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I was in the first squadron to go into Guadalcanal, Marine Fighting Squadron 223, under Captain John L. Smith. Together with Dick Mangrum's squadron, we were aboard the Long Island. We went into Guadalcanal on 20 August 1942: one fighter squadron and one dive-bomber squadron.
When we arrived, we found the place pretty primitive. We slept under tents. I think it was the second night I was there, we were lying right there in the sack, and you could see the tracers going back and forth. It looked like they were only out there about 200 yards. It's what they called the Battle of the Tenaru, where they knocked off some 700 or 800 Japs.
We didn't have much of a field there then. Henderson Field was pretty much pitted. We lost some planes on landings and takeoffs, particularly if we tried to take off at night, as we did a couple of times. We also seemed to be right on the borderline for fuel and ammunition most of the time. Sometimes we had supplies for only 24 hours ahead. Particularly at the time of the Battle of Savo Island, the Navy was skittish about bringing anything in there at all. So we had to get it by air, and some days we would have only six airplanes in commission.
I was number three in the squadron, and Captain Rivers Morrell was number two. Rivers got shot up on one of his first flights and was evacuated, so that made me number two. So John L. and I usually split taking turns leading a flight.
One day [3 October] Lieutenant Colonel Joe Bauer came up from Roses, which was the codename for Efate, the base down below Espiritu Santo. He had a squadron down there—VMF-212—and he was just jumping up and down to get into the battle. But for some reason he couldn't persuade anybody to send his outfit up to Guadalcanal, and why, I don't know, because we sure could have used them.
Joe was the type of guy that when there was anything interesting going on, he wanted to be in the middle of it. He was real aggressive and a real personable guy. Anyhow,he came up there one day, and he wanted to fly. He went to see John Smith.
"John, how about letting me go on a flight?"
"Well, you're going to have to talk to Marion. He's flight leader today," Smith replied.
So Joe came over to me and asked if he could fly. I said, "Hell, yes! How about taking the second section?" We only had six airplanes in commission. Pretty soon we got word from the coast-watchers that the Japanese were coming, to expect them in about 40 minutes. We scrambled and we climbed, and we climbed and we climbed. It took about that long for that damned F4F to climb to 30,000 feet. No sooner did we get up there, expecting them momentarily, when we got word that the Japanese had turned around and gone back. Well, I was just about ready to let down when I looked down, and there were nine Zeros at about 10,000 feet!
The bombers had turned back, but some of the Zeros bad taken it on themselves to come on in. Normally, I wouldn't have said anything. I'd just have peeled off and away we'd have gone and bounced them. But since I had a lieutenant colonel back there in the third section, I called on the radio and said, "Colonel, we've got nine Zeros down there." I didn't get any answer, so I called again, and still no answer. I figured his mike was fouled up—which it was—so I said, "We're going after them," and down we went.
Well, I guess we got them all; if we didn't, eight out of the nine. I got two, myself, and then my guns jammed for some reason. Ken Fraser got a couple, got shot down, bailed out, and got recovered. Joe Bauer got four. We were coming in to land and, oh boy, Joe was so excited, he could hardly stand it. He was bouncing up and down.
I said, "How did it go? How'd your airplane go?"
"Well," he said, "that darn airplane doesn't seem to be performing too well. It feels awfully sluggish."
Joe had been flying F4F-3As. I called the crew chief over and I said, "Go out and check the airplane. The colonel says it's pretty sluggish."
Soon the crew chief came back and said, "Well, I think the reason is, it's in high blower."
Joe had never shifted to low blower! He had a two-stage supercharger, which he needed to get the altitude, but once you leave altitude, you shift that thing down to low blower. In the first place, only that kind of engine would have held together at all, because you were over-boosting it considerably. But it didn't seem to make a whole lot of difference, and I didn't say anything to Joe.
I got my fifth kill someplace around the 24th or 26th of August. As far as I know, I was the first ace in the Marine Corps. YMF-223 was pulled out somewhere around the 12th of October; I was declared an ace on the 27th. There was no ceremony or official designation. I just knocked down five and I was an ace. Of course, I had a running start. I had one, and then, you see I was shot down. I was leading the pack until I got shot down, and I was gone five days. During that time John L. caught up with me and passed me.
I was shot down on the 9th on September. As usual, the bombers came in, but this time they overflew Henderson. Where they were going, or whether somebody made a mistake or what, we don't know. But they overflew Henderson, and by this time we were up in position and started attacking them. While I was attacking, I was shot down; I never did see the guy that did it.
I was around 20,000 or 22,000 feet and my plane caught fire, so I bailed out. Clayton Canfield, who had been my wingman at Midway, was again my wingman. He got shot down too. The only difference was that he got picked up by a destroyer and I didn't. We were in the water; we had life jackets. I was out there treading water for four hours. Finally, a native came out in a canoe, a dugout canoe, and picked me up.
He couldn't speak any English, but he took me to somebody who could. It turned out to be a native doctor, a fellow by the name of Eroni—a Fiji boy, not a native—who had the equivalent of a high school education, could speak English very well, and was trained to administer medicine to the natives.
He had sulfas, and could even perform a simple operation if he had to. He was good at setting bones and things like that. So I stayed with Eroni, his wife, and his child on Guadalcanal. They lived about 20 miles from base, south and east. So I said, "Well, Eroni, I guess the only way to get back to base is to walk back."
He said, "Okay, I'll take you back." He was a well-built, rugged little fellow. He started walking, and I thought that I was in good shape, but I sure had trouble keeping up with him.
Before we left I had looked at a boat he had, a 16 or 18 footer with one of these little single lungers, about a five-horse cylinder job. I tried to get it running, but couldn't. We got part way back toward the base on foot when we started running into a lot of natives coming toward us. Eroni stopped to talk to them. We'd heard the shelling the night before, but didn't think anything about it. That was the night that the battleships came down and plastered that place. Eroni reported that the Japanese landed something better than 2,000 Japs between where we were and the base. "All the natives are getting out of the area and I don't recommend that we try to find our way through them," Eroni said.
I agreed. So we went back and tried to work on that boat some more. There wasn't anything wrong with the boat, and I did get it to run. I guess we waited until 2:00 or 3:00 o'clock in the morning, figuring we wanted to hit the beach up there about dawn. We didn't want to be going up the straits and run into any of the Japanese, yet we wanted to get there about daylight. We had to time it just right so that when we passed the part of the beach where the Japanese were, it would still be dark. Yet we didn't want to get up there too early because the Jap fleet might be coming down and doing some more shelling and trip us up.
Well, it was uneventful. We did it just right in that respect, and so we hit the beach. I went over to my tent, and what a mess. Everything was gone, see. Everything had been appropriated by somebody. I got nearly everything back, just about everything. Poor Marion's bought it; let's divvy up his gear! That was standard practice in those days, because everybody was scratching even for clothing and food, sometimes.
Incidentally 15 years later I met General David Shoup at a cocktail party in El Toro while I was G-3. He was introduced to me and said, "I always wanted to meet you. I've got a pair of shoes that are yours. They're the luckiest damn shoes I've ever had, and you're not going to get them back either!"
"What kind of shoes are they," I asked.
"They're shower shoes."
"How do you know they're mine?" I queried.
"Your name's on them: Marion E. Carl, Captain, USMC."
I'd forgotten all about them.
On Guadalcanal, the situation as far as creature comforts—food, and so on—were concerned was that they were pretty nonexistent at times. For instance, I think that for two weeks straight we ate nothing but Japanese food, captured food—canned fruit and canned meat—and it wasn't too bad. It didn't bother me. It bothered a lot of my squadron. Some of them were getting diarrhea and so on and so forth by not being too careful regarding the water they were drinking. But I don't remember ever being sick. I never got malaria, and some people figure I had a cast-iron stomach, but I'm just not a heavy eater, for one thing.
General Louis Woods said that one of the problems he found down there—and one that wasn't understood by the ground people—was the requirement for the aviators to have a special diet, especially since they were going up to high altitudes. They'd have to eat the kind of foods that wouldn't give them gas, and also, they needed the kind of food that would sustain them for their type of operations. But I never heard of it. Of course, Louie Woods might have had a valid point there from the standpoint of being a commander and trying to get the best food he could for his aviators. You can't blame him for that. I've worked for Louie and I know; he was a pretty good officer.
As far as I'm concerned, one cigarette can do an aviator a hell of a lot more damage than what you eat when you go to altitude. Your tolerance to oxygen deprivation is reduced. You smoke three cigarettes, I think it is, and your tolerance to altitude is reduced about 8,000 feet. I never smoked, and I had particularly good altitude tolerance. I went to 27,000 feet, I guess it was, in the decompression chamber without oxygen. They didn't want to take me any further, and I still hadn't passed out.
The Japanese pilots and the Japanese aircraft that we came up against on the "Canal" were real good, some of them. And some of them were dummies. It's just that some guys are not natural fighter pilots. If there's a wrong way to turn, they'll pick it every time. I was surprised at the quality of some of the Japanese pilots.
We had heard the story for so many years, that unless you were blue-eyed and blond and didn't wear glasses, you weren't good. All you had to do was see one of those Zeros maneuver once and you got converted real quick. I was just amazed, for instance, that the first one I jumped went by me. He got by me so fast that I didn't have a prayer of following him. He turned so quick—the airplanes were so light and so maneuverable—that they could make an F4F look real stupid. Right then and there I said, "Never will I ever try to maneuver with a Zero, not for more than one or two turns. If I can't get him in the first turn or two, I'm going to get the hell out of there and come back and try again the next day, otherwise he's going to be on my tail. I won't be able to get away from him. I'm going to get shot down." The guys who stayed in there and tried to maneuver with them usually ended up getting shot down.
Excerpted from the oral history of Major General Marion E. Carl, which is in the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center's collection.


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IRVING, Tex. — The Dallas running game is stuck in neutral without running back DeMarco Murray.
Of course, the Cowboys have also had a temporary centre and backups starting at two other spots on the offensive line. And they fall behind almost every week.
Any of the above could explain why Dallas has the NFL's worst rushing offence, and one of the most overworked quarterbacks in Tony Romo.
"We've got to run the ball better. We've got to run the ball more," coach Jason Garrett said. "We have to be effective running the ball early in the ballgame so we don't get behind."
Probably easier said than done, particularly if Murray misses his seventh straight game Sunday night against Philadelphia. He last played against Baltimore on Oct. 14, when the Cowboys rushed for more yards than the defence-first Ravens have ever allowed in a game. That 227-yard day was marred by Murray spraining his right foot in the first half and the Dallas running game hasn't been the same since.
The only time the Cowboys have rushed for more than 100 yards in the past six games, they barely made it, getting 101 in a victory at Philadelphia. Felix Jones led Dallas with 71 yards, but his next-highest total filling in for Murray is 44 yards. For the season, Dallas is averaging 79 yards rushing per game.
The question of when Murray will return appears no more settled now than it was a month ago. He has been on the practice field in uniform consistently for warmups, and even said two weeks ago there was "a chance" he could play against Cleveland. But then he wasn't on the field at all for the last practice before the Thanksgiving Day loss to Washington.
"It shouldn't matter who's back there," said offensive lineman Mackenzy Bernadeau. "We should be able to make it clean for them to make the read and hit the holes. We miss him, but at the same time … there are no excuses. We have to get better."
We've had some injuries, but that's no excuse for us not being able to run the ball.
Bernadeau signed as a free agent in the off-season to play guard for Dallas. The 38-31 loss to Washington was his second start at centre while the Cowboys wait for Phil Costa and Ryan Cook to get healthy. Cook came over in a late preseason trade with Miami because the Cowboys were already having trouble with injuries in the offensive line.
In Bernadeau's first start at centre against Cleveland, left tackle Tyron Smith went out early with a sprained ankle and didn't play five days later against the Redskins. Jermey Parnell, an undrafted second-year player, took Smith's place, while veteran Derrick Dockery has filled Bernadeau's guard spot.
"We've had some injuries, but that's no excuse for us not being able to run the ball," said Lance Dunbar, an undrafted rookie who has overtaken Phillip Tanner as the third running back. "We've been working on it, trying to figure out things that are helping us and hurting us and just trying to fix things."
The Cowboys could start by avoiding big first-half deficits. Dallas has trailed by double digits before halftime in four consecutive home games. Two of those situations were desperate — down 23-0 to the New York Giants, when Dallas had 19 yards rushing on 17 carries, and 28-3 to Washington, when the Cowboys had a season-low 11 carries.
Dallas abandoned the run for obvious reasons against Washington, but also leaned heavily on Romo while facing just a 13-0 deficit the previous game against Cleveland. It made sense because the Cowboys had 17 rushing yards on eight carries in the first half. Dallas ran just six times on three straight scoring drives in the second half, sending Romo on his way to 112 passes in a five-day span.
Romo has 456 pass attempts, or 41 per game, second only to Detroit's Matthew Stafford.
"What you're trying to do is find some plays you like and execute them," Garrett said. "You've got to be careful about saying, 'I'm going to lean on Tony and let him kind of go save the day.' It's too challenging of a position to do that."
Garrett doesn't want to wait for Murray to save the day either.
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Algo Boost Series: Part 1 Nexus 3548 Latency Innovations
The Nexus 3548 with Algo Boost was announced last week and received a lot of positive buzz around this game changing innovation. To follow up on Berna Devrim's Introduction Blog, I am introducing a multipart series that goes into more specifics by Cisco experts. As part 1 of the series, I recently had the opportunity to have a chat with Will Ochandarena about the latency enhancements. Will is a Senior Product Manager in the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for the Nexus 3548 switch, and Cisco's low latency switching strategy.
GD: The Cisco Nexus 3548 switch with Algo Boost was announced on September 19th and received a lot of positive attention. Can you elaborate a little more on the latency that this switch can achieve? How does this benefit our financial customers?
<WO>: The custom switching ASIC in the Nexus 3548, codenamed Monticello, sets a new bar for switching latency. Our engineers worked tirelessly to eliminate unnecessary nanoseconds from the forwarding path, tweaking it down to as low as 190 nanoseconds (ns). Best of all, this latency is achieved even when we are doing full layer-2 and layer-3 switching, with features such as Network Address Translation (NAT) enabled. We actually went as far as to offer a few different switching modes, each with different latency and forwarding characteristics, in order to give our customers the most flexibility in their deployments.
In terms of the impact on our end customers, we consistently hear from companies in the financial community that switch latency has a direct impact on the profitability of their business. Trading firms – as well as the exchanges and other participants – gain significant business advantage if the supporting infrastructure enables them to acquire data and execute trades nanoseconds faster than the competition.
GD: Can you tell me some more about the different latency modes? Are they configurable?
<WO>: Sure, like I mentioned earlier, the Nexus 3548 has three different forwarding modes with different latency and forwarding characteristics. Here is a run-down of these different modes:
The default operating mode of the Nexus 3548 is what we call Normal Mode. In this mode, the Nexus 3548 is extremely feature rich and scalable, while forwarding packets at ultra low latencies of about 250 nanoseconds.
For those customers where latency is everything, the device can be globally configured for Warp Mode. In this mode, the latency is slashed to 190ns, and the main difference is the table sizes of the device are reduced to a level that is still higher than the typical configuration mode for financial trading applications, with 4000 unicast routes, 8000 multicast routes, and 8000 hosts.
No matter what the global mode of the Nexus 3548 is, Normal or Warp, customers can take advantage of an innovative feature called Warp SPAN. In this mode, all traffic entering the switch on a single 10G port (port 36 to be exact) is copied to a configurable set of egress ports at a never before seen latency of 50ns or less. Best of all, the traffic entering port 36 of the switch still passes through the normal forwarding pipeline, so this interface can be used to establish peering adjacencies with upstream providers. This feature is ideal for the efficient delivery of multicast stock market data to a set of servers commonly referred to as "feed handlers".
GD: Can you give a little more details on Warp SPAN? 50-nanosecond latency is insane!
<WO>: It is insane, and it is features like this that remind us why we invest in our own silicon. Typically, multicast market data enters a network switch at the customer edge and passes through forwarding logic that decides which streams need to go to which downstream feed handler servers. However, we heard from customers that in some small colocation environments the feed handler servers want to receive all multicast feeds coming from the provider. This means the typical routing and filtering logic the traffic passed through was overkill.
Basically, the idea behind Warp SPAN was to shortcut traffic from the ingress port directly to the egress ports specified by the network administrator, bypassing the routing and filtering logic. This is what saved us about 140ns of latency compared to our lowest latency switching mode. Like I said earlier, this traffic is also sent into the normal forwarding pipeline, so it can be routed normally to a different set of egress interfaces, or to the switch CPU to establish routing protocol adjacencies.
GD: With all the buzz generated last week, customers and partners are eager to purchase and deploy. When will the Nexus 3548 be orderable and shipping?
<WO>: The Nexus 3548 is orderable today. We expect shipping to begin sometime in November 2012.
I'd like to thank Will for this valuable information. To see more info on the Nexus 3548, watch this video:
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PRANG::Graph::Meta::Element - metaclass metarole for XML elements
use PRANG::Graph;
has_element 'somechild' =>
is => "rw",
isa => "Some::Type",
xml_required => 0,
# equivalent alternative - plays well with others!
has 'somechild' =>
is => "rw",
traits => [qw/PRANG::Element/],
isa => "Some::Type",
xml_required => 0,
The PRANG concept is that attributes in your classes are marked to correspond with attributes and elements in your XML. This class is for marking your class' attributes as XML elements. For marking them as XML attributes, see PRANG::Graph::Meta::Attr.
Non-trivial elements - and this means elements which contain more than a single TextNode element within - are mapped to Moose classes. The child elements that are allowed within that class correspond to the attributes marked with the
PRANG::Element trait, either via
has_element or the Moose
traits keyword.
Where it makes sense, as much as possible is set up from the regular Moose definition of the attribute. This includes the XML node name, the type constraint, and also the predicate.
If you like, you can also set the
xmlns and
xml_nodeName attribute property, to override the default behaviour, which is to assume that the XML element name matches the Moose attribute name, and that the XML namespace of the element is that of the enclosing class (ie,
$class->xmlns), if defined.
The order of declaring element attributes is important. They implicitly define a "sequence". To specify a "choice", you must use a union sub-type - see below. Care must be taken with bundling element attributes into roles as ordering when composing is not defined.
The predicate property of the attribute is also important. If you do not define
predicate, then the attribute is considered required. This can be overridden by specifying
xml_required (it must be defined to be effective).
The isa property (type constraint) you set via 'isa' is required. The behaviour for major types is described below. The module knows about sub-typing, and so if you specify a sub-type of one of these types, then the behaviour will be as for the type on this list. Only a limited subset of higher-order/parametric/structured types are permitted as described.
- Bool sub-type
If the attribute is a Bool sub-type (er, or just "Bool", then the element will marshall to the empty element if true, or no element if false. The requirement that
predicatebe defined is relaxed for
Boolwill serialise to:
<object> <somechild /> </object>
For true and
<object> </object>
For false.
- Scalar sub-type
If it is a Scalar subtype (eg, an enum, a Str or an Int), then the value of the Moose attribute is marshalled to the value of the element as a TextNode; eg
- Object sub-type
If the attribute is an Object subtype (ie, a Class), then the element is serialised according to the definition of the Class defined.
eg, with;
{ package CD; use Moose; use PRANG::Graph; has_element 'author' => qw( is rw isa Person ); has_attr 'name' => qw( is rw isa Str ); } { package Person; use Moose; use PRANG::Graph; has_attr 'group' => qw( is rw isa Bool ); has_attr 'name' => qw( is rw isa Str ); has_element 'deceased' => qw( is rw isa Bool ); }
Then the object;
CD->new( name => "2Pacalypse Now", author => Person->new( group => 0, name => "Tupac Shakur", deceased => 1, ) );
Would serialise to (assuming that there is a PRANG::Graph document type with
cdas a root element):
<cd name="2Pacalypse Now"> <author group="0" name="Tupac Shakur> <deceased /> </author> </cd>
- ArrayRef sub-type
ArrayRefsub-type indicates that the element may occur multiple times at this point. Bounds may be specified directly - the
xml_maxattribute properties.
Higher-order types are supported; in fact, to not specify the type of the elements of the array is a big no-no.
xml_nodeNameis specified, it refers to the items; no array container node is expected.
For example;
has_attr 'name' => is => "rw", isa => "Str", ; has_attr 'releases' => is => "rw", isa => "ArrayRef[CD]", xml_min => 0, xml_nodeName => "cd", ;
Assuming that this property appeared in the definition for 'artist', and that CD
has_attr 'title'..., it would let you parse:
<artist> <name>The Headless Chickens</name> <cd title="Stunt Clown">...<cd> <cd title="Body Blow">...<cd> <cd title="Greedy">...<cd> </artist>
You cannot (currently) Union an ArrayRef type with other simple types.
- Union types
Union types are special; they indicate that any one of the types indicated may be expected next. By default, the name of the element is still the name of the Moose attribute, and if the case is that a particular element may just be repeated any number of times, this is fine.
However, this can be inconvenient in the typical case where the alternation is between a set of elements which are allowed in the particular context, each corresponding to a particular Moose type. Another one is the case of mixed XML, where there may be text, then XML fragments, more text, more XML, etc.
There are two relevant questions to answer. When marshalling OUT, we want to know what element name to use for the attribute in the slot. When marshalling IN, we need to know what element names are allowable, and potentially which sub-type to expect for a particular element name.
After applying much DWIMery, the following scenarios arise;
- 1:1 mapping from Type to Element name
This is often the case for message containers that allow any number of a collection of classes inside. For this case, a map must be provided to the
xml_nodeNamefunction, which allows marshalling in and out to proceed.
has_element 'message' => is => "rw", isa => "my::unionType", xml_nodeName => { "nodename" => "TypeA", "somenode" => "TypeB", };
It is an error if types are repeated in the map. The empty string can be used as a node name for text nodes, otherwise they are not allowed.
This case is made of win because no extra attributes are required to help the marshaller; the type of the data is enough.
An example of this in practice;
subtype "My::XML::Language::choice0" => as join("|", map { "My::XML::Language::$_" } qw( CD Store Person ) ); has_element 'things' => is => "rw", isa => "ArrayRef[My::XML::Language::choice0]", xml_nodeName => +{ map {( lc($_) => $_ )} qw(CD Store Person) }, ;
This would allow the enclosing class to have a 'things' property, which contains all of the elements at that point, which can be
In this case, it may be preferrable to pass a role name as the element type, and let this module evaluate construct the
xml_nodeNamemap itself.
- more types than element names
This happens when some of the types have different XML namespaces; the type of the node is indicated by the namespace prefix.
In this case, you must supply a namespace map, too.
has_element 'message' => is => "rw", isa => "my::unionType", xml_nodeName => { "trumpery:nodename" => "TypeA", "rubble:nodename" => "TypeB", "claptrap:nodename" => "TypeC", }, xml_nodeName_prefix => { "trumpery" => "uri:type:A", "rubble" => "uri:type:B", "claptrap" => "uri:type:C", }, ;
FIXME: this is currently unimplemented.
- more element names than types
This can happen for two reasons: one is that the schema that this element definition comes from is re-using types. Another is that you are just accepting XML without validation (eg, XMLSchema's
processContents="skip"property). In this case, there needs to be another attribute which records the names of the node.
has_element 'message' => is => "rw", isa => "my::unionType", xml_nodeName => { "nodename" => "TypeA", "somenode" => "TypeB", "someother" => "TypeB", }, xml_nodeName_attr => "message_name", ;
If any node name is allowed, then you can simply pass in
*as an
- more namespaces than types
The principle use of this is PRANG::XMLSchema::Whatever, which converts arbitrarily namespaced XML into objects. In this case, another attribute is needed, to record the XML namespaces of the elements.
has 'nodenames' => is => "rw", isa => "ArrayRef[Maybe[Str]]", ; has 'nodenames_xmlns' => is => "rw", isa => "ArrayRef[Maybe[Str]]", ; has_element 'contents' => is => "rw", isa => "ArrayRef[PRANG::XMLSchema::Whatever|Str]", xml_nodeName => { "" => "Str", "*" => "PRANG::XMLSchema::Whatever" }, xml_nodeName_attr => "nodenames", xmlns => "*", xmlns_attr => "nodenames_xmlns", ;
FIXME: this is currently unimplemented.
- unknown/extensible element names and types
These are indicated by specifying a role. At the time that the PRANG::Graph::Node is built for the attribute, the currently available implementors of these roles are checked, which must all implement PRANG::Graph.
They Treated as if there is an
xml_nodeNameentry for the class, from the
root_elementvalue for the class to the type. This allows writing extensible schemas.
PRANG::Graph::Meta::Attr, PRANG::Graph::Meta::Element, PRANG::Graph::Node
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Copyright 2009, 2010, NZ Registry Services. This module is licensed under the Artistic License v2.0, which permits relicensing under other Free Software licenses.


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Mixed emotions for Allardyce
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce was relieved that his side snatched a point against Sunderland through Kevin Nolan's injury-time equaliser, but his overriding emotion was one of frustration.
Steven Fletcher's fourth goal in three matches had put Sunderland ahead and West Ham dominated the game without reward until Nolan beat goalkeeper Simon Mignolet with a shot on the turn in the dying seconds.
"Didn't we deserve more than that on the balance of play? I thought from the start to finish we were the dominant side and created far more chances," Allardyce said.
"Because we didn't capitalise by having enough players showing a clinical finish we have ended up having to be satisfied with a draw," added the Hammers boss.
"We are relieved and happy to have a point because, irrespective of who was the better side, we were still 1-0 down. At that late stage the point is something we are happy with but overall we are disappointed."
Sunderland had to settle for a fourth consecutive Premier League draw.
"I am obviously disappointed," manager Martin O'Neill said. "We looked as if we had dealt with just about everything that had been thrown at us but we were never able to kill the game off.
"We had some great opportunities in the second half. West Ham were pressing forward and leaving the door open for us. We should have taken advantage of it. We should have won the game.
"Fletcher is playing brilliantly for us. He has scored all of our goals so far.
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by Cissy DeLuca, KF8 Indonesia
At TLM, there is an informal uniform code for each day of the week. Mondays are for blue shirts, Tuesdays are for orange, Wednesdays we wear green, Thursdays the staff wear the TLM batik and Fridays are for custom made blue and white shirts. On the back of these shirts reads, "Give your heart to love, Give your hands to serve."
In previous experiences working in the development sector, I noticed many NGO and government workers often treated villagers in a manner I found less than acceptable. Nurses would be verbally, and sometimes physically, abusive towards the mothers who came for monthly baby weighing services. Berating them for not forming a proper line and rudely hurrying them along as they removed the carefully chosen outfit they had dressed their baby in for the event. NGO workers would breeze into a village unannounced in their private air-conditioned SUVs acting like their time was more valuable than the community's time. Rudely expecting the village to scurry for a chair, fresh water, a translator and accommodate all their needs. Development work serves the purpose of bridging the gap between the rich and the poor, but these people widened it with their social behavior. In short, these situations broke my heart and greatly discouraged me.
Working with TLM has been a a breath of fresh air and reminded me what development work can, and should, be all about. Their strong Christian affiliation really shows in their demeanor. They treat their clients with dignity, respect and kindness. They are very patient when gathering and explaining information and do not take a condescending approach.
TLM only posts group loans to the Kiva website, so visits for borrower profiles take a very long time. After driving an hour or more to reach a village, they often spend an hour waiting for the group to assemble. Once the group assembles, they take an individual picture of each member. They then organize the clients for the group photo to be published on the website. After the pictures have been taken, they take the time to explain to the clients what Kiva is and that their photo will be viewed by millions of people. Each group member must then sign a release waiver. After all members have signed, the loan officer interviews the group leader to get information to write a compelling borrower profile. The whole ordeal from start to finish can take up to 5 hours for one single loan on Kiva!
Maybe the TLM staff members simply enjoy getting out of the office, but I think the enjoyment comes from giving their hands to serve. Their humble approach to performing their jobs is beyond inspiring. It is comforting to know that from the pockets of the generous Kiva lenders, through the technology of the socially minded Kiva staff to the on-the-ground initiative of the attentive TLM staff… Kiva/ TLM loans are handled with love from start to finish.
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CARSON, Calif. (Wednesday, November 9, 2011) – For an MLS-record seventh time, the LA Galaxy will play for MLS Cup, when they take on the Houston Dynamo at The Home Depot Center on Sunday, November 20. That game, which kicks off at 6 p.m. (PT) will be shown live nationally on ESPN and Galavision as well as in 150 countries around the world.
The Galaxy reached this season's MLS Cup by beating Real Salt Lake 3-1 at home in the Western Conference Championship on Sunday night behind goals from Landon Donovan, Mike Magee and Robbie Keane. (HIGHLIGHTS) The Dynamo, who will be looking for their third MLS Cup championship, beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0 on the road on Sunday in the Eastern Conference Championship to qualify for their third MLS Cup in six years.
The Galaxy and Dynamo split their two meetings this season, with the Galaxy winning 1-0 on May 25 behind a Landon Donovan first half penalty kick and a Donovan Ricketts shutout at The Home Depot Center. The Dynamo returned the favor in the final game of the regular season, beating the Galaxy 3-1 on October 23 in a game that saw the Galaxy start just one player that has started in any of the club's first three postseason games this year. MLS Cup 2011 will be just the second time that Galaxy and Dynamo meet in the postseason, with LA beating the Dynamo 2-0 at The Home Depot Center in the 2009 Western Conference Championship.
Galaxy Injury Report
OUT – Sean Alvarado (Right Knee – Surgery), Leonardo (Right Knee – Surgery)
DOUBTFUL – None
QUESTIONABLE – David Beckham (Back Spasms), Gregg Berhalter (Right Foot – Sprain), Bryan Jordan (Left Middle Finger Tendon – Rupture)
PROBABLE – None
MLS CUP ARRIVES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON WEDNESDAY: MLS Cup 2011 activities kick off in Southern California at 11 a.m. on Wednesday when the Philip F. Anschutz championship trophy, which will be presented to the winner of MLS Cup 2011, makes its official arrival into the greater Los Angeles area.
The trophy, which was created by Tiffany & Co., will arrive with a police escort at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier accompanied by former MLS Cup winners and Los Angeles soccer legends Alexi Lalas and Mauricio Cienfuegos, riding in style atop a 2012 Volkswagen Eos convertible with Continental Tires.
The Trophy Arrival Celebration kicks off ten days of public activities and special events leading up to MLS Cup 2011, which will be played on Sunday, November 20 at The Home Depot Center. This year marks the fifth time MLS Cup will be played in Southern California, with The Home Depot Center hosting the game in 2003, 2004 and 2008 as well as this year, while the Rose Bowl hosted MLS Cup in 1998.
ALL TO PLAY FOR: The LA Galaxy are in MLS Cup for a record seventh time, which is twice more than any other team in the history of the league. Against Houston next Sunday, the Galaxy will be in search of their third championship and their first in Southern California. The Galaxy won MLS Cup in 2002 and 2005 while they fell in the league championship game four times, losing in 1996 and 1999 to D.C. United, 2001 to the San Jose Earthquakes and in 2009 to Real Salt Lake on penalties.
The Galaxy's two MLS Cup titles leave them tied with Houston and San Jose, who relocated to Houston following the 2005 season, for the second most league titles behind D.C. United's four.
Houston won MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007, beating New England on penalties at Pizza Hut Park in 2006 and then beating the Revolution again in regulation at RFK Stadium a year later.
A POSSIBLE CLEAN SWEEP: If either the Galaxy or Dynamo win MLS Cup in regulation or in extra time, they will become the first team to win all four of their postseason games since MLS adopted the current playoff format in 2003. The Galaxy swept New York in their Conference Semifinal Series, winning 1-0 on the road and 2-1 at home before beating Real Salt Lake 3-1 in the Western Conference Championship on Sunday. The Dynamo are also a perfect 3-0-0 in the playoffs this season, winning 2-1 on the road against Philadelphia before claiming a 1-0 win over them in the second leg of their Eastern Conference Semifinal Series for a 3-1 win on aggregate. They then beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0 on the road in the Eastern Conference Championship to advance to MLS Cup.
The closest any team has gone to pulling off the complete postseason sweep was the 2005 Galaxy and the 2008 Columbus Crew, who won three of their four playoff games while drawing the other. Every other MLS Cup champion has either lost a game or needed penalties to advance at some point in their run to the championship.
In the first 15 years that it has been contested, MLS Cup has gone to extra time seven times, with two of those going to penalties. The Galaxy were involved in five of those seven games, beating the New England Revolution 1-0 in extra time in both the 2002 and 2005 MLS Cups, losing to D.C. United 3-2 in the inaugural MLS Cup in 1996 and then falling 2-1 to San Jose in extra time of MLS Cup 2001. Last year, the Colorado Rapids beat FC Dallas 2-1 in extra time.
At MLS Cup 2009, the Galaxy and Real Salt Lake were tied 1-1 after 120 minutes of play before RSL emerged victorious 5-4 on penalties. The only other time MLS Cup was decided on penalties was in 2006 when Houston beat New England 4-3 on penalties after being tied 1-1 after 120 minutes of play.
LEAGUE LEADERS: David Beckham and Mike Magee are each tied for the MLS postseason lead in assists and goals respectively heading into next week's MLS Cup. Beckham and Magee have combined for three goals so far in the postseason, with Magee tallying once in each of the three playoff games that the Galaxy have played so far. Magee is tied with Real Salt Lake's Alvaro Saborio for the league lead in postseason goals while his RSL teammate Javier Morales is tied with Beckham for the postseason lead in assists.
Magee, who had two goals in 10 career postseason games heading into this season, is the first Galaxy player to score in three straight playoff games since Landon Donovan did in 2009, scoring in both legs of LA's Western Conference Semifinal Series against Chivas USA and then again in the Western Conference Championship against Houston. If he can score once more in MLS Cup, Magee will become just the second player in club history to score a goal in four consecutive postseason games, joining Carlos Ruiz, who tallied a goal in each of LA's final four playoff games in 2002 and then in both playoff games the club played in 2006 for a league record six-game goal scoring streak.
STINGY SHOT STOPPERS: Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders and his Houston counterpart Tally Hall enter MLS Cup with the two lowest goals against average amongst goalkeepers in the MLS Cup Playoffs this season. Saunders, who had never started a postseason game before this year, has faced 12 shots on goal, making 10 saves and allowing just two goals for a 0.67 goals against average. Saunders, who finished second in MLS with a 0.93 GAA, has allowed one goal in each of the Galaxy's last two games, though he is yet to allow a second half goal so far this postseason.
Tally Hall, who became the Dynamo's first choice goalkeeper this season and started all 34 of their regular season games, has allowed just one goal in three playoff games this season for Houston. Originally drafted by the Galaxy in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft, though he never signed with the club, Hall has not given up a goal in the last 263 minutes of action after being beaten by the first shot he faced in his playoff career, against Philadelphia on October 30. During that streak, Hall has stopped all 18 of the shots on goal that he has faced.
BACK IN MLS CUP: Of the 30 players currently on the Galaxy roster, 13 of them have previously appeared in MLS Cup. Of that group, 12 of them played for the Galaxy in MLS Cup 2009 against Real Salt Lake, while the other, veteran defender Frankie Hejduk, captained the Columbus Crew to their first-ever league championship in 2008, beating the New York Red Bulls 3-1 at The Home Depot Center. Of those 13 players, only Landon Donovan and Todd Dunivant have appeared in MLS Cup on more than one occasion with Dunivant playing in MLS Cup 2005 and 2009, while Donovan played in MLS Cup 2001 and 2003 with the San Jose Earthquakes as well as MLS Cup 2005 and 2009 with the Galaxy. His three goals in MLS Cup, one in 2001 and two in 2003, are the most in MLS history and he is one of just two players, along with former Galaxy teammate Alecko Eskandarian, to have scored multiple goals in an MLS Cup.
In addition to Donovan, Hejduk and Mike Magee have each also scored in MLS Cup, with Hejduk scoring Columbus' third and final goal in MLS Cup 2008 and Magee scoring just before halftime for the Galaxy in MLS Cup 2009.
TEN FOR TEN: Sunday's win over Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference Championship was the Galaxy's 10th postseason game since the 2009 season, which are the most in MLS in that time. Five players; David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez and Mike Magee have each started all 10 of those games with Donovan and Franklin each playing every minute of all 10 games.
That group has combined for 11 goals and nine assists with the rest of the team combining for a total of four goals. Two of those goals came from Edson Buddle, who started all seven postseason games the club played in 2009 and 2010 while the others came from Gregg Berhalter, against Houston in the 2009 Western Conference Championship and Robbie Keane, who scored LA's third goal on Sunday.
In the 10 playoff games that the Galaxy have played since 2009, Landon Donovan and Mike Magee have each scored five goals while Omar Gonzalez has one. David Beckham leads the team with six assists in that time while Donovan has added two and Gonzalez has tallied one.
THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE: The coach of whichever team wins MLS Cup will go down in history as the first coach in league history to win MLS Cup three times. Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena, who became the all-time leader in postseason wins with 21 on Sunday against Salt Lake, won MLS Cup in 1996 and 1997 with D.C. United. His counterpart, Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear, won MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007 with the Dynamo, leading them to a pair of championship wins over the New England Revolution. Kinnear was also an assistant coach with the San Jose Earthquakes when they won MLS Cup in 2001 and 2003.
No other MLS coaches or teams have ever won back-to-back championships as both Arena and Kinnear have.
LOOKING FOR MORE UPDATES?: If you are looking for continuous updates from the Galaxy all week long, be sure to visit the club's official websites www.lagalaxy.com and www.lagalaxyfutbol.com. The Galaxy can also be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/lagalaxy and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lagalaxy.


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Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Humor on a Wednesday in March
You're probably thinking "SLG, but you were never actually funny." And you may be right, but some would disagree. You see, in both junior high and high school I was voted "funniest girl" (I was actually just runner up in high school, if you really want the truth). Seeing as I wasn't winning any beauty or popularity contests, I took this very seriously.
But something has happened. And rather than pontificating about whether or not this is an evolutionary phenomenon in women (getting less funny during motherhood) or just a phase in my life, I will simply say that I am grateful to be surrounded by humorous things. And, more specifically, I am glad that I haven't yet resorted to pictures of small animals in precarious situations as my main source of humor.
For example, today I received an email from a woman named Lone Bitsch-Olsen. She was kindly asking hospital employees to move their fucking cars, which were parked illegally.
(No, I didn't make up that name. I also really like using "fucking" without *'s or #'s or even %'s because that is just how unrefined and untalented I have become).
Then, later this evening, I spent 435 kroner ($81) to fill 10 gallons in our almost 11 gallon Hyundai Getz with gasoline. For those who are less mathematically inclined, that is $8.10 per gallon. This is the lowest gas prices have been in the last week and I went to the cheapest station in town at the cheapest time of the day. Okay, okay, it's not funny, but it did make me laugh out loud.
Then The Lorax.
This is actually not The Lorax, but a boy who bears a strange resemblance to the Lorax (minus the brown eyes) with the haircut I would like The Lorax to get on Friday. Christian (Lorax's real name) saw this picture and said pointedly "That is not Christian. That is a tomato." Needless to say, I think he likes the haircut.
Finally, step daughter showed me this video. I admit it is kind of annoying to post of video instead of actually writing something funny (but if you've been paying attention, I'm not funny anyway) - but this is such a classic example of good Scandinavian humor, that I would be amiss not showing it (there are subtitles).
I think the best part of the above video was going over it moment by moment afterwards with SR, both of us laughing so hard, remembering in some way how we fell in love in the first place. I didn't mean it was a smelly ass that made us fall in love, but come to think of it...
Now, please, brighten my spirits - who are some of your favorite female comedians?
6 comments:
- Emily P said...
Oh wow, what a great post! I love Christian thinking that that kid was a tomato. Also, I laughed at that smelly ass video, but when I showed Sammy, he laughed FOREVER. I couldn't even believe how much he laughed.
As for female comedians, I think Maria Bamford is hilarious in an uncomfortable kind of way.
- 10 March 2011 at 03:15
Love the tomato comment, too. I have a 3 yr old, so I can totally relate to the bizarrely hilarious things that can come out of their brains.
Well, it may be predictable, but I love Tina Fey. I cannot get enough of her on 30 Rock!
- 10 March 2011 at 03:36
- sea legs girl said...
Emily P - oh thanks!! I abosolutely LOVE picturing Sammy laughing FOREVER. You know, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking - why did I post that? (that happens to me after almost every post, sadly) But when I saw your comment (and Grace's, I wasn't so down on myself anymore).
Grace - yes, totally. I have a new appreciation for absurd humor having a 3 year old :). I have heard of Tina Fey - but now I have to admit that I will go look her up so I can be reminded of who she is.-- oh wait, it is coming to me - the woman who played Sarah Palin. Ha, yes! She is great, but I don't see much of her here in DK.
- 10 March 2011 at 12:08
What a hilarious video! Laughed and laughed.
- 10 March 2011 at 16:13
- Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...
To paraphrase this whole "humorous" post:
parasmalljokegraph (<-- i.e., par. w/ small joke embedded)
parenthetagraph (<-- i.e., Parenthetical paragraph)
Admittedly unfunny paragraph
Hahahahaha! Just fucking with you, slg! I knew you'd appreciate the fact that I said "fucking" and not, e.g., "Lone Bitsch".
I did not watch the video for two reasons: 1. I'm at the library and our bandwidth is FUCKED. 2-and-more-important. I just had my yearly prostate exam and the pose that video is paused at brings back PAINFUL MEMORIES!1! Too soon! Too soon!
My prostate's fine, by the way. How's yours?
Funny Females: Tina Fey; Sarah Silverman.
- 10 March 2011 at 18:37
- Diana said...
I know you posted this a while ago now, but I wanted to say that I love, love, love Sarah Haskins. She used to do a bit on Current TV called Target Women. I think you can find most of them on YouTube. I can always use more laughter in my life.
- 24 March 2011 at 14:47


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Décision : CONF 003 XI.39
[Uniquement en anglais] Amendments to the criteria for the inclusion of natural properties in the World Heritage List and guidelines for the evaluation of nominations by IUCN
[Uniquement en anglais]
The Committee considered the complex issues concerning sites occupied by migratory species on a seasonal basis and decided to add to paragraph 11 on integrity in the "Operational Guidelines" a new sub-paragraph (v) as follows:
"In cases of migratory species, integrity will require critical areas necessary for the survival of the species to be included in the nomination. States which are parties to the Convention are requested to seek the co-operation of other States which contain seasonable sites for populations of World Heritage species so as to ensure that these species are protected throughout their full life cycle. Agreements of this nature should be noted in the nomination".
DocumentsRapport des décisions
Organisations (1)
Code de la Décision : CONF 003 XI.39
Thèmes : Inscriptions sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial, Orientations
Année : 1979


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Number of the Week: Why Don't More People Want a Job?
34.3%: Share of Americans over age 16 who say they don't want a job, up from about 30% two decades ago.
Americans aren't just leaving the labor force -- those who have left it are drifting further away.
Economists studying the labor market have traditionally focused on two types of people: those who have jobs (the employed) and those who are trying to find them (the unemployed). Together, those groups make up what is known as the "labor force."
As close observers of the economy already know, the labor force has been shrinking as a share of the population, a trend that began in the early 2000s, accelerated in the recession and has continued during the weak recovery. The so-called "participation rate" -- the share of the population that's working or looking for work -- now stands near a three-decade low.
Such measures, however, treat all those out of the labor force as a single group, lumping together retiring Baby Boomers and stay-at-home moms with laid-off factory workers. The Labor Department publishes estimates of "discouraged workers" -- those who have given up looking because they can't find a job -- but it uses a narrow definition. Someone who decides to take care of the kids rather than keep looking for work might not count as discouraged -- even if the person wants a job and plans to look for one in the future.
But in a new paper, economists Regis Barnichon and Andrew Figura divide up those out of the labor force using a simpler standard: whether or not the person says they want a job. And they uncover an interesting previously unnoticed trend: As a share of all those "not in the labor force," the number of people who want a job has been generally declining since the early 1980s. Three decades ago, more than 10% wanted a job; on the eve of the latest recession, the share dipped below 6%.
Moreover, Messrs. Barnichon and Figura found, the decline in people who want a job wasn't driven by people entering the labor force. It was driven by people switching from wanting a job to not wanting one. Long before the recession, in other words, Americans were drifting away from the labor force.
The recession changed the picture: The surge in layoffs and plunge in hiring left millions of Americans who wanted jobs on the sidelines. But even so, the share of those not in the labor force who wanted jobs peaked at around 7.5%, far below its 1980s level.
What's behind the decline? The obvious answer is the aging of the Baby Boom generation. But while demographics help explain the overall decline in labor-force participation, it doesn't explain the shift within the ranks of the "not in the labor force."
Rather, the decline in those who want a job is concentrated among three groups: Young people, women and the less educated. The decline among young people mirrors a long-term decline in employment rates among young adults, especially teenagers. The reasons for that aren't entirely clear, but may include a rising focus on college attendance, the disappearance of many low-skilled jobs and cultural factors that put less of a premium on working while in school.
The decline among women yields perhaps the authors' most intriguing hypothesis: They note that the trend was strongest in the mid-to-late 1990s, also a period of strong income growth. Among married couples, at least, rising incomes could have made it less attractive -- or less necessary -- for both spouses to work. Indeed, the trend flattened out during the 2000s, a period of much weaker income growth.
Whatever the reason, the shift has significant implications for the labor market in both the short and long term.
People who want a job are, unsurprisingly, much more likely to enter the workforce than people who don't. And when they do enter the labor force, they do so differently. People who want a job tend to enter the labor force as "unemployed" -- they are people who already wanted a job and at some point decided to start looking for one. People who don't want a job have to be tempted to take one, meaning they tend to enter the labor force as "employed" -- imagine, for example, a stay-at-home parent who gets an unsolicited job offer and decides to take it.
The long-run decline in the share of people who want a job, then, means there's less movement in and out of the labor market than there was in the past, and especially less movement from "not in the labor force" to "unemployed." That means that today's unemployment rate is lower than it would have been under the same economic conditions two decades ago, which means the unemployment rate could be giving policymakers an artificially rosy view of the labor market.
"It's one more argument saying that unemployment is not necessarily a very good measure of the state of the labor market," Mr. Barnichon says.
The trend identified by Messrs. Barnichon and Figura also has long-term implications for economic growth. Right now, with unemployment high and hiring weak, whether people want a job or not doesn't make much difference --there aren't many jobs for them anyway. But when hiring picks up, people who want a job will be far more likely to rejoin the labor market. Those who don't want job, though, might not return, even in a strong job market. That could mean slower growth in the decades ahead.


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RAAM's 1000-mile race
Race Across America is introducing a 1000-mile race in 2008. Basically it is the first 1000 miles of the RAAM course, ending in Taos, NM. According to their press release, 'The 1000-mile event fills the void between the traditional 500 mile races and the full challenge of RAAM.' I can sleep better knowing that void is finally filled.
Looking for motivation to race a 1000 miles? Check out Danny Chew's website. According to Steevo, who does PR work for Danny on the side, he rode his 1,000,000 kilometer this week.


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Sure, Patriots owner Robert Kraft took the inspirational, everything's-gonna-be-a'ight approach to talking about the looming bloodsport between billionaire owners and millionaire players in today's Boston Globe...
"I want to assure our fans and everyone else that I'm doing everything within my power to try to help to see if there isn't a way we can't have labor peace before the season ends,'' Kraft said. "In my mind, it's possible and actually something that should happen.
"Knowing what I know now - and I'm privileged to see a lot of what's going on - there's a wonderful opportunity for everyone associated with the NFL to grow together.
But that don't do a damn thing for the fact that there's one good game to watch in this post-Thanksgiving early batch (Green Bay at Atlanta), a bucket-list-themed novelty (Favre at McNabb) and four other game unworthy of much attention, does it?
So, here are a video of turtles getting their freak on. You're welcome.


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA — The Kiwanis Club of Rancho Cucamonga will hold its third annual "Cruisin' For Kids Car Show" on May 18 at the JCPenney furniture outlet store, 8443 Haven Ave. The hours are from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
A variety of vehicles will be featured at the car show and participants may register their cars up to and including, the day of the show. The show will also feature numerous vendors and offer raffle prizes as well as an opportunity drawing.
The Kiwanis Club of Rancho Cucamonga supports youth programs in Rancho Cucamonga, including scholarships, Shoes that Fit, Ronald McDonald House, Key Clubs at Etiwanda High School, Rancho Cucamonga High School, Los Osos High School, Upland Christian Academy (located in Rancho Cucamonga) and the Aktion Club.
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Register for AILA's National Day of Action (NDA) on April 11, 2019, to meet with members of Congress and share how the administration's immigration policy changes are harming American families, businesses, and communities.Register Now
AILA Doc. No. 13062166 | Dated June 21, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
|George Tzamaras
|Belle Woods
WASHINGTON, DC -The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) today acknowledged the tremendous step forward in the Senate on the part of negotiators who arrived at a difficult political compromise on immigration reform. However, some of the details of that compromise can potentially damage, rather than improve, the immigration system.
The amendment would add more than 40 billion dollars in new border security spending, including a near-doubling of border security agents, new drones, hundreds of miles of fencing, and have a tremendous impact on the quality of life for our fellow citizens in the border cities. But a startling and little-publicized requirement of the amendment would be that all "mandatory enforcement expenditures under the Act" would be funded not by appropriated funds but by additional fees charged to those petitioning through the regular, legal immigration process. Depending upon what would be considered "mandatory" and "enforcement" expenditures, the result could be an increase in filing fees in the thousands of dollars per petition, putting the legal immigration system out of financial reach for families and for small businesses seeking to hire needed foreign-born talent.
"AILA is concerned that the amended bill includes wasteful and needless spending on border security and enforcement. Frankly, I've been fascinated by the number of legislators concerned about spending overall who are now in favor of throwing billions of new dollars at the border, despite not knowing if the increased funding will really solve anything. " said Laura Lichter, AILA President.
She continued, "Let's be realistic. This border "surge" that the amendment's coauthor Senator Corker himself called 'almost overkill' isn't intended to protect against attacks, but is instead going to be spent making our country into 'Fortress America.' I recognize that these changes may be politically expedient, but needed votes shouldn't come at the cost of putting legal immigration out of the financial reach of families and small business. You can't fix a broken system by making it off limits to the very people who are supposed to use it," Ms. Lichter concluded.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 13062166.
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Furbearer running season lasts through Nov. 1; firearms may not be possessed
PRATT — On March 1, the great race begins. That's the opening day of Kansas furbearer running season, which gives hound enthusiasts the opportunity to chase — but not take — bobcat, opossum, raccoon, red fox, and gray fox. The season runs through Nov. 1.
Although beaver trapping season runs through March 31, all other Kansas trapping seasons and furbearer hunting seasons are over for the winter. Now it's time for furbearer hunters and their dogs to keep in shape hone skills necessary during the furbearer hunting seasons.
During the running season, no furbearer may be legally killed or taken. In addition, it is illegal for runners to possess any firearm or other weapon while pursuing furbearers during the running season. (Certain exceptions apply.) Legal hours for running furbearers are 24 hours daily, and a furharvester license is required. Furbearers may also be run during the open furbearer hunting seasons, which coincide with trapping seasons.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism also reminds furbearer trappers and hunters that bobcats and swift foxes must have been pelt-tagged within seven days of season's end, which was Feb. 15. Tags should be kept with mounted specimens.


text: The boxes were cut using the Silhouette. The leaves and sentiment are part of JustRite's Autumn Words set. They were inked in various fall colors. The leaves of the pumpkin were cut from old sheet music and generously glittered. A stem and some rustic twine finished it off. TFL! http://chelemom.blogspot.com/2012/11...iving-eve.html


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The Sundance Film Festival now includes an annual ping-pong tournament "to keep the cool kids warm in the snow." But some cool kids/celebrities would rather play the game than watch, as these pics prove. Let's read their minds together!
"The saleslady at Lululemon said this fur coat would enhance my mobility, but I'm not so sure about that right now."—Aubrey O'Day
"Jesus Christ Aubrey, get out of the way already. It's my turn to shine. My turn."—Lindsay Rielly
"OMG I am having so much fun right now! This is way easier than being on Celebrity Apprentice." — Lil' Jon
I don't have a boyfriend, but I've definitely got you, you stupid plastic ball. Wow, look at how fucking calm I am." — Susan Sarandon
"Let's go, let's go! I want to get out of her soon. Jonesing for a turkey burger."—John Salley
"Maybe if we play a couple dozen more games, I can wear her down and get her to talk about what's really going on with Jonathan Bricklin." — Maria Menounos
"I wonder if Jon will trade outfits with me. Should I ask? Hmmm."—Sarandon, eying Lil' Jon's sporty outfit


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They won't write citations, lead hikes or carry guns, but Glendale's new volunteer trail watch guards will almost certainly be dealing with difficult people.
On Saturday, the roughly 20-person team got a lesson in "verbal judo," as Glendale Police Officer Larry Ballesteros called it.
Ballesteros took on the roles of obnoxious people — like a 24-year-old thrill-seeking mountain biker "with 4 ounces of body fat" — and tested the volunteers.
Will Campbell, a freelance editor from Silver Lake, tried to persuade Ballesteros' biker persona to slow down. But he kept coming at him with attitude. He had a pretend $15,000 bike. He showed Campbell scars from death-defying feats.
"I ain't afraid of that trail," Ballesteros said, folding his arms.
"Well, other people may be afraid of you," Campbell replied in a parental tone.
Ballesteros' response: "Old people need to get out of the way."
About 5,000 acres of parkland and open space in Glendale were left unattended by permanent staff after the city laid off its park naturalists due to budget cuts more than a year ago.
That's where volunteers like Campbell come in. He and 19 other like-minded people have been getting trained by Ballesteros and other law enforcement officials ahead of them entering the field next month.
The volunteers, officially known as the Trail Safety Patrol, won't be doing everything the naturalists once did — such as leading campfires and interpretive hikes — but they will be there to report on trail conditions, assist in emergencies and advise parkgoers on which trails to use.
Sometimes, though, those parkgoers will want to take young children in flip-flops up a difficult trail, ride a mountain bike too fast or walk their dogs without a leash. It will be the volunteers' jobs to convince them to change their minds and stay safe.
"Our guys are there to educate," said Marc Stirdivant, a senior administrative analyst with the city.
If "verbal judo" — or persuading people to do the right thing — doesn't work, and the situation escalates, volunteers are supposed to walk away and call police.
By watching the trails, the volunteers — who hail from Glendale, Los Angeles, Duarte and other areas — will become experts on how to get around in the city's hills, a tool that may come in handy during rescues, said Glendale Fire Battalion Chief Ron Gulli.
"You're going to be our subject matter experts on how to get [around] there and we're going to use you," Gulli said.
The volunteers will go out on the trails in Deukmejian Park, San Rafael Hills and Brand Park by foot and bike during daylight hours. After the first group has spent a couple months out in the field, city officials expect to recruit another batch of volunteers. The goal is to reach about 50 volunteers.
"It's past due," said volunteer Bob Thompson of Montrose.
The retired postmaster has been hiking with the Sierra Club for years, and he's excited to share his love of the outdoors with others visiting the local mountains.
Glendale's trails have had it rough in recent years — from the 2009 Station fire, which scorched the hillsides, to the end of the naturalists program.
Although an official presence on the trails is limited now, the volunteer program can change that, he said.
"It'll work," Thompson said. "This is just the beginning."
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Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake
It was my brother's birthday last week. My mother is in New York on her annual vacation from us, so we decided to have a quiet dinner out on Sunday evening. Just me, my bro A, his girlfriend B, and C.
I know what you're thinking. It was fine when it was just C, but A, B, and C? No, I'm not making it up.
So, back to the birthday dinner and my awesome brother who celebrated it. He and I are quite close, as far as siblings of opposite gender with five years between them go. In the beginning, I (and he) admit, it may have been for lack of choice. You see, it's just the two of us. But after much hair-pulling and face-smacking and blood-drawing (ok, that was only once, and he bit me!), we realized that in a family of four, neither of us would get anywhere with only 25% of the vote. Together, with a 50% share, we had more power preamp. We could watch each other's back and, even as the junior generation, lobby enough to sometimes change the unwavering tides of parental decree.
It may have seemed strange at times – my Barbies and his Transformers*** co-existing in the same city built of Styrofoam (he used the Styrofoam from old toy boxes). Obviously these games were pretty much silent because Barbie and the Autobots did not have much to say to each other…although they did eat the same birdseed/hamster food.
From these incongruent beginnings though, we discovered strong and fundamental similarities that bound us: the love of books and reading; intense discussions about everything from government, to God, to utopia, to, um, gas; a passion for food and eating; valour in the face of grossness; fondness for things weird and unexplained; an obsession with the way we smell; a predisposition to be unskinny; the conviction that sleep is indeed an important "activity". And a love for chocolate cake.
As I mentioned here, my brother is one of my favourite people to cook/bake for. His appetite, coupled with his eloquence, make him the perfect envoy of food-related compliments. His favourite baked-by-me chocolate cake, so far, is this one from Chocolate & Zucchini. I have to say it's my favourite as well – I love this pretty much flourless approach to chocolate cake. This cake by Nigella, though quite different, quickly won our palates.
Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake
(from How To Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson )
225 grams soft unsalted butter
375 grams dark muscovado sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
100 grams dark chocolate (the best you can get), melted
200 grams plain flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
250 ml boiling water
- Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until color lightens (it'll go from dark to light brown). Add eggs and vanilla, beating in until incorporated custom clothing labels.
- Fold in the melted (and slightly cooled) chocolate. Blend well until just combined but do not overbeat.
- Gently add the flour (to which you've added the baking soda), alternately, spoon by spoon, with the boiling water, until you have a smooth and fairly liquid batter.
- Pour into a 23x13x7 cm loaf tin that has been greased and lined. The lining is important because this is a very damp cake. I used a slightly smaller loaf tin and got two cupcakes extra
- Place filled loaf tin on a baking tray into a 190C oven and bake for 30 minutes. Turn the oven down to 170C and bake for 15-20 minutes more. An inserted cake tester won't come out completely clean as the cake will still be a tad "squidgy" inside.
- Place the loaf tin on a rack and wait until it gets completely cool before turning out.
As the name suggests, this cake was moist and dense with a very tight crumb. It also had a surprisingly intense chocolate flavour. That being said, the cake was incredibly soft and light. Puzzling but delicious. On the whole, a cake better eaten than explained.
I used the darkest muscovado sugar I had. As I only have experience with our local muscovado (which is different from our local brown sugar), I have no idea if it's any different from the muscovado Nigella uses across the pond. Ours is more like powder than crystals, deeply brown, with an earthy molasses-like taste. Is it the same for you? I now realize that in different editions of her book it actually says dark brown sugar. So which should actually be used I wonder? In any case, it worked brilliantly on this cake so I'll continue to use our local muscovado when I make this in the future.
The loaf pan I used was a bit smaller than what was indicated in the recipe so I got the two extra cupcakes out of it. Not a bad thing that
On a personal note, this must be the softest cake I have ever made. And that is saying something as I am sadly heavy-handed with cake batter (no matter how much I envision myself to have elegance and finesse). Really, I was so amazed at how soft the tight-knit crumb was that I kept poking it gently with my finger, as one would a new feather pillow Student Exchange Programme offers students Exchange Opportunities to study and experience different cultures at over 240 partner institutions across 37 countries and regions.. No matter what, for now, I will be in Nigella's debt for that.
And to my brother: I wish you all the happiness you deserve…which is to say an awfully indecent amount! And more chocolate cake of course
***Although my brother never developed any sympathies for Barbie, I did kinda fall in love with the Transformers. Yes, I watched the movie. And I'm not ashamed to admit I cried the first time Optimus spoke.


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As "green" technology becomes mainstream, RV industry experts report a growing number of consumers showing interest in RVs that are smaller, lighter and more fuel efficient. For those consumers who don't have the extra cash to shell-out for a new, eco-friendly coach, ShadePro Inc. will be unveiling two new products that will make "going green" while on the road a bit more user-friendly and affordable at the July 2009 Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) International Convention in Bowling Green, Ohio, according to a news release.
The convention, July 20-23, will serve as a platform for ShadePro not only to present its new products to thousands in attendance, but also enable the RV awning and shade company to promote the environmental and money saving benefits of becoming an energy efficient RVer. ShadePro will have six service teams at the convention offering installations and rally pricing to all attendees.
"What many RV owners don't realize is that there are plenty of inexpensive ways to go green," said Steve Smoot, ShadePro president. "One simple item all RVers can do to improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint is to install shade products on their RV. This not only helps limit air conditioning use during the hot summer months, but also reduces the fuel consumption by running the generator."
The Vista Shade is an inside mounted windshield cover for Class A motorhomes that blocks approximately 94% of the sun's hot rays and saves energy in three do-it-yourself steps. Since the Vista Shade is a DIY product, the owner has the ability cut and create the shape of the shade they need and apply a small adhesive track to the glass. Once the track is installed, the Vista Shade simply slides in.
ShadePro is also re-introducing its line of awning shades with new features at the convention. The RV awning shade drop is now available in 6-, 7- and 8-foot heights to accommodate tall motorhomes or customers that prefer longer shades to block out the wind, sun and other elements.
By keeping the sun's rays out and the inside of the coach cool, RV owners can afford to be eco-friendly without breaking the bank.
To learn more about ShadePro, Inc. and their RV awning and RV shade products, visit www.ShadePro.net.
To learn more about the FMCA's 82nd International Convention in Bowling Green, Ohio or to register, visit www.FMCA.com.


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In Gloucestershire, England, Jade Packer recently gave birth to a baby boy who weighs 15lb 7oz. It was a vaginal delivery, and because the boy was so big, his shoulders got stuck on the way out, and he was oxygen deprived for ten minutes. Miraculously, he made it out okay and six weeks later, he's at home with his loving parents.
Interestingly, both of the parents were average-sized babies, and even though he was 15 days late, apparently the doctors still didn't expect he'd be so big. Perhaps this is ignorant, but isn't there a way for hospitals to know how big a baby's gonna be? At least a ballpark figure? Bigger than a breadbox, etc.? Should the birth have been scheduled as a c-section? Seriously, how does this work?
Understandably, Packer says she's been "put off" having any more babies for awhile. No shit.


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An Erie legend is getting his own coin.
Oliver Hazard Perry, the commodore who led a historic victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, will be featured on a quarter manufactured by the United States Mint.
The coin, scheduled to be released April 1, is part of the America the Beautiful Quarters series.
In April 2010, the Mint issued the first of 56 coins in the series, which features designs depicting national parks and other national sites.
The first quarter featured Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.
The 56th and final coin in the series, depicting the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama, is scheduled for release in 2021.
The Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial coin is the second quarter in the America the Beautiful series to be released this year. A quarter featuring White Mountain National Forest, which is located in both Maine and New Hampshire, was issued Jan. 28.
The Perry coin honors the historic site in Ohio, a memorial established to honor those who fought in the Battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813, near Put-in-Bay. The battle is considered one of the most significant naval fights to occur during the War of 1812.
The coin's release is timely for the Perry 200 Commemoration, which has scheduled many events throughout the Erie region marking the bicentennial celebration.
The Perry 200 Grand Patriotic Parade will be held in Erie on May 25. The Tall Ships Erie Festival runs Sept. 5 to 8.
"It's marvelous that they issued the coin," said Joyce Savocchio, the former Erie mayor who's a chairwoman of Perry 200. "It really heightens what we're doing here and brings more attention to Perry, this war and the building of his fleet here in Erie. This is known as the forgotten war. This quarter will help generate new interest in it."
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial is a 25-acre spot in Put-in-Bay first established as a national site on March 3, 1919.
The memorial, a Doric column rising 352 feet over Lake Erie, is five miles from the longest undefended border in the world, according to the U.S. Mint. The memorial annually draws 200,000 visitors. The Perry quarter's design depicts the commodore with the Peace Memorial located in the distance.
When asked if organizers plan to buy some of the Perry quarters to use as change for vendors at Perry 200 events, Savocchio said "it's a possibility."
"We will look into it," she added. "We're not sure if Put-in-Bay will do something like that. We're very sensitive not to offend the folks in Put-in-Bay."
Savocchio said Perry 200 officials have discussed producing a Perry coin of their own.
Other coins scheduled to be issued this year by the Mint in the America the Beautiful series will feature Great Basin National Park in Nevada (to be released June 10), Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Maryland (Aug. 26), and Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota (Nov. 4).


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Zomarc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
telstaff (NOT telestaff)
We are a specialist recruitment and training company working mainly in the UK in the telecommunications industry. We work with a full spectrum of clients from the large multi-national mobile providers through to small technical specialist. We offer a full range of recruitment services and will also be offering a new range of training and support services to ensure the successful deployment of new staff.
We are rebranding our offering due to expanded services. The website at the current domain is a temporary place holder.
We are a professional outfit targeting recruitment and training services at SME and large multinational firms. Are clients are usually senior executives in the HR departments of these firms.
We also aim to attract candidates for placement in jobs. We cover a wide spectrum of roles from junior retail sales thru to senior executives and technical IT roles.
The logo will be used on the company website and on all printed materials.
Note that the existing website is temporary while we rebrand.
We are looking for a new logo for the company. We want to allow the designers to be as creative as possible so the requirements are relatively free.
It MUST:
1. Display the name telstaff, Telstaff or TelStaff.
2. Look professional.
3. Have clean lines.
4. Work in monochrome but have at least a two colour version.
5. Have variations for both light and dark backgrounds.
6. The colours should be easy to change. The logo will be used in many different colour schemes.
It MAY:
1. ** removed **
2. Be text only but at least a graphic embellishment to the text is more likely to win.
3. Have a tagline 'Recruitment and Training' on the logo (but a small version without would be required).
4. Have a variation using gradients
5. The logo may portray the following key concepts; quality candidates, efficient service, personal service
IMPORTANT: Please do not get too focussed on the telecommunications element of the company. The logo does NOT have to be industry specific. A geometric design is as likely to be selected as an industry related design.
We do NOT want
1. Any cartoons, clipart or photographic images
2. Overly complex design
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