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|Good - 92 reviews
Hotel is Located in the Heart of Southwestern Virginia. Travelers looking for lodging in Norton, VA can enjoy a comfortable stay at the Holiday Inn hotel in Norton VA, located just off Highway 23 and surrounded by the scenic Appalachian Mountains. Our accommodations in Norton, VA are perfectly suited for families with our ideal location near area attractions...
Overall Rating - Good - 92 reviews
Poor 1.0
Hotel is within 40 feet of major intersection and roadway used by heavy trucks. Road noise was horrible!!! Some trucks actually made floors shake. Will never use this hotel again!Worst hotel I have ever stayed in!
Excellent 10.0
Pet friendly, the courteous people at the desk, the friendly house-keeping crew, the comfort & cleanliness of the room.It deserves the three stars. I was surprised to find a really nice hotel of this size in a small town. And pet-friendly to boot, that was a big factor in my appreciation for Holiday Inn-Norton.
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Choose this charming Wise, Virginia hotel offering an array of amenities and convenient access to key area attractions. Welcome to the BEST WESTERN of Wise, situated near the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, where guests will experience the best in customer service and accommodations. This Wise hotel offers 60 well-appointed guest rooms and s...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 16 reviews
|Good - 32 reviews
Located in Hazard, Americas Best Value Inn is in a rural location, minutes from Hazard Village Shopping Center, and close to Perry Park. This motel is within the vicinity of Bobby Davis Museum and Hazard Country Club. Make yourself at home in one of the 60 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you con...
Overall Rating - Good - 32 reviews
Okay 5.0
It was clean, and the breakfast was good.
I accidentally booked the handicap room - the shower was weird. But that was my fault for not looking at what I was booking. I didn't ask to change rooms.It was better than I expected. I would stay there again, if I needed a quick place to lay my head.
Poor 2.0
there was bugs in our room on the wall and the air kept freezing up
|Good - 73 reviews
Welcome to the newly renovated interior and exterior Super 8 of Hazard, KY, where we pride ourselves as the cleanest and friendliest lodging facilities in Hazard, KY. We are located near great attractions: Mammoth Onyx Cave, Buckhorn Lake State Park, and Carr Creek Lake. We are conveniently located in walking distance to restaurants and shopping centers. O...
Overall Rating - Good - 73 reviews
Good 7.0
Breakfast very limited carpet dirtyNeeds sime updating
Good 7.0
It was in Hazard. It was about half as expensive as the neighboring motels. The staff were agreeable.
The lobby was clean, but it had that cheap motel smell. We were in a non-smoking room, but it was plain that someone had been smoking in it recently enough to leave a smell.It was kind of hard to figure out how to get to it from the highway. The first night we were there, all of the security lights in the parking lot were out. They were back by the second night.
|Excellent - 21 reviews
your getaway in the great outdoors.. welcome to the Hampton Inn & Suites Hazard. There's just something about being in the great outdoors: The air smells cleaner, the mornings seem fresher and the birds sing louder at the Hampton Inn & Suites® hotel in Hazard. You'll love your time in the mountains of Kentucky. Known as the "Queen City of the Mountains," Haz...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 21 reviews
|Good - 13 reviews
Welcome to Super 8 Norton. Located in the southwestern portion of Virginia in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Wise County has been blessed with scenic, recreational, and historic attractions. The powell Valley Overlook provides a breathtaking view of a rare geological formation. Visit the Flag Rock Recreation Area over-looking Norton and the observat...
Overall Rating - Good - 13 reviews
Good 7.0
The hotel says free breakfast but all they offer is coffee. Have stayed here before and it was the same thing.
Poor 1.0
Dump...dirty...smelled like cigarettes. Police sitting in parking lot, front desk didn't even know, gave me a lame excuse. Felt extremely unsafe!
EVERYTHING----disgusting. Unsafe!
|Excellent - 23 reviews
Visit the beautiful mountains of Eastern Kentucky at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Hazard, Kentucky. We are conveniently located off highway 80 at 192 Corporate Drive, Hazard, Kentucky. With warm, welcoming hospitality and service we are second to none. We are located within walking distance to dining and shopping. Also, located just minutes from our ho...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 23 reviews
Good 8.0
Clean. Spacious. Very co.for table bed. Quiet. I often toss and turn in hotels dye to noise but this hotel was quiet. Nice bathroom with plenty of counter space. Breakfast was not great but adequate.It looked as if it had been remodeled recently. Large shower head with good water pressure. Firm mattress. Air conditioner kept us cool in the humid 80+ temps outside.
Poor 1.0
No non-smoking rooms 2nd floor closed due to unruly customer Staff not knowledgeable
|Okay - 19 reviews
The Quality Inn is located in a mountainous region of southwestern Virginia, just minutes from Big Stone Gap. The surrounding area is abundant with natural resources, offering many opportunities for outdoor recreation such as hiking, biking, fishing, canoeing, kayaking and more. Naturalists will love our beautiful scenery for bird and wild life watching, an...
Overall Rating - Okay - 19 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The restaurant and the night club located in the building
Okay 5.0
staff was courteous and was willing to give us a late checkout
had to change rooms after check in. pool was open but desperately needed to be cleaned, had algae growing. tried to clean pool myself but nowhere to hook the vacuum.needs to seriously be upgraded/cleaned
|Good - 3 reviews
The Quality Inn hotel in Hazard, Kentucky is located close to shopping and area attractions. The hotel offers an outdoor pool, fitness center, large banquet rooms and a conference room. Guests will enjoy the free breakfast and free high-speed Internet access
Overall Rating - Good - 3 reviews
Good 7.0
Location is accessible to everything in Hazard.
Outside room access. WIFI was not working.I thought it was a bit pricey for the quality of the room.
Okay 6.0
newly remodeledVery clean and new. No problems during our stay. The staff was polite and helpful.
|Excellent - 2 reviews
The Sleep Inn and Suites hotel in Clintwood, Virginia is near Birch Knob Tower, Ralph Stanley Museum and Dickinson Community Hospital. Hotel amenities include free continental breakfast, a fitness room, business center and guest laundry. All guest rooms feature 32-inch flat-screen televisions with premium cable service, free wired and wireless high-speed Int...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 2 reviews
Excellent 10.0
the town it is located in. too far from nowherethe hotel was excellent
Excellent 9.0
This hotel was clean and quiet. Extremely comfortable bed and fantastic breakfast.
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The Comfort Inn offers free wireless Internet access in all rooms and public areas and a free deluxe continental breakfast with gravy and biscuits and hot waffles. A FedEx Drop Box is located on the property. The property is in the Jefferson National Forest, five minutes from the Trail of the Lonesome Pine State Outdoor Drama. The June Tolliver House and Fol...
|Good - 15 reviews
Our hotel is comfortably nestled in the mountains of the Appalachian Mountain Range in SW Virginia. Whether it is business or pleasure, Days Inn - Norton is your home away from home when visiting the Southwest Virginia Region. Free Deluxe Continental Breakfast with freshly made waffles Free Local Calls DirecTV plus HBO Fitness Center on site Business Cent...
Overall Rating - Good - 15 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Front desk staff were very welcoming and helpful. Room clean and comfortable. Quiet location.
Mediocre 4.0
Location and house keeping staff not very friendly
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The Quiltmaker Inn was born out of a love for Appalachia, it's beauty, people and culture. You will find all of our rooms are named after well known Mountain folks that make our heritage strong and rich. Take a step back in time and spend a night with us. Affordable, clean rooms, a folk atmosphere and the nature of Knott County at your door step makes us the...


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Athenaeum reception heralds the exhibits of two Mexican artists
These origami birds are a creation of Andres Blanco.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla hosted an opening reception on Feb. 18 for two exhibits — a retrospective of mixed-media works spanning four decades by renowned Mexican poet and artist Alberto Blanco (who celebrated his 60th birthday at the event with friends and family) and an interactive photo-assemblage by Tijuana-born commuter student Omar Pimienta. The exhibits are open to free, public viewing from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday; to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through March 26. ljathenaeum.org
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From the writer of the hit film and international bestselling book The Corporation comes a shocking venture behind the scenes of the widespread manipulation of children by profit-seeking corporations—and of society's failure to protect them.
Childhood Under Siege reveals big business's discovery of a new resource to be mined for profit—our children. A journey through a world of unabashed exploitation, clued-out parents, and governments that look the other way, it tells the chilling and at times darkly humorous story of business's plans to turn kids into obsessive and narcissistic mini-consumers, media addicts, cheap and pliable workers, and chemical industry guinea pigs. Not to mention pharmaceutical pill poppers—psychotropic drug consumption by children has increased fivefold since 1980.
It's a winner-takes-all battle for children's hearts, minds and bodies as corporations pump billions into rendering parents and governments powerless to protect children from their calculated commercial assault and its disturbing toll on their health and well-being.
I remember vividly one hot summer night in the early 1970s. I had escaped the cramped and humid hell of a Catskills bungalow (my extended family had met there for a "vacation"), and made my way to the Teen Glow Ball Disco at the big hotel down the road. Girls, a mystery to me (I was thirteen at the time), had become intriguing over the previous year, and one of them on the dance floor caught my eye. After mustering the courage to ask her to dance—she said, "Yes"—I knew my luck was doubly blessed when a slow number came on. We embraced, awkwardly, and began to move together to the music. I thought I was in heaven.
But suddenly the lights came on, the music stopped, and the glow ball ceased to glow. Two men, their necks craned and eyes squinting, made their way slowly to the middle of the dance floor. One of them, my father, had a flashlight tied to his head with a bungie cord; the other, short with bandy legs, knee—high white socks, and Bermuda shorts, was my uncle Ben. Later that night I would learn the two men had been dispatched by my panic-stricken family to track me down and bring me home when they realized I had gone missing. But at that moment, standing there stunned on the dance floor, my dark—adapted eyes stinging in the harsh, unwanted light, I knew I had to do something, and fast.
I pulled my princess close, kissed her hard on the lips (a first for me), bolted the dance floor and fled the hotel. When I hit the unlit road, I took a last look behind me. There I saw the strangest sight—a disembodied light bobbing eerily up and down, about six feet off the ground. It was, I realized, the flashlight attached to my father's head."It's me, I'm over here, I'm okay," I shouted.
Now, for most kids, certainly for me that night in the Catskills, parents can be a real drag—clueless, embarrassing, sometimes humiliating, overprotective, and always uncool. They make rules, curtail freedoms, spy and monitor, assign chores, require homework be done, limit computer use and TV watching, curb candy and soda consumption, forbid sex, alcohol and drugs, impose curfews, and vet friends. Even young children, and certainly tweens and teens, understand that parents get in the way of fun...Read More
"The assault on childhood in our corporate-dominated and profit-driven society, painfully dissected in this penetrating study, is a tragedy not only for the immediate victims but for hopes for a better future. It can be resisted, as Joel Bakan discusses. And it is urgent not to delay."
—Noam Chomsky
"To be a child today, even inaffluent countries like ours, is no longer a time of innocence, idyll and discovery, as Bakan reveals in Childhood Under Siege. Most children today grow up on a planet in which billions of tons of toxic chemicals have been poured into the air, water and soil; in a big city where the opportunity to encounter nature has been replaced by concrete, fast cars, video games and shopping malls; in a world in which childhood represents a marketing challenge and opportunity. Read this important book and then start working for change."
—David Suzuki, co-author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A winter weather advisory is in effect today, and crews are standing by to make sure the roads are safe.
Public Works spokesperson, Lindsay English, say the city still has plenty of salt in reserve to last through the winter.
"The roads are looking pretty coated, pretty salty right now, so that will definitely help. We won't need to go ahead and pre treat for whatever is coming in this weekend. That coating will help. Once the snow starts to fall, it won't adhere to the roadway and cause any slick spots or icy patches like an untreated road could," explained English.
During snowfalls earlier this week, the state used about 3500 tons of salt. Around a quarter of that was used on interstates passing through Jefferson County.
State and city officials say they are ahead of the game in making sure that roads are clear for the community.
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Magic beat Clippers 104-101 to end 10-game skid
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- J.J. Redick gave Orlando its first lead on a 3-pointer with 42 seconds left,... More
- BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- J.J. Redick gave Orlando its first lead on a 3-pointer with 42 seconds left,... More
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) -- Karol Gruszecki hit seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points as... More
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Ten-man Real Madrid slumped to a dire 0-0 draw at Osasuna in the Spanish... More
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will be back for a fourth season after... More
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Bo Ryan called it the most complete game for Wisconsin this season, and... More
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Banks and Ea each won $75,000 stakes in the mud on Saturday at... More
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Clancy Rugg scored a career-high 19 points with nine rebounds and four... More
HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) -- Shane Gibson shot 9 of 18 from the field and 9 of 9 from the free-throw... More
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (AP) -- E.J. Reed came off the bench and scored career-high 21 points and grabbed... More
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) -- Alex Francis scored a season-high 26 points and career-high 18... More
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Jerrold Brooks scored 16 points and Southern Mississippi used a strong... More
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Dayton's Matt Derenbecker shook Butler coach Brad Stevens' hand and asked... More
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Ten-man Braga lost 3-2 at Nacional after conceding two goals in a... More
TORONTO (AP) -- Brian Burke never saw his dismissal from the Toronto Maple Leafs coming. While... More
DENVER (AP) -- Denver's Trindon Holliday has set an NFL playoff record with the 90-yard punt... More
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Jamal Webb scored a career-high 23 points on Saturday and North Dakota... More
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia shot the ball well from the floor and held its own... More
MILAN (AP) -- Inter Milan beat Pescara 2-0 in the Serie A to snap a run of poor results and move... More
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Shane Southwell saw to it that No. 18 Kansas State's winning streak... More
FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Saah Nimley matched his season high with 21 points and also had eight... More
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Javier Duren and Matt Townsend each scored 12 points, and all of the... More
ATLANTA (AP) -- NCAA scoring leader Erick Green scored 28 points and Virginia Tech rallied for a... More
LONDON (AP) -- Chelsea routed Stoke 4-0 Saturday to move into third place in the Premier League,... More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- P.J. Hairston scored a career-high 23 points and North Carolina... More
NEW YORK (AP) -- NHL players have ratified the new labor deal but the lockout still goes on. The... More


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Here is the latest new from the Mountain West and college football.
Do you dream of bathing in an unending wave of college football goodness? Do you ever feel like you just see too much of your girlfriend, the sun or your Jack Russell, Bo? If so, do we have...
A look around the Internet of Mountain West related links.
San Diego State has started spring football, and a Fresno State wide receiver has been suspended indefinitely.
MW Connection uses a report by the Reno Gazette-Journal to take a look at the raw budget numbers in the Mountain West Conference and helps break down some of the issues behind funding for the two...
Reaction to Boise State's 7-6 win over BYU.
UNLV must contain Washington State's passing attack in chase for first victory - Las Vegas Sun NewsThe Rebels need to contain Washington State's passing game. Rebels searching for balance between...
Thursday's links come from within the SB Nation network, so not all teams are included. Look for a more complete list on Friday morning-ish. WSU Vs. UNLV Football Preview: Tim Cornett And The...
One last look around Week 2 of Mountain West football
News and notes from across the Mountain West
A look from across the SB Nation network regarding Mountain West games in Week 2
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It's officially the weekend, Peabody. Not sure how you're going to spend it?
Here's a look at some of the events going on around the North Shore. Check our calendar for more, and if there's something we missed, be sure to add it and let us know in the comments.
Diaper Derby
- Where: Liberty Tree Mall
- When: Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- What: The event is sponsored by WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Nutrition Program and Bay State Parent Magazine. Limited to the first 72 registered babies. Registration held through Saturday, Feb. 16 at 8:45 a.m.
New England Bridal Expo
- Where: Northshore Mall
- When: Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- What: The 4th Annual New England Bridal Affair features food and wedding cake samples, a runway bridal fashion show, live entertainment, information on vendors and venues for the big day and more.
Lego® Train Model Train Layout
- Where: Wenham Museum
- When: Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- What: The Lego® Train is coming back! Watch it race 'round the giant track, through city-scapes and colorful shacks. Listen as the train goes clickety-clack.
Left & Right Valentine's Day Special
- Where: The Griffen Theatre in Salem.
- When: Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
- What: Fresh from NYC join an exhilarating ride with a couple of quirky conjoined twin brothers in this one of a kind, interactive dance comedy! Watch your friends come up on stage to serve as patients, lovers, and more!
Xerxes: A Comedy of Errors
- Where: Sea Change Theatre Company in Beverly.
- When: Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
- What: Known for their innovative and imaginative productions, opera company Dramma per Musica joins Sea Change Theatre Company to present Xerxes: A Comedy of Errors. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Beverly Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.


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The UFC is having fun playing with their new heavyweight toys, booking Chad Griggs to debut against Travis Browne.
PRO MMA NOW: Any idea why you think that Lashley thinks that whole situation was 'garbage?' CHAD GRIGGS: (Laughs) Well I mean no one likes to lose. I think that Bobby is a great athlete. I think...
Bobby Lashley wants a Chad Griggs rematch at the 2:35 min mark
Bobby Lashley's contract has run out, but he still has an exclusive negotiating period with Strikeforce before he can start talking to other MMA organizations that are interested in his services
Bobby Lashley was once one of the heavyweight division's top prospects. A loss to Chad Griggs threw his career into a downward spiral. Now it appears fellow pro wrestler Dave Batista won't fight...
Bobby Lashley says he wasn't fighting at 100% during his loss to Chad Griggs last month, and wants a rematch.
Predictably Texas authorities have chosen to take no action to redress numerous controversies emerging from Strikeforce: Houston.
History and last night's Strikeforce: Houston show proves referee Jon Schorle is incompetent.
Following treatment for severe dehydration after his loss to Chad Griggs, Bobby Lashley has been released from the hospital.
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1 cup water
2 ½ cups sugar
Food coloring
Flavor oil ($2 a bottle)
Sauce pan
Tall narrow glass jar (mine used to have hot pickles veggies in it)
Clothes pin
Short skewers (about 6 inches)
Rubber scraper
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Then add ½ tsp. of oil flavoring. Flavoring with alcohol burns off to quickly and doesn't leave much flavor behind, you may use it but it won't have a lot of flavor. Stir until the color and flavor is well blended.
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Kegging Systems
Homebrew Draft System
Price: $295.95
- Put your homebrewed beers and soda pop on tap.
- It carbonates and dispenses with very minimal effort.
- The keg holds 5 gallons and easily fits in a refrigerator.
Kegerator Conversion Kit: Refrigerator Faucet
Price: $272.95
- Everything needed to turn a refrigerator into a kegerator.
- Your personal draft machine for commercial keg beers.
- Has chrome faucet that fits through the refrigerator door.
Kegerator Conversion Kit: Beer Tower
Price: $269.95
- Everything to turn a compact refrigerator into a kegerator.
- Your own draft machine for your favorite commercial beers.
- Has a chrome tower faucet to mount on your refrigerator.


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Pick up this little roof prism binocular for use on a daytime hike, at the football game, or in the theater. The Energy has multi-coated lenses for bright views and a double-hinged design that folds into an easily portable size. With three great colors to choose from and an affordable price, you will want to order several Energy binoculars—one for yourself and more for friends.
|Multi-coated Lenses
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Set Up Solr and Get it Running
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
The main feature of Solr (or at least the most useful) is its REST-like Api, since instead of playing with Api and drivers to talk to Solr you can easily make HTTP requests and get results in JSON or XML (and it's pronounced solar, if you wonder.)
I would not say that this is a perfect REST interface which incarnates all the principles of HTTP 1.1, but the point is that data has a simple representation which goes back and forth from the client to the server, and no encapsulation in SOAP's nightmarish envelopes. Plus, it's human-readable since XML and JSON can be written easily for exploratory testing purposes.
An year ago, when I heard that CouchDB had a REST api, I said what an unuseful level of abstraction, why can't I just use a PHP extension/driver like with MySQL, sqlite and similar databases?
Now I see the potential of such an universal interface:
- it is data type agnostic due to HTTP, which can only transmit strings. There is no type safety, but great interoperability. Dynamic languages like PHP succeed so much also because the basic protocol has no strict types. If the front end is only going to print it, why shouldn't a string be enough?
- it is more or less a standard protocol (although the data representation is not): if anyone that invents a database publishes his own binary communication protocol, we'll have lots more libraries.
Solr is written in Java, but you can access it with your language of choice if you need, simply by doing GET requests to search the index and POST ones to add documents.
Of course there is usually a library for every known programming language, that wraps the REST-like interface, but it is dead simple to build such a library for example with JavaScript, and it is not mandatory to use a library at all. And this lead us to another point: if Solr had a binary interface like MySQL's one how would you wrap that with Javascript? HTTP is universal since nearly everything now from computers to ovens to hair dryers can make HTTP requests.
Starting out
Simplicity of usage, starting from the protocol, is a key feature in comparison with Lucene, and it is indeed very easy to setup Solr and get it running.
Since Solr's primary interface is web-based, it needs a servlet container (reinventing the wheel and implementing a full HTTP stack was not a great idea). Solr has several servlets that handle different end points, like /update or /select.
However, it comes with a prepackaged example with Jetty (a small, lightweight servlet container) so that it runs out of the box, but you can deploy it also as a Tomcat web app if you want.
All you need to run Solr is uncompressing the release, going in the example/ folder and run 'java -jar start.jar'. Then you can post sample documents and make some queries for exploratory testing.
Of course the bundled schema is an example one, so you can quickly modify schema.xml to craft a custom one. Just add some <field> tags:
<field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
<field name="PageTitle" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="Artist" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="Title" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
Test automation with a Solr index
Since Solr is so simple to use, let's do something scary with it: test automation.
When I started integrating Solr in my multimedia search application project, I wrote an integration test with JUnit plus a SolrWrapper class in less than two pomodoros, a time that mostly went to learn the Api of SolrJ, the Java library that wraps the HTTP-based interface. I could also have done it simply with URL and HttpURLConnection native objects if I hadn't a library available.
package it.polimi.chansonnier.test;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.XMLResponseParser;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocumentList;
import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
public class SolrIntegrationTest extends TestCase {
private SolrWrapper solrWrapper;
public void testSolrInstanceCanBeStartedQueriedAndStopped() throws Exception {
solrWrapper = new SolrWrapper();
String url = "http://localhost:8983/solr";
CommonsHttpSolrServer server = new CommonsHttpSolrServer( url );
server.setParser(new XMLResponseParser());
server.deleteByQuery( "*:*" );// delete everything!
SolrInputDocument doc1 = new SolrInputDocument();
doc1.addField( "id", "id1", 1.0f );
doc1.addField( "name", "doc1", 1.0f );
Collection<SolrInputDocument> docs = new ArrayList<SolrInputDocument>();
docs.add( doc1 );
server.add( docs );
SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
query.setQuery( "*:*" );
//query.addSortField( "name", SolrQuery.ORDER.asc );
QueryResponse rsp = server.query( query );
SolrDocumentList docList = rsp.getResults();
assertEquals("[id1, doc1]", docList.get(0).values().toString());
public void tearDown() {
package it.polimi.chansonnier.test;
import java.io.File;
public class SolrWrapper {
private Process solr;
public void start() throws Exception {
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
solr = r.exec("/usr/bin/java -jar start.jar", null, getSolrRoot());
public void stop() {
if (solr != null) {
private File getSolrRoot() throws Exception {
String root = System.getProperty("it.polimi.chansonnier.solr.root");
if (root == null) {
throw new Exception("Solr path is not specified, please add the property it.polimi.chansonnier.solr.root");
return new File(root);
Remember that an integration test by my definition (and Growing object-oriented software's one) involves only the behavior of an external entity, to make sure we understand how it works and that the contract we are programming to in our code is correct.
Now my acceptance tests start Solr and stop it at the end of the test, resetting its index at the start of every test method:
package it.polimi.chansonnier.test;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.XMLResponseParser;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
public abstract class AcceptanceTest extends TestCase {
private SolrWrapper solrWrapper;
protected CommonsHttpSolrServer solrServer;
public void setUp() {
solrWrapper = new SolrWrapper();
try {
String url = "http://localhost:8983/solr";
solrServer = new CommonsHttpSolrServer( url );
solrServer.setParser(new XMLResponseParser());
solrServer.deleteByQuery( "*:*" );
} catch (Exception e) {
public void tearDown() {
Now what?
I've always been scared of rich-client applications because of the difficulty of testing, but now tools have grown to support that. Of course I'll test-driven my web interface it with HttpUnit as I did with my plain HTML one; it uses Rhino to crawl JavaScript-powered pages and assert they're generated correctly.
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Nicholas Choate replied on Thu, 2010/06/10 - 11:03am
I have a hard time figuring out the following:
AJAX Solr is the proof of how browsers have become powerful today: you can actually see it doing queries via Firebug (imagine doing that with relational databases as back ends)
I have a relational database as my backend database, and I can see firebug make "queries" through javascript because I wrote a RESTful API over top of my database services. Which is all that the Solr guys have done. They have a ton of search code written and then they exposed pieces and parts via a RESTful service. So the comment above makes no sense.... its the WEB SERVICE doing the work, not the backend.
I'm sure some will say, oh he's just a relational database fanboy. To that, I'd say probably so, but you are probably a "No-SQL" fanboy, so let's call it even. I just don't want anyone to mistake that its the RESTful-ness of these web services that enables the powerful usability without hurting your back from writing a ton of code. Your backend is your backend, whether it is a relational database, a java-based search engine or even the mainframe. There I said it. You can expose services built on top of COBOL.
All that being said, I love Solr and AjaxSolr. Its great, its awesome. It does everything I want it to do and more. If you haven't looked at it yet, I would definitely recommend it.
Giorgio Sironi replied on Thu, 2010/06/10 - 11:32am in response to: Nicholas Choate
Peter Karussell replied on Thu, 2010/06/10 - 2:53pm
Isn't it easier to use the in-built test case?
public class SolrTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
private SolrServer server;
public String getSchemaFile() {
return "solr/conf/schema.xml";
public String getSolrConfigFile() {
return "solr/conf/solrconfig.xml";
public void setUp() throws Exception {
server = new EmbeddedSolrServer(h.getCoreContainer(), h.getCore().getName());
Giorgio Sironi replied on Thu, 2010/06/10 - 3:00pm in response to: Peter Karussell
I'm not sure this would work in my case for a few reasons:
- I am in an OSGi environment, and I kept Solr as an external app for now.
- I need already to extend other TestCase
- I need a real SolrServer since I'm testing that an HTML page makes HTTP requests to it via JavaScript.
I transitioned to keeping Solr running all the time and resetting it in every acceptance test setUp() now.
Peter Karussell replied on Thu, 2010/06/10 - 3:47pm
> I am in an OSGi environment, and I kept Solr as an external app for now.
solr is external for me too, but in the test it will use the provided xml files and start an instance in your /tmp folder. So this is more a unit-test scenario in my case ...
>I need already to extend other TestCase
you can of course use a Java-trick instantiate the testcase via:
tester = new AbstractSolrTestCase() {
public String getSchemaFile() {
return "solr/conf/schema.xml";
public String getSolrConfigFile() {
return "solr/conf/solrconfig.xml";
and then call tester.setUp in the setUp method
Giorgio Sironi replied on Fri, 2010/06/11 - 5:28am in response to: Peter Karussell
Peter Karussell replied on Thu, 2010/11/11 - 1:01pm in response to: Giorgio Sironi
Just one side note: distributed search is not easily testable with my approach. Giorgios approach should work but there is even a third one with jettyrunner, found in the solr test classes itself:


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Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts piano faculty member Ketevan Badridze will perform a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. March 1. She will perform Haydn's "Piano Sonata in A Flat Major," Liszt's "Schubert Song Transcriptions" and Schumann's "Kreisleriana" in the Campus Auditorium of Northside Hall on the campus of IU South Bend.
Tickets for Badridze's solo recital are available for $7 to $12, with students and children admitted free. For more information or tickets, visit the website arts.iusb.edu or call the box office at 574-520-4203.
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Bob Marley had 3 children born in 4 weeks to 3 different women!
Marley married Rita Anderson in 1966, but he had children by several other women. He had three children in late April and the first half of May. The first was born in April on the 20th in 1972. His name was Stephen Marley and he was the child of Bob Marley's wife Rita.
The next two children Marley fathered that were born in 1972 were born in May. On May 16th, Marley had a child named Robert, nicknamed Robbie, with Pat Williams.
On May 19th, just days later, Marley had a child named Rohan with Janet Hunt. Marley had eleven children that are included on his official website. Of those eleven children, five were Rita's children and the other 6 were children by different women. Unofficially, he also had a child named Makeda with Yvette Crichton.
Makeda was born just after Marley died. Imani Carole may also have been one of Marley's children. Bob Marley had many women in his life. Besides his wife, he had children with as many as eight women!


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The Andes at their best—an MTS classic adventure!
Even die-hard fans of the Himalaya concede the extraordinary beauty of Peru's Cordillera Blanca, the highest tropical mountain range in the world. Its glacial wilderness of translucent turquoise lakes, hidden waterfalls, and dazzling pinnacles make it one of the Andes' most stunning ranges (and also one of the world's best-kept secrets!). With over 40 years of expertise in the region, we consider this exhilarating trek our ultimate Peru adventure. You'll hike through the heart of Huascarán National Park—a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site—where more than 40 peaks over 19,000 feet high are linked by isolated valleys laced with trails dating from pre-Columbian and colonial times. You'll drink in stunning vistas of the sharply ridged peaks, including the remarkable "perfect" pyramid of Alpamayo, with its striking ice fluting, and Huascarán, the highest peak in Peru. This trek is best suited for experienced mountain hikers—you'll cross seven passes (five of them over 15,000 feet), and camp at altitudes of 12,000 to 14,800 feet. Challenging? Yes, but a fantastic, bucket-list triumph for those whose hearts lie at the planet's most impressive heights.
11 days strenuous hiking at high elevation (max. 15,908')
- Join MTS on our ultimate Peru trekking experience
- Enjoy a challenging 10-day traverse across a remote and untouched glacial wilderness, with the Andes adventure experts since 1969
- Feast your eyes on dramatic peaks, snowy glaciers, alpine wildflowers, and turquoise lakes
- See breathtaking, high Andean mountain scenery that rivals the Himalaya in scale
- Experience the thrill of discovering one of the world's best-kept secrets
Duration: 13 days Start Location: Lima End Location: LimaDownload Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 : Arrive in Lima – Huaraz
Meet in Lima, Peru and fly Huaraz, a center for exploring the Cordillera Blanca.
Day 2 : Huaraz. Huillcacocha Lake
Morning acclimatization hike to lagoon Hillcacocha. Enjoy the breathtaking view of the snowcapped peaks of the Cordillera Blanca.
Day 3 : Begin trek – To Vaqueria
Drive to the trailhead at the Portachuela de Llanganuco (15,580') and hike down to camp at Vaqueria (12,136').
Day 4 : Tuctu Pampa
On trek through the remote Cordillera Blanca, crossing seven more passes (five of them over 15,000' and the highest at 15,908'), and passing small farming settlements where you'll have a chance to meet the locals. Panoramic views include the remarkable pyramid-shaped peak of Alpamayo (19,511') and Huascarán (22,204'), the highest peak in Peru.
Day 5 : Huecrococha
Continue up the Huaripampa Valley on pre-Inca trails, with views of Contrahierbas (19,798') behind us. Cross Pucaraju Pass (15,252'), with beautiful views (if it's clear) of Piramide, Paron, Chacraraju, and Huascarán. Continue on to Laguna Huecrococha, a lake situated at about 13,000'. Camp nearby. (4-5 hours hiking.)
Day 6 : Jancapampa Valley
Hike up to the village of Tingopampa, crossing the Tupatupa, a grassy pass at 14,380', and camp at Jancapampa (11,600') below the Pucajirca massif. Jancapampa is one of the most beautiful valleys on the trek, and this afternoon and evening in camp we'll likely enjoy the company of the children of Tingopampa. This is our lowest camp and we will get a good night's sleep. (6 hours hiking.)
Day 7 : Huilca
From Jancapampa, we climb with ever-changing views of the immense glaciers of the east face of Pucajirca (19,844'). Continue climbing steeply through woods, grassy meadows, and over glacially polished cliffs while enjoying an array of spectacular wildflowers. We make a steep ascent to the narrow Yanajanca pass (15,088'), then head downhill toward the small settlement of Huilca. We will camp just below the pass about an hour above Huilca at 14,000' with spectacular views of Pucajirca. (8 hours hiking.)
Day 8 : Moyobamba
Continue up Quebrada Tayapampa with beautiful views of the northeast face of Alpamayo (19,455') and the three peaks of Pucajirca in the distance. Ascend over a grassy pass, crossing a ridge, and camp at Moyobamba at 14,700', below the next day's pass. (5-6 hours hiking.)
Day 9 : Jancarurish
Hike over Caracara Pass (15,800'), enjoying fantastic views of Alpamayo's cirque, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the Cordillera Blanca stretching southwards. After lunch, we'll have a chance to hike up to the moraine and enjoy stunning views of Alpamayo's famed classic pyramid shape and the turquoise green lake below the peak. The hike up to the moraine and back is about two hours roundtrip. We will camp at Jancarurish Valley about two hours below Alpamayo Base Camp at 14,000'. The views of Alpamayo in camp as the sun sets and rises are "to die for." (4-5 hours hiking.)
Day 10 : Osoruri
Begin a long ascent to Jatun Viento Pass (15,252') covering about 50 vueltas (switchbacks). Descend to camp at 14,800 feet, our highest campsite. (6 hours hiking.)
Day 11 : Huischca
Hike 1½ hours to our last and highest pass, Toro Pishtanan (15,908'). Descend to Cuillicocha Lake (15,252'), one of the most beautiful lakes in this area of the Andes, with its blue-green waters and view of the three peaks of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the background. We will also enjoy views of the Cordillera Negra, the snowless mountain range running parallel with the Cordillera Blanca to the west. Continue to Huischca (13,100') and camp near a modern aqueduct that has replaced an old Inca one. (5-6 hours hiking.)
Day 12 : Hualacayan – Huaraz
End trek and meet with vehicles for the return drive to Huaraz.
Day 13 : Lima – Departure
Fly to Lima and meet your international flights.
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Major Harold Heatley with the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office says the problem is causing local 911 calls to be routed to agencies outside the region, while calls from outside the region are being routed to local 911 centers.
Heatley advises anyone needing to report an emergency to dial their local law enforcement's non-emergency numbers until further notice.


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BATESVILLE — Hoosiers can now access a complete summary of the new laws approved during the 2011 legislative session at www.in.gov/Senator.Leising, State Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg) said today.
"This year's Indiana General Assembly passed historic reforms in an effort to make our state a better place to live, work and raise a family," Leising said. "It's important to me that residents in my district have an easy way to access the new laws that took effect July 1."
During the 2011 legislative session, lawmakers worked together to approve 229 new laws pertaining to a range of topics including new private-sector job initiatives, education improvements, a ban on synthetic marijuana products, expansion of vote centers statewide and new legislative and congressional districts.
Leising said this publication breaks down the new laws by general subject matter and includes the bill number, public law number and the sections of the Indiana Code affected by the new law. The "Summary of New Laws" can be found on Leising's website by visiting www.in.gov/Senator.Leising.


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Well that's a rude re-introduction to the Premier League for Arsenal backup backup backup goalkeeper Jens Lehmann. Jack Wilshere tried to break up a threatening Blackpool attack by obliterating Luke Varney, but although he succeeded in flattening his man it made no difference to the overall move and the hosts surged forwards, with Lee Mason playing advantage. The Gunners' defence was stretched and the ball was threaded through to DJ Campbell, who was rather clumsily taken out by Lehmann. Instead of giving a penalty (and a sending off*), Mason elected to play on, and the ball broke loose to Gary Taylor-Fletcher, who took a couple of touches and threaded the ball into an empty net to halve the deficit.
Minutes later and Blackpool could have had another through a penalty as Laurent Koscielny felled Taylor-Fletcher in the area, but Mason was rather less competent in this instance and waved play on after what was a clear foul. They also should have scored after Jason Puncheon sent in an inviting cross minutes after that, but Kevin Southern rather messed that one up, so it remains Arsenal 2-1 Blackpool.
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Ian Chiles and Khufu Najee combined to score 39 points as Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis held off a late rally from Bradley to score a 72-66 win Wednesday night.
The Jaguars (2-7) held a 13-point lead at intermission, but saw it all-but evaporate in the second half. Bradley cut the lead to a field goal, 58-56 after Tyshon Pickett's layup with 2:42 left.
Najee converted a pair of free throws, then fed Justus Stanback for a dunk to extend the lead to six, 62-56. Chiles' three-point play with :42 left made it a 10-point lead.
Chiles finished with 20 points while Najee added 19. Donovan Gibbs added 13 points off the bench.
Omari Grier led the Braves (5-3) with 17 points while Walt Lemon, Jr. added 13 and Auston Barnes 11. Bradley converted just 21 of 67 field goal attempts in the game.
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The Asheville Police Department is investigating an accident that took the life of an 18-year-old man.
According to officers, a moped left its lane and hit a Nissan pick-up truck head-on as it traveled along Homeway Road just before 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Police said the 18-year-old driver and his 16-year-old passenger were both thrown from the moped. The two were taken to the hospital where police said 18-year-old Eric Aaron House of Asheville passed away. The 16-year-old is being treated for serious injuries.
The driver of the truck was not hurt, officers said.
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High Density Housing
Original post made by pares on Apr 24, 2013
PAWeekly, how about an article describing the number of units going in at all these projects?
Does this concern our city leaders?
on Apr 24, 2013 at 1:48 pm
The housing developments, which do look dense, are in several different cities and school districts. One would imagine people will move in this children - upscale, new, top school districts although high density style. I take that to mean people will be driving in various directions (I sure can't see small children crossing El Camino Real on their own to attend a prime Los Altos elementary school)! I except traffic to get really bad around there in all directions. I guess there has not been any coordinated effort to look at traffic in a multi-city sense around there.
on Apr 24, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Sorry, several typos:
One would imagine people will move in WITH children...
I EXPECT traffic to get really bad around there in all directions...
on Apr 24, 2013 at 2:01 pm
The hole next to Lozano's - also in Mtn View - will turn into 193 apartments.
The PA Bowl site will be 26 4 br three story townhouses plus a four story, 140(?) room Hilton hotel.
The hole across from Arbor Real is for another Hilton Hotel, also four stories and around 140 rooms.
The expansion of the retirement community on El Camino Way is under construction.
And yesterday I noticed some of the those double debris/dirt trailers heading down towards Park near Frys ..must be some digging going on there too.
Los Altos is busy too..
46 new condos at the corner of San Antonio and Loucks - one block in from El Camino
and soon-to-be 167 1&2 br apartments plus 38 townhouses at the old Marie Calendar/Los Altos supply site on El Camino.
Mountain View is also considering a 200(?) unit apartment building on El Camino across from the Sears site... plus the old Safeway site on California will be up for grabs and the owner of the Target site is planning redevelopment.
I'm less worried about future traffic than about staying out of the way now of the construction trucks that decide they want to be in my lane.


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DePaul Dean Is Removed, Cites Letter to ABA as Reason
Posted Jun 19, 2009 11:25 AM CDT
By Martha Neil
Updated: DePaul University College of Law has removed its law school dean, after seven years on the job, because he and the law school's administration were no longer working in synch, a DePaul law school spokeswoman says.
Glen Weissenberger, who is now in his mid-60s, remains a tenured faculty member at the Chicago law school. His removal comes in the middle of a five-year reappointment to the position, which took effect on July 1, 2007, according to his faculty profile on the law school's website. No replacement has yet been named.
Weissenberger's removal as dean, which occurred yesterday, "was a decision that was made after long and careful thought and consideration," spokeswoman Valerie Phillips tells the ABA Journal.
"Provost Helmut Epp has praised all the college of law has accomplished under Glen's leadership," Phillips says, "but he noted that the working relationship between the dean and the administration had deteriorated to the point where it had become difficult to accomplish the college's work."
Weissenberger didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. But in a letter he sent to faculty, quoted in the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, he said "I want to assure you that I was not terminated for any wrongdoing of any kind. My termination was based specifically on a letter I sent to the ABA supplementing information which the ABA already received."
In the letter, posted on the Legal Writing Prof Blog, he says financial information about the relationship of the law school to the university that he provided to the ABA Accreditation Committee is no longer accurate. ABA Consultant on Legal Education Hulett H. Askew declined to comment to the ABA Journal, citing the confidentiality of the Accreditation Committee's work.
But Denise Mattson, a spokeswoman for the university, told Law Blog that the decision about Weissenberger's status was made before the letter was sent. "The relationship between the administration and [Weissenberger] had deteriorated to a point that had become unworkable," she said.
Patrick Tran, who is president of the law school's student bar association, has posted a letter and petition on the Internet, calling for Weissenberger's reinstatement as dean. Within three hours, 200 faculty, alumni and students signed, crashing the server, he tells the Chicago Tribune.
A 2007 profile in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin notes that significant changes for the better have occurred during Weissenberger's time at DePaul. They include a stronger applicant pool, increased charitable donations and a 15-percentage-point gain in the bar pass rate for law school graduates.
Before joining DePaul, Weissenberger was a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati Law School for 27 years.
Additional coverage:
ABAJournal.com: "Faculty Protest DePaul Dean's Ouster; Ill. Appeals Judge Named as Replacement"
Above the Law: "DePaul College of Law Dean Ousted"
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: "DePaul Provost Ousts Law Dean Without Consulting Faculty, Plans to Appoint an Outsider as Interim Dean"
Legal Writing Prof Blog: UNBELIEVABLE!!! DePaul University FIRES Its Law School Dean for Reporting Truthful Information to the ABA!!!
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The third suspect wanted in connection with a Fayetteville robbery has been found dead, according to the U.S. Marshals.
Police said Leandro Bernard Johnson, 27, of Ellenwood, committed suicide Tuesday morning. Marshals received a tip Johnson was staying in a Covington apartment, and said they found him inside a closet with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Fayetteville police previously arrested another suspect connected to the same robbery on October 11, and found the body of another.
Police arrested Alvin James Scott, 26, of Jonesboro at his house thanks to a tip. Scott then led authorities to the body of Alonzo Starks, 25, of Morrow, who was found dead in an abandoned home in Morrow.
All three men entered the China Cafe on Glyn Street and held three workers at gunpoint, according to police.
One of the employees pulled a handgun and shot one of the suspects hitting him at least once in the head. The second suspect fired his weapon and shot one of the workers.
All three men fled the scene. The injured employee was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.
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All Bets Are On
Michael Kaplan
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Air Sick, Jul/Aug 02
What would you say to a morbidly obese man who can barely walk, yet claims that he can do five sit-ups on the spot? If you happen to be Roger Moore -- the high-stakes poker player, not the actor -- an appropriate response might be, "Wanna bet?"
Moore offered precisely this bet to supersized Doyle Brunson in Las Vegas during a poker game in Caesars Palace's high-stakes arena. Brunson proceeded to complete five sit-ups on the spot and collected his five grand. Later on Brunson was heard to comment, "I'd have bet all my money on that one, but I didn't want to scare the guy off."
You can argue that $5,000 is chump change for high-stakes gamblers who risk that much on a single card without feeling a nervous twitch, but wagers like this one are for more than money. They're called proposition bets and qualify as the crack of wagers, as they provide gamblers with an immediate but short-lasting buzz of action.
Howard Lederer, a professional poker player and a vegetarian who once ate a cheeseburger to win a $10,000 bet that he wouldn't consume meat, sees an intellectual angle to these seemingly degenerate wagers.
"You're trying to figure things out when you make the bets," says Lederer, agreeing that the most impressive props tend to fall into three categories: self-improvement, feats of athletic prowess and goofy things that nobody would normally want to do (one gambler, for instance, spent 48 straight hours in the Vegas go-go bar Crazy Horse, Too). "The fact that nobody has yet figured out whether or not these things can be done is what makes the bets interesting. And it's the satisfaction of winning a bet that makes you want to do it. The amount of money is never enough to impact anybody's lifestyle."
Lederer is hanging out in the Bellagio sport book, sitting amid the big-screen TVs, next door to the poker room, where prop bets are routinely cooked up between hands. Bearded and burly, Lederer describes himself as a "weight bet sucker" (somebody who bets that he can lose weight but never quite manages to stick with the diet). He is far from alone. Pro gambler Russ Hamilton estimates that Brunson, one of the world's greatest poker players and savviest sport bettors, has lost upwards of $3 million on weight wagers. "The bets always start off really well, then you lose a big pot in poker and order a pizza," says Hamilton, who's been in that situation, too. "Making a $50,000 weight bet with Doyle Brunson is the best bet you can ever make in your life. But you have to be careful who you bet with. You need to make these bets with people who don't care about the money. Some guys will cut off their arms to win a $50,000 bet."
While weight bets tend to be long shots for gamblers with girth, there are other wagers for which a hefty physique can be beneficial, as it was for Brunson with the sit-up challenge. Lederer certainly used size to his favor when Huck Seed claimed he could beat him, hopping on one foot, in a 50-yard dash. The fact that Seed, a former World Series of Poker champion, had already proven himself to be extremely athletic (via a wide range of other prop bets) didn't bother Lederer one bit. After watching Lederer do a preliminary run, Seed realized that he could never win on one foot and paid off the $5,000 bet.
But that's OK, because he got back at Lederer with another bet, one involving a back flip. "Huck beat me out of $10,000 on that one," says Lederer. "He's 6 feet, 6 inches tall and had to do a standing back flip. He had to start flat on his feet, jump over, and land on his feet backwards. That was the bet. Apparently his father or his uncle was an acrobat, and Huck learned to do it with a harness, jumping into a pool or something." Lederer's voice is full of admiration, sounding as though he figures that Seed earned the money and deserves it. "Huck takes pride in the physical stuff. He's a talented guy."
Asked to comment on his seemingly uncanny skills as a prop bettor, Seed shrugs them off, insisting, "People think I win a lot more of these proposition bets than I really do." Even though Seed lost a "beard" bet (he had to spend a year not shaving, but needed to when there was a death in the family) and an "ocean" bet (fellow poker player Phil Hellmuth bet him $50,000 that he could not stand up to his shoulders in the ocean for 18 hours. Seed lasted three before paying off), Lederer is skeptical about Seed's purported mediocrity. "Huck has been struggling a little bit in poker, but he has not been struggling in proposition bets."
Maybe Lederer's opinion stems from Seed's having won what most of us would deem an impossibly challenging bet. With many thousands of dollars at stake, he had to play a desert golf course four times in a single day and break 100 on each round while using only a 5-iron, a sand wedge and a putter. "The guy making the bet was able to choose the day, and he selected a day when the temperature was up to 120 degrees," remembers Lederer, adding that Seed had to play without the benefit of a cart -- he had to run the course to complete all the holes. "He shot a 100 on his first round at 6 in the morning. So at 8:30 he still had to shoot four more rounds." More incredible than Seed's winning the bet is that he improved with each round. As Seed put it at the time, "I really got into a groove with the 5."
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Carolina Panthers' offensive guard Amini Silatolu entered the NFL facing one of the largest competition jumps of an early round pick. The team loved his aggressiveness, and ability to block down field -- two things he displayed in his first season. There were also a healthy share of struggles, and opportunities to learn from those first-year mistakes.
When it came to being an example of a future hall of famer's success, Amini wasn't too pleased with his 15 minutes.
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He took it in stride, and good humor. If you play on an offensive line in the NFL there's a good chance someone of Brian Urlacher's caliber is going to make you look like a fool sooner or later -- he's one of the best for a reason. That being said, there are about a million reasons to love this tweet.
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[Spelling Reform Anthology §6.8 pp99-101]
[Spelling Progress Bulletin, Fall 1980, pp7-10]
[Valerie Yule: see Book, Journals, Newsletters, Media, Personal View 10, Anthology, Bulletins, Web links.]
A Transitional Spelling Reformed for Adults and Learners -
using 12 rules to regularise present English spelling,
by Valerie Yule, Aberdeen, Scotland. (SR-1 used).
Introduction.Although everyone assumes that 'spelling reforms means phonetic spelling, other features may also need investigation to produce the 'best fit' orthography that can meet the sometimes conflicting requirements of learners, machines, and fluent users of English, of the educated elite and the 'educationally handicapped', of native speakers and second language learners, of the changing English language and of maintained continuity with past and present English spelling.
This paper presents the type of reform that might meet those conditions, although the final form would need to be based on empirical research, not armchair theory and informal observation. Its details are set out in a form that can be used to describe other proposals too, so that schemes can be more easily compared in their rationale and details such as sound-symbol representation.
A. A Summary of Proposals.A highly regular 'transition' spelling can be used easily by both learners and fluent readers of present English spelling.
Learners start with a sound-symbol correspondence 'Learners' Spelling' following the lines of world English Spelling, and then modify it with 12 rules and 12 sight-words as soon as the basic principles of reading are comprehended.
Current print can modify present spelling in four stages, which unmodified by the 12 rules and 12 sight words, would lead directly to Learners' Spelling. With them, 80% of running text can remain unchanged - but the problem spellings are cleared up. As it is a reform by stages, enyone can begin now, with Harry Lindgren's SR-1, (short e always spelt with the single e), and later features can be modified according to research and experience.
Electronic machines can be programmed to write and speak using the 12 rules and 12 exceptions.
More effective techniques to teach reading and writing are included as proposals in the full scheme, once present 'unreliable' spelling no longer complicates 'the reading process.'
B. Assumptions.i) Research rather than dogmatic assertion is needed about the optimum spelling for different needs - reading and writing, learners and fluent users, English-speakers and the foreign-born, machines, 'average people' and handicapped learners.
Details of the issues that need to be settled are given in the paper following this one: "How to implement spelling reform."
ii) Continuity with present spelling is essential.
iii) A perfect reform is humanly impossible. The question is not to reject reforms that are not perfect, but to work for one that will work, and that the public can accept.
iv) Spelling reformers will never he unanimous in agreement on the kind or extent of reform, and all must be prepared to make some concessions from their own preferences.
C. Specific proposals.Specific proposals can fit on one page, or, in example form, on a card for the pocket, as can be done with most major languages - except English, French and Chinese. The first two rules produce the phonemic-based Lerners' Speling:
1. All consonants have one sound each, broadly interpreted (e.g., no distinction between voiced and unvoiced th). Digrafs are: ch, sh, th, wh, zh, ng, nk.
2. Vowels:
The next ten rules modify Lerners' Speling to produce Transition Speling. As the public gradually adjusts to the changes, these rules might be progressively dropped, starting from the last.
3. Standard formal speech is represented, as in dictionary pronunciation. Where there are regional differences, preference is for that closest to present spelling, e.g., after, dog, remember, exampl. Unclear vowels are written e or er, without distinction between stressed and unstressed schwa, unless there is a reason learners can be told, e.g., metal-metalic, aebl-capabl.
4. Represent diphthongs and tripthongs by digrafs only. Place in word affects pronunciation.
ai-dais, plaing
|ea-real, iedea
ei-deity, seing
eo-peon, radeo
|ia-dial, India
io-iota, Ohio
oi-oil, going
5. Medial and final vowels:
Long vowels.Within polysyllables spelt with single letters, e.g., inovation. -e construction in final syllables without consonant blend endings, e.g., hope, hopes, (but biend, fiena1).
Final vowels:
A 'pocket card' setting out the vowel rules through examples could look like this:
6. 12 homonyms shown to be confusable in real life are distinguished by spellings that are still arguably phonemic (legitimate), e.g., too, tuw (and sight-word to), bi, biy, ther, thair, thay'r.
7. 12 'sight-words' retained, with their related words: to/ into/ towards/together, of off, was what, who, put, -ful, I, you, -ion ending, one/onse/only. ?coud/shoud/woud?
8. Double consonants. rr if possible confusion with er/ar/or, e.g., carrot, erring. Other possible uses, e.g., for stress distinctions, e.g., comitty-comity, desert-dessert.
9. Verb endings standardised d/ed, e.g., lifted, jumpd, crepd.
10. s for sounds s/z and all plurals, except for initial z and words like buz, fiz, jaz. Voiceless final ce replaced by se, e.g., danse, silense, or ss, e.g., class, silenss?
11. c for sound k except to close word-roots, e.g., clok, basking, provoke.
12. qu and gu for sounds cw and gw.
b) Four stages for changing the printed word, and for adult users to change their written spelling, each at his own individual pace:
1. Spelling reform one. (the Australian Harry Lindgren's SR-1) Spell e for the short e sound, as in: bet, ded, sed, frend, meny, bery, gess.
2. "When in doubt (dout), cut it out." Simply omit unnecessary silent letters: gess, led.
3. Use sensible consonants, e.g., folograty, jeneral, enuf. For transition Speling, modify with rules 8-12.
4. Use a consistent vowel system. Lerner Speling vowels modified by rules 3-5.
For minimum disruption of the present appearance of English spelling, add the special spellings listed in rules 6-7, and use rule 3 for the standard of speech.
D. Rationale.How meny rules are needed for a reformed spelling? Answers range from: "only one rule: one-sound-one-symbol," to Dr. Wijk's Regularized English, which accepts almost eny English spelling if a rule can be found to cover it, since the major problem is the 500 odd maverick words for which no rules are possible.
"12-rule spelling" tries to reconcile the needs and abilities of lerners and fluent readers. The key is "Easy to remember," hence the arbitrary limit, the systematic setting-out, and catchy slogans. A stage at a time for adults means minimal disruption of the appearance of English text, gradual acclimatisation of users, and reform that can begin concurrently with research.
a) Rationale of specific proposals.
1. "Diaphonic" broad-band rather than precise phonetic sound-symbol correspondence, to minimise lerners' difficulties in sound-discrimination and problems with regional differences. Spelling as reasonable conventions to represent sounds - not "photographs."
2. Vowels. World English Spelling is the guide, except that unclear vowels are spelt with e/er rather than u/ur on the grounds that excess of the less familiar letters produces more affront in the present readers. ue/uu/u are the suggested pattern for due/muun/tabu rather than ue/oo/oo, To avoid the print disturbance of puut and -ful which 'look shocking', put and -ful are sight-words in Transition Speling.
3. Children and foreigners learning to read English are often baffled in pronunciation of words when they do not follow the usual principle of stress on the first syllable. Written material for learners can therefore use underlining or italics to show how to read words with irregular stress.
Learners will naturally begin to write according to how they speak, but material for them to read will be as close as possible to standard formal speech. They may have reading books with large print Lerner Speling and small print Transitional, later reversed, but Lerner Speling remains for rendering pronunciation.
Everyone comprehends standard speech on the media and on tapes, whatever their own dialect English, and so it will be easy for children to lern to spell it as they become accustomed to transition reading and lern the reliable rules of transition spelling.
4. Diphthongs and tripthongs. Eny spelling reform will still leave a few odd words difficult to manage, but they are no reason for abandoning a partial reform. The best solution may be ellipsis of letters rather than excessive clumsiness, e.g., poetry, co-operation, dieresis, medieval.
5. Modifications to the basic vowel pattern seek to preserve as much as possible of the appearance of English text by using the most common patterns applying to different positions in words and following modern trends to economy. However, experiment is needed about the value of frequency as a guide to retention of spelling forms - and if frequency, what sort? Of letters, of blends, of rhyming forms, or position in words?
Since lerners' difficulty is known to increase with length of words, experiments may show that lerners as well as fluent readers identify polysyllabic words more easily if medial long vowels are spelt with single letters, e.g., education rather than educaetion.
A word-count might also show that Chomskian principles of representing 'lexical structure' operated as much or more often in transitional spelling as it does so haphazardly in present English spelling: e.g., fli-flies-fliet, apli-aplies-apliense-aplication, ferosity-feroshus-feerse, (fly-flies-flight, apply-applies-appliance-application, ferocity-ferocious-fierce). Note also the economy of paper, time, and memory.
"Magic e". The -e construction for long vowels is a clumsy strategy and troubles learners. It should be dropped as soon as adult readers can be acclimatised to an improvement that does not affect letter sequence.
6. Homografs. Should eny homografs, future or existing now, be distinguished to prevent possible confusion? (e.g. letter, or reader - the person and the book). Most suppositious confusions never occur in practice, e.g., you cannot say, "The sun's rays meet," and you don't say, "The sons raise meat," altho you could say, "The engine has a tender behind." The odds are a hundred to one that you have not noticed the homografs alredy on this page as typewritten. Even excluding verb-noun pairs and the multiple distinctions made by a good dictionary, there are 35 of them, from standard, speech, spell, rules, can, will, to present, distinguished, book, practice, page, type, even, and only 18 of them are homofones thretend by reform, e.g., their, so, be, for, to, no, all, by.
7. Sight-words. A major barrier to spelling reform is that some very common and very irregular words would look very odd for a while. The interim solution is to leave a few 'sight-words' that occur very frequently in running text. An arbitrary number of 12 is easy to remember, and dull learners who at present cannot cope with 40 sight-words, let alone thousands, can confidently learn and remember merely 12. The -ion construction is included because it occurs continually in newspapers and textbooks, and is shared in similar forms by all modem languages with Western links, particularly in the international relm of science. Lerners can be shown how our shn, schn, zhn pronunciations of -tion, -stion, -sion endings are slurrings from a more precise enunciation.
9. Some grammatical markers are retained pending research on the actual value for fluent reading and learner-ease. The latter point could be clarified by analysis of i.t.a. children's spelling, since they have the options of -t and -d for participles and a reversed z which looks like s for plurals and verbs. And how do they transfer to present spelling on these?
10. Experiments may support the observation that child and foreign learners who initially pronounce all s spellings of z sound as voiceless actually sound no worse than Welsh. But there is evidence that adult readers are affronted by the greater use of the relatively unfamiliar z in spelling reforms, and it may be expedient while first obtaining regularity to generalise more familiar letters except where the rarer letters are normally expected.
The expedient of using -se to indicate final voiceless s except in plurals, to avoid frequent confusions such as peace and peas, is a clumsy interim mesure to make the best of the current alternatives English readers accept at present -impasse, glass, rinse, dance, coalesce. What would be better?
11. In eny complete spelling reform, k will almost certainly be a significant letter, and so must be retained. However, at present it can affront, like z, since c is more familiar, so the attempt is to provide the most simple rule possible to govern maximum occurence in a familiar position. K should be used, insted of c, before e and i, when sounded as k.
12. In the interim, the present invariable rule of spelling the sounds cw and gw with qu and gu are retained to maintain the present appearance of print. However, anomalies like queue, lacquer and guess are changed, altho cue, racer and gess will appear as minor oddities while they are still unfamiliar.
Summary.This is a simple and economical reform, that requires popular support but not vast funds to be adopted gradually.
It maintains the basic appearance and continuity of English spelling while cutting out much of the unpredictability. The table below compares word changes in transliterated passages from:
A. Running text from the introduction to New Spelling, in transition spelling.
B. Running text from "the worst English spelling possible," collected in The story of the Beautiful Princess' (Appendix 1), i.e., maximum change needed.
C. New Spelling introduction, excluding repeated words, in transition spelling.
D. The same in Dr. Wijk's Regularized English (Wijk, p.324).
E. Transition spelling, excluding repeated words, 'The Beautiful Princess.'
F. The same for the first three paragraphs of the Gettysburg Address.
No change except omission of surplus letters
Total words shortened (including changed)
Total words lengthened
Total words with letter changes
Total words completely retained
ConclusionTransition spelling is designed to be easily read and learnt from both directions, by those just beginning from an initial Lerners' Speling and by alredy fluent readers. It seeks to be as close to present spelling as possible with as few rules as possible. Twelve rules plus 12 sight-words can achieve close similarity to the appearance of the printed word today while cutting out the brambles and ded wood that, world-wide, hinder literacy in the English language.
Reform can begin now, by everyone, with Lindgren's e for the short e sound, as in bet, concurrent with action research on the next steps.
The scheme is set out in a form that could be a useful structure for the presentation and comparison of all schemes for spelling improvement.
Acknowledgements: This paper is the product of discussion and correspondence with meny spelling reform colleagues, including those at the 1979 Conference, where Dr. John Beech, particularly, influenced my thinking.
Key background reading:
Chomsky, N. "Phonology and Reading" in Levin, H. and Williams, J.P. (Eds.) Basic Studies on Reading, N.Y.: Basic Books, 1970.
Chomsky, C. "Reading, Writing and Phonology" Harvard Educational Review, 1970, v. 40, pp. 287-310.
Lindgren, Harry, Spelling Reform, a new Approach. Alpha Books, Sydney, Australia, 1969.
Pitman, Sir James, and St. John, J. Alphabets and Reading, London: Pitman, 1969.
Wijk, Axel. Regularized English. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1959.
Yule, Valerie. "Is there evidence for Chomsky's interpretation of English spelling?", Spelling Progress Bulletin v. 18, n. 4, 1978, pp. 10-12.
Appendix 1.An example of Transition Speling, showing an average degree of change in running text:
"The worst spelling possible," the story of the Beautiful Princess, is recommended for spelling reformers in fun or ernest, to see the maximum change that their reforms could produce. Here it is in transition spelling:
"Onse upon a time the buetiful dauter of a grate majition wonted more perls to put among her trezhers. 'Look thru the senter of the muun when it is blu,' sed her muther in anser to her question. 'Yu mite fiend yor hart's desier.' The prinsese lafd becos she douted these werds. Insted she used her imagination, muuvd into the fotografy bisnese and took pictuers of the luuner sfere in culer. 'I perseve moest sertenly that it aulways aperes hoely white,' she thaut. She aulso found that she coud ern enuf muny in ate munths to biy herself tuw luvly, huje, enormus nue juwels tuu."
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Bakk says that rate increase will be lower than Gov. Mark Dayton's proposal of 9.85 percent, but broadened to more taxpayers. He says it won't raise alcohol taxes.
Bakk previewed the Senate plan Monday at a University of Minnesota forum with House Speaker Paul Thissen. The full Senate plan is to be unveiled Tuesday.
The House plan calls for such an increase on those making more than $400,000 a year, plus a 4 percent surcharge for two years on incomes over $500,000.
Bakk says some income tax increase on top earners and a cigarette tax hike will likely become law this year.
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Another school system in the Valley is planning to make the digital switch. Thursday night, Athens city schools voted to toss their text books and get computers and iPads.
The city of Athens recently added a one cent sales tax, and 20 percent of that money had to be used for the school system if they requested it. They made that request Thursday night and it was unanimously approved by the school board.
The 'Power Up' project means that students in grades K-6 will get iPads. Their teachers will get them too and be trained on how to use them. Students in grades 7-12 will get Mac books. Every student and teacher in the seven schools in the school system will get those Apple products. Superintendent Trey Holladay says it's all about getting kids college and career ready.
"Every major university has hybrid classes," he said. "Every one of them has some type of technological push and that they are teaching those in universities. So we are trying to make sure we push it down and it becomes second nature to our kids."
Holladay also wants to provide local businesses and restaurants in the area 'Power Up' decals so that students who don't have Wi-Fi at home can use their Internet connection. The 'Power up project" will cost a little more than 2 million dollars over the next five years. Superintendent Holladay says he hopes to have it going by September 1st, even if it's in small increments.
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Coleman, also of the 1200 block of West 72nd Place, was found next door to his home and pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
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Technical Sergeant Jason Mower and another airmen were canoeing Saturday when the canoe overturned. Emergency responders recovered Mower's body on Sunday morning.
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