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Whew...it's vacation week and still busy!! This weekend was Carnaval/mardi gras. We went to the parade here in town because it lines up so close to our house. Bug hated it because the music was so loud it hurt her ears and she kept diving into my side with one ear pressed into my side and my hand over the other ear. They got some candy, which they loved, and we were going to go to the parade where my in-laws live yesterday, but the kids didn't want to go. MM wanted to play Rummy Cube (board game) and Bug and my nephew wanted to ride their bikes to the park and play soccer. So Opa took them biking and such and daddy and Oma played with MM and I read. I'm not a board game person. Then we had dinner and Oma got mad at MM because he wouldn't eat his chicken nuggets. He said they tasted different and she was angry because they were the same kind she ALWAYS buys and he's always eaten them before so she thought he was just being a whiner. Then -I- tasted the chicken nuggets...eeuuww. THey were completely different. Now we know why he didn't like them!
Tomorrow we're going to have to get up EARLY because Bug has to go to the dentist at 8:15 to fill cavities and then I have to take MM to the physical therapist at 1:00pm to test his motor skills, and then I have a meeting in the evening for choir board. Wednesday our grocery store is closing early and they will be closed for 2 weeks while they switch over to a different chain, so they are giving a 50% discount on everything...I'm betting it's going to be BUSY. Then MM has his swimming lesson and hubs gets to swim with him. (I can't go because of the shingles being spreadable in water) and then they are heading to my in-laws for dinner and the kids will stay there for a few days, and I have a dinner with the First Sopranos in choir. Then Friday, hubs took the day off to take me to Zwolle to get my new residency card. Then we're meeting my in-laws and the kiddos for dinner at a restaurant and we'll take the kids home with us. BUSY. At least Thursday and today I'm pretty free. And Monday next week we have parent/teacher conferences. I'm anxious to ask a few questions.
Sean, so glad you got to go home. It must be nice to finally be home in your own environment!
Lynne, yes, I like to know who's coming for the same reason. I need to know how many favor bags to make, how much stuff to get for games, snacks, etc...over here, most people only call if they AREN'T coming, so you assume that if they don't RSVP, they will be there. I always put on the invitations "Please call us at ####### to let us know whether or not you'll be coming." and if I hear nothing, I will generally find the parents at the school when we're dropping off kids or picking them up and I'll ask, but I didn't see this mother to ask her. It was really rude of her not to call. And his best friend came and his mom is on the parent board with me and she had said she was talking to this mother and her son wasn't sure from one day to the next whether he wanted to go or not. Then he was upset the next day when he found out his best friend had been there and he hadn't gone. -I- had not been looking forward to the two of them together because they are WILD together, so I was quite happy that he didn't come, but I wish they had let me know.
That's great that swimming is going so well!!! It's hard when they struggle so much. MM is doing much better now, too. It's such a relief!
With the clean up of the park, do you have dish gloves or something you can wear so you don't have to actually handle the garbage with your hands? Or maybe get one of those sticks with the claw to pick up things you don't want to touch? In my hometown, we used to have a clean up day like that and it was actually fun. All the kids showed up at a central point and were taken by fire truck (we got to ride on top) to parks and open spaces, we were given trash bags, and for every trash bag we filled we got a free swim pass. Then around noon we were brought back to the central point where we were fed hotdogs! It was so fun as a kid!
Sarah, glad you are feeling better, but sorry Jason messed his back up again!! Is he feeling better?
It is a super fun tradition for report card day. Bug picked strawberry yogurt, apple pie, and skittles. MM chose some other candy...very Dutch, giant chocolate covered cream puffs, and some little cakes. Hubs and I ate Chicken.
I am still itchy and kind of sore. There's one spot on my back that feels like I'm lying on a marble when I lie on my right side. It's hard to get comfortable, but the blisters are starting to burst and dry up so hopefully it will be over within the week!


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Tim McCarver
News about Tim McCarver, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
A Mets Newcomer Is Thrown Into the Fire
Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud will miss at least three weeks with a broken finger. His replacement, Kevin Plawecki, will have to run a major league game without ever having played one.
April 21, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON TIM MCCARVER AND: Baseball , Plawecki, Kevin , d'Arnaud, Travis , Blevins, Jerry (1983- ) , McCarver, Tim , Flaherty, John , New York Mets
Fox Sees Chemistry in New Baseball Booth
Fox Sports will learn this season if it was a good move to replace Joe Buck's longtime M.L.B. broadcast partner, Tim McCarver, with Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci.
March 4, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON TIM MCCARVER AND: Verducci, Tom , Baseball , Reynolds, Harold , McCarver, Tim , Fox Sports , Television , Buck, Joe
Reynolds and Verducci to Fill McCarver's Spot as Lead Baseball Analysts on Fox
Harold Reynolds has worked for ESPN and MLB Network. Tom Verducci has served as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and a field reporter for TBS.
March 1, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON TIM MCCARVER AND: Baseball Television , Fox Sports , McCarver, Tim , Verducci, Tom , Reynolds, Harold (1960- ) , Iwakuma, Hisashi , Seattle Mariners , Baseball
Here's to the Better Angels of the Sports World
Giving thanks to those who are deserving, including football players who boycotted a game, a wheelchair racer and all who campaigned to restore wrestling as a medal sport in the Summer Olympics.
November 27, 2013, Wednesday
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On Fox, a Sterile End to a Series
Modern celebrations of World Series wins have a lack of spontaneity, with security preventing fans from going on the field and interviews conducted on a stage.
November 1, 2013, Friday
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Trying to Outrun the Cardinals' Long Reach
KMOX, the powerful St. Louis radio station, has been broadcasting Cardinals baseball to Middle America since 1926, but could a reporter outdrive its signal?
October 29, 2013, Tuesday
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Anticipating His Next Play, McCarver Is Closing Out an Era
Tim McCarver, whose career in the booth was marked by his strong opinions and uncanny ability to predict plays, will be calling his 24th World Series, and probably his last.
October 22, 2013, Tuesday
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One Streak Ends, 16 Are on the Line
The Heat's run is over, but the N.C.A.A. tournament offers plenty of colorful characters and storylines of its own.
March 29, 2013, Friday
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McCarver to Retire From Broadcasting After Season
Tim McCarver, 71, Fox's No. 1 analyst since 1996, said on Wednesday that this baseball season, his 34th, would be his last.
March 28, 2013, Thursday
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A Broadcaster With Something to Say
Tim McCarver, the winner of the annual Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting, has a style that blends a veteran catcher's experience with historical references and groan-worthy puns.
July 21, 2012, Saturday
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The Dardanelle School District is asking for an increase of 6.5 mills, which would bring the total millage for the district to 40.2 mills, to fund the construction of a new primary facility to house kindergarten through third grade. The Western Yell County district is requesting an increase of 2.5 mills, which would bring the total millage to 41.3 mills, to fund the renovation of an existing elementary building in Belleville to house kindergarten through second grades.
Both districts' superintendents were optimistic on the eve of the election.
Dardanelle Superintendent John Thompson said members of the Dardanelle School Board had been active in speaking to the public about the proposal and answering any questions they might have. In addition to conducting one town-hall style meeting, members addressed various civic organizations, such as Lions Club and Rotary.
"We're hopeful. I'm still encouraged by what I've heard," Thompson said. "We did a real good job of getting the facts to people. There's some people who feel they can't support it, but even they know we need it."
Thompson said, if the issue is approved, the building would measure 91,385 square feet, will include a safe room and will cost an estimated $12 million. The building would be located on Liberty Road on land already owned by the district.
Other improvements to be funded by the proposed mill increase are the renovation and expansion of the high school cafeteria, band room, choir, administrative area and commons area. A safe room would also be constructed at the high school.
Western Yell County Superintendent Brad Spikes said his district held public meetings on the night of the district's open house at the elementary and high school facilities with little feedback.
Spikes said the main opposition to the district's proposal came in the form of a letter to the editor in the Yell County Record, to which Spikes responded.
In his letter of response, Spikes detailed the districts' reasons for the renovation.
"We have a facility which cannot be used in its present form," he stated in the letter. "It does not meet the standards for kindergarten, first and second grades."
Spikes said the community has not been vocal in support or opposition following his response letter.
"I've not heard any comments at all," Spikes said. "I hope that's a good thing. I'm not overly confident, but I am optimistic."
Spikes pointed out if the millage fails, the Belleville building would be not be renovated and would likely be of no use to the district in a short time.
"If it doesn't pass, we can't do anything, and in the near future, we'll have to look at having to do away with that building," Spikes said. "In the condition it's in and with the way unoccupied buildings deteriorate, if something's not done in the near future it will get to a point where it's not repairable."
Also in Yell County, four are running for board positions unopposed: Jody Sigle in Dardanelle, Michaele Wilkins in Danville, Tommy Fink in Western Yell County and Jackie Ray Harrison in Two Rivers.
Dardanelle voters will vote at the Dardanelle Community Center, and voters in the Western Yell County School District will vote at Belleville City Hall or Havana City Hall. Voting hours in all locations are 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.


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This is like an ex who treated you like crap, cheated on you and is now trying to get back with you when you've long since moved on to a better, hotter, younger girlfriend who treats you well and respects you. Yeah the sex was great, but that was before she started faking it and stopped bothering to try and please you, or reciprocate. Then she lost interest altogether and went on to do the same thing all over again to her next few boyfriends, like a broken record.
Lets quit with the nostalgia. If you miss him that much just watch and re-watch old clips of his glory days. The Vince today is useless to this team since we can't even count on him to be a veteran leader. Just look at how many teams he's been passed around to and it's clear what his value is. Besides, whatever "legacy" he created here was washed away by the ugliness later on. And I think THAT's what people will be reminded of if he comes back.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 16, 2007, 3:10 PM
Town Square
Day Worker Center finds new home
Original post made on Aug 27, 2007
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 16, 2007, 3:10 PM
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a resident of Old Mountain View
on Aug 27, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I am not sure the Day Worker center has made progress in the beginning or end. As far as I have seen Maria Mariquin has benifited
from misuse of donations to buy her personal purchases including buying a house. Who hired her in the first place. The money is not going to the day workers.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 3, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Wouldn't this center best fit next to the proposed Home Depot location (to replace Sears in a few years)? It seems most day-workers would get the most opportunities in that location. Perhaps Home Depot could even pitch in to make a nice place for them to wait. Also, does any government agency or charitable organization do any outreach work at this center to help these people take steps to get beyond "day" worker status and become fully employed, legal (if necessary) citizens? I have considered hiring day workers but have hesitated because I am unsure of their legal status and am wary of strangers with no references. It would be helpful if there was a system where these workers had some sort record of their work, their status and recommendations from past employers.
a resident of another community
on Sep 16, 2007 at 12:34 am
I volunteer at the day worker center occasionally. Maria Marroquin, the board members and the DWC volunteers are dedicated and do a wonderful job in serving both the workers and the Mt.View neighbors who benefit from the worker services. The DWC makes it very easy to connect with workers in a friendly and well-seasoned broking process. I invite every neighbor in Mt.View to approach the DWC and learn more about the possibilities they offer.
I am sorry about the comments expressed by Mr. Gomez above. The DWC has an active community of stakeholders who believe strongly in Maria Marroquin leadership and management. This contradicts Mr. Gomez statements.
Replying to MVResident_X from the previous comment, the DWC follows up with the neighbors employing workers at the center to get their feedback. This serves as a reference for the center.
I am also part of the team building Laborfair.com, a trusted service marketplace where people connect fairly. We are doing exactly what you envision to be helpful, a place online where people can find service providers with references and reviews from previous employers in the Bay Area. Go to www.laborfair.com to learn more about it.
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Using Data in the Classroom, Workshop 2002
A small workshop for STEM faculty
April 21-23, 2002
Carleton College
Draft Program
All sessions will take place in the Alumni Guest House
Sunday, April 21
- 5:30
- Reception
- 6:30
- Dinner and Welcoming Remarks
- 7:30-8:30
- Dessert discussion: What are our educational goals for using data in courses?
Monday, April 22
- 8:30-9:30
- How are we currently using data in the classroom? Round table discussions of what currently works in different disciplines and settings.
- 9:30-9:45
- Break
- 9:45-10:45
- Round table discussions: How do different disciplines use data? What do we mean by data? What methodologies are common? What are unique?
- 10:45-11:00
- Break
- 11:00-12:00
- Round robin reporting and whole group discussion: What is our collective understanding of what is working within and across the disciplines? Is there a common definition of "data" that underlies our discussion? Are their common methodologies that can form a focus for increasing use of data in courses?
- 12:00-1:30
- Lunch (Language and Dining Center)
- 1:30-2:30
- What kind of data access and manipulation is technologically possible now and in the future? Presentation and discussion.
- 2:30-3:30
- Scenario writing in small teams
- 3:30-4:30
- How can our work with common integrated data sets or tools provide an integrating theme for interdisciplinary science in a particular course? Across a suite of courses? Presentation and discussion.
- 4:30-5:30
- Scenario writing in small teams
- 6:00-7:30
- Dinner (out and about in Northfield)
- 7:30-9:00
- Posters and Demonstrations
Tuesday, April 23
- 8:00
- Scenarios due-enter in wiki site
- 8:30-10:00
- How do we evaluate the impact of this type of inquiry-based learning? What are our learning goals? What do we want to know and why? How do we measure it? How should we apply the results?
- 10:00-10:30
- Break
- 10:30-11:30
- Recommendations for developers of data services: What are our priority needs for data discovery, access and manipulation?
- 11:30-12:30
- Development of key ideas for report and next steps.
- 12:30
- Lunch
- Afternoon
- Informal discussions, and transportation to airport.


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At least, that's what I keep telling myself as yet another snowstorm bears down on us.
At least, that's what I keep telling myself as yet another snowstorm bears down on us.
janiceintoronto says
"Spring"? What is this "Spring" of which you write?
Antiochus Epiphanes says
Owlmirror says
Now imagine all those happy mouths singing "It's a small world".
carlie says
I have seen in bloom: periwinkle, trout lily, bloodroot, Carolina spring beauty, and striped squill.
FINE. I have only seen a single one of each.
And only just this week.
But it's happening!
pHred says
It must be spring – it got into the 40s today.
Gregory in Seattle says
Spring has come
Spring is here,
The bird is on the wing.
My how absurd,
I thought the wing
Was on the bird!
thumper1990 says
There appear to be yellow and blue smiley faces in that… whatever it is.
WithinThisMind says
That looks like a collection of very happy penii.
richardelguru says
It's already too hot down in Texas.
Don't we suffer enough from our politicians?
chigau (違う) says
I see Jesus!
and Mary!
and Mary!
and Biff!
and Mary!
otrame says
Gregory in Seattle
You got one of my favorite Ogden Nash poems wrong!
*clears throat
Spring has sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is.
Some people say the bird is on the wing
But that's absurd
The wing is on the bird.
leftwingfox says
Spring has sprung.
Fall has fell.
Winter is here,
and it's colder than usual.
leftwingfox says
Love all the little neon happy-faces in the image. :D :D :D
leftwingfox says
Couldn't resist;
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SallyStrange says
@Gregory – I always heard that poem as,
Spring is sprung
Da grass is riz
I wonda where dem boidies is.
Da little boids is on da wing.
Ain't dat absoid!
Da little wings is on da boid.
naturalcynic says
Obligatory obscure cultural reference:
Time to drag out ol' Tom Lehrer and go poison a few pigeons in the park.
Ragutis says
Spring? It's been 90+ the last two days. But, I'll take inspiration from the pic and put on a happy face. Sweaty, but happy.
Matrim says
No, my friend… *stares into the middle-distance*
…Winter is coming.
David Marjanović says
It's cherry-blossom season over here. A thunderstorm (from all the room-temperature "heat" of this week) was announced but still hasn't started.


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This summer, you can also enjoy a delicious meal on our new outdoor deck or inside the popular Smoky's Bar & Grill. Smoky's is open Fridays and Saturdays from 12 noon – 6 pm, and Sundays from 10 am – 5 pm. Be sure to try our delicious Sunday Brunch.
You can learn more about Smoky's Summer Operations here.
Learn more about our summer chairlift service here.
Come up and enjoy the fresh mountain air!


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Wikimedia CommonsThe Game Genie was the technological holy grail of my Nintendo-playing childhood. Here was a device that would let me play Super Mario Bros. with infinite lives, or get infinite rockets in Metroid. Here's exactly how it worked, and how people are still using it today.
Plugging In
From the start, the Game Genie was marketed as a "game enhancer," though there's a fine line between "enhancing" and "cheating." In short, it was able to modify games at startup, so you could change them in ways that made your gaming life easier—typical enhancements involved adding lives or weapons, or in rare cases strange things like accessing hidden areas of the game that weren't normally playable.
The NES Game Genie was designed to be crammed into the front of the NES; it stuck out the front and you had to attach game cartridges to the slot on the Game Genie. The Game Genie had a wicked set of connector pins that attached to the NES's slot with a death grip. This connection ended up being a double-edged sword: using the Game Genie could eventually damage your NES's cartridge slot if you inserted and removed it a lot. But if you left it inserted permanently, it effectively replaced the NES cartridge slot, and that connection could be more reliable than inserting and removing games within the NES itself. So the good news was that if you were willing to keep the Game Genie in there forever, it could provide a more reliable connection for your games, and was probably better than blowing into your cartridges.
A Slightly More Technical Explanation of the Genie's Magic
When using a Game Genie, the NES started up showing a basic Game Genie menu. On that menu, the player could enter one or more codes, which would modify certain aspects of the game. From there on out, the Game Genie acted as an intermediary between cartridge and NES, intercepting requests and spitting out different results based on the codes that had been entered.
The Game Genie's technical functions were surprisingly basic when examined from a computer science perspective. Each Nintendo game cartridge set up a series of locations within the NES's memory where various pieces of information were stored—the number of lives you had left, the level you began on, the items you had, or even cooler things like the height your character could jump. Sometimes these locations in memory contained simple numbers. By finding these locations (almost always through trial and error—because game developers don't share that information), Game Genie users could then insert new numbers into them. So by finding "How Many Lives Left" in Super Mario Bros., you could switch the standard number of lives (three) with a much bigger number, and play the game with effectively infinite lives. (For the record, apparently the code SXIOPO offers infinite lives for both players in SMB.)
The Game Genie thus used two important pieces of information to make an important effect occur within the game: The location of a variable, and the content of that variable. So to create a Game Genie "code" (their simplified alphabetical interface for inputting memory locations and values to pop into them), an enterprising gamer could find the location, then experiment with possible contents to pop in there—lots of contents could just crash the game, but ultimately you could hit on something usable. By putting those two pieces of information together, you got a code. Codes were traded among gamers, and published in booklets collecting the best ones. Even today, gamers are developing new codes. I spoke to Dain Anderson, founder of NintendoAge.com, about this process. He said:
"One of the interesting aspects of the Game Genie is that
it's an organic piece of hardware whereby codes can be created and changed by anyone at anytime, whether the game is 20 years or 2 years old. Because it acts as a pass-through between the console and cartridge, you can implement changes in real-time. In fact, creating codes has become a bit of a niche for some of the more technical types, and you'll find many threads on NintendoAge where people are requesting new codes for older games that perform a specific function.
"Creating codes would encompass an entire article, but the nuts and bolts of it is that you use a hex editor inside an emulator like FCEUX, and trace what aspects of the game change as you modify RAM locations. For example, if you take a RAM snapshot and you have three lives left, die, then take another RAM snapshot, you can determine through trial and error, on the changed locations, which affect the number of lives. By changing this memory location, you can create a code that alters the number of lives a player will receive."
If you're a programmer, check out this technical explanation of how the codes work, including snippets of C code used to decode the Game Genie's user-friendly alphabetical codes into programmer-friendly hex values.
Read the original article on Mental_Floss. Copyright 2012.


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Tales of adventures on the high seas captivate both sailors and those who stand on the shore and gaze out across the oceans. In this original collection of sea stories, edited by veteran writer Dick Durham, the gamut of human experience is mirrored in a world of tragic shipwrecks and sea monsters, epic races and brave rescues, tall ships and tiny dinghies.
Life is stranger than fiction! If you love sailing & being out on the water there are some incredible true stories in this audio book so dramatically read, really kept me gripped. Some chilling 'Dead Calm' moments, I even had to re-wind several times to hear the details again. I loved the true story about the fight between a giant squid & a whale so graphic & visual. It's a wonderful selection of tales from old clipper ships, modern day racing yachts & lone eccentrics who took to the sea with no experience. I highly recommend it found it inspiring & moving. I might even build a ship & set sail soon across the oceans soon!
"Incredible and catching stories! "
Incredible and fascinating stories from a range of years. Couldn't stop listening! The narrator is interesting to listen too and speaks very dynamically and confidently. 57 separate stories leave you wanting more
"If you like short stories...."
It is well read. You can fall asleep listening to it one night and pick up again the next. There are a good range of different stories in the volume from light humour to drama to horror.
I liked the author's personal anecdote about taking part in the Fastnet race because of the wry and witty telling of the tale but there is something for everyone here.
Steve reads with an excellent ace, not too quick for the drowsy listener nor over egging the drama. Each story has a different tenor in the writing and intent of the piece that Steve is able to convey admirably.
From Joshua Slocombe to Naomi Campbell via Moby Dick and the Marie Celeste, this audio book covers the gamut of sailing stories, well written and masterfully narrated.
"Very Disappointed"
Each story was rushed and therefore ruined. It felt as if the narrator was in a hurry to get it over with. How anyone can spoil the amazing story of The Essex (the true story behind Moby Dick) is beyond me - but again this felt hurried and did not give any detail.
Waste of money.
"Ffools taking the natural elements for granted and getting away with it"
It's always difficult to review true adventure accounts in my opinion and this one is no different. It's all about fools and heroes taking the sea for grantd and working with it but getting away with it when thousands didn't or wouldn't. It's all right but nothing special though the reader spoils it for me. I can't stand the narator's style at all. It might have been good if somebody else was charged with reading it because this book doesn't really come to life. There's very little expression so you never get the sense that you're really there going through the dramas of it all. In other words what might have been a fairly good book spoiled though I'd not recommend it to serious sailors since they'd probably think people doing this kind of thing with no experience mad and disrespectful of the sea and sailing on it.
"Hours of factual unemotional stories"
The stories are interesting but lack details which make them engaging. Hours of Hodson reading what seem like newspaper articles- factual, informational, but ultimately droning.
"More summaries than stories"
Some potential great stories, but they're so brief you might as well be reading the blurb on the back cover - or that's how it seemed to me. Even Shackleton's incredible epic journey gets turned into a short and not very impressive story which I wouldn't have thought possible.
I love amazing sailing stories, but amazing story summaries are not the same thing.
"Easy Armchair Listening"
A diverse compilation of excerpts, short stories and old magazine articles, the book takes you along many diverse themes in the nautical world. This book will be enjoyed by anyone who has sailed or wishes to sail.
Steve Hodson's reading imparts drama and often times the irony more effectively than if read by yourself.
The wide range of stories will make you laugh, gasp and just shake your head in understanding of just how unpredictable sailing can be.
"Excellent amazing sailing stories"
Yes, very entertaining and interesting stories which are very well read and written
The fact these are true stories, I have read other books from some of the survivors and can vouch for the authenticity in this one.
Nothing really, it is very well done.
Yes, some of these are incredible stories and as a sailor I could relate very well.
Could not move easily or quickly between chapters. I think this is a shortfall of the Audible software installed on my Garmin Nuvi 2455LMT. It is a serious issue that should be fixed.
An excellent book and no need to be a sailor to enjoy the incredible stories.
I recomend it to anyone interested in the seas or sailing or those who enjoy true stories.
"good stories, production didn't work on iPhone"
There were little pauses between stories and could not tell when one story stopped and next began.
iPhone would stop and go constantly, many times had to do a manual restart play from iPhone.
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Since he saved the season so far, saved D'antoni's job to date, plays his ass off, and gets no respect from his star players or the NBA, meaning he is getting hammered more and more each game, I suggest the following to him.
1 - Take charge of this team again, take the ball and do your thing. You decide who gets the ball. Prove to yourself and the league you are a real quality PG.
2 - Dare the coach to make you give it up to Melo, tell him you are the point guard. The Garden fans and NY media will back you up on this.
3 - If someone like J. Kidd hammers you, go right back at him on offense, show him he is not young anymore. Otherwise the league will drive you to the bench and back to the D league.
4 - Tell Stat & Melo you are getting double teamed, hammered, almost like there is a price on your head, if they don't have your back then their asses will not get the ball from you. Give it up to Jeffries who has your back.
5 - You will be a free agent, so make yourself as valuable as possible. That's how Stat, Melo, etc. players around the league got their money.


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About the time wwe were about to arrive in the area of The Dragon, I realized that because our route was a clockwise one, we were going to be entering the road the Dragon was located on at the "top" of the mountain, rather than the bottom. So, this meant we would be riding DOWN the eleven mile, 318 curve road, instead of UP. "Oh, no......." I was thinking, as we began the descent on the multi blind-curved, no guard rails, roller coaster of a ride. I was squinting through my face shield (which was still raised), blinking at the rain that pelted my face, as we snaked our way, leaning left, right, left, right, over and over, down the mountain. I pretty much kept Britta in 2nd or 3rd gear, trying to let the engine handle some of the braking, so I wouldn't lock up the brakes and skid off the road into the ditch or down the embankment. It was, I believe, the longest, most terrifying eleven miles I have ever ridden in my life. I had a virtual death grip my my hand grips the whole way down.
After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the bottom of the Dragon and pulled into the Deal's Gap Store, where at least 100 bikes of all kinds were parked all over the parking lot in the rain. Dozens of riders were sitting and standing in front of the store under the overhang to stay dry. Every kind of rider, from those in full racing leathers to Harley Bad Ass chaps and leather vests, were milling about and talking, smoking and laughing as we got off our bikes and trudged up the parking lot to go inside. I was literally soaked, and exhausted from the stress of riding Britta down the hellish slalom course down the mountain.
The store was huge inside, offering a complete range of motorcycle parts and accessories, clothing and souvenirs. I was just too damn tired to look around, so I shuffled up to the cashier and said, "Where are the stickers you get after you ride this damn thing?" She pointed at the counter I was standing in front of and replied, "What color do ya want, hun?" I said, "Gimme three of the chrome ones", and she slid three stickers across the counter to me. I gave her a five dollar bill and told her to keep the change, and alked slowly back outside in the rain to my bike and waited for the rest of the club member to finish their shopping. At this point, all I wanted to do was get back to the lodge and into a hot shower.
The lodge was still about 20 miles away, and I found out that just because you were done with The Dragon, it didn't mean you had no more challenging roads to ride. We took off and after about 20 minutes, the riders in front of me slowly pulled away from me to where I couldn't see them ahead of me any more. I still had about for or five club members behind me, though, and I'll bet they were all cursing me under their breath as I rode slowly down the mountain toward the lodge. To top it all off, apparently I did not see the sign for the lodge and sailed right on by, and didn't even notice the other club members turning behind me. When I finally noticed no one in my mirror and realized what I had done, I had to find a road to turn around on to go back. Luckily, by this time, one of the club members was speeding down the road toward me, in case I hadn't noticed my error. Embarrassed? You bet.
Everyone was off their bike and standing around chatting when I pulled up. I just laughed and shook my head as the riders all gave me a round of applause as I dismounted Britta. I got several pats on the back and words of encouragement from the rest of the club, since they all knew what I had to deal with, worrying about my bike during the ride. PM was waiting for me and gave me a big hug and kiss, and asked, "Well, how was it?" "Let me tell you, sweetie", I replied, "You definitely made the right decision not to go today!" I walked with her back to our cabin and told her of the "not so excellent adventure" I had been on for the last six hours. During the day, she had ridden into a nearby town and picked up some Corona Mexican beer for me to drink to celebrate "taming the Dragon", but all I wanted at the time was a hot shower.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and drinking several beers, while discussing the day's ride with the other Conebutts who went on the ride. The lodge cooked up a nice steak dinner for the club, which was most welcome and appreciated. I slept like a rock that night.
The next morning we awoke to a dry day (naturally), and we had a fairly relaxing ride back home, going all four lane roads back to our home in SC. I had enough curves for one weekend, I had decided. By the time we arrived in Easley, I had put about 350 more miles on Britta, bringing her up to almost 122,000. Despite losing her tail light and valve cover bolt, she performed like a champ! I've said it before, and I'll say it again...The R65 is probably the most underrated Beemer ever made!
So, that's the story. Am I glad I rode "The Dragon" and "The Skyway"? Yeah, I guess so. Did I enjoy it? Not really. Between worrying about Britta and fighting the rain, fog and slick roads, about all I remember seeing during the whole damn trip was the tail lights of the bike in front of me. It just wasn't what I had hoped for, but at least I can say "Been there, done it, got the sticker". We're already planning a return trip before winter so PM can have a chance to ride the Dragon and Skyway. Maybe it will be a more enjoyable ride for me the second time around!
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The Ocala City Council held its first budget workshop meeting Tuesday to outline the format for developing the upcoming 2014-15 budget, estimated to be $650 million.
The Ocala City Council held its first budget workshop meeting Tuesday to outline the format for developing the upcoming 2014-15 budget, estimated to be $650 million, and ways to close the projected $5.1 million shortfall in the general fund portion of the budget without raising taxes and still provide the same level of service.
"We will present to you alternatives for closing that hole," City Manager Matthew Brower said about the deficit.
Cindy Kelley, the city's deputy chief financial officer, told the council that, in the budget the staff hopes to present, there likely will be increases in some fees, although the fire fees will remain at the current level for both residential and commercial customers.
The utility rates will remain stable. However, the city currently is undergoing utility rate studies, so whether those rates will remain unchanged will not be known until after the council adopts the new budget, which likely will be sometime in September.
Regarding employees, there are no staff reductions planned in the budget. The council will consider options for, perhaps, either a salary increase or a one-time bonus for employees as it did this year. The city will absorb any medical benefit cost increases.
The council will have many other budget decisions to make, including whether to delay larger projects.
The way the council closed the current year's $5.2 million general fund budget deficit was by reforming the general employees' pension plan, refinancing debt, by transferring funds from enterprise funds and by utilizing reserves.
This year, staff is looking to help close the gap is by reforming the police and fire pensions.
Kelley said the staff currently is negotiating with the city's three unions.
"Pension reform will be part of negotiations with police and fire," Kelley said.
To help close the budget shortfall further, the staff is hoping to refinance the debt on its utility bonds as well as making 6 percent interfund transfers. Staff also is looking at dipping into the excess fund balances — one time only.
"This year, thankfully, we have an increase of 2.7 percent in (property) values," Kelley said. "We are very glad to see that that is turning around."
Based on a preliminary estimate from the property appraiser, one mill, which is used as part of the formula to determine the property tax rate, will generate $3.6 million in revenue at a 95 percent collection rate.
But revenues from sales taxes are expected to remain flat.
One area of concern is the possible loss of the Communications Services Tax.
Kelley said the state Legislature is looking to eliminate that tax, which the city uses to fund the bond debt. The CST is also one of the city's larger revenue sources and provides $3.5 million to the general fund.
Although it will not affect the 2014-15 budget, its loss will impact the 2016 budget.
"It's important for it not to go away," Kelley said about the CST.
In addition, through last year's interlocal agreement with Marion County, the city lost the 9-cent gas tax revenue, which was a roughly $500,000 million hit to the city's budget. And the two other gas taxes were reduced. There is a 3-year reduction plan for those three taxes and the city is in year two of that step-down plan.
Another issue the council will have to address is the money in the Community Redevelopment Area trust fund. Those monies represent a percentage of tax dollars above a base tax year that stay in the area where they are collected for the purpose of revitalizing an area. The city's downtown CRA, which is, essentially, a special taxing district, has been amassing money over the years. However, the city is supposed to be identifying a project and spending the dollars on that project within three years.
"At the present time, we would be considered out of compliance as it relates to the CRA," Kelley said.
Council President John McLeod asked if a downtown parking garage could be a project. Kelley said it could, but the money would have to be spent on the garage within three years.
"That's a new operating process we haven't done in the past," Kelley said.
Now the city must adopt a budget for the CRA, which will be contained within the general fund budget, and there will have to be a separate budget hearing.
Staff also will be looking for direction in creating policies for Council to consider regarding enterprise transfers, fund balances for the enterprise funds and a not-for-profit funding policy.
Regarding the capital, or major, projects, the capital improvement bond funds are running out, Kelley said. The project requests exceed the amount of money available, so those requests have been cut back. And the capital replacement fund for items like vehicles and computers will not be fully funded, although the enterprise funds — those that earn money, such as electric and water and sewer — will be able to cover their needs.
In addition, several of the multi-year projects will have no money beyond phase 1, and the revenue sources for many of the capital projects are nonrecurring. The staff is looking for options to fund those capital needs.
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Irina Cross had no idea about Halloween or the costumed little people who would come knocking at her door.
Cross was a new immigrant, arriving on Oct. 29, 1982, from Leningrad, U.S.S.R. After a nearly 18-month sojourn through Soviet red tape in order to marry the love of her life, she had barely landed mentally when the doorbell rang.
Cross was in for the culture shock of her life: Americans masquerading as goblins and superheroes and shouting, "Trick or treat!" Her husband, Palo Altan Truman Cross, hadn't told her about Halloween.
"There were no dress-up rituals in Russia. I was just barely coming out of a fog. ... I thought, 'What crazy place is that?'" she recalled.
Later that evening the couple attended a neighborhood Halloween bash. Irina did not wear a costume. In her native country, masquerade balls were associated with Czarist Russia and decadence. The sight of disguised, partying adult neighbors came as a shock, she said.
This was her introduction to America.
But for Irina's 4-year-old son, Ivan, Halloween was magical. He got the job of handing out treats.
"You can't capture an expression from something like that," Truman recalled the boy's glee, noting that Ivan adapted well to the Halloween tradition.
"I remember his Superman year, his blond hair plastered black, and his Cookie Monster year, in which I made a box with holes for his head, arms, and legs," Truman said.
Truman and Irina met in what was then the U.S.S.R. in 1980. He was a scholar with a doctorate in Russian history from Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute and took a sabbatical. He arrived in Moscow that December and visited a friend's acquaintance, Yuri, in Leningrad, he said. The two men were knocking back a bottle of brandy at the kitchen table when Irina, a friend of Yuri's, walked in.
Irina was an editor at a research institute for vocational training, and she had just scored some groceries to bring to Yuri. Merchandise of any kind was hard to come by in those days, and people often sought necessities in shops during their lunch breaks or on the black market, she said.
That evening, Irina guided Truman to a shop to purchase Russian vodka.
"The way he tells it, I took him to get the vodka and it's December. The streets are icy, and he slips on an ice patch. I put out my arm and kept him from falling. That's when he decided 'That woman was for him,'" she said.
Truman, who was then 46 (Irina was 20 years younger), returned to the United States. But he returned to Russia in the summer of 1981. Irina's first marriage had by then fallen apart.
"I got up enough courage to tell him I really liked him," she said. Within a month, Truman proposed.
"But you couldn't marry a Soviet citizen just like that. The government has to give permission," she recalled.
Months of wrangling with paperwork followed. Meanwhile, Truman, back to the U.S., bought a motorcycle and broke his leg in multiple places in an accident. But that did not stop him from braving the cold Russian winter to seek marrying Irina.
"If any man shows up in Russia or Leningrad or Helsinki on crutches in December and tells you he loves you, you're going to believe it," she said.
Soviet bureaucracy once again interfered. The couple received permission on Dec. 24 at 12:15 p.m. to marry, but the government required a three-month waiting period. In a rare instance of punctuality, the government decreed the marriage would take place on March 24 at exactly 12:15 p.m., and there could be no postponement. It was a very brief, Soviet-style wedding ceremony at the "Palace of Weddings" on Lavrov Street.
But the newlyweds could not start their "happily ever after" until Irina got an international passport, which took several more months and was only granted by dispensation. To help her financially, Truman sent her rock-and-roll records, especially Beatles and Rolling Stones, which could be sold for about 90 rubles apiece -- a Russian's average monthly income, she said.
When Irina's and Ivan's passports arrived, they faced one more hurdle. Due to international politics, President Ronald Reagan had banned Russian Aeroflot planes from landing in the United States, Truman said. Irina and her son instead landed in Montreal and a few days later arrived in Palo Alto.
In Russia, Halloween is now celebrated in parts of the country, although it remains controversial among those who view it as an American corruption of Russian culture and Orthodox Russian faith, according to news sources. But costumes can command good money in Russia, the couple said.
Sitting at an outdoor Palo Alto cafe, the Crosses reflected on the holiday's personal meaning.
"Halloween for us is always a time of warm memories and nostalgic smiles when the little ghosts and goblins reappear at our door once again," Truman said


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text: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Joe Landman wrote: > C has a nasty way of doing exactly what you tell it to do, which oddly > enough, might not be completely aligned with what you want it to do. This is a wonderful statement, and is one reason that -- difficult as it is initially -- C is a lovely language to START people on. It is at once totally unforgiving and totally unconstrained. It "can" do anything at all from write almost all of an operating system beyond a few fragments of assembler to do serious numerical or GUI coding. But it does, generally, do exactly what you tell it to do. So you'd better learn to tell it to do the right thing! > GSL is nice, though at last look it wasn't parallel/threaded. It doesn't have a good tensor object, either, although I did write one and tried to contribute it. It would have required a rewrite of their vector and matrix structs, though, to be fully consistent. I still have it if anyone ever DOES need a GSL-style tensor object. I think I quit at 9th or 10th rank -- large enough to handle candidate field theories, at least some of them. >> So, I'm thinking about reworking the class to favor C, and fearing 3 weeks >> of pointer and addressing hell. For those of you who teach > > Its actually not that painful. I was able to walk through it in one session, > explaining what the symbols mean, how to read them, and then showing them in > use for a heat diffusion problem in 2D (breaking up a large array into > panels). Indeed, if you combine pointers with a "here's how the computer REALLY works, kids" lecture so that you help them visualize memory and maybe give them a simplified overview of "assembloid" -- a ten instruction assember that does nothing but load, store, add/subtract/multiply/divide, compare (x3), and branch that helps them understand what compilers are actually doing in there, it will doubtless help them with both why pointers are astoundingly useful and how/when to use them. > Sum reductions look the same in all languages. And they can be done > incorrectly in all languages :( Which is the one reason that they DO need at least the first couple of chapters of real numerical methods somewhere in there. Fortran encourages you to think that there is a standard FORmula TRANslation for any equation based algorithm, and of course in once sense there is. If you fail to ever learn the risks of summing e.g. alternativing series with terms that mostly cancel, one day you are bound to e.g. sum up your own spherical bessel functions from the ascending recursion relation and wonder why all your answers end up wrong... especially when it WORKS for the first three or four values of \ell. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Assault Teams Terrorizing America
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts joined Alex Jones yesterday to talk about his latest article which highlights the militarization of American police and how SWAT teams are being used to terrorize recreational drug users and innocent people.
Roberts' article, The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry, cites a 2006 CATO report that warns against the out of control use and abuse of paramilitary police raids.
"There are now 17,000 local America police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays - in fact some of them have tanks, you have now local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry," said Roberts.
"In recent years there have been 40,000 or more callouts of SWAT teams annually - that would be 110 times a day - have you read about 110 hostage or terrorist events every day last year?"
Roberts said that SWAT teams are so prevalent yet expensive to maintain, that they are increasingly being used to handle benign situations that wouldn't cause one village cop any headaches, such as targeting recreational drug users who purchase small quantities of marijuana.
"They are serving routine warrants to people who pose no danger to the police or to the public," said Roberts.
"They break into homes and apartments in the middle of the night when people are asleep, they use stun grenades, cause all kinds of chaos and confusion and the result is a tremendous number of innocent people are murdered in their beds, brutalized, traumatized because the very high percentage of these cases the SWAT teams have wrong addresses, they get the wrong people."
Roberts said that SWAT teams were responsible for terrorizing the American people a hundred fold more than Muslim terrorists because they are being used so often.
Roberts said the source of information that most SWAT team raids were based on came from snitches, who are often drug dealers making a living as police informants in order to eliminate competition while avoiding arrest.
The State also doles out money based on the number of drug arrests made so in the majority of cases, the police are simply conducting unnecessary raids to meet funding targets.
"Then you get the police forces out hiring drug dealers to sell drugs to people and tell the police - and the drug dealers of course use this role to keep themselves from being arrested but they turn in all their competitors," said Roberts.
Roberts highlighted the fact that SWAT teams receive military hardware and training and because there are not enough hostage or other dangerous situations to keep them occupied they are being used to serve warrants on non-threatening individuals.
The ultimate goal of the paramilitary assault teams, many of whose numbers across the country will be boosted when troops arrive back from Iraq, is mass gun confiscation on the scale that we saw during Hurricane Katrina, where everyone from 80-year-old grandmothers to rich mansion owners in the dry areas had their weapons seized. Soldiers in Iraq have been trained to carry out door to door raids and have been utilized for this function thousands of times.
Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the U.S. where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens, confiscating their weapons, and taking them to internment camps. Actors scream out that they have constitutional rights as they are handcuffed and hauled off to the detainment facility.
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World Cup 2014 opener hijacked by Pitbull's 'mankle' pants
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter's awkward grandpa dancing is no longer the most cringe worthy aspect of the 2014 World Cup, Pitbull's fashion forward white pants are.
The star of the official tournament song We Are One (Ola Ola) emerged on stage at the opening ceremony in what can best be described as a pair of white pants he stole from his cohort Jennifer Lopez.
Interestingly, Lopez, aka J-Lo, wore a similar pair of high-waisted, stark white, ankle-baring chinos during her appearance on The Tonight Show earlier this week, where together with host Jimmy Fallon she performed the sketch ''Tight Pants''.
The American Idol judge sought the opinion of her 2.8 million Instagram followers for her World Cup wardrobe by posting a photo of her three outfit options. She eventually decided on a heavily embellished emerald green jumpsuit with bedazzled tights.
As J-Lo and Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte shimmied around on stage sans pants like extras from Strictly Ballroom, Pitbull won the fashion vote by being bang on trend for the upcoming northern spring/summer season. What he lacked in pizzazz he made up for with perception, as design houses such as Gucci, Armani, Dsquared2 and Burberry all showcased the casual cropped pant style at their spring/summer 2014 shows last year. The flattering look, also referred to by fashion folk as the "mankle", has already filtered down to the local high street with stores like Uniqlo, Topshop and H&M already stocking ankle-grazing pants for blokes which are best teamed with loafers (and crazy coloured socks if you're feeling brave).
But back to the football: while Brazil's World Cup opening had more sequinned encrusted and figure-hugging ensembles than Mardi Gras, all eyes were on Pitbull, Lopez and Leitte, who closed the ceremony with a performance of the song commissioned by FIFA to be the anthem of the month-long sporting event.
As for the performance itself, considering We Are One (Ole Ola) had been so unpopular in Brazil before the tournament, the three singers did a fair job.
Songs at major live events seem to have as much scrutiny as the actual events they support, even though they are there to warm up the crowd. You could argue performers are damned either way: take a safety first approach and record your vocals and you are slated as inauthentic (Red Hot Chilli Peppers at the Superbowl, anyone?). But sing live – with all the risk factors involved (wind, crowd noise, technical issues, a dodgy mic) – and you can be slated for a substandard performance.
The song was blasted before the event, especially by Brazilians who felt it wasn't Brazilian enough – although it has been viewed 81 million times on YouTube. There's no escaping it's not an adventurous piece of songwriting, perhaps because it was written by a committee of eight writers – including our own Sia Furler. Shakira faced similar criticisms for her 2010 World Cup song Waka Waka.
This time around, the performance of the anthem wasn't amazing, but it wasn't Meat Loaf at the 2011 AFL Grand Final either.
The vocals were a mix of live and recorded and they largely nailed their live vocals, although Pitbull was drowned out by the percussion while J-Lo resorted to shouting at times. Leitte was probably the most composed of the three. Their stagecraft demanded attention, as it should have.
Had Pitbull dressed with the glamour befitting the global occasion he may have lived up to his superstar status, and not just been a bloke who will only be remembered for stealing Peter Dinklage's pants.
- with Peter Vincent
Jenna Clarke is fashion and lifestyle writer/editor with Fairfax Media.
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- 4 LFOs (low-frequency oscillation)
- Glide (portamento): separate rates per oscillator
- Analog VCAs (variable gain amplifiers)
Prophet '08 PE Keyboard Synthesizer Specifications:
- MIDI In, Out, Thru, and Poly Chain
- Main stereo audio output: 1/4" unbalanced
- Output B stereo audio output: 1/4" unbalanced
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The department said in a news release Tuesday that Lance Cpl. Benjamin Tuttle, 19, died Sunday at the military hospital where he was taken following a medical evacuation from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
A cause of death was not release and the defense department says the death is still under investigation.
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I've had great fun this weekend catching up with RootsTech activity. From the formal web streams, to blog posts, and videos produced by those on site, I've truly enjoyed it. Among my favorite of the material I took in this weekend though was to hear the update from Ron Tanner on FamilySearch's Family Tree. After his talk last year on the FamilyTree, I was able to play around with it some and did like what I saw. But, the good news from this year is that FamilyTree is now open to the public and you don't have to be an LDS member (which I'm not) to use it. This excites me!
You want know why don't you? The reason is because I do an extensive amount of work for others via my USGenWeb activities and have access to information about many people. To date I have indexed thousands of names from many different types of records (newspaper articles, yearbooks, wills, etc.) and sometimes I find myself looking up these people I'm indexing and/or reading about. I do post to various genweb sites and on my own personal websites/blogs but I find that I want to place this information as directly as I can into the hands of their relatives so that they can see it sooner, rather than them happening to stumble across it different places on the web. My goal is to match up this info to their families who may be looking for them.
Given my interests, I am a fan of collaborative genealogy and am in favor of the concept of a One World Tree approach — and this is exactly what FamilySearch FamilyTree is going after.
Now, I understand a "One World Tree" will never truly be a One World Tree. But, I do like the idea of one master page for a person that many people can contribute to and work on and monitor. For a long time, I've felt that such an approach is the best way for me to share what I come across.. My criteria for the perfect platform = free, one master record per person, lots of people in the database, and a way for changes to be pushed out to anyone "monitoring" for changes.
In the past, I've experimented with the following:
- Ancestry Member Trees
- Advantages: large market share which equals lots of people. Putting my info there means it is probably going to eventually be seen by those interested in it. Especially with Ancesty's record matching technology.
- Disadvantages: the member trees are *individual* so if I have something to add, I have to create a new record for myself, attach the item and then hope it gets picked up for others to see. Or, else, I'm manually contacting others who have that person in their tree and sending them messages. Lots of work. But, this is what I have been doing up until now.
- Geni.com
- Advantages: None for me now. Since they changed their membership model at the end of summer in 2011
- Disadvantages: with their membership model one cannot search their entire database of profiles unless you pay. This is a major barrier for me as I'm seeking a free approach to sharing. It's hard to contribut to records you can't see. This is a barrier for many.
- WeRelate
- Advantages: I've liked what I've seen from WeRelate and admire what they are trying to do. Also, their partnership with the Allen County Public Library should definitely help with their longevity.
- Disadvantages: person editing has gotten better over the years, but the wiki format will still be confusing and a barrier for many. And, though they have 2.4 million profiles in the database, when I can't even find 5 randomly selected former North Carolina governors in the database, it tells me that there is still much room for growth and my contributions would likely not get the traction I'm seeking .
- WikiTree
- Advantages: this is another company who I think is trying to do a great thing by fostering collaborative genealogy. But, I personally see no advantages to use them.
- Disadvantages: ads appear as I navigate the site and I find them intrusively placed. I think it used to be the case that ads were only for users who are not logged in but that's not so any more as I see them even when logged in. Also, in my test search for the same 5 NC governors, no results were found for any of them. Again, another sign that the database has more room for growth and may not be the best for my efforts.
FamilySearch Family Tree however, seems to meet all of my criteria!
- It's free to use.
- They have a HUGE database of people (all 5 of those NC governors were easily located in my search).
- Lots of people use it. It's FamilySearch after all – a juggernaut in genealogy!
- Each person can be "watched" and changes are emailed to you if you are watching someone
- And, as a One World Tree concept – their goal is one record per person. Exactly what I want to be contributing to.
Not that it's perfect. I have some recommendations which I'll share in a separate post, but I see myself investing my time in Family Tree for the forseeable future and promoting that for researchers with whom I interact. IMHO, I believe this is the best platform for me and my goals and thanks to FamilySearch for opening it up! 🙂
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For pretty much the same reasons that you've heard from many other people, I've decided to take my Perl blogging elsewhere.
You'll find me over at Perl Hacks.
The CFP for this year's YAPC::Europe closed yesterday. Usually this means I have a frantic couple of hours rushing around proposing (semi-)random talks. This year I've been a bit more organised and have been proposing talks as they have occured to me. The upside of this is that I have confidence that they will all be interesting talks. The downside is that I've proposed more talks than ever before. I hope the organisers don't select all of them (I'd like to see some of the conference) but I've given them lots of choice
There are a couple of talks based on the conference's theme of "Corporate Perl".
There's a talk following up on something I spoke about last year in Copenhagen.
And there's a talk about a project that I'm currently pretty enthused about.
So now it's just a case of seeing which ones the conference organisers choose. Does anyone know when that will be announced?
Update: They chose Why do so many companies re-invent well-known CPAN modules badly and end up writing far too much code? and The Planetarium.
I'll see you in Lisbon.
One of the first concrete outputs from the Enlightened Perl Organisation has been Task::Kensho - a CPAN module which exists to list a number of other CPAN modules that modern Perl programmers should consider using. if you install Task::Kensho then all of the included modules will automatically be pulled down from CPAN and installed.
I don't install my modules from CPAN. As I live in the Red Hat world, I like to install RPMs of modules. And I build RPMs for modules that aren't already available in that format (and then I make them available to everyone).
So last night I created an RPM for Task::Kensho. This also involved building RPMs for about half of the modules it include which didn't already exist as RPMs in the standard repostories. Those RPMs are now available from my repository so installing them all could be as simple as sudo yum install perl-Task-Kensho. Of course, you can also install individual packages using the appropriate yum command.
Currently the RPMs are only available for Fedora 10. I'll build versions for Centos 5 over the next couple of days.
Been a while since I reported on MySQL's stupidity, but I came across a fine new example yesterday.
Create a table with a varchar column.
create table foo (foo varchar(10));
Insert a data value which is two numbers separated by a pipe character (don't ask, just accept that this was the data format I found in my table).
insert into foo values ('111|1');
Now let's try to select some data.
mysql> select * from foo where foo = '111|1';
| foo |
| 111|1 |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Ok. That makes sense. That's expected behaviour.
mysql> select * from foo where foo = '111';
Empty set (0.00 sec)
That also makes sense, of course. The string isn't '111', so it doesn't match.
mysql> select * from foo where foo = 111;
| foo |
| 111|1 |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Huh! I mean "What!?!".
There are at least two fundamentally stupid things going on here.
Firstly, MySQL is allowing me to match a string column against a number. When a user tries to match a value of one type against a column of another type, the only sensible action is to throw an error. The user is trying to do something completely wrong. Tell them that. Don't try and work something out.
Secondly, if you insist on trying to convert datatypes in order to force a match, then convert the user's data into the database column's datatype, not the other way round. The database column is a string. Convert the number to a string and try to match that string against the database (that would have returned no data). Instead MySQL is trying to convert the database value into a number to match the user's input. It looks like it's using something like Perl's string to number conversion so the string "111|1" is converted to the number 111 and therefore matches the user's input.
So you can actually get MySQL to match data which doesn't match at all. I wasted two hours on this yesterday.
I found this yesterday on a MySQL 4.x server. I've just tried it on a 5.0.67 server and the same bug is still there.
Oh, and setting the SQL mode to "traditional" doesn't seem to fix it either.
For a few months I've been playing with conky - which is a nice system for writing stuff onto a Linux desktop. I was introduced to it by a series of LifeHacker posts last year.
Just last week, they featured a really nice set-up which I wanted to go some way to recreated. The post included a link to the programs that were used to create the desktop, so it was easy to work out what was going on.
Most of the data was pulled from web feeds and converted to flat text. That's a nice approach as once you've got that working, there's no limit to the data you can use.
I was slightly disappointed, however, to see that the code included in the article had three separate scripts (one for each source used) and that they were all bash scripts which used curl to grab the feeds and load of sed and grep to extract the relevant parts. What this really needed was a generic approach.
So I reached for the Template Toolkit. And I reached for Template::Plugin::XML::RSS. And then I stopped myself. Not all web feeds are RSS these days (that's why we've largely stopped calling them RSS feeds) so XML::RSS wouldn't always be the right tool. What I really needed was XML::Feed - which handles both RSS and Atom and treats them both in the same way.
But there wasn't a Template::Plugin::XML::Feed. I say "wasn't" rather than "isn't" as there is one now - I uploaded it last night.
I didn't get much time to play with conky. But I've now got all of the tools I need. In particular, I can create simple programs like this to access web feeds.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;
use URI;
my $t = Template->new;
my $uri = URI->new('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=@davorg');
A, { uri => $uri })
or die $t->error;
[% USE tweets = XML.Feed(uri);
USE autoformat(right => 80);
FOREACH tweet IN tweets.entries -%]
[% tweet.author %]:
[% tweet.title | autoformat -%]
[% LAST IF loop.count == 5 -%]
Of course, I need to remove the hard-coded URI and put the template into a separate file. That's tonight's first little project.
The Perl Foundation Migrates the Perl 5 Development Repository to the Git Version Control System
That's not news, of course. You all read that story on the front page of use.perl a couple of days ago.
What's new (I think) is where you can find the press release. It's on PRWeb. For those who don't know, PRWeb is the best-known press release distribution service. The TPF Git press release will now be arriving in the inbox of hundreds of editors and other interested parties who have subscribed to technology news. And that, of course, increases the chance that the story will be published in the tech press and that people outside of the echo chamber will read it.
When the Git news broke a couple of days ago, we were discussing it the london.pm IRC channel. acme had published the press release in the usual Perl news channels, but someone suggested that as we had a press release, it would be nice to get it out through the standard press release channels.
It turned out that Dave Hodgkinson had a) a PRWeb login, b) half an hour to spare to register the press release and c) the $80 it costs to use the service.
I have no idea how successful this will be, but it seems to me that if the Perl community has interesting news like this, then it's worth spending the occasional $80 to get that news out on the wires.
It's got to be worth a try. Thanks to Dave for his efforts.
Update: Over on ZDNet, Joe Brockmeier adds his thoughts to the discussion.
In conjunction with the UKUUG and O'Reilly, I'm running two days of Perl training in London in February.
The first day (the 25th) is a beginners' course and the second day (the 26th) is a lot more advanced.
Full details (including a sign-up form) are on the UKUUG web site.
Hope to see some of you there.
A few years ago I tried to register the domain perlhacks.com. It wasn't available at the time so I registered the domain perlhacks.org instead. As so often happens, I didn't have time for the project I planned to use it for so it did nothing useful until I made it a redirection to the O'Reilly catalogue page for Perl Hacks. At that point I largely forgot about the domain.
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone telling me that perlhacks.com was for sale. This was a domain reseller and they were targeting me because I already owned the
Today I got another mail from them. And this time when I visited the site the price had dropped to $99. I mentioned this in passing on the #london.pm IRC channel and someone else pointed out that actually the domain had lapsed and was available for anyone to buy. In which case, $99 was far more than you'd expect to pay.
I checked with my usual domain register and found that the domain was, indeed, available. So I ordered it. Actually three of us ordered it at about the same time and my registry obviously had the fastest systems in place as I got the registration. For less than £10. I then took great pleasure in replying to the people who were trying to sell me the domain telling them what I'd done. I didn't get a reply.
But now I have both perlhacks.org and perlhacks.com. And I still don't really have a plan for what I'm going to do with them.
Does anyone have any ideas?
At YAPC::Europe this year I gave a talk called Proud to Use Perl where I talked about some of the achievements of the Perl community and suggested that we should shout about these achievements a little more than we do.
And as an example of this shouting, I set up a new Proud to Use Perl web site where I was going to write about all of the amazing things that Perl has to be proud of.
Which I did for about a week.
It's always the same. I go to a Perl conference, get too enthused about stuff and end up volunteering to get involved in too many projects and having to spread myself too thin.
So the Proud to Use Perl site effectively died.
But even though I don't have the time to put into it, I still think it's a good idea. And I wondered if anyone else would be interested in getting involved.
So I'm looking for a few people who would like to write for the site. It would be great if we could get new an interesting things published on the site every couple of days. Surely there's no shortage of things for the Perl community to be proud of. It might be a good place, for example, to share success stories.
Anyone interested in getting involved? Leave a comment here or drop me an email.
And that's not the only Perl web site project I've been neglecting. Earlier this year, I registered the domain culturedperl.org. The idea with that was that I'd set up a blog talking about Perl culture (in some vague, undefined way). But that site was abandoned even sooner. I didn't even get as far as installing Movable Type.
So I'm interested in getting a few authors to help me out there too. Maybe a few Perl Monger group leaders could write things there? Or people involved in organising YAPCs. Or people involved in other parts of the culture - Perl Monks, perhaps, or Perl Golf.
I'll get MT installed on the server this evening. Same thing applies, if you're interested then leave a comment or drop me an email.
More Perl blogs has got to be good, right?
I've banged on before about how Perl is seen as less popular than it really is because the Perl community can be a bit insular. I believe that we need to get out there and tell people that a) we're still here and b) we're still wonderful.
As an example of that, we've started to ensure that all of London.pm's events are listed on Upcoming and we encourage people to register their attendance so that we can demonstrate how popular our meetings are. Recently, I also created a London.pm group to make it easier to track down our events. When adding events to our group, I also add them to a couple of other local geeky groups - which gives us a bit of free publicity. Maybe other local groups could consider doing the same (I see that some already do).
Today I also created a global Perl group with the intention of collecting all worldwide Perl events. If you create any kind of Perl-related event on Upcoming then please add it to the group.


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Just wondering who you guys think are the top three quarterbacks for this season.
I would have to go with the following.
1. Payton manning
2. Matt Ryan
3. Tim tevo hahaha just kidding, number three is Aaron Rodgers.
Also I have to point out that one, they are all very close in skill in my opinion and two, I expected a lot more out of cam newton than he has done so far.


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FOREIGN interns as young as 15 have been given access to protected Australian embassy databases containing sensitive information, including documents with the private details of Australian citizens.
The interns, recruited for work experience in embassies across the world, have also reportedly been given computer access to register the details of visa applications for visitors to Australia.
The revelations came after a report written by an intern about their work experience in Australia's embassy in Paris.
Documents obtained by Fairfax Media under freedom-of-information laws show interns have a police record check in their home country but no screening by intelligence agencies.
The documents show that the interns are engaged from their high schools or universities and range in age from 15 to their late 20s.
Fairfax Media has been told that at least one intern was given a supervisor's computer access details and asked to take over their job handling documents relating to the passports of Australian citizens.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said last week interns should not require access to such personal data and was not aware of any instances of interns being allowed access to embassy systems.
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MIAMI – Landon Donovan is quite familiar with new LA Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo due to their tussles at the international level, but now that the Panamanian 'keeper is a part of LA, the forward is pleased to have him on board.
Penedo and Donovan have battled numerous times over the years as the 31-year-old 'keeper and the 31-year-old forward began their international careers with Panama and the U.S. at around the same time. Their most recent meeting came just last month when the Donovan-led U.S. National Team defeated Pinedo's Panama 1-0 in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final.
Both players ended the tournament with plenty of individual honors as Donovan took home the tournament's Golden Boot award for leading goalscorer and Golden Ball for the competition's most valuable player while Penedo earned the Golden Gloves for best 'keeper.
"I've Jaime from a distance for a long time. He's been with Panama for many years now, and I remember him when he was a young guy, and he'd probably say the same about me," said Donovan. "We've sort of grown up through these qualifying and Gold Cups together. It's nice to see him. He looks like a friendly and nice guy, and hopefully he can help us."


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SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- British scientists say they have identified a repeating underground trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth.
Researchers from the University of Southampton have been studying the Las Canadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last 700,000 years.
These catastrophic events have created eruption columns more than 15 miles high and thrown gas and ash over 80 miles away from the volcano, they said.
In an analysis of igneous rocks discovered in pyroclastic deposits of major eruptions, the scientists found pre-eruptive mixing within the magma chamber of older cooler magma with younger hotter magma appears to be the repeating trigger in large-scale eruptions, a Southampton release said Friday.
The analysis showed signs of major mixing events in the magma chamber immediately before eruption, they said.
"Stirring young hot magma into older, cooler magma appears to be a common event before these explosive eruptions," researcher Rex Taylor said.
The Las Canadas volcano is considered worthy of particular study in light of its history of large, destructive eruptions and its proximity to populated areas, the researchers said.


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Wizard has announced that it's ending the publication of its Anime magazine, Anime Insider. This neither surprises me nor bothers me. I didn't care for Anime Insider. The articles read like one info-mercial after another, a problem not just for this publication, but all of Wizards magazines (except maybe Toyfare). I remember back in 2005-06, there was a lot of chatter on the interwebs about it. And let's face it, Wizard hasn't been doing real well in the last few years. Conventions cancelled, and this is the second of their pubs to be cancelled, Inquest, their gaming mag to go first. It was only a matter of time, before a niche mag like this would see the chopping block.
Of course, this isn't just a trend in anime/manga, as some have suggested. Yes, advertising for anime and now manga has been going down in the last few years. And anime and manga mags have been biting the dust (Animerica, Newtype/PIQ, etc.). But let's face it. This is a trend in publishing in general. Printing and distributions costs have gone up a lot, with daily/weekly publications taking the biggest hits. Newspapers are either shutting down or searching desparately to keep their heads above water. Monthly mags may survive this better, if their content is good enough, and let's face it, Anime Insider just didn't have it.
And it's not like I didn't give it a chance. I got Anime Insider back when it was quarterly mag Anime Invasion. I thought it had potential back then. I was looking for a mag to subscribe to. It was between Anime Invasion/Insider, Animerica, Protoculture Addicts, and later Otaku USA. But Anime Insider just never made the muster. It was too much like Wizard, Wizard's comics mag, which I didn't like the format of, and it's articles gave no real information. I could find everything the reported on, online, and done better.
What the demise of Anime Insider inevitable? I sure think so. There are just so many "Who would win?" fights between anime characters you can do before it becomes tiring. And in this economy, the market can support only so many niche mags. Only those that put out the best content will still be around. Anime Insider never had a chance.


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As someone who works in the finance field, I often ponder how to efficiently and effectively use money. We are all stewards of the monetary blessings that God provides, so we need to thoughtfully invest in our world to make the greatest impact.
This April 15, I have some suggestions on how you could best put your tax refund to work.


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I ride long distance, but my wife: well another story. So the RV comes into dual trips.
I wonder if anyone has a RV motorcycle carrier that is not $3000+.
I seen some that are less then 1K, you push the bike up a ramp. They look like they might work for carrying my 84 R100RT a few times. When my wife can break away for the dog rescue, and we go some place, I might still get some morning rides in.
Wife will never be a long distance rider, hell she has not been on my bike for years.
So I will need a solution not leave my buddy Sam (yep he has a name) at home.