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Vector compass with real and imaginary ("j") number lines.
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Because of low turnout, the Lady Bobcats only played about a quarter of them. But that hasn't seemed to dampen the Bluffton head coach's enthusiasm for next season.
"Our numbers need to pick up a little bit," Roberts said during a team workout last week. "Unfortunately, we've only been able to play probably six or seven games."
Roberts said some players missed games and practices because of family vacations or obligations with other varsity sports. Six players graduated from last year's team, which had no juniors on the roster, so the Lady Bobcats are beginning to piece together a young and mostly-new rotation this summer.
The team has added a few transfers, Roberts said, and the inexperienced players who attended summer workouts have shown the potential to break into the lineup.
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The higher classification brings larger schools with deeper rosters to Bluffton's schedule. It's one more challenge for an emerging program that is working to replace one of its most successful senior classes.
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Ryan Lochte clears up any and all confusion surrounding peeing in pools.
- August 09, 2012
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Ryan LochteActor
Charles IngramWriter/Director
Brian LaneDP/Editor
Betsy KochProducer
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Starring - Ryan Lochte
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Producer - Betsy Koch
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♪ ♪
Ryan Lochte: RYAN: Hey, welcome to LOCHTv.
I'm here to answer a few questions.
♪ ♪
INTERVIEWER: Now they say
you pee in the pool. Is that true?
Ryan Lochte: RYAN: Yes, that is very true.
The way I see it,
Ryan Lochte: the pool is the biggest and most
expensive toilet and it's all mine.
Ryan Lochte: That's the only time
I allow myself to pee.
Ryan Lochte: Yes, I can only
pee in the pool.
What do you do otherwise?
Ryan Lochte: I, I usually just hold it.
Ryan Lochte: I hold it in until
I get to the pool.
Ryan Lochte: If I see a toilet,
I'm definitely not peeing there.
Ryan Lochte: Pathetic!
Ryan Lochte: You can't expect
me to swim in this.
Ryan Lochte: What do you think
I am, a borrower?
Ryan Lochte: I'm not a borrower,
I don't need to borrow anything.
Ryan Lochte: Like animals,
they mark their territory,
Ryan Lochte: I pee in the pool.
That's my territory.
♪ ♪
Ryan Lochte: RYAN: It's really difficult,
there's a lot of training.
Ryan Lochte: I mean, you definitely
first start with the bathtub,
Ryan Lochte: then after the bathtub,
you go to a jacuzzi or a hot tub,
Ryan Lochte: and then after that, you work your way
to the shallow end of a swimming pool,
Ryan Lochte: and then if you can handle it,
you gotta go to the deep end.
Ryan Lochte: And then once you do that,
you've gotten it.
♪ ♪
Ryan Lochte: RYAN: I am gonna do a community outreach
on getting the kids to pee in the pool.
Ryan Lochte: Kids, it is okay to
pee in the pool.
Ryan Lochte: I'm gonna start out small
with the kids and then eventually
I wanna move up to
Ryan Lochte: a winter sport and get
some yellow snow in there.
Ryan Lochte: Kids pee in the pool.
Ryan Lochte: But I can't
stress this enough...
Ryan Lochte: do not ever
poop in the pool.
Ryan Lochte: [softly] Just don't do it.
Peeing, good. Pooping, no.
Ryan Lochte: I won't tell
anyone if you don't.
Ryan Lochte: If you poop in the pool,
they shut down the whole entire pool
Ryan Lochte: and then I can't pee,
because I pee in pools.
♪ ♪
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book that's coming out:
Ryan Lochte: "Fifty Shades of Yellow."
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Ryan Lochte: The mark of a true
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I pee gold...
Ryan Lochte: when I'm a
little dehydrated.
Ryan Lochte: Maybe I might get
Michael Phelps in there,
Ryan Lochte: see who can pee the best.
INTERVIEWER: Is Michael Phelps' slow?
Do you think he's a slow pee-er?
Ryan Lochte: RYAN: You know what?
I have the fastest pee in the west.
[ western ♪ ♪ ]
Ryan Lochte: Next on LOCHTv,
I'll teach you how to eat pizza
with a grill in your mouth.
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Eugene Youngsters take on tough questions
By SUSAN PALMER
Of The Register-Guard
EUGENE — The fourth-grade students in Jenny Vondracek's class are wrestling with a thorny question — the nature of work.
To prime the discussion, the Edison Elementary School students have read a story, "Frederick" by Leo Lionni, about a community of mice.
The mice spend the summer gathering and storing food for the winter, except for Frederick, a poet who just sits around observing the natural world, storing up images in his mind. When winter comes and the mice run out of food, they turn to Frederick, who warms and entertains them with reminders of the sun and tales of beauty.
The question for the fourth-graders: Is Frederick working in the same way as the mice who gather food?
Under the guidance of University of Oregon philosophy student Kevin Keitner, Vondracek's 28 students have pushed their desks out of the way and sit in a big circle, ready to jump right in to the discussion.
"He worked hard by thinking," Lucas Scott says of Frederick. "The others worked hard by carrying things."
Classmate Trevor Veillette offers a comparison as a way of coming to grips with it.
"Studying hard for a geography test would be different than, like, training for a triathlon," he says.
Jarrett Bryant has his own perspective.
"I don't think that mouse was working hard. He was just sitting out there," he says.
For one hour each week, Eugene fourth- and fifth-graders at a handful of schools are tackling philosophy, thanks to a joint effort between the university and the Eugene School District.
University students lead the discussions in classrooms at Adams, Camas Ridge, Chavez, Family and Edison elementary schools.
This is not philosophy with a capital P — your Platonism, Marxism, Kantian or existentialism schools of thought.
This is intended to be real-life stuff, the lively dinner-table conversation that almost no one can step away from.
What does it mean to be brave? What is friendship? Can we evaluate good and bad art? Is lying always wrong? Do animals have rights?
And yes, says Paul Bodin, the instructor in the UO's education department who dreamed up the program, kids are totally up to the conversation.
Bodin talked the UO philosophy department into offering a class to encompass the project, and letting him teach it, after stumbling on a book, "Big Ideas for Little Kids" by Mount Holyoke College philosophy Professor Thomas Wartenberg.
It was the fifth session in the series for Vondracek's class at Edison on Tuesday, and the students needed only occasional prompting from Keitner and Bodin to explore the idea.
Fourth-grader Addie Belcher prompted a chorus of lively reaction when she said: "You don't have to be working hard to be working hard."
What exactly did that mean? other students wondered.
A few minutes later, the conversation took a surprising turn.
"I think Frederick was working the most," said Josh White. "In the end he gave everyone else warmth. It's better than freezing to death."
Other students objected to that description. Frederick is all talk, they said. He may make the other mice feel better but he doesn't literally make them warmer.
Lucas, however, wasn't so sure about that. He described a study he'd heard about where sick people given a "fake pill" with no medicinal value got better anyway.
"You mean a placebo," Vondracek said, and the conversation veered toward the power of the mind.
Vondracek loves the sessions. "I'm amazed at how into it the kids get," she said.
But while the engagement is great, she's happier with the critical thinking skills that her students are developing, she said.
The UO students don't just wind the students up around a topic and let them loose. They help them frame an idea or opinion clearly, teaching them to listen to each other and to paraphrase the opinions of their classmates.
Bodin was a longtime middle school teacher before going on to teach at the university. He said he wants the young students to learn to use logical thinking to support their ideas and to create generalizations from specific examples.
Perhaps even more important, they are learning to see many sides to an issue and to respect opinions they might not share.
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Across town at Family School on Wednesday, teacher Andrea Harwood's blended fourth- and fifth-grade class went in a different direction, caught up in the "community" aspect of the story and dishing up analogies to refine the discussion.
"Community is like a spider web," Addie Liebhardt said. "If one person lets go, the whole thing collapses."
For Naomi Pfeiffer, community is a stew.
"If everybody adds one thing, it's not very interesting. If everybody adds something different, it's better," she said.
Bodin credits philosophy department head Ted Toadvine for ponying up the money for the University of Oregon course and Eugene district Superintendent Sheldon Berman for giving a green light to the project in local schools.
Whether it will be a one-time experiment or funded again is still being discussed, but for now Bodin is happy to see the effects in the classroom.
Bodin knows there might be some concern from parents who worry about teachers pushing a particular point of view on impressionable students, but he said he and his UO class are teaching skills, not pushing answers.
"That's the role of a teacher," Bodin said. "To help kids struggle with the gray areas, the areas of interpretation that we all deal with every day. Without struggling with it and coming to grips with it, they won't be empowered to deal with these things in their lives."
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During the summer of 1972, five men were arrested in the middle of the night for breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.
The breach went to the very top. Watergate toppled the Nixon administration and became an iconic (and exhaustively studied) American political scandal. In his new novel, Watergate, Thomas Mallon gives the story a fresh twist, retelling it from the perspectives of the involved parties — from seven different points of view.
In his rendering, Watergate becomes a "series of private dramas," Mallon tells NPR's Scott Simon.
And while he recognizes the importance of accuracy, Mallon plays with the "always sliding scale of historical fiction," where there's room for imagination.
"You really have to make these decisions book-by-book and almost scene-by-scene," he explains. "I don't violate any of the big historical moments, dates."
Rather than create an "alternate history," Mallon deploys careful conjecture. "There's still plenty of room for a novelist to imagine what might have happened not instead of the real events, but in addition to the real events," he says, "and how people might actually have felt about them in a way that's somewhat different from what they put onto the record."
The story of Watergate is already rich with native drama. There is the central question of why Nixon would order the break-in given that he was at the height of his powers.
"He was cruising toward re-election," says Mallon. "And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed."
The cast of vivid supporting characters — including Martha Mitchell and G. Gordon Liddy — made the episode into a spectacle. There was the curious case of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime secretary, who accidentally (she claimed) erased 18 and a half minutes of recorded tape.
"She'd been Richard Nixon's secretary from the time he was in the Senate in 1950," says Mallon. "She was very private; her loyalties to him were extraordinary."
A photograph of Woods — a dignified woman making an undignified stretch, presumably to erase the tape — became well known.
"I think that that must have been tormenting to her," Mallon notes. "And I tried to imagine what it must have been to feel the personal isolation that she must've been — because she was a single person essentially by herself."
For Mallon, Nixon is a fascinating — but complicated — figure. The author recalls becoming distraught at the news of Nixon's death. "I started sobbing not in the way you sob for somebody that you had simple, uniform affection for, but sobbing for somebody you had a lot of admiration for as well as some horrified feelings about," Mallon says. "He let down all the people like my father who were his fervent supporters."
It doesn't seem possible to come to easy conclusions about this most enigmatic of public figures. "Bill Clinton, in his eulogy [for Nixon], said that the time had passed to judge Richard Nixon on anything but the complete record of his life," says Mallon. "And it's a wildly, wildly mixed record."
Mallon asserts that his "enormously conflicted feelings" are what keep him mesmerized with the larger-than-life president. "The number of nights that I fell asleep with Richard Nixon's being the last voice I heard ... There must be some appeal other than morbid interest that kept me coming back to him."
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
Almost any scandal in the world these days is described as a something-gate. The phrase dates back to the summer of 1972, when five men were arrested in the middle of the night during a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The subsequent scandal brought down Richard Nixon's administration, made him one of the most notorious men in American history. Anytime someone observes: what did they know, and when did they know it; it's not the crime, it's the cover-up; follow the money, or third-rate burglary, it's a Watergate reference - whether they know it or not.
The Watergate crime and scandal have been exhaustively documented. But now, a great historical novelist has run it through his imagination. Thomas Mallon's new book is called "Watergate: A Novel." Tom Mallon joins us in our studios.
Thanks for being with us.
THOMAS MALLON: Thanks for having me.
SIMON: With so much on the record, what's left to be imagined by a novelist?
MALLON: Mostly how it felt, I think. I thought if you were going to do this as a novel, you had to get inside the people who were there. And so, I tried to tell the story from essentially seven different points of view and see what it felt like. And I avoid most of the big events that people - they certainly occur. But I don't tell the story the way you would tell it in nonfiction. I tell it more as a series of private dramas and try to give certain intimacy.
SIMON: As you will learn on tour, there are Watergate buffs...
MALLON: Oh, yes.
SIMON: ...like there are Civil War buffs and jazz buffs who will catch you on the smallest bit of misinformation, or imagined information. How important was historical accuracy to you?
MALLON: I refer in the acknowledgements of the book to the always sliding scale of historical fiction. And I think you really have to make these decisions book-by-book and almost scene-by-scene. I don't violate any of the big historical moments, dates. You know, Richard Nixon still resigns at the end of this book.
MALLON: It's not what in the historical fiction biz we call alternate history where, you know, the South wins the Civil War and things like that happen. But within those events, I think there's still plenty of room for a novelist to imagine what might have happened not instead of the real events, but in addition to the real events, and how people might actually have felt about them in a way that's somewhat different from what they put onto the record.
SIMON: Your novel reminds us when the men were arrested and the scandal began, Richard Nixon was at the height of his powers.
MALLON: Absolutely. He was cruising toward re-election. He had a very weak opponent in George McGovern. McGovern wasn't nominated yet but things were certainly trending his way. Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states.
And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.
SIMON: Watergate scandal, we think we know something about vivid characters like Martha Mitchell and G. Gordon Liddy. But let me get you to talk about Rose Mary Woods, a longtime secretary.
MALLON: She'd been Richard Nixon's secretary from the time he was in the Senate in 1950. So, she'd been with them nearly a quarter of a century by the time of the resignation. She never married. She did not give interviews. She was very private. Her loyalties to him were extraordinary. She is most famously associated with the erasure of 18 and a half minutes on one of the tapes that was subpoenaed.
SIMON: Why, the picture of her, a dignified woman making an undignified stretch, became well-known.
MALLON: And I think that that must have been tormenting to her. And I've talked to a couple of people who knew her and they remark on her charm, her wit. She was a terrific dancer. I talked to somebody who used to escort her around town, and he said don't finish the book without giving her a chance to dance.
And I tried to imagine what it must have been to feel the personal isolation that she must've been - because she was a single person, essentially by herself, but to be at the red-hot center of this catastrophe that was dragging down somebody that she admired unquestionably.
SIMON: Yeah. So, how fascinating is Richard Nixon to a great novelist?
MALLON: To me, endlessly. I've actually been trying to write an essay about him; an actual nonfiction essay now that this book is done grappling with him, and sort of the way he loomed in my life for really, so many years. He was, I'd say, the central public figure in my life. I went to fourth grade in the fall of 1960 wearing a Nixon Lost button.
MALLON: And he was the president who presided through my college years, which were very tumultuous from Kent State, and then all through things like the China trip. And I had enormously conflicted feelings about him the way people do about Lyndon Johnson.
SIMON: Mm-hmm.
MALLON: And I remember the night he died in 1994. I was living in New York in those days and the news came over the television that he had died in New York Hospital. And I remember I started sobbing. And I started sobbing not in the way you sob for somebody that you had simple uniform affection for, but sobbing for somebody that you had a lot of admiration for, as well as some horrified feelings about.
And, you know, Nixon was always worried about letting people down and he did let people down, and he let down all the people like my father, who were his fervent supporters. But he was a complicated figure.
Bill Clinton, in his eulogy, said that the time had passed to judge Richard Nixon on anything but the complete record of his life. And it's a wildly, wildly mixed record.
SIMON: After spending so much time with him, on the whole, can you like him?
MALLON: I - that's - boy, it's - I want to weasel out of it and say you can't give a yes or no answer to it. But I would have to say that unless there was part of him that appealed to me, I couldn't have spent the time with him. And, you know, most of the tapes, no, not most of them, but an awful lot of the famous ones - the crucial ones - you can listen to them on YouTube now. And the number of nights that I fell asleep with Richard Nixon's being the last voice I heard - 'cause I often write late at night - there must be some appeal other than morbid interest that kept me coming back to him.
SIMON: Thomas Mallon, his new novel, "Watergate." Thanks so much.
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Christian McLawhorn, left, listens as Dr. Michael Reichel interacts with him using a hand puppet at the ECU Physicians Family Autism Center. Techniques Christian's family learned from Reichel are helping him master new communication skills like "joint attention," the ability to share a focus with another individual on the same object. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
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(May 27, 2014) — Five-year-old Christian McLawhorn won't stop talking. And his mother Sharon is thrilled about it.
When Christian was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder two years ago, he was almost entirely nonverbal. "He would just repeat the last word that was said to him," she said.
The McLawhorns, of Chicod, sought help from Dr. Michael Reichel, a developmental and behavioral specialist in East Carolina University's pediatrics department, who provided them with "lots of information, lots of support, but mostly hope," McLawhorn said.
The expertise Christian's family benefitted from is poised to help more families like his through ECU Physicians' multidisciplinary Family Autism Center in Winterville.
According to Reichel, the center's director, their goal is "to help parents and professionals in our region navigate the complex systems of diagnosis, the behavioral and educational care, and social and community supports available for families dealing with autism spectrum disorder."
Autism spectrum disorder refers to a group of developmental disabilities that affect how a person understands what they see, hear or sense, according to information published by the Autism Society of North Carolina. People with ASD typically have difficulty understanding verbal and nonverbal communication and learning appropriate ways of behaving and interacting socially.
ASD affects individuals differently and with varying degrees of severity, Reichel said. "The cliché we like to use is, 'if you've seen one child with autism, you've seen one child with autism,'" he said.
"Yes, the early signs are often related to the core deficit of social communication," he added. "And many autistic kids line their toys up in rows and flap their hands. But not all kids who do these things are autistic."
The prevalence of autism in North Carolina continues to increase, with more males than females being identified, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
Reichel and his colleague, Dr. Barbara Samuels, are on a mission to make early and accurate diagnosis – and early intervention – the norm for eastern North Carolina.
"Early identification and intervention provides the most positive outcomes," said Reichel. "That means we need to educate other medical providers. We also need to train teachers, school administrators, babysitters and other caregivers because they're often the first to notice the early signs."
Despite ongoing research, no one knows exactly what causes ASD, and there is no single test to diagnose it, Reichel said. "Accurate diagnosis is made by a team of multidisciplinary professionals who have observed a person's communication, behavior and developmental levels – combined with caregiver input and developmental history," he said. "It's a process, not a one-stop shop."
Treatment of ASD should involve multiple disciplines, as well, Reichel said. That's why he, Samuels and other organizers envision the center as an interdisciplinary hub for autism treatment in the community and region.
The center is already providing developmental testing and screening tools that can identify children who might have autism spectrum disorders, developmental delays, pragmatic communication disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other related conditions.
But the plan is to round out the current physician and nursing staff with a feeding specialist, a speech language pathologist, a psychologist, an occupational therapist and social workers.
"Our goal is to recognize the unique strengths in each of these individuals and help them develop the particular skills and strategies they'll need to master life's challenges," Reichel said. "Many children like Christian are making substantial progress."
To further that goal, the center hopes to serve as a navigational beacon and informational clearinghouse for the many resources available in the region for people with ASD.
Valuable resources, community supports, advocacy groups and opportunities are already in place here, Reichel said, but they need to be linked and coordinated. "We don't have to reinvent these things; we just have to help families navigate them," he said. "We want families to be grounded in the services that are here so they'll be grounded in reality."
Organizers envision the center as an interdisciplinary training site, as well as a clinical research site, down the road. And there are plans to support the needs of the adult autism community, too.
"Our center is unique because we're laying the groundwork to serve individuals with autism across the entire lifespan," Samuels said. "ASD is typically diagnosed in children, but it's a lifelong disorder. It doesn't go away when a person reaches adulthood."
Sharon McLawhorn said she was initially devastated by Christian's diagnosis. "I first came to Dr. Reichel crying," she said, "but he helped me understand it wasn't a life sentence to isolation or to lack of success – it was an opportunity, instead."
Christian is slated to begin kindergarten this fall – right on schedule and fully integrated in a regular classroom.
Although success will be defined differently in different cases, McLawhorn is confident that families who take advantage of the Family Autism Center's resources will experience some measure of success as a result.
"This place is a safe haven for the kids and their families," she said. "It's where parents can learn from other parents and staff. Where they can get the knowledge and tools to help their child and to advocate for their child. Where they can get support and hope.
"This center is so important," she said. "I'm so glad it's finally here."
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Sharon McLawhorn, right, and son Christian work together on a train set as part of Christian's activities at the center for patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder. McLawhorn said the Family Autism Center staff helped her see Christian's diagnosis as an opportunity rather than a "life sentence."
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Tomorrow night (April 7), Tupac Shakur will be the first solo hip-hop artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other inductees in the genre to have been groups: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and N.W.A.
Shakur is being inducted in his first year of eligibility; artists are eligible 25 years after their first commercial release under their own name (as opposed to being a featured artist on someone else's record). And he's being inducted ahead of some other legendary artists, particularly LL Cool J and Ice-T, both of whom have been eligible for years.
Related: Tupac Shakur's Biopic 'All Eyez On Me' Gets New Trailer
Rap Radar co-host Elliot Wilson offers his reason for why Tupac was inducted so quickly. "I think the reason that 'Pac can get in in his first year and maybe LL can't is because 'Pac transcends music, 'Pac transcends culture, 'Pac was a revolutionary, a spiritual leader. To a certain audience, he is our Muhammad Ali, he is our Bob Marley, our Marvin Gaye. He is a figure that you put a picture up in your room, and it means something, it doesn't just mean hip-hop music. He's an icon that transcends, the way Ali transcended boxing."
The fact that there's also a finality to his career may actually help his case with the Rock Hall's voting body, as does the fact that he never released a disappointing album. "When he was alive, no one put him in a historical context. He happened to be the biggest rapper at the moment when he got killed. He was the top rapper of that year."
Part of his appeal was his passion, whether he was looking at his subjects with empathy or with anger. "He could be venomous: 'Hit 'Em Up,' to me, is still most important diss record, the most venomous diss record, and I think that that showed that that passion can play out both ways: with 'Brenda's Got a Baby,' but in another way with 'Hit 'Em Up.'"
What made him so unique? "He was the first great hip-hop artist that broke the tradition of this east coast based MC thing. Pac was a more traditional poet; his rhyme schemes and vocal techniques didn't fit the mold, and that speaks to his greatness. And once he was gone, how much of his influence was there, and how much other artists were making music inspired by him. It's still going on now, but for the first five to ten years after his death, he was still one of the top artists just because of his influence."
Even decades after his death, he's still seen as one of the greats: "He's one of the top five [MCs of all time]. And I think his success, and his being non-traditional, will lead to breaking down the door one day so that they will recognize Kanye, they will recognize Drake, they will recognize Nicki Minaj, artists who didn't follow the blueprint."
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As the first of the baby boomers are set to retire within the next few years, financial and insurance firms remain pitted in a battle to provide them with financial funds to fuel their retirement. The traditional methods of retirement finance such as social security, 401ks, and corporate pension plans are becoming increasingly riskier as government legislature struggles to find a solution to social security deficits and companies find it harder and harder to meet the promises of current pension plans. Since the lines between financial institutions and insurance institutions has been blurred with the repeal of the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which restricted the ability of insurance companies to provide financial services, aging baby boomers have become an increasingly attractive market to insurance companies.
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MIPS Technologies UK (formerly Algorithmics) maintain their own source tree for the toolchain components. SDE combines all necessary GNU tools, is infrequently resynchronized with mainstream GNU releases (which inevitably have bugs for minor architectures such as MIPS) and focuses on providing the most reliable, best-performing compiler for the largest range of MIPS CPUs. You can now get it in RPM format:
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North Charleston Fire officials don't know what caused a blaze that reduced a linen-cleaning business to a pile of charred rubble early Tuesday.
Fire Department spokeswoman Bianca Bourbeau said the damage was too extensive, so the official cause will remain "undetermined."
A group of Lowcountry Linen's employees were gathered at 4600 Ruff Road about 7:30 a.m. to survey what Bourbeau referred to as "significant damage" to the building.
Scorched linens, warped irons, washers and dryers that were blackened with soot and piles of shattered cinder blocks were all that was left of the 5,500-square-foot business.
Fire officials determined the blaze began inside Lowcountry Linen and spread to Meridian Automation and Communications. The Threshold Theater workshop and Paul Cathy Contractors received minor damage, Bourbeau said.
Many of the business' utilities ran on gas, employees said, which contributed to the fire's intensity.
No one was hurt in the blaze, Bourbeau said.
Lowcountry Linen's owner paced the business' parking lot between calls on his cellphone later in the morning. He said he arrived at the blaze around 12:30 a.m., shortly after the fire ignited. By 7:30 a.m. he found himself easing the minds of employees who came and stood by his side.
Joslyn Wilson, 59, had worked at the business for six years. She woke up to news reports saying her main source of income had gone up in smoke.
She had planned to retire from the job. Now, Wilson said she wonders how she will make ends meet.
Wilson said the business received an order from Joint Base Charleston on Monday afternoon. Several linens from the Charleston Air Force Base were lost in the fire, she said.
"When things like this happen, there are a lot of different thoughts that go through your mind. At least it didn't happen when we were working. Someone could have died," Wilson said.
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The meeting comes as Boehner has accused Obama of dragging out negotiations on any agreement to avoid a series of wide-ranging tax increases and spending cuts that could come in less than three weeks.
The two sides appear far apart on the issues, and Boehner is scheduled to return home to Ohio on Friday.
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A representative for pop superstar Miley Cyrus has shot down rumors suggesting she is poised to join Simon Cowell on the judging panel of Britain's The X Factor.
The music mogul and show creator has previously admitted he would be interested to hear what the Wrecking Ball hitmaker had to say about the wannabes trying out for the reality competition, admitting, "She has an opinion, for sure".
And reports this week (begs24Mar14) suggested Cyrus, who is currently on her Bangerz tour, was a frontrunner for a role as a TV judge, but the singer's spokesperson has dismissed the claims, sarcastically telling the Mirror.co.uk, "Simon has more chance of getting Elvis or Gandhi as a judge."
Cowell recently announced that British pop star Cheryl Cole would be returning to the judging panel on The X Factor in the U.K., three years after she famously tried and failed to make the transition to the U.S. to launch the show with the industry veteran there. She was dropped from the 2011 line-up in America after filming just two audition rounds. The Stateside version was axed in February (14) after three seasons.
Meanwhile, Cowell has also denied speculation Rihanna is in talks to sit beside himself and Cole as a judge, saying, "I never spoke to her... I don't think she'd be available because of her commitments this year."


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We have just made available a beta for the new upcoming SpamFilter 5.0. Our major plans for SpamFilter were to completely redesign the internal SMTP engine and the management GUI.
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// New to VersionNumber = '188.8.131.52-beta';
{TODO -cNew : Removed option SpoolQueueFilesToMemory from SpamFilter.ini to improve memory usage. Messages won't be spooled in RAM enymore as performance on disk was very similar and RAM usge much lower}
{TODO -cNew : Changed logging of SSL connection errors (usually due to client using older unsafe SSL v2) to be indicated as generic harmless errors rather than "exceptions"}
{TODO -cNew : Greatly improved the memory usage and lowered the CPU load when processing large emails}
{TODO -cNew : Added experimental support for SQL Azure by using a modified \SpamFilter\Database\MicrosoftSQL.sql script}
{TODO -cFix : Better detection of SQL Server databases, i.e. SQL Azure}
{TODO -cFix : Minor GUI font fixes in Database settings tab}
{TODO -cFix : If the SpamFilter.ini option DoNotQueueIfReadTimeout was set to false, it was also affecting the option QueueIfDestinationError400 by overriding it and setting it to false as well}
{TODO -cFix : Unusual circumstance - If an email is detected as spam, and if it was whitelisted, and it had multipe recipients, and one or more recipients are rejected by the deestination SMTP server (forcing SpamFilter to send a 550 as it's undeliverable to some recipients), if all this is true SpamFilter adds the original rejection noticed in the SMTP response that includes the list of undeliverable email addresses}
{TODO -cFix : When rejecting an email with mutliple recipients because some of the recipients are rejected by the destination SMTP server, SpamFilter was only listing the first rejected email in the rejection notice - the others were sent on different lines separated by <CRLF> sequences that some SMTP servers were not recognizing}
{TODO -cNew : Improved the debug view to see the complete SMTP transactions with selected remote locations, including timestamps and thread IDs}
// New to VersionNumber = '184.108.40.206-beta';
{TODO -cFix : The Euro symbol was substituted by a ? in some specific email encodings}
{TODO -cFix : Rare crash that contains the following events being logged last: "Listen Exception occurred:" & "Warning - Error! Removing Listener threads"}
// New to VersionNumber = '18.104.22.168-beta';
{TODO -cNew : Added parameter EnableTLSSupport=1 in SpamFilter.ini file to enable/disable TLS support (enabled by default)}
{TODO -cFix : Same issue fixed in 220.127.116.11 was affecting the email's Subject as well}
{TODO -cFix : SpamFilter could crash with high volume traffic when writing to the logfile/greylistforcedelivery text files}
// New to VersionNumber = '188.8.131.52-beta';
{TODO -cFix : If an email's headers and/or content are not RFC-comliant, especially in regards to 7bit/8bit char encodings (affecting accents) and the Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers, SpamFilter was auto-fixing them. However we should not alter the original email's format for any reason, so this issue was fixed}
// New to VersionNumber = '22.214.171.124-beta';
{TODO -cFix : SSL connections were not working on the SSL port (if configured)}
{DONE -cFix : Corrupt attachments - Emails that had a <CRLF>. sequence were not replaced by <CRLF>.. following RFC rules}
{TODO -cFix : If a malformed email with 8bit char encodings (affecting mainly accented characters in other languages) was missing the Content-type header, SpamFilter was adding the header "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii" as RFC requires that Content-Type if not indicated otherwise. However SpamFilter is not supposed to alter the original messages, so this was considered a bug}
{DONE -cFix : Incorrectly adding two similar "Received" headers when processing incoming emails}
{DONE -cFix : The "From:" header was being re-written if improperly formatted. As in the attachment issue above, SpamFilter is not supposed to alter the original email no matter what}
{DONE -cFix : If the activity logfile was being locked by an external process, SpamFilter could crash}
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The release candidate of SpamFilter v22.214.171.124 is now available. The changes from the previous versions as are follows:
// New to VersionNumber = '126.96.36.199';
{TODO -cNew : Re-added external madExcept exception handling to automate creation of reports for crashes and to automatically restart SpamFilter in case of failures. This was disabled during the beta period}
{TODO -cNew : Added logging for exceptions that could occur in the SMTP session before SpamFilter could process an email, as for example when a received line is over 16,384 characters long (RFC imposes a limit of 1,024 characters...)}
// New to VersionNumber = '188.8.131.52-beta';
{TODO -cNew : Added support for accented characters in keywords}
// New to VersionNumber = '126.96.36.199-beta';
{TODO -cFix : The recent memory optimizations prevented SpamFilter from searching for keywords the various extra "X-SF-" headers that SpamFilter adds to emails (assuming the option to scan email headers has been enabled) }
{TODO -cFix : The antivirus plugin caused SpamFilter to crash severely without even logging entries in the event log if attachments had specific filename formats}
// New to VersionNumber = '126.96.36.199-beta';
{TODO -cFix : If a 3rd party application placed an email for delivery in the SpamFilter\queue folder, instead of the 5 characters "<CR><LF>.<CR><LF>" end-of-email indicator, SpamFilter incorrectly sent only the last 3 characters ".<CR><LF>" . As this is not the correct end-of-email indicator, this would result in a timeout if the 3rd party email did not contain an extra <CR><LF> before the <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>}
// New to VersionNumber = '220.127.116.11-beta';
{TODO -cFix : If an SMTP server used the CHUNKING extension to send an email, the sequence <CR><LF>. (which is legitimate when using CHUNKING) was not replaced by <CR><LF>.. (with an extra dot) when forwarding the email to the destination SMTP server}
{TODO -cFix : Removed support for the CHUNKING extension to solve the issue above, as fixing the bug would require re-decoding every line nullifying the benefits of CHUNKING}
{TODO -cFix : A memory leak was likely present when using CHUNKING with large emails}
{TODO -cNew : Added better support for detecting SQL Azure databases}
{TODO -cFix : Improved detection of pre-existing database patches when reinstalling SpamFilter using an existing database}
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I have not yet tested the BETA's that have been coming out, but had a question about this new whitelisted feature. Does it add the prefix to any email that is classified as whitelisted, or only messages that would have been stopped as spam?
If I get an email from my mother (who is whitelisted) but nothing about the specific message would have stopped it, does it still get the prefix added?
{TODO -cNew Added option to add a [WHITELISTED] prefix in whitelisted emails (prefix is customizeabled via WhitelistTagPrefix parameter in SpamFilter.ini file)}
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I just tried 4.5.053 and the activity log window does not populate. The log file does update but there is no display. I also tired this version with AD Authentication, via LDAP, however it seems to be broken in this version. I received a "no connection to server" error, but nothing had changed except the spf exe, so I think there may be an issue. And when I revert the files back to the 18.104.22.1681 version it all started working again. Please let me know if you need a log file or spamfilter.ini.
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Still wanting Lee for next season--- we do not know what we are going to do with Jarvy or if Andy is coming back, so you go after Haren with a couple of ready pichers and a couple of prospects---- Joba, Chad Gaudin, Zack McAllister, and 2nd Dave Adams. you may increase your budget, but you have done it in the past. Do what George would would have done.
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It is so nice to talk about money when it is not your own, for you people who think the Yankees should go out and buy every player in site. You folks should put up some of your money. And these are the people who think ticket prices are high. The Yanks have made alot of people rich and on more than one occasion they got burned due to injuries or that they could not handle NEW YORK. I could go on for a long time with different cases that have been good and a lot more that did not work out well for the Yanks. I have been a fan of the Yanks since 1962-- we have had good times and bad times. So johnny good luck you might want to change agents or rethink what you are worth.
We need to get rid of Eiland, send Wang to AAA to get things figured out.
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James Henry Gambrill, Jr. was born on March 9, 1866 in Baltimore, Md., the third son of five sons and four daughters of James Henry and Antoinett Frances Staley Gambrill. Raised in Frederick County, he was educated in the local public schools, the Frederick Academy and Frederick City College.
On October 31, 1889 he married Susan May Winebrener, the eldest daughter of Col. D. C. Winebrener, a leading citizen of Frederick. She died 13 years later, in 1902. The couple had two children, James Henry Gambrill III and Susan May Gambrill.
Mr. Gambrill was a prominent and well-respected businessman, who had a productive career in the milling and grain business. An avid agriculturalist, he helped in 1898 to organize a farmer's truck association to improve the marketing and distribution of the county's agricultural products. In 1902 he helped to organize the Frederick County Farmer's Exchange, which operated a grain, flour, feed, fertilizer, and implement business. He was general manager of the prosperous Mountain City Mill and of the G.L. Baking Company, a successful wholesale bakery. He was president of Dietrich and Gambrill, Inc., the Frederick Hotel Company, the Glade Valley Garber Company, the Maryland Milling and Supply Company, and the Gambrill Grain Products Company, and was vice president of the Garber Baking Company, the Monocacy Broadcasting Company, and A.C. Krumm Company.
Mr. Gambrill served as a director of the Citizens National Bank, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Home for the Aged, and was a member of the Governor's Commission to study relief and old age pension matters. He was active in the Frederick Chamber of Commerce, Federated Charities, the Community Chest, the Monocacy Battlefield Association, the Frederick City Park Board, and the Rotary Club.
He was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church and served many years as a church vestryman. In 1946, a wing in Frederick Memorial Hospital was named in Mr. Gambrill's honor.
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Mr. Gambrill was an avid sportsman. He served as chairman of the State Game and Inland Fish Commission and was active in the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club. As the state's leading conservationist, he was a strong advocate for soil and water conservation as well as forest preservation. He was president of the Confederation of Western Maryland Communities, Inc., which fought to preserve the area's natural resources and beauty. Gambrill State Park, the site of many Hood outings, was named in his honor.
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|Vic Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for January to March 2005, issued 16th December 2004
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The chances of accumulating at least average March quarter (Jan-Mar) rain are close to 50% for across Victoria, the Bureau of Meteorology announced today. So there are no strong swings in the odds towards wetter or drier conditions for the first three months of 2005.
For the January to March period, the chances of above median rainfall are mainly between 50 and 60% over Victoria (see map). So in years with ocean patterns like the current, about five or six seasons out of ten are expected to be wetter than average over the State, with about four or five out of ten being drier.
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London will be home to 2019 Juno Awards, officials announce
Monumental event, massive excitement.
After years of aspirations, plans, grit and gumption, the Juno Awards — the single-biggest celebration in Canadian music — are coming to London in 2019.
Already, the anticipation is palpable.
"An event like this is just incredible," Chris Campbell, director of culture and entertainment tourism at Tourism London, said Monday.
"It's going to have a huge indirect and direct impact on culture in our city."
The best acts in Canadian music will step out in the Forest City not only for the nationally televised March 17 award show itself, but also for the week-long festivities that start March 11.
"This is the single-largest entertainment event that our community will ever have the opportunity to host. It's history in the making," Mayor Matt Brown said.
"We talk about the Junos, we talk about Juno week, but for London, this is going to be Juno year."
Brown and Tourism London officials made the big announcement at a surprise news conference Monday at the London Music Hall, the culmination of a years-long pursuit of the coveted national awards show.
The news brought rousing applause and a standing ovation from the crowd, started by Tourism London general manager John Winston in the front row.
All told, the Juno Awards festivities could bring in at least
$10 million in economic spinoffs to the city, Winston said. But the potential monetary boon for the city isn't the only thing he's excited about.
"The relationship-building and the contacts that we'll create in this sector will just be incalculable," he said.
"The people who will come to the city, who have never been here before, who have never heard of it before . . . when they get here, they'll never forgot."
Winston knows.
London bid for the Juno Awards last fall, almost a year after the city hosted the Canadian Country Music Association Awards in September 2016 — a successful foray into the world of big-time award shows, Winston said.
"It opened up the doors," he said.
"So many people saw what kind of a vibe there was in the city and the way the city embraced it and endorsed it."
Allan Reid, president and chief executive of the Juno-organizing Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, was one of them.
Reid saw London in action first-hand at the 2016 Canadian Country Music Awards and was very impressed.
"It was a fantastic event. The city was alive when it happened. That's what we look for," he said.
"We get pitched by cities all the time. We usually have multiple cities bidding at any given time, and London put together an incredible proposal."
The 2019 Junos will be the first to be held in Southwestern Ontario.
After years of being held exclusively in Toronto, the Juno Awards began travelling across Canada in 1991.
Outside big-city Canada, the high-profile celebration was held in St. John's in 2002 and 2010, Saskatoon in 2007 and Regina in 2013.
"We're fighting above our weight. We're a mid-sized city but we're competing with the bigger cities," Winston said.
"To be able to host the Junos is a privilege. We will do it right."
- Began as reader surveys in an industry magazine.
- First ceremony was held in 1970, under a different name, before it became the Juno Awards in 1971.
- Named for Pierre Juneau, the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission and a champion of Canadian content.
- Anne Murray has won the most Junos, winning 24 awards and claiming 52 nominations.
- Celine Dion is close behind with 20 wins and 72 nominations.
- The Junos include more than 40 award categories, covering all genres of Canadian music in both official languages.