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The apartment is warm and there are shoes scattered in the hall when we walk in, making it harder to maneuver the big stroller inside. He sets his bag down, takes his boots off, and goes into the restroom. I swiftly remove my things so that our boy, now droopy again, doesn't become restless in his layers, still strapped inside the stroller. I strip him down to his diaper and onesie and let him go into the warm, dry, radiator-heated air of the living room before closing the safety gate behind him. He walks towards the scattered toys on his play mat, and picks up a small, stuffed pig attached to a cow by a ring. They both jingle against each other, but he is too tired to exert any enthusiasm. His father enters and sits on the chair squeezed between the playpen and the round wooden table. The table holds up and corners the lamp of mosaic glass dragonflies, but the broken stem still limps toward the table. His slacks are ironed and rested against the crossed legs that hang off his body, slouching off the rigid dark wooden chair. His short Afro has been growing out since he shaved off his locks. I notice how the new look brings out the slant of his quiet eyes. The framing, rough beard contrasts the dark smooth skin that blankets the face that rarely changes expression. Our tumbling boy walks towards him and raises his two hands up. I go into the kitchen to grab the wine glasses and give them some time. I find less than half of a bottle left in the fridge, and fill two glasses up. After placing the glasses and bottle on the table, I move to the bedroom to change out of my clothes. As I throw the layers of wrinkled and worn skirt, socks, and stockings onto the pile of clothes in the closet, I think about what to change into. The satin slip would be too obvious, and I might be wrong about this feeling. I throw on a white tank top and think about just doing the lace panties I have on, but I'm not that comfortable, yet. I spot the grey drawstring sweats and throw them on.
Our son's little fingers are grabbing at his father's bottom talking lip, and he tickles his hand out of his face and toward his tummy. He mentions that he copped some decent bud from someone in Brooklyn. I take a gulp of the cold wine and become more certain about this feeling. Some conversation takes place about his unstable living situation, the progress of his film, and his diet devolving. His eyes move between my eyes and his glass of wine. I try hard to keep a focused gaze, but I look away because I don't want him to tap into the deep pool of love and rage that I'm doing a good job at taming. Our little boy tries to pick up selected toys to show to his father, usually to no avail. He surrenders and throws his hands up at me instead. I pick him up and offer him my breast, and he takes it. I try to keep track of the conversation and wonder if I should bring us up. Certain that he didn't come to have that talk, I go with the flow, lacking the courage to shake the distance between us that safeguards us against each other. He asks how teaching is going, and I tell him it's been difficult. Not much about why comes out, but the weight of carrying the world's burden sneaks into the forefront of my mind. I take another gulp of wine, and slowly bring my tank top down between my breast and our son's open, breathing mouth. I walk him to his crib in the bedroom, and slowly find my way through the stroller and shoe filled hallway and into the now smoky living room. He passes me the spliff. I inhale once, twice, and pass it back. I let go, trying not to cough, but a small one lets out. I wait for something. I close my eyes and the escape only lasts a few moments. I prefer the wine, take another gulp and pour some more into both glasses. My body almost fits into the cold chair with my knees wrapped around my chest. The conversation this time becomes an obvious mask to the screaming, crying, and loving that has taken place between us over the past two and a half years in that living room. I look at the man in front of me that so nonchalantly carries his own traumatic memories, as he does his joyous ones, as if they were all the same clear jellybeans in an unopened jar. I know the habit doesn't do him any good, but I don't know how aware he is of my knowing. The conversation slows and I get up to brush my teeth and wash my face. As I walk into the dark bedroom of our sleeping son, looking for my towel, he shouts from the living room, asking me if I have some sheets for the couch. I tell him I do. I think about how this would play out, with his ego in the way. I wouldn't be embarrassed if he refuses my legs wrapped around him on that chair. In fact, I half want his rejection so that things could be clearer and I'd have less about this night to lament later on.
I'm not thinking about later on when he responds instead with his face buried between my shoulders saying, "I miss you too." His kisses are soft and tainted with his sadness, or mine. I can't tell the difference. We move onto the couch in the darkness, trying not to step on the noise making toys. We call each other's names, and each time I hear mine, my open wounds bleed into my heart. The tears stream onto the outsides of my eyes and into my hair, my ears, and I whisper to him, "you have no idea." He answers back, "I do." We make love to the past, as if offering a last toast to our three years, from the flowering honeymoon phase that was full of hope to the bitter end of our persistence. The pain mixes with pleasure and the wine is in me to ease the guilt and shame. Our wet bodies cling onto each other, and I remember the few times he had held me this way after making love. Usually we would lay face up on our bed, looking at our thoughts as if they hung from the ceiling. We fall asleep in the musky air of sweet smoke and funk.
The sound of a crying baby jerks me awake and I rush into the bedroom. I pick him up and he throws himself sideways against the length of my arms and I offer him a breast. He walks into the bedroom, completing the family. He spreads himself onto our old bed of red sateen sheets, and looks out the window that stands by his old side of the bed. I wonder if he is always honest when I ask him what he is thinking. I wonder why he never asks me what I'm thinking when that same shadow comes upon my face. I dig into some of my pain and decide to tell a half-truth, and ask a question about how he faced his mother's death in his early twenties. My mother's undiagnosed leg and back pain had been stirring fear with the endless loss that continues to empty out the corners of my mind. I miss knowing I could share the terror of losing my own mother, with him. A different, softer silence came onto his face as he talked about his anger at the doctors, his mother being unconscious, the feeling of hopelessness, and the nights he spent in the hospital by her bedside. His eyes were locked into an empty space in the dark air that carried that part of his memory. His ego was down. This space is his empty canvas, the backdrop of his everyday thoughts and interaction with others, his point of reference. When he would visit my mother's house, he would spend the majority of the time in his sketchbook, playing a game on his phone, or perusing the books at the independent bookstore down the street. My mother would read this as impoliteness. I tell him that I never judged his silence. He looks out of his memory and into my face. His eyes seem to have brought with him the sorrow from that past, and his lips are molded into a slight frown at the corners as they give a solemn and sad man's "thank you."
I'm curious of the space I had just walked into. I try tucking in pieces of me, but more comes spilling out than I intended. Our separation had wrecked me. The ceaseless grading, the constant fighting, the intoxicated students, struggling with death, pain, and grief of their own, had steeped me further beneath my own anguish. I stop myself from mentally reliving a work day and think about overcoming this. I mention it'd be nice to do yoga again on a regular basis. With concern in his voice, he mentions the importance of exercise for health and stress relief. I ask what days he has off from school, what hours his classes end. With his eyes tracking the pieces of furniture in the room, he gives me some mishmash of hours, days, and semester breakups that wouldn't make it possible for him to relieve my mom from being the second parent. His ego is back up, and I mentally rub on the still open, and now salted wounds. I assume position looking at the hanging thoughts on the ceiling as he walks into the bathroom to brush his teeth.


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Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Sofía Vergara, Eric Stonestreet, Ray Romano, Felicity Huffman, Max Greenfield, Stacy Keibler, Maura Tierney, Rocco DiSpirito, Ethan Zohn and Olympic gold medalists Gabrielle Douglas and Missy Franklin will participate in "Stand Up To Cancer's" landmark event on Friday, Sept. 7 (8 p.m.). They join celebrities from film, television, music and sports in a nationally televised broadcast that will fund groundbreaking translational research that delivers new therapies to cancer patients quickly and save lives.
Executive-produced by Gwyneth Paltrow and Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions in collaboration with "SU2C's" production team, the 2012 "Stand Up To Cancer" broadcast will feature previously announced stars Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jessica Biel, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Seth Rogen and Emma Stone who will join Paltrow and SU2C co-founder Katie Couric. Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw will deliver moving, one-of-a-kind performances alongside inspiring patient stories. Actors and personalities including Simon Baker, Jordana Brewster, Diem Brown, Dana Delany, Chelsea Handler, Marg Helgenberger, Minka Kelly, Joe Manganiello, Jillian Michaels, Masi Oka, Ana Maria Polo and Alison Sweeney will also take part in the broadcast.
ABC,CBS,FOX and NBC will donate one hour of simultaneous commercial-free primetime for the nationally televised fundraising special on Friday, Sept. 7, to be broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. BIO, E!, ENCORE, HBO, HBO Latino, ION Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Logo, MLB Network, mun2, Palladia, SHOWTIME, Smithsonian Channel, STARZ, STYLE, TBS and VH1have also committed to carry the "Stand Up To Cancer"telecast. The program will include a celebrity phone/multi-media bank that will allow viewers to interact with participating talent. Viewers will also be able to donate via text-to-give and at standup2cancer.org. One hundred percent of all public donations will go directly to cancer research.
The first two "SU2C" telecasts took place on Sept. 5, 2008, and Sept. 10, 2010. To date, more than $180 million has been pledged for "SU2C's" innovative cancer research. Since 2008, "SU2C" has made grants to seven multi-disciplinary "Dream Teams" of researchers as well as to 26 young innovative scientists who are undertaking high-risk, potentially high-reward projects to end the reign of cancer as a leading cause of death in the world today. Eighty-five institutions are currently involved.
About 'Stand Up To Cancer'
"Stand Up To Cancer," a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation - a 501(c)3 charitable organization - raises funds to hasten the pace of groundbreaking translational research that can get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives. In the fall of 2007, a group of women whose lives have all been affected by cancer in profound ways began working together to marshal the resources of the media and entertainment industries in the fight against this disease.
"SU2C" was founded on the belief that this is a pivotal juncture with the potential for transformative progress in cancer research because of two trends: breakthroughs made in our understanding of the basic science of cancer, and technological advances that enable us to translate them into new treatments. Today's cancer researchers need additional funding to fulfill the promise of life-saving discoveries, and "Stand Up To Cancer" engages the public to support their work.

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Fine line between legitimate businesses, pyramid schemes
Controversy is again casting a shadow over the multilevel marketing industry, as nutritional supplement company Herbalife Inc. has been publicly called a pyramid scheme by a prominent investor, an allegation the company denies.
Meanwhile, a different multilevel marketer, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, was shut down in recent weeks after a lawsuit was brought by regulators and several states alleging the company scammed consumers out of $169 million.
The scheme affected an estimated 100,000 Americans, and some Spanish-speaking consumers were targeted, the Federal Trade Commission alleged.
Most people outside the industry might have only a vague notion about multilevel marketing, also called network marketing and direct selling. It often involves personal sales of cosmetics, wellness products or home decor items - or as critics flippantly call it, "pills, potions and lotions" - usually sold through product parties hosted by friends or relatives.
For sellers, the companies offer the appeal of starting a business on the cheap with little training, working from home and being their own boss, if only for part-time money. Some might recruit friends and family to become sellers, which augments their own commissions and gives them a shot at the six-figure compensation many such marketing companies tout but few distributors attain.
The largest multilevel marketing companies, often known as MLMs, are household names: Avon, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef and Amway. MLMs have annual sales of about $30 billion, with about 16 million people in the United States selling their products, according to the industry group Direct Selling Association, which represents these firms and others.
The recent controversies might raise the question: What's the difference between a legitimate multilevel marketing company and an illegal pyramid scheme, in which only people who get in first - at the top of the pyramid-like structure - make money and everyone else is duped?
The harshest critics maintain there is no difference, that there's no such thing as a legitimate MLM and that the industry's secrets stay safe because of a cultlike mentality and a blind eye of regulators.
Jon M. Taylor, who was once a seller for an MLM company, said he has studied the industry for 18 years and analyzed more than 500 MLM companies. He maintains the website MLM-thetruth.com and offers a free e-book there.
"I have not yet found a good MLM - a good MLM is an oxymoron," Taylor said.
He said all MLM companies have the same flaw: They depend on endless chains of recruiting new members. "There is no more unfair and deceptive practice than multilevel marketing," Taylor said.
The Direct Selling Association says MLMs are legitimate businesses, and that the group has about 200 members carefully screened by the organization to ensure they are not pyramid schemes and don't use deceptive practices.
The Federal Trade Commission agrees there are legitimate MLMs. The difference between a legitimate business and pyramid scheme comes down to products.
If the company and its distributors make money primarily from the sale of products to end-users (and not boxes of product accumulating in a distributor's garage), it's OK.
By contrast, a pyramid scheme compensates those at the top of the pyramid with participation fees paid by those recruited at the bottom. It eventually collapses when the scheme can't recruit more people.
But identifying a pyramid scheme can be difficult because MLMs typically have product sales, along with recruitment fees and recruitment incentives.
"It gets cloudy when you have a situation where you have fees being paid for both," said Monica Vaca, assistant director of the FTC's division of marketing practices. "It's very nuanced."
While prosecuting an MLM can seem somewhat of a judgment call, cases have a common factor: deceptive promises about how much money distributors will earn, Vaca said.
Pyramid scheme?
Los Angeles-based Herbalife, a 32-year-old seller of weight-loss shakes and wellness products, became news in December when Bill Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, made a $1 billion bet against Herbalife by shorting the stock. He has repeatedly called the company a pyramid scheme and gave a lengthy and public explanation of why.
Ackman's Dec. 20 presentation is available at FactsAboutHerbalife.com while Herbalife's Jan. 10 response is available at its website for investors, htttp://ir.herbalife.com.
In an interview, Herbalife President Des Walsh said the company is not a pyramid scheme because it sells "real products to real people" and doesn't directly pay for recruiting new distributors. He points to the company being in existence for three decades, operating in 88 countries and continuing to grow. "That growth has been based on more customers consuming our products every single day around the world," he said.
He said Ackman is "seeking to disseminate false and misleading information" about Herbalife to lower the stock price and profit from his bet against the company.
Pablo Caicedo, 38, of Chicago, said he started using Herbalife products, lost 35 pounds and felt like he had more energy. He learned he could get a discount on the products he used by becoming an Herbalife distributor, which he did. He began selling to friends as well. After three months, he was making enough money to quit his job as a parking valet, he said. And for 14 years since, he's sold Herbalife products.
However successful Caicedo is financially with Herbalife, others aren't nearly so.
In fact, 88 percent of Herbalife distributors earned no commissions in 2012, according to company numbers.
Why do so few make money? Herbalife says it's because 73 percent of its sales force only join as distributors to get a wholesale discount on products that they use themselves. For those people, paying the $59 or $109 to become Herbalife distributors, depending on the starter kit, is like paying a fee to join a Costco warehouse club to get better prices, Walsh said. The product discount for those distributors is 25 percent.
But even the vast majority of those who are sales "leaders" at Herbalife, the top 20 percent of sellers, don't earn enough to live. Last year, more than half of the 82,464 sales leaders earned $1,000 or less in commissions for the whole year, according to Herbalife.
Walsh said that's because most of them make Herbalife a part-time business, viewing profits as incremental income, perhaps to pay for a family vacation.
But like all MLMs, the very top sales people can profit handsomely. Of those who achieved the sales status of "leader," 0.7 percent make six-figure dollar amounts in commissions. And 194 distributors, 0.2 percent of leaders, had average gross payments from Herbalife of $724,030.
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Ganga (Ganges)Sunrise at the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Creative Commons licence
Ganga (Ganges)
© Richard IJzermans
The Hindu holy river
The Ganges is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through the plains of northern India into Bangladesh.
The 2,510 km long river begins at the Gangotri Glacier in the Indian state of Uttaranchal in the central Himalayas and drains into the Bay of Bengal through its vast delta in the Sunderbans. It is held sacred by Hindus and is worshipped in its personified form as the goddess Ganga.
The Ganga and its tributaries drain a large and fertile basin with an area of about one million square kilometres that supports one of the world's highest density human populations. Only two rivers, the Amazon and Congo have a higher discharge than the combined flow of the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Surma-Meghna river system.
The Ganges Basin with its fertile soil is instrumental to the agricultural economies of India and Bangladesh. The Ganges and its tributaries provide a year round source of irrigation to a large area. Chief crops cultivated in the area include rice, sugarcane, lentils, oil seeds, potatoes, and wheat.
Fishing also provides opportunities to many along the river, though the river remains highly polluted. Tourism is another related activity. Three towns, holy to Hinduism – Haridwar, Allahabad, and Varanasi attract thousands of pilgrims to its waters.
Current threats
The Ganges collects large amounts of human pollutants as it flows through highly populous areas. These populous areas, and other people down stream, are then exposed to these potentially hazardous accumulations. While proposals have been made for remediating this condition so far no great progress has been achieved.
The major polluting industries on the Ganges are the leather industries, especially near Kanpur, which use large amounts of chromium and other chemicals, and much of it finds its way into the meagre flow of the Ganga.
However, industry is not the only source of pollution. The sheer volume of waste — estimated at nearly 1 billion litres per day, of mostly untreated raw sewage — is a significant factor. Also, inadequate cremation procedures contributes to a large number of partially burnt or unburnt corpses floating down the Ganga, in addition to livestock corpses.
India, Bangladesh
Basin population
around 200 million people
1,016,124 km2
2,507 km
Key species
Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
Livelihood facts
Related links
- Wikipedia contributors. "Ganges". 5 Jul. 2007. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges (18 Jun. 2007).


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NORFOLK — Chris Finwood views Old Dominion's baseball season as confirming his suspicions rather than proving anyone wrong.
The Monarchs were picked to finish 10th in their first season in Conference USA, but presently sit fourth with their league schedule complete, heading into a nonconference, three-game home series versus Long Island on Friday and Saturday at the Bud Metheny Complex.
ODU clinched a spot in next week's conference tournament and possesses a gaudy Ratings Percentage Index number that should have the Monarchs in the NCAA tournament discussion.
"If you're picked 10th and finish fourth," Finwood said, "I think that means you overachieved in everybody's eyes. We thought we had a pretty good club, but going into a new league, you never know how you stack up."
Pretty well. ODU (31-21, 17-13 C-USA) won six of 10 league series and won at least one game against every conference opponent, including the top two teams: nationally ranked Rice and Alabama Birmingham.
The Monarchs defeated No. 1-ranked Virginia, the highlight of a nonconference schedule that included games against Liberty, Kentucky, Georgia Tech and VCU. ODU's strength of schedule was rated fourth in the nation by the NCAA earlier this week and figures to conclude in the top 10.
"I tell our guys every day," Finwood said, "and I probably have said this ad nauseum: When we play good, we win, against anybody. When we don't play good, we get beat. Plain and simple. That's where we're at. We can't go out there and not play well and win. But when we do play well, we're talented enough that we can beat anybody."
ODU's formula is quality fielding, timely hitting and decent pitching, led by an experienced, workhorse bullpen. The Monarchs are 14th nationally in fielding percentage (.977). They lead Conference USA in runs, hits, runs batted in, doubles and total bases. They're third in team batting (.286), second in on-base percentage (.369) and fourth in slugging percentage (.382).
"We've done everything that we need to do," junior outfielder Josh Eldridge said. "We haven't done anything great, but we haven't been bad at anything, either. We're fielding the ball well … and we get big hits when we need them. Look at our stats and there's nothing eye-popping, nobody with a lot of home runs or anything like that, but we just do what we need to do and we do a good job of coming together as a team."
ODU hasn't lost more than two consecutive games all season.
"In college baseball, that's pretty phenomenal," Finwood said. "I've had great teams that had three- or four-game losing streaks. Guys get hurt or things don't go your way. It shows we've been pretty consistent."
ODU's offense began to click when Finwood inserted Nick Walker into the leadoff slot midway through the season. The freshman from Virginia Beach is ODU's leading hitter (.329), has scored a team-high 40 runs and has an on-base percentage over .400.
Eldridge surged in the past six weeks to raise his average to .303. Since April 2, he's hitting .364, and in his last 10 games, he's a torrid .473 (18-for-38).
"It just took me a while this year to really get it going," Eldridge said. "I knew at some point I was going to get it going. It's just keeping that comfort and realizing it's just one at-bat. If I make an out, it's not the end of the world, or if I swing at a bad pitch, it's not the end of the world. I can't overthink something. I just have to go one at-bat at a time, and taking that approach has really helped me out, mentally and statistically so far."
The Monarchs are eighth in C-USA in team earned-run average (3.54), and Finwood said that the starting pitching has been average at best. But the bullpen has performed exceptionally. Middle reliever Conner Overton has a team-best 2.62 ERA in 24 appearances. Senior Dean Ali from Chesapeake is often the setup man for senior closer Brad Gero, who has 10 saves in his 31 appearances.
Overall pitching depth allowed ODU's coaching staff to move Ali from starter to the bullpen, where he is more effective, throwing fewer innings more frequently.
"Coach told me all the time, it's not a demotion," said Ali, whose 53 strikeouts in 46 1/3 innings are second only to starter Ryan Yarbrough. "He knows I want the best for the team, and it would put me in position to pitch a couple times a week instead of just once."
Finwood combs the rankings and various RPI numbers, particularly with the Monarchs on the bubble for talk about the 64-team NCAA tournament. ODU was 30th on Warren Nolan's site, No. 28 on the NCAA site before Tuesday's loss at VMI.
He explains some of the numbers and possibilities and history to his players periodically, but doesn't want them to dwell on it. They know the stakes, but are more jazzed about the opportunity to play for a conference title, particularly since they were prohibited from doing so last spring on their way out the Colonial Athletic Association door.
"It's hard to keep it off in the distance, knowing that we have such a tough schedule and we're still doing so well," Eldridge said of NCAA talk. "The bottom line is we can come to the ballpark and beat anybody any day if we play our game. That's the biggest thing. RPI, none of that matters. If we come out and play the way we know how, we can beat anybody. If we don't, we can lose to anybody. We just try to play our brand of baseball and let everything else take care of itself."
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Scott McIntosh needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 179 designs submitted by 48 freelance designers.
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Musik Pitch is a new website trying to fill a niche in the music business. We are a unique team and are serious in our music business knowledge.
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We need a great logo to use in all our branding. The website will have a white, clean, "Apple" look so the logo should fit well on this type of site.
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The COMPARE.FILES command compares the content of two files, optionally reporting differences.
The PROC.IF.NO.CASE setting of the OPTION command makes the IF test in a Proc case insensitive.
The QMBasic debugger can now expand non-printing characters when displaying string variables. This is controlled by the "^" command in the same way as its equivalent in the ED editor.
The default value of the SORTMEM configuration parameter has been increased to 4096 (4Mb) for improved performance. This change affects new QM installations only. The parameter may be modified on existing installations by editing the qmconfig file.
The installer and the CREATE.ACCOUNT and UPDATE.ACCOUNT commands now look for an optional NEWVOC.MODS file and, if found, copy its content to the VOC file of the account being updated. This allows creation of a site specific set of items that should be in the VOC of all accounts.
The SET.QUEUE command now has an option to delete a form queue definition.
Use of terminal type MSVT in a Windows QMConsole session enables use of the Microsoft Virtual Terminal control codes on versions of Windows that support this feature.
The data encryption operations now support an additional set of algorithms that use a random initialisation vector instead of a fixed value. This is available via three new algorithm names when setting file or record level encryption and by a new QMBasic QMEncryptx() function which also has equivalents in the QMClient API.
There is a significant improvement in performance when using the query processor to produce reports with a very large number of values in a field.
The QMBasic @BUILD.TIME constant returns the date/time epoch value at which the program in which it appears was compiled.
The QMBasic CONVERT() function normally adopts the argument order used by Information style products. The PICK.CONVERT setting of the $MODE compiler directive can be used to select the argument order used by Pick style products.
The QMBasic GETLOCKS() function returns information about file and record locks.
The QMBasic MATSTR() function provides a simple way to convert a two dimensional matrix to a dynamic array. The QMBasic REGEX() function matches a string against a regular expression. This function is currently not available on Windows.
A new command line option, -status, has been introduced to show the QM version, start time and current process counts.
The QMClient encryption functions now have wide character (Unicode) versions.
The locking system now records the time at which a record or file lock was acquired as an aid to debugging locking issues. The time is included in the LIST.READU report if the DETAIL option is used and also appears in process dump files or deadlock diagnostics.
The optional replacement character in an MCP conversion code can be enclosed in single or double quotes. Empty quotes cause non-printing characters to be removed without replacement.
The I-type compiler now supports a subset of the options to the $MODE QMBasic compiler directive.
Overwriting an existing local catalogue pointer in the VOC now queries for confirmation if the pathname of the object code is different.
The Hot Spot Monitor (HSM) now reports i/o counters (open, read, write, delete).
A new @-variable, @PSTAT, has been added. This can be used to set diagnostic information that will be displayed by the PSTAT command.
The USER, GROUP and MODE keywords have been added to CREATE.ACCOUNT, CREATE.FILE and CONFIGURE.FILE to allow setting of ownership and access permissions on Linux/Unix systems.
The SAVE.LIST, GET.LIST and DELETE.LIST commands now all support an alternative file name.
The SHOW command has a new keyword, SORT.SUP to suppress the default @ID sort.
The WRITE.DELETE.THEN.ELSE setting of the $MODE compiler directive has been extended to include the MATWRITE and MATWRITEU statements.
The SETPTR and SET.QUEUE commands now accept the AT clause in mode 5 to identify the printer to be used on the client PC. This is applicable only to AccuTerm when using a terminal type with the -at suffix.
The FL$LOCKS key to the QMBasic FILEINFO() function returns a list of the locks in the file owned by the calling process. Attempting to enter the debugger in a phantom process raises exception SYS.PROGRAM.NO_PDEBUG if no interactive process is waiting in the PDEBUG command.
The QMClient API now includes QMSystem() to return the value of a SYSTEM() function on the server and QMTrans()/QMRTrans() to perform the equivalent QMBasic TRANS() and RTRANS() operations.
Setting the DEADLOCK configuration parameter to 2 extends the action of mode 1 to save the state of the lock tables as an aid to diagnosis.
This release adds multi-tenancy support for Windows installations.
The ADD.DF command has been extended to add an option that causes the part file pathnames to be stored in relative form.
The DISABLE.PUBLISHING command now also disables account replication.
The NO.MSG option to the PHANTOM command suppresses display of phantom start and termination messages in the parent process.
It is now possible to execute a class module using RUN or a catalogue reference. The class must include a public subroutine named MAIN.
A new option, CREATING, has been added to the QMBasic OPENSEQ statement to force immediate creation of the file if it does not already exist.
The External Call Interface has been extended to allow multiple function libraries.
The IF command in a paragraph now has an option to perform case insensitive relational comparisons.
A B option has been added to commands within the SHOW utility to move to the bottom of the available items.
An ECS quaifier has been added to the QMBasic OPENTEMP statement to create the file in ECS mode.
A PARAMS property as been added to the !CALLHTTP.CLS class module to provide an alternative way to pass URI parameters in a GET request.
This release introduces minimal support of character maps into the non-ECS version of QM. This allows developers to adapt the default map to give better support for the accented characters found in European languages without needing to use the ECS version.
The CREATE.FILE command now checks for an optional $ENCR VOC record to control automatic application of encryption to hashed files.
The ENCRYPT.FILE command has been extended to provide a simple way to apply encryption to many files in a single operation.
The QMBasic EREPLACE() and FIX() functions have been added for improved compatibiltiy with other multivalue products.
The QMBasic OPTION() function has been extended to allow setting/clearing of an otion.
A QMClient session can now use the AUTOLOGOUT command to terminate the session after a period of inactivity.
This release introduces a pure Java version of the QMClient API, removing the need for the Java Native Interface which required different versions for each supported platform. The old JNI versions will continue to be supported for at least one year.
The COPY command has been extended to allow record ids to be forced to either upper or lower case when copying items from a directory file on a case insensitive file system to a case sensitive file.
When using the CREATE.FILE command to create an element of a multi-file, the INHERIT.MFILE.PATH mode of the OPTION command can be used to make the default location of the new subfile the same as the default subfile.
The RPL.STATUS command can be used to display a summary of the replication system status.
The SED editor now has a SCROLL1 option to control scrolling from page to page.
The SED editor can take a sequence of edit commands from the data queue.
The SELECT.DIR command can be used to build a select list containing the names of files or subdirectories in a specified directory.
The TERM command now supports setting the default printer page dimensions.
For improved compatibilty with other multivalue products, the query processor COL.HDR.SPACE keyword inserts a blank line under the column headings in a tabular report.
The OPEN.FAIL.ZERO.FVAR setting of the $MODE compiler directive causes a failed open to set the file variable to zero instead of unassigned.
The QMBasic SADD(), SCMP(), SDIV(), SMUL() and SSUB() functions have been extended to support non-integer values.
The QMBasic XPARSE() function transforms XML data into a QM data collection.
This release is mainly to correct an issue described in section 5 but also includes the following enhancements.
The DECRYPT.FILE command can be used to cancel encryption for a file or specific fields.
The OSCOPY command and corresponding !OSCOPY() subroutine have been extended to allow appending to an existing file.
The QMBasic ELEMENT.EXISTS() function can be used to determine whether a named element is present in a data collection.
The compiler no longer reports an error if a subroutine argument passed as a matrix is not dimensioned.
The QMSAVE tool (see http://www.openqm.com/cgi/lbscgi.exe?T0=h&t1=kb.00011) has been modified to add verification of the file and record counts.
This release introduces the ability to log every command executed on the system together with its origin. This may be useful for diagnostic purposes but has been added primarily to meet audit rules applicable to some applications.
The DIR.SEL.OMIT.HIDDEN mode of the OPTION command causes select operations against directory files to omit hidden items.
The ED, MODIFY and SED editors now all support automatic sequential record id generation.
The SCAN command provides a simpler and more logical semantics for the DISPLAY mode of the SEARCH command.
The AS clause of the SETPTR command has been extended to allow use of an alternative hold file name.
The SHOW.LIST command displays an active numbered select list, allowing the user to remove items from the list using keystrokes based on those of the SHOW command.
The SP.VIEW command has been extended to allow hold file items to be deleted.
Two new QMBasic functions, BOOL() and NUMERIC() have been added as an efficient way to transform data to Boolean or numeric form. The STR() function with the second set to one or omitted provides the most efficient way to force a value to be stored as a string.
The QMBasic FCONTROL() function has a new mode, FC$CRLF, to allow a program to override the default operating system dependent selection of directory file line terminator.
The QMBasic JBUILD() function has been modified to encode any mark characters in a JSON string element as hex Unicode values. The effect of this is that a JSON string can always be stored as an element of a dynamic array such as a database record.
The QMBasic MATBUILD and MATWRITE statements have been enhanced to return the last used matrix element index via the INMAT() function in a manner similar to MATPARSE and MATREAD.
The QMBasic SET.ESC.MAP.NAME() function can be used to change the ECS character map within an application program.
The sort system now allows data or keys over 32k characters.
The QMClient API has been extended to allow use in multi-threaded applications on all platforms (previously Windows only).
This release introduces the Python wrapper for the QMClient API. See the qmclient.py item in the SYSCOM file for details.
A new tool catalogued as *FIXDIR has been added to provide a simple way to correct the line terminator in a directory file item that has been moved between Windows and Linux in binary mode.
For improved compatibility with other products, if field 3 of a VOC Q-pointer is null, QM now assumes VOC by default.
The CREATE.DICT.NO.CASE mode of the OPTION command can be used to make CREATE.FILE create dictionaries with case insensitive ids. The NO.CASE option of the CREATE.FILE command has also been extended to allow selection of case insensitivity for the data and/or dictionary portions of the file.
The SEARCH command has been extended to add a DISPLAY option that shows each line that contains any of the search strings. When this option is used, a select list is only created if the TO option is also used.
The query processor SORTED.SAMPLE keyword is similar to the SAMPLE keyword but is applied after sorting.
A new QMBasic $MODE setting, EXECUTE.CLEARLIST, has been added to improve compatibility with other products regarding how the default select list is handled by the EXECUTE statement.
As an aid to debugging programs, the QMBasic PDUMP statement creates a process dump file of the process in which it is executed.
The QMBasic OPENTEMP statement has been extended to create the file in the QM temporary directory if the pathname is omitted or is a null string.
The QMClient API now supports sequential file processing.
The QMClient API QMTxn() function can now commit non-durable transactions.
The WEBSVC command and !CALLHTTP class module can be used to implement simple web services.
This release extends the data encryption features of QM to allow encryption of records in directory files and encryption of indices on hashed files that use record level encryption. Also, encryption keys can be password protected.
The I-type compiler now allows references to dictionary items with hyphens in their names.
The CREATE.INDEX and MAKE.INDEX commands have a DELETING option to delete any previously existing index of the same name as the one being created.
The DELETE.COMMON command has been extended to allow deletion of all except a given list of common blocks.
The IF IN construct in a paragraph now has a NO.CASE option for case insensitivity.
The LISTU command now marks phantom processes that are grouped with their parent.
The COMMAND.LEVEL.LOCKS mode of the OPTION command associates record and file locks with the command processor level at which they were acquired, releasing locks automatically on return to the command processor at that level.
The QUERY.FOOTER.PAUSE mode of the OPTION command causes a query processor report with a footer to pause for user input. This gives greater compatibility with other multivalue systems.
QMBasic expressions can use the ~= operator to force a case insensitive string comparison.
The QMBasic OPENTEMP statement creates and opens a temporary file that will be deleted automatically when it is closed. The FILEINFO() function FL$TEMP key allows an application to detect whether an open file is temporary.
The QMBasic OSPATH() function with key value 20 (OS$INFO) returns a dynamic array of file information similar to that returned by the STATUS statement.
Key value 1073 (SYS$GROUPED.CHILDREN) to the SYSTEM() function is similar to key value 1058 (SYS$CHILDREN) but includes only phantom processes that are grouped to terminate with their parent.
The IPADDR configuration parameter can be used to make QM listen for incoming telnet or QMClient sessions on a specific IP address. This may be useful in situations where multiple separate instances of QM run on the same server.
The QUERY.SORT.NO.CASE mode of the OPTION command makes all sorts within the query processor case insensitive.
The ADMIN.USER command now allows selection of whether a forced account name should be applied to phantom processes.
The CREATE.FILE command now has a MULTIFILE option which causes it to create the data portion of the file as a multifile even if no subfile name is given.
The LIST.INTER, LIST,UNION, LIST.DIFF and MERGE.LIST commands have been modified to give a significant performance improvement when merging large lists.
The TANDEM command can be used by administrative users to monitor another QM session. Because this could be a serious security risk, it must be enabled in the QM configuration parameters.
The query processor COUNT and SELECT commands now support a REPORTING option to display progress information when using a selection clause.
The PARTIAL.EXPRESSIONS setting of the $MODE compiler directive modifies the way in which logical expressions are evaluated such that remaining elements of the expression are not evaluated if they cannot change the result. Without this option, an expression is always fully evaluated.
The PICK.READNEXT setting of the $MODE compiler directive causes the READNEXT statement to leave the record id variable unchanged when taking the ELSE clause.
All variants of the QMBasic LOCATE statement now support an option to force case sensitivity/insensitivity.
The QMBasic MERGELIST() function can be used to merge two field mark delimited sorted lists.
Use of SYSTEM(1071) after a successful OSREAD operation returns a dynamic array of file information similar to that returned by the STATUS statement.
Logging in a telnet or QMClient session on Windows now supports domain\username as an alternative to username@domain.
The initial state of terminal input case inversion can now be set using the INVCASE configuration parameter.
The CREATE.ACCOUNT command now has a NO.CASE option to create the VOC as a case insensitive file.
The GET.LIST and SAVE.LIST commands use a default name if no list name is given.
The LIST.PRINTERS command can be used to show a list of all printers known to the underlying operating system (currently Windows only).
The CLEAR.SELECT mode of the OPTION command causes the default select list (list 0) to be cleared on return to the command processor except when the list was created by a command or program whose role is to create a list for processing by subsequent commands.
The NUMERIC.EXPONENT mode of the OPTION command enables acceptance of exponent form numeric constants (123.45E-1). This applies whenever QM converts a character string to a numeric value.
The $QUERY.DEFAULTS record has been extended to allow specification of the format code to be applied to the automatically inserted @ID column if there is no dictionary entry.
The $BASIC.OPTIONS record now supports turning off compiler modes. This is useful if a shortcut name is used that sets many modes but some are not wanted.
Include records to be inserted automatically into all programs can now be specified in the $BASIC.OPTIONS record.
The QMBasic INPUTNULL and INPUTTRAP statements have been added.
The QMClient API QMIConv() and QMOConv() functions now have multivalued equivalents, QMIConvs() and QMOConvs().
The QMClient API QMIndices() function can be used to retrieve information about alternate key indices.
This release introduces connection pooling for QMClient sessions to improve performance of applications such as web servers that create many short life QMClient sessions. This is currently available only on Windows.
The user authentication mechanisms have been enhanced such that a Linux "user mode" installation of QM on which the qmlnxd daemon is running as root will now apply operating system level validation to the user name and password, running the QM process as this user name if login is successful. For systems with qmlnxd running as a non-root user, validation is performed using QM's own user register if security is enabled.
The automatic save and restore of the command stack when the $COMMAND.STACK X-type VOC record is present no longer treats a QMConsole session on Windows as a special case. The command stack is now stored in the stacks subdirectory of the account in which the user entered QM regardless of process origin. On ECS mode systems, the stack is saved in UTF-8 encoding. The GET.STACK and SAVE.STACK commands have been extended to allow an alternative file name to be specified.
When using a CALL correlative, the @ACALL.FNO variable contains the field number from the A/S-type dictionary item.
The DO.REMOTE command can be used to execute a command on a remote QM server.
The MAP command now has an option to list locally catalogued programs.
The CATALOGUE.LOCAL setting of the OPTION command causes the CATALOGUE and DELETE.CATALOGUE commands to default to using the local catalogue. Both commands have been extended to allow the mode to be explicitly specified as PRIVATE to override this default.
A USER option has been added to the WHO command to display the user name.
The QMBasic compiler now includes the ability to specify in the $BASIC.OPTIONS record a list of files that will be searched for include records.
All QMBasic statements that produce numbered select lists now have equivalents that produce Pick style select list variables.
The QMBasic FILEINFO(FL$OWNER) and OSPATH(OS$OWNER) functions can be used to find the owner of a file on Windows.
A new shared mode for files opened with OPENSEQ allows multiple QM processes to append data to the same file as might be required, for example, in an audit trail log.
The OS$FULLPATHX key to the QMBasic OSPATH() function acts like OS$FULLPATH but preserves the casing of file names on case insensitive file systems.
A new SYSTEM() function key, 1065, has been added to return information from the transaction cache. This can be used to obtain diagnostic information when tracking down faults in transactional applications.
The QMBasic TRY/CATCH construct has been extended to allow optional creation of a call stack trace when an exception is thrown.


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Classic Entertainment and Sports presents "Closing Statment" this Thursday, October 18 at the Twin River Event Center.
The event is headlined by Joseph Perez of East Hartford, Conn. vs. Chazz McDowell of Hartford, Conn. in a battle for the vacant New England Junior Lightweight Title. Also on the ticket are local fighters Joe Gardner, Alex Amparo, Rich Gingras and more. Warwick Fighter Benny Costantino was originally scheduled to fight, but was forced to withdraw due to a broken hand. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $125 for VIP, $75 or $40. Tickets can be purchased at CESboxing.com.


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It took a mere month for new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to hear the Internet's plea. Shortly after she was announced as the new head of the beleaguered Web company, users quickly begged her to pay a little attention to the increasingly ignored yet beloved Flickr. The "Dear Marissa Mayer, please make Flickr awesome again" plea was heard around the Internet, and it turns out… she listened.
According to Web scion Robert Scoble's reports, she's doubled the size of the Flickr team within the past week. While the team has continued to build for Flickr with new tools and features, there's no arguing that the Web app missed the first wave of mobile – and missed in a big way. This turned out to be a rather massive oversight, and compounded with Yahoo's general mismanagement of the Flickr staff, there has been an understandable amount of concern about Flickr's future.
But Mayer is reportedly focused on products — taking a note from Google's strategy over to her new job – and it appears that Flickr has again become a priority. So how does Yahoo pull Flickr back from the brink?
The obvious answer here is mobile. The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr but it's a one-sided relationship. It's time for Flickr to relaunch its iOS app and then some. The current version has a measly 2.5 stars, and two comments posted two days ago complain about login issues, calling it "lame and frustrating." The nicest thing I can say about the app is that it provides basic Flickr utility, but users want something much more compelling.
Fortunately, the tide might be turning as Yahoo reinvests in one of its tentpoles.
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According to the club, promoters overlooked a key element of the layout of the newly reopened 17,000-seat Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, once home to the U.S. Open and host to concerts by legends like The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
When fans left for a bathroom break, some were turned away when they tried to reenter the general admission section.
According to WSTC president Roland Meier, unmarked seating was ultimately at fault for the shortage space.
"I don't believe that this was oversold, but the fact is going forward this cannot happen again," Meier said.
Front Gate Ticket, the show's ticketing company, has responded to the error by saying they would refund any ticket holder that was turned away, according to reports.
Club members also posted on neighborhood blogs that there were some issues with WSTC members gaining access to the clubhouse during the show.
Meier said they allowed Mumford and Sons to use the club prior to the show to play a couple of games of tennis and swim in the pool. Meanwhile, the 800 club members who purchased specially designated tickets were upset when they found they were shut out of their facility.
Meier said the facility couldn't hold all 800 members at once, even if the club wasn't being used by the band.
"If we're talking about all these kinks and these irregularities, I look forward to working toward the next event," Meier said. "You should make mistakes, because no one is perfect. You're really stupid if you make the same mistake twice and we're not going to do that."
Club member Christine Schott said that while there were some issues at the highly anticipated return of concerts at the tennis stadium, she was pleased with the way the neighborhood handled everything.
"I'm just so happy because it shows all the naysayers who told us the parking would be such an issue," Schott said. "It shows that 17,000 people came safety into the neighborhood and parking was not an issue."
By the end of the night, after the crowd began clearing from the stadium, Dan Olson, a nearby resident, said he ventured to the Gardens from Austin Street to check out the scene.
"I was really impressed with the control and the access to the stadium," Olson recalled. "As far as I could tell, everybody was herded around in a way that had minimal impact on the Forest Hills Gardens community."
Meier said the stadium will be ready for more shows next summer. In an effort to reach out to the surrounding Forest Hills Gardens community, Meier added that he worked out a deal with the promoters.
"If you live around here, your chances of getting tickets will be quite high," Meier said.


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Selling your business is one of those things you can't do alone.
You need help preparing your sale offering, marketing your business, producing financial and other documents that buyers require, and completing the legal papers that protect you, your business, and your buyer after the final handshake.
Here's a glance at the sale process and where advisors fit in:
Business Broker
Every business sale involves a team, though the team players vary depending on the nature and complexity of your sale and your personal ability and willingness to devote significant personal energy and time to the effort.
Here are the steps to follow as you decide who to involve.
Step-By-Step Actions:
Step 1. Decide who you want on your business-sale team.
Some business owners handle the process of selling their businesses with assistance only from their attorneys and accountants, who are the two key players on every business team. Others require assistance from appraisers, business brokers, and business consultants.
The following questions help guide your decisions.
An appraiser or valuation expert?
Your business involves intellectual property, proprietary processes, brand awareness or other assets that are difficult to value and price
Your selling price could be significantly higher if you implemented major business improvements beyond the expertise of you and your management team
A broker?
Your likely buyers are difficult to target and reach; you don't have time to run your business while trying to sell it; you're not the best person to market, present and negotiate the sale of your business.
Step 2. Determine whether or not and how to hire a business broker.
If you decide to market your business on your own, your offering is considered "for sale by owner" or FSBO (fizbo), which is an increasingly popular sale route given the tremendous marketing exposure offered through business-for-sale websites.
Even if you can go it alone, however, it doesn't mean you won't benefit greatly from the involvement of an intermediary who can help you market to and screen buyers, present your business offering, and guide the negotiation and closing process.
Among the good reasons to hire assistance, consider that professional intermediaries provide the following benefits:
- They allow you to run your business while it is being marketed for sale.
- They can be a good buffer between you and the buyer.
- They can handle the flow of documentation.
- They have done it before and have likely dealt with most challenges that can arise.
When hiring an intermediary, be aware that businesses worth more than several million dollars usually seek mergers and acquisitions (M&A) specialists, and smaller businesses work with business brokers.
Use the following form to record answers from broker interviews:
Questions to Ask Brokers
Performance Record
Web Presence
Marketing Plan
Contractual Arrangements
Step 3. Contact business appraisers or valuation specialists if your business is difficult to price.
Business appraisers differ from real estate appraisers in a number of ways.
If you're seeking advice on the value of the real property of your business, turn to a real estate appraiser. For help valuing your entire business, you'll want to seek advice from a business appraiser, and preferably one with a professional designation from a reputable and recognized trade association. Look for an appraiser with one of the following credentials:
- CBA/Certified Business Appraiser
- ASA Accredited Senior Appraiser
- CPA/ABV Certified Public Accountant Accredited in Business Valuation
- CVA Certified Valuation Analyst
- CBV Chartered Business Valuator
Search online and seek industry advice for qualified appraisers in your business field, or ask your attorney or accountant, who may be able to refer you to trusted, experienced appraisers in your industry or market area.
Step 4. Remember, confidentiality is key during the sales process.
Customers, competitors, employees and creditors all will have different reactions if they learn that your business is for sale. Even buyer prospects often react negatively to a business opportunity that has not been kept confidential.
Even before dealing with buyers, remember to obtain confidentiality agreements when dealing with sale advisors and other confidants. Otherwise you risk disturbing the confidence of your staff, suppliers or customers, which is the last thing you want when you're working to keep your business strong for a potential sale.
In next week's installment of "Selling Your Small Business" we'll help you with the all important task of pricing your business.
Editor's Note: This article is the eighth piece in a series taken from BizBuySell.com's Guide to Selling Your Small Business. The guide is a comprehensive manual to help small business owners maximize their success when the day to sell arrives. Each Wednesday, Inc.com will publish a new section of the guide outlining BizBuySell.com's best practices, from the initial planning stages of a sale all the way through negotiations and post-sale transition.


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Police have urged parents to be more vigilant after a five-year-old girl fractured her skull in a fall from a window at her family's home in Forster on the NSW mid north coast.
Police said the girl was playing on the window's sill with her six-year-old sister when she fell through the window screen onto a concrete slab about six metres below about 8.30pm (AEDT) on Monday.
Ambulance officers took her to Manning Base Hospital in Taree with a fractured skull, fractured ribs and bleeding on the brain.
She was later transferred to Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital, where she is reported to be in a stable condition.
The girl's fall has prompted police to urge anyone caring for children to be vigilant when children are near open windows or in high-rise accommodation.
Police said parents should ensure windows were secure, could not be opened more than 10cm by children or have a securely fitted window guard.
They said window fly-screens were not "child-proof", parents should not place furniture in front of windows, windows should be locked and closed if a child was left without adult supervision.


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Economist: Mortgage Rates Still a Bargain
Barry Bosworth, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says mortgage rates are still a bargain although the Fed is right to worry about the recent increase in borrowing costs. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Saints Take Game One of Series
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Bulldogs have to win the next game to keep their ECAC Tournament Title hopes alive. Greg Carey's second goal of the game 16:28 into overtime gave St. Lawrence a 4-3 victory over No. 3 Yale in game one of the conference quarterfinal series. The two teams square off again Saturday at 7 p.m.
Yale (23-6-1) outshot St. Lawrence 34-29 and scored three times on five power-play chances. Jimmy Martin scored twice and Denny Kearney also hit the net as Yale came from behind with three straight tallies and enjoyed a two-goal lead for most of the second period.
The Saints (13-20-5) chipped away enough at the lead to have their own string of three straight goals while riding a 31-save performance by Matt Weninger. The freshman goalie made 11 of those saves in the overtime and gave Yale its first home loss of the year.
Ryan Rondeau stopped 25 shots for the Elis, including five in the extra session.
"I don't feel like we were the worse team out there tonight. We created some good chances," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "We have to have real short memories and get ready for tomorrow night."
The Blue looked a little like a team that hadn't played in a few weeks very early on for about a minute, and it really cost them. A bad bounce caught Rondeau by surprise just 53 seconds in to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. Pat Raley, looking for his first collegiate goal, was just dumping it in when his spinning toss bounced five-hole. Aaron Bogosian stole the puck in his end to start the Saints in the other direction.
Yale, which didn't freak out over the bad bounce, jumped all over its first advantage of the night to even things. Thirty-seven ticks into the special teams endeavor, Broc Little made a great move to gather the puck, spin and put a tough shot on net. Weninger kicked it aside, but Kearney was in the right spot, between the crease and right circle, to bang it into the open right side at 3:10 for his 14th of the season.
The go-ahead tally for the Bulldogs came on a beautiful, tic-tac-toe play on their second power play. Little sent a pass from the point on the left low to Kearney, who re-directed across to Martin, cruising in from the right side. The one-time re-direction was so perfect, the Yale captain may have enjoyed the easiest tally of his career.
The Elis made it 3-for-3 on the power play 3:58 into the middle frame to go up 3-1. Little was parked in the corner with the puck looking over the options. He decided to thread the needle, seeing his captain ready to fire in the slot. Little put the puck within reach of three different SLU sticks that never touched it. The puck settled on his teammate's stick. Martin's rising wrister sailed over Weninger's right shoulder and gave the senior his first collegiate multiple-goal game.
The rest of the second was highlighted by Yale's near misses and Rondeau's great saves at the other end. The Yale goalie snatched a Bogosian shot out of the air from close range on a mini-breakaway midway through and then came up with another quality glove save on a penalty-kill that almost turned into another Yale goal. Brian O'Neill had a near breakaway, while Little went the distance before having his shot stopped by the Saints' netminder.
Weninger, who had eight saves in the second, made a few nifty pad stops to keep SLU within reach. Those would prove to be significant as his squad charged back.
Bogosian came close a couple of times before bringing his team to within one goal 6:27 into the third period. The senior winger took a feed along the blueline and skated in and fired a shot that was blocked by the Yale defense. He smacked the rebound back toward the net and it went five-hole on Rondeau for his 14h of the year.
The Saints evened the score at 3-3 with a man-advantage and just 6:13 left in regulation. Carey, a freshman and last week's ECAC Rookie of the Week, saved the puck at the Yale blueline, fanned on his initial shot and got it back after a teammate tried to haul it in. Carey (22nd goal) ended up with the puck on his stick at the top of the left circle and launched a snap shot over Rondeau's shoulder.
Yale had its chance to take the contest in the extra session. Andrew Miller stole the puck at center ice and went in a step ahead of a defender, who took a penalty before the sophomore got off a shot that hit the cross bar. He and his mates got two shots on Weninger during the power play, but the penalty kill won out and it turned into the momentum SLU needed to notch the upset.
The winning rush for the Saints looked innocuous enough coming over the Yale blueline until the defense fell to one side and left a winger uncovered.
Kyle Flanagan had the puck on the right side and both defensemen went to his side, leaving Carey open to receive the puck. The rookie forward took the pass on his forehand and took a few strides toward the left post before slipping it past Rondeau.
"It was a 2-on-2 that turned into a 2-on-1. Our defense over-reacted to the puck carrier and left a guy wide open in front of the net," said Allain, who felt like the game was actually lost at a different point. "The game was lost in the second period when we had a number of opportunities to make the lead bigger and couldn't."
The Yale goalie explained what he saw. "They made a nice pass and he [Carey] tucked it inside the post. It went above my glove," said Rondeau. "It was a good play by him."
"I don't think we played a bad game," said Martin, whose team is hoping to have a Sunday finale at Ingalls. "St. Lawrence is a good team that skates well and buried its chances. We have to learn from it and focus on tomorrow night."
BULLDOG BITES: The Elis didn't have an OT game until the 28th contest this year. They have had two in the last three outings… Yale's last OT playoff games came on consecutive nights at home in a pair of wins against RPI in 2008… With Yale students on spring break, tonight's game was not a sellout, though the Whale seemed close to capacity. That ended the sellout streak at 12 games… This was the 13th ECAC Playoff meeting between Yale and SLU and the eighth time the schools played in a quarterfinal game... Yale was the only Division I team undefeated at home going into the game.
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Apple-Cranberry Bellini Mocktail
This month's Kosher Connection theme is (are?) drinks. I have a low tolerance for alcohol (my limit is around zero), so I usually drink ginger ale. Unless a cosmopolitan is available.
True story: at our wedding a million years ago, theHubby "plied" me all evening with doubles ... of ginger ale garnished with lime wedges.
Since the combination resembled a boozy substance, several people actually pulled him aside in an attempt to slow down my "drinking."
I recently discovered the Bellini. This cocktail was invented 70-80 years or so ago in Venice, Italy. Named after the famous Italian painter Giovanni Bellini (an early Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who left the band before they became famous), the cocktail was made from fresh peaches and Prosecco (an Italian sparkling wine). The Bellini was an instant hit. While the original is still popular, nowadays it is also made with other fruits and sparking wines and liquors.
Getting back to Cosmos a second -- two of the ingredients are cranberry juice and lime juice. Which might be why I like this teetotaler version.
Apple-Cranberry Bellini - Easy
Yield: 4 servings
1 (25-ish oz.) bottle sparkling apple-cranberry juice
juice of 1 lime (approx. 4 teaspoons juice)
fresh cranberries, for garnish
1 thinly sliced lime cut into quarters, for garnish
Divide apple-cranberry juice among 4 champagne flutes. Top each with about 1 teaspoon of lime juice.
Garnish with a few cranberries and lime quarters, if desired. Serve immediately.


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Piano technique lesson. Covers how to play Hanon's Keyboard exercises to improve dexterity and sight reading. Filmed in 2001. Dan Lefler, Danman's Music School. To print the lesson notes for this video and 1000's more piano lessons go to Danmans.com (file: 1253)
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Forest industry remains committed to Boreal Forest Agreement
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Dec. 6, 2012 11:15 AM
OTTAWA, Dec. 6, 2012 /CNW/ - Member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) remain committed to the promises made to Canadians, rural communities, the environment and the marketplace under the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) and will continue to work hard with environmental partners on its implementation.
Greenpeace has announced it has abandoned the agreement but all other signatories remain at the table, dedicated to both the spirit and the letter of the CBFA. The agreement is aimed at conserving both the Boreal forest and ensuring economic prosperity while taking joint responsibility for success.
"This historic agreement has been widely lauded around the world for embracing a new paradigm of co-operation and it's unfortunate that Greenpeace has decided to walk away. However forest companies remain committed and will continue working on implementation." says the President and CEO of FPAC, David Lindsay. "The CBFA is a very complex deal with a wider scope than any other agreement ever reached anywhere in the world. Progress has not been as fast as originally hoped but we fully intend to keep working with conservation groups and foundations as well as Aboriginals, communities and the federal and provincial governments until we get it done."
Progress under the CBFA includes: 29 million hectares of caribou-sensitive habitat that continues to be suspended from logging; a win-win solution in north-east Ontario that protected caribou while increasing wood supply to support mills and communities; and a substantial blueprint for caribou action planning at the national level that is the most comprehensive work in this area ever reached. Signatories are now making progress across the country to implement the agreement: four regional groups are active in Quebec, in North-East and North-West Ontario and in Alberta; work plans are under development in Newfoundland, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan; Aboriginals and provincial governments are increasingly engaged.
The Canadian forest products industry also continues to reduce its environmental footprint on other fronts. Canada has more than 40% of the world's certified forests ―151 million hectares ―undertaken by an independent third party. Canadian mills have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 25% since 2005 while emissions were going up in the general economy. The industry has also reduced air contaminants by 44% and water use by 30% during the same time frame. As part of Vision2020, companies have set an ambitious goal to further reduce their environmental footprint by 35% by the end of the decade.
"We are proud of our world-leading environmental credentials that are well-recognized in the international marketplace," says Lindsay. "Other environmental groups have recognized industry for our efforts at greening our forest practices and we invite Greenpeace to come back to the table to work with us and others who remained committed to the CBFA. That's where the action is."
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The 5-star, five-time Edinburgh Fringe sell-out improv comedy show! Edinburgh's improv theatre company presents a fast-paced, hilarious improv show that will have you coming back for more. Scottish and international improvisers create fun and witty improv sketches based on your suggestions (à la Whose Line is it Anyway?). Be sure to arrive ready to shout out odd and wonderful ideas, and together we'll make some comedy gold! An Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2013/2014/2015/2016. ★★★★★ (Cream of the Fringe, Prague.tv) ★★★★ (ThreeWeeks, BroadwayBaby.com, FringeReview.co.uk, Latest7 Magazine).
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Why Poetry Matters
What this essay reminds me of, is the general tendency of poetry that unifies the gesture, not the specific gestures that divide us. The specific gestures that divide us are important to note, and to argue over, because we really are all trying toward a unification with reality in our poems, and so noting where we think others are missing this union becomes a necessity. That said, a weak poem does much less damage to the world than a weak law. Just saying.
Anyway, the article doesn't say anything that you haven't heard before, I'm sure, but it's good to be continually reminded, so here are some excerpts:
One tends to forget that poetry is wisdom. I was in Morocco recently, and a devout Muslim mentioned to me that the Prophet Muhammad, in his book of sayings, the Hadith, had said as much. But the Koran also teaches, I was told, that poets are dangerous, and that decent people should avoid them. That reminded me of Plato, who wished to ban all poets from his ideal republic because he thought they were liars. Reality, for Plato, was an intense, perfect world of ideas. The material world represents reflections of that ideal, always imperfect. Artistic representations of nature were thus at several removes from the ideal, hence suspicious.
But Plato also had other worries about poets. In the Republic, he complained that they tend to whip up the emotions of readers in unhelpful ways. They stir feelings of "lust and anger and all the other affections, of desire and pain and pleasure." Poetry "feeds and waters the passions instead of drying them up," he said, while only the "hymns of the gods and praises of famous men" are worthy of readers. The law and reason are far better.
In "Education by Poetry" . . . Frost argued that an understanding of how poetry works is essential to the developing intellect. He went so far as to suggest that unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values, "you don't know how far you may expect to ride it and when it may break down with you."
Poets . . . make large claims, and they are usually a bit exaggerated. In his "Defense of Poetry," Shelley famously wrote: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." I prefer the twist on that offered by a later poet, George Oppen, who wrote: "Poets are the legislators of the unacknowledged world."
The world of the poet is largely an interior world of the intellect and the emotions — where we mostly live, in fact. And poetry bolsters that interior realm. In a talk at Princeton University in 1942, when the world was aflame, Stevens reflected on the fact that the 20th century had become "so violent," both physically and spiritually. He succinctly defined poetry as "a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pushing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of poetry, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives."
Auden noted when he wrote in his elegy for Yeats that "poetry makes nothing happen." That is, it doesn't shift the stock market or persuade dictators to stand down. It doesn't usually send masses into the streets to protest a war or petition for economic justice. It works in quieter ways, shaping the interior space of readers, adding a range of subtlety to their thoughts, complicating the world for them.
[JG: I will jump in to interject here, the more interesting reading of "poetry makes nothing happen," where the nothing is the nothing that is there, as Stevens writes, and as Kay Ryan plays with in "Nothing Ventured."]
Emerson argues that the sheer physicality of words points us in directions that might be called "spiritual." He puts forward three principles worth considering:
"Words are signs of natural facts."
"Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts."
"Nature is the symbol of the spirit."
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Supreme Court Says AT&T Has No Right To 'Personal Privacy'
from the don't-take-it-personally dept
The actual ruling (embedded below) is quite interesting in noting, while corporations may be "persons," that does not automatically afford them "personal" rights.
Adjectives typically reflect the meaning of corresponding nouns, but not always. Sometimes they acquire distinct meanings of their own. The noun "crab" refers variously to a crustacean and a type of apple, while the related adjective "crabbed" can refer to handwriting that is "difficult to read," Webster's Third New International Dictionary 527 (2002); "corny" can mean "using familiar and stereotyped formulas believed to appeal to the unsophisticated," id., at 509, which has little to do with "corn," id., at 507 ("the seeds of any of the cereal grasses used for food"); and while "crank" is "a part of anaxis bent at right angles," "cranky" can mean "given to fretful fussiness," id., at 530.Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, then goes on to pick apart each argument made by AT&T as to why it should be allowed "personal" privacy, leading to the rather obvious punchline that you have to think the Justices had in mind to use from the very beginning:
Even in cases such as these there may well be a link between the noun and the adjective. "Cranky" describes a person with a "wayward" or "capricious" temper, see 3 Oxford English Dictionary 1117 (2d ed. 1989) (OED), which might bear some relation to the distorted or crooked angular shape from which a "crank" takes its name. That is not the point. What is significant is that, in ordinary usage, a noun and its adjective form may have meanings as disparate as any two unrelated words. The FCC's argument that "personal" does not, in fact, derive from the English word "person," but instead developed along its own etymological path, Reply Brief for Petitioners 6, simply highlights the shortcomings of AT&T's proposed rule.
"Person" is a defined term in the statute; "personal" is not. When a statute does not define a term, we typically "give the phrase its ordinary meaning." Johnson v. United States, 559 U. S. ___, ___ (2010) (slip op., at 4). "Personal" ordinarily refers to individuals. We do not usually speak of personal characteristics, personal effects, personal correspondence, personal influence, or personal tragedy as referring to corporations or other artificial entities. This is not to say that corporations do not have correspondence, influence, or tragedies of their own, only that we do not use the word "personal" to describe them.
Certainly, if the chief executive officer of a corporation approached the chief financial officer and said, "I have something personal to tell you," we would not assume the CEO was about to discuss company business. Responding to a request for information, an individual might say, "that's personal." A company spokesman, when asked for information about the company, would not. In fact, we often use the word "personal" to mean precisely the opposite of business-related: We speak of personal expenses and business expenses, personal life and work life, personal opinion and a company's view.
We reject the argument that because "person" is defined for purposes of FOIA to include a corporation, the phrase"personal privacy" in Exemption 7(C) reaches corporations as well. The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations. We trust that AT&T will not take it personally.


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If you have flammables on site, the first few Articles in Chapter 5 of the NEC are important to you. One question that arises in relation to these is, "What's the difference between Zones and Divisions?"
Article 505 covers the requirements for the Zone classification system as an alternative to the Division classification system covered in Art. 500 for Class I, Zone 0, 1, and 2.
If you use the Zone system, then you must generate and maintain specific documentation that conforms to extensive specific references [505.4]. Exactly how you may classify a location depends on the properties and concentrations of the flammable substances that may be present [505.5].
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First a Greedy Catbird, Now OCD Cardinals – What Is It With These Crazy Birds?
Just when I finally stymied a greedy, blueberry-gobbling catbird by repairing and reinforcing a netted enclosure around the bushes in my garden, which loyal readers recall I chronicled last week, a new avian aggravation has materialized.
A pair of cardinals has decided to set up their domicile not far from the side of our house – no problem there; I enjoy watching them flit by, flashes of red against green pine and rhododendron – except that the birds evidently misinterpret their reflections in a sliding glass door and adjoining window panes as winged interlopers.
And so the two birds have been slamming themselves repeatedly against glass for the past several days. I'm not exaggerating: Every 10 seconds from dawn to dusk there's a whack, followed by angry squawks, chirps, whistles and other ornithological recriminations. It's a wonder they haven't collapsed from exhaustion, sustained broken wings or suffered nervous breakdowns.
At first I thought the birds were trying to get inside the house, either to build a nest in a more weather-protected environment or to snag fringe from a rug to help with construction, but my wife did some research and learned that they were simply trying to drive away that "other" pair of cardinals.
I guess this helps explain the origin of the term bird-brained.
More to the point, their behavior perfectly matches the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. These are cardinals with advanced obsessive-compulsive disorders.
My wife tried papering over parts of the windows, but that's a lot of glass to cover, not to mention keeping the paper intact against rain and wind. Also, it would convert a sunny south-facing room into a dungeon. Unfortunately, all it takes is one sliver of glass exposure to set the cardinals off on their territorial imperative-driven tirades.
Some sources say that birds often continue attacking windows for months during the mating season, which means it could be a long, noisy summer.
I may employ one of those plastic owls supposedly designed to scare off such pests as gulls from boat decks and crows from gardens , but I often see many feathered species perched contemptuously nearby, or sometimes right on top of the faux predator, so I have little confidence.
I also have noticed that the cardinals retreat temporarily if I sit next to the glass door – but they return the instant I move away. I may try making a dummy and placing it on a chair, but I think even a bird-brained cardinal would quickly catch on.
So it has become a test of wills. In time, one of us will give up. I'm not betting on the cardinals.
Pacific Trail Update
Back in April I wrote about Mystic native Hilary Sueoka and her boyfriend, Dan Stedman, who were about to embark on a five-month, 2,650-mile hike of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail from the California-Mexico border to the Washington-Canada line.
I'm happy report the couple is progressing rapidly and having a terrific time.
Here's an email I received from Hilary the other day:
"It finally feels like we've finished a good section of hiking. We made it to Kennedy Meadows yesterday at mile 702, and are taking a zero here today. Sierras, here we come! We should get our bear boxes this afternoon, but have to wait for the store to re-supply at the general store since so many hikers have been coming through.
"We are still ahead of the main pack that started on 'kick off' weekend, but the fast ones are catching up. So far, we have been averaging 20 miles or so each day, our biggest was 27, but with the elevation (and how awesome the Sierras are,) we plan to slow down a bit in this next section and take our time.
"Our packs will be heavy with food after this resupply, but both of our base-weights ended up being far under 30 lbs, more like 15. No major problems yet, just the standard blisters and foot swelling, joint pain, etc. (My feet swelled a whole size! Ordering new shoes now...)"
Great to hear from you, Hilary! Stay in touch, and I wish you and Dan continued success on your epic journey.
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