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Pensions pose latest challenge for Chicago mayor
CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel has been a force in politics — the mastermind behind a Democratic takeover of Congress, dealmaker in two White Houses and now the hard-charging mayor intent on fixing what ails the nation's third-largest city, no matter whom he ticks off in the process.
But less than a year before asking voters to give him a second four-year term, the man once nicknamed "Rahmbo" for his fierce political maneuvering has now come face to face with a mess that could undermine Chicago's reputation as an efficient metropolis and derail its ambitions to become a high-tech business mecca: the worst public pension crisis of any major U.S. city.
Emanuel last week announced his first concrete proposal to bail out the city's drastically underfunded employee retirement systems, a festering problem inherited from his predecessor, Richard M. Daley. The plan, designed to cut Chicago's nearly $20 billion shortfall in half by reducing worker benefits and raising property taxes, would address only half the problem, but even this first attempt was met with fierce resistance from unions and taxpayer groups — and little enthusiasm from fellow Democrats he needs to get it approved.
Emanuel's supporters say that after decades of inaction by Chicago and Illinois politicians, the former White House chief of staff is finally dealing with the pain necessary to fix the problem. The mayor says it's the only answer for keeping the system out of insolvency and avoiding massive cuts in public services and a far larger tax hike.
"I said (during the 2011 mayoral campaign) that Rahm is the only one who has the intestinal fortitude to do what needs to be done," said Bernie Hansen, a former Chicago alderman for nearly two decades. "He's ruthless at times, but sometimes you have to be."
But Emanuel's critics — including a union leader who called the plan "criminal" — say it's just the latest affront from City Hall. During his tenure, Chicago already has shuttered about 50 neighborhood schools to cut costs.
Other cities have run into pension problems, particularly during the recession, that required cutbacks and tough negotiations. Providence, R.I., was on the brink of bankruptcy when its mayor got unions and retirees to agree to a cut in benefits. But no major city compares to Chicago, where pension systems have just 35 percent of the money needed to pay benefits. The next worst-funded major city, Philadelphia, has about 48 percent.
And there are questions about whether the 54-year-old Emanuel, known for being quick-talking and occasionally brusque, has the temperament and relationships to build a consensus.
Already, there is talk in Chicago's black community, which would be hit hard by the cuts, of recruiting a challenger to run against the mayor, who currently has no announced opponent.
"When ordinary people are talking about this every day, there's no way they're going to let him run unopposed," said Delmarie Cobb, a veteran political consultant who worked on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential bid and other federal campaigns.
Emanuel declined to comment for this story, but he told reporters after announcing the plan last week that he is focused on doing what's best for the city, not his own career.
"The voters did not elect me to think about my political future. They elected me to think about Chicago's future," Emanuel said.
Without relief, he said, the city's pension payment next year could be about $1 billion — an increase roughly equal to the annual cost of having 4,300 police officers on the street or raising property taxes by 150 percent.
The huge shortfall mounted during the 22 years of the Daley administration, which did not make large enough contributions to the retirement funds for city laborers, police, firefighters and teachers. Daley created a task force to study the problem, but his administration focused mostly on modernizing and beautifying "the city that works," with parks, public art and cultural attractions. His supporters insist he saved Chicago from the woeful fate of other Rust Belt cities.
By the time the recession strained the city budget, the problem was too big to overlook. Even Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy last year, has healthier pension funds.
Making a solution especially tricky, a state law requires the Illinois Legislature to approve any changes to city pensions. Already, lawmakers have gotten cold feet about simultaneously increasing taxes and angering powerful labor unions. Late Monday, the sponsor of the legislation filed an amendment to remove the property tax hike.
Among the opponents is Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union who presided over the two-week strike in 2012 and labeled Emanuel "the murder mayor" for his plan to close schools and send kids across gang lines to new ones.
Lewis calls the pension plan "criminal" and "just awful," saying it will hit school employees — who don't receive Social Security and are predominantly women of color — with both a loss of benefits and, for those who own homes, a property tax increase they can't afford to pay. She said Emanuel could have easily solved the problem by tapping Chicago's wealthy business community — some of whom are friends who have helped the mayor amass a more than $6 million campaign fund.
"But they don't ever want to go there. For some reason, those people are sacrosanct," she said. "They just want us all working until we die."
Perhaps the only thing more damaging for both Chicago and the mayor than the plan going through is if it doesn't, said former Chicago Alderman Dick Simpson.
"The employees and the unions already are mad at you. And then everyone else will be mad at you because you didn't fix it and now their taxes are going up," Simpson said. "If it doesn't pass, you get the worst of both worlds."
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Of her work, Kristalova states, "My ideas are about how it is to live a life; love and fear and what's in between. I think and draw, looking back on past works, then gather the images together, gauging my own reaction to them, and start to build. I do everything in my studio in my yard, in my kilns. I mainly work alone because even painting a tree trunk has to be done my way, to be the right ugly."
To view more photos of Kristalova's work, check out Russ Crest's 2011 post and/or click below to continue.

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Bill Would Set Runoff 10 Weeks After Primary
PIERRE - A South Dakota legislative committee has endorsed a measure that would extend the time between primary elections and runoff elections.
Deputy Secretary of State Patricia Miller says the change is needed to comply with a federal law requiring that ballots be sent to military and overseas voters at least 45 days before an election for a federal office.
South Dakota law requires a runoff between the top two vote-getters if no candidate gets at least 35 percent of the votes in a U.S. Senate, U.S. House or gubernatorial primary. Current law sets that runoff election three weeks after the primary.
The House State Affairs Committee voted unanimously Monday to approve a bill setting runoffs 10 weeks after a primary. South Dakota has not had such a runoff for decades.
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text: |Greetings once more to all my fellow Armchair Arcadians! Yet again, I've found my blogging schedule horribly delayed by "Life, The Universe, and Everything". If I weren't such a chipper and optimistic guy, I'd begin to think that it was some kind of Secret Illuminati Conspiracy, trying to derail the "Great Things" I want to accomplish in my life. Sadly, it's nothing so dramatic or interesting. I know all too well what the real causes are:


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At some point, someone is going to figure out targeted, Google-style TV advertising. Startups and ad agency holding companies are trying their hands at it. So are the cable operators and Google (GOOG) itself. Now Microsoft (MSFT) is, too.
It has bought Waltham, Mass.-based Navic Networks, a 7-year-old firm that targets interactive advertising via cable set-top boxes, for an undisclosed sum. The firm's technology is in use on 35 million cable customers of Charter Communications (CHTR), Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable (TWC).
Microsoft is getting into TV advertising two years after Google started, but it doesn't look as if Google has opened up anything like a lead here. Google brought Google TV out of beta in April, but so far it's limited to DirecTV's 16 million subscribers, and business has been slow enough that Google has been reduced to offering free spots. So with one acquisition, Microsoft can leap ahead.
Navic's technology allows advertisers to target individuals as they move from channel to channel, a solution for advertisers trying to achieve mass among fracturing TV audiences. The company has raised $43 million, has 82 employees, and will be integrated into Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group.
See Also:
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Cable Exec: 'Shame On Us' If We Don't Figure Out Ad Targeting
Cable Guys Try To Head Off Google
Cable To Share Booty From Ad Targeting With TV Nets
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Published time: 19 Jul, 2008 20:00 Edited time: 20 Jul, 2008 00:00
Russia is one of the world's largest intellectual piracy centres. Local police are fighting daily against copyright violators. More than 4000 people faced prosecution for appropriating intellectual property from other people in 2007. Police confiscated pirated discs with the total cost of $US6 MLN. The estimated cost of equipment, recovered at underground factories, is tens of millions US dollars. Although it is still very easy to buy pirated discs in any Russian city, it seems like their time is coming to an end.


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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers cut its annual forecast Wednesday, signaling that struggles for U.S. housing are being felt in the higher end of the market, and not just among those dealing with less expensive properties.
The company narrowed its guidance for fiscal 2014 deliveries, including a cut to the top of its estimate, to a range of 5,300 to 5,500 homes, compared with a prior forecast of 5,100 to 5,850 homes. For the fiscal third quarter, net signed contoltracts fell 6% in units from the year-earlier period, Toll reported.
After the report, Toll investors sold off the company's stock, with shares closing down more than 4%.
Speaking broadly about U.S. housing, the market is likely to see more "choppy seas and a sloppy boat ride," Executive Chairman Bob Toll said during a conference call to discuss the company's financial results.
It's been a surprisingly tough year for housing. Looking at the total U.S. residential market, July's sales of new single-family homes hit the slowest pace in four months, with drops in three of four U.S. regions, according to government data. Quickly rising home prices and limited inventory may be keeping some buyers on the sidelines.
Economists had hoped to see stronger sales of new homes given that purchases remain historically low, as do mortgage rates. In addition, new homes, especially those produced by luxury builders, typically cost more than a used home, serving a wealthier customer base. If these buyers aren't shopping, that's one more reason to worry about the market's recovery.
There are several strong headwinds working against home sales. For one, many families are having a tough time getting a mortgage. In addition, workers are seeing slow wage growth, and many young borrowers, weighed down by substantial student loans, aren't buying their own place, limiting other families' ability to purchase a new home.
However, Toll executives aren't letting a little choppiness get them down too much.
"We are inching forward but the big game is out there and it will occur," Bob Toll said.
And in another sign of confidence, the company isn't feeling pressured to offer financial lures to sell homes.
"Although we have seen some lessening of pricing power in the past year, we have not felt the need to incentivize to spur home sales," Chief Executive Douglas Yearley said in the company's financial filing. "We are driven by bottom-line growth and are pleased with our continued margin expansion through what we still believe is a recovering, albeit bumpy, housing cycle."
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Fox Tech grad controls his nasty side
At 27 years old, 6-foot-8, 255-pound Ivan Johnson is an unlikely NBA rookie who has helped the Atlanta Hawks to the fourth-best record in the Eastern Conference.
Before Atlanta's Tuesday night game against the Lakers at Staples Center, he had posted averages of 5.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 14.8 minutes per game as a regular piece of coach Larry Drew's playing rotation.
If you are wondering how a rookie from San Antonio escaped your purview, understand that when he made the Express-News' All-Greater San Antonio Class 4A team as a senior at Fox Tech in 2002, Johnson was known as Ivan Wilkerson.
It's confusing, but Johnson has an easy explanation. Before his mother, Sandra Johnson, died in 2007, he promised her he would not give up on his dream to play in the NBA someday.
He also began using her name.
"I've still got Wilkerson," he said. "But I've got two last names, and I want to keep using my mom's name."
In 2002 Wilkerson-Johnson was 6-6 and 225 with a commitment to the game that made him an NCAA Division I college prospect. He also had a reputation for trouble that gave pause to every college recruiter.
A hot temper got him into fights in the Fox Tech hallways and brought plenty of technical fouls from referees working the Buffaloes' games.
It was clear to Fox Tech coach Charles Cooper, now an assistant at Brennan High School, that Wilkerson had potential, even as a gangly freshman. It was just as clear the competitive nature that gave him an edge over his prep peers had a nasty side.
"He came to us with a bit of baggage, but we realized right away he had great potential," Cooper said. "We wanted to make sure he understood there's a way to conduct yourself, not only on the court but in general. He didn't play about half the games as a freshman because if something occurred where he had inappropriate behavior, we didn't let him play.
"He figured that out, made a big jump. He didn't improve to the point of perfection. He's still conquering some of the demons that people have with anger management and poise."
Johnson's path to the NBA included two junior colleges, one year at the University of Oregon and a season at Cal State San Bernardino. Then it was on to the NBA D-League's Anaheim (Calif.) Arsenal and Rio Grande Valley Vipers before departing for two seasons to the Korean Basketball League.
There he discovered bone-numbing cold weather and little tolerance for his temper. He was banned from the league for life after a number of anger-related incidents, culminating in an obscene gesture directed at a referee during a playoff game.
Back in the D-League in 2010-11, he played 49 games for the Erie (Pa.) BayHawks, who benched him for a while after he got too many technical fouls.
Well aware of his angry past, the Hawks invited him to training camp in December because Drew loved his "motor" and took a chance he could contain his temper.
Cooper said he always believed Johnson could play in the NBA. He appreciates Drew's willingness to gamble on him.
"The trouble was always finding a team that would take a chance on him," he said. "They were waiting to see if he could handle himself appropriately. The Hawks took that chance, and I hope he can continue to make an impact like he's done so far."
Johnson calls his circuitous route to the Hawks a net positive.
"The long journey actually helped me with all the emotional problems I had in the past," Johnson said. "It helped me out going to different countries and dealing with different types of people, different refs. It made me stronger, made me better. It made it much easier once I got to Atlanta."
He understands if he is going to get the playing time he craves, he must maintain his poise. He has drawn three technicals, but one was rescinded after review by the league office. He knows he is on a good path.
"I can say this is a dream come true," Johnson said. "So I'm just going to keep playing hard every second. I know that's what Coach Drew likes about me. The only anger issue I've ever really had is with anyone who doesn't want to win as much as I do."


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AutomatonAugust 04, 2005
A question on automating database population for you server-side experts.
Let's say you have a web site that you've been updating manually for a few years. Let's also say that you're sick to death of doing it this way, have finally taken the steps necessary to automate this thankless task, and now it's finally time to throw all that manually-input data into a database. For the sake of argument, let's also assume that adding the 700+ items by hand just isn't going to happen.
So then my question to you is, can you see any way of taking multiple pages of static, well-formed (and consistent) HTML like, say, this, and getting it to automatically post to a form that looks, well, like this?
I'm sure to some out there, it's the easiest thing in the world. To me, however, it's not. So, what can be done? My preference would be a single PHP file that crawls the various category pages (and the sub-pages they link to) under the 'All Categories' heading on the 'All Designs' page and either a) posts it to the form (assuming the example values aren't there in the final form), or my preference, b) stores it in logically-named PHP arrays (following the naming convention in the example function below) so that I can bypass the form completely.
Here are a few more supporting pieces of information that might be relevant to this task:
Not all fields in the new form are represented in the static data. For example, currently each submission only receives one category, whereas multiple categories exist on the form. So the script should detect which category the static data is coming from, assume a corresponding entry is in the list of categories (even though they aren't at the moment), and assign accordingly. Multiple categories can always be re-assigned later.
Fields which are considered absolutely essential/cannot be discarded/must have a value are: Name, URL (when it exists), CSS File, Submission Title, Category, Official Number (where it exists). Fields which exist in the database for other use, but don't appear anywhere in the static data (and therefore can be ignored) are: E-Mail Address, Zip File, Windows Browsers, Mac Browsers, Comments. See note about submission/publication dates below.
- The order in which the submissions are displayed in the static files is important, in that the further along in the list they are, the earlier they were submitted, and therefore the earlier they should be posted. I'll probably have to do some manual jiggering of the submission/publishing dates because I've pretty much discarded that data all along, so as much as possible, the script should try to preserve this implicit chronology. The more relevant of the two is publishing date, as it's what will ultimately determine listing order on the site.
The form flattens out the data quite a bit; in reality, this data spans multiple tables in the database. This shouldn't matter, but in case you think better this way, it might be relevant to know that the form itself basically posts to a PHP function:
save_submission($subName, $subEmail, $subUrl, $subNation, $subTitle, $subCssfile, $subZipfile, $subWindows, $subMac, $subNotes, $subStatus, $subDate, $pubDate, $subOfficialNumber, "populate");
But a separate category handler function also needs to be called:
change_categories($subId, $subCategories);
…where $subId is the submission id just created, and $subCategories is an array of the values selected.
Free copy of The Zen of CSS Design for the best answer. Dan Reedy's multiple scripts get me close enough to where I can run with it, so the book is his. Thanks to everyone else for your suggestions.
Don't know if you noticed Dave but in FireFox there is two purple/pink lines that go across the screen.
If you did, sorry.
Maybe you would think it crazy, but Javascript may work quite well. It can pull each page via Ajax/XHR and walk the data using the DOM interface to extract the necessary data. Once it has the data it can place the values into the submission form and submit it, just as you would manually.
It would be easier to implement if you could place ID values into the UL tags to assist with attaching to the elements using the document.getElementById method.
The trick is retaining state after submitting the form. The form may have to be contained within an iframe and when the iframe loads it would trigger the Javascript to process the next page on the list.
I'd be interested in at least getting you started.
Can't help you on the PHP, but man that zen garden admin panel sure looks sweet! (drool)
If your pages are all well-formed xhtml, you could do the entire thing with an XSLT stylesheet, and have it output PHP or SQL code.
If anyone checks out the example code in comment 15, you'll notice that the actual page is a little different. In the example code I was using the nationality flag's title tag rather than the alt tag. I fixed that and all the nations should show up now.
Brennan, that's just what I was thinking. I know it's too late, but here it is:
It uses an iframe to loop through the Zen Garden pages, collecting information, which is placed in an array, and outputted at the end to a textbox in JSON (http://json.org/ ) format, which should be easy enough to parse with PHP. To avoid XSS (cross-site scripting) restrictions, it is activated via a bookmarklet while viewing a mezzoblue.com page. Only known to work in Firefox 1.06. Will fail in Internet Explorer.
I was trying to do a similar thing with my library's web site (to monitor my holds) a couple of weeks ago, so I had a bit of a head start.
I've had some problems getting the bookmarlet to work when it's not hosted on localhost (security restrictions), so the extracted information is available at http://freecog.net/zenparsed.txt
My suggestion would be to do some web spidering using Perl's WWW::Mechanize library. The script can take the extracted data & do one of two things
1) Directly dump the data into the database of your choice.
2) Write a PHP file with a series of function calls/array definitions.
I've done this in the past, and it's not all that difficult to set up. I should have some free time in a week or so if you like some help getting it going.
I had to do something very similar recently (with Java/ATG, not with PHP). The approach I took was:
- a crawler walks the filesystem starting from a directory
- for each file, the crawler extracts the relevant HTML code with a pair of regexps, builds something equivalent to an SQL "insert" statement and inserts the content into the database
The general principle shouldn't change in your case, anyway I think you shouldn't bother to pass thru the form.
Tom - A direct DB dump probably isn't an option since I'd have to get it to establish and link all the various foreign keys as a part of that. My save_submission function does all that for me, so no sense in duplicating that work. The PHP function call/array file, on the other hand, would be perfect.
I'd love to do this without installing a new library (or learning Perl), but depending on other answers, WWW::Mechanize could work. Thanks for the suggestion.
I have the unfortunate task of having to do similar things at work sometimes. Typically if I have to pull information from well formed XHTML documents I load the page in PHP and using an XML parser (I typically use miniXML) I can then convert the HTML into a mutli-dimensional array. You should then have a single array item for each of your entries, depending on the HTML of course.
I have not made anything that actually crawls a web page, but I have created a simple form that I copy and paste a large chunk of pre-determined text (schedules for a client) and it breaks the string into array chunks and formats it line by line outputting a final xhtml file.
I don't think what you're trying to accomplish is easy, or difficult, but it most likely will be time consuming.
Most likely you will be using PHP's preg_split function, a loop of some sort and the next(),strpos() and substr() functions as well.
to make this actually open a file, you can always use the fopen() function and do some file handling.
While I don't claim to be an expert, I do think my approach will do what you want. The problem being is that you will have to write it to explicitly read and understand your formatting.
I'd be happy to continue this conversation off the comments.
I haven't used it before, but O'Reilly has an article on Sprog that may help. Basically Perl for non-Perl people. The example in the article (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/06/23/sprog.html ) scrapes data from a page and makes a useful file out of it. You could probably easily adjust a couple of things to get it to fit your needs.
I think I've seen posts that indicate you have a Mac… I haven't seen any indication that anyone has installed it on one, but I don't see why you couldn't. You'd just need to get the Perl modules first. (Trying it out now on my Mac as it looks like an interesting tool to have)
Parsing the pages as XML is the way to go. You could use pure PHP to parse every file in a directory, looking for certain tags with certain classes (kind of like microformats), etc. which would be sucked into the DB (minding the duplicates, of course). The bonus of that is that it could be run from the prompt for added speed.
I've thrown together what I was talking about, pulling HTML into an array. Check it out at http://www.dan-reedy.com/example/zengarden-parse.php
Here is the code:
$url = "http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/official/007/";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$xml = curl_exec($curl);
$minixml = new MiniXMLDoc();
$array = $minixml->toArray();
echo "
";
echo "
";
This is also a completely raw import and output of the HTML page as an array. With minixml (and any other XML package) you can do much more.
I remember doing this for [site removed]… they had 2700 static pages with basic information in the pages relating to businesses. We had to crawl each page in the directory (fortunately they were all in one dir) and strip the content based on the tags surrounding the content… problem was, since they were static, some pages had different tags….
Trust me that was NOT fun to mess with.
Basicly, we had to get all that matched a certain regex, strip that data, post to a db, and remove the files. What was left had to be configured to a new regex crawl with different rules to adjust for the tag differences.
I would recomend going with a page crawl, which would save all data found in all pages to a single array structure, then when the crawling is done, loop the bigass array and pass the data found to your insert functions.
That's actually why I suggested the option of auto-generating a PHP script that can call your PHP function.
I've used this approach a few times when I've been working with multiple systems with differing configurations. Let Perl do what it does well, and then leverage your existing work.
I'm using a very similar technique to populate the wiki at http://fmepedia.com
Using both Perl & Python, I parse several different text files to extract a variety of useful information. The end result is a php include file with a series of createPost() calls. I include that file in a separate PHP file that defines the createPost function, and handles the MediaWiki article editting.
Dan - I like where you're going with the miniXML thought. Your example file gives me something I can work with, and if I get rid of the header/footer include files, it'll simplify the array a LOT more.
I'm pretty sure I can piece together the rest, including walking the directory tree. Barring a more complete solution, I think the book is yours.
Check out http://www.dan-reedy.com/example/zengarden-parse2.php
It strips out the unnecessary. Here is the code for that:
$list = $array["html"]["body"]["ul"][2]["li"];
And finally: http://www.dan-reedy.com/example/zengarden-parse3.php
This is pulling out the basic information from that list, you can tweak as much as needed. Here is the full code:
ini_set("include_path",ini_get("include_path") . ":/home/dreedy/php/lib/php");
$url = "http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/official/007/";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$xml = curl_exec($curl);
$minixml = new MiniXMLDoc();
$array = $minixml->toArray();
$list = $array["html"]["body"]["ul"][2]["li"];
for($i = 0; $i < count($list); $i++) { ?>

Name: <?= $list[$i]["a"][0]["_content"] ?>

Author: <?= $list[$i]["a"][1]["_content"] ?>

CSS File: <?= $list[$i]["a"][0]["_attributes"]["href"] ?>

Author Homepage: <?= $list[$i]["a"]["1"]["_attributes"]["href"] ?>

This will be my last post, since I've spent too much time on it already. Here is a file that parses all of the official design pages:
$urls[] = "http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/official/";
for ($i = 9 ; $i > 0 ; $i–) {
$urls[] = "http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/official/00" . $i . "/";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
$j = 1;
foreach($urls as $url) {
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$xml = curl_exec($curl);
$minixml = new MiniXMLDoc();
$array = $minixml->toArray();
$list = $array["html"]["body"]["ul"][2]["li"];
for($i = 0; $i < count($list); $i++) {
if (!empty($list[$i]["a"][0]["_attributes"]["href"])) { ?>

#<? echo $j; $j++ ?>: <?= $list[$i]["a"][0]["_content"] ?>

Author: <?= $list[$i]["a"][1]["_content"] ?>

CSS File: <?= $list[$i]["a"][0]["_attributes"]["href"] ?>

Author Homepage: <?= $list[$i]["a"]["1"]["_attributes"]["href"] ?>

Nationality: <?= $list[$i]["img"]["_attributes"]["title"] ?>

Thanks Dan, I'll email you about the book.
Thanks very much Dave, I look forward to receiving the book. Please feel free to email me any additional questions you may have about the code, I'd be more than happy to help.
Note to self: Check bloglines more often.
As I'm reading the article, I'm thinking along the exact same lines as Dan. Then I go to write the comment, and see… you know the rest.
I'm sure this has been mentioned a million times… but seems an appropriate place to mention it anyway. A page with thumbnails of the various CSS Zen Garden designs would be really cool, especially considering how many designs there are in there now. If you're automating the submission process, maybe you could add a field for a thumbnail image generated by the author along with the zip and CSS?
Of course by doing this I guess the rest of the site would need thumbnailing too… (a fun job no doubt), but it'd be great to be able to browse the CSS Zen Garden gallery with thumbnails.
In response to comment #25:
There is a site that is somewhat up to date with thumbnails of the zen garden. http://antenna.readalittle.net/thumblink/zenGarden/
It's using a couple of applications to create these thumbnails. The primary one being webnail2. You specify a list of the sites, the filenames and it does the rest.
Unfortunately it is a windows only application and I cannot find a similar app for linux or mac osx. I suppose you could use this app to grab the shots of all the old sites and then just create thumbnails as the new entries are submited.
How cool is this? A flip. Visiting a forum? "I dont need no stinkin forum. This is mezzoblue!" People are always whining in the comments 'why dont you do it like this…' or 'I've been doing that for years'. Might as well use it.
Best hack yet dave.
I've been asked to do this a few times, unfortunately normally with some not so well formated code.
The PERL and php suggestions are all good ones. The one thing I would chip in is to break the task up into steps. i.e. one script to get the content, another to move it into a common format, another to populate the database. In the long run it will make the whole thing a lot easier.
Nice hack, you should get together with dave from http://www.raven.za.net and put something together as he wrote something similar.
About the Webnail2 that Dan was refering to,
for Mac you can use a program called webkit2png or another called paparazzi!
check the following URL for more info:
by the way, it was f****ing hard finding anything about Webnail2 in plain english, does anyone have any more information on it? Dan…? anyone?
I would recomend going with a page crawl, which would save all data found in all pages to a single array structure, then when the crawling is done, loop the bigass array and pass the data found to your insert functions.


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TUSCALOOSA — Alabama players don't even have to leave their couches to be one of the big winners in college football's national championship sweepstakes.
TUSCALOOSA — Alabama players don't even have to leave their couches to be one of the big winners in college football's national championship sweepstakes.
The second-ranked Crimson Tide (10-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) has benefited the past two years from a pair of late-season upsets by other teams, proving that patience is sometimes as important as perfection.
Alabama jumped right back into win-and-in mode with Saturday night's losses by Oregon and Kansas State.
Last year, the one-loss Tide got a reprieve with Iowa State stunning Oklahoma State and Oregon toppling Stanford.
"It's college football," Tide safety Robert Lester said. "Just like last year, crazy things are going to happen. Crazy things are going to happen next year. The only thing we need to worry about right now is to play our football and not worry about what's going on outside Alabama and handle it the way we need to handle it."
What's going on inside Alabama is that rival Auburn (3-8, 0-7) visits Saturday for the Iron Bowl.
With a win, the Tide would play No. 3 Georgia for the SEC title and a chance at a second straight national championship. Alabama, which spent most of the season ranked No. 1, only needed a week to move back to the front of the line along with top-ranked Notre Dame.
The Tide was coming off a 29-24 loss to No. 9 Texas A&M. Last season, Alabama earned a rematch after losing to LSU partly thanks to the Cowboys and Cardinal finally losing.
Still, coach Nick Saban said he is focused only on the state title, a prize that's still pretty substantial in this heated rivalry.
"I just want to make everybody understands here that we're not in any conversations about anything other than the game that we're playing," Saban said Monday. "Unless we win the next game, we don't have another game. We're trying to work our way into a conversation by how we play. We're not trying to hold a position. We're trying to create one by what we do and how we play.
"Everybody in this organization needs to understand that we're dismissing all talk about anything except playing Auburn."
Not every Tide player said they were glued to the TV Saturday night hoping for a helping hand or two and celebrating the upsets.
"I think somebody sent a message to me on Facebook," linebacker Nico Johnson said. "Other than that, what came across my mind was, 'We've got an opportunity, but we can't look past the team we have this week.' We kind of got ahead of ourselves the Texas A&M game. It showed what happened. Now we understand that. We learned from that lesson. Now we've got to stay focused on us and control what we do and worry about Auburn this week."
Johnson said defensive end Damion Square reminded the players of that after their run on Sunday that: "We can't overlook our opponent. Never."
The reality is, an Auburn win would be a bigger upset than Baylor over Kansas State or Stanford beating Oregon. Alabama is a 311⁄2 point favorite over the Tigers.
Still, last weekend's upsets took care of two of the teams standing in Alabama's way.
Linebacker C.J. Mosley said the Tide can't lose sight of the other two teams that will actually line up against them before a national championship shot can come.
"I'm glad that it happened, but if we don't win these next two games, all that really doesn't matter," Mosley said. "So we're back in the picture for it, but that's really not what I'm worried about. We've got these two games coming up. They ought to be big for us. We've got a chance to do something good. We've got to make sure we take advantage of it."
Saban said teams can get "emotionally stressed out" when the stakes of the games are so high. He's trying to keep that from happening to the Tide.
"You're worrying emotionally, which affects your ability to focus and you don't play as well," Saban said. "None of these things are bad things. There's nobody taking anybody out and shooting them behind the barn because we've got an opportunity to play in this game. We've got an opportunity to play in this game and maybe another game, that's a good thing. That's something that everybody worked hard to create. You know, be positive. It's what great competitors love to do, go compete and play your best games. Don't get emotionally stressed out or start playing to keep from getting beat and be tentative about your approach to what you're doing.
"I think it did happen to us and it probably happened to some other people. That's what we try to guard against."


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Job Search / Re: best websites for finding a job« on: July 14, 2009, 04:24:10 PM »
Cold calls/letters generally suck and dont amount to anything but a pile of rejection letters. Your starting 3L right? The best thing you can do right now is get involved in the legal community and make friends. Dont start asking for jobs yet, its takes time and trust to get to that point. Your goal should be to forms 4-5 close relationships with a few lawyers and judges in town, so that by the end of the 3L they like you enough to recommend you to people they know in the legal community. Something you will learn quickly is everyone knows everyone else in the legal community, seriously is scary like that, someone you know will know someone your trying to get a job with, or at least know someone who does. Also there are things you can do as a student, like hang out with judges and partners at big firms, that because of the divide between low on totem pole associates you cant do that kind of mixing once you start working. So take advantage of it while you can/ finally check the American Inns of Court website and see what inns are in your town, join one, they are all about helping new lawyers get started thats the whole point of an Inn.
Just an update.
Ive been invited to join an American Inn nearby.
The only thing that sucks is this inn doesnt meet again until november. Nonetheless, I am definately going to go and hope something will develop.
Matthies, you are da *&^%.


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The Graduate MA Program in Africana Studies
The program leading to the M.A. degree seeks to provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of African and African American history, culture, politics and society, and to prepare them for professional careers in relevant areas. In addition to core requirements, students will concentrate in one of two areas: African Studies or African American Studies.
Subfields: (African or African-American Studies) Students in African Studies may choose courses in history and culture, politics and economics of either particular regions or of the continent as a whole. Subfields in African American Studies include history and culture, politics, sociology, psychology and literature.
Students are prepared for careers in teaching, counseling, international relations, business, journalism, federal and state government, community program direction, research and program development, and evaluation. A minimum of 32 credits of graduate work must be completed, 28-29 of which must be in the Department of Africana Studies.
Requirements: Core requirements for all students (14 credits). Research Seminar. AAFS 611A and 611B Socio-Methodology for Africana Studies (8).
A general course in African American studies, including one of the following: AAFS 596 Survey of African American Literature (4), AAFS 612 Race Theory and Social Thought (3).
A general course in African Studies, including one of the following: AAFS 520 Problems of African Economics (4), AAFS 560 African History (3), AAFS 533 Topics in African History (3), AAFS 662 Readings in African History (4), AAFS 623 Seminar on Africa in World Politics (3), AAFS 627 African Political Thought (3).
Concentration Requirements (12 credits): Students must choose a concentration in either African or African American Studies. Each concentration will require 12 credits of coursework in the field of specialization. Supporting Courses (6 credits): Among electives, 3-4 credits may be taken outside of the Department.
Comprehensive Examination: Satisfactory completion of a comprehensive examination in the specific areas of Africana Studies.
GPA Degree Clearance: A minimum of 3.0 GPA is required to obtain a Master's Degree.
Applying for Graduate Study: Apply online through the Office of Graduate Education. For specific information on deadlines and the Africana Studies admission process, contact Dr. Marcia Sutherland, Department of Africana Studies, Director of Graduate Studies.
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Gonna be nuther gay rights cliché-fest at the Iowa State Capitol...how to decipher the cliché's and fallacies. Gov Tim Pawlenty is touring Iowa on his book tour. Then, the anti- gun lobby is mounting a counter-attack. Requiring gun owners to wear them in plain sight? Really?
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My 3rd great grandfather William Johnson (16 Jun 1823 Holme On Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, England - 10 Oct 1905 Huron, Ontario, Canada) and his spouse Charlotte Colton (16 Feb 1822 [Bardney Lincolnshire?] England - 4 Oct 1888 Huron, Ontario, Canada) immigrated to Canada from Yorkshire, England about 1850. By the census in 1861 and for the rest of their lives, they lived and farmed in or around Morris or East Wawanosh, Huron county, Ontario.
Among my grandmother Olive's family history records is the back cover of a leather-bound volume on which is recorded the birth dates of William and his 13 siblings. (If only I were able to "Ask Olive!") The ex-volume is probably from the mid-19th century. I base this on the stamp "Watkins Binder" on the cover itself. Watkins was a bindery in London from the late 18th century to at least 1850.
Family groups often migrate together. Based on that, my question is this: Might have any of William's siblings also immigrated to Canada and can they be traced through government or church records?
The first part of this question is fairly easy - the short answer is "Yes" William's siblings could have stayed in England or emigrated to another country. Canada and Australia were often favourite locations for English emigrants.
As for finding William's siblings, I wouldn't advise you start on a random hunt in Canadian records. That would be hit and miss and you're working with some fairly common names.
My advice is to follow the standard genealogy method which is to start with an individual and trace that person. Usually you are searching backwards, finding ancestors of an individual. In your case you want to research forward.
What I mean by this is, you would take each of William's siblings in turn and track their lives in England. Find them in every census year you can. Look for deaths and marriages. Basically you are trying to prove or disprove that they lived and died in England.
So if you are searching them in census and they disappear and you can't find a death record, there's a possibility that they left the country. You might then have a hunt in ships passenger lists for a record of travel.
There is another challenge with a ships passenger lists search. Ships passenger lists arriving in Canada did not have to be kept until 1865. For help and links to online projects of Ships Passenger Lists before 1865 you may want to refer to Filling in The Gaps.
Other countries like Australia had other regulations and you would have to investigate to find out what ships passenger lists exist and where they can be found.
Another more obscure search would be in local newspapers in England. Let's say for example that a sibling or two disappear from English census records after 1851. If you could find a local newspaper for the area you might find reference to a family group leaving the community to settle elsewhere. That's a long shot but it is another avenue of research.
The bottom line is that you have a lot of slogging and digging into records ahead of you but it should be a very interesting journey!


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Sounds about right to me. I've no problem with admitting I'm a geek (not a nerd :-). My concern is that we'll end up with two Web Developer communities that have little relation to each other, those using the latest standards and those on HTML who don't know or care. (even more so than how it is now) And there's no way Browser manufacturers will move browsers to a non backwards compatible language until a very high percentage of users are aware of it. Nigel MIS Web Design http://www.miswebdesign.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Brant Langer Gurganus [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: 30 December 2002 16:18 To: Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design Cc: email@example.com; email@example.com Subject: Re: Promotion of XHTML Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design wrote: >It's great how XHTML is progressing with version 2 etc. but it strikes me >that while the W3C is taking the specs into the future the majority of the >Web Development world is lagging miles behind. I don't think I'm the first >one to have noticed this but wouldn't we be better putting out efforts into >getting other developers to do the XHTML walk rather than producing the >XHTML run? > >For example, a college near to me teaches Web Design. They teach HTML not >XHTML. People come out of there happily writing <br> tags and not closing >their <p> tags and some will go on to create Web sites. I had an email from >a tutor in the states somewhere who is starting to teach his classes XHTML >this coming semester. I can't claim to having any more data than that but >from looking at code on the sites that I see it seems that most developers >still couldn't care less about closing their empty elements and making sure >all elements nest properly. > >I'm just concerned that once XHTML 2 gets released people will hear about >it, no backwards compatibility etc. and loads of new elements and be scared >by it. It's okay for us making the transition because we're already fully >aware of 1.0 but from what I've seen most are not, old habits die hard, and >especially with the number of people that know HTML. It's not like a new >version of Perl where the majority of users are enthusiastic about the >language, most people couldn't care less about the language and just want to >get the job done, how do we get them to start being more strict in their >coding practices? > >For my part I've started a series of articles aimed at teaching XHTML to >beginners, if anyone is interested it's at: >http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html > > I too have noticed this. Schools teach the worst Web design since they think they have to use fancy text books (which cost money, take time to make and purchase, etc.) when they could just use the actual specifications which are sometimes even easier and are monetarily free. By the time the textbook is printed, it is probably out-of-date and if adopted, it takes about five years before new text books are adopted. In the worst cases, Web design education is at least six years behind the Web specifications. That is why you still see people writing presentationally using invalid HTML 3.2 through a Web editor. Such is the case with my school. Despite all my efforts, they fail to realize that HTML is a markup language that adds meaning, not fancy colors. They fail to see that this makes the language easier, not more difficult. They seem to think: I have to be a nerd to read HTML code. I don't want to be a nerd. I refuse to read HTML code. Not only is that false logic, being a geek or nerd is not a bad thing. A geek is simply someone with a passion for his or her profession or hobby whether it be computers, sports, or something else. Well, I hope those ramblings didn't stray too far from the original topic. -- Brant Langer Gurganus http://troop545.cjb.net/brant.xhtmlReceived on Monday, 30 December 2002 11:35:28 UTC
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(Abstinence Syndrome)
Drug withdrawal is a reaction the body can have if a person suddenly stops using illegal drugs, prescription medications, or alcohol. This can occur if the person has been using drugs, medications, or alcohol regularly. Depending on the type and amount of the substance you were using, withdrawal can be a life-threatening condition.
Drug withdrawal can be caused by illegal drugs, prescription medications, or alcohol.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your chances of drug withdrawal include:
Withdrawal symptoms are different based on what you used. Symptoms may include:
- Marijuana—loss of appetite, chills, weight loss, trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, irritability, feeling restless or nervous
- Alcohol—shaking, hallucinations, seizures, confusion, anxiety, sweating, nausea
- Barbiturates—weakness, tremors, hallucinations, lack of appetite, seizures
- Opioids—abdominal pain or cramps, muscle aches, panic, tremors, sweating, nausea, diarrhea, fever, chills, irritability, goose pimples, runny nose, drug craving, inability to sleep, yawning
- Benzodiazepines—abdominal pain or cramps, fast heartbeat, vomiting, tremors, seizures, anxiety
- Cocaine—anxiety, feeling tired, depression
- Amphetamines—depression, irritability, sleeping too much, muscle aches, abdominal pain
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You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done through blood and urine tests.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include one or more of the following:
This is the first step in treating substance abuse. You will be closely checked for signs of withdrawal. You may be given medications to reduce cravings. Medications will also help to reduce withdrawal symptoms, which can be severe. Treatment is targeted to the specific symptoms and drugs used.
You may need to enroll in a rehabilitation program. This treatment uses behavioral therapy to prevent you from using drugs in the future. Behavioral therapy may include the following:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches you how to recognize and avoid situations that may lead to drug abuse.
- Family therapy helps you and your family look at patterns of drug abuse. Strategies are suggested to avoid future abuse.
- Motivational therapy uses positive reinforcement to prevent drug use.
Residential Treatment (Therapeutic Communities)
Residential treatment is sometimes needed. The typical stay is 6-12 months. These facilities will help you learn how to live a drug-free life.
Support Groups
Support groups offer continued support for a drug- or alcohol-free life. Some support groups are Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, and Alcoholics Anonymous.
To help reduce your chances of developing drug withdrawal, take the following steps:
- Attend regular support group meetings.
- Avoid people and situations where drugs are available.
- Inform all healthcare providers of your history with drugs.
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Giannini AJ. An approach to drug abuse, intoxication, and withdrawal. Am Fam Physician. 2000;61(9):2763-2774.
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Simple Ultrasound Exam May Predict Osteoporosis Risk
An ultrasound exam of the heel may be able to predict if a woman is at heightened risk for fractures due to osteoporosis, according to a new multicenter study being published in the July issue of the journal Radiology. Along with certain risk factors, including age or recent fall, radiation-free ultrasound of the heel may be used to better select women who need further bone density testing, such as a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) exam.
"Osteoporosis is a major public health issue expected to increase in association with worldwide aging of the population," said the study's lead author Idris Guessous, M.D., senior research fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland. "The incidence of osteoporosis will outpace economic resources, and the development of strategies to better identify women who need to be tested is crucial."
Osteoporosis is a disease that is characterized by low bone mass and the deterioration of bone tissue and is a major public health threat. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 10 million Americans currently have osteoporosis and approximately 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, increasing their risk of developing the disease. Eighty percent of those affected are women.
"Patients with osteoporosis are not optimally treated because of a lack of general awareness," Dr. Guessous said. "A simple prediction rule might be a useful clinical tool for healthcare providers to optimize osteoporosis screening."
In the three-year multicenter study, 6,174 women age 70 to 85 with no previous formal diagnosis of osteoporosis were screened with heel-bone quantitative ultrasound (QUS), a diagnostic test used to assess bone density. QUS was used to calculate the stiffness index, which is an indicator of bone strength, at the heel. Researchers added in risk factors such as age, history of fractures or a recent fall to the results of the heel-bone ultrasound to develop a predictive rule to estimate the risk of fractures. The results showed that 1,464 women (23.7 percent) were considered lower risk and 4,710 (76.3 percent) were considered higher risk.
Study participants where mailed questionnaires every six months for up to 32 months to record any changes in medical conditions, including illness, changes in medications or any fracture. If a fracture had occurred, the patients were asked to specify the fracture's precise location and trauma level and to include a medical report from the physician in charge.
In the group of higher risk women, 290 (6.1 percent) developed fractures whereas only 27 (1.8 percent) of the women in the lower risk group developed fractures. Among the 66 women who developed a hip fracture, 60 (90 percent) were in the higher risk group.
The results show that heel QUS is not only effective at identifying high-risk patients who should receive further testing, but also may be helpful in identifying patients for whom further testing can be avoided.
"Heel QUS in conjunction with clinical risk factors can be used to identify a population at a very low fracture probability in which no further diagnostic evaluation may be necessary," Dr. Guessous said.


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How to shoot Silhouettes
I was hired by a friend to shoot some portraits as well as a couple of silhouettes of her kids. The silhouettes will be printed on a cloth that will then be use in an upholstery project--pretty cool. Read on below to learn how I shot these silhouettes.
Basically, everything I did in this lighting setup was to get light onto the background and to avoid getting light anywhere else.
Setup: White foamcore was placed about 15' behind the subject to minimize light bleed onto the subject. The foamcore was lit at a 45° angle from camera right using a Speedotron head with a 7" gridded reflector. I used a grid on the small reflector to narrow the beam of light tightly onto the foamcore background and keep the light from illuminating the room. A black panel was placed on the opposite side of the foamcore to absorb the reflected light off of the foamcore, again, to minimize light bleed onto the subject.
Image shot at ƒ/9 at 1/250 sec. I should add that I under exposed the image a bit and later de-vignetted and increased the contrast in post to get a pure white. If you shoot the background to be pure white in camera, then you will lose contrast around the edges of the silhouette.


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Stars end Wild's 7-game win streak with 5-3 victory; Jagr reaches 1,000 assistsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
DALLAS - Jamie Benn, Ray Whitney and Cody Eakin each had a goal and an assist to help lead the Dallas Stars to a 5-3 victory to end the Minnesota Wild's seven-game winning streak on Friday.
Erik Cole and Tomas Vincour also scored for Dallas, which moved within one point of the Western Conference's final playoff spot. Jaromir Jagr also earned his 1,000th career NHL assist.
After a 7-4 loss to Minnesota at home on Monday, the Stars had three days off to regroup and rebounded with a strong effort, scoring twice on power plays in the third period.
Kari Lehtonen, who gave up six goals on 41 shots Monday, made 30 saves for the win.
Devin Setoguchi, Jared Spurgeon and Torrey Mitchell scored for Minnesota, which also had its five-game road winning streak end.


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Publications: Wright, Peter
Journal Article
Chapman, S., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2018) Arts curriculum implementation: "Adopt and adapt" as policy translation. Arts Education Policy Review, 119 (1). pp. 12-24.
Chapman, S., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2018) "Content without Context is Noise" : Looking for curriculum harmony in primary arts education in Western Australia. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 19 (2).
Chapman, S., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2018) Criticality and connoisseurship in arts education: pedagogy, practice and 'Pinterest©'. Education 3-13 . In Press.
Gray, C., Pascoe, R. and Wright, P. (2018) "I felt that I could be whatever I wanted": Pre-service drama teachers' prior experiences and beliefs about teaching drama. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 19 (10).
Gray, C., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2018) "They made me feel like a teacher rather than a praccie": sinking or swimming in pre-service drama education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education . In Press.
Gray, C., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2017) Raising the Curtain: Investigating the practicum experiences of Pre-service drama teachers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 42 (1). pp. 36-53.
Gray, C., Wright, P. and Pascoe, R. (2017) There's a lot to learn about being a drama teacher: Pre-service drama teachers' experience of stress and vulnerability during an extended practicum. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67 . pp. 270-277.
Davies, C., Pescud, M., Anwar-McHenry, J. and Wright, P. (2016) Arts, public health and the National Arts and Health Framework: a lexicon for health professionals. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40 (4). pp. 304-306.
Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J. and Pascoe, R. (2016) Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: The effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts. Critical Studies in Education . In Press.
Lambert, K., Wright, P.R., Currie, J. and Pascoe, R. (2016) Performativity and creativity in senior secondary drama classrooms. NJ (Drama Australia Journal), 40 (1). pp. 15-26.
Whitsed, C. and Wright, P. (2016) A bricolage exploration ingenkanspace: Tenguand adjunct TEFL in the Japanese university context. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29 (4). pp. 594-615.
Lambert, K., Wright, P.R., Currie, J. and Pascoe, R. (2015) Data-Driven performativity: Neoliberalism's impact on drama education in Western Australian secondary schools. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 37 (5). pp. 460-475.
Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J. and Pascoe, R. (2015) Desiring machines and nomad spaces: Neoliberalism, performativity and becoming in senior secondary drama classrooms. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38 (2). pp. 197-208.
Whitsed, C. and Wright, P. (2015) A bricolage exploration in genkan space: Tengu and adjunct TEFL in the Japanese university context. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education . In Press.
Wright, P.R. and Pascoe, R. (2014) Eudaimonia and creativity: The art of human flourishing. Cambridge Journal of Education, 45 (3).
Davies, C.R., Knuiman, M., Wright, P. and Rosenberg, M. (2014) The art of being healthy: A qualitative study to develop a thematic framework for understanding the relationship between health and the arts. BMJ Open, 4 (4). e004790.
Wright, P., Davies, C., Haseman, B., Down, B., White, M. and Rankin, S. (2013) Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change. Arts & Health, 5 (3). pp. 190-203.
Whitsed, C. and Wright, P. (2013) English language learning in the Japanese higher education sector: Towards internationalisation. Intercultural Education, 24 (3). pp. 222-236.
Wakholi, P. and Wright, P. (2012) Negotiating cultural identity through the arts: Fitting in, third space and cultural memory. Journal of Arts & Communities, 3 (1). pp. 89-104.
Whitsed, C. and Wright, P. R. (2011) Perspectives from within: Adjunct, foreign, English-language teachers in the internationalization of Japanese universities. Journal of Research in International Education, 10 (1). pp. 28-45.
MacCallum, J., Palmer, D., Wright, P. R., Cumming-Potvin, W., Brooker, M. and Tero, C. (2010) Australian perspectives: Community building through intergenerational exchange programs. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 8 (2). pp. 113-127.
Wright, P. R. and Palmer, D. (2009) Big hART at John Northcott Estate: Community, Health and the Arts. UNESCO Observatory EJournal MultiDisciplinary Research in the Arts, 1 (4).
Wright, P. R., Yallop, J.J.G. and De Vallejo, I.L. (2008) Editorial: Overview of the performative social science special issue. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 9 (2).
Dinham, J., Grushka, K., MacCallum, J., Pascoe, R., Wright, P. R. and Brown, N.C.M. (2007) Visual education: Repositioning visual arts and design: Educating for expression and participation in an increasingly visually-mediated world. The International Journal of Learning, 14 (6). pp. 77-86.
Wright, P. R. (2006) Drama education and development of self: Myth or reality. Social Psychology of Education, 9 (1). pp. 43-65.
Wright, P. R. and Gerber, R. (2004) Competency in Australian drama teachers: Mapping the terrain. NJ (Drama Australia Journal), 28 (2). pp. 55-67.
Wright, P. R. and Pascoe, R. (2004) Nurturing generational change in arts education: A West Australian experience. Change: Transformations in Education, 7 (2). pp. 105-119.
Wright, P. R. (2003) The empirical and ephemeral: learning, healing and building community through playback theatre. Interplay, 13 (3). pp. 10-11.
Rasmussen, B. and Wright, P. R. (2001) The theatre workshop as educational space: how imagined reality is voiced and conceived. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2 (2).
Hays, T., Minichiello, V. and Wright, P. R. (2000) Mentorship: the meaning of the relationship for musicians. Research Studies in Music Education, 15 (3). pp. 3-14.
Wright, P. R. (1999) The thought of doing drama scares me to death. Research in drama education: the journal of applied theatre and performance, 4 (2). pp. 227-237.
Conference Paper
Herrington, J., McKenzie, S., Pascoe, R., Woods-McConney, A., MacCallum, J. and Wright, P. R. (2010) A whole-school approach to technological literacy: Mobile learning and the iPhone. In: Global Learn Asia Pacific (Global Learn) 2010, 17 May 2010, Penang, Malaysia pp. 181-186.
Wright, P. R. and Pascoe, R. (2009) Drama as a tool for transforming attitudes and values in teacher education students. In: Footprints. Drama Australia National Conference 2009, 26-28 November 2009, University of Melbourne
Wright, P. R. and Palmer, D. (2009) I am LUCKY because I get to do creative things. In: The 6th International Drama in Education Research Institute, 14-19 July 2009, Sydney, Australia
Wright, P. R. and Pascoe, R. (2007) Applied aesthetic understanding: How arts teacher education experience in one Australian university is felt, described and understood. In: IDEA World Congress 2007, 16-22 July 2007, Hong Kong
MacCallum, J., Palmer, D., Cumming-Potvin, W., Wright, P. R., Brooker, M. and Tero, C. (2007) Caravans and 'cyberspace': Connecting community through intergenerational exchange. In: 15th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA), 5-8 July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Dinham, J., Wright, P. R., Pascoe, R., MacCallum, J., Grushka, K. and ., . (2007) Proving or improving visual education: implications for teacher education. In: AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, 2007, Fremantle, W.A.
Pascoe, R., Wright, P. R., Dinham, J., MacCallum, J. and Grushka, K. (2007) Re-designing education in the visual: Re-positioning visual arts education for an increasingly visual world. In: Redesigning Pedagogy: Culture, Knowledge and Understanding Conference 2007, 28-30 May 2007, National Institute of Education, Singapore pp. 1-32.
Wright, P. R., Pascoe, R., MacCallum, J., Dinham, J. and Grushka, K. (2007) Visual Education as an emergent methodology: boon or bane? In: 3rd Dialogues and Differences in Arts Education Conference, 23-24 November 2007, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Dinham, J. and Wright, P. R. (2006) Partnering with community to develop student-teachers' understanding of art's cultural connections. In: International InSEA Congress 2006, 1 - 5 March 2006, Viseu, Portugal
Wright, P. R. (2006) Playback theatre, industrial city and community building. In: Turning the Tide. Drama Australia Conference 2006, 30 Sept. - 2 Oct. 2006, Sydney, N.S.W.
Dinham, J., Wright, P. R. and Pascoe, R. (2006) Reviewing Australian arts education to meet emerging needs. In: 1st World Conference on Arts Education. Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century, 6 - 9 March 2006, Lisbon, Portugal
Wright, P. R. (2005) Arts literate teachers emerging: (Re)cognising pre-service arts education. In: Backing Our Creativity. National Education and the Arts Symposium 2005, 12 - 14 Sept. 2005, Melbourne, Vic.
MacCallum, J., Grushka, K., Pascoe, R., Wright, P. R., Church, T. and Dinham, J. (2005) Creating potential for learning through the visual. In: 11th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Biennial Conference, 23-27 August 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus
Pascoe, R. and Wright, P. R. (2005) Nurturing arts literate teachers, generating transformational change in arts teacher education: A Western Australian experience. In: University of Arizona, Winter School for Arts Education, February 2005, Tucson, Arizona.
Wright, P. R. (2005) Reporting on two national arts education reviews. In: Backing Our Creativity. National Education and the Arts Symposium 2005, 12 - 14 September 2005, Melbourne, Vic. pp. 200-205.
Wright, P. R. (2005) Research panel: Connecting drama researchers: Focus on learning; No one is an island. In: Drama Australia National Conference, 7-9 July 2005, Launceston, Tasmania
MacCallum, J., Palmer, D., Northcote, J.K., Wright, P., Cumming-Potvin, W., Tero, C., Brooker, M. and Wright, P. R. (2005) Turning talking into walking: Practical ideas for intergenerational action. In: Active 2005 Conference, 14-15 September 2005, Fremantle, W.A.
Wright, P. R. and Pascoe, R. (2004) Nurturing generational change in arts education or toiling, tiling, fertilising, pruning and gardening in the Elysian Fields. In: Dialogues and Differences in Arts Education Symposium (2004), 21-22 May 2004, University of Sydney, N.S.W.
Book Chapter
Wakholi, P.M. and Wright, P.R. (2017) Teachers as cultural translators. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P. R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M. and Day, L., (eds.) Ways of Being in Teaching. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Holland, pp. 71-86.
Wright, P.R. (2017) Ways of being, belonging, and becoming. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P. R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M. and Day, L., (eds.) Ways of Being in Teaching. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Holland, pp. 33-46.
Wright, P. R. (2012) Performing 'Hope': Authentic story, change and transformation in teacher education. In: Down, B. and Smyth, J., (eds.) Critical voices in teacher education. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 211-221.
Wright, P. R. (2011) Agency, intersubjectivity and drama education: The power to be and do more. In: Schonmann, S., (ed.) Key concepts in Theatre/Drama education. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111-115.
Wakholi, P.M. and Wright, P.R. (2011) The art of migrant lives. Bicultural identity and the arts: The African cultural memory youth arts festival in Western Australia. In: McLean, C.L. and Kelly, R., (eds.) Creative arts in research for community and cultural change. Detselig Enterprises/Temeron Books, Calgary, Alberta, pp. 233-247.
Wright, P. R. (2009) Teaching in Arts Education. In: Saha, L.J. and Dworkin, A.G., (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching. Springer, New York, pp. 1049-1060.
Harris, J., Hays, T., Kottler, J., Minichiello, V., Olohan, I. and Wright, P. R. (2005) Vehicles to promote positive ageing: Natural therapies, counselling, music and the creative arts. In: Minichiello, V. and Coulson, I., (eds.) Contemporary issues in gerontology: Promoting positive ageing. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, N.S.W., pp. 215-240.
Wright, P. R. (2003) "The Braided Rope": theatre and young people—theatre, education or in between? In: Heikkinen, H. and O'Sullivan, C., (eds.) Special interest fields of drama, theatre and education : the IDEA dialogues. University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Funland, pp. 46-53.
Wright, P. R. (2002) Playing 'betwixt' and 'between' learning and healing. Playback Theatre for a troubled world. In: Rasmussen, B. and Ostern, A., (eds.) The IDEA Dialogues 2001. International Drama Education Association, Bergen, pp. 140-149.
Wright, P. R. and Rasmussen, B. (2001) Children and drama: knowing differently. In: Robertson, M. and Gerber, R., (eds.) Children's ways of knowing: learning through experience. ACER Press, Camberwell, Vic., pp. 218-232.
Wright, P., Down, B., Rankin, S., Haseman, B., White, M. and Davies, C. (2016) BIG hART: Art, equity and community for people, place and policy. Australian Research Council/ Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.
Wright, P. and Georgeff, N. (2015) This is a brush that brings new colour to my life. Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.
Wright, P. (2011) Big hART's GOLD project: Bringing communities into existence. Murdoch University. Big hART, Western Australia.
Wright, P. (2011) Evaluating Big hART's SMASHED project: Building bridges for personal, social and institutional change. Murdoch University. Big hART, Western Australia.
Wright, P. R. (2009) It's like thinking with both sides of your brain. Big Hart's LUCKY project: an imaginative intervention. Big hART
Wright, P. R. and Palmer, D. (2007) People now know me for something positive: an evaluation of Big hART's work at the John Northcott Estate. Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth.
MacCallum, J., Palmer, D., Wright, P. R., Cumming-Potvin, W., Northcote, J.K., Brooker, M.A. and Tero, C. (2006) Community building through intergenerational exchange programs: Report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme (NYARS). Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs
Wright, P. R., MacCallum, J., Pascoe, R., Dinham, J., Church, T., Grushka, K. and Brown, N. (2006) From Behind the Mask: Revealing Visual Education. National Review of Visual Education, Visual Arts, Craft, Design and Visual Communication, Draft Research Report. Murdoch University. Centre for Learning Change and Development., Murdoch, W.A..


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NEWPORT BEACH - It had been 33 starts that Loren Roberts had gone without a win on the Champions Tour. The 56-year-old who won eight times on the PGA Tour was starting to worry a bit if he could become a champion once again.
He studied film to refine his short game last week and came to Newport Beach ready to reacquaint himself with poa annua greens.
Twenty-five to 30 mile-per-hour winds brushed through Newport Beach Country Club for the final round of the 18th Toshiba Classic on Sunday.
Roberts used a hot start and a strong finish on No. 18 to blow away the opposition. His putter also helped him grab his 13th win on the Champions Tour, his first since June 27, 2010 after shooting an eight-under-par 205.
Roberts, 56, won by two strokes. He sank a birdie putt from five feet on the 510-yard, par-5 18th hole to card a two-under 69 on his final round and collect the $262,500 winner's check.
Mark Calcavecchia, who had a two-shot lead after two rounds, along with Tom Kite and Bernhard Langer tied for second at 6-under.
"Last year, I was getting a little hacked off at my [short] game," said Roberts, a two-time Charles Schwab Cup champion. "I wasn't happy where I was hitting it and I was starting to force it a little bit. My whole game is putting. I hit it good enough, but I gotta putt. I was struggling with the putter last year to be honest."
Roberts said he made a big change last week while studying film. He noticed when he was putting well, the shaft would lean at impact. But lately the lean was inaccurate, he said. He saw he needed to readjust.
"I really rolled some putts on these greens good today," Roberts said. "They rolled and went right where I was looking and that's what won the tournament for me."
Roberts birdied Nos. 1, 2 and 4 to grab a two-shot lead after starting two shots back. His lead grew to four shots after his birdie on the 549-yard par-5 No. 13, but dwindled to one after he got into some trouble with bogeys on three of the next four holes.
He left the door open, but no one jumped on the opportunity. Roberts walked to No. 18 with a one-shot lead and later rolled in his sixth birdie of his round and 15th of the 54-hole tournament.
Bernhard Langer's double-bogey on the par-3 No. 17 caused some regret for the two-time Masters champion who won the Toshiba in 2008. His birdie putt rolled into the bunker and it took him two shots to recover.
Calcavecchia nearly put pressure on Roberts, but missed a 10-foot eagle putt on No. 18 and settled for a birdie.
"Once he missed that eagle putt, and I was five feet out of the hole, I knew it was my tournament," Roberts said. "But it was nice to knock it in and win by two."
Roberts said the wind caused challenges even with his putting. Langer also acknowledged the rough wind.
"It was dangerous out there," Langer said. "I saw a big branch come down. If anybody would have stood there they would have been knocked out. Somebody else got a branch on the top of their head. There were things flying all over the place."
Fred Couples, who played with the leaders in the final round and started two shots back, double-bogeyed No. 16 and finished tied for eighth at -4.
Nick Price, last year's champion, finished tied for 19th at -1.
Brad Bryant had the best final round with a five-under 66 and was one of just 18 players who finished below par in the wind. The final-round scoring average, 73.089, was the highest average for a round in tournament history. The previous high was 72.974 in the first round in 2000.
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In 2011, Seagate introduced a new category of storage device that combines solid state storage technology with traditional hard drive technology. The device became known as the solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). It combines the old and the new to deliver high performance, lots of capacity and a price that works.
Virtually all computer users are familiar with the term hard disk drive (HDD). First introduced in 1956, HDD storage devices have evolved over the past decades into almost a commodity component of every desktop and notebook computer used today.
But a new technology has captured the attention of performance-focused computer users: the solid state drive (SSD) —a relatively new storage technology that uses integrated circuit-based memory chips instead of rotating memory like an HDD.
Modern computers utilize advanced microprocessors capable of many millions of complex computations every second. But they can only go as fast as your storage allows. All of the digital information stored on your computer hard drive—images, videos, documents and more—are fuel for your microprocessor. The faster you can deliver this digital fuel to your computer's microprocessor, the faster your computer will perform and the richer the applications it can support.
SSD technology has some very attractive benefits, the most important of which is performance. An SSD will deliver significantly more overall computer system performance compared to a traditional hard drive. Unlike a hard drive which has spinning disks and moving parts as key elements of locating, reading and retrieving digital data, SDDs use no moving parts and deliver data to your computer microprocessor effectively and quickly.
Here's where SSD technology comes in to help deliver breakthrough system performance. Unlike a hard drive which has spinning disks and moving parts as key elements of locating, reading and retrieving digital data, SDDs have no moving parts and deliver data to your computer microprocessor effectively and quickly. The result? A lot of fuel is delivered to your computer's engine making it go much faster!
But SSDs are expensive. That's why they've only been utilized in the highest performance laptops. Their higher technology costs have prohibited them from being realistic for most systems. Most people installing an SSD in their computer have to compromise with a very small amount of capacity, perhaps 64GB – 128GB, just to make it affordable.
In reality, what the computer industry needs is a storage technology that provides the capacity and price profile of a hard drive with the performance of an SSD. Seagatesolid state hybrid drives(SSHD) deliver it. SSHD technology integrates a small (and very affordable) amount of solid state memory into the core architecture of an HDD to produce an incredible combined benefit: the capacity of a hard drive, speed similar to an SSD and a price that is slightly more than a traditional hard drive.
It sounds so simple and straight forward when you describe it, but the secret sauce at the core of the SSHD platform is sophisticated software that keeps track of frequently used data and stores it in the fast, solid state portion of the system. Seagate is the only hard drive company currently offering an SSHD, and it's secret sauce is called Adaptive Memory™ technology. The results are impressive, delivering boot times and overall system responsiveness far in excess of systems utilizing traditional hard drives and very near the results of the much more expensive SSD-based systems.
This win-win combination of performance, capacity and affordability has huge possibilities for computing. In fact, even mainstream technology analysts agree. IDC, a leader in tracking and forecasting the computer storage market, recently recognized and began forecasting SSHD technology as a unique category. They estimate that penetration in the notebook computer market will reach 33% by 2016 and deliver a combined annual growth rate of 162.4% between 2011 and 2016.1
Once in a while, a new technology comes along that just seems to make sense. The speed you want, the capacity you need, at a price you can afford. Solid state hybrid drives provide all three.
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1 IDC, "Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2012-2016 Forecast: The Industry Hits the Reset Button," IDC #233547, Volume 1, March 2012.


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Uhurit, if Silent Place is run by the same guy as Small Voices, be careful. I had to bring a PayPal complaint against Small Voices after two months of waiting in order to get a bunch of 3" discs I had won in an eBay auction. Small Voices apparently is no longer listed as an eBay seller. Too bad, as both Silent Place and Small Voices have released some excellent discs.
Relevancy... Celer + Mathieu Ruhlmann Mesoscaphe on the Spekk label. I've heard of Spekk before, but this is the first disc I've actually picked up on this label. Nao, who runs Spekk, and also does the designs on these lovely packages (sort of a mini hardback book) threw in a couple extra with my order. So, I'm slowly going through the above, plus a v/a disc entitled "small melodies" (with Taylor Deupree, Tape, Stephan Mathieu, Sogar, Fenton, Ambarchi and others) and also a disc by Opitope entitled "Hau" which sounds promising. Half of Opitope is Chihei Hatakeyama who did the fantastic 'minima moralia' disc on Kranky a few years ago.


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Product Girl's flavor of the month for August is mint. We're not sure anything beats a cool splash of mint in one of the steamiest months. It's incredibly refreshing. Here's the minty products we've been showing some love.
- Renee Rouleau Mint Buffing Beads – I've been reaching for this little beloved jar of mine all summer long when I need some gentle exfoliation. The beads are super gentle, not harsh or abrasive at all and the formula is creamy, keeping in line with my light hydration regime this season.
- Philosophy Kiss Me Exfoliating Lip Scrub & Facial – This minty lip scrub is a triple threat: it exfoliates, moisturizes lips and helps freshen your breath at the same time for less than some other high end lip scrubs. I now have a few scattered around in different places… you should too!
- Suave Professionals Rosemary Mint Shampoo and Conditioner – I live for the smell of Aveda's Rosemary Mint shampoo and conditioner, but find it can be a little drying. At less than $3 a bottle,Suave offers a great alternative. I find that it lathers well ( all those sulfates – not minding them here!) and the conditioner provides a smooth finish without weighing my hair down.
- Bath & Body Works Nectarine Mint Gentle Foaming Hand Soap – This soap is additional proof that mint can be paired with nearly anything. Sometimes nectarine can be too citrusy sweet, but the mint tones it down beautifully. It's been on my bathroom counter all summer.
- Origins Zero Oil Deep Pore Cleanser – There's nothing subtle about the mint in this new cleanser from Origins. It's minty to the extreme and leaves your skin feeling cool — almost cold! It's a surprisingly gentle cleanser though, it doesn't strip your skin of essential oils but rather just the gook and grime we accumulate every day.
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Here it is, Spring Palette piece of clothing number four. A pair of nautical inspired high waisted navy trousers. I am in love with them. I prefer them to the Burda style I have made before here and here because they have pockets. I used Mc Calls M5592 that I have had for a while but always thought they might be a little complicated.
Nope they are not. They are straight forward to make and I am sure I will make them again. They are a tad big on me but that's OK. Means I can wear them out to dinner and have desert too ;-)
I used the anchor buttons again, I used on the red shorts
I lined the pockets with red start print fabric I had scraps of. I love using up scrap fabric!!!
When I was looking online for inspiration for future projects and outfits I stumbles across this picture of Gwen Stefani, who is one of my style icons for obvious reasons. After seeing that picture I thought, this is the look I want to go for today. So I did. Do you think I pulled it off?
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Created by senior scouts Mark Schulte and Ray Batra, this video is created with the energetic style similar to the introduction to the Banff Mountain Film Festival. This video is not complete yet, but this is the current version of it. All videos are of troop outings (except for the kayaking, which the troop has done, but we didn't collect footage for. Instead, a alumni scout and his friend filmed that section.)
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The Fury FC 04 Red U9 team finished two successful tournaments with the combined efforts of (front row, l-r) Caleb Fowler, Jack McSpadden, Brooks Huffstetler, Henry Jones, Ozzie Osteen, Brance Mann, Christian Fowler, (back row, l-r) coach Ryan McSpadden, Luke McSpadden, coach Scott Jones, Luke Mann, Stephen Walter and coach Joe Walter. They won the Shamrock Cup and were co-champions at the Atlanta Peach Classic.
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