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Sunday, 19 August 2007
Yet Another Weird Friend
[Toot!] Index: 0.2
Communism Bit: Off
Location: Job, of course
I'm adding strange, strange people to my collection of weird friends. I mean Down There Where I Come From. It seems my unfortunate fate that I end up with the strangest people. Maybe birds of a feather?
There is a blind man Down There Where I Come From. And he hasn't cut his hair in decades. About twenty years, almost. He has thick dreadlocks the length of an arm. It makes mine look like stubble on a teenager's chin. Like a the fuzz on a baby's cheeks. Even though he is no rastaman, everyone calls him Rasta. And he responds—what can he do?
He has one of them white canes that blind people swing about so you don't drive over them in the road. But it is only white in theory. It is somewhere between beige and brown.
He told me the last time he cut his hair was the same night he last saw anything. So he lets his hair be `the story of my blindness'. This is the story, in short, that his dreadlocks should tell.
In 1986, when Museveni rolled in, Rasta was in the UNLF. The guys who were fighting Museveni. And he deserted the army in those last days. But he kept the gun, mbu `a soldier must have his gun'. Well, he was arrested soon enough. They treated all UNLF guys who hadn't surrendered as enemies, 'cause Museveni was yet to set roots down. And there were many little groups declaring war, et cetera. Anyway, many were given the option of joining the army. He joined, since he had nearly nothing else to do. And he became an NRA guy. Just like that
But shit happens, as they say. One some drunken night, he or one of the people in that bar (he says he remembers nothing about that night) shot a man. They were all taken in, and court-martialled. Found guilty, they were tossed in jail. To serve for life. He thinks he would still be in jail if he hadn't gone blind in his first months. He tells many stories about the insides of the jail, and I'm left wondering how such a small place can have so many stories in it. He says they got some disease in the jail and many people got red, sore eyes, including him. But while all healed, he went blind.
And he started staying in the corner of the communal cell, attempting suicide, et cetera. Then they started letting him stay out of the cell (`blind guy can't escape'). Then he started doing some of the simple duties for the wardens. Then, in 1995, someone tried to burn some cell, and he was the one who woke the sleepy wardens up. And then, in 1997, the chief warden told him he was working on getting him out of jail, since he had `shown a will to reform and become a better member of free society'. He got out in 2001, and has absolutely no contacts outside our slum.
I think he survives on kindness, even though he likes to sound macho. One of his lines: `The life is what matters. Even if you have no arms, and you have no eyes, and even no legs. If you still have life, you are not yet extinguished.'
But the part that breaks me: `I don't ask God that I may see my daughter—I am already blind. All I want is to know that she is alive. Can't God do only that one thing for me, before I die?'
31 comments:
- eddiie said...
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- Elle B said...
Am scared to say this but....Firsties!!!
I've tagged you. I know you've been tagged a thousand times over but, am not listening. Sad about the dreaded guy but keep making the friends, it's the heart that counts, nothing more
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- eddiie said...
Ok..am sorry for the above saga of happiness..
Ok about that Resta...ok he is not a Rasta..He reminds me of myself at a point i was called a rasta even though i had deadlocks..not dreadlocks...
To date, 27th, am still Rasta even with my Afro..
And that blind fellow?...
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- Elle B said...
Eddie cheated, when I got here, there were zero comments. Never fear...another time
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- eddiie said...
Sorry Elle..i was here first...hehehe..you only hijacked my second spot...hehehe....LOL!!
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- eddiie said...
LOL..Elle..the next time..try to be faster..i gat you...sorry...hehehe..
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
I think it was King Solomon who said: A merry heart doeth like good medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Words to live by, when you are blind now but once upon a time you could see.
A lesser person like myself would crawl under a rock and die from resentment.
- Sunday, August 19, 2007
- tandra said...
Ditto Fujitsu. Wisdom wisdom....
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- leos child said...
why do you go out and bring to lihgt such plight it knocks the the complaint s out of your mouth forcing you to appreciate life when you donot want to.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- kissyfur said...
going blind is actually my worst fear. And I find it encouraging that his spirit is not broken.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- Heaven! said...
i feel cheated that we have to get Fujitsu's wise sayings in the small dose of comments.
Fujitsu, me i want your blog!!
i think that you are strong hearted to regularly come face to face to all sorts of pain in that place and not move away.doesn't the question of how you can help haunt you and maybe make you feel helpless and sometimes depressed?
just wondering if his daughter would like to see him and how she would react if she saw him thus...
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- eddiie said...
@Fujitsu?...Persnonally i want to get int your blog!!!!!!!! Yes..i need to know your blog..
if its too private, then let me be a among the praivies...
- Monday, August 20, 2007
@ heaven and eddiie: as soon as I am up and running, I'll advertise like a problem! Hehehe..
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- Willie Boy said...
The story of this blind man is a powerful one, powerfully told by the Comrade. First it was the gallant mad man who died gallantly fighting the cold. Now its the blind guy who wants to see his daughter before he dies. Both stories are of disadvantaged people, and yes its told by the Communist himself. Who else? The farting capitalists don't give a f..k about such characters.Me, I am a blog reader these days. I read dem all.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- lulu said...
aahah! not like that, soon you will be wearing dresses instead of holding pink phones, your feminie side should not show like that...... 27th, do you mind getting to me somehow so i can be a firstie on your blog...shish!
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- tumwijuke said...
First, weird is as weird does.
Second, touching! Very.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- GERALD said...
So 27th Comrade do you think the giov't has Ignord the Veterans to rot?
I wish you had taken a picture of that man, we could see those dreads which are as long as the arm.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- Carlo said...
I've been trying to post a comment for so long now that I can I don't know where to start! My university blocked blogging but I think I'm smart so I found a way to read blogs but couldn't comment and now Lady Luck is sitting on my shoulder. I could say a lot, about your previous posts but let's not get carried away. Find out what you can about Rasta's daughter and we could help find her. How's that? Like, some sort of blogren Nancy Drew. I think we can help him out. I feel him so deeply cuz my Grandpa's blind. He taught me braille so for all you guys who think you've read a lot, talk to me when you've read a blind man's words.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- lindwee said...
Finally i've got what i've been looking for... "cries unheard" and this blog serves me well.
Love,politics heartbreaks,funnies...are what i always view but this blog is balanced for sure.
Thanks Comrade.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- lulu said...
just read it.... ummm, very touching as always comrade, you manage to evoke strong emootions in the reader.... oh by the way, found out that homo sexuality is a crime... i live with a lawyer, i had to ask her...
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- lulu said...
i used to wanna marry a blind man coz they have hieghtened senses else where , i just had watched too many movies and indulged in too many romance novels...
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- Carlo said...
Thought I'd talk about the OLPC a bit since I couldn't be allowed to before. I teach kids for a living. Rather, used to but now I supervise those that teach them. In my S.6 vac I actually taught computer for a while. And this was to children that could barely afford 54k (Ugshs. I must add) for school fees. From Kisenyi. Slum dwelling children. You'd be amazed at how these children grew up to beat my remote knowledge of computers. I remember leaving the children to do what they wanted with the computers and by the end of the year they knew more about programming and software than I could ever know! Imagine what they could do with their own computers! I don't disagree that computer for each child in Africa and poor Asia is a bit presumptuous and not very possible but it would help. Most of my kids were in school only cuz their parents forced them to and they just wanted to grow up and be a 'makanika'. That means they're not really engineers or proper mechanics but those guys that learn the trade by hanging around garages and starting off by reshaping bashed bumpers. Or they saw themselves being boda boda riders. The computer classes sorta opened their eyes to the possibilities. Internet would be even greater for them. Yes there are children that should hunt and farm for a living but they can still have a computer and learn how the boer revolutionised farming and became some of the richest farmers on the planet. Not the Wall Street business guys. Wrong post for this but hey, I've got a chance.
- Monday, August 20, 2007
- aegeus said...
Really well told Comrade...very moving account...written in your trademark detached style.
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- Duksey said...
very touching,I was about to start searching for my tissue.I am so scared of blindness
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- The 27th Comrade said...
@Elle B: Heh. Saw your tag ... but :-o I responded to a tag or two sometime ago ... Already. :o)
@Eddie: Ate don't you know? You no have fi dread to be rasta ...
@Fujitsu: First of all, where is your blog? I'm going to hound it ... :o)
Then, this guy ... I'd have given up already, for one.
@Leo's Child: Yep. That's part of why I end up with this stuff on my mind to the point where I blog about it ... life is much better for those who whine the most.
@Kissyfur: I dread going blind, because blind guys seldom get any sex at all. :o)
@Heaven!: Just wait for the Revolution. :o) Hehehe. It will fix shit for everyone. But then ... living down there tends to make you believe that there must be a suffering group of people everywhere. Somehow, I think that's how shit is supposed to be, maybe? Because even when the Revolution comes ((o;) we will round up all the privileged ... and toss them where we are coming from. :oD
@Willie Boy: :o) I don't know which came first: the Party or the Ideology. :o)
Actually, when you walk from one path in the slums to the next, as long as they are more than 100 metres apart, you will find a novel.
@Lulu: You don't know how I am repeatedly accused of having a `very, very strong feminine side' over here at work. Some chics keep stopping just short of weaving pink ribbons into my dreadlocks. I swear to God. I mean, Dear Jesus, how can anyone be less feminine than myself? I don't even clean my shoes! :-o
And, yeah, homosexuality is a crime. But the way I check it, the law talks of `unnatural relations'. What is (and what isn't) natural? Cows on heat exhibit a form of lesbianism. Are they `perverts' too? I mean ... we are just self-righteous idiots. :o)
And ... marrying a blind guy? A bit in sync with my getting drawn to chics who require special attention ...
@Tumwijuke: :o)
@Gerald: You really are obsessed with the government ... :o) But, yeah, there are some veterans languishing. And that's bad. But then, again, this one got a discharge for his `crime', so he is technically not the army's business.
And if I had a camera, y'all would die of pics.
@Carlo: Jesus Christ, Carlo, you read Braille? Wow! First, Dee does sign language. Then you, it is Braille. Now me ... I should take some time out of my life and learn some of them things. They come in handy every now and then. Or just for fun, if for no other reason ...
Plus ... Rasta doesn't know much about his daughter. Here's the catch. He was told, while in jail, that his wife had moved to the North, along with his daughter. That's how he knew the baby had turned out to be a daughter. :o)
And, yeah, the OLPC is a good thing, but only as good as putting perfume on a rotting carcass. Imagine them kids making software. And then they can't live off it, because there is no fair trade. See?
@Lindwee: :o) If that's your kind of thing ... my archives don't even like to be categorised. :o)
@Aegeus: */me takes a bow*
@Duksey: :o)
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- Iwaya said...
His strenght grows with his dreads, I think. Like Samson.
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- Timothy said...
Great post.
Twists and turns. Life's funny and oftentimes harsh. It would be difficult to find any man who is not guilty of liking to sound macho. However, we all need a bit of kindness to survive.
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- eddiie said...
@ 27th comrade....You no have fi dread to be rasta ...
lol....i gat ya boy....
@Fujitsu...hahaa..you mean you aint strong enough? i have clutches..i know you will rise high with it..and keep running..
i promise..you wont post like a problem..instead i will be a problem in your commentery..
i promise you..you will get tires of me men....
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007
- feather said...
strange friends maybe but perhaps we need more of these to be able to see life differently
- Wednesday, August 22, 2007
- jackie T said...
Interesting post,27th. Any pics??
- Saturday, August 25, 2007
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John's ministry starts very early; he is a forerunner even as he responds in Elizabeth's womb (vv. 14-15). This next note of fulfillment of the angelic promise comes from one filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb. The fact that Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit as she reports the response indicates how Luke views her response: she expresses the mind of God. This sign sets the mood for the passage. The basic response to the arrival of Jesus onto the scene of history should be joy.
Elizabeth is exemplary in her response. She is the "amazed saint." Her attitude is summarized in the question "Why am I so favored?" Here is humble amazement at being able to participate directly in God's plan and see him at work (2 Sam 6:9; 24:21). All who have a role in God's plan should share this wonder.
Elizabeth recognizes the unique blessedness of Mary (blessed are you among women) because of the child she bears (blessed is the child you will bear). The remark is rhetorical and should not be read as if Mary is the most blessed of all women. It means she is "very pleased" (compare Judg 5:24; Song 1:8). The attitude of Elizabeth is representative of what Luke desires in any believer. What a joy to share in the events associated with Jesus. What a joy to share life with him.
Elizabeth also reveals a second exemplary attribute, one that also is found in Mary. While reporting the leaping of John in her womb, she expresses a beatitude for Mary's faith: "Blessed is she who has believed." Here is the essence of response to God, to trust his word to be true and live in light of that belief. To be blessed is to be happy because God has touched one's life. Such divine benefit rains down on those who trust him and his promises. Blessing emerges from God's ability to bring his promises to completion, but to share the benefits, we must be confident that God does what he says. The first sign of such faith in Mary was her willingness to let God use her (v. 38). The second was her immediate (hurried) visit to Elizabeth, who herself served as a sign that God keeps his word and can give life (vv. 36, 39).
Theophilus and readers like him should not doubt, but rejoice and be assured that God keeps his promises. Trust and joy are two vital aspects of a successful walk with God. Elizabeth's joy is shared by Mary, who will utter a hymn of praise to God for his gracious work on her behalf. Mary's psalm also comes from the heart of a grateful believer.
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Brief Principles of the Arabic Language
Philippo Guadagnoli (1596–1656) was a Franciscan priest and Italian orientalist. A native of Magliano in the province of Tuscany, he joined the Franciscan order in 1612 and devoted himself to studying Arabic and other languages of the Middle East. He served as professor of Arabic and Aramaic at Università "La Sapienza" in Rome. His writings include an Arabic translation of the Bible (said to have taken him 27 years to complete) and a polemical work entitled Apologia pro Religione Christiana (In defense of the Christian religion), published in Rome ...
Fabrica, or Dictionary of Vernacular Arabic and Italian Language
Dominicus Germanus de Silesia (1588–1670) was a German priest and missionary. Born in Schurgast (present-day Skorogoszcz, Poland), he entered the Franciscan order in 1624 and devoted himself to learning Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. In 1630 he went to Palestine as a pastor, where he continued with his language studies. In 1635 he returned to Rome where he joined the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda de Fide (Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith). In 1636 he became a teacher at the Mission of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, and ...
Syriac Grammar
This manuscript, which has worm damage and is missing folios at the end, is a grammar of Syriac written in Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac letters). There is a table of contents, after which the text is written in two columns. The red ink has faded somewhat and is not as clear as the black ink. The section titles are given in both Syriac and Arabic. Syriac is an eastern dialect of Aramaic, which was spoken by Christians in the lands between the Roman Empire and the Arabian Sea from the ...
Syriac Grammar
This work is a grammar of Syriac written in Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac letters). The Syriac words and expressions are partially vocalized, and the section titles are in both Arabic and Syriac. In the colophon, the work is called a musawwada (draft) and there are numerous corrections and annotations to the text. It is also stated that the copy was completed on the 18th of Ab, meaning August, 1867. It was first created at the Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justina at Deir Kfīfāne in Lebanon; later it belonged to ...
Grammatical Investigations
This clearly written manuscript, dated 1857, is a work on grammatical questions by Gabriel Germanus, or Jirmānūs, Farḥāt (circa 1670–1732), metropolitan of Aleppo and founder of the Lebanese Maronite Order. Maronite synod documents of the 16th century reflect a poor standard of Arabic and are often interspersed with Syriac words. Metropolitan Farḥāt was a writer of correct and elegant Arabic and a forerunner of the Maronite initiative in the 19th century Arabic revival. The work was written in 1705 and then printed in 1836 at the American Protestant press ...
Commentary on Ibn Malik's "Tashīl al-fawā'id"
This Arabic manuscript contains the commentary by Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr al-Damāmīnī (circa 1362–1424) on the Tashīl al-fawā'id (Simplification of the facts), a grammatical work of the famous Abū ʻAbd Allāh Djamāl Al-Dīn Muhammad, known as Ibn Malik (circa 1204–74). The manuscript is written in a tight Naskh hand and the wide margins have numerous annotations. The codex appears to have been used by Eli Smith (1801–57), an American missionary and one of the Protestant translators of the Bible into Arabic, who worked in Beirut in ...
Bosnian Grammar for High Schools. Parts 1 and 2, Study of Voice and Form
The first printing house in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in 1519 by Božidar Goraždanin, in the city of Goražde, in eastern Bosnia. Two years later, in 1521, the establishment closed and was moved to Romania. Subsequently, a small number of books written in Bosnia and Herzegovina were sent outside the country to be printed, in Venice, Vienna, Rome, and elsewhere, but books were not produced in the country. In the second half of the 19th century, there was a revival of interest in printing and publishing in Bosnia and ...
Chibcha Dictionary and Grammar
This manuscript is a glossary with prayers, confessions, and sermons in the Chibcha language. It was compiled by an unknown hand, most likely in the mid-16th century (as suggested by the style of handwriting). The work was used by missionaries in the evangelization of the Muisca, the Chibcha-speaking people who lived in the central highlands of New Granada. The Spanish learned early in their colonial role that to accomplish their religious and other objectives they needed to communicate with the people in their native languages. As early as 1580 the ...
A Study of the Saliba Language
This 1790 manuscript contains a grammar and partial glossary of the Saliba language, compiled by an unknown writer in San Miguel del Macuco (present-day Orocué, Colombia), and used by Jesuit missionaries. A note on the manuscript reads: "Under the Royal Order of our Catholic Monarch Charles IV, God preserve him, for demanding the greater learning and intelligence of the dictionary." The manuscript also includes a letter addressed to Charles IV by Friar Clement of Saint Xavier, in which the friar states that he has requested the Saliba language dictionary recommended ...
The Art and Vocabulary of the Achagua Language
Arte y bocabulario de la lengua achagua: Doctrina christiana, confessionario de uno y otro sexo e instrucción de cathecumenos (The art and vocabulary of the Achagua language: Christian doctrine, the confession of both sexes, and instruction in the catechism) attests to the linguistic effort undertaken by the Jesuit missionaries in the borderlands of present-day Colombia and Venezuela. As its long title explains, this small manuscript volume, written in beautiful calligraphy and now preserved in the National Library of Colombia, contains several items: a grammar of the Achagua language, an extensive ...
A Guiding Light to the Indians
Lucerna yndyca (A guiding light to the Indians) is a manuscript dating from 1715–22 containing a Castilian–Quechua dictionary and selections of the Gospels translated from Latin into Quechua, the predominant Andean language at the time of the Spanish conquest. The text is annotated with comments by the author, Esteban Sancho de Melgar y Santa Cruz. Melgar, a late-17th century academic, is known for his work Arte de la Lengua General de Inga Llamada Qquechhua (The art of the general language called Quechua) published in Lima in 1691. This ...
Explanation of the Commentary of Ibn Zakur
Timbuktu (present-day Tombouctou in Mali), founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The libraries there contain many important manuscripts, in different styles of Arabic scripts, which were written and copied by Timbuktu's scribes and scholars. These works constitute the city's most famous and long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization. Sharḥ 'ala Ḥāshiyat Ibn Zakūr (Explanation of the commentary of Ibn Zakur) is by Ibrahim al-Fulani and was ...
Panjabi Grammar: A Brief Grammar of Panjabi As Spoken in the Wazirabad District
Thomas Grahame Bailey (1872–1942) was a Church of Scotland missionary in India who made extensive studies of northern Indian languages. After studying Hindi and Urdu at the London University School of Oriental Studies, he went on to publish books on Panjabi (now usually called Punjabi), Himalayan dialects, Urdu, Kanauri, Kashmiri, Shina, and other languages. Panjabi Grammar: A Brief Grammar of Panjabi As Spoken in the Wazirabad District was written at the request of an official of the government of Punjab, in what was then a part of British India ...


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A $12,000 grant from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance program, and vigorous local fundraising, will allow teachers, psychologists and survivors from Columbine, Colo. and Jonesboro, Ark. school shootings to accompany Sparks Middle School children during the "Jan Jam weekend."
Spanish Springs Presbyterian Church Pastor Howard Dotson said Wednesday that 25 children had already registered and up to 50 girls and 50 boys are able to attend. Dotson said adopting Ferncliff Camp's program for school shooting survivors will unite Sparks Middle School students with those who can best relate to the events that occurred in October of 2013.
"Theologian has a term called the 'wounded healer,' and like the Vietnam vets, these kids want to talk to someone who has been through what they have been through," Dotson said. "They have talked to enough counselors. These people will have the credibility to tell them their story, what they have been through and how they were able to get through it. It is more like a motivational speaker rather than duplicating or encroaching on the counseling the kids have already received."
Dotson said combining the experience of Ferncliff Camp faculty with local teachers and psychologists lets the students know who they can turn to when the weekend comes to an end. Dotson said he has formed relationships with the children and families in the Sparks Middle School neighborhood and he said gaining trust with the students will only improve after the trip.
"Kids are naturally a little reluctant to trust you until they know who you are and we have been working since before the candlelight vigil to let them know we are here," he said. "We want to have that local presence (this weekend) so they don't return home thinking the people they have worked with get on a plane and they don't see them again."
Students will have activities such as gondola rides, tubing and more to keep them busy, all of which was donated by Heavenly Mountain Resort. Attendees will be lodging at the Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center, though no "organized religious activities" are planned, and food will be provided through the donations of six Reno-Sparks churches and nine local restaurants.
The remaining grant and donation funds will be held in reserve for teachers and staff at Sparks Middle School to have a complimentary night in the Zephyr Point Conference Center.
The Sparks Middle School shooting ended with one student (shooter) and teacher Michael Landsberry, dead, and left two students wounded. In 1998, the Jonesboro shooting left five dead (four students, one teacher) and 10 wounded. One year later the Columbine shooting left 13 dead (12 students, one teacher) and more than 20 wounded.
Dotson's "dream team" of well-trained chaperones will take a motivational approach to healing through the testimony of the survivors of all three shootings. Dotson said an element of play will be a key factor in helping Sparks Middle School children cope with their tragedy.
"It relieved me to talk to the moms of that community and know that most of the kids who were exposed to the trauma are the ones that are going. Those are the kids we really hoped to reach," Dotson said. "A lot of these kids are at-risk youths. They face gang recruitment all the time. They are a lot more resilient than most people give them credit for.
"Kids learn through play and that is how they work through things. If you talk to any child psychologist they will tell you that is how they work things out best, and to see them smiling up on Heavenly makes it all worth it."
For more information about the Jan Jam free weekend at Lake Tahoe for Sparks Middle School students, contact Spanish Springs Presbyterian Church at 424-3622. Registration can be completed up to one hour before the bus leaves Friday.


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Barnico, Thomas
Mr. Barnico is currently a Visiting Professor from Practice at Boston College Law School. At Boston College, he teaches Administrative Law, and the Attorney General Clinical Program, a program he has directed since 1989.
Mr. Barnico served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1981 to 2010. He represented the state and its officers in civil cases involving constitutional law, administrative law, and business regulation. He has argued three cases in the United States Supreme Court, eighteen cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and 72 cases in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Mr. Barnico received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1977. He received his J.D. degree from Boston College Law School in 1980. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Essex County (MA) in 1980 and 1981.
Biondi, Jane
Jane Biondi received her J.D. degree cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1999, where she was an articles editor of the BC Law Review. In addition, Professor Biondi holds a Masters degree in English. Following law school, she practiced commercial litigation in Boston, first with Choate Hall & Stewart and then with Hinckley, Allen & Snyder. Since 2003 she has taught at Harvard Law School, both in their first year lawyering course and in their civil clinical program at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center. For the fall of 2008, she will return to BC Law to teach the Civil Litigation Clinic and seminar.
Brudney, Victor
Professor Brudney is the Robert B. and Candice J. Hass Professor in Corporate Finance Law (emeritus) at Harvard Law School. He received his LL. B from Columbia University in 1940, and joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1970. He will teach First Amendment and Corporate Speach in the fall semester.
Foote, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Foote specializes in administrative law and regulatory legislation. She received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1983, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After a clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling in D.C. and later at the Environmental Protection Agency. Since 1991, she has taught courses on government regulation, constitutional structure of government, and the U.S. legal system, at Boston University School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University (U.K.), in addition to Boston College Law School.
Murray-Tjan, Laura
Laura Murray-Tjan teaches the Federal Appeals Clinic and the Federal Appeals Seminar. She also has taught the Immigration and Asylum Clinic; the Immigration Practicum Seminar; and the Advanced Immigration Law Seminar; and served as co-coach of the national Immigration Moot Court team. Professor Murray-Tjan has extensive experience representing immigration detainees and refugees, and presents and writes frequently on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; refugee and asylum law; and derivation of citizenship. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and received her law degree from the Yale Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law. Murray-Tjan clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and previously worked as an associate in the International Dispute Resolution practice group of Debevoise & Plimpton, the New York law firm. She was the Detention Attorney at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project for five years, and most recently served as an immigration law advisor to the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Murray-Tjan co-chairs the pro bono committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New England Chapter.
Regina L. Quinlan, a visiting professor at Boston College Law School, is a former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Ms. Quinlan served in that position for twenty years following her appointment in 1992. As a trial judge, she presided over both civil and criminal proceedings. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Quinlan was a practicing attorney in the Commonwealth, representing various clients in civil, criminal, and appellate matters. She appeared before both State and Federal trial and appellate courts.
Ms. Quinlan received her A.B. degree from Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts in 1965 and her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1973.
Wilkins, Herbert
Herbert Wilkins is the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School. Professor Wilkins is the former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He served the Supreme Judicial Court for nearly thirty years, and prior to joining the bench served as a practicing attorney at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Professor Wilkins' contributions to the legal system are many, including his leadership in the adoption of the new Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct. A member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has received the Boston Bar Association's Citation of Judicial Excellence Award, and the Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Service Award. He is the former Town Counsel for Acton and Concord. Professor Wilkins received both his Bachelors and LL.B degrees from Harvard University. At Boston College Law School next year, he will teach Insurance Law in the fall semester.


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Lines were long and Italian in the air at the Paris screening of a controversial new documentary last week after its Rome premiere was canceled, its subject deemed "too political" ahead of elections this Sunday.
An often chilling depiction of Italy today, "Girlfriend in a Coma" paints a grim picture of society and politics and includes a gory overview of the Mafia's history. Since its screening at Rome's National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, known as the Maxxi, was nixed, the buzz around the film has become a story on top of a story.
Sponsored by the Culture Ministry, the museum said it would be happy to show the film after the elections — but not before. The filmmakers, former Economist magazine editor Bill Emmott and Annalisa Piras, a London-based Italian journalist, say that reception proves their very point: Italian politics are corrupt, stagnant and maddeningly backward.
Based on Emmott's recent book "Good Italy, Bad Italy," the film takes its title from the 1987 hit song by The Smiths, which Emmott says reflects his own decades-long love affair with Italy. Ranked 180th in the world for economic growth, the country is sick, he said: lifeless, despondent, but not without potential for recovery.
"Italy was Europe's China in the 1950s and 1960s," he told viewers after the screening. "What's happened is that freedom and creativity is blocked," and Italians have become "victims of themselves."
Unlike officials in Rome, the Italian press has given its thumbs-up. La Stampa said the film shows how Italy "has been left dying on the roadside." Il Sole 24 Ore called it "marvelously digestible," and according to L'Espresso, "it freezes the blood in your veins."
Notorious former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who hopes to make a comeback in the elections, represents the country's darker side.
Widely accused of corruption and for failing to prevent Italy's economic crisis, he's awaiting trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor in what's become known as the "bunga bunga scandal."
However, judges have postponed the trial until after the elections on Feb. 24 and 25.
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The film isn't all doom and gloom, however. A fair amount concerns the successes of such movers and shakers as the current technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco, and Fiat Chairman and Agnelli family heir John Elkann.
Some of the film's most inspiring footage depicts initiatives such as a social cooperative called Progetto Sud, and Se Non Ora Quando, a women's rights organization.
Director Piras, former London correspondent for L'Espresso magazine who left Italy in 1993, says the film is intended to offer points of reflection rather than an exhaustive analysis.
She and Emmott hope their "campaign to wake Italy up" will prompt change.
The first sign may be visible this month: Despite its scrubbed premiere, Italians will get a chance to see the film before the elections in theaters across the country — except Rome's Maxxi theater.


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Mark Pincus is the latest social-media CEO to become a billionaire – and then a former billionaire – in just six months.
This spring, when Zynga shares were trading above $14.50 a share, Pincus's 94.5 million shares were worth more than $1.3 billion. Now, his shares are worth less than $250 million.
That means his wealth has fallen by $1 billion in seven months, which works out to more than $4 million a day, or more than $200,000 an hour.
His paper Zynga fortune has fallen by more than 80 percent.
He's still not a record holder when it comes to sudden wealth loss. That honor would probably go to Brazil's Eike Batista, who lost $6 billion in paper wealth in about 48 hours. And of course, Sheldon Adelson lost nearly $25 billlion in a matter of a few months in the beginning of the financial crisis. (Read more: 'I Got Zucked!')
Pincus will be just fine financially. He had the good fortune – and timing – to cash out of 16.5 million shares this Spring, while the stock was still trading in the double digits. He netted about $200 million from the sale. (Read more: Why Larry Ellison Needs a $4 Billion Loan)
He owns a $16 million mansion in San Francisco and a multimillion-dollar home in Aspen.
Pincus also has wealth from other investments, including Facebook, in which he was an early investor, and other companies.
Still, Pincus's sudden wealth loss shows just how fleeting the fortunes are in social media. Whether it's Zuckerberg's more than $9 billion paper loss, or the decline of the Groupon guys, some today's tech stars are more like supernovas – burning bright before burning out.
We live in the new age of High Beta Wealth. Nowhere is the wealth beta higher than in social media.
-By CNBC's Robert Frank
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What's coming 'round the bend
There were many familiar faces, the reliability of the Crown Victoria, the aggressiveness of the Charger, the unmistakable thunder of Harley-Davidson. New this year, as I'm sure you've heard, are new developments from Ford Motors, General...
Replacement Brake Pads — The MSP were contacted by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center to conduct an evaluation on replacement brake pads; previously published last nine years ago in 2001. This test was ultimately intended to provide an evaluation to a select number of friction pad materials and the vehicle's original equipment (O/E) brake pad and rotors. To "limit" this field, MSP and Greening Testing Laboratories, Inc. (an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory) - who assisted at no-cost to the MSP - sent a solicitation to 28 friction material manufacturers offering a "severe duty" product.
It quickly became apparent to Chuck Greening, Jr., President of Greening Testing Laboratories, Inc. that testing on all brake pads available for the police fleets was next to impossible given the time constraints. Alleviating this issue, the labs then provided a screening tool to "whittle the field." This was Stage 1 of a three stage process.
This "prescreening" was tested to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 135, (FMVSS 135), Greening Labs submitted double blind results to MSP, top performing brake pad candidates for each vehicle application were chosen and continued to Stage 2.
According to the completed report "2010 Aftermarket Brake Pad Evaluation," "not all submitted aftermarket candidate brake pads were able to meet the minimum requirements of FMVSS 135 and were, therefore, removed from the pool of eligible test candidates."
"The only names [manufacturer and brand] that will be made public ... are those manufacturers whose pads scored well enough in the screening process of Stage 1 to move onto Stage 2," says Wilson.
With the O/E as a control for each vehicle, Stage 2 included two series of ten measured 60 mph to 0 straight line full ABS stops separated by a cool down sequence. Stage 3 involved six measured 125 mph to 0 mph straight-line full ABS stops, each stop with a 4.5-mile cool down lap.
The models
BMW - Surprisingly alone in BMW's camp is the BMW R1200 RTP. Previously the 2010 model program included the G650 motorcycle. Frank Stevens, BMW's Authority Program Manager reports that there were no changes from last year.
The R1200, however, includes a newly designed cylinder head providing a more efficient combustion for a slight increase in torque, a servo operated exhaust valve in the muffler exhaust system and a slight facelift to the faring side panels and the windshield mounting to add a bit more protection for open-faced helmet riders. Also brand new for the 2011 model are new hand levers and switch controls.
"The rest of the bike is basically, from seat to back, is identical [to the 2010 model]," says Stevens.
BMW knows high speed. The company also manufactures the super sport bike, the S1000RR - the fastest production motorcycle in the world, according to Stevens. To compare, MSP reports the 2011 R1200 tops out at 127 mph, the S1000RR runs over 180 mph - special training is provided by BMW.
Further information on BMW's offerings can be found at www.bmwmc.net, best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Chrysler/Dodge - Information regarding the 2011 Dodge Charger has not been released at the time of this article's writing.
However, Chrysler had announced the new 2011 Dodge Charger Pursuit model August 2010. According to the Chrysler Web site, "This vehicle features a redesigned interior and exterior while offering advantages in safety and capability from extensive structural enhancements including the use of high-strength steels and Unibody construction, to its rear-wheel drive configuration. For standard power it boasts the all-new 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 VVT mated to a 5-speed AutoStick transmission."
Further information on this vehicle can be found at www.fleet.chrysler.com.
Ford Motor Co. - With the ending of the Crown Victoria line in 2011, like a phoenix the Police Interceptor brand doesn't disappear in the rear-view mirror. Ford has "evolved" its Interceptor with a sedan (for a direct replacement) as well as a new SUV utility version - further information on this can be found on Page 46. And recently announced is a new undercover Interceptor with a design inspiration from the SR-71 "Blackbird" stealth airplane.
Having to follow the Crown Victoria, Ford focuses on safety, durability and performance for its next generation Police Interceptors. While both versions are built from the same platform (the very same platform is used on the new 2011 Explorer, Lincoln MKT and MKS, and the Taurus) the mechanical underpinnings are world's apart - the Taurus and Explorer also share their sheet metal with the respective Interceptors.


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iPhoto - How do I add faces on a video?
I took a few hours today to finally add faces to all of my photos I just put into my new MBP. As you will no doubt know its a great feature.
If my friend Phil comes over I can show him all the photos he is on. If I want to show him pictures of my friend from another country I can find them all easily. Put simply it is a great way to organise who is on what and there for what photos would be interesting to who.
Videos would also benefit from the above organisation. Yet there seems no option to add faces to Videos. I do understand it isnt as easy to add them to a moving object. But im not that bothered about faces staying over actual videos faces. Im just bothered about being able to sort everything into people specific sets. In honesty I couldn't care in the photos if the faces square goes over the correct face or whatever, I only care the photo is sorted to tell me the individuals upon them.
How do I do that with videos? It would be great to have photos AND videos all nicely packaged up under a person face folder on the faces tab.
Can this be done - How?
|Mar 12, 2013, 10:39 PM
Me too!
I just encountered this problem - have you found any solution to this?
|Mar 12, 2013, 10:46 PM
Faces only works on still photos.
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It's the beginning of the college 7s season, and it's time to rank the best teams in the country.We have looked carefully at not only the teams' 2011-2012 performances, but who they are returning.It's a tough call. Life University won the national title, and finished 4th at the CRC, so could well be #1. Dartmouth is always strong, but lost some really outstanding players.Cal didn't have the best year, although they did finish 3rd at the CRC. However, they have some very strong 7s athletes, are making a bigger push toward their 7s training this year, and return virtually everyone. In the end, we have Kutztown at #1 because the program takes 7s very seriously, is always good, and returns most of their best players from last season. We think Kutztown is primed for a run at the national title and a qualification spot in the CRC.What is really exciting about this, is that the top 15 or so are potential national champs. The competitive balance within this group, and the 10-15 teams we could have listed but didn't, is quite good.
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CeBIT Open Source 2011: Call for Projects
For the third consecutive year, CeBIT Open Source invites projects to Hannover, Germany. The conference organizers and Linux Pro Magazine invite open source projects to apply for free exhibit space at CeBIT Open Source 2011.
CeBIT, the largest IT trade show on earth, will take place March 1-5 in Hannover, Germany. In 2009, the Deutsche Messe organization, which runs the annual trade show, announced the Open Source exhibit hall, and the volume of visitors to the packed area exceeded all expectations. Once again, Open Source projects will exhibit in Hall 2 at the 2011 CeBIT trade show site.
At CeBIT Open Source 2011, commercial enterprises, the Open Source Forum, and the Open Source Project Lounge will have the opportunity to present their work to the general public.
Linux Pro Magazine and Deutsche Messe invite projects who want to present their work at CeBIT Open Source 2011. An international jury of open source experts will decide which projects get the free exhibit space. Any open source project can apply now. Noncommercial projects with possible software applications in the industry will get priority consideration. The Call for Projects will run from now until November 30, 2010. The application forms are available on the Linux Pro Magazine site.
In addition to exhibit space, the winning projects will have the opportunity to present their work to a worldwide audience in Linux Pro Magazine and Linux Magazine. The award jury made up of international open source experts will select projects through middle of December, and winning projects will then be announced in the publications.
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Formerly, "Just Thinking", this blog presents the thoughts and experiences of a family historian trying to demystify the past and uncover the stories of an elusive ancestry. Surnames in Franklin County, NC are YARBOROUGH, GREEN, HAWKINS, and DUNSTON. In Halifax and Warren Counties, surnames are DAVIS, BROWN, and ROSS. With so much of my family's history shrouded in darkness, is my personal mission to uncover the hidden details of my ancestry and bring them INTO THE LIGHT.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Wisdom Wednesday - Words to Live By
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- Heather Rojo said...
My sixth grade English teacher, Mrs. Hughes, also made us recite this- how far are you from Holden, Massachusetts? I still can remember bits, but not the whole thing. I used to recite it a lot, and I remember that when I graduated from high school my Mom found a graduation card with these words on it. I was surprised she still remembered! And you do, too!
- April 29, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Joan said...
I am a bit envious. I really liked this post. I would love to be able to recite Kipling's words by heart. Unfortunately, for me it is the ringing tones of "Old Ironsides" that burst forth from my lips on occasion.
BTW, thanks for the nice words about Greta's Follow Friday feature. I dinna even know about it as I have had my nose to the grindstone -- figuratively speaking.
- April 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM
- Earth Angel said...
I love this poem by Kipling as well. Thank you for your comments on my blog post about 9-11 (by way of my comoment on Dorey's FB page). You said, "I am your sister - and hers, too." Thanks, my sister! :-> Your blog is inspiring me to get back into my ancestry work! Will come back to peruse your posts. What a labor of love you have here!
- May 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Renate said...
Thanks for your comments, ladies! Heather, I'm quite a ways from Massachusetts. I guess, "If" must have just been the going thing for English teachers back in the day. (I wonder IF it still is?)
Joan, you've got me on that one. What can I say? LOL.
Angel, I'm thrilled that you're here! If you're a friend of Dorey's I know you must be "good people"! Stick around, and feel free to comment anytime!
- May 4, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Kathleen Brandt, Professional Genealogist said...
I love this poem, and I read it at a very timely moment this evening. I will be sharing it with my husband who is dealing with end-of-the-year College students. Maybe it will give him the strength to share his love and good energy and keep anger at bay.
(sorry...but I copied it and put the original ending back for hubby.)
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Terius Gray (born March 25, 1975), better known by his stage name Juvenile, is an American rapper, He is also a former member of hip-hop group the Hot Boys. At the age of 19, he began recording raps, releasing his debut album Being Myself in 1995. He became popular when his 1999 single "Back That Thang Up" was released. In 2003, he returned to Cash Money to record Juve the Great, spawning the number-one hit "Slow Motion". Following this album he again left Cash Money, and in 2006 he was signed to Atlantic Records. He released Reality Check under that label. He released his eighth studio album, titled Cocky & Confident, on December 1, 2009. He released his ninth studio album, titled Beast Mode, on July 6, 2010. Music career: Beginnings: Juvenile released the song "Back That Thang Up", which was a big hit in the early 2000s. He first began recording his raps in the early 1990s. One of his early recordings was featured on DJ Jimi's 1991 release, "It's Jimi". The song "Bounce For t ... Read More
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Today Sony PlayStation 3 hacker durandal has released OedipusRSX PS3 RSX Reality Synthesizer documentation for other developers to improve graphics utilized in PS3 homebrew applications and games.
Download: http://gitbrew.org/~durandal/oedipusrsx/oedipusrsx.zip / OedipusRSX PS3 RSX Documentation (Mirror)
Below is some background on the PS3 RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_%27Reality_Synthesizer%27, as follows:
The RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' is a proprietary graphics processing unit (GPU) codeveloped by Nvidia and Sony for the PlayStation 3 game console.
Unless otherwise noted, the following specifications are based on a press release by Sony at the E3 2005 conference, slides from the same conference, and slides from a Sony presentation at the 2006 Game Developer's Conference.
- 500 MHz on 90 nm process (shrunk to 65 nm in 2008 and to 40 nm in 2010)
- Based on NV47 Chip (Nvidia GeForce 7800 Architecture)
- 300+ million transistors
- Multi-way programmable parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- Independent pixel/vertex shader architecture
- 24 parallel pixel-shader ALU pipes clocked @ 550 MHz
- 5 ALU operations per pipeline, per cycle (2 vector4 , 2 scalar/dual/co-issue and fog ALU, 1 Texture ALU)
- 16 floating-point operations per pipeline, per cycle
- 8 parallel vertex pipelines @ 500 MHz
- 2 ALU operations per pipeline, per cycle (1 vector4 and 1 scalar, dual issue)[citation needed]
- 10 FLOPS per pipeline, per cycle
- Floating Point Operations: 251.2 Gigaflops [(24*16* 550)+(8*10*500)]
- 74 billion shader operations per second [(24 Pixel Shader Pipelines*5 ALUs*550 MHz) + (8 Vertex Shader Pipelines*2 ALUs*500 MHz)]
- 24 texture filtering units (TF) and 8 vertex texture addressing units (TA)
- 24 filtered samples per clock
- Maximum texel fillrate: 12.0 GigaTexels per second (24 textures * 500 MHz)
- 32 unfiltered texture samples per clock, (8 TA x 4 texture samples)
- 8 Render Output units / pixel rendering pipelines
- Peak pixel fillrate (theoretical): 4.0 Gigapixel per second
- Maximum Z sample rate: 8.0 GigaSamples per second (2 Z-samples * 8 ROPs * 500 MHz)
- Maximum Dot product operations: 28.6 billion per second
- 128-bit pixel precision offers rendering of scenes with High dynamic range rendering (HDR)
- 256 MB GDDR3 RAM at 650 MHz
- Access to additional 256 MB XDR RAM
- 128-bit memory bus width
- 22.4 GB/s read and write bandwidth
- Cell FlexIO bus interface
- 20 GB/s read to the Cell and XDR memory
- 15 GB/s write to the Cell and XDR memory
- Support for PSGL (OpenGL ES 1.1 + Nvidia Cg)
- Support for S3TC texture compression
Finally, according to a rumor via http://twitter.com/#!/Squarepusher2/status/108649956377767937, http://pastebin.com/bSjZfNTM of Gitbrew's (irssi, /connect -ssl irc.gitbrew.org) Sony PlayStation 3 Hacking Team also gave http://www.soldierx.com/hdb/Durandal the coveted PS3 CEX-DEX.zip file http://pastebin.com/eTGisEBS from PS3 hacker http://pastebin.com/Li8nJLEM.
To quote: BTW Mathieulh I know you gave http://pastebin.com/yNx9adyR (Durandal Dokuchayev) that CEX-DEX ZIP, that it wasn't you that bundled that up, and you were not supposed to do so either
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[Mathieulh] *.gitbrew.org :Gitbrew
[Mathieulh] is a Deus on Gitbrew
[Mathieulh] is logged in as Mathieulh
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Two Combinator ideas
Well, this is not exactly for just the Combinator, but I'm thinking of problems I encounter when playing live... I would love a way to auto-scroll to the active Combinator, perhaps scroll it to the very top of the rack so you can see the unit you're controlling when you switch MIDI sending channels. That would be helpful because sometimes I forget what each knob and button does and if I'm busy playing with both hands, I can't reach up and move my trackpad to the proper rack location in a long rack of devices to see the active Combinator. This can be a selectable option in the "Options" menu, directly under "Follow Song", it can read "Follow MIDI Channel".
Another thing I wish the Combinator had was a "transpose" or "zone shift" feature in the programmer section. When I zone different devices to one large Combi patch, I sometimes want the proper octave in that zone. As it is now, say I place 3 NN-XT's into a Combi with the first assigned to a lower set of 3 octaves, the next to octaves 4 through 6, and the last NN-XT to octaves 7 through 9... if I play the first zone, my NN-XT is not in the proper workable range so I have to open the remote editor and shift those zones around within the NN-XT. Same drill with the top NN-XT. I wish the Combinator had something where you could simply shift what range you were accessing, so that even though you may be playing in the C5 to C7 range, you're *sending* C3 to C5. Put it right across the bottom: shorten "Receive Notes" to "Rec. Notes", and "Velocity Range" to "Vel. Range", and remove the "Vel" from the Lo and Hi, we already know it's for velocity (note the Key Range doesn't repeat the word "key"). Now you have room to add "Shift" along with "Oct" and "Semi", where each can have positive or negative values. To remain compatible with current patches, the Oct and Semi settings would stay at 0 and 0.
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And Third idea :) - Combinator inside a Combinator
Cool ideas!!!
I think Combinator inside a Combinator would be good too.
Cheers :)
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Sr., 6-1, Piedmont
Noteworthy: Terry batted .411 for the Bulldogs, but it was his pitching that
set him apart for Piedmont. The senior earned seven wins, while having a
3.52 ERA and 1.22 WHIP.
P: Darke Ledet
Sr., 5-10, Weaver
Noteworthy: Ledet averaged two strikeouts an inning, striking out 62 batters
over 36 innings, earning three wins. He struck out 19 batters in one game
during the county tournament. At the plate, he hit .418.
P: Chase Johnson
Sr., 6-0, Saks
Noteworthy: Johnson hit .432 with 32 hits, 33 RBIs and 27 runs. With a .517
on-base percentage, the senior also held a team-leading .919 slugging
C: Matt Strott
Jr., 5-9, Piedmont
Noteworthy: A great defensive presence behind the plate, Strott also had
success at bat, hitting .398 and having a .452 on-base percentage. He
recorded a team-high 37 singles.
1B: Collin Bradley
Sr., 6-0, Piedmont
Noteworthy: Bradley played a dual role for Piedmont, playing first and
pitching. While earning five wins with a 2.30 ERA, the senior batted .352
with an on-base percentage of .467.
2B: Caleb Adams
Jr., 5-10, Piedmont
Noteworthy: Adams batted a solid .414 with eight doubles, 24 runs and 20
RBIs. He also had a .330 on-base percentage.
3B: Zach Cunningham
Sr., 5-11, White Plains
Noteworthy: Cunningham led the Wildcats with a .462 batting average and nine
home runs, while also being the ace of the pitching staff.
SS: Jonathan Bradshaw
Sr., 5-9, White Plains
Noteworthy: Bradshaw led the Wildcats with 40 runs and 20 stolen bases as
the lead-off hitter. The senior batted .429 and walked 29 times. He added 19
OF: Cass McCord
Sr., 6-1, Piedmont
Noteworthy: McCord batted .331 with a .388 on-base percentage for the
Bulldogs. He added 33 runs and 29 RBIs.
OF: Josh Wilson
Sr., 5-9, Saks
Noteworthy: Wilson led the Wildcats with a .460 batting average, 40 hits, 22
singles, 14 doubles, three triples and 33 runs. Wilson had recorded a .505
on-base percentage.
OF: Ryan Kirby
Sr., 5-8, White Plains
Noteworthy: Kirby batted .388 for the Wildcats with 30 RBIs and 26 runs. The
senior stole six bases while committing only five errors in the field.
DH: Payton Young
Fr., 5-11, Piedmont
Noteworthy: Young led the Bulldogs with seven home runs while batting .366
as a freshman. Young recorded a .464 on-base percentage and recorded 41 hits
and 24 runs.
UTIL: Mikey Homesley
Sr., 5-10, Weaver
Noteworthy: Homesley batted a Bearcats-high .463 and recorded 10 doubles,
one triple and one home run. The senior knocked in 26 RBIs.
UTIL: Dillon Greenwood
So., 5-10, White Plains
Noteworthy: Greenwood had a team-best ERA for the Wildcats this past season, sitting at 3.50 over 30 innings. The sophomore also hit .327 at the plate with 20 runs and 23 RBIs.
P: Cade Bradley
Sr., 6-0, Piedmont
Noteworthy: Bradley did it all for the Bulldogs. As the ace, he won a
team-high eight games while holding a 2.91 ERA with 55 strikeouts. At the
plate, Bradley recorded a team-high 53 hits and 48 runs, batting .461 and
having a .578 on-base percentage.
Honorable mention
Weaver Clay Drummond, Fernando Forbes, Brandon Smith; Piedmont Bayley
Blanchard, Taylor Hayes, Tyler Lusk; Saks Corpio Dennard, Joseph Duke,
Austin Knight; White Plains Miles Masters, Tyler Hardcatle, Peyton


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