text:
Java deployments increasingly rely on modularity services such as OSGi. In addition, packages such as NetKernel etc would like languages to behave as services. Clojure should behave well in such environments.
- Fix misfeatures that are broken in the face of modularity
- add-classpath
- all-ns?
- Add features to make Clojure a better language-as-service
- No standards for modularity of dynamically-generated code
- Most systems focus on the dynamic loading of statically compiled code
Work in Progress
Clojure-contrib modularization
Work-in-progress on the "modules" branch. BUILD IS SUCCESSFUL.
Each major namespace group gets its own module.
Every module depends on a "parent" module that specifies which version of Clojure to depend on, and configuration for compile/test/build.
Library authors can override this on a per-module basis.
The "complete" module includes all other modules as dependencies and can build a clojure-contrib "uberjar."
A full build takes over seven minutes on an 8-core, but individual modules can be built independently.
Java 7 / Jigsaw
Java 7 will NOT include JSR 294 (superpackages) or JSR 277 (Java Module System).
Project Jigsaw is an OpenJDK endeavor. It is "focused narrowly upon the goal of modularizing the JDK," and "will not be an official part
of the Java SE 7 Platform Specification."
Java EE 6
Clojure works fine in Glassfish 3 (a Java EE 6 application server). Dynamic loading, eval, everything works.
Clojure does NOT work out-of-the-box in Equinox (OSGi implementation from Eclipse). Loading the clojure.lang.* Java classes works fine,
but initializing the Clojure runtime fails with "java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not locate clojure/core__init.class or clojure/core.clj on classpath."
The Clojure plugin for Eclipse works around this by using an Eclipse-specific feature called "plugin buddies."


text:
When Graphics go wrong
From LXF Wiki
Revision as of 08:22, 27 Apr 2008; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
←Older revision | Newer revision→
One of the most common problems seems to be when a kernel update breaks the installed video driver and inexperienced users cannot get a desktop back, but are left without a GUI and can't figure out how to re-install the graphics driver from the command line. It's a good idea to keep a copy of your diver in your /home/"username". Then all is needed is to boot to runlevel 3, login as root and install.
For Nvidia for example, once logged in as root cd /home/"username"
sh N (use <TAB> to auto complete)
If you want to enable graphics when you can't install a driver or say you have a laptop chipset or onboard. Login as root level3 and use this command
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
reboot this should enable a display using vesa

subset: commoncrawl


text:
August 31, 2009
Sia Tweets about Rob
- Lorabell
10 comments:
Sia is awesome. "Breathe Me" is always on my list of all-time-fav songs!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Maybe when he has some time after filming (though it sounds like from Premiere interview that might be like 2 years from now) he will actually make a CD. That would be awesome. I love the few things I've heard of his. He is so crazy talented!ReplyDelete
Who is this Nellie person?ReplyDelete
I'm thinkin' Nellie's house is actually a place, like a bar or something. But yeah Sia is awesome, loved her way back when she was with Zero 7.ReplyDelete
nellie is a singer he sings r & bReplyDelete
I always thought Breathe Me should have made it's way onto the Twilight soundtrack!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2009 at 1:28 AM
I think nothing beats 'Destiny.' Sia sang that so perfect and the lyrics are some of the best song writing I've seen.ReplyDelete
Damn straight he can sing.. and well too:))ReplyDelete
- Dansih Twi-loverSeptember 1, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Heidi HO: Oh yes he can... but we know he didn't sing "Let me sign" that night, because if he had, she would have dragged him away to have his babies ;-DReplyDelete


text:
There was a thread for Walburga Black, but not one for Orion, and I can't help but be curious about Sirius' father (and also...well, I need it for a story.)
Is there something wrong with Orion Black? We didn't hear about Arianna Dumbledore for ages and ages; she was an invisible character, a dirty secret because she was mentally instable (or something like it). There's next to nothing in the books about Orion...so did I miss something in an interview?
If there wasn't a problem with him, what kind of father would he have been? Would he have loved his children, or been indifferent to them? Would he have pretty much left how they were brought up to his wife?
Was he political? He didn't join the Death Eaters, although it is said that Sirius' parents supported Regulus' decision to join. Was he very much in love with Walburga? Their marriage seems to have "arranged" written all over it. Was he a little paranoid, given all the protections he supposedly put on 12 Grimmauld?
Help! I've got nothing.


text:
The Southern University Marching Band has been chosen to
provide halftime entertainment Sunday at the Louisiana Superdome when the New
Orleans Saints take on the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL's NFC Championship
Southern's invitation to perform at the National Football
League Championship contest is more proof that the "Human Jukebox" is the icon
of college marching bands. Southern was recently the subject of a profile in
the New York Times on marching dance routines.
"We are blessed and honored to be on such a tremendous stage
as the NFC Championship game to represent Southern University," said Lawrence
Jackson, director of Bands at Southern. "We hope that our participation will
pump up the WHO DATS and push the Saints to victory."
SU's band will be part of the 2010 Honda Battle of Bands
held January 30 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The event will showcase
Southern and marching bands representing seven other historically black
colleges and universities.
The Human Jukebox will hold practice from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
in the Superdome. Kick-off is at 5:30 p.m.


text:
Like many small-business owners, Hwan "Ray" Oh soared on the bubble of Orange County's go-go economy.
A Korean immigrant who found his first job in California scrubbing toilets, Oh built a business as a successful contractor, deploying up to 10 crews a day to paint, drywall and carpet offices from Anaheim to Irvine.
At its peak, his Garden Grove firm, Quality Construction & Development, raked in as much as $300,000 in monthly revenue. "I never had to beg for jobs," he recalls.
These days, Oh can be found in line outside John Wayne Airport. At age 58, he is driving a Yellow Cab, hoping for enough fares to support his wife and college-age daughters.
"It is so embarrassing," he says. "I thought I had the American dream."
The Great Recession, which took down Oh's company and the 30 men who worked for him, drove Orange County's unemployment rate up to 9.9 percent by 2010. Today, local unemployment has dipped to 6.5 percent – a notch below the national level of 7.3 percent.
But statistics can be misleading. The unemployment rate only counts working-age adults who say they are actively seeking jobs. And many, given the sluggish pace of the recovery and uncounted rejections, have simply given up looking.
While some baby boomers have retired early, the age bulge doesn't explain the steep drop in the nation's labor force participation, to 63.2 percent in August, the lowest in 35 years.
What does explain it: Companies are not hiring back workers as fast as they did after earlier recessions. Orange County has about 94,000 fewer payroll jobs than it did in July 2006, when it reached 1.52 million.
Oh recently drove past a Home Depot and noticed one of his former full-time laborers, a skilled tradesman, standing outside, hoping to pick up a day's work. "That hurt me a lot," Oh says. "He worked for me for 13 years."
Oh's situation isn't unusual. A salient characteristic of the recovery: Many of the new jobs have come in low-paying industries. Better-paying manufacturing employment remains far below pre-recession levels, while restaurant, retail, home health care and tourism-related jobs – such as driving a taxi – account for a growing slice of the economy. Many new positions are part time.
According to the California Budget Project, the earnings of the state's high-wage workers – at the 80th percentile of earnings – have returned to their 2006 level. The inflation-adjusted pay for the bottom fifth of workers has declined 6percent since 2006.
Housing is starting to rebound, "but commercial (construction) – not so much," Oh said. "Bigger companies may be doing better, but small ones still have a hard time."
Boom to bust
Oh is wiry, with short, silver hair and a military posture that echoes his long-ago stint in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. He dresses like the businessman he once was, with a tie and a collared shirt. And, despite his heavily accented English, he engages volubly with customers.
Looking back, Oh explains, the recession hit him at the worst time. Beginning in 2008, "Business parks started getting vacancies," he recalls. "Tenants moved out and no one moved in, so no need for improvement. I started going around to property managers, but jobs went down, down."
When his contracting business was thriving, he invested the profits in seeding three other companies: a dental lab, which he eventually sold; a satellite subscription firm for Korean TV, which lost money after an associate cheated him; and an ice-making machine venture, which went belly-up.
"I don't drink, I don't gamble, I work so hard," he says, shaking his head. "But I never saved money. My wife was so mad at me."
Oh was forced to give up his Fountain Valley home, and moved with his family into a rental. In October 2010, he shut down his company. "I lost everything," he says. "I felt like suicide."
He takes off his glasses, and wipes his eyes. "Honestly, it's OK," he adds quickly. "I don't have to worry about payroll and taxes any more."
After closing his business, Oh didn't apply for unemployment assistance. "I have never gotten any benefits from the government," he says. "It's my personality. I still have in my mind, wherever I go, I can survive."
It is a conviction forged from years of hardship.
Fleeing a difficult family situation in Korea, Oh arrived in Los Angeles at 25, with $800 in his pocket, no English, and no contacts. He took a taxi to Koreatown, where a sympathetic storekeeper took him in until he found a janitorial job at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood.
Oh then worked nights at an Inglewood liquor store, where he had to confront shoplifters. "They would say, 'I'm going to get you,' " he recalls. "It was scary."
He signed on at a sewing factory in downtown Los Angeles, where he recalls trying to hide from fellow workers the fact that he had nothing to eat during break.
Finally, Oh enlisted in the Army, but he still spoke little English.
"The first year was the hardest in my life," he recalls. "I couldn't understand the military language. People would cuss me. I got mad very quick."
After the Army, he made his way west from Fort Campbell, Ky., landing a construction job with help from an Army officer who owned a Huntington Beach company. After a year as a laborer, he became operations manager.
At the same time, married with a baby, Oh took on two additional jobs. He worked construction all day, and then staffed a Garden Grove liquor store until midnight. From there he headed to Norwalk to pick up Korean newspapers, which he delivered until 3 a.m.
"I only got three hours of sleep a night," he recalls. "But after four years, I saved $200,000 to start my own business."
For a decade, "all the way was good," he says. He became a U.S. citizen.
When the recession hit, Oh thought it would be over soon. He tried consulting, but there were no takers.
Starting over
One day, he noticed a taxi driver at a gas station and asked him how much money he made. The man told him $2,000 to $3,000 a month. "I thought I could make twice as much if I worked twice as hard," Oh said.
When he told his wife he was going to drive a cab, "She cried," he says. "My younger daughter – she was about 17 – said, 'Dad, please don't park the taxi outside.' I'd park a quarter of a mile away and walk home."
Renting the taxi costs $800 a week – a rate that led some local drivers to stage a recent one-day strike. "You have to make $1,000 a week just to pay the lease and the gas," Oh says. "If you only work eight hours a day, you're dead."
He hands out little yellow business cards to riders in hopes of building a regular clientele. Still, he says, "I'm up at 6:30 and I get home at midnight. Seven days a week. Otherwise, I can't pay my rent – $2,200 a month. With two daughters in college, it is hard."
His older daughter, 24, is applying to a university after several years at Orange Coast College. His younger one, 20, is at OCC and hopes to go to law school.
Oh says he feels uncertain about the future.
"I'm trying to forget about the economy," he says. "I try to close my mouth and do the work. I say, 'Every situation makes me stronger.' But I'm an unlucky guy."
Contact the writer: firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @MargotRoosevelt


text:
Grapevine's Ohlook Performing Arts Center's production of the gay play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, has been selected for competition in AACTFest11, the American Association of Community Theatre play festival, to be held in Rochester, N.Y. June 20-26.
Dog Sees God is an irreverent comedy that imagines what would happen if the gang from Peanuts — Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, etc. — grew into dysfunction teens. Among the developments: Pig Pen has turned into a neat-freak jock who masks his own gay longings in homophobic rants; Linus has become a pothead philosopher and Schroeder is a survivor of his father's sexual abuse.
Earlier this year, Ohlook produced Trannie, a musical riff on Annie as a cross-dresser looking for her biological father.


text:
s///. But, not knowing anything about Rakudo's internals I can't for the life of me imagine what the hangup is. Anyone want to venture an explanation?
Well, in part it is laziness, but the "doing work twice is bad" kind.
For now, $string.subst(
A bit belated but I just wanted to say I appreciate the reply. I know it's just a peeve of mine, but I felt like airing it. And I do hope that the plan is at least to address this by "spring". s/// is just too much "basic idiomatic perl", and if you don't have it it will be your "word count".


text:
You Are Here: AHRQ Archive Home > National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005 > Appendix D > Data Tables
This information is for reference purposes only. It was current when produced and may now be outdated. Archive material is no longer maintained, and some links may not work. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing this information should contact us at: https://info.ahrq.gov. Let us know the nature of the problem, the Web address of what you want, and your contact information.
Please go to www.ahrq.gov for current information.
a The number of deaths for infant mortality is based on a record weight from the linked birth and infant death file which adjusts for the approximately 2-3% of records each year which cannot be linked to their corresponding birth certificates.Therefore, because of number rounding, the number of deaths for sub-groups may not add to the total.
b Education data are for mothers age 20 and older only.
* Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality (based on < 20 deaths).
Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: Standard error.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics System.
Return to Contents
The information on this page is archived and provided for reference purposes only.
AHRQ Home | Questions? | Contact AHRQ | Site Map | Accessibility | Privacy
Policy | Freedom of Information Act | Disclaimers | Plain Writing Act
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | The White House | USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 Telephone: (301) 427-1364


text:
From the moment he was selected by the Black & Gold on Thursday afternoon, Ryan Finley was overwhelmed by the love he felt from the 100+ Crew supporters who made the trip to Indianapolis for the SuperDraft.
"I don't know if I heard my name louder over the microphone or the Crew fans chanting," Finley said with an ear-to-ear grin. "It was a special moment to be called with the fans there. Obviously, it's a really special moment and an honor to be selected by the Columbus Crew."
"[The Crew] has a great fan base," he continued. "The fans coming out to show their support for the team really shows what MLS has come to. It makes a player really excited and it makes the player want to play in front of the home fans. I'm really looking forward to playing in front of them."
The striker comes to the Crew following four seasons of collegiate soccer where he scored 56 goals and provided 14 assists at Notre Dame and Duke. Selecting Finley provides much-needed depth to the Black & Gold's front line behind striker Jairo Arrieta.
"We thought we were going to have a selection of a few good forwards in the number nine spot," Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers said. "That's where we thought the strength of this class is and we needed depth at forward. The Draft set-up nicely for us and Ryan was available at number nine. He's a kid with a great goal-scoring record."
"[Finley] scores goals," Head Coach Robert Warzycha added. "Whether he's starting the game or on the bench, it doesn't matter. He can change a game for you."
Finley hopes to make an immediate impact with the Crew while also learning from the club's potent strike duo of Arrieta and 2012 MLS Newcomer of the Year Federico Higuaín.
"I feel really well prepared," Finley explained. "I'm really looking forward to learning from [Arrieta]. Anytime you can be an understudy to a foreign international, you're in a great spot. Obviously, it's a great opportunity for me to learn and improve."
"The Crew has a special number 10 player in Higuaín. I think my thing is that I don't need to touch the ball 100 times each game. I just make runs, work hard in the box and hopefully finish some chances. That's my game."
Finley will return home to Lumberton, New Jersey before joining the Crew for preseason training.


text:
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 4:29 PM
Town Square
Supervisors vote 4-1 to put sales tax on ballot
Original post made on Jul 24, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 4:29 PM
Comments (13)
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jul 24, 2012 at 5:34 pm
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
We obvious have really intelligent elected officials -- MP city council wants to raise the hotel tax when the county voted it down in June; the Board of Supervisors want to raise the sales tax to add to the general fund when the county voted down tax increases in June; and the legislature and governor want to raise taxes to fund HSR when other viable programs are cut and the state is going broke. The feds want to raise taxes too. Pretty soon we won't have any money left to pay for government.
Just say NO to more taxes.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 24, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I'll be saying NO. Our politicians just don't seem to have "cutting expenses" in their lexicon. Until they do, they'll get no more voluntary money from me.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jul 24, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
"the need to maintain critical county services in the face of continuing government budget cuts and rising benefit expenses."
The taxpayers' well is dry.
The answer is to cut expenses, eliminate programs and to control benefits by negotiations and outsourcing.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jul 24, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Wait! You want more of my money because???
Oh, right! HSR!!! Sorry no thanks!
Dream act!!! Sorry, but my company cannot even hire those graduates!!!!
Everything else!!! Sorry, but no thanks!
The truth of this is this. I have 2 young children. What do I teach them to be successful in life? At this point, I would tell them to join a public union, retire at 50 or so. Don't get 2 degrees, work your tail off for 10 years to afford a nice little house in a nice neighborhood. As long as you are union, have it all given to you as an "entitlement", since you need to live in the town where you have your cushy job and don't have to work too hard, since you gave up """HUGE""" money to work in the public sectore...
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jul 24, 2012 at 9:32 pm
The Board of Supervisors wants to increase the sales tax just after giving the new Controller an 11% raise.
If this is financial responsibility, we're doomed.
a resident of another community
on Jul 24, 2012 at 10:57 pm
I applaud Supervisor Dave Pine for voting against the sales tax proposal. Businesses in San Mateo County are struggling, and families are having a hard time making ends meet. It's hard enough for our local businesses to compete with online companies who are not charging sales tax for online purchases. Keep up the good work Supervisor Pine!
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 25, 2012 at 12:07 am
Recent measures T, U and X were intended to tax tourists and visitors on San Mateo County. Only measure T (rental car tax) passed by a few hundred votes with 50.1%. Now the board is proposing a sales tax on residents. We predict this sales tax measure will be slaughtered at the ballot box.
Bob commented above that Menlo Park city council wants to raise the hotel tax when the county voted it down in June. Bob will be pleased to learn that Menlo Park's elected officials listen to the voters of Menlo Park. On page 188 of the Statement of the Vote (Web Link) we can see that Menlo Park voters approved the Measure U (hotel tax) by 146 votes with 52.5%.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jul 25, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Do these elected officials live in a bubble? As John stated above, I also applaud Dave Pine for voting against the tax increase, and the others should be removed from office. We are already taxed too much and to add even more taxation is just plain crazy! Our society is going to implode if we don't stop runaway spending and irresponsible government.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jul 25, 2012 at 1:51 pm
How dare they ask for more money! Reform and cut expenses first.
a resident of another community
on Jul 25, 2012 at 2:06 pm
This is simple we San Mateo County need 2 different Supervisors to add to Dave Pine.
a resident of another community
on Jul 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm
2 of our 4 Supervisors were appointed NOT elected
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 25, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Spread the word..."Not another dime" until the systemic issues and the waste within local government that have caused the deficits are dealt with.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jul 25, 2012 at 8:41 pm
It's so easy for politicians to spend other peoples' money and pretend they're do-gooders. Well, not mine! I'll remember the names Tissier and Horsley for a long time. Down and out they go! And all those who ever vote for tax increases with no mention of spending cuts. Throw the bums out at ALL levels of government! Anti-incumbent here we come!
Burger chain Shake Shack to open in Palo Alto
By Elena Kadvany | 17 comments | 4,816 views
The Cost of Service
By Aldis Petriceks | 1 comment | 1,164 views
Couples: When Wrong Admit It; When Right; Shut Up
By Chandrama Anderson | 0 comments | 651 views
One-on-one time
By Cheryl Bac | 0 comments | 520 views


text:
When visiting Pitti Uomo, we can never leave without at least quickly having checked out the new nanamica collection. The Japanese brand was presenting their new Spring/Summer 2013 Collection last week and it might be there best yet.
The popular luggage line, still only consists of a tote and two backpacks and comes next season in two rather muted and subtle color combinations, at least compared to this season's camouflage. The shirts and pants are alright, but we knew that before. The jackets, the Gore-Tex jackets are just amazing. Several new styles are introduced into the collection, as well as new fabrics. Even lighter, even more functional and they still look really slick. That is hard to find and nanamica does it season over season.
Take a look through the collection in the gallery above.
Photography: Highsnobiety.com
- Photography: Highsnobiety.com


text:
Now there are a lot of us fans who do not care for the current BCS set-up in college football.

A possible solution that a friend of mine and I were discussing about 2 years back would be as follows:

There are currently 11 Conferences in Div 1(FBS). I think that all 11 conferences winners plus 5 "wildcards", if you will, face off in a single elimination 16 team playoff.

Now this was discussed before all of the realignment started in the Pac 12, Big 12, Big 10, SEC and ACC. But I know our idea would need some fine tuning. For instance, would conferences have or not have conference championship games? I mean the rule now is that your conference needs 12 teams at least to have a conference championship game. I think that has to be part of a potential overhaul of the current BCS. Sometimes these conference championships benefit or hurt a team---see Houston in the conf USA game today, or possibly Alabama this year, not having to be in a championship game, but could get a shot at the title. And that argument has been made in the past as well. The year LSU beat Oklahoma, a few years back, Oklahoma lost to Kansas St in the Big 12 Championship game I believe, but still made the title game.

I know there is a lot of money in these championship games and Bowl games. Then you have the presidents of these schools who worry about kids missing classes in December. To me that is nonsense---schools start getting ready for the Christmas break, and what about march Madness? These same students don't miss any time? Yeah right---come on!

I think the schools can still profit from the bowls/championships in a new playoff format.

Maybe use the smaller bowls as the 1st rd games and quarterfinals, then the Sugar, Rose, Orange and Fiesta bowls for your semis and finals. Maybe rotate every year which of the 4 Big Bowls host the Championship games.

Another thing that needs fine tuning is the ranking system and computers---I say scrap the computers and use the coaches and AP Polls. Throw in strength of schedule---none of these schools are to play any Div 1AA(FCS). If you want to not have a completely brutal schedule, then all teams can schedule 1 "cupcake" or "tune-up" game. I hate hearing the critics always saying that schools like the Boise States, Houston's, TCU's etc play asoft schedule, or they wouldnt survive in the bigger conferences. You play the schedule you are dealt, and its not the students/players faults that they cant make the schedules or that they dont play in the SEC, ACC, Big 10 etc.

Hopefully there will be a change in the next few years so that the fans, coaches and media will enjoy the college footballpost season like we do with the NCAA mens basketball postseason.


text:
Sand Skiff
The Sand Skiff is a vehicle introduced to Borderlands 2 through the Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty campaign add-on. The vehicle resembles a sailboat, and hovers off the ground. It is only usable in the DLC's new location, Oasis.
Much like the Bandit Technical and Runner, the Sand Skiff features three variations of the vehicle which alter the turret located in the back. The three variations are:
- Rocket Hovercraft - Fires explosive ammunition.
- Harpoon Hovercraft - A turret fires single-shot harpoons that attach to whatever they hit and detonate after a few seconds.
- Sawblade Hovercraft - Fires Incendiary blades.
Top Wiki Contributors
Need assistance with editing this wiki? Check out these resources:
What Links Here
Vehicles | Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty | Hovercraft


text:
The bride-elect is the daughter of Robert and Lauren Redfern of Danville. She is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Max Crowe of Paris, Nancy Corbin of Danville and the late Jack Redfern. Jenny is a 2009 graduate of Danville High School and is also a 2013 graduate of John Brown University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with university honors with a degree in journalism and minors in marketing and graphic design.
The prospective groom is the son of Dr. Ted and Julie Fish of Fayetteville. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fish of Baldwin City, Kan., and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Traxler. Daniel is a 2009 graduate of Shiloh Christian and a 2013 graduate of John Brown University. He graduated Cum Laude with university honors with a degree in biology and will continue his studies at the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry in Memphis, Tenn.
The wedding is planned for 4 p.m. June 8, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Danville, with a reception to follow at Chamberlyne Country Club.
Friends and family are invited. Guests may RSVP at redfernfish.ourwedding.com.


text:
SCHLIX is a lightweight, extensible PHP content management system. It is Written in PHP and MySQL, it allows webmasters to quickly build and easily manage the content of a website. Gekko Web Builder requires almost no technical skill or HTML to operate. Gekko Web Builder has been tested and works with CPanel, Plesk, and EasyPHP (Windows). Features of SCHLIX:- Themes- ...
MyLivo is a web software that help you to create live and realtime website. By "MyLivo" you can create a realtime website without any coding, just post your content and your users see it realtime and without delay. It means you can have a realtime website without any coding, just download, install and use. Features of MyLivo:- It's Realtime and ...
WWW-ADMIN is a set of tools (ftp,sql clients and etc), which helps You to administrate your web pages. It is multi-platform, also it supports many users. Requirements: - PHP - MySQL
Simple Website System is intented for people who want to have a basic website in which they can update or fill with content freely. Main goal of Simple Website System is to provide the basic features in the most user friendliest form.


text:
Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by Infern0, Oct 13, 2013.
You can always edit/delete posts y'know.
The one accusing Bry of racism might be a good place to start...
I didn't know you could delete posts. didn't even look into it actually. and bigjakie. its just a joke. she'll be okay.
I think ID would have been better if Khan had given a situation similar to Space Seed at the end, complete with a bit of character pathos. Instead we got the Classic Wackadoodle Badguy trope again.
Yeah a double insult whammy! I get accused of being racist and mistaken for a woman. I'm gay too, fancy bashing that?
The real/proper Uhura is my favourite character from TOS, even though her development was none-existent. I don't know why I took to her, there was just something about her I loved. The reason I dislike NuUhura, is that she is the polar opposite of everything I loved about the original. What they've given her is made her a whiny girlfriend, nothing exactly inspired, whilst Zoe Saldana is just bad casting.
^"It's like the best one in the whole series."
I think Khan settles this question once and for all.
With fans like these, does JJ Abrams even need detractors?
although I completely disagree, I do want to make clear it was just a joke. and no, I would never bash you or anyone for being a homosexual. i completely support equality. and sorry for mistaking you for a woman. haha.
^the ultimate debater here guys.
Maybe you need to get a guy face for you avatar? Apologies if that is a guy's face.
TWoK...I was 16 in 1982, and saw it four times in the theater that summer. Easily my favorite of all the Trek movies, and it still holds up pretty well today.
Clarification is appreciated, if intended as a joke, a smilie after such statements would be appreciated.
I suddenly feel sorry for Maryann Plunkett, I don't think she looks manish
Since the adventures of the Silverfin, commanded by Susanna Leijten, is my primary fanfic series I thought it only fitting to have her as my avatar.
Besides the little masculine emblem just underneath should clarify any confusion...I'd hope anyway
I love HISHE!
They totally nailed the whole point of Marcus being in the film
No question about it. The poll result comes as no surprise.
Pretty much this, they're both entertaining in their own right.
Honestly.....that says it all. A stronger comparison might be TWOK to ST:ID as one of the old kid-targeted Book and Record versions of popular films.
I don´t think, that it´s a very fair comparison. Firstly, the two movies are from completely different times, have been made for completely different audiences and used completely different filmmaking and special effects techniques. And secondly, many of us have seen TWOK dozens of times in the 30 years it´s been around; STID is brand new and just can´t be that much an integral part of anyone´s personal Trek universe.
That being said, I enjoy both movies very much, each for different reasons. So initially, I wanted to vote for both of them. But seeing how far TWOK is ahead in this poll, I decided to give my vote to STID - to even things out a little
Yup, TWoK is going to have a lot more personal meaning to most of the board. I first watched it back in the late 80's and have seen it more times than I remember. I've only seen STID a few times and that's only this year.
But then, the thread title and it's "Versus" wasn't particularly fair either. As you mentioned, comparing films 30 years apart made by two different groups of people with entirely different casts doesn't make for a sound comparison.
But I still went with "both" as honestly I love both.
Separate names with a comma.


text:
Dear Idahoan:
This is your Idaho Voters' Pamphlet containing information concerning one proposition and one advisory vote which will appear on the November 3, 1998 ballot. It contains the ballot title, the pro and con arguments and rebuttals, and the complete text of each ballot measure.
By Constitutional provision in Idaho, the people have the right to legislate independently of the Legislature. Certain people are exercising that right with proposition one. The legislature has placed the advisory vote measure on the ballot in order to seek your input.
The arguments for and against, as provided by law, are the opinions of the respective authors. The publishing of the arguments for these measures does not constitute an endorsement by the State of Idaho, nor does the State warrant the accuracy or truth of any statement made in the arguments.
Another section contains information on voter registration. Important information is included for those who are not registered to vote, or have moved recently.
Read carefully the information about the measures contained in this pamphlet. Such measures are designed specifically to give you, the electorate, the opportunity to influence the laws which regulate us all.
Take advantage of this opportunity and vote on November 3, 1998.
(Facsimile Ballot)
Initiative enacting new Idaho Code Section 34-907B; authorizes Secretary of State to accept signed term limits pledge from congressional candidates; specifying language of term limits pledge; requiring Secretary of State to place term limits pledge information on ballots; requiring Secretary of State to place term limits pledge information in polling places; defining congressional terms of office; conferring standing upon initiative sponsors; authorizing Secretary of State to promulgate rules; and containing a severability clause.
Shall the above-entitled measure proposed by Proposition One be approved?
(Facsimile Ballot)
Advisory question promulgated by the Idaho legislature stating that the United States Supreme Court has invalidated ballot access restrictions as they apply to members of Congress; asking whether ballot access restrictions should remain in place for state elected officials, state Legislators, county elected officials, city elected officials and school district trustees despite the fact that the same ballot access restrictions cannot apply to members of Congress.
Since the United States Supreme Court has ruled that Idaho's 1994 term limits law does not apply to members of Congress, shall term limits for state elected officials, state legislators, county elected officials, city elected officials and school district trustees remain in place?
In Favor of Proposition One and Advisory Vote:
Citizens for Term Limits - Idaho Campaign
Donna Weaver, Chairman
1677 East Miles
Hayden Lake, Idaho 83835
(800) 457-0272
(208) 772-0396
Against Proposition One:
Save the Constittion Committee
George C. Detweiler, Chairman
P.O. Box 771
Twin Falls, Idaho 83303
(208) 743-4714
Against Advisory Vote:
Idahoans Against Term Limits
Steve Ahrens, ID Assoc. of Commerce & Industry
Dan Chadwick, ID Assoc. of Counties
Neil Colwell, Washington Water Power
Ken Harward, Assoc. of Idaho Cities
Steve Millard, ID Hospital Association
Alan Smith, ID School Boards Association
Box 389
Boise, Idaho 83701
(208) 343-1849
Idaho Democratic
Libertarian Party of
Reform Party of
Idaho Republican
Natural Law Party of
American Heritage
The Legislature approved seven proposed amendments to the Idaho Constitution to be submitted to voters on the November 1998 general election ballot:
HJR 6 -- To change the name of the Public School Fund to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund and provide that the fund include proceeds from the sale of school lands and amounts allocated from the Public School Earnings Reserve Fund.
HJR 8 -- To change the name of the Public School Fund to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund, provide that earnings of that fund be deposited into the Public School Earnings Reserve Fund and provide for distribution.
SJR 101 -- To delete obsolete language relating to salaries of Supreme Court justices.
SJR 102 -- To delete obsolete language relating to salaries and fees of officers of the executive department of state government.
SJR 105 -- To delete the prohibition of a person under guardianship from voting, serving as a juror or holding any civil office.
SJR 106 -- To authorize the state of Idaho to guarantee the bonds of school districts.
SJR 107 -- To clarify limits on state debt and liabilities, provide for publication of intent to create state indebtedness and except from the definition of debt ordinary operating expenses that will be repaid during the fiscal year.
An Idaho Voter Must Be:
Where and When to Register:
Applicants may register before an election with the county clerk up to 25 days before an election. This deadline shall also apply to any registrars the county clerk may have appointed.
Any elector may register by mail. Any mail registration application must be received by the county clerk not later than 25 days preceding any election provided that any mail registration application postmarked not later than 25 days prior to an election shall be deemed timely.
An individual who is eligible to vote may register on election day by appearing in person at the polling place for the precinct in which the individual maintains residence, by completing a registration card, making an oath in the form prescribed by the secretary of state and providing proof of residence. All documents used in providing proof of residence shall be accompanied with a photo I.D. Only the following documents showing the registrant's current address in the precinct are authorized:
Students may also use:
A person may request absentee registration by writing to the county clerk. Absentee registration will be accepted if received by the county clerk not later than 25 days preceding any election provided that any mail registration application postmarked not later than 25 days prior to an election shall be deemed timely.
Reregistration - When Required:
Reregistration is required if the voter has failed to vote at least once at a primary or general election during the four years following registration, and the county clerk has consequently canceled the registration, or if the voter moves or changes their name.
Voting Locations:
A polling place is selected for each election precinct by the Board of County Commissioners. Election notices are published in local newspapers naming the polling place for each election precinct, date of election, and the hours during which the polls will be open. County clerks also have this information. Every effort has been made to provide handicapped voters with polling place accessibility, or when requested, absentee ballots.
Absentee Voting:
Any registered voter may make application in writing to the county clerk to receive an absentee ballot. Applications are available from Clerk's office or a written request with the required information (name of elector, residence address in Idaho and mailing address to which ballot is to be forwarded).
The application shall be signed personally by the applicant and be filed with the county clerk not later than 5:00 P.M. on the day before the election.
The absentee ballot may be delivered to the absent elector in the office of the county clerk, by postage prepaid mail or by other appropriate means.
For further information contact your county
clerk's office or the secretary of state's office in Boise:
(208) 334-2852.
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP > Black Giant > Climber's Log
Black Giant Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2017
|Summitted via west slope with some drizzle then snow flurry as we were leaving the summit. Terrible slog up and down but wonderful view north to Dusy Basin!
|Posted Sep 9, 2017 4:07 pm
|From Black GIant Pass
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2013
|Hiked the High Route and decided to detour into Ionian Basin. This marked the beginning of that detour. A huge reward for surprisingly little effort. A must-do side trip for anyone that finds themselves in this area.
|Posted Oct 10, 2014 10:05 pm
|Up from the JMT
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2014
|Took me about an hour to ascend from Helen Lake. The views from the summit were the highlight of my 13-day JMT hike.
|Posted Aug 25, 2014 1:21 am
|Lake 11828
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2011
|Was camped at Lake 11828 to begin a spectacular long weekend in Ionian Basin. On day 2 climbed Charybdis, McDuffie, and Black Giant, up the south slopes of Black Giant after ascending and descending the north ridge of McDuffie, then down via Black Giant Pass (be sure to descend all the way to the pass to avoid the cliffs if you follow this route). Had some hail on top but still great views.
|Posted Sep 6, 2011 2:50 pm
|Dayhike with Charybdis
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2010
|Cool exposure and drop off on other side of peak
|Posted Aug 26, 2010 4:35 pm
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2000
|Pretty walk up with light snow dusting from the day before.
|Posted Jul 27, 2010 6:18 pm
|kevin trieu
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2009
|did it with Charybdis
|Posted Apr 13, 2010 2:54 am
|West slope
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2009
|Easy walk-up; with Charybdis
|Posted Sep 29, 2009 10:55 am
|Bob Burd
|2009 Sierra Challenge
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2009
|With Sean (below) and a handful of others on day 3 of the Challenge. Trip Report
|Posted Aug 27, 2009 7:40 pm
|West slope
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2009
|Daytrip from Lake Sabrina. Bonus peak for 2009 Sierra Challenge.
|Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:15 pm
|Route Climbed: West Slope
Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2006
|Climbed with my dad during a hike of the John Muir Trail. Awesome views! For some good pictures from the summit click here and click through the next 10 or so pictures.
|Posted Jan 9, 2009 11:56 am
|6 Days - 1 Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2003
|It started as a 7-day trip over Lamarck Col and through Evolution to bag up to 10 peaks. It rained everyday, but cleared long enough to get Black Giant. Nice and sunny the day we packed out, though - figures. Another memorable trip with Patty R.
|Posted Jul 1, 2008 6:25 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2007
|Black Giant/Charybdis dayhike out of Lake Sabrina via Echo Col. Very nice views from this one.
Echo Col is a bit tricky to cross from west to east--I couldn't locate the correct notch, and spent way too long (like 3 hrs too long) trying to find my darned axe/crampons, which I'd left up at the pass in the morning... oops.
|Posted Aug 21, 2007 2:46 am
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2007
|From Black Giant Pass after climbing Charybdis. Easy 40 minute hike. Peak #11 on JMT adventure.
|Posted Aug 1, 2007 5:34 pm
|Eric O
|On Skis
Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2006
|Mike Schwartz and I climbed Black Giant via the gentle west slope on backcountry ski gear, on a beautiful sunny day with almost no wind. We switched from skis to crampons for the final 500 feet and summited in early afternoon. Then descended a steep narrow couloir to the unnamed lake between BG and Charybdis. As you look south from BG's summit, from left to right, there is a saddle in the south ridge which can easily be skied to the aforementioned lake; then to skier's right of that are two steep narrow couloirs with sheer rock walls; to skier's right of that again are some patchy rock and snow areas; then to skier's right again lies Black Giant Pass. Both the couloir we skied and the one next to it held continuous snow in the range of 40 to 45 degrees and it was in great "corn" condition. In a snow year heavy enough to fill these chutes, I'd definitely recommend skiing either of them.
The top of the chute we skied is visible in this image.
|Posted May 2, 2006 6:05 pm
|Route Climbed: West slope Date Climbed: August 5, 1981
|From Black Giant Pass on way to Ionian Basin.
|Posted Sep 28, 2005 9:47 pm
|Date Climbed: September 1998
|Climbed during a weeklong solo trip in 1998
|Posted Mar 8, 2004 10:49 am
|Dave K
|Route Climbed: West Slope Date Climbed: July 29, 2003
|I climbed this with my friend Neva after dinner in the evening. There are some wonderful views from the top! We were fortunate because the weather mostly cooperated, despite rains earlier and during the previous three days. This was day 5 of a 9 day backpacking trip.
|Posted Aug 6, 2003 1:05 am


text:
Vendors are falling into this trap as they seek to market and monetize SDN before the new-car smell wears off. OpenFlow, because it's a standard, is an exception, but we see SDN-like capabilities baked into a number of proprietary and only partially standards-based systems. Sure, most vendors promise to support OpenFlow in addition to proprietary code, but the temptation is strong to "embrace and extend."
As chief architect of the InteropNet and CEO of a technical design company, I understand that it's normal for IT organizations to come at software-defined networking from the perspective of an engineer: What's broken that can be fixed by the ability to program a network to dynamically change its operating mode or parameters via a programmatic method?
Use SDN to make the current network better, sure. But it's more important to think differently about how SDN will help us design and build the network of the future.
Ahead, Not Back
It's not an easy mindset to break, that tendency to look at new tools as solutions to old problems. We've been beaten down by proprietary feature sets designed for the lowest common denominator. Want to do something out of the ordinary? Sorry. It was a case of: "Here's the network and these are the things it will support. Deal with it." That led CIOs to say: "Sorry, CEO/CMO, but we can't support your project unless we spend [huge sum]. Let's budget for that next year."
No wonder business leaders listened when infrastructure-as-a-service vendors came calling.
SDN can put us back on track to be flexible and open to the requirements of today's business leaders and users -- who are, let's face it, dictating what networking pros need to focus on. The most recent example is consumer technologies, mainly tablets and smartphones. Tomorrow it'll be an explosion of new applications, or something else, and I have no doubt SDN can be part of the solution. Rather than respond to requests for a new feature by saying "not without lots of time and money," SDN can help us say: "Yes, we can do that. We just need a couple of days to tune the infrastructure."
For now, SDN is confined to large data centers. The sweet spot for the Googles and Amazons of the world is the prospect that an app can communicate with the underlying infrastructure to enhance performance or solve problems based on specific parameters. Your average enterprise, however, doesn't have this expertise in house yet. This is the biggest challenge and greatest opportunity for SDN vendors. The hardware is available and at a price in line with market expectations. Now help us learn.
The big challenge for IT teams? Think of SDN not in terms of perpetuating the status quo but as a tool to transform how the network supports the business.


text:
Out goes Freddy Sanchez; in comes Bill Hall
Somehow, this has got to be some kind of weird retribution for last season.
Of the eight positions players on the Giants' opening day roster, five have made a trip to the disabled list this season: 1B Brandon Belt, 2B Freddy Sanchez, 3B Pablo Sandoval, C Buster Posey and CF Andres Torres. And that doesn't count RF Cody Ross, who opened the season on the DL.
The other three players — RF Aubrey Huff, SS Miguel Tejada and LF Pat Burrell — are hitting .234, .227 and .221 respectively.
Ross eventually came off the DL, and so did Torres. Sandoval will come off on Tuesday. Belt won't be back until after the All-Star break. Posey is done of the season, and we just news on Sanchez.
Not good.
An MRI revealed that there is damage to Sanchez's labrum and the shoulder capsule is stretched, making it susceptible to repeated dislocations.
The plan right now is to see how Sanchez's shoulder responds to rehab over the next few weeks and hope he can return this season. Surgery to strengthen the shoulder will be necessary, but the Giants would like to hold it off until after the season.
We consider that a longshot. It may just be best to consider surgery as quickly as possible to begin rehab for 2012. That's because the Giants signed Sanchez to a one-year extension for 2012 at the start of this season.
After the Giants' 4-2 win over the Reds on Sunday, they activated 3B Pablo Sandoval from the disabled list and optioned Connor Gillaspie back to Fresno. We expected as much.
For depth, the Giants added utility man Bill Hall on Saturday. But he's likely not going to be the answer.
At one point, Hall was a promising hitter for the Brewers. He hit 17 HRs, 62 RBI and hit .291 in 146 games in 2005. It got better in 2006 — 35 HR, 85 RBI, .270 in 148 games.
And then things turned downward — 14/63/.254 in 2007; 15/55/.225 in 2008.
In 2009, he hit .201 with 6 HR and 24 RBI in 76 games when the Brewers traded him to the Mariners, where he hit .200 with 2 HR and 12 RBI in 34 games.
The Mariners traded him to the Red Sox, where he hit .247 with 18 HR and 46 RBI in 120 games.
He signed with the Astros as a free agent last offseason, but only hit .224 with 2 HR and 13 RBI in 46 games before being released on June 4.
Oh, and what he did in his first game with the Giants on Saturday is pretty much his M.O. — he strikes out about once every three times he steps to the plate.


text:
Be Happy.
Gift Shop
My DailyOM
About Us
DailyOM - The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is by Jan Frazier
The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is
The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is
BY Jan Frazier
Popular spiritual writer and teacher Jan Frazier shows how to move from emotional and mental turmoil to quiet joy and happiness in
The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is
Frazier, the author of the bestselling
When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
, offers practical and effective suggestions for developing "present-moment" awareness as the key to awakening. Frazier shows how getting caught up in being on a spiritual journey often sustains the illusion of time--specifically some future time when you hope to awaken. But letting go of the idea of the future and staying focused in the present can give you access to a rich life free of suffering.
"When you are hurting, or feeling very unawake, or dissatisfied with yourself, instead of saying 'I've got to change' or 'I've got to get enlightened,' step outside of the whole thing and simply observe your thoughts and feelings -- neutrally, without judgment. This nonjudgmental looking is transformative." -Jan Frazier
Whether you feel stuck in your life, or simply want to suffer less and live more consciously, The Freedom of Being offers a blueprint to make the shift into the present.
Was it lucky, or does it mean nothing at all, that one of the earth's creatures happened to grow in such a way that it could know itself? That it had the capacity to lose this knowledge, then be restored to it, and call that homecoming heaven? The raccoon does not do this. It never lost itself. But then, the raccoon cannot experience being that's aware of itself. The raccoon isn't endowed with what we are--which carries with it the ability to while away a life by spending it all inside the head. It wouldn't dawn on a raccoon to do anything but what it's doing to stay alive.
Was it lucky that we evolved? That there should be a planet amenable to life (outlandishly improbable enough); that in this world, so lavishly creatured and planted, there should be one bumbling animal that managed to grow a brain so good it could do impressive things (imagine, speak, string thoughts together, invent concepts like tomorrow, enemy), endowing it all with the feel and taste of the real? We made that most devastating of discoveries: that it is possible to neglect to notice that we exist. To be so fixated on our minds' creations that the lapse in presence can sustain itself for the duration of an entire life. Thus do we lose contact with our essence, with our being-ness, thinking our way right out of the heaven we were born into: this persistently beating heart, the great green and blue world, the vast black between the stars--in which we miraculously exist.
We manage not to notice.
But we are still here. There is possibility yet, in the given time, to come alive, to remember ourselves. Our intelligence is wide-ranging enough to intuit that what the mind produces, what it has access to, may not be the ultimate truth. We are like our own prodigal children. Though we've become lost in all our highly evolved mental finery, the truth of what we are can be discovered anew. We can come home to the presence we were born to. The raccoon will never know the joy of the return. (It wouldn't think to leave.) But we who left--we can realize we've wandered off and (what could be more lucky?) we can find our way back. The joy of the return--to be had by no creature but us--exceeds every other possible joy.
The sky is not big enough to hold it.
It looks for all the world as though the condition a person starts with, and whatever's cobbled together from there forward, is what constitutes life. Wherever meaning or value is to be found, it must be there: in the ways we spend time, the choices we make, the things we accomplish, what takes place in the world around us. That seems to be the whole story. It all goes on for each of us, feeling quite real and important. Whatever the degree of satisfaction, life as it is ordinarily defined seems to be the stuff of human existence.
Yet all the while, there is the presence of something else, something real, that's independent of the life we regularly imbue with meaning. This something is everywhere, always, pervading all that is--including our very selves. We can fail to notice it. There might be fleeting awareness of it. Seldom is the knowing sustained. Yet this more substantial reality is persistently here, even as a whole life may be lived at a perceived distance from this most extraordinary thing attending each moment.
This primal condition is the source, the fulfillment, of every longing--of everything we try, in our ordinary lives, to bring about by familiar means. We look for it in relationship, in creativity, in achievement, in the life of the intellect, in physical challenge (mountain climbing, marathons).We seek it in the accumulation of experience, in systems of belief, in the dreamed-of future. We imagine it awaits us in the afterlife. Oh, the sad irony. We look for it outside ourselves, in the insubstantial, the transitory, where it will never be found. All the while, this unconditional delight, this unwoundable state of well-being, is the essence of our nature.
How can we possibly miss it? We have trouble turning from the usual suspects to satisfy the deep ache for wholeness, fulfillment, truth.We can't help thinking love will do it, or good health, or attainment of one thing or another. Perhaps being needed will do it, or being useful, or earning recognition. We look past what is already here, within, waiting for us to know our selves.
It's hard to believe there could be something more real than all a life appears to be--hard to imagine a reality both formless and more substantial than any form. A reality outside of time, subject to nothing, lacking nothing, still and unwavering and perfect, of which a human being partakes. How can this be? How can the experience of that other bring such peace, such excruciating joy, when it is made of sheer nothingness?
But so it is. This other has nothing to do with anything that happens in our lives. It is with us unceasingly, through all we do and fail to do. It's what we swim in, what constitutes our existence.
There are hints. It makes its presence known in stillness, in undiluted attention, in the in-betweens: between exhale and inhale, one note and the next, one thought and another; between the sound of wind and the feel of it on the skin; between two beats of the heart.
Between birth and death.
This something is like a liquid constantly seeking points of entry, a vapor determined to find and fill every available space. It means to permeate awareness, to be felt in the fullness of its generosity. Each moment it is here, and again here, awaiting discovery. So we might know that it is what we truly are, and know at last that all the rest (however compelling) is pale, limp, inconsequential.
A person might think there's nothing to be done about the life inside the cranium. It seems to carry on independent of any wish for peace that shows up around the edges. The yearning for ease and contentment is wistful. It's like the longing of a suitor pining from a distance, having no expectation of ever attaining the company of the beloved, of getting to enter the house, sit down, stay awhile. Let alone move in for keeps.
A person might suppose the mind is a closed world, a perpetual motion machine; that there can be no end to the tyranny there, the head packed with its own history, populated by its dreams and regrets, driven by its idea of what a life is supposed to look like, of how the world ought to be. It might seem it all has a will of its own, no way to occupy a life without thinking running the show.
The mind surely is an impressive tool, wonderfully useful. Like any tool, it has a proper function. But improper application of it can be unhealthy, even destructive. Just because the mind has enormous potential doesn't mean it ought to be allowed to run loose like a hyperactive, hormonal fourteen year-old without a curfew.
It's not that the mind is bad. The problem is that it tends to run on automatic, a machine we can't figure out how to turn off. Most of the time, we don't even realize it's running. Its ever-looping content is like elevator music, hardly noticed, like background static that's tuned out.
Because the mind goes everywhere we go, the temptation to use it constantly is overwhelming. It runs simply because it can. Like a misapplied hammer, the overactive mind takes random whacks at everything in sight, omitting no opportunity to judge, balk, interpret, identify with, stew over, start a story about.
It's the rigidity and the ceaseless busy-ness of the mind that make it so hard to discern the perfect stillness of our underlying reality.
We have more to say in the matter of mental noise than we half dream. Not by going at it in a full frontal assault, but by a little sneak around to the back side, where the plug is. It can be slipped from the power supply--just by flooding the present moment with attention. Simply by attending what's here and now.
Don't mind whatever the here-and-now happens to be.
Don't make up a story about it. Just be with it.
The plug slips out all by itself.
I might have thought I wouldn't want a life without desire, a condition cool of that terrible heat, its twin expressions: wanting and getting, having and losing. Or never having at all, wanting just multiplying, like a cancer cell desperate to make more of itself. I call it that now, cancer, but once upon a time, I fed on wanting. It sustained me. needing to get something, to get somewhere, was how I felt myself exist.
I thought I needed to be separate from the lovely, ungraspable world, so I could know the effort of striving, the poignant reach toward. My early lessons, my touchstones, were lines of poetry, like Robert Browning's Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
And this one by Wallace Stevens:
The imperfect is our paradise.
The finger of Adam at its slim distance from God's hand: that was my prototype. The space of not-quite was where the ache of aliveness was felt, stirring the notes of a sorrowful song, the reaching toward another human being. Beauty and wholeness seemed destined to be ephemeral, only ever approximated. Not having was what gave rise to my own attempt at poetry. Life was about striving, the savoring of fulfillment, however brief. Each time, after loss, the renewal of hope.
I loved that life. If you'd said I could say goodbye to it, I'd have said no thanks. I'd not have wanted the emptiness that was all I could picture as an alternative. Life without longing would be an anemic thing, without warmth or color. It would, I supposed, be a kind of death.
Notwithstanding my romantic orientation to suffering (the capacity for grief being equal to the capacity for joy), there was no denying that the ideal situation would be finally to get everything I wanted, and to luxuriate in it--to live in the house of the beloved. If you'd offered me rest from fearful grasping, I'd have taken it in a heartbeat. I was making the best of an imperfect situation, consoled by the belief that the perennial dissatisfaction made me human. In any case, it was inevitable that some of the wanted things wouldn't materialize, or they'd come but wouldn't stay, so I might as well get used to it (a reasonable adaptation).
If I thought there was any remedy for the anxious middle of the night, sleep receding like a tide racing for the horizon; if I imagined an end to the worries about my children, my health, it was that finally things would even out, no visible bumps in the road ahead. We'd all stay okay (enough); there would be enough money; my kids would find happiness. I could finally relax. A bit. (If only it would hold.)
The trouble wasn't that I couldn't get it all to happen. The trouble was that I counted on the okayness of things to be my sustenance, the source of well-being. The trouble was that I defined myself by my circumstances and my efforts, by who I was: my children's mother, a writer of poems and supporter of other writers, a hard-working, well-meaning person. Doing well at these things was my fix. I was tethered to them like a patient with tubes snaking to clear bags dangling from portable poles. They were my sugar and salt, my way of keeping okay in this life of mine. I needed at least minimal success and stability in order to sleep well, to feel all right about myself. But sometimes these life-sustainers dried up.The very thing I'd wanted eluded me, turned bad, sickened me with my failure, with something not going as I'd hoped. Still, I was hooked up to these things that mattered, steadily fed (or starved) by how it all went. I could go nowhere, not even into sleep, that it didn't all accompany me.
Anyhow, I wouldn't have known who I was without it.
I did not set out to detach myself from all I drew meaning from, to slip from the seesaw of desire and loss. I was making an effort to suffer less, having some success, but I had no expectation of absolute relief.
It was as if one night I crawled into bed the person I'd always been, and in the morning woke up changed--as if, while I slept, kindly beings crept into the dark where I lay, and carried away things I'd clung to all my life. So much leaving me that I'd always thought was me. Yet something remained, peacefully resting, unaware a miracle was taking place. My familiar self fading away, in its place the room filled with a blessing, so that when I woke, I would know myself for the first time in my life.
It was like that, as if someone or something took me into its tenderness, murmuring, here, let me help you off with these scratchy, heavy clothes. Look, how there are stones sewn into the hems. How have you carried this weight all your life?
I resort here to metaphor, knowing no other way to make it clear how everything changed, absolutely changed, absolutely for the better, the best. I did not bring it about. It would be hard to find more convincing evidence that reality is much bigger than our petty notions of control or understanding.
All wanting, all fear, had stopped. There was--there is--a steady stream of joy without cause. No reason, nothing driving it, nothing able to interfere with it. Did I know why this happened? I knew only that I had come home. I knew too, with certainty, that this radical equanimity had been there right along. That it is the nature of us all.
Eventually, I came to understand why I hadn't seen it before, why I hadn't come "home" years sooner, to that place that is the only true beloved. It was because of how I'd been in love with wanting and getting, having and losing. It was because of who I had believed myself to be.
How wrong could a person be?
Copyright � 2012
The Freedom of Being
by Jan Frazier. Reprinted with permission of Red Wheel Weiser.
Published by Red Wheel Weiser


text: "In prose as strong and quietly beautiful as the American chestnut itself, Susan Freinkel profiles the silent catastrophe of a near-extinction and the impassioned struggle to bring a species back from the brink. Freinkel is a rare hybrid: equally fluid and in command as a science writer and a chronicler of historical events, and graced with the poise and skill to seamlessly graft these talents together. A perfect book."Mary Roach


text:
OCEAN CITY – A windy Thursday morning did not turn out to be the best day to measure water quality but local environmental community members came out loud and clear to relay the message of the importance of water quality.
The Assateague Coastkeeper held the 1st Annual Isle of Wight Bay Wade-In at the Worcester County Isle of Wight Nature Park on Swimmable Action Day, which is a function of the Waterkeeper Alliance's CWA 40 Campaign that commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act.
The Waterkeeper Alliance is a network of 200 water protection groups worldwide and Assateague Coastkeeper and Assateague Coastal Trust are members. The focus of the Swimmable Action Day is to encourage citizens to celebrate the right to clean, swimmable waters and to promote the importance of the Clean Water Act, established in 1972, in protecting our local waterways.
According to Assateague Coastkeeper Kathy Phillips, a wade-in is an unscientific check of water clarity. Retired Maryland State Sen. Bernie Fowler initiated the first one 20 years ago to check water quality in Maryland's bays and tributaries. The official wade-in measurement, known as the "Sneaker Index", documents how deep waders can go and still see their shoes.
"Ever since the early 1980's when Sen. Bernie Fowler, who lives on the Patuxent River, decided to walk out and see if he could see his sneakers and measure the distance from the top of the water to where he lost the sight of his sneakers, it became the Fowler index," Assateague Coastal Trust President Dr. Tom Jones said. "So every year after that Bernie would go in the same spot the same time of the year and get his index, and it still goes on today."
Jones furthered that to his knowledge there has been no index taken on the Coastal Bays and that is where Phillips stepped in.
"First of all this was a Waterkeeper Alliance Swimmable Action Day so I wanted to have some type of event that would be fun and get people in the water but would also be an educational moment to talk about the condition of the coastal bays," Phillips said. "The idea of doing the wade-in is because now we can come back next year and we can take the measurement again and hopefully it will improve every year that is the idea."
Members of the Assateague Coastal Trust, along with their colleagues and friends waded into the Isle of Wight Bay and took a measurement of nine inches before they could not see the top of their sneakers.
"The turbidity of water is really important because when sunlight can't penetrate down to the bottom, grasses can't grow, and if the grasses can't grow than it changes the whole habitat for the animals, so it is very important that the sunlight penetrate the water, the more turbid it is the less light penetrates down," Jones explained of the importance of water clarity.
Jones furthered that turbidity mostly comes from land runoff, soil and nutrients, like nitrogen phosphorous. Nitrogen phosphorous causes the microscopic algae, which also makes water cloudy.
"It just makes for a very cloudy soup out there when you have too many nutrients, too much sentiment and to much more or less microscopic biology out there filling water," he said.
Phillips added that the wade-in is unscientific but it is the idea of getting the community involved and the awareness of water quality that is the most important.
"The bays are stressed and there is no arguing that," she said. "The coastal bays report card year after year doesn't show any improvement … it is good for people to be aware of it. Today being Swimmable Action Day we want people to go out and swim and have fun and just be aware of what needs to be done to continue to have good swimmable water quality here in the bays.
On Thursday, the Assateague Coastkeeper announced the launch of the Swim Guide smart phone app in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the Chesapeake region. The app helps the user locate the closest, cleanest beach, get directions, view photos, and determine if the water is safe for swimming.
The Swim Guide utilizes water quality monitoring data from government authorities to determine the water quality at nearly 2500 beaches in the U.S. and is updated frequently as the water quality information is gathered.
Assateague Coastal Trust will soon bring the Delmarva Coastal Bays to the Swim App, as soon as links, photos, and descriptions of Worcester and Accomack County public beaches are compiled. Coastkeeper also plans to expand the Swim Guide app in 2013.
"The Assateague Coastkeeper app is going to be a citizen recording mechanism, in other words if they are somewhere and they see pollution they can snap and take a picture of it with their phone, write a description, the smart phone with record the latitude and longitude, and it will come directly to me and then I can check it out and see if I need to call and report it to the County or State agency," Phillips said.
The Coastkeeper app will also to include their own bacteria monitoring data for waterways where the public recreates on and in the water instead of on a waterfront beach.


text:
I can't watch the game today. But judging from the box scores, why isn't Starbury getting any minutes?
I can't watch the game today. But judging from the box scores, why isn't Starbury getting any minutes?
yea malik rose getting in before steph. makes sense right? hes all the way on the far end of the bench and mardy collins got minutes so stephs most likely out of the rotation for tonight at least
HOLY ****TTTT wilson chandler wit the slamm!
Damn player-centric usernames straight to hell.
The Miami Heat are playing a sloppy (halfcourt) B-ball.
And certain Knick players are playing like Miami.
They are playing to the level of their oponents (Sloppy!).
The Knicks need more bigmen than Lee & Zach
Yeah, where is the so-called run-and-gun?
I am a confessed Mebury hater, but not playing him at all is messed up. It's definitely political. D'Antoni and Walsh don't want him here (and probably most of the team) so they are not going to play him to piss him off and wait for him to give them a reason to buy him out.
"we're winning
buncha babies
"Q richerdsen - he throw shoot it almost hit peoples ion crowd send him back phenix sun whatever he come from la cliper screw you q rich hiot 1 of 15 shoot put hand of you to head like you is kobe bryan pleasde"-Dirk
So in order to express their message without the usage of words, they're sacrificing a win? I mean seriously.... We all know what Marbury is capable of and can definitely contribute to beating Miami. If they lose this game cause they were too stubborn to let Marbury play, I'll be pissed.
randolph owning beasley as Knicks go up by 10
desde la cuna del chango


text:
|Shelly and Joe Trumpey '88: Truth Window
"We thought that if we could do it, it would be cool to try. And the great thing about being an artist is that you get to make things."
Joe Trumpey '88, pictured with wife and co-builder, Shelly Trumpey, and daughters Autumn, and Evelyn, in front of the straw bale home they built near Grass Lake, Michigan.
Photos by Steve Charles


text:
Latos takes the blame in series-ending loss
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
Latos was on the mound for all six of the San Francisco Giants' runs, and threw the pitch that Buster Posey smashed into the left-field seats for a grand slam that stood up as the decisive blow. With a 6-4 Reds loss, Latos' debut season in Cincinnati was over.
He was standing at his locker when the clubhouse doors opened and reporters filed in.
"I let a couple of things get to me that shouldn't have," Latos said. "I made a mistake to Posey and he hit a grand slam. The only thing I can really say is I let down everybody. I let down the team, most importantly and the front office and the fans. I let things get to me. One hundred percent of this game is on me. I [messed] it up."
"It was aggravating that he got a hit off of me when I pretty much had him beat," Latos said.
The Giants took the lead when Latos threw a fastball down the middle to Brandon Crawford for an RBI triple. Two batters later, Angel Pagan reached on a run-scoring error charged to shortstop Zack Cozart, and Latos' aggravation increased with a four-pitch walk to Marco Scutaro.
Pablo Sandoval loaded the bases with a single, and Posey un-loaded them with a grand slam. It was the first off Latos in the right-hander's Major League career.
It was Latos' final batter. Reliever Sam LeCure was summoned to finish the inning.
Latos was 14-4 with a 3.48 ERA during the regular season, but cited plenty of room for improvement.
"Mental improvement," he said. "If I don't let those little things get to me, who knows now that if they score two runs and we win 3-2? Or they score three runs and we win 4-3? It was a mental error on me. I'm not making excuses. I screwed it up. This game is 100 percent on me. I let down my teammates, and that's what bugs me the most right now."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
With this current group i say yes. The model that they need to follow is the Indiana or Memphis model.
I mentioned this on another thread. They need to add a STUD back to the basket power forward. That's what they need. Al Jefferson is a UFA. To me he's a lot like Zach Randolph. Great low post player, great rebounder, just a prototypical power forward. Very underrated player.
I like to use the Memphis Grizzlies model as an example. If they had Rudy Gay and some of the key players that they traded to Cleveland. Memphis probably would've beaten the Spurs.
Jonas Valanciunas - Marc Gasol. JV based from what i've seen in his 1st year. Crazy to think but i think he's going to be a better player than Marc Gasol. Needs to stay healthy though.
Al Jefferson - Zach Randolph. Like i said above, their game is very similar. Both 20/10 type of players.
Rudy Gay - Tayshaun Prince. Nothing to say here. Gay is the superior player.
DeMar DeRozan - Tony Allen. Allen is a much better defender but DeRozan is a much better scorer
Kyle Lowry - Mike Conley. Conley is the better player. But Lowry doesn't really have to play great when you have guys like JV, Jefferson and Gay. Just give the ball to Rudy and get out of the way. Or just pound the ball inside to Big Al or JV.
The question though is, how can they get Al Jefferson?? i really feel like he's the missing piece on this current group.
Another option that they can go to is tank next season and hopefully get lucky in the lottery and land Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker(Noah Vonleh is a player as well btw. Keep an eye on him) That route though is very risky.
Let's say the Raptors move Gay and DeRozan. Without those two i think this team is a 20 win team. If they finish last in the league. There's no guarantee that they're going to get the 1st or 2nd overall pick. What if they end up with the 3rd or even worst 4th overall pick?? now what??
That's why i'm not in favor of tanking. As much as i'd love to see Wiggins or Parker here. That route is just very risky. Masai needs to work his magic and get Al Jefferson.


text:
Guest artists Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle, principal dancers with New York City Ballet, join this year's production of The Nutcracker by Chamberlain Performing Arts, presented by the Texas Instruments Foundation, at the Eisemann Center in the Hill Performance Hall.
Three performances will be held over Thanksgiving weekend: Friday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 30 at 2 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are priced from $10 to $100 and can be purchased by calling the Eisemann Center ticket office at 972-744-4650 or online at eisemanncenter.com.
411 W. Arapaho Rd. Richardson, TX 75080-4551 PH# 972 -744-4100 | Mailing Address P.O. Box 830309 Richardson, TX 75083-0309
© 2018 City of Richardson, TX | Privacy Policy
| Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities call, 972-744-0908 or Email email@example.com


text:
Full match highlights from FCD's 1-1 draw with Toronto FC.
GOAL: Zach Loyd puts in a diving header to give FC Dallas the 1-0 lead.
SAVE: Kevin Hartman denies Ryan Johnson the game-tying goal.
GOAL: Danny Koevermans scores in his fifth straight match to tie it up for Toronto.
SAVE: Hartman makes a late save on Koevermans to preserve the draw.


text:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
If he continues to play like this, Isiah will definitely have another option if Curry and Frye don't start stepping up.Yao Ming was destroying the Knicks last night (35 pts, 17 rebs, 7 blks), but for about half of the fourth quarter, was actually getting all he could handle from rookie Renaldo Balkman. Denying Yao the ball, keeping him off-balance and just generally being a pest, Balkman basically took Yao out during a period when Houston was making a point of trying to run the offense through him. At 6-8, Balkman is undersized even for a power forward, let alone to be sticking someone 7-6, but he was handling his business out there.


text:
Made light a small flat, this room receive a beautifull light during the day.
The room Carm is embellished with a big balcony with plants, where you will be able to relax while taking advantage of the sunlight.
We conserved the floor in the original room and added moroccan tiling in the bathroom. A bathtub with foot is in the middle of the room which offers also a comfortable shower and a old sink insered in a big table in wood.
Plasma TV, DvD player, wifi.
150 €


text:
42.0136 Options of board.Cite as [A.S.A.C. § 42.0136]
On the basis of the matters presented at the hearing, the board may reinstate parole, revoke, and terminate the order of parole, or modify the terms and conditions thereof. Under such circumstances, the prisoner may be required to serve all or any part of the remainder of the term for which he was sentenced.History: Rule 6-75, eff 14 Jul75, § 426.


text:
She was preceded in death by her husband, Omer Hill; brothers, Haskel Cowan and Virgil Cowan; and sisters, Opal Thomas and Juanita Hardin.
Survivors include her daughters, Joyce (David Clough), Bakersfield, Calif., Sharon Montgomery, Clarksville, Glenda (Duane Yates), Clarksville, Delene (Paul Alexander), Bakersfield, and Adera (Billy Joe Felkins), Clarksville; sister, Corene Berm, Wichita, Kan.; 13 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
Funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, at Broussard-Pledger Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sherman Cemetery, Oark. Rev. Gregory Willis will officiate.
Broussard-Pledger Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.


text:
Results 11 to 18 of 18
These guys are way more qualified than I am to help you now with all the info out there. The only thing I wanted to mention is an observation based on this part of your explanation: "We are 90% surf . . ."
Check out the Exile SXT65 speakers before you change whatever you have on the tower. While I agree that getting what you have now working is probably the priority, if you do decide to upgrade you will kick yourself if you don't at least hear these before you decide what to do. Good luck!My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
2000 Outback LS (sold)
Exile Tunes
P5 Danielo Diamond 58"
I want edit my post just a little after double checking the specs on the ZX250.2. At 4 ohm, such as driving 1 speaker per chnl, its output is 85W rms. That is by no means, grossly under powering those Kicker components. Although they would run comfortable at 120W, I do not believe upgrading the amp at this point, would yield the results you are looking for. I agree with David, if you are ready to make the investment, then go with a single pair of larger speakers. Picking up a 2nd zx250.2 would out you spot on for most any 8" tower speaker out there.
Zone wise, I feel that the in-boat and tower need to be different zones and designed to achieve the goals that the owner wants for each. IMO, the sub is part of the in-boat zone and in most installs, stays that way. 9 of 10 customers with towers, do not want a 2K watt in-boat system to compete, keep up or be in balance with their 2K watt tower setup.
For the tow-sport enthusiasts, most are after a setup that allows them to tone down the in-boat volume when the rider is in tow. This allows the rider to enjoy the tunes without the passengers being subjected to the in-boat volume at the same time. So in those cases, an in-boat system that will keep pace with the HO tower system is not practical. There is the exception, though. There are those that funds are not a concern when designing the system. In most cases, they spend more time at the party cove. Their days on the water are less about tow sports and not too family friendly. So for them, having a 2500 watt sub projecting 6 boats over to the beer pong table is what their goals are.
Not to steer this thread too far of course but to expand a little on Mike's zone comments which I entirely agree with... You always want a little extra sub capacity and the ability to control the sub is nice to have if you are turning down the in-boat speakers while really driving the tower speakers extremely hard. Obviously under those conditions the in boat occupants are getting alot of residual radiation off the tower speakers whether they want it or not. But normally that doesn't constitute a zone in itself. Its just a bit of extra capacity and a bit of control.
For bass that is musical you cannot overdrive the capacity of your in-boat coaxials. Why? Try listening to any subwoofer in isolation and without the coaxials. It will absolutely sound soggy and indiscriminant. So you are very dependent on a balanced relationship between the subwoofer and in-boat coaxials if you want pitch accuracy and tonal definition in your bass. As your subwoofer overdrives the coaxials, provided it has that ability to do so, you will increasingly lose any resemblance to musicality. So the sub is tightly tied to the in-boat coaxials as part of a common in-boat zone. If you only want disco bump at the exclusion of sound quality then its a different set of priorities. And there is nothing wrong with that when its a conscious decision.
Earmark Marine
John - I didn't realize you where from Seattle. You have some great local resources close by for help if you run into trouble. or Need
- Exile is located down in portland. Welcome to stop by anytime for a refreshment. Redbull just sponsored us and dropped off a shiny refrigerator with all kinda stuff in it.
- Divine Marine is up your way. You might have seen him at the seattle boat show. I'm sure he'd give you some direct input.
- Bakes Marine is over in Issaquah (sp?) and they have an in house tech.
Sometimes the forums can go around and around in circles. I probably speak for all the audio guru's in saying you can reach out to any one of us for help regardless of the brand gear you are running.
The time is now to get all those issues sorted out because before you know it, it'll be time to DWIN and get on the water. Bakes a good service place if you need help with any of that stuff too.
and yes, I agree with all the above comments about getting that system working before you run go change it. If on of those amps are toast, I'd probably forget repairing it and just replace it with one of the amps listed in the classified section Probably be cheaper, and the forum members are all good guys.
Exile Audio
Post count?2006 Supra 20 - Sold
2006 Supra 24 Gravity Games - Sold
2015 Supra SE450 - Sold
Nice one! How's the bromance weekend going?
Kyle fell asleep, the other 9 of us are all still in his living room.2006 Supra 20 - Sold
2006 Supra 24 Gravity Games - Sold
2015 Supra SE450 - Sold


text: The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore's Hebron Savings Bank Fund has committed $2,500 toward Wor-Wic Community College's Providing for Today While Ensuring Tomorrow Capital Campaign. The $2,500 check represents a five-year commitment to the college. Pictured, from left, are Doug Wilson, President, Community Foundation; Ray Hoy, President, Wor-Wic Community College; and Craig McConnell, Senior Vice-President, Hebron Saving Bank.


text:
When it was reported back in December of last year that Ryan Braun had tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED's) the baseball world was stunned. Now that Braun has successfully appealed the accusation that he had taken PED's (the first player in MLB history to do so) the baseball world is stunned yet again.
First of all, before I get into my thoughts and opinions, I want to take a moment to say that this should never of been leaked in the first place. Whether Braun had taken PED's or not, the person who leaked the results had no business doing so. It's likely that it will never be found out who spilled the beans, but if it is ever found out that person should be fired for all of the problems they caused. But I digress.
Braun has been adamant since the initial report was made that he has never taken any PED's. He continued with the confidence during today's press conference in which he made it clear that he won his appeal because the truth was on his side.
In all realitly, it was never determined whether or not he took PED's. All that was determined was that proper protocol wasn't followed in testing the sample from Braun. According to Braun, the sample was taken on October 1st, however wasn't delivered to FedEx until October 3rd. Proper protocol states that test samples are to be delivered to FedEx the day that they are taken. Braun won his appeal due to the uncertainty of what could've been done to the test sample from the time it was taken to the time it was dropped off at FedEx. In Braun's own words the testing process is "fatally flawed", and I couldn't agree more.
Braun having his 50-game suspension lifted is one of the reasons I haven't posted my blog entry in which I'm going to announce my predictions on how I think each team will do in the upcoming MLB season. Had Braun of been suspended, the Brewers would have had no chance whatsoever to win the NL Central. Now, with Braun back in the line up for the full season, I think they're going to be real contenders in their division.
At first glance you'd find yourself thinking that the loss of Fielder would hinder the Brewers enough to keep them from defending their title of NL Central winners from 2011. You'd also find yourself thinking that the 2011 World Champion Cardinals would overtake that spot, but with the loss of Albert Pujols, I'd say both teams are about even.
Pujols and Fielder are similar in the fact that they both make major impacts each and every night. They're both power sluggers and are the best in the business at driving in runs. Combine the loss of Fielder with the loss of Braun for 50 games, and I could easily see the Brew Crew finishing 3rd or worst in the NL Central division. With Braun however, I think they have a good chance of winning the division for the second straight season. That's how important Braun is to his team.
In conclusion, whether you agree or disagree with the outcome, what's done is done. You'll just have to put up with watching Ryan Braun do his thing for an extra 50 games than everyone thought he'd being appearing in at this time on Thursday.


text:
Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by dangalak, Oct 7, 2012.
let alone a guy like Djokovic?
You can throw Murray into that debate as well - both of them have the smash of a player ranked in the 100s.
Video evidence?
not really .... they're not even close .... murray's is wayyyyy better .... it is decent ....
I don't think I've ever seen nadal miss an overhead.
These last few months maybe - it's something that Mr Lendl had him focus on, but I've seen plenty of overhead fail from Murray. His own brother says he has the worst smash in the top 100! Novak is just as bad right enough - the OP is spot on with that.
Match point - smash right at the net, and Djokovic still hits it wide
He hasn't really improved much since then! lol
yeah it still puzzles me how someone like Djokovic still misses smashes every now and then
Hahahahahahahahahahaha ok I see what you mean!
Agreed, Federer and Nadal have two of the best smashes tennis has ever seen...
Lol no. Federer's is decent compared to the best, but Nadal isn't as good as a guy like Edberg, Tsonga or Sampras.
I have a few times. Very rare though.
He has THE worst smash of any number 1 player of the modern era.
He looks shakey everytime he hits one.
He's not even that surprised he missed.
Roddick! bestsmashever
Hopefully the rest of his game follows suit.
Lol you're a trip clarky
Don't think that is going to happen so quickly Clarky! Don't think Cvac is done quite yet. Chumps like Berdych and Tsonga are not likely to beat him that is for sure.
Tsonga ain't a chump. Djokovic just played superb today.
If Tsonga improves his footwork and his BH, he can seriously do damage him.
On Berdych....:lol: ok, he truly isn't cut out to trouble Djokovic.
He can't do it better, he wear contact lenses, can't see the ball at certain angles, that's the reason, not bad motion or technic.
Hah, that would explain it.
Why doesn't he have these hilarious misses off groundstrokes then? Doesn't lack of eyesight hurt you off midcourt putaways?
Becuse he's not looking straight to the lights. In outdoor conditions when the sun is up,he wears hat, I guess it's easier for him,but in indoor conditions, I think that lights have big impact on his eye focus.
Wouldn't that also affect his serving indoors?
lol, funny thread but Dang, and most of you are right. Novak is something when it comes to smashing. He is getting better, but some of his mishits made me chuckle so much that my tummy was literally hurting.
so yeah, it the smash category Djokovic is the worst #1 in tennis history .
I would think so. And I am sure there are many players who wear contacts that don't have a smash as terrible as Cvac's. Sounds like an excuse to me.
Yeah I can hardly remember a time when Fed/Rafa/Roddick/Sampras ever missed a smash.
but Murray and Djoker have had some epic fails.
The smash is a confidence shot. There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with the way he hits it. It's just that for some reason his normally quick footwork becomes sluggish and he can't seem to contact it cleanly.
not saying it never happens...but the title says a "terrible smash" ...the guys I listed win plenty of points on that stroke to make up for the very few times they don't.
Separate names with a comma.


text:
The American FactFinder provides access to information about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas collected by the US Census Bureau. Data included is drawn from the 2000 and 2010 Decennial Censuses, the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, Economic Censuses, and Population Estimates Program.
Classic Catalog | OhioLINK | Lane Public | WorldCat |
More Options:
Research by Subject |
Databases A-Z
More Options:
OhioLINK Home |
OhioLINK Catalog |
Research by Subject |
Databases A-Z
More Options:
Miami University Search |
Miami University Directory
Staff Spotlight: Stefanie Hilles
New in Leisure Reading!
Staff Spotlight: Ginny Boehme
New in Leisure Reading!


text:
JAMES TOWNSHIP (AP) -- Michigan residents are cleaning up from floods along the Saginaw River and other waterways while more than 1,500 people in west Michigan near the Grand River await officials' word that they can return home.
In Saginaw County's James Township, about 80 miles northwest of Detroit, Mary Ann Parker said the water came within about seven feet of her back porch. Her basement was flooded, however, and her son pumped water out.
"I had the restoration people here because I want my basement cleaned up," she said in published reports, noting a damp smell.
Jason Gempel, 41, lives down the road from Parker. He estimated on Thursday that he had about 5 feet of water remaining in his basement, and expected to work into the weekend pumping it out.
"The tip of that trailer was under water, this barn had ... about 4 inches of water in it, the house has still got water in it," Gempel said while standing in his yard, wearing tall rubber boots.
He said he lost lawn care equipment, antiques and electronics in the flooding.
A flood warning remains in effect for the Saginaw River, which the National Weather Service says could remain above flood stage through Sunday.
The Saginaw News reported the city's Wastewater Treatment Plant discharged about 1.5 billion gallons of treated wastewater into the Saginaw River.
In Grand Rapids, owners of the 32-story Plaza Towers residential building that was evacuated nearly a week ago are working to pump water from the facility.
Eenhoorn LLC is working with city officials, contractors and engineers on plans to return about 1,000 residents to their homes at the building.
Water is being pumped from a parking garage beneath the hotel, apartment and condominium complex, which was evacuated April 20. Officials need to drain the basement and reactivate the electrical, plumbing and fire suppression systems.
They plan to work through the weekend.
Residents are expected to be allowed escorted access Friday and Saturday to the facility.
The Grand River dropped back beneath flood stage Thursday. In all, officials said about 1,700 people were evacuated in Kent County, including the Plaza Towers. At least 150 have returned home, Kent County officials said.
Kent County officials said the first tests of Grand River water were conducted Thursday at three locations and levels of the bacteria E. coli were lower than anticipated. Emergency Management Coordinator Jack Stewart said more tests are needed and officials still advise no contact with the water.
The Grand Rapids wastewater treatment plant told state regulators that 429 million gallons of partially treated sewage were released to the river from detention basins during the floods -- the equivalent of filling 8.5 million 50-gallon bathtubs.
"It's not the worst environmental threat that we had over the past week," said Dan Schoonmaker, spokesman for the West Michigan Environmental Action Council.


text:
Bar Mitzvah
Welcome to Eichler's outstanding collection of Bar Mitzvah Gifts. The Bar Mitzvah is one of the most special days in a young man's life. At Eichler's, we provide you with a host of excellent traditional Judaica in order to make this day even more special. Here, you will find small, simple Bar Mitzvah gifts such as Yads (Torah Pointers) and Tallit Clips, to larger, more refined items such as sterling silver Kiddush Cups and Etrog Boxes, among others. In addition, we are also proud to have a large selection of Seforim. Read more...
Whether it's a gift for a son, nephew or close friend, Eichler's has the perfect Bar Mitzvah gift to make their day even more meaningful, for years to come.
Need Bar Mitzvah Gift Ideas? Eichler's Is The Place!
Not sure what to get as a Bar Mitzvah gift? No problem! We've set up a special Bar Mitzvah Gift Ideas section, filled with a variety of Judaica that is sure to catch your attention and give you some ideas as to the appropriate gift for the birthday boy.
Items 1-32 of 288