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Part of the Journey to the Stars exhibition.
Ticket reservations are required. Facial coverings are strongly recommended. See Health and Safety.
Part of the Journey to the Stars exhibition.
Our Journey to the Stars spans billions of years, beginning on Earth and extending beyond our galaxy and into the future before returning home.
More than 13 billion years ago there was only an invisible substance called dark matter, along with hydrogen and helium gas. The stars that formed quickly exploded in supernovas, blasting out new elements, the raw materials for building new stars and planets. The gravity of dark matter collected gas into galaxies—including our own Milky Way. Moving forward to about 4.5 billion years ago, we see a tightly packed group of stars, called a star cluster, in which stars of many different masses and colors are formed, including our Sun. The most massive stars lived only briefly, and exploded in gigantic supernovas. Less massive stars were flung out of the cluster—some, like our Sun, with planets already formed and orbiting around them.
We move onto our present day Sun to see how stars work—from its outer layer where a million-degree corona blasts out a solar wind, to its core where atomic nuclei fuse together to release immense amounts of energy. Jumping to the future, five billion years from now, our Sun at the end of its life expands into a red giant and sheds its outer layers, leaving a white dwarf, the hot dense remnant of the Sun's core.
Returning to the present, we explore stars in our galactic backyard that are going through all these processes now—being born, ejected from star clusters, slowly dying, and shedding matter that may someday form other stars and planets. A short trip back home shows us the familiar night sky, and the morning light of the rising Sun reveals what stars have made possible.


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Japanese high school teams look to save young pitchers' arms
July 16, 2014 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The marathon pitching exploits of Japan's high school baseball players may soon be a thing of the past.
Japan's High School Baseball Federation is considering introducing measures such as a tiebreaker and pitch counts limits in order to protect the health of the country's future stars.
New York Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka, who was recently placed on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, was a standout in Japanese high school baseball. He led his high school team to a championship in 2005.
New York Mets pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who had elbow surgery in 2011, gained notoriety for throwing 250 pitches in 17 innings at the summer high school tournament in 1988 after a 148-pitch complete-game shutout the previous day.
Tomohiro Anraku, who many consider the future of Japanese baseball, took the mound on July 16 and pitched a complete-game shutout an 8-0 win in a qualifying tournament for the summer tournament.
The 17-year-old Anraku, who experienced pain in his right elbow last year, is no stranger to the type of marathon pitching performances that are legendary in Japanese high school baseball.
In 2013, Anraku threw 183 pitches in one game at the Koshien high school baseball tournament after a 137-pitch outing the previous day.
"High school coaches in Japan will argue if the core mechanics are good then a pitcher won't hurt his arm throwing every day," said author Robert Whiting, who has written several books on Japanese baseball.
Whiting points out that Tanaka's former pitching coach with the Rakuten Eagles thinks the American obsession with pitch counts is a bad thing. Starting pitchers in Major League Baseball generally are limited to no more than 100 pitches per outing.
One idea the high school baseball officials are pondering is a system similar to that used at the baseball tournament at the Beijing Olympics in which teams started with runners on first base and second base from the 11th inning on.
The high school federation sent out a questionnaire to its 4,000 member schools in mid-July seeking feedback on the proposals.
Many in Japan consider 250-pitch outings to be character building. Despite his injuries, Matsuzaka has said he feels more comfortable the more he throws.
Even in professional baseball in Japan, pitchers throw on the sidelines in between innings to stay warm.

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With Office 2013, Microsoft is moving its most dominant product line to an attractive new subscription-based pricing and packaging model. Yes, you'll be able to acquire Office 2013 the old-fashioned way. But the benefits and pricing of the subscription plans are so attractive you won't want to.
What's attractive, you ask? The Office 365 Home Premium subscription, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, SkyDrive with an additional 20 GB of storage, and 60 minutes of free Skype calls each month, will cost just $99.99 a year. This subscription comes with a new "household license," meaning that you can install the PC applications on up to 5 PCs (or Macs) around your home. Yes, that's right: Microsoft is explicitly supporting installing and using Office on up to 5 different users' PCs.
Luddites will still be able to buy individual retail copies of three Office 2013 suites, or acquire the software that way with new PCs. But why would they? Office 2013 Home & Student will cost $139.99, can be installed on just one PC, and only comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
Assuming you only need those applications, it would cost you about $700 to purchase five copies of this suite for your family. For that amount of money, you could subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium for a full 7 years and, during that time, benefit from all of the upgrades that occur, including whatever full new Office versions are released. Combined with the additional benefits of the subscription, it's a no brainer.
So let's examine the offerings in a bit more detail.
Office 365 Home Premium
This $99.99 per year subscription offering covers an entire household. It's not tied to a single person, or account, and each person that uses the service and applications can sign in to their own Microsoft account with its custom online document store, settings sync, and more. You can use Office on up to 5 PCs (or Macs), and switch which devices are activated on the fly. PC-based subscribers get Office 2013 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher, while Mac users get Office:Mac (whatever the current version is).
Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions come with a number of benefits. The software installs are delivered via Click-to-Run, which takes just a few minutes. But more important, the software is always kept up-to-date, not just with bug and security fixes, but also with the latest new features and services: Microsoft says that it will add new capabilities to Office 2013 "multiple times per year," as it would with any service. The days of monolithic software are over.
Additional benefits include 20 GB of additional SkyDrive-based storage (for a total of 27 GB), which I assume applies only to the account that signs up for the subscription, and not for all accounts that access the software installs from that subscription. (That is, the 20 GB of additional storage is for one account, not for up to five accounts.) You also get 60 minutes of Skype-based world calling per month. And you can access the Office on Demand service to temporarily stream any of the supported Office applications temporarily to any PC in the world (assuming it's online).
Office 365 Small Business
This $149.99 per year subscription offering is licensed per user, but also covers up to 5 PCs and/or Macs. Aimed at small businesses with 1 to 10 employees, Office 365 Small Business utilizes Office 365 backend services—Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync Online—rather than the SkyDrive-based services used by the Home Premium subscription. So while you basically get all the benefits of the Home Premium subscription, there are additional benefits and features as well.
On the client front, Small Business subscribers gain access to the same Office 2013 applications as Home Premium—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher—but also get Lync and InfoPath, or, of course, Office:Mac.
In the cloud, you get a 25 GB Exchange Online mailbox with shared calendaring, contacts, scheduling, and task list, and 10 GB of SharePoint Online-based cloud storage for the organization with an addition 500 MB per user account. You can host online meetings with audio, video, screen sharing, and HD video conferencing using Lync Online, and can set up, build, and maintain a public-facing web site with custom domain for no additional fee.
Traditional Office 2013 suites
Not interested in a subscription offering? No worries: Microsoft will still provide traditional retail suites for Office 2013.
Office 2013 Home & Student
This offering is licensed for one PC and will cost $139.99. It includes the core Office applications only: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
Office 2013 Home & Business
This offering is licensed for one PC and will cost $219.99. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook 2013.
Office 2013 Professional
This offering is licensed for one PC and will cost $399.99. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access 2013.
Final Thoughts
With Office 2013, Microsoft is embracing a brave new world of pricing and packaging, and it's a win-win. For Microsoft, this version represents the ongoing, regular subscription fees it's always desired. But it's even better deal for consumers and small businesses: For a low monthly fee (a bit over $8 for consumers), you get the full power of Office 2013 with its cloud connectivity, regular updates, and personalization, and you get it on up to five PCs, which you can share between all of the people in your family. This isn't just reasonable, it's an incredible deal.


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To start out, my wife got a new camera for Christmas. She's getting better at this photography stuff. She even made me look pretty decent.
Oh, and to make you all jealous, this picture was taken in my front yard. I grabbed it off of her Facebook profile, so it isn't as high res as before. So even as cool as that looks, it doesn't do it justice.
You don't want to move here, though. The crime is out of control. The yard moose are everywhere.
I've got to tell you guys. One of the hardest things about being a writer is that first few days after a new book releases. You sit there, biting your fingernails, checking the internet every few minutes, and it is much worse when the new release is something different from the books you've released before.
Officially, The Grimnoir Chronicles: Hard Magic doesn't hit store shelves until May 2nd. However Baen loves putting out advance eBooks, so early that they haven't even gone through the final edit yet. (typos, yay!) The eARC hit last Friday, so ever since then I've been anxiously waiting to see what everybody thinks of my new series.
Well, early reviews are coming in.
Looking good. I didn't know if the market was ready for noir/pulp/alternative-history/fantasy/action with blimp fighting, hard boiled detectives, demons, teleporting magic ninjas, Cossack fighting bears, samurai, Tesla super weapons, John M. Browning, Teutonic zombies, and profane squirrels. What genre is this? Heck if I know. The more I think about it, the more I like the term "Diesel Punk". And yes, somebody wears goggles.
If you want an autographed trade paperback or one of the limited number of hard covers, go here: http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php
The ARC is available for download here: http://www.webscription.net/p-1363-hard-magic-book-i-of-the-grimnoir-chronicles-arc.aspx
In other news, I'm doing a signing at the Sandy Barnes & Noble this Saturday from 1-4. It is the annual Authorpalooza and there will be something like 40 writers present. http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/3080754 I know Brandon Mull, James Dashner, Jessica Day George, and Paul Genesse will be there. Last year they stuck me in outer darkness next to the maps and geography books. Which kind of sucked since I was the 2nd best selling writer there that year. Oh well. Hopefully this year they will move me up to someplace that has some traffic, like by the bathrooms or something.
Coming up after that, I'm going to LTUE again. I'm on six panels. I'm doing one on action by myself, and I'm teaming up with Super Author John Brown again for a new version of Stories that Rock. That's February 17-19 at BYU. I'll post my schedule when it gets closer.


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This is not the story I wanted to write today.
I'd promised you a contest for the holiday weekend, sponsored by Clif Mojo bars to celebrate national Trail Mix Day.
But that will have to wait, as I've just gotten word of a fatal bicycling collision that took the life of a Moorpark man on Thursday.
According to Moorpark Patch, the victim, identified only as a 52-year old man pending notification of next-of-kin, was riding south on Moorpark Avenue at Poindexter Ave at around 9:55 am when he was struck by a car traveling in the same direction.
Details are sparse. It could have been a hit-from-behind collision; however, the fact that it occurred in the intersection would suggest a possible right hook. Or the rider could have been attempting to make a left turn, and either crossed into the driver's path, or been struck when the driver failed to see him.
The victim was taken to Los Robles Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The 44-year old driver, a resident of Sylmar, remained at the scene.
It's sad that hit-and-run has become so common that something like that even needs to be mentioned.
This is the 50th fatal bike collision in Southern California this year, and the third in Ventura County, compared to four in the county last year. And eight months into the year, it puts us on a pace for 75 fatalities in the seven-county SoCal region this year, not counting shooting victims, compared to 71 in 2011.
My heartfelt sympathy and prayers for the victim and his loved ones.
Out of respect for the victim, I'll wait until later this evening to put the contest online. I hope you'll come back then or over the weekend; especially after news like this, we all need to have a little fun.
Update: The Ventura County Star has identified the victim as 52-year old Moorpark resident Kenneth Guthrie, who was hit by a car driven by 44-year old Jaime Tijero Ibarra of Sylmar. Still no word on how the collision occurred; Ibarra was not cited at the scene, and the case remains under investigation.


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This tutorial needs KDE 4.2 to build.
In this tutorial I will show how to create a simple applet that uses an extender. This applet is basically a very stripped down version of the kuiserver applet. Stripped down to the point where it isn't very useful anymore, but that allows us to focus on extenders.
About extenders
Extenders allow applets to, with only very little extra lines of code, use relocatable widgets. These ExtenderItem objects, can be dragged around by the user, dropped anywhere, and can even be persistent between sessions. They can also keep running, even when the applet that created them, isn't. The class that shows and manages these extender items is Plasma::Extender.
How to approach extenders
If you want to use extenders in your applet you'll usually have to do a couple of things:
Instatiate an Extender
This is quite easy: calling extender() from your applet will instantiate an extender for you if your applet doesn't have an extender yet. Note that an applet cannot have more then one extender. Also note that you should always instantiate an extender in your applet's init() function. An extender requires a scene, which isn't available before the call to init().
Add ExtenderItem objects to this Extender
Just instantiating an ExtenderItem with your extender as parameter to the constructor will add a new ExtenderItem to this extender. In this tutorial we will add an ExtenderItem whenever a new kuiserver job is created. After instantiating an ExtenderItem you'll usually want to set a name, title, icon, and probably even other information which can be stored by accessing the item's config(). Once you've got an ExtenderItem set up, you'll need to call initExtenderItem(ExtenderItem*) to actually set the QGraphicsWidget that will be wrapped inside this ExtenderItem.
Implement a initExtenderItem(ExtenderItem*) function in your applet
This function will be used to recreate detached ExtenderItems after plasma has been restarted. It will not only be called by your applet after instantiating a new ExtenderItem, it will also be called whenever plasma is started and detached ExtenderItems are restored from configuration. In this function you'll need to extract the required information from the item (name, or other information you have stored in the item's config()), and use this information to create the desired widget to be wrapped inside this item. Then call setWidget on this item to actually wrap this widget inside the ExtenderItem.
The code
Here I will show you our very simple stripped down kuiserver applet. It will show every new job in an ExtenderItem using a Plasma::Meter to display the jobs progress. In the title bar of the ExtenderItem the name of the datasource will be displayed, and the icon of the application that created the job will be shown. Finally, the items will also be sort of persistent. When plasma is restarted, all detached items will get shown again, but will only show the name of the original datasource it was connected to as title. Kuiserver datasources are not persistent between sessions (yet?) so the meter won't show progress anymore. As basis for this applet we will use {{class|PopupApplet}. This means that the applet will automatically collapse into an icon when put into a panel. PopupApplet will also take care of setting the correct appearence on your extender, depending of where it's located (top of screen, bottom of screen, desktop). PopupApplet is a convenient base class for all applets that use extenders and I'd strongly advice you to use it.
The header
#ifndef EXTENDERTUTORIAL_H
#define EXTENDERTUTORIAL_H
#include <plasma/popupapplet.h>
#include <plasma/dataengine.h>
namespace Plasma
class ExtenderItem;
} // namespace Plasma
class ExtenderTutorial : public Plasma::PopupApplet
ExtenderTutorial(QObject *parent, const QVariantList &args);
void init();
//Implement this function to make ExtenderItems persistent.
//This function will get called on plasma start for every
//ExtenderItem that belonged to this applet, and is still
//around. Instantiate the widget to be wrapped in the
//ExtenderItem here.
void initExtenderItem(Plasma::ExtenderItem *item);
public slots:
//We want to add a new ExtenderItem everytime a new job
//is started.
void sourceAdded(const QString &source);
K_EXPORT_PLASMA_APPLET(extendertutorial, ExtenderTutorial)
This header should be mostly self explanetory. We use PopupApplet to have a nice basis for this kind of applet. The default implementation of PopupApplet's graphicsWidget() returns it's extender if it has one. This is exactly what we want (display the extender in the popup), so we don't need to implement graphicsWidget().
The implementation
#include "extendertutorial.h"
#include <QAction>
#include <QGraphicsLinearLayout>
#include <Plasma/Containment>
#include <Plasma/DataEngine>
#include <Plasma/Extender>
#include <Plasma/ExtenderItem>
#include <Plasma/Meter>
ExtenderTutorial::ExtenderTutorial(QObject *parent,
const QVariantList &args)
: Plasma::PopupApplet(parent, args)
//We want to collapse into an icon when put into a panel.
//If you don't call this function, you can display another
//widget, or draw something yourself.
void ExtenderTutorial::init()
//Calling extender() instantiates an extender for you if you
//haven't already done so. Never instantiate an extender
//before init() since Extender needs access to applet->config()
//to work.
//The message to be shown when there are no ExtenderItems in
//this extender.
extender()->setEmptyExtenderMessage(i18n("no running jobs..."));
//Notify ourself whenever a new job is created.
SIGNAL(sourceAdded(const QString &)),
this, SLOT(sourceAdded(const QString &)));
void ExtenderTutorial::initExtenderItem(Plasma::ExtenderItem *item)
//Create a Meter widget and wrap it in the ExtenderItem
Plasma::Meter *meter = new Plasma::Meter(item);
meter->setMinimumSize(QSizeF(250, 45));
meter->setPreferredSize(QSizeF(250, 45));
//often, you'll want to connect dataengines or set properties
//depending on information contained in item->config().
//In this situation that won't be necessary though.
//Job names are not unique across plasma restarts (kuiserver
//engine just starts with Job1 again), so avoid problems and
//just don't give reinstantiated items a name.
//Show a close button.
void ExtenderTutorial::sourceAdded(const QString &source)
//Add a new ExtenderItem
Plasma::ExtenderItem *item =
new Plasma::ExtenderItem(extender());
//We give this item a name, which we don't use in this
//example, but allows us to look up extenderItems by calling
//extenderItem(name). That function is useful to avoid
//duplicating detached ExtenderItems between session, because
//you can check if a certain item already exists.
//And we give this item a title. Titles, along with icons and
//names are persistent between sessions.
//Connect a dataengine. If this applet would display data where
//datasources would have unique names, even between sessions,
//you should do this in initExtenderItem, so that after a plasma
//restart, datasources would still get connected to the
//appropriate sources. Kuiserver jobs are not persistent however,
//so we connect them here.
dynamic_cast<QObject*>(item->widget()), 200);
//Show the popup for 5 seconds if in panel, so the user notices
//that there's a new job running.
#include "extendertutorial.moc"
This piece of code is well documented so I won't explain this any further.
The rest
Finally you'll need a cmakelist and a .desktop file.
The .desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Extender Tutorial
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=The Plasma Team
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=[email protected]
The CMakeList.txt:
kde4_add_plugin(plasma_applet_extendertutorial ${extendertutorial_SRCS})
target_link_libraries(plasma_applet_extendertutorial ${KDE4_PLASMA_LIBS} ${KDE4_KIO_LIBS} ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS})
install(TARGETS plasma_applet_extendertutorial DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
install(FILES plasma-applet-extendertutorial.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})
So there it is, all it takes to make a simple applet that uses an extender. For a more complete example I'd like to point you at the kuiserver applet which is in playground right now. And I'd encourage you to read to api documentation of Extender and ExtenderItem. Especially ExtenderItem has a lot of features that are not used in this example but can be really useful like being able to set a timeout and add custom actions to the item, that are show in the item's drag handle. I'm looking forward to see your applet using extender, be creative! :)


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The People:
Lucy Morgan
Lucy Calista Morgan (1889-1981) was one of the few Craft Revival leaders to have been born and raised in the western North Carolina mountains. In her memoir she recalled, "I've never been away from the mountains for any great length of time, and I never expect to be." Morgan moved to the Penland community, northeast of Asheville, in 1920 to teach at the Episcopal Appalachian School. In 1923 she learned to weave at Berea College in Kentucky and returned to North Carolina inspired to create a cottage weaving industry. In her memoir Gift from the Hills, she articulated the "social value" of weaving, in which "neighbor called on neighbor" 1 in the spirit of cooperative learning. In 1929 Morgan—or "Miss Lucy" as she was known by just about everyone—founded the Penland School of Handicrafts, which became today's Penland School of Crafts.
Lucy Calista Morgan (1889-1981) was born in Franklin and raised in Murphy, two western North Carolina county seats. She was the sixth of nine children, brought up in a house with neither plumbing nor electricity. In her memoir Gift from the Hills, Morgan described the creativity she experienced during childhood.
When we were children there were no such things as dime stores, certainly not in our part of the country. We made stick-dolls [out of] mountain laurel, which we called ivy….We broke off little twigs of ivy and used the fork for the legs….A wee bit of cloth with a hole in the center made the dress….With mosses and stones we made all the furniture a playhouse could need. 2
Morgan was educated at a private school in Hickory and attended Central State Normal School (today's Central Michigan University). After graduating in 1915, she taught school in Illinois and worked for the Chicago Children's Bureau. Lucy's brother Rufus headed the Appalachian School until 1918 when he left for a position in South Carolina. He was replaced by Amy Burt, a professor who knew Lucy from Central Michigan and knew Rufus from their student days at Columbia Teachers College. In 1920 Lucy Morgan stepped off the train at Penland to teach at the Appalachian School. While she could not have known it at the time, "Miss Lucy" was home. 3
Soon after her arrival, Morgan began to teach elementary-level courses at the Appalachian School, in session from April through mid-December. In January 1923, during her winter vacation, Morgan agreed to accompany former student Bonnie Willis to Berea College to help her settle in. During her nine weeks in Kentucky, Morgan learned to weave with Swedish-born weaver Anna Ernberg at Berea's Fireside Industries. Among the first in the Appalachian region, Berea's weaving program set a high standard for production when, in 1900, a Berea coverlet was awarded bronze medal at the international Paris Exposition. While at Berea, Morgan met Edith Matheny, who had established a cottage industry of community weavers off campus. In Kentucky, Morgan acquired weaving skills and looms. She also gained inspiration from two Kentucky programs, Berea's own Fireside Industries and the Matheny Weavers.
In the spring of 1923, Morgan returned to North Carolina with new ambition. She articulated twin goals that echoed the prevailing Arts and Crafts philosophy of John Ruskin and William Morris, embracing both preservationist objectives and social improvement.
[I want] to bring about a revival of hand-weaving…[and] provide our neighbor mothers with a means of adding to their generally meager incomes without having to leave their homes….My mind wove fanciful visions while my tired, sore fingers were weaving tangible materials.
Morgan presented her plan to teach weaving to local women to Bishop Junius Horner, who held the ultimate responsibility for the Appalachian School, but Horner discouraged it as a "back-breaking job." His concern was a reflection of his outlook as a "gentleman of the South" with fixed notions of femininity. Presumably, the women of the Penland community had responsibilities similar to farmwomen everywhere; they worked the fields, chased after livestock, and raised dozens of children, hardly delicate work. Still, Morgan felt that she had to prove to Bishop Horner that weaving was not harmful to women. She sat at the loom for eight hours a day and won the bishop's approval. 4
With one hurdle behind her, Morgan sought community approval of her plan. She invited neighborhood women to a demonstration of rug tacking to gauge their interest. Soon after, she sent a loom to the home of Martha Adeline Willis, known locally as "Aunt Adeline." Morgan walked the one and a half miles to and from the Willis home for the next three days and, together, she and Mrs. Willis readied the loom for weaving. Morgan was fond of retelling the story of the first cash income paid to a Penland weaver. When Henry Willis, Adeline Willis's husband, delivered her finished weavings to the school, Morgan wrote her a check for $23.00 and sent it back with him. Before the check reached Mrs. Willis's hands,
All the neighbors knew the size of that check even before her husband got home with it. And the next morning before I could get up, there were women at our door asking for looms.
A dozen more looms were ordered from Berea College and loaded onto wagons where they made their way to local homes. With "twelve new looms settled in their homes…our community hummed with new industry," Morgan wrote. Traveling on foot and on horseback, she visited the aspiring weavers and helped each woman thread a loom. When more women wanted to weave than there were looms, several men in the neighborhood built copies of the lightweight Berea-style loom. 5
Bishop Horner eventually agreed that the Appalachian School could support a weaving program and named Morgan director of the school's new Fireside Industries. Morgan's enterprise was successful in its production of weavings, but finished products were accumulating. Encouraging Morgan to sell at local resorts, the bishop purchased a Model-T Ford with a truck bed on the back. Loaded down with weavings, Morgan and Amy Burt visited resort hotels displaying their "wares in the lobby, on the porch, wherever the largest crowds" gathered. They also traveled to the Episcopal Church's General Conventions, which attracted thousands. At the first convention they attended in New Orleans in 1925, their most popular item was a shopping bag woven in traditional coverlet patterns of Whig Rose and Pine Cone. Morgan advanced looms and materials to local women and paid cash when they delivered work to the school. She assumed the responsibility of selling the inventory she collected. The school provided her with living expenses, but no salary, so Morgan dipped into her own savings. During the first year of operation, the expenses for the weaving enterprise were over $1,000.00, offset by little more than $200.00 in sales. By the next year, the operation almost broke even and, by 1927, the weaving program turned a profit. 6
In 1924 Morgan and Burt attended the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh where they set up a loom and a display of their products. Burt told the story of the Penland weavers while Morgan demonstrated at the loom. While the State Fair was a marketing success, more significant to the school's future was Morgan's introduction to George W. Coggin, State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education. Coming to Penland the following January, Coggin explained the provisions of the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act that provided funds for agricultural and vocational education. To qualify for these government funds, the Fireside Industries program had to have a more regular program of instruction, so Wednesday was declared to be "Weaving Day." Every week local weavers came together at a small log cabin at the edge of school property. At these all-day gatherings, they exchanged work for payment, picked up supplies and orders, discussed methods of weaving, and shared community news. When the small cabin no longer accommodated the growing number of weavers, plans were made to build a new one with logs "snaked up from all the different communities in which the weavers lived." Funds from the North Carolina Department of Education paid Lucy Morgan's salary as a vocational education instructor until 1953. Penland also took advantage of the GI Bill that provided federal funds for World War II veterans' tuition. Certainly, the long-term stability of Penland was enhanced by this steady influx of cash from state and local sources, which paid tuition and instructors' salaries. 7
The Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, held each April in Knoxville, Tennessee provided Craft Revival leaders with a forum and a meeting place. In 1926 Allen Eaton was the invited guest and, the following year, the speaker was Edward Worst, a weaving expert affiliated with the Chicago Public Schools. In 1928 Worst came to Penland for the first of his annual summer visits. Worst suggested the addition of pottery to Penland's program and, although pottery never achieved as much success as weaving, in 1928 the dual cottage industries were christened the "Penland Weavers and Potters." 8 At the spring 1928 Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, Olive Campbell raised the question of forming a cooperative marketing association to bring craft production centers together in partnership. Never one to let an opportunity pass her by, Morgan extended an invitation to craft leaders to gather at Penland to discuss a cooperative partnership. The meeting was scheduled for Christmas vacation with guests arriving on a snowy December day. Warmed by the fireplace of the Weaving Cabin, the guest roster reads like a Who's Who of the Craft Revival. The meeting marked a new phase of the Craft Revival, in which its leadership began to define the movement and articulate its goals.
While some scholars have downplayed the role that local people played in the Craft Revival, there is ample documented evidence that local communities supported the efforts to establish craft industries in their midst. Construction of the Weaving Cabin at Penland was made possible by community contributions of labor and materials.
A small sign acknowledging their donations reads:
3 logs by Henry Willis
1 log by Doc Hoppes
2 days work by Dave Hoyle…
4 logs by Sally Sparks
Such in-kind contributions and pledges by local residents supported Craft Revival activities in many areas. The John C. Campbell Folk School, a Craft Revival-era school in Brasstown, maintains a collection of pledge cards that list local donations to the construction of its school. At Penland the tradition of local in-kind gifts continued with each successive building program. In 1935, to accommodate the growth of its summer Weaving Institutes, Penland built the Edward F. Worst Craft House. Contributions from far-away supporters were acknowledged in the naming of the "Chicago Room" and "Pittsburgh Room." The "Spruce Pine Room" was completed with funds given by local citizens and businesses. The "citizens of Penland" wrote a statement under the banner of "Our Appreciation," acknowledging the Penland Weavers for "putting Penland on the map." Rather than feeling invaded by outsiders who came to the school, they explicitly stated their "welcome to each and every one who comes to the Penland community." 9
Although the country was on the threshold of the Depression, 1929 was a banner year for Penland. Nineteen twenty-nine marked the beginning of its annual Weaving Institutes and the birth of the Penland School of Handicrafts. Through the multiple incarnations of Penland school programs—the initial Fireside Industries department, Penland Weavers and Potters, and the Penland School of Handicrafts—Lucy Morgan created economic opportunities for local people. By 1929 more than 50 "weaver-mothers" had become involved in the weaving program. From her initial meeting with "Aunt" Susan Phillips, a weaver in her nineties, Morgan formed partnerships with neighbors who had the talent and ambition to teach others. Chair-seating classes were taught by Arthur Woody and his daughter Decie, who were part of the family-owned Woody's Chair Shop. Emma Conley taught "Fireside arts" well into the 1950s, including vegetable dyeing, carding and spinning. 10
While many Craft Revival leaders focused their efforts close to home, Lucy Morgan built long-distance relationships that would position Penland on the national stage. In the fall of 1931, Morgan traveled by train to Washington DC to meet with the head of the National Park Service to discuss the sale of crafts at National Parks. In 1932 she outfitted a small log cabin and affixed it to the bed of a pickup truck, calling it her "Travelog." Transported to Chicago's fairgrounds and reassembled on site, the Travelog served as a sales booth for crafts sold at the Century of Progress, the title of the Chicago World's Fair.
The supreme effort was a success. Thirty-one women were busy at their looms all through the summer, stacks of finished materials which for long had lain idle on the shelves were turned into cash. Penland was made known to many thousands of people. 11
Among Craft Revival leaders, a few went beyond national networking to establish international connections. In 1934 Morgan was named the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild representative to the International Exhibition of Folk Arts in Berne, Switzerland. By the mid 1940s, Penland documents listed visitors from "Canada, Alaska, Peru and China." "Missionaries from Africa, China, India, the Isle of Cypress and Mongolia" came to learn about developing cottage industries for their overseas missions. 12
Morgan left Penland in 1962, retiring to Jackson County, farther west. She returned to the school many times during the 20 years of her retirement. Lucy Morgan's nephew Ralph Siler Morgan and his family carried on some of Penland's traditions nearby. His wife Ruth Dodd Morgan and their daughter Ruth Morgan McConnell established the Riverwood Shops in Dillsboro beginning in 1957, where family members continued to work pewter. In 1977 daughter Susan Morgan Leveille opened a weaving studio at the same location. Reflecting on Lucy Morgan's creative life, Ralph Morgan pronounced her "a woman of imagination." 13
- M. Anna Fariello, 2007
1. Lucy Morgan with LeGette Blythe, Gift from the Hills: Miss Lucy Morgan's Story of her Unique Penland School, 2nd ed.(Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1958), 58.
2. Morgan, 31-33.
3. "Lucy Morgan Dies; Founded Craft School," undated, unidentified newspaper, probably the Asheville Citizen-Times, 1981. For an interview with Rufus Morgan, see Eliot Wigginton (ed.), Foxfire 4 (New York: Doubleday, 1973): 394-481. Amy Burt was Director of the Appalachian School from 1918 until 1929.
4. Morgan, 50-51.
5. Morgan, 54-56.
6. Appalachian School catalogs from 1924 to 1929 carry Lucy Morgan's name as "Director of Fireside Industries." Morgan, 50, 60-63. Philis Alvic, Weavers of the Southern Highlands (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), 81.
7. George W. Coggin to Lucy Morgan, August 7, 1937. Coggin's letter lists payments to five instructions in addition to Morgan. In this same letter, he laments, "I should like to have seen your real weavers, that is your local people rather than the U. S. mixture overrunning the place."
8. Bonnie Ford Willis, "2 W.N.C. Women Are Named Delegates To World Crafts Exposition," unnamed newspaper, June 4, circa 1933. Lucy Morgan, along with Olive Campbell, were selected as representatives to the World Crafts conference in 1934.
9. Morgan, 81 and 115. "Our Appreciation," copy of hand-written document in the Penland Archives. For contemporary scholarship regarding the "interventionist" interpretation of the Craft Revival, see David E. Whisnant, All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983); Jane S. Becker, Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); Lynn Jones Ennis, The Craft of Penland: Another Reality (Masters thesis, Duke University, 1989).
10. The Penland School of Handicrafts was formally incorporated in 1938. The term "weaver-mothers" is from Bonnie T. Willis, "The Living Tradition," Mountain Life and Work (October 1929): 13-15. Morgan 9 and 139-140. Howard C. Ford, Mountain Milestones (Penland, North Carolina: Penland School of Handicrafts, circa 1948) 33.
11. Morgan, 82-83. Quote from Ford, 25. Penland participated in the Century of Progress for two summers, in 1933 and 1934.
12. Ford, 23. "Facts and Figures about the Penland School of Handicrafts," circa 1946.
13. Ralph Morgan, "An Outline History of Two Divisions of the Appalachian School of Penland, North Carolina" (October 1984).


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An explainer for those of you who didn't know me through my school years. My last 2 years my dad took my mom's place in the school, but I don't think many of my high school teachers made the connection between the two Carlos Araya at the same school.
for 10 of the 12 years of school education my mom taught in the same school I attended.
Particularly from Jr. High on, I knew all my teachers not just as my teachers but also as my mom's friends.
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But try to tell that to little shits who think that because they didn't get an A, then whoever did better than they did must have cheated to get there. It used to bother me a lot and I don't think my mom understood what was the feeling and what caused it and how to deal with the results and the consequences. I not only had to do better than the little shits I grew up with but I also had to do it cleanly and beyond any kind of reproach.
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ISU psychologists produce first study on violence desensitization from video games
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Iowa State University
July 27, 2021
Nicholas Carnagey, Psychology, (515) 294-2335 or [email protected]
Craig Anderson, Psychology, (515) 294-3118 or [email protected]
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AMES, Iowa -- Research led by a pair of Iowa State University psychologists has proven for the first time that exposure to violent video games can desensitize individuals to real-life violence.
Nicholas Carnagey, an Iowa State psychology instructor and research assistant, and ISU Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson collaborated on the study with Brad Bushman, a former Iowa State psychology professor now at the University of Michigan, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
They authored a paper titled "The Effects of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence," which was published in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychlogy. In this paper, the authors define desensitization to violence as "a reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity to real violence."
Their paper reports that past research -- including their own studies -- documents that exposure to violent video games increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal and aggressive behaviors, and decreases helpful behaviors. Previous studies also found that more than 85 percent of video games contain some violence, and approximately half of video games include serious violent actions.
The methodology
Their latest study tested 257 college students (124 men and 133 women) individually. After taking baseline physiological measurements on heart rate and galvanic skin response -- and asking questions to control for their preference for violent video games and general aggression -- participants played one of eight randomly assigned violent or non-violent video games for 20 minutes. The four violent video games were Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat or Future Cop; the non-violent games were Glider Pro, 3D Pinball, 3D Munch Man and Tetra Madness.
After playing a video game, a second set of five-minute heart rate and skin response measurements were taken. Participants were then asked to watch a 10-minute videotape of actual violent episodes taken from TV programs and commercially-released films in the following four contexts: courtroom outbursts, police confrontations, shootings and prison fights. Heart rate and skin response were monitored throughout the viewing.
The physical differences
When viewing real violence, participants who had played a violent video game experienced skin response measurements significantly lower than those who had played a non-violent video game. The participants in the violent video game group also had lower heart rates while viewing the real-life violence compared to the nonviolent video game group.
"The results demonstrate that playing violent video games, even for just 20 minutes, can cause people to become less physiologically aroused by real violence," said Carnagey. "Participants randomly assigned to play a violent video game had relatively lower heart rates and galvanic skin responses while watching footage of people being beaten, stabbed and shot than did those randomly assigned to play nonviolent video games.
"It appears that individuals who play violent video games habituate or 'get used to' all the violence and eventually become physiologically numb to it."
Participants in the violent versus non-violent games conditions did not differ in heart rate or skin response at the beginning of the study, or immediately after playing their assigned game. However, their physiological reactions to the scenes of real violence did differ significantly, a result of having just played a violent or a non-violent game. The researchers also controlled for trait aggression and preference for violent video games.
The researchers' conclusion
They conclude that the existing video game rating system, the content of much entertainment media, and the marketing of those media combine to produce "a powerful desensitization intervention on a global level."
"It (marketing of video game media) initially is packaged in ways that are not too threatening, with cute cartoon-like characters, a total absence of blood and gore, and other features that make the overall experience a pleasant one," said Anderson. "That arouses positive emotional reactions that are incongruent with normal negative reactions to violence. Older children consume increasingly threatening and realistic violence, but the increases are gradual and always in a way that is fun.
"In short, the modern entertainment media landscape could accurately be described as an effective systematic violence desensitization tool," he said. "Whether modern societies want this to continue is largely a public policy question, not an exclusively scientific one."
The researchers hope to conduct future research investigating how differences between types of entertainment -- violent video games, violent TV programs and films -- influence desensitization to real violence. They also hope to investigate who is most likely to become desensitized as a result of exposure to violent video games.
"Several features of violent video games suggest that they may have even more pronounced effects on users than violent TV programs and films," said Carnagey.


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An integrated web server is embedded into the MS27102A. Using an internet browser (Chrome and FireFox are supported), a user from anywhere in the world can log in to the spectrum monitor and control any of its features. This includes such parameters as frequency setting, RBW/VBW control, reference level configuration and many other settings relevant to the user's spectrum monitoring application. At the same time, trace data, spectrograms and other measurements can be viewed inside the browser window. A key advantage of the web server is that it is operating system platform agnostic. Any electronic device capable of rendering a browser will work with the web server. PCs/laptops, tablets or even smart phones can be used to view spectrum and adjust remote instrument settings. Each monitor also features Gbit Ethernet, allowing fast transfers of measurement data and control information.
2. SCPI Programming
Users can also write their own monitoring program using available SCPI commands. Anritsu provides a user manual listing each SCPI command, a description of the commands and the correct syntax required for each command. Additionally, each individual pair of IQ data output by the monitors is time-stamped using high precision GPS signals. This enables the use of IQ data for Time Distance of Arrival (TDOA) applications for geo-locating signal positions. IQ data time stamp resolution is less than 9 nSec for precise signal location calculations.
3. Vision™ Application Software
Vision™ software is also available as an option. Vision works with the monitoring hardware to automate the process of collecting measurement data, providing useful information about network heath and use of the spectrum. Vision is composed of two components responsible for monitoring and locating interference signals.
Vision Monitor automatically records spectrum data, maintains a searchable spectrum history database, enables alarm functions for unusual signal activity, automatically sends email alerts and provides a set of tools for managing the spectrum monitoring system.
Vision Locate provides the capability to geo-locate interference or illegal/unlicensed signals. To properly locate signal positions, three or more monitors must be used. More information about the Vision products can be reviewed on the Anritsu website.
Key Features
MS27103A for Spectrum Assurance
The MS27103A is a multi-port RF In monitoring platform employed in systems requiring multiple antennas to cover a large frequency range. This monitor is often used with cellular infrastructure equipment with multiple sectors and multiple frequencies per sector. Billions of dollars are typically spent by network operators on spectrum auction acquisitions. To protect that investment, it is imperative that cellular providers provide quality service to their customers. Interference from a variety of sources leads to dropped calls, slow data rates and poor network performance. The MS27103A can monitor receive signals at the BTS, facilitating the identification and removal of interference. Patterns of unwanted signal activity can also be examined, providing an efficient way to characterize and locate the source of the interference problem.
IQ Signal Master MX280005A Vector Signal Analysis Software provides a comprehensive suite of measurements that deliver post processing and analysis of IQ data files captured on the Remote Spectrum Analyzers. The software is designed to bring together all the essential tools required to capture IQ data files and then gain critical insights into the nature of the captured signals. Modes within the application, support the ability to capture or stream IQ data into the PC memory, perform modulation quality measurements and playback IQ data with high frequency and time resolution.
A file conversion mode allows IQ data captured on the supported analyzers to be converted to the format required for playback using a Vector Signal Generator MG3710E further enhancing the overall capability.
The software is designed for national RF spectrum regulators, security agencies and defense electronics companies who need to gain critical insight into RF signals that have been captured in the field. It is also suitable for organizations that need to monitor and protect RF spectrum from unlicensed operators or unintended sources of interference
IQ Signal Master MX280005A Vector Signal Analysis Software
Connecting to the Remote Spectrum Monitor using a Ethernet Network
Communication with the MS27103A is done using the GBit Ethernet port located on the instrument. Options are provided for using DHCP to obtain an IP address dynamically or for setting up a static IP address. The instrument is shipped with the default static IP address of 10.0.0.2. Once a connection is made to the instrument via a laptop/PC, the IP type can be changed via the user interface presented by the monitor's integrated web server.
For DHCP usage, Anritsu offers an Ethernet Discovery Program which queries your network for all connected devices. The Ethernet Discovery Program can be found on the Anritsu website.
Some customers may prefer to use a Domain Name Server (DNS) where the spectrum monitor's hostname can be resolved into its dynamic IP address. A DNS server provides the ability to create a hostname. Examples might include hostnames such as "mymonitor1.org" or "spectrum1.net". There are several free DNS services available. One such service used by Anritsu is
www.no-ip.com. You will need to create an account and select a hostname for your instrument.
Further details about configuring your Ethernet connection can be found in our Configuration Quick Start Guide available for download in the Download Library tab.
Setting Secure Mode in an RSM
FM Deviation Measurement Using Vision Software
Using Vision Monitor Option 400 to Generate Automatic Alerts When Suspicious Signals Are Detected
Demonstration for Using Markers with the Vision High-Speed Port Scanner
POA and TDOA Measurements Demonstration Using Vision Software
Introduction to Remote Spectrum Monitoring-GUI Operation


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1991r. – Establishment of the Civil Company Przedsiębiorstwo Produkcyjno-Handlowo-Usługowe Import-Export MIRWAL.
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2006 – Incorporation of SIRA Dye shop into the MIRWAL Company.
1999 – Purchase of the Sira Dye shop and creation of a Civil Law Partnership under the same name.
1998 – Purchase of the production plant in Złoczew, transfer of the sewing room and knitting shop there. Independent production of knit fabrics.
1986 – Purchase of the first knitting machines and expansion of the Company's operations to include production/sales (& service) of knitwear.
2002 – Change of the legal form of the enterprise to a General Partnership.
Please be advised that on 31-07-2009, Mirwal Sp.j. signed an agreement for co-financing the project under Priority Axis III: Economy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Łódź Province's Regional Operational Programme for the years 2007-2013.
1984. – Opening of the screen printing shop.
1982. – Opening of the linen plant
2015 – Business Gazelle Award for the most dynamically developing enterprises (16th edition).


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Barracuda Networks has integrated its cloud-based Web filtering and security service, Barracuda Web Security Flex, with its firewall appliance, Barracuda NG Firewall. The goal of this integration is to provide Web filtering and reporting functionality without dragging down the performance of the firewall appliance.
Barracuda Networks is positioning this new integrated offering as an alternative to traditional appliance-based Web content security, which can be processor-intensive. According to the company, integrating these two products enables organizations to "use lightweight on-premises hardware for core network security functions and leverage the cloud for more resource intensive Web content security functions."
Steve Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks said that this approach enables them to "apply the most up-to-date security countermeasures against the latest threats, while minimizing the hardware footprint and upgrade cycles required to provide that protection."
Barracuda NG Firewall is a family network firewalls that are available as hardware and virtual appliances. The NG in the name stands for "next generation," which means the firewall goes beyond filtering traffic based solely on ports and protocols, as with a traditional firewall. NG firewalls can also filter traffic based on applications or types of traffic passing through those ports.
Barracuda Web Security Flex is a cloud-based Web content filtering and security service that enables network administrators to isolate users from Internet threats, manage bandwidth, and filter content.
Key features of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex integration include:
Further information about Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex is available on the Barracuda site.
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The Twits
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
A hilarious story by one of my favourite authors. Filled with Roald Dahl's wit and charm, "The Twits" is a classic story of getting a taste of one's own medicine.
About this Author
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.
After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children's stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.
Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans.
Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl.com
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NEW YORK, NY – The hits keep on coming for LeBron James!
When it comes to the NBA, Michael Jordan is the best to ever have played. LeBron James had the chance to make his argument, but that fighting chance disappeared quickly with his "decision" to go play for Miami and Dwyane Wade. In his seven years in Cleveland, James did a great job of winning regular season games as the "man" – that's about it. Jordan led his teams to six NBA championships and would never go play second fiddle to anyone else.
"There's no way, with hindsight, I would've ever called up Larry, called up Magic and said, 'Hey, look, let's get together and play on one team,'" Jordan told NBC Sports after finishing the Miami American Century Championship golf tournament. "But that's … things are different. I can't say that's a bad thing. It's an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys."
That's a really polite and non-invasive way of Jordan calling out LeBron – if you read between the lines. Jordan would never settle for someone being better than him. He would also never settle for not being the "man." If someone wanted to play with Jordan, they knew where to find him – in Chicago. Jordan had one other bona-fide superstar, Scottie Pippen, but there was no question of who the leader on that team was. Jordan was the "king" of getting every ounce of ability from his teammates – and that translated into six NBA titles.
The city of Cleveland bent over backwards for the former "king," doing everything in their power to accommodate their superstar. All James was able to give back was an NBA finals loss and a slap on the face. The stage was set for James to knock Jordan off the NBA's best thrown – but that will never happen now.
"He'll never be Jordan," Barkley said. "There would have been something honorable about staying in Cleveland and trying to win it as 'The Man.' LeBron, if he would've stayed in Cleveland, and if he could've got a championship there, it would have been over the top for his legacy, just one in Cleveland. No matter how many he wins in Miami, it clearly is Dwyane Wade's team," NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said.
James, it seems, has been more worried about building an image and brand, than focusing on basketball. Jordan worried about winning and his marketing empire followed. There is a reason why Kobe Bryant is more popular overseas, especially China than James- five championships to zero. The king's legacy took a major hit with this and it will be a long time down the road until he stops hearing about his "decision."
You could also rest-assured that Michael Jordan would never allow a busboy to beat him – or be made fun of at the ESPYs.
NEW YORK, NY – The hits keep on coming for LeBron James!


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Basin Electric has signed a power purchase agreement with a new wind farm to be developed in South Dakota.
The project is co-owned by Fagen Inc. of Granite Falls, Minn., and the principals of Dakota Plains Energy in Aberdeen, S.D. It's scheduled to go online by the end of 2015.
Dakota Plains Energy President Rob Johnson says the Campbell County wind farm will provide 98 megawatts of energy to nearly 30,000 homes in the Upper Midwest.
Basin's announcement follows its November announcement to enter into two power purchase agreements for an additional 278 megawatts of wind power from projects in North Dakota.
Basin CEO and General Manager Andrew Serri says the projects will help bring the renewable portion of the company's generating portfolio up to more than 1,100 megawatts.


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Watch Dogs Out Between April And June 2014, Wii U Version Delayed
Update: Ubisoft has confirmed that the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will come later than the other versions (Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PC).
"We made the difficult decision to further delay the release of Watch Dogs on Wii U to focus the team's resources where they could have the broadest possible benefit for both our customers and Ubisoft," CEO Yves Guillemot said during today's financial call.
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Ubisoft has pinned Watch Dogs to a first quarter 2014 release. The news comes from the company's third quarter earnings announcement.
"Fiscal 2014-15 will see an exceptional games line-up, with the release of five major titles including Just Dance, The Crew and Watch Dogs, which is scheduled for release in the first fiscal quarter," CEO Yves Guillemot writes. The publisher hasn't spoken since the delay about which platforms on which the game will appear.
Ubisoft will be holding a conference call to discuss sales later today. For more on the company's down third quarter, read up on our recent coverage.
[Source: Ubisoft]
Our Take
This puts to bed some of the concern about Watch Dogs, but we'll be eagerly listening to hear if Ubisoft discusses the platforms for the title. As of now, there have been no announced changes.


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Southern Jews a Dying Breed as Small-Town Communities Dwindle Fast
Bert Rosenbush Jr. enjoys a bittersweet form of celebrity in his hometown of Demopolis, Ala.: He's the last living Jew there.
It's a form of prominence he shares with Phil Cohen of Lexington, Miss. In Natchez, Miss., Jerold Krause is one of just a dozen Jews left. And Selma, Ala., a town that was central to the civil rights movement, is down to its last dozen, too.
It's a paradox, in a way. Because, as Stuart Rockoff, director of the history department of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Life, in Jackson, Miss., observed, "More Jews live in the South today than ever before." But today those Jews are almost all living in the region's cities. "Smaller communities," Rockoff said, "have really undergone a significant decline."
From the early 19th century, Jews built synagogues alongside the cotton fields and plantation houses of the Deep South. Today, the vibrant communities they built are dwindling down to their final members. Yet even now, many of these Jews bask in a certain aura of accumulated high regard, built over generations, thanks to forbears who filled a niche as successful local businessmen, which they themselves continue to fill today.
In Demopolis, for example, 83-year-old Rosenbush lives on Bert Rosenbush Road, a country road outside the city center, next to a small lake. It's named after Rosenbush Jr.'s father, who owned the family furniture store and worked part time as a funeral embalmer. According to 2010 U.S. census figures, the town's 7,000-plus population is about 50% black.
In Lexington, where the first Jewish resident arrived in the late 1830s, Cohen, who is 75, still runs Cohen's Department Store, on Court Square in the town center, its red-brick front still proudly displaying the family name in large letters for all to see. His grandfather founded the store, which opened in 1900. The town, with a population of 1,731 in 2010, has a historically large black majority and is the seat of a historically black majority county. Its population today is 1,731, almost 80% of which is African American.
During the early 1900s, Jews owned a variety of businesses in Lexington, including tailors, groceries and factories that provided goods not just for the town, but also throughout the state.
By the mid-1900s, throughout the region, a majority of the younger generation of Southern Jews began attending colleges outside the area or moving to larger cities. They left family-owned businesses behind. Congregation members began to dwindle, leaving synagogues that were infrequently used and often costly to maintain.
In 1989, the local Episcopal Church in Demopolis took over Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and eventually donated its remnants to the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, in Jackson. Rosenbush said the building is now a food bank. He drives 60 miles to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to attend services on the High Holy Days.
The first Jewish resident arrived in Demopolis in 1844. At its peak, in 1927, the western Alabama town had about 150 Jewish residents. The town has a Holocaust memorial and was an inspiration for the setting of "The Little Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, whose mother came from there but later moved to New Orleans, where Hellman was raised. Rosenbush's family owned the oldest furniture store in Alabama for 108 years, until it closed in 2002.
"It makes me sad, but it's just the way the good Lord happened to do," Rosenbush said of the shrinkage of Demopolis's Jewish population to just him. "I just don't know what else I could do."
Unlike Rosenbush, Cohen is still able to attend occasional services at Lexington's Temple Beth El. The Lexington Foundation, a local not-for-profit organization, maintains the building and allows past and current Jewish residents to hold meetings, funerals or other religious services at any time.
"It means a lot," Cohen said.
In Lexington, the first Jewish resident arrived shortly after the central Mississippi town was incorporated in 1836. Cohen's family has lived in town since 1900.
Cohen said he doesn't feel lonely, as his friends have always transcended race and religion. "I grew up here. I was born and raised here," he said. "I know everyone in the community, and it's been that way most of my life."
Though both blacks and whites often accepted these Southern Jews, the Jews had to carefully negotiate their position during times of unrest. Former Lexington resident Robert Berman, author of the 2009 book "A House of David in the Land of Jesus," said that in their own stores, many Jewish business owners employed black workers and served blacks as customers equally with whites. But when it came to larger segregation issues, local Jewish residents felt it was best to stay neutral.
"They did not strive to preserve segregation, nor did they speak out about it," said Berman, whose book examines the relationships between Jews and other faiths and races in Lexington. Berman's great-great-grandfather, Jacob Sontheimer, was Lexington's first Jewish settler.
The highest point of tension came in 1978, when local blacks began a boycott of white-owned Lexington businesses. According to Berman's book, a group of Franciscan nuns who supported the boycott marched in front of Jewish businesses with swastikas. Cohen said their intention was to try and intimidate Jewish merchants, but it did not work; many members of the black community chastised the nuns for their actions. Eventually, Cohen met with a local black leader to quell tensions and end the boycott. Cohen said the president of the local chapter of the NAACP supported the Jewish businesses, while a rabbi from Jackson thought Cohen should lend his support to the boycotters.
Rockoff said Southern Jews often felt pressure from Northeastern Jews during the civil rights era. "Southern rabbis were in a very difficult position," he said. "Often times, their congregants didn't want them to speak out, and sometimes they did and got a very negative response. Yet they'd go to a national conference and get criticized for not doing more."
Southern Jews' mostly evasive position on segregation did not appear to affect their standing among either the black or white communities. Today, non-Jewish residents of these towns are sympathetic to the demise of Jewish communities.
"Basically, the commercial downtown of the small Southern town I grew up in still stands, and originated thanks to enterprising Jewish merchants," said William Gantt, a white, non-Jewish Demopolis native who had his first summer job at a Jewish-owned retail store downtown.
In Natchez, the Institute of Southern Jewish Life owns the local synagogue, which congregation leaders hope will be made into a museum after the Jewish population is gone. In Selma, there have been talks with the Institute of Southern Jewish Life about taking over the local synagogue, but hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs would have to be spent, and additional money would need to be raised for an endowment fund, according to 70-year-old Selma resident Steve Grossman.
Grossman said there is constant talk of what will happen to the synagogue when the Jewish population is gone from Selma. The youngest member of the congregation today is in his 60s. All members of the congregation, said Grossman, are opposed to any sale or transfer of the property that would lead to it being taken over by a church, which is what occurred in Demopolis, just one hour away. Today, the congregation still draws up to 60 visitors for High Holy Days services. But a majority of them are non-Jews simply curious about Jewish life.
Rockoff foresees a broader loss once the last Jew passes in these towns. "You won't have non-Jews growing up around Judaism," he said. "I have found in my travels, people have expressed to me: 'We really missed them. They were so involved in things. Our community is poorer without them.' "


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Irish-American astronaut Cady Coleman has not forgotten her Emerald Isle roots, even as she sails high above Earth on the International Space Station. The NASA astronaut marked St. Patrick's Day in space by playing a solo on a 100-year-old Irish flute.
"I love St. Patrick's Day," Coleman said in a NASA video released today (March 17). "In my family, we are a quarter Irish on each side and somehow that adds up to much more than a half."
When she launched toward the space station in December on a Russian spacecraft, Coleman — a hobby flutist — made sure to take a bit of that Irish heritage along for the ride. She packed away two Irish instruments — an antique wooden flute and a shiny pennywhistle — that were loaned to her by the members of the Chieftains, an Irish band.
"St. Patrick's Day is a day when people all over the Earth recognize their Irish heritage," Coleman said while wearing an appropriately green shirt. "And now we're doing that from space as well. " [Video: Astronaut Cady Coleman Plays Irish Flute in Space]
The wooden flute is owned by Chieftains member Matt Molloy, and the pennywhistle is one used by his bandmate Paddy Maloney, Coleman said.
"I might not have mentioned that the trip would have been six months long and that their flutes would have traveled millions of miles before they came home, but I'd like to reassure them that their treasures are just fine," Coleman said. "They're actually never far from home because we fly over Ireland several times a day."
Coleman actually took four flutes into space with her on this current mission. In addition to those from the Chieftains and her personal flute, she also has one from Ian Anderson, founder of the band Jethro Tull.
Coleman is one of three astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (three other crewmembers returned to Earth yesterday), and is the outpost's only American crewmember. An Italian astronaut and Russian cosmonaut round out the crew.
Another three spaceflyers (a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts) are due to launch toward the space station in the next few weeks. Their initial March 29 (EDT) liftoff was delayed due to a technical glitch on their spacecraft.
Coleman and her two current station crewmates are scheduled to return to Earth in September.
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