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So your offense needs a little help scoring points in 2014...welcome to the club, about three quarters of the league is in the same boat. Especially with the recent evolution of the rules to favor offenses, it's an expectation to average 28+ points a game if you're going to be successful. So whether your team needs a complete overhaul of the skill positions or if they're just missing that final piece, you're in luck! The 2014 class is absolutely loaded with offensive talent. Whether your team is looking to go the Philadelphia Eagles route and attack with speed on the perimeter with the likes of Desean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin, hit between the hashes like the New England Patriots have done with much success the past few seasons with TE play or simply out-muscle opponents like the Chicago Bears did this past season with their twin towers in Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall...the options are there. And I'll tell you exactly who in this draft is your team's best bet to fill these stereotype roles in 2014.
If your team is in need of some speed in the backfield, Sankey is your guy. He's got outstanding vision and game breaking speed as a runner. Where Sankey doesn't win is running with leverage, he's apt at forcing missed tackles but he isn't a grind it out type of running back by any means. He doesn't necessarily stop his feet dead on contact but he isn't consistent falling forward. If your team needs a little lightning to go with some established thunder, Bishop Sankey somewhere in Day 2 makes a lot of sense.
- The Hammer: Carlos Hyde, Ohio State
On the other hand, if you need a short yardage back your team should eye Carlos Hyde. Hyde came out of relatively no where this season to have an extremely productive season as the featured back for the Ohio State University. Hyde combines his impressive size with a tendency to attack the line of scrimmage, so catching him for a loss is pretty rare. Hyde runs downhill and it is impossible to bring him down with anything less than your whole body behind your tackles. He also has some decent speed to pair with all that power, so don't be afraid to plug him as a featured back either somewhere in the 2nd round!
- The "Sproles": De'Anthony Thomas: Oregon
A lot of attention is given to Arizona's Marion Grice as a well rounded runner with great hands. While that's an accurate assessment, if you need a move piece in your backfield, shoot for De'Anthony Thomas instead. He doesn't have the kind of size as Grice or other backs, but Thomas is extremely potent. Get him in space with screen passes, draws, working out of the slot and watch as he returns your efforts with chunk yardage again and again. Thomas is no where near an every down player, but getting him 8-12 touches a game with specific calls is certainly worth an early Day 3 selection. The best toy you can give your offensive coordinator this offseason is definitely Thomas.
- Featured Back: Ka'Deem Carey, Arizona
Carey is a guy who can do everything. He's a good receiver, a good runner with good vision, consistently falls forward and has enough speed to gash you if you give him a crease. While he's incredibly well rounded, he doesn't do any one thing GREAT. He's simply very good at everything. He's physical enough to block and grind out yards but he's also agile enough to make a tackler miss one on one and has the hands to be a good check down option in the passing game. Carey is the only back I'd consider selecting in the 1st round, albeit somewhere AFTER pick 25.
- Big Body, Big Plays: Brandon Coleman, Rutgers
Now hear me out...there are a lot of Kelvin Benjamin and Mike Evans aficionados out there likely taking offense to this statement. Brandon Coleman is physically just as good as Kelvin Benjamin and more dynamic than Mike Evans. Evans is a linear athlete, very rigid in his breaks. Additionally, Evans doesn't run a very expansive route tree (as a matter of fact its about 3 routes). Kelvin Benjamin would get the nod, but he's got questionable hands. So we turn to Coleman...a guy who has been a legitimate burner threat at Rutgers for the past 3 seasons, but has struggled with finding someone to deliver him the football. Ignore the production and look at the physical tools, Coleman has good deep speed, a huge catch radius and is the smoothest athlete out of the bunch. He's got imposing size as well. If you want a big body to make big plays deep, eye Coleman somewhere in the late 1st, the value is there.
- Possession Receiver: Jordan Matthews, Vanderbilt
Sticking with the big body theme, if your offense needs a guy who excels at the finer points of the Wide Receiver position such as running routes, working the middle of the field, moving the chains, strong hands, Jordan Matthews is the obvious solution. Another late 1st value, Matthews has displayed immaculate route running over his career and Vanderbilt and is very sure handed, even when coming across the middle and into the teeth of a defense.
- Slot: Jalen Saunders, Oklahoma
Slot receivers are generally regarded as smaller receivers with short area quickness to create huge mismatch separations against safeties and linebackers out of the base defense. I could have opted for Oregon State's Brandin Cooks here, but I think Cooks is more of a perimeter burner...he's got that kind of skill set. So we look at a guy in Saunders who is diminutive but extremely slippery. He might be the best route runner in the class as well, no wasted movement. He's very good at setting up defenders once he's closed his cushion. He also sports a good set of hands to make his targets count. If you need a slot guy, don't be afraid to pull the trigger on the back end of Day 2, his size will cause him to slip outside the first few rounds...but he's a huge steal anywhere in Day 3.
- Perimeter Burner: Odell Beckham Jr, Louisiana State
The name of the game is speed. You can't coach speed. So if you have a guy who has HUGE hands, catches the ball well, has the size to play on the outside and has killer speed, the value is going to be much greater than many of the other roles an offense can fulfill. Odell Beckham is my #3 overall receiver and I'd be comfortable taking him anywhere in the middle of the first round even going up into the 12th overall selection range. Based on the film he's 16th overall on my big board. He comes from a pro style passing offense, helps his team with kick return duties, excels at making big plays and displays good ball skills catching the ball away from his body. He's the total package, but he will beat you with his speed again and again if you let him.
- Featured Receiver: Sammy Watkins, Clemson
This really came down to two options for me: Watkins and USC's Marqise Lee. Both are good route runners but Watkins has hands that are a little softer and is a little more dynamic after the catch. If you need a guy to feature your passing offense around, Sammy Watkins is your best option, but you'll pay a hefty price; likely somewhere in the top 8 picks.
- Down Field Seam Threat: Eric Ebron, North Carolina
He's the most dynamic receiver at the TE position I've seen since Vernon Davis. Size is there, speed is there, outstanding hands, runs good routes and will get overtop of the linebackers in a hurry. Ebron is the latest "new age" TE to enter the league, a physical freak who will cause fits for a defense trying to game plan against him and he's much, much more refined than the likes of Jimmy Graham, his established contemporary. But again, you'll have to pay a hefty price for Ebron, I see very little chance of him slipping outside the top 12.
- In Line Blocker: CJ Fiedorowicz, Iowa
Just because the league has evolved into a finesse passing league doesn't mean that guys who are more blockers than receivers at the TE position don't carry value. Fiedorowicz has massive size and fit in well at a school like Iowa with a long lineage of powerful smashmouth blockers. He isn't going to consistently beat you running routes, he's pretty lethargic down the field. But that's alright...he still carries plenty of value somewhere at the tail end of Round 3 as a guy to sure up your run game and have just enough to keep a defense honest with his receiving.
- Move piece H-Back: Jacob Pedersen, Wisconsin
Pedersen was pretty under-appreciated this season by the draft community, he's a very technically sound player who was very productive as a receiver in his Senior season and also displays a very high football IQ in his blocking technique. He always has the proper head placement and is very good at baiting defenders in both run and pass situations. His size and functional strength limit him as a traditional TE but as a move piece you can shift across the set or line up in the backfield, it doesn't get any better in the class than Pedersen. If you want a guy who can win vs. LBs and line up in a multitude of places but isn't quite an every down hand in the dirt TE, Pedersen somewhere in the middle of Day 2 presents a lot of value.
Traditional TE: Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Washington
If you're nostalgic at heart, Austin Seferian-Jenkins likely tugs at your heart strings. Line him up next to the tackle with his hand in the dirt and watch him manhandle linebackers or turn out defensive ends with ease. Watch him get up the seam inside the red zone and just simply outreach a Safety for a well placed football for an easy touchdown. ASF is a throw back to the old school Tight Ends and the best option if you need a well rounded guy who can fill the traditional TE role in an offense. And as an extra bonus, because isn't quite as dynamic as some of the other guys, he's a pretty good bargain value if you can manage to scoop him up somewhere in the first half of Round 2!
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American mezzo soprano MARGARET BRAGLE is earning praise from critics and audiences alike for her performances in a wide range of repertoire. Hailed for her expressive virtuosity by the San Francisco Chronicle, her voice has been described as gorgeous by Classical New Jersey, and warm and expansive by The (New London) Day.
Ms. Bragles appearances in the 2007-2008 season include her debuts with Sinfonia New York in Haydns Harmoniemesse, the Calgary Philharmonic in Haydns Missa Sancti Nicolai, the Vancouver Chamber Choir in Bachs Christmas Oratorio, Northwest Performing Arts as Ruggiero in Handels Alcina, Firebird Arts Alliance in a staged version of Bachs St. John Passion to be released on DVD, the Harvard Collegium Musicum for Bachs B Minor Mass, and the St. Thomas (NYC) Choir of Men and Boys for Coplands In the Beginning. She will return to Cleveland-based Apollos Fire for a Monteverdi program, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem for a program of Bach cantatas, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra for Mozarts Requiem and Haydns St. Cecilia Mass.
In the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Bragle made her debuts with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra singing Handels Messiah and Bachs St. John Passion, Symphony Nova Scotia for Handels Messiah, and with the Bach Sinfonia as the Sorceress in Purcells Dido and Aeneas. She was also seen as Dido in the Dallas Bach Societys production of Dido and Aeneas, and as a soloist with Apollos Fire to perform and record Handels Dixit Dominus, Duke University to sing Handels Messiah, and Magnificat Baroque for Chiara Margarita Cozzolanis Vespro della Beata Vergine.
In the 2005-2006 season, Ms. Bragle made her debuts with the Memphis Symphony singing Vivaldis Gloria and Mozarts Exultate, Jubilate; the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for a Bach cantata program; Albany Pro Musica for Messiah and The New Opera as Fiordiligi in Mozarts Cosí fan tutte. She was a soloist for Vivaldis Gloria with the Mark Morris Dance Group for its 25th anniversary season at Brooklyns Academy of Music, Messiah with the Dallas Bach Society, Ippolita in Cavallis Elena with the Cornell Collegium Musicum, and Mozarts Mass in c Minor with the Duke University Chapel Choir. She also gave a solo recital in Salt Lake City.
Ms. Bragle recently premiered Three Songs by James Blachly which were written for her and sang on the Queens College New Music series with members of Second Instrumental Unit. She has also premiered works by John Zorn and Toby Twining at New Yorks Miller Theatre and the Concertgebouw. She has appeared in performance with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Charlotte Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Canton Symphony, the Akron Symphony, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Masterwork Chorus, Tempesta di Mare, Apollos Fire and has also been invited to perform at the Breckenridge Connecticut Early Music Festival and the Monadnock Festival.
Ms. Bragle was named an Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine in 2005 in the publications yearly presentation of classical soloists on the rise. She was the winner of the first Young American Singer Competition awarded by the American Bach Society and the Bethlehem Bach Festival and was also awarded an Adams Fellowship to the Carmel Bach Festival.
Ms. Bragle has recorded CDs of Monteverdis LOrfeo and the Vespers of 1610 with Apollos Fire for Eclectra. Her recording of Mozarts Requiem, also with Apollos Fire has recently been released by Koch. She has recorded the complete works of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani with Magnificat for Musica Omnia, Toby Twinings Chrysalid Requiem for Cantaloupe Music, Coplands In the Beginning with the Charlotte Symphony Oratorio Singers on their own label, and can be heard on the Ex Cathedra recording Music of Medieval Love.
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Q: I can't seem to get rid of unwanted search toolbars. On Cox alone I have three toolbars opening up my Cox network and two on Facebook. I hope you can help me 'cause it causes my connection to jump around until all the search bars connect me to the same website.
– Ray A., Crestview
A: I'm not quite sure what you mean by "I can't seem to," since you didn't really say what you tried.
There are two ways to get rid of unwanted stuff in your browser: Uninstall the stuff via the Windows Control Panel, or disable it via the browser's add-in manager. The former is a common operation, so I'm not going to cover that. For the latter, these instructions are applicable only to Internet Explorer. Start by clicking the "Tools" menu, and select "Manage add-ons." In the dialogue that comes up, take note of the selection on the left that chooses which type of add-on you're managing. Start by looking at the ones labeled "Toolbars and Extensions" and disable the ones you don't want. Then move on to the "Search Providers" and click "Remove" for each one you don't want.
Q: Don't know if you're into Apple much, but here's an unusual problem. Naturally I have to use iTunes on my PC (running Vista) to load CDs into my iPhone. For some albums, for no rhyme or reason, iTunes will break the album into "sub-albums" containing a random number of tracks. For example, Track 2 may be all by itself, Track 3, 7, 8, 12 may be another "subalbum." These albums typically have multiple artists in various combinations even though one is the featured performer. Most albums are fine, including many with multiple performers. I can't find a common thread. There's no way to merge these subs together once copied. I've tried deleting all subs – one album had 9 subs – and trying again to no avail. Bottom line is if I want to play one of the affected albums in its entirety, I can't do it - I have to go back and forth between subs and then the tracks are mixed. Any advice?
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A: I'm a huge fan of my iPhone and iPad, but I don't really care for iTunes all that much. I find it agonizingly unresponsive at times, and I find that there are many things that I want to do make it do that don't have obvious activation mechanisms in the user interface, and I end up having to dredge up instructions online for things.
However, in your case, I don't believe it's an Apple problem. It's also not a Microsoft problem, before you jump to that conclusion. The problem lies in the way the difficult albums are put together, and specifically, with information on the tracks. The technical name for taking music tracks from a CD for play on a computer or other device is called "ripping." When a track is ripped, the program doing the ripping usually supplies a bunch of information about the track, including the song title, artist, year published, and yes, the album the track came from. Depending on the quality of this data, subtle errors can cause problems like you're talking about. For example, let's say you're ripping an album by The Beatles. If the artist of Track 1 is listed as "The Beatles" and the artist of Track 2 is listed as "Beatles," the tracks will be put into separate directories. By the same token, if the album of Track 1 is listed as "Abbey Road" and Track 2's album is listed as "Abey Road" (note the typo), the songs appear to come from two different albums, and will be placed in different directories. The methods for fixing this are fairly easy, but I'm out of space for the week, so I'm going to refer you to a support article on Apple's website that should help you out. Visit tinyurl.com/ca3ydh for more information.
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Director of Engineering, City Manager, and now the Chief of Police. Moose Jaw City Hall has now hired for the three big vacancies that were apparent over the summer.
Rick Bourassa has been announced as the new Chief of Police, coming to us from the Department of Justice. It's a return to his hometown, after moving to Regina when he was 10. It's also a return to police work.
"I worked with the Regina Police Service for a number of years, retired two years ago and came to the Ministry of Justice," explained Bourassa. "In a real way it's actually two returns, one to the town I was born in and one to my roots in policing."
Bourassa spent 30 years with Regina Police, having served in a number of areas. His first day will be October 7th and he's already working on his agenda.
"I think it's a mistake sometimes to act before we really understand everything," added Bourassa. "So, for the first while I'll be very active in meeting with everyone I can meet with and getting a really good sense of what priorities people have and what people see as sort of the pressing things to be addressed and from there, we'll work together on plans for addressing those things."
Bourassa's resume includes street work as an officer, administrative work, budget planning and teaching at the police college. Experience that caught the attention of Mayor Deb Higgins.
"He brings a wealth of experience with him and real excitement and dedication to policing, which was very evident when we did interviews," said Higgins. "Community involvement of the police force is very important and that's a big aspect of Mr. Bourassa's history and his experience that he brings to the city."
Here is the official announcement.
The City of Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners has appointed Richard Bourassa as their new Chief of Police effective October 7, 2013.
"We are looking forward to having Mr. Bourassa as a part of our team," said Mayor Deb Higgins, Chair of the Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners. "He has experience as a police executive and as a senior government leader that will enhance our community's police service."
Bourassa currently serves as Director of Court Security for the Ministry of Justice since July 2011. Prior to this, Bourassa had a long and distinguished 30-year career with the Regina Police Service culminating in a senior role of Executive Committee member and Commanding Officer of Community Services Division where he managed approximately 250 sworn and civilian employees. He was responsible for front-line operations, communications, detention, community programs, emergency services, community policing, and oversight of response to major incidents. As well, he is credited with creating and managing the divisional strategic plan and budget.
Mr. Bourassa has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Queen's University and a Master of Public Administration through the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina. Bourassa replaces Dale Larsen, who resigned to become Executive Director of Policing and Community Safety Services for the provincial government.
"This is a double homecoming for me: a return to the community in which I grew up, and a return to policing", said Bourassa. "It is exciting and an honour to be a part of this outstanding organization. I look forward to serving with the dedicated women and men of the Moose Jaw Police Service as we move forward and work collaboratively with the community to keep Moose Jaw a safe, inclusive and vibrant City," added Bourassa.
Bourassa, who was born and raised in Moose Jaw, has led police liaison and support for the introduction of Safer Communities and Neighborhoods operations in Regina, and created, implemented and led the interagency, community-driven Housing Standards Enforcement Team. He has a proven track record as a transformational leader with demonstrated team-building competency.
"I have every confidence that Chief Bourassa will distinguish himself early as an effective community leader," said Higgins. "His educational, supervisory and policing abilities are an excellent fit for our community, and he will be a valued addition in leading the Moose Jaw Police Service Administration Team."
Mr. Bourassa plans to reside in Moose Jaw and is making arrangements to do so.
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Class - 5- Holidays Homework
(Do all the assignments on A4 size sheets of paper and submit in a file)
1. Watch 3 English movies. Write the name of the movie, its director, lead actors and the character you liked the most in each movie. Try to paste a picture to make your work more presentable.
2. Read 5 story books by different authors. Write the names of the books, authors and the character you liked the most in each story. Also, find out the names of 2 more stories/books written by the same authors. Paste a picture of the cover page if possible to make it more attractive.
3. Cut and paste 10 newspaper/magazine articles on "Election Fever in India". Underline 2 new words in each article and look up their meaning in the dictionary. Write the words and their meanings below the article.
4. Maintain a record of all the good deeds done by you during the vacations. Write about at least one good deed you did each fortnight. (The good deed could be helping your parents / grandparents / siblings / neighbours / anyone in need of help, being kind to animals, taking care of plants and trees or anything that makes you happy or feel good about yourself.)
1. Let's play MASTER CHEF, APS. All you have to do is prepare 5 summer snacks/drinks on your own (under adult supervision). Write the name of the dish/drink you made, paste a picture of it and get at least 2 people to write their comments on your preparation. You can pen your views too. Request your parents to click some pictures while you are preparing/serving the dish. It'll be wonderful to see you in that avtar. ( Use A4 size sheets of paper)
(Note: Make simple things like lemonade, fruit chaat, sandwiches, salad, milk shakes, smoothies or lassi etc.).
2.Make a model of any one of the following—
(i) Respiratory system (ii) Excretory system (iii) Digestive system (iv) Brain
3. Use your imagination and creativity to make a poster / collage on the topic assigned to your roll number. Make it colourful and attractive. Use catchy slogans / proverbs relevant to the topic to make it more appealing and interesting.
(Use chart paper to make the poster / collage)
Roll No 1-10 – Nature and Environment
Roll No 21 – 30 – Festivals of India
Roll No 11 – 20 – Patriotism
Roll No 31 – 40 – Sports, Games and Physical Fitness
Read any Hindi story book (short stories) and choose one best story of your choice for the given home work.
Method of making the book report sandwiches
Draw slices of cucumber, tomato and cheese; lettuce leaves, a layer of capsicum and onion and a couple of slices of bread. Make your drawings on appropriately coloured sheets (origami). Cucumber on dark green, tomato on red, cheese on yellow, capsicum on orange, lettuce on light green, onion on light pink and bread on brown paper. The sheets served as the ingredients for your book reports sandwiches. On the top slice of bread write your name, class and section. On the lettuce write the story name and author, on tomato describe the book's settings. On the onion write brief summary of the story, On the cheese write the character's name, on cucumber the climax of the story, on the capsicum the moral of the story & on the lettuce leaves draw and colour your favourite scene from the story. On the last bread slice write the reason for liking the story. Staple together the Sandwich layers.
1. Collect three pictures each of items in the following price ranges. Make a collage of the pictures collected for each price range.
a) Rs. 1000 to Rs. 10,000 ; ( 4 to 5 – digits )
b) Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 ; ( 5 to 6 – digits )
c) Rs. 1,10,000 to Rs. 1, 00,00,000 ( 6 to 7 – digits )
2. Make the following Roman numerals using colourful straws or painted match sticks
a) Year in which you were born.
b) Year in which your parents were born.
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It's easy to forget that philosophy means "love of wisdom," not "love of thinking." In addition to philosophy that tells you how to think well, the field also provides guidance on how to live well - solid advice on how to be a good father or friend, or how to grow old gracefully, or to know what true happiness is.
Greek and Roman thinkers such as Marcus Tullius Cicero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Dio Chrysostom, and Plutarch of Chaeronea devoted their lives not to metaphysics and epistemology but to the appreciation and practice of morality and virtue, values, and character. They give us - in plain, straightforward language - rules designed to help us progress as people.
These 24 inspiring lectures introduce you to the sages who, as a group, represent the "missing page" of the history of philosophy. Although their names are sometimes familiar to us, as in the case of Cicero and Plutarch, their philosophy is not. Studying these thinkers offers some surprising ways to think about philosophy.
For example, they believed the heart of philosophy is the question of how to live well as a human being. It is how you act, not what you think, that is most important. Virtue and morality are the keys to living a good life. And philosophers should practice what they preach (although, as you'll discover, the Greco-Roman moral philosophers certainly had flaws).
From Cicero's deep sense of civic duty to Marcus Aurelius's pursuit of wisdom and dedication to the common good, this course offers ample opportunity to hear, in their own words, the philosophers' prescriptions for healthier living.
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I would have loved this course to be twice as long as it was. The content is a great mix between historical context, philosophical ideas and practical tips. I found the book to be both inspiring and challenging. Although I was already familiar with the topic, I learned a lot. Highly recommended.
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It's refreshing to hear of Philosophy As Seeking Wisdom as opposed to Philosophy As Endless Semantic Quibbling. Johnson's lectures outline the moral thinking of several important philosophers while putting them in the context of their time and place. His reading is excellent.
The only complaint I have is that most of the individuals covered are Stoics. I would've liked to hear Johnson spend a lecture or two on Epicurus, or perhaps a famous Cynic like Diogenes.
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Chef mixes food with fun at North Yarmouth school
NORTH YARMOUTH — Start with an end-of-the-school-day assembly, mix in a game show and teachers dressed as fruits and vegetables, and you have a recipe for a food education.
The fourth- and fifth-grade students at North Yarmouth Memorial School made that clear to anyone within earshot Feb. 12, roaring in laughter as they sat on the floor and watched an assembly line of whole and healthy delectables march into the gym.
Erin Dow, a professional chef, and Jon Carlson, food service director for School Administrative District 51, helped cook up a variety of activities to get the youths excited about eating right. This is the second year that Dow has visited SAD 51 schools to teach students how different food groups work to support the learning process.
This year "we're trying (to get) these guys more educated and then more invested by giving them choices in the menus," said Dow, of Winthrop.
Dow's visits have been funded by a grant obtained by SAD 51 Food Boosters, a group of parents who advocate a culture of healthy school food. The grant came from Foundation 51, an organization that raises money to support district initiatives.
Foundation 51 has "been really supportive of this effort, and hoping that there'll be a ripple effect," Food Boosters member Lalla Carothers said. "Both in terms of what Jon and his staff are doing, which has been just incredible ... but also raising awareness among families and among kids, and giving them more choices."
And they seem to be making the right choices. Carothers said people have told her their children are now eating broccoli.
"Ultimately we want to actually shift the culture a little bit," she said, and show how cooking healthy meals at home can be both simple and affordable.
"The difference with this school district in particular, as opposed to other ones I've worked with, is that the parents have taken the initiative," Dow said. "And by writing the grants they've kind of overcome the administrative and financial block that a lot of other people have when they're trying to initiate change in their district."
At both NYMS and the Mabel I. Wilson elementary school, Dow and Carlson developed three menus that are workable from a production standpoint in both facilities, and that they think will appeal to students. Dow's meals have been added to menus at the schools.
"I just added a confetti pasta that we did to March's menu," Carlson said. "... We're excited about some of the choices."
After participating in a "What's on Your Plate" game show – where brave students stood in front of their assembled peers, and their culinarily-costumed teachers, to guess questions put to them – the youths voted by an applause-o-meter for which of three meals they want Dow to prepare for them when she returns next month.
By an overwhelming majority, they chose burrito in a bowl, with tortilla chips, Mexican rice and black bean and corn salsa. Carlson, garbed as Capt. Carrot, served as the needle in the applause-o-meter, and leaned almost to the floor to register the kids' excitement.
After the assembly the youths returned to their classrooms to prepare three healthy dips to be served with vegetables.
"By using this kind of excitement model, what we're doing is investing them in the program kind of by peer pressure, but in a good way," Dow said. "We're finding that when the kids are involved with the decision-making, they're more likely to eat the food. And in the end, our end user is a child, so if we're running a restaurant that caters to 10-year-olds, we want to serve them food that 10-year-olds want to eat."
"If we have to have a game show like this today," she added, "to convince kids to buy into whole grains, or legumes, or something that's going to benefit them in the long run, then that's what we're going to do."


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Xbox 720 requires Kinect?
Documents suggest a future Microsoft platform will mandate motion-sensing peripheral and game installs and will allow multiple titles to be played at once.
The Xbox 720 rumor floodgates are pouring over. A source speaking to Kotaku has reportedly obtained two Xbox 720 development kits, as well as system overview documents, which detail the specifications of Microsoft's still-unannounced next-generation platform.
The first bit of information from the source, who goes by the name SuperDaE, claims the Xbox 720 will require Kinect to function. According to the source, an updated and improved version of Kinect will ship with every unit sold and will not be an optional accessory, as the motion-sensing device currently is for Xbox 360.
For the Xbox 720, gamers will need to have the new Kinect plugged in and calibrated for the console to function at all, the source said.
This mandatory Kinect implementation for the Xbox 720 will reportedly be a benefit for developers. Because every system is guaranteed to have a Kinect unit, studios can program their games with the technology in mind, the source said.
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Readability and Backgrounds
If it's hard to read, why bother?
Opinion page by Duane Alan Hahn.
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Poor Color Combinations
A web site is usually used to communicate with others, but if most people have a hard time reading your text, what's the point of having a web site? Some web sites have dark blue or dark purple text on a black background. I've even seen blue backgrounds with blue text on top that's only a shade different. I don't think these people even look at their own web sites, and if they don't, why should anyone else?
Most people who understand even a little about color know they should not use red text on a blue background ( Hard to read ), or blue text on a red background ( Hard to read ) because the normal human eye, with normal lenses, cannot focus on certain shades of red and blue at the same time. The text seems to vibrate which causes eye strain. You can read about that in any old World Book Encyclopedia, but you will still see red on blue or blue on red at some web sites. Although the combination of red and blue seems to be the most infamous, you'll notice that red on gray can be just as bad, and those probably aren't the only eye raping color combinations.
There are many poor color combinations, but if you actually look at your text, don't just know what the text says in your mind because you wrote it, but actually look at how the text looks against the background, you can avoid most newbie mistakes. If you find yourself using color combinations such as the ones on the right side of this page, smack yourself in the back of the head with a rubber chicken and promise to never do it again.
Busy Backgrounds
Some web sites have busy backgrounds and that makes the text hard to read. It would be understandable if those sites were all owned by newbies, but you'll see that kind of thing from people who have owned a web site for many years. It's even more amazing when you see busy backgrounds on small business sites. I thought the reason for having a business web site was to sell products, not to annoy visitors.
If you feel that you absolutely must use a busy background (or you'll just die), there is a simple compromise. If you use tables, you could display your text in a plain white box with your background surrounding it (just add "BGCOLOR=white" to your TABLE tag). Here's an example:
You can use a crazy background and still allow people to read your text.
People will still get to see your extraordinary, miraculous, earthshaking, life changing background image, but they will also be able to read your text without blood squirting from their eyes.
Some companies think it's cool to use their logo as the background and even if they're smart enough to fade the image until it's almost invisible, it can still be distracting and irritating. It's especially annoying when that logo has been turned into a static background. Ever see those? The image is always there in your way as you scroll up and down the page. Horribly evil and evidence of someone doing something they think is 'cool' without even considering how irritating it might be to potential customers. It would look more professional to just have the company logo at the top of each page and use a plain color, such as white, for the background.
Avoid Black Backgrounds
A prickly personal opinion.
Using a black background doesn't make you look evil, mysterious, or uniquely artistic and it doesn't prove that you are a dark, brooding loner. You might want to use a black background because you are going for the 'retro' look. That's not a horrible reason, but it still doesn't change the fact that black backgrounds suck. Just because some ancient monitors had light text on a dark background or some old game had a black background doesn't mean that you must have a black background behind your text. For example, Space Invaders didn't have page after page of text to read on that black background. You were shooting aliens, not reading Moby Dick. Why not have a black background with something like black text on white in the middle? Here's an example:
Imagine that. A retro black background with black text on white. What will they think of next?
For some reason, many people who have modern game related sites also think it's cool to have a black background (especially teens and people from the UK). I don't know why. Maybe it makes them feel all dark and naughty? Maybe they're subconsciously saying, "Look at me, Daddy! I'm Batman! I'm Batman!"
Text of any color on a black background is hard to read for people who have astigmatism, so reciting some lame study that says dark green text on a black background is the best for everybody is silly. I and everyone I know must have astigmatism because I've tried every major color combination I could think of, and black text on a white background always wins (except for people who have their brightness or contrast turned up too high). A black background behind light text makes my eyes feel like they are being sucked out of their sockets and it can mess up my vision for several minutes. Trying to read text on a black background does not give my eyes more comfort, it hurts them. Here's a related quote from Jason Harrison at the University of British Columbia:
"People with astigmatism (approximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the "deformed" lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye."
One good solution is to let visitors pick the text and background colors they want to use, but not all web sites are able to do that.
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I have a problem regarding TeXstudio (on a Windows machine, using MiKTeX) and the
output_directory parameter of
biber. I changed this parameter together with the
pdflatex parameter
aux-directory, so that the entries in the configuration menu looked like this:
pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=temp %.tex biber.exe --output_directory=temp %
This worked great so far. All the aux and
biber processing files were stored in the subfolder "temp". Today though, I noticed that some TeXstudio specific functionalities are missing:
If I include a new entry in my bib-file, the program does not recognize the change. That means, no new entries are suggested through the auto-complete feature. Additionally, the compiling process after pressing the F1 key does not include
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If I set the preferences back to normal, everything works fine again. Does anyone know how it is able to use these features, but with the possibility of a tidy folder structure?


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HTC M4 surfaces, looks like a mid-range variant of the HTC One
It seems HTC is planning on releasing a younger sibling to the critically acclaimed HTC One. The HTC M4 as it is called for now (the One was called M7 at one point) looks very similar to the HTC One but will have downgraded specifications and a lower price tag to go with them.
The M4 design looks very similar to the One's but it's difficult to tell right now if HTC will be using the premium aluminum for the body or will settle for similar looking plastic. Unless the bands on the back are for just show, it does seem, though, that HTC will be using aluminum for the construction once again.
On the front you can see the dual stereo speaker above and below the display and a key arrangement similar to the HTC One. On the side is the micro SIM slot in the same location as on the One. On the back, the camera flash has been relocated above the lens and a large Beats Audio logo replaces the text on the One.
Software also looks similar to the One, with HTC's Blinkfeed placed prominently on the homescreen.
As for the specifications of the device, the M4 is said to have a 4.3-inch, 720p display, dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory and a 1,700mAh battery. Interestingly, the M4 will also feature an UltraPixel camera, although the specifications are unknown at this point, which makes it hard to tell if it will be the same unit as on the One or a different one.
The phone is expected to ship near the end of the second quarter with LTE support and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. If you wanted the HTC One for its design but thought it was a bit out of the reach because of the price, then this should serve as the next best alternative.
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Facebook's not-a-phone gets not-a-commercial
Facebook, like Microsoft before it, chose to pitch their new Home interface as people-centric. That's in contrast to the app-centric approach of Apple's iOS Springboard, and other platforms before it dating back to Palm and Newton. To emphasize the difference, and in hopes of selling it to the masses, Facebook has released a commercial of sorts. And... I'm not really sure what vibe they were going for. It seems to land somewhere between the original Palm Pre lady and Google's give-us-all-your-kids-stuff on the creepy scale.
The Facebook not-a-phone is targeted at people for whom Facebook is the primary purpose of the internet. If you're one of those people, chances are you're already okay with Facebook getting all up in your information in exchange for socially sorted communications and connections, I don't know how this commercial helps make you feel good about giving them that level of trust. If you're scared of Facebook and don't want their tentacles anywhere near your life or loved ones, I don't know how this commercial helps move you from that opinion.
In the demo, as in the ad, we see people swiping between between beautiful photographs of gorgeous moments. A quick look at my -- admittedly neglected -- timeline shows a bunch of meme pics and drunken mobile shots I'd sooner never see again. That creates a disconnect for me. It makes the demo and commercial seem filled not with friends but with fake, stock people. It makes it feel unreal.
I like a lot of the design work their team put in, and like I said before the event, I think the idea of Facebook face-hugging Android and injecting it with their xenomorph DNA is tactically smart, but even the best of experiences can suffer from the worst of intentions.
The idea of all these social and search giants giving me the services equivalent a lobster dinner, and then expecting me to put out because of it, is still a deal breaker. I'm still happy to pay for my dinner at this point.
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But Facebook's Android is a very different beast than Android from Google -- and that's the whole point.
Saying that people who switch to this from an iPhone are "ditching iOS for Android" is not much more useful than saying they're ditching XNU for Linux. It may technically be true but people are not thinking about it at that level.
This has to be one of the worst commercials ever.
There was nothing that drew me to Facebook. To me, he was looking at pictures in an app.
Nothing funny, cute, appealing. Seriously..that was bad. They should have just said "wifi in the airplane, during all domestic flights" and id have thought it was an airline commercial. So vague..
Can I get an amen! I'd rather watch one of those old-school Quiznos subs commercials! ($1.99 with any coupon!)
I don't get it. I guess that's why I don't use Facebook. I guess I will send a tweet now.
This commercial is pointless and useless. For tech geeks. For others it shows them the phone and the idea. I personally hate the idea of Facebook Home but I love the design of the HTC First, also I hate the name of the phone. I think it's too little too late for Facebook.
That ad is a total garbage! I hope their apps won't be as glitchy as the facebook apps for ios and android.
"In the demo, as in the ad, we see people swiping between between beautiful photographs of gorgeous moments. A quick look at my, admittedly neglected timeline shows a bunch of meme pics and drunken mobile shots I'd sooner never see again."
Bingo. No one has feeds that look this good. Then everyone at work gets to see your immature friends dumb pictures.
As much stuff as Facebook already has I would really like to see this attempt at a cell phone fail miserably. Stick to the software and leave the hardware out of it Facebook. iOS4Life! <word>
If you ask me, this just totally Zucks.
HEH. Very good.
C'mon guys... for the poepl who think this wont sway people into changing their phones for an android... you guys should realize that people post every thing they do every minute on facebook ie just went to the bathroom, and people click like like no one's buisness. Ya know, I'm actually wonderig if all these negative comments are because Facebook has no plans to release this for iOS.... Oh and just so people like PassOutPete know... Facebook Home IS software... not hardware. They are sticking to it.
I agree with most of the previous comments. Although I do use FaceBook, I have to draw the line somewhere. FaceBook on mobile-always on? FB doesn't need to know my every move. Most Android phones don't have great battery life (at least my friends' Android phones do not) and I suspect that a constant FaceBook UI would drain that phone even faster. Call me old fashioned, but I like the freedom going to an app instead of having FaceBook as the first thing I see on my phone.
Yeah, not a big fan of this commercial
oh... THAT'S compelling (not!). are we supposed to relate to that guy? his friends? the lovely aesthetic of his life(style)? sure wish i was THAT connected... oh, wait... i am... but without it being in my face. rating: fail.
ok, not everybody is on a unlimited data plan and not everyone got friends that take pics with a $5000.00 SLR camera that is constantly putting beautyful pics on your wall. this is a big NO NO.
wait! I can start a business selling subscriptions to picture galleries just for Facebook Home! this is awesome!
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Music and Writing (Day 26)
A much more productive day than yesterday though still a tester of resilience with various things going wrong from hardware to software to children to somehow having gotten myself involved in a speaking engagement with some very daunting people on the panel (one of whom recently referred to Channel 4 commissioning editors as wanking monkeys – that should make for a fun encounter). But I set up five interviews with people connected to Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. And had a good writing burst in the afternoon fuelled by a rather good playlist I made for a party recently.
It's funny that thing of writing or working to music. I was listening to Daniel Kahneman (the Israeli-American psychologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics) on a Desert Island Discs podcast when jogging the other morning and he was saying how he only discovered in recent years that he worked much better without music, after a lifetime of writing with music playing in the background. In the morning I worked with some tranquil classical music which is the half-way house for me between silence and working to Music – I don't resort to it often. I generally play non-Classical instrumental music when writing. For years I worked to Kind of Blue on a daily basis when I had my own non-open plan office. Never tired of it, often inspired by it. So yesterday's session did hit that 'flow' state a couple of times on the back of some 60s soul and the like, one of my rarer non-instrumental sessions. This morning I'm going non-instrumental too – Strange Days by The Doors (carefully skipping Horse Latitudes which only a maniac could write to). Let's see where the spirit of Jim takes us…
In the meantime, any suggestions for music conducive to writing, favourites that work for you?
Shelter from the Storm
Walter Pater, the art and literary critic much admired by Oscar Wilde, wrote that "All art aspires to the condition of music." I read that as other arts striving for the direct impact music has on the heart and spirit without recourse to any physical medium and being able to by-pass the intellect. Much though I love music I've never tended to listen to the lyrics of songs in a coherent and systematic way. Phrases and lines emerge over time in their own way and hook themselves into the brain.
I was jogging along yesterday morning listening to a podcast of the evergreen Desert Island Discs when a Bob Dylan song came on and a line really resonated for me as a perfect expression of what women mean to men. When I got home and sat down in front of my machine for the first time that day I whacked the line into Quotables for posterity – and to look at it on its own for a moment.
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
Not particularly poetic. Quite ordinary really. But in its context perfect and to the heart of the matter, to the matter of the heart.
So I felt inspired to pick out 10 great lines from songs that are worthy of the condition of music, that have the resonance and penetrative power of the supreme art. I tried being strict about one stand-out line per song only (only cracked once with a couplet).
1. Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm (1974)
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
2. John Lennon, Oh Yoko! (1971)
In the middle of a cloud I call your name
A powerful yet simple expression of romantic love.
3. John Martyn, Couldn't Love You More (1977)
If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
Song lyrics straining to capture Love (is there a theme emerging?)
4. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze (1966)
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
This could be love or drugs that's fogging Jimi's brain – either way it's a great line.
5. The Clash, Garageland (1977)
Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
A spirited (spirit of Punk) response to an early bad review (of a gig with The Sex Pistols at Islington's Screen on the Green): "The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running". [Charles Shaar Murray – what did he know?]
6. Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City (1982)
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Reckon there's a load of philosophy buried in this couplet.
7. David Bowie, Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (1969)
As I am unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed
Loved this phrase for a long time, the "somewhat" is just what's needed to throw it off kilter.
8. The Doors (Jim Morrison), The Wasp (1968)
Out here we is stoned – immaculate
One of those lines that throws a word into a whole new light.
9. John Coltrane, Acknowledgement (1964)
A Love Supreme
Sometimes you don't even need a whole line or clause – this is a transcendent chant. They're the only words in this track and all the more striking for that.
10. Well, why don't you add this one? What song words do it for you?…
[I'm treating this as a work in progress – going to be putting some more bath time into it]
UPDATE 11.ix.11
After some more bath-time reflection here are some other stand-out lines, plus some picked out by commenters below that strike a chord with me too:
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Oh My God (2001)
I slept with Marilyn she sung me Happy Birthday
Magazine, Song from Under the Floorboards (1980)
I am angry I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin
The Passenger, Iggy Pop (1977)
We'll see the city's ripped backsides
Marvyn Gaye/Dick Holler, Abraham Martin and John (1970)
Has anyone here seen my old friend Martin?
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake (2011)
England's dancing days are done
You seem confused by your own ideals
You will not be able to stay home brother
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
It took it 3.5 billion years to decide that you live just where you live [it = the universe]
Rising from the Ashes
If I wanted to boost the SEO for Simple Pleasures part 4 I'd be writing this evening about Jim Morrison, The Snowman, lonelygirl15, Dylan Thomas, Lara Croft and Albert Camus, but I've got other stuff in mind, first and foremost The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London N2. I'm just back from there where we went for a family matinee outing to watch Glorious 39.
Glorious 39 is considerably less glorious than Inglourious Basterds – basically it belongs on TV like many BBC Films 'movies' – but the Phoenix itself was its usual blaze of Art Deco glory, gilded but faded but ready to rise again in even greater splendor…
…which is why two nights ago I arranged a preview screening of Nowhere Boy at the Phoenix. It was just the second public screening of Sam Taylor-Wood's new film about the young John Lennon and it was raising money towards the Phoenix Restoration Fund. The Phoenix is the UK's oldest purpose-built cinema and to celebrate the centenary of its 1910 opening the charity trust which runs it is striving to complete a major restoration by its 100th birthday next year. (If you feel like donating a couple of quid, you can do that here – we've got 90 grand left to raise to release the lottery grant needed to do the job.)
Anne-Marie Duff – of Channel 4's Shameless, Film4's Garage and The Virgin Queen fame (especially Shameless! pretty much the best TV drama of the last decade) – kindly pitched up to do a Q&A after the screening and gave a great insight into her intelligent and feeling approach to acting. She plays Julia, John Lennon's mother, who found herself giving him up as a child but later helping spark his musical genius. The scene of Julia teaching John to play the banjo and then his swift but hard-earned mastery of the instrument is thrilling.
Film4's Nowhere Boy was rousing. I didn't like Matt Greenhalgh's script for Control but this was a story well told and moving. Anne-Marie as Julia and Kristin Scott-Thomas as John's aunt Mimi (who raised him) were both powerful and affecting, making sense of a tragic love tussle. But the big revelation was the charismatic Aaron Johnson as the young Lennon, old school charisma and strikingness on screen.
Sam Taylor-Wood came in to visit us a couple of years ago at Channel 4 to talk about her work and inspirations, and showed us a short art video depicting the decomposition of a partridge and a peach – very impactful in a short, sharp way. A feature is a very different prospect and she pulled this one off with energy and aplomb. I suspect her interactions with the actors were lacking in experience but the thesps were all good enough to make up for any wooliness in that aspect of the direction.
One of my first insights into Channel 4 was in 1988 when a programme called Lennon /Goldman: the making of a best-seller was being cut in Solus Productions where I was working, my first job. It was about the rather grubby biographer of Elvis and Lenny Bruce and his biog of Lennon which was due to come out shortly after. The director, Binia Tymieniecka, kindly gave me a copy of it, The Lives of John Lennon, which I dug out after the Phoenix show. I could see from a cinema ticket bookmark that the last time I had dug it out was in April 1994 when Stephen Woolley (who I believe used to work at the Phoenix) & Nik Powell's Backbeat came out. The inscription reads: You've heard the gossip. You've seen the rough cut. Now read the book. The gossip and the aforementioned insight involved Goldman pulling all his contributions from the documenatry at the 11th hour (not sure what kind of C4 contract allowed for that kind of veto, but Channel 4 was still in its naively golden first decade then).
This week (Tuesday) was the 29th anniversary of John's death. I remember it clearly – I was in Tijuana in Mexico and saw the headlines in Spanish, struggling to translate them exactly. I associate that time with realising for the first time my eyesight was dodgy, taking off my specs and realising the degree of my myopia (your youropia, his hisopia), getting a bit upset about it as a person who's always been visually driven, through still and moving pictures. There's a lot of play in Nowhere Boy about John's short-sightedness – Mimi's always reminding him to put on his specs and he's always taking them off again as soon as he gets out of range. He has to put them on when Paul (superbly played by the fresh-faced Thomas Sangster) is teaching him guitar. The chemistry between John and Paul is palpable. On Tuesday I was listening, trusty ol' iPod on shuffle, on my walk home past the Phoenix to Yer Blues from the White Album and was greatly struck by the haunting words he wrote in India and recorded just a few miles from the Phoenix at Abbey Road:
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why
In the morning wanna die
In the evening wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why
My mother was of the sky
My father was of the earth
But I am of the universe
And you know what it's worth
I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why
The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bones
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones
Lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why
Black cloud crossed my mind
Blue mist round my soul
Feel so suicidal
Even hate my rock and roll
Wanna die yeah wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.
4 of the best
This week I'm staying in S. Agata, on the coast about an hour south of Naples, and today I'm off to see for the first time Pompeii, so buried stuff is on my mind. It's in the nature of a blog that stuff gets buried – this post is me resurrecting 4 of my favourite posts from this blog:
on titles, jazz, Dylan Thomas and Joyce's Ulysses
on Buffalo Springfield, Belsen and what's of true value
a survey of the Daily Mail, anxiety and sex
4 In the beginning of the End (serpent mix)
a remix of The Doors' The End and the first chapter of Genesis (the bible book not the band)
And on the subject of great songs, the soundtrack for today (fortunately it's on the ol' iPod) must be Siouxsie & the Banshees' Cities in Dust – after all these years it's going to come into its own:
"Water was running, children were running
We found you hiding, we found you lying
Your city lies in dust
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend"
100 Greatest Songs
Ever wondered what the 100 greatest songs of all time are? Well trouble yourself no longer – here they are…
(only one song per artist/band; songs with words, not instrumental)
Hells Bells – AC/DC
The Stars We Are – Marc Almond
Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna
Ventura Highway – America
The House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Across the Universe – The Beatles
Harrow Road – Big Audio Dynamite
Hyperballad – Bjork
The Last Month of the Year – Blind Boys of Alabama
In the Sun – Blondie
Everything I Own – Ken Boothe
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed – David Bowie
ESP – Buzzcocks
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
White Man in Hammersmith Palais – The Clash
Do you really want to hurt me? – Culture Club
Ninety Nine and a Half – Dorothy Love Coates
Alison – Elvis Costello
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Eloise – The Damned
Knowledge of Beauty – Dexy's Midnight Runners
Soolimon – Neil Diamond (from Hot August Night)
The End – The Doors
Fruit Tree – Nick Drake
Ballad of a Thin Man – Bob Dylan
That's Alright Mama – Elvis
This is the house that Jack built – Aretha Franklin
Sometimes – Michael Franti & Spearhead
Inner City Blues – Marvin Gaye
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
Sonny – Bobby Hebb
The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix
Winter in America – Gil Scott Heron
A Town Like Malice – The Jam
Jerusalem – hymn
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Atmosphere – Joy Division
Danny Boy – Brian Kennedy
Batonga – Angelique Kidjo
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
In My Time of Dying – Led Zeppelin
Oh Yoko – John Lennon
Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jealousy – Geraldine MacGowan [County Clare's finest]
Fairytale of New York – Shane MacGowan & Kirsty MacColl
The Snake with Eyes of Garnet – Shane MacGowan & the Popes
The Prince – Madness
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Shot by Both Sides – Magazine
My Little Empire – Manic Street Preachers
Natty Dread – Bob Marley & the Wailers
Don't Want to Know – John Martyn
Wandrin' Star – Lee Marvin
Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield
Amazing – George Michael
Monkees theme – The Monkees
Moondance – Van Morrison
Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
Jerusalem the Golden – Effi Netzer singers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Raglan Road – Sinead O'Connor
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
Julia Dream – Pink Floyd
Public Image Limited – PIL
Fanciness – Shabba Ranks & Lady G
Try a Little Tenderness – Otis Redding
Cold Water – Damien Rice
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
Chase the Devil – Max Romeo & the Upsetters
Street Life – Roxy Music
In a Rut – The Ruts
Anarchy in the UK – The Sex Pistols
If I Was a Bell – Jean Simmons (in Guys & Dolls movie)
One for my baby – Frank Sinatra
Icon – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Because the Night – Patti Smith
Ghost Town – The Specials
For What it's Worth – Buffalo Springfield
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen (MTV Plugged session 1992)
Down on Mississippi – Mavis Staples
Father & Son – Cat Stevens
Runaway Boy – The Stray Cats
You're the Best Thing – The Style Council
Forbidden Colours – David Sylvian & Ruichi Sakamoto (from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
No Scrubs – TLC
Listening Wind – Talking Heads
Fire & Rain – James Taylor
Treason – Teardrop Explodes
Ain't Too Proud to Beg – The Temptations
The Boys are Back in Town – Thin Lizzy
One – U2
Ivory Madonna – UB40
Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
My Generation – The Who
Armagideon Time – Willie Williams
That Girl – Stevie Wonder
Old Man – Neil Young
Freedom Suite – The Young Disciples
In the Beginning of the End (serpent mix)
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end, no safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes… again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free?
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
In the beginning
God created
The heaven
And the earth
And the earth
was without form
and void
and darkness was upon the face
of the deep
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old, and his skin is cold
And God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly
The moving creature that hath life
And God created every living creature that moveth
Be fruitful and multiply
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind
And cattle after their kind
And every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind
And God saw that it was good
Now the serpent was more subtle
Than any beast of the field
Which the Lord God had made
The Lizard King
King of the universe
So God created man in his own image
In the image of God created he him
Male and female created he them
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East
In Eden
And there he put the man he had formed
The West is the best
The West is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you takin' us?
And God said: Behold
I have given you every herb
And the earth brought forth grass
And God said: Let there be light
And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good
And God divided the light
From the darkness
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Divide the light from the darkness
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Yes, son"
"I want to kill you"
"Mother… I want to… fuck you"
And God blessed them
And God said unto them
Be fruitful and multiply
And replenish the earth
And subdue it
C'mon, baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, c'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
What have you done?
In the middle of the garden were the tree of life
And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
The voice of your brother's blood
Cries to me from the ground!
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
He made the stars also
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end.


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Aimed towards European tastes, can the Sea Ray L650 take the fight to the big names on this side of the pond?
Flybridge motor boat reviews from Motor Boat & Yachting magazine
Jeanneau Velasco 37F review
The Jeanneau Velasco 37F proves to be a seriously practical and well-rounded flybridge cruiser
Princess 68 review
With an interior to die for and sparkling performance, the Princess 68 looks to be the whole package
Princess 68 takes to the water for sea trial
The new flybridge from Princess has undergone its first sea trial, hitting a top speed in excess of 30 knots
Sealine F380
Motor Boats Monthly tested the brand new Sealine F380 out on the Baltic Sea
Azimut 50 driven
Dave Marsh travels to Savona to test the new Azimut 50
Sealine F380 driven
The Sealine F380 is the first new Sealine since the takeover by Hanse Group
Motor Boat & Yachting drives the Privateer Flybridge 49
We put the new Privateer Flybridge 49 to the test out on a very cold IJsselmeer in the Netherlands
Sessa Marine Fly 40
If anyone can add excitement to the functional 40ft flybridge market, it's the Italian yard
Jeanneau Prestige 450
An impressive master cabin on a 45-footer separates this boat from the competition
Bavaria Virtess 420
Germany takes on the establishment as Bavaria launches its first flybridge cruiser.
Rodman 1250 Pro Fisher
How the new Pro epithet has given this tough old seadog a new lease of life
Sealine F48
The Sealine F48 is classy, customisable and a real contender for the flybridge crown
Sealine F33
A victim of its own success perhaps, but the ubiquity of the F33 combined with current market forces mean that these boats are now seriously good value.
Absolute 50 Fly
First ever flybridge from Absolute
Jeanneau Prestige 350
Can this entry-level flybridge boat deliver the goods?
Fairline Squadron 42
The new Squadron 42 takes up the Phantom mantle and runs
Fairline Squadron 55
Can you improve on perfection? Fairline tries with the all-new 55
Princess Yachts 50
What can Princess offer in an already crowded 50ft class?
Bénéteau Antarès 42
No nonsense, solid French flybridge bruiser


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The following is an archive of a post made to our
'vox mailing list'
by one of its subscribers.
FWIW I have 2 DSL lines here and both are pretty reliable.
Good enough to run the LUGOD web site and mailing lists, and
some other services.
So I'm inclined to think you could do better than Comcast,
if DSL is available to you. Not to mention getting a more
reasonable AUP. I use sonic.net and dslextreme, but if
you're in Davis try Omsoft.
-- Rod
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 11:40 am, David Margolis wrote:
> Like a lot of you probably have done, I have forsaken my Comcast cable
> internet acceptable use policy by running a small
> web/mail/file/ssh/smb/etc. box out of my home network.
> This is all experimental and fun, and I don't expect 100% uptime or
> anything, but every once and a while my network connection just flakes
> out. It's not enough to complain about or bother calling tech support
> about as it doesn't happen all that often, and when it does it's no more
> than an hour or two. It's no more flakey than anybody's DSL that I know,
> and for the most part it's a real rock solid, fast, consistant connection
> that I don't mind paying for given what I get.
> The most recent outage was yesterday. My cousin e-mailed me and said "hey
> I can't access those pictures of your son you sent me." I was I work, so
> I tried to SSH in and...nothing. A few hours go by, and
> sure enough, it's back up.
> My question is this. If I want a bit more consistancy for my Web pages
> and personal mail accounts, should I have to pay for monthly hosting ON
> TOP of what I pay for broadband? Part of how I justify my $50+ a month is
> by telling myself that I'm basically getting free hosting out of the deal.
> Sure Comcast provides Web space, but it's not very big, doesn't support
> PHP/MySQL, doesn't support my domain name, doesn't come with a shell
> account, etc.
> Is anybody struggling with this sort of thing? I have plenty of scattered
> Web accounts so it's not like i'm lacking for Web space, but nothing
> supports what I want to do quite like my perfectly customized box.
> Let me reiterate that I don't think my internet connection is really to blame.
> They provide what they claim to provide in a reasonable manner. To
> complain that I don't have a solid enough connection to provide services
> I'm not supposed to be providing isn't going to fly anyway.
> Just fishing for thoughts...is anybody paying for broadband, but also
> paying for separate Web or Mail hosting?
> Thanks,
> Dave Margolis
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THERE'S no doubt about it, Vera Azároff is science's newest female superstar. Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin all won their honours in the usual way, at the laboratory bench, but Vera is uniqueshe earned hers at the breakfast table.
It all began on a Caribbean cruise when Vera, already a respected psychologist, met her future husband Leonid, a physics professor at the University of Connecticut. After they married, Leonid began work on a college physics text, and his preparations spilled onto the breakfast table, evidently to his wife's delight.
Now, after years of mixing magnetism with apple fritters and thermodynamics with French toast, she has graduated with high honours from 1001 breakfast lectures. Leonid records the most memorable of them in
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• Lighthouse Tour
• Walking trails (beaches, fynbos)
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• Noordhoek Farm Village
• Chapman's Peak drive
• Cape Point Nature Reserve
• Cape Point Vineyards
• Whale watching
All Last Word hosts are experienced and knowledgeable about their particular areas. They will find out what your needs are and will personally put together tours and itineraries that are filled with new and unusual activities. In-house chauffeurs and tour guides will take you to anything from a shopping expedition to a shark diving adventure.
Cape Town is a culturally rich city with many attractions and activities to suit everyone's tastes and desires. The following exciting activities are just some of the numerous adventures you can participate in whilst staying at any of The Last Word's Intimate Hotels.
There are some magnificent places to go horse riding in the Cape, Kommetjie area. Canter through the waves and along the extensive beach in Noordhoek, which joins up with Long Beach.
Many riding schools also offer lessons for children and adults of all levels of experience.
The Western Cape offers some of the best land and ocean-based whale watching in the world. Whilst staying at The Last Word Long Beach, why not take a day tour False Bay Coast during the whale season (July - October) and witness whales breaching and playing close to the shore.
Southern Right Whales are particularly entertaining as they come close to shore to calve their young and also to mate. They are also very playful, breaching and slapping their tails much to the enjoyment of many a spectator. The elevated roads and accessible parking areas along the False Bay and Atlantic coastlines provide excellent viewing sites. Other whales which can be witnessed in the waters off the Cape include the Hunchback Whale, the Humphrey's Whale and even the odd Killer Whale.
Further along the coast, the town of Hermanus is considered the best spot for land-based whale watching. In September, the annual Whale Festival is a hive of activity with many shows, attractions and craft markets on offer in the town, with the whales being the main attraction of course.
The adventure of a life time. Southern Africa is rated among the best shark diving locations in the world. In Cape Town there are many tour operators offering numerous different expeditions and diving trips. We recommend and can book the most suitable trip for guests staying at any of The Last Word Properties. The most popular trips are to Seal Island, Shark Alley and Dyer Island.
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Bishopstone (near Swindon)
"BISHOPSTONE NEAR SWINDON, a parish in the hundred of Ramsbury, in the county of Wilts, 6 miles to the E. of Swindon. Farringdon is its post town. It lies on the borders of Berkshire. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £208, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are two endowed schools in the village, the income of which amounts to about £60 per annum, and some other charities of the annual value of £70."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
There is another Bishopstone in South Wiltshire, near Wilton.
- St Mary, Church Walk, Bishopstone (nr. Swindon), Church of England
Church Records
- St Mary, Church Walk, Bishopstone (nr. Swindon), Church of England
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Bishopstone area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify other churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.
Common to all parishes is a Key to Abbreviations and a description of Church Records and Indexes for Wiltshire, including a complete Marriage Index for the county.
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Bishopstone (nr. Swindon, North Wilts), St Mary:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1573-1850, Mar 1573-1846, Bur 1573-1952
- WFHS transcript Chr & Bur 1573-1837
- The Ring Marriages 1573-1837
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1837
- National Burial Index 1573-1837
- A transcription of the section for Bishopstone (near Swindon) from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Bishopstone (near Swindon) from
A Vision of Britain through time.
- Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Bishopstone (near Swindon) to another place.
- The entry for Bishopstone (near Swindon) from British History Online.
- View maps of Bishopstone (near Swindon) and places within its boundaries.