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Longest strike in Major League Baseball history ends
Major League Baseball players are sent back to work after the longest strike in baseball history ends on this day in 1995. Because of the strike, the 1994 World Series was cancelled; it was the first time baseball did not crown a champion in 89 years.
During the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement, tensions between owners and players had arisen over the owners' desire to institute a cap on player salaries. Claiming financial hardship, owners argued that player salaries, which had risen exponentially since the 1970s, had become unsustainable and, if not contained, would bankrupt the teams. The players, led by union head Donald Fehr, refused to agree to a cap; they pointed out that they had been underpaid for most of the sport's history and called salary caps just the latest form of exploitation by owners.
Until 1975, players were subject to a reserve clause that tied each player to one team for their career, destroying any free market and keeping player salaries artificially low. After the reserve clause was abolished in arbitration, free agency drove salaries up, as owners were forced to bid against one another for players' services. After the 1985 season, owners agreed in secret not to sign one another's players, and all 28 major league teams sat idly by during the next three off-seasons. Upon discovering the conspiracy, the players' union sued and won a $280 million judgment.
When the collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the Players Association expired in 1994, bad blood remained and negotiations over a new deal soon turned sour. On August 12, owners locked the players out, and the rest of the 1994 season was cancelled. Long-suffering fans in Montreal and Yankee fans in New York were especially disappointed, as their teams led the National League and American League, respectively, at the time of the lock-out.
In December 1994, President Clinton met with the lead negotiators of both sides, to no avail. Toward the end of March, on the eve of the new baseball season, 28 of 30 owners voted to field replacement teams, but on March 31, Judge Sonia Sontomayor stepped in, issuing an injunction against owners from locking players out. Finally, on April 2, 1995, the players returned to work.
Baseball's fans were not forgiving. Attendance in 1995 was the lowest in years, dropping from an average 31,000 per game in 1993 to just 25,000. Fans picketed at opening day games, angry at players and owners alike. Thankfully for baseball, "The Iron Man" Cal Ripken's breaking of Lou Gehrig's streak for consecutive games played on September 6, 1995, finally broke the ice. Ripken's incredible work ethic and commitment to the game is said to have saved baseball's place in the hearts of fans.
The collective bargaining agreement between players and owners was not renewed until 1996. When that agreement expired in 2002, owners and players, having learned the unforgiving nature of their fans in 1995, were able to ratify a new deal without a work stoppage.

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TUNICA, Miss.—After the first round of the 2013 Rhodes Fall Classic, played at Tunica National Golf Course in Tunica, Miss., the Birmingham-Southern men's golf team is tied for 13th in the field of 20 teams with a score of 306.
Freshman Patrick Newsom shot 74 today to lead the Panthers, followed by senior Michael Wallace with 75, sophomore Nick Vick with 76, senior Daniel Morris with 81, and senior Phillip Brol with 84. Newsom is tied for 20th among all individuals.
The Panthers tied with UT Dallas in the team standings, and are just one stroke back from Centre with 305. Rhodes leads the field with 292, followed by No. 12 Wittenberg and No. 15 Texas-Tyler at second with 293.
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The purposes of the Trustees of the City Ice Boat(s) was to operate a vessel on the Delaware River which would be instrumental in breaking the ice during winter months and ensuring a free and open passage on the river to the Port of Philadelphia. The vessel could also be used for towage and, in emergencies, be deployed to assist other ships in distress not only in the Delaware River and Bay but along the adjacent coasts.
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- The Trustees were established by an ordinance of March 2, 1837 which provided for the annual election by City Councils of twelve citizens who were given complete charge of the boats' construction and operation and the setting of their fees. An ordinance of 1880 raised their number to thirteen. In pursuance of the Bullitt Bill the boats were in 1887 placed in the charge of the Bureau of City Ice Boats of the Department of Public Works. In 1907 that bureau was transferred to the Department of Wharves, Docks, and Ferries. While under that department's control the boats were eventually used only as dredges due to the gradual disappearance of ice from the Delaware River.
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Advertised brand: Wangs Kitchen Advert title(s): Wangs Kitchen Door Delivery Advertising Agency (Name, City, Country): Fingerprints, Chennai, India Creative Director: Karan Daswani Art Director: Vinayak Vohra Desinger: Venkit Kumar Photographer: Kunal Daswani Published/Released/Aired (Month, Year): October, 2011


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I had never heard of this whisky and, for that matter, I had no idea this company produced whisky until Daniel sent me his review. It is made by Chogoku-jozo, which is usually more in the shochu line, but seems to have branched out into whisky making. As I say, it was discovered by Daniel, who will be contributing reviews to Nonjatta over the coming months. It is a blend and, as Daniel says in his review, the company says it is aged in an abandoned railway tunnel in the Japanese Alps. Intriguing!
Review by Nonjatta contributor - Daniel
"General Comments: My hopes were so high after reading about how this unknown is aged in an abandoned railroad tunnel. It's an elderly 18year old, and it's dashingly packaged. A typical Japanese relationship: a long polite beginning. But given time (and liquid lubrication) it opens up to reveal a fine and nuanced character with many wonderful and interesting turns. A spectacular whisky.
Appearance/Colour: old gold (0.6 using the Whisky Magazine color bar).
Aroma: Imperceptible on opening. Oatmeal. Fabric softener. Dried hay. Exotic spices, old wood, incense, and vanilla emerged after giving the whisky time to open up and adding water.
Palate: Spicy. Sandalwood. Heather. Pepper. After adding water: toffee and honey, then raisins and nuts.
Finish: Dry and peppery. Medium smoke. After diluting: caramel and chai spice, then Dr. Pepper and all spice. Almond oil on the end.
Overall: Soft and ephemeral despite its robustness and spicy edge. Requires some water and takes ages to open up. Delicately layered and deeply complex, this whisky needs time, patience, and attention as it changes through the tasting. Water carefully, the character changes quickly with small amounts."
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Hope senior Seth Weener of Grandville, Mich. (Grandville HS) will compete in the NCAA Division III national cross country championships in Hanover, Ind. on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Weener will be one of 56 individual runners competing in the field of
280 competitors in the 8,000-meter race to be hosted at Hanover
College. The other competitors will come from 32 qualifying teams.
The race begins at 11 a.m. ET.
The top seven individual competitors in each regional race, not
associated with a qualifying team, advanced to nationals. Weener was
the seventh individual finisher at the Great Lakes regional finishing
15th overall among the 240 runners.
He will be competing at the national meet for the second time in his
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He becomes the fifth male Hope runner to qualify for nationals as an
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the world's most wanted drugs lord, fought his way up from a ramshackle mountain village to become the Mexican government's most powerful adversary in a war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Guzman, who was captured early on Saturday in his native northwestern state of Sinaloa after a months-long operation, gained power by crushing rivals in brutal turf wars and dominated drug smuggling across the border into the United States after escaping from a high-security prison in 2001.
His criminal empire earned him a $5 million price on his head in the United States, and a place on the Forbes list of billionaires.
But in towns and villages across Mexico he was better known for his squads of assassins who committed thousands of murders and kidnappings. Many victims were tortured.
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and crystal meth across Mexico's 2,000- mile (3,200-km) border with the United States. Indictments allege Guzman's narcotics were sold from the Pacific coast all the way to New England.
His nickname "Chapo" means "Shorty" and the 5-foot, 6-inch (1.7-meter) gangster's exploits made him a legend in many impoverished communities of northern Mexico, where he has been immortalized in dozens of ballads and low-budget movies
"A lot of people here see Guzman as a success story, because he is a poor guy who has been able to beat the system and become richer than you could ever imagine," said Omar Meza, a singer from the town of Badiraguato, in the heart of the drug lord's territory. "They refer to him as a valiente (a brave one)."
Drug agents concede Guzman, 56, has been exceptional at what he does, managing to outmaneuver, outfight and outbribe his rivals to stay at the top of the bloody Mexican drug trade for over a decade.
"Guzman was schooled, educated and had a PhD in drug trafficking," said Mike Vigil, who spent 13 years in Mexico for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Mexican soldiers and U.S. agents came close to Guzman on several occasions but his layers of bodyguards and spies had always tipped him off before they stormed his safe houses.
He was born in La Tuna, a village in the Sierra Madre mountains in Sinaloa state where smugglers have been growing opium and marijuana since the early 20th century.
He rose up in the 1980s under the tutelage of Sinaloan kingpin Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, alias "The Boss of Bosses," who pioneered cocaine smuggling routes into the United States.
The aspiring capo came to prominence in 1993 when assassins who shot dead Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas claimed they had been gunning for Guzman but got the wrong target.
Two weeks later, Guatemalan police arrested Guzman and then extradited him to Mexico, where he was locked in a top-security prison.
Vigil, the DEA officer, oversaw a team of agents that interviewed Guzman in custody.
"He wouldn't cooperate with us at all. He kept claiming he was just a farmer. But that's what they all say," Vigil said.
Guzman used his wealth to ease his prison stay, smuggling in lovers and prostitutes, according to accounts published in the Mexican media.
Eventually, he bribed guards to help him escape and returned to the streets to rebuild his cartel into one of the biggest trafficking empires in history.
Guzman expanded his turf by sending in squads of assassins with names such as "Los Negros" ("The Black Ones") and "The Ghosts" to take business away from rival cartels.
His gangs fought in all major Mexican cities on the U.S. border, turning Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo into some of the world's most dangerous places.
In one attack in Nuevo Laredo 14 bodies were left mutilated on the street under a note that was signed "Shorty," and read "Don't forget that I am your real daddy."
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel often clashed with the Zetas, a gang founded by former Mexican soldiers that created paramilitary death squads.
The Sinaloans fought fire with fire, arming their troops with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.
Guzman also turned on his own. He waged one of his bloodiest campaigns against childhood friend and longtime business partner Arturo Beltran Leyva, alias "The Beard."
In 2008, hitmen hired by Beltran Leyva murdered Guzman's son Edgar, a 22-year-old university student, outside a shopping mall in the Sinaloan state capital of Culiacan.
Guzman reportedly left 50,000 flowers at his son's grave and then returned to war. When Beltran Leyva was finally shot dead by Mexican marines in 2009, a head was dumped on his grave.
In the 1990s, Guzman had become infamous for hiding seven tons of cocaine in cans of chili peppers.
In the 2000s, indictments say Guzman's crew took drugs in tractor trailers to major U.S. cities including Phoenix, Los Angeles and Chicago, from where they were sold across the country by the kilo.
A year ago, Chicago dubbed him the city's first Public Enemy No.1 since Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone.
Forbes put his wealth at $1 billion though investigators say it is impossible to know exactly how much he really made.
Mexican prosecutors say Guzman used his wealth to buy off politicians, police chiefs, soldiers and judges, allowing him to always be one step ahead of the law.
Agents say Guzman hid near his childhood home in the Sierra Madre mountains but rumors abounded of him visiting expensive restaurants with his entourage and paying for all the other diners, although he also took away their cellular phones to prevent anyone calling the police.
In 2007, Guzman married an 18-year-old beauty queen in a village in Durango state in an ostentatious ceremony.
The archbishop of Durango subsequently caused a media storm when he said that "everyone, except the authorities," knew Guzman was living in the state. Guzman's bride gave birth to twins in a Los Angeles hospital in 2011.
Among the many songs about El Chapo, one of the most famous, "The Ballad to Chapo Guzman," celebrated his elusiveness.
"Sometimes he sleeps in mansions, sometimes in tents, with radios and machines guns," the song goes to the sounds of accordions and 12-string guitars. "Sometimes he sleeps under a roof and sometimes in caves. They call him Joaquin, Shorty."
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Mother Mary is beloved for the purity of her compassion, nurturing, and protection. She cares deeply about each of us, and gives us tender motherly advice about every part of life.
This 44-card deck by Doreen Virtue is a beautiful, safe, and respectful way to connect with Mother Mary's loving wisdom. The accompanying nondenominational guidebook gives you step-by-step instructions on how to receive accurate and trustworthy messages for yourself and others. It explains the general meaning of each card and provides specific details that can illuminate the answers you're seeking.
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Drummer Jack DeJohnette, singer Dee Alexander and drummer Dana Hall will headline the annual "Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz" series this summer at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, near Randolph Drive and Michigan Avenue.
Following is the complete schedule for the series, with all concerts starting at 6:30 p.m.; for details, visit millenniumpark.org.
Dee Alexander's "Funkin' with Acoustic Soul: Tribute to James Brown and Jimi Hendrix," July 25.
Victor Garcia's "Crossing Borders," Aug. 1.
Jeff Parker-Nels Cline Quartet: "The Turning Point," Aug. 8.
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Kind of a drab game, but the Unicorns couldn't be happier with the result, which sets them up to clinch a District 26-5A playoff berth with a home victory next week over MacArthur.
Johnson coach Ron Rittimann didn't know if the Jaguars were officially eliminated. Without having examined all the tie-breakers, and there are many, it looks like the best they can hope for are losses by New Braunfels and Roosevelt, which would create a massive four-way tie between those three schools and MacArthur.
Should they miss out, they still exceeded most expectations by a wide margin by going 5-5 in their second varsity season.
New Braunfels 14, Johnson 0, halftime
Not an overwhelming performance by the Unicorns, but they're in control thanks to Jeremy Garcia's 3-yard TD run and John Simmons' 20-yard scoring hookup with Matt Schmid. They're also playing well defensively, forcing as many punts (four) as they've allowed first downs.


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Local Authority and European Parliament Elections With Local Authority and European Parliament Elections around the corner, now is the time to raise local issues with candidates seeking your vote. MS Ireland are members of the Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI) and the Neurological Alliance of Ireland (NAI). We are supporting their campaigns to make disability and neurology top priorities for candidates in both the Local Authority and European Parliament Elections. We are asking you to get involved too! Local Authority Elections Accessibility Are there accessibility issues in your area? Are there uneven pathways? Are there pedestrian lights that don't give you adequate time to cross the road? Think about the accessibility issues you face locally. Ask your local authority candidates to commit to ensuring local public services and buildings are accessible for people who live with a disability. Participation Are you aware if people living with disabilities are involved with current decision-making structures locally? Can your local candidate tell you about Public Participation Networks? Ask your candidate to commit to ensure that people living with disabilities are encouraged to take part in local decision making. Planning Is your local candidate aware of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD)? Do they know what changes need to be made locally to comply with this convention? Ask your candidate to commit to ensuring that your local authority publishes its implementation plan for the UNCRPD by 2020. Don't forget to mention the MS Care Centre Business Case In addition to having the power to influence local change, candidates for local authority often have the capacity to raise issues with TD's and Senators. If a candidate asks for your vote, please make them aware of the MS Ireland Care Centre Business Case and ask them to raise the issue with Elected Local Representatives. The Care Centre Business Case can be downloaded here European Elections European Parliament hopefuls are being asked to pledge support in a number of key areas; Accessibility & Equality Ask European Parliament candidates to commit to making products, services and infrastructure accessible to people with disabilities and to stop discrimination. Ask European Parliament candidates to commit to working at and EU level to ensure equitable access to treatments, services and supports for people with neurological conditions. Investment Ask European Parliament candidates to support the investment of European funds in persons with disabilities. Support Ask European Parliament candidates to support the aims and objectives of the Members of European Parliament (MEP) interest group on Brain, Mind and Pain. Ask your European Parliament candidate to work at EU level to increase awareness of neurological conditions as a major public health and social care issue. Ask candidates to commit to their support on Twitter using #DisabilityVotesCount and #LoveYourBrain2019 Further information: www.disability-federation.ie www.nai.ie
NUI Galway are recruiting Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a part-time, fixed term position (20% FTE) as a Patient Representative Research Assistant with the Discipline of Occupational Therapy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This position is funded by Health Research Board and is available from July 1st 2019. This is a specific purpose contract circa 30 months. Information on project: The post is an exciting opportunity to be part of a research study of a cognitive rehabilitation intervention for people living with multiple sclerosis. Some people with multiple sclerosis have cognitive symptoms (e.g. difficulty with memory, processing information, attention) that impact their daily lives. The lead researcher has developed a new occupational therapy programme for people with multiple sclerosis that aims to help people deal with these symptoms. The programme will be assessed in this study. How to apply: Applications to include a covering letter, CV, and the contact details of two referees should be sent, via e-mail (in word or PDF only) to Dr Sinéad Hynes at firstname.lastname@example.com Please put reference number NUIG-079-19 in subject line of e-mail application.Or by post to Dr Sinéad Hynes, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Áras Moyola, NUI Galway. Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 31st May 2019 at 5.00 pm Interviews are planned to be held on 11th June 2019 All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment. National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunities employer.
This week Mary Devereux talks about falling and how she is dealing with the impact of Primary Progressive MS on her life and the lives of her family members. I have fallen… I could fall up a stairs, down a stairs; going up a footpath and going down a footpath and often I have tripped on...nothing. My foot sticks to the ground, my ankle or knee will simply stop working and I fall. Sometimes I will jump awake from a sleep with the sensation of falling. Falls are part and parcel for many people with Multiple Sclerosis. Falls are something we endure but also work hard to prevent. Muscle weakness, spasms, coordination problems, foot drop and numbness are all common MS symptoms that increase our risk of falling. More often than not, falls are unpreventable. I used to have SO many more suit jackets but no trousers to match because they were the casualty of my many falls. The first reaction I have when I fall is one of embarrassment; the second is to get up as quick as I can and walk as fast as I can, not looking right nor left and hoping no one has seen me. These are my first reactions despite any pain I may be in. Some of my falls are my own fault, like when I am over-tired but still insist on carrying out a task instead of listening to my body. Then foot-drop hits and all of a sudden I am having a close encounter with the floor. Or if I am carrying too many things at once instead of slowing down and carrying out the task in a safer and more thoughtful manner (that's a whole different conversation for another day!). When your tendency to fall is no longer funny to people, you see the worry on their faces. That worry often leads to attempts to protect you. It begins with "don't climb that ladder" or "don't go up to the attic", then "don't stand on the chair"... all things I would have done before diagnosis without batting an eyelid. Once I fell down the stairs, couldn't stop myself and heard the crunching of bones as I tumbled. The things I have been running away from I now have no choice but to allow them to be part of my life. They minimise the risk of falling and therefore the injuries I might get from falling. Things like a cane, a rollator, the bed rail, the non-slip mat on the bedroom floor, the second banister rail, the shower chair... the list goes on. I learned early on with this disease I had to help myself in order to survive; if my wellbeing and survival comes by way of special equipment, so be it. My latest addition to falling has been in the middle of the night. Sometimes I wake up from pain, try to sit at the side of the bed fully expecting my feet to be my anchor and all of a sudden my feet are sliding out in front of me. I know I'm going to hit the ground and there isn't a thing I can do to stop it. I scream, wake the house and have to accept the help to get up. Then I spend all the time apologizing for it. What do I fear most about falling? The look of fear on my loved ones' faces. The slow ebbing away of my confidence and independence. This progressive disease is a thief that comes any time of day or night and never leaves empty handed. The MS thief always takes a little bit of me with it.
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Almost exactly a year ago I was looking to merge the many forks of Will Glozer's Postgres client for use in a project at Heroku. Instead Semiocast released their client, I gave it a try and never looked back. (But note that David Welton, a braver person than me, is working on merging the forks of epgsql at this time). I found Semiocast's client to be clean, stable and I liked the interface better.
At the same time I was in the need of a connection pooler. Many have relied on poolboy or pooler for this purpose but neither actually fits the use case of connection pooling that well. Luckily Eric and Jordan were in the need at the same time and created the Erlware project episcina, which they based off of Joseph Wecker's fork of Will Glozer's epgsql pool. Episcina differs in that it is purely for connection pooling, it is not for pooling workers and it is not for pooling generic processes.
Here I'll show how I combined the two in a simple example.
To start we have a
sys.config file to configure episcina:
{episcina, [{pools, [{primary, [{size, 10}, {timeout, 10000}, {connect_provider, {pp_db, open, [[{host, "localhost"} ,{database, "postgres_pool"} ,{port, 5432} ,{user, "postgres"} ,{password, "password"}]]}}, {close_provider, {pp_db, close, []}}]}] } ] }
A key thing to note here is the connect and close providers are function calls to modules within the project and not the Postgres client. Episcina requires a return value of
{ok, pid()} and the Semiocast client returns
{pgsql_connection, pid()}, so we wrap the connection calls to get around that:
-spec get_connection(atom()) -> {pgsql_connection, pid()} | {error, timeout}. get_connection(Pool) -> case episcina:get_connection(Pool) of {ok, Pid} -> {pgsql_connection, Pid}; {error, timeout} -> {error, timeout} end. -spec return_connection(atom(), {pgsql_connection, pid()}) -> ok. return_connection(Pool, {pgsql_connection, Pid}) -> episcina:return_connection(Pool, Pid). -spec open(list()) -> {ok, pid()}. open(DBArgs) -> {pgsql_connection, Pid} = pgsql_connection:open(DBArgs), {ok, Pid}. -spec close(pid()) -> ok. close(Pid) -> pgsql_connection:close({pgsql_connection, Pid}).
And here is the query function to get a connection and return it to the pool after completion:
-spec query(string()) -> tuple(). query(Query) -> C = get_connection(primary), try pgsql_connection:simple_query(Query, [], infinity, C) after return_connection(primary, C) end.
This example project uses relx to build a release which will start episcina on boot:
{release, {postgres_pool, "0.0.1"}, [postgres_pool]}. {sys_config, "./config/sys.config"}. {dev_mode, true}. {include_erts, true}. {extended_start_script, true}.
Boot the release to an interactive shell and play around:
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Miller says the list of citations included 23 for speeding, 26 for no proof of insurance, 11 alcohol violations--typically an open container--and 39 citations were written in what are known as "complaint zones."
One of the DWI arrests stemmed from a fatal two-vehicle crash around 1:30am Wednesday at the intersection of East 10th Street and Sycamore Avenue.
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- Jeanette said...
Thankyou Val for offering your cute bag pattern for free. The owls are gorgeous as is the quilt Annette made. Have fun with the grandkids. Hugs,
- December 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Anne said...
Your little bag pattern is perfect for some things I'm trying to get finished - thank you for your generosity.
- December 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Allie said...
Thank you so much Val, I love the bag! And I love how Annette made the quilt. Enjoy having your family with you!!!
- December 4, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- KaHolly said...
Oh, Val, thanks so much. I'm on the move as of tomorrow, but I know I'll have sewing time once I reach TX. This looks quick and easy and will be perfect for gift giving to my extended family there. Sweet birds. Some day I'd like to go birding in your little corner of the world. Enjoy those grandkids!~karen
- December 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Ulla's Quilt World said...
Hi! Greetings from Finland! Your quilts are so fantastic! It's so nice to find other quilters all around the world! www.quiltworld2.blogspot.com
Yours, Ulla
- December 4, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Kate said...
Thank you so much for the gift bag pattern ... I love your designs. Have a wonderful Christmas.
- December 5, 2011 at 2:28 AM
- Linda said...
You're very generous, Val. Between this design and a 2012 BOM, you're going to be keeping lots of stitchers busy! Glad you're enjoying warm weather with family. Continue to have fun.
- December 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- manda said...
We have curlews nesting not far away...like 20 meters...but I would love some Tawneys!!!
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• This Week
Game No. 24
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Long Beach State 49ers
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Radio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara
On-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
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Game No. 25
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Cal Poly Mustangs
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Radio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara
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• Gauchos Home For Final Three
UCSB will return home for its final three home games. The Gauchos host Cal Poly on Saturday, Feb. 25, Pacific on Thursday, Mar. 1 and UC Davis on Saturday, Mar. 3. The game against Davis will be senior night with the five UCSB seniors – Orlando Johnson, James Nunnally, Jaimé Serna, Greg Somogyi and Christian Peterson – being saluted before tip-off. Tickets are available from the Ticket Office in the ICA Building on campus, by calling 805-893-UCSB (8272) and online by clicking here.
• Gauchos Travel To Long Beach State For Final Road Game Of Regular Season
UC Santa Barbara travels to Long Beach State on Wednesday night for its final regular season road game of the 2011-12 season. The match-up of the two teams that have played in each of the last two Big West Tournament championship games, will be the seventh road game in the last eight overall for UCSB. While the Gauchos have played 12 road games and 11 home games to this point, since opening the season with six straight at home, they have played 12 of 17 on the road, including all four in December. When they return home to host Cal Poly on Feb. 25, it will be just their second home game in 35 days.
• The Gaucho Record
UCSB is 15-8 overall and 9-3 in the Big West Conference, tied with Cal State Fullerton for second-place. The Gauchos have won three straight games and six of their last seven. On Saturday, Feb. 18, in a Sears BracketBuster match-up, they won at Utah State, 72-64. The loss was just the sixth in 101 home games for the Aggies. UCSB has now won two straight road games and five of its last six away from home.
• Johnson Named Big West Player Of The Week
Senior guard Orlando Johnson was named Big West Player of the Week on Monday. It was the sixth time that Johnson has earned the honor, tying him with Long Beach State's Casper Ware and Larry Anderson for third on the all-time list. Johnson made 9-of-11 shots overall, including both three-point attempts, had 25 points, 10 rebound and four assists in a win over UC Irvine. On Saturday at Utah State, he had 22 points and five rebounds, making 7-of-12 shots overall and 4-of-7 from three-point territory. The four three-point baskets were a season-high for Johnson.
• Williams Coaches 700th Game Wednesday
UCSB head coach Bob Williams has already hit two milestones this year. On Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, he won the 223rd game of his Gaucho coaching career, breaking Jerry Pimm's previous mark of 222 wins. On Jan. 12 at UC Riverside, he coached his 400th game at UCSB. Now, he is approaching one more career signpost. On Wednesday at Long Beach State, Williams will coach the 700th game of his career.
• Johnson Becomes Fourth Gaucho Over 1,600 Points, Closes In On Scoring Record
On Feb. 4 at Cal State Fullerton, senior guard Orlando Johnson became the fourth player in UCSB history to score more than 1,600 points. He also moved past Chris Devine and into third place on the all-time scoring list in that same game. On Feb. 18 at Utah State, he scored 22 points and now has 1,674 in his career. Johnson enters Wednesday's game at Long Beach needing 23 points to pass Carrick DeHart (1,687 points from 1986-90) and Alex Harris (1,696 points from 2004-08) and become the school's all-time leader.
• Probable Starters - Quick Fact
F 0 Jaimé Serna - Shooting 83.3% from the free throw line in road games.
G 11 T.J. Taylor - Has 10 assists and two turnovers in the last five games.
F 15 Alan Williams - Grabbed six or more rebounds 10 times in the last 13 games.
G 21 James Nunnally - Had first double-double of season with 24 points, 11 rebounds at Utah State.
G 33 Orlando Johnson- Needs 23 more points to become UCSB's all-time leading scorer.
• Probable Reserves - Quick Fact
G 1 Nate Garth - Has had three or more assists 10 times this season and Gauchos have gone 9-1.
F 5 Keegan Hornbuckle- Second on team in steals despite ranking ninth in minutes played.
G 10 Kyle Boswell- Has made 11 of his last 18 three-point attempts, 61.1%.
F 12 Lewis Thomas - Has played in just three of the last eight games. Was a DNP at Utah State.
F 24 Christian Peterson - Tied career-high with eight points, making all three field goals, at Utah State.
C 55 Greg Somogyi - Has 175 career blocked shots, second on UCSB's all-time list.
•Gauchos Surpass Last Year's Big West Win Total
UCSB defeated UC Irvine on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 85-62. The win over the Anteaters moved the Gauchos' record to 9-3 in Big West play and the nine wins surpasses their conference win total of 2011. Last season, Santa Barbara finished fifth in the Big West with an 8-8 record.
• Three-Point Rollercoaster Hits Another High Note
UCSB has been on a three-point rollercoaster in recent games. On Feb. 4 at Cal State Fullerton, the Gauchos made 11-of-18 three-point attempts, 61.1%. Both the makes and the percentage were season-highs, and while that performance paled in comparison to what the Titans did that night – 17-of-26, 65.4% – it was a pretty good effort. One game later, on Feb. 11 vs. UC Riverside, UCSB had one of its worst three-point shooting games of the season. After missing all nine of their attempts in the first half, the Gauchos settled for a 3-for-15 night against the Highlanders, 20.0%. In the last two games, things have gotten much better. In a Feb. 15 win at UC Irvine UCSB made 11-of-20 as a team, 55.0%. On Feb. 18 at Utah State, the Gauchos drilled 8-of-15, 53.3%. It was the fifth time this season that the Gauchos made 50.0% or better of their three-point attempts. In the last two games, Santa Barbara has made 19 out of 35 three-point attempts, 54.3%.
• In Defense Of The Three-Pointers
In its Feb. 4 loss at Cal State Fullerton, UCSB allowed the Titans to make a blistering 17-of-26 shots from three-point range, 65.4%. The 17 threes tied a Gaucho opponent record and set a Fullerton record. In the three games since, UCSB has significantly shored-up its three-point defense. On Feb. 11 against UC Riverside, the game immediately following the Fullerton game, the Highlanders made 1-of-13 shots from outside the arc, 7.7%, the lowest mark by an opponent this season. Overall, the last three opponents – UCR, UC Irvine and Utah State – have combined to make just 12 out of 54 three-point attempts, 22.2%.
• That 70s Show
On Feb. 18, UCSB won at Utah State 72-64. In 23 games this season, UCSB has allowed fewer than 70 points 14 times, winning each time. The 14-0 record is in stark contrast to the 1-8 record the team has allowed 70 or more. Actually, the only win in those nine was an 85-70 win at Cal State Northridge, so the Gauchos are actually 15-0 when allowing 70 points or fewer.
• That 80s Show
UCSB scored 85 points in its win at UC Irvine on Feb. 15, it was the fourth highest point total this season. It was also the ninth time the Gauchos have scored 80 points or more in 2011-12. The last time the Gauchos scored at least 80 points in nine or more games was in 1989-90 when they hit the mark 10 times.
• A Game Of Percentages
The Gauchos have held 15 of 23 opponents under 40.0% shooting this season. and only two opponents have made more than 50.0% of their shots. The highest shooting percentage by a UCSB opponent this season was by Long Beach State on Jan. 21. In that game, the 49ers drained 58.7% of their shots. On the other side of the ledger, Santa Barbara has made 50.0% or better seven times in 2011-12, including the last two games. In the last two, the Gauchos have made 55 out of their 103 field goal attempts, 53.4%.
•Johnson Makes His Points
Orlando Johnson, who was included on the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top-25 List that was released last month, has had two of his most efficient, and best, offensive games of the season in the last two. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, Johnson made 9-of-11 shots overall, including both of his three-point attempts, 5-of-6 free throws and scored 25 points. He also added 10 rebounds and four assists. It was his fifth double-double of the season, but his first since Dec. 16 at Washington. On Saturday at Utah State, he made 7-of-12 shots overall, including 4-of-7 from three-point range, and scored 22 points. Combined, Johnson was 16-of-23 overall, 69.6%, and 6-of-9 from three-point range, 66.7%. Johnson leads the team in scoring (20.0 points per game) and assists (3.0 per game). If he maintains his lead in those two categories, he would become the first Gaucho since 2004-05 to lead the team in scoring and assists. Johnson has led the Gauchos in scoring in nine of the last 11 games and 15 times this season. He has scored 20 or more 15 times and 25 or more six times, including three of the last five games. Johnson has scored in double-figures 22 times in 23 games and 83 times in 85 games during his career. He's scored 20 or more a record 44 times at UCSB. The Seaside, Calif., native tallied a season-high 36 points to go with 10 rebounds, four assists, three steals and a pair of blocked shots in Santa Barbara's double-overtime loss to nationally-ranked UNLV on Nov. 30. The 36 points were his second highest total ever and the double-double was one of five that he has recorded this season. In addition to UNLV and UC Irvine, he's had double-doubles against Washington (24 points and 10 rebounds), Portland (26 points and 12 rebounds) and Westmont College (20 points and 12 rebounds). The 22 points that Johnson scored in the Gauchos' last game pushed his UCSB career total to 1,674 third all-time. He needs 23 more to move past Carrick DeHart and Alex Harris and into first in school history. If the 383 points that Johnson scored as a freshman at Loyola Marymount are factored in, he has now tallied 2,057 in his collegiate career. Also, he leads the team in three-point baskets with 47 and has 159 in his career, ninth in school history. In the last four games, Johnson has made 10 out of 17 three-point attempts, 58.8%.
• The Flying Nunnally
James Nunnally had his best game of the season in Saturday's win at Utah State. Nunnally tied his season-high with 24 points and he pulled down a season-best 11 rebounds to record his first double-double this year. Against the Aggies, he made 9-of-14 shots overall and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Nunnally is second on the team in scoring at 15.1 points per game and he leads the team in rebounding at 6.2 per game. He has been in double-figures 21 times in 23 games this season and has scored 20 or more five times. Also, by scoring 24 in the last game, Nunnally has pushed his career point total to 1,537, sixth in school history. He needs 44 to move into fifth all-time. He has had five or more rebounds 18 times this season. Nunnally is also playing the part of playmaker these days, averaging 2.4 assists per game. He has passed off for two or more 18 times, including the last 16 games in a row. Also, he had made two or more three-point baskets in four of the last five games and nine times this season. Nunnally now has 34 threes on the year. In his career, he has 164 three-pointers and ranks sixth on UCSB's career list.
• A DisSERNAble Difference
Jaimé Serna had seven points, five rebounds, one assist and a blocked shot in the win at Utah State on Saturday night. In the game prior to that, Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, Serna played just 18 minutes, scoring four points, grabbing a pair of rebounds and passing off for two assists. On Feb. 11 against UC Riverside, in a game when the they struggled as a whole offensively, Serna helped save the Gauchos bacon. While just about everybody else had issues on the offensive end of the floor, Serna shined, making 7-of-10 shots and scoring a game-high 19 points, including 10 in the last five minutes. He also had a game-high nine rebounds in the victory. Overall, he is averaging 9.3 points per game, third on the team, but in the last seven games he has averaged 11.1 points per game. In the last weekend of January, he had, arguably, the best regular season weekend of his career. On Jan. 26 at UC Davis, Serna scored 18 points and did so by making 9-of-10 shots, his best shooting performance as a Gaucho and the best by any UCSB player since Mike Vukovich was a perfect 12-for-12 in a win at Pacific on Feb. 3, 2001. On Jan. 28 at Pacific, he scored 15 points and collected a career-high 12 rebounds for his second double-double of the season. For his efforts, he was named Big West Player of the Week, a career first. Serna remains fourth on the team in rebounding at 4.8 per game, but he has averaged 7.0 in the last six games. He is also tied for third in blocks with 21 and now has 77 in his career, eighth in school history. By making 28-of-44 shots in the Gauchos' last six games, Serna is now shooting a sparkling 64.7% from the field for the season. In his career, he has made 312 out of 553 shots, 56.4%, the third highest mark in school history. Also, he now has 837 career points.
• The "Other" Williams
Freshman forward Alan Williams has struggled with foul trouble in the last two games and his numbers have paid the price. In each of the last two contests, Williams has picked-up two early fouls, forcing him to the bench. He played just six minutes at Utah State and eight at UC Irvine. In the last two games combined, Williams has scored six points and grabbed three rebounds. On the season, he is now averaging 6.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots per game. In 12 Big West games, Williams is averaging 9.4 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game. The production lull has come on the heels of consecutive double-figure games. He had a career-high 19 points on Feb. 2 at Cal State Northridge and then 14 on Feb. 4 at Cal State Fullerton. Williams has started the last 12 games and, until the last couple, he has responded. He has two double-doubles on the season. On Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, he came off the bench to scored 13 points and grab 10 rebounds and on Jan. 26 at UC Davis, he had 14 points and 12 boards. Overall, he has scored in double-figures five times and he has had 10 or more rebounds four times, all since the start of league play. He has had five or more rebounds in 14 out of his 22 appearances and had a career-high 13 in UCSB's Jan. 14 win over UC Irvine. In fact, he is the only player on the team with more offensive rebounds (68) than defensive rebounds (65). In the team's Jan. 12 overtime loss at UC Riverside, Williams had nine points, 11 rebounds and five blocked shots, tying Greg Somogyi's record for blocks by a freshman. He repeated the five-block performance on Jan. 26 at UC Davis. Overall, he now has 30 blocked shots on the season, third on UCSB's all-time freshman list and he is within nine of Doug Muse's record of 39. Williams currently has 133 rebounds on the season, sixth most by a freshman in school history.
• Who's The Bos?
Guard Kyle Boswell had five points in 16 minutes off the bench at Utah State. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, he had a career best 19 points, making 7-of-10 shots from the field and 5-of-8 from outside the three-point arc. The five three-pointers were also a personal best for Boswell and the most by a Gaucho player this season. In the previous game, Feb. 11 vs. UC Riverside, he set a career-high with six assists. Boswell is averaging 7.5 points per game, fourth on the team. He's scored 10 or more points six times this season. He scored his previous career-high of 15 on Nov. 18 against Westmont. In a Jan. 26 game at UC Davis, he made four three-point baskets. In the next game, at Pacific on Jan. 28, he scored eight, including a three-point basket with 29 seconds left to break a tie and push UCSB to victory. Boswell is second on the team in three-point field goals with 41 and he is tops in three-point percentage at 42.3%. In the last seven games, he has made 17 out of his 32 three-point attempts, 53.1%, and in the last four he is 11-of-18, 61.1%. Boswell has made at least two three-point baskets in five of the last seven, six of the last eight and 12 times overall. He has hit at least one three-pointer in 17 straight and 21 times in 22 games.
• Tall Tales
Greg Somogyi played 13 minutes in UCSB's win at Utah State. He missed his two field goal attempts and finished with two points and one blocked shot. After playing just 41 minutes over a six-game span, Somogyi has totaled 31 in the last two. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, he had one of his best all-around games with six points, six rebounds and four blocked shots. He is averaging 3.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and a team-leading 1.7 blocked shots per game. In a Jan. 21 game against Long Beach State, Somogyi played a season-high 19 minutes, made 5-of-6 shots and scored a season-high 10 points. One game earlier, on Jan. 19 vs. Cal State Northridge, he had a career-high 10 rebounds. Somogyi has had at least one blocked shot in 16 games and two or more 10 times. He recorded a season-high six swats on Nov. 26 vs. San Diego State, two shy of his school record. He has 175 blocks in his career, second all-time.
• Taylor Made
Freshman T.J. Taylor has started the last seven games for UCSB, the first starts of his career, and the team has gone 6-1. On Saturday at Utah State, Taylor was scoreless for the first time as a starter, missing his three field goal attempts. He did contribute three assists, one steal and no turnovers. On the year, Taylor is averaging 3.4 points, 2.0 assists and 2.0 rebounds per game. He has three or more assists eight times and had a high of six on Nov. 11 vs. Chapman. Taylor has 45 assists and a mere 20 turnovers, a 2.3-to-1.0 assist to turnover ratio, best on the team. Also, his 16 three-point baskets rank fourth on the team.
Senior Christian Peterson had, possibly, his best game of the season on Feb. 18 at Utah State. Peterson logged 21 minutes, easily the most since he played 21 at San Diego on Dec. 13, and he tied his career-high with eight points, making all three of his field goal attempts. Peterson also grabbed four rebounds, his highest total since he collected six at Washington on Dec. 16. In the last three games, he has totaled 49 minutes. In five games prior to that, Peterson played just 24 total minutes.
• The World According To Garth
Nate Garth played 24 minutes in Saturday's win at Utah State. It was the most minutes Garth has played since he logged 27 on Nov. 26 against San Diego State. He finished with two points, three assists and a rebound. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, he played 22 minutes and had nine points, tied his season-high with six assists, grabbed one rebound and added a steal. Garth has now had three or more assists 10 times on the year and the Gauchos are 9-1 in those games. His other six-assist game came on Nov. 22 vs. Portland. The nine points at Irvine were three shy of his season-high of 12 set at Cal Poly on Jan. 2.
• Buckle-Up
Sophomore Keegan Hornbuckle was scoreless in 11 minutes at Utah State. He had five points in 14 minutes on Feb. 15 at UC Irvine. While he is averaging 4.2 points and 1.8 rebounds per game overall, Hornbuckle has scored just 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the last eight games. He had a season-high 14 points on Jan. 14 against UC Irvine. Despite ranking 10th on the team in minutes played, he is second with 18 steals. He had nine of the steals in a two-game stretch against UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge on Jan. 14 and Jan. 19 respectively. He had a career-high five steals in the game against Northridge.


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Says people are on welfare because they are not reading the bible
While it may be true that people that are illiterate can't read the bible, and also may end up on welfare due to their illiteracy, these same group of people also seem to have a very strong religious faith. They have been led to believe that they are in the shape they are in due to predestination, it is gods will.
Those that can read and are on welfare, probably read the bible more that average, trying to figure out why god has forsaken them so.
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Did he actually say "axiom"? I didn't think Barton knew any words with more then 2 syllables.
Of course, they have also been led to believe they will get their reward in heaven.
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Today's opining on the public discourse.
I could've been watching more House. Instead, I've been wading knee-deep in stupid. Justice Souter announced his retirement, and the rabid right's after that like a pack of dogs on a mailman. They're breaking ground for the "B-bu-but he did it too!" defense:
…Republicans are eagerly pointing out that Barack Obama, while in the Senate, voted to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito to the court.
Well, that's at least accurate. Obama, as a senator, declined to filibuster the Roberts nomination, but opposed cloture on the Alito nomination. On this point, Republicans are not lying or playing fast and loose with reality.
That said, this stroll down memory lane may not be as fruitful for the GOP as they'd like. For one thing, Obama, right around the time of the Alito hearings and floor vote, made a variety of comments that Republicans may find interesting. For example, he told ABC News in January 2006, "[T]here is an over-reliance on the part of Democrats for procedural maneuvers and mechanisms to block the president [on judicial nominees] instead of proactively going out to the American people and talking about the values that we care about. And, you know, there's one way to guarantee that the judges who are appointed to the Supreme Court are judges that reflect our values and that's to win elections."
For another, the more Republicans focus on Obama's efforts during the Bush years, the more it's a reminder of their own efforts during the same period.
In 2005, many Republican Senators went so far as to claim the filibuster of judicial nominees was unconstitutional. Now four year later, with President Obama's first Supreme Court appointment looming, will they remain consistent in their position or commit one of the most blatant acts of hypocrisy in the 220-year history of the United States Senate?
I'll take "Blatant Acts of Hypocrisy" for $1000, Alex.
Red State's Eric Erickson reacts with his usual class:
The conservative movement is in shambles and this doozy comes from online conservative blogger Erik Erickson of Red State. Do we need any more proof that they are all certifiable? What's up with conservatives and their tweets? The men in white suits should be called in very quickly because he needs a serious 30-day observation period. Don't forget to bring a straitjacket with you.
pourmecoffee's posterous finds this tweet for the ages:
Eric Erickson (@ewerickson), Editor-in-Chief of RedState didn't just toss off that gem. He wrote it, then deleted it, then re-wrote and re-sent it adding the proper hashtags ("LMRM" = Let Me Repeat Myself, "TCOT" = Top Conservatives on Twitter, "RS" = RedState). Made sure he got it just right. See for yourself.
This is the leader of the right's most prominent online community, not some carefree flame-throwing commenter or diarist. RedState is not an official GOP site, but it's a center of the conservative movement with a stated desire to take over leadership of the party. I'm not interested in flame wars. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. As a matter of strategy, however, I just can't understand why someone in a leadership position would act so publicly self-destructive. This stuff turns states blue. Put simply, a serious leader looking to amass political power does not publicly call a sitting Supreme Court Justice a "goat f**king child molester." A seemingly obvious point.
Obvious to all except rabid right-wing fucktards, that is.
I'm sure the Cons will outdo themselves in the hysteria department. What we've seen to date is but a warm-up to the frothing fury they'll work themselves in to over any nominee Obama suggests. I imagine their reaction would be the same no matter who's appointed. They'd probably end up calling Robert Bork a flaming sociocommiefascist left-wing terrorist.
But, they want us to know, they're not the party of "no." Really:
Yesterday, Republican leaders announced their latest effort to re-brand the party, the National Council for a New America, which will feature input from conservative luminaries like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Discussing the need for the new group with CQ, former House Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), complained about the party being branded as the "party of no," claiming that just because they consistently vote no on President Obama's agenda it "doesn't mean we are the 'party of no'":
In addition, they say, they are having trouble breaking through to Americans with a popular Democratic president, Barack Obama , in the White House and the binary choice of yes-or-no votes on Democratic-written legislation.
"Just because we're in a situation now where we vote no doesn't mean we are the 'party of no' or have no ideas," said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt , who is running for Senate in Missouri and signed the letter. "This adds another way of getting those ideas out there."
o on, pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Alas for the Cons, America knows what it wants in a Supreme Court Justice, and it ain't what the Cons want. How do we know this? Because Bill Kristol tells us so:
From the January 29, 2006, broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
BILL KRISTOL: Let's have a referendum on that in 2006 and 2008. Do they want a liberal Supreme Court, or do they want a moderately conservative Supreme Court?
JUAN WILLIAMS: That's called a presidential election.
Had one. We elected a dirty stinking liberal in a landslide even though he promised to put – what was it, Eric? – a "goat fucking child molester" on the bench. Well, he didn't put it in quite those terms, but he made it manifestly clear he wouldn't be appointing anyone the conservatives would scream with joy over. And yet we elected him, and we elected a Dem majority. Twice. According to Kristol, that means the people want a liberal Supreme Court. Works for me.
The people have spoken. Something tells me the screaming of a bunch of impotent culture warriors won't have much effect.


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Have you been touched by autism? More children than ever are being diagnosed as autistic, but do we really understand what it is?
On the Richard Stubbs Afternoon Show we explored the neurodevelopmental disorder in depth: the diagnosis, how it affects families and the educational options that are available.
Richard spoke to Associate Professor Andrew Whitehouse from the Telethon Insitute for Child Health Research at the University of Western Australia, Shannon Eeles Director of the Centre for Inclusive Schooling for Children with Autism and Marilyn Myszka, a mother of a 16 year old boy with autism shared her own personal story.
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Keith Urban Releases Annual Calendar to Benefit St. Jude Research Hospital
For the past few years, Keith Urban has released a calendar of photos that his fans have taken of him. No, he's not trying to boost his own ego. The photo-heavy calendar is sold to benefit St. Jude Research Hospital.
Actually, the fundraiser is more of a group effort between Urban and his fans. Anyone who has snagged a photo of the 'You Gonna Fly' hitmaker can upload them to his website in hopes of landing a shot in the calendar. Several shots are collected and printed in the yearly date book so that country music fans can look at Urban all year long.
The country crooner first called on his fans to help with this project in 2002. Since the first calendar was released for 2003, it has raised more than $750,000 for St. Jude kids.
The 2013 Keith Urban calendar is available for $15 each. You can look at the famous country star all year long and help out a worthy cause. What's there to think about?
Of course, 'Idol' fans will be seeing a lot of Urban's face next year. The 13th season of the popular singing competition will air in January, and the talented singer will be seated at the judges panel for the duration. Although 'Idol' has gotten off to a rocky start thanks to some drama between judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, Urban insists that he's having a good time being a part of it.


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ROCHESTER – Scott Hebert beat Matt Pesta by six shots to win the 93rd Michigan PGA Professional Championship at Oakland University Wednesday, and Pesta was duly impressed.
"That was a performance for the ages by a Michigan PGA pro," he said. "His first two rounds have to be the best two ever played by a club pro in this state. I'm proud to finish second to him."
Hebert, the head golf professional at Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, shot a closing even-par 72 on the Sharf course following a course and tournament record 61 Monday on the Sharf and a 65 Tuesday on Katke to finish at 18-under 198.
Pesta, the head pro at Lincoln Hills Golf Course in Birmingham, shot 70 to close at 204, and Kyle Martin of Lochmoor Club in Grosse Pointe Woods shot 67 for 205 and third.
"It was hard to play with that big of a lead," said Hebert, who started the day with an eight-shot lead and led by as many as nine early in the round. "Right from the start you are just trying to not make too big of a mistake and at the end I knew I had a big lead and it was just hard to stay focused on putting and go after stuff like I normally would."
Hebert won $6,400 for first and will have his name inscribed on the Gilbert A. Currie Trophy for the seventh time.
It capped an eye-popping week in which the 61 set the modern tournament and course record, and was also the modern record for a single round in any Michigan PGA Section tournament, including the Michigan Open. His 18-under 198 also tied the all-time tournament record set by J. R. Roth in 2001 at Shanty Creek Resorts (The Legend and Cedar River).
And it was his seventh Michigan PGA Professional title in the last nine years to give him 14 major Michigan PGA Section titles, including six Michigan Open championships and a Tournament of Champions win. That is one off the record of 15 major titles shared by Michigan Golf Hall of Fame members Al Watrous and J.R. Roth. Watrous also holds the record for the most Michigan PGA Professional titles with nine.
Hebert, 45, said he will look back on the records with fondness one day, but for now he loves to compete and was especially thrilled with the 61 and the condition of the courses at Oakland University.
"You can't ask for a better start than that and this is a great place for the championship," he said. "It was different having to play with a lead like that, but I would start them all that way if I could."
As for the tournament inside the tournament – nine golfers earned spots in the PGA Professional National Championship June 28 – July 1, 2015, in Philadelphia. Hebert, the 2008 national champion, and Pesta a top 20 national finisher last year, are exempt and already going along with John Traub, the 1980 national champion.
Martin, as the third place finisher goes, as does George Bowman of Oakhurst Golf & Country Club in Clarkston and Brian Cairns of Fox Hills Learning Center in Plymouth, who tied for fourth. Bowman shot 69 for 208, and Cairns, the defending champion, shot 65, the low round of the day.
Ian Ziska, the head pro at Katke Golf Course at Ferris State punched his ticket to the national championship with a sixth place finish off a closing 68 for 209, and Frank McAuliffe of Kendall Academy of Golf in Ypsilanti is going once again after his 69 put him at 214 and in seventh place.
John Seltzer of Oak Pointe Country Club near Brighton, who shot 70 and tied Gary Lewandowski of St. Ives Golf Club in Stanwood, who shot 67 for 215, are also national championship bound along with Al Kuhn of Fountains Golf & Banquet, who shot 74 for 216.
Dan Urban of Prestwick Village Golf Club in Highland earned the last spot by winning a four-player playoff at 217. He shot a closing 69 and won on the second hole of the playoff.
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With hardware 3D acceleration, three-dimensional rendering uses the graphics processor on your video card instead of taking up valuable CPU resources drawing 3D images. It's also referred to as "hardware acceleration" instead of "software acceleration" because without this 3D acceleration your CPU is forced to draw everything itself using the Mesa software rendering libraries, which takes up quite a bit of processing power. While XFree86 typically supports 2D hardware acceleration, it often lacks hardware 3D acceleration. Three-dimensional hardware acceleration is valuable in situations requiring rendering of 3D objects such as games, 3D CAD and modeling.
In many cases, both binary and open-source drivers exist. Open-source drivers are preferable since we're using Linux and open source is one of its underlying principles. Sometimes, binary drivers are the only option, like with nVidia's cards. Binary drivers include media-video/nvidia-kernel and media-video/nvidia-glx for nVidia cards, media-video/mgavideo for Matrox cards and media-video/ati-drivers for ATI cards. Other open-source drivers include media-video/kyro-kernel for KyroII cards and media-video/ati-gatos for ATI cards, which aim to support ATI's video capabilities more fully.
The Direct Rendering Infrastructure (
XFree-DRM is an
This guide is for people who can't get direct rendering working with just
XFree. XFree-DRM works for 3dfx, gamma, i8x0, matrox, rage128, radeon, mach64
(as of xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7) and sis300 series drivers. Since the 2.4 kernels'
Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) doesn't support XFree 4.3, the xfree-drm package
is needed. If you're using a 2.6 kernel, its DRM supports XFree 4.3; Gentoo's
XFree-DRM package is not yet working on 2.6 kernels. See the
With suggestions, questions, etc., e-mail
# emerge x11-base/xfree
Probe for your chipset and enable just that one.
# emerge pciutils; lspci | grep AGP # 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
Your output may not match the above due to different hardware.
Most, if not all, kernels should have these options. This was configured using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5.
# ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 29 18:20 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5
Make sure# cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig /usr/src/linuxlinks to your current kernel.
Processor type and features ---> <*> MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support Character devices ---> <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) [M] Intel 440LX/BX/GX and I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support
Enable your chipset instead of the above.[ ] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)
Make sure the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is
# make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install # mount /boot # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
If you want your kernel to be named something other than bzImage, be sure to copy to /boot/yourname instead. Don't forget to set up grub.conf or lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo if you use LILO.
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfree-drm
... Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "glx" ... EndSection ... Section "Device" Driver "radeon" ... EndSection ... Section "dri" Mode 0666 EndSection
If you are using a different driver, replace "radeon" with yours.
Reboot your computer to your new kernel. It's time to see if you have direct rendering and how good it is.
# startx
No need to load modules for your driver or agpgart, if you compiled agpgart as a module. They will be loaded automatically.# glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes If it says "No," you don't have 3D acceleration.# glxgears Test your frames per second (FPS) at the default size. The number should be significantly higher than before installing xfree-drm. Do this while the CPU is as idle as possible.
First you have to check whether the xfree-drm package works. If it doesn't and you have checked your logs to verify it's not a configuration error, you might want to consider the CVS sources. There are also daily driver snapshots available if you do not wish to build the full CVS.
Check the DRI
Follow this guide through "Compile and install your kernel." Then continue with
this guide, which tracks step 6 of the
Create a directory to store the CVS files:
# cd ~ # mkdir DRI-CVS
Check out the CVS sources:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS # cvs -d:pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot/dri login
(hit ENTER when prompted for a password)# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/dri co xc The -z3 flag causes compression to be used to reduce the download time.
In the future you'll want to occasionally update your local copy of the DRI source code to get the latest changes. This can be done with:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS # cvs -z3 update -dA xc
The -d flag causes any new subdirectories to be created. The -A flag causes most recent trunk sources to be fetched, not branch sources.
Rather than placing object files and library files right in the source tree,
they're instead put into a parallel
# cd ~/DRI-CVS # ln -s xc XFree40 # mkdir build; cd build # lndir -silent -ignorelinks ../XFree40
The build tree will be populated with symbolic links which point back into the CVS source tree. Advanced users may have several build trees for compiling and testing with different options.
#define DefaultCCOptions -Wall
For i386:#define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O2 For Alpha:#define DefaultGcc2AxpOpt -O2 -mcpu=ev6 (or similar) For all architectures#define LibraryCDebugFlags -O2 #define BuildServersOnly YES #define XF86CardDrivers vga tdfx mga ati i810 #define LinuxDistribution LinuxRedHat #define DefaultCCOptions -ansi GccWarningOptions -pipe #define BuildXF86DRI YES /* Optionally turn these on for debugging */ /* #define GlxBuiltInTdfx YES */ /* #define GlxBuiltInMga YES */ /* #define GlxBuiltInR128 YES */ /* #define GlxBuiltInRadeon YES */ /* #define DoLoadableServer NO */ #define SharedLibFont NO
Note the XF86CardDrivers line to be sure your card's driver is listed. If you want to enable 3DNow! optimizations in Mesa and the DRI drivers, you should add the following:#define MesaUse3DNow YES You don't have to be using an AMD processor to enable this option. The DRI will look for 3DNow! support at runtime and only enable it if applicable.
If you want to enable SSE optimizations in Mesa and the DRI drivers, you must
upgrade to a Linux 2.4.x kernel. Mesa will verify that SSE is supported by both
your processor and your operating system, but to build Mesa inside the DRI you
need to have the Linux 2.4.x kernel headers in
#define MesaUseKatmai YES
To compile the complete DRI tree:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS/build/xc/ # make World >& world.log
It may also be necessary to do the following, depending on what you placed in host.def:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS/build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel # make -f Makefile.linux radeon.o
Replace radeon with your driver.
With the default compilation flags it's normal to get a lot of warnings during compilation. Building will take some time so you may want to go check your email or visit slashdot.
Using your text editor, examine world.log for errors by searching for the pattern ***.
Verify that the DRI kernel module(s) for your system were built:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS/build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel; ls
For the 3dfx Voodoo, you should see
Install over your XFree86 installation. You may wish to back up xfree.
# quickpkg xfree
This backs up your XFree86 package.# make install
Follow the "Configure XF86Config" section above.
To load the appropriate DRM module in your running kernel, copy the kernel
module to
A few options may increase performance by up to 30 percent (or more) over the
default. Set them in
Section "Device" Option "AGPMode" "4"
This increased FPS from 609 to 618.Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" This had no measurable effect, but it may increase instability of your computer. You may also need to set it in your BIOS.Option "EnablePageFlip" "True" This improved FPS from 618 to 702. It also is "risky" but few people have reported problems.... EndSection
If you want to set even more features, check out the
Whenever you rebuild your kernel or switch to another kernel, you'll have to rebuild the kernel module. Note that you don't need to remerge xfree, but you will need to remerge xfree-drm.
That's because you compiled agpgart into the kernel instead of as a module. Ignore it unless you're having problems.
You aren't using the xfree-drm driver. Check if you compiled DRM and the driver into the kernel; you shouldn't have.
Check out ati-gatos drivers.
Try out the binary drivers. For ati-drivers, a listing is at
In section "Device" enable ForcePCIMode.
Option "ForcePCIMode" "True"


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Jimmy Kimmel 'Superfan' Causes Ruckus at Conrad Murray Trial [VIDEO]
If there's anything funny that can come out of the Conrad Murray trial, it's "superfan" (and 'Jimmy Kimmel' regular) Jake Byrdvisiting the proceedings. He's caused troubled for Lindsay Lohan, Michael Jackson, and Paris Hilton over the years, always in his goofy hat and backpack.
On last night's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' Byrd visited the crowd outside the court where the Conrad Murray trial was going on.
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—Interlude by Amy Lowell, from Pictures of the Floating World (1919)
A quiet love poem. I enjoy Amy Lowell's poetry, in general, but the imagery here—of strawberries, needlework, and the moon—feels a little like home right now.
It's coming up to strawberry season again…the prices are dropping, and the fruits are getting massive. I remember reading, in a copy of Farmer's Almanac that Dad brought from a trip to the U.S, that Native Americans gave each full moon in the year a name. Full Strawberry Moon is actually the name for June's moon, but since we're getting strawberries now, it's my Strawberry moon month.
I love strawberries. The story is that my mom wanted to eat strawberries when she was pregnant with me. No idea whether that's actually true, but it may explain my voracious love for the plump berries. Though broccoli makes me wild, too, and I don't recall Mum ever wanting to eat broccoli during a pregnancy. Besides, that's not a very romantic before-you-were-born story, is it? "Your mother wanted to eat nothing but broccoli when she was carrying you, and you looked just like one when you were born; that's why you have curly green hair…and smell a little funny."
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