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of degrees
& programs
Fall: January 15
Applications for admission are processed together shortly after the deadline date.
APPLY ONLINE to this graduate program.
Number Required: 3
From Whom: Letters of recommendation are preferred from college/university professors who have taught or worked with the applicant in her/his major or minor area of concentration.
An applicant is expected to have some academic background in African American Studies.
All applicants must present credentials that are the equivalent of the appropriate baccalaureate degree at Temple University.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000 words in length and should include the following elements: your specific interest in Temple's Department of African American Studies; your research goals as they relate to African American Studies; your research goals as they relate to the social relevance of the discipline; your future career goals; and your academic and research achievements.
The GRE is required. A combined minimum score of 1,000 on the verbal and quantitative sections is expected.
Minimum TOEFL score needed to be accepted: 550 paper-based, 213 computer-based, or 79 internet-based.
An interview may be required.
A resume is required.
The writing sample should demonstrate the student's ability to conduct research and to write a scholarly paper relevant to the discipline. The paper should be no more than 20 pages in length and fully referenced according to a professional, scholarly style manual.
During their first semester of enrollment at Temple, incoming graduate students
may apply to have
graduate credits taken at other accredited institutions
count toward completion of the degree.
Grades of transfer courses must be "B" or better.
After consultation with and approval of the advisor,
the student must submit to the Graduate Committee:
(1) a letter specifying the course(s) the student wishes
to have considered for credit toward the M.A. and
the corresponding Temple course related to the transfer
course; and (2) supporting documents (e.g., syllabi,
course descriptions from college catalogs, a letter
from the transfer course instructor or department) showing
the overlap by which the course covers material from
Temple courses. The maximum number of credits a student
may transfer is 6.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30
Required Courses:
AAS 8005 or 8006
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
Students have the option of completing the program with either a written comprehensive examination or a thesis.
Comprehensive Examination:
The comprehensive examination is intended to probe the student's knowledge of content, literature, theory/methodology, and methods in African American Studies and to test the student's ability to apply theoretical issues to praxis. It is a proctored, closed book, 6-hour written examination. Students may not use a computer or any other electronic device for the examination unless there is a documented medical necessity.
The M.A. comprehensive exam covers the content, theories, and paradigms of the discipline and/or relevant coursework that students may have taken. Students must take the comprehensive exam after completing all required coursework.
The student must answer every question on the examination in order to be evaluated. The evaluators look for content mastery and coherent application of the discipline's theories and paradigms.
The comprehensive examination is offered twice a year: the first week of April and the first week of November. The hours of the exam are from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The student must schedule her/his examination with the Graduate Secretary after consultation with her/his advisor at least one month in advance of the exam date. In order to arrange an examination date, the student must be sure that her/his record is free of encumbrances that would prevent her/him from meeting University requirements for taking the examination. In addition, the student intending to take the exam must ensure that all of her/his coursework has been completed in the previous semester.
The Examination Committee prepares and administers the student's written M.A. comprehensive exam. Students are advised to choose an Examination Committee at the beginning of their final semester. They should consult with their graduate advisor to select the second member of the committee and set the date for the comprehensive exam. The Examination Committee is composed of two Graduate Faculty from the Department of African American Studies, one of whom is the major advisor who will write one half of the questions; the other committee member will provide the remaining questions.
The Examination Committee evaluates the answers. The Graduate Director will notify the student of the comprehensive exam results no later than five weeks after the completion of the exam. Based on the quality of the examination results, the Examination Committee may make one of the following determinations: (1) Pass: The M.A. student may receive a master's degree when all other departmental and University requirements are met; (2) Fail: The M.A. student is not awarded the M.A. degree, and the student may retake the exam once; or (3) Fail/Termination: The M.A. student has failed to pass the written examination a second time and is terminated from graduate status in the department.
Students who choose to complete a thesis are given the opportunity to demonstrate specialized knowledge and their ability to do original research in Africana studies. The student must have completed at least 27 hours of coursework, including the core. S/he then registers for AAS 9996: Master's Thesis Research, and completes a Master's Thesis Option form, duly signed by the student and the designated advisor. The student must work with the advisor to produce and successfully defend a thesis on an approved topic. The student then submits the following to the Graduate School by the deadline listed in the Dissertation Handbook: (1) two copies of the thesis on white 25% cotton, water-marked paper; (2) a "Certificate of Thesis/Dissertation Acceptability," and (3) two title pages bearing the title and advisor's signature.
Dept. of African American Studies
810 Gladfelter Hall
1115 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Jacqueline Farley
Graduate Secretary
Program Coordinator:
Graduate Chairperson:
Abu Abarry , Ph.D.
The mission of the Department of African American Studies is to provide an intellectual arena in which students learn to critically examine, analyze, and interpret the experiences, traditions, and dynamics of people of African descent. The Department's undergirding philosophy is that the specific historical experiences of a people must be the central axis guiding and informing any effective analysis and interpretation of that people's past, present, and future. Our graduate program is informed by the African-centered/Afrocentric paradigms in relation to other perspectives in Africana studies. The program reflects a deeply ingrained commitment to the self-directed study of African peoples and has benefited from a variety of conceptual and political inputs from diverse, but fully committed, faculty participation as well as invaluable contributions from the community. The M.A. program seeks to answer the personal and intellectual aspirations of the student and the particular needs of society that are not satisfied by a baccalaureate degree. Thus, the M.A. provides more specialized study in African American Studies than the B.A. or B.S. degree and often serves as the terminal degree. It is the goal of the Department that graduates with an M.A. in African American Studies be prepared to engage in a diverse range of intellectual issues that affect the lives of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The M.A. also serves as a strong foundation for those who intend to apply to the Ph.D. program.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 3 years
Students are able to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Dept. of African American Studies
810 Gladfelter Hall
1115 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Advisors may encourage or require students to take courses in other departments in order to enhance or supplement their program.
Faculty are affiliated with a variety of professional organizations such as the African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA); African Literature Association; African Studies Association (ASA); American Anthropological Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC); Association of Black Women Historians; Black Expressive Culture Association; Black History Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; College Language Association (CLA); Germantown Friends Summerbridge Program; Modern Language Association (MLA); National Council for Black Studies (NCBS); National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); Pan African Studies Association; Pennsylvania Humanities Council; Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL); and Young Scholars Program of Temple.
The Department offers study abroad in the Temple University Ghana program. A maximum of 6 credits may be applied toward the master's degree.
Not applicable.
This program is accredited by the National Council for Black
Faculty specialize, offer substantial coursework, and mentor in a variety of areas, including Afrocentric Theory, African Civilizations, African and African American Literature, African American Drama, African Languages, the Narrative Tradition, African and African American History, Mass Media, Social and Political Thought, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Caribbean Culture, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, African American Psychology, Research Methods, Popular Culture, and Ethnographic Methods.
Graduates of the M.A. Program in African American Studies find employment in a variety of public and private sector areas: teaching, arts and humanities, business, and social services. Many secondary school teachers desire to enhance their skills by obtaining an M.A. degree in African American Studies.
A non-matriculated student may take a maximum of 9 credit hours in the Department. Those semester hours may be credited to the degree if the student applies and is admitted to the degree program. Non-matriculated students may not take AAS 9982: Independent Study.
The Department offers a limited number of
assistantships on a highly competitive basis.
The awards usually involve teaching.
Teaching Assistants receive a stipend
and full tuition remission of up to
9 credits. The applicant must have a grade point average
of 3.5 or better and strong letters of recommendation.
A resume, writing sample, and/or syllabus are
also required with the "Teaching Assistantship" application, which is obtained from the Graduate Secretary. Normally, awards are given to doctoral students who
best meet the criteria.
Updated 4.12.07


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We haven't heard much from Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin since he abruptly left the team on October 28. Apart from a prepared statement read outside the league office after he met with NFL investigator Ted Wells, Martin has said nothing.
He also has been silent on Twitter. As several of you have pointed out, Martin has returned to Twitter for the first time since the day he threw down a tray of spaghetti and exited the facility.
The message? "Happy Holidays!"
The responses? Creative, in some instances.
Meanwhile, Wells continues his work, largely out of sight. While a second round of interviews with Dolphins linemen was reportedly canceled, a league source tells PFT that Wells intended to conduct the follow-up sessions by phone.
Eventually, a report will be delivered to Commissioner Roger Goodell. The report, when finalized, will be made public.
Some expect the report to be held until after the Super Bowl. At a minimum, the report won't be issued while the Dolphins' season continues.
Martin has been placed on the team's non-football illness list. He has been paid since leaving the team. Guard Richie Incognito remains on paid suspension; through the end of the regular season, Incognito will have been paid for six games.

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e buying Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Cargill and Dupont have joined as equal investors in a new venture called Rooster.com, aimed at becoming an electronic mall where farmers will be able to market crops and buy fertilizer, crop-protection products, farm supplies and equipment, beginning May 1, 2000. The three companies are the initial anchor tenants of the mall, with plans to add scores of other retailers, and investors, for shopping 24 hours a day. Initial plans are to connect this electronic commerce to local businesses that provide the services and facilities farmers rely on.
Assured quality Just as some industry experts are predicting a need for quality control measures in the seed industry, akin to the ISO 9000 program for manufacturers, one company is ready. Novartis Seeds announced that all its supply facilities for alfalfa, corn, sorghum, soybean, sunflower and wheat production in the U.S. and Canada have achieved ISO 9002 quality management system registration. The company says customers are the beneficiaries because this system helps deliver consistent quality.
Better space pictures Space Imaging's new high-resolution Carterra satellite images are available with black-and-white clarity down to one-meter resolution. The four-meter resolution multispectral (color) digital images can be displayed to include the near-infrared band to allow quantitative analysis of crop vigor. The company claims its imagery, combined with other data, provide the world's most detailed and comprehensive suite of visual information products to meet the needs of farmers. Prices range from $30 to $45/sq. mile. For more information, call 800/232-9037.
Who's selling biotech? Several statements that crossed my desk recently are puzzling to me. They regard educating the public about biotech crop safety. Here's one such exhortation, from Willy DeGreef, head of regulatory affairs and government programs for Novartis Seeds: "Farmers are going to have to talk directly to consumers - tell them the benefits. This is entirely new in agriculture - farmers didn't need to do this five years ago." Groups such as Farm Bureau also have passed along this sentiment.
Two things strike me as odd about this attitude. One, farmers have a long history of talking to local consumers about buying what they produce, and they fund checkoff programs that, in part, do the same on a broader scale. Two, farmers are not geneticists, nor did they produce the seed products currently under scrutiny, or blend and ship them around the world. But farmers are being asked, told, prodded and encouraged to explain the safety of these products to the consumer. My questions are, Where's the educational effort from companies profiting from biotech seed? How about land grant universities? And who is organizing the effort, or will it maintain the normal splintered approach?
Seems like we could learn a thing or two from the grassroots organization of anti-biotech activists. Their numbers pale in comparison to the agriculture complex, yet their results are more effective.
What do you think? Drop me a line at Kurt_Lawton @Intertec.com with your piece to this puzzle. Your opinion is always appreciated.
What it takes to be successful To be successful at farming you must be first, better or different, according to Zachary Fore, cropping systems specialist, University of Minnesota extension service.
Being first means receiving price premiums for growing crops such as high-oil corn, waxy corn and clear hylum edible soybeans. Because these premiums tend to decrease with time, first is important, Fore says. But being first often means taking more risk on yield and quality with the new and unknown crops.
Better production means focusing on increased production and decreased expenses. Most producers fall into this category, Fore adds. At today's commodity prices and cost of inputs, being better is getting more difficult.
Different production means raising crops such as organic foods. These products usually command a price premium but require major changes in crop production.
In the future, it will be more difficult to be successful by being better, Fore says. Instead, it will lie in a grower's ability to be first or different.


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Although not a fruit, will you grow any shiso on the side ? Or maybe fresh shiso is commonly available in Japanese markets. I wil be (trying) growing some red shiso this year. Last time I tasted shiso was years ago and it was pickled, so I'm looking forward to (hopefully) taste some homegrown fresh this year.Xell wrote:I'm getting really interested in fruit trees.
For those who are wondering, shiso is a plant whose leaves are used in many Japanese dishes. It is called the Japanese basil. Or 'perilla' for its latin name. There is both green and red shiso. Often you can see it with umeboshi pickled plums. Shiso seeds are available in North America.


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Very often, the terms "lazy" and "eager" are used in daily talking to define or qualify the way that certain people are, or simply to judge their behaviors and reactions in response to a number of situations that occur in life. The truth is that we, as individuals, are an interesting mixture of these two characteristics.
Also, it's true that human beings try to translate these concepts to other areas, such as software programming. If you've ever developed web-based or desktop applications using your favorite compiled or interpreted language, then it's possible that you've already coded "factory" methods to create one or multiple objects, or even defined a few "Observer" and "Dispatcher" modules as well.
Definitively, many design patterns like the ones mentioned above respond to simple translations of human behaviors within the terrain of software development, and certainly "lazy" and "eager" aren't the exception. In general, when an application uses lazy loading, it means that it delays or defers the loading of a specific resource until it's really required at runtime. On the other hand, if the same application (or a part of it) relies on eager loading, then it implies that the resource will be loaded as soon as possible, regardless of whether or not it has been requested.
Of course, it's possible to extend the concepts of "lazy" and "eager" when working with classes, which leads to using approaches commonly known as lazy and eager instantiations respectively. In the case of PHP 5, implementing lazy and eager loading is truly a no-brainer process, and the result of this implementation can be either successful or amazingly poor, depending on the context in which these patterns are applied.
Precisely, in the previous chapter of this series I developed an example that showed that there are times when including eagerly a class within a script can be pretty inefficient, especially if an instance of the class is created by the script in question right before it finishes its execution.
Nonetheless, it's possible to use the benefits of lazy loading to address an issue like this very easily, and that's exactly what I'm going to show you in the lines to come. So, if the topic interests you, start reading to find out more on it!
{mospagebreak title=Review: object-oriented lazy loading}
Before I begin demonstrating how to improve the efficiency of the sample script developed in the previous installment of the series by applying the concept of lazy loading, it would be helpful to reintroduce the full source code of that particular example as a review.
Below you'll find the definition of the class that is eagerly loaded by the aforementioned script, which actually does nothing except store data about some hypothetical users. Here it is:
class User {
private $fname = 'Alejandro';
private $lname = 'Gervasio';
private $email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
public function __construct($fname = ", $lname = ", $email = ")
if (is_string($fname) and !empty($fname))
$this->fname = $fname;
if (is_string($lname) and !empty($lname))
$this->lname = $lname;
if (is_string($email) and !empty($email))
$this->email = $email;
// get user's first name
public function getFirstName()
return $this->fname;
// get user's last name
public function getLastName()
return $this->lname;
// get user's email
public function getEmail()
return $this->email;
// display user data
public function __toString()
return 'First Name: ' . $this->fname . '
Last Name: ' . $this->lname . '
Email: ' . $this->email;
As I mentioned before, the functionality of the above "User" class is limited to storing information about a particular user via its "fname," "lname" and "email" properties, which also can be retrieved thanks to the implementation of the corresponding getter methods.
However, since the logic of this class is very easy to follow, I'm not going to waste more time explaining how it functions. Instead, it's time to go one step further and show the source code of a loader module that will be used at a later time for including the "User" class. Here's the definition of this simple module:
// create custom FileNotFoundException exception class
class FileNotFoundException extends Exception {}
// create custom ClassNotFoundException exception class
class ClassNotFoundException extends Exception {}
// define 'Loader' class
class Loader {
public static function load($class)
if (class_exists($class, FALSE))
$file = $class . '.php';
throw new FileNotFoundException('File ' . $file . ' not found.');
require $file;
if (!class_exists($class, FALSE))
eval('class ' . $class . '{}');
throw new ClassNotFoundException('Class ' . $class . ' not found.');
Basically, all that this module does is include on demand a specified class via a PHP require. In addition, it defines a couple of exception subclasses to throw custom exceptions when attempting to load a certain class. You should have no trouble understanding this process.
Finally, here's the script that uses the functionality of the previous loader module to eagerly include the "User" class shown previously. Look at it, please:
try {
// load eagerly 'User' class
rest of logic goes here
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User('Mary', 'Smith', 'firstname.lastname@example.com');
echo $user;
catch (FileNotFoundException $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
catch (ClassNotFoundException $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
If you ask yourself what's the big deal with this script, my answer would be simply …nothing. However, the script actually does do something that deserves a closer look. As you can see, at the very beginning it calls the static "load()" method that belongs to "Loader" to include the "User" class, even though an instance of it is only created when the script finishes its execution.
This shows in a nutshell the logic that stands behind using the eager loading pattern, which in this particular example is applied to include a basic class. Though, as I said in the introduction, eager loading can be utilized in many different cases, such as instantiating classes, prefetching database rows, and so forth.
In the previous example, eager loading causes a detriment to the performance of the sample script, since the class is loaded first, without taking into account whether or not an instance of it will be required. The question that brings up here is, can this issue be fixed with only minor hassles?
Fortunately, the answer is yes! By applying the opposite pattern, that is lazy loading, it's possible to rewrite the previous script so it can load the "User" class if and only if it's requested at runtime.
Want to learn how this can be accomplished in a few steps? Then click on the link that appears below and read the section to come.{mospagebreak title=Introducing the lazy loading pattern}
To apply the lazy loading pattern within the script that you learned before, it's necessary to introduce a subtle change into the corresponding loader module. Basically, this modification will consist of registering the "load()" method of the "Loader" class with the "spl_autoload_register()" PHP function, so the method in question can be called automatically when a script attempts to include a class on demand.
Having explained that, here's the enhanced definition of the loader module:
// create custom FileNotFoundException exception class
class FileNotFoundException extends Exception {}
// create custom ClassNotFoundException exception class
class ClassNotFoundException extends Exception {}
// define 'Loader' class
class Loader {
public static function load($class)
if (class_exists($class, FALSE))
$file = $class . '.php';
throw new FileNotFoundException('File ' . $file . ' not found.');
require $file;
if (!class_exists($class, FALSE))
eval('class ' . $class . '{}');
throw new ClassNotFoundException('Class ' . $class . ' not found.');
That was really simple to code and read, wasn't it? At this point, the loader module has suddenly turned into a true autoloader mechanism that will include a specified class on request, thanks to the use of the aforementioned "spl_autoload_register()" PHP function.
Believe it or not, this small modification into the source code of the module permits to easily build scripts, or even entire applications, that include classes only when they are really required — or in other words, that implement the lazy loading pattern.
But if you're like me, you now want to see how the revamped version of the previous loader module can be put to work with the "User" class. Am I right? Great! In the last section of this article I'm going to create a basic script that will load that class in a lazy manner.
To see how this script will be developed, go ahead and read the next section.{mospagebreak title=Lazy loading in action}
In reality, building a script that lazy-loads the previous "User" class is a straightforward process that can be accomplished in a few simple steps, thanks to the brand new functionality that I gave the pertinent loader module.
To demonstrate the veracity of my claim, below I coded that script for you, so you can quickly grasp how it works. Here it is:
// create instance of 'User' class only when the script requires it
try {
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
echo $user;
catch (FileNotFoundException $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
catch (ClassNotFoundException $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
Do you realize how simple it is to switch from a script that eagerly loads a sample class to another one that lazy-loads it? And the best part is that this change was accomplished by means of a small modification introduced in the loader module. What else can one ask for?
Feel free to tweak all of the code samples that you saw in this tutorial. Doing so will give you a better understanding of how to apply the lazy loading pattern in PHP 5. The experience will be pretty educational, believe me.Final thoughts
In this third episode of the series, I explained how to improve the performance of a script in PHP 5 by using the lazy loader pattern. As you saw for yourself, the proper usage of the pattern allowed us to include a class only when it was requested, thus avoiding unnecessary overheads during the script's execution.
Logically, it's possible to utilize the pattern when instantiating classes, a procedure not surprisingly known as lazy instantiation. Nonetheless, this topic is outside of the scope of this series of articles, so it's time to focus on the concepts that will be deployed in the upcoming part.
In that tutorial, I'm going to discuss how to use eager loading when working with the properties of a class. So, here's my little piece of advice: don't miss the next article!


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Some 102 clubs and professional organizations are active on campus. Students who are interested in starting a club based on a career, a hobby, or any other interest can find out how by contacting the Student Activities office. Various professional and honor societies schedule activities and bring together students who have the same interests. The campus newspaper, Tech News, welcomes student contributions. The student government at Lawrence Tech involves students at many levels, including the Student Senate, or as a member of a committee. Nine fraternities and sororities have chapters on campus. Greek organizations on campus aim to provide members with leadership, scholarship, friendship, and service opportunities. Greek life also provides an ongoing support system to help students achieve their personal and professional goals. The Inter-fraternal Council coordinates and communicates the activities of the Greek-letter social organizations on campus. - Student life
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I have been watching the development of the new female buck issue for a long time and with alot of interest. And I recently remember that it was stated that there would be atleast 1 NA character included in 2011 club eternia subscription. And as we all know there are also 2 female figures remaining to be revealed for 2011. So, it stands to reason that one of the females would be from New Adventures. It was also said that the New adventures figure would be a Galactic Guardian.
So I did some digging and the only figure that I could find from the NA toyline was some images of this Mara prototype. These images are from the www.greyskulmuseum.com. site. Under the NA prototypes section.
Once I looked closely at this I could immidiatly see alot of similarites between this prototype design, and the buck development FH have recently implimented with the BattleGround Teela figure. The way in which the Legs connect to the hip joint is vitually the same in both figures, and also, if you look at the shape of the Torso, it is practically the same as Battle Ground Teela also. All that would needed to make Mara is a new top rather than a Golden Bra, Some new boots, and a new head. And 1 smaller arm bracelet.
So, after thinking about it, im pretty confident that if Mara will most likely be one of the Females for the later part of 2011. What do you all think?
I'll be excited to get a new female, but i do not know anything about this character since i was not an NA fan. Does anyone know anything or have more infomation about her and her role in the story?


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Hi all, I thought a recent experience maybe of interest to some. I'm sailing up yhe west coast of sumatra and have been getting un seasonal weather. We left Kracatoa volcano Java to head north west, approx 400nm with really no place to stop until you hit the Mentawai islands. Weather should be and was predicted to be light Se. After the first 100nm winds turned to the north. At these latitudes squalls are expected daily, on the third day we were getting line squall after line squall , approx wind strength 25knots. During the evening we were hit with a bigger one but this time it didn't go away, we were having a steady 30-35 knots gusting to 40 knots. Ive experienced strong wind before but usually im heading downwind or know its coming and are in a safe anchorage. After an hour or so the seas are really building and im wishing I had left the third reef lines in ,that I never used. Freeform is starting to slam which is very unsettling. Ive got no where to run to but cant keep doing this, hard on the boat and hard on me, plus im getting very tired. I dont want to run as I would lose alot of ground. I decide to fore reach. I remember mike tyson saying "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" this is sort of where I am. Managing a boat with gunnel in the water, waves coming over the deck and pouring rain isnt easy, also there is a huge difference between 25k and 40knots, but its got to a point where a new strategy is needed, if not freeform or me will break. Btw self tacking jibs are awesome. I drop the main and decide to forereach under jib as Im under the impression freeform wont heave to (note, try these things before you have to). So, im trying to forereach and the autopilot craps out. At this stage im exhausted, been sailing three days and been weathering squalls all day ,now this. I decide to try and heave to, I locked the wheel hard to starboard and started playing with the jib. I found if I trimmed the jib properly , sitting at approximately 60º off the wind on a starboard tack Freeform heaved to perfectly. I locked up the companion way and went down stairs and slept for 6hours. It was like someone turned the weather off. Sophia whos with me was also very impressed. I got up at dawn and looked at my track and had drifted 7.5nm in 6 hours in relative comfort, by this stage the winds had died down to approx 20 knots and are now more N toNE giving me a angle to an anchorage approx 20 nm away.
I dont want todo this again but it taught me alot and very comforting to know Freeform will heave to in bad weather when going forward is no longer an option.
Cheers Dale


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Some users were disappointed with the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. After months of betas, release candidates and previews, the new features weren't as spectacular as people expected. However, there is only so much you can do to improve a web browser.
With the release of Mozilla Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to work hard on speeding up the rendering engine, so the web graphics has received a completely new upgrade. Dubbed ' Cairo', the new graphics rendering engine should improve the output across different platforms, as it's being developed as an open-standard.
With other improvements in the way that pages are 'painted' on screen, improved SVG support and CSS enhancements, the general improvements for Firefox 3.0 are based around the way it will render web pages through the browser. The new browser also ships with a new user-interface, improved bookmarks and many other new features.
This is the 3.6 release which ships with improved performance, support for the WOFF font format, support for the latest CSS standards and much more.
Note that 3.6.24 is a minor update to the legacy web browser.
The final, official and much-welcome release


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Following up on reports from earlier this week, West Virginia has finally announced the addition of running backs coach JaJuan Seider.
WVU's SID Coach Dana Holgorsen announced the news on his official Twitter account.
Seider comes to WVU from Marshall, where he's spent the past three seasons as the team's running backs coach and recruiting coordinator under former Mountaineers assistant Doc Holliday. He was also a graduate assistant at WVU for a couple of seasons under former Mountaineers coach Bill Stewart.
Seider is a former WVU player, but he ended his career at Florida A&M. He replaces Robert Gillespie, who left earlier this month to take another job with Tennessee.


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Wetland Plants of Wisconsin
|Lemna trisulca L.
star duckweed
Family: Lemnaceae
| Individuals
of star duckweed are called fronds. Each frond consists of a small, green,
floating body with a single root that extends into the water from the
undersurface, but is not rooted to the soil. They do best in full sun
and in nutrient rich water. Under those conditions they can grow rapidly,
reproducing not by seeds, but by simple division of a frond to produce
a new "daughter" frond. The developing daughter fronds remain
attached to the "mother" frond for a short time as shown above,
but eventually break apart. Other common, small, free-floating angiosperm
plants in Wisconsin include common duckweed (Lemna minor), giant
duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) and duck meal (Wolffia columbiana).
Duckweeds flower rarely in Wisconsin and several of the species of Lemna
(9 in North America) can be difficult to distinguish, although star duckweed
is quite distinctive.
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Weeping before a federal judge and his family, former Democratic congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud for his use of $750,000 in campaign funds for personal items including a Rolex watch and rock star memorabilia.
"Guilty, your honor," Jackson told U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins.
"Sir for years I lived off my campaign," Jackson said before the court filled with friends and family including his father, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
Read More: Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Plea Deal
"I used money I shouldn't have used for personal purposes," Jackson told the court.
Jackson wiped his eyes with tissues during the plea hearing and looked back several times at his family mouthing "I'm sorry" before pleading guilty.
Jackson will be sentenced to prison on June 28, 2013 and is expected to receive a sentence between 46 to 57 months. He is also expected to pay criminal penalties between $10,000 and $100,000.
During the hearing Jackson said he had been under psychiatric treatment but that he had not been abusing drugs or alcohol.
Asked if he understood the consequences of his guilty plea such as losing his right to vote Jackson told the Judge, "I've never been more clear in my life."
Jackson's wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, also appeared before Judge Wilkins and pleaded guilty to a one count charge of filing a false tax return.
She wept at times as he reviewed her plea agreement during the court hearing.
After the plea hearing her attorney Dan Webb said today's plea allows her to accept responsibility for her action and move forward with her life.
Leaving the courthouse the former Congressman said, "It's not a proud day. I'm sorry I let everybody down."


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Interview Date: 04/15/2010
Run Date: 04/23/2010
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As an actor, one has to be willing to accept the fact that not everyone will be able to separate you from the character that you play. Few know this quite as well as Susie Essman, who – thanks to several seasons playing Jeff Garlin's wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" – is rarely able to walk down the street without someone recognizing her and…well, basically, if she doesn't act like a crazy bitch, they're disappointed. The real Susie Essman, however, is a sweetheart, and she was pleased to chat with Bullz-Eye in conjunction with "Curb" making an appearance in the latest TV Power Rankings. Not that she wasn't a little unhappy with the show's position…
Susie Essman: Will…? It's Susie.
Bullz-Eye: Hey, how are you!
SE: I'm good! Where are you?
BE: I'm in Virginia.
SE: Oh, okay.
BE: And I'll apologize in advance for the fact that I'm suffering through an allergy attack.
SE: Ugh, I know. I'm miserable when I've got one of those. All I want to do is sleep. So it's okay. I understand.
(At this point, our connection, which had been rather dodgy from the moment the call began, finally petered out altogether. Several seconds later, however, Susie called back.)
BE: See, I'd planned for my voice going out, not the phone going out.
SE: Yeah, really! You didn't have to hang up on me! (Laughs) So what is this for? It's for a list or something…?
BE: Right, we do the TV Power Rankings for Bullz-Eye.
SE: And we're only #8? What the fuck is that, Will?
BE: Hey, hey, you were #1 last time around.
SE: Uh, yeah, I know!
BE: It's not for lack of quality, obviously. Frankly, I blame it on the short memories of TV viewers.
SE: I know, we're hardly ever on. So, yeah, I get it.
BE: But, again, you're coming off a #1 spot. So we do love you here, I swear.
SE: All right, but I'm not going to tell Larry that we dropped. It'll upset him.
BE: Yeah, but to be fair, he gets upset over pretty much everything, doesn't he?
SE: (Laughs) Exactly!
BE: Well, since this is the first time I've ever talked to you, I'll start at the beginning. How did you first find your way onto "Curb"? Did you know Larry beforehand?
SE: I knew Larry way back in the old days. I met Larry in probably 1986 at Stand-Up New York when we were both comics, and then I didn't see him for many years, because he moved to L.A. to do "Seinfeld" and I lived in New York. Then he saw me…he had done the pilot for "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the special, and it hadn't aired yet, but they had already decided that they were going to do the series and they needed to cast Jeff's wife. Jeff, of course, was cheating on me in the pilot, but I didn't exist then. He's still cheating on me, though, isn't he?
BE: Pretty much, yeah.
SE: You know, I get asked all the time, "Does Susie cheat on Jeff?" They want to know our fictitious lives. (Laughs) So, anyway, Larry was casting the past of Jeff's wife, and he had this scene in mind for an episode in the first season called "The Wire" where a fresh air frightening kid comes into our house and robs us blind, and he wanted Jeff's wife to just rip him a new one, so he just serendipitously saw me on a Friar's Roast for Jerry Stiller on comedy Central. On roasts, you know, you have to be totally blue, so I just came into his mind again. "Oh, Susie could do this!" So he called and offered me the part! I didn't have to audition or anything! When we first started, it was, like, this slapdash operation. It was really low budget. We had no scripts, no trailers, no dressing rooms, we barely had wardrobe and makeup! (Laughs) It was really like a "I've got a barn, let's put on a show!" kind of thing.
BE: You, then, would be Judy Garland, I'm sure. America's sweetheart.
SE: (Sarcastically) Yeah, sure. I might have to fight Cheryl for that one.
BE: So everyone I've ever talked to who's been a guest on the show has just raved about the ad-libbing aspect of the show.
SE: Yeah, y'know, the thing is…all the guests love to do the show for a couple of reasons. For one thing, people really love that we have a really happy set. We just have fun. For a couple of years, we all shared a trailer. After we had no trailer for two seasons, we got a trailer that we all shared. We're a very close set. We eat our lunch every day with the crew, which apparently is unusual. I had no idea. (Laughs) But it's just a very fun set, so everybody likes to come on. And, then, you basically get to just play, because there isn't a script. You get to find it, which for an actor is really a lot of fun. I mean, for me, as a comedic actress, what's so great about doing "Curb" is that I never have to think about trying to make it funny. So often I get, like, really bad comedy scripts, and I have to figure out how to make them work and how to make them funny, but with "Curb," I don't have to think about being funny. I just have to think about being in my character and being in the scene, because Larry sets up the scenes in such a way that I know it's going to be funny no matter what.
BE: Has there ever been an occasion, though, when you started a scene and just could not for the life of you find anything funny?
SE: I never try to be funny. I always just try to act my intent in the scene. I don't even think about it. If you think about it, then you end up doing bad sitcom lines. Also, another thing, Will, is that I get the outlines for every season ahead of time, as does Jeff, but none of the guest stars ever get the outlines because they don't want people coming up with lines ahead of time, because then it does become like a bad sitcom. So the guest stars and all the other actors, they just show up on the set and they're told what the scene they're going to do that day is, and then we just start to do it. But it's not haphazard. It's very well structured, as you can tell from the structure of the show. The outline is very detailed in terms of what happens in each scene. There's just no dialogue written.
BE: Was that a challenge at all for you when you first started on the show?
SE: No, it was a pleasure! (Laughs) I'm a comic. It's harder for some actor types, 'cause they're actors, and they're used to having scripts, but for most comedians, we improvise all the time on stage…well, at least, I do. As does Jeff, as does Richard Lewis. You know, we're all improvisers at stand-up. And Cheryl came from the Groundlings, which is an improv troupe.
BE: To kind of parallel the question I asked about Larry earlier, did you know Jeff prior to coming onto the show?
SE: Yeah, I did. I knew Jeff very well, actually. Jeff and I had been good friends for…I don't know, twenty-something years.
BE: Wow. Was that also from the stand-up scene?
SE: Yeah. Yeah, he lived on West 72nd Street and I lived on West 73rd in our early stand-up years, and…in those days, we knew everybody, 'cause there were only a few clubs that you worked and there weren't that many of us, so it was a small, tight-knit community.
BE: I've read many places that you apparently can no longer walk down the street without someone demanding that you call them a "fat fuck."
SE: (Sighs) I know. My life has become bizarre.
BE: That is kind of surreal.
SE: It really is! It hasn't happened in a couple of days, though.
BE: I won't ask you to do it. It feels like it would be in poor taste.
SE: That's all right. Thank you, Will. (Laughs)
BE: I would think it'd be a little weird to have your catchphrase be an obscenity like that.
SE: It is. It's weird, but the nice thing about it is that people think I'm my character, which I'm not. (Laughs) I'm not a screaming, yelling, cursing crazy woman. It's a character I play. It's called acting. But the nice thing is that if people bother me in the street and I am rude to them, they're never upset or disappointed! Sometimes people are visibly disappointed when I'm nice! People will come up to me and say, "Oh, I love the show," and I'll be gracious and nice, and I can see that they're upset that I'm not screaming and yelling at them. (Laughs) So, yeah, it's bizarre…but worse things can happen in life!
BE: So when you're doing an improv scene, have you ever been asked to take it down a notch?
SE: Yes. Definitely. You know, usually, I'll start out really big because it's always easy to take it down, and then I like to give different options. You never really know. Because it's improvised and so much of the show is put together in editing, I always like to give different options for the editors and Larry to choose from, to see what works best in terms of the whole flow of the show. Like, he might've been yelled at in the scene before, you know what I mean? And I don't even know what happened in that scene because I wasn't there for that shooting. So I always like to give options.
BE: Do you have a favorite of Susie's storylines?
SE: "The Doll" is my favorite. I think that's my favorite for a couple of reasons. First of all, I think it's one of the most well-crafted half-hours ever written in the history of comedy. It's just…I watched it again the other day, because we're going to be syndicated starting in June, so we're doing this panel discussion that I'm hosting, and last week in L.A. we shot the first two seasons with this great panel including Seinfeld, Jon Hamm, and just these incredible people on the panel discussing the moral and ethical implications of Larry's behavior. It was fun. So I just rewatched "The Doll" because of that, and…it's just a brilliantly-crafted half-hour, as is "Beloved Aunt" from the first season. And then the other thing about "The Doll" is that that's when Susie Green really became Susie Green. That scene in the driveway where Jeff and Larry are driving up and I'm standing there demanding, "Get me the fucking head," you see them just cowering. And I think from then on our relationship became like that: they just live in fear of me. And I love that. (Laughs) That was also the first time that spaghetti western music came on as my theme song!
BE: To talk about the most recent season, since that's what earned the show its rank…well, of course, you got cheated on in the very first episode of the season.
SE: Yeah, I know! He's a pig. And with a mentally-ill Catherine O'Hara! (Laughs) I love her. She was just so…well, you know, another nice thing about the show is that I get to work with my idols! I got to work with Mel Brooks, Catherine O'Hara, David Steinberg was one of our directors, and all of the people that I just think so highly of.
BE: Don't forget Shelley Berman.
SE: Shelley! And Ted Danson. We love when Ted's on. Ted's the most fun.
BE: So what did you think when Larry came up with the "Seinfeld" storyline for the season?
SE: I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was a brilliant new twist. I remember when we were having lunch in New York about two years ago, when he told me the idea for the next season, he also told me how he was going to get out of his relationship with Loretta, which I thought was just genius. (Laughs) I thought the "Seinfeld" thing…I didn't know how it was going to play out, but I totally trust Larry. I thought it was a great device. I thought it was just brilliant, because they would never really have a "Seinfeld" reunion. Larry and Jerry would never do that. It's like when Jerry says in that episode, "But reunion shows are always lame!" Yeah, they are! (Laughs) That's why they'd never do it!
BE: The big question, though, is how the real Larry is going to deal with the fact that the average person doesn't understand that. Because you know they're still going to ask, "So, are we gonna see the 'Seinfeld' guys again?"
SE: Oh, yeah. I think he's really ready to put that to rest. (Laughs)
BE: In "The Hot Towel," your daughter on the show had a nice sequence.
SE: Which episode was that? Was that the one when she was singing?
BE: Yes. The gift from the heart. (Laughs) Such a lovely song.
SE: That was one of those things where, for days, that was all I could hear in my head!
BE: How was it working with Sammi again?
SE: You mean Ashly? You know, what's funny is that I see her so infrequently…she's maybe in one or two episodes a season, which are two years apart…that, whenever I see her, she looks completely different! Now I think she's probably 16 or 17, but when I first met her, she was probably 7. She's just…I've watched this little girl grow up, but with huge spurts in-between! (Laughs) She's a good kid.
BE: So what's the status of another season? Larry seems to be implying that there's a possibility, or at least that he's got ideas.
SE: Yes, he's implying.
BE: So that's basically where you're stuck, too?
SE: I have no definitive answer for you. If I was going to bet my life on it, I would say it's happening. But I don't have any firm answer. I know that he's working on it, so I know that it's in the works, but, y'know, the thing about Larry is that he usually needs to finish about seven or eight outlines out of the ten before he'll say, "This is good enough, and we're going to do another season." But I know him. He's always going to make it good enough. He's a really hard worker. He's not a slouch by any means, and he's going to work on it until he gets it to where he wants it to be, so that's why I have faith, knowing that he's in the midst of working on it. I know he's finished a bunch of outlines already, so I think it's going to happen. But you never know with him. He's so idiosyncratic.
BE: Larry…? No!
SE: Yeah. (Laughs) My buddy. You know, the other funny thing is that we're all really close friends, and everyone's always surprised when they see us all together. Like, Jeff and I are the best of friends, and we talk almost every day. I think that's one of the reasons that we can treat each other so horribly on the screen: we know we're just playing. We'll be talking, blah blah blah blah blah, and as soon as they say, "Action," we'll start screaming and yelling and being horrible to each other, but when they say, "Cut," it's, like, "Where do you want to go for lunch?"
BE: Jeff's great. The first time I went out to the Television Critics Association press tour…like I said, I'm in Virginia, so I don't get out to L.A. very often, and I'm already in awe, but then the first night there is the HBO party, and it's champagne, lobster, filet mignon…
SE: Oh, my God, they throw the best parties.
BE: Oh, I was just completely blown away…but, then, I was also completely intimidated by everything going on around me. But then the first person I got to talk to was Jeff…
SE: …and the tension was broken. (Laughs) Yeah, he's very chatty.
BE: Yeah, he was the perfect person to make me feel at ease. He was great.
SE: He's a good man, my husband. Not as a husband… (Laughs) …but as a person.
BE: So are you pleased with the reception for your book?
SE: Yeah! Well, let's put it this way: I was pleased with the book. I'm like Larry: I wasn't going to put it out there until I was happy with it. I wrote it and rewrote it, and I was happy with it. It came out during one of the worst falls ever in the history of publishing… (Laughs) …but so be it. That was out of my control! But it sold nicely. I was happy with it, and I hope that when the paperback comes out in August it'll have another spurt.
BE: Was it your idea to write it, or did the publisher pitch the idea to you?
SE: My agent, actually, kind of pitched it, and then my manager forced me to sit down and write an outline, then they sold it…and once they've sold it, you've got the gun to your head…and the deadlines! They give you money, and you've got to produce. But I need that anyway. I need that gun to my head. I couldn't just sit down and write. You know what it's like to write.
BE: Uh, yes, I am somewhat familiar with the deadline process. (Laughs)
SE: Yeah, but I love deadlines!
BE: If I didn't have them, I wouldn't get anything written.
SE: Exactly! But I enjoyed the process. I will one day write another book, but not for awhile. It was kind of difficult for me, being so used to being a comic, to not have the immediate feedback that I'm used to.
BE: I just wanted to ask you about a couple of other things you've worked on besides "Curb," and then I'll let you go, but…you were just in "Cop Out." How was it working with Kevin Smith?
SE: He's great! He knew he was hiring me, so he just let me go. He just basically said, "Don't worry about it. Just do it your way." And one of the reasons I took the part…it's just a cameo, really…was because I'd never fired a gun before! And I had this big, heavy Magnum, and…actually, I still have some shoulder problems from it, it was so heavy! And it was a year ago that we shot it! But I just wanted to work with Kevin, and…he's just great. He's very secure, which is what you want in a director. You want somebody with a secure vision, which is why it's so great to work with Larry. Larry always has a really clear vision of what he wants. When you're working with somebody who's kind of not really clear on what they want, it puts a lot of pressure on you as a performer.
BE: You also contributed a voice to "Bolt," which my daughter loves.
SE: Oh, I loved doing that! Yeah, that was really…that was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because…like, people kept asking me what it was like working with John Travolta, and I'm, like, "I don't know! I didn't work with him!" I didn't meet him 'til the premiere! You're all alone in a sound studio, you're recording, and a lot of it…there were a lot of parts to Mittens that were really poignant, real acting, and I had to act it by myself! I wasn't doing a scene with anyone. It was like the opposite of "Curb," where you're so involved with the scene because it's improvised. But, again, they let me improvise and let me go, and the director, Chris Williams, was just terrific. Basically, though, you just read the lines 20 to 40 times, because you've got to give them tons of choices, because they've got to cut it together with all of the other actors and to match the animation. But I enjoyed it. It was challenging. And I was so happy with how it turned out.
BE: I thought it was a really good movie. And, of course, so did my daughter.
SE: I loved it. I just loved it. And, you know, I'm alone in a sound studio, I don't know how the movie's going to turn out, so I was thrilled with it. Yeah, I actually watched it the other day. I was flipping through the channels and it was on, and I watched it again, and…I just love it. I just think it's beautiful, I love the story, I love the music. I just love it. And I'd love to do more animation. It's fun!
BE: I saw that you'd done a couple of one-off voice appearances.
SE: Yeah, I've done "Dora the Explorer." My little niece called me the other day because she heard me! (Laughs) That's always fun. You know, the other reason that I wanted to do "Bolt" was because…my kids are between 16 and 22, so they watch "Curb," but I've got little people, nieces, and they can't watch "Curb," so I wanted to do something that they could relate to.
BE: Yeah, that's pretty much the only way I can impress my daughter with who I've interviewed: by reeling off their animation credits.
SE: Yeah, exactly! And you know what? Animation is…I think that, dollar for dollar, animation stuff is just so much better than live action. There's so much great animated stuff out there. I think we're luckier as parents than our parents were.
BE: Oh, definitely. I mean, I'm getting ready to hit 40, so…
SE: ..so you get to watch all of this great stuff with your kid, and what were our parents watching? "Herbie the Love Bug"? (Laughs)
BE: You were in "The Man."
SE: Yeah! With Samuel!
BE: I interviewed Luke Goss a few years ago, and I said, "Now, be honest: was the only reason that you did that movie to meet Samuel L. Jackson?" And he said, "Yep. Only reason." Was that your reason, too?
SE: (Laughs) No, I did it because I liked the part. I always like playing a cop. And, also, they paid me. I mean, we're all prostitutes to a certain extent, right? (Laughs) I thought the script was okay. It wasn't the greatest, but I thought it was okay, and I liked the part. I liked the idea of playing this lieutenant, and I liked the idea of being Sam's superior, that I was over him. So, yeah, I liked the part. That's why I usually do things. But, I mean, I had fun with him. And Eugene (Levy) was fun, too. And we shot in Toronto, which was kind of nice. I love Toronto.
BE: What's your favorite project you've worked on that didn't get the love you thought it deserved?
SE: Oh, geez. (Considers the question) I don't know that there is one. My favorite project is, of course, "Curb," and my equal love is stand-up, so I don't know that there is one. I guess you could say "Bolt," because I thought it was going to be bigger than it was, but it made something like $300 million, so I can't really say that. It wasn't as big as, like, "Shrek" or something," but it did really well, so I can't really say that it didn't get the love it deserved. A lot of people loved it. So I don't think that I have one, really. Nothing else comes to mind.
BE: Last one: I looked at IMDb, and I see that in 2005 they have a credit for you for "Untitled Susie Essman Project." Was that a pilot?
SE: It was. That was a pilot I did for CBS. That didn't give the love, but I don't think it deserved it. (Laughs) It was one of those things where CBS…they did a development deal with me because they loved me on "Curb," and they loved my character…and then they kind of made me into Donna Reed. It was something where it was a good script, and it was very well cast, but these things are very hard to make the chemistry come together. Even if it's a good cast and a good script, it just doesn't always gel. That's why when something gels like "Curb" or "Seinfeld" or whatever, it's so special. So, yeah, that was a pilot, and it was kind of based on my life, being a stepmother to all of these teenagers, but it just didn't really happen. But I got paid. (Laughs)
BE: Well, Susie, it's been a pleasure talking to you.
SE: Thanks, Will! By the way, what's the order of these rankings? Who's ahead of us?
BE: Let me just pull up my list…
SE: And you didn't ask me my favorite shows…
BE: Now would be an absolutely perfect time for you to tell me.
SE: Well, right now, I'm just obsessed with "The Good Wife." I love it.
BE: See, I'm the only person who voted for that show, but I love it, too.
SE: I love that show. It's so well-written, well-directed, well-acted…I just think it's the best new show on network television, if not in general. I love "Mad Men." And I love "Breaking Bad." I love Bryan (Cranston). I just think he is so terrific. And "Mad Men," I mean, I just can't wait for the next season. I don't really watch comedies so much, just these well-written dramas.
BE: Well, here's how the list shapes out above you. "Lost" is at the top.
SE: I've never seen "Lost."
BE: Wait 'til it's off the air, then start with Season 1.
SE: (Laughs) Okay. What's #2?
BE: #2 is "The Office," "Breaking Bad" is #3, "Glee" is #4.
SE: I've never seen "Glee," but my 16-year-old loves it.
BE: "30 Rock" is #5, then "Friday Night Lights" at #6.
SE: Which everybody tells me is great, but I've never seen it. People that I respect love that show, though. Is "Mad Men" on the list?
BE: It isn't, but only because Season 3 finished up before the last Rankings.
SE: And "The Good Wife" didn't make it, huh?
BE: No, but it's in the Honorable Mention section. I wrote it up for that.
SE: I'm glad you did, because I'm telling you, I think it's the best show on network right now. It's a courtroom drama, it's a personal thing…I think what they did was that they always had the characters really well drawn, but what they've developed really well now is the storyline. It's a great ensemble, and…I just love it. So, yeah, I absolutely vote for that for Honorable Mention, too.
BE: I've got you marked down.SE: (Laughs) Okay, Will. Thanks so much! Good talking to you!
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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The No. 18 Georgia College men's tennis team (8-4, 2-2 PBC) returned to Peach Belt Conference (PBC) action at No. 21 GRU Augusta (11-4, 1-2 PBC) Saturday at the Newman Tennis Center. After six points, the teams were tied at three, but the Jaguars took the final two to win the match.
The Bobcat first doubles pair of sophomore Yannick Hass (Troisdorf, Germany) and senior Alex Schubert (Frankfurt, Germany) were the only Georgia College winners at doubles with a tight 9-8 (7-3) win over Victor Cabellos and Victor Guimaraes.
Sophomore Taylor Powell (Martinez, Ga.) and freshman Anton Waern (Taby, Sweden) dropped to Romain Ferreria and Romain Brunie 8-4 in second doubles, while the third doubles team of freshman Kyle Kinsler (Suwanee, Ga.) and sophomore Mattia Campus (Concorezzo, Italy) lost by the same score to Joao Freitas and Maxime Coulomb.
Entering singles play down 2-1, the Bobcats soon found themselves behind the eight ball at 3-1. Waern and Hass each won at third and first singles, respectively, to tie the contest at 3-3. Waern beat Brunie 6-2, 6-0; while Hass won a pair of 6-3 sets prior to Powell losing to Freitas in fifth singles 6-3, 6-0.
The Jags then took a 4-3 lead when Campus was defeated by Guimaraes. It was up to Schubert to bring the Bobcats even in the most competitive and only three-set match of the day. After dropping the first set 6-3, Schubert stormed back to take the second set 6-2. The lone senior on the squad ran out of gas in the third set 6-2, which clinched the contest for GRU Augusta.
Only Hass won at both singles and doubles as the men's tennis team travels to Hilton Head, S.C. Sunday, March 23 to take on Davis and Elkins College in a non-conference match starting at 9 a.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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The world's oldest known leather shoe…struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!"
Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, the 5,500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preserved—thanks to a surfeit of sheep dung—during a recent dig in an Armenian cave.
About as big as a current women's size seven (U.S.), the shoe was likely tailor-made for the right foot of its owner, who could have been a man or a woman—not enough is known about Armenian feet of the era to say for sure…
"The hide had been cut into two layers and tanned, which was probably quite a new technology," explained Ron Pinhasi, co-director of the dig, from University College Cork in Ireland.
Yvette Worrall, a shoemaker for the Conker handmade-shoe company in the U.K., added, "I'd imagine the leather was wetted first and then cut and fitted around the foot, using the foot as a last [mold] to stitch it up there and then."
The end result looks surprisingly familiar for something so ancient—and not just to Blahnik…
Footwear of this age is incredibly rare, because leather and plant materials normally degrade very quickly.
But in this case the contents of a pit in the cave, dubbed Areni-1, had been sealed in by several layers of sheep dung, which accumulated in the cave after its Copper Age human inhabitants had gone.
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TUESDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin doesn't improve the lung function of children and teens with cystic fibrosis, U.S. researchers report.
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"A vicious cycle of infection and inflammation causes progressive lung destruction and premature death in patients with cystic fibrosis [CF]. Treatment strategies have therefore included both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory agents," Dr. Lisa Saiman, of Columbia University in New York City, said in a news release.
Over the past decade, studies have suggested that azithromycin, an antibiotic with both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activity, benefits CF patients.
Azithromycin is recommended as therapy for CF patients with chronic infection with the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but there has not been enough evidence to support the benefit of azithromycin in other patients with CF, the researchers wrote.
This study, which investigated the possible benefits of expanding the antibiotic therapy to CF patients without the pathogen, included 260 children and teens with CF who were not infected with P. aeruginosa. They were randomly selected to receive either azithromycin or a placebo. After 24 weeks of treatment, there was no difference in lung function between the two groups.
However, researchers found that when compared with the placebo group, the azithromycin group had 50% fewer pulmonary exacerbations and 27% fewer patients who had to begin new oral antibiotics (other than azithromycin). On average, they also showed a 1.3-pound weight gain and a 0.34-unit increase in body-mass index (important because CF patients often need to gain weight). There were no differences in treatment groups in the use of intravenous or inhaled antibiotics or hospitalizations, Saiman and colleagues added.
They also found that patients who took the antibiotic had less cough and less productive cough than those in the placebo group.
"Further studies of azithromycin are warranted to further investigate its potential use" in CF patients not infected with P. aeruginosa, the researchers concluded.
The study appears in the May 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
-- Robert Preidt
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Christopher Fry is Twitter's 43-year-old senior vice president of engineering. He runs everything engineering-related at the company. This means he's the guy whose job it is to make sure Twitter can handle the massive volumes of tweets that flow across its servers every time, say, Miley Cyrus learns a new dance move at a strip club. He's a big dude — a surfer and sailor — who came to the company from Salesforce. He also did a post-doc in computational neuroscience from Berkeley, where he studied the auditory cortex of zebra finches. WIRED sat down with Fry to talk about how Twitter will continue to grow, what keeps him up at night, and to find out whatever happened to the Fail Whale.
WIRED: Is there anything about the language of song birds that you can apply to engineering at Twitter?
Fry: The interesting thing about bird songs is they're learned. They're this example of this complex learned behavior that's passed down. Actually, a lot of the original work was done here at Berkeley. They studied basically the dialects of birds in the Bay Area. So there are whole maps of white crown sparrows and how their language changes across the geography of the Bay Area.
Once I left academics, I started doing startups and started moving into the technology world. But one of the things I bring to every job is this love of learning. One of the things we did this year was found Twitter University, which is really about creating this locus of learning inside the organization and building a learning organization. We acquired Marakana and got two really great founders to come in and basically build a world class technical training inside Twitter, provided for free. Every engineer could become an expert in Android or iOS. We have all kinds of different programming languages. It's really been this incredibly fun thing to create. We want Twitter to be able to do whatever we need it to do within three months, the whole organization. The university gives us that ability to adapt and learn.
"The Fail Whale image is not served by Twitter anymore. It had a long history and some of our users feel very connected to it. But in the end, it did represent a time when I don't think we lived up to what the world needed Twitter to be."WIRED: I'd assume you'd want engineers to have ownership of specific projects. Does that mean that, like, you would want your people who are on iOS to know also about Android as well, just to know it?
Fry: You know, it's generally good if, one, people appreciate what everybody else is doing and, two, have general knowledge and can work around the systems. So, just like any system, if you have too much specialization you get brittle and you can't change quickly. In a perfect world, everybody would be able to do everything. You obviously have specialists, and specialists are important. But to the extent that our engineers can have a high degree of aptitude in any discipline, it's good for us. Good for the teams and good for what we need to do.
WIRED: So, do you have people who are working on multiple projects at once?
Fry: We do. It's interesting. When we were looking at scaling out mobile, we wanted to make sure that we moved away from this one team inside Twitter building mobile products to scaling out mobile across engineering. So, what we did there was train up a bunch of people to work in Android and iOS, and then we took the mobile team and we left sort of a core team intact but put the mobile engineers out onto the different product teams so that we built a mobile capacity across all of engineering. Twitter has a long history of being mobile-first, but we wanted to extend that even more. We make sure every place we're building a product, we're building it onto mobile devices. So, part of what we did was, one, bring up experts in whatever it was and then, two, distribute the teams but still keep core teams that focus on the core mobile infrastructure in place. So, that's the best long answer to your question.
WIRED: We're hitting the point where more than half the world has a smartphone. People are coming online, many for the first time, in countries where they're buying things like twenty-five dollar Android handsets. What type of engineering challenges does that pose?
Fry: There's two or three things that you have to think about. One is, people are used to working on the web where you can know everything that's happening in real time. One of the strategies you have to take — we've taken this and are pretty prepared for it — is building in all the infrastructure so that you have on the web onto your mobile frameworks. This gives you the ability to experiment, the ability to try things out, the ability to iterate quickly. People sometimes think about mobile products as these shipped, static products and web products as very dynamic and pliable. You have to create the infrastructure to have a dynamic and pliable infrastructure in mobile. On the web, you can track every click. To build great products you have to have that insight into mobile.
Generally, not everybody around the world has the latest iPhone or Android device. So you have to basically tailor your product to run well in places where there are lower-end devices, and maybe not as good networks, or even very unreliable networks.
WIRED: Do you engineer for the lowest common denominator?
Fry: You don't engineer for the lowest common denominator, but you do tailor the product that you deliver to the market you're going into. So you'll have a team that's focused on creating the Twitter experience for that market.
WIRED: I want to talk about scaling and stability. I read something you said that, ��Twitter was trying to solve its problems by throwing machines at them rather than from an engineering standpoint��. Is that...
Fry: Did I say that? I don'��t think I said that.
WIRED: I believe you did? [Ed note: He didn't say that! It was Raffi Krikorian, in a blog post here.]
Fry: Twitter definitely has had scaling issues in the past, and one of the opportunities I saw coming into Twitter was both scaling out the infrastructure and scaling out the organization at the same time. Having gone through that at Salesforce, I was able to bring that learning with me. When I think about the infrastructure problems we had, there was a key problem that we had to solve which was decomposing our monolithic code base. We had a monolithic Ruby server and we were able to basically decompose that into a set of services. Then applying Mesos as that layer of indirection gives us a way to pack services onto machines to get higher utilization. We can get reliability and efficiency at the same time on top of faster developer productivity as well.
WIRED: Tell me what Mesos is if you don'��t mind.
Fry: Mesos is our version of elastic compute. It sits between the hardware operating system and what developers deploy, so it gives you a scalable way to deploy services to a set of boxes. It becomes like the operating system for a data center, if you will.
WIRED: Other people are using it as well, right?
Fry: Yeah, it'��s used outside Twitter. I think it'��s used a bunch of places. It'��s an open source project...
WIRED: You smiled when you said that. Are you proud that it'��s used...
"When we think of the purpose of Twitter, what we're able to do, making it so any person in the world can communicate with any other person, connecting all the people on the planet, that is an incredible mission to be on."Fry: I am, I am, I am. I think it'��s currently used at Airbnb, and I was trying to come up with a list of other ones but I just don'��t have a quick list. But it's used in a bunch of places and it's a very successful Apache project. Twitter has a long history of giving back to open source, and Mesos is one of our probably biggest open source successes right now, I would say.
Part of the Twitter service itself is the free flow of information, and so I think a lot of people that come to work here have a passion around that. Generally, inside Twitter engineering we prefer things to be open rather than closed, so where we can share we do. So yeah, it ties into the culture of Twitter itself and the product and how we build it.
There are some great benefits to open source. One is obviously you end up building quality into the product because it'��s very transparent, everybody sees what's happening. And then you get contributions back into the project, so then you can create a platform on which people can build new things and you can bring them back into the company.
WIRED: So is the Fail Whale a thing of the past now?
Fry: The Fail Whale is a thing of the past. Actually, this summer we took the Fail Whale out of production. So if you come to Twitter, and there are always gonna be problems, no service is ever perfect. But right now you will see robots instead of the Fail Whale. So the Fail Whale image is not served by Twitter anymore. It had a long history and some of our users feel very connected to it. But in the end, it did represent a time when I don't think we lived up to what the world needed Twitter to be.
We are a service that people turn to in moments of joy, and also when things are going horribly wrong in the world. So I feel a personal commitment, as does I think does everybody that works here, to having a service that's available when anyone needs it. And sometimes Twitter may be the only thing that's working during a flood or during a major disaster. So we're very committed to being the most reliable service that we can be.
WIRED: Do you view Twitter as a key piece of communication infrastructure?
Fry: I do. When we think of the purpose of Twitter, what we're able to do, making it so any person in the world can communicate with any other person, connecting all the people on the planet, that is an incredible mission to be on. We're probably still early in that mission, but that is the goal: that any one person can communicate with every other person in the world.
WIRED: If you say you deleted Fail Whale, then people can'��t get on Twitter, it seems like that's really opening yourself up to criticism.
Fry: We even debated internally whether we would talk about that outside of the company because we'��re still going to have issues here. We have had a long period of much more reliable service which gave us the confidence to say, �we really feel we've made a substantive difference versus just a small change in how the service is operating.�� There will always be issues with Twitter. When I think about things that keep me up at night, one is the reliability of the service. The other is are our engineers as efficient as they can be? Do we have all the infrastructure to make sure they can rapidly deliver code so that we can iterate on their product quickly? I think we still can. I think there's a world of innovation that is ahead of us with Twitter, we'��ve only scratched the surface and there'��s way more to come. Even though we'��ve accomplished a lot, I think there'��s still a lot to do.
If you're always fighting reliability fires, you're not innovating a product. So you have to have that core infrastructure layer in place so you can then make it more efficient and iterate upon it and build great consumer experiences. I think getting reliability in place is the first step towards really doing product innovation. Sometimes, you will feel like they're in conflict. I don't feel that way. I don't.
WIRED: Is that why there have been so many new products coming out recently?
Fry: I do feel like going through the steps of creating a reliable service, getting to scale, making it efficient and then creating this mobile infrastructure where we can rapidly iterate has meant that we've been able to do things like MagicRecs and Event Parrot. Those are two of the things that I think really represent a special experience of Twitter because they're in the moment.
So if you take Event Parrot... it's sometimes hard to explain what Twitter is, but when Event Parrot's on your phone, you become the first person in the world, maybe in your network, to know about something that's happening. So it really brings the news quickly to you and what's happening in the world. It makes Twitter very accessible. So I think this story of going from reliability to product innovation has let us experiment with things like that.
WIRED: What advice would you give to those tasked with fixing Healthcare.gov to make it more stable and scalable? Are there general principles or practices they should follow to fix a massive product that can't go down while it's being fixed?
Fry: I would give the same advice to almost any software organization: stay close to the people who are going to use your product, don't spend a lot of time writing specifications, try to iterate quickly and get to a v.1 as soon as possible. You'll want to get your software in the hands of people that will use it. It's important to get a steel thread of functionality working end-to-end rather than building it out in layers, so work through a single use case that has you build some UI, logic and backend. Almost all software organizations end up fixing the plane while it's flying.


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I heard from the coven "alpha bitch", who domineered everyone else into seeing things her way. For some reason she has a thing for contacting people from the past, though. I had a feeling it would happen, as she'd been "poking" me on facebook and other crap. Then she sent me a message:
"I know you'll hate me forever...I expect that..." it started out. How perceptive of her. She went on to say she remembers the earlier, good times rather than the later days and she hopes I am happy. Something about "best wishes from all of us" which I don't necessarily believe (these are people who convince themselves they have perfect love and perfect trust, while constantly bickering and trash-talking). No apology for being instrumental in having a total of 9 friends shun me during the same week I lost my job and my grandparent died, or for putting another dent in my ability to trust people, or for making me think there's something wrong with me that makes me incapable of relationships and that all friends, groups of friends, and partners will eventually discover. (I realize this is the argument from majority, majority is not always right, and there's such a thing as mob mentality.) This is the same person who said she was supportive of my not wanting to have children, and then felt the need to confront me in front of the group accusing me of hating her children because I didn't want to have any.
I don't really remember the "earlier, good times" either because for so many of those I felt dissatisfied, but had good moments here and there that made me think things weren't so bad, things would get better, I was just having a bad day, if I lost them I'd lose a support system, etc. (I feel like this sounds stupid, but I know it's very common in friendships, relationships, even marriages.)
After being shunned I came up with alternate routes to go places so that I wouldn't have to drive past their houses. Most of my wedding photos are merely fragments because I cut them out of the picture, and I don't have good memories of my wedding. (I'm glad that at least I followed my mom's suggestion that the wedding have no religious affiliation.) I sold all of my wiccan books and supplies, as well as other presents that they had given me over the years.
My reply:
"I have been happier since 2008. It was a turning point. It led to positive changes in all aspects of my life."
(All of which is true.)
I was pretty proud of myself. When it comes to people from my past I usually picture myself going off on them, saying everything I never got a chance to say. What sometimes happens is that I am so surprised to hear from them I end up being too compassionate and forgiving and taking them right back, which sometimes leads to a repeat performance of the earlier bullshit. I didn't do either. I basically said that my life was greatly improved when she and the others were no longer in it, but without saying a single negative word.
I do feel slightly better since hearing from her, because I don't feel quite so much like there is a group of people wishing me ill will or thinking I'll never amount to anything. Still, that is one association I just don't want to get back into or reminisce about, and I don't really know why the hell I ever looked up to her.
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Prog Rock Girl, I am sorry that she caused so much unneeded trauma (as if trauma can ever be needed) in your life. No matter what she was angry about there is no reason to simply abandon you like that and encourage the others follow suit. Especially not during an already horrid time for you :(
I feel bad that it has affected your ability to trust others. I know what it's like to have trust issues, and I can identify with being kicked out of a circle of people I thought were friends. You're right, once the alpha decides you're out, the others follow like sheep no matter how much you thought they loved you. Sounds like she's just contacting you to get rid of her guilt but if she really cared she would have apologized.
I think your response to her was quite awesome. Short, positive, truthful. Good for you for not letting her make you feel sorry for her.
I can say you amount to a lot. You've had kind words to say to me and encouragement. Also your intelligence comes through in your posts as does your self-confidence. You seem pretty together and respectful, and certainly not any of the words they accuse you of.
Oh, and that kid thing is total BS. How dare she try to insinuate you dont like her kids just because you're making a rational, sustainable choice to not have your own kids.
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|Wedding 28 June 1893
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On 28 June 1893 Michael Joseph Connery and Alice Fleming were joined in marriage by Fr Michael Fleming, the brother of the bride. The ceremony took place in the home of the bride's sister Mrs Thomas (Mary Ann) Walsh in Port Huron, Michigan. Witnesses were Kate Connery, sister of the groom, and John Dority both of Chicago. [i]
The couple returned to Chicago where MJ was a saloon keeper at 161 N Paulina and resided at 191 N Paulina.[ii] In 1893 Chicago was home of the World's Fair or the Columbian Exposition and excitement abounded. This was the era of Daniel Burnham, Marshall Field, and George Washington Gale Ferris inventor of the Ferris Wheel. The 500 foot Ferris Wheel dominated the landscape of the fairgrounds built on the city's lakefront. Marshall Field's new store was a shopping mecca and the new Mrs Connery was a patron for many years.[iii]
As the young couple established their home on the west side of Chicago, they became members of St Columbkille Parish in Chicago. It is of note that there was also a Michael M Connery family, married in 1892, living in the same parish. Both families began having babies baptized in the same time frame and same parish making identifying children difficult. Children came to the family Mary Elizabeth, Kathleen Frances, Leo, and Alice Josephine, were all baptized at St Columbkille.[iv]
Around 1902 MJ built a two story, ten room stone home at 1993 Washington Blvd and the family became members of St Mel Parish where Pauline Jeanne, Thomas Joseph, John Clement, Eleanore Virginia, and Elizabeth Mary were baptized.[v] All of the children were born over a period of 24 years.
The family grew up and moved on as families do but the house on Washington Blvd remained a hub of activity.The two oldest daughters, who entered the Order of St Dominic in Adrian, MI, returned home often as their teaching positions permitted. Three of the daughters, Pauline, Eleanor, and Elizabeth were married from that house. Kathleen never left as her choice was to remain single and work with her father in the travel business. Several of the grandchildren came to the house as the first stop after leaving the hospital. Others returned to be baptized at St Mel. The oldest son Leo died at age seven and was buried from St Mel.[vi]
Over the years MJ changed from saloon keeper, to restaurant owner, to owning several bowling alleys, to realtor, to finally owning his own Real Estate firm, M J Connery Real Estate established around 1915. [vii] Eventually travel and insurance businesses were added to the real estate business. MJ moved his family several times between 1893 and 1902 but after the house was built they remained in the home at 1993 (re-numbered in August 1909) Washington Blvd until after his death in 1953.


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CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, arbitrary precision floats, a foreign language interface and a socket interface. An X11 interface is available through CLX and Garnet. Command line editing is provided by readline which makes it one of the nicer lisps to use interactively - you can auto-complete function and file names with tab, use up arrow to get previous commands and it does paren-matching.
Cross-platform preemptive multiprocessing is in alpha.
See http://clisp.cons.org, http://www.clisp.org, http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/, http://clisp.sourceforge.net.
According to some sources, the official repository has moved from SourceForge to Gitlab.
CLISP was used to develop part of the Yahoo! Store e-commerce site.
The implementation notes constitute its reference guide.
Local CLISP links
- CLISP-Shell - A description of how to make CLISP work as a Unix shell.
- CLORB - CLORB is a CORBA ORB that implements the OMG Lisp Language Mapping for CORBA
- CloserLookAtCharacters - Characters are not their codes -- Encodings and external format in Common Lisp
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- Langband - Langband is a rewrite of the popular roguelike role-playing Game Angband
- Le Sursis - Le Sursis is a Web tool for writing CGI scripts
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