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To know Zim was to cherish him
Don Zimmer would sometimes cry when he reflected on his long, wonderful, incredible life.
Zimmer believed he'd been just about the luckiest man who ever lived, a kid from Cincinnati who caught a couple of breaks. After all, who gets to spend 66 years doing something they absolutely love and make so many dear friends along the way?
Don Zimmer would sometimes cry when he reflected on his long, wonderful, incredible life.
Zimmer believed he'd been just about the luckiest man who ever lived, a kid from Cincinnati who caught a couple of breaks. After all, who gets to spend 66 years doing something they absolutely love and make so many dear friends along the way?
For instance, there was Zimmer's friendship with Jackie Robinson. He and Jackie had been teammates with the Dodgers, but they had drifted apart through the years.
And then one day, Zimmer answered his phone and heard Robinson's voice. He was coming to Florida, and he wanted to know if they could play golf.
Robinson appreciated the way Zimmer treated him when they were teammates. Like a lot of people, he recognized that Don Zimmer had a huge, loving heart.
For his part, Zimmer had watched Robinson. He'd seen not just the amazing athleticism, but the courage and dignity that was almost beyond comprehension.
Later in life, Zimmer was so overwhelmed by their friendship that he had trouble talking about it.
"Look, I don't get it," Zimmer would say, choking back tears. "What would a great man like that see in someone like me?"
That's the easy one. People loved Don Zimmer. They loved his laugh. They loved his loyalty. They loved the sheer joy he exuded when he was at the ballpark.
Upon hearing of Zimmer's death at 83 on Wednesday, there were hundreds of people who felt they lost a best friend. That's because Zimmer had the ability to make someone feel that the five minutes he spent with them was the best five minutes of his day.
Joe Torre loved Zimmer like a brother. Jim Leyland spoke to him virtually every day. When Zimmer worked for the Rays in the final years of his life, he lit up every room.
Zimmer would smile. He would tease. The Rays gave it back to Zimmer, too. Once a club employee handed him a slip of paper with a telephone number.
"Sports Illustrated is doing a story on Ty Cobb and wants to talk to some people who knew him," the man said, as the story goes.
Zimmer looked at the number, looked at the prankster and sputtered.
"How old do you think I am?" he hollered.
At that, the club employee broke down in laughter, and Zimmer knew he'd been had again.
Zimmer gave it back, too. He walked in one day and screamed, "Who has been giving my telephone number to these writers?"
Uh, I have, one guy stammered.
"Honest, Zim, I didn't think you'd mind," he added.
Zim stared at the transgressor for 10 seconds, then burst into laughter.
Zimmer's baseball knowledge was incredible. Once, when he saw a kid in a bunting drill, he walked over and interrupted.
"I know who taught you how to bunt," Zim said.
Really? Who?
Zimmer mentioned the name of a longtime baseball guy.
"That's right," the kid said.
Later, someone asked how Zimmer knew that. He said certain people taught bunting a certain way. Zim recognized the technique instantly.
Zimmer saw baseball from every angle. He played parts of 12 seasons in the big leagues, mostly as a part-timer. He played another eight seasons in the Minors and one in Japan.
Zimmer had 500 plate appearances only once in his career. That was in 1961, when Ron Santo's big league debut prompted the Cubs to move him across the diamond to second.
There, in 1961, Zimmer had his finest season and made the National League All-Star Team. Mostly, though, he had to scuffle for a job throughout his career.
As Zimmer was moved around, up, down, here and there pursing jobs in baseball, he would almost always interrupt the story to nod at Soot, his wife of 62 years, and tell how she kept the house running, kept the children in line. They were married in 1951 at home plate at Dunn Field in Elmira, N.Y., where Zimmer played for the Pioneers at the time, and theirs was a marriage of love and laughter.
Once Zimmer's playing career ended, he made four managing stops over 13 years. He won 90 games four times, including 99 for the 1978 Red Sox, who are best remembered for Bucky Dent's home run in the 163rd game of the season.
Zimmer found out that Boston was a tough job. He seemed addicted to the misery of talk radio, but he also appreciated the opportunity to manage.
Zim loved Los Angeles the same as he'd loved Elmira. As long as they paid him to put on a uniform, as long as they paid him to do what he would have done for free, he was about the happiest man on earth.
Zimmer loved that big leaguers got treated to first-class travel and nice hotels. But some of his fondest memories were traveling by bus in the Minors and staying in fleabag hotels. He thought that was a pretty good life, too.
No man ever loved his job more than Don Zimmer loved his. Even late in life as he struggled with an assortment of health issues, he came to the park when he could.
He cackled when the Rays did a "Don Zimmer Night" in which they handed out Zim dolls. When they showed him a mock-up of the dolls, they worried that he would be unhappy.
"Hey," he roared, "I know what I look like."
In the later years of his life, Zimmer would enter a ballpark and soon be surrounded by players, coaches, cops, ushers, sportswriters, etc. They wanted to be in his presence. They wanted to hear him laugh and perhaps make him laugh.
On Wednesday, all those people, hundreds of them scattered across this great country, felt an emptiness that they'll never hear that laugh again, that they'll never share another meal or ask Zimmer about the ponies.
Maybe Zimmer was right that he was one of the real lucky people on earth. But the really lucky ones are those who got to know Zimmer, from Leyland and Torre, from Commissioner Bud Selig to hundreds of others who write columns and wait tables and all the rest. They are awed by the life Zimmer led, the friendships he forged. They'll also miss him dearly.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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I didn't tell Doug where we were going until we got in the car and then I only said Fashion Square Mall. He made a few guesses because he knows the area so well, and one was right but I didn't tell him that until we were about there. Then I admitted we were going to P. F. Chang's.
We always go early so there are no crowds and enjoy a nice quiet meal.
Then we go "walk it off."
We had never been to the Scottsdale Waterfront so that was our destination after the meal, part of my plan since it is all one big connected area.
They have taken what was once the canal and built up around it and added artwork and pathways and shops and made it into a great place to relax.
Doug, who is an Arizona native, gets a kick out of that but I figure it's good somebody finally did something with what was once ugly wasted space.
People bring their dogs, bicycles and jogging shoes and it was quite an experience.
One piece of artwork caught my eye so I had to get a photo of the pony express.
Doug pointed out the Hashknife brand on one of the horses, something he learned about by reading my post here.
He was pretty proud of himself.
We walked around and window shopped and ended up over at Fashion Square which I hadn't been in since our daughter worked there in high school.
We were still full from dinner so we bought a couple of sodas and pie to go at one of the shops and brought it home. He had apple and I had coconut cream. Yummy.
We had a wonderful evening and Doug said the element of surprise just added to the "specialness."
By the way, anybody for a penthouse?
Memoir Prompts:
Describe a special birthday you planned for someone.
Describe special birthday somebody planned for you.
Do you pick up pennies, dimes, nickles on the sidewalk
or just pass them by?
What type of outdoor art do you enjoy?
When was the last time you rode a bicycle?
Do you remember your first bike?
How do you react to panhandlers?
Have you ever panhandled yourself?

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Room and Board Costs
2018-2019 Academic Year
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Any financial aid, grants, loans, etc. received by North Idaho College as an agent on behalf of a student will be applied each semester in entirety to the student's account balance. For Residence Hall students, payments for all charges including tuition/fees/housing is due in full on the Wednesday prior to move-in, unless you have a confirmed financial aid award letter to cover your charges or have signed up for a payment plan and are current on all payments through AES - (Advanced Education Services). Failure to comply with one of the above payment schedules prior to moving into the Residence Hall may result in delayed move in or agreement cancellation. Information on payment plan options is available on the North Idaho College Student Accounts website or by calling (208) 769-3344.
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Sprint Seemingly Shocked That Nobody Wants Them to Kill Off Price-Disruptive and Competitive T-Mobile
from the your-surprise-is-somewhat-surprising dept
The company has not only become great entertainment via snarky CEO Tweets and amusingly mocking carriers like AT&T at every opportunity, but their price disruption has been a truly welcome thorn in the side of larger carriers. From T-Mobile's free international roaming data offer to their war on long-term contracts, the company is leeching customers from AT&T in real price competition, a rarity for United States telecom markets.
Enter Sprint, who now owned by acquisition-hungry Japanese carrier Softbank, is eager to obliterate all of this progress with a T-Mobile acquisition of their own. Regulators have made it clear for years they want four competitors, and every meeting Sprint and SoftBank have had so far has resulted in regulators clearly expressing doubt at the consumer benefits of such a deal. Consumers too have made it clear they loathe the idea as well, given that Sprint has fallen to last place in customer satisfaction rankings and last place in most LTE network speed and latency tests. As such, it's rather curious to see Sprint and SoftBank executives "surprised" this week by the cold shoulder they continue to get from regulators (Wall Street Journal, reg. required):
Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son and Chief Executive Dan Hesse, who met with officials at the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington in recent weeks, always knew a deal would be a tough sell, the people said. But the men were surprised by the level of opposition and its very public nature, one of the people said.They really shouldn't be. Trying to acquire the wireless industry's sweetheart just as they're gaining headlines for being disruptive? Two years after arguing about the sanctity of maintaining four competitors? Sprint has argued that combining with T-Mobile will make a stronger third competitor to AT&T and Verizon Wireless, though telecom consolidation often doesn't work that way, and Sprint has shown little to no ability to mirror T-Mobile's price aggression and consumer-friendly policies (like cell unlocking) in recent years. Though not without problems of its own, the FCC and DOJ will also likely prefer T-Mobile get acquired by someone like Dish in order to retain four distinct competitors. It seems like Sprint might want to save everybody involved a lot of time and money, and for the moment focus on learning to properly run the network they already own.


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Quote from: Goodfella Aaron on March 22, 2006, 03:48:07 PMI'm in a frat and I did well for myself. I think it made me more disciplined, in fact. Other posters on this board who got into T14s were in them too, as are many of the guys I meet at admitted student days. Don't not join because you're afraid it'll harm your grades. It only will if you let it.
Hi-I didn't read all of the posts, so I apologize if I repeat something...here is my advice. You don't have to go to the best college in order to get into a top law school. What you need is a solid GPA/LSAT and something that makes you stand out. In my case, I went abroad for a year - spent 4 months in DC (away from my home university in Boston) then Oxford for 6 months...however, that is not the only option. Play a varsity sport and become captain, start a charitable drive, secure a decent part time job where you have a position of some status. Basically, do something to get noticed!!Other than that, make sure that you're committed to academics. You don't have to be a die-hard academic, I'm definitely not. What you need is to find a subject that interests you and take many courses in that discipline. If you like what you're doing in college, and you committed to putting in the work, you'll do well. It'll come naturally, I promise.Best of luck, I'm sure you'll do great! Maybe I'll see you at GULC in a few years =)


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SnowFlame Chapter 2 Page 6 (Important Announcement Below)on December 15, 2013 at 11:07 pm
A few weeks ago I mentioned it was becoming difficult to work on the comic as well as my paying work.
It is for this reason, I regret to say that this is the last update for Snowflame: the Fan-Comic Series.
As I love working on this story, and have planned a lot of unique ideas that I really want to use, I have triedto think of an alternative that would allow me to complete this storyand I think I have succeeded.
I have been doing some planning on changing from the webcomic to a short series of novels. Instead of using copyrighted characters owned by dc I would create original characters, but the story would be very much in the same vein with another cocaine-worshipping super villain.
as I have a lot of experience with writing as well as e-book and print on demand publishing I'm confident I can have the first book ready by fall 2014.
This is definitely a lot to take in, and probably not what you were expecting on the webcomic's two year anniversary. Even the previous mention of my concern really wasn't much of a forshadowing, and I apologize for the suddeness. I'm also sorry you won't be able to continue following the story in the way you are used to.
I hope this new direction will be of interest to you. If so, please consider signing up for the mailing list below. I won't spam you and emails will only pertain to the project. In turn, subscribers will not only be able to follow the progress of the book, but have some say in character designs, the final covers, and there will be some other bonuses as well. Also, feel free to ask questions either in comments or in email and I'll do my best to answer them.
Otherwise, I would like to thank you all for your readership and comments over the past 2 years. This has basically been like a dream project for me in creating a story for such an amazing character, and there are many creative opportunities I wouldn't have had if it weren't for our favorite cocaine priest.


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I have always had a thing against people who harm animals for sport. i think it should be legal to do the same thing to them as they did to something minding it's own business in it's own habitat. Over the years i have picked up dozens of fish hooks, some in the sand some at the showers at the shack. i have occasioanlly picked up seringes which i know they use top inflate worms with air to make them appear bigger. All this makes me F###ing Ill! Needless to say it is a danger having lines laying around for birds to get tangles in and kiters to avoid. So today, I watched 3 asian fisherman bring in their supper, a 3' batray which 20 people all gathered around to watch squirm to its death on the beach. they were all afraid to touch it so it just sat there making these awful gasping noises. I asked them " Is this what you wanted to catch?" they said "no." So i said" why dont you cut the line and put it back?" they said " because we want ti to die, were gonna eat it."
So my question is, is it ok to even eat fish from the bay? Why is this legal? Am i the only one that this bothers? We constantly read about slews of asian fishing boats hording every last fish in the ocean and we are expected to not have any fish at all by 2042. I realize it is a cultural thing, but we are not in mexico or china so why the fuck isnt some environmentalist on this issue already? I would stab one of these guys in the eye for doing what they do out there if it was legal. I grow tired of seeing dead batrays on the beach without fins, since thats the only thing they use them for.
As a group of people that love the water, is it odd to want to keep our waters alive? I realize many of you love to fish, but is this humane what they are doing right here on our beach? i will sign a petition or do anything to get rid of all them in a heart beat if i had the chance?
Where do you guys stand on this?
Oh yeah, thanks for the sushi Chris.


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If you've ever seen Python in action, even at a distance, I'm sure you'll agree that it looks pretty neat. And the combination of development speed, out-of-the-box power, and stunning syntax usually means you end up with one thing… elegant, maintainable solutions, quickly. And lets face it, that's just what web developers are looking for right?
I'll let you judge for yourself…
In this article we're going to be using Python to write some small and (hopefully) interesting examples, starting with simple form handling and ending with a complete, full featured (upload limit, file types etc.) upload script that you can use in your websites!
If you haven't guessed it already this is a Python article, so if you're new to the language I highly recommend reading Martin Tsachev's Getting Started with Python before reading this one. if you need a quick intro to Python CGI, skim over Preston Landers' "Writing CGI Programs in Python".
Before we get going, you'll need a few things before you can run the examples in this article:
1. A web server set up to handle CGI (tested with Apache)
2. The latest version of Python from www.python.org
Creating a Form to Display User Details
Possibly the most important thing a web application does is collect user input. And like most things, Python has just the module we need in its Standard Library.
Let's jump right in and write a small function to display the user's details if any where entered. (For this we'll assume our form looks like this… three input boxes called – 'name', 'age' and 'email'. A check box called 'done' and a 'submit' button)
#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
def values(fields):
for value in fields:
if value in form: print form[value].value + '
'
if __name__ == '__main__':
print 'Content-Type: text/htmln'
if 'submit' and 'done' in form:
values(('name', 'age', 'email'))
print 'if you were directed here in error please visit here.com'
This is very simple but it gives you an idea of how easy working with forms is when you strip away all the crap!
In this example (and most of the examples in this article) we start by importing the 'cgi' module and creating an instance of the FieldStorage() class to store our form values. Next we define a new user function called values() which takes a sequence of field names and iterates over them, printing the value if the one was set. Finally before the function outputs anything we check if the 'submit' and 'done' fields exist.
Ok, chances are you noticed this but just for clarity: forms in Python work like any dictionary, with the exception that you have to follow the call by the variable you want access from that key i.e. form['key'].value gives you the value.
{mospagebreak title=Creating a Warning}
Like life itself, we seem to want more control. And this next function we'll create will give us just that — and output a warning if the field wasn't filled in correctly!
#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi, re
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
def check(**fields):
for field in fields:
if field in form:
value = form[field].value
if re.search(fields[field], value): print value + '
'
else: print field, 'was not filled in correctly!
'
if __name__ == '__main__':
print 'Content-Type: text/htmln'
if 'submit' and 'done' in form:
check(name = '^[a-zA-Z ]+$', age = '^d{2}$')
print 'if you were directed here in error please visit here.com'
Since this is pretty similar to our other function, I'm just going to skip over it quickly. If you've ever used Perl, then you've spotted the regular expressions hiding in there.
Regular expressions in Python are accessed though the 're' module (Python's regular expression library), for obvious reasons… regular expressions still seem like the best way to describe and check form values.
If you want to find out more about regular expressions and Python check out the 're' module at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/module-re.html
Then if the value isn't what we want, we get a warning instead of just ignoring the field.
Anyone wondering what **fields is all about? I'm sure someone is. The simplest explanation I can think of is that it tells the function to expect a variable number of arguments in X format (currying in functional programming) i.e.:
>>> def show(*args, **kwds):
… print args, kwds
>>> show()
() {}
>>> show('interesting', 'dont ya think!', arg1 = 'str1', arg2 = 2)
('interesting', 'dont ya think!') {'arg1': 'str1', 'arg2': 2}
Simple, and very useful form time to time! Time for a cookie break… No, not the food… although, still pretty sweet over all.
{mospagebreak title=Cookies}
Next up we'll use Python's 'Cookie' module to do a little baking! (Ironically I suck at making real cookies.)
>>> import Cookie
>>> cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
>>> cookie['number1'] = 'some values'
>>> cookie['number2'] = 'some values'
>>> cookie['number3'] = 'some values'
>>> cookie['number3']['expires'] = 3600
>>> print cookie
Set-Cookie: number1="some values";
Set-Cookie: number2="some values";
Set-Cookie: number3="some values"; expires=Fri, 30-Jan-2004 12:03:20 GMT;
Ok, you have to agree, setting cookies couldn't be much simpler, and the 'Cookie' module wraps it up nicely. The difficulty comes when you want to retrieve your values… ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little here.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
def monster():
if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ:
cookies = os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE']
cookies = cookies.split('; ')
handler = {}
for cookie in cookies:
cookie = cookie.split('=')
handler[cookie[0]] = cookie[1]
return handler
if __name__ == '__main__':
import Cookie
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookie['monster'] = 'cookievalue'
print cookie
print 'Content-Type: text/htmln'
print 'Hit refresh to see the cookie!!!
'
print 'Hewwo, im the cookie', monster()
This is all about parsing the 'HTTP_COOKIE' header and inserting the cookie values into a dictionary.
We start by importing the 'os' module into our program and defining the monster() function — this checks if the 'cookies' string exists or not. If it does then we split it, leaving us with a list of 'key=value' strings. After that all we have left to do is loop over the list and split the values again, placing them into the dictionary.
Ok finally let's do something a little useful with our cookies… and in keeping with our final example, we're going to create a counter function, which allows you to set limits on different processes. Observe and enjoy.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie, os
def limits(count):
if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ:
cookies = os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE']
cookies = cookies.split('; ')
handler = {}
for cookie in cookies:
cookie = cookie.split('=')
handler[cookie[0]] = cookie[1]
if 'count' in handler:
number = int(handler['count'])
if number < count:
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookie['count'] = number + 1
cookie['count']['expires'] = 86400
print cookie
return True
print Cookie.SimpleCookie('count=1')
return True
if __name__ == '__main__':
if limits(5):
print 'user was under their limit, do this…'
print 'user was over their limit, do nothing!'
The start of this is exactly the same as in our monster() function except that if there are no cookies set, then we create one and set its value to one. If there are any cookies to unpack, then we check for 'count' in the handler dictionary and type-cast its value to a 'number' using int()… 'number' is then compared to the 'count' variable to check if the user is under or over their limit. Provided they're under their limit, then we update the cookie and set the expiry date to 24 hours before returning True; this is done so we can use if-else blocks to control the users access.
{mospagebreak title=Sending Email}
Ok, what about sending email? What sounds like a big, scary subject is actually pretty simple once you get down to it. And because of Python's amazingly clear syntax it's very clean, not to mention compact.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import smtplib
def mail(address, subject, message, host = 'localhost'):
headers = 'From: %srnTo: %srnSubject: %srnrn%s'
message = headers % (address[0], ','.join(address[1:]), subject, message)
server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
server.sendmail(address[0], address[1:], message)
if __name__ == '__main__':
mail(('firstname.lastname@example.com', 'firstname.lastname@example.com'), 'subject', 'message')
Admit it, how much smaller is that than you expected! Before we delve deeper into this function, you need to understand a little about how it's being called or chances are you'll end up with errors!
mail(('from', 'to', …), 'subject', 'message', ['host'])
The first argument here is a sequence of two or more addresses, the first being the 'From' address and the rest 'To' addresses. Followed by the 'Subject' and 'Message'. You may also need to tell this function what host you want to use if one isn't available locally.
For this example we started by importing the 'smtplib' module, which provides functions/classes for sending emails from Python… so mail() is really just a wrapper over what you would normally do to send email, but it does make things easier!
That is to say, inside mail() we do two main things…
- Create a MIME header containing our 'From' and 'To' addresses… as well as
any other data we want to send i.e. Subject, Message, Content-Type. When
complete this is assigned to the 'message' variable.
- Connect to the mail server using the SMTP() class. If the connection is successful then the addresses and 'message' header are sent to using the sendmail() method before quitting.
If you plan on playing with 'smptlib' or similar modules, then you'll probably end up thanking the programmer who wrote it, for the set_debuglevel() method! As is my experience, anything that could go wrong will go wrong the first few times i.e.:
server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
server.sendmail(from, to, message)
{mospagebreak title=A Last Example}
So far you've seen how you can use Python to get forms data, create cookies and send email… in this last example we'll be using as much of what you've learned here as we can (without going over the top).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi, os, sys
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
def uploads(form, name, path, *args):
if form.has_key(name):
#If the form field exists if 'form' then parse the filename to point
#at the desired location.
path = os.path.join(path, os.path.basename(form[name].filename))
for each in args:
#Loop over any available file types and check if the file being
# uploaded is the right format. Checks if the file already exists
if path.endswith(each) and not os.path.isfile(path):
file(path, 'wb').write(str(form[name].value))
#Return True to indicate the file was uploaded successfully.
return True
if __name__ == '__main__':
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
print 'Content-Type: text/htmln'
if uploads(form, 'upload', ", '.txt', '.zip'):
#If the upload was successful then print a message.
print 'Finished uploading file…'
print 'Failed to upload file. Please visit our help center at…'
If you want to give this a go, you'll need a form set up for file upload; something like this one…
<form name="upload" method="POST" action="upload.py" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="upload" type="file" /><input type="submit" name="submit" />
This is pretty small as functions go, but there's quite a lot going on right from the beginning!
As in our other examples, this starts by importing the modules we need into the programs global namespace. Unlike these examples, our next line redirects errors to standard output; this simply sends error messages, as you would get from Python normally to the web browser instead of the error log.
If you're going to use Python for CGI, then you should definitely take a look at the 'cgitb' module at http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/lib/module-cgitb.html
{mospagebreak title=Inside uploads()… }
We first need to make sure that the field 'name' provided is in our 'form'. As long as it is then we get the path (as it appeared in the file field) of the file we want to upload and get the files name using os.path.basename(). We then join it to the 'path' using the os.path.join() function… this lets us to upload files to different places and keep the original filename.
Next we loop over the available file types in 'args' and check the files extension against each type. If the file is a valid type, then we make sure the file doesn't already exists (files won't be uploaded if the file exists to prevent overwriting) before writing the file to the server.
As in the limits() example uploads() can be used with an if statement to check if the function was successful or not. Or even use it with limits() so the user can only upload a set number of files per day.
Ok, by now you should have a fair idea of what exactly writing web applications with python is about and why you would want to, as well as have some idea of what's possible… but this is only the tip of the iceberg!
Hope you've had fun. If you want to learn more about Python or the subjects covered here, then start clicking:
http://www.python.org – Python
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/tut/tut.html – Python tutorial
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3 – Python Documentation online!
http://www.apache.org – Apache homepage
http://httpd.apache.org/docs – Apache Documentation
http://www.modpython.org – mod_python homepage!
http://www.zope.org – Zope homepage!
http://spyce.sourceforge.net – Spyce [Python Server Pages] homepage!
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Plane Diverted, Two Arrested After Bomb Threat
British air force fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines plane to a London airport following alleged comments about blowing up the plane. Two passengers were arrested.
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Turkey Meatballs with Quick And Spicy Tomato Sauce and Whole-Wheat SpaghettiFood Network Ellie Krieger
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 (28-ounce) can crushed fire-roasted tomatoes, liquid included
- 1 teaspoon finely minced canned chipotle en adobo and sauce, or more to taste
- 2 teaspoons chopped oregano leaves
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- Salt
- 1/4 cup torn fresh basil leaves
- Cooking spray
- 1 pound ground turkey meat
- 1 slice fresh whole-wheat bread, crusts removed, pulsed into crumbs
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan, plus more for serving
- 1/2 cup finely grated carrot
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 large cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley leaves, plus more for garnish
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme leaves
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 box (16 ounces) whole-wheat spaghetti
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In a 4-quart saucepan heat the oil over medium heat. Saute the onions until translucent, about 3 minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add tomato paste, tomatoes, chipotles, oregano, rosemary, and salt. Bring all the ingredients to a low boil, reduce heat and cook for approximately 15 minutes, until liquid has evaporated slightly. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. While sauce is cooking, make meatballs.
Preheat the broiler. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Combine the turkey with all other ingredients in a large work bowl. Form into 2 1/2 -inch balls and place on a baking sheet. Broil for 10 minutes, or until browned and almost entirely cooked through.
Meanwhile, remove rosemary sprig from sauce and add fresh basil. Add the meatballs to the sauce, cover, and cook additional 10 minutes, or until sauce has slightly thickened and meatballs have absorbed some of the sauce. While the meatballs are cooking, cook the whole-wheat spaghetti according to package directions.
Drain the pasta and return it to the pot. Add the sauce and meatballs, toss and heat through over medium heat. Divide evenly among 4 pasta bowls and garnish with parsley and 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan.
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It may sound like a 1970s sci-fi flick starring the likes of Darth Vader or Captain Kirk.
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But as the debate rages on in Washington over green energy, one former NASA engineer has an intriguing solution: capture solar energy in space through a network of intelligent mirrors and transport it back to Earth through a microwave beam.
The vision of solar power in space has been around for decades, however, John Mankins, the former head of Advanced Concepts Studies at NASA and now president of Artemis Innovation, says the project is finally feasible thanks to advances in solar tech and space travel.
His goblet-shaped idea dubbed SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array, if you want to get technical) would be comprised of thousands of intelligent computers working together in high orbit to capture and transmit the sun's rays to be used as energy.
"SPS-ALPHA is a biologically inspired architecture, analogous to a hive of bees, or a colony of ants," Mankins said in a detailed 100-page report on the concept. "A very large number of modules will be assembled to form a single enormous satellite."
The satellites would spend their lifetime collecting the sun's rays through individually pointed thin-film mirrors. Energy would be converted across a large radio frequency aperture and transmitted via a microwave beam to receptors on Earth.
The entire project requires just minor innovations, which means its development is, feasibly, capable within 15 years notwithstanding any outstanding hurdles. Mankins sees the first two small-scale prototypes requiring about three years and $50 million to build, and the larger, in-space prototype taking another decade and $3 to $4 billion.
"The innovative advanced concept described here is a new approach to enable a technically feasible, economically viable and programmatically executable solar power satellite," he said.
The World's Remotest
The former NASA researcher doesn't expect SPS-ALPHA to replace today's energy sources but acting instead as complimentary, deploying on an as-needed basis to remote islands, disaster areas or helping to offset the traditional grid if it were to be taken temporarily offline due to a storm or catastrophe.
"Between now and 2045 total electricity consumption on Earth is projected to double – and by 2100 it's projected to double again," Mankins said.
Each receptor would collect the equivalent of a tenth of 1% of the entire U.S. energy requirement. But the benefit is that the receptors – each a few kilometers long -- could be built relatively quickly once the satellites are deployed.
The satellites themselves would be able to turn in any direction so that emergency energy can be zapped to the far reaches of the world on command.
"These are all places that are geographically isolated -- the price of energy is two or three times the price in the Continental U.S.," Mankins said, pointing to regions like Northern Canada, Hawaii and Indonesia. "From space, we can deliver power directly to" them.
Meanwhile, the receptors, which must be large enough (five to 10 kilometers) so that the beam can be diluted and harmless to people on Earth, would be made from a thin film that is 80% transparent.
It would allow for the passing of rain water and sunlight, enabling regular vegetation to thrive underneath. The receptors could be installed over a large stretch of land or hoisted on pillars over the ocean.
If this sounds absurd, take a look at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (pictured below), which is home to the world's largest curved focusing dish.
At 1,000 feet in diameter and situated atop an old sinkhole, the dish is made of aluminum panels and supported by mesh steel cables. Tropical vegetation flourishes underneath, with orchids and lizards inhabiting the ecosystem.
The SPS-ALPHA receptors would be simultaneously powerful, with one in, say, the Mojave Desert easily supplying power for all of Southern California.
In space, the satellites would be able to reach any receptor within its field of view, with as little as four satellites covering the world's entire surface (though each would only be able to communicate with one receptor at a time).
"A single satellite in orbit above the Indian Ocean can send power anywhere in Africa, Central or Eastern Europe, anywhere in Russia up to Moscow, the Middle East, India and half of China," Mankins said.
Though he sees it being "immediately market ready" for remote locations.
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While it may take years for the dream to reach fruition – if it ever does – and even longer for something like this to be competitive with the power grid, Mankins sees an ability to profit from SPS technologies in the near term.
Partnering with major communications providers, the technology could be installed on traditional satellites, allowing them to attain a greater source of power at a cheaper cost. It could help boost the satellite's bandwidth while reducing operational costs, making satellites more profitable and helping to lower excessive launch costs.
"You don't have to wait until you have solar power satellites to make a lot of money from this," Mankins said.
High launch costs remain one of this SPS-ALPHA's biggest roadblocks, and while Mankins says new advances from the likes of Elon Musk's SpaceX are helping to bring costs down for major providers, he argues further innovation is needed to make space travel -- and satellites -- economically feasible for the little guys.


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Monday, March 22, 2010
Hurricane Katrina Revisted - In His Own Words: Brian Williams
Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most severe loss of life occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed, in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland. Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks. However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns, which were flooded over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6-12 miles (10-19 km) from the beach.
At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. Economist and crisis consultant Randall Bell wrote: "Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the largest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Preliminary damage estimates were well in excess of $100 billion, eclipsing many times the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992."
The levee failures prompted investigations of their design and construction which belongs to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as mandated in the Flood Control Act of 1965 and into their maintenance by the local Levee Boards. There was also an investigation of the responses from federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown, and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass. Conversely, the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC) and National Weather Service (NWS) were widely commended for their actions, accurate forecasts and abundant lead time.
Four years later, thousands of displaced residents in Mississippi and Louisiana were still living in trailers. Reconstruction of each section of the southern portion of Louisiana has been addressed in the Army Corps LACPR Final Technical Report which identifies areas not to be rebuilt and areas and buildings that need to be elevated.
I tried to find a online clip of Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke" by Spike Lee. Sorry I couldn't find more than this:
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I can't say why, but when I woke today I had vivid flashbacks of the time I spent with my teammates in a pizzeria in New York watching Hurricane Katrina make landfall and ravage the United States. Thanks to the wonder and beauty of the internet, a single Google search got me to first the Wikipedia entry for Katrina, from which the intro to the post above comes, and then a video by NBC's Brian Williams. Dramatic stuff and still stunning to this day to realize that no matter what this country's "leaders" will tell you, one cannot rely on the government to ensure individual survival. I know that Pappillon draws readers from all over the world, and very few of you as a percentage of the total readership need to worry about catastrophic flooding as the natural disaster that could claim your life, but how hard is it to put together a basic survival plan and stockpile an emergency kit? I don't know, as I haven't done it yet myself (living 3/4 of the way up a stiff little climb makes death-by-broken-levee seem all the more preposterous), but should I?ReplyDelete
What does a portable generator cost at Costco? If you buy one, how much fuel should you stockpile? And where do you stockpile it? How many flashlights should a household have? And how many batteries? What's the natural disaster most likely to hit Western Pennsylvania? Mine subsidence? lol I can't see my middle-class neighbors going all "Lord of the Flies" on us and eating one another, but ... what if? Heck, this February's snow storms in Pittsburgh shut-down the city long enough that people actually died when emergency services couldn't reach them in their homes (Hazelwood man dies after 10 calls to 911 over two days - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10048/1036403-53.stm), so there is some connection to reality. Do any of you have survival plans? Stocked up your home-based armory? Eagerly awaiting the race/class/gender war? Lemme know.
And for those too lazy to cut and paste that PG story link:
"In his first call to 911, Curtis Mitchell sounded calm, explaining to dispatchers that his "entire stomach [was] in pain."
By the time his longtime girlfriend made a 10th call nearly 30 hours later, she was frantic. He wasn't breathing. He was cold to the touch.
"Oh God, oh God," Sharon Edge sobbed to dispatchers. "I've been trying to get an ambulance over here for three days."
Paramedics arrived at their Hazelwood home as Ms. Edge tried to resuscitate the 50-year-old, but it was too late.
"I sat up here with him, watching him die," Ms. Edge said Tuesday, after city officials apologized to her and pledged immediate changes in emergency response after Mr. Mitchell's death on Feb. 7. "They didn't do their jobs like they were supposed to."
Snow-covered roads, poor communication and a 911 center deluged with more than double the average number of calls during last week's crippling snowstorms combined to cause Mr. Mitchell's long wait, city officials said..."
- Jim F22 March, 2010 13:02
Sad part about this is that it is typical self serving sort of program that implies that they did their jobs and are the force behind good. Take a look at Spike Lee's HBO program, When the Levees broke. Gives a more comprehensive picture. The legacy of this piece is said near the end when Williams says that if we don't have a debate in this country on race, poverty...etc., we will have failed. You failed guys.ReplyDelete
Jim F - I saw a mention of the Spike Lee program but couldn't find a link to a full version of it online. Is there one that you could share w/ the readers?ReplyDelete
- Jim F23 March, 2010 13:02
You certainly won't find all of Spike's documentary as it is on three DVDs in four hour long segments, plus an extra 105 minute follow up video. You should be able to get it at your local library, however. That's where I got it.ReplyDelete
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President Obama Does Reddit AMA; Gives Weak Politician's Answer About Internet Freedom
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I recently spoke to a wonderful group of mothers at a Big City Mom's lunch on the upper east side in New York. I have been speaking to moms groups in cities across the country, and one of the questions that has come up more than once is whether learning a second language causes speech delays.
As a mom, I am very sensitive to this issue – I know how eager I was for Emmett to speak once he began using a few words at age 18 months, and understand why mothers would be concerned about doing anything to delay speech in their children.
There is widespread scientific research that proves that learning and/or exposing your child to a second language at an early age will not cause your child to speak English later or less well; that on the contrary, it is a boon. Yet because people used to think that there could be negative side effects to learning two languages as once, some people continue to think so.
The fact is that babies, toddlers and preschoolers are actually able to learn up to three languages at once without confusion. Early foreign language exposure enhances a child's primary language development, and his or her brain power. Experts have dismissed the idea that bilingualism can be confusing for a young child.
"This idea was dramatically reversed in a landmark study by Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert at McGill University in Montreal that showed a general superiority of bilinguals over monolinguals in a wide range of intelligence tests and aspects of school achievement" (Dr. Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York University, Canada). Dr. Bialystok has even done studies that show that young children who speak a second language have a cognitive edge over monolingual children.
So go ahead and teach your little one "j'ai soif" or "tengo hambre" with confidence! You will be helping them to achieve a better accent and fluency later on and enhance their social and verbal skills.
To read more about the scientific studies supporting learning two languages, click here.
Many parents write in and ask me questions about foreign language learning, and so occasionally the blog will feature a question/answer. Today's question is "How do I decide what foreign language to teach my child?"
Maybe you are like many parents who know they want to start their child on a second language early but don't know which to choose. The first thing you should know is that you can't go wrong. Whatever language you choose, starting your young child on the path to learning a foreign language paves the way for your child to have a good accent, to have the chance of being fluent, and makes it easier for them to learn whatever language they choose to study later on in life. You are giving them the foundation, and they will reap the benefits for a lifetime. A book that is great for introducing your child to the idea that different languages are spoken around the world is Babar's World Tour, where the French elephant Babar takes his family on a trip around the world and his children learn to say phrases in all the different languages.
To many people, the obvious answer to "which language?" in the U.S. is Spanish since it is spoken by over 34 million people in our country. However, this should not necessarily be the only determining factor in your choice. I find parents are more likely to reinforce the learning if they choose a second language to which at least one of the parents has some connection. If one of the parents is fluent in the language that is obviously an advantage, but is not necessary for the child to pick it up. Many moms write to tell me how fun it was for them to see that their high school Spanish or French came back to them while watching Little Pim (it beats singing "I love you" with Barney). Your child can always choose a different language later on; at this early phase, it's most important to give them the framework and a sense that learning and speaking a second language can be fun.
For people who want more concrete answers, here are the "official" Little Pim guidelines for choosing a language:
- Pick a language you like, perhaps have always wanted to speak (even if it's not the most practical) and that you will enjoy hearing and practicing with your child.
- Pick a language that you can reinforce easily through native speaking caretakers and or kids, local or international trips, live music and CDs or language classes.
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Jaffe: Mutual Funds Are Like the Mousetrap Business
In some respects, mutual fund companies are in the mousetrap business. The question for investors is whether you are the customer – beating a path to their door – or the rodent, getting snapped up by the contraptions that financial inventors are creating in the hopes of catching you and your money. Chuck Jaffe joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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... ay ay mm mm ... it will all miss all ... those companies on the mousetrap business and it's up to the bus to decide if their customers or in fact the rodents ... status as MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe has ... this now from Boston shock thank you Brian much for being map ... for traveling ... ALM so it was a pleasant so why I dont wanna be the rodents ... getting snapped in in the trap ... aam but you're in a column of now new products coming out of the fund business ... let let's let's remind everybody the mutual fund business has received is is you know on ... a safari all it's it's you know it's uh hundred years old we ... were dealing with ways of business for a hundred years old ... yes well we all are but ... the exchange traded fund side of that and the next inside is only about forty to fifty years old on indexing in about fifteen or twenty years old ... of more than twenty years old now for the first exchange traded fund and what you're seeing is this evolution of new products ... and every new product is pitched as being ... better ... than what we saw just yesterday ... Schwab troll Schwab Investment Management released six new ... exchange traded funds based on ... fundamental indexing ... and what you're being told is that fundamental indexing is ... bad or ... I still don't know if at all just a warning fundamental indexing was that of the anime ... while traditional indexes are what's known as cap weighted which means that the bigger a stock gets in terms of its market value ... a ... bigger chunk of the index make so the SNP five hundred ... typically the top fifty stocks the top ten percent and has an five hundred ... makes up half of an index fund ... so fundamental weighting is waiting at based on ... sales growth dividends and buybacks in a couple of other fundamental ... things that ... it breaks the time between one stock prices ... and one has an index ... basically traditional indexing is a bit growth oriented ... fundamental indexing is a bit value oriented ... and then you can do something called equal weighting which is handy but still than index in every five average stock fund ... gets the exact same way ... the choc choc is it that I mean did did tell swell the drum rolling out a fundamental and banks ... is about ... well ... on the one hand they were saying it was but on the other hand they were saying what you need to have a mix of all of that ... and truthfully ... I think that's where it's a problem for us is consumers because the idea of indexing is not but still beat the market the idea is let's capture the market over time that it's going from a year to year ... in ten or fifteen years ... let me go get this even if I ignore what's happening here I stop myself from a roller coaster up and down while trying to beat the market ... that you decide usable way this is a better index think that they beat the market with this and that ... for once that happens ... I mean ... let's be perfectly honest let's say that fundamental indexing is bad and will ... I do believe it's a little bit better because its value oriented and all studies say that value beats growth by a little bit over time ... so was the fundamental indexing that ... ok great ... over this period of time to go from year to year to get a little bit more thought ... in any given year ... you might be further away ... what happened when instead of lagging the index the Essen P five hundred ... by out ... that the cost of your index fund ... your lagging it ... by ten percent ... when that happens you're an adult knots ... good thing I'm not getting index returns and then if that happens instead of capturing returns you're chasing performance ... O'Neill think you're chasing performance of your using an index fund which nobody uses the Chase for for ... your chasing performance ... so yes I admit it but if I was the God by buying this shelf small funds when I they ... have the mouse would I would I be what I the the road when I the ... man that I would say that the very least ... you would be somebody who didn't have a mouse problem because of the mousetrap you were using ... and a one off and spend extra money to buy an additional mousetrap that oh by the way you don't need it ... and that you were caught in their trap because they are in the business of building mouse traps ... and then selling the people in that the very least ... Europe on fourteen what ... does it make sense for a portfolio manager of financial planners let's find the right mix of the different types of indexes ... you bet ... but does it make sense ... for you as a consumer an average guy now ... is your activity to tell the difference ... in chances are good ... that when you see one index outperformed the other ... you can go chase performance or whatever the hot indexes and that


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Leake outdueled by Peralta; Reds shut out
CINCINNATI -- In a game that was well pitched by both sides, the Reds were the ones left holding the bag of regret.
Reds starter Mike Leake, familiar with getting some big hits himself, wished he made a better pitch to his counterpart in Brewers starter Wily Peralta. Third baseman Todd Frazier lamented not seizing on the precious few opportunities Peralta offered from the mound.View Full Game Coverage
CINCINNATI -- In a game that was well pitched by both sides, the Reds were the ones left holding the bag of regret.
Reds starter Mike Leake, familiar with getting some big hits himself, wished he made a better pitch to his counterpart in Brewers starter Wily Peralta. Third baseman Todd Frazier lamented not seizing on the precious few opportunities Peralta offered from the mound.View Full Game Coverage
In the end, Peralta had both of the game's RBIs with a fifth-inning double to go along with eight scoreless innings pitched to hand the Reds a 2-0 loss. The teams have split the first two games of a four-game series.
"It was a very, very well-pitched game," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "Peralta just didn't give us anything to get excited about offensively. We didn't have multiple innings with multiple runners. He just kept us at bay."
It was already the fourth time this season that the Reds were shut out, and also the fifth time they've lost a game when the pitching staff allowed two or fewer runs.
Leake worked eight solid innings himself and, besides the two runs, gave up seven hits and two walks with five strikeouts.
The Reds were 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position while the Brewers were 1-for-7. Of course, that one clutch hit came from their pitcher.
"What can you say about guys going out there and pitching eight innings?" Price said. "You pitch eight innings, it's typically a good performance after that. That was two runs. It's unfortunate because the pitcher hit the double that scored the runs. However, in the end, those guys are dangerous too, especially as we know how Mike swings the bat."
Leake retired his first nine batters in a row before Carlos Gomez started the fourth inning by reaching on a single to shortstop, and then advancing on Zack Cozart's throwing error. It was Cozart's first error of the season.
A double play got Leake out of the fourth inning, but a two-out double by Peralta to right field on a first-pitch fastball in the top of the fifth scored Lyle Overbay and Jean Segura.
"It was probably not the best pitch, the first pitch to him," said Leake, who is 2-3 with a 3.53 ERA in six starts. "Just because you know pitchers like to hack. I still threw pretty good and had great defense behind me."
That would be all Milwaukee, and Peralta, needed against the Reds.
In the bottom of the first inning, Chris Heisey led off with an infield single after a diving stop by third baseman Aramis Ramirez. Joey Votto walked to put two on with no outs, but Frazier grounded to third base for a double play and Jay Bruce struck out for the first of four times on his 0-for-4 night.
Peralta had retired eight in a row until Votto led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a drive to the top of the left-field fence. It was originally ruled a double, but looked like a possible home run. A crew chief review of the play confirmed the original call.
"We saw the same replays they did. It hit off the top of the yellow," Price said. "It has to go over the yellow and out of the ballpark, basically. … They got it right."
Votto was left stranded when Frazier grounded out to shortstop, Bruce struck out and Brayan Pena flied out to left field.
"When it's 0-0, you've got to figure out a way. Maybe I'll bunt it the next time," Frazier said. "Votto got on twice and I had first and second, and second, with nobody out. When you have two opportunities like that, you've got to finish and figure them out."
A two-out walk in the fifth by Ramon Santiago was followed by Leake reaching on Segura's two-base throwing error. Heisey, however, grounded out to end the inning.
Peralta's final hit allowed was Frazier's ground-rule double to right-center field with one out in the sixth. Bruce then struck out for the third time and Pena grounded out to first as Peralta retired his final eight in a row before giving way to closer Francisco Rodriguez, who already has 14 saves on the season.
"He was throwing the hard fastball. It's got movement," Frazier said of Peralta. "You got to be looking away on him but if it is away, it's probably going to come back in. He had a good run on his fastball, 98-plus mph. It's tough to hit sometimes, but at the same time, I had some opportunities. Get the guy over, it's not that hard."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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by Elise Seyfried
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."——Charles Dickens
Looked at a certain way, my life has been full of disappointments. I'm not talking about the tragedies, the major letdowns, the deep, deep sorrows. Though I've had a few of those, too.
No, I'm talking about the petty annoyances and stretches of mind-numbing boredom with which my stint on Earth has been laced — yours, I'll wager, as well.
The long-awaited movie that was stupefyingly bad, "Ishtar:" what was Dustin Hoffman thinking? The bestseller you'd been months on the library waiting list for, then later wished you could get the lost hours of your life spent reading back. "Love Story" comes to mind.
When I was little, days were chock-full of interesting activity. There were Barbies to involve in complex plots featuring pink sports cars and dream houses; there were trikes to ride (never did graduate to a two-wheeler, New Yorker that I was); there were Nancy Drew books to memorize. But sheer boredom was an every-night event. I was, even as a kid, a major insomniac. Lights off, the hours crept by at a slower-than-snail's pace. 10 p.m., midnight, 2 a.m. . . . not a wink. These endless, sleepless nights led to mornings when the dulcet tones of Sister Brendan explaining gerunds to the 5th grade finally put me to sleep.
As an adult, I have endured many ridiculous queues at the local Acme supermarket. OK, it's just up the street, so I keep going there, but do they really only ever have one register open for a storeful of shoppers? My milk expires before I even get to the checkout. And of course I have sat in mega-traffic jams like everyone else. One night it took me a solid hour to get out of the parking lot after a Billy Joel concert! (And I was so thirsty! And the only thing to drink in the car was warm diet raspberry seltzer!)
These are the times I become acutely aware of my brief span on the planet. Every wasted minute, every throwaway day, really rankles. Why oh why is my precious time being treated so lightly?
I rant. I rail. But then, I think.
My Uncle Don was born with Down syndrome. His life was not exciting by any measurable standard. Shaving, reading the paper — these were triumphs that took hours. The highlight of his day was watching "To Tell the Truth" on my grandparents' ancient black-and-white TV set. But Don was an inspiration. He concentrated on every morsel of living. Donnie has been gone for almost 20 years, but he is always on my mind and in my heart, especially when I cheer the Special Olympics athletes each year.
I am riveted by their beautiful faces, so open and vulnerable and full of life. I am awed by their courage, training to climb steep hills and swim pool laps and lift heavy barbells. Boredom is not in their vocabulary. They take the measure of each second and find every one fulfilling. And this holds true in all aspects of their lives. They set themselves to a task and fully commit to it. No bellyaching. No tsk-tsking.
No Great Expectations.
And, as a result, they get it. They truly get it. Every breath is a miracle. Standing before the Grand Canyon. Standing behind the woman with 47 items in the express lane. We none of us earned this giant, beautifully wrapped present called Life. The way we value each priceless moment is entirely up to us.
Can we stop expecting Perfection? Can we even laugh when we encounter our "Waterworlds" and "Jonathan Livingston Seagulls"? Is a gridlocked line of cars on the Schuylkill Expressway really such a catastrophe? Isn't it possible to just chill out and go with the flow? (I can't believe I'm writing this, as chilling and flowing are such alien concepts to me.)
Maybe my way of looking at things could use a tune-up. Maybe tomorrow I need to wake up expecting, not Great, but something better.
Tomorrow looks like rain. It could be another Big Nuisance, but then again … I think I'll stand outside, and get thoroughly, wringingly wet and say, and mean, "Thank you."
Elise Seyfried is Director of Spiritual Formation at Christ's Lutheran Church in Oreland. She is also an actress, wife, mother of five and co-author (with husband, Steve) of 15 plays for children. She can be contacted through www.eliseseyfried.com.


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Science Potpourri
Science Potpourri is a CNSM tradition. For 17 years the free community event has entertained and inspired the Fairbanks community and it's tons of fun too!
Every April on the second Saturday of the month, families and science fans trek to the Reichardt Building where science displays and experiments thrive around every corner.
The Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) is a bridging program that assists students in Rural Alaska in making the academic and social transition between high school and college.
Girls on Ice
Girls on Ice is a unique, FREE, wilderness science education program for high school girls. Each year two teams of teenage girls and instructors explore and learn about mountain glaciers and the alpine landscape with professional glaciologists, ecologists, artists, and mountaineers. One team explores Mount Baker, an ice-covered volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State. The other team sleeps under the midnight sun exploring an Alaskan glacier.
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- May 17:
- Longmont's Spangler celebrates end of 50 years as school
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- Frederick Elementary friends say goodbye to closing school
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- Heritage, Loma Linda begin to blend
Even before Timberline K-8 School opens in the fall, Heritage Middle School and Loma Linda Elementary School will begin sharing an administrative office, library and front entrance.
During spring break -- the week of April 1 -- the offices will merge and the new library will open in the area of new construction that connects the two schools.
A glass entryway will guide visitors to the school office, where they will check in before entering the rest of the building. The library, to the south of the office, features large glass windows that will oversee the bus drop-off area and Centennial Park.
Crews will begin painting the new offices this week, project manager George McKinnon said Wednesday.
Construction and remodeling are underway on East Mountain View Avenue in Longmont and on East Fifth Street in Frederick to create the St. Vrain Valley School District's new kindergarten-through-eighth-grade schools, Timberline and Thunder Valley, respectively. Both schools are on schedule to open this fall.
Parents in Longmont and Frederick have expressed concern about their young children's safety, said assistant superintendent Amy Weed. But both schools are designed so that the youngest elementary students and the middle school students aren't sharing hallways or restrooms.
"Your kindergartners are totally separate, with a separate playground," Weed pointed out.
But each school will operate as one K-8 school, so elementary students will have expanded opportunities, such as in music or drama, she said.
At Thunder Valley, elementary students will have access to middle school science labs and the school's auditorium.
"One of the goals of a K-8 is you give younger kids those opportunities they might gain in a middle school," said director of construction Brian Lamer.
The middle school students also will have the chance to mentor younger students, Weed said.
"It's planned; it's structured; it's supervised," Weed said.
At the end of this school year, Spangler Elementary will close and most of its students will begin attending Timberline. Some students who attend Spangler will live in Columbine Elementary School's new attendance boundary, but have the option, like all other students, of open-enrolling into the new school.
All Frederick Elementary students will be moving to Thunder Valley K-8, which is next door in the former Frederick High School building. The elementary school's attendance boundaries remain the same, but seventh- and eighth-graders have the option of finishing middle school at Coal Ridge Middle School in Firestone.
"The whole dynamic of the K-8 is super, super positive," Weed said. "When they experience it, they will never go to anything but a K-8."
Timberline K-8
Since students are still attending Heritage and Loma Linda, most of the work to create Timberline K-8 will be done over the summer, Lamer said. That will include gutting and rebuilding the interior of the schools, he said
On the Loma Linda side, for example, the office will be remodeled into a resource room, while the library will become a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) laboratory, McKinnon said.
"Timberline will be very different over the summer," Lamer said, adding that there's a lot of work to do. "We know it's going to be tough, but we're planning for it."
The library will follow the district's new bookstore model, which has been implemented at Red Hawk and Erie elementary schools.
In the bookstore model, books are grouped by topic rather than ordered by the Dewey Decimal system.
"When (elementary students) go into a library, the Dewey Decimal system doesn't make sense to them," Weed said. In the other schools, students check out more books when the library uses the bookstore model, which was developed by the district's media services coordinator, Holli Buchter.
The Timberline library will be the first where Buchter's design is implemented for sixth through eighth grades, Weed said.
Thunder Valley
Construction is easier at Thunder Valley, since no students are in the school now, Lamer said.
The school's main entrance isn't moving but, here too, visitors will be forced to check in at the office before they can access the rest of the building.
The library, which also will use the bookstore model, will move to the front of the school, across from the office.
Workers are popping the top of the cafeteria -- lifting the roof and installing large windows to allow sunlight into the once-dark commons area.
Slanted roofs with windows also will brighten the middle school students' locker areas.
Every outer classroom is getting large new windows, while those in the school's interior will have solar tubes bringing natural light indoors.
Kindergarten classrooms are on the building's north side, with a special drop-off area for those youngest students.
"We look at those convenience things: Is it easy to get my child to class? Its it safe?" Lamer said.
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text: Genocide is not far from the minds of the Nyak and Bonande peoples, who have been locked in a decade of civil war. Now, Le President, the president and commander of the Nyak national army, and Colonel Theo, controller of the Bonande rebel army, are determined to end the conflict. A meeting is arranged, but there is still much cynicism on both sides and tension builds as the evening wears on. Drums have been banned as they were the signal that unleashed the slaughter in the past. However, the village jester, Tomoto, a Nyak-hater skeptical of reconciliation, indignantly decides to beat the drums during the festivities. The sound becomes a trigger that releases the feelings of distrust and fear that have been suppressed by both sides.


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Members of the GPPAC Board serve for a period of three years, which can be renewed once. For more information about our current Board members, please check the profiles below.
Miguel Álvarez Gándara
Miguel Álvarez Gándara is the International Vice-Chair of the Board and the President of SERAPAZ. SERAPAZ is an independent and nonprofit organisation that works for peace and social change through the articulation and promotion of civil society-based initiatives, conducting research and producing publications, providing training and consulting, advocacy, and oversight of peacebuilding processes. Miguel is an expert on themes of social conflict and political analysis in Mexico, drawing upon forty years of experience in the field. He has served as a mediator and a consultant for diverse peacebuilding processes, including the mediation commission between the Mexican government and the coalition party of PDPR-EPR. Mr. Álvarez has also worked with diverse communities and movements such as the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca.
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls is the Chair of the GPPAC Board and Executive Director of FemlinkPacific: Media Initiatives for Women, an organization that advocates for UNSCR 1325, community media and for women, peace and human security concerns. In addition to leading FemlinkPacific as GPPAC's Regional Secretariat for the Pacific region, Sharon was appointed as Gender Liaison for GPPAC's International Steering Group in 2009; since 2012 she is also a member of the GPPAC Board. Sharon has long been involved in advocacy on women's empowerment and is a member of UN Women's Global Civil Society Advisory Group (UNW GCSAG).
Yoshioka Tatsuya
In 1983, Mr Yoshioka Tatsuya founded Peace Boat. He started organising voyages for education and people-to-people reconciliation between Japan and other Asian countries, and to study Japanese war responsibility. From this vision of promoting people's diplomacy, Peace Boat grew into an organisation that organised over 90 voyages for peace and sustainability. Over the last thirty years, besides being a leading advocate within Japanese civil society, he has engaged internationally with Peace Boat on projects including peace education for Israeli and Palestinian youth, Eritrea-Ethiopia peoples' peace talks, and Northeast Asian people's dialogues. Yoshioka has authored books on the Civil War in the Former Yugoslavia, the Russia-Japan Northern Territories dispute, and on Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution as a global common value for peace. He is a commentator in the Japanese media on issues including the Iraq War and Korea-Japan relations, and has been invited to address the United Nations on issues including peace education and disarmament. Yoshioka is a founding member of the GPPAC International Steering Group, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for leading the Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War, to protect and promote Japan's war-renouncing constitution. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011, Yoshioka has devoted his energy to the establishment of Peace Boat's Disaster Relief Volunteer Centre, which has dispatched more than 13,000 volunteers to the stricken regions, and to the foundation of a post-Fukushima Global Campaign for a Nuclear Power Free World. Peace Boat is one of 10 Steering Group members of ICAN, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Mariska van Beijnum
Mariska van Beinum is GPPAC Board member. She is Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the Conflict Research Unit (CRU) at Clingendael, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations in The Hague. Her research focuses on aid architecture and aid effectiveness issues in fragile and conflict-affected situations, and specifically on coordination and coherence issues (whole-of-government / whole-of-system approaches) as well as financing modalities. Previously, Mariska held a research position at the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working on the Evaluation of local governance assistance through Municipal International Cooperation in the period 2001-2003, and on the Evaluation of Dutch Humanitarian Assistance in the period 2003-2006.
Ivana Gajović
Ivana Gajović is GPPAC Board member, Regional Representative for the Western Balkans and Co-Chair of the Peace Education Working Group. She is Director of Nansen Dialogue Centre Montenegro, local NGO, member of the Nansen Dialogue Network in the Western Balkans. Ivana is member of the grant commision at FAKT Foundation (Foundation for the active Citizenship), and founder and member of the Association of the Mediators of Montenegro. For many years, Ivana is involved in programmes of democratisation, Education for peace and conflict transformation.
Liesbeth Reekers
Liesbeth Reekers is the GPPAC Board Treasurer. She works as a researcher for the Dutch House of Representatives Internal Bureau for Research on Government Policy and Spending. She focuses on supporting the Parliament Committees on Education, Culture and Sciences; and Security and Justice. Earlier, Liesbeth worked in the Internal Finance Department of the Dutch House of Representatives, for Price Waterhouse Coopers and as a Business Management Consultant with an IT company.
Robert Zeldenrust
Robert Zeldenrust is the Dutch Vice-Chair of the GPPAC Board. He spent most of his career in the foreign service of the Netherlands, holding i.a. various positions in the field of development cooperation, both bilateral and multilateral. He managed aid programs in East and West Africa at the ministry of Foreign Affairs and had postings in Sri Lanka and Brussels before being appointed ambassador to Lebanon in 2007. From 2000 to 2003 Rob served as the Director for Democratization and Human Rights in the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Until his retirement in 2014 he was the Netherlands Permanent Delegate and ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. Subsequently, he joined PUM Netherlands senior experts, where he became coordinator for Government Services, as well as various ngos. Rob is chairman of the board of the Sen Foundation for Research and Education in International cooperation, chairman of the board of Unesco Centrum Nederland and vice-chair of the board of the Indonesia-Nederland Society.


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Hawks May Bring Back Popular Robinson
The Seattle Seahawks will bring former Pro Bowl fullback Michael Robinson in for a physical on Monday after Derrick Coleman suffered a hamstring injury against Arizona.
The team confirmed the talks with Robinson on Sunday. Coleman had been serving as the Seahawks fullback for most of the season, but left the game in the first half last Thursday against the Cardinals with a hamstring injury. After the game coach Pete Carroll had no immediate word on the severity of Coleman's injury.
Robinson was Seattle's starting fullback from 2010-12, but was cut at the end of training camp. He was set to make $2.5 million in base salary if he was on Seattle's roster to start the regular season. Robinson had a workout with Tennessee in early September but was not signed.


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Life With Boys
January 05, 2011
1. While I cannot sufficiently EXPLAIN what is going on here, I am also not in the least bit surprised.
I mean, that's a toilet paper roll holder. What did you expect? Toilet paper? Bitch, please.
2. Despite a rumored, God-given ability to AIM, I do not personally believe it.
(photo of general toilet vicinity not included for the sake of human dignity and/or lunchtime, but SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS, it's not like they're expected to pee into a narrow little test tube here. IT'S A BIG OVALISH ROUND THING THAT I JUST CLEANED YESTERDAY GAAAAH.)
3. Some days, you are just going to feel like you are up to your eyeballs in boy bits. Some of these days may overlap with Laundry Day.
I'm sorry, but if you actually see an excavator on the first try, instead of, I DON'T KNOW, a pair of giant dangling yellow testicles, you are a better person than I am.
Or maybe you have daughters.