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The Brown Bottle at Schlitz Park shooting for an August reopening
The Brown Bottle, the defunct Old World-style tavern in Schlitz Park, will be reopened, and it appears the company that runs the business park is behind the opening. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Green Day plows into Rock Hall along with Jett, Ringo, Reed
CLEVELAND (AP) - With plenty of punk attitude and energy, Green Day thrashed its way into the Rock Hall.
The Bay Area trio, which formed as teenagers and helped make punk rock radio friendly in the 1990s, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night during a star-studded event they briefly turned into one of their high-intensity shows with a powerful set of some of their most memorable hits. »Read Full Article
Picks for Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards
There are two major nights each year in country music. The fall's Country Music Association Awards always seems to carry the most weight, while the spring's Academy of Country Music Awards has brought a more party-like atmosphere. But this year, the ACM's are going big. Celebrating the ceremony's 50th anniversary, organizers have moved it from Las Vegas to the huge AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Viewers at home can watch it live on CBS at 7 p.m.
The show's lineup is full of big stars set to take on the big venue. Performers will include Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Eric Church, George Strait, Garth Brooks and more. Like the last two years, Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton will host. And, as this is an award show, a spotlight will shine on the nominees in 12 non-radio station categories. (In the radio categories, Milwaukee's WMIL-FM is among the nominees for Best Large Market Station.) »Read Full Blog Post
Daniels keeps cool in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's fizzy 'Jeeves'
"That's the sort of chap he is. You just can't rattle him."
So says an admiring Bertie Wooster, speaking of his seemingly imperturbable valet in one of P.G. Wodehouse's early Jeeves stories. »Read Full Article
Bahamas R&B singer Johnny Kemp of 'Just Got Paid' fame dies
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Bahamian R&B singer Johnny Kemp, who is best known for the hit song "Just Got Paid," has died in Jamaica. He was 55.
Jamaica police said Friday that Kemp was found floating at a beach in Montego Bay on Thursday morning. It had not yet been determined how he died. »Read Full Article
Artists plan road trip across Wisconsin to find art 'in the middle'
How many artistic inventions and inspirations have been birthed by road-tripping artists?
Three artists plan to travel across Wisconsin in an attempt to escape the echo chamber of the art world as it exists in centers like New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo, and experiment with an organic curatorial model. »Read Full Article
Last day Sunday for Mama's Italian Cuisine on W. Burleigh
Longtime neighborhood restaurant Mama's Italian Cuisine, 7718 W. Burleigh St., will close for good after service Sunday, an employee said.
Swamped with customers, the restaurant closed earlier than usual Friday night because it ran out of some ingredients, she said, but Mama's is expected to be open regular hours on the weekend — starting at 11 a.m. for carryout, 3 p.m. for table service. »Read Full Blog Post
Bell departs from Company Brewing in Riverwest over licensing confict
Company Brewing, the brewpub opening in the former Stonefly building in Riverwest, announced this afternoon that chef Karen Bell will leave the venture over a conflict because of state liquor license laws, but that the brewpub is still expected to open in a few weeks.
The statement said Bell and brewer George Bregar were unable to get a brewpub permit from the state because state law forbids an owner of a brewpub or brewery from holding other retail liquor licenses for other businesses. Bell holds a liquor license for Bavette la Boucherie, her butcher shop and restaurant in the Third Ward. »Read Full Blog Post
'Jane the Virgin,' John Oliver among Peabody Award winners
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Jane the Virgin" and John Oliver's satirical news show are among the winners in the first round of this year's Peabody Awards.
The Peabody panel deemed the CW sitcom "Jane the Virgin" a "smart, self-aware telenovela" and its star Gina Rodriguez "incandescent." »Read Full Article
Report: John Ridley working on Marvel project for ABC
Oscar-winning screenwriter and Mequon native John Ridley is working with Marvel Studios to develop a new TV series for ABC, Entertainment Weekly reports.
According to EW's sources, the "12 Years a Slave" screenwriter, whose drama series "American Crime" also airs on ABC, has a deal that involves "reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property." »Read Full Article
Matt Cook named Milwaukee's next poet laureate
Matt Cook will be Milwaukee's next poet laureate, Milwaukee Public Library director Paula A. Kiely announced in a statement released Friday.
Cook is the author of four collections of poetry, including "Proving Nothing to Anyone" (Publishing Genius). He has earned a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Memphis. »Read Full Article
Spanish language 'Sabado Gigante' ends 53-year run
MIAMI (AP) - Television's longest-running variety show is calling it a wrap after 53 years.
The Miami-based Univision network said Friday the popular "Sabado Gigante" will end its weekly broadcast on Sept. 19. »Read Full Article
Be our guest for Disney concert, the Milwaukee Symphony suggests
Consider this a musical Rorschach test and give the first answer that pops into your head: What was your favorite Disney animated feature when you were a child?
Although your answer is more revealing of your age than anything else about you, the question itself speaks to the ubiquity of Disney features and the astounding length of time those films have been entertaining children (of all ages). »Read Full Article
Soulstice Theatre's 'The Pillowman' puts storytelling on trial
During an interview last year, an actor rejected any notion that he was on stage to bring a community together or improve lives. "All we do is tell stories," he modestly but earnestly told me. "And good stories can be really entertaining."
The writer at the center of Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman," now being staged by Soulstice Theatre under Bo Johnson's direction, would agree. "I tell stories," Katurian (Tim Palacek) insists to his two interrogators, agents of a totalitarian dictatorship. "I'm not trying to say anything at all! That's my whole thing." »Read Full Article
Toni Morrison's new novel suggests childhood is never innocent
"I hate to say it, but from the very beginning in the maternity ward the baby, Lula Ann, embarrassed me."
So says Sweetness, Lula Ann's mother, in the opening pages of Toni Morrison's new novel, "God Help the Child." Lula Ann's sin? She is "so black she scared me. Midnight black. Sudanese black." For Sweetness, who describes herself as "high yellow," the shame is nearly unbearable. »Read Full Article
Have a beer, watch a film about craft beer at 'Blood, Sweat & Beer' Wisconsin premiere
A documentary on the rise of craft beer and the struggles of two fledgling breweries, "Blood, Sweat & Beer," will be shown Monday at Brenner Brewing Co. in Walker's Point, and the two directors will be on hand to take questions during the Wisconsin premiere of their film.
Ann Packer explores a family's turmoil in 'The Children's Crusade'
Many readers will remember Ann Packer's bestselling first novel, "The Dive From Clausen's Pier," in which a young woman must choose between pursuing her dreams or standing by her injured fiancé.
That book took place in part in Madison, where Packer once lived as a creative writing fellow. »Read Full Article
'Rizzoli & Isles' creator Gerritsen to share stories in Milwaukee
"Die Again,"Tess Gerritsen's latest Rizzoli & Isles thriller, began with a bathroom break by her husband.
They were on an African tourist safari, Gerritsen said in a phone interview, and had already heard a strongly worded safety talk from their guide when their caravan stopped for cocktails. Gerritsen's husband headed toward some bushes for a pee break, but turned around when the guide urged him to go in a different direction. »Read Full Article
Shimon and Lindemann retrospective a good way to begin considering duo's legacy
John Shimon and Julie Lindemann didn't set out to interpret something about the turn of the 21st century in the middle of America, about shifting economic realities, altering landscapes and the culture created by people the culture leaves behind.
But they have done this in spite of themselves. »Read Full Article
Jennifer Morales' 'Meet Me Halfway' named UWM Common Read book
Jennifer Morales' "Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories" (Terrace Books), a connected series of short stories about race and racism set in the city, is the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee's Common Read book for 2015.
Incoming freshmen will receive the book and be invited to attend discussions facilitated by UWM faculty. »Read Full Blog Post
What to do in Milwaukee this weekend
The Best of Brew City is your mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee. Locate events, live music, bars and restaurants near you and in Milwaukee's most popular neighborhoods. Visit bestofbrewcity.com and download the app for iOS or Android today.
Record Store Day is Saturday, with events, performances, special deals and music rarities on sale and more at seven Milwaukee-area retailers. Among the special stuff available: the first new songs by Milwaukee's Violent Femmes in 15 years. Information on specials and performances in the area is available at jsonline.com/music and at the official Record Store Day website. »Read Full Article
Dining events include dinners focusing on foraged ingredients
The Wisconsin landscape is coming to life, so it's fitting that the many upcoming dining events include a couple of dinners focusing on foraged ingredients.
Green wines on Earth Day
Chef Van Luu will be preparing his first wine-pairing dinner for Locavore on Earth Day — Wednesday — featuring wines from the Napa Green certified Stag's Leap Wine Cellars. »Read Full Article
Xankia shines with savory Vietnamese-style sandwiches
Here are a couple of signs that you've found a good Vietnamese sandwich, like the banh mi at Xankia downtown:
■The bread is crisp, and that shower of crusty crumbs onto your shirt is a good thing. It's one indicator of the banh mi's origin, a fusion of French and Vietnamese foods. As with any great sandwich, the bread is much of the pleasure. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: 'Casablanca' with MSO, metal bands after Admirals, Flock of Seagulls at Potawatomi
There's more than a little bit of a flashback feel to this Friday. Consider what's going on around town today:
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is performing with a screening of "Casablanca," one of Hollywood's best and brightest, at 8 p.m. at the Riverside Theater. »Read Full Blog Post
Brangah forms theater troupe with Richard Madden, Judi Dench
LONDON (AP) - Kenneth Branagh has assembled a troupe including Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and "Game of Thrones" star Richard Madden for a season of plays under the banner of the Kenneth Brangah Theatre Company.
Branagh, who recently directed the fairy-tale film "Cinderella," will direct or star in all five of the plays, staged at London's Garrick Theatre over a year from October. »Read Full Article


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Quick Start
Grape lets you quickly add maven repository dependencies to your classpath. Here are the most common solutions:
Add a Dependency
Yes, you can annotate an import in Groovy. You can also search for dependencies on mvnrepository.com and it will provide you the @Grab annotation form of the pom.xml entry.
Specify Additional Repositories
Not all dependencies are in maven central. You can add new ones like this:
Maven Classifiers
Some maven dependencies need classifiers in order to be able to resolve. You can fix that like this:
Excluding Transitive Dependencies
Sometimes you will want to exclude transitive dependencies as you might be already using a slightly different but compatible version of some artifact. You can do this as follows:
JDBC Drivers
Because of the way JDBC drivers are loaded, you'll need to configure Grape to attach JDBC driver dependencies to the system class loader. I.e:
Using Grape From the Groovy Shell
From groovysh use the method call variant:
Proxy settings
If you are behind a firewall and/or need to use Groovy/Grape through a proxy server, you can specify those settings on the command like via the http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort system properties:
Or you can make this system wide by adding these properties to your JAVA_OPTS environment variable:
Grape (The Groovy Adaptable Packaging Engine or Groovy Advanced Packaging Engine) is the infrastructure enabling the grab() calls in Groovy, a set of classes leveraging Ivy to allow for a repository driven module system for Groovy. This allows a developer to write a script with an essentially arbitrary library requirement, and ship just the script. Grape will, at runtime, download as needed and link the named libraries and all dependencies forming a transitive closure when the script is run from existing repositories such as Ibiblio, Codehaus, and java.net.
Grape follows the Ivy conventions for module version identification, with naming change.
- Which module group the module comes from. Translates directly to a Maven groupId or an Ivy Organization. Any group matching/groovy[x][\..*]^/
is reserved and may have special meaning to the groovy endorsed modules.module
- The name of the module to load. Translated directly to a Maven artifactId or an Ivy artifact.version
- The version of the module to use. Either a literal version '1.1-RC3' or an Ivy Range '[2.2.1,)' meaning 2.2.1 or any greater version).
The downloaded modules will be stored according to Ivy's standard mechanism with a cache root of ~/.groovy/grape
One or more groovy.lang.Grab annotations can be added at any place that annotations are accepted to tell the compiler that this code relies on the specific library. This will have the effect of adding the library to the classloader of the groovy compiler. This annotation is detected and evaluated before any other resolution of classes in the script, so imported classes can be properly resolved by a @Grab annotation.
An appropriate grab(...)
call will be added to the static initializer of the class of the containing class (or script class in the case of an annotated script element).
Multiple Grape Annotations
In order to use a Grape annotation multiple times you must use the Grapes annotation, e.g.:
Otherwise you'll encounter the following error:
Method call
Typically a call to grab will occur early in the script or in class initialization. This is to insure that the libraries are made available to the ClassLoader before the groovy code relies on the code. A couple of typical calls may appear as follows:
* Multiple calls to grab in the same context with the same parameters should be idempotent. However, if the same code is called with a different ClassLoader context then resolution may be re-run.
is disabled by default. Starting callingGrape.initGrape()
will enable grab. Any calls to grab beforeinitGrape()
is called will be ignored. Hence Grape managed classloading is opt in only. Multiple calls tiGrape.initGrape()
after the first successful call are ignored.- If the
map passed into thegrab
call has an attributenoExceptions
that evaluates true no exceptions will be thrown. grab
requires that a RootLoader or GroovyClassLoader be specified or be in the ClassLoader chain of the calling class. By default failure to have such a ClassLoader available will result in module resolution and an exception being thrown(ifinitGrape()
has been called).- The ClassLoader passed in via the
argument and it's parent classloaders. - The ClassLoader of the object passed in as the
argument, and it's parent classloaders. - The ClassLoader of the class issuing the call to
- The ClassLoader passed in via the
- <String> - Which module group the module comes from. Translates directly to a Maven groupId. Any group matching/groovy(
is reserved and may have special meaning to the groovy endorsed modules.module:
- <String> - The name of the module to load. Translated directly to a Maven artifactId.version:
- <String> and possibly <Range> - The version of the module to use. Either a literal version '1.1-RC3' or an Ivy Range '[2.2.1,)' meaning 2.2.1 or any greater version).classifier:
- <String> - The Maven classifier to resolve by.conf:
- <String>, default 'default' - The configuration or scope of the module to download. The default conf isdefault:
which maps to the mavenruntime
- <boolean>, defaults true - Used to indicate that this revision must be used in case of conflicts, independently of- conflicts manager
- <boolean>, default false - Whether the artifact can change without it's version designation changing.transitive:
- <boolean>, default true - Whether to resolve other dependencies this module has or not.
There are two principal variants of grab
, one with a single Map and one with an arguments Map and multiple dependencies map. A call to the single map grab is the same as calling grab with the same map passed in twice, so grab arguments and dependencies can be mixed in the same map, and grab can be called as a single method with named parameters.
There are synonyms for these parameters. Submitting more than one is a runtime exception.
Arguments Map arguments
- <GroovyClassLaoder> or <RootClassLoader> - The ClassLoader to add resolved Jars torefObject:
- <Object> - The closest parent ClassLoader for the object's class will be treated as though it were passed in asclassLoader:
- <boolean>, default false - Should poms or ivy files be validated (true), or should we trust the cache (false).noExceptions:
- <boolean>, default false - If ClassLoader resolution or repository querying fails, should we throw an exception (false) or fail silently (true).
Command Line Tool
Grape added a command line executable 'grape' that allows for the inspection and management of the local grape cache.
This installs the specified groovy module or maven artifact. If a version is specified that specific version will be installed, otherwise the most recent version will be used (as if '*' we passed in).
Lists locally installed modules (with their full maven name in the case of groovy modules) and versions.
This returns the file locations of the jars representing the artifcats for the specified module(s) and the respective transitive dependencies. You may optionally pass in -ant, -dos, or -shell to get the dependencies expressed in a format applicable for an ant script, windows batch file, or unix shell script respectively. -ivy may be passed to see the dependencies expressed in an ivy like format.
Advanced configuration
Repository Directory
If you need to change the directory grape uses for downloading libraries you can specify the grape.root system property to change the default (which is ~/.groovy/grape)
Customize Ivy settings
//TODO expand on discussion of grapeConfig.xml
You can customize the ivy settings that Grape uses by creating a ~/.groovy/grapeConfig.xml file. If no such file exists, here are the default settings used by Grape:
For more information on how to customize these settings, please refer to the Ivy documentation.
Add your local Maven2 repository
If you find yourself wanting to reuse artifacts that you already have locally in your Maven2 repository, then you can add this line to your ~/.groovy/grapeConfig.xml:
And further customize your Grape configuration:
More Examples
Using Apache Commons Collections:
Using TagSoup:
Using Google Collections:
Launching a Jetty server to server Groovy templates:
Grape will download Jetty and its dependencies on first launch of this script, and cache them. We're creating a new Jetty Server on port 8080, then expose Groovy's TemplateServlet at the root of the context — Groovy comes with its own powerful template engine mechanism. We start the server and let it run for a certain duration. Each time someone will hit http://localhost:8080/somepage.gsp, it will display the somepage.gsp template to the user — those template pages should be situated in the same directory as this server script.
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Helen Hunt directs herself in this story of a brittle New York book editor who begins healing old wounds by learning how to surf.
Helen Hunt directs herself in this story of a brittle New York book editor who begins healing old wounds by learning how to surf.
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A look at the gifted musicians scheduled to perform at Ebertfest 2015.
Historic Occasion: The Little Rock Nine will be awarded the Lincoln Leadership Prize on May 18th in Chicago
Scout Tafoya's video series continues with a look at Mary Harron's "The Moth Diaries".
An essay on John Glen's 1985 Bond film, "A View to a Kill," in honor of its thirtieth anniversary.
An FFC reviews "The Motel Life", which just played at Ebertfest.
A personal reconsideration of Clive Barker's "Nightbreed" in light of its Blu-ray Director's Cut.
A review of Grace and Frankie, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston.
It's really tough to have it both ways.
Let's say you want to do a broad, shtick-filled comedy filled with "Three Stooges" humor, e.g., a character is hit head-on by a speeding car, tumbles over the roof, lands with a cringe-inducing thud on the highway — and suffers nary a scratch or even a hairline fracture. The stuff of cartoons.
Now let's say you want to do an unapologetically sentimental character study in which one character with tears streaming down her face reveals the childhood source of all her emotional pain. The stuff of heavy drama.
"Identity Thief" gives us both of the aforementioned scenes — and while each set piece is executed with professionalism by the filmmakers and the actors (and stunt humans) involved, neither is particularly effective. The car accident comedy doesn't work because by that point, we've grown weary of the violent, consequence-free humor. Then the big reveal scene doesn't work because the movie has just spent 90 minutes telling us these people are cartoons.
Such is the identity crisis suffered by "Identity Thief." It wants to be "Midnight Run" meets "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," but it carries little of the dramatic heft and real-world semi-plausibility of those much superior efforts.
The pairing of Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in a road trip comedy seems inspired. They're two unique comedic talents who always put an interesting spin on a line or a double take, whether starring in sitcoms or effortlessly swiping scenes in big-screen fare. Unfortunately, "Identity Thief" is a depressingly predictable road-trip buddy comedy that's far more interested in car chases, lame shootouts, physical shtick and cheap schmaltz than creating anything original.
Bateman plays Sandy Patterson, a 40-ish account executive for a financial firm who's underappreciated at work but finds comfort in the loving arms of his wife (the always-welcome Amanda Peet) and two adoring daughters. Given his gender-neutral name by a father who was a huge fan of baseball great Sandy Koufax, Sandy becomes the latest identity thief target of Diana (Melissa McCarthy), who must be the least subtle ID thief in North America.
Diana favors outfits so loud they scream, stocks her house like it's a Target store (there's even stuff on the front lawn), keeps all her phony IDs as souvenirs and goes on massive drinking and spending sprees every time she assumes a new identity. How has she not been caught, like, a thousand times?
Thanks to an idiotic premise involving Jon Favreau as the world's worst boss, Morris Chestnut as Denver's dumbest cop and John Cho as the world's worst friend, it's up to Sandy to make his way to Florida, capture Diana and bring her to Colorado. Then it's up to the screenwriter to find ways to keep Sandy and Diana on the road together for a series of wacky escapades, when all Sandy has to do is pick up a phone, dial the authorities and say, "Hey, you know that woman who stole my identity and has committed hundreds of felonies? Got her!"
Bateman and McCarthy have their moments of witty banter, but most of the time they're beating the Stooges out of each other or escaping a bounty hunter AND a couple of assassins. McCarthy does have that one aforementioned dramatic scene and she hits it out of the park — but even that moment is telegraphed a half-dozen times. Whether it's aiming for cringe-inducing laughs or trying to score the big emotional payoff, "Identity Thief" is a cheap copy of much better comedies. Here's hoping someone finds a much better vehicle for these terrifically talented actors.
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An essay on John Glen's 1985 Bond film, "A View to a Kill," in honor of its thirtieth anniversary.
Scout Tafoya's video series continues with a look at Mary Harron's "The Moth Diaries".
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Trouble is as trouble does: I wish I might, I wish I was — Superwoman
I've decided to clone myself at the first opportunity. That way I can take turns with myself and work every waking moment, be everywhere and everything people seem to think I should be.
It troubles me when people attack me verbally and in public for what amounts to unfair reasons. But then they are upset enough at the time to believe they know everything they need to know and are in the right.
When I'm troubled about something, I often find myself searching for answers, trying to understand what happened and why.
I appreciate people who do the same, people who come straight out and ask me why I did something this way or that, why I ran one photo on the front page and a more important photo inside.
Everything has an explanation, which is hopefully not an excuse. I dread becoming one of those people who always has an excuse for failure. I may have been guilty of such behavior in my youth, but I sure hope I've matured enough to accept blame when I've erred.
These days my searches for answers to troubling thoughts are often online, with a Google search or by browsing sites such as WebMD, Psychology Today, bible.com, even inside my own head. Is it just me, I wonder?
Searching through different interpretations of the Bible brought me peace, especially Galatians 5 in the version titled "The Message."
The main problem seemed to be self-interest on one side, and a perceived lack of interest, or possibly something more sinister, on mine.
I pondered this for a while, and then I logged onto Psychology Today and laughed out loud.
"Forgiving and Forgetting" was the title of one of the featured articles. So be it. I'll just clone myself, and maybe this will never happen again.
I'd be like Superwoman, able to take care of my family, work at my job no matter where, even when my inappropriate shoes are recognized from under a stall when the conversation is struck — I'd be ready with paper in hand.
Hot meals would magically appear on the table every day, never a hair would be out of place, and my fingernails would be unbroken and polished for a change.
I'd be at every local meeting, even if one was at the same time as graduation, I'd never miss any community activity and I'd always have lots of photos of everybody and everything in the paper.
Who even cares if there is not enough money to support all of this extra work? We can just pretend there is only one of me to pay for my usual 30 hours per week, and the newspaper can be like loaves and fishes.
There will be plenty for all to have their fill, if only we just have faith, like Peter did that long ago night on the water.
Now if I can just remember where I put my red shoes? They seem to have disappeared, or maybe someone waved a magic wand and turned them into rubber boots.


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wubupon wrote:This coming from the girl whose light fixture fell on her head in the kitchen for no apparent reason.
Total LOL
j5 wrote:They pretty much do, yes. Especially in this incarnation with the long bit on the bottom, not to mention the title "Gold Life". What do YOU think that's a reference to? Cross Wiki
*Shrugs* I have no idea. I was merely saying that what one person sees isnt what everyone sees. As I said, theres no denying that the most common use of the cross is by christianity, but crosses existed as a symbol before christianity and in this day and age they are used for decoration and jewelry by those who are not even remotely religious. The celtic cross is a great example of that. Whilst much of its early life 1000-2000 years ago was most definitely swamped in christianity, now it is almost a fashion thing amongst some groups, and I know i certainly don't think Christian instantly when looking at it. *Shrugs* I guess everyone has their own experiences and opinions. Thats what makes interacting with others so much fun ^_^
Thank you all for the kind comments =).
Beautiful kitty! Love the pattern details. But not a design I would ever wear, sorry.
Re: Eye of the Sun
Re: Golden Lion
Beautiful. I hope you get one of the first editor choices!
runnerfrog13 wrote:Definitely fits the theme well, and attractive colors you got going on. I do question whether Lord of the Rings is one of the dead horses though.
GMV, this is a great shirt for this derby, even if it might be a dead horse. On a slightly different point (and I know that it's moot to grumble on this topic, but I feel it needs to be pointed out), as far as I can tell, there have been more LOTR shirts than DW shirts printed by woot. So I'm wondering what reason they have to say that DW IS a dead horse, while LOTR isn't. Besides the prevalence of DW over LOTR in the more recent derbies, that is...
DianaSprinkle wrote:Woot's rules for "No text-only designs." requires an image component to a text heavy design... However the things that woot considers images include: having a box around the text, making an image out of the words, and in one notable winner - a slightly textured background fuzz. This entry is fine.
Thank you
Kidaho wrote:Beautiful. I hope you get one of the first editor choices!
Awww thank you I really appreciate the support. Its been very exciting for me to be even this high in the derby when this is only my second ever entry.
lilsquiggle wrote:*Shrugs* I have no idea. I was merely saying that what one person sees isnt what everyone sees.
no worries. For the record, I didn't tattle this. I have no idea why it was rejected, because usually religious refs are stated as such.
Really like this - I'd get one for each of my grandsons! And one for myself, as well. (The Golden Lion)
I am absolutely heartbroken to see this fall out of the Fog - here's hoping for an Editor's Choice! This has to be one of my favorite derby entries in months, if not ever, so...good luck!!
Re: To Be Lucky
Re: Golden Inspiration
The USOC/IOC would sue woot over this one.
autumnseraphim wrote:I did! Haha! Though I'm not in a position to criticize it (at least not yet haha) bec it's my 1st time to join this (blossom!XD) though I've been checkin' this site quite enough to figure out who's popular :D
Stick around long enough and you'll get a feel for it. Ramy's one of the few with both a reputation and following depending on what posts you read. Welcome to Woot!
arienb wrote:Anyone else think Wirdou when you saw the thumbnail? I didn't vote for this after seeing the (to me) extreme similarities in style. Clever? Yes. Original? Eh...
Yeah, I definitely thought Wirdou.
This is amazing, I would love to buy something like this!
Re: Caged Up
Re: An Inevitable Fate
Glad to see you were able to resub this since the original was so good. Hope it prints so I can get at least one if not two.
Re: Golden Munchies
5 colors on silver. The yellow used in the design represents the gold shimmer ink. I hope you like this design. Please vote.
Re: Golden Retriever
FINALLY someone has done a golden retriever design!
Re: Flight of the Golden Fish
so awesome!!
I love the expression on the goldfish in the bowl. +1
I thought it was someone trying to hold onto a handful of eggs...
pm820 wrote:I love the expression on the goldfish in the bowl. +1
Agree. I love the expression on the goldfish as well. This would be a good t-shirt for my kid. I hope it wins!
right on
Re: No One Percent
Support the moneyless by voting for this shirt.
This is the best! I hope it gets the first place :D
akalashnikova wrote:Have you ever seen the Lucky golden poo from Japan? The have keychain accessories and other things. A friend of mine brought me back a tiny golden poo on a little red pillow. I put it on my desk at work. Apparently the kanji for lucky is near the word for poo - Well google golden lucky poo, you'll see its not like a 'golden shower'.
I totally agree, I thought it was great. I know several people who would find this appealing.
Re: A Million Sunsets
Each sunset is different, though there's no-one to share them with.
Nice Work!
devdave wrote:I can draw part 2 where a golden owlet hatches from the egg to complete your story... hehe
Beautiful! I serious though... this is getting written... such a cool tale.
Re: Heart of Gold
I would wear this shirt SO much...!
Re: Olympic Deliciousness
A chocolate foil medal, I knew it!
cjhippo wrote:Really like this - I'd get one for each of my grandsons! And one for myself, as well. (The Golden Lion)
Thank you for the support Im low enough down in the derby now that to me it seems highly unlikely for this to print. Theres some much stronger entries. However, when the 60 days are up, I will definitely be taking this design elsewhere to see if I can get it printed.
SkekTek wrote:Support the moneyless by voting for this shirt.
But if you buy this shirt, becareful of biker gangs...they might take it personally...LOL
henwy wrote:I thought it was someone trying to hold onto a handful of eggs...
Heh — at least you didn't see one of the earlier revisions of it, where there was a lot more sand — it really DID look like that then. xD But… yeah. I can see where it doesn't look much like gold coins. Sadly, there's not really a very good way to convey the metallic gold on a computer screen. D:
Wow, this is really great! I hope it does well despite the late entry!
Re: The Golden Planet
What's that rectangular thing floating near the planet? o.O A giant chalkboard eraser? An iPhone? Random space junk? A satellite? On the subject of the shirt itself: this is a sweet design. :D I know I'D buy one, if it went to print.
Re: Blanche, Sophia, Dorothy, Rose
I haven't much to say about this design, except that it's simple (that's a good thing, though! ), and it's also pure genius.
Re: The Goldest of Finches
Reminds me of the story, "The Old Woman in the Wood"/"The White Dove" (it apparently has many versions). Is it perhaps a reference to that story?
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All the actors were great in this, especially Cavill and Faora, but the rest was questionable. Why did he take the fight from farmland into the centre of Smallville instead of further away from people. Why did Superman let Zod's henchment pick him up and fly away when he should have been pressing his advantage? How did he and Zod fly up into space and still land back in Metropolis? How did Lois get to Clark and Zod's final fight so quickly?
I hope they spend longer than 30 minutes working out the plot for the next one, Superman deserves better.
I hope the prices go down some by the time it comes out , I thought it was a rather good movie , it moved though the back story in flashbacks was great . All fantasy an action movies have plot holes ,all because you must use your imagination as a kid to love them . I look forward for the BluRay.
IF you go back and watch the movie Supes had to stay with them. They were there to destroy smallville and army. He flies away and then they keep blowing town up. Smart! Same thing with Metropolis. Zod was going to kill people to spite him anyways so again if Supes flies away he would just destroyed Metropolis. Again genius logic. I know a couple things could have been done differently by Supes but mostly he stayed around because they were already fighting humans and such. I saw a different movie than you guys I guess. It was also a learning curve for him since he had never fought like throwing them around and smashing a building was like oops to hard, It was a fight he was pulled into. Thats the way I saw it.
Not seen it in the cinema as it has been a busy year so far. Is this the final version for now or is there any rumours of a Director's Cut.
Umm, Superman dragged zod into the middle of smallville. It was there he beat Zod, and then his henchmen picked Zod up and fled while he watched. They were at the farm to find the ship, not to trash the town.
Saying that, I did enjoy most of the movie which didn't involve fighting as that was most of the stupid parts.
eh just my opinion. But I think this is the closest anyone has gotten to the film version of what the original superman was like. I can't take away that someone would've like to of seen more dialogue as opposed to fighting and action. If it was there to take place of the action, then it wouldn't of mattered that much to me, The film would have still been good. My personal favorite this summer, as I am indeed a DC fan; also a fan of Goyer/Nolan/Snyder (even before any of them were attached to these characters). At least no one is complaining about the death scene at the end yet. I'm sorry, but Superman DOES kill. Not often, but it has been done. He is not Batman.
I think in the next film, (depending on how it goes) maybe in mid credits, they should have Batman talking to Superman about "The fastest man on the planet" Batman jokingly asks Supes, "You think you can keep up with him?" Superman laughs, pats Batsy on the should then takes off into the sky.
Then you could show a blur racing across the planet (like the Flash is in his beginning days and having 'FUN' with his ability) with Superman actually kind of 'struggling' to keep up (as in he gets close, but can never catch him) They run through amazons, across mountain ranges, small towns, etc. Superman backs off, Allen actually slows down, kinda of routing to himself as he has escaped the grasp of the Man of Steel. until *WACK* All the sudden Barry is at a complete stop, now within the grip of Superman. You could add an effect to the Flash while he is in Supermans hand (like a blurring void effect while Allen is trying to get away from his hold) Maybe Allen says, "No, your arm should have been torn off.. I'm the fastest thing on the planet Superman." Superman says nothing as the sound of a plane/ship is heard over head. It's the new BatWing. The ship drops a pod. the seal opens and from out of the pod Batman emerges. Superman could say "You have a hard time keeping up?" Batman says nothing, telling him everything about the man they were chasing "He is Barry Allen blah blah blah etc... This device I have can keep him still until we have our talk with him." Superman says "I got him."
I haven't thought of anything else yet.. but let your imagination take it from there.


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jscalendar release notes

This release compiled at Monday, 7 Mar 2005 (19:06).

1.0

 Added support for multiple dates selection. In this mode the calendar will allow the user to select more than one date, and will maintain an array of selected dates that can be investigated from your custom handlers. Sample in multiple-dates.html.

 Support for âÂÂday infoâÂÂ. Using this feature you can display custom information for certain dates. Sample in dayinfo.html. Note that if the text is really big the calendar layout might appear somehow broken; this is something that should be easy to fix in the CSS file.

 Clicking on âÂÂTodayâ will now close the calendar if the current date is already selected.

 The âÂÂfirst day of weekâ setting can now be defined in the language file--after all, it is locale-specific. The new parameter is âÂÂCalendar._FDâÂÂ. Language files should be updated, but the calendar will not complain nor fail to function if the parameter is not present.

 Some fixes to make the thing work in Safari. It now seems to be properly supported, please let me know if you encounter any problems.

 New skin: Aqua theme, appropriate for MacOSX fan sites :-) This theme is located in âÂÂskins/aqua/theme.cssâ (in the future, all themes will go to this directory).

 Bug fixes.

 Keyboard operation now functions normally when the calendar is displaying days from adjacent months; it might even work correctly for months containing disabled dates :). This fix was originally developed under contract for The Zapatec Calendar. Zapatec kindly allowed us to include the bugfixes back in the open source calendar.

 Fixed the time selection bug: the previous version would reset the time to current time when a new date was clicked.

 Parsing hours like "12:XX pm" would wrongfully replace "pm" with "am"--fixed.

 Fixed critical bugs in parseDate function that would initialize the calendar with 'NaN' values in all cells if the string to be parsed is not a valid date.

 The golbal variable that we are using was renamed to âÂÂ_dynarch_popupCalendarâ to minimize the risk of name clashes. It's still difficult to get rid of it.

 Added z-index property to drop-down menus style.

 The calendar will update an input field even in flat mode, if an input field was passed. Also, the âÂÂshowOthersâ parameter will be effective in both popup and flat mode.

 Others, probably.

 Documentation & sample files updated.

0.9.6

 "Smart" (TM :-) positioning algorithm. The new algorithm will try to keep the calendar in the browser view, which is helpful in situations when the input field is near the bottom or the right edge. This code is only tested with IE and Mozilla, but it should work with other browsers too. Many thanks to Sunny Chowdhury for sponsoring this feature!

 Support for IE5/Win is back. I also want to thank Janusz Piwowarski for keeping his eye on the CVS ;-) He reviewed my IE5-related changes and sent me a much cleaner patch.

 The calendar will now allow any day of week to be "the first day of week". This was requested long time ago, by someone whose name I forgot (sorry). The reason was that in certain countries weeks start on Saturday. So I thought that instead of having a "mondayFirst" and a "saturdayFirst" parameter, :-), it's better to have a "firstDayOfWeek" parameter; now it's present and its meaning is: "0 for Sunday", "1 for Monday", "2 for Tuesday", etc. The equivalent parameter for Calendar.setup is "firstDay". The end user can also change it very easy: click on the day name in the calendar display.

 The above feature triggered one important change: the notion of "weekend" is now defined in the language file. Added parameters:
 Calendar._TT["WEEKEND"] = "0,6"; Calendar._TT["DAY_FIRST"] = "Display %s first";
 "WEEKEND" specifies a string with comma-separated numbers from 0 to 7; they define what days are marked as "weekend". 5 and 6 mean, of course, "Sunday" and "Saturday". Day first is the tooltip displayed when a day name is hovered; "%s" will get replaced with the day name. Updated languages are "en" and "ro", which I maintain. Please note that languages wich are not updated will not work. If yours is one of them, please consider fixing it and sending me the fix so that I can include it in the distro.

 The calendar can now display days from the months adjacent to the currently displayed one. This is optional, of course, and the parameter name is "showsOtherMonths" (or "showOthers" in Calendar.setup). All theme files were updated.

 Displays "Time:" near the time selector, only if defined in the language file.

 Some bugs fixed in the date parsing code (which has also been rewritten a little bit cleaner).

 Calendar.setup will now configure the calendar to trigger the input fields' "onchange" event, if specified, when a date is selected.

 New parameter in Calendar.setup: "cache" (defaults to false). If set to true then the popup calendar object will be "cached", meaning, it will be created only once, no matter how many input fields are there in the page. Sometimes this is not desirable, which is why I've added this parameter. Please note that it defaults to "false" (thus the default behavior has changed).

 Added a simple PHP wrapper. It provides code which loads all the required scripts and theme file, and one function which creates and configures an input field for date input. It takes care of creating and assigning unique ID-s for the calendar fields and it also creates the "Calendar.setup" code. Functions to create more specialized fields can be added very easily. This feature was requested by the FreeMED.org project (thanks for donating!).

Wow, there were quite some changes :-D Enjoy it!

0.9.5

 This release's primary goal is to fix a wrong license statement which can be found in some files from 0.9.4. For instance in README or calendar.js, the statement was that the code is distributed under the GNU GPL; that's because I had plans to change the license, then changed my mind but unfortunately I committed files so. I am sorry for this inconvenience, please use the latest (0.9.5) release which is fully covered by LGPL.

Other changes:

 Fixed an annoying bug that prevented the calendar to display correctly when it was configured for an input field inside a scrolling area. Many thanks to Ian Barrack (Simban.com) who pointed it up and donated quite some money for the Calendar project!

 All examples use UTF-8 now; the translations may not be all up-to-date, but I strongly suggest everyone to use UTF-8; other encodings are a plain mess. So far I know for sure that Romanian translation will work with UTF-8 and not anymore with ISO-8859-2. Other translations are probably usable under UTF-8, but if your preferred language isn't... ;-) please make it and send it to me for inclusion.

 Fixed small bug in the documentation (one footnote didn't appear where it should have).

 Updated translations: DE, ES, HU, IT, RO. Thanks to everyone who sent translations!

0.9.4

New stuff

Supports time selection. Yes. ;-) This work has been largely sponsored by Himanshukumar Shah (thank you!). See the docs and example files for details on how to setup.

Easy to link 2 or more fields by using the new onUpdate parameter of Calendar.setup. This is useful, say, to automatically set a value in a second field based on the value selected in the first field. See the documentation and first sample in simple-1.html.

Other Calendar.setup low-level parameters, for those wanting to have the complete control: onSelect and onClose. The handlers are called when something is selected in the calendar or when the calendar is closed.

The translation files can optionally include the short day names and the short month names. That's because in some languages, like German, the short form is not the first 3 letters of the entire name but only the first 2. Also in other languages short names can't be as easily derived from the full name by just calling substr, so this patch solves the problem.

Implemented a nice way to make some dates "special" (look different). Specifically, the setDisabledHandler method was replaced with the more general setDateStatusHandler method (the old one is still available for backwards compatibility but will be removed). More details about this in the documentation. Also see simple-3.html for a live sample.

Date parsing and formatting engine is now rewritten and supports a subset of strftime format specifiers from ANSI C. This makes it possible to use dates like "YYYYMMDD" (the corresponding format for this would be "%Y%m%d"). Details in the documentation. Please note that the new engine is not compatibile with older calendar releases!

Along with the new date parser I workarounded an unpleasant crash that occurred in IE when certain accented characters appeared in the texts. I think German was one of the language with such problems, and the workaround was to use the letter without an accent. Well, now you can translate to whatever you want.

"Fixes" (I mean, "horrible workarounds") for Konqueror (and hopefully Safari). Unfortunately, this otherwise excellent browser still has some bugs that keep the calendar from working exactly as it should.. But they're going to be fixed, right? ;-)

CSS themes got pretty much modified too so if you wrote your theme you need to update it. Aside for the time selector support, the CSS themes contain a simple hack that makes the navigation buttons show a little arrow in the lower-right corner which indicates that if one holds the mouse a menu will appear.

Translation files

The translation files need to be updated in order for the calendar to work properly. Currently the only updated files are calendar-en.js (main file) and calendar-ro.js (well, yes, I am a Romanian ;-).

Specifically, they need the following:

Correct date format, according with the new format specifiers introduced in 0.9.4. Details about the available format specifiers in the documentation

Short day or month names, if required. If they can be derived by taking the first N letters of the full name then a simple Calendar._SDN_len = N or Calendar._SMN_len = N will suffice. If N is 3 then nothing needs to be done as we take it for granted if no other option is offered ;-)

We have some new texts that shows short usage information as well as copyright information.

If your favorite language is not there yet, or it is but not updated according to the main calendar-en.js file, then please consider translating calendar-en.js and send the translation back to me so that I include it in the official distribution.

Bug status

Check SourceForge, I didn't keep track. However, there were a lot of bugfixes.

0.9.3

New stuff

Opera 7 compatibility — keyboard navigation is still not available; text selection can't be disabled, leading to an ugly effect when walking through the month/year menus.

Ability to align the calendar relative to the input field (or any other element). Vertical: top, center, bottom. Horizontal: left, center, right. This is established as a new parameter for <tt>showAtElement</tt>.

Added <tt>dateClicked</tt> property (boolean). This can be inspected in the "onSelect" handler to determine if a date was really clicked or the user only changed month/year using the menus. You need to check this for "single-click" calendars and only close/hide the calendar if it's <tt>true</tt>.

Full documentation in HTML and PDF format is now available in the distribution archive.

New language definition files: HU, HR, PT, ZH. Thanks those who submitted!

Bug status

This covers only those bugs that have been reported at SourceForge.

<tt>#703,238</tt> — fixed

<tt>#703,814</tt> — fixed

<tt>#716,777</tt> — closed (was fixed already in 0.9.2-1)

<tt>#723,335</tt> — fixed

<tt>#715,122</tt> — feature request; implemented.

<tt>#721,206</tt> — fixed (added "refresh()" function)

<tt>#721,833</tt> — fixed (bug concerning the "yy" format parsing)

<tt>#721,833</tt> — won't fix (we won't set the time to midnight; time might actually be useful when we implement support for time selection).

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Needing to address the defense position in the wake of Marc Staal's lingering post-concussion symptoms, the Rangers added veteran blue liner Jeff Woywitka via waivers from Montreal last week. Woywitka signed a two-way deal with Montreal this summer before the Canadiens waived him. His deal counts $600,000 against the cap while on the NHL roster.
Of course Woywitka won't be expected to replace Staal. He was signed to give Tortorella veteran depth. He will be expected to play a solid 13-15 minutes per night on the third pair and provide a better alternative than either Brendan Bell or Stu Bickel. The question is what exactly do we have in Woywitka? Was Woywitka the best option for the Rangers? Veterans like Paul Mara and Bryan McCabe remain unsigned. Is Woywitka better than those options? What can we expect from Woywitka while he is in the lineup? Let's see if the advanced stats can give us a probable answer to those queries.
For those who watched the Rangers in Europe this past weekend, it's abundantly clear this team needs to stay out of the penalty box. Because of that I included the Relative Penalties Taken/Drawn Per 60 along with the usual suspects of advanced stats for this comparison. We've already concluded defensemen are more likely to take more infractions than they will draw but the better the differential the more it will benefit the team.
Woywitka |
Relative Corsi |
OZone % |
2010-2011 |
63 |
-0.4 |
-3.4 |
54.3% |
-0.078 |
2009-2010 |
36 |
0.1 |
4.1 |
55.3% |
-0.074 |
2008-2009 |
65 |
-0.5 |
-2.0 |
46.2% |
-0.038 |
Mara |
Relative Corsi |
OZone % |
2010-2011 |
53 |
-1.0 |
-15.6 |
49.2% |
-0.049 |
2009-2010 |
42 |
-0.9 |
-9.6 |
50.2% |
-0.078 |
2008-2009 |
76 |
-0.5 |
-7.6 |
60.2% |
0.00 |
McCabe |
Relative Corsi |
OZone % |
2010-2011 |
67 |
-0.5 |
-0.9 |
55.1% |
-0.085 |
2009-2010 |
82 |
-0.5 |
4.4 |
46.9% |
-0.029 |
2008-2009 |
69 |
-0.6 |
3.1 |
49.9% |
-0.057 |
To put it bluntly, none of these players stands out as anything more than a depth player. Still, if we look at the biggest differences, Woywitka has far better Relative Corsi ratings than Paul Mara while essentially matching the UFA defender in OZone % and QUALCOMP over the last three seasons. I also note the extreme difference in PD/PT/60 (Penalties Drawn versus Penalties Taken Per 60 Minutes of Ice Time). If we take just last year into consideration, Mara gave the opposition about one extra PP for every five games more than Woywitka based on 20 minutes per game of ice time.
Mara's numbers also appear to be sliding which could be an indication of a decline. It looks like Woywitka is not only the better player at this point but probably came cheaper in terms of salary cap hit.
McCabe has posted superior Relative Corsi Ratings to Woywitka with comparable or slightly better Ozone % and QUALCOMP numbers. Of course McCabe isn't getting any younger or faster on the ice and considering he is/was coming off a deal which paid him in excess of $5 million per season, he likely wasn't going to sign for anything close to the $600.000 Woywitka will account for. Besides, we've sailed the McCabe ship and it was generally rough seas for Rangers fans. It seems a smarter move to go with Woywitka.
I was curious how Woywitka measured up against Steve Eminger, a player most Rangers fans were satisfied with as a 6th/7th defenseman last season. Here are Eminger's results in the same stats included in the tables above.
Eminger |
Relative Corsi |
OZone % |
2010-2011 |
65 |
0.0 |
-4.68 |
51.9% |
-0.073 |
2009-2010 |
63 |
-0.7 |
-15.2 |
49.8% |
0.001 |
2008-2009 |
55 |
-0.9 |
0.6 |
48.7% |
0.000 |
As I look at that comparison I don't see any obvious difference when analyzing the last three years. In fact, last season's numbers were very similar. Eminger's slight advantage in OZone % is offset by his lower Relative Corsi rating. QUALCOMP is nearly identical. Considering the players are 27 (Eminger) and 28 (Woywitka) it would seem they should each be able to sustain their play.
I also took a look at each player's GVT for the last three seasons to see how Hockey Prospectus' player evaluation metric valued each player.
Woywitka |
Mara |
Eminger |
2010-2011 |
3.1 |
1.5 |
0.4 |
2009-2010 |
-1.0 |
3.0 |
-0.8 |
2008-2009 |
6.6 |
4.7 |
6.5 |
Total: |
8.7 |
8.1 |
7.2 |
Woywitka holds a slight advantage over both Paul Mara and Steve Eminger in total GVT for the last three campaigns. He also led the pack last season, doubling his closest competitor, Mara. Considering GVT is a counting stat, one impacted greatly by the number of games a player appears in and all three defenders appeared in a similar number of games, it reflects well on Woywitka.
I've even gone a step further with this analysis and included some "quasi-scouting reports," from THN. Here's what THN had to say about Woywitka, Eminger and Mara respectively. Yes, I know THN isn't the most appreciated site out there but it does contain volumes of information.
Jeff Woywitka:
- ASSETS: Has great size and strength. Displays a nice all-around package. Can produce points at lower levels.
FLAWS: Struggles with confidence issues at the NHL level. Lacks defensive polish and makes too many mistakes with the puck.
CAREER POTENTIAL: Depth defenseman.
Steve Eminger:
- ASSETS: Has great tools. Displays plenty of two-way acumen, as well as tremendous size for the blue-line position.
- FLAWS: Needs to shoot the puck more often in order to maximize his scoring potential. Must limit critical errors in the defensive zone.
- CAREER POTENTIAL: Inconsistent defenseman.
Paul Mara:
- ASSETS: Has the size teams look for in a blue-liner and he skates well for a big man. Is effective on either side of the ice. Can clear the front of the net.
- FLAWS: Isn't very polished in the defensive zone and prone to making bad decisions from time to time. Will at times take bad penalties that hurt his team.
- CAREER POTENTIAL: Veteran depth defenseman.
Bryan McCabe:
- ASSETS: Can log an abundance of minutes and feasts on the power play. Is extremely aggressive in the defensive zone. Has a great shot from the point and displays a lot of leadership qualities.
- FLAWS: Has a propensity to make mistakes in the defensive zone and take too many bad penalties. Can be distracted by criticism when he struggles in pressure situations.
CAREER POTENTIAL: Veteran big-minute, power-play defenseman and leader.
The one common thread I see with these players is they all make bad decisions with the puck and aren't particularly good in their own zones.
At the end of the day Woywitka represents a low upside, low risk move to add depth. He won't hurt the club if he is utilized carefully. Considering the probable disparity in cost versus production, Woywitka looks like the wise move for the Rangers even if he doesn't necessarily impress us fans on the ice.


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#208727 - 01/04/13 07:45 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: zmjezhd]
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Before moderator Maverick moderates this subject closed I'd like to add what Plato said, to wit...
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
#208728 - 01/04/13 11:11 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Oh, yes, jenny--I meant to ask earlier: what is a clade, please?
#208731 - 01/05/13 03:14 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: Jackie]
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Sure thing, Jackie.
A "clade" is a useful way to refer to any ancestral lifeform and all of it's descendents.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
n. A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor.
#208732 - 01/05/13 03:15 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: zmjezhd]
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Loc: Netherlands, the Hague I like your definition. Language is indeed a vehicle. But we have cult-language and fashion words and word art. I would not single language out from the other things you mentioned. All through history words have been cherished and worshipped for their own sake.( poetry, illuminated manuscripts and such)
#208736 - 01/05/13 12:07 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: BranShea]
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Branshe, I agree.
Rather than just a vehicle, the culture is the language. Desparate cultures will almost invariably evolve a language that identifies the in-group and best serves their particular needs.
Hey, maybe Maverick wasn't asking "What is Culture?" but just wanted a sampling of our mores and regionalisms.
#208739 - 01/05/13 12:54 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Loc: R'lyeh the culture is the language
I suppose I was distinguishing between what Saussure calls language (langue) and speech (parole). The language itself is not culture, at least to me. Individual texts (or groups of them, i.e., literature) can be culture, but the abstract entity as a whole that is language is outside of culture. Don't know though; might be off the path._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#208752 - 01/06/13 08:17 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Topic is 'Cultural values'. Question was: 'What does the word culture mean to you?.'
Cultural values are what a group or/and an individual values in social moral behaviour and in all cultural heritage and actual forms in kind.
The word culture just contains too much for a personal answer (imo. Maverick is silent; dear Maverick, I hereby would like to hear yóur answer to your question. ( if can be )
#208753 - 01/06/13 08:24 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
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Posts: 4757 heh, no moderator me - nor power nor will to curtail any discussion. I'm just a monkey clever enough to find that lobbing a stone in the waterhole creates some pretty patterns and sometimes gets the other monkeys' interest...
Thanks for some thoughtful responses. I particularly found useful the associations you drew through analogous terns, nuncle. But all have been interesting.
My thoughts were stirred in this direction by a talking-heads radio show on the BBC recently. Melvyn Bragg has assembled some leading brains around a table and discusses the sequential evolution of this term including its sociological connotations, initially in a British cultural context but swiftly branching into less insular waters. I think the programmes may be available as a download - I shall go look in case anyone wants to sample their thoughtful expositions.
Yes, I think you can download each programme as an mp3 here
or are we supposed to say "you can gif it here"?!
Edited by maverick (01/06/13 08:28 AM)
#208756 - 01/06/13 11:26 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
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Loc: this too shall pass and yet, you dasn't answer your own question?!
#208761 - 01/06/13 05:05 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: tsuwm]
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Posts: 4757 Originally Posted By: tsuwmand yet, you dasn't answer your own question?!
heh, for you magister, ok....
I think there seemed a fair consensus of responses around the basic idea that culture is an expression of group thought and endeavour all the actions of the tribe that are learned, assimilated, handed down (whatever the demographic boundary of the group we happen to be thinking about, as Jackie implies).
Im not totally convinced by the clade concept, not so much because it doesnt give a good description of the outcomes in many cases but more because it seems to look through the wrong end of the lens: it implies a coherent reaching for some ulterior objective, yet clade membership could know nothing of such boundaries. If I am not clear there, what I mean is it is like the misinterpretation of Darwinian logic that suggests creatures somehow evolve towards some higher state, whereas what actually happens is variation, culled by exposure.
I note that Fongs apparently facetious remark typically wears his learning lightly: yes, the way the bugs in the milk affect their environment and create certain visible outputs does tell us quite a bit about cultural normative influences, I think.
I like nuncles suggested nuance that its implicitly bound up with caring for something this points me to the key point for my interest in culture, that it cannot be value neutral. Whilst we might tend to broad agreement that culture is a bit like the observable output of other life forms, it seems important to me that we are a reflective animal; that we dont merely leave a blind cultural path like some sort of snail trail, but also have an important capacity to consider, choose, rationalise, communicate, and behave in socially co-operative ways that are vital components of the culture we create around us and leave to the generations that come after us.
To give another analogy, when a woman creates a piece of pottery for certain practical purposes we can see the product as a cultural artefact; but with how much richer meaning does that piece of pottery become endowed when it has accumulated several generations of iteration and elaboration, subjected each time to comparison, praise, study, copy, and so on? It seems to me that these processes over time lead to a higher form of cultural production, a more deeply meaningful reflection of what it is to be human and thus (whether its a pot, a fabric, a picture, a piece of wrought metal, a song or a fragment of poetry) we come to produce aspects of culture that we recognise as art rather than merely value-neutral articles of craft. Sure, all are aspects of culture: but not all, I think, are equal.
Who imparts or arbitrates the value scale is a whole nother thang
Thats my not formally reasoned nor highly polished take on it so far anyway, and I will be interested to hear anything else all-yall come up with, including if you like the broadcasts.
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Would you recommend a scale that will read 1.09 gram. I have a nice digital scale for the bigger quantaties but won't read something that small.
As best I have been able to determine, the classical autolyse was not used with bread doughs using oil. However, my practice has been to add the oil at the end of the dough making process in order not to interfere with the hydration of the flour.
As a factoid, you might want to keep in mind that, according to General Mills, for each 15 degrees F rise in finished dough temperature (up to 100 degrees F), the rate of fermentation doubles.
This shows max production at around 38 degrees c (100.4 f) with a fairly steep drop after that. This is table for "liquid ferments" though.


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Downey Wilderness Park Lake is one of those odd little places that really epitomize what SoCal urban Flyfishing is all about.
It is a pair of roughly dumbbell shaped, blue-tinted ponds that sit in the middle of a narrow stretch of park nestled between the 605 Freeway, the San Gabriel River and Florence Ave.
In fact the entrance to the park is the same road that dumps you onto the southbound 605 if you are not paying attention.
Despite its name, there ain't no wilderness about it. It is about as "wild" as the Jungle Boat ride at Disneyland, unless your definition of wild includes overweight, thieving squirrels with cholesterol issues and geese with a distinct preference for churros over stale bread.
Even the portion of the San Gabriel River the runs next to it is nothing more than a giant culvert with a tiny trickle of water running down the middle of its concrete belly for most of the year. Our Kelvin fishing friend from Scotland would seriously hurt himself from laughing if he saw how we define urban river.
Yet, the park is a welcome spot of green in a great location for a quick opportunity to wet a line for a half an hour or so between appointments or on the way home from work. As a bonus, the high-powered aerators in the ponds create pleasant, albeit somewhat industrial looking, fountains of water which help to drown out noise and make talking somewhat difficult and pointless.
All in all, Downey Wilderness Park is one of those places to keep tucked away in the back of the mind when there is not enough time to go anywhere else but the need to cast a few flies is so overwhelming that you are bordering on homicidal. You might call it a "Mayday Lake" as in "Help. My head is going to pop off the end of my neck if I don't do some fishing soon!"
Anyway, the time issue is what drove Sean and I there last Saturday. We only had about two hours to spare, including drive time, and Downey was the closest body of water to where we needed to be later in the morning.
We parked on the street and walked into the park to avoid the $2.00 parking fee. Now, you might think that we are unusually cheap — which we are, but we also have gotten the system down so that we use the walk time to get our rods assembled and rigged. By the time we walk up to the water's edge, we're ready to go. I prefer to think of it as skill building rather than penny-pinching.
Anyway, Sean has this sweet, little rig that he uses when we hit these pocket lakes. He ties on a stimulator with a small nymph trailing about eight inches behind it – a basic, textbook rig. No big deal, right? Well, it has proven deadly on numerous occasions and has become a go-to first strike set-up on these tiny pocket waters.
Within two casts we were pulling in small sunfish, mostly taken on the nymph. If you know anything about panfish, where there is one there are many. So we worked the school for quite a while. I could literally feel my shoulders relax and a smile come back to my face as we hauled in the little guys on almost every cast.
We followed the school around the edge of the pond for a while until the heat of the day drove them down into the deeper water. After that, things slowed down dramatically. We switched over to small Krystal buggers and though we had a couple of half-hearted hits, nothing much happened.
Still, the flyrod had worked its magic and the rest of the day seemed to go just a little bit better. Sometimes it's not where you go, just that you went.
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They used to have a ton of carps at that lake, but I havent seen any lately.


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• Review: VICE's Nick Gazin looks at some of his favorite strips from The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984: "There's this one where Schroeder actually tries to communicate his understanding of beauty to Lucy. Of course Lucy doesn't really care about his inner world, she's just a groupie and wants the idea of Schroeder. It answers the question of what would happen if Schroeder actually gave Lucy the time of day. This is a moment where it seems like Sparky is really opening up to us about his own personal ways of relating to women, falling in love with distant princesses. It also harkens back to that scene in Citizen Kane when a guy mentions that he never forgot a beautiful girl he saw crossing the street decades earlier."
• Plug: "The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 – holy cow, we're purt'near the home stretch on the Peanuts reprint books…we're what, eight, nine books away from the end? It hardly seems possible." – Mike Sterling, Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
• Review: "Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 1 by Robert Crumb — This is a newly revamped edition of the inaugural volume, featuring some new, (I'm assuming) just discovered art... The real discovery here is the Jim and Mabel story, as Crumb is able to wring an amazing amount of depth and characterization from this seemingly simple story of a surly twenty-something woman bringing lunch to the elementary school kid who's got a crush on her. As raw and awkward as it is at times it's also rather poignant and shows how skilled he was at an early age." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
• Review (Audio): Calgary, AB comic shop Phoenix Comics has a podcast and Jason's Athos in America is discussed on the latest episode
• Review (Audio): Washington, DC (and environs) comic shop Big Planet Comics also has a podcast and call Kolor Klimax: Nordic Comics Now "one of the best anthologies I've ever read" on the Feb. 24, 2012 episode (review starts at 35:40; thanks to KK editor Matthias Wivel for the info)
• Review (Audio): And on the March 23 episode of the Big Planet Comics podcast the hosts discuss Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945: "Talk about a beautiful book... it's laugh out loud funny..."
• Plug: "Having read and reread and rereread the previous Nancy strip collections and nearly committing all their contents to memory, having some new (relatively speaking) material to enjoy really is a treat." – Mike Sterling, Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
• Book Reports: For a fresh critical perspective, check out the student reviews of many graphic novels published by us and others collected at the Graphic Novels Reading Rainbow blog (and the accompanying photos and illustrations can be a hoot too)
• Analysis: More from The Hooded Utilitarian's critical roundtable on Jaime Hernandez, with Richard Cook discussing the lesbian relationships in the Locas stories
• Interview: The debut issue of Christopher Irving's new comics magazine The Drawn Word includes an interview with John Kerschbaum; the magazine is a buck to download on Graphicly