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JVending is a P2P (JXTA) mobile content provisioning system that implements most of the J2EE Client Provisioning Specification (JSR-124).
JVending provides catalog management, device detection, Web/WAP based browsing and peer searches.
What's New in This Release:
· Delivery events from the device are persisted in the database.
· Can configure framework to detect network id and user id from the HTTP header.
· Added a WURFL repository to the header to allow the application deveopler to query device capabilities.
· A WURFL converter converts a WURFL file to a JSR-124 device file.
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"Were they made to go to Church? Did your grandma have to wear a corset for her family photo - and hated it, making her look as though she is crying in the picture? My father told how the village policeman took one look at him and hauled him off (by the ear) to his mother, just in case he was 'up to no good'. My father was only 10 years old. On a national level - was your great-grandfather a Democrat or a Republican? Did your grandfather always stand up, wherever he was, when the National Anthem was played?" [SFA manual COG202, p6]
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A-Z Challenge 2014: E is for Elderly Relatives
"Were they made to go to Church? Did your grandma have to wear a corset for her family photo - and hated it, making her look as though she is crying in the picture? My father told how the village policeman took one look at him and hauled him off (by the ear) to his mother, just in case he was 'up to no good'. My father was only 10 years old. On a national level - was your great-grandfather a Democrat or a Republican? Did your grandfather always stand up, wherever he was, when the National Anthem was played?" [SFA manual COG202, p6]
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I wish my dad was around(he'd be 101) as I would be asking him more questions. The good thing, I guess, is that, growing up, my dad was in his 60's when I was a teenager but I was always interested in hearing stories so I got some great ones. My dad and his family were believers in ghostly tales. He also sold Rolly's Good Health products in a buggy with his dad and I have the case!ReplyDelete
Gosh! Well done you for listening as a teenager! ;o) I am glad you got such great stories. Better write them down so they don't get lost in the mists of time...ReplyDelete
A couple of months ago I found out my husband only knows the name of one of his four grandparents. He has no idea who these relatively close family members were. I wondered why he was never curious and didn't ask questions. I knew all 4 of my grandparents intimately. I think in some families there are black sheep stories and things that 'shouldn't be spoken about', that prevent family histories from being passed down through the generations. Anyway, my husband's parents are both dead but he has an auntie who should know the stories of these relatives. I keep meaning to email her so I can ask her some questions about my children's great grandparents. I think after reading your post I might get on and do this before it is too late!
Family history is very interesting and in some ways also important, not only for individual families, but for society in general. You have a very interesting blog!Replies
I wasn't curious as a child or a teenager, in fact I thought family stories were quite boring. Now I regret it. So, do go and speak to that auntie!Delete
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It's interesting and exciting to trace one's family routes. It's a good idea to get some information and get to know a little history about our ancestors. My grandparents both my father and mother's side have passed away. But I have fond memories of them.ReplyDeleteReplies
Write those memories down, Diana! You'll be glad you did one day!Delete
Thanks for stopping by
Tracing back our family routes is one of the most interesting and exciting tasks. My grandparents both my Mom's and Dad's side have passed away, but I have fond memories of them. I wish I could do more to know about our family roots. Loved your blog.ReplyDelete
I also blog at dianasmusings.wordpress.com
Great idea for a blog. I always thought genealogical work is most like unraveling a mystery. There are lots of twits and turns and it is never what you expected! Good luck with A-Z challenge. Happy Writing!ReplyDelete
Thanks to talking to my mom about her family, I found the house where my great-grandparents lived, their church, and their grave. It was in the SW of Sweden and my mom had never been there. It was a very special feeling, so I recommend getting as much information as possible while the elderly relatives are still around.ReplyDelete
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On Jan. 30, Butor delivered mail along his usual route on streets like Loring, Wilbur and Opal for the last time before retiring from the job he has dedicated his life to since 1979. As he looks toward retirement, area residents – some of whom have only known Butor as their mailman — reflected on times past, honoring the humble, dependable man they knew and loved all those years.
More than 50 North PB neighbors turned out that day in a block-party of sorts, where Butor was the celebrity of the day. Many gave cards and gifts, some took photos with their longtime mailman, and one neighbor, artist Dot Renshaw, was even charged by neighbors to paint a photo of their beloved mailman to present to him during his retirement bash amid cake, kids and old friends.
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During the fall of 2004 the US surgeon general issued a report on bone health and osteoporosis. This report warns us that by the year 2020, half of all Americans over 50 will be or be at risk for osteoporosis. The Surgeon General's report is a call for Americans to take action to improve and maintain healthy bones. The report includes recommendations on what Americans can do to decrease the likelihood of developing osteoporosis.
These recommendations include:
• Getting the recommended amounts of calcium and vitamin D. High levels of calcium can be found in milk, leafy green vegetables, soybeans, yogurt and cheese. Vitamin D is produced in the skin by exposure to the sun and is found in fortified milk and other foods. For individuals who are not getting enough calcium and vitamin D in the diet, supplements may be helpful. The average adult under 50 needs about 1,000 mg of calcium per day and 200 international units (IU) of vitamin D (one cup of vitamin D fortified milk provides 302 mg of calcium and 50 IU of vitamin D).
• Maintaining a healthy weight and being physically active at least 30 minutes a day for adults and 60 minutes a day for children, including weight-bearing activities to improve strength and balance.
• Taking steps to minimize the risk of falls by removing items that might cause tripping, improving lighting, and encouraging regular exercise and vision tests to improve balance and coordination.
To learn about the condition of your bones, consider getting a bone density screening done.
These screenings are offered once a month. The next screening date is Wednesday, March 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Sterling Regional MedCenter. The fee is $25 for bone density screening. Appointments are required. Call Glenda Amen at 970-521-3260.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government has warned businesses against hoarding food amid problems with shortages, saying authorities are poised to take action.
Shortages of some basic foods such as sugar and cornmeal have worsened recently while the government has been making available fewer dollars at the fixed exchange rate.
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IT Management Slideshow: The 10 Hottest IT Certifications
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 02-13-2012
Your next round of hiring should include IT professionals who know their way around project management, tech-support, network oversight and security. The longstanding proof of expertise in these and other areas, of course, remains certification programs. To find out which certifications are most in demand, check out this list from Dice.com. Hiring talent with the right credentials requires significant compensation upgrades. For example, a typical project manager will earn about $104,000 a year, according to Dice.com reports. But one bearing a Project Management Professional certification will command an average of $120,000 a year. As part of its regular, monthly report, Dice.com also reveals the number of open IT jobs on its site (full and part-time opportunities) as of Feb. 1, 2012, as well as which metro areas in the U.S. offer the hottest prospects for job seekers. Dice.com is a leading jobs hub for IT professionals. Here are highlights from the survey:
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Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Ian Grimble and Richard Matthews at 2KHz at Church Studios, Crouch End, London
An old country song gets sung by Jake Bugg and a few different things happen. They're mostly good, but they do struggle to make you feel too good. He takes us walking down that "old country lane," and it's a walk that we enjoy, but not for many happy reasons. Along the way, we hear the limbs of the trees speak. They murmur and they creak, moaning out the time, counting our steps, reminding us of things that we'd long since let go of. The birds up in those usually silent trees crack solemnly and wisely, reminding us that these kinds of walks are going to continue, as long as we're around, goading us with all of these things that once were.
They are faint recollections of happier times. Things have gone rusty and memories have faded into their cruel, burnt colors - ones that can no longer hide the truth. These are memories that, when taken in, sink to the very bottom of a stomach. They are the heaviest of weights, swallowed and incapable of being digested. The guts just get rubbed, massaged, with the hope that the sometimes dull, usually throbbing pain burns its way cleanly from them.
Bugg has a way of sounding like he's ready for trouble and like he's already been through more trouble than his years should have already warranted. He's found trouble and it's found him. He doesn't differentiate between the two, nor should he. He's found a home in the salty, dirt-stained patches of life, where rottenness follows ripeness.


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County Distribution
Leavenworthia torulosa A. Gray -
necklace gladecress
in the state of Alabama
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Our county data are based primarily on the literature, herbarium specimens, and confirmed
observations. However, not all populations have been documented, so some gaps in the
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Dual Band Networking Guide
Dual Wireless Networks
Before we begin, we should ask why you would want to set up two wireless networks. Two wireless networks will prevent you from needing to run your wireless networks in compatibility mode. Compatibility mode allows your network to support backwards versions of 802.11x. So an 802.11n (from here on referred to as 'n') network in compatibility mode, will allow users with 802.11g (or 'g') network cards to use your network. So why is this bad? Speed. If you have an 'n' network and a 'g' device connects, your 'n' device gets slowed down to 'g' speeds. So we want to avoid slow-down by running an 'n' and a 'g' network simultaneously.
What you need:
- 802.11n router capable of using 5 GHz spectrum - I'll be using an Apple Time Capsule
- 802.11g router - I'll be using a Linksys WRT54G
- Internet Modem
- At least 3 Ethernet cables
What we're going to do:
The Time Capsule has Gigabit ports and the WRT54G is 10/100, so I'll be plugging the Time Capsule into the Cable Modem and the WRT54G into the Time Capsule. Set up the Time Capsule to use "802.11n only (5 GHz)" mode and to be the DHCP server. The WRT54G will be set up to so that the "Operating Mode" will be "router", the "Wireless Network Mode" will be "G-Only" and it will not be a DHCP server.
Time Capsule Setup:
Connect the Time Capsule to the modem and your computer, as described in the included Time Capsule materials. In setting up the Time Capsule, if you're using a Windows machine, you'll need to install the Airport Utility that's on the included CD. I'm not sure about on a Mac, but I would imagine it comes with new ones. Once the utility starts, click on the "Continue" button to use the guided setup.
On the next screen we'll select a name for the Time Capsule device (this is separate from the wireless network name) and a password to access it. Click Continue to come to the part where we select that we want to create a wireless network.
Next we choose the wireless network name and security. I recommend using security and a strong password, but it's up to you. After the name and security is whether the Time Capsule should give out IP addresses, or if something else on the network is doing that. Apple gives a fairly easy to understand explanation and anything I would say would only be redundant. Next is the type of Internet connection. This information can be obtained from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Then you'll fill in your DNS addresses, Domain Names and DHCP Client ID (aka Default Gateway), also obtained from your ISP. Finally, we come to the confirmation screen to make sure everything we entered looks correct. If something is wrong, click "Go Back". Otherwise, click "Update". The Time Capsule will restart upon clicking the "Update" button and if everything was entered correctly, it should work. If you can't connect to the Internet but everything else seems to be working fine, try rebooting the modem and see if that helps.
When you have it up and running, be sure to go in to "Manual Setup" and under the "Wireless" tab look for "Radio Mode". This should be set to "802.11n only (5 GHz)". Be sure to use the 5 Ghz setting, as we'll run our g network on the 2.4 GHz band.
That's it for the Time Capsule part.
WRT54G Setup:
Now it's time to set up the 'g' part of our network. Unplug the ethernet cable that runs from your computer to the Time Capsule on the Time Capsule end and plug it into the WRT54G. Open up a web browser and type the address of the router into the URL bar (to find it go to "Start -> Run" type "cmd" without the quotes and hit enter. Type "ipconfig" without the quotes and hit enter and it will be the "Default Gateway" and look something like 192.168.1.1).
Enter the password (default is "admin") and navigate to the "Wireless" tab. Set up your "Wireless Network Mode" for "G-Only", change the network name to something unique and click "Save Settings".
Now go to the "Wireless Security" section and select the security type and set the password. Just a note - XP doesn't support WPA2 without installing a patch. Click the "Save Settings" button when done. Go back to the "Setup" tab and set the "Local IP Address" to something within the range of your Time Capsule. In my case, this was "192.168.1.10". Disable the "DHCP Server", since the Time Capsule is doing that for us and click "Save Settings". After saving you may have to log back in.
Go to the "Advanced Routing" tab and select "Router" from the "Operating Mode" and "Save Settings" again.
That should do it. You should now have dual wireless networks operating simultaneously.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 22, 2014)–Veteran conditioner Bruce Headley will be represented by 6-year-old horse and likely favorite Cyclometer in Saturday's $125,000 Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint for older horses at six furlongs, a race that attracted a field of 10 older horses.
An important component to the Golden State Series for horses bred or sired in California, the Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint is part of a newly created Sunshine Millions California Cup Day at Santa Anita that will offer fans six stakes and 10 races overall.
Fresh off victory in the six furlong Midnight Lute Stakes Jan. 4, Cyclometer would appear to be at the top of his game for Headley, who has specialized in taking his time with older horses throughout a storybook training career in the Golden State.
Owned and bred by Headley and Irwin and Andrew Molasky, Cyclometer was a close second as the 8-5 favorite two starts back in the 7 ½ furlong On Trust Handicap Nov. 24, and was a 2 ¼ length allowance winner going 6 ½ furlongs three back on Nov. 7.
By the Grand Slam stallion Cyclotron, Cyclometer has two wins and three seconds at six furlongs and is 8-3-3-1 at The Great Race Place. He has earnings of $330,254 from an overall mark of 17-5-5-3 and will be ridden back by Mike Smith.
With a hefty bankroll of $526,395 to his credit, veteran Luckarack is easily the highest money-earner in the Sprint field. Reclaimed by trainer Ed Moger Jr. out of a gutsy $40,000 claiming win going 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf course Dec. 26, the 6-year-old Lucky Pulpit gelding will be making his 41st career start Saturday and be ridden back by Martin Pedroza.
With seven wins from 16 tries on natural dirt, Luckarack should be undaunted by the surface switch and is well suited at the distance as well, evidenced by his four wins, two seconds and four thirds from 12 starts at six furlongs.
Owned by Steve Moger, Luckarack has an impressive overall mark of 40-13-6-6.
Trainer Mark Glatt will be represented by the rapidly improving Follini, who was a galloping 3 ¼ length allowance winner going six furlongs on Nov. 30, and who came back to make the lead and run a big third in a second condition allowance going 6 ½ furlongs Jan. 3–achieving a career-best 94 Beyer Speed figure.
A 4-year-old colt by Western Fame, Follini figures to be sent from the rail by regular rider Joe Talamo. Owned by Glatt, William Branch and Cory Wagner, Follini has three wins, a second and two thirds from nine starts.
William Ziering's homebred Kate's Event, a 7-year-old horse by Event of the Year, was a winner of the 7 ½ furlong Tiznow Stakes versus statebreds April 27, and has been idle since well beaten in the 6 ½ furlong Governor's Cup Handicap at Fairplex Park Sept. 18.
Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Kate's Event has a win and a second from two starts going six furlongs and has run well at Santa Anita, posting a 9-4-2-1 mark in Arcadia.
Kate's Event has an overall record of 19-6-2-1 and will be ridden for the first time by Victor Espinoza on Saturday. He has earnings of $329,406.
The complete field for the Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint, to be run as the eighth race on a 10-race program Saturday, with jockeys and weights in post position order: Follini, Joe Talamo, 120; Ourwestcoastghost, Abel Cedillo, 123; Luckarack, Martin Pedroza, 123; Coach Bob, Kent Desormeaux, 118; Mobilized, Corey Nakatani, 118; Cyclometer, Mike Smith, 123; Lakerville, Alonso Quinonez, 118; Kate's Event, Victor Espinoza, 118; Spirit Rules, Iggy Puglisi, 120, and Big Macher, Rafael Bejarano, 118.
Santa Anita will have a special early first post time Saturday of 12 noon. Admission gates open at 10 a.m.


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Simpson Collection
Ron Guth:
The 1862 Half Dime is common in all grades, including Mint State. Collectors can find examples better than MS65 with ease, though prices advance rapidly as the grade goes up. The best examples top out at MS68, though none of the PCGS MS68 examples has appeared yet at auction.
The strike on 1862 Half Dimes is usually strong. Occasionally, examples will show clashing of the dies, ranging from light to heavy, especially on the obverse. Luster ranges from brilliant to frosty. Some examples show striations caused by polishing of the dies.
For type purposes, this is a great choice.
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Adam Lambert: Equality Awards with Sauli Koskinen!
Adam Lambert and boyfriend Sauli Koskinen attend the 2011 Los Angeles Equality Awards on Saturday (August 13) held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 29-year-old singer, who met up with comedienne Kathy Griffin, was recognized at the event along with Facebook.
"We're thrilled to honor Adam Lambert and Facebook whose work has been a catalyst for social change and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality," said Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia. "Their courage and leadership in entertainment and social media have helped Californians become more supportive of LGBT rights."
"Thank you Equality California for such a lovely evening!! And @sam_sparro for a great intro. :)" Adam later tweeted.
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Just hours after winning a coveted place on the U.N. Security Council for the first time, Saudi Arabia did a stunning about-face Friday and rejected the seat, denouncing the body for failing to resolve world conflicts such as the Syrian civil war.
The unprecedented move at the United Nations appeared largely directed at Saudi Arabia's longtime ally, the United States, reflecting more than two years of frustration.
The oil giant and the world's superpower are at odds over a number of Mideast issues, including how Washington has handled some of the region's crises, particularly in Egypt and Syria. It also comes as ties between the U.S. and Iran, the Saudis' regional foe, appear to be improving somewhat.
The Saudis were displeased that the U.S. backed off threats of military strikes against Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons. In Egypt, Washington has been critical of the military after it toppled President Mohammed Morsi, while Saudi Arabia has strongly backed the coup, giving billions of dollars to the new army-backed government.
Saudi Arabia's reversal surprised U.N. diplomats and officials who had just welcomed the kingdom to a two-year term on the U.N.'s most powerful body for the first time.
Britain, Pakistan and other countries said they wanted explanations, particularly as Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi had told reporters after Thursday's vote that his government took the election ''very seriously'' and saw it as ''a reflection of a longstanding policy in support of moderation and in support of resolving disputes in peaceful means.''
Al-Mouallimi's comments stood in sharp contrast to the strident tone of Friday's Saudi Foreign Ministry statement, which accused the Security Council of failing on multiple fronts in the Middle East — especially in ending the Syria conflict but also in failing to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and rid the region of weapons of mass destruction.
''They should have thought of that before competing for the seat,'' said Guatemala's U.N. Ambassador Gert Rosenthal, noting that the Saudis were lobbying for support right up until the vote.
Several diplomats were asking each other whether there was a split in the leadership of Saudi Arabia, where King Abdullah has the final word.
The Saudi statement was especially critical of the Security Council's ''inability to perform its duties'' to end the 2 1/2-year conflict in Syria, saying this has enabled President Bashar Assad's regime ''to kill its people and burn them with chemical weapons in front of the entire world and without any deterrent or punishment.'' The Syrian regime denies using chemical weapons.
Saudi Arabia backs the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad in a war that has killed some 100,000 people since early 2011. The Saudis and other Sunni Arab governments are eager to counter their regional rival Iran, which has strongly thrown its weight behind Assad.
Assad's allies — Russia and China — have blocked three strongly worded Security Council resolutions aimed at ending the conflict. Still, in a rare consensus, the council passed a resolution backed by the U.S. and Russia to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal after an Aug. 21 chemical attack.
Russia said it was ''surprised'' and ''baffled by the reasons that the kingdom gave to explain its position'' — particularly after the chemical weapons resolution.
An official at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said Washington had noted the Saudi statement, and referred questions about the Saudi decision to its government.
''The Security Council performs vital work maintaining international peace and security in the world and tackling some of its greatest challenges and we will continue to work with our partners to ensure that it fulfills these functions,'' the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
Saudi Arabia showed its displeasure last month when its foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, declined to address the General Assembly meeting. Days later, the kingdom's unease with Washington appeared to manifest when President Barack Obama spoke to Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani in a groundbreaking telephone call.
''It is hard not to think that Riyadh's decision reflects an overall cooling of the U.S.-Saudi relationship,'' said Boston University professor Charles Dunbar, a diplomat for four decades including posts in Afghanistan, Qatar and Yemen. ''Syria and Iran would seem to be the two most prominent reasons for the downturn in relations.''
Saudi Arabia is a founding member of the United Nations — joining on Oct. 24, 1945, the day the U.N. Charter was unanimously adopted in San Francisco. It kept a low profile for decades but in recent years has become much more active at the U.N., seeking and winning seats on the Human Rights Council and other bodies.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky, asked whether the Saudi rejection of the seat was unprecedented, said: ''As far as we are aware, there isn't another case like it.''
Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. AP correspondents Abdullah al-Shihri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report.


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As Borges observed, it is not the order in which books are written that most influences us; it is the order in which we read them. Case in point: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Today, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel is read–when it is read at all–as an assignment in middle or high school. We are introduced to it as part of an elementary-level education. What is more, many people who have never read the book believe they have a fair idea of its contents. They know it is a tract attacking the great American injustice: slavery. The book they imagine is polemical, high-toned, shrill and simplistic. (For many potential readers the very title is off-putting; Uncle Tom's own name has become a slur.) If we're willing to grant the book any virtues, they're the kind we believe–or used to believe–instill moral rectitude in the young and naïve.
Much more than Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Poe's fiction and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Uncle Tom's Cabin remains frozen in the past, a blurry childhood memory. Many adults will have the experience of weighing their youthful impressions of Twain, Poe and Conan Doyle against their mature understanding. Not so with the tale of Uncle Tom, Eliza, Little Eva, Topsy and Simon Legree. Uncle Tom's Cabin is a moralizing tale, the kind of material adults blithely leave behind and rarely revisit.
Yet before Uncle Tom's Cabin was dispensed with as a children's tale, it was a social phenomenon and, arguably, the most influential novel in American history. Published in 1852, Stowe's antislavery novel galvanized public opinion on a question that would become the major irritant behind the Civil War, which erupted less than a decade later. It sold more copies than any other book in American history (except, of course, the Bible). It was acclaimed by Northern abolitionists; it inspired denunciatory Southern anti-Uncle Tom's Cabin novels that, preposterously, presented slavery as a benign institution. Almost like a religious text, the novel has proved peculiarly susceptible to distortion and misappropriation. For generations after the Civil War, the story's success as a novel was outstripped by the popularity of theatrical adaptations, musicals and, at worst, minstrel shows, which departed drastically from Stowe's intentions. In fact, there were "Tom shows" in the late 1800s and early 1900s that completely excised the story's antislavery message. Throughout the early 1900s, the familiar characters were cheapened by overuse in product advertisements.
By the 1940s, when the book's popularity waned, its time had come to die of overexposure. Yet Uncle Tom's Cabin still casts a shadow. It is a piece of Americana; it is inseparable from the legacy of slavery and racism. To an extent, we are embarrassed by the novel, its subject matter (slavery, which our sophisticated minds are embarrassed to be reminded of) and its obvious artistic flaws–melodrama and sentimentality. The book's reputation has also been undermined by a widespread confusion with some of the offensive theatrical adaptations. The perception lingers that Uncle Tom's Cabin is a blend of children's fable and propaganda; it cannot be more. This is roughly the argument that James Baldwin makes in his famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For Baldwin, then a young, ambitious writer who was himself no stranger to polemic, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the worst kind of exhortatory narrative. Looking at history backward, Baldwin was less impressed by the power with which Stowe decried slavery than he was dismayed by the limitations of her views on race, the human condition and the meaning of freedom.


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City Summary Archive
Anchorage January 2012
Anchorage recorded an average temperature of 2.5°F, strongly below the normal of 17.1°F. The maximum temperature of the month occurred on the 11thwith 38°F, while a minimum temperature of -13°F was observed on the 29th. The observed temperatures were below normal for most of the month (with the exception of a warm spell around the 10thof January), and resulted in the fourth coldest January on record no new daily records were set.
Precipitation was reported at 1.31", which is 79% above the normal value. On 19 days of the month at least some snow was reported, and the monthly mean cloudiness was 60%. The average monthly wind speed was calculated as 5.4 mph.
Barrow January 2012
Barrow reported an average temperature in January of -20.6°F, a strong -7.2°F below normal. The maximum temperature occurred on the 18thwith 7°F, and the lowest temperature of -45°F was observed on 23rd, 30thand 31st. In general, the temperatures during the most of the month were below normal, particularly pronounced for the last 10 days. No new temperature records were recorded during January.
Precipitation in Barrow totaled 0.20", a low value typical for the North Slope. It was nevertheless 0.07" above normal. 5.8" of snow fell, twice the normal of 2.6". The mean monthly wind speed was 10.5 mph and a gust of 38 mph occurred on the 5th, blowing from a northeasterly direction.
Big Delta January 2012
Big Delta reported a mean temperature of -21.4°F in January 2012, which is a very substantial 20.4°F below the long-term mean temperature. The high temperature of the month was observed on the 11that 14°F, while the low temperatures occurred on the 29thwith -50°F. In general, the daily temperature trace is similar to Fairbanks, however, extreme low temperature occurred less frequently, and only on 6 days were temperatures of -40°F or below recorded. As the Alaska Range is much closer to Big Delta than to Fairbanks, wind speeds are higher, and somewhat more mixing with the warmer air above occurs, weakening the surface temperature inversion. No new temperature records were observed.
Precipitation for the month measured as 0.48" water-equivalent and on the 6thof January 0.18" was recorded. This is a new record for this particular day, surpassing the old record of 0.12" of 1955.
Juneau January 2012
In Juneau , the average temperature was 26.9°F, somewhat (1.4°F) below normal for January. The maximum temperatures for the month (42°F) occurred on the 7thand 8thand the minimum temperature of 2°F occurred on the 17th.
Precipitation totaled 6.43", which is 1.08" above normal. The snowfall total was 48.6", nearly twice the normal of 27.7", and the highest daily snowfall occurred on the 25thwith 6.8". The maximum snow depth at the airport was measured at 20" on the 30th. Two daily precipitation records were broken. On the 17th, 1.08" of water-equivalent were reported, just breaking the old record of 1.01" set in 1986. In addition, on the 29th, 6.3" of snow fell, replacing the old record of 6.0" set in 1954. As might be deduced from the high precipitation amount in Southeast Alaska, sky cover was high, with just 6 clear days, 1 partly cloudy day and 24 cloudy days. Average wind speed at Juneau Airport was 10.5 mph with a highest wind gust of a substantial 54 mph on the 7th.
Ketchikan January 2012
Ketchikan's average temperature of 32.0°F in January was 2.9°F below the long-term mean. Compared with most of the rest of Alaska, this is a relatively small deviation, as Alaska was, across the whole state, significantly below normal for January. The highest temperature of the month measured 49°F on the 4th, while the low temperature of -2°F occurred on the 19thof the month. Worth noting was the short but deep cold spell shortly after the middle of the month. This included a new record low temperature on the 19that -2°F, a substantial 7°F below the previous record of 5°F that had been set in 1972.
Monthly precipitation was measured at 22.26", 45% above the expected amount of 15.40". Notable events occurred on the 1stand the 7thof January, with 2.32" and 2.35" of precipitation, respectively.
King Salmon January 2012
King Salmon reported an average temperature of -6.7°F, far (-22.9°F) below to the long-term mean of 16.2°F. The high temperature for January was 37°F, recorded on the 10thof January while the low temperature of a chilly -40°F occurred on the 27th. New record low temperatures were set on the 12thof January, with a temperature of ‑35°F. The old record low of -29°F for this particular day was set in 1951. On the 25th, a minimum of -37°F was measured, replacing the old minimum of -32°F, which had occurred in 2006. The following day the temperature dropped to -39°F, replacing the old minimum of -34°F set in 1989.
The precipitation total was measured as 1.12", 10% above the normal of 1.02". Accordingly, the observed snowfall was slightly above the long-term average. On the 10thof January, 0.72" of precipitation were recorded, which is a new record for this day. It more than doubled the old record of 0.26", which had been set in 1957. Further, the snowfall for this day was 4.2", doubling the old record of 2.1" set in 1986. Average wind speed was 9.9 mph and the highest gust was recorded at 43 mph on the 10th, blowing from an easterly direction.
Kodiak January 2012
Kodiak's average temperature of 21.4°F in January was 9.1°F below the long-term mean. This is a substantial deviation, but comparable with most of the rest of Alaska for the month. It is also the third coldest January ever measured in Kodiak. The highest temperature measured 50°F on the 10th, while the low temperature of -5°F occurred both on the 23rdand on the 27thof the month. Remarkable were the strong temperature variation, with new daily maxima around the 10thand new daily minima around the 25thof the month. The maximum of 50°F on the 10thbroke the old maximum of 49°F set in 1937. Then the low of -5°F on the 23rdwas a tie for record low set back in 1947. A second minimum tie of -2°F occurred on the 26thmatching the temperature set back in 1944. On the 27tha temperature of -5°F was recorded, a new record minimum for this day. The previous record low was ‑4°F set in 1989
Monthly precipitation was measured at 4.72", substantially below the expected amount of 8.29". The snowfall on the 17thmeasured as 5.3", and 5.1" more fell on the following day. These are new records. The old record for the 17thhad been 4.0", set in 1976, and for the 18th, 4.4", set in 1988. The monthly amount of snowfall set a new record with 53.4", surpassing the old record of 40.4" set in 2004.
Nome January 2012
Nome reported a mean monthly temperature in January of -16.6°F, an extremely strong deviation of -21.8°F from the long term mean and making this the coldest January on record. The warmest monthly temperature was 21°F observed both on the 19thand 20thof January, while the coldest temperature on the 5thwith an unpleasant -40°F. New temperature minima were set on the 3rdof January, with a minimum of -37°F, surpassing the old minimum of -34°F, which was observed in 1949. The following day, the temperature dropped to -38°F, replacing the old record low of -34°F set in 1917. On the 5thJanuary, a low temperature of -40°F was reported, which matched the low temperature for this day set back in 1917. On the 12thJanuary, the minimum was ‑33°F, surpassing the old minimum of -32°F, which had been set in 1973. Finally, on the following day, the temperature dropped to -34°F, surpassing the old record of -32°F, also set in 1973. With the exception of few days during the middle of the month, the whole month was below normal.
Precipitation was very light, totaling 0.19", representing only 20% of the expected amount. The average wind speed for the month was light with 4.4 mph, and the highest gust observed was 54 mph on the 21st, blowing from a northerly direction.
Fairbanks December 2011
In Fairbanks the average temperature was 4.0°F, a very substantial positive deviation (+8.1°F) from the December's long term mean. As November had been much too cold, the unexpected warmth was a welcomed event. Actually, the mean monthly temperature for December was warmer than the mean temperature for November. Furthermore, the minimum temperature for December of -36°F, measured on the last 2 days of the month, was 5°F warmer than the November minimum of -41°F on the 17th. December 2012 tied 1963 as the 10th warmest on record. Generally speaking, the first 3 weeks of the month were much warmer than would be expected, while the last week was below normal. The maximum temperature of the month occurred on the 4th with a balmy temperature, for Interior Alaska in winter, of +47°F. A mean temperature for the day was 37°F, a rare event, as mean daily temperatures above freezing are infrequent in winter. No new record absolute high or low temperatures were observed. Precipitation in December was 0.95" water-equivalent, 48% above the expected value of 0.64" and snowfall at 12.2" was only very slightly above normal. Wind speed averaged a slight 2.8 mph, a low value typical for winter in Interior Alaska. The highest gust was 51 mph on the 5th. Cloud cover was high with a mean monthly value of 80%. This is not surprising as cloudy days are in winter on average warmer than clear ones due to weak winter solar radiation. Hence, the substantially above normal temperatures would be an indication of higher than expected cloud cover.


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Funeral held for slain 8-year-old
Cherish Perrywinkle funeral attracts hundreds
Funeral held for slain 8-year-old
Cherish Perrywinkle funeral attracts hundreds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Hundreds of people have mourned the 8-year-old Florida girl who police said was killed by a convicted sex offender who lured her family with promises of clothes and food.
Services for Cherish Perrywinkle were held Friday at Paxon Revival Center Church in Jacksonville. The Rev. Steve Dobbs not only tried to bring a message of comfort, but also urged people not to let the girl's death be in vain.
The man who is charged with killing Cherish, Donald Smith, is a convicted sex offender and had been released from prison less than a month before Cherish's death.
Dobbs said the law should be changed to ensure people like Smith aren't allowed to "walk free."


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A Mets Fest, the Winter Caravan and Old-Timers' Day
For about two years now, I have been telling Mets fans to flex their ticket-buying muscles and force the ownership of the team to either sell or run the team in a fashion that befits a major market team with a new stadium and its own regional sports network.
Do I want to stay home? No. But how else can a fan show his/her displeasure with a dysfunctional franchise that has low to zero credibility? Yes, Mets GM Sandy Alderson may have made a shrewd trade to acquire top prospects in exchange for Mets fan favorite and Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey, but hasn't the window for winning a World Series been pushed back a few years now? Lowering expectations for the third straight year? That spells zero accountability to this fan.
Yes, I'm angry. I've rooted for this team since 1975 and have covered it since 1996. I love the team and distrust the ownership with equal passion. I've been told by many — including my wife — that I have allowed my dissatisfaction with the ownership cloud my judgement. So in an effort to make a positive impact rather than a negative one, I'd like to help the Wilpon ownership group from continuing to punch itself in the face.
The cheapest seat in the house on Opening Day? 63 bucks. Dumb. The logic behind it? Even dumber.
The Mets introduced two new alternate jerseys this offseason, as well as a new cap. The jerseys were promoted by email. And the new on-field cap? David Wright wore it — without any fanfare at all — in Nashville, as he was "re-introduced" to the fanbase with his new extension. Now that's just silly. Fact: A contest to design a new cap, much like what the Brewers are doing, would have been smarter. It also would have allowed for a fan-type event during the cold winter.
The Astros were the worst team in baseball last season. Like the Mets, they have seen significant declines in their season ticket and overall sales for years, despite a new ballpark. How did they intro their new jerseys and caps?
They had a party
The Reds have a new ballpark, had a great 2012, and are primed for another run at the NL Central title. They're not considered a major market team. They've sold tickets pretty well the last few years. How do they get ready for the 2013 season?
Reds Fest
There is NO reason for not trying to do this with the Mets fan. With all of the aforementioned ability to support and promote their own product, especially with tickets sales being down every year since Citi Field opened, the idea that the Mets don't have an annual Fan Fest is incredibly short-sighted.
The team used to do a Mets Caravan, but that stopped after the 2006 season. Is this why?
… (Carlos) Delgado and (agent David) Sloane were still taking their time, mulling offers from the Mets, Marlins, and Orioles. The Mets were about to stage their annual Winter Caravan, a somewhat corny old-school promotional event in which most of the team visits city schools, hospitals, and business offices to kick off the start of season-ticket sales. On a Sunday evening, during another conference call with Delgado's agent, Wilpon demanded the first-baseman's answer by the next day so as not to "interfere" with the Winter Caravan, Sloane says.
"I'm not stupid enough to believe they were serious," Sloane says, still angry. "I knew what they were trying to do, which is why I told Carlos that when you're confronted by a bully, you hit him in the mouth." Sloane delivered his punch on ESPN, which suddenly ran a report saying the Mets had withdrawn from the Delgado sweepstakes. At midnight Sunday, a stunned Jeff Wilpon, watching TV at home, called Minaya, who spent Monday re-entering the hunt. To no avail: On Tuesday, Delgado signed with Florida. "I don't think he ever really wanted to be a Met," Wilpon says..
Old Timer's Day – This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the Mets faithful's favorite teams, the unlikely "Ya Gotta Believe" pennant winners of 1973. First off, any excuse to get Tom Seaver, Yogi Berra and Willie Mays in the house, wearing #Mets gear, is a win-win, no matter the cost. Secondly and perhaps most importantly, it is another teachable moment for a young team trying to find its identity in a ballpark built for the owner's friends from Coney Island Ave. Mix with a few HOFers is good for everyone. Great photo opps abound.
Lastly, like Banner Day, it's another way for this ownership group to show the fanbase they actually care about the traditions that Mets fans miss most. Banner Day was a great way to begin that process, but Old Timer's Day shows a real commitment; 'cause it costs time and money. Because it seems like that's the problem.
"It wasn't popular, it wasn't effective, fans weren't responding and it wasn't selling very many tickets," (Mets VP Dave) Howard says. "The fans spoke volumes. It's a very expensive promotion and it wasn't producing the sales and marketing results we wanted for that investment. It died of its own unpopularity "
Now, let's be honest Dave, the landscape has changed dramatically for the team since the mid-1990's. Its ability to ptomote and engage the fans for this type of an event is vastly improved. Also, given that the team's endgame is to rebuild for the foreseeable future, you should be trying EVERYTHING to get fans in the ballpark. You can only watch Shea Goodbyw so many times.
I wish it was only a cost-effectiveness issue. But it's not. Frankly, the Mets can't even send out a promo video w/o doing something dumb like trying to avoid the existence of a 20-game winner who just won the organizations first Cy Young Award in almost 30 years. It is the fear of ridicule, of blowback and of honest feedback from a fanbase that's tired of the losing and the stupidity.
In 1989, Davey Johnson was omitted from the list of some two dozen people invited to Old-Timers' Day.
That's as much my fault as anybody," said executive vice president Frank Cashen, who dismissed Johnson last May 29. "I thought it was just the 1969 team we're inviting and I'm still not sure who's involved, but Old-Timers' Day is supposed to be joyous and having Davey back might put us and him in an untenable position."
If the Old-Timers' Day crowd cheered Johnson, would the Mets' front office and Harrelson be embarrassed? If the crowd booed him, would he be embarrassed?
Like many, many, many others have said many, many, many times, the Wilpons and by extension, their PR and Marketing departments lack a cohesive link to their smartest and most loyal fans.
Maybe it's time to listen to a few of them.
9 thoughts on "A Mets Fest, the Winter Caravan and Old-Timers' Day"
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[…] Last year, I opined that the New York Mets were doing their fans a disservice by not holding a FanFest, Winter Caravan or similar promotion to gets fans excited about the upcoming year. […]
[…] Last year, I opined that the New York Mets were doing their fans a disservice by not holding a FanFest, Winter Caravan or similar promotion to gets fans excited about the upcoming year. […]
[…] Last year, I opined that the New York Mets were doing their fans a disservice by not holding a FanFest, Winter Caravan or similar promotion to gets fans excited about the upcoming year. […]
[…] As for the lack of an offseason gathering or event, MP was speaking for a lot of folks who enjoyed the old "Mets Caravan" and other fan friendly promotions, as well as for folks like myself who felt the same way. […]


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January 06, 2010
2010: The Year Ahead for IT in Higher Education
What a difference a year makes. Most CIOs in higher education are turning their 2009 holiday stockings inside out looking for any extra crumbs that Kris Kringle might have left behind. For many technology leaders, the general fiscal crunch facing higher education – and the double digit percentage cuts to IT budgets it has compelled -- may have made playing the holiday Scrooge a piece of cake compared to the negative consequences to core IT services and offerings likely in the year ahead.
To those living with the hopeful yet delusional strategy of an early return to the status quo ante, my suggestion is to get use to the so-called "new normal". The reality of our 2010 technology services portfolio on the campus is likely to make CIO leadership seem more like 'high siding', the art of leading a white water river raft down a Class 6 set of rapids, than the image of the captain of the enterprise ocean liner that many associate with the slow moving, reliable, robust, legacy organization on campus. High siding is the deliberate act of leaning the weight of the entire raft and its riders towards the obstacles ahead, rather than approaching the obstacles sideways following the current.
The new normal carries the contradictions of both a fragile macro-economic recovery and a countervailing trend of only modest increases in enrollment and new federal research investments predicted for the fall of 2010 (with the important exception of the community college environment). The new normal is less financial leverage and smaller investments in core infrastructure, including IT on campus, even though the price of borrowing money has never been lower. The new normal is more and faster disruption to the consumer technology eco-system at the same time that levels of investment in our aging IT enterprise infrastructure decline in both real and relative terms.
Finally, the new normal is reflected in the contrarian wisdom of the need to be more, not less, innovative, more creative, not more conventional. During a downturn, at the very moment when the real fiscal pressures leads to squeezing out almost all of our abilities to provide strategic capacity, this is the very time our universities need it most.
The portfolio of managing requirements for operational excellence, customer service, and even more selective innovation (r&d) activity has never been more challenging. Taken together, the prospects of multiple years of negative budget growth in IT on campus, end-user expectations for near real time, free, and fully integrated services to their consumer world (choose your favorite mobile platform as an example), and a series of real Tylenol 3 headaches around security and personal information breaches -- both in the enterprise domain and across the distributed parts of the campus -- portend for a wild river ride ahead in 2010.
With dueling banjos strumming in the background, if you're old enough to remember the movie "Deliverance," here are my top 10 trends for higher education for the year ahead, 2010.
(1)Public Cloud Services Go Private. Cloud services are a wide range of hosted services and solutions that migrate from the data center on campus to hosting environments somewhere on the Internet. The "somewhere" is known as the Cloud. First came e-mail, then calendaring. What were once critical on-campus services are now living a normal and nomadic lifestyle. The overall outcome for the campus has been positive. But it doesn't stop there. Hundreds of campuses have migrated their video platforms off campus to iTunes and YouTube. Millions of hours of branded academic and academic-related content including lectures, performances, panels, colloquia, and student content are now reliably served up in the Cloud. New cloud services roll out weekly. In 2010 we will likely see the next frontier of these tools, and even turnkey solutions. Expect new "private cloud" services that allow the same economies of scale associated with public cloud services, yet are "protected" with a layer of privacy and regulatory ability. These new private cloud services will afford additional certainty that data are residing on geographically knowable infrastructure, or in a way that assures compliance with export licensing, or honors certain service level agreements regarding privacy or a no co-mingling requirement for certain data. More pragmatically, starting in 2010, universities will want to embrace a hybrid architecture for storage and computing that combines on-campus resources, private cloud services for others, and open public cloud resources for other kinds of applications. The emerging typology will go a long way to define taxonomies for our services portfolio for 2010 and beyond. Hard resistance to this mega-trend remains futile; the value proposition only grows in its attractiveness. Confronting cloud services on campus is a proxy for an always important dialog on what constitutes today's 'core' services for IT and what can be considered 'context' around which others have developed core competencies.
(2) The President's Climate Commitment Meets the Campus Data Center. Nearly 700 college and university presidents have signed up to go green. Plans follow and each one contains a commitment to be scored. IT infrastructure on campus produces perhaps as much as 20 percent of the total carbon footprint of the campus. According to the Climate Group, 37 percent of the carbon footprint comes from network electronics, 14 percent from the data center, and 49 percent from PCs and peripherals. Going green is important to University Presidents, our Boards, our students, and hopefully to the IT community. One trend for reducing campus carbon footprints is the move to the Cloud. Cap and trade, and/or some kind of carbon regime, is emerging on the fast track. There's a lot of work to be done by the IT community both on campus and in the corporate vendor community to get on board. In 2010 we'll see several major offerings to contribute to reducing campus carbon footprints by investing scarce resources to virtualize more of our data center infrastructure, monitor our infrastructure on an even more granular scale, and embrace campus-wide commitment to go both smart and green through our purchasing offices. Pro-active engagement by IT on the Climate Commitment and our own infrastructure affords us an important opportunity to work with the facilities and planning communities on adopting a smart and green plan across the campus. More introspectively, embracing the commitment also positions IT leaders to begin an overdue internal discussion on organizing a single, unified, and intergraded network engineering team for data, voice, video, and now data center services.
(3)Big Science meets Next Generation CyberInfrastructure. In the past 12 months more than $100 billion in federal "stimulus" funds have found their way to universities and research labs across the country. Coordination of the big science projects across the federal agencies has been constrained by one time gold rush fever, combined with bureaucratic imperatives and exacerbated by the directive to get dollars out the door quickly. Obviously not all big science is computationally based. That being said, university-based big science teams together with their computational research infrastructure colleagues on campus and across the country have an opportunity in 2010 to map out how to leverage this unprecedented one-time set of investments into a set of sustainable, network-enabled and network-based mega science endeavors. It's been more than seven years since the NSF blue-ribbon committee in 2002/2003 posed the question "how can we remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation's scientists, engineers, scholars, and citizens?" While the challenge of breakthrough science remains as compelling and important as ever, the absence of an integrated national cyberinfrastructure planning framework and action plan serves as a major rate-limiting dead weight on the nation's future. 2010 would be a great time to join the President's Climate Commitments on campus and turn them and a handful of other big science challenges into a national call and strategy for scientific renewal and advancement, leveraging next generation cyberinfrastructure.
(4)Time to Declare the PC Dead and Embrace the Mobile Platform. In 2010, it will become more obvious than ever that the PC as we have known it for the past quarter of a century is obsolete. For the foreseeable future there will be three kinds of emergent learning hardware platforms. One will be a fixed and tethered brick (or something) product designers can make look more interesting than the only semi-intelligent thin-client representing the legacy of the PC. The second hardware platform will be personalized-pizza-box-sized "laptop" computers. Now the dominant hardware platform on campus, laptops, netbooks, and tablets are all descendants of the PC, featuring similar interfaces enhanced by mobility. The third and clearly emergent hardware platform for learning is the mobile smart pad, including smartphones, e-book readers, next generation iPods, and what will likely be a bevy of smart pad entrants in the market in the year ahead. The major difference of this third generation of hardware is that we have all but left the old computer interface behind us. For those interested in disruptive innovation, the broad availability of the underlying platform infrastructure, devices, and generative application environment for smart pads is where the action should be. Look for innovative applications relevant to the campus associated with geo-tagging, location-based services, and a whole new generation of intelligent search tools related to our work, study, and play on campus. It is time to break with the 25-year run of PC culture on campus centered on hardware break fix. With new platform technologies and application development tools, the next 25 years of personal computing support should move to developing and providing services and experiences that contribute to innovation, workflow, and discovery.
(5) The E-Book Reader Grows up and Goes to Campus. 2009 marked the birth of the e-book reader in the university market place. The first set of entrants put the already nervous higher education (text)book market on notice. New business models, publishing models, revenue sharing strategies, and new models around intellectual property and the assigned 'text' for a course proliferated and served to dislodge the staid legacy economy for many universities. If buying second hand books online was not enough, the new e-book readers were perceived by some to disintermediate traditional providers of services and economic benefit in the college supply chain. In 2010 a whole new generation of E-Book Readers will emerge as the life cycle of innovation really takes off for this class of mobile smart pads. Dedicated, single purpose readers will be eclipsed this year by new, integrated platforms supporting new functionality, Web services, rich media, open application development environments, and a wide range of new experimental interface approaches. Publishers, bookstores, technology, and entertainment giants will all clamor to the market marking a significant if not final shift from the traditional bound book toward fully repurposable content for learning, including traditional texts.
(6)Social Networking Finds its Niche at College. The next killer app for social networking in support of the traditional curriculum on campus will be student tagged, rated, reused, and remixed learning content. The single most popular site among students at many universities is a tossup between Facebook and Google. Google is their library, Facebook is their hangout. Many students will spend more time per week on social networks, engaging, commenting, tagging, digging, and rating their experiences than they do watching traditional television, talking on the phone, in the physical library, and attending classes combined. Nearly a third of students report that they use existing social network platforms for studying and reviewing their courses. University technology strategists have spent five years trying to building alternative social networks. More recently a small cottage industry has flourished in building hooks from campus feeds to popular social networking platforms. The search for the Holy Grail continues. The most compelling content poised to undergo the social network effect is video content of everything in and around the learning environment on campus. Formal lectures, recitations, study groups, mini-documentaries, recordings at the nerd bar, reality tv for campus are all prime time candidates for a new part of the learning eco-system. Look for early experimentation and emergent business models for repurposable and reusable video content for learning in 2010. Publishers, campus media consortia, platform players, and faculty innovators are all poised to make a run at the rich media centric learning environment.
(7) Course Management Platform Alternatives Make Major Inroads. Promising a kinder and gentler attitude to the competition, the dominant course management platform is coming to terms with a new reality in the marketplace. Campuses are not prepared to accept a single dominant course management platform and have been voting with their feet. Course management services are emerging in publisher suites, platform players, new and maturing open source alternatives and dozens of atomized stand alone modules for popular services like grade books, and collaboration tools that readily 'connect' to other web services. In 2010 expect an active listening effort by both dominant and emergent players in the course management space. New innovation and offerings are all but certain in the year ahead. While there is a temptation to spend time reflecting through the rear view mirror about the missteps and judgment of some of the decisions made in the course management vertical, the more important issue for 2010 is to see whether Blackboard or any of the other players can effectively execute on a new generation of requirements for learning systems. The stakes are high. The year ahead will be the most interesting since 1995 when Murray Goldberg began innovating and developing what would become known as WebCT, one of the first early entries in what would be known as the course management industry.
(8) Serious Gaming Gets Serious. Gaming software is now both big business (bigger than the Hollywood economy) and a more readily accepted pedagogical tool for a wider cross section of disciplines including science, history, sociology, business, economics, communication studies, engineering, and a wide range of health sciences. Serious gaming, as the term has been coined, is now working its way through faculty curriculum committees, faculty senates, and up to deans and provosts. In 2010 we will see an important inflection point reached as new company entrants join campus-based serious gaming software (both in solitary mode and massive online player formats) to build and compete for robust gaming platforms dedicated to the serious college market. Changes in the textbook and course management markets make the serious gaming platform particularly compelling in the immediate future.
(9) Mobile Security Hits the College Campus. Information Security is an important and growing facet of the University IT landscape. Gone is our innocence. Our university networks and communities of users are prime targets for every conceivable denial of service attack cooked up by hackers from Azerbaijan to Zambia, all looking to earn their stripes. Campus information security leaders need to help the university get ahead of the curve on a range of emerging realities. Many CIOs have ignored or wished away the emergence of smart pad devices that integrate voice, video, and data services. After all, most use the public network and not our special campus networks. In 2010, expect to read research findings and security bulletins that report that the single fastest growing exposure and vulnerability facing the campus is mobile smart pad devices. While corporate enterprise CIOs have been gnashing their teeth for years on risk mitigation strategies for mobile security, 2010 holds high probability for that reality hitting the college campus. It's not a matter of "if" mobile security headaches will bring down the wrath of audit committees and public exposures in the headlines of local and national media. It's only a matter of 'when'. My bet is 2010.
(10) Open Content meets the Open University and the Vision of the Metaversity. It's hard not to reflect on the past decade as we say good bye (good riddance) to the first decade of the 21st century. University CIOs have contributed in important ways to the transformations underway in the university mission over the past decade. The arc and rate of activities on our campuses, as breathtaking as they may seem, are moving at a completely different slope and velocity to the genuine explosion of open education, research, and innovation enveloping the broader Net eco-system. On a global scale, on a population-wide vector, our institutions are generally ill-suited for addressing the needs and opportunities in 2010 and for the next generation. To be sure, universities are not heading for obsolescence. What continues to be worrisome is our collective ability to remain genuinely relevant to the Internet society in all its complexities and contradictions. While this country has a rather anemic tradition of Open Universities, these organizations all over the world are now engaged in regional and global dialogues on how the Open University platform can contribute to the Internet-scale challenges and opportunities. Former MIT President, Charles Vest (building on Kerr's 1963 thesis) suggested (as early as 2006) that a meta-university would be "a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced." We're quickly approaching the maturing of all the requisite elements in Vest's analysis against ever sharper and growing emphatic need for collective response. In a year in which a movie called "Avatar" will likely be the odds on favorite for a golden boy or two, look for new sources of inspiration and experimentation in framing up the 21st century metaversity project(s).
A decade from now, those reflecting on the second decade of the 21st century will likely point to the new normal, in which learning follows the student/professor rather than student/professor coming to learning and the research agenda. Technology is already far more than 'just' an enabler of 21st century learning. Both informed by and helping to shape the next 10 years of the intersection of technology, learning, and university leadership is an agenda that should excite the academy. The year 2010 will prove prescient in our ability to think beyond the possible.
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January 2010
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Series even as Cards give up big homer, miss chances
ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals' opportunity to take a commanding World Series lead over the Red Sox evaporated with one poorly located sinker from Seth Maness and one mighty sixth-inning swing by Jonny Gomes.
Gomes' tiebreaking three-run homer sunk the Cardinals in a 4-2 loss Sunday night that ensures a return trip to Boston. It knots the Fall Classic at 2-2, essentially creating a best-of-three Series that will include only one more home game for the Cards. That comes Monday (6:30 p.m. CT air time on FOX, 7:07 first pitch), when ace Adam Wainwright seeks to redeem himself after opening the Fall Classic with an uncharacteristic performance.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals' opportunity to take a commanding World Series lead over the Red Sox evaporated with one poorly located sinker from Seth Maness and one mighty sixth-inning swing by Jonny Gomes.
Gomes' tiebreaking three-run homer sunk the Cardinals in a 4-2 loss Sunday night that ensures a return trip to Boston. It knots the Fall Classic at 2-2, essentially creating a best-of-three Series that will include only one more home game for the Cards. That comes Monday (6:30 p.m. CT air time on FOX, 7:07 first pitch), when ace Adam Wainwright seeks to redeem himself after opening the Fall Classic with an uncharacteristic performance.View Full Game Coverage
"Adam is always on a mission, and that's what makes him great," David Freese said. "I guess they have [Jon] Lester going, so here we go again."
The Cardinals had hoped Wainwright would be pitching a potential clincher, but missed opportunities loomed largely in the Cards' inability to ride any leftover momentum from an obstruction-aided walk-off win in Game 3. This game ended in unusual fashion, too, with pinch-runner Kolten Wong picked off first base while Carlos Beltran -- the potential tying run and the team's best October hitter -- stood at the plate.
It was the conclusion to a night that left manager Mike Matheny answering questions about his bullpen management and players speaking about how a lack of execution spoiled their chance to move a win closer to the franchise's 12th World Series championship.
"It's going to be tough, but you have to have short-term amnesia," Maness said, confusing his clichés a bit. "Come back at them tomorrow."
A Busch Stadium-record crowd of 47,469 watched Game 4 unravel for the Cardinals in the middle innings once the Red Sox started to pester starter Lance Lynn. The tying run scored in the fifth, which David Ortiz opened with a double. Lynn created his own trouble by loading the bases with a pair of walks; Stephen Drew followed with a sacrifice fly.
The 29-pitch inning followed four frames in which Lynn threw 50 pitches and faced the minimum 12 batters. The only hit allowed was one off his foot by Ortiz, and Lynn quickly answered with a double play.
"Bases loaded with no outs and they only get one," Lynn said. "That was pretty huge."
Lynn would rebound to retire the first two batters of the sixth before Dustin Pedroia dropped a single into left-center. That brought Matheny to the first of two key decisions he would have to make that inning. He had lefty specialist Randy Choate available in the bullpen, though the numbers did not make that the obvious move.
In 10 career at-bats against Choate, Ortiz had four hits. Ortiz had also singled off Choate the night before. Matheny did not like the matchup.
"He was ready," Matheny said. "We just weren't going there."
Matheny stuck with Lynn, who clearly had no interest in letting Ortiz hurt him. The Boston cleanup hitter walked on four pitches.
"I'm not one to be dumb," Lynn said. "I'm not going to let that guy beat me in that situation. That's just the way it is. I'm not going to let him hit a two-run homer right there."
Matheny's next call was how to proceed against Gomes, who was in the lineup only because Shane Victorino had been scratched less than two hours before first pitch due to back tightness. Rather than give Lynn the chance to close the inning, Matheny summoned Maness. Lynn left the field visibly frustrated by the decision.
"I'm not happy coming out of a game. Ever," Lynn said. "That's just part of being a competitor. If you want out of a game, you shouldn't be out there, ever. That's just my opinion."
"We got into a spot, we had to make a decision," Matheny explained afterward. "And we take everything into consideration in trying to figure out a way to keep the game where it was at that point. ... This is a guy [Maness] that we go to to get us out of tough spots whenever we're in question. And he's been very good."
This time, Maness stumbled. The rookie righty fell behind Gomes and eventually left a 2-2 sinker over the plate for the outfielder to send over the left-field wall. It was Gomes' first home run of the postseason.
Maness, who was quite adept at wiggling the Cardinals out of jams during the season, has allowed six of 11 inherited runners to score in October. It was just the third home run hit by a right-handed batter off Maness this season.
"I left the ball up -- I looked at it -- right down the middle," Maness said. "Sometimes you get away with those. I had a lot of those [in the regular season] where you miss up, and he might pop it up or somebody swings through it. But a good hitter, more times than not, you're not going to get away with that."
The Cards never recovered in their comeback attempt, and Lynn shouldered his second loss of the postseason on a night when he became the club's all-time leader in postseason appearances, with 20.
Facing an opposing starter who was clearly compromised by shoulder issues, the Cardinals could not do much to provide Lynn an early cushion. With a fastball sitting in the upper 80s, Clay Buchholz still limited St. Louis to one unearned run in four innings before being removed for a pinch-hitter.
"[There was] a lot of scrutiny around his situation," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "But given that he might not have had his midseason stuff ... he gave us everything he could."
That lone run scored in the third, when Matt Carpenter aggressively took second as Jacoby Ellsbury fumbled the ball on a single. Beltran drove him home with his 14th RBI of the postseason. Beltran's single improved him to 8-for-10 with 12 RBIs with runners in scoring position in October.
Sandwiched around that productive inning, though, were those in which the Cards left a pair of runners on base.
"He showed that he absolutely knows how to pitch when his speed isn't there," Freese said of Buchholz. "Obviously, [the velocity] was down a little bit on the charts. But the guy can flat-out pitch. He knew he didn't have his velocity, but he hit his spots."
The Cardinals did not have much more success against the Boston bullpen, which sent out a string of five pitchers to cover the final five frames. That included Game 2 starter and Game 6 probable John Lackey, who retired Jon Jay and Freese with Yadier Molina on third to end the eighth.
St. Louis, which hadn't previously lost a postseason game this month when scoring first, finished 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
"We want to come through in those situations, no doubt about that," Beltran said. "But at the same time, they're getting us out. There's nothing we can do. We're putting an effort. We're trying to have a good productive at-bat in those types of situations. Sometimes we've been able to come through, sometimes we haven't."
The Cardinals did close the deficit in the seventh while also missing their best late-inning chance to flip the game back into their favor. Pinch-hitter Shane Robinson doubled and scored on Carpenter's single to bring the Cards to within two. Beltran followed with a walk against struggling reliever Craig Breslow.
Farrell turned to Junichi Tazawa to face Matt Holliday, who had lined a two-run double off Tazawa in the Cardinals' Game 3 win. This time, the battle was won by Tazawa, who induced an inning-ending groundout to strand two.
The Cards' final chance to piece together a rally then abruptly flopped in the ninth. Having entered after Allen Craig delivered a pinch-hit single, Wong slipped while trying to retreat to first as Red Sox closer Koji Uehara threw over. Wong was tagged out to end the game.
Afterward, the rookie infielder stood in front of his locker, nearly in tears, while peppered with questions about what he called the toughest moment of his career.
"You've just got to go forward," Wong said.
Such was a shared sentiment in the Cardinals' clubhouse by the end of the night.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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The work of a local political columnist is critiquing: analyzing which candidates make sense and which don't, explaining which agencies are effective and which aren't. But there is another aspect to reporting on this region's issues: getting to know the good work of people and organizations on the outskirts of Los Angeles government that succeed in easing the city's burdens. With the season in mind, here are a few of those organizations.
Homeboy Industries (http://homeboyindustries.org): Headed by Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy has long been a centerpiece of this region's humanity. It provides tattoo removal, job counseling, mental health services and jobs at its companies, including a bakery and a successful cafe. Boyle directs Homeboy's bustling offices at the edge of Chinatown, where more than 1,000 people a month come for help and scores hold jobs. Although Homeboy was on the verge of collapse a few years back — the victim of demand for its services and the recession, among other things — it is fully back to life these days. The organization is more than just noble, it's notably efficient. An independent analysis concluded that it spends more than 80% of its revenue on its operations.
The Jenesse Center (https://jenesse.org): Domestic violence is a scourge that damages too much of Los Angeles and one whose victims often are afraid to seek help. The Jenesse Center devotes its small staff to providing refuge to women and children who are in danger, and it is the rare program that provides shelter to older children and even men. The center's profile has been aided in recent years by actress Halle Berry's work on its behalf. But its heartbeat is that of its inspiring executive director, Karen Earl, who manages a shoestring annual budget of about $3 million and yet finds a way to help protect, educate and heal more than 2,500 clients a year. "Peace in our homes," as Earl puts it, "is a human rights issue." (Disclosure: My wife sits on the board of the center, and my son volunteers as a counselor in its summer program. Neither is paid for that work.)
El Monte Community Building Initiative (https://www.calfund.org/page.aspx?pid=684): Six years ago, the California Community Foundation set out to tackle what its president, Antonia Hernandez, calls the "suburbanization of poverty" — the spread of desperately low-income communities out of traditional urban cores and into what are generally thought to be more prosperous suburbs. It focused those efforts on El Monte and has been providing $1 million a year for programs promoting health and athletics, including efforts to ensure that children are covered by health insurance. The program is contemplated as a 10-year undertaking and is continuously cultivating deeper community involvement.
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Delancey Street Foundation (http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/): Founded in San Francisco but with a major Los Angeles center in a converted hotel on Vermont Avenue, Delancey runs intensive, long-term residential and training facilities for former inmates and drug abusers. Residents live at the centers, which are staffed entirely by volunteers, for at least two years, and initially are cut off from friends and family. It's hard-core, but Delancey's residents are inspiringly committed to one another, and the organization has successfully given new hope to more than 18,000 men and women. Delancey receives no government funding, and its residents pay nothing to be part of the program, though they are immediately kicked out if they return to drugs or violence. Delancey derives much of its income from the sale of holiday ornaments and trees, so if you have a last-minute shortage of either, Delancey offers a solution that also furthers its important work.
There are many more worthy organizations than just these, of course. But I've seen each of these at work. Each is dedicated and deeply important to the merciful core of Los Angeles. In every season, they deserve our support. Merry Christmas.
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|Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 - 2:30 PM
"Romantic Comedies"
The screenwriters behind NEVER BEEN KISSED, SAFE HAVEN, GOING THE DISTANCE and HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU contemplate the important balance of relationship, conflict and originality when creating romantic comedies. Followed by the short film, DO OVER by David Fabelo, illustrating several failed judicious attempts of mastering a first date. In this episode: Abby Kohn, Dana Stevens, Geoff LaTulippe, Marc Silverstein. D
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Another great section would be sections for Developers.
They could be categorized under big umbrella of topics like...
etc... and have sub categories.
This will provide a place for developers from different background to come and share ideas as well as obtain information about the problem they are having.
Also, it's a good platform to form your own development team.