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Joshua Bloch, one of the Principal Engineers at Google and author of the book Effective Java, gave a lecture that was published on Parleys.com recently about the forthcoming support for closures in Java.
Near the beginner of the lecture, Joshua explains how Java was designed from the ground up to be a practical language with a job to do rather than an academic exercise in language design and stresses that this remains an important goal for Java's evolution. In particular, he uses the phrase "Don't fix it until it chafes" to emphasize that a practical problem must be severe before changes to the Java language itself will even be considered.
The last major change to Java was generics, or parametric polymorphism as it is referred to in functional languages. Joshua states that Java is "not doing too well" in the face of the complexity that was introduced by generics, citing an example from Angelika Langer's 427-page Java generics FAQ.
In essence, Joshua explains why he thinks the proposed designs for Java's closures are too grand and should be reduced to only two special cases with absolutely minimal changes to the Java language. In particular, he gives the example of a trivial curry combinator written using the proposed style for Java's new closures:
{ A1 => { A2 => R } } curry({ A1, A2 => R } fn) {
return { A1 a1 => { A2 a2 => fn.invoke(a1, a2) } };
For comparison, here is that function written in the statically-typed functional programming language OCaml:
let curry f a1 a2 = f(a1, a2)
Note the complete lack of types in the OCaml source code thanks to the language's powerful type inference.
Type inference is an essential component of statically-typed functional programming languages like OCaml, Haskell and F# and the lack of type inference in Java means that closures quickly become prohibitively complicated in all but the most trivial cases. Joshua's point is, quite correctly, that burdening Java with the complexity of full-blown closures when they are crippled by the absence of other language features is not constructive.
Joshua goes on to explain that closures are a general solution to some practically important problems in Java programming. Specifically, he cites fine-grained concurrency and resource management. The former refers to passing snippets of code to another thread for execution and the latter refers to using a combinator to encapsulate the undoing of state (e.g. closing a file handle)· He gives the following code as an example of this current deficiency in Java:
static void copy(String src, String dest) throws IOException {
InputStream in = null;
OutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new FileInputStream(src);
out = new FileOutputStream(dest);
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int n;
while ((n = in.read(buf)) >= 0)
out.write(buf, 0, n);
} finally {
private static void closeIgnoringException(Closeable c) {
if (c != null) {
try { c.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { // ignore }
In the statically typed functional programming language F#, this is just:
let copy infile outfile =
use outstream = new StreamReader(File.OpenWrite outfile)
use instream = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead infile)
while not instream.EndOfStream do
instream.ReadByte() |> outstream.WriteByte
Note how F#'s use binding automates the closing of the stream at the end of its scope using .NET's uniform IDisposable interface.Overall this lecture does a beautiful job of elucidating some simple practical problems that Java still struggles with. Joshua's concludes that the Java language should not be drastically altered but a new language should be created that addresses these problems. Joshua even cites the Scala programming language as one of the promising new languages for the JVM.
However, the Scala programming language is very much a research prototype and not a language for industry with a job to do. We were actually hoping that Joshua was going to announce a newer and more modern language for the JVM developed by Google that was designed and built for industrial use. Microsoft are already a long way down this road with their F# programming language and it seems a great shame that the Java platform remains so far behind. If Sun fixed some of the problems with the JVM itself, such as the lack of tail calls, and implemented a better language for the JVM we would surely be among the first adopters. Until then, we shall continue to use languages like OCaml and F# for our commercial work and not Java and the JVM.


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On July 4th, the journey to U.S. citizenship becomes a dream come true
MOUNT VERNON, Va. -- To Samera Khalaf, becoming a U.S. citizen on the Fourth of July is the perfect ending to a long hard journey that started in Baghdad.
"It's beautiful, the whole country is celebrating, like getting married on New Year's Eve," Khalaf said.
She was among 102 people who became naturalized U.S. citizens Friday at the estate of the United States' first president, George Washington, in Mt. Vernon, Va. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service granted citizenship to more than 9,000 people across the country in the past week.
Many of the ceremonies took place in historic places Friday, including the White House, Mt. Rushmore, Pearl Harbor and the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, Calif.
The crowd included immigrants from India, Afghanistan, Sierra Leon, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Turkey, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, said William West, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Khalaf, 52, a Sunni Muslim Arabic teacher, fled Iraq because her family was targeted by both Sunni and Shiite extremists during the U.S. occupation.
She spent three years in a Syrian refugee camp before being granted refugee status in the USA five years ago. She's now studying early childhood development at a Northern Virginia Community College and hopes to teach preschool.
"It's a hard experience," she said of refugee status. "You always feel you're going to be put out."
While the fear that comes with being stateless lingers, she said, "now I'm more confident. I'm just like any other citizen."
Sohair ElHabet was beaming after the 45 minute ceremony.
Gaining her citizenship "is just a great feeling, I don't know how to describe it," ElHabet said, joined by her American-educated Egyptian-born husband, American-born daughter and granddaughter. "I just feel free – and proud."
She arrived in 1981 from Egypt to join her husband while he earned a doctorate in engineering at the University of Maryland. After 33 years of having to adhere to U.S. visa regulations that limit her stays abroad to a maximum of six months, she's now free to visit family in Cairo for as long as she wants.
But with a home in Burke, Va., and her husband and children living nearby, "I'm not going to live in Egypt again," ElHabet said. "My family is here.
She planned to celebrate her citizenship and the Fourth the American way, with a barbecue and fireworks, she said.
Sadia Masood, 37, an internal medicine doctor at Fairfax City Hospital, said many of the immigrants gaining their citizenship hail from countries where the USA had seen conflict in the past. India had gone to war with Pakistan but she's unaware of many Pakistanis gaining Indian citizenship, she said.
"It's great that America is accepting," said Masood, a Muslim from India. "It feels great to be part of this country."

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It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath…one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe.
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by Tom Utescher
In the last home game on their official league schedule, the Norwood Fontbonne Academy Bears emerged from an overtime period with a victory, knocking off the girls of Nazareth Academy last Thursday, 31-28.
It was a welcome win for the NFA varsity, one of only two that the team has recorded this winter in the Girls Catholic Academies League. It's been a very different season for the junior varsity squad, which clinched the league championship on Thursday by thumping the Nazareth JV, 32-15.
The varsity Bears, who notched a win over Rosemont School of the Holy Child in a GCAL contest back in January, came out strong against Nazareth and led 8-4 with a little over two minutes left in the first half. Eighth-grader Eva McGrath fueled the early outburst with six points, while seventh-grader Eliza Ewing added a field goal.
In the final minute NFA eighth-grader Colleen Clark hit a lay-up and made a foul shot added onto the play, but Nazareth netted a field goal and two free throws to make it a three-point game at the intermission, 11-8.
Norwood's offense stalled in the third period and the visitors took the lead, enjoying a 16-11 advantage going into the final quarter.
The Bears worked their way back and tied the game at 17-all on a free throw by Ewing with a little over four minutes left in regulation. The teams raced neck-and-neck from there. On a lay-up by Ewing with 19 seconds to go the ball circled the rim and then dropped in to give the hosts a 25-23 lead, but Nazareth's Molly Driscoll drained a jumper from the foul line to tie the score with just seven seconds left.
A three-minute overtime began with the score 25-25, then the Bears' Ewing committed her fifth foul and Nazareth's Emily Miller hit the second of two free throws. A drive by NFA's Clark was matched by a bank shot by Miller, giving Nazareth a 28-27 edge at the end of the first minute.
Norwood went ahead for good on a short jumper by McGrath with 1:43 on the clock. The Bears lost an opportunity to reinforce their lead, missing four straight foul shots. Nazareth's last possession ended with a steal by NFA eighth-grader Casey Lorimer, and McGrath scored on a rebound at the buzzer to give her team a three-point margin at the end.
McGrath piled up 16 points, Clark had nine, and Ewing scored six for the winners, while Miller collected nine points to lead Nazareth.
Next, the Norwood JV took the court with a cast consisting entirely of sixth-graders. At the start of the season, the Bears lost a tournament game where they were missing two of their starters, but since then they've done nothing but win.
Most opponents have no answer for 5'10" center Chloe Burns, and Nazareth was no different last Thursday. In the opening quarter she poured in five lay-ups, and guard Kara Celano added a field goal on an inbounds play. Nazareth's Mary Kate Gould got off a buzzer beater, but her team still trailed 12-3 going into the second round.
After cruising to an 18-7 halftime lead, the Bears increased their substitutions and got everybody on their long bench into the game. Remaining unbeaten in official league contests, they captured the GCAL title with one game remaining, since each of the other teams have at least two league losses.
Burns' game-high 20 points was complemented by four points apiece from Celano and Gabby Dunning, and two each from Grace Gelone and Georgia Powell. For Nazareth, Kate Delancey scored seven points, and Gould finished with six.


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Thomas Joseph McCarthy (born 30 January 1966) is an American Oscar winning writer, director and actor. He most famous for his recurring role as Scott Templeton on The Wire, as well as directing the film The Station Agent (starring Peter Dinklage) and co-writing the Pixar movie Up.
For Game of Thrones, McCarthy directed the unaired pilot episode, including helping with casting the main roles in the series. Some of the material he shot for the pilot remains in the first episode of the series, most notably the scenes in the crypts under Winterfell involving Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark. Much of the rest of the episode was reshot by Tim Van Patten. Rather than jointly credit the episode to both McCarthy and Van Patten, HBO gave McCarthy a 'consulting producer' credit on the first episode.


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hermit_kid needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Please read the short statement on the actual site. (just the first 8-10 sentences)
This should give you a feel for the tone of the intended audience.
Desired Color Scheme:
red, (gray or white)
Desired Style:
politically neutral, non-profit feel, pro human-rights
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
-The design should not be too flashy-- simple and easy on the eyes.
- The use of the color red is required.
-This site is non-profit
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- Open ended -- I am not looking for anything in particular -- it is likely that the winner will be the one that captures the vision of site itself that is made in the statement.
- imagery that incorporates what is known as the 'Mass Games' with a hint of socialist realism will win my preference.
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'Slow' towns where you can forget about time
Rubielos de Mora
These easy-going towns invite you to take a rest from the breakneck speed of your daily life. They want you to enjoy the peace and quiet of sitting in the village square, of lingering over the lunch table in an outdoor restaurant, and of discovering the intricate work of craftsmen in their workshops. You'll be able to do all that in these towns of under 50,000 inhabitants, which meet a series of requirements for recognition of their outstanding quality of life.
There are currently eight slow towns in Spain: Begur and Pals, in Catalonia; Morella, in the Region of Valencia; Balmaseda, Lekeito and Mungia, in the Basque Country; and Rubielos de Mora, in Aragon. To give you an idea of what you'll find here, these towns aim to become a destination for people who are interested in bygone times, with squares, theatres, shops, cafés, holy places, unspoilt landscapes… in short, places with charm which revere tradition, a taste for the home-made and home-grown, and the natural passage of time.The principles that these towns encapsulate include respect for the environment and the promotion of natural foods and hand-crafted products.You can find more information on their official website


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Uggggh! Book Signing Failure! by Mary Deal
When a Book Signing Fails
Mary Deal
Many reasons exist for having a failed book signing event. Some reasons given below should prepare you for what is needed to be successful. Ways to save a failed book signing when no one shows up are also given.
1) The store did not advertise your event.
2) You did not take posters or advertising materials to the store to help with their promotion. This ties with #1.
3) Whether or not the store advertises widely, you should notify local papers and other venues that advertise events in that town.
4) If your event takes places in your hometown, you failed to advertise widely and on the Internet too.
5) You did not plan to give a presentation, speech or lecture that would draw people in. Most of us do not have an advertising budget that will draw lines of people out the doorway waiting for an autograph. It's sad to see someone walk up to a table and hand the author their book. The author signs and says "Thank you." The buyer walks away. No real connection was made.
6) Your table is not decorated appropriately. A table with your books is not enough. Have a nice table cover. Have a table sign or two; one with your Bio and photo, another with a photo of your book cover and the Synopsis printed on it.
7) Do you have post cards? Bookmarks? Business cards?
8) Are you sitting there reading while waiting?
These are some of the reasons book signings fail. Some things you can do if you have all the essentials in place but, still, no one comes.
1) Especially if the store is not busy, walk around the store offering your book marks. Do this if it looks like no one will be attending your signing.
2) The store should voluntarily announce that you are in the store and having a signing. If they have no PA system, ask how they might tell their customers that you are there.
3) If they have a way of making announcements and it looks like few will attend, ask the store to announce that you will have a drawing for a free copy of your book for all those who attend. You should always carry a brown paper bag for putting little slips of paper into with attendee's names to be drawn after the signing.
4) Make sure your table attracts lookers. Even add a small bit of flowers if it helps make it look pleasant.
5) Have some items on your table that apply to the book. In the case of my Egyptian novel, The Ka, I had a small bowl of hand-carved scarabs waiting. Those who bought books were allowed to pick through and find two that matched.
6) If you can be an actor, dress the part. That is exciting! Do you write sword and sorcery? Dress in a costume of the time period. If the store is big enough, pre-plan a duel with someone. Of course, you will have permission from the store beforehand. Is your book about belly dancing? Wear that costume. Be daring, you wrote the book. A hard core crime writer whose signing I attended had herself carried in inside a body bag! Talk about getting people's attention!
7) So you've sat there and no one attended. Get up and walk around the store carrying your book. Pass out your book marks and business cards. It may seem like a feeble last resort gesture, but at least you will have placed something into the hands of potential readers.
8) Stand at the entrance and hand out your book marks to buyers exiting with their packages. If not your books, use every moment to get something of yours into the hands of book buyers.
Many ways exist to prevent a failed book signing. Likewise, many ways exist to redeem the moment. If you have had a failed signing, you should see it as a valuable lesson in how to prepare for your next event.
Please visit Mary Deal's website for more wonderful articles like this one: Write Any Genre. Read More


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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Let The games Begin!.....Again!
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luv that u keep us entertained even on the off-days! Thx! This blog is one more special aspect of this special season! Let's Believe this will be a second half to remember -- for the RIGHT reasons! Let's go Mets!ReplyDelete
Wow Joe way to start the second half !!!! Let's hope it's a great one and we have a 7 game lead with 17 to go it won't happen again I believe we our the team to beat. yeah we need a few things like a strong 8 in guy maybe a solid 4 a new manager a new Gm but other then that we are a strong team and can be division champs this year well let's get it started with a win tonite!!!! Joe like always great work. Let's Go Mets !!!!!ReplyDelete
I just can't express how much I enjoy these crates. Joe if you could ever broker a deal with the Mets I would love to one day see these crates made available as a collectible figure that I could add with my collection of Mets memorabilia.ReplyDelete
Even better take some of your best art pieces and have them made into a action figure deluxe set similar to some of the things you see Todd Mcfarlane do.
That would be so kool!!!
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I think Crate action figures would be very cool. I am looking into it as we speak.
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Twice as many London bankers fear the dreaded "donut," or zero bonus, in the current pay season compared to a year ago, according to a survey released yesterday.
Financial services recruitment firm Astbury Marsden said a poll of bankers in London showed 22 percent are not expecting a bonus of any kind from pay awards covering last year's performance, compared to 11 percent a year ago.
Regulators and politicians are taking a harder line on excessive pay, and Astbury Marsden said 44 percent of those polled said this was negatively impacting their pay.
Banks including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Goldman Sachs are also keen to cut costs in a tough environment and show they have learned lessons from the past, which is putting pressure on pay.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research predicts bonuses for last year in London's financial sector will more than halve to £1.6 billion (US$2.5 billion) from last year, and will keep falling until 2015.
Bonuses — typically paid in February and March — will be down 86 percent from the record £11.5 billion paid out in 2007-2008, the center said.
Bonuses still make up a big percentage of pay in the industry, and managing directors expected them to be worth 88 percent of their base salary.
Almost half of those surveyed said they would look to change employer if they were unhappy with their bonus, the number of those who would look to move overseas fell to 14 percent, half the level of two years ago.
A separate survey released yesterday said a third of London financial workers expect their base pay to rise this year, as firms try to attract and retain the best talent.
Recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said 57 percent of financial workers it polled expected compensation to remain relatively flat this year and 33 percent expected a pay rise of up to 10 percent. Half of those expecting an increase cited firms' need to attract and retain the best talent as the main reason.
Morgan McKinley said there was a 36 percent drop in registered job vacancies in financial services last month from the previous month to 1,323 positions.
It said it expects a pick up this month, as a seasonal slowdown last month was compounded by some banks postponing hiring until the new year.


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How to install Memcache on Ubuntu
Memcache is an open source distributed memory object caching system. Intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
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This article will show you how to install Memcache on Ubuntu 14.04
When installing Memcache you can use apt-get to install everything that you need. First, run the update:
sudo apt-get update
Then, install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql php5 php5-memcached memcached
Thats it! Memcache is installed and running, you can verify this by running:
ps aux | grep memcache


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Like her cousin did years ago, Lucy likes to play the sniffing game with us. She pulls spice jars from the drawer, opens each one with gusto, and pronounces, "Mmmm. This one smells great!" She's come to love turmeric and curry powder. She has always loved dried basil. But her very favorite spice, by far, is cinnamon.
The kid has good taste.
We adore cinnamon around here. Rather than relegate it only to holiday baking, we put it in our herbal tea, roast chickens with coconut oil, cinnamon, and a hint of vanilla, and put a pinch of it into most anything we cook. It's bright, with a hint of spice, and good for the palate. (And for our health.)
Long ago, I stopped buying ground nutmeg. Microplane, meet whole nutmeg. Everything tastes better when I tap a few scrapes of fresh nutmeg into the dough. And yet, it never occurred to me to grind cinnamon fresh.
After we grated the Saigon cinnamon from Cinnamon Hill onto buckwheat crepes with fresh ricotta, we were convinced. I'm never using ground cinnamon again.
You might not have grated fresh cinnamon before either. We'd like to introduce you to Cinnamon Hill, our latest sponsor, with answers from its founder, Rupert Beeley. And seriously? Buy some of this cinnamon.
Tell us about Cinnamon Hill
Cinnamon Hill is a new online business selling freshly harvested cinnamon sticks together with a specially designed, hand-made cinnamon grater. It's all we do. We sell to cinnamon lovers, healthy eaters and people generally interested in good, fresh food.
Where does your cinnamon come from?
Cinnamon is the inner bark of the branch of a bush or tree. We get our Ceylon cinnamon from Sri Lanka and our Saigon cinnamon from Vietnam. These are the two finest cinnamons in the world. We go there every year and choose the best sticks, which we then wrap individually to preserve their freshness. Ceylon cinnamon has a warm, citrusy aroma whereas Saigon cinnamon has a hot, distinctly sweet taste.
Why do you sell cinnamon in stick form with a special grater? Why not just sell ground cinnamon?
The unique taste of fresh cinnamon comes from its natural oils. Cinnamon loses a lot of these oils during the industrial grinding process, under the heat generated by the whirring blades. To avoid this, some spice brands use a cold process called cryogenic grinding (ugh!). We don't go for that. We like natural things. Nothing can be more natural than grating fresh gourmet cinnamon at the table. That's why we designed this special grater – so that you get the very best of the taste.
What are the health benefits of cinnamon?
There is a lot of evidence that cinnamon reduces blood sugar levels (which is why many diabetics use it daily) and also lowers bad cholesterol. More generally, cinnamon is a good alternative sweetener and helps people to cut down on sugar and lose weight. In the US it is thought of as a "Fat-Buster" whereas in Europe and Asia it is better known as a "Super Spice," helping against various ailments. You can only be sure of these health benefits if you're using fresh, pure cinnamon.
Are there any downsides to using cinnamon?
There are occasional internet conversations, generally very ill-informed, about the health risks of coumarin. This is a natural flavouring which occurs in many plants, including cinnamon. It occurs in negligible concentrations in Ceylon cinnamon but in higher concentrations in Saigon cinnamon. In large doses it can cause liver damage in a small group of particularly sensitive individuals.
We did a post a year ago about this, setting out the facts as plainly as we could.
Why is your cinnamon of interest to our readers?
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My final goal is to import a JPEG image and convert it into an array that follows an RGB format. The array I want the image to go to is image[2][height][width]. Where image[0][height][width] is the red color scale from 0 to 255, image[1][height][width] is the green color scale from 0 to 255 and image[2][height][width] is the blue color scale from 0 to 255.
Below is the code I have so far. Basically, I can import an image to the "buffered" image, and I can write an image to a PNG file from an array of my choosing (in this case the array named "image") that follows the RGB format. But I can't convert the buffered image to an array. Does anyone know the missing code I need?
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; public class test { //counters int version = 100; int imageVersion = 100; //instantiate variables for dimensions of image array to be created int height; int width; int depth = 2; public static void main (String[] args) { new test(); } public test(){ //reads a jpeg image from a specified file path and writes it to a specified array File e = new File( "C:/Users/jclarine/Documents/Courses/CLU Classes/Computer Graphics/Week 6/Images/readImage.jpg" ); BufferedImage bi; try { bi = ImageIO.read(e); width = bi.getWidth(); height = bi.getHeight(); } catch (IOException e1) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } //final image array for output of fireworks int image[][][] = new int[depth][height][width]; for (int i = 0; i < height; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j < width; ++j) { for (int k = 0; k < depth; ++k) { //what do i put here to write the buffered image into the array named "image" that follows an RGB format. } } } createPNG(image); } //Method to write array to an image file public void createPNG (int[][][] imagePNG) { // -- write image to file //System.out.println("writing to file"); try { // -- move image into BufferedImage object BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); for (int i = 0; i < height; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j < width; ++j) { int pixel = (imagePNG[0][i][j] << 16) | (imagePNG[1][i][j] << 8) | (imagePNG[2][i][j]); bi.setRGB(j, i, pixel); } } File outputfile = new File("C:/Users/jclarine/Documents/Courses/CLU Classes/Computer Graphics/Week 6/Images/randomcolors_"+imageVersion+".png"); ImageIO.write(bi, "png", outputfile); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("image write error"); } //System.out.println("done"); ++imageVersion; } }


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Law enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
Police in Boston are trying to find the vehicle in this image above, which was captured from a surveillance camera in Dorchester, Mass. this weekend. The person inside the vehicle is believed to be the individual who shot four women on Sunday. Three of the occupants have died so far.
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One major clue came from one of several surveillance cameras police installed in parts of the city earlier this summer. The camera caught a picture of a white sport utility vehicle with a black top, halogen lamps, and fog lamps. Police are trying to enhance photos to pull up a license plate and determine the make and model of the SUV, which was seen in the area of Harlem Street at the time of the shooting.
We have our own guesses but hopefully you can help ID the specific year/model/trim. Please drop your theories in Kinja below.
Boston police asked that members of the public who have information about the shooting contact the Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470. People with information who wish to remain anonymous can call 1-800-494-TIPS or text the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).


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The Harvard men's golf team started its 2009 fall season with an impressive fifth-place performance at The McLaughlin, hosted by St. John's University at the Bethpage Red Course.
Vineyard Haven, Mass. native Tony Grillo helped the Crimson in its showing by logging at 18th-place finish in the 93-player field. Grillo, a sophomore, prepped for the season by competing over the summer and qualifying for the USGA National Amateur Championships at the Southern Hills Country Club and Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
"Qualifying for a USGA event is one of my goals every summer," said Grillo. "Playing in state and regional events are fun and competitive, but a USGA field is the toughest of the year as an amateur golfer. Just being able to stack up your scores against the best in the country is a huge confidence builder."
Grillo, citing hard work last spring and throughout the summer, will look for improved results in future events after logging a day one score of 77 and a second day finish of 81 in stroke play.
Playing in a field of 311 competitors, Grillo did not have far to look for friendly faces on the course - his father served as his caddie.
"Whenever he told me to just play (or if I told him to put the yardage guide away) I started to play with more confidence," said Grillo. "I learned that my game isn't far from allowing me to play at that stage more often."
Grillo recalls three memories from the event: A rocky start put him 3-over par through just two holes on the first day and a bad approach shot put him seemingly in trouble on the third as it bounced towards some water.
"I looked up at my dad who had one of the most worried faces I've ever seen," joked Grillo. "I smiled at him, told him to laugh and talk. I got a lucky break as my ball bounced over a creek and ended up going on my best run of the tournament."
When Mr. Grillo wasn't caddying for his son, the younger Grillo found a caddie for his practice rounds in former Crimson teammate John Christensen '09.
Grillo's second memory was even more uplifting even as he realized his tournament was over.
"I came off the 18th green on day two about as disappointed as I could've been," conceded Grillo. "After I came out of the scorer's tent a little boy named Mason came up to me and asked me for my autograph. I laughed as I looked up at his dad who said, 'You may not be on tour, but I have a feeling we'll be hearing about you down the road.' I don't think there could have been a better way to put a smile on my face."
The other 18th hole at the tournament - at Southern Hills - was the one Grillo tabbed as his course favorite. "Tiger (Woods) hit an amazing shot here in the 2007 PGA Championship that was very fun to try and reenact.
Hi most memorable shot? It was a put that signified an impressive short game that Grillo has brought to Harvard and its fabled The Country Club. "My best shot was a putt on 15 at Southern Hills to save par. It was across the green down a huge hill, and barely trickled in the hole."
Grillo was joined on the USGA National Amateur Championship circuit by Claire Sheldon - who will be featured next week.
"It means a lot to Harvard golf to have players playing in the event, but the truth is we are very capable of having multiple teammates play in it," said Grillo. "Last year Louis (Amira) qualified, and we easily could have had two or three this year. Hopefully we'll see it in years to come."


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In a darkened gallery, beads of light fall on various pieces of clothing, both old and new. A music score swelters up in its intensity and the faces of legendary Hollywood stars are everywhere.
This daze of sight and sound is "Hollywood Costume," a new exhibit featuring the works of American cinema's most talented costume designers over the past century. Originally shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition will be on display through March 2, 2015 at the Wilshire May Company building.
Covering the early days of silent film melodramas to the most recent superhero blockbusters, visitors can see iconic outfits, such as Charlie Chaplin's tattered costume and cane from 1915's "The Tramp" and Judy Garland's blue-and-white dress and ruby red slippers from 1939's "The Wizard of Oz," alongside Jamie Foxx's green jacket and tan pants from 2012's "Django Unchained" and Jared Leto's fur coat from 2013's "Dallas Buyers Club."
"The costume designer helps create (characters)," said exhibition curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis, professor and director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Movies are about people and it's our connection with (these people) that makes it so exciting."
For Landis, this exhibition is not merely a lesson in film costume history but also a love letter to the cinema and its power in transporting audiences.
"This is not an exhibition about clothes," Landis said. "This is an exhibition about the movies."
The ability of costumes to serve not only an aesthetic function but also a narrative one by taking part in this audience transportation becomes a major theme of the entire exhibition.
Featuring iconic items such as John Travolta's disco suit from 1977's "Saturday Night Fever" and Jeff Bridges' "The Dude" costume from 1998's "The Big Lebowski," the exhibition emphasizes the importance these costumes had in creating some of cinema's most beloved characters.
With more than 150 costumes from 126 films, the exhibition surveys a century of Hollywood filmmaking, including Charles Middleton's gown from the 1936 serial "Flash Gordon," Kim Novak's green sweater and skirt from 1958's "Vertigo," John Wayne's red shirt and Levi's from 1956's "The Searchers," Harrison Ford's leather jacket and fedora from 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Kim Basinger's black dress from 1997's "L.A. Confidential" and Jesse Eisenberg's sweater from 2010's "The Social Network."
"Costume design is a key component to cinematic storytelling," said Martin Roth, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. "And this exhibition is the first to fully elongate the often grueling process (of getting a story told), from script to screen."
Divided into three "acts" in much the same way a traditional film narrative is, "Hollywood Costume" traces the elements that go into creating a costume for a character, how costume design has changed over the years as technological advancements such as sound and color entered the film medium and the dynamic necessary between the director, the costume designer and the individual actors in order to create a memorable costume for a film.
"You're not going to see just costumes," said Kerry Brougher, the director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. "You're going to see these costumes brought back to life and how the characters (of these films) were created."
Through cutting-edge technology, multiple forms of media surround visitors throughout the exhibit: rear-screen projections, snippets of interviews with filmmakers and costume designers made to look as though they are conversing with one another, informational texts, animations, snippets of screenplays and photographs.
"This is not just a static exhibition," Brougher said. "It uses technology to send you on a cinematic journey, and you will be moving through the spaces into the dark dream world of cinema."


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And I'm so thankful for that. Because without my loves, I seriously wouldn't be complete. So today I invite you to really celebrate the love in your life! Oh, as if that wasn't enough celebration! Today I'm also celebrating 4 years of blogging here on the Perfect Palette! So I can't go without taking a second to remind you that your love and support means the world to me. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Your love for what I do puts the biggest smile on my face!


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Governor, Legislature headed for collision over the environment
The first bill that DFL Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican Legislature agreed on was to streamline environmental review and permitting. Since then, they've been able to agree on little else. And now a whole host of measures affecting the environment are appearing in a budget bill, which the governor is expected to veto.
The Legislature's proposed environment budget would cut 66 percent from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's general fund budget. That amounts to a cut of the agency's total budget of about two percent, according Republican legislative leaders.
The MPCA says that cut would mean the loss of so many staff members it would be impossible to meet some of the short timelines required in the streamlining law signed early in the year by Dayton.
The chief author of the budget bill in the House, Rep. Denny McNamara (R-Hastings), doesn't buy that. He pointed out that most of the MPCA's budget comes from fees and not the general fund. He said it's time for the MPCA to focus on priorities.
"You have to look at what functions in your agency no longer are your needs, what don't you need to be doing, what we can do more efficiently, what can we do different or what we don't need to do at all. Permitting and applications are important, and we need them to be a priority."
The bill would also cut the Department of Natural Resources general fund by about 22 percent -- that's roughly 5 percent of the department's total budget. The other main environmental agency, the Board of Water and Soil Resources, also faces a general fund cut of 26 percent, or 5 percent of its overall budget. Environmentalists say these cuts are deeper than those proposed for the state's budget overall.
On everyone's mind are the millions of dollars generated by the Legacy amendment sales tax increase which voters approved two-and-a-half years ago.
Steve Morse, the executive director of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership, a coalition of 80 groups, said the Legislature seems intent on using money raised by the amendment to substitute for general fund money. The amendment says Legacy dollars are supposed to supplement -- not substitute for -- existing dollars.
"They're zeroing out water programs, that are then being funded in the subsequent Legacy bill. What they're doing is taking away the traditional sources of revenue and then the Legacy bill will become a defacto substitution."
But Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, the Republican chair of the Senate Environment Committee said it's not fair to focus only on reductions in the DNR and MPCA's general fund when the state is facing such a big budget problem.
"And I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's not going down. We keep forgetting about the 5.2-billion-dollar gorilla that's in the room. It's there and we're charged with dealing with it."
Dayton has said he'll veto the environment budget bill, along with all the budget bills currently headed to his desk.
That's partly because it includes several policy measures. One of the most controversial was a change in the standard for sulfates in waters that support wild rice, from 10 parts-per-million to 50 parts-per-million. That language was removed in the conference committee. The bill also re-allocates money initially designated to develop the new Vermilion State Park, sending it instead to the DNR's parks and trails division to avoid park closures. Some policy measures remain in the bill. It exempts ethanol plant expansions from mandatory environmental assessment worksheet requirements, and eliminates the MPCA's rulemaking authority for the 72-mile metro section of the Mississippi River. It also boosts the number of people required to sign a petition requesting local governments to conduct environmental review on a proposed project, from 25 to 100. They must live in the county where the project is proposed, or in an adjacent county.
Republican leaders say if Dayton vetoes the budget bill they'll still try to enact the environmental policies in it. They include a measure to repeal restrictions on new coal-fired power plants. Meanwhile, the measure that would allow new nuclear plants sits quietly in conference committee -- presumed dead until next session.


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As Congress reconvenes this week for a post-election, "lame-duck" session, farmers and ranchers are urging their representatives to work together to address pressing issues facing agriculture.
Rayne Pegg, manager of the California Farm Bureau Federation Federal Policy Division, said it is vital for Congress to resolve issues such as the farm bill and the combination of scheduled tax increases and budget cuts that has come to be known as the "fiscal cliff."
American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman also emphasized the importance of getting the work done before the end of the year.
"Farmers and ranchers, like all Americans, have a list of issues that they are relying on the administration and Congress to address. But we cannot wait until 2013 for the action to start," Stallman said. "Serious work on the farm bill, the fiscal cliff and critical tax policy fixes all must start during the lame-duck session."
The fiscal cliff of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts and the end of Bush-era tax rates that become effective on Jan. 1 pose the most pressing challenges for congressional leaders and the Obama administration.
Josh Rolph of the CFBF Federal Policy Division noted that in President Obama's first address following re-election, he said in clear terms that the wealthiest Americans would need to pay "a little more in taxes." Although House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had previously indicated he was willing to negotiate with the president, raising taxes appears not to be an option for Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., clearly made that point in a statement, Rolph said.
"One thing seems sure: There will be a fight during the lame-duck session between a president who says he now has a mandate to raise taxes on the most wealthy, and congressional Republicans who oppose any tax hikes," said Rolph, who is the CFBF director of international trade, farm policy, taxation and plant health. "If there is a stalemate, taxes will go up for everyone beginning in January."
Unless Congress acts before the end of the year, for example, the exemption level on federal estate taxes will drop from the current $5 million to $1 million, and the tax rate will increase to 55 percent.
Farm Bureau will urge the lame-duck Congress to extend current tax policies at least temporarily, Rolph said, and will seek broader tax reform in the next Congress.
"With our high land values in California, it's easy for a farmer to be hurt by the lower exemption thresholds and be forced to sell portions of the farm to pay the estate tax bill," Rolph said. "Keeping the family farm in the family is critical to sustaining agriculture, and reforming the estate tax is critical to sustaining family farms."
Before Congress adjourns its lame-duck session, agricultural groups want representatives to tackle passage of a 2012 Farm Bill. Farm Bureau and many other agricultural groups urge passage of a five-year bill, not a quick fix such as extension of the previous bill, Pegg said.
"There is no reason to extend the 2008 Farm Bill, even temporarily," she said. "Both the House and Senate made great progress on a new farm bill, and that progress will be lost if a five-year bill isn't passed this year."
She said farmers and ranchers who rely on disaster assistance, insurance, marketing and research programs will be harmed if Congress fails to act, a sentiment also voiced by House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn. Peterson urged House Republican leaders last week to bring the bipartisan Agriculture Committee bill to the floor for a vote this week.
"I'm optimistic that, if given the chance, we have the votes to pass a five-year farm bill. There is no good reason not to vote on the bill," Peterson said. "This will give us the time we need to work out our differences with the Senate and get a new five-year farm bill signed into law by the end of the year."
The previous farm bill expired on Sept. 30. Covering research, specialty crop programs, dairy assistance, trade and conservation programs, the farm bill funds critical programs such as nutrition assistance or food stamps, technical assistance for farmers and ranchers, invasive-species prevention and management, and initiatives that support food production and environmental conservation.
A continuing resolution passed by Congress extended funding for some critical programs through March. Even so, more than 30 programs have been affected by the bill's expiration, including the Market Access Program, the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, the Specialty Crop Research Initiative and disaster assistance.
Those programs were the focus of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, which met in Sacramento last week to discuss impacts of the expiring farm bill programs. State Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross said she remains hopeful that Congress will pass a federal farm bill after it reconvenes this week, but added, "We must move forward with the understanding that with the current expiration of some farm bill programs, dramatic long-term impacts will be felt by California's farmers and ranchers."
With Congress returning to Washington this week, Farm Bureau's Pegg said now is the time for farmers and ranchers to contact their representatives about the importance of both the farm bill and of estate tax reform.
"Sharing your personal experience is key to making sure Congress understands how its inaction would hurt family farms and ranches and the rural economy throughout California," Pegg said.
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Disabled surfers brave the waves in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One minute, Renata Glasner is watching the waves crash on Leblon beach from her wheelchair. The next, she's plowing through the turbulent waters on a specially adapted surfboard.
Glasner, a 35-year-old graphic designer who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis four years ago, is one of dozens of disabled people on this special strip of Rio de Janeiro beach who are conquering the waves. Men and women with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, people missing a limb, the blind, the deaf and even the paralyzed all hit the water here.
They all require a different kind of assistance depending on their disabilities and maneuver their boards in different ways — some standing, some on their knees, others like Glasner flat on their bellies and using their body weight to steer the boards. But every one of them emerges from the ocean beaming.
"The taste of salt water has no price," said Glasner, who began to lose control over her legs shortly after the birth of her first child and now requires a helper to hoist her from her amphibious wheelchair onto the surfboard. "It's the taste of freedom. After you're diagnosed with a disease like mine, you can't even imagine you're ever again going to experience that taste."
Glasner is able to savor that experience on a weekly basis thanks to AdaptSurf, a Rio-based non-governmental organization that aims to make beaches accessible to the disabled and encourage them to practice water sports.
In a country where the lack of ramps and working elevators, the shoddy state of sidewalks and the shortage of pedestrian crossings make just leaving home risky for many disabled people, lobbying for their beach accessibility may seem like something of a frivolity.
But in Brazil, with its nearly 4,660 mile-long (7,500 kilometer-long) coastline, the beach is center stage for social interactions of all sorts: It's largely there that families reunite, that friendships are forged, that couples come together or dissolve and deals are struck. For the disabled to be deprived of the physical benefits of the beach and also all the socializing that goes on there is doubly isolating, says AdaptSurf co-founder Henrique Saraiva.
"Imagine, you're in a country that's surrounded by beaches, where the beach is an almost mystical place. But when you're confined to a chair, the farthest you can get is the sidewalk, and you sit there sweating under the sun and watching everyone play in the water," said Saraiva. "It's the most supremely frustrating experience."
He and two friends created the organization in 2007, some 10 years after a mugging left him partially paralyzed.
The then-18-year-old Saraiva was cycling near his home in an upscale Rio neighborhood when he was set upon by several young men who were after his bike. One of them pulled a gun.
"I saw it and kind of froze and he fired. A single shot went in through my stomach and lodged in my spinal column," he said. "Lying there on the street, I felt right away that I wasn't able to move my legs."
An extended hospitalization, a series of surgeries and months of uncertainty followed, with doctors unable to predict whether Saraiva would ever walk again. But the intense physical therapy sessions paid off and Saraiva eventually traded his wheelchair for the crutches that he still uses to get around.
Despite his badly atrophied right leg, Saraiva pulled out his old board and tried to surf again.
"It was magical. The water is the one place where I can forget about my handicap," said Saraiva. "It's the one place where I can feel like I'm just one of the guys, just like everybody else."
In a bid to share that experience with others, Saraiva founded AdaptSurf with the help of two friends. Similar organizations already existed in other places with vibrant beach cultures, such as California and Australia, but Saraiva says AdaptSurf was the first of its kind in Brazil. And it convenes every Saturday and Sunday of the year, weather permitting, he added.
"It was really touch and go at first," Saraiva said. The group would show up at a designated spot on Rio's upscale Leblon beach with one used surfboard and a couple of parasols. At first, there were just three participants, but AdaptSurf has steadily grown and recently received a generous donation to buy new mesh ramps and runways to help people cross the fine white sand and a fleet of special wheelchairs made from a fast-drying mesh and all-terrain monster tires.
"People who spend their whole lives in a wheelchair get on a board and manage to catch a wave and their self-esteem goes through the roof," Saraiva said, adding that even for those participants with disabilities so severe they can't do more than be wheeled, knee-deep, into the water, just being on the beach does a world of good.
Now several dozen disabled people come from across this metropolis of 6 million to attend AdaptSurf, some braving hours-long bus rides to be there every weekend. The group has even had people come from as far as the capital, Brasilia, some 725 miles (1,170 kilometers) away.
Though they set up their parasols directly in front of a lifeguard station, AdaptSurf has never required its services — a fact Saraiva attributes to the care the group takes. When the ocean's too choppy or the undertow too threatening, they forgo the water and practice their moves on land. Even when the water's at its calmest, participants generally surf one at a time, with at least one able-bodied helper.
Andre Souza, a 33-year-old who was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2001 motorcycle accident, had never surfed before he chanced upon AdaptSurf. Now, he hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the disabled surfer who's spent the most time on a wave. While the typical disabled surfer spends an average of about 10 to 15 seconds on any given wave, Souza last year spent slightly over three minutes riding a "pororoca," a giant wave that sweeps up rivers in the Amazon region at certain times a year. He hopes to surf another pororoca later this year.
"The first time I caught a wave I can only describe as the happiest moment in my life," said Souza, a lean, strong man with a quick smile and dark, sparkling eyes. "It's the place where I feel the most freedom I've experienced since my accident. All day long, all night long, you are literally a prisoner in your chair, in your bed, in your body. I don't have words to describe the sensation of liberty I feel on my surfboard."
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The latest Scotsman Rugby Show features a reflection on the end of Andy Robinson's tenure as Scotland coach with his match and final press conference in Aberdeen and comments from captain Kelly Brown and Al Kellock in the wake of the Tonga defeat.
Scotland's most successful coach Jim Telfer gives us his views on Robinson's decision to resign, who he thinks the SRU should look to replace him and what it will take to lift Scottish fortunes.
In a packed show, we also feature Mark Bennett's try-scoring return to Scottish rugby from France, in Stirling colours, and highlights from the Scottish Schools Cup Finals at Murrayfield last week, featuring George Watsons College, Merchiston Castle and Strathallan School; and former Hawick flanker Derek Turnbull looks back on his international career and the players who inspired him, and left him chasing their shirt-tail!
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By Tom Utescher
Although the Springside School hoop squad hasn't truly been at full strength since early December thanks to various personnel difficulties, the Lions acquitted themselves well last week against the top two teams in the Girls Inter-Ac League.
On Tuesday, Springside trailed by just a single point early in the fourth quarter before eventually submitting to Germantown Academy, 55-48, and in another home game two days later the Lions launched a three-point ball that rattled off the rim in the final seconds, letting Penn Charter emerge with a 38-35 victory. No matter how close, each bout resulted in an "L" on the season record, so the Springsiders were happy to end the week with a 53-41 win over Agnes Irwin in a game played at Chestnut Hill Academy on Friday.
"It's been said many times, but the truth is that all really good teams start out with defense, and our kids hear that from me all the time," said Springside coach Brian Morris. "I'm lucky to have [junior forward] Elana Roadcloud, who is the best defensive player I've ever coached. Tell her what you need her to do, and she does it.
"I think all the kids have come to see that we can stay in a game with anybody if we work hard and defend," he went on. "They believe in themselves and each other; we may get hurt, we may get behind, but we keep coming back."
The opening quarter of Tuesday's GA game gave no indication of how close the contest would turn out to be. Senior forward Dana Lotito started out with eight points in the opening frame and junior guard Jaryn Garner added seven as GA jumped on the Lions, 21-9. The Springsiders steadied themselves in the next round, nipping one point off of their deficit for a 29-18 score at halftime, when Epps had 10 points in the book.
In the third quarter the Lions first brought the margin back down into single figures, then kept creeping closer to end the period just three points behind the visitors, 35-32. Sophomore guard Gianna Pownall joined the list of double-digit scorers, now with 10 points in the book.
A free throw by GA senior guard Alexa Gallagher touched off the scoring in the fourth quarter, then with 6:08 on the clock a lay-up and foul shot by Roadcloud made it a one-point game, 36-35. Another senior in Germantown's backcourt, Monica Shacker, responded quickly with a three-pointer from the top of the key.
The Lions had a golden opportunity to actually take the lead during this stretch, but over the first five minutes of the fourth period they converted on just one of seven free throw attempts. Roadcloud, who performed better than her teammates in this regard, nailed a pair from the stripe with 2:42 left in the game for a score of 40-37.
Over the ensuing minute, the tally climbed to 45-38 thanks to a 5-1 GA spurt that included a foul shot and a jumper by Garner and two free throws by Schacker. Gallagher's fifth foul put Springside in the double bonus and senior Brenna Coll connected on each shot, but GA's Garner quickly recouped those points from the line as the Lions also committed their tenth foul of the half.
The home team kept putting Garner on the line (where she was eight-for-10 in the fourth frame) and the teams exchanged points up to 52-45. With 42 seconds to go Coll knocked down a "three" from the right wing for the Lions, who then fouled Shacker and dropped back to a 54-48 shortfall. Sinking the first of two free throws, GA's Lotito put the final score on the board with 18 seconds remaining.
During the encounter Epps sprained an ankle and was sidelined on Thursday, when Penn Charter junior guard Brianna Butler was just returning from an ankle injury of her own. Quakers senior Kendall Stokes, plagued by trouble in the same joint since December 31, was finally back in action for the visitors, as well.
The various injuries have given PC coach Diana Caramanico the chance to try out some of her younger reserve players. Among them are sophomore Kelly Kubach and freshmen Lauren Dimes, Kristina Kubach (who also sat out at Springside due to injury) and Steph Soroka, who were starters on Charter's soccer team last fall.
"They need to keep learning the fine points about basketball," Caramanico explained, "but they all have a lot of athletic experience, and I think there are certain ball principles that hold true from one sport to another."
On the other side of the scoring table, Springside was making do without three players who had started out the season. Epps was on crutches and senior point guard Shea Crotty is headed for ACL surgery, while 6'3" freshman Erin Garner left the team in the middle of the month. When PC visited on Thursday, the two bruised ballclubs battled to a 19-19 draw.
The Quakers made a 9-4 move in just under five minutes as the third period unfolded. It began with a trey by MaryKate O'Brien and a score off a rebound by fellow junior Danielle Sienko, and ended with two foul shots and a transition lay-up by another 11th grader, center Dianna Thomas-Palmer. Coll connected for a Springside "three," but regular field goals by Butler and senior point guard Aleesha Powell sent the visitors into the closing round with a 32-26 lead.
The score seesawed to 34-28, then Powell penetrated for two lay-ups and added a free throw, making it 39-28. Junior forward Michelle Boggs scored from the paint for Springside, then PC responded by sending a pass inside to a wide-open Stokes, who saw limited action but was in the game for Charter during the stretch run.
Boggs put in a short jumper on an inbounds play, and Springside was back within three (38-35) with half-a-minute to go. On the Lions' next possession a missed shot was rebounded by Pownall, and the host team called time-out with under nine seconds remaining. A final Springside three-ball bounced off the rim, and PC's Butler scooped up the rebound right at the buzzer.
In a game at Agnes Irwin in mid-December Springside struggled before prevailing 58-50, but in last Friday's rematch even the currently depleted Springside squad was able to take care of business.
"We were really banged-up, but the kids knew we needed the win, especially because it was a league game," Coach Morris said.
The Lions stepped off to a 20-7 first-quarter lead and then engaged cruise control to top the Owls by 12 points. In both scoring and rebounding Boggs bagged an even dozen, while Coll collected a game-high 17 points and Roadcloud added 11. Nine points from Pownall and four from junior point guard Alexis Giovinazzo rounded out the winning total.


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STOCKTON - The Brown brothers are teammates again after a decade and are wreaking havoc for Delta College to open the 2013 season.
STOCKTON - The Brown brothers are teammates again after a decade and are wreaking havoc for Delta College to open the 2013 season.
T.J. And Marcus Brown last played on the same youth football team in 2003 and are back together for the Mustangs (1-1), who will host Feather River (0-2) at 1 p.m. today at De Ricco Field. Delta will "Salute the Military" by allowing all active and retired military members in free with their service ID.
The Mustangs are coming off a 52-6 win over Reedley last Saturday when older brother T.J. Brown caught six passes for 195 yards and three touchdowns. Marcus Brown has been one of Delta's best defensive lineman with nine tackles, including 21/2 for loss and a sack that included a forced fumble and recovery.
"It's a blessing and it's something we've always wanted to do," said T.J. Brown, who played for Delta in 2011, but sat out last season for academic reasons. "It's awesome knowing he's holding things down on defense and I have a front row seat to watch him."
The Browns said being able to play together in front of their mother Sheryl nearly every week is something they are cherishing. The brothers didn't play together in high school because T.J. Brown, now 20, was about to be a junior at East Union when Marcus was able to find a spot on the St. Mary's team for coach Tony Franks. Now they are living together and enjoying the entire experience.
"He's a model older brother," said 19-year-old Marcus Brown. "He's watched out for me and kept me out of trouble. He's also like a coach for me and I take in everything he says."
Delta coach Gary Barlow said the brothers bring a lot to the team on and off the field, including leadership.
"Both are quality young men outside of their abilities on the field," Barlow said. "They're pleasant to be around, good to work with and good teammates. They're a great combination and we're fortunate to have them on the team."
Barlow said both have the ability to play at a four-year school and he's hopeful they can have the kind of season that will grant them that opportunity. Barlow said T.J. Brown has the ability "to get behind the coverage and change the scoreboard" and Marcus Brown has become a force on the defensive front.
"It's fun because we're both in this together and to be able to do this in our last year is great and I wouldn't trade it for anything," T.J. Brown said. "
Barlow swapped quarterbacks last week with Jeremy Mata replacing starter Cody Weinzheimer after his bouts of ineffectiveness. The coach said he wouldn't announce a starter until kickoff today. Mata was 10 of 14 for 244 yards and three touchdowns, while Weinzheimer was 6 of 12 for 50 yards against Reedley.
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Almost a year after being voted full European Node, EIT Digital Spain will host its first Innovation Day to recap on the great milestones achieved in 2017 on our three pillars of action: Education, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Therefore, several Innovation Activities driven by Spanish partners, supported scaleups, and students will give an inspiring overview of our commitment into driving Europe's digital transformation in Spain.
Later, after a morning and noon of sharing experiences and getting to better know the rich Spanish ecosystem of EIT Digital, our Madrid Node will have the honour to host the European EIT Digital Challenge final in the category 'Digital Wellbeing'. During which, the 5 finalists (yet to be announced) will pitch for the entire audience and for a top-level Pan-European jury, to win a prize of €100.000 value.
The event will take place on November 30, 2017 in Madrid (Spain).
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Floridians are feeling more upbeat about the economy than the rest of the nation with consumer confidence growing in the state in March, according to a monthly University of Florida survey released Tuesday.
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The gardens we want vs. the gardens we have
You're all witnesses to my gardening resolutions, and one of them is this: To stop whinging about the garden I want and to truly savor and celebrate the garden I have. On that list of what I've always wanted, and think that I can't have, is a fruit tree. Or three.
And then I realized something: I HAVE a fruit tree.
I have, in fact, a single-tree GLUT of crabapples. I have boughs bent under the bounty, marble-sized fruit spattering my walkway, popping under my shoes like grapes. Fruit that has to be swept away every day. Bushel baskets of crabapples, all hanging there, ripe for the picking, just waiting to be jam or chutney or juice or, as co-worker Dana Coffield suggests, drinks made with boiled crab juice, vodka and some fizzy water (I'm going to call that one the Cure for Crabby Cocktail).
Soil Sister Carol O'Meara, in the extension continuing-ed small fruits class that she teaches, tells of a friend who had gooseberries and crabapples, and every year made Crabby Goose jam. I've found a recipe for pickled five-spice crabapples, and they might be something like the spiced, pickled apple rings we'd have every year at my family Thanksgiving (only, perhaps, not horrid).
So last week, I picked about a half-bushel. I washed them well and packed them in quart bags and stowed them in the freezer. I gave what I didn't have time to de-twig and wash to Dana. And then I looked around some more at the garden I have (and, of course, the garden I'd just bought at a big plant sale at my local garden center — but more on that later).
I have broccoli raab, just starting to put up buds. I have spearmint in bloom. I have probably a gallon of green Sweet 100 tomatoes. I have a thriving lettuce patch, and every morning after I put the dog in the car to drive to the bike path, I go back to it and pluck some arugula or mustard or mizuna or tat soi and pop it in my mouth, savoring its bitter bite, grit and all. I have lemon balm and garlic chives that have naturalized into my lawn. I have butterfly bushes in pots, and I have hope that I will find a place for them, and a good friend to help me wield the pickaxe to put them into my crappy soil somewhere. I have rosemary, hiding under the giant lime-green potted coleus, that I have managed not to kill and that I might even be successful overwintering, if luck is with me. And of course, I have $40 worth of plants that I snagged on sale from my local garden center, chocolate flower and hardy plumbago and a $10 purple-and-white climbing rose.
And I have a new garden at a friend's house. A sprained shoulder and then a tricksy lower back have plagued me this year, and I've spent a lot of time in pain. So I looked at my Garden in a Box, thirty or so beautiful baby perennials, some of them despairing that I'd ever get the front of my front yard's sod ripped out to make a place for them. I scooped them up and took them to my friend Sheron's last Sunday afternoon, telling her, "I've got the plants. You've got the land. Let's make lots of garden."
She had a perfect place for it. We got the soil turned and the remaining weeds ripped out (another friend, Kathleen, had wreaked her wrath upon them earlier, so that was fast work). And then I wielded the trowel, popping the new babies in while Sheron hefted rocks from her hillside. We didn't start until after 4 p.m., and by sunset we were done, drinks in hand, sitting on the porch chairs, gazing at the standing stone and a new rock-embraced garden, mulched with native scree. She put a candle at the base of the stone and we toasted our decades of magical friendship.
If that garden takes hold, people will be able to sit on the window bench in Sheron and her husband's straw-bale art studio and watch the sun rise in September behind that standing stone. They'll be able to watch hummingbirds buzz the "Double Bubblemint" agastache. Once I get pictures of it, and it has a name, I'll show it to you. Should anything happen to me on my long commutes, should I ever move away from Colorado, that garden, that stone, will be at the home of my friends, just outside the window, just off the front porch.
I have gardens. I have a fruit tree. I have hope. It was right there all along.
(And p.s.: if you've got crabapple recipes or links to same? Post 'em in the comments. I'm kinda drowning in fruit here.)


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Northern Ireland's win over Ukraine and the goalless draw between Germany and Poland means it is all to play for going into the final round of fixtures in Euro 2016 Group C on Tuesday evening.
Here are the possible combination of results influences the progression of Michael O'Neill's side in the tournament.
Beginning with the most optimistic scenario, if the Northern Irish can stun a misfiring Germany then they would top the group with six points unless Poland inflict a third defeat on Ukraine to finish on seven. Winning Group C would set up a meeting with one of the best-performing third-placed teams while finishing second to Poland would see Northern Ireland face Group A runners-up Switzerland.
Perhaps a more realistic ambition for Northern Ireland would be to hold the reigning world champions to a draw. Regardless of the result between Ukraine and Poland, this would see the Northern Irish finish third with four points and needing to have performed better than at least two of the other third-placed teams in order to remain in the tournament.
If Ukraine beat Poland then the Poles would remain on four points but finish above Northern Ireland thanks to having beaten them in the opening match, as the result of the match between two teams level on points is used as a tie-breaker before their overall goal difference. A draw or a win for Poland would see them join Germany ahead of Northern Ireland on points, with Ukraine remaining bottom of the group.
In this scenario, and provided Northern Ireland's record meant they were one of the four best third-placed sides, they would play a group winner in the last 16 - most likely Group A winners France.
Even if they are defeated by Germany, Northern Ireland would be guaranteed to finish third. Thursday's victory over Ukraine would count ahead of goal difference should Poland also lose, while anything less than a win for the Ukrainians would see them finish with fewer points than Michael O'Neill's men. However with just three points to their name, Northern Irish progression to the knock-out phase would require two of the other five third-placed teams to finish with an inferior overall record.