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LOS ANGELES – Move over, Lakers and Dodgers. Step aside, Trojans and Bruins. For now, hockey is King for LA fans.
Los Angeles got its first chance to celebrate a Stanley Cup on Monday night as people decked in black, purple and ear-to-ear grins partied outside Staples Center and across the city following the Kings' 6-1 victory Monday over the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 to clinch the series.
"It's a hockey town now!" said Kings fan Kate Byrne Haltom, who has long been a hockey fan but didn't have much company in Southern California.
Lifelong Kings fan Andrew Gonzales, 21, was a bundle of tears and screams in the streets as he reveled with friends on Figueroa Street outside Staples on a night he thought might never come.
"It's been 14 years I've been a fan, I started when I was 6, I've been to over 200 games," said Gonzales. "It's the happiest day of my life. I could die. Yeeaaah!"
One group of fans started a mosh pit in the street and lit some small fires, but the fans were mostly tame as police and politicians had wanted, hoping to avoid some of the ugly violence and vandalism that has followed some Lakers' titles.
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But police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Kings fans have been easy to deal with throughout the playoff run and expected that the victory party would be no different.
"We're big fans of the hockey fans right now, they've been very, very cordial," Smith said during the game.
The team announced it would throw a downtown victory parade Thursday morning, ending with a party inside Staples Center.
The team made it interesting for the fans, thwarting their plans for a party to celebrate a sweep last week by losing Game 4, then dropping Game 5 in New Jersey.
But their fears and doubts were quickly put down Monday night as the Kings scored three quick goals on their way to a 6-1 win.
"Being a Kings fan we always know that disappointment is right around the corner," said Nando Duran, who watched the game with his wife Amber in South Pasadena. "It feels good to be alive and be able to see them win the cup. We're ready to pop the champagne."
Associated Press Writer Grant Hindsley contributed to this report.

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I am using the standard (as far as I know) Hunter Water body. Thinking about it, I think my problem may lie with the pressure - it is perhaps higher than I thought, in which case the area will be larger than I expected and I just have to move the rotator a little further from the drive.
But I am still wondering if others have found that the area watered is more elliptical than rectangular (though hard to define precisely, obviously) and what the ring adjustment does. It says somewhere that it adjusts the right edge in case of curved strips, so perhaps that is why I don't appear to have a rectangular area - but I haven't been able to figure out how the adjustment works exactly.
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Fred Dickson is a cancer survivor, a father of three, an aspiring author, a master plumber and an inspirational speaker
The 53-year-old also happens to be a semiprofessional football player.
The 6-foot-5 defensive end with the white mustache and shaved head is the oldest player on the Arbutus Big Red, a team that's made up largely of teenagers. Dickson believes he is the oldest semipro football player to start a game.
A Woodlawn alumnus and a former college player at Salisbury, Dickson was inspired to return to the field by an apparent recovery that was not supposed to happen.
On Jan. 18, 2010, Dickson realized that his throat was bleeding internally. He was swallowing blood. He went to the hospital and in a three-day period was passed from an emergency room doctor to a throat specialist to a surgeon.
"I go to the surgeon, he says, 'You've got the worst cancer you can get,'" Dickson said. "The following day, I'm meeting with a funeral director."
Diagnosed with Stage IVA tonsil cancer, Dickson decided to become the first patient in a new treatment process suggested by Johns Hopkins surgeon Patrick Ha.
The surgery was a success. The cancer was removed. Then came rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
For a while, Dickson could ingest food only through a tube. He bears the scars of his treatment — on his stomach, where there was once a hole for food, and on his upper chest, where the doctors installed a port for chemotherapy.
A long scar runs down the left side of his neck, which had to be sewn together after his skin was pulled back during surgery.
"You can't swallow, you can't sleep, you can't talk. Everything. Your taste goes away. You don't have nothing," Dickson said. "You're just waiting for somebody to bring a can of food to shoot into your stomach."
The pain was unimaginable. "I cried to die every day," he said.
Dickson doesn't like to dwell on the low moments. He prefers to remember the good ones.
He was a cast member in "The Replacements," a 2000 Warner Bros. film about a group of football flameouts who replace striking professional players.
Dickson was one of the players on strike, but his size — he was 320 pounds at the time — became a problem.
"Every scene I was in, I was causing problems because I was so big," Dickson said. "They said, 'Fred, put your hands up,' and my hands are 9 to 10 feet in the air."
Dickson stayed in touch with people from the set. In 2006, he went to Las Vegas with Craig Comstock, an assistant director who worked on the movie.
Dickson won $10,400 playing blackjack. But instead of saving the cash, he decided to get something to commemorate the trip.
He bought two giant King Kong posters, one for Comstock and one for himself, paying $9,600 with shipping.
"I don't have anyplace for this thing; it's like 7 feet tall," Dickson said.
"Fred is a crazy guy," Arbutus quarterback Stuart Long said.
While stretching before a recent game, Long, 31, noticed Dickson tumbling down the hill next to the football field. He was walking up, then rolling down — again and again in helmet and full pads.
"He was barrel-rolling off of his head," Long said. "He had a bruise."
Dickson has been an inspiration since he joined the team early in the season, Long said. Dickson has started a few times on defense, usually returning to the bench after a few plays, and has received spot duty at tight end in certain packages.
"On a semipro level, a lot of guys ... have been told, 'You can't play. You will never be that,'" Long said. "The semipro level is where guys can [become] who they want to be. It's up to you. Fred is living proof of that."
After Dickson gave a speech about his battle with cancer to his college team, he asked Arbutus coach Ulander Giles whether he could speak to the Big Red. The team was special to Dickson, who won two Mason Dixon League championships with Arbutus during the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
A few games after giving his speech, Dickson asked whether he could join the roster.
"He approached me about it and I had no problem about it at all," Giles said. "He told me that he understood at his age that he's not trying to be a starter or a four-down [player]."
That hasn't stopped Dickson from dreaming big, though. He believes that just about anything he does in a semipro game would set a record. Catch a pass? Oldest player ever to do so. Make a tackle? Oldest ever.
The Guinness Book of Records lists Paul L. Morton, 67, who suited up for the semipro Stateline Miners in 2008, as the oldest to ever play American football. But Dickson believes Morton never made it onto the field.
Guinness did not respond to requests for comment.
"Everything I do and touch is a record," Dickson said. "[Morton] didn't play both ways; he played one way. That's the record, to start both ways."
There are two things that bring Dickson to tears.
The first is the cancer patients who were in therapy with him and didn't make it.
"All those friends who were with me, who had the same cancer, they're all dead," Dickson said. "And I had it worse than all of them."
The second is his family: his wife, Leslie, and their three kids, Arlynnell, Philip and Marissa. Leslie Dickson is a manager of special projects at The Baltimore Sun.
Dickson says he hopes to set an example.
"I'm trying to leave memories for my kids," he said. "What I'm saying is, I want them to say, 'My dad did these things' and [for the kids to] see me do them."
Many of his stories seem like tall tales. He talks about the 800-page memoir he is working on and imagines it becoming a best-seller. If the team wins a championship this year, he thinks it could turn into a big movie deal.
He shows a photo of the King Kong poster he bought in Las Vegas, which he is donating to a local movie theater to help fund cancer research.
"You think you are a big gorilla," Dickson said, "and then you get cancer and you turn into a little baby."
Dickson says his doctor told him he shouldn't play football. His bones are too frail from the chemotherapy, from the radiation. He could be severely injured.
None of that matters to Dickson.
"The cancer is going to get me. It's just a matter of time," he said. "I have so much time and space to do something, and if I do it, it will help others. If it helps others, it helps my kids. I'm not afraid to die."
Meet Fred Dickson
Age: 53
College: Salisbury
High school: Woodlawn
Family: Wife, Leslie, and three children: Arlynnell, Philip and Marissa
Other: Baltimore radio host on 105.7 the Fan in 2008 ... Royal Arch Mason Chaplain and recently baptized Catholic ... Arbutus Big Red tight end and defensive end ... first trans-oral robotic tonsil patient at GBMC


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LONDON (Reuters) - While the arrival of a new year often means diets and resolutions, it also means a slew of new vacation days. With their upcoming travels in mind, the members and editors of VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have selected their "Top 10 Places off the beaten path". Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Chile
Stretching 4,270 km (2,653 mi) along the Pacific Ocean, Chile's length and range of latitudes (from subtropical to sub Antarctic) create incredible biodiversity and a variety of natural settings to see and enjoy. Most travelers planning to visit Chile will want to do so in the next few months, as this is the country's summer season, meaning temperate weather and a chance to explore areas of Chilean Patagonia that are difficult to traverse in other seasons.
Torres del Paine National Park is in splendid form during these months, and the region's famous winds are the most manageable they will be all year. However, there is no shortage of incredible spots to see in Chile year round, like the Atacama Desert, Santiago, and Valpariso. One of the most arid places in the world, the Atacama is an especially great site for avid starwatchers since the sky is completely clear about 340 days a year. Santiago, Chile's capital city, is a growing metropolis and located adjacent to fantastic vineyards. Valpariso, only 74 miles (120km) from Santiago on the coast, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its sloping hills filled with colorful homes and Chile's most vital port.
2. Norway
Since NASA has predicted that the winter season (October 2012 - April 2013) in the Northern Hemisphere will be the brightest northern lights display in 50 years, it makes sense that two of our destinations are spots to see this natural occurrence. Aurora Borealis, the scientific term for the northern lights, occurs when energetic particles are flung out from the sun and hit the magnetic field around Earth, and this year's conditions suggest some of the best sightings since 1958. As the phenomenon's name suggests, the display is most commonly seen in a zone within a certain radius of the North Pole, in an area including Iceland, northern Scandinavia, northern Canada, Alaska, and some parts of Siberia. Tromsø, located above the Arctic Circle, is known as "the capital of the Arctic" within Norway. With relatively mild winters and long winter nights, it is an ideal location for viewing the northern lights. However, a lack of storms does not mean you should pack light - the average temperature in Tromsø from January to April is about 31 degrees Fahrenheit (-0.55 Celsius), so remember your gloves or mittens. Also, make sure to avoid the full moon and places with lots of lights, as these will interfere with your viewing. During the daytime hours, visitors can check out the Arctic Cathedral, with its beautiful glass mosaic.
3. Myanmar
Myanmar (also known as Burma) has been added to many travelers' wish lists in the last year after the nation held elections and U.S. political leaders visited the Southeast Asian country. While the destination just recently appeared on the general public's radar, VirtualTourist members have been traveling and enjoying the country for years. In Yangon (also called Rangoon), visitors will find the Shwedagon Paya known to be the most sacred of all Burmese temples with a golden stupa that can be seen from miles away. Members did note that the complex is filled with things to do and see, and it can be a bit overwhelming so make sure to allow at least half a day to explore the site. Farther north, the Mandalay division showcases some of the country's other types of structures such as the teak temple and also hosts great views from atop Mandalay Hill. Members frequently visited the temples and pagodas of Bagan noting that the Shwesandaw Paya is the best viewpoint of the temples and sunsets in Bagan.
4. Sibiu, Romania
With exploring Eastern Europe becoming more mainstream, Romania is rapidly turning out to be a great destination for budget-conscious travelers. Bordering Hungary, the Ukraine, and the Black Sea, Romania contains some of Europe's most well-preserved medieval towns. VirtualTourist members will be hosting their annual member meeting this June in Sibiu, a township in historic Transylvania, with plans to explore the Old Saxon architecture of Brasov and the hilltop citadel of nearby Sighisoara. While staying in Sibiu, visitors should see the Bruckental Museum, the region's finest art museum, which has been operating since 1790. And yes, this is the land of Dracula, or at least the origin and inspiration for Bram Stoker's novel can be traced back here. Two castles that should not be missed are Bran, a Gothic fairytale structure near Brasov, and Corvinesti Castle, located in nearby Hunedoara. Multiple members are also planning on traveling south to visit Bucharest, Romania's capital, or seeing more of Eastern Europe, like Moldova, Budapest, or Slovakia.
5. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Every year, more VT members make the trek to experience the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. One of the most fragile environments on Earth, the islands, their national park and the marine biological reserve comprise the only province totally surrounded by water. Though the islands were removed from the UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger over two years ago, the ecosystem and its unique species are still fragile and undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Ecuador has also taken steps to make traveling to the islands easier than ever: this year, new railway lines will link the capital of Quito with the coastal port of Guayaquil. In addition to visiting the Galapagos, VirtualTourist members also recommend visiting Cuenca, a colonial city famous for its architectural sites and variety of buildings and only a 2 hour and 50 minute drive from Guayaquil, the most common port of entry to the Galapagos.
6. Shanghai, China
The primary bastion of economic growth in mainland China, Shanghai is an interesting juxtaposition of historic buildings and booming growth, and it's never been easier to visit than now. Starting on January 1st of this year, visitors from 45 countries will be able to stay in Shanghai (as well as Beijing) for 72 hours without needing a visa. Start your three days at the Shanghai Museum, located on People's Square, and get an introduction to the city and China's fascinating history. A great comparison between old China and new Shanghai can be seen by strolling Dongtai Road's antiques shops, followed by a visit to Moganshan Road, the buzzing location of many Chinese contemporary art galleries. Lastly, don't forget to take in the skyline and light shows at night - the Pearl Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and other towers in the Pudong district provide great views, as do the hotels across the river on the Bund.
7. Sri Lanka
The island of Sri Lanka has long been a fly-over country for most travelers, due to its extensive history of civil unrest, but it's time for this jungle isle to shine. After over four years of stability, it is becoming a popular destination for budget conscious travelers wanting to try something new in Southeast Asia. For travelers looking for a safari experience, Sri Lanka offers just as much amazing wildlife as Africa, but is much more budget-friendly. Wild elephants, leopards and spotted deer are just a sample of the mammals you can see in one of the island's fourteen national parks. Yala National Park, the most visited and second largest national park in the country, is vital for the conservation of Sri Lankan Elephants. Another site VirtualTourist members strongly recommend is Sigiriya, the ruins of the capital built by King Kassapa I in the 5th century. While the rock itself is quite a difficult climb, the site is surrounded with some very impressive urban planning techniques - members say a simple walk around the grounds is fulfilling and the view from the plateaus is exceptional.
8. Iceland
For most nature lovers, Iceland is a fixture on their travel bucket lists as the island nation is filled with dramatic natural landscapes and unique features from hot springs to lava fields to glaciers. Many members comment that while some activities such as the Blue Lagoon and the Golden Circle Tour seem touristy when planning a trip, they are well worth the organized tours and crowds upon arrival. Members residing in Iceland strongly recommend Skaftafell National Park and Jökulsárlón, the island's largest glacier lagoon, which is situated between Skaftafell National Park and Höfn. Somewhat off the beaten path but undoubtedly worth the trip, Dettifoss in northern Iceland is an amazing sight and the most powerful waterfall in Europe. A unique natural occurrence that makes visiting Iceland this year a major priority is this year's Northern lights display, as Iceland is one of the best locations to view this phenomenon. Visiting Þingvellir National Park, a UNESCO Heritage Site, on a night before the end of March means your best chance to witness the lights.
9. Victoria Falls, Zambia
Traditionally, the majority of visitors to Africa's Victoria Falls have visited on the Zimbabwe side of the Zambezi River. However, with the unpredictable political situation in Zimbabwe, many travelers are now approaching the falls from the Zambian side. Although Livingstone, the town on the Zambian side of the river, is not nearly as developed as the Zimbabwean side, it still provides the same spectacular views of Victoria Falls. Mosi-O-Tunya National Park, which encompasses the falls on the Zambian side, provides an opportunity to see multiple spectacles in one day. In addition to the falls, visitors often spot antelope, zebras, giraffe, and even elephants crossing the Zambezi and walking freely through out the park. Lower Zambezi National Park, also on the Zambezi River, is known for both its incredible fishing and fantastic birdlife so it attracts hobbyists of all kinds. Zambia is also famous for its "walking safaris," where a game guide leads travelers deep into the bush with nothing but a few yards between them and an elephant or troop of baboons.
10. Antarctica
If you really want to venture off the beaten path, how about visiting the 7th continent? While Antarctic tourism can be traced back to the late 1950s when Chilean and Argentine ships took some fare-paying passengers to the South Shetland Islands, there wasn't a formal association for visitors or private-sector travelers until 1991. With this in mind, it's easy to conclude that a visit to Antarctica isn't just once in a lifetime, but it will most likely be a family first as well.
Visiting Antarctic destinations by ship is particularly popular with vessels commonly departing from Ushuaia, Argentina; Punta Arenas, Chile; and Bluff, New Zealand. The remote location, frozen landscape and unpredictable weather can make tourism operations in Antarctica a logistical challenge, but visiting the area is completely safe. It is important to take into account the sustainability of the landscape and the unique wildlife of the area, so it is suggested that travelers book through the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) which manages environmentally sound cruises to help protect and sustain Antarctica's environment. Each season brings different sights for visitors - in February (or late summer), whale sightings are at their best and receding pack ice allows ships to explore further south.
Editing by Paul Casciato


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none1974 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
ERA Communications
We are a B2B business specializing in Marketing strategy for businesses using mobile technology. We are a creative team bringing brands to all of latin america in there mobile phones through promotions, voting, prizes and giveaways.
"ERA Communications
is a one-stop, rock-your-socks-off,
impress-your-boss, disco-dancing,
can't-stop-us-now, budget-crunching,
creative marketing powerhouse."
Businesses. Mainly we will target the corporate world with our creative and effective strategies to expand there brand and obtain critical stats.
We want something very corporate yet with a hint of renegade! We as a team are very focused, strategic and reliable, yet we do have a crazy side where we go beyond in our delivery and expectations. The companies we are aligning with are Movistar/Telefonica, Telcel, Movil.
No gradients, solid colors. other than that, DO THE MAGIC!!
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1 Bedroom Premier Apartment
These 1 Bedroom Premier Apartments are newly renovated with a contemporary feel featuring a large balcony overlooking the lush tropical gardens/pool combined with the comfort of spacious internal living areas. Fully self-contained with dishwasher, hotplate, convection microwave oven, granite bench tops, large fridge, all appliances are stainless steel, extensive crockery, tea and coffee facilities. All apartments are air-conditioned with ceiling fans; large 42" flat screen TV's, Cable TV, CD & DVD players. The bathroom has a large shower and separate laundry facilities.
- 1 King / Twin
- Non-smoking
- Air conditioned
- Dishwasher
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Television
- Balcony
- Ceiling Fans
- Laundry Facilities
- Oven
- Toaster
- Barbeque
- Clock Radio
- Lift/Elevator Access
- Shower - separate
- Tea/Coffee Making
- Broadband Internet Access
- DVD Player
- Linen and Towels Provided
- Stairs
- Weekly Room Service
- Cable/Satellite TV
- Hairdryer
- Lounge Area
- Telephone
- Wireless Internet
- CD Player
- Iron/Ironing board
Terms & Conditions
Payment of accommodation or sundry accounts can be made in cash, VisaCard, MasterCard, or Amex.
While in residence, a room account for tours, telephone calls, transfers etc. will be held until the end of your stay. A pre-authority (swipe) of your credit card will be required as security.
To secure your booking we require 1 nights accommodation as a deposit.
Balance is due and payable on date of arrival
Cancellations are to be advised in writing by mail, fax or E-mail.
Cancellations received 30 days or more prior to date of arrival will be refunded in full, less $100 administration fees.
For cancellations received less than 30 days prior to arrival, nil refund of the deposit will apply.
Any cancellations received less than 14 days prior to arrival or should you change your booking during your stay, you will be charged the full amount of the total stay booked (ie. if you are confirmed for 5 days you will be charged for a total of 5 days). However, if the suite can be re-let a full refund will be issued less deposit paid for the first night...........
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The Foodie:
This summer we were having dinner at Fiamma Steak on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo and had the most delicious grilled pound cake with berries. I love trying new things and then figuring out how to make them myself. Face it — there are no real new ideas, just variations on a theme.
Take pound cake, for example. Pound cake is pound of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla and ½ teaspoon of salt and you've got yourself a classic treat. I did some research about pound cake and have come to realize that while pound cake is a cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio it is also a generic phrase for dense cake like martini is a classic cocktail made with gin and vermouth or a drink served in a cone shaped stemmed glass.
I used Food Network star Alton Brown's recipe to make a pound cake with my own twist. Here is his recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pound-cake-recipe/index.html
I did the pound of flour, sugar and butter and substituted 2 mashed peaches for two of the nine eggs (nine eggs are approximately one pound). I made this recipe twice and it is amazing. Here are a few tips:
Be sure to have the butter and eggs at room temperature. Cold, hard butter does not cream well and cold eggs slow the cooking time down causing the cake to be overcooked on the outside and uncooked inside. I learned this one the hard way.
Use a scale to measure the flour and the sugar. Cooking is an art (a little of this and a little of that) and baking is a science. Exact measurements make a difference in baking. If even one ratio is off you will end up with something different than intended.
While the cake is baking make the sautéed peaches and ricotta cream.
Sautéed Peaches
Makes Four Servings
2 Peaches (cut into wedges — about 12 per peach)
1 Pat Butter
3 Turns Blood Orange Olive Oil (D'Avolio sells a nice one)
¼ Cup Brown Sugar
1 TBSP Peach White Balsamic Vinegar
1 tsp Vanilla Salt (or ½ tsp vanilla and teaspoon of course salt)
In a heavy skillet on medium heat add butter and blood orange olive oil. Add peaches cook for about three minutes stirring occasionally. Add peach white balsamic vinegar, vanilla salt and brown sugar and cook until sugar mixture begins to darken. Watch very carefully because it goes from dark to burnt in just a few seconds. Set aside to cool.
Ricotta Cream
2 Cups Heavy Cream
1 Cup Ricotta (NEVER Non-Fat)
1 TBSP Honey
Whip on highest speed until peaks form and looks dry.
Heat stove top grill and brush with butter. Slice pound cake and brush with Blood Orange Olive Oil. Grill both sides until caramelized grill lines form on cake (a few minutes on each side). Place on serving platter. Top each piece with peaches and ricotta cream. Enjoy!
To save a great deal of time, my BFF Sara Lee makes a great pound cake (although you cannot infuse it with peaches). While it is defrosting make the peaches and cream and assemble.
Give this a try and let me know how it turned out. If you have a twist, please share. Be sure to Retweet this or share it with your friends on Facebook so they can join the fun.
Please join me at the Lewiston Kiwanis Annual Peach Festival http://www.lewistonkiwanis.org/ncpf.html and the 5K Run/1Mile Walk Saturday morning benefiting the It Happened to Alexa Foundation.
There is always something happening Below the Falls!


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Linux Gull needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Logo for a Free/Libre/Open Source Software association, to be used on any communication products (digital, paper and other supports) at any size
The designed logo should integrate the following points:
- Gull : the association's name
- A Seagull : for the freedom and to keep a follow with the old logo
- Optional: an element which give a callback on software/computer science/informatics => Basic colors should be blue and yellow, with transparent background if no color
- The designed must be easy to decline to black and white and to other supports (stickers, letters, etc.).
- It should evoke Freedom, Sustainability and Innovation
- A logo too much similar to another famous logo, unusable colors, ...
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Palm Beach Gardens resident Stacy Lewis is the No. 2 ranked women's golfer in the world. Since her LPGA debut in 2009, she's won three tournaments, including two this year.
Lewis, 27, was diagnosed with scoliosis at age 11 and, seven years later, had an operation to fix the curvature in her back.
Today, she exercises up to seven days a week, even during tournaments, to remain at the top of her game.
Q: Why do you keep fit?
A: More than anything, to keep from getting hurt. And to stay healthy, keep my back, legs stronger. It keeps golf easier. We're playing so much throughout the year, I have to stay in shape. It's always nice when your clothes fit a little nicer. In golf especially, it's about how much confidence you have. And if you feel good getting up every day, you'll do better.
Q: What's your workout routine?
A: I usually try to work out five days a week. My trainer gives workouts for when I'm on the road. I'm always working the same muscles, but every workout is different. I don't do a lot of cardio. We're walking so much with golf, five to seven miles per day, so it doesn't make sense to run three miles after the gym.
I do a lot of weight training. Core, a lot of abs and back, and then squats and squat jumps, lunges. Doing stuff for shoulders and back. It's a total body workout pretty much. For shoulders, I do shoulder presses, one-arm shoulder presses or alternating. Different variations, so you're always testing yourself.
Q: You play golf almost daily. When can you work out?
A: If I'm playing a tournament, the workout depends on my tee time. I'll get up early and stretch if [I have] an early tee time. Then a full workout at night [after playing]. With golf and rain delays, we always have to adapt. I found it wakes me up and energizes me for the day if I do an early workout and have a late tee time.
My workouts are for an hour to 1 1/2 hours. I usually do three sets of everything. I'll start out harder Monday and Tuesday. When tournaments start later in the week, I'm doing only two sets and lighter weights.
Q: So you stretch to warm up for tournament play?
A: I'll spend five minutes on a bike to get the blood moving in my legs, and then 10 to 15 minutes stretching. Nothing crazy. Just to wake me up.
Q: Is golf physically tough?
A: I wouldn't say I'm exhausted at the end of a round. It's more about playing every day. Three weeks in a row we'll play, meaning around 19 days. So you're feeling it. I work out to play well not just the first week but the third week. Need to keep up your stamina. [The LPGA] season is February to November, so it's most of the year. I play 25 to 30 events per year, usually four days each. But we also have practice days and pro-am days. Tournament week, we're playing up to seven days a week including practice.
Q: What's one exercise that golfers can do to improve their game?
A: You get in a golfer stance and have a resistance band around something and cross your hands over your chest [while holding the band], and then rotate away from the band. Your goal is to keep your lower body from moving. You want to rotate just your upper body and shoulders without moving your lower body. In golf with amateurs, a common problem is no flexibility with the upper and lower body. But to swing a golf club properly, you have to have some separation in there.
Q: Ever played other sports?
A: I did swimming but quit before high school. You basically had to pick one sport at our high school, and I chose golf.
Q: Does your family keep fit?
A: Yeah, they do. One of my sisters and Mom run marathons, and my younger sister just completed a sprint triathlon. We've always been very competitive.
Q: How has scoliosis affected your game?
A: I was diagnosed when 11. Wore a back brace for 6.5 years to hopefully prevent the surgery, but that didn't work out so I had back surgery. I have a curvature in my spine, so the surgery basically straightened everything out. I have five screws in my back and everything rotates together in the spinal column. The operation was June 2003, right after graduating high school.
Today it's great, feels really good, knock on wood. I had one little issue in college but got that straightened out. That's part of why I work out, to keep the back strong.
Q: Any exercise advice for scoliosis patients?
A: Get your legs and abs strong, your back. I do all kinds of back extensions, lying on ground and lifting my torso up. I do Superman with arms and legs out and lift at the same time.
Q: What's your typical daily diet?
A: Breakfast is usually eggs or granola or anything with protein. For lunch, dinner, I'll eat anything. It's really hard when we're traveling so much to be good about diet. I try to be healthy with fruits and vegetables, but sometimes late at night I'm at an airport and there's not much to choose from.
Q: What do you drink?
A: Water. That's key when we're playing outside. And you got to hydrate the night before ... I don't like coffee and don't drink alcohol really. I'll have a Diet Coke every now and then.
Q: Any vitamins or sports nutrition products?
A: After I work out, my trainer wants me to have some kind of protein shake or other protein within 30 minutes.
Stacy Lewis
Age: 27
City of residence: Palm Beach Gardens
Height/weight: 5 feet, 5 inches; 125 pounds
Occupation: Professional golfer


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MythWeb is a web interface for MythTV
Install MythWeb
# pacman -S mythplugins-mythweb
You will also need to install php-apache, the MythWeb package has not yet been updated to depend on this.
# pacman -S php-apache
Link to the Video Directory
MythWeb looks in the video_dir directory for MythTV recordings. You will need to create a link to the folder where your MythTV recordings are stored.
# ln -s <recording_dir> /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/video_dir
Copy the MythWeb configuration file mythweb.conf to the Apache configuration directory.
# cp /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/mythweb.conf.apache /etc/httpd/conf/extra/mythweb.conf
Edit mythweb.conf to point it to the correct installation directory (near the beginning of the file).
<Directory "/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb" >
Then check that the configuration matches your MythTV setup. If you have changed the database login or password you will need to change the following section.
setenv db_server "localhost" setenv db_name "mythconverg" setenv db_login "mythtv" setenv db_password "mythtv"
Edit the Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Uncomment (or add) the line to the LoadModule section
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
Insert the following two lines in the Supplemental Configuration section of httpd.conf, it's found towards the end of the file.
Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf Include conf/extra/mythweb.conf
Edit the PHP configuration file /etc/php/php.ini
Uncomment the following lines in the Dynamic extensions section.
extension=mysql.so extension=posix.so
Make sure open_basedir contains /srv/http/ and /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb to allow file operation in the MythWeb directory. Starting with MythTV 0.23, you will also need to permit access to /usr/share/mythtv/.
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb:/usr/share/mythtv/
Enable the allow_url_fopen option for MythWeb's status page to work.
allow_url_fopen = On
Set rights for mythtv dir and create the link to mythweb
chmod 755 /var/lib/mythtv/
ln -s /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb /srv/http/
Using MythWeb
You can now start the Apache daemon, mythbackend must already be running.
systemctl start httpd.service
Open MythWeb in your browser.
Securing MythWeb
It is also probably a good idea to set up password protection for MythWeb if you intend to allow connections from the Internet. To enable authentication open the /etc/httpd/conf/extra/mythweb.conf file and uncomment the authentication section (near the beginning):
AuthType Digest AuthName "MythTV" AuthUserFile /var/www/htdigest Require valid-user BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On Order allow,deny Satisfy any
Now we need to fix the configuration to match how we have MythWeb set up, change the AuthUserFile so it reads
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-passwords
If you do not want to access MythWeb from IE you can delete the BrowserMatch line.
You also probably do not want to have to enter your password when you're connecting from your local computer, so add the following line between the last two lines:
Allow from 127. 192.168.1.
This will cause passwordless access from both your local machine AND your local network (provided you're using the 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 subnet)
Your config should now look something like:
AuthType Digest AuthName "MythTV" AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-passwords Require valid-user Order allow,deny Allow from 127. 192.168.1. Satisfy any
Save the file. Now we'll create the httpd-passwords file,
# htdigest -c /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-passwords MythTV MYUSER
Where MYUSER is the username you want to use to access MythWeb. Enter the login password when prompted.
If you need more users:
# htdigest /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-passwords MythTV MYUSER
NOTE: No -c after initial user, otherwise you will overwrite the current file.
Now all we need to do now is restart the apache server for the changes to take effect.
# /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
If you get a 403 Forbidden error, recheck your paths in mythweb.conf


text: Launched in February 2009, the mission of the HBI Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust is to introduce a new dimension to Holocaust studies – interdisciplinary research on the histories and representations of East European Jewish families and children from 1933 to the present. In particular, the project aims to explore the experience of childhood, motherhood and fatherhood in specific geographical locations and in a transnational context. The project also encourages methodological research and artistic expressions pertaining to adult and child survivors' accounts of their prewar, wartime and postwar lives.


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Chat before taping
Executive producer and creator of "Check Please", David Manilow, left, talks host Alpana Singh, center back, and with guests of the program in the set, before the taping of the show at WTTW studios. Guests are Jeff Walker, second from left, Reese Everson, and Pete Durbin, back right.
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It's been a long time since farmers in the Southeast have had so many good cropping options — at least price-wise.
In the Southeast, as in most other parts of the U.S., crops compete for acreage. Last year corn won the prize because of 10-year high prices pushed by demand for more ethanol. Unfortunately, Mother Nature, poor planting choices and a plethora of other problems kept total corn yield in the Southeast slightly lower than in 2006 — despite a huge increase in acreage.
In the fall of 2007, growers in the Southeast planted what might be a record wheat crop. Again, unfortunately too much of this wheat crop was planted late — a good recipe for low quality and low yields — not to mention freeze damage. And, too much wheat was likely planted on land not well suited to to the crop.
Regardless of the consequences, wheat appears to be the big winner in the acreage 'up and down' in the Southeast. Though exact acreage is a slippery slope to figure, consensus appears to be a 25 percent increase in wheat acreage in the upper Southeast.
The big increase in wheat acreage makes it a good bet that soybean acreage will go up as growers try to reduce risk and maximize profit by planting two crops, both selling for 10-year high prices. However, a few growers will likely try to get wheat out early and plant cotton to take advantage of high cotton prices that pushed into the mid-80 cent range in early March.
Though certainly not a trend, nor a big acreage swing, South Carolina Peanut Specialist Jay Chapin says a few of his growers will plant peanuts behind wheat. "We have the time to do it, a few growers have done it, and I expect a few more of our growers will try growing peanuts behind wheat," Chapin says.
Wheat at $12 a bushel and Virginia-type peanuts for $600 a ton could be a sweet combination, if the weather cooperates, and if the grower has already sold his wheat. As of March 1, wheat selling for $9.33 a bushel had nowhere to go in the U.S. market place.
Jim King, president of J&J Commodities in Greenville, N.C., a long-time grain dealer and farm manager, says there simply is nowhere to go with wheat. "We could buy it and store and hope someone would come by and offer us $10 a bushel for it, but we can't and don't do business that way," he says jokingly. King added, more matter-of-factly that the high wheat prices are a real problem for U.S. grain dealers and could become a big problem for growers who have wheat planted, but not sold.
Before turning the crown over to wheat, take a look at corn. Corn knocked cotton acreage down in the Southeast by 25-30 percent in 2007. Despite dire forecasts, corn prices remain over $5 ($5.56 as of March 3). Though many farmers found out the hard way that poorly drained soil, drought and dryland corn are a good recipe for disaster, the $5 lure is strong. Most analysts forecast a nationwide corn crop again pushing 90 million acres.
In the Southeast, corn acreage will likely be down, simply because the options are much better this year. Peanut prices are good, cotton prices are good and getting better and soybean prices remain good.
Good weather, a good seed supply, and a year of growing corn under their belt could produce better corn results in 2008, and weather permitting, corn could be a good choice for growers in the area.
Despite a big acreage boost in 2007, corn prices have risen an additional 20 percent in the early months of 2008. The 2007 rush by farmers to plant cash-producing corn has squeezed wheat acreage, forcing supplies down and prices up.
Soybean prices benefited from corn's continued torrid price pace, helping push bean prices up by 25 percent in 2008.
King Cotton, the staple crop in the Southeast during the 1990s and into the new millennium took a big hit in 2007. Prices were down, production costs were varied and expensive, and there was corn — cheap to produce, high in value. Or so many cotton growers thought. Some percentage of cotton land turned into corn land in 2007 will undoubtedly return to cotton land in 2008. How much is an open question.
Demand for cotton finished products worldwide continues to grow faster than the worldwide increase in cotton fiber production. Though U.S. cotton is not always the chosen grade for Asian mills, it is high quality and the supply chain is reliable — two factors likely to keep U.S.-grown cotton in high demand for quite a while.
As of early March cotton prices had crept back into the mid-80-cent per pound range. Despite the drought in 2007, cotton seemed to weather the storm much better than grain crops. As a result cotton seed is both plentiful and of high quality, which is not the case for some grain crops in some varieties.
In the Southeast farm land continues to decrease, especially in North Carolina and Georgia — the two highest volume producing states in the region.
North Carolina, in particular leads the way in farm acres lost among all states. Georgia is the third fastest growing state in population, trailing only Texas and California. Loss of acreage and so many good, profitable options for crops begs the question: Where are all these grain, cotton and peanut acres coming from?
Clearly, the major crops: Cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat and peanuts are expecting at least some acreage increase. Even the old whipping boy, tobacco, looks like acreage may be up. As one analyst quipped, the emergence of China has added over a hundred million new smokers in China's burgeoning middle class, and a new market for U.S.-grown tobacco.
With options so varied and so seemingly promising, it looks like growers in the Southeast can't miss having a good year in 2008 — weather permitting.
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With a video of their wedding featured in the Bartow History Museum's newest exhibit, Minor and Elizabeth Shadburn's marriage ceremony is gaining a new set of viewers.
Airing on the television program "Bride & Groom," the wedding was filmed in New York and initially broadcast across the country in 1952. Along with supplying a gown, the show also provided the couple with household gifts and a paid honeymoon trip.
"I was a bookkeeper and I worked down on Main Street. … The TV was on all the time and I used to see at 10 o'clock a program that came on called 'Bride & Groom' and that's how I got curious," said Cartersville resident Elizabeth Shadburn, whose husband passed away more than 10 years ago. "I thought, 'Well, let's just see what you have to do to get on there.' So I wrote and they sent me the information. You had to write a story of your romance and different things like that. So we worked on it I guess for about a month to get it lined up. So I did send it and one evening, we hadn't even really set a date … they brought a special delivery letter to me.
"We had been accepted as one of the contestants. So we had to pay our own way there and back but after the wedding everything was furnished then. It was quite an experience. At that time, the stores closed and they had parties all over town. … My mother didn't have a TV so she went down the street [and watched it] with a group down there. So it was an exciting time."
Presented by Stiles Jewelers and Tonsmeire Studio, "To Have and To Hold: Wedding Customs and Traditions" is on display through Aug. 31. Along with Shadburn's wedding video, the exhibit features wedding attire and objects from the 1850s to 1970s.
"The idea for the wedding exhibit, we've had for several years," said Trey Gaines, director of the BHM, 4 E. Church St. in Cartersville. "It's something that we've wanted to do to highlight … wedding dresses we have in our collection as well as some other wedding-related items — jewelry, wedding stories, those kinds of things — that we have and haven't been able to put on display. So we wanted to do an exhibit around those items.
"… We chose this time of year to do this exhibit because it's quote-unquote the wedding season. So we wanted to really highlight the collection and give people the opportunity that are out — either they're getting married or they're attending weddings this summer — [to view this exhibit]. They have weddings on their minds. So it's a good opportunity to come out and learn more about these wedding traditions and customs that we have as well as see some of these great items that the museum can show."
In addition to viewing the exhibit each Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., patrons also can participate in a raffle featuring various prizes donated by local individuals and businesses.
Tickets for the drawing — to be held June 19 during the museum's Lunch and Learn lecture from noon to 1 p.m. — are $15 apiece or three for $40. Ticketholders do not have to be in attendance to win.
For more information on the exhibit or raffle items, call 770-382-3818, ext. 6286, or visit www.bartowhistorymuseum.org. Tickets can be purchased in the museum's gift shop or by calling 770-387-2774.
Read more: The Daily Tribune News – BHM exhibit highlights Cartersville resident s 1952 televised wedding


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A collaborative faculty-student research project led by Dr. Gwenda Schmidt of the Hope College psychology faculty has won the college's third annual "Social Sciences Young Investigators Award."
Schmidt, who is an assistant professor of psychology, and her team received the recognition for their project "Sentence Figurativeness and Modality Shape the Neural Bases of Language Processing." The students with whom she conducted the research are sophomore Nathan Axdorff, a psychology major from Grand Rapids; senior Ashley Drew, a psychology major and neuroscience minor from Spring Lake; and senior Elizabeth Miller, a chemistry major from Lake Saint Louis, Mo.
The "Social Sciences Young Investigators Award" is designed to recognize and encourage junior faculty to partner with students in research collaborations that further the scholarship goals of the faculty member while developing the skills of critical inquiry and analysis in his or her students. It includes funding for the faculty and student team to present the work at a professional conference.
The competition is open to junior social science faculty who worked with students on a significant research project, with at least one of the students returning for the next academic year. The selection is made from among the eligible social science projects highlighted during the college's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance, which was held on Friday, April 13, this year.
The study considered whether or not there are differences in the brain when an individual is confronted with literal, metaphorical or nonsensical (anomalous) statements, and whether or not the statements referenced sound or motion. The study used the department's EEG (electroencephalography) system to measure N400 waves (an index of semantic processing), finding larger N400s and a different scalp distribution for metaphorical statements than for literal ones. The auditory sentences also had a different scalp distribution than the motion ones, indicating that they each have different neural processing mechanisms.
Schmidt has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2009. She completed her Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 2006 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.


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Maybe it's because of falling gas prices or simply the day of the week, but this Independence Day, holiday travelers will be out in full force.
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AAA predicts 42.3 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home, compared to 40.3 million last year, as the price of gas falls below $3.50 a gallon in the United States after peaking close to $4 in early April.
The increase in travel is also believed to be tied to the calendar, because Independence Day falls on a Wednesday this year. Since the traditional five-day travel period is expanded to six days, it provides people with the option of a weekend and two weekdays on either side of July 4th.
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JAMESTOWN — Fifteen students came back to Jamestown Elementary on Thursday morning for the first time since floods ravaged their town last September.
They ran around their small school perched above the town and through an arch of parents into the building, with the older students giving the two kindergartners roses.
Then they told stories about their summers and brainstormed rules that included the use of inside voices, not jumping on the furniture and treating books with respect.
That last one likely was inspired by their refurbished library, with all new books and furniture that were paid for with a grant. Principal assistant and art teacher Beth Brotherton put the new library together and painted literary figures like the "Cat in the Hat" on the walls.
"This isn't a school, it's a family," Brotherton said. "The flood is over in Boulder, but up here we're still in the middle of it. It feels good to be back after what we lived through.
"Not everything in town is normal, but school is normal and that's a good place to be."
Thursday was the first day of school for Boulder Valley elementary students and a transition day for sixth- and ninth-graders. The rest of the district's students start today, with the district estimating a total enrollment of 29,791.
Jamestown Elementary was the district school most impacted by the floods.
While the school itself wasn't damaged, it's taken months to fully restore access and municipal services. The main road to the school was largely destroyed, while the secondary access road was in rough shape and only repaired this week to make access easier.
Because the damage to the town was so severe, Jamestown students were split after the floods. Six attended class in Boulder at Community Montessori and another 15 went to a temporary classroom at Glacier View Ranch in Ward.
After the year ended, Brotherton said, three fifth-graders moved on to middle school and four families didn't return to Jamestown.
Fifth-grader Kaden Bice said Glacier View was a "very different" place to go to school, with no gym or playground, a big room used as the classroom and "no other civilization around."
"I like our school because it's a bit bigger and nicer," he said.
Third-grader Mesa Ridjik said starting school "feels good," while kindergartner Mia Vandenberg said she's looking forward to "coloring a lot."
Fifth-grader Mason Bennink, who was part of the Community Montessori group, said last year "was kind of sad" because students were separated.
"I'm really happy to be back here with everybody," he said.
He said he's most looking forward to being a school leader and new challenges.
"I definitely want to be challenged," he said.
As the town worked to get the roads ready for the first day, Brotherton and the two classroom teachers — Gay Paxton and Patrick Griffin — also put in extra hours themselves unpacking and organizing supplies and books.
Until last week, the school served as summer lodging for a volunteer group rebuilding houses.
Paxton, who teaches kindergarten, first and second grades, said her goal for the first couple of days is for the students to get reacquainted with each other and school routines.
"It's so awesome to be back," she said.
Griffin, who's a new teacher at the school but completed his student teaching there and lives near Jamestown, shares that goal for his third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students.
"It's about letting them enjoy the school and being back up here," he said. "It's feeling like a school again."
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If you step into the costume storage room in UC Irvine's Contemporary Arts Center, you may think you've stumbled into the dry cleaners.
The room, which became fully operational last spring as part of the building's renovation, stocks nearly 7,000 costumes on a massive ceiling rack. Punch a few digits into a computer at the bottom, and a formal gown, military camouflage or something more outlandish will hum right down.
The collection represents years of painstaking craft at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, which uses its own in-house team to create costumes for drama, music and dance productions. Usually, the costumes are tailored for a specific actor, then kept around in case the school can use them again — sometimes with an alteration or two for size.
Last month, head of costume design Holly Poe Durbin and senior wardrobe technician Erik Lawrence spoke with the Daily Pilot about their busy lives backstage. The two, who work with students and other faculty to design costumes, had just finished the Hollywood satire "Tinseltown Christmas" and had a moment to rest before again firing up their sewing machines. Here are excerpts from the conversation:
Daily Pilot: What's the most weird or outrageous costume request you've ever gotten?
Holly Poe Durbin: I think we suspend judgment a lot in our business, because it's literally normal to be set on fire or anything else like that.
DP: Set on fire on stage?
Durbin: Yes!
DP: So you've actually made flammable costumes?
Durbin: Flame-proof, yes.
DP: What play was that?
Durbin: I did one in St. Louis when I worked at the repertory theater there, and it was a Shakespeare. I can't remember why, but someone needed to transfer flame from a held device to the actor and just have it appear like they were shooting up into flame. But of course then the lights went out and they were covered. So it was a very fast effect, and what we ended up using is the chemical that is put into race-car drivers' uniforms to make them flame-proof. Their uniforms have to be more flame-proof than the normal flame-proofing, because — you can see why. And it's something you can buy and soak the fabric in.
DP: But you never lit anyone up at UCI?
Erik Lawrence: Not yet. We've had people look burned, like they've gone through a fire, and there's a lot of work that goes into it — painting it and making it look like the costume had really been burned, like the person had been burned alive.
I have a section in my portfolio that's called "Oddities." There was a man — he had to look like he was made out of cardboard. So the whole costume was made out of cardboard, and he was rectangular, and his makeup was rectangular, and we painted onto the costume. I did make everything out of cardboard. So that was kind of an odd request, but it's not — when they come across the table, they're not odd, because it's just, that's the way a costume is. It's just the whole creative process.
DP: In terms of working with actors, do you ever encounter divas? Do you ever have the actors bossing you around or telling you to cut a costume a certain way?
Durbin: Yes.
Lawrence: (laughs) Yes.
DP: How do you handle that?
Lawrence: Well, we graciously take their advice, and I kind of try to convince them that my point of view, or the designer's point of view, is maybe … better, you know? I try to get them to see what's going on with the designer's point of view. And sometimes, the actor does have a great idea, though. And sometimes, the designer and the actor can work hand-in-hand, because sometimes the actor will have a vision that the designer didn't see, because the actor is on stage creating that character.
So sometimes, that part is needed, but when you've got a diva in there who's just refusing to wear stuff, then you just kind of have to have the conversations with the actor and the director and bring about, you know, "This is our goal, this is what we're trying to create with the actor or with the character, so if you could just work with us...." and usually you can get around it. I don't think we've ever had any problems here, at least, where people would have refused to wear stuff.
Durbin: We are 50% psychologists. Whenever you work with someone's intimate body and artistic expectation, you're treading in very tricky territory automatically, so we have developed, I think, a great deal of coping skills along that line.
DP: I notice you have a sign up that says "No eating in costume." Do actors ever break that rule?
Lawrence: All the time.
DP: What do you do?
Lawrence: Um, you come in with a stern look on your face, and they usually put it away right away. But the designers and the staff, we're not here when the show is running. We usually have a costume crew that is overseeing everything, and sometimes the students are eating with them. Sometimes stage management brings in food, sometimes they don't. We just leave it up to their discretion.
DP: Do they ever actually get food on the costume?
Lawrence: They have. And I usually talk to the actors that I've built for and I just stress, "This is silk. Do not get anything on it. This is what will happen. This is what you will look like onstage if you get a stain on it." And usually when they hear, "Oh my God, I'm going to look like crap onstage," they don't mess with that. But if it's something that we really can get a stain out of, I don't worry too much about it.
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text: On Friday 29 December 2006 11:57, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Pick a distribution that you know that provides the maximum ease of > maintenance with the maximum number of useful applications already > packaged / readily available / easily ported. This will depend on your > problem set: simulating nuclear explosions/weather storm cells/crashing > cars or are you sequencing genomes/calculating pi/drawing ray traced > images? All of the above, and more.. Makes life interesting sometimes. User 1: Why do let all these single CPU jobs onto the cluster ? 5 minutes later.. User 2: Why do you let one person hog 64 CPUs for one job ? > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: > > On Friday 29 December 2006 04:24, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > I personally would suggest that you go with one of the mainstream, > > > reasonably well supported, package based distributions. Centos, FC, > > > RH, SuSE, Debian/Ubuntu. > > > > I'd have to agree there. > > Red Hat Enterprise based solutions don't cut it on the application > front / packaged libraries in my (very limited) experience. Our (500+) users fall into one of 2 camps usually, these being: 1) They want to run a commercial / 3rd party code, e.g. LS-Dyna, Abaqus, NAMD, Schrodinger, etc, that we provide for them. 2) They are compiling code they've obtained from the collaborators, colleagues, supervisors, random websites and they need compilers, MPI versions and supporting libraries. There are a couple of people who use toolkits bundled with the OS (R is a good example), but just a few. We avoid RHEL because of their lack of support for useful filesystems. > The upgrade/maintenance path is not good - it's easier to start from scratch > and reinstall than to move from one major release to another. We treat all compute nodes (and, to a lesser degree, head nodes) as disposable, they should be able to be rebuilt on a whim from a kickstart/autoyast and come up looking exactly the same as the rest. Our major clusters tend to last about as long as a major distro release (4 years before they're due for replacement), our users would get a bit upset if they found out all their code suddenly stopped working because someone had upgraded the version of, say, the systems C++ libraries, etc, under them. That said.. > Fedora Core - you _have_ to be joking :) Lots of applications - but > little more than 6 - 12 months of support. ...we do run a tiny Opteron cluster (16 dual CPU nodes) with Fedora quite happily, it started off with FC2 and is now running FC5. It's likely to disappear though when the new 64-bit cluster happens next year. > SuSE is better than RH in some respects, worse in others. We find it's miles better in terms of filesystem support. However, they blotted their copy book early on by releasing an update of lilo for PPC that didn't boot on our Power5 cluster. Fortunately we tried it out on a single test compute node first and they got a fix out. But Novell's deal with MS hasn't done it any favours. > OpenSuSE - you may be on your own. SLED 10.2 may have licence costs? Never tried either of those, they're not supported by IBM's cluster management software (CSM). > Debian (and to a lesser extent Ubuntu) has the largest set of > pre-packaged "stuff" for specialist maths that I know of and has > reasonable general purpose tools. Agreed, but our users tend not to use those. > If I read the original post correctly, you're talking of an initial 8 > nodes or so and a head node. Prototype it - grab a couple of desktop > machines from somewhere, a switch and some cat 5. Set up three machines: > one head and two nodes. Work your way through a toy problem. Do this for > Warewulf/Rocks/Oscar or whatever - it will give you a feel for something > of the complexity you'll get and the likely issues you'll face. Amen! > > What I'd really like is for a kickstart compatible Debian/Ubuntu (but > > with mixed 64/32 bit support for AMD64 systems). I know the Ubuntu folks > > started on this [1], but I don't think they managed to get very far. > > dpkg --get-selections >> tempfile ; pxe boot for new node ; scp tempfile > root at newnode ; ssh newnode; dpkg --set-selections < /root/tempfile ; > apt-get update ; apt-get dselect-upgrade > > goes a long way :) Is that all the way to completely unattended ? :-) > > The sad fact of the matter is that often it's the ISV's and cluster > > management tools that determine what choice of distro you have. :-( > > HP and IBM are distro neutral - they'll install / support whatever you > ask them to (and pay them for). Sadly that's not the case in our experience, IBM's CSM supports either RHEL or SLES (and lags the current updates as they go through a huge testing process before releasing it). This is mainly because CSM isn't just for HPC clusters, it also gets used for business HA and OLTP clusters too.. This is why I find Warewulf an interesting concept, and the WareCat (Warewulf+xCat) especially so. We don't have an HP cluster, but I know a man who has and he dreads talking to their tech support and having to explain again about why he cannot go to the Start Menu and click on a particular icon followed rapidly with why he cannot install Windows and call them back. :-( This is quite sad as Bdale is such an icon and HP use Debian on some of their firmware and diagnostic CD's.. 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http://ietf.cse.ucsc.edu:8080/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161 email@example.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|-11 |-12 ------- Additional Comments From email@example.com 2006-02-07 13:40 ------- OK, below is a first attempt to restructe the definition of the If header. Feedback appreciated. 10.4. If Header The If request header is intended to have similar functionality to the If-Match header defined in Section 14.24 of [RFC2616]. However, the If header is intended for use with any URI which represents state information, referred to as a state token, about a resource as well as ETags. A typical example of a state token is a lock token, and lock tokens are the only state tokens defined in this specification. 10.4.1. Purpose The If header has two distinct purposes: o The first purpose is to make a request conditional by supplying a series of state lists. If the state of the resource to which the header is applied does not match any of the specified state lists then the request MUST fail with a 412 (Precondition Failed) status. On the other hand, if one of the described state lists does match the state of the resource then the request may succeed. The matching functions for ETags and state tokens are defined in Section 10.4.4 below. o Additionally, the mere fact that a state token appears in an If header means that is has been "submitted" with the request. In general, this is used to indicate that the client has knowledge of that state token. The meaning of submitting a state token depends on its type (for lock tokens, please refer to Section 6). Note that these two purposes need to be treated distinctly: a state token counts as being submitted independantly of whether the server actually has evaluated the state list it appears in, and also independantly of whether the condition it expressed found to be true or not. 10.4.2. Syntax If = "If" ":" ( *No-tag-list | 1*Tagged-list ) No-tag-list = List Tagged-list = Resource 1*List List = "(" 1*Condition ")" Condition = ["Not"] (State-token | "[" entity-tag "]") ; entity-tag: see Section 3.11 of [RFC2616] ; No LWS allowed between "[", entity-tag and "]" State-token = Coded-URL Resource = Coded-Reference Coded-Reference = "<" Simple-ref ">" ; Simple-ref: see Section 8.2 ; No LWS allowed in Coded-Reference The syntax distinguishes between untagged lists ("No-tag-list") and tagged lists ("Tagged-list"). Untagged lists apply to the resource identified by the Request-URI, while tagged lists apply to the resource identified by the preceding Resource "tag". A Resource tag applies to all subsequent Lists, up to the next Resource tag. [[anchor61: RFC2518: "The same Resource tag MUST NOT appear more than once in a resource production in an If header." This seems to be meaningless, because that follows from the "Resource" production. Is this intended to require that there aren't multiple Tagged-list productions for the same resource? That would need to be expressed differently, and I'm not sure why there should be that restriction. Feedback appreciated.]] Note that the two list types can not be mixed within an If header. This is not a functional restriction because the No-tag-list syntax is just a shorthand notation for a Tagged-list production with a tag referring to the Request-URI. Each List consists of one or more Conditions. Each Condition is defined in terms of an entity-tag or state-token, potentially negated by the prefix "Not". 10.4.3. Evaluation A Condition that consists of a single entity-tag or state-token evaluates to true if the resource matches the described state (where the individual matching functions are define below in Section 10.4.4). Prefixing it with "Not" reverses the result of the evaluation (thus, the "Not" applies only to the subsequent entity-tag or state-token). Each List production describes a series of conditions. The whole list evaluates to true if and only if each condition evaluates to true (that is, the list represents a logical conjunction of Conditions). Each No-tag-list and Tagged-list production may contain one or more Lists. They evaluate to true if and only if any of the contained lists evaluates to true (that is, if there's more than one List, that List sequence represents a logical disjunction of the Lists). Finally, the whole If header evaluates to true if and only if at least one of the No-tag-list or Tagged-list productions evalute to true. If the header evaluates to false, the server MUST reject the request with a 412 (Precondition Failed) status. Otherwise, execution of the request can proceed as if the header wasn't present. 10.4.3.1. Example: No-tag Production If: (<urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2> ["I am an ETag"]) (["I am another ETag"]) The previous header would require that the resource identified in the Request-URI be locked with the specified lock token and be in the state identified by the "I am an ETag" ETag or in the state identified by the second ETag "I am another ETag". To put the matter more plainly one can think of the previous If header as expressing the condition below: ( is-locked-with(urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2) AND matches-etag("I am an ETag") ) OR ( matches-etag("I am another ETag") ) 10.4.3.2. Example: using "Not" with No-tag Production If: (Not <urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2> <urn:uuid:58f202ac-22cf-11d1-b12d-002035b29092>) This If header requires that the resource must not be locked with a lock having the lock token urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2 and must be locked by a lock with the lock token with urn:uuid:58f202ac-22cf-11d1-b12d-002035b29092. 10.4.3.3. Example: causing a Condition to always evaluate to True There may be cases where a client wishes to submit state tokens, but doesn't want the request to fail just because the state token isn't current anymore. One simple way to do this is to include a Condition that is known to always evaluate to true, such as in: If: (<urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2>) (Not <DAV:no-lock>) "DAV:no-lock" is known to never represent a current lock token, as lock tokens are assigned by the server, following the uniqueness requirements described in Section 6.5, thus in particular exclude URIs in the "DAV:" scheme. Thus, by applying "Not" to a known not to be current state token, the Condition always evaluates to true. Consequently, the whole If header will always evaluate to true, and the lock token urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2 will be submitted in any case. 10.4.3.4. Example: Tagged List If header in COPY >>Request COPY /resource1 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com Destination: /resource2 If: </resource1> (<urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2> [W/"A weak ETag"]) (["strong ETag"]) </random> (["another strong ETag"]) In this example http://www.example.com/resource1 is being copied to http://www.example.com/resource2. When the method is first applied to http://www.example.com/resource1, resource1 must be in the state specified by "(<urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2> [W/"A weak ETag"]) (["strong ETag"])", that is, it either must be locked with a lock token of "urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2" and have a weak entity tag W/"A weak ETag" or it must have a strong entity tag "strong ETag". That is the only success condition since the resource http://www.example.com/random never has the method applied to it (the only other resource listed in the If header) and http://www.example.com/resource2 is not listed in the If header. 10.4.4. Matching Function When performing If header processing, the definition of a matching state token or entity tag is as follows: Identifying a resource: The resource is identified by the URI along with the token, in tagged list production, or by the Request-URI in untagged list production. Matching entity tag: Where the entity tag matches an entity tag associated with the identified resource. Servers MUST use either the weak or the strong comparison function defined in Section 13.3.3 of [RFC2616]. Matching state token: Where there is an exact match between the state token in the If header and any state token on the identified resource. A lock state token is considered to match if the resource is anywhere in the scope of the lock. Example - Matching lock tokens with collection locks DELETE /specs/rfc2518.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com If: <http://www.example.com/specs/> (<urn:uuid:181d4fae-7d8c-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf2>) For this example, the lock token must be compared to the identified resource, which is the 'specs' collection identified by the URL in the tagged list production. If the 'specs' collection is not locked or has a lock with a different token, the request MUST fail. If the 'specs' collection is locked (depth infinity) with that lock token, then this request could succeed, both because the If header evaluates to true, and because the lock token for the lock affecting the affected resource has been submitted. Alternatively, a request where the 'rfc2518.txt' URL is associated with the lock token in the If header could also succeed. 10.4.5. If Header and Non-DAV Aware Proxies Non-DAV aware proxies will not honor the If header, since they will not understand the If header, and HTTP requires non-understood headers to be ignored. When communicating with HTTP/1.1 proxies, the "Cache-Control: no-cache" request header MUST be used so as to prevent the proxy from improperly trying to service the request from its cache. When dealing with HTTP/1.0 proxies the "Pragma: no-cache" request header MUST be used for the same reason. 10.4.6. If Header and Authentication Servers MUST do authorization checks before checking this header (thus, supplying a carefully crafted If header must not allow a client to learn information about resources it's not authorized to access). ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:40:40 UTC
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text: On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:50:34 -0700 Jim Lux wrote: > > Except that the piece of hardware the serial port is talking to uses RTS > and CTS, not as handshaking lines, but to wake up the box, and to return > status. In that case be very careful about bit states on power transitions affecting the USB hub and the controlling computer. I had all sorts of fun controlling some TrippLite UPS's that used a similar "bit level" serial line control methodology. Some computers would come up with the serial port lines bouncing around at random, which could send an "inverter kill" signal to the UPS at just the wrong time. You may well find that when you reboot the master machiine all hell breaks loose on the USB->serial controlled slave devices. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech