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Summer is finally here! It's been a very long Spring. A lot of rain and chilly weather. But the warmth has finally arrived! With the warmer weather and longer days has been more people coming in for Board Game Night on Saturdays! This last Saturday we had twelve people show up! Thank you to everyone who came. We appreciate your support of this store.
Cryptozoic has put out several new games recently that have been big hits here. The DC Comics Deckbuilding Game, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Deckbuilding Game, and Castle: The Detective Card Game have been very popular recently. If you are curious about any of these, just stop by as there is almost always someone playing one of them! Or rent them and try them out at home!
I would also like to welcome David Peterman to the RTD family. He has worked the last few Sundays, and has fit right in!
Thank you again for all of your support. Without you this store would not exist.
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Pinehurst BBQ and Steak, 100 Strickland Drive in Orange, received an 87 out of a possible 100 during a recent health inspection. The restaurant received demerits for rice at improper temperatures and sitting inside a microwave, some foods in the walk-in cooler not dated, and raw beef stored above fruits inside a reach-in cooler.
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• Meals on Wheels located at 103 5th Street in Orange. Score: 100.
• Mongolian Grill and Sushi located at 3104 Edgar Brown Drive in Orange. Score: 96. Demerits are for storing food inside walk-in cooler.
• James Brown Gumbo House located at 995 North Main Street in Vidor. Score: 96. Demerits are for needing to date all foods inside the coolers.
• Decent Store located at 110 Texla Road in Vidor. Score: 89. Demerits are for the store name and address needing to be on all bags of ice sold, several expired items on the shelves and gaskets in need of repair.
• Food Mart #2 915 Hwy. 1131 in Vidor. Score: 92. Demerits are for the store name and address needing to be on all bags of ice sold, and several expired items on the shelves.
• Community Church School located at 3400 North MLK Drive in Orange. Score : 96. Demerits are for chicken stored above produce in the walk-in cooler. The health inspector advised the manager to place all chicken on the bottom shelves of the coolers.
Three schools were recently inspected by the Orange County Health Inspector and received perfect scores of 100.
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• Orangefield High School located at 10058 FM 105 in Orangefield.
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FOX 29 News is told that the U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene of a train derailment where highly-toxic vinyl chloride is reported to be leaking.
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FREE BASIC Function help
' I am working on this tip calculator program. I am trying to have the program give a message that depends on the amount of tip. 10%= ok, 15%=good, 20%=best
declare sub display_welcome
declare function main() as integer
declare function input_Meal()as single
declare function calc_Tip(as single)as single
declare function calc_Tax(as single)as single
declare function calc_Total(as single,as single,as single) as single
declare function print_info(as single,as single,as single)as single
Function Main() as integer
dim vcalctip as single
dim calctax as single
dim calctotal as single
dim mealprice as single
dim Variablewelcome as string
Print variablewelcome
print " this returned welcome"
mealprice = Input_meal
print " now we are going to CALL the Function Calc_Tip passing mealp"
vcalctip = Calc_tip(mealprice)
print " Calc Tip used the mealP and returned a tip"
calctax = Calc_tax(mealprice)
calctotal = Print_info(mealprice, vcalctip, calctax)
print ;
return 0
end function
'this is the FUNCTION that is called from the main function
sub display_welcome()
Dim welcome as string
welcome = "Welcome to the meal calculator program. "
end sub
function Input_meal () as single
dim mealPrice as single
Input "Please enter meal price $", mealPrice
Print "here we called the Input_meal function"
return mealPrice
end function
function Calc_tip ( mealprice as single) as single
dim Thetotaltip as single
print " CalcTip used mealp as input, and is returning the tip "
thetotaltip = mealprice * .20
print " Calc_tip function calculated the tip and returned it to main"
return thetotaltip
end function
function Calc_tax (mealprice as single) as single
dim calctax as single
calctax = mealprice * .06
return calctax
end function
function Calc_total (mealprice as single, calctip as single, calctax as single) as single
dim calctotal as single
calctotal = mealprice + calctip + calctax
Print "Receives the three values and returns 1"
return calctotal
end function
'why can I use mealprice here - when it was always mealp in the other functions?
function Print_info (mealp as single, calct as single, ctax as single) as single
print "The meal price is ";
Print using "$$##.##"; mealp 'floating dollar sign
print "The tip is ",
Print using "$$##.##"; calct 'fixed dollar sign
print "The tax is ",
PRINT USING "$$##.##"; ctax
print "The total is ",
PRINT USING "$$##.##"; mealp + calct + ctax
return 0
end function
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I am not familiar with Free Basic although it looks very similar to Visual Basic (which is natural considering that both are BASIC based)
Still, I don't see a question here... what is that you wanted to ask?


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UNH Health Services Now Offering Guided Meditation
Monday, September 10, 2012
Lyin Schramm
Many students only think about going to the Health Services when they are sick enough to miss class, myself included, but this year Health Services wants to really promote personal well-being. The other day, the Director of Education & Promotion, Kathleen Grace-Bishop, came to speak to a student group that I am involved in. She spoke about what Health Services has to offer, and I was completely blown away. She emphasized that they have recently hired two new massage therapists to keep up with the student demand, and now individual meditation lessons are offered. I was aware that massages were given at Health Services, but the concept of guided meditation really made me think. What exactly is meditation?
This once fad has now been proven to have numerous health benefits for all ages.
Meditation helps to clear the mind and allows you to become in tune with yourself and your surroundings. An article from the NY Times How Mediation May Change The Brain explains how specific areas related to memory, anxiety, learning, and stress are triggered during this period of silence. No evidence exists stating any negative results from meditation, so it is worth a shot!
The beginning of each semester is very hectic when it comes to moving in, reorganizing, and getting your mind back into "school mode", so what better way to calm down than with meditation? Individual appointments can be made by calling (603) 862-3823 and starting September 10, guided meditation will be hosted in MUB, Room 304 from 12-1pm. For more information about this topic check out the page on the Healthy Services website!
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The concept of The Wall is loosely based on the life and experiences of Roger Waters and the stage performances and film were created in close collaboration with Gerald Scarfe. Including exclusive interviews with Roger, as well as surviving Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, this is the story of Gerald's collaboration with Pink Floyd from Wish You Were Here to Roger Waters' The Wall Live 2010.
The book follows Gerald's relationship with Pink Floyd, starting in 1973 and traces the evolution of The Wall in all its various forms - the album, the stage show, the film and the 2010 show. Gerald shares his experiences with the band - how they met, the professional and personal relationships, the concepts and ideas behind the creation of The Wall as well as how the album was realized on the stage and in front of the camera.
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September 11, 2013
Women's Lacrosse Named Academic Squad Fourth Straight YearLake Erie College has once again been recognized by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) as earning IWLCA Division II Academic Squad honors for the 2013 season.
Every school with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher earned Academic Squad honors, with a total of 22 teams earning the distinction. Lake Erie College, which was named an IWLCA Academic Squad for the fourth straight year, is one of four teams in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to be named.
Additionally, three members of the 2013 Storm team were named to the individual IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for the season. Current senior Ashriel West (Jamesville, N.Y./Jamesville Dewitt) was joined by recent graduates Julia Kudla and Allison Trombetti.
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Lack of capacity and lack of wealth often result from our deceptive practices with each other. More often they result from the acts of malice perpetrated by powerful predators who profit from our community dysfunction. These predators come with names that are disarming. They are often religious church names. They are always controlled by the rapacious and the greedy.


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Gold prices rebounded to hit fresh peak at the bullion market on Friday on hectic demand from stockists and investors sparked by the bullish momentum at international level.
Silver also zoomed on heavy speculative buying tracking the yellow metals rally.
Standard gold (99.5 purity) rallied by Rs 200 to end at Rs 32,200 per 10 gm from Thursday's closing level of Rs 32,000.
Pure gold (99.9 purity) gained by Rs 210 to close at Rs 32,355 per 10 gm from Rs 32,145.
Silver ready (.999 fineness) shot up by Rs 1,330 per kg to finish at Rs 63,665 as against Rs 62,335 yesterday.
"Traders opted to sideline any hope of correction amidst ensuing wedding and festive seasons after overseas gold rally following US Federal Reserve's release of its much awaited stimulus measures," dealers said.
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Considering that every individual human being on this planet has different social desires... yeah, no. A lot of people worry about being alone because it's a legitimate fear. No one wants to be truly alone. One of my coworkers has not had a date in 5 years and he's probably the most depressed person I've ever met for exactly this reason.
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The Miscellaneous Rantings of Marie-Lizette
Lagtard at the Table!
Last Friday (April 20th) I made another appearance on Live at the Bike. I've always admitted to my LAGish style and this was evident during the show (VPIP 41%/PFR 25%). What wasn't obvious was that I had a plan every time I played a hand. Sadly, I didn't get any credit for my plays or thought processes - Dave Tuckman didn't expect me to last an hour...I guess he doesn't remember that I've now played on the show five times, and have only been stuck once when he just so happen to flop perfect against me (see my PokerProWannabe.com blog posts dated Sept. 16, 2011; Sept 27, 2011; Dec. 3, 2011; and, Feb. 27, 2012). I will be posting video clips and address some of the comments on the show later in the week.
Anywho... my kids went with my Aunt to U.C. Davis to visit my cousin for the weekend, leaving me with plenty of free time. While a could have done some work, I thought, "Nahhhhh...I'll go play a tournament." I'm actually not supposed to be playing any tourneys right now, I'm supposed to be grinding up cash and rebuilding my bankroll but, while trolling the local casinos' websites, I stumbled upon Hollywood Park's $400K event structure. I can't say that I thought it was a great structure...but it seemed to me that with well timed aggression and a whole lot of luck, it might be worth the $220 investment for a shot at $100K for first place. I know I still have leaks in my game, but I feel as though I played fairly well on Friday, with 80% of my plays working out the way I wanted them to. So, I thought that I could afford to reward myself with a small buy-in tourney...just because it's so much fun to imagine what I would do with $100K.
I doubled up early in the event, had a few big hands hold up, and took a couple of pretty sick bad beats. I managed to keep an even temper (for once in my life) and just stayed the course. I was actually the tournament chip leader during Level 16 (1.5K/3K+500 ante). I didn't want tell anyone (text, twitter or facebook) that I was playing because I wanted to focus on my game. It wasn't until I had already made it into the money that I posted my first tweet.
Even with over 175K, I grew concerned that I had gone card dead just as the blinds were going into the nose bleed structure. I had been whittled down to just over 15 BBs by Level 21 (5K/10K+1K) and the shortstacks were pretty much open shoving with any ace or pair, so I had to really pick my spots carefully because every chip matters at that stage of the game. I quite literally only played 3 hands in the last 4 levels of play.
Feeling a bit desperate, I open raised under-the-gun +1 with because the Big Blind was playing super tight and 3 of the 4 players in between were fairly soft. The Big Blind had been at a prior table with me and he knew I picked on him quite a bit so he gave me some action. The flop was , and my opponent had checked in the dark. His range was no where near that flop so I bet and he folded, increasing my stack back up to 140K but leaving me at just under 10 BBs just as the blinds went up to 10K/20K+3K ante (Level 24).
The button moved a couple of times and I found myself on the Big Blind with . The only aggressive player was in the cut-off and picked that time to raise to 45K. The table was 6-handed and the Small Blind had folded, so I was heads-up with the pre-flop raiser. I weighed my options and since it was only costing me 15K more to see the flop and potentially win 90K+, I made the call. I know that based on my effective chip stack I'm supposed to shove or fold there, but I didn't want to just surrender my chips without a fight and I thought I could out play him on the flop, and oh what a flop it was! ..GIN! I had about 94K in front of me, exactly a pot-sized bet so I checked, knowing my opponent was going to c-bet. He only bet 50K but I didn't think he had any fold equity so I shoved. Unfortunately, he had air and folded...but I was happy for the win. I elected to show my hand, knowing that the next play I was going to make would have to be a shove situation and I wanted to be sure that I got action because only 10 people advanced to Day 2 in that flight and we were down to 11. I was not willing to make the 44 mile drive (88 round trip) just to come back without chips...I wanted to double up or go home.
A few minutes later I had the button and American Airlines baby! That's right, . Of course, just my luck, it folds around to me. Well, I certainly wasn't going to limp and given my hand history, I figured I'd get looked up if I raised on the button, so I made it 45K to go. The small blind, who had been with me at at least two other tables, counted and re-stacked his chips (about 120K give or take) and then pushed them forward, announcing, "All-In." (Yay me! ) The Big Blind folded and I made the call. He turned over . (Yay me! ) The flop was all paint and he was drawing dead on the turn.
With that knockout, the flight was down to 10 qualifiers and we bagged and tagged for Day 2. I found myself with 375K which, given that my flight was the largest field of the 18 flight event, is one of the larger stacks in play. I'll be starting Day 2 with just under 40 big blinds since the levels roll back to Level 21 (5K/10K+1K).
I'm going to do my best to stay focused and play my best game. I'll try not to be overly aggressive and pick my spots well. Wish me luck!
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MAPS 3 Resolution and 2009 ballot (PDF)
It is funded by a limited term, one-cent sales tax initiative that began in April 2010 and ends in December 2017. The initiative funds eight projects and is estimated to raise $777 million. A Citizens Advisory Board makes recommendations to City Council.
MAPS 3 tax collections are well under way and the City is moving forward on the projects. The Implementation Plan guides the process.
City Council has approved a master plan for the MAPS 3 Downtown Park. The park will consist of 40 acres north of I-40 and 30 acres between I-40 and the river, connected by the SkyDance pedestrian bridge. The master plan, proposed by Hargreaves Associates, includes gardens, fountains, a "great lawn" facing a stage, a promenade and a lake. The $132 million project is scheduled to be completed in 2021.
The public attended an open house to get information and provide
feedback on an eight-mile MAPS 3 trail planned along the I-44 corridor from
Lake Hefner to the Oklahoma River.
Aerial maps of the trail alternatives and presentation can be viewed below:
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View the PowerPoint presented at the January 15 public meeting (PDF)
Please email your comments about this trail to firstname.lastname@example.com
Oklahoma City officials broke ground today on the West River Trail, the
first in a series of MAPS 3 trails scheduled for construction over the
next four years.
The scenic seven-mile trail begins at the southeast corner of Lake Overholser and will connect to the Oklahoma River trail. More
Today Oklahoma City Council approved a consultant-recommended route framework for the first phase of the MAPS 3 Streetcar project. The 4.5-mile route framework connects the Downtown Transit Center, Automobile Alley, the future intermodal transit hub at Santa Fe Station, future MAPS 3 Convention Center, Bricktown, Midtown and runs a block from the future MAPS 3 Downtown Public Park. More
Hydrologists engineered a 1/12 model of the future MAPS 3 whitewater course. Coming to the Oklahoma River in 2015.
Oklahoma City celebrated the construction of another MAPS 3 project today
as new sidewalks start replacing worn grass paths along North Western Avenue
between Britton and Hefner Roads.
Over the next few years, $9 million in MAPS 3 sidewalks will be constructed throughout the City. Locations were selected based on criteria set by the MAPS 3 Sidewalks and Trails Subcommittee.
"These new sidewalks strengthen our neighborhoods and improve our community's walkability, safety and health. They enhance our access to libraries, parks, schools, public transit and shopping," said Mayor Mick Cornett. More
On July 24 The Alliance for Economic Development executive director presented an overview on Business Improvement Districts (BID) and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to the MAPS 3 Streetcar subcommittee. The presentation explains the difference between BID and TIF, how these districts are created, and highlights their potential to help financially support expansion and operation of the Streetcar. See it here.
More than 150 people attend a public meeting on Monday,
July 15 at the Ronald Norick Downtown Library to get information about the
streetcar's concept routes and provide feedback to the consultant team led
by Jacobs Engineering.
Questions and answers that were submitted during the July 15 public meeting.
Here are the four concept route options currently being considered:
All of the route concepts presented connect areas of Midtown, the Central Business District and Bricktown. The concept routes are still flexible and the final route recommendation could be a modified version of one of the options or even a combination of more than one.
Some of the top criteria used to create the concept routes include:
The citizen subcommittee for the MAPS 3 convention center reviewed three convention center concepts presented by consultants Populous and GSB, Inc.
The new convention center will be built downtown between Reno Avenue and the future Oklahoma City Boulevard and Robinson Avenue and Walker Avenue.
The consultants took comments from subcommittee members and elected officials and plan to present a hybrid concept that incorporates the favored features from each concept in the coming months.
All three convention center concepts are anchored to Robinson Avenue and feature an elevated ballroom with city and park views, flexible meeting spaces, entrances on all sides of the building, room for expansion to the west, and below ground exhibit halls and loading docks. The concepts also allow for pedestrian connections to the Myriad Botanical Gardens and the future MAPS 3 Downtown Public Park.
The three concepts primarily differ in the orientation of the convention center and the location of a proposed convention center hotel, which is not part of MAPS 3.
City Council will make the final decision on the concepts. Construction on the $252 million project is expected to begin in 2016.
City Council approved a preliminary sidewalk improvement report for the development and design of the first phase of a multiple-phase sidewalk program for MAPS 3. Phase 1, Project 1 will include approximately 5.9 miles of sidewalk at an estimated cost of $1.43 million.
Phase 1, Project 1 locations include:
Sidewalk construction is expected to begin in May. See the PowerPoint presentation.
Stay up to date with MAPS 3 issues by subscribing to the MAPS 3 e-newsletter. The newsletter will be sent to your inbox periodically. Please click here if you would like to subscribe.


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Though arriving a little later than expected, Apple has officially launched its iTunes Match service for those with iTunes 10.5.1 (available now). iTunes Match allows you to sync your entire music collection to iCloud–including songs and albums you've ripped from CD's. Songs that match up with titles already available via iTunes will match up with a DRM free 256kbps AAC version, and the new service will have a cost of $24.99 annually for up to 25,000 songs stored in the cloud (iTunes purchases do not count towards that total).
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Three ex-Indians reunited with Mariners
Garko, Gutierrez, Lee not far removed from time with Tribe
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Ryan Garko hadn't been gone long. But even he had trouble keeping up with the new faces on the Indians' roster at the tail end of the 2009 season."I saw an Indians game on TV in September," Garko said, "and I didn't know anybody who was playing." Garko doesn't have to look far to see where some of his old buddies went. They're right alongside him in the Mariners' clubhouse. The Indians made the short trip to the Peoria Sports Complex on Tuesday to face the Mariners, and Garko and Franklin Gutierrez, two regular position players on the '07 Tribe team that fell a win shy of the World Series, were both in the opposing lineup. Cliff Lee, who won 22 games and a Cy Young Award for the Indians in '08, joins Garko and Gutierrez on the Seattle roster, having been dealt from the Phillies club that acquired him from the Tribe last July. Even former Tribe pitching coach Carl Willis has landed with the Mariners as a Minor League pitching coordinator. "It was only [three years ago] that all those guys were there [in Cleveland]," said Garko, who was dealt to the Giants last July and signed with the Mariners over the winter. "We thought we would be together a long time. We were all young, and the team controlled all of us for at least a couple more years." But what's happened with the Indians in the time since is illustrative of a larger trend in the game. A small-market team has a very limited window to contend with a young core before the dollars and cents that come with arbitration and free-agent eligibility begin to lead to some difficult decisions. For the Indians, the decision was made, piece by piece, to trade talent nearing the next big pay day for younger players with more contractual control.
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Molina's homer helps Giants narrow gap
San Francisco is three games back in NL Wild Card race
SAN FRANCISCO -- Bengie Molina waited eight innings to make his presence felt. When he did, the evening suddenly belonged to no one else but him.A game-winning home run has that kind of transformative power. Appearing as a pinch-hitter, Molina rescued his floundering teammates and electrified the AT&T Park crowd Wednesday night with a three-run, eighth-inning homer that erased a two-run deficit and lifted the Giants to a 4-3 triumph over the D-backs. The Giants' second consecutive one-run victory enabled them to trim the Rockies' lead in the National League Wild Card standings to three games. Thus, it was a big night for the Giants, though they appeared destined for a grimmer fate. Jonathan Sanchez's strong seven-inning effort was about to be wasted, as the Giants were about to add to their sizable total of dismal offensive performances. The fifth-smallest paid audience in the ballpark's history, 27,645, was poised to go home grouchy after drizzling scattered-yet-audible booing upon Randy Winn, Aaron Rowand, Ryan Garko and Justin Miller. Molina changed everything, despite being out of the lineup for the second game in a row with a tight right quadriceps muscle. Having mustered three hits off Arizona starter Doug Davis, whose only lapse was Juan Uribe's seventh-inning homer, the Giants roused themselves with two outs and the bases empty in the eighth. Trailing, 3-1, they prolonged the eighth, as Edgar Renteria, who provided scintillating defense earlier, coaxed a walk from Davis on a 3-2 pitch. Winn, who incurred the crowd's wrath by popping up a bunt attempt in the sixth inning, blooped a single to right field. In came right-hander Chad Qualls. Due up was Garko, who had never faced Qualls. So off the bench rose Molina, who happened to be 3-for-5 against the Arizona closer.
"You're probably going to laugh, but I didn't know that," Molina said.Representing the potential go-ahead run, Molina knew the danger of going for a homer.
"My approach was just trying to hit the ball hard somewhere," he said. "I got lucky enough to get it up in the air. In that situation, you have to hope that he leaves something right down the middle of the plate or hangs a pitch and you take advantage of it."That's precisely what happened with Qualls' 0-2 slider.
"It backed up over the middle of the plate, and he got the barrel on it," said Qualls (2-2).Molina resembled a latter-day Mickey Mantle as he hobbled around the bases absorbing the fans' roaring that didn't subside until he answered their curtain call. "The fans, believe it or not, are a big part of this," said Molina, who has hit three career pinch-hit homers. "They cheer you on and pump you up big time. I hope they understand that." Molina might sit again when the Giants and D-backs conclude their series on Thursday.
"We're trying to be very careful with it," he said of his injury. "I'd rather take a couple more days off and feel good than just risk it and be out for three weeks if I do something else to it."Molina wasn't the only Giants player to buoy the club. Miller (3-3), who allowed seven runs in two games during the nightmarish Colorado series, earned the decision with a scoreless eighth inning. "I know what I'm capable of," said Miller, whose ERA rose from 1.83 to 2.96 in Denver. "Those two games weren't me." Brandon Medders earned his first career save as he substituted for closer Brian Wilson, who threw 70 pitches in the previous two games. Making his 183rd Major League appearance, Medders refused to let his initial save opportunity overwhelm him.
"It's just another inning," he said. Nor did Medders get carried away by facing the D-backs, with whom he had spent his entire professional career until this season. "It's just another big league team. I didn't really think about that."Sanchez worked seven innings and allowed all of Arizona's runs while surrendering six hits -- the most he has yielded in nine starts since throwing his July 10 no-hitter. But it was a strong outing overall for Sanchez, who struck out nine and kept the score close until Molina delivered. "I hope it's a big lift," Molina said. "I hope everybody gets pumped up for tomorrow."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Although every first year law student starts their career taking the same foundational classes, you can customize your experience early on at Syracuse University College of Law. Whether it be by joining one of Syracuse's 35 student organizations, serving in pro bono activities, or networking with alumni, the opportunities to get involved are endless.
The law school provides plenty of opportunity to customize your experience as well as support and guidance along the way. Professors, faculty, and current students are always willing to discuss coursework, offer career advice, and discuss different student and professional organizations. During orientation, students and faculty discuss various aspects of law school life, and a Student Activities Fair is hosted late in the week. It was during orientation when I decided to join the Corporate Law and Intellectual Property societies! Throughout the school year, these organizations bring in prestigious speakers and host seminars at the College of Law, giving even busy students time during their lunch hour to get involved in the area of law that interests you. Your first year can be busy and overwhelming at times – I always found these activities to be a welcome break.
The College of Law provides services and mentorship so that you can create your own internship opportunities. The Professional Development Office meets with first year students, providing services from resume review to mock interviews with alumni. During the spring of my first year, I applied to General Electric (GE) directly, and was hired to work as a summer law clerk t at GE's Global Research Center, working directly for the General Counsel. I continue to work for GE during the school year.
In the fall of your second year, you gain access to the College of Law's excellent on campus interview program. Although I interviewed at several firms across the state through the on-campus interview program, I ultimately selected a firm outside of the College of Law network. With the College of Law's support and assistance, I networked with attorneys who graduated from my undergraduate University, and at firms I was particularly interested in. This summer I will be working for Fish & Richardson's New York City office, a large patent firm. The law school gave me the confidence and skills to be able to network successfully on my own.
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I've been involved in microcontrollers for some time – but of the LEGO Mindstorms flavour (and BASIC Stamp to a lesser extent). Lately, I've jumped on the Arduino bandwagon. I've always had the natural nack to fix pretty much anything that has batteries or a plug running out of it. As the Arduino revolution has picked up dramatically over the past few years, so to has my desire to do DIY projects around the house. At some point in the future, we plan a kitchen reno. Part of that reno will the addition of under-cabinet LED lighting. Since that is far off, but I also had the need for better lighting in my office, I figured this would be a great time to proto something for the kitchen upgrade, while making something functional for the office. So, here it is..
At first, I did not really have a plan. I knew I wanted some sort of switchless control of the LEDs, and to illuminate the main part of my desk. My initial prototype used a capacitive touch control using 2 copper tubes mounted on the project box. The idea being bridging the two tubes with your finger, the LEDs would dim up/down. You could also to a tap to turn them on (ramp up) and another tap to turn them off (ramp down). I was nearly done, but while perusing the web, I came across someone using an arduino and a synaptics touchpad together for another purpose – which got me thinking (smoke coming out of ears). I also found the need to want to control more than one light at my desk. I have multiple shelves and, even though the desk area can be illuminated, the shelf above are dark at night. This is also the place where all my electronic bits manage to find themselves when Im tinkering – and I often have to go fishing around for a flashlight to find bits I'm looking for. The addition of a touchpad provides many possibilities here.
When connected to the Arduino, a Synaptics touchpad can be used in two modes. Relative mode is the norm. It works like you would expect it to on a laptop. No matter where you put your finger and move it, your mouse will move from its current point in the direction you move your finger. Well, I'm not using a computer or moving a mouse around. I needed the unit to work in absolute mode. I need to know the exact X/Y coordinates of where my fingers were moving. Knowing this, I could create mapped areas to monitor in the Sketch and perform various actions when movement was detected in those areas. Thanks to this Instructable, the users Sketch contained the necessary commands to put the Synaptics touchpad in Absolute mode. The sketch uses the PS2 library as well. More on this later.
After testing a touchpad from my old and trusty Compact N600c, I decided to pickup a few extras from Ebay. I managed to pickup one from a Gateway W340UA and a Gateway Solo unit ($5 each). Both units had the Synaptics chip I was looking for, but I am sure there are many other Laptops that have similar units (eg IBM T42 does), and quick Google search will yield lots of results. I like this touchpad as it already has the arrow markers for the dimming feature that I wanted (more on this later re X/Y values). The next image shows the pinouts and trace paths for the Gateway W340UA touchpad that I used for this project. I have toyed with 4 different Synaptics touchpads and found them all very similar in their layout.
The pinouts are straight forward: +5V, GND, Data and Clock. Most sample sketches out there (especially the PS2 library) will have info on where to hook each of these up to on the Arduino. You can also download my sketch for this project further down below. Synaptics was even nice enough to give us DIY'ers little pads to solder to. These are evident for the Data and Clock points below. Note that, for the 5V power, you should track back as far to the ribbon connector as you can. There is at least 1 resistor and capacitor along the path to the pin on the Synaptics chip. Don't bypass them if they are there. The Data and Clock pins are ok to go direct to the Synaptics pins. Also take note of the reference dot on the Synaptics chip – this typically refers to the starting location of PIN#1 on the chip.
After soldering the pin connections on the back of the touchpad, I had to find a way to mount it. I thought of different ways to do this (embedding it on the desk, on the side, etc etc). Since I had a lot of metal mounting points aronund me (filing cabinet, side shelf beams, shelves), I just decided to put some magnets to the back of it. Of course, since my roots are with LEGO I could not fore-go the bastardization of a LEGO plate to mask the circuit board and soldering I had done with that fine blue wire (figure it must be 30-something gauge – it's like thread!). So, I took to the dremmel and cut up a black plate and glued it to the back of the touchpad. Now, if I want to in the future, I can build any type of mounting system I want – using LEGO!
I am a minimalist when it comes to designing circuits. I don't like large boxy control units. One day, I will perfect my SMD abilities and make these things even smaller. For now, I had to settle with a project box that I'm pretty happy with – approx 3″ x 2″ x 1″. I managed to cram in an Arduino Nano, 12V power connector, regulated 5V supply, 4x IRF 530′s (to control the LEDs), status LEDs and a number of connectors. It's tight. I know what you Arduino junkes are thinking.. What a waste of a Nano. I'm cool with that. This is the first, and in future projects, I plan on creating my own Atmega based circuits. I've already cobbled together a staging board that I can use to program future chips. In the case of this circuit, I needed to use the PWM abilities of the 168/328 chips. I'm using all available PWM pins (4 of them). Again, Arduino junkies, I know what you are thinking – there are more than 4 PWM pins. Yes there are. However, I'm using the MSTimer2 library which kills the PWM of pins 3 and 11 for this project – I could have used another for the secondary LED lights, so if you have any ideas, share them up in the comments.
Looking at the Main Board below, I've labelled all the main parts. I used IRF530 MOSFETs to allow the Arduino to cleanly regulate 0-12V to each of the R, G, B on the main LED light bar and 1 IRF530 to do the same for the second LED light. In the case of the second LED light, I used a leftover strip of 3 RGB LEDs. In this case, I did not care to individually control Red, Green and Blue. What I did was simply use the IRF530 to power 0-12V to the LEDs on 2 wires. On the LED strip itself, I bridged R+G and from RG added a 330 Ohm resistor to Blue. This reduces the power output of blue which gives the light a warmer more natural light (not that bluish white light).
I've also included a breadboard layout created i Fritzing. Although Fritzing has some bugs, its a great app for rapidly producing usable breadboard, PCB and Schamatics of your circuits. I recommend it. I almost forgot to mention the speaker. This was a bit of an afterthought, but i had one laying around and thought it would be good to have some aural feedback when the touchpad was being used. Glad I did it. I have the LEDs ramp up/down and it can lead the user to wonder if it's working as it can take a few seconds to complete its on/off cycle. This way, I can add beeps and chirps to the interaction of the unit.
The Sketch:
There are a few interesting things I thought I would point out about the sketch:
- To turn the Main LED on off – touch the center of the touchpad. The Main LEDs will ramp up to max brightness (more on this later). If they LED is on, it will ramp down to an OFF position.
- To manually control Main LED brightness, just slide your finger up/down along the right side of the touchpad (where the arrows are). There was an added bonus to the X values that Synaptics returned to the unit. Any touch to the area of the right band returns an X value of 8176. This way, my conditional check only has to check the 1 X value and a range of Y values. The Y values are mapped between 0 – 255 (the range of power to the LEDs)
- Delayed Time off – I have a feature that when the Main LED is on, clicking the top center will initiate a countdown timer of 10 minutes. After which the Main LEDs will turn off.
- Secondary LED on/off – clicking the top left corner of the touchpad will toggle the Secondary LED on or off (depending on its current state). I had to play around a bit with debouncing here as the loop cycle is ~20ms as it was catching multiple on/off states (even with fast finger taps). I used a simple delay in the code on this (did not want to get into fancy debouncing – will save that for the kitchen project)
- LED Brightness Save – I thought it would be cool to be able to save the Main LED brightness state. Using the right slider, you can adjust the brightness of the Main LEDs. When the desired level is reached, touching (and holding for approx 3 seconds) the bottom left area of the touchpad will save the brightness to EEPROM within the Arduino. The next time the unit is powered up, it will only ramp up to the saved max brightness value. This is persistent even if the Arduino looses power. The only issue is that I can only do it up to approx 100,000 times. Shucks…
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Just in time for New York Fashion Week, Rihanna shows her blonde ambition in the black-and-white ad for the Armani Jeans campaign. The "Cheers" singer has been tapped by the designer as its newest spokeswoman, and will also lend her face to the Emporio Armani Underwear line.
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Shameless, Free Infomercials for Two Guilty Parties: Obama's State of the Union and the Republican Response
"Sponsors of even the most embarrassing, inane and fraudulent infomercials have to pay for their own air time. They can't force TV stations to run their ads for free by threatening to shut them down.
"Through the Federal Communications Commission and other government coercion, Democratic and Republican politicians run their shameless infomercials on prime time TV free of charge. Tonight's infomercial hand-outs were the State of the Union address and the 'opposition' response.
"But wait, there's more!
"Unlike Ginsu knives, hair spray for men, and ripped abs in 30 days, the Republican and Democratic infomercials have no redeeming social value.
WASHINGTON, DC – Mark Hinkle, Chair of Libertarian Party, continues with:
"Honest taxpayers realize you can't spend more money than you earn. They know that the #1 problem in America today is Government Overspending.
"The SOTU and Republican Response infomercials are a grand dog-and-pony show aimed at distracting attention from the fact that Democratic and Republican politicians are equally guilty of driving government spending into the stratosphere.
- "Both Democratic and Republican politicians initiated and supported bailouts.
- "Both Democratic and Republican politicians initiated and supported mandates to buy medical insurance imposed on individuals and small businesses.
- "Both Democratic and Republican politicians have voted for a laundry list of new and expanded government programs – keeping taxes high and driving our national debt to staggering sums that defy comprehension.
"President Barrack Obama blamed the administration of former President George W. Bush for driving up debt and high unemployment.
"In response, Republican Governor Mitch Daniels threw blame back on the president and on the Democrat-controlled Senate.
"Both are correct. Both Democratic and Republican politicians in Washington D.C. are responsible for causing today's economic woes.
"Both Democratic and Republican politicians claim their policies 'create jobs.' But they do the opposite: they expand Big Government and thereby destroy private sector jobs. Democratic and Republican policies are crippling small businesses that create jobs.
"Democratic and Republicans politicians deliver the same policies: High government spending, high taxes, burdensome regulations, endless foreign military intervention and violations of our personal liberty.
"Both Democratic and Republican politicians cater to Special Interest greed while dismissing the wants and needs of ordinary Americans.
"Today more voters than ever realize that Democratic and Republican politicians are players in the same game of Big Government. They differ only in the color of their red and blue jerseys.
"More voters than ever realize that Democratic and Republican politicians are equally responsible for destroying jobs, violating individual rights, and lowering the standard of living for Americans.
"The Libertarian Party offers voters a desperately-needed alternative. Since its founding 40 years ago, the Libertarian Party remains unwavering in its pursuit of liberty, free trade and small government.
"Whether Libertarians are running for U.S. House, the Senate or the White House, they reject the self-serving interests of Big Government Profiteers. Libertarians represent the silent majority of Americans who want a choice for much less government:
- Huge and immediate reductions in taxes and government spending
- Repeal of laws that violate individual freedom
- An end to gunboat diplomacy and foreign political entanglements
- Dismantling of government bureaucracies and red tape.
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Volunteers needed for insect search in Rouge River
Friends of the Rouge is looking for volunteers to help with the annual search for Stoneflies on Saturday, Jan. 26. Volunteers have been helping the friends group to track these unusual insects since 2002. Finding a stonefly living in the river is a good indication that the river is healthy because these small insects require cold, clean water. Last year, 73 volunteers found them at 14 of 32 sites. This year, they hope to find even more.
The search begins at the University of Michigan-Dearborn at 9 a.m. No searching is done in Dearborn; volunteers carpool out in 10-12 teams to Rouge streams located around metropolitan Detroit. Volunteers must pre-register by Jan. 11 on the FOTR website www.therouge.org or by calling 313-792-9621.
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The Annual Winter Stonefly Search is part of a long-term monitoring program coordinated by Friends of the Rouge. A report on the results from the Fall Bug Hunt held Oct. 20 was just completed. Data from the Winter Stonefly Search and the spring and fall "Bug Hunts" is used to track the health of the river and assess the progress of river improvement projects. For more information, visit www.therouge.org.
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Mark Avery presents a workshop on property tax appeals at the monthly meeting of the Real Estate Investors Assoc. of Oakland, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at Club Venetian, John R Road. Seminars are free to members and $20 to nonmembers. Call 800-747-6742 or visit www.REIAofOakland.com. There will also be a class on filling out forms and steps of the appeal process, Saturday, Jan. 12 Class at the Royal Oak Senior Center, 1545 E. Lincoln Ave., Royal Oak.
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Baker College to host leadership conference
Baker College of Auburn Hills will host the Business Professionals of America Regional Leadership Conference on its campus, Friday, Jan. 11. Approximately 475 area high school student members will participate in the event, competing for regional awards in more than 50 categories under four primary classifications, including financial services, administrative support, information technology, and management, marketing and human resources.
Finalists are eligible for the State Leadership Conference to be held March 21-24 in Grand Rapids, followed by the National Leadership Conference, May 8-12, in Orlando, Florida.
Business Professionals of America is a national career and technical student organization with more than 54,000 members. The mission of Business Professionals of America is to contribute to the preparation of a world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic, and technological skills.
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Fire & Ice logo, mascot to be revealed
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and officials from Oakland County Parks, the city of Rochester and Downtown Rochester will unveil the new logo and mascot naming contest for the 2013 Fire & Ice Festival at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 10 at the Rochester Mills Beer Co. 400 Water St., Rochester. The festival is set for Jan. 25 through 27.
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CMU students were notified last night around 11:45 that an armed robbery had occurred near the corner of May and Main Streets.
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"Central Michigan University Police issued a Central Alert at approximately 11:45 tonight [Saturday] regarding an 11 p.m. armed robbery that occurred at Main and May streets, about 1.5 blocks north of campus. This case is being handled by the Mount Pleasant City Police; CMU Police are assisting. Suspects were three black males, one wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans and brown boots. They left the scene in a black Chevrolet extended cab pickup with a cap. Anyone with any information is asked to call central dispatch at 773-1000 or CMU Police at 774-3081. Police are advising area residents to use caution; do not approach anyone fitting the description of the subjects. Information in this case will come from city police."
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EMC announced delivery of its fully automated storage tiering (FAST) technology across its Symmetrix, Clariion and Celerra line of storage arrays. The technology will allow data volumes to be dynamically moved between tiers of storage, depending on business performance requirements.
The first phase of EMC FAST technology is available immediately for new and existing EMC Symmetrix V-Max and EMC Clariion CX4 networked storage systems, as well as EMC Celerra NS unified storage systems. The technology will identify data sets at the volume level only and, on average, will allow sets down to a gigabyte to be automatically moved between storage tiers.
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The company also laid out its strategic direction for other advances in automated tiering technology, which will eventually allow its software to identify data sets smaller than a megabyte in size and move them to the most appropriate level of data storage -- be it solid state drives (SSD), Fibre Channel, or SATA.
The software allows users to combine the benefits of enterprise flash drives, which can increase application performance by as much as eight times for active data, with the cost benefits of high-capacity SATA disk drives, which can lower the cost-per-megabyte by as much as 80 percent for inactive data, EMC said.
Brian Gallagher, senior vice president and general manager of EMC's Symmetrix division, said the introduction of FAST technology is an "inflection point" for the company and its customers. "If we don't do anything about storage growth, the future looks pretty bad," he said. "Data capacity growth is doubling every 18 months" and growing 10-fold every five years.
"Database disk drives just can't keep up with [a] 50 percent to 60 percent compound annual growth rate and SATA drives can barely keep up," Gallagher said.
EMC has been espousing the virtues of SSD for nearly two years, vowing to do all it could to help drive the price of flash technology down because it has the potential to revolutionize the way drive technology is deployed. The automated movement of data volumes between tiers will spur the adoption of SSD, Gallagher said, because enterprises will be able to take full advantage of NAND flash performance without having to manually allocate data to it.
Today, many enterprises requiring high I/O performance for applications, such as relational databases for online transaction processing, deploy dozens of high-speed Fibre Channel drives using a technique called "short stroking." That's where only the outer sectors of a disk's platter -- those closest to the read-write head -- are accessed in order to accelerate performance. The method is both costly and wastes vast amounts of drive capacity. Even using short stroking, hard drives only achieve a fraction of the I/O performance of SSDs.
"You can drive 5,000 I/Os per second with an SSD. On a good day, a hard drive will give you maybe 200 I/Os per second," Gallagher said. Having SSDs in the mix will eliminate the need for short stroking, he noted.
Brian Bosserman, network and systems operations manager at Foster Pepper, a large law firm in the pacific northwest, said he wants to deploy FAST technology on his Celerra systems to maximize capacity use by placing infrequently accessed large document files on SATA drives. Exchange and SQL data would go on enterprise flash drives and Fibre Channel drives, all within the same system.


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Latest GOP fundraising trick: fake census forms
by desmoinesdem, Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 11:23:22 AM EST
The Republican National Committee had its "worst election-year cash flow this decade" in 2009. RNC Chairman Michael Steele started the year with about $22 million cash on hand and ended the year with less than $9 million in the bank. Fortunately for him, the GOP may make up the lost ground with an innovative -scam- fundraising tool: fake census forms.
The fundraising letter comes in the form of a "survey," a frequently used device for partisan fundraising, but this one has a twist: Calling itself the "Congressional District Census," the letter comes in an envelope starkly printed with the words, "DO NOT DESTROY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT" and describes itself, on the outside of the envelope, as a "census document."
"Strengthening our party for the 2010 elections is going to take a massive grass-roots effort all across America," Steele writes in a letter that blends official-sounding language, partisan calls to arms, and requests for between $25 and $500. "That is why I have authorized a census to be conducted for every congressional district in the country."
Representative Dave Loebsack recently warned constituents in Iowa's second district about the RNC's appeal: "This fundraising letter even calls itself a 'Census survey' and asks people to pay for the cost of processing the census form." Iowa Independent posted a link to a scanned version of the mailing in this piece by Lynda Waddington. She notes, "The mailing includes a 'census tracking code' as well as a deadline to respond."
Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York introduced legislation this week to "prevent deceptive census lookalike mailings." Earlier, she and Representative William Clay of Missouri wrote the U.S. Postmaster General, charging the RNC was breaking federal law by sending out an "attempt to mislead recipients." Even if Maloney's bill moved forward, it would come too late to stop this fundraising drive.
Apparently the RNC's mailing is legal, according to the postal service, because "it doesn't use the full name of the U.S. Census Bureau or the seal of any government agency." But Ben Smith writes at Politico,
Even some who have been involved with the program, however, acknowledged that it walks the line.
"Of course, duping people is the point. ... That's one of the reasons why it works so well," said one Republican operative familiar with the program, who said it's among the RNC's most lucrative fundraising initiatives. "They will likely mail millions this year [with] incredible targeting."
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Ukulele is – or was – the Napoleon Dynamite of musical instruments.
Nerdy? Put it this way: Any instrument associated with luau theme parties, raccoon-coated 1920s college students and Tiny Tim has an image problem.
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"There's definitely a resurgence," says Julian Bennett Lessin, a Hackensack guitar teacher who currently has four uke students.
Eddie Vedder plays a ukulele. So do Taylor Swift, Chris Barron from The Spin Doctors and Greg Hawkes of The Cars. Zooey Deschanel, actress and member of She & Him, has posted videos online in which she accompanies herself on a ukulele.
Jersey rocker "Southside Johnny" Lyon recently contributed a version of a lesser-known Beatles tune, "I'm Down," to an ongoing online music project, "The Beatles Complete on Ukulele" (see thebeatlescompleteon ukulele.com).
Music stores can't keep them on the shelves. "We used to sell four or five a year," says Jim Krazit of O. DiBella Music in Bergenfield. "Now we sell four or five a week. It's an exponential increase."
The four-string mini-guitars have their own display in the store: sopranos, tenors and baritones, at prices ranging from $39 to $300. The sheet music department has songbooks: "Black Sabbath for Ukulele," "Taylor Swift for Ukulele," "Uke 'an Play Jimmy Buffett."
"It has cheap price, and portability, and ease of play," Krazit says. "When you're out on the street with a uke, it doesn't take a lot of room. If you drop and break it, you don't lose a fortune. It's almost made for street play."
Indeed, when you see buskers or college students making music on a street corner in 2012, it's likely to be a ukulele they're strumming – just as their counterparts did 90 years ago, during the uke's first heyday.
The current worldwide ukulele craze probably dates back to the late 1990s, when a version of "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" by the late iconic Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was featured on popular TV ads and soundtracks to films like "Meet Joe Black" and "Finding Forrester."
Other soundtracks and TV ads began featuring the half-pint guitar, and soon musicians who were too young to know the instrument's "Tiptoe Thru the Tulips" stigma were captivated by its cuteness, novelty and unique sound.
In 2006, Jake Shimabukuro had a YouTube hit with a uke-ified "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." In 2009, Train's ukulele-filled "Hey, Soul Sister" became a Grammy winner and was featured on "Glee." In 2011, Vedder released his album "Ukulele Songs."
Lessin, the Hackensack guitar teacher, explains, "It's that whole unplugged thing, getting back to roots."
Those roots go back to at least 1915 – when Hawaiian ukes made their mainland bow at the San Francisco World's Fair and sparked a Hawaiian song craze. Stars like Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, later the voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket, sold millions of records.
"Newspapers used to print the ukulele chords and lyrics to songs," Lyon says. "People would hear the songs on the radio."
But by the rockin' 1960s, ukes had lost their cachet. They hit cultural bottom, arguably, in the novelty act of Tiny Tim – whose much-mocked falsetto was merely a studious attempt to re-create the shrill sounds of "Ukulele Ike" and his chums.
The instrument's appeal today, Lyon believes, is the cheapness, the ease (most people can learn the rudiments in under an hour), the simplicity, the honesty.
"We were in Europe not too long ago, and there were plenty of ukuleles being played in town squares there," Lyon says. "It's the people's music."
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The ukulele, which evolved from a 19th-century instrument called the "machete" that Portuguese immigrants brought to Hawaii, is not just a miniature guitar — even if it looks like one. Here are some differences:
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- Typical guitar tuning: EADGBE, low to high
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