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Can you believe, 1999 all over again?
Call this year's highlight video "Return to the Expansion Season From Hell."
"No, this is worse," said cornerback Daylon McCutcheon. "This is a way better football team."
The Browns suffered their worst loss in 45 games under coach Butch Davis yesterday on a day in which Kelly Holcomb was yanked at halftime, Tim Couch was injured in relief, Quincy Morgan suffered a concussion and Gerard Warren was ejected for throwing an uppercut at his opponent.
The 34-7 defeat to the Seattle Seahawks featured three more offensive turnovers by the Browns, including a Holcomb fumble and interception at the goal line.
The first shutout loss under Davis' direction was averted when Andre King picked up a Seattle punt that caromed off the rear end of snapper J.P. Darche and returned it 28 yards for a touchdown late in the game.
Still, it was the third time in the last five games the Browns' offense failed to score a touchdown, and fourth time overall this season.
"They kicked our [butts]," guard Shaun O'Hara said of a Seattle team that permitted 44 points to Baltimore the previous week.
"We sucked today. As much as we'd like to say we're better than this, we've got to prove it. We've stunk this year and we all know that. This is obviously the low point of our season."
At 4-8, the Browns officially ceased talk about winning their remaining games and hoping for the playoffs to fall back to them.
The challenge now is to just win one game.
"We're going through some tough times, some adversity," Holcomb said. "Everybody's going to be on us. It's going to change one day. But these times are tough right now."
For the first time since winning the starting job in training camp, Holcomb was pulled by Davis after a miserable first half in which he:
Was sacked four times.
Lost a fumble trying to avoid a sack.
Presided over an offense that failed to convert all five third-down situations and did not threaten to score despite three trips beyond the 50-yard line.
The spark that Davis hoped Couch might provide did not materialize.
Couch's first possession began at the Seattle 48-yard line and ended in a punt after three plays. On his next possession, Couch was hit after a pass on second down by tackle Rocky Bernard. His body caromed into Seattle end Chike Okeafor and Couch's left knee took the blow.
X-rays during the game did not reveal much. Afterward, Couch said the immediate prognosis was a sprain of his medial collateral ligament.
"It was painful," Couch said. "As I started to walk it off a little bit, the pain started going away. I'm sure it's going to be sore for the next couple of days."
Holcomb played out the game, adding an interception on an ill-advised pass to Andre Davis at the goal line while being chased.
Coach Davis' starting quarterback for Monday night's nationally televised game against the St. Louis Rams might be the one who draws the short straw. That is, assuming Couch is even healthy enough to play.
"I think both of these guys, their struggling is a byproduct of how tough it is for our offense to have any kind of rhythm and consistency," Davis said. "Both of these guys, obviously, are victimized by the [pass] pressure. And I don't know that it would make much difference right now [which one plays]."
Morgan suffered a concussion in the second quarter when he was hit by rookie safety Ken Hamlin reaching for a pass, and then caromed, helmet-first, into the helmet of oncoming linebacker Anthony Simmons.
Morgan came back to play but obviously was not right. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Morgan was open beyond rookie cornerback Marcus Trufant, but he did not see Holcomb's pass at all. The ball fell harmlessly to the ground in the Seattle end zone.
"I couldn't see too well, so I just came out," Morgan said.
The offense was not alone in contributing to the lopsided loss.
"This probably was the one time in 2 years when both sides of the ball were out of synch and out of rhythm," Davis said.
In a milestone offensive game for Seattle, the Seahawks achieved a franchise first when quarterback Matt Hasselbeck passed for 328 yards and three touchdowns, running back Shaun Alexander rushed for 127 yards and a touchdown, and receivers Darrell Jackson and Koren Robinson eclipsed 100 yards each. Jackson had 102 yards and two touchdowns, Robinson had 122 yards.
"It was our worst game since 2000," said safety Earl Little, who dropped an interception.
Warren epitomized the Browns' frustration. In the third quarter, he was flagged for head-slapping center Robbie Tobeck. While he and Warren were engaged, Warren threw an uppercut to Tobeck's chin.
Explaining the ejection, referee Ed Hochuli said to a pool reporter: "First we had an open-hand head slap, which is a foul in itself. Then he followed it up with an [uppercut] punch. The punch is the ejectionable foul. Any time you slug another player, it's an automatic ejection."
There were other defensive gaffes, such as allowing fullback Mack Strong to rumble 32 yards with a screen pass, and getting caught with 12 men on the field. Alas, the Browns still allowed a 7-yard gain by Alexander with their extra man.
In a question about the offense, Davis said, "There's no foreseeable quick-fix answer." But he could have made that assessment, too, about the remaining four games this season.
The good news is the Browns get an extra day to prepare this week for the St. Louis Rams. The bad news is everybody in the league will be watching.
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Video:The Apollo 11 Moon Landingwith David Wilson
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing put America at the forefront of space exploration. In this history video from About.com learn about the first lunar landing and the first man on the moon.See Transcript
Transcript:The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Hello, my name is David Wilson. I'm an historian and a teacher of U.S. and World History. I'm here today with About.com to discuss the Apollo 11 Mission to the surface of the Moon.
The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
The Apollo 11 Space Mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and returned to Earth in the Pacific Ocean July 24, 1969. On board were astronauts Neal Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. On July 20, 1969, Neal Armstrong radioed Nasa Control in Houston with the now famous statement: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." At 10:56 p.m., Neal Armstrong stepped out of the Eagle, and said: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
The First Man on the Moon
Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface of the Moon about 20 minutes later. Once on the surface of the Moon, the two astronauts spent two-and-a-half hours setting up equipment, planting a United States flag, established some scientific tools, and set up a video camera, as well as still cameras, and collected about 50 pounds of lunar soil and rock samples for study on the Earth.
The Return of the Apollo 11 Space Mission
On July 24th after leaving the Moon's orbit, Apollo 11 splashed down 13 miles from the U.S.S. Hornet near Hawai'i. The astronauts were immediately quarantined on the Hornet, and then transferred to a 58-room lunar receiving laboratory in Houston, where they remained in quarantine to ensure they had not picked up any diseases on the Moon.
The Cold War Space Race
The successful landing and recovery of astronauts from the face of the Moon was an historic step for the United States in its ongoing Cold War battle with the Soviet Union. Both countries were established super powers and seeking dominance in space. This was the fruition of Kennedy's promise to explore Outer Space with American know-how and American ingenuity.
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Linebacker James "very excited" to join Ravens
Marlon Brown excited to make Ravens roster
The Ravens have added former Falcons linebacker Robert James to the 53-man roster after claiming the fourth-year linebacker on waivers.
James, 29, was a fifth-round draft pick of the Falcons in 2008 out of Arizona State. He had 11 tackles last season and has played primarily special teams in his career. He did not play in the Falcons preseason game against the Ravens.
The 5-foot-11, 224-pound linebacker was among the Falcons last cuts on Saturday.
James takes the roster spot of wide receiver LaQuan Williams, who was waived on Sunday.
"I think I'm pretty much here for special teams," James said, "but I'm willing to accept any role they need me to do."
James said it was an emotional roller coaster to be cut one day, and the next day to be on his way to joining the Super Bowl champions.
James said "it was very exciting" when he got the call that he had been claimed off waivers by the Ravens. "I was very excited, coming into a good organization.
"I was actually getting a massage and my agent called me," he continued, "and I ran downstairs and I'm telling all my family, 'Hey, I'm on my way to Baltimore!' "
The Ravens are still expected to make at least one more roster move before Thursday night's season opener at Denver. Tight end Dennis Pitta is expected to go on the injured reserve-designated to return list before the season opener.
In other roster news involving former Ravens, wide receiver David Reed made the Colts' 53-man roster. He was traded by the Ravens to the Colts for running back Delone Carter, who did not make the Ravens final roster. Bobby Rainey, the running back thought to be a candidate for the Ravens No. 3 running back job, was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns. Former Ravens offensive lineman Antoine McClain, who was among the team's final cuts, was claimed off waivers by the Oakland Raiders. And former Ravens receiver Tommy Streeter was signed to the Buffalo Bills practice squad.


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I kind of broke my promise today and went to Starbucks (but, in my defense, I slept 4 hours, so a boost was in order). On my way out of the coffee shop I saw a poster asking "Are you single? Do you like to golf?" The former caught my attention professionally, the latter personally. […] [Read More]
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This weekend's Life 3.0 column: These days, it seems harder to avoid "green" products than it is to find them. Everything from construction material to accessories (a biodegradable umbrella) and from automobiles to pet products makes being an eco-friendly consumer almost as easy as finding a Dunkin Donuts in the Capital Region. Earth Day has […] [Read More]
L'Occitane + Brooklyn Botanic Garden
My sister got married at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) back in September, and we're both L'Occitane fans, so this release caught my attention. L'Occitane en Provence celebrates Hanami with BBG, honoring the Garden's flowering cherry tree collection. Hanami is BBG's cherry blossom viewing season (now through May 11), and culminates in New York's rite […] [Read More]
Interracial dating easier in '08?
We'll be doing an upcoming Life 3.0 on interracial dating, and how perception has changed in the past decade or so. In the meantime, check out this "Shades of Love" story from today's AOL homepage. [Read More]
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Want to reminisce about bad fashion, bad dates and bad acne from your teenage years? Pull out all those old skeletons through stories, pictures, diary entries and more. Check out this post on All Over Albany about "Teenage Skeleton Night." [Read More]
"Sex and the City" at Houlihans
We will be taking NightCam here shortly but, for "Sex and the City" fans, this tidbit is too good to hold on to. Houlihan's, the restaurant, is holding a "Sex and the City"-themed night each Wednesday, where local diners could win tickets to the "Sex and the City: The Movie" premiere in New York City […] [Read More]
The look for less
So I'm stealing the title of this blog post from that show Elisabeth Hasselbeck used to host on the Style Network, but it really is a catchy- and appropriate- phrase. So here's my look for less story. A couple weeks ago I was in Target and saw these fabulous shoes. They were trendy, cute wedges […] [Read More]
What sons could give for Mother's Day
Thrillist, the men's e-mail lifestyle guide (think Daily Candy for guys), shows guys how to impress their moms on Mother's Day with alternatives to the same old stuff. From a store that bottles your mom a personalized perfume while you shop; to a company that ships out life-sized roses; to an online service that lets […] [Read More]
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Jessie M. Bryant, 70 of Fairfield died at 6:12 PM, Friday June 13, 2014 at Deaconess Gateway Heart Hospital in Newburgh, IN. For over fifty years she worked at Wayne County Abstract Company in Fairfield, and was also a member of the Geff Christian Church.
Jessie is survived by her husband Leslie Howard Bryant of Fairfield, a daughter Staci (Ron) Wilson of Springfield, IL, two grandchildren, Whitney and Zachary Wilson, a sister Stella (Tom) Brown of Cisne, IL, two sister in laws, Alyce Freimuth of West Allis, WI and Carolyn Heathcock of Cross Plains, TN, and several nieces and nephews.
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No. 7 Baseball Hosts Tide in Final Regular Season Home Weekend
May 10, 2012
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Fresh off a thrilling 12-inning win at Indiana on Wednesday, No. 7 Kentucky wraps up its home regular-season schedule, hosting Alabama in a three-game set, starting on Friday at 7 p.m. ET at Cliff Hagan Stadium. The series will resume at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday and conclude on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.


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A firsthand account of the second-rate.
Mar 5, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 24 • By JOSEPH EPSTEIN
In Lucking Out, one learns that its author is a man of humble origins. He was born, he reports, into a drab working-class family in Baltimore: "socially corner-pocketed," as he puts it in one of the many phrases he avails himself of that have more flair than precision, "and Beauty deprived." He began his professional life even humbler, as a rock critic for the Village Voice. In the hierarchy of arts criticism, that of rock ranks just a notch above the criticism of marbles.
Bianca Jagger, Halston, Tatum O'Neal, Steve Rubell at Studio 54
Rock music, like sex, doesn't really require being written about. Best to enjoy it if you can and shut up about it afterward. But this doesn't stop its critics from taking up the old air guitar—once in the form of a typewriter, today in that of a laptop—and stompin' away. An early critic of rock, my friend the late Albert Goldman, who wrote iconoclastic biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon, many years ago sent me an essay he wrote on The Doors—"Come on, baby, light my fire" and all that—which caused me to buy the group's most recent album. When I told him I had done so, he asked me what I thought of The Doors. "Al," I replied, "they should have sung your essay."
Beginning as a rock critic explains a lot about James Wolcott's overwrought prose—that old air guitar—which he slathers lavishly on all subjects. "Being facile is harder than it looks," he writes. To which I would reply that finding a paragraph in his memoir free of heavy injections of false energy and sloppy phrasing isn't any easier. Wolcott will strike off a straight arresting sentence, then follow it up with two or three clotted ones, usually larded with sexual metaphors, similes, and allusions: "I had too much altar boy in me to seize the bitch goddess of success by her ponytail and bugger the Zeitgeist with my throbbing baguette" is but one example among scores. In writing about punk rock, he alerts us that this was a time before "the gold medallions and furry testicles of disco descended" (get that metaphor to a urologist!). "A date movie for the damned, Looking for Mr. Goodbar looked as if it had been coated from floor to ceiling with contraceptive jelly." "Niche journalism hadn't yet whittled too many writers into specialty artists, dildos for rent."
Such prose is beyond mere editing; it requires Drano.
"Our idols are our instructors," writes Wolcott, and his own idols have been Norman Mailer, Seymour Krim, John Leonard, Marvin Mudrick, Alfred Chester, and above all, Pauline Kael. What these writers have in common is that—with the exception of Mudrick, a literary attack specialist—they all vaunted, and themselves went on, instinct, and had no great regard for intelligence. Pauline Kael once remarked in Wolcott's presence of the movie reviewer David Denby: "All that boring intelligence." If a porn movie, a rock performance, a book feels good, it must, ipso facto, be good. Feeling, which must never be betrayed, is all.
Lucking Out includes chapters on Wolcott's days at the Village Voice, his friendship with Pauline Kael, his fascination with punk rock as he encountered it at the CBGB (Country, BlueGrass, Blues) bar in the Bowery, his interest in pornographic movies, and his discovery, the illegitimate child at this family reunion, of the burnished beauty of the New York City Ballet.
The book begins with Wolcott's dropping out of Frostburg State in Maryland during his sophomore year and taking his chances on a career in New York. The goad for Wolcott's leaving school and making a raid on Manhattan was a letter from Norman Mailer. Watching Mailer's antics one night on television while he was under attack from Gore Vidal and Janet Flanner and Dick Cavett, Wolcott wrote an article for his college paper on the mêlée—a tempest, more precisely, in a demitasse—in defense of Mailer. When he sent the article to Mailer, the novelist responded by suggesting that Wolcott apply for a job at the Village Voice.
Wolcott was eventually given a menial job at the Voice—first in the circulation department answering phone complaints, then as a receptionist of sorts—from which he was able to jump himself up through writing brief entries, then longer pieces, on rock concerts and other popular culture oddments. Charm, one gathers, has never been even Wolcott's short suit, and his failure to please his boss at the Voice, the city news editor, a woman named Mary Perot Nichols, resulted in his being fired.
Lucking Out is as much a book about New York in the 1970s as it is about James Wolcott. No one would argue that the 1970s in New York was a golden age, unless one's taste ran to grunge, graffiti, unorganized crime, aggressive begging, and ubiquitous squalor. In one of his dreary Greenwich Village apartments, from which the view presented on the streets below was of muggings and sexual exhibitionism, Wolcott one day received a phone call from Pauline Kael. She liked an article he had written about stand-up comics, and now invited him, in effect, to join the cult devoted to her and become, as the various young men in the cult came to be known, one of the Paulettes. (The names of some of the other Paulettes are Michael Sragow, Joe Morgenstern, Terrence Rafferty, Owen Gleiberman, and, mentioned earlier, David Denby, who published an essay in the New Yorker in 2003 called "My Life as a Paulette.")
In his lengthy chapter on Kael, Wolcott records several of her more wickedly amusing remarks about John Simon, Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion, and others. (A shame that Kael, who always mocked Didion's stylish despair, wasn't alive to comment on Didion in her current professional mourner phase.) She was death on Neil Simon and Mike Nichols ("God, the shit he gets away with!" she said of the latter). William Styron and Gore Vidal were also on her blacklist. She sniffed, then snuffed out, pretension, of which in the making of movies there is never a short supply. Of the movies of John Cassavetes she wrote that he exhibits "the kind of seriousness that a serious artist couldn't take seriously." She was not much taken with Woody Allen, and thought even less of him after he officially became a genius.
Kael never allowed herself to see a movie twice, lest thoughtfulness kick in, eliminating feeling and ousting original gut instinct.
Wolcott's exact relation with Kael isn't entirely clear. Was he her Boswell and best imitator, or merely her Jerome Zipkin, the man known for walking fashionable women in Manhattan? He notes that she would sometimes read her New Yorker reviews to him over the phone. He was among those invited to join her for screenings of new movies, where her most glancing comments could gravely upset the producers of the movies. Friendship with Pauline Kael came at a price; it was said that one was allowed to disagree with her about three movies—but no more. Wolcott claims no influence upon Kael, and, rather the reverse, feared her influence upon him, or at least feared her wanting to control his life by choosing not merely his opinions but also his lady friends.
"In a sense," Wolcott writes, "we would all fail Pauline because none of us would surpass her defiant nerve, her resounding impact." Certainly no critic stirred up more talk about his or her subject than did Pauline Kael about the movies during her years (1968-91) at the New Yorker (minus the time she spent on a failed excursion as a producer and consultant in Hollywood). Her opinions were far from conventional: She didn't care for Charlie Chaplin, she disliked Chinatown and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She raved about Last Tango in Paris, comparing its historical importance to the night of May 29, 1913, when Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps was first performed. She was always brilliant but frequently wrong. She could treat a throwaway movie like Popeye as if it were Pindar. Moral seriousness in movies seemed to infuriate her; she would supply that on her own.
Kael's style could be imitated—contemporary slang, kitchen confidentiality—but not her passion. Passion is what one feels missing from James Wolcott's writing. In an author's note to a collection of political pieces published under the title Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants, Wolcott wrote: "Don't fake what you don't feel is an adage I try to live and write by, because the pieces that mean the most to me will mean the most to the reader as long as the emotions behind the arguments are true." But behind his bloated prose, his relentless with-it-ness, his slashing insults, one doesn't finally know what James Wolcott stands for, what truly matters to him.
In Lucking Out, Wolcott refers to his own sense of detachment as a young man and writer: "But this hanging-back business was more than precedence and habit. It betrayed my reluctance, my fear of getting too close to anybody or anything; my preference for maintaining detachment, distance, for avoiding involvement and allowing myself a quick escape route from where I found myself. I wanted to take everything in, from safe afar, through a panoramic lens." Yet the line between being detached and being a voyeur can be blurry, and Wolcott, man and critic, frequently smudges it.
What Wolcott claims changed all this was his engagement with punk rock. This began with his untrammeled admiration for the singer Patti Smith. The pages on punk rock in Lucking Out are perhaps the most embarrassing in Wolcott's memoir. He sets off the full lawn-assortment of fireworks in describing how it first hit him:
Punk rock is, I suppose, an acquired taste, like that for arsenic. If you don't have it, sentences such as the following aren't magically going to infuse you with it:
Perhaps, like the Spanish Inquisition, or the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, you had to be there.
Of his enthusiastic if not entirely decipherable advocacy of punk rock, Wolcott writes that "it was nice not feeling like the bad guy in print for a change." Praise does not come easily to Wolcott; nor, when he attempts it, does it persuade. In what he calls "my ruthless climb to the top of the middle," Wolcott, as he writes, "developed a reputation for being 'a smart-ass' in print." I have myself always thought of him as a hit man, with no mafia behind him, a man who killed for the sheer pleasure of expressing his free-floating hostility. "When I flick back at the book reviews I did in the seventies, I sometimes wince at the nasty incisions I inflicted on writers when I crossed the line between cutup and cutthroat (I won't quote examples—no need to re-inflict wounds)." One of my books in those days was so inflicted; the experience resembled going to bayonet practice, with your book serving as the straw-filled bag.
Wolcott doesn't have much of interest to say about porn movies in the 1970s, though it does allow him to crayon in some of the scuzziness of Times Square in those days. His introduction to porn movies began with a Village Voice assignment. Porn had in common with punk, he writes, that both "were amateur uprisings from below deck, ragtag operations of low production values and high casualty tolls where fame was sought under an assumed identity." Describing the crowd at porn movies, Wolcott writes:
When he encountered George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, which he began attending with some regularity, Wolcott was staggered. Witnessing high art in pure form after years of playing exclusively in the grimy grey sandbox of popular culture—writing about punk, porn, television, the whole shabby works—blew him away. "Ballet," he writes, "was nearly everything I wasn't, and what I wasn't was what I must have wanted most." The New York City Ballet, then still under the direction of Balanchine, the last living hero of high modernism, "remained a pennant-bannered Monaco moated and aloof from the nagging needlings of the Zeitgeist to be relevant, socially concerned, hip, happening, and in harmony with the vibrating moment."
Still, to be "relevant, socially concerned, hip, happening, and in harmony with the vibrating moment" remains the name of Wolcott's desire. Whether he is writing about the media, popular culture, or politics—on politics he eschews analysis and plays the insult comedian, a Bill Maher with a gaudier vocabulary—Wolcott is intensely, relentlessly, hopelessly with-it, breathing heavily in the attempt to stay 20 minutes ahead of the loop. Always a mistake, this venture, because with-it-ness does not comport well with getting older, and Wolcott, who will be 60 this year, is no longer a kid. Unless he is up for wearing one of those depressing grey ponytails, James Wolcott, clearly, needs a new style. In fact, he needs an entire intellectual makeover.
Joseph Epstein, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, is the author, most recently, of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit.


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11:30 a.m. Saturday: "Stand next to the fence," the coordinator tells Paul and me. "Someone will be by to give you instructions." Rain sifts down on my umbrella. Warm April rain, but it's June 20, the cusp of Summer. "At least it's warm," the girl next to us says. "This would be hellish if it was cold."
We are in Coney Island, waiting for the 2 p.m. start of the 2009 Mermaid Parade, leaning against a wooden fence that advertises Barnum and Bailey's Circus, dressed in brand-new canary yellow T-shirts with VOLUNTEER printed on the back. There are ten of us. We carry umbrellas; we wear see-through plastic ponchos. Paul wears shorts and a raincoat. We are Marching Marshals. I'm not sure what that means.
12:30: A trim blonde in a cowboy hat hands us hand-numbered signs on long metal poles. The guy next to me looks up at his sign, eight feet up against the drizzly sky. He cringes. "We could be hit by lightening."
The blonde tells us we'll stand along West 21st Street in sequence according to our number, and Mermaids with corresponding numbers will line up behind each of us. "You'll each have 25 Mermaids," she says. "Your job is to keep them moving."
1:00 p.m.: We're spaced along West 21st , leaning against the wall with our signs. Paul's and my numbers are in the three hundreds, in the rear, only three other Marching Marshals behind us. The rain has let up, but the sky is murky.
The lightning-phobic guy laments, "I wanted to see the parade. We can't see squat from back here." I sympathize fully. He brightens. "Hey, they'll put Harvey Keitel in the rear, right?" Keitel is this year's celebrity King Neptune. "Maybe we'll be close. I can take a picture."
The street teems with Mermaids in home-made tails and shell bras. Some aren't young. Some aren't women. Some wear only pasties on top. Some shouldn't.
1:15: Rain again. A marching band leans on our wall, chugging Budweiser. A tuba lies on the sidewalk, rain pittering its silver curves. A skinny woman in panties, two strategically-placed cotton balls, and gold body paint poses for pictures with a fat guy wearing only a jock strap. He jerks—"Oh!"—and pulls a cellphone out of the jock. He grins. "It's on Vibrate."
1:30: Rain pelts down. We stand in the flooding street, waiting for Mermaids to find us.
The band plays slurred New Orleans jazz. A nubile college girl in a sea-green filmy, finned skirt shakes her butterfly-shaped pasties at a nerdy guy in a striped cap. Dirty old men click their cameras. Roller-derby girls swap war stories. Body paint runs; glitter falls; fins grow limp.
"I can't feel my hands," Paul says. "Look—my fingernails are blue."
1:50: Downpour. Gold Woman and Jockstrap Man rush by, thoroughly goosebumped. The co-ed in butterfly pasties dons a jacket. The band takes another Bud break. Nobody has claimed our sections, those behind, or the lightning-phobe's up ahead.
2 p.m.: Still no Mermaids back here.
2:15: Not one Mermaid. "They're not going to use us," the lightning-phobe exclaims. He sounds disgusted.
The pack of Mermaids up front jostles; we all start forward.
"They're making us march without Mermaids," Lightning Man wails.
An organizer approaches. Paul tells him,"Everybody's up front. We don't have Mermaids."
"Oh," the organizer says. "Well. You don't have to march."
Cool. We'll see the parade from the sidelines. "What a wasted day," Paul mumbles.
The organizer collects soggy signs. He hands Paul a board painted with the word "Spring," and me one that says "Winter." Other Marching Marshals get "Summer," "Autumn," and bamboo poles topped with flags. "Take these to the boardwalk for the Beach Ceremony," the organizer says.
No parade. No Harvey Keitel. We drag our burdens to the boardwalk. The rain eases; cold wind whips the flags.
The parade ends, for walkers and hand-pulled carts, on the boardwalk. All motorized vehicles—antique cars, trucks, floats—dropped off earlier, unseen by us. We lean on our props, waiting for the Beach Ceremony–whatever that is–watching drunken Mermaids stagger by. Many faces, and bodies, are familiar. Jockstrap Man, still bare-assed, wears a jacket. The butterfly-pastied co-ed is draped over her nerd.
Harvey Keitel and his Mermaid Queen wife whisk by in a cart, so quickly that I can't snap a picture with my iPhone.
4:30: A coordinator shepherds us and our props from the boardwalk to the beach and lines us up. Four "gates," red ribbons stretched between bamboo poles, lead down to the ocean like hurdles. Before, after and between them, we stand with our "Winter," "Spring," "Autumn" and "Summer" signs.
"You'll wait here twenty minutes," says the coordinator, "then they'll come and cut the ribbons."
"Who cuts the ribbons?" someone asks.
"Harvey Keitel."
It starts to drizzle.
5:15: Observers straggle down to watch us. I trade my "Winter" sign for a pole. The sign requires two hands, the pole only one; maybe I can take a picture with my free hand.
They sweep down abruptly: a bevy of Mermaids and Harvey Keitel. And the combined press corps of the entire free world.
Harvey clips the first ribbon with giant shears. I can't see him behind the hoards of photographers. The circus moves to my ribbon. My substitute holds up "Winter." I aim my iPhone and shoot. The ribbon snaps. The mob advances to the third "gate," where Paul holds "Spring."
I glance at my iPhone: I've got it! A shot of Keitel's face, his crown, his glitter-covered trident, his wife, over the "Winter" sign. You can't tell he's cutting a ribbon, but…I've got it.
5:20: We march our signs and poles up the beach to the Coney Island Museum, where they'll be stored until next year. Paul looks chagrined.
"You finally got to do something useful." I say. "Aren't you glad we came?"
"Hah. When they hit my ribbon, the security guy ripped my sign out of my hands and held it up." He snorts. "He wanted his picture taken with Harvey Keitel."


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My trick to throwing a great party is to keep my stress level as low as possible.
For me, keeping party stress to a minimum means prepping as much food as possible in advance. That way when people are arriving, all I need to do is heat, plate and eat. This also lets you focus more energy on how the food is presented, which can be nearly as important as taste.
One of my favorite party tricks is to use cedar wood planks for both cooking and serving. I love the look of the ruff hewn wood plank piled with food. And if the edges are a little charred, so much the better! One of my tried and true party appetizers that works with this technique is a grilled glazed brie with fresh fruit. I serve the brie with assorted fruit and water crackers, but a baguette or your favorite crackers would be just as good.
I make the fruit and nut mixture in advance and keep it in a jar in my refrigerator so I can throw it together when friends drop by unexpectedly, or just when I am feeling like a treat. It works best on a small 8-ounce wheel of brie because the rind will contain the oozing cheese as it heats up.
You can use a slice of brie instead, but make sure that you don't heat it too long.
The cedar plank adds a kiss of flavor, makes it easy to bake in the oven or pop onto the grill, and becomes your serving platter as well.
Cedar-Planked Pecan, Bourbon and Brown Sugar Glazed Brie
You shouldn't have any trouble finding food-grade cedar planks. Most grocers sell them near the seafood and meats. If you buy them from a hardware store, be certain that they are untreated.
Cedar grilling plank (about 6-by-8 inches)
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons dried cherries and/or chopped dried apricots
1 tablespoon bourbon
8-ounce round brie
1 tablespoon no-sugar raspberry jam
1 Granny Smith apple, cored and thinly sliced
1 pear, cored and thinly sliced
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Small bunch of grapes
Water crackers, to serve
Soak the cedar plank in water for at least 30 minutes. If necessary, weigh it down to keep it submerged.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl stir together the brown sugar, pecans, dried cherries and bourbon. This step can be done up to a week ahead. If so, cover and refrigerate until needed.
Heat the grill to indirect medium heat. The cheese also can be prepared in the oven. For the latter, heat it to 400.
Place the brie on the wet cedar plank.
Spread the jam over the top of the cheese. Spoon the fruit and nut mixture over the jam. You may not need all of the nut mixture.
Place the plank with the brie either on the grill grates or on a cookie sheet in the oven. Either way, cook for 10 minutes, or until the brie is slightly softened and the sugar melts.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, toss the apple and pear slices with the lemon juice. Arrange the slices and grapes around the side of the brie.
Serve on the plank with a cheese knife.
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According to insiders BMW is working on an X4 – a baby X6 if you will. It's still un-named but insiders say that the SAC, SAV, SUV or whatever you want to call it, will borrow styling from the X6. Sources say that it will be a tall five-door fastback with all-wheel-drive and rear-wheel-drive available. Makes sense since we just heard the X1 will be available with rear-wheel-drive as well.
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Shoreline's Developmental English program prepares students to think, read and write in college. All three courses--English 080, English 090 and Study Skills 100, English 100--integrate skill development with carefully chosen content.
ENGLISH 080 Critical Thinking in College and Life (10)
Students learn to think critically and reflectively by looking into themselves and out at their family, college, work and civic communities. Strategies for reading, writing, problem-solving, self-reflection, group process, time management, goal-setting and involvement are learned in the context of their own college and life interests. Prerequisite: Students need ASSET scores of 29 in Reading and 31 in Language Usage to take this class. Registration requires the signature of an approved advisor. Student option grading.
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Offered only in combination with StySk 100 for a total of 10 credits. Students learn about the various academic subjects and improve their reading, writing and critical thinking abilities in the subjects. The course helps students explore and understand their academic and career interests. Prerequisite: Students need ASSET scores of 35 in Reading and 33 in Language Usage or have passed English 080 to take this class. Registration requires the signature of an approved advisor. Student option grading.
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The S81 LED is a simple, small LED strobe that is light weight and compact which makes it a great piece for mobile DJ's or stage band lighting effect. The flash speed can be adjusted using the knob on the rear of the unit. 21 white LEDs provide bright strobe effect. 50,000 hour LED life. Great with or without fog. Low power consumption: 3W. Beam angle: 130-degrees.


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Sandy Meets The Tempest: The Met Opera Reopens
Thursday, November 01, 2012
After cancelling performances for two days, the Met returned Wednesday with – ironically – a scheduled performance of The Tempest, an opera based on Shakespeare by Thomas Adès.
Music for the Jewish High Holidays
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch Loved Music And People Loved Him
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
WQXR Host Naomi Lewin shares her impressions from Marvin Hamlisch's funeral.
Classical Music that Turned into Musical Theater
Saturday, June 23, 2012
If the story of the Broadway musical Rent sounds familiar, that's because Jonathan Larson, the composer of the musical Rent, used the same plot for this musical as Puccini did for La Boheme. Other composers also used classical music when they wrote their Broadway hits. Kismet is adapted from compositions by Russian composer Alexander Borodin and The Song of Norway uses tunes by Edvard Grieg to tell the story of Grieg's life.
Bohemian Music
Saturday, June 16, 2012
La Boheme is a famous opera, but Puccini wasn't the only composer inspired by Bohemia. This week on Classics for Kids, you can hear Bohemian music written by a lot of other composers.
A Brief History of Italian Opera
Saturday, June 09, 2012
The Italian people have always had a love affair with opera, which has been a part of their life for more than 400 years. This week on Classics for Kids, take a trip through the history of Italian opera.
Music Written for Children
Saturday, May 19, 2012
A lot of classical music was written just for kids. Peter and the Wolf is just the beginning -- there are also pieces based on children's books, toys, games, and more.
Transcendent Voice: Memories of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Friday, May 18, 2012
"Sometimes the anticipation of an event seeing someone perform can lead to disappointment. But not Fischer-Dieskau," writes Naomi Lewin.
Exploring the Children's Corner Suite
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Claude Debussy's daughter Emma-Claude began taking piano lessons at the age of 3. Her proud father composed the Children's Corner as a present for her, even though it was much too hard for her to play at the time. Instead, it entertained her because it starred her favorite toys.
The Life and Music of Claude Debussy
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Claude Debussy loved to experiment with new sounds. That got him into trouble when he was a student at the Paris Conservatory, but it turned out to be a good thing when he grew up. Inspired by Impressionist poets and visual artists around him, Debussy created Impressionism in music. You can hear the beautiful results this week on Classics for Kids.
Classical Music Featuring Dances from European Countries
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Many composers used European dance forms in their work. Dvorak, Haydn, Chopin and Beethoven are just a few of the composers featured here.
Mostly Mozart Festival Music Director Louis Langrée Dons a New Chapeau
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Frenchman Louis Langrée, music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival, and a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, is the new music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
The Brahms Hungarian Dances
Saturday, April 21, 2012
When he was a young pianist, Johannes Brahms accompanied a Hungarian violinist, and fell in love with Hungarian music. His own Hungarian-flavored dances were written to entertain his friends at parties. Those friends convinced Brahms to publish his dances. When the first set was a hit, Brahms wrote and published another set.
Johannes Brahms - About Johannes Brahms
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven are known as the "Three B's" of classical music. Brahms always knew that he wanted to be a composer -- by the time he was six, he had thought up his own system for writing music down on a page.
After Fiscal Woes, Trinity Church Revives Lunchtime Series
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Host Naomi Lewin reports on the return of Bach at One, the series from Trinity Wall Street that is back after a funding crisis put it on hiatus.
Eric Owens's Top Five Operatic Entrances
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
We all know what they say about making a first impression. Eric Owens shares his list of the top five character entrances in opera and the music that accompanies them.
Wild Night at Philharmonic After Phone Interruption
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Top Five Beethoven Variations on Someone Else's Theme
Friday, October 28, 2011
In Beethoven's day, variations on a popular tune -- especially one from a favorite opera or oratorio -- sold well to the burgeoning home music-making market.
Top Five Beethoven Arrangements of Non-German Songs
Friday, October 28, 2011
When a Scottish publisher approached Beethoven about creating some genteel arrangements of folk songs -- from Scotland to Italy -- he accepted. The results are utterly charming.
Montreal's New Concert Hall Leaps Into View
Thursday, September 08, 2011
When the Montreal Symphony opened its new concert hall to the public on Wednesday night, the festivities included acrobats from the Cirque Éloize. Host Naomi Lewin reports on the three-ring festivities from our neighbors to the north.


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Oracle 12c: Applying PSU 188.8.131.52.1 with Multitenant DB & unplug/plug
The concept of Multitenant databases, which was introduced with Oracle 12c in June 2013, allows to run several databases on a single instance. Oracle presents this feature as a good solution for Oracle patching. The reason behind it is that it is now possible to unplug a container database (called PDB) from its original container (called CDB), in order to plug it into a new local or remote Container with a higher level of PSU. In this post, I will show how you can install the new PSU 184.108.40.206.1 for Oracle 12c (released in October 2013) using Multitenant databases to keep the downtime as low as possible.
The following schema shows the concept:
We assume that a company is using a Container database CDB1 with two pluggable databases PDB1 and PDB2 running on it:
SQL> select name, open_mode from v$pdbs;
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These two databases are accessed by users and applications and a window maintenance is planned in order to install the latest PSU for Oracle 12c.
Using the OPatch utility, we can see the currently installed patches:
$ opatch lsinventory
We can see that the patch 16527374 is already installed. It has been installed in order to fix a bug with Enterprise Manager Express 12c and Multitenant databases. Also note the presence of the latest OPatch utility 22.214.171.124.2.
To unplug PDB2 from the container CDB1 and plug it into a new CDB with a higher PSU level, we need to install a second rdbms software with the same patching level (22.214.171.124.0 + EM Express bug fix), on which the new PSU will be installed.
An empty container database CDB2 has been created on the second environment, with the Oracle Home /u00/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_2. Now it is time to install the new PSU 126.96.36.199.1 on the second environment. The listener for this installation is named LISTENER_DB_2:
Step 1: Upgrade OPatch utility to the latest version (see note 6880880) if not already done.
Step 2: Download and unzip the PSU 18.104.22.168.1 on the server (patch 17027533).$ unzip p17027533_121010_Linux-x86-64.zip -d /tmp
Step 3: Check conflicts between the PSU and already installed patches.$ opatch prereq CheckConflictAgainstOHWithDetail -ph ./
The patch already installed to fix the EM Express bug is in conflict with the new PSU. Oracle will remove the existing patch before installing the new PSU. This is not an issue here, since Oracle provides the patch 16527374 specific to Oracle 188.8.131.52.1. It will be possible to reinstall this patch once the PSU is applied.
Step 4: Shut down all databases and listeners running on the Oracle Home of the second environment.
Shut down CDB2:SQL> shutdown immediate;
I did not create any listener for my second environment. If you plan to drop the current ORACLE_HOME after upgrade, you will have to create a new listener in the new ORACLE_HOME and to shut it down before upgrading.
Step 5: Install the new PSU.$ cd /tmp/17027533
$ opatch apply
Note that the patch for EM Express bug fix has to be reinstalled for 22.214.171.124.1 release, since it has been removed during the PSU install. This bug is not covered by the PSU.
Step 6: Restart databases and listeners.
Restart the CDB2 database:SQL> startup;
Step 7: Load modified SQL files into the database with Datapatch tool.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch$ ./datapatch -verbose
It is possible that the following error occurs:DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-20001: Latest xml inventory is not loaded into table
In this case, the parameter _disable_directory_link_check must be set to TRUE (see Oracle note 1602089.1) and the database must be restarted:alter system set "_disable_directory_link_check"=TRUE scope=spfile;
We have now CDB1 running in 188.8.131.52.0 PSU level, and CDB2 running in 184.108.40.206.1 PSU level. Until now, no downtime occured on PDB1 and PDB2 databases. All configuration and installation steps for the PSU have been performed on a non-productive environment.
The next steps consist in unplugging PDB2 from CDB1, in order to plug it into CDB2.
Step 8: Stop the user application and shutdown PDB2 from CDB1.
From this step on, the pluggable database must be closed. The downtime will start now.
SQL> connect sys/manager@CDB1 as sysdba
Session altered.
Pluggable database altered.
Step 9: Unplug PDB2 from CDB1.
Session altered.
SQL> ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE PDB2 UNPLUG INTO '/u01/oradata/CDB1/PDB2/PDB2.xml';
Pluggable database altered.
Step 10: Plug PDB2 into CDB2.
SQL> connect sys/manager@CDB2 as sysdba
USING '/u01/oradata/CDB1/PDB2/PDB2.xml'
MOVE FILE_NAME_CONVERT = ('/u01/oradata/CDB1/PDB2','/u01/oradata/CDB2/PDB2');
Pluggable database created.
The use of the MOVE clause makes the new pluggable database creation very quick, since the database files are not copied but only moved on the file system. This operation is immediate if using the same file system.
Session altered.
Pluggable database altered.
The database PDB2 is now opened, and users can access to the database. Note that if installing CDB2 on a different host, users may have to update the TNS connect string.
Step 11: Load modified SQL files into the database with Datapatch tool.
Since the rdbms has been upgraded to 220.127.116.11.1 before any pluggable database has been plugged into CDB2, all newly plugged databases must execute the "datapatch" script in order to load the modified SQL files.
Run the following command once the CDB2 environment is set:
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch
$ ./datapatch -verbose
Important: If you are using static listener registration, do not forget to change your listener.ora in order to provide the true ORACLE_HOME path corresponding to the new environment.
The pluggable database is now fully ready and downtime only occured between steps 8 and 10. By using the MOVE clause, the only downtime corresponds to the time required for shutting down the database from the source CDB and starting the database on the destination CDB. It represents a few seconds... And if both CDB are running on the same host, the users will not have to update their TNS connect string in order to access the database.
Patching PDBs using this method might ease the DBA life in the future :-)


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Being Happy at any cost
I don't know about you but I know as a woman I can be moody. Those friends that know me and work with me could tell you that I would prefer to be in a good one. As women, numerous emotions are encountered every day in our lives. We don't know what life is going […] [Read More]
Mother's intuition
I'm working on a story for an upcoming Life*Discovery section on the science of mother's intuition/instinct. I came across a study by an Arizona psychology professor who said that mother's intuition starts so early that 70 percent of the pregnant women in his study were able to accurately predict the sex of their child before ultrasounds or […] [Read More]
Honey, I shrunk Proctors
After seeing the 'Honey I Shrunk the Audience' 3-D movie at Epcot Center in Walt Disney World last week (and explaining to my three young children the significance and relevancy (?) of a movie made 20 years ago- might be time for a serious update there, Epcot) we saw that Proctor's was showing BUGS! in […] [Read More]
Earth Day Plans- Sat. 4/19
After returning from our successful, if over the top vacation to Walt Disney World this week, my family is feeling the need to simplify. Char Joseph's beautiful blog entry has us all focusing on Want and Need items this week. What perfect timing to mark Earth Day this Saturday keeping that theme in mind. An […] [Read More]
Every day that I am out and about I have taken much notice that in many different ways, advertisements have a way of getting into our conscious and unconscious minds wether we will it or not. I find myself at times struggling with the sales that seem to tell all of us in one way […] [Read More]
Is the Owl still Awake? Is the Bat? Is the Oppossom?
God bless the staff at the Children's Museum of Science and Technology in the Rensselaer Tech Park in Troy for hosting 45 giggling girl scouts for an overnight campout last Saturday night. Yes, they do have many animals housed on site and yes, the diligent scouts saw it as their mission to insure that the […] [Read More]
Hey, it's got phosphorus
Still at work, and I needed a late afternoon snack. Now, I have a perfectly good yogurt in the fridge for such emergencies, but did I go for it? No. Instead, I, a normally healthy eater, got Doritos out of the snack machine. I feel a little guilty with every cheesy bite. I'm sure the […] [Read More]
I love sweatpants
I slide into my sweatpants or pajama pants the second I get home these days. I'm learning just how early moms of twins start to grow — I already had a bump at 6 or 7 weeks. Now, I've got a full-blown tummy that even larger-than-my-pre-pregnancy-size pants unzipped and secured with a Bella Band can't […] [Read More]
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BYODesserts Lounge in WeHo???
I'm looking for a bar/lounge near La Cienega and Melrose that will let you bring in dessert. I'm hosting a 30th birthday party and we're having dinner at Lucques, then want to head to a lounge nearby that won't have a problem with us bringing Sprinkles in.
Any suggestions?
Oh boy, Sindy...that's a tough one. There aren't many lounges in that area period. I think your best best might be Stone Rose, which is located at the Sofitel, right at La Cienega and Beverly Blvd across from the Beverly Center. Call them and see if they don't mind your bringing in Sprinkles...I can't imagine they would.
The other option that popped into my mind was Area, which is on La Cienega, just North of Melrose, but that has a little bit more of a "nightclub" vibe.
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I always love spicy and hot,so I have used chili powder and green chili.If you do not want it hot ,you can use paprika powder instead of chili powder and skip the green chillies.
I like to publish my projects step by step with lots of photos ,so that every one can understand well, looking at the pictures alone.
When fried it is crispy,so have them hot hot. with your favorite sauce if you like.
Step 1: Ingredients
Chicken pieces with out bones (1/2 Kg)
Onions(double the quantity of the chicken)
3-4 cloves
Few green chillies (option)
Chili powder/Paprika powder
Curry powder
Turmeric Powder
For the dough
Step 2: Preparing the Samosa sheets
Dust a little flour on the working board and roll them again to oval shape to about 7-8 inches in length.If you want you can roll it a little bit longer ,so that you can have bigger Samosa's. Have them all ready, so that you can warm it in the pan one by one. Toss them in to the heated non stick pan for few seconds.Just one side half done would be fine
Don't wait until it is fully done.Take it out and slowly remove the two pasted sheets.Since I applied oil in between the doughs once it is heated slightly, it removes with out any problem
You can make the Samosa sheets as much as you want and freeze them for later use..Defrost very well before you use.
Is this the same as veecha rotti?


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SRI International, Menlo Park, California, is being awarded a $12,735,834 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to create visual exploitation and indexing tools to rapidly extract mission-relevant visual intelligence from large quantities of diverse, ill-defined, unstructured imagery captured from multiple adversary sources. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity.
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Seeing is believing, but when a special surveillance camera is doing the watching, it's also interpreting and reporting what it views-and learning from it-without human intervention.


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Casteels has become Hoffenheim's No. 1 keeper and could also be included in Belgium's World Cup squad.
Casteels new deal will keep him at Hoffenheim until 2017 while Grahl's new contract will keep him with the German side until the summer of 2016.
A Hoffenheim statement read: "1899 has signed contract extensions with Koen Casteels and Jens Grahl ahead of time.
"Casteels will stay at TSG until 2017, his contract would have been up in 2015. Grahl, whose contract would have been up next year, has signed for two more years until June 2016."


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Shadowrun on the 16 bit console platform, was an action RPG that became a cult classic. Shadowrun on the Xbox 360 is a first and third person shooter with elements from the RPG genre and Counterstrike, that also became a sort of cult classic. While there are significant faults (there's virtually no music, the game was made to strive on an online experience) Shadowrun can be an engaging title. The graphics are mostly above average for a 360 title, sporting simplistic models, but keeping a steady frame rate because of it. Which is a good thing since the action on screen can be chaotic, with lots of bodies running by or laying there. You are able to purchase powers and weapons before each round, similar to Counterstrike. Some of these powers enable you to revive a fallen comrade (though if you die, they will bleed out unless someone revives them again), spawn a health regeneration tree, sprout thorns on the ground and so on. There are four different races to choose from, each with their own perks, such as the Elf's regeneration. It's mostly a game of capture the flag with little else going on, and death forces you to wait until the next round, however there's a surprising amount of depth to the experience. You can block off the flag with the thorns, or glide in from above from a ledge perched up top. Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, Shadowrun thrives on its online aspect, something that never caught on, and is all but a ghost town now. Even when there were people online, the servers would just die out half the time you played a game. You can play it solo, but it's no where as enjoyable. It's a tragedy that Shadowrun didn't take off. Even if there's no music and it was nothing more than capture the flag for the most part, the strategy involved and the reckless entertainment that you can have was almost second to none. But having to play this without an online component robs the gamer of the true experience. It's dirt cheap and worth picking up even with a lack of a healthy online community. If there were enough people laying online still, bump the score up to 7.5.
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Decision-makers in charge of finding, assessing and engaging with suppliers will need to change their tactics in 2013 and beyond due to the emergence of several innovative technologies. Sourcing managers need to consider how big data, social tools, mobile devices and cloud computing present new risks and opportunities in the procurement of resources, according to a report by Gartner.
Rather than segregating these three technologies and evaluating them separately, analysts said sourcing executives need to consider them as a converged entity that can evolve in the coming years.
"The convergence of these forces, which Gartner calls the nexus of forces, is what drives real business value," said Linda Cohen, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "The nexus of forces converge in several ways: cloud, mobile and social solutions enable the distribution of information, social media usage and behavior drive mobile and information solutions, and cloud can be a foundation for information, social and mobile solutions."
Attaining a new perspective and understanding the evolving IT landscape will be critical in the future because it will enable sourcing managers to take a holistic approach to adopting and using these technologies in the most efficient way. Because each of the services associated with the nexus of forces will have some sort of impact on the lifecycle of most applications, Gartner noted, having a comprehensive sense of technology's importance will be crucial.
The cloud will change everything
Gartner reported that the majority of decision-makers will use or consider the public cloud as a model to host applications that will be upgraded, replaced or modernized within the next two years. In order for cloud infrastructure services to be used properly, however, decision-makers need to understand how the technology will create multiple hosting environments, especially when companies implement on-site and off-premises solutions.
The cloud's flexible and scalable environments will also make it easier for firms to adopt mobile and big data strategies, which will create alternative sourcing demands. In the past, individuals were usually restricted to performing business operations in the office at their desktop. Today, consumerization trends have enabled employees to use mission-critical applications from virtually anywhere at any time. This means the same applications cannot be used, requiring sourcing managers to have a knowledgeable understanding of the IT landscape.
"To establish the most appropriate sourcing approach for 2013, sourcing managers must take a more holistic approach and understand wider IT service market trends," said Frank Ridder, research vice president at Gartner. "To benefit, sourcing managers must consider the influence of the convergence of the nexus of forces on the services sourcing life cycle of activities, rather than considering each factor as a separate trend."
A separate report by Sand Hill Group also highlighted how cloud, mobile, social and big data are all connected because each technology uses the others as fuel to rapidly expand. As companies increasingly use digital solutions, they will be required to leverage next-generation tools to support a growing remote workforce and all the other changes occurring in the private sector.
As decision-makers encounter issues surrounding information reliability and availability, they will turn to the use of cloud and other services to make management and accessibility less complicated for the workforce. Sourcing managers and other IT executives will need to ensure they understand the evolving technical landscape before deploying and using any solutions, as each will provide its own unique set of benefits. Because social, mobile, information and cloud computing are all related, having a sound comprehension of each will be crucial.
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In the 1930s the MoonPie was heralded as a "working man's lunch," with hungry laborers substituting lunch with what was the biggest snack for sale. The MoonPie's background is lengthy and inspiring (did you know that the company started sending MoonPies to troops stationed overseas during World War II and continues the tradition today?) and, my cake-addled brain couldn't resist imagining it as a cake. More


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Pages removed from Vatican's online 1960 "Acta Apostolicae Sedis": Rubrics of Breviary and Missal
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On November 21, 2012, X Factor Season 2 finalist Diamond White revealed that her mother suffers from scoliosis — and once almost died during surgery. After her graceful and heartfelt performance, Diamond spoke exclusively with Wetpaint Entertainment about how her mother is doing today — and if she's heard from her long-absent father.
How did you feel about your performance tonight?
I feel awesome about my performance. The big thing about being an artist is getting the emotion across and I feel like I did that. I'm going to watch it back tonight and see how everything sounded and went, but I'm happy with my performance and I'm glad with how it turned out.
Your mom must be so proud of you.
Yeah, I was really shocked because my mom isn't the type of person to cry. My mom isn't an emotional person and neither am I. Knowing that she was crying when I was singing, I was like, "What? Are you serious?" I was shocked. And, they gave me a standing ovation, except for Simon. I'm going to get him to stand up one of these times because Simon is just a tough nut to crack.
How is your mom's health now?
My mom is the happiest person right now. She's healthy, but she's still having a lot of problems with her back because the bracket is still in there, but she's getting stronger with time. It's tough for her, but she said that me singing is her medicine so, I'm just going to keep singing.
It must have been hard to talk about your dad tonight. Has your dad ever tried to contact you, especially with you putting yourself out into the world now being on this show?
Well, I kind of want things to stay the same because I feel like if my dad was going to come into my life now, it would be because of the show and I don't want it to be fake, you know? So, I'm more than happy with just my mom in my life. I could live the rest of my life with just my mom. I don't need a father figure in my life. My mom is all that I need.


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Though a bit less centrally located than some other historic downtown hotels, the Doubletree is just a short walk from the Charleston City Market, home to numerous craft stands, and the Gibbes Museum of Art. Other attractions like the College of Charleston and the Charleston Museum are within walking distance (about 15 minutes), but some may prefer to drive.
Historic Downtown is known for its beautiful 18th-century architecture, numerous museums, and great shopping, and restaurants. King Street is the main drag, with high-end restaurants, art galleries, and shops.
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