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Monday, May 11, 2015
Mark Knopfler - Sultan of The Guitar
Knopfler has had four separate careers. Early on he was the leader of a quartet that started out as a little pub band. You should all know that outfit as Dire Straits.
Secondly, Knopfler is also a talented composer of movie soundtracks. Local Hero, Cal, and The Princess Bride are just a few on a larger list. Most of this music can be listened to as entities unto themselves rather than just as adjuncts to the films. You do not need to have seen the movies to appreciate them. It's telling that these albums have mostly been marketed as Knopfler's work and not simply as music from the films.
Next, there is Knopfler the collaborator. His sessions with The Notting Hillbillies, Emmylou Harris, and Chet Atkins prove he's not necessarily interested in being a star. In fact, one of the reasons he broke up Dire Straits was because he believed the band had gotten too big. He's happily shared the credit and even stepped back from the spotlight when working with others.
Finally, there is Knopfler the singer-songwriter. For the most part his guitar playing is no longer an event. Instead his soothing, Dylan-like baritone vocal chords are front and center.
Overall, Knopfler has consistently released high quality records and election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be a certainty.
The guitarist also deserves a complete album by album retrospective. Unfortunately, he has far too big of a catalog to go down that road so what I'll attempt to do here is discuss Knopfler's best in chronological order.
Let's start at the very beginning.
Dire Straits (1978)
The band's debut LP was an unexpected commercial success highlighted by the big hit single, "Sultans of Swing." As always, Knopfler played his best and he proved early on that he knew how to write lyrics and craft a song. This record was a thankful departure from most new bands that arrived on the scene in the late 70s who were heavily into the new wave or punk and away from musicianship. If there is a fault with the album anywhere it's in the leader's singing. Knopfler sang better on all of his later records but his shortcomings here aren't enough to detract from the listener's enjoyment. His voice is not unpleasant. Overall, it's a sparsely arranged set that shows off Dire Straits' pub band roots perfectly.
Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980)
Knopfler outdid himself here with a seven song record, and the band's third, that included his best work to date: "Skateaway," "Romeo and Juliet," "Solid Rock," "Expresso Love, "and "Tunnel of Love" all received substantial airplay and deserved it. The great guitarist's vocals improved too (or recorded in a fashion that his deficiencies were compensated for). Knopfler's brother, David, who was second guitarist, left the quartet and the E Street Band's Roy Bittan assisted, giving the album more color with his keyboard work. With the possible exception of the last track, "Les Boys," Dire Straits third album is a winner and one of the best of the 80s.
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (1982)
"Telegraph Road" is 14:23 of rock 'n roll bliss and Dire Straits' best song. It's a story about land development in Detroit, Michigan over several decades and how it's evolving landscape adversely affected a man's life. After the relatively quiet, mid-tempo main song ends it suddenly explodes into a speedy, blistering 4:00 jam session (similar to "Free Bird") that stills sends shivers down my spine all these years later. The hit was "Industrial Disease" another song about the state of of the working man, only this time in Britain. "Private Investigations" is not too shabby either. The whole album contains only five songs and is around forty-one minutes in length which is probably why some people have branded it as Dire Straits' prog-rock album. However, there is nothing progressive sounding about these songs even though it's more meticulously produced and ambitious than anything they previously released.
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero (1983)
This album, jointly Mark Knopfler's first solo work and his first soundtrack, was written about extensively on Bloggerhythms several years ago so there is no point in doing so again because my opinion of this work of art hasn't changed. You can read all about this moving, mostly instrumental, showcase for Knopfler's composing skills here.
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985)
Dire Straits' one and only international blockbuster is also their most diverse record. The famous guitar riff on "Money For Nothing" was once described as heavy metal for yuppies and that's accurate because while he can rock hard, Knopfler, unlike most headbangers, actually writes songs that are about something. Besides, the MTV favorite isn't down and dirty enough to be considered metal. "So Far Away" could be a J. J. Cale tune and "Walk of Life" has a definite rockabilly vibe. Then there is the tension of side two. Four songs, highlighted by the title track, are about war and political abuse. Although the band, whose lineup by this time was now mostly just Knopfler, bassist John Illsley, and whoever he recruited to play with them, would continue on for a while this platter was really the end of their glory years.
The Notting Hillbillies - Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time (1990)
This is the only album made by Knopfler's post-Dire Straits country band. He took lead vocals on "Your Own Sweet Way" but the rest of the time the singing was given over to the other members of the quartet. The album is a quiet outing in which the star blends into the background but he does contribute harmony vocals and his always classy guitar work. The band included singer-songwriter Brendan Croker as well as Steve Phillips who made guitars for Dire Straits. The keyboard player was Guy Fletcher, a later member of Knopfler's old band, who continued to work with him on many of his soundtracks.
Mark Knopfler - A Shot At Glory (2002)
Containing some of Knopfler's best movie music this soundtrack has three vocal tunes that sound as if they were quality leftovers from Dire Straits and the rest is instrumental music that combines electrified rock with Celtic folk music. Rock guitar is supplemented by bagpipes, fiddles, and accordions. Colorful all the way around.
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning (2006)
The pure country album reached number eight in the United Kingdom and went to number seventeen on the Billboard 200 in America. It was a collaborative effort with country star Emmylou Harris recorded over a seven year period before its 2006 release. The set is a unique blending of two voices that surprisingly complement each other well. Ten of the twelve tracks are Knopfler compositions, the other two were contributed by Harris. This album spawned a subsequent tour and DVD. Knopfler is the star but the presence of a female lead singer on his songs sends this record into a whole new dimension.
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YAKIMA — Foam shoots from the lip of a freshly filled bottle of lager in the research brewery at John I. Haas.
Virgil McDonald likes what he sees,
"Ah yeah, look at that foam," says McDonald, the research brewer for the nation's largest hop supplier, which celebrated its 100th anniversary recently.
As he finishes off a test run inside the room full of reflective metal vats and computerized equipment, McDonald works like a researcher but acts more like a home brewer in his garage with a few buddies.
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All but licking their lips as they work, McDonald and assistant Martin Hodel use the state-of-the art equipment to brew a 50-gallon batch of Helles — a German-style lager — for internal taste testing.
For kicks, McDonald named one batch Helle Buoy. His jokes somehow carry over the loud hum that echoes in the room. Ask him to name his favorite beer, he'll tell you it's the one in his hand.
"It's a lot of fun," he said. "It's been a blast."
The beer-making equipment is part of the company's 1-year-old, 24,000-square-foot facility called the Innovation Center, the latest chapter for an enterprise that started a century ago when Washington, D.C., merchant John I. Haas first started trading hops between the United States and Europe.
The Haas Innovation Center includes the brewery, a laboratory and meeting space at the Haas plant at 1600 River Road in Yakima. The center also has a private taproom and beer garden resembling traditional German villages.
The facility is just across the parking lot from Haas' massive hop-processing plant.
The brewery is one of only six or seven of its kind in the world, said company officials. A few universities or research organizations use them but almost never hop suppliers.
The equipment is expensive. The Innovation Center property has a new construction value of $3.4 million, according to the Yakima County Assessor's Office.
The brewery uses equipment similar to that of commercial brewers like Anheuser-Busch, only much smaller, but the company has no intention of making and marketing its own beer. The goal is simply to show clients what its hops can do. In fact, last week, a group of visiting Japanese buyers tasted some beer.
"We say, here's the hop, and by the way, here's the beer," said Scott Garden, technical director for John I. Haas.
The brewery will benefit the nation's entire hops industry, which is centered in the Yakima Valley, said Ann George, administrator of the Washington Hops Commission and Hop Growers of America, a Yakima-based trade association. Investing in technology is a necessary part of the game, she said.
"That's what we have to do to make sure we can stay ahead of the customer base," George said.
Yakima County produces virtually all of the state's commercial hops and Washington produced about 80 percent of the hops in the United States last year, according to the Hop Growers of America.
The U.S. crop was worth $250 million that year, while U.S. brewers did $100 billion in sales, according to the Brewers Association.
The Haas brewery works with small craft breweries, which purchase about one-third of Yakima Valley's hops, and giants such as Anheuser-Busch, MillerCoors and Heineken, which still crank out 90 percent of the world's beer, said Timothy Kostelecky, senior manager for technical services at Haas.
There's been quite a change over the past century.
Farmers first planted hops in the valley around 1900 when railroads and irrigation reached the area.
John I. Haas opened Yakima Golding Farms in 1931. The farm and trading company eventually became the largest private hop company in the world with roughly 4,000 acres in both the Northwest United States and British Columbia.
In 1978, the corporation joined the Barth-Haas Group, a Nuremberg, Germany-based consolidation of global hop corporations that dates back to 1794. Members include firms in Germany, England, Australia, China and the United States.
Today, the Haas company maintains headquarters in Washington, D.C., but runs processing and research facilities in Yakima. The firm has about 1,200 acres of its own hops in the Toppenish area and storage facilities in Oregon and Yakima.
The German portion of the group has a similar research brewery in St. Johann, Germany.
The Innovation Center replaces a laboratory formerly located in a brick building at the corner of Yakima and First avenues, where agronomy and chemistry labs were inefficiently separated and oil testing as part of the hops research caused the whole building to stink.
About 50 employees work in the facility. When built, the company added about 10 to its workforce of about 200.
"It's much nicer" in the new building, said Cheryl Ermey, a laboratory technician, as she sent samples of beer through an extraction machine.

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Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Brass & Woodwind: Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone
Keyboard and Piano
Guitar and Ukulele
Refer to the Handbooks for information about tuition and enrolment.
All lessons are undertaken either individually or in groups of two and keyboard is taught in groups of up to 8. Lessons focus on the development of technique and musicality including melodic and rhythmic reading, interpretation and aural training. Students learn pieces from a diverse spectrum of musical genres. They are encouraged to attempt AMEB practical examinations when they reach the appropriate level.
Throughout the year we hold numerous boutique concerts to encourage our students to perform as soloists and in small ensembles, such as the brass and woodwind concert, the string concert and the keyboard concert. Then towards the end of the year, the children perform in our annual music Showcase. The Showcase is highly anticipated all year and our students are given the opportunity to display their talents for their families and friends.
We also have many ensembles in which students may choose to participate. They include:
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Rehearsals for these groups are held at various times through the week, mainly during class time and once again are designed and aimed at covering a wide range of skill levels and abilities.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Tim's February 2014 Tag!
Tim more than covers that quite well, so pop on over there. Thus far, I do not have the newer products and used what I had on hand. I chose Tarnished Brass, Vintage Photo and Weathered Wood for stains and Festive Berry, Barn Door and Aged Mahogany were my Distress stencil colors.
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Thank you for taking the time to stop by and visit and share your comments!
39 comments:
- Valerie-Jael said...
Beautiful tag Terry, love the colours, and it is really stylish. Sorry you had to cancel your trip, but crafting is a good second! Hugs, Valerie
- February 10, 2014 at 3:36 PM
- cheryl Baker said...
Oh this is brill7ant hun amazing take on tims hun live it to bits hugs cherylxx
- February 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM
- Astrid Maclean said...
Totally fab take on the original Terry! Love the stencil you have used and your die cut arrow and trim looks fantastic too!
What a shame you had to cancel your trip. Hope you get another chance soon!
- February 10, 2014 at 3:44 PM
Sorry to read of your change of plans, so inconsiderate of the weather!!! Maybe you will manage to reschedule your visit very soon.
The upside is that for us it means we get to see more art, so thank you. Love the stencil and the bold colours.
Here's to the weather improving soon.
- February 10, 2014 at 3:50 PM
- Beth said...
Girlfriend I love this tag and I know hubby will too....sorry you had to cancel your trip they have had nasty weather....we may to the next couple of days.
Back to tag I love the chalkboard look so cool as are the hearts and arrows.
- February 10, 2014 at 4:10 PM
- Netty said...
Beautiful tag Terry with lots of chunky glitter, your husband will truly appreciate it. Hope the weather clears soon so you can visit your DD. Annette x
- February 10, 2014 at 4:39 PM
- Jo said...
Your tag is beautiful! I hope your weather improves ...
- February 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM
- Michele said...
perfectly lovely. hope you get out to Portland soon. xo
- February 10, 2014 at 10:19 PM
- Brenda Brown said...
So sorry you didn't get to visit your daughter I bet you were both very disappointed, hopefully you can rearrange soon. But love how you took the time as an opportunity to be creative and what a stunner you came up with. This is a fabulous interpretation of Tim's tag and the die cutting in grunge and foil looks amazing, must remember that one xx
- February 11, 2014 at 1:15 AM
- Inkypinkycraft said...
love your take on Tims tag although sorry that you had to miss strip to your daughters ...but you put it to good use making ts beautiful piece! Those hearts are scrummy and love how you created the arrow! Tracex hugs x
- February 11, 2014 at 3:37 AM
- Dianne said...
Hello Miss Terry, I looooove your take on Tim's card, gorgeous hearts, love the arrows and your trim, fabulous make my dear, thanks for sharing hope you have a grrrreat day at home, ((( BIG HUGS )))
- February 11, 2014 at 7:01 AM
- 1CardCreator said...
Sweet tag Terry! Sorry you had to cancel, weather is crazy everywhere this year! ~Diane
- February 11, 2014 at 7:44 AM
- Jingle said...
This looks so fantastic!
- February 11, 2014 at 7:47 AM
- Mrs.B said...
Sorry you had to cancel your trip Terry, hopefully you will be able to reschedule soon. You certainly put the time to good use with this fabulous tag - love your take on the original - love the sentiment with the glitter heart.
Enjoy your week.
Avril xx
- February 11, 2014 at 9:03 AM
- Alie Hoogenboezem-de Vries said...
Such a great quote and the valentine tag looks fab, Terry!
- February 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM
- Linda R said...
This looks awesome my friend! So sorry to here you had to cancel you trip to Portland but that is some pretty scary weather going on over there!
- February 11, 2014 at 10:41 AM
- Redanne said...
Terry, this take on Tim's tag is fabulous! I love the sunray stenciiled background and the hearts are delightful.
So sorry that you could not make the trip to see your DD, hope you can re-schedule soon. Hugs, Anne x
- February 11, 2014 at 10:51 AM
- Krisha said...
So sorry to hear your trip fell through.
Really cool tag for Valentines day. You always do Tim's Tag justice.
- February 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM
- butterfly said...
Very cool take on the tag - love the drama of the rays behind the sentiment, fabulous!!
So sorry to hear the weather got in the way of your trip... but far better safe than sorry. Stay warm and keep crafting!!
Alison xx
- February 11, 2014 at 2:44 PM
- Meggymay said...
Fabulous tag, hope you can get your trip rescheduled soon.
Yvonne x
- February 11, 2014 at 3:31 PM
- Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...
Lovely tag Terry, the hearts against the chalkboard are very striking and I love the arrows. Thanks so much for joining in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Tracy x
- February 11, 2014 at 4:28 PM
- Karin said...
wow beautiful valentine tag! Love it!
Groetjes Karin
- February 12, 2014 at 3:37 AM
- Paper Profusion said...
Fantastic tag Terry! Love the crisp constrast of those bold colours. Nicola x
- February 12, 2014 at 8:45 AM
- Ira Huberts said...
Wow Terry, your Valentine's tag is perfect! Love your chalk technique, it looks awesome! So sorry you had to cancel your trip, but you spent your time wisely my friend ;-) Hugs, Ira x
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- February 12, 2014 at 12:44 PM
- Buttons said...
Superb Terry. Love that ray background and those glittery hearts. Jenny x
- February 12, 2014 at 2:00 PM
- Lucy Edmondson said...
This is fab, Terry. Sorry about your cancelled trip,
Lucy x
- February 12, 2014 at 2:02 PM
- Anita Houston said...
I think I like the rays better than the hearts! Fab take!!!
- February 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM
- Lynn Stevens said...
Its just darling Terry I haven't seen Tim's but no doubt your version is just as good as his even using different products!
Hugs Lynn
- February 12, 2014 at 8:08 PM
- Vada said...
Wow Terry! What a Knock Out Tag!!
As soon as I get in the products that I ordered I'll give it a try.
I hope you get some vacation time w/ your daughter. Weather has to get better SOON!
Take Care.
Hugs Vada
- February 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM
- Silvia(Barnie) said...
A fantastic take on Tim's tag, love all the glittering hearts.
- February 13, 2014 at 3:22 PM
- Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie said...
I love that you used different products. Inspiration is what it's all about, not copying Tim's make! Yours came out wonderful and I'm sure your DH will love it! Happy Valentine's Day to you!
- February 14, 2014 at 9:41 AM
- Hettie said...
Gorgeous take on TH's tag. Well done. Hope you had a good Valentine's Day despite the weather.
- February 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM
- Shirley Chillman said...
Finally jumped over here TT and after mooching around the posts I have missed all I can say is wow everything is amazing especially this Timmy tag. Love it.
Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x
- February 16, 2014 at 8:16 AM
- Anita Houston said...
Gorgeous! Love it on the black background! Excellent take!
- February 18, 2014 at 10:30 AM
- Sandy said...
Perfect in every way!!!!
- February 19, 2014 at 10:58 AM
- Lisa H said...
Very nice! I still need to make my Feb. Tim tag. Oops! Thanks for joining in our challenge at Inspiration Journal. =)
- February 20, 2014 at 1:05 AM
- Lesli Giertuga said...
love your tag & the saying is awesome
- February 21, 2014 at 9:19 AM
- Sue from Oregon said...
Thanks so much for joining our Inspiration Emporium February Show It With Words Challenge!
A lovely tag indeed! I live not too far from Portland, so I lived that bad weather first hand! Glad it is over!
♥ Sue Kment
- February 24, 2014 at 8:34 PM
- Sugar Lump Studios said...
Such a gorgeous tag my dear! I always love stopping by to see what your latest creations are...been up since 4 am...it's getting old! lol
We see the vet for her 2nd boosters today so maybe she will have some advice! ;)
- February 25, 2014 at 7:42 AM
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Robert Stack: Local resident Dotty Hearn was equally
baffled. By the time she stepped outside that morning, the storm had
ended, but the blobs were everywhere.
Robert Stack: By mid-afternoon, officer Lacey had
inexplicably taken ill.
David Lacey (police officer): I was to the point
where I could hardly breathe. I started to put together that possibly
whatever the substance was, it had made me violently sick and ill like I
had never been before, to the point where it just totally shut me down.
Robert Stack: Across town, Dotty Hearn wasn't
fairing much better.
Dotty Hearn (local resident): I started feeling
dizzy, and everything started moving around. It got worse, and as it did
I became increasingly nauseated.
Robert Stack: An hour later, Dotty's daughter and
son found her sprawled on the bathroom floor.
Barclift: She was cold, drenched with
perspiration and pale. My mom had been vomiting, had extreme vertigo and
had been complaining that she had extreme difficulty with her vision.
Robert Stack: Dotty would spend the next three days
in the hospital. They diagnosed her with "a severe inner ear infection.
Sunny: For some reason, as we were going out the
door, I remembered the substance, and I wondered if perhaps it might
have had some sort of effect on her. So, I opted at that moment to take a
sample of the gelatinous material to the hospital.
Robert Stack: A lab technician found the first
startling clue. The substance contained human white blood cells, but
exactly what it was could not be determined. The goo was promptly
forwarded to the Washington State Department of Health for further
Robert Stack: Mike McDowell discovered that the
sample was literally teaming with two species of bacteria, one of which
make its home in the human digestive system.
Sunny: The initial speculation was that it might
have been human waste from an airliner, however that was out, because
under FAA regulations aircraft waste matter is dyed blue. This material
was not blue, but crystal clear in color.
Robert Stack: The blobs rained down over Oakville
six times over a three week period. Dozens of people took ill and many
animals died after coming into contact with the toxic droplets. But the
nature of the substance, and any connection it may have had with the
outbreak, remained a mystery. Dotty took a sample of the material to a private research lab.
Tim Davis (Microbiologist, Amtest Labs): Here we
have sample 128-76. I saw what I think was a eukaryotic cell, which was
basically a cell that has a definable nucleus and is present in most
Sunny: We had a significant number of military
aircraft flying over the home prior to this happening.
Dotty: Every day almost, there were low flying
helicopters that were black in color. We kind of thought it might have
come from them.
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Please join the Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs for an interactive dialogue. GACAPAA is responsible for serving as the advocate agency in the Commonwealth for our diverse AAPI communities. The Commission wants to hear about the challenges facing the AAPI communities in Greater Pittsburgh and how we can leverage our strengths to effectively advocate, promote resources and best serve our AAPI communities. Space is limited and your participation is critical. Please plan to attend. If you have specific questions or issues you want addressed please e-mail them ahead of time to tlawson at pa.gov.The event runs from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in room 2700 Posvar Hall (map) and is free and open to the public. The required registration can be completed online.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs Town Hall in Pittsburgh, March 25.
PA Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs will host a Town Hall meeting at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, March 25.
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Warframe - Speed Drift Pinnacle DLC Manual Delivery
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BONUS: Receive the exclusive Lex Onyx Skin and Lex Weapon for free! (Limit one per account.) The Lex Onyx Skin is only available with the purchase of a Pinnacle Pack.
With this pack you get:
- 500 Platinum to use towards new Warframes, Weapons, Equipment and more
- 60,000 Credits to assist in making new upgrades to your Arsenal
- 6 Random Mod Cards to instantly upgrade your Arsenal
- 4 Rare Mod Cards to add hard-to-find modifications to your Inventory
- Speed Drift Mod to increase Sprint Speed and Casting Speed
- Battering Maneuver Mod to increase the speed of Bullet Jump, lengthen the duration of Aim Glide and Wall Latch, and add Impact damage to Bullet Jump
- 2 Exilus Adapters to instantly unlock an Exilus Mod Slot for Mobility and Utility advancements
- 3-Day Affinity and Credit Booster to quickly level up your Arsenal
- OS: Windows XP SP 3 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 or AMD Athlon x64 4000+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 3600
- DirectX®: 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
- Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection
- If you were playing the game log off Warframe, and also log off your Steam account.
- Log in to Steam with the credentials provided in an email you received after purchase or in your library on our store.
- Log into your Warframe account (using your own login and password) from the Steam account of the seller.
- You will see information: You have pending Steam packs. Would you like to aply them to this acount? Click: Accept
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Band & Choir Letter Jackets
The Wabash Music Education Award Program is for all students involved in music activities at Wabash High School. Students earn credits towards their awards by successfully participating in various music activities. Successful participation includes attendance, positive attitude, musical growth, and, in the case of band and choir class, a letter grade of "C" or better for both semesters.
The awards are:
Chevrons (Tier 1) – awarded for each year of class/extra-curricular activity (free)
Varsity Music Letter (Tier 2) – awarded for earning 60 credits
Vinyl Letter Jacket (Tier 3) – awarded for earning 130 credits
Leather Letter Jacket (Tier 4) – awarded for earning 180 credits
Patches (Optional) – available for each class/extra-curricular activity (15 credits each)
Chenille Name on Jacket(Optional) – order with letter jacket (3 credits per letter)
Tier 1 chevrons earned throughout the year will be available to all students at the end of the school year or the end of the extra-curricular season at the discretion of the directors. Students can receive these awards before their Junior year or with their Varsity Letter Jacket. You do not need to have a music jacket to earn these awards!
Tier 2 Varsity Music Letters are available to Juniors and Seniors only. They come with the Tier 3 and 4 Varsity Letter Jackets, or they can be ordered separately.
Tier 3 and 4 Varsity Letter Jackets are available to Juniors and Seniors only. Letter jackets will be ordered at the beginning of each school year. Tier 3 jackets have vinyl sleeves, and Tier 4 jackets have leather sleeves. All jackets are all black and come with the Varsity Music Letter and the student's graduating year sewn on and the student's name in script writing. Students may purchase credits ($1 each) up to half the cost of Tier 3 or 4.
Optional awards may be ordered by the end of April. Patches for each class or extra-curricular activity will be available for 15 credits. The chenille name on the back of the jacket costs 3 credits per letter. Students may use credits they have earned or may purchase credits ($1 each) up to the full cost of the optional awards. You do not need to have a music jacket to earn these awards!
Orders for letter jackets must be turned in to a music director by the end of September. All other awards may be ordered with the letter jacket or the end of April. Any money needed to complete the cost of your order must be turned in by the deadline with your order. Use the Award Program Order Form to place your order.
The Music Directors and WME Board of Directors reserve the right to award all awards at their discretion. Please direct all questions to a Wabash High School Music Director.


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"Xenofeminism is an affirmative creature on the offensive, fiercely insisting on the possibility of large-scale social change for all of our alien kin."
Laboria Cuboniks knows; they know that the Internet is dead as we once knew it. It's more volatile now than "the text-based, small scale Internet of the 90s." In today's Internet, new problems arise and old ones are extended. Bodies are cannibalized and spat out as images and information, circulating faster and faster with each news cycle. Every day, we watch each other duke it out over ideologies on the feed. Each of us is a slave to our own timeline.
Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation is a manifesto collectively penned by a group scattered across multiple timezones, working together under the pseudonym Laboria Cuboniks. Xenofeminism (XF) is a new feminism for a new reality that is defined by technological mediation and injected with – as LC writes in the manifesto's opening – "abstraction, virtuality, and complexity." The text hinges on an understanding that in the time since the millennium, the Internet itself has gone from a fresh-faced, hopeful youth to an embodiment of an angst-filled teenager. The overarching narrative of its patchwork of communities and ideologies might now be, "fuck off you'll never understand."
Laboria Cuboniks write for these communities, giving voice to the intense, at times inarticulable mindfuck that is the experience of being a person split, one foot in the digital and one firmly planted on the ground. "We are all alienated," LC writes, "but have we ever been otherwise?" XF catches us up to the reality of our condition as digital subjects. We are alienated, fragmented, and yet embodied still. We now know that, as Jodi Dean wrote in Communicative Capitalism, the Internet as an "open, smooth, virtual world of endless and equal opportunity is a fantasy."
In particular, the online curation of identity that most of us engage in – even those Facebook friends whose profiles embody an "anti-aesthetic" – is both freeing and shackling at once. Online queer and trans* subcultures show us, for instance, how powerful a network can be, allowing users to form solidarities in ways that "geographic dispersal previously made impossible." This organizing has been "a source of strength for many," LC notes, allowing individuals to not only possess more agency in their self-representation, but also to collectively curate a network of queer and trans* identities that are high-profile platforms for activism.
At the same time, one is forced to question the politics of visibility at play. Is visibility always empowering? To view the function of online identity formation and representation as only emancipatory fails to account for the "commodified and specularized cultures " that the rise of the image and subordination of text within the digital environment bolsters. Laboria Cuboniks depart from popular readings of her Cyberfeminist predecessors in her attention to this shift; such figures as Donna Haraway, Sadie Plant, and VNS Matrix are now brushed aside for their techno-utopian disregard for the body and belief in the fluidity of identity online. Laboria, while inheriting their "refusal to code the body as natural" and hopeful attitude toward technology as a tool for emancipation, rather acknowledges the digital's role in deeply entrenching us in identity politics and peer policing. Users everywhere feel "pressure to maintain [their] image in a particular way, while being susceptible to constant threats of attack, harassment, or moral dogpiling."
"If 'cyberspace' once offered the promise of escaping the strictures of essentialist identity categories, the climate of contemporary social media has swung forcefully in the other direction, and has become a theatre where these prostrations to identity are performed."
Culturally, we seem to have reached an understanding of this evolution. Certain facets of the Art World would like to link this shift in consciousness to the proliferation of texts and artworks surrounding the phrase "post internet" starting around 2007. The Internet is as banal an aspect of existence as any other. At the risk of overhistoricization, it is interesting to look back upon these years, 2008 – 2013 roughly, as an 'era' obsessed with the project of hyper-aggressively naturalizing the Internet as a part of the fabric of everyday life. We, as post-financial crash and pre-Snowden political subjects, were mesmerized by the slick surface of the interface washing over everything in sight.
Laboria Cuboniks, however, articulates a more recent shift in our online engagement. They argue that, as things now stand, not only does the Internet provides a 'natural' venue for the basic functions of everyday life, but it also exacerbates and extends these relations – tempting one to employ toothless phrases like "post-post internet." In "Too Much Screen: Is the Internet Dead?" Hito Steyrl uses the phrase "the Internet in 4D" to describe the extrusion of the Internet off of the screen and into daily life. The added 4th dimension in her description feels important and well-aligned with the claims of the Xenofeminist Manifesto. Where we might have previously believed that the Internet functions as a two-way mirror alongside the 'physical' world, it might benefit us to instead look at it as a series of funhouse mirrors distorting identifications and opinions. But it's a funhouse that appears to have no exit.
Here, Laboria Cuboniks steps in to say that there is an exit strategy. It's not a trap door; it's not going off of the grid. The only way out is through. Our online "prostration to identity" has indeed alienated subjects from each other on the backdrop of an existing alienation from the technics of the very venue in which all of this plays out (an attitude of "idk it just works!" when talking about digital technology) as well as the geographic alienation of a networked public sphere. Concepts like 'intersectionality' serve – at times productively – to divide subjects into intensely local nodes within a large grid of identification. However such localized, bounded identities obscure the fact that most everyone is alienated from just about everyone else and in just about every way. LC argues then that:
Recognizing alienation as a universal condition among non-normative subjects – those of us who are not white, cisgendered, heterosexual males -, is to LC, the key to changing the game. They suggest endorsing a new universalism and forging solidarities that cut across identities, creating intersectionality as a way to extend rather than limit. A Xenofeminist intersectionality is "not a morcellation of collectives into a static fuzz of cross-referenced identities, but a political orientation that slices through every particular, refusing the crass pigeonholing of bodies."
While such a suggestion might not be so cutting edge – perhaps Xenofeminism is just a redressed cyberfeminism or Foucauldian biopolitics – the project still feels new. It resonates because it presents new options in the face of a discourse that feeds on inevitability. Xenofeminism successfully captures a glitchy panorama of the experience and problematics of the 21st century subject and proposes broad strategies for debugging the digital landscape.
This lack of clear programmatic thrust might leave the text vulnerable as it floats, seemingly untethered, in theory-land. Laboria Cuboniks writes loftily about identity and harnessing technology toward revolution, but for a self-proclaimed rationalist there is little reference to how exactly "a feminism at ease with computation" will alleviate the challenges of digital life. But on the flip side, this aids LC in her proposition of Xenofeminism as a platform, "a mutable architecture that, like open source software, remains available for perpetual modification and enhancement." The modularity expressed in the text – even in its structure – speaks to a desire for it to appeal to a variety of communities. Though it is hard to say whether such openness is fundamentally the achilles heel or the secret weapon of the project.
Regardless, this text feels like a saving grace amidst exhausted frameworks for emancipation. At times I feel that we've been locked into the same circular conversation around the Internet for the last three years or so. For instance, I think I'll scream if I see just one more pretty, young female artist laud the selfie's political power in the face the male gaze, and my head might explode if I hear another lecture about the crumbling state of 'authenticity.' Further, I will cry if I am asked to accept the fact that we still discuss images as the ultimate force of verification and rampant police brutality in the same breath. In recent months, it has become harder and harder to hide from ourselves that we are still subject to the realities of a non-digital world and that these realities are only enhanced at the hand of our machines.
Understanding this as the baseline, we can begin to ask the hard questions about where our desires and identifications come from, what it means when corporate platforms are in the mix, and how to harness these available tools toward "building the 'right' mythologies, reigniting the libido, reprogramming desire, and shifting the cultural imagination towards a future people want to live in."
It's something like that cheesy aphorism, "you don't know where you're going unless you know where you've been." We need a radical politics that understands where we've been; and where we've been for a while is an increasingly hybrid territory. Xenofeminism is built for this unprecedented complexity, for the world where the iPhone is both friend and foe, a world in which we have grown together with digital technology like parasites in love.


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Next Generation Leadership Institute
Every generation needs coaches and mentors who will believe in them and the power of Christ to see His Kingdom come and transform cities and nations. The influence of the Leadership Institute focused on assisting the next generation of leaders make an impact in the marketplace and the church. While it is no longer a structure utilized by the Hunters, many of the following works grew from it.
The focal point of the work of Next Generation Ministries is to build people. When the people they build begin to build businesses, schools, churches, and homes then the Hunters and those who come to Uganda as short term missionaries are involved in these Kingdom enterprises.
Cross Cultural MentoringThe Hunters believe that an experience in a third world nation will broaden, change, and develop the worldview of Americans. They have hosted groups of every age in their Ugandan compound. Although large enough to host 10 people comfortably, they welcome couples and individuals as well. Some stays are limited to five days while others have been for several months. If you, or someone you know, may be interested in a short term experience in Africa, please read on.
Short Term Experience in Uganda, East Africa... You Will Never Remain the Same
"Paul and Pam Hunter and Next Generation Ministries provide a great opportunity to be exposed to the cultures, ministry opportunities, love, need, and extreme promise that is so abundant in Uganda. They provide a way to preach the gospel, encourage the downtrodden and minister to the orphans and widows without furthering the victim mentality, but instead empowering the youth of Uganda. If you take a trip with Next Generation, your life will be changed!"
- Nikki Zyp, former Missions Director, Timber Valley Church
After influencing high school, college, and young adults of America for several decades as teachers, mentors, and spiritual advisers, Paul and Pam Hunter offer to host you or a small group for a cross cultural experience in the country of Uganda, East Africa.
The strategy is to help you organize, lead, participate or influence a group of students, young adults, middle aged and retired adults, in Jinja, Uganda for a life changing experience.
This short term mission will require each traveler to pay for their own airfare and a daily expense while in the country. The ministry base in Jinja will provide all the requirements for living while in Uganda.
If a teenager comes to Uganda for mentoring they must have the permission and blessing of at least one parent or guardian for the duration of the trip. Meals, housing, and transportation are available in any combination that fits the vision and needs of each group. Contact Paul and/or Pam at firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
The short or longer term experience in Uganda will provide everyday encounters with the country and culture formal and informal influence by Paul and Pam through the day.. Cross cultural experiences may include:
- Schools
- Children's and/or General hospital
- Health Clinics and AIDS Information Center
- Exposure to life in a third world nation by visits to the slums, markets, and ghettos
- Children's Home and/or orphanages
- Encounters with political, spiritual, and business leaders
- A day with a Kingdom oriented business man existing in a developing nation
- Visit to one of the local prisons
- One or two Sundays experiencing a church ... African style
- Introduction to nationals with opportunity for relationships with them
- A day of rest and refreshment at popular tourist sites and shopping for African memorabilia
Paul and Pam, along with others under their supervision, will be the overseers of these excursions. References for the Hunters are available upon request.
Please e-mail, write, or phone the address included on the Contact Us page. We suggest that college groups may come over Christmas Break and high school students come over Spring Break with a few days before and after, but application for anytime during a year is acceptable. Time of year will be scheduled on a first come, first serve basis. An orientation packet will be made available for each team leader. Arrangements for the short term experience should be made with Pam in preparation for this cross cultural experience.
Travel agent references are also available upon request.
Abundant Living MinistriesI have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly. John 10:10
Next Generation Ministries initiated its first Leadership Institute in January of 2006. Freddie was the first student to enroll and pay his registration and tuition fee. He graduated from his first year as a student, in the 3 year program, but was unable to enroll in the second year of Institute in January of 2007. On a visit to Freddie's mother's house in the village during first week of December of 2006, Paul found Freddie so sick that he was facing death. He cried with Freddie and prayed for him. On Christmas day, Paul visited Freddie a second time and found him dying. He picked him from there and brought him to their house in Jinja where Freddie lived the last days of his life with the exception of three weeks he spent in the Jinja Hospital where he took treatment for tuberculosis.
During the time Freddie lived with Paul and Pam he confessed to them that he was HIV positive. Under the encouragement of God's Holy Spirit and the support of Next Generation Ministries, Freddie courageously and obediently fought the stigma in the Church toward the HIV positive. He stood before his local congregation, Jinja Christian Center, and shared with his spiritual family that he was HIV positive. This confession had a huge impact in the congregation that day and opened the door for freedom.
Abundant Living Ministries is the result of that beginning and serves under the umbrella of Next Generation Ministries. The vision Freddie had for Abundant Living Ministries is that it would help the HIV positive and those fearing HIV to redirect their focus from death to life. Freddie un-expectantly went to be with his Heavenly Father for eternity on February 7th, 2007, but his vision to minister to those who are HIV positive, and others who are affected by HIV/AIDS, lives on through free HIV testing
Free HIV TestingAbundant Living Ministries is committed to breaking the stigma of HIV/AIDS in the Church. There are many who fear having HIV. Many do not even want to know if they are positive and they want no one else to know if they are.
Abundant Living Ministries offers free testing to encourage these people and help break the stigma.
If you need encouragement, Abundant Living Ministries has staff people who will assist you in getting tested and will encourage you regardless of what results from the test. If you are interested in being tested or simply talking about your situation, please e-mail us or call us at the phone numbers listed in this brochure.
Encouragement for Those Fearing HIV/AIDSWe believe that we are partners in bringing resolution to those affected by HIV and AIDS with the Lord Jesus:
Abundant Living Ministries seeks to offer advise and encouragement to those fearing they have HIV/AIDS and those connected in any way with those who are HIV positive. Please feel free to contact any of the staff members of Abundant Living Ministries.
Becky Bryan's 6th Grade Classa 12 year boy named Ryan who raised $2,000 for a well in Africa. One of the students asked, "Why can't we do something like this?"
Becky was a personal friend of Paul and Pam Hunter. She informed her class that she had friends who have been to Africa several times. Would they like to have Mr. Hunter come and share with them about the country of Uganda?
With around three weeks left in the school year, Becky's sixth grade class raised over $2,600 for a water well! Land had been purchased for the construction of a school and adult learning center, but there was no water on the land or the surrounding area. On the last day of school, June 6th, Paul and Pam Hunter, who direct the work of Next Generation Ministries, were presented with a check for $2,500.
During the presentation, Paul and Pam asked the students "how did they manage to raise so much money in such a short time." Among the responses were the following:
- One student put a container at High School Pharmacy in Molalla. He got about $58.00.
- A boy made many dozen cookies and gave them out at his church coffee time for a donation. He brought in $167.00.
- Instead of gifts, a girl asked for money for her birthday, then gave it all to the fund. She gave $105.00.
- One girl asked the parents and students at her Ti-Kwan-Do class to make a donation. She brought in $5.00.
- A student put a container at Ricky D's Pizza. She brought in $20.00.
- A student asked Mom's co-workers and got some money.
- A girl wrote to The Bill Gates Foundation and has yet to receive a donation.
- One student worked for his father at the fields. He brought in $100.00.
- One young man asked to take some money out of his savings fund. He gave $50.00.
- These 12 and 13 year old students will never forget this experience. As Paul and Pam told them, "You don't have to be an adult to be a world changer."
Doing something significant in the world can be contagious. The following school year, Becky's sixth grade class choose to raise funds for three high quality dairy cows. These income producing animals were given to responsible people who promised to give the first heifer, born to their cow, back to Next Generation Ministries so that another milk cow could be given to another needy person.
Becky's desire this year was to investigate the interest of her class to see if they would like to become involved in purchasing desk for over 300 students who had only benches on which to sit and would write on their knees. Before she had a chance to explore this project, Becky lost her battle with brain cancer and left her vision with others on December 24, 2008. A Becky Bryan Memorial Fund has been established and contributions can be made to Next Generation Ministries and designated for the Becky Bryan Memorial Fund.
ProjectsRelationships with Next Generation Ministry's team members have led to some significant projects in Uganda. The visions of these members are ambitious for expanding the Kingdom of God. More projects will be added as the ministry develops. Enjoy reading about these projects. Sense whether there is any desire in you to get involved with a project. In Uganda we would say, "You are most welcome!"
Bukeeka ProjectIn the summer of 2004, Paul and Pam Hunter directed a Youth Empowerment Team combined of young people from America with young people from Uganda. One of the Ugandan team leaders was Robert Sityo who had recently married his wife Sarah.
Robert sensed the Lord leading him to begin a work of building the Kingdom of God in a village named Bukeeka. There had been several attempts to plant a church of believers in Jesus Christ in that village, but each attempt failed due to the opposition of the Islamic community in Bukeeka. 90% of the people in that village were Muslims and there was serious opposition to Christianity. Robert still believed that God wanted to express Himself among the people of Bukeeka through born again believers and so began the work there out of faithful obedience.
The initial days of ministry were very difficult and there was noting circumstantial to encourage Robert and Sarah. Because of Robert's involvement with the Youth Empowerment team, he and Sarah became connected with two team members of that team from America, Kathy Ikola and Dennelle Bremner. This relationship opened the door for Kathy and Dennelle's church, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, of Portland, Oregon, to catch Robert's vision for Bukeeka. This relationship with BSLC was a great source of hope to Robert and Sarah in those early days.
The church Robert was working to plant seemed to be failing, but the Lord instructed Robert to think creatively about doing something that would bless the people of Bukeeka. Robert and Sarah began Fountain of Hope School and had 67 students the first year. The children of Muslim families attended the school, but the parents did not permit the staff and faculty to pray for their children. However, one girl who had serious headaches every day, which prevented her from doing her homework, was prayed for by Vincent, the school's headmaster, and the Lord healed her dramatically. This healing opened the door for prayers for the other children of Muslim parents.
The Lord has used the school to build a bridge to the Muslim community of Bukeeka. Paul and Pam, along with some of their team members, visited Fountain of Hope School in January of 2006. This visit brought more hope to the Robert and Sarah and a relationship between Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church and Next Generation Ministries began on a significant level.
Beginning with a dream to offer a superior, quality education to the children of this rural village and transform the community through the love of Christ, the Bukeeka Project has grown into something beyond anyone's wildest dreams. There are now 280 students enrolled in Fountain of Hope School. The rented building used for the school is in very poor condition and overcrowded.
Next Generation Ministries has joined forces with Robert Sityo, who founded and directs Fountain of Hope School and Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church for The Bukeeka Project. BSLC is the leader of the project.
Phase 1 includes purchasing around 3 acres of land, drilling a well, and building a multi-purpose building. This first structure should allow the school to increase its enrollment. As of the end of June and agreement had been reached for the land, funds had been transferred to Uganda, a public announcement had been made, and payments were scheduled. Funds had also been transferred for the beginning of the well drilling as soon as title was to legal given to Fountain of Hope School.
Phase 2 will focus on classrooms, library, kitchen, facilities, and teacher's quarters.
Phase 3 will finish with more classrooms, a computer lab, administrative offices, and electricity.
If you would like to participate in this exciting vision by donating to The Bukeeka Project please go to our contact page.
Mbiiko Project
Betty Wasswa, a trained school teacher who held a good job with a private school for four years, grew up in this town of Mbiiko. Betty is a team member of Next Generations Ministries who has expressed faith in the dream she has for the prostitutes and their children. Rock of Ages Nursery School is the core of her dream. Rock of Ages is started its third full year in February of 2008. Betty started with 7 students her first year and grew to a full dozen her second. This year, however, with some financial help from some American friends, Betty was able to enroll 52 students and hire two other teachers.
Betty's deep compassion and love for the prostitutes of her home town was the motivation to start a school for the children that were born to them. Although open to any child whose parents desire early education, Betty's goal is to be able to grant scholarships to the children of these desperate women who are risking disease and death on a daily basis to care for themselves and their children.
Rock of Ages Nursery School is an educational bridge that Betty has build to a neglected and despised element of African society. As Betty loves the children of these women, she believes she will have opportunity to demonstrate and share with them the love of Jesus.
Birthing CenterGiving birth to a baby is the West is a developed privilege of the most women. There are doctors, nurses, midwives, sterile hospitals, birthing centers, and a wide array of devices and environments that make giving birth to a baby a pleasant (as possible) experience.
A short visit to the city of Uganda will find a drought of such provisions. Although containing some medical clinics and a large hospital, women deliver their babies through a harsh process that still keeps husbands away from the process. In January of 2007, a short term missionary of Next Generation Ministries was able to witness one of these births. Through tears she shared that the doctor had spoken roughly to the laboring mother, smacked her on the thighs if she groaned, and ultimately and literally placed his hands on the top of her round belly and forced the baby out. Soon after this birth, both mother and baby came to the base house of Next Generation Ministries.
The vision for a birthing center operated by trained midwives with the latest techniques of assisting laboring mothers was birthed. There are many orphanages for the abandoned children of Jinja, but what about the concern for the entry of many of those children into this world. As the Lord provides the funds, personnel, and proper location, NGM intends to plant such a center in the city of Jinja as one more way to impact the city and the nation of Uganda with the prosperity of the Kingdom of God.


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Darnell, Smoak beat deadline for deals
In the end, James Darnell's athleticism and work ethic were worth the splurge.
The San Diego Padres shelled out well over the slot recommendation to sign the former USC third baseman Friday morning. Darnell will earn $740,000 in his first professional contract, approximately $150,000 over the suggested offer for the No. 69 overall pick in this year's amateur draft.
Darnell, who batted .306 with 19 homers and a team-high 81 RBIs as a junior, will report today to the Eugene Emeralds of the short-season Northwest League after taking batting practice and watching his new team play host to Philadelphia at Petco Field.
"It's a real blessing, something to think about," Darnell said of the contract. "It puts things in perspective. You're playing the game of baseball. It's your career and you're being paid to play it. You think to yourself, 'What an opportunity.' "
For a time, it appeared a deal would not get done. Padres scouting director Grady Fuson apparently took umbrage to what he perceived to be arrogance during the early negotiations.
"It's a good, old-fashioned staredown with some of these guys," Fuson told the North County Times earlier this month. "Darnell had two teammates go (in the first round) in the draft and he thinks he's better."
USC coach Ray Tanner said Fuson was probably misinterpreting Darnell's passion to play and confidence in his abilities.
"He's a very confident young man and very driven, but not arrogant or egotistical," Tanner said. "He has worked extremely hard to get where he is today."
Darnell added he was where he was today due in large part to the support he received in Columbia.
"It was just a great experience. I can't say enough about the people and the fans for making me welcome," he said. "The first year, so far away from home, was tough on me, but every member of the club and all the fans in the stands still knew my name even though I was on the bench half the time."
Meanwhile, the first Gamecock selected in this year's draft took his stalemate with the Texas Rangers down to the deadline.
USC career home run leader Justin Smoak and the Rangers remained far apart on the final details of his contract as time ticked away. According to news reports in the Dallas media, not only were the two sides haggling over the bonus (suspected to be roughly $1.2 million above slot), but the insistence on a big league contract.
On his blog for the Dallas Morning News, Rangers beat writer Evan Grant indicated the Rangers' unwillingness stemmed from the development of another first baseman, Chris Davis. According to Grant, Davis' stock rocketed from the time of the draft to today thanks to a torrid June that led to a big-league promotion.
Said Grant: "Though he's slumped slightly (in Texas) over the last couple of weeks, Davis' performance to date should only reinforce to the Rangers they have a first baseman for the next six years. ... They can trust the position to Davis, barring injury."
Smoak's status was not known at press time.
Reach Obley at (803) 771-8473.


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It is over a month since President Evo Morales in an interview with an Italian daily denounced there was a rightwing conspiracy against him and his indigenous government. Active members of the conspiracy were allegedly U.S. Ambassdor to Bolivia Philip Goldberg, Industry and Commerce Chamber president Mr. Gabriel Dabdoub, and John Jairo Banegas, hitherto an unknown Colombian first charged with leading a gang in Santa Cruz then escalated to a paramilitary condition.
Now Interpol has ended the probe about alleged paramilitary activities in Colombia. Interpol chief, Col. Miguel Estremadoiro, told Fides news agency that Banegas is clear in his native country. He has no guerrillas or any criminal record in Colombia, he said. Fides report was published by La Razon website.
One tends to believe that the presidential word when denouncing a conspiracy is something too serious to be treated lightly or ignored. It was, at least by some leading Bolivian dailies which apparently decided it wasn´t worth their time and space.
But the President didn´t. At the "why-don´t-you-shut-up" Ibero-American summit in Santiago, he flaunted the picture he considered the supreme evidence of his allegation. The picture shows Goldberg, Dabdoub and Banegas at the Santa Cruz main fair held last September. Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Dabdoub have denied the president´s allegation. But Banegas hasn´t been given a chance to say a word. He is in the Palmasola prison, in Santa Cruz´s outskirts, since early October under charges of leading a gang of street assailants. And one would think he is held incomunicado since no direct word from him has appeared on the dailies.
A couple of weeks ago I was watching a TV news program and almost by pure coincidence heard a prosecutor stating that neither the Interior Ministry nor the Presidency had officially asked for a probe on the allegation and that the case had been dismissed. But the news wasn´t fit to print, apparently. I saw nothing in several dailies the following days. Tonight, another TV news cast said the Bolivian police had no information whatsoever that Banegas had a criminal background in Colombia. That is, he´s not a paramilitary as the Interior Ministry had charged him. Then came Fides news agency report.
If this is the end of the affair, then President Morales owes several explanations…and apologies. To the alleged conspirators, to begin with. And to his Latin American colleagues and King Juan Carlos. A special apology should be given his friend Hugo Chavez. Because it were some complaints against Spain presented by President Morales while addressing the summit that triggered Chavez storming loquacity, which in turn triggered the now-famous "por qué no te callas" of the usually quiet King.


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How To: Know Your Winter Squash
At the farmers' markets, gourds and winter squashes abound come October—suddenly and a little bit terrifyingly. They roll off the tables, weigh down our baskets, poke holes in our shopping bags, and shrivel the skin on our hands (see Butternut Squash for more on this). As if that weren't dynamic enough, winter squash come in a bazillion varieties, so many as to make lesser cooks run for the hills, where the vegetable identification is easy.
The good news is that, in the end, most varieties of winter squash are interchangeable in terms of taste and cooking method. We've reverted to choosing one by size. Feeding one? That translates to a delicata. More like a hundred? An enormous butternut. Spaghetti squash is the exception; its stringy interior makes it a better sub for pasta than pumpkin.
To make matters more complicated, some of the squash varieties on that overloaded farmers' market folding table are really only posing as vegetables. Certain varieties of decorative gourds have evolved to be totally inedible. If you cut one open, you'd find it contains oh so little meat. In elementary school, we made instruments with such gourds. Likewise, the perfectly round, enormous pumpkin you're planning to carve for Halloween may not be your best bet for pastas and cake. Mammoth pumpkins—the ones we love for Jack O'Lanterns—are stringy and not very sweet.
As for the squashes we do love, read on to discover delicata, kabocha, Hubbord, and more. Then, salivate over what we do with our cooked squashes—quesadillas to risotto, chili to pasta. To us, squash screams "fall cooking" and that's what we plan to do.
**Tips and Tricks**
Our Favorite Squash Varieties
Delicata: Small, sweet, and not too starchy, the delicata has a thin, ridged skin, pale yellow with lines and speckles of green. It's an heirloom variety, which means it's among the tastiest squash out there. What's more, if you roast the delicata, you can even eat the skin.
Pumpkin: We all know the face of this guy. He's got a jagged smile that's lit from within, and big triangular eyes. But let's not anthropomorphize: pumpkins are for eating, too. The best are sugar, pie, and baby pam pumpkins, which have smooth skin and flesh that's not too stringy. Hack off the skin with a large knife, then quarter the pumpkin and cook as you would any old squash.
Kabocha: These squat squashes look like pumpkins dyed an earthy forest green. Kabochas are actually also known as Japanese pumpkins, as they're both enjoyed and grown in Japan, as well as in other countries with a growing season of at least 100 days. Kabochas last a long time on the counter, actually becoming sweeter the longer they sit out (to a point).
Butternut: The little black dress of squash, what you should grab when you're unsure of what you want (or when you're at the crappy grocery store and not the glorious farmers' market). Butternuts have smooth skin that makes them easy to peel with a sturdy grater. But beware! Wear gloves when peeling butternuts, as the just-peeled flesh emits a liquid that can cause contact dermatitis. Uncovered hands will become uber-dry and bright orange, then begin to peel.
Best Methods For Cooking
Steam: Steaming might be the most reliable way to get beautiful, orange, uniform cubes. It's also the best method if you're planning to mash your squash into puree—for baby food, perhaps, or from-scratch pumpkin pie. To steam, halve the squash and scoop out the seeds, the peel, and cube it. Set the squash in a steamer basket over an inch or two of boiling water. Cover and cook until the squash is easily pierced with a knife. You'll want it slightly firmer for salads, softer for mashing.
Recipe: Inside-Out Ravioli Pasta
Roast: Roasting brings out a tremendous amount of flavor and sweetness. To roast, peel, seed, and cube a squash, then toss it with olive oil, salt, and perhaps a drizzle of maple syrup or sugar to bring out the sweetness. Cook on a baking sheet in one layer at 400°F for about 45 minutes, until the squash is golden and shrunken. Roasting is also a good method for squash that are tough to peel; you can halve and seed a squash, brush it with some olive oil, then roast it til it's soft. When it cools, simply scoop the flesh out.
Recipe: Parmesan-Roasted Potatoes and Squash
Shred & Sauté: When you shred your squash into tiny little shards—which is, admittedly, a labor of love—you wind up with pieces small enough to sauté. Melt butter in a large pan, then add the shredded squash and minced garlic or thinly sliced shallots if you'd like. Slowly sauté the shreds until they've softened, then add salt and any other seasonings to taste. Shredded squash is divine, and, once finished cooking, ready for a variety of savory uses.
Recipe: Butternut Squash Risotto with Pecorino and Pancetta
Blanch: Boiling cubes of squash is a simple approach, not unlike steaming. With blanched squash, you can easily make a mash—as for the croquettes—and you can also add blanched cubes to almost anything: stews, pastas, grain salads, and more. Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil, add the cubes, and cook until they're as soft as you'd like. Drain, then shock with cold water.
Recipe: Squash and Sweet Potato Croquettes
Braise: If squash is to be part of a slow-cooked dish, like a chili, you can easily add cleaned, cubed squash to the pot and merely cook your chili/stew til it's done. You just want to make sure not to add the squash so early as to overcook the rest of your ingredients, and yet not so late as to leave the squash itself raw. Braising is great for infusing squash with the flavor of the dish.
Recipe: Autumn Pumpkin-Brisket Chili


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Custom whitelist VCL
You may only want to allow specific client IPs access to your Magento Admin. To whitelist and allow these IPs access, you can create an Edge ACL through the Magento Admin with a list of IPs and create a VCL snippet with code to verify client IPs. Any IP not matching the allow list is restricted with a 403 Forbidden error.
You must have the following information to complete this VCL code snippet:
- List of client IPs to allow access
- Account access and URL to the Magento Admin for the Staging or Production environment
- URL for the Magento Admin. If you changed this URL from
/admin, you will need to modify the code in this example.
This information is just the code portion for setting up your VCL. Use this information with Custom Fastly VCL snippets.
Create Edge ACL for allowing client IPs
Edge ACLs create IP lists for managing access for your VCL snippet. For this example, create an Edge ACL of IPs to whitelist and enable access to your site. Then create a custom VCL snippet to manage access.
If you want to allow access to Staging and Production, create the Edge ACL in both Magento Admins with the same name. You can have different IPs in the two environments. The VCL snippet code will apply to both environments.
- Log in to the Magento Admin.
- Navigate to Stores > Settings > Configuration > Advanced > System > Fastly Configuration.
- Expand the Edge ACL section.
- Click Add ACL to create a list. For this example, name the list "allowlist".
- Enter IP values in the list. Any client IPs added to this list will be allowed access to the site.
- Optionally, select the Negated checkbox if needed.
You will use the Edge ACL by name in your VCL snippet code.
Create allowlist.json
To allow only whitelisted IPs access to Staging and Production environments, you can use the same VCL snippet file without edits.
Create an
allowlist.json file with the following JSON content:
Review the following values for the code to determine if you need to make changes:
name: Name for the VCL snippet. For this example, we used the name
priority: Determines the order VCL snippets call. You want to set the priority to 5 to immediately run and check for whitelisted, allowed IPs. This priority runs the snippet immediately and before any of the uploaded and default Magento VCL snippets (magentomodule) that have a priority of 50.
type: For this VCL, we use
recv, which places it in the vcl_recv subroutine by below the boilerplate VCL and above any objects.
content: The snippet of VCL code to run, which verifies the client IP. The following occurs in this code:
- If the IP is in the Edge ACL, it is allowed access. If not, they receive a 403 Forbidden error.
- If your URL for your Magento Admin was changed, make sure to edit
/adminwith the new URL. For example,
- In the code sample, the condition
!req.http.Fastly-FFis important when using Origin Shielding. Do not remove or edit this code.
The default VCL snippets you uploaded included a prepended name of
magentomodule_ with a priority of 50. For your custom VCL snippets, do not use the
magentomodule_ name. Also consider the priority of your custom snippets if they should override the default snippets.
Finish adding the VCL
When saved, continue creating other VCLs. You can then run the bash script, then validate and activate your VCLs to complete the process. For complete steps, see Custom Fastly VCL snippets.