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SOUTH WHITLEY — The Whitko football team's first Three Rivers Conference championship since 2002 came with an extra trophy Monday.
After a 27-24 overtime victory on the road at Rochester, the Wildcats not only locked up a share of the TRC title but had its head coach recognized by Indianapolis Colts for its accomplishments.
Third-year coach Wayne Swender was selected as the Colts/NFL Coach of the Week for week eight of the Indiana high school football season.
The final week of the regular season has all three Whitley County teams vying for a conference title. No. 8 Columbia City travels to Norwell for a shot at its first NHC title since 1990. Whitko can lock up an outright title in the TRC at Tippecanoe Valley. No. 5 Churubusco is going for its second consecutive NECC title against Lakeland at home.
No. 8 Columbia City at Norwell
On a night when the Lady Eagles donned pink shirts to show their support for finding a cure for cancer on "Dig For A Cure" night, it was the Heritage Lady Patriots who left Donald S. Weeks Gymnasium with a victory, taking a hard-fought five-game win over the Lady Eagles.
After dropping the first game 20-25, the Lady Eagles came back to take the next two games 25-17 and 28-26 and had built a 7-2 lead in game four before falling 19-25. The Lady Eagles dropped the deciding fifth game by a 10-15 count to fall in the match 2-3.
MARION — When it comes to high school cross country, Whitko boys' cross country came into Tuesday in a new position.
A favorite.
One season removed from reaching semistate as a team for the first time in school history, the Wildcats yet again knocked on the door of history.
Before the Marion sectional Tuesday, Whitko had never before seen a sectional team championship.
MARION — 1-2-5-7-9-13. No those aren't lottery numbers.
Those are the placings of Lady Eagles in Tuesday's Marion sectional. Out of a possible fewest points of 15 as a team, No. 17 Columbia City scored 24 on its way to the first sectional championship since 1986.
FORT WAYNE — The old saying goes, "When it rains, it pours."
In the opening round of the Homestead girls' soccer sectional, it was the Columbia City Lady Eagles that "rained" goal after goal on the North Side Lady Redskins on their way to a resounding 12-0 win Tuesday night.
Whether its Eagles, Wildcats or a team from "The City" that you're talking about in Indiana high school football, then it probably has to do with a conference title race.
Never before has it happened this late into the season. Three teams with a 7-1 record within Whitley County.
Look through your record books, check your statistics and bring together whatever past thoughts you might have and throw them out the window. The county is in the midst of its best combined football season ever.
The Indiana high school volleyball sectional pairings are out and for two Whitley County rivals, it starts off by getting a shot at each other.
Monday, the Indiana High School Athletic Association drew up the four-class brackets for 397 schools across 64 sectional sites.
The opening round of the tournament gets underway next week Oct. 19 through Oct. 23.
Two of the county's three high school teams will square off in the first round.
The Indiana high school football regular season comes to a close this week with all three Whitley County teams in contention for a conference title.
Sunday, those same squads had their paths drawn for the postseason that will follow Oct. 22.
Across five class divisions over 300 teams were placed into brackets that begin with three weeks of sectional play.
Among those teams were Columbia City, Churubusco and Whitko.
Columbia City's Sidney Bunyan lays out for a ball as teammates yell out. Columbia City traveled to the Whitko Invitational Saturday. The Lady Eagles fell in three pool play games (22-25, 21-25 to North Miami; 21-25, 14-25 to Prairie Heights; 22-25, 25-17, 7-15 to Garrett). The hosting Lady Wildcats also struggled, not advancing out of pool play. Whitko fell in three games (21-25, 15-25 to DeKalb; 25-27, 18-25 to Heritage; 9-25, 25-21, 11-15 to West Noble).


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A new program in the metro could help local artists and help you collect interesting pieces for your home. By now, you've probably heard of Community Supported Agriculture, which is when people buy shares of food from local growers. Now, organizers of a new program hope to do the same for artists.
Painting is Cat Rocketship's profession. She says, "I'm a painter. I graduated from Drake with a painting major in 2007 and I've been painting ever since."
Now, she's taking on a new project. She says, "This is Community Supported Art Des Moines, and it is very much like a community supported ag program."
It's like buying a share of produce from a local farmer. With Community Supported Art, people will invest in a $300 share of art. Rocketship says, "So, you'll buy your share and then in summer of 2014, we'll have nine selected artists who will deliver art work to be a part of the program."
Shareholders will collect the art at three parties during the summer, and you'll have no idea what you'll get. Rocketship says, "Most of the pieces will be visual art, so drawings, prints, paintings. But, some of them will also be poems or pieces of music freshly pressed EP's, things like that."
Shareholders will even get a bit of a bumper crop. Rocketship says, "Some bumper crop goodies, extras, stickers posters things like that, all with the view of supporting art and kind of bringing the art community together."
Rocketship is replicating the CSA program started in Minneapolis. Other large cities around the country offer similar services to boost the local art scene. Rocketship says, "Helping people jump start art collecting, so hopefully they'll start with CSA Des Moines and then move on to buying more art."
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The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
by Ron Rosenbaum
Random House. 601 pp. $35.00
The journalist Ron Rosenbaum is best known for his 1998 book Explaining Hitler, which, as its subtitle declares, is about a "search for the origins of [the dictator's] evil." Interviewing living biographers and historians, recapitulating the findings of those who had passed on, Rosenbaum traced the crisscrossing beams of light each had tried to shine into an unexampled darkness. But no consensus explanation was forthcoming. After the galleys of the book had been wrested from him, he tells us in his new book, he fell into a depression alleviated only by going "around the city listening to Shakespeare tapes on a Walkman."
Those tapes took him from the contemplation of one abyss, the Hitlerian "genius for destruction," to the contemplation of another, the Shakespearean "genius for creation." If Hitler's moral evil was so exceptional as to seem beyond the continuum of ordinary human wickedness, Shakespeare's literary greatness seems no less off the charts, so exceptional that "bardolatry"—holding the poet up as somehow more than human—has since the 18th century been an occupational hazard for scholars, critics, and ordinary readers alike.
Rosenbaum has now done for Shakespeare studies what he did for Hitler studies: he has researched and interviewed the foremost living scholars, theater directors, actors, and critics, added summaries of the work of a few seminal critics of the last century, interjected asides concerning his own encounters with the poems and plays as well as with particularly memorable productions, and withal tried gamely to make the scholarly and critical issues being "warred" over seem anything but parochial.
The chapters of The Shakespeare Wars are like dispatches from combat zones. One of them is marked by arguments over attribution. Thus, the principal "fiasco" alluded to in Rosenbaum's subtitle was precipitated by a Vassar professor's claim that a "Funeral Elegy" signed "W.S." had to be by the W.S. because his computer told him so. The professor later retracted his assertion, but not before credulous publishers stumbled over each other to include this "new work" in their collected editions.
Another of Rosenbaum's combat zones is festooned with the banners of defenders of Shakespearean "originalism," whether the supposedly authentic way to pronounce and deliver the lines or the use of early 17th-century spellings. Elsewhere, we witness the firefights of hypo- versus hyper-sexed stage directors, moderate versus over-strenuous hunters of verbal ambiguities, and deconstructionists or "new historicists" versus critics who write for the common reader.
The combat zone to which Rosenbaum gives fullest coverage, though, features battalions of academic editors going mano a mano over "textual" issues. Which are the right words, and how should we order them? Most people who have taken a Shakespeare class will be surprised by such questions: surely we have been presented with the best text that editors are capable of giving us, and surely all those variants at the back of the book or at the bottom of the page are of no interest. But, Rosenbaum insists, those variants are interesting, and so is the battle over them.
A few years back, Rosenbaum published a piece in the New Yorker on the squabbles among editors of Hamlet who must work with three sources—a "good" and a "bad" quarto (paperback-size volumes) and the trimmed version that appears in the complete Folio published in 1623, eight years after Shakespeare's death. Are the variants among these editions the result of compositors' errors (or "creative" elisions and additions), actors' and directors' cuts or insertions—or are they Shakespeare's own revisions? What did he really intend? Which epithet, phrase, or entire soliloquy represents the truly Shakespearean, and which, if not entirely apocryphal, shows him still fiddling around?
There are of course similar textual problems with other famous works, like William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, or D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love. But with those we can at least ascertain when the author's own hand was responsible for the changes. With Shakespeare (Hamlet and King Lear are the truly vexed plays), editors have a problem analogous to what they have with Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales exists in two rival manuscripts, each with aesthetic and historical claims to priority. Shakespeare scholars cannot finally decide—cannot reach agreement—among quarto, quarto, and folio because the necessary information as to what Shakespeare did, or what at bottom he wanted, is lacking.
Here, then, we touch on an important problem. The paucity of biographical data about Shakespeare himself, and the often marginal usefulness of data about his social and ideological milieu, necessarily send us back to the plays and poems, and thus to the words. Earlier critics have been here before, beginning with Samuel Johnson in the mid-18th century and William Hazlitt in the early 19th. From their and others' reading of the words, much has been elicited about what Rosenbaum sarcastically refers to as Shakespeare's "Big Ideas, Big Themes, Big Characters, Big Bigness."
Rather too much, in his opinion: he especially has it in for Harold Bloom, the subtitle of whose Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998) amounted in Rosenbaum's judgment to "a terrific marketing device" to encourage readers to mistake Shakespeare for God and Bloom for "His One True Prophet." As opposed to such professional explainers, Rosenbaum contends that the big ideas, themes, characters, or religio-philosophic profundities truly count only if—bringing us back to the editorial problems—the right words are in the right order. Then at least we will have the aural gratifications specific to the varieties of Shakespeare's poetry, and the often colloquial vitalities of his prose.
Of words, in any case, Rosenbaum himself can clearly never have too many. This book's pervasive flaw is its sheer prolixity. His New Yorker essay, boiled down there to a mere 10,000 words, appears here, one would wager, in its pristine 30,000-word glory. Needless repetitions and simple wool-gathering abound in this book's 600 pages, especially when Rosenbaum is recounting interviews. Instead of paraphrasing here, directly quoting there, he often just gives us the full running transcript, only slightly tidied up and interrupted by his own exclamations.
Take his session with the stage director Peter Brook, who to Rosenbaum's evident delectation maunders on about "the secret play," the hidden mystery, within, for instance, King Lear, "where Edgar conjures up the depths from the top of the cliff for Gloucester."
You touch on something fundamental, which is whether when you talk about theology you're talking about what the church has turned into doctrine. Or whether one comes to the fact that deep, deep down, at the real bottomless level, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are talking about the same thing. And on that level, on the bottomless level it's the same experience being expressed through different cultures and different languages.
Rosenbaum to us: "The same experience . . ."; and to Brook:
Do you have a feeling that Shakespeare had some initiating mystical or visionary experience?
I would have thought it's so. . . . I mean there were esoteric groups of course and Shakespeare could have been part of one of those groups. I think it's more probable than improbable.
And so on, and on. Setting aside the vacancy of all this, what it suggests is that Rosenbaum is not so immune to Big Ideas as he pretends—and also that Shakespeare's own words are inseparable from Shakespeare's mind. The problem for every critic is that, cart in as many contemporary data as you wish, Shakespeare's mind remains ultimately unknowable. Which means that it is just as subject to imaginative projection now—as by Peter Brook, or by Stephen Greenblatt in his 2004 bestseller Will in the World—as it was when Oscar Wilde, in "Portrait of Mr. W.H." (1889), speculated about the boy Willie Hughes to whom Shakespeare allegedly felt a homo-erotic attraction.
Still, there are imaginative projections and then there are imaginative projections. Greenblatt, for instance, very imaginatively projects anti-anti-Semitic intentions into The Merchant of Venice by positing that Shakespeare was present in London in 1593 at the cruel execution of the queen's physician, Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese-Jewish convert to Christianity who had been convicted of trying to poison her. Recoiling from the crowd's hideous, laughing mockery of Lopez's sufferings—mockery that may have been stimulated by the anti-Semitic portrait of Barabas in Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta—Shakespeare, or so Greenblatt fancies, resolved through the figure of Shylock to rehabilitate "the Jew" and so raise the consciousness of the rabble.
Well, Greenblatt can fancy as he wishes. This, however, is hardly the way five centuries of audiences have responded to The Merchant of Venice—which, even if not so one-dimensional as Marlowe's play, remains demonstrably and inescapably anti-Semitic. (For chapter and verse, see John Gross's definitive 1992 study, Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy.) Rosenbaum is right to quarrel with Greenblatt on this score, as he is right to be harsh on the evasions and sanitizings of the recent Michael Radford film version of the same play, starring Al Pacino as a sort of "usurer on the roof."
As Rosenbaum declares: "Merchant is so malevolent precisely because Shakespeare is so good." Wanting "to raise the stakes in conventional representation of the Jew . . . he did it not by making him a comic demon as did Marlowe, but rather by knowing the paradoxical effect of giving him a touch of humanity, just enough to make his departure from humanity more repellent."
Although applied to only one particular play, that is as nice a summary definition of Shakespeare's uncanny genius as one could desire. For getting this and other "Big Ideas" right, Ron Rosenbaum can be forgiven his redundancies, his windiness, and his occasional susceptibility to deep-think vacuity.
Thomas L. Jeffers teaches literature at Marquette University and is the author most recently of Apprenticeships (Palgrave). He is working on a biography of Norman Podhoretz.


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For sixty-five years, Edmund Eckel was the leading architect in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was born 1845 in Strasburg, Alsace, France and studied in Paris at LEcole des Beaux Arts. He arrived in St. Joseph in 1869. Immediately impressed by the post-Civil War building activity he saw, he decided to settle and work there rather than continuing on to Kansas City as originally planned. During his career, he and his associates designed approximately 75% of the citys buildings. The Eckel and Aldrich Architectural Firm organized in 1910, consisting of Edmund, his son George, and Will S. Aldrich. This talented and prolific firm designed dozens of buildings in St. Joseph, across Missouri, and in surrounding states. Their designs included schools, residences, churches, hospitals, businesses, government buildings and banks. The Eckel and Aldrich firm was one of only two Missouri firms in the final group of ten architects involved in the competition to design the new Missouri State Capitol. Their design finished second to the New York architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout. The firm, later known as Brunner and Brunner, is credited with designing Columbia, Missouris Municipal Building; Union Station in Hannibal, Missouri; St. Louis City Hall; the National Biscuit Company plant in Los Angeles; Council Bluffs, Iowa Courthouse and Jail and St. Josephs own City Hall.
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The Edmund Eckel/Otto Brunner Architectural Collection was donated to the St. Joseph Museum in 2008 by River Bluffs Architects, a direct descendent of the Eckel and Aldrich firm. The collection contains approximately 20,000 architectural drawings, 12,000 tracings, 9,000 magazines and cut sheets, 1,000 photographs, 500 books, 65 glass negatives, and 200 renderings, as well as correspondence dating to the 1870s, financial records and some furniture. The images presented here are a small portion of that larger collection. These sixty photographs and architectural drawings illustrate one project undertaken by Eckel and Aldrich: the construction of St. Joseph City Hall, which was completed in 1927. The building design is in the Italian Renaissance revival style and is built of stone and concrete. Its south façade faces St. Josephs Civic Center Park. The photographs illustrate each step in the construction process as well as interior and exterior details and decoration. The City Hall building reflects the talent of the architects of Eckel and Aldrich as well as the culmination of the City of St. Josephs growth period, which ended with the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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This is a new RV park. It is very clean and neat. There are restrooms and showers, but nothing else. The hook-ups were good and the sites were very wide and easy to access. Very quiet. Would stay here again if in the area. - RV Lover
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3 parking spots behind the Best Western. Okay for overnight stay. Water and 30 Amp (no 50). Walk to restaurants . You can use the pool and other facilities. Complimentary breakfast. All utilities will be at the rear. If parking lot is empty, no problem backing in. They do not accept reservations, so call ahead. - texpilot
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This place is truly a dump. I am glad to hear that it is no longer a KOA. It was thrown out of the system because it is so bad. - campingrichard
We should have known we were in for a mess when the entrance road to the sites disappeared from view! Hilly terrain, my foot. We had to unhook to make the incredible turn; we traversed down an ill-defined, soft-dirt road and entered a NARROW, unlevel site after we drove over a large hump of soft dirt. Talk about an old fish camp full of seasonals--converted school busses, tied-out barking dogs unable to reach their water, loose dogs being walked by owners who warned us from them, seasonal on-site campers and many seasonal empty rigs. We had to back out of the site because it was too risky to make the turn into the soft dirt with a big rig. BIG RIGS stay away--that's not hard, though, because the KOA signage was not obvious until you'd passed the steep, winding entrance road. A friendly office woman, game room, and barely-adequate laundry (Woodall's rating criteria) did not balance out the dowdy, unkempt appearance, broken concrete, and narrow inner roads of this campground. A dog wouldn't have jumped in the pool. WE WERE ASTOUNDED IT WAS A 4-W IN WOODALLS, and that KOA, for whatever it's worth, would designate this as a KOA park. We had to rock up the road (crack a windshield?) etc., hook up in front of the office, at an angle, and were NEVER so glad to leave a park. In 5 years of full-timing, this is truly our only bad and definitely worst ever, we hope, camping experience. We have a totally new wariness of KOA'S and Woodall's ratings now. STAY AWAY! - Motorhome Madness
Sites were quite close, somewhat difficult access is via clay/sand roads. Quite a number of seasonal folks. Over all, the park is not well laid out and when we stayed there CG was not well marked from the Highway. Near Hillsdale Lake for fishing, boating and swimming. - Motorhome Madness


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A new feature I'd like to try out here is "Throwback Thursday," and trust me when I say it won't happen every Thursday...but more like two Thursdays a month. This feature will highlight books from a few years ago that are new-to-me and worth reading. Equal opportunity blogging, indeed.
Gabrielle Zevin's first splash on the teen lit scene was with Elsewhere in 2005.
After Liz Hall is killed in an accident, she finds herself on a ship heading to a place called Elsewhere. Of course, she doesn't understand where she is yet, but she knows she is surrounded by strangers, including one of her favorite singers. Her family is notable absent. So, where's she going and why aren't they around?
She quickly learns she is no longer alive and instead will reside in Elsewhere for the next 15 years. Elsewhere is home of those who have died, and she knows she will be there 15 years because in Elsewhere, people age backwards, rather than forwards. When they reach age 0, they are transported back to Earth for a new shot at life.
Liz meets up with her grandmother, who will take care of her in Elsewhere, but Liz cannot find herself happy. Rather, she spends hours on the Observation Deck that allows her to look back to Earth and long for her family and friends. Through some sneakery, Liz also finds a way to go back to Earth and communicate with (i.e., scare the crap out of) those still living. After many interventions, she realizes this will not help with either her closure or the closure of her family; however, she has so many unanswered questions that living in Elsewhere feels like a prison, rather than the most wonderful place on earth.
Elsewhere was one of the first books to explore the dead-girl-in-the-afterworld trope, which has been redone a number of times, notably in the Morris-nominated Everafter by Amy Huntley. Zevin's book has a number of issues with pacing and timing, however, that I felt weren't present in Huntley's book; years would pass by without much incident, as though Liz were simply okay with her situation in Elsewhere, while she's spent significant time prior moping and bemoaning her situation. I wish this were more seamless.
As far as pacing was concerned, there were jumps that were awkward, but the book read quickly. Zevin's style is pleasing, as I mentioned in the review for This Hole We're In. She writes realistic dialog, and I felt that Liz was a belivable teenager. I'm under the belief teens feel this is the case, too, as my copies of this title are rarely available on shelf -- for five years, this has been quite a popular book.
One of the notes I made to myself on this particular title, though, was that there were a lot of unanswered questions for me. I didn't quite understand the bigger idea of Elsewhere, nor how Liz found herself surrounded by certain people and not others. She befriends a favorite musician from her days of being alive, but she never seems to really meet anyone else (this could go back to pacing and plot jumps, too). Likewise, did everyone go to Elsewhere? What sort of point was there in Elsewhere? People could work jobs, but the money they made was a moot point since nothing cost money in Elsewhere. To me, it was a little strange to have developed this world but left so many questions for the reader. I wish I had gotten to know Liz a little better, both in her Earthly life and in Elsewhere. Oh, and the perspective-told-from-a-dog needed either to be pushed further or left out entirely. It felt a little forced for how it was presented. It opened more questions, too, about Elsewhere's requirements for admission. And really, how the heck would you ever FIND your loved ones if everyone could be in Elsewhere? Mind-boggling!
Is it fair to compare a book like this -- a first in this style or idea -- to something that felt more fully fleshed like Everafter that came a few years later? I'm not sure and I'm not sure it matters a whole lot. These are fantastic readalikes, along with The Lovely Bones. There is definite girl appeal written all over these, which begs the question when an author will approach this theme with a male character and, perhaps, a male-dominated world? I'd love to read something that shakes up the trope like that.
That said, Zevin's work, I think, will be one of those teen classics. It has staying power, and it will appeal to your readers' contemplating what happens after we die (and who doesn't think about that?). Fluid writing and he intriguing concept, without doubt, make up for some of the weaknesses.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Throwback Thursday 1: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
A new feature I'd like to try out here is "Throwback Thursday," and trust me when I say it won't happen every Thursday...but more like two Thursdays a month. This feature will highlight books from a few years ago that are new-to-me and worth reading. Equal opportunity blogging, indeed.
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I read Elsewhere back when it first came out, so I can't recall if the things that you criticized bothered me or not. Probably not, though, since it's got a spot on my favorite books list.ReplyDelete
Anyway, The Afterlife by Gary Soto could fit as book with this theme from a male perspective, and maybe Restless by Rich Wallace (not life after death for the protagonist, but his brother became a ghost. I think. It's been a while since I read this one, too).
OH, thanks for those titles. I am going to try to hunt them down and read those, for the male perspective.ReplyDelete
I still liked this book quite a bit. For what it is, it's groundbreaking in terms of, I think, what it did for modern teen lit. It really brought it to a forefront -- it came out about the same time as John Green's "Looking for Alaska," another book that shook teen lit.


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Another reason as to why trading in forex binary options is becoming more popular is that it offers opportunities to earn incomes in short periods of time. This is because the contract expiration periods can be as short as 60 seconds. Additionally, the initial investment required to start off forex binary options trading is minimal. With some binary options brokers, it can even be less than $100.
If traders can build their capability to predict the direction of a currency asset correctly, they can expect to earn as much as 95% in profits, depending on the broker they decide to work with. In the traditional forex market, the direction of the currency asset and the magnitude of the movement are taken into consideration for working out the payouts. Even if the traders predict the direction correctly, if the magnitude of movement is not significant, they will not make appreciable profits in traditional forex trading. This is to say that there is an element of unpredictability as far as forex payouts are concerned.
Some traders may argue that it is possible to make huge amounts of profits with minimum investment because of leverage provided by forex brokers. However, the chances of traders incurring huge losses are also equally higher. In fact, currency pairs never surge to such a level as to provide significant returns from a single position. In the case of forex binary options, there is no leverage, spread or commission. At first glance, the profits earned by a binary options trader may seem to be conservative. However, if aspects such as pre-determined risk (traders can never lose more than the money invested in an option) and the need for the price of the currency pair to rise beyond the bid-ask spread or cover the commissions in the case of traditional forex trading are factored in, it becomes evident that forex binary options outweigh the benefits provided by the riskier forex trades.
The advantages of trading forex binary options can, therefore, be summarized as follows:
- Better risk/reward ratio and return on investment.
Payout can be as high as 95%, but losses can never be more than the investment.
Open an account with as much as $100 and trade with small amounts of money.
Easy to trade and there is an element of predictability; the profit potential and risk involved are made clear prior to making an investment.
There is no leverage, margin, commission or spread.
The trader just needs to predict the direction of a currency pair. The magnitude of movement does not matter at all.
Forex binary options are derivative instruments in the same way as the online forex trades. The difference is the transparency for which there is no parallel as of today in online trading. Traders can choose the forex binary options asset that they want to trade in, specify the duration of the trade and decide as to how much of their hard earned money they want to invest on a specific position.
The binary was largely unregulated up until recently. Cyprus Securities and Exchanges Commission (CySEC) was the first authority to set the ball rolling by awarding regulatory license to Banc De Binary and OptionWeb. As recently as in July 2013, CySEC issued CIF license to ZoneOptions. Japan's JFSA has initiated the process of finalizing regulations for binary brokers. With many countries also starting to take measures to regulate binary options brokers, the binary market is all set for the regulation era in 2013. The regulatory environment coupled with the simplicity is sure to make forex binary options trading the best way to make money online in 2013.
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Binary options is alright, but I wouldn't say it's the best way to make money in 2013. The biggest problem I see is that it's too risky (not many reputable brokers). I would only trust official US licensed ones. The only ones I know of are "How We Trade" and "Nadex". Don't trust ones located in placed like Cyprus or Malta. Those are the true scams.


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TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case involving tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians. Without comment, the justices let stand a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that held the Navajo Nation tribal court system lacks jurisdiction to hear a dispute affecting a health clinic located on tribal land in Utah. In dismissing the suit, the 10th Circuit cited the Nevada v. Hicks Supreme Court ruling against tribal sovereignty. Get the Case:
MACARTHUR v. SAN JUAN HEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT No. 014001 - 10/07/02 (10th Cir. October 7, 2002) Relevant Documents:
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Monthly Archive for April, 2011
Color TV? Forget about it, says Main Street businessman
In this June 5, 1953, edition of the Houston Press, Stanley Blount, a local businessman, was doing a little prognosticating about the future of television. With an $800 price tag and a 14″ screen, Blount said, color TV isn't worth it. (What cost $800 in 1953 would cost $6,446 today.) Houston Press June 5, 1953 […] [Read More]
It's August 1947 and you're in Houston
Here's a pamphlet I found recently. Essentially it shows what someone visiting the city could do around town, in this case the week of August 22, 1947. You'll notice that the featured attraction that week was burlesque dancer Yvette Dare and her sarong-stealing parrot act. The pair were part of anniversary week activites at the […] [Read More]
San Jacinto Day: looking back on history
Chronicle file From the July 21, 1958, Houston Chronicle: "A C-119 Flying Boxcar of the San Jacinto Troop Carrier Wing, Air Force Reserve, flies over the San Jacinto Battleground on a training mission. The wing, made up of Houston-area reservists, completed two weeks of active duty training at Ellington Air Force Base last weekend." Today […] [Read More]
A little on Meyer Speedway
Chronicle file From the March 23, 1964, Houston Chronicle: "Fans view remains of Bob Foster's smashed modified. Houstonian's car torn into three pieces." Cyndy in Cypress sent me a note recently asking if we had anything on Meyer Speedway. Actually, I get this request every once in a while. I just remember going there with […] [Read More]
Houston's highway boom
Tom Colburn : Chronicle file Interstate 10 looking east at Woolworth, 1966. I came across these photos Tom Colburn took in the mid-1960s that capture Houston's freeway boom. Some were taken at various points along Interstate 10 and a couple of others were taken at the Pierce Elevated and Highway 225. Tom Colburn : Chronicle […] [Read More]
April Houston history happenings
Just wanted to remind everyone that the first of two lectures associated with Bayou City Noir: The Photography of Marvin Zindler will be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Rice Media Center. "Remembering Marvin: Reflections on a Houston Icon" will look back on Zindler's life through those who knew him well. Although the exhibit focuses […] [Read More]
Rendez-Vous Houston: 25 years later
Chronicle file The Houston skyline is lit up during Rendez-Vous Houston: A City in Concert on April 5, 1986. Remember Rendez-Vous? Twenty-five years ago today, French composer Jean-Michel Jarre turned the Houston skyline into his personal concert stage, complete with fireworks, lasers, spotlights and projected images. It was the culmination of one man's tribute to […] [Read More]


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Yearly Archive for 2009
So there: even construction is gaining jobs in Texas
How many times have your heard that it's better to be in Texas than just about any place else? More times than you've heard that you're not supposed to completely freak out and dump your stocks during the nation's financial crisis? More times than your second grader has asked you for a cell phone? Well, […] [Read More]
FieldStone wins a SABOR award
(Courtesy photo) A FieldStone model in Carmona Hills, off of Loop 410 and Ray Ellison Drive. San Antonio-based FieldStone Homes received a service award from the San Antonio Board of Realtors for FieldStone's contributions to the Realtor community in 2008. The builder also won the award in 2007, making it the first builder to win […] [Read More]
New president named at Killis Almond & Assoc.
(Courtesy photo) Shantha D. Gunawardena Killis Almond & Associates Inc. announced that Shantha D. Gunawardena, AIA, has been named president of the company. Gunawardena, an 18-year employee of the company, purchased the architectural design firm in October 2008. He holds a bachelor's degree in architectural design from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He […] [Read More]
Real estate outlook: At least we're not the rest of the country
Local real estate professionals continued driving home the point today that, although San Antonio's real estate market has slowed down, it's not nearly as bad as other parts of the country. Presenters Jack Inselmann, vice president of the U.S. Central Division of the housing research firm Metrostudy; Tom Rohde, vice president of Rohde Ottmers & […] [Read More]
Helotes in top 8 in '08
Helotes was one of the eight "most notable high-growth areas" last year, according to a new report by Gadberry Group. Helotes ranked third behind No. 1 Queen Creek, Ariz., located near Phoenix, and No. 2 Enterprise, Nev., located near Las Vegas. The company, which offers location consulting services to retailers, based its ranking on the […] [Read More]
Keller Williams Legacy welcomes Faye Craig
(Courtesy photo) Faye Craig. Keller Williams Legacy Group announced the addition of Faye Craig to its associate group. Craig became a Realtor three years ago after working for 13 years as a corporate legal manager. — Emily Spicer [Read More]
SAYREP to hold January mixer at Lion & Rose
The San Antonio Young Real Estate Professionals will hold its monthly mixer from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at The Lion & Rose, 700 E. Sonterra. SAYREP is a professional organization for people ages 25 to 45 who are involved in San Antonio's real estate industry. Members include residential and commercial real estate agents, […] [Read More]
KB Home to give away shopping bags
(Courtesy KB Home) Bruce Grady, a sales counselor in the Enclave at Lakeside community, holds two of the tote bags KB will give away starting Friday. KB Home has made January energy efficiency month at all of its San Antonio-area communities. And to go along with the sustainability theme, KB wil give away reusable canvas […] [Read More]
Texas again top destination state
Does it seem like all of your new neighbors hail from another state? Texas is again the nation's top destination state, according to the Allied Van Lines' 41st Annual Magnet States Report, which was released today. The report tracks net migration (people moving in minus people moving out). This is the fourth year that Allied […] [Read More]
Some homes sell better than others
The San Antonio Board of Realtors' existing home forecast for 2009 was much rosier than the Greater San Antonio Builders Association new home forecast the day before. But buried in the SABOR presentation on Jan. 6 were some interesting numbers on just which sectors are stronger than others. Sales in the $500,000 plus price point […] [Read More]
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Amherst, MA (SportsNetwork.com) - Chaz Williams netted 16 points and dished out a team-high six assists as the Massachusetts Minutemen outlasted the Rhode Island Rams, 70-67, in an Atlantic 10 bout at Mullins Center.
Trey Davis scored 13 points and grabbed five rebounds off the bench for UMass (22-5, 9-4 A-10). Sampson Carter chipped in with 11 points and six rebounds, and Derrick Gordon narrowly missed a double-double with nine points and 10 rebounds. The Minutemen have won three games in a row.
Gilvydas Biruta led all scorers in the game with 17 points for Rhode Island (12-17, 3-11), adding eight rebounds and five assists. Xavier Munford netted 16 points, E.C. Matthews chipped in 14 and Hassan Martin contributed 13 points in the loss. The Rams have dropped seven of their last eight contests.
UMass connected on 28.9 percent of its field goal tries in the first half, including 4-of-11 from 3-point range, and still managed to take a 31-30 lead into the locker room at the half. Rhode Island connected 52 percent of its shots in the frame.
The Minutemen came out in the second half firing, hitting 57.9 percent of their field goals, adding 16-of-24 from the free-throw line. The Rams netted 48.1 percent of their tries in the period and couldn't erase UMass' slight lead.
UMass outscored Rhode Island from the free-throw line, 21-11, and had the edge in rebounding, 41-28. The Rams dominated in points in the paint, 42-26.
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It was raining outside our window
And the kids were inside moping around
That's when the idea hit me
To throw our first rainy day hoedown
I kicked off my bedroom slippers
Rolled up the legs to my long pants
Went outside where they could see me
And in the rain I started to dance
They watched, laughing from the window
Thinking Dad has finally lost his mind
Then their mother came out to join me
Splashing in the biggest puddle that we could find
One by one they joined the hoedown
As the rain continued to pour
When the sun, at last, broke through the clouds
They yelled, "Oh please, let it rain some more!"
Cloudy days no longer bothered them
As they journeyed into their adult life
And we still have rainy day hoedowns
With me do-si-do-ing with my wife
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(Memphis) A Memphis family's five dogs are now in the hands of animal control and their owner is in jail after police say the dogs were forced to live in conditions so awful, they could have died.
A cramped and crowded space inside a shed on Morningside is where Claude Holiday kept his 4-year-old dog tied up.
The dog's collar was so tight it cut deep into her skin.
Holiday's wife say, the family treated the dog for the cut.
"We put peroxide on the dog," said Mortson.
Holiday and his family kept two dogs in the shed, but Memphis Police say Holiday didn't care for them.
Animal control officers feared the dogs were in danger of dying and needed emergency surgery.
A police report shows the dogs were so dehydrated and malnourished, they could barely walk and you could see their ribs.
But Holiday's wife, Ester Mortson, says that's not true and pointed out a bag of dog food kept inside the shed.
"He would go feed the dogs every morning," said Mortson.
"They're saying this wasn't sanitary, they're saying this isn't a safe place for them to be; what do you think about what they are saying?" asked WREG's Elise Preston.
"Ma'am I really don't know, I ain't got no more comment," replied Mortson.
Animal Control officers also took two dogs Holiday kept outside in dog houses, saying it was just too cold for the dogs be in the below freezing temps without anything to keep them warm.
"Why didn't you bring them inside?" asked WREG's Elise Preston.
"I don't have enough room to bring those dogs inside, I had one inside," replied Mortson.
Animal Services took that dog away from the family also.
"I don't care what they say about him, he did a good job with those dogs," said Mortson.
But animal control calls how the dogs were living, horrific.
Holiday is charged with animal cruelty and aggravated animal cruelty.
All five dogs were strays the family took in.
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Thanks to @HughRundle for pointing me to the quote where media robber baron Murdoch claims that various internet content aggregators act as 'content kleptomaniacs'. This is ironic when you realise how often News Ltd and Fairfax steal social media content created by citizen journalists. They republish video content without permission, attribution or recognition of creators' moral rights. In doing so they also breach their own editorial guidelines, which make attribution mandatory.
Below are two screenshots showing how News Ltd and Fairfax stole this video from Youtube, which was created by Ryn Christoph. These corporations could republish the content under fair dealings for reporting the news, but they have no reason or justification for failing to attribute the content to its authors.
They should also link to or embed the creator's original video, rather than republishing it, because they are stealing the creator's traffic, and s/he will never know how many people have viewed their video because there are multiple versions of it on different news sites. This is unfair and unnecessary.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush recently urged Mitt Romney to choose Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as his running mate, Bush told the Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Bush, who has repeatedly ruled out any interest in the Republican ticket this year, has been a longtime supporter of Rubio; he backed Rubio over Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in their 2010 primary. In his pitch to Romney, Bush said, he conveyed that he thinks the Florida senator is ready to be vice president. He said that Romney did not reveal to him whom he will choose.
Bush also criticized President Obama's campaign in the interview: "He believes it's easier to win a close election by dividing rather than trying to find solutions."
"I think the next president should be focused on problem solving rather than making political points," Bush said.
In March, Bush told the Tampa Bay Times, "I'm not going to be the vice president."


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Although I hope to one day at least be in the running for the title of "TSA's Most Relentless Critic," Vanity Fair properly gave that title recently to Bruce Schneier, who it also correctly called "one of America's top security experts." What does one of America's top security experts think of American airport security? Well, here are a few of his thoughts (some direct quotes, some as summarized in the article):
- ineffective
- invasive
- incompetent
- inexcusably costly
- all four of the above
- vast cost not worth the infinitesimal benefit
- may actually have made the US less safe
- exasperating
- average travel speed of 32 miles an hour
- "security theater"
- haven't reduced the total threat
- if airports were impregnable, terrorists would just pick other targets
- "Congratulations!"
- makes no sense
- "infuriating"
- "almost entirely pointless"
"Not only is it not done right," Schneier says, because it would at best divert terrorists to other targets, "even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do."
The article also includes several quick and easy tips for defeating several security measures, none of which would be news to any actual terrorists, who are very likely capable of (for example) using Photoshop to make a boarding pass complete with the little squiggle on it.
On the bright side, we've only spent $1.1 trillion on all this. Congratulations!


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The dissertation contains three chapters.
The first chapter (co-authored with Hodrick) evaluates the specification errors of several empirical asset pricing models that have been developed as potential improvements on the CAPM. We use the methodology of Hansen and Jagannathan (1997), and the test assets are the US 25 Fama-French (1993) equity portfolios sorted on size and book-to-market ratio, and the Treasury bill. We allow the parameters of each model's pricing kernel to fluctuate with the business cycle. While we cannot reject correct pricing for Campbell's (1996) model, stability tests indicate that the parameters may not be stable. A robustness test also indicates that none of the models correctly price returns that are scaled by the term premium.
The second chapter studies the cross-sectional pricing performances of several international asset pricing models. The comparison metric is the Hansen-Jagannathan distance, and the base assets are size and book-to-market portfolios from the US, the UK and Japan. When betas and risk premiums are constant over the business cycles, none of the models can pass the specification test. By allowing time-varying betas and risk premiums, most of the conditional models can capture the cross-sectional return spreads and can pass the test, because the base assets have different sensitivities to the time-varying risk premiums. The Fama-French factors are redundant in conditional models. Finally, exchange risk exposures contribute significantly to the international asset returns, and the conditional International CAPM with exchange risk performs the best. The market integration hypothesis is also supported.The third chapter (coauthored with Cavaglia, Hodrick and Vardim) explores the ability of several international asset-pricing models to explain the average returns on a set of global industry portfolios. The general noisiness of the data makes it difficult to accurately estimate average returns. Thus, all of the international models are able to capture the cross-sectional industry return spreads. The methodology also results in an investment strategy that maximally exploits the benchmarks' mispricings. When there is no short-selling constraint, investing in the industry portfolios provides big diversification benefit, but the benefit becomes marginal when there is a short-selling


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Create your sync group
Updated: July 23, 2015
A sync group is a logical grouping of SQL Database instances and optional SQL Server databases. This grouping defines which databases, tables and columns are synchronized together. This topic walks you through the create-a-sync-group wizard that is part of the Azure Management portal.
The Microsoft Azure SQL Data Sync plug-in on the Microsoft Azure Silverlight portal has been decommissioned. Going forward, use the Microsoft Azure Management portal, for Azure SQL Data Sync.
You access SQL Data Sync (Preview) via the SYNC tab under SQL Database at the Microsoft Azure Management portal. The SYNC tab is only available when you have one or more sync groups. See the topic How To: Create a Sync Group (SDS) for guidance on creating and modifying a sync group from this portal.
See the Navigation section below for links to topics you should read before you start and guidance on creating and modifying sync groups.
This section walks you through the steps to create a sync group. If the sync group includes an instance of a SQL Server database, follow the directions at Install a SQL Data Sync Client Agent. After the Client Agent is installed, follow the directions at Register a SQL Server database with a Client Agent. You must register each SQL Server databases you want included in the sync group.
Whenever possible, a sync group should have only one database that contains data prior to the first synchronization. If more than one database contains data, then the first time the group is synchronized, every row is treated as a data conflict (even if the data is identical). Conflict resolutions can, depending on the database size, cause the initial synchronization to take days, weeks, or in some cases, months.
If the databases are in different data centers, the cost of your initial synchronization will be higher than necessary. The additional round trips required to resolve each conflict result in unnecessary ingress and egress.
The client agent and the sync group must be in the same data center. SQL Server databases registered with the agent can be in any data center.
Navigate your browser to the Azure Management Portal and sign in.
After the portal finishes loading, click SQL DATABASES in the left pane.
Click ADD SYNC at the bottom of the screen.
From the drawer, click New Sync Group.
Give the sync group a meaningful name.
From the dropdown, select the data center to host this sync group.
If you have multiple subscriptions, from the dropdown, select the Microsoft Azure subscription to host this sync group.
If you have just one subscription, SQL Data Sync (Preview) selects that subscription without any action needed on your part.
To continue, click the right-arrow.
The hub database in a sync group must be a Microsoft Azure SQL Database instance. Do not attempt to register the hub database with a SQL Data Sync (Preview) client agent.
From the dropdown, select a SQL Database instance to be the Hub database for this sync group.
Enter the credentials for accessing the Hub database – User Name and Password.
From the dropdown, select the conflict resolution policy for this sync group.
Once the sync group is deployed, you cannot change the conflict resolution policy.
For more information on SQL Data Sync (Preview) conflict resolution, see the topic Conflict Resolution when Synchronizing.
To continue, click the right-arrow.
The reference databases in a sync group can be any combination of Microsoft Azure SQL Database instances or a SQL Server databases.
From the dropdown, select the database you want to add to this sync group.
The databases are grouped by Microsoft Azure subscription and agent.
Note A SQL Server database must be registered with an agent to be listed. SQL Database instances should not be registered with an agent.
Enter the credentials for accessing the selected database – User Name and Password.
From the dropdown, select the sync direction for this database.
Valid sync directions are:
- Bi-directional – data changes in either this database or the Hub database are written to the other database.
- To the Hub – data changes in this database are written to the Hub database, but changes in the Hub database are not written to this database.
- From the Hub – data changes in the Hub database are written to this database, but changes to this database are not written to the Hub.
- Bi-directional – data changes in either this database or the Hub database are written to the other database.
To finish, click the right-arrow.
When finished, this sync group is listed with any other sync groups you created under the SYNC tab on the SQL Databases portion of the Microsoft Azure Management Portal. The sync group status is Not Ready until you configure and set the sync rules (define the data to sync).
SQL Data Sync (Preview) is a feature of SQL Database. From the Azure Management portal you can perform all tasks necessary to create, deploy, and modify a sync group.
Before you start
Before you begin to design and implement your synchronizations, you should be familiar with these topics.
How to create a sync group
There are six steps to creating a sync group from the Azure Management portal. Details on each step can be found by following these links.
How to modify a sync group
You can modify a sync group's schema by adding/removing tables or columns in the sync group; or by altering a column's width or data type. Details can be found by following the links.
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Ballot Printing Continues in Kenton Co.
By Jim Hannah, Kentucky Enquirer
A drive to reduce taxes by axing the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission was dealt a blow Tuesday in Kenton Circuit Court. Judge Gregory Bartlett denied a request to issue an emergency injunction stopping the printing of November's ballot until Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe uses a different method to validate signatures on a petition seeking to disband the commission. Paul Metzger, who asked for the injunction, could continue through litigation to get more signatures validated, but it's unlikely the measure will make it on November's ballot. The deadline to send it to the printer is Monday.


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Aurora Over Greenland
This aurora arched from horizon to horizon. Visible straight through the center of the aurora, and found with a careful eye, is the Big Dipper and the surrounding constellation of the Big Bear (Ursa Major). The brightest orb on the far right is the Moon, while Jupiter can be seen even further to the right.
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WASHINGTON -- An administrative law judge who will hear the Federal Trade Commission's review of Dougherty County acquiring Palmyra Medical Center has delayed the September hearing date until the FTC's appeal of a U.S. District Court ruling is heard.
The decision comes after lawyers for Phoebe Hospital Corporation of America Inc., which owns Palmyra, and the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County filed a motion July 1 asking for the delay.
"The petition was filed to prevent the burden and expenditure of considerable resources in preparing the case for the September hearing in Washington. It also allows the Authority to focus on the critical issue of state action immunity in the Court of Appeals," Phoebe officials said in a statement emailed to reporters late Friday afternoon.
"This action will leave everything in a status quo while the matter is briefed and considered on an expedited basis by the appellate court. Oral argument will be scheduled the week of Oct. 3 in Atlanta," Phoebe officials said.
Officials with the FTC, who have fought the merger, emphasized Friday that the stay of the administrative judge hearing was temporary.
"It's just stayed. Its not pulled out of part 3; it's not stopped permanently. It's just a temporary step," Mitchell Katz, spokesman for the FTC, said.
Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell signed the order July 7, but it was just made public Friday.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta granted the FTC's request for an emergency injunction and expedited appeal after U.S. District Court Judge Louis Sands in Albany ruled on June 27 that Phoebe could go ahead with the $195 million deal.
Sands said the Hospital Authority, which is making the purchase, is immune to oversight from the FTC.
The FTC is arguing that the county's purchase purchase of Palmyra, which would then be operated by Phoebe, would create a health care monopoly in Southwest Georgia, giving the hospital an 86 percent portion of the area's health care market share, creating a non-competitive environment in which health care prices would soar.
The FTC officials also argue that Phoebe structured the agreement intentionally to avoid antitrust scrutiny by using the Hospital Authority in a way that would shield the purchase from pre-merger approval by the FTC under the state action doctrine.
Phoebe officials counter that the sale is a mutually agreed upon arrangement between HCA and the Hospital Authority, and that the hospital is at a crossroads to either buy additional space or build -- a much more expensive undertaking, according to Phoebe CEO Joel Wernick.
More like this story
- Judge delays FTC hearing ( August 14, 2011 )
- FTC, AG delay hospital merger ( April 20, 2011 )
- Court grants FTC injunction ( July 6, 2011 )
- Court delays Palmyra purchase ( April 21, 2011 )
- FTC files new motions to stop merger of hospitals (UPDATE with FTC response) ( April 11, 2013 )


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restful webservices
My friend Steven recently wrote about linguistics in webservices.
In it he postulates that since all "good code" should resemble speech, webservices should use linguistically-tied approaches to their APIs. In short, it's an article on RESTful websites being used in a linguistically-understandable way.
For example:
should run your query against the search engine, so you can always tell what it is doing, and how it works.
Personally, I think this is a great idea – it goes with the concept that all URIs should be truly "permanent", and that the web should be understandable by mere mortals.
I am perennially surprised that companies use horrid URL formats when simple ones can be done. For example, WordPress uses a
.htaccess file and Apache's mod_rewrite to make URLs look nice.
Why can't Newegg do the same? Surely "
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100019151%2050001707&IsNodeId=1&name=Activision&SpeTabStoreType=8" is not friendly to remember, or to query outside of the site itself. And that's only a small example – the more filters added, the worse the URL becomes.
Then consider the URLs that get created when a site uses something like FeedBurner to handle its RSS feeds – heaven help you those URLs can look ugly!
Creating a RESTful approach is not all that difficult, and every web developer should be required to do it.
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Modern Jewish culinary traditions date back over three thousand years. Kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws, govern the selection, preparation, and consumption of all food of observant Jews. These principles are mentioned in the Bible and have been codified and elaborated upon throughout the centuries.
According to the Bible, Jews are permitted to eat meat only from an animal that has completely cloven hooves and chews its cud. This includes beef, venison, mutton, lamb, and goat and excludes, among others, rabbit or hare, horse, dog, cat, whale, and, of course, pig. Edible fowl include turkeys, quail, squab, Cornish hens, chicken, and doves.
Milk (milchig, dairy) dishes must be cooked and eaten separately from meat (fleishig) dishes. (No French cream sauces over meat for kashrut-observing Jews.) Three times, in Exodus and Deuteronomy, the Hebrew Bible states that a kid cannot be cooked in its mother's milk. Although the reason for the prohibition is unknown, the law may have kept the ancient Hebrews from participating in pagan customs of animal sacrifice.
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Neutral or pareve food, such as fish, eggs, and vegetables, may be eaten with either milk or meat. Religious Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were uneasy about eating with non-Jews because they feared that lard might have been used instead of kosher oil. Today, labeling and identification of products in supermarkets makes it easy to check ingredients before purchasing.
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Earlier this week a report from Korean publication 'Chosun' stated that Samsung had hiked the prices for the processors it manufactures for Apple. The report claimed that Samsung increased prices by 20 percent and Apple agreed. It turns out that report was false.
According to The Hankyoreh, a Seoul-based newspaper, who received word from a Samsung official, the reports aren't true. The Samsung official told the newspaper that prices for processors are set at the beginning of the year and can't be changed easily. The person preferred to be anonymous.
The Apple A series chips are designed by Apple, but Samsung manufactures them. The relationship between the two companies is not the best, but both have been working together for quite some time. Another recent report coming from Korea stated that Samsung was going to stop selling LCD panels to Apple, which was also turned down by a Samsung official. Something weird is going on in Korea. Don't you think?


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According to Peter Hamby of CNN, a special party subcommittee is considering dramatically reducing the number of Republican debates and taking control over which journalists get to moderate them.
This is not being done in the name of reform. This is being done in the name of "let's stop kicking ourselves in the groin."
The theory goes like this: The more the public sees the potential Republican nominees for president, the more the public tends to dislike them. One reason is that the potential Republican nominees dislike the potential Republican nominees.
In February 2012, Newt Gingrich, while running for the Republican nomination, said that Mitt Romney was "fundamentally dishonest" and "pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-tax increase."
Accusing a politician of being fundamentally dishonest is like accusing a ballerina of dancing on her toes. No big deal. But accusing a Republican of being for abortion, against guns and for taxes is serious stuff. Naturally, Romney had to prove that he was none of those things.
My own view is that this is a result of the quest for political purity. If the great majority of a party's candidates fall into a narrow ideological spectrum, then differentiating yourself becomes in most ways stylistic, and the surest way to sink a rival is to get people to see him or her as being outside that spectrum.


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Big Ten tournament
When: Thursday-Sunday
Where: United Center, Chicago
TV: Thursday (Big Ten Network/ESPN2), Friday (Big Ten Network/ESPN), Saturday-Sunday (CBS)
Favorite: Indiana (26-5) – The top-seeded Hoosiers have never won the Big Ten tournament and never been its No. 1 seed. After winning its first outright regular-season title since 1993, IU should come away with a tournament title as well.
Dark horse: Purdue (15-16) – Boilermakers were rebuilding this season and will need to win the tournament to reach the NCAA tournament for a seventh straight season. No. 7-seed Purdue won three of its last five games and gave Michigan a run for its money in the second-to-last game of the season. The Boilers may have put it all together just in time.
Résumé builder: Iowa (20-11) – The Hawkeyes won 20 games for the first time since the 2005-06 season and secured the No. 6 seed in the Big Ten tournament. But Iowa is likely on the outside looking in for the NCAA tournament, unless it gets a couple of wins this week. The expected return of point guard Mike Gesell from a foot injury should help Iowa beef up its NCAA résumé.
FORT WAYNE — The Big Ten tournament has a lot to live up to after one of the conference's most competitive seasons.
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The conference is so strong that Michigan is only the No. 5 seed in the tournament, which opens Thursday at the United Center in Chicago, even though the Wolverines missed out on getting a share of the regular-season title with Sunday's 72-71 loss to Indiana.
Michigan opens play at 2:30 p.m. Thursday against No. 12 seed Penn State (10-20).
"It says a lot about the strength of this league," Michigan coach John Beilein said during Monday's coaches teleconference. "I've only been in it six years, it's the toughest I've seen it."
After a grueling season, the teams will battle it out again with an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament on the line.
Indiana enters as the No. 1 seed for the first time in the 16-year tournament's history after winning the outright Big Ten for the first time since 1993. The Hoosiers will play the winner of Thursday's game between No. 8 seed Illinois (21-11) and No. 9 seed Minnesota (20-11) at noon Friday.
"I honestly think that competition always helps you," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "I'm looking at us playing Michigan and Indiana and Ohio State and Minnesota and Wisconsin … I can say to my players, 'Who haven't you played? Who haven't you played that's been ranked?' I think there is a comfort level, knowing you can play with everybody."
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The room in the corner,
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