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With five of the eight teams .500 or better heading into this year�s Touchstone Energy Baseball Classic, it would seem fair to say the three-day tournament at Richlands High School looks to be wide open and ultra competitive.
With five of the eight teams .500 or better heading into this year�s Touchstone Energy Baseball Classic, it would seem fair to say the three-day tournament at Richlands High School looks to be wide open and ultra competitive.
�It�s up for grabs,� Swansboro coach Rusty Ross said, adding �anybody� could win it.
Jacksonville coach David Fleischer, whose team is the defending champion, agreed.
�Anything can happen,� he said. �Really, it comes down to pitching. I think it�s wide open. I don�t think there�s a favorite.�
Not so, at least in Dixon assistant coach Nick Raynor�s estimation.
�Jacksonville is the favorite,� said Raynor, speaking for coach Jack Brown, who declined to comment. �They won it last year.�
To which Fleischer offered this:
�I guess we are the defending champions. But it all depends on your draw and who�s healthy and who has momentum. I think it was (L.A. Dodger announce) Vin Scully who said momentum is tomorrow�s starting pitcher.
�I think there are a lot of teams right now that would claim that they have some pretty good momentum. We found out a couple years ago when we had our breakout year even above talent sometimes momentum can carry you.�
Momentum took a hit for at least two teams coming in the tournament.
Richlands (8-2-1) lost 9-0 at Croatan (4-4) on Thursday night, committing 9 errors and managing just 2 hits while seeing its seven-game winning streak snapped. And Jacksonville (7-3-1) was no-hit by Coastal 3-A Conference foe D.H. Conley the same night.
Dixon (7-3), which had won three straight tournaments before the Cardinals� snapped that streak last year, is coming off a 10-0 win at Pamlico.
And Swansboro (7-2) also is playing well coming into the tournament.
�I think we can play with all those guys,� Ross said. �We�re playing pretty good. I don�t think we�ve had a game in awhile that we�ve had everything together, the pitching, fielding, hitting. We�ve had a little something that�s carried us every night.
�So I think if we could get clicking on all cylinders, we�d be a team that could contend.�
The same could be said for the Bulldogs, who are still maturing as a team, Raynor said.
�We�ve still got some growing to do,� he said. �But we all think we�re in a good position right now.�
And while everyone is out to win the tournament, an argument could be made that no one wants to do so more than Richlands first-year coach Jeff Sprenger given the Wildcats have never taken home the championship.
�This is our best chance I think we�ve had in a long time,� he said. �We�ve hosted it since 1998, and we have never won it. We�ve been in the championship game a couple times, but we�ve never come through and won one.�
Last year the Wildcats lost to Jacksonville 15-4 in the final, and in 2009 Richlands fell to Dixon 15-11 in the title game.
This time around Richlands opens the tournament against Dixon, which on paper stacks up as the toughest first-round game.
�I think we�ve got a good chance. If we get past Dixon, then we�ve got the winner of Swansboro-White Oak. It�s going to be a tough road, but I like our chances if we can pitch the ball and hit like I know we can,� Sprenger said.
The tournament begins at 10 a.m. with Southwest (1-6) battling Croatan. After the Cardinals face Northside (1-9) at 1 p.m., Swansboro faces White Oak (2-10) at 4 p.m. before the final game of the night between Dixon and Richlands at 7 p.m.
To a man, every coach likes playing in the tournament over spring break.
�Absolutely,� Raynor said. �No work, no school, just baseball. It�s good. All the coaches will tell you it�s good to have your kids over spring break having some work. Coach Brown always says most of the teams that have make a deep run in the playoffs, every one of them played over Easter break. If you take that week off, usually you�re going to falter when you come back.�
Sprenger agreed.
�It�s the best time of year for me,� he said. �The weather�s turning good. You get to be at the ballpark for me 12 hours a day. It doesn�t get any better than that.�
Well, actually it could. The Wildcats could win it, which Sprenger said was one of the team�s goals going into the season.
�We�re going to try the best we can to win it, but it�s not win at all cost. We do know that conference is more important than the tournament in the long run,� Sprenger said. �But it�s a good morale booster if you can come through and win three games in three days when you�re playing good ball against good competition.�
Touchstone Energy Baseball Classic at Richlands
Game 1: Southwest (1-6) vs. Croatan (4-4), 10 a.m.
Game 2: Northside (1-9) vs. Jacksonville (7-3-1), 1 p.m.
Game 3: Swansboro (7-2) vs. White Oak (2-10), 4 p.m.
Game 4: Dixon (7-3) at Richlands (8-2-1), 7 p.m.
Game 5: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 10 a.m.
Game 6: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 1 p.m.
Game 7: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 4 p.m.
Game 8: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 7 p.m.
Seventh place game, 10 a.m.
Fifth place game, 1 p.m.
Third place game, 4 p.m.
Championship. 7 p.m.


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Is the Nyingma tradition profoundly non-monastic?
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:34 am
I know that of course there are several important lineage holders within Nyingma, such as in the Palyul Lineage, who are monks. But I am wondering if the spirit of the tradition is basically a non-monastic/householder one. On Wikipedia the scholar Georges Dreyfus was quoted saying this, but since his background is largely Gelug I wondered if the Nyingmapas here thought is was a fair opinion or not:
In 1848, Dzogchen Shri Sengha (rdzogs chen srwi sengha), was founded by a charismatic teacher, Zhanphan Thaye (gzhan phan mtha' yas, 1800-), in association with the active participation of Do Kyentse (rndo mkhyen rtse). As scholar Georges Dreyfuss reports,
The purpose of this school was not . . . the study of the great Indian treatises . . . but the development of Nyingma monasticism in Kham, a particularly important task at that time. Up to then, the Nyingma tradition had mostly relied on non-ordained tantric practitioners to transmit its teachings through authorized lineages. The move toward monasticism changed this situation, putting a greater emphasis on the respect of exoteric moral norms of behavior as a sign of spiritual authority. This move participated in the logic animating the nonsectarian movement, the revitalization of non-Geluk traditions so that they could compete with the dominant Geluk school. Since the Geluk hegemony was based on a widespread monastic practice, it was important for the other schools to develop their own monasticism to rival the dominant Geluk tradition. This seems to have been one the goals of Zhanphan Thaye in creating the Dzokchen commentarial school. . . .A further and equally important step was taken a few decades later with the transformation by [Khenpo] Zhenga of this institution into a center devoted to the study of the exoteric tradition. This step was decisive in creating a scholastic model that could provide an alternative to the dominant model of the Geluk seats and could train scholars who could hold their own against the intellectual firing power of Geluk scholars.[7]
For Zhenga and his followers, the way to return to this past was the exegetical study of commentaries, the proper object of scholarship. By downplaying the role of debate emphasized by the Geluk monastic seats and stressing exegetical skills, they accentuated the differences between these two traditions and provided a clear articulation of a non-Geluk scholastic tradition. In this way, they started the process of reversal of the damage inflicted on the non-Geluk scholarly traditions and created an alternative to the dominance of Geluk scholasticism, which had often tended to present itself in Tibet as the sole inheritor and legitimate interpreter of the classical Indian Buddhist tradition.[7]
This scholastic movement led by Khenpo Shenga came on the heels of the work of Mipham, who "completely revolutionised rNying ma pa scholasticism in the late 19th century, raising its status after many centuries as a comparative intellectual backwater, to arguably the most dynamic and expansive of philosophical traditions in all of Tibetan Buddhism, with an influence and impact far beyond the rNying ma pa themselves."[8]

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Two legends meet on the court
When the state Senate honored the man considered the world's best squash player, it brought back memories for a prominent northwestern Colorado Democrat.
Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, last week sponsored the resolution on Hashim Kahn, who was born in a part of India that became Pakistan and now lives in Colorado.
That prompted a letter from Jay Fetcher, son of the late John Fetcher, a founding patriarch of Steamboat Springs and a significant figure in Colorado water history.
"Senator Penry, " Fetcher wrote.
"I read with interest your honor of Hashim Khan. I thought you would be interested to know that my dad was an avid squash player, being a member of the Harvard team. He dreamed of having courts here in Steamboat and finally had some added to the local athletic club. Of course, handball was the dominant sport on the courts, but he did get a few Steamboat converts. …
"He was able to convince Hashim to come and give a demonstration."
Penry was fascinated that John Fetcher and Hashim were contemporaries, and sparring partners on the squash court. Fetcher skied into his 90s; Khan played his sport into his 90s.


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Charles J. Marconi
Charles J. Marconi, 79, of 120 Hemlock Rd., St. Marys, died Monday morning, April 11, 2011, at his home after a brief illness. He was born Feb. 24, 1932, in St. Marys, son of the late Zolferino and Mary Nart Marconi. On Nov. 5, 1955, in the St. Mary's Church, he married Norma Salter, who survives.He was a lifelong resident of the area and was a graduate of St. Marys Public High School. He was a retired employee of the Stackpole Carbon Co., retiring after 38 years of service, and went on to retire from Osram Sylvania in 1997 after eight years of service. He was a member of the Queen of the World Church; a veteran of the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of Sergeant during the Korean War; a member of the American Legion for 56 years; and served on the Benzinger Township Park Board for 17 years. He enjoyed old cars, going to car shows, and having his morning coffee at McDonald's. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Lesa Moore (Vic) of Ridgway and Linda Rose (Steve) of Hummelstown; a son, Randall Marconi of Ridgway; three grandchildren, Stephanie Rosenhoover (Tony), Emily Rose and Kevin Rose; a great-grandchild, Addison Rose Willard; two sisters, Marguerite Schaut of St. Marys and Edith Cortina (Silvio) of St. Marys; and two brothers, Alfred "Cork" Marconi (Marilys) of St. Marys and Andrew "Ike" Marconi of Philadelphia. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Louise Mattiuz; and by four brothers, Aurelius Marconi, Victor Marconi and James and Eugene Marconi in infancy. A Mass of Christian Burial for Charles J. Marconi will be celebrated in the Queen of the World Church on Wednesday at noon with the Rev. Michael Ferrick, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Mary's Cemetery. Full military rites will be accorded by the St. Marys Servicemen's Burial Detail. Visitation is at the Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home on Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. Memorials, if desired, can be made to the Queen of the World Church, 134 Queens Rd., St. Marys, PA 15857; or to the Community Nurses, Inc. (Hospice), 757 Johnsonburg Rd., Suite 200, St. Marys, PA 15857.
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Actors dressed as ancient gladiators fight in a commemorative parade during festivities marking the 2,766th anniversary of the founding of Rome on April 21, 2013 in Rome, Italy. The capital celebrates its founding annually based on the legendary foundation of the Birth of Rome. Actors dressed as the denizens of ancient Rome participate in parades and re-enactments of the ancient Roman Empire. According to legend, Rome had been founded by Romulus in 753 BC in an area surrounded by seven hills. - high-definition photo for free download.


text: I'm just at trying to implement this http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57628 I want to create separate database and db_user forms - that is no problem. But to keep things easy for unexperienced users I want to (mainly) maintain the current database editing form and make the new ones optional. My question is: Is it possible to store information from one form into separate db tables? To make things clearer: There are three db tables. - databases - database users - db <-> user link table When using the current simple database editing form after saving and before displaying the data have to be stored to / read from those three tables. In the form definition files and server module/plugins I found the possibility to only give one single table. Theoretically I could store the data in the second / third table by hand, but as far as I can see the datalog and therefor the server modules would not recognize those changes. Could you (till/falko) give me some hint on how to proceed here? Thank you.


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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Friday, August 3, and Saturday, August 4. All times are Eastern.
The 2012 Summer Olympics (8 p.m., Friday/Saturday): The games reach their midpoint, as swimming wraps up and track and field takes off over the next two days. We're hoping that Usain Bolt will be just as impressive this year as he was in 2008, and we're also half suspecting that Michael Phelps is some sort of crazy swimming robot. That's ridiculous, of course, since if a robot got in a pool, it would probably just short out. But we're most excited that this weekend has the trampoline finals, because that means we get to run around and shout, "TRAMAMPOLINE! TRABAMPOLINE!" Alasdair Wilkins and Katherine Miller man the desk for our weekend coverage.
Lost Girl (Syfy, 10 p.m., Friday): The gang go undercover at a high school, posing as a counselor, teacher, and student. What we're wondering is why we've never been asked to go undercover at a high school. It certainly seems to happen often enough. Kevin McFarland will go undercover as a "with it" principal.
Babylon 5 (11 a.m., Friday): In one of this week's episodes, somebody assembles a 1990s motorcycle, and it's a major plot point. We like to think that the show robbed this plot point from the late, lamented-by-us-at-least AMC show Rubicon, but Rowan Kaiser doubts that J. Michael Straczynski can time travel.
Firefly (1 p.m., Friday): Ohhhhh, it's time for "Out Of Gas." We still remember when we watched this episode—first run!—and realized that the show had just created something this good. We hope Noel Murray and Donna Bowman agree with us. Or we'll feed them to the sharks. Don't push us, guys!
Chappelle's Show (3 p.m., Friday): Dave Chappell presents "I Know Black People," which suggests that, well, look at the title. Ryan McGee is impressed with the sketch, but he also wonders if Dave Chappelle, like Bo Jackson before him, knows many different things, including croquet and synchronized swimming.
Animaniacs (11 a.m., Saturday): "Pavlov's Mice" is the name of one of this week's segments, and Genevieve Koski isn't sure if the show's attempts to string together three different vignettes with "Russia" as the throughline entirely works, but she's glad she got to see those mice. Call it a draw.
The X-Files/Millennium (1 p.m., Saturday): This week's Millennium is one of the damnedest things Todd VanDerWerff has ever seen, what with its plot appearing to be about, uh, Irish angels who live in a cave and resurrect a mobster, then push him on a swing. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
Code 9 (Disney Channel, 7:30 p.m., Friday): The hidden camera show pulls a prank on a mom by making her think the car she just bought is a stolen vehicle. Doesn't she understand that she probably shouldn't be buying cars from guys she meets out behind the local Pick 'n' Save? That's just auto shopping 101!
The Barnes Collection (PBS, 9 p.m., Friday): PBS proudly invites you to get a little bit snooty, with this story of a doctor, whose art collection grew to include works by Picasso, Renoir, and Matisse, among others. The film also looks at the construction of the Philadelphia museum housing the collection.
Super Saver Showdown (OWN, 9 p.m., Friday): Budget-savvy shoppers are pitted against each other in a battle to the death to see who can plan the most cost-efficient Mexican fiesta and/or Southern barbecue. Here's our special tip: Use disposable plates and silverware. Save yourself some work!
Randy To The Rescue (TLC, 10 p.m., Friday): We don't know who Randy is or what this show is about beyond being yet another show about weddings, but we do know that tonight's episode involves Randy giving a bride in Boston a "steampunk makeover." We hope she ends up with a robot claw for a hand!
The Science Of Doctor Who (BBC America, 9 p.m., Saturday): This may come as a shock to most of you, but a time-traveling police box that is larger on the inside than it is on the outside is something that doesn't actually exist, no matter how much the British might try to fool you. Tricksy Brits.
The uneXplained (Biography, 10 p.m., Saturday): We haven't seen this yet, but we're preemptively annoyed at its weird capitalization. In tonight's two installments of the new show, a psychic assists in finding a body, and a woman asks a doctor why she keeps having mysterious seizures.
Tarzan The Ape Man (TCM, 8 p.m., Friday): Johnny Weissmuller was the man who defined the role of Tarzan, and you can see him as the magnificent man raised by apes in this loose adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale. Maureen O'Sullivan plays Jane. We hope Tarzan clarifies their relationship via pronouns.
The Untouchables (AMC, 8 p.m., Friday): Sean Connery won the Oscar for this Brian de Palma adaptation of the old TV series. We mostly remember it now for the Battleship Potemkin-aping stairway scene, as well as the fact that Laurie quoted it frequently in that one Cougar Town episode.
Marley (VH1, 9 p.m., Saturday): This new biographical documentary about Bob Marley received solid reviews when it was in theaters, and now makes its TV debut just a few months after it left big screens. If you're a Bob Marley fan, we're pretty sure we know what you'll be doing with your Saturday night.
MLS Soccer: Houston vs. New York (NBC Sports, 8 p.m., Friday): New York leads its division with a record of 38-22. But Houston's right behind them, with a record of 37-22. We'd say this was the sporting highlight of the evening if any of us gave a good goddamn about Major League Soccer, but we don't.
Pro Football Hall Of Fame Induction: From Canton (ESPN, 7 p.m., Saturday): Jack Butler, Dermontti Dawson, Chris Doleman, Cortez, Kennedy, Curtis Martin, and Willie Roaf are inducted into the football shrine, as ESPN frantically attempts to remind you that the NFL is coming very soon and you should care.
Wilfred (Thursday): We've been enjoying this season more than we enjoyed season one (which was already solid), so we guess we're boosters of this comedy now. Rowan Kaiser looks at an episode called "Avoidance," and we hope he didn't have to avert his eyes. Sorry. We're tired. These jokes are awful.


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Arlt, Wiebke and Willis, Debbie S and Wild, Sarah H and Krone, Nils and Doherty, Emma J and Hahner, Stefanie and Han, Thang S and Carroll, Paul V and Conway, G. S. and Rees, D Aled and Stimson, Roland H and Walker, Brian R and Connell, John M C and Ross, Richard J (2010) Health status of adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: a cohort study of 203 patients. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 95 (11). pp. 5110-5121. ISSN 1945-7197
Astuti, D. and Ricketts, C. J. and Chowdhury, R. and McDonough, M. A. and Gentle, D. and Kirby, G. and Schlisio, S. and Kenchappa, R. S. and Carter, B. D. and Kaelin, W. G. and Ratcliffe, P. J. and Schofield, C. J. and Latif, F. and Maher, Eamonn R (2010) Mutation analysis of HIF prolyl hydroxylases (PHD/EGLN) in individuals with features of phaeochromocytoma and renal cell carcinoma susceptibility. Endocrine Related Cancer, 18 (1). p. 73. ISSN 1351-0088
Bhogal, Ricky H. and Weston, Christopher J. and Curbishley, Stuart M. and Adams, David H. and Afford, Simon C. (2012) Autophagy: A cyto-protective mechanism which prevents primary human hepatocyte apoptosis during oxidative stress. Autophagy, 8 (4). pp. 545-558. ISSN 1554-8627
Bhogal, Ricky Harminder and Afford, Simon C (2013) Autophagy and the Liver. In: Autophagy - A Double-Edged Sword - Cell Survival or Death? InTech.
Day, Clara J. and Howie, Alec J. and Nightingale, Peter and Shabir, Shazia and Adu, Dwomoa and Savage, Caroline O. and Hewins, Peter (2010) Prediction of ESRD in Pauci-immune Necrotizing Glomerulonephritis: Quantitative Histomorphometric Assessment and Serum Creatinine. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 55 (2). p. 250. ISSN 02726386
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Krone, Nils and Hughes, Beverly and Lavery, Gareth G. and Stewart, P M and Shackleton, Cedric H.L. and Arlt, Wiebke (2010) Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) remains a pre-eminent discovery tool in clinical steroid investigations even in the era of fast liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)star, open. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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TUE, JUN 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Nichole Bennett from WSBF interviewed The Helio Sequence at their show at The Earl in Atlanta, GA last weekend. What follows is everything you'll ever want to know about Brandon and Benjamin. Venice is Sinking even makes a guest appearance (Athens pride)! If you want to listen to the audio of the interview visit Nichole's blog.
Nichole Bennett: Alright, I'm Nichole, and I am lucky enough to be here at the EARL in Atlanta with members of The Helio Sequence. Would you guys mind introducing yourselves?
Brandon Summers: I'm Brandon.
Benjamin Weikel: And I'm Benjamin.
NB: So, there's a lot of information online about the story of you guys, and most people who are literate and have an internet connection can look that up. If they were to reenact your story, would they use marionette puppets or sock puppets?
BS: Finger puppets probably.
BW: I was thinking we might as well go all the way with marionettes. Or Jim Henson, you know?
NB: We're going with muppets?
BW: Yeah, totally muppets, dark crystal, that would be cool.
BS: Lo-fi or big budget.
BW: I think we would get more realistic drumming action with like the Animal thing.
BS: Animal, yeah. Animal could play you.
NB: That's a good one. So, we settled on muppets? And you guys used to work at a record store together?
BS: We did. It was actually a music store. It was more like a band instrument rental store with some guitars. So we were renting instruments to kids who were beginning band.
NB: Any stories from that? Any funny…or scary stories?
BS: Oh jeez, too many to remember. We used to practice there, which is sort of a story in and of itself.
BW: We actually recorded our first records there. I was a band instrument repo guy for a while.
NB: I didn't know that existed!
BW: I became responsible for all of the accounts. And there had been people who basically had never paid for years, and I'd have to track them down.
BS: It got to be where you knew these people. It was like "Oh, that woman would come in and say she paid it off and would actually drop twenty five dollars on us."
BW: Some people would be alright, but some people would be really weird. They'd bring their kid to the front door and be like "This is what happens!" Yelling at the kid because he can't fifteen dollars a month for a clarinet.
NB: The drama of a music store!
BS: Like "He could have been the next Jon Bon Jovi, but you took that chance away from him"
BW: I have a pretty bitter taste from all that repo business. It's not my kind of thing.
NB: Yeah, I played saxophone, so that was kind of expensive. But that's another story.
BS: But you paid for it?
NB: Yeah…upfront. That was not very fun. So, again anybody who is literate and has an internet connection can learn about how you lost your voice and how you gained it back.
BS: Right.
NB: But I was curious about something most others had skimmed over and that is the Bob Dylan connection. You got to read a lot during that time, and his was the first book. And there are some of my favorite Bob Dylan covers on this album. And I read that you gained your voice back by playing a lot of Bob Dylan. Is that true, or am I just making this up?
BS: Yeah, in a way. That's kind of a gloss over. You know how records come to you at a time when you really need them? I don't know if that makes any sense. You just happen to hear a record at a certain point in your life, and it means a lot to you. For some reason when I lost my voice…it's not like I didn't know who Bob Dylan was before I lost my voice, but I happened to be at the record store, and I happened to come across a copy of The Times, They Are a Changin' And I was like, I've never really listened to this record. I just bought it on a whim, and it really meant a lot to me, particularly the song "Boots of Spanish Leather." That was the first song that I decided to learn. And then from there, I thought it was interesting to actually put the chords under my fingers and actually learn a song, so I should do more of that.
NB: I really like that. I think that one of the big things music does for people. It's kind of a soundtrack, in a way. Yeah, I was actually going to ask you what your soundtrack album was from that time, and you just answered that for me.
BS: And other things come along. What else were we listening to during that time?
BW: I don't know. That was such a long time ago.
BS: I remember listening to a lot of Dark Side of the Moon during that time. You can infer a lot from that, I'm sure.
NB: Oh yeah, I get that in the album.
BS: So we decided to put some extended guitar solos in, and then we cut them all out.
NB: Speaking of the latest record, there's kind of an almost a paradox between a more polished sound, but you still have that "off the cuff" sound. I heard that "The Captive Mind," you just recorded.
BS: Yeah, a lot of the vocal stuff was just first take. We would be working on something in the studio, and I would be able to take it home and work on the vocals.
BW: The demos.
BS: Yeah, the demo stuff, really rough. And bring it back and record the real version of it. And when I went to lay down the real track, something was missing from it. Something about the energy or the feeling of it or the meaning. And it was kind of "Well, what if we just redo some of the instruments around it. Lay down the drums again and the guitar and the bass, all kinds of stuff, and just use those vocal takes." A lot of it ended up like that. A lot of it was first take stuff. It's almost better that way.
NB: Yeah, you get a combination, almost a paradox between…it's definitely very polished, like you tweaked it, but at the same time it's very organic.
BS: That's probably a lot of the mixing process. We spend a lot of time working it out. We record our own records and mix them.
NB: I think it's neat when a band takes things from start to finish.
BS: I can't imagine doing it any other way. It amazes me when a band is like, "Yeah, when we recorded the record we went in for about a week, and then we handed it off to a bunch of people and they finished it for us." I don't understand it.
NB: I imagine you would get handed back something totally different than you had actually put out. But you guys have control over that side of things.
BF: Maybe we're just control freaks.
NB: This record is also more lyrically focused. And I say that, but at the same time, if you took the lyrics out, the songs would be able to stand by themselves. And it's a little less cluttery. I hate the word cluttery because I do like the older stuff too because it is that way.
BW: Yeah, but when you compare them, that sums it up in a way. We approached the record thinking that way. Bob Dylan is a great example of somebody that makes songs that to us that are really really meaningful. And it's not so much about the music as the lyrics or the story. And so we thought, we love music with orchestration and all of the crazy sounds, but let's try to see if we can make more of a lyrical connection. So when we were doing all the orchestration, instead of just throwing it all together and being like "Here's everything!".
BS: And having to work the vocals in after that.
BW: It would be like "That's kind of just getting in the way of it." It's really all about the vibe. It had a feeling from the beginning. Whenever we did something that felt like it was changing it too much or it was losing that feeling, we just cut it out. So then it ended up being…compared to the average band there are still more parts and more orchestrated, but for us, it was a little more sparse.
NB: Yeah, I think you can get that. I discovered you guys after you opened for Minus the Bear, and I immediately picked up Love and Distance there. And I never buy albums from opening bands.
Matt Crisler [taking photographs of interview]: Band snob!
NB: That is not what I meant at all. I meant I never buy an album from a band that I don't even know, like right there, and I did. And I listened to it. And then the new one came out, and I was blown away by how different it was, but it was still you guys. But you guys put it much better than I could. Obviously, I'm very terrible with words.
BW: It's a good thing you're a writer.
NB: Yeah, it's a good thing. I actually really wanted to ask you guys. You did something on this latest album that is sometimes scary for smaller bands, scary for indie bands. I think this was a lot more universal than most bands would go.
BW: Yeah, it's totally out of fashion.
NB: It's not very fashionable to appeal to a lot of people.
BW: I don't know if it's a question of appealing to a lot of people. I think it's more a question of meaning.
BS: Well, I think it's a question of just saying what you want to say. Like, when I'm writing lyrics, I'm thinking something to myself, and I'm just writing. I'm not thinking of something being universal or trying to get to a large amount of people. But I know what you're saying, I think that a lot of lyrics, especially in the indie world come off as impressionistic. Like, a little image here, a little image here. Don't do something that is too specific because then you're going to have to take responsibility for having said that.
BW: Some people do it so well that they are creating a mood, and the only way to keep it that was is by not saying something, by having it be almost sort of more background. Almost commercial. And I don't mean commercial in the sense of sellable, but commercial as literally in a sense of in the background. Like background when you're driving, background when you're hanging out in a bar. Nothing that is really going to get that close to you. Something that is going to be off. You can push it away, and it's there and it sounds great, feels great, you know. But the moment somebody starts saying something that are personal, that means something, and I don't think that's the fad of music right now.
NB: It's almost dangerous.
BS: Yeah I guess it could be. But more and more, the older I get, the music I am listening to, I'm actually listening to what people say. I'm listening to what is going on behind the sound of something or just "I like how that part sounds" or "That's a catchy part." That's one level of music, and I don't think you should discount that, especially if you're making pop music, in essence. But if you're able to make a song on that level, and then think to yourself "Well, what are they saying. What is that guy saying?" And it may be that I'm not getting anything from that. It doesn't make any sense, or it's all mixed up. That, to me, it actually brings the value of the song down.
BW: There are a lot of records, and I'm definitely not naming any names, but there are a lot of records on the surface that I'm really immediately excited about. But the more I listen to the music, I'm like "What is he saying?" It's kind of killing it for me. The lyrics are either really horrible, or you can't hear them. Everyone's hiding behind the lo-fi.
BS: What you are saying is that if you're saying something, you have to take responsibility for it. And you're saying there's something dangerous about it. And I've thought about it—that you somehow risk not being cool anymore by not agreeing with somebody. So it's interesting that more and more, you get less of that.
NB: It's very fashionable, I think, especially in a lot of hyped bands…We were just talking about the internet mentality earlier with Venice [is Sinking]. To not make sense, to be esoteric, and "Oh you guys, you just don't get me."
BW: It's all very impressionistic.
NB: Impressionistic is a perfect way to put that. So if you were to describe your sound to a five-year-old, what would you say?
BS: I wouldn't describe it, I would just put the CD on.
NB: I don't talk to five-year-olds.
BS: No, I talk to five year olds very often. I have a nine month old. I'll just put on music for her.
NB: So, no need for description…just put it on.
BW: I have a three year old nephew, and he came out to our show in Los Angeles, his first rock and roll show. The first time he's seen me playing. My sister, his mom, she plays him the songs, and he knows that this is uncle Benjamin's band. And we were playing the set. We stopped playing after the second song, and everything kind of died down for a second, and I just heard this "That's Uncle Benjamin!"
BS: And mind you, this is in a three or four thousand person venue.
NB: Do you guys read press about yourselves?
BW: No.
BS: No, not anymore. I used to.
BW: It just bums me out.
NB: Yeah, it would be something that would just tear me apart.
BW: Yeah, it's really depressing…
NB: I'm already self-critical enough. I don't need any help.
BW: It would be dumb to say there is no point to music journalism, and I'm definitely not making a judgment of music writing. It's more of just that I have an understanding that a journalist is a writer, and they have to do something interesting. If you write a bunch of reviews, that don't say anything, then your job is boring. It's a realization that somebody writing about music—you can't take it personally because there's always agendas just beyond the music. I don't want to read it.
BS: And at the same time, you can't truly get away from it. Someone's actually going to come up to you and say "I read your review in Rolling Stone or blahblahblah." And then you don't have to read it.
NB: Since music journalism is so much more accessible with blogs and the internet, do you feel that it is affecting you guys in anyway, even though you aren't reading it?
BS: I'm sure it helps just general awareness. And the way that people find out about music is all over the map these days. I've had people come up to me on this tour and tell me that they found out about us because we have one song on the Google phone. They came to us and asked us if they could include our song, for free, so it comes with the phone when people buy it. I've had people come up to me and say that they didn't know who we were, and I heard you guys on my new phone. I love you guys. I went out and bought your records, and I'm a fan now. You can find music in so many ways. It's just crazy.
NB: That's another thing. When bands talk about commercials, they say that people heard their song on a commercial.
BS: I want to find someone who became a fan because of a ringtone.
BW: I think we did! There was a myspace comment once that they had downloaded "Don't Look Away" ringtone.
BS: They probably meant to download The Chili Peppers.
BW: And then he went and looked at our myspace page.
NB: You guys have been around for quite a while. What advice would you give to a band that is just starting out?
BS: Keep going. I don't know.
BW: Stop if you're not good. We usually don't take support bands on the road with us. So we get tons of local openers. Sometimes people are really excited, and they ask us "How do you hook up with Sub Pop" or "What do you do?" And I think some people want to try to skip steps. They just want to jump up ahead. And all that I can say is some people win the lottery, and some people don't. Start thinking one step at a time. Book your small show, and get some friends there. Do one thing at a time. Don't think about this big thing far off in the future. Enjoy making music.
BS: And keep sight of that as you keep going because there are going to be people coming along saying "We want to sign you and throw all this money at you." That kind of stuff happens. We had that happen to us especially early in our career.
BW: We said no.
BS: And we said no. For us, anyways, it was the right thing to do. Some bands can sign some gigantic contract and have a bunch of people throw money at them and get paid. But, I think you really run the risk of falling on your face.
NB: Definitely. Which fictional character is most like you guys?
BS: One character? Or is it a duo?
BW: The Three Musketeers.
NB: It can be one. You don't have to pick a duo. You can pick separate ones.
BS: Probably Animal for Benjamin.
BW: Why? Why would that me be? I'm thinking the geeky guy in Real Genius.
BS: I'm trying to think of a fictional character.
NB: It can be cartoon.
BS: Yosemite Sam?
BW: What? How are you like Yosemite Sam?
BS: I don't know. He's fictional.
James Sewall [of Venice is Sinking]: Droopy's good.
BS: I'm down with that.
NB: Okay, if you guys could break any world record, what would you break?
BW: Richest dude in the world.
NB: Richest dude in the world!
BS: Longest touring band in the world. We'll be 90.
NB: Never stop touring. Do you guys prefer studio or stage?
BW: Both, in their own ways.
BS: Yeah, they are totally different worlds.
NB: As a duo, with a keyboardist/drummer, I'm sure it totally different both ways. And we talked earlier about how you go back in and tweak things.
BS: Yeah, it's a totally different. A lot of bands come back from touring and record an album, but for us, I feel like the studio process is a lot slower, much more methodic kind of a process.
NB: And at the same time, your live sound is very similar to your studio so. So, whatever magic you guys are working…
BS: That's what it is.
NB: And if you could turn in your tour van for a dinosaur, which one would you choose?
BS: What's the fastest dinosaur?
NB: I've never seen a dinosaur race.
BS: Because that's all you need out of a tour van—get to that next city.
BW: You're thinking you want the dinosaur to be a vehicle?
BS: Well, if we didn't have a tour van, we'd need something to get from show to show.
BW: I mean, I don't think a dinosaur is going to work.
BS: We have to trade it in for a dinosaur, though.
BW: If we had a dinosaur, we could open a zoo…
BS: And then from the revenue of that, okay.
BW: We could totally buy a new van. I'm thinking we should go for a big one, like T. Rex.
BS: Okay.
BW: Well, maybe a brontosaurus, though. It doesn't eat meat. It would be more indie. It would be more cool. A vegan dinosaur. And less likely to eat anyone.
NB: We would like to request a vegan dinosaur, please.
BS: Okay, I'm down with that.
BW: We would have to buy some land.
BS: We could get a loan from the bank.
NB: With the brontosaurus as collateral.
BW: But where would we put the dinosaur while we are waiting for the loan?
BS: This is really tricky.
NB: This question is a lot more complicated that I had originally thought it would be.
BW: Or transportation too. We'd probably have to hire a construction company for it.
Matt Crisler: You could walk it.
NB: Dinosaur rollerskates.
BW: I wonder if you could lease a brontosaurus. Like if we had a huge, a really heavy truck, that we could chain it to.
BS: Or a van…oh damn, we gave it up for the dinosaur.
NB: On that note, we'll end on if you were any animal, what would you be?
BS: A panda.
BW: I don't know. A brontosaurus.
NB: Thank you very much for being with me. NB: Dinosaur rollerskates.
BW: I wonder if you could lease a brontosaurus. Like if we had a huge, a really heavy truck, that we could chain it to.
BS: Or a van…oh damn, we gave it up for the dinosaur.
NB: On that note, we'll end on if you were any animal, what would you be?
BS: A panda.
BW: I don't know. A brontosaurus.
NB: Thank you very much for being with me.


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Paintings, Claude Antoine Rozet
One of the first tasks undertaken by the French military after the 1830 invasion was to visually depict, and thus classify, places, things, and people so as to rule more effectively. This is a pattern seen in all modern colonial regimes worldwide. To this end, in addition to cannons, rifles, and supplies, the French expedition also included a cohort of skilled artists and draftsmen. Since photography had not yet been invented, military draftsmen portrayed Algerians of all social classes and ethnic, racial, or religious backgrounds. The women of Algiersrich and poor, Jewish and Muslimwere a favorite topic. These two paired images were done by a military officer, Claude Antoine Rozet (1798-1858), are among the earliest colonial representations of Algerian women since they were published only three years after the invasion. The first is entitled A Rich Moor [Moor meaning an Arabic-speaking urban dweller] and Moorish Woman in Algiers with a Head Covering. The second set of images is entitled Moorish Artisan and Moorish Woman in Algiersit being understood from her costume that she, too, is from the artisan class. And indeed, clothing and costume served as critical markers distinguishing different social, political, or cultural groups from one another in Algeria.
In his illustrations of, and writings about, Algerias peoples, Rozet and other military officers attempted to construct a racial taxonomy, even as they admitted that the country was made up of extremely heterogeneous elements and that the notion of race did not traditionally exist, nor was it applicable. Eventually the colonial regime in Algeria constructed a hierarchy of privilege and difference, enshrined in French law, based in large part upon racial categories. From this resulted a body of jurisprudence that locked colonized peoples into a system of legal dispossession and inequality. Finally, the image of the Moorish woman endured until the 20th century, mainly as an exoticizingindeed eroticizinglabel imposed upon Algerian women, whose images were reproduced in colonial picture postcards by the tens of thousands (see document number five, below). Most of these representations were studio portraits constructed in such a way as to give the sensation of a sly, illicit glance into the intimacy of the Muslim households interior, which was increasingly open to imagined public view by the end of the 19th century.
Source: Rozet, Claude Antoine. Maure riche. Mauresque en ville, avec le sarmah sur la tête. Maure artisan. Mauresque en ville. 1833. In Voyage dans la régence dAlger ou, Description du pays occupé par larmée française en Afrique. Paris: A. Bertrand, 1833.


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Winners of the Cisco BIG Awards 2012
Seven months after launching the Cisco BIG Awards 2012: 300+ entries; 13 semi-finalists and 6 finalists later, we finally announced the winners at Cisco House last Wednesday.
A momentous occasion for our British Innovation Gateway initiative, the winners were announced following a live Dragon's Den style pitch by all six BIG Award finalists.
The impressive judging panel included Phil Smith, CEO Cisco UK and Ireland; Mark Kimber, CTO EMEA, JP Morgan Chase; John Harris, Global head of IT Strategy at GSK; Jon Lonsdale, MD of PR firm Octopus Communications; Richard Eaton, Partner at legal practice Bird & Bird and Drew Nicholson, MD of marketing consultancy DNX.
Snap Fashion was chosen as the overall winner, with Digital Shadows and Six3 coming second and third respectively. I love the simple Snap Fashion proposition; an app which allows users to take a picture of a piece of clothing on their phone before scanning more than 110 UK retailers online to find similar items.
All the finalists demonstrated such impressive entrepreneurial spirit in their ideas and presentation skills. Jenny Griffiths, Founder and CEO of Snap Fashion was presented with a cheque for $100,000, also winning a prize package consisting of $30,000 worth of marketing support, $30,000 worth of PR support and a further $15,000 in legal.
On winning the award, Jenny Griffiths, founder and chief executive of Snap Fashion said: "I'm particularly excited about the fact we get PR and marketing support because it's something we have been wanting for ages.
"The money will also help us to make key new hires and develop the team, allowing us to really take Snap Fashion to the next level in the UK. The competition was incredibly tough, so I'm delighted that the judges thought Snap Fashion was a winning idea."
Congratulations to all our winners! Looking forward, we have lots of ideas for the BIG Awards 2013 which will be launched in the new year.
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How to Write Dissertations & Project Reports2nd Edition
Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan WeyersJun 2011, Paperback, 304 pages
Fully updated since first publication in 2007, and with extended and revised sections in key areas such as Plagiarism & Copyright, Ethics in research, and Citing & Referencing, How to write Dissertations & Research Projects will allow a student to assess and address their particular weaknesses in researching and writing dissertations and longer pieces of coursework and delivers detailed tips, techniques and strategies to enable them to significantly improve their abilities and performance in time to make a difference.
1. Tackling a dissertation or project report: how to make the best possible start
2. Choosing a dissertation or project report: how to decide on a theme for your investigation
Planning your research
3. Writing a proposal: how to structure a successful dissertation or research proposal
4. Time management: how to write your dissertation or project while balancing family, work and leisure
5. Planning for dissertations: how to begin your research and evolve a model for your writing
6. Planning for experimental projects: how to organise your efforts effectively
Finding and filtering information
7. Information literacy: how to make the best use of the library resources
8. Effective academic reading: how to read efficiently and with understanding
9. Analysing and evaluating source material: how to filter and select relevant material as part of the research process
10. Note-making from source material: how to create effective notes to support your dissertation and project research
Applying research techniques
11. Principles of quantitative research: how to obtain and analyse numerical information
12. Principles of qualitative research: how to obtain and analyse descriptive information
13.Experimental research and field visits: how to develop and apply your skills
14. Thinking critically: how to develop a logical approach to analysis and problem-solving
Working with Data & Numbers
15. Number crunching: how to solve problems in arithmetic and algebra
16. Interpreting and presenting data: how to understand & produce graphs, tables & basic statistics
Addressing issues of plagiarism, referencing amd ethics
17. Plagiarism and copyright infringement: how to avoid being accused of stealing the ideas and work of others
18. Citing and listing references: how to refer appropriately to the work of others
19. Ethics in researching and reporting: how to follow good research practice
Writing a first draft
20. Structuring a dissertation: how to organise your writing within a standard framework
21. Structuring a project report: how to select and shape your content appropriately
22. Academic writing style: how to adopt appropriate language conventions
Editing, revising and presenting
25. Reviewing, editing and proof-reading: how to make sure that your writing is concise and correct
26. Exploiting feedback: how to understand and learn from what your supervisor writes on your work
27. Presentation of dissertations and reports: how to follow the appropriate academic conventions
References and further reading
· Tips, examples, checklists, Try This boxes, 2 colour design.
· A common sense, no-nonsense approach that gives students immediate access to the information they need. Relevant content with a focus on key issues and instant solutions.
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· Each topic will only be a few pages long with practical lists and tips.
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Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers work within the University of Dundees Learning Centre and Academic Affairs Office respectively and have each been teaching for over 25 years and now specialize in supporting academic skills across both the arts and sciences.


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Washington D.C., Dec 7, 2013 / 01:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Church leaders in the United States offered prayers for the late Nelson Mandela, remembering both his courageous anti-apartheid leadership and his promotion of one of the world's most liberal abortion laws.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, called Mandela "a hero to the world."
"His bravery in defending human rights against the great evil of apartheid made him a symbol of courage and dignity, as well as an inspiration to people everywhere."
He noted that Bl. John Paul II, in his visit to South Africa, called Mandela "a silent and suffering 'witness'" of his people's "yearning for true liberation." The Pope had said Mandela had to "shoulder the burden of inspiring and challenging everyone to succeed in the task of national reconciliation and reconstruction."
Carolyn Woo, president of Catholic Relief Services, said the U.S.-based international relief agency mourns Mandela's passing, calling him "a champion in the struggle for justice and equality for all."
"His life inspires all of us to re-dedicate ourselves to helping the oppressed find their voice and their way to lives of meaning and dignity. His personal example of forgiveness and non-violence will challenge us to work for peace and reconciliation even in the midst of deep conflict."
Mandela, who served as South Africa's president from 1994 to 1999, died Dec. 5 at the age of 95 of a lung infection. The former prisoner won world recognition for opposing the oppressive racial segregation of the South African government's apartheid policy.
Mandela had been a campaigner against apartheid since 1952, when he organized protests across South Africa against the policy. He was arrested on treason charges in 1956, and acquitted after a five-year trial. He then secretly sought help from other African nations and in England.
After the South African government banned the party in 1960, the movement against apartheid became an armed struggle led by Mandela. In 1962 he was sentenced to five years in jail for inciting a strike and for leaving the country without a passport. Additional charges of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government in 1964 led to a sentence of 27 years behind bars.
Mandela's then-wife Winnie and other campaigners worked to end apartheid and secure his freedom, helping transform him into an icon of human rights. He was released in 1990. In 1993, he won the Nobel Peace Prize with white South African president F. W. De Klerk, who also worked to end apartheid.
However, pro-life advocates also noted a dark side to Mandela's legacy, observing the key role he played in pushing for abortion in the country.
"In 1996, Mandela signed into law the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Bill, which permits abortion on demand," John Smeaton, director of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, noted in a Dec. 6 post.
He warned against the temptation to become "swept away by personality cults," saying that Catholics must "stand up to public figures with anti-life and anti-family records," to defend these fundamental and foundational rights.
Mandela signed the 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Bill, which the New York Times said at the time "replace(d) one of the world's toughest abortion laws with one of the most liberal." The law granted state-financed abortion on demand up to the 12th week; abortion on demand to the 20th week; and abortion for "serious medical reasons" until birth.
The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, wrote in 2000 that in South Africa, "the liberalization of abortion became possible only after the 1994 elections" which made Mandela president and ended apartheid.


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Okay knowledged dudes out there. Self diagnosed myself ( seeing a podiatrist on Monday), think I have the above conditions, although I feel it may be moving towards tendonisis as it has become chronic.
The tendon is inflamed, (have had problems for years) and with all the icing, anti inflammations, jim kids orthotics in shoe, after two weeks hasn't settled down like it normally does. Spent most of this time of it due to an intercostal strain to.
Quite flat footed, I think the collapse of my arch is putting pressure on my tassel tunnel, pinching my lateral Plantae nerve, which in turn is effecting the Sural nerve on the outside of foot. I know this as after the initial ins and needles what has been left is numbing down the outside of the foot all the way up to the little toe. If I press on the where the tassel tunnel is ( on inside of left ankle) it sends a little pain up the left side to the little toe.
Basically I'm afraid after all these years tendonisis or degradation of the posterior tibial tendon is now in place.
Normally my routines which are quite thorough drop the inflammation but no improvement!
Any advice guys, especially what I can do in the next few days to get the damn inflammation down.
I will do just about anything.


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There is a lot to be said for the good old-fashioned police procedural of the sort that, in the days before cable, once dominated television.
With its hard-R ways and highfalutin literary ambitions, cable gave us twisted-up complications, as in HBO's "The Wire" or FX's "The Shield," in which the heroes came clothed in the same shades of moral gray as the villains. The actual crime-solving seemed almost beside the point.
NBC's "Chicago P.D.," which premieres Wednesday, is clearly an attempt to return to those simpler times, when a cop show was a cop show and not some Dickensian analysis of the changing social order. A time when crimes were solved through hard-won street intel and stakeouts rather than the insights of a former fake psychic or a ruggedly handsome crime novelist.
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Spun off from Dick Wolf's "Chicago Fire," "Chicago P.D.," also a Wolf production, unapologetically wallows in the back-alley chase scenes and low-growl precinct stare-downs so popular in shows like "Hill Street Blues," "Police Story" and Wolf's own formidable weltanschauung: "Law and Order" and "Miami Vice."
So much so that it often unintentionally, and most unfortunately, veers into near-parody. "If I find out you're still playing around out there," the district police chief says to Sgt. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) minutes into the pilot, "I will personally throw you off a roof."
Through the window, out the door — this is the kind of macho-posturing conversation Voight engages in at least three times an episode; no sissified writer psychoanalyzing here, just threats of physical violence, flecked with heart o' gold moments.
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With his bantam stance, black leather jacket and raspy growl, Voight is Just That Kind of Guy. When viewers met him in "Chicago Fire," he was a dirty cop, so bent on covering for his drunk-driving son that he tried to murder "Chicago Fire's" lead, Matthew Case (Jesse Spencer).
"Chicago P.D." leans hard on this "not-your-standard-spinoff material" conceit. For reasons that a child could surmise but that mystify those around him, Voight has been sprung from the slammer and made head of a new Intelligence Unit.
Voight's team looks and acts very much like any homicide department, but apparently it has a special mandate: Get the really bad guys (as opposed to, one assumes, the sort-of-bad guys). This puts the team, and Voight, in constant and tedious conflict with authority, including "da feds."
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Voight is unashamed of his strong-arm tactics, which, for the record, absolutely cross the line into abuse. "Tell me the truth so I can lie for you," he tells his team, which includes detectives Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda), Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer), Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush), who is something of a daughter to Voight, and, most important, Alvin Olinsky.
Played by the reliably wonderful Elias Koteas, Olinsky is an undercover impresario, which is to say the Belker of the piece. Which is also to say the very best thing about "Chicago P.D." A show about Olinsky might involve fewer threats of forcible defenestration, but it would be a heck of a lot more interesting.
The precinct is also studded with a variety of characters, including a gruff and semi-dirty female desk sergeant and a pair of likable patrolmen, all of whom, along with the rest of the cast and creators, do their level best to remind viewers of why the classic police procedural ruled television for so long.
Unfortunately, "Chicago P.D." is just that — a reminder, a breathy echo of other, much better shows. Many of which are available in affordable DVD packages and on various streaming services.
Me, I think the time has come to binge-watch "Hill Street Blues."
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Where: NBC
When: 10 p.m. Wednesday
Rating: TV-14-DLV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14, with advisories for suggestive dialogue, coarse language and violence)
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Keller walk-off sends Lady Jets back to semi-state
MONROE—Adams Central freshman Kara Keller wasn't quite sure what she had done when she hit the ball hard in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday night in the class 2A IHSAA girls softball regional 18 tournament at Adams Central against Bremen.
"Then I saw the runners in front of me start to slow down and suddenly I realized the ball had cleared the center field fence," she said.
Cleared the fence indeed as the Jets roared back from a 2-1 deficit going into the bottom of the seventh to win 5-2 over Bremen. The AC nine had tied the game on a bloop single to short center field by Liz Luginbill after Bremen committed its only two errors of the game and then Keller unloaded a cannon shot to dead center field.
Lion center fielder Brooke Baker went back but soon came to the fence and watched helplessly as the "Keller Krunch" sailed well over the barrier.
Keller related the ball "felt good off the bat but I didn't think initially it was out (her second home run of the season). Coach (Cary Blake) initially was going to have me bunt on the play but the infielders were in real close so he decided to let me hit away."
Chalk up a good coaching decision for the veteran AC mentor who lavished praise on his never-say-die team.
"They've always been this way, a no quit team. I've been around these kids a long time and know they're not going to go down without a fight. Give them a little leeway (errors by the Bremen infield on the first two AC batters of the seventh--Sydnee Peterson and Whitney Baller) and they won't hesitate to go for it," he analyzed.
The 20-6 Jets will next play the winner of the Eastern-Wapahni game (played Tuesday at Wapahani) at the Laville High School semi-state this Saturday.
Adams Central had taken a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth as they manufactured a run without the benefit of a hit.
Olivia Macklin worked Bremen freshman hurler Chelsea Huppert for a leadoff walk and Peterson tried to bunt but the pitch was wild and Macklin dashed to second. On the next pitch, Peterson did get a sacrifice bunt down putting Macklin on third and Baller delivered a fly ball to center field with only one out and Macklin easily scored on the sacrifice.
Peterson had been cruising through the early innings but that came to an abrupt stop in the fifth.
After striking one of her 12 victims of the game, Peterson was touched for a double to right by Taylor Lash-brook. Breann Wilson came in to pinch run and Mikayla Gardner bunted with the bunt going over Peterson's head and in front of the other infielders for an infield single.
With runners on first and third and one out, the Jets opted to try and throw out Gardner on a steal try at second but Jayla Byer's throw went into center scoring Wilson and putting Gardner at third. Peterson reached back for another strikeout but Shelby Zellman then doubled to right center in front of a diving center fielder Bess Fiechter and suddenly the Lions led 2-1.


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Linux Australia advocates the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the education sector.
See our guide to learn more about free and open source software, in particular the section on education.
Just like education, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is built on the principles of co-operation and sharing knowledge. This principle of standing on the shoulders of giants has successfully guided human development for centuries.
FOSS presents many benefits to educational environments:
- it is free to acquire and use
- updates (including new features, etc.) are available often, at no charge
- students can run the same software at both home and school, at a tiny fraction of the cost to schools or families
- it can be improved and modified to suit any environmental, linguistic, cultural, curriculum or other educational need
- anyone (teachers, students, parents, etc.) can take part in improving it — the users can also be contributors
- it provides an unparalleled degree of control: lock it down to prevent misuse, or open it up for children to experiment and learn
- through the use of open standards, schools and families are not held to ransom by vendor lock-in
By using Linux, you can extend the benefits of FOSS to all of your software. In addition, using Linux can give you even greater benefits:
- it is more reliable, secure and resistant to viruses and malware
- it is easier to administer, especially in large deployments
- it works well on older and cheaper hardware, so budgets don't have to be wasted on purchasing new, expensive computers
Get involved!
Linux Australia maintains resources and runs events to promote the use of Linux and FOSS in education. Feel free to get involved and help us to spread the message!
Linux Australia is active in education-related conferences, such as the Education Expo and Open Edge.
Mailing lists
Linux Australia hosts two mailing lists for education-related discussion. Feel free to join and take part.
User groups often have members who are interested in education. For more localised discussion, it is also worth taking part in the Linux/FOSS groups in your own region.
Linux Users of Victoria has an active Education Special Interest Group, with a mailing list for discussion.
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Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal of the celebration is to tell people about of the benefits of using high quality Free Software in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organise the local SFD events to impact their own communities. Linux Australia encourages local user groups to organise Software Freedom Day activities around Australia in their own communities.
Visit our Total Cost of Ownership page for studies showing how FOSS represents a superior value proposition.
There are many fine resources on the Web that show how FOSS can work well for educational environments and families.
- Catalogue of Free and Open Source Software for Education, by Open Source Victoria and the State Government of Victoria
- Teaching Open Source
- SchoolForge
- Eduforge
- Open Education
- K12OpenSource
- Free Software in Education, and Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software, by the Free Software Foundation
- 10 Reasons why Free Software and GNU/Linux should be used in schools
- Home Educators There Is An Alternative To Expensive Computer Software
The United Nations are a prominent supporter of FOSS. In addition to supporting the One Laptop Per Child programme, they have established an International Open Source Network (IOSN) to promote and foster the development of FOSS. Here are some education-related resources from the United Nations:
Some projects specialise in packaging software for educational use. This is the easiest way to get up and running with FOSS in an educational environement.
- the OpenEducationDisc is an version of the OpenDisc, with a focus on FOSS educational software for Windows
- Edubuntu is an educational add-on for the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux
- DebianEdu is a variant of the venerable Debian GNU/Linux distribution, optimised for education
Case Studies of FOSS in education
FOSS is gathering steam in Australia. Applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, VLC, Gaim/Pidgin, The GIMP, Inkscape, Tuxpaint, Scribus and Moodle are already in widespread use in Australian schools. The NSW Department of Education is weaning itself off its dependence on one supplier, installing OpenOffice on tens of thousands of school computers.
FOSS is already widely used throughout the world, and its presence is growing. Due to its unparalleled flexibility, it can be altered and modified to suit almost any given situation.
- Common uses of OSS in education, by the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software
- Educating Tux: case studies of Linux deployments in high schools around the world
- Case Studies from Australian Schools
- United Nations International Open Source Network
- Ubuntu
- Republic of Macedonia first nation to provide a computer for every student
- 23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
- Linux reaches 52 million Brazilian kids
- Russian schools move to Linux
- *All* Russian Schools to Use Free Software
- Kerala (India) shuts windows, schools to use only Linux
- Tamil Nadu (India) may shut door on Microsoft
- China to install 142,000 Linux PCs in classrooms
- North, South Korea Unite Over Linux
- Skegness Grammar School, using GNU/Linux and thin-clients across the school
- Goshen (USA) High School offers free software to students
Meeting curriculum outcomes
As can be seen in the case studies above, FOSS has been successfully used across educational environments around the world to achieve real educational outcomes.
Vicki Burke, Assistant Principal at Shell Cove Public School in NSW, has put together a list of the NSW Education outcomes met by the sections within the "Tux, of Math Command" (AKA TuxMath) educational game. You can download it as a PDF or ODT file.
One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child programme aims to develop and deliver educational materials for children aged 6-12 throughout the developing world. Especially designed for the wide variety of rigours seen across the planet, the project's XO laptop maintains openness as a fundamental goal. The hardware and the software is totally open, empowering anyone to create, improve and share content. Translations can be made by people on the ground (the stakeholders) to suit local languages and cultures. This would not be possible with proprietary software.
Children are given the genuine opportunity to play and learn in a collaborative environment. Through this design, learning is made fun and engaging. The XO laptop accentuates the fundamental strength of children — their creativity and curiosity — rather than turning them into office drones. Instead of giving them a fish, why don't we teach them to fish for themselves?
Supported by the United Nations and a consortium of governments, corporations, NGOs and individuals around the world, One Laptop Per Child is a truly global project.
One Laptop Per Child is represented in the Pacific region by OLPC Australia.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Kohl's Corp. KSS, +0.10% said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell to $378 million, or $1.66 a share, from $455 million, or $1.81, a year earlier. Sales in the quarter ended Feb. 2 rose 5.4% to $6.34 billion. Comparable store sales rose 1.9%. Analysts, on average, estimated the mid-priced department-store operator to earn $1.64 a share, according to FactSet. Kohl's forecast profit of 55 cents to 63 cents a share in the first quarter and $4.15 to $4.45 for the year. Analysts were looking for profit of 65 cents a share in the first quarter and $4.48 for the year, FactSet data showed. . The company's board on Wednesday also raised its quarterly dividend by 9% to 35 cents a share. Kohl's shares fell 1.2% in premarket trading.
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The challenge has been created by by Franck Guenichot from French Chapter, Mahmud Ab Rahman and Ahmad Azizan Idris from Malaysia Chapter and Matt Erasmus from South Africa Chapter.
Submission deadline is September 4th and we will be announcing winners around the third week of September. We have a few small prizes for the top three submissions.
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'Baby Boomer' Travel Writer on Board With RVs
July 8, 2013 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
Editor's Note: The following story comes from Clark Norton, a writer focusing on Baby Boomer travel. When he isn't on the road, Clark resides with his wife, Catharine, in the town of Narrowsburg on the Delaware River in upstate New York. You can follow his thoughts at www.clarknorton.com.
The recent news that the Winnebago company — which makes motorhomes — nearly doubled its profits in the 2013 spring quarter is just the latest indication that the Baby Boomer recreational vehicle boom is in full gear.
Winnebago motorhome sales jumped more than 50% in the same quarter, while trailer sales jumped 10%.
Some 9 million U.S. households — 8.5% — now own RVs, and the number is growing rapidly. One out of every six U.S. households say they have future plans to buy an RV.
Baby Boomers — the youngest of whom are now nearly 50 years old — are Winnebago's and other RV manufacturers' biggest customers. And with many of the oldest Boomers (now 67) retiring or nearing retirement, they're devoting more and more time to travel.
RV owners average more than a month of travel annually, racking up nearly 5,000 miles a year on the road.
Motorhomes — which many Baby Boomers make their primary residences after selling their family homes — are becoming increasingly luxurious, offering everything from spacious kitchens and bathrooms to fireplaces and flat-screen TVs. Sleeping areas may fit king-sized beds and dining areas a comfortably sized table.
Price tags can range up to hundreds of thousands of dollars — but then again, so do prices for regular houses (and many sell in the $100,000 range, with trailers and truck campers selling for much less) . Fuel costs can be substantial, but the money saved from hotels, motels and restaurants while traveling more than makes up for high gasoline prices.
As you might imagine, catering to RV owners is big business, beyond the RV manufacturers themselves. Some 16,000 U.S. campgrounds, both private and public, welcome RVs. Campgrounds can be found in or near cities, park lands, historic sites and other attractions — just as convenient as hotels and motels.
Many of the private campgrounds, especially, defy the old stereotypes of rustic living. These days, facilities may include swimming pools, golf courses, tennis courts, spas, grocery stores, and evening entertainments. Some operate like time shares, but are not limited to just a few weeks a year as long as you keep moving periodically.
I don't own an RV myself, though my wife and I have rented a couple of them in Australia and found them to be great for touring the rural and beach areas there — but less convenient in the urban areas, where I'd just as soon settle into a hotel.
But I also understand the allure of taking your home with you on the open road — with the flexibility to stay in a place you like or pick up and move on a whim as well — and more and more Boomers are doing just that.
Travel products that help make life easier and more affordable for the booming Baby Boomer RV market are going to do very well indeed as more and more Boomers reach retirement.


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quote:Originally posted by cmc: I believe I am just now waking up to the fact that Im still here. I am going to be here. I have got to start living like I mean to. I realize that that concept may sound silly to some. I can respect that sentiment... sounds silly to me sometimes. I am just getting used to still being here. One thing I can say with certainty is: in April of 2007, I got the message that I was going to be here to make a difference. I am resolved to make a difference for the good, righteous, just, peaceful... the believers.
quote:I am resolved to make a difference for the good, righteous, just, peaceful... the believers.
quote:Originally posted by cmc: More of a seize the moment thing.
quote: I'm no good with rules... I'm more of a 'learn all the rules so you know which ones you can break and then defend with another rule' type person.
quote:That being said, no rules - no steps - just being more in the moment. More conscientious of what's happening around me and being less reactive and more proactive with regards to moving in a positive direction. Does that make sense how I worded it?
quote: And THANKS!!!! You're the first person to word that this year. I'm a little kid at heart (probably always will be) and so, well, my birthday gets me all excited and happy.
quote:The only 'bad' thing is I'm constantly forgetting how old I actually am... ; )