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Elmhurst was a wonderful place to raise a family. In 1940 the population was 15,458, in 1950 it had increased to 21,273, and by 1960 it had further increased to 36,991. Houses were being built rapidly due to the demands of young families leaving the cities. Elmhurst was a city with elm trees lining the streets providing stately arches over the streets and avenues. Unfortunately many of the trees in Elmhurst were attacked by Dutch Elm Disease in the early 1960s and had to be destroyed.
Elmhurst had a volunteer fire department and its fire whistle blew at noon and six pm every day. Kids knew that the six o'clock whistle meant it was time to go home for dinner and when the street lights came on it was time to go home for the night.
The house we moved into was built about 1910 and was right in the middle of town. We lived a block from church and school, a block from the train station, and a block from the park and library. The park provided free programs all year long for the residents.
Every year the park district mailed a list of planned activities. Most of the activities were free but required registration. Many of the programs were held in Wilder Park a block from our house. In the Summer there were story hours at the Library, tennis lessons on the courts at the park, and "Music Under the Stars" concerts on the lawn in front of the library on Wednesday evenings. Bring your own chairs or blankets.
The library was the former Wilder Mansion, a magnificent place complete with winding staircase to the second floor which was the reference area. Walking up the stairs and entering the front door, you saw that winding staircase first, just to the right of that was the circulation desk where books were checked out. Next to it was a lower desk for the children to check out books. The left wing of the building was the childrens room. The right wing was the adult fiction area which even had a fireplace with comfortable chairs for reading.
East End Park was on the east side of town and was within walking distance but we usually rode our bikes there to use the pool during the summer. From about the age of seven almost every child in town was at the pool on summer afternoons sometimes the evenings too, if you could get a ride. Most families got pool passes for the family rather than paying for single admissions. Swimming lessons were taught in the mornings and Water Ballet was an early evening class taught before open swim occurred.
Fall meant raking leaves and making big piles of them to bury each other under or taking a big running leap into a pile. The smell of burning leaves meant that Winter would soon be arriving. As it got colder it was time to find a window with frost on the inside and use a fingernail to scratch a design into the frost.
In the winter it was back to Wilder Park for ice skating, sledding and more trips to the library. Once the snow began the park was a great attraction for the weekend and night skating. I often pretended that I was Sonja Henie the Olympic figure skater, just as in the summer I dreamt of being Esther Williams in the pool. Although the park was always open, the warming house was only open during the evenings and on weekends. If you wanted to skate at other times, you just sat in the snow to put on your skates and kept an eye on your shoes or boots.
As we got older and had more freedom to roam the York Theater was a favorite place to meet friends for the latest movie. It was only about a three block walk up York St. Conveniently on either side of the theater there were two places to go for a coke after the movie or even just for a coke and fries after school. Saturday afternoons we could also walk or bike to Immaculate Conception's football field at Alexander and West and watch a game. One of my friends lived right across the street from the field.
Even after I had married and moved to another town I made it a point to always go back for the Memorial Day Parade. The parade began in 1918 and has been held every year since. Mom moved to Florida in 1971 and shortly thereafter the house was sold. It has now been totally demolished.


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Hall of Fame Bills coach Marv Levy, who worked as an assistant coach in Washington early in his career, says that "Redskins" is "a crude word to define a Native American, and I would think if Native Americans feel offended, it would make sense to change it."
Dolphins LB Dannell Ellerbe looks like he's going to miss this week's game with a shoulder injury.
The Patriots looked good in the no-huddle on Sunday against the Saints.
Here's a close look at a bad play by Jets QB Geno Smith.
Ravens fans may appreciate former C Matt Birk more now that they're seeing how the offensive line struggles without him.
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis and Lions coach Jim Schwartz, who will face off on Sunday, coached together on the Ravens in the 1990s.
It doesn't look like time for the Browns to bench QB Brandon Weeden in favor of Jason Campbell.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin likes what he sees of RB Le'Veon Bell.
Is it time for the Texans to give Vince Young a call?
The debate in Indianapolis: Are the Colts better off with Andrew Luck, or should they have kept Peyton Manning?
Jaguars WR Mike Brown is overcoming a broken vertebra.
The Titans' defense has engineered a major turnaround in 2013 after a disappointing season last year.
Said Broncos DE Malik Jackson about playing in Indianapolis, "We all know how Peyton feels about that place, so we're all working hard to support him."
Chiefs coach Andy Reid has always believed in S Quintin Demps.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen calls Taiwan Jones "one of the best special-teams players in this league."
Chargers OLB Melvin Ingram is eligible to come off the physically unable to perform list, but he's not healthy yet.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett wants to see his team play well on the road.
The Giants need QB Eli Manning to cut down on his interceptions, but they don't need him to play it safe.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly may have a quarterback controversy on his hands.
Washington is making moves to shore up the special teams.
Chicago DT Christian Tupou stayed in shape by playing rugby before the Bears called.
Lions CB Rashean Mathis is hoping to be healthy enough to face the Bengals after suffering a groin injury against the Browns.
As the Packers suffer through linebacker injuries, A.J. Hawk is stepping up.
Fran Tarkenton says Sunday's loss was one of the lowest points in Vikings franchise history.
Injuries at wide receiver will keep the Falcons from running their no-huddle offense.
The Panthers rank No. 3 in the league in yards allowed, but they say they're not satisfied.
Saints LB Will Smith, who is out for the season with a torn ACL, hopes to return to New Orleans next year.
Looking at the schedule, it's tough to find a game the Bucs will win.
Cardinals RB Ryan Williams may not have a future with the team.
Rams LB Daren Bates is making a name for himself on special teams.
Vernon Davis may be the best tight end the 49ers have ever had.
Even when his stats aren't impressive, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson impresses his teammates.

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9/7/13 Blue Jays at Twins: Target Field
Well it was time again to go back to Target Field:
It was a weird sensation being at the gate. Despite that I hadn't been at Target Field for months before the previous game, and my previous game before that anywhere was two weeks prior, sitting there, it felt like I had been going to Target Field everyday for months.
Since I again went to Gate 3, I headed straight for the left field seats:
That said, I got my first ball of the day in the right-center field seats from a a guy I couldn't identify from the back to ask him for the ball by name, but identified as soon as he turned to throw me the ball as Brian Duensing:
I then saw there was some lefty in the group who was bombing balls. So in preparation for him starting to pull the ball, I headed to the standing room. The first round I was out there, this lefty hit a ball I could tell was falling short of me, but I could also tell it was going to make it to the flag court. There was just one problem: there was a crowd of people where the ball was going to land. So as I was running towards the spot, I yelled out for everyone to watch out. Most everyone cleared out with the exception of one kid. He didn't know what was going on, so he just stayed in the spot. The ball hit off his shoulder and deflected away from me. As much as I would have liked to have gotten the ball, I didn't pursue it, but instead just made sure he was okay. Even though he said he was, I pulled the ball I had gotten earlier and gave it to him.
Then, all too soon, this happened:
The Twins finished BP way before they normally do. I can't remember exactly what time, but the Blue Jays had just gotten out to begin their stretching. At that time, it was a no-brainer for me to head over to foul ground and try to get a ball from the Blue Jays warming up. And when he was done throwing before anyone else, there was a no-brainer as to who I should try to get a ball tossed to me from. This man was Munenori Kawasaki (and he is Japanese):
Anyway, as he was jogging after being done with throwing, there was a wall of Blue Jays fans (this game was the highest concentration of Canadians I had seen outside of Canada since when I had gone to Comerica Park back in 2008 with my dad). But I wanted to say I had gotten a ball from Munenori Kawasaki very badly. So what I did was take a couple steps back on the staircase so he could see me over the heads of the other fans, and projected my request for a ball in Japanese to him loud enough so he would definitely hear me. I first yelled, "Munenori!" And when he looked up at me, I put my glove up and subsequently yelled–and this is phonetically; I have no clue how to actually write it out–" Choh-toh, boh-roh nah-gah-teh coo-dah-sai!" He then tossed me the ball dangerously low over the heads of the other fans. When I caught it, he held up his glove again. He wanted to play catch. I tossed him the ball, and then he realized he was due up in the cage, so he tossed me the ball a second time and headed to go hit. Sure I wish I could have played catch with him longer, but it's cool to know that he would have kept playing catch had he not had somewhere to go at the moment:
That would be the only baseball I kept on the day. I would snag two more baseballs but gave both away. The first came when I headed to right field for the beginning of the Blue Jays hitters. I don't know who he is exactly, but the Blue Jay in the next picture fielded a ball by the wall, and myself and the Blue Jays fan in the same picture both asked him for the ball, and he tossed it up. I don't know who it was intended for since we were both wearing Blue Jays stuff, but since I was on the side closer to the player, even if the ball was intended for the other fan, it came right to me; so I gave the ball to the other fan:
I then realized that Edwin Encarnacion was in that same group, so I headed up to the second deck in left field. And although it was Girl Scout Day, or something along those lines, I managed to avoid all the girl scouts who were there quicker than the other ballhawks up there and got a ball Encarnacion hit almost to dead center in the second deck. It was a shot. Here is the view actually closer to the foul pole than where I picked it up, since I was getting my camera out as I was walking back to my original spot:
But right after I took that picture, one of the chaperones for the girls scouts came and asked if I had gotten the ball. Long story short: I gave the ball to her for her daughter, and that would be my last ball of the game. The rest of BP was one of the weirdest experiences I've had a baseball game. I just sat in the upper deck in center field not knowing at all what to do next. I usually have a problem running to a section too quickly, but here I had no clue where I wanted to go.
My snag happened during the softball home run derby that sometimes takes place after BP. The other contestants were righties, so I stayed in left for them:
But when TC came up, I knew from experience that he was a power-hitting lefty, so I headed up to the upper deck in right-center. And as a result, I got this:
TC had launched a ball that went into the seats above the small standing room in the upper deck in right-center. But then I felt really bored in the minutes leading up to the game:
And as the player readied themselves for the game, I came to the realization for the first time in a long time at a baseball game: I really didn't want to be there. There was much work to be done for school since I was going to be only missing the Thursday and Sunday game the next week. And since I had never left a game early yet this year by my own choice, I didn't fight my instinct, so I left the game to the sound of the national anthem through Gate 34 and went back to "the U" to watch part of Great Gatsby and eat s'mores:
- 4 Baseballs at this Game (1 pictured because I gave 3 away)
Numbers 690-693 for my career:
- 247 Balls in 54 Games= 4.57 Balls Per Game
- 4 Balls x 32,882 Fans=131,528 Competition Factor
- 116 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 21 straight Games with 2 Balls
- 18 straight Games with 3 Balls
- 10 straight Games with 4 Balls
- 131 Balls in 28 Games at Target Field= 4.68 Balls Per Game
- 26 straight Games with at least 1 Ball at Target Field
- 6 straight Games with at least 2-4 Ball at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 2:20-9:35= 7 Hours 15 Minutes


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The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of pictures, sculptured or painted, in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken corpse wrapped in grave-clothes to persons representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. ["Encyclopaedia Britannica," 11th ed., 1911]
It is strange how the effect of this music has exerted such a long surviving influence on members of the dramatic profession. It is still considered most unlucky to sing, hum, or whistle the witch airs in the theatre except in the ways of business. [Young-Stewart, "The Three Witches," in "The Shakespearean," Sept. 15, 1896]
If you number an actor or actress among your friends, and desire to retain his or her friendship, there are three things you positively must not do, especially if the actor is of the old school. Do not whistle in the theatre, do not look over his shoulder into the glass while he is making up, and do not hum the witch's song from "Macbeth." ... [O]lder actors would almost prefer to lose their salary than go on in "Macbeth" on account of this song. They believe that it casts spells upon the members of the company. ["Some Odd Superstitions of the Stage," "Theatre" magazine, July 1909]
The idea of remodelling society at public meetings is one of the least reasonable which ever entered the mind of an agitator: and the notion that the relations of the sexes can be re-arranged and finally disposed of by preamble and resolution, is one of the latest, as it should have been the last, vagary of a machine age. ["The Literary World," Nov. 1, 1851]Machine for living (in) "house" translates Le Corbusier's machine à habiter (1923).


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You are cordially invited to join your Faith and Fear family at Foley's NY [1] (18 W. 33rd St., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) this Saturday, December 15, from noon to 2 PM, to celebrate the launch of The Happiest Recap book series. [2]
The Happiest Recap is the four-volume history that details the New York Mets' first 50 years through the prism of 500 Amazin' wins. The first book, subtitled First Base: 1962-1973 [3], covers roughly the first quarter of the Mets story — the most memorable, most fascinating, most intriguing and most deserving of being hauled out of subconscious-storage wins our ballclub put on the board during its wonder years. I call it the Mets Classic period, when everything we know about the objects of our affection were established in blue and orange ink. To quote from the introductory section of First Base:
When you can't help but love the Mets, when you can't help but wait on the Mets, when you can't help but dream for the Mets, when you can't help but put up with the Mets and when you can't help but keep faith in the Mets, that's the legacy of 1962 through 1973 come to life. The Mets are what they are in large part because of who they were at their start.
Future volumes will touch Second Base (1974-1986), round Third Base (1987-1999) and come sliding into Home (2000 & Beyond). Right now, we have First Base, and as Casey Stengel indicated to his players on the very first day of the very first Mets Spring Training when he took them on a tour of the diamond, you gotta get to first base before you can score.
And you will score a marvelous afternoon of baseball in December when you join us at Foley's at noon on Saturday. Copies of First Base will be available for purchase and signing. The price will be $15 for one copy, $25 for two (because The Happiest Recap makes a great gift for you and the Mets fan in your life). A portion of proceeds from all on-site book sales Saturday will be devoted to helping fulfill the East School Wish List on Amazon [4]. East School — the elementary school I wrote about in reflecting upon my visits to my hometown of Long Beach before and after Superstorm Sandy [5] — absorbed a great deal of damage from the hurricane and needs all kinds of new supplies as a result. I hope this helps in some way.
Besides books and facetime with the author, there will be a drink special, appetizers of some sort, good Mets fellowship and all the baseball talk one can ask for as winter sets in. It will also be, per the insistence of my dear friend Sharon (who spurred the organizing of this event), a begrudging acknowledgement of my forthcoming 50th birthday, though consider The Happiest Recap the guest of honor and me its chaperone.
I hope to see you there and share a couple of Metsian hours in the middle of December. If you can't make it, remember The Happiest Recap (First Base: 1962-1973) is available on Amazon [3] in plenty of time for any holiday you like. As one Mets fan to another, whenever you got caught up in this thing of ours, I know you'll enjoy the hell out of it.


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[2b2k] The Web style of nonfiction story-telling
The challenge of the writer of non-fiction intended for a general readership is that usually the general readership doesn't care about your topic. The big, obviously interesting topics have already been written about, by writers with bigger advances than you. So, you've probably picked something somewhat quirky. Readers don't think they're interested in your topic. Your job is to convince them that they're wrong by pulling them through the book.
A current way of doing so is to introduce chapters and sections with a bit of nonfiction narrative that is quirkily interesting in itself, and then reveal that it is relevant to the book in some unexpected way. The reader begins happily surprised to find herself interested in the history of quail shoots or the discovery of floor wax, and then gets an extra squeeze of joy when she finds out that the digression – promisingly short – enlightens the overall topic.
This sort of writing has the structure of a joke: the sudden revelation of meaning. And I find it quite enjoyable as a reader when in the hands of a master such as Malcolm Gladwell, whose brilliance at it I think has driven the use of this style. And, yes, I use the technique myself, albeit lamely.
My hypothesis – and it is nothing more than that – is that the Web has abetted the spread of this literary form in two ways. First, the technique is a way of sustaining interest across the attention spans the Web has fragmented. Second, the Web makes it astoundingly easy for a writer to find digressive anecdotes and stories. You think it might be fun for the reader to begin a chapter with an account of the superstar team that analyzed why the Challenger shuttle exploded? Ten seconds later, you've got a rich set of materials listed for you. The reader would enjoy an account of the origins of the phrase "turtles all the way down"? The Web considers it done.
Of course, using this technique effectively is an entirely different story. But, the Web gives us both the motive and the means.
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DALLAS — Andrei Kirilenko has been a godsend to the Minnesota Timberwolves and Russian rookie Alexey Shved during this strange twist of a season.
It's a minor miracle that the Wolves are still sniffing playoff contention considering their barrage of injuries. One major reason is Kirilenko, the 11-year NBA veteran who is in his first season with the Wolves after a decade-long run with the Utah Jazz. He spent the 2011-12 season enjoying a one-time homecoming in Russia, playing before family and friends during the NBA's lockout and shortened season.
The versatile, 6-foot-9 forward was always going to figure in as a major piece to the rotation, but he's been invaluable in the wake of long-term injuries to forwards Chase Budinger and Kevin Love, among multiple other injuries such as to Brandon Roy and Malcolm Lee that have thrust the surprising Shved into a starter's role at shooting guard.
"We had some seasons when we had a lot of injuries, but this is something crazy," said Kirilenko, whose scoring (13.4 ppg), rebounds (6.8) and minutes (34.8) are all his best since the 2005-06, and his 50.8 shooting percentage ranks as a career high. "We never played together [with a full roster] for even one game. It's tough to play that way, but I guess this is the reality of NBA basketball."
Then there's been the big brother role Kirilenko's embraced mentoring Shved, who turned 24 last month. But with a baby face and a mouth full of braces, some might say Shved could could pass for, well, a 12-year-old. Which is exactly how old he was when he first met Kirilenko and asked Russia's No. 1 basketball player to sign a picture for him.
"He's a great guy and he has a lot of bright moments in front of him," said Kirilenko, who turns 32 next month and beams at Shved more like a proud papa than a big brother. "I think he started the season well and he can really be a great contributor to a team."
Two-thirds of Russia's NBA contingent play for the Wolves. Timofey Mozgov, currently buried on the Denver Nuggets' bench, is the other. Kirilenko and Shved know each other quite well now after playing last season together for CSKA Moscow, and the two fashioned quite a dynamic duo on the Russian Olympic team that put hoops back on the map in their country by taking bronze in London.
They were gearing up for the Games when Shved, signed as a free agent by Minnesota in July, got word that he would continue on as Kirilenko's teammate in Minnesota.
"He is the best player in Russia," said the 6-foot-6 Shved, whose game (10.8 ppg and 4.7 apg) has emerged quicker than his grasp of the English language, which he speaks softly and carefully. "He is smart, he plays hard. Everybody wants to be a player like this."
Just as Spanish-speaking J.J. Barea (from Puerto Rico) aided the Spain-born phenom Ricky Rubio last season in his arrival stateside, having Kirilenko around to show Shved the ropes of the NBA and American life has been invaluable.
And who knows, perhaps soon Shved will serve a similar role to another wide-eyed countryman that makes his way to the NBA.
"Sergey Karasev might be the next [one]," Kirilenko said of the 6-foot-7, 19-year-old shooting guard who averages 18.7 points and 6.3 rebounds for Triumph Lyubertsy in the Russian Professional Basketball League. "He might be joining us soon."


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'Prometheus': Should Ridley Scott return to sci-fi full time?
Since making us cover our eyes and drop our jaws with 1979's "Alien," Ridley Scott has had a remarkably diverse career, even by the standards of established directors with broad appetites.
He's taken us into a world of political intrigue and bloody jousting ("Gladiator"). He's gone militaristic ("Black Hawk Down"), medieval ("Robin Hood" and "Kingdom of Heaven"), Japanese ("Black Rain") and undercover ("American Gangster"). He even tried the reborn wine guy in France ("A Good Year," even if it wasn't that for him).
Some of these adventuresome meanderings have been compelling ("Thelma & Louise"). Some have been less so ("G.I. Jane").
But the success of "Prometheus" this past weekend suggests something many Scott fans have suspected all along. Maybe all we really want from the director is to watch him do what he announced himself as good at from the start: explore a mysterious and troubled spacecraft far above the Earth, deep into the future.
"Prometheus" scored $50 million in its opening weekend, good enough for a strong second-place finish to "Madagascar 3" (and, it should be noted, garnering a better per-screen average). As my colleague Amy Kaufman pointed out, the Fox release was Scott's second-best opening ever (after 2001's "Hannibal"). The results hark back to "Alien," which is not only a similarly effects-driven movie with spiritual and scientific themes, but Scott's highest-grossing movie ever when adjusted for inflation.
More than just ticket sales, "Prometheus" earned Scott some of his best (if also polarized) reviews in a long time — and certainly some of his sharpest fan interest. Love or hate the movie, it's a conversation piece in a way a Scott film hasn't been in years.
The irony in the debate about whether the plot details the Michael Fassbender- and Noomi Rapace-starring "Prometheus" amounted to an "Alien" prequel — a battle waged with gusto by fans (and denied with gusto by Scott and the studio) — is that in the most important way, the movie did connect to the 1979 classic. Scott wasn't just revisiting science-fiction territory, he was using special-effects tools and the mysteries about the future to pose questions about the present.
From a box-office standpoint, the answer to the headline question is a resounding yes — few directors have done so many different things only to find success disproportionately in one realm.
From the perspective of Scott's — and our — interests, the answer is less evident, but, I'd argue, still clear. Yeah, we can hear all the comments already. Filmmakers should follow their heart and their story, challenging themselves with the new. Scott's done the sci-fi thing again now; he should move on.
Sure, some of the best directors — Danny Boyle, Ang Lee — never come close to repeating themselves. But even the most libertarian, let-directors-do-their-thing type might sing a different tune with Scott. The Brit has a particular gift for looking far off and seeing something that resides within ("Blade Runner," though set on this Earth, operates on this principle too.) Why doesn't he use it more often?
A filmmaker who keeps making the same movie or tries to reclaim past glories with endless spins on the same genre (see under: latter-day Tim Burton) is indeed boring. But staying within a genre doesn't mean you can't also reinvent that genre or yourself (see under: Guillermo del Toro). The world's most successful auteur, in fact, sees the one-genre approach not as a prison but the culmination of a lifetime's search (see under: James Cameron evacuating all other projects to concentrate on "Avatar" sequels).
Scott may well listen to the voices that tell him to go period Rome or rural France. He's already preparing to direct "The Counselor," a legal drama with a drug-trafficking twist, and may make a sojourn to biblical Egypt afterward. But it's becoming harder to argue that he shouldn't just concentrate on booking return trips to outer space.
Hero Complex: Riddles and Ridley Scott
Madgascar 3 beats Prometheus at the box office
R rating for 'Prometheus': Will it hurt the film commercially?
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A White Paper Prepared for The Ford Foundation by Public Agenda
Public engagement has become a buzzword in education reform, and who could argue with ideas such as building community support, improving communication, and creating collaborations between educators, parents and the wider community? But if public engagement is to become more than the latest reform fad and truly benefit the nations students, schools and communities, important questions of theory and practice need to be addressed. What are the various interpretations of the term? How should public engagement be defined, or, at least, what are its more useful definitions and the more problematic ones? What are the practical hurdles to, and most promising strategies for, successful public engagement? And what impacts can successful public engagement have?
With funding from The Ford Foundation, this white paper on public engagement in education tackles these and other related questions. While the paper reflects the thinking and experience of a variety of practitioners, it draws most heavily on Public Agendas hands-on experience. For 25 years, Public Agenda has closely examined how the public reacts to complex policy issues, how public opinion evolves over time, and how citizens can grapple effectively with tough issues amid the swirl of the latest policy debate.
For several years we have worked intensively on public engagement in education in particular, and often in partnership with the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). While there are many important strategies and activities than can help engage the public in school improvement, from the dissemination of school report cards to the use of the Internet, our work has focused most centrally on community dialogue, and on the new attitudes, partnerships and activities such dialogue can generate.
This work has involved community-based projects from urban settings (Brooklyn, Hartford and San Jose) to rural ones (Grand Island, Nebraska), and places in between (Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Gray-New Gloucester, Maine). Some of our projects have been purely local affairs, some have involved statewide initiatives and others have been national in scope. We have worked with professional networks, such as the Danforth Foundations Forum for the American Superintendent and the National Education Association's Center for the Advancement of Public Education, as well as with grassroots organizations ranging from local education funds to volunteer parent groups. This experience has clarified, we believe, a number of principles and strategies that can lead to successful public engagement, as well as common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid. This white paper draws on these lessons in the hope they will prove useful to others.
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Application security problems are not only the most common type of vulnerability, they also lead to the majority of breaches. In 2003, I wrote the first Top Ten Application Security Risks for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Our goal at the time was to raise awareness and improve software security through the establishment of free and open industry standards.
In case you are wondering, OWASP is an open-source community comprised of software developers from corporations, educational organizations, and other interested individuals from around the world.
The first Top Ten was based primarily on our members' experiences -- we didn't have much data to support our choices back then. Today, there's serious analysis backing the standard in the OWASP Top Ten 2013. The data comes from eight leading security firms specializing in application testing and verification. Collectively, the data is comprised of over half a million vulnerabilities, across hundreds of organizations, and thousands of applications.
The Top 10 items are selected and prioritized according to their prevalence and consensus estimates of exploitability, detectability, and impact. It's been translated into dozens of languages and is implemented in most application security tools. There are three major updates this year:
Important work is still ahead
Over the last 10 years, the OWASP Top Ten has been used by millions of people, referenced by the Federal Trade Commission, and the OWASP Foundation has grown immensely. We're very proud of our efforts to date, but we still have a long way to go.
Initially, our principal goal was to raise the floor every few years, but we haven't been able to do that, as evidenced by what I consider to be essentially trivial results in improving application security. In the decade between the 2003 and 2013 editions, we haven't been able to stamp out even one category of application security problem. For example, SQL Injection appeared in 1998 and is still a huge problem that accounted for 83 percent of breaches over the last 15 years and resulted in the compromise of hundreds of millions of people's credit card numbers, financial information, and healthcare information.
One reason for these disappointing results is because the OWASP Top Ten is only an awareness document -- just one tiny first step towards cultivating a culture that generates application security. To be sure, there's no better first step for raising IT industry awareness of the application security issues that drive security managers to focus on cost-effective defense strategies.
To that end, I encourage you to pick just one of the Top Ten, create sensors in your development and test organizations, and establish a real-time dashboard across your application portfolio. Then expand your program to cover other risks. There is no "right" way to create an application security program, so don't measure yourself against what others are doing.
If you know a developer, take a second and send them a copy of the OWASP Top Ten. It's time to eliminate simple vulnerabilities like Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection forever.
Now it's your turn. What are the application security problems that are keeping you up at night? Let's chat about them in the comments and brainstorm ways we can make faster progress in improving application security.


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Sam Maloof's home was a haven for art.
The master furniture-maker filled his sprawling redwood house in Alta Loma, east of Los Angeles, with a profusion of pieces that he created in his adjoining workshop or collected with his first wife, Alfreda. Many items — paintings, sculptures, ceramics, fiber art, enamels — were produced by friends in the artistic community that blossomed around the nearby college town of Claremont after World War II.
Maloof, who died at 93 in 2009, was a major figure in that community, says Hal Nelson, curator of American decorative arts at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. "His home was a place where people could share a meal, exchange ideas and provide mutual support. And he and his wife put together a collection that was a tribute to these artists and the connections between them."
The residence's role as gathering place makes it what Nelson calls "a wonderful central metaphor" for an exhibition examining "Sam's artistic evolution in the context of his community." "The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985," which opened Saturday, features 35 pieces by Maloof and more than 80 by nearly three dozen artists including Millard Sheets, Karl Benjamin, Phil Dike, Harrison McIntosh, Albert Stewart and Jean and Arthur Ames.
"These were artists and craftspersons who shared a happy, if perhaps quirky, harmony," says Nelson, who curated the show. "The group's most distinctive characteristics were their diversity and tolerance of different perspectives."
Nelson hopes Maloof — whose elegantly simple creations are prized by homeowners, collectors and curators — will attract a broader audience to "House," which is part of the Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time celebration of local art history. "People can learn more about the rich scene that was Claremont. What was happening there laid the groundwork for many of the developments in art in Southern California."
Why the postwar Pomona Valley? The area was "an attractive place for GIs looking to start new lives," says Mary MacNaughton, director of Scripps College's Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and an associate professor of art history. Artists were drawn to schools such as Scripps, Pomona College and what is now Claremont Graduate University. "They felt there was room to grow and experiment," she says.
Nelson says the "guiding spirit" was Sheets, the prolific artist, director of exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Fair and head of Scripps' art department, where "his vision was to invite practicing artists in all disciplines to teach in one unified environment."
In 1946, Maloof, an Army vet from Chino with a graphics background, was hired as a studio assistant by Sheets, who helped introduce him to the Claremont community. When the self-taught woodworker decided to design and build furniture as a career, his artistic aspirations were buoyed by his new colleagues, with whom he traded ideas and pieces of work. "The respect they had for craft supported Sam's own vision throughout his life," Nelson says. "Many of them also shared his dedication to hand workmanship, simplicity and natural materials."
In 1948, Maloof had married art student Alfreda Ward and moved to Ontario. Five years later, the couple bought a little house in Alta Loma that Sam gradually replaced with a 10,000-square-foot hand-crafted home, workshop and repository of treasures.
Even as his reputation grew, Maloof — aided by a team of assistants — preferred to create individual pieces for individual people, declining opportunities to design for mass production.
Sam and Alfreda's collection kept growing too, fed by gifts, exchanges with other artists and purchases, many of which were made to encourage promising talent.
Alfreda died in 1998. A decade ago, the state moved the Maloof home-workshop to another spot in Alta Loma (which is now part of Rancho Cucamonga) to accommodate the 210 Freeway extension. As part of the relocation agreement, a nonprofit foundation now owns the site and buildings, including the original house — which has become a museum — and a newer house, where Maloof's second wife, Beverly, lives.
"Sam and Alfreda's house is extraordinary," Nelson says. "However, the totality of what's on display can be overwhelming. We've tried to show each object unto itself, and then to show it in other contexts."
Nelson, who has studied Pomona Valley artists for years, says the exhibition "became a reality thanks to support from the Getty Foundation as part of PST." The show, which draws on works collected by the couple and from public and private collections, includes what he calls "a core group of Claremont artists, as well as an extended circle of Sam's friends and colleagues."
It presents a lively mix of media — Maloof's rich woods joining, say, Otto and Gertrud Natzler's ceramics or Betty Davenport Ford's terra-cotta boar.
Some groupings suggest domestic scenes: A "dining area" features a Maloof chair, a Rupert Deese ceramic coffee set once owned by Dike, bowls by ceramist McIntosh and wood turner Bob Stocksdale from the Maloof home, Stewart's wooden herons and two Doug McClellan oils.
"House" also chronicles Maloof's journey from early furniture-maker to leader of the studio craft movement. Works include a round plywood-walnut coffee table and "string" chair from the '50s, three of his signature rockers and a free-standing cradle.
A resource center offers recorded artist interviews and a glimpse of Maloof's construction process — plus a chair that visitors can sit in. "You don't really have a sense of what Sam was about unless you feel what it's like," Nelson says.
Photographs show Maloof with national dignitaries and Pomona Valley pals. "These underscore his connectedness to his community but also the multifaceted nature of his life," says Nelson. "Wherever he went, he talked about his friends and colleagues. He was proud of being from that area."


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Companies that encourage open and honest feedback do better than companies that do not. Nonetheless, giving feedback is difficult because social and physical pain share some of the same neural circuitry. Hence, feedback can feel physically painful, as Sarah Hagan discusses in her 2018 QCon San Francisco talk . Hagan uses scientific research to demonstrate how to give feedback properly.
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Nine Sentara hospitals have been recognized for their dedication to patient safety by being awarded an A grade in the Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, a national, independent nonprofit organization, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital. Six of these hospitals are also being recognized as "Straight A's" hospitals for never receiving a grade lower than an A from the Hospital Safety Score since the Score first launched in June 2012 — a tremendous achievement.
Developed under the guidance of Leapfrog's Blue Ribbon Expert Panel and many leading patient safety experts, the Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D or F score, representing a hospital's overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. More than 2,500 United States general hospitals were assigned scores in October 2015, with 773 hospitals receiving an A grade. The Hospital Safety Score is free to the public and fully transparent, offering a full analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades on the website. It is designed with the intent to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.
Fall 2015 "A" achievers include Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Sentara Leigh Hospital, Sentara Obici Hospital, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Sentara RMH Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital. Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Sentara Leigh Hospital, Sentara Obici Hospital, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital and Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center also earned the "Straight A's" designation.
"Quality and patient safety are our number one priority at Sentara," said Terry Gilliland, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Sentara Healthcare. "It is a part of our culture and our commitment to the patients and families that receive care across our system. We are very proud of our overall excellent performance as a system, as well as those hospitals in our system that are continuing to improve."
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The answer turns out to be yes, but with a a couple of caveats. The first is you need to check the value sqlerrd[2] before you close the cursor.
The second is that if your cursor returns more rows than will fit in the fetch array (either using the default array size, or a custom value specified for FetArrSize), then you should check the value of sqlca.sqlerrd[2] prior to the next FETCH operation, as this will show the value for the number of rows in the current fetch array. The value will then reset with the next FETCH. See item #5 in the following URL: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v115/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.esqlc.doc%2Fsii15750078.htm
Of course your next question may be , "FetArrSize? What is that?"
It's a new, circa ESQL/C 3.10, global variable. FetArrSize, indicates the number of rows to be returned per FETCH statement. This variable is defined as a C language short integer data type. It has a default value of zero, which disables the fetch array feature. You can set FetArrSize to any integer value in the following range:
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CHICAGO (CBS)– A Cook County judge refused bail Sunday for the boyfriend of a missing Calumet City woman after a prosecutor described the bloody scene at her home where police said they found him Wednesday.
Assistant State's Attorney Angela Carlisle also said Donal E. Clark, 42, spoke on the phone with his brother while in police custody and talked about telling police where they could find Gena Chiodo's body "as long as he could get a deal."
After court Clark's attorney said he's disappointed Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil chose to hold his client without bail. He made no prediction as to how Clark will plea Tuesday when he's expected back in court. He said only that defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
Meanwhile, a man who would describe himself only as a spokesman for Chiodo's family expressed his gratitude to investigators who have tried to locate her after she went missing last week.
"We wish the Clark family will show mercy on us and let us know where Gena is so we can put her to rest," he said.
Authorities announced Saturday Clark had been charged with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide in connection with Chiodo's disappearance.
Chiodo, 42, was last heard from October 13th. Patty Nasella, a longtime family friend, has said she believed Chiodo's relationship with her boyfriend of 13 months was dysfunctional. She said Chiodo wished her a happy birthday when they talked on the phone Oct. 13.
The next day, Nasella said she texted Chiodo to invite her out for dinner but never heard back.
Calumet City police went to Chiodo's home Wednesday in the 1300 block of Price Avenue after her co-workers and friends said they were worried because Chiodo hadn't shown up for work for three straight days, Carlisle said.
Police repeatedly knocked on the door, she said, until they saw the curtains inside the home move. They forced their way in and found Clark coming out of a back bedroom Carlisle said they searched the home but didn't find Chiodo.
Instead, Carlisle said, they found blood spatter on the walls, desk and treadmill in a first-floor room used as an office and weight room. They found blood under the toilet bowl in a first-floor bathroom that smelled of bleach, was missing a shower curtain and seemed to have been recently cleaned.
There was blood on a comforter, pillow and towel in the first-floor master bedroom, the prosecutor said, and a small pool of blood was on a carpet inside the back-door landing.
Upstairs police found a large mirror had been broken in another bedroom. There was a broken picture frame and part of a bloody shower curtain rod in the kitchen. Officers also found a bucket and mop and an empty bottle of bleach.
In the garbage cans behind the house Carlisle said police found a rug with a large blood stain on it, a bloody lingerie skirt, a broken necklace and ashtray and pieces of broken furniture, a plastic shower curtain covered in blood, two broken cell phones with SIM cards missing, broken picture frames and a bloody bath mat.
Clark told police he and Chiodo had a fight October 14th and he went to sleep, Carlisle said. When he woke up at noon he said Chiodo was gone and he hadn't seen her since.
However, the prosecutor said Clark's license plate was run by Chicago police that day at 105th and Michigan at about 9:55 a.m., contradicting his statement.
Chiodo's car was still in the driveway when police searched the house, Carlisle said. Her clothes and shoes were still in her closet. Police also found her birth certificate and Social Security card, and several of her credit cards were in a shredder in the kitchen.
Her car keys were in a pair of men's gym shoes that had blood on the soles and toe areas, the prosecutor said.
Clark had a phone conversation with his brother after his arrest on Thursday, Carlisle said. He said he woke up and Chiodo was in his arms, covered in blood, and he said he tried to give her mouth-to-mouth.
That's also when the prosecutor said Clark talked about telling police where to find the body in exchange for a deal.
Clark has previously been convicted of two armed robberies and residential burglary, Carlisle said. He also has a 2011 domestic battery conviction for punching a former girlfriend in the face. The victim in that case — for which Carlisle said he's still serving conditional discharge — said he threatened to kill her several times.
After court Sunday Clark's attorney, Michael O'Meara, said the hearing was the first time he heard the "serious allegations" prosecutors are making against his client. He said he wanted the judge to set bail, which would give Clark a chance to get out of jail.
"We are disappointed in the judge's decision," O'Meara said. "However, we respect the judge's decision."
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2012. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)


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if you not use 3.5mm audio splitter , one USB9097 only can connect two devices ; if you need to connect many devices to computer ,you can follow the below picture .
when you plug the device into your computer one by one , the system will automatically find the device unique ID, and the software display the ID.
(3) DS18b20 Probe Type :
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(1) Unique 1-Wire® Interface Requires Only One Port Pin for Communication.
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(3) Does not require any eternal component while they are measure the temperature .
(4) Range of measuring : -55°C ~ +125°C ;(-67°F to +257°F)
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(3) Install the application: Double-click setup.exe of the root directory to install the software
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a) plug TEMPer18B20 into the computer and running TEMPer1 w, then start to measure the temperature. See the picture below:
Picture1 Read the real time temperature
This option allows you to setting temperature of any channel , for example: modify the calibration value, upper ,lower and address of the alias, click "OK" button. If you connect a lot of measuring points, the software did not timely identify them, you can click "refresh device", measurement points have not been identified will be displayed in the software.
b) Loading the curve graph: You can load the curve graph on the "Curve" option part. Note, the device must be connecting to the computer to work, so the curve graph is the one about the real time temperature. And the function button can move, magnify, print, copy and save the curve graph. When you connect hundreds of test points, because the software interface is limited, can not be all of the test point curves show at the software . At this time, you can click on: "", select you want to show the test points
Picture 2 Curve graph
c)Setting : In the "setting" option you can transfer the deferent measuring units, the reading interval , the language and save file settings . and set a upper and lower limit,
Picture 3 Setting
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Picture 4 Alarm setting
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Picture 5 About
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Picture 6
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Picture 7 Picture 8
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In today's online world, good pictures go a long way to selling cars and it's not stretching the point to say that great photos can help fetch a premium price. They make a listing stand out and suggest the car really was pre-loved.
So it's worth spending time getting it right.
Same thing with all the opportunities to boast about your four-wheeled treasure on social media. Nobody's going to be impressed if it's out of focus and dull.
Here's the picture: it's not hard to take great car photos. You don't even need fancy gear; any camera will do, even a phone with a decent camera function. It's how the equipment's used that counts.
What you need to know:
Keep it clean
A speck here and there won't matter, but give the car a good cleaning before the photo session. Mud and muck only looks good on a hard-core 4WD. Clean the interior properly; nobody wants to see discarded food wrappers on the floor.
Let there be light
Dull skies are depressing. Bright sun creates harsh, ugly shadows. Forget rain, but snow can be good as it reflects light back onto the car. Bright overcast sky - for example, when the sun has vanished behind clouds - is best because there's plenty of light but no troublesome shadows.
Light is at its best first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon when it's warm and enticing. Forget the midday sun.
Background check
Many car photos fail because of the background. Driveways are good for parking a car, but not so good as a location for photographing them. It's the same taking pictures at places where poles, trees and other stuff sticks out from a car's roof. Go somewhere like a nice park that has clean backgrounds.
If the car's a light colour, a dark background of forest or greenery can work quite well.
Check all angles
Some cars look best viewed from a high angle, some from a low viewpoint, some in profile, others from a three-quarters front angle. A few even look best from a slightly rear view. The old Volvo 1800ES is such a car, if you happen to be selling one.
Spend time looking at the car through the camera from all angles. Take several different views. Ask others which one they think is the best.
Get in close
If you're trying to sell the car, people aren't interested in a pretty background. Fill the camera's frame with the car; that's what you're selling. If you're taking social media photos, the background may add to the photo; for example a 4x4 deep in a muddy track, a performance car at a racetrack or on a winding road. An "atmospheric" shot may also help sell a car, but make sure you've also got its basic "mugshots" in the mix.
Take sharp pictures ...
Autofocus and the huge built-in depth of field of compact digitals mean it's hard not to get the car all in focus. But check carefully to make sure. A car body that's partly fuzzy
may look arty, but it's not what a potential buyer wants to see.
On the other hand, using a wide lens aperture to throw the background out of focus can look good.
Unsteady hands and slow shutter speeds can also make a blurry photo. Fortunately, with image stabilisation on even cheap digital cameras, it's a fault that's easy to avoid.
But it's best not to rely on image stabilisation when working with slow shutter speeds; use a tripod or rest the camera on something solid and trip the shutter using the time delay mode, today's version of the old cable release.
... or take blurry photos
Despite the above tip, there is a place for blurry photos and that's using a slow shutter speed when shooting a moving car, to create a ''speed'' effect. Getting a great moving shot is a bit hit-or-miss, but take enough and one's bound to turn
You don't need the car going flat out; only 15km/h or so will work with a camera shutter speed of around 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. The trick is to pan the camera with the
car. This not only blurs the background, but gives the wheels a ''speedy'' look.
Detail sells
Potential buyers like to see lots of photos of the car, not just pretty pictures but details of any, um ... imperfections, along with the state of the upholstery, the boot, engine bay,
condition of the tyres and so on.
Some of these can be difficult to take well, but persist. It may be necessary to use flash for some or, better yet, use a tripod and set the camera for maximum depth of field -photo talk for meaning everything's going to be in focus.
Shadows, your worst enemy
Want to screw up a car shot? Photograph it from the side that's in shadow, or with its nose in the shade. Shadows will hide details and make the car look like a blob.
It's such an obvious error, yet you see hundreds - thousands - of photos of cars for sale ruined by shadows. This is why a bright but overcast sky makes such good lighting.
Zoom in, zoom out
The great thing about a zoom lens is that it lets you take pictures from wide angle to telephoto, sometimes extreme telephoto. Zoom in and out and see where the car looks its best. It might look arty at an extreme wide angle but that's not what buyers want
to see. And at extreme telephoto, it will probably look all squished up due to the lens's foreshortening effect.
But somewhere, between the extremes, the car will probably look like a million dollars. Or at least worth the asking price.
Change the settings
If the camera has manual over-ride, take several shots at different exposures; say up to one stop either side of the exposure the in-camera meter recommends. It's called
bracketing and some cameras have a setting that does it automatically.
One of these shots may be better because, say, it shows some details more clearly, or the colour of the car is improved.


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