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Q. My son failed three classes his first year of college because he says the teachers do not explain the material. He had good grades in high school. He lives at home, and I know he studies. He denies any depression. Should I call his instructors?
Q. My son failed three classes his first year of college because he says the teachers do not explain the material. He had good grades in high school. He lives at home, and I know he studies. He denies any depression. Should I call his instructors?
A. Since your son is in college, I would suggest you speak with him and not his instructors. If someone fails one college class, he could potentially have difficulty with a subject or even the instructor. However, if he failed three classes, you must place the responsibility on him and attempt to discover why he allowed this to happen.
You son could have what psychologists term an external locus of control which means he blames other people or fate for his failures. He must learn to take responsibility for his actions and realize that his parents, teachers or friends are not going to solve life�s problems as he matures. College students who realize that their education is their responsibility tend to understand the expectation of their courses, study more, have more contact with their instructors, achieve better grades and graduate sooner.
Since you imply that this is a new pattern for your son, you should question him further about possible depression. Many young people who go to college become depressed because they must make new friends and find the academic atmosphere more challenging. Since he is living at home and attending college, he may feel less successful than his classmates who went away to school.
If after a conversation with your son, you feel that depression is the issue, then he needs to meet with a mental health professional. If he is not depressed, he needs to stop making excuses and assume responsibility for his actions.
As a parent, you need to seriously discuss his interest in continuing college. It�s not for everyone, and he may be happier working for a few years. If he decides to return to college after working, he will most likely be a much more diligent student.
Q. My son is out of school for the summer. He�s 15, and he doesn�t seem interested in anything. I�m afraid he will get in trouble if he�s home all day alone while we are working. What do you suggest?
A. You say that your son is not interested in �anything.� Your first assignment as a parent is to talk with him and make a list of activities he enjoys.
Since he is young, you need to help him find those resources in your community. If he�s interested in sports, find a place where he can participate. If he�s interested in theatre, find a local community theatre. If he�s interested in fishing, ask an older friend or relative to take him fishing several times during the summer. Get him a gym membership, and set some exercise goals for him and your family.
There are low-cost camps for teens. If there is not one at your church, there are probably several in your area. You may also encourage him to enroll in summer school at a local community college. That will keep him busy and lessen his academic load once he gets to college.
Businesses and organizations are always looking for volunteers. A summer volunteer job would strengthen his college application and give him work experience for next summer when he is old enough to have a paying job.
What he should not be allowed to do is sleep until noon, watch television and play computer games all day. If you notice that this is happening, I�m sure you have several friends who would like their lawns mowed and their gardens weeded.
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One of the greatest advantages which Jserv brings to Apache is ability to leverage the large number of API's available to Java. Remote Method Invocation (RMI) delivers several significant benefits to the servlet solution. The primary benefit of using RMI with servlets is that it significantly expands the variety of datasources which Apache can serve to the browser. Furthermore, RMI's simplifies code on the client side of the RMI connection (the servlet), and also allows for load distribution.
For example, if you wanted a servlet to access a database through JDBC, you would start off with importing the java.sql package into your servlet. Then your servlet would have to manage handling the database connection, preparing and executing SQL statements, as well as managing the result sets. This adds a lot of complexity to your servlet, as not only does it have to handle logic & return appropriate responses to the browser, it is also bogged down managing communications with the database.
With RMI, an abstraction layer is added between the data source and the servlet. This layer, the RMI Service (or server tier), provides an simplified interface to the client, handling all of the internals of communicating with the database.
Servlet <== JDBC ==> Database
So, instead of having to manage the database communications in your servlet, RMI hides all the that from your servlet behind its remote interface.
Servlet <== Remote Interface ==> RMI Service <== JDBC ==> Database
With RMI, the server tier can be anything, as long as it implements the defined remote interface. The service could even be hosted on a different machine with a different operating system. The client will not care if the server tier stores its data in a database, LDAP server, or even text files. Your Linux Apache-Jserv box could be pulling data from an application server on a Solaris box.Example
Using RMI with Apache Jserv is fairly straight-forward, and the procedure in this example pretty much follows the RMI examples which can be found in the JDK documentation or Sun's tutorial. The steps include:
- Design the remote interface
- Implement the remote interface
- Compile the classes, create the stub and skeleton classes
- Create the client program (in this case, the servlet)
- Deploy
In the following example, we will create a simple email address book. The server will store it's data in a Hashtable. Of course, the data in the server will disappear when the server is stopped, but that's okay for this example's purposes. For a more robust server, the address book data could be stored in a database, LDAP server, or any other type of data storage. The servlet (client) will use the address book service through RMI.
There are three packages in our example. The first one, is the directory.* package. It holds the remote interface class, as well as the Entry class, a data structure representing an directory record. The server package will contain the implementation of the remote interface. The client package contains the servlet which talks to the server implementation via RMI.{mospagebreak title=Design the Remote Interface}
First we must decide what kind of interface the address book will have; what type of interactions do we want to allow the remote client to have? For basic functionality, the directory should include the ability to search, get an entry's details, add an entry, and to retrieve all the entries.directory/Directory.java:
The above Java file defines the remote interface through which the remote client and server will communicate. The requirements for a remote interface is that it extend the java.rmi.Remote class and that each remote method defined throw the java.rmi.RemoteException in addition to whatever application specific exceptions it might throw. One issue to be mindful of is that the methods' arguements and return values are transported over RMI, so they must implement the Serializable interface.
package directory; import java.rmi.Remote; import java.rmi.RemoteException; public interface Directory extends Remote { Entry getEntry(String key) throws RemoteException; String addEntry(Entry newEntry) throws RemoteException; Entry [] getEntries() throws RemoteException; Entry [] search(String query) throws RemoteException; }
The Entry class represents the directory records which are stored & managed by the a class implementing the Directory interface.{mospagebreak title=Implement the Remote Interface}
The server.AddressBook is the implementation of the Directory interface, extending UnicastRemoteObject. A UnicastRemoteObject is a convenience class, facilitating RMI communications. It is not necessary for the server to have the UnicastRemoteObject superclass, but then you would have to call serveral UnicastRemoteObject methods yourself to make the service RMI-enabled.
package server; import java.rmi.*; import java.rmi.server.*; import java.rmi.registry.*; import java.util.Vector; import java.util.Hashtable; import java.util.Enumeration; import directory.Directory; import directory.Entry; public class AddressBook extends UnicastRemoteObject implements Directory { public Entry getEntry(String key) throws RemoteException { // getEntry() method body } public String addEntry(Entry e) throws RemoteException { // addEntry() method body } public Entry[] getEntries() throws RemoteException { // getEntries() method body } public Entry[] search(String query) throws RemoteException { // search() method body } public static void main (String args[]) { // main method body (see below) } }
The main() method allows the AddressBook to be run from the command line. After ensuring a workable SecurityManager is installed, the rmiregistry is started up. In the examples in Sun's RMI Tutorial, the rmiregistry is started as a different process by running the "rmiregistry" program found in the jdk1.x.x/bin directory. Instead, we will automatically create the rmiregistry in main() method with a call to LocateRegistry.createRegistry() on port 4000. It should be noted that the RMI registry could be hosted on a completely different machine too. You would replace localhost in the name string with the hostname of the machine running the RMI registry.
After the rmiregistry is created, a new AddressBook is created, and then bound to the rmiregistry. The Naming.rebind() registers the AddressBook's Directory service in the rmiregistry on port 4000 of the localhost, making it available to clients. Lastly, the addressbook is populated with serveral Entries.{mospagebreak title=Compile the classes, and create the stub and skeleton classes}
public static void main (String args[]) { AddressBook addressBook = null; if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) { System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager()); } try { System.out.println("Creating RMIRegistry…"); LocateRegistry.createRegistry(4000); String name = "//localhost:4000/addressBook"; System.out.println("Creating Address Book…"); addressBook = new AddressBook(); Naming.rebind(name, addressBook); System.out.println("Address Book created …"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } System.out.println("Populating AddressBook…"); addressBook.addEntry(new ServerEntry("Jeff", "email@example.com")); addressBook.addEntry(new ServerEntry("Leonardo", "firstname.lastname@example.com")); addressBook.addEntry(new ServerEntry("Jose Alexis", "firstname.lastname@example.com")); addressBook.addEntry(new ServerEntry("Walter", "firstname.lastname@example.com")); addressBook.addEntry(new ServerEntry("Chris", "firstname.lastname@example.com")); }
Compiling the classes is pretty straightforward; just use javac to
compile the classes. From the base directory, do:
on Windows operating systems it will look something like:
$ javac directory/*.java $ javac server/*.java
Next, create the stub and skeleton classes (AddressBook_Skel.java and AddressBook_Stub.java) using the rmic tool.
> javac directory*.java > javac server*.java
The -d flag tells rmic to where to place the generated stub and skeleton classes. In this case, the generated classes are placed relative to the local directory, in the server package. The skeleton file is a server-side object which handles forwarding remote method invocations to the actual server-side implementation. The stub file is deployed on the client side, serving as a proxy for remote clients to forward method calls to the server side implementation.{mospagebreak title=Create the client program (the servlet)}
rmic -d . server.AddressBook
Enabling the servlet (Booklet.java) to talk to the remote Directory service is a fairly straightforward procedure. Just like any other RMI client, the servlet instantiates the remote object with a call to Naming.lookup(). After the remote object is instantiated, you can work with the object as if it were local.
The init() and doGet() methods are the particularly
interesting methods in the Booklet servlet.
Upon initialization, the servlet first checks the SecurityManager and sets it if needed. Next, the servlet checks for the initialization parameter named "rmiRegistryHost", the name of the computer hosting the RMI registry to which the Directory service is bound. To specify the rmiRegistryHost, in your servlet zone's properties file, insert this line:
public class Booklet extends HttpServlet { private Directory dir; private String url; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); if (System.getSecurityManager() == null ) { System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager()); String rmiRegistryHost = getInitParameter("rmiRegistryHost"); if (rmiRegistryHost == null) { rmiRegistryHost = "localhost"; } try { String name = "//" + rmiRegistryHost + ":4000/addressBook"; this.dir = (Directory) Naming.lookup(name); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException, ServletException { res.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); this.url = req.getRequestURI(); String cmd = req.getParameter("cmd"); printHeader(out); printForm(out); try { if (cmd.equals("search")) { out.println("
Search Results:
"); printResults(dir.search(req.getParameter("query")), out); } else if (cmd.equals("add")) { out.println("
New Entry:
"); printEntry( dir.getEntry( dir.addEntry( new ClientEntry( req.getParameter("name"), req.getParameter("email") ) )), out); } else if (cmd.equals("get")) { out.println("
Directory Entry:
"); printEntry(dir.getEntry(req.getParameter("key")), out); } else if (cmd.equals("everybody")) { out.println("
Complete Directory Listing:
"); printResults(dir.getEntries(), out); } } catch (RemoteException e) { out.print("
Error with the RMI Transport
"); } catch (NullPointerException e) { out.println("Search for an entry, create an entry, " + "or get an entry using the forms on the left."); e.printStackTrace(); } printFooter(out); } // rest of servlet methods…. }
If this arguement is not defined, the getInitParameter() method will return null and the rmiRegistryHost will be set to the localhost. Then the init() method obtains the Directory service with Naming.lookup(), and stores it in a private variable, keeping it around for reuse. If the remote service was obtained inside a service method, like doGet(), the servlet would have to obtain the remote object with every request, an expensive procedure where repeating it should be minimized. Instead, one instance of the remote directory service will be reused for the lifetime of the servlet.
The doGet() method, then services the incoming requests to the servlet. It examines the parameters passed to it from the HTML form and then calls the appropriate methods on the remote Directory service.
Nothing particularly special needs to be done in compiling the client classes; just use the basic java compiler, javac.
$ javac client/*.java
> javac client*.java
Make the JAR files
Now we're going to bundle our classes into JAR files. While not an absolute requirement, this eases the deployment step as well as distribution. At the command prompt, type:
on Windows operating systems the slashes change to backslashes:
$ jar -cvf client.jar client/*.class directory/*.class server/AddressBook_Stub.class
The "c" tag tells the jar tool to create a new file. The "v" tag turns on verbose output, so you can see exactly what the jar tool is doing. The "f" tag tells the jar tool that you will specify the name of the jar file to be created, which is the argument following the "f" tag, client.jar. The next arguments specify which files should go into the jar file.
> jar -cvf client.jar client*.class directory*.class serverAddressBook_Stub.class
On the client side, the only the stub class is absolutely necessary for RMI communication to work.
Create the server jar file:
$ jar -cvf server.jar server/*.class directory/*.class
On the server side, both stub and skeleton classes generated by rmic are necessary.
> jar -cvf server.jar server*.class directory*.class
Deploy the classes in Jserv
So far, the steps in this article have followed the procedures described in Sun's RMI tutorial or the Javadoc. The only really Jserv specific part is the deployment. Installation of the client servlet is fairly straight forward:
- Copy the client.jar file on to your webserver.
- Add the jar file to Jserv's global classpath. This is done in the jserv.properties file. Add the line:
Now restart your Apache Jserv server to ensure that the client.jar file is accessible and the configuration changes take effect. Typically, an "apachectl restart" will do it.Run it!
Now that the client has been deployed, the all that's left to do is to run the demo. First fire up the server (making sure that the server.jar file is in your classpath…):
java -classpath=$CLASSPATH:/path/to/server.jar -Djava.security.policy=java.policy server.AddressBook
The server should start, printing status messages to the console.
java -classpath=%CLASSPATH%;pathtoserver.jar -Djava.security.policy=java.policy server.AddressBook
The -Djava.security.policy=java.policy parameter tells the Java virtual machine to use the security rules specified in the java.policy file. The file tells the JVM to accept all socket connections on ports above 1024. This parameter is necessary otherwise other machines won't be able to connect to the rmiregistry.
$ java server.AddressBook Creating RMIRegistry… Creating Address Book… Address Book created … Populating AddressBook… Added entry: Jeff Added entry: Leonardo Added entry: Jose Alexis Added entry: Walter Added entry: Chris
In a web browser, go to the url which maps to the client.Booklet servlet. For a typical setup, this might be http://yourhost/servlets/client.Booklet. If you want to abbreviate the URL & not refer to the servlet by it's package, in your zone.properties file, you could add:
This creates an alias for the client.Booklet servlet; it's nick name is "booklet". Now you can access the Booklet servlet with a URL something like, http://yourhost/servlets/booklet, instead.
The servlet will return a form to your browser which will allow you to interact (search, add entries, select an entry, get all entries) with the AddressBook through the HTML form.
As you interact with the AddressBook via the servlet, status messages on what the AddressBook is doing should appear in the console in which it was started.
{mospagebreak title=Conclusion}
… All entries retrieved… Added entry: John Retrieved entry: John Queried on:Leo
As you can see, RMI allowed us to host the Directory service on a machine separate from the web server. Not only does this allow us to load balance applications, but it also allows your Apache Jserv box to connect to data sources hosted on different machines with different OS's. For example, in a two tier approach, a WinNT or Solaris server could host the the database or application server, and your Linux Apache-Jserv machine would then access the data sources via RMI.
The code on the client side is fairly straightforward. The servlet only knows about the Directory interface, and all the code dealing with the data storage & retrieval is hidden behind that interface. The RMI service implementation, server.AddressBook is a simple example, using a HashMap to store the data. A more robust Directory implementation data would store its data in a database or LDAP server. For the servlet (RMI client), it doesn't matter where the data is coming from; it's happy as long as the service implementing the directory.Directory interface is available from the RMI registry.

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I poured the last glass or two of wine into a bowl, stuffed in a yard or so of polyethylene cling film, and swished the whole mess around, then let it sit for a couple of minutes, then decanted it. That did the trick. No more TCA aromas or flavors. What was left was underperforming compared to previous bottles of 2007 Rodney Strong pinot noir reserve that I've opened. That's not surprising, given what the wine had been through. But it was drinkable.
So the key seems to be really making sure that the wine gets good contact with the film by using a wide container and stirring the wine.
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James DiMaggio, the man who authorities said kidnapped Hannah Anderson after killing her mother and brother, named the children's paternal grandmother as his life-insurance beneficiary, it was reported Monday.
Andrew Spanswick, who was a friend of DiMaggio's, told The Associated Press that the $112,000 policy was left to Bernice Anderson, mother of Brett Anderson and grandmother of Hannah, 16, and Ethan Anderson, 8.
DiMaggio, 40, was shot and killed by FBI agents in an Idaho wilderness on Aug. 10 after being on the run for six days. Hannah was rescued and returned to her family.
Spanswick told the AP that he believed the money was intended for Hannah, who lived with her mother, Christina "Tina" Anderson, 44, and brother in Lakeside.
The bodies of Tina and Ethan were found at DiMaggio's burning property in Boulevard on Aug. 4.
The Medical Examiner's Office said Monday that Tina Anderson died of blunt-force trauma to the head. Her body was found under a tarp in a detached garage with a crowbar nearby, according to a search warrant released last week.
Ethan's body was found in the charred remains of DiMaggio's two-story log-cabin house. The remains were identified by DNA, and sheriff's officials have said the cause of death may never be known.
Authorities said DiMaggio was Brett Anderson's longtime best friend, a close platonic friend of Tina Anderson, and like an uncle to Hannah and Ethan.
Friends of Hannah's said DiMaggio had become obsessed with the teen, and she recently told them she had become uncomfortable around him.
Spanswick told the AP that Bernice Anderson was the sole beneficiary of DiMaggio's employer-issued life insurance policy. DiMaggio, a telecommunications technician, worked for 20 years at The Scripps Research Institute.
A spokeswoman for the institute declined to comment Monday. A call to Brett Anderson was not returned.
DiMaggio lived with Bernice Anderson for about two years, Spanswick told the AP.


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College student Galia Slayen wanted to prove that Barbie presented an unrealistic physical ideal for little girls as a way to work through her own eating disorder. So she created a life-size replica of Barbie, her ridiculous proportions to scale. Check her out in the clip below—she's scary! In a piece in The Huffington Post, Slayen also notes:
• If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5'9" tall, have a 39" bust, an 18" waist, 33" hips and a size 3 shoe.
• Barbie calls this a "full figure" and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
• At 5'9" tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
Plus: Are Toy Dolls Getting Too Sexy?
Does seeing how preposterous her figure is make you think twice about buying Barbie for your daughter?
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GASTONIA � Duke head football coach David Cutcliffe considers Gaston County as fertile recruiting territory for his Blue Devils� football program.
He has one player already in his program from the county, another from neighboring Cleveland County and last week got a future commitment from another Gaston County product.
It�s also why he enjoys seeing this county honor former athletic greats.
�It�s fun for me to see people recognize their own,� said Cutcliffe, the reigning ACC coach of the year and the featured speaker for Monday�s event at the Gastonia Conference Center. �I�m about tradition and relationships and I really enjoy seeing a community such as yours do what you�re doing.�
Cutcliffe will be enjoying a night in which former football star Scott Crawford, former basketball coach and longtime sporting salesman Francis Essic, former basketball star Eric �Sleepy� Floyd and longtime college football coach Buddy Green comprise the 25th induction class.
And Cutcliffe�s appearance will mark some personal and local history, given that one of his mentors, coaching legend Paul �Bear� Bryant, was a speaker for this event in 1963.
�To go and be part of an event like this, with its rich tradition and history, makes it great to be a part of,� said Cutcliffe, whose first coaching job was as a student assistant under Bryant in the 1970s.
Cutcliffe later coached high school football in his native Birmingham, Ala., before embarking on what is now a 31-year college coaching career. Most famous for having coached Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Peyton Manning (Tennessee) and Eli Manning (Mississippi) during his time in the SEC, Cutcliffe has a 65-69 head coaching record during his stints at Mississippi at Duke.
Last fall, Cutcliffe did something that hadn�t been done at Duke in 18 years: Make a postseason bowl game. And even as the Blue Devils lost 48-34 to Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, Cutcliffe is hopeful he�s gotten the Blue Devils on the path to respectability.
�The good thing about being in a bowl game like the Belk Bowl was that we were the only game in the country on ESPN that night,� Cutcliffe said. �That�s made a huge difference in recruiting in that people understand who we are and the exciting brand of football that we play.�
Duke�s spring practice concluded a month ago and the lone Gaston County product on the Blue Devils� roster, offensive tackle Carson Ginn, keeps making a positive impression on his head coach.
�He was in the rotation in the spring and he�s a No. 2 tackle right now,� Cutcliffe said of Ginn, a 2011 South Point High graduate who will be a redshirt sophomore in the fall. �He�s an extremely talented athlete and he�s gotten bigger and stronger. I strongly believe his best days are ahead of him.�
Ginn played in five games as a reserve offensive lineman last season as Duke went 6-7 overall and 3-5 in the ACC.
Former Shelby High standout Carlos Wray also is on the Duke roster as a defensive lineman and, last week, Cutcliffe added an early Class of 2014 commitment from Gastonia running back-return ace Kerrion Moore. Moore will be a senior at Hunter Huss in the fall.
�We certainly have some talented players we have to replace,� said Cutcliffe, whose offense losing record-setting quarterback-receiver combination Sean Renfree and Conner Vernon among others. �But I like our depth on offense and defense. When we play our best, we can compete with anybody we have on our schedule.�
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/JRWalk22
Gaston County Sports Hall of Fame History:
Roster of inductees:
1965 � Roy Sudduth
1966 � John �J.C.� Roberts
1967 � J.K. �Buddy� Lewis
1968 � Russ Bergmann
1969 � Shu Carlton
1970 � Ted Abernathy
1971 � Cary Boshamer
1972 � Wade Walker
1973 � Dick Thompson
1974 � J.R. Bradshaw, Leonel Brunnemer
1975 � Earl Groves
1976 � J.V. McGinnis, Dave Smith
1977 � Bennie Cunningham, Jack Huss
1978 � Lawrence �Crash� Davis, Eugene L. Dunn
1979 � Chuck Hartman, Larry Rhodes
2004 � Ken Alexander, James Worthy
2005 � Dennis Franklin, Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell, Robert O. Mason, Delmer Wiles
2006 � Dwight Frady, Joe Robinson, Humpy Wheeler Jr., Humpy Wheeler Sr.
2007 � Jim Biggerstaff, Leonard Hamilton, Doug McDonald, Jackson Parker, Don Saine
2008 � James Ferguson, Gayle Waldrop Fulbright, Jimmie Hall, Ruby Heafner
2009 � John Derr, Larry Penley, Dave Robbins, Charlie Smith
2010 � Max Crowder, Elmore Hill, Joe Ladd, Harold Stowe
2011 � Doug Hoffman, William Partlow, Charlie Pearson, Thomas �Bubba� Wilson
2012 � Tony Byers, Guy Eaker, Perry Fewell, Bruce Sudderth
2013 � Scott Crawford, Francis Essic, Eric �Sleepy� Floyd, Buddy Green
Date and featured speakers:
1961-64 (banquet held without inductions)
Jan. 30, 1961 at Gastonia YMCA � Dick Groat
Jan. 29, 1962 at Gastonia YMCA � Darrell Royal
Feb. 4, 1963 at Gastonia YMCA � Paul �Bear� Bryant
Jan. 27, 1964 at Gastonia YMCA � Paul Dietzel
Jan. 18, 1965 at Gastonia YMCA � Otto Graham
Jan. 31, 1966 at Gastonia YMCA � Fran Tarkenton
Jan. 23, 1967 at Gastonia YMCA � Bobby Richardson
Feb. 5, 1968 at Gastonia YMCA � Sam Huff
Jan. 27, 1969 at Gastonia YMCA � Bill Curry
Jan. 26, 1970 at Gastonia YMCA � Duffy Daugherty
Feb. 1, 1971 at Gastonia Holiday Inn � Bill Battle
Feb. 1, 1972 at Gastonia YMCA � Bart Starr
Feb. 20, 1973 at Gastonia YMCA � Jesse Owens
March 12, 1974 at Gastonia YMCA � Joe Paterno
Feb. 11, 1975 at Gastonia YMCA � Norm Snead
Jan. 26, 1976 at Gaston Country Club � Pepper Rodgers
Jan. 31, 1977 at Gaston Country Club � Dr. Earl Ruth
Apr. 10, 1978 at Huss HS � Billy Packer
Apr. 2, 1979 at Huss HS � Shirley �Red� Wilson
Aug. 30, 2004 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Billy Packer
Aug. 30, 2005 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Mick Mixon
Aug. 29, 2006 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Buddy Baker
Aug. 6, 2007 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Bobby Ross
Sept. 8, 2008 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Charles �Lefty� Driesell
Sept. 21, 2009 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Mark Packer
Sept. 20, 2010 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Jay Bilas
Aug. 15, 2011 at Cramer Mountain Country Club � Bobby Bowden
June 18, 2012 at Gastonia Conference Center � Ron Rivera
May 20, 2013 at Gastonia Conference Center � David Cutcliffe


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Of course, the flipside to that, is that if you are driving you can also see (for the most part) if there is another car following you and that other car cannot follow you onto private property that you own. A hidden GPS device is quite different on those points. So while the courts seem to be coming down on the side of this not being a violation of privacy, I can definitely see where privacy advocates are troubled by these rulings. The fact that they effectively suggest the police can simply put a hidden GPS device on any car for no reason at all raises plenty of questions -- especially in an era when information can and is regularly abused.


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Poison: nice idea but doesn't seem to give a huge advantage in practice against monsters high enough in level to be worthy prey. It's not like the Assassin gets super-fast healing from exploration. I suppose if APHEELSIK literally halted regeneration, then when paired with CYDSTEPP or BURNDAYRAZ it would lead to cheese.
First Strike if you explore around: very handy, but just feels like playing a less extreme version of the Rogue.
Swift Hands: Great, now I can butcher everything below me in level for no HP/mana/bad status... except I can do that to a large extent anyway with melee-oriented characters (or at least well enough that the few monsters who can't be slaughtered don't really bother me). Bosses are usually level 10 anyway. I suppose it is interesting though if you make your Assassin magic-focused to the point of gimping his melee damage, or if Dracul can somehow turn your level up to 11 Maybe there are also special dungeons with dangerous low-level monsters that I haven't got to yet.
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We kicked off this whole "longest homers of the week" thing last week, and it got pretty good reviews. This week, the cycle continues on. Here are the longest homers for the week from April 4th to April 10th.
1. Giancarlo Stanton vs Eric Stults, 484 feet (April 4th).
People said a lot of mean things about me when they saw last week's post over the weekend, and Stanton's moon shot from last Friday night wasn't included. Wait no longer – this is the first of (hopefully) many Stanton appearances on the list this season.
2. Justin Upton vs Jenrry Mejia, 477 feet (April 10th).
Justin Upton shoots into second place on the list with his second of two homers against Mets starter Jenrry Mejia on Thursday night. This thing came off his bat like a missile, and gave the Braves a lead they would eventually relinquish.
3. Junior Lake vs Wandy Rodriguez, 451 feet (April 9th).
I believe this is our first homer onto Waveland Avenue this year. If you would have told me that the first hitter to launch one out of Wrigley this season would be Junior Lake, I would have slapped you across the face and called you a liar.
4. Michael Morse vs Bronson Arroyo, 449 feet (April 9th).
I think this is the culmination of two things that everyone expected in the NL West this season – Michael Morse hitting long home runs, and Bronson Arroyo giving them up. Putting the two together is just a match made in heaven.
5. Pedro Alvarez vs Brian Schlitter, 446 feet (April 10th).
Look at where this homer lands. It nearly clears the batter's eye in center field at Wrigley and lands in the bleachers. That my friends, is what we call a titanic home run. It also put the Pirates in front of a game they'd eventually win, which gives it some extra special "clutchiness" too.
Five longest homers of the year
1. Stanton vs Stults, 484 feet (April 4th)
2. Upton vs Mejia, 477 feet (April 10th)
3. Buster Posey vs Addison Reed, 453 feet (March 31st)
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In the tumultuous, vicious, and often petty warring between the Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing factions, I have, for the most part, managed to stay out of the back-and-forth. I self publish, so I'm part of that camp by default, but I haven't been interested in the overall war, and the criticisms levied against self-publishing have never really stung.
But today I finally found one that stings. Today I have to say "yes, well, you have a point there." I have found the argument I cannot refute... and I'm about to tell you what it is.
Look, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty solidly in the self-publishing camp. I'm not a successful author by any definition you can provide,1 and I'm not one of the self-pubbers who believes that success is inevitable in the self publishing world, but I think it's a) becoming viable, and b) worth doing. In other words, while I tend not to get too deeply involved in the "Self Publishing versus Traditional Publishing" wars that routinely make the rounds on certain blogs, I'm still nominally on the side of the self-publishers because I have a vested interest in success in that venue.2
As I said, I try not to get too deeply involved in the fighting, because I consider it irrelevant. The only thing that will resolve the issue, in my mind, is success or failure. That's what I'm trying to figure out—the rest of it is just noise. Sometimes, however, the noise is entertaining. Occasionally some of the noise is instructive.
Jim Macdonald is a science fiction and fantasy writer who posts regularly on Making Light, a blog run by Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The Nielsen Hayden's both work for Tor Books, and you could, I suppose, make the argument that this puts them in "anti self-publishing" camp simply by association, but that's bollocks. They like books, and they like what publishers can do for authors, and they're able to describe, in an authoritative way, what publishing really can do when it's working well. The site is also invaluable for writers because they don't shy away from exposing fraudulent outfits—self-described "publishing houses" that purport to offer "author services" but just really take their money without providing anything in return.
Jim Macdonald is not specifically an opponent of self-publishing—he is, in fact, on record as saying it can be a wholly legitimate enterprise for an author. But he's also on record as saying that it takes an enormous amount of work to do correctly. He's not quite as on-record, but still heavily implies, that a lot of what is happening in the self-publishing world is not, in fact, being done correctly.
The Argument, Prepared
One of the things he does on the Making Light site is link to articles where authors are being… how shall I put this… fucking idiots.3
He has an awful lot of material to work with these days. You can find the examples in his sideblog (a linkroll on the left of the site, under his name), usually with the link title "Authors behaving badly."4
The pattern is depressingly similar: an author who has had some self-publishing success will discover someone has written a review (sometimes on Amazon.com, sometimes on Goodreads) that is, shall we say, "less than flattering." The author over-reacts, and attempts to do one of the following:
- He or she creates a number of sock puppet accounts to "downrate" the review and spread accusations of bias against the reviewer.
- He or she attempts to rally his or her "loyal fanbase" to strike against the reviewer in some harassing fashion.
- He or she posts some incredibly bitter tirade against the reviewer in question, venting in the most asinine way possible.
When the inevitable backlash rises against this author—and it does—the author is 90% likely to accuse the reviewer (and keep in mind, often the reviewers are either people who just like reading and talking about books, or are people who are starting reviewing services online) of organizing a concerted campaign of character assassination. Which is, you'll note, essentially what each of the bullet points above is.
Now… this in itself is a ridiculous display of behavior, and for a while I've considered writing about it, but today Jim linked to an article which takes the cake. It's called The Legend of Carroll Bryant, and after reading it I was speechless.
You should read the article. But if you don't, here's a summary:
A reasonably successful self-published author writes in his blog that there are review sites who have been taking free copies of books in exchange for reviews, but never actually delivering on the reviews. He then posts a list of 6 blogs that he claims are the offending parties.
It is later revealed, by one of the accused, that this is, well, horseshit. What actually happened was that the author was "pursuing her" online. He was 40.5 She was 17. He went so far as to fly to Mexico to try to meet her, and after he was rebuffed he continued to stalk and harass her, including sending her messages where he urged her to kill herself, culminating in his false accusation in order to try to smear her reputation as an act of revenge.
OK, first of all, on a deeply personal level, and as a 41 year old man WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING CHASING A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL TO MEXICO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD? Was there no point in that entire process where a little voice in the back of your head said that hey, maybe this is a bad idea and there could be consequences? And then after being rebuffed, did you really have nothing better to do than make her life a living hell? Like, I don't know, maybe writing books instead?6
The Argument, Presented
But on a more general level, this story finally drove home for the one argument against self publishing that I think actually sticks. For the record, I don't think it's an argument that anyone has actually made yet, but I think it is 100% completely valid:
Writers are bug-fuck crazy.
Seriously. I mean, I know there are writers out there who have a handle on it, and who manage to convince the world at large that we're not. But too many in the self-publishing world are letting this secret slip, and it's going to ruin us as a whole. Without having our public interactions managed by a publishing company, without putting a general buffer between the writer and the rest of the world, it's just too damn easy for the writer to show all his or her ugly bits.7
There are already repercussions to the general public learning how crazy we are. According to the linked article, book bloggers are starting to adopt a policy of not reviewing self-published work. And you know what? I really can't blame them for that. The over-the-top insanity of the writers who go ballistic when every little thing does not go their way led them to decide it wasn't worth the trouble. You know what? It isn't. Yeah, this affects me, too, I can't blame someone for deciding "I don't need this" when they really don't need it.
So for all my friends on the Traditional side of the Self-publishing vs. Traditional Publishing fight: the only argument you need to wield against us is that writers are too goddamn crazy to succeed without handlers.
Wherein I Throw Down the Gauntlet
Which leads me to the part of this rant where I turn my gaze on my fellow self-publishers, and deliver a message to you, and you alone.8
You don't know me. There's no reason you should: I'm pretty new to the game, I'm not a particularly social guy, and I haven't figured out the trick to self-promotion that a lot of you have. But, for the record: I'm in this for the long haul.9
When I first got into this thing, I assumed that I was going to have to struggle against a number of forces: first, I was going to struggle against the simple fact that I don't have a huge platform to make my work known. Second, I was going to have to struggle against the simple fact that there are people who believe that all self-published work is crap, and refuse to read it on that point alone. Third, I was going to have to struggle against the simple fact that as a self-publisher, I lack the resources to enhance the overall quality of the work I put out, so I was going to have to try at least twice as hard to put out a book that comes within maybe 75% of the polished quality of a traditionally published work. I accepted that and walked into this with my eyes open.
What I didn't expect was that I was going to have to struggle against you.
Not compete. "Compete" just means that I have to get more people to buy my books than your books. That's just commerce, and competition doesn't have to be ugly. No, I mean I didn't expect I'd have to think of you as a roadblock to me getting anything done at all. But it appears that I am. I am going to have to view you as an impediment to my success.
Not all of you, naturally. Not even, perhaps, most of you. I suspect a large majority of self-publishers are actually in exactly the same boat I am—looking on in horror as you suddenly realize that our greatest problem is coming from within our own ranks. But to those of you who have decided the most effective way of succeeding is to expose your insanity to the world and start flinging poo at anyone who stares at you cross-eyed, you need to know that all you're doing is poisoning the well that every single one of us is trying to drink out of. And you're going to have to come back to that well, eventually. You'll suffer, just like the rest of us.
But I accept your challenge, crazy-assed full-bore psychotic break self-publishing writers. I'm not a Self-publishing hero, I'm a Self-Publishing Supervillain… and that means I take on all comers, even if they're supposed to be on my side. So if, in order to succeed, it means I need to force people to view me differently from the rest of you mind-numblingly batshit insane writers—and I need to do it despite your constant reminders—and I need to do it without the support of any reviewers on the Internet, ever, because you've scared them all away because you're a mewling pack of sociopathic crybabies—then that's just what I'll have to do. Someday I will show you, I'll show you all.
But it's a shame. We could have been friends, you and I. Together we could have conquered the world. But your actions have proven that you're not capable of handling the power you wield. I mean, I get it—really, I do. There's no such thing as a writer who started out with the world giving a damn about them, and we've all had to fall back on, well, let's just come out and say it: to succeed at being a writer you have to develop an ego that can withstand being attacked… and, even worse, being ignored. So I know what it feels like to see someone thwarting your plans for world domination. And I know that when someone crosses you all you really want to do is lash out and immediately soothe those hurt feelings, to coddle your ego and tell it that everything is going to be OK.
But that immediate response? That's the reaction of a common thug. A standard-issue villain at best. If you're going full-on supervillain status you have to show that you can succeed despite opposition. The bullets have to bounce off your chest every much as they do for the spandex cretins who oppose your grand designs. You have to stick to your plan instead of getting so mired down in the sniping that your plan never goes forward.
In other words, you have to play to win, and playing to win means going looking at the bigger picture and going for the bigger prize.
To the rest of you self publishers out there: the ones who have, like me, managed to successfully hide your infirmities from the public at large, and are trying to confront this problem that seems to be sweeping through our ranks… we're in the same boat. You should drop me a line. We could start a supervillain league, or something.
Maybe, if we pool our resources, we can all chip in to buy a white, fluffy cat.
- 1. Other than the tepid definition of "everyone who tries is a winner!" which is so sugary-sweet it puts me in danger of contracting emotional Diabetes… which isn't as dangerous as the actual kind of Diabetes, but hey, this footnote is rambling so let's get back to the point.
- 2. Though I do want to state, for the record, that I have no desire to see the "Traditional Publishing" market fall. I know some self publishers do, but I consider that a net loss for writers everywhere. I don't want to see the old market shrink. I want to see the entire market grow.
- 3. I tried to think of a way to describe this without using profanity, but this is really the only phrase that I feel fully characterizes the authors in question.
- 4. To be fair, he doesn't always focus on the authors. You'll find occasional links to publishers behaving badly as well… but mostly? The authors.
- 5. 48, actually. According to an update in the comments.
- 6. And this isn't meant to be a crack at 17 year olds. I know 17 year olds can be very intelligent and self-possessed—for example, the one in question was smart enough to keep all the evidence she needed to expose this bozo as a fraud. But my point is, and this is important, at the age of forty this guy was old enough to be her father.
- 7. And once such a thing is seen, it is never unseen.
- 8. Which everyone else will be able to read, because THIS IS A PUBLIC WEBSITE. It's a conceit. Just go with it.
- 9. Or until my wife makes me quit. But she's a lovely woman, so I think the long haul is probably right.
My friend...
you are the best. THE BEST.
The Anono in your El.
There's always one...
The one kid who ruins it for the whole class. In this case, it's a 41 year old kid.
Damn, I'm glad I'm 52 and past that.
'Scuse me, 40.
'Scuse me, 40.
Man, I wish it was just him.
Unfortunately he's just the latest (and, admittedly, most spectacular) in a series of very over the top expressions of idiocy. It's becoming an epidemic.
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Did you just write the phrase "I will show you, all of you" without maniacal laughter after? For shame :p
... maniacal laughter doesn't translate well to essay form. Comics, yes. Prose, sometimes. Essays, not so much...
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Cackle-worthy and absolutely
Cackle-worthy and absolutely true. As a writer whose day job is working in online communities, I can attest that people have NO idea how to handle themselves when taking online criticism. I will self-publish with fervor and I will aid your cause, on behalf of WritersSansBatshit everywhere!
I agree
Yep. Eloquent. Pungent. Well-stated. Actually...brilliant. But I'm definitely not prejudiced. Not one little bit. Nope. Not me.
League of supervillains?
I'd put you ahead of the curve Chris. Not only do you regularly get into NaNoWriMo, you have this webcomic to establish your internet presence. Its a CV.
If a reader was scoping you out, checking reviews of your work, they could also flick through your webcomic to prove that yes, this author does have a sense of humour, can work narrative (especially necessary with clipart :) ), can read into topical events, avoids creative stagnation and has been delivering for decades.
As you say, you're in the authoring world for the long haul, and I believe that without a shred of doubt.
(Best of all you can respond to your fans without abusing them when they have typo corrections)
He claimed to be 48, actually
Carroll Bryant was listed as 48 before Jude posted her story. His blogger and Goodreads profiles supposedly were then changed to 36.
Anyway... Great article and a fun read. How much do fluffy white cats go for nowadays, anyway? Our two cats were strays that we picked up through various nefarious schemes by friends and terrible neighbors. They're awesome, but I'm just trying to say that I'm not sure what the going market rate is for sinister-looking white cats.
P.S. Thanks for the laughs!
You make a good point, but I
You make a good point, but I would add that the thing about commercial publishing is not that it's there to keep a lid on the crazy post-publication so much as that the process of submitting manuscripts to them beats your ego into shape well before you get published. A few crazies slip through the net, admittedly, but not many.
Self-publishing has the unfortunate side-effect of unleashing the slushpile crazies on the reading public alongside the relatively sane (if horribly insecure) writers. You only have to read the famous Slushkiller post on Making Light to get a glimpse of the demographic breakdown (scroll down to the numbered list):
I'm too grateful to my readers for finding my typos to abuse them for it. Crowd sourcing FTW!
Thanks for the clarification. I'll add a footnote with a correction. Glad you enjoyed the rant!
Also, a quick Google search on long-hair cats seems to put the cost at around $200... I'm going to need to sell more books.
I'd completely forgotten about that thread! Thanks for posting it here. But it seems the misbehaving parties of late have been writers who are actually finding success in self-publishing, so the slush wouldn't necessarily have been a factor in screening them out. Unless there's a "there's nothing specifically wrong with this story but the query letter gives me a creepy vibe" category that wasn't mentioned.
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I'll join...
Does the cat have to be white? Because I've already got a fluffy orange cat. Aside from a few minor issues, I think he'd be perfect. The issues? A tendency to bite, a bit of a temper, and a history of chewing through things. Outside of that, he's pretty decent.
Publishing company authors can be crazy too
Of course if you had a publishing contract you could be lumped with Ray Bradbury. I think it has less to do with which group is more crazy, and which is larger (and so has a larger absolute number of crazies).
Re: You make a good point,
That is a telling argument too.... Any bureaucracy will tend to flatten the extremes.
Where are the editors?
Or is a lack of editors considered a bonus of self-publishing. I guess the authors who are sensitive aren't going to respond well to edits or rejections. My favorite example of a need for editors is Stephen King's The Stand; the unedited version is just too damn long.
Well it depends.
Obviously one of the big advantages of self publishing is you don't have to deal with your story idea being rejected. So in that respect, editors aren't really in the picture. As to copy editors and story editors, in the self-pub world you have to pay for them. So it becomes an issue of "can I budget for this?"
I can't at present, but I'd like to be able to.
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Well said...
...but just because we're predominantly bug-fuck crazy doesn't mean you can avoid publishing TPB's chapter 23 any longer. *twitch*
... fair enough.
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manical written laughter
... somehow "I will show you, all of you - bwah ha ha!" just doesn't read well. It works in a word balloon, or in verbal speech, but not so well in print.
The original version is still available...
Just think of the Complete and Uncut Stand as an indulgent present for us slobbering SK fanboys. And then go watch Haven on Syfy :)
That's what footnotes are for
And you know that. You use them frequently for that purpose.
(This is in re: maniacal laughter.)
Fair enough!
I hadn't thought to put it in a footnote. That would have been pretty funny.
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"I lack the resources to
"I lack the resources to enhance the overall quality of the work I put out, so I was going to have to try at least twice as hard to put out a book that comes within maybe 75% of the polished quality of a traditionally published work."
I go to bookstores and browse potential purchases the same way I do online - read the first chapter (or 3 if they are short) and see it if grabs my attention. In my experience, the crop of dead-tree editions does not grab my attention more often than the rearranging-electrons editions*. What I don't find in dead-tree editions as often are typos and blatant grammatical errors, so if that's what you mean by quality then OK, but my definition of quality is what makes me look up hours later and go "Oh shit, where did my time go?"
And as far as bat-shit crazy, I have a hypothesis: A lot of times knowing we are interacting with other people tempers our reactions. So I am guessing that those authors who take the time/effort to put their stuff online with an attached message board would be less showy about it than others (not necessarily less crazy, just less likely to show it). Just a guess - your opinion?
*When asked by people I think can take a joke what I do for a living, it is "rearranging electrons". If I know they have a physics background I tend to say "reorganizing magnetic domains". Basically this means I sit at a computer all day and my office has a "paper only when absolutely necessary" ethic.


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Craft Crazy
The Cedar Falls Public Library and the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Cedar Valley present Craft Crazy. This program is for ages 11 and up. You may register online by clicking here, or call 319-273-8643. Sign up is for all 8 sessions. Students ages 11 and up may participate in the program without a parent/adult present and are free to sign out of the program at any time. Attendance is voluntary, but will be tracked and students may be rewarded based on participation. For more information contact the YA Librarian or call the Boys and Girls Club at 319-234-2839.
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Ok, just what IS just so bad about XP's firewall?
It seems that ANY security product that comes out always gathers comments like: "Security? Bah, that piece of crap _________ (fill in the blank) isn't worth it..."
I'm hearing the same about XP's built in "firewall" -- I know it's not a *real* firewall. And yet, any scans I run against it seem to indicate that it's pretty decent. Am I missing something? I read in another thread someone actually recommending not bothering with it and disable it.?.? Why? Isn't something better than nothing?


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Note: This is a very forgiving soup, so the amounts of broths, tomato juice, water and shredded chicken can be adjusted to taste. For best results, taste as you go and adjust ingredients to suit your preference. If you make extra to freeze, dont add the fresh tortillas and cheddar cheese until you defrost.
2 chicken breasts
4 cups water
½ onion, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
½ teaspoon dried Italian spice blend
½ teaspoon dried thyme
½ teaspoon dried basil
3 or 4 roasted green chiles
2 onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
4 tablespoons oil
4 cups chicken broth (use the strained broth from chicken breasts)
4 cups beef broth
4 cups tomato juice
3 cups water
2 tablespoons steak sauce
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 cups peeled, chopped tomatoes (or 1 14.5-ounce can)
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon Superior Touch Better-Than-Bouillon chicken base (sold in a jar)
Salt (if needed), to taste
6 corn tortillas cut into ½-inch strips
½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
For toppings:
Sliced avocado
Grated cheddar cheese
Sour cream
Fried corn tortilla strips
Simmer chicken breasts in water with onions, carrots and spices for 20 minutes.
Strain and reserve broth. Once chicken has cooled, shred into bite-size pieces.
Saute onions, chiles and garlic in oil until soft. Add tomatoes, beef and chicken broth, water, tomato juice, cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, jarred chicken base, Worcestershire and steak sauce.
Bring to boil, lower heat and simmer, covered, for at least one hour.
Add tortillas, shredded chicken and cheese. Simmer 10 additional minutes.
Serve in bowls with toppings of choice.
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Stephen Elop was on a Finnish television show this week for an interview with Harry Harkimo, discussing Lumia Windows Phones. The Nokia CEO refused to answer questions about the upcoming Lumia 928, but did manage to get hold of the iPhone Harkimo had with him and immediately discarded the mobile phone. While it was never returned in the published clip, we can't imagine the device survived. It's no Lumia.
The show, called Hjalliksen kanssa, airs on Finnish station MTV3 (not to be confused with MTV) and saw Elop claiming he knows little about the Lumia 928, and instead wanting to focus on the Lumia 620, which recently launched. It's a humorous end to the talk, but we'd very much like to see what happened to the iPhone after we heard the sound of device meeting floor.
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Every week, a small army of volunteers mobilizes across Henderson County to not only feed kids dinner at the Boys and Girls Club, but also to provide local schools with backpacks every Friday that help food-insecure children.
On a recent Friday night 12-year-old Alexis Nelson arrived at the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County as usual to have dinner, served to her by volunteer members of Hendersonville-based Feed the Kids Coalition. She said she was grateful for the meal, which consisted of baked ziti with meat sauce, sliced peaches, vanilla wafers, a salad and milk.
"The dinner is really good and I like it here," she said. "I think it's nice that they help kids."
Every week, a small army of volunteers mobilizes across Henderson County to not only feed kids dinner at the Boys and Girls Club, but also to provide local schools with backpacks every Friday that help food-insecure children get through the weekend, when they don't have access to free or reduced school breakfasts and lunches. If not for these volunteers, the children they feed might go hungry. Sometimes extended spring, summer or Christmas school breaks make things even more dire in the homes of some of Henderson County's most vulnerable children.
The volunteers come from all walks of life. Some are retired while others still work. Some are part of faith-based organizations while others are secular. But there are a few traits they all share. First, none seek recognition for their deeds and often deflect the credit to other volunteers or organizations. Second, all are eager for the public to know that there are kids in need in Henderson County and that donations to their organizations are more than welcome.
Third, while some people see a community problem and ask "Why doesn't somebody do something about that?" these volunteers figure out a way to attack the problem themselves. Such is the case with the Feed The Kids Coalition's Friday night meals at the Boys and Girls Club.
"A few years ago I was giving a tour of the club to some community members and they asked me, 'What can we do for you that you can't do for yourself?'" recalled Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Kevin Lauritsen. Knowing first-hand that some club kids were going hungry, "I said, 'Feed our kids.'
Before he knew it, Hendersonville's Feed the Kids Coalition was formed. Every week a different group of volunteers meets at a different church to prepare a meal and serve it to nearly 250 children at the club every Friday.
"They have a huge impact on our organization, our kids," Lauritsen said. "If we could, we would feed our kids every day, but Feed the Kids is a great help. They are one of my great delights."
Feed the Kids volunteer Irv Kershner said the organization "is a faith-based organization that fills some critical gaps that others can't. A lot of these kids are from Bruce Drysdale Elementary. They're so polite, saying 'please' and 'thank you' when we serve them. Doing good for these kids is a blessing." He is a member of Agudas Israel Synagogue.
Countless are individuals, churches and organizations like the Hendersonville Kiwanis pitch in with donations or to volunteer to cook or serve, Kershner said. He added that many local restaurants, including Soy Y Luna, Mrs. G & Me, and The Green Room, have held special days when a percentage of sales go to the Boys and Girls Club.
"Ingles has been very good to us," added Susan O'Brien, Feed the Kids' chairman of the board.
"And the WNC Farmers Market gives us produce and fruit," Lauritsen said.
"I just can't for the life of me image a child being hungry for any reason whatsoever," O'Brien said. "If that can not happen one day a week, then the effort is worth it."
"I will speak to anyone, any civic group, who wants to be more aware of the needs of these kids and find out how they can help feed them," Kershner said. "We hope to expand to serve more dinners – maybe two nights a week. Our ultimate goal is five nights a week."
Weekends are another challenge, when some area children face bare cupboards and hunger pangs. Every week First United Methodist Church member Bob Winters helps prepare backpacks filled with food for the weekend for drop-off at Bruce Drysdale every Friday. A retired veterinarian, he's been volunteering with the backpack program for about seven years. He also volunteers at The Storehouse food pantry on Seventh Avenue in Hendersonville.
"We serve 150 to 170 kids on any given weekend," he said. "About eighty percent of the kids at Bruce Drysdale are on the free and reduced lunch program." That is a striking statistic, but Winters said things used to be even worse. "It used to be that teachers wouldn't do any testing on Monday and Tuesday because the kids were weak from the weekend" when they didn't have adequate food.
Today, the school has an effective backpack program and "Judy Holt, a counselor at Bruce Drysdale does a great job and keeps us informed about the kids" who need food. "The kids are so appreciative and polite. Whenever I meet a polite child, I say, 'You're from Bruce Drysdale aren't you?' I like what they're teaching over there."
The packs are designed to feed one child for two days, Winters said. "We focus on getting calories in. They get a balanced diet twice a day during the week so we focus on high calorie foods like pop tarts, ramen noodles, crackers, cookies, tuna fish, pudding, oatmeal. When our funding is low, it might be mac and cheese and kid boxes of cereal."
He gets supplies from Manna Food Bank, Sam's Club, individuals and he is always willing to take direct donations. Volunteers from Kenmure Golf Community and a variety of churches join in to pack and deliver the backpacks.
When Bruce Drysdale is on school breaks, Winters delivers the backpacks to the Boys and Girls Club, "because they're basically the same group of kids."
Lynn Staggs, executive director at The Storehouse food pantry also helps supply Bruce Drysdale's backpack program. Manna supplies 90-95 percent of her groceries. "We have food drives, receive supplies from grocery stores, from Joey's Bagels and sometimes the Underground Bakery."
She also takes supplies to West Henderson High and East Henderson High. "They each have a room that we try to fill so teenagers can come in and get something to eat," she explained. "There is a dignity and privacy issue with teenagers and they don't want to be seen with a food backpack. Some are freshmen high school who might not be old enough to have a job but still have a need."
"I don't stay awake at night worrying about the kids because during the day when I'm awake I'm giving 150 percent effort," Staggs said. "But there's always more to do. We can use volunteers and more money to buy food. Our entire organization depends on donations from the community."
Debby Staton, a member of St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church in Flat Rock, helps organize group of 20-25 volunteers that supply backpacks for more than 140 children at Akinson Elementary, Upward Elementary, Flat Rock Middle, Immaculata Catholic School, and the Little Red School daycare and preschool. "The volunteers are Unitarian Universalists, some are from St. John, or Immaculate Conception, some are Presbyterians, some unaffiliated with a church."
The group gets the vast majority of its food supplies from Manna. A pack they prepare typically contains three dinners, two lunches, two snacks and two breakfasts, Staton said. "It might be a can of vegetables, pasta meals or a bag of spaghetti or rice, tuna or chicken in a can, and maybe a one-pound bag of dried beans so mom can make a soup or something for the family. It's not as substantial as it was five years ago, because contributions for Manna are down. They supply 4,600 backpacks a weekend in western North Carolina."
Whatever she can't get from Manna she buys from the Aldi discount store.
"During spring break or Christmas break, we put in much more food – side pouches of pastas and things like that," she said. "We put in as much as we can for the kiddos."
Henderson County apple growers "have been wonderful supporters of our program," Staton said. "From after Labor Day until we're packing for Christmas, we've had fresh apples. We don't pay anything for the apples. The growers just don't like kids going hungry."
"We have been so blessed to have received grants from the Episcopal Diocese of WNC from Human Hurt and Hope Grants program -- $15,000 over three years," she said. "This year we received a $1,000 grant from St. John and another donation from the Ladies Aide Society of Flat Rock."
For the past several years, Hubba Hubba Smokehouse in Flat Rock has held a fundraising barbeque for the group that has helped feed countless children, Staton said. "Starr Teel, who owns Hubba Hubba, has been very good to us." Teel also opens his restaurant to the group every week to pack the backpacks.
Teel said he deserves little credit and that it's really Staton who is the hero. "The energy that Debby and her team bring to this is incredible. It's tangible and you can see the difference they make. It's an exciting part of our community fabric and I am glad to be part of the folks here in Flat Rock who help – everybody on Rainbow Row feeds off of this and I mean that spiritually as well as physically."
Teel added that "These are the things we're supposed to be doing if we're part of the community. It's one more link in the chain to make sure the community at large is being taken care of and can all share in what our community has the capacity to give."
Chris Hefner, pastor of missions and evangelism at Mud Creek Baptist Church in Hendersonville said he wishes more parents would reach out to area organizations if they need food assistance. "There are plenty of ways and programs to make sure kids are fed adequately over school breaks. Kids are getting fed if parents are good about taking care of that need" by seeking help, he said. "The sad thing is when parents aren't involved it taking the initiative to reach out. It's sad and breaks my heart, but ultimately you can't be a parent to every kid and provide for every need.
He works will Hillandale Elementary to help with their backpack program, with assistance from Manna.
"The Storehouse, Salvation Army, Interfaith Assistance Ministry – they all do a fantastic job," he added. "They really know what they're doing. I would put our county up against any other county in terms of helping feed our children."
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#1 Noah's Ark Needed for Flood Animals06-25-2008, 12:29 AM
ANIMAL FLOOD REFUGEES--Drat, the stupid link isn't working again. Sorry. Charter is terrible.
It's getting depressing, hearing constant stories of more levees breaking with the force of the Mississippi River flooding so many areas around here.
God bless the folks who are stepping up to the plate to save the animals. Unlike the Hurricane Katrina animals, there's a plan and the pets left behind (not in the numbers like Katrina) are being saved.
Four Legged Friends Also Affected by Flooding Crisis
By Ryan Dean
KSDK -- The Midwest has seen just how quickly a community can flood when levees are breached or overtopped, and pets are sometimes left to fend for themselves.
There are some who remember the images of 1993 flood in Missouri and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. Hundreds of animals were trapped by water and many died as a result. The Humane Society said it's encouraged with how people are taking care of their animals during this recent crisis.
However, the group continues to find pets and strays that need rescuing. The Humane Society has established a temporary shelter at Winfield High School, where animals are being taken for food, water and any medical treatment they require.
Employees with the Humane Society said around 85 pets and strays have been rescued in Lincoln and Pike counties alone.
People who are in a hurry to leave town and are not sure what to do with their pets, can temporarily drop them off at the shelter.
The Human Society said most the animals they've rescued have come as a result of tips from neighbors in the area. And workers will actually go on boats to get to those homes that have stranded animals.
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