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Boston Architectural College
The Boston Architectural is pleased to announce that the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) has granted six-year accreditation to the BAC's Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, and distance Master of Architecture programs.
NAAB, the sole agency authorized to accredit US professional degree programs in architecture, grants 6-year, 3-year, and 2-year terms of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.
BAC President Ted Landsmark comments, "As the BAC stands at the forefront of practice-based design education, our status as a fully-accredited professional college reflects the rigor we apply toward assessing how well our graduates are achieving important learning outcomes through diverse and innovative approaches to teaching. We continue to refine and advance our distinctive approaches to pragmatic, cross-disciplinary, socially-conscious, and global design learning and public service, and we are appreciative of NAAB's assessment of our strengths and evolving approaches to continuously improving professional design education. I extend my thanks to the dedicated faculty, practitioners, staff and students whose shared work demonstrates the value of our model of practice-based design learning."
The NAAB mission is to develop and maintain a system of accreditation in professional architecture education that is responsive to the needs of society and allows institutions with varying resources and circumstances to evolve according to their individual needs. The accreditation process is intended to verify that each accredited program substantially meets standards that comprise an appropriate education for an architect. The curriculum standards ensure that graduates will be technically competent, critical thinkers who are capable of defining multiple career paths within a changing societal context.


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Geothermal Firms Want Same Incentives as Wind and Solar
Geothermal energy companies in Massachusetts are working together to get geothermal the same tax incentives and other benefits that solar, wind and biogas have in the commonwealth now. A bill filed in the Statehouse by Sen. Barry Finegold of Andover would add geothermal to the list of alternative energy sources that currently receive those benefits. A federal tax credit of 30 percent for the installation of geothermal systems in homes (not rental properties) already exists. In other parts of the country, particularly the West, large geothermal facilities generate electricity. In the Northeast, the emphasis is on geothermal energy for climatization in homes and other buildings. As Finegold explained in a statement about the bill in May, "For the last decade, the Commonwealth has been a leader in promoting technologies that generate renewable electricity. But until now, our renewable energy strategy has lacked similar incentives for renewable heating fuels."
Geothermal systems use underground temperature to even out the climate inside buildings, keeping them warmer in winter and cooler in hot summer weather than the ambient air. Unlike wind and solar, geothermal energy is constant, unaffected by variations in weather. Geothermal systems are exceptionally quiet when they are operating, and can now be checked and managed remotely by homeowners.
According to one industry estimate, there are 5,000 geothermal projects in Massachusetts today; one of the most highly publicized is the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Boston Nature Center. In Western Mass., Williston Academy in Easthampton has a dorm climatized with a geothermal system, Monument Valley Regional Middle School in Great Barrington uses a geothermal system, and a small but growing number of private homes are heated and cooled with geothermal energy.•
Pimping Out the Tooth Fairy
For generations, the tooth fairy ritual played out like this: a kid lost a tooth, tucked it under his or her pillow and the next morning found it had been replaced by some sort of reward. Sure, the value of the reward might vary—a quarter, a dollar, maybe more (although please, keep it to yourself if the tooth fairy leaves a sawbuck in your house)—but the storyline was pretty simple.
But now the tooth fairy has become the latest symbol of childhood innocence to fall victim to commercialization. A company called The Royal Council of the Real Fairyland has launched a line of licensed tooth-fairy products—jewelry, clothing, party supplies, books—aimed a little girls, sold via an explosively pink and purple website. The products feature the "Real Tooth Fairies," six rather glamorous if skimpily dressed young women—four white; two with slightly darker skin—with names like "Twinkle" and "Brigitte." For comic relief, there's also a wannabe fairy named "Stepella," a decidedly less glam gal (she wears glasses and lacks the va-va-voom figure of the in-crowd fairies) whose online bio describes her as a prankster, "always there to lighten to [sic] mood with funny jokes and Polka-Dotchoo-Gotchoo cookies!"
The "real" fairies have gone viral in recent weeks, thanks to the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, which discovered and then began circulating a video pitch made by the company for potential investors. Over footage of little girls enraptured by the Barbie-esque fairies, a narrator notes the untapped market the tooth fairy ritual offers: "Every night, millions of children around the world put a lost tooth under their pillow and wait for the Tooth Fairy to come. … What if this moment of real-life magic that kids and parents already buy into could be captured into a Tooth Fairy brand that girls love?"
The video then cuts to Paul Yanover, a former Disney executive, who enthuses: "[W]hat's really amazing is, here's literally the opportunity to create a brand new holiday that's going to happen multiple times. I mean, kids are going to lose many teeth over the course of several years and each tooth is really a holiday moment. And I think the opportunities that that creates, from gifting to greeting cards to collecting, it's just a massive opportunity."
How massive? The video does the math, over a sound effect of a cash-register "cha-ching": 10 million American girls aged six to 10, times 20 baby teeth per kid, equals "200 million tooth fairy moments. … And biology guarantees that will never stop."
"Up until now, the Tooth Fairy has resided in the public domain of children's imagination," Susan Linn, CCFC's director, said in a press release. "The Real Tooth Fairies is an egregious attempt to commercialize an inevitable biological milestone, the celebration of which has always been the purview of family ritual. In Real Fairyland, branding replaces children's own creations with homogenized, corporate-constructed, sexualized images, constricting both imagination and cultural diversity."
CCFC has launched a "Save the Tooth Fairy" campaign, urging parents to write to the "Royal Council" expressing their dismay at the effort. An online petition can be found at http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org, along with a transcript of the video. (The original was taken down from YouTube after CCFC began drawing attention to it.)
And lest you think gap-toothed little boys will be spared this latest assault on childhood innocence, brace yourself for the companion Time Travel Elffs, who look like a '90s boy band but carry swords and crossbows. "Now every boy can have an ACTION-PACKED lost tooth experience!" promises the website—and, apparently, do so without the indignity of being visited by a "fairy."•
UMass Gets Windfall for Life Sciences
Tens of millions of dollars have been rolling into UMass-Amherst from the state this summer for initiatives aimed at consolidating Massachusetts' position as a power in the growing field of life sciences.
The largest grant given so far under a six-year-old billion-dollar life sciences program established by Gov. Deval Patrick—a grant of $95 million—will go to UMass-Amherst, to fill its already existing $157-million life sciences laboratories with equipment and help establish research centers that will partner with private corporations.
Another $5.5 million will to go the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute in the North End of Springfield. The institute, whose researchers study cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders, is a joint venture between UMass and Baystate Medical Center.
The money comes through the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, which oversees disbursal of the $1 billion. The MLSC also feeds the Massachusetts Accelerator for Biomanufacturing connected with UMass-Dartmouth. The Accelerator is a part of the South Coast Life Science and Technology Park, established to be a center for the biopharma industry in the southeast region of the state.
Biopharma is the production of drugs from living organisms, and includes drugs produced by genetic engineering. One of its better-known products, for example, is ATryn, an anticoagulant produced by goats genetically engineered to secrete it in their milk; ATryn was developed by GTC Biotherapeutics of Framingham. According to the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, an industry group, the number of jobs in biopharma in Massachusetts has increased by 52 percent in the last 10 years.• —SK
MGM Competitors Haven't Left the Table
Though MGM's success in winning a referendum favoring its casino proposal for Springfield has grabbed headlines, other casino proposals for Western Mass. are far from dead.
West Springfield has been handed a check for $400,000 following the signing of a host community agreement between the city and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino of New England, which is targeting the Eastern States Exposition grounds in the town as a site for an $800 million casino. The agreement would give the city more than $40 million before the casino would be built; $35 million of that would go for traffic and transportation upgrades.
But voters in West Springfield must approve the host community agreement, as Springfield voters have approved that city's agreement with MGM. A vote is scheduled for September 10, just three days before the beginning of this year's Eastern States Exposition.
Another casino company, Mohegan Sun, received a setback recently in its longtime effort to site a casino resort in Palmer, a small town without conspicuous tourist attractions but with easy access to the Mass Turnpike and other highways. The Federal Highway Administration refused to approve Mohegan Sun's request for a flyover from the Turnpike to the casino property because the ramp leading from the road would go into the driveway leading to the casino, a private business.
Like West Springfield, Palmer is expected to hold a vote on a host community agreement in September.
The state will only issue one license for a casino in Western Massachusetts, so the two companies are in competition with each other and with MGM, which has already won the approval of voters in the region's largest city.• —SK
Staffing Cuts at Vermont Yankee
The owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, Entergy of Louisiana, has announced that it will cut its work force at the plant to save costs. The news has residents of the Brattleboro area and northwestern Massachusetts concerned that the aging plant may not be operated safely with its workforce of 650 cut, possibly by as much as 10 percent, according to a source inside the plant. The company has promised that the cuts "will not compromise safety." Cuts are also expected at another Entergy property, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth.
The company's actions have given rise to speculation about how far things would have to go before Entergy would shut down Vermont Yankee. Last winter UBS, a leading Swiss financial services firm, predicted that Entergy would close one of its nuclear plants this year, and called Vermont Yankee "the most tenuously positioned plant."
Last year, in a filing with the federal Securities Exchange Commission, Entergy stated that the value of the plant had fallen from $517 million to $162 million. The Massachusetts-based Citizens Awareness Network and other organizations have petitioned the NRC to suspend Vermont Yankee's license, charging that Entergy does not have the financial resources to operate the plant.• —SK

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WingsIronOre needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 101 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
Need a logo for an iron ore mine and pig iron producer. The company name is Wings Enterprieses Inc.
FYI: Fe is the symble for Iron.
I would like to encorporate Wings into the Logo if possible. Any other ideas would also be considered.
Wings is developing the newest mine and pig iron technologies in the United States. Wings will encorporate near-zero emission pollution control equipment and co-generation of electric power.
Wings will be creating hundereds of jobs and offsetting about $1 billion per year in pig iron exports.
This will be the most modern facility in the world.
- Item 1... A strong company logo.
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Just a small change to help things out, and create less questions and future releases of Traktor become available.
Each time someone uploads a new MAPPING they created,
they need to currently list the SOFTWARE the mapping is created / tested / used on
for example here
On the right side it says the SOFTWARE is Traktor
but which version of traktor is it available for?
If it can include a version number, that would help alot because say 6 months or even 2 years from now
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FAQs Regarding the Bachelor of Science in Music Education Degree Program
- What are the entrance requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Music Education Degree Program?To be considered for the Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree program at WCSU you must first pass an audition as well as meet the academic entrance requirements. For information regarding the audition process, please click here.
- How long will it take for me to finish my degree in music education?Most students entering into the BS in Music Education degree program complete the 120 credits in four years, provided they follow the recommended course sequence. Some students take longer, depending on their individual academic situations. For example, students who are required to take remedial courses in Mathematics and Writing may take longer.
- Many universities are offering five-year programs in music education that promise a masters degree in addition to a bachelor degree. Can I do this at WCSU?Most universities that offer five-year programs, with an integrated masters degree do not offer a masters degree within the content area of music education, but rather add on a Master of Arts in Education degree, or a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. As a result, the majority of the graduate work is taken outside of the critical areas of music and music education. While students indeed acquire a Master of Arts degree in such programs, there is little emphasis placed on core music and music education subjects such as music history, music theory, pedagogy and performance. In the near future, state certification boards will require that the masters degree be in the content area specific to the discipline, rendering such general master of arts programs obsolete.WCSU offers a traditional Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree and a traditional Master of Science in Music Education degree. Upon graduation with their BS in Music Education, students are free to pursue their graduate studies in music education or performance at any of the fine regional or national institutions offering these programs, including WCSU. Students undertaking traditional graduate degrees in music, including the MS in Music Education degree at WCSU, are typically offered opportunities to pursue specialized programs that include courses in music education, pedagogy, music history, music theory, music technology, and performance.
- Universities with 5-year programs claim that I will enter the job market sooner and will be more employable than if I attend a traditional 4-year program. Is this true?There is no evidence to support such claims, and in fact, if a student completes their bachelor degree in four years, they will actually enter the job market a year sooner than a student completing a 5-year program. Since there are numerous regional graduate programs in music and music education that cater to newly hired teachers, many music educators throughout the tri-state area complete their graduate work while gainfully employed in their teaching jobs.
- What are my chances of landing a teaching job when I graduate?Over the past 10 years the placement record for graduates of the music education degree program have been nearly 100%. Considering the current state of the economy, and the tendency to cut back in arts programs in the public schools during such times, it is safe to say that the placement rate could be less than 100% in the next few years. The placement rate for fall 2017 was 100%.


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Dia de los Muertos
Posted by Tony & Cheri on October 15, 2012
Autumn in Mexico brings a cross-cultural pollination of holiday celebrations. Ancient traditions of mystery and magic from the Mayan and Aztec people combine with modern party vibes of the Caribbean and North America to make this one of the most fun times of the year here in Playa del Carmen.
The traditional Mexican Autumn holiday is called Dia de los Muertos, or "The Day of the Dead," and takes place on November 1st and 2nd. While sounding a bit scary, the holiday is actually a family-oriented celebration of life and a remembrance of loved ones who have passed on. The evening of November 1st is called La Noche de Duelo or Night for Mourning. On this evening it is said that the spirits of departed loved ones return to earth. Families gather for holiday meals which include the traditional pan de muerto or Dead Bread, which is a sweet cinnamon bread baked in a circular pattern. The spirits are welcomed and their lives remembered with feasting, drinking and music. Then on November 2nd, people will often visit the graves of family members and have picnics or other celebrations at the cemetery.
Dia de los Muertos is also celebrated by the building of ofrendas, or altars, in the memory of those who have died. These altars are decorated with photos, favorite food and drinks of the deceased along with brightly colored flowers, candles and ribbons. In addition decorations for homes, stores and schools feature images of skeletons in clothing going about their daily lives, often in humorous poses. In the same vein, candied skulls with frosting decorations are very popular among children. The idea behind such decorations is to remember that death is part of the cycle of life, and that rather than fear it we should learn to accept and even laugh at it.
We love this tradition and we build our own ofrendas each year for our friends and family who are no longer with us. For some photos and more stories about our ofrendas please take a look at our past blog entries: Day of the Dead and Mexico's Day of the Dead Alive and Well in Playa del Carmen.
While the celebration of Day of the Dead tends to be a family affair, the famous eco-park of Xcaret here in Playa holds a huge annual public presentation with art, music and dance to celebrate and explain this holiday which predates the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For a great description and some wonderful photos of the park's displays and activities please visit our friend Michele's blog entry from a few years back: A Celebration of Life and Death at Xcaret.
Of course Playa has always been a magnet for many cultures, and so it is no surprise that the American version of Halloween has made its way down here. Many local Mexican children have fully embraced the fun of wearing costumes and running through the streets begging for candy. Stores like Walmart now feature the same costumes and decorations one sees back in the United States–something that was not true even a few years back when we moved here to Mexico. Bags of candy marked for Halloween and even pumpkins to carve as Jack o' Lanterns are also commonly seen. On Halloween night (and for a few nights before and after), costumed children dressed as devils and witches and favorite superheroes will flood the resort zone pedestrian mall of 5th Avenue, running between the stores, cafes and restaurants asking for treats.
And it's not just the kids who celebrate Halloween here in Mexico. Tourists and visitors arriving in Playa for the last days of the month of October will find there are plenty of fun and unique activities. For example our friends at the Mexico Blue Dream Dive Shop are holding a Pumpkin Carving Contest. However this contest has a Caribbean twist–it is held underwater in scuba gear! For details go to their Facebook event announcement.
There will also be plenty of adult costume parties at many of the bars here in town. Costumes that range from creatively funny to shockingly sexy will be seen up and down the resort zone's 5th Avenue on Halloween night. The biggest and best of those parties is always the one at the Luna Blue Bar. There will be live music with the legendary troubadour of the Caribbean Coast, Barefoot Skinny. We will have costume contests with prizes for the best and the sexiest costumes. The pool will be open so bar patrons can have their margaritas floating in the pool. Playa's best bartender, Jorge Sierra, will be pouring the drinks and there will be surprises and fun all night long from 7 pm until the witching hour of midnight. For some photos of our parties of previous years, please click here.
The fun doesn't stop after Halloween. The beautiful fall weather here (average temperature around 83 degrees) is perfect for some of our other fall events like The Annual Riviera Maya Jazz Festival which features free concerts by internationally acclaimed musicians right on the beach. And America's Thanksgiving Day/weekend is also a big celebration down here. Many restaurants will serve special dinners with turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings. Imagine having your turkey feast only steps from the blue water of the Caribbean Sea. Now that's something to be thankful about.
Before plunging into the craziness of the holiday rush, why not treat yourself to a few days of pleasure here in Mexico at the award-winning Luna Blue Hotel & Bar. It's a gorgeous time of year to be in paradise.
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3 Responses to "Dia de los Muertos"
October 15, 2012 at 7:28 pm
We will be down Thanksgiving week this year, cool to know I can still get my turkey fix! Looking forward to seeing Jorge and you two if you are in town.
Sharon & Joe
October 16, 2012 at 7:15 am
Great article about my favorite Mexican holiday!!


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Haha that's a good one
A guy is walking back from the lake on a wooded path with some fish in a bucket. He saw a game warden walking his way, so he throws his fishing pole in the high weeds. The warden meets him up the trail and asks to see his license. The man says he doesn't have one, and that he hadn't been fishing. The warden asks how he got the fish he was toting around. He said they were his pet fish and he brings them to the lake and puts them in for ten minutes so they could get their exercise. When they are done, they swim back into the bucket. The warden starts laughing and says that's the best excuse he's ever heard. The man says it's the truth and that he would show him if he didn't believe it. The warden said I got to see this. So They go to the lake and put the fish in and they wait for awhile. 10 minutes had passed and the game warden asked the man, so where are your fish? The man calmly ask the warden, what fish?
I have strong opinions about God, Guns, Guitars and Harley Davidsons, I can remain open minded about everything else.
Member of Pope & Young, and Buckeye Big Buck Club.
Member of the Bloody Blazers, 2011-2012 team challenge winners.
I had a friend that used to go fishing all the time NO lic
and he always told me IF a warden asked him, his answer was he was just practicing
and wasn't going to buy a lic until he was good at his lure presentation , casting and all that stuff! HAHA!
just like bow hunting he said
he had to practice and be good at shooting before he would hunt LOL
NOT sure how that works, but I always laughed when he told me that
he said the KEY was never to keep any fish, to back up the story LOL
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Direct your attention to the video at the top of this post for the most outrageous sporting spectacle in Star Wars: The Old Republic: Huttball!
When the Sith Empire and the Republic get tired of shooting each other dead and hacking off limbs with glowing swords, they need to let off a little steam. And what better way to relax after a hard day of dying than some more dying, only this time with a ball involved?
Huttball is an arena sport in which two teams try to get a ball into the other team's goal. It's essentially capture the flag, only the flag can be tossed back and forth, and the field is littered with entertaining death traps. Not only can Imperial teams face off against Republic teams, players can take on teams from their own faction as well.
That's right, Jedi versus Jedi, Sith versus Sith! The Bounty Hunter has become the bounty hunted!
I could see myself getting way too into this. Perhaps I already have.
You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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The Hills are Still alive with the Sound of Music! Fans of the Sound of Music movie will love being in Salzburg as here you'll be able to visit some of the film locations and re-live the movie. Many tour companies do a one day tour of Salzburg, visiting some of the main film locations. It's … [Read more...]
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A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades.
The sheriff of rural Meriwether County told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division of Family and Child Services, who contacted police.
Sheriff Steve Whitlock said 38-year-old Lynn Middlebrooks Geter of Warm Springs faces one charge each of animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery.
The sheriff's office said she remained in the Meriwether County jail early Friday. It was not immediately known if she had a lawyer.
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Note: With the Chestnut Hill Fund Drive in full swing, we checked in with past grantees and their constituents about how the generosity of the community has helped them. This week, we hear from Haviva Goldman, President of the Friends of J.S. Jenks. Last year, the combined groups working to support Jenks received a $1,000 grant to support an ongoing auditorium improvement project and $3,000 for maintenance of the Children's Park.
The Chestnut Hill Community Fund has provided generous funding to the J.S. Jenks School over the past few years, demonstrating a commitment to the school as an integral part of the Chestnut Hill community. For the past three years, the school has received funding to support a continuing auditorium improvement project – specifically the purchase and installation of a large projection screen and system.
This has allowed the school to introduce multi-media presentations into auditorium assemblies, and thus benefits the entire Jenks student body. This support has also helped provide the first step towards renewing the space into one that might be used more by the Chestnut Hill Community as a whole.
As the school and the Friends of J.S. Jenks (its new nonprofit fund-raising arm) move forward with plans for more extensive auditorium improvements, we hope that continued community support from the CHCF will help transform this space into a community hub.
There is another space at Jenks that is already a true community space: the beautiful wooden children's playground. The Chestnut Hill Community Fund has provided many years of funding support to the Friends of the Children's Park – a nonprofit organization that formed originally to create the playground, and works to maintain it.
On weekdays the playground provides much needed play space during student recess, and outside of school hours it provides a fun and central place for children and families to enjoy from all over Chestnut Hill and its surrounding communities.
The Chestnut Hill Community Fund provides crucial funding to local institutions and nonprofits like J.S. Jenks, helping to enhance their impact in the community, and thus strengthening the community as a whole. Please consider supporting their annual fundraising drive generously!
Haviva Goldman
President, Friends of J.S. Jenks
To make a donation to the Chestnut Hill Community Fund, visit chestnuthill.org or Town Hall at 8434 Germantown Avenue. The Fund Drive will continue through the end of March.


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Croatbag necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 70 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
We are a website that connects parents looking for child care services and child care providers. We would like to come across as a professional resource of information and child care contacts.
The target is a parent or guardian who is looking to find a child care center for their kids.
We are renaming our website, but you can check the original site below and see the color scheme. The current logo is to be replaced the rest of the site remains. The new logo does not have to match the look of this one, in fact I'd be more open to seeing different ideas but the color scheme should be similar.
As for type of logo we are looking for either font effects, an image worked into the name, or some combination of both. I would like to keep it fairly clean and not overly detailed or ornate. No large dominant single images please. Also please keep the look of the logo in a rectangular shape if possible so it fits in the upper left corner.
The logo should not be overly childish as children are not the target audience.
Design should say TheChildCareResource.com
The files we will require are:
A high resolution file for Print.
Web file format - .jpg, layered .psd (RGB)
Any other essential formats. In black and white and color
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In this post, I will describe what my project is all about. What is it that I intend to do, why do I intend to do it, and how?
Haskell is a pure functional programming language. Pure functional means that the entire program is treated as the evaluation of an expression; the word pure indicates that such an expression can have no side effects. Hence, no modification of variables, no reading from disk, no drawing to the screen. Of course Haskell wouldn't be very useful if it couldn't do all those things, but indeed it can. The language is now growing out from its origins in computer science research, as more and more people begin to realize that purity and strict typing are good things. Although the initial effort that goes into a program may be a bit more than with more mainstream languages, these language features guarantee a certain degree of correctness that impure, dynamically typed, or imperative languages can never achieve.
However, I believe that the further acceptance of Haskell is held back by a lack of tooling. There is an great compiler, great libraries and a great package management system, but there is no really great IDE (Integrated Development Environment). A good IDE would not only be a great time saver for seasoned Haskell developers; it would also be of much assistance to newbies who want to learn the language.
There is Leksah (Haskell spelled backwards, missing an L), but it is still under heavy development and not yet in a really usable state. Yi is an editor written in Haskell, but it does not qualify as a full IDE. Either way, there is no reason to build yet another IDE from scratch when a perfectly good option is readily available.
Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs for the imperative programming language Java, and it is also written in Java. I worked with it years ago and hated it. It was unwieldy, incomprehensible and terribly slow to boot. But recently I was forced to work with it again, and I was pleasantly surprised. Because it is a very powerful IDE there are still many knobs and dials, but they are generally in sensible places and can be understood without a manual. The speed has also improved greatly. But the best thing about Eclipse is its feature set. It has clever code completion. It has a powerful build system. It has refactoring features that outdo even the latest Visual Studio releases from Microsoft. And it is not just about Java: rumour has it that Eclipse can also be used for C++ development, PHP… and Haskell.
Indeed it can. EclipseFP (which stands for Eclipse Functional Programming) is a plugin for Eclipse that allows for Haskell development. (It also contains discontinued support for OCaml.) Unfortunately, EclipseFP is only marginally usable, does not offer half as many useful features as it could, and has been standing still for almost a year. I figured that's a shame, so I decided to try and see if I could improve this situation. Thomas Schilling a.k.a. nominolo has graciously offered to be my mentor, for which I am vary grateful. Leif Frenzel, the original author of EclipseFP, has also offered his help, so I am in good hands.
I will start by fixing small bugs and making little improvements here and there. This way, I will familiarize myself with the source code of EclipseFP and with the Eclipse plugin system.
Next, the real work will start. The current EclipseFP does its own parsing of Haskell, which is a duplication of work: there is already a perfectly good Haskell parser and typechecker available in the form of the compiler, GHC. The Scion library was developed (by the aforementioned nominolo) specifically for interfacing with GHC. Thus, my next course of action will be to hook EclipseFP up to Scion.
This opens up many exciting possibilities. The type of an identifier could be shown in a tooltip when you hover the mouse cursor over it. Inferred type signatures could be automatically added to functions. Type errors and other compile errors could be highlighted with red squiggly lines. It could be possible to Ctrl+click on an identifier to jump to its definition.
Near the end of the project, I will add support for the Haskell package manager and build system Cabal. EclipseFP currently uses its own build files, but using a Cabal file would greatly simplify the transition to Eclipse + EclipseFP and also allow for easier integration with existing libraries. Some IDE support in writing the Cabal file would also be great.
So, that's the plan for the next months. It will be a bumpy ride. It will be difficult at times. But I'm definitely going to learn a lot, and will hopefully even turn out a useful product!


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Exterior view of the Suedwestpark Forum. Viewpoint is on the path between the fountains straight at the main entrance.
The panorama was taking in wintertime.
Wikipedia: Nuremberg (not to be confused with Nürburg) (German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏɐ̯nbɛɐ̯k]) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city. It is located about 170 kilometres north of Munich, at 49.27° N 11.5° E. The population (as of January 2006) is 500,132.


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About a year ago, actor-author-producer Paul Reiser decided to return to standup comedy. He hadn't really done the whole comedy-club tour thing in about 20 years.
"People said, 'Hey, it's like riding a bike … ' " Reiser recalls. "And I said, 'No, it's like pushing a bike up a hill with your eye. Eventually, you and the bike get there, but there is a lot of pain."
That said, Reiser sounds like he is riding downhill, no hands.
"I've been so surprised at how good it feels," he says from his Los Angeles home a few days before a two-night set at the Palm Beach Improv. "I reminded myself that this is what I wanted to do from the beginning, before all the acting and the books, I was a comic."
Reiser's acting career, of course, began with his first real job, on Barry Levinson's cult hit "Diner," continued on the popular sitcom "Mad About You," and most recently included Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic for HBO, "Behind the Candelabra." Reiser has a small role as the attorney for Liberace's jilted companion, played by Matt Damon.
"Yes, somebody called and said, 'Do you want to be Matt Damon's lawyer?' And I said, sure I'll be right down. I'll have him out in 20 minutes,' " Reiser cracks. "But it was a really fun experience."
Reiser still marvels at the enduring appeal of "Diner," which Vanity Fair recently called "the most influential movie of the past 30 years." He finally got around to showing the comedy to his 12-year-old son, and the screening came with a warning.
"I told him, 'It's a comedy, but not funny in the way you think of a comedy. There's no Will Ferrell in a mustache,' " Reiser recalls. "I was greatly relieved that he said he liked it. His first comment was that he couldn't believe I was ever that young."
The 56-year-old New York native says his standup act is exactly what fans should expect from the mind that produced "Mad About You" and the best sellers "Couplehood," "Babyhood" and "Familyhood." He's still flummoxed and fascinated by the "nooks and crannies of relationships and kids."
But audiences may notice a more happy and relaxed Reiser.
"There's a comfort level I don't remember having the first time around," he says. "Now, people come and they know me. It's like getting together with old friends you haven't seen in a while."
Reiser will perform 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and 7 and 9:45 p.m. Saturday at the Palm Beach Improv (550 S. Rosemary St., West Palm Beach). Tickets: $25. Info: 561-833-1812, PalmBeachImprov.com.
A summer tradition in downtown Fort Lauderdale for 35 years, the Bank of America Starlight Musicals will again bring free live music, picnic baskets and curious dance moves to Holiday Park (1300 E. Sunrise Blvd.) beginning Friday. The concert series, which runs 7-10 p.m. each Friday through Aug. 2, gets going with a bluesy bang: the Jeff Prine Group, featuring the great Juanita Dixon, Joey Gilmore and Rita Wilburn. For planning purposes, here's the lineup for the rest of the summer: June 21: Beatles covers from Across the Universe; June 28: modern rock from the Edge Band; July 5: Motown blues with the Valerie Tyson Band; July 12: country from Shadow Creek; July 19: trumpet-fueled classics (Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears) by Brass Evolution; July 26: Buffett-style tropical rock from Jimmy Stowe and the Stowaways; Aug. 2: classic rock from Weedline. Admission/parking: Free. Info: 954-828-5363, FortLauderdale.gov/Starlight.
If you want to see one of the reasons that Jacob Edgar, host of the PBS TV travelogue series "Music Voyager," was so entranced by Hollywood on the episode that premiered on WPBT Tuesday night, check out Destination Cuenca. That's the name of the third-Saturday event, coinciding with the monthly downtown art walk, that brings live music and conviviality to Cuenca Cigars (1250 Harrison St.). The Cuban percussion of Oriente, one of the bands featured on "Music Voyager," will be a main draw, along with beer, wine and cigar specials. Info: 866-417-9454, Facebook.com/Cuenca.Cigars.Hollywood; VisitHollywoodFL.org/ArtWalk. Note: The "Music Voyager" profile of Hollywood will be repeated on WPBT at 10:30 p.m. July 12.
Author and screenwriter Dan Wakefield, who wrote one of my favorite books about the creative melting pot that was "New York in the Fifties," is the Writer in Residence June 14-18 at The Betsy Hotel (1440 Ocean Drive), the stylish South Beach inn that has a room set aside for novelists, poets and other ink-stained ne'er-do-wells. At 5 p.m. Friday, Wakefield will discuss his work, including the recently published "Kurt Vonnegut Letters," based on his lifelong friendship with the novelist. Info: email@example.com. Meanwhile, a retrospective of New York art and politics called "The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951" is up for its final weekend at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. The show includes more than 175 images from the era's well-known photographers, from Berenice Abbot to Weegee. Info: Norton.org.
Hilarious in scenes from "Rock of Ages" filmed at Revolution Live, but less so during the downward spiral of his marriage to Katy Perry, Russell Brand remains an acquired taste. But taste him we probably will when he brings his Messiah Complex Tour to Coral Springs Center for the Arts on Sept. 22. The show, as indicated in the title, takes issue with "the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability." Says Brand in a press blurb: "I dedicate this Messiah Complex tour to the four men that are its subject, Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Jesus — I know this is what they would have wanted. If this is the end of the world, I am going out laughing with an erection." Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at CoralSpringsCenterForTheArts.com and LiveNation.com.
Hard to say what is haunting Trent Reznor now, but we are happy for his turmoil. Nine Inch Nails, which went on what looked like a permanent hiatus with the band's 2009 Wave Goodbye Tour, this week announced a tour in support of an album Reznor says he's been secretly recording for the past year, "Hesitation Marks," due out Sept. 3. The touring lineup for NIN is Reznor, Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini, Ilan Rubin and Josh Eustis. Ace guitarist Adrian Belew (King Crimson) last week walked away from the NIN tour, according to our friends at the Los Angeles Times. Our loss. News of the tour, which includes an Oct. 30 stop at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, came with the release of a new single, "Came Back Haunted," a dark and dirty anthem that reminds us what dance music can be in the proper hands. "I am not who I used to be!" Reznor bellows. "I said goodbye, but I had to try. I came back haunted!" Nine Inch Nails tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. June 28 at LiveNation.com. Price: $35.50-$95.25. Advance tickets will be available June 27 if you register at NIN.com.
Two of our favorite local bands this weekend play rooms that best show off their unique energy: On Friday, the pedal-steel-driven blues and gospel of the Lee Boys will rattle the walls at the Bamboo Room (25 S. J St., Lake Worth). Tickets cost $10/$12. Info: 561-585-2583, BambooRoomBlues.com. On Saturday, the Spam Allstars unleash their Latin Grammy-nominated "electronic descarga" at The Stage (170 NE 38th St., Miami). But get this: On the bill with the Allstars? The Lee Boys. Tickets: $10/$15. Info: 305-576-9577, TheStageMiami.com.
Some favorite local rock acts of the past few decades get together for a two-day benefit concert for compatriot John Tovar at Tobacco Road (626 S. Miami Ave., Miami) Friday and Saturday night. Nuclear Valdez, Charlie Pickett, Dyslexic Postcards, Black Janet, John and Jim Camacho, Forget the Name and DJ Alan Trueba will be among the performers raising money for Tovar, the influential manager of the Spooky Kids, Marilyn Manson and the Mavericks, who recently lost his mother after lengthy illness. Tickets: $10, $15 for two-day pass. Info: 305-374-1198, Tobacco-Road.com.
More uniquely local music will be heard when influential Miccosukee rocker Lee Tiger and his band Tiger Tiger perform a free show of material from the new album "New Era" on Saturday in the Green Room (109 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Tiger Tiger, one of the most-prolific bands in the Native American Rock Music movement in the 1970s, has kept a low profile since the death of founding member Stephen, Lee's brother, after a fall in 2006. Tiger Tiger (including guitarist Raiford Starke, Jon Gabriel on bass and John Morello on drums) will perform beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. First 10 fans in the door get a free copy of "New Era." Info: 954-370-3900, TigerTigerMusic.com.
Finding a good Armenian restaurant was not at the top of my weekend to-do list, until I talked to the Miami-based singer Egine, who is attractive even through the phone. Egine was born in Yerevan to Armenian parents who moved to Moscow, where she spent most of her youth. When she moved to Miami five years ago, it took her some time to find an Armenian restaurant that has food prepared the way she remembers from home. But she did: the Hollywood Grill (905 N. Broadwalk), which specializes in "Armenian and Russian Fine Cuisine." "It's the one place that has what I like," Egine says. By which she means? "Probably the meat. I love meat. And salads. Everything about Armenian food is different. It's hard to find," she says. Indeed, the Hollywood Grill does tout its grilled steak, called "khorovats." I'm not saying that you'll see Egine if you go to the Hollywood Grill, but who knows? You'll definitely remember it. Info: 954-272-2525, Hollywood-Grill.net.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Rationionalising my Online Subs.
I had a been a FindMyPast UK subscriber since 2008 until July 2012 when I took up the bargain basement introductory offer for a World Subscription from FindMyPast.com. When I tried to log on last week I discovered my subscription had lapsed (I had been travelling overseas and missed their resubscription reminder email) and discovered that it would cost me $US199.95 to renew.
If I wouldn't have missed that reminder email "Your subscription will expire in 5 days and we're offering you the chance to renew it at the great price of just $59.99!" and resubscribed by my due date a couple of days earlier I could have had the sub for a significantly reduced rate and I would have resubscribed. DRAT.
I checked the Australian site, findmypast.com.au, and found a World sub there would cost me $AU249.95 (on today's exchange rates that's $US231.70). Next stop was findmypast.co.uk, a world sub there is £GB159.95 (that's $246.11 on today's exchange rates) so I guess that when and if I renew it will be with findmypast.com.
In the interim I might buy some pay as you go credits and see how far they go.
13 comments:
- Julie @ Anglers Rest said...
I have always been a pay as you go customer, as I opted for the world ancestry sub for my one name study. That said, like you I paid the fabulously reduced price for the findmypast.com price last year & might renew with that in Sep when it expires, depending on price. During the last year I have kept my PAYG credits active. I did find the dot com site not as user friendly as the UK site.
- July 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM
The same is true for Ancestry Jill... i.e. the Australian subscriptioon is twice the price of the "bells & whistles" product from the UK. i.e. access to world wide data...
Added to that... as I've been advising folks here in Oz for the past 6 months, beware of ordering an Australian edition of Ancestry's "Family Tree Maker"!!! If you accept their "free" 3 or 6 month subscription this will automatically sign you up to the more expensive Australian site.
Furthermore if, like me, you already have a subscription to the UK site it will automatically be switched to an Australian subscription at DOUBLE the price without any consultation.
Trying to get it changed back to the UK subscription was an absolute nightmare!!!
Regards, Catherine.
- July 29, 2013 at 11:44 PM
- Rosemary said...
Jill, it's cheaper through the UK site, although I don't know how the weak Aussie dollar will hurt you. I always subscribe through the UK site although I'm in the US.
- July 30, 2013 at 5:13 AM
- Rosemary said...
As an addendum for Catherine. When the AU site was first announced I went for a world subscription, LOATHED the interface which would not let me search by address in the UK and got them to cancel my sub, refund the money, and then re-subscribed to the UK site only. When the AU one is more fully featured I'll look into going back.
- July 30, 2013 at 5:16 AM
Which AU site Rosemary... Ancestry or Find My Past? I have subscriptions to both.
Regards, Catherine.
- July 30, 2013 at 7:31 AM
- ellnic said...
Like you Jill, I took up the bargain basement introductory offer for a World Subscription. I also found last week my sub had run out but there was no email reminding me it was due to run out in 5 days. In fact no reminder at all and no mention of renewing at the same great price. I would definitely have taken it again at that price, not at $AU249.95. Very disappointing.
- July 30, 2013 at 9:07 AM
- Rosemary said...
Catherine, FindMyPast since that is what Jill was talking about.
- July 30, 2013 at 9:30 AM
- Jill Ball said...
I still have a full Ancestry sub and like Catherine it is through the UK site.
- July 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM
- Rosemary said...
I've got Ancestry World through the UK site and FIndMyPast UK only.
- July 30, 2013 at 2:35 PM
- Cassmob (Pauleen) said...
I saw my email offering the reduced rate but I really didn't like it's search or the results. When I renew it will be with the UK world subs as at least then I feel I'll get better results and hence better value despite the extra cost.
- July 30, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- Cassmob (Pauleen) said...
I agree about the results Julie. Much better through UK which makes little sense but there it is!
- July 30, 2013 at 7:35 PM
- Lisa Taisey said...
Customer Service is Number One with me! If I get treated unfairly or badly I write a letter and never go back. Since you were a customer for 5 years , a very popular genealogist and have a large audience ONE would think that someone would have contacted you and given you a year free. That would be good customer service. Hopefully someone from the company reads this and all will be resolved. Very upsetting that any company would treat their customers like this. Keep us posted!
- July 31, 2013 at 9:51 PM
- Jill Ball said...
I got another offer for a bargain basement renewal last week. I subscribed immediately.
- August 23, 2013 at 5:09 PM


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|In 2005, "South Park" aired the episode "Die, Hippie, Die", which prophesied the whole occupy (bowel) movement with eerie accuracy:
|Ma'am, I need to clear out your giggling stoners and your drum-cricle hippies RIGHT NOW, or soon they're gonna attract something much worse!
|Elderly Woman:
|Ooooo.what's that?
|The college know-it-all hippies.
|[The neighborhood, day. A red car pulls up to the curb. On the back window is a decal which says "University of Colorado at Boulder" Three men and three women step out of the car]
|[wearing green jacket] Wow, my friend Brittany was right. This is a really laid-back place.
|Woman 1:
|[wearing tan jacket] Yeah, this will be a great place to spend spring break. [Stan, Kyle, and Kenny approach them]
|Hey, let's ask them. [the boys are wearing shoulder totes with magazines peeking out from them.]
|All right. [the two parties meet] 'Scuse me. [holds out a clipboard] Hello, we are selling magazine subscriptions for our community youth program. Would you like to help young people like us by purchasing a subscription of your choice?
|Oh wow, you guys shouldn't be doing that. Don't you know what you're doing to the world?
|Wha- whataya mean?
|Man 1:
|[wearing a guitar over his back] You're playing into the corporate game! See, the corporations are trying to turn you into little Eichmanns so that they can make money. [the other man is busily eating chips]
|Who are the corporations?
|Woman 2:
|[a blonde with a psychedelic fish on her shirt] The corporations run the entire world. And now they fooled you into working for them.
|Are you serious?? We never heard that.
|We just spent our first semester at college. Our professors opened our eyes. The government is using its corporate ties to make you sell magazines so they can get rich.
|Ugh! Those dirty liars!
|(Sonofabitch!) [throws down his shoulder tote]
|Man 2:
|[has finished his chips] This is a really nice town you have here. That's why the corporations are trying to use you to take it down.
|Well... Well what do we do?
|Just hang with us for a bit. We'll fill you in on everything you haven't been told.


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Back Home in Omaha! Baseball Gets Super Sweep
Director of Digital Media
BATON ROUGE -- Three weeks after dedicating the field at Alex Box Stadium to legendary former coach Skip Bertman - who made Omaha an annual early-summer vacation for many Tiger fans - head coach Paul Mainieri and the LSU baseball team punched a 16th ticket to the College World Series by dominating Oklahoma, 11-1, on Saturday.
In the process, LSU (57-9) tied the school record for victories in a season and won its sixth NCAA Super Regional title in 10 appearances.
All six have come at Alex Box Stadium, which found room for a record 11,401 fans to watch the Tigers dogpile at the new stadium for the first time since its inaugural season season in 2009.
Using a core of upperclass leaders mixed with key newcomers, Mainieri earned his third trip to Omaha in his seven seasons at LSU. In 2009, he led the Tigers to the school's sixth National Championship after defeating Texas in the championship series.
"This room reeks of tradition and winning," Mainieri said from the Team Room where postgame press conferences were held at The Box. "The coaches before me have done amazing things and I get to be the custodian of it now. This team is special and I knew it before the year began. We added a few key pieces to the puzzle this year and we are fortunate that Mason and Raph came back. The team has just jelled and so much of the credit goes to Alex Bregman."
Super Regional Recap | Regional Recap
This year, Mainieri's Tigers will take on UCLA on June 16, taking the field at the new TD Ameritrade Park Omaha for the first time. The 24,000 seat stadium opened in April of 2012 and will play host to its second CWS. Game time will be either 2 p.m. CT or 7 p.m. on ESPN or ESPN2.
"You are always happy to go to Omaha and people don't quite understand how hard it is to get there," Mainieri said. "It's really quite an accomplishment to earn your way there any year but especially this year. Not just because of what happened last year but for guys like Mason Katz, Chris Cotton and Alex Edward. It just meant so much to all of our players to get those guys there.
"We are going there to win and I believe we can. We have a great group of guys that are very talented and are on a mission. We've got what it takes and we will show up Saturday against whomever we play."
A day after Aaron Nola tossed a two-hit shutout that gave LSU a lead in the best-of-three series, four Tigers combined to hold Oklahoma to one run on five hits.
Will LaMarche (3-0), who took over after a 52-minute lightning delay that forced starter Ryan Eades from the game, earned the victory. Eades gave up a run on three hits, but battled out of jams in the first and second innings and left the game with a 3-1 lead through four innings. LaMarche, Nick Rumbelow and Cotton held the Sooners scoreless for the remaining five frames, as LSU outscored Oklahoma in the series sweep, 13-1.
Junior second baseman JaCoby Jones powered the Tigers through the Super Regional, In his final five at bats in the series -- starting with Friday's eighth-inning triple off Jonathan Gray that ended up as the game-winning run -- Jones hit for the cycle.
Saturday, the third-round draft pick finished perhaps his final game at The Box with a 4-for-4 performance including a orginary hit to center that he legged into a double and a solo home run in the eighth. Jones scored three times and had two RBI.
Oklahoma left-hander Dillon Overton (9-3), who along with Eades was a second-round draft pick on Thursday, took the loss. He returned to the mound after the lightning delay to start the fifth inning but was lifted in the sixth after Ty Ross' safety squeeze scored Raph Rhymes and gave LSU a 4-1 lead.
In the first inning, the Sooners grabbed an early 1-0 lead on an RBI single to right off the bat of centerfielder Max White.
The Tigers quickly responded in the top of the second with a leadoff single from Rhymes. He later came home on an RBI single to centerfield from Jones, tying the score at 1-1.
With one out in the third, outfielder Mark Laird connected for a line drive that got past Oklahoma right fielder Hunter Hayley and into the corner, allowing Laird to reach third. He later scored on an RBI single off the bat of shortstop Alex Bregman, putting LSU ahead 2-1.
In the fourth, Jones hit a laser to center, and then showcased his base-running abilities by reaching second base on the play. With two outs in the inning, outfielder Jared Foster sent Jones home with an RBI single, extending the LSU lead to 3-1.
LSU tacked on another run in the sixth on a perfect squeeze bunt by Ross, scoring Rhymes from third base. In the next inning, Jones connected for fourth hit of the night and his sixth homer of the season into the bleachers in left field.
Jones' long ball gave Cotton a 5-1 advantage heading to the bottom of the eighth. He retired the side with a spectacular leaping grab from Rhymes along the wall in left field.
The Tigers kept swinging into the ninth with an RBI double from Rhymes down the third base line. Later in the ninth Ross added two more runs with a two-RBI line drive to center, giving LSU an 8-1 cushion. Three more insurance runs came in the final frame on a wild pitch and RBI hits from Stevenson and Edward.
Cotton then took the mound in the ninth, giving the Tigers a trip to Omaha with an 11-1 victory with a 1-2-3 inning of work.
LSU baseball season ticket holders may apply for College World Series tickets online at http://www.lsutix.net/, in person or by calling (225) 578-2184 by 5 p.m. CT on Monday.
Postgame 2 Notes – NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional – LSU 11, Oklahoma 1
Attendance: For the second straight night an actual Alex Box Stadium Skip Bertman Field attendance mark was set – 11,401. The paid Saturday night was 12,153.
Attendance for the Super Regional – the two game "paid" total was 24,160. The "actual" was 22,496. In 2012, the actual for the first two games was 18,668 and 29,288 for the three games.
LSU's win upped their overall NCAA Tournament record to 132-49, the school's Super Regional record to 14-10 (13-4 at home).
Alex Bregman's single in the top of the 9th was the 104th hit of his freshman season, and stands as the top single-season total for a freshman in LSU history, Mike Fontenot had 103 hits during the 2000 season was the previous best. He's tied with Brad Hawpe (2000) for sixth place in the single-season hit list, and is six hits from tying all-time leader Brandon Larson (110 in the 1997 season).
For the second consecutive year, a Super Regional game in Baton Rouge was delayed by rain. Saturday's rain delay was slightly more than 50 minutes and resumed at the top of the fifth inning with LSU leading 3-1.
At 57-9, LSU heads into the College World Series for the 15th time with the best overall record in school history.
The 57 wins ties the 1997 team for most single-season wins. Skip Bertman's 1997 CWS champions (13-6 over Alabama) finished the season 57-13.
When Ryan Eades yielded an earned run to Oklahoma in the first inning, it was the first earned run LSU pitching gave up since the Jackson State game to open the Baton Rouge Regional on May 31. LSU went through wins over Sam Houston State, UL-Lafayette and the two Super Regional wins over Oklahoma yielding only that one earned run (seven total runs).
LSU pitching has surrendered only 10 hits in the last three games (27 innings), the win over ULL and the two Super Regional wins; has given up only one home run in the last 10 games (a home run to Jackson State).
In the five NCAA Tournament games, LSU pitching has allowed 29 hits, 14 runs, 8 earned runs, walked 15 and struckout 35 in 45 innings.
Oklahoma Baseball Game Notes
Head Coach Sunny Golloway has coached OU to a 24-19 record in the NCAA Tournament since 2005.
The game marked the 11th meeting with LSU. The Tigers lead the all-time series, 8-3, since meeting for the first time in 1962.
Oklahoma is 79-69 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
Max White tied Keith Drumright (1973-76) for most all-time games played with 239.
Craig Aikin has reached with a lead-off single in three of five NCAA Tournament games.
In the first inning, White singled home the game's first run with his 21st hit in 21 career NCAA games.
The Sooners are 19-5 when scoring in the first inning and 28-5 when scoring first.
OU committed three or more errors for the ninth time this season and the first in 16 games (May 5 at West Virginia).
Dillon Overton threw 5.2 innings, matching his longest outing in his last four starts, since throwing six against New Orleans (April 20).
In the ninth inning, Adam Choplick made his first appearance since a start against Dallas Baptist (May 14).
White and fellow senior Jack Mayfield end their careers tied with the OU class of 2012 with 176 career wins.
In their last two Super Regional appearances, the Sooners have been knocked out by the 2010 CWS Champion and 2012 CWS Runner-Up (both South Carolina).
The Sooners have been outscored 23-2 in their last four Super Regional games.
Postgame Quotes
LSU Head Coach Paul Maineri
Opening Statement…
"It's been a long 365 days. The last time we were up here it was a pretty sad day for us. This doesn't erase the hurt that we felt after the game for players like Austin Nola and Tyler Hanover. This does take away some of that bitter taste that we had. You are always happy to go to Omaha and people don't quite understand how hard it is to get there. It's really quite an accomplishment to earn your way there any year but especially this year. Not just because of what happened last year but for guys like Mason Katz, Chris Cotton and Alex Edward. It just meant so much to all of our players to get those guys there. Also, for the other guys who have given equal heart and soul to this program. These guys don't even know what to expect. Omaha is such an amazing place. We are going there to win and I believe we can. We have a great group of guys that are very talented and are on a mission. We've got what it takes and we will show up Saturday against whomever we play."
On the importance of defense…
"It's something we take an awful lot of pride in. We have a great defensive player at every position and I thought our defense this whole weekend was suffocating for Oklahoma's offense. Raph (Rhymes) made the tremendous catch against the wall and (Christian) Ibarra made a great play at third. We are used to seeing these plays and they aren't accidental. They are talented kids and work extremely hard for it."
On the pitching this year…
"All the credit in the world goes to Alan Dunn. He has been unbelievable and the way he works with our guys is amazing. He knows what each guy's strengths are and what their limitations are. He's done an amazing job with all those guys and everyone contributes. They've all found their role and we've been able to pitch effectively in our staff. We only gave up one run and seven hits over the weekend with this at stake. When you pitch and catch the ball you have a chance to win every day."
On the intangibles…
"This room reeks of tradition and winning. The coaches before me have done amazing things and I get to be the custodian of it now. This team is special and I knew it before the year began. We added a few key pieces to the puzzle this year and we are fortunate that Mason and Raph came back. The team has just jelled and so much of the credit goes to Alex Bregman. He's gotten a lot of accolades and deservedly so but his demeanor and personality has added so much character to this team. This team has just meshed so well and when you invest so much time together you don't give up easily. It's been such a great group to coach and going to the field every day is so enjoyable."
LSU Player Quotes
JUNIOR 2B JaCOBY JONES
On having a big series at the plate …
"I mean my swing is the same. I just feel really comfortable in the box. I was just trying to do whatever I could to get on base for the team, use my legs and find some holes. I was just trying to do whatever I could to hit the ball hard and get on base. I got four hits tonight and it feels good."
On his big play in the seventh inning and what it means being a senior and going to Omaha …
"I think the ball actually found my glove. I don't know if I really caught that. I just kind of jumped and the ball landed in there. I knew I needed to make a play for my team. I read it the whole way. Like I said, I think it just kind of fell in my glove. It was a big play. I'm glad I could be there for my team. As far as us being seniors and getting a chance to go to Omaha, this is why we came back. This is why you stick around. The goal when you step foot on campus is to get to Omaha. So, we got a chance and we took advantage of that tonight."
On what it means to go to Omaha as a senior …
"Being surrounded by this group of guys, this team, it makes it easy. This is why we came back; Raph (Rhymes) said it. Being surrounded by freshmen who come in here everyday and say, 'We want to get the seniors to Omaha.' That makes it so much easier. You don't have to convince guys about what the goal is around here. Everybody kept preaching how we were the only senior class, if we didn't go to Omaha this year, that wouldn't go in a four-year span. The freshman and the new guys just took that and ran with it. They did everything, and anything, all year long to get us to this point and in a position to go win a national championship."
Oklahoma Head Coach Sunny Golloway
Opening statement…
"First of all , we'd like to congratulate LSU and Coach [Paul] Mainieri. Outstanding Super Regional and wish them nothing but the best of luck in Omaha. I know it's been since 2009 that Coach [Paul] Mainieri and the LSU Tigers have been there. Of course, we had the fortune of playing there last year in Rosenblatt. So they'll be making their first trip to [TD Ameritrade Park] and hopefully we can get the Sooners to Ameritrade Ballpark and get to play in the new ballpark soon. It just wasn't meant to be this year. I think that, for me, it was a good, hard-fought ballgame. We made a few mistakes early and they capitalized – that's what good teams do. I thought we had a chance to get to their starter early on. We had a chance; we just needed a key hit here or there, but that's baseball. I think they will compete very well. I really believe that the winner of this Super Regional will have a tremendous chance – I'm biased, of course – of winning the whole thing."
On scoring only one run this weekend in the Super Regional…
"It's pretty simple. [Aaron] Nola yesterday was just the same as Jonathan Gray – it was tough for them to score, it was tough for us to score. I know they got the second run yesterday but that run really didn't matter the way the ballgame turned out anyways. I don't think so much about yesterday; we just tip our cap to yesterday. Today, we score early and we felt like we were going to be able to score and we were able to get men in scoring position at second and third [base] early. Their bullpen was getting extremely hot in the second and third inning so we were a hit away from getting into their bullpen and that's baseball and [LSU's Ryan Eades] would get the outs when he needed to. Once he got those outs and they started tacking the single runs up, I think that made it easier for [Ryan] Eades to settle in and he pitched much better with the lead. So we had our opportunities and clearly the final score doesn't dictate the competitiveness of the game, but they're still very worthy champions."
P Dillon Overton
On his outing and Oklahoma's season as a whole…
"It's always tough to come out and throw in front of a crowd like this. On top of it, raining, having to stop for a while, you have to get cold and get hot again – it's tough. I was just trying to give it all for my team and do my best for them. I have never had so much fun on a baseball team in my entire life as with these guys. It's a blast coming to the yard everyday with them and I'm going to miss it. I wish the guys that are going to be on the team next year the best of luck. They are going to be great for this program. It's fun to come into a program like this and win ball games the way we do."
On having LSU on the ropes in the first few innings…
"Here at The Box, this atmosphere is unbelievable. Right when you think you have the momentum, we throw one ball and the crowd goes crazy. They take a really good swing and they miss, the crowd goes crazy. That's easy for a ballplayer, especially in the game of baseball, to act on. We just couldn't get over that hump. We're a young ball club, but we have to keep getting better."
OF Max White
On his career at Oklahoma…
"It's emotional. Especially with this group of guys to end it on. I think I'm second all-time in this program in games played. It means the world. It's been an honor to play for Coach [Golloway]. We've been to three super regionals in four years. This career has been fun. These guys have done amazing things for me. It's been a great year."
On LSU's pitching staff limiting them to one run in two games…
"We have seen some good pitching. [Aaron Nola] is a pitcher. He really stayed down in the zone and that's hard for a hitter to adjust to. He mixed it well- in and out. Early, we were going to get on [Ryan] Eades. It's tough to get over that hump and keep the momentum on our side. We have to tip our caps, but at the same time we had our opportunities."


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With a cast of 21 actors crammed into the minuscule Gift Theatre, Sheldon Patinkin's production of Rodney Ackland's loquacious but fascinating play, "Absolute Hell," three hours and 15 minutes of mostly plot-free bohemian behavior in post-war London, is so ambitiously audacious that you find yourself gunning for it to succeed. Alas, it does not entirely work in these circumstances and, it must be said, there are many who would find themselves less than gripped by the events, or lack thereof, depicted in the piece.
But for the dedicated and forgiving theater-lover, the soul who believes that there is nothing that the capable denizens of a storefront theater cannot pull off on a budget of next to nothing, "Absolute Hell" is one of those eminently worthy, only-in-Chicago, ensemble-is-everything nights.
Ackland died in 1991, just as his plays were coming back into British vogue. Previously titled "The Pink Room," "Absolute Hell" was first seen in 1952 and quickly disappeared from view. It's a genuinely Chekhovian kind of drama — a bunch of arty types, misfits, radicals, gays, GI's and intellectuals hang out at the fading club, La Vie en Rose, to which they all belong. Even though epochal events are taking place just outside the club's doors — World War II is ending, the truth of the Holocaust is just beginning to seep into the public consciousness, the socialist Labour Party is about to take over Winston Churchill's Britain — it's just one big bacchanal at the La Vie en Rose, where the free-thinking members drink and seduce each other, mostly to forget their own misery.
One is put in mind of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" or, on occasion, the musical "Cabaret," another piece that probed the endless human capacity for turning inward and sucking down a cocktail whenever the geopolitical going gets tough outside.
What's striking about this play, which became quite famous in the 1990s in Britain on both stage and television, is its daring verbal and sexual content, flying in the face of the long-standing assumption that when John Osborne wrote "Look Back in Anger" in 1956, he single-handedly sparked a revolution in London theater. It's not about working-class angst, granted, but "Absolute Hell" otherwise makes "Look Back in Anger" look milquetoast.
Patinkin, a formidable director when it comes to ensembles, almost pulls off this production. And, indeed, there are moments here when the likes of Michael Patrick Thornton (who plays a washed-up writer named Hugh Marriner), Brittany Burch (as a lost soul of a party girl) and Kenny Mihlfried (playing a soldier who helped liberate a concentration camp) forge some exceptionally powerful scenes. A milieu is most certainly captured, and I was intrigued throughout, but there are still moments when it feels like the scale of the project was all a bit too much and the acting gets broad and more predictable. Lynda Newton, who has the tough role of Christine Foskett, Queen of La Vie en Rose, has some profoundly moving interludes, but at other times she seems to back away from the excess of it all, when she needs to grab it by the throat. And for a play with the whiff of so much sex, there is not enough sexual tension evident among the characters.
Frankly, the piece would work better if we could really see the club — but there's not much in Ian Zywica's prosaic set that really shows us a place that is a respite, tawdry but not without sensual appeal.
Throughout much of the play, what's left of the club literally falls apart around its members' ankles, moments here rendered only with sounds on tape. We don't need to see copious amounts of rubble, but we do need a more truthful sense of decay and collapse. In Ackland's world, the end of the building foretells people who are slowly and painfully learning that the reckoning eventually comes.
When: Through April 29
Where: Gift Theatre, 4802 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Running time: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Tickets: $20-$30 at 773-283-7071 or thegifttheatre.org


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Denver Police Apprehend 2 Inside Empty School
DENVER (AP) — Denver police say they believe two individuals who entered an empty school building late Monday armed with what appeared to be two long rifles were probably carrying BB guns.
Denver police chief Robert White says the teens ransacked several rooms before they were arrested early Tuesday after a three-hour standoff.
Police had earlier surrounded Noel Middle School and a bomb squad was called to the scene after janitors reported a break-in.
According to the Associated Press, officers watched two individuals on the school's security cameras and saw they were carrying backpacks as well as rifles.
Police say the teens were unarmed and had two backpacks when they were arrested. One of the backpacks contained a computer, and the contents of the other backpack were not known.


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A miracle: Pets swim to safety after SUV plunges 70 feet off bridge
Lucky the dog is recovering at an animal shelter and Stevie the cat will have emergency surgery after a vehicle falls approximately 70 feet off a railroad bridge into the water in Pittsburgh
Lucky the dog is recovering at an animal shelter and Stevie the cat will have emergency surgery after a vehicle falls approximately 70 feet off a railroad bridge into the water in Pittsburgh
Lucky the dog is recovering at an animal shelter and Stevie the cat will have emergency surgery after a vehicle falls approximately 70 feet off a railroad bridge into the water in Pittsburgh
While the woman from an SUV that plunged 70 feet into the Ohio River from a railroad bridge was found dead, a little dog that was also in the vehicle survived and was found hours later, along on shore of Brunots Island. NRC plant manager Kevin Panzino who heard the dog barking as he left work.
"We don't even really understand how it could have survived. I mean it's 70 feet from the trestle to the water," Panzino told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "This guy's a tank. It's unbelievable. He's chillin'."
The gentle little dog survived the SUV's impact, managed to reach the water's surface and the swim to shore, an estimated distance of 100 yards.
Panzino found the dog hours after the woman's body was recovered after the vehicle plunged from the railroad bridge into the Ohio River.
"Sure enough, I could hear him down there, barking. The bank was very, very steep and very thick with brush. He couldn't make it up on his own. I was able to see him, tried calling him, he wouldn't come up," Panzino said.
The dog waited as Panzino slid down the river bank from the plant lot and rescued him.
"I picked him up and he was calm, just like this. (I) managed to make it up the bank -- barely -- and took him back into the power plant in the control room, where we kind of cleaned him up a little bit. He was still wet. Smelled like wet dog," Panzino said.
They're calling the little dog "lucky." It spent the night as a guest in the power plant control room, chowing down on turkey cold cuts.
"All the operators love him. He was getting along with everyone all night, wandering around. It was almost like he figured out his way around the plant already in a short time. Very pleasant little guy," Panzino said.
A doctor at Humane Animal Rescue found no major injuries during an examination of the the dog.
"All in all, it looks like he handled his adventures well," said Dr. Donna Hughes. "Dogs, they live in the moment, so they want to survive. They want to persist. And they do whatever they need to do to survive. And that's what he did."
If no family of the woman who died claims him, Lucky will have a new home.
"Yeah one of or operators has dibs on him. And I think in the next 10 minutes, two or three other guys tried to claim it but one gentleman was first," Panzino said.
A cat also escaped from the car -- but with injuries-- and is now at the PVSEC emergency clinic. It was found swimming in the river near the crash site.
"She has a wound in her chest from the fall and they're going to do surgery today and hopefully she'll recover from that," Dan Rossi, CEO of Humane Animal Rescue, told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "The cat's stable now. When it came in it was in hypothermia from being in the water and had very low blood pressure. It looked it had some sort of head injury and it had a wound in its chest rom the accident as well."
The veterinary expenses for the cat alone had already reached several thousand dollars, Rossi said.
Panzino said NRG Energy was going to cover the expenses for both the dog and the cat.
Meanwhile, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office has not yet released an identification of the victim. Pittsburgh Public safety is not commenting on the police investigation and cannot yet say when authorities will be able to retrieve the SUV from under up to 20 feet of water.
The bridge is owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad.


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Non-Wool Fabrics
Before we can determine the benefits of wool for men's suits, let's take a look at other fabrics and what they offer.
Linens- Men's suits made from linen are generally used for summer. Linen is lightweight and considered to be very stylish. On the downside, linen wrinkles and stains very easily. Linen is also a poor choice for travel, since you'll need to have this fabric pressed upon arriving at your destination.
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Even when blended with other materials, wool still maintains many of its advantages. Keep in mind, the blended fabrics may change some of the make-up of the suit, though. It may be less dirt resistant with the addition of another type of fabric. The cost of the suit may also be less with a wool blend.
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These three colors dominate the men's suit industry, and for good reason. Most men are complimented by one or more of these dark colors. Dark suits have the ability to seamlessly transition from business to pleasure, in addition to a slimming effect of the silhouette. Let us talk about each color quickly
Navy Blue
Navy blues strength lies in its sheer dominance. Most men own at least one, and if you have ever walked into a business meeting you can be sure more than half the men will be clad in one. But this is its chief weakness; how can you stand out when 90% of your body looks exactly the same as over 50% of the room. We tend to forget that our clothing sends off strong signals, and if you want to be anything but average you want to present yourself as such, not always try to blend in. In addition, those with a very light complexion need to pair navy blue with rich colored shirts; a white or ice blue shirt will drain the color right from their face. Finally, young men are advised to avoid this color as that it has a habit off accentuating youth.
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SHERWOOD, Ore. - The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Sherwood animal sanctuary for safety and health violations after an animal keeper was attacked and killed by a cougar last year.
Renee Radziwon-Chapman was attempting to clean one of the cages at the sanctuary when a cougar attacked her on Nov. 9, 2013. She was working alone at the time.
OSHA fined WildCat Haven $5,600. The sanctuary violated its two-person safety procedure and cage latches did not fully secure dangerous cougars, according to the OSHA investigation.
"Sadly, as is so often the case, this workplace tragedy may have been prevented if the employer had followed and enforced its own guidelines when employees entered the cougar enclosures," said Oregon OSHA administrator Michael Wood.
OSHA investigators cited text messages between the victim and WildCat Haven owner Cheryl Tuller as evidence the owner knew about concerning practices. Radziwon-Chapman sent a text message days before the attack that reads, "It was really hard having you gone. I am on overload and need a breather."
Tuller then sent Radziwon-Chapman a text the day before the attack acknowledging employees didn't always work in pairs. It reads, "I'm sorry you had to go through alone."
Oregon OSHA cited WildCat Haven for two violations, each carrying a $2,800 fine. In addition to allowing keepers to work alone, the facility also had an "inadequate latch design" on the cougar cages, OSHA said.
"If the locks were not fully closed, they could inadvertently pop open. In order to fully secure the latch, keepers were required to enter the cage and attach a carabiner onto the latch's lock fitting," OSHA said in a news release. "The enclosure itself was also poorly designed with no separate entry door. As a result, cougars in two separate chambers needed to be secured in order to safely enter."
The sanctuary said in a statement that both of the violations have already been addressed.
"As an employer, we are ultimately responsible to protect the life, safety and health of our staff and volunteers," WildCat Haven said.
The sanctuary said it plans to develop and ensure compliance with "fail-proof safety procedures."
WildCat Haven has 30 days to appeal the citation.


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Waterford hangs on to reach Class M semifinals
Fairfield — Donny Craig's regular season became the embodiment of Waterford High School's: It was decent. OK. Capable of more. But would it ever happen?
And now comes the state tournament, the most auspicious time of them all. Would it happen? It's happening. And it happened with an exclamation point Monday night in the state quarterfinals.
Few other players in program history could say they ever played better under more dire circumstances than Craig did, inside a small passion pit of a gymnasium. His 30 points, 11 rebounds, six steals, two assists and one block helped the seventh-seeded Lancers get to the Class M semifinals for the second time in three years with a 66-63 win over No. 2 Notre Dame of Fairfield.
Waterford (18-7) meets No. 3 East Catholic in the semifinals Wednesday night at site to be determined today by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. The winner plays the winner of the Weaver-Lewis Mills game for the state title this weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena, where Waterford would play for its second state championship in three years.
"We were on the road," Craig said, "and I needed to provide a spark for the team."
The biggest spark came with 10 seconds left and Waterford holding two-point lead that had evaporated from eight moments earlier. Craig stole a pass headed for the post, which led to one of five clutch free throws Isaiah Jones made in the fourth period, giving Waterford a 66-63 lead.
Jones made the free throws, surviving the darts aimed from the Notre Dame student section.
"They were calling me 'Little Bill' (after the cartoon) and 'Peanut Head,'" Jones said. "I was nervous at the line, but I think all that stuff helped me out."
Notre Dame's Jaylen Jennings missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer, sending the Lancers and Lancer Nation, their student section that helped pack the gym, into a celebratory pile at midcourt.
"I feel so comfortable when Donny has the ball in his hands," Waterford coach Greg Gwudz said. "He took over. He was a different player today."
Gwudz noted at least one another player's contribution: Center Connor Lewis, who scored 12 points, held Jennings, Notre Dame's leading scorer, to a season-low three points.
"We knew how good (Jennings) was," Gwudz said. "We told Connor to front him, deny him, work him. It's hard work, but he's capable of it. He's unsung. He doesn't care how many points he scores. He'll get every rebound, block shots, defend ... he's the reason we were able to control them. Jennings is one of the best players in the state and Connor made him look average."
Schneider Jean-Pierre had 10 points for the Lancers, who trailed by a point at halftime.
Now the team that lost several gut-busters during the regular season is one of two teams left standing in the Eastern Connecticut Conference.
"Say what you want," Gwudz said. "But we played New London twice, Ledyard, NFA and that helped us out big time. We told the guys that (Notre Dame) plays good man to man defense, but not as good as NFA. So just go out and play."
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