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With PlayBook OS 2.0 on the horizon, RIM started up a free PlayBook offer for Android developers and then extended it to include all developers. The offer was set to close on February 13th and all submissions had to be in by that time as well. RIM has now extended the offer 11:59 PM EST on March 2, 2012 for all developers who sign up for the BlackBerry Vendor Portal by 11:59 PM EST on February 15, 2012:
Today was going to be the deadline for the offer – but due to the overwhelming interest in the offer, we're extending it one more time. How much interest? There have been over 1,500 app submissions as of last Friday and over 6600 new developers registered in the BlackBerry App World™ storefront. We have teams working around the clock to approve vendor registrations and app submissions. Because of the high demand, approvals are taking longer than normal – we appreciate your patience.
There you have it folks! If you're a developer looking to get your app in there, you now have some extra time to do so. Looking for the full details? You can hit the source link below to check out the BlackBerry Developers Blog.
Source: BB Dev Blog
jimbob4321 Feb 13, 2012 at 1:45 pm
about damn time... good to hear some good press on this...
also FIRST :p
siddo_d Feb 13, 2012 at 1:51 pm
C'mon Blackberry developers!!! More apps, here we come.
JarekGora Feb 13, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Don't mean to be cynical but is this a sign that 2.0 won't come in February? (Or this week?!?)
I thought the same... :(
blackcaneaddict Feb 13, 2012 at 5:03 pm
same four.
Kiddo2050 Feb 13, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Ditto, but I appreciate the hard numbers they have given in the explanation. Still I see no real reason for the delay. We don't really care if the apps are there the day of release or a couple of weeks after.
GrindTImeBanks Feb 13, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I hope not... os 2.0 better come out this month.. half way there already
taylortbb Feb 13, 2012 at 3:53 pm
They've already answered this. This has no affect on 2.0 release. There's really no reason why it would, whether the apps are there at launch or in the weeks after it's still good for RIM.
Mikhou Feb 13, 2012 at 7:46 pm
You got it !
One more time...
ryanlrobinson Feb 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm
I thought the same, but I doubt it. Even as recently as a couple of weeks ago they still said they were on track for a February release.
This is a smart promotion to be running. It doesn't necessarily have to end before the new OS is launched. They're killing two birds with one stone: boosting the number of developers and the number of apps, and increasing their market share by getting more PlayBooks out there. If people are rushing to take advantage of this offer which is a double-win for them, that's the best marketing they've had in a while. Why would they cut out a lot of people willing to develop apps for them that were a bit too slow? This is a good move and doesn't necessarily mean that the release is delayed.
berrybait Feb 14, 2012 at 7:30 am
This is a sign that the deadline has been extended. Nothing more nothing less.
OS 2.0 will still be released in February as planned.
dandbj13 Feb 13, 2012 at 1:58 pm
I think that just means they are not attracting as many developers as they expected.
Dekerta Feb 13, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Did you read the post? They extended it because there were too many submissions. 6600 new developer sign-ups and 1500+ app submission in the past few weeks
shabbs Feb 13, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Nice burn.
jayemmbee Feb 13, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Clearly you didn't read the part about the received more than expected
morpho4444 Feb 13, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Oh no, is just that people like to pretend they are good at analyzing stuff when they just guess the first shit that comes to their minds... typical sherlock
MichealBerry Feb 13, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Was thinking the samething. If RIM is overwhelmed by submissions and registrations why extend the deadline? Sounds more like they have not received the overwhelming interest they anticipated.
datta72 Feb 13, 2012 at 4:20 pm
A little bit of common sense would tell you that they were overwhelmed because they weren't expecting the kind of results they got. Over 1,500 app submissions and over 6600 new developers registered is a great reason to keep it open for 3 more weeks. I'm confident that they weren't expecting #'s like that when they launched it
taylortbb Feb 13, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Because they also put the clause that you have to get your App World vendor registration in by Feb 15th. The point was that they have too many vendor registrations to process before the old deadlines, and until your registration is processed you can't submit your app. Would be bad publicity and dev relations if devs registered last week Wednesday but then couldn't get a free PB because RIM took too long to process it. If they weren't getting the response they wanted I doubt they'd have set the registration cut-off to the 15th.
admyths Feb 13, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Registered, developed and submitted my first app this weekend!
Thank you!
admyths Feb 13, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Happy to Help! Its a pretty basic app that a friend asked for but its a start. I hope at least one other person out their finds it useful.
guerllamo7 Feb 13, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Thank You.
BlackBerry developers get more love than any others, so welcome.
alexkinsella Feb 14, 2012 at 10:29 am
Hi @admyths,
Alex from RIM here. Congrats and a big thank you for submitting your first application to App World! We appreciate the hard work and dedication we're seeing from so many developers – many of them first timers like yourself – who are helping us increase the number and quality of apps available in BlackBerry App World. Stay tuned to our Inside BlackBerry Developer's Blog to keep up with the latest offerings for developers: http://bbry.lv/bsbpYQ.
Alex, RIM Social Media Team
Can't wait to do my 2nd app!
Same here! I also registered as a developer and submitted my very first app to the Vendor portal over the past couple of weeks! I have always wanted to make my own app, and RIM helped me do it by having so many methods to code in! I'm not even a professional programmer or even in the computer business. It's awesome what you can do with a little Webworks and Javascript programming, some images and HTML hand-coding these days! And using Ripple to load and test it was cool too, although even just Chrome was fine for my purposes since I didn't use any of the special features (like accelerometer, GPS location, etc). Almost anyone can make an app if they know something about making websites! Wow!
I hope they approve my app, because I spent quite a few late nights working on it and lots of hours. Also, I am the first with this type of app in Blackberry App World. Similar things exist for iPad and also on the web, but I'm the first to bring it to a Playbook which can be run locally with no internet connection needed. I really want another Playbook, so if you are listening RIM, your *PROMO* definitely influenced a bunch of people to make apps!!! :-) Plus my app is free and has no advertising so I'm contributing what I can to pump up the Blackberry app universe! I'm already excited and thinking about my next app which will be a more intensive and lengthy project. Since I am not in the computer field, all this is just hobby-related late-night work.
I can't say enough about how cool it is to be able to make apps for Playbook and even phones with Webworks. Not only is it free but comes with so many examples which are fairly sophisticated. Overall Webworks is probably the easiest for people like myself to code in, and test with Ripple, since it comes closest to basically making a touch-enabled website. And since I have a Playbook I just needed to side-load it over to test it out. No emulator needed.
One thing I gotta say though, the whole "signing" procedure is a bit difficult to understand, and there are a lot of obscure command-line steps you have to do in order to create keys and passwords and debug tokens and so forth, to get the app compiled properly and allowed to load on a playbook (even when unsigned developer mode). This was something really new and confusing, and it really took a while for me to figure out the first time. Fortunately, I had to rely on some help online from people who have done it before and listed steps. Also needed to read the Webworks SDK development guide a few times to get it. And I still don't see any proper documentation on the config.xml file and the blackberry-tablet.xml file! :-) Anyways, first time around is always hardest... But now I know the steps and should find it easier for my 2nd app. :-)
toy4mud Feb 29, 2012 at 6:58 am
Same here. If I could copy and paste your comment as my own I would. I submitted my app last night at about 1:45am. I too had some trouble with signing tool and lots of errors with bbwp and ripple. Let us know if you app gets approved. I know my app needs to grow, but i hope my 50+ hours learning how to make an app, and plans to further develop it and more, justify a $200 playbook. Let's see, I made about 4 dollars an hours so far...
davehong Feb 13, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Promising - the more talent RIM attracts to their ecosystem, the better!
DJBS4LIFE Feb 13, 2012 at 2:03 pm
That is EXCELLENT news to hear for the RIM camp. I am loving my Playbook!
jayemmbee Feb 13, 2012 at 2:05 pm
This better not mean 2.0 gets delayed
chuckkdaduck Feb 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm
This means an early March launch date...hahah more waiting!!!
menaknow Feb 13, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Great, gives me a chance to actually finish and application and possibly submit it.
I know a lot of student developers that were pissed as the Feb 13th deadline fell on there midterms.
Barredbard Feb 13, 2012 at 2:23 pm
I am cautiously excited; so long as this doesn't mean a further delay in 2.0's release.
BBPandy Feb 13, 2012 at 2:43 pm
To be honest I was expecting more then just 1,500 new app submittions :(
Unless that's only new Apps from the last 2 weeks, then 1,500 is GREAT. But 1,500 in the last few months is not...
....still 1,500 is better then 500 ;)
taylortbb Feb 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm
That's 1500 new apps in the past week as of Friday. Given the deadline wasn't till Monday I'm betting at least half of devs were gonna submit over the weekend, this is supported by the fact over 6000 devs registered and those who have submitted can have submitted multiple apps.
Mikhou Feb 13, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Me too It's not many... and next the quality of those app...
Abrante Feb 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Sounds to me like they are not attracting as much devs as they wanted to. Can you imagine an employer saying " due to the overwhelming amount of applicants we have decided to hire more people and extend the application due date by 3 weeks" ? I don't... I hope I am wrong, but this truly doesn't convince me one bit!
If they are overwhelmed and are taking longer to review submissions. why extend and allow more submission? wouldn't that just repeat the cycle?
simu31 Feb 13, 2012 at 2:53 pm
I'd think that with 6600 new developers, RIM could be thinking: "Wow, we're getting loads more developers with this free Playbook idea, if we keep it going even longer, we'll get even more!"
As so many people seem to think hundreds of thousands of apps is a good thing, then why not entice more people to get on-board?
Abrante Feb 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I could be wrong...
If 1/4 of the 6600 devs have gotten through "so far" then it could be that they are only accepting "quality apps"...
I hope that is the case.
I Still don't buy it though... lol
taylortbb Feb 13, 2012 at 4:02 pm
They extended the deadline to submit apps, but the deadline to register for the App World vendor portal is the 15th. A dev can't submit an app until RIM has processed their vendor application so this actually fits perfectly. They need more time for existing registrations, but not new registrations.
Mikhou Feb 13, 2012 at 7:50 pm
They have to much Playbooks to giveaway...
Kiddello Feb 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm
1500 apps in two weeks...I would extend it further to see how much more apps will be submitted. Not too sure about the quality though (fingers crossed!!).
rashad82 Feb 13, 2012 at 3:08 pm
R.I.M: Research in Motion, what part of research in motion dont you understand? will never complete its research in order to bring new innovations. Still in research with new 2.0OS and new bb 10.
This makes no sense to me.
blkbry2010 Feb 13, 2012 at 3:15 pm
can i just has one please?
derrickps3 Feb 13, 2012 at 3:26 pm
how do i become a developr? cause if no one elese wanna make apps for our beloved playbook....somebody gotta do it.....is it hard making apps???
taylortbb Feb 13, 2012 at 4:05 pm
The easiest route is to use WebWorks. So I'd start with Code Academy to learn JavaScript. You'll also need to learn HTML and CSS (Google, there's lots of tutorials).
Making an app definitely isn't easy. But if you're willing to do the work it can be fun. Most high quality apps take hundreds of hours of work, after you've already learned what you need to know.
ryanlrobinson Feb 13, 2012 at 8:26 pm
A good app to make significant number of sales, yes, hundreds of hours. Something good enough to get accepted and score a free PlayBook? You could pull something off in 5-10 if you already know HTML5/CSS/Javascript (or one of the other languages there are SDK's for).
Hopefully the ratio of decent apps to fart apps, BMI calculators, and books ends up being pretty high.
Petroucho Feb 13, 2012 at 4:24 pm
So NO developer wants to make apps for PB? Poor RIM. POS.
canuck_67 Feb 13, 2012 at 4:31 pm
give me a T r o l l. I noticed if you rearrange petroucho you get .....hold on.....carry the two......ok......
yup Douche. checked it twice.
berrybait Feb 14, 2012 at 7:37 am
I can see why you are making comments and not running a company. Sadly though, your comments are ill informed.
FlashFlare11 Feb 13, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Wow, that's great news! More that 1500 new apps already in waiting for OS 2.0. RIM must be extremely confident that they can make up for the free PlayBooks in sales, which is also a great sign.
I'm sure the quality of apps is decent (Alec Saunders said "no crap apps"), but I don't think it matters too much. If that were the case, Android wouldn't be selling as much as iOS devices. As long as RIM has numbers to show, it should be enough to move PlayBooks, as well as build a solid developer relationship for the BlackBerry 10 platform.
guerllamo7 Feb 13, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I love my PB but I'm actually getting curious about 2.0. Not that I need it since I have a BlackBerry Bold 9930 but the movies, the android player, new apps and tweaks to the UI will make it even better.
I don't care what the turkeys say, I'm with RIM all the way! Go RIM!
TheWolf1965 Feb 13, 2012 at 6:11 pm
It is funny that everyone who disagrees with the founders of Crackberry.com has been stereotyped as a troll or as some prefer a Turkey. I am a devoted Blackberry user and will never change that fact. I have 2 X PB and several BB devices and will never change that. This does not mean cause I do not have a hand in the creation of a website that I have nothing valid to say. The BBTeam on Crackberry seem to think their opinion is the valid one. If it were not for the great and regularly intervalled and up to date info, and enlightening comments I would subscribe to one of my other 7 bookmarked PB or BB sights.
TheWolf1965 Feb 13, 2012 at 5:26 pm
I get a kick outta you guys. The 17th of Feb 2012 for OS 2.0 was a rumour to start with and was never confirmed as a date of release by RIM. I am waiting for 2.0 as well and hope the RUMOUR does come true, as well.
Jerky223 Feb 13, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Honestly, this should be a permanent offer until AppWorld is doing better for the PlayBook and future BB10 devices.
Just an Idea:
Give out a 16GB model for the first app, additional/2nd 32GB model after 10 apps or if they submit highly sought after app (example: Wunderlist), 64GB/16GB 4G model after 20 apps, etc.
The some big companies could careless about getting a PlayBook but they could give them away at corporate events as prizes with a copy of the app.
I agree. The deadline is there because it creates a timeline and perhaps some pressure for developers to release. On the other hand, they should make it a permanent offer. At least the rolling deadline and repeat offers (this time to all developers, not just Android, which pissed a lot of Blackberry developers off) will help drive more interest.
For example, the Playbook "fire sale" back in the fall made me buy a Playbook when they were $199. Of course, this sale has repeated over and over since then, and looks to become a permanent pricing level. That's good, but definitely the fact that there was a deadline at the time made many people buy one, when they may not even have been interested in a tablet. That describes myself... I wasn't in the market for a tablet, but when I saw the sale I decided to buy one. And I don't regret it one bit. If there was no deadline, people may have held out longer to buy it, and never come to appreciate the Playbook and the potential.
Similarly, the deadline for a "free playbook" for developers certainly lit a fire under my arse to develop my first app and submit it last week. Thank you to Crackberry for posting the news on the offer, which otherwise I wouldn't have known. I registered as a developer, registered to the vendor portal, and programmed my app all in a matter of 2 weeks, and I believe I made the deadline so if my app is accepted (which is going to be free to all) I hope my efforts will be appreciated with a free Playbook and some pats on the back. But I also feel this will excite me to develop more apps in the future, whether or not I get a free playbook.
Now, I know my 1st app is simple and not a "quality app", and probably 90% of submissions won't be either, but the point is that the deadline and a free Playbook may be enticing a lot of beginners, students and hobbyists to get to know the Playbook programming environment and there will be 2nd and 3rd and 4th apps from these people which will improve in quality over time.
The other point is that making it EASY and providing free tools and incentives to develop for the Playbook brings in a lot of "non-traditional" developers from outside the computer world who may be doing this in their spare time and without much financial investment, but have good ideas. And I can tell you, when I looked at what it takes to develop for the iPad and iTunes, versus the Playbook, it was not even a contest. For example, I am not in the computer field but have dabbled in websites and know where to find lots of already-made free Javascript code to handle menus, popups, forms, and so on. So with not much effort, anyone with an idea and some knowledge on web-design, an artists and people with some creative ideas can make interactive web-based games, storybooks, calculators, reference books, and many other types of apps and port them over to the Playbook.
Bottom line... it is a drop in the bucket for RIM to give out a Playbook, but it does get people excited about developing for this platform, especially the smaller independent solo programmers, students and hobbyists who may have some great ideas. The large companies couldn't care less about a free playbook to submit an app that cost them 3 months and $20,000 in programmer time to develop. But we all start somewhere... even Angry Birds came from small beginnings. The more Playbooks are out in people's hands, the better it is for all.
the_sleuth Feb 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm
RIM has not confirmed launch date. Nevertheless, bloggers have stated several retailers will have release dates during third week of February. It's all rumours, setting high expectations, and disappointment if it doesn't happen as rumoured.
FlashFlare11 Feb 13, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Yep, I doubt the "journalists" are going to take any blame if RIM doesn't release 2.0 on the 17th. It's going to be October all over again, even though RIM had nothing to do with it.
OneSlyFox Feb 13, 2012 at 6:11 pm
I have a feeling 2.0 is just around the corner. All the Union games got an update. They previously have not worked on the beta releases of OS 2.0.
I'll be done another app and will be submitting it tonight. And a few weeks from now a big update to my alarm clock app.
TheWolf1965 Feb 13, 2012 at 6:13 pm
You so called bloggers on these websights have set RIM up for a fall if they don`t meet the 17th date by starting rumours that are corporately unconfirmed.
ryanlrobinson Feb 13, 2012 at 6:43 pm
I rushed one out in about two days, but I suppose now I have time to actually put in some features so that maybe people will actually want to use it, too.
Pegon_Fighter Feb 13, 2012 at 7:26 pm
do you get a playbook even if you send an app for a blackberry smartphones? or just for playbook?
ThaGill Feb 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Would anyone be able to explain how RIM would ensure that these are "quality" apps. Theoretically, wouldn't there be people that could just create an app that works like the memopad or something else equivalently irrelevant for the sake of getting a free PB?
OneSlyFox Feb 13, 2012 at 10:18 pm
This is what worries me as a developer. Do I want a free PlayBook, yes. Do I want to rush and create a poorly conceived app, no.
I have an app ready to go that's of decent quality, but now I'm almost afraid to release it if there is going to be a flood of new apps. I don't want my app to get buried in a pile of junk apps.
berrybait Feb 14, 2012 at 7:53 am
Don't devs for Android and iOS have even a bigger problem in that regard? How do they do it?
OneSlyFox Feb 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Advertising. Luck. I choose to design for PlayBook because App World for PlayBook was (and still is) in its infancy. It would be easier to get your app noticed.
lotuslanderz Feb 13, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Alec Saunders just tweeted that it's been 6600 new developer registrations in 11 days.
That's pretty impressive!
Lucky45 Feb 13, 2012 at 8:55 pm
REAL app developer who makes QUALITY apps is more motivated by $$ they can make on the platform and not the offer of a free tablet...
bcuffy Feb 13, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I suppose we could start seeing 2.0 on valentines day. Blackberry love theme would make sense then.
johnizomi Feb 14, 2012 at 1:03 am
RIM ,,,if you not release the OS2 by this month i'll shot my head
rexrim Feb 14, 2012 at 1:41 am
Lolx..with this news..looka like rim will delay their os2.0 launching until march..-_-*
djgolu123 Feb 14, 2012 at 1:53 am
I notice a lot of articles online say this is only been extended for android developers. Can someone please confirm if this is extended for all new developers (not coming from android) as well?
world traveler and former ceo Feb 14, 2012 at 6:30 am
Great move on RIM's part .. developers can take some time to develop high quality apps and still be rewarded! .... Bring it on! ..
Sam.Shenton Feb 14, 2012 at 11:02 am
Does This Include Themes For Smartphones, Or Just Apps For Playbook. Cos I Can Make Pretty Good Themes.
TheWolf1965 Feb 16, 2012 at 2:05 pm
From BlackberryOS.com
PlayBook OS 2.0 Launching February 21st Officially Confirmed
Published on 02-16-2012 12:45 PM
BlackBerry News,
BlackBerry PlayBook
We have been waiting to hear an official date for OS 2.0 a really long time from BlackBerry or a RIM employee. Ever since the first whispers of a date were published, it's all been speculation. Today though we got some official RIM confirmation. At the Developing Native Games with the BlackBerry NDK 2.0 Webcast today, Angel Aldana, RIM Manager (Latin America Alliances), confirmed the official date of PlayBook's OS 2.0 launch to be... Tuesday, February 21st! Barring any setbacks, we will have a shiny new OS on our PlayBooks in about 5 days! This is awesome.
chrissmartin Feb 20, 2012 at 6:40 am
i signed up feb 07 and submitted 2 or 3 apps on feb 14.i ported my android apps.first time when is submitted it's min os was 1.0 for playbook.and when i read the guidline i saw it has to be min os 2.0.so again submitted 2nd release with min os 2.0.i think it was on deb 14 or 15 any way i am
waiting for reviewing.how many days does it take?
it's been over 4 or 5 days since i submitted?
anybody who submitted apps please tell the process and days taken?
anyone actually got any playbook by developing app?
and also,my first developing was done blackberry and these apps are my first.so waiting for a good response.
I signed up Feb 12 and got approved to vendor portal Feb 15. I hope deadline based on when signed up, not when approved. I submitted my app on Feb 17. It is a webworks app so works on all Playbook OS versions. My submission has 2 reviews or CR's "pending" when I check manager in vendor portal. They are:
- content approval request
- release approval request
I think it will be a while, since they have to go through so many apps and test them. I am not holding my breath. There are probably lots of apps (especially android ports) being checked for bad graphics/button draw placement, user input issues, and overall "broken" features. Also sure to have some apps with design problems or incomplete user-input checking to avoid overflows or calculation problems/errors.
It says "waiting on test house"... So app waiting to get tested I assume


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By Pedro Velazco
Tribune sportswriter
Northwestern boys basketball coach Jim Gish has seen the Purple Tigers graduate big classes and land on their feet the next season, but the challenge has never been quite as big as this season's.
In Gish's nine seasons, this much turnover is a first.
"We graduated nine seniors and all nine were such a crucial part of our team, really there are only two other guys that are returning that saw significant amounts of playing time," he said.
The Tigers posted an 18-3 overall record and 6-1 Mid-Indiana Conference record last season. Their graduation losses included point guard Kylan Dubbels, a KT All-Area player.
Much is still up in the air. The team still has to find out which players adjust fastest and demand minutes. Until they get their feet wet, the Tigers won't know how deep their rotation will be, or what they can bank on to be effective on the floor.
"It's going to take some time for them to understand the speed of the game at the varsity level, the physicality of the game, and then on top of that, figure out how we want to do things ourselves," Gish said.
He said the team has shown a good approach and work ethic in practice.
"One thing I'm confident with this group is they're going to play hard," he said. "I feel really good about that. They've been really keyed into doing the right things. They want to have success. They know they're put into a position now where they are the guy. The other thing is we've gut several guys that are competing for positions. We've got a lot of equality in the group. So every guy, every day knows this is my chance to make a case for why I need to see minutes at the varsity level."
The two main building blocks are 6-foot-3 senior guard/forward Trenton Brazel and 6-7 senior center Chase Johnson.
Brazel earned KT All-Area honors last season. He was the team's second-leading scorer at 14.5 points, pulled down a team-best 6.3 rebounds and added 1.9 assists. He's one of the more versatile players to suit up for the Tigers recently, showing the ability to score in the post, on rebounds, or take bigger defenders out high for drives or 3-pointers (hitting an area-best 43.9 percent from 3-land last season). Johnson averaged 10.2 points and 6.1 rebounds. An efficient player who takes up good positions in the paint, he shot a team-best 55.8 percent from the field.
"There's a lot of responsibility placed on them," Gish said of Brazel and Johnson. "I believe both boys are capable of handling the pressure of being a leader. Trenton is a die-hard gym rat, never leaves the gym. You can only be a leader if you demand more of yourself than you demand of your teammates. Trenton is the epitome of that. Initially, we're asking them to essentially be coaches. We want them to be our eyes and ears as coaches, but we also want them to be very vocal about explaining to the guys what needs to be done and the pace it needs to be done."
A third senior, 6-2 forward James Herrington, saw some time with the varsity last season, and three juniors also got in that mix: 6-2 forward Keagan Downey, 6-2 forward Graham Ortmann and 5-11 guard Logan Galbraith.
The newcomers include 5-10 junior guard Robert Olsen, 6-0 sophomore guard Jacob Wagner, 5-10 sophomore guard Blake Oakley, 6-3 sophomore forward Tyler Hudson, 5-9 sophomore guard Blaine Brutus and 6-2 junior forward Logan Macaluso.
The bulk of the team faces a steep learning curve.
"There's such a big jump from each level, whether it be from junior high to freshmen, or freshmen to JV, but without a doubt the biggest jump is to the varsity level," Gish said. "Most teams in the state of Indiana are going to put five guys on the floor who know how to play the game. You can't take a play off. You can't not know what your job is because it's going to cost the team."
Gish feels confident that the players will find their way.
"In my nine years as head coach, this is the first time I feel like we're really starting from the ground up," Gish said. "I feel like we have a lot to learn throughout the year but the thing I'm excited about with the group is I've seen nothing but the fact that they're up for the challenge."
Tigers' schedule:
JV games start at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Wednes. at Mad.-Grant
Saturday at Tri-Central +
Nov. 30 Western
Dec. 7 Taylor
Dec. 8 at Mississinewa
Dec. 14 at Maconaquah
Coca-Cola Old School Sectional at Kokomo
• Dec. 21 vs. Western
• Dec. 22 vs. TBD
Jan. 8 Frankfort
Jan. 18 at Cass
Jan. 22 at North Miami
Jan. 25 Carroll
Jan. 26 at Sheridan
Feb. 1 Tipton
Feb. 2 at S'wood, 6:15
Feb. 7 Peru
Feb. 12 Ham. Heights
Feb. 15 at Eastern
Feb. 16 at Twin Lakes
Feb. 19 Oak Hill
+ Girls-boys doubleheader, girls game starts at 6 p.m.


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Who Won the Debt Ceiling Standoff?
Who came out on top with the latest debt ceiling compromise?
The debt ceiling showdown may be coming to a close—at least for now—with President Obama's announcement of a new compromise deal Sunday night. America waits for it to be passed through Congress and braces for what could still be a credit downgrade for the United States, even with the deal. The compromise promises $1 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years already agreed upon by the two parties including $350 billion from the defense budget. In effect, the deal raises the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion, putting off the need for another increase until at least 2013. It also creates a super committee of Congress made up of six Democrats and six Republicans whose task will be to find another $1.5 trillion in cuts to be passed by Dec. 23.
The bill will no doubt become an important talking point in the 2012 election—and an assortment of GOP contenders have already begun to criticize the deal. Soon after the president announced the deal in the Sunday evening press conference, Vice President Biden congratulated him, tweeting: "I'm proud of the President. Persistence. Compromise makes a comeback.—VP." In his press conference, President Obama was more tempered in his assessment of the deal: "Now, is this the deal I would have preferred? No. I believe that we could have made the tough choices required—on entitlement reform and tax reform—right now, rather than through a special congressional committee process." [Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
The deal did grant Obama one of his demands: it guarantees that he will not face the prospect of another debt ceiling crisis until after the next election. Not only will this stipulation help him politically, it will also assure the nervous marketplace that the threat of a default will not be coming any time soon. The president however did not get the revenue increases he wanted, and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner told his caucus that they would not be on the table in super committee negotiations. However Democratic leaders insist that they may very well be. If the super committee cannot come up with a deal that can be passed by Dec. 23, a number of "triggers" are set that will cut $1.5 trillion directly from the budget—half of it from domestic spending, and the other from defense—starting in 2013.
With election season approaching, perhaps it is not a matter of who won the most with the compromise, but who lost the most—as nobody seems happy with it. Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did not throw her immediate support behind the bill: "I look forward to reviewing the legislation with my Caucus to see what level of support we can provide." On the right, Sen. John McCain, considered a more "mainstream" Republican, said he would vote for it, but it would be "hard to swallow." Farther to his right is the Tea Party; many Tea Party activists are disappointed that it does not include a constitutional amendment to limit spending as was proposed by the "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan. Even if the Tea Party isn't supporting the deal, many are criticizing Obama for letting them "take America hostage" and drag the so-called compromise farther to the right than any Democrat would like. The Tea Party may have even harmed its own parent party—the GOP, especially with its continued refusal to support Boehner's plans (both this one, and the one he presented to the House Thursday night). Argues Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, "In the long term, I think the Republicans have done terrible damage to their brand. Because now they're thoroughly defined by their most strident voices." So though the bill might be a loss for the Tea Party in terms of its policy, the standoff itself could be a win in the political clout the Tea Party has proven to carry within the GOP. [See a collection of political cartoons on the Tea Party.]
We want to know what you think. Who came out on top with the debt deal? Obama, in that he would not face a debt ceiling crisis again before the 2012 election? The GOP, in making Obama cave in on revenue increases? Or the Tea Party, in bringing the terms even farther to the right than even many Republicans comfortable with and in continuing to stall the process? Take the poll and post your thoughts below.


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As an undergraduate, I attended the University of South Carolina. During the summer between my senior year of high school and my freshman year of college, we were assigned to read Persepolis, a fantastic graphic novel that is both a coming of age story as well as a first hand response to the changes in Iran. I actually read it before I was assigned to read it, and I definitely recommend it. I was excited to read it again in anticipation of college.
Many universities have Freshman Year Reading Experience (FYRE) books as part of their curriculum for University 101 or similar introduction to college courses (I was a Peer Leader and co-taught a U101 course during my senior year). They generally choose a book that talks about life changes or highlights diversity. Generally, the books they choose (at least at USC) are great. They're also, as Persepolis is, no stranger to controversy and the possibility of being 'banned' in classrooms.
This year, College of Charleston freshmen have been assigned Fun Home by Allison Bechdel (best known for the Bechdel Test, but also a cartoonist). Fun Home is a graphic novel where Bechdel describes her childhood with a closeted gay father, who was an English teacher and owner of a funeral home; the trial he faced over his dealings with young boys; his possible suicide; and her own coming out as a lesbian. Palmetto Family, a Focus of the Family affiliate, is also considering 'taking action' because of how 'controversial' it is for innocent, naive, young freshmen in college.
Oran Smith, president and chief operating officer of Palmetto Family, said he has "a strong concern" about the book. "I found it very close to pornography," he said, "way over the top."
After emailing 10000 supporters, they are waiting for a response before 'taking action', saying they're not sure yet what action the group might take. "We don't think this book should be banned in America," he said. "We don't think it should be burned. It's just not appropriate for college freshmen."
It strikes me as strange that Mr. Smith deems this an inappropriate for college freshmen. A majority of these students are 18 and many more will be turning 18 over the course of the next year. They are, legally, adults and should theoretically begin making their own decisions and getting out into the world. It also highly likely that at least some of these students' peers are LGBT. Is this book inappropriate for them?
Oran Smith also questioned whether a public university should be purchasing this book and paying for a visit by the author with state money. I will say that most universities that employ FYRE do this. Considering it comes out of the students tuition and they will be directly benefitting from it, I see no problem with this. We have Carolina Productions on campus that brings many speakers each year, often at an excess of $30000. Does he have a problem with this as well? (Probably, especially if he doesn't agree with the speakers)
Bechdel says that her book has been assigned to many college students before, previously without complaint. Pornography is meant to cause sexual arousal in readers, she said, which is clearly not the intent of her book. It drags to light family secrets, which all families have, and freshmen are at an age where they begin to realize these secrets and are figuring out how to react to them. Ultimately this book is appropriate for freshmen because it deals with questions of identity, including, "Who am I and how do I fit in?"
To the College of Charleston's credit, they aren't planning on changing the book selection. Associate Provost Lynne Ford said the book was selected by a committee made up of faculty members, administrators, staff and students. The group solicits recommendations for books from the campus community and the public. "The book," she said, "will help students to learn that they are not unique. Our experience is shared by millions."
With the Palmetto Family group's outrage and threat to potentially take action, it seems all they have managed to do was add this book to my hold list at the library.


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Burglar's failure caught on camera
HOUSTON — A surveillance camera recorded footage of a burglar as he tried to steal a television from a carwash lobby, KHOU reported.
The April 1 story stated that the man broke into the lobby of the multi-profit carwash and oil change center, Dr. Gleem. Police are now looking for the failed burglar and trying to identify the man from the camera footage.
The surveillance video shows the man struggling to remove the TV from the wall, but he ended up leaving empty handed. "He is in and out in less than two minutes," Owner Kevin Jenkins said in the story. "It's hilarious and it's sad at the same time. We are praying for him."
Stereos stolen from detail shop
The attempted thief ended up causing about $500 worth of damage. Jenkins noted that last June another man broke into the carwash and tried to steal a safe. At another Dr. Gleem location, the carwash was burned down to the ground.
Even so, Jenkins hopes the suspect will turn his life around in the future. "I hope I see this guy in heaven one day. I really do," Jenkins said in the story.
Read the entire article here.


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Lyra is lovely. I love Lyra Violet. I think I like Lyra Iris better than Lyra Isis. Here are some others you may like.
Lyra Gabrielle
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Lyra ScarlettMommy to Carter James born 09.03.2013
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August 6th, 2013 02:25 PM #7Michelle
I'm an Italian teenberry!
I have synesthesia.
Apologies for any grammar/spelling mistakes. I try my best.
Also, I'm bad at naming boys. You'll almost never find me discussing boy names.
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ALEXANDRIA, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology relied on a balanced team performance to place 19th of
37 teams at the NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Regional
hosted by Anderson University on Saturday.
Sophomore Josh Hojnacki (La Porte) led the
Fightin' Engineer performance with a 94th place finish out of 256
runners in a time of 26:55. Freshman Kevin Mauser
(Pittsburgh, Pa./Shaler) came home second among
Rose-Hulman runners and 101st overall with a time of 26:57.
Freshman Jacob Becker (O'Fallon, Ill.) added a
107th place with a time of 26:57. Junior Andrew
Thompson (Mundelein, Ill./Vernon Hills) came home 110th
overall in 27:09.
Other Rose-Hulman runners included sophomore Stuart West
(La Porte) with a time of 27:18; sophomore
Kyle Smolarek (Macomb, Mich./L'Anse Creuse North)
with a 27:18; and junior Robbie Mayhew (Terre
Haute) with a 27:23.
Rose-Hulman will host the NCAA Division III Cross Country
National Championships on Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Course.


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Just purchased some LSI 15 from George Daniels. Great guy by the way!
Thinking about using them in a home theater room for both 2 channel listening and 5.1 surround. Was going to pick up a basic Denon AV with preouts and run the LSI off the amp. I'm looking at solid state McIntosh amps in the 100-200 watt range. Others have done similar sets ups as I have read.
I am hoping to not spend a ton of money, I also don't want to buy the Denon and be disapointed only to upgrade in short order. Any thoughts?
I am probably looking at $700 to $1000 on the amp and $350 on the Denon.
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Going Inside
Abigail always wants to go inside. No matter where we are, she always asks to go inside. The only problem with this is that she almost never wants to go inside. Passing through any door is "going inside."
"Fiendish!" I said in Abigail's vicinity, regarding something I don't recall.
"Fiendish!" Abigail repeated, grinning between mouthfuls of waffle.
Her grasp of language is tremendous; she'll pick up and repeat pretty much any word you say – or even ones she hears on TV.
"Auf Wiedersehen," Abigail said with a wave to a German relative, after hearing the term for the first time.
Since she's tremendously observant and a quick study.
"That's a forehead," Abigail said, definitively, pointing to the bald spot at the back of my Dad's head.
She can take the words she knows and apply them to related, real world situations. For example, that forehead is not where you might expect it to be, and yet, clearly, it is a forehead. She also would call a spade a spade, but since I've never said "spade" in front of her, she would probably call it a shovel.
"Daddy's naked," Abigail announced. I had just removed my socks. Upon review, I determined that my shorts and t-shirt were still on.
She doesn't waste an opportunity to express her broad-minded views on nudity, either her own or that of others. She's quick excepting of any form of nakedness. But, just like your typical fundamentalist, she has some trouble understanding its definition.
"You had a good day at Target," I told her, watching her play with her new Thomas the Train set.
"I had a good day at Carget."
I have an abusive relationship with China Mieville. He batters me. He overwrites to a tremendous degree, knocking me over with a clenched fist full of two dollar words. After I'm finished looking those up, he kicks me in the gut with an intentionally obtuse description of a totally alien structure, making sure I'm just not smart enough to get it, that I'm just not good enough to understand the barely conveyed cityscape that only one who lived there could truly comprehend.
But I keep coming back, because somehow, it's just too good to pass up. Somehow the showy writing style makes his writing better, the unrelenting darkness of his world makes them more compelling. But more than that, I know of no one that has built a world the way that China Mieville did in Perdido Street Station. Now he's back with the BFSA nominated The City and The City and, even though I hoped he'd be different this time, from page one, he was back to his old tricks.
I'm not far enough along to give an accurate review, but he has a way of both pulling me into a world and putting me off at the same time that I find incredibly compelling. I'll let you know how things go as I read. I really think I might be able to change him this time.
Musketeers Down
I have completed the Three Musketeers. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in reading something actually interesting.
This has kept me from doing some of the reviews I'd discussed a while back. This will change. I know most of you have been waiting with baited breath for me to tell you all about my feelings on the BFSA Award nominees. I will now have time to do so!
Lazy Post Day!
Instead of offering you any original content, I will do what internet denizens do and offer you found content!
Abbey Dove
"Abbey has a battle wound," Jessica said, still sleepy in the early morning darkness.
After a contemplative pause, Abigail replied, "Balla woo."
"That's right, a battle wound," I chipped in from my side of the bed.
"Battle wound!" It often takes Abigail a try or two.
Our little angel has a swollen, black bruise on her forehead, which she acquired by diving headfirst off the jungle gym at the park. Only last week, I was discussing with my mother (that's grandma, to you) that all these play structures are covered with openings just waiting for a tiny person to step out into empty space. In the case of this particular fall, it was about four and a half feet of empty space, headfirst, onto a chain link climbing net. In the words of our nanny, Kate, she "just dove!" To which Abigail gleefully responded, "Abbey just dove!"
This is one of the ways you can tell she didn't have a concussion.
Kate was frazzled, and felt very bad, but Jessica and I were both very pleased that she was the one there. She immediately applied ice to her head and called Jessica. She spent the next hour checking her eyes and delaying her nap to make sure all was okay. In fact, as long as Abigail was fine, I frankly prefer not being there. I mean, I don't want the trauma of watching my daughter fall on her head from a great height. Best leave that to the professionals.
I was feeling a little anxious about what I'd see when I got home, but when I drove up to the house, I was greeted with a smiling, waving little girl who didn't appear to have any head wounds at all. In fact, the only time she has complained about her head at all was when I took her shirt off before her bath last night. And she often complains about her head when her shirt comes off. Those ears have a tendency to catch.
We'll chalk this up to a lesson learned, without any real damage done. In other words, the best kind of lesson.
It was so ohb-viohs!
It's funny how when you finally get an idea of how to proceed with a character, it doesn't seem like that big of a block after all. I mean, of course that's what happens. I can see a way forward for Cassie now. Of course, I also need to write it.
I don't have too much more to say about Cassie today. Instead, I was thinking about the title I gave this post. It's interesting that the first point of reference I go to when I have such a revelation is Captain Gloval from Robotech. (For those interested, here is a link that helps explain the title of this post. Be warned, you will have an ad before the video will play. And then you will have to stop it after about a second or two, unless you want to watch the entire episode. And I don't blame you if you do. I now have to move back to the post proper, since this parenthetical is now longer than the post itself so far.)
People who did not experience a lot of mid-80s children's television may not appreciate how much Robotech changed everything. Coming on the heels of the commercial onslaught of GI Joe and Transformers and Go Bots and all their ilk, Robotech was a refreshing change from the – for lack of a better term – political correctness of those shows. I'm not sure why it became the norm that children couldn't handle consequences, but there was a total lack of cause and effect in those shows. (GI Joe – Plane's exploding? Everyone has a parachute! Transformers – Falling half a mile? The other car caught you on it's roof, therefore you're fine! Go Bots – Um. Okay, nobody really watched Go Bots.) Perhaps the worst part, there was nothing like a narrative flow to the shows. At the end of every episode, not only was everyone fine, but everything was back to normal. The bad guys were still unalterably bad, the good guys were still irreproachably good and both parties were hidden away in their apparently unfindable, yet shiny and obvious secret fortresses.
Robotech changed all of that. I remember bringing up Robotech with a group of students in college. We were all in the same writing class and the professor was running late. By chance most of us were men of about the same age, which also happened to correspond to the Robotech target audience. Each person that arrived at the table raved about the show. I recall one person walking up and asking what we were talking about and hearing him say, "You mean the first show not to insult kid's intelligence."
Robotech was a badly-dubbed, multi-generational, mind-bendingly complicated, very badly dubbed, Americanized version of a beloved Japanese Anime. It's epic storyline and tremendously fast-paced action pulled me in, but the surprisingly complex characters and subplots kept me glued. Just the fact that they showed the consequences of war was a stunner. The ship is full of refugees and they aren't just background; their needs for food, their frustrations and their political strife become a key part of the plot. Several main characters are killed and entire episodes are spent dealing with the consequences. The alien enemies start in the unalterably bad archetype and then – unbelievable to my 12 year old mine – they became something more complex, more nuanced. They are tasked with protecting the Earth and – even though they win the fight – they don't succeed.
Some people might say this is just an example of Japanese animation and that's why it's become such a dominant force these days. I would agree with them. But it was also the first time for me that I realized that stories could be something more than adventures. Robotech was one of those seminal moments in my life, when something clicked. I wanted to see more things like this, and didn't have much time for the old drivel any longer. Robotech also changed the stories I made in my head and for that, I am very thankful.
I should probably also point out that it was my brother, Andy, who first spotted this show. He was home sick and was raving about this new show he'd seen to me when I got home. Turns out, he also has an eye for the good stuff.
You can watch the entire Macross Saga on YouTube these days. I would love to say that you can watch it and have the same experience I did. Heck, even I can barely get past the bad dubbing these days. And the pop songs. Oh, the songs. It was a conjunction of events that made Robotech so important in my life. It was the timing as much as the show itself. Looked at critically, I think it still holds up, but I think it's tough to enjoy right off the bat as an adult.
Quotes Worth Quoting
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
- W.H. Auden
Small Worlds
This game won the Casual Gameplay Design Competition over at jisgames.com. If you hate productivity, but like innovative time wasters, then this is the site for you.
I can't recommend Small Worlds enough. At first, it may look like an old Atari game, but without the awesome graphics. Give it a moment to win you over. You don't need to know anything about games or solve any puzzles to enjoy this one.
Pondering Cassie
I've spent a lot of time thinking about Cassie today. She's the kind of girl who stays on your mind. Well, she's the kind of girl who stays on my mind. Being a fictional character I invented, there are really no other minds for her to stay on.
I'm a little over halfway through this novel, and I'm not sure where Cassie should go next. I get the feeling betrayal should be involved though. That's always a nice mid-novel concept.
For those who are unaware – and thus far, only one person has actually read what I've written – Cassie has some troubles. She lives in a future that doesn't offer too many advantages to a girl without means. She has been brought into a criminal gang and taught how to kill, with the aid of a series of implants that have been surgically added throughout her body. While this might seem like good steady work, her addiction issues have cost her a lot and she hasn't always made the right choices.
I'll come back from time to time to discuss what is going on with Cassie. Including whether I ever get far past 25,000 words.
Sing a Song
Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. Stomp.
Jessica and I sometimes have to pay close attention to understand what Abigail is singing, if we ever actually do pick up the words. But the girl certainly knows how to put on a show.
Flailing hands. Flailing hands.
Actually, she's got a few songs down. For example, she can sing the entirety of Ring Around the Rosey.
Spin, stomp, flail. Spin, stomp, flail.
It's not all at what you'd call the right speed, and if you don't prompt her for the next line, you get an endless series of "Ashes," but it's a whole song and she can sing it. She is also pretty good at falling down, which is a key part of that song.
Jump, laugh, jump, laugh.
She has also been known to grab her stuffed Halloween cat and shake it up and down singing, "Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!" I think that forms a nice juxtaposition.
Arms up, big finish.
We're still working on "Evita." She keeps coming in too early and then starts crying for Argentina instead of the other way around.


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Many commentors on a Patch article about parking at the Brentwood Promenade said it's crowded, with a few blaming the width of the aisles.
Previously Patch measured the stalls (individual parking spots), so it seemed appropriate to go back and measure the aisles.
Do the aisles at the Promenade meet Brentwood's code? In a word, yes.
The code says aisles should be 23 feet wide. Of the 15 aisles measured at the Promenade, which is almost all of them, one came up short at 22 1/2 feet wide, and the rest were 23 feet or a few inches wider.
So the stall widths, at 9 feet wide, and the aisles, at 23, both meet Brentwood's code.
For comparisson, Walmart, in Maplewood, has stalls that are close to 9 1/2 feet wide, and the aisles are 25 feet wide. So Walmart's stalls are slightly wider and the aisles are 2 feet wider.
Maplewood's code doesn't specify an aisle width in feet. It only states an aisle should be "of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of access to a street or public service drive."
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For many of us, the arrival of summer means a shift in emphasis: from the academic year to summer session, from the classroom to research, from work to vacation. I hope that you are finding time to enjoy the season!
Congratulations to Kevin Grimmer, our director of athletics and recreation, his staff, and our student-athletes for winning the NEAC President's Cup, given to the best overall program in the conference, for the third year in a row.
As many of you know, I am spending part of my summer beginning the implementation of a realigned administrative structure that will enable greater shared services between SUNYIT and Morrisville State College. This was detailed in a memo to both campus communities on May 23, and a joint meeting of the two shared services committee was held on May 31 to continue the process. As we work toward the goal of reducing administrative costs and applying the savings in instructional areas, we have the full support of SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and her team. All involved in this effort at both campuses deserve a vote of thanks, as institutional change doesn't come easily.
In recent weeks, as the semester concluded, we saw a flurry of activity on campus—events honoring academic and athletic achievements, a great celebration of our new graduates at commencement, and a nanotechnology forum that explored a bright future for SUNYIT and the Mohawk Valley. Now, with summer courses ongoing and our summerITeens day camps coming up, it promises to be a lively time on campus. Wherever your plans take you for the next few months, enjoy—and we'll all start the new academic year refreshed and ready for its new challenges and opportunities.
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The last few years for the everybodyfields seemed productive enough—the band relocated from Johnson City to Knoxville, the 2007 album Nothing Is Okay slowly earned them recognition from national media outlets like NPR, and they were in the studio last spring and summer working on a new album. They had survived the break-up of singer/songwriters Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews, who had been romantically involved when the band started; much of Nothing Is Okay, in fact, was written after the break-up, when the future of the band was in doubt. It seemed like the hardest days were behind them.
Then, in the summer of 2009, the everybodyfields announced that they were breaking up. It seemed abrupt, even though Andrews and Quinn had both been working on solo projects. But in retrospect maybe the title of their last completed album together was a not-so-subtle hint.
"Jill and I dated for five years," Quinn says. "Right after our first record we broke up, and the band stayed together another five years. There was a lot of stuff going on. Some of the pieces of the puzzle weren't very fun. Jill wanted to do something different, and I wasn't all that happy myself. It wasn't so much because she got married and had a kid. She was just tired of playing stinky little beer halls."
Andrews quickly regrouped; her self-titled solo EP was released last fall. Quinn's taken a more circuitous route to his new album, the fake that sunk a thousand ships, out this week on the everybodyfields' old label, Ramseur Records.
"I've been biding my time, waiting to see if I wanted to do this or go back to school and chase that dream of being an English professor I've always had," he says. "I played about 25 shows last year, which is majorly scaled back from years prior. I just thought I'd take a breather and then get a head start on something else."
On the fake that sunk a thousand ships, recorded in South Knoxville last fall and winter, Quinn is backed by the Japan Ten (Josh Oliver, Megan Gregory, and Brandon Story), a band he's been working with since before the everybodyfields ended. It's a dark, desperate, depressing record, fitting for the circumstances. Quinn's songs, a handful of which date back to the everybodyfields' never-finished last album, recall Whiskeytown—moody, elegant, deliberately paced, with hints of '70s folk. The arrangements are full but spacious, with fiddle, piano, and steel guitar, as well as exquisite but understated harmony vocals. The title is Quinn's idea of a grim joke, playing on the album's downbeat tone. (Capitalization doesn't seem to be a priority for him.)
"I thought I'd get a good laugh," he says. "I made this kind of ridiculous downer of a record and figured it deserved nothing less than a melodramatic title. 'Let's put a whale on the front!' Okay, I'm down with that."
The months off may have interrupted the momentum of Quinn's career, but the late recognition of the everybodyfields has given him some traction to support the new band and new album. He's got the support of a label (Ramseur released the Avett Brothers' breakthrough album Emotionalism), a big-name publicist, and, most of all, experience.
"One of the good things is having my background," he says. "It's been a lot easier to have that in my back pocket. It's meant some feet in doors. I've been doing a lot of leg work—getting a new van, playing with new folks, lining up tours, changing booking agents, stuff that's not really much fun at all. That's mostly behind me now, and I can start reaping the benefits of this lucrative career playing depressing tunes for people."
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MARJORIE LIÉNARD, Evolution of mate signalling in moths – biosynthetic gene families and diversification of female sex pheromones. Sept 30, 2010.
MARIA STRANDH, Pheromones, genes & transcriptomes. A molecular analysis of moth sex pheromone production. Nov 30, 2007.
SEVERINE JANSEN, Structure and function of odorant binding proteins and chemosensory proteins in moths. March 6, 2007.
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Help with Designing or Debugging CORBA Applications
What follows now is an example of using our new plugin to monitor some CORBA GIOP/IIOP traffic generated by JacORB and its examples. I assume you can run these examples already (i.e., already compiled and set Java's CLASSPATH etc correctly).
In a new xterm, start the JacORB nameserver:
ns public_html/NS_Ref & [2] 1850 JacORB V 1.3.30, www.jacorb.org (C) Gerald Brose, FU Berlin, 13 June 2001 [ POA RootPOA - ready ] [ POA NameServer-POA - ready ]
Next, start server for demo.grid example:
jaco demo.grid.Server & [3] 1890 JacORB V 1.3.30, www.jacorb.org (C) Gerald Brose, FU Berlin, 13 June 2001 [ POA RootPOA - ready ] [ New connection to 127.0.0.1:1295 ] [ Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1298 ] [ Bound name: grid.example ]
The Ethereal Capture Summary window will show what type of traffic is being captured (e.g., UDP, TCP).
Run demo.grid client, as shown here:
[frank@cray frank]$ jaco demo.grid.Client JacORB V 1.3.30, www.jacorb.org (C) Gerald Brose, FU Berlin, 13 June 2001 [ New connection to 127.0.0.1:1295 ] [ Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1327 ] [ New connection to 127.0.0.1:1307 ] [ Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1328 ] [ New connection to 127.0.0.1:1307 ] [ Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:1329 ] Height = 31 Width = 14 Old value at (30,13): 0.21 Setting (30,13) to 470.11 New value at (30,13): 470.11 MyException, reason: This is only a test exception, no harm done :-) [ Closing connection to 127.0.0.1:1307 ] [ Closing connection to 127.0.0.1:1295 ] done. [ Closing connection to 127.0.0.1:1327 ] [frank@cray frank]$ [ Closing connection to 127.0.0.1:1329 ]
Now, stop data collection in Ethereal. Press the stop button on the Capture window. Notice that you should have seen some traffic by now.
Back in the main Ethereal GUI you should see three window panes, as shown in Figure 4. The top pane is a summary of traffic, showing Frame number, Time, Source and Destination, then Protocol and Info fields. The middle pane will contain a tree-like structure with all the layers of protocols. When you click on a packet in the top pane, its structure should be shown graphically in the middle pane. The lower pane provides a raw hex dump and highlights which octet(s) are related to whichever field you click on in the middle pane. This is a great feature. To the right of the hex dump you will see an ASCII dump for whichever characters are printable.
You may have quite a bit of traffic, only some of which is GIOP. In order to select only GIOP traffic, we can apply a Display Filter.
In the bottom left-hand corner type giop in the Filter entry box (see Figure 4), and press Enter on the keyboard. You should be looking at GIOP/IIOP traffic only.
Now it's time to see in more detail what type of data is present in the GIOP/IIOP traffic and to see the relationship between IDL definitions and how it is marshaled via CDR Transfer Syntax rules onto TCP/IP.
Let's take a look at IDL file that represents the demo.grid example. It should look something like this:
1 // grid.idl 2 // IDL definition of a 2-D grid: 3 4 module demo 5 { 6 module grid 7 { 8 interface MyServer 9 { 10 typedef fixed <5,2> fixedT; 11 12 readonly attribute short height; 13 readonly attribute short width; 14 15 16 void set(in short n, in short m, \ in fixedT value); 17 18 // return element [n,m] of the grid: 19 fixedT get(in short n, in short m); 20 21 exception MyException 22 { 23 string why; 24 }; 25 26 short opWithException() \ raises( MyException ); 27 28 }; 29 }; 30 };
Let's quickly step through and make sure we understand it. Interface demo/grid/Myserver contains two attributes, "height" and "width"; and it contains three operations, set(..), get(..) and opWithException(..). Exception MyException contains one member, "why", which is a string.
We also see a typedef at line 10 that uses a "fixed" type. This means that, for example, the "in" parameter called "value" in line 16 could be a value like 123.45 or -987.65, i.e., five digits with two digits after the decimal point.
Now, let's take a look at some of these and see how they look on the wire.
Example one: remember this operation definition from line 19:
fixedT get(in short n, in short m);
If you look at Figure 4 you can see both of the "in" parameters, i.e., parameters "n" and "m" are of type "short", so each is two octets in length. The "n" parameter has value of 30, and if you look at the hex dump in the bottom pane you can see "00 1e", which is the hex value for 30.
Example two: using the same operation definition from example one, let's look at the return value for this operation. It is of type fixedT, which is a typedef of a fixed type. You can see the return value in Figure 5. It occupies three octets, in this case 47 01 1c. These three octets map onto a value of +470.11, which is shown highlighted in the middle pane.
Example three: if you remember the operation definition for opWithException(), you see that it can raise an exception. According to the IDL, this exception MyException contains one member, a string.
In Figure 6, you can see a GIOP reply message that contains this exception: a string, of length 48, with the text This is only a test exception, no harm done :-).
Example four: although from a different capture, I have included an example of an operation decoded according to a plugin generated from CosNaming.IDL (see Figure 7). Here you can see an IOR and its structure. IORs can be much larger than this.
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Church Autonomy and Criminal Law
One does not often see the intersection of church autonomy doctrine and criminal law, but that marriage occurs in a recent New York case, People v. Afrika Owes (the decision, maybe behind a pay-wall, here) in which the Abyssinian Baptist Church wanted to put up a $50,000 bond for a defendant charged with conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon. New York has enacted the "Religious Corporations Law," which governs a religious corporation's "temporal affairs" but not its "ecclesiastical affairs," and whose primary purpose is "to provide for an orderly method for the administration of the property and temporalities dedicated to the use of religious groups, and to preserve them from exploitation by those who might divert them from the true beneficiaries of the corporate trust."
The court here held that the posting of bond in a criminal case was a "temporal affair" and therefore subject to the RCL. Because it was within the ken of the RCL, the statute specifies that the trustees may use corporate property "for some religious, charitable, benevolent or educational object conducted by said corporation or in connection with it" but only "providing the members of the corporation at a meeting thereof shall so authorize" the use. And here, the trustees had not obtained authorization from the governing authority, the congregation -- "[i]n a Baptist church, the congregation is the ultimate governing authority[.]" The trustees violated their fiduciary obligations to administer the temporal affairs of the church by posting the bond without consulting the congregation and obtaining its consent.
From the court's concluding paragraph:
In continuing to disapprove this bail bond, this court is not substituting its judgment for that of the Church about how the Church uses its money. The Religious Corporations Law regulates the use of church property to ensure its use for the support and maintenance of the Church. Church property may be used for other purposes but only if the congregation, the ultimate governing body of a congregational church, authorizes the use of church property for some other purpose at a duly convened corporate meeting. This legally required process ensures that the trustees are, in fact, acting consistently with the wishes of the membership when expending church funds for a purpose other than the support and maintenance of the Church.
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