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Files We are going to use
- Left.php
- Right.php
- Usersonline.php
Files We are going to create
- Inbox.php
- _Inbox.php
- Style.css
In the last lesson we created a way to send a message to other users, now we are going to work on retrieving the message and displaying it in tables.
Step one - Pagination
Inbox is so complex that we are not going to be able to separate the html from the php but dont worry instead we are going to focus on the elements that make up inbox so you can fully understand it. Pagination is a small script that will divide the content of the inbox. Create a page called Inbox.php, and add the following in the body part of the page. Make sure you include Left.php at the very top.
<form method="post">

 <?php // small Pagination code. $amount = 6; // this is the amount of message you want to display per page // Selete from the database we ctrated last tutorial. $nsql = "SELECT * FROM pm WHERE sendto='".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."' and del='1'"; $nres = mysql_query($nsql) or die(mysql_error()); $totalmail = mysql_num_rows($nres); if (empty($_GET['page'])){ $page = 1; }else { if(is_numeric($_GET['page'])){ $page = $_GET['page']; }else{ $page = 1; } } $min = $amount * ( $page - 1 ); $max = $amount; if( $page > 1){ $previouspage = $page - 1; echo "Previous."; } ?>	 <?php $numofpages = ceil($totalmail / $amount); // this is a small php that will clean / delete all of your message if(($totalmail >= "1") and (!isset($_POST['Clean']))){ ?> <input name="Clean" type="submit" id="Clean" value="Clean Inbox." onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"/> <?php } ?>	  <?php // this will delete the seletced message. if(($totalmail >= "1") and (!isset($_POST['Clean']))){ ?> <input name="Delete" type="submit" id="Delete" value="Delete Selected." onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"/><?php } ?>	 <?php if($page < $numofpages){ $pagenext = ($page + 1); echo "Next"; } ?>

in the code above you can see the pagination code, it isn't finished yet we need to close it at the bottom. more on that later. you will see two buttons in a small table. the clear button will clear all your message. The second one will delete all the selected message.
<---- Do not add this to your page. this is just me explaining what is going on.
Now the concept of the inbox is to list all your message with the most recent one at the top. To do it we need 2 things. First the id of the message. Second, a while loop.
First- the ID. We are going to select our message by ID and order it in descending order.
Second - the While loop. This is a basic while loop.
<?php $i=1; while($i<=5) { echo "The number is " . $i . "
"; $i++; } ?>but the while we are going to use is a bit more complex than that. We are going to add our one in tables.
so it will create as much tables as you have messages and fill it our with the message.
You can now add the following. ------>
<?php require("_Inbox.php"); $presult = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pm WHERE sendto='".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."' and del='1' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT $min,$amount") or die(mysql_error()); if (!isset($_POST['Clean'])){ if ((mysql_num_rows($presult) == 0) and (!isset($_POST['clean']))){ echo "You don't have any messages."; }else { $b = 0; // keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $presult )) { // Print out the contents of each row into a table ?>

  <?php $b = $b + 1; echo "".$row['sendby'].""; ?>

 <? $row['message'] = htmlentities($row['message']); $row['message'] = nl2br($row['message']); $row['message'] = stripslashes($row['message']); echo $row['message']; ?>

 <?php echo "<input type='checkbox' name='id[$b]' value='".$row['id']."' onfocus=\"if(this.blur)this.blur()\"/>"; ?>	 <?php echo "Reply."; ?>	 <?php echo "Delete."; ?>	 <?php echo "".$row['time'].""; ?>

 <?php } // if imbox is empty } // if while } // if <> clean ?> </form>
add the code to the rest of the one you have in Inbox.php. You will notice _Inbox.php is required. That's because we are going to add a small bit of code on _Inbox.php to help with Deleting and cleaning.
Step Two - _Inbox.php
This s a very straight forward code that will handle the deleting and clean message scripts. Create a page called _Inbox.php and add the following.
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == "/_Inbox.php"){ exit(); } if (isset($_POST['Clean'])) { $result = mysql_query("UPDATE pm SET del='2' WHERE sendto = '".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."'") or die(mysql_error()); echo "Your Inbox has been cleaned."; } // if clean ////////////////////////////////////////// delete message //////////////////////////////////// if (!empty($_GET['delete'])){ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE pm SET del='2' WHERE sendto = '".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."' and id='" .mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['delete']). "'") or die(mysql_error()); }//if delete message if(isset($_POST['Delete'])){ $id = $_POST['id']; if(!empty($id)){ $delete = implode(",",$id); $delete = explode(",",$delete); for($a = 0; !empty($delete[$a]);$a++){ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE pm SET del='2' WHERE sendto = '".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."' and id='" .mysql_real_escape_string($delete[$a]). "'") or die(mysql_error()); } echo "all selected messaged have been deleted."; }else{ echo "You didn't select any posts."; } } ?>
Ok now we are going to start giving our game some life. By that i mean colours. We are going to very basically give colour to the Left.php and Right.php
Step One - Colours.
Ok you would have noticed that the extension of the Style is a .css. CSS means "Cascading Style Sheets". I advice you should learn CSS from HERE. Try and understand the basics of CSS and try to do some tests on your server first. Create a file called Style.css
Before you start think carefully of the colours you want and where you want them. Dont just choose colours because it looks nice you. Try and choose colours that will fit the theme of your game and colours that will give your game a small level of professionalism, Colours that are not too dark or too bright.
Ok i am not much of a designer and for the purpose of this tutorial i am going to choose grey which is simple to just demonstrate ( i will have different tones of grey). Before we start add this in the head part of Left.php
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Style.css" />
Add the following to the Style.css
/* This is a simple CSS sheet. */ body{ /* this is the background colour of the whole game. instead of the hex colour code you can type in a colour name like green or red */ background-color:#2d2d34;} /* this is a cool way to make your links flash. Read more on this at w3school */ a:link {Color:#999;} /* unvisited link */ a:visited { color:#999;} /* visited link */ a:hover {color:#F00;} /* mouse over link */ a:active {color:#FFF;} /* selected link */
in the code above, you can see syntax to change the background and a cool flash link effect. you can find out more cool colour changers at w3school, but we are going to move on. With that added you page should look like this.
Step Two - Class.
we are now going to start designing things like the tables and creating classes for other things.
I am going to show you how to change Left.php and you can use it for the rest of the game.
on Style.php add the following at the bottom.
.table { border: #000000 1px solid; background-color: #363636; ; } .cell { color: #FFFFFF; padding: 3px; background-color:#1C1C1C } .header { padding: 0px; padding-left: 2px; color: #FFFFFF; background: #3A0D07; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; border-bottom: 2px solid; border-color: #000000; }
that is three simple classes i have created. Table is the table class, Header is the head of the table where your titles are and the Cell is where your content is. Look at the pic below to show you what i mean. i know it is really crap but it is just to make a point. (besides i used a really crap mouse).
Now open Left.php. select the table and change the opening tag for the table to this

add the header class to every table header. find the  tag and add this
so that would make
Main Game
do the same for the cell

and finish the page with the same concept. if you did that right you should have a left.php that looks like this. (Without the smile face />)
for this to work well you need to have this on every opening table tag. border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2". this get rid of the lines and add a little line so you can see the colours. If you did all that right try to Add it to Right.php and The whole of Usersonline.php.. This is how mine looks.
Look at hoe far we have come. this is beginning to look like a real game.
I have uploaded my files for this tutorial on to my server and you can come and check (click Here) my site to see these scripts we have being working on. There is nothing new this is just all the files we have being working on. This is just to give you an idea of how your game should look.
It is going to take me longer to write up tutorials because i have started college and i have 2 jobs. I will try and do like an hour of tutorials per day, which means like 3 days to finish one tutorial.
In the next tutorial we are going to look at Ban and a couple of other staff tools. and we are also going to look at add information to the Right menu.
see you then
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I'm pretty sceptical that it will, I wouldn't be surprised if it falls to q1 2013. I hope it does release in November so I can play it sooner.
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Considering they didn't even make their deadline for releasing the announcement on time*, I'm thinking there is a high probability we will be waiting a bit longer than the scheduled release date.
Darkfall Unholy Wars
I think it will arrive later and I do not blame them for it....
Wouldnt you prefer the game to be launched when it is ready? Many companies release their games late.
Originally posted by elvrage
They only pushed the release date back for Darkfall one time, and it was less than a month.
and it was in Vapor mode for at least 5+ years.
Post after Post of people asking this same question on the Darkfalls first run.
So you like WoW and GW2? I heard alot of Hello Kitty kids like those games...man i bet your fat having everything spoon fed to you in those games.
Originally posted by Kyleran
Let's just say I am not clearing my datebook yet.
"Come and have a look at what you could have won."
Originally posted by poefue
I am excited for DF 2.0 but less than 2 months out and not a single video of the game. This right here leads me not to get my expectations up for a Nov. 20th release date.
Actually you have a valid point here. Although they do have some videos on their website of some graphic upgrades they have been adding over the passed few months. Check out their website.
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I don't see the release date getting pushed back. Had they announced the game years before release, ok, but here it's just 2 months. At this point I'm pretty sure everything is already planned carefully for them to deliver on time. They wouldn't have announced it for so soon if they were still working on fundamental stuff. At least I hope so.
This is AV... so I would not bet even a penny on the date set... they have somewhat of a track record lol.
That said, this was an actual "press" release not some obscure forum/blog post, and furthermore, it's an exact date, not ETA (ETA in AVs terms means -/+ 2 years... DF2010 anybody?), so I have high hopes that it will in fact launch on time, however, at the same time I'm expecting a delay.
Originally posted by Drvanitus
This is AV... so I would not bet even a penny on the date set... they have somewhat of a track record lol.
That said, this was an actual "press" release not some obscure forum/blog post, and furthermore, it's an exact date, not ETA (ETA in AVs terms means -/+ 2 years... DF2010 anybody?), so I have high hopes that it will in fact launch on time, however, at the same time I'm expecting a delay.
I have the same hope and expectation as you. Though, if it is delayed, I do not believe we will see that situation repeated. I'll just be thrilled to be back in Agon before next Christmas. I will most likely be playing for many years, assuming we aren't threatened with another looming wipe of unknown magnitude. I never would have left the original DF had it not been for that unfortunate reality.
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Originally posted by cyclonite51
I don't think they will push back release. This isn't a new game built totally from scatch. This is the same team and the infrastructure is already in place.
its actully a bigger team


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NE-10 Commissioner Julie Ruppert (left) presents Stonehill's third-straight Presidents' Cup Trophy to Brendan Sullivan, Director of Athletics, and rising junior Devin Ingersoll, from the field hockey team and member of the College's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. (PHOTO BY Jacob VanRyn)
Skyhawks post eighth-straight top three finish in 2011-12 with fourth Cup title
EASTON, Mass. (June 6, 2012) – Stonehill College has won the 2011-2012 Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup, it was announced at the Conference's end of the year awards banquet in Portsmouth, N.H., last night. It marks the third-straight year the College has won the Presidents' Cup and fourth overall, having also won the award in 2005-06, 2009-10 and 2010-11, and is the eighth-straight year it has finished in the top three in the final standings.
"Congratulations to the student-athletes, coaches, and administrators at Stonehill College on their outstanding accomplishment of capturing the Presidents' Cup for the third straight year," said Julie Ruppert, Commissioner of the Northeast-10. "In a 16-team Conference as deep and competitive as the Northeast-10, the success necessary to earn this honor requires tremendous dedication and commitment from the entire campus community and all of Stonehill should share in the celebration of this accomplishment. Stonehill is clearly living up to the ideals of Division II by providing high-level athletics competition, and balancing that with notable academic achievements in the classroom."
The Presidents' Cup is presented annually to signify overall athletic excellence in the Northeast-10 Conference and is awarded to the institution that compiles the most points based on the placement at the conclusion of the regular season of each of its programs which compete in league championships. Points for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field and men's golf are awarded based on placement in respective conference championships.
Women's Cross Country won its third-straight NE-10 Championship. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr)
Men's Cross Country won its fifth NE-10 title in the fall as well. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr)
Men's Basketball won its first NE-10 Tournament championship since 1989 and fourth overall. (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard)
Women's Tennis captured a share of its sixth NE-10 regular season title this spring.
Stonehill captured its fourth Presidents' Cup overall by accumulating a program-best 189.5 points during the academic year to edge second place Southern Connecticut State University (177.0) by over 12 points. Bentley University finished third (176.0), while Adelphi University is fourth (169.5) and the University of Massachusetts Lowell rounds out the top five (151.0). It marks the first time an institution has won the Cup three-straight years since Bentley won its last of three in a row in 2002-03.
"This is the fourth time Stonehill has won the Presidents' Cup and it is yet another outstanding endorsement of our athletic program, which is so central to our mission," said Rev. Mark T. Cregan C.S.C., President of Stonehill College. "At the College, we educate 'the whole person so that each Stonehill graduate thinks, acts and leads with courage.' Our student-athletes are leaders on and off the field, and their successes demonstrate our fulfillment of that mission. We are proud of how they comport themselves and of what they have achieved. All of us - students, faculty, coaches, administrators and alumni – take great satisfaction in being the recipient of this honor for the third straight year."
The Presidents' Cup caps another successful year across Stonehill's athletic department, which saw each of its 16 teams with a postseason championship in the Northeast-10 qualify for the first time in the school's 32 year affiliation with the Conference. Stonehill won NE-10 Championships in men's and women's cross country, men's basketball and women's tennis. The Skyhawks earned seven NCAA Tournament bids, with men's basketball and women's cross country capturing regional championships. The men's basketball team went on to advance to the national semifinal round at the Elite Eight in Highland Heights, Ky., while the volleyball team earned its first NCAA Tournament bid in program history during the fall.
In addition to the four NE-10 Championships, Stonehill placed second in the regular season standings for volleyball and finished second at the NE-10 Championships for men's indoor and outdoor track & field as well as women's indoor track & field. The Skyhawks baseball, men's basketball, ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's outdoor track & field and men's tennis team all finished in the top five in the Conference during their respective seasons as well. The ice hockey team also made a postseason surge, reaching the NE-10 Championship game as well.
Ten Stonehill student-athletes earned All-America status in their respective sports, including junior Elizabeth Belanger (Hooksett, N.H./Manchester Central), from the women's soccer team, who became the College's eighth Capital One Academic All-American. Seniors Samantha Lynott (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem East) and Kathryn Nelson (Shrewsbury, Mass./Shrewsbury) were both consensus All-Americans for their respective sports of lacrosse and field hockey this past season, with Lynott earning second team honors from the IWLCA for the third-straight year and Nelson earning consensus All-America status for the second straight season, including first team honors from the NFHCA. Junior Corey Thomas (Brookline, Mass./BC High) earned indoor All-America honors for the high jump for the third-straight year, giving him six All-America awards for his career.
Stonehill's student-athletes also performed in the classroom, with 21 earning NE-10 Academic All-Conference honors (through the winter sports program) to date, including senior All-Region cross country runners Maura Ferrarini (Springfield, Mass./Springfield Cathedral) and Stephen Polito (Worcester, Mass./Doherty Memorial) who received NE-10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence honors for women's and men's cross country, while junior Dana Borges (Taunton, Mass./Coyle & Cassidy) received the award for ice hockey. It marks the second-straight year Polito has received the award in cross country. Stonehill placed ten on the Capital One Academic All-District teams and the College is among the first to receive the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement for having a four year Academic Success Rate of 98-percent.
"Stonehill athletics, again, had a tremendous year as a result of the talent, commitment, and perseverance of our student-athletes, coaches, and staff," said Brendan J. Sullivan, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at the College. "To win this award for the third consecutive year in such a competitive conference is a remarkable accomplishment, and on behalf of Stonehill I am grateful to everyone within the department for their contributions.
Beyond that, I would like to thank and recognize our President Fr. Mark Cregan, CSC, and our Vice President for Student Affairs, Fr. John Denning, CSC, and our Assistant Vice President for Athletics and Recreation, Paula Sullivan. This is an institutional award, and it would not be possible without their constant support and promotion of our dedicated student-athletes and coaches."
Stonehill, which participates in 19 of the 23 total sports offered by the Conference compiled an overall mark of 208-125-5 (.623) in team competition during the course of the 2011-2012 academic year, including a 131-76-5 (.630) clip in NE-10 play, with 10 of 13 team sports finishing .500 or better. The Skyhawks saw an overall increase of 24 wins over the previous year and its overall winning percentage rise by 56 percentage points. In NE-10 play, Stonehill won ten more games and increased its winning percentage by 30 points.
NE-10 Team Championships
Women's Cross Country
Men's Cross Country
Men's Basketball
Women's Tennis
Elizabeth Belanger – Women's Soccer (Academic)
Kathryn Nelson – Field Hockey
Corey Thomas – Indoor Track & Field (high jump)
Justin Blaszczyk – Indoor Track & Field (DMR)
Patrick Cooney – Indoor Track & Field (DMR)
Sean Hanlon – Indoor Track & Field (DMR)
Daniel Zawalich – Indoor Track & Field (DMR)
Samantha Lynott – Lacrosse
Kelsey Reilly – Lacrosse
Michael White – Baseball (honorable mention)
Capital One Academic
All-District (9)
Elizabeth Belanger – Women's Soccer
Sara Nagle – Women's Soccer
Michael White – Baseball
Samantha Lynott – Lacrosse (at large team)
Dana Borges – Ice Hockey (at large team)
Jill Alves – Cross Country/Track & Field #
Maura Ferrarini – Cross Country/Track & Field #
Caroline McBride – Cross Country/Track & Field #
Stephen Polito – Cross Country/Track & Field #
# - still eligible for Academic All-America honors to be announced next week


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I'm more specific with students about their work. The assignment sheets, unit calendars, grading rubrics, student and professional models, and daily content and language objectives all help students get better grades. They also make grading easier and more consistent. But I have reservations. I taught in an affluent community for eleven years, and the pressure to defend and quantify every grade developed in me resentment toward the point-mongering that rubrics encourage, and weariness with the "breaking down" of the creative process into manageable, grade-able units. The specificity in my teaching became a crutch that kept students from thinking for themselves and made them panic whenever they saw ambiguity in the world.
Now, I find that my ability to give clear directions and break down tasks into manageable, grade-able units is really useful. For four years I've taught African refugee students in a charter school, and my students, many of whom are forced to think for themselves due to the death of, or separation, from parents, are already independent. Having missed several years of schooling, they count on me to clarify ambiguities for them and to show them the kind of work they need to do in order to survive in college.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Normally brimming with self-confidence, President Barack Obama showed an emotion on Thursday he rarely shares with Americans: humility.
He strode to a White House podium with a jarring admission: He believes he has lost the confidence of the American people and deserves the blame for the rocky rollout of his signature healthcare law.
The concession was indirect, to be sure, as he spoke of "winning back the confidence of the American people," but nonetheless was unusual in the history of the American presidency, let alone in modern, never-admit-a-mistake Washington.
"There are times I thought we were kind of slapped around unjustly," Obama said, referring to previous criticism aimed his way over the past five years. "This one's deserved."
The healthcare law known as Obamacare - seen as Obama's biggest domestic policy achievement - was designed to bring affordable health insurance to millions of uninsured Americans.
But the launch of a government website to enable people to obtain insurance policies has been marred by technical problems that have often rendered it inaccessible. In addition, insurance companies have canceled millions of existing policies that failed to meet the law's requirements.
Obama's comments came as he announced a fix designed to stem the wave of cancellations.
Left unspoken was what sort of fix Obama might make in his staff or in how he advances policy objectives with three years left in office and many legislative priorities still unfulfilled, including immigration reform.
Obama admitted that he was never "informed directly" about looming problems with the website launched on October 1.
There was no doubt, he added in yet another remarkable mea culpa, that his oft-repeated promise had turned out to be not accurate - that under his law Americans would be able to keep their health insurance plans if they liked them.
If the first step on the road to redemption is an acknowledgment of the problem, Obama did himself a favor.
"It's very striking to hear a president talking that way," said presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
"Usually it's a JFK saying he was 'the responsible officer of the government' after Bay of Pigs," the botched CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 during John F. Kennedy's presidency, he added.
"Or Nixon, after Watergate began, that he would 'accept' responsibility," Beschloss said, referring to the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's 1974 resignation.
"Presidents are reluctant to say they're sorry," added presidential historian Thomas Alan Schwartz of Vanderbilt University. "I think he's hurt by the perception of incompetence. That's not good for any president to look incompetent."
Obama has drawn criticism in recent weeks for an inability to ensure that his policies are being properly implemented.
"I think it was necessary to do that," said Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, referring to Obama's mea culpa.
Obama was forced to make his public appearance in part by Democrats who see the problems with the implementation of a healthcare law that they backed in Congress as damaging their re-election chances in the November 2014 mid-term elections.
Public opinion polls have caused alarm bells to ring among congressional Democrats, notably a Quinnipiac University survey this week that put Obama's approval rating at 39 percent.
The party that holds the White House typically loses congressional seats during mid-term elections, and the risk rises if a president's job approval rating is below 50 percent.
Obama's 39 percent rating put him at the same level that his Republican predecessor George W. Bush experienced at the same point in his presidency.
"President Obama's misstatement, 'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' left a bad taste with a lot of people," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Nearly half of the voters, 46 percent, think he knowingly deceived them."
Obama said he felt personally responsible for the political challenges his fellow Democrats face.
"There is no doubt that our failure to roll out the ACA (Affordable Care Act) smoothly has put a burden on Democrats, whether they're running or not, because they stood up and supported this," he said.
"I feel deeply responsible for making it harder for them, rather than easier for them, to continue to promote ... the core values that I think led them to support this thing in the first place," Obama added.
Behind the scenes at the White House, the problems with the healthcare law consume meeting after meeting. Administration officials are trying to assure Obama's allies that they know they have to get the problems ironed out by the end of the year.
The mood behind the scenes, said one Democratic official with close ties to the White House, was one of sober determination.
"They know they don't have an easy haul here. There's no sense of panic. There's a sense that they got to be on top of the execution day after day, that they can't screw anything up," he said.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT - The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team performed well in the first round on the first day of the three-day, New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Championships, at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center Friday.
The men are in third place in an 11-team field with 139 points, while the women are sixth in a 19-team field with 224 points.
For the women, junior Katelyn Kidney (Lynn, MA/Lynn Classical) finished ninth in the 500 yard freestyle in 5:20.41, senior Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS) was 13th in the 500 freestyle in 5:29.69, freshman Caroline Corcoran (West Boylston, MA/ West Boylston) was eighth in the 100 butterfly in 1:03.38 and 10th in the 200 individual medley in 2:20.14, senior Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/ Wachusett Regional HS) was eighth in the 200 backstroke in 2:15.89 and sixth in the 200 individual medley in 2:18.92, senior Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS) was eighth in the 200 individual medley in 2:20.68, senior Megan Brady (Peabody, MA/Peabody HS) was 25th in the preliminaries of the 200 backstroke in 2:32.67, junior Abby Prives (Wellesley, MA/Wellesley HS) was 19th in the 200 individual medley in 2:33.35, freshman Caissie Niles (Raynham, MA/Bridgewater-Raynham HS) was 29th in the prelims of the 200 backstroke in 2:30.15, and freshman Cori Spagna (Raynham, MA/ Bridgewater-Raynham HS) was 27th in the preliminaries of the 50 freestyle in 27.78 seconds. The 200 freestyle relay team of senior Megan Brady (Peabody, MA/Peabody HS), Spagna, sophomore Ally McCarville (Stoneham, MA/Stoneham HS) and Conlon was 15th in 1:50.85, and the 400 medley relay team of Maki, Cooper, Corcoran and Kidney was fifth in 4:15.80.
Among the men, freshman Charles London (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS/Bristol CC) was fourth in the 50 yard breaststroke in 28.16 seconds, sophomore Michael Gryss (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) was eighth in the 50 breaststroke in 28.57 seconds, sophomore Phil Lowney (Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS/Roger Williams) was 11th in the 50 breaststroke in 29.00 seconds, freshman Bryan Baranick (Assonet, MA/Apponequet HS) was seventh in the 200 backstroke in 2:05.34 and sixth in the 200 individual medley in 2:06.74, sophomore Tim Doucette (Middleboro, MA/Middleboro HS) was 15th in the 50 freestyle in 23.54 seconds, freshman Max Kearns (Marion, MA/Bishop Stang HS/Northeastern) was fifth in the 200 individual medley in 2:05.84, senior Kevin Janofsky (Brookfield, CT/Brookfield HS) was 10th in the 200 individual medley in 2:10.83, and freshman Robert Braza (Attleboro, MA/Attleboro HS) was 11th in the 200 individual medley in 2:11.97. The 200 freestyle relay team of Doucette, Janofsky, London and Kearns was sixth in 1:32.45, while the 400 medley relay team of Baranick, Lowney, Gryss and freshman Justin Floeck (Middleboro, MA/Middleboro HS) was sixth in 3:48.99.
"We are swimming real well," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "We swam some impressive times, and we're excited to have both teams in the top six overall coming out of day one. We're looking forward to the next two days of competition."
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Google Drive's Six Substantial Slip-ups
The dust on the Drive has settled Google Drive, that is and users finally have the chance to play around with the company's new cloud storage system, one that's designed to, "work seamlessly with your overall Google experience."
Seamless, perhaps. But perfect? Google's arrived a bit late to the cloud storage game and, like a pinch hitter facing a run deficit in the seventh inning, the company needs to knock one out of the park to pull people's loyalties away from their favorite cloud storage services.
It feels as if general reactions to Google Drive have been good, but not great: That Google's service is a fine player among its peers, but not noteworthy enough to generate a massive, digital rush to Google's servers. We've rounded up some of the larger criticisms that might be keeping Drive from dominating, all areas that Google could stand to work on if it wants the prettiest cloud in the sky.
1. Size
How many of you have ever run out of space on your Gmail account? We're willing to bet that it's a rare occurrence for all but the most popular of Gmail users, makes one wonder why Google is so generous with its email capacity (10GB) and so seemingly stingy with its Drive storage (5GB).
"For cheapskates or freebirds like me, you'll be better off turning to (or remaining with) Microsoft's SkyDrive, which offers 7GB of free storage; Google Drive offers five. (SugarSync, which I've also used, does as well.) Microsoft also gave existing SkyDrive users 25GB of free storage. Google, however, would like you to pay them for the privilege of mining your files," writes PCMag.com's Mark Hachman.
2. Cross-Platform Support
And the mobile war continues: Google Drive is fully supported on the Android platform with a native application (go figure). Windows, OS X, and Chrome OS systems can all download a dedicated Google Drive app as well in fact, it's the only way you can access your cloud. As for iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone owners
"GDrive, meanwhile, includes an app for Android. Everything else must use a browser to connect to Google Drive, although there are reports that Google will be releasing iOS apps for GDrive at some point. Other mobile devices will have to continue to use their respective browsers, but it's worth noting that not all browsers will work. According to Google's information for GDrive, some older versions of Android won't work with the Drive, even using the browser." eWeek's Wayne Rash
Of course, it would also be nice to be able to edit non-Google-Docs files or move anything around in one's Google Drive via the corresponding mobile app, but step one is acquiring working mobile apps in the first place.
3. Offline Editing
Throw a typical Microsoft Word document into your Google Drive and you'll be able to edit it online, right? Wrong you can only view it online. You have to convert the file to a Google Document in order to edit it via Google's Web app. But here's the rub: You can't edit Google Docs in your Drive cloud from an offline computer; you can only view them. For novice cloud users, the relationship between Google Documents and offline documents can be pretty confusing.
"There are a couple of ways to work around this issue. First, you can configure your Google Docs for offline access, and you can use Google Chrome browser extensions to enable you to edit Google Docs files offline. Another solution would be to save the file back to its original format after editing it online so that it will open locally in its native application as mentioned above.
That brings us to the other potential issue--file fidelity. Google has gone to great lengths to maintain formatting when converting from Microsoft Office formats to Google Docs and back again, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. For basic documents that just have text, with maybe some bold, italics, and underlining, or simple bullets, it may not be an issue. However complex documents that include things like a table of contents, footers, headers, and footnotes are likely to get mangled and require a lot of manual repair when switched back to their native format." PCWorld's Tony Bradley.
4. File Hosting
"Files hosted publicly in Google Drive should be usable anywhere on the Web.
Anyone can already download the files manually. Google Drive could have a huge advantage over its competitors if you could permalink to those files. If Imgur can host images for other sites, why can't Google? And Google Drive can understand over 30 file types. Why not PDFs and audio files, too?" ReadWriteWeb's Jon Mitchell
Makes sense to us!
5. More Security
As Discovery News' Rob Pegoraro points out, your files within Google Drive are only as secure as your Google password. That's not only a great plug for enabling two-way authentication on one's Google Account, but it also highlights a key difference between Google's cloud service and that of one of the company's chief cloud rivals.
"Like SkyDrive but unlike Dropbox, [Google Drive] doesn't encrypt files stored on its servers; you can use third-party tools like the open-source TrueCrypt to scramble files before uploading, but that's more work," Pegoraro writes.
That said, Google execs have said that encrypting files on Google's servers would prevent features like Google Drive's OCR engine from being able to scan them. Worse, users would also lose out on being able to preview files within Drive's Web app.
6. The Dreaded ToSMuch has been written about Google's Terms of Service for Drive. But you shouldn't be as concerned about Google "stealing" your information or displaying your publicly available content in a Google Drive advertisement (or what-have-you). Rather, you should be more annoyed if you're one of the users ponying up additional cash for expanded Drive storage.
"Google Drive creates a new relationship with users. As a service provider, Google should be my advocate, but a profile of me can be built from my data and sold to advertisers like it is with Gmail. A paid service should exclude users from this." InformationWeek's Dino Londis
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As Ballet Austin's 2010/11 season draws closer to an end, we dancers are actually busier than ever before. Not only are we rehearsing for The Magic Flute, set to premiere May 6th during Mother's Day Weekend, but Ballet Austin II is also excitedly preparing to once again perform Thang Dao's Quiet Imprint at the Hobby Center in Houston, Texas this weekend.
Quiet Imprint, set to live music performed by Khanh Ly, tells the story of the many Vietnamese that were displaced during the Vietnam War. Dao created the piece on Ballet Austin II last season. After a great response from not only Ballet Austin patrons but also the Vietnamese community, we were fortunate enough to perform it again last October.
I had the honor of being part of the original cast of Quiet Imprint and saw it evolve from an idea into the inspirational and moving piece that it has become. When Thang Dao first created this work, we spent eight weeks of intensive work-shopping trying tons of different choreographic material – most of which did not even make the final cut – and becoming comfortable with Dao's movement quality. Conversely, when the ballet was reset on the new members of Ballet Austin II this season, we only spent about a month preparing. Our focus shifted to joining dancers from the original cast with those who were completely new to the choreography and, from there, learning how to make the movement flow as if it had been created specifically for this new cast.
This time, we've only had roughly two weeks to rehearse for our performance in Houston. Originally, we were all a little nervous about taking such a long break from this material and then performing it for a whole new audience in such a short amount of time. However, rehearsals have been going much smoother than I could have ever anticipated. In fact, it is almost as if we never stopped rehearsing the piece. The choreography has become ingrained in our bodies, and there is even a new life being brought to steps I though I had already mastered. For example, while working with one of my close friends, Kody Jauron, we danced a partnering section almost effortlessly, despite the same material being challenging to coordinate back in October.
Even with a short amount of time to prepare, Ballet Austin II is eagerly looking forward to this weekend's performances. It is so exciting to not only tour and bring this piece to a new audience, but to also return to a work that helped to bond our group early in the season.
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England have called up Wasps lock Joe Launchbury ahead of Saturday's clash with Fiji as cover for Tom Palmer who is struggling with a calf injury.
Launchbury will train with the rest of the England squad tomorrow with his promotion following that of Gloucester duo Billy Twelvetrees and Freddie Burns who linked up with the squad yesterday as cover for Harlequins' Jordan Turner-Hall (knee) and London Irish's Jonathan Joseph (ankle) respectively.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster said: "Tom's training was limited last week because of a calf injury so we are bringing Joe in as a precaution and because of the form he has shown recently. We know that he will fit in to the squad well having played in the Barbarians match and in the preparation for the South Africa tour."
England will kick off their end of year campaign having already lost the services of the Northampton trio of hooker Dylan Hartley, lock Courtney Lawes and fullback Ben Foden to injury while Saracens winger Chris Ashton will also be sidelined through suspension.
Lancaster will name his side to tackle Fiji on Thursday with a testing campaign also set to include clashes with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
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Columbine running back Cameron McDondle, whose 2,275 yards and 27 touchdowns were a driving force behind the Rebels' 5A title last season, has committed to CSU-Pueblo, according to Scott Cristy, the school's AD.
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Victory LapsJeremy Mayfield* Pocono Speedway* Race No. 15Jeremy Mayfield took his second victory this season, this one at Pocono, in exciting "that's racin'" style. Mayfield bumped Dale Earnhardt, sending him up the bank on the last lap as Mayfield sped ahead to the finish.*Winner: Pocono 500
Jeff Gordon* Sears Point Raceway* Race No. 16The "King of the Road," Jeff Gordon, motored his way to his second victory of the season and his third straight win at Sears Point. "Every-body said, 'If they don't win on a road course, there's really something wrong.' Well, we dodged that bullet," said Gordon. His take for the win: $143,025.*Winner: Save Mart/Kragen 350
Quick StatWinston Cup teams making the bicoastal trek following the rain-delayed race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, had to travel an estimated 2,807.8 miles to Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California.
In The SpotlightRobert Yates: Doing Whatever It TakesRobert Yates, team owner of the #28 and #88 Winston Cup teams pulled hauler duty when both of his hauler drivers-Tommy Mullis and Rick Garcia, who also double as test-car drivers-needed relief help because of their own busy schedules. So what does Yates do but hop behind the wheel of the #88 car hauler and drive it to Pocono Raceway.
His son, Doug Yates remarked, "He loves doing things like that. He didn't think twice about it. It was something the team needed and he did it. He's always been like that with his teams."
Dale Jarrett"Mr. Consistency," Dale Jarrett, has logged five consecutive top-fives and as of this writing stands third in the championship points race.
Joe NemechekJoe Nemechek led for three laps and finished second at Loudon after starting 30th. "It was one of those close-but-not-enough days," he remarked.
Potent Quotable"It's easy to run over somebody and take them out, but it's a whole lot harder to do what Jeremy did when the guy that you move around is not even sure he got hit or not. So right there, Jeremy gets a pat on the back the way he did it-at least within the garage area."
-Ricky Rudd, commenting on Pocono winner Jeremy Mayfield's bumping technique. During the final laps, Mayfield bumped The Intimidator (Dale Earnhardt) out of the way and moved on ahead to take the checkers.
"I told him he was number one."-Dale Earnhardt, describing what he gestured to Jeremy Mayfield as he pulled alongside Mayfield on the track after his win at Pocono.
News MakersTerry LabonteTerry Labonte was knocked unconscious in a crash at the Pepsi 400 in Daytona. The accident occurred on lap 83 when Labonte drove into Michael Waltrip. "Something had to break on his car," said Waltrip. "We were right behind him, and he spun out. I've never seen anything quite like it." Labonte was taken to Halifax Medical Center where he was treated and later released after a CAT scan turned up negative.
Kenny IrwinKenny Irwin died tragically in practice after a crash at New Hampshire International Speedway. For more on Irwin, see last month's issue (Oct. 2000) of Circle Track.
By The Numbers3Three drivers notched their second wins of the season last month-Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, and Jeremy Mayfield.
6The record set by Jeff Gordon at Sears Point Raceway: for consecutive road course victories.
7The number of poles Rusty Wallace has won this year.
9The number of laps Jeremy Mayfield led in the 200-lap race at Pocono, the third win of his career.
107The number of laps led by Rusty Wallace in the 200-lap race at Pocono before finishing 10th.
Victory LapsJeff Burton * Daytona International Speedway* Race No. 17Jeff Burton fended off the likes of Dale Jarrett, Rusty Wallace, and a bevy of challengers in a duel during the final laps under the lights at Daytona. Crew chief Frank Stoddard made a gutsy call to take two tires instead of four during a caution in the waning laps, putting Burton in the lead-and the rest is history.*Winner: Pepsi 400
Tony Stewart
* New Hampshire International Speedway* Race No. 18Tony Stewart had the fastest car and the favor of Mother Nature, winning the thatlook.com 300 at Pocono. Stewart dominated, leading twice for a total of 156 laps and was out in front when the race got called because of rain with just more than 20 laps to go. The kicker is Stewart had only enough fuel left for about eight laps had the race continued-it didn't, and he nabbed his third victory.*Winner: thatlook.com 300
|Raybestos Rookie of the Year Points Following Race No. 18
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Suppose you have an application that stores images in categories. Images can be uploaded, deleted, viewed, ... by users that were given right to view, upload, delete, ... Categories can be nested, and the rights can be set on every level.
Table category: id, name
Table user: id, name
Table user_category: id, user_id, category_id, view, delete, upload
Should I create a UserCategory object that has a User and a Category object + the view, delete & upload rights?
Fetching the categories for a user will thus result in a List<UserCategory>.
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They have meth at Bible Camp?
So that's why they kept going back...
Say No To Religion
Ha !!!
I wish my bible camp offered meth when I was a kid. I probably would of went if they did.
Well someone did say religion was the opiate of the masses.
Granted meth isn't an opioid but still....
You wouldn't normally stone your father for working on the Sabbath, but at Meth Bible Camp you would.
Meth Bible Camp: Not even once.
Where can one buy a tweakers Bible?
BTW, for some curious reason, in some areas, "Dead End" signs have been replaced by ones wrongly stating "No Outlet." I say wrongly, because once you discover it's a dead end, there IS an outlet: going out the same way you got in!


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This year, I've been noticing a lot of lovely grey kitchens out there, both online and in local display homes. I really like this trend. As much as I always adore white kitchens, I do love the colour grey. I think it is a very elegant new look for kitchens, which works beautifully with a range of styles, from traditional to contemporary. Grey can go from pale to dark, and from warm to cool, which makes it quite a versatile hue.
What do you think of this trend? Would you do a grey kitchen in your own home?
My ideal kitchen would have white cabinets, with pale, neutral grey walls and tile backsplash, white and grey marble-inspired counters (in a more affordable material), and dark floating floors, maybe in a walnut stain. (I've been thinking a lot about The Dream House lately. Must be the nesting instinct kicking in!)


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
International development according to Hollywood
"International development is just about at the bottom of the list of things that the average American thinks about each day.
Foreign bureaus are closing for major US news sources. One of the big television networks turned down more money for global health reporting after a series, entirely funded by grants, led to a dip in viewers. In other words ratings were so bad that the network turned down millions of dollars. It is that tough.
Aside from advocacy efforts like Kony 2012 and Oxfam advertisements, how are people learning about the world around them if they are not reading the news? The answer could be Hollywood." READ MORE


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Marines for Tots
Members of the Marine Reserves arrive at the Delaware Campus on December 15 to pick up the Columbus State donations to their Toys for Tots drive. More than 500 new toys were donated on both campuses and will be distributed to needy children by Christmas. Marine reservists John O'Keeffe and Abu Farah, and Susan Thomas of Staff Advisory Council coordinated the Columbus State drive.
MLK Day celebration to feature best-selling author and scholar
Columbus State's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration will be held on Tuesday, January 10 in the Conference Center Ballroom, and feature a keynote address by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, one of the nation's most influential authors and scholars.
Dyson is an American Book Award recipient and two time NAACP Image Award winner. Named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, Dyson is the author of sixteen books, including Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Dyson has appeared on nearly every major media outlet, including The Today Show, Nightline, O'Reilly Factor, The Tavis Smiley Show, and Real Time with Bill Maher. He is a contributing editor at Time magazine and hosts an hour-long news and talk program on National Public Radio (NPR) called The Michael Eric Dyson Show, where he analyzes today's biggest news stories.
The Columbus State event is free and open to the public, and begins at 11 a.m. in the Center for Workforce Development in the fourth-floor Conference Center. Performances by the Columbus State Gospel Ensemble and Ft. Hayes High School band, as well as a film clip from the movie If I Had Sneezed—the story of Dr. King's brush with death at a 1958 book signing in Harlem—will be included in the event.
The MLK Day Celebration is co-sponsored by Columbus State, City of Columbus, The Ohio State University Hale Black Cultural Center, and the Columbus Community Relations Commission.
Time to wash your face!
Brigid Pack, a Work Study student in the Nursing Certificate program readies a laboratory manikin for cleaning after the end of Fall Quarter. Each manikin used in the CPR classes of Multi-Competency Health has its "face" removed for cleaning in a dishwasher, the lungs replaced, and the entire unit is then inspected for needed repairs.
Continuous Quality Improvement at Columbus State
Raiders are Ready—for college math!
Move over Dublin, Gahanna and Delaware – the Reynoldsburg Raiders have jumped aboard the Columbus State bandwagon. Funded by an Educational Service Center grant, the east side school district is piloting a new math program designed by Columbus State faculty. The mission? Boost the retention rate of these students when they get to college.
"Students who take lots of developmental math courses in college are less likely to finish," said Kelly Hogan, professor of Developmental Education. "It takes them longer to get up to speed, it uses up financial aid, and they can become discouraged."
Reynoldsburg promoted College Prep Math last year to their high school juniors who were interested in attending college, and used the Compass test to determine their placement. This fall, 75 now-seniors are enrolled in the computer-based program.
"The pilot has been very successful thus far," said instructor Christine Rossetti. "There has been talk of as many as fifteen other high schools implementing the program next year."
And the winner is…
"Cougar Challenge" is the winning name for the Staff Advisory Council's upcoming 5K running race, to be held April 28 at the Bridgeview Golf Course. The name was submitted by Joy Livergood, advisor in Career and Technical Programs, who wins a gift certificate from Dick's Sporting Goods!Columbus State Cougar Challenge 5K


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American History, Atlantic and Pacific
The American Historical Association (AHA) helps instructors adopt a new international approach into the U.S. history survey, one of the most widely taught courses on community college campuses. "American History, Atlantic and Pacific" opens with a conference at the Huntington Library, where participating community college faculty members study the history and cultures of the Pacific Rim in relation to North America from 1600 to 1850. They spend the next year exploring ways to incorporate new material in their survey courses, then convene at a second conference – held at the Library of Congress – that similarly takes up the Atlantic World from 1450 to 1850. After a year in which participants implement their course revisions, a third conference in New York City closes the project with presentations on results. Participants also have opportunities to conduct research in the collections of the Huntington Library and the Library of Congress.
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So I did get to do this tonight after all, and so without further ado we enter CW's all time top 20, finishing tonight with the man who achingly just missed out on a hallowed place in your top 10.
Sir Ian Botham | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 47% of voters - highest ranking no.2
Ian Botham played on for too long past his best, he gained weight, lost form and finished his career a pale shadow of the player he'd one been. There, now that we've gotten that out of the way all that is left to do is to celebrate - quite rightly - one of the most explosive, dynamic matchwinners in the history of cricket. Beefy was a one-off, England's miracle man, capable of turning the course of a match in the blink of an eye with a blistering innings, a string of quick wickets or a catch that no one else alive could have even dreamt of taking. Indeed, Botham married great batting and bowling performances together more often than anyone else ever has - he made a century and took a five-wicket haul in the same Test match a ridiculous five times. To put that into context, no one else has ever achieved that feat more than twice. He was the first man to score a century and take ten wickets in a Test, and remains the only one ever to make a ton and take an 8-for in the same Test too.
It would be impossible to speak of Botham without mentioning '81 - has one man ever so singlehandedly (with apologies to Bob Willis) turned a series on its head like he did that summer? The miracle of Headingley would have been enough for most mere mortals to rest on, but the mighty all rounder than produced similar Man of the Match displays in the next two Tests to lead England to an amazing comeback series win, and establish himself as the biggest name in English cricket since at least Compton, possibly since Grace. His charity work and rockstar lifestyle meant he was never out of the headlines, and - now Sir Ian - he can be found giving his always strong opinions as a commentator.
Curtly Ambrose | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 68% of voters - highest ranking no.2
The cricket world was blessed with a host of truly great fast bowlers who reached their prime together in the 1990s. Waqar was the qickest, Donald the smoothest, Wasim the most naturally gifted and Walsh the most durable. But the most consistent, intimidating and - according to most of you - greatest, was Curtly Ambrose. 6 feet 7 inches tall with an intense stare and few words to say to anyone, Ambrose was a batsman's nightmare - he was genuinely fast but had the accuracy and control of a medium pacer and this, combined with the sharp, steepling bounce he generated, could make him virtually unplayable on his day.
Unfortunately for the world's batsman, "his day" seemed to happen just about every time he took the new ball. If Curtly's 405 Test wickets at less than 21 aren't impressive enough, then his economy rate of 2.3 - freakish for a fast bowler - surely seals the deal. In amongst a career full of superb displays, a few stand out: his 6/34 to demolish South Africa when they seemed set for an easy win, his extraordinary spell of 7/1 against Australia which ripped the Aussies to pieces and, well, just about every match he ever played against England - his record against them reads 164 wickets at 18. The Windies would give anything for a Curtly Ambrose right now, but then again so would everyone else...
Adam Gilchrist | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 68% of voters - highest ranking no.4
It has been argued that, relative to his role within the team, Adam Gilchrist is the third greatest cricketer of all time - given that he is the third name on the teamsheet for an All Time World XI. He's not quite that high in this particular study, but as the only 'keeper on our list he has cemented his position as the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman in the history of the game. A dashing 81 and five catches first Test was followed by a matchwinning unbeaten 149 in his second, and any doubts about whether he could fill the great Ian Healy's shoes were gone in an instant. That century was the first of seemingly countless match-turning innings played by Gilchrist as he - like Botham two decades before him - proved he was a man for the big occasion. In one-dayers he was equally brilliant, his ability to strike a cricket ball almost defying belief at times as he tore attacks apart from the top of the order. Gilchrist was actually voted Australia's greatest ever one-day cricketer, and his career in the short form of the game culminated fittingly in the 2007 World Cup final with an astonishing 149* off just 104 balls to lead Australia to victory against Sri Lanka.
Such was his magnificence with the bat that it was often overlooked that Gilchrist worked exceptionally hard at his 'keeping and developed from a good 'keeper into an outstanding one, finishing his career with more than 400 dismissals in both Tests and ODIs and gaining a reputation as one of the very best in the business. Best of all however, Gilly played his cricket in a sporting manner with a smile on his face, and you'd struggle to find anyone in the sport with a bad word to say about him. Living proof that nice guys really can finish first after all.
Wally Hammond | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 66% of voters - highest ranking no.3
Wally Hammond is unquestionably a pure, bona fide cricketing immortal. One of the very greatest batsmen of all time, he may also be the finest ever first-slip as well, and was a good enough fast-medium bowler to take 732 First Class wickets, 83 of them in Tests despite never truly taking his bowling seriously. He had a regal air about him, and Tom Graveney once wrote that it was worth the price of admission purely to watch Hammond walk out to bat. That walk was just the beginning of the glory however, as it was invariably followed by Hammond majestically putting to the sword whichever attack he was faced with. The first man (and still one of only two) to score 900 runs in a series, Hammond scored more than 7,000 Test runs and averaged over 58 - a figure which would have been even higher but for his ill-fated tour of Australia at the end of his career. He converted 7 of his 22 Test centuries into double-tons, and his 336* against New Zealand in 1933 was (retrospectively) the world record Test score until broken by Hutton.
For all his regal style and incredible cricketing achievements, Hammond could be a difficult character personally and rarely had close friendships with team mates or opponents - indeed, Wisden refers to his "olympian aloofness" which seems to be a very polite way of say that he was moody. After cricket, he retired to South Africa but found little happiness and died a poor man. It was not the way one of cricket's true immortals deserved to go out, but thankfully his reputation remains as brightly shining as ever.
Dennis Lillee | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 66% of voters - highest ranking no.4
A great sea-change swept across cricket in the 1970s. Colour television and extra sponsorship meant that players were being promoted as never before, and after years of defensive cricket pitches were becoming more bowler-friendly and cricket was becoming more exciting. For the first time in a long time bowlers - particularly charismatic fast bowlers - were becoming the stars of the show, and the undisputed leader of the pack was DK Lillee. Lillee burst onto the Australian domestic scene like a bolt of lightning and was called into the Australian Test side at just 21, taking five wickets in his first match. There followed a phenomenal 8/29 for Australia against the Rest of the World and a then-record 31 wickets on his first Ashes tour in 1972, and it seemed that the cricketing world was at the young paceman's feet. However, disaster struck and Lillee broke down in the Caribbean with a stress fracture and it was feared he may never bowl again.
Two years later, however, Lillee returned and for all his achievements it may be that comeback from a potentially crippling injury was his greatest of all. He took his second chance with both hands and the next decade was triumph after triumph for Lillee as he claimed his place as arguably the greatest fast bowler of all time. A two-year interlude as one of the biggest stars of World Series Cricket only enhanced his reputation, and as his pace declined he more than compensated with intelligence, cunning and variety. A crowd hero in Australia the likes of which had not been seen for decades, Lillee was a man of the people and he crowned his career in the most glorious fashion by dismissing Larry Gomes to break Lance Gibbs' world Test record in the Boxing Day Test of 1981. He finished that innings with seven wickets and led Australia to an upset win over the all-conquering Windies. Since his retirement in 1984, Lillee has been heavily involved in coaching and is always on the lookout for the next great fast bowling prospect that he can assist with his knowledge and experience. They could not be in better hands.
Brian Lara | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 79% of voters - highest ranking no.2
The only batsman to score a Test quadruple century, the only batsman to score a First-Class quintuple century, the only batsman to regain the world Test record score and one of only two batsmen to have held the world Test and First-Class record scores simultaneously, it's probably fair to say that Brian Charles Lara - the Prince of Port-of-Spain - could bat a bit. A gloriously attacking player with a thrilling style, his capacity to rack up truly massive scores was unparallelled by any other player of his generation. Such runmaking genius was first announced to the world with his epic 277 at Sydney in 1993 and carried on with such performances over the ensuing few years that he actually invited comparisons with Bradman - the zenith of which were the twin records of 375 and 501* in the space of two months in 1994. As the decade wore on, his consistency faded and - as the keeper of the flame during a period where the West Indies declined from all-conquering to also-rans - it appeared he was growing exceedingly frustrated with both his team and himself.
Lara's renaissance, therefore, was truly special and something to be celebrated by everyone within the game. He single-handedly turned around a series against Australia in 1999 with two of the finest innings ever played, later against Sri Lanka scored 688 runs in just three Tests for a losing cause - accounting for nearly half his entire team's runs for the series - followed of course by that monumental 400* against England. Lara overtook Allan Border's record of 11,174 runs and finished with a mark just short of 12,000 before he retired, signing off in his last series with an 8th Test double century. Disputes with the WICB forced his retirement, Lara's parting from the game in 2007 as dramatic as his strokemaking had been for the previous 15 years.
Keith Miller | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 74% of voters - highest ranking no.3
"I'll tell you what pressure is son. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse - playing cricket is not." With these immortal words Keith Ross Miller summed up perfectly what he was all about. Australia's greatest ever all-round cricketer, and one of the very best produced by any country in the history of the game, Miller was a dashing and debonair genius who achieved that oh-so-rare feat of being a sportsman who was as popular with the fairer *** as he was with the blokes. A fighter-bomber pilot during WWII, "Nugget" made his name as the darling of the Victory Tests in 1945 and in the same summer for a Dominions XI he made 185 against England at Lord's, an innings which included seven sixes, and remains to this day one of the greatest batting exhibitions ever given at the home of cricket.
The war meant that Miller played just one Test before the age of 27, but he quickly made up for lost time with a superb first Ashes series against England in 1946/47 and playing a key role in the legendary "Invincibles" of 1948. With Bradman's retirement, he became the biggest star in Australian cricket and continued his brilliant displays into the early 1950s. Miller was never inspired by unequal contests and took no pleasure in bashing minnows, but invariably saved his best for when it mattered most - it is surely no coincidence that all of his Test centuries and all but one of his Test 5-wicket hauls came against either England or the West Indies, the two strongest opposition powers of the time. Such were his performances against the touring West Indians in 1951/52 that they inspired John Goddard's famous comment "give us Miller and we'll beat the world." Notorious for his rogue charm and daring, Miller mixed with aristocracy and (allegedly) slept with royalty, all the while managing to turn in amazing performance after amazing performance on just a couple of hours sleep. He died within hours of Christopher Reeve, and more than one media outlet commented that the world had lost two supermen in one day.
Glenn McGrath | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 79% of voters - highest ranking no.2
Glenn McGrath wasn't especially quick, he didn't move the ball a great deal in the air or off the seam, and he didn't radiate any particular menace or intensity. What he did do was take wickets. Followed by more wickets. And not just any wickets either - but the big ones, the oppositions top guns, the men his adversaries were relying on to lead them to victory. There can be few bowlers who have ever deliberately set themselves to always target the very best batsmen on the opposing team, and fewer still who had the remarkable ability to pull it off as often as McGrath did. Shane Warne has been justifiably lauded for his wicket-taking feats, but he was often finishing a job that had been started - and pushes irreversibly forward - by McGrath. A tall beanpole of a bowler who made his debut in 1993, it was as leader of Australia's attack in the historic win in the Caribbean in 1995 that truly established him as his country's spearhead.
Two of the four best Test-innings bowling figures by an Australian belong to McGrath, while his 563 Test wickets are a record for a fast bowler. What was truly remarkable about the man they called Pidgeon was that as the decade turned, pitches got flatter and runscoring reached new levels, he actually got even better. From the turn of the decade until his retirement, in an era where batting averages skyrocketed and bowling figures worldwide took a pounding, McGrath took just short of 300 Test wickets at an average of just 20 - numbers that are scarcely believable. At the end of it all, he finished his international career with a double triumph - first helping Australia to a 5-0 Ashes win and then bowing out with a record 26 wickets and the Man of the Tournament award as Australia won the World Cup. Going out on the highest of highs indeed.
Muttiah Muralitharan | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 84% of voters - highest ranking no.3
Muttiah Muralitharan is quite simply the greatest wicket-taking phenomenon of the past 100 years, and very possibly of all time. So many records have fallen to this friendly and unassuming Sri Lankan genius that we tend to take them for granted - the all-time leading wicket-taker in both Tests and One Day Internationals with an extraordinary combined total of more than 1,300, 66 Test five-wicket hauls, an astonishing 22 Tests in which he has taken 10 wickets or more, one of only two men to have twice taken 9 wickets in a Test innings and joint holder of the record for the most Man of the Match awards in Test cricket. It can be dangerous to get too obsessed with the numbers when talking about any cricketer, but when the numbers are so incredible it is difficult to avoid talking about them.
Equally, it is difficult to avoid talking about Murali without addressing the controversies that have plagued him throughout his career with regard to his unusual bowling action. Called a "chucker" early in his career not just by fans and spectators but, infamously, by more than one umpire as well, Murali would not have been judged for packing it in and leaving cricket. However, such is not the nature of the man and with two particularly powerful allies - his unfailingly supportive captain Arjuna Ranatunga and body motion technology which displayed to the world the legality of his action under the new ICC limits - he came back stronger and more brilliant than ever. Murali overtook Courtney Walsh to become Test cricket's leading wicket taker in 2004 and then, after losing it to Shane Warne, took it back again in 2007. He completed the Test/ODI double by overtaking Wasim Akram in 2009, and by the time he retires - the current rumours say 2011 - he may have set marks that will never be beaten.
Sydney Barnes | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com
Nominated by 82% of voters - highest ranking no.3
If Murali isn't cricket's greatest ever wicket-taking machine then surely Sydney Francis Barnes is. Universally acknowledged as the outstanding bowler of his generation, most of those who saw him in action had no hesitation in going further claiming him to be the very finest bowler of all time. A fast-medium bowler who seems from accounts to have been able to swing, seam or spin the ball with equal skill, Barnes was exceptionally dangerous even on good wickets and all-but unplayable on bad ones. Archie MacLaren famously selected Barnes to tour Australia on the strength of watching him in a net session, but 19 wickets in his first two Tests soon displayed that such faith him was not misplaced. It was the beginning of a remarkable Test career that yielded 189 wickets from just 27 matches - an average of 7 wickets per Test.
How many more wickets might there have been, though, had Barnes been rather more - how to put this - sociable? A notoriously bristling, difficult man, he infuriated team mates and opponents alike - when a ship containing the England team was caught in rough weather, skipper MacLaren famously remarked "well if we go down at least we'll take that beggar Barnes with us." Partly because of his personality, Barnes did not play Test cricket at all between 1902 and 1907, not even playing the County game but preferring to acquire and untouchable record in League cricket. It is something to contemplate how the famous 1902 series might have unfolded had England's best bowler actually been selected, but Barnes made up for it by dominating three series toward the end of his career, and taking 122 wickets in his last 15 Tests. When told that a certain Australian batsman considered O'Reilly to be the greater bowler because of his ability to bowl the googly, Barnes replied mischievously "True, I didn't bowl the googly...I never needed to."
So that, dear friends, is where we end things for tonight - what Barney would say about missing the top 10 by a single spot one shudders to think, but the members of CW have voted in ten players ahead of him, and from this point on they will be revealed one by one. Stay tuned...


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If you haven't been following it, many of us are all over the board in three different blogs in discussion focused on, more or less, the potential for more dynamic blogging within the practice of digital history (after all, the blog… well, it's not just for blogging anymore). On this blog, most recently, there has been comment exchange in this post, this post, and this post; at Harry's blog (Bull Runnings) there has been A LOT of discussion in the comments in this post; and at Craig's blog (To the Sound of the Guns), there has been discussion in the comments in this post and this post. We're also getting thoughts on design from Brian (Behind AotW) and Jenny (Draw the Sword). Also participating in the exchange are Don (Crossed Sabers) and Nick (Battlefield Wanderings).
The really cool thing about this exchange is that all of us are tied to interests in the Civil War and how to communicate our respective interests. I brought it up and Brian (Antietam on the Web) seems excited about it, but a Wiki focusing on dynamic uses for the blog might be forthcoming. Although, this exchange alone on multiple blogs is a lot of fun.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and pray for the NFL lockout to end today. Oh please please please tell me that this nightmare from whence I could never escape has finally lifted its dark shroud upon the landscape. There will be much rejoicing. LET'S GO!
DRUG KINGPIN HIPPOS – 10:00PM (Animal Planet) Do I even need to explain this show to you? It's called "Drug Kingpin Hippos". I want to name my band Drug Kingpin Hippos, it's so fantastic. Like this won't be the greatest show of all time. It's about the wild hippos of Pablo Escobar, the infamous Colombian druglord who died in 1993 and apparently was quite the hippo enthusiast, almost as much as he was a drug and violence enthusiast. Anyway, with Escobar gone, his wild hippos have begun to roam free and terrorize local Colombians. It's a serious problem that would make for perhaps the greatest horror movie of all time. ANTICIPATION: DRUG KINGPIN HIPPOS!
IT'S WORTH WHAT? – 8:00PM (NBC) For this new primetime game show, NBC has fused together "The Price Is Right" with "Antiques Roadshow" and created a game where contestants have to guess the value of certain items and collectibles. Presiding over all this is Cedric the Entertainer, because something like this is always presided over by Cedric the Entertainer. Know what item I really want to know the price of? A drug kingpin hippo. ANTICIPATION: PRICEY!
LUDO BITES AMERICA – 9:00PM (Sundance) If you liked "Top Chef Masters," you undoubtedly remember Ludo LeFabvre, the nutjob Frenchie who almost always got eliminated early and got mad at everyone for not understanding the brilliance of his dish. Ludo has since become one of the biggest chefs in LA, and now this show has him traveling across the country opening pop-up restaurants (the hipsteriest way to eat) in various locales, including Santa Fe in the premiere. Expect tantrums aplenty. It's funny when he does it because he's French. ANTICIPATION: LE MEW!
MONSTER KITCHEN – 9:00PM (Food Network) Another new food show, this one featuring hosts Eric Greenspan and Michael Fiorelli as they challenge two contestants each week to make various monster items, including huge donuts tonight. Oh, huge donut. I will sleep on you and then eat you come morning. You're like a drug kingpin donut. ANTICIPATION: BIG DONUTS!
TRUE GRIME: CRIME SCENE CLEANUP – 10:00PM (id) A new show about people who have to clean up grisly crime scenes. Why do I suspect the cleaners look nothing like Amy Adams and Emily Blunt? ANTICIPATION: EWWWWWW