124, programmable completion is attempted again, allowing a user to dynamically build a set of completions as completion is attempted by having the default completion function install individual completion functions each time it is invoked. * When displaying associative arrays, subscripts are now quoted. * Changes to dabbrev-expand to make it more `emacs-like': no space appended after matches, completions are not sorted, and most recent history entries are presented first. * The [[ and (( commands are now subject to the setting of `set -e' and the ERR trap. * The source/. builtin now removes NUL bytes from the file before attempting to parse commands. * There is a new configuration option (in config-top.h) that forces bash to forward all history entries to syslog. * A new variable $BASHOPTS to export shell options settable using `shopt' to child processes. * There is a new confgure option that forces the extglob option to be enabled by default. * New variable $BASH_XTRACEFD; when set to an integer bash will write xtrace output to that file descriptor. * If the optional left-hand-side of a redirection is of the form {var}, the shell assigns the file descriptor used to $var or uses $var as the file descriptor to move or close, depending on the redirection operator. * The < and > operators to the [[ conditional command now do string comparison according to the current locale if the compatibility level is greater than 40. * Programmable completion now uses the completion for `b' instead of `a' when completion is attempted on a line like: a $(b c. * Force extglob on temporarily when parsing the pattern argument to the == and != operators to the [[ command, for compatibility. * Changed the behavior of interrupting the wait builtin when a SIGCHLD is received and a trap on SIGCHLD is set to be Posix-mode only. * The read builtin has a new `-N nchars' option, which reads exactly NCHARS characters, ignoring delimiters like newline. * The mapfile/readarray builtin no longer stores the commands it invokes via callbacks in the history list. * There is a new `compat40' shopt option. - Update readline 6.1 to patch level 1 * New bindable function: menu-complete-backward. * In the vi insertion keymap, C-n is now bound to menu-complete by default, and C-p to menu-complete-backward. * When in vi command mode, repeatedly hitting ESC now does nothing, even when ESC introduces a bound key sequence. This is closer to how historical vi behaves. * New bindable function: skip-csi-sequence. Can be used as a default to consume key sequences generated by keys like Home and End without having to bind all keys. * New application-settable function: rl_filename_rewrite_hook. Can be used to rewite or modify filenames read from the file system before they are compared to the word to be completed. * New bindable variable: skip-completed-text, active when completing in the middle of a word. If enabled, it means that characters in the completion that match characters in the remainder of the word are "skipped" rather than inserted into the line. * The pre-readline-6.0 version of menu completion is available as "old-menu-complete" for users who do not like the readline-6.0 version. * New bindable variable: echo-control-characters. If enabled, and the tty ECHOCTL bit is set, controls the echoing of characters corresponding to keyboard-generated signals. * New bindable variable: enable-meta-key. Controls whether or not readline sends the smm/rmm sequences if the terminal indicates it has a meta key that enables eight-bit characters. * Wed Dec 16 2009 email@example.com - package documentation as noarch * Sat Dec 12 2009 email@example.com - add baselibs.conf as a source * Fri Dec 04 2009 email@example.com - Fix bug in bash-4.0-security.patch (bnc#559877) * Thu Oct 29 2009 email@example.com - Update to newest patch level 35 * bash incorrectly interprets wildcarded path components between a **/ and the last / * bash incorrectly treated single and double quotes as delimiters rather than introducing quoted strings when splitting the line into words for programmable completion functions * Wed Sep 30 2009 email@example.com - Make _rl_enable_meta configurable by the users (bnc#541379) * Wed Sep 09 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Do not change tty owner group twice by child and parent (bnc#523667) * Wed Sep 09 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to newest patch level 33 * Includes one of our own patches * Wed Aug 26 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - rediff patches to avoid fuzz * Tue Jul 28 2009 email@example.com - Update to newest patch level 28 * Thu Jul 02 2009 email@example.com - Add fix from bash maintainer for closing memory leak in read builtin (bnc#510288) * Tue Jun 09 2009 email@example.com - Branch off some sub packages: * bash-lang to include localization * bash-loadables for installing the loadable runtime builtins * bash-devel to install headers for developing loadable builtins * Wed Jun 03 2009 email@example.com - Enforce the usage of euidaccess(3) instead of stat(2) for testing permissions for a file (bnc#509105) * Mon May 25 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to newest patch level 24: * include last few patches - Add patches from mailing list for globstar expansion * Mon May 11 2009 email@example.com - Increase size of hash table for runtime linker a lot * Mon Apr 27 2009 email@example.com - Add patches from mailing list: * fix problem with invisible characters in prompt * make dir*/** work * Tue Apr 21 2009 email@example.com - Do not crash on forbidden subdirectories with globstar extension * Wed Apr 15 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add fix to be able to clear to eol in readline library * Tue Apr 14 2009 email@example.com - Add fix for timing issue in readline SIGWINCH handling * Wed Apr 08 2009 email@example.com - Add patches from firstname.lastname@example.com to avoid eg. segmentation fault * Mon Mar 16 2009 email@example.com - Add patches from email@example.com to avoid eg. segmentation fault * Thu Mar 12 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add patch from firstname.lastname@example.com to enable |& not only for builtins and shell functions but for all commands. * Tue Mar 10 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Switch to official patches, now we are on patch level 10 * Wed Mar 04 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Use patches from firstname.lastname@example.com to make it work * Wed Mar 04 2009 email@example.com - Patch for bnc#481817 does not work in any case * Wed Mar 04 2009 email@example.com - My last patch for bnc#470548 send to firstname.lastname@example.com was not fully applied and this had caused a memory corruption on tab completion. - Enable the parser to find closing parenthesis at the end of an argument of a command even if backslash is used (bnc#481817) - Correct link of shared libraries of devel readline package
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Summer has reached full boil here in Eugene, with temperatures climbing into the mid to high nineties—and it's only July 2nd! Our animals are miserable in the heat, and my partner and myself only slightly less so. I know you east coast denizens out there are rolling your eyes at me, and I do understand; I am from Pennsylvania originally and I realize that one month of sweltering, killing sun beats eights months of stagnant humidity. But the heat kicks some of my health issues into high gear (while somewhat alleviating others, and then in the cool weather this situation reverses itself; I can't win!) so while I am not intending for any of my blogs to be on strike this month, the heat has me feeling somewhat more introspective and less verbal than usual.
That said, I'm very pleased that the first installment of my "Baby Heathen/Odinist" series has garnered so much positive attention, and I will be continuing the series very soon--never fear—but in the meantime I wanted to share an anecdote. This blog is called Threads for a reason: because although many of the posts seem to wander off in their own direction they are all part of the central fabric that forms my life, and the other day I was struck by how cohesive that weaving is, even when I am occasionally tempted to think otherwise.
To backtrack a bit, I have probably mentioned before that when I first married Odin a little more than a decade ago He insisted I be very public about our relationship right from the start. That insistence was not a happy situation for me, as there was very little talk about such things as godspousery (or even spirit work, in the terms it is now discussed) back then, and thus very little in the way of support for newbies. (And while Odin had been in my life since my childhood in various guises, I had yet to meet anyone else involved with Him, and I hadn't even figured out who He really was until recently.) I was living in Philadelphia, and other than Jolene and a handful of Norse-friendly witches the only other Heathens I knew of were part of the fairly conservative northeastern Asatru community, and while I wouldn't say I met with derision and scorn across the board (and in fact, several notable members of that community eventually came to admire my devotion, and told me so), there was a fair share of understandable skepticism. It would have made my life a whole lot easier, in terms of being able to worship and socialize with people who were devoted to the same gods as me, had I been able to keep the more witchy/magical/godspouse core of my life private.
But as many of you are no doubt aware, Odin doesn't do easy. And each and every time I tried to underplay my relationship with Him in order to better "fit in," He made sure it was paraded out into the open all over again.
Well, flash forward to now. I am a public polytheist and witch, and while not a "big name" pagan by any means my Wordpress blog has garnered a good bit of popularity in the past few years, having hit the milestone of 500+ subscribers just this week. However, as you know if you've read the intro text for this blog, I am also a heathen artisan, and I'm far more new to that than I am to being a godwife, new enough that I often catch myself feeling like an imposter, like I'm not a "real" fiber artist, when confronted with people who are lucky enough to be plying (pun intended) their craft full time. Recently—in the wake of my growing realization that Making is central to my spirit work path—I made the decision to begin seriously pursuing it as a full time occupation as well, and to work at turning my little hobby business into a profit-making enterprise. But one of the difficulties I faced was my shortage of contacts in my chosen field; while I am fairly immersed in the pagan blogosphere online, I had yet to interact with any fiber arts bloggers, beyond occasionally lurking on their blogs and watching their You-Tube videos. Honestly, I've been a little scared to become involved with this community because of the "imposter" feeling described above; I am fairly new to the fiber arts, and while I have been training myself as a handspinner pretty intensely for several years, and was lucky enough to be able to attend Camp Pluckyfluff (a two day workshop taught by art yarn superstar Lexi Boeger) last year, many of these people have been spinning for upwards of a decade. I am in the same position, relative to them, that a new godspouse might feel herself or himself to be in when approaching me; there is bound to be at least a little intimidation involved. Add to that the (inexplicable, to me) fact that many full-time fiber artists seem to be conservatively Christian. So, I have hung back.
And then something happened to break this stalemate: the other day, I learned about the Tour de Fleece, a month-long spinning event inspired by the Tour de France. Participating handspinners aspire to spin every day the Tour de France rides, in addition to completing other spinning-related challenges they set for themselves. (As an aside: egads, I can't imagine bicycling through France through what I presume is the hottest part of the year for them, too--or darn close to it, anyway!) I happily joined the Ravelry group for the TdF, marked my day planner with all the relevant milestone dates, and drew up my own list of challenges: spin every day my body and the heat will allow it, get my standing special orders done as well as some new skeins for the shop, begin spinning on the spindle again (which I have abandoned since getting my first wheel), and brush up on some of the fancy art yarn techniques I learned in Lexi's workshop. This fit in perfectly with my master plan of devoting much of the summer to spinning, and would—I thought—give me an excuse to interact with other spinners, while conveniently flying in under the radar on the religious issue. Right?
Because the punchline of all of this is that the very same day discovered TdF, I stumbled onto Team Nevermore. I nearly sputtered when I saw their raven badge, and as soon as I followed it to the blog of the team leader—the very cool and uber-talented Christiane Knight of Three Ravens Yarn—and read about her rather less structured, more individualistic take on TdF, I thought to myself "Great! Sounds like my kind of group!" and asked to be added to the team. (I purposefully did not mention my own blog, in the vain hope of flying under the aforementioned radar.)
Now, when I saw that many of the other team members were successful and even well-known spinners, I did have a moment where the "imposter" feeling crept back in, a moment during which I was absolutely sure I would be rejected. Since it was the first day of the Tour, I also thought I might be too late to join the group. But those fears were brief, because that evening I heard back from Christiane that she would be happy to sneak me in and was excited to have me join. And this comment was followed swiftly by a second one to the effect that she had just checked out my blog and she loved it.
Hear that? It's the sound of my jaw hitting the floor—or maybe the sound of my worlds colliding, yet again. You'd think I would have learned my lesson on this by now, but apparently not because it keeps coming back up: trying to keep the strands of my life separated into neat little blocks of color that don't intermingle is never, ever going to work for me, because my life is—by its very nature—a crazy art yarn tapestry instead. In other words, whenever I am tempted to underplay my eccentric, witchy, godspouse path for my own convenience, I inevitably fail at it; I can't do it for long any more than I can spin plain white worsted-weight yarn forever. My life is a whole cloth, and I am not the only weaver of it; I spin the threads of my wyrd in partnership and collaboration with my Beloved god, and as such I can't both be at His side (where I belong) and remain hidden (where I would be more comfortable). This doesn't mean that the things I make all need to be witchy or heathen in theme or design, but it does mean that they ARE all going to be inherently witchy and heathen of necessity, because I am those things. I think this is true of any Maker: just as a writer's words are always about herself on some level no matter what subject she is writing about, so an artisan's life and energy flows through her fingers to infuse the work at hand with her own special brand of magic. The threads are there, and there is no concealing them, for those with eyes to see.
So, where does this leave me standing, as an aspiring artisan? Right where I've been since I said "yes" to a god of inspiration and madness, with the only choice open to me after that initial choice was made: I need to spin all of the things.
Tuesday, 02 July 2013
I'm always a little . . . cautious . . . when you decide to stick to your compartmentalizing. As in, "She realizes this isn't going to end well for her . . . right?" ((hugs)) You rock. Just Keep Spinning!!
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Here's the thing about our culture, which I am sure you realize. We're raised to believe that only a certain type of people are "allowed" to have the spotlight, be respected, what have you. And the less you fit that acceptable model the worse of a person you are and the less respect and praise you merit.
Just for the record I do understand the hiding, as I have to do it to a point with my food blogging. At this point I suspect that I could be more out and not suffer any backlash but I have not had the chance to do so. Just life.
Keep spinning!
Thursday, 04 July 2013
@Soli - I am curious, where is your food blog? I started one with some friends of mine recently who are all cooks and who enjoy kitchen witchin' - https://foodsforthegods.wordpress.com/ - all that blog requires is *real* food and mindful preparation, because Loki certainly enjoys a wide range of foods that aren't traditionally Norse. I'm always looking for new ideas and contributors.
Thursday, 04 July 2013
Heather, that would be I Believe in Butter, and right now my big focus is on building that. Got too many writing projects up in the air to even think about taking on something new.· Beth Wodandis and Heather Freysdottir likes this comment.
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Exactly. And the funny thing is over the last few years I have gotten to know a lot of the bloggers in the community. Shock and surprise, I like these people. We may vehemently disagree when it comes to politics and religion, but they're decent people at the core. As am I.
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Well, as Jolene and I were saying just this morning, neither of us feel we need to have ALL OF THE THINGS in common with a person in order to like them or find interacting with them worthwhile. After all, everyone brings with them a different combination of talents and interests, and I think an unwillingness to make time for anyone who is not a blueprint of yourself is doomed to lead to disappointment and a lack of friends. For example, last night the dog was having some seizure symptoms, from the heat. Our vet was closed, so Jolene ran down the street to get our neighbors, who've had similar issues with their own dog, and they rushed over right away to see what they can do. I don't even know where this couple stands in regard to religion, but the fact that they would rush out of their house half-dressed to check on my dog, and then bring over ice packs for him, makes them good people in my book
Thursday, 04 July 2013
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By Donna Gordon Blankinship Associated Press
SEATTLE — A bankruptcy judge Friday approved the sale of beleaguered coffee company Tully's to a group led by Patrick Dempsey.
The actor dubbed "McDreamy" in the "Grey's Anatomy" hospital TV drama had claimed victory last week after an auction, but a company that teamed up with Starbucks Corp. to bid for the Tully's Coffee chain filed an objection Wednesday. AgriNurture Inc. said it was still willing to proceed with its combined bid with Starbucks of about $10.6 million. The bid from Dempsey's company, Global Baristas LLC, was for $9.2 million.
At a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Karen Overstreet said the Jan. 4 auction was fair and no mistakes had been made.
In a statement, Dempsey said he was "thrilled that we prevailed."
"I've been deeply humbled by the outpouring of support from the city of Seattle and am very proud to be a new business owner in this amazing city," he said. "We have a lot to accomplish over the next few months and years, and I am excited to now call Seattle my second home."
Overstreet said at the conclusion of a hearing Friday that lasted several hours that the auction and the arguments presented by all sides were intricate, but it was not her job to second-guess the decision made by Tully's executives to accept Dempsey's bid.
"Was it complicated? Yes. Did it produce a fantastic result for this case? Yes, it did," Overstreet said.
Tully's has 47 shops in Washington and California with more than 500 employees. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, citing lease obligations and underperforming stores. Tully's wholesale business, which includes Tully's Coffee in bags and single serve K-cup packs that are sold in supermarkets and other stores, is owned separately by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.
Other factors played into the selection of Dempsey's group, according to filings this week from Tully's, its CEO and creditors. The actor's group promised to retain the company's employees, whereas at the private auction Starbucks promised only to consider their applications, according to filings. Dempsey's investors also said they would do business with the company that handles Tully's prepaid cards, which the chain said would save it millions of dollars. Starbucks and AgriNurture said they would not do business with that company. The filings also said Starbucks would convert the acquired sites to its brand and not honor prepaid Tully's cards.
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|Back to Baja
Part 2: Isla Partida and Isla San Jose
By Capt. Bill Pike — October 2001
The couple slept late the next morning, which worked out marvelously. Shuler and I had plenty of time to devour huevos rancheros with fresh salsa for breakfast, launch a couple of kayaks, explore the shoreline, walk the beach, and eventually stroll into an arroyo filled with purple sagebrush, tall cacti, and great red boulders. On the way out we stopped on a slight rise to admire Sogno in the distance, anchored in a spectacularly blue ocean incongruously framed by the desert's earthy tones. Frigate birds wheeled overhead. Other creatures fidgeted in the dusty skree. It was hot, close to 100 degrees, but comfortable due to a noticeable lack of humidity. We sat on a rock. "It must be weird," said Shuler, "coming back here after all these years." "Second honeymoon," I theorized.
Upon returning to the beach, we encountered first mate Jose Amador, who'd come ashore with Sogno's Novurania at the behest of Almaguer to see if we needed additional drinking water. I liked Almaguer. A former Mexican naval officer, he ran a tight ship, from safety-conscious anchor watches at night to English classes in the galley for the crew. I suspected he'd dispatched Amador to check on more than drinking water. Shuler and I'd been gone a long time.
Amador helped us talk with one of the shark fishermen, a guy named Vicente who spoke no English. What Vicente told us about the circumstances of his life was especially poignant against the backdrop of tattered huts and long, lonely vistas. He fished every day, he said, using squid for bait. Shuler photographed him beside his outboard-powered panga, a look of pride on his face.
The short hop to our next anchorage on Isla Partida that afternoon was edifying on two counts. First, the abundance of sea life we encountered en route was astonishing. While Cabo San Lucas has been zealously fished and visited for years, La Paz and its environs, a mere 100 miles to the north, remains virtually untouristed today, a state of affairs attested to by the hundreds of porpoises swimming near Los Islotes, a rocky islet not far from Isla Partida, as well as the hundreds of sea lions and fur seals that live there. It was the sheer numbers of these animals and the incredible vivacity with which they seemed to enjoy themselves, I think, that prompted the second bit of edification. As Bev and I stood on Sogno's foredeck watching a huge, sparkling school of dolphin disappear to the south, she told me about how a heart attack Bob had a couple of years ago had deeply changed their lives. "We stop and smell the roses now," she smiled.
The couple proved it the next day. Leaving Isla Partida about noon, Almaguer headed Sogno north 21 NM to Isla San Jose and an anchorage called Bahia Amortajada. What got the good times rolling shortly after we'd arrived here was a thin blue line on the chart. It indicated a "river" ashore, hidden somewhere in the sprawling mangrove wilderness to the east. Bob said he remembered it, sort of. Bev thought she did, too.
So with Amador back at the helm and Sogno's passengers hanging on for dear life, the Novurania sped off at full throttle in search of adventure. The reward was immediate—a small-boat tour of paradise. The river turned out to be a glycerin-clear salt channel winding through a vast, lush jungle inhabited by ibis, egrets, herons, and other birds as tame as Labrador retrievers. We went swimming. We collected stones on an empty beach. We enjoyed the day.
The trip back to La Paz the next afternoon was smooth and uneventful. Cruising comfortably at 10 knots in a sea as flat as a tortilla, Sogno covered the 50 NM from Isla San Jose to Marina Palmira in five hours, which left time to treat the crew to dinner at a nearby restaurant, La Panga. After dessert a mariachi band strolled over and began to play an old Mexican song.
When I asked Bev why she'd gotten so quiet all of a sudden, she replied, "It's La Vikina...the same song they played the night Bob and I first met."
"Perfect," I said.
A one-week charter aboard Sogno costs $20,000 including food and fuel.
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AAAI 2008 Workshop Reports
AAAI was pleased to present the AAAI-08 Workshop Program, to be held Sunday and Monday, July 13–14, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The program included the following fifteen workshops: Advancements in POMDP Solvers, AI Education Workshop, Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, Enhanced Messaging, Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction, Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking, Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling, Search in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Trading Agent Design and Analysis, Transfer Learning for Complex Tasks, What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications, and Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence: An Evolving Synergy. The Workshop on Advancements in POMDP Solvers brought together active researchers in the area of solving partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Participants discussed various approaches to solving POMDPs, and discussed potential real world applications of the model. The AI Education Colloquium kicked off AAAI 2008's AI Forum, a series of events on the teaching and learning of AI. The colloquium convened AI practitioners passionate about improving both their students' and their own appreciation of our field's compelling ideas. The goal of the Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Multiagent Systems workshop was to examine and define the current state of the art research in agent systems research related to coordination, organizations institutions and norming. The Enhanced Messaging workshop brought together researchers from across the AI and computer science spectrum to discuss the state of research on e-mail and information overload. New connections between participants are driving forward work in this area and building a new research community. The Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction workshop concerned aspects of HRI that particularly call for multidisciplinary research and dialogue, representing AI and robotics as well as disciplines such as psychology, theology, sociology, and philosophy. The Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems workshop was scheduled as a joint event, bringing together researchers and practitioners from the fields of web personalization and recommender systems. It focused on current and emerging topics related to web intelligence, particularly its application to recommender systems. The goal of the Metareasoning workshop was to explore the implications of a proposed model for metareasoning by examining its aspects, its use as a model of self, and its role in single-agent and multiagent applications. The Advances in Preference Handling workshop highlighted recent progress in eliciting and exploiting preferences for computational tasks from artificial intelligence, databases, and operations research. The Search in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics workshop brought together search researchers to share their ideas and disseminate their latest research results. It focused on finding common ground between search techniques used in artificial intelligence and robotics, which was a great success. The Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning brought together related communities of researchers with an interest in the study of representing and reasoning about either space or time — or both. The Trading Agent Design and Analysis workshop focused on the design and evaluation of trading agents. The Transfer Learning for Complex Tasks workshop covered a wide range of topics, including regression, classification, reinforcement learning, planning, Markov logic networks, and neural networks. The What Went Wrong and Why Workshop at AAAI 08 was dedicated to the propositions that insight often begins with unexpected results, and that clarity arrives in the ensuing response. The goals of the Wikipedia and AI workshop were to investigate the mutually beneficial interaction between Wikipedia and AI, and to foster a discussion on new applications and research directions that could benefit from this increasingly important relationship.
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Aurora Borealis
Photograph by Robert Postma, My Shot
Canada's northern latitude makes it an ideal place to catch the aurora borealis. Created when charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's upper atmosphere, auroras vary in color from red to green to blue and vary in shape from drapes to arcs to bands.
Trinity Bay
Photograph by Richard Olsenius
Canada's province of Newfoundland boasts the easternmost point in North America. Just a tick west of that point is Trinity Bay, where towns with names like Heart's Delight and Heart's Content dot the rugged, wave-battered coast.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Photograph by Ken Straiton/Getty Images
The glassy, angular addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, is one of architect Daniel Libeskind's most controversial creations—a building critics love to hate. Nicknamed "the Crystal," it added some 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters) of exhibit space to the museum.
Canola Flowers, St. Lawrence Valley
Photograph by Jacques Pelletier, My Shot
Many Canadian farmers are rapidly shifting to cultivating canola, or rapeseed, seen here in Quebec's lower St. Lawrence Valley. Exploding worldwide demand for canola oil, seed, and meal has made the crop the top source of farm income in Canada.
Niagara Falls
Photograph by Richard Gunn/Getty Images
Niagara Falls is as popular in Canada as it is in the United States—in both countries it's on the list of most visited tourist sites. The famed cross-border cataract comprises three separate waterfalls: American and Bridal Veil on the U.S. side and Horseshoe on the Canadian. Here, rainbows arc across the Niagara River's churning water as the Maid of the Mist offers visitors a closer look at the falls.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Photograph by Nathan Denette/Associated Press
This dramatic, curving wooden staircase was one element in a six-year, multimillion-dollar redesign of the Art Gallery of Ontario, finished in late 2008. Founded in 1900, the museum has become one of the largest art museums in North America, with 583,000 square feet (54,000 square meters) and more than 79,000 works.
Blowing Snow
Photograph by Sebastien Lefebvre, My Shot
Much of Canada's vast interior is too dry for heavy snow accumulation, but just inland from the coasts, moisture frequently mixes with bitter cold and wind to produce blinding storms, like this one in eastern Canada.
Old Town Quebec
Photograph by Glen Allison/Getty Images
The streets, shops, and cafés along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City have the romance of Paris and the charm of a provincial village. Established in 1608 as a fur-trading settlement, this immaculately restored port is Canada's oldest city.
Canada Goose
Photograph by Bill Houghton, My Shot
Noisy and ubiquitous, the Canada goose was once considered in danger of extinction. A protection program begun in the early 20th century revived the species, and now so many of these birds live in some areas of Canada and the United States that farmers consider them pests.
T'sasala Dancer
Photograph by Michael Melford
In Canada, aboriginal groups are respectfully referred to as First Nations. The original migrants to Canada are thought to have crossed a now submerged land bridge during the most recent ice age, some 12,000 years ago. Many of the First Nations work hard to maintain their ancient customs; the T'sasala Cultural Group regularly holds traditional dance exhibitions at its Big House, the setting here, on Cormorant Island in British Columbia.
Victoria Inner Harbour
Photograph by Taylor Kennedy
The heart of Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, is its vibrant Inner Harbour, a charming place to spend an afternoon among seagulls, visual artists, and musicians. Started as a trading post for the Hudson Bay Company in 1843, Victoria is western Canada's oldest city.
Muskwa-Kechika Management Area
Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown
A guide leads horses across a nameless stream during a trek through the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area. The M-K, as locals call it, is Canada's largest wilderness area, encompassing 25,000 square miles (65,000 square kilometers) as it stretches southeastward from the Yukon-British Columbia border.
Polar Bears
Photograph by David Schultz, My Shot
Wapusk National Park, where these two male polar bears playfully tussle, spreads over the icy northernmost reaches of Manitoba. The park, whose name means "white bear" in the Cree language, protects one of the world's largest known polar bear denning areas.
Ice Hockey
Photograph by Dave Reede/Getty Images
The precise roots of the game of ice hockey are unclear, but some theorize that it was invented in Canada as a local, cold-weather adaptation of Irish hurling or French field hockey. Whatever its origins, the Canadian obsession with the sport is undisputed. From an early age, children like these in Winnipeg become as comfortable on blades as in boots.
Banff National Park
Photograph by Boris Golubov, My Shot
The peaks of Banff National Park in Alberta dominate the sky, rising sharply above glassy meltwater lakes and breathtaking expanses of evergreen forest. Banff is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by perrykemp, Jan 12, 2013.
This read and react play crushes defenses
It's the return of the running game.
Amazing what a good running game can do.
This is an old school beat down !!!
Playaction pass would kill Green Bay right now.
Held Woodson bad on that last play.
I'd kick the 3
Crabtree 119yds and 2 TDs.....Ballin!!
Because Dom Capers is more suited for mopping floors
The move to the 4-3 ended that dream
Good coaching right there Jim.
Perry, where are the updates?
You started so strong man.
Wow. So this is what it's like when a team invests heavily in the OL. 3 first rounders.
That's what I'm talkin' about.
troy aikman said this current day niners team reminds him most of our 90s cowboys. i can see why. they have good to great defensive players on every unit, a great oline and running back, good tight end/fullback. they even have the brash young head coach from college like jimmy. the team plays with swagger/borderline cockiness like our boys from the 90s too.
See ya Greenbay!!!
Packers getting their arses kicked
Wow, what a beatdown. Did not expect this.
44 - 24 pending review of that last TD.
that was a grown man drive.
I'd pick OL over CBs any day. Off the top of my head, the 49ers haven't spent a single 1st/2nd round pick on a DB in at least 5-7 years.
On the other hand, losing draft picks for Roy Williams and one draft pick for Claiborne hurt.
I would love for Dal to invest in the trenches. Warmack would be a great start.


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Kalanidhi Dance Festival - Spring Festival of Contemporary Indian Dance - CANCELLED
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Please note that this performance has been cancelled. Under the artistic direction of Sudha Khandwani, Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada presents four evenings of contemporary Indian dance featuring artists from Calcutta and Canada's top Indian dance companies.
March 14–17,2012
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Walker strong in second crack at Suns05/02/2013 2:05 AM ET
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com
Taijuan Walker first faced Double-A Jacksonville on Opening Day, April 4. The Suns got the better of him that night, tagging him for four runs, including two homers, in five innings.
They matched up again on Wednesday and things were markedly different this time.
Walker allowed one run on three hits and two walks over six innings, striking out seven, to lead Jackson to a 9-1 victory at Generals Park.
"Last night I went through, watched the game footage from when I pitched against them the first series. I looked at their swings, saw what pitches I threw, what pitches they hit," Walker said. "They really battled me tonight. I think it was the fifth inning, I made some good pitches and they just kept fouling it off. That whole lineup is really good, so it felt pretty good out there [to beat them]."
One of the keys this time out, the Mariners' top prospect said, was limiting walks. In that season-opening start, he issued four; in fact, he's walked four batters in four of his six outings.
Over 35 innings, the 20-year-old right-hander has recorded 39 strikeouts and 20 walks. But he boasts a 1.54 ERA that ranks seventh in the Southern League.
"Everything else is there, so today I really wanted to focus on the walks," he said. "Two walks, I'm not happy with, but pleased it's not three or four. I'm still going to focus on limiting the walks to zero or one, but I was pleased with how I pitched tonight.
"I think it just comes down to the 1-1 counts. I have to go after them in 1-1 counts. And if I get 0-2, I have to put them away instead of trying to fool them, little stuff like that."
The 43rd overall selection in the 2010 Draft out of Yucaipa (Calif.) High School, Walker (3-2) vaulted up prospect lists during his first full season in 2011, when he posted a 2.89 ERA and 113 strikeouts over 96 2/3 innings for Class A Clinton. He's currently MLB.com's No. 5 overall prospect.
Walker is repeating the Southern League after spending all of last season with the Generals. As a 19-year-old in Double-A, he went 7-10 with a 4.69 ERA, fanning 118 and walking 50 in 126 2/3 innings.
Walker said he thinks that, as long as he cuts down on the free passes, he'll continue to find success during his second go-round in Jackson.
"I'm pretty happy with my season so far, I made a good adjustment on my curveball, my cutter has really been working and my changeup has been pretty good so far," he said. "The only thing I'm not happy with is the walks, but I feel as the season goes on they'll go down. It's still early -- I'm not using that as an excuse, I just think as the season goes, the walks will go down. That's the only thing I'm unhappy with so far."
Abraham Almonte, fresh off hitting for the cycle over the weekend, went 4-for-5 with a double and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot for the Generals. James Jones was 4-for-4 with three doubles and three RBIs.


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The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) welcomes you to the home of the Native American Innovative Leadership program (NAIL). The goal of the program is to prepare Native American educators to successfully lead high-achieving, culturally responsive schools serving Native American youths and communities.
The University of Northern Colorado NAIL program is a two-year Interdisciplinary Masters of Arts degree program or Ed.S. in Educational Leadership and Special Education with dual licensure as a principal and special education director. The 39 credit hour program is delivered online and focuses on preparing Native American educators to successfully lead schools that promote student achievement in a culturally responsive context, particularly schools serving Native American youth and communities. The online delivery allows participants to remain in their schools and communities while completing an advanced degree that will open a variety of doors to career advancement through the development of leadership skills and knowledge that will help create positive change in schools serving Native American youths and communities. The course content addresses how educational leaders can develop the learning environment and effective teaching practices that honor Native culture and language and also prepare Native students to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful and happy individuals as adults.
The program is open to all Native American Educators who have completed at least one year of teaching experience as a school counselor or psychologist and are interested in assuming roles as school leaders. Non-Native educators who currently teach in reservation schools are also admitted.
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Stars converging on Nashville to honor George Jones
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George Jones is missing a scheduled concert for the last time. But the legendary country star has plenty of friends and fans who are more than willing to fill in.
More than 70 stars are on board for "Playin' Possum: The Final NO Show" - a tribute event honoring the late Country Music Hall of Famer. The date was slated to be Jones' last Nashville concert, and one of the final dates on his farewell tour. He'd even lined up some guests to join him for the occasion, which had been dubbed the "George Jones & Friends" concert. And when George passed away in April, instead of canceling the date it was turned into an all-star tribute event.
Alan Jackson, Charlie Daniels, Tanya Tucker, and Brenda Lee are some of the artists who were on board for the original show. And now they're on board for "The Final NO Show," along with Brad Paisley, Loretta Lynn, Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire, and Eric Church.
The diverse lineup ranges from Bill Anderson to Megadeth, and also features Larry Gatlin, George Strait, Alabama, R&B star Sam Moore, and many others.
"Playin' Possum: The Final NO Show" will take place at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena Friday night.
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Physics chair Steven Herbert is Xavier's new Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and grad school dean
Herbert graduated from Xavier in 1984 and has been teaching at the University since 1994 | July 16, 2012
Longtime physics professor and department chair Steven T. Herbert, PhD, is Xavier's new Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School. Herbert takes over his new duties on July 25. Provost and Chief Academic Officer Scott A. Chadwick, PhD, made the announcement today, Monday, July 16.
Herbert has a long history with Xavier, beginning with his education. He graduated with degrees in physics and math, summa cum laude, in 1984, and was valedictorian at his commencement ceremony. He earned a PhD in physics from The Ohio State University in 1993, and focused his research specialization on condensed matter/low temperature experimental physics.
Herbert came back to Xavier in 1994 as an adjunct professor of physics. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1995, and in 2001, he was promoted to associate professor. He became chair of the physics department in 2005 and earned a full professorship in 2008.
As associate provost and dean, Herbert will lead University efforts to advance student learning, support teaching and faculty scholarship, enhance online learning, increase funded research, cultivate external partnerships, and provide leadership and support for graduate programs.
Herbert has served on numerous University committees and received more than $1 million in grant funding. In 2005, he was awarded Xavier's Joan G. McDonald Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Sciences.
He has a record of producing and promoting innovative and challenging teaching and research and has an ability to make collaborative connections across department and college boundaries. Shortly after becoming chair in 2005, he led a review and redesign of the physics and applied physics majors, adding new courses and redefining old ones. More recently, he spearheaded development of the department's newest major, biophysics.


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A masked gunman who robbed a home in Rancho Palos Verdes on Friday was caught and arrested after an iPhone he stole in the caper allowed Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies to track him down in Harbor City.
The suspect, Juan Carlos Marroquin, 41, had been hired four months earlier by the victimized homeowners to clean their swimming pool.
But the female victim, whose husband was not home at the time, did not immediately recognize him, said Lt. John Wolak of the Lomita Sheriff's Station.
Deputies believe the suspect entered through a sliding glass door in the back of the home in the 32000 block of Pacifica Drive at around 11:20 a.m.
The gunman demanded money and jewelry from the woman and then forced her into the closet. She dialed 911 from her cell phone and deputies responded, but by then the suspect had fled the house.
"She was smart enough to retain her cell phone in order to call deputies," Wolak said.
The woman was not physically injured in the holdup, which deputies are describing as a home invasion robbery.
The gunman took a mother's ring from the woman's hand, some other jewelry, and about $200 to $300 in cash, Wolak said.
But also stolen was an iPhone that belonged to the victim's daughter in the robbery. Using GPS technologies, the deputies tracked the phone to home in the 1500 block of 257th Street in Harbor City and obtained a search warrant.
"While GPS capabilities on smart phones have caused concerns about 'Big Brother'," Wolak said, "in this particular case, it put us closer to solving this case."
Deputies searched the home and recovered the stolen phone along with a black handgun and the mask. Marroquin was arrested and charged with robbery. He is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail.
The husband of the victim later identified the suspect as a man who had been hired to clean their pool.
The Sheriff's Department urged homeowners to use caution in allowing workers access to their property, recommending that they get references and check business licenses first.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call Srgt. Stan Baillif at the Lomita Station at 310-891-3205. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call "LA Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477); texting the letters TIPLA plus their tip to CRIMES (274637); or using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.
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Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan to make directorial debut
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Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan is making the move from music videos to feature films. The heavy metal band's co-founder will make his directorial debut with the big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel "Officer Downe."
Created by Joe Casey and artist Chris Burnham, the comic tells the story of a Los Angeles police officer who is frequently killed in the line of duty, but is then telekinetically resurrected by his superiors and sent back to work.
So far there's no word on when production will begin or when "Officer Downe" will arrive in theaters.
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Whitney Porter, blogger at Throwing Cake, offered up this spring salad recipe that had us emptying our bowls and going back for seconds.
There are some things, like sandwiches and salads, that you think you should be able to create without a recipe. But then something so great happens that you need to share it with the world, and next thing you know, you're passing a salad recipe out to everyone who will listen to you.
Add an awesome new serving dish from UncommonGoods to the mix and I was ready to show off something new.
Meet my warm salad recipe. For those who think a warm salad sounds odd, prepare to have your mind blown. Sauteing your ingredients together not only creates the base of a hearty salad, but also forms the dressing to bind it all together. I have done this recipe with steak and without, and as a friend put it "it's an explosion of flavors."
Not only it is amazing, but it was pretty amazing looking in the wheelbarrow. It was solid, super cute, made the salad look better then normal, and it gave my roommate and I great joy as we wheeled it around the dining room table. A whole to meaning to, "please pass the salad."
Warm Spring Salad
served 4-6 people
1 c. shallots, diced
12 oz. haricot verts (french style green beans)
12 fingerling potatoes, sliced
3 tbsp. olive oil
1/3 c white wine
salt and pepper, to taste
drizzle of balsamic vinegar
for the salad
1/2 lb of mixed baby greens
3 radishes, thinly sliced
1/4 c. blue cheese, crumbled
Pour 3 tbsp of olive into a large skillet and saute the shallots and potatoes. When they are almost complete, add green beans and white wine and allow to simmer until the green beans are cooked, but still crisp. Salt and pepper to taste. When the mixture is complete, drizzle approximately 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar over the top and let rest while you prepare the salad base.
In a large bowl (or in my case an awesome wheelbarrow), toss the mixed greens, radishes and blue cheese together.
Take the warm mixture from the skillet and pour over the lettuce mixture. Toss and serve.
** tip: I precook the potatoes in the microwave to make the process go a bit faster. Just place the sliced potatoes in the microwave and cook until fork tender.


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Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62
One of the most beloved trios in pop history is now down to a single surviving member. Robin Gibb, 62, died Sunday of colorectal cancer — following twin brother Maurice, who died in 2003 after suffering a blocked intestine and cardiac arrest.
Robin Gibb, who had been hospitalized for pneumonia and had surgery to remove a growth from his colon, was central to the group's success both as a songwriter and a vocalist. He was the original lead singer, and his tangy, tremulous tenor and older brother Barry's deeper, breathier, falsetto-prone voice were constants as the Bee Gees traversed a wide range of musical styles.
Though the family act first gained attention in the '60s for Beatle-esque pop tunes, they moved into orchestral rock and then the soaring disco that made them superstars in the late '70s. Their contributions made 1977's Saturday Night Fever soundtrack a No. 1 album for 24 weeks, earning them chart-topping singles in Stayin' Alive, Night Fever and How Deep Is Your Love.
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Gibb nodded to the Bee Gees' different phases and the shifting tastes of pop audiences in his solo career, which predated the band's commercial heyday and continued after his twin's death. In 1969, he had a No. 2 hit in the U.K. with the lush, pining Saved By the Bell. In 1983, the lithe, danceable Juliet became a fan favorite, while 20 years later Gibb incorporated a rap segment into Please, a minor hit in England.
He also collaborated with Barry Gibb in writing Woman in Love, a No. 1 single for Barbra Streisand in 1980. The brothers worked on hits for artists from Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker) to Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (Islands in the Stream).
The Bee Gees were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2001, they released their final album, This Is Where I Came In. After Maurice died, the surviving brothers retired the name but had reconsidered in recent years. They appeared together at a 2006 concert in Florida and again on Dancing With the Stars in 2009 to promote a retrospective, The Ultimate Bee Gees.
This spring, Gibb made his classical album debut with Titanic Requiem, co-written with his son RJ. He was too sick to attend the work's world premiere April 10 in London.
In a 2001 Bee Gees interview with USA TODAY, Robin proved the impish wit of the group, quipping at one point, "We're comforted by the fact that most of our critics are dead. … We've outlived them."
Certainly, the music will do so.
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