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Marion County students earn K-State degrees
Several Marion County students received degrees from Kansas State University at the conclusion of the fall semester.
Burns native Emily Burch earned a bachelor's degree in education.
From Hillsboro, Tyrel Blecha earned a bachelor's, Scott Ferguson earned a master's in kinesiology, Rachelle Goldsby received a bachelor's in hotel and restaurant management, and Tyrell Goosen received a bachelor's in agriculture.
Lehigh native Mark Prieb received a bachelor's in industrial engineering.
Peabody native Duane Unruh received a bachelor's in business administration.
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|Traditional Edinburgh New Town club that combines tradition and comfort in a leafy Georgian row near the city centre.
|Le Monde
|Boutique hotel in Edinburgh's historic New Town, and home to the Shanghai nightclub and also a restaurant. The 100-seater, air conditioned, basement space in Le Monde is a Fringe venue in August.
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|Just around the corner from the Usher Hall, and the theatres and cinemas along Edinburgh's busy Lothian Road.
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|Not to be confused with the iconic Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street, this is a small Edinburgh Bed and Breakfast in the up-and-coming Pilrig area a few minutes walk
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|Ardgarth Guest House (permanently closed)
|This guest house is now closed.
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|Joppa Turrets Guesthouse
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The crackdown in Bahrain against democracy advocates continues. Hundreds of people have been detained, at least four have died in custody and there have been widespread reports of torture.
Bahrain's monarchy is headed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and, according to his biography on the Bahrain's U.S. embassy website, he "was awarded the Freedom Medal of Kansas City, Missouri from the Mayor and people of Kansas City." Kansas City does not want to be associated with a repressive regime. We sent a letter to the Kansas City Mayor Sylvester James asking him to demand the Freedom Medal back from the Bahraini King. Add your name!
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Like most people for whom listening to music is a daily (and nightly) concern, I go through phases – for two weeks, I might be into a heavy progressive phase, which might be followed by a funk phase, or maybe a palate-cleansing immersion in singer-songwriter stuff for a few days. It always circles around, for me at least. This past week, it circled around to country.
An awful lot of modern country seems cynically prepackaged, in my estimation. It is, in its present-day get-up, a music that fulfills the old adage, "If you don't know your past, then you're ill-equipped to plot your future." Country music and Bon Jovi-esque power ballads make strange bedfellows, but the dividing line between the two seems to be disappearing rapidly. Maybe you find this new "fusion" exciting. I don't. I prefer country music that's rooted in folk, boasts strong musicianship and incisive (often bittersweet) lyrics, and doesn't require that the listener be adorned in some sort of clique-approved uniform while listening to it. I like harmonies. Great guitar playing. Humor, sometimes, and heartbreak at others.
Which brings me to some modern country albums I've fallen for over the past two weeks.
The first of these comes from the study in contradictions that is Nashville's Jamey Johnson. Johnson looks like a more physically fit version of famed producer Rick Rubin, crossed with a veteran biker, with a dash of Rob Zombie thrown in. He is not your average modern country visage. But he plays his butt off, sings in a lovely low-country tenor and, as far as I have been able to ascertain, never panders (or condescends) to his audience by flag-waving, Bible-thumping or employing thinly veiled "the South's gonna rise again" rhetoric. Johnson's Steve Earle-like approach to country music has already earned him much critical respect, but on Oct. 16, Johnson will make plain the full breadth of his knowledge of country music history. On that date, he'll release "Livin' For a Song," an album that pays tribute to the late, justly revered American songwriter Hank Cochran. Cochran wrote many stone-cold country classics, among them "Make the World Go Away," "I Fall To Pieces," "She's Got You" and "Set 'em Up Joe." Johnson cherry-picks a bunch of his favorites for "Livin' For a Song," and enlists the likes of Alison Krauss, Merle Haggard, Leon Russell, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Ray Price, Asleep at the Wheel, Elvis Costello, George Strait and Willie Nelson, among others, to help him celebrate Cochran's genius. It's a beautiful thing.
Lukas Nelson – yup, Willie's son – is not content to trade off of his name. Instead, he formed his own band, Promise of the Real – the seed of the band was planted when Nelson met drummer Anthony LoGerfo at a Neil Young concert, in 2008 – and hit the road. Nelson does indeed possess a high tenor not unlike his father's, but Promise of the Real's latest effort, "Wasted," is gritty, guitar-heavy and super soulful, without ever forsaking its country music essence.
Finally, the 2011 release from the Pistol Annies, "Hell on Heels," is a devilishly strong cocktail of classic and modern country music tropes, shaken and stirred and served neat. The trio was formed as a side project by country superstar Miranda Lambert, who apparently was seeking to explore her grittier side with friends Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. If you are a fan of Emmylou Harris' band Spyboy, you'll dig the Pistol Annies, big time.
A final recommendation – Johnson's "Livin' For a Song" doesn't come out until Oct. 16 in the digital format, but the vinyl is out now. Just sayin'.
At least once a week, I get a letter, an email, or an anonymous voicemail from someone insisting that I should acknowledge the "fact" that I hate country music and am biased against it.
The idea of me hating country music? It doesn't hold water. I've never written off an entire genre of music. I am loyal to musicians who play hip-hop, metal, pop, folk, hard rock, soft rock, disco, jam band, jazz, African rock and pop, Jamaican reggae, ska and dub, techno, prog rock, funk, soul, R&B, rock 'n' roll, blues, and various permutations thereof. And yes, I like an awful lot of country, too.
What I don't like is the implied idea that these musical classification systems – which were designed so that people who sell stuff could market directly to certain demographic subdivisions – are somehow mutually exclusive. If you accept that they are, then what you're doing is, in effect, joining a club based on lifestyle choices you share with other members of that club. Perhaps that lifestyle demands that you wear a cowboy hat or short shorts. Maybe it means you are covered in tattoos and wear only black. Whatever. The point is, none of this has to do with music. Music is not fashion. And the job of a music critic is not to make someone who might read those writings feel cool and groovy about whatever lifestyle decisions they may have made.
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JavaFX on Raspberry Pi – 3 Easy Steps [updated]steveonjava | December 18, 2012
Note: Updated for NOOBS and Java 8 EA [changes highlight in red]
The long awaited early access of JavaFX on Raspberry Pi is finally out. This is a great platform for doing small embedded projects, a low cost computing system for teaching, and great fun for hobbyists. It only costs $35 for the Model B version with 512MB RAM, 700MHz ARM processor and I/O for HDMI, Composite, Audio, Ethernet, and 2 USB ports.
So what can you do with JavaFX on a Raspberry Pi? A great example is the digital signage that we put together for Devoxx showing the conference schedule flying by on animated space ships:
Update: And if you are not convinced that Java is performant on the Pi, check out Rich Bair's post on fxexperience.com: http://fxexperience.com/2012/12/javafx-on-raspberry-pi/
So if you are convinced to get started, there are 3 easy steps to get JavaFX running on your Pi:
- Install Linux on your Raspberry Pi
- Download and copy Java/JavaFX 8 to your Pi
- Deploy and run JavaFX apps on your Pi
This does assume you have a Pi… For questions about where to get a Pi, how to power it, etc., I would recommend checking out the Raspberry Pi Site.
Step 1 – Installing Linux on Your Raspberry Pi
The latest Java 8 release is hard float, which is a good thing, because it gives you better performance and the recommended Raspberry Pi build is also hard float. Stay away from anything that says soft, softfp, etc., because it will be incompatible with the hard float JVM.
Note: Why all this fuss over floating point? Well, low power embedded systems skip the floating point hardware to save cost (e.g. ARM Cortex M0-M3). Fortunately the ARMv6 chip used in the Raspberry Pi has real floating point support.
To setup Linux on your SD card, you will need a Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop with an SD Card Reader/Writer. There is a new installer called NOOBS that will download and setup your Pi for the first found here:
Once your SD card is formatted and you have copied over NOOBS, take your Raspberry Pi out of the box, pop in the SD Card, hook it up to a monitor or TV lying around your place, and plug it up to a nice usb power brick (5V 700mA or greater).
Warning: Order Matters! – If you don't hook up an HDMI monitor before powering on the Pi, it assumes composite. This means if the lights are flashing but you get a blank screen, you should try rebooting the Pi (by unplugging and replugging it in).
At this point, your Pi should bootup and show you the NOOBS installation screen. I recommend going with the Raspbian Wheezy installation (default), which will start downloading and automatically install once you select it.
After the image is copied the Pi will reboot into the raspi-config utility. There are some things you might want to consider tweaking here, including:
- Change the locale/keyboard/timezone – Default settings are for the UK, so everyone else should change these or you will be cursing at your keyboard when trying to type punctuation!
- Advanced Options:
- CPU/GPU memory split – Give the GPU at least 128MB of ram so graphical heavy apps will run better (important for JavaFX!)
- Overscan – If your display has black bars around the edges, turn this off so you can use the full resolution.
Expand root filesystem – It can do an online resize of your card to use the full space (default image has a tiny 2GB root partition). Highly recommended, but expect this to take a while on a large card.[no longer needed with NOOBS]
- SSH – Turn this on if you want to access your Pi over the network (this is the only way to shut down rogue JavaFX processes short of rebooting)
In the official JavaFX Raspberry Pi docs they also recommend hacking the framebuffer to be 720p in the config file (/boot/config.txt) by uncommenting these lines:
framebuffer_width=1280 framebuffer_height=720
This is not strictly required, but will give you better performance since the Pi is pushing fewer pixels. If you are going to do this, you might also want to force the Pi to run in 720 resolution as well to avoid pixel upscaling. Don't try hacking the display settings unless you know what you are doing (and have an ssh terminal to login remotely in case you kill the display). For more info about the HDMI display nodes, check out the docs here.
Step 2 – Download and Copy Java/JavaFX 8 to Your Pi
You can download a Raspberry Pi compatible Java/JavaFX 8 build here:
Choose the Linux ARMv6/7 VFP, HardFP ABI download option.
If your Pi is hooked up to the network via ethernet you can download it directly to the device. Otherwise copy it over using sftp (via ssh) or sneakernet (a USB key).
Once you have it downloaded, you can unzip it to a location of your choice:
sudo tar -zxvf file_name -C /opt
And then to run java use a command like the following:
sudo /opt/jdk1.8.0/bin/java -version
Step 3 – Deploy and Run JavaFX Apps on Your Pi
Almost any JavaFX desktop application will run on the Pi simply by copying over the jar file and executing it locally, with no modifications. (The 2 exceptions to this are applications that rely on WebView or MediaView, both of which are unimplemented in the current dev preview)
A great way to get started building JavaFX applications for the Pi is to use Scene Builder to quickly put together a user interface visually, and then deploy that to the Pi. I did this last night at the Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), quickly putting together a sample application with help from the very astute attendees (I also learned a thing or two about linux command tricks along the way from the audience).
I posted our 15 minute application in GitHub as an example you can try:
To run it on the Pi, build the source with your favorite IDE (or straight form the command line) and build a jar file (make sure you use the same Java 8 version on desktop that you are deploying to the Pi). Then copy the jar file to your Pi and run it with a command like the following:
/opt/jdk1.8.0/bin/java -jar LUGODTest.jar
Here is a picture of the Scene Builder project and the output we got on the Raspberry Pi during the LUGOD meeting:
However, the most impressive demo is your own. Try deploying your own JavaFX applications and leave others pointers to apps you have deployed in the comments below!


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Definiton of a record that contains event information. Deprecated in
favor of
Graphics.UI.Gtk.Gdk.EventM and not exported by Gtk.hs.
- data Modifier
- type TimeStamp = Word32
- currentTime :: TimeStamp
- data Event
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- eventSent :: Bool
- eventArea :: Rectangle
- eventRegion :: Region
- eventCount :: Int
- | Motion {
- eventSent :: Bool
- eventTime :: TimeStamp
- eventX :: Double
- eventY :: Double
- eventModifier :: [Modifier]
- eventIsHint :: Bool
- eventXRoot :: Double
- eventYRoot :: Double
- | Button {
- eventSent :: Bool
- eventClick :: Click
- eventTime :: TimeStamp
- eventX :: Double
- eventY :: Double
- eventModifier :: [Modifier]
- eventButton :: MouseButton
- eventXRoot :: Double
- eventYRoot :: Double
- | Key {
- | Crossing {
- | Focus {
- eventSent :: Bool
- eventInFocus :: Bool
- | Configure {
- eventSent :: Bool
- eventXParent :: Int
- eventYParent :: Int
- eventWidth :: Int
- eventHeight :: Int
- | Visibility {
- | Scroll {
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- type EventButton = Event
- type EventScroll = Event
- type EventMotion = Event
- type EventExpose = Event
- type EventKey = Event
- type EventConfigure = Event
- type EventCrossing = Event
- type EventFocus = Event
- type EventProperty = Event
- type EventProximity = Event
- type EventVisibility = Event
- type EventWindowState = Event
- type EventGrabBroken = Event
- marshExposeRect :: Ptr Event -> IO Rectangle
- marshalEvent :: Ptr Event -> IO Event
- data VisibilityState
- data CrossingMode
- data NotifyType
- data WindowState
- data ScrollDirection
- = ScrollUp
- | ScrollDown
- | ScrollLeft
- | ScrollRight
- data MouseButton
- = LeftButton
- | MiddleButton
- | RightButton
- | OtherButton Int
- data Click
- data Rectangle = Rectangle Int Int Int Int
Keyboard modifiers that are depressed when the user presses a key or a mouse button.
- This data type is used to build lists of modifers that were active during an event.
- The Apple key on Macintoshs is mapped to
Alt2and the
Metakey (if available).
- Since Gtk 2.10, there are also
Metamodifiers which are simply generated from
Composemodifier keys, depending on the mapping used by the windowing system. Due to one key being mapped to e.g.
Meta, you shouldn't pattern match directly against a certain key but check whether a key is in the list using the
elemfunction, say.
The time (in milliseconds) when an event happened. This is used mostly for ordering events and responses to events.
currentTime :: TimeStampSource
Represents the current time, and can be used anywhere a time is expected.
Deprecated way of conveying event information.
Events that are delivered to a widget.
- Any given signal only emits one of these variants as described
Graphics.UI.Gtk.Abstract.Widget.Widget. Many events share common attributes:
- The
eventSentattribute is
Trueif the event was not created by the user but by another application.
- The
eventTimeattribute contains a time in milliseconds when the event happened.
- The
eventYattributes contain the coordinates relative to the
Graphics.UI.Gtk.Abstract.Gdk.DrawWindowassociated with this widget. The values can contain sub-pixel information if the input device is a graphics tablet or the like.
- The
eventModifierattribute denotes what modifier key was pressed during the event.
An event that is not in one of the more specific categories below. This includes delete, destroy, map and unmap events. These events have no extra information associated with them.
The expose event.
Mouse motion.
A mouse button was pressed or released.
A key was pressed while the widget had the input focus.
Mouse cursor crossing event.
Gaining or loosing input focus.
The widget's size has changed.
Change of visibility of a widget.
Wheel movement of the mouse.
Indicate how the appearance of this window has changed.
The state of the pen of a graphics tablet pen or touchscreen device.
type EventButton = EventSource
An event that contains information on a button press.
type EventScroll = EventSource
An event that contains information on scrolling.
type EventMotion = EventSource
An event that contains information on the movement of the mouse pointer.
type EventExpose = EventSource
An area of the
DrawWindow needs redrawing.
type EventConfigure = EventSource
An event that contains the new size of a window.
type EventCrossing = EventSource
Generated when the pointer enters or leaves a window.
type EventFocus = EventSource
An event that informs about a change of the input focus.
type EventProperty = EventSource
An event that indicates a property of the window changed.
type EventProximity = EventSource
An event that indicates that the pen of a graphics table is touching or not touching the tablet.
type EventVisibility = EventSource
Parts of the window have been exposed or obscured.
type EventWindowState = EventSource
The window state has changed.
type EventGrabBroken = EventSource
A grab has been broken by unusual means.
data VisibilityState Source
data CrossingMode Source
How focus is crossing the widget.
data NotifyType Source
Information on from what level of the widget hierarchy the mouse cursor came.
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While there have been many Indian/electronic fusion CDs recorded, The Lost Souls stands out by its sultry, mystical and magical sweetness as well as through its minimal use of electronica elements. While the guest vocalists make these tracks shine, they are perfectly balanced and accented by guitars, classical strings, harmonium, tabla, flutes and electronic instrumentation. The lyrics are a mix of original and traditional songs sung in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Braj basha, and Classical Indian sargam.
The liner notes are beautifully designed with ethereal photography and
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Today I was Kitesurfing in Alvor, Portugal (near Lagos) and my van was broken into by thieves - they took alot of things including cameras (cannon waterproof and GoPro HD) but most of all they stole 2 of my kites.
They are both Wainman Hawaii kites and one is the 7m (Gypsy) the other is a 12m (Boss) - both of them are black.
If everyone can keep a look out for these kites (if you get offered them and they seem too cheap!) I would be very grateful - please let me know if you have any clues... my Portuguese mobile phone was also stolen but you can call me on my other number 0031 646350082 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Volume 26 - Article 16 | Pages 363–408
What is on a Demographer's Mind? : A Worldwide Survey
|Date received:
|26 Aug 2011
|Date published:
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|demographers, opinion, science, survey
Background: Over the years, the community of demographers has grown in numbers and research interests, and has become increasingly interdisciplinary. The question is whether this process of growth and diversity has led to a fragmented community of demographers.
Objective: We examine whether or not demographers are characterized by a high level of consensus in approach and outlook. We focus on two issues. The first relates to the level of consensus among demographers on what they perceive to be the most urgent population issues, and what their opinions are about population and fertility developments. The second issue focuses on the question of whether or not there is a common approach or research style among demographers.
Methods: We gain insight into the opinions and attitudes of 970 demographers on the basis of an internet survey among IUSSP members, carried out in 2009.
Results: There is a high level of consensus on what is considered the most important population issue: 'population aging'. With respect to population policy, demographers are greatly divided. There is, however, a high level of consensus on what makes a demographer successful: being highly empirical. Demography seems to be a well integrated discipline, as applied researchers take note of what pure researchers publish and vice versa. Demography has scientific leaders who form a unifying power within the discipline.
Conclusions: The core of the discipline of demography is to be found in an openness to insights from different disciplines, a commitment to data and empirical research, and well integrated spheres of applied and pure research.
Author's Affiliation
Hendrik P. Van Dalen - Nederlands Interdisciplinair Demografisch Instituut (NIDI), the Netherlands
Kène Henkens - Nederlands Interdisciplinair Demografisch Instituut (NIDI), the Netherlands
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Who fears and who welcomes population decline?
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How do employers cope with an ageing workforce?: Views from employers and employees
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Ok, lets change things up a little bit today.
Apparently there's this gene, possessed by relatively few Caucasians, in which a certain variant causes people to not produce underarm body odor. The gene is ABCC11.
Some British scientists decided to dig into this gene a bit further using a sample of 6,495 women who are part of the wider Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol. They found that about 2 percent of the women carried the rare version of ABCC11 that doesn't produce stinky pits.
Now here's the interesting part. Of those women, about 80 percent still used a deodorant of some kind.
Why? The authors of the study believe they're simply conforming to social norms. Still, that's a lot of conforming to norms, especially when no one would know whether you're wearing deodorant or not.
This is also a gene variant I wish I had. In addition to not producing body odor, people who carry this rare genetic variant are also more likely to have dry (rather than sticky) ear wax. Pretty cool.
Incidentally, most people of North East Asia descent — so people in China, Japan and Korea in large measure — carry this particular variant of ABCC11.
Dan Reeves, of "Never let them see you sweat" fame, would be proud.


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Honey! I'm home…!
Whew! It is crazy hot here in Hollywood. How have you survived? I'm this close to envying the Donner Party.
[Sets luggage down.]
Where have I been? Didn't you see the Post-It note I left on our autographed portrait of Gunnar de Frumerie?
What do you mean you were struck blind by the Lord Our God while traveling the Road to Damascus? Are you crazy?
Yes, I know Labor Day traffic on I-5 is maddening, but I hardly think a detour through Syria was good idea. And anyhow, I wrote the note in Braille, so that's no excuse for not reading it.
[Takes off shoes and unbuttons shirt.]
Anyway, I don't want to fight.
I've been in Santa Barbara over the weekend. I was at a wedding for some of Corey's friends. It was hot there, too, but at least we were on the coast, so it was beautiful.
Oh, a funny thing happened that continues a strange theme in my recent blogs. One of the humans attending the wedding was Octavia Spencer – a total sparkplug, very quick with the one-liners – and, as she was introduced to my small group, she lowered her sunglasses at me and said:
"Whoa! You have some pretty eyes! Hoo!"
Which makes two times this week that an obscure female comedian has commented on my optical globes. I know, right? What exactly are my pheromones excreting? Too funny.


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Maintainer of this document: Frans Englich
In order to ensure that URI schemes and XML namespaces within the KDE project are consistent and avoids collisions, this document exists to settle best practices, and document the currently used namespaces and URI schemes.
Some applications needs custom URIs schemes in their implementation. Regardless of if the URI scheme is used internally or publically, it is always an unfortunate design choice to simply make up a scheme name (such as my-scheme://my-data) for the simple reason that anyone can do that, and thus potentially cause interoperability issues and confusion. The approach for creating a custom URI scheme without also getting into trouble[1] is to either ensure the scheme is generic to the extent it can be specified in an RFC (similar to urn or http), or to use an existing scheme which was designed for this purpose: the tag scheme.
The tag scheme combines a host name with a date to create a unique URI scheme (the date makes the URI immune to change in ownership of the domain name). KDE applications can use the tag scheme with the kde.org domain by following a slightly constrained syntax of the tag scheme:
tag:kde.org,2004:[application name]:[application specific string][2]
The application name ensures that a URI does not clash with a KDE application.
Before using the tag scheme with the KDE domain, the usage should first be suggested on the firstname.lastname@example.com mailinglist. If agreed to be a sensible URI scheme, the table below should be updated to list the application name.
|Application Name
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Thus, as example, any URI starting with tag:kde.org,2004:KMyMoney: is reserved for KMyMoney.
For KDE's public library technologies it might be of interest to use the kde.org domain. In particular, for XML namespaces. In those cases, the following practices should be followed:
URI : http://www.kde.org/standards/kcfg/1.0 Description: KConfigXT's *.kcfg files. Schema : http://www.kde.org/standards/kcfg/1.0/kcfg.xsd Contact : Frans Englich <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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The func_insert function dynamically inserts a named function into the server's table of functions. This function should only be called during the Init stage.
FuncStruct *func_insert(char *name, FuncPtr fn);
The FuncStruct structure that identifies the newly inserted function. The caller should not modify the contents of the FuncStruct structure.
char *name is the name of the function.
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Come out for great live music at Pandora's featuring Cadillac Willy on Tuesday, Apr. 12 starting at 8pm.
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Pandora's of Grayton Beach has been a SoWal landmark for more than 15 years and is well-known for their quality-cut steaks, prepared on an oak-burning open grill. Since 2007, General Manager Brandon Montalto and Executive Chef Chris Mack have strived to make Pandora's a truly unique dining experience. Chef Chris is undoubtedly talented and his culinary experience shines through in every dish he creates. He sets a high standard in the area with his coastal-comfort cuisine by using diverse flavor profiles and sumptuous presentation. Pandora's is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday, 5 - 10 p.m.
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[Thai/Myanmar border, June 18. Image via Getty]
A Karen refugee with two legs missing lights up her pipe next to a sleeping baby under a temporary shelter on the Thai-Myanmar border at the Safe Haven orphanage 136 km north of Mae Sot on June 18, 2009. Around 40 children from an orphanage in Myanmar and around 60 people arrived to the Safe Heaven orphanage 2 weeks ago after they fled Myanmar north eastern Karen state. June 20 is world refugee day, around 42 million uproted people around the world are still waiting to go home. AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)


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Transcripts of most presidential and vice presidential debates are available on this site. Several media and academic organizations also maintain tapes and transcripts of historic presidential debates.
Videos can be viewed at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/topic/PresidentialDebates.
To obtain permission for re-broadcast, please contact the network that provided pool coverage. Information for debates sponsored by the CPD appears below. For debates prior to 1988, you will need to contact the sponsors of those debates (see "Debate History" tab).


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OTTAWA—Marcel Masse, a longtime Quebec politician who served in the cabinet of Brian Mulroney, has died at the age of 78.
Masse was elected to the Quebec national assembly in 1966 and 1970 as a member of the Union Nationale and served as a provincial cabinet minister.
He was elected to the Commons in the 1984 election that brought Mulroney's Conservatives to power.
He resigned from cabinet in 1993 and did not run in the federal election that year.
Mulroney, who saw Masse recently, remembered him as a family man and gentleman who ran a number of senior departments, including Communications, Energy and Defence.
"He was very reserved in many ways, soft-spoken in private although he was a great speaker at political meetings," Mulroney told The Canadian Press. "He'd make his case and if he didn't win, he would leave with his head up high and a smile on his face and move on to something else."
In particular, Mulroney said Masse adored his time as communications minister and dealing with Canadian cultural initiatives.
"He was a big supporter of Canadian culture, Canadian broadcasting," Mulroney said in a telephone interview from Toronto. "He worked very hard to secure a cultural exemption with me on the free-trade negotiations with the United States."
Mulroney said Masse was a quick study and could learn a great deal about a portfolio in a brief period of time. That trait allowed him to hold diverse posts.
"I think he was a delight to work with," Mulroney said. "He was undemanding, he was not a prima donna in anyway around the cabinet table. He worked well with his cabinet colleagues."
After leaving federal politics Masse held various non-cabinet positions in the Parti Quebecois governments of Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard.
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This organization fosters awareness of Women's contributions to American History -- very useful history links.
Find out about the 125 women who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
This site features several complete issues of one of the 19th century's most popular women's magazines.
In 1848, the world's first Women's Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls, New York. This site features the full Declaration of Sentiments, and the names of the people who signed it.
This consortium provides forums for discussion of women and community issues and supports women's history, culture, education, leadership and equity.
The site of the America's first Women's Rights Convention, administered and interpreted by the National Park Service.
Learn more about Madam C.J. Walker in one of the National Register's online lesson plans: Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney.
Eleanor Roosevelt's final home, Val-Kill, administered and interpreted by the National Park Service.
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In addition to its Revolutionary War associations, this park also preserves and interprets The Wayside, the home of authors Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Sidney, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This park, administered and interpreted by the National Park Service, traces the early development of America's Industrial Revolution, and the "mill girls" who first worked the factories there.
The home of Abigail Adams, and her husband President John Adams and her son, President John Quincy Adams.
G.S.A.'s valuable collection of sites and on-line exhibitions involved with the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Convention.
Travel Web Sites for New York and Massachusetts
Visit the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism web site, including the site's extensive list of historic attractions.
Home page of the "I love New York" tourism program, this site includes various resources for travel in New York, and history themed tours and trips in the "I love historic New York" pages.
This website, maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, includes information on state and nationally designated byway routes throughout America based on their archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic qualities. Visit the America's Byways Seaway Trail website for more ideas.
Other travel itineraries in the National Park Service's ongoing series include many historic destinations that you can visit online or in person. Each itinerary spotlights a different geographic region, community, or theme.
Massachusetts and New York Preservation Resources
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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26th July 2017
Public Affairs Director Paweł Purski from Grayling in Warsaw analyses the situation in Poland after the president vetoed the acts on the Supreme Court and the National Judiciary Council.
Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, decided to send two controversial acts – on the Supreme Court and on the National Judiciary Council – back to the Sejm for a repeat vote. The third act, on the common organization of the courts, was signed by the President on 25th July.
The three acts reforming the judicial system in Poland had been adopted last week by the Polish parliament and were awaiting the President's signature. The way in which the acts were scrutinized (very quickly and chaotically), as well as controversy over their constitutional legality, caused massive street demonstrations in Polish cities and were strongly opposed by the public at large. Unlike previous demonstrations, many young people took to the streets and flooded social media with negative comments, signaling their participation in the political life of Poland.
Despite strong political pressure from Law and Justice, Andrzej Duda refused to sign the two controversial acts. Duda expressed his opinion that both acts contradicted the Polish Constitution. The Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) could still overturn Duda's veto with a 3/5 majority. It is, however, very unlikely, due to the fact that Law and Justice has only 236 MPs (a 3/5 majority would require 276 MPs) and virtually the whole opposition stood against the acts. The President announced that he would present his own amended acts on the Supreme Court and the National Judiciary Council in the coming two months.
The third controversial act, inter alia giving the Minister of Justice the right to replace the chairmen of local courts, will enter into force. This decision saw continued mass protests across the country, however with a clearly lower number of participants.
Both the President and the Prime Minister, addressed speeches to the nation. In the words of Prime Minister Beata Szydło "The president's veto has slowed down the work on the reform of the judicial system. [..] What's more, it has been treated as an incentive by those fighting to uphold the unfair system". She stressed that many Polish people had been wronged by the judicial system, and that she was being convinced about this during her everyday meetings with people. The President underlined that the Polish judiciary system does require reform, and promised to submit new draft bills to reform the judiciary system.
It is still difficult to read the political game behind these developments. Initial commentary suggesting that the President has achieved a certain independence from the ruling party should be treated with caution. It surely is a sign of change in Polish politics but its extent can only be properly assessed in the days to come. Reform of the judiciary will progress, but this time with more stakeholders involved and more public dialogue.
The financial markets reacted positively to the decision. The Polish Złoty strengthened against both the Euro and the Dollar. The prospect of a judicial crisis, which could have resulted in investor uncertainty regarding the rule of law in Poland, has been delayed if not entirely refuted.
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"With One Look" is not The Fixx, but, c'mon, it's a home run for an encore..
Ships Are Safe In Harbour
Don't Be Scared
A Letter To Both Sides
All About You
With One Look
"With One Look" is not The Fixx, but, c'mon, it's a home run for an encore..
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I wanna hear Lonely As a Lighthouse... I loooooooove that song!!!!!!
"... the nighttime falls around our bed, in peace we sleep entwined, and your love flows through me, though an ocean soothes my head, I burn for you..."
Wow, choosing between All About You and Ships was difficult! I went with Ships because I've heard AAY live (though not in person), and I've never heard Ships live. I think trying to do that song repeatedly would murder Cy's voice, though, so it's an unrealistic choice.
And I bet the Fixx would do a great version of With One Look...too too tough choice!!!
Maybe on course to the best yet!
I went with All About You, I would love to hear this rarity in 2008!
There is a song missing from this list, actually two.....Kingdom Christsake and Lighthouse.....PLZ
These two songs say alot and are probably MY favorite Fixx tunes.....right alongside Happy Landings of course.....
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i watched the live in denver 83 RTB tour VCR tape last night-
Boy that Cy is a Kook! LOL! (But i loved every second of his stage antics!)
Now i have a craving for Sinking Island! anyone got the complete lyrics for that one ?
I surfed last night with not much luck....
I know Dan K knows it since he was in da video, and moving around too!
"There can be no tradition without innovation."
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FMCSA study on 34-hour HOS restart rule leaves much open to interpretation
Since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) formally rolled out its new trucking Hours-of-Service (HOS) regulations, and in advance of their debut really, there has been and remains a large amount of differing opinions about why these rules were needed, if they really took into account the day-to-day travails of trucking, and, of course, the safety reasons that came with these new rules.
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Since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) formally rolled out its new trucking Hours-of-Service (HOS) regulations, and in advance of their debut really, there has been and remains a large amount of differing opinions about why these rules were needed, if they really took into account the day-to-day travails of trucking, and, of course, the safety reasons that came with these new rules.
At the heart of the new HOS rules, in case anyone forgot, is the much talked about 34-hour restart rule, which is the following: truckers who maximize their weekly work hours must take at least two nights' rest when their 24-hour body clock demands sleep the most—from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. This rest requirement allows drivers to restart the clock on their work week by taking at least 34 consecutive hours off-duty. The final rule allows drivers to use the restart provision only once during a seven-day period.
This brings us to news from the FMCSA issued this week that it released its long awaited findings based on a third party study it conducted that it said provides "further scientific evidence that the restart provision in the current [HOS] rule for truck drivers is more effective at combatting fatigue than the prior version" (which had no such requirement).
This study is long awaited in that a provision in the current federal transportation bill, MAP-21, called for an HOS field study to expand on an FMCSA report on driver fatigue and maximum driving time requirements focusing on the 34-hour restart rule. But prior to this week, that study was not completed, despite the rules having already gone into effect.
In its study, the FMCSA explained that scientists measured sleep, reaction time, and sleepiness and said it found that drivers who kicked off their work week with only one nighttime period of rest, instead of the mandated two nights: exhibited more lapses of attention, especially at night; reported greater sleepiness, especially toward the end of their duty periods; and showed increased lane deviation in the morning, afternoon, and at night.
And the FMCSA added that working long hours on a continuing basis is associated with chronic fatigue, a high risk of crashes and various serious chronic health conditions in drivers, adding that the 34-hour restart is intended to provide sufficient time for a driver to recuperate from chronic fatigue if they work beyond the updated 34-hour restart break. Coupled with that FMSCA noted that according to its analysis the restart rule will prevent about 1,400 crashes and 560 injuries and save 19 lives per year, with extreme driver schedules, when drivers are on the road for more than 70 hours per week, being impacted while 85 percent seeing no subsequent change in their schedules.
The study, which directed FMCSA to expand on an FMCSA report on driver fatigue and maximum driving time requirements focusing on the 34-hour restart rule, was supposed to be conducted by March 31, 2013. But 51 House members said in a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx last September that even though the field study was not completed, the FMCSA went ahead and finalized and enacted the "untested" new HOS regulations.
"The commercial trucking industry is a pillar of the U.S. economy and small, medium, and large businesses across America depend on the on-time, cost-efficient, and safe transport of finished products and raw materials each day," the House members wrote. "It is imperative that the rules governing the commercial trucking industry be backed by factual, statistically-valid and data-driven studies that are fully completed and analyzed before proposed rules come into effect."
They added that the new HOS rules greatly decrease driver flexibility and also increase costs for the trucking industry at a cost of up to $376 million annually (according to American Trucking Associations data) to the industry alone, which will in turn be passed on to American consumers as prices in stores will subsequently rise as a result.
The ATA issued a statement that directly indicated the FMCSA's study's findings were less than complete, explaining it is lacking critical analyses on multiple issues. It explained that FMCSA is cautious in suggesting how important certain findings are, such as drivers with fewer nighttime rest periods may have incrementally slower reaction times as short as one-third of one second and a modest increase in lane deviations, in relation to the rule's efficiency.
Other criticisms cited by ATA were that the rule did not evaluate the safety effects of efficacy of the once-per-week restart restriction also known as the 168 hour rule, not did it pay heed to the "real-world safety implications of putting more trucks on the road during daytime hours, a time when more passenger vehicles are also on the road," or "evaluate health benefits of the restart changes which were used to justify the rule change."
National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) Advocacy Chairman and President of Tranzact Technologies Mike Regan said that the FMCSA study and the 34-hour restart rule relate less to truck safety than to the pursuit of a political agenda that is emblematic of a battle between modes, specifically rail and trucking.
"The purpose of the 34-hour restart rule was really a solution looking for a problem," said Regan. "I am seeing spot market rates at the end of December hit record-high levels, which has never happened. Our brokerage group is having a hard time finding trucks as are most. We have seen offers for a little less than a 500-mile load for $4,000. And shippers are getting blindsided, not just by HOS, but weather problems that are having an impact on where people want to send trucks so consequently to a certain extent there is almost a little bit of an auction-type environment going on."
Regan said it may not seem like a big deal when four large large truckload carriers say HOS is negatively impacting productivity by 3-to-5 percent, but when a market loses 24 percent of its previous capacity, there is an issue.
"Take fuel supply. Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and other governors suspended HOS rules for those carriers delivering proprane supplies, and if the previous HOS rules were so blatantly unsafe as the FMCSA were to suggest, there is no scenario under which you would relax the rules in the even of a major emergency as the rules are suspended when important things need to get done. That is making a statement."
As one can see, the new rules remain unpopular to say the least and when it comes to the new HOS rules, acrimony reigns supreme. What happens next with HOS is hard to say but chances are, the scuffling in the trenches will remain intact, although that may not be the case for available capacity.
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Cazenovia >> A Madison County sheriff's deputy is being honored for helping save a suicidal woman.
Last last week, Madison County sheriff's deputies and state police responded to a report of a suicidal female threatening to jump off the gorge at Chittenango Falls State Park in Cazenovia around 7:30 p.m.
Deputy Shawn Burbidge was the first to arrive. He found the woman on a cliff edge about 150 feet above the base of the falls. She had climbed over a fence separating the sidewalk observation area from the edge of the cliff leading to the base of the falls. Burbidge, with State Trooper Miles Robertson, tried talking with the woman, but she didn't acknowledge them.
With the assistance of Robertson, Burbidge tied himself to the fence with rope, climbed over, and tried talking with the woman again. She looked at him, then turned back to the cliff edge and began leaning forward. Burbidge reached his arms around her and held her while Robertson helped pull them back to the fence.
"This office does not typically report on incidents of this type," said Madison County Sheriff Allen Riley. "However, due to the actions of Deputy Burbidge, who clearly displayed a calm and reassuring demeanor at the scene, and without regard to his own safety, placed himself at great risk in saving a life that evening.
"The quick actions of both Deputy Burbidge and Trooper Robertson in saving this individual were heroic," he said.
The subject was transported by CAVAC ambulance to a Syracuse hospital for evaluation.
Burbidge, a 6-and-a-half year veteran of the Madison County Sheriff's Office, is also a K9 handler.


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Houston ready for Sporting rematch
Kansas City, KS – Sporting Kansas City and the Houston Dynamo will square for the second time in two weeks when the two Eastern Conference rivals meet at Sporting Park on Sunday.
Houston will be out to exact some revenge after Sporting put an end to the Dynamo's MLS-record home unbeaten streak on May 12.
Aurelien Collin scored the lone goal of the match, helping Sporting to 1-0 victory to become the first side to win in Houston since June 18, 2011.
The Dynamo looked so strong at home for so long, but they were humbled last week in a 2-0 loss to the New England Revolution at BBVA Compass Stadium.
A road match against a big rival in a pulsating atmosphere may be just what Houston needs to break out of its current funk and get back to winning ways.
"I always say I love these games because this is the growth of Major League Soccer," Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear told the club's official website. "You don't want to go somewhere and there's no one there, you want to go to places where there's atmosphere, where the fans are into it, because it feels proper.
"I think the guys do enjoy going to these places. Don't get me wrong, it's not easy going there, but I think from a professional experience I think you'd prefer to go there than go to somewhere where it's not as fun to play."
While the Dynamo are certain to be amped up for the rematch, captain Brad Davis remained defiant in the importance of staying on an even keel.
"Sometimes the adrenalin gets going and you just want to go a thousand miles an hour but you have to have that happy medium, I guess, of being mean, being gritty but being smart in a good professional way, calming the game down when you need calming down," Davis told the club's official website. "We have guys that have the ability to differentiate those two things."
Houston will face a Sporting side that has struggled to maintain any sort of consistency of late. The club is 3-3-1 over its last seven matches and has lost two of its last three home contests.
Kansas City earned a 1-1 draw at D.C. United last weekend, a result that defender Matt Besler welcomed despite the disparity between the two clubs.
"You know, any time on the road, a point is good," Besler said. "And this wasn't an easy game. We knew that going in. We knew that they needed a result and they were really going to push for that. I think the way we came out and played, I think everyone can be happy with that. I think if you look at the last 10 minutes of the game we were pressing forward and trying to get three points. And I think that's a good sign."
And as if there was not already enough on the line, Sporting and Houston are separated by just one point in the Eastern Conference table as Kansas City comes into the weekend in second place on 21 points, followed closely by the Dynamo.


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Everton's unbeaten start to the season ended by Manchester City's slick quality comeback
In a match with four goals, nine bookings, six substitutions and two blooded shirts, Everton forgot one of the oldest rules of the sport; you're never more susceptible than when you've just scored.
It took Alvaro Negredo just one minute and 32 seconds to equalise Romelu Lukaku's 15th minute low shot past Joe Hart's right glove. With that, Manchester City built on stints of incision to add another two goals, breaking the visitors' unbeaten start to the season. Everton – for all their slick first half counter attacking and end to end aggression – fell short of anything that might resemble a knock at this seasons' 'top four' door.
With an ability and willingness after their equaliser to snap up a gear, Manuel Pellegrini and his Sky Blues staked their claim that form is temporary, class permanent. Everton's boss on the other hand felt he's not the first Roberto to walk out of the Etihad having had an unjust decision pitted against his sensibilities.
Everton weren't as much in the game as trying the avoid being overrun at the point of Jon Moss's decision to award a penalty for Seamus Coleman's loose brush with Pablo Zabaleta in the 68th minute, with City at that point good for their 2-1 lead.
By full time, the achy edge left hanging in the blue moon air following the midweek demolition by Bayern Munich had been notably unpointed, though the auxiliary wrangle of Joe Hart's form has a few more column inches to fill, going by the soft-hand attempt at the Lukaku goal.
From the stand, no doubt Roy Hodgson would have been disappointed that a Leighton Baines speciality or some other decisive Everton shots didn't come forth to test the mettle of Hart, all recent sideswipes aside.
Within 20 seconds of the start, Hart was called on to smother a ball that came speeding into the right side of his penalty box. Any fluff of the England number ones' lines with Lukaku bearing down on him, the game might have lit up brighter than a Jack Wilshere Lucky Strike. Only that immediate equaliser a quarter of an hour later did enough to deflect another error notch on Hart's goalpost.
Caught in the crossfire of the München salvo last Wednesday, to be fair on City it is their misfortune that they've been thrown into Group D along with the Bavarian reds, in much the same way misfortune fell to clubs who were pitted against AC Milan in '94 or Johan Cruyff's Ajax of the early seventies.
Pellegrini played down the suggestion that the giving of the penalty had swung it for City. He said: "We had at least four or five clear chances to score and I don't remember Everton having too many chances to score, so I don't think the difference between the two teams was the penalty."
Opening up to his own idea of early season pressure he added, "We really need the victory, we were five points down from Arsenal. More than the most important goal was the character of the team."
In the week that Pep Guardiola said of the Pellegrini, "I would like to be like him," the Chilean boss showed his hand and made the correct changes from the Bayern defeat to seek out against Everton a winning formula.
In all, six players were dropped from Wednesday's starting eleven, with three of those, Nastasic, Clichy and Nasri each making substitute appearances. Curiously, there was no inclusion of Jesús Navas, who has played a full 90 minutes in the league on only two occasions, suggesting that he is not quite yet Pellegrini's go-too man.
The jury is also out on the Brazilian Fernandinho who slipped into the midfield, left of Yaya Toure, but has yet to give hint of the form that warranted a £30millon price tag via Shakhtar Donetsk.
As in the Manchester derby, Álvaro Negredo on this evidence showed both the strike power and hunger akin to team mate Sergio Aguero, with the addition of a very direct type of football; so far nicely balanced with Argentinian's style of playing off the shoulder of the last defender.
There is room for both in the starting eleven, and the Spanish acquisition is, if nothing else, already looking more consistent than fans' frustration, Edin Dzeko. Just behind the front line, the rise and rise of David Silva – who more often than not is at the heart of every City attack – is proving immeasurable to City.
Everton – the Martinez way – are building the nest based around their crop of home growns. Gareth Barry's absence due to City being his parent club, was a blow for the team. His ability to shore up pending danger was missing as Naismith, McCarty and Osman matched Milner, Silva and Touré for sweat and effort, though not in the quality of passing that can unlock defences with one wrecking ball when opponents are at their most vulnerable.
19 year old Ross Barkley is the Toffees best hope as creative designer this season, in the mould of Paul Gascoigne in his emerging years. The loan signing of Lukaku has been a godsend, as without his goals Everton would be rummaging around mid-table relying on Nikica Jelavic to find a passable run of form.
Martinez spoke at length of his team's lack of luck, overlapped by his opinion that poor refereeing decisions, particularly Jon Moss's failure to award his side their own penalty claim after Matija Nastasić's first half push on Lukaku. Of Moss giving City their spot kick, he said: "The penalty is a sporting disaster. Contact doesn't mean penalty. To give a penalty when there is none is very disappointing."
As a manager who would never criticise his players in public, Martinez has deflected his team's shortcomings on the big occasion with the frustrated charm offensive that's been in his make-up since the early days at Wigan.
Though still a squad in transition, on this evidence Everton were all prepared but ill-equipped to live with City's quality in the final third. With the exception of the Chelsea match at Goodison when they rode their luck to eke out a 1-0 win, this was the Toffees chance to make good a result on the road against genuine title contenders.
After a summer of controversy, Everton this week revealed the re-designing of their crest, reviving the club's 75 year old Latin motto, Nil satis nisi optimum… nothing but the best is good enough. Outwith the hard luck tales of the trip to the Etihad, a special tagline addition, You're never more susceptible than when you've just scored, might just work as a reminder for Martinez and his squad of the nature of this tough defeat.