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They line up across the stage: kings of consumption, sultans of scarf. A half-dozen cameras hover around them, zooming in on waistlines and jaw lines and a few anxious, ticking fingers. In another setting, they might be freakish outcasts, but here they're revered professional athletes ready for action.
Pumping through the speakers comes the first few beats of Eminem's battle anthem "Lose Yourself." A throng of curious spectators looks on from the metal bleachers. Onstage, a thin man in a barbershop-quartet-style straw hat, a red-striped tie, and a blue shirt drenched in sweat barks into a microphone.
"They say competitive eating is the battleground upon which God and Lucifer wage war for men's souls, my friends!" announcer and judge Mike Antolini proclaims with the gusto of a revivalist preacher. "And they are right! What we have today is a battle for the ages! A battle of the titans!"
At its core, this is a simple contest of biologic function. But the World Pickle Eating Championship — held this year at the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach — is something much more. Taking place beneath a small white tent on a 90-degree Sunday morning in September, this is a pageant of the hilarious and the horrific. It's sanctioned by Major League Eating, competitive eating's governing body, and with $5,000 at stake, the six-minute, vinegar-soaked battle is part athletic endeavor, part anachronistic entertainment. And it epitomizes the modern competitive-eating circuit, nicknamed the "fastest growing sport in America."
The event draws some of the finest "gurgitators" on the planet. The 285-pound bear of a man at the center of the table, that's Bob "Notorious B-O-B" Shoudt, an IT guy from Philadelphia who once ate nearly 14 pounds of Skyline chili spaghetti in ten minutes. He set a world record by gulping 36 peanut butter and banana sandwiches in a row. At an event last year, he chugged 23.4 pounds of salmon chowder in six minutes. "That guy can swallow a Krystal hamburger like a little pill," one of the other competitors whispers. Notorious B-O-B, a vegetarian when he's not competing, once downed 39 of the miniature burgers in two minutes.
Next to him, with his sleeves rolled up, his headphones blasting, and his hair spiked into a tall Mohawk, that's 25-year-old Chicagoan Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti. He once knocked back nearly 11 pounds of key lime pie in eight minutes. He has slurped down 21 pounds of grits in a single sitting. In May, Deep Dish set a record when he ate 275 pickled jalapeño peppers in ten minutes. He also works as a chef at a catering company.
The five-foot-tall, 105-pound Korean woman with her shoes off and her jeans rolled up, that's Sonya Thomas. They call her "the Black Widow." Nothing short of a total ingestion legend, she holds records for sausages, baked beans, catfish, cheese steaks, chili cheese fries, chicken nuggets, and oysters. She can swallow an entire hot dog whole. "Yes, fellas, she's single!" announcers usually tell the crowds after she's introduced.
The athletic, clean-cut young man wearing Florida Gator colors, that's Hall "Hoover" Hunt from Jacksonville, the only faith-based pro on the competitive-eating circuit. Beneath his eyes, he has blue strips of paint with a Bible verse written in white: 1 Corinthians 10:31 ("So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God"). After nearly a year away from the tour, Hoover, a jaw-strength specialist, chose the pickle championship to make his return.
To Hoover's right, wide-eyed and grinning, is Sean "Wrecking Ball" Brockert, the up-and-coming crowd favorite from Palm Beach Gardens. Wearing a backward black ball cap and a two-day beard, Wrecking Ball invited family, friends, and former co-workers to root him on as he battles the master masticators. There's a cheering section of about ten people, many wearing matching black "Wrecking Ball" T-shirts.
When the announcer introduces him, someone in the crowd calls out "Go Wrecking Ball!" and there's applause.
Wrecking Ball, a 29-year-old Army veteran now attending community college, has a dream. He's been doing this for only six months, but winning the pickle contest would be the perfect way to show Major League Eating officials he can compete with the best, to prove he's worthy of event invitations, appearance fees, sponsorship, and ultimately a higher ranking with the International Federation of Competitive Eating. "Right now, I'm number 37 in the world," he says sheepishly.
Before the countdown to gorging time, competitors have the chance to fill tall plastic cups with whatever liquid they think will help the pickles go down. The Black Widow uses water. Hoover uses a red energy drink. "Dehydration will definitely be the biggest issue," he had postulated earlier in the morning. "With all that salt, your throat can close right up." Deep Dish fills his cups from two thermoses of heated, sugar-free Kool-Aid.
Across the table in front of the competitors are at least 200 chilled, full sour Kosher dill pickles sitting in wooden bowls, one pound — five or six pickles — per bowl. The air in a ten-foot radius is pungent with the sharp aroma of vinegar.
The participants ready themselves for battle. The Black Widow stretches her neck. Deep Dish sets the final playlist on his iPod — he's listening to Dillenger Four, a punk band from Minnesota. Notorious B-O-B pours the last few cups of his raspberry drink. Hoover blows his nose in a tissue and says a quick prayer.
"Everybody has their pickles!" the announcer says. "Everybody's ready!"
Wrecking Ball turns to Hoover, looking for some last-second pointers.
"Sean's asking for advice," the announcer tells the crowd. "It's too late, buddy!"
There was a time when eating contests were confined to elementary-school cafeterias, truck-stop steak houses, and rural county fairs. The winners got free meals, T-shirts, a photo on the wall, and a weird look from the waitress. Now there are more than 80 sanctioned Major League Eating competitions a year and hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. ESPN televises the annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest live. Spike TV had a competitive-eating reality show. National restaurant chains and casinos line up to sponsor events, and advertisers include Pepto-Bismol, Heinz, and Old Navy.
"Watching people eat has never been more popular in this country," says Antolini, Major League Eating's head judge and the announcer for the pickle contest. "You don't want to watch it, but you can't look away."
Major League Eating was founded by George and Richard Shea, brothers who began doing public relations for Nathan's in the late '80s. It wasn't until the five-foot-eight, 140-pound Takeru Kobayashi debuted in 2001 that the public's appetite for pro eating began to intensify. Two and a half million people watched as the otherwise aloof Kobayashi buzz-sawed through an unholy number of dogs, astounding viewers with his violent, sloppy, open-palmed approach. Though there is perhaps no more American sport than competitive eating, the only competitor to beat the diminutive Japanese native in any serious hot-dog contest was a Kodiak bear. "When the bear came out, I saw a flash of fear for a second in Kobayashi's eyes," the Fox color analyst said during the original broadcast. "Because he's never faced competition like this."
Kobayashi proved you didn't need to be a behemoth to win a lot of contests, says Ryan Merz, a former Major League Eating judge and author of Eat This Book, about his time on the circuit. "It's called the 'Belt of Fat Theory,'" he says. "The idea is, if you don't have that fat gut up front, your stomach has room to expand, and you can pump in more food in less time. The top eaters almost all stay in traditional athletic shape."
Seeing the trim, toned Kobayashi on television inspired 175-pound Hoover, the religious eater, to turn pro five years ago. Now 28, Hoover was a structural engineering student at the University of Florida at the time and played on the school's soccer team. He'd always been an athlete, and from very early on, friends and family noticed his massive consumptive capabilities.
"When I was a kid and we'd all go to CiCi's after soccer games, I'd eat, like, literally a hundred pieces of pizza," he says. In college, teammates would marvel — and cringe — at what he could do to a Chinese food buffet. "I'd get five or six scoops of everything, even if there was, like, 80 different foods."
He began researching competitive eating. The top "gurgitators" — what they call themselves — have their travel expenses paid for, and with contest winnings, appearance fees, and endorsements, they can earn six figures a year. "That's the goal," says the recently married Hoover, who, despite being the eighth-ranked eater in the world, works a day job as a manager at a Publix in Jacksonville.
"I can honestly say that my life is like one big vacation," says Deep Dish, the Mohawk-rocking punk fan who's the third-ranked eater in the world. He's been doing this for six years and says he's made "at least $40,000" each year. Nearly every other week, Deep Dish travels to a new part of the country for an event: Buffalo for wings, Louisiana for grits, Denver for Rocky Mountain "oysters." At each contest, he's treated like a dietary deity, signing autographs, posing for photos, appearing on the local TV news.
"Eating is one of the few things I'm good at in life," Deep Dish says. He was chubby and quiet as a kid and didn't have many friends. But he had a big family, and they liked to cook. "Food was my one true love growing up," he says. "No matter what was going on, I always had food around to make me feel better." Now Deep Dish holds more than 25 Major League Eating records.
That's where Wrecking Ball, the Army veteran from Palm Beach Gardens, would like to be one day. "Everybody eats," he says, "but these are the best of the best eaters. I think it's pretty neat seeing if you can be better than maybe everyone in the entire world at something."
During three and a half years of service in the Army, he was stationed mostly in South Korea and San Diego. He liked being in the military, but there was a problem. "I've always eaten a lot," he says, "but that got me into a lot of trouble in the Army." He says he was always on the line of what the military deems "overweight."
After the Army, he moved back to South Florida in 2009 with his fiancée, Kim, and their two young kids, so he could take college classes with GI Bill money. In March, Major League Eating held the Corned Beef Sandwich Eating Championship in Palm Beach Gardens. The winner got $5,000. His large-scale swilling skills no longer an occupational preclusion, Wrecking Ball was inspired.
He entered the raffle to be one of the amateur contestants, but he wasn't chosen. He attended the St. Patrick's Day event anyway, watching from the bleachers. There, in front of cameras and lights and a crowd of drunken spectators, were the vaunted professional eaters Wrecking Ball had read about and seen on television. There were Deep Dish and Notorious B-O-B and the Black Widow and Joey Chestnut, the only man to defeat Kobayashi on the Fourth of July.
"Seeing everybody up there on the stage," he says, "I knew I could do it."
In April, he entered the corn-on-the-cob competition in West Palm Beach as an amateur — "We call them table-enders," says Antolini. "But everybody's gotta start somewhere." Though it was his first eating contest, Wrecking Ball took third, buzzing through 28 ears of sweet corn in 12 minutes. Joe LaRue, from Hollywood, won the event, setting a world record with 46 ears.
It was a turning point in Wrecking Ball's life: "I knew this is what I was meant to do."
Consider the pickle. The warped, slimy exterior, often emitting an eye-opening stench. The soft, lighter insides — more than 85 percent liquid, just like humans. Pickles possess a comedic quality. Just saying the word pickle often gets a snicker or a giggle. A pickle is an innuendo, an awkward, difficult situation.
But the pickle endures. Mesopotamians pickled cucumbers more than 4,000 years ago. They're mentioned twice in the Old Testament. Pickle fans include Aristotle, Cleopatra, Napoleon, and George Washington. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
What we call a pickle is generally a cucumber, plucked from the vine, dropped in a vinegar brine — usually involving dill and garlic and a lot of salt — and left to marinate for a few months. It's separated, saturated, and left alone for a long time, not unlike how a lot of competitive eaters are made.
There are three key skills speed eaters must master. There's jaw strength, swallowing capability, and stomach capacity. And certain foods use certain areas more than others. For example, the hot-dog-eating contest — "The Super Bowl of competitive eating," as Antolini calls it — requires a mastery of all three. That's why top-ranked eater Joey Chestnut (who wasn't at the pickle championship) can down 68 dogs and buns in 12 minutes but Hoover struggles to top 40. "I just can't swallow as fast as those guys," Hoover says.
But he can chew really, really hard. And that's what a lot of people figure will factor most in the pickle contest. The previous record for sour pickles is 2.99 pounds in six minutes.
For the pros, Hoover says, capacity won't be an issue. Most of his training has been in jaw strength. Beginning eight weeks before an event, Hoover will throw ten or 12 sticks of gum in his mouth and work it into something the size of a racquetball. Then he chews it as fast and hard as possible for a minute. The next day, he'll do three or four minutes. Then an easier day, back to one. Then back up to five or six. He models his regimen on marathon preparation.
Wrecking Ball, the vet from Palm Beach Gardens, got his training advice straight from the Black Widow during a brief conversation before an event earlier this year. "She told me to drink a lot of water and eat a lot of lettuce to stretch my stomach," he says. "And a lot of cardio. You need to make your body need those calories." In preparation for this event, Wrecking Ball also ate a jar of about 12 pickles a day for the week leading up to the contest to "get totally used to the taste," he says. "If the taste is gonna stop anybody, it'll be one of my opponents." Before the jalapeño pepper contest in San Antonio, he practiced with the wrong pickled jalapeños for several days and says that's the main reason he ate only 45.
For safety reasons, Major League Eating has a policy discouraging competitors from practicing. "Someone could choke or... who knows what," Wrecking Ball says. Aside from the standard sore jaw, stained teeth, rather unpleasant digestion, and temporary fatigue — "like the feeling you get right after a huge Thanksgiving dinner," Hoover says — the competitors all say there aren't any short-term effects from such gorging — a testament to the durability of the human body, they say.
Competitive eating has, thus far, evaded serious scientific scrutiny, but there are definitely risks. Swallowing pickles that haven't been chewed can inflame the esophagus. Several pounds of them ingested quickly could cause a stomach to rupture. Each pickle contains 750 milligrams of sodium, about half the daily recommendation — and beating the record would mean the winner will ingest about eight times the daily intake.
As far as the consequences of ingesting that much sodium or cholesterol or fat and repeatedly stretching the stomach to fit bowling-ball-sized feasts week after week for years, Hoover says nobody really knows if there will be long-term effects.
"People have never eaten at these numbers," says Hoover. "Nobody's studied it." The potential permanent health issues are rarely discussed. "I'll just listen to what my body is telling me to do," Hoover says, quickly adding, "Except when I'm competing. Then it's all about ignoring whatever your body is saying and pushing through it."
The morning of the contest, Wrecking Ball wakes up early. He doesn't eat, and he runs around his neighborhood for an hour and a half in the warm morning sun. "I wouldn't run if I wasn't in competitive eating," he says. "I hate running." Then he and Kim, a petite brunette, load their 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son into the car and head south. Everyone wears matching black T-shirts with an image of a grinning wrecking ball smashing bricks.
He arrives at the casino an hour early and waits to see his opponents. As they start to show up, equipment bags in hand, Wrecking Ball can't contain his smile. "That's Pat Bertoletti," he says, admittedly giddy just to be at the same table with some of these legends. "There's Notorious B-O-B, second-ranked in the world. There's the Black Widow."
Hoover and his wife drove down from Jacksonville and spent two nights at the Westin one exit down from the Isle Casino. The first thing he did when he got to town was go to the contest site to try the competition pickles. The morning of the championship, he drank two gallons of soda to stretch his stomach into game shape. When he shows up, he's dressed head to toe in Florida Gator colors. His turned-around blue baseball cap has "Hoover" and a tiny knife and fork embroidered on the back — the part that's facing the cameras when he's eating.
Antolini brings the eaters to the stage one by one, starting with the table-enders and ending with the stars. He warns the spectators in front that they are in a splash zone, in case a competitor has "any urges contrary to swallowing." By Major League Eating rules, a "reversal of fortune" is an automatic disqualification.
"You may get hit," Antolini tells the crowd. "If you get some relish on you, we do not cover dry cleaning."
Antolini leads the crowd in a countdown: "Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Begin eating!"
The Black Widow downs her first pickle before the announcer finishes his last word. His headphones on tight, Deep Dish is halfway through his first bowl at the ten-second mark.
"Notorious B-O-B is shattering the pickles in his hands, but they're not going down fast enough," Antolini says in the style of a '30s radio play-by-play man.
Less than 45 seconds into the competition, Hoover inexplicably drops to one knee, his face inches from the bowls of pickles. He's taking large bites and choking them down.
Wrecking Ball is taking two pickles at a time in his left hand and squeezing them against each other to get the excess fluids out. Then, like a thumping, slurping machine, his right hand pounds both pickles into his mouth.
A minute and a half into the six-minute contest, Deep Dish finishes his second one-pound bowl. He's swallowing a pickle every ten seconds. And with each pickle, Deep Dish bucks his head like a rooster downing a seed, his spiked hair wiggling. Without stopping the conveyer belt of pickle destruction that his hands and mouth have become, he periodically shakes his abdomen like he's dancing.
"Notice Pat Bertoletti shake," Antolini says into the mike. "When he shakes, the pickles fall on top of each other perfectly in his stomach, thus creating more room for the pickles!"
Moments after Deep Dish finishes his second bowl, the Black Widow finishes hers. "We are gonna see a record shattered here today!" Antolini shouts.
At three minutes in, it looks for a moment like they might run out of pickles. A new batch of bowls is weighed and distributed, and Antolini works in a plug for the casino's upcoming horseracing season and the poker room.
Hoover has eaten only a pound and a half, and the announcer tells the crowd: "Hall Hunt is rusty from a year off."
In his head, Hoover repeats a series of aphorisms to stay focused. Your throat is as wide as a trash can, he tells himself. Just throw the food down there. Your stomach is as big as a bedroom. There's plenty of room. Everyone's invited.
Sweat covers the competitors as they writhe and twist and choke back each pickle, ignoring the body's natural impulse to stop. A vein in Notorious B-O-B's forehead throbs. The muscles in Wrecking Ball's neck bulge.
With a minute left on the clock, Deep Dish leads the Black Widow by one pickle. He's shaking hard. She has pickle juice dripping from her elbows. Notorious B-O-B is obliterating the pickles at an even faster pace. He slaps the mush into his huge mouth with a disturbing urgency.
Thirty seconds to go and Hoover takes even bigger bites, trying to work each pickle down his esophagus with sips of the red drink. Wrecking Ball crouches over the table, pounding pickles into his mouth sideways. He's behind, but he refuses to quit.
Antolini begins another countdown at the ten-second mark. At the end, he yells, "Put down those pickles, lady and gentlemen!" A three-judge team counts empty bowls and weighs what's left in the others. The competitors wait anxiously for the results, each breathing heavily as they chew their final bits of pickle.
With four pounds, Hoover beat the old pickle record by a full pound, but that was good enough only for a three-way tie for third place. He gets $416.66 for his troubles.
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The Black Widow and Notorious B-O-B tie for second place, each having eaten exactly five pounds five ounces and each receiving a check for $1,125.
Deep Dish, his face and shirt stained red from his drink, is declared the winner. His total: five pounds 11.2 ounces of pickles consumed, nearly twice the previous world record. He gets a small trophy, a check for $1,500, and his 28th world record.
Wrecking Ball comes in ninth with two and a half pounds. He shakes hands and poses for photos with the other competitors. When all the pictures are taken, Kim and the kids have a hug waiting for him at the top of the stairs. He's feeling a little down, but he also knows something that might make him feel better.
He looks at his family. "Anyone wanna try the buffet?"


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- Place scallop kebabs on a lightly oiled grill rack or a nonstick broiler pan. Grill for 8-12 minutes, turning regularly, until opaque in center and lightly browned. If broiling, broil for 6-8 minutes, turning a few times, until opaque in center and lightly browned. It's easy to overcook scallops, so keep a close eye on them to make sure they don't burn.
- Garnish kebabs with remaining tablespoon of chopped chives.

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text: I made this little table topper for a friend's son who is getting married this month. I have no idea what their colors/likes are, so it's this or cash. What do you think? Would it be better to stick a gift card in an envelope? I do care that they appreciate the gift, I just have no idea what they like. I've never even met the bride.


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Today is Sunday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2002 with 317 to follow.
The moon is waxing, moving toward its first quarter.
The morning star is Mercury.
The evening stars are Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include mail order retailer Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1843; engraver Frederick Ives in 1856; Texas oil millionaire H.L. Hunt in 1889; contralto singer Marian Anderson in 1902; sportscaster Red Barber in 1908; author Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of President Truman, in 1924 (age 78); actors Hal Holbrook in 1925 (age 77) and Alan Bates in 1934 (age 68); pro football player-turned-actor Jim Brown in 1936 (age 66); actors Brenda Fricker in 1945 (age 57), Renee Russo in 1954 (age 48), Richard Karn ("Home Improvement") in 1959 (age 43), Lou Diamond Phillips in 1962 (age 40), and Michelle Forbes ("Homicide: Life in the Street") in 1967 (age 35); basketball superstar Michael Jordan in 1963 (age 39); and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("3rd Rock from the Sun") in 1981 (age 21).
On this date in history:
In 1801, the House of Representatives chose Thomas Jefferson as third president of the United States. Aaron Burr, who tied with Jefferson in the Electoral College, became vice president.
In 1817, Baltimore became the first U.S. city with gas-burning street lights.
In 1909, Apache leader Geronimo died while under military confinement at Fort Sill, Okla.
In 1979, "A Prairie Home Companion," hosted by Garrison Keillor, made its national debut on National Public Radio.
In 1986, Johnson and Johnson halted production of all non-prescription drugs in capsules following the death of a Peekskill, N.Y., woman from cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol.
In 1991, Iraq's foreign minister headed to Moscow to discuss a diplomatic end to the Persian Gulf War.
In 1993, in an address to a joint session of Congress, President Clinton called on Americans to "summon the courage to seize the day" and implored the nation to adopt deep government cuts and tax hikes to renew the troubled economy.
Also in 1993, "Howards End" and "Unforgiven" led the list of Oscar nominees with nine each; Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood were both nominated in two categories.
In 1994, a former U.S. Treasurer, Catalina Vasques Villalpando, pleaded guilty to obstructing the investigation of influence pedding at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1980s.
In 1995, Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson was convicted of killing six passengers on a New York commuter train in December 1993.
In 1997, Pepperdine University announced that Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr would resign to become dean of its law and public policy schools. Four days later, Starr reversed his decision and said he'd stay on as special counsel.
In 1998, President Clinton's lawyers asked a Little Rock, Ark., judge to dismiss Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against the president. Their request would later be granted.
In 1999, Israeli guards killed four Kurdish protesters when they stormed the Israeli consulate in Berlin. The Kurds suspected Israel had helped Turkey capture Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan two days earlier in Kenya.
A thought for the day: Aldous Huxley wrote, "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."


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Master Detail forms are an excellent way to manage a one to many relationship between tables. When using the declarative master detail form, clicking the edit link for a detail record does not save any changes that have been made to the master record. That is because clicking the edit link does not submit the page. A slight modification to the edit link can easily provide that feature. This is also useful for anytime you want to save data and then navigate to another page based on an ID.
This idea is not unique to me, in fact it is completely inspired by the changes made to the APEX builder. When on the Report Attributes tab any changes made to the report definition will be saved when clicking the edit link for a column.
Clicking a Link <> Submit
Before I go any further I want to point out one thing that I think a lot of newer APEX developers have trouble with. Session state for items on a form will not be updated unless the form is submitted. Entering data in a field and then clicking a link to another part of the application is the exact same as entering data and then clicking a link that takes you to another website. There is no instruction for APEX to save the values of the form items.
The Solution
To get started I created a master detail form based on the all too familiar dept and emp tables. Dept being the master and emp being the detail. For this example I had to choose to edit details on a separate page rather than in a tabular form.
Create Detail ID Item
Instead of linking to the detail page we are going to set the value of an item with the ID of the detail record and then submit the page. For this example my item is called P5_EMPNO. Set the source to always replacing, the source type to static, and leave the source value blank. This will ensure that this item is always nulled out to prevent unwanted branching.
Create a Page Branch to the Detail Page
The page branch will redirect to the detail page conditionally if the value P5_EMPNO is not null. Additionally it will set the detail page key(P6_EMPNO) to P5_EMPNO.
Edit the Detail Link to Set the Detail ID and Submit the Page
Rather than link directly to the detail page the detail link is going to save the primary key for the employee into P5_EMPNO and then submit the page with a SAVE request. Change the link target to URL and add the call to apex.submit. This will cause the master record information to be updated and then branch to the detail page. In my case the edit link now looks like this.
Now any changes to the master record will be updated in addition to linking to the detail page. Take a look at the live demo to see how it all pieces together and check back later because I will be rolling out another post which will cover the other features of apex.submit.


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DANBURY, Connecticut (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates, including the mothers of two victims of mass shootings, gathered at a Wal-Mart store near Newtown, Connecticut, on Tuesday to call on the country's largest retailer to stop selling assault weapons.
About 50 people - many calling themselves proud gun owners and loyal Wal-Mart customers - presented a petition at a Wal-Mart in Danbury that is 8 miles from the Newtown elementary school where a gunman opened fire one month ago, killing 20 first graders and six educators.
"Wal-Mart has a choice," said Adam Bink of the Courage Campaign, one of the groups organizing the rally. "Wal-Mart doesn't sell pornography because they feel it's inappropriate for communities. We believe assault weapons aren't appropriate for communities because they make our communities unsafe."
The petition, signed by nearly 300,000 people, was presented in Wal-Mart's parking lot to store manager John Ruggieri, who wore a green ribbon honoring the Newtown victims.
Wal-Mart, which sells grocery items, appliances and clothing in addition to sporting goods, is the country's largest gun retailer. The Danbury location sells only toy guns.
"Over the years, we have been very purposeful about striking the right balance between serving our customers that are hunters and sportsmen and ensuring that we sell firearms in the most responsible manner possible," a Wal-Mart Stores Incspokesman said in a statement.
Assault rifles are sold only at locations with a high concentration of hunters and sportsmen, the spokesman said.
But protesters challenged the idea that assault rifles, which one called "military-style people killers," belonged in the hands of ordinary citizens, and called on Wal-Mart to honor a 2004 pledge to stop sales of the weapons.
"I am thoroughly for the Second Amendment," said Herb Crate, a 72-year-old Danbury resident who said he had a license to carry a gun for 33 years. "But if they think their right to have assault weapons with large clips is more important than the right of people to send their children to school and know they'll come back safely... I think the NRA is absolutely insane with their position."
The National Rifle Association, the country's leading gun rights group, has opposed nearly all efforts that would curb access to guns, including a proposed ban on assault weapons.
Inside the store, Bob Johnson, a resident of Brewster who said he owns several guns but no automatic weapons, said he could support common-sense gun control.
But he said he was concerned that many of the proposed changes would serve only to make responsible gun owners jump through more hoops and would have no impact on safety.
"We can never protect ourselves from the people who flip out," he said.
Pam Simon, who was wounded in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, two years ago that left her former boss, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, critically wounded, linked arms with the mothers of two shooting victims before presenting the petition.
She said the shared grief and anger meant she had formed a sort of "band of brothers" with the women - Roxanna Green, who lost her 9-year-old daughter in the Tucson shooting, and Lori Haas, whose daughter was wounded in the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech.
"Obviously, none of us want to be a member of the club," said Green, who had traveled to Connecticut to help console the Newtown parents and will travel next to Washington to urge lawmakers to support gun control measures.
The White House said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would unveil his gun legislation proposals on Wednesday, including a push for an assault weapons ban and measures to strengthen background checks for gun buyers.
Both Simon and Green bristled at the suggestion - made in recent weeks by proponents of gun rights - that more guns would make the country safer.
"No one can ever understand what it's like to feel a bullet whiz into your body until you've experienced it yourself," said Simon. "They have no idea how fast it happens.
"I absolutely can say that if I had had a fully-loaded weapon in my hand I would not have fired off a shot. I was on the ground so fast. Not even Wyatt Earp can do that," Simon said.
Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by Maureen Bavdek and Dan Grebler


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Bob Urick's '63 Chevy II gasser shakes it in perfect '60s style
Regardless where you grew up, you could never escape the adrenalin-fueled AM radio announcer proclaiming the upcoming weekend of drag racing in your hometown. Sundaaaay immediately caught your attention as a flurry of famous names were revealed who would battle it out on the quarter-mile to see who would receive the big trophy that weekend. America was alive with drag racing with 'strips situated all across the country packed with fans anxiously awaiting the smell of nitromethane and burnt rubber.
For Bob Urick, growing up in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the early '60s certainly had its benefits. As a youngster he immersed himself deep into the drag racing culture, first through magazines then along with good friend Marc Weller, the pair kept busy building countless scale models and racing slot cars. One of his main influences however came from a local neighbor, Guy Hawkins, and his wicked Deuce pickup packed with a hopped-up Old's V-8, which fueled the fire even more. As the years passed, being so close to a number of local dragstrips led Bob to become a regular visitor to such legendary tracks as Capital Raceway, Aquasco Speedway, and 75-80 Dragway. It was the in-place to catch Gasser Wars in full fury, featuring many of the S&S Speed Shop gassers as well as names like Stone, Woods & Cook, "Ohio" George Montgomery, and "Big John" Mazmanian, to name but a few. While in his teens there was plenty of time spent hanging out at the Douglas Speed Shop as well as crewing for good friend Eric Hansen and his Algon-injected small-block, Chevy-powered rail dragster.
Bob later got involved with motorcycle road racing, competing at Summit Point Raceway for a season before settling down and having a family. He never forgot all the years at the local dragstrips, however, especially the time spent overwhelmed by the impact of all the Gassers he had worshipped. One late night while reliving the past, he was cruising cars for sale on eBay and came across a wicked '63 Chevy II Nova that possessed plenty of the right old-school elements. The car had a nosebleed stance, flashy paint, a hot small-block Chevy, and what appeared to be magnesium wheels. Bob marveled at the car for some time that night and thought, "Why not put a bid, on it," never expecting to win it. Well it wasn't long till he had the high bid, winning the car. A seven-hour ride with a truck and trailer followed to pick up his new ride in the rain. Due to weather conditions he wasn't able to drive the car, but noted that it looked pretty good and made the deal. Once home in his own garage he began to give it the once-over and started noticing a number of problematic areas. While the body and paint looked really good, there were obvious electrical woes with more than half of the car's wiring incomplete, glaring suspension issues, and engine problems. The first drive around the block had the rear wheels dragging on the wheelwells and engine fighting to stay alive, which was enough to make Bob bring the car back into the garage and undertake a four-year redo of many of the Chevy II's major components.
Getting started, Bob first focused on rewiring the car and then moved onto the front and rear suspension to try and dial it in for safety and performance. Since the car already had an aftermarket front subframe constructed from 2×3 rectangular steel with tubular firewall support tubes, a 4-inch dropped Speedway Motors tube axle, Chevy spindles, and tube shocks, he needed to address the spring rates and stance. Getting rid of the single leaf springs and short shackles he upped the ante using a set of new Stanley Springs multi-leaf parallel leaf springs, which he had re-arched by R&S Spring Works in Bladensburg, Maryland, combined with longer shackles to get the nose to just the right height. Out back, since the original rearend was a tired GM 10-bolt unit, he replaced it with a refreshed GM 8-1/2-inch 10-bolt unit packed with 3.90:1 gears. To make sure the rear tires wouldn't scrape the wheelwells again, the 48-inch vintage-styled ladder bar front mounting points were relocated and treated to fresh Monroe air shocks, longer shackles, and new multi-leaf parallel leaf springs from Stanley Springs re-arched by R&S Spring Works. To make sure there was plenty of stopping power, a GM dual master pushed fluid through steel lines to each corner where 11-inch GM disc brakes tame the beast. Nothing says gasser better than a set of classic Fenton five-spoke mags, so a pair of 15×8 rear wheels were capped with sticky Hurst piecrust cheater slicks while up front a pair of 15×5 wheels were treated to Kuhmo skins.
Wanting the Chevy II to have plenty of power to match its attitude, Bob pulled the '69 Chevy small-block from the car and hauled it over to the team at JB's Auto Machine in Baltimore to give it the full treatment. To start, the engine was balanced, blueprinted, and machined to 333 ci. It was then filled with a 3.25-inch stroked crank, aluminum rods, Erson stick, and Keith Black 9.0:1 pistons for a venomous bottom end. For plenty of heavy breathing Ladd's Porting Service in Elkridge, Maryland, gave the cast-iron heads new life, including COMP Cams roller tip rockers while vintage Cal Custom finned aluminum valve covers add some dazzle. Capping the snarling V-8 in grand style is an Edelbrock X-C8 cross-ram intake sucking air through a homespun ram-air system to a pair of Holley 390-cfm carbs wearing O'Brien Truckers signature finned aluminum air cleaners. The fire gets lit through a Mallory Unilite distributor with PerTronix internals while spent gases get dumped through a set of Hooker Super Competition fenderwell headers to side-exit mufflers. A Saginaw four-speed linked to a Hurst stick transfers the oats to spin the tires. When it came to the body, the car was treated like royalty, blocked to perfection, and coated in a wild Napa lime pearl vibe. Exterior trim, bumpers, and all related rubber seals were also freshened up to make the final combination glow like a diamond accented by a traditional teardrop hood scoop. Inside, the car is all business, starting with a white rolled and pleated bench seat and body-color matched rollbar. Factory gauges are accented by a column-mounted Sun Pro Super Tach II and triple-dial underdash unit to monitor the vitals while Wesco Performance seatbelts keep riders safely in place. All we know is this is one radical Street Shaker that has readily earned its place on the strip thanks to Bob, his daughter Caitlin, and pals, Danny Sokolowski and Mike Scott.
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Estimated resident population (ERP)
The official measure of the population of Australia, based on the concept of usual residence. It refers to all people, regardless of nationality or citizenship, who usually live in Australia, with the exception of foreign diplomatic personnel and their families. It includes usual residents who are overseas for less than 12 months out of a continuous 16 month period. It excludes overseas visitors who are in Australia for less than 12 months out of a continuous 16 month period.
Indigenous status
Indigenous Status indicates whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin. Indigenous status is reported (either by an individual or a person responding to a survey or Census on their behalf) in response to the question: Is the person of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin?
Median age
For any distribution the median value is that which divides the relevant population into two equal parts, half falling below the value, and half exceeding it. Thus, the median age is the age at which half the population is older and half is younger.
Net undercount
The difference between the actual Census count (including imputations) and an estimate of the number of people who should have been counted in the Census. This estimate is based on the PES conducted after each Census. For a category of person (e.g. based on age, sex and state of usual residence), net undercount is the result of Census undercount, overcount, misclassification and imputation error.
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The Census Post Enumeration Survey (PES) is a household survey conducted three to four weeks after the Census. The PES allows the ABS to estimate the number of people missed in the Census and the number counted more than once. Usually more people are missed than counted more than once in Australia, leading to a net undercount.
Relative Standard Error (RSE)
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Statistical Areas Level 2
Statistical Areas Level 2 are a general-purpose medium sized area built from whole SA1s. Their aim is to represent a community that interacts together socially and economically. SA2s generally have a population range of 3,000 to 25,000 persons , and have an average population of about 10,000 persons. The SA2 is the lowest level of the ASGS structure for which Estimated Resident Population (ERP), Health and Vitals and other non-Census ABS data are generally available. There are about 2,200 SA2s covering the whole of Australia. For information, see Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2011 (cat no. 1270.0.55.001).
Statistical Areas Level 3
Statistical Areas Level 3 provide a standardised regional breakup of Australia. The aim of SA3s is to create a standard framework for the analysis of ABS data at the regional level through clustering groups of SA2s that have similar regional characteristics. SA3s are built from whole SA2s and in general have populations between 30,000 to 130,000. They are often the functional areas of regional cities and large urban transport and service hubs. For information, see Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2011 (cat no. 1270.0.55.001).
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Statistical Areas Level 4 are the largest sub-State regions. They are designed for the output of Labour Force Survey data and reflect labour markets within each state and territory within the population limits imposed by the Labour Force Survey sample. SA4s provide the best sub-state socio-economic breakdown in the ASGS. SA4s are built from whole SA3s and cover the whole of Australia. There are 88 SA4s. For information, see Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2011 (cat no. 1270.0.55.001).
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***UPDATE: This event has happened and was a great success. For information about our next Registration events, see the article entitled Registration for New Students!***
Are you going to be a new student at Emmanuel this coming fall? Then you don't want to miss early registration on April 21st!
By attending on April 21st and by putting down your deposit, you can secure a class schedule and your spot on the preferred housing list. Both class registration and room assignments are done on a "first come, first serve" basis, and since we're expecting our largest class in Emmanuel's history this year, it's more important than ever to register as early as possible!
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Christmas eve and Christmas day church services
Dec. 24, at 18:00 - Christmas
Eve Church services, at the Yonkers Church,
and at the Long Island ChurchDec. 25, at 11:00 - Christmas Day Church services,
at the East Orange Church
Until Dec 20 you can order wreaths for graves at the Catskills' Latvian Memorial Park. Visit: LatvianMemorialPark.org/christmas-wreaths.
Saturday's Dec. 14 services and Christmas celebration in Manhattan will take place,but Saturday's Dec. 14 event at Priedaine has been postponed to Saturday Jan. 4th andSunday's Dec. 15 event in Yonkers has been postponed to Sunday Jan. 5th
See the articles about these events published earlier.
Sunday, Dec. 15 - The Bronx Latvian school's and the congregation's Northern district (Ziemeļu novada) "Eglīte" (Christmas celebration)
at 10:00 - at the Yonkers Church
Saturday, Dec. 14 - Christmas Church service in Manhattan
at 14:00 - the Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003.
Saturday, Dec. 14 - The New Jersey Latvian school's "Eglīte" (Christmas celebration)
at 11:00 - The New Jersey Latvian Society's Priedaine NJ
Update on aid given in support of victims of the Nov. 21 "Maxima" store tragedy
On Thursday November 21 at the "Maxima" big-box store in the Zolitūde neighborhood of Riga, Latvia, the roof collapsed onto shoppers and workers in the store resulting in the deaths of at least 54 people. According to press accounts, the government of Latvia has promised compensation of 10,000 Lats to the families of those killed and 5,000 Lats to those injured. The company Maxima ...
The Nov. 21 tragedy at the Zolitūde "Maxima" store in Riga, Latvia
On Thursday November 21 at the "Maxima" big-box store in the Zolitūde neighborhood of Riga, Latvia, the roof collapsed resulting in the deaths of at least 54 people. The Latvian Ev. Luth. Congregation of New York expresses its deepest sympathy to the victims and their families.
A donations page on this site is being created for benefit of the victims. We hope to publish it by Monday. Photo: LETA
Sunday, Dec. 8 - Church services followed by the annual Christmas fair
at 10:30 - Long Island Church
Sunday, Dec. 8 - New York Latvian Concert Choir's Advent concert
Saturday, Nov. 23 - Latvian Church service in Manhattan
at 14:00 - at the Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street, New York, NY
Latvian parliament allows dual citizenship as of Oct. 1, 2013
You might now be eligible also for Latvian citizenship
Saturday, Nov. 16 - Latvian Independence Day Commemoration
at the Yonkers Church at 14:00
Sunday, Nov. 10 - Church service followed by an opportunity to meet Solvita Āboltiņa, Chairperson (Speaker) of the Saeima (Parliament) of the Republic of Latvia
at the Yonkers Church at 10:00
Sunday, Nov. 3 - Church service followed by Martinmas festival
Saturday, Nov. 2 - Flea market / Rummage sale
at the Yonkers Church, from 09:00 to 15:00
Saturday, Oct. 19 - Latvian Church service in Manhattan
at the Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003, at 14:00.
Sunday, Oct. 13 - Memorial Service at the Latvian Memorial Park in the Catskills
next to the cemetery in Tannersville, NY, at 12:00 noon.
Sunday, Oct. 6 - Church services & Harvest Festival celebration
at the Long Island Church, at 10:30
Saturday Sept. 21 - Theater performance Bezkaunīgie veči (Shameless Men) by Anšlavs Eglītis
At the Yonkers church at 16:00. Admission $25.
See the latest pictures from this summer!
The mission of the Latvian Ev. Luth Church of New York is (translation coming soon) - Veidot kristīgu un latvisku ģimeni, kuŗā augam un audzinām ticībā, cerībā un mīlestībā!
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In Poco, when I click on the Attach button while composing a message, the Attach Files dialog box opens. While this box remembers the folder last used to attach files, it remembers nothing else.
Each time, I have to resize the box manually (it does not remember size). Each time, I have to change the view to Detailed (it comes up every time with List view) and does not remember sort order.
It is a bit frustrating; can't these aspects of the Attach Files dialog box be stored too by Poco along with the last used folder?
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April 15, 2013
Arts & Sciences Spring Symposium scheduled for April 23-25
The 5th Annual Arts & Sciences Spring Symposium, presented by the Arts & Sciences Lecture Series Committee, will spotlight the academic work and interests of the faculty, April 23 through 25. The Symposium will be held from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. each day in the Multimedia Studio in the Library. The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, April 23
12:30 - Dr. Laura Podalsky, guest speaker from The Ohio State University, "What Can Contemporary Latin American Films Teach Us?"
1:40 - Brent Funderburk, Social Sciences, "Oscar Wilde, Deviance, Heterosexism and the Molding of Morality in Victorian Society"
2:10 - Julie Hallas, Developmental Education, "Pythagoras, Proofs, and Presidents"
2:40 - Dr. Tracy Little, Social Sciences, "The Anthropology of Zombies: From Folklore and Voodoo Practices to Contemporary Pop Culture"
Wednesday April 24
12:30 - Dr. Phyllis Gorman, Social Sciences, "Exploring Theoretical Connections Through a Gendered Lens: The Case of Male-on-Male Sexual Assault and Suicide in the U.S. Military"
1:00 - Dr. Matt Adkins, Humanities, "Representing Agency in Intellectual History: How does Speculative Realism Transform Our Understanding of the Role of Ideas in History"
1:30 - Dr. Myung Han – Biological and Physical Sciences, "Carbon Budget, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, and Climate Change"
2:00 - Dr. Ratan Lal, guest speaker from The Ohio State University. Dr. Lal is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of soil, carbon and agricultural sustainability. He will deliver a talk on his current work.
Thursday, April 25
12:30 - Frank Barnhart, Communications, "The Federal Theatre Project: Ground-Zero for Artistic Expression"
1:00 - Clayton Kie, Social Sciences, "Notes From The Rustbelt"
1:30 - Julie Grawemeyer, Modern Languages, "Poetry in Public Spaces in Paris and Montreal"
2:00 - Don Ricker, Social Sciences, "Operation Cease Fire Columbus"
2:30 - Dr. Adam Keller, Biological and Physical Sciences, "STEM Education for Associate of Arts and Sciences Students at Columbus State"
Webinar offered on First-Generation College Students
Have you ever wondered how the needs and experiences of first-generation college students differ from those of students who were raised by college graduates? Do you wonder if you, and we as a college, are providing these students with enough of the right kinds of support? Join Columbus State's TRiO programs and the Generation One Trailblazers (GOT) on Wednesday, April 24 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Franklin Hall 312 to view a pre-recorded PaperClip Communications webinar titled "First-Generation Students: Critical Considerations."
Employee training sessions open for registration
Employee professional development opportunities for the remainder of April are available at the training registration site, http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/courses.asp. Seating is limited so register today!
Discover Your True Calling: Friday, April 19, 8:30 a.m.
– 12:30 p.m. Are you still struggling to find an answer to the question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Are you interested in learning more about the concept of vocational identity? Would you like to learn more about your vocational design? If so, then this class is for you. Discover Your True Calling is a highly interactive class to help you better discern your vocational design and understand how vocational identity fits into your life plan.
Career Pathing: Wednesday, April 24, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Career Pathing is a process used by an employee to chart a career course within an organization for his/her career development. Join us for an interactive session on self-assessments, exploring opportunities and creating an action plan for your career path!
Teambuilding Using Strengths: Tuesday, April 30, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. The best teams achieve success by welcoming, valuing, and leveraging each member's talents. Participants will focus on the 4 domains of Strengths to understand team dynamics and increase collaboration. Prerequisite: Complete the StrengthsFinder assessment and attend the Win with Your Strengths workshop.
Win a spring garden clean-up from CSLA!
The Columbus State Landscape Association will raffle off a garden renovation complete with edging, mulching, pruning, and planting—all done by Columbus State landscape students who also work professionally in the industry. For only $10 per ticket, or $25 for three tickets, you get a chance to win
this great spring prize!
The drawing will be held on April 22, and the work will be done on Saturday, April 27. You can even buy your tickets by email at firstname.lastname@example.com and a student will come to your office to pick up your entry. The students are currently fundraising for their trip to the national landscaping competition which will be held at Colorado State University in 2014. Call (614) 359-4799 or email for more information.
Spring Fling scheduled for April 24 and 25
Student Engagement and Leadership (SEaL) will hold the annual Spring Fling for students on Wednesday, April 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Columbus Campus, and on Thursday, April 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Delaware Campus. Spring Fling features live music from WTHM Radio, local vendors, games, treats and balloon artists.
Deadline for Summer fee waivers is May 1
The deadline for employee and dependent fee waivers for Summer Semester is Wednesday, May 1, in Human Resources by 4:30 p.m. You may also first pay your fees and be reimbursed within 30 days from the start of the term by completing the Request for Fee Waiver form and submitting an official payment receipt into Human Resources by June 20. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Thompson at ext. 2406.
Teresa Lister, site specialist at the Dublin Regional Learning Center, holds a Columbus State banner at the Luxor Temple in Egypt on her recent visit. The massive temple is on the east bank of the Nile River, and was built during the 14th century B.C.


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'Well, th' lawww!" Mama Goodson meets us at the back door of her four-room mill village house.
"Are you freezin' to death? Come in and git warm!"
'Well, th' lawww!" Mama Goodson meets us at the back door of her four-room mill village house.
"Are you freezin' to death? Come in and git warm!"
The back hall leads into the kitchen and the aromas that mingle are tantalizing and embracing: sage and onions and celery in the dressing; cinnamon slipping in from the apple cake and pumpkin pies (most of us prefer sweet potato pie, but we always have pumpkin, too); coffee warming on the back of the stove.
Just beyond the kitchen, the voices of Papa, Aunt Grace, Uncle G.B and Aunt Jewel, Uncle Leonard and Aunt Clarice jangle in a raucous holiday cacophony.
Everyone gets a great big "UH-UHH" hug, that squeezes the breath out.
By the time we get around the room, someone else has come in and the hugging continues.
When its time to eat Thanksgiving dinner (not lunch, and supper is leftovers), Mama always asks God to "bless the food we are about to partake" and offers thanks to her Jesus for the family here and those who were far away. I learned more than table manners at those dinners that enticed with food and taught by example.
RoseMary Jones Hyatt's loving, care-giving Pennsylvania-Dutch "Granny" Stovall frequently fed the whole Stovall, Epperson, Jones and Brown clan that spilled out on the front porch after the blessing and plate-loading.
"We were loved, even though," Jim Epperson remembers, "we had to be quiet until Granddaddy listened to 'The Lone Ranger' on the radio!"
RoseMary muses, "Times were simpler. Nobody had much 'stuff,' but we knew who we were and didn't even want to live by the standards set by anyone else."
Our generation is blessed, and we know it.
I wish that President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney could have one of our Thanksgiving dinners. Could sit between RoseMary's Daddy and her Grandmother in front of the Thanksgiving turkey. Or get one of Mama Goodson's hugs. Could know what its like to look out the bedroom window every spring and see the "snowball bushes" Papa planted when we bought our house; or how pecan pie tastes when it's made by slightly gnarled fingers, from a recipe handed down since Great-Granddaddy Akins planted the pecan trees in the backyard.
Neither candidate was "in touch with the American people"; neither seemed to have learned lessons about honesty, gratitude, patriotism, religion, respect and, most of all, family.
Isn't it sad that they and so many others missed our Southern Thanksgivings? Our laughter that rocked the house; our cousins and siblings and family lore? Uncle Frank snoring softly on the couch after dinner; Mother and Aunt Jean clearing away the dishes; the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade marching across the little television screen, leaving precious memories across our hearts.
Some people just don't know about being thankful, do they?
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The Opposite Lock Challenge is on again.
Its been announced over on Outers, for those that are interested, heres the link.....
http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/viewtopic ... 4&t=227394
No details apart from dates yet, but Jamie from On All 4s has announced that he will be hosting the event once again.
Ive neer been to a Opposite Lock Challenge, but Im told its pretty much the same as the old Black Rat Challenges they used to run out at Dargle Park. Almost like a Jamboree style event.
The dates are June 9, 10 and 11. So the June long weekend.
If you guys that run ths All Aussie Club get the details on vehicle classes, or still have the regs for classes from last year, could you please let me know what they are.
I might have to join up and have a run. If youll have me that is.
I just wanted to let you guys know that its on again.


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The "book," not the above mentioned book, suggests you do a lot of things under many a circumstance to beat the house. It's rather complicated and if you're the type who learns on the fly, then I suggest you download Blackjack Strategizer for iOS ($1.99).
It'll teach you basic strategy and the touch gestures are the same gestures you'd use at the tables anyway. The app also crunches and displays your statistics in case you're the analytical type. I played it on the plane ride out to Vegas last night and left the tables with an extra $US82.50. [iTunes]


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Event ticketing service SeatGeek has made its internal recommendations service available in the SeatGeek API. Developers can now integrate the advanced recommendations functionality of the SeatGeek platform into websites and applications.
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that helps consumers find the best deals on live events which includes music concerts, Broadway plays, sporting events and more. The SeatGeek search engine scours through all major secondary market ticket sellers and many minor sellers including TicketsNow, TicketNetwork, Ticket Exchange, eBay and many more.
The new and improved SeatGeek Event Recommendations API takes multiple music preferences of users and applies "clever math and compute affinity scores in real time" that produces far more accurate sets of recommendations.
The SeatGeek Developer blog provides detailed examples and explanations (with pictures!) of how the new recommendation engine computes user recommendation sets. SeatGeek's advanced recommendation service is already being used in the recommendations calendar on seatgeek.com and in SeatGeek's concert recommendation Spotify app.
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Enjoy watching this wonderful video, before reading why I absolutely hate it:
Now I'll do the unthinkable and quote myself:
The war over mind share rages on and in the very near future it would be impossible to leave your home without stumbling into an advertisement, and most of the time you won't even know you're in one.
– – Shahar Golan, January 18, 2009
We are living in the age of über-fast memes, where an idea in the real world can be documented and uploaded to YouTube, watched anywhere around the world, and 'downloaded' back to the real world in another country. The following timeline is just one example of how this 'cultural virus' can spread:
- January 2008
- Improv Everywhere does Frozen Grand Central.
- February 2008
- The original stunt is duplicated all over the globe. A world map of copycats is soon enough posted for easier tracking.
- March 2008
- Improv Everywhere performs an original musical stunt titled Food Court Musical in front of a small shopping mall audience.
- April 2008
- Television's Law & Order: SVU incorporates a fictionalized Frozen Grand Central into an episode. Actor Robin Williams plays a fictional Charlie Todd.
- January 2009
- T-Mobile executes a 'Thawed' Frozen Grand Central, mixing the Food Court Musical stunt into it and rebranding it as The T-Mobile Dance. The video is the first successful commercialized version of the stunt.
- March 2009
- VTM, a Belgian television station executes a Sound-of-Music T-Mobile dance.
And the dance will continue…
The fact that Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is one of my favourite musicals is irrelevant. For all I care Julie Andrews could have danced right there on Antwerp's Central Station, holding hands with the entire Von Trapp family – it still would not change the fact that we are losing the war over mind share and over public spaces.
The 3D hologram shark ad that startles Marty McFly in Back to the Future's 2015? The ads that personally address John Anderton in Minority Report's 2054? Why wait for hi-tech advertising, when you can get stuck in a real world commercial today? Just try and catch a train in Antwerp, New York or Tel-Aviv in the near future.
Oh… and if you're thinking of avoiding the train all together by driving to work, better think again: KFC logos will soon be sprayed all over the road.
You can read more on this subject in Kalle Lasn's excellent book Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge – And Why We Must.
Yes, I do realize that by blogging about it I add to the hype needed to perpetuate this phenomenon – but just like people printing books about the dwindling rainforests, there is just no other way of stopping this.


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LT 2011 lets buttons do the work of command lines, although it's limited to 2-D
But readers have been asking about the best CAD program to purchase, so we gritted our teeth and prepared to re-enroll in the CAD academy.
Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2011
Pros: Easier to use than a 3-D CAD program; very precise; clean user interface.Cons: Runs slowly even on high-end systems; expensive.Performance: B-Ease Of Use: BFeatures: A-Value: BPrice: $1,200
Thankfully, Autodesk came out with AutoCAD LT 2011, where the LT stands for light. The idea is to make a CAD program that is easy, or at least easier, to use. Thus, a lot of the hardcore, unfriendly command lines of previous programs have been replaced with helpful buttons that perform the same functions. So if you want to select or modify a drawing in a certain way, there is probably a button for it along the top or side of the screen. There still is a command line for those who want to use it, but most common tasks are only a click away.
This simplicity comes at a slight price, depending on what you want to do with your CAD program. The biggest is that AutoCAD LT 2011 can only make drawings in 2-D. So if you remember when we created a 3-D model of a space shuttle and a fire hose nozzle for another CAD review, well, it won't be happening this time.
But AutoCAD LT 2011 does 2-D extremely well. From creating circuit patterns using standard symbols to laying out your new home or office, this program has you covered. It could even be used to create a master pattern that could then be easily modified by people in the field.
The one thing to note is that "light" is a relative term. It's like saying that Stephen Hawking is the light form of Albert Einstein. Any CAD program is going to take a lot of training to get used to, and all the beautiful menus won't change that learning curve very much.
However, it does make a dent, and Autodesk capitalized on this with some really nice tutorials. Played as a series of Flash movies, the tutorials walk you though most of the functions needed to use the program. We would have preferred that the tutorials were interactive because some of the movies are quite long, and you have to wait till they are finished to go back and try some of the things you were just shown. But the movies do go into a lot of detail and should keep most people from getting completely lost, even if they have never used a CAD program.
Even so, to become truly proficient, you will likely need a good guide book because the program doesn't come with any paper instructions.
The program can do quite a lot, as long as you are talking about the 2-D drawings. We were able to create a floor plan of the GCN Lab and surrounding offices in a couple of hours. Then, after we had the master plan, we began to conquer other offices and expand the lab by knocking down walls and moving into the new space. By the end of the day, we were proficient enough that we could create plans that building engineers could easily follow and had taken over almost the entire floor, other than the space we left for the margarita machine.
There are a lot of samples to get you started and even a materials library if you want to add realism to your creations beyond just the precise measurements.
The one disappointing thing about AutoCAD LT is that it ran a bit slowly on most of our test systems. For the 32-bit version of the program that we tested, the minimum specs are a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 system with a full gigabyte of RAM. We wouldn't recommend running the program on a system like that. When we tried, it took a very long time to perform even simple functions, not to mention the half hour of installation time. Even on a hefty dual-core system, a lot of the commands took a while to activate. Perhaps the beautiful menus were to blame, as commands in the command line interface seemed to go off almost instantly. We guess that is the price you pay for convenience. At least the program did run on laptop PCs, albeit slowly. Our recommendation would be to install AutoCAD LT on a well-equipped workstation or desktop for all the heavy lifting, such as creating new files and stuff like that. Then install another copy on laptops if you need to travel, but stick to mostly minor modifications of existing designs when using the portable platform.
There is also a 64-bit version of the program. We briefly tested this and found that it was identical for the most part with the 32-bit version but ran much faster because of the 64-bit architecture of our test system.
The price of $1,200 is not too high given how much CAD programs generally cost. If you only need to make 2-D designs but need access to every conceivable tool and variant within 2-D capability, then you can't really go wrong with AutoCAD LT 2011.
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Review Round-Up: 'Inkaar' Is Acceptable
Director Sudhir Mishra has made several well-received movies in the past. His latest film, "Inkaar" (Refusal), which revolves around what happens when a woman files a complaint of sexual harrassment against a male colleague, opened in cinemas on Friday.
The movie stars actors Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh, who made her debut in Mr. Mishra's 2003 movie "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi" (A Thousand Dreams Like This), which was set against the backdrop of government authoritarianism in the 1970s. The film also features the acclaimed 1980s actor Deepti Naval.
In "Inkaar," after Ms. Singh's character, Maya Luthra, complains about her colleague Rahul Verma, played by Mr. Rampal, a "he said-she-said" battle ensues in which both protagonists fight for their reputations, and the viewer doesn't know whom to believe. Ms. Naval plays the head of the committee who is supposed to evaluate the complaint.
Here's a round-up of what critics had to say about the movie:
NDTV movie critic Saibal Chatterjee said that "Inkaar" is "anything but an average Mumbai film" as it deals with an unconventional theme. But Mr. Chatterjee was disappointed in the film, saying it "chickens out" of a possibly "radical conclusion."
He was also unimpressed by the acting. "The lead pair is unable to whip up the sort of corrosive energy that two hot-headed and motivated people should have produced in the bubbling cauldron-like setting of an airtight ad agency," he said, giving the movie three stars out of five.
Ananya Bhattacharya of Zee News lauded Sudhir Mishra, the director, for delicately handling the theme.
"It craftily builds a narrative, traveling back and forth in time, picking out instances from the protagonists' life," said Ms. Bhattacharya. "Any 21st century office-going individual can relate" to the characters, she added.
Unlike Mr. Chatterjee, Ms. Bhattacharya praised the performances of Mr. Rampal and Ms. Singh. "Both the actors shine steadily through with their performances," she said. The supporting actors also delivered strong performances, said Ms. Bhattacharya, giving the movie three-and-half stars out of five.
In a review on the movie portal bollywoodhungama.com, Taran Adarsh noted that the film is "extremely relevant, topical and relatable in today's times. Sexual harassment is a reality and one needs to address it."
The movie, he added, is about "greed, ambition and power play."
Calling Mr. Mishra a "sensitive storyteller," Mr. Adarsh said he handled the "provocative moments" in the film elegantly.
Far from being disappointed by the performances of the lead actors, Mr. Adarsh felt that while Mr. Rampal displayed "remarkable understanding of the character," Chitrangada Singh managed to "immerse herself" in her role.
Mr. Adarsh recommended the movie for "spectators of serious cinema," giving the movie three out of five stars.
For Sanjukta Sharma, "Inkaar" is a "story with promise."
In her review for the business daily Mint, she compared it to Mr. Mishra's earlier films, in which "sharp dramatic tools made realism eloquent." This one, though, relied on "clichés," Ms. Sharma feels.
"Towards the climax, both Rahul and Maya turn false and banal," she said, while the film takes "ludicrous" turns.
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Cridge founded Glue in 1999 and worked as chief executive of the business, before taking moving to the role of global managing director in May 2010. The digital agency was bought by Aegis Group in 2005 for £14.7m and was rebranded under the Isobar network in 2010.
Last year, Cridge was inducted into Brand Republic's inaugural 'Hall of Fame' after being voted for by industry peers and rivals as a leader who has made an outstanding contribution to advertising, marketing and communications over the past decade.
In Cridge's last profile as leader of Glue Isobar, Jason Goodman, chief executive and founder of rival Albion, admitted his worry was the industry "would lose him", believing the 39-year-old was "far too young to be put out to pasture just yet in a global network role".
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No malice was involved when a company sent an e-mail saying an employee was fired for allegedly padding his expense reports, a jury has concluded in a closely watched case because of the First Amendment issue it raised.
The case of Alan S. Noonan v. Staples Inc. went to a federal district court jury after a February 13 ruling by the 1st U.S. District Court of Appeals in the case held that truth is not an absolute defense against libel.
At issue was an e-mail sent by a vice president of the Framingham, Massachusetts-based office supply company to some 1,500 company employees stating Noonan was fired for failing to comply with company travel and expense policies.
Noonan did not "seriously challenge" the e-mail's truthfulness, according to the appeals court.
In its ruling, the appeals court said a jury could infer that the VP "singled out Noonan in order to humiliate him." Citing a 1902 Massachusetts law, the court said, "Even a true statement can form the basis of a libel action if the plaintiff proves that the defendant acted with 'actual malice.' "
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Over the four years of my teaching, I have learned that vulnerability in the classroom is OK! Students connect with other humans, not to robotic, educational facades of what "proper" teachers are supposed to look like. From the beginning, I have struggled to fit this prescribed mold and have progressively taken steps away from it in order to challenge students' opinion of the "traditional" English teacher.In my classroom, I utilize any means necessary to engage students with elements of language and literature. I stand on top of desks, rock out to pop music, and even throw in grammar cheers. Often students don't even realize they are learning--they see an eccentric red-head who makes them laugh and magically remember literary concepts. What they don't see is that Mrs. Tanner-Anderson had to set aside what she was taught a "good" teacher looked like and had to learn how to be vulnerable to the students for whom she daily performs.
Sarah Tanner-AndersonBuckingham County Middle School, Virginia4 years of teaching
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Historic Washington, D.C. Coach House Sells for $7.6 Million
By Cecilie Rohwedder and Lauren Schuker Blum
A Washington, D.C., home once owned by Abraham Lincoln's son, and later by J.P. Morgan's grand-daughter, has sold for $7.6 million.
The buyer couldn't be identified. Private equity executive Rick Rickertsen was the owner of the Georgetown home.
The 8,094-square-foot brick structure was initially built in 1799 as a carriage house to the Laird-Dunlop estate. The two properties were divided in 1940 by their then-owner Helen Burgess; former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee currently lives on the other property with his wife, author Sally Quinn. In an email message, Ms. Quinn said she had not met the buyers but welcomed them to the neighborhood.