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Vandermark, Ken (Kenneth Stewart)
Vandermark, Ken (Kenneth Stewart), tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet; b. Warwick, RI, 22 September 1964. His father is Stewart Vandermark and his mother is Sondra Hendry. His brother is Robert Gordon Vandermark, birthdate December 19, 1966.
He began playing trumpet in the fourth grade, switching to the tenor saxophone at age 16. Ken studied privately with George Garzone for a couple summers in the early 1980s.
During the years 1983-1986 Vandermark led the group Fourth Stream in Montreal, where he studied and graduated with a B.A. in Film and Communications from McGill University. During that time he also took private saxophone lessons with George Garzone in Boston. From 1986-1989 he lived in Boston and was the leader of the Lombard Street Trio. During this period he also began studying the bass clarinet.
In the Fall of 1989 Vandermark moved to Chicago and is now regularly working with a variety of ensembles, including the Vandermark 5, The DKV Trio, AALY, the Territory Band, Spaceways Inc., the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, School Days, and FME. He added the Bb clarinet to his instrumental arsenal during 1992, and in the Spring of 2001 he began work with the baritone sax. Aside from the schools of music influenced by the history of jazz, his music has been greatly impacted by sources like "Mississippi" Fred McDowell, James Brown, John Cage, the Ex, Gyorgy Ligeti, Sly and the Family Stone, Morton Feldman, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and various traditional musics from around the world.
From the beginning of 1996 Vandermark and writer John Corbett have been co-organizers of the "Empty Bottle Wednesday Night Jazz Series," concerts that continue to bring improvisers from Chicago, North America, and Europe to audiences on a weekly basis. In conjunction with the series they have presented six international jazz festivals (May of 1997-2000, April 2001 and 2002), also at the Empty Bottle. In 1999, he became a committee member for the "New Music-New Millennium Series" put together by Michael Orlove of the Chicago Cultural Center. He was asked to be the curator for the music series at the club Tonic in New York City for the month of August, 2001.
As a performer, Vandermark has toured extensively in the United States and Europe, performing at many internationally renowned music festivals.
He's been married to Ellen Marie Major since September 7, 1996.
DKV Trio: Frend Anderson/DKV Trio (1997), Live In Wels & Chicago (1998), Deep Telling (1999); Vandermark 5: Simpatico (1999), The Incline (2000), Acoustic Machine (2001);
As sideperson:
Steelwool Trio: International Front (1995); AALY: Hidden In The Stomach (1997), Stumble (1998); Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: The Chicago Octet/Tentet (1998);
Sound In Action Trio: Design In Time (1999); AALY: Live At The Glenn Miller Cafe (1999), I Wonder If I Was Screaming (2000); Steam: Real Time (2000);
Lytton/Vandermark Duo: English Suites (with Paul Lytton) (2000); Spaceways Inc.: Thirteen Cosmic Standards (2000); Tripleplay: Expansion Slang (2000);
Karayorgis/McBride/Vandermark Trio: No Such Thing (2001); Territory Band: Transatlantic Bridge (2001), Atlas (2002); FME (free music ensemble): FME (2002);
Swedish Duos: Two Days In December (2002); School Days: In Our Times (2002); Spaceways Inc.: Version Soul (2002); AALY: Double Or Nothing (2002)
Television broadcasts:
A Vandermark 5 concert was broadcast on the BBC last December and a concert by AALY was filmed and broadcast in Sweden this Spring.
Unissued recordings:
There are literally hundreds of unreleased recordings made by Malachi Ritscher of concerts Ken's played in Chicago. He's got them organized and filed, (contact him at email@example.com)
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Vandermark has garnered much recognition for his musical contributions, including selection as one of the "Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts: 1994" by the Chicago Tribune (Jan. 1, 1995) for his work with the Vandermark Quartet. His group the Vandermark 5 was selected for inclusion the "Art In Chicago: 1945-1995" exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in that city from Nov. 16, 1996 to Mar. 23, 1997.
New City has selected him as one of its "Music 45" (a list of 45 Chicagoans having the greatest impact on the nation's music industry, every year since 1998).
He placed first in the January, 1999 Cadence Reader's Poll as the musician receiving the greatest number of individual nominations for best recordings released in 1998, and was picked by Down Beat magazine in June as one of the "25 For The Future," the most significant improvising musicians under the age of 40 performing today.
In the Summer of that year he was the only musician, and the youngest ever, to be selected as a MacArthur Fellow.
He placed first in Downbeat Magazine's Critics' Poll for 2000 as the Jazz Artist Of The Year most deserving of wider recognition and has placed highly in that poll every year since.
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Erhard Hessling (firstname.lastname@example.com) for Europe.


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North Korea says nuclear test successful.
North Korea apparently have the bomb. *News link*
Apparently the wasted time and resourses in Iraq have came back to hunt the United States.
If North Korea really possess a nuclear bomb then there is going to be hell to pay.
The time of the apparent nuclear test was at 9:36 p.m. EDT Sunday in Hwaderi near Kilju city cited, South Korean defense officials.
Iran will be the next country to possess the bomb, in a short period of time.
They said it wa successful. North Korea says a lot of things. You might as well believe in goblins if you trust them for as much as a second. Isn't it just as likely that they waited for a convenient natural earthquake and then claim it was caused by their new toy, Mr. Nuke?
Sure, it's possible that they detonated an atomic bomb in a bunker someplace (probably ten times more likely than my "convenient earthquake" story). In which case I suppose they've gotten themselves a guarantee that the US's Armed Forces will stay off of them. But I have my doubts.
I wonder how many starving kids the atomic program would feed...
Well, they've been talking about a nuke test for about a week now - I think I heard the plan was to detonate the bomb in a cave...but though what they say and reality aren't always in line, for all practical purposes, I don't see why we shouldn't take them at their word - when it comes to nukes, the stakes are a bit too high, imo.
And North Korea's past relationship with Iran virtually guarantees that Ahmadinejad will have a nuke of his own - probably sooner, rather than later.
I'd like to send a special thank-you out to Bill Clinton, without whose diplomatic bungling this wouldn't have been possible...
The Clinton admin gave North Korea nuclear technology on the condition that North Korea wouldn't use it to develop weapons...and then did nothing about it when they did start a nuke program. It would do us some good if someone would do something about the situation beyond labels and endless talks...but the rumor mill has it that the US is going to go the the UN and propose sanctions, which I'm sure will deter Kim Jong Il for all of 0.25 seconds.
My question is, when is the 'world community' going to finally stop playing PC games with these brutal dictators and start taking action?
Donald Rumsfeld.
And what, exactly, should Clinton have done? Started the 3rd Korean War? Imposed economic sanctions on an already impoverished country that does not care about its poverty in the first place (OK, so its people does, but I don't know if the government even cares if it has a people to take care of - the party members get rich in other ways :rolleyes: ).
Diplomacy's worked many times in the past, still work, and will always work. It might be too boring and polite for certain peoples' tastes, but it has a tendency of not getting people bombed, shot at, molested, and occupied. Furthermore, North Korea's leaders apparently tend to look at threats and "roughness" as challenges that merely make them more determined to reach their goals.
Nuclear Documentary.
N. Korea's leaders do like playing brinksmanship with the world....
Only problem is, if you feel like you have to pee into the wind to prove your manhood, sometimes you end up getting wet when it all blows back at you.
F***, I live in the blast radius of Seattle.
I do not find any comfort in the idea of North Korea being invaded when I'm a bunch of radioactive particles of dust protons. Threats like these seem so much more threatening when there's a chance, however slight, you can be affected by them. Hopefully this'll be resolved before Kim goes even more over the brink and develops missles with a longer range...
*Devon curses the luck of those who don't live by the coast!* :fist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement_of_Hitler :)
I do, however, agree that going in with guns blazing should be ABSOLUTELY the last resort, after all other avenues have been exhausted. North Korea has a HUGE army, and any invasion of that country would be extremely costly, even given the assumption that they only had the nuke that they tested, which is unlikely.
This situation is going to be extremely difficult to resolve. I agree that sanctions will probably not work, but I think that severe pressure from China might.
I say North Korea pissing off the world: successful. Kim Jong's a madman, given how unstable the guy is there's the fear he'd let loose a nuke in retalliation to international scorn. Yeah, I know I sound like a McCarthy supporter in the 50's but I gotta say I'm scared of where this could lead to.
No, by all means, I agree. Kim Jong-Il totally disregards human rights and life-worth. His own country's a testament of that fact. Given how badly he treats his own citizens, I doubt that he'll think twice before bombing his brothers in the South, or foreigners in China, Japan, Taiwan, or the US.
Unless all the major countries like Russia, China, Japan, S. Korea, and the U.S.A. are seriously misinformed and overreacting then all indications are that N. Korea did set off an underground nuclear bomb.
I too do not believe that the situation with N. Korea can be blamed entirely on Bill Clinton. While Clinton's decisions during his tenure as U.S. president may have contributed to the problem I see George W. Bush's decision to preemptively invade Iraq as a major contributor, giving Kim Jong-Il an excuse (not that he really needed one) to continue development of nuclear weapons.
My concern with countries like N. Korea and Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is how they will use them. I don't trust these countries to use them for deterrent purposes only. I wonder if N. Korea would use nuclear weapons as a shield to allow them to invade S. Korea, basically saying to the rest of the world, "Stay out of this or we'll use our nukes!" I think of Iran in the same way. If Iran had nukes would they then use them as a shield that would allow them to attack Israel?
I did not mean that diplomacy works 100% of the time. I meant that it's always worked part of the time, when done properly and with reason. The appeasement is a textbook example of diplomacy that should not have been conducted.
So much for "5 years". Stupid analysts.
I think Emperor Devon will be safe for a while yet, i doubt they have the missiles to get that far. ;) Maybe japan, who they don't like at all. *thinks about where he is moving to in two weeks* :scare5:
I'm not doing the whole "blame bush for everything" thing, but I don't think the "axis of evil" comments and invasion or iraq helped. It basically said to n.korea and iran "you are on our list, we'll get you next. unless you have nukes.".
I guess they'd have developed them anyway.. but they might not have been in such a rush.. which would have given china time to put the brakes in NK. Basically China is the only one with any influence, but they have quite a lot.. so they should be able to control them.
So are you moving to Japan, toms?
I think we should take the threat seriously, but I am still not worried too much personally. Because as of right now, we are not even sure if they tested a nuclear weapon or just a mass of conventional weapons. Also, if it was a nuke, North Korea has 1 less nuke :p And even if they can make nuclear weapons, they only have enough material to make around 5 or 6.
And, remember the Patriot Missle Defense System? We could be able to shoot the weapon out of the sky.
It seem today that the so called leaders of this world are cowards.
The UN and the US is still debating on what to do to Kim Jong Yil and his criminal regime for defying the world.
It seem like this society of the world today has gotten soft since WW II, people today keep believing today that diplomatic solutions is going to work with every dictator.
This doesn't not seem to be the case with North Korea, sanctions aren't going to work with that nut Kim Jong Yil.
The UN and the US militaries better take that ******* out now, or we all in the world will be experiencing WW III in the near future.
If they let Kim Jon Yil get away with this than Iran will have a green light for go to make their nukes.
I will assume everybody knows what that will entails; al-Qaida with the big bomb.
It is time for the second Korean War or a possible third world war.
Make your choice!
To maintain peace on this planet blood is going have to be spill or all our blood is going to get spilled.
I already heard that if sanctions are inacted, North Korea is going to consider it an act of war.
So it looks like Korean War II is inevitable if the world punish that f**ker, Kim Jong.
Of course Bush chose to act that way three years ago in Iraq and he was demonised more than Hitler ever was. Act and you're branded as a monster, don't act and you're a coward. How do you win?
If no one don't punish Kim Jong then their is going to be major hell to pay, for their lack vigilance.
True. There's a time to act like a Jedi and a time to be decisive, and when the time comes you must act decisive. Of course people will criticise no matter what happens.
There's no bomb. :dozey: Otherwise he wouldn't make it this big news and all. If, then he'd just tested it, and everybody would have noticed it without him making a big deal out of it. And just because someone has "nuclear technology" doesn't mean he has "nuclear weapon technology".
Even if they don't even have the bomb, as you believe as a trick it will give Iran the green light to try their chances at the task.
They are more likely to succeed at developing the bomb.
Iran nuke~al-Qaida nuke
I do believe that this situation has a very good chance of being solved peacefully. This is THE opportunity for China to shine, to get the international prestige and recognition as a true superpower that it craves. If they can get NK to back down, they're going to be international heroes, and everyone will forget about their flagrant human rights violations, cutthroat trade policies that benefit from near-slave labor and their reckless disregard for the environment. They'd be fools to let such an opportunity pass them by, and they are anything but fools. I forsee a HUGE effort by China to get this crisis resolved with little or no help from the international community.
See, if they going to test a bomb for the first time, why should they tell everybody? They wouldn't even know it's gonna work, and even if, it's still only one test bomb. So it is pretty much unlikely they build a hundred of them, because they don't know if they gonna work. Next thing is, a test bomb is far from being combat ready. So they have nothing, and at maximum the test was really an a-bomb, which obviously didn't work.
All that given, they would endanger the whole project to being raped down by the rest of the world's nations by stupidly bragging about it.
The leaders are cowards and the heros are dead and dying.
Hmm... seeing as how N.K. test missiles got nowhere near the U.S., I'm not that worried yet. Plus, I'd like to think NORAD would be able to detect an ICBM and could shoot it down...
As for whether or not N.K. is telling the truth, I'd like to see some sort of evidence before I believe anything N.K. says.
You do know that there's a whole wide world surrounding the U.S., and some places are located a bit nearer towards Korea, eh, Phreakey-ma--öööhm--Mister P., sir?
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"It is so exciting," exclaimed The League's senior vice president of operations Joanne Yohannan. "It is going to be 14,000 sq feet of cage-free living, as well as new examination rooms, a surgical suite, grooming spaces, and a nursery all for cats only."
So far, Beth Stern has helped raise $1 million for the cat center, including hosting a celebrity rich fund-raiser at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan last November. Attendees included co-host Matt Lauer, Dick Chicks, Natalie Maines, John Stamos, Zac Braff, Robin Givens and George Takei, among others.
The project, which is expected to take three years to complete, will also allow room for 100 more rescue animals. North Shore currently cares for 125 felines and more than 200 dogs.
The North Shore Animal League is also in the midst of breaking ground for the Elizabeth Ann Freed Special Recovery Center, a separate 2,000 sq. foot space designated to house 5 small isolation wards in a "state-of-the-art facility for animals with upper respiratory infections such as kennel cough or other contagious diseases." Final cost for this center is expected to run about $750,000. $350,000 has already been donated by the Manhattan-based Freed Foundation, which supports animal welfare and other causes.
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Northern, WI 1/12/2013 (Avauncer) –The aviation regulators of the US namely the FAA have taken the fire on board Japan Airlines Co. (9201) Boeing 787 seriously and have ordered a formal investigation that shall probe the facets of the power system installed in the Dreamliner 787. There will be joint statement issued to the press in this regard by representatives of the FAA, Boeing Co (NASDAQ:BA) and the State Transport Department soon on this issue.
The incident which took place of 7th January when the fire was detected from the battery pack of the Boeing 787 after it landed at Boston flying from Tokyo has also been probed by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. Luckily for all the passengers had de boarded at the time of the fire incident? The official spokesmen from Boeing Co (NASDAQ:BA) have expressed their confidence in the security and reliability of the power system installed on the Dreamliner while assuring that all necessary checks shall be carried out in order to ascertain the actual cause of the fire.
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Following the incident and the subsequent investigations and checks that have been ordered the share prices of the Boeing Co (NASDAQ:BA) have dipped to about $76.13 which a net 2 % fall from its prices of Jan 4th.
The Dreamliner 787 has been a huge jump in aviation technology and has been marketed as a jet that shall open up new routes between places that really far from each other. It is the only aircraft that currently has the clearance to fly up to 180 minutes away from any suitable airfield. The problems regarding the heating and fire in the battery pack are being explained by the company representatives as initial teething problems which shall be sorted out soon enough.
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Police aren't 100% certain that the body is in fact the missing teen, but his family has been notified and the body does match the teen's description. He has been missing now for two weeks after reportedly leaving his home. However, there is a lot of suspicion hovering over the young man's case -- especially now that it's presumed that he was found dead. Comments on news reports by people in his community indicate suspicion against his foster family.
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5 Cheyne RowMonday [6 March 1848]
My dear Sir
If I plague you by the request or question I have to ask; blame my Husband; for it was he who put me up to it.
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Over the years alcohol and I have had a very on-again, off-again relationship. I don't often examine it but for the early years of my adolescence (by which I mean "until I was about 23") I was fairly prudish and had some very conventional ideas about how life should go. They were basically modeled on my parents' life: I would get decent grades in school, go to college, meet a nice man and get married after college, settle down and have kids. There may have been something in there about a white picket fence, too, but don't quote me on that. My parents both rejected using alcohol in great quantities for varying reasons, though neither was a teetotaler. Therefore that never appealed to me either. My 21st birthday was not a drunken binge; a few friends and I went to a nice restaurant and I got an Irish coffee for dessert. Fun. Tasteful. Tasty!
Fast forward to 23, remember? The later years of my adolescence arrived, well, later. And with a vengeance. I had tried the route my parents went and it had let me down. I'd gone to school and faced challenges I wasn't sure how to deal with; I'd met a man but it had not worked out; what NOW?
The answer can be summed up with a single word: VODKA. Oh, we drank vodka. Cheap, crappy, plastic-bottled-in-Dundalk vodka. I have the very distinct memory of watching that one X-Files episode ("Syzygy") where Mulder makes a screwdriver by carefully, deliberately spooning dribbles of orange juice concentrate into a pint bottle of vodka and honestly believing that this was a brilliant idea. My friends and I were once accused of "closet alcoholism" because we never went out to bars, we just got enormous bottles of turpentine-grade vodka and sat around making up drinking games. (An example: Watch the movie Dune. Drink whenever you see sand.) On the contrary, we were merely being thrifty: a liter or two of "Ruble" vodka shared out between ten people was a much cheaper way to getting an evening's drink on than going to a bar.
Eventually these thrifty ways caught up with me. I'Äôd done my drinking. I'Äôd done my (admittedly somewhat later in life) rebelling. It was time to put aside childish things. Suddenly, drinking did seem childish. Wanting desperately to be – or at least seem – more together, I veered almost completely into teetotaling myself for a few years, mainly in my early 30s. I might have a beer or a glass of wine, but more often than not I'Äôd volunteer to be a sober driver and not fuss about it. Two years ago, when I was 35, I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The slow changes I had been making to my health and habits turned into Big Fast Changes. Alcohol was an unknown quantity and so I just stayed away at first.
Now I like to think I'm at a happy medium. Between no longer consuming truly stunning amounts of vodka and losing 90 pounds, my tolerance is back down to laughably cheap-date levels. And do you know what? I love it! I love that a beer or two is all it takes to set me giggling. What I see now about alcohol is that it does have an acceptable place for me socially, now that I've finally figured out what I use it for.
I use alcohol to stop thinking. But unlike when I was young and thought I had to obliterate all thought, what I know now is that my brain is a busy place. I'm an over-analyzer, a studier of things, sometimes maybe an overenthusiastic looker-for-signs. I write and I talk and I ponder and I try to create and also I gesticulate a lot. There's not a thing wrong with that but I have learned to admit that it's exhausting. A night out with a few friends and a couple of beers, where someone else can drive me home? It's a tiny mental vacation. With proper hydration, and with sparing use (don't want to build that tolerance again!), good friends raising a glass together can be one of the most rewarding ways possible to spend an evening.
Note: With many thanks to Genie, I submit this as my first tentative entry into her brilliant Living Out Loud project. You totally owe it to yourself to go check it out. Cheers, Genie!
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Alex - February 1, 2010
"An example: Watch the movie Dune. Drink whenever you see sand"
Ha! Love it, my busy-brained sister.
Interesting thoughts on drinking. I like reading about how other people arrived at their positions, especially since I'm of that age where my own position is being considered. I do like the "social lubricant" aspect of it, since I'm a bit of a slow warmer. Plus, it's cheap for me as my tolerance is that of a small child. üòâ
Your friend's blog looks neat; what a good idea!
Jen - February 2, 2010
We really honestly did try to do that drinking game with Dune, Alex. What fools we were. =)
handtalker - February 1, 2010
I can *totally* relate: started late, drank like crazy, wondered what the hell I was doing, chilled out for a while, finally achieved a happy medium.
I'm mad I missed the "lost 90 pounds" part though. üòâ
Jen - February 2, 2010
Val, as far as losing 90 pounds goes, I recommend a good health scare!
OH WAIT no. No health scares!! =)
Miss M - February 2, 2010
I used to drink to stop thinking – it was an excellent brain-eraser. But I stopped drinking completely when I was 21 because I realised that I was becoming increasingly dependant on it, and with the history of addiction in my family it just seemed too much like history repeating itself
Jen - February 2, 2010
Laura, completely understandable. We have some history of alcoholism in my family so that was part of my initial trepidation, and probably a large part of my desire to pull away. It's important that we're aware of such uses and influences of alcohol.
Kim - February 2, 2010
Our trajectory with alcohol, like our trajectory with other things, is not so different at all.
Jen - February 2, 2010
Kim, I am somehow not surprised. =)
Michele - February 2, 2010
I started late too! I remembered my very first drink was at my 21st birthday party. Never got into drinking games or stuff like that, I was always afraid of throwing up.
I have a very interesting relationship with alcohol now, your blog has made me want to examine it…
Jen - February 3, 2010
Michele, I had an odd drink or two prior to 21 but certainly nothing significant!
You should write about it, and get in on my friend's "Living Out Loud" project too! The more the merrier. =)
Megan - February 7, 2010
I think large quantities of vodka might be a requirement for watching "Dune." I'm interested in how many posts are about finding the happy medium. I started from a different place than you – total prohibition – but have found a happy medium now with a few pints of Guinness and a mojito every now and then. Maybe the medium place is a sign of maturity? (Glad you did LoL!)
Jen - February 7, 2010
Megan, I think you may be right! And thanks, I'm glad I finally got my act together enough to participate!
karal - February 8, 2010
Jen, welcome to LOL! Love your first entry, especially the paragraph about using alcohol to stop thinking. yes, I can relate to that, and I do too truly believe that those of us with those busy, over analyzing minds need a break. look forward to reading more!
Jen - February 8, 2010
karal, thanks for stopping by! Goodness knows everyone needs a break sometime, especially us over-analyzers! Welcome!


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Wrecked my back the other day and confined to bed with only the laptop to play on, I have really sunk my teeth into Unreal World.
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A really good, intricate, survival based roguelike.
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can start a war."
|5th October 2012, 12:40 PM
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I doubt MP is on the cards, but it would be super cool, as it's pretty hard going on your own. Although if you had another person to share the work you'd also have another mouth to feed and finding enough food for one person is challenging.
I've only been playing 2-3 days but I reckon I pretty much have the basics down. Learning curve is probably similar to Dwarf Fortress but it has much better (in that they exist) tutorials than DF so you pick it up much faster. The only time I have been flush for food was when I killed another human and butchered them... What..? Don't judge until you've been starving to death yourself!! In any case, that gave me probably enough meat for a week or more, but it had all gone bad after 3 days anyway...
Fishing is not bad, but it's time consuming and can be very hit and miss. You need to make a cellar to keep food for a bit longer. Ties you to a specific location as well, but that's not so bad. One of the challenges is finding the right place to stake your claim.
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can start a war."
|22nd November 2012, 04:31 PM
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There have been no posts to this thread for too long. I am remedying that!
This is just one of the reasons I do so love Dwarf Fortress.
And that's all just fighting WITHOUT a weapon!
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can start a war."
|11th January 2013, 02:53 AM
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I still play Roguelikes.. Zangband, Adom, Angband, I even found an old copy of Larn to play .. no idea where it is now though. Newest one I've played - which is roguelike (just not traditional style) - Binding of Isaac. It's such a great game.. bloody hard.. but randomly generated dungeons, etc... so I think it counts.
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In relation to my post below about writing ASCII games in OpenGL, a few months ago I posted up my BlitzMax textfunctions.bmx include file up a while ago on the Blitz forums - so if anyone uses the language and wants to give it a go.. knock yourself out.
Color ASCII routines
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Monsters in Roguelikes
As a kid Roguelikes was my favourite game. And yes I still play them. Since the computer graphics got really advanced when I see the monsters in Roughlikes it look very basic. Isn't it interesting when the game was new we thought the graphics were really cool?
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This Ain't no SAB:
P.A.R.T.S. Students Break it Down with Forsythe and Gaudreau
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2001 The Dance Insider
(Editor's Note: In celebration of
the 20th anniversary of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas company, The Dance
Insider is providing a month of unprecedented coverage of Rosas the company, De
Keersmaeker the performer, the Rosas school P.A.R.T.S.,
and performances by alumni of ROSAS. This is the eighth and last of our reports,
which have spanned performances in four countries. To read earlier reviews, please
enter Rosas, P.A.R.T.S., or De Keersmaeker in the search engine window on our
Home page)
PARIS -- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
and her all-star cast of teachers at the P.A.R.T.S. school in Brussels are not
teaching their students what to think, but how to think. This much was affirmed
by last weekend's final Parts @ Paris concert at the Theatre de la Bastille, in
which second and fourth year students performed in the styles of ballet wunderkind
Billy Forsythe and post-modernist Lynda Gaudreau with equal facility.
In a breathtaking beginning, with
the house lights still up, 12 dancers from the second year program, under the
direction of former Forsythe ballerina Elizabeth Corbett, rushed the stage and
poured out several variations, interpretations, and actual choreographies of solos
and duets inspired by Forsythe's "Vile Parody of Address." I don't know frankly
that I've ever encountered such a breathtaking sight, especially from my second-row
vantage point in this classic black box theater. 12 young bodies, dressed simply
in blue leotards with the guys occasionally presenting a funkier top, going up,
down, bending and flexing in the new ways which, if Forsythe didn't invent, he
definitely brought to the forefront as exponents of ballet invention. Imagine
a mode of expression of the ballet vocabulary which has re-vitalized the form,
given by dancers in the vitalest stage of life. Imagine then several variations,
interpretations, or originally 'inspired by' duets and solos unfolding (literally)
simultaneously. I didn't know what to watch, taking only some assurance in Balanchine's
advice that an audient can't see everything, and it's acceptable to just watch
part. I felt keenly what the advantage would have been to be watching this on
television broadcast, broken down like a football game:
Michaels: Oh! And Penkova in a sensational
glissade capped by and instant bend of the torso just as quickly retracted as
her partner swoops in!
Madden: (voiced over as we see an
animated chalk-liine describing, in very primitive notation, the arc of several
other choreographies) Yes, Al, and if you'll notice, while Penkova was distracting
the opposition, Vaneau was eating up the stage with her legs and the rest of the
space with her arms, even as her head never lost that pinpoint focus offstage
that she's famous for, and Youcef demonstrated that finger ballet that keeps NFL
defenses up all night because they know they're powerless to stop it.
Michaels: Yes John, and what a clever
touch to finish with a rap on her own head -- I don't think Walsh anticipated
that. Let's watch the replay!
That's what I felt like, at least
at the beginning of this oh-too-short 30-minute piece directed by Corbett(who,
along with Anne Katalina Roman, teaches these students.)
But only partly so. Most of all,
especially at the beginning, I had the impression of watching raw Forsythe --
as it is processed. Both the process of creation, and the process of absorption
into these young dancers' body. And, Corbett being one of Forsythe's earliest
vehicles, the process of transference, from one vessel to the newest. Or even
of watching the microbes of invention being played out in Forsythe's own mind
-- that's the kind of able-to-do-anything facility these dancers displayed, straight
out of the chute.
Exemplifying this facility, newness,
and the variety of invention of the choreography -- in its patterns on both the
stage and the individual body -- was Vania Vaneau, about as dewy-eyed and dewy-bodied
a young dancer as I've seen in a long while. Vaneau practically glistened, eating
the stage but at the same time not hogging it, even if she did cover all its planes
and corners, right to the ultimate moment where she quietly walked on stage as
the lights faded, her silhouette the last image we saw.
Exemplifying the more, er, dramatic
side of Forsythe was Yasmine Youcef. It wasn't just Youcef's men's black jacket
over tight-shorts amidst a sea of baby-blue leotards that set her apart. It was
her somber focus, especially executing some of those, if you will, ballet miniatures
on her arms, hands, head, and torso. And her fixed focus on a point above us.
When she rose and exited after one such mini-performance, she left more than her
chair behind her.
My complaints about this collage
center on the handling of the score. First, it was too much. From a simple and
appropriate beginning in silence which let us concentrate on the movement feast
being consumed and regurgitated for us, we soon became inundated. The Bach alone
would have been sufficient, not just because it was "The Well-Tempered Claviere"
but because Glenn Gould was playing -- and singing, he being prone to hum along.
Add a pseudo-intellectual text by Forsythe read in a subdued tone by a British
speaker and between the narrator, Gould's humming, Gould's playing, and at least
two choreographic explorations vying for our attention all at the same time, it
was too much. I must say that if Forsythe has a weakness, it's writing his own
texts. He might take a lesson from Jane Comfort, a choreographer who works with
text but says she has too much respect for script to assign it to an amateur like
But this is just a minor quibble.
Watching these dancers explore this work, the excitement in their bodies palpable,
I also thought of the duel purpose of challenging choreography. As artistic directors
like Kevin McKenzie and Helgi Tomasson have pointed out to me, it's not just to
engage the audience, but also to challenge the dancers so that they can grow.
This extends beyond the student tier. When the Paris Opera Ballet gave an all
Forsythe program last season, the excitement in the audience at seeing these classically
trained bodies try something "new" was equaled by the excitement in the perormers
to be so endeavoring and excelling.
Finally I thought that if it isn't
doing so already, perhaps P.A.R.T.S. could follow the example of colleges like
Butler University, which invites the directors of dance companies to its senior
dance concert. I found myself wishing that I had the eyes of some of my choreographer
colleagues with me, because, even with the deep well of talent available to you
in NYC, you'd surely want to snap up some of this crew as soon as they graduate.
In addition to those mentioned above, the able cast also included, with not a
weak link amongst them, Gilles Fumba, Tina Dobaj, Gabor Varga, Elizaveta Penkova
(a marvel earlier in this month-long Parts @ Paris season, matching the charisma
and towering strength of NYC dancer-choreographer Veronica Dittman), Anne-Linn
Akselsen, Isabel Goncalves, Sophie Machtelinckx, Katie Ewald, Pep Garrigues, and
Kotomi Nishiwaki.
....I guess disappointment in Lynda
Gaudreau's collaboration with the fourth year students, whose 40-minute piece
comprised the second part of the program, was inevitable, following as it did
the Forsythe display. The factor which worked for the second-year students in
being able to tackle Forsythe -- their youth -- worked against their colleagues,
particularly in the piece's second part.
I warmed to the first part, "From
here to there, with legs mainly," for many reasons, chief among them that here
again, in Europe, supposedly home to the ponderous self-important modern dance,
we got winking easy laughing giggling chattering humor from the dancers dressed
in pedestrian outfits. Yes folks, post-modern dancers who are not afraid to smile,
at us and at their colleagues! And in fact it's no transgression to the post-mod
creed -- if anything, it lets usin on the game, and thus we're more open to seeing
what they're doing as something we might even do: in this case, PLAY. Thus a bare-headed
man, tip-toeing about the stage, almost as if on a tightrope, or mapping out a
tightrope, is regarded with droll expectation by his eight colleagues arrayed
on both sides of the stage. We're not left out; he also looks at us as if to say
"Yes, I know you're wondering what the fuck I'm doing up here, and I'm not so
sure myself, but doesn't that make it all the more fun? Hey, look what happens
if I do this!" Indeed much of the comic effect is in the delivery, so I despair
of giving it justice here.
The soloist is eventually joined
by his mates, as they rise from their chairs at the side and one-by-one or two-by-two
tape squares of butcher paper to the stage. One dancer, a lankier version of the
first man, lays the tape down near the lip of the stage and then keeps going beyond
it, running the tape several rows into the audience before he stops. He contemplates
walking this catwalk, then thinks better of the idea.
Another woman in a green 70s-style
track-suit who has remained seated so long we think maybe she's injured, finally
gets up, lays down sideways on the stage and contorts herself into all sorts of
impossible positions, intently exploring the limits of her body. Finally the paper
is rolled up, most comically a long sheet downstage stretching almost the length
of the stage, whose roller-uppers are hampered by the lanky guy, who keeps collapsing
onto the sheet.
If the piece had ended here, I would
have been sated. The second part, "From nothing to something," devolves rapidly
into a classic case of college arts students getting hold of an idea and running
it out until we want to run it out of town. (The idea, not the dancers!) Previously,
the sound has come from the grunts and mumblings and conversations of the dancers,
picked up by mikes laid downstage. Now suddenly some if not all of the dancers
are miked and producing those cute sound effects that come from rubbing the mini
mike, pounding their chests near where the mini-mike is concealed, whistling into
it, speaking into it but covering it and uncovering it to produce the effect of
channel switching, etcetera, etcetera. Perhaps I am spoiled to receiving this
effect as anything new by a performer at the last Avant-Garde-a-Rama at PS 122,
who shifted that mini-mike to every possible cavity in his body, miking the brushing
of his teeth, drumming his cheeks and head with the mike in his mouth, etcetera.
But after about five minutes I see this as just a gimmick. I want for something
to be done with the device, choreographically, not just a piling on of the joke
by everyone in class. "Let me try! Let me try!"
I suppose the same allowance could
be made as my colleague Rosa Mei made in reviewing
De Keersmaeker's "I Said I" -- namely that this is about process, not entertaining
the audience. To which I guess I'd respond that sure, in class, let them run it
out ad infinitem. But at least half of building work is knowing how to pare it
On that note, having reached 1831
words, I better stop! Performers in Gaudreau collaboration included Eulalia Ayguade
Farro, Chirstian Duarte, Nada Gambler, Claire Godsmark, Shani Granot, Etienne
Guilloteau, Radoslaw Hewelt, Lena Meierkord, and Linda Samaraweerova. The lighting
-- especially effective during an interstice when all were in silhouetted relief,
the light playiing nicely off the bare concrete wall at the rear of the stage
-- was by Jeroen Wuyts.
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Over the weekend I had a chance to play around a bit with Rails Best Practices, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts I had regarding it.
In the startup world we often debate the merit of ideas vs execution. In this particular case, the idea behind this product is pretty straightforward. It's a video course about common idioms and best practices in Rails, that helps you learn how to refactor bad Rails code/anti-patterns/habits into good ones.
As is often the case, the implementation is what makes this course really worthwhile. It's Khan Academy meets Rails (and Khan Academy truly is the future of education).
Rails Best Practices provides a series of small videos that show examples of common bad code that may be used when trying to resolve a particular problem, then they introduce a refactoring that uses best practices to make the code a lot better.
In the process, these videos end up introducing some of the latest tools and features that are available in Rails 3. So if you haven't made the switch yet from Rails 2 to Rails 3, you'll find the videos particularly interesting.
This course isn't just a collection of well produced videos and downloadable slides though. It's dived into five levels, akin in that regard to a video game. To proceed to the next level, you need to correctly complete and submit all of the exercises for the current level. Each exercise will award you 250 points.
While working on very practical exercises, you'll be able to reference the videos and re-watch them as often as you please. You're also able to make mistakes and then see the exceptions that are raised by Ruby.
When you complete a level, you're awarded a badge. As well you'll receive a few bonuses once you've completed the whole course (including a free peepcode.com screencast, $5 codeschool.com credit towards your next purchase, and 35% off all books at InformIT).
I'm a firm believer that the approach to learning in which one is taught by doing exercises in a game-like setting is a highly effective way to help retain the material you've has studied. (I should mention that there is a support forum as well, just in case you're stuck or need some help.)
At $75, this course isn't exactly a bargain basement deal, however it's currently on sale for a considerably more wallet friendly $45, and you'll definitely get your money's worth if you are a Rails developer.
In conclusion, given that levels are not visible until you pass them, here is the complete table of content, including all the levels, for this course.
Level 1 & 2
Level 3 and 4
Level 5
All in all, I was very pleased with this enjoyable course, and I think that beginner to intermediate Rails developers are the ones who stand to get the most out of it.
Full disclosure: I was granted access to the course for free, and the link to the course contains my affiliate id. Nevertheless, everything above is my frank and honest opinion.
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Great review on a great course! Even for the more advanced Rails players, some quality advices are made that can really help out and keep your app clean.
I completed the Rails For Zombies course which seems more geared towards beginners and am about to begin this course. I think the thing that scares me is how you lose points for incorrect answers / asking for help. I feel like I need to study.
I did the free Rails for Zombies course which is the same format and done by the same people, but aimed more at beginners. I have to agree that the execution was wonderful, but personally I don't learn well from videos. I prefer to have the material written down. I would much rather learn from a book or web page than a video or lecture.
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. � The University of Colorado men's golf team briefly flirted with its first conference title in 41 years, but in the end top-ranked Oklahoma State was too much and the Buffaloes settled for a solid second place finish as the 13th Annual Big 12 Conference Championships came to a close here Wednesday.
The Buffaloes, who collectively felt they were underrated coming in, ranked No. 47 by Golfweek, No. 53 by GolfStat and totally ignored in the coaches poll, entered the final round three strokes behind the Cowboys. CU led by a stroke a couple times, the last time about six holes in, though hard to calculate after weather issues forced a change to a shotgun format. But a couple of OSU players started to get it under par, finally leading to some separation for the first time this week.
Oklahoma State went on to win its third straight league crown with an 1,149 team score, while the Buffaloes were 14 off the pace at 1,163. CU did hold off a charging Texas A&M, as the No. 12 Aggies finished third with 1,167. Kansas State used the best single team round of the tournament, a 4-under 276, to claim fourth with a 1,170 score, while Baylor rounded out the top five at 1,174.
Colorado last finished second in a conference meet in 1981, when the Steve Jones-led Buffs also pushed OSU to the brink, trailing by a single stroke enter the third and final round before succumbing by seven.
It was the best finish by a North Division school since Kansas was the runner-up in the 2000 event, and marked just the eighth time in 13 years that a North team finished in the top three; Colorado has now done it three times, including third place efforts in 1998 and 2000, Kansas twice and Iowa State, Missouri and Nebraska once each.
"We'll be excited about finishing second, but more than anything, right now we're a little disappointed because we were excited for the opportunity to battle for the title," head coach Roy Edwards said. "We just kind of ran out of gas in the middle of the round. There's no shame in finishing second in this conference, and in the coming days we will feel good about what we accomplished. It just stings a little bit right now.
"So overall, we're pleased and we know we're just going to get better."
CU was led overall by its standout senior duo of Patrick Grady and Derek Tolan, who finished sixth and seventh, respectively, their best showings in the Big 12's. Both were contending for medalist honors well into the final round out of a pack of about eight golfers before the front end of the group started to slowly pull away. They both earned All-Tournament Team honors, presented to the top 10 finishers.
Grady managed just one birdie and 11 pars against six bogeys on the 6,701-yard, par-70 Prairie Dunes Country Club layout, shooting final round 75 for a 7-over 287, the fifth best total for a 72-hole tournament in school history. His short game salvaged the week, as he admittedly wasn't playing his best but still managed to enter the final round at just 2-over. He had one of CU's two eagles here, and had just two holes worse than a bogey, and both only doubles at that.
"Pat hung in there all week, he knew he wasn't playing his best, especially off the tee," Edwards said. "But when he knows that, he manages his game well and plugs along, kind of like keeping all the parts duck-taped to the car, so-to-speak."
Tolan had never finished higher than 33rd in three previous tries in the league title affair, and was tied for the lead at the midway point here. He had 17 birdies for the week, including ones on his first (No. 2) and last (No. 1) holes Wednesday, when he was 1-over after 11 holes. But a disastrous triple bogey on the 445-yard, par-4 13th hole jumped him to four over, though he came back immediately with a birdie on No. 14. A double bogey on the par-5 17th would cost him a top five finish.
He also shot a 75 to finish with an 8-over 288 score, tied for the sixth best 72-hole score ever at Colorado.
"They're disappointed with their scores today, but they got us here and in position to contend with their first three rounds," Edwards said. "It may not seem like it, but they did a good job to shoot 75s."
The last time CU had two players finish in the top 10 in a league championship was in 1999, when Matt Call tied for fourth and Ben Fiala shared ninth. It's the 18th time it's happened since 1948, when Colorado joined what became the Big Seven Conference.
The good news Wednesday, in particular to CU's future, was that CU's two true freshmen participating here posted the best scores in the final round. Kevin Kring matched the second best score by a Buffalo frosh in a league championship meet, an even-par 70, finishing up with a 296 score (+16), which tied him for 12th.
The 12th place finish was the third best a Buff freshman in the Big 12 Championships, topped by 11th place efforts in 2000 by Kane Webber and Stephen Carroll. It was the eighth best all-time conference meet finish by a CU frosh.
Kring was steady, with four birdies, four bogeys and 10 pars in his final round. He started on No. 3, and was 2-over through 11 holes; at that point, he buckled down and finished his round 2-under, with birdies on No. 16 then on No. 1 returning him to even.
Mike Mulhern shot a 68 in the 1972 Big 8 Championships to set the mark for a CU freshman, with Dale Douglass (1956 Big Seven) and Steve Jones (1978 Big Eight) recording 70's prior to Kring's matching effort Wednesday.
Johnny Widmer posted a final round 72, which included 13 pars, two birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey, the latter coming with just four holes remaining otherwise he, too, was flirting with an even par closing effort. He tied for 34th overall with a 304 (+24) score for the week, which included playing his last 36 holes at just 5-over par.
"The way Johnny played the last two days and Kevin in his second round and today, it bodes well for down the road this year and the future," Edwards said of his two young guns, the first time since 2000 that CU had two freshman entered in the Big 12's. "They did everything you can ask of freshmen under these circumstances."
Junior Luke Symons rounded out the CU action, firing a 76 to close with a 307 total (+27), tying him for 43rd. As was case with his opening round 85, the bulk of trouble happened on a minimal number of holes, Wednesday's case being a triple bogey on No. 7. Otherwise, he had two birdies and five bogeys with 10 pars.
"The way Luke came back from his opening round was an achievement as well," Edwards said. "He wasn't hitting it straight most of the week and struggled with his driver. But he didn't let Prairie Dunes mess with him, so overall he did a pretty good job."
Oklahoma State freshman Morgan Hoffman shot a final round 66 � the low round of the tournament � to claim medalist honors with a 4-under 276 score. He was a stroke behind Baylor's Bill Allcorn heading into the final round, and with Allcorn turning in a solid par 70 effort, was able to overtake him for the top spot. Allcorn was the only other player under par for the week (279, -1); Kansas State's Robert Streb finished third (281).
The Buffs will find out their NCAA Championship destination on Monday in a 4 p.m. MDT conference call by the NCAA selection committee. Regionals will be held May 14-16 in six locations as opposed to three in past years, with fewer teams advancing from each site. The host cities are Austin, Bowling Green, Ky., Galloway, N.J., San Francisco, Sorrento, Fla., and Stillwater, Okla. The finals will be May 26-30 in Toledo.
"We can use this as a learning experience," Edwards concluded. "With fewer teams advancing out of each regional location, there will be that much more pressure on every shot. Hopefully what happened here will serve us good."
6. Patrick Grady............................... 71-71-70-75�287
7. Derek Tolan.................................. 71-68-74-75�288
T12. Kevin Kring................................... 78-71-77-70�296
T34. Johnny Widmer............................ 78-81-73-72�304
T43. Luke Symons............................... 85-73-73-76�307
1 . Morgan Hoffman, Oklahoma State... 71-71-68-66�276
2 . Bill Allcorn, Baylor................................ 68-71-70-70�279
3. Robert Streb, Kansas State.................. 69-75-67-69�281
4. Bronson Burgoon, Texas A & M............ 72-68-72-70�282
5. Rickie Fowler, Oklahoma State............ 74-71-72-69�286
1. Oklahoma State...................... 293-288-287-281�1149
3. Texas A&M.............................. 301-284-296-286�1167
4. Kansas State........................... 304-301-289-276�1170
5. Baylor....................................... 297-293-293-291�1174
6. Texas Tech.............................. 295-304-300-289�1188
7. Kansas..................................... 298-306-290-297�1191
8. Texas....................................... 303-305-306-280�1194
9. Missouri................................... 310-307-290-297�1204
10. Oklahoma................................ 310-301-306-288�1205
11. Nebraska................................. 319-293-300-294�1206
12. Iowa State............................... 306-308-295-301�1210
2009 Big 12 Championship Notes
u The Buffaloes will celebrate their second place finish, along with the women's first-ever invitation to regionals this Saturday, May 2, at the official dedication of Colorado National Golf Club (formerly Vista Ridge). Former CU golfers (and U.S. Open champions) Hale Irwin and Steve Jones will be among several alums returning to help dedicate the facility and complete the dreams of their respective head coaches, the Les Fowler and Mark Simpson. The event gets underway at 9:30 a.m. and is open to the public.
u Oklahoma State and Texas came in as the only teams that had posted first division (top 6) finishes in the previous 12 Big 12 Conference championship meets; the Cowboys now stand alone in that fact as Texas finished eighth this year.
u By going 10-1 against the field here, Colorado's won-lost-tied record for the year is now 121-48-2, a 71.3 winning percentage. A school's record now plays a greater role in regional selection and placement; no team under .500 can be selected for advancement to the postseason. CU's percentage trails only Kansas State (102-19-2, .837) and Oklahoma State (114-23-1, .830); five schools won't meet the criteria to advance, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Kansas and Nebraska.
u Derek Tolan's four rounds in the championships gave him 148 for his career; that's third all-time at Colorado as he trails only Rick Cramer (159, 1978-82) and Terry Kahl (152, 1976-81).
u As stated above, CU last finished second in a conference meet in 1981, the third of three straight years CU played second fiddle to Oklahoma State. The Buffs were also second in 1979 and 1980, though in more distant fashion, trailing by 27 and 23 strokes, respectively.
u CU's 1,163 team score was a school record for a 72-hole meet; the old mark was 1,170 set in the 1986 New Mexico Tucker Invitational.
u The last round was under consideration as being cancelled at one point Wednesday morning, as heavy rains and lightning delayed the start by two hours. The rains subsided and the course superintendents did a good job of limiting the areas with standing water on the course. The pairings were reshuffled into a shotgun format instead of using the No. 1 and 10 tees with interval tee times.
u Grady and Tolan continued their assault on the CU record book. Grady is eighth in all-time top five finishes (8), now eighth in top 10 efforts (12) and ninth in top 20 finishes (17), while Tolan is 11th in the top five (5), now second in top 10 (18) and tied for third in top 20 (25) efforts. Grady has the school record for the most rounds in the 60s in a single season here with 10, but Tolan is right behind him with 9.


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Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson was the first (and, so far, only) Jewish Miss America. She went
on to become a popular television personality, a public servant, and a
Bess encountered anti-Semitism during the Miss America Pageant,
when an official tried to convince her to change her name to one
that was less ethnic, suggesting Betty Merrick. Bess refused.
The dark haired statuesque (she was the tallest contestant at
5' 10") beauty was the first recipient of a scholarship, but
none of the pageant's sponsors, including Catalina Swimsuits
-- chose to use the Jewish beauty from the Bronx as a spokesperson..
During her year as Miss America, Ms. Myerson made many personal
appearances. One of these was scheduled at an antebellum country
club, but just before the event she was told that there had been
a terrible mistake, the country club was restricted, and no Jewish
person could possibly be welcomed there.
Bess Myerson, determined to fight racial bigotry, traveled around the country
speaking in behalf of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, in
cooperation with the NAACP and the Urban League.
Many Americans remember Ms. Myerson as Mistress of Ceremonies for "The Big Payof" (1951-9) and as a panelist on "I've Got A Secret" (1958-67). From 1969-73 as Commissioner of Consumer Affairs of New York City, Myerson was architect of the most far-reaching consumer protection legislation in the country at that time, and was featured on the cover of Life Magazine (July 16, 1971) as "A Consumer's Best Friend ... Bess Myerson on the prowl for stores that cheat us."
From 1983-7 she served under Mayor Ed Koch as Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, where Bess substantially broadened financial support for New York City's art community.
Ms. Myerson is a Founder of The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, where
she established the Bess Myerson Film and Video Collection with a grant of
over a million dollars. She has also made six-figure contributions to The
Guild for the Blind, Hebrew University (for Cancer Research), and SHARE (to
launch an Ovarian Cancer Program). Her concern over the rising racial and
religious tensions on college campuses led Bess to endow the Bess Myerson
Campus Journalism Awards given annually by the Anti-Defamation League.
Bess Myerson's presidential appointments include Lyndon Johnson's White
House Conference on Violence and Crime, Gerald Ford's Commission on the
National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, and Jimmy
Carter's Commissions on Mental Health and on World Hunger. And she has
served on the boards of the International Rescue Committee, the Consumers
Union, Another Mother for Peace, etc. Hunter College, where she graduated
with a music degree in the same year that she was crowned Miss America, later
presented Ms. Myerson with an honorary doctorate, as did Long Island
University and Seton Hall.
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The String::Parity module for perl5 may be used to generate and test
even, odd, mark and space parity on arbitrary strings.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Parity/
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-String-Parity/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-String-Parity
cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-String-Parity/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-String-Parity
PKGNAME: p5-String-Parity
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
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Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
Cleanup plist
- Update to 1.32
- Add LICENSE
- Pass maintainership to submitter
- While I'm here:
- Fix LICENSE
- Remove leading indefinite article from COMMENT
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Parity/Changes
PR: ports/188050
Submitted by: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <email@example.com>
Support STAGEDIR.
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
- Convert to new perl framework
Fix typos in COMMENT
End WWW CPAN URL with a "/"
-remove MD5
- Add cpan site to WWW
- Fix indentation, fmt -w 80
- Take advantage of CPAN macro from bsd.sites.mk, change
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} to CPAN.
PR: ports/122674
Submitted by: Philip M. Gollucci <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reworked by: araujo (myself)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Add some SHA256 checksums
Remove the recursive assignment of SITE_PERL to ${SITE_PERL} introduced
in the last commit.
utilize SITE_PERL
Submitted by: Cheng-Lung Sung <email@example.com>
Add p5-String-Parity 1.31, a perl5 module to generate and test
even, odd, mark and space parity on strings.
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