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Program that writes itself?
Im not sure if there is a "Generalized" area where this would go, but regardless:
Im curious to know, how would you build a program that writes itself?
Any examples, pictures, screen shots, videos, tutorials, code, anything that anyone has and knows how to make such thing, that would be greatly appreciated.
Im not going to try it myself because I know it would just be way to advanced for me right now, but I would like to know how it might be done.
I was in my car today, and it got me thinking about the mechanics that make it work, then the automated stuff and digital things like the clock, tempture, speed, friction, etc. Then it got me thinking of the code, and how it might of been written.
Then I thought of how the car is manufactured, they pump like lets says 10,000 models a DAY, productivity would be slow if they had a guy sitting there pressing 3 buttons, inserting, loading, running, then ejecting a CD 10,000 times a day. So they must have some sort of machine that does this.
But... The machine does all the pumping/re-writing of the same code...
Which means, that someone had to have programmed this machine to write code...
Again, im just curious as to how you might make a program (in any language, any software doesnt matter) write code.
Something like I donno... You push a button or when the program loads, it writes the HTML version for making a image, using the img tag or something.


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By Janice Penix
POTTSVILLE - The High School hosted 140 public school counselors from across the state Tuesday at a technology conference, making it the fifth consecutive year the school has organized the event for the Arkansas School Counselors Association.
"This conference deals with all kinds of technical issues that counselors face," Jim Yeager, Pottsville High counselor, said. "There are workshops on using software and hardware, finding Internet resources and finding ways to use technology in counseling programs."
The conference featured five workshops:
n Hardware management skills;
n Internet safety;
n Web resources;
n How to use Microsoft Office programs; and
n How to use technology to improve Academic Improvement Plans.
Carol Robinson of the Arkansas Attorney General's office led the workshop on Internet safety for children. Robinson covered several topics with counselors, including characteristics of children who are "at risk" online, tips to minimize the chances of an online predator vicitimizing a child, rules to establish for children who use the Internet, and warning signs an online "friend" may be a predator.
Bill Mullins of the Western Arkansas Education Service Cooperative led the workshop on Academic Improvement Plans (AIPs). Mullins said AIPs are required to be developed for all students who do not score proficiently on Benchmark and end-of-course exams.
Mullins said he was showing counselors ways to simplify the process of developing AIPs using technology so the process will "be more user-friendly so teachers can spend less time doing these and more time teaching."
J.B. Robertson, Arkansas Department of Education Guidance Specialist for the state counselors association, said Yeager has been the driving force behind the continued success of the technology workshop.
"Jim Yeager started this because of the need from counselors for technology credit," Robertson said. "He thought, 'Why not do something counselors could use instead of sending them to a generic technology workshop?'"
According to Robertson, public school counselors have to have six hours of professional development in technology each year. The workshop hosted by Pottsville allows attendees to get the credit in one day, he said.
Counselors attending Tuesday's conference at Pottsville were attending from across the state and represented different levels of instruction, from elementary to secondary, Robertson said.
"These counselors have come from all over the state," Robertson said. "We've probably got people here from every corner of Arkansas."
Attendance at the conference has grown over the past five years, according to Robertson.
"This is the largest group that's been here," he said. "As more people attended, word of mouth just made it grow and grow. I think a lot of our counselors find it to be a very valuable workshop."
Robertson said the conference has also affected interest in and use of technology by counselors statewide.
"Out of this has grown such interest that we have had someone create a Web site for counselors," Robertson said. "Jim has also created a Web site for ASCA that has been very popular. It contains all kinds of information and has useful links. That Web site has grown so much because everybody has signed up on the listserv."
Robertson said Pottsville schools, through Yeager, have been a leader in technology. The school was named one of the nation's top 100 wired schools recently. Yeager also serves as technology chair for the ASCA.

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Williams pitches East past El Campo
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Feb. 25, 2013 at 11:02 p.m.
Updated Feb. 24, 2013 at 8:25 p.m.
A cold wind wasn't all that was whipping through Riverside Stadium on Monday night.
Ryan Williams was putting a chill in the El Campo bats in Victoria East's home opener.
Williams pitched a five-hitter to lead the Titans to an 8-1 win over the Ricebirds.
"The weather didn't really affect me at all," Williams said. "I just got in a groove, and I was going. I felt pretty good. Our bats were going, our defense was going."
Williams struck out nine and did not walk a batter. He lost the shutout in the top of the seventh when the Ricebirds (2-4) scored an unearned run.
"He's doing a great job for us," said East coach Wes Kolle. "We feel like when he's on the mound we've got a chance. He attacks the strike zone, he works at a fast pace, and he keeps the defense involved. He's got three or four pitches he can throw for strikes. He's a bulldog out there and gives us a chance."
The Titans (3-3) had seven hits and took advantage of five El Campo errors.
East scored twice in the first inning without a hit and added to its total with runs in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth.
"We've really stressed early on in these games putting the pressure on the defense and trying to score one run every inning," Kolle said. "Tonight, we scored in every inning but one, and that was a big plus for us."
Williams didn't need much help. The junior left-hander escaped a two-out bases-loaded jam in the fourth inning, and the seventh was the only other inning he allowed more than one base runner.
"I was feeling confident in my pitches I was going to throw for strikes," Williams said. "I knew my defense was behind me. I just needed to focus in early and get the W."
Jonathan Ortega had a pair of doubles for the Titans and also made a cutoff throw to get Reid Hubenak, who was going for an inside-the-park home run, at the plate in the fourth inning.
"We're still learning each other," Kolle said. "Our focus is on us and making sure we get better and not necessarily worrying about who's in the other dugout - just pitching good and playing good defense and having a good approach at the plate."


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The Sand Lizards (4-1-1, 2-1 4A-4) trailed at the half for the first time this season after giving up a late touchdown in the second quarter and were unable to score for the final 27:23 of the contest.
Dardanelle began the game with a touchdown on its first possession as the Sand Lizards drove 60 yards in nine plays. Dakota Rowland sprinted around the left side for 19 yards to cap the scoring drive and give the Junior Sand Lizards a 7-0 lead with 3:23 left in the first quarter.
The Junior Bearcats drove to the DJHS 20-yard line on their first possession, but the Sand Lizards defense came up with a stop on fourth-and-3 to take over at their 19.
After a dry possession by Dardanelle, Booneville put together an eight-play, 62-yard drive to pull within 7-6. Grant Rodatz powered into the end zone from one yard out for the touchdown. The Junior Bearcats were successful on the two-point conversion, as Caleb Draper gave Booneville an 8-7 lead with 1:29 remaining in the second quarter.
The Junior Bearcats opened the second half with a nice kickoff return to the Sand Lizards 31, but Dardanelle's Javier Lopez came up with a fumble recovery to give the Junior Sand Lizards the ball at their 32. Dardanelle advanced to the Booneville 27 before turning the ball over on downs.
After both teams traded possessions, the Junior Bearcats took over at the Sand Lizards 6 as the fourth quarter began. Booneville was in the process of a methodical drive to run the clock dry, but a critical false start penalty ended the effort as Dardanelle stopped the Junior Bearcats on fourth-and-8 and took over at their 44 with 2:39 left in the game.
The Junior Sand Lizards made one final drive to the Booneville 26 before turning the ball over on downs to end the game. Elyas Carter's pass on fourth-and-8 fell incomplete and gave the Junior Bearcats the ball with 28 seconds left.
The Sand Lizards were led by Carter, who completed 6-of-10 passes for 78 yards.
Rowland finished the evening with 57 yards rushing on 12 carries and one touchdown. Kyle Smith had seven rushes for 12 yards for the Sand Lizards.
The Junior Bearcats were led offensively by Rodatz, who rushed 11 times for 48 yards and one touchdown. Draper finished the evening with 11 carries for 40 yards while Hayden Fennell had 18 yards on two carries. Brady Brasher completed 2-of-4 passes for 22 yards while rushing three times for 14 yards.
Dardanelle coach Shawn Walter was frustrated with his team's performance in its first loss of the season.
"We were not in this game from the first whistle. They wanted it worse than we did," Walter said. "We will not get outdesired next week, I will promise you that."
Next week, the Sand Lizards will travel to Waldron while the Bearcats will host Mena. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. in both games.


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Ten years ago, Spencer County High School suited up the first football team in its history. I've been told that the old Taylorsville High School fielded a football team many decades ago, but for recent decades, Friday nights in the fall had been mostly uneventful in Taylorsville.
"Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum (of money)."
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A bit of Holmes' wisdom sets a rhythm for a post-Derby week, right?
First, college graduation. Photo from Lexington. Darius Miller and Eloy Vargas in cap and gown. Young men prepared to paint the next grid on life's picture. We are especially hopeful for Miller. Man's knack for making good impressions and good decisions and right place, right time, look promising.
The Derby's over, and a long summer awaits. But there's plenty of sports talk and chatter for fans. Some news is good, some is bad, but there's always something for sports fans to discuss, argue and gripe about. I'm no different.
Christmas week. What mystery parcels are snugged up beneath your tree? Treasures to remain so on snow days with grey skies when ornaments are boxed, mistletoe is used up and the tree is back in the attic?
Today, 24 points-of-view (gifts) under my tree ... for you.
1. Merry Christmas to you. Especially if you or a friend has a trooper home from Iraq or Afghanistan.
Sergio Kerusch is blessed with a Scotty Pippin run-the-floor body, a smile worth a million bucks, and maybe, ideally, a Larry Bird play-all-day love for the game.
The 6'5", 225-pounder stepped up his game to Pippin-like numbers too at Western Kentucky last season. But this isn't about Kerusch's 15.6 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 44 turnovers in 992 minutes (32 games).
NASCAR has its silly season every year when teams sometimes seem to change drivers faster than tires are changed in a pitstop and fans are left trying to decide if their loyalties should stay with a driver, a car, an owner or a sponsor.
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Coach Don Tindall lobbied for more respect, a higher seed for his OVC champion Eagles. Recalling "be careful what you wish for," he got the latter. A 13-seed and all but certain one and done, Morehead faces the team nobody wants to play this week, the Louisville Cardinals.
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Mixing metaphors ... gopher balls, basketballs and money.
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My vote goes to one from a reporter to John Calipari last week. "What do you think of the officiating in the SEC?"
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Skip to comments.The "Harry Potter" Debate: The Witch-Hunt Continues
Posted on 11/27/2001 8:41:52 PM PST by jrherreid
The "Harry Potter" Debate: The Witch-Hunt Continues
A friend recently sent me a copy of the December 2000 issue of HLI Reports (vol. 18, no. 12), which featured an article by the editor, Ms. Kristin Sparks, entitled "Should Your Children Read Harry Potter?"1 Sparks' answer is overwhelmingly negative. I must say that reading her article confirmed my concerns regarding the kind of Christianity represented by Human Life International. Despite their obvious and admirable zeal in "defending life, faith and family around the world," as their slogan puts it, much of their published material reveals an intolerant, aggressive, and paranoid attitude toward contemporary society and culture. It appears that they would have us keep our children in a tightly controlled religious ghetto, reading only works by supposedly "safe," Christian authors, and presumably watching as little television as possible. Is this the way to raise confident, intelligent, discerning young men and women, ready to face the challenges of life in today's world?
The "Harry Potter" debate is only one form of the ongoing conflict between Christian fundamentalism and secular Western culture. This is the same debate that has brought us unilateral condemnations of rock music, Hallowe'en, and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons--all of which, the fundamentalists claim, will inevitably lead our unsuspecting youth into the clutches of occult forces and away from the faith. I do not know of any studies that have actually demonstrated the existence of a direct and necessary link between such pursuits and occult involvement, although I know that many Christians have tried to establish one. All I can say is that from my childhood onward I have listened to rock music (and still do), gone out for Hallowe'en, played D&D and many other FRPGs, and am now a Roman Catholic priest and theologian, adhering without hesitation to orthodox Christianity and worshipping the One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! I have also read the first three books in the Harry Potter (HP) series, and most of the fourth, and see absolutely no reason for responsible Christian parents to deny their children the opportunity of reading them.
Let me make it clear from the outset that I am not trying to downplay the dangers--spiritual, psychological, and moral--associated with occult activity. The dangers are real. Moreover, it is true that Neo-Pagan and occult groups are actively promoting their beliefs and practices in our society, particularly among young people, and that they are enjoying an unprecedented popularity. I am not advocating a Polyanna attitude in regard to these threats. Vigilance and discernment are always required. However, I believe that the Christian critics of Harry Potter are barking up the wrong tree. This is not the enemy. These books are not, in and of themselves, an advertisement for "witchcraft." Besides, retreating into a cultural fortress and issuing condemnation after condemnation of everything that is going on "out there" does not constitute a winning strategy. In fact, it may be helping the other side. If Neo-Paganism and occultism exert such a powerful fascination even over youth raised in Christian families, could it not be precisely because Christianity often presents the image of a restrictive, repressive, unimaginative and boring religion? I believe that the solution consists in manifesting in a positive way the beauty, the wonder, the liberating power, the life-affirming potential of the Christian faith.
According to the HLI article cited above, the main problem with the HP books is that their "dominant message [is] that witchcraft is a legitimate religion for children to enjoy" (p. 10, col. 1). This is blatantly untrue, and is not substantiated in the article. The author of the HP books, Joanne K. Rowling (JKR), does not present the use of magic as a "religion," or even as a spirituality, in any sense (cf. my response to Michael O'Brien). It is true that "the 'good' characters in the series participate in activities that resemble occult/Wiccan practices, such as: sorcery, astrology, transfiguration, casting spells, mixing herbal potions and communicating with the dead" (p. 7, col. 1)--but the key word here is "resemble"; and the resemblance can only be superficial because, in fact, the characters do not engage in religious practices, i.e. cultic or ritual activity of any kind.2 In particular, the books contain no reference to Wiccan beliefs, rituals, tools, symbols, practices, principles, or sayings. (Click here for more info on these.) "Spells" are cast with a wand and a brief pseudo-Latin formula. The power at work in all these magical practices does not come from preternatural beings, but from within the human person (as Sparks admits later in the same paragraph). In other words, magic is a natural power, and therefore--like all natural powers--it can be used either to serve good or to serve evil. The heroes, Harry and his friends, use it unambiguously for good, for real, unselfish good--and not simply "to glorify self and gain control over others" (p. 11, col. 3). They show extraordinary generosity, courage, and loyalty.
Is this simply a "clever portrayal of witchcraft" (p. 7, col. 1), some kind of soft-sell marketing aimed at making the practice look more benign than it actually is (like "white magic")? I can't see how. What Sparks and other critics seemingly fail to comprehend is that we are dealing with a work of fiction, i.e. a work of the creative imagination. In a work of fiction, anything is possible. Magic does not have to be associated with supernatural evil, as it is in the Christian world-view. In this case, the content of the HP books does not suggest that the nature or function of magic in the story is an accurate reflection of beliefs and practices in the real world, even if certain terms and names are the same in both. To put it more simply, a "witch" in HP is not a witch in our world. It is obvious, for many reasons, that the HP books are not presented as "how-to" manuals for people seriously interested in practising "the Craft." To take only a few examples, modern-day witchcraft does not assume the existence of mythical creatures (basilisks, Boggarts, centaurs, dragons, Hippogriffs, giants, giant snakes and spiders, goblins, Grindylows, house-elves, merpeople, phoenixes, Skrewts, three-headed dogs, trolls, unicorns, Veelas, werewolves), flying broomsticks or keys, talking hats, an owl mail service, transfiguration (changing one thing into another), invisibility cloaks, wands that shoot stars, magical quills, or time travel. How then can HP be condemned for "filling children's minds with the 'glories of witchcraft'" (p. 11), according to the "real-life" meaning of that word? If certain young readers find it difficult to distinguish fiction from reality in this case, that does not make HP worse than any other fantasy or science-fiction series. It is the responsibility of parents and educators to help children learn the difference. But let us not exaggerate the gullibility of children. A vast majority of them know that HP is "just a story." My 7-year-old niece, to whom I have read a great deal of the story, is under no illusion that similarly extraordinary powers could be accessible in her world.
I have been an avid fan of J. R. R. Tolkien (JRRT) and his "mythopoeic" work since the age of ten. Since Sparks describes him as a thoroughly safe and "sound" author (p. 11), I feel I must point out that not only is there lots of magic--both good and evil--in his works, but one of the main characters of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (LOR), Gandalf, is called a "wizard," i.e. he is a professional user of magic. He is one of the most prominent, powerful, and charismatic characters. Actually, many commentators have seen him as one of the major "Christ-figures" in the LOR. (Cf. the EWTN article for more on this topic.) The claim by some Christian reviewers of HP, such as Steven Greydanus, that Gandalf is "safer" than Harry because the readers would be less inclined to identify with him is complete nonsense. And since there is no explicit reference in either novel to God, or to any other transcendent source of magic power, I fail to see how JRRT's portrayal of magic is any less "secular" than J. K. Rowling's. And if one wishes to discuss graphic, horrifying portrayals of evil and violence, the LOR makes HP look like Anne of Green Gables.
What about the accusation of "moral relativism," based on the fact that the main characters have "vices" (p. 10, col. 2)? Again, let us please remember that we are dealing with a story, a work of fiction--not a children's catechism. Why should Christian parents feel that they have to approve the moral code of every character in their children's books? If all the heroes in novels had to be saints, I suppose we would have to throw out most of the masterpieces of Western literature. Come to think of it, we would probably have to get rid of the Bible as well. Besides Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Blessed Mother, all the "heroes" of the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are far from perfect in the moral department (Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, Paul, etc.). That is because they are human--like we are. But that means we can identify with them: with their struggles, their failures, their triumphs. Fallibility makes for believable characters and a good story. Besides, Harry and his friends are hardly engaged in gravely immoral behaviour--unless Sparks believes that man-made rules (and in this case, those of a school of witchcraft!!) are sacrosanct embodiments of the moral law. . . . I seriously doubt that any reader of the series would come away convinced that it is permissible to do evil for the sake of good, or that "the ends justifies [sic] the means" (p. 10, col. 1).
For Sparks (p. 10) and other critics (such as O'Brien), even if it could be tolerable for a hero to commit sin, it is certainly unacceptable for it to go unpunished and/or have positive consequences. The fact that Harry "gets away" with lying, stealing, defying authority, getting revenge, etc. is adduced as a "proof" of the moral "confusion" created by the books. They would argue that to be judged "acceptable" by Christians, a fantasy novel such as this needs to have a plot that punishes all vice and rewards all virtue. I totally disagree with this proposition, for two reasons. First, reading imaginative fiction does not have to be "useful"; it should not have to be justified by ulterior purposes (pedagogical, catechetical, moral, etc.). Secondly, even in the so-called "real world," we all know that not all vice is punished--nor is virtue always rewarded.
It is always a tricky business to try to extract the "message" of a literary work, because any two readers may come away with completely divergent interpretations. What is fairly certain, however, is that if a particular character is clearly identified as an evil person, his words and actions are not being presented as ideals for the readers to follow. That is why I find it unacceptable for Sparks to extract certain quotes from the HP books and then present them implicitly as pertaining to the author's "message". For example, (1) the quote from p. 291 of The Sorcerer's Stone, "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it" (p. 211 in the Raincoast edition), is actually a statement that represents the opinion of Professor Quirrell, a totally corrupt character who is more or less controlled by Voldemort, the main villain. (2) If the quote from p. 427 of The Goblet of Fire about Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies being "very busy" in a bush is the most explicit reference to sexual activity that Sparks could find in the entire series, then parents can be quite confident that their children will learn nothing at all about sexuality from these books!!!
The quotes from various interviews by Rowling (on p. 11 of the article) do not support any of the conclusions that Sparks attempts to draw from them. (1) JKR does not say that in the real world, children should be free from parental expectations and authority--only that it can be fun to imagine this. (2) Her encouragement for young adults to study what they want at university is hardly an invitation for children to reject parental authority completely. (3) Her comments on the fascinating nature of evil are in no way shocking; she is not implying that people should give in to the fascination.
Finally, I find it unacceptable for Sparks to try to bring J. K. Rowling's personal character or political opinions3 into the picture. If the question at hand is how "dangerous" her books are for children to read, then we must look at the books themselves for an answer, not elsewhere. The fact that Rowling admires a member of the Communist Party, for example (p. 11, col. 2), does not necessarily have anything to do with the content of her books.4 Is there any evidence of Marxist thinking in HP? It is laughable to even ask the question. The fact that Sparks makes it an issue at all reeks of McCarthyism and an inquisitorial attitude.
After having emphatically asserted what the Harry Potter series is not, I think I should probably state what it is: a remarkably good story. The first three books read like classic thrillers; the characters are well defined and credible; and the classic struggle of good and evil is set against a highly original and imaginative background, with just the right dose of humour to keep it always entertaining. Read on!
Fr G. Pierre Ingram
1. The books in question are Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (entitled ~and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S., a difference that I can only explain by imagining some marketing department's fear that Americans would not understand the reference to alchemy . . .); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. They are available in Canada from Raincoast Books.
2. The only explicit religious references that I could find in HP are: (a) the celebration of a very secularized "Christmas" at Hogwarts; (b) a reference to "Yule," a term used by both Christians and neopagans; (c) a brief mention about a medieval alchemist, Flamel, and his wife anticipating death as the next "great adventure" (which Sparks quotes). But in the latter case there is no indication of what particular destination or state is attained after death: It could be the Christian heaven, or a Wiccan/Eastern reincarnation, or some kind of Nirvana.
3. All I know of her involvement in politics is that as a post-graduate, she moved to London to work at Amnesty International doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa.
Thanks for the kind words. I guess my point was that, as a fundamentalist, I didn't feel that the good father was knocking fundamentalists. In fact, I agreed with most of what he said.
Now here's a good point. This word is becoming as overused as "right," as in, "I have a right to..."
Plus, many fundamentalists are unsure about what it really means, so I'm darn sure the liberal press has no concept about it. Part of the press's concept seems to be that fundamentalists avoid all pop culture, including television and movies and popular fiction. Not true, not true.
Interesting comment. And I certainly agree with "as little television as possible" for anyone.
While waiting on the next Harry Potter book, I've been reading the Left Behind series. While I do find the story line and interpretation interesting, the writing is pretty cheesy. Ironically the main "Christian" characters in the books survive (at least for now) because they are highly intelligent.
I'll be they read a lot and that they weren't limited to "Christian" books. The sad truth is that much of the Christian writing out there is considered wonderful because its "for the Lord" when a lot of it is drivel.
Limiting your reading to just those works is in fact limiting your mind. And it plays into the "world's" conception of Christians as being less intelligent. That's not to say that there aren't volumes of highly intelligent, thought provoking Christian works out there. They're just not the ones flying off the shelves.
Beyond the fact that Harry lives with an aunt and uncle who didn't think a lot of Harry's parents (Uncle Owen wasn't too fond of what happened to Anakin...) where do you make your comparisons?
Sorry you didn't like the movie. I was enthralled. Everyone I know who has seen it also loved it. If there's a shortcoming it's simply that, in a 2 1/2 hour movie, you can only include so much of the book. Which is why I would recommend anyone read the book before seeing the movie.
I'll bet we say the same thing about The Lord of the Rings.
Oh I agree. I really don't have a problem with these two guys. They are strong in thier opinions. But both are ecumenical and that's good. And they have taste. But it's the Paul Crouch types that REALLY turn off the liberals. So tacky. Sincere but tacky!!
Yes. More recognizable by his wife Jan with big hair, really big hair...
And that is why big chunks of the middle of the movie are such a yawn. The child "stars" are less then stellar as well. A lot of it is flat and seems to just be going through the motions of the book,
But hey, my kids thought it was the greatest. I had a few laughs and really enjoyed the first 20 minutes.
Oh please don't get me started with my list...
You guys must be real muggles. I thought the kids were great.
Then of course I never grew up. It was that evil Peter Pan thing ("he's" a cross dresser you know).
Ha ha ha...
Have the TV version with Mary Martin on videotape (from the re-broadcast of course).
Saw it live with Cathy Rigby.
Note to Rowling: you made lots of money, but a C.S. Lewis you are not, unless you think of yourself as the darkside's version. That means, whereas C.S. Lewis used his imagination to support the greatness of our Lord Jesus Christ, Rowling does it to magnify the arts of Hell. It is no surprise, really. A C.S. Lewis could not simply exist in this day and age of anti-Christianity. But a Rowling fits perfectly. Rowling reflects the age we live in, and Rowling defenders/sympathizers/buyers/suck-ups/whatevers are simply professing their allegiance to the spirit of this age, and not the spirit of an age that gave us the anti-thesis to Rowling, namely, C.S. Lewis.
Light vs Darkness, Night vs Day, Good vs Evil. Piece of cake. This is not a witch-hunt, it is merely a simple observation of reality.
Harry is sent to live with his Aunt and Uncle, because Lord Voldemort has allegedly killed his birth parents and made an attempt on his life. The "Star Wars" audience is, at first, led to believe that Luke's situation is almost identical.
Once you get past Luke's Uncle Owen, Aunt Beru and Father, Anakin Skywalker and possibly his mother allegedly being killed by Darth Vader the rest of the comparisons come pretty quickly.
I say allegedly because it's revealed in later movie episodes that Darth Vader is Luke's father and in later books, "Shadows of the Empire" for one, that an organized crime boss, Prince Xizor, actually killed Luke's Uncle and Aunt and will make many attempts on Luke's life.
Prince Xizor is trying to get even with both Darth Vader and the Emperor, for killing his family, by killing Darth Vader's son while framing Vader with, Luke's, his own son's murder and goading the Emperor into striking Vader down for a murder he didn't commit, but I digress.
Harry learns from strangers that he is "the" wizard just like Luke learns he is "the" jedi.
Harry must study the ways of the wizards and grow in skill and wisdom before he can face the ultimate, inevitable confrontation of Voldemort/Vader.
The messenger owls are the message delivered by C3PO R2D2.
Obiwan Kenobi's part is a combination of Hagrid's and Headmaster Dumbledore's. Although, because of a lack of character development, I doubt either one of them would have been missed 1/2 as much as Obiwan was, even if Voldemort had destroyed them both.
"Hedwig the Owl's" role in "Harry Potter" is then very similar to the further role of R2D2 and C3PO in "Star Wars".
Hermione =, for all intents and purposes, the cocksure and know-it-all, Princess Lea.
Ron = Han Solo with all of his smart-alecky remarks, but grudging respect and ultimate crush on Lea/Hermione. Ron/Solo the unlikely heroes that in the end save the day at the near sacrifice of their own lives.
Ron's rat = Chewbacca, but in a very undeveloped way.
Wand = Jedi light saber.
Nimbus 2000 = X-wing fighter.
"Norbert the Dragon", I haven't figured out, yet, why they banished him from the movie. I imagine it's because this literary "genius", JKR, banished him from the book. That's not a good enough reason.
If that dragon would have wound up sleeping on Harry's pillow and then made a cute attempt to burn Voldemort's behind, during the final confrontation, in a valiant effort to defend Harry, on that diminutive dragon's part, that dragon would have been on every child's pillow come Christmas morning. That was a multi-million dollar, losing decision. Heads should roll over that one.
The comparisons are endless, really.
I didn't catch a ghostly voice whispering for Harry to "trust the stone" or "trust the mirror" like Luke was urged to "trust the force", but I was nodding off by then.
If you're a big "Harry Potter" fan you have to be excited by the prospect of a new "Harry Potter" episode for every "Star Wars" book that's out there and there's alot.
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I have been using HTC Surround WP7 for two years. And I made friends along the way. None of them cared to ask what my phone is (although I don't put my phone out during dinner, dinner is dinner). And now I got a Lumia 920, they say, nice phone and they have seen it in ads.
I really got to say, finally getting friends saying it is a cool phone shows people's acceptance and awareness. I really glad Nokia makes such nice iconic phone and be an exclusive phone maker for WP platform. It really helped WP ecosystem a lot and I am grateful to it.
I am grateful for HTC and Samsung early supports, but, Nokia really turned the ecosystem around.


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Former D-back Ransom happy to stay in bigs
DFA'd this week, veteran infielder in Phoenix with Brewers
By Tyler Emerick / MLB.com
The Brewers claimed the 36-year-old off waivers Wednesday, and he was in a Milwaukee uniform for the first time Friday and started Saturday at Chase Field, just steps away from his old stomping grounds in the D-backs' clubhouse.
"I've been put on waivers a lot, let's put it that way," Ransom said. "But I haven't done it like this before."
With Arizona this season, Ransom batted .269 in 17 games amassing a career-high-tying four homers and 13 RBIs. The club, however, decided to go in a different direction, calling up Josh Bell and leaving Ransom as the odd man out.
The move, Ransom admitted, caught him off guard because of how well he had been playing and the increased role he'd seen on the team.
"It did, I was surprised by it," Ransom said. "It was what it was. I didn't see it coming."
Now with Brewers shortstop Alex Gonzalez out for the season with a torn ACL and Cesar Izturis being placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a strained left hamstring, Ransom figures to have a prominent role. He started at third base on Saturday, batting sixth.
Over the last two seasons in Arizona, Ransom has played a combined 10 games at shortstop. In the lineup Saturday, Ransom batted seventh and played shortstop.
"I enjoy playing there, it's what I've played basically my whole career before a few years ago," he said. "I've played there quite a big in the Minors, too."
Ransom made his first appearance for the Brewers on Friday when Izturis left the game in the seventh inning after suffering his injury. He batted twice, collecting a single off Josh Collmenter and later scoring a run when Corey Hart homered.
While many athletes would sweat out the time in purgatory between teams, Ransom, a Mesa, Ariz., native, enjoyed his days off between Monday and Friday.
"Pretty relaxing, I've just been at the house," he said. "I haven't done anything. Came in Monday, got designated, so I went home, hung out with the kids and the wife until they called me Wednesday."
The move to Milwaukee sat well with Ransom, who dreaded a return trip to the Minors. Since 1998, the 36-year-old has played 1,445 Minor League games.
"It was good, I got a job," he said. "I was in the big leagues and not going to Triple-A somewhere. We'll see how it goes. I'm just going to show up ready to play every day."
D-backs pitchers excited by Montero's deal
PHOENIX -- Miguel Montero wasn't the only player in the D-backs clubhouse smiling when news broke that the catcher had landed a five-year contract extension."I think any time you've got a guy of his character and obviously his talent, you'd like to keep him around as long as possible," closer J.J. Putz said. "I'm not sure anybody was surprised that the deal eventually got done. I can speak for the other 11 pitchers in this room that he is leader of this team out there on the field." Ace right-hander Ian Kennedy discussed the possible contract with Montero during the spring, when negotiations stalled and it didn't look like a deal would get done. "I'm really happy it finally did," Kennedy said. "He's a really consistent catcher, hitter, his personality is always really consistent. Even if he's having a rough day, he's still trying to bring everybody else up. His personality is really nice to have in our clubhouse otherwise it would be pretty quiet." Said fellow starter Daniel Hudson, "I think I can speak for everyone on the pitching staff that we're all pretty happy to have him here for the long run." The pitchers not only appreciate the offense that Montero brings, but the way he handles the pitching staff. "He has a true passion for the game, and he really cares about the pitchers," Putz said. "I'm not sure there's a price you can put on that, although his was a pretty good one."
Montero remains out with groin strain
PHOENIX -- Miguel Montero was out of the lineup for the fourth straight game on Saturday, and the D-backs catcher might not return until Monday when the team opens a three-game series in San Francisco.Montero tweaked his groin during Monday's loss to the Dodgers and has been out of action since. On Saturday, Montero caught a bullpen session and took batting practice and D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said unless something changed there were no plans to put Montero on the disabled list. "He's good," Gibson said. "I'm not going to play him today, may not play him tomorrow, may wait until Monday, but he's available to pinch-hit for sure tonight."
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HOUSTON - Several people in the Houston area are speaking up in support of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain as he fights back against allegations of sexual harassment.
The allegations against Cain date back to the 1990s when he served as chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association.
On Wednesday, community activist Quanell X and Bill Calhoun, chairman of the Texas Federation of Republican Outreach, held a news conference in Houston to call for an end to what they said is a political witch hunt against Cain.
"This is a viscous and unprecedented attack" 'said Calhoun. "This is what they do to people who look like me when they've achieved a level of success, and it's not fair."
"This reeks of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas," said Quanell X. "The attacks I see happening against Herman Cain are unjust."
Both men admitted that their alliance on this controversial issue is unusual. Quanell X describes himself as politically independent. Calhoun is a prominent Republican.
However, both men said they believe Cain's reputation is being torn apart and his presidential campaign destroyed as a result of political and personal attacks.
Earlier this week, the Cain campaign seemed to blame an aide to presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry for leaking the information. Perry denies any involvement in the leak.
The women who accused Cain of inappropriate behavior have signed confidentiality agreements, however, an attorney for one alleged victim said the woman is considering a public statement.
Cain is scheduled to debate presidential candidate Newt Gingrich at The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center in The Woodlands at 6 p.m. Saturday.
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Weird Traditions
Every college has its own culture, and with that, strange traditions that rise out of the curious things that can seemingly only happen on a college campus.
These idiosyncratic festivities make up the overall experience and feeling of college and keep the fabric of a college's community woven together. Plus, they help balance the stress of school with some highly needed fun and general weirdness.
Here are colleges with some of the weirdest and most fun traditions:
Mount Olive College
Mount Olive College, located in Mount Olive, North Carolina, takes to the streets on the last week of April to celebrate the fermented cucumber more commonly known as the pickle. The Pickle Fest, as it's called, involves copious amounts of pickle eating (of course), canned food drives, a Tour De Pickle, and other fun rides and activities. Whether you consider it a side dish, a snack, or a salty dessert, the pickle is getting the praise it deserves in Mount Olive. We just feel kind of bad for the olive.
College of William and Mary
In a J.K. Rowling-esque tone, the students of William and Mary take part in an annual Yule Log Ceremony just before they scatter for winter break. It's the holiday tradition where the entire student body gathers in Wren Courtyard as cressets surrounding the area provide light and warmth for the students. Students listen to live holiday music, speakers share holiday traditions, and the college president gives a requisite reading of 'Twas the Night Before Finals and How the Grinch Stole Christmas while wearing a Santa costume.
Smith College
Since 1877, the women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts has taken part in a strange but lovely tradition called Mountain Day. On an unannounced beautiful fall day, Smith College's president rings the college bells to give students an unexpected but welcomed break from classes so that they can hike up the Mountain and pick apples.
Reed College
Reed College truly honors education with their tradition called Paideia. The Greek word roughly translates to "education". So about ten days before Reed's spring semester begins, the campus takes part in Paideia–a time to enjoy education without academic pressures. Members of the college, from students to faculty to alumni, offer non-credit, informal courses and lectures on an array of topics. It's learning without the pressure! True paideia.
Carleton College
A bust of German poet Friedrich Von Schiller that has flown on Air Force One, been dangled from a helicopter, signed by former President Bill Clinton, and most impressively made a cameo on the Colbert Report, is part of a long-running tradition at Carleton College. Since 1957, the students at Carleton take turns "stealing" and displaying the bust around campus. There are few rules to the game, but if the keeper of the Schiller bust is touched while holding the bust, he or she must immediately relinquish ownership without struggle. If you ever come across the bust, you know you've been "Schillered".
Carleton College is just ripe with weird and great traditions. There's also the baking cookies at Dacie's tradition, where Carleton students honor the long-time Carleton employee, Dacie Moses's, legacy of inviting students to her house for cookies and conversation. Dacie donated the house to Carleton College on the condition that it be used in continuing her cookies and a chat institution. What a yummy tradition.
Scripps College
The highly ranked progressive women's college knows how to keep that feminine touch alive with their old school tradition of afternoon tea. Every Wednesday afternoon during the school year, Scripps hold afternoon tea in the beautiful Seal Court. Surrounded by a fountain and mosaic murals, the Scripps students can relax, chat, and even have one-on-one discussions with professors while sipping on some tea.
Oak Hills Christian College
Aptly named The Man and the Lake, the Oak Hills tradition follows that after a classmate's engagement, the groom-to-be is thrown by his classmates into the campus lake. Friends of the betrothed carry him from his dorm to the dock and ask him two questions: "Do you love her?" and "Is she worth it?". Say "yes" to both and your friends will most lovingly toss you into the cold Minnesota lake.
Pomona College
A surf and turf tradition known as Ski-Beach takes the students of Pomona College to opposite paradises in the same day. The Ski-Beach tradition takes a busload of Pomona students wearing serious winter gear up to the slops of Mountain High resort in the AM. By the afternoon, the students get back on the bus and head for the beach for a cookout, some swimming, and good old fashion beach time.


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Hello, I have the following problem in a Fortran program.
I need to declare some common blocks as THREADPRIVATE to ensure correct data handling by the threads, but by doing so, the system reports an error during compilation with gfortran 4.4.3.:
Error: EQUIVALENCE attribute conflicts with THREADPRIVATE attribute
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- This polygon dataset represents the 2010 TIGER/Line census blocks for New Mexico. The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads.
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Technology allows employers to track what their employees do online, but how much is too much?
The Washington Post reports that some federal agencies are using tracking technology so sophisticated it can record "every activity, in complete detail," according to the website of SpectorSoft, maker of some of the most popular tracking products.
While federal agencies warn employees that they have "no reasonable expectation of privacy," as stated in a banner that employees see every time they log onto a government-owned system, privacy advocates argue that the government's legitimate interest in watching for disclosure of classified information or other harmful activity falls somewhere short of being able to reconstruct every keystroke.
A chief concern: The same technology that allows managers to guard against compromises of security could also be used to identify and punish whistleblowers – something for which the Food and Drug Administration is already being sued.
The software available can go far beyond e-mail monitoring, writes Lisa Rein in the Post. " It could be programmed to intercept a tweet or Facebook post. It could snap screen shots of their computers. It could even track an employee's keystrokes, retrieve files from hard drives or search for keywords."
but should that trouble federal employees? After all, they know that everything they do on government equipment is subject to scrutiny.
"It's long been known that employees give up some privacy on computer use whether working for government or the private industry," author and consultant Judy Welles told FCW.
Welles, a former FCW columnist and author of a book for federal employees called "Get a Life, Try This," said most federal employees are responsible and careful about how they use federal equipment. "Still, some of the new [monitoring] products may be overly intrusive and can raise a specter of micro-management, causing employees to communicate less and feel they are not trusted," she said. "The result can be lower morale and less effective workforce."
There's another complicating factor involved, said Mary Lamb, chief operating officer at Suss Consulting: The bring-your-own-device phenomenon. BYOD, and other changes to working habits such as telework, mean that agencies might have less control over data, regardless of how they monitor employee activity.
"In any large organization, you have policies and procedures in place for the use of [the employer's] equipment. When you sign up, you're aware of that," she said. "How we work is changing, and given that folks are aware of the policies and procedures, you have to trust that when they bring their own device, they're going to adhere to whatever policies and procedures" are in place.
It's precisely that level of trust, though, that appears to be missing at many agencies. Tom Clare, senior director of product marketing for San Diego-based Websense, told the Post that as a general rule, agencies treat any device that accesses government information as a government device for the purposes of monitoring, even if it's the employee's personal property.
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Great post regarding employee monitoring. By making use of employee monitoring software's or having on premise remote support appliance installed such as RHUB appliances, companies can remotely monitor the PC from anywhere while the computer users cannot see and delete the remote session.
Employers may have the right to monitor employees but they must not do it in excess. There should be a limit into which extent should they be able to monitor their employees.
We cannot deplete the fact that there's a possibility of employees doing non-work related activities during working hours. Here's a clear picture of that - http://biz30.timedoctor.com/infograph-wasted-time/
But if employers do think that there's a need for monitoring, then they should at least inform their employees about it. Just my honest opinion...
Keep BYOD away from me and my agency, don't want it, don't want the intrution, and don't want the hassels. I have no plan to participate in that. Provide me a government smart phone and laptop and I am good to go. Private and government should NEVER share the same space!
BYOD is not a right, it's a privilege. BYOD comes with rules of the road. It is the government's responsibility to protect data, therefore it is reasonable that when BYOD is allowed there are ways to protect data. BYOD presents a real risk to the federal government which should be carefully evaluated. It's impossible to retrieve informaiton once it has been posted, lost or misplaced.
Is the level of monitoring so fine that I might get in trouble because I took the time to read this article and post a comment? Yikes!
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Brandon Weeden is making a case for dismantling the revolving quarterback door that has been spinning since the Browns were reborn in1999.
Brady Quinn, now the quarterback of the Chiefs and the Browns' opponent Sunday, started the 2009 season for the Browns.
Jake Delhomme followed Quinn in 2010 and Colt McCoy followed Delhomme a year later. The 2012 opener meant another opening day starter.
Weeden was handed the job the moment he was taken with the 22nd pick of the draft in April, though the Browns went through the charade of a quarterback competition with Colt McCoy.
In all, 17 quarterbacks have started games for the Browns since 1999.
Weeden will start his 13th game of the season Sunday afternoon when the Browns host Quinn and the Chiefs at 1 p.m. He is trying to become the first Browns quarterback to start all 16 games in one season since Tim Couch in 2001.
If new CEO Joe Banner sees fit, Weeden will be the starting quarterback in the season opener in 2013. If that happens, he will be the first quarterback to start back to back openers for the Browns since Charlie Frye in 2006 and 2007. Prior to that Kelly Holcomb got the ball in 2002 and 2003.
"I knew the names of the guys that came through (before being drafted) but I didn't know the history and what happened," Weeden said Wednesday. "I knew they took Brady in the first round and I knew they took Colt and Delhomme was here and all those guys. I knew what was going on, but I didn't get wrapped up in it until I got here.
"I want to be the guy for long term. If I can take care of what I can control -- that means playing well, winning games, taking care of this locker room and being the guy everybody looks to to lead this team -- then hopefully I'll be around for a while and help this organization win some games."
The Browns and Weeden are 4-8. One more victory would give him the record for wins by a Browns rookie. He has three 300-plus yards passing games. One more would put him on a plane with Brian Sipe as the only Browns quarterbacks with at least four 300-yard games in a season.
Fans might be surprised to learn how similar Weeden and Andrew Luck, the first pick in the 2012 draft, are statistically. Luck ranks 29th with a 76.1 rating. Weeden is 30th at 72.3. Luck has thrown 17 touchdown passes, Weeden 13. Luck has thrown 16 interceptions and Weeden 15.
The glaring difference is in the record of their two teams; the Colts are 8-4, and the Browns the opposite. The Colts have outscored the Browns, 265-229.
Offensive coordinator Brad Childress did not hesitate Thursday when asked what Weeden has improved most since the start of the season. It might sound strange, but Childress said communicating the play in the huddle tops the list.
"Just being able to articulate with ease our rather wordy plays," Childress said. "He's the guy that disseminates information. When everybody is in the huddle looking at him, they don't hear him stuttering or having to repeat.
"I think those things are taken for granted, but for him to not have to think about it and be able to articulate exactly the paragraph he has to say has helped everybody."
Childress said Weeden knows his receivers better than even a month ago. That is a byproduct of Josh Gordon and Greg Little establishing themselves as the No. 1 and No. 2 receivers, and that is a byproduct of both staying healthy.
Mohamed Massaquoi began the season as the No. 1 receiver, but lost that gig when he missed five games with a hamstring injury. A hamstring injury also sidelined Travis Benjamin.
"He's had steady improvement with his receivers because he understands conceptually where everybody will be," Childress said. "You have to know what everybody's skill set is, how they're going to go about getting to a spot. They're all kind of different. You have to take that and transfer that into your scheme to know how it's going come out."
Weeden's completion percentage increased dramatically in the back-to-back victories over the Steelers and Raiders. He completed 54.1 percent (20 of 37) of his passes vs. Baltimore and 57.1 percent (20 of 35) vs. Dallas. The Browns lost both games. He completed 17 of 26 passes (65.4 percent) in the 20-14 victory over the Steelers and 25 of 36 (69.4 percent) in the 20-17 victory over Oakland.
Quarterback chart
Browns starting quarterbacks since returning to the NFL 14 years ago:
Ty Detmer
Tim Couch
Tim Couch
Doug Pederson
Spergon Wynn
Tim Couch
Kelly Holcomb
Tim Couch
Kelly Holcomb
Tim Couch
Jeff Garcia
Luke McCown
Trent Dilfer
Charlie Frye
Charlie Frye
Derek Anderson
Charlie Frye
Derek Anderson
Derek Anderson
Brady Quinn
Ken Dorsey
Bruce Gradkowski
Brady Quinn
Derek Anderson
Jake Delhomme
Seneca Wallace
Colt McCoy
Colt McCoy
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text: Lukusrose Posted March 14, 2012 Four Gallon Arch Hello everybody! I'm Lukus and this is going to be my first attempt at a SW tank. A friend of mine I go to uni with has had SW tanks for some time now, and after seeing his and helping him out with it, I've officially been bitten by the bug! My mate was able to sort me out a 16x8x8 tank (which I calculated to be 4 gallons) some rock and a canister filter for fairly cheap so I'm off to a good start. I'm pretty nervous about it all, but I've done a lot of reading and I'm definitely going to take it slow. So, as all forum people do, I'm sure you're after some pictures, so here are some of what I have so far! The Tank Canister Filter Dead Rock Future Plans So there we go! As the title states I want to build an arch out of the rock, this might be a bit cliche I guess but its what I want! As for stocking, I really have no idea... I don't want to overstock so I'm aiming for 2 fish max! I like gobies but I'd kinda like an active swimmer too! Coral wise... softies I guess. I really like the look of zoanthids.apart from that I'm not really sure! So any advice or tips are welcome, hope you enjoyed reading, I'll try and get some new pics tomorrow if I get some work done on the scape, Thanks guys! Share this post Link to post


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Today the City of Atlanta will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the hiring of its first African-American firefighters, April 1, 1963 at Fire Station 16, as well as a number of historic firsts in the city.
The first female African American firefighters in Atlanta started work in 1977, during the time when Maynard Jackson served as mayor.
Most notably forgotten is the residency of former world boxing middleweight champion, Theodore "Tiger" Flowers (1895-1927), who's 20-room mansion once stood where a fire station stood.
Honoring Flowers will be Atlanta's own five-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.
Among other scheduled guests are Mayor Kasim Reed, City Council members Michael Julian Bond, Ivory Lee Young, Jr., and Fire Rescue Chief Kelvin Cochran.
Flowers, moved to Atlanta in 1920 where he resided until 1926 when he won the won title defeating Harry Greb, the World Middleweight Champion.
"The Georgia Deacon," as he was labeled held a record of 115 wins, (53 by knockout) 14 losses and 6 draws.


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Brimming with well-crafted dialogue, dynamic characters, thrilling songs and a timeless message, this dramatic musical tells the story of three individuals in the tiny village of Bethlehem. Initially turning away from the promised Messiah, the trio almost sleeps through the first Christmas night - until they are awakened in time to experience the life-changing miracle in a manger. Featuring a spectacular arrangement of the title song, made popular by Faith Hill, and the thought-provoking While You Were Sleeping by "Casting Crowns," the musical mixes new theatrical songs of testimony with beloved songs of the season, bringing the biblical Christmas story into a bold and unique contemporary focus. Song titles: One More Silent Night; Your Light Has Come; A Baby Changes Everything; Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Precious Jesus, Precious Savior; While You Were Sleeping; A Baby Changes Everything (Reprise); My Heart Is Bethlehem and Come and Worship Medley.
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French Top 14
Biarritz sack coaches
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December 11, 2012
Biarritz centre Charles Gimenez is wrapped up during their defeat to Connacht © Getty Images
Biarritz have sacked coaches Jack Isaac and Serge Mihas, according to reports.
The French side lost 22-14 to Connacht at the weekend and are currently mid-table in the French Top 14, following a poor season last term. Club president Serge Blanco had been critical of the team's recent performances.
Laurent Rodriguez and Mathieu Rourre have been put in temporary charge of team affairs for their return match with Connacht at the Parc des Sports Aguilera this weekend. Following their defeat in Ireland Biarritz now trail pool leaders Harlequins by nine points.
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OAKLAND — A freeway shooting on Interstate 580 on Saturday left a 29-year-old man wounded, authorities said.
The man, who is believed to be an Oakland resident, was riding with two other occupants in a car traveling eastbound near Seminary Avenue at around 8:20 p.m. when someone in another car began firing, police said.
The 29-year-old was wounded and remains in critical condition, authorities said. No one else was injured. No one has been arrested and a motive for the shooting was not available.
The incident blocked lanes in both directions for hours.
Staff Writer David DeBolt contributed to this report. Harry Harris covers breaking news. Contact him at email@example.com.


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Samoa lock Filo Paulo swaps Blues for Blues
March 5, 2013
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Blues and Samoa lock Filo Paulo is joining Cardiff Blues.
Paulo, 25, who can also play blindside flanker, has played 26 Super Rugby matches for the Blues. He returns to Europe having played two matches for Ulster in 2009.
"I am very excited to be joining Cardiff Blues," Paulo said. "I know a lot of great players have worn the team's colours so I am extremely grateful to be offered this opportunity and I will be giving my all in order to meet the high standards set by my team-mates, the coaching staff and the supporters."
Cardiff director of rugby Phil Davies said: "He will definitely add value to the current crop of back five players for us. He will be with us all the time, week in week out, and we have four other second rows who are all Welsh-qualified. His arrival will add strength and depth to the team."
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If there were ever a ride we've been on as Knick fans, this year's has been one of highs and lows incomparable. The first half of the tumult, disappointment and the amazing emergence of Jeremy Lin is over. Now, as this shortened season closes in on completion in less than 2 months, it's time our beloved Knicks stare success or failure in the face and charge toward it; bettering themselves as a team, playing as one, or ultimately falling apart as a unit and, inevitably, as individuals.
Revitalized by a commitment to defense, Lin, Fields' return to form, the return of Davis to the line up and JR Smith's under the radar acquisition, it's high time this mob of marauders get nasty.
Battles Yet Faced
We do not want to go against 1st, 2nd or 3rd seed in the opening semis. Though I think we can take Orlando, I just don't see them being upset in the first for the second consecutive year.
I believe that in the remaining 32 games, the Knicks will have to have a record nigh on or in excess of 20-12.
Our Collective Thought
How will Jeremy Lin fair now that Linsanity regresses?
ESPN analyze Lin's game scientifically
There are some lofty comparisons to the league's best per category.
Stephen Anus Smith's Mouth
But Stephen A. Smith also said the conference-leading Heat "exposed" Lin during his 1-for-11, eight-turnover performance on Thursday night.
Carmelo Anthony disagreed.
"'Exposed' is too strong a word," Anthony told Smith on ESPN's "First Take." "I think people overanalyze the situation. He's only been two weeks into this situation. It happened overnight. He was thrown into the fire in the Boston game [on Feb. 3] and then it took off from there.
"He's gonna be all right."
Before Thursday night's loss, the Knicks were 8-2 in games Lin started.
"People fail to realize it's only 10 games for him," Anthony said earlier in the interview. "Everybody thinks he's been here multiple years and has been in situations like this. This was a test for him."
Smith explained his point in two "SportsCenter" interviews: "He's definitely a good player. He definitely belongs in this league. He definitely appears to be the point guard of the future for the New York Knicks. But there's a difference between being a starter and a star, and there's a difference between a star and a superstar."
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Our stars will be under the microscope constantly as the Knicks look to further their seeding in the East. JR Smith will be an integral factor in achieving the best position possible, as he leads our second unit along with Davis, Novak and Jefferies. A highly talented, athletic phenomenon, Smith's output is paramount.
Landry's Resurgence
He's been in the cross hairs of scrutiny since being swept by Boston last season. His start to this season was awry, but since he's accommodated Lin on his sofa, Fields game has boomed like cold sores.
He's quicker, more aggressive, finishing strong - as evidenced here:
and has found a role as a facilitator on the P&R.
Silencing his detractors and critics, Fields has shown that he can be an integral part of the Knicks line-up, whether to be starting or as a member of our second unit.
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Supporting Stoudemire these days is like having a ginger son in law.
Enjoys erogenous, masturbatory finger fun with his wife, as do I! Bum thumb yum.
Laundry Folds
Once punched the AIDS out of a monkey.
Cunning Lingus
I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
The Man Handler
Some say that he stealths through the Serengeti at night, foraging for leopards.
The Savaliers have been on the good end of some impressive upsets this season, and first your phenom, Kyrie Irving, has been the hero throughout all of their 4th quarter winning endeavors.
An excellent penetrating guard, Irving, as have so many others this season, will potentially do very well against our sporadic back-court defense.
Key to Victory.
● The Cavs often are out rebounded by their opposition. Offensive boards and inflated possessions should be what the team requires to win the game.
● A lot of Cavs players block shots and contest shots. If we can get their depleted front-court in foul trouble early, look for the Knicks to out run the Cavs early.
A splash of light humor to get us under way
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Two of the most celebrated U.S. racing events are held each year during the month of May. At the beginning of the month, the Kentucky Derby features thoroughbred horses in the "run for the roses." Later in the month, during Memorial Day weekend, automobiles race in the Indianapolis 500.
Sport racing – defined as getting from Point A to Point B before anyone else does – has probably been around for as long as humans. Sometimes people actually do the racing by running, swimming or bicycling. Other times our participation is more in a management role. Think about horse jockeys, racecar drivers or speedboat pilots. Finally, humans might train the racing animals but not actually participate in the race. Dog and pigeon races come to mind.
In sport racing, and in most other sports for that matter, most human participation can be classified as that of spectator. This year, 19 horses and riders went to the post in the Kentucky Derby. There were 165,307 spectators on hand to watch the race.
The Indianapolis 500 begins with 33 cars and drivers. There are no official attendance figures for the motor race dubbed the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Permanent seats exceed 267,000 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway where the race take place, and with additional infield seating available, it's safe to say that a lot of people attend the race.
Both the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500 attract worldwide TV and radio audiences. So, if numbers of interested people mean anything, both of these races are real spectator sports. Of course, the spectators might have a heightened level of interest because they have money riding on the outcome. At least $187 million was wagered on the 2013 Kentucky Derby. No estimates exist about how much money is bet each year on the outcome of the Indy 500, but odds are the figure is substantial.
In 1990, the inaugural Purdue University Bug Bowl featured a cockroach race. Bug Bowl is a festival that introduces attendees to insects in a fun way. What could be more fun than a cockroach race?
Cockroach racing requires a dedicated cockroach racing facility. Purdue's is called Roachill Downs and is modeled after Churchill Downs of horse racing fame. Roachill Downs features a racing oval, an exercise arena and a tractor pull strip. Of course, the cockroach racing facility is scaled down from horse-sized to cockroach-sized.
Vignettes at Roachill Downs feature American cockroaches engaged in activities that humans exhibit at racing events. Such activities include cockroaches in the bleachers, cockroaches tailgating, cockroaches selling food, cockroaches lined up at the Porta-John and cockroaches sunbathing.
The racing oval at Roachill Downs is a two-"furshort" track. In horseracing, a furlong is 220 yards or one-eighth of a mile. A "furshort" is the number of body lengths of a cockroach equivalent to the number of body lengths of a horse in a furlong.
Also in keeping with horseracing tradition, the names of the cockroach racers can have meaning. The names of thoroughbred horses can reflect many things, including historical events, names of sire and/or dam, or commentary on political offices. It's the same with the names of racing roaches. Over the years racing roaches at Roachill Downs have been given names such as Seattle Sewer, Tax Man Cometh, Spray Can, Under the Sink, and Fluttering Antennae.
The main event at Roachill Downs is the All-American Trot, which features American cockroaches. American cockroaches live in steam tunnels in industrial facilities in northern states but live outdoors in southern states, where they are called Palmetto Bugs. The American roaches run a five-furshort race or 2½ trips around the oval track.
In addition to the All-American Trot, the cockroach race also has a tractor pull. In this event, Madagascar cockroaches pull miniature tractors. The first roach to pull its tractor the length of the track is declared the winner.
Roachill Downs and the racing roaches were featured at the Indiana State Fair for 20 years. In addition, the races have been demonstrated at a number of events across the Eastern United States over the years. All of which proves when it comes to spectator sports, even racing roaches are fair game.


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Kadra is the granddaughter of Bob and Reba Nichols and the late Bobby and Mada Mann, all of Fordyce. She is a 2006 graduate of Fordyce High School and a 2010 graduate of Arkansas Tech University where she acquired a bachelor of science degree in early childhood education. Kadra is currently a preschool teacher at ABC Children's Academy in Dover.
Jared is the grandson of the late Eamil and Jo Ann Ladd of Fort Smith, Nita Wade of Kansas City, Mo., and the late Bud Vogel of Independece, Mo. He is a 2011 graduate of Applied Life Leader's Academy of Christian Ministries Church of Hot Springs. Jared is currently employed with Walgreens in Russellville as a manager.
The wedding will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 12, 2013, at Christian Ministries Church in Hot Springs. All relatives and friends are invited at attend. No local invitations will be sent.
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Houston dips in recent Forbes metro areas ranking
Updated 2:08 pm, Monday, February 17, 2014
Texas may be facing the worst drought in its history, but the state is flooded with new residents every day.
Houston and three other Lone Star State metro areas dominate Forbes' annual top 20 fastest-growing American cities, released Friday.
The Bayou City comes in at No. 10 in the rankings, according to Forbes, an economic and business magazine. Austin tops the list with 2.5 percent growth rate. Dallas is the fourth fastest growing city and San Antonio took the No. 20 spot with 1.83 percent population growth in 2013.
The list was based on different factors, such as job, population and economic growth rates, median salaries and unemployment data. It was compiled out of the 100 most populous U.S. metro areas.
Houston fell from second to tenth in the rankings, replaced by Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh's growth rate in 2013 was 2.15 percent while Houston's was 1.82 percent.
While it dropped in the rankings, Forbes is still bullish on the Bayou City. In September the magazine said Houston was "America's next great global city."
Florida and Texas are the only two states with four cities in the top 20. Each of the four Texas cities have an unemployment rate under 6 percent. The national average is 6.7 percent.
Last year, Austin, Houston and Dallas swept the top three spots.
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Andy Jefferson added a comment - 22/Sep/10 09:24 AM
And that method doesn't exist in earlier versions of EHCache, hence would restrict access for the ehcache plugin to specific versions
Fernando Padilla added a comment - 22/Sep/10 10:19 PM
so, it shouldn't call removeAll() at all then! :)
It's really a HUGE issue here. To wipe our your whole cluster's L2 cache across all machines, when you're just restarting a single node.
plus, aren't all your plugins versioned? We're just saying that the latest version of the datanucleus-cache requires the latest version of ehcache, to fix a huge performance issue. That's an ok statement to make.
Andy Jefferson added a comment - 23/Sep/10 08:17 AM
Of course "clear" should remove all objects; that's what it is for. The user calls clear and it removes them.
If instead you are referring to *having an option* of not clearing the data from the external caching product when the L2 cache itself is closed then fine .... but that is not what you wrote above. The L2 cache is closed when the PMF (or EMF) is closed and the L2 cache is only designed for one PMF (or EMF) actually. For this option you could easily contribute a patch defining a persistence property and making use of it in the constructor of the EHCache plugin class (in the same way as other persistence properties are made use of).
Fernando Padilla added a comment - 24/Sep/10 01:16 AM
ah. ok. I'll take that compromise. :)
As the PMF is being shutdown, it should not proactively clear/evictAll from the cache. (or at least make it configurable).
Ok, I'll try to suggest a patch for this, unless you have something in mind. (I assume it should be just commenting out one line of code).
Andy Jefferson added a comment - 25/Sep/10 11:51 AM
"datanucleus.cache.level2.clearAtClose" allows a user to override specification JDO/JPA behaviour of removing objects from L2 cache at close


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Ups and downs, I'm sure the Cubs will see their fair share of those throughout the season. They have already seen it this Spring, just four days ago the Cubs were coming off three straight wins and playing some good baseball, now they have lost six in a row, good thing is, none of that matters right now. The Cubs are still playing well, just not getting the results, there will be plenty of time for that. Each Cubs starter pitched well today, Samardzija against the Rangers, and Maholm against the A's. However, both pitchers were tagged with losses today, Maholm was done in by a Josh Vitters error in the first that led to a three run first inning. Samardzija only gave up one run over four innings, but the Cubs bats couldn't get it going until late in the game when it was out of hand.
W: Holland (2-0) L: Samardzija (1-1) SV: None
BATTING 2B: Strausborger (1, Miller, T). HR: Osuna, R (1, 8th inning off Miller, T, 2 on, 2 out). TB: Andrus 2; Garcia, L; Borbon 2; Hamilton; Strausborger 3; Moreland; Bianucci 2; Butler, Jy; Brown, D; Osuna, R 4. RBI: Hamilton (1), Borbon 2 (2), Bianucci 2 (2), Brown, D (1), Osuna, R 3 (3), Prince (1), Martinez, L (3). 2-out RBI: Borbon 2; Brown, D; Osuna, R 3. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Hamilton. SAC: Rodriguez, G. GIDP: Kata; Brown, D. Team RISP: 8-for-12. Team LOB: 5. BASERUNNING SB: Strausborger (1, 2nd base off Weathers/Clevenger), Martin (1, 2nd base off Weathers/Clevenger). FIELDING E: Osuna, R (1, throw).
BATTING 2B: Cardenas (3, Mendez, R). HR: Cardenas (1, 8th inning off Ogando, 0 on, 0 out), Clevenger (2, 8th inning off Ogando, 0 on, 0 out), Lake (2, 9th inning off Mendez, R, 0 on, 0 out). TB: DeWitt; Soriano, A; Mather; Castillo, W; Lake 4; Cardenas 7; Clevenger 4. RBI: Soriano, A (7), Cardenas (4), Clevenger (3), LaHair (2), Lake (4). 2-out RBI: Soriano, A. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Mather; DeWitt. SF: LaHair. Team RISP: 2-for-6. Team LOB: 4. FIELDING Outfield assists: Soriano, A (Borbon at 2nd base). DP: 2 (Lake-LaHair, DeWitt-Cardenas-LaHair).
Highlights from Rangers Game:
Soriano RBI Single
DeWitt With a Nice Play
Clevenger Homers
Cardenas Homers
A's/Cubs box score to follow.
Up Next:
The Cubs continue split-squad games on Sunday. Chris Volstad will start in Las Vegas against the Rangers, while Andy Sonnanstine will face the White Sox in Mesa, with both games starting at 3:05 p.m. CT. It'll be Volstad's third start, and he has yet to give up a run over six innings. The Rangers are the home team on Sunday, and Soriano will be the designated hitter for the Cubs. The Cubs-White Sox game in Mesa will be broadcast on Cubs.com. (Via Carrie Muskat)
Thanks for reading,
George Cotugno


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Now let's jump back to Cathy's house, they're getting up off the floor
Then Rufus says, "Chuck are you ok?" Then Cathy closes the door
Then Chucks says, "Rufus what the hell just happened?" Then Rufus said, "I tell ya
She just almost got us shot right here in this room"
Then Cathy says, "You got nerve, almost got you shot!
When you sneaking in and out of hotels with him ain't no tellin' what I got"
Then Chuck says, "What do you mean by that?"
Cathy looks at him and says, "Figure it out!"
He says, "Ooooh Rufus she don't know me. I will cut this bitch right now"
"Whoo!...Come and try it, muthafucka...I swear! just try it." "Fuck you ho!" "I swear just try it!"
"Let me at uh..." "Come on bitch!, try it" "Muthafucka Rufus let me go!"
"I swear the God try it." "Come on, try it." "Bitch come on"
"Come the fuck down!"
Rufus says...Rufus says, "Chuck we'll talk about it later"
Then Cathy says, "This shit is sad"
Then Rufus says, "Well it is what is
Cathy we might as well talk bout it, and try to get some understanding"
She says, "Understand this shit. I doubt it"
They talkin' loud while the phone's ringin,ringin,ringin,ringin but no one answer.... just ignores it..
Rufus says, "I said calm down...you both actin' like damn fools!
A wife and a pastor and a deccan now how would that look in the news? Cathy says a wife and pastor looks good on the news..then looks at Chuck and
Says but a pastor and a deccan Rufus you don't won't me to ansnwer you...at then Chuck yells bitch who do you think you are? I got a right to love who ever
I please...then Cathy says if you don't get yo narrow ass out my house cause ho this who ever belongs to me..and then Rufus nobody going no where...til'
We firgure this out we all just be right here...and then Cathy and Chuck won't stop stairing at each other...Cathy snocks..her nose up and him..Chucks
Rolls his eyes at her...then phones rings again..(ringin,ringin,ringin) but this time
Cathy walks over and answer it..says hello longs resident...Cathy this Gwendolyn can you talk?Cathy says
Im in the middle of something not now... Gwendolyn says girl this can't wait please get somewhere quick to yourself right now...then Cathy says hurry im
Listen shoot...Gwen says ok..I'll make it quick girl remember the policemen you introduce me to?she says yea...what uh bout em'?anyway girl shit was tight
Until this morning everthing went wrong! Chuck looks at Rufus and says what the hell? he says I don't know...she says damn'it I'm on the phone..
She says go hell Gwen...Gwen says well it all started at this club that I was at last night..(ummm)girl me and
James sittin up back vip everthing was so right (ummm gon' on)! well me and james sittin there laughten and drinkin next thing you know here comes
Sylvester up in there with some crusty wig wearing ass ho...Cathy
Looks at the wig on the floor she says girl whats the name of that club...Gwen says par'jays she flops down
On the bed...like what the fuck?then Cathy says Gwendolyn...Gwendolyn says girl I'm not finish then she start
Tellin her bout the policemen wife Bridget who was gettin down with this midget...then Cathy says Gwendolyn
Girl listen but Gwendolyn going on and on she steady tryin get her tension but Gwen steady going on and on
Then Rufus scream Cathy are we gon' finiish this conversation or what?and Cathy says Rufus I'm on the phone
Then Rufus says ''bitch I don't give a fuck''...then Cathy says Gwendolyn shut up girl damn..just listen to me
You know that crusty wearin ho that you was talkin about...Gwen says uh uh..Cathy says well...Gwen says well..well what? Cathy says girl...Gwen says
Cathy...Cathy say Gwen I'm sorry girl but that ho was me....
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1. What kind of work do you see her doing? We never see many of her interests and she doesn't seem like the type who could take initiative.
Well, she's very bright so I could see her having a pretty good career in the Ministry. Or she could be a Quidditch player or I could see her opening a coffeehouse like Madame Puddifoot's. I think that you've got a lot of options and you can go almost anywhere with her career.
2. Do you think she stayed in Britian after the war, or would she have left?
I think that she would have stayed in Britian. Maybe she'd travel a little bit, but she'd end up settling down in Britian.
3. I assume that she married a Muggle because of the interview, but other than that, what kind of man do you think Cho would marry?
Based off of what we know of her taste in guys (Cedric and Harry), I would say that he's probably good-looking, athletic, sensitive, smart, and someone she could talk to.
4. Do you think she maintained close relationships with anyone from school? With her parents?
I think that she would have kept contact with her school friends. She's the type of girl that friendship is very important to, and she's grown up with these people, I don't think that she'd just let them go. Definately with her parents, they probably saw her through some of her troubles, and I think that family will probably be pretty important to her as she gets older.
5. What would be her reaction if she were to run into Ginny and Harry together after the Epilogue?
I think that she would be happy to see them, she'd want to hear about their lives, and she'd want to tell about her life. I don't think that she'd be the type of girl to flirt with Harry or anything.
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