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First indications of new HC target emerge?
The Harbaugh/Luck train is gaining steam, but there are lots of interesting names out there.— Darin Gantt (@daringantt) November 22, 2010
Per Darin Gantt via Twitter there is a sentiment that a Jim Harbaugh/ Andrew Luck union is 'gaining steam'. When asked to clarify by someone if Gantt meant merely by fans, or by the organization too Gantt responded 'both'. This could be the first name we have to throw in our perfunctory hat... and I can think of a lot worse.

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As those of you who follow my Twitter stream know, I spent a good chunk of yesterday down at the Rio, cruising around Day 1A of the World Series of Poker.
Oskar Garcia has the action cover here. I thought I'd share a few of my thoughts.
The story I was looking for at the WSOP was to profile the first person to bust out of the main event for next week's Green Felt Journal in Vegas Seven. Luckily I've got a great deal of latitude with my subject material there. I thought that it would be interesting to share the experience of someone who came to Las Vegas, plunked down $10,000, and left the game quickly.
I've been seriously planning this column for over a month, and it never occurred to me that there might be a logistical problem or two. After all, it's not like I was planning to interview the winner, who's readily accessible to the media and usually in a mood to talk. Instead, I had to patrol somewhere around 150 tables, look for an all-in and a call, and quickly grab the unlucky one.
It sounds a lot easier than it is.
After about 20 minutes, I settled into one of the quads of the Amazon ballroom, loosely shadowing a poker supervisor who promised to let me know if he heard anything from one of the other quads.
By 20 minutes, my mouth was dry, and I was noticing how hot it was, with the lights and the excitement. It felt about 10 degrees cooler by the rail than it did at the tables.
I got a heads-up that a player was down to 200 dollars, and sped over. Turns out it was Greg Raymer, who kicked off the action with the official "Shuffle up and deal." He bounced, and didn't look anywhere close to being eliminated by the time I got to him.
32 minutes in, I felt like an undertaker waiting for a customer, circling the tables, looking for short stacks, or any inkling that someone might go all-in. This is around the time I started collecting a few statistics. In my section, about 10% of the players wore sunglasses; 25% wore baseball caps, mostly with the bill forward; 3.5% were women.
(someone busts out in another quad 35 minutes in, but I'm not there, and he wasn't talking, anyway)
41 minutes in, I swear that the players know what I'm here for, and I can't even look them in the eye. It's like I'm a poker angel of death or something.
53 minutes in, I'm convinced that this is the worst story idea I've ever had. It's the same feeling that I usually get around mile 22 of a marathon.
62 minutes in, I start to consider that I've crossed over into the Twilight Zone. No one will ever bust out, and I'll spend eternity circling the tables, waiting for an interview that never comes, while a thousand players continue to push chips around the table without ever losing or winning.
68 minutes in, someone goes all in, but made the right call: he doubles up, and lives on.
70 minutes in, this is the idea from hell. Why did I ever think it was a good idea to write a column about failure?
71 minutes in, another all-in call, and this one wasn't the right call. The player, who looks vaguely like Oliver Stone, busts out. I ask him if he wants to talk, and he says no before scooting out the door. Maybe he's staying ahead of the snipers on the grassy knoll.
74 minutes in, another all-in call, right in front of me, and it's another unhappy outcome. This time, the player is shell-shocked, but personable, and we find a few chairs in the media section to do a quick interview.
Turns out his name is Peter Turmezey, he hails from Budapest, Hungary, and he's a professional poker player. Nice guy, too.
You'll be able to read all about it in next week's Vegas Seven.


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ELLENBURG — Hanna Corral describes her mother, Becky, as an independent person who doesn't often ask people for help.
"She is an all-round hardworking person who still has time for her family," Hanna said.
Becky, nee Shutts, has lived with a disorder called autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy for about five years.
"I travel to Boston monthly for treatments," she said. "I have three wonderful doctors."
Becky is an alumna of Northern Adirondack Central School, where Hanna is a sophomore and a member of FFA.
This Saturday, that organization and the NACS Alumni Association will put on a benefit dinner to raise money for Becky's treatments.
A member of the Alumni Association, Becky was surprised to learn the benefit would be given for her.
FFA, she said, is a great program.
"The whole community has taken part in it," she said. "It's been a great support system."
The fundraiser will include a spaghetti dinner followed by a Chinese auction, which is a combination of a raffle and auction.
FFA adviser and agricultural technology teacher Karen Gilmore said the organization came up with the idea to help Becky because normally, each year, they put on an event where the proceeds go to someone in need.
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Hanna is chapter president of the FFA at Northern Adirondack, as well as one of Gilmore's students in the district's agriculture education program.
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In the midst of marching practice for Sports Day last Friday, I was reminded that we had a long weekend. I was hot, sweaty and dustycaught without my gym clothes ("Ohso that's what that memo said!") and decided it was time to get off the island for a day. So I took the 7 a.m. ferry to Fukue. Fukue is the largest and westernmost island in the Gotos.
Arriving there was like being transported to another universeso many people, a multitude of shops, grocery stores with granolaand a diversity of produce (not just the 400 Yen a head iceburg we have in Naru). It was heaven. Sort of. Not to give the impression that Fukue is a major metropolisit is about half the size of Burlingtonbut when you live in Naru, Fukue is pretty amazing. One of my goals for the day was to find an onsen (or hot spring). I knew they existed, but was unsure of their whereabouts.
While shopping in a department store, a woman approached me (as often happens) and begins speaking to me in Japanese. I understand perhaps 30% of what is being said. She tells me her son is going to New York next month and asks me what I will do with my day in Fukue. I mention the hot springs and she says, "Conkana?" I shrug and say, "Sure". She says it is far and I will need to take a taxi and escorts me to the service desk, where 5 other woman are standing and wrapping boxes. They all look at my wide-eyed and begin bowing. As she gets on the phone, I motion that I don't want to leave now, I was just buying a hat and had more shopping to do first. They all insist I return to let them call me a cab. I leave and do some more shopping, returning to the store an hour later. Even though I pass the taxi stand on my way, I decide it would be better to allow them to "treat me kindly" and call on my behalf. I don't really know where I'm going anyway. When I return, they are very excited, and escort me down this red carpet. I make sure to remove my shoes (already I have committed many footwear faux pas) and walk a gauntlet of the most beautiful kimonos. At the end of the corridor, another woman implores me to sit and drink coffee with her. It is not as much an invitation as an order. As we are drinking our coffee, she tells me her company van will take me, "seh-bee-suh" (serviceor free).
I meet the van driver, who apologizes for the smallness of his van. I hop in and we wind our way up a mountain and out of town. At this point, I get a little nervous. I am in a van, moving further away from Fukue (a town I don't really know yet, but I know how to get back to my ferry) in a van with a stranger- recommened by a stranger. Suddenly I see a sign for "Conkana"in fact, it read "Conkana Kingdom"and was held by a huge wooden tiki god. I was definitely confused and skeptical at this point. He dropped me at the info desk and I was pointed towards the onsen. I wove my way through cabins, huts, and restaurants. I had not bargained for a resort. I paid my 500 Yen and entered the onsen.
Excited and nervous, I stripped out of my clothes and entered the hot spring. I was in the company of two splashing, scrubbing, laughing young Japanese women. I grabbed my stool and began to shower (everyone must shower before entering the hot spring). It was marvelous. It's sort of like a super-hot, large, unchlorinated jacuzzi. There was also a sauna and an outdoor hot spring. The outdoor onsen was heavenlythick, brown mineral waterthe bath sat low in a foundation of rocks. Bamboo trees swayed in the breeze which felt nice on bare shoulders when the rest of your body is submerged in steaming water. As we were relaxing, the Japanese girls began a conversation with meafter about a half an hour of distanced staring of the pool. They knew no English, but we got along okay with a mixture of my poor Japanese and an elaborate game of charades. They went to the sauna and I discovered another pool, a smaller bath with frigid water. The sensation of immersing yourself in cold water after the hot spring is exquisitve. As my Japanese companions exited the sauna they asked me where I was headed and how. I mentioned going back to Fukue by taxi. They had other plans.
Half an hour later, I was heading down the hills in the smallest mini-van you have even seen, rocking out to J-pop and Eminem. It was a bit surreal, as are most of my experiences here. They took me to lunch (I never thought I'd be eating pasta with chopsticks), they drove me to Saty (a large grocery and department store), they found me vaccuum bags, we went to the Hyaku-en shops (upscale dollar stores!) and they dropped me back at the ferry port. It was lovely. It was such an interesting experience to share the afternoon with two strangersI don't remember their names and will never see them againbut we enjoyed the company and conversation. I was the first American they had ever met. They had never seen anyone with so many earrings, let alone a nose ring and a tattoo. I was definately "Kakooin" ("cool"a word I'm called frequently by my students). The afternoon was wonderful and it affirmed my decision to spend the day out on my own. I had thought about ringing up some of the JETs on that island, but decided against it. Had I spent the day with them, I'm sure I would have had a nice time. but it would have made for a very different day. I figure that I'm not here to hang out with other westerners; my goal is to meet and befriend people here, and learn some Japanese while I'm at it. Plusthey have the inside track on what's going on.
I returned home on the ferry, excited to be back in Naru. While Fukue was nice, it didn't have the same sense of community. No one said "konnitiwa" as I passed and few people smiled. While I was walking from the ferry, I met several of my students, curious about how I spent my day and excited to chat even when they couldn't find the words. While I've felt comfortable and content here previously, as I walked to my apartment it was the first time it felt like I had created a home here. I returned to a dinner invitation on my answering machine, so I rushed around putting groceries away and hanging my new curtain before running to Yosii and Chiaki's (the couple who own the liquor store with the 3-year old who is "CRAZY!") for a wonderful meal. It was a similar cast of characters to previous gatherings and it was a nice feeling to know that I'm developing friendships here.
I spent cleaning and yesterday I enjoyed being outside on the island.
I gave my bike another tune-up (adjusting the brakes for all of those
big hills) and headed out on the road. It was sunny and not too humid.
I got a little lost out in the mountains of another penninsula and enjoyed
some fabulous views of the ocean, the large hills overlapping each other
forming a hazy backdrop for the activities of the fishing boats and
the ferries below. I wound my way up and down huge hills and discovered
several temples and shrines and even another small fishing village.
What a fantastic place!
So it's back to another week of school. Last week I didn't have a single "normal" day of classesbetween cultural festivals and practicing marching for Sports Day (an all-day festival where the students march around, dancetraditional and hip hopand run racesall day). My job at Sports Day (other than dancing) is to sit in a tent all day. I have not been told what I will do in the tent, but it has been made clear that that is where I will be all day. I am also judging an event, but I remain clueless as to what the event is or how I might go about judging it, despite the fact I have attended 3 meetings on the subject. That has definately been an interesting transition for me. In the past I have been the information provideror I at least I have an idea of what is going on. Here I am oblivious most of the time. It's pleasantly refreshing. They tell me what I need to know and where I need to be (most of the time), and I put on a big smile and laugh at myself. Such was the case last week in a meeting where everyone was flipping through a memo book filled with drawings and charts. I was dutifully following along, flipping pages, and underlining things when other people underlined them, figuring I would hound my supervisor later. As I was doing that, I looked up and another teacher caught my eye from across the table. He shook his head and laughed. I could tell he was thinking, "I'm onto you Benvenutodon't try to fool me, you're so full of shit!" I smiled and laughed.
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I was thinking about the lose 4, win 4 groove the Kings have fallen into lately, when I took a look at the upcoming schedule the Kings are facing. Minnesota twice in one week; Washington a team with no identity, despite an abundance of personalities; and a thrashed Portland team suffering from injuries and even-with-injuries-we-have-way-too-much-talent-to-be-playing-this-badly-itis.
Yes, I know Kevin Love is back, but until either the T-Wolves start winning some games, or the Kings start crumbling in the face of tree-trunk rebounding machines again, I just have to give these games to the Kings. While in years past the team has made players like Chris Kaman and Joel Pryzbilla look like Dwight Howard, it is obvious that Thompson, Greene, Evans, and the Argentinian Devil have shown that they are serious about bringing some tenacity back to the team. Now if only they could teach Hawes how to snarl.
I am convinced that Washington is an inferior team to the scrappy Kings, so I'm calling this one a W. Enough said. Kings by 5, Evans owns Arenas, but Beno can't stay in front of Earl Boykins.
Portland however, is a different story. Injuries galore, and talent still coming out their ears. Although the Kings have made a habit of hanging around in games against good teams, they have just not been able to pull off their first big upset. I think this is their first opportunity. Despite being a tough team to beat at home, Portland's chemistry is definitely in flux. If the Kings can hang around into the fourth, maybe they can squeak one out. My prediction, Kings by 2, Casspi with the winning shot.
Ok so, best case scenario puts the Kings at 13 and 12, worst case 12 and 13.
Next comes the first big Evans/Jennings matchup. I can't wait for this game. Defenses have finally figured out how to defend Jennings, and their team has plummeted because of it. I anticipate nothing less from the Kings. With all the ROY talk, this game has the opportunity to massively increase the publicity one of these break out stars, and I expect Evans to come out fired up.
A few notes on the rest of December:
Let's hope Chicago doesn't fire Vinny before the 21st. I want the Kings to face the helpless "Lets Blame it all on Salmons, and Not on Our Porous Defense" Bulls, rather than the "Reenergized by a Coaching Change" team I am afraid they will become. They have skills; let's just hope they don't remember what it means to play as a team until the 22nd.
So that's really 6 winnable games. Portland is iffy, but if I have learned anything from seasonal daytime television, I have learned that anything can happen at Christmas, right?
Next up are three big losses to Cleveland, the Lakers, and Denver. By big, I don't mean blowouts, I just think these tough games will force the team back down to Earth. Prediction: A frustrated JT fouls out of 2 of 3.
Lastly, the team ends the month against the Sixers (a team so derailed that AI becomes a positive influence). Allen "No Defense" Iverson means a big game for Evans, Beno, and at least one amazing Spanish dish from Sergio. Kings take the win at home, 107-100 (admittedly, I just picked a couple of numbers here).
Perhaps I am being a bit greedy here, asking a bit too much from Santa Westphal, but I think the Kings have a chance at ending the month at 16 and 15. Call it what you like; wishful thinking, terrible math skills, intuition, or sheer stupidity, this kid can't help but believe in holiday miracles.
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The IIHF World U20 Championship, more commonly known as World Juniors, is still slightly more than two months away, but Chris Peters at The United States of Hockey has already begun his pre-tournament preview.
Johnny Gaudreau — LW — Boston College — The small, but dynamic forward already has five points through the first three games for BC. He has championship pedigree as both a USHL and NCAA champ and unrivaled puck skills among his peers. His ability to create offense is why he gets a spot.
Peters considers Gaudreau a lock for the roster, one of nine players upon whom he bestows that distinction, but only one of only two NCAA players (Jacob Trouba, Michigan). Peters slots Gaudreau in as the first line left wing in his projected roster.
Boston College has been well-represented at recent World Junior Championships, with Bill Arnold on last year's roster; Chris Kreider, Brian Dumoulin, and Patrick Wey on the 2011 bronze winning team; Kreider on the 2010 gold winning team; and Kevin Hayes on the 2009 team. Gaudreau was the only Eagle invited to this summer's evaluation camp, where BC Associate Coach Greg Brown served on the staff. Henrik Samuelsson, younger brother of former Eagle Philip Samuelsson also attended the camp but is considered a long shot to make the roster.
The downside of this of course is that the tournament will take Gaudreau off the Eagles' roster for a period of time. While the last four tournaments were held in North America, this year's tournament will be held in Ufa, Russia. USA Hockey will hold its final evaluation camp in New York December 16th through 18th, and the tournament runs December 26th through January 5th. Gaudreau stands to miss both of the games of the Eagles' holiday tournament in the Mariucci Classic as well as an out-of-conference game against Yale on January 3rd.


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Nearly one year after we launched our campaign asking ConocoPhillips to reconsider their "destroy all balls" policy towards the historic blue and orange Union 76 Ball gas station signs, the Texas energy giant announced to the Wall Street Journal that they have changed their course. Focus groups held last fall told them what nearly 3000 signers of the Save the 76 Ball petition have already told us: people love the 76 Balls, and don't want them to disappear.
The 76 Balls that come off their poles are no longer being smashed or cut into pieces, but being preserved for donation to museums like the American Sign Museum, Petersen Automotive Museum, NASCAR Hall of Fame, Museum of Neon Art and perhaps even the Smithsonian! And a new type of 76 Ball, colored red rather than orange, will soon be installed at up to 100 gas stations in the west.
But there are still good reasons for signing our petition. We believe that a select few historically and architecturally significant orange 76 Balls should remain where they have always glowed and spun, like at William Pereira's modernist 76 station in Beverly Hills, one of the spheres along Highway One in Malibu, and the station in Marysville, WA where 76 Ball designer Ray Pedersen buys his gas. Also, ConocoPhillips has declared that no private individuals will be able to get a 76 Ball, which will be a disappointment to our campaign's supporter Michael Madsen. We respectfully ask that ConocoPhillips reconsider this policy, and present one 76 Ball to the individual who conceived, designed and hand-painted the first 76 Ball for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair: Ray Pedersen.
And most importantly, we ask that ConocoPhillips commit to pay all costs associated with crating and shipping donated 76 Balls to the selected museums, thus enjoying greater tax benefits and sparing these institutions from having to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars out of their limited budgets in order to receive the gift of the 76 Ball.
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has supported this campaign through 2006 and into 2007. This is inspiring proof that citizens have the power to reach large corporations and inspire positive change.
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The Ike Class of '76 wishes you all the best in the fight to save the 76 balls! We've posted a link on our class web site to this site. It includes a picture of our feeble effort to duplicate a 76 ball using a VW bug body when what we really wanted to do was steal the local station's ball and put it on our gym roof for a senior class prank. You can see our "reasonable facsimile" (!?!) at www.eagles76.homestead.com/savethe76ball.html Keep up the good fight! Bill Groeneveld Eisenhower High School Class of '76 Rialto, CA


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In today's sad celebrity breakup news, Dexter stars Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter have decided to end their marriage. According to EW, both of their representatives say "that the split was amicable." The two met on the set of Dexter and had been married for almost two years. It's always a bummer when a relationship ends, but is the breakup even more painful when you still have to work with the ex?
When this happens with celebrities, we'll often hear things about how they're both professionals and respect each other as performers. But how does this dynamic work in real life?
I worked retail in college and had a fling with a guy from another store run by the same company. It was awfully awkward when I had to call over to his store for a stock check. And every time our store's phone rang with his store's number listed on the caller ID, I prayed it wasn't him on the other end. Once or twice we actually had to work together at the same store during the same shift--I don't think we said more than five words to each other the whole time!
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11:50am Thursday 16th January 2014 in Sport
Doncaster 8 Ben Rhydding 1
Ben Rhydding's weakened team were given a hammering by title-chasing Doncaster in the Men's North Premier League.
With the spine of their side and two full backs missing it was always going to be a tough test for the visitors and so it proved.
Rhydding started brightly enough and they almost took the lead. Callum Franks' spectacular sliding deflection hit a post.
Doncaster broke away to open the scoring after a penalty corner for Rhydding was cleared.
The home side quickly added a second and were in comfortable control.
The lead was stretched to 4-0 before Will Musgrave was able to find George Sweeting in the circle who delivered an inch- perfect cross for Franks to finish.
Battling Rhydding were just beginning to mount strong pressure when a tenuous penalty-stroke award enabled Doncaster to net a fifth goal.
Rhydding enjoyed a much stronger second half but despite some beautiful mid- field play from Elliot Dowley and Kieran Borrett, they lacked penetration.
An aerial ball caused confusion between Danny Foster and Callum Connor and Doncaster scored a sixth goal.
They added a seventh from a neat corner routine and the final insult was an eighth goal from a penalty corner with a scorching drag flick into the roof of the net.
Doncaster had only got into Rhydding's D three times in the second half at this stage and scored each time.
They also scored all of their corners. This is the measure of a team that belongs in the National League.
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By PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ
I've tried to write
about historical trauma for 10 years. How can anyone write about
the effect that history has had on our bodies, our families, our
lands, our plants, animals and rivers in 700 words? Can
oppression kill love? And why is it some of us, but not all,
assume the burden strap and carry the grief for our peoples'
sufferings? Start with Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart's
definition that helped to establish the very idea? Historical
trauma (HT) is cumulative, collective wounding across
generations "emanating from massive group trauma."
For decades, native
peoples have sought to address this wounding as part of mental
health, also calling it intergenerational trauma, or
multigenerational unresolved grief. As Choctaw scholar Karina
Walters notes, "The trauma is targeted to the collective and the
collective experience it …The trauma is held personally and
transmitted over generations. Thus, even family members who have
not directly experienced the trauma can feel the effects of the
event generations later." However, Walters' research shows that
not everyone experiences "historical trauma response."
Over the years, I've
attended several conferences on historical trauma. The
conferences of the Takini Network of native healers, scholars
and therapists convened people such as Birgil Kills Straight,
Nadine Tafoya, Larry Emerson, Lemyra DeBruyn, Bonnie Duran and
Walters, who have helped establish an indigenous application of
HT. Much of the development of HT theory for native peoples has
its origins in this network when its members in the 1970's
became conscious of their own unresolved traumatic grief.
On one occasion,
Brave Heart recounted how she looked upon the photograph of her
ancestors and began to "sob uncontrollably." A Jewish mentor
understood immediately, "That's genocide." The experience of
Jewish Holocaust survivors and their offspring has helped native
peoples understand the Native American Holocaust. The
grandchildren suffered trauma just from having heard the stories
of their Jewish elders. And they are more likely to experience
post-traumatic stress disorder following a stressful event, thus
leading to intergenerational transmission of historical trauma.
In ceremonies, Brave Heart released the deepest grief and these
experiences lead her to develop the theory of Historical Trauma,
which now is one of the foundations of indigenous knowledge and
mental health, and as Walters says, is a "fact that needs to be
considered in post-traumatic stress disorder." Walters has
developed a related concept to HT, that of Colonial Trauma
Response in either individuals or the collective. "Living under
colonialism and colonial structures puts you at risk," she told
a Medical College of Wisconsin conference on the topic. And
she's referring to the racism and politics of the here and now
of the United States, the memories triggered in the s-word,
native mascots, or other desecrations, such as the road being
built through native shrines in Albuquerque and terminator
seeds. Yes, the earth is also a survivor of historical trauma.
The intellectual
development of HT is far more than can be addressed here. For
myself, it has led me to a most basic conclusion, that
historical trauma has shaken our ability to love. I'd like to
know, what happened to love? The ability to love -- to give it
and receive it and to know it beyond a fantasy jewel. I wonder
what love was like before boarding schools and forced
conversion. Trauma corrodes the better part of us, eating away
at the generosity still found among elders, a generosity of
spirit, of accepting and welcoming people on their own terms,
the sharing of yourself and the gifting of kindness.
Perhaps it's as
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offerings so that it will be at peace. Leslie Marmon Silko has
written that there are spirits in stories and history. HT is
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Deficit in monsoon has hit the sowing of kharif food crops such as paddy, pulses and oilseeds, triggering concerns in several quarters.
However, the acreage under cash crops such as cotton and sugarcane has seen an increase, with a pick-up in sowing of the fibre crop in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra last week.
The progress of the monsoon, after a delayed start, has not been satisfactory, though the India Metrological Department (IMD) has predicted normal rains for the year. The country as a whole has experienced monsoon deficit of 25 per cent so far. The actual rainfall till June 28 stood at 111 mm against the normal of 147.9 mm with 24 of the 36 metrological subdivisions reporting scanty or deficit rains.
The acreage under paddy is down 35 per cent at 30.72 lakh hectares so far, against last year's 41.51 lakh ha for the period.
The area under total pulses is also down by over a third with all major growing States reporting a lower area.
"We were expecting a 3-5 per cent increase in oilseed acreage this year as prices were good last year. However, with the delay in rains the acreage is unlikely to expand and the yields may be impacted," said Mr B. V. Mehta, President, Solvent Extractors Association of India.
The oilseed acreage is down by 17 per cent so far, with key producing States such as Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra reporting lower area. Acreage under groundnut is down by over half at 3.18 lakh ha against 6.39 lakh ha in the corresponding period last year. However, the area under soya bean is marginally up at 6.29 lakh ha against last year's 4.58 lakh ha. Other oilseeds like sunflower and sesamum have also reported a drop in area.
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Happy Halloween to you, Linda! Thanks so much for your extensive coverage of the 2013 convention. I was on the planning committee and got into a bit of a daze during the event, so I loved having my memories refreshed. I'm so glad that you were able to come.
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I especially love the bat costume! LOL How wonderful. Where are you finding all these great old pieces?! I'm so enjoying them.
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Published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is frequently studied in American literature classrooms (college and high school). Fitzgerald used many of the events from his early life in this semi-autobiographical novel. He'd already become financially successful with the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920. The book is listed on the Modern Library's list of 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
Publisher Arthur Misener wrote: "I think it (The Great Gatsby) is incomparably the best piece of work you have done." Of course, he also said that the novel was "somewhat trivial, that it reduces itself, in the end, to a son of anecdote." Some of the very elements that brought the book acclaim were also the source of criticism. But, it was (and still is) considered by many to be one of the great masterworks of the time period, and one of the great American novels.
- Title: The Great Gatsby
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Type of Work & Genre: Modernist Novel; Fiction
- Time & Place (Setting): Long Island and New York City; Summer 1922
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Publication Date: April 10, 1925
- Narrator: Nick Carraway
- Point of View: First and Third Person
- Great American literary classic
- One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous works
- Chronicled 1920s America, the Jazz Age
- Challenged at the Baptist College in Charleston, SC (1987): "language and sexual references"
- First novel that Scribner's had published that contained "foul language."
How It Fits InThe Great Gatsby is usually the novel for which F. Scott Fitzgerald is best remembered. With this and other works, Fitzgerald forged his place in American literature as the chronicler of the Jazz Age of the 1920's. Written in 1925, the novel is a snapshot of the time period. We experience the glittery-splendiferous world of the wealthy--with the accompanying emptiness of morally decayed hypocrisy. Gatsby represents so much that is seductive, but his pursuit of passion--at the expense of all else--leads him to his own ultimate destruction.
Fitzgerald writes: "I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets... I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without."
Do you ever feel "within and without"? What do you think it means?
- Nick Carraway: A Midwesterner, who sells bonds. Narrator. He observes and describes the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby.
- Daisy Buchanan: Wealthy. Cousin of Nick Carraway. Tom Buchanan's wife.
- Tom Buchanan: Wealthy. Philanderer. Daisy Buchanan's husband. Powerful personality.
- Jay Gatsby: A self-made man. Epitome of American Dream. A fascinatingly unforgettable figure in American literature. His parents were poor farmers. After getting a taste for wealth, he went into the Army, attended Oxford and quickly accumulated wealth via nefarious means. With his stupendous rise to great fortune, he was fated to fall.
- Jordan Baker: Daisy's friend.
- George Wilson: Myrtle Wilson's husband.
- Myrtle Wilson: Tom Buchanan's mistress. George Wilson's wife.
- Meyer Wolfsheim: An underworldly, criminal figure. Jay Gatsby's acquaintance.


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DNS Server updates
Ron Cone
on September 21, 2010
ESU 10 and the Greater Nebraska Educational Network Consortium (GNENC) have been using several IP addresses and servers to provide DNS service. We've recently made some minor changes and want to publish the new information so you can adjust your client machines and domains at the next convenient time.
Client DNS setups should use the following DNS servers to compliment any internal DNS servers within your LAN. Depending on your network proximity to theses servers, you should list the closest one first.
220.127.116.11 - located in Kearney
188.8.131.52 - located in Grand Island
If you own your own domain name and ESU 10/GNENC is providing hosting for the domain, you will want to use the following name server setup with company you purchased the domain from:
ns01.gnenc.org - 18.104.22.168 (Kearney)
ns02.gnenc.org - 220.127.116.11 (Grand Island)
ns03.gnenc.org - 184.108.40.206 (Dallas)
If you have any questions or concerns about these details or changes, please feel free to add a comment or contact our Helpdesk.
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Downloading videos from History Channel and other similar sites
Cameron Hamer
on August 24, 2009
I have students that are trying to use Zamzar.com to get a clip from the History Channels website or similar site. When the go to convert it says there is no file extension associate with this file. Has anyone had any success downloading video from this site or others other than YouTube?
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Adam Griebel
August 24, 2009
I'm pretty sure you can use
Replay Media Catcher
to grab the videos off of the History Channels website.
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ESU 10 Hosted Services
Jamie Kramer
on April 7, 2009
Educational Service Unit 10, in conjunction with the Greater Nebraska Educational Network Consortium (GNENC), hosts a wide array of computer and web based services. The purpose of this article is to outline these services, provide a brief description of each service, and include a URL as a starting point for each service.
The ultimate goal is to inform you, the educational computer user and manager, so that you can take advantage of our services which you may or may not have known about. Our focus is on serving you!
Internet Access
ESU 10 provides Internet access aggregation. In some ways we are like an Internet service provider. We provide bandwidth, network monitoring, guaranteed bandwidth, and network security with the Internet access that flows through our aggregation point. If you use the Internet at your school, then you most likely already use this service.
Web Filtering
Internet web filtering provides a means for each school district to apply a customized web filtering profile customized specifically for each district's needs. ESU 10 provides the 8e6 web filter, which is managed by LAN managers and administrators at each district.
8e6 Filter Management:
Web Filtering Information:
Domain Name Services (DNS)
Every school district is provided a FREE DNS domain name, such as sunnysideschools.k12.ne.us or anytown.k12.ne.us. Just let us know and we can easily set up a DNS record for your school's customized domain.
If you currently access any local web services at your school directly by an IP address in the URL, we can remedy that with an easy to remember DNS name like powerschool.anytown.k12.ne.us, www.anytown.k12.ne.us, or webmail.anytown.k12.ne.us. The possibilities for what we can nameserve for you are endless.
You also have the option to purchase your own domain name from a DNS registrar such as GoDaddy. If you choose, we can mirror your new domain with your existing k12.ne.us domain.
Additionally, every school network IP address range is configured with reverse DNS mapping (PTR records)
Email services actually consist of a number of "sub-services."
Every esu10.org email account holder can access email via web based email, IMAP, or POP.
IMAP and POP allow users to download email with popular email client programs such as Outlook, OS X Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora, and a plethora of others.
On a global level, all email is scanned for viruses and spam. The email system blocks over 30,000 spam per day.
If a school district chooses to host its own email server, we can "relay" email for that server. By doing so we can act as an intermediate "buffer" between the school's email server and the Internet, and continue to provide spam and virus filtering.
YAMS is an email account management interface and an online "address book" of all email accounts we host. LAN-Managers use YAMS to create email accounts, change passwords, and remove email accounts. End users can use YAMS to change their own password and email forwarding settings. Any esu10.org email user can use YAMS to search for the email addresses of other users.
DSPAM is an anti-spam tool which gives users some control over spam.
IMAP/POP Configuration
Web Hosting
Web hosting is provided, including the features of MySQL databases, PHP, and FTP/SFTP access. Its as easy as requesting a web hosting account from us. We can host your school and teacher educational web sites today!
Web Calendar
The legacy calendar application we have promoted in the past is based on WebEvent. A new alternative is the Web Calendar service we now provide.
With Web Calendar, any user can utilize a web based calender. Username and login are integrated with users' esu10.org email account. No new username and password required!
Web Calendar also supports non-user calendars. A non-user calendar could be used by your school district as a district wide calendar, sporting event calendar, or lunch menu calendar. The possibilities are endless.
Web calendar features include email reminders and client subscriptions. With client subscriptions to your calendars, your teachers, parents, and other users can integrate the happenings of your school into Microsoft Outlook, Apple's iCal, or Mozilla's Sunbird.
Web Calendar
Web Calendar Manual
Web Survey Tools
We currently offer two different web based survey applications. These survey applications make it easy to create customized surveys and distribute the surveys to users electronically.
We host Wordpress for user blogs. We can set up a customized blog URL for your district, such as http://blog.anytown.k12.ne.us. A Wordpress blog can be easily customized to look like a typical web site instead of the blog format if a user simply wants the ease of use offered by Wordpress.
Check out some of the ESU 10 blogs:
Email Distribution Lists
We host email distribution lists with a service called Mailman (often referred to as listserves). An email distribution list might contain a list of all teachers and/or staff in your district, making it easy to send email to a large group of email addresses. A distribution list might also be used as a way to distribute email newsletters to parents or community members.
Distribution lists can be configured to allow anyone to subscribe or unsubscribe, or you can choose to manage the members of a distribution list in a more "controlled" manner. You decide.
Let us know if we can set up a Mailman distribution list for any of your district's needs.
ESU 10 Mailman Distribution Lists
K12 Mailman Distribution Lists
Currently we are evaluating a groupware solution. Groupware applications typically include a suite of products and tools which allow for easier communication, collaboration, and sharing amongst members of a group. Such a group might consist of the administrative staff of a district, or even every employee of a district. Collaborative tools include shared calendars, common file/document storage, shared addressbooks, etc.
The product we are evaluating is called eGroupware. Its features include email (integrated with existing esu10.org email accounts), calendaring, address book, to-do, notes, CRM customer relationship management, project management, file management, websites, and wikis.
eGroupWare might be considered an alternative to Microsoft Exchange.
ESU 10 GroupWare Solution (currently only trial testing)
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Gary Needham
April 7, 2009
I like the new features. WebCalendar looks powerful and with a fresher interface than WebEvent.
The eGroupWare product might work for some. In comparison to Exchange I like the easy reservation/viewing of resources (conference rooms, labs, school busses, etc.). I'm assuming that booking resources can be set to require approval.
Calendar syncing with iCal or phones would be important with this. It looks like there is an import/export feature, but I didn't see a subscribe or publish option where the syncing (even one way) is automated.
I do like the wiki piece, better than any others I've seen, and that's something I've been looking for lately.
I can see the file manager being a useful piece for users who want to edit documents from home and school without carrying a USB stick. Does it have webDAV capability so I can also mount the directory as a shared drive?
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Don't Let Your Domain Name Expire
Jamie Kramer
on April 7, 2009
Does your district own any registered domain names? If so, do you know when they expire? Does the terminology "domain name" sound foreign to you? Read on to learn more!
Some examples of registered domain names are:
In each of the domain name examples listed, somebody (not ESU 10) was responsible for purchasing the domain name for your district. Does your district utilize any registered domain names to access web sites and other Internet services?
The most importing thing to know about domain names is:
. Usually, the person who originally purchased the domain name will receive an email notification if a domain name is about to expire, but what happens if that person is no longer around? Then its time to start digging in so that you will be in position to renew the domain name.
What happens if your domain name does expire? The domain name could be purchased by another entity, in which case your teachers, students, community members, and other users may lose access to your web sites and Internet services. It can be hard to inform people that your web site URL has changed when they can't get to your web site.
One way to check the expiration status of your registered domain is the
Whois.net web site
. Go to the web site and enter your domain like this:
(In this example the esu10.org domain is being checked. Enter your own domains to check them. Do not include any http://, www, or any other part of a URL. ONLY enter the domain part, i.e. example.com, but NOT http://www.example.com or www.example.com)
Alternatively, if you are using Apple OS X or a Linux OS, you can simply use the whois command from the command line:
> whois esu10.org
Either whois lookup method will return the same result. First, look for the expiration of the domain name. It will be a line which starts with "
Expiration Date
:" It is recommended that you perform the whois lookup for all of your registered domains and document the expiration date for each.
You should also pay attention to the
Registrant Name/Email, Tech Name/Email, and other contact fields
, as those are the individuals who will be contacted when a domain name is expiring. It would behoove you to keep the contacts for a domain name as current as possible.
A few other tidbits of information to note from the whois lookup are the "
" settings. If the nameserver settings include one or more of the following:
then ESU 10 hosts the DNS records for your registered domain name. If the domain is not using the ESU 10 nameservers, then you most likely manage the DNS records for the domain with the company from which the domain name was purchased.
Finally, look at the "
Sponsoring Registrar
" field in the whois output. The sponsoring registrar is the company who your domain name was purchased from, and the company with which you will need to renew the domain name.
If you are concerned about your domain ending in k12.ne.us, rest assured it will never expire since ESU 10 hosts that domain for you free of charge.
Hopefully this information will help you stay in control of your domain names. And remember, do your whois lookups today!
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Filter overrides
Brian Garey
on February 18, 2009
We know about an issue with both kinds of filter overrides and are trying to find what is causing it. We will let you know when it is fixed or a workaround is found. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this is causing.
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Brian Garey
February 18, 2009
8e6 Technical Support has applied an unreleased patch to our filtering appliances that seems to have fixed the issue where people couldn't access sites even after using override and/or web-based authentication credentials. This was happening only for pages being blocked due to patterns not specific urls. I have gotten on a couple machines out in various schools and have been able to successfully override to several previously blocked sites using web-based authentication.
NOTE: It was very helpful to have screenshots from some of you when troubleshooting this issue as the common denominator was the fact that the Blocked URL always was listed as a "pattern". Please do this whenever you have an issue with blocked pages as it speeds up the resolution process!
Let me know if you are still seeing this issue (or others).
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Internet Bandwidth
Brian Gibson
on January 27, 2009
We are in the process of making changes to our Internet service. I would like to get a sampling of other schools, the bandwidth they are using and if it has been sufficient. If you would like to help me with this please send me any or all of the following information. I appreciate your time and assistance.
Location of school (city) –
Approximate number of computers in your school -
Total Bandwidth speed to school –
Distance Learning – Yes or No
Satisfied with the amount of bandwidth to your school – Yes or No
Comments -
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Jim Ingram
January 27, 2009
Broken Bow Schools (figures are for entire District)
385 computers (incl. servers)
Input Peak: 3.5 Mb (Zabbix)
Input Average: 1.5 Mb (Zabbix)
Output Peak: 2.0 Mb (Zabbix)
Output Average: 1.0 Mb (Zabbix)
TCP Throughput: 30 Mbps (QCheck)
Distance Learning: Yes (our data connection to the internet is carried as a separate channel over the STEP distance learning fiber network, not a T1 or T3 copper connection through Qwest.)
Satisfied: Yes
Comments -- in our experience raw bandwidth is not as important as the quality of connections between our location and distant internet entities. We've spent a lot of time making sure that the connections through the STEP fiber system into Project 42 are healthy and response times are reliably stable at under 20ms, regardless of available or contracted bandwidth.
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text: European Tour Golf 2013 Volvo Golf Champions: Day Two Share: About this programme The Volvo Golf Champions. Highlights of the second day's play at the Durban Country Club in South Africa. Eventual champion Branden Grace delivered his best round of the competition at this stage last year, before overcoming compatriots Ernie Els and Retief Goosen in a play-off for the title. Categories Sport Share:


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I am Bob, been a hotrodder since the 70s. I currently am doing a resto/mod on a 76 Nova. I am building a sbc 400 Dart SHP, RHS 200cc heads, Compcams Magnum 280 roller, Scat crank and rods, Prob 12.5 dish pistons, Compcams Ultra Pro Magnum 1.6 roller rockers, dizzy is probably going to be MSD. Tranny is B@M TH350, With Eaton 3.73 posi gears, 27 in streat tires.
Welcome to the forum Bob.Sounds like a healthy combo there.Picture would be nice too when you get a chance.
Here are a few pictures of the car:
Thanks Scott. The Nova is kinda rough, but have plans for it. It has a SBC 375 in it right now, 350 bored 60(with block filler)with 3.625 stroke, 190 aluminum heads, Stock bottom end(good parts), Lunati Voodoo flat tappet cam 489/509 lift, 227/233 dur, Air Gap intake with Eddy 750, High flow water pump, high flow fuel pump, Street fire dizzy, Chrome mid length headers. Non dynoed, but I would say around 375hp/400tq. The Dart 400 is approx going to be around 500hp/525tq.
welcome aboard Bob! sounds like a bad-azz combo! what size converter are you going with? any future plans on some sticky tires? alot of guys swear by the pro magnums. i havent tried them though,...yet.
I ran a Dart big M in my last Camaro and I was happy with the quality of that block. You will surely need to upgrade the tires if you plan to put any serious track time on that car. Traction will be a severe problem. Here is a shot of the Camaro that ran that block. It was a handful when it landed and the juice was on despite 11.5x33 slicks. On motor it was pretty stable and ran low 9s in the 1/4.
Right now it has a Coan 2800 rpm stall, its just a street machine, might see the track to see what it can do. Just rebuilding the car for fun, not for racing really, I may get some slicks one day but not in near future.
The early Camaro Nova series were pretty light in the rear. I remember my 67 Camaro which had a 350 with a cam, headers, intake, 950 carb, and a 4.10 posi and it could light the tires up in second gear. It was only a low 13 second car too. That was way back in about 69 when tires were pretty awful. It ran low 13s with slicks as it was the only way it could get down a track. I think it ran 15s without the slicks. I just noticed the 12.5 to one compression ratio you stated. That will be tough on today's lousy gas.
No, the 12.5 is the dish size of the pistons, Static CR is going to be 10.63, and Dynamic is 8.24.
OK that sounds more like a street ratio.


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Archived:How to make a signal indicator
From Nokia Developer Wiki
Compatibility: Flash Lite: 1.1, 2.x
Creating the signal indicator
- Create a new movie clip
- In this movie clip create at least 2 layers:
- ActionScript: In this layer create as many keyframes as levels you want to display plus one. (we will choose 8 levels in this example, so 9 frames to create)
- Level:
- In the first frame, create a level bar corresponding to the lowest level.
- In the last but one frame create a keyframe and stretch your level bar to the highest level. Then add a motion tween.
- In the last frame draw an indicator corresponding to the "no network" state.
- Background: You can add a layer to put all your static components.
- Your timeline will be like this:
- In the first keyframe of the ActionScript layer add this code:
signalMax = fscommand2("GetMaxSignalLevel");
signalLevel = Math.ceil(fscommand2("GetSignalLevel")*levelsNumber/signalMax);
networkstatus = fscommand2("GetNetworkStatus");
if (networkstatus == 0) { //If there is no network
signalLevel = levelsNumber + 1;
- In all other keyframes add this code:
- Put this movie clip into your scene.
Flash Lite 2.x recommended improvements
- call(1): This action was deprecated in favor of the function statement.
You can download an example with source code here:
Signal Indicator 240*320 (swf + fla)