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Mitt Romney is arguing that Obama is fighting for secularism.
I think there is in this country a war on religion. I think there is a desire to establish a religion in America known as secularism.
They gave it a lot of thought and they decided to say that in this country that a church — in this case, the Catholic Church — would be required to violate its principles and its conscience and be required to provide contraceptives, sterilization and morning after pills to the employees of the church. … We are now all Catholics. Those of us who are people of faith recognize this is — an attack on one religion is an attack on all religion.
I'm an atheist fighting against religion. If it were me running for office, Romney could legitimately make that case. But Obama is openly Christian, he has expanded support for faith-based charities, he ends speeches with "god bless", he attends prayer breakfast and praises faith. He is no ally of mine in this cause, even if he's willing to acknowledge the existence of atheists now and then.
To argue that religious organizations, in their dealings with the profane material world in payroll and insurance and taxes (and in getting financial support from our secular government), ought to also abide by the laws in those dealings, is not an attack on religion. Romney is apparently one of those people who wants to bestow all kinds of special privileges on the churches…but then, that's his whole life, privilege.


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They performed this feat using a new very high-throughput technique improved by the Montpellier team. This major research work should shed new light on the impact of 3D chromosome organization on genome(3) expression and on the onset of diseases such as cancer. It is published in the online version of the journal Cell of 19 January 2012.
Researchers had suspected for years: individuals are more than the sum of their genes and therefore the architecture of their chromosomes could also be a key factor in the proper functioning of their cells. However, until now, a real understanding of the principles governing the folding of the genome in the nucleus was beyond the scope of existing approaches. Consequently, for the last four years, twenty or so research teams in various parts of the globe have been developing methods to study genome folding.
To describe interactions between genomic regions, the CNRS team used a method known as "chromosome conformation capture" (Hi-C), derived from a technique developed in 2009 by an American group. Like the American version, the Montpellier method involves three major steps: fixing intra- and inter-chromosomal interactions with formaldehyde(4); binding the ends of the two regions in contact with the DNA ligase protein(5), of bacterial origin; and determining the sequence of these two contacting regions. Yet Cavalli and his colleagues brought significant improvements to the technique, making it possible to study much smaller fragments of DNA (several hundred base pairs, compared to fragments of 5-10 kilobases previously), and thus allowing these interactions to be mapped at high resolution.
Using this technique, the Montpellier researchers and their Israeli colleagues analyzed the genome of Drosophila (also known as fruit fly), an insect whose genome is fifteen times smaller than our own. The team was able to identify no fewer than 118 million contact zones! Analysis of these zones enabled the scientists to produce very detailed interaction maps. These show that the chromosomes are organized into domains containing one or more genes. Separated by chromatic boundary regions known as "insulators", these domains correspond either to actively expressed zones(6), or to inactive regions.
The mathematical expertise of Amos Tanay's Israeli team helped both groups develop a computer model capable of predicting, with quite good accuracy, the real folding of chromosomes. This very powerful tool has made it possible to elucidate the fundamental principles underlying the 3D organization of the genome.
In particular, it appears that the inactive domains tend to form interactions with other inactive domains, often nearby on the same chromosome, whereas active domains "contact" other active domains, either close or distant, in some cases on other chromosomes.
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Example of a 3D interaction map for a genome region of a size of 15 million base pairs (around one quarter of a chromosome, here the chromosome 2R). Circles surround regions that are far apart on a linear scale but establish very strong interactions in the cells. In the top left-hand corner, an insert shows one of these interactions mapped at high resolution and involving two genes (hbs and sns) repressed in the same cells. To its right, another insert shows a microscope image in which these two genes are colored green and red and are both co-localized in 48% of embryonic cells. The same analysis is shown in the inserts on the right for two other genes (hbs and synj) characterized by much weaker interactions, using both microscopy and the Hi-C method, despite the fact that they are at the same linear distance along the chromosome. These maps, which are now available for all genes, will make it possible to study how the 3D environment affects the activity of each gene in normal or pathological cells.
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Encouraging news about the job market and strong earnings from Disney helped drive U.S. stocks sharply higher in afternoon trading Thursday. The market was rebounding a day after posting small losses.
KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 156 points, or 1 percent, to 15,597 as of 12:13 p.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor's 500 index added 18 points, or 1 percent, to 1,769. The Nasdaq composite gained 42 points, or 1.1 percent, to 4,053.
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Do bad nutrition habits like overeating or binge eating lead to smoking pot? Some health experts think they might, according to a study published Monday.
Habits like overeating have always been known to affect our health, nutritionists say. In some cases, people say they lose control and just can't stop. Now scientists are finding that both habits and that feeling of lacking control may lead to other health issues.
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital studied a group of 16,882 boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 15 who participated in the Growing Up Today Study,beginning in 1996. From that time to 2005, investigators sent out questionnaires every 12 to 24 months, asking if these children were overeating or binge eating. Binge eating was defined as eating an amount of food that is larger than most people would eat in the same time span under similar circumstances and feeling a lack of control over eating during that time. Overeating did not have to be connected to loss of control.
By looking at the results, clinicians examined the association between overeating (without loss of control) and binge eating (overeating with loss of control) and such health red flags as being overweight or obese, depression, binge drinking, and drug use.
They found binge eating was more common in girls than boys – 2.3% to 3.1% of females and 0.3 % to 1% of males said they were binge eaters between the ages of 16 and 24. And the habit of binge eating led to weight problems.
"In summary, we found that binge eating, but not overeating, predicted the onset of overweight/obesity and worsening depressive symptoms," noted lead author Kendrin Sonneville, a clinical nutrition specialist with Boston Children's Hospital. "It's understandable about the connection with depressive states because binge eating carries a kind of stigma that could cause those children binge eat, to be depressed," she added.
However, when it came to overeating, whether the children said they were in control or had lost control of their eating habits, doctors found a strong connection to the onset of marijuana and other drug use, while there was very little connection to either eating habit and binge drinking.
"These findings from this investigation and previous research suggest that lack of control is an important indicator of severity of overeating episodes," Sonneville says. "Why it's connected to possible drug use, we don't understand yet.
"However, " she continued, "Given that binge eating is uniquely predictive of some adverse outcomes and because previous work has found that binge eating can be treated by intervention, clinicians should be encouraged to screen adolescents for binge eating."
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Air travel this year will be more festive thanks to new TSA standards that allow small snow globes and pies in carry-on luggage.
With 1.8 million travelers and 2.2 million carry-ons passing through security checkpoints every day, according to the Transportation Security Administration, travelers are urged to prep their luggage accordingly to avoid being the Grinch that slows down the security line.
This year, if snow globes appear to hold less than 3.4 ounces of liquid -- about the size of a tennis ball -- and fit in a quart-sized, clear bag, they're OK.
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Vinnie and Joe Taranto are finalists in a contest to make a Doritos ad.
In Vinnie Taranto's dining room and on his computer editing system, "Fetch" comes to life.
The Doritos commercial has more than 250,000 views on YouTube and has already won the brothers a trip to the Super Bowl and a chance to have their commercial seen during the game's broadcast.
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(AP) -- The Obama administration says it's confident stricter gun laws can be passed, but it's hedging its optimism by stressing just how politically difficult it will be.
White House senior adviser David Plouffe listed gun legislation and immigration reform as two top domestic priorities as President Barack Obama readies for a second term.
He said the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has changed the gun debate and that a big spotlight will be on the issue in coming months. But he did not sound assured that some measures would even get a vote.
"I think there are 60 votes in the Senate, 218 votes in the House, if the process can just play itself out and we can really get votes on some of these things," Plouffe said on CNN. "But it's going to be hard work."
Republican Sen. John Barrasso said he doubted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would bring all of the administration's proposals regarding gun violence to the floor.
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Affable [af-uh-buh l]
- (adj) friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to
Affable (ऐफबल) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
- मिलनसार, सुशील, मित्रतापूर्ण
Affable Origin
- late Middle English: via Old French from Latin affabilis, from the verb affari, from ad- 'to' + fari 'speak'.
Affable in a sentence (usage in newspaper)
- Affable Phillips can't wait to mingle at WSOP Seniors event
- Unflappable, affable, and highly inquisitive, all was 'okey-dokey' in O'Herlihy's world
- People like Musk, Jobs, Bezos and Uber's Travis Kalanick have earned a reputation for not being particularly affable.
- A hint of belligerence crept into his so far affable, persuasive tone.
- Jeb was as affable as ever, though the teleprompter remains an enemy.
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Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian writer of fantasy novels and poetry. He was born in 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg. In the early 1970s, whilst at the University of Manitoba, he came into contact with Christopher Tolkien, the son and literary executor of the late JRR Tolkien. In 1974 Christopher Tolkien requested Kay's aid in the editing of The Silmarillion, the vast collection of myths and legends that forms the immense backstory to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Kay accepted and spent ten months outside Oxford working on the project. In the 1980s he published his first - and to date only - epic fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, which was well-received. Resisting the urge to do a straight sequel, he set about writing a series of 'historical fantasies', books based very closely on a real time and place. This resulted in the book largely acknowledged as his first masterpiece, Tigana, inspired by Renaissance Italy. In Tigana the protagonists are battling for the very heart and soul of their nation, the spirit of which has been crushed in the conflict between two powerful warlords and the name of which has been removed from its people's memories.
Kay followed Tigana with A Song for Arbonne. Inspired by Provence and the south of France, the book is a slightly more traditional fantasy than Tigana, but remains a vital and engaging work, painting the country of Arbonne and its neighbour Gorhaut in vivid detail. There are hints that Arbonne and Tigana are set in the same world (and both may be on the same world, or at least in the same universe, as Fionavar), but Kay eschews traditional worldbuilding, preferring merely to tip the hat between his works.
Kay followed this with the book widely acknowledged as his second masterpiece, The Lions of Al-Rassan, based on Spain during the Reconquista. This book and the three subsequent novels are all set in the same world, a world which is clearly a fantasy version of Europe. Interestingly, these books take place at different parts in history, but as they share little except for some parts of their maps overlapping and some references, the background can safely be ignored. Instead, Al-Rassan's story shines through, combining a love triangle with religious strife against the backdrop of a struggle for power on the peninsula between several groups. The history is rich and the writing elegant and layered.
Kay's next project was The Sarantine Mosaic, a duology based closely around the history of Byzantium (Constantinople). The two books had dark, haunting atmospheres but for me they fell short of his best work and the story felt slight for it to span two novels and over eight hundred pages. Nevetheless, the writing is still as impressive as ever and eagle-eyed viewers will spot references to his earlier work (including the subtle mentions of a man called Ashar, who goes on to found the Asharite faith which plays a major role in Al-Rassan).
Following a poetry collection, Beyond This Dark House, Kay's most recent novel is The Last Light of the Sun, set between the Mosaic and Al-Rassan. This time the setting is England at the time of the Viking invasion and the central character is closely based on King Alfred the Great (he who burned the cakes). Some fans found Sun disappointing, but I enjoyed its setting, storytelling and the nice parallels and contrasts between the various characters.
Kay has moved to pastures new with his forthcoming, newest work, Ysabel. Published here in the UK in March (January for Canada and February for the USA), Ysabel is a modern story employing elements of urban fantasy and myth. Reviews have been extremely positive, some citing it as Kay's best work to date.
In a world dominated by five-book-plus series made up of brick-thick volumes, Kay is a writer who shows that sometimes less is more. His books are extremely pleasent to read, his prose is sparkling and poetic and his characters are engaging.
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A review of Ysabel courtesy of I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending.
An interview with Guy Gavriel Kay at OF Blog of the Fallen, conducted on 16 August 2006.
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The Summer Tree (1984) ***
The Wandering Fire (1986) - unread
The One Tree (1987) - unread
Tigana (1990) *****
A Song for Arbonne (1993) ****
The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995) *****
The Sarantine Mosaic
Sailing to Sarantium (1998) ****
Lord of Emperors (2000) ***
Beyond This Dark House (2003) - unread
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Changes I'd like to see for PvE Resto Talents
This is a run-down of "faults" I see in the resto talent tree: those talents that I am "forced" to take but find little to no use for as a PvE healer, and the talents that I feel are relatively useless to most any type of druid, and some ideas on ways they could be changed.
3/3 Nature's Focus
What's wrong?
This talent is PvP, or solo/leveling PvE. With the advent of dual-spec, few raiding PvE resto druids are seriously soloing in their healing spec! I have little to no use for the talent, never mind that both of my "oh shit" heals are instant-cast (NS+HT, Swiftmend), along with lifebloom, WG, and rejuvenation. I can pop barkskin on a 1-min cooldown if I really need some interrupt resist.
Alternative Talents:
The alternative available is to put 3/5 points in Furor, which has no benefits for a tree druid at all.
How could it be changed?
Perhaps Furor could be given some treeform utility useful specifically to a raid setting, such as increasing treeform spirit or mp5 (would be interesting to balance in the light of all of the recent 3.2 mp5/replenish changes); Nature's Focus would then still be a talent of choice for PvP and solo/leveling builds. Alternatively, Nature's Focus could also include a buff where your helpful spells have a chance to proc that same level of interrupt reduction to your target, or provide a +healing received buff to your direct-healing target (regrowth, nourish, HT) akin to the balance talent Earth and Moon (albeit much smaller to account for its teir 1 position, and perhaps limited to only buffing your own heals/HoTs rather than everyone's).
3/3 or 2/3 Subtlety
What's wrong?
This is a pvp and leveling talent, or one for those druids whose tanks are reaaaally weak on picking up adds and keeping threat on them. Serious raiding guilds, and even most casual raiding guilds and pugs, do not have this problem. In TBC, "world threat" was a huge issue for healers, but WotLK brought with it insane amounts of increased tank AoE threat and AoE tanking. Now, if a tank has at least touched a mob, it shouldn't be running off towards the healers. If a tank hasn't touched a mob, then of all the healers, a druid's going to end up with the aggro regardless of this talent, unless they just aren't healing.
Alternative Talents:
The alternatives available would be to put those points instead into Naturalist (when I don't cast HT without NS), Furor (see comments on Nature's Focus Options above), or putting 1 of 3 of the points into Tranquil Spirit and giving up on the last two talent points as some sacrificial offering to the Spec Gods.
How could it be changed?
Well, if Furor were to be changed to have some PvE raiding tree usefulness, I could easily see moving 2 points into Furor from this tier (thus capping out Furor at 5/5 with the points from Nature's Focus). Alternatively, and I feel crazy for suggesting this, Blizzard could add more mobs/bosses that have a chance to dispel buffs, as Epoch Hunter did in Old Hillsbrad Foothills, so that our anti-dispel portion of the talent would actually feel useful.
2/2 Improved Tranquility
What's wrong?
This is, pretty much, a sub-60 (pre WG) leveling resto druid talent, or filler for those that are *purely* raid healers and choose to not cast much in the way of nourish/regrowth. As a party-only heal with a relatively long channeling time, Tranquility does not see the use it had back in the vanilla raiding scene. These two key aspects: party-only and channeled, are not addressed by the talent, only the threat (see my comments on WotLK threat in the Subtlety section above) and the cooldown (which assumes druids are using it at all). Tranquility is more often used, imho, by moonkin or feral druids, or resto druids not yet high enough level to take Wild Growth; the ferals/balance druids aren't going to invest their talent points this deep in the resto tree unless they're taking NS instead, so they won't be taking this talent. Wild Growth's introduction and 6-second cooldown more or less removed Tranquility from most raiding restos' action bars and minds.
Alternative Talents:
There are alternatives for where to put the 2 talent points, certainly; the reason I mention it is because I pity the talent. I honestly don't see many druids taking this talent, and those that do don't seem to be making regular, strong use of this talent to the degree that makes up for them not putting those points in a different talent, such as revitalize, living seed, empowered touch (particularly with the 3.2 change of adding nourish to the talent), and/or nature's grace. If it's taken, it's viewed as filler, or with some spark of hope that it may actually be useful, if they ever find a situation where they need to cast Tranquility, while remembering fondly the days of ZG and MC where pretty lights were cast frequently and with fervor. As such, I feel like it is now a dead spot in the druid talent tree, in need of some tweaks to bring it back in line with the other options available.
How could it be changed?
The talent could, perhaps instead of threat reduction, address the limitations on what players it can heal or the fact that it is channeled (cutting the channel-time in half and providing the rest of the healing by a HoT buff, for example, thus allowing the druid to continue casting other heals while the spell finishes itself). Depending on how extremely different it makes Tranquility, they may remove the cooldown-reduction from the talent to help balance the changes.
~~ What are your thoughts? ~~
10 comments:
- Lissanna said...
yes, but as soon as they change nature's focus and subtlety, we'll probably just end up needing the original talents back again. :(
Pushback can still be problematic for raiders, and the devs could decide to make us go back to regrowth-spam any day they feel like it.
What they should do is to give resto druids a way to skip those and still have worthwhile things to invest in as we go up the talent tree.
- July 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM
- Kae said...
That's what I was suggesting... we're stuck taking those two talents right now, so may as well make them either useful (by adding some functionality on top of what is already there) or skippable (in favor of other talents that are, in their current forms, even less attractive).
- July 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Kirstimah said...
There are fights where I want to use Tranquility, but the channel time is a pain. If I have to move for whatever reason (which WOTLK has me moving lots) most of the spell is wasted along with my mana. If I could spec into it to remove the channeling in some way that would really up the utility of it.
Most of the other healers have been able to skip their threat reduction talents (Shaman and Priests especially) whereas I feel somewhat forced to take the 2 points into just to move on to the next tier.
I don't mind the pushback talent so much. I don't feel nearly as forced to go into it as Subtlety.
However, I do agree with adding something to Furor. The other talent specs kinda have to take it so might as well make it into something resto.
- July 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Great Post Kae! You always have such interesting insights on things! =)
I still take 3/3 Subtlety by choice. I don't know if I'd consider it primarily a "pvp" talent, because I think it still has some usefulness in PvE raiding, at least for me.
I tried a spec a while back without it, and my tanks hated me and I was the but of many jokes (and rez macros!), so I picked it back up again.
I don't know if it's just me, but the threat reduction was noticible enough for me to opt for making it part of my raiding spec. On fights like Yogg or Gothik where there are mobs spawning into the event that can latch onto your heal threat while the tank is working to pick them up, I often find myself as the preferred target for vigilance from our prot warriors. Apparently I have agro issues =(
As for the other talents, I think you are correct that we could use some overhaulage! There are certainly talents that I almost never take because of their lack of usefulness, and it would be nice to have a few more options =)
I think Kirstimah is on to something with the Tranquility! If the talents could remove the channeling aspect of the spell, the talent points would become far more attractive.
- July 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Kae said...
My problem with subtlety is that even with 3/3, I still have top heal threat and pull first aggro on everything that hasn't been picked up yet. I am currently 3/3, but only because I've been too lazy to respec to put the 1 point into Tranquil Spirit's mana reductions instead >.>
Holy pallies have like zero heal threat, priests fade... druids and shaman (far as I remember, haven't run with an equally geared one in too long) get top heal aggro. The only times I don't have top heal aggro are when there's a better-geared druid or shaman, or when I'm not actually healing.
The tanks and CC save us. I position myself to put the tank between me and my aggro, and thank them for the rescue when appropriate. Whether I have subtlety or not doesn't make a lick of difference... and yes, I have raided without it before, to test :) The points just weren't worth it in Naturalist/Furor, so I dumped them back in for my *very* rare PvP stints for the dispel resist, heh.
- July 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Yes...I certainly see your point. I didn't really look at it that way, in comparison to our other healing compatriats! I sorta looked like it more "I die less with these 3 points" =)
WTB Fade!
Oh, and wtf is up with resto shaman?!?! We have trouble holding onto them, always have. The do great for a bit...and then poof! They are gone =( Maybe resto shamaness isn't that fun?
- July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Kirstimah said...
Our shaman are the first to die on trash. At least we have barkskin.
I do end up cursing when I get agro (Hello, Thorim?).
Maybe it's time to pull out that trinket from the Keepers of Time QM that acts like a fade?
- July 7, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Kae said...
Ohhh Thorim arena, how I loathe it!
Step 1) Apply Hurricane to giant jormungar + trash. Or /dance.
Step 2) apply rejuv to whole arena party while the tunnel party exits.
Step 3) keep rejuvs and WG going
Step 4) AHHH AGGRO SAVE MEH... warstomp/shadowmeld
Step 5) Swiftmend the near-dead aggro puller
Step 6) AHHH AGGRO SAVE MEH... barkskin
Step 7) Innervate the OoM prot pally
Step 8) AHHH AGGRO SAVE MEH... healthstone
Step 9) reapply HoTs
Step 10) AHHH AGGRO SAVE MEH... NS + HT
Step 11) Swiftmend the near-dead aggro puller
Step 10) AHHH AGGRO SAVE MEH... run in circles, flailing arms
... you get the idea :D
- July 7, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Battlecattle said...
Tranquility should be changed to a 5-target-raid-wide-smart-heal/tick. Then it would be worth casting in a raiding scenario. As it stands this spell doesn't deserve a spot on your bars in raids.
And Kae, you can mostly ignore the adds on Thorim, just pop BS when the big ones come gunning for you because they will hurt! ;)
- September 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- Kae said...
@BattleCow, the little adds are usually picked up by consecrate anyway, I don't worry about them :) It is the big adds that I do worry about, and pop the aforementioned cooldowns for :) Granted, as my guild has progressed in gear levels, it's become less and less an issue in the past months. Now Thorim arena is mostly an annoyance of "Are we done yet? Can we get to the real fight?"
As for not putting Tranq on your bars, there have been cases--albeit extremely rare--where I have been pushed to use it to rescue my clustered party. Actually, I even had a panicked moment on Anubarak10 where I used it, first time seeing him. My tranquility is hidden away in a 4-caster-abilities-in-one macro, however, accessed by a modifier key, and sees more use when I'm feral and running with pugs :) Definitely not something a deep-tier resto talent is going to be taken for.
- September 30, 2009 at 5:31 PM


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DUDLEY, Mass. – The Nichols College Bison defeated visiting MIT, 17-14, Saturday afternoon in an NEFC Boyd Division game at Michael J. Vendetti Field. With the win, the Bison earned their first victory of the season and snap a 10-game skid. Nichols was led by 121 yards on 22 carries from Matthew Bryson and two rushing touchdowns from Irie Perry. John Wenzel powered the Engineers (1-7, 0-6 NEFC) by completing 19 of 28 passes for 246 yards for the team's best passing performance of the season.
As a team, the Bison (1-8, 1-5 NEFC Boyd) finished with a season high in total offense with 343 yards, with a season-best 261 coming on the ground.
The scoring began with 4:27 remaining in the first quarter. On MIT's second drive of the game, Wenzel went 4-of-4 for 35 yards, leading the Engineers all the way to the one yard line. Marcel Sanchez would cap off the drive with a one yard touchdown run. The Engineers took a 7-0 lead into the second quarter.
MIT looked to extend its lead on the first play of the second quarter when Wenzel found Mike Fitzgerald for a deep completion. After taking a few steps with the ball, Fitzgerald fumbled and Nichols' Christopher Kerrigan came up with it. Kerrigan led Nichols with 11 total tackles on the day.
The Bison's next drive started off promising when Justin Nelson connected with Antonio Thurston for a 36 yard gain, but MIT's defense pushed Nichols back three yards on the next four plays, forcing a turnover on downs.
Perry completed an impressive 98-yard, 13 play drive that lasted 6:43 as a three-yard rush to get the Bison on the board in the second quarter. Bill Crory put the extra point through the uprights, and the score was tied, 7-7 heading into halftime.
The story of the first two quarters was defense. MIT's Jake Laux had 13 tackles in the first half finishing with a game-high 20, and Nichols' Patrick Gregory led the team with six tackles in the first half and had a total of eight in the game.
Nichols' first drive of the third quarter looked very similar to its last drive of the first half. Perry's 13-yard run and second touchdown of the day ended an 11 play, 76-yard drive that spanned 5:36.
The ensuing MIT possession came to an abrupt halt. MIT was threatening to score, having moved the ball to the Nichols 12-yard line. Gregory continued to have a solid defensive performance when he picked off his second pass in as many games and returned it to the Nichols 28.
Nichols could not capitalize on the turnover, but the next MIT drive ended with a Nichols interception as well. This is time it was Mike Rubalcaba intercepting the Wenzel pass and returning it to the MIT 24 yard line, setting up a Cody Jankins 24-yard field goal to give Nichols a two-possession lead at 17-7.
MIT kept things interesting as a four-yard touchdown pass from Wenzel to Fitzgerald got the Engineers within three points at 17-14 with 4:10 remaining.
After a Nichols fake field goal attempt went awry with 54 seconds left in the game, the Engineers got the ball back at their own 19 yard line with a chance to tie the game or take the lead. The Cardinal and Gray marched 62 yards on eight plays, but they came up short on time.
Sanchez led MIT on the ground with 56 yards on 21 carries and tacked on a touchdown. Ben Hessels was the squad's top receiver with three catches for 89 yards. Fitzgerald finished with 84 yards on eight receptions, including a touchdown, while Kyle Johnson racked up 71 yards on seven receptions. Kristopher Weaver bolstered the defense with 14 tackles as Patrick Jupe added 11 of his own. Brian Doyle picked off a pass which he returned 20 yards while Rhys Borchert had a fumble recovery.
With the win Nichols continues a five-game home winning streak against MIT. The Bison will travel to Salve Regina University on Saturday, Nov. 6 for the season finale starting at noon, while the Engineers will be heading to Endicott College for a 5 p.m. start.
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You have a N-to-1 relationship when an object of a class has an associated object of another class (only one associated object) and several of this type of object can be linked to the same associated object. From the other end of the relationship it is effectively a 1-N, but from the point of view of the object in question, it is N-1. You can create the relationship in 2 ways depending on whether the 2 classes know about each other (bidirectional), or whether only the "N" side knows about the other class (unidirectional). These are described below.
For RDBMS an N-1 relation is stored as a foreign-key column(s), possibly in a join table. For non-RDBMS it is stored as a String "column" storing the 'id' (possibly with the class-name included in the string) of the related object.
For this case you could have 2 classes, User and Account, as below.
so the Account class ("N" side) knows about the User class ("1" side), but not vice-versa and the relation is stored using a join table. A particular user could be related to several accounts. If you define the XML metadata for these classes as follows
<package name="mydomain"> <class name="User" identity-type="datastore"> ... </class> <class name="Account" identity-type="datastore"> ... <field name="user" persistence-modifier="persistent"> <join/> </field> </class> </package>
alternatively using annotations
public class Account { ... @Join(table="ACCOUNT_USER") User user; }
For RDBMS this will create 3 tables in the database, one for User (with name USER),
one for Account (with name ACCOUNT), and a join table (with name ACCOUNT_USER)
as shown below.
Note that in the case of non-RDBMS datastores there is no join-table, simply a "column" in the ACCOUNT "table", storing the "id" of the related object
Things to note :-
Here you have the same two classes as above but you have a foreign-key in the table of Account. For this case, just look at the 1-1 Unidirectional documentation since it is identical.
This relationship is described in the guide for 1-N relationships. In particular there are 2 ways to define the relationship with RDBMS : the first uses a Join Table to hold the relationship, whilst the second uses a Foreign Key in the "N" object to hold the relationship. For non-RDBMS datastores each side will have a "column" (or equivalent) in the "table" of the N side storing the "id" of the related (owning) object. Please refer to the 1-N relationships bidirectional relations since they show this exact relationship.


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Left-handed relief pitcher Troy Patton said he's not sure what his spring will be like, but he understands that getting him work is not a priority for the Orioles.
"It's going to be kind of interesting to see how Buck [Showalter] handles it," said Patton, who will be suspended for the first 25 games of the season for testing positive for amphetamines. "I don't know if he is going to pitch me [in] all the road games because of my malfeasance or what. Or if I'm not going to pitch at all so the other guys can get more looks."
That's his fault, Patton said, for taking an Adderall pill – used mainly for patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – without a prescription. He said he took it the week before the season ended to keep focused.
"I knew I shouldn't. It was a stupid mistake, especially having failed one prior test [also because of Adderall]," Patton said. "I made the mistake, and now I am just ready to deal with it and hopefully come back the 26thgame."
Patton said he tried to get a Major League Baseball clearance to use Adderall in the past, but he has never been diagnosed with ADHD. He said fans and the team should know this will not occur again.
"I am not going to keep Adderall within a mile of me at all. It's a much more serious penalty next time, it's 80 games," Patton said. "So my assurance to people is that I can't afford to miss half a season, obviously. So it's not even going to be a question. It's no longer in my repertoire at all. It's over with."
Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Patton will be a "slow play" in the spring, because of the suspension. That means, though Patton will be able to pitch this spring, he likely won't get many opportunities.
"Why would I give him innings when he can't pitch until April something when I can use that to evaluate somebody else?" Showalter said. "I'm not going to have him pitch in an intrasquad game and then there are two months before he pitches [in the majors]. ... He may not pitch a whole lot before we break camp."


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Greetings, music lovers! I'm Dean from snuhthing/anything and I was invited to be your guest blogger for the day. You might also know me from Star Maker Machine, the group music blog that both Boyhowdy and I participate in. I was excited by the invitation because it gives me a chance to discuss a song that's been part of music's collective memory for hundreds of years, the story the ballad's based on stretches back to 438 BC with Euripides' Alkestis. There's literately hundreds of versions, some titles you might be familar with: The Golden Ball, Maid Saved, By a Lover Saved, Down by the Green Willow Tree, Girl to be Hanged for Stealing a Comb, Hangman Slacken, Ropeman's Ballad, Hold Your Hands Old Man, Old Rabbit the Voodoo, Mama Did You Bring Any Silver, Freed from the Gallow, among others. The two we'll be concentrating on today is Gallows Pole and The Prickly Bush.
The Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary defines Folk as "music of the common people that has been passed on by memorization or repetition rather than by writing and has deep roots in its own culture" - Gallows Pole surely fits the bill. The Child Ballads is a good place to start with the modern version of the song, since it found popularity during the 19th century via the collection.
Child Ballads
The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in 10 Volumes. The ballads vary in age; for instance, a version of "A Gest of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late 15th or early 16th century, and the manuscript of "Judas" dates to the 13th century. The majority of the ballads, however, date to the 17th and 18th century; although some probably have very ancient influences, only a handful can be definitively traced to before 1600. Moreover, few of the tunes collected are as old as the words. While many of them had been individually printed, e.g. as broadsides, Child's collection was far more comprehensive than any previous collection of ballads in English. (However, there were comprehensive ballad collections in other languages, like the Danish collection Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, which Child referred to in his comments.)
One Child number may cover several ballads, which Child considered variants of the same story, although they may differ in many ways (as in "James Hatley"). Conversely, ballads classified separately may contain turns of phrase, and even entire verses, that are identical.
The Child Ballads deal with subjects typical to many ballads: romance, supernatural experiences, historical events, morality, riddles, murder, and folk heroes. On one extreme, some recount identifiable historical people, in known events. On the other, some differ from fairy tales solely by their being songs and in verse; some have been recast in prose form as fairy tales. A large part of the collections is about Robin Hood; some are about King Arthur. A few of the ballads are rather bawdy.
For a listing of all the Child ballad types, and links to more information on each individual type, see List of the Child Ballads.
This brings us to John Jacob Niles, who recorded The Maid Freed From The Gallows (Child Ballad No 95).
John Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles (b. Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 1892; d. Lexington, Kentucky, March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers", Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Joan Baez, Burl Ives, and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others, recording his songs.
Niles learned music theory from his mother, and began writing down folk music as a teenager. He became a serious student of Appalachian folk music by transcribing traditional songs from oral sources while an itinerant employee of the Burroughs Corporation in eastern Kentucky, from 1910 to 1917.
Starting in 1938, he recorded a number of his compositions and transcribed songs, performing the material in an intense, dramatic manner. He employed a trademark very high falsetto to portray female characters, and often accompanied himself on an Appalachian dulcimer, lute, or other plucked stringed instrument.
Lead Belly recorded the cover most modern day artists draw from.
Lead Belly Version
Legendary folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly), who also popularized such songs as "Cotton Fields" and "Midnight Special" first recorded "Gallis Pole" in the 1930s, and set the stage for the song's popularity today. Lead Belly's rendition, available through Folkways music and recently re-released by the Library of Congress, differs from more familiar recordings in several notable ways. The Lead Belly version is performed on acoustic twelve string guitar, and following an introductory phrase reminiscent of the vocal melody, Lead Belly launches into a furious fingerpicking pattern. His haunting, shrill tenor delivers the lyrical counterpoint, and his story is punctuated with spoken-word, as he "interrupts his song to discourse on its theme"
- Lead Belly, The Maid Freed From The Gallows (trad.)
(from Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 2 (1935))
After a few years, Huddie made it his own.
- Lead Belly, The Gallows Pole (trad.)
(from The Roots Of Bob Dylan)
Time to back up a bit and discuss The Prickly Bush variant.
The song likely originated in a language other than English. Some fifty versions have been reported in Finland, where it is well known as Lunastettava neito. It is titled Den Bortsålda in Sweden, and Die Losgekaufte in German. A Lithuanian version has the maid asking relatives to ransom her with their best animals or belongings (sword, house, crown, ring etc.). The maiden curses her relatives who refuse to give up their property, and blesses her fiancé, who does ransom her.
Francis James Child found the English version "defective and distorted", in that, in most cases, the narrative rationale had been lost and only the ransoming sequence remained. Numerous European variants explain the reason for the ransom: the heroine has been captured by pirates. Of the texts he prints, one (95F) had "degenerated" into a children's game, while others had survived as part of a Northern English cante-fable, The Golden Ball (or Key).
Child describes additional examples from Färöe, Iceland, Russia, and Slovenia. Several of these feature a man being ransomed by a woman.
The theme of delaying one's execution while awaiting rescue by relatives appears with a similar structure in the classic fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault in 1697 (translated into English in 1729).
The song is also known as "The Prickly Bush", a title derived from the oft-used refrain lamenting the maid's situation by likening it to being caught in briery bush, wherein the brier prickles her heart. In versions carrying this theme, the typical refrain may add:
O the prickly bush, the prickly bush,
It pricked my heart full sore;
If ever I get out of the prickly bush,
I'll never get in any more.
Here's some great versions of The Prickly Bush, a real treat for the ears.
- Fred Hewett, The Prickle Holly-Bush (trad.)
(from Voice of the People 03: O'er His Grave The Grass Grew Green - Tragic Ballads)
- A.L. Lloyd, The Prickly Bush (trad.)
(from English & Scottish Folk Ballads)
- Steeleye Span, The Prickly Bush (trad.)
(from Time)
- Judy Collins, The Prickilie Bush(trad.)
(from Maids And Golden Apples)
I'd be remiss if I didn't include these fun variants - though I must warn you that In Extremo labels itself a German folk metal band, you might want to turn the volume down.
- In Extremo, Der Galgen (trad.)
(from Weckt die Toten!)
- Spiers and Boden, Derry Gaol (trad.)
(from Songs)
- The Weavers, Below The Gallows Tree (trad.)
(from Wasn't That A Time)
Modern day arrangements.
- Page & Plant, Gallows Pole (trad.)
(from No Quarter: Unledded)
- Ha Ha Tonka, Hangman (trad.)
(from Buckle in the Bible Belt)
- The Stairwell Sisters, Hangman Tree (trad.)
(from Get Off Your Money)
I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed writing it. For more information about Gallows Pole and Child Ballad Number 95, I recommend The Prickly Bush/The Prickle-Holly Bush and The Child Ballad Collection.
Dean blogs about all genres of music at snuhthing/anything. He is also a regular contributor to blog collaborative Star Maker Machine.


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Learn as much as you can as fast as you can.
That's the best advice you can give California students as they start to return to school this week and next week in many districts. Teachers should think about teaching as fast as they can, too.
One reason for this advice has to do with testing: schools start so early in California to give students and teachers more instruction time before standardized testing in the spring.
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This year provides another reason to learn quickly: an academic year is beginning, but for the first time, no one really knows when it will end.
The reasons for the uncertainty are ballot initiative politics, Gov. Jerry Brown's budget and California's broken governing system.
The fate of Brown's Prop 30, the temporary tax initiative, won't be known until November. The length of the school year may depend, both directly and indirectly, on whether the measure passes.
The recently passed state budget includes triggers that force cuts in education if the revenue from the measure doesn't materialize. State law limits how those cuts can be enacted by school districts, forcing them to shorten the school year. The school year can be shorted by up to three weeks.
Hence, the uncertainty. Will the school year in your particular district end in late May, or three weeks earlier?
This uncertainty isn't accidental. Brown has deliberately constructed the budget and the initiative to establish this set of circumstances and give voters a choice: vote for my temporary taxes, or see the schools close early.
However it turns out, and no matter how long they'll have for their studies this year, California's students at the very least will receive a civics lesson: how it feels to be political pawns.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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