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Wizards of Waverly Place on NDS takes players on magical and humorous adventures with favourite characters from the show.
Wizards of Waverly Place allows fans to play as their favourite wizard-in-training, Alex Russo, who is played by rising star Selena Gomez on the show, casting magical spells and participating in mini-games to complete tasks and acquire new magic skills. Players can experience the lives of the Russo kids as they explore locations from the show, including the Waverly Sub Station, the Wizards Lair, Tribeca Prep, the Russo loft and many more. Wizards of Waverly Place is an adventure game that allows players to explore brand new storylines extending beyond the "Wizards of Waverly Place" television series
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Crazy in Love
"it was like a fever," Walter agreed. "It just went on for weeks and months."
"Years," said his wife, smiling across at him.
From a 1989 article in The Advocate
Early on in their life together, the Einsels began making elaborate Valentines for each other. It was a concrete expression of that crazy fever of love they felt for one another. When they still lived in their one room New York apartment, they would put a dividing screen in the middle of the room while they worked on them. "We were on our honour not to peek," says Naiad. Later, in their Westport farmhouse, the screen was no longer needed. Though the Einsels shared a second-floor drawing studio, their desks separated only by an old U.S. Navy map file cabinet, Walter would work on his Valentines in his sculpting studio in the barn.
"Each year these efforts became more complex," says Naiad. What started out as collages with old decorations and rubber stamps incorporated into the design, evolved around 1960 into elaborate 3-dimensional sculptures carved in wood, with internal whirling disks and moving parts. This was a result of Walter's interest in engineering and mechanics and took his career in a new direction as he began creating Rube Goldberg-like sculptures for advertising clients in print and television.
Naiad, meanwhile, was hardly resting on her laurels. Among many other prestigious accomplishments is her design and direction of the Westport Bicentennial Quilt. At 76" by 104" and with the assistance of 33 "needlewomen" to do the sewing, the quilt, begun in October, 1974 was finally put on display in January, 1976.
But in spite of their hectic work schedules, the Einsels always found the time to continue creating their Valentines. "Walter and I loved Valentine's Day. It was a big day for us. We loved it more than Christmas. We loved it more than birthdays."
Walter Einsel passed away in 1999.
"When Walter died," says Naiad, "I felt that I had been so fortunate to be a part of his life and his love. I feel very blessed. The memories of all that we had sustain me."
In tribute to those memories and that love, Naiad has been working on a book, A Passion for Love, depicting the nearly 50 years of hand-crafted Valentines that she and her husband exchanged. "I just received some galleys on my Valentine book & I have to concentrate on them now," Naiad wrote to me yesterday as I pestered her with yet more questions.
There are so many moving examples of Naiad and Walter Einsel's tremendous love for each other, but for me, one of the most charming anecdotes is also the very first, again from the article in The Advocate: back in 1952, when Naiad was assistant art director in Promotions at CBS and Walter held the identical position at NBC. They had seen each other's work but had never met...
"I liked his work, because it looked like my own. I had this image of him with a thick German accent who was married to a big German housfrau out of Wagner," she said.
One day, a job opened up at CBS and Walter came over to apply. "I walked in and there was this adorable-looking man," said Naiad. "you know when you're young you picture this knight on a white horse..."
"I wasn't that impressed with myself," Walter interjected, "but I thought you were very attractive."
"Then we both stood there and looked at the floor," said Naiad.
To ease the tension, Walter then put his hand in his pocket and whipped out a hinged nutshell containing a miniature stage set from the opera "La Traviata".
"I thought to myself, 'Ooh, he's really weird; this is a kook...' "
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Gorgeous illustrations and a touching story of a remarkable and unique relationship. I'm a bit teary-eyed after reading today's entry. Thanks so much, Leif, for telling the Einsel's story in this week's wonderful posts!ReplyDelete
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I felt in love with their works in a old number of the brilliant magazine GRAPHICS I buy in a old bookstore.
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When they are ready I send a link to download.
I´ll try to scan some other marvelous stuff I have in other numbers.
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The news that President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is welcome indeed. The detainee center has become an international symbol of the practice of skirting U.S. and international law and torture. Regardless of whether the torture allegations are valid - and we're inclined to believe that outright torture has been rare - keeping detainees at Guantanamo no longer serves any purpose, and closing it can't help but improve the U.S. image, both abroad and at home.
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April 5, 2012by supportSpring has sprung and that means crunch time for many state legislatures. Across the country, bicycle advocates have their eyes and ears turned toward their state capitol to ensure policymakers advance, rather than curtail, cyclists' rights and safety. With that in mind, here's this week's advocacy roundup:
April 4, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiIn late February, we announced a "New National Plan to Transform Bicycling" — the potential unification of the League, Bikes Belong and the Alliance for Biking & Walking into one, powerful national organization.
April 4, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiNo doubt the past year has been tough for bicycle advocates at the federal level. Time and again a small but vocal cadre of Congress members have pushed to eliminate important and popular programs, like Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School.
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April 2, 2012by Carolyn SzczepanskiThe 2012 National Bike Summit was an inspiring whirlwind of speakers, workshops, networking and, of course, meetings with elected officials on Capitol Hill. Luckily, photographer Chris Eichler was there to capture it all. Click the links below for images from... Day One
April 2, 2012by Darren Flusche
March 29, 2012by KatieBreaking news: The House voted 266-158 to extend the current transportation bill for another 90 days. For the full story, visit The Hill.
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Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan reopened its non-emergency walk-in services Monday after suffering what officials called "devastating damage" from Superstorm Sandy.
But full services at the East Side facility won't resume until February, hospital officials announced at a news conference.
Starting Monday, Bellevue also will offer limited adult and pediatric outpatient primary care clinics and routine OB-GYN services.
Limited emergency care services are expected by mid-December.
City Health and Hospitals Corp. President Alan Aviles said it's the first time in 275 years the hospital was forced to stop operations.
"It was only a few weeks ago that this historic public hospital suffered devastating damage from a monster storm that required the evacuation of all patients," Aviles said. "Our doors are once again open 24/7 while we continue the slow but certain road toward recovery with a shared sense of purpose focused, as always, on our commitment to our patients and the community we serve."
About 700 patients had to be evacuated from Bellevue when all but one of the hospital's generators failed.
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Employees from the Manhattan VA Hospital, which remains closed, have been relocated to the Brooklyn VA Medical Center.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, working with the City Council, allocated $300 million in emergency restoration capital funds to help the city's hospitals rebuild and recover from Sandy.


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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has discovered organic compounds on the surface of Mars. Results from the rover's first complete soil analysis since arriving on the Red Planet showed "water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances," the space agency announced in a statement on Monday.
NASA was unwilling to say definitively whether the organics are the byproduct of chemical processes on Mars itself. There remains a possibility that the compounds, which might indicate Mars once supported life, travelled to Mars with Curiosity or fell to the planet from space. For now, NASA is being careful not to overstate its find.
"We have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point," said SAM Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy "but we will keep looking in the diverse environments of Gale Crater."
Monday's announcement came on the first day of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Last week, John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the mission, set off wild anticipation about what the rover team would announce during the conference when he told NPR's Joe Palca that his team had found something "for the history books."
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|Mikias minutes after his first stomach bug (and a fresh change of clothes).
"What is to throw up?"
"Sometimes if you get sick, food, drinks and other liquid in your stomach, come out of your mouth in a big gush."
He looked at me funny. He kind of laughed and said, "No, really, what is to throw up?"
Apparently, my explanation sounded so ridiculous, that he thought I was joking. Since Mikias came home, he rarely has gotten sick. When he does have a cough or sniffle, he is over it in hours. He had never vomited but had heard about it at school.
This past December, we were driving to a holiday party. Mikias told me that his stomach hurt. He had only eaten a banana, so I thought he might be hungry. We were passing a Dunkin Donuts, so I got him a plain donut. He felt better for about 10 minutes and then I heard what I had never heard from him before. Vomiting. He threw up. All over himself and his seat.
He said, "So, that what it's like to throw up!"
Meanwhile in the seat next to him, Jemberu was gagging (in true Noyce fashion-we are a family of gaggers) and demanding an explanation. "What is WRONG with Mikias? (gag) Is he going to be okay!? (more gagging) What is coming out of him!?"
I told him, "It's vomit. Mikias is vomiting. You know, throwing up?" It dawned on me, that the day Jemberu came home from school in first grade because he "threw up" on the playground was now in question. He had clearly never done this himself.
"Is is VOMIT or BOMB IT?" Jemberu demanded "It sounded like you said VOMIT but I think it probably is called BOMB IT! Look at him! He is a mess! It looks like he has been bombed!"
Mikias was saying, "Why are you talking with Jemby! I need a little help here. I have never done this before. I don't know what to do next!"
"How's your belly feeling, Miki?"
"Totally fine! Can we go to the party?"
That was the entire duration of Mikias's stomach bug. Not too bad.
I was amazed by how well he handled it. I have always been a real baby about throwing up. As a girl, when I threw up, I would sob afterwards. It was just so traumatic! I would fall into my mother's arms in a blubbering heap. She would rub my back and tell me that the worst was over.
As an adult , I have always been just as pathetic as I was as a kid. On the rare times I vomited, I would still cry afterward. Then I would call my mother. She would always give me what I needed, lots of sympathy and the usual comforting advice, to sip ginger ale and take it easy. It didn't matter that I was a nurse. If she didn't tell me what to do, I would feel lost. She knew that no one hated to throw up the way I did.
It has been almost five years since my mother died. For the first time since she has been gone, I threw up today. I woke up with a horrible stomach bug. A weird thing happened. I didn't cry. At 48, I handled being sick without falling apart. I took it easy, I sipped ginger ale. I'm kind of proud of myself.
Maybe I wasn't such a baby after all. I suppose, I just liked having a reason to have my mother comfort me. It doesn't matter how grown up we are, or how capable. It feels good to be mothered. So, I did end up crying a little today, but not because I threw up.


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Wells, H.G.
Harvard Classics
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A Description of Elizabethan England
A Description of Elizabethan England.
The Harvard Classics.
Chapter XII
Of Cattle Kept for Profit
[1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1.]
is no kind of tame cattle usually to be seen in these parts of the world whereof we have not some, and that great store, in England, as horses, oxen, sheep, goats, swine, and far surmounting the like in other countries, as may be proved with ease. For where are oxen commonly made more large of bone, horses more decent and pleasant in pace, kine more commodious for the pail, sheep more profitable for wool, swine more wholesome of flesh, and goats more gainful to their keepers than here with us in England? But, to speak of them peculiarly, I suppose that our kine are so abundant in yield of milk, whereof we make our butter and cheese, as the like any where else, and so apt for the plough in divers places as either our horses or oxen. And, albeit they now and then twin, yet herein they seem to come short of that commodity which is looked for in other countries, to wit, in that they bring forth most commonly but one calf at once. The gains also gotten by a cow (all charges borne) hath been valued at twenty shillings yearly; but now, as land is enhanced, this proportion of gain is much abated, and likely to decay more and more, if ground arise to be yet dearerwhich God forbid, if it be His will and pleasure. I heard of late of a cow in Warwickshire, belonging to Thomas Breuer of Studley, which in six years had sixteen calves, that is four at once in three calvings and twice twins, which unto many may seem a thing incredible. In like manner our oxen are such as the like are not to be found in any country of Europe, both for greatness of body and sweetness of flesh or else would not the Roman writers have preferred them before those of Liguria. In most places our graziers are now grown to be so cunning that if they do but see an ox or bullock, and come to the feeling of him, they will give a guess at his weight, and how many score or stone of flesh and tallow he beareth, how the butcher may live by the sale, and what he may have for the skin and tallow, which is a point of skill not commonly practised heretofore. Some such graziers also are reported to ride with velvet coats and chains of gold about them and in their absence their wives will not let to supply those turns with no less skill than their husbands: which is a hard work for the poor butcher, sith he through this means can seldom be rich or wealthy by his trade. In like sort the flesh of our oxen and kine is sold both by hand and by weight as the buyer will; but in young ware rather by weight especially for the steer and heifer, sith the finer beef is the lightest, whereas the flesh of bulls and old kine, etc., is of sadder substance, and therefore much heavier as it lieth in the scale. Their horns also are known to be more fair and large in England than in any other places, except those which are to be seen among the Paeones, which quality, albeit that it be given to our breed generally by nature, yet it is now and then helped also by art. For, when they be very young, many graziers will oftentimes anoint their budding horns or tender tips with honey, which mollifieth the natural hardness of that substance, and thereby maketh them to grow unto a notable greatness. Certes it is not strange in England to see oxen whose horns have the length of a yard or three feet between the tips, and they themselves thereto so tall as the height of a man of mean and indifferent stature is scarce equal unto them. Nevertheless it is much to be lamented that our general breed of cattle is not better looked unto; for the greatest occupiers wean least store, because they can buy them (as they say) far better cheap than to raise and bring them up. In my time a cow hath risen from four nobles to four marks by this means, which notwithstanding were no great price if they did yearly bring forth more than one calf a piece, as I hear they do in other countries.
Our horses, moreover, are high, and, although not commonly of such huge greatness as in other places of the main, yet, if you respect the easiness of their pace, it is hard to say where their like are to be had. Our land doth yield no asses, and therefore we want the generation also of mules and somers, and therefore the most part of our carriages is made by these, which, remaining stoned, are either reserved for the cart or appointed to bear such burdens as are convenient for them. Our cart or plough horses (for we use them indifferently) are commonly so strong that five or six of them (at the most) will draw three thousand weight of the greatest tale with ease for a long journey, although it be not a load of common usage, which consisteth only of two thousand, or fifty foot of timber, forty bushels of white salt, or six-and-thirty of bay, of five quarters of wheat, experience daily teacheth, and I have elsewhere remembered. Such as are kept also for burden will carry four hundred-weight commonly without any hurt or hindrance. This furthermore is to be noted, that our princes and the nobility have their carriage commonly made by carts, whereby it cometh to pass that when the queens majesty doth remove from any one place to another, there are usually 400 carewares, which amount to the sum of 2400 horses, appointed out of the countries adjoining, whereby her carriage is conveyed safely unto the appointed place. Hereby also the ancient use of somers and sumpter horses is in manner utterly relinquished, which causeth the trains of our princes in their progresses to shew far less than those of the kings of other nations.
Such as serve for the saddle are commonly gelded, and now grew to be very dear among us, especially if they be well coloured, justly limbed, and have thereto an easy ambling pace. For our countrymen, seeking their ease in every corner where it is to be had, delight very much in those qualities, but chiefly in their excellent paces, which, besides that it is in manner peculiar unto horses of our soil, and not hurtful to the rider or owner sitting on their backs, it is moreover very pleasant and delectable in his ears, in that the noise of their well-proportioned pace doth yield comfortable sound as he travelleth by the way. Yet is there no greater deceit used anywhere than among our horsekeepers, horsecoursers, and hostlers; for such is the subtle knavery of a great sort of them (without exception of any of them be it spoken which deal for private gain) that an honest-meaning man shall have very good luck among them if he be not deceived by some false trick or other.
There are certain notable markets wherein great plenty of horses and colts is bought and sold, and whereunto such as have need resort yearly to buy and make their necessary provision of them, as Ripon, Newport Pond, Wolfpit, Harboro, and divers others. But as most drovers are very diligent to bring great store of these unto those places, so many of them are too too lewd in abusing such as buy them. For they have a custom, to make them look fair to the eye, when they come within two days journey of the market to drive them till they sweat, and for the space of eight or twelve hours, which, being done,they turn them all over the backs into some water, where they stand for a season, and then go forward with them to the place appointed, where they make sale of their infected ware, and such as by this means do fall into many diseases and maladies. Of such outlandish horses as are daily brought over unto us I speak not, as the jennet of Spain, the courser of Naples, the hobby of Ireland, the Flemish roile and the Scottish nag, because that further speech of them cometh not within the compass of this treatise, and for whose breed and maintenance (especially of the greatest sort) King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery, and for a time had very good success with them, till the officers, waxing weary, procured a mixed brood of bastard races, whereby his good purpose came to little effect. Sir Nicholas Arnold of late hath bred the best horses in England, and written of the manner of their production: would to God his compass of ground were like to that of Pella in Syria, wherein the king of that nation had usually a studdery of 30,000 mares and 300 stallions, as Strabo doth remember, lib. 16. But to leave this, let us see what may be said of sheep.
Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass all other. And so much are our wools to be preferred before those of Milesia and other places that if Jason had known the value of them that are bred and to be had in Britain he would never have gone to Colchis to look for any there. For, as Dionysius Alexandrinus saith in his
De situ Orbis,
it may by spinning be made comparable to the spiders web. What fools then are our countrymen, in that they seek to bereave themselves of this commodity by practising daily how to transfer the same to other nations, in carrying over their rams and ewes to breed and increase among them! The first example hereof was given under Edward the Fourth, who, not understanding the bottom of the suit of sundry traitorous merchants that sought a present gain with the perpetual hindrance of their country, licensed them to carry over certain numbers of them into Spain, who, having licence but for a few, shipped very many; a thing practised in other commodities also, whereby the prince and his land are not seldom times defrauded. But such is our nature, and so blind are we indeed, that we see no inconvenience before we feel it; and for a present gain we regard not what damage may ensue to our posterity. Hereto some other man would add also the desire that we have to benefit other countries and to impeach our own. And it is, so sure as God liveth, that every trifle which cometh from beyond the sea, though it be not worth threepence, is more esteemed than a continual commodity at home with us, which far exceedeth that value. In time past the use of this commodity consisteth (for the most part) in cloth and woolsteds; but now, by means of strangers succoured here from domestic persecution, the same hath been employed unto sundry other uses, as mockados, bays, vellures, grograines, etc., whereby the makers have reaped no small commodity. It is furthermore to be noted, for the low countries of Belgie know it, and daily experience (notwithstanding the sharpness of our laws to the contrary) doth yet confirm it, that, although our rams and wethers do go thither from us never so well headed according to their kind, yet after they have remained there a while they cast there their heads, and from thenceforth they remain polled without any horns at all. Certes this kind of cattle is more cherished in England than standeth well with the commodity of the commons or prosperity of divers towns, whereof some are wholly converted to their feeding; yet such a profitable sweetness is their fleece, such necessity in their flesh, and so great a benefit in the manuring of barren soil with their dung and piss, that their superfluous members are the better born withal. And there is never a husbandman (for now I speak not of our great sheepmasters, of whom some one man hath 20,000) but hath more or less of this cattle feeding on his fallows and short grounds, which yield the finer fleece.
Nevertheless the sheep of our country are often troubled with the rot (as are our swine with the measles, though never so generally), and many men are now and then great losers by the same; but, after the calamity is over, if they can recover and keep their new stock sound for seven years together, the former loss will easily be recompensed with double commodity. Cardan writeth that our waters are hurtful to our sheep; howbeit this is but his conjecture, for we know that our sheep are infected by going to the water, and take the same as a sure and certain token that a rot hath gotten hold of them, their livers and lights being already distempered through excessive heat, which enforceth them the rather to seek unto the water. Certes there is no parcel of the main wherein a man shall generally find more fine and wholesome water than in England; and therefore it is impossible that our sheep should decay by tasting of the same. Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially (I say) to over moist weather, whereby the continual rain piercing into their hollow fells soaketh forthwith into their flesh, which bringeth them to their baines. Being also infected, their first shew of sickness is their desire to drink, so that our waters are not unto them
causa ægritudinis,
signum morbi,
whatsoever Cardan do maintain to the contrary. There are (and peradventure no small babes) which are grown to be such good husbands that they can make account of every ten kine to be clearly worth twenty pounds in common and indifferent years, if the milk of five sheep be daily added to the same. But, as I wot not how true this surmise is, because it is no part of my trade, so I am sure hereof that some housewives can and do add daily a less portion of ewes milk unto the cheese of so many kine, whereby their cheese doth the longer abide moist and eateth more brickle and mellow than otherwise it would.
Goats we have plenty, and of sundry colours, in the west parts of England, especially in and towards Wales and amongst the rocky hills, by whom the owners do reap so small advantage: some also are cherished elsewhere in divers steeds, for the benefit of such as are diseased with sundry maladies, unto whom (as I hear) their milk, cheese, and bodies of their young kids are judged very profitable, and therefore inquired for of many far and near. Certes I find among the writers that the milk of a goat is next in estimation to that of the woman, for that it helpeth the stomach, removeth oppilations and stoppings of the liver, and looseth the belly. Some place also next unto it the milk of the ewe, and thirdly that of the cow. But hereof I can shew no reason; only this I know, that ewes milk is fulsome, sweet, and such in taste as (except such as are used unto it) no man will gladly yield to live and feed withal.
As for swine, there is no place that hath greater store, nor more wholesome in eating, than are these here in England, which nevertheless do never any good till they come to the table. Of these some we eat green for pork, and other dried up into bacon to have it in more continuance. Lard we make some, though very little, because it is chargeable: neither have we such use thereof as is to be seen in France and other countries, sith we do either bake our meat with sweet suet of beef or mutton and baste all our meat with sweet or salt butter or suffer the fattest to baste itself by leisure. In champaign countries they are kept by herds, and a hogherd appointed to attend and wait upon them, who commonly gathereth them together by his noise and cry, and leadeth them forth to feed abroad in the fields. In some places also women do scour and wet their clothes with their dung, as other do with hemlocks and nettles; but such is the savour of the clothes touched withal that I cannot abide to wear them on my body, more than such as are scoured with the refuse soap, than the which (in mine opinion) there is none more unkindly savour.
Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart Rutters and French cooks, at the loss of Calais (where they found great store of this provision almost in every house), have attempted with ridiculous success to roast, bake, broil, and fry the same for their masters, till they were better informed. I have heard moreover how a nobleman of England not long since did send over a hogshead of brawn ready soused to a Catholic gentleman of France, who, supposing it to be fish, reserved it till Lent, at which time he did eat thereof with great frugality. Thereto he so well liked the provision itself that he wrote over very earnestly, and with offer of great recompense, for more of the same fish against the year ensuing; whereas if he had known it to have been flesh he would not have touched it (I dare say) for a thousand crowns without the popes dispensation. A friend of mine also dwelling some time in Spain, having certain Jews at his table, did set brawn before them, whereof they did eat very earnestly, supposing it to be a kind of fish not common in those parts; but when the goodman of the house brought in the head in pastime among them, to shew what they had eaten, they rose from the table, hied them home in haste, each of them procuring himself to vomit, some by oil and some by other means, till (as they supposed) they had cleansed their stomachs of that prohibited food. With us it is accounted a great piece of service at the table from November until February be ended, but chiefly in the Christmas time. With the same also we begin our dinners each day after other; and, because it is somewhat hard of digestion, draught of malvesey, bastard, or muscadel, is usually drank after it, where either of them are conveniently to be had; otherwise the meaner sort content themselves with their own drink, which at that season is generally very strong, and stronger indeed than it is all the year beside. It is made commonly of the fore part of a tame boar, set up for the purpose by the space of a whole year or two, especially in gentlemens houses (for the husbandmen and farmers never frank them for their own use above three or four months, or half a year at the most), in which time he is dieted with oats and peason, and lodged on the bare planks of an uneasy coat, till his fat be hardened sufficiently for their purpose: afterward he is killed, scalded, and cut out, and then of his former parts is our brawn made. The rest is nothing so fat, and therefore it beareth the name of sowse only, and is commonly reserved for the serving-man and hind, except it please the owner to have any part thereof baked, which are then handled of custom after this manner: the hinder parts being cut off, they are first drawn with lard, and then sodden; being sodden, they are soused in claret wine and vinegar a certain space, and afterward baked in pasties, and eaten of many instead of the wild boar, and truly it is very good meat: the pestles may be hanged up a while to dry before they be drawn with lard, if you will, and thereby prove the better. But hereof enough, and therefore to come again unto our brawn. The neck pieces, being cut off round, are called collars of brawn, the shoulders are named shilds, only the ribs retain the former denomination, so that these aforesaid pieces deserve the name of brawn: the bowels of the beast are commonly cast away because of their rankness, and so were likewise his stones, till a foolish fantasy got hold of late amongst some delicate dames, who have now found the means to dress them also with great cost for a dainty dish, and bring them to the board as a service among other of like sort, though not without note of their desire to the provocation of fleshly lust which by this their fond curiosity is not a little revealed. When the boar is thus cut out each piece is wrapped up, either with bulrushes, ozier, peels, tape inkle,
or such like, and then sodden in a lead or caldron together, till they be so tender that a man may thrust a bruised rush or straw clean through the fat: which being done, they take it up and lay it abroad to cool. Afterward, putting it into close vessels, they pour either good small ale or beer mingled with verjuice and salt thereto till it be covered, and so let it lie (now and then altering and changing the sousing drink lest it should wax sour) till occasion serve to spend it out of way. Some use to make brawn of great barrow hogs, and seethe them, and souse the whole as they do that of the boar; and in my judgment it is the better of both, and more easy of digestion. But of brawn thus much, and so much may seem sufficient.
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Have you ever got a call from a user telling you that he/she edited a record
and that the changes made are lost? If so, maybe your application is
implementing "Last in Wins" concurrency control.
This article focuses on the "Optimistic concurrency control", doing it
manually with out the DataSet. On a second part, I will focus on
"Pessimistic concurrency control".
There are three types of concurrency control:
The full article can be found here.
While in a disconnected architecture the "Pessimistic concurrency control"
can not be implemented using database locks, it can be implemented as
We have to keep in mind that an application that holds locks for long periods
is not scalable, but this concurrency control schema might have to be
implemented on some portions of the application.
To implement this concurrency control, we do not have to do anything. But
this might be unacceptable in some circumstances if different users start to
access the same records frequently.
As explained at MSDN:
In the above scenario, the changes user B made were never seen by user A. Be
sure that this situation is acceptable if you plan to use the "Last in wins"
approach of concurrency control.
This article focuses on this approach and I will go deeply through it.
The optimistic concurrency control is based on a Record Version.
Several users can open a page for the same record, but only the first one to
save it will succeed.
The .NET DataSet uses the "All values" approach, comparing old vs. new
values for all the fields. This gives a version for the record, but if you are
not using the DataSet, it can be a nightmare. First, you have to consider the
possible null values and the where clause has to be changed if a new field is
added to the table.
Instead of "All values", we can use a single field to set the record version.
For this purpose we can use a GUID string or a date-time value. I decided to
use the date-time for the following reasons:
When updating the record, the version has to be added to the WHERE
UPDATE table SET fields = values WHERE pk
= pk_vlaue AND concurrency = concurrency_value
If the concurrency value given by the user does not match the concurrency
value in the database, the record will not be updated and 0 rows affected will
be returned.
With this SELECT we have to consider that, while a user was
modifying the record, another user might have deleted the same record. In
this case, the rows affected will also be 0.
If you want to give the user an accurate message about the situation, we can
not tell that the record was updated by another user if it was deleted. To solve
this, we have to check if a record with the primary key exists in the table.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE pk = pk_value
At this point, if the record count is zero, the record was deleted, other
wise; a concurrency exception has to be thrown.
Finally, we have to inform the user that his/her changes were not successful
because another user changed the data.
What to do now? Just display a JavaScript alert or a pop-up window?
What happens if user A changed 10 fields and user B (who saved first) only
changed one? Will user A loose all the 10 fields?
The approach implemented here, is to reload the page and replace only the
data that was modified by user B, leaving user A's changes intact as
The example code was developed to use the Northwind database installed with
SQL Server. The following stored procedures need to be created (The stored
procedures are in the zip file):
Add to the Products table the field Concurrency as DateTime.
Set the Concurrency field to some value. Example: 01/01/2003 for all
the records. It will not work with null values. When you create the INSERT
method, it has to set Concurrency to GETTIME().
Set the appropriate Data Source, uid, pwd values in the
Web.config file.
Data Source
<add key="SQLConnString"
value="Data Source=(local);uid= ;pwd= ;database=Northwind"/>
You have to setup manually the virtual directory where the application will
run. This can be done with "Internet Information Services" or just from the
Windows Explorer. Right click on the folder, press properties, go to the "Web
Sharing" tab and select "Share this folder".
The Update method is called on the product:
// Update the product
// Redirect to the product's list
catch (DeletedRowInaccessibleException)
Response.Redirect("Error.aspx?msg=" + System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode
("The product has been deleted by another user."));
catch (DBConcurrencyException)
catch (Exception ex)
throw ex;
If the product was deleted by another user, the flow is redirected to the
error page. If there was a concurrency exception, the method ConcurrencyException() is called to process the exception and
display the fields that are conflicting.
private void ConcurrencyException()
// Get the mapping controls - object properties
Hashtable controls = GetControlsMap();
// Update the page to show the fields that have concurrency conflicts
// Show the concurrency error label
lblConcurrencyMsg.Visible = true;
The method GetControlsMap(), gets a one-to-one mapping between
the web controls and the object properties. This allows changing the control's
look & feel if there is a concurrency conflict with any object's
Any page that needs to process a concurrency exception has to inherit from
The heart of the concurrency handle is at ShowConcurrency().
The original object as it was read is retrieved from the view state:
BLL.CRUD userObject = (BLL.CRUD) ViewState[CONCURRENCY_OBJECT];
Then the object's new data has to be read so it can be compared with the
original data read before the concurrency conflict. This is done with generic
code, invoking the Read() method on a BLL.CRUD object; to do this,
the objects must inherit from BLL.CRUD.
// Instantiate an object of the same type and read its properties
Type type = userObject.GetType();
BLL.CRUD dbObject = (BLL.CRUD) type.Assembly.CreateInstance(type.FullName);
dbObject.ID = userObject.ID;
if (!dbObject.Read())
Response.Redirect("Error.aspx?msg=" + System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode
("The record has been deleted by another user."));
Once the new object is read, the differences are gotten using reflection:
IList differences = BLL.ObjectDifference.GetDifferences(dbObject,
At last, the web controls styles are changed to show the user, the
conflicting fields:
foreach (BLL.ObjectDifference diff in differences)
// Get the control
WebControl ctrl = controls[diff.PropertyName] as WebControl;
if (ctrl != null)
All the stored procedures are basically SELECTs to retrieve data. So I will
only focus on ProductsUpdate:
CREATE PROCEDURE ProductsUpdate
@ProductID int,
@CategoryID int,
@SupplierID int,
@Name varchar(40),
@QuantityPerUnit varchar(20),
@UnitPrice decimal(19,4),
@UnitsInStock smallint,
@UnitsOnOrder smallint,
@ReorderLevel smallint,
@Discontinued bit,
@Concurrency datetime
ProductName = @Name,
SupplierID = @SupplierID,
CategoryID = @CategoryID,
QuantityPerUnit = @QuantityPerUnit,
UnitPrice = @UnitPrice,
UnitsInStock = @UnitsInStock,
UnitsOnOrder = @UnitsOnOrder,
ReorderLevel = @ReorderLevel,
Discontinued = @Discontinued,
Concurrency = GETDATE() -- When updated, set the
Concurrency to the server's date
ProductID = @productID AND
Concurrency = @Concurrency
IF EXISTS( SELECT ProductID FROM products
WHERE ProductID = @productID )
RETURN 2 -- Concurrency conflict
RETURN 1 -- The record has been deleted
RETURN 0 -- The record could be updated
You can notice that the WHERE clause for the UPDATE, the ProductID and Concurrency are queried together. The ProductID is the primary key and the Concurrency field guaranties that we are
not updating a record modified by another user since the data was gathered.
If the @@ROWCOUNT is greater than zero (It should be 1 because
of the primary key), the record could be updated without concurrency
If the @@ROWCOUNT is zero, there are two possibilities:
For each case, the stored procedure returns a value:
When the update query is executed, the return values are checked in
BLL.Product.cs Update() and the appropriate exception is thrown.
// Check for success
switch ( (UpdateRecordStatus) parms[11].Value)
case UpdateRecordStatus.Concurrency:
throw new DBConcurrencyException("The record has
been modified by another user or process.");
case UpdateRecordStatus.Deleted:
throw new DeletedRowInaccessibleException();
To try out the concurrency control:
When accepting the second page, the fields that were changed on the first page will
become gray and the fields that are not conflicting will be unchanged.
Concurrency control increases the application's complexity, debugging and
maintenance, but your users will have a better experience using it.
Remember that it is not mandatory to implement the optimistic concurrency
control for all the application updates. You might need to mix the 3 mechanisms
within a single application based on the needs.
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create table sourcedata (

value varchar(10)

)

go

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('A', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('B', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('C', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('D', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('E', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('F', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('G', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('H', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('I', 5))

insert into sourcedata values(replicate('J', 5))

create table timestamp_test1 (

concurrency datetime,

value varchar(10)

)

go

create table timestamp_test2 (

concurrency timestamp,

value varchar(10)

)

go

declare @count int

select @count = 0

while (@count < 5 )

begin

insert into timestamp_test1 (concurrency, value) select getdate(), value from sourcedata

waitfor delay '00:00:00.001'

select @count = @count + 1

end

go

declare @count int

select @count = 0

while (@count < 5 )

begin

insert into timestamp_test2 (value) select value from sourcedata

waitfor delay '00:00:00.001'

select @count = @count + 1

end

select * from timestamp_test1

select * from timestamp_test2

/*

truncate table timestamp_test1

truncate table timestamp_test2

*/

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UPDATED: Former girlfriend of accused murderer Mazzaglia: 'He pulled the rope over her neck, and he strangled her'By MIKE LAWRENCE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 04. 2014 12:38PM
DOVER — Kathryn "Kat" McDonough broke down in tearful sobs Wednesday morning after describing in gruesome detail the October 2012 death of UNH student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, 19.
McDonough testified that her former boyfriend, Seth Mazzaglia, strangled Marriott from behind with a rope while the three of them were watching a movie and after Marriott had said it would not be OK for McDonough and Mazzaglia to have sex in front of her in their disheveled, dimly lit studio apartment.
"That's when he moved up behind her and he pulled the rope over her neck, and he strangled her," McDonough testified at Strafford County Superior Court. "She was sitting right next to me."
Mazzaglia, 31, faces charges of first- and second-degree murder in the Oct. 9, 2012, death of Marriott in the Sawyer Mills studio he shared with McDonough, 20.
In a subdued, quavering voice, McDonough said that as Mazzaglia strangled Marriott with a white, cotton rope while wearing black leather gloves, she numbly rose and moved to one of the two windows in their Sawyer Mills studio.
"I glanced over and saw it happen, and then I glanced back up at the TV and tried to focus my thoughts, because I didn't know what to do," she said. "I got up to the window, and I shut the first window, and when (Mazzaglia) gestured, I shut the second window."
McDonough said Marriott "almost immediately" stopped moving after Mazzaglia began strangling her, and gave only a "short…quick gasp."
McDonough is serving a 1½- to three-year prison term after pleading guilty last July to charges including witness tampering and hindering the investigation. She testified Tuesday that she helped cover up the murder of Marriot, whose limp body she said Mazzaglia then raped.
In last Wednesday's opening statements, defense attorney Joachim Barth told jurors it was McDonough, not Mazzaglia, who killed Marriott that night after a game of strip poker and the following requests for participation in sexual activities.
Prosecutor Peter Hinckley pressed McDonough on Wednesday morning about her actions during and after Marriott's death, specifically her failure to call police or for an ambulance, and her decision to remain in the apartment and not seek help.
"I didn't have anywhere else to go," McDonough said. "I loved him, I didn't want to lose him, he was the only real person I had. …Part of me considered leaving. I didn't know where I would go and I didn't know what I would do."
After she closed the windows and curtains, McDonough said, she went into the bathroom, the studio's only other room. When she came out, she said, she saw Mazzaglia raping Marriott, who was lying on her back, limp, on the floor.
McDonough said Mazzaglia fondled Marriott and insulted her as he raped her for several minutes before rising.
"He told me to hold the rope back over her neck while he went to the bathroom," she said. "The whole thing was so unbelievable and so shocking, that it was just easier to do what he said.
"I was telling him that I couldn't do it, that 'I can't do this, I can't do this,'" she continued.
The prosecution's questioning of McDonough began Tuesday. Mazzaglia's defense has not yet begun its cross examination.
McDonough largely was able to retain her composure while on the stand and when exiting and entering the courtroom Tuesday, when prosecutors guided her through questioning about the origins of her relationship with Mazzaglia, whom she met in the spring of 2011 when they were in a theater production in Portsmouth.
Wednesday morning, Judge Steven Houran called for a brief recess as McDonough sobbed in tearful wails that reverberated through the stunned courtroom. She exited the courtroom in tears, her hands near her face.
The horror continued when McDonough resumed her testimony and spent more than the next hour describing her and Mazzaglia's actions after Marriott's death.
McDonough said that Mazzaglia came over to her, held out his arms and said "something on the lines of, come on, we're in this together."
McDonough said she took that to mean, "if he had to go cover it up, I had to go cover it up."
Mazzaglia then told her that "we have to figure out a way to get rid of her body," McDonough said.
In response to questioning from Hinckley, McDonough detailed how they then gathered Marriott's belongings, turned off her cell phone and their own and wrapped her body in a tarp and a suitcase that wouldn't entirely close.
"(Mazzaglia) held the suitcase shut while I wrapped the duct tape around," McDonough said.
They then drove Marriott's car on a circuitous, uncertain route that ended at Pierce Island in Portsmouth, where McDonough said she and Mazzaglia struggled in "a long process" to push and drag Marriott's body to a railing that overlooked a cliff.
McDonough said Mazzaglia lifted Marriott's body and pushed it over the rail, but it landed on rocks, causing them to walk down to a beach and try to reach Marriott's body from water-level. McDonough said she was the only one able to climb across rocks to Marriott's body, which she said Mazzaglia asked her to cover in seaweed.
"He said it was too bad we hadn't tied rocks to her, because then she would have sank," McDonough said.
She described that moment as "surreal," as she looked down at someone with whom she had been playing a card game just hours before, worked with at Target in Greenland, and "enjoyed spending time with."
"Her body was half-floating, covered in seaweed," McDonough said. "I didn't even know what to think. I felt so awful, so confused. I had so many conflicting emotions.
"Someone who brought so much joy to people's lives – and there she was," McDonough added.
Then, the indescribable loss and tragedy at the center of the murder trial that has shocked and riveted New Hampshire came to light in McDonough's testimony.
"So many things that she's never going to be able to do," McDonough said of Marriott. "I'm only 20, but I still look back and think … there's still so much of life left.
"She never got to get married. She never got to have kids. It's all because of us, that she never got to live her life," McDonough continued, sobbing.
"It's not something we can fix. She can never come back…"
Her voice trailed off, difficult to understand through tears. Judge Steven Houran called the lunch recess.
This time, as McDonough exited the courtroom in halting steps – less than a minute after Mazzaglia, who walked impassively, with no expression discernible on his face – McDonough moved in near silence, her head bowed and her hands clasped in front of her, shuddering.
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Madison Boulder Natural AreaApril 19. 2011 9:17PM
Madison Boulder is the largest known erratic in New England, and among the largest in the world. Madison Boulder is a huge granite rock measuring 83 feet in length, 23 feet in height above the ground, and 37 feet in width. It weighs upwards of 5,000 tons! A part of this roughly rectangular block is buried, probably to a depth of ten to twelve feet.
The 17-acre site was acquired by the state of N.H. in 1946. In 1970 Madison Boulder was designated a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior because the enormous erratic, "is an outstanding illustration of the power of an ice sheet to pluck out very large blocks of fractured bedrock and move them substantial distances."
Location: Off Route 113, Madison
Phone: 603-323-2087
Activities: None
Amenities: None
Operation Schedule: Mid-May to Mid-November
Acreage: 17 acres
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How did it get here?
Madison Boulder is made of fine-grained feldspar and larger quartz crystals that welled up under great pressures from a molten mass deep in the earth over 200 million years ago. Upon cooling, the molten rock hardened. Over the millions of intervening years softer materials on the earth's surface were removed by erosion from wind and water. Not so with the granite of New Hampshire, the Granite State!
As recently as 1835, geologists believed that huge boulders like Madison Boulder isolated in their surroundings had been washed to their present locations by great floods which are said to have occurred in ancient times. Today, it is believed that these large boulders, or "erratics," were moved various distances during the last ice age.
Most authorities trace Madison Boulder to the Whitton or White ledges 12.5 and 4 miles respectively, to the northwest. However, a few maintain that the boulder so closely resembles one of the four types of rock that form Mount Willard in Crawford Notch, twenty-four miles to the nothwest, that the ice sheet must have brought it from there. Madison Boulder lies on "glacial drift," unsorted sediments left by the retreating ice sheet.


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Today SRAM announced two new X9 and X5 level cranks for fat bikes. If you are a sharp visitor of the Mtbr Fat Bike Discussion forum, this might not come as too much of a surprise since there was some discussion of this back in late December.
The SRAM X9 and X5 cranks have been re-engineered to fit and perform on a fat bike. Combined with a 100mm wide spindle and using SRAM's own 2X10 chainrings, they have eliminated much of the tire-to-chain clearance issues often found on fat bikes. The X9 and X5 cranks are lighter than most current fat bike crank offerings and the 36/22 gearing gives riders fast access to the right gear range. SRAM is promoting their cranks as "lightweight, stiff and always reliable. Whether you're powering over snow or tackling an all-day, all terrain epic, your best ride starts with SRAM."
These cranks feature:
- SRAM 2X10 Shifting Technology
- 36/22 Gearing
- GXP 100mm Bottom Bracket
- Super Stiff and Durable
- Faster, Lighter and More Efficient
The SRAM X9 Cranks for Fat Bikes (and GXP Bottom Bracket with 100mm spindle made for 2×10 drivetrain) is available in 175 or 170mm length cranks and 36-22 gearing come in grey and will retail for $314.
The SRAM X5 Cranks for Fat Bike (and GXP Bottom Bracket with 100mm spindle made for 2×10 drivetrain) is also available in 175 or 170mm length cranks and 36-22 gearing come in grey and will retail for $169.
The fact that these cranks are in production just add to the notion that the Fat Bike category is the real deal and not just another passing niche. There has been some speculation (courtesy of Guitar Ted) as to whether the production of these cranks means that one of the "big" mountain bike manufacturers (Trek, Specialized, Giant) is making a forth coming production Fat Bike.
Is it true? At this point, it's hard to tell but it is definitely a step in the right direction!


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Luongo, Canucks hold off late push by Oilersby Derek Van Diest / NHL.com
EDMONTON -- Kellan Lain's first two NHL games have been eventful.
The rookie left wing scored his first goal to help the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-1 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Rexall Place on Tuesday night.
Lain logged two seconds of ice time in his debut Saturday night before he was ejected for participating in an opening faceoff line brawl against the Calgary Flames.
"You always dream of playing in the NHL, but you also dream of scoring that first goal," Lain said. "When you get it, it's a pretty special moment."
Lain scored the Canucks' opening goal against the Oilers, and Zack Kassian connected for the other in the Vancouver win.
Jordan Eberle scored the lone goal for the Oilers.
Roberto Luongo made 28 saves to earn the win in his second start since returning from an ankle injury. He made 11 of those saves in the third period, when the Oilers came close to tying the game on several quality chances.
"I don't know if you can picture a more memorable first two games in the NHL than that," Luongo said of Lain. "But it was a huge goal for us to set the tone for us in the first period."
Lain opened the scoring 5:14 into the opening period, getting to a rebound in front of the net and enough of the puck to push it past goaltender Ben Scrivens.
Scrivens, making his home debut with the Oilers, finished with 25 saves. Edmonton acquired the 27-year-old from the Los Angeles Kings last week in exchange for a third-round draft pick.
"I just drove to the net and the puck just popped out to me," Lain said. "Our line (Lain skated with Dale Weise and Tom Sestito), we are three big bodies. We just tried to work it down low and create some energy, and I thought we did a good job of that tonight.
"Our team played really well, and we also had some big penalty kills out there down the stretch. We all rallied together and got a big win."
The Canucks went into the game having won two of their previous 10. They had snapped a three-game losing streak Saturday against the Flames before facing the Oilers.
They were without captain Henrik Sedin, who was out with a rib injury. It was the first time in nearly 10 years Sedin has not been in the Canucks lineup, snapping a streak of 679 consecutive games played.
The Canucks were also without coach John Tortorella, serving the first of a 15-day suspension.
"I thought we played hard. I thought we played smart. The first two periods I thought we played real well," said Canucks assistant Mike Sullivan, who is filling in for Tortorella. "We were playing with fire there in the second, they have a lot of skill and their power play was really good. I thought once we killed that off to get out of the second period, the key for us was to make sure we didn't give them another opportunity."
Kassian increased the Canucks' lead at 7:59 of the second period, firing a wrist shot past Scrivens from the top of the faceoff circles. Ryan Kesler set up Kassian for his 10th goal of the season by digging the puck out of scrum behind the net and sending it out in front.
Luongo was the main reason the Oilers were unable to cut into the lead in the middle period. He made a handful of big saves with Edmonton on the power play, stopping Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on one power play and robbing Eberle on another.
The Canucks goalie was able to slide across and get a piece of Eberle's shot on a cross-ice setup from Nugent-Hopkins.
"It's tough to hang your head after this one," Eberle said. "But in the end we lost. We didn't find a way to win. We could have had two or three goals on the power play, but Luongo made some really good saves. I thought we played a pretty good game. We just couldn't find a way to score. I think for sure the saves he made on our power plays made the difference."
The Oilers did get on the board at 15:00 of the third period when Eberle finished off a scramble in front.
The play started with Luongo making a sliding save on Sam Gagner in front. With Luongo out of position, Taylor Hall collected the puck and set up Eberle, who was able to get his shot through a sea of bodies and past a diving Luongo for his 17th goal.
"I thought we were right there, even with them," Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said. "I'm not sure we outplayed them, or they outplayed us, but I thought the game started to tilt our way in the third period."
The Oilers made a strong push for the tying goal, but were unable to beat Luongo for a second time.
"I think we all have to step up," Luongo said. "It's not just one person; that's what good teams do. When there's guys out of the lineup, other guys have to step up and those coming into the lineup have to play well.
"Good teams find a way to do that and tonight we played great game."
The loss extended the Oilers' winless skid to five games (0-4-1). They host the Phoenix Coyotes on Friday. The Canucks return home to play the Nashville Predators on Thursday.


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The Heralds Jan. 23 story about low-wage earners and the barriers they face in bettering themselves details very well the challenges some people face in trying to improve their lives. But why was there no mention of the Durango Adult Education Center? This community resource helps many get the education they need to better succeed.
Yes, it takes time and effort to study for the GED test. And the GED tests are not easy, but there are classes during the day and tutoring from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, both available for a $20 semester fee. There are practice tests free of charge. There is free child care available. There are scholarships available to pay for the actual GED tests, which have a fee of $30 for each of the five exams.
The Durango Adult Education Center also has English courses for non-native speakers.
I know that passing the GED tests is still not easy, and for many, takes a lot of effort and motivation, but I hope the people in the depressing situations cited in the story know that some help is available. And I hope that people in the community are also aware of the help.
Sue Liefeld


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As long as we've lived in our home, a colony of bumblebees has nested in the roof of our front porch. For years we've watched generations of bumblebees come and go, often quite closely. Our yard, edged with wildflowers and native plants (that sounds so much more elegant than "we don't mow much") is a…


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FUJIFILM X-T1 has enabled accurate tracking AF follow-up with 8fps continuous shooting under continuous shooting "H (higher shooting speed) " by swiftly processing phase detection AF information in the image. It also predicts the position of the subject in the next shot from the movement of the subject and applies movement prediction AF for focus, improving precision of AF on a moving subject.
Lens control method was re-examined and optimized to speed up lens control. This is applied in single frame shooting, and response during normal phase detection AF is shortened by approximately 20% at maximum.
Such technology has helped achieve 8fps AF follow-up continuous shooting, to assure capturing the best moments such as goal of a race, trains and pets.
Performance of AF follow-up on moving subjects based on movement prediction has been improved for continuance AF with half-pressed shutter. Conventional follow-up speed was only able to capture running children, but it has now evolved to follow subjects closing up at a speed of 40 km/h.
Speed-up of frame rate, improvement of AF algorithm and movement prediction have achieved fastest level follow-up speed for mirrorless SLR cameras.
Buffer capacity in the camera has been doubled compared to previous models, largely improving response during continuous shooting. The number of frames shot with the UHS-I SD card and during continuous shooting or H(Higher speed) with RAW shooting has increased from 8 to approx. 20 without lowering continuous shooting speed.
In addition, it is also compatible with UHS-II of the new SD card standard, ahead of other companies.
Since images in the buffer memory can be written faster to an UHS-II SD card, time until the start of the next continuous shooting has been drastically shortened. Use of an UHS-II SD card is a promising choice for those who desire improved response.
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Peter Delaney won the Animal Portrait category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017
In-depth coverage on the new free tethered shooting software.
The series of articles explains how to use the FUJIFILM Tether Plug-in PRO
The article explains the overview of FUJIFILM Tether Plug-in PRO
X-Photographer Tomasz Lazar from Poland visits Aokigahara Forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji
Series "Inside the camera bag of X-Photographer"
X-Photographers at the 24 horus of Le Mans
Jacques Gillon tries the teleconverter for wildlife photography
José Luis Guardia is in action shooting wedding photography with the Red Badge Zoom lens
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Free breast cancer screenings are being offered to eligible women at WellStar Atlanta Medical Center, WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South, and WellStar Camp Creek Outpatient Imaging. The screenings will be available through March 31, 2018, and are made possible by grants given to the WellStar Foundation from Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta and It's the Journey, Inc. The initiative is an effort to increase access to preventive health screenings in low-income areas. For registration and eligibility information, please call 404-265-3828.
WHAT: Limited free breast cancer screenings are available to those who meet eligibility requirements. Screenings generously provided by Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta and It's the Journey, Inc. Registration and eligibility requirements are available by calling 404-265-3828.
WHEN: Every weekday through March 31, 2018*
*WellStar Camp Creek Outpatient Imaging also offers Saturday appointments.
WHERE: WellStar Atlanta Medical Center, 320 Parkway Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, 404-265-3828
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South, 1170 Cleveland Avenue, East Point, GA 30344, 404-265-3828
WellStar Camp Creek Outpatient Imaging, 3890 Redwine Road, Suite 104, Atlanta, GA 30331, 404-265-3828
WHY: WellStar has teamed up with Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta and It's The Journey, Inc. to reach undeserved and uninsured patients in the Atlanta Area. In 2016, WellStar reached more than 16,800 individuals through breast cancer outreach and provided more than 900 free mammograms to women in need throughout Georgia. The new, Atlanta-centered free mammogram program aims to educate and empower women in low-income areas to take control of their health through proactive measures.


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Mafia Wars is a multiplayer browser game available on Facebook, MySpace, Sonico, Yahoo!, and the iPhone, and currently has almost 26 million active subscribers. It won the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category.
The game revolves around doing and mastering jobs to earn cash and experience, with the goal of establishing and advancing one's criminal empire.?Players create mafias by recruiting players and using reward points to hire extra mafia members. Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster allow players to recruit from friends to build their mafia and fight against other players.?Players can also improve their stats by visiting the Godfather.
Gameplay revolves around timers: players have limited energy (for doing jobs), and health and stamina meters (for fighting other players), in a manner similar to an RPG game, ?which slowly recharges over time. With the help of other mafia members that have been recruited, players can eventually fight other players, which may or may not result in the theft of cash, "icing", or "death" of the other player.
The game operates on a "level up" basis. The player earns experience points by completing jobs. Players who manage to complete special tasks (for example, winning fights against bigger mafias or winning fifteen fights in a row) are labeled as having accomplished an "achievement", resulting in a bonus for the player. As they level up, more jobs and features become available, such as the ability to visit Cuba to expand their criminal empire.
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Gun control advocates often use some version of the phrase "if it saves one life" in order to justify their ineffective proposals. This week, the anti-gun editorial page of the Chicago Sun-Times offered a different ...
Friday, September 21, 2018
Earlier this month, a federal court invalidated California's ban on premises advertising relating to handguns (but not other firearms), disparaging the state's proffered justification for the law as nothing more than "mere speculation and conjecture."
Monday, September 24, 2018
This week, with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives coming back from their summer break, it is possible that House Bill 2227 may be up for a vote. HB 2227 would allow the seizure of firearms with little or no access to due ...
Friday, September 21, 2018
Senator Dianne Feinstein has spent the last 26 years pushing gun control at the federal level and earlier this month demonstrated her willingness to distort facts and Supreme Court precedent in her ongoing effort to ...
Friday, September 21, 2018
Billionaire gun control financier and former-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is once again floating a presidential run.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Elon University student forced to remove NRA banner from his dorm room window.
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Levi Strauss & Co. established its brand in the mid-19th century by selling durable clothing to working-class Americans. As Levi's signature jeans gained popularity amongst a wider set in the middle of the last century, ...
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For someone who has previously falsely accused the NRA of funneling foreign money into domestic politics, it must be that David Hogg either forgot he was in Canada recently or failed to appreciate that it's also illegal ...
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Cuba routs Taiwan 14-0 at World Baseball Classic
Cuba routs Taiwan 14-0 at World Baseball Classic
Mar. 09, 2013
TOKYO (AP) — Yasmany Tomas hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning, helping Cuba rout Taiwan 14-0 Saturday in the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
Tomas' second home run of the tournament gave Cuba a 6-0 lead at Tokyo Dome, and the 2006 runner-up added eight runs in the sixth before the game was ended under the mercy rule.
"After losing yesterday, this was an important game for us," Tomas said. "So my three-run homer meant a lot, it brought a lot of positive energy to the team. The manager told me to sit on the outside pitch and make good contact, and I was able to do that."
Cuba plays the loser of Sunday's game between Japan and the Netherlands on Monday for a chance to advance to the March 17-19 final round in San Francisco. Taiwan was eliminated.
Jose Fernandez's bases-clearing double and Jose Abreu's two-run homer highlighted the sixth, when Cuba sent 11 batters to the plate.
Cuba starter Danny Betancourt allowed three hits in six innings for the win. Taiwan starter Ching-Lung Lo, the loser, gave up two runs and two hits in 2 2-3 innings.
"In order to get a victory over a team like Cuba, you have to have good pitching," Taiwan manager Chang-Heng Hsieh said. "We got that yesterday against Japan but didn't have it tonight."
Cuba hit four home runs in the game and displays the type of power of a title contender.
"We lost yesterday, so we knew it was important to score early and keep them off the scoreboard," Cuba manager Victor Mesa said. "I reminded my players that today was an elimination game, so we needed to win."


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09 – 20 September 2013, Harare, Zimbabwe – UNITAR, in partnership with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre, is currently delivering a two-week advanced training course on the Training of Trainers. The training is attended by 20 participants, representing nine of the fifteen SADC countries.
The training course which was jointly developed by the UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme and 4Change, is part of the initiative "Enhancing the Capacity of African Peacekeeping Training Institutions", which aims to strengthen the capacity on African training institutions, by providing their trainers with the knowledge and skills to implement high-quality training programmes in the fields of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
The training of trainers is an approach designed to give individuals the skills and knowledge to implement adult training programmes on a given topic. It incorporates the main ideas of adult education, with its interactivity and learner-centred approach, and melds it with the knowledge to be learned so that those undertaking the programme increase their personal training techniques and acquire the skills and understanding to further train others on that topic.
As underlined by H.E. Mr. Ladkhar Brahimi in his preface to the strategic paper "Enhancing the Capacity of African Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Training Institutions", "with this initiative, UNITAR is positioning itself to be uniquely qualified to provide African governments and their national, sub-regional and continental training institutions with the tools they need to proudly acquit themselves of their responsibilities when they take part in peace operations".
UNITAR PTP's initiative has been welcomed and encouraged by the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C34): "The Special Committee welcomes the contribution of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to peacekeeping training through its "train-the-trainer" programme being implemented in Africa. The programme aims to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills to the national and regional training institutions in a sustainable manner, as well as capacity-building. The Special Committee requests that this "train-the-trainers" programme be expanded to other regions, including Asia and Latin America" (A/66/19).
Two additional training of trainers will take place in October and November 2013.


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