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^^ Yes, a slip of the finger perhaps. I didn't notice that mistake, but right you are. Maybe os128 is thinking about his/ her own family? In any case, with Michelle being a 1st generation Asian American, that probably makes her parents doubly proud witnessing all of their children's accomplishments, and especially now the marriage of their youngest daughter.
BTW, how old were Michelle's parents when they first came to the U.S.?
Michelle and Clay probably didn't have time in their schedule to attend the Inauguration today.
Maybe MK is indeed considered second generation Asian-American despite her parents not being born in the U.S.
Last edited by aftershocks; 01-21-2013 at 08:44 PM.
Not dissimilar to many successful Asian American athletes like Jeremy Lin for example, or Patrick of Canada. Who's dreams won't be possible unless they are in the right place at the right time, meet the right people, worked incredibly hard, and really flew with the chances they were given with the incredible talent they have got given with the full encouragement and support by their parents.
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Wow - just looking at picture 7 in that gallery of photos. She's really rocking some heels! I have terrible feet and can't wear heels.
Were any of her skating contemporaries (skaters she competed with) invited?
^^ I don't think we know yet. Some have suggested that perhaps Frank C and Irina S were invited with the expectation that they wouldn't be able to make it. I thought that Kristi Y and Peggy F would have been invited. Perhaps they were, but also couldn't be there. Don't know if perhaps Evan was invited. We heard that Grant Hochstein was invited because he tweeted that he was but he couldn't make it because of Nationals (others suggested Caroline Zhang was likely invited too and couldn't appear for the same reason).
You make a good point os128. That's why I asked how old Michelle's parents were when they first came here. Did they meet here or did they meet in Hong Kong, marry and then come here before their children were born? I don't recall. Even though her parents weren't born here, they most certainly became citizens a long time ago, so are obviously first generation in this country if not born here. I'm not familiar with how terminology is used in these instances.
Not only MK is used to wear little in the cold but also there is a lot of adrenaline to keep you warm. I bet she didn't even notice the cold. Love the detailing on the dress. Beautiful.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
The "Too Fab" site that all_empty linked allows scrolling over the dress, veil and shoes to "get the look." MK's shoes "get the look" reference is Nina Jacalyn High Heels (don't know if it's meant to be exactly what she's wearing or something similar). Karen's dress "get the look" reference is a Badgley Mischka One-Shoulder.
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Those are serious heels. And she will be able to wear them after the wedding as they are not white. They are awesome. MK has great taste, always had.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
Clay must be quite a bit taller than I had thought -- look at the the heels on these sparklies:
Great advertising for Vera Wang -- that dress is just beautiful on her.
The veil is also surprisingly protective, thin as it is. But mostly adrenaline.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
Just going off of first impressions and all, but now that I've had a closer look at him, MK's hubby looks like a nice guy. Really nice - the kind that would let his wife 'push' him around simply because he's so good-natured and loves her so much.
Yes, I formed the impression of a laid back, calm, nice person when I looked at Clay.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
My reactions to seeing all the photos was that Michelle was so full of joy she was about to explode out of her own skin. How many of us have ever felt that level of joy? I envy that in a way. She's got such a giddy smile on her face in almost every picture it's hilarious and also touchingly sweet.
Clay is fluent in English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. He studied law in China and in Argentina, and he led a "national campaign to increase funding for inexpensive, life-saving medicines for children under five." His family has a long tradition of public service and support of humanitarian causes. Clay most definitely has lived up to the family tradition and then some, but in a way that seems to have been quietly confident and under the radar, while no less amazingly accomplished. It's not easy to live up to the excellence of one's forebears. Clay so far seems well on his way to matching and maybe surpassing his grandfather's achievements. Well, Clay probably wouldn't look at it that way -- his Gramps was truly remarkable. But with Michelle at Clay's side, the sky is the limit!
Indeed the fact that Michelle and Clay hit it off the moment they met also speaks volumes about his character and his personality. He does indeed seem very low key and exceptionally good-hearted. However, rather than allowing himself to be "pushed around," by a loving wife, I think Clay is someone who isn't pushed around by anyone, but would be willing to walk through fire for his country, his family, his fellow human beings, and especially for the woman he loves. I don't think MK is gonna be the "pushing around" type of wife in any case. Kween and Clay will likely be stepping right in tune with each other to advocate for, work on behalf of and "push for" a variety of humanitarian, patriotic, and international goodwill projects, in addition to starting a family (maybe after a year or two of marriage?).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/fellows/2011-2012 *Scroll down
Last edited by aftershocks; 01-21-2013 at 10:42 PM.
Wonderful to see.
BTW...Anyone know what the two decorations Clay has and was wearing on his Uniform?
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Minutes of the Lebanon Public Library Board of Trustees
May 24, 2006
Board President, Jane Myers, called the meeting to order. Members attending were Jane Myers, David Koehler, Kandi Caldwell and Marsha Truitt. Sharon Wood, Linda Jones, and Jon Nixon were not able to attend. Also attending were Kay Martin, Library Director, David Truitt, Library Attorney, and Dan Sulkoske of Kramer, INC.
Under correspondence, the Boone County Chamber of Commerce sent a flyer about their golf outing on June 23, 2006. Kay received a note from Rosa McDaniel-King congratulating her on her scholarship award.
The Secretary's Report was shared. David Koehler made the motion and Kandi Caldwell gave the second to accept the report.
David Koehler gave an update on the Treasurer's Report and said at this time we are "doing very well."
The claims were shared. Marsha Truitt made the motion and Kandi Caldwell gave the second to pay the claims. (Claims 4085-4153.)
Dan Sulkoske gave the building update. The estimate from Tierstep to finish the upper floor was $748,161.70. Dan's recommendation was either Tierstep lower the price or we look elsewhere. In the remodeling of the original Carnegie part of the Library, the tilework will be saved in front of the three fireplaces and two doorways and the Keystone repaired. Dan also participated in the meeting with Libby Jones as a construction supervisor to explain that the Library was not responsible for the sewer problems caused by SBC during the construction process.
David Truitt told us that we have been approached by the executor of the Ellis Estate to purchase the property. The estimated value of the property is $90,000. We need to know if the land is of adequate size for 9 parking spaces. That is the number of spaces yet required by the City in order to be able to finish the upper floor of the Library.
David Koehler told about the Circuit Breaker Law – HB 1001 – (starting 2007 payable 2008) with a maximum cap of 2% of assessed evaluation.
The Library Staff Breakfast will be June 7 to discuss the move. Kay asked that the Library be closed during the breakfast so all staff could attend. David Koehler made the motion and Kandi Caldwell gave the second to close the Library during the time of the breakfast.
Donna Boone has served as the Library's representative on the INCOLSA Board. Since she is retiring, Kay asked that she be replaced by Connie Bruder. Marsha Truitt made the motion and Kandi Caldwell gave the second to let Connie Bruder replace Donna Boone on the INCOLSA Board.
The Boone County Chamber of Commerce has asked if the Library would like space reserved in the new Community Profile Book, Buyer's Guide, and Member Directory. David Koehler made the motion and Kandi Caldwell gave the second for the Library to have space in these publications.
The date of the next Library Board meeting is being changed from the fourth Wednesday, June 28 to the third Wednesday, June 21.
David Koehler made the motion to adjourn and Kandi Caldwell gave the second.
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Accessing PostgreSQL in C/C++
For some, databases can be pretty intimidating. I remember some of the convoluted code I wrote years ago in order to avoid having to learn how to access a database from my programs. But it's actually not that hard to access a database, even in C/C++.
It seems like just about any application you could want to write requires, or could benefit from being able to access, a database. Certainly, most applications don't need a complete RDBMS like PostgreSQL, but for those that do, there's no substitute. For those applications that don't need a complete RDBMS, accessing an SQLite database might be a good step up from managing a bunch of flat files. In this article, I will demonstrate how easy it is to access a PostgreSQL database. In my next article, I'll demonstrate access to an SQLite database and compare the two.
Before we can have any meaningful conversation about databases, we need to have a simple table definition, and some data to put in it.
For our purposes, this should be good enough:
create table people (
id integer,
firstname varchar(20),
lastname varchar(20),
phonenumber char(10)
insert into people (id, firstname, lastname, phonenumber) values
(1, 'Fred', 'Flintstone', '5055551234');
insert into people (id, firstname, lastname, phonenumber) values
(2, 'Wilma', 'Flintstone', '5055551234');
insert into people (id, firstname, lastname, phonenumber) values
(3, 'Barny', 'Rubble', '5055554321');
This is just a simple table to hold some of my Prehistoric friends. Miraculously, they managed to get telephone service. Go figure.
For this program, I'm using the C++ library, libpq to access the database. As a C programmer, I prefer native C libraries over C++ libraries But as you will see, the libpq library is very approachable, even for non-C++ programmers.
So, let's take a look at some source code.
1 #include <stdio.h>
2 #include <postgresql/libpq-fe.h>
3 #include <string>
5 int main() {
6 PGconn *conn;
7 PGresult *res;
8 int rec_count;
9 int row;
10 int col;
14 conn = PQconnectdb("dbname=ljdata host=localhost user=dataman password=supersecret");
16 if (PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_BAD) {
17 puts("We were unable to connect to the database");
18 exit(0);
19 }
21 res = PQexec(conn,
22 "update people set phonenumber=\'5055559999\' where id=3");
24 res = PQexec(conn,
25 "select lastname,firstname,phonenumber from people order by id");
27 if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) {
28 puts("We did not get any data!");
29 exit(0);
30 }
32 rec_count = PQntuples(res);
34 printf("We received %d records.\n", rec_count);
35 puts("==========================");
37 for (row=0; row<rec_count; row++) {
38 for (col=0; col<3; col++) {
39 printf("%s\t", PQgetvalue(res, row, col));
40 }
41 puts("");
42 }
44 puts("==========================");
46 PQclear(res);
48 PQfinish(conn);
50 return 0;
51 }
Weighing in at 51 lines, you can tell that this code isn't going to be complicated. At the top, on line 2, we see the obligatory inclusion of the PostgreSQL's library declarations.
On lines 5-10 we see the beginning of main() and some local variable declarations. We'll use row and col in order to loop over the rows and columns that result from our query. The rec_count will hold a count of how many records our query returns; we'll use this value in our loop. The conn variable points to a connection handle that holds all of the information that the library needs to establish, maintain and terminate a connection to our database. Finally, the res variable points to a results handle that contains information about the current database query.
We actually connect to the database on line 14. This is a fairly straightforward piece of code. We simply supply the name of a database, the host it resides on, and our connection credentials. If this function returns CONNECTION_BAD, we know we've not gotten connected and it's time to bail out. We check for this condition in lines 16-19.
In lines 21-22, we perform a simple database update. Here we simply pass in our connection handle, and a string/char[] that contains our SQL update statement. Of course, our SQL statement could have contained any valid SQL. The PQexec() function returns a results handle, which we don't need for this particular SQL statement.
Things get more interesting starting from line 24. Here we begin with an SQL select statement. We're going to get the lastname, firstname and phonenumber fields for every record in our table. Lines 27-30 check to make sure that we actually received some data from our query. In the real world, we might do some error recovery here. But for our purposes, printing an error message and exiting is good enough.
Since we know that we did receive data, it would be nice to know how much data we got. We get a record count on line 32. We'll use this count on line 34 to tell the user how much data to expect.
Lines 37-42 are where we actually process the results of our query. In this case, we have a nested loop that loops over each row of our result set. For each row, we loop over each field. Finally, we print each field followed by a tab character. At the end of each row, we print an additional carriage return so each row appears on it's own line.
There are a few things worth mentioning about the PQgetvalue() function on line 39. First, notice that we passed in the results handle we received from PQexec() when we started the query. Also notice that both the row and col parameters are 0-indexed. That is, the first field is gotten by setting col to 0, not 1.
On lines 46 and 48, we do some housekeeping chores. First, we tell the database that we are finished with the last results and no longer need the results handle. Then, since our program is almost finished, we disconnect from the database on line 48.
We compile this program with a comand like:
g++ -lpq db.cpp -o db
And once the program has been compiled, we have an executable called db. Note that we had to link to the pq library.
As you've probably guessed by now, running the db program results in this output:
We received 3 records.
Flintstone Fred 5055551234
Flintstone Wilma 5055551234
Rubble Barny 5055559999
So, as you can see, accessing a PostgreSQL database in C/C++ isn't that hard. I would suggest encapsulating all of the database functionality in stand-alone functions and keep them all in a single source file. Then the rest of your program can simply call your functions to get results and not have to worry about error corrections, etc.
Next time, I'll discuss a similar program that uses a SQLite database. An SQLite database does have some limitations, but doesn't require a database server and is easy to manage. But, as I said earlier, if your program requires the scalability and performance of a RDBMS, PostgreSQL is a good choice and is easy to program against.
Mike Diehl is a freelance Computer Nerd specializing in Linux administration, programing, and VoIP. Mike lives in Albuquerque, NM. with his wife and 3 sons. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
ECPG, It's easy
Excellent article
Nice article. The only problem is that the code would need to be rewritten for a different RDMS. It might be nice if you also could write an article on how to use ODBC in the code so that it could then be used with a number of different RDMSs. Of course, this is likely going to really be a series of articles due to the greater complexity of ODBC access.
libpq is C
libpq is a *pure* C library, not C++. For *actual* C++ use, there is libpqxx, a C++ wrapper for libpq that is worth using.
PostgreSQL is great
Thanks for writing about PostgreSQL. In my opinion one of the best dabase systems available among all commercial and open source offerings.
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Sightings of snowy owls, usually a rare winter guest spotted once or twice a year in New Jersey, have become increasingly common over the past few weeks in the Shore area.
The striking,
mysterious-looking white owls, who usually make their home in the arctic regions and overwinter in the Canadian maritimes, have been spotted up
and down the beaches of New Jersey in recent weeks, from Sandy Hook to
Cape May. Fishermen have seen them resting on beaches at Island Beach
State Park and Barnegat Light, while birdwatchers and naturalists have
observed them in Galloway Township and Ocean City.
"During my
lifetime, we have not had an incursion of snowy owls to this magnitude," said Brian Moscatello, a naturalist at the Cape May Bird Observatory
who has been a birdwatcher for 42 years.
"Normally, New Jersey is about the southern limit. One or two will be spotted," he said.
But this year there have been more than 100 sightings from Nov. 1 through
the first days of December, according to eBird.org, a website that
relies on spotters to report their bird sightings. Hotspots for
sightings have included Sandy Hook, Island Beach State Park, Holgate and the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge near Galloway.
Sightings have also occurred in Ocean City and Corson's Inlet State Park, as well as a few mainland locations, such as Jackson Liberty High School in
Jackson Township and the lawn of the Cedar Creek Golf Course in Berkeley Township.
There was even one sighting in Bermuda, said Moscatello.
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The unprecedented number of sightings has prompted local naturalists to
come up with theories as to why the birds are appearing in the Garden
State so frequently this year. Past theories have linked increased snowy owl sightings to a lack of lemmings – owls' natural prey – in Canada.
But this time around, most are coming to the conclusion that an
excellent breeding year has led to the species' natural winter haunts in southern Canada to become too crowded by older birds, forcing the
youngest to migrate south.
New theories are necessitated due to
the variances between the sightings this year and other years when snowy owls made strong appearances in the United States.
"The invasion was much broader in scope in 2011, and the total for the
Northeast is already much higher this year – we're just a few days into
December," said a report on eBird.
"Just last week, we had a
report from Newfoundland where two birders went out together and just
birded from sunrise to sunset," said Moscatello. "In a relatively
constrained area, they had 138 snowy owls in one day, in just a little
bit of coastal Newfoundland. Those northern areas are heavily occupied."
That means the birds being seen in New Jersey are mostly juveniles, likely
born this past breeding season or the one before it. Like most bird
species, Moscatello said, many owls that migrate might south not make it back to their regular habitat. But that doesn't mean some won't – and
while they're here, they will likely find ample food despite some local
"We don't have lemmings, but we do have voles, mice, rats and things like that," said Moscatello.
The owls will face certain unique threats to their seasonal survival,
however, including a lack of rats in the local marshlands due to
Superstorm Sandy and the prospect of coming into contact with domestic
animals like dogs that could post a safety hazard. Such threats don't
generally exist in the Arctic regions.
Some of the owls may be hungry, and others may be stressed, Moscatello said.
Winter beachgoers are being urged to keep their dogs on a leash, and those who encounter owls should stay a few hundred feet away so as to limit the
degree to which they're disturbed or flushed from their resting areas.
"There may be a report here and there, but often in the winter you won't have
any snowy reports in New Jersey," said Moscatello. "This has happened in the past, but so far [this year], it's on the extreme end of things."


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German supper and auction: Featuring homemade German foods and great entertainment from 5 to 8 p.m. at Garden Valley Retirement Village, 1505 E. Spruce St., with all proceeds used for buying Christmas presents for GVRV residents. For meal tickets, call 275-9651.
"Walk To End Alzheimer's": Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. and the walk begins at 4 p.m. at Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City. Funds raised will go directly toward supporting the efforts of the Alzheimer's Association. Information about the walk or to form a team is available at http://act.alz.org/2012gardencity.
Dog Jog and Pet Expo: Featuring a silent auction, dog and cat photo contest, numerous vendors, pets available for adoption, face painting, cake walk, pet costume contest and more, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Livestock Building at the Finney County Fairgrounds in Garden City. Sponsored by the Finney County Humane Society.
"Deadly Nightcap": Garden City Recreation Commission's fifth annual Fall Murder Mystery at the State Theatre, 7:30 p.m. today and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and Arts Angels. Tickets are available at the activity center, 310 N. Sixth St., from any cast and crew or at the door. For more information about the production, to get information on becoming an Arts Angel or to support the arts in some other way, call 276-1200, email email@example.com or stop by the activity center.
ZumbaThon "Party in Pink": Zumba instructors from Garden City, Lakin and Ulysses will be on hand to lead participants through their favorite Zumba routines, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Garden City Recreation Commission, 310 N. Sixth St. Refreshments will be available, door prizes will be awarded and Party-in-Pink T-shirts will be available for purchase. DJ "Kid Broc" will provide the music. Admission is $10 at the door. Proceeds from the event will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. For more information, call Kathy White at (620) 355-1801.
Public Square Rosary Crusade: 1 p.m. at Stevens Park in downtown Garden City. Sponsored by Daughters of Isabella, Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Circle No. 781, all are invited to participate while prayers are offered for the United States and those who reside in the United States. For more information, visit www.anf.org or call Cathy Brungardt at 276-3106.
Musical variety program: Featuring "The Garden City Senior Center Ambassador Singers," 7 p.m. at Garden Valley Retirement Village, 1505 E. Spruce St. The public is encouraged to attend at no charge.
Musical program: Featuring "The Roadrunners," 7 p.m. at Homestead Assisted Living, 2414 N. Henderson St. The public is encouraged to attend at no charge.
Musical program: Featuring "TAP — The Show," 7:30 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium at Horace J. Good Middle School, 1412 N. Main St. This is a performance in the Southwest Kansas Live On Stage concert season. Season tickets are $55 for adults, $35 for students and $135 for a family package. Single tickets for this performance are $25 for adults and $6 for students. For more information, call 275-1667 or visit www.swks-liveonstage.org.
"The King Stag": A comic fairy tale presented by the Garden City Community College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building on campus, 801 Campus Drive. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors age 65 and older and children age 17 and younger. Ticket sales available 7 to 11 a.m. and noon to 3:30 p.m. weekdays in the fine arts office, plus one hour before each show at the box office. Subsequent performances scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27, plus 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21.
Boo! At The Zoo: Featuring a trick-or-treat trail with more than 25 treat stops, creepy creature encounters with zoo docents and a journey through a ghoulish graveyard at Lee Richardson Zoo. The advanced gate will open at 4 p.m.; the general admission gate will be open from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Gate passes are $5 per person. Members-only skeleton key passes also are available (family/grandparent membership and above) and includes the Sleepy Hollow Wagon Tour. Skeleton key passes are sold exclusively through the Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo office. Advance tickets are available for $4 per person at El Remedio, the FOLRZ office, Safari Shoppe and Ward's Garden Center through noon Oct. 20. Tickets also may be purchased online at www.folrz.com until Tuesday. Frankenweenies (hot dogs), monster barbecue beef sandwiches, pumpkin pie and apple cider will be available for purchase. Attendees can bring an old cell phone to recycle and receive a special treat. The rain date is Oct. 27.
Pumpkin carving contest: Carve or create a festive pumpkin and drop it off between 10 a.m. and noon at Lee Richardson Zoo's Finnup Center for Conservation Education, 312 E. Finnup Drive. For more information, call (620) 247-6243 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Musical program: Featuring artist and songwriter Brandon Heath, with special guest Matt Maher, singer, songwriter and worship leader, 6 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium at Horace J. Good Middle School, 1412 N. Main St. Tickets are $25 for VIP and $20 for general admission. For information, call (620) 873-2991 or visit www.kjil.com.
Singles dance: Featuring "Moonshiners" from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at the Eagles Lodge, U.S. Highway 83 and Mary Street. Sponsored by Garden City Singles, the dance is open to the public. People attending must be age 21 or older.
Health Department
Hours at the Finney County Health Department, 919 Zerr Road, are 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Friday hours are 8 a.m. to noon.
For more information, call the health department at 272-3600.
Senior Center
The following events are scheduled at the Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St., unless otherwise noted. Anyone 55 years of age or older is welcome to participate.
Open pool: 1 to 4 p.m. today.
Duplicate bridge: 2 p.m. Sunday.
Dominoes and open pool: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Walking Club: 8:30 a.m. Monday.
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Finney County Committee on Aging: 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Line dancing: 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Dance: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday featuring Butch and Malinda Frazier.
TOPS: 9 a.m. Thursday.
Art class: 10 a.m. Thursday.
Gentle exercise: 11 a.m. Thursday.
Ambassador Singers practice: 1 p.m. Thursday.
Association Board: 3:15 p.m. Thursday.
Yoga: 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Bridge: 12:45 p.m. Friday.
Bazaar set-up: 1 p.m. Friday.
46th Annual Senior Citizen Association Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 20.
Prairie Land Food: Noon Oct. 20.
Meals on Wheels is available by calling 272-3620; Mini-bus, 272-3626; Senior Center, 272-3620.
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The Rama, however, mentions that one should just put his hand on the Mezuza. (As a side note, the Lubavitcher Rebbe used to put his hand on the Mezuza without kissing it).
The Rama brings a source from the Gemara in Avoda Zara where it relates that when Onkulus was being arrested and let out of the house, he put his hand on the Mezuza. When asked the meaning of the Mezuza, Onkeles answered that in contrast to a human king who is guarded by his servants, Hashem guards his servants.


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10 Years Ago, the U.S. Invaded Iraq
No one knows how a battle or war will turn out until the fighting actually begins.
Any time that the president orders U.S. troops into harm's way, it's an important moment for America. And it's always a fact of life that no one can know how a battle, or a war, will turn out until the fighting actually begins.
[PHOTOS: The 10th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq]
But the start of the Iraq war 10 years ago was different. President George W. Bush and his spokesmen predicted with unusual aggressiveness that America would prevail relatively easily, and Bush strategists forecast that the Iraqis would welcome their liberators with open arms as they headed to a bright future.
It didn't turn out quite that way. The U.S. "shock and awe" campaign, which included massive bombardment and an invasion by America's brilliant military, went well at first. And many Iraqis did welcome the Americans initially, expressing jubilation at the overthrow of brutal dictator Saddam Hussein.
But over time, the age-old divisions in Iraqi society resurface and it became clear that the Bush administration had badly under-estimated what it would take to complete the invasion successfully and establish a stable, prosperous and democratic society. Even today, 10 years later, after the loss of 4,488 American lives and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives (some estimates are far higher), with more than 32,000 Americans wounded, and $2 trillion in financial costs to the United States, the fate of Iraq is not clear. And 58 per cent of Americans say the war was not worth fighting, according to the latest ABC News poll.
[RELATED: How a Decade of War Has Shaped the U.S. Military]
A decade ago, I wrote extensively for U.S. News about the runup to the war. In the article that follows, I and my colleagues did not know or predict that a fundamental argument by President Bush to justify the war—the claim that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction—would turn out to be false. But we did express appropriate skepticism about the gathering conflict. "No matter how well Bush argues his case against Saddam Hussein," the article concluded, "or how effectively American troops perform in the fight that seems all but inevitable, winning people's hearts and minds may be the hardest battle of all."
Making the Case
By Kenneth T. Walsh; Kevin Whitelaw; Mark Mazzetti; David S. Powell; William Boston
At 7 a.m. nearly every day, President Bush arrives in the Oval Office, sits behind his big mahogany desk, and begins another round of direct-dial diplomacy. Last week, he chatted up the leaders of Portugal, Israel, Sweden, Afghanistan, Mauritius, the Netherlands, and Spain. Then, at the weekend, he hosted British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, one of his favorite phone pals, at Camp David. The goal, U.S. officials say, was to build a united front and increase the pressure on Saddam Hussein to disarm or go into exile—or to encourage a coup in Baghdad. The personal diplomacy is paying off. The leaders of eight European countries, including Britain, Spain, Italy, and the Czech Republic, signed a public letter last week backing Bush's hard line (even while France, Germany, and much of the Arab world remained opposed).
Regardless of how different allies come down on the Iraq issue, every sign now suggests that Bush's diplomatic offensive won't last much longer. At an Oval Office meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the president leaned forward, raised his voice, and surprised his dapper guest with a declaration. "We have not made up our mind on military action," he said. "I have made up my mind that one way or another Saddam Hussein will be disarmed." This warning—which was a central theme in last week's State of the Union address—will be repeated this week when the (newly hawkish) Secretary of State Colin Powell provides the United Nations Security Council with more information about Iraq's weapons programs.
The next benchmark will be the report of U.N. weapons inspectors due on February 14. If Hussein has not shown Bush clear movement toward disarmament by then, the president is likely to move quickly toward war, his advisers say.
Moonless nights. At that point, the U.S. military buildup in the Mideast probably will have reached critical mass. The United States has more than tripled the number of troops surrounding Iraq in recent weeks, with 55,000 soldiers and marines now on the ground in Kuwait alone. Countries in the region, including Turkey, are quietly lining up to permit U.S. forces to use their territory for bases and overflights, which would allow the Navy to conduct airstrikes off carriers in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. The Air Force has also recently built several "climate controlled" hangars on the island base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to house the B-2 Stealth bombers that would see the first action in the skies above Baghdad once the commander in chief gives the OK.
To that end, the ongoing diplomatic campaign will give the Pentagon time to complete a buildup that could reach 200,000 troops by late February or early March. That, it appears, would be the most likely time for war to begin—a window of opportunity when moonless nights would give added cover to aircraft and ground troops.
The administration's case is simple: Saddam Hussein is hiding dangerous weapons and is defying the United Nations; Iraq is connected to terrorism; Saddam Hussein's human-rights record is atrocious, and finally, America is exploring every avenue to avoid war.
But without clearer evidence, many Americans are jittery. "People are looking for, No. 1, justification," says Ken Duberstein, former White House chief of staff to Ronald Reagan. "No. 2, a game plan. No. 3, an explanation of why we have to do this now. And No. 4, reassurance that we are not going it alone." Duberstein says Bush effectively dealt with most of these issues in his State of the Union speech but adds, "Now he needs to demonstrate what's the endgame, what happens next."
The speech gave Bush at least a temporary boost. Sixty-seven percent of Americans who watched the address said he made a convincing case for military action to disarm Hussein, up from 47 percent prior to the speech, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll. But even White House officials were skeptical that those perceptions will last very long.
With good reason. Americans seem inclined to give their commander in chief the benefit of the doubt, but the doubt is real. "What right does the United States have to impose its will on the world?" asked James Meltzer, 31, as he tended bar at Chili's in Carmel, Ind. "Maybe I'm too much of a pacifist, but I'd like to think there are other options before going to war." Commented Kadeana Bradley, 28, a paralegal, as she waited for her lunch in the Roly Poly sandwich shop in Indianapolis: "They keep talking about weapons of mass destruction, but they're not showing us anything. . . . Frankly, I think it's all about oil."
Aware of the public mood, Democrats are escalating their opposition. Sens. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Byrd of West Virginia plan to introduce a resolution calling for another Senate vote on whether to go to war. And while such a measure apparently has little chance of passage, the debate, stoked by a growing number of Democratic presidential hopefuls, will surely provoke more soul-searching on Capitol Hill and around the country.
Even some advisers to former President George H. W. Bush, the current commander in chief's father, now have their doubts. Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War a decade ago, expresses concern that the administration may be rushing to battle.
At the heart of administration policy is Bush's Manichaean philosophy. Those who know him say he doesn't care very much about domestic polls, congressional qualms, or the opinion of those abroad. "It's become a moral crusade for President Bush," says a senior official in a previous Republican administration. "Saddam Hussein is the epitome of evil for him." Family friends agree privately that the president is eager to finish the job his father started, by getting rid of the Iraqi dictator.
Hearts and minds. Adds a former adviser to the elder Bush: "The assumption in the administration is that once the president announces that we are at war, everyone will fall into place. But it's more dicey and trickier than that. He's cried wolf so often that he's lost the emotional support of the American public. We've been on the verge of going to war for a year now, and nothing has happened."
What worries military planners and some former policymakers is that, beyond the war itself, a U.S. occupation would cost many billions of dollars, further damaging a weak economy, and provoke a series of perilous complications, including anti-American guerrilla operations and sabotage.
The drumbeat against Iraq, meanwhile, increases. "We want to carry out bold strokes," with a special emphasis on making the case against Iraq and combating anti-Americanism, says Tucker Eskew, director of the new 12-member White House Office of Global Communications. Last week, the office distributed translations of the State of the Union text in 20 languages, including French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Spanish. The office also hosted a small group of international journalists who met with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on the night of the address. The journalists included representatives of the al Jazeera television network, the BBC, and Australian broadcasting.
Senior U.S. officials, members of Congress, and U.S. ambassadors were sent talking points about the speech—via a daily E-mail that Eskew calls the "global messenger." And a small army of spokespersons, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Powell, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, launched a round of interviews and speeches promoting the president's views about the threat from Saddam Hussein.
The effort has a long way to go. "There has been no sales pitch to the world," says a European diplomat. "It's always to America." And the campaign appears piecemeal and badly targeted, at least to many Europeans. At the Gaststatte Hirten pub in the German hamlet of Bad Godesberg, five beer-drinking patrons had little good to say about Bush's policy. "He's already made up his mind to go to war," said Klaus Gottschling, a 47-year-old business consultant. "This Texas cowboy is just going to do whatever he wants to do anyway." Detlev Heidbreder, a 49-year-old lawyer, took a swig of beer and announced that Bush's State of the Union speech was really a declaration of war. Polls show that nearly 80 percent of Germans oppose any conflict in Iraq.
These are daunting numbers. And they make a larger point: No matter how well Bush argues his case against Saddam Hussein or how effectively American troops perform in the fight that seems all but inevitable, winning people's hearts and minds may be the hardest battle of all.
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The Associated Press reports a tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, officials and witnesses said. The Red Cross said at least 61 children and 36 women were among the dead. Witnesses said dozens of people had descended on the truck to siphon fuel illegally from the wreckage with cans and plastic buckets, apparently unaware of the danger. U.N. peacekeepers rushed to evacuate more than 200 wounded from the scene by helicopter and ambulance, while Red Cross teams carried the charred bodies from the scene in body bags and buried them in two mass graves a few miles away. The truck overturned as it was trying to pass a minibus near the village of Sange, around 20 miles north of Uvira, said Mana Lungwe, manager of the Congolese oil company that owns the truck. The vehicle began gushing oil, then burst into flames an hour later. Lungwe said the driver was injured in the accident and taken to a local clinic before the blast occurred. In Sange, the remains of the tanker lay tipped on its side, one small flame still leaping from the outside of the wrecked fuel container. Along the side of the road a few yards away, the remains of three wood and brick shacks smoldered where hundreds of people had gathered to watch the World Cup. The explosion took place in between matches, as people were watching television and milling outside. Mounoubai said the truck overturned around dusk and was carrying fuel from Bukavu to Uvira. Lungwe, the truck''s owner, said the tanker had begun its journey in the Kenyan city of Eldoret, and then traveled through Uganda and Rwanda before heading into Congo.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Steve Moore, CEO of the Country Music Association and longtime board member, has resigned after nearly four years serving in the position.
Moore said in a news release on Monday that he wanted to step aside and pursue other corporate and philanthropic opportunities. The resignation was effective on Sunday. No immediate replacement has been named.
He has been on the association's board of directors since 1989 and served as president in 2008 and chairman in 2009. He served as interim CEO after former CEO Tammy Genovese resigned in December 2009.
The association said Moore was instrumental in securing a new long-term extension with the ABC Television Network, which airs the annual CMA Awards. He also created the CMA Foundation, which donates money and instruments to the Metro Nashville public school system.
Moore helped the 2013 CMA Music Festival hit a record attendance with an increase of 12 percent, as well as more artist participation and 11 music stages.
Moore has been part of Nashville's music business for more than 20 years. He initially moved to Nashville to serve as the first executive director of the Starwood Amphitheater when it opened in 1985.
He also ran his own entertainment companies, and also served as senior vice president for AEG Live!, one of the world's largest concert promotion, special event and touring companies.
(The Associated Press Contributed To This Report.)


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Servings: 4-6
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Difficulty: Easy
10 cups sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/4 to 1/2 cup butter
3 tablespoons honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Add the potatoes to a large Dutch oven and cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer or until the potatoes are tender, about 8 to 10 minutes, drain well. Return the potatoes to the Dutch oven and add the butter, honey, cinnamon, and salt. Beat at medium-low speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve hot.
Cook's Note: For more sweetness, add more honey.
I have tried a lot of your recipe's. They are great. I will continue to buy your cookbook's> I love to cook. I do a lot of baking also.
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Not really my forte. I'm used to real sweet sweet potatoes and this is just kinda bland not sweet at all. Maybe next time add brown sugar.
By LeeAnn on July 04, 2012
i am desperatly looking for the recipe to make my kids a dessert my grandmother used to make me it is pan-fried individual sweet potatoe pies made w/ can biscuts and i think korn-flakes u press/roll the biscuts out and fill them w/ the swt potatoe filling turn the biscut overtop the filling them press w/ a fork to close and then fry them in a skillet!! i dont kno the recipe for the filling plzzzz hlp thank you so much if u culd email me the recipe or show me where it is with ur recipes thanks again in advance
By angel myers on November 09, 2011
Have you ever tried Brown sugar in your sweet patoes. It is our favorite .
By Alice Madsen on November 04, 2011
so yummy and easy!!!
By Tabitha Stewart on October 24, 2011
Very good! I made this with meatloaf tonight. I am storing the left over as baby food.
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One of the classic Japanese home chef knives which has garnered a loyal following after it's introduction to kitchens outside of Japan. A knife primarily designed for chopping vegetables it's geometry allows the tip to be easily put into use for meat or to follow through with a cut.
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PLATTSBURGH — Quartetto Gelato will perform a program of classical, operatic and folk works at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Strand Theatre, 25 Brinkerhoff St.
The concert concludes the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts' 2013 Spring Performance Series. The ensemble's repertoire spans the globe and includes classical masterworks, operatic arias, the sizzling energy of tangos, and gypsy and folk songs.
Tickets are $20 for general admission, $40 for priority seating ($30 for NCCCA members), and $10 for students. They can be purchased at the NCCCA, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts or online at www.plattsburgharts.org.
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OGDENSBURG — Joyce Wood, 74, of Hammond in St. Lawrence County won a $2 million Powerball prize from the May 22, 2013, drawing.
"I went to the drug store to buy Tylenol for my husband and saw that the Powerball jackpot was $40 million," she said in a press release. "So I bought five sets of Quick Pick numbers with the Power Play option on the day before the drawing.
"The next day, I check my numbers online, and that's when I knew I had won big."
Wood said her winnings are not going to change her life.
"I'm just going to enjoy life and spend it with my family."
She bought her Powerball ticket at Kinney Drugs at 700 Canton Street in Ogdensburg. She claimed her prize on May 23 at the Lottery's Syracuse Customer Service Center.
Wood will receive the $2 million in one lump sum totaling $1,323,600 after required withholdings.
The New York Lottery contributed $25,176,155.37 in Lottery Aid to Education to school districts throughout St. Lawrence County during fiscal year 2012-13.