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While explaining his selection of Andy Carroll on the eve of the match against Norway, Roy Hodgson alluded to the willingness of Rinus Michels, the father of Holland's total football and a guru of modern coaching, to throw on a big man and bash the ball up to him in times of crisis. But before resorting to the tactic of despair, Michels had the imaginations of such men as Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens to exhaust. England, as we saw on Saturday night, are not so fortunate.
At the final whistle there were embraces between Steven Gerrard and John Arne Riise, former Liverpool team-mates, and Roy Hodgson and Brede Hangeland, erstwhile colleagues at Viking and Fulham, their warmth testifying to the genial nature of the occasion. Crimson streaks in the evening sky over the rapidly emptying Ullevaal Stadion, signalling more good weather to come, could have been taken as an optimistic omen. But although England secured their first victory under their new manager, they showed themselves, as so often in the past, capable of answering small questions while leaving the big one completely unanswered.
Those lesser matters are not without importance. Robert Green came through an increasingly busy 90 minutes unscathed, a relief on his first international appearance since the fateful blooper against the United States two summers ago, and will make an adequate understudy to Joe Hart. Similar judgments can be made of Joleon Lescott and Leighton Baines, who are unlikely to let the side down if called upon during Euro 2012. Up front, Andy Carroll appears to be back to the effectiveness he showed on his international debut against France 18 months ago while Ashley Young confirmed the impression that he rises naturally to the occasion in an England shirt.
But the old question remains hanging in the air: how are England going to fabricate a link between solid defence and promising attack effective enough to enable them to worry the best teams? Egil Olsen, Norway's manager, gently alluded afterwards to the lack of creativity in England's midfield, expressing surprise at the amount of space they had allowed his own men. Despite years of evidence to the contrary, foreigners still seem to expect England to produce qualities that have long been the property of others.
It is an issue that has bedevilled not just every manager of the national team since Terry Venables but most of those who preceded him as well, and it would have been foolish to imagine that Hodgson could provide the answer after a mere two training sessions in charge of a severely depleted squad. Nevertheless it is inevitable that the newcomer's early steps will be scrutinised for significance and on Saturday his midfield, arranged in a line of four between the defensive quartet and the attacking duo, looked stodgy and completely lacking in unpredictability, despite the big names and reputations involved.
Scott Parker, confirming his return to fitness after missing the end of the domestic season, performed more than adequately in the role of destroyer and blocker, the latter skill more frequently in demand the longer the evening went on. Alongside him, however, Gerrard was unable to bring the best of himself to the game – and even brought some of the worst when he lost possession a few minutes before half-time and responded by flying into the tackle that cost Tom Hogli, Norway's right-back, any further involvement in the occasion. Hodgson defended his captain, but it was the sort of rash challenge that can cause serious injury and, on a genuinely competitive occasion, might have attracted more than just a wagged finger from the referee.
Hodgson who had taken care to draw Gerrard into the fold by awarding him the armband and thus an unquestioned place in the team, explicitly criticised his captain's choice of passes while discussing the contribution of the two central midfield players. "They were passing the ball quite well," he said, "although at times Steven was looking for the early ball in behind. We have work to do."
Later he said: "We have to get in between the lines a little bit better. We have to be more positive when we get a chance to play the ball between those lines. When we break that midfield line when the other team are pressing, we have to be more positive trying to feed those balls in.
"A few times we had the opportunity but then we turn out or alternatively Steve is trying to find passes through there that are very, very difficult to find [even] with his passing ability. That's a work in progress and I'm hoping we will get our wide midfielders helping the [central] midfielders out there and get the balls fed into them, into Ashley Young, because the few times we did it looked good."
Hodgson was right to point out that since he has been contracted for four years, he is looking further ahead than the coming few weeks. "I have my sights firmly set on the future," he said, and what he needs is the return of Jack Wilshere to action and to the form that promised so much before his injury a year ago, along with the emergence of a fresh talent such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Josh McEachran or Tom Cleverley to work alongside him.
In the meantime he must find a way of providing Parker with the right defensive partner – probably Frank Lampard – and moving Gerrard further forward into a position from which his passing would become less speculative. But as long as the manager remains wedded to a traditional 4-4-2, a solution to his most profound problem may remain out of reach.

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Daily links, Mon., Oct 31: Boo! It's Zombie Jesus
Leading off on this All Hallows Eve is Religion Dispatches' exploration of the spirituality of horror. Don't think I'll be adding any zombie shows (such as AMC's The Walking Dead) to my spiritual practice, but I think including zombies is a very Catholic thing to do. My attitude toward Halloween follows our own Angelo Stagnaro's lighthearted take.
From actual horror to just horribly rude: The chair of the bishops doctrine committee, Cardinal Donald Wuerhl, issued a press release claiming theologian Elizabeth Johnson never responded to his request for a meeting regarding her book Quest for the Living God, which, Grant Gallicho points out at dotCommonweal, turns out to be dead wrong. The bishops look sillier and sillier on the Johnson situation every day. What would Zombie Jesus do?
Continuing with bishops who tell tales, PrayTell comments on a National Catholic Reporter interview with Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, Oklahoma's claim that the bishops at Vatican II didn't really intend to change the liturgy. Anthony Ruff at PrayTell demolishes that claim, but I have a feeling that's not the last we'll hear of the "Vatican II didn't mean it" canard. Sigh.
Finally, confirming Christian devotion to pilgrimage/tourism, archeologists in Israel have discovered a 1,000-year-old tiny prayer box with little icons in the current souvenir district of Jerusalem. I doubt anything you'd buy at Disney World would last that long.


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Nathan Schrader '10 began his study of Columbus and Madison by looking at the architectural qualities in the two towns.. The project consists of a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation with voiceover explaining the origins of the towns' architecture and the impact it had on the people.
Columbus is a town south of Indianapolis known for its modern architecture. The town is most renowned for its churches, including the First Christian Church, which is located in downtown Columbus. The schools, which started the architectural surge, are also wonderfully aesthetic buildings. The idea, thought up by J. Irwin Miller of Cummins Engine Company, was that good buildings will attract good teachers and businessmen. After my time in Columbus, I would say he was right.
Madison, a town of about 13,000 people, is located in Southeast Indiana along the Ohio River. A period of great expansion followed by a depression resulted in the preservation of early 19th century American architecture. The details are simply stunning. A few blocks on the main street are just filled with the older styles but are still in use by businesses today.
Both places are very inviting to visitors. Columbus offers tours every day and Madison's houses have knowledgeable guides, as well as the railroad museum that explains everything about Madison's mishaps.
The goal of the presentation is to educate the viewer about the towns' histories and their pride, because anyone can take the tours and learn the architectural details. He hopes you enjoy his presentation and that it encourages you to go out and see these beautiful treasures of Indiana.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 8, 2013) – East Tennessee State University head baseball coach Tony Skole and his staff released information regarding the 2014 Buccaneer Winter Hitting Camp on Wednesday.
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"Once again we are very excited about our 2014 Winter Hitting Camp," said Skole. "This year we moved our dates back to be closer to the start of baseball season, and I think that will be a great benefit to those who attend. Baseball season is just right around the corner and this camp will help get you ready.
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XI. Night of the Stormcrow
Released December 2013
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The following comes from excerpts of Vortex #46, which can be downloaded HERE.
Some thoughts from the dark hours by Marc Platt on the subject of new subscriber special Night of the Stormcrow
I'd been waiting a long time to write a Fourth Doctor story. Admittedly, I'd sent several Tom Baker storylines to the Who production office at the BBC in the late Seventies/early Eighties. But Fires of the Starmind and The Drennorye Thesis are not going to see the light of day – if they ever actually counted as Lost Stories, which I suspect they do not, they would still be better off staying lost... In book and short story form, I've never actually touched on the Fourth Doctor. I might even have been a bit scared of him.
Then Tom Baker was suddenly and wonderfully available again. And [producer] David Richardson, the most patient person in the charted universe, emailed with some very specific requests for a story, which I entirely failed to meet. David wanted something dark and small scale, but the story I had in mind refused to resolve out of being a vast epic.
So we shelved that idea and went for another small scale story, and it's that reliable old chestnut a Base Under Siege story, with a small band of guest characters and a very big monster indeed.
Stormcrow didn't start out as the 2012 Christmas story. It doesn't feature turkeys, tinsel or reindeer at all, although it does have something that lands on the roof. The story was originally meant as part of the main run of the Fourth Doctor and Leela series. It's also a standalone story, not connected to any ongoing story arc, and so it got moved out on its own. As befitting Christmas, it's a sort of creepy ghost story with ghosts who maybe don't exist at all. And the almost obligatory great cast too – thanks Nick!
The classic Fourth Doctor story that's closest to Stormcrow is Image of the Fendahl, and I'd also been re-watching Nigel Kneale's 1972 TV ghost story The Stone Tape, both with a feeling of supernatural darkness in a "real" setting. But in the latter, I found myself reacting against its predominantly male cast, who are deeply misogynist in a very Seventies way. I'm sure that's deliberate on Nigel Kneale's part, but as a result, it's why the staff at the besieged observatory in Stormcrow are mainly women.
The telescope station at Mount McKerry is like a miniature version of the Mauna Kea observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii. It's deliberately an optical not a radio telescope, and the mountaintop has that sense of isolation that comes when the clouds are below you.
Stormcrow is one of those stories about what scares me – they always say write about what you know about, which isn't always helpful with science fantasy. But in this case…
I spent some time trying to work out how to write for the Fourth Doctor. What is it that's different? He's still the Doctor – they all are – but Tom's Doctor is somehow more all-encompassing and expansive, almost carefree, even in adversity. Yes, we all remember him having doubts about committing genocide on the Dalek race, but that uncertainty doesn't happen very often. Maybe that's why I wanted him to suffer a sense of crisis in this story and that doubt puts poor Leela in great danger too. Louise Jameson plays Leela with such a brilliant sense of wonder. She's both naïve and wise – a complete joy to write as a character.
But in the end, it was pointless trying to analyse the Fourth Doctor/Tom. Once his voice is in your head, the Fourth Doctor writes himself.
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Anyone can get involved. You don't have to concentrate in art or theatre to have your work displayed or to act in (or direct) a play.
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I'm reading Notes On A Century: Reflections Of A Middle East Historian, the memoir of the great historian Bernard Lewis. We feature this book on the Power Line bookshelf below.
Notes On A Century works at many levels. It combines page after page of insights about the Middle East with a glimpse into the life of a pathbreaking historian. Lewis continuously displays a delicious feel for anecdote and irony.
In one of my favorite anecdotes, a Turkish general says this during a dinner party celebrating Turkey's admission to NATO: "The real problem of having the Americans as your ally is you never know when they will turn around and stab themselves in the back."
I recommend Notes On A Century not just to those with an interest in the Middle East, but also to anyone who enjoys the company of a wise, witty, and erudite writer.


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BURBANK — Emily Tubert is surely getting the most out of her freshman college season.
Tubert, a Burroughs High graduate and true freshman at the University of Arkansas, has had a first season with the Razorbacks' women's golf team filled with success. And in turn, Arkansas has benefitted from the play of the former All-Area player of the year.
"I've loved every minute of this season," Tubert said. "It has just been amazing and a truly great experience. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but at this school, with this team."
The season for Tubert — and Arkansas — hasn't come to a close yet, as the team has earned a spot to compete for a national title. After a fine showing last weekend in the 2011 NCAA Central Regional Championship, the Razorbacks earned the program's fourth trip to the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships.
The championships will be conducted May 18-21, at the Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas. Texas A&M University is hosting the 72-hole championship.
Arkansas will be among 24 teams taking part in the tournament.
"I'm really happy that we were able to make it to the [championship] as a team," Tubert said. "I'm feeling really good about where the team is at right now, and I'm feeling pretty good about my game."
The 11th-ranked Razorbacks rallied in the final round of the NCAA Central Regional Championship on Saturday with a fourth-place finish to earn a bid to the final tournament. Arkansas carded a tournament best 289 in the final round, finishing with an 899 for the event.
Arkansas was able to rebound after suffering through a rough start in the first round Thursday.
"This has been a great championship golf course, and after the first day we were kind of behind the eight ball a bit," Arkansas Coach Shauna Estes-Taylor told the university's website. "But this group has persevered all year long, and I actually had a calm in knowing that this would be our day.
"The team went out and did exactly what they needed to do in probably some of the most stressful golf conditions you could have, trying to get in the national championship. I am so proud of this group, we have done it as a team all year long, and we look forward to heading to College Station for the NCAA Championships and a [shot at a] title."
Tubert came off the course tied for second shooting 219 for the weekend on the Warren Golf Course in South Bend, Ind. Tubert shot 75-69-75 and was the leader after the second round and finished tied for third.
Tubert also started out slowly in the first round, but came roaring back in the second round Friday. Tubert posted the lowest round of the tournament, shooting a 69 and vaulting up the leaderboard. She was three-under on the day and moved from a tie for 26th after her first round into the lead after Saturday's play.
"I also struggled a little on the first two holes [on Saturday]," Tubert said. "But than I really started shooting well. After I got going I had a feeling it would be a special round."
Said Estes-Taylor: "Emily is hitting it so solidly and if she could just get the right read on her putts she could go as low as she wants to. She is managing her game well and I think having played her in the past is helpful. She did a good job of getting around this golf course [Saturday]."


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He was 7 or 8 at the time, and though he left Hampton soon after, he still has memories of growing up here. Many of them came back on Wednesday when Kyler — now a bona fide Food Network star — returned to give a demonstration at Peninsula Town Center. His cooking lesson was seasoned with the tough times and successes he has carried along the way.
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Joya Ahsan Ahmad, a William Penn Charter School Senior from Mt. Airy, has been honored as both a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar and a Gates Millennium Scholar.
"This is a wonderful accomplishment for Joya," said Penn Charter Head of School Darryl J. Ford. "The level of this achievement is only matched by the level of Joya's commitment to everything that she does. Her hard work and talent have paid off."
Joya, who plans to attend Columbia University in the fall, came to Penn Charter in kindergarten and in 13 years has distinguished herself both inside and outside of the classroom. She has a wide range of academic interests that range from philosophy, to foreign language – she has studied Latin, French and Bangla, the language of her parents' native Bangladesh – to science.
Joya leads Quakers Dozen, the school's select a cappella group, and played Dorothy in the PC production of The Wizard of Oz. She captains the girls cross country team and is also a local tae kwon do instructor.
Since her freshman year, she has been an active community service volunteer with three Penn Charter service partners: St. Francis Inn, Widener Memorial School and St. Vincent's after school program. Joya plans to study biomedical engineering at Columbia and hopes to become a physician.
The 141 U.S. Presidential Scholars, created in 1964, include one young man and one young woman from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and from U.S. families living abroad. In addition, 15 are chosen "at-large" and 20 more are named Presidential Scholars in the Arts. The Gates program was established in 1999 and initially funded by a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Joya was one of 1,000 Gates Millennium Scholars selected from a pool of 23,000 applicants, the largest and most competitive group of candidates in the program's history.


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Idaho State Senator Nicole LeFavour announced Friday that after eight years serving in the Idaho legislature she will not seek a third term in the Idaho Senate. "It has been such a deep honor to represent the amazing people of Boise's district 19 where I live. The district has been so good to me and I like to think I've been a dedicated voice for those here and for many statewide who otherwise might not have had someone to speak for them."
In her four terms in the legislature LeFavour was well known for her work on tax policy, prison sentencing reform and improving Idaho's treatment and support for those facing mental health or substance abuse issues. She also has advocated for adequate services to keep Idahoans with disabilities independent and healthy in their homes and communities.
"It is with the deepest sense of regret and sorrow that I leave the legislature, a place that has taught me so much about politics, policy, process and people. Idaho is a tough place to be in the minority. I took very, very seriously my duty to speak for those who were to be harmed by the policy we passed. That's not a popular role to play and one simply can't do it forever. It is especially hard knowing that speaking up for a wrong about to be done was so often not enough to change the outcome. You hope for the best in people and I always have hoped my colleagues would rise to that. Last year was tough and I left the session knowing this would be my last."
In the legislature, LeFavour served for four years on the powerful Joint Finance and Appropriations committee, for six years on the Judiciary & Rules Committees of the House and Senate and for four years on the Senate Education Committee where she led efforts to oppose Tom Luna's 2011 Education reform bills which make it law that the state would increase public school class sizes by using drastic cuts in funding for teaching positions to pay for new lap tops and mandatory on line courses.
LeFavour was elected by her peers in the House and Senate three times to serve on Legislative Council. For more than four years she served on the Commission on Hispanic Affairs. All eight of her years in the legislature she served on the Joint Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee where for five out of the seven years she had the closest year end revenue estimate of any legislator on the committee.
First elected in 2004, LeFavour was Idaho's first openly gay elected official and the only openly gay person elected to Idaho's legislature.
"The four or so months of the legislative session are hard on family. My partner Carol has put up with a lot of stress and has stood by me as I dealt with a lot of loss. She's so smart and keeps me laughing through the hardest times but you can only ask that of someone for so long."
LeFavour hopes her district will work to make sure that she is replaced in the legislature by another openly gay member.
"It is so critical that the house and senate have openly gay members. If I weren't here there are times I'm certain that some in this Capitol would say they didn't know anyone gay. And then how would they ever know that they cared about what happens to gay people in our state?"
LeFavour says she's seen progress, "After all these years, finally this body of 105 people is beginning to see that people do still discriminate and do intentional harm to gay and transgender people in our state. I know for a fact that a majority of my colleagues also finally feel that doing intentional harm to gay people is wrong. In a civil society it is our duty to say this is wrong. If we don't, we might as well be saying that we condone the harm and don't care about the lives of good people who lose their jobs, housing or educational opportunities for no other reason than that they are gay."
"I began this session knowing I would not be returning and had one of the most amazing experiences of my legislative career. In August I began working with a group of people who became known as Add the Words, Idaho. Many, gave their every spare hour over the last five months strategizing and organizing to help the Idaho legislature see that Idahoans believe it is time to include gay and transgender people in our existing human rights act. I love the group of people I've gotten to know these past months. I think they've changed history on this issue. For the first time in all my years working on this issue I have two votes shy of a majority supporting the bill in both the house and senate with at least three maybes and several I've not talked to yet. That alone keeps me hopeful about what may still be possible this year."
"I leave the legislature knowing I did everything I could last year to try to stop the cuts to education and the radical change in priorities from teachers to technology. I put my whole heart into stopping the cuts to Medicaid and to mental health treatment therapy and to services that keep people with disabilities independent in their homes. This year I will continue to do everything I can to get my politically fearful colleagues to acknowledge that this may be the only year in the next ten years that we have such a clear opportunity to pass legislation to include gay people in Idaho's human rights act. I hope it weighs heavy on their consciences that in history they have the choice to do that now or to continue to allow good people across the state to live in fear every day."
Senator LeFavour can be reached for comment at208 724-0468
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Although they made a strong showing, the men came up short in their doubles play.
Daniel Hangstefer and Mario Hernandez fell at No. 1 to Davy Sum and Dominik Kaniewski 8-2.
At the No. 2 spot, James Murrell and Chad Pierron lost a tough match to opponents Larbi Lamzouri and Joseph Baro 8-4.
Tanner Brown and Colby Shaw lost 8-5 in a close match against Ian Kahler and Ondrej Kralik at No. 3.
After losing all three doubles and dropping the doubles point, the Bisons went into singles play.
At No. 1, Hangstefer had a close three set match against Sum, but unfortunately could not pull out the win, losing 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
Pierron lost his match at No. 2 to Lamzouri after rallying back in the second set 6-2, 7-6(4).
The Bisons found themselves in a 3-0 deficit, struggling to close out close sets.
Murrell fell to Mondini 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3.
At No. 4, Hernandez lost to Loukas Wallaart 6-2, 6-1, bringing the match score to 5-0 in favor of Campbell.
Campbell won the next two matches as well.
Brown was defeated by David Clavera in a three setter at the No. 5 spot, falling 3-6, 6-2, (10-6) with a tie-breaker substituting for the third set.
At No. 6, Shaw fell to Kralik 6-4, 6-3.
"Obviously there were some tighter matches," said head coach Andrew Harris. "We really started out pretty strong, and we were just not able to finish some of the matches we got ahead in. We need to work on the matches when we are ahead by multiple games."
Harris is hopeful that the guys will close out more matches tomorrow in their second conference match.
1. Davy Sum/Dominik Kaniewski (CU) def. Daniel Hangstefer/Mario Hernandez (LU) 8-2
2. Larbi Lamzouri/ Josep Baro (CU) def. Chad Pierron/James Murrell (LU) 8-4
3. Ian Kahler/ Ondrej Kralik (CU) def. Tanner Brown/Colby Shaw (LU) 8-5
1. Sum (CU) def. Hangstefer (LU) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
2. Lamzouri (CU) def. Pierron (LU) 6-2, 7-6(4)
3. Mondini (CU) def. Murrell (LU) 6-2, 6-2
4. Loukas Wallaart (CU) def. Hernandez (LU) 6-2, 6-1
5. David Clavera (CU) def. Brown (LU) 3-6, 6-2, (10-6)
6. Kralik (CU) def. Shaw (LU) 6-4, 6-3
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The Mid-19th Century Hoop is made with four sprung steel hoops. This hoop creates a slightly oval bell shape and includes a bustle pad. The hem circumference is between 114" and 123" and the full front length is 37".
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1:00 pm
Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers, The "Workshop 4. Creating A Multi-Arts Performance Piece" Learner Team members and students examine the elements of the classic journey as identified by Joseph Campbell. They then create a multi-arts performance piece that represents a journey story. They apply what they have learned in previous lessons in order to rehearse, critique, revise, and perform their work. D
2:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Entropy" The Carnot engine, part two, with profound implications for the behavior of matter and the flow of time through the universe. D
2:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Low Temperatures" With the quest for low temperatures came the discovery that all elements can exist in each of the basic states of matter. D
3:00 pm
Biography of America, A "Fifties" World War II is fought to its bitter end in the Pacific and the world lives with the legacy of its final moment: the atomic bomb. Professor Miller continues the story as veterans return from the war and create new lives for themselves in the '50s. The GI Bill, Levittown, civil rights, the Cold War, and rock 'n' roll are discussed. D
3:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Sixties" Professor Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a decade. Lyndon Johnson emerges as a pivotal character, along with Stokely Carmichael, Fanny Lou Hamer, and other luminaries of the era. D
4:00 pm
Curiosity Quest "Braille Publisher" Did you know that Braille is a form of print that helps blind people read? Join Joel Greene as he learns how a Braille publisher makes Braille books. D
4:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "How to Make A Million Bucks!" It is possible! If you start early and save consistently, you'll take advantage of the power of compound interest. You can make a million by working hard, spending less than you make, and saving, saving, saving. Meet a 16-year-old with a fashion recycling business. D
5:00 pm
The Electric Company "The Great Compromise" The Electric Company and the Pranksters have to work together to preserve their ability to use their special powers in the neighborhood. D
5:30 pm
Cyberchase "Face-Off" Fluff wants to wear his dad's lucky hockey skates in the prestigious Penguia Cup competition, but his teammates want everyone to wear cool skates they saw advertised on TV.G
6:00 pm
Quilting Arts "Unique Materials and Tools of the Trade" This show explores unique materials and tools of the trade. Artist Susan Brubaker Knapp begins with tools and techniques for painting on fabric. Along with a discussion of materials, she shares wholecloth painting techniques and demonstrates stitching through painted cloth. D
6:30 pm
Best of the Joy of Painting "Cypress Swamp" Hidden far from sight are the lovely cypress trees and birds of the South. Travel with Bob Ross and catch a glimpse of rare beauty!. D
7:00 pm
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Fried Oyster Salad, Beignets, and Red Beans and Rice. D
7:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Crowd Pleasers" Joanne creates a meal fit for guests, starting with a Crostini with Sheep's Milk Ricotta, Asparagus and Mint that looks as great as it tastes. She teaches her student, Jack, the key to making light and flavorful meatballs perfect for Rigatoni in a Smoky Tomato Sauce, and they toast the meal with a grown up Big Girl Lime Milk Shake. Recipes: Crostini with Sheep's Milk Ricotta, Asparagus and Mint, Rigatoni with Ricotta Meatballs in a Smoky Tomato Sauce, Big Girl Lime Milk Shake. D
8:00 pm
Hometime "Timber Shed Roof and Stone" The HOMETIME crew installs clay tile roofing and natural stone cladding for the walls. D
8:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Florentine Delights and Tuscan Side Trips" Rick takes in more of the artistic treasures of the city that propelled Europe out of the Middle Ages. Then he takes side trips to a couple of rival cities and cultural capitals in their own right - Pisa and Luca. He marvels at the tipsy tower, circles a city on its ramparts, and enjoys some Puccini in the composer's hometown. Part 2 of 2G
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Florence, Italy" NULL
9:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Fruit Fete" Good Lady Apples Bon Femme; Stew Of Red Summer Fruit; Braised Pears In A Caramel Sauce; Flambeed Bananas; Apple Fritters. D
10:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Breakfast Standbys" Man on the Street John "Doc" Willoughby challenges viewers to a blind oatmeal tasting to see if steel-cut really is better than instant. Then, host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Bridget Lancaster to learn how to make the best bowl of 10-Minute Steel Cut Oatmeal. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried is in the Equipment Corner reviewing his favorite moka pots, and Chris answers questions from viewers. D
10:30 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Organic Root Vegetables" The Pences prepare braised pork shoulder with caramelized carrots and potatoes and seared flat-iron steak with oven-roasted carrot salad.G
11:00 pm
Kimchi Chronicles "The Street Food Chronicles" Much like the entire continent of Asia, street food is hugely popular in Korea and many of the most beloved dishes in the country come from street carts and stands. In this episode, Marja and Jean-Georges eat street food all over the peninsula, including silkworm larvae, hoddeok, sweet pancakes filled with peanuts and sugar, and Dragon's Beard, a candy made of stretched honey and nuts. At home, Marja makes her version of bindaddeok, her signature take on this simple pancake made of freshly ground mung beans shallow-fried until browned and crisp. D
11:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Florentine Delights and Tuscan Side Trips" Rick takes in more of the artistic treasures of the city that propelled Europe out of the Middle Ages. Then he takes side trips to a couple of rival cities and cultural capitals in their own right - Pisa and Luca. He marvels at the tipsy tower, circles a city on its ramparts, and enjoys some Puccini in the composer's hometown. Part 2 of 2G


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Pick and Draw can be played by one or more people of all ages and is an excellent way to engage in creative and imaginative thinking and best of all, it's a lot of fun!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Review and Giveaway- Pick and Draw
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This looks like lots of fun. What amazing time for me to find your blog right now. My little 5 yr old would love this.ReplyDelete
My children love to draw. This game is right up their ally ;D Thank you for the chance to win. I am already subscribed to your blog via google frind :DReplyDelete
Have a beautiful day!
this would be a great game for right before dinner when the kids are going off the wall, and i need somehting that will help quell the madnessReplyDelete
Oooh, I would like one of these! We would probably use it with one of our whiteboards because I am trying not to use up paper with doodles (and trying to save room on the fridge/walls!), but occasionally one of the kids might want to immortalize something they create on a regular paper.ReplyDelete
I can see this being fun and liberating for dd2 (who is 5), but also a great novelty for dd1 (14!) who loves cartooning of all kinds... (see a couple of the past parsha poems which she has illustrated).
I am in awe of all you do! My twins would love this game. They are constantly drawing. We use reams of paper.ReplyDelete
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Artist of the Month: Kelly Wiese!
In case you haven't heard, Kelly Wiese is a total rock star. She makes incredible vintage-inspired jewelry dripping with crystals, and Beadwork magazine was lucky enough to land her as our Artist of the Month!
We have four brand-new videos featuring Kelly's decadent designs in the Interweave Store and on Craft Daily, all inspired by jewelry of bygone eras, and each representing a different season. Kelly's Victoriana Necklace embodies winter, and Delicate Details Bracelet captures the essence of spring. Wildflowers Necklace is the perfect addition to your summer wardrobe, and you can welcome fall in style with Modern Visions Bracelet.
FUN FACT: Kelly shot all of her new videos in one take. So when you download or stream one of them, such as Victoriana Necklace, remember that what you see is exactly what was shot. There were no do-overs or multiple versions of the shot, just an amazing artist teaching you how to make her jewelry.
We have four new videos of Kelly teaching her jewelry designs that you can download or stream, but if you want to have all four videos in one package, to watch any time you'd like, we also offer them on DVD. Jewelry for All Seasons contains all four videos together. Jewelry for All Seasons will be in the store later this month, so keep an eye out for it!
I did the quality control for the videos, and I felt confident enough after watching Wildflowers Necklace that when I went home for the evening I made a bezel for a round crystal chaton with no problems. I actually started making another one last night using a variation on the method I learned from the Wildflowers Necklace video for a pair of earrings. I also have plans for a bezeled princess baguette similar to the ones Kelly makes in the Victoriana Necklace video. I know the techniques she teaches will be useful to beaders looking to design their own jewelry, since I've been so inspired after seeing her videos!
If you're interested in learning from Kelly Wiese, check out Jewelry for All Seasons and her individual videos!
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Flowers Pool
Immersed in the peace and tranquillity of the park and its profusion of colour, the Piscina dei Fiori (the pool among the flowers) is the perfect place to relax and let time go by. Around the pool stand age-old trees and an abundance of Riviera palms which thrive in the special microclimate. There are tulips and flowers of every type, from which the pool takes its name. This pool could only have one name…
It's the quietest spot in the hotel, tucked away but still affording beautiful views of the lake. Lie back and take the sun, sip on a fruit juice or cocktail throughout the day or sample tasty bites at a poolside table at T Pizza.


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From delicate lattice patterns to boldly colored chevron patterns the Fallon Collection makes a statement in flat weave; from creator Jill Rosenwald known for her beautifully colored, hand-made ceramics. The Fallon Collection's patterns and the hand woven flat weave construction beautifully combine to highlight its simplicity and sophistication. Fresh and fun patterned rugs with a strong designer color palettes.
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August 12, 1981
To: Faculty, Staff, and Students
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Seminar
On Wednesday, September 30, 1981, at 9:00 am and again at 1:00 pm, the University Police Department will present a sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Seminar in the Umunhum Room of the Student Union. Further details of the seminar will be announced early in September soon after classes begin. The September reminder will be an opportunity to reach new arrivals on campus and to provide a timely announcement to the students in the classroom.
I am inviting all interested employees and students on campus to meet with us for this informative and important presentation. Offices may be closed for this meeting, provided essential services are maintained.
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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has made available $3.8 million in financial assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to assist producers recovering from the tornadoes that ravaged Alabama during April and May of this year.
Applications are being accepted on a continuous basis. However, NRCS establishes "cut-off" or submission deadline dates for evaluation and ranking of eligible applications. The first submission date will be July 8, 2011.
"Alabama was pleased to receive this much-needed financial assistance," said State Conservationist William Puckett. "These funds will help producers recover from agricultural losses from the recent tornadoes."
Financial assistance will be provided for practices that were destroyed or damaged due to the tornadoes: Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan CAP's, Waste Storage Facility, Animal Mortality Facility, Composting Facility, Critical Area Planting, Fence, Grade Stabilization Structure, Grassed Waterway, Irrigation Water Management, Land Smoothing, Land Clearing, Access Control, Mulching, Pasture and Hayland Planting, Pipeline, Pumping Plant for Water Control, Heavy Use Area Protection, Stream Crossing, Terraces, Watering Facility, Livestock Shade Structure, Temporary Waste Field Storage, and Seasonal High Tunnel House.
Eligible counties include: Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Colbert, Covington, Cullman, DeKalb, Elmore, Escambia, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hale, Jackson, Jefferson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marengo, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Pickens, St. Clair, Sumter, Tallapoosa, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston, and Washington.
EQIP offers financial and technical assistance to install structural and management practices on eligible non-federal lands to address natural resource concerns.
Conservation treatment activities for EQIP are carried out in accordance with a conservation plan that is developed with the landowner or manager.
Interested landowners can contact their local NRCS office listed in the telephone book under U.S. Department of Agriculture or online at USDA. General program information is available on the Alabama NRCS website at NRCS.


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Research Week 2013 Recognizes USU's Best Faculty and Student Researchers
Tuesday, Apr. 09, 2013
Utah State University's ninth annual Research Week, to be held April 8-12, will feature longstanding popular events as well as new highlights. The weeklong celebration highlights faculty, graduate and undergraduate researchers, scholars and artists with themed days focusing on different aspects of research.
"USU's position as the state's land-grant institution makes research a vital component of our mission," said Mark McLellan, vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies. "It's a pleasure to spend an entire week celebrating the hundreds of faculty and students who have been engaged in projects this year."
Research Week's most attended events are the student symposia Student Showcase (Thursday, April 11) and the Graduate Research Symposium (Friday, April 2). New this year is Ignite, an evening event to bridge the two groups.
"We know that the benefits of research extend far beyond the results that appear on students' posters and oral presentations," said Scott Bates, associate vice president for graduate and undergraduate research. "Ignite will provide a light-hearted atmosphere for students to share more of those intangible benefits."
Ignite is a national speaking event with the tagline, "enlighten us, but make it quick." Instead of the 15-20 minutes allotted to traditional oral presentations, speakers are held to five minutes, with slides that automatically advance.
Ignite will be held in the TSC Skyroom on the evening of Thursday, April 11. Attendees will be served beverages and compete in a collaborative "build" project before USU graduate and undergraduate researchers share the lighter side of their discoveries in five minutes or less. Preference for Ignite attendance will be given to those presenting at Student Showcase and the Graduate Research Symposium, though anyone will be able to request a ticket.
"We are pleased to be involved with the Ignite speaking series, especially after the positive response we received with TEDxUSU last fall," said Bates. "The success of these events demonstrates how USU research extends beyond the published results into real solutions and insights."
Due to its great success and overwhelming response last year, the Research Recognition Night was held this year for the second time. It was Monday, April 8, as part of Faculty Research Day. The by-invitation event recognized college researchers of the year, large grant recipients, USU's Graduate Mentor of the Year and the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award recipient. Video previews featuring college researchers of the year were shown. The public will have the opportunity to view the videos throughout the summer.
"These faculty members have been nominated by each department for their excellence and past accomplishments," said McLellan. "They are the cream of the crop within the Utah State's research community and we want them to know that we value their contributions to the university."
In addition to these events, other events such as the D. Wynne Thorne Lecture, Faculty Book Celebration and workshops will also take place during Research Week.
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Laura Mead (EdD Cohort 2) receives the 2009 Connecticut Association for Reading Research Scholarship
Laura Mead (EdD Cohort 2) received the 2009 Connecticut Association for Reading Research Scholarship ($750) for her dissertation study. This research study is currently being conducted in the Danbury public schools. As part of the scholarship award Laura will present her findings to the association next May and write an article for publication for their journal. Congratulations Laura!
As Laura's primary advisor, Karen Burke would like to thank Dr. Marcy Delcourt and the dissertation committee members; Drs. Lois Lanning, Jen Mitchell, and Bill Glass, for their support and expertise in this very important project.
Research Title: THE EFFECTS OF USING FOUR POWERFUL COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES IN A GRADUAL RELEASE LESSON DESIGN AND LEARNING-STYLE PREFERENCES ON READING COMPREHENSION AND SELF-PERCEPTION OF STRUGGLING READERS


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A play on the classic House of Cards by Charles & Ray Eames. The Create-It-All deck is the perfect activity for holidays, parties, schools and business brainstorming activities.
Colorful panels on one side of the cards and a blank canvas on the other, awaiting your creative hand. The drawable cards in the Create-It-All deck cards can be used for drawings, collages, inspirational quotes, and much more. Unfetter your creativity! Cards can be enjoyed by the young and young of heart and link together with the Giant House of Cards.
The six slots on each card enable the player to interlock the cards so as to build structures of myriad shapes and sizes.
20 Cards. A blank canvas on one side and colorful panels on the other.
Cards measure 11.5" x 7.5"
Order 5+ decks and each deck is only $30.
Watch a 10,000 Create-It-All House of Cards structure be constructed & disassembled before your eyes!


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jscroggins necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
This has been in my head for about 8 years, and I am finally making the time in the evenings and weekends to get it done. My end goal (if I can get this off the ground) is to partner with different organizations (schools, etc..) to help youth battle the obesity epidemic and teach them the value of goal setting and achieving their objectives.
There are some similar sites out there that are way too technical for the average person, and others that are trying to appeal to folks who have never worked out before. FitPublic is trying to be somewhere in between.
The goal of FitPublic is to provide easy to use tools that help people track their progress against their fitness goals.
The target audience is people with fitness oriented lifestyles who are active in strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular training. They would have some familiarity with the exercises on the site, workout regularly, and may be in training for a sport or just passionate about fitness. A lot of these folks don't have the tools needed to continue to make progress and motivate which is where FitPublic helps out.
The types of workouts vary from weights, Crossfit, and cardio to plyometrics. FitPublic also has a meal and nutrition lookup and log, as well as suggested nutrient levels to achieve goals.
The site currently has about 50% of the functionality built and our goal is to go live in April of 2010. You can get an idea of the functionality, colors, and layout by going to http://126.96.36.199 (primarily test data is all that's there right now).
I am hoping for something that looks good in a single color (black or orange) and am pretty set on the colors unless you have something absolutely mind-blowing.
Why the current logo won't work (http://188.8.131.52):
- existing logo of dumbbell / barbell is played out
- the logo needs to convey sense of fitness, not just weightlifting. This doesn't have to be literal (could be a "strong" font etc..)
- appeals to both sexes and applicable to training for any sport
What I would like:
- a horizontal'ish design that fits in the existing layout would be ideal but not required
- needs to be clean and simple
- will need to be screen-printed on shirts and other clothes so can't have really small detail that will plug up
The name originally came from the concept of creating a nation (republic) of fit-minded people. If the logo can tie back to that then great. I was trying to go with something that you may see on a national flag but all I could come up with were communist looking fist designs which looked bad.
I appreciate the time from everyone that reads this, and more so to those that participate and help me out!
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Cheryl Arkison made this improv quilt and gave it the great name Your Parents Are Cool. The quilt keeps a great balance of looseness and structure with the different improvisation blocks put in the arrangement of a grid of blocks.
You can find Cheryl here, and she blogs at Dining Room Empire. She was nice enough to answer a few questions for us!
1. What is your favorite thing about improv piecing?
I often start a project without a finished product in mind. I grab a pile of fabric, attack it with an idea or concept (or not), then start sewing. Just to see where it goes. Improv is about process for me more than the final product or design. I believe in relishing and sharing the process, not just the final product. So, improv is perfect for a process oriented person like me.
Working your improv skills also means that you can handle the hiccups that come when you are a few blocks short of a planned design, when you run out of background fabric, or another colour begs to be included. If you've practiced improv piecing regularly you can handle these hiccups without hesitation.
What do you think makes this quilt modern?
2. This isn't a traditional block design. When I first made it I hadn't seen it anywhere before. Is it possible that I made something original? (Barring the inspiration, of course.)
Floating the graphic elements on the white background, with no extra sashing brings a modern element to the design. Bright colours and a spare setting add to that.
What inspired this quilt?
3. The quilt was completely inspired by the nursery decorations my BIL and SIL painted as they prepped for their first baby. I hadn't found a good concept for this baby quilt, and felt lots of pressure to produce something very cool for them. When they sent photos of the paint job they did in the nursery the proverbial light bulb went off. I didn't keep it precise like their graphic, but stuck with my favourite improv piecing to get it together.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
– The second of a two-part series on the vaccination controversy.
Recent concerns about vaccine safety have caused many parents to decide not to vaccinate their children.
In the 1990s, because of concerns about the increasing number of vaccines containing thimerosal, an ethyl mercury-containing preservative used to prevent contamination of multi-dose vials of vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged manufacturers to remove thimerosal from vaccines.
In 1999, as a precautionary measure, the Public Health Service (including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), CDC and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued two joint statements, urging vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal in vaccines as soon as possible.
This reaction triggered a flurry of media and other organizations to allege a cover-up by the CCD and vaccine manufacturers regarding the link between autism and thimerosal.
Although thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in 2001, autism rates continue to go up, which is the opposite of what would be expected if thimerosal caused autism.
"There was a number of vaccines in the late 1990s that contained preservatives like thimerosal, and as we added more and more vaccines that contained thimerosal to the schedule, the concern was that maybe we were giving children too much mercury and were inadvertently causing mercury toxicity,"said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "As a precaution, the decision was made by the CDC, by the American Academy of Pediatrics, to ask pharmaceutical companies to take thimerosal out of the vaccines."
Offit said it precipitated the notion that thimerosal was doing harm.
"The problem is mercury never sounds good," Offit said. "Given that mercury is in the environment, anybody who lives on this planet and drinks anything made from water, including breast milk and infant formula, are exposed to larger qualities of methyl mercury, which is the environmental mercury.
"It is much more dangerous and lives much longer in the body. Mercury is a neurotoxin at high quantities, but we all have mercury in our bodies because we live on the planet earth. We just don't have quantities that are dangerous and that is also true in vaccines."
Offit said that that the majority of vaccines do not contain thimerosal, with the exception of the flu vaccine. He added that there are thimerosal-free flu vaccines.
"It's a non issue," Offit said. "The scientific data confirms that thimerosal doesn't cause autism."
The Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee concluded in its report entitled "Vaccines and Autism" that thimerosal does not cause autism, nor does the MMR vaccine.
The report stated that "the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism" as well as a "rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism."
The hypothesis that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism was originally proposed in a highly publicized series of case reports published in 1998 in The Lancet, an international medical journal. The authors suggested that the onset of the symptoms of autism with gastrointestinal problems was temporally associated with the receipt of the MMR vaccine.
According to the CDC and the FDA, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
Study Retracted
In 2004, ten of the thirteen authors of that study formally retracted their suggestion of a possible link between MMR vaccine and autism in a journal article.
The report went on to say that more recent epidemiological studies, which were analyzed in a recent Institute of Medicine study, have consistently shown no evidence that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism.
"Five large studies in Sweden, Denmark, the United States and the United Kingdom consistently found no evidence of an association between thimerosal and autism," the report stated.
In a study published in 2003 in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Anders Hviid, that researched Danish children between 1990 and 1996 found that the number of children with autism increased after thimerosal was removed from vaccines.
Weighing the risks
"No vaccine can give you the disease," said Susan W. Nordlof, a nurse practitioner at Mt. Airy Pediatrics.
Nordlof said that the MMR vaccine prevents measles and two other viral diseases – mumps and rubella. She said MMR is a weakened live-virus vaccine.
Nordlof said that after the injection, the virus grows and causes a harmless infection in the vaccinated person with very few, if any, symptoms.
"The person's immune system fights the infection caused by these weakened viruses by producing antibodies," Nordlof said. "So, if you run into them again you're prepared to fight them off. What I tell kids is it's a superpower for their utility belt so they have the tool to fight that germ."
Offit said,"the odds are that you're going to get chicken pox and survive it and be fine," "However that virus will live in your nervous system, and when you get older – 60, 70, 80 years of age – it might reactivate and cause shingles," he said. "Shingles is not something you would wish on your enemy. It's enormously painful and lasts a long time. If you get the vaccine, the weakened virus will also live in your nervous system, but if it reactivates it is much less severe and lasts for less time.
Offit said that before the chicken pox vaccine was introduced in 1995, 70 to a 100 people died each year from chicken pox.
"Most of those people were previously healthy children," he said. "So, why take the chance? Why play Russian roulette? Even if there are a 100,000 empty chambers with one bullet, why do it?"
For more information about vaccines, go to www.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center


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Lenore Guest MacLeish, February 24, 2013 (b. Dec 1 1929), peacefully at her beloved retirement community of Cathedral Village, Andorra, after a long illness that she fought with courage, humor and remarkable grace. Survived by four loving children, Henry, Nell, Martha and Caroline Platt; their spouses (Claire Lehrman, Richard Neff, Marlis Kraft, Peter Gelpi); and twelve wonderful grandchildren and step-grandchildren. Religious service and celebration of Lenore MacLeish's life at Saint Mary's Episcopal Church of Cathedral Road, Andorra (Ridge Ave.), Friday March 22, at 2 p.m. Ashes will be interred privately at Saint Mary's Andorra, and in summer 2013, at her beloved childhood island of Jamestown RI. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Houston Fund, Cathedral Village, 600 E. Cathedral Road, Philadelphia 19128. Mom, we love you more than we can say, and will be proud of you forever.
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Friday, April 22, 2005
$35 Billion In Cash But No Tech Support
Don't get me wrong: it is an extremely profitable rut. But it is a rut all the same.
Right now, for example, I am typing the draft of this blog on a Microsoft Word program that came with the Microsoft Operating System that came with my Sony notebook.
The only reason I use Word is that Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems, and you can't buy a regular old personal computer that doesn't come with Microsoft software, which is too bad, because Microsoft software is terrible.
By that I don't mean it doesn't work, it's just that because Microsoft has a monopoly and sells Microsoft Word to everyone who uses a computer, Word is crammed with every single thing everyone who uses a computer might need, like "Palatino Linotype" fonts.
Which makes Word less like something a really creative software company invented, and more like something the old Phone Company would have come up with.
For example, there are more than 30 little buttons in the "Tool Bar" at the top of this version of Word, each with a symbol so that writers can merely click a button to accomplish a task. "Tool Bars" are cool, helpful devices that took some of the mystery out of using word processing programs, and I am pretty sure Microsoft did not invent them.
Microsoft was not ever in the business of inventing cool, helpful things. Microsoft saw other companies come out with cool, helpful things—like spreadsheets and word processors and calculators and databases and the "graphical user interface" itself—and copied them like Chinese companies copy American technology without ever paying for it and sell it for an impossibly low price.
When you have a monopoly—whether it's a country or a software developer—you can do that sort of thing.
In any event, some of the symbols on my Microsoft Word "Tool Bar" are easy to grasp, like the little icon of the floppy disk, which is clearly the "save" button.
Others are not so easy to grasp, such as the little greenish circle that looks sort of like the earth, only it has a chain beneath it. I am thinking this is the symbol of Microsoft owning the world monopoly on desktop computer software—millions of shlubs all around the world, chained to software that offers Palatino Linotype fonts and eighteen-zillion different ways to format text….but if you accidentally hit the 'insert' button you will type over things you've already written.
The most ridiculous part of the 'insert' button is that the only time I type over things I've already written is when I've accidentally hit the 'insert' button.
If Microsoft had the monopoly on car engines, I suspect there would be a dashboard button with some fancy symbol on it, which, if you pressed it by mistake, would instantly stop and restart your car engine, even if you were doing 80 miles an hour on Interstate 95.
And the only time you would ever know you had a function like that for your car is when you accidentally pressed the 'restart engine' button, right in the middle of Interstate 95.
But I digress.
After I finish writing this in Word, I will then copy it onto my Blogger Dashboard, which is Google's blogging service. Google provides the blogging service for free.
Unlike Microsoft software, Google's blogger is actually as simple to use as it says it is. And furthermore, unlike Microsoft software, when you have a problem with the Google blogger and you send an email to the Google Blogger Help Desk, somebody actually responds.
I had a problem with the Microsoft Network email last year. It was not the first time I ever had a problem with it, but it was an unusually bad problem: nobody was getting my emails. When the problem went away after a day or two, I emailed the unhelpful Microsoft Help Desk, and received an email saying they couldn't help me two months later.
I am not making that up.
So here we have two companies whose products I use every day:
1. Microsoft, whose motto could be "$35 Billion In Cash But No Tech Support," which makes overengineered NASA-type products, and charges monopoly pricing to people who have no other choice.
2. Google, which gives away searches, maps, blogging tools, satellite images...and offers tech support to boot.
Which is a better business?
Before you answer, consider this: Microsoft only gets paid once when somebody buys a computer. It's a lot of money, and it's at obscene profit margins—monopolies being what they are. But it's still only once in the life of that computer.
Google, on the other hand, has a chance to get paid every second of every minute of every day by somebody somewhere using the Internet who clicks on an ad Google has placed on one of those searches or maps or satellite images or blogs you have used. It's a tiny piece of change, not being monopolistically priced operating system software. But the pennies add up. (Last week's earnings report showed just how quickly those pennies are adding up for Google.)
And I will bet money that right now every half-smart Microsoft employee is thinking "Who needs this Fixing-Longhorn-Bug-Number-19,852 nonsense when I could be creating something really cool—like Google Maps...for a company with a future instead of a past?"
And since Gates can never duplicate Google and roll out a copy at a lower cost to the user like he did all those tool bars and spread sheets and GUIs—because Google is free—he can't stop it.
Because Google is the future.
And Microsoft is the past.
Jeff Matthews
I Am Not Making This Up
7 comments:
- Bob Crites said...
You have choices. The most obviouus is Macintosh. That's where I have hung out for years. No bugs. No virri. No spam. Just elegant software and hardware that works.
- Michael Comeau said...
There is an alternative and it is 100% free. www.openoffice.org is a very appealing alternative to Office, ESPECIALLY its word processing program. The spreadsheet program needs some polish, but the word processing programs is better than Microsft Word.
- whybothernotallowinganonymous said...
"The only reason I use Word is that Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems, and you can't buy a regular old personal computer that doesn't come with Microsoft software, which is too bad, because Microsoft software is terrible."
Wow you're pathetic. You think you know stuff (and you may), but you're amazingly ignorant as well (and you show it).
You do realize that "regular old personal computers" were created by Microsoft right? Software and hardware are symbiotic, if Billy and Paul hadn't coded up a nice little way of interacting with circuits on a small scale, you would only be imagining the concept of a "desktop computer", instead of owning one.
With that said... you actually CAN buy a computer without Microsoft software on it. Like bob crites said, you can go with one of the many other alternatives, or even just BUILD your own box and put whatever you want on it. This of course requires the knowledge and desire to do so, which you probably don't have, which unfortunately leads you to say something as retarded as "you can't buy a regular old personal computer that doesn't come with Microsoft software". God, that's just a stupid thing to say. It significantly dilutes your credibility of knowing anything relevant.
And that leads us to the last sentence... "Microsoft software is terrible." Jesus. Anyone who actually believes that (yes, anyone) is clueless and/or just plain dumb. You probably couldn't name half a dozen Microsoft programs outside of Windows and Office, yet you say something like that!? I'm not going to educate you other than to let you know you are wrong. It's sad really that you criticize and judge things that you obviously don't understand. What a terrible paragraph you wrote huh?
Also, as far as Google goes, do you really think that they will remain on top very long? 3 years ago Google was relatively nothing, yet you're going to pretend to know what will happen 3 years from now? I may be able to guess at something like that... but you? Go back to using your lame $700 computer that you don't understand and dislike. We're all laughing at you.
Oh and bob... "No bugs. No virri. No spam"... that's a nice little bubble you have there moron. Don't try to understand that more users and more sophisticated applications equals more potential problems because if you did, your fantasy world of one-button mice and pretty icons might crash down on you.
I've only read this site twice. And never again.
- bpl1000 said...
uh, Eric, "regular old personal computers" were invented by IBM. And, regular old DOS also was invented by IBM. Ironic, how IBM has very little to do with both businesses as of today...
That said, I would also have to say my life is hard to imagine with Microsoft products.
- whybothernotallowinganonymous said...
uh, bpl1000, "regular old personal computers" were created by IBM because Microsoft first wrote BASIC for the Altair (the birth of the PC) which to them was a proof of concept.
And "regular old DOS" was actually MS-DOS (based off of QDOS) which Microsoft wrote FOR IBM.
IBM has never had or made anything in the personal computing world before Microsoft made it possible.
This site is obviously a haven for the misinformed and i won't be a part of it.
- bpl1000 said...
At least we now both agree that MSFT did NOT create the first computer. I'm not sure why you give a hoot who made the first computer other than to prove that you're not stupid, which you haven't done.
- Sam (You know who I am) said...


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2012-13 Became the first two-time All-American in over decade after finishing in seventh place at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field National Championship meet in Wisconsin … Led the nation in the high jump with a leap of 7-01.00 feet, setting the program record as well, on March 14 at the Charlotte 49er Classic to win the event … Shattered the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Outdoor Championship meet record in the high jump to earn his second gold medal with a jump of 6-11.00 feet … Named the program's first Little East Conference Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year … Won the high jump four of the six times he competed in it during the outdoor season … Named Little East Conference Field Athlete of the Week on April 29 and on March 25 … Recorded his third best height of the year, 6-09.75 feet, twice first at the Tufts University Snowflake Classic on March 30 then at the NCAA Division III New England Regional meet on May 2.
2011-12 Became the first NCAA Division III All-American at UMass Boston in over a decade ... Set the program and Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championship meet record in the high jump with a leap of 6-10.25 feet ... Won the gold at the conference championship meet ... Won the high jump event in every meet he competed in during his rookie outdoor season except one.
PERSONAL/HIGH SCHOOL Played football, basketball and track at Brockton High School ... Was All-Scholastic and All-Conference in track ... Tied the school record in the high jump ...Plans on competing on the UMass Boston outdoor track and field team ... Has one sister, Jessica ... Son of Marie and Jocelyn Joseph ... Born April 28, 1993 ... Currently undecided on his major ... Also a member of the UMass Boston men's basketball team ... Named Little East Conference All-Rookie Team selection with the Beacons basketball team
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