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News & Notes: Game 97, 98
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 (Game 1: 5:00 p.m.) – Alliance Bank Stadium
TV: Time Warner Cable SportsNet 13
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (41-55, 5th(-14.5), North)
G1: RHP Miguel Batista (0-0, 6.35)
G2: LHP Gustavo Chacin (NR)
Syracuse Chiefs (41-53, 4th(-13.5), North)
G1: RHP Yunesky Maya (1-6, 4.45)
G2: RHP J.D. Martin (2-6, 4.28)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons take on the Syracuse Chiefs in a doubleheader at Alliance Bank Stadium (Game 1: 5:00 p.m.). The Herd lost the first game of the four-game set, 4-3, in 12 innings last night. Buffalo is now 3-2 since returning from the All-Star break. The Bisons will return home on Friday for an eight-game homestand against Pawtucket and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
VS. THE CHIEFS: The Bisons are 2-5 against Syracuse this season. The clubs have split a pair of two-game sets with the Chiefs also sweeping two games, July 2-3 at Coca-Cola Field. Despite the losing record, Buffalo has actually out-hit the Chiefs in the season series with a .270 average to Syracuse's .248.
ON THE BUMP: RHP MIGUEL BATISTA will make his second start of the season tonight. The veteran worked 3.2 shutout innings and allowed only two hits on July 14 against Rochester. Batista began the season as a reliever in the St. Louis Cardinals pen where he was 3-2 with a 4.60ERA in 26 outings.
GAME TWO DEBUT: LHP GUSTAVO CHACIN will make his Bisons debut in the second game of today's twinbill. The southpaw was signed by the Mets on Monday and assigned to the Bisons. Chacin was 3-6 with a 5.13ERA in 18 appearances (9 starts) for the Triple-A Oklahoma City RedHawks before being released by the Astros on July 14. Chacin has pitched in 102 career major league games with Houston and the Toronto Blue Jays.
OUR PAL, VAL: INF VALENTINO PASCUCCI has reached base at least twice in each of the five games since the All-Star Break. The reigning IL Batter of the Week also has 11RBI since Thursday and has now driven in 61 on the season (4th in IL). For his Bisons career, Pascucci has driven in 98 runs in 155 games.
BISONS BITS: With OF FERNANDO PEREZ'S debut last night, LHP GUSTAVO CHACIN will be the 50th different player to appear in a game for the Bisons this season…C RAUL CHAVEZ has hit in nine straight games, averaging .400 (12-30) since June 29…The Bisons (9-10) trail the Syracuse Chiefs (12-6) by 3.5 games in the 2011 Thruway Series.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (48-47) defeated St. Louis by a 4-2 margin last night at Citi Field. OF ANGEL PAGAN and INF DANIEL MURPHY both doubled and drove in two. RHP DILLON GEE worked seven innings and allowing only two runs for the win. New York hosts the Cardinals again tonight at 7:10 p.m.

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Don Walde
Boise, Idaho
1948 Chevy Fleetline
How about this 1956 picture of Don Walde (below), his little brother, and best friend getting ready to go to school in Don's '48 Fleetline? He bought the Chevy when he was 15 with money earned from mowing lawns, washing cars, and whatever else he could do to earn a buck or two.
By the time he was old enough to get his license, the Fleetline was lowered 4 inches in back, had a genuine Sears, Roebuck, and Co. dual exhaust system with 22-inch Smittys, was nosed and decked, and had a backyard suede paintjob applied by Don and a friend.
After a series of V-8–powered cars and trucks he's returned to his roots, and the sweet sound of a Chevy straight-six with dual exhaust. The truck he now drives is a '53 3100, with a dropped axle and a 235 equipped with tri-power, HEI, Fentons, and 22-inch Smittys.
Ed Moore
Bellingham, Massachusetts
1940 Hupmobile
Ed Moore sent in these pictures of a unique custom that has been in his family since the early '60s. Originally built by Nick Dunkavich of Meriden, Connecticut, in the early '50s, it's a '40 Hupmobile Skylark sedan that was made into a convertible by using the rear clip from a '49 Dodge Wayfarer roadster, using the Wayfarer top and lift-out windows. A '40 Plymouth donated its bumpers.
The Hupmobile was shown at the 1956 Hartford Autorama, in red paint, and then shown again at the 1959 World's Fair Auto Show held in West Springfield, Massachusetts, after being repowered with a '48 Mercury Flathead 3/4 race engine and repainted Aztec Gold. The Merc engine received a 3 3/8-inch bore and stroke with Edmunds heads and Offy manifold. There's red and black upholstery, Stewart-Warner gauges, and a T-Bird speedometer inside, and the top was custom-made to suit.
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We saw a still earlier this week, but this NASA visualization video is truly awesome. It shows how aerosols—fine particles suspended in air—travel around the world in a van Gogh-ish dance of color. This is what you are seeing here:
• The red tones represent dust dispersed by the wind, some coming from African deserts.
• Sea salt is represented by blue (yes, salt floats suspended above the sea too, thanks to cyclones).
• Sulphate streams, in white, come from erupting volcanoes and fossil fuel burning.
• And organic carbon, from fires, is represented in green.
The visualization—made with a climate model by NASA Goddard's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office—goes from August 2006 to April 2007. According to NASA, "such simulations allow scientists to better understand how these tiny particulates travel in the atmosphere and influence weather and climate." [NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]


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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Obama For Sale
The opportunities are endless. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, major disasters; everything is just another reminder to give till it hurts. All you have to do is click one of the many buttons beneath the color-tuned hues of Instagram photos of Obama or his worse half smiling while the country slides deeper into poverty and debt.
There's a reason that they call America, "The Land of Opportunity". Sure it's gotten a lot harder to come here and make a fortune with your own business, but buying time with the man at the top has just gotten a lot more affordable. You may not have the big wallet of a Warren Buffett or a George Soros and you won't cash in to the tune of a few billion dollars like they did; but for 25 bucks you might end up briefly exchanging pleasantries with the man who is slowly sending you to the poorhouse.
The designers are working overtime digging up retro fonts that summon up the image of a more prosperous America. There are so many Obama portrait shirts that they will be filling up landfills for generations. More likely, they'll be shipped over to the Third World, along with all the other surplus clothes that people donate once the trend has passed or they no longer fit, and, somewhere in an African village, children in the year 2021 will run around playing in "Obama 2012" t-shirts and Islamic terrorists in the Sahara will execute rebellious women while wearing "Forward" shirts.
You can get a "This is Change" shirt that lists all the things that Obama has done on the back, but the text is too small to read on the website, so, like ObamaCare and Obama 2012, you will have to buy it to find out what's in it and on it.
There's a collar for cats that says, "I Meow for Michelle" and an 85-dollar Vera Wang tote bag with Obama inside a scrawled heart. There's an Obama-themed dog collar, to express the relationship between the administration and its lapdogs, and a t-shirt with an all-red American flag that has a distinctly Soviet feel to it. There's a 65-dollar polo shirt designed by rapper and Farrakhan supporter Russell Simmons; which is just a generic polo shirt with a small Obama logo.
A Joe Biden cup holder sits next to a knit Obama dog sweater, a silver Obama brooch, an Obama basketball jersey, an Obama University hoodie, which has a seal but no motto, along with beanies, keychains, more dog collars, water bottles, tumblers, lanyards, cuff links, duffel bags, tube socks and a dog bowl with the Obama logo inside for your dog to drink out of.
Obama isn't just a politician; he is a Walmart of useless crap. A one-man Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie and Fitch and Ed Hardy with enough t-shirts, polo shirts and bandanas to outfit a small army of young men and women with more credit card limits than taste. And upstairs on the third floor of his cyberspace Target, you can find a plethora of 90-dollar reusable canvas bags from major designers that have become the stamp of consciously responsible consumption.
The price of meat has risen sharply, going up by a dollar to a dollar fifty a pound since last summer, and beef consumption has fallen to an all-time low. But that's okay, because you can still grill your burger in an Obama 2012 apron while using an Obama grill spatula to embed the Obama 2012 logo into the meat that your family eats. At 40 bucks, the grill spatula isn't exactly cheap, but it's a bargain compared to what another four years of Obama will cost you. And the burgers with Obama 2012 on them are a date stamped in time, reminding you that, if Obama wins in 2012, pretty soon you won't be able to afford meat at all.
There's an old joke about an honest politician being a man who stays bought. And while you can buy hundreds of dollars worth of ObamaCrap 2012, you don't have the money it takes to buy Obama. That's reserved for the bundlers and the billionaires, who get their payoff in the form of bailouts and stimulus packages. Al Gore gets a 500-million dollar loan to build cars in Finland, Solyndra executives get another 500-million for their 100 thou worth of donations and Warren Buffett gets billions in bailout profits. But you get to take home a 15-dollar dog collar with your master's name on it.
But don't worry, it's only money, your money, and they have to give it away to somebody. Paul Holland, a venture capitalist who sucked up some of that sweet money, described a DOE official walking into the room and announcing, "I'm Matt Rogers I am the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, and I have $134 billion that I have to disperse between now and the end of December."
"So upon hearing that," Holland said, "I sent an email to my partners that said Matt Rogers is about to get treated like a hooker dropped into a prison exercise yard. And I had the lack of judgment to go up and share that with him and the other people who were all standing around him…Fortunately for me they all laughed and thought it was funny."
Of course Rogers thought it was funny, because Matt Rogers wasn't the one getting treated like a hooker dropped into a prison exercise yard. The American taxpayer was the one being treated like a hooker in that crony capitalism exercise yard. Rogers, a longtime employee of energy consulting firm McKinsey & Company, who went back there after his brief term dispensing hundreds of billions of dollars, was just the assistant to the pimp-in-chief.
In Hollywood there's a big difference between the movie producer and the guy who buys a ticket. Holland, like Buffett and Soros, is a producer, and, like producers, he shares in the profit of the trillion-dollar production of Obama 2008 and is hoping to share in the boffo box office of Obama 2012. That's a world away from the chumps buying Obama spatulas and dog dishes who can bask in the historicity of a national debt that is so big it might as well come with a dog collar around their necks.
Obama's supporters can buy tickets to the inauguration, buy lottery tickets to win a dinner with Obama or a chance to feel Obama's sweaty arm on their necks for 3.5 seconds in an Instagram photo. They can buy Obama merchandise, share Obama on social media and do all the other free promotional grunt work that fans are tasked with in the social media age, but all they are ever going to be are spectators.
No matter how many shirts reading, "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For" get lugged around an impoverished country by tired UPS men in brown; there has never been a "We" here. Obama is an "I" guy and whatever "We" there is, is strictly limited to the kind of people who don't buy t-shirts, but who buy energy companies and banks.
While his website pitches branded bangles, running shorts, baby bibs, golf divots, blankets and a "Michelle 2012" gold pin, the real action is happening where the big men and women are being pitched more tangible benefits of another four years from a guy who spent 5 billion dollars a day. An administration which in its first term compelled every American to buy health insurance as a penalty for breathing has a lot to offer its crony capitalist billionaires. And the benefits don't have anything to do with "history"; only with "profitability."
The best con artist makes you pay for the privilege of being robbed. He doesn't just take your money, he convinces you to buy his t-shirt too.
17 comments:
- Me said...
He makes a very nice tuna salad sandwich, so I will take him.
OH! sorry my mistake I thought he was literally for sale . ;)
- 22/7/12
- Anonymous said...
I dunno, I found this column not up to your usual standards. Lots of politicians market this stuff, and themselves. Romney is all about profits for the few, not about productivity. I wish there were better choices.
- 22/7/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
For some reason Romney doesn't seem to be selling dog collars or gold pins with his wife's name on it.
Obama is about profits for the few. What Romney is for we'll find out when he's elected, but it can hardly be any worse than the last few years have been,
- 22/7/12
- lemon said...
Romney is all about profits for the few?
He employs people. He creates businesses that employ people. That makes profits for everyone.
Among Bain Capital's investments under Romney, the large job creators are clearly Staples and Sports Authority. Both of these were small, young companies when Bain Capital invested in them. Bain invested in Staples when it had only one store, so there were likely fewer than 200 employees at the time. Bain appears to have invested in the Sports Authority when it had fewer than ten stores. Unfortunately, there are no public data to say how many people were employed at that time. At the end of 1998, Staples had more than 42,000 employees, Sports Authority had almost 14,000, Gartner Group had almost 3,000, and Steel Dynamics had over 500. So at the beginning of 1999, when Romney left Bain Capital, these four companies alone employed almost 60,000 total employees. While some of the job growth at Sports Authority came from acquisitions, there is no doubt that these four companies created tens of thousands of jobs over the period.
- 22/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Masterful. Daniel Greenfiled hits the subject with the subtelty of an asteroid.
4 more years of obama will mean 14 more years, 40 more years... the end of America as we knew it. There has never been such an important election in American history, one that separates Americans who think like individuals from the bunch of sticks who act like zombies.
"We are the ones we have been waiting for" could perhaps in a saner time be a logo for those who believe in American exceptionalism... but now it's just the non-argument of the pampered generation of post-americans that have reached a part-time maturity to vote but will continue to prolong a mental adolescence throughout the most would-be productive years of their lives.
Perhaps they really are the ones we've been waiting for... the ones who represent what's at stake here, the ones we don't want to be, the ones who upon hitting the bottom reach out for the dynamite and keep on drilling. Yes, America has been waiting for people like that, a real threat to wake conservatives out of their slumber.
- 22/7/12
- Edward Cline said...
Daniel: This is one of the most revealing columns about Obama that I've read – a veritable sales campaign to sell a suit empty of everything but his Marxist commitment, chock full of all the junkie "freebees" one could imagine. It surpasses the T-shirts and coffee mugs and bumper stickers offered by candidates of more modest means. Obama offers so many themed goods I'm surprised his staff hasn't funded his own department store chain. Perhaps he has, and I'm missing it. Or perhaps he's signed a contract with McDonald's or Burger King to sell Obama and Michelle Action Figures. Perhaps he's signed a contract with a sports equipment outfit to sell special basketball back-boards emblazoned with the Obama campaign logo, or golf balls stamped with the same logo (the balls wouldn't be true; they'd be weighted to hove to the left). Or official Obama pooper-scoopers (that would go over well with the greenies in his flock) with Bo's mug below the logo.
In the meantime, I recommend a YouTube link to the "Rainbow High" number from "Evita." The lyrics are clever and so apropos. I otherwise have no use for Madonna, and in fact this is the only movie in which I can tolerate her. She's graduated from understandable lyrics to just showing her butt and mammaries at concerts. The number could have been about his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, but she's letting herself go to pot as she cruises the world on our dime with her girlfriend, Huma Abedin, forging alliances with tyrants and Islamic supremacists.
- 22/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Well written and thought provoking, thanks Daniel. We live in interesting times, I hope we survive them. -55six
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- 22/7/12
- Edward Cline said...
Re your Obama-Mart article: I wonder how much of this junk is made by virtual slave labor in China, that is, by serfs employed by companies largely owned and operated by the Communist cadre there? That would be fitting, and very telling. If true, Obama couldn't very well claim that Romney has sent jobs overseas and that he's responsible for the growth of jobs in America. But then, if it is true, no one is going to raise the subject, especially not the fawning MSM.
- 22/7/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
that is a very good question, would nail him on the outsourcing thing
unfortunately it would probably require buying this stuff to find out and I wouldn't put it past the campaign to remove any telling labels from it
- 22/7/12
- Keliata said...
Excellent political profile.
- 22/7/12
- Keliata said...
Edward--I agree with you re Rainbow High. Little suggestion--If you don't like the Madonna version go back to the original by Patti LuPone:)
- 22/7/12
- Dan Kurt said...
re: "4 more years of obama will mean 14 more years, 40 more years... the end of America as we knew it." ANON
We need 4 or less years of Obama. The USA, Europe, China and the whole train of economies that are linked together are about to CRASH and I do mean CRASH.
If the REPUBLICANS hold the presidency it will be Hoover REDUX. Then you, Mr. Anonymous, will get your forty or more, much more, years of DEMOCRAT HELL on earth. The Liberals have brought us here so let them take the rap.
From what I have seen of Romney, he is just another RINO, a Democrat light. Do not expect anything other than COMPROMISES and BIPARTISANSHIP from Mittens.
Dan Kurt
- 22/7/12
- Anonymous said...
"Obama isn't just a politician; he is a Walmart of useless crap."
Love it. Just caught up with the whole of last weeks output. Impressive.
I'm still waiting for a "Hubris and Nemesis" riff from you. Of course, you'd have to believe Obama was going to fail if you indulged that template, and maybe you don't. Whilst the insight is startling in your work, I've yet to detect an intimation that he will crash and burn. Or perhaps you don't do prognostication?
If star-gazing isn't your gig, I'll be disappointed but I'll understand. Your output is prodigious and I'm still love-sick at it. I'll settle for that if I have to.
- 22/7/12
- Anonymous said...
- 22/7/12
- Franklyn said...
FYI Edward Cline Daniel Greenfield
While I am for a new POTUS, had you checked the Web site
you would have read "Made in the USA." for the clothing and bags, in fact almost everything has a "Made in the USA" claim.
That, of course, does not mean it IS "Made in the USA," but if you believe POTUS & Pals, then . . .
- 23/7/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Yes the site does claim the items are Made in the USA. Whether they are or aren't, would require knowing who the manufacturer was and where that manufacturer has plants.
If the manufacturer was American Apparel, which is plausible in the case of the t-shirts, then the work was probably done in America, but by mostly illegal aliens.
- 23/7/12
- Tatersalad said...
First the President, Barack Obama makes a statement at a forum that "You didn't build that" and then receives negative press and attack adds and rightfully so. A couple days later he then tells us "WE" took it out of context...........again! How condescending is this President. "We heard you loud and clear Mr. President and you will hear all of us loud and clear in November."
1. "You didn't build that"! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOzSOK3yRI
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=192oEC5TX_Q&feature=related
3. http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/24/new-obama-ad-i-did-not-say-you-didnt-build-that-even-though-i-really-did/
4. http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/25/obama-says-he-has-no-patience-for-attacks-on-his-you-didnt-build-that-comment/
- 25/7/12


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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled a crackdown on immigration on Monday, saying he planned to show illegal migrants "the door" and rein in welfare benefits he believes lure foreigners to live off the British state.
In a wide-reaching policy announcement, Cameron addressed public concerns about Romanians and Bulgarians winning the right to work in Britain next year, a prospect that has prompted the right-leaning press to warn of the arrival of "hordes" of welfare-hungry migrants.
"Net migration needs to come down radically from hundreds of thousands a year to just tens of thousands," he said.
Cameron's initiative reflects a change in rhetoric across the political mainstream, after years when talking about immigration was seen as taboo and the reserve of racists.
All three main parties now talk tough on immigration after polls showed it had become one of voters' main worries ahead of a 2015 election.
The success of the UK Independence Party or UKIP, which campaigns against "open-door" immigration and humiliated Cameron's Conservatives in a vote for a parliamentary seat, has added to the pressure for policy change.
Fines for employers who hire illegal immigrants will be doubled and landlords who let housing to illegal immigrants could also face fines, Cameron said.
"Put simply when it comes to illegal migrants, we're rolling up that red carpet ... and showing them the door," Cameron told an audience of students at University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich.
Cameron said he wanted to stop Britain's welfare system being "a soft touch".
In measures that will apply to all citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA) - the 27-nation European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - immigrants will have to wait up to five years for social housing and will be subject to tougher "reciprocal charging" requirements when using the National Health Service - meaning their own country will have to pay.
Cameron said public fears about uncontrolled immigration - including the lifting of EU freedom of movement restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians next year - and the resulting pressure on public services and the rapid pace of change were fair.
"These concerns are not just legitimate - they are right and it is a fundamental duty of every mainstream politician to address them."
Announcing new measures to make it more difficult for EEA nationals to claim welfare benefits, Cameron said payments would be stopped after six months if recipients could not show they had a genuine chance of getting a job.
He also said newcomers would face a much harder test to see if they were eligible for income-related benefits.
"Ending the something for nothing culture needs to apply to immigration as well as welfare. We're going to give migrants from the EEA a very clear message," he said.
In Brussels, a spokesman for the European Commission said the EU executive would need to ensure any proposals were legal.
Cameron said he would contest any challenge "very robustly".
Last Friday, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Lib Dems, said Britain was also considering obliging visitors from "high-risk" countries to pay a returnable cash bond to deter them from overstaying.
Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said on Saturday that the unexpected success of his own party had shifted the debate on immigration, bringing it into the mainstream.
"If UKIP had not taken on this immigration debate, the others would not be talking about it at all," he said.
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If you heard word that Dan Aykroyd was putting together a third "Ghostbusters" movie and got visions of "Blues Brothers 2000" dancing in your head, perhaps this small bit of news will help put you at ease. Aykroyd told Ain't It Cool News that Bill Murray will be back for this installment. Which is nice, given that I spent at least five years of my childhood wanting to be Peter Venkman when I grew up. I'm sorry! THIS IS JUST NOT YOUR DAY! Here is the official scoop (spoiler ahead):
Hi Harry… just writing to let you know that Bill Murray did piece in this Sunday's Mail on Sunday supplement where he confirmed he will be in Ghostbusters 3 but as a ghost. Don't know if it's new to you but I thought you might be interested. If you want a copy of the article, let me know.
Here is Murray's exact quote from that article: "I said to them, 'I'll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.' So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film."
Murray also lamented the second "Ghostbusters" movie, saying special effects took the place of comedy. "The second one was disappointing, because the special-effects guys took over. I had something like two scenes - and they're the only funny ones in the movie." Let's hope his agreement to be in the next movie, dead or alive, gives this third "Ghostbusters" the dose of Venkman I think we all crave.


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Arielle Eckstut is an agent-at-large at the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. For 18 years, she has been helping hundreds of talented writers become published authors. Arielle is not only the author of seven books, but she is also a successful entrepreneur. She co-founded the iconic company, LittleMissMatched, and grew it from a tiny operation into a leading national brand that has stores from coast to coast, everywhere from Disneyland to Disney World to Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Arielle and David, have appeared everywhere from NPR's Morning Edition to The New York Times to USA Today.
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Adjectives to describe our vision for our site: bold, simple, contemporary, but friendly & inviting. Authoritative but fun.
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2011 Outdoor: Recorded new career best performances in the 800m and the 1,500m run... Finished seventeenth overall, 1:57.46, in the 800m run at the MSU Legacy.
2010-11 Indoor: Finished eighth overall, 4:18.59, in the 1 mile run at the America East Championships... Set a new career best performance, 2:40.13, in the 1,000m run at the Patriot Games, finished ninth respectively.
2009-10 Indoor: Competed in six meets, running the mile in each meet… Set a career-best time in the mile in 4:27.51 at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games.
2009 Outdoor: Placed 22nd in the 800-meter run at the America East Championships with a season-best time of 2:00.39… Recorded a season-best time of 10:47.64 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Penn Invitational.
2008-09 Indoor: Recorded a season-best time in the 1-mile run of 4:34.38 at the Maryland Invitational… Ran a season-best time in the 800-meter dash of 2:06.07 at the Lafayette/Rider Invitational.
2008 Cross Country: Finished 42nd in the 8K run at the Towson Invitational… Started the season with a 51st-place finish at the Mount St. Mary's 5K Duals.
Background: Named to the Frederick News-Post All-Area First Team for cross country in 2007… Garnered All-Area indoor track first team honors from the Frederick News-Post in 2008… Helped Linganore High School to second-place finish at the 2008 Maryland State Class 4A Indoor Championships.
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Today is Sunday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2004 with 264 to follow.
This is Easter.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. The evening stars are Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include American statesman and orator Edward Everett in 1794; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes in 1862; statesman Dean Acheson, secretary of state under President Truman, in 1893; fashion designer Oleg Cassini in 1913 (age 91); Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in 1928; actors Joel Grey in 1932 (age 72), Louise Lasser in 1939 (age 65) and Peter Riegert and Meshach Taylor, both in 1947 (age 57); and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman in 1948 (age 56).
On this date in history:
In 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany was liberated by Allied troops.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees in an exhibition game.
In 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his command in Korea.
In 1968, one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
In 1970, the Apollo-3 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded, but the astronauts safely returned to earth.
In 1983, Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.
In 1987, South Africa, extending a nine-month-old state of emergency, barred all protests on behalf of political detainees.
In 1991, Italian Prime Minister-designate Giulio Andreotti formed a coalition cabinet to serve as Italy's 50th postwar government.
In 1992, loud, foul-mouthed shock comedian Sam Kinison died at age 38 in an auto crash in Needles, Calif., which critically injured his newlywed wife.
In 1993, nine inmates and one guard were killed when a riot erupted at the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. The standoff lasted 11 days.
In 1994, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton paid $14,615 in federal and Arkansas back taxes and interest.
In 1996, Israel retaliated for bomb attacks by shelling Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. A U.N. refugee camp was struck, killing more than 100 civilians.
Also in 1996, 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, her dad and her flight instructor were killed when their plane crashed upon take off from Cheyenne, Wyo.
In 1997, international peacekeepers landed in Albania, torn by months of internal strife.
In 2002, a jury in Cleveland convicted Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat, of racketeering and corruption.
In 2003, U.S. military officials listed 55 key figures in the Saddam Hussein regime still at large and identified each as a card in a special playing deck. Saddam, whose whereabouts were unknown, was the ace of spades.
A thought for the day: it was Jerry Seinfeld who said, "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."


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The deputy Homeland Security director for Prince George's County, Maryland was in court Friday for a preliminary hearing on assault charges stemming from an April 5 incident when a real estate agent mistakenly knocked on the door to the official's home. The agent was greeted by a belligerent Keith Washington who stuck a gun in his face and, according to the victim, yelled "I know what the [expletive] you're here for. You're not here to do an appraisal".
The official, Keith Washington, is already under investigation for shooting two Marlo Furniture movers who were making a delivery to his home in January. One of the men died from the the shooting, the other was wounded. Washington says he shot the men in self-defense.
In the sketch a police investigator, Sgt. Aaron Ajani is answering a questioned from the prosecutor on the far left. Washington is sitting in the background behind his attorney, Michael Worthy. Judge Hassan A El-Amin ruled that there is sufficient evidence to send the case to the grand jury, but also noted "numerous weaknesses" in the case.
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Artist Gwen Voorhies Comes Into the Light
Once too bashful to share her work with the Acadiana art community, artist Gwen Voorhies' exploration in brighter colors reflects deep thought and humble confidence.
The shyness – the invisible but menacing barrier that blanketed the understated brilliance of Gwen Voorhies' paintings from the eyes of everyone for so long – hasn't disappeared entirely. It's still there, just underneath the surface of her psyche, an insecurity she's done her best to subdue.
That's why it's still hard to talk about her work, uncomfortable even. If you wanna email, that'd be fine. Ask (or type) anything you want. Through that medium, she can explain her artistic concepts and thought processes without sounding so damn righteous. She hates that. It feels forced. It feels braggadocious.
"I wouldn't even know what to say," Voorhies laments. "I couldn't even show (my work) for a long time. I didn't feel like an artist. I felt artificial. It seems contradictory that I'd be painting really strong but feel insecure in showing my work, but I think that had a lot to do with fear of criticism."
When asked how long she kept her pieces to herself, Voorhies sighs before sharing, "It took me 35 years before I was confident enough."
Thus, at an age when many artists' careers have wandered off on various tangential detours only to come back full-circle to their strengths, Voorhies sheepishly admits she's taking her first professional turn. She's delving into the use of brighter colors, now. There's symbolism in the switch, she shares. For so long, Voorhies exclusively dabbed her brush in dark, earthy paints, creating landscape scenes of majestic, yet haunting places.
"Looking back, you can tell when artists go through a traumatic experience," Voorhies says. "There's a parallel in their tone and in their feelings – at least there was for me. It shows up in their work whether they can talk about it or not, it's their authenticity coming through.
"I remember taking a workshop with Elemore Morgan, and I remember my daughter was in the hospital, and there wasn't anything I could do to help that situation, so everything I painted was dark and depressing. He kept saying, 'You're boxing it in. You're trying to control it.' I had no control over what was happening to her so I was putting that control in my painting.
"And so now, there's a parallel with the color shift and the changes in my life. The darkness has been lifted."
Yet the shyness persists. While painting is undeniably Voorhies' passion, it remained her dirty little secret for decades. It's hard to explain, she says. In front of a blank canvas, she brims with confidence. There's no hesitance in her strokes and few pauses once the artistic process has started. She works fast. Faster than most, for sure. But put her in front of that same canvas – now filled and hanging on a wall – and Voorhies' insecurities surface. For instance, the second painting she ever finished won a regional high school art award, yet Voorhies decided not to keep the piece. When Voorhies finally jumped into the deep local pool of painters, those close to her had no clue she even liked art, let alone that she possessed the talent necessary to create it. A couple years ago, one of Voorhies' friends thought she was pulling a prank when she showed her recently-completed website featuring the vast catalog of her work.
"We can paint beautiful paintings, but people can look at it and hate them. It's kind of scary," Voorhies says. "It doesn't matter if you've been painting for 50 years; it matters if it touches them. So if you're not confident and self-assured, if you're insecure and a little bit shy, that's holds you back tremendously. I was lucky that it didn't show in my work, but it showed up when I tried to talk about it and explain what I was trying to do.
"You almost have to turn it off. For a while there I would show my work but didn't care if anybody liked it. I just painted and painted and painted, and it didn't even matter if I liked it for a while there. I had to put it out there and work through this fear and overcome it. You know what they say about face your fears? I had to overcome it."
The result? A previously unforeseen collection of landscapes and portraits that the local art community has embraced. Typically, Voorhies visits the places she paints, snapping a picture only when the conditions are unbearable (which is often in the merciless Louisiana summer.) The Acadiana topography – heavy earth tones topped with stretching shadows – lent itself to Voorhies' fondness of dark colors. But considering her shift in mood and style, Voorhies has wandered inside and outside the region to find settings more conducive to the other end of the color spectrum.
"They're brighter for me, but I like subtlety. The colors are still sophisticated but they're brighter. Not these dark browns and greens," she says. "It's a lot of soft, neutral colors. I like that because it's very soothing and calming and that's what I want people to get from my work. I want them to enjoy getting into the landscape and feel like they can go in and sit, you know? And when I paint a figure in my landscape I want them to know what that person is thinking. That they're kind of comfortable in that space and in deep thought."


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We had a reader ask the following question:
"179 depreciation is scheduled for $25,000 in 2013 do you think this will be changed? If not how would it work on a pivot worth $71,000. ? $25,000 first year and remainder $46m over 6 years ?"
I am sure that the major equipment manufacturers such as Deere, Case IH are actively asking this same question. These manufacturers (and farmers) have enjoyed the benefits of 100%/50% bonus depreciation and Section 179 of up to $500,000. This year, bonus depreciation is 50% and Section 179 is limited to $139,000.
As the reader says, next year Section 179 drops all the way back to $25,000 and there is no bonus depreciation. For the answer to his calculation question, he would take Section 179 of $25,000 leaving $46,000 to be depreciated over seven years as follows:
- Year 1 - 9.38%
- Year 2 - 19.13%
- Year 3 - 15.03%
- Year 4-7 12.25% each year
- Year 8 6.13%
These percentages may change a little bit if the mid-quarter convention applies.
Therefore, his total depreciation deduction for 2013 would be $25,000 plus $4,315 for a total of $29,315.
As to his question on whether this will be changed, we may know this by the end of the year or we may not. With the major push for revenue raisers, it may be tough to get much of an increase, however, when they score this over a ten year budget window, the net effect on the budget is fairly minor due to deduction simply being a timing of the deduction, not an extra deduction.
If Section 179 and bonus depreciation remains as is, the effect on farmers and farm equipment manufacturers will most likely be dramatic since many farmers will now have a year of little depreciation (all soaked up with bonus and Section 179) and buying equipment at year-end may yield a very minor depreciation deduction. This may result in their equipment loan payments coming out of cash flow with no or little tax deduction. This can be the worst case scenario.
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(RNN) - A man wrote a letter to the Archdiocese of New Orleans asking a simple question.
Can I eat alligator during Lent?
Lent is the six week period beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday. The fasting period is meant to represent the 40 days of wilderness where Jesus Christ fasted, tempted by the devil and overcame all instances of temptation.
The letter from 2010 was posted on Ash Wednesday on the Facebook page of Insta-Gator Ranch, of Covington, LA. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond responded to Jim Piculas of the Insta-Gator Ranch assuring him alligator could be eaten on Fridays during Lent.
"Yes, the alligator is considered in the fish family and I agree with you," said the Archdiocese in the response. "God has created a magnificent creature that is important to the state of Louisiana and it is considered seafood."
If you know anyone that can gator hunt, now would be a good time to go and get dinner.
Since the inception of Christianity and the observation of Lent, cultures have treated what and how to fast differently.
In the Middle Ages, some cultures abstained from everything except bread, while other cultures would allow fish and fowl. Most abstinence laws omit poultry, considering it meat because it lives on land.
There is no universal diet for Lent - it all boils down to exerting self-control.
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website, no meat of land living animals - chickens, cows, sheep or pigs - are to be eaten during Lent. Broths, soups flavored with the by-products of animals, consomme or gravies are technically permissible. Eggs, butter cheese and gelatin are fair game.
On Fridays, most Christians eat fish to help restore nutrients lost in the fasting of the meat omitted from their diet.
"On the Fridays of Lent, we remember the sacrifice of Christ on Good Friday and unite ourselves with that sacrifice through abstinence and prayer," according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website.
This Lent season, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is responding to inquiries on his Twitter page, assuring those who wish to eat the reptile while observing Lent can do so accordingly.
"Fish are a different category of animal," said the Bishops website. "Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, (cold-blooded animals) and shellfish are permitted."
In other words - lobster, scallops, clams, crayfish, oysters are all good - and alligator.
The Bishops website warns, however, overindulging at your local seafood buffet defeats the purpose of Lent.
Everything in moderation.
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UBS holds EGM: key messages from Chairman
At the Extraordinary General Meeting in Basel today, UBS Chairman Peter Kurer will give a speech highlighting the following key messages:
Despite recent extremely volatile market conditions, UBS currently expects to report a small profit for the third quarter, based on preliminary estimates. The bank also substantially reduced its US commercial and residential mortgage-related positions, mainly through disposals.
Following the AGM in April 2008, the Board of Directors completed its governance work. Clear role profiles and expectations have been defined for all Board members and Board Committees. The changes have established a model of clarity and accountability in the governance of UBS.
UBS completed its strategy review, created three autonomous business divisions and vested them with increased operational authority and accountability. On this basis, UBS has also started a change program to reposition the bank for the future.
UBS also developed a remediation plan to address the lessons learned from the credit crisis. Substantial progress has been made in the meantime. Personnel changes have been made in key positions; how UBS determines and allocates risk capacity is being adjusted; the risk function has been reconfigured; and significant refinements have been made to the way the bank measures and evaluates risk.
2009 will be an overall profitable year. UBS, at all times, wants to maintain a strong capital base, adequate liquidity and a reduced, solid balance sheet.
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So that's that: the shining pole star of the pop-punk sky, before Green Day's reemergence as a commercial force anyway, dulled, decayed and dead to the record stores. Well, almost, as 'Not Now' is a new (read: old but previously unreleased as a single) track aimed at promoting the just-in-time-for-Christmas best-of compilation. What's it like? You need it spelt out? Okay.
It does precisely what it says on the multi-tattooed tin: a few lyrics about girls, some crisp guitars and a slight snarl in the vocal delivery. 'Not Now' comes backed by 'Dammit'; if you've never heard it, then you've not listened to rock music for ten years and you've only heard of MTV because you overheard those skateboarding kids, that loiter so Daily Mail dangerously outside the local shops, talking about it the other week.
For a good few million people, this was growing up.
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DarkForge, a group of veterans hailing from studios such as Blizzard, Sony and Microsoft, decided to go it alone with its old school game about necromancy. The overhead, randomly generated action game is all about summoning evil to do your dirty work, drawing influence from classics such as Myth: The Fallen Lords, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Dungeon Keeper.
Shadowrun Returns
Fans of RPG classic Shadowrun flocked in droves to donate towards its revival and raised a stupendous amount of cash in the process. Shadowrun Returns is now set for release in 2013 promising an even greater 'Blade Runner meets Lord of the Rings' adventure, where man crosses both magic and machine, and the Matrix is in full effect.
Starlight Inception
LucasArts veteran Garry Gaber and his team at Escape Hatch Entertainment reached out for crowd-funding in order to develop what he calls "the rebellious stepchild of Wing Commander, X-wing and Freespace 2" and promises a fresh approach to the classic space combat game. Starlight Inception is expected to shoot onto shelves next summer for PC and PlayStation Vita.
This spiritual successor to Rainbow Six and Swat is what the developers call a "thinking-person's shooter". We assume that means you won't be teabagged after getting fragged by a teen with lolwhut Tourette's, but we wont hold our breath.
While lead designer for Takedown is Bafta Award winner Christian Allen and the team behind the project consists of a handsome collection of industry veterans, getting the community involved was crucial to the game's development, apparently, and thus Kickstarter was the obvious route for funding.
Wasteland 2
The post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland got the Kickstarter green light last month, paving the way for Interplay founder and famed games developer Brian Fargo to proceed with the game's revival. After collecting a total just shy of $3m, a version of Wasteland 2 for PC, Mac OS X and Linux are all on the way, expected around October 2013.
After publishers generally told the team to get stuffed because no one is interested in old-school RPGs, crowd-sourcing has proven otherwise.
With the official return of X-Com pushed back, gamers have used Kickstarter as a means to bring their own version to market sooner. Step in Xenonauts from Goldhawk Interactive, a London-based studio with experience on commercial titles such as Battlefield 3 and Heroes of Might and Magic.
The "Strategic Planetary Defence Simulator" has been highly talked up by our resident old-school gamer, Lucy Orr, who can't wait to get her mitts on the X-Com-esque title. The team hopes to raise $50,000 in the next 31 days, in order to release Xenonauts to as high a standard as possible. It is almost there already, so things look promising. ®
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I can't believe how much everyone loved the husky puppy I submitted, but then again I can see why folks would fall in love with a husky pup. I mean look how adorable they are. Now because the Husky did so well, I found two other large dog breeds that are absolutely adorable looking when they are pups. The first tutorial of the day is going to be on "how to draw a German shepherd puppy", step by step. German shepherds are so cute when they are little and they are also very funny. I have a German shepherd now, but last year we had two shepherds and one of them had pups. They look like small bats when they are first born, and as they get older, their ears start getting bigger. Then their personalities really start to shine. Another reason why I wanted to make a German shepherd puppy lesson is because I think we might be getting another pup in a few weeks. I hope we do, but if we don't at least I have one cool GS that is amazing. Anyways I hope you like learning "how to draw a German shepherd puppy"; I think it came out cute. The lesson is going to be just as simple as the Husky so no worries there. Peace out and remain calm.
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Downton Abbey has many charms: deliberate pacing, gorgeous backdrops, top-rate acting. In fact, just about the only thing it's been missing these first two phenomenal seasons? Roast beef. And maybe curly fries. Fixed!
Special bonus points to this pitch-perfect parody for a cast that includes Richard Kind and Matt Walsh. Oh, right, yes, and for Lady Edith ramming her straw up her nose. Full video below:
The rest of this week's top comedy videos, including an awkward Jon Hamm interview, a secret gay agenda, and a look Inside the Actor's Studio Apartment, can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- We introduced you to SNL's new cast member Kate McKinnon.
- We guided you through the vast world of Los Angeles comedy.
- Ron Burgundy promised us all that Anchorman 2 is coming.
- We heard from Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott about their hockey comedy Goon.
- We found the stunning connections between Hamlet and the Bluths.
- Bring your own holo-yarmulke to our future kid's bar-mitzvah, please.
- We spoke to Geoffrey Darby, the co-creator of You Can't Do That on Television.
- The Everything Is Terrible road trip nears its end.
- We mounted a defense of the films of Adam Sandler.
- We reviewed Comedian, the Seinfeld-centered comedy doc.
- We studied the crazy gem of the seventies known as The Gong Show.
- We argued that comedy evolves more than you might think.
- Jess Day and Abed Nadir played a friendly, wordy game of Words With Friends.
- Don't make our write-up of How to Make a Situation About You about you.
- We caught up with Jim's Dad in time for American Reunion.
- We unearthed the lost roles of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
- We remembered Joan Cusack's time on SNL.
- We celebrated April Fool's Day early with The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
- We turned the DVD commentary on for "Corn Snake."
Splitsider is a website about comedy and the people who create it. It covers movies, TV shows, web videos, books and any other format that exists to make you laugh.


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How to Get Relief after a Debt Settlement Firm Rip-off
Beware of debt settlement firms that may be out to fleece consumers in crisis. If you get taken by a disreputable credit counseling organization or by a debt settlement firm, contact a consumer law attorney right away.
The attorney will advise you of your rights. He may recommend sending a letter on his law firm stationery to the credit counseling organization or debt settlement firm threatening legal action unless the firm makes amends to you (such as by giving you your money back).
The credit counseling organization or debt settlement firm may agree to the attorney's demands in order to avoid a lawsuit. If it does not respond or refuses to do what the letter asks, you can decide if you want to go forward with a lawsuit.
Assuming that you have a strong case, the attorney will probably represent you on a contingent fee basis. This means that you won't have to pay the attorney any money to represent you. Instead, the attorney gambles that you will win your lawsuit, and the attorney will take his fee from the money that the court awards you as a result.
If you lose your lawsuit, you do not have to pay the attorney a fee. However, depending on your agreement with one another, win or lose, you may have to pay the attorney's court costs and any other fees and expenses related to your case.
Regardless of whether you sue the credit counseling organization or debt settlement firm, you should file a complaint against it with your state attorney general's office, your local Better Business Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Although none of these organizations can help you get your money back or undo any damage to your credit history and your FICO score, other consumers who may be thinking about working with the same credit counseling agency or debt settlement firm may think twice after reading your complaint.
Also, if your state attorney general's office or the FTC receives a lot of complaints about the credit counseling agency or debt settlement firm, it may take legal action against it. For example, it may file a class action lawsuit on behalf of everyone who was ripped off.


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Sparrow, my favorite mail client on Mac OS, has finally been released for the iPhone.
Sparrow is an iPhone mail client designed with love to provide you with an efficient and pleasant mailing experience. With its pane navigation, its new threading system and many new features, you'll never look back.
Similar to the pane interface found on the Facebook app, you can use swipe gestures to reveal mailboxes, labels and folders. Swipe on a message and you can star, add a label, archive or delete a conversation. I've used Sparrow on my iPhone briefly and so far, am completely loving it (goodbye Mail app!). The one big downer is the lack of push notifications, which can be a deal breaker for some. Personally, I can live without it for the time being, seeing how this is the best 3rd party mail app I've used thus far.
And if you missed it earlier, Sparrow for Mac is still currently on sale at $6 (via StackSocial), though only until for another 12 hours or so. Check out the promo video and app description after the break.
 Sparrow, Sparrow, – $2.99


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Luxury Back in a Big Way at Fashion Week
As the spring 2014 fashion collections are revealed in New York, a certain theme is likely to emerge: edgy florals. Christina Binkley explains why so many designers will be showing florals that are just a little twisted. Photo: Getty Images.
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Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881 and, in addition to creating masterpieces throughout his lifetime, became the subject matter of many a master photographer as well. Celebrate what would have been his 131st birthday by taking a peak at the artist…
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Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site
Months of Operation
May 17 - October 14
Hours Of Operation
3005 Main Parkway, Maitland Bridge, Bay of Fundy & Annapolis Valley
There is a trail here for everyone. Wander through groves of 300-year-old hemlock trees, follow a trail to an abandoned gold mine, or visit an overgrown farm. The main park's 15 day-walking trails range from short riverside strolls and hiking trails from 0.5 to 6 km in length (some with interpretive panels) to long-distance hiking trails to remote regions of the park, with wilderness campsites.
During the summer months, relax on Merrymakedge Beach, or swim in the warm waters of Kejimkujik Lake. Swimmers can choose a sandy beach or one of many lakes along the trails and canoe routes. The best way to experience Kejimkujik is by staying overnight, whether you prefer to camp in a tent, trailer, yurt, cabin, or oTENTik, (a cross between a tent and a rustic cabin), close to amenities and electric sites, or to travel to a wilderness site in the backcountry. Entry fee is charged May to Oct.
Facilities / Services
Wheelchair accessible
Limited accessibility
Bilingual/Multilingual staff available
Detailed Information
This property accepts American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Debit card, JCB Card.
Activities: Birding & wildlife, Camping, Canoeing, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking


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I've got several SQL Server Agent jobs that should run sequentially. To keep a nice overview of the jobs that should execute I have created a main job that calls the other jobs with a call to
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job N'TEST1'. The
sp_start_job finishes instantly (Job Step 1), but then I want my main job to wait until job
TEST1 has finished before calling the next job.
So I have written this small script that starts executing right after the job is called (Job Step 2), and forces the main job to wait until the sub job has finished:
INTO #jobs
FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=TESTSERVER;Trusted_Connection=yes;',
'EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = N''TEST1'',
@execution_status = 0, @job_aspect = N''JOB''');
IF NOT (EXISTS (SELECT top 1 * FROM #jobs))
DROP TABLE #jobs;
This works well enough. But I got the feeling smarter and/or safer (
WHILE 1 = 1?) solutions should be possible.
I'm curious about the following things, hope you can provide me with some insights:
- What are the problems with this approach?
- Can you suggest a better way to do this?
(I posted this question at StackOverflow first, because I was focusing on improvement of the code. Still valid. But my guess is that people here will in general have smarter things to say about why I should not try to do this the way I'm doing it now, or provide good alternatives.)
EDIT (July 25)
Apparently there is not too much wrong with my script, according to the low number of answers pointing out problems with it :-) The alternative to this kind of scripting seems to be to use a tool that is designed for these tasks (like SQL Sentry Event Manager or ...) - or to write such a tool yourself. We won't be buying such a tool at my current company, so for now I'll just stick with the script.


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This is a personal shoot I recently put together. Many of the ideas and sketches I have been putting in my journal lately are set in outdoor locations at night. I seem to go through cycles of being inspired by different things in my personal work. For example, there was a time last year, when all of my ideas were studio shots. After spending more time than usual in the studio, I began to find inspiration in other things. I am a very curious photographer, and I enjoy changing the situations and people I work with so I am always experiencing something new. Each time I explore my curiosity through personal work, I not only fulfill my curiosity, but I also grow as a photographer, and learn things that will stay with me. There is something inside of me that is constantly pushing me to try something different, and create something new.
What I have begun to notice this summer through my personal work is that each phase that I go through, it is becoming less about a technical aspect, such as a specific light, or studio vs. outdoor, and more about my vision or the story I want to tell. Each phase I have gone through has really been more about exploration and my own curiosity than the actual technical detail I was focused on. Through these periods of different inspirations I have learned a lot, and I hope I will always be learning something new about light, and photography, no matter how long I work at it. But now I am able to focus more on my vision and less on the tools required to make it happen. Not that the tools aren't important. They are! But the more you practice, the more you will understand the tools, and the more they become ingrained in you so you don't have to spend as much time and effort thinking about them.
This picture is the first in a series I am working on in my spare time. I felt excitement when I made this image, and it was a good reminder for me of how much I love photography. Thanks for taking a look.


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We were able to successfully pre-order an iPhone 5 at 3:14 a.m. EDT.
At around 2:50 a.m. EDT we logged on to Apple, Verizon, and AT&T.
AT&T's website displayed a neat countdown clock that helped us stay on track of exactly when pre-orders released.
We ordered our phone through Apple's Apple Store app. We were also successful on Verizon's site.
Before the clock struck 3 a.m. EDT Verizon's website was not responding. It took 8 minutes for us to break through on AT&T.
Here's a quick rundown of what we experienced:
- As of 3:32 a.m. EDT the Apple Store website is still down.
- At 3:37 a.m. EDT we broke through Apple. The Apple Store is working and we aren't experiencing any problems. AT&T's website and Verizon's seem ok too from what we can tell.
- As of 3:41 a.m. EDT everything seems to be working well. We're annoyed that you can't pre-order no contract/unlocked phones but sort of expected that.
- We scanned Twitter to see other's reactions, some people are still having issues.
- As of 4:00 a.m. EDT everything is working fine.
Tell us about your iPhone 5 pre-order experience in the comments.
Don't Miss: Here's How To Figure Out Which iPhone 5 To Buy >


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MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.8 is a new release of MySQL Cluster,
incorporating new features in the
NDB storage engine and fixing
recently discovered bugs in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.7 and previous
MySQL Cluster releases.
Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1. The latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 binaries for supported platforms can be obtained from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/. Source code for the latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 release can be obtained from the same location. You can also access the MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 development source tree at https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-cluster-7.1.
This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.47 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.47 (2010-05-06)).
Functionality Added or Changed
mysqldump as supplied with MySQL Cluster now
has an
option which adds a
EXISTS statement before each dumped trigger
(Bug #55691)
References: See also: Bug #34325, Bug #11747863.
It is now possible using the ndb_mgm management client or the MGM API to force a data node shutdown or restart even if this would force the shutdown or restart of the entire cluster.
In the management client, this is implemented through the
addition of the
-f (force) option to the
STOP and
RESTART commands.
For more information, see
Commands in the MySQL Cluster Management Client.
The MGM API also adds two new methods for forcing such a node shutdown or restart; see ndb_mgm_stop4(), and ndb_mgm_restart4(), for more information about these methods. (Bug #54226)
Cluster API:
The MGM API function
ndb_mgm_get_version(), which
was previously internal, has now been moved to the public API.
This function can be used to get
NDB storage
engine and other version information from the management server.
(Bug #51310)
References: See also: Bug #51273.
At startup, an ndbd or ndbmtd process creates directories for its file system without checking to see whether they already exist. Portability code added in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.18 and MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.7 did not account for this fact, printing a spurious error message when a directory to be created already existed. This unneeded printout has been removed. (Bug #57087)
A data node can be shut down having completed and synchronized a
given GCI
x, while having written a
great many log records belonging to the next GCI
x + 1, as part of normal operations.
However, when starting, completing, and synchronizing GCI
x + 1, then the log records from
original start must not be read. To make sure that this does not
happen, the REDO log reader finds the last GCI to restore, scans
forward from that point, and erases any log records that were
not (and should never be) used.
The current issue occurred because this scan stopped immediately as soon as it encountered an empty page. This was problematic because the REDO log is divided into several files; thus, it could be that there were log records in the beginning of the next file, even if the end of the previous file was empty. These log records were never invalidated; following a start or restart, they could be reused, leading to a corrupt REDO log. (Bug #56961)
An error in program flow in
ndbd.cpp could
result in data node shutdown routines being called multiple
(Bug #56890)
Under certain rare conditions, attempting to start more than one
ndb_mgmd process simultaneously using the
--reload option caused a race
condition such that none of the ndb_mgmd
processes could start.
(Bug #56844)
When distributing
DROP TABLE operations among
several SQL nodes attached to a MySQL Cluster. the
LOCK_OPEN lock normally protecting
mysqld's internal table list is released
so that other queries or DML statements are not blocked.
However, to make sure that other DDL is not executed
simultaneously, a global schema lock (implemented as a row-level
lock by
NDB) is used, such that all
operations that can modify the state of the
mysqld internal table list also need to
acquire this global schema lock. The
TABLE STATUS statement did not acquire this lock.
(Bug #56841)
In certain cases,
could sometimes leave behind a cached table object, which caused
problems with subsequent DDL operations.
(Bug #56840)
Memory pages used for
DataMemory, once
assigned to ordered indexes, were not ever freed, even after any
rows that belonged to the corresponding indexes had been
(Bug #56829)
MySQL Cluster stores, for each row in each
NDB table, a Global Checkpoint Index (GCI)
which identifies the last committed transaction that modified
the row. As such, a GCI can be thought of as a coarse-grained
row version.
Due to changes in the format used by
NDB to
store local checkpoints (LCPs) in MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.11, it
could happen that, following cluster shutdown and subsequent
recovery, the GCI values for some rows could be changed
unnecessarily; this could possibly, over the course of many node
or system restarts (or both), lead to an inconsistent database.
(Bug #56770)
When multiple SQL nodes were connected to the cluster and one of
them stopped in the middle of a DDL operation, the
mysqld process issuing the DDL timed out with
the error distributing
tbl_name timed out.
(Bug #56763)
An online
TABLE ... ADD COLUMN operation that changed the table
schema such that the number of 32-bit words used for the bitmask
allocated to each DML operation increased during a transaction
in DML which was performed prior to DDL which was followed by
either another DML operation or—if using
replication—a commit, led to data node failure.
This was because the data node did not take into account that the bitmask for the before-image was smaller than the current bitmask, which caused the node to crash. (Bug #56524)
References: This issue is a regression of: Bug #35208.
On Windows, a data node refused to start in some cases unless the ndbd.exe executable was invoked using an absolute rather than a relative path. (Bug #56257)
The text file
containing old MySQL Cluster changelog information was no longer
being maintained, and so has been removed from the tree.
(Bug #56116)
The failure of a data node during some scans could cause other data nodes to fail. (Bug #54945)
Exhausting the number of available commit-ack markers
(controlled by the
parameter) led to a data node crash.
(Bug #54944)
When running a
SELECT on an
NDB table with
BLOB or
TEXT columns, memory was
allocated for the columns but was not freed until the end of the
SELECT. This could cause problems
with excessive memory usage when dumping (using for example
mysqldump) tables with such columns and
having many rows, large column values, or both.
(Bug #52313)
References: See also: Bug #56488, Bug #50310.
Cluster Replication:
When an SQL node starts, as part of setting up replication, it
subscribes to data events from all data nodes using a
SUB_START_REQ (subscription start request)
signal. Atomicity of
SUB_START_REQ is
implemented such that, if any of the nodes returns an error, a
SUB_STOP_REQ (subscription stop request) is
sent to any nodes that replied with a
SUB_START_CONF (subscription start
confirmation). However, if all data nodes returned an error,
SUB_STOP_REQ was not sent to any of them.
This caused mysqld to hang when restarting (while waiting for a
response), and subsequent data node restarts to hang as well.
(Bug #56579)
Cluster Replication:
When a mysqld process was shut down while it
was still performing updates, it was possible for the entry
containing binary log information for the final epoch preceding
shutdown to be omitted from the
mysql.ndb_binlog_index table. This could
sometimes occur even during a normal shutdown of
(Bug #55909)
Cluster Replication: The graceful shutdown of a data node in the master cluster could sometimes cause rows to be skipped when writing transactions to the binary log. Testing following an initial fix for this issue revealed an additional case where the graceful shutdown of a data node was not handled properly. The current fix addresses this case. (Bug #55641)
References: See also: Bug #18538.
Cluster API:
The MGM API functions
ndb_mgm_stop() and
ndb_mgm_restart() set the error
code and message without first checking whether the management
server handle was
NULL, which could lead to
fatal errors in MGM API applications that depended on these
(Bug #57089)
Cluster API:
The MGM API function
ndb_mgm_get_version() did not
set the error message before returning with an error. With this
fix, it is now possible to call
after a failed call to this function such that
returns an error number and error message, as expected of MGM
API calls.
(Bug #57088)


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- Belief that their diet will keep them healthy or has the potential to make them feel better
- Knowledge of they need to do to stay safe and stick to the diet
- Control over what, when, and how they eat
- Bonus: Food they like to eat!
You've decided your kids need a special diet, you've talked it over with the whole family, and now it's time to make it happen!
Safety First
If your children have a life threatening allergy or food-related autoimmune condition, it will be much easier to keep them safe if you just get it out of the house. We learned this one the hard way, during my gluten challenge. Even the most careful people sometimes make mistakes.
My personal opinion is that everyone needs to be able to relax and know they are safe at home. Kids who feel safe and don't have to think about their "diet" at home are much more able to go out into the world and deal with all the comments and hassles that come with a special diet.
If someone in your family must eat foods that aren't safe for your child follow this simple rule: Isolate the food, not your child! It's best if the unsafe foods can be eaten outside of the house, but if there are some kept at home, clearly label them! Put bright red duct tape in a big "X" on all packages that are cross-contaminated or contain an unsafe ingredient.
It will be a lot easier for your kids to feel good about their new diet if everyone in the family supports it. There are lots of ways to show support:
- Only offering safe foods to your child.
- Not eating unsafe foods in front of your child, at least at home.
- Saving disagreements with your spouse about the diet for times when the kids can't hear.
- Running interferance if others start to make a big deal about your children's diet.
- Going on the diet as a family (after appropriate testing, if necessary)
If you decide to continue to eat things your child can't have, be honest about it! You can still show your support by not eating those foods in front of your children very often. It's terrible for a kid to believe their parent is with them, then to find out that they were "cheating" all along. If your children catch you eating unsafe foods in secret, they'll feel betrayed at the very least. They may even decide that if you can cheat, so can they!
Make a PlanI've got to admit I'm not much of a menu planner by nature. But our kids do love to know what to expect. We have a little dry erase board on the fridge that has a list of the snacks for the day. Since our kids are 11 and 12, the are also in charge of making their own breakfast, and sometimes packing their lunches. All those foods are listed on the chart, too.
For kids who don't read, you can use a picture chart, or have a drawer or container that has the day's snacks in it. If portion control and recording portions is important, you can portion the snacks ahead of time. (Or better yet, have your child do it!)
Even young children can be involved in helping you decide what goes on the menu. Keep the decisions simple – choosing between two side dishes, choosing the protein for the meal, or a dessert. You can look through recipe books together and choose things to try.
Giving the kids free access to healthy foods they helped choose helps take away the burden of constantly battling the question, "What can I eat?" It also gives the kids a very important sense of control and competence when it comes to food.
People who are full on the good stuff think about the things they can't have a lot less. Find some new favorites that work with the diet and enjoy them!
Stash SnacksWith a special diet, you can not count on restaurants, school, or friends to have safe foods available. But once you have a special diet, you start to realize how often food is a part of things! You want to be able to accept last minute invitations, so having portable safe food on hand is key. Even if your child is full before you leave the house, always be prepared!
Your child's classroom needs to have a stash of safe treats. They may have a refrigerator or freezer, or the food you send might have to be shelf stable. Get a list of special occasions and lesson plans that involve food from the teacher, too, so you can send things on the day of birthday parties and the like.
When your children go to friend's houses or on outings, always send snacks or a meal, and pack extra! While I hate wasting food, I'd always rather my children know that they will have enough to eat. Make sure you remind the other adults in charge that your child has their own food and other food is dangerous for them.
Choose foods that:
- Your kids love – bonus if the other kids will be jealous!
- Don't need heating up or special prep work – having a good thermos and insulated lunch bag goes a long way!
- Won't embarrass your child – this is really personal, some kids want their food to look exactly like everyone else's while other kids don't care at all!
Of course your child may have different dietary needs than ours, but here are some of the things we send with our children. When other kids are roasting marshmallows, we send our kids coconut macaroons. For puddings, they get lemon curd. Instead of other savory snacks, our kids get homemade beef jerky. If shakes or ice cream come up, we send smoothies. Instead of regular cakes and muffins, they get our GAPS legal coconut flour based cakes or almond bread muffins. Chopped veggies and nut butter, ranch, or blue cheese dressing always look totally normal.
We often don't know what will be served, and that's ok. If we send foods we know the kids like, we don't have to worry about it being a big deal.
Next up we'll talk about how to help your children stand up for themselves in difficult situations so they can stay safe!
Here's a list of the posts in this series:
- Empowering Kids On Special Diets
- Empowering Kids Part 2: A Fresh Start
- Empowering Kids Part 3: Make It Easy
- Empowering Kids Part 4: On Their Own
This post is part of Sunday School, Made From Scratch Monday, Homestead Barn Hop, Monday Mania, Weekend Gourmet, Seasonal Celebration, Fat Tuesday, Slightly Indulgent Tuesday, Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways, Gluten-Free Wednesdays, Healthy 2Day Wednesdays, Allergy Free Wednesdays, Real Food Wednesday, Simple Lives Thursday, , Fresh Bites Friday, Allergy Friendly Friday, Freaky Friday, Fight Back Friday, Friday Food Flicks, Allergy Friendly Friday, Living Well Blog Hop.