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Live text, radio and social media as Australia lift the World Cup after beating New Zealand by seven wickets in Melbourne.
Australia won the battle of the hosts to lift cricket's World Cup for the fifth time with a seven-wicket win over New Zealand in Melbourne Sunday.
ESPN Video: Watch the new 2015 World Cup Champions lift the trophy after their seven wicket victory over New Zealand at the MCG
Australia overwhelm New Zealand by seven wickets to win the World Cup for a fifth time at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Australia won the 2015 Cricket World Cup with an emphatic seven-wicket victory over New Zealand in Melbourne, ensuring a fitting send-off for captain Michael Clarke.
Australia was playing its seventh final and looking for a record fifth World Cup title, while New Zealand had never even made it to this stage of the tournament before. Here's how the match played out.
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New Zealand have their "heads held high" despite losing to Australia in the World Cup final, says captain Brendon McCullum.
Over-by-over report: Co-hosts Australia and New Zealand meet with the World Cup trophy at stake in the final at the MCG. Join John Ashdown
Michael Clarke played a captain's knock in his final ODI to take his side to a title win at the World Cup 2015. Catch all highlights here.. latest World Cup 2015 news- World Cup 2015 Final, Highlights: Michael Clarke Leads Australia to Fifth World Cup Title
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Michael Clarke raised his bat to acknowledge the massive crowd, and nodded to a fallen teammate he credited for inspiring Australia's run to a fifth World Cup title that culminated with an emphatic win over New Zealand.
Australia overwhelms New Zealand on the biggest stage. winning a fifth World Cup title by seven wickets.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Intuit.
Recruiters are horrible. They dont communicate to candidates properly.
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random recruiters call asking for different positions. they arrange interviews. i got thru 2 phone rounds easily. they said they will bring onsite. suddenly gets an email that teams shuffled and the requirement freeze.Interview Questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Intuit in October 2013.Interview Details
Very nice interview process. Nice people. They all liked me and felt I am a good fit for a senior software engineer.I really enjoyed the interview. But they could not open up a new req for that position.Interview Questions
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- Prepare well with what you have in your resume along with debugging production issues, data structures and some problem solving skills. Answer Question
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The process took a day – interviewed at Intuit in May 2011.Interview Details
I had 7 interviewers spanning a broad range of job functions and areas of focus (engineers, architects, product managers, directors). One interviewer commented after looking at the schedule that the loop might be uncommonly thorough. They asked me questions around technical ability, prioritization, strategy, and situational leadership.
The group was very transparent about the challenges facing the team (after starting here, I can confirm that what they portrayed is indeed reflective of the situation on the ground). Most of the interviewers were very polished, asking questions that really made me think, truly respecting areas of my experience I was not at liberty to talk about, and ensuring a pretty smooth flow to the conversation. One of my interviewers was a little too blunt with the behavioral interviewing best practices, but this had the hallmarks of someone new to interviewing rather than a serious red flag. I wish the loop had gone deeper on hard technical capabilities, as I felt there were some relevant depth of skillset on coding and design that was not quantified as well as it could have been.
Overall a long, challenging day but very positive experience.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsNegotiation was different from other places I worked in that I was expected to supply the first set of numbers. This is always tricky as you don't want to leave comp on the table but also don't want to turn off an interested team with sky high demands. After that hurdle, I felt that the recruiter actually went to bat for me (as nearly all will say but so few will actually do) in having the comp meet my requirements.
- The most challenging (and interesting) question was about a strategy for finding signal in a noisy and poorly understood data set. Asking a software engineer a data science question really stretches the mental muscles. View Answer
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at Intuit in June 2010.Interview Details
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Intuit in January 2010.Interview Details
Multiple people interview the candidate including Director/VP level.
Designated Interview building.
Prefer external candidates over internal.
Referred by a manager whom I used to work for in a former company.
Interviews focus and skill set and unlike Google they do not focus on general Math Analytical type of skills.Interview Questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at Intuit in October 2014.Interview Details
I had an excellent interview experience at Intuit, Bangalore. I had applied for post of Staff Software Engineer through a placement consultant. I had an initial telephonic round which lasted about 40 mins. The questions were mostly technical and the interviewer explored the various technologies I had worked on. I got a call the very same day for a face to face interview after 3 days. I was handed an interview program which outlined the interviews name and profile and timings. I felt that was great.
The face to face was for 5 rounds with two technical rounds followed by a round with development manager and the architect. They were very cool and I was extremely comfortable during the interview. The questions were not too tough but they covered all the areas and there were few engaging questions testing your design capabilities.
My interview completed just yesterday so still waiting for feedback.Interview Questions
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The process took 5 days – interviewed at Intuit in July 2012.Interview Details
There was one telephonic round which lasted for 25 minutes. Started with usual introduction and was asked few technical questions.
I was called for a 1:1 after 4 days. It consisted of 2 technical rounds and one managerial round. I was asked to write programs during the technical rounds which tested the fundamentals of pointers.
In the initial 10 minutes itself I was sure that I am not doing satisfactorily because it involved writing the actual code and not just outlining the logic was sufficient. The interviewers wanted the fully working code to be written.Interview Questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took a week – interviewed at Intuit in January 2010.Interview Details
I was introduced to the company through a hiring firm. I had three interviews with a business manager, a technical lead, and the senior site leader across two days. Questions ranged from logical questions, use of technologies, and those that deal with your own perspective on soft subjects. I also had the opportunity to ask questions about the company and the type of work. It was a fairly smooth process. After these interviews I was called back for another interview within the week and was made an offer to join the company.Interview Questions
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Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan and More Turn Up for Kentucky Derby Galas – Pictures
The Kentucky Derby is this weekend and country stars like Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan, among others, were on hand at the Friday night (May 3) galas.
The Kentucky Derby is this weekend and country stars like Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan, among others, were on hand at the Friday night (May 3) galas.
Country and rap collaborations are not uncommon. Recently, there's been Jason Aldean and Ludacris, and Taylor Swift and B.o.B. Now, Luke Bryan is reportedly getting in on the fun and looking for his chance to enjoy the cross-pollination of genres.Rapper T-Pain, known for popularizing Auto-Tune, has revealed that he cut a song with Bryan, the newly-crowned ACM Entertainer of the Year.
Fresh off his Academy of Country Music "Entertainer of the Year" award, Luke Bryan is the hottest ticket going in country music today! If you watched the ACM's a few weeks ago, you saw how blown away Luke was to receive the award and his speech was very emotional.
Nobody is quite as good at gift-giving as your best friend. And it's obvious that Luke Bryan is one of Jason Aldean's closest pals, because over the weekend Bryan surprised his buddy with a 1976 Bronco.
Budding superstar Luke Bryan couldn't have been more surprised when he won Entertainer of the Year at the 2013 ACM Awards on Sunday night (April 7). The stunned singer cried as he took to the podium to accept the honor. He says they were tears of both happiness and sorrow, as he was thinking of his late brother and sister.
In a surprise upset, Luke Bryan took home the coveted Entertainer of the Year award at the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night (April 7) -- beating out more established stars like Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift.
With country's two comedians preparing to co-host the 2013 ACM Awards, anything could happen. Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan have said before that they have ideas about what to do during the show, and they've just revealed that there may be an element of...surprise during the show.
Luke Bryan has a big night coming up, as he's co-hosting the ACM Awards for the first time with fellow star Blake Shelton -- but he'll take a break from the clever banter to perform his brand new single, 'Crash My Party,' from his upcoming and highly anticipated fourth studio record.
Luke Bryan's big year just got even bigger. The singer, who saw his 'Spring Break…Here to Party' record hit No.1 on the Billboard chart and is gearing up for his first stint as an ACM Awards co-host, just landed the cover of Billboard. That's a huge feather in the singer's cowboy hat, since the industry magazine is taking a moment to recognize and celebrate the Luke Bryan brand.
The Academy of Country Music Award show just added some more artists for April 7th's show. Don't miss your favorite country artist performing live on this years' show.
Luke Bryan just checked another item off his bucket list. The country fan favorite's new collection 'Spring Break ... Here to Party' opened in the No. 1 position on the Billboard charts -- selling more copies than stars like Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, and even out-selling a collection of unreleased tracks by legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
As he makes the rounds to promote his 'Spring Break...Here to Party' record, Luke Bryan paid a visit to 'Chelsea Lately' to have a little one-on-one chat with the acid-tongued host. Turns out they talked quite a bit about his ACM Awards co-host Blake Shelton's drinking habits, but the funniest part of this clip is when Sarah Colonna, a 'Chelsea' staffer, showed up, clearly crushing on the country cutie. That's when Bryan gets his flirt on.


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Can I plant two bell peppers in one 5 gal bucket?
From what I have been reading Bell Peppers do better in groups or at least pairs with some of the leaves touching, so I was originally just going to plant one in a globalbucket- now Im thinking I should do at least two- do I need a second globalbucket set up?
Thanks for the info! I read a couple times on various gardening blogs/sites that Bell Peppers like to "hold hands"- meaning they do better if some of the leaves are touching- so maybe I missunderstood that- maybe that was advice if you had to grow more one plant, not saying you should grow more than one plant
I disagree that planting 2 or more is a good thing. I've been growing peppers for quite a few years and last year bought some transplants with a few that had 2 in each cell. Rather than culling the weaker ones, I decided to let them grow as is. Even in the GROUND, I noticed the peppers off those were much small than the ones that I planted singularly.
Regarding container size, most people will tell you that 5 gal is sufficient for peppers, but I've noticed a tad bigger would probably be best(7-10 gal), especially if you have a long growing season.


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Is this blight?
I'm growing tomato plants in 5 gallon buckets of potting soil with drainage holes and rocks in the bottom. Two of my plants, a Yellow Pear and a German Stripe, have yellow leaves. The first time I noticed, an entire branch of leaves had gone yellow. They are on the lower half of the plants. Most are at the bottom but one was midway up.
I applied Osmocote time release fertilizer at planting and water every day when temps in the 80s; otherwise I water every other day or when they feel dry.
I checked the forum and other tomato disease guides but none of the photos looked quite like these leaves, so I'm still not sure how to treat this.
I'm in western Oregon. The temps just got into the 80s this week, and the plants have just started setting fruit.
If anyone can identify what this problem is and suggest how to fix it, I'd be most appreciative.
It doesn't look like blight. The only thing that comes to mind is related to watering. How do you know when your plants really need watering? It's possible you're overwatering. You might find the Container Gardening forum on this site enlightening. I also grow in containers and drainage is the most important factor. Sounds like your soil might be a bit heavy and retaining too much water.
See the green veins through the yellow part? Blight or disease won't do that. So it must be nutrient-related.
I too had plants in 5-gal buckets and used osmocote. I think what happens is that the root ball grows so densely around the bits of osmocote that the water doesn't quite get to them. So they don't dissolve and your plants get nutrient deficiencies. Next year, I am going to use osmocote's "mini-prill." The pieces are smaller, mix better, and dissolve more easily.
I would recommend that you just forget the osmocote is in there and fertilize away. I used alaskan fish, jamaican bat guano, greensand, epsom salts, and molasses.
If possible, it would also help if you could set the entire bucket in a trough or kiddie pool and let it soak up water slowly. That would help to drench the root ball and dissolve your osmocote. Give it enough time to get saturated, and then take it out of the water or drain off the water from the pool. Although the plants in the attached pic are not in big containers, I was still soaking them in the pool to water them.
And if it is not feasable to soak your pots like Cole showed above, even going back and watering two or three times can help a container plant actually take up water. The root pathways get dry and sometimes just help the water run right through the plant. 5 gallons is not very big for a healthy, fruiting tomato. In my climate I would water twice daily at least and fertilize lightly several times a week.


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Nuff said.
Enemys, Health, objectives? an end? Also extended the screen size to 1024×768 as the default small window started to get on our balls!
Maybe… One thing's for sure, It sure is going well. Poor guy lost his arm though!
As tonight draws to an end, have a youtube video of our days work as it stands
Making progress on our 2D Firefall-esque minimalist style graphics clone. It's going really well and is already pretty fun.
Our take on the Minimalism stupid theme is to do all the graphics in a monochrome with minimal color (kinda like the sin city movie take on it)
Where the magic is going to happen!
We're ready and raring to do a late night!
We're back after the fun we had on LD25.
My work colleague and I will be entering the Jam again for this LD26.
Tools of the trade are boringly standard now.
SFXR, Supernova, Photoshop, Paint.Net, all the standard things, nothing amazing.
Looking forward to having a weekend working with my work colleague at home instead of at work this time. Should be fun!
Just in the nick of time. And to relax, Here's a video of me being chased by my own enemy AI.
(Spoiler, they lose)
Sooo clooooseeee. Definately going to be able to ship on time. Only problem i've got is WE WANT TO ADD MORE CONTENT.
Let us know of any ground breaking bugs and we'll try and smash them out too. Submitting shortly… WOOOOOO
Our game gets ever nearer completion. Only AI left to go.
Another update, progress has been good today. We're looking like this now:
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Five Thoughts: A Look at the 2014 World Series of Poker November Nine
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Mahin, Midena and Lamphere Among MSPT Regulars Who Found Success at WSOP
The MSPT Meskwaki is happening now, which inspired us to ask the question -- how did MSPT regulars fare at this year's World Series of Poker?
The Sunday Briefing: David Peters, Alen Bilic Victorious in Sunday Majors
David Peters and Alen Bilic were among the big winners on the virtual felt this week. Get all the results in the Sunday Briefing.
2014 WSOP November Nine: Chip Leader Jorryt van Hoof Looks To Clean Up
Dutchman Jorryt van Hoof hails from the city of Eindhoven where he studied industrial engineering. Now he finds himself as chip leader of the November Nine.
Jorryt van Hoof Leads 2014 WSOP November Nine, Mark Newhouse Goes Back-to-Back
The November Nine is set for the 2014 WSOP Main Event, with Jorryt van Hoof leading and Mark Newhouse making his second straight Main Event final table.
WSOP What to Watch For: Main Event Day 7 Preview -- From 27 to the November Nine
On Monday the final 27 in the 2014 WSOP Main Event play down to the November Nine, with Sweden's Martin Jacobson returning to start Day 7 with the chip lead
2014 WSOP Day 48: Jacobson Leads Final 27 in Main Event; Newhouse Seeks 2nd Nov. Nine
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7 floor of a 9-storied building with an elevator. Modern stylish apartment with a total area of 80sq.m., facing east and west sides, after a high-quality repair, high quality materials, the Italian doors made of wood. Very bright, spacious, two bedrooms and a living room. The first bedroom has a comfortable double bed, the second bedroom and the living room have wide folding sofas. On a large balcony - 8m in length - two modern orthopedic mattresses 20sm high can be put if necessary. A cozy lodge is equipped with a mini-cabinet for a work (table for a computer, the MFI / printer, copier, scanner upon request).
A dishwasher will help to make vacation more enjoyable. There is a dressing room, bathroom with acrylic bathtub, a new furniture and interior elements, a first-class equipment (plasma 32" PHILIPS, air conditioner Panasonic, cook top BOSCH, Oven BOSCH, dishwasher BOSCH, washing machine BOSCH, DVD, electric kettle, microwave stove, refrigerator, digital cable TV HD quality, high-speed Wi-Fi Internet, all necessary dish ware, iron, ironing board, hair dryer, bed linen and towels for 6-8 people.
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RENNER — Mitchell Gold rode the performance of Jared Miller to sweep Renner in a teener baseball doubleheader Tuesday.
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The right State of Mind..
Would be reflected by a majority of people not showing up for this voting charade.
As to your first off point. You're absolutely right that people who choose not to be complicit in the system of monetary fascism really do take responsibility, i.e. they demonstrate their own sovereignty (you somewhat contradict yourself by urging people to always vote, and then state that non-voters also take responsibility, but hey..). Secondly, these people are indeed very active in educating themselves and others, with help from wonderful like-minded scholars at the Ludwig von Mises Institute (and economist who hailed, like you, from Austria). Finally, people who do vote, matter in the sense that they willingly participate in a system of legalized plunder, via this great fiction called the State, by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everybody else. They subscribe to the welfare-warfare State, which is their choice and that's fine. But others should have the ability to opt out, and leave the debasement of the currency, the endless wars, and all the other games the coercive class plays upon the sheeple, way way behind them.
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I have a timer. But it starts a second late.I mean, i am clocking a time according to the timer. But the time in the clock, which updates through timer, is one second less then the actual time elapsed. The timer starts off a second late. How to set my timer to start at right time to show actual time? this is the code inside tick event:
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m_StatusLabel.Text = String.Format("Playing {0} ", format(timeCounter));
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Ahmadinejad's executive self-confidence contrasts sharply with the eight-year presidency of Mohammad Khatami, a moderate cleric who advocated a "dialogue of civilizations" and Iran's return to the international fold.
Ahmadinejad is instead transporting Iran back to the first radical years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, defined by battling imperial US and Soviet powers and Zionism. The former Revolutionary Guardsman says Israel is a "tumor" that must be "wiped off the map." He denies the Holocaust. And he is pushing the Iran's nuclear-power card; stalled talks with the European Union to curb those plans resume Wednesday in Vienna.
"This kind of mentality makes you very strong," says Amir Mohebian, political editor of the conservative Resalat newspaper.
"Bush said: 'God said to me, attack Afghanistan and attack Iraq.' The mentality of Mr. Bush and Mr. Ahmadinejad is the same here - both think God tells them what to do," says Mr. Mohebian, noting that end-of-time beliefs have similar roots in Christian and Muslim theology.
"If you think these are the last days of the world, and Jesus will come [again], this idea will change all your relations," says Mohebian. "If I think the Mahdi will come in two, three, or four years, why should I be soft? Now is the time to stand strong, to be hard."
That mind-set also hearkens back to the missionary ambition of the newly forged Islamic Republic. "What Ahmadinejad believes is that we have to create a model state based on ... Islamic democracy - to be given to the world," says Hamidreza Taraghi, head of the conservative Islamic Coalition Society. "The ... government accepts this role for themselves."
Any possibility of détente with the US may also be in jeopardy, if the US-Iran conflict is cast in Mahdaviat terms. That view holds that the US - with quasireligious declarations of transforming the Middle East with democracy and justice, deploying military forces across the region, and developing a new generation of nuclear weapons - is arrogantly trying to assume the role of Mahdi.
A top priority of Ahmadinejad is "to challenge America, which is trying to impose itself as the final salvation of the human being, and insert its unjust state [in the region]," says Mr. Taraghi.


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He says he was given the information in confidence by Chinese colleagues who have been threatened with arrest if they disclosed the extent of the problem.
The allegations, which he revealed at a meeting in Germany, contrast sharply with China�s official position. It reports three confirmed cases of H5N1 in people: a boy in Hunan province who recovered, and two women who died in Anhui province, the latest of which was announced on Thursday. There may be another probable case in Hunan.
But Masato Tashiro, head of virology at Tokyo�s National Institute of Infectious Disease � a WHO-collaborating centre for bird flu � told the meeting of virologists in Marburg, Germany, on 19 November that �we have been systematically deceived�. His comments were reported in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
He told the stunned meeting, called to mark the retirement of a senior German virologist, that there have been �several dozen� outbreaks in people, 300 confirmed deaths and 3000 people placed in isolation with suspected cases.
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He said five Chinese medical personnel had been arrested for trying to report these cases, according to the paper. China enforced severe restrictions on the investigation and reporting of suspected cases of bird flu in June 2005.
�These rumours have been investigated, and we�ve been told by the Chinese Ministry of Health that there�s no foundation to them,� Dick Thompson, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, told New Scientist.
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Virologists consider the relative absence of human cases of bird flu in China unusual, given its widespread infection in birds. China has reported poultry outbreaks in twenty counties all across the country since mid-October, the latest being on Thursday.
The WHO told the official Chinese news agency Xinhua last week that the virus causing the outbreak in Hunan is the same as the one in Vietnam and Thailand, where H5N1 has caused 113 confirmed human cases and 55 deaths so far.
There are other unconfirmed reports of human cases in China. Boxun News, an independent Chinese website, reported this week that 77 workers brought in to help control rampant H5N1 outbreaks in poultry in Liaoning province in November have died of the virus, listing 14 names.
Boxun reported the extent of the outbreak in wild birds at Qinghai Lake in central China in May, and alleged then that 120 people had been put in stringent hospital isolation in a nearby town, possibly with bird flu.
Why do you keep filling this board with bird flu information? Bird flu is not SARS, And Z will not be used to treat it. You are living in a dream world.
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History of the Olympic Games The Ancient Games Origin Stories Key Facts Events The Demise of the Games The Modern Games The revival of the Games Daron Pierre de Coubertin and the Double Dream The Drama of the Games Olympic Symbolism Politics and the Games The Ancient Games Origin Stories Historical The earliest date for which actual evidence exists for an Olympic celebration is 776BC. Various funeral games are believed to have been held earlier, perhaps as far back as 1453BC. Mythological 1. Facilities at Olympia were built and first games staged by Heracles (Hercules) in honor of Zeus and to celebrate his own success in cleaning the Aegean stables. 2. The Games were established by Pelops, on the model of earlier games in Asia Minor. Pelops is believed to really be buried on the Olympic site and many games were conducted as part of rites at funerals of heroes. 3. The Games were re-established (after earlier Games at the site were abandoned) by King Iphitos of Elis. He was advised by the Oracle at Delphi, who also told him to declare a temporary truce, called the "ekecheiria," during the Games in order to end local warfare. This truce was, and remained, very much a reality in ancient Greece and helped to unify Greece. More Mythological Origin Stories 4.The Games were established by Zeus as a celebration of his victory over Chronos for control of Olympia. 5.The Games were established by Pelops in celebration of winning the hand of Hippodaemia. King Oenomaus, her father, decreed that a suitor could only win her hand by kidnapping her and escaping in a chariot. After 13 others were killed in the attempt, Pelops succeeded byremoving the axle pins from the chariot of Oenomaus. Oenomaus, of course, was killed. So much for fair play. Key Facts (aka: obvious test items) Other sets of Games established by the ancient Greeks: •Pythian - At Delphi in honor of Apollo •Ithsmian - At Corinth in honor of Poseidon •Nemean - At Nemea in honor of Zeus •Heraian - At Olympia in honor of Hera (for women only) First recorded event - 1 stade race (about 200yds), 776BC won by Coriolis of Olis Last recorded event - , 369AD Timing of the Games • The middle day of the Olympic celebration was always the day of either the 2nd or 3rd full moon after the summer solstice (longest day of year). • This was always a period when those who worked the soil had free time. More Key Facts (aka: obvious test items) Prize for winners •Originally the only prize was a wreath of olive leaves. •Later, winners gained some very valuable prizes. Note the parallel with the modern Games, which originally were strictly for amateurs but now accept professionals. Violations of the truce •Even Alexander the Great was once forced to pay a heavy fine because one of his soldiers violated the truce. Demise of the ancient Games Abolished by the Roman Emperor Theodosius between 392 and 394 AD. Rome had adopted Christianity just a few years before and the Games were considered (correctly) a ritual of the older, pagan religion. The Modern Games Re-establishment of the Olympic Games •For 1300 years or so the Olympic Games were largely forgotten. •The earliest record of the idea of an Olympic revival is credited to J.C.F.GutsMuth (1759-1839) a German who is also the founder of the gymnastics movement. However, Guts-Muth never attempted to do anything about the idea, and it was not really possible at the time anyway. •On January 10, 1852, Ernst Curtius, an archeologist, gave a lecture in Berlin in which he discussed the ancient Olympics. His research stimulated interest in Greece and resulted in the organization of Pan-Hellenic Games by Major Evangelis Zappas. Pan-Hellenic Games were actually held in Greece in 1859, 1870, 1875, 1888, and 1889. These were strictly Greek affairs but were noticed by other countries. •In 1889, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was given a commission by France to study physical culture throughout the world. He found a mess of feuding, dissension between nations, struggles between sports, disagreements over professionalism and amateurism, and other problems. The Baron was also concerned over French morale after France"s defeat by Prussia in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War. (more on next slide) Re-establishment of the Olympic Games •In 1892 de Coubertin gave a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris in which he proposed the idea of an Olympic revival. His speech was very well received. Therefore, he then called and led a meeting of representatives from 13 countries. •The meeting called by de Coubertin took place June 16 - 23, 1894. The meeting resulted in the formation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Baron de Coubertin became the first President of the IOC. •In the same meeting, the IOC voted that the Games should be held every four years and that, "….every nation should be invited to participate." •Baron de Coubertin wanted the first Olympic Games to be held in Paris in 1900. However, the Greek delegation proposed that the first Games be held in Athens in 1896. The IOC approved this idea. •Although Greece was a poor country and the government could give no money to support the Games, a gift of 184000 dollars was given by George Averoff to rebuild the stadium in Athens and the Games of 1896 were held as planned. The Double Dream •Baron de Coubertin died in 1932. However, his widow lived to be 100 years old. In 1960, at the age of 100, Mrs de Coubertin was interviewed by Dr. John Lucas of Pennsylvania State University. •Mrs. De Coubertin told Dr. Lucas of what she described as her husband as "crazy in love with the idea of the Olympic Games. She then described his "double dream" for the Olympic Games. •The first part of the dream was that the Games would become the largest sporting event on the planet. This part has clearly been achieved. There is no other event that even comes close to attracting as many athletes or as many nations. •The second part of the dream was that the Games would bring together representatives from every nation of the earth for peaceful competition, and that these people would then bring the message of peace and achievement through unity back to their nations. This would then contribute to peace in the world. This part of the dream was partly achieved in 1996. All 197 invited nations did, in fact, participate in peaceful competition. The achievement of peace in the world, however, has proven to be more elusive, although the Olympics clearly have made a contribution toward that end. Drama of the Games Themselves Tidbits of Olympic History 1896 - 2000 1896 - Athens, Greece •Games opened April 6, 1896 - date chosen as 75th anniversary of the independence of Greece •The Opening Ceremony involved almost 300 athletes representing 12 or 13 countries. Compare that to the more than 10000 athletes and almost 200 countries in Atlanta. There were 9 sports - cycling, fencing, gymnastics, tennis, shooting, swimming, track and field, weight lifting, and wrestling. •The Games were officially opened by the King of Greece with the words, "I hereby proclain the opening of the First International Olympic Games in Athens." All Olympic Games are now opened by the head of state of the host country with the same words, except for updating. •The very first events were three heats of the 100 meter dash, all won by Americans. •The very first final event was the hop,step, and jump (triple jump), won by James B. Connolly, an American. Thus, Connolly became the first Olympic Champion in 1502 years. A Greek, Joannis Persakis, was third and thereby became the first Greek medal winner. 1896 - Athens, Greece •A French runner wore white gloves when he ran the 100 meter dash. Asked why he wore them he explained it was because he was running in front of the King. •The same French runner was actually entered and competed in two events, the 100 meter dash and the marathon. •In the discus event, Robert Garrett, an American, won by 7 inches in a surprise victory over the favorite Greek competitor, Panagiotis Paraskevopolous. It must have been a surprise to Garrett as well. Although Garrett had practiced with an approximation of one, he had never actually seen a real discus before he reached Athens. •An American swimmer named Williams entered the water prior to his race, then promptly climbed out and refused to compete. He complained that the water was considerably colder than he was accustomed to. More Athens The Marathon •There was no marathon event in the ancient Games but the event does commemorate a military victory on the Plain of Marathon, so it was very important to the Greeks. •The marathon was scheduled as the very last event on the Olympic program, and no Greek athlete had yet taken a gold. Earlier, the financier George Averoff had made an offer of 100,000 Drachmas and his daughter"s hand in marriage to any Greek who won the marathon. •Spiridon Loues prepared for the race by praying for two days and fasting for one. Midway in the race he moved into first place when American Arthur Blake collapsed. When Loues entered the stadium first, the Greek crowd went wild, some throwing jewels at his feet. •Loues did not accept the marriage offer (he was married already) but he did accept free meals for one year and free shoe polishing for life. He also accepted a field. Told by the king he could have anything he wanted, he asked for a horse and a cart so he would not have to chase his mule anymore. 1900 - Paris •The Games were largely a side-show to a world"s fair and were very poorly planned. •The organizers did so little planning that the facilities were not ready as the time for the Games approached. At the last minute they appointed Baron de Coubertin himself to try to save the Games. He did what he could but the Games were a mess that went on for more than a month. •Track and field had to take place in a grassy field. [The French were appalled by the idea of digging up a beautiful lawn to put in a cinder track. De Coubertin had to settle for laying out a 500 meter oval on grass - the circuit wasn"t even level - and they had to use telephone poles to build hurdles. •Quit while you"re ahead! France and Sweden/Norway were the only entries in the tug of war. Sweden/Norway won. After all this happened a group of Americans issued a challenge. For inexplicable reasons, the Sweden/Norway team not only agreed to the challenge, but agreed to put the gold medal on the line. Needless to say, the Americans won and to this day is officially recorded as the Olympic champion. 1900 - Paris •1st major international incident: The Games were scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 15. "Sacrilege," cried some Americans, and threatened to withdraw completely if they had to compete on Sunday. In spite of the fact that July 14 is a national holiday in France (their equivalent of our 4th of July, called Bastile Day) the French shifted the opening ceremony to Saturday, although the competition went on on Sunday as planned. •Alvin Kranzlein, American, won 4 individual gold medals in track and field. He remains the only athlete to do this. Several have won 4 golds but not all in individual events. When he won his 4th he stated, "I am through with athletics and shall devote myself to something more serious." Of course, he became a coach. •Marathon scandal - Three French runners took gold, silver, and bronze. However, there had been a last-minute change of course that should have taken the runners through a mud puddle. The three French runners were NOT spattered with mud, though everyone else was, suggesting they may have taken a short cut. However, they are recorded as the winners. •The first competition in a true team sport took place in 1900, in water polo. Great Britain took the gold. 1904 - St. Louis •Originally planned for Chicago, the Games were moved to St. Louis, based on a suggestion by Theodore Roosevelt that they become part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Thus, these games became the closest ever held to Louisiana. •The Games became largely a side-show of the exposition. •Only 11 countries participated. Largely this was because St. Louis was very hard to get to in those days. •Of 23 track and field events, the US took 22 gold, 33 silver, and 20 bronze. •Marathon story: Lorz, an American broke down about halfway and accepted a ride in an automobile back to the finish. Then the car broke down. Feeling better and being a bit of a free spirit, Lorz then jogged to the finish line. People cheered wildly, thinking him the leader. He played along but finally confessed just before being presented a championship cup by Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President. He thought the whole thing was very funny, but not the AAU. They banned him for life. They later relented and he won the Boston Marathon in 1905. •Gold medal count was rather one sided. The US took 77. The next closest was Cuba with 7. 1904 - St. Louis •Marathon story #2: Hicks, an American, was leading 7 miles from the end but was about to give up in exhaustion. His handlers then game him the white of an egg and a small dose of strychnine. [Strychnine is a deadly poison] Although reduced to a walk, he managed to hang on and win in a daze by 6 minutes. There were no rules concerning the use of drugs in those days but perhaps this can be recorded as the first use of drugs to try to improve performance in the Olympics. 1906 - Athens, Greece •Only summer Games not staged in the usual 4 year cycle. •900 athletes from 21 countries. •There is a tradition in the US that the US flag is never dipped in salute to a head of state of another country. However, the New York Evening Mail had an article at the time containing the following quote of Matt Halpin, the American flag bearer in the opening ceremony. "When I dipped the stars and stripes passing the royal box, the king staked me to a smile that made me feel like I belonged." •Poor sportsmanship - When Austrian weightlifter Josef Steinbach was jeered by the Greek audience after being accused of being a professional he quit in protest. A Greek lifter then won the event. The winner"s barbell was still on stage during the medal ceremony. Steinback walked onto the stage during the medal ceremony, casually walked over to the barbell the winner had lifted, and nonchalantly lifted it over his head three times. He then bowed to the crowd and walked out. •Werner Jaarvinen of Finland won two golds in track. When he returned home he found he was a national hero and his achievements generated tremendous interest in track and field in Finland. From 1912 through 1932 Finland never finished lower than 2nd in track and field. Three of Werner"s descendants later became Olympians as well. More for 1906 - Athens, Greece •The American track team was selected on the basis of reputation rather than any sort of trial. Paul Pilgrim was not selected. However, the coach was allowed to select one more member just before departure and he selected Pilgrim. Pilgrim won gold in both the 400 and 800, the only athlete ever to win that combination. •George Bonhag ran in the 1500 as a pace setter, setting a very slow pace and not winning anything. He later finished 4th in the 5 mile race. In disappointment he entered the 1500 meter walk. He had never competed in a walking event before. Partly as the result of some disqualifications, he won gold. •Unlike the Games of 1900 and 1904, these Games were regarded as superbly organized and may have saved the Olympics from oblivion. 1908 - London •Opening ceremony scandal: On opening day the stadium was draped with the flags of participating nations. However the US flag was missing. The British tried to explain they had been unable to find one but the Americans were outraged. In the parade, the Americans the Americans carried several flags and refused to dip the flag as they passed King Edward. This, of course, outraged the British. The American Martin Sheridan, weight thrower was quoted as saying, "This flag dips to no earthly king." To this day the US flag has never been dipped in an Olympic parade. •The rest of the story. The Swedish flag was also missing, so the British may have been innocent. •Scandal in the 400 meter run: The British runner Halswelle was the favorite. Rumors circulated in the press that the Americans would gang up to beat Halswelle. With 100 meters to go, Carpenter (USA) made a wide turn and took the lead. British officials yelled, "foul" and one actually stepped in to stop Taylor, another American. Carpenter finished 1st, Taylor 2nd, and Halswelle 3rd. The judges then disqualified Carpenter and declared the race void, ordering it to be run again. In protest, both Americans withdrew and Halswelle took the gold in the only walkover in Olympic history. Later the rules were changed so that all judging was handled internationally and not by the host nation. More 1908 - London •Program increased to 22 sports. •The first winter sport in the Olympics - Figure skating - Gold won by Pania, a Russion. Pania thus became the first and only Russian to win a medal until 1952.Also, the only medal winner from Czarist Russia. •Scandal in the tug of war: According to the rules, "No person shall wear prepared boots as shoes, only ordinary footwear." The British team was composed of a group of Liverpool policemen, and they showed up for competition wearing heavy police boots with steel rims. The Americans protested but the British officials ruled that the boots were okay because they were the everyday footwear for the Liverpool Police. The Americans quit and the British took the gold. 1912 - Stockholm •28 nations, 2500 athletes, including 57 women. •Jim Thorpe: One of greatest athletes of 20th century. Gold in pentathlon AND decathlon, 4th in high jumpt, 7th in long jump. A year later it was discovered he had accepted a few dollars for playing minor league baseball. He was then stripped of his medals •In the 1930"s there was an attempt to have Thorpe reinstated. One of the major opponents of that move was Avery Brundage, the second president of the IOC. Brundage had finished 6th in the pentathlon and 15th in the decathlon, an obvious conflict of interest. •Athletic Longevity: Ralph Craig won gold in the 100 and 200 meter races. In 1948, after an interval of 36 years, Craig competed in the Olympics again, this time in yaughting. He finished 11th. •Curiosity: Platt and Ben Adams, brothers, finished 1st and 2nd, respectively, in the standing high jump. •George Patton finished 5th in the Modern Pentathlon. He probably would have finished first except for some defective ammunition. Later, Patton became very famous as an tank general in WWII. 1912 - Stockholm •Turnabout in fair play: The British tried again to use heavy police boots in the tug of war. The Swedes, however, arranged for the event to be held in sand, making the heavy boots a liability. The Swedes won. •False Myth: It is commonly believed that when Thorpe was ordered to return his medals, the second place winners refused to accept the gold medal. This is not true. •False Myth: The is a story that when Thorpe was given an award by the king of Sweded, he replied, "Thanks, King." There is, however, no evidence that such words were ever spoken. 1916 - Games Cancelled due to War 1920 - Antwerp •2600 athletes, 29 nations, attendance poor - WWI ended only 1 year before. •First appearance of the Olympic flag, designed by de Coubertin •First use of the Olympic Oath •Government funding: The US Congress authorized use of a troop ship to bring the US team to Antwerp. This was the first and only time federal funds have been used to support the US team. •One result of the two-week voyage was a romance leading to a marriage between two US athletes, Dick Landon (high jumper) and Alice Lord (diver). •Outstanding runner: Paavo Nurmi, Finland, won 7 gold and 3 silver between 1920 and 1928. He might have won more in 1932 but was declared ineligible for receiving expense money. •Track and field gold medal count: USA 9, Finland 9. No other nation ever beat or tied the USA in track and field gold medals until 1972, when the USA and USSR tied. 1920 - Antwerp •Young Athlete: A US diver, Aileen Riggin, won gold . She was 13 years old. •Calling a bluff: Poor planning resulted in some very poor accomodations for US athletes. Several requested, and were given, permission to move to better quarters, but permission was denied to triple jumper Dan Ahearn. He then missed a 10PM curfew because he had moved into a hotel with one of those given better quarters. The USOC suspended Ahearn. Other Americans rebelled and 200 signed a request that Ahearn be reinstated, threatening to not compete. The USOC threatened them, "You can"t do that…You can"t betray the people who sent you over here…What would you do if the Committee (USOC) quit." They replied, "We"d get a better one." The USOC then backed down and reinstated Ahearn. •Ice Hockey and Rugby football were introduced to the Games. 1924 - Paris(s), Chamonix(w) •Paris becomes 1st city to serve as host twice. •First celebration of Winter Games (although figure skating and ice hockey were competed in the Games previously. •Canadian Ice Hockey team wins gold in slaughter (Checkoslovakia 30-0, Sweden 22-0, Switzerland 33-0,England 19-2, USA 6-1). •Benjamin Spock wins gold in rowing - later writes baby book that becomes 2nd leading sales book of all time (Bible is #1). •Johnny Weismuller wins 3 gold (swimming) and 1 bronze (water polo). May be only athlete ever to win medals in two sports in the same Olympics. Later played Tarzan in movies. •Paavo Nurmi, in 5 days, wins 1500, 5000, 10000, and 3000 team race. In the 1500 he finished easily, jogged straight to locker room, came out 1 hour later to win the 5000, setting an Olympic record. •Bob LeFondre of the US jumped 25"6" in the long jump portion of the Pentathlon, 1 foot further than the gold medal-winning long jump by Hubbard, another American. All LeFondre got, however, was the pentathlon bronze. •Gertrude Ederle won a gold and 2 bronzes in swimming. Two years later she became the first woman to swim the English channel. 1928 Amsterdam(s), St.Moritz (w) •Tragic story of a great athlete: Billy Fiske became the youngest American male athlete to win a gold, when he won the 4 man bobsled race in 1928, at the age of 16. He won again in 1932.At the beginning of WWII, Fiske became the first American to volunteer to serve in the Royal Air Force, and, unfortunately, the first American pilot killed in WWII. 1932 - Los Angeles(s), Lake Placid(w) •Edward Eagan won a gold medal as part of the 4man bobsled team. He previously won a gold medal in 1920 in Light Heavyweight Boxing. He thus became the only athlete to date to have won medals in both summer and winter Olympics. •Babe Didrickson won 2 golds and a silver in track and field. She later went on to success in several professional sports - principally golf. 1936 - Berlin(s),Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany •Jesse Owens wins 4 gold in track and field •Playing of national anthems with medal ceremony introduced. •First torch relay. •Sonja Henie (Norway) wins gold in figure skating for the third consecutive Olympics. She went on to a career in the movies. 1940 - Games Cancelled due to war 1944 - Games Cancelled due to war 1948 - London (s), St.Moritz (w) •St. Moritz becomes first city to host winter games twice 1952 Helsinki, Finland(s),Oslo, Norway (w) Emil Zatopek (Czeckoslovakia) wins gold in the 5000, 10000, and marathon. Only athletes to ever do this. 1956 - Melbourne(s), Cortina d"Ampezzo, Italy(w) 1960 - Rome(s), Squaw Valley, CA(w) •Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia) wins the marathon, running barefoot. •Patricia McCormack, USA diver, won both women"s diving golds for the second Olympic Games in a row. In 1988, her daughter swept both diving golds for the second Olympics in a row. •Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) wins gold in Light Heavyweight Boxing. Later widely recognized as one of the gretest athletes of the 20th century. 1964 - Tokyo(s), Innsbruck, Austria (w) 1968 - Mexico City(s), Grenoble, France (w) •Al Oerter wins gold in the discus, for the fourth consecutive Olympics. •Dawn Fraser (Australia) wins gold in 100m freestyle for the third consecutive Olympics. •Bob Beamon breaks long jump record by almost 2 feet. •Tommie Smith and John Carlos use medal ceremony to show disdain for racial discrimination in the USA 1972 - Munich(s), Sapporo, Japan (w) •11 Israeli athletes killed by terrorists •Mark Spitz wins 7 gold in swimming •US loses in basketball in very controversial decision 1976 - Montreal(s), Innsbruck, Austria (w) Nadia Comineci (Romania) wins 3 golds and 7 perfect scores in gymnastics at the age of 14. 1980 - Moscow(s), Lake Placid (w) •Summer Games boycotted by US and allies •US Ice Hockey beats Soviets for gold in big upset. •Eric Heiden wins 5 golds in speed skating. Most ever in winter Games. 1984 - Los Angeles (s), Sarajevo, (w) •Opening ceremony - Every nation in the Olympic movement (including those boycotting) was represented in the opening ceremony by a citizen of Los Angeles whose ancestry was from that country. •Boycotted by Soviet Union and its allies. •First Olympics to make significant profit for host (200M). 1988 - Seoul (s), Calgary, Canada (w) •Boycotted by North Korea and Cuba 1992 - Barcelona (s), Albertville, France (w) 1994 Lillehammer, Norway •Bonnie Blair wins 5 golds in speed skating, more than any American woman in a single Olympic Games, either summer or winter. 1996 - Atlanta •197 nations participate (100 percent of invited countries) 1998 - Nagano, Japan 2000 - Sidney 2002 - Salt Lake City •IOC rocked by major scandal involving bribery during host-city selection process 2004 - Athens •Athens will become the first city to serve as host three times. 2006 - Turin, Italy 2008 - ? Politics and the Olympics Politics and the Olympics have been intertwined from almost the beginning. The Olympics were formed, of course, for a political purpose, so it is not surprising that politics have become involved. Unfortunately, politics have probably had more of an effect on the Games than the Games have had on politics. Some examples of political interference with the games are on the next slide. •1936 - Berlin - Games used by nazies to promote their ideas of racial superiority. •1968 - Mexico City - Games used by American Black athletes to protest American policies concerning race. •1972 - Munich - Games boycotted by most Arab nations. Eleven Israili athletes killed in terrorist incident at the Olympic village. •1976 - Montreal - Games boycotted by most arab nations, South Africa banned. •1980 - Moscow - Games boycotted by USA and its allies in protest over Soviet attack on Afganistan. •1984 - Los Angeles - Games boycotted by Soviet Union and its allies in protest of American involvement in Nicaragua. •1988,1992 - Seoul, Barcelona - South Africa still banned. •1996 - Atlanta - No one boycotted, no one banned.
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i have what seems to be a old desk and the only printing i have foiund on it was a stamp that reads
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it looks like it is from the 1800 eras. and the lining is some kind of old printing or magazine pages from that time. does anybody out there know where i can find more informaiton on this desk and its value.It is a family piece and would love to know it's history.


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Open source has long since advanced to become the buzz word in a global conversation. That "open" is an idea which touches many facets of society will be the subject of upcoming events to be held in numerous locations, including London on November 6. and Berlin on December 6.
Open Everything will bring together supporters of the many different aspects of the "open" phenomenon. On their website, the events hosts attempt to bundle the characteristics of "openness". Which is not easy. Transparency, cooperation and the ability to change are for them important pillars in the open concept. A list of open projects defines the career of the term.
But the inflationary use of "open" also raises a significant question. Is the term "openness" still a value in itself? "Open" is already being used as a slogan in advertising propaganda, which explains the emphasis put on open and free in the software sector. Microsoft too has created its own Open Source Lab. What has Open Salad in common with Open Source, is Open Architecture compatible with Open Hardware? These and other questions are what Open Everything attempts to answer. Places and times of individual events along with further details can be found at the project wiki.
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