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Another ACC player has emerged as a serious contender in this year's Heisman race.
Boston College running back Andre Williams, fresh off a 263-yard performance that pushed him past the 2,000-yard mark for the season, debuted in second-place in the latest HeismanPundit Heisman Straw Poll released on Tuesday.
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston held the top spot for the third week in a row, but he saw his point total drop as the result of two voters dropping him off their ballots. Winston grabbed six first-place votes, appearing on just those six ballots, and totaled 18 points.
Williams was close behind with 16 points. He did not garner any first-place votes from the 10-member panel of voters, but his appearance on eight ballots allowed him to leapfrog the rest of the field.
Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron grabbed two first-place votes and totaled eight points to move up to third place from fifth last week. Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch was fourth (1 first-place vote, 7 points) while defending Heisman winnerJohnny Manziel of Texas A&M was fifth (4 points). Oregon'sMarcus Mariota snared the remaining first place vote.
Now in its eighth season, the HeismanPundit.com Heisman Straw Poll is the college football world's most trusted gauge of Heisman voter sentiment. It has been the most accurate Heisman poll in the country during the past seven seasons, with the final 2012 poll correctly picking the top five finishers and the final 2011 poll picking the top seven. This year's poll is made up of 10 anonymous Heisman voters from across the country. Each week during the season they will pick three players. Tabulations for the preseason poll are tabulated like a real Heisman ballot, with three points awarded for a first-place vote, two points for a second-place vote and one point for a third-place vote.
Each week's poll is released on Tuesdays throughout the season at HeismanPundit.com.
The HeismanPundit.com Heisman Straw Poll, 11/26/2013
Total Points (with first place votes in parentheses)
1. Jameis Winston, QB, Florida State — 18 (6)
2. Andre Williams, RB, Boston College — 16
3. AJ McCarron, QB, Alabama — 8 (2)
4. Jordan Lynch, QB, Northern Illinois — 7 (1)
5. Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M — 4
6. Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon — 3 (1)
7. Bryce Petty, QB, Baylor — 2
8. (tie) Derek Carr, QB, Fresno State — 1
Aaron Donald, DT, Pittsburgh — 1
Number of ballots
Williams — 8
Winston — 6
McCarron — 4
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Terence Moore has covered a variety of sports for more than three decades and contributes columns to MLB.com.
|This is the definitive weekend for Marquis Grissom. Not only was he born and raised in Atlanta -- the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- but he has done a bunch of things to enter the Hall of Fame of Philanthropy before, during and after his 17-year Major League career.
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|When Larry Jones Jr. officially is announced next week as a Baseball Hall of Famer, I'll think about many Chipper things, which only makes sense. I watched his 19-year career with the Braves up close and personal from the beginning to the end as a sports journalist based in Atlanta.
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|Sandy Alderson got a contract extension last week to continue one of the most distinguished careers ever inside and outside of baseball, and his new deal reminded me of our chat before that Mets' game against the Braves when we discussed the old days.
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|This was an easy Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. At least for me.
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|Every time I see Phil Niekro, I threaten to rub my eyes over his ability to stay within the vicinity of his old self through the decades, and then I whisper the same thing in my head, which is, "This guy could still go out there with his knuckleball and retire a couple of hitters."
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|Let's get this out of the way. The winners of the Cy Young Award are nice. The same goes for those honored every season as the premier Rookie, Manager or even Comeback Player of the Year Awards. Oh, and you can't forget about the Most Valuable Players Awards, either. Give me the Gold Glove Award winners.
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|So, John Hart. Because you've been an accomplished baseball executive for decades, where have you heard this before?
|For the most part, Associated Press writers swung, connected and cleared the fences this week when they picked their version of the greatest team ever for each of the 30 Major League franchises. Nice job, AP writers, but you were a little off regarding five teams.
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|Let's start with Jose Altuve's trio of home runs in the Astros' 8-2 victory over the Red Sox in Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Thursday, and then we'll consider all the other reasons why we're in for some fun over the next few weeks.
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|So you're the Nationals, and you've known for a while you'll play in the postseason and you've struggled forever during the first round. But you're still involved with that pesky thing called the regular season. What's your mindset regarding now and later?
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|So Ichiro Suzuki wants to play until he's 50? Why not 60?
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|Sometimes, between doing spectacular things with his bat, his glove and his grit for the Rockies, Nolan Arenado likes to daydream about bringing a World Series championship to Colorado.
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|Nobody associated with the Marlins knows more about home runs than their special assistant to the president of the past 16 years. The guy also managed a few titanic shots himself, usually in the clutch. Not only that, but he played with some of the most legendary hitters of all-time.
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|Nothing against the rest of the Braves, but Ender Inciarte is the people's choice around the clubhouse. Well, at least among the pitchers.
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|Suddenly, we have a new baseball cliché, and it's the one that says Paul Goldschmidt is the most overlooked superstar in the game. Folks also have used ignored, underappreciated and forgotten to describe the career of this Gold Glove first baseman with the potent bat and the efficient legs in his seventh year with the D-backs.
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Acne drug users need to know birth control options: study
Women using a popular acne drug that causes birth defects need better information about how to keep from getting pregnant, a small study suggests.
Isotretinoin - first marketed as Accutane - is one of the most effective treatments for acne. But isotretinoin is known to lead to severe birth defects. A program known as iPledge is aimed at preventing pregnancies among the drug's users.
The iPledge program hasn't been very successful, however, and the new study suggests it should focus on highly effective birth control methods.
"What we found is that people need a clear message about what birth control would be most effective, and currently the iPledge materials don't make it clear to most women who enroll in the program," Dr. Eleanor Bimla Schwarz said.
Schwarz is the study's senior author and the director of the Women's Health Services Research Unit of the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh.
iPledge was created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and requires women taking the drug to review educational materials, complete tests and pledge to use two forms of birth control.
The program and previous initiatives to prevent pregnancies among women taking the drug, however, have had limited or no success, according to past studies.
About 122 pregnancies in women using isotretinoin were still reported the year after iPledge began in 2006, write Schwarz and her colleagues in JAMA Dermatology.
For the new study, the researchers recruited 16 female isotretinoin users between the ages of 17 and 34 years old from Pittsburgh.
Thirteen women said they used the Pill or a contraceptive ring as their primary form of birth control. Others abstained from sex while on the medication and one reported not using any form of birth control.
Some of the participants said they received brief or no pregnancy prevention counseling before starting treatment with isotretinoin.
Most of the women also reported having limited knowledge about intrauterine devices (IUDs) and subdermal contraceptive implants. Those, however, are known to be more effective at preventing pregnancy than the Pill and condoms.
IUDs are inserted into the uterus, where they release small amounts of either copper or the hormone progestin to prevent pregnancy for up to five or 10 years, depending on the device. The contraceptive skin implant, about the size of a matchstick, is inserted under the skin of the arm, where it releases controlled amounts of progestin for up to three years.
In 2011, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said IUDs and implants should be offered as birth control options to women, because they are safe and effective.
"Women who are being prescribed isotretinoin need more information on IUDs and implants to protect themselves from pregnancy that may be adversely affected by the medication," Schwarz told Reuters Health.
Some of the participants were also surprised that they could have gotten an IUD or implant instead of using the Pill and using condoms every time they had sex.
Although the researchers say the women agreed information on IUDs and subdermal implants should be part of the iPledge program, 11 of the women reported being satisfied with their original counseling.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Emily Altman wrote that it may not be possible for dermatologists to assess all of a woman's risk factors for every birth control option. But it's possible to refer patients to an obstetrician/gynecologist for evaluation and counseling.
"I do that quite often," Altman, a dermatologist with the Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, told Reuters Health.
"The point is to communicate with the patient that these are the methods and these are the risks of getting pregnant," Altman said. "The choice you have to make is how adherent you're going to be to each method."
"I think if a woman is sexually active and she needs good information on proper birth control methods, it's an excellent idea for an ob-gyn colleague to work with you to make sure that the patient is safe," she said.
A spokesperson for the FDA told Reuters Health in an email that the agency cannot comment on this specific study and the validity of the statements.
SOURCES: JAMA Dermatology, online November 20, 2013.
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Sometimes I just say stuff like the title of this blog post to get attention, but this title has to do with those who may be so deluded to believe that anything having to do with genealogy can be considered "done." Maybe the researcher is done, but the research is not. I say this with the firm conviction that no human being could have possibly looked at all the sources available for every single possible person in his or her family lines. That impossibility also makes the claim that any genealogy file is done an equal impossibility. Wait a minute, can there be different degrees of impossibility, just as there are different types of infinity? If so, I may have to revise the statement to read: "The impossibility of finding and recording every possible record source is actually greater than the impossibility of having all the work done in any individual's pedigree.
There is likely an exception to this rule for orphans and foundlings where the parents are unknown. If you are such a person, then you are your own genealogy and therefore it is possible, although it is unlikely that you could gather every single record of your life having the least tiny bit of genealogical relevance.
What is the point of having all the records? You may well ask this question and expect an answer. But if you have to ask the question, you are probably willing to consider your genealogy as "done" when you have sourced every fact and event. Now we get into a discussion of what is meant by the term "done." I suppose done could mean you are tired of looking for more cumulative sources about the same person and are ready to pass you work on to the next generation of eager genealogists. But in my experience, "done" usually refers to filling in all the blank spaces on a pedigree chart often without regard for completing research on the makeup of the families.
I have mentioned previously that I was the victim of a family tradition that all the genealogy had been done by two Great-grandmothers. I have no way of knowing if this impression came from statements made by the Great-grandmothers to their relative or not, but I really doubt this is the case. More likely the impression came from the family members observing (and from the relative's perspective, suffering) the overwhelming interest these two women had in their ancestry. In at least one case, the extraordinary involvement of one of the Great-grandmothers resulted in an antipathy for genealogy that lasted more than two generations among her descendants. In both cases, the cumulative work of a lifetime for the two genealogists was neglected and nearly lost. In one case, the notes and records were preserved almost by accident. In the other case, the photos were miraculously preserved but the rest of the genealogical research notes, letters and other documents apparently lost.
The important point here is that the lines worked on by these two dedicated genealogists only constitute four of my eight Great-grandparents' lines. Those who pass these traditions down to subsequent generations seem to ignore the fact that the Great-whatever who worked on the family genealogy had no idea who her children or grandchildren would marry. So my ancestral lines are a combination of both my mother's lines and my father's lines, complicated by the fact that my parents were second cousins. The results are simple. There are some of my lines where no substantial genealogical research has been done. I believe this impression of completeness is usually the result of having an extensive list of direct line ancestors along the surname line.
Of course we could all make our lives easier if we simply defined our genealogy as "done" when we have identified our parents. Then I could retire from retirement. But fortunately, that is not the case.
I will probably have more thoughts on this issue. But that is enough for right now.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Happy Day! My Family History is Done.
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Certosa e Museo di San Martino
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The Neapolitan Charterhouse, dedicated to St. Martin bishop of Tours, was founded in 1325 for King Charles will, the Angevin Robert s son. The huge structure is a work by Tino, the son of the sculptor Camaino and by Attanasio Primario. Between the end of the 16th century and the 18th century the whole monastery was completely transformed by means of many artists. The old kitchens house the section of the Nativity Scenes, whose starting unit, composed of the important collection by Cuciniello, has been enriching over the years with donations to become nowadays the most complete and important among the public
and private Italian collections. The Museum houses also the Priors Quarter, where la Vergine con Bambino e san Giovannino by Pietro Bernini.
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Acai is getting a lot of attention as a hot new 'superfood' thanks to endorsements from celebrity dermatologist Dr. Perricone, the multi-level marketing operation behind the over-hyped MonaVie, and other interests. 'Superfood' is a term a lot of people hadn't ever heard until recently. But 'superfood' isn't a technical or specific term, anyone can call anything a superfood. Cocoa powder, in particular organic unsweetened cocoa powder is a true superfood in every sense of the term.
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Professional Teaching Fellow in Physics, Bristol University
Dr. Barham combines polymer physics with penguin conservation as the inventor of a new type of silicone rubber flipper band for African penguins.
"I have managed to combine my passion (some would say obsession) for penguins with my expertise in materials science by assisting with the design and production of novel methods of marking individual birds."
Data collected by Earthwatch volunteers have aided in the development of an automatic recognition system that records patterns of spots on the chests of adult birds through digital photography. This technique is still being tested and refined, but eventually it may be possible to monitor remotely more than 90% of the penguins on the island.
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Howard County's Farmers' Markets feature the season's freshest locally-grown produce baked goods fruits of the season flowers transplants organically grown produce and specialty items. Howard County Farmers' Markets are special because each is a producer only market. The vendors are only allowed to sell what they grow or produce from products raised on their farms. Each market sells products that are regionally available during harvest season.


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Capitals win shootout, defeat Islanders 2-1
WASHINGTON (AP) By virtue of the quirky way the NHL decides tie games - with a skills competition that rewards the team that loses - both the New York Islanders and Washington Capitals have completed a steady climb into playoff position.
The Capitals won a shootout to beat the Islanders 2-1 Thursday night, moving Washington atop the Southeast Division and New York into seventh place in the Eastern Conference.
Braden Holtby made 35 saves and then was perfect in the shootout, and Washington also got the help it needed when the Montreal Canadiens finished off a 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets. The Capitals and Jets both have 38 points, but Washington has two games in hand.
The Capitals also have momentum, winning six of their last eight, no longer resembling the team that started 2-8-1 in the lockout-shortened season.
``It's been a tough season in that aspect - always looking up,'' Holtby said. ``We all knew we're capable of (being) where we should be, and that's at the top. You know, this last little while we've all focused on what we need to do, and that's be successful. And we knew if we do that, we'll be where we want to be at the end of the year.''
Meanwhile, the Islanders picked up a standings point and benefited from the New Jersey Devils' 1-0 loss to the Boston Bruins. In the New York metropolitan area's three-way race that takes up the middle of the standings, the Islanders have won five of seven games and stand at 40 points, while the Devils and Rangers each have 39.
The Islanders are trying to make the playoffs for first time since 2007, which also happens to be the last time the Capitals weren't in the postseason.
``We'll take the point,'' Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. ``It's on the road, tough building to play in against a real good hockey team. So, yeah, we'd like to get the two, but one is better than none.''
Mike Green scored on a wrister from the right circle with 13 seconds remaining in the first period for the Capitals, and Alex Ovechkin was the only player from either team to find the net in the shootout. Green has five goals in his last four games.
Holtby was stellar, with fans chanting his name when he denied Frans Nielsen and John Tavares in the shootout and got a break when Brad Boyes lost control of the puck while skating in on net. Making his 10th consecutive start, Holtby needed seemingly every reflex he had, whether it was sliding left to blunt Keith Aucoin's attempted tap-in at the edge of the crease in the first period or sticking out his right pad to thwart Andrew MacDonald's blast during a four-on-four sequence in the second.
``Holts was a stud,'' Capitals forward Brooks Laich said. ``He was a stud throughout the game. He made some tremendous saves. They had some great looks where, we saw it from the bench, we thought it was going in and he was able to get a pad across and then came up big in the shootout.''
Evgeni Nabokov was Holtby's equal, making 21 stops. Kyle Okposo's one-timer with 4:59 to play in regulation forced overtime and assured that both teams would emerge with something.
``The guys will enjoy it for a little bit, but we've got a lot of hockey left,'' Washington coach Adam Oates said. ``I think it's more important that we focus on the (games this) weekend because it obviously can drop just as fast.''
Notes: RW Martin Erat, acquired at Wednesday's trade deadline from the Nashville Predators, played 14:43 in his Washington debut. With Erat in the lineup, Washington LW Jason Chimera was a healthy scratch for the first time this season. ... Capitals RW Eric Fehr returned after missing four games with an upper-body injury. ... Tavares, who had nine goals in his previous 13 games, was bottled up by the Capitals and managed only one shot on goal. He was also stuffed by Holtby on the final attempt in the shootout. ... Other than the shootout, Ovechkin was also kept off the score sheet, ending his points streak at nine games. ... Capitals C Brooks Laich took his last shift with 9:26 left in regulation. ``He looked a little sore all over,'' Oates said.
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March 1, 2013
That same Spirit of freedom which actuated those Sons of Liberty at first, will accompany them still.
Excerpts from (Member of British Parliament) Col. Isaac Barré's 1765 speech against the Stamp Act, and from Patrick Henry's March 23, 1775 speech in favor of war against the British at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia:
"They planted by your Care? No! your Oppressions planted 'em in America. They fled from your Tyranny to a then uncultivated and unhospitable Country—where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human Nature is liable, and among others to the Cruel ties of a Savage foe, the most subtle and I take upon me to say the most formidable of any People upon the face of Gods Earth. And yet, actuated by Principles of true English Lyberty, they met all these hardships with pleasure, compared with those they suffered in their own Country, from the hands of those who should have been their Friends
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"They nourished up by your indulgence? they grew by your neglect of Em:—as soon as you began to care about Em, that Care was Exercised in sending persons to rule over Em, in one Department and another, who were perhaps the Deputies of Deputies to some Member of this house—sent to Spy out their Lyberty, to misrepresent their Actions & to prey upon Em; men whose behavior on many Occasions has caused the Blood of those Sons of Liberty to recoil within them; men promoted to the highest Seats of Justice, some, who to my knowledge were glad by going to a foreign Country to Escape being brought to the Bar of a Court Justice of their own.
"They protected by your Arms? They have nobly taken up Arms in your defence, have Exerted a Valour amidst their constant & Laborious industry for the defence of a Country, whose frontier, while drench'd in blood, its interior Parts have yielded all its little Savings to your Emolument. And believe me, remember I this Day told you so, that same Spirit of freedom which actuated that people at first, will accompany them still. —But, prudence forbids me to explain myself further. God knows I do not at this Time speak from motives of party Heat, what I deliver are the genuine Sentiments of my heart; however superior to me in general knowledge and Experience the reputable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that Country. The People I believe are as truly Loyal as any subjects the King has, but a people Jealous of their Lyberties and who will vindicate them, if ever they should be violated—but the subject is too delicate & I will say no more."
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This beautiful animated film is an icon in the industry and an American classic. Walt Disney auditioned dozens of actresses for the voice of Snow White before picking the young singer Adriana Caselotti for the role. For other roles he chose well-known radio and screen personalities including Lucille LaVerne as the Evil Queen and Billy Gilbert and Pinto Colvig (who also voiced Goofy) as dwarfs.
Snow White's classic artistry, bright colors, loveable characters, and enchanting songs were an immediate hit with audiences; the film grossed $8.5 million worldwide during its first release. The appeal of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs remains over 75 years later: in 2008 American Film Institute named it the greatest animation film of all time.
Animation art, production cels, and production drawings from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are important works of art and rare pieces of animation film making history.


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(a) The board has the following powers and duties to:
(1) Establish standards governing the care and well-being of livestock;
(2) Maintain food safety;
(3) Encourage locally grown and raised food; and
(4) Protect West Virginia farms and families.
(b) The board is also authorized to establish standards by legislative rule, pursuant to the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, governing the care and well-being of livestock in this state, including:
(1) The agricultural best management practices for the care and well-being of livestock and poultry in this state;
(2) Procedures for addressing complaints regarding the inhumane treatment of livestock and coordinating efforts with county humane officers;
(3) Biosecurity, disease prevention, animal morbidity and mortality data;
(4) Food safety practices; and
(5) The protection of local, affordable food supplies for consumers.
(c) The Department of Agriculture shall administer and enforce the standards established by the board that are approved by the Legislature.


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Ranch seminar Thursday, December 12
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Farmers and ranchers in the community are encouraged to attend the Farm and Ranch Seminar Thursday, Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Northeast Texas Community College in the Ag Complex.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to connect agriculture producers with experts from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to learn about available programs such as Agriculture Financial Assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Easements. For more information, see the Dec. 12 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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In our special, coddled cars, the treatment or appearance of the dashboard and instrument panel becomes one of the prime focal points of the interior scheme. Though digital readouts are here, by and large our community prefers the visceral drama of analog needles sweeping past familiar numbers, stuff ingrained since early childhood.
Until recently, we'd have to mount the tachometer in one spot and the ancillary meters in another. Then some bright bulb figured he could put all the dials in front of you-stable, easy to read numbers-and maybe a shift light to keep you honest. Case in point: John Morrell's carbureted 427ci LS-powered '80 Malibu. Although a dedicated radial tire racer, it's licensed and insured to be driven on Florida public roads, but rarely turns a tire anywhere except Sunshine Dragway. This conversion was completed at John's RMP Auto in New Port Richey.
Right off, you'll notice the Auto Meter rev counter and a spray of gauges depending from the dashboard. Nothing wrong with that, but John wanted the engine vitals right there in front of him, hence the Classic Dashes backdrop.
The Classic panel is precision-hewn from ABS plastic sheets that are vacuum-formed at 320 degrees F. Accuracy is the key feature. A Thermwood five-axis CNC high-speed router consistently trims the dash panels to within 0.005-inch, plus or minus, and the material is impregnated with a UV inhibitor to combat those nasty rays. Choices include pure black, a carbon fiber pattern, and brushed aluminum, with or without instruments, and with or without holes for the receptacles.
Experienced thinkers and fabricators John and fellow racer Justin Brayman spent 12 hours making these changes, but say that the changeover (instructions are voluminous) in a completely stock vehicle would have taken less. They checked their work several times and used the directions as a guide whenever they hit a snag. They also recovered the severely heat-checked dash padding with a new veneer. John bought the new shift light separately.
Things To Consider
1. Read the instructions included with the Auto Meter gauges so that you can identify the type of gauges you will be using as well as the special instructions requiring modification during the installation.
2. Kit requires some modification to original under-dash harness. Although Autowire strives to make the integration of this product as easy as possible, it is not intended as a plug-and-play interface, thus requiring substitution of components requiring modifications on your part. In other words, bring a complete stock of the various wire ends, connectors, and the correct gauge wiring.
3. This harness is designed for Auto Meter Series 1 (used in this installation).
4. Important: Instrument panel grounding is critical to gauge operation, so the single most important thing you must do is to check all grounds to the vehicle and the instruments. Warranty is voided if you connect to a coil when using an auxiliary ignition box (MSD, Crane, Holley, etc.). Before you connect the tach, check the electronic box manufacturer for signal location prior to installation.
5. To prevent scratching the gauge lens while cleaning, use a mild soapy solution and lightly wipe dry with a soft cloth.
Electronic Speedometer Calibration
1. With the engine off, push and hold the trip/reset button. While holding it down, start the engine. Continue to depress the button until the pointer sweeps to full scale. Now release the button.
2. Find a stretch of road with miles pre-marked (toll road, interstate, etc.) and stop. The distance to it is irrelevant. DO NOT SHUT THE ENGINE OFF. Push and release the trip/reset button. The pointer will drop to half scale (the middle of the dial).
3. Drive a distance of 2 miles, as indicated by the road marker. Regardless of your vehicle speed, the pointer will remain at half-scale. Because it is receiving a speed signal, the LCD odometer will be counting rapidly. If you must stop, that's okay. The speedometer will stop counting pulses during your stopping period.
4. Stop exactly at the end of the 2 mile distance. Press and release the trip/reset button. The speedometer pointer will drop to 0 and the calibration is stored. Remember that the accuracy of the 2 mile distance will directly affect the accuracy of the speedometer.
5. Hints: Prior to this exercise, make sure that tire pressure is at the recommend inflation. Tire diameter grows slightly as speed increases. To minimize this, drive at a constant 45 mph during the calibration process. Tire diameter also changes when there is undue load, so do the cal with the vehicle at normal running weight and don't break traction when you begin the calibration.


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Reader William Katz points out this Rush & Molloy gossip item from the New York Daily News regarding the fight at the New York Times:
A catfight at The New York Times Friday still has staffers in shock.
The dustup between two female editors in the Styles department disrupted work on the Thursday and Sunday Styles sections as co-workers froze at the fracas.
Fashion editor Anita LeClerc was the aggressor and her superior, deputy editor Mary Ann Giordano, the victim, sources say.
The two had exchanged words just moments before, allegedly over turf, and LeClerc began stomping around the office, muttering loudly to herself. But when Giordano, a talented import from the Metro section, came over in a conciliatory way and tried to smooth things over, LeClerc made it physical.
"She shoved Mary Ann and pushed her, and Mary Ann said, 'Don't you touch me! Don't you touch me!'" says a source. "Mary Ann grabbed her wrists to try to stop her, and [LeClerc] just started flailing."
Top editor Trip Gabriel grabbed LeClerc and dragged the still-sputtering stylista into his office as Giordano followed.
"They were in there for a long time," reports a source. When they came out, Anita went back to her desk, but Mary Ann went out for a walk. She looked shaken."
The scrap at the newspaper could inspire jokes ("Pulitzers for Pugilism at the Black-and-Blue Lady?") but it's not funny, sources say. "Mary Ann is afraid now," says one. "She's a really nice woman, too. She keeps candy on her desk!"
That's why some at the respected broadsheet are baffled as to why no apparent disciplinary action has been taken against LeClerc. A Times spokeswoman did not answer questions about the slugfest, or disciplinary action, by deadline. Calls to LeClerc, Giordano and Gabriel were not returned.
Mr. Katz comments:
This is almost hilarious – a physical fight between two editors at The New York Times. Of course, the Times didn't report it. Clearly, word just got out.
But there are very serious questions for Times management:
1. Was this a war of choice, or legitimate self defense?
2. Why didn't The Times immediately bring the matter to the United Nations?
3. Did this incident occur because Times management was too busy dealing with pressure from the Israel lobby?
4. Did one side fear that the other had WMD? How did they get it so wrong?
5. This fight between two women was apparently broken up by a man? Doesn't this indicate that The Times, despite the dreams of Pinch Sulzberger, is still a symbol of patriarchal domination, exploitation and control? Should Sulzberger resign, to be replaced by Drew Gilpin Faust?
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Today LG has officially announced what they call the world's first 84-inch Ultra Definition (UD) 3D TV for the Korean market with the TV expected to start appearing in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America starting in September. What is interesting here is the fact that you get 4K resolution in 2D mode and more than Full HD in stereo 3D mode since the 3D TV set uses LG's passive (FPR) 3D technology that essentially halves the vertical resolution in 3D mode. And the good news is that the 4K resolution (3840×2160) is actually fully supported by the HDMI 1.4 interface and thanks to the use of passive 3D technology you can also use the interface in 3D mode as well, though you'll have to feed the TV set with Row Interleaved video data directly as HDMI 1.4 does not currently feature frame packaging support for more than 1080p resolution.
The 84-inch LG 84LM9600 Cinema 3D TV is definitely an interesting approach from LG as the company is clearly targeting to get a good market position among the 4K resolution TV sets even though they are still very far from becoming mainstream. And the good thing is that even the currently available technology allows them to support stereo 3D mode, though not in the full 4K resolution, but with more than enough pixels at 3840×1080 per eye for the 3D mode. 4K stereoscopic 3D support with active 3D TV sets at this time would be a problem due to the very high bandwidth requirements in order to push two frames at full 4K resolution, but with all the interest in 4K we are probably soon going to get a new revision of HDMI supporting frame packaged 3D at over Full HD resolution. The good thing from all this is that we are probably also going to have support for 1080p 60Hz frame packaged 3D mode sooner than later, so while 4K TV sets at every home is something still in the not so near future, we may all benefit from that even in the next generation of Full HD 3D-capable solutions.


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Monday, June 7, 2010
"Are There Any Questions?"
Anyways, my problem with the people who say that simply asking your students if they have questions is a poor way to elicit questions is that the admonishment is never accompanied by positive advice. If I'm not supposed to say, "does anybody have any questions," what am I supposed to say? It's as though eliciting questions is some sort of incommunicable skill; like you have to be some sort of classroom whisperer with a magical gift of getting the students to ask the questions they have. The rest of us can never hope to get to that level.
So I've been asking my students what, if not asking whether there are any questions, I should be doing. They don't know. I ask them if they ever had one of these classroom whisperers who could really elicit the good questions. None of them ever have. One guy says he had a math teacher who elicited lots of questions by being obscure and never explaining anything. Obviously, that's not a good way to elicit questions. Another guy says he doesn't ask many questions because he doesn't find me confusing. I already explained the stuff he was going to ask about, he says.
But the weird thing is this: whenever I have this discussion with a class, it leads seamlessly to them asking a bunch of good, penetrating questions about the material we were covering right before this digression. It's really bizarre. The best way I've found to elicit questions is just to claim that you have no idea how to elicit questions.
--Mr. Zero
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It's odd that you were offered that advice without the rest of the suggestion of what to do in its place. Whenever I was steered away from "do you have any questions?"--either in the corporate world in presentation skills training seminars or in academia--I was always told to replace it with "what questions do you have?"... The theory, at least, is that it implies that they already have questions (which most do, even if they're not bold enough to ask them) and so the "assumption" of the students having questions sets the right tone of the room. Otherwise "do you have any questions?" is, at root, a 'yes' or 'no' question, and in that strange social calculus that students employ ("will i look dumb if i ask this question?", "how would i even word my response, where do I begin?"), that boolean die-toss is always on the "safer" 'no' side...
- June 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Yeah, sometimes when there aren't any questions, I just say something like, "I really have no idea whether you're finding this all crystal clear or utterly baffling, but since you're not asking anything, I'll assume the former". Which generally gets at least one question; and then I find that once one student breaks the question barrier, others feel emboldened enough to follow. I think maybe it helps the students to be reminded that their having a question doesn't reflect poorly on them... or anyway, that's at least my best guess.
- June 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM
I think the problem with asking "Does anybody have any questions?" isn't in the asking for questions, but in the ambiguity of the "anybody." It's a difficult question to answer, since they don't know if anybody has any questions, and they also don't know the relative rank-ordering in importance of their question, if they recognize that they have a question, relative to the other questions that they don't know about. Moreover, since it's philosophy, they sometimes simply don't understand that they have questions.
I always try to ask a student to explain back to me what I've just explained or discussed. Sometimes I'll select someone at random. That usually _reveals_ that there are, in fact, a lot of questions.
I sometimes also say, "Okay, who's lost?" I raise my hand as I say this, to indicate that I am one among the lost. I then use this as a method of encouraging someone else to explain the position for me. "Can you help me understand what's going on here?"
I'm not saying it's the best method, but it kinda works.
- June 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Ask a specific question, such as "what should I be doing instead of X." (Didn't you answer your own question here?)
Or "So, can someone tell me the main point so far?" Or, "So Mill's position here seems to depend on P. Can anyone explain how?" or "Can anyone think of reasons for or against P?"
Other strategies:
(a) ask the students to write a question on a piece of paper, and then have them pass the questions around. Then ask someone to read the question they now have.
(b) have students drop questions (about the last class or the day's reading) in a bag at the start of class, and choose some randomly at some appropriate time.
- June 7, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Also, on occasion, flip the (passive, sitting on hands, no-question-having) default:
"Raise your hand if you don't have any questions."
or even
"Stand up if you don't have any questions."
Gets people moving.
Kind of cheesy, but pretty effective.
- June 7, 2010 at 3:05 PM
I say 'What do you think?'
Then they do not feel they have to come up with a well formed question - as well as questions, often they will just give their take on things, or how they think it connects with something else, or (quite often) they will give me objections to the argument, all of which reveal what they think, and give me a chance to clarify possible misunderstandings, show how the account in question can handle that objection, praise them if they say stuff that is interesting and useful, and so on...
'What do you think?' is, at the end of the day, a question most of them know how to answer... :-)
- June 7, 2010 at 3:47 PM
A lot of good ideas. I too found that students tend to remain quiet when asked 'Are there any questions?' but to ask great questions, and a great many of them, when it is just assumed that there are questions, or when I ask something more specific. So I usually do one of the following things:
1. Ask something specific: 'how did x get this from what s/he was saying before?' it may just be another way of saying 'did anyone get anything at all from the last half-hour?' but it sounds more specific, so it works.
2. Ask them to help recap, or give the 'bottom line'. Once one of them starts, there will be questions, comments, suggestions, etc. Also works well in the beginning of class: can anyone remind us what we talked about last time?
3. Ask if there is any particular point that needs clarifying, getting from any one step to the next (suggest a few). Sometimes it is easier for them to realize than the whole picture.
4. Ask why / how this point/discussion is relevant or fits in the framework of what's been done so far.
5. Sometimes I just state: OK, I know you have many questions. And it works. (Maybe our acknowledging the confusion as part of the process makes them recognize it).
Basically I think as long as there is an abstract confusion they are facing, they can't always focus it into particular questions, but once we ask specific questions, it helps clarify what isn't entirely understood, and so they can ask.
- June 7, 2010 at 3:48 PM
ps Perhaps the reason why, if you discuss with students how to elicit question then they ask more questions, is perhaps because it shows to the students that you *really do* want them to ask questions...
- June 7, 2010 at 3:50 PM
I like A-158's suggestions. I've used something similar with success. I write a question on the board (e.g., "What are some possible objections to the argument we just discussed?") and have the students spend a minute or two writing down their answer to it. The discussions that follow such exercises are usually quite good.
A variation on A-158's "passing" suggestion: Have everyone write a question on a piece of paper. Have them pass the papers around and read the questions to themselves. After they've all read a few questions, have someone tell you which question they found the best/most interesting/most important/whatever.
If your students expect this to happen on a regular basis, you might encourage them to write down questions as they occur to them so that they'll be prepared with a good question when the time comes.
- June 7, 2010 at 4:05 PM
I sometimes employ a take-home assignment that's worth a few points with several recent topics where I ask them to write a question about each given topic. Then I survey the answers to see where the most general misunderstandings are and respond to them in class. That way I can address problems without singling out particular students (which is the biggest reason they don't ask questions--they're embarrassed to do so).
Also, how you respond to questions in class is probably more important than the sheer quality of your answers. Try as much as possible to praise the questioner: "Really nice question" for anything like that or "I bet a lot of other people would have liked to ask that" for a question that to you (and other better students) might seem silly. Honey works much better than vinegar here--everyone needs respect.
(Counterpoint: with a recent logic class chock-full of students that were really smart and with whom I had excellent personal rapport, one such good and personable student asked a really, really dumb question and I said "Oh, wait a minute, where did I put that?" and pretended to search behind the computer desk. Not finding what I was looking for I shrugged my shoulders, went into slight histrionic exaggerated speech while bending down ala Vincent D'Onofrio in Criminal Intent and said "I can't seem to find THE NOOSE I NEED TO HANG MYSELF!!!" The class burst into laughter as did that student--but I repeat that you can only get away with that very rarely with closely-understood ways that you relate to a particular class.)
- June 7, 2010 at 5:26 PM
When I was in college, I almost never had questions when the prof asked for them. But if someone mentioned the right point, the questions I had forgotten would pop back into my head.
One of my tactics is based on my recollection of being that kind of student. It seems to work.
I ask the class what confuses them most, and I give them options. (Were you most confused by A? Or B? Or C?) Once I mention the right idea, they seem to wake up and remember what confused or bothered them. Almost inevitably someone will jump in with a fairly clear question.
Even if that doesn't work, they'll still perk up when they hear mention of what confuses them. Focusing in on that area and giving further options will end up guiding them to their questions.
This pretty much always works for me. I imagine it wouldn't work with all teaching styles, or all kinds of classes. But at least it works for mine.
- June 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM
i would just ask them if they had any questions, they would stay silent. i would ask them, with mock incredulity 'really, no one has any questions about Kant's moral philosophy (example)? Really?' still silence. i then ask them a rather basic (but not too basic) question on the material (what would Kant say on this given situation...) and have them write the answer on a piece of paper and hand it in, given that they have no questions, thereby knowing it all. I tell them it is 5% of their grade.
I do this once, maybe twice per semester. Then, they ask questions and it gets lively once in a while.
- June 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM
As is pointed out, asking them questions is a better way to start discussions than having them ask you questions.
How you respond to questions is also important. As someone pointed out, praising the questioner is a good idea. "That's a good question." or "I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to talk about..." which indicates the students questions are in line with your plans (that makes them feel like they are getting it).
It also works to ask questions back at them, or to encourage them to question each other and act as the moderator. If someone makes a comment or asks a question, rather than responding yourself, ask if anyone else has a response.
Another (big) faux pas, I think, is the tendancy we have to correct student questions or comments. The student does the typical student thing and says something long, rambly, and only vaguely coherent, and we say something like, "I think what you mean is..." what we are trying to do is figure out what they mean, but it comes off as "Your question/comment was wrong, and I am fixing it." which is discouraging to that student and the rest of them. Instead, respond with "Tell me if I am getting your comment/question -- are you saying etc.?" and then let them correct themselves (if they can). This also encourages other students to ask questions because you seem like you want to understand what they are saying and then they will want to understand what you are saying.
I also find connecting material to other courses they may have already taken helps, because it boosts their confidence. I often use examples from psychology, history, and science. So I'll start the example with "Did anyone learn about, ie Freud, in psychology?" If someone responds, I'll say "Okay, tell me what you learned about the superego" or whatever, and that encourages them to draw connections (and talk about stuff they feel like they know.)
- June 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM
I think asking if there are any questions is fine so long as it's properly punctuated, e.g., "Are there any questions, bitches?"
- June 10, 2010 at 8:20 PM
I think when people just give the negative advice what they have in mind is just this: if you do all the talking, and then make only the most perfunctory effort to elicit response and discussion from the students, you will get no response and discussion from the students. I'm a big fan of lots of the suggestions made in the comments above.
- June 10, 2010 at 9:37 PM
if you do all the talking, and then make only the most perfunctory effort to elicit response and discussion from the students, you will get no response and discussion from the students
This is super important. Martin Benjamin (Mich St Emeritus) used to give seminars on teaching philosophy. He sometimes referred to a distinction b/w the Explicit Syllabus (EP) and the Implicit Syllabus (IP). The EP is, well, the syllabus you distribute to your students. The IP, on the other hand, is the way you treat your students.
Your treatment of your students sets out your expectations as much as your EP does. You can say all you want about how you'd like them to talk, but if you don't make a place for it in class from the start, the students won't believe you. In effect, by failing to let them talk, you'll teach them to be quiet, despite what you say about talking in class.
Some teachers think they need to lecture for three weeks before they can let students talk, because the students don't have anything much to say before then. This is a big mistake. If you want your students to talk in class (during discussion, to ask questions, whatever), the earlier you get them to talk, the better. And it doesn't really matter what they talk about at first. Just make up a few opportunities for everyone to say something to the class. E.g.:
1. Interview your neighbor in class and introduce them to the rest of us.
2. Tell us what philosophy classes you've had before.
3. Tell us where you went on summer vacation.
Even this last one works. I tell the students that the whole purpose of this is to get them talking. I tell them that the earlier they talk in class, the more likely they are to talk again. They understand and play along.
And, fwiw, when I was a grad student, we had prof's visit our classes to watch us teach. On more than one occasion, prof's commented on how many students talked in my classes. Some even noticed that students who wouldn't talk in their classes would talk in mine.
I do this stuff a lot in speech-intensive ethics courses I teach, and a lot less in advanced courses for majors (in which I tend to lecture more). I end up with very different class environments.
By three weeks into the class, students have developed habits that they are likely to hold until the end of the semester. Get them talking early and they're likely to keep on talking.
- June 11, 2010 at 8:20 AM
A-158, you misspelled "Ψyllabus".
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These sand sculptures were prepared as part of this year's Hollywood-themed Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival on March 26, 2013. All week, 20 award-winning sand sculptors from across the globe are working to create sand sculptures that include odes to Harry Potter, Marilyn Monroe and characters from the Star Wars films as part of the town's very own movie themed festival on the beach.
Sure, it's too cold to go the beach. But that doesn't mean you can't admire it from afar.
Sand sculptor Radavan Zivny works on a sand sculpture of Gollum from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
A scene from Jurassic Park.
Helena Bangert (center), from Holland works on a sand sculpture of King Kong.
A sand sculptor works on a Toy Story-themed sand sculpture.
Detail of the Toy Story.
E.T. phones home.
Scene from a Harry Potter movie.
Detail of a Harry Potter sand sculpture.
Batman and The Incredible Hulk, because why not?
A Clint Eastwood sculpture of when Clint Eastwood made good movies.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Detail of the Pirates of the Caribbean sculpture.
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Beware of Elevated Vagueness
The term "elevated vagueness" caught my eye.
It was in a tweet by Fred Sanders linking to his article about F. W. Robertson, a 19th century British preacher. Even before I read the article I could smell the rot. Robertson, it has been discovered, was covering his sexual affair in private while covering the truth in the pulpit.
That is not surprising. There is a connection between skilled vagueness and concealed immorality. Why else would a man use great gifts to make things unclear unless he was afraid of clarity? And fear of clarity in preaching is a good sign that something besides doctrine is being concealed.
This is not new. And the reason I call attention to Sanders' article is because I want to plead with pastors to be crystal clear in their preaching, and surgically clean in their private lives.
Be clear about what you affirm and what you deny. Don't fudge. Don't play clever games with the truth. Don't slither like a snake. If you are a snake stand upright on your tail and hiss with all your might: "I am a snake!" And if you are a spokesman for the risen Christ, paint his crimson portrait with lucid precision. Conceal nothing that is true. "What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops" (Matthew 10:27).
This was a beautiful mark of the apostle Paul.
"As men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ" (2 Corinthians 2:17).
"We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God" (2 Cointhians 4:2).
Yes. Yes. Yes. Pastors, let this be the mark of all your ministry, especially the pulpit. Clarity in preaching, cleanness in private.


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The Pacific-Northwest city of Seattle, USA has for many years, been home to a vast array of quality and diverse music. However, the unrelenting force of mid-'80s grunge left much of the city's endeavours overshadowed following its death in the '90s. Then, around the turn of the millennium, the city found itself in a state of flux, and began to shift grunge's rotting legacy from around its neck. Global media recognised its other efforts. Local boys done good, did in fact do very well: Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie and The Shins (to name just a few) are platinum-selling artists across the globe. But in recent years the next wave has been steadily breaking through on local labels such as Sub Pop, Barsuk and Suicide Squeeze. And there are many more waiting in the ranks, just ready to step up. However, on this evidence, the wait for Feral Children won't be much longer.
With the help of producer Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Arcade Fire), five-piece Feral Children have crafted a debut album brimming with great melodies and hooks in abundance. However, couple this with interesting and experimental percussive elements (making use of their two drummers), not to mention bouts of raw noise and inventive lyrics, and you have a debut that will stick. There's a clear resemblance to early Sung Tongs/Feels-era Animal Collective here, but Feral Children use these cosy pleasantries merely as a base to build upon. Every track spirals upwards, shifting gears, layers of jangly guitars, weird and wonderful energetic explosions of percussion building. 'Spy/Glass House' kicks the album off with the band's trademark echoing-beer-keg percussion. However, it ends in another place altogether, with swathes of noise detonating off in every direction. A sample of what's to come.
If you were to stick Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade, Murder City Devils, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective and even fellow Seattleite newcomers Jaguar Love, into an industrial strength blender - you know, like those ones on YouTube that can liquidise a golf club - out would slip Feral Children. Like a smoking mixture of boiling treacle, whiskey and thick congealed mud. The vocal pairing of Jeff Keenan and bass-player Jim Cotton energetically spit vocals as if the illegitimate love-children of Hot Hot Heat's Steve Bays and Modest Mouse's Issac Brock on tracks such as 'Me, Me, Just Me', an electronically raucous sing-along ("Don't, don't think too hard, 'cos your brain won't eat your heart...") that changes tact midway into clean reverberated guitars. In a similar vein, 'Billionaires Vs Millionaires' begins as if it's straight from Interpol's own paranoid New York cutting room floor. Its skinny Pixies-esque surf guitar lines, pulsating bass and despairing vocals (about love, condos in the city and isolation) lay the foundations for what builds, this time, into shoegazy chants and disorientated whispers.
'Jundice Giraffe' is packed with TV On The Radio-style ethereal floating vocals and raw electronics before Cotton's pained shouts and eerie tones - "They love your skin, they love your yellow skin, they do" - take the song straight into spooksville. Later, the fantastic seven-minute journey 'Lost In The Woods' begins in strong Modest Mouse melodic territory before, at its peak, morphing into a druggy disorientated and paranoid world - as if wandering, well, lost in the woods on mushrooms. On the wonderful 'Ex-Blindman', the vivid and humorous lyrics - "It was almost love at first sight, but then some blind man stole your eyes, and gave them to his ex-wife for a birthday surprise" - form a catchy and accessibly melodic hook. But adding more contrast to an already varied release, post-apocalyptic drone skronk is used to build suspense ('Space Face') for the rockin' post-punk number 'The Beast = Goldmine' and angular chorus-led closer 'Zyghost'.
Second To The Last Frontier is an eclectic and varied debut, amongst the cream of current sounds emanating from the Pacific-Northwest. Feral Children have succeeded in creating an accessibly melodic album that lacks none of the ambition many of their better-known peers have demonstrated to a commercially successful level.
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Particularly when specifying the identity of an object, sequences are a very useful facility. DataNucleus supports the automatic assignment of sequence values for object identities. However such sequences may also have use when a user wishes to assign such identity values themselves, or for other roles within an application. JDO 2 defines an interface for sequences for use in an application - known as Sequence. . There are 2 forms of "sequence" available through this interface - the ones that DataNucleus provides utilising datastore capabilities, and ones that a user provides using something known as a "factory class".
DataNucleus internally provides 2 forms of sequences. When the underlying datastore supports native sequences, then these can be leveraged through this interface. Alternatively, where the underlying datastore doesn't support native sequences, then a table-based incrementing sequence can be used. The first thing to do is to specify the Sequence in the Meta-Data for the package requiring the sequence. This is done as follows
<jdo> <package name="MyPackage"> <class name="MyClass"> ... </class> <sequence name="ProductSequence" datastore-sequence="PRODUCT_SEQ" strategy="contiguous"/> <sequence name="ProductSequenceNontrans" datastore-sequence="PRODUCT_SEQ_NONTRANS" strategy="nontransactional"/> </package> </jdo>
So we have defined two Sequences for the package MyPackage. Each sequence has a symbolic name that is referred to within JDO (within DataNucleus), and it has a name in the datastore. The final attribute represents whether the sequence is transactional or not.
All we need to do now is to access the Sequence in our persistence code in our application. This is done as follows
PersistenceManager pm = pmf.getPersistenceManager(); Sequence seq = pm.getSequence("MyPackage.ProductSequence");
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long value = seq.nextValue();
Please be aware that when you have a Sequence declared with a strategy of "contiguous" this means "transactional contiguous" and that you need to have a Transaction open when you access it.
JDO3.1 allows control over the allocation size (default=50) and initial value (default=1) for the sequence. So we can do
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which will allocate 10 new sequence values each time the allocated sequence values is exhausted.
It is equally possible to provide your own Sequence capability using a factory class. This is a class that creates an implementation of the JDO Sequence. Let's give an example of what you need to provide. Firstly you need an implementation of the JDO Sequence interface, so we define ours like this
public class SimpleSequence implements Sequence { String name; long current = 0; public SimpleSequence(String name) { this.name = name; } public String getName() { return name; } public Object next() { current++; return new Long(current); } public long nextValue() { current++; return current; } public void allocate(int arg0) { } public Object current() { return new Long(current); } public long currentValue() { return current; } }
So our sequence simply increments by 1 each call to next(). The next thing we need to do is provide a factory class that creates this Sequence. This factory needs to have a static newInstance method that returns the Sequence object. We define our factory like this
package org.datanucleus.samples.sequence; import javax.jdo.datastore.Sequence; public class SimpleSequenceFactory { public static Sequence newInstance() { return new SimpleSequence("MySequence"); } }
and now we define our MetaData like this
<jdo> <package name="MyPackage"> <class name="MyClass"> ... </class> <sequence name="ProductSequenceFactory" strategy="nontransactional" factory-class="org.datanucleus.samples.sequence.SimpleSequenceFactory"/> </package> </jdo>
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The PC gaming accessories squad at Razer have teamed up with Hasbro to offer yet another bunch Transformers-branded items to beg my loved ones to get me for Christmas.
Sure I have at least five gaming mice sitting on my desk as I type this, but none of them are colored to match fictional transforming robots, nor do any other them carry faction symbols. To remedy this, I either need paint and more painting skill than I currently possess, or one of the new $59.99 Razer DeathAdder: Transformers: Dark of the Moon Collector's Edition gaming mice. I'll take Bumblebee or Optimus Prime, please.
And if I were in possession of a laptop that fit the up to 15 inches covered by the sexy Transformers: Dark of the Moon Collector's Edition Razer laptop case, then I would gladly let someone else spend $49.95 on one for me.
"Powerful technology in spectacularly designed hardware – that's what both the Transformers franchise and Razer have in common," said Joe Keane, VP Brand Licensing for the Americas, Hasbro. "And that's why this collaboration is something fans of the brand and gamers alike will seriously enjoy."
I'll take a pass on the mouse pad. Show me a G1 version and we'll talk.
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OGDEN, Utah — A shootout erupted when police raided a Utah house on Wednesday evening, killing an officer and seriously wounding five others and the suspect, authorities said.
"It's a very, very sad day for Ogden," an emotional Ogden Police Chief Wayne Tarwater said Thursday.
The officers from an anti-drug task force went to the suburban Salt Lake City house as part of a routine drug-related investigation. They knocked on the door and identified themselves, he said.
"When there was no answer, they forced entry onto the door," he said. "When they entered, the officers came under fire."
The suspect, Matthew David Stewart, 37, has a limited criminal history. Stewart suffered injuries that are not life threatening, though it's unclear if he was shot.
Stewart is in a hospital under guard and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
The officer killed, Jared Francom, was with the Ogden police. He had a wife and two young children.
After one of the officers was shot, police blocked off the area and a SWAT team took positions. Ogden is about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City.
The team serving the search warrant was made up of officers from the Weber County Sheriff's Office, local police departments and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
Authorities said the conditions of the officers ranged from serious to critical.
They are Ogden officers Shawn Grogan, Kasey Burrell and Michael Rounkles, Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Nate Hutchinson and Roy officer Jason Vanderworf.
The unit's commander, So. Ogden City Lt. Darin Parke said that "other than the outcome" the investigation that led to the plan to search Stewart's home was like any other.
A total of 12 officers were on hand when the warrant was served, he said.
Police continued to search the home Thursday, but would not say what they had found, or specifically what they had been looking for.
Witnesses said they heard three quick pops followed by a two- to three-minute pause, then lots of gunfire.
"We came running outside to see what was going on," Janessa Vanderstappen, who lives nearby, told the Deseret News. "Officers told us to go back in our house."
Vanderstappen said she went back inside, and minutes later heard yelling coming from the backyard. She said she walked onto the back porch to see officers addressing a person hiding in a nearby shed.
"There's cops telling him to 'put your hands up, put your hands up,'" she said.
Mat Weinberger, who lives about a half block away, said he first thought the noise was fireworks.
From the porch, he told the Salt Lake Tribune that he could see several police cars parked at a nearby intersection. He also could hear a voice on the police radio shout that an officer was down.
He estimated that between 30- to 40- shots were fired during the shootout.
"Chaotic end to a quiet night," he said.
On Thursday, Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell called the shooting, which occurred on his first full-day in office, a "one-in-a-billion event."
"It's amazing what these officers do — put themselves in harm's way," he said.
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The school provides a caring and supportive environment to children and there is a clear emphasis on enabling children to be the best they can be — both academically and as "people".
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Rockies happy with strides made by Bettis
SAN DIEGO -- The Rockies are seeing results from reliever Chad Bettis, a talented right-hander who could end up playing a big part in the late innings for the club.
Bettis, in the Majors at the start of the year for the first time in his career, gave up runs in three of his first four appearances this season. But in his last three games entering Thursday, he had pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings, with three strikeouts, two hits and one walk. All of the games have been close.
"I was encouraged by Chad's outing [Wednesday] night," manager Walt Weiss said of Bettis' clean eighth with one strikeout that kept the Rockies close in a 4-2 loss to the Padres. "It's a matter of throwing his changeup enough so it gets hitters off his fastball. He's got such a great changeup, a power changeup, and it bottoms out. When a hitter sees that, it puts some doubt in his mind in fastball counts."
Bettis was a starter and a reliever at Texas Tech before the Rockies drafted him in the second round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, and he was a starter throughout his Minor League career and when he broke in with the Rockies last year. Bettis developed a solid breaking ball as well as his fastball-changeup combo, and he has worked that into his relief repertoire.
The curve was a pitch the White Sox Jose Abreu hit for a homer at the end of a long at-bat in a key situation on April 8, but Bettis generally has been able to fit an effective curve into his attack as a put-away pitch. A two-inning scoreless stint against the Giants, after giving up a double to the first hitter he faced, was the beginning of Bettis showing he's a fast learner.
"It's just doing what you're expected to do, trying to give your team the best shot to win," Bettis said. "It's about learning hitters and learning the league. You learn what you've done before, what they might be expecting, and then going from there."


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On 1 July 2009, the whenua, accumulated rentals and other settlement assets were transferred back for the benefit of all Collective members.
The CNI Iwi Collective today, is a confederation of eight iwi from the central North Island(CNI) region:
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- Ngāti Manawa
- Ngāti Rangitihi
- Ngāti Tuwharetoa
- Ngāti Whakaue
- Ngāti Whare
- Raukawa
- Te Pumautanga O Te Arawa
These iwi came together to settle their claims to forest lands in the CNI, achieving ground-breaking success with its settlement with the Crown which took effect on 1 July 2009. The vast majority of settlement land is part of Kaingaroa forest. The Collective's intention is to continue working together beyond July 2009, to make the most of our shared whāinga and tikanga (goals and values), and the combined strength that has made the Collective a force to be reckoned with and respected.


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The Citizen of the Year Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 26, at the Holiday Inn Grand Island. The announcement of this year's Citizen of the Year honorees is scheduled for the March 23 edition of the Island Dispatch. This special community event will honor businesses and individuals whose contributions have made Grand Island a better place to live.
Grand Island's own Phil Buchanan will host as this year's master of ceremonies. Buchanan has lived on Grand Island for more than 48 years and has been very involved within the community. A former WBEN Channel 4 news director, writer, editor and reporter, he also is a partner of the Buchanan-Eichel Homes Inc.
The chamber thanks local businesses that have sponsored this special event. Platinum sponsors to date include the Holiday Inn Grand Island and Niagara Frontier Publications. Gold sponsors to date include First Niagara Bank, Key Bank and Life Technologies. The Silver sponsor to date is Toshiba Business Solutions. Bronze sponsors to date include Elderwood Health Care at Riverwood, Sam Long's Landscaping and Excavation, JM Refrigeration Heating and Air Conditioning, Grand Lady Cruises, Creative Leather Concepts and Island Ship Center, Rhino-Tees Custom Apparel and Sports Complex, Tops Friendly Markets, SNAP Fitness, Aceti's Wine and Spirits, Liz Wilbert and Realty USA, and the Grand Island Rotary Club.


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This week in Best of Publib includes some elegant and thoughtful discussions on collection development, the value of GSLIS programs and the future of public libraries – some of the topics we will be reviewing include:
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When it comes to blogging, I'm not too big on giveaways, unless it's something I really believe in and would want to win myself. This is one of those times. The folks over at Simplify 101 were so pleased to see their e-course mentioned this week, that they are offering FREE enrollment in a week long e-seminar to two lucky Hatch readers! Because it starts in a week, the deadline for entering will be at noon on Wednesday, May 19. Just leave us a comment telling us you need help getting organized and you'd like to participate and we'll pick new names at random on Wednesday. If you want to give any of the details about your mess, PLEASE SHARE! I'd love to hear it, because it makes me feel better about my own organizational stumbling blocks. You'll need to have some time cleared each day to dedicate to getting organized. Here are some details and links:
Whether the state of clutter in your home has you overwhelmed to the point of not knowing where to start, or you're ready to turbo-charge your organizing efforts—the simplify 101 "Help! I Don't Know Where to Begin!" workshop, beginning Thursday, May 20, 2010, is for you! This workshop is designed to give new users a taste of simplify 101's online workshops. Best yet, this workshop includes a coupon code good for $5 off your next workshop purchase! There's a whole new way to get organized!
I cannot tell you how much I've accomplished since starting another Simplify 101 workshop; it's been very motivating. It literally makes you feel lighter and more free. If you are ready to start getting organized but don't know where to start, leave a comment before noon (that's east coast time) on Wednesday May 19. We'll contact the winners that afternoon.
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Ignacio Serricchio Joins Cast
The Young and the Restless welcomes Ignacio Serricchio to the cast as Detective Alex Chavez. Serricchio will play a streetwise undercover cop from New York. Look for Serricchio to begin airing on Friday, December 7. Check out the interview below to learn more about the latest addition to the Y&R family!
On landing this role…
[The Young and the Restless Executive Producer] Jill [Farren Phelps] gave me my first big job that really started my career. … Jill approached me a couple of months ago with the idea of this character. [I told her,] 'I would do anything for you!' I like working with her. She creates a fun environment.
Jill knows me very well. I'm all about having fun and being creative. There's nothing else that interests me. We understand each other.
That's why I'm in the business I am – to be creative, bounce ideas off each other.
On character role…
My mom's thrilled that I'm not playing a bad guy. [I've taped] three episodes and I haven't killed anyone yet!
[The character is] very sarcastic [with a] dry humor. He's direct and to the point. He wants info, and he's going to get it. He can read people—knows when they're lying. [And he] enjoys watching people try to make things up.
On return to Daytime television…
I feel like I never left… It was great.
It challenges you. You have to be on your toes. [It's important to] take notes and apply them immediately. It's the closest thing to theatre in the TV/film world, and I love theatre.
On other hobbies…
[I enjoy] happy eating, being outdoors and scuba diving. I'm in the water twice a week diving for lobster.
[I'm involved in] standup/improv around L.A. [I'm also] writing new material, [which] keeps me on stage.


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