text:
|2012-09-10, 04:08
|Link #1322
a random Indonesian otaku
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Xanadu
Age: 27
congratz Tanaka... finally you realized your feeling... lol
I like his determination to draw.... and I want to see his drawing... lol
everyone is doing good job in preparation... never expect Wien can do something rather than superhero stuff... and Sawa also do a good choreography... although Konatsu's script is hilarious...
then.... come that shocking news... I can't imagine if same thing happen to me...
of course, my school will do a student revolution or riot... but looks like Shirozaka school have good students...
Radiant Melody (well, hopefully it's not a wrong translation) is finished!!!! Wakanalia has finished her masterpiece...
yeah! who cares about school closing! We will have our White Festival no matter what!!!
|2012-09-10, 06:02
|Link #1324
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Germany
Decent build up for the grand final of Tari Tari in ep 11. Only 2 more to go, i can't wait to see the remaining ep(s).
Quote from Konatsu :"I am everbody's mom."
And btw Sawa should do artistic gymnastics instead of riding
|2012-09-10, 07:26
|Link #1325
a small cat
Watched the episode today.
I like the scene where Konatsu convinces Taichi to try and draw, but unfortunately the results are exactly as Taichi had said - he should not draw. Everything is going so well, Wien shows that he's good at making props and Konatsu seems to be able to get one of her friends to help.
When everything is going well, someone has to make a **** move and ruin the fun for everyone - and this is the role of that middle aged man that the principal is talking to.
Of course, Wakana comes in to save the day for everyone with a finished song. Seriously can't wait for the next episode!
Last edited by Liddo-kun; 2012-09-10 at 07:31. Reason: spelling
|2012-09-10, 07:42
|Link #1326
Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
That was a very fun episode.
The fantasy sequence at the beginning of the ep was nice. I'm not sure Sawa would accept to wear that costume in real life, it's very revealing. The boys being frogs in Konatsu's script is lame. I hope they'll change that and give them a bigger role.
I thought Taichi's drawings were going to surprise everybody, but nope, he sucked just like he claimed. I would have liked to see his drawings but it might be better to leave it to the imagination
They hinted once again that Taichi has a crush on Sawa, however with only 2 episodes left, there's nothing much they can do with it. It's a bit of a shame. I would have been curious to see how Tari Tari handles romance.
So, the reason the VP looked out of it lately was that the school is closing down. Makes sense, she has so many memories there. It doesn't seem like there is anything she can do to prevent the school from closing down. She can only accept it.
I loved the ending of the episode. Seeing Wakana so happy makes me feel all warm inside~ she's come a long way.
|2012-09-10, 08:33
|Link #1327
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: UK
So....to all the romance naysayers: RUN! RUN!
Haha, somehow this episode spent a lot of time on Tanaka. Especially considering nothing much happened. It's like they had a lot of time to spare and worked up some random stuff for Tanaka. Still, it'll be nice to see how they develop him now with some 'romance' thrown in. Might be too late in the show though...
Fantasy scene was fun. Seeing the group plan out their stuff was too. Although the guys getting the short end of the stick was a shame (although probably for comedic reasons), they made up for it with Wien's creations and Tanaka's 'moments'.
The end part with the school came pretty fast. It's always jarring when a show decides to jump ahead when it's been moving at a slow pace. What, from the looks of it, maybe 2 weeks to a month passed? I never personally like that since it feels like stuff is left out, but I'll deal.
At least the whole school closing thing has a decent argument behind it. I expected it, but at least there's some substantive reason behind it (I mean, even in the real world, you don't just close down a school).
As always, can't wait for the next episode. Damn shame it'll end soon. At least it means I can rewatch the whole show again soon
|2012-09-10, 08:34
|Link #1328
Version Zero
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Discord - Mr.Bushido#2164
Age: 33
Warning: Not safe to view at work or school!Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?
Last edited by relentlessflame; 2012-09-10 at 09:56. Reason: added nsfw tag just to be safe...
|2012-09-10, 09:01
|Link #1330
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
At first I though it was an RPG game.
Looks like it's just an idea for the musical.
Konatsu really knows how to get things go her way.
It was nice watching their preparations.
Well, it was certainly not nice cancelling the cultural festival.
|2012-09-10, 09:10
|Link #1331
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Age: 26
I wish we could've seen Tanaka's drawings. I wanted to see how bad he is. Judging from everyone's reactions he should just stick with badminton.
I love how they tried to make the names sound Western by adding "-ya" at the end in that RPG part.
|2012-09-10, 14:10
|Link #1335
He Without a Title
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
|2012-09-10, 15:01
|Link #1336
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Age: 26
Personally I'm fine with that. I prefer them just throwing hints around rather than suddenly switching to romance. The show works great as it is and I'd rather they focus on individual characters and friendships than romance.
|2012-09-10, 15:30
|Link #1337
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
I'm all about Wakana and Konatsu's college adventures but something like that is extremity unlikely...
Last edited by Kazu-kun; 2012-09-10 at 15:41.
|2012-09-10, 15:51
|Link #1338
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: france
the ends of this episode feeled quite like forced rushed drama. i mean is that all they have to show about the school shutdown ? we never got to see the developement of the character to this knowledge, its just baam here and then beem past it.
|2012-09-10, 16:18
|Link #1339
Join Date: Sep 2006
Hands up those of us who were expecting Taichi's drawings to be on the same level as Chinatsu's drawings in YuruYuri!
But anyway... At the start of the show I did wonder if I was watching the wrong thing, but then Sawa in bikini, so that's OK then...
That guy in the principal's office talking about the building seemed well dodgy to me. I can't help wondering if there's some Yakuza business taking place there and the Principal has got himself and the school in financial problems.
Looks like they're going for a "Let's do the show right here" ending. Not that that's a bad thing in my estimation.
|2012-09-10, 18:13
|Link #1340
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: UK
So... I decided to rewatch the episode again with different subs. And the line during the gang talking about the script where Wien says:
'I want to play a prince' in one sub goes:
'I want to play the cow' in another.
I nearly fell off my chair from laughter.
|drama, music, original anime, pa works
|Thread Tools


text:
Selena Gomez Reportedly Auditioning For Snow White! Is She Better Than Kristen Stewart?
It's Kristen vs Selena! Who do YOU think should play Snow White?
Our loyalties are so torn! After getting ourselves super excited over the news Kristen Stewart might be playing Snow White now we hear that she may be competing against Selena Gomez. And we can totally see Selena being perfect for the role too! Which amazing girl should the studios choose?
According to DisneyInfonet Selena has been asked to attend February auditions for the Disney Princess role. The report says Selena, 18, and Kristen, 20, are director Rupert Sanders's favorites at the moment, although IMDB has Alicia Vikander listed as the rumored lead.
The girls are apparently auditioning alongside Leighton Meester, Nicole Anderson and Miranda Cosgrove who are all trying out for various parts in the film.
We've reached out to Selena's rep and will keep you posted on any more news we hear!
In the meantime, who are you hoping scores the lead? And why do you think your pick is perfect for the role? And (in a perfect world) would you rather see boyfriends Robert Pattinson or Justin Bieber as the prince? Sound off below!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Saracen are delighted to announce the title sponsorship of the 2013 British Downhill Series.
The British Downhill Series is a world-class event that has for many years been a breeding ground for a wealth of British talent, helping riders make the transition from the national to world stages with consummate ease. The BDS is British Cycling's National Series for Downhill Mountain Biking and all of us at Saracen are incredibly proud to be able to support this spectacular series. The BDS has been the proving ground for the Madison Saracen downhill team since its inception and we know only too well how important the series is for the development of British talent. As such, we are very happy to be able to help the series to continue to deliver exceptional racing on home soil.
"Ever since Madison acquired the Saracen brand in 2009, a key focus was to create a great quality, well-engineered but affordable downhill bike for UK riders. It is a great opportunity and perfect synergy for Saracen to be title sponsor for the 2013 British Downhill Series." Dominic Langan - Madison CEO
"This is amazing news for riders, spectators, media, and the team behind the BDS. It's only natural the British National Series has joined forces with Saracen a British brand. Saracen brings in important investment and support of the series allowing the BDS to take the series up another level and deliver an outstanding series for all involved." Si Paton - BDS Race Director
The 2013 Saracen British Downhill Series will consist of five rounds, all of which will be streamed online via a live video feed with the combined talents of Extreme.com and Freecaster – a first for a national series and another example of the quality of the event.
The complete race calendar for the 2013 Saracen British Downhill Series is as follows:
Round 1 - Combe Sydenham, Somerset April 13th-14th
Round 2 - Fort William, Scotland May 11th-12th
Round 3 - Innerleithen, Scotland June 1st-2nd
Round 4 - Llangollen, Wales June 29th-30th


text:
If you read Keith Olbermann's lawsuit against former employer Current TV, then you know he wasn't all too happy with the cable news network's production value.
"Current's dysfunction permeated all levels of the organization," Olbermann's suit read. It went on to say that the problems were so bad that they "irreparably tarnished the 'Countdown' brand that Olbermann brought with him to Current."
Those are some pretty harsh words.
So we decided to see if we could find out how shoddy Current really was. And we just might have found some of the "dysfunction" Olbermann was talking about.
Watch as the lights just go out in this clip (at about 1:15):
And it appears the teleprompter wasn't working all that right during this segment (at about 3:40):


text:
The College of Health Sciences is located on Mulago Hill, Mulago, 3 Km from the Kampala City, as is Mulago Hospital. Contact us at the following address:
Office of the Principal,
Makerere University College of Health Sciences,
P.O. Box 7072,
Kampala, Uganda.
Tel: (+256) 41 4530 020
Email firstname.lastname@example.com or the College Principal directly at email@example.com
Makerere University College of Health Sciences © 2011-2016.
cremoc.org betebet that are open to access and serve on the internet have managed to reach a big popularity in recent years, and this seems to continue for many years. Tipobet is a gambling and casino company established in 2008. betkoair.com tipobet is a company that has been ranked among the top 3 betting and casino sites worldwide.


text:
Here ericdress.com shows customers a fashion collection of current king size bed size.You can find many great items. They all have high quality and reasonable price. You can get big discount sometimes, because we always do promotions. If you need king size bed size,come here to choose. We give you good items and services.
Vivilinen Paisley Floral Prints Boho Chic Cotton 3-Piece King Size Bed
Vivilinen Dancing Girl Printed Cotton Queen Size 3-Piece Pink Bed in a Bag
Vivilinen Solid Gray Simple Style Quilting Bed Skirt 4-Piece Fluffy Bedding Sets/Duvet Cover
Vivilinen Princess Style Solid Pink with Quilting Bed Skirts Thick 4-Piece Fluffy Bedding Sets
Vivilinen Solid White Simple Style Quilting Bed Skirt 4-Piece Fluffy Bedding Sets/Duvet Cover
Vivilinen Pastoral Style Birds with Branches Print Patchwork Cotton 3-Piece Bed in a Bag
Ericdress Plus Size Off Shoulder Pleated Plus Size Blouse
Ericdress Plus-Size Mid-Length Print Floral Plus-Size Blouse
Ericdress Plus-Size Mid-Length Cardigan Plus Size Sweater
Ericdress Plus-Size Oblique Collar Ruffles Plus-Size Blouse
Ericdress Plus-Size Lace Mid-Length Tee Plus-Size Shirt
Ericdress Slim Plus-Size Stripe Oblique Collar Plus Size Blouse
Ericdress Plus Size Color Block PU Jacket
Ericdress Plus Size Short Sleeves Maxi Dress
Ericdress Plus Size Lace Half Sleeve Dress
Ericdress Slim Lace Patchwork Plus Size Blouse
Ericdress Plus Size Ruffle Casual Dress
Ericdress Plus Size Army Green Zipper Coat
Ericdress Solid Color Slim Plus Size Coat
Ericdress Large Size Casual Print Men's Shirt
Ericdress Sexy Plus Size Bowknot Decorated Babydoll
Ericdress Plus Size Spaghetti Straps Pelplum Blouse
Ericdress Plus Size Print Men's Blazer
Ericdress Pleated Gradient Monokini (Plus Size Available)


text:
Pre race, sporting the ever so popular bin bag look.
My husband and I ran another race this weekend in Gosport. I booked this half marathon a few weeks back after we ran the last half because I am still chasing my sub 2 hour half marathon time.
It was also the first time I ran all by myself. Usually my husband runs with me to pace me and keep me company. I felt it was time he got to run his own race to see what time he can run it in. He was going for a sub 1:30 and ran an amazing 1:27. I am so proud of him.
My super fast husband/running god!!
Unfortunately I didn't make my goal of under 2:00 :-( I ran 2:04, close.
I was hoping that a little speed training after running the full marathon would be enough but I guess it takes a little more than that. However I am happy that I can run as fast without my hubby by my side as I run with him pacing me. That was a big thing for me to accomplish. My plan for next year is to start racing in Triathlon. My husband doesn't like swimming so I am all by myself there and I feel confident now, that I can do it. Plus I will obviously keep chasing that sub 2 hour half marathon. It'll happen, watch this space ;-)
Post race - Sporting my new medal.


text:
After another dismal Monday Night performance by the Ravens, hopefully the woeful Detroit Lions will prove to be just what the Doctor ordered to get them back on track.
The last time the Lions won a road game was October 28, 2007. Three players that aren't even on the team any more, Jon Kitna, Kevin Jones, and Roy Williams, paced that win.
This season, they are losing games played outside of a dome by an average of 33-14.
Their #1 quarterback, Matt Stafford, is injured and will not start. Instead, veteran journeyman Daunte Culpepper, playing for his fourth team in five seasons (his second in the Motor City), will get the nod. Culpepper has played in four games in 2009, completing 37 of his 65 passes for 433 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions. Daunte, now 32, can nonetheless still do some of the things he did back in his mid 20's – namely, scramble and fumble. He has 51 rushing yards on just four attempts this season, but has also fumbled three times. While not quite on the incredible butterfinger pace he was in 2002 (23 fumbles in 16 games), he is still obviously prone to dropping the rock.
Terrell Suggs has been practicing, albeit on a limited basis, and could be back in the lineup Sunday.
Things set up very well for the Ravens here, as they try to scrape back above the .500 mark. Still, most Ravens fans are a bit uneasy about this one, especially after watching Pittsburgh lose to 1-win Cleveland last night. Last year's AFC Championship Game participants are proving to be but shells of what they were a year ago, and the feeling around town is that a win is far from guaranteed for our purple and black on Sunday.
So, what could go so horribly wrong that the Ravens somehow allow Detroit to escape B'More with a win?
- Megatron – The Lions' undisputed best player is wide receiver Calvin Johnson. The third year pro out of Georgia Tech is a Top 5 WR in the league, and his 6'5″ frame is just the type that has given the Ravens' secondary fits all season. Johnson, though is BETTER than Vincent Jackson, Sidney Rice, Dwayne Bowe, and the other guys that have torched the Ravens. Culpepper looks at #81 and sees his glory days with Randy Moss in Minnesota flash before his eyes. Look for Daunte to go deep several times to Johnson on Sunday, especially knowing that the Ravens' DBs are extremely likely to draw flags, whether they are warranted or not. If Ed Reed, who missed the Packers game and has not practiced (as of Thursday) this week misses another game, Megatron could have a field day at M&T Bank Stadium.
- Flacco's Struggles – On paper, the Lions 32nd ranked pass defense looks ripe for Natty Joe to rebound from his career-worst performance at Lambeau. They allowed Brady Freaking Quinn to throw for 300 yards and 4 touchdowns three weeks ago, and Aaron Rodgers hung up 348 on them Thanksgiving day. Joe, though, has been making poor decisions and poor throws for over a month. Even against Pittsburgh, he floated the deep ball to Clayton that probably should have been a touchdown. Let's hope that the increased mobility we saw from him in Green Bay is proof that his ankle is really feeling better, and that it will lead to some crisper throws. Combine that with the solid decision-making and spreading around of the football that we saw early in the year, and Detroit won't stand a chance.
- Minnie Mouse – Mighty Mouse Ray Rice also needs to bounce back from his poor game in Green Bay. He lost just the second fumble of his career, and the first since his pro debut against Cincinnati, and was held under 100 yards from scrimmage for the first time since Week 3. Detroit's defense is a bit better against the run, allowing 113 yards per game, but they don't have nearly the talent at linebacker that the Packers boast. Rice should be able to find running room against the Lions. If he doesn't, and if Cam Cameron still refuses to give Pain Train McClain the ball, it will put even more pressure on Flacco.
- Collapsing Pocket – The Lions, luckily, are a bit more inept than even the Ravens at pressuring quarterbacks. They have just 21 sacks on the season, one behind the Ravens' total of 22. Jared Gaither, Michael Oher, and Ben Grubbs all played terribly in Green Bay, and will need to step it up big over these last four games if the Ravens are to have any chance of making the postseason. Flacco has been sacked 8 times in the past two games, after not going down at all against Indy. All five of Pittsburgh's sacks came in the second half, making it 8 sacks over the last six quarters allowed by the Ravens. Joe's significantly diminished play over those six periods is no coincidence. Keep your QB on his feet, O-Line!
The Ravens have just one home game left after this one. The chances of a home playoff game, should they get into the postseason, are about zilch. Holding serve at M&T Bank Stadium here in Weeks 14 and 15 will have them finish a respectable 6-2 in B'More. At that point, they'll have their work cut out for them in Pittsburgh and Oakland, but at least they will have a shot. Lose either of these next two, and it'll be time to pick your surrogate playoff team for 2009, I'm afraid.
Ravens 27 Lions 10


text:
Publishing is really all about real estate.
Your in-house publicist works with sales (the reps who sell to 5 main buyers--libraries, chains, indies, department stores, convenience stores/airports) and marketing (advertising, event planning, appearances, touring, media, coop) to coordinate the amount of money spent to promote your book. A publicist usually doesn't have any power--sales and marketing do--and major decisions are made above her head.
The amount of money a book receives for publicity depends on many things, such as print run, competing titles in the catalog, previous sales, and in-house enthusiasm. I've been told that each book released in a quarter receives a pro rata share of the promo money, depending on how big the print run is.
Print runs are determined by orders. I've heard that a publisher takes orders, then doubles the figure, and that's the print run. That doesn't make much sense, but it would explain why 50% is considered an acceptable sell-through.
Writing a book in and of itself isn't going to generate any media. The author, much like the book, needs a hook.
I've done many alcohol-related events, to tie in to my book titles. I'm visiting 500 bookstores this summer, which will help generate some buzz.
My publisher has done many things for me. Lots of ARCs, big pushes at BEA, tours, awards dinners, library and bookselling conventions, point of sales stuff (free whiskey sour mix shipped witht he first ARC). They did a booklaunch party for me that went very well. They've done several ads in NYTBR, Bookpage, PW, and some mystery publications. Most importantly, they've always kept me in the loop, and have encouraged my participation in coming up with ideas.
For my part, I've gotten over forty interviews, sold over thirty short stories (which is the best advertising), visited a few dozen conventions, signed at several hundred bookstores, and tried to get my name out in cyberspace through my website, blog, and generally being a loudmouth.
My sales are decent, but not spectacular. This summer, I'll have about 170k books in print with three titles, HB and PB.
I've gotten some big reviews (PW, Kirkus, Booklist, LJ), but no huge ones (ET, People, NYT) and very few smaller (towns of less than 1 mil) reviews. That's where I'd like to see a bigger push made, because I think that people in the smaller review markets have a greater percentage of readers per capita, and I am pursuing this angle with the new book, sending out ARCs myself.
If the point of this is to sell books, where does real estate come in?
I'll get to that in a moment. First, let's talk about branding.
The word "branding" has been used a lot in publishing. So has "name-recognition." These basically mean that we want "JA Konrath" to be the same as "Coke." People see the bright covers, see the drink title, and automatically know they'll have a few laughs and a few scares reading it.
This happens in three steps.
1. People pick up my books out of curiosity--they've never heard of me before. Or they've heard of my through word-of-mouth or publicity.
2. People pick up my books because they've read me before.
3. My books become an automatic purchase as they are released.
The majority of my sales are still 1 & 2. The secret to 3, I'm convinced, is simply surviving long enough, with a backlist still available, to amass large numbers of books in print. The more books out there, the more chances for people to find them.
Allison Brennan's publisher released three PBOs in three consecutive months, and this strategy was a double-edged sword---along with getting a lot of books in print at once, it also capitalized on the publicity of a trilogy being released so quickly. Win-win. Of course, it could have backfired. if the first book wasn't any good, no amount of publicity would get readers to buy #2. Since the first book was good, each successive book has debuted higher on the NYT list.
Many bestsellers can become self-fulfilling prophesies. A publisher believes it has a big book, so the reps tell the buyers that this one is getting a large print run and a large push. The buyers anticipate demand from the publicity, and order many copies and are told to sell them word of mouth.
This sometimes backfires. I remember seeing huge stacks of Tom Wolfe and Salman Rushdie books in stores, and bookseller friends have told me the copies sold vs. shipped was ridiculously low.
But the primary factor in book sales, and the point of publicity and marketing, is ultimately real estate.
The more space you take up on a bookshelf, the better store position, the more books you have in stores, the more stores you're in, the likelier you are to sell. It's like Monopoly. Prime property, and ultimately the most property, wins the game.
The goal is to reach the point where you aren't only stocked, but restocked. You want to have permanent space on those shelves. You want to be there when someone goes looking for you, or if someone is just browsing. It's like tenure. That's what branding really does for you.
If you don't sell well, your books will go out of print, and your patch of real estate gets smaller. Smaller space=less sales, and the death spiral has begun.
Slow and steady used to win the race, with publishers carrying midlist authors for many books before the broke out and began selling in large numbers.
These days, there's more competition for space. More books are being published, and they're given less time on the shelves.
Which is why, as authors, we must do everything we can to fight for real estate.
The chains tell their stores when to pull books from the shelves and return them. But there's a loophole. The stores aren't run by computers--they're run by people. If people like your books, they'll keep them on the shelf, even when they are told to return them.
Which is why I'm visiting 500 bookstores this summer. To meet the people. To secure the real estate.
Time will tell if I'm right or wrong.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
Contact Us
We want to hear from you.
When you inquire via one of the online forms below your information is confidential.
Make an inquiry about Admission:
It may seem like we're asking a lot of questions! But all we really need is the information marked by the red checks.
Ask a question or make a comment:
Subscribe to get news about Illinois Springfield:
Submit news to the UIS Newsroom:
- Employees, click here to submit news
- If you are not an employee, please call 217/206-6716
Employees and students, if you have trouble with email or any other technical issue, please send email to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 217/206-6000.


text:
Welcome to Cove Creek Outfitters
Cove Creek Outfitters is a premier sporting and apparel company located in the valley of beautiful Bedford, Pennsylvania. Featuring some of the finest high-end and custom firearms in the United States, Cove Creek has been the number one resource of rare firearms for the most discerning outdoorsmen. Cove Creek also carries top-quality outdoor apparel for both men and women. Brands include Under Armor, Patagonia, and Merrell, to name a few.


text:
The presidential debates this year have been more consequential than such debates have ever been.
They've been historic, shifting the mood and trajectory of the race. They've been revealing of the personalities and approaches of the candidates. And they've produced a new way in which winners and losers are judged. It's a two-part wave now, the debate and the postdebate, and you have to win both.
In a way this has always been true. That's why there are spin rooms. But this year it's all more so—more organic, more spontaneous and powerful. And everyone knows what spin is. They're looking for a truth room. Through a million websites and tweets they're trying, in some rough, imperfect way, to build one.
Mitt Romney won the first debate clearly and decisively, we know that. But even more he won the days and weeks after the debate, when public opinion congeals in certain directions. It was in the postdebate that people, very much including Democrats, let out for the first time their dismay at Barack Obama and their dislike of the personality he presented.
The vice presidential debate seemed more or less a draw, with Joe Biden maybe having an edge. But it was in the postdebate, in the days afterward, that Mr. Biden seemed to slip, because the national conversation didn't move off his antics—the chuckles, the grimaces, the theatrical strangeness of it all. A draw, or a victory, began to seem like a loss.
Mr. Obama won the second debate Tuesday night with a vigorous, pointed performance. He showed up, fought, landed some blows. It was close and he was joyless, a bit of a toothache, but he emerged in marginally better shape than he entered. But he doesn't seem to be winning the postdebate. No one is talking about his excellence or his stunningly good performance—no one is talking about that. Instead the national conversation has been about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. Did the president tell the truth at the time? Was he telling it now? Did Mr. Romney fail to unmask his dishonesty? People are asking what is the truth of the economy, as opposed to the factoids deployed. Have drilling permits on federal lands been cut or not? These issues are not good for the president, and they'll be the subject of discussion up until the next debate.
In the postdebate, the president's win is starting to look like a draw.
* * *
At some point after the Hofstra debate, we are going to find out whether a certain part of the old school American political style is now officially gone, or whether Mr. Obama, in ignoring it, paid a certain price. This is how the president started out: "Gov. Romney's says he's got a five-point plan? Gov. Romney doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. That's been his philosophy in the private sector, that's been his philosophy as governor, that's been his philosophy as a presidential candidate." Mr. Romney, the president said, likes a world in which "you can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it. You can invest in a company, bankrupt it, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions, and you still make money."
This was the president of the United States standing with the other major party's presidential candidate and saying things that were harsh and personal—you're selfish and greedy, you care for nothing but yourself, you have no sense of responsibility to others. Later Mr. Obama called Mr. Romney "a good man" who "loves his family," but it sounded pro forma and hollow because it was. He does not think Mr. Romney is a good man: He'd started the evening telling us at some length that he was a bad one.
What the president said at the debate was nothing he hadn't said on the trail. His campaign has been personal, accusatory and manipulative. But there in the room on a tiny stage, for a sitting president to come out with that kind of put-down—I couldn't imagine a JFK doing it, with his cool, or a Jerry Ford with his Midwestern decency, or a Reagan, or the Bushes. When you are president, you don't stand next to an opponent and accuse and attack. You keep a certain almost aesthetic distance. You know the height of the office you hold. You let the debate come to you, and if at some point you get an opening to uncork a joke or a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger criticism, you move.
The president was trying to look strong and commanding, to take control. Did he look strong, or did he look like a hack, like a tough Chicago pol who isn't quite big enough to be where he is?
We may look back on 2012 as the point at which old school officially ended, and some new school began. Maybe the public isn't so impressed by old school. Maybe this is how people like their politics now.
It was Mr. Obama's aggressive foray that allowed Mr. Romney to diss him in return. When he said the president is weak on energy—"I don't think anyone really believes that you're a person who's going to be pushing for oil and gas and coal"—he wasn't critiquing a policy but a person. When Mr. Obama attempted to jump in, Mr. Romney stopped him cold: "You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking."
If Mr. Romney wins, that's going to be one cold, stony limo ride they share from the White House on Inauguration Day.
* * *
The heart of the debate? Romney and the price of gas: "The proof of whether a strategy is working or not is what the price is that you're paying at the pump. If you're paying less than you paid a year or two ago, why, then, the strategy is working. But you're paying more. When the president took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now, it's $4 a gallon. The price of electricity is up. If the president's energy policies are working, you're going to see the cost of energy come down."
Mr Obama's reply seemed like a non sequitur: Gas prices were lower when he came in "because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression."
* * *
And so on to the third and final debate, on foreign policy. The most pressing questions there are the biggest, and have remained largely unanswered throughout the campaign: What is our role in the world now? What is our job? What is it we should be trying to do? What are our priorities?
And true or false:
Everything—America's military might, its ability to defend itself, its ability to have an army and a navy and a diplomatic corps, its ability to be a friend and encourage good trends—depends on one thing: American wealth. If we are wealthy, we can be strong. If we are not wealthy, we won't be strong for long. Our foreign policy depends on our economic policy. True or not?


text:
Johnny Manziel doesn't have the arm of Andrew Luck or the size of Cam Newton or the athletic ability of Robert Griffin III. As an NFL prospect, Manziel is far from perfect, and that's even before we get into the question of whether teams are scared off by some of his off-field activities.
But some NFL team is going to fall in love with Manziel.
Manziel put up absurd numbers in a loss to No. 1 Alabama on Saturday. He completed 28 of 39 passes for 464 yards, with five touchdowns and two interceptions, and added 14 rushing attempts for 98 yards. As Peter King writes at TheMMQB.com today, one NFL scout who was at the game said that there may be some-old school coaches who aren't ready to buy into the way Manziel plays the quarterback position, but they're going to have to accept that this is how the quarterback position is played today.
"It's like Ric Flair once said: 'You may not like this, but you better learn to love it,'" the scout told King.
As Ric Flair also said, to be the man, you gotta beat the man. And Manziel is gonna be the man for some NFL team next year. There are surely a lot of NFL coaches and general managers who don't like Manziel, but all it takes is one team that has learned to love him. And when Manziel carves up Nick Saban's defense, it becomes easy to love him.


text:
Progress is being made on the remaining upgrades to part of Waynesboro's stormwater management system.
By Denise Bonura
The Record Herald
WAYNESBORO — Progress is being made on the remaining upgrades to part of Waynesboro's stormwater management system.
Kevin Grubbs, director of borough engineering services, told Waynesboro Borough Council that highway occupancy permits have been obtained through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and the borough is wrapping up its right-of-way and easement agreements with area residents to complete bypasses under South Potomac Street, Grant Street, Second Street and Snider Avenue.
Three separate contractors have been hired to finish the upgrades, which started with the widening of the Cemetery Avenue outfall in May 2011.
n A $347,635 contract was awarded to David H. Martin Excavating, Chambersburg, to replace pipes and increase inlet sizes along South Potomac Street from Main Street to Gay Street. Grubbs said the project is expected to take three months to complete.
n An $863,985 contract to Fayetteville Contractors for the South Grant Street bypass, which will add more piping at Second and Grant streets, travel under West Second Street and down to Snider Avenue, which is expected to take between four and six months to complete.
n A $1,971,654 contract was awarded to D.L. George and Sons, Waynesboro, for a mini-bypass that runs under South Potomac Street from Fifth Street to Ninth Street. Double-barreled pipe will be installed and the bypass will take stormwater runoff to the Cemetery Avenue outfall. This portion of the upgrades will take between nine months to a year to finish, Grubbs said.
"They are all looking at starting in mid- to late-January," Grubbs said. "There is a possibility we will have three contractors in town working at the same time."
Grubbs said he will keep council posted on start dates for construction.


text:
How to Use
the Readings
Inquiry Question
Reading 3: The Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse in Denver, Colorado
A group of prospectors founded Denver on November 22, 1858, after discovering gold at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. This area was part of Kansas Territory at the time, and the group named the new town for the Governor of Kansas Territory, James W. Denver. In 1859, the Pike's Peak Gold Rush drew roughly 100,000 people to the region. The increase in population led the federal government to establish Colorado Territory in 1861. Denver, which had become a mining supply town, was named the territorial capital in 1865. On August 1, 1876, Denver became the state capital when Colorado was admitted to the Union as the 38th state.
Questions for Reading 31. Give a brief synopsis of Denver's history from its founding to the turn of the 20th century. What are some of the reasons Denver became and stayed a successful town?
2. Why did the Chamber of Commerce petition Congress for a new federal building?
1Susan A. Nieminen, "U.S. Post Office and Federal Building" (Denver County, Colorado) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1972), section 8, page 1.


text:
Alum Attempting to Break Pacific Crest Trail Record Founded Charity, Run While You Can, in Honor of Mother Lucy
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sam Fox '09, a former All-East and All-Ivy high jumper for the Yale track and field team, will attempt to break the speed record for running/hiking the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail this fall as part of an effort to raise awareness and funds for Parkinson's disease. Fox will attempt to travel the equivalent of 100 marathons' worth of miles in 60 days. He is undertaking the effort through the charitable organization he founded, Run While You Can, in honor of his mother, Lucy, who suffers from Parkinson's.
Fox's mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a degenerative neurological disorder, in 2000. On the Run While You Can website, he describes how she motivated him:
My mother was incredibly active throughout my childhood. My brother, sister and I struggled to keep up with her on trails, ski slopes, and when working around the house and garden. In recent years, as her symptoms have progressed, I've seen her ability to do the things she loves decline. Though I never hear her complain about her health, things have undoubtedly changed. My mother remains tough in the face of it all, and it is that toughness that inspires this project, and that toughness that should inspire all of us to run while we can.
Fox first began thinking of taking on the Pacific Crest Trail last fall. He was inspired in part by watching a documentary about Terry Fox (no relation), a 21-year-old who ran 3,339 miles across Canada in 1980 as a fundraiser for cancer after losing his leg to the disease. Terry Fox was attempting to make it all the way across Canada, but his cancer returned before he could complete the run and he passed away in 1981.
The Pacific Crest Trail runs from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington. Fox will start his journey on Aug. 25 at the trail's northernmost point, in British Columbia's Manning Provincial Park. He aims to complete the trail in 60 days, finishing on Oct. 24 at Campo, Calif., on the Mexican border. The current speed record is 65 days.
In order to reach his goal Fox, 24, will have to average more than 40 miles and 16 hours a day, with an average daily elevation gain and loss of more than 16,000 vertical feet. Fewer people have successfully thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail than have reached the summit of Mt. Everest. In addition to the rough terrain, Fox will face obstacles ranging from extreme weather conditions to dangerous wildlife such as mountain lions and rattlesnakes.
Matching the physical challenge, Fox has set an ambitious fundraising goal for his Pacific Crest Trail journey: $250,000.
"I wanted something that seemed unreachable," said Fox, who has run, hiked, biked, skied and climbed in the Alps, the Rockies, the Canadian and American Cascades, the Sierras, the White Mountains and the Himalayas. "As I started to get an idea of what the physical aspect of the project entailed, I realized it would not be worth it unless I could raise a significant amount of money. $250,000 is enough to make a big impact."
Thanks to an anonymous corporate donor, donations between now and Aug. 25 will be matched (up to $20,000). As of Aug. 4 Fox had already raised nearly $60,000.
Proceeds from Fox's efforts will go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, a charity started by the actor in 2000 shortly after he went public with his own diagnosis with the disease. Sam Fox and Michael J. Fox are not related. The Foundation also happens to have a $50 million challenge in place right now thanks to a leadership gift from another former Yale student-athlete, women's ice hockey player Anne Wojcicki '96, and her husband, Sergey Brin.
"I chose the Michael J. Fox Foundation as the beneficiary because of their overwhelming public presence," Fox said. "They have brought Parkinson's disease to the forefront in America and are helping make strides towards treatment and a cure."
Fox notes that the research into Parkinson's also has helped with breakthroughs for other neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.
Fox founded Run While You Can this past January. It is a registered 501(c)3 charitable foundation whose stated mission is "to challenge the notion that a healthy tomorrow is promised to anyone, by creating awareness and financial support for events that emphasize the urgency of living fully today". Fox envisions growing the organization to help a wide variety of people who have seen their lives impacted or shortened in unfortunate ways, such as wounded war veterans.
A native of Rhode Island, Fox attended South Kingstown public schools and then The Wheeler School in Providence. At Yale he won a gold medal at the 2007 Penn Relays, then earned All-Ivy and All-East recognition while also qualifying for the NCAA East Regional Championships in 2009.
After spending time in Rhode Island and Colorado after graduation Fox eventually moved to Berkeley, Calif. But now he is living out of his car, with the majority of his possessions in a storage unit, as he spends the rest of August traveling to various points on the trail as training. During the hike, he will have a support vehicle meet him at predetermined checkpoints to provide food, medical attention and supplies. One of the people assisting him at these points is his former Yale track and field teammate Eric DePalo '10.
Fox's journey will be filmed as part of a feature-length documentary. He will be blogging throughout the trip, and updates will also be available through Run While You Can on Facebook and Twitter.
"Hopefully people are thinking it's impossible, so they'll be interested in following it," he said.
Run While You Can Promo from Run While You Can Film on Vimeo.
For more information, visit:
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


text:
Andreriw necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 2 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
Global Scout
We would like to invite a few contestant that we think have better understood our needs and had better translated our needs into their work.
Ideally, we would like to award them with the same amount as the leading designer on our previous contest. But because we are a recently born company (3 weeks) and we have a tight budget reserved for this project, we would like to reward all this amazing hard work and help, BUT, we have to watch for our budget constraint.
With this in mind I would like to INVITE some designers from our previous contest, so we can award multiple winners and their designs.
Thank you VERY MUCH for all the participants on "Help Global Scout with a new logo" and I would be honor to award your efforts towards our goals.
Thank you very much.
Andre Wesendonck
President @ Global Scout
We wold like the following Designers to submit the following works to this contest so we could help you guys (even though not as much as we would like) a little bit:
TrueLove: 11
Lightning™: 19
soro42: 265
flatsigns™: 221, 85
jalu: 70
₪™: 90
Antonio Bianca: 163, 49
logodesign1: 403, 306, 301
struggle4ward: 112
nugilo: 114, 117.
Nyut-Nyut: 132, 127
Angelin: 353
leona: 210
Next Logo: 219
k2n9: 251
ianskey: 345
Design Coater: 327
Altaf: 339
axehead: 358
readmore: 2
Thank you VERY MUCH for all your effort to help us out.
Kind regards to all,
Andre Wesendonck
President @ Global Scout


text:
CASA GRANDE, AZ - Vancouver Whitecaps FC rounded off their preseason trip to Arizona with a victory against local side Arizona Sahuaros at Grande Sports World in Casa Grande, Arizona on Monday afternoon.
After a goalless first half, Whitecaps FC scored the only goal of the match after the break with substitute Paulo Jr. getting the decisive strike.
Coach Martin Rennie named a young Vancouver side and gave a start to several trialists who have been training with the Whitecaps during their stay in Arizona. There was also a first start in central defence for Adam Clement, the 31st overall pick in the 2013 Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft.
The match took a while to get going before Arizona Sahuaros' Jose Ramos fired in a low shot from just inside the area on 26 minutes, which drew a reaction save from Canadian international goalkeeper Simon Thomas.
This served as a wake up call for Whitecaps FC who almost opened the scoring in the 33rd minute when trialist Evan James' header flew just wide of the post. On 40 minutes Jacob Lensky let fly with a free kick from 20 yards, which the Sahuaros goalkeeper saved to keep the score at 0-0 going in to the break.
After the interval Vancouver were looking to make the breakthrough with Paulo Jr. carrying the ball forward before finding himself space to strike an effort off the post in the 54th minute. Ten minutes later, Paulo Jr. again found space outside the penalty box and this time launched an unstoppable effort past the 'keeper to make it 1-0.
The goal stirred Sahuaros into action and on 72 minutes they forced Thomas to make a fine double save to keep Vancouver ahead.
With seven minutes remaining, the Whitecaps almost grabbed a second as an inviting cross from substitute Russell Teibert found Evan James who could only direct the ball onto the post.
Vancouver held on to record a third win in three games in Arizona and Rennie was pleased with the improvement in their performance after the break.
"In the first half the tempo wasn't quite fast enough and the pressure wasn't quick enough from us but in the second half it was," said Rennie. "We played much better and created a lot of chances. Paulo Jr. scored a good goal and I was really pleased with how the team played in the second half."
"We leave that game with a good feeling and another win against a team that I thought played really well, kept a high tempo and good pressure throughout the match. It was a really competitive game."
Following the run of victories in Arizona, the team heads back to Vancouver on February 8 for a few days of training before heading out to South Carolina for the Carolina Challenge Cup.
Scoring Summary:
64' - VAN - Paulo Jr.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
39.Simon Thomas; 33. Andres Fresenga (31.Russell Teibert 45'), 38. Beto Navarro, 45. Adam Clement, 32. Greg Klazura; 25. Jaime Peters, 35. Crispin Olando, 43. Jacob Lensky, 41. Evan James, 37. Joseph Lapira (22.Paulo Jr. 23'), 34. Caleb Clarke
Arizona Sahuaros roster
1. Brian Holt, 2. Nick Sykes, 6. Travis Campbell, 7. Malcolm Alig, 8. Saeed Robinson, 9. Brian Green, 10. Chris Green, 11. O'Shane Brown, 12. Jose R. Ramos, 14. Donny Toia, 16. Cordero Young, 17. Kareem Smith, 18. Rodolfo B. Collazo, 21. Andrew Szerlag
Whitecaps FC 2013 MLS season tickets start at $349, plus applicable tax and a $10 processing fee per order. To secure a seat and for additional information about Whitecaps FC MLS season tickets, including Pitchside Club and suites, call 604.669.9283 or visit whitecapsfc.com/tickets.
Whitecaps FC victorious again in Arizona
CASA GRANDE, AZ - Vancouver Whitecaps FC rounded off their preseason trip to Arizona with a victory against local side Arizona Sahuaros at Grande Sports World in Casa Grande, Arizona on Monday afternoon.


text:
Cat and Dog Devices for the Tech-Savvy Owner
Today we've rounded up a selection of pet devices that should help ease the frustration of everyday chores related to sharing a home with a pet. Whether you're a new or experienced pet owner, you might just find something that will save time and worries, and make your life together that much more pawesome.
For the Cat
If YouTube and the photos posted on th internet are any indication, cats are taking over! That doesn't mean they have to rule our homes though. Here are some pet devices meant to make the lives of both owner and the pet (you decide which is which) easier:
- Cat Genie Self-Cleaning Litter Box - Nobody likes scooping litter. Let Cat Genie do some of the work for you. You hook this device up to a water line and a drain and then it scoops and cleans the litter without a fuss. People who use it seem to love it, and it could be especially useful for multi-cat households. We like the dome hood add-on to give it a little sleeker look.
- Tattle Tale Vibration Alarm Pet Trainer - Cats have an uncanny ability to know where they're not supposed to be. Use the Tattle Tale to keep your cat(s) from jumping onto places where temptation might get the best of them (like shelves with glass or vases on display). You simply place the device on the prohibited surface and it sounds a shocking alarm when the cat intruder is detected with vibration technology. It might not be as effective as the Blender Defender but it should do the job more practically.
- Pioneer Pet Fountain - You may not be able to prevent cats in sinks but you can treat them to running water. This pet fountain from Pioneer does the job without looking too hideous or complex. It's on our cat's wish list.
For the Dogs
Dogs are still man's best friend, but any owner will admit that it's a lot of work to keep them well-exercised and clean. These gadgets help you do those tasks better and more efficiently.
- Stunt Puppy Hands-free Dog Leash - Running with a dog can be fun. Holding a leash the whole time though, not so much. Whether you like to run or power walk, this hands-free leash could make taking your best friend more enjoyable. Best of all, its brought to you by someone who has developed and tested it with his own dog running experience.
- HydroSurge Rapid Bath Dog Washing System - Unlike cats, dogs need you to wash them. Do that task quickly and more easily with this all-in-one washing system. Connect it to your shower head or water hose and the built-in solution will wash and shampoo at the same time. But what to do with that wet dog?
- B-Air Bear Power Dog Dryer - Give your dog a blow-out. Use this portable dog dryer to take their hair from wet to set. Small, powerful, and perhaps just what you need to prevent doggy shower shakes.
For Both
- Pet-Temp Instant Ear Thermometer - Pets. They're just Us. Use this thermometer when they look like they're having a bad day and find out if they need extra TLC or a trip to the vet. It features disposable tips and an ergonomic design that should fit easily into their ears.
- Swann Wireless Mat and Pet Chime - Ding-dong! Once your pet stands on this wireless mat you'll know he/she is ready to roll out or roll back in. Maybe they'll even learn to do this without a "meow" or a "woof". Wouldn't that be nice?
- Perfect Automatic Pet Feeder - This automatic feeder is still the standard and passed our test lab review with flying colors. It's bright, shiny and costs a pretty penny, but what price would you pay to get some extra Zzzz?
Lead Image: Flickr member TheGiantVermin, used under Creative Commons


text:
The last time Riverside King and Compton Dominguez played in a high school basketball game was Jan. 19 at Pauley Pavilion, and Kawhi Leonard was grieving.
The 6-foot-7 junior forward managed to score 17 points for King in a 68-60 loss, then broke down and cried in his mother's arms, releasing all his emotions from learning 24 hours earlier that his father had been shot to death.
It was a scene with so much sorrow and distress that I turned my head and walked away, not wanting to violate a private moment played out in public near the west tunnel at Pauley.
The next time I saw Leonard was Thursday night at Woodland Hills Taft, where he scored 22 points in King's 83-82 overtime victory over the top-seeded Toreadors in a Southern California Regional Division I semifinal playoff game.
His smile had returned, along with his three-point shooting form, and his resiliency was visible for all to see.
"Basketball helps me take my mind off things, picking me up every day when I'm feeling down," Leonard said.
His father, Mark Leonard, 43, was shot and killed on a Friday night in Compton at his car wash. Det. Frank Salerno of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said there has been no arrest and no motive has been found for the shooting.
The night after the shooting, Kawhi decided to play against Dominguez.
"Basketball is my life, and I wanted to go out there and take my mind off it," he said. "It was real sad. My father was supposed to be at the game."
In the ensuing weeks, coaches, teammates, friends and family members rallied around Leonard.
"We all tried to be there for him," Coach Tim Sweeney said.
But Leonard's performances were not the same. He was a 16-year-old dealing with one of the most traumatic experiences one can imagine, the death of a parent.
"He's a great shooter," Sweeney said. "He was shooting 45% from three-point range until his father was killed. He's been trying to get his game back. That's what has come back during the playoffs. He's elevated his game back to where it was."
With King's semifinal victory, the Wolves (32-2) earned a rematch against Dominguez (31-2) tonight at 8 at the Sports Arena, with the winner going to next Saturday's state Division I title game at Arco Arena in Sacramento. Leonard is averaging 17.2 points and has made 54 three-pointers for the Southern Section Division I-A champions.
"I just practice it," he said. "It's my bread and butter."
King has a team filled with quality athletes. Eric Wise, a 6-5 senior, keeps turning loose balls under the basket into points. J.J. Campbell, a junior guard, keeps flying through the air as if he has wings. George Fields, a senior guard, keeps throwing up threes.
The fact King won three games this week against City Section powers Taft, Westchester and Los Angeles Fremont means the Wolves are ready for anybody and anything.
"We wanted to come out and get some respect and represent" the Inland Empire, Leonard said.
Leonard will be remembering and honoring his father tonight.
"He'd be very proud," he said. "I try to play as hard as I can each night. That's what my father wanted me to do."
There's another message he hasn't forgotten from his father.
"Keep your grades up, and the colleges will come," he said.
Leonard is on his way to becoming a Pacific 10 Conference recruit, with UCLA among the schools starting to evaluate his performance.
But most of all, right now it's about team, and Leonard is grateful for the support he has received.
"We've been trusting each other," he said.


text:
TextField component
Adding a component to the Home page template is very easy. Just mark the already existing text box with a jwcid attribute and name it accordingly, perhaps like this:
<input type="text" jwcid="secretWord"/>
The most important part is to define the component in the page specification. Insert into the Home.page file, between <page-specification …> and </page-specification> tags the following piece of XML:
<component id="secretWord" type="TextField">
<binding name="value" value="theWord"/>
The id attribute mentioned here must match the name we've used for the corresponding jwcid attribute in the page template, 'secretWord'. The type attribute defines that this is a TextField component, exactly as we wanted.
The <binding> element is exactly what creates that global communication channel between the component and the page class. Its name="value" attribute states that the piece of information that is communicated along the channel should be understood as a value for the component, while value="theWord" tells us which methods on the page class to invoke in order to get or set the value associated with the component.
You have probably already guessed that 'theWord' is treated as an OGNL expression. It tells Tapestry that to get the value for the component it should use the getTheWord() method on the page class, while to set the value after it was received from the user, the setTheWord() method should be used.
Obviously, we don't have any of these methods yet. In fact, we are also going to need a variable to store the value itself. The traditional path to follow to provide all this would be to create a private class member in the Home class:
private String theWord;
and then two public methods to access it:
public String getTheWord() {
return theWord;
public void setTheWord(String theWord) {
this.theWord = theWord;
However, this traditional approach has two down sides. First of all, it is quite boring to write all the predefined, truly "boilerplate" code, while it is in the spirit of Tapestry to avoid any boredom. And second, we would have to provide some additional maintenance for this private class property, which means even more code. Let me delay the detailed explanation until the next article – we have already had enough theory for today.
Right now, I will just show you the preferred way of defining a property of a page class in Tapestry. All we need in our case is this single line of code:
public abstract String getTheWord();
See, Tapestry is clever enough. When it notices a line of code like this one, it understands that we need a property named theWord. The type of that property is String, as can be guessed from the return type, and since the getter method we have provided is abstract, we trust Tapestry to create anything it will need to maintain the property.
You will see this happening quite often as we learn Tapestry: instead of hard coding something boring or verbose we shall just tell Tapestry what exactly we need, and that thing will be provided for us. For now, just add the above abstract getter to the Home page class.
Before going on to the Form component, let me show you another binding that can be used with the TextField. It is not required, but I have two reasons for doing it. First, I will be able to show you that there can be more than one binding. Second, you'll see that some bindings are used to simply configure the component. Let's modify the specification for the secretWord component to look like this:
<component id="secretWord" type="TextField">
<binding name="value" value="secretWord"/>
<binding name="hidden" value="true"/>
This new binding simply specifies that the text box should be displayed as a password field, i.e. any input should not be displayed but masked. This is a secret word, after all!
Now, let's take care of the Form component, to enclose the TextField.
{mospagebreak title=Form component}
To define this component in the Home page template, simply mark the existing HTML form with a jwcid attribute and give the component a descriptive name, like so:
<form action="" jwcid="secretWordForm">
The next step is to configure the Form component in page specification:
<component id="secretWordForm" type="Form">
<binding name="listener" value="listener:onWordSubmit"/>
Let's concentrate on the <binding> element as everything else should be clear for you now.
The name="listener" attribute says that what we are specifying in this binding is a listener. Listener can be understood as a special method of the page class, which is invoked when an event associated with this listener happens. Here the event is the form submission.
The value="listener:onWordSubmit" attribute provides the name for the listener method. Note the 'listener' prefix. You are already familiar with two prefixes, 'ognl' and 'literal', so here is the third one for your collection. It is used to tell Tapestry that what follows is not an OGNL expression and not a literal value, it is rather the name for the listener method to be invoked when the form is submitted.
All that is left is to provide the listener method in the Home page class. There are a few ways in which a listener can be written, but again, let me delay the complete explanation until the next article. Right now, we shall create a very simple listener like this:
public String onWordSubmit() {
return "Secret";
This is an ordinary public method, and its only "special feature" is that it returns a String containing the name of the next page to show. Normally, before returning this name we would do something, say, manipulate some data, but for now let's just leave everything very simple.
We can already run the new application and see how it works. Hit the F6 key, and NetBeans will compile, package and deploy everything for you. The Home page will appear, looking exactly like its mock up, but if you try to enter a word into the text box, it will be masked, like a password. Finally, press the Submit button, and you will see the Secret page – i.e. its mockup with both views shown as we didn't add any functionality for that page yet.
Phew… I feel like this article is becoming too lengthy, and there are still a lot of things to discuss and play with. [In fact, we had to break it into two parts. —Ed.] Let me take a break here and continue the general discussion in the next article.
{mospagebreak title=Source Code}
To wrap up what was already done, here is the source code for the template, specification and class for the Home page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<title>Guess the Word</title>

Guess the Word

<form action="" jwcid="secretWordForm">
Enter the secret word:
<input type="text" jwcid="secretWord"/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE page-specification PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//Tapestry Specification 4.0//EN"
<page-specification class="com.devshed.tapestry.guesstheword.Home">
<component id="secretWord" type="TextField">
<binding name="value" value="theWord"/>
<binding name="hidden" value="true"/>
<component id="secretWordForm" type="Form">
<binding name="listener" value="listener:onWordSubmit"/>
package com.devshed.tapestry.guesstheword;
import org.apache.tapestry.html.BasePage;
public abstract class Home extends BasePage {
public Home() {
public abstract String getTheWord();
public String onWordSubmit() {
return "Secret";
However, there is one technical issue we need to care of before leaving.
{mospagebreak title=How to disable caching}
Tapestry strives to be as efficient as possible, so it caches page templates and specifications in order not to reload them every time when they are needed. This is a very useful behavior in a production application; however, during development it can become annoying, as we might not immediately see the changes we have just made to the page.
Thankfully, there is a way to ask Tapestry not to cache any pages in our development environment.
In NetBeans, click on the Tools menu and then choose Server Manager. In the Server Manager dialog, choose the Platform tab and then enter into the VM Options text box the following option:
The result should look like this:
Close the dialog, and that's it. If however Tomcat was running when you applied the setting, you will need to restart Tomcat.
To do this, click on the Runtime tab on the left side of NetBeans IDE and expand the Servers node to see the Bundled Tomcat node:
Right click on the Bundled Tomcat node and choose Restart. As simple as that.
What comes next
In the next part of this tutorial I will explain in more detail how properties of the page class can be defined in Tapestry and when one way is more preferable than the other.
Next we are going to have a more detailed look at the listener methods as there are three ways to write them.
It might also be useful for the future to get familiar with the two ways of submitting the form.
Finally, we shall complete the GuessTheWord project and become familiar along the way with If, Else and PageLink components.
See you in the next article then.


text:
Whitesboro sweeps Oneida girls volleyball to advance to Class A final
CHITTENANGO - Oneida and Whitesboro finished the girls volleyball season with one loss apiece, each at the hands of the other.
A trip to the Class A finals was on the line in the rubber match and second-seeded Whitesboro came out on top 25-19, 25-17, 26-24 thanks to an outstanding all-around performance by Brandi Blaszak. The senior led the team with 20 kills, 22 digs and two aces, the second ace clinching the match.
"(We) played together as one unit," said Whitesboro coach Kelly Etwistle after the game, " (and) with a lot of heart."
The teams were evenly matched for most of the first game with neither team leading by more than two points early. Whitesboro (15-1) appeared to seize momentum when Oneida's Mary Sheridan missed a kill, but the No. 2 seed had served out of order and the point went to Oneida (14-2). Coach Cyndi Bobo's squad got a kill from Sheridan on the next point to tie the game at 14-14 and scoring continued to go back and forth before a rare missed kill by Blaszak gave Oneida a 19-18 lead.
Whitesboro took control from there thanks in large part to Michelle Jones. The senior made a pair of blocks during an 8-0 run and Blaszak's kill gave Whitesboro the first game.
The second game started in similar fashion to the first with the teams exchanging points to get to a 9-9 score. Oneida's defense improved from the end of the first game and Katherine Clarke tallied a pair of kills. However, Whitesboro again put together the first run of the game, using an 8-2 spurt to take a 17-11 lead. Blaszak dominated during the stretch, tallying three kills and an ace. Oneida couldn't recover and Whitesboro had a 2-0 lead.
Oneida finally got rolling in the third game, using a 9-2 run to take a 12-8 lead. Two kills by Clarke and one apiece by Summer Lancette, Marissa Smith and Emily LaSalle had Oneida thinking comeback. The teams alternated the next 12 points before Sheridan made a kill after a long rally to stretch Oneida's lead to 19-14. Entwistle called time-out, but Oneida won the next point thanks in part to a diving dig by Kati Relyea.
Unfortunately for Oneida, Whitesboro had another late-game run after it. An ace by Madison Kosuda and two kills by Jones keyed a 6-0 run that gave Whitesboro a 23-22 lead. Oneida rallied to score the next two points, the second on a Clarke kill. Blaszak took over from there, making a kill to tie the game at 24-24. After Oneida missed a kill, Blaszak stepped back to serve. The senior calmly twirled the ball before unleashing a powerful shot that put the defending champions back in the final against East Syracuse-Minoa.
Carly Lonczak had 36 assists to lead Whitesboro.
LaSalle and Clarke had seven kills apiece to lead Oneida's offense while Lancette had 25 digs to lead the defense. Sheridan added 24 digs for Bobo's squad.
"The entire match I couldn't have been more proud of my girls," said Bobo. "I don't want to let them go."
Oneida (14-2): Mary Sheridan 3k, 24d; Taylor Armstrong 5k, 3d, 1b; Summer Lancette 2k, 25d; Erica Kristan 10as, 6d; Emily LaSalle 1ac, 7k, 1as, 4d; Marissa Smith 4k, 13as, 11d; Kati Relyea 2as, 9d; Katherine Clarke 2ac, 7k, 5d.
Whitesboro (15-1): Mary Pastorelli 6k, 11d; Carly Lonczak 1k, 36as, 14d, 1b; Janay Mucitelli 5k, 3d, 1b; Cassie Ruiu 7d; Brandi Blaszak 2ac, 20k, 22d, 4b; Michelle Jones 2k, 1d, 4b; Madison Kosuda 2ac, 3k, 11d; Rebekah Geller 12d.


text:
MissionPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/wellness/mission/
The mission of the Minnesota State University, Mankato Faculty and Staff Wellness Committee is to promote a worksite culture that supports employees' desire to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Our vision is to develop educational outreach activities that encourage employees' personal and professional productivity and physical, mental, social, and holistic wellbeing.
Wellness Committee Members
The committee is compromised of volunteers from various departments on campus that collaborate to support the wellness mission. Volunteers may include, but are not limited to, faculty, staff, interns, and graduate assistants. The committee welcomes any new volunteers who are interested in taking an active role by regularly attending meetings and assisting with development of educational outreach activities.
Goal Statements
Supported by the state for faculty and staff development the committee focuses on identifying a variety of outreach activities and initiatives to support the wellness mission:
- Promote healthy lifestyle behaviors;
- Develop educational outreach activities;
- Encourage personal and professional productivity;
- Encourage physical, mental, social, and holistic wellbeing
- This committee meets monthly to review the agenda
- Coordinate and/or develop outreach programs
- Assist managing outreach programs
- Assess and discuss feedback about potential and current outreach programs
- Discuss annual budget


text:
Independent analyst house Lighthouse Research & Development has recently compared Linux technical support providers and found that enterprises using Novell's Linux support are reporting higher levels of satisfaction than customers using Linux support from Red Hat and Oracle. Whether they receive their support in the field, by phone or over the web, Lighthouse says that customers using SUSE Linux Enterprise benefit from the best-supported enterprise Linux platform in the market, which enables them to drive growth and ensure business continuity.
Although somewhat cloudy over the question of whether Novell has paid for this "independent" research, the Lighthouse study gathered the opinions of technical personnel at companies who have used Linux support services provided by Novell, Oracle, or Red Hat within the past 12 months. Lighthouse reported that the percentage of users rating Novell's Linux support a seven or higher (on a 10-point scale) was 71 percent, compared to 65 percent for Oracle users, and 61 percent for Red Hat users. For mixed-platform environments, the differences were even more pronounced, with Novell being rated seven or higher by 70 percent of respondents, compared to a mere 44 percent for Oracle, and 59 percent for Red Hat.
Novell is showboating its positive ranking in the wake of reports issued by the Association of Service Professionals, which has also recently highlighted CheckPoint Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks, and Microsoft, who were recognized for excellence in online support. Recognized companies were selected based on 25 separate performance criteria covering usability, design and navigation, knowledgebase and search implementation, interactive features, and overall customer experience.


text:
Success. We found Canadian Aircraft IBWV in the National Airplane Title Database. The IBWV is for a Basic Ultra-light of the Aeroplane category and was manufactured by Mitchell Aircraft Corp..
IBWV is a 01/01/1981 Mitchell B-10 MITCHELL (Aeroplane) used for Private purposes. If it was imported into Canada, then the date of import would be listed .
Our Aircraft decoder found that IBWV belongs to a Mitchell B-10 MITCHELL with a serial number of P626 and 1 engines made by the engine maker KONIG SERIES to be an engine-type of Piston.
The number of seats on this aircraft was counted as 1 seats so it can actually take off with 100 kilograms of weight.
The Canadian Aircraft mark (IBWV) was issued on 09/05/1988 and is effective from 31/05/1983 until given dates with a certificate of (number: )
Mitchell Aircraft Corp. does not actually manufacture planes but rather they assemble them in CANADA for use in ,
IBWV has its 'home' airport in and is currently Registered with a status of A (A for active). The owner is a Individual with the name W Doug Watson and has a street address in Ontario, CANADA: 19 Horner Dr, Nepean, K2H5E6.
The internet's leading airplane in Canada database lookup gives a secure and easy-to-use way to find your MARK decoder information.
National Aircraft Database checks MARK records for MARK-Number in Canada and reports on the Title, mark, owner, and engine of the airplane.
We provide all the data from the Canadian Federal Database and give you the link to view even more air-craft data. USA Aircraft Database included as well so you can search by N-Number too.


text:
It's hard to accurately describe the noise a baby cow makes when it lands on the swollen bonnet bulge of a spanking-new Ford special-edition ute. It's a strange cacophony of human gasps, weird bovine squawks and a kind of audible dread of just how badly it's all going to end. Time slows, faces stretch in shock, hands fly to mouths. Then the crashing crescendo arrives with a bass-heavy thump as 450 kilograms of surprised beef bends the bonnet of a one-of-only-75-ever ute in on itself like it's made out of papier mâché.
The calf in question had just been head-butted into the air by a large and angry bull. Ford's FPV Pursuit cushioned what might have otherwise been a nasty fall. Good news for the cow, less so for the guy who has to call Ford.
Photos: Thomas Wielecki


text:
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard and Eliot Ness in The Untouchables. Costner also founded the band Modern West, and has performed with the band since 2007.
Costner was born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of the three sons (the middle of whom died at birth) of Sharon Rae (née Tedrick), a welfare worker, and William Costner, an electrician and later utilities executive. He has German, English, Irish, and Cherokee ancestry (his Oklahoma-born paternal grandfather was half Cherokee). Costner was raised Baptist. He attended Cabrillo Middle School and Villa Park High School. Costner was not academically inclined. Rather, he enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry and sang in the First Baptist Choir.
Spending his teenage years in various parts of California as his father's career progressed, Costner lived in Orange County, then in Visalia (Tulare County), attending Mt. Whitney High School, and then back to Orange County, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California, in 1973. He went on to earn a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton, in 1978.


text:
Hello all,
I'm going to upgrade the HDDs in a Z60m and a T60. The plan was to install the OS from the restore disks and then update the drivers and replace files from manually made backups.
However I thought it would also be a good idea to create backups using Rescue and Recovery, which I've never used. As it might be easier than putting all the files back manually. So I thought I'd try it out. When I tried to copy the Base backup from the Z60m onto a USB drive I got a message asking if I wanted to make it bootable. My question is should I? Is that how it works.
Do I:
Make a bootable backup
Install the new hard drive.
Restore the factory image.
Then boot from the external 'base' backup.
Or once I've loaded the factory image would Rescue and Recovery be able find the backup on a non bootable USB drive?
To be honest I don't actually know what the base backup will restore anyway. Does it restore all the drivers, programe files and other files that were present when the back up was made, in theory? It would save a lot of time if it does!
I hope that makes sense
Thank you for your help.
Solved! Go to Solution.
01-22-2012 02:37 PM - edited 01-22-2012 02:43 PM
Hi furyan,
First, as to making a USB drive bootable. That's how I do it - it just makes it simpler to do a restore. WARNING: some versions of R&R will format the external drive before installing the bootable stuff - without first asking. You will lose any data that you have on the drive. Other versions are more polite, but if you don't see a "preserve" checkbox, be sure you don't have anything important already on the drive.
As far as your procedure questions: If you have a bootable external drive with a backup image on it, you just install your new HD in the laptop, boot the external drive, and restore. Done. No need to first restore the factory image first. Restoring a saved image can be a one-step process. You could run restore from within Windows, or from some other bootable media - CD, for instance - but it isn't necessary.
As to "base" and "factory" images - those are different things. The factory image (recovery image, IIRC) will restore your machine to the exact state in which it was shipped. No user, no additional software, nada.
A base image is R&R's term for a full backup of your machine in its present state (user(s), additional software, everything) at the time you make the backup. It's called "base" because later backups are incremental additions to the base. They contain only the differences between the base and the state of the machine when the incremental backup is made.
So - if you have only the base backup, it will restore everything on the machine as of the date it was made. If you restore a later incremental backup, you get the base + the increment - everything as of the time the increment was taken.
[edit] It's common practice to make the factory recovery set on optical media (and hide it in a safe place...) and use something else - USB HDD, for instance - for running backups.
Does that make any sense? If not, I'll take another whack at it.
The large print: please read the Community Participation Rules before posting. Include as much information as possible: model, machine type, operating system, and a descriptive subject line. Do not include personal information: serial number, telephone number, email address, etc.
The fine print: I do not work for, nor do I speak for Lenovo. Unsolicited private messages will be ignored - questions and answers belong in the forum so that others may contribute and benefit. ... GeezBlog
Hello Z,
Thank you very much for taking the time to post such a comprehensive reply. You have answered all my questions.
I had assumed that R&R would have wiped the data on my USB HDD if I'd had said yes to making it bootable, which is why I didn't.
I'll make the Recovery CDs and put them away somewhere safe and use a USB for running backups, as you suggested.
Thanks again for all your help.


text:
Plans are well under way for the 87th Hayfield May Queen parade and festivities which take place next month.
This year's event is being held on Saturday May 10 when there will be a variety of events for all the family to enjoy.
A carnival market and fun fair is being held on the may queen field, off Swallow House Lane, from 11am and the grand parade will leave Station Road at 1.30pm.
Carnival programmes are now on sale in Village News, Village Store, Rosie's Cafe, the Post Office, the Royal and at the camp site in the village.
Organisers are still looking for craft, food and collectors stalls for the market and anyone wishing to have a space, take part in the parade or register for one of the best decorated competitions should call secretary Zoe Wild on 0773 5094166.


text:
Among the drivers expected to compete are the three most recent national dash champions: Ronnie Wrenn Jr., Dave Palone and Dan Noble. Wrenn led North America in wins in 2013 with 714 while Palone led in 2012 with 675 and Noble was tops in 2011 with 773.
The new five-eighths-mile harness racing track, located between Dayton and Cincinnati, opens Friday night with an 11-race card. Post time is 6:30 p.m. for the first race.
Palone, who is based at The Meadows in western Pennsylvania, has won more races than any driver in North American harness racing history, with 16,223 victories to his credit entering Thursday.
Wrenn, who was the leading driver at Northfield Park last year, and Noble are expected to be regulars at Miami Valley, along with Pat Berry, Jack Dailey, Greg Grismore, Tony Hall, Kayne Kauffman, Jeff Nisonger, Jim Pantaleano, Tyler Smith, and Randy Tharps.
Hall was the leading driver at Scioto Downs last year and Smith, who is the youngest driver in history to amass 1,000 wins, was the leading driver at Hoosier Park in Indiana. Kauffman was the top driver at Lebanon Raceway, which closed in December to make way for Miami Valley, a $175 million racino with a grandstand to accommodate more than 1,000 fans and a casino with 1,600 gaming machines to help increase purses.
"I think everyone is looking forward to the racing," said Smith, who is from Washington Court House, Ohio. "There's going to be a lot of new faces and it should be very competitive. It's good. I think Ohio needs more drivers, new faces, to make the racing better.
"Whenever you've got money (for purses) you're going to get good horses, and good horses bring good races."
Miami Valley, which will offer live racing Wednesdays through Sundays until early May, held qualifiers on Feb. 1, giving drivers and horses their first trips around the oval. In the 14 prep races, nine were won by a horse that was no worse than second at the half-mile point, although it is too soon to draw conclusions about how the track's design and surface will affect racing throughout the season.
"It's going to take a while to get it set up, and making it tougher is the fact this is the worst winter we've had in 12 or 13 years," said Hall, an Ohio native who earlier this year surpassed 4,000 career wins. "I think the track is probably going to be a little tiring the first few months until it gets set up."
Kauffman, who lives 10 minutes from Miami Valley, said the track is not banked as much as Scioto Downs, the state's other five-eighths-mile oval, which might factor into driver strategy.
"At Scioto you can pull at the quarter and live for a long time," Kauffman said. "I think here people might sit and wait a little longer."
Smith said he thought speed would hold up based on what he saw in the qualifiers.
"Maybe that will change, but right now it looks like a front-end track," he said.
There is no inside passing lane in the stretch at Miami Valley, which also will affect strategy.
"That's a big game-changer," said Hall, who plans to race regularly at Miami Valley in addition to racing at The Meadows. "Usually you get a two-hole trip and it's a great place to be, but now you might look for other positions for horses you'd like to land up close. The track does have long straightaways, so that might help closing horses out some."
Added Kauffman, "The stretch is longer and you do kind of drift out more, which might open up room for horses."
Miami Valley Raceway, which has a 156-stall paddock, will host the James K. Hackett races for Ohio-sired 3-year-old colts and fillies, with purses increased to $25,000 for the finals, on April 26. The track also will present the first legs of the Ohio Sire Stakes series when the state's best 3-year-old pacers and trotters compete on May 2 and May 3.
In addition, the meet-ending May 4 card will include two new Grand Circuit races for older female pacers and trotters: The Sam "Chip" Noble III Memorial for the pacers and the Miami Valley Distaff Trot.
"It'll be interesting to see how it all goes," Kauffman said. "They have some issues they need to address, but they're working on them and have been real receptive to suggestions. I think there will be plenty of horses. Hopefully everybody can be successful."
"I think it's going to be a nice facility overall," Hall said. "People have waited a long time for an opportunity like this, and some had gone just about as far as they could go waiting for something good to happen. Like any new place, they've got some kinks to work out, but overall I think it's going to be great."


text:
Careers >> Browse Articles >> Interview Tips
5 Interview Types and How to Ace Them
Tania Khadder
4. The Stress Interview
What Is It?
It's just as it sounds: an interview designed to stress you out. The point? To see how you cope. The interviewer will try to intimidate by asking off the wall questions (like, "if you were an animal, which would you be?"). Or perhaps a panel of interviewers will greet you, firing questions at you in quick succession. They might make you wait for an hour before seeing you, give you the silent treatment, or respond to your answers with rudeness and/or mockery. If you're really unlucky, they'll use a combination of the aforementioned techniques.
It's all part of a game to see just how much abuse you can withstand before you crack.
Although these types of interviews tend to be frowned upon by the experts, who claim they are not useful or fair, they continue to be used from time to time.
How to Ace It
Stress interviews may be unfair, unrealistic or downright cruel. Unfortunately, they're here to stay.
And while you're unlikely to experience the whole sadistic shebang, you may, at the very least, endure a few isolated stress questions.
The key to surviving this nightmare is to stay calm. And the first step to doing so is to recognize that you are in the midst of a stress interview. Instead of taking their ill-treatment personally, learn the rules of the game and play it well. Be firm about your main message is so that if you are asked a stress question, you'll be less flustered and can quickly adapt an appropriate answer.
One way to prepare is to ask for an agenda beforehand. They can tell you how many people you're going to meet on the day. They may even tell you what type of interview you're going to experience.
And whatever you do, don't get aggressive or argumentative. Be courteous and polite, even if no one else is.


text:
Giveaway Prize:
250 Die Cut Business Cards for One Winner
2 x 3.5", 2 x 2" (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5" (slim card)
Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle
Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated
Color: 4-Color Front, Blank Back; 4-Color Front, Black Back; 4-Color Both Sides
Eligibility: Limited to US residents only 18 years old and above
Ends: Sept. 28 at midnight
Reply: Winner has 24hrs. to reply after the contest ends or forfeits the prize. Then I will draw another number.
Win it: Leave one comment per entry, but you must do the mandatory one first.
Mandatory entry:
To enter the giveaway, subscribe to my blog by email - 5 entries
You also must leave your email or have it available in your profile to be contacted, or you will be disqualified and another name will be drawn. I have to be able to reach you.
Additional entries:
How would you use the 250 Die Cut Business Cards if you win? 1 entry
Tweet this giveaway, including the link, and leave a comment here for each tweet for it to count. - 1 entry each
Subscribe to my blog by RSS - 3 entries
Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/blp3 and leave your Twitter ID here - 2 entries
Follow me on my Facebook Network blog - right sidebar - 3 entries
Follow my blog - right sidebar - 3 entries
Post an entry on your blog with a link to this giveaway and come back here and leave me the link to the story - 10 entries
Thanks to UPrinting.com for sponsoring this giveaway.
Full Disclosure: I will be receiving 250 Die Cut Business Cards from UPrinting.com for hosting this giveaway.


text:
WASHINGTON, DC -- More than 1,500 YMCAs participated in the YMCA of the USA's America On the Move Week with the YMCA, Sept. 22-29. Ys across the country motivated 1.3 million people to take 8 billion steps during the week. The campaign, in partnership with the America On the Move Foundation, aims to educate and motivate people to make two small daily changes: add 2,000 steps and eat 100 fewer calories.
Ys hosted a variety of activities as part of the week, including organized walks, educational programs, and family health and well-being events. Ys in Washington promoted fitness at a large walking event led by Gov. Chris Gregoire at the Washington State Fair. In Attleboro, MA, the Y led a walk-ability assessment to gauge the walk-friendliness of its community. Residents of Winter Haven, FL, could log steps through seven days worth of free events, from walking to salsa dancing. The Y in Redwood City, CA, led one of its walks through a grocery store to talk about healthy eating. The Longmont, CO, Y encouraged school districts, corporations and other partner organizations to log 100 million steps.
"America On the Move Week with the YMCA provided a great catalyst for change in the communities we serve," says Neil Nicoll, president and CEO of YMCA of the USA. "The results are encouraging, but we're still striving for the ultimate goal to make living an active and healthy lifestyle an every-day, every-week commitment."
America On the Move Week is part of Activate America, the YMCA of the USA's campaign to provide better opportunities for Americans of all ages who are struggling to achieve and maintain well-being of the spirit, mind and body.


text:
I was brought up listening to Zig Ziglar motivational cassette tapes. Literally. My parents had the set of all 25 cassette tapes and his book, See You at the Top. Every car ride to just about anywhere ~ no matter who was in the car ~ was hosted by Zig Ziglar.
And my parents followed his advice {and then taught it to me}: to sit on the side of the bed upon waking every morning, to clap your hands, and tell yourself, "It's going to be a great day today!"
And then? They taped notes with the same message to their bathroom mirror so that as they got ready in the mornings they'd be reminded of what a great day today was going to be.
Did that mean every day turned out great?
Oh, hell no. My family has gone through a ton of personal crises, tragedies, and horrors over the years just like many other families. And just like many of our ancestors and yours.
The difference? The attitude. How you handle the situation. And when you start out your day telling yourself it's going to be a great day today, what you're really telling yourself is, "Not only am I gonna make it through today, but it's not gonna squash my attitude!"
I got this.
Bring it.
To say that this kind of thinking affected me as a child and as an adult is an understatement.
It gets me through those bad days.
It's the difference between the day running me and the me running the day.
My parents were an awesome example of how a positive attitude can completely change your life.
And while it saddens me that both my parents and Zig Ziglar have now passed away, I know they're all in Heaven. They're actually seeing each other "at the top." {Who knew he meant literally?!? LOL.}
They're clapping and saying,
"It's going to be a great day today!"
And you know what?
It is. It really is.


text:
Steel Panther and James Durbin performed at Rams Head Live on Thursday night. Contributor Jay Trucker has this review:
Comedy clubs are littered with guys who can strum the guitar and tell jokes concurrently, but the key to a great musical comedy act is the strength of their musicianship. As with Weird Al and Spinal Tap, Steel Panther demonstrate talent comparable and at times superior to the acts they parody.
The '80s glam-metal foursome formed in 2000 according to its bio (or in 1988 according to the "bio") and since then have been regulars on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, where they perform a mix of covers and originals. The group's national tours, however, predominantly feature original material from 2009's "Feel the Steel" and 2011's "Balls Out." Thursday night's 100-minute set at Rams Head Live highlighted the band's professionalism and penchant for crotch jokes.
First, "American Idol" Season 10 fourth place finalist James Durbin opened the show with a surprisingly hard-rocking 40 minute set. Think a glam-rock Adam Lambert with more emphasis on the rock part.
Taking the stage at 10:45 p.m. in full costume, Steel Panther opened with the first two tracks from "Balls Out," the space-age concept album that spoofs "In the Future" and "Supersonic Sex Machine." The first of several breaks followed as the band bantered with one another between songs. Singer Ralph Saenz and guitarist Russ Parrish handled most of the emceeing duties. Though veterans of '80s bands including LA Guns and Fight, the duo go by the stage names "Michael Star" and "Satchel." Together with gender-bending bassist Travis Haley ("Lexxi Foxxx") and drummer Daren Leader ("Stix Zadinia"), their act includes as much wink-and-nod hedonism and misogyny as their album cuts and the crowd responded to their jokes with enthusiasm nearly equal that of their songs.
Additional highlights included a rousing rendition of the power ballad "Community Property" and the band's slowest song, "Weenie Ride," for which Stix took center stage for keyboard duties. For heavier fare, including "Just Like Tiger Woods" and "Turn Out the Lights," the band shared choreographed head-banging that matched their Flying V guitars and later invited a dozen women on stage with them for a discussion of domestic policy and the forthcoming election.
Just kidding, they danced and took their tops off.
For the encore, Durbin joined the band for the lone cover of the evening, a spot-on rendition of "Sweet Child of Mine" during which the 23 year-old reality contestant's vocals noticeably outshined those of Michael Star. Panther and Durbin's impassioned take on the Guns 'n' Roses standard easily bested the half-hearted rendition Mile Kennedy performed with Slash two weeks earlier earlier.
The band's parodies are also in many ways a tribute to '80s rock. On the day that Van Halen announced the cancelation of most of their tour due to in-fighting, Steel Panther stands as a better tribute to the '80s than many of the current bands from the big-hair era. Though they laughed at appropriate intervals, the crowd's animated approval of each soaring guitar solo shows that they, too, came to rock out to the '80s, albeit with a millennial-appropriate level of self-awareness.
In the Future
Supersonic Sex Machine
Tomorrow Night
Fat Girl (Thar She Blows)
Asian Hooker
Just Like Tiger Woods
Gold-Digging Whore
Turn Out the Lights
Community Property
Eyes of a Panther
Weenie Ride
Party All Day
It Won't Suck Itself
Death to All But Metal
Sweet Child of Mine
17 Girls in a Row
Jay Trucker is a frequent contributor to Midnight Sun. He teaches at the Community College of Baltimore County in Dundalk and blogs occassionally at WNST.net. He last reviewed Slash. Wesley Case edited this review.


text:
Geology and Human Health
This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for faculty teaching in the emerging field of geology and human health. You will find links to internet resources, books, teaching activities, and a group email list, as well as posters, presentations and discussions from the spring 2004 workshop on Geology and Human Health. These resources reflect the contributions of faculty members from across the country and the collections will continue to grow as materials are developed.
Resources for Classroom, Lab, and Field
- Internet Resources useful for teaching or designing courses and activities related to geology and human health. Resources include data, images, animations, activities, literature and references.
- Teaching Activities including all supporting materials for ready-to-use classroom activities.
- Visualizations that can be useful in teaching concepts related to geology and human health.
- Bookshelf which provides an extensive list of popular books recommended by the geoscience and health communities that may be useful in teaching about the relationships between earth science, public health, and public policy.
Resources for Educators
- Essential components of geology and human health for designing courses or curricular activities.
- Posters about both geologic and medical influences and impacts on human health, presented by participants of the 2004 workshop on Geology and Human Health.
- National Research Council (PowerPoint 54kB May14 04) report on assessment of current interfaces between geology and medicine and plans for future research and funding initiatives.
Materials from the 2004 Workshop on Geology and Human Health
workshop program to download presentations, working group summaries, and other supporting materials. Also review the collection of posters of current research and teaching activities by workshop participants.
Get Involved
- Contribute Materials: We encourage faculty to contribute course descriptions, teaching activities, and references to continue to build our collections. We rely on community contributions to keep these collections up-to-date and comprehensive to support the teaching efforts of the community.
- Email lists: Join the Geology and Health email list. Take part in discussions with colleagues who teach those topics. We encourage you to post queries, float an idea, share resources.... If you subscribe to the lists, you can also access the Geology and Human Health list archives.
- Join the GSA Geology and Health Division. Stay connected with colleagues who do research and teach about the breadth of topics related to geology and human health. Take a look at the GHD Newsletters 2005-2012 to get an overview of the Division's activities, resources, and membership.
- Check out the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Medical Geology held August 23-29, 2013, Arlington VA. View the list of technical sessions and the technical program and abstracts (organized by daily sessions).