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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Soap Bubbles In My Nose!
How funny it is that memories come "floating" to the surface, often inspired by the most unlikely things. Such was the recent article in the newest Family Tree Magazine. The July 2010 issue has an article under History Matters: "Lathering Up" on page twelve that sure did bring up some great old memories for me. The article is on the history of soap, of all things and featured a great old ad with a man standing in a lake, washing up with a bar of floating IVORY soap. I can so clearly envision that man being my Dad, right down to the type of clothes he was wearing and the backdrop behind him.
From the time I was born in 1952, my family has made several trips each year to our favorite lake in the Black Hills of South Dakota to camp. We go to the same place each time but never tire of it's beauty and of the memories that it holds for us. Both of my brother's were several years older than I was but I do have memories of them along on those early camping trips. As time went on, their growing families followed us to the "Hills" and the gatherings became larger and larger. My Mom and Dad had wonderful friends who also often made the jaunt north with us and we all camped, fished, skied and had such wonderful times. Some of the best times of my life were those spent at Sheridan Lake with family and friends. My own two sons grew up around the same camp grounds there as have several of their cousins. We still get together as a family there but not nearly as often as I would like. Both sons try to make at least one annual trip there at least for a few days each year even though they are far away now. My Grandchildren have all been camping in our beloved spot.
Those early recollections of when I was small, all came rushing back when I read the great little article in Family Tree Magazine this month and while scouting for pictures I also came across a great blog: A Full Life with a nice historical take on Ivory Soap. All the years that we camped in the Black Hills also included those wonderful bars of floating Ivory soap. They were a staple that Mom never left home without when we camped. The picnic table always had a bowl of water on the end of the bench that had been drawn by the hand pump from up the hill. Beside it on a washcloth was that bar of ivory soap, often 1/2 of one of those that could be easily broken in two. It sure did take the smell of fish off your hands! Dad had an old enamel wash basin that he carried for years to use for his morning shave. I clearly remember him using another bar of floating soap each morning to shave with. His small mirror hung from a tree branch and he lathered up with his half of the bar of Ivory. I still have that enamel washbasin in my family room, but now it holds magazines as well as those memories- perhaps I need to find an old bar of Ivory and display that washbasin and and old soap bar in my spare bathroom for the Grandchildren to see.
More than any other, was the picture in my mind that came back of Mom and me. Often our camping trips would last up to two weeks and sometimes longer if Dad was working at the same time. He worked for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad out of Alliance, Nebraska and often the crews from here would man the little narrow gauge Railroad that ran as a tourist attraction out of Hill City, S. D. If he was working we would stay out at the lake which was a few miles from town. The evenings would be spent fishing for trout and looking for crawdads along the shore. Night fishing was a big sport there in those days and all the men worked the little train during the day and fished at night if they were on a shift up there. Night time was not just for fishing however, that was when Mom and I would put on our bathing suits, after full dark and head down to the lake to take a bath, our big bar of Ivory in hand. It just floated there on top between us in the moonlight! Looking back on that with what is now known about soap and such things in our native lakes, it was probably not the best thing, but I would not trade those wonderful memories, well over 50 years old now- for anything. I have often told my husband about my soapy recollections but who would have thought they might warrant a blog? I wish I had a photo of me and Mom along the lake shore but I do not, still those precious memories with the old photos that I do have will last a lifetime and that lowly bar of Ivory Soap has it's place in my family's history!
( P.S. All these photos were taken by my Dad and are printed from original slides, except the scrap booking collage which I made from a photo of the old soap bar taken from the internet and old ads scanned from my personal collections of old magazines. )
Labels: Black Hills, CB-Q Railroad, Coleman, family, vacation
Thursday, April 1, 2010
My Easter Parade!
With the traditional celebration of Easter about to dawn this coming Sunday, I have been thinking of many of the Easter Sunday's from the past. As a child in Alliance, Nebraska; I remember that my family was always together for that special day. Our gatherings always included Grandma and Grandpa and often my aunt and uncle with their children. The day always started with an early morning Easter egg hunt. I usually got to do that in the house as the weather was often cold or rainy. To this day, over fifty years later, I can still taste the candies and hollow chocolate eggs. I always got lots of those colored hard shell eggs with a soft center that were wrapped in cellophane- pure sugar but they were really good! It was great fun and because my brothers were gone from the house by then, the Easter bunny was always very generous to me. I could even go so far as to say I was spoiled! Candy and goodies were plentiful. The city always had a big egg hunt in the city park later in the day which was great fun too. We lived right across the street so I had the added advantage of seeing all the "bunnies" hide the elusive eggs ahead of time. My cousins would come and we scoured the park with our bags in hand. That was during the 1950's and the park was full of children and parents.
Attending Easter Sunday church services was always on the agenda. After the big egg hunts, we all got dressed up in our finest to go to church and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on that special day. My Dad was a railroad conductor and we got free passes to ride the passenger trains. Mom and Dad and I usually made a trip on the train to Denver in the weeks before Easter, as it was a fun tradition for all of us to shop for our new Easter outfits there. We always went to the big Montgomery Ward store, riding the bus was out to the south side of Denver. Next stop was downtown to the May D & F, and to the Three Sisters Store where Mom and I liked to shop(I also got my wedding dress at that store many years later). All of us would come home with new outfits for the upcoming Easter Holiday but I think most of mine were worn out by the time Easter Sunday came as I spent days just dressing up and modeling before hand! The memories of those trips and spending time with my Mom and Dad will always be associated with Easter time for me. If the weather happened to be nice we would walk to church and back, about the only time I remember doing that rather than driving.
Our family always had the traditional Easter Sunday feast with family. Most of the time there were lots of family gathered, usually at our home but I do remember at least once at Grandma and Grandpa's house and one Easter at the home of my cousins, but it seems like we were usually at our house. We had a large extended family and my Mom was always a great host for meals of any kind. She knew how to cook for a crowd and loved doing so, Easter was a special gathering for her and she loved all the family around. All the kids could play in the park and go to the egg hunts from our home after church and the big feast.
My Easter parade photos which are all over fifty years old now, include several from my childhood, all with special memories attached to them. We never missed taking new pictures as each Holiday rolled around. One of the special Easter scrapbook pages is of our twin granddaughters which was taken in 2006 while they visited Grandpa and I. That too was a special day and was added to my album of Easter Memories! I was so lucky to have had a wonderful family to celebrate with and cherish the memories with them. Looking to the future generations for new memories and being thankful for them is part of what Easter means to me. I hope you enjoy my short Easter Parade of photo memories.
Labels: Alliance Nebraska, Easter, family, parents, scrap booking
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ASU Harriers Trek to Minnesota's Roy Griak Invite
Sept. 20, 2006
TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona State University cross country program will hit the road for the third time this fall and the first time for a meet outside the borders of the Grand Canyon State as the Sun Devils are set to compete in the 21st Roy Griak Invitational this Saturday on the Les Bolstadt Golf Course in Minneapolis, Minn. The men will run first as their 8k race is set to begin at 11:20 a.m. with the women's 6k race slated for 12:10 p.m.
The first national rankings of the 2006 season were release September 12 with both the men and women's teams earning a place among the Top 30. The women enter the season ranked ninth while the men hold the No. 20 position in the poll.
The Roy Griak Invitational annually brings in some of the top teams in the nation and this year will be no different. The Sun Devil women are the highest ranked of the 30 teams entered with five other squads (No. 13 Baylor, No. 16 Minnesota, No. 18 Marquette, No. 23 Michigan State and No. 26 Virginia) also holding Top 30 billings. On the men's side, the Sun Devils are the fourth-highest ranked squad, trailing No. 1 Wisconsin, No. 8 Arizona and No. 10 Kansas while five other teams are also ranked in the Top 30.
Arizona State is no stranger to the Roy Griak Invitational having competed in the annual event numerous times, including last season. In the 2005 edition of the meet, the women walked away with the championship trophy on the strength of Amy Hastings capturing the individual race crown. The Sun Devils scored 88 points to easily distance themselves from runner-up Minnesota (156) with Baylor (177), Oklahoma State (190) and Princeton (192) rounding out the Top 5. On the men's side, the Sun Devils placed ninth overall with 241 points and were led by Ryan Warrenburg, who finished 11th individually. BYU won the men's team race.
Last weekend, the Sun Devils headed south to Tucson and competed in the Dave Murray Invitational where both the men's and women's teams turned in solid performances in the non-team scored event. On the women's side, nine runners competed with eight finishing in the Top 10, including runner-up Jenna Kingma. Others finishing strong in the meet were Kari Hardt (third), Ali Kielty (fourth), Cassie Rios (fifth), Brooke Bennett (sixth), Krystal Duke (eighth), Whitney Hardt (ninth), Sereena Harmon (10th) and Jenny Cohen (13th). The men saw 13 runners compete for ASU with five finishing in the Top 10 and seven total placing among the Top 20. Leading the way were Aaron Aguayo (third) and Kyle Alcorn (fourth) with Joey Heller (sixth), Mikias Gelagle (seventh) and Kal Clark (10th) placing in the Top 10.
Three women and three men made their Sun Devil debuts at the Dave Murray Invitational with all six running well. On the women's side, true freshman Kari Hardt placed third overall and second among Sun Devil runners in her first collegiate race while both Krystal Duke and Ali Kielty competed in their first races after redshirting the 2005 season, finishing eighth and fourth, respectively. True freshmen Mikias Gelagle and Jeff Helmer also competed in their first collegiate races and placed seventh and 15th, respectively, while Kyle Alcorn, who sat out 2005 after transferring into the program from Oregon, placed fourth overall and second on the Sun Devil squad in his first action with ASU.
The Sun Devils will be looking to extend recent streaks of competing in the national championships this season with the women in search of their ninth-consecutive appearance and the men looking for their third in a row. Dating back to 1998, the women have competed in every NCAA Championship meet, placing in the Top 25 each time and recording Top 10 finishes three times, including the last two years. The men have made the 32-team field four time, including the last two meets, and have placed among the Top 20 every time.
Last year, five women and one man earned All-Pac-10 honors with just one of the women returning for the 2006 season. On the women's side, Amy Hastings and Anna Masinelli each collected first team honors while second team selections went to Rachel Ellison, Victoria Jackson and Jenna Kingma, the lone returning runner. The men saw Ryan Warrenburg collect second team honors.
The 2006 roster features 20 women and 17 men with three women and six men coming to Tempe as true freshmen. For the women, 13 runners return from last year with three of the women coming off a redshirt season while the men return 11 athletes with five entering the season following a redshirt campaign. The women will return six athletes that competed in either the Pac-10, West Region and/or NCAA Championships, including Brooke Bennett, Whitney Hardt, Jenna Kingma, Corey Randall, Cassie Rios and Angela Spadafino. The men have four runners back that competed in the championship meets including Kal Clark, Eric Dall, Joey Heller and David Mehlhorn. The men also will bring back Aaron Aguayo, who competed in all three meets in 2004, and Kyle Alcorn, who competed for Oregon in 2004.
Six women and seven men are on the roster for their first cross country season with the Sun Devils in 2006, including three women and six men entering as true freshmen. For the women, the rookie class includes Whitney Blue, Kari Hardt and Jenn Schraven while the men's freshman class includes Collin Eckelman, Ben Engelhardt, Mikias Gelagle, Jeff Helmer, Garrett Kelly and Patrick Milloy. The women's newcomers also include junior transfers Jenny Cohen (Scottsdale CC) and Sereena Harmon (Paradise Valley CC) and the addition of D'Metra Macedon, a member of the 2006 track and field team. The lone non-rookie on the men's side is Kyle Alcorn who joins the squad after sitting the 2005 season following his transfer from Oregon.
Last year, Whitney Hardt completed her redshirt freshman season with the Sun Devils and ran in four races, including the Pac-10 Championships. This year, she welcomes her younger sister Kari to the team. The addition of the younger Hardt marks the second time in as many years that siblings have appeared on the ASU roster after JJ Duke and younger sister Krystal Duke were teammates in 2005.
The Sun Devil rosters boast 12 women and seven men hailing from the state of Arizona with another five and three, respectively, calling California home. The two remaining women and four of the remaining seven men call the eastern portion of the United States their home. For the women, the Sun Devils have one runner each from Ohio and Vermont (the most eastern representative on the roster) while the four eastern men hail from Kentucky, Iowa, Maryland and Ohio.
Each team has selected two captains for the season. The women's captains are Corey Randall and Cassie Rios while the men will be led by Aaron Aguayo and Eric Dall.
Louie Quintana returns for his third season at the helm of the Sun Devil program in 2006 and will look to continue the recent trend of success the Sun Devils have enjoyed under him. The 2006 USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year for Women's Distance Track & Field, Quintana's runners made great strides in 2005 with his women playing a vital role in the program's first 'Triple Crown' as ASU secured trophy finishes (Top 4) at all three NCAA Championships (third at the indoor NCAA meet and fourth at both the NCAA cross country and NCAA outdoor track & field meet). His harriers also struck gold on the track, including national titles for Amy Hastings in the indoor 5,000m run and Victoria Jackson in the outdoor 10,000m event. His women also played a vital role in the success of the Sun Devils at the Pac-10 meet as three individual champions and 71 points scored helped secure the team's first conference team championship crown.
Following a week off from competition, the Sun Devils will return to action Oct. 7 when they play host to the 21st Arizona State Invitational at Kiwanis Park in Tempe.
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The little people are mounting their steeds, which means the most exciting two minutes in sports (setting aside the final two minutes in almost all other highly contested sporting events) can't be far behind. Oh wait, they're playing "My Old(e?) Kentucky Home. This could take a while. Hey, an ex-boybander and country singer with a bunch of T's in his name! All the stars are out for this one folks. In case you were wondering I have my meager dollars on Z Fortune and Z ...uh...the other Z one. Call me a compulsive analyst, but my research tells me we're due for a reverse alphabetical finish. Continue after the jump for updates on all the excitement as the horses inch towards the starting gate.
-So far so good for Big Brown, but the odds on the big fella breaking a hoof in the next ten minutes are razor thin.
-They're heading into the starting gate, and so far none of the horses have flipped out and bit a jockey.
-Well Nibbles decided to nap through the race, but I assured him it was quite exciting. Big Brown is your winner and it isn't close.
-The jockey's son just got a face-full of ample bosom.
-Incredibly sad news, the filly Eight Belles fought hard but went down with two broken front ankles. She was put down immediately.
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Shaun Chaudhuri, who boasted a 30-9 overall singles record between tournament and dual matches his freshman season, has returned to the court for the Crimson and is off to a 6-3 start this fall (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Fresh off the program's first NCAA appearance since 2008 and 29th Ivy League title, the Harvard men's tennis team has released its 2013 spring schedule, which includes eight home events.
"Many have predicted that we are entering another Golden Age of Ivy League tennis, and it is easy to see why," The Scott Mead '77 Head Coach for Men's Tennis Dave Fish said. "The 2012-13 season looks like it will be extraordinarily competitive—a fitting follow-up to last year's nail biting race. Our team has been busy this fall, working well together and individually. If they continue to work at it, we will be in a position to compete with any team in the league for top honors."
The Crimson opens the 2013 slate by hosting Boston College, Marist and Fordham in the Harvard Winter Invite Jan. 18-20. The team then hits the road for two weekends, beginning with the ITA Kick-Off in Oklahoma, where it will face Notre Dame (Jan. 25) and Oklahoma or Memphis (Jan. 26). Harvard finishes its road trip with a pair of dual matches in Flushing, N.Y. against Alabama and St. John's Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, respectively.
The Crimson returns home for a match with Old Dominion Feb. 3 at 2:30 p.m. at the Murr Center before heading to Ithaca, N.Y., in search of its second-straight ECAC team championship Feb. 15-18. Harvard went 4-0 in singles competition and bested three Ivy League foes in four days in 2012 to claim the ECAC team crown. After a two week break, the Crimson will host Indiana (March 2), Louisville (March 3) and Boston University (March 3) in a weekend homestand.
Following a trip to La Jolla Calif., for the Mission Valley Spring Classic, Harvard begins Ancient Eight play at home against Columbia, the one blemish on its 6-1 conference record in 2012, April 6 at 2 p.m. and Cornell April 7 at 2 p.m. The Crimson competes in its final home match of the year April 19 at 2 p.m. versus Brown and concludes its regular season at Yale (April 21) and Dartmouth (April 27).
Harvard wraps up the fall portion of its schedule at the Tribe Invite in Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 9-11.


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The New Zealand's government's margin-of-error target to meet an operating surplus by 2015 has put spending on its biggest programmes under the gun, according to Finance Minister Bill English.
The government plans to keep its spending programme in check as the deteriorating global economy puts its budget surplus at risk, singling out "long-term drivers of costs in areas such as welfare, health, education and law and order," according to the English's budget.
"The forecast surplus of $66 million is not large," English told a media briefing in Wellington. "The need for control does not expire once we get into surplus."
The budget policy statement spending priority will be given to health and education in the 2013 budget, with other departments and agencies expected to stay within existing baselines.
"We're not willing to get to surplus at any cost to the economy, because we're already on a pretty solid rate of fiscal consolidation," English said. "We will continue with expenditure constraint."
The Treasury is forecasting social assistance grants, including benefits and pensions, rising to $24.31 billion in 2017 from $21.16 billion in 2012. Of that, pensions will rise to $12.69 billion by 2017 from $9.58 billion while family tax credit, and benefits will remain relatively flat over the forecast horizon.
Total health spending is forecast to rise to $13.71 billion by 2017 from $13.65 billion in 2012, education is expected to increase to $13.35 billion from $12.41 billion, and law and order costs are forecast to rise to $3.75 billion from $3.59 billion over the projected horizon.
The government has imposed zero budgets in recent years as it keeps a lid on spending and prevent its debt levels from ballooning after the global financial crisis in 2008.
English will unveil spending plans for its future investment fund at next year's budget, which is expected to take $5 billion to $7 billion raised from its sell down of stakes in state-owned enterprises and use it for new capital investment.
The government will also use the next budget to support and extend its business growth agenda to assist businesses become internationally competitive.
The 2013 budget will also show what actions the government is taking to achieve its 10 policy targets as part of the better public services programme.


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Student finance if you started before 1 September 2012
The student finance you can apply for depends on:
- your course and when it started
- your income
- if you're from the UK or the EU
There are different rules for courses that started on or after 1 September 2012.
What you can apply for
|Type of student
|UK full-time student
|Tuition Fee Loan, Maintenance Loan, Maintenance Grant
|UK part-time student
|Tuition Fee Grant, Course Grant
|EU full-time student
|Tuition Fee Loan
|EU part-time student
|Tuition Fee Grant
You must be continuing a course in either of the following academic years:
- 2019 to 2020
- 2018 to 2019
There's a different process if you're a student from Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. Contact the education authority if you live in the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) or Isle of Man.
How and when to apply
You can apply online if you're a UK student.
EU students can download the application forms using the form finder.
You can apply up to 9 months after the first day of the month the academic year starts in.
The academic year starts on one of the following:
- 1 September
- 1 January
- 1 April
- 1 July
If you're not sure when your academic year starts, ask your college or university.
Tuition Fee Loans
You can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan of up to £3,465 if you're a full-time UK or EU student. The loan is paid directly to your university or college and you have to pay it back.
Part-time students cannot apply for Tuition Fee Loans.
Tuition Fee Grant
You can apply if you're a part-time UK or EU student.
If you're eligible, the money is paid directly to your university or college.
The grant depends on:
- your household income (your partner's plus yours)
- your 'course intensity' - this is how much of your course you complete each year compared to an equivalent full-time course
You must study at a rate of at least 50% equivalent to a full-time course - check with your university or college.
|Household income
|50% to 59% intensity
|60% to 74% intensity
|75% intensity or more
|Up to £16,844
|£16,845 to £25,423
|£50 to £882
|£50 to £1,068
|£50 to £1,351
|Over £25,423
|No grant
|No grant
|No grant
Maintenance Loan for living costs
You must be a full-time UK student.
You have to repay the loan. The loan depends on your household income (your parents' or partner's income plus yours) and where you live. It will be paid into your bank account at the start of term.
You cannot apply if you're a part-time or EU student.
|Full-time student
|Maintenance Loan for the 2018 to 2019 academic year
|Maintenance Loan for the 2019 to 2020 academic year
|Living at home
|Up to £4,352
|Up to £4,474
|Living away from home, outside London
|Up to £5,614
|Up to £5,771
|Living away from home, in London
|Up to £7,855
|Up to £8,075
|Studying abroad for a year, as part of a UK course
|Up to £6,682
|Up to £6,869
Maintenance Grant for living costs
You must be a full-time UK student.
You do not have to repay the grant - the grant depends on your household income (your parents' or partner's income plus yours) and when you start your course.
The grant is paid into your bank account at the start of term.
You cannot apply if you're a part-time or EU student.
|Full-time student – household income
|Maintenance Grant for the 2018 to 2019 academic year
|Maintenance Grant for the 2019 to 2020 academic year
|£25,000 or less
|£25,001 to £50,706
|£50 to £3,196
|£50 to £3,390
|Over £50,706
|No grant
|No grant
Course Grant for living costs
You can apply if you're a part-time UK or EU student.
The grant depends on your household income (your partner's plus yours).
The grant is paid directly into your account at the start of term.
Full-time students cannot apply.
|Part-time student household income
|Course Grant for the 2018 to 2019 academic year
|Course Grant for the 2019 to 2020 academic year
|Up to £26,029
|£26,030 to £28,065
|£50 to £296
|£50 to £304
|Over £28,065
|No grant
|No grant
Extra help
You might also be able to get:
- a scholarship or bursary from your college or university, for example if you're on a low income
- the Childcare Grant or Parents' Learning Allowance if you have children
- Disabled Students' Allowances
- an NHS bursary if you're studying certain dental, medical or healthcare courses
- a social work bursary
- extra money if you're experiencing financial hardship
- help with the costs of travel
Repaying your student loan
You have to start repaying tuition and maintenance loans when you earn over £18,935 a year. This amount changes every year.
Each month you'll pay 9% of what you earn over that amount.


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The Steve Nash Foundation Showdown makes a return to New York on June 25, but the Lakers' veteran point guard won't be holding the Los Angeles version of his charity soccer match.
Last July, Nash was joined by NBA and soccer players (including Jared Dudley, Jeremy Lin, Klay Thompson, Carlo Cudicini, Robbie Rogers and Kyle Martino) at the Red Shield Community Center to raise money to help provide for underserved children in health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life through the Steve Nash Foundation.
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The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Doris Day (1974)
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- Booksteve said...
Always wanted to see this clip. Doris is the last person you'd ever expect to be able to--or even want to!--top Carol Wayne for bosominess next to Johnny but there she is with her braless, newly enhanced boobs! Wow.
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Thanks for posting this. I love these classic interviews. How about some Ann Margret stuff?
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Woke up this morning and 1st thing I read is one of our past TARA contestants just passed away. Very saddened and shocked. Life is precious.
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My brother Henry Reed, age 53 passed away Tuesday, May 21st, 2013. Henry died suddenly in his sleep. He joyfully retired from the Navy to the Philippines ten years ago enjoying an active life.
Henry had a Philippines style funeral that was an extended viewing at his house there. His body has been cremated and will be returned to the US by his wife Terri for internment. So far we don't have a date.
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Netaudio London promotes the work of artists who use digital and network technologies to explore new boundaries in music and sonic art. Part of the Short Circuit festival, Netaudio's programme encourages participation in all forms of music and art making, from interactive sound art installations to conferences, workshops, collaborative online broadcasting and headline shows.
Supported by The Wire, Netaudio takes place at London's Roundhouse by day, and KOKO in the evening. The night will feature Steve Stapleton's Nurse With Wound project, Mika Vainio (formerly of Pan Sonic) in a newly commissioned collaboration with Bruce Gilbert (formerly of Wire), and the Austrian post-rock group Radian. Early bird tickets are available via KOKO at £18 (plus booking fee).
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7 Most Exciting Things a Pastor Experiences
Pastors get to see the best and worst of life it seems, but there are many positives.
Obviously, seeing someone become a follower of Christ or baptism of a believer, has to rank as a highlight of the pastor's experience. That's what we are called to do. But, that experience isn't unique to pastors. Every believer, hopefully, gets excited about seeing people's entry into faith. That's the call of the church; not only pastors.
So, my list is beyond those experiences to things that may be somewhat unique to pastors. I'm not saying only pastors get excited about these experiences, but to pastors, these are especially exciting. Also, different pastors will have different answers. That's where the comments section makes this post even better.
Here are 7 most exciting things pastors experience:
A child who loves church – They are our future. And, we know it. Jesus loves the little children. And so do we. I love when a little child leads "them" to church. When a child loves church, I know the parent is sure to be excited also.
Note takers – Seeing someone following a message closely. Hearing pages of the Bible turn. Priceless. Seeing people actually live the truths taught…don't even get me started.
Sacrificial givers – The church is built on people willing to invest in her work. The generous giver…who gives with no strings attached…way to make a pastor smile. Maybe even dance.
Visitors and people who invite them – Visitors. Could we grow the church and sustain it long-term without them? Of course not. Every person in the church today, unless they were born into it, started as a visitor. Every new church member and every knew opportunity to add someone to our discipleship efforts starts with a visit. I love people who invite. I love those who come when invited. I just want to hug them all. (But, I promise not to hug you on your first visit…or ever if you prefer, because I want you to visit. Visit. Visit. Visit.)
Servant hearts – When I see a man or woman in the parking lot or a baby rocker in preschool, or someone who says "Pastor, I'm here to help you any way I can", I am encouraged to keep going. Their enthusiasm for serving others encourages me.
New people joining the church – The church is a family and every pastor loves when the family grows. When people who have been visiting start coming more often, and eventually decide this is the church family…WOW! Exciting! I may try to look like it's a normal day, because I don't want you to think we are desperate for new members, or scare you as I shout real loud, but inside, I'm bursting with joy.
When the church is the church – I am encouraged when I hear someone is in the hospital and a church member has already made a visit. I get excited when I hear of needs…that have already been met. When the church behaves like we were called to behave, without a staff member or me having to lead the effort, I'm energized. Elated. Blessed.
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contracts/salaries sounds rad for the CW football.
6 even teams would be better than a dominant team, a sux team, 2 grand teams and a slightly less than good team.
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Just been thinking about the lack of depth in the squads and how teams are effected by Injuries etc..
What are peoples thoughts on adding some more International players to squads with better stats so that when injuries and suspensions occur teams will at least have decent backup players to fill the void...
Also another thought i was thinking, was whats the feel about possibly cutting back sides next season to say 4 teams... This would thus allow us to field more CW players in each side and possibly give the game a bit more enjoyment?? Just something i've been thinking about, thought id see what the reaction is like...
Idea ONE sounds much better, personally. Cutting back on teams would be alright now, with a few CW'ers as backups, but later on, as we get more signups, we'd have to expand anyway.
I think we should get international gens with a minimum primary skill of 25. Would help out the game a bit.
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I like idea one as long as the overseas players aren't too much better then CW players if better at all. And also if the quality if these overseas players is even throughout. One thing i thought was a pretty stupid at the start of the season was the up and down stats of the marquee replacements, i.e Okada 28 TK (Fury), Celestino 27 PS (Swell), Anderson 27 PS (Central), Madando 25 SH (Stallions), Ezequiel 22 PS (Power) and Genea 22 PS (Western). As long as the overseas players stats are even throughout and no team gets a major advantage then i think it could be a good option.
Option 2 I don't like as it will mean some CW players will sit on the bench. Players are already slightly unhappy when they don't get 90 mins.
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Not keen on the cutting back of teams???
If people want squad depth increased i will look at doing that after the next round of games...
I will ensure that players who come in wont be better then CW players but will be just below to ensure that depth in squads is alot better..
sounds good to me. Agree with the other 3 already posted that cutting back the teams to 4 will just cause future problems and will cause a lot of us to sit on the bench making it a bit boring for them.
Less teams would suck.
Bring in other players to cover for squads ... obviously less skilled than the CW'ers, as this league is for us anyway and no one wants to be bench warmer
I don't think we should reduce the number of teams for the reasons already mentioned. It would mean we'd have CW players spending quite some time getting splinters on the bench, and that would prove to be less enjoyable, thus a reduction in the activity of CW Football.
Until we receive more sign-ups, i think that increasing the depth with international players who have a primary skill of around 16-19. This way, we won't have CW players sitting on the bench unless a team has more than 11 CW players.
Well Red Cards are still seem to be a big problem in the league. I've been trying to find my old EFM files to compare the aggression levels in that game. Well i finally found them and it seems like its pretty obvious why we have been having so many cards. In EFM there was next to no players with aggression levels above 50. After 13 or so games the most that players were sent off was 2 times in that season. So maybe it could be an idea to have a max aggression level of 50. I guess at the end of the day its up to the players, but it seems the best way to go to keep everyone on the field. Mind you i have noticed that forwards with higher aggression seem to score more goals and in EFM goals were hard to come by.
Could be an option to drop the aggression of overseas players and see if makes it difference first.
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Ive got an agression of 73 and havnt got a red card, only the 5 yellows. And when you think that it is after 15 odd games i dont think thats harsh (by defenders standards). So unless i suddenly start pickin cards up all over the place i dont really want to lower it.
Yeah, don't drop the aggresion.
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I have written to the Rt. Hon the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland, to ask that he consider appealing what I feel is the lenient sentence handed down to Gary McCourt. I knew both Audrey Fyfe and George Dalgity. In 1985, I was general practitioner to the Dalgity family, and I witnessed at first hand the effect George's death had on them. They were quite literally devastated, totally bewildered and absolutely bereft.
I have since retired and after my retirement I met Audrey at the Fountain Spa Health Club where we were both members. I got to know her love of cycling and in that respect she put me to shame, as she undertook, even in her seventies, much longer journeys and tours than I would contemplate. That she was not wearing a helmet is irrelevant. The issue here is that Mr. McCourt has caused a second death through his driving. I think Mr. Fyfe is right when he calls for a lifetime driving ban for Mr. McCourt. I don't know if a further custodial sentence is indicated.
I think it behoves us to make our feelings known. I do feel strongly given the damage done to the Dalgity family, and the senseless death of Audrey Fyfe. The leniency of the sentence given to Gary McCourt sends out the wrong message to other road users and as a consequence does nothing to protect cyclists. I am a regular cyclist myself and have been since the age of ten. My current bike is now well over forty years old, and I use it in practice to commute and to visit.
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Sir Alex Ferguson laid into his defence following Manchester United's 4-3 victory over Reading, claiming they did not deserve a single point from the Madejski Stadium.
United moved three points clear at the top of the Premier League , having seen title rivals Manchester City and Chelsea both drop points earlier on Saturday.
But despite extending their lead at the summit, Ferguson was far from happy with his side's performance, as twice they were forced to come from behind against the Royals, who find themselves in the bottom three.
United's victory was their seventh after falling behind this season and Ferguson is becoming increasingly frustrated by his side's defence, saying his side "deserved to be battered".
"I thought it might be a record Premier League score at half-time," Ferguson told ESPN. "It was really, really bad defending. That was the absolute worst it's been this season. We deserved to get battered today. We scored goals thankfully which rescued us.
"If you make mistakes like that defending then you are going to have to do rescue jobs every week. Today was another rescue job. It was a miracle that we won the way we were defending. I'm just glad we did win it."
Speaking about his decision to substitute Rafael, who looked less than impressed as he walked to the bench, Ferguson added: "I brought Chris Smalling on, which was an improvement in terms of height. The boy was disappointed coming off. He has been one of our best players this season.''
Rooney labelled United's first-half display as "crazy'' but believes the character of the team ensured they secured a win that moved them three points clear of Manchester City ahead of next weekend's derby.
"It was crazy to be honest but we dug in there,'' he said. "We knew that in the first half our defending from set-pieces wasn't good enough and that can cost us. In the second half we wanted to be more solid. We were happy to get the three points.''
Asked what was said at half-time, he added: "Just to defend better, to stay with our runners and get against our players at set-pieces. In the second half we did that.''


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The website All Things Digital is reporting that Facebook will soon be friending video-chat service Skype in a big way. Each service boasts a half a billion users. Together, they could soon be on a McDonald's-like path to the number of customers served.
The deal, if it comes to fruition, makes sense in a lot of ways. Remember when eBay bought Skype? The goal there was to make transactions more face-to-face. It didn't work for online auctions (and Skype was spun off), but it could really work for online social networking. People who now settle for, say, Google video chat, could soon be Skyping while on Facebook -- and we know they're going to be on Facebook in the first place anyway.
Business-wise, this could get interesting, as well. Skype has been talking about taking itself public, since getting its freedom back from eBay. Facebook has been far more coy about a future stock offering, but maybe the powers that be at Skype could push Zuckerberg & company over the IPO edge.
As for revenue-generating potential, Facebook has proven to be top-notch, but for Skype it's been more of a challenge. There's a lot of video chat competition out there (yes, we're talking about you, Apple Face Time), and people are already used to getting these services for (basically) free.
But a Facebook/Skype combination likely has users, both consumer and business, excited about the possibilities. Nothing, we're told, is set in stone yet, but it makes a lot of sense. And in the fast-moving tech world, that often leads to deals.
Does this make sense to you? Let Scott know on Twitter: @scottbudman


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New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich, who specializes in profiles of prominent pols, again held back his trademark irreverence when it came to an easy Democratic target: Vice President Joe Biden, in Sunday's "How This Got to be a Biden Moment – In a few short months, the vice president has become a star."
Leibovich is known for being nice to Democrats and nasty to Republicans in his political profiles, and his account of how Biden has become a cheesy pop culture symbol is one of the "nice" ones, though it's definitely on the irreverent side.
President Obama had just finished taking the oath and the Marine band played "Hail to the Chief" and the cameras panned to children waving little flags. Inaugurations are momentous things.
And then, after the benediction, I opened an e-mail from my friend Matt, who had extracted another unalienable truth from the proceedings:
"Biden is a testament to the transforming power of successful hair plugs."
Well yes, he is, though the hair plugs are not a new Biden phenomenon. What's telling here is that at a spectacle so potent and on a stage so crowded, the eye would be so naturally drawn to the goofball understudy. In that sense, Matt represents a cultural wave.
"Transforming" is the key word. In a few short months, the motor-tongued, muscle-car-loving heartbeat-away hell raiser has been transformed from gaffe-prone amusement to someone whose star shines as brightly as his teeth. He is the subject of viral C-Span videos, sitcom infatuations and an "autobiography" of his Onion-inspired alter-ego, "Diamond" Joe Biden, "The President of Vice." (In his spare time, Mr. Biden also helped avert the fiscal cliff, is spearheading the White House plan to reduce gun violence and might even run for president in 2016.)
Yet Leibovich never took advantage of Biden's gaffes in the way that he attacked Republican politicians like Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Paul Ryan.
He may not be the most popular politician in America. Mr. Biden's approval rating stands at 49 percent in the latest New York Times/CBS poll; not bad, but still a shade lower than his boss's (51 percent). Mrs. Clinton trounces him in early surveys of Democrats eyeing the prospective field for 2016. Yet Mr. Biden wins in a landslide in an unscientific snapshot of comic appreciation, cult appeal and of-the-moment awesomeness. The White House recently received a petition from citizens insisting that a new reality show be created featuring the vice president (2,482 signatures at this writing).
Personally, my favorite image from the whole Biden Moment occurred during a brief interlude at the end of the Senate swearing-in parade. When there were no more senators left to initiate, photos to mug for or moms to hug, Mr. Biden stood at the front of the chamber looking out at the emptying room. For a split second, he looked lost, maybe even sad. He folded his hands at his waist, twiddled his thumbs and then, with his eyes twinkling again, put out a last plaintive call: "Anyone else want to be sworn in as a Senator today?"
It's not Leibovich's first celebration of all things Bidenesque. His March 2009 front-page profile of the new vice president actually buttered up Biden, trying to convince readers that, Biden was an active player in the Obama administration. The front-page photo caption read: "The influence Vice President Biden wielded in the debate on Afghan war policy is a signal of his stature in the administration." Leibovich said President Obama "has come to see Mr. Biden as a useful contrarian in the course of decision-making" despite his occasional "unhelpful" remarks.
By contrast, his profile of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was hostile to the subject.
"'I'm sort of a PowerPoint guy, so bear with me,' he said the first time he did this, in Orlando, Fla., by way of apologizing for his apparent inability to communicate without his security blanket. Though his PowerPoint presentation is an extremely basic four-slide tutorial that shows how much the national debt has risen since World War II -- something that many fifth graders could grasp -- his home crowds invariably nod and praise him for his faith in their ability to grasp hard truths.
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Hurricane search and rescue is one of first domestic uses of such vehicles
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Providing the benefits of speed, portability and access, a pair of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) surveyed storm-damaged communities in Miss. as part of the search for trapped survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
In what is one of the first deployments of such craft for disaster search and rescue, the vehicles captured video imagery to help responders focus efforts and avoid hazards.
"The two UAVs packed a one-two punch," says Robin Murphy of the University of South Florida (USF) and director of the NSF-supported Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR). "The fixed-wing provided a quick overview of an area over several miles, but the use of the miniature helicopter to hover by buildings and on roofs--and to takeoff straight up--really offers new functionality."
Florida emergency responders surveying Pearlington, Miss., asked the Safety Security Rescue Research Center (SSRRC) team to respond to reports of floodwater-stranded survivors. Murphy led the effort with other members of the SSRRC, an NSF-supported industry-university partnership among USF, the University of Minnesota and numerous defense and advanced technology companies.
Although houses pushed into the street during the storm surge blocked the entrance into Pearlington, the unique capabilities of the UAVs allowed the team to launch the aircraft from an open patch of road surrounded by downed trees and power lines.
One of the UAVs is a 4-foot-long airplane with mounted video and thermal imagery cameras that can capture details from as far away as 1,000 feet. Launched by hand, the craft provides rescuers with a broad overview of the disaster area. In part because of the ease of launch and minimal, five-car-length distance needed for landing, the fixed-wing UAV is much easier to deploy than its full-scale counterpart.
The same holds for the other UAV, a camera-equipped, miniature, electric helicopter called a T-Rex. Provided by SSRRC partner Like90, the helicopter can hover at heights approaching 250 feet and zoom its camera to peer inside windows or scan distant rooftops.
Within 2 hours, the vehicles provided responders with information showing that no survivors were trapped and the floodwaters from the cresting Pearl River did not pose an additional threat.
The vehicles are but two of many land- and aircraft operated by SSRRC, one of more than 40 NSF Industry - University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs). NSF provides a small investment to universities to start the centers, and industry partners bring additional investment and collaboration. NSF then maintains a supporting role with each center as it evolves over a period of up to 10 years.
According to Rita Rodriguez, program officer for Computing Research Infrastructure at NSF and one overseeing the center, SSRRC combines research efforts in robotics and robotic vision and involves not only industry, USF and UMN, but also undergraduate-focused colleges, such as Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn., and Berea College in Berea, Ky.
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The stars could be aligning for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to join the Brookings Institution after his term ends at the end of the month.
Mr. Bernanke was the featured speaker at an event sponsored by Brookings last week, his last public appearance as Fed chairman. His friend and former deputy, Donald Kohn, has been a senior fellow at Brookings since leaving the Fed in 2010. And Brookings has recently established a new center on monetary and fiscal policy, called the Hutchins Center, with $10 million in funding from Glenn Hutchins, a founder of Silver Lake Partners, an investment fund. Mr. Hutchins also is a director on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.


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"69 per cent of 12 to 15-year-olds now restrict who can access their profile, up 10 per cent from last year."
I wonder if there's any correlation between that 10% and their parents joining Facebook...
Congratulations, Jimbo! Almost one third of British secondary school children believe Google ranks search results in order of their truthfulness, according to new research by Ofcom. The statistic - great news for Wikipedians, terrifying for the rest of us - was reported in the communications regulator's annual report on …
"the majority of parents said they trust their children to use the internet safely"
This will have a real negative impact on kids and is another example of the easy/lazy laissez-faire parenting model. For an example just have a glance at pedo-vision...i mean stickam.
Hell I don't trust my adult user base to use the internet safely....
The correct word to use would be the standard "truthfulness"
As the Urban Dictionary states:
"The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts."
Origin: Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report," 2005
The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
Origin: Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report," 2005
"And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.
"Now I'm sure some of the Word Police, the wordanistas over at Webster's, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word.' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, or what did or didn't happen. Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I wanna say it happened in 1941, that's my right. I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."
Well, given that officially at least, that information is a commercial confidence, 18% is low, no?
There are gajillions of SEO "experts" who'll tell you they know exactly how to cheat Google's page ranking, but what they don't say is that Google tend to be ahead in that particular arms race.
The short answer to the question of how Google decides how to rank their results is basically "don't worry your pretty little head about it"
Anyway, like most new media press revelations, there's really nothing new here at all. "It must be true, I read it in a book" is as old as the hills.
" children's "media literacy" "
E.g. They don't have any.
And this is why, despite what the blowhards say, media studies is a Good Thing. If the damned anklebiters actually had a proper understanding of "the media", in which they are more immersed than most, they wouldn't make such rash judgements.
Perhaps you intended to use 'i.e.' rather than 'e.g'?
I would suggest that 'Media Literacy' is probably a good thing to teach children as a seperate topic, on the tacit agreement that all the media-friendly corrupted literature, doctored history and soundbite-science can be excised from the rest of the curriculum; just like Religious Studies has its place, yet still seems to need the occasional whacking to make sure it stays there. Still, at least kids appear to be getting a better grip on the internet. Perhaps they could use this article as an example of how even statistics that show an unambiguous improvement can be spun into a negative report.
how Google or any other search engine ranks its page presentation.
Do I care? Probably not.
Why? What difference does it make to me as an average punter? If I don't like what I find I'll look further. If I like what I find then 'job done'.
I have some advantages in that I have an engineering background and I'm between 3 and 4 times older than 12-18 yr olds. (I'm a technically literate, cynical old fart) I don't look at the adverts so, really, I am not on the websearch engine radar and that is just fine for me...
However, the next generation and young people in general are getting screwed and that does agrevate more than a little bit. If I knew of a way I could effect change I'd be on it like a lioness on a wilderbeast. Ideas welcomed!
"Perhaps you intended to use 'i.e.' rather than 'e.g'?"
No, fuckface, I intended to use E.g, exempli gratia, "for the sake of an example"
You might not like my sentence structure, but kindly don't presume my intent.
Media Studies _is_ a separate topic, at all levels from GCSE up, and as for "corrupted literature, doctored history and soundbite-science" I think you can do AS levels in those.
The weird thing is that Google MISquotes Wikipedia...
e.g (the correct e.g):
The answer reads:
Australia — Population - Density: 2.6/km2 (235th)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
So Google quotes answers from Wikipedia... OR DOES IT??
If you go check the page itself, you find a different number of 2.833/km2 for the population density of Australia... And I precise, despite the mutating nature of Wikipedia, the number quoted has not changed for months. What gives?
Why would Google give a number and pretend it was found on a Wikipedia page? Cui bono?
If I'm looking to buy something for a good price using Google I tend to do the search look at the offers for comparison on the first page and then go through the results backwards. The sites that have to pay google for the ranking will need to get their investment back somehow. Either they have a huge turnaround or their prices have to be adjusted!
You and Yours (I think) did an item on scammers advertising concert tickets. One person caught out said he put the name of the group into Google and used the first name on the list of matches because he thought that would genuine.
I would thought everyone would have learnt to ignore the first few Google matches!
``Almost one third of British secondary school children believe Google ranks search results in order of their truthfulness, according to new research by Ofcom."
``Only a slightly larger proportion - 37 per cent - believe results are ranked on their usefulness or relevance."
``The next generation of cynics - 14 per cent of 12 to 15-year-olds - said websites pay money for the top spots."
There is some truth in all of these answers! Please read how to lie with statistics.
Let's look at truthfulness - one would like to assume that trusted sources are more widely cited than untrusted ones; it follows therefore that the will achieve a higher rank.
``Some 18 per cent said they didn't know how Google and other search engines rank results, significantly up from four per cent last year."
This is probably the only correct answer. None of us know (modulo Google employees) exactly how Google works. This is why there are jobs in SEO!
Unfortunately most filtering software is based on prejudice rather than evidence of harm and most of the software reflects US prejudices which are particular harmful. Try comparing the teenage prengnancy rate for the USA or any other prudish country with those for the most enlightened. Then think long and hard about the attitudes which make such enormous differences.
Google ranking -
relevance - how can you judge relevance when the search criteria are one or two words?
adwords - separately displayed results and blocked in some cases
popularity - measured by inward links, best for Google as it presents the most popular results first and therefore is guaranteed to satisfy the most users.
Google does not attempt completeness so you can only safely use it to find things that you know when you've found, you supply the completeness.
So, was "popularity" on the list of answers the kids gave?
Note this is the same generation that's been completely brought up with the mantra if something is "popular", it's "better". If a restaurant is "popular", then it must have higher quality. If a news channel is "popular", then it must be more accurate and reliable. If an operating system is "popular", then it must be more robust and useable. if a website is "popular", then it must be more reliable.
It's a sad state of affairs. I simply fail anyone using Wikipedia as a reference in a research paper. They can use it to get an overview of a subject, but to use it as a reference is to lack any form of understanding of what makes something reliable.
At the turn of the Millenium there was a rash of voted items; Best Song of all Time, Film ditto etc etc.
It was so depressing. The number of idiots who said that they thought that their most recent favourite chart topper was the best song of all time..
P.S. Kids in school - I'm a teacher- seem to think that "best" means the same as " favourite".
Widespread knowledge of exactly how Google ranks things would be a gift to those charlatans who list 'SEO' on their CVs. What we do know is it has roots in spectral graph theory but with a substantial number of knobs on. If you can find me a schoolkid in Britain who knows what a graph eigenspectrum is then you win a lollipop.


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DUNEDIN, New Zealand: A determined England batted through the final day to salvage a draw from the first Test against New Zealand at the University Oval in Dunedin on Sunday.
At stumps England were 421 for six, a lead of 128 runs, after facing a 293-run deficit on the first innings in the rain-interrupted Test.
Despite the best efforts of England nightwatchman Steven Finn and New Zealand quick Neil Wagner on the final day, an outright result was never more than a remote possibility on the unresponsive wicket.
New Zealand saw a glimmer of hope in the first three overs after tea when Finn was eventually removed after 203 minutes at the crease for 56 and Joe Root quickly followed, run out without scoring.
But Ian Bell, with an unbeaten 26, and Matt Prior (23 not out) carried England through to stumps, seeing off the third new ball of the innings in the process.
Despite being unable to force a victory, New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum saw it as a morale-boosting performance for his side who dominated the early stages of the Test against the world's second-ranked side.
"We never gave up the belief that we could get the job done but we weren't quite able to finish off," he said, rueing the loss of the opening day because of rain.
"Another day of Test cricket would have been phenomenal. You lose that first day and you have to try and work out how to congest such a good game into four days. Unfortunately we weren't able to."
England captain Alastair Cook was relieved to escape with a draw after the tourists posted only 167 in their first innings. He said it put them on good footing for the second Test.
"The character to dig ourselves out of a hole is very pleasing," he said.
"It certainly gives us some confidence, especially when you get bowled out for 160 in the first innings, as a batting unit you can start to have negative thoughts. You don't want that to snowball."
England resumed the final day at 234 for one and added 31 before Nick Compton fell for 117, trapped leg before wicket by a swinging delivery from Wagner.
Compton's maiden Test century and his 231-run opening stand with Cook, who made 116, may well have secured his international career. Compton's previous nine Test innings had produced a best score of only 57.
Wagner, a late inclusion in the side when Doug Bracewell cut his foot, staked a strong claim to be retained for the second Test after finishing with figures of three for 141 to go with his four-wicket bag in the first innings.
In the session between lunch and tea, the left-arm seamer claimed the wickets of Jonathan Trott, caught and bowled for 52, and Kevin Pietersen who was caught behind for 12.
As the senior batsmen came and went, nightwatchman Finn doggedly pressed on to his maiden half-century, frustrating the New Zealand bowlers as he played a straight bat to anything heading towards the stumps.
He survived two tough chances, edging the ball towards the slip cordon, and his 203 minutes at the crease included a 72-minute period when he faced 50 dot balls before advancing from 53 to 54.
But having refrained from anything flashy for more than two sessions Finn was undone immediately after tea when he attempted to play across the line against Bruce Martin and was deemed leg before wicket.
Root's brief stay in the middle ended when he was called for an unnecessary single by Bell and was run out without scoring on a direct hit from Tim Southee.
Bell and Prior then steered England safely through to stumps, which was called with 15 overs remaining.
Although Wagner was the principal wicket-taker for New Zealand, Trent Boult was the most economical bowler with one for 49 from 35 overs. Martin took one for 90 in 44 overs.


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From Liz Atwood: Call me a party-pooper, but I make it a habit never to shop on Black Friday. It isn't so much that I hate the crowds, but that I almost never know what I want to buy for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. I can never understand those folks who do their Christmas shopping in the summer and have it all wrapped by Halloween. I have only started to think about what I want to buy.
I was scouring the websites to find out the hot toys for tweens this year and I'm reminded of the old saying "There's nothing new under the sun." It seems the Easy Bake Oven, which has been around since I was a kid, is still popular. And it looks like Furby has made a comeback. Was there ever a more annoying toy? I had one years ago, and he sat on the shelf and kept saying "Feed me." It was like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors. I happily sold him at a yard sale.
But if you have a tween on your Christmas list, here are a few toys that did look kind of cool.
All Duct Out. This is basically a kit that lets kids create accessories such as purses and jewelry with Duct tape. Of course you could just go to the hardware store and buy the tape, but it probably wouldn't look quite as impressive.
PicWits. In this game, players try to match their picture cards with a judge's caption.
Lite-Brix. Anything that glows seems big this year. This toy combines Legos and Lite-Brites and lets kids create buildings and machines that light up.
Any other ideas for the tween on your list?