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NORMAN — David Cornwell took the snap, looked at one receiver and quickly turned to his right to see the other side of the field and check his second option.
And Cade Parker sacked him.
A defensive struggle early and an offensive explosion late, the one constant at Thursday night's Crosstown Clash was Norman High's defensive line, which lived in Norman North's backfield all night long on the way to a 38-31 NHS victory. It was a brutally effective way to slow down North's star quarterback, who was sacked nine times in his Timberwolves' debut.
Parker, a 6-foot-1, 230-pound defensive end, led the way. He set a career mark with five sacks and made his living meeting T-Wolves behind the line.
"Our goal tonight was to get seven sacks, and we were going to do anything necessary to reach that goal," Parker said. "We watched film all week and knew what they liked to run, and adjusted to that."
Those adjustments were enough to slow but not stop the T-Wolves who, after scoring first in the game, played most of the way from behind. But every time NHS broke a big play — and there were several of them — North had an answer. That is, all the way up until the game's final minute, when the T-Wolves failed to recover an onside kick and NHS secured a first down to seal the victory.
"I found out tonight we have a bunch of young guys who are fighters," Standley said. "We have 18 new starters, and they made enough plays to have a chance to win it at the end."
While North's young squad showed flashes, the night belonged to the Tigers and the running game coach Greg Nation has developed since he came to Norman. There were some questions entering the season about whether or not they would be able to replace last year's backfield of trio of Imond Robinson, A'erion Hines and Zach Long, but all those questions were answered on Thursday night.
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"It was a super job tonight," Nation said of his backfield. "They made some great plays."
But it was more than the big plays that Nation was proud of on Thursday; it was his teams' character. North scored first on a 45-yard run by Quan Hogan in the first quarter and was controlling the game at that point. But Kierstan Pendleton came down with an interception on a jumpball in Timberwolves' territory and returned it 38 yards for the tying score, stretching out at the end of the play to barely reach over the goal line.
The Tigers used that momentum to build a 17-7 lead, and never lost it, though North did cut it to seven points several times, including in the game's final minute.
"We're a different team than we used to be; these kids have heart," Nation said. "When you're down, that's where you find your true character. KP provided the spark, and they built on it. Our kids didn't get down when they scored on us; they came back. That's what true champions do."
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BATAVIA — Drought conditions have crept back into Iowa, but Colin Johnson of Batavia says it's not quite time to get worried about rainfall.
Iowa had the wettest spring on record this year, but southeast Iowa has seen Mother Nature turn off the tap in June and July. June precipitation was 2.7 inches below normal, worse than in 2012, and July rainfall is below normal as well.
Johnson farms several crops, including corn and soybeans. He does enough forage as well to be on the Iowa Hay Producers Directory. So far this year, alfalfa is his star crop.
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The same can't be said of grass, though.
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Honestly, my thoughts on this is there is no need. I worked in daycare for years. I had many kinds of children in my care. I took every single one of them on a walk while holding onto a walking rope. (Think of a rope with little loops they can hold on to). It is like a child holding your hand, but 20 of them. We walked on busy streets and there were no issues. We talked about what was required and if they did not listen they could not go next time and followed through with it.
With my own son I would hold his hand and walk with him. When I was getting things out of the car he had to touch the car with one finger so that he wouldn't get away from the car and get hurt. Literally touches the car with one finger and I know I can trust him not to bolt. He knows that means he goes back into the car and it is over.
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With a fresh coat of snow on the ground, my mind is further chilled by the cold (and dead) state of the Minnesota Twins pitching rotation. How did we get so bad, so fast? The answer to that question will not solve the problem that lies ahead. The real question is What is the solution to this pitching predicament? In one word: Time.
The Twins have never been known to spend lots of dollars on baseball players, or starting pitchers, for that matter. When their Uber-Ace, John Santana, was due for a big payday, they traded him one season before his contract was up.
By trading the superstar pitcher, the Twins forfeited top draft picks in compensation if he were to leave in free agency. Plus, the Twins never, ever, expressed an interest in resigning the two-time Cy Young Award winner following his 5-year run of dominance in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. All the trade pieces the Twins received for Santana are gone except for Deolis Guerra, and his minor-league production is not very good.
So, how will this coming off-season proceed? Will the Twins find the pitching that has given them success in the past? Unfortunately, that answer is simply no. Not for 2014, at least. Eventually, this team will see an influx of young pitching talent. But it will not appear for a few years, and come from within the organization, not through free agency.
The good news here is that the Twins low-level minor league teams are full of teenage pitching prospects with high upside. But it will take a long, long time for the platinum armed kids to make their way to Minnesota. Alex Meyer is a solid prospect with recent success, and he should arrive in 2014. But when will the rotation be good again? And who will possess the arms that make it so? Let me share my hopeful prediction for our future as Twins fans
It is Spring Training in the year 2016. The Timberwolves, led by a selfless Ricky Rubio, are the best team in the NBA. The Vikings drafted Johnny Manziel in the 1st round of the 2014 draft, and have since won back-to-back Super Bowls. The Twins are still lousy, but its an exciting lousy. Miguel Sano has won the 2014 AL ROY Award, and Byron Buxton took home the same trophy in 2015. Ron Gardenhires contract expired, and the front office turns to Paul Molitor as the new manager of the big club.
Twins fans, although intrigued by Buxton and Sano, are still in long-suffering mode. The front office failed to improve the pitching rotation in 2014 and 2015. They were still relying on free agent signings less than or equal to Sidney Ponson, Terry Mulholland, or Jason Marquis. Plus, Alex Meyer and Trevor May are both shelved due to Tommy John surgery. But with a new manager comes a new philosophy.
Experts are urinating in their pants with excitement about the young and talented core of pitchers the Twins have in spring camp this year. Manager Paul Molitor is quoted as saying that, the 2016 starting rotation will be comprised of five rookies. Its a young mans game, and I choose not to fight that fact. We are gonna try something new. When asked which rookies are his favorites to break camp and head north Molitor said, Your guess is as good as mine. Mostly, I am going to spend some time on Twinsdaily.com, and rely on certain fans opinions.
Since Molitor will be frequenting this site in 2016, let me suggest a new starting five for the St. Paul native to pencil in, along with each players respective age at the time of Spring Training 2016.
1. Kohl Stewart (21)
2. Jose Berrios (21)
3. Stephen Gonsalves (21)
4. Felix Jorge (22)
5. Lewis Thorpe (20)
With the manager committed to trying something new, the local fan base will erupt with support. While the front office isnt exactly thrilled about Molitors ideas for the starting rotation, they have to respect the locally grown, Hall-of-Famers decisions moving forward.
If we look closely at how each of these present-day teenagers fared in 2013, we can see why 2016 might be the year this influx of pitching talent finally breaks through and impacts Major League Baseball. If a person (me) were to combine all that these five pitchers did in 2013 (at the Rookie level and low-A for Berrios), they would see a crazy line of numbers that I will display here:
That is a combined ERA of 2.88 and a combined WHIP of 1.17! I understand that these statistics are inflated since none of these players pitched in a league higher than low-A during the 2013 season. But if any one of these guys ends up posting similar numbers in a full season with the Minnesota Twins, it would be tough for that individual to fail to win around 20 games and the Cy Young Award.


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They are pouring more life and sense into hangouts by integrating it into the conversations threads. Now you can hangout with your friends and family on any of your status updates. Any of your political status updates can spark a hangout, making it easy for your friends to start in on you. Or, if your sister just got engaged, you won't miss being with the family for that special moment. Anybody who can see a post of yours can start a hangout for that post, while others can join that hangout right from your post as well.
2. Hangout from your iPhone and Android
This is, without a doubt, Google's take on Skype, as Google+ hangouts have made their way to Android devices as well as iOS. An update to Google+ messenger apps for iOS and Android is on its way, which will bring a new hangout button from which you can video chat with 9 of your chaps on-the-go. The update is not yet released so we can't check it out for ourselves yet, nor can we tell if the hangouts are tied to posts on mobile apps or not.
3. Broadcast hangouts
Seems like being a star is not going to be a big deal the in near future, as anyone can be a host of their own show with the Google+ Hangout Broadcasts. Just stop looking around for all the crap in the form of Qik, Ustream, livestream and justin.tv that nobody ever uses in everyday life, and start with Google+ and its totally self-service broadcasts. Initially, only the celebrities having large followings will be blessed with this feature, which means you'll soon be seeing Bustin Jieber hanging out with you. Later on, though, when the service goes public he might be watching you live. Well, at least you can imagine that.
4. Record hangouts and publish to youtube
Like Hangout Broadcasts and mobile Hangouts, this feature will also be rolling out slowly. But when you have it, you'll be able to record your Hangouts and publish to YouTube direct from Google+. Whoa! Google+ is becoming a one-stop solution for potential celebrities. Fortunately that's not us.
They call broadcasting, recording and YouTube publishing 'Hangouts on Air'.
5. Call phones
Calling phones has been in gmail chat for some time now, but now they are incorporating the service into Google+ hangouts. While you see the faces of your family on the eve of your graduation, your mom might join-in from her phone. You know she doesn't want to go through the hassle of joining a Hangout. You just call her up right from your on-going Hangout, and her sweet voice will be filling your ears like magic. As you know already, calling to the USA and Canada is free, but not internationally.
6. Make up with antlers
In November, Google+ hangouts allowed you to add moustaches to your faces, and in December they have cute deer antlers to scare your kids on the other side of the cam. If you happen to be a developer, you've got an API to create your own make-up.To subscribe, like us on Facebook


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Presolar grains are minerals that are older than anything else in our Solar System. They formed before the birth of our Solar System and a small fraction survived in primitive asteroids and comets. We extract presolar grains from fragments of these objects: unaltered meteorites, interplanetary dust particles and comet dust. We study the elemental and isotopic compositions of presolar grains to understand the presolar history of meteoritic matter. The interdisciplinary field of presolar grain research informally also called Astrophysics in the Laboratory is delivering a wealth of information on stars and our Galaxy that are not accessible through astronomical observations. One of our main motivations to study presolar grains, a surviving fraction of the source materials of our Solar System, is to improve our understanding of the history of our Galaxy.


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Authorities in Elk Grove say on Thursday they arrested three gang members who were found with an unregistered handgun, along with an onlooker who wouldn't heed instructions.
According to an Elk Grove Police Department crime log, 20-year-old Galt resident Salvador Collazo was stopped while driving near Bond and Elk Grove-Florin roads around 4 a.m.
His passenger in the car, 21-year-old Manteca resident Jose Cruz-Arroyo, was found to have a felony warrant out for his arrest from Stanislaus County.
"As [Cruz-Arroyo] exited the vehicle, a handgun was observed at his feet on the floorboard," the crime log states.
The gun was found to be loaded and not registered, police say.
Cruz-Arroyo and Collazo, along with fellow passenger Antonio Torres, a 20-year-old Galt resident, were found to be "validated members of a street gang" and were arrested on felony firearm and gang participation charges. As they were being detained, an 18-year-old Elk Grove woman approached the scene.
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Another Somerset County fire department has come to the aid of a station hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.
The Berlin Volunteer Fire Department is donating one of its equipped fire engines to the storm-ravaged West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department in Queens, N.Y.
The donation follows a similar gift of a pumper truck given to the West Hamilton Beach department earlier this month by Hooversville Volunteer Fire Company.
On Oct. 29, the beleaguered New York department posted the following on its website:
"We are in desperate need of any possible help available. Due to Hurricane Sandy and the tidal surge we have lost all of our equipment, whether through it simply floating away or by salt water damage and flooding. We have lost six vehicles, two pumpers, two ambulances, a 4x4 brush fire unit and a command vehicle."
On Nov. 4, the website acknowledged the receipt of the Hooversville donation.
"A great amount of thanks is sent to Hooversville Fire Department of Pennsylvania for their great donation of a 1981 Mack CF pumper and various equipment.
"This vehicle was of great need since all of our firefighting equipment was wiped out with the exception of hose and fittings. This vehicle enables us to once again protect the neighborhood ..."
The Berlin fire department chief, Gerald Parry, and the department president, Doyle E. Paul, along with a truck driver from the department will take their donated truck to New York on Friday.
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The Ravens are AFC North champs, and the Bengals are playoff-bound, too. Meanwhile, the Steelers are left to ponder a lost season.
Bengals make playoffs after 13-10 win over Steelers
A.J. Green caught 10 passes for 116 yards, including a 21-yarder to set up the game-winning field goal as the Bengals beat the Steelers.
Key matchup: Bengals running game vs. Steelers run defense
The Bengals' success in the ground game will go a long way in determining whether they can beat Pittsburgh on Sunday.
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Eric Edholm looks ahead to Week 16, which features some key divisional matchups that will have major playoff ramifications — including Seahawks vs. 49ers.
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The Steelers placed OT Willie Colon on injured reserve. RB Rashard Mendenhall, who was reinstated from a one-game suspension, takes his roster spot.
Steelers add CB King, place CB Van Dyke on I.R.
The Steelers added CB Justin King to the active roster and placed CB DeMarcus Van Dyke on injured reserve with a shoulder injury.
Bengals' run defense sharp entering rematch with nemesis Pittsburgh
The Cincinnati defense has slammed the door on opposing ground games in recent weeks.
AFC North Spin cycle: Ravens wobbling down the stretch
The Ravens are in the playoffs, but they hardly look like contenders, and now they have to deal with the talented, desperate Giants.
Carr's INT helps give Cowboys win over Steelers
Brandon Carr intercepted a pass from Ben Roethlisberger to set up Dan Bailey's 21-yard field goal in overtime, and the Cowboys beat the Steelers 27-24.
Sacks have decreased, but Steelers still stingy
The Steelers are allowing fewer yards than any other team without an overpowering pass rush from a sacks perspective.
Steelers suspend RB Mendenhall
The Steelers suspended RB Rashard Mendenhall for one game for "conduct detrimental to the team."
Steelers O-line coach Kugler hired at UTEP
Steelers O-line coach Sean Kugler was named the head coach of UTEP on Monday.
AFC North Spin cycle: Leaders running in place
It was a lost week for the AFC North's top playoff contenders, but the Browns sure enjoyed themselves.
Chargers snap losing streak, rout Steelers
Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes, two to Danario Alexander, and the Chargers beat the Steelers 34-24 on Sunday.
Friday's 60-second rant: How dangerous is Denver?
It's difficult to gauge how far the Broncos' have come since early-season losses, but using each week to improve could carry them a long way.
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Morgridge Academy is a free, Colorado Department of Education approved facility school which serves children in kindergarten through eighth grade who have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. Morgridge Academy is the only school of its kind on a medical campus in the country, and its mission is to provide a safe, friendly, and healthy school environment committed to whole-child development. The students who attend Morgridge Academy have diagnoses that include severe asthma and allergies, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, HIV/AIDS, atopic dermatitis (eczema), juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular disorders. With a dedicated team of teachers, nurses, a child advocate, school counselor, P.E. teacher, and Fine Arts teacher, the students receive a quality education all while learning to manage their illness.
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Just in time for our "31 Days of Harry Potter" feature, J.K. Rowling published a new story about Harry and the gang as adults! Check out the story --- which was first released on Pottermore on July 8th --- here.
Walter Dean Myers, the prolific and award-winning writer of DOWN TO THE LAST OUT, THE CRUISERS, DARIUS & TWIG and more, passed away on July 1st. Click here to read our tribute.
July's New Picture Books Roundup
Our July picture book roundup includes LITTLE GREEN PEAS: A Big Book of Colors by Keith Baker, the rainbow-filled follow-up to the delightful LMNO PEAS and 1-2-3 PEAS; A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN by Renee Watson and illustrated by Shadra Strickland, where four young friends tell the story of Hurricane Katrina in free verse; and BIG WHOOP written and illustrated by Maxine Lee, a whimsical story that features a rabbit and squirrel who will do anything to make the "too cool" Mr. Fox smile.
Our July roundup includes THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: 36 Tales Brief and Sinister by Stefan Bachmann, Illustrated by Alexander Jansson, a collection of spooky, creepy and fun short stories for fans of SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK; THE GRAVEYARD BOOK GRAPHIC NOVEL: Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by P. Craig Russell, an illustrated graphic novel edition of Neil Gaiman's celebrated and mysterious children's book, and THE MISADVENTURES OF THE FAMILY FLETCHER by Dana Allison Levy, which introduces readers to the fun and never-boring Fletcher family made up of two dads, two adopted boys and lots of pets.
Among the paperback titles released this month, we have THE IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W. Sandler, a real life story of survival in the harsh arctic climate in the 19th century; the first in a series in the tradition of the beloved MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE --- MARGUERITE HENRY'S PONIES OF CHINCOTEAGUE: Maddie's Dream by Catherine Hapka; and THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY by Janet Tashijian, about a boy's famous virtual alter ego.
While at Wilderness camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, Ollie must navigate new friends, new enemies, and a high-stakes game of tag, so the last thing he needs is a mystery. But then Ollie meets Grey, an elusive girl with knowledge of the island's secrets, including the legend of a lost pirate treasure, which may not be a legend after all. The sidekick steps into the spotlight as Ollie uses his wits and geocaching skills to keep long-lost treasure out of the wrong hands.
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Her parents dead, Maddy is sick of living in Ireland. Mad as hell one evening, she crawls inside the grounds of the castle, the one place she has always been forbidden to go. Once inside, she is chased by a strange feral boy, who she suspects is one of the faerie: cruel, fantastical people who live among humans and exchange local children for their own. When the boy returns to steal her neighbour Stephen into his world, Maddy and her cousins set off on a terrifying journey into a magical wilderness, determined to bring him back home.
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Tom Sawyer's and Huckleberry Finn's adventures are legendary, but what about the story you haven't heard? In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher is the new girl in town, determined to have adventures like she promised her brother Jon before he died. With her Mama frozen in grief and her Daddy busy as town judge, Becky spends much of her time on her own, getting into mischief.
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Determined to find her father, Lucy and her vexingly stubborn friend Pete follow William Darrington's trail to the deadly woods on Devil's Thumb. As they encounter Lupine princesses, giant sea serpents and all manner of terrifying creatures, Lucy hasn't reckoned that the dreamwood itself might be the greatest threat of all.
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Only 21 days to go! I'm getting excited and nervous at the same time. On the one hand, I know there will be tremendous conservative gains in both houses of Congress. Every day, races that were secure or semi-safe for Democrats are now a tossup or leaning Republican (most of the time a conservative Republican).
As a matter of fact, on Wednesday, for the first time, Republican candidates led in the polls in 10 Senate races! That would have been unheard of only one month ago. You probably didn't know that. The press likes to be one-sided in its "reporting."
On the other hand, what worries me is that it is Halloween season, and you can be sure that liberal Republicans and almost all of the Democrats will be putting on their conservative-type disguises, attempting to lie, deceive and do whatever is necessary to put politics over principle to win or hold onto their seats.
Liberals know they have to walk and talk like a conservative and pretend to support conservative values in order to have any chance of winning an election.
Unfortunately, this has worked for them in the past, and I worry that too many voters will actually believe all the sound bites (libs have resorted to some of the most blatantly false and misleading campaign ads, worse than ever before) and false promises (lies?) rather than judge the candidates by their records during their term(s) in office.
Just look at all the lies and fake promises their grand role model made during his campaign. Enough so that 68 percent of voters in the 18-to-25 age group and 69 percent of the voters in the 26-to-30 group swallowed all the lies in 2008. I can guarantee these groups won't fall for the lies again in this and the next election coming in 2012.
Just listen and watch all the Democrats scurry away from Pelosi, Reid and the grand deceiver of them all, Barack Obama. Boy oh boy, they are really huffing and puffing and declaring their independence from these radical leftists while their past shows them supporting all their leaders' failed policies for the last two years.
They can't run away from the fact that most were in favor of cap and trade, a much liberalized immigration policy, and they voted for the non-stimulating stimulus bill ($787 billion that took unemployment from under 8 percent to now well over 9.5 percent), the disastrous Obamacare health plan and other unpopular, foolish Obama proposals.
Talk about liberal candidates rebranding themselves. The only thing they can't hide are the hole marks left from the nose ring that Pelosi, Reid and Obama had them on a leash with, and they will willingly put this ring back on and be water boys once again soon after the election.
You can run, RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) and Democrats, but you can't hide any longer. The day of reckoning is upon you, and none of the big three will or can help you in your travails.
Obama's coattails? Where are they? As a matter of fact, where is the coat? Obama is simply bad news. Why do you think Democratic candidates are avoiding him like the plague and not asking him to campaign in their district? Every time he does, their candidate loses.
It must be frustrating for Barack. All he ever really had going for him was his campaigning skills, and he doesn't even have those anymore.
By the way, thanks to all of you who asked for a copy of the tape and time line showing the Bush administration's innocence with the home-foreclosure disaster as it repeatedly warned Congress about Fannie and Freddie while Maxine Waters, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd staunchly defended them.
Predictably, not one request for these two items came from a lefty liberal. These people have only one thing going for them _ they are ridiculously loud, yet vacuous. Instead of even considering what the truth might be, they continue to harangue people with their lies, distortions, snobbery and condescension.
They could have easily asked to see the same proof other people asked to see, but they felt more comfortable with their heads in the sand, raising up once in a while (too often actually) to spout their nonsense. They also are about to become even more insignificant than they are already, and they are afraid.
Keep moving forward, conservatives. We and the country are winning and are On The Right Side.
Tom Sears is a professor of accounting at Hartwick College in Oneonta. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His column appears every other week. His columns can be found at www.thedailystar.com/tomsears.


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To use Yard, you must purchase a license for the SQL engine, plus licenses for one or more ancillary systems (ODBC, ESQL-C, YARD-X or JDBC).
Yard costs a fraction of what you would pay Oracle or Informix for a package with similar functionality. An SQL license for five users costs 990DM (not including value-added tax)—or about $490 US. (The actual cost will depend upon the rate of exchange between the Deutschmark and the US dollar, which fluctuates.) The other tools are similarly priced.
Unlike Oracle, which utilizes "named users" (that is, only a defined set of individuals can use the package), Yard defines a "user" as someone who is interacting with the engine. Thus, a five-user license can actually serve more than five users—a fact that is particularly important if your users work only intermittently with the database.
A free personal edition of Yard is available for download from Yard's web site (http://www.yard.de/). This package supports a single user and limits the size of the database. An ODBC driver is also available for the private edition. If you are interested in Yard, the private edition is an excellent way to become familiar with it.
Documentation comes in the form of HTML files. Some sub-systems also have PostScript versions available; in particular, these are available for the ESQL-C library.
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The documentation assumes that you know SQL and are thoroughly familiar with Linux. Again, Yard is not a package for beginners.
Installation of Yard is driven by a shell script and runs smoothly. The script requests a location for installing the binaries, requests license numbers and keys, then copies the bits appropriately. A complete installation of the engine, libraries, header files and configuration files takes less than 11 megabytes.
Installation, unfortunately, is hampered by minimal documentation. The only documentation you receive are two lines of instruction, printed on the CD-ROM case, telling you to mount the CD-ROM and invoke the installation script. Thereafter, you're on your own. If something goes wrong, your only recourse is to read the shell script and interpret what it was doing when it failed.
Thanks to this flaw, installation is practically guaranteed to fail at some point, at least on your first try. For example, nowhere does the Yard package indicate that the binaries must be owned by a user and group named yard—your first hint of this requirement is the obscure error message you see when the script fails.
This may be splitting hairs, but it is a pain to diagnose and fix problems that could easily have been avoided had the publisher included a page of instructions in a README file.
Yard is a fully implemented, enterprise-scale database-management package. With it, you can process transactions for a small- to medium-sized business or not-for-profit enterprise. It offers most of the features of Oracle or Informix, but at a fraction of the cost.
Since it is an enterprise-scale RDBMS, Yard may be too much database for some users. If you are looking for a tool with which you can learn SQL or if you wish to set up a small database for your church or fantasy-baseball league, you probably would be better off with a more modest commercial package, such as JustLogic, or with one of the free databases, such as PostgreSQL or msql.
However, if you are a contractor who specializes in Linux-based solutions or a business person who is considering using Linux as the backbone of your enterprise's information system, you will find that Yard is serious software worth serious consideration.
Fred Butzen is a technical writer and programmer who lives in Chicago. He is principal author of the manual for the Coherent Operating System, and is co-author of The Linux Database (MIS:Press, 1997) and The Linux Network (MIS:Press, 1998). He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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This space is provided in order to promote discussion of best practices using technology as an outreach tool.
The Outreach to Young Adults with Special Needs Committee will be hosting a program at the 2008 Annual Conference entitled Hyperlinks: Technology as an Outreach Tool. It is our intent to present several examples of best practices in the use of technology to reach teens outside the walls of the library. These examples will be discussed and listed here, in addition to examples we come across in our everyday lives. If you have used technology in an innovative way to reach teens beyond your library, please email the chair of the committee, Victoria Vogel at email@example.com.
Here are some ambitious stories from libraries across the nation:
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio -[YRead?] Annisha Jeffries YRead? is an innovative program that provides contemporary, multicultural books for teens. Educators can select from a list of different book titles for middle school and teen readers. Each title set contains multiple copies of the same title; allowing every student the chance to participate in classroom discussion. YRead? also offers a website for teens teachers and librarians that want to take reading to the next level. Each month the website features a new teen fiction or non-fiction title. Participants can then log on to the site for comments and discussion about the featured book title or other books that they have recently read. http://yread.org/
Great Neck Public Library, Great Neck, NY - Online Teen Readers Advisory Courtney Greenblatt At Great Neck Library we have online Teen Readers' Advisory. Teens submit a readers' advisory form by email. I respond by email with individualized reading recommendations based on the submission form. You can check out the service at the library website. [www.greatnecklibrary.org]


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Morgan Stanley and Constellation Brands are among the stocks that could see active trading on Friday.
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MANCHESTER — Police arrested a Gloucester man early Thursday morning on charges of speeding, operating under the influence of drugs, possession of a class A substance, B substance and E substance.
According to police, Michael Terrine, 22, of 417 Main St. was travelling at 82 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone when he was pulled over by officer Howard Lewis on School Street.
Lewis found Terrine in possession of heroin and marijuana, in addition to two painkillers, oxocodone and suboxone. He was soon arrested and his court date was set for Nov. 23 at 9 a.m.
Officer Ryan Machaine said the exact amounts of the drugs were not listed in the police report, but they were all for personal use, not for alleged distribution.
At 1:50 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, the Fire Department 's rescue squad responded to a Butler Avenue resident who had fainted. The man later refused medical treatment, and was not transported to any hospital.
Also on Nov. 22, shortly after 10 p.m., police said they received several obscene phone calls from a resident on Old Essex Road.
When police responded, they said the man was in an "altered mental status," and may have had mental health issues.
Police said he was "out of control" and erratic. After police restrained him, he was sent to the Beverly Hospital.
Multiple residents on Summer Street called at 12:40 p.m. Thursday to complain about a toolbox and nails being left in the road. Police responded, and the owner of the tools removed them from the street.
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(AP) -- A robbery suspect tried to hide his face with a pair of underwear but the disguise didn't fool witnesses.
Police arrested 40-year-old Jerry Keene and 48-year-old Elizabeth Blankenship, both of English, a short time after the pair allegedly robbed The Hillbilly Market in English Tuesday night.
McDowell County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mark Shelton says Blankenship went into the convenience store and then left. Keene then entered, concealing his face with the underwear, allegedly showed a gun and demanded money.
Shelton says witnesses identified the suspect, despite the disguise.
Blankenship and Keene were each charged with armed robbery. They were being held Wednesday night at the McDowell County Holding Facility.
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La Jolla Country Day School is only 7 miles from Mitt Romney's beachfront home on Dunemere Drive, but students at the prestigious private school aren't homers when it comes to predicting the presidential contest.
The school's Advanced Placement Government class forecasts an Electoral College victory for President Barack Obama.
According to the class, the following battleground states will go accordingly Tuesday:
Obama: Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Romney: Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Virginia
The class's final mock electoral vote count was 277 for President Obama to 261 for former Gov. Romney.
The students released their results on Torrey Times as well.
In the Senate, the class predicted that the 33 Senate races will go as follows:
Democratic: CA, CT, DE, FL, HI, IN, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, RI, WA, WV
Republican: AZ, MS, MT, ND, NE, NV, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY
Independent (but will caucus with Democrats): ME, VT
The final Senate split will be a Democratic majority Senate (49 Dems plus 2 Independents) to 49 Republicans for a net pickup of 2 Republican seats.
As for the House of Representatives, the AP Government class said it expects it to stay in Republican hands.
The bottom-line message from the class?
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We actually stopped doing 'em for domestic abuse & are doing the phones for soldiers thing, I think.Voting against incumbents until we get a Congress that does its job.
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Each week, Patch puts together a list of local activities and events going on in your area this weekend. Check back weekly and tell us in the comments if you know of any additional activities coming up.
To submit an event in the Columbia Patch events calendar, click on "Events" at the top of the page and then click on the green "Add an event" button on the right side of the page.
Kickboxing Class
- Where: 6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Columbia
- When: Friday, Dec. 28, 8–9 p.m.
- Description: Hand techniques, leg techniques, proper footwork, generating and distributing kinetic energy into each technique are taught in this technique and conditioning class.
- Cost: $10
Bright Lights of Broadway
- Where: St. John's Parish Day School, 9130 Frederick Rd, Ellicott City
- When: Saturday, Dec. 29, 1:30 p.m.
- Description: Program that helps children with communication disorders and social skills needs improve their communication abilities through musical theater.
- Cost: Free
Infant and Toddlers ~ Play Partners
- Where: Howard County Library Elkridge Branch, 6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge
- When: Saturday, Dec. 29, 10:15-11:15 a.m.
- Description: Activities, stories, music and more for infants to age 23 months. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Cost: Free
US 1 Flea Market
- Where: US 1 Flea Market, 7540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge
- When: Saturday, Dec. 22, 8 a.m.
- Description: Indoor-Outdoor flea market includes everything from clothing to fowl.
- Cost: Free
Ladies Only Zumba – First class free
- Where: One For All Dance Academy, 9691 Gerwig Ln Ste L, Columbia
- When: Saturday, Dec. 29, 10 a.m.
- Description: Ladies are invited to check out a Zumba class at One for All Dance Academy, first class is free.
- Cost: Free
- Where: B&O Railroad Museum: Ellicott City Station, 2711 Maryland Ave., Ellicott City
- When: Friday, Nov. 23 – Sunday, Jan. 27, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Description: B&O Railroad museum's annual holiday celebration of toy trains and model railroading. New this year is a custom built 360 degree LEGO model train layout created by The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area LEGO Train Club.
- Cost: $16 (50% off admission for new, unwrapped toys for donation to Toys for Tots)


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FORT MILL, S.C. -- Crews are demolishing the old PTL outdoor amphitheater in Fort Mill, where thousands of people watched plays and listened to concerts during the heydays of PTL and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
The amphitheater also served as the site of plays by NarroWay Productions.
Demolition started a few days ago and is expected to finish next week. People are pulling over in cars to take a look or snap a few pictures before it is gone for good and the hole in the ground is filled in.
David L. Cook with The Cook Family Singers performed at the amphitheater as a kid.
"It's like a little piece of your heart being broken," Cook said, after watching some of the demolition. "To be at the amphitheater singing, to go out there and be part of the passion plays and things that went on out there, it's just a wonderful part of your memories and your history."
Rick Drury grew up watching PTL.
"My mom and dad were religiously watching it," he said Thursday while watching demolition crews crush concrete.
Drury now lives at the campground next to the amphitheater and says it's an eyesore that needs to go, regardless of its ties to PTL.
"It was an eyesore, there was graffiti, it actually was dangerous," he said. "You'd see people walking around up there in flip flops with broken glass and stuff laying around, and it's been like that for years and years and years. No, I'm not sad to see it go."
The property owner says he's not sure what will be built in the amphitheater's place.
Several neighbors also want to see the PTL tower torn down. Morningstar Ministries plans to spend millions to renovate it, but York County says Morningstar is in violation of a five year development agreement, which includes repairing it or tearing it down with their own money.


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By Jessica Bruha
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NORMAN — Cleveland County is conducting an annual homeless count today to provide a snapshot of the number of individuals and families in the area that are considered homeless, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The count began at midnight Wednesday and will continue until midnight today.
"It allows us to see each year whether we are making headway," said city of Norman grants planner Lisa Krieg.
Food and Shelter Executive Director April Doshier said she expects the count to rise this year, based on the increased requests in services her organization is receiving.
Doshier said a lot of people have been coming into Norman for mental health treatment, and with the larger correctional facility, more people are being released in the streets.
Krieg said the number of homeless people in the county has remained fairly constant for the past few years, coming in around 600.
The count will not only include the number of those spending the night at shelters but also those who go to the shelter for noon or evening meals, those known to be living in encampments and those who call in who may have been "flying under the radar" traveling from couch to couch for shelter, Doshier said.
Those spearheading the count also will receive information from law enforcement, such as Norman and Moore police and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, if officers come into contact with someone during the 24-hour period. The Department of Human Services also will analyze clients and ask questions that would indicate homelessness, Krieg said.
Each shelter will receive a form to fill out, including information such as age, basic demographics and household composition. Doshier said entities taking the count also will ask individuals and families how they became homeless and what they've done to try to get out of homelessness.
"Their stories are human stories just like yours and mine. They're eclectic and different and real," she said. "Getting to know who these people are is probably the most important thing at this point in time."
Doshier said the count may help residents realize they have neighbors right now who are homeless or could be homeless at any given time. In many cases, individuals or families may have been skirting a line of homelessness for a long time.
"It just takes one blow up in a relationship or one burned bridge," she said.
While Doshier is expecting an increase in the number of homeless this year, Krieg said this past year, the definition of being homeless has changed, which may effect the number.
Typically, a public schools liaison reports the number of children in the school district who are considered homeless. The school district's report will be more of an asterisk included with the data this year, she said.
"There are anywhere from 200 to 250 children reported by the school district," Krieg said. "When you think of 600 and take 200 off of that, you're looking at 400 (homeless)."
The new definition of homelessness went into effect Jan. 4, 2012. The definition, according to HUD, includes four categories.
The categories include:
· Literally homeless — An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence or someone exiting an institution where he or she resided for 90 days or less, such as an emergency shelter.
· Imminent Risk of Homelessness — An individual or family who will imminently lose (within 14 days) their primary nighttime residence with no other permanent housing options available.
· Homeless under other Federal Statutes — Unaccompanied youth (under 25) or families with children and youth who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under this definition. This includes not having permanent housing within the past 60 days, experiencing persistent instability and continuing this status for an extended period of time.
· Fleeing/Attempting to Flee DV — Any individual or family who is fleeing or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking.
To contact Food and Shelter, call 360-4954 or to contact The Salvation Army in Norman call 364-9910.
Jessica Bruha
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