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President Obama will visit the Central Valley this afternoon to announce an aid package to help farmers, ranchers and communities hit hard by California's record drought. After landing in Fresno, the President is expected to attend a roundtable discussion about the drought in Firebaugh and tour a farm in Los Banos.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the President's message will be clear:
Vilsack: "He'll I think offer a message of hope, and a message that the federal government will do all that it can to try to alleviate some of the stress connected with this drought."
The announcement will include $100 million in support for the state's cattle ranchers and dairy producers, who have faced rising feed prices, another $10 million for things like soil and water conservation efforts, and an additional $20 million to help farmers with everything from pruning to improving irrigation efficiency.
The plan also includes support for communities hit hard by the drought, including $60 million for California food banks, the launch of 600 summer meal locations from the USDA, and $3 million in grants to help communities dealing with water shortages or water quality issues.
The President will be joined by California Governor Jerry Brown, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, as well as Congressman Jim Costa, who says he hopes the sight of fallowed fields will help the Mr. Obama better understand the valley's challenges.
Costa: "I think when he sees, 300,000 or 400,000 acres of land that this year will not [be farmed] because there is no surface water and they have no ground water, and the impact to those farm communities the unemployment, the hardship, the suffering the impacts on the school system, I think it will resonate."
Costa is a sponsor of the House version of a Senate bill introduced this week that calls for $300 million in drought relief programs, and:
Costa: Operational flexibility in the way the federal and state projects are operated currently. That could mean as much as 500,000 acre feet of water this year."
A different drought bill, sponsored by valley Republicans passed the House last week. It would roll back Delta pumping restrictions and environmental protections for species like the Delta smelt. Secretary Vilsack says the administration opposes that bill, but hopes to work with Congress to advance drought legislation.
Vilsack: "Rather than wait for congressional action, what we're going to try to do is try to put the resources that are available that we have control over, to work as quickly as possible."
One thing that is absent from the president's drought relief plan is an emphasis on long-term water storage. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy says that California has enough reservoirs, the problem he says is the lack of rain and snow.
Holdren: "We just haven't had enough water flowing into those reservoirs, it wouldn't help to build anymore."
Holdren also says a key part of the President's message will be that global warming is making droughts more frequent and severe.
Holdren: "We know that scientifically no single episode of extreme weather, no storm, no flood no drought can be said to have been caused by global climate change, but the global climate has now been so extensively impacted by the human caused building of greenhouse gasses that weather practically everywhere is being influenced by climate change."
Congressman Costa admits that while he doesn't expect the President to solve California's water problems with today's trip, he says it's a good start.
Costa: "He can't make it rain and he's not going to change the traditional political water fights that we've had in California. We know those fault lines are historic and they're deep. But he can provide support and can continue to work with the governor on both short term efforts in terms of the operations of the projects and the long term efforts to fix our broken water system."
After his trip to the San Joaquin Valley, Mr. Obama will leave Fresno on Air Force One and fly to Palm Springs, where he'll meet with Jordan's King Abdullah II.


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(WFLA) – Popular Mexican food chain Chipotle is warning customers about a data breach.
The company says it recently found unauthorized activity on a network used for payment processing in its restaurants. Chipotle immediately launched an investigation, and believe it has stopped the unauthorized activity. Additional security measures have also been put in place.
Investigators are focusing on payment card transactions made in restaurants between March 24 and April 18 of this year.
Chipotle says the investigation is still ongoing, but it does plan to notify affected customers.
As a reminder, Chipotle says you should always monitor your payment card statements and contact your bank if you see any suspicious charges.
You can read Chipotle's full statement here.

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Recently i went for Games Art training at CG SKILL, its a 3 month course which you get paid for learning, allowance actually. The best part was, i finally got to learn 3dmax and im amazed with 3dmax's abundance of tools. The teacher was incredibly patience and willing to teach us in depth even when we missed out a few lessons or didnt understood till had to repeat alot. The weird thing is i do art as a hobby for relaxation, but imagine doing "relaxation" non stop... which led me to super relaxed mode and had to take up Math to find the fuel (stress) so i can relax more... weird right? Oh yes, i passed my maths and also this 3 month training, Here's my art works...
My Feelings... The concept art is as blur as me which you can find at sharastar.deviantart.com, but my favourites are below :D
Avalakia Healing Enchanted by ~sharastar on deviantART
Avalakia Floating by ~sharastar on deviantART
My other Final Video uploaded at myyoutube


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Sitting in a station café, you can bask in the romance of railway travel and watch the trains come and go. In the distance beyond lies an alien world of tracks that criss-cross one another through a gash in the city landscape. Railway engineers often refer to the railway track as a 'road'. But it is very different from the highway that passes in front of your house. The train wheels roll on two steel bands each with a surface only a few millimetres wide. A large part of the railway operator's budget is devoted to their upkeep: looking for flaws, grinding the surface, and adjusting their alignment in order to smooth the ride. The ride is sometimes spectacular. Being relatively narrow, railway tracks can penetrate the landscape, rising on viaducts and tunnelling through hills in a way that would be too costly for a motorway. On a train ride you can take in scenes that a car driver cannot: for example the eastbound journey from London to Thanet where the line sweeps across the North Downs, descends and curves towards the Medway Estuary then rumbles across the bridge towards Rochester Castle on the far shore.
Railway travel is not always a magical experience, though. Things can go wrong, and on rare occasions, disastrously so. On 9 June 1865, the Folkestone-to-London boat train derailed at about 50 miles per hour (80km/h) while crossing the Beult River viaduct, a modest structure about 3 metres high. Seconds earlier, after passing through Headcorn railway station the driver had seen a man waving a red flag. But he could not stop the train before it rolled onto the viaduct, where a length of track had been removed during engineering works. Seven of the coaches fell into the river bed, killing ten passengers and injuring forty. Among the passengers was Charles Dickens, who was travelling with a friend. Dickens survived and helped to look after the victims, some of whom died before they could be taken to hospital. Deeply distressed by the accident, he could not speak for days. According to his son, he never fully recovered before his death five years later.
Since then, there have been rail crashes in many countries throughout the world, some far more serious in terms of human casualties. But they all remind one of something that is peculiar to railway travel: the system relies on the condition of the track. Even with the rails firmly in position, there is a small margin between running normally and careering out of control: about 8 millimetres, in a sense that will become clear as we go along. The interaction between the wheel and rail is more interesting and more complex than you might imagine, and it has the potential to cause problems. The behaviour of conventional railway wheels, benign at low speeds when they steer themselves round curves in the track, becomes erratic when the speed of a train rises above a critical level. So in what follows, we'll start by looking at what happens within the contact patch between wheel and rail and then work our way upwards.


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- Ability to say: "Ladies, this is the final rose." Once per episode. That's it.
- Non-sexual predator
- Social skills
- Healthy, functioning liver
- Not afraid of heights, flying or being around 25 women at one time
- Enjoys wearing makeup and suits
- Okay with traveling the whole-freaking-world with a group of 20-something dramatic kids
That same someone also travels the world for "inspiration".
Tough job? Puh-lease. Throw me a friggin' bone.


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When I started the idea of the imagination journal… I thought everything would go smoothly and nicely.. I have done several smaller drawing where I have been practicing letting go.
THEN this one emerged?
When I started the idea of the imagination journal… I thought everything would go smoothly and nicely.. I have done several smaller drawing where I have been practicing letting go.
THEN this one emerged?
I am an artist who loves to draw, paint and photograph trees. I have a deep love and spiritual connection to trees ever since I was a kid. For the past few months, I have been experimenting with different materials. I absolutely love drawing! Starting a new journal and will be posting my images soon!
Please visit me at http://www.lynnloganroselli.com or on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/lynn.roselli
It is always exciting to get a new sketchbook. It makes me feel like a kid again…excited. All the possibilities…I begin to envision how I want my book to turn out and think is it going to be full of trees? full of people? pen or ink only? or am I going to do something new.
Well this is a new type of sketchbook for me. It's a book I simply call "The Book of Imagination".
I know all art involves imagination.. but this is different. I am allowing my mind to roam free..only using a small hint of reality as a jumping point.
I must say…it wasn't easy starting this book.. My first entry here was based heavily on what I am comfortable in drawing and finding myself trying out my own version of Zentangles.
My second drawing again..the same thing.. But something was different… I was willing to take more liberties.
Now, I beginning to believe if I practice just letting go…my imagination will emerge even stronger.
I invite you to take this journey with me. I think it would be fun! You can share your thoughts, your comments, your pictures, or your own sketchbook. If take the journey, please leave your link and I will be sure to follow.
Will be posting my third sketch soon!
Today, I learned that a good friend had passed away in her sleep. She was a kind, gentle, loving person who touched a lot of lives with her ministry. I went to the Botanical Garden because nature is my sanctuary and the solitude gave me the space I needed to reflect on our friendship. I am grateful she came into my life, for her encouragement to follow my heart, her support during some of my most challenging times. She will be greatly missed and sometimes I just wonder how I will go on without her in my life…but I know life goes on..it won't be the same..but I will carry her spirit in my heart
Thank you Kathryn!
Wow! I just take photographs for the fun of it. I always have.
I am so excited. Please check it out! There are many talented artist on this site who are a source of great inspiration.
Here's the link and one of the photos.
Melissa's Fine Art Gallery
The weather has been up and down in NCY. It's been warm then cold then warm again. But I want to try some winter paintings this year…if we ever get blessed with snow.
I love winter paintings and I have seen some beautiful ones. I want to try but am.unsure how to go about it? I don't personally like drawing from a photo. I have never been any good at making the adjustments. I have sat in the car but feel cramped and eventually COLD! How do other artist do it? Should I get warmer clothes or just get over my apprehension of painting from a photo?
The tree I had started to paint was full of green leaves…. now it completely changed. The leaves are gone. Funny how fast tree's will change over a 2 week period.
The leaves in the Bayard Arboretum are gorgeous this year. Vibrant yellows, reds, orange, greens and browns.
So I captured them in my camera.


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The drought of 2016 was rough. We lost many trees and shrubs, and we are still seeing damage as a result of stress even though we have had good rainfall this year. Many trees have dead limbs, and in our storms we have lots of dead limbs coming down.
Some trees respond to stress by starting over from the roots when the top is damaged. This twenty year old umbrella magnolia has about 50% top death this year, and I am picking up lots of limbs after they fall. Also, notice that she is throwing a sprout from the base. This reboot, if you will, is a little self-insurance program in case the top continues to die. Walk in the woods and you can spot these restarted trees often.
My dilemma is whether to cut this magnolia to its base and allow this new sprout a fresh start, or to nurse this damaged tree along as she continues malingering. Any action will have to take place early next spring during active growth. Any pruning of live wood before then would be entirely too much stress on this already stressed tree.


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Hardworking and ambitious, Charles Ebbets worked for the Brooklyn baseball club for 42 years, serving at various times as ticket seller, clerk, bookkeeper, scorecard salesman, business manager, president, field manager, part owner, and eventually owner. Though often criticized for his miserliness, the good-natured owner was generally popular with the fans, and deservedly so; he incurred huge personal debt to purchase the team and keep it in Brooklyn when a move to Baltimore threatened, and he did it again a decade later to give the fans a state-of-the-art ballpark in an era when public financing of such a facility was unthinkable. Today Ebbets is best remembered for Ebbets Field, which opened in 1913 and was razed in 1960, three years after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. His name lives on in the 21st century primarily because of the current trend towards retro-style ballparks-every city wants its new stadium to be an "Ebbets Field-style" ballpark.
Charles Hercules Ebbets was born in New York City on October 29, 1859, and attended the city's public schools. Baseball was his favorite sport even though he was a much better bowler than baseball player. Initially pursuing a career in architecture, Charlie was a draughtsman on several prominent projects, including the Metropolitan Hotel and Niblo's Garden, a famed New York amusement center. He also tried his hand at publishing, printing cheap editions of novels and textbooks and selling them from door to door himself. Active in local politics, Ebbets served four years on the Board of Aldermen and one in the New York Assembly before an unsuccessful campaign for the New York Senate convinced him to devote his considerable talents to the business of baseball.
Charlie was 23 years old when he started working for the Brooklyn baseball club as clerk, bookkeeper, and scorecard salesman during its inaugural season in the Interstate League in 1883, and his ascent in the Dodgers organization dovetailed with the history of the borough. He joined the club two weeks before the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the engineering feat of its day but also the death knell for Brooklyn as an independent city. Charlie remained with the team as it moved to the American Association in 1884 and the National League in 1890, ascending to its presidency when his predecessor in that office, Charles Byrne, died three days after Brooklyn was incorporated into New York City in 1898. Later that season Ebbets even tried his hand as field manager, sitting on the bench in the club president's traditional top hat and compiling a 38-68 record. Ned Hanlon replaced him as manager the following season.
Having acquired his first shares of stock in the team from George Chauncey some 12 years earlier, Ebbets invested his life's savings in 1902 to buy out Ferdinand Abell, one of the club's original owners. Shortly thereafter the majority owner, Harry von der Horst, put his entire Brooklyn stock interest up for sale, and Hanlon expressed his desire to buy the team and move it to Baltimore. Tapped out but desperate to keep the team in Brooklyn, Ebbets obtained a loan from his friend Henry W. Medicus, a Brooklyn furniture dealer, and purchased the outstanding shares. Now in control of virtually all of the club's stock-he bought the remnants from Hanlon several years later-Charlie re-elected himself as president (with a raise in salary from $7,500 to $10,000) and elected Medicus and his son Charles H. Ebbets, Jr., as treasurer and secretary, respectively.
With his background in architecture, Ebbets dreamed of constructing a magnificent concrete-and-steel baseball palace to replace outmoded Washington Park. After considering several potential sites, he finally settled on a 4.5-acre plot that was being used mostly as a garbage dump on the edge of a disreputable neighborhood called Pigtown. Located between the Bedford and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn, the land had two primary benefits: it was affordable and adjacent to the tracks of nine separate trolley lines. Without revealing his intentions, which would have driven up the price significantly, Ebbets set about acquiring the land parcel by parcel, making his first purchase in September 1908. Operating his club frugally and borrowing heavily from the bank, he eventually bought the final parcel on December 29, 1911.
At the groundbreaking ceremony on March 4, 1912, when asked what he would name the new ballpark, Ebbets' initial reaction was to continue the name Washington Park. "Washington Park, hell," said Len Wooster of the Brooklyn Times. "That name wouldn't mean anything out here. Why don't you call it Ebbets Field? It was your idea and nobody else's, and you've put yourself in hock to build it. It's going to be your monument, whether you like to think about it that way or not." With its proper name decided, construction on Ebbets Field continued throughout the 1912 season, and Charlie Ebbets wielded the trowel at the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone on July 6. That August Ebbets solved his financial problems by taking on the builders, his old friends the McKeever brothers, as half partners in the club.
With a seating capacity of 25,000 and a final price tag of $750,000, Brooklyn's gorgeous new ballpark officially opened on April 9, 1913. The exterior featured a curved brick façade at the corner of Sullivan and Cedar streets highlighted by classical arched windows. Inside the main entrance was an ornate lobby with a domed ceiling that stood 27 feet high at its center. The terrazzo floor was tiled like the stitches of a baseball, and a chandelier with 12 baseball-bat arms holding 12 baseball-shaped globes hung from the ceiling. The double-tiered stands ran along the foul lines from the right-field corner to a bit beyond third base, where a single double-deck bleacher section extended to the left-field corner. At the time the park's dimensions were 419 feet to left field, 476 to dead center, 500 to right center, but, because of Bedford Avenue, only 301 feet to right field. Ebbets installed two long benches at the back of the lower tier of the grandstand, one for himself and his friends and the other for the McKeevers and their friends. After Brooklyn victories the owners smilingly received the congratulations of their customers; after losses Ebbets and Steve McKeever, the older and more outgoing of the brothers, often engaged the fans in good-natured debates, loudly defending themselves and their players.
Over the years Ebbets received credit for several baseball innovations, including the rain check and the idea that teams should draft in inverse order to their final standings in the annual minor-league draft. He was also an early proponent of uniform numbers. During an exhibition game in Memphis on March 28, 1917, the previous year's World Series combatants, Brooklyn and the Boston Red Sox, wore numbers on their sleeves because Ebbets thought that fans in non-major league cities would be unfamiliar with the players. He proposed that all teams be required to put numbers on players' sleeves or caps at the NL meeting on December 13, 1922, but the league voted to leave it to the discretion of the individual teams. The practice of putting numbers on uniforms didn't catch on until after the New York Yankees wore large numbers on their backs in 1929.
Ebbets purchased a home in Clearwater during the Florida land boom. In 1923 he moved the Dodgers' training camp to that small town on Florida's west coast, and over the next several years so many Brooklyn fans attended spring training that the tiny Clearwater ballpark took on many of the sights and sounds of Ebbets Field. Late in the 1923 season Ebbets began to suffer heart difficulties. On the advice of his doctor he returned to Clearwater and contemplated selling his stock in the Brooklyn team. In the spring of 1925, shortly after coming north from spring training, Ebbets fell ill again and his doctor ordered him to the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria where he lived during the season. Early on the morning of April 18, 1925, 65-year-old Charles Ebbets died with his sister, his son, two daughters, and his second wife at his bedside. He left behind an estate valued at nearly $1.28 million.
The Dodgers were scheduled to open a three-game series against the Giants at Ebbets Field later that day. "Charlie wouldn't want anybody to miss a Giant-Brooklyn series just because he died," said Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson. The game went on, with the crowd standing for a moment of silence beforehand and both teams' players wearing black mourning bands on the left sleeves of their uniforms. NL president John Heydler ordered all NL games postponed on the day of the funeral, which was attended by most of the league's magnates. A penetrating wind swept the gravesite at Greenwood Cemetery, and Ed McKeever, Brooklyn's acting president, contracted pneumonia. He too died within a week of the funeral.
Note: A different version of this biography appeared in Tom Simon, ed., Deadball Stars of the National League (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc., 2004).
New York Times, various issues.
Golenbock, Peter. Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Putnam, 1984.
Lowry, Philip J. Green Cathedrals. Addison-Wesley, 1993.
Snyder-Grenier, Ellen M. Brooklyn: An Illustrated History. Temple, 1996.
Solomon, Burt. Where They Ain't. The Free Press, 1999.
Wolpin, Stewart. Bums no More. St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Charlie Ebbets
Hardworking and ambitious, Charles Ebbets worked for the Brooklyn baseball club for 42 years, serving at various times as ticket seller, clerk, bookkeeper, scorecard salesman, business manager, president, field manager, part owner, and eventually owner. Though often criticized for his miserliness, the good-natured owner was generally popular with the fans, and deservedly so; he incurred huge personal debt to purchase the team and keep it in Brooklyn when a move to Baltimore threatened, and he did it again a decade later to give the fans a state-of-the-art ballpark in an era when public financing of such a facility was unthinkable. Today Ebbets is best remembered for Ebbets Field, which opened in 1913 and was razed in 1960, three years after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. His name lives on in the 21st century primarily because of the current trend towards retro-style ballparks-every city wants its new stadium to be an "Ebbets Field-style" ballpark.


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In this episode we change the script a bit. There have been some great new Blu-Ray releases of Paul Naschy films and we wanted to give each of them a look to see what new information about the great man might be gleaned from them. So, in the first segment of the show we discuss the CRIMSON and COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE discs at length giving our opinions of these fresh presentations. No one will be surprised that this leads to discussion of the merits of the two films as well so be prepared. This is the Naschycast after all.
Then we turn to the main topic of the evening - a look back at HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (1972). We originally podcasted about this classic over six years ago in episode #2 and for an in depth scene-by-scene dissection I will point everyone to that show. Here we speak more broadly about the movie and the elements that we still find impressive and of value. To add to the discussion this time we convinced fellow podcaster an all around good guy Christopher Page to send in his thoughts on the film. He has only recently begun to discover Naschy's work and his point of view informs how your longtime co-hosts dig into the beating, bloody heart of HRFTT. With a little luck we'll be incorporating other fan's thoughts on the classic films of Naschy in the future.
We end this episode with what turns into a rant. The topic is one that hadn't been on our minds until recently but once broached we felt it should be talked about. Thanks to longtime listener Villa Wolf for sparking this discussion and helping both co-hosts come clean about our past fanboy tactlessness. Down with the gate-keepers!
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text: Anglo-Saxon Literature: An Introduction Literature Characteristics Few "pieces" of literature; however, it covers a larger period of time than any other literary period Originated to celebrate heroism Oral literature (due to widespread illiteracy); therefore, it has to be told from person to person Doesn't rhyme, but has a strong rhythm suitable for chanting. Recited by the scops/bards (wandering poets) who sang of gods and heroes Status of scops was equal to that of warriors because they preserved fame Literature Content Strong belief in fate Juxtaposition of church and pagan worlds Admiration of heroic warriors who prevail in battle Express religious faith and give moral instruction through literature Communal hall represents shelter and entertainment Full of battles; boastings, pride in glory and bloodthirstiness Measures time by nights, moons and winters Spiritedness is achieved by respect for bravery and loyalty Common Themes of Poetry Terror of northern winters Awareness of transitory nature of life References to fear of the sea because of its immensity, cruelty and mystery Literary Devices: Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant sound Used to bind the two halves of a line One or more accented syllable in the first half of a line is always alliterated with one or more accented syllable in the second half. Gives poetry a chant-like effect Ex) "tears torn out of Grendel's taut throat" Literary Devices: Homily Literally "sermon", or any serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral or spiritual advice. A passage in a work that gives stern solemn advice on how to live and is mostly concerned with morals and conduct. Literary Devices: Caesura "Every nice ear, must, I believe, have observed that in any smooth English verse of ten syllables, there is naturally a pause either at the fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable." – Alexander Pope Literary Devices: Caesura A natural pause or break dividing a FOOT between two words, usually near the middle of a line with two major stressed syllables in each part A FOOT is a unit of rhythm in verse Found in typical Anglo-Saxon verse Literally: "a cutting" Old English, cennan – to declare Old Norse, kenna – to know or name Literary Devices: Caesura Examples A prince of Geats had killed Grendel Literary Devices: Caesura How do I identify the stressed vs. the unstressed syllables? stress/accent – a greater amount of force (breath or emphasis) given to one syllable in speaking than is given to another. Slightly louder, higher in pitch, or longer in duration than other syllables Which syllable is stressed? Eagle Open Cigar Precise Mystique Statue Impact Until Words typically without a stress A An The At By For From Of To With Identify the Stressed Syllables By John Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend You force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. Identify the Caesura By William Blake And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds And binding with briars my joys and desires. Literary Devices: Appositive An appositive is a noun or pronoun — often with modifiers — set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it. An appositive phrase usually follows the word it explains or identifies, but it may also precede it. Literary Devices: Epithet A word which makes the reader see the object described in a clearer or sharper light. It is both exact and imaginative. A word of phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character. A short, poetic nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase--attached to the normal name. The Homeric epithet in classical literature often includes compounds of two words such as, "fleet-footed Achilles," "Cow-eyed Hera," "Grey-eyed Athena," or "the wine-dark sea." In other cases, it appears as a phrase, such as "Odysseus the man-of-many-wiles." The historical epithet is a descriptive phrase attached to a ruler's name. For instance, King Alfred the Great, Duke Lorenzo the Magnificent, Robert the Devil, Richard the Lionheart, and so on. The generally descriptive epithet would appear in Old Norse and Germanic cultures to help distinguish individuals, thus giving us (in Njal's Saga) colorful names such as Hallbjorn Half-Troll, Ulf the Squinter, Hjorleif the Womanizer, and Ketil Flat-Nose. Literary Devices: Kenning Kenning A figurative, metaphorical expression/phrase or compound word that takes the place of a common noun A long-winded, forceful metaphor made up of strung-together adjectives and nouns that stand for a thing without naming it (often using alliteration) Vivid and picturesque Connects words to complex concepts and rich emotion Examples . . . Whale-road sea Candle of the sky sun More Examples of Kennings twilight-spoiler dragon battle-sweat blood slaughter-dew blood brow-stars eyes ring-giver prince light of battle sword Viking's moon sun-table shield sky Examples of Kennings from Beowulf Ship: Queen the bent-necked The peace-bringer wood among nations the ringed prow Sword the foamy-necked leavings of the file the sea-wood Battle the sea-farer storm of swords Dragon twilight spoiler A look at complex kennings Construct complicated kenning strings by means of consecutive substitution. For example, slaughter dew worm dance = battle Slaughter dew worm dance blood worm dance sword dance battle Compound Kennings = ship horse of the sea = sea whale-road then a ship became a "horse of the whale-road" = Try this Complex Kenning Using the following 3 kennings, create a complex kenning meaning "warrior" by using consecutive substitution "provider to ravens" is a warrior "swans of blood" are ravens "mead of battle" is blood Did you get it? provider to the swans of the mead of battle "provider to ravens" is a warrior "swans of blood" are ravens "mead of battle" is blood provider to RAVENS swans of BLOOD mead of battle = provider to the swans of the mead of battle is a WARRIOR Modern Kennings bone-house fire-water information super-highway gasoline gulper darkness destroyer sleep stopper word-eater sun smudge spinning water-spitter


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Eddie Murphy was leaving the Ed Sullivan Theater after his taping with David Letterman. Eddie always has this suspect smirk plastered on his grill. The man has an extensive film resume…so where do you rate his acting skills???
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For those of you who don't know me, my name is Tom DeSchriver. That's D-e-capital S-c-h-r-i-v as in victor-e-r (I spell it out because misspelling names in this newspaper is one of many things that drive me nuts).
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Tom DeSchriver. That's D-e-capital S-c-h-r-i-v as in victor-e-r (I spell it out because misspelling names in this newspaper is one of many things that drive me nuts).
I'm the new sports editor of the Pocono Record ."Š."Š. again.
I write again because just over 10 years ago I left the sports editor's job to take on other responsibilities in our newsroom.
I return now as the sports editor, keeping some of those newsroom jobs that cling to me like barnacles to a boat.
Some readers might know me as the crazy guy who spent the last year training for the Run for the Red Marathon and writing a weekly column about it that appeared on the sports pages.
Others might remember me when I was in sports last century — from 1984 to 1997, leaving for a variety of reasons, one of them being that I needed a new challenge.
I swore to myself when I left sports in 1997 that I would not look back and I would not meddle in the sports department unless asked.
I come back to the sports department with that same commitment, but only with a 180-degree bent — I will meddle because I'm the captain of the ship again.
I have fond, and painful, memories of my first stint in the sports department.
One of those was driven home Wednesday morning after interviewing sub-four minute milers Michael Kerrigan of Stroudsburg and Marcus O'Sullivan, his coach at Villanova, for a feature story on Kerrigan. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy talking to people about what they do.
After the interviews I was too hyped up to go back to bed, tossing leads around my head like an insomniac counts sheep.
With the adrenaline flowing, I grabbed a quick shower and bolted to work, eager to bang away at the keyboard.
It's those moments that I'll remember during the bad times, and believe me, being the sports editor of any small paper in the country has some bad times.
What drives most sports editors nuts are the complaint calls ... and coaches, not all of them of course, but there are enough people and coaches out there who like to complain about what we do.
And that's a good question: What do we do?
Cover sports, you say. Yes... and no.
I view a sports section as more than a place that reports scores and results. I want our sports section to also provoke thought, report interesting events and people in our community, and investigate the things that shouldn't being taking place in athletics. We will also do stories on recreational activities and events where scores aren't kept.
We are here for the readers and athletes: Giving our readers interesting and insightful information and covering athletes who do outstanding things.
We are not here to please coaches or do stories just because that's the way we've always done things. Times are changing in the sports world and journalism, and we're changing with them.
As an athlete — I still compete in distance running events — I know not to make grand announcements as to what we'll accomplish. My only promise is we'll work hard.
I'm a distance runner who takes a long view of his craft, putting in the miles day-by-day so that some day I'll be prepared to run as fast as I can.
Sports journalism is more like a 100-meter dash everyday. We sprint as fast as we can, sometimes excelling and sometimes false starting.
We'll be going fast here at the Record, but we'll slow down enough to listen to you when you call or e-mail us, with either story ideas or complaints.
Of course, we prefer the first type of call, but we know that we'll also get the second type.
No matter what, our ears are open.


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The following post is also available on the Essential Connections Blog
This morning I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable discussion pertaining to the just released review of UK Government Procurement by Sir Philip Green.
The following provides both an overview as well as the link to the live and on-demand broadcast.
(NOTE: Remember to use the following links to access both Sir Philip Green's Review of UK Government procurement reform, and the complimentary paper from the April 2010 Washington Summit Transparency in Government White Paper.
LONDON, October 14 2010 – The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON), the largest and most established community of over 35,000 shared services and outsourcing professionals, today announced the launch of an exclusive roundtable focusing on the speech David Cameron gave on Monday attacking the previous UK Government's 'Crazy' services expenditure.
A review of government spending has highlighted some 'crazy' decisions on IT spending made by the Labour government, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Referring to a review of certain areas of government spending, conducted by retail magnate Sir Philip Green, Cameron said that the previous government had "made crazy decisions about property, about IT, about shared services". Sir Philip's key recommendation is that there must be "a mandate for central procurement and a big improvement in the quality of procurement data, which are both shocking … inconsistent … and hard to get at". That criticism has been repeatedly made by businessmen who have reviewed government procurement.
The PM's attack was directed towards the inefficiency (or lack of) centralization of business services such as procurement which has resulted in the rogue spending.
Mark Hobayashi-Hillary, author and respected blogger, will be leading a 1 hour roundtable discussion on Monday 18th October at 1:00pm London time. The roundtable will delve into the root of the issue, potential solutions and how this will impact the forthcoming UK Government Spend Review.
There are only 100 spaces available, so first in, first serve. The roundtable will be recorded, so please register your details if you wish to be notified when the on demand version is available.
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I just came back from Sadler's Wells after watching a performance of '1980, A Piece by Pina Bausch' and I am still not entirely sure what I feel about it. Before tonight, all I knew was that Bausch was a famous German choreographer and I'd seen a clip of her choreography from the Spanish film, 'Talk to her' ('Hable con ella'), which is probably my favourite Almodovar film. And from that short clip, I was introduced to Bausch's whimsical, highly emotionally charged contemporary dancing, so I was looking forward to lots of that tonight.
In that respect, then, I was disappointed. There was very little 'dance' but had I read up on the performance, I would have been prepared for that so perhaps that disappointment is invalidated. Instead, what I experienced was over three hours of a surreal exploration of the innocence of childhood and the strange superficiality of adulthood. The stage became a meadow, complete with real grass and flies, and the actors/ dancers (it's hard to know what they should be classed as) switched from children playing games to adults competing in beauty contests.
The performance had that strange combination of humour and lingering sadness, a kind of wistfulness or regret. I enjoyed the acute observations on society, for instance, the numerous meaningless platitudes that adults dole out every day that serves to highlight how disconnected we are. Even the explorations into childhood seem to be tinged with darkness, and the vision of fully grown adults acting as children is strangely peculiar. Then again, the adults acting as adults often do, can seem even more bizarre and comical at times, such as the sunbathing scene where everyone puts on a ridiculous display to catch some rays.
Although I did enjoy the performance, I didn't love it. I understand the need for repetition to emphasise the main themes in the piece but I think some of it was too drawn out and excessive, especially for a performance that is well over three hours long. Also, a lot of the time, it seemed like the dancers were just walking slowly and sombrely around the stage, and at times I wanted to shake them into something more. Yes, the soundtrack was great and atmospheric, but I felt that some parts of the piece relied more on the quality of the soundtrack rather than the content. The actors/ dancers were amazing and it was obvious they were putting their heart and soul into the performance. However, for me, too much of that performance required walking slowly around the stage and delivering repetitive monologues, some funny, some thought-provoking but some bordering on the pretentious. A dreamlike experience that I found perceptive, confusing, comical, melancholic but ultimately very frustrating. One thing's for sure though – it's definitely not to everyone's taste and at the moment, I'm still trying to decide whether it might be to mine.


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Which Will You Regret?
Which will you regret? Going on that trip or not going? Inviting that person to your wedding or not inviting them? Buying that new computer or not buying it? Several years ago, I started asking myself this question to help...
Which will you regret?
- Going on that trip or not going?
- Inviting that person to your wedding or not inviting them?
- Buying that new computer or not buying it?
Several years ago, I started asking myself this question to help me make decisions when I'm on the fence about something. It's amazing how much clarity it can bring to think about your options through the lens of regret.
For example, a few years back, my husband and I signed up to run the Memphis Marathon. We had been diligent about training for the December race, and by October we completed our 18-mile training run. We only had one more 20-mile practice to go before we started to taper off before race day.
But in the early part of November, Matt's best friends from college decided to go camping for one of the guy's birthdays. It was the same weekend as the race.
Matt told me about it and I could tell he was bummed to miss out. Who wouldn't be? With wives and babies and mortgages and careers and responsibilities, these guys almost never got together anymore.
I typically try to avoid telling Matt what he "should" do, but sometimes I can't resist opening my big fat mouth and giving my opinion.
"Well, I really think you should go," I said. "We've run a thousand races and we will run a thousand more, but weekends like this don't happen often. You won't regret going—you will regret not going."
After he thought about it, he agreed and decided to go camping with the guys instead of racing that weekend. They had an awesome time and it's a memory my husband won't soon forget.
Sometimes, when your options are overwhelming or your choice isn't clear, simply asking which scenario you'd regret can help you know what to do in the moment.
So the next time you're on the fence, ask yourself, "Which will I regret?" Then make your choice confidently, and never experience that regret at all.
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Enjoy your post. Encouraging stuff for a conservative hard working christian family just trying to make correct choices in a country that has lost its christian foundation.
Looking forward to 25 ways to say no.
Thank you for the question of, what will you regret? Should have asked myself that before I chose the main floor of a condo because it was cheaper for vacation, instead of the one I "knew" that was a bit more money. It would have been so worth the sleep that I missed, and the memories that have been made there in the past. Lesson learned. Thank you. How is the young man doing?


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A wonderful morning to wake up to. Big beautiful snow flakes on Christmas Day!
The flock was not as excited as I was.
The bravest red hen, Meverette, ventured outside for a few seconds.
The rest stayed inside and enjoyed their treats.
They had already looked outside, and checked the weather conditions and went back in.
The ducks did a few laps around the house.
They were not thrilled that all their grass was covered up.
I headed down to give the herd some treats.
They like the snow.
They were all very busy eating breakfast.
Gwen & Gracie came over to wish us a wonderful day.
I hope all of you are enjoying your Christmas with friends and family.


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|Wesley Sulzberger claims victory in the Derwent Valley
stage of the Tour of Tasmania today.
Sulzberger outpaced 18-year-old Ben O'Connor on the ride into New Norfolk at the end of a challenging 119.9km course from the banks of Lake Pedder. Ahead of his home town stage tomorrow (Wednesday), Sulzberger was pleased with the victory, alongside a fifth-place finish for brother Bernard.
"I was actually hoping to go up the road tomorrow because my mum and dad and sister and mother-in-law will be there watching," Sulzberger said after the race. "So a day early, but I'm really happy with the win!" The finishing line was in central New Norfolk, in Pioneer Avenue alongside Arthur Square.
|The start at Strathgordon this morning.
While Davies and Ellerm-Norton dropped back to the peloton on the descent into New Norfolk, Sulzberger and O'Connor held off the chasing pack to finish almost a minute ahead of the third-placed Raphael Freinstein. "I thought once we hit over 2.00 minutes, and if we could keep increasing the gap, then hopefully I could come away at the end with at least 1.50, and with the time bonuses I could be in the leader's jersey," Sulzberger said.
|The peloton pedaling past Pedder.
"I started racing in January at the start of this year, so it's been a pretty big progression since then," the West Australian rider said. "I used to be a cross-country runner, but I always watched Tour de France on television and found it fascinating – so I just gave it a go!"
After two trying stages in arduous Tasmanian conditions, the riders will turn their attention to a 93km road race from Launceston to Grindewald on Wednesday.
Interesting statistics from the day include:
- Average speed of the winner: 39.9 km/h
- Number of starters: 103
- Riders finishing out of time limits: 2
- Riders abandoning the race: 2
|The Tour of Tasmania making its way out of Maydena today.


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L'eco delle pietre
installation site-specific for Humus Art - Biennale d'Arte Pubblica Carugate - Milano
L'eco delle pietre (The echo of stones) is a work that comes from the study of folk songs of Carugate, they represent the history and traditions of this town, are its memory. The interest is to give concrete form to a sound, allowing a non-ordinary use of the concept of eco.
The installation consists of forty items (two sets of twenty-three): these stones gathered in the town of Carugate, after being treated on each of them was written permanently the text of a song.
A special feature of the work is that for every song on display, it remains a "copy" outside, in the town, so that it can be found, collected and appropriated by a person. This creates a kind of echo between the two series, in which the music is changed from acoustic phenomenon in visual.
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Welcome back to the Cove Fletcherfans, where winter is coming, teens are making out in cemeteries and the dead are rising from the grave.
So you know, the usual.
The Boss Lady is getting some construction done on House Fletcher and is packing up things in boxes while the contractor Charles Wetherby makes himself look busy until he finds a note in his toolbox from his missing fiance Laurel. Jessica's sympathy is shortlived after Charles gets a phone call from his other client Lawrence Baker and leaves, telling Jess he'll be back in the morning.
Seth pops in just as Charles departs, eyes on Jessica's peach pie. Jess tells him she gave it to Mort, it would have spoiled what with the lack of electricity and or plumbing in her house.
As you can see, Seth is apocalyptic. He's just spent the whole morning dealing with a freaked out teenage girl who saw someone come out of a grave the night before, and now there's no goddamn pie?
Later that night, local wallpaper peddler Molly Holt drops by Lawrence Baker's house where she is shown inside by his butler Peter Jatich. She thinks she's there to show samples but he's got a whole three-course dinner planned.
Despite Mollie's protests Baker orders Jatich to start serving the first course. As he heads to the kitchen, he pauses to eavesdrop on the conversation he can hear through the vents.
Later that night, when Molly finally returns home, her father Philip tells her that her boyfriend Dave called to see where she was – apparently she's broken three dates with him in the last month. Molly says she's surprised he noticed. Her father tells her to give him a break and she says she has, for eighteen months now. Molly tells him which wallpapers Baker has chosen and Philip simply says that he's glad he doesn't have to pay her by the hour.
The next day Molly is around at JB's to show samples, but she and JB are both distracted – Molly by Lawrence Baker, JB by the complete shermozzle that is renovating her house.
JB calls time on the whole thing and returns some library books with Seth.
JB meets visiting writer Dr Howard Sorensen (who was the guy popping out of the grave at the start of the episode, apparently he's visiting from the netherworld) who explains he's in town researching the history of the Borbey house. Which just so happens to be the house Lawrence Baker is renovating I mean really what were the odds.
Oh, you guys! Dr Sorenson is being played by the guy who was in charge of all the wildfire in Kings Landing in Game of Thrones. He passed away like a month ago.
Seth thinks the idea is hilarious. Apparently back in the day, the former residents of the Borbey house were killed by a vampire.
"Well despite what the medical establishment would have us believe, Doctor, there are a great many things in this world which defy rational explanation." Says Dr Sorenson.
Huh. You're not wrong there.
Jess hurries Seth out of the library before he completely hulks out. Outside they find Dave Perrin, brother of Charles Weatherby's missing fiance, sticking up posters begging for information about his missing sister. Molly begs him to accept that she's gone, but he won't have a bar of it. He tells Seth that his car is fixed just as Mort rolls up in the Mort mobile and thanks JB for the peach pie. He asks how the renovations are going and Seth tells him not to mention the war. Mort's reason for stopping though is to update Dave on a lead he tracked down about his sister. Apparently, the private investigator Dave hired mistook a 56-year-old short woman for his sister. Mort gently suggests that these leads are eating too much into the department's sources.
Later that afternoon Mike drops Lawrence Baker's car off at his house and demands payment. Jatich the butler refuses to let him in, but a sunglasses totin' Baker says it's fine. Molly's told him about Mike, but apparently not that they are going to be engaged. Mike takes a swing at him and is thrown out of the house just as Molly arrives. Once the door closes, Baker takes off his glasses. Because obvs he's a vampire.
Later that night, the kids from the cemetery are strolling along a path when the girls spot an arm sticking out of the ground and loses her mind. The next morning, Seth and Mort are called to the scene to discover it's a mannequin arm. Apparently, that's not cause for alarm BUT I BEG TO DIFFER THOSE THINGS ARE CREEPY AF.
Over at the Borbey house Lawrence Baker has decided a wall needs to come out. Charles tries to explain that it's a load-bearing wall, and it will cost a lot of money to compensate for it. He quotes double his initial amount for the project, and Baker tells him to do it.
Charles jets over to House Fletcher to tell JB he can't do her renovations anymore, Baker's stepped up his demands and he still has to finish the rennos at the sheriff's office but it's okay because he's got someone coming to take over the job who can start that afternoon don't even worry about it.
Over at the sheriff's office, the renos are in fact full steam ahead, much to Mort's chagrin. He gets a phone call and is about to head out the door when one of the old ducks wanders in to tell him that she saw Dr Sorenson digging up graves at the cemetery the previous night. Mort gets Deputy Andy on the case and rushes out the door – turns out his hot new lead is actually a potential sighting of Laurel, in a critical condition in hospital. He tells Dave who rushes over there. Mort then heads over to the cemetery where the grave of William Borbey has been opened and garlic shoved in.
Later that evening, JB is picking up some wallpaper from Philip and Molly when Old Mate Baker wanders in, wanting to purchase a house Philip has for sale. Philip tells him it isn't for sale and that the shop is closed. Molly reappears from the back room and is delighted to see "Larry!"
Philip throws "Larry" out of his store and orders him to stay away from his daughter. Molly is a bit peeved at his behaviour, but Philip tells her Lawrence Baker doesn't exist according to the credit check he got his friend to do down at the bank. Jess finds that interesting, as Eve Simpson told her that Larry paid cash for the house.
What a concept.
Night falls, a storm hits. Dr Sorensen takes it upon himself to do a thorough investigation of Larry by sneaking into his house and taking note of the lack of mirrors and bottles of red liquid because you guys Larry is totes a vampire. Meanwhile Mort shows off his new sheriff's office to Seth and JB who are very impressed. Well, JB is, Seth thinks its a waste of taxpayer dollars.
The open for inspection is unfortunately cut short when Mort gets a phone call. There's been a murder at the old Borbey place. The trio roll on over and find Larry dead on the ground, a stake through his heart.
Because, and I can't remind you enough (and neither can the MSW writers) LARRY IS 100% TOTES OBVS A VAMPIRE.
Mort tries to hide his belief that Larry was a vampire, despite all evidence to the contrary. Seth tells him that Larry was whacked on the head before getting staked, which does nothing for Mort's fears. Peter Jatich tells them that the side door was open, which was how the killer got in, and no he wasn't that upset Larry was bumped off, he wasn't wild about him.
The next day Dave is hard at work mechanicing when Mort calls to see how he went with the mystery woman. Turns out she wasn't his sister either, and he didn't get home til 3am so definitely didn't stake the vampire. Molly swings by to say how sorry she is it wasn't Laurel, and he tells her he's sorry to hear about Larry. It's awkward.
Down at the police station Dr Sorenson says he was in his hotel room all evening, and he never met Larry #fakenews. JB strolls in armed to the teeth with books and says that Larry was staked with the wrong kind of wood to be killed, it should have been ash, not fir. Jess thinks that someone was trying to make it look like a staking.
Charles pulls her aside and apologises again for the way he skipped out on her reno. JB says whatever. Dr Sorensen announces that the grave he dug up was William Borbey's and it was empty. He thinks that in fact, Larry IS William Borbey and he's not dead, only undead.
Mort and JB go for a stroll along the water. Mort's convinced this is some vampiric shenanigans, but Jess is sure there must be a logical explanation. They run into Dave who is showing photos of Laurel's boat in case it jogs someone's memory. It does for JB, but not in relation to Laurel. She asks Mort to call the planning board, they need to get over there immediately.
The planning board, it turns out, is being renovated as well and they can't find the file JB is looking for – the building permit for the Borbey house. Deputy Andy pops up and tells them that Peter Jatich's fingerprints match those of a known Stasi agent in East Germany.
Mort and Jess confront Peter, but he denies the whole thing. He tells them he heard Larry and Dr Sorenson arguing, but didn't actually see Dr Sorensen kill Larry. Mort figures either Dr Sorenson is lying or Peter is, but either way they've nabbed a killer.
JB has found the inital tender bids for the renovation project and tells Mort she's not so sure about that.
Of course not, says Mort. And are you going to tell me?
Instead, JB wanders into the sheriff's office the next morning and announces to the world that Larry's attorneys are finishing the renovation, and her contractor is starting the next morning.
Later that night…
For you see, Charles bumped off his beloved Laurel when she tried to dump him, and then hid her body in a wall at the Borbey house where he was doing some rennos at the time. Then when Larry wanted him to remove the wall, he killed him.
I mean what even was this episode. Where'd the vampire stuff come from? I'm so confused and hungry.
Let's just end on the mental image of Mort's face when he is shown a picture of William Borbey looking identical to Larry Baker and not dwell on whatever the hell this was.


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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
No Reservations Twitter Meetup
No Reservations Twitter Meetup - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.
Kathy Maister of startcooking.com hosted a free screening of No Reservations at the Regal Theater tonight at Fenway.
It was fun hanging out with media makers a Boston Beerworks beforehand.
We left Beerworks about 7:30 so when we got the the theater we ended up sitting in the second row. From that vantage point Catherine Zeta Jones looked like the 50 foot woman. It was your typical love story set in a restaurant. There were some cute scenes and Abigail Breslin did a nice job as the little girl.
I hear the original, Mostly Martha, was better.
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Precautions are being taken and extra measures are in place to keep student athletes and others safe in the heat.
In Dallas, students are not allowed to practice outside from noon to 6 p.m., according to Dallas independent School District spokeswoman Robyn Harris. It's referred to as the 'No Fly Zone.'
It's why football players at David W. Carter High School took to the practice field early this morning, and moved their workout inside later.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"What we do all throughout practice, they get water any time they want and we have water breaks every 20 minutes," said head coach Patrick Williams. "And what I encourage them to do is the night before drink plenty of water."
In Frisco, the Centennial High School Titans football team started practice Monday evening. All the tools to keep the athletes safe were used, including watering stations with chilled water, cold towels, ice baths and breaks.
Still, some players were overcome and showed signs of heat illness including light-headedness, weakness and cramping. Anyone who appeared to be struggling was immediately treated with cooling devices.
"We just want to make sure we keep them safe, we don't want to lose anybody to the heat," said head coach Ronny Mullin. "You gotta get them prepared."
The team was on the field for only 20 minutes, when the temperature high 96 degrees at 5 p.m. Monday.
The players were overcome running conditioning shuttle sprints, 50 yards at a time for a total of 300 yards.
"There wasn't much wind at the time either, so it felt, you know, 100 degrees. It was warm," said Craig Martin, whose son is a kicker on the team.
"Trainers were on top of it. I was really impressed," Martin added. "The head coach was checking in on the guys on the side and working with the guys who were out running. He was really concerned about the guys that were struggling."
No one was seriously hurt, but several of the affected players did not return to practice.
"We'll keep an eye on kids and those that have trouble the first day, we'll watch them. We'll probably limit the things that they'll do the next day," said Mullins.
The coaching staff plans to move the conditioning drill to the end of Tuesday's afternoon practice, when temperatures should be lower.
It's not just school athletics sending athletes out into the heat.
The JCC Maccabi games are currently underway in Dallas. Hundreds of teenaged athletes from across the U.S. and four other countries are taking part in both indoor and outdoor competitions. An entire medical staff is working with the athletes to ensure they're safe in the North Texas heat, including encouraging them to stay hydrated.
"The most important thing, especially in heat like this, you can see the sun is bright, it's beating down on us, it's in the mid 90s, and we are expecting temperatures to hit 100. The most important thing is to stay hydrated," said Dr. Shelley Weiss, medical director for the Maccabi Games and a pediatrician at Medical City. "It's number one, number two and number three."
NBC 5's Kevin Cokely contributed to this report.


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NURIL NUGRAHA, DAVID (2009) ANALISIS PERKEMBANGAN SEKTOR PARIWISATA DI KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Analysis of Tourism Sector Development of Mojokerto Regency will discuss about the tourism sector infrastructure and potencies at Mojokerto Regency. The research aimed at knowing the tourism sector condition at Mojokerto Regency and knowing the tourism potencies at Mojokerto regency. The research is descriptive and qualitative research that is to understand the phenomenon and situation that occurred. The data collection of the research by using documentation and observation. The data analysis by using SWOT analysis. During the last five years, the tourism sector at Mojokerto regency experienced the tourist increase. Where the tourist increase of 11.45% per year. The Mojokerto Regency has 7 tourism objects where the Warm Water Park and Trowulan Tourism has the largest tourist that is 162.021 and 231.138 tourists respectively in 2007. From the research, it can be concluded that the tourism infrastructure at Mojokerto regency is good enough, but it need some improvement for sub district that does not have good facilities such as hotels and restaurants. While based on SWOT analysis, the two tourism places of Warm Water Park of Pacet and Trowulan Tourism, it is gotten some factors based on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, thread. So it is obtained results that in developing tourism object at Mojokerto regency beside considering the tourist wants also should consider the environmental preservation so the ecosystem destruction will not occurred.
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TODAY, THE BOARD of the Philadelphia Housing Authority meets for the first time since the explosion of bad news over the agency's CEO, Carl Greene.
That news started with an IRS tax lien and a bank foreclosing on his house, and continued with Greene going AWOL and the revelation that four claims of sexual harassment against him have been settled by PHA in the last five years.
It hasn't ended yet. It's unclear what action the board is likely to take. Most likely: putting Greene on leave so the board can investigate further. If the board fires Greene, it must be done without leaving PHA open to a large severance package or a lawsuit. Which means more weeks of instability and chaos at PHA.
That's why Carl Greene should resign.
The most damning circumstances are the four cases of sexual harassment that were privately settled by PHA's insurance company in the last five years. Somehow, "It was all just a big misunderstanding" might explain one case, but not four . . . or five, if you count the settled case in
Detroit before Greene was hired in Philadelphia. Four cases suggests a pattern of behavior for which there should be zero tolerance in a workplace, particularly from its chief.
But there's another pattern of behavior from Greene that has compromised his ability to run a public agency: his pattern of insulating himself from scrutiny. Even before he disappeared last week for five days, resurfacing only to hold a news conference to announce he was taking a leave, he successfully shielded the public and PHA's board from seeing any of PHA's operations that he didn't want seen. He has settled harassment suits with an insurance company without notifying the board. He has created nonprofit organizations that solicit donations from PHA contractors, and he demanded payments from workers for funds with little oversight.
Meanwhile, he carefully built a positive image of a transformative housing chief so successful that few have questioned him. Even in the midst of the most disturbing allegations, Gov. Rendell sang Greene's praises. He elicits cult-like loyalty from many powerful people - most recently, board member Jannie Blackwell, who said Tuesday she wanted to delay her vote on action on Greene until he returns from leave, explaining "we don't have anyone who does what he does, and he's the only one moving housing in the recession."
So apparently, the ability to sell real estate trumps everything, even secret insurance settlements related to sexual harassment.
This philosophy - that we should be expected to tolerate anything in the cause of "good work" - is an unacceptable standard for a board member or a public official to be espousing. Especially when it involves our money.
It's clear the board of PHA has been asleep at the switch; this can happen with a charismstic leader who is spinning success stories, but it's clear that no one has really been in control of PHA for a long time. The set-up of the agency - funded by the feds, with a locally appointed board - means that real oversight can be kept at bay.
Greene suggested earlier that he is being thrown under the bus by the media and that people with bloody daggers wanted to do him in. Given the case against Greene, that's a stunning admission that he is clueless about the seriousness of these allegations.
Carl Greene should do the right thing, and resign. *


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Please join EYP Principal David Fixler for a lecture entitled, "Innovation Becomes Tradition: Institutional Heritage and the Renewal of Modern Architecture." Sponsored by the Architectural Conservation Lab, Career Services, and the Student Historic Preservation Association, the event will be held on Tuesday, April 12 at 5:00 p.m. in Goldsmith Hall 2.308 (Dean's Conference Room). Light refreshments will be served on a first come, first served basis.
The presentation will cover issues facing American universities as they encounter the renewal of their modern heritage. Mr. Fixler will focus primarily on the history and rehabilitation of two important institutional buildings, Alvar Aalto's Baker House at MIT and Louis Kahn's Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Fixler has guided the restoration and renovation of numerous, significant landmark facilities for government and higher education clients nationwide. An internationally recognized expert on the Modern Movement and mid-century modern buildings, he is co-editor of the recently released Aalto and America. His approach to historic preservation as a design discipline sensitively balances art, technology, and history to ensure energy-efficient modernizations that extend the useful life of culturally significant structures.
A sought-after speaker and author, David has been published in such magazines as Architecture, Architectural Record, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, APT Bulletin, Metropolis, Cultural Resources Management, Traditional Buildings, Spazio (Italy) and PTAH (Finland). He has lectured and taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Wellesley College, Wentworth Institute, and the Boston Architectural Center.
David has served as a design juror at MIT and RISD, and conceived, helped to organize, and participated in numerous conferences on a wide range of architecture and preservation topics. He is also a co-founder and president of DOCOMOMO-U.S./New England, co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) Committee on Modern Heritage, and a past Board member of the Society of Architectural Historians. (www.eypaedesign.com)


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See Inside Donald Trump's Insane Gold-Plated Plane
To the shock of many, Donald Trump is on his way to becoming President of the United States. He'll be given the keys to nuclear codes, the White House and to his very own private presidential plane, Air Force One.
But Air Force One will probably be like an Asda-own brand of champagne compared to his 2004 Dom Pérignon.
While politicians in the UK often have to jump in campaign buses or grab a train, Trump is being whisked around in complete and utter luxury.
His super-indulgent Boeing 757-200, which he bought in 2011, includes a gold silk bedroom complete with custom-designed everything and a cinema:
It also includes another cinema:
And another cinema:
And a gold sink:
With a top speed of more than 500mph, room for 43 passengers, 24-carat gold plated seat belts 'as well as everything else' and powered by Rolls Royce engines, 'Trump Force One' is teetering on the edge of fucking ridiculous.
During his campaign, Trump boasted he would swap out Air Force One with his private jet. But a U.S. official told CNN it would be 'nearly functionally impossible' for a President Trump to fly on anything other than the Air Force One, which is owned by the U.S. military.
Which is probably for the best – it's hard to be a representative for the average middle-class American while flying in pure gold.


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text: Love in Black and White We speak to the authors, William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen. 22 Dec 2007 13:41 GMT | Politics, Arts & Culture Love in Black and White - A Memoir of Race, Religion and RomanceAnand Naidoo sits in for Riz Khan this week.On Tuesday, we speak with a Washington power couple who come not only from diverse racial backgrounds, but political backgrounds as well. William Cohen is a former secretary of defence who served in the Clinton administration, and before that as a congressman and senator. He is the son of a Jewish father and Protestant Irish mother. Janet Langhart Cohen is an African-American who was raised by a Southern Baptist single mother. She had a successful career as a model and television personality and now runs her own communications consultancy. They first met in 1974 and married on Valentine's Day in 1996. Earlier this year they published a book that candidly describes their experiences with racial and ethnic attitudes in modern-day America: Love in Black and White - A Memoir of Race, Religion and Romance.Watch this episode of The Riz Khan Show on YouTube Watch this episode of Riz Khan Street Talk on YouTube This episode of Riz Khan aired on Tuesday, December 18, 2007You can watch Riz at 1900GMT, with repeats at 0000GMT, 0500GMT, and 0930GMT To contact us click on 'Send your feedback' at the top of the page Watch Al Jazeera English programmes on YouTube Join our debates on the Your Views section of the site


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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has praised the role played by the State of Qatar for the dissemination of education in Africa through initiatives that support education on the continent, which had a significant impact on the enrichment of human development.
This came in a speech by the Sudanese president at meeting of the Board of Trustees of the International University of Africa.
President al Bashir said that the State of Qatar has remarkably contributed to the development of the university along with a number of Arab countries, in the promotion and support of the University to become a scientific edifice.
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Happy New Year and happy birthday to My PhD Blog December 31, 2009Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Blog, PhD.
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Today it's been three years since I started 'My PhD Blog' and wrote my very first post. Wow, time indeed does fly when you're a PhD student.
Given that the blog is now three years old, I should have handed in my dissertation by now – actually, my PhD scholarship officially expires today(!). Luckily, my university has been kind enough to grant me with a couple more months to finish it. My New Year's resolution for 2010 is therefore to spend as much time in my office as possible and be able to hand in the dissertation sometime around March. If that happens it looks like there is a position as an assistant professor waiting for me – and with that a lot of teaching, which I look forward to. I also look forward to having the time to blog in grater detail about my research findings.
Happy New Year to all readers and commentators of this blog. I wish you all the best in 2010!
My PhD Blog Stats 2008 – and Happy New Year December 31, 2008Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Academic, Blog.
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Today "My PhD Blog" can celebrate its second birthday. Exactly two years ago I started blogging about my PhD project and interrelated subjects. So far this has resulted in 90 posts and more than 300 comments, which is okay. (This year I have been less active than in 2007.)
Originally, I created this blog "in order to keep track of my thoughts, my work, my inspiration, my ideas and my research", which I think I have succeeded in. However, looking back I can see that I am also blogging a lot about topics related to youth and online social networking in general (which I guess is also empirical data).
At this point I have exactly one year left of my PhD scholarship. That also means that 2009 will be devoted to writing my dissertation. I still plan to blog now and then and I hope that the blog can be useful in what will undoubtedly be a frustrating and tough process from time to time…
Happy New Year to all readers of "My PhD Blog"!
And here are some momentary stats from the blog:
My PhD Blog Stats December 31, 2007Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Academic, Blog.
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Today it is exactly one year since I started "My PhD Blog" and it is time to do a little status update.
I have written 52 blog posts during this one year period. That equals one blog post per week,which I think is acceptable. Especially, considering the fact that I only blog about my activities as a PhD student or subjects related to youth and online social networking.
Here are some other blog stats provided by WordPress:
As for my PhD project, I must admit that this first year of the project period has gone by extremely fast. I am amazed at how much time goes by with non-project related stuff – such as teaching, supervising, reading and answering e-mails, attending meetings and network activities, writing papers and articles, giving talks, attending conferences and PhD courses, giving press interviews and other stuff. All of which are really exciting activities, but only very peripherally related to my project.
When it comes to my project I have been engaged in data collecting. I have conducted two qualitative online questionnaires which altogether generated more than 3000 answers. Moreover, I have been doing different kind of ethnographic studies. I would label it "ethnography" rather than "virtual ethnography", because some of my data collection take place outside cyberspace. Actually, the more I think about it, I dislike to concept of "virtual ethnography" or "online ethnography", because I think that online social networking cannot be separated from offline life. That is something I will get back to in a later blog post. Among other things, I am working on a concept I call "nexus ethnography". But more about that in the new year.
I hope that 2008 will be a productive year and I look forward to blog about my activities.
Happy New Year to all.
Back at the office… August 14, 2007Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Aalborg University, Blog.
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After the last couple of weeks of alternately being on holiday, working from home, writing paper etc. I am now back at the office and will be answering my mails and phone on a more regular basis.
Of course, I will also be blogging on a more regular basis – among other things I am about to examine the data I have collected from two online questionnaires on youth and social networking and I will probably be blogging about the results from time to time.
Additionally, this semester will be very busy for me. I have a lot of conferences and courses to attend, lectures to give and I am teaching and supervising 1st semester students at Humanistic Informatics at Aalborg University.


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Greetings, Shredderz! By now some of you know that Herbie Fletcher is something of a Shred Sledz legend. Of course, Herbie is a legend, period, but more to the point, I have written about his boards many times before, and I don't see that stopping any time soon. I'm also interested in surfboard prices, and a recent Herbie Fletcher egg popped up that gave a bit of insight into how much his boards sell for.
The board posted above is currently listed for sale on Craigslist, and you can find the listing here. All pics are via the listing.
The Herbie Fletcher egg is being listed at $600, and the price has been reduced a few times in the past few weeks. Initial asking price was $1,200. The same board was actually listed on Craigslist in November 2017 for $700, and it looks like it has changed hands since then. I would guess the board was shaped during the 80s and maybe the early 90s. The Herbie Fletcher thruster measures in at a solid 6'9″.
In my opinion $600 is pretty good for a Herbie Fletcher board, especially one in good condition, like the example shown here. And you know I'm a sucker for fins with logos on them!
What I have seen, though, is that Herbie's boards can command a wide variety of prices. A Herbie Fletcher single fin recently sold on eBay for $100, but the board wasn't in great condition, and it was also shaped by Dee Miller. On the flip side, there was a Herbie Fletcher double winged single fin that sold on eBay for $259, despite being in pretty bad condition, including a missing fin box. I'm honestly shocked the double winged single fin sold for as much as it did, given the amount of repairs required to get it water tight again, much less looking good. But I take the $259 price as an indication that there's a healthy market for some of Herbie's boards. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there are two other Herbie Fletcher 70s single fins for sale on eBay. However, I think both are priced way too high: one is being listed for $3,200, and the other for $2,450.
One other thing that stands out is the fact that I don't know who shaped the board. We know that Herbie employed some other shapers under his label, both from the Dee Miller board mentioned earlier here, as well as this previous post. But I can't say either way with the egg thruster featured in this post.
So, how come the Herbie Fletcher egg above hasn't sold yet? I honestly don't know. If I had to guess, I would say that Herbie's longboards and 70s single fins are his most collectible models. It appears the board is still for sale, so if you're keen on snagging it, check out the Craigslist post here.


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As I surfed the bread websites to further my knowledge of artisan bread baking, I stumbled across the 1.2.3 Sourdough method of Flo Makani, a french baker. Her site is in French but Google will translate it. I also read about it in a thread on the The Fresh Loaf in depth and on the Artisan Baker's facebook page.
And of course, I just had to try it! It is the easiest way to make an artisan loaf of sourdough bread ever! I did apply many of the techniques I've been practicing for the past few months in my journey to master the art. I have now made this recipe twice with perfect results each time.
The method is simple: one part levain or starter, two parts water and three parts flour.
Now that I've given a brief explanation of the process, let me tell you how I made the loaves.
I fermented 250 grams of mature levain: This consisted of 25 grams of my mature rye starter that I keep in the fridge combined with 100 grams of rye flour and 125 grams of water. This sat out at room temperature overnight. It was ready when doubled and bubbled and a little bit of it dropped in a glass of water and floated.
I added the levain to 500 grams of 95 dF water to dissolve it and then added that to 750 grams of flour:
500 grams King Arthur Bread Flour
150 grams Hodsons Mill Rye Flour
100 grams King Arthur White Whole Wheat
Mixed it well with my hands and let it sit for 20-30 minutes in an autolyse phase.
I then added in my 12 grams of salt and mixed and pinched some more as well as stretching and folding the dough. I performed this stretch and fold every 30 minutes for the first two hours of the bulk fermentation. The longer you bulk ferment, the deeper the flavor of your bread.
And at this point you can take your dough and put it into your proofing basket/banneton and let it rise till about 70 percent double in bulk and then bake it, either in your dutch oven or on your baking stone in a steamed oven. Since I started using dutch ovens, that is all I use now for these types of loaves.
I let my dough bulk ferment for about four hours. It was about 1.5 times the original size. I poured it out on to a lightly floured counter, stretched and folded it into a boule shape and let it rest for about 20 minutes.
After this bench rest period, I stretched and folded it gently some more and shaped it into its final boule shape, placing it into my well floured bannetons.
These loaves got an overnight cold proof. I placed my bannetons inside plastic bags and put them into the fridge.
The next morning I tried the finger poke test and the hole did come back very very slowly, most likely because the dough was so cold retarded. I let them sit at room temperature while the oven/dutch ovens heated to 475 dF.
The loaves were unloaded onto the floured counter, scored…which was easier on a cold loaf, and gently lifted into the extremely hot dutch ovens very carefully and covered.
After 20 minutes the covers were removed to reveal nicely springing loaves. Baked for an additional 20 minutes until the internal temperature was 200+ dF and two lovely loaves were done.


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A 9-year-old Alabama girl died on Monday after allegedly being forced to run for three hours as a punishment for lying about eating a candy bar.
The girl, Savannah Hardin, was reportedly forced to run on the afternoon of Friday Feb. 17 by her grandmother and stepmother. According to the Birmingham News, her stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, called 911 at 6:45 p.m. and reported that Savannah was having a seizure and was unresponsive.
She was taken to Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., where she died after being taken off life support on Monday.
A state pathologist ruled the third grader's death a homicide, and her body has been sent to Huntsville, Ala., for an autopsy, reports the Birmingham News. Preliminary reports indicated that Savannah was extremely dehydrated and had very low sodium levels.
According to AP reports, Savannah had a very common bladder condition and could not handle the caffeine in a chocolate bar. It is not believed, however, that the bladder condition contributed to her death.
Jessica Hardin, 27, her stepmother, and Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, her grandmother, are being charged with murder. Etowah County District Attorney Jimmie Harp told the AP that he may pursue capital murder charges, which could carry the death sentence.
Cause for Concern
According to local reports, police became involved when concerned citizens called and reported that they witnessed Hardin being forced to run.
Police are still trying to figure out if Savannah was forced to run by physical coercion or by verbal commands, according to AP.
"It's sad when a family is grieving over the death of a daughter and granddaughter and so soon to find out that the death could have been prevented," Sheriff Todd Entrekin told the Birmingham News. "My thoughts and prayers are with the family."
Savannah's father, Robert Hardin, who works for the State Department, had to return to Alabama – taking eight flights, according to the AP – to be with his daughter in the hospital. On Monday, he made the decision to take her off life support.
Robert filed for divorce from Jessica in August 2010, and the AP cites his divorce complaint which says that Jessica was bipolar and had alcoholic tendencies. She denied both claims, and five months later the two asked the judge to dismiss their case.
A New Baby
On Wednesday, Jessica was transferred from Etowah County Detention Center – where she and Garrard were being held on $500,000 bond – to the hospital, where she gave birth, according to the AP.
Jessica also has a 3-year-old son who has been placed in the custody of a relative, and Alabama officials are formulating a safety plan for her newborn. It is believed that the baby will also be placed in the same relative's care.
The Birmingham News reports that Jessica Hardin was appointed a public defender.
Joyce Garrad has her own defense attorney who maintains her innocence.
"It is my belief Ms. Garrard will be vindicated … and found not guilty of the allegation against her," attorney Dani Bone wrote in a statement. "Even then, Joyce Garrard and her family will continue to grieve over the loss of their beloved Savannah."