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In less than two months veterans of D-Day from all around the nation are expected to come to Bedford to participate in the 65th anniversary of D-Day gathering scheduled to be held in June. The event is expected to draw thousands and will likely be the last large-scale observance of the anniversary of D-Day. The event, sadly, will be one man short with the passing this week of Ray Nance.
Last Thursday marked my 100th day as your U.S. Congressman, and I'd like to report back on some of the successes of this first 100 days and what more remains to be done. While the extraordinary times we face have demanded some extraordinary measures, like the recovery bill, I believe we have laid a strong foundation for economic recovery and fought successfully for the priorities for Virginia's working families.
Just a few days ago millions of Americans from across this great country joined together to participate in taxpayer tea parties. These gatherings were an opportunity for everyone to express their frustration and disdain for our broken tax code and the out-of-control government spending currently taking place in Washington.
Tax Day 2009 had a new feature this year: so-called tax day tea parties, where people showed up to replicate the old Boston Tea Party and express their opposition to, well, paying taxes, I guess.
Held in cities all across the country, including Roanoke, participants bemoaned the Obama stimulus package, the various government bailouts, and of course, the Internal Revenue Service, everyone's least favorite government agency.
President Barack Obama's foreign policy, so far, has been a mixed bag.
Today's the day.
By midnight tonight everyone is to have paid "their fair share" to the United State Government. Don't forget, as our vice president said, it's our patriotic duty. If only we had some patriots in Washington ready to follow their own rhetoric. To hear them talk, you'd think April 15 should be a time for hot dogs, watermelon and fireworks — not the Fourth of July.
Time to move the proms?
Should Liberty High School and the other Bedford County high schools move their proms this year form downtown Lynchburg? That is a question that many Bedford County parents are asking in the wake of increased shooting and violence in the downtown Lynchburg area.
Last week, I embarked on a whirlwind "New Energy for the 5th" Tour, surveying the incredible opportunities to transform Southern and Central Virginia into the region leading America into the new energy economy. In every corner of the district, we have entrepreneurs, workers, farmers, and planners with energy projects that can produce good jobs and strong economic development, while helping to wean our nation from foreign oil.
With spring underway, warmer weather is slowly returning, the days are growing longer, and everything is in bloom. Unfortunately, the arrival of spring also kicks off a second and largely unwelcome season. This season is marked by piles of forms, confusing instructions, and the prospect of turning your hard-earned money over to the government - tax season.
The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library recognizes April as Confederate History Month by presenting stories of Confederate cemeteries that are being restored in honor of the brave people that served.
Alas, we must pity the poor individual. The American individual, that rock of our very fabric, is now under dire threat from a new and relentlessly socialist assault by the policies of President Barack Obama.
Gone, or at least soon to be gone, is the individual's ability to make choices for himself, or direct his life in any serious way outside the bitter tyranny of a leftist government bent on destroying his freedoms.
Last week, Rick Howell reminded me of why I find the thinking of the "Democratic" Party's base so troubling. He's chosen an interesting cause to champion.
Is Mr. Howell concerned about Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two American journalists who were detained by North Korea last month? North Korea claims they illegally crossed North Korea's border with China and accuses them of being spies. While I can't say that Mr. Howell is not concerned about them, they weren't the subject of his column.
The cost of doing business with the government became clear last month and everyone should take a long hard look at those consequences: Bailout-mania comes with a heavy price tag. Just ask Rick Wagoner.
Bedford Ride needs high-speed Internet
County Supervisors and other groups are working to have high speed Internet available to all or most county residents who are interested.
Just days ago the House Democrats pushed through their budget resolution for fiscal year 2010, a $3.6 trillion budget resolution which spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. This fiscally irresponsible budget, which I voted against, will significantly increase the tax burden on American families and small businesses to pay for new wasteful government spending while heaping trillions of dollars of debt on future generations. Facing a slowing economy and an increased cost of living, Americans have to tighten their belts and carefully budget their hard-earned m
Burial in a national cemetery is open to all members of the armed forces and veterans discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, as well as their spouse, un-remarried widow or widower, minor children and (under certain conditions) unmarried adult children.
Also eligible for burial are members of the reserve components of the armed forces, the Army and Air National Guard and the Reserve Officer Training Corps who died while on active duty for training or performing their services.
The Museum cooperating with the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1475 and the United Daughters of Confederacy, Gen. William R. Terry Chapter 580 are identifying any Confederate graves that need restoration, researching the persons buried, obtaining proper tombstones and restoring the graves to presentable condition.
In a jail cell in Lima, Peru, a 39-year-old American woman waits to give birth to her child. She's eight months pregnant, but is not in particularly good health, and must have back surgery at some point after the birth.
For American Lori Berenson, most of those facts represent progress. The baby, of course, is good news. So is the modern, well-equipped facility in Lima, unlike the other remote and rustic prisons where she has lived since 1995.
It's been a little more than a month since the International Criminal "Court" issued its "arrest warrant" for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. It charged him with crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a new NASD rule that requires supervisors of equity research analysts to pass either the Series 87 or the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Series 16 Supervisory Analyst qualification examination. This new rule augments the existing requirement that supervisors of research analysts must be registered as a General Securities Principal. Members may apply for registration Research Principal (RP) through Web CRD beginning on April 4, 2005, and individuals must satisfy the qualification requirements by August 2, 2005. While the Series 16 and Series 87 are currently available, due to system constraints, the Research Principal (RP) registration category will not be available until April 4, 2005. The new rule language is attached as Attachment A.


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Netflix tops 50M subscribers as 2Q earnings soar (Update)
Netflix's second-quarter earnings more than doubled as new episodes from a hit series helped the Internet video service surpass 50 million worldwide subscribers for the first time.
The gains announced Monday include an additional 570,000 U.S. subscribers, slightly more than Netflix's management predicted. The quarter is typically the company's slowest of the year, as people spend more time outdoors instead of watching video.
Investors applauded the second-quarter results, pushing Netflix's stock up $4.05 to $456 in extended trading. The shares have surged by 23 percent this year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has increased 7 percent.
The second quarter featured one of Netflix's marquee attractions, "Orange Is The New Black," which returned for its second season in early June. As with Netflix's other original series, all 13 episodes of "Orange Is The New Black," were released simultaneously so subscribers could watch the story unfold at their leisure.
"Consumers are enjoying more than ever being in control of their own schedules, able to click and watch whenever they want," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a Monday interview.
Without breaking down the specific viewership numbers, Hastings said "Orange Is The New Black" became Netflix's most-watched series during the first month after the June 6 release of the second season.
"Orange Is the New Black," set in a women's prison, received 12 of the 31 Emmy Award nominations bestowed upon Netflix programming for this year's awards. Netflix's Emmy nominations eclipsed the 24 garnered by longtime pay-TV channel Showtime, which collected 24, but lagged far behind HBO's pace-setting 99 nominations.
Netflix Inc. ended June with 36.2 million subscribers in the U.S. and another 13.8 million customers in roughly 40 other countries. The Los Gatos, California, company picked up 1.1 million subscribers outside the U.S. in the second quarter, a figure that also topped management's projections.
The company said it expects to add another 3.7 million subscribers worldwide in the current quarter ending in September, including 1.3 million U.S. customers. It also plans to start selling its Internet video service in six more European countries in September, including Germany and France.
Netflix's long-term goal is to reach as many as 90 million U.S. subscribers and more than 100 million internationally.
The second-quarter performance will likely alleviate any concerns that a price increase imposed in early May would undercut Netflix's growth. Netflix raised its rates by $1 to $9 per month for Internet video streaming in the U.S., but the company eased the blow by allowing existing subscribers to continue paying the old price for at least two years.
As Netflix's video-streaming service steadily grows, the DVD-by-mail rental business that once was the company's foundation is slowly crumbling. The DVD rental service shed another 391,000 subscribers in the second quarter to end June with fewer than 6.3 million customers. That's a decline of 55 percent in less than three years.
Netflix earned $71 million, or $1.15 per share, during the April-June period. That compared to income of $29.5 million, or 49 cents per share, at the same time last year. This year's earnings per share were a penny above the average estimate among analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Revenue climbed 25 percent from last year to $1.3 billion, matching analyst projections.
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The 'Nitzana' Educational Community and Youth Village in the northern Negev was recently renamed after late Negev pioneer and Israel Prize winner and member of Knesset (MK), Arieh "Lova" Eliav.
Established in 1986 by Eliav and the Agency, and situated near the Egyptian border, 70 km. northwest of Beer Sheva, the community offers an extraordinary education in a unique setting for young people from Israel and abroad.
Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, family and friends of Eliav, students and alumni, attended the festive event. Also on hand were regional officials, among them MK Amir Peretz, heads of the Ramat Negev Regional Council, the Jewish National Fund, along with noted writer Eli Amir, and the Chairperson of Land of Israel Organization in Memory of Lova, Ofir Pines.
Center Director David Palmach noted that Nitzana, which is nestled among agricultural settlements and archaeological ruins from hundreds of years ago, runs educational activities for thousands of teenagers and young adults from all over Israel and across the world. The community is run in an ecologically sustainable fashion and amongst the many varied activities, the community runs short ecological seminars for Israeli teens.
Various long term programs are also run at 'Nitzana' including: the "Derech Eretz" pre-army academy; Ulpanim (Hebrew training) for olim (new immigrants); the Masa Israel program Desert Sports Challenge; and the 'Tikun Olam' boarding school for young Eritrean refugees who are in Israel without their parents and who were previously in detention.
Nitzana is an educational community providing activities that impart Zionist values, and teaches science and technology subjects as tools for personal and regional development. These activities include topics such as: the Bible heritage and Israel's war heritage; ecology and protection of the environment; alternative "clean" energy; technological solutions to problems of desert life; advancing applied science and research in the desert; information technology and its effects on processes of gathering, organizing and disseminating knowledge. The overall approach emphasizes tolerance among sectors and towards minority groups.
The village is active during the entire year, and offers a variety of programs to participants from Israel and from abroad. Programs range from one-week Negev Seminars for Israeli high school students, to year-long Selah and Ulpan courses for olim. At any one time, 450 youth participate in short-term Negev Seminars and long-term Selah and ulpan programs.
Eliav, who was a senior member of the Labor movement and passed away in May 2010, served as a deputy minister in several governments. In 1988 he was awarded the Israel Prize for his unique contribution to Israeli society and the State of Israel. In 2003 he was awarded the Ben Gurion Prize for a life of achievement in absorbing new immigrants and developing the Negev.
Born in Moscow in 1921, Eliav made Aliyah three years later. He was instrumental in founding the cities of Arad and Kiryat Gat, and aiding in the development of the Lachish region.


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Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
For the second time a little girl from the United States comes to Oz. Betsy Bobbin is shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean with her friend Hank the mule. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom on a fragment of wreckage. Betsy meets the Shaggy Man and accompanies him to the Nome Kingdom, where Shaggy hopes to release his brother, a prisoner of the Nome King.


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Movie fans fed up with Netflix cropping their favorite features are trying to do something about it. A petition has been filed on Change.org demanding that the video rental and streaming service begin disclosing all modifications made to films being shown through the tool.
Maybe you've heard about these modifications? The revelatory Web site What Netflix Does points out visual chops the service does to classic movie.
Take a look at Milos Forman's Man On the Moon before Netflix's altering:
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I mean, I love me some Jerry Lawler, but c'mon, Netflix! To its credit, the company actually responded to the controversy, stating in an email to The Huffington Post:
"We want to offer the best picture and provide the original aspect ratio of any title on Netflix," said Netflix spokesman Joris Evers. "However, unfortunately our quality controls sometimes fail and we end up offering the wrong version of a title. When we discover this error, we replace that title as soon as possible."
Now, on to the petition. The official-sounding Yankee Rose is demanding that Netflix disclose any edits it's making to the film its customers are watching. In a nutshell, Yankee Rose wants viewers to be made aware when changes are occurring. Seems fair. Rose sounds like an industry insider, deeply concerned with the aspect ratios of presented films, stating in the Change petition:
Wouldn't it be nice to know which foods you spend your hard-earned money on has any GMO ingredients in them? This petition may not alleviate that unfortunate subject matter, BUT we can do something about films getting modified!!!!
So it seems like this person would simply like a title card ahead of a feature or television show that says, "We messed with this to improve the visual presentation." Which seems fair, and easy to do. But we'd love to know: Does this matter to you? Are you concerned with aspect ratios, and respecting the original image? Or do you trust in Netflix to better the visual presentation? Weigh in below with your opinions on this, and sign the petition if you want Netflix to have to act on their changes.


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Lost hiker found by rescue choppers
Local rescuers and troopers
An exchange worker from China was rescued from the backside of Town Mountain Wednesday afternoon after he and a co-worker from Valdez Subway separated Tuesday night on what the pair believed would be a quick hike to the top of the steep ridge.
"I'm just glad he's back," Janet Sholer, owner of Valdez Subway, said. Sholer employs the hiker, Song "Steven" Chen as part of a student worker exchange program. "There were people out looking for him all night…this is a great town."
The hikers began their trek through the thick brush and steep incline of Town Mountain in the late afternoon, Tuesday, Aug. 14. As inexperienced hikers, the pair began the climb without extra food, water or even hiking gear. As the sun began to go down Tuesday night, Chen's companion became worried and tried to persuade him to go back to town. He reports that Chen was eager to make the top of the ridge, so one went down, Chen continued to go up.
By the time his companion reached the ground he began to worry about Chen. According to a press release issued by the city Wednesday morning, Chen called 911 at around 11 p.m. Tuesday night, reporting he was "lost, tired, and unable to proceed."
Ground-based mountain rescue teams began an intensive search of the mountain shortly after the call. City officials called in Leigh Coates, helicopter pilot and owner of Vertical Solutions, to help find Chen, who at one point reported that he could see the road and lights of town. Coates said she began the air based search at 7 a.m.
After three and half hours in the air, spotters from the helicopter failed to find the hiker and it was feared he might succumb to hypothermia and dehydration if not found. State troopers sent their rescue helicopter Helo 1 to aid in the rescue. Helo 1 is equipped with heat sensing equipment to aid in rescues where victims may not be readily visible.
After both helicopters had thoroughly searched and re-searched the part of the mountain facing town, the rescuers began to search the back side of the mountain.
"We spotted him about 10 minutes later," Coates said. The tracking device on the helicopter showed at least 100 passes over the front of the mountain.
Fire department volunteer Darryn Hughes, who was with Coates, spotted Chen on a ledge on the backside of the mountain. Coates clocked Chen at a height of 1892 feet.
"I saw his shoulders and he was waving his arms," Hughes said.
With a fixed location, Helo 1, with fire department volunteer rescuers Sam Owens and Ken White, moved in to extract Chen from the ledge.
"We just pulled him in," Trooper pilot Mel Nading said minutes after landing the chopper, with a grateful Chen inside.
Nading said the hard mounted rescue harness pulled Chen to safety with little fanfare.
Chen waved to the waiting ambulance crew, handful of coworkers and hiking companion after leaving the helicopter, which landed on the parkstrip across from the fire department on Pioneer Dr.
He repeatedly thanked everyone he passed on his way to the ambulance. Chen was covered in mud but appeared alert and grateful after spending the night on the mountain with only street clothes and a hoodie for protection.
"The young man came out of the ordeal with a few scratches and a lot of respect for the outdoors," the weekly press release issued by the fire dept. said.
Friends and coworkers wept after Chen's rescue; relieved of the fatigue of the long, overnight vigil.
Sholer jokingly said Chen could have the day off from his normally scheduled shift.
While all who participated in the search and eventual rescue for Chen were gratified at the end result, Coates was particularly touched by the day's events.
"This is my first rescue," Coates said shortly after Chen was safely on his way to the hospital where he was treated for dehydration. "It felt really good. I can't tell you."


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There was a time that Florida's road to Atlanta went through Knoxville every year. Lately, it has gone through either Jacksonville or Columbia. But that is Florida's road to Atlanta in football – the path to the SEC Championship Game in Dogwood City. This is basketball season, and Billy Donovan has claimed A-town for the Rowdy Reptiles as well. When the SEC basketball tournament made its debut in 1933, the Atlanta Athletic Club was the selected venue. Although it would be nearly seventy years before Billy Ball made Florida a regular powerhouse in the city, the Gators were there at the beginning, too. In its sophomore season, the SEC tournament returned to Atlanta to pit the Florida Gators against the Crimson Tide in the title game. The matchup that would dominate the football championship in this fine city many decades later made its debut in just the second stanza of the basketball title tilt.
The Gators would not return to the tournament title game until 1989 when a fresh-faced Livingston Chapman took home the MVP honors while the Tide again took home the trophy. But that was in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee, a far cry from the Big Peach. But during a four-year stretch from 2004 to 2007, the Georgia Dome hosted three SEC tournaments and a Final Four, and Florida appeared in the title game of every one of them, winning two of the SEC tourneys and of course the national title game against Ohio State. The Gators owned that building so definitively that their fans started calling it the Florida Dome.
In the words of Garrett Morris, Gator fans could say, "The Georgia Dome has been berry, berry good to me." The SEC Tournament was held in Nashville this year, which could explain Florida's reluctance to make their title game lead stand up in the final minutes, but the Final Four returns to Hotlanta this year, and it would be a venue in which this Gator squad would be very comfortable. But first they must get there. So without further ado, and because I am running out of nicknames for Atlanta, I will walk through the most likely path I envision for the Gators to return to Atlanta and claim a third national championship for the program and for Billy D.
Opening Rounds
There are obviously two schools of thought on the Gators' opening game. The first being the most obvious that Northwestern State is simply not in Florida's league and it will be a strong win by the SEC champions. The second is brought to the table mostly by those fans who remember similar games leading to early NCAA exits for the Gators in the early-to-mid 1990s (Creighton and Manhattan should ring a bell here). But this program I believe has been proofed of that sort of early round trap game, and even if it had not, this team is in Year 3 of a mission to reach the Final Four and I just don't see any such letdown in the future.
The big fear is that the as the nation's top scoring team, the Demons from Natchitoches could overwhelm a Florida team that is looking ahead. However, a closer look at the opponent should allay some fears. They lost the Southland Conference to Stephen F Austin, which hasn't scared anyone since "The Six Million Dollar Man" was cancelled, but beat them in their league tourney to break into the Big Dance. They tallied 23 wins against just 8 losses, but those losses included dropping games to Steve Austin and Oral Roberts (two very old men), and blowout losses to Nicholls State and Niagara. Their quality out-of-conference opponents were LSU, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Arkansas. They lost to all four of them by an average margin of double digits. Florida blew out three of those teams this year, and LSU they blew out twice. And to hearken back to football again, when I think of their leading the nation in scoring, I am reminded of Steve Spurrier's comments on the Mississippi defense that played Florida as the nation's best pass defense: "They came into the game Number One in the nation in pass defense, but they didn't leave the game that way."
The next round will bring Florida the UCLA-Minnesota winner. Many people are picking the Gophers in this game and projecting them to give Florida fits with their tough physical style of play. But folks I think are concentrating too much on the one time late in the year when they beat Indiana. I am focusing more on 11 losses in their last 16 games. The media have been in a love-fest with the Hoosiers all year, and anyone who beats them is looked at as a giant in a field of toddlers. Never mind that following that win and an gimme against pathetic Penn State, they lost to bad Nebraska (only 5-13 in the Big10), were blown out by average Purdue (losing record overall and in conference), and were 1-and-done in the Big10 tourney to "okay" Illinois (an NCAA tourney team, but a losing 8-10 conference record). And never mind that in the two games leading up to the Indiana game, they were blown out by Ohio State and NIT-bound Iowa.
The Gophers only played 2 quality out-of-conference teams, beating Memphis and getting blown out by Duke. In-conference, they beat Indiana and Michigan State in regulation and nipped Wisconsin in overtime. They lost 2-of-3 to Illinois, split with NIT-bound Iowa and Northwestern (who isn't even going to the NIT), were controlled in a home loss to Michigan and then all the losses mentioned above. Frankly I am miffed as to how the Gophers even got into the tourney.
So I see UCLA being Florida's roadblock to the Sweet Sixteen. If you know your tournament history, you know this is a favorable matchup for the Gators. If there is any non-SEC program in the nation that has Florida inside their heads more than the Ohio State Buckeyes (a dual sport obsession), it is the UCLA Bruins basketball program. Seems every time they get into the NCAA tournament, the Gators blow them out of it. In 2006, they beat them in the national title game by 16 points; in 2007, they beat them in the national semifinal game by 11; in 2011, they beat them in the NCAA second round by 8. They keep getting closer as the game gets further from the title game, but the losses just keep mounting. And they will be without the services of star freshman Jordan Adams, lost to injury for the year in the PAC 12 tourney. Throw another loss to the Gators on the fire for the burnin' Bruins.
Sweet Sixteen
As great as it would be to face Oklahoma and head coach Lon Kruger – the first coach to bring Florida to the Final Four and the only coach in NCAA history to every coach five different programs to NCAA tourney bids – in the Sweet 16, I don't see any way that Georgetown doesn't leave Philadelphia with two wins in its pocket.
This was of course, Florida's opening night opponent in a game that was cancelled at halftime due to precipitation from playing the game on deck of a battleship. Florida was to some extent having its way with the Hoyas and brought a lead into halftime, and most optimistic fans believe they would have won handily – while the pessimistic fans believe they would have folded at the end of a close game as they have many times throughout the year.
Regardless of the possible outcome of that game, both teams have grown and evolved a lot since then. In the entire mix of the matchups in this game, the thing that stands out the most to me is that I do not believe Georgetown can score enough points to beat the Gators. The Hoyas won a number of games with very low scoring outputs. They beat Tennessee this year by scoring just 37 points (and only beat them by 1), beat Towson by scoring 46 (6-pt win), beat Louisville by scoring 53 (2-pt win) and beat Syracuse by scoring 57 (11-pt win).
Florida has only scored under 60 points twice all year. Those were a 4-point loss to UK and a 6-point loss to Tennessee, but one was without Will Yeguete and one was in Yeguete's second game back when the team was still not back to its fluid rotation. Princeton defense or not, Florida simply will be able to score more than 60 points on Georgetown. They have more ways to score than the Hoyas do, and they will use them. Florida could not have played any worse in the second half against Ole Miss, only scoring 25 points, and they still broke the 60-point barrier. Georgetown's offense was held to less than 60 points in nine games this year ("Niiiiine games, Mrs Bueller"), held under 50 points four times, and as mentioned before, even held under 40 points once. And the defenses shutting them down included South Florida and Towson. Florida advances to the Elite Eight for the third-straight year.
That is where they will find Number 1 seed Kansas waiting. Both the Gators and Jayhawks are experienced tourney teams and this should be one of the best games of the tournament. Patric Young needs to have his best game inside in this matchup. If the Gators do get to the Elite Eight, I think they will have the focus and drive not to be stopped again at this point. Kansas has improved since they dropped three in a row a little over a month ago and looked on their way out of the Top 10 to stay. But if Florida gets this far, the train will not be making a stop at this station. In the tourney, it is all about matchups, coaching adjustments, momentum and sheer will power. I think if they get this far they will have the momentum and they will tap into the will power to do it. Billy D will take care of the rest with his game prep and in-game adjustments.
Final Four
Miami has a decided advantage on Florida in the paint, but the Kadji-Murphy battle will be the key to the game. Both will be very motivated and both will be very familiar with each other having practiced against one another during Kadji's time with the Gators. The problem with this premise, however is that this Final Four matchup will never happen.
I simply don't think Miami is as good as everyone thinks they are. They struggled terribly against a lot of really bad teams in the last month and a half of the season. Frankly, I think the ACC was a 2-team conference this year – and the other one (Duke) I think is also very overrated. I am a little surprised that so many people have Miami going to the Final Four, and even more so the number who have them winning it all. They must think getting to the Final Four or winning the tournament is a pretty easy thing to do on the first try. Not a single player on the 'Cane team has ever played in an NCAA tournament game. None. Conversely, Florida has been to 3-straight NCAA tourneys and 2-straight Elite Eights. Kenny Boynton is the only player who was a significant contributor four years ago when the Gators last had to settle for the NIT. That's when they reached the quarter finals by slapping the Miami Hurricanes around by 14 points. Meanwhile the current Miami roster can only draw upon last year's 2-and-thru NIT appearance and the 2011 NIT effort that reached the third round. Only one player – Julian Gamble – played on that 2009 team that was bounced from the NIT by the Gators. I don't see Miami getting to the Final Four, but if they take advantage of being placed in the weakest bracket in the tourney and make it that far, I just don't see them having the experience in the giant spotlight to carry them any further against a team that knows nothing but NCAA tournaments the last three years and has been knocking at the door of the Final Four the last two consecutive seasons.
And I am not taking the Hoosiers either. They are very, very good but they have not been a 1-seed since 1993. That was twenty years ago when the members of the current Indiana team were in diapers or not born yet. They are capable of being upset and the team in this bracket most likely to do it other than Florida is Marquette, and that is who I am picking as Florida's Semifinals opponent. The Gators beat the co-Big East champion by 33 points at the end of November. They'll beat them by half that much this time.
In the title game, student faces mentor. A re-match of the game that bounced Florida from punching its Final Four ticket. Florida's Final Four this year will in fact be a repeat of Florida's Regional Finals weekend last year: Marquette then Louisville. Billy D has never beaten Rick Pitino, and he is due. I will break down the matchups of the Final Four games (especially if any of my projections actually come to pass), but for now I'll leave it as Florida cutting down the nets in Atlanta one more time.
Why So Confident?
I am not actually confident but if I were putting down my own money, this is how I would call it. Sure the team has flaws, but so does every team this year. Even if there were a couple flawless teams, flawless teams can always be beat in the tourney when they have an off night and play a team playing their best game.
The nature of any playoff is that the best team does not always win, and in fact seldom wins in some stretches. The SEC tourney is the perfect proof of that. UF proved over the course of the year that they are the best in the SEC, but when only one game can send you home, the best team doesn't always win a tournament. Sometimes the team fighting for an NCAA berth wins against a team whose only motivation is bolstering seeding.
The nature of tournament play is that whatever team is hot at the time wins. The best team(s) have the best chance, because they have the most resources, but again an off-night can end even the most talented of teams' season. The Gators have been trending up since Yeguete returned. They are not back to where they were before he got injured, but they are still headed that direction. If they continue to follow this trend, they should continue to get stronger as the tourney goes along, thus rising to the increased level of competition with each new step into the bracket. If they keep winning, of course.
It would have been great to win the SEC Tournament as part of this rise, but it was not necessary to continue the improvement and go deep into the NCAA tourney. In point of fact, it may very well benefit Florida to have that terrible taste of loss in their mouths. Had they won as expected, they may start to believe they are all the way back. And as soon as you think you're done working, that's when you get beat. Case in point the SEC Tourney title game itself. Florida was putting Ole Miss away in businesslike fashion without working up much of a sweat. By the time Murphy's goal-tended shot put them up by 10 points in the second half, in their minds the outcome was a foregone conclusion. They were just killing time until the trophy ceremony.
But the officials corruptly ignored the goal tend, the team made the mistake of hesitating to react in disbelief at the non-call which allowed the most classless player in college sports to hit a run-out three, completing a 5-point turnaround and putting Ole Miss back in a game from which Florida had already mentally clocked out from.
It may turn out that Florida will be retrospectively glad they lost that game, and lost it in that fashion. That loss was far more than just a bitter title game loss. The unsportsmanlike display of taunting and classless heckling the Rebels did to the Gator fans during and after the game was something I've never seen in college basketball before, and frankly I am still literally shocked that the refs never called a technical. This was a post-game rub-it-in, ridicule and mockery of the Gator program and fans that the team has obviously never witnessed in their lives.
If this doesn't ignite the passion the Gators need to win the NCAA tourney, and play like they did in the first half of the season, nothing will. I believe it will restore that passion and focus them like they've never been focused before. That won't guarantee anything when the tournament starts, because NCAA tournaments are maybe 60% talent, 20% circumstantial developments in the brackets and 20% pure luck, but it puts them in a position where they *can* win it all. It cleans up that 60% and gives them an edge to overcome much of that first 20%. The 20% that is blind luck, nobody knows. We do know that Florida will always be on the losing side of any discretion or imbalance from the officials, and we know that the Gators will almost certainly be on the losing side of the crowd noise at any of the venues they will play in.
As for the rest, the Gators must try to make their own luck.


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After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, where he grew immersed in the movement to stop the war in Iraq, Shahid worked for a decade in Washington, D.C. He first worked in private practice for a California-based law firm, with public interest litigation projects advancing campaign finance reform and marriage equality for same-sex couples (as early as 2004, when LGBT rights remained politically marginal). From 2005 to 2008, he helped build a national progressive legal network and managed the communications team at the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, before founding the program to combat racial & religious profiling at Muslim Advocates in 2008.
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We know, B'More. After watching your Ravens completely decimate the previously undefeated Denver Broncos, you were ready to book your plane tickets to Miami for the Super Bowl. Now, though, after seeing Cincy completely undress our purple heroes for the second time in a month, you're ready to throw in the towel on the 2009 season, with all hopes and dreams for any January 2010 "Festivus" activities lost forever.
But please, don't jump off that proverbial ledge just yet. Hear us out.
The question now becomes – are the Ravens as good as they played against Denver OR are they as bad as they played against Cincy?
The answer is probably "somewhere in between," but it's going to take MUCH more of the former to have any hopes of a playoff berth. In all honesty, a 4-4 team has no business talking about playoffs, and the TEAM shouldn't be. We, however, are just fans, and can be as unrealistic as we damn well please right?
Now then – Sunday's game was reminiscent of Week 11 last year. The then 6-3 Ravens got manhandled by the New York Giants on the road, and at 6-4 were precariously holding onto playoff dreams. Remember? And remember how they responded? That's right, by stomping the eventual NFC runner-up Philadelphia Eagles to the tune of 36-7.
With the Cleveland Browns next week (basically a 2nd bye), a similar stomping is very likely. And, with games against Detroit, Chicago, at Oakland, and in Green Bay against a Packers team that looks very pedestrian right now, all is NOT lost.
Let's put "the p word" aside for now.
Instead, the Ravens' ultimate goal should be 10 wins. Get to 10 wins, B'More, and let the chips fall where they may. Although in 2008, even 11 wins was not enough for the New England Patriots to get into the postseason, historically 10 wins will get you some January football.
At 4-4, is a 10 win season realistic? Looking at the remaining schedule, the "easiest" path to double digit victories would be as follows:
In decreasing order of "win probability" (based on exactly nothing) –
Win 5 – @ Cleveland
Win 6 – vs. Detroit
Win 7 – @ Oakland
Win 8 – vs. Chicago
Still need two more. The next "most likely" win would seem to be…
Win 9 – @ Green Bay
Winning in December in Lambeau is no easy task, but remember that the Pack just lost to the lowly Tampa Bay Bucs – stranger things have happened.
Unfortunately, that's the last one that we can feel even remotely warm & fuzzy about. Harbaugh's crew MUST be able to steal one of the remaining games:
Win 10 (?) – vs. Indianapolis
Win 10 (?) – vs. Pittsburgh
Win 10 (?) – @ Pittsburgh
If you can't win your home games, you have no business being in the playoffs. Two of the three against Peyton and Ben are in the friendly confines of M&T Bank Stadium. If the Ravens are able to squeak away with a "W" in any one of those three games, 10 wins is still very much in the cards.
So please, step back from the ledge, won't you?


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The Music Sharing Thread
Hey guys, what music do you like to listen to? Do you have any bands you love? Any particular songs you adore? Want to share with other people? Do it here! Try to find links if you can
First, my favorite band at the moment, Epica
Epica (Power/Symphonic Metal):
Blank Infinity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_UKvNXlOmU
Burn to a Cinder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqIEGDdrnfo
Chasing the Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwHTNETEGs
Consign to Oblivion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ITo3JZdqY
Cry for the Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dys1_...eature=related
Dance of Fate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLefl...eature=related
Design Your Universe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izg2hcLQsrw
Fools of Damnation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYBwZPCleY
Illusive Consensus (My personal favorite from this band) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDJ0ZBWsGI
Imperial March (Metal Cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpY2c6mnOwQ
In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Metal Cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P1lRJldRx0
Never Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfLtA8SkmVw
Pirates of the Caribbean (Metal Cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9LFP5QkwJ0
Run For A Fall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmf6zKtJORQ
Sancta Terra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xrakyBNzvs
Sensorium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YMs...eature=related
The Phantom Agony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAlRf...eature=related
Nightwish (Symphonic Metal):
Astral Romance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQJ13czamY
Beauty and the Beast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh7IKq5emOM&feature=fvst
Cadence of Her Last Breath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuL88QyNk0A
Crownless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t8MbnWGcWc
Dark Chest of Wonders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn6KwlKxYuI
Dead Boy's Poem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-AeRiDEBw
Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESumfSkondA
Elvenpath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRdMWP1oPJ8
End of All Hope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xaIPszwpo
Escapist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62KtVqvso4M
Ever Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUQ3xhmu_A
Ghost Love Score (My favorite song from this band) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8e2hMAL6c
Last of the Wilds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vouAtmE13vs
Moondance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oopBM...eature=related
Nemo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBdpFJyFkc&ob=av2n
Ocean Soul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYu2EnCG2Ww
Over the Hills and Far Away (Cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UztEfwHt14
Planet Hell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6chUtSef4
Sahara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auHuwRAYDPE
Sleeping Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWhlo9b9zg
Sleepwalker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMirSbimyE
Stargazers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVehuXlJxk
The Islander http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5juc6fmgylw&ob=av2n
The Kinslayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY67zxJVAUM
The Pharaoh Sails to Orion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdyaxu8W7g
The Poet and the Pendulum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E4cQD7wU9U
The Riddler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZ2F6ItNUc
Walking in the Air (Cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWPduHl_j8
While Your Lips Are Still Red http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smiFk6KHr_8
Wish I Had an Angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3DSVS72B8
Wishmaster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5KWbBXLdUk&feature=fvst
Kamelot (Power Metal):
Farewell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJZ_asDKlg
Elizabeth (all 3 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ostjZzPN8
Ghost Opera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TUufvK0gU
House on a Hill (Featuring Simone Simons of Epica) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqsA0evxoQ
March of Mephisto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qdcl67H1Jw
Poetry for the Poisoned (4 part song, this is all 4 put together. Features Simone Simons from Epica) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-obbfyYtJ8
The Great Pandemonium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Trjxuc6Q2c
The Haunting (featuring Simone Simons from Epica) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecZ8UnsjLs
Sirenia (Power/Symphonic Metal):
A Seaside Serenade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqoluY49tUg
All my Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0D5FwL6rZY
Coming Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evf31...eature=related
Darkened Days to Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCm6...eature=related
Fading Star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0aAD...eature=related
Lost in Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyPCC_mdwzE
My Mind's Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB58B2Gn3CU
Oscura Realidad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubo-Q...eature=related
Path to Decay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZQ7rgAq-I&ob=av3e
Save Me From Myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwdtfuKkN3E
Seven Sirens and a Silver Tear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIrE190z3I
Sister Nightfall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy7VWVD7zvU
The End of it All http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDp6c...eature=related
The Enigma of Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c38d...eature=related
The Other Side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPWBTIv9qw&ob=av3e
The Twilight in Your Eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIWKkG7beB0
This Lonely Lake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7Ob...eature=related
Winter Land http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x57H2...eature=related
Summoning (Black Metal, very unique band. LOTR fans, check this out):
A Distant Flame Before the Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgKRbD8xdw
A New Power is Rising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAU5...eature=related
Arcenstone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsVifAzbnk
Ashen Cold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdiab2D0Ohs
Bauglir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94J71KbLeiY&feature=fvst
Farewell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFbBK...eature=related
Flight of the Nazgul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB0Ff...eature=related
In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBvvk...eature=related
Khazad-Dum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcZjV...eature=related
Land of the Dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hipoi...eature=related
Like Some Snow (White Marble Eyes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoAL...eature=related
Long Lost Where No Pathway Goes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNAcp...eature=related
Might and Glory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYOd...eature=related
Runes of Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqliJ...eature=related
Saruman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpud5...eature=related
South Away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlFVO...eature=related
The Passing of The Grey Company http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqMj1ANFX8
Where Hope and Daylight Die http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5keWnEGh88g
I'll put some more up later, looking forwards to seeing some from you guys.
Some of that Epica stuff was really cool. The Pirates of the Caribbean thing was awesome.
Nightwish and Kamelot I'm familiar with. I'll try to post some of my favorite stuff later. Much of it is old metal (Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Metallica) or predictable metal (Godsmack, Mudvayne, Pantera). There is some new stuff I was just introduced to through the Mayhemfest and the Uproar Tour (both of which I went to this year), some of which was particularly awesome--Straight Line Stitch for example).
That is a lot of [Prefix]-Metal there, Link.
Fortunately, I'm here and I have impeccable music taste.
For those with spotify.
For those without
BRR just likes to punish us. He does it because we are weak. --The Alcotroll
Bleh metal.
Then again, nobody wants to listen to my shitty J-Pop.
Dramatic reading of a typical post.
Last edited by LeadPal; 4th of September, 2011 at 18:24.
I find that my musical tastes are shockingly similar to BRR's (minus the rap).
I do like most of what Link linked (pun intended) though as well (minus the Black Metal as I found the vocals too distracting from the melody). Not sure I would include it on my normal play list but it would be good background music for game night or something.
"Plus, you know, robots. Pew-pew." - Benicus
Alright, well I WAS going to post this in that funny videos thread that I started a while back but I can't seem to find it. I even did a search for it. Hm. Methinks its a conspiracy.
Anyway since it is somewhat related here as it qualifies as music videos: I bring to you the music of Lonely Island. I recommend all of them.
"Plus, you know, robots. Pew-pew." - Benicus
Pfff ok.
For some reason I haven't copied my music over to this new computer yet (it's been like seven months), so I'm sort of going off of what I remember. If anything catches your eye I can scrounge up more, probably, and I'm trying to leave out some of the things I remember posting in a thread like this before.
Electro Glitch Trance Whatever
Squarepusher - Paradise Garage (live) - glitch jazz something (my current overplayed song)
Squarepusher - Zounds Perspex - more glitch jazz (I have no idea what it's actually called)
Squarepusher - Cryptic Motion (Mr Oizo Remix) - sort of acid glitch something
Aphex Twin - Xtal - glorious chillout
In general, anything from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works albums.
Some new song from Aphex Twin at Metz - release it already you ass
The Tuss - Shiz Ko E - totally not richard d james
Mike and Rich - Reg - yaeh yaeh yaeh yaeh yappa pa pah
Slightly More Chillout
Loess - Lomond
Enigma - Sadeness
A Forest Mighty Black - Minigame
The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage - erlend oye is a very sad hipster
AIR - Casanova 70
AIR - Bossa 96 - listen to this one
Mowai - Auto Rock
Slightly More Dance
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (Kavinsky Remix) - electro house remix of post-punk song
Ghosthustler - Only Me to Trust - electro synth
Jet Set Radio Future - Teknopathetic - actually the game doesn't have much good music
Daft Punk - Face to Face v. HBFS (live) - daft punk makes the best remixes of daft punk
Daft Punk-Around the World (8-bit remix) - this ones pretty good too
Daft Punk - Something About Us - Daft Loop Love - yeah and this one
The KDMS - Never Stop Believing (Munk mix)
Slightly More Punk Funk Rock
Electric Six - Rubber Rocket - such a stupid fucking song
Electric Six - Clusterfuck
The Beatnix - Stairway To Heaven - actually not sure where to put this
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice remix)
Kutiman Mixes Maroon 5 - apparently maroon 5 is kinda lame
Little z's Shitty Bouncy Bubblegum Japanese Bossa Ska Pop Time
Pizzicato Five ♡ Darlin' of Discotheque (Bongo a Go Go Mix) - darling darling darling discotheque
Towa Tei ♡ Marvelous (feat. Yurico) - its so marvelous dont you know
Fantastic Plastic Machine ♡ Pura Saudade (Nova Bossa Nova + Optiganally Mix) - blah blah bluh bluh blah (lah lah la la laaah)
FPM / Sound Concierge - La Yellow Samba Mix - bahna wah wah wah wah dooh dooh
FPM - Lupin III Theme - lupin lupin lupin lupin the third
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Skarada Dub - baaah niii nah naaaah
Lucky Star OP (REDALiCE remix) - pom pom cheerleaders lets get cherry pie
WAARUDOIJIMAIN (band edition - the worlds number one princess has a burning heart
~*~*~*~CAN !!YOU!! MAKE IT THROUGH @@ALL@@ THESE HORRIBLE ??SONGS??~*~*~*~ (no)
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Menu Music
Iron Monkees - Mash Up: The Trooper Believer
Rhythm Heaven - Remix 9 - track from a rhythm game
Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red (V/VM) - terrifying
Jean Jacques Perrey - Brazilian Flower (acoustic cover) - oh man this song
Persona 3 - Burn My Dread
Vocaloid - Just Be Friends - hahahah japan what the hell?
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (Automatic Mario remix)
And finally, Caramelldansen on a piano.
Below is just a small sample of my favorite songs. I don't really feel like searching for audio links for all of them. Most of them should be insanely easy to find anyway.
The Sword - Maiden, Mother, Crone
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
Depswa - This Time
Depswa - From the Inside
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
Disturbed - Liberate
Disturbed - Indestructible
Disturbed - Inside the Fire
Disturbed - The Animal
Disturbed - Asylum
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed - Stupify
Disturbed - Never Again
Godsmack - Keep Away
Godsmack - Cryin' Like a Bitch
Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Godsmack - Good Times, Bad Times
Godsmack - Serenity
Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden - The Clansman
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Korn - Word Up
Korn - Y'all Want a Single
Korn - Right Now
Korn - Did My Time
Korn - Make Me Bad
Megadeth - 44 Minutes
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde (Featuring Cristina Scabbia)
Metallica - All Nightmare Long
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - One
Mudvayne - Not Falling
Mudvayne - Perversion of a Truth
Mudvayne - Mercy, Severity
Mudvayne - World So Cold
Mudvayne - Dig
Mudvayne - Death Blooms
Mudvayne - Determined
Mudvayne - Happy?
Mudvayne - Fall into Sleep
Mudvayne - A New Game
Mudvayne - We the People
Mudvayne - Beautiful and Strange
Mudvayne - Scream With Me
Ozzy - (just about everything)
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Pantera - Walk
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Pantera - Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Savatage - Chance
Savatage - Handful of Rain
Savatage - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage - Strange Wings
Savatage - Ghost in the Ruins
Savatage - Turns to Me
Seether - Broken
Slipknot - Spit it Out
Slipknot -
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Static-X - He's a Loser
Strapping Young Lad - Oh My Fucking God
40 Below Summer - Self Medicate
Halestorm - I Get Off On You
Hinder - Up All Night
Hinder - Use Me
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - The Boxer
Parliament Funkadelic - Atomic Dog
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Eminem - Stan
Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
Eminem - The Way I Am
Bob Marley - Is This Love
Bob Marley - One Love
Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
Aerosmith - Dream On
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Susie-Q
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the Jungle
Def Leppard - Gods of War
Frank Zappa - Titties 'N Beer
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Juniper Lane - Take Me Home
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numbe
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Carmina Burana
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Right Now
Chingon - Malaguena Salerosa
Ennio Morricone - L'Estais Dell'Oro
DVDA - Now You're a Man
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Shinedown - 45
Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
Three Days Grace - Pain
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Weird Al - White and Nerdy
Heh, Merc, I was gonna post a bunch of those, you beat me too it. Looks like we have pretty similar tastes in music.
I think we do. I hadn't heard of some of the bands you listed, but liked every song from the random links I clicked, so I added most of those artists to my Pandora station. I can't figure out how to really share pandora stations, but the below link may work. Not sure.
Looks like it works to me, I get a pandora radio link with "This is what should be on rock radio", "Epica Radio", "Sirenia Radio", "Summoning Radio", and "Nightwish Radio".
I've got a bunch of more bands to put up later too
This is what should be on rock radio is the station I listen to most often. Glad that works.
Sirenia was the one I liked the best of the links (well, I know Nightwish pretty well, so I'm not really considering that), although Epica was good as well.
In general, I like my metal fast but melodic. Mudvayne and early Disturbed at the best examples, although Arch Enemy is a good one, too.
This is my current favorite video, after I saw these guys live in August - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCIr25ns6o Hot black chick singing metal. All sorts of stereotypes being broken there.
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Eluveitie (Folk Metal, Harsh Vocals frequent):
Anagantios http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdvYzzUM_9Q
Everything Remains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcl7_Yjj6Q
Inis Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o
Memento http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXz94JSqsg
Of Fire Wind and Wisdom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYKsQqQgSk
Omnos (very little harsh vocals on this one)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msRy4vcSX4k
Slanias Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvQWe3kZ7A
Tegernako http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtdvoKpLevc
Thousandfold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8WGig0MLU
Equilibrium (Folk Metal, also harsh vocals frequent, German band)
Blut Im Auge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yom8nNqmxvQ
Der Ewige Sieg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zih80...feature=relmfu
Der Wassermann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UChU4...eature=related
Fahrtwind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzbeb...eature=related
Verbrannte Erde http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGHT...eature=related
Wenn Erdreich Bricht http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfkAb...eature=related
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Brother Firetribe (Rock):
Chasing The Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aukkn...eature=related
Game They Call Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE__S...eature=related
Going Out With a Bang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp15P...eature=related
Heart Full of Fire (Featuring Anette Olzon of Nightwish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGKfm2rr06Q
Hungry For Heaven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfnHg...eature=related
One Single Breath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16z-3BzHz3k
Out of My Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCbhz...eature=related
Runaways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9l1r...eature=related
Two Hearts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOl9...eature=related
Who Will You Run To Now? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRFXSe2soKo
Wildest Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvhi...feature=fvwrel
Skyclad (First Folk Metal band ever):
A Word to the Wise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALRTd...eature=related
Bewilderbeast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNNr...eature=related
Emerald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptAc...eature=related
It Wasn't Meant to End This Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJPJ4...eature=related
Our Dying Island http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0If...eature=related
Swords of a Thousand Men (cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0Y7...eature=related
Terminus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLzGd...eature=related
The Parliament of Fools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJkVCWXe9Q
The Sky Beneath My Feet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvatTZDd6E
Thinking Allowed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsfQ...eature=related
Rhapsody of Fire (Symphonic Power Metal, lots of fantasy themes):
Dargor, Shadowlord of the Black Mountain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXXD...eature=related
Dawn of Victory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_iO...eature=related
Elnor's Magic Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8Tb...eature=related
Holy Thunderforce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCTw8...eature=related
Nightfall on the Grey Mountains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9KR...eature=related
Sacred Power of Raging Winds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bkc...eature=related
Shadows of Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ_PM...eature=related
Tears of a Dying Angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlQeD...eature=related
The Bloody Rage of the Titans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoJ4...eature=related
The Last Winged Unicorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLUn-...eature=related
The Poem's Evil Page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRG4b...eature=related
The Mighty Ride of the Firelord http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vvKf...eature=related
The Mystic Prophecy of the Demon Knight (16 minute song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7x_ghPdQA
The Wizard's Last Rhymes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L95MN...eature=related
Triumph for My Magic Steel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZiW...eature=related
Triumph or Agony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNMbn4i8Bg&feature=fvst
Trolls in the Dark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gf6j...eature=related
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Alestorm (Get ready for it. You ready? PIRATE METAL):
Black Sails at Midnight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEwK...eature=related
Buckfast Powersmash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUZt...eature=related
Captain Morgan's Revenge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPb6nG1E4P0&feature=fvst
Chronicles of Vengeance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwaY...eature=related
Death Throes of the Terrorsquid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTqgZ...eature=related
Keelhauled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55bd...eature=related
No Quarter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txSqy...eature=related
Pirate Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkEv...eature=related
Rum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhsZ...eature=related
Shipwrecked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOFz...eature=related
Swashbuckled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGrJ...eature=related
The Sunk'n Norwegian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dbWw...eature=related
Wenches and Mead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8Uo...eature=related
Wolves of the Sea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAOT...eature=related
You Are a Pirate (Yes, a metal Lazy Town cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXoZs...eature=related
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State Convention News
The last car has departed the parking lot at Embassy Suites Greensboro and the Department of North Carolina VFW State Convention is now complete. Lots of new friends were made, many a story told, and old friends found again. Were you there? Don't fret. There are many photos posted for you to view.Read More


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How to Purchase DirecTV Pay Per View Video On Demand Movies Without a Phone Line
When my DirecTV receivers were initially installed they didn't have a phone line attached to them however they also did not have Ethernet attached to them. The default a installation technician will use is to have them in the DirecTV system as having a phone line attached. The phone line being attached allows for you to purchase PPV (Pay Per View) movies, VoD (Video on Demand) movies, and used to allow for upgrading of the receiver software. Since I never had a phone line attached to the receiver I would always order my PPV movies online. It also appears that all software updates now happen over the satellite signal to keep your receiver up to date. I always wished I was able to purchase Pay Per View movies directly from my remote to save the hassle of signing into directv.com and having to purchase the movie that way.


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If I upgrade my iCloud storage subscription, do I basically lose my previous upgrade?
As of today, Apple's iCloud storage upgrade options look like this:
- 10 additional GB (15 GB total): $20/year
- 20 additional GB (25 GB total): $40/year
- 50 additional GB (55 GB total): $100/year
If I purchase the 10 additional GB plan today, I pay $20. Let's say that six months from now I decide I need more storage and so upgrade to the 20 additional GB plan.
Do I pay $40 at that point (as opposed to an additional $20 upgrade of the first plan, or some kind of prorated thing)?
Assuming that I do have to pay the full $40, do I drop down to the free level a year after that, or do I drop down to the 10 GB level for six months and then down to the free level?
I've not had much luck Googling this or searching through Apple's support pages, so I'm hoping someone here has experience or (better) can point me to something definite.


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Will You 'Like' the Doctor Who Tells You You're Dying?
This article originally appeared on CNN.com on April 10, 2014.
By Mary Mulcahy
Honesty may be the best policy, but when delivering bad news to patients, physicians must prepare to pay a price for that honesty.
You simply do not like the doctor who tells you what you are afraid to hear. In this age of greater accountability in health care, the satisfaction of patients and the subtle nuance of likeability is connected directly to doctor payment. And patients who don't like what their doctor tells them won't "like" that doctor on the growing number of physician rating services springing up on the Internet.
The complex task of adding unwelcome and difficult content to a conversation may impede physicians from having dialogues about the most sensitive issues. Often these hard conversations arrive as a patient nears the end of life.
Martha, 65, came to see me for a second opinion regarding her incurable pancreatic cancer. She could accurately describe the extent of her disease, its implications and her goals of "buying more time" with therapy.
Aware of the dismal survival statistics, Martha remained hopeful about recent therapeutic advances reported in the media. We were able to discuss a treatment plan that set reasonable goals, and she told me she was very grateful.
However, she then described the "cruel" physician she had seen prior to our visit who told her "there was nothing more to do" and to "go home and die." Martha was surprised that there was no disciplinary action to be taken against this doctor.
What was the doctor's crime? She had the unfortunate duty of being the first person to tell Martha the truth.
Knowing this doctor -- a compassionate, thoughtful and experienced oncologist with superb communication skills -- I knew those words weren't the ones she actually said.
By the time Martha arrived in my exam room, she had stirred the information around in her head, digested the statistics and had found a hopeful morsel. A little of the bitterness was blanched out.
While there are some doctors who knowingly give false hope, most believe in the principle of veracity -- a term used in medicine to denote the ethic of truth-telling.
However, veracity applies to both happy news and sad. When addressing those with terminal or life-limiting illnesses, I may be a good cop today -- yet tomorrow -- maybe a bad one.
How patients perceive a difficult, yet honest, conversation can impact the confidence and satisfaction they feel with their doctor.
A recent study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine evaluated patients' understanding of their cancer treatment goals. More than 70% of advanced cancer patients enrolled did not understand that they had an incurable disease.
Using a five-item questionnaire, patients rated physician communication. Those patients rating high scores for physician communication were more likely to respond inaccurately to the inquiry into the goal of their chemotherapy regimen. Responses suggest that many patients perceive physicians as better communicators when conveying more optimistic views.
The implications of these findings are enormous. In the comedic parody "Anchorman 2," the bumbling Ron Burgundy changes the tactics of television news by giving people what they want, not what they need.
The result is a sensationalized newscast of car chases and puppy stories, devoid of any public value. This mentality of enablement is seen regularly in medicine -- the skyrocketing number of Cesarean sections and the overuse of antibiotics are telling examples.
By doling out what patients want instead of what they need, many physicians become known as "good" doctors.
An underlying and ambitious aim of the Affordable Care Act is the improvement of health care quality. Attempting to disprove Robert Pirsig's take in the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance": "Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is," numerous programs have been implemented to measure the quality of hospitals, physicians and medical systems. At best, these metrics are inexact and complex.
Concrete measures, such as morbidity (the prevalence of disease) and mortality, have long been used with associated and well-established limitations. Clearly, hospitals treating the most medically complex patients will also suffer higher rates of mortality than others. Likewise, those institutions in underserved areas will be hampered by limitations in social services and patient compliance.
In an effort to obtain more accurate quality measures, numerous private and government-funded organizations have emerged using various tools to gauge outcomes -- both system and patient-reported.
Patient-reported outcomes reflect the status of a patient's condition in his or her own words, without the interpretation of a clinician or anyone else. Resources allowing patients to rate their health care experiences are increasingly littering the Internet; healthgrades.com , ratemds.com and vitals.com are just a few of myriad examples.
These consumer-oriented, online medical report cards intend to stimulate quality improvement efforts among practitioners. However, an unforeseen consequence is that they may act as a sounding board for unhappy patients with no distinction between ineffective systems and unfortunate circumstances.
Barriers to honest, difficult conversations about terminal illness, the end of life and the limitations of modern medicine are numerous.
In these days of instant "likes" that can impact physician payment without the tools to distinguish a conversation's quality from its content, physicians may feel pressured to provide patients with the answers they want -- instead of the critical answers they need.
- Mary Mulcahy is an associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University


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Well things are a little busy this week, but im also getting things done fortunitely. I can finally fully walk around in my closet now thanks to my cleaning session I decided to do on my day off... hey it had to get done sometime. One thing I decided to do is to continue going through my C Book and finally get through coding all the exercises which leads me to my quick commentary on TextMate. [Commentary] TextMate I must say im rather late to the party when it comes to TextMate. The videos I saw gave me the impression it was a good text editor for code and so I downloaded it, but I never really gave it a try till recently. Last night I am going through my C programming language book by Denise Ritche ( I am determined to go through and code all the exercises in the book and I left off in the middle of the thing ) and so I decided to see how TextMate could handle the code from scratch and I can say after experience it handled everything excellently. Heck I could even tell TextMate to compile the C exercises for me so all I had to do was have a terminal open to execute the finished programs. Im still learning and evaluating TextMate before the trial is up, but it looks good and I think it's something i'll probably get here soon. My only gripe with TextMate is that I wish it had code completion, but at the same time that might be venturing into the realm of starting to replace parts of Xcode which I don't believe it's meant to do. [Tutorial] Printing WebViews One thing you might think when printing a webview is that it should be as easy as something like simply going to File->Print when the WebView is visible or doing something like - (IBAction)printWebView:(id)sender { NSPrintOperation *printOperation; printOperation = [NSPrintOperation printOperationWithView:webView] [printOperation setShowPanels:YES]; [printOperation runOperation]; } However when this is run what happens? It only prints the visible bounds of the web view. At this point newbies and people unaccustomed to WebKit start to say things like WTF, etc. When you do this you are telling Mac OS X to print the WebView as it is visible. In order to print the whole contents of the WebView you must point it at it's document view. So we end up with something like this: - (IBAction)printWebViewContents:(id)sender { NSPrintInfo *printInfo = [NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo]; NSPrintOperation *printOperation; NSView *webView = [[[myWebView mainFrame] frameView] documentView]; [printInfo setTopMargin:15.0]; [printInfo setLeftMargin:10.0]; [printInfo setHorizontallyCentered:NO]; [printInfo setVerticallyCentered:NO]; printOperation = [NSPrintOperation printOperationWithView:webView printInfo:printInfo]; [printOperation setShowPanels:YES]; [printOperation runOperation]; } Once that is is in place it will print all of the contents of the WebView. I set the margins myself in this case to try and make sure the specific document this method is printing fits the way I want. [What do you want covered?] One thing im starting to think about doing here soon is taking requests for covering various general cocoa topics. I used to be a n00b, but now Im sure I use a ton of things on a daily basis that I couldn't figure out how to do when I was learning cocoa. If you think of something good post a comment about it here. I can't guarantee i'll cover everybody's requests but if people want something explained in detail or elaborated on i'll do my best to help you guys out. [Happy Thanksgiving!] Whatever you are doing this week I wish all of you safe travels or just a good time with friends and family regardless of what you are doing!
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[Commentary] TextMate and [Tutorial] Printing the contents of WebViews
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- Jon Crosby said...
Scott Stevenson has been posting about TextMate recently. Regarding code completion, check out this post:
i'd love to learn something about making my game network/internet able!
First of all, thanks for taking time to write about your development.
I would like to know more about Core Data because i don't really get it. How do you pass data around your application like when you don't have valueobjects (sometimes called data transfer objects) but only the model that core data uses. You can only create an instance of such model with an context but i would like to use the same model just to pass it around layers. Hope you get me.
Thanks a lot.
- Scott Stevenson said...
so all I had to do was have a terminal open to execute the finished programs
You don't even need that, really. Just type the command in TextMate, select it and and hit control-R. That runs the command in the shell and returns the result (make sure you include something to cd to the proper directory). Xcode does the same thing.
Appreciate you taking the time to discuss printing the webview. I know I could have figured it out with more reading, but your posting saved me that time. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It saved me hours as I have been looking for the code on how to print the content of a webview in my app.


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. � The pipe organ has ruled the Christian worship sanctuary for centuries, and the majestic instrument continues to reign supreme in many Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant parishes.
It�s a tougher sell for congregations moving toward contemporary worship.
The growth in praise band-led services, combined with a nationwide shortage of qualified organists, is prompting many congregations to leave pipe organs out of their new construction plans.
Jerry Aultman thinks that�s a mistake.
The longtime organist and music professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological said the pipe organ doesn�t need to be relegated to funerals and weddings, and it fits nicely into modern worship when used in the right way.
�We shouldn�t abandon the organ in contemporary music styles,� said Aultman, who plays each Sunday at First Baptist Church in Dallas. �The organ is a wonderful instrument to blend in with any kind of instrumental ensemble. It can fill in a lot of holes in the sound.�
The pipe organ, which dates back to the third century B.C., �has always been the choice for churches who want one musician to fill the room with sound,� South Dakota organ builder John Nordlie said.
The instrument has been considered expensive throughout its history, with current price tags ranging from $100,000 to well into the millions. But pipe organs hold their value and can last for generations if they�re well-designed and well-maintained, he said.
Nordlie crafted his first instrument in 1977 for a church in Appleton, Minn., and has built nearly 50 organs in his Sioux Falls shop. Each part is handcrafted, from the wood and metal pipes that turn airflow into notes to the ornate cabinetry that houses the massive structures.
Although electronic and digital instruments can try to emulate the sound of wind being pushed through pipes, �they will never match the sound of the pipe organ,� Nordlie said.
�The difference is there,� he said. �Whether you take the time to listen carefully is entirely up to you.�
The large megabuilders of the 1960s have largely disappeared, but numerous smaller companies are building as many instruments as they can turn out, said James Weaver, executive director of the Organ Historical Society.
Weaver said music aficionados still value the incredible amount of craftsmanship put into each organ. For proof, he points to the top-of-the line organs being built for municipal concert halls such as the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
�The idea of a handmade instrument is something which is just still quite a wonderful thing in our society and it�s something that we really care about,� Weaver said.
Another factor contributing to the organ�s decline is that fewer musicians are qualified to sit behind the consoles. The pipe organ is a complex instrument, and playing it well requires intensive training and practice.
Weaver said the number of organ students dropped tremendously a few years ago as musicians worried about whether their degrees would lead to jobs. He said he�s starting to see a turnaround.
�Now there are more positions available I think,� he said.
Aultman agreed. He said there are fewer universities offering organ degrees, but the ones that remain are stronger.
�There are still students that are majoring in organ, and there are still churches that will hire them and pay them a living wage,� he said. �And I think that�s just going to get better.�
Aultman urges organists who want to make a living to embrace contemporary styles. He suggests that organists trained to playing only from sheet music to learn play off chord charts like Nashville studio musicians.
�My advice to organists is, �Don�t be a snob,� � he said. �You�re not going to probably find a position where you can play all Bach preludes and fugues for the bulk of your work.�


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Neva Robinson
Neva Robinson, 87, passed away on Sept. 3, 2013, at Newton Medical Center, Newton, Kan.
Neva was born Feb. 1, 1926, in Miltonvale, Kan., to Leslie and Hilda Baskins. After graduating from Peabody High School, Peabody, Kan., in 1944, she married the late Leo Reid.
Following Leo's return from U.S. Army duty in the European theater of operations in World War II, the couple settled in Florence, Kan., where they raised five children. She was an active member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Florence until her death.
After working as a seamstress and for The Bulletin newspaper in Florence, Neva began her career with the U.S. Postal Service as a mail carrier in the 1960s. She later served and eventually retired as postmaster in Assaria, Kan. In the 1970s, she ran a clothing store in Florence, Reid Guys' Shop.
Neva married Edwin Robinson in 1987. She and Ed resided in Florence, where she was a pillar of the community. She served as the first chairman of the board of the Florence Housing Authority and was instrumental in securing a U.S. Housing and Urban Development project for Florence, the Carriage Manor independent living community for seniors.
In the late 2000s, Neva prepared a successful submission to the Kansas Historical Society for designation of the Florence water tower as a state historic place and its inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
She was a founding member of the Florence Historical Society, a tireless volunteer at the National Register-listed Harvey House Museum in Florence, and the premier float builder for the city's annual Labor Day celebration.
Neva was preceded in death by her parents, Leslie and Hilda Baskins; husband, Leo Reid; sister, Rosalee Baker, of Peabody; and sons, Michael and James Reid.
She is survived by her husband, Ed; sister, Janie Hodges, of Peabody; son, Reilly Reid, and his wife, Susan, of Florence; daughter, Kristin Parrino, and her husband, Steve, of Dallas, Texas; son, Tom Reid, and his wife, Beverly, of Marion, Kan.; son, Kevin Reid, and his wife, Tracy, of Maize, Kan.; Tena Lundgren of Marion, widow of Jim Reid, and her husband, Ken; stepdaughter, Jackie Sigwing, and her husband, Mike, of Wichita, Kan.; stepson, Ed Robinson, and his wife, Linda, of Florence; stepson, Kevin Robinson, and his wife, Janet, of Florence; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The Rosary was recited Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at Zeiner Funeral Home, Florence, with visitation afterward. The funeral ceremony was Saturday, Sept. 7, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Florence. Burial was at Prairie Lawn Cemetery, Peabody.


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As I was driving in to work Thursday morning, lamenting the fact that I did not win any portion of the Powerball lottery last night, I started crying and thinking to myself � you have already won the lottery 10 times over. No, I have won no money and am not rich by any means � at least not financially.
I began to ponder my �winnings� and came up with the following jackpot: Although my parents and both in-laws have passed away, I think of the winnings from them � from my mother-in-law I remember that she made the best creamed corn and no one has been able to come up with just the right formula since. From my father-in-law I remember he would ask me if I wanted coffee to drink at breakfast when we would visit. It became a running joke as I don�t drink coffee, never have. But he always asked and in smelling my husband�s coffee brewing Thursday morning I thought of my father-in-law and I smiled to myself. My grandmother made the best meatloaf (I can come close but not quite) and her chicken and dumplings were beyond compare � hand-rolled dumplings, flour all over the kitchen but what a look on her face when we all sat down to eat. My dad with his teachings of how to ride the waves at the beach, how to change a tire and constant worry and unconditional love for his family and grandchildren � good memories. He never won the lottery either and played every week, driving to Danville, Va. to get his secret tickets. And my mother, the Martha Stewart of Haw River � whose coconut cake and German chocolate cake were hard to beat, as well as her knack for bow-making, decorating and her love of Christmas and all things holiday.
These memories are a lottery in and of themselves.
My best friend�s mother who recently passed who always called me �D.A.� I am not even sure she knew my real name � and it�s OK. I miss her smile and her gentle ways but the �win� was having her daughter as my best friend for over 46 years.
But there are winnings around me daily. My husband of over 38 years who worked long, hard hours as a restaurant manager for over 39 years and missed many special holidays but always found a way to be there for our children and me; my children and their �children� of three cats and three dogs � and all the memories stored in my lottery ticket with them. My best friend, Judy Hinsdale � we talk almost every day and laugh and cry together and do Lucy and Ethel like no one around. Her husband Ron � my go-to guy for all things electrical and who always puts up our outside sidewalk lights to perfection. Our friends Ralph and Jane Faulkner who have always been at the ready to help and laugh and cry with me. Leslie and Darrell Madden who offer their lake home for a day in the summer (and for our daughter�s wedding). My son-in-law, Josh Schultz, serving in Afghanistan � who I told just this morning by email to keep his head down and not to be a big hero just to come home safe. And the list could go on and on. Lottery winnings abound.
No, I didn�t win the money to buy the beach house I have always wanted or to pay off student loans for my children and nephew or to secretly give away to those in need. That would have been awesome as well. I started winning my lottery many years ago and hopefully will continue to �win� for many more.
Debbie Brown lives in Haw River.


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Apple iPhone 4S Teardown
In October 2011, Apple released the iPhone 4S. Although its exterior is nearly identical to the iPhone 4 (released in June 2010), the iPhone 4S pack a lot of new hardware.
We've published teardown galleries of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3G, and original iPhone. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the 2011 model. Follow along as I crack open the Apple iPhone 4S.
For a more in-depth review of the iPhone 4S' internal hardware, check out my article, "Apple iPhone 4S Teardown: Old design, new hardware."
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Chris Swerling
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Mary Mills "Chris" Swerling has more than 30 years of experience in the school library field. She is currently the coordinator of school libraries for the Newton Public Schools. In her supervisory role, she has placed an emphasis on providing professional development to foster the school library staff's growth in current school library issues and teaching strategies. Swerling also teaches several grades at the Mason-Rice Elementary School. In this way she is daily reminded of why school libraries are so important and remains connected to the needs of teachers and students.
A 1976 graduate of Simmons SLIS, Swerling began her career in Sao Paolo, Brazil, at a K-12 International School. To this day, she declares it was the best job she ever had — gaining experience working with students of all ages. Upon returing to the United States after a two-year stint abroad, Swerling worked first as a high school librarian for the Archdiocese of Boston and then as an elementary school librarian for the Belmont Public Schools. During a 20-year span, Swerling held a leadership role in the redesign of several school libraries, as well as in developing curriculum with a focus on information literacy.
A National Board Certified Library Media Teacher, Swerling has proudly represented the school library profession in both the library and the education world. When Massachusetts regional libraries opened membership to school libraries, Swerling recognized the tremendous opportunity this represented and contributed to the development of the strategic planning document required for membership. For five years, Swerling served on the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Grant Committee, reviewing LSTA grant applications that funded innovative programs and initiatives to further information literacy, early reading, and special projects involving technology. As an instructor in the library media program at Bridgewater State College, Swerling was, and continues to be, a passionate advocate for collections that are immediately relevant to the classroom.
Currently, Swerling is the chair-elect for the supervisor's division of AASL. She recently presented at the AASL National Conference in Charlotte, NC, and is a member of ALA, AASL, MSLA, and ASCD. She has also taught a graduate course in multicultural children's literature for Wheelock College and reviewed adult books for young adults for School Library Journal. In returning to Simmons to teach LIS 431 Instructional Strategies for the School Library Teacher, Swerling feels she has come full circle, using what she has learned from her varied experiences in the profession she loves to instruct those new to the evolving and exciting field of school librarianship.


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The Story of "One Block Many Milliners"
By Linda Ashton, Millinery '97
President of the Milliners Guild
My memory is as clear as if it were yesterday. I was sitting in my favourite spot, at the glorious worktable by the window, in Janet Linville's blocking class at FIT. The lesson was over, and I sat watching all the students scurrying about, sewing, steaming and getting blocks, the wooden forms we milliners use to shape our hats. I wondered…what if there was only one block? What if we all had to start from that same shape? I thought if each milliner blocked and trimmed from their hearts, using only their individual style, how different they all would be.
Years go by and I find myself the President of the Milliners Guild. We are a group of independent milliners. Always looking for new ideas for fabulous events for the Guild, I remembered the idea I had at FIT. I proposed the idea of One Block Many Milliners to the Guild, and an event was born.
Fast forward to the Headwear Association dinner where I met Dawn Duncan, VP of Development and Alumni Relations at FIT. I proposed the One Block Many Milliners project to her, knowing that many of our members were alumni of FIT's Millinery Program. It seemed a good fit, and she agreed. The Guild purchased our first official Guild Block. Aaron Keppel and I put together a really tight blocking schedule, with each milliner having four days to block and then pass the block on to the next milliner. We were all sworn to secrecy not to divulge anything about our designs. We were each on our own.
So here we are now, almost one year later, presenting the creativity and style of 25 milliners. We all began with the same shape, but every milliner's design is different from the others. Just what I thought would happen…
Thank you to Dawn Duncan, FIT's Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations/Executive Director of the Foundation; Allison Oldehoff, FIT's Manager of Alumni and Faculty Relations; Yolanda Urrabazo, Associate Manager of Alumni and Faculty Relations; Sandy Ramirez, Photographer.
We hope to see you there!