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There is a place along the Mexican coastline where the water is a bit greener, the sand is that much more warm, and the sun never seems to set. While Salsipuedes, a secluded town one hour south of the U.S. border, has become a tourist attraction for its magnificent views and beautiful mountains, for senior tackle Elliot Silvers, it will always be the place where his passion for surfing was at its crest.
"It is by far my most favorite place to surf," says the 6-7, 320-pound offensive lineman. "They have this campground where the owners bring you firewood and it costs about ten bucks a day to stay there. In the morning you wake up and make your way down this broken trail onto the beach and the waves are just incredible."
Growing up in Agoura Hills, California, ten minutes outside of Malibu, spending time at the beach was the norm. Although Silvers did enter one wakeboarding competition and made it into the semi-finals, his enthusiasm was always with surfing.
"All we did in the summer was hang out at the beach from early in the morning until the afternoon," remembers Silvers. "Obviously, moving up to Washington hasn't helped my skills any, but it's still fun to go home and get back out there."
Because of his interests on the water, Silvers didn't even start playing football until high school, where he made his debut as a wide receiver. Sharpening his skills and also going through a major growth spurt, Silvers was recruited by Washington, UNLV, and Oregon State.
"When I came up here, I really liked the coaching staff and the football atmosphere," he says. "My Mom liked the school because of the academics, so it was a decision I made based on the mix of both."
While the University of Washington was thrilled to have the commitment from Silvers, there were others who were a little bit more wary. In highly-publicized reports, some Seattle writers doubted the talent of Silvers and the decision by Washington to recruit him.
"The article said that I would never play a down of Washington football," he clearly recalls. "I have to look back and laugh. To be completely honest, I wasn't a very highly-recruited athlete. When I got here, I was just in awe of everyone. The first two offensive lineman I saw were Aaron Dalan, who is gigantic, and Bob Sapp. I laughed and thought to myself, `wow, I don't look like that.' So I actually had a little bit of self-doubt too."
While such early criticism and self-doubt could negatively affect some athletes, Silvers remained positive.
"It was hard to swallow at first, but I didn't let it get to me," he says. "I ran and lifted the whole summer until I was practically dead."
Not only has Silvers proven the critics wrong, entering into this season as a two-year starter, but he, along with the other members of the five-man front, have demonstrated their stability and effectiveness in controlling the line of scrimmage and protecting the pass. In 1999, Silvers and his fellow trenchmen helped the Huskies to lead the Pac-10 in time of possession, engineering long drives that both tired opposing defenses, and kept enemy offenses off the field. While in previous years the offensive line has been a serious question mark, this group has proven to be dominant.
"Our offensive line is a strength on our team right now," second-year coach Rick Neuheisel said prior to the season. "I hesitate to say they are the best around, although I think they could be. Maybe we don't have the most talent, but we play the hardest."
Offensive linemen tend to be of the same quality and are often described as the closest and the most tight-knit group on the entire squad. This bunch is no different.
"We are together non-stop," Silvers says. "We are the same in that none of us are glory-hounds. I think a lot of us like the anonymity and being in the shadows. We don't necessarily want our names in big, bright lights."
The play of Silvers has been steady since his arrival at Washington. While he redshirted his first season in 1996, he was named the most improved offensive lineman at the end of spring drills. Silvers played in the first four games of his second season until he was forced out with a dislocated kneecap, only to return for the Aloha Bowl. In 1998, Silvers made his first of eleven starts at offensive tackle, helping the Huskies rank second in the Pac-10 in sacks allowed with 19. His junior year marked the first time he had started in every game, along with the Holiday Bowl against Kansas State.
This year, Silvers is focused on doing what no Husky squad has done since 1991 -- win a conference title outright.
"I want to play as well as I can for the other guys so we can accomplish our goals," Silvers says. "I want to win a Pac-10 championship ring so bad that that is all I am focused on right now. I am doing everything I can to help the team get there."
First-year offensive line coach Brent Myers praises the effort of his big men.
"I think Elliot's biggest strength is that for being as big as he is, he is a very athletic guy," Myers says. "He has great body-balance and the ability to block people in the open field. Not only that, but he is an excellent pass-protector. He plays our split tackle position where he winds up facing the very good defensive ends, and his athleticism allows him to be successful at that position. He has put on some weight and added some strength, which has made him a more powerful player. We are very excited to see where Elliot goes because he has such a bright future."
The final chapter of Husky football is being written this season for these talented and accomplished athletes, and most are hoping for a storybook ending. For Elliot Silvers and the other four departing seniors from the offensive line, the time is now.
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Thank you for posting this. Good god what an awesome trailer! What style of gameplay is this game supposed to be? I've been out of touch with the development of this one. Is it supposed to play like KOTOR?
It's an MMORPG. But so far the classes are all so ridiculously cool even the most hardcore of fans (such as myself) are having trouble deciding to pass over say, the Bounty Hunter or the Smuggler to go straight for the Sith.
This looks really cool. I'm excited.
I will admit that this looked amazing at the show yesterday. The other Star Wars game, the Kinect one, was awful.
It's Bioware. They are physically incapable of doing wrong.
So when it has all that "choose your side" jazz, is it safe to assume they're doing the whole good/evil thing like in the other Star Wars game, and the Mass Effect franchise? I'm rather interested in this game and becoming a Sith
Yes, you can be good or evil. The classes are listed as follows:
Trooper; Commando and Vanguard
Smuggler; Gunslinger and Scoundrel
Jedi Knight; Guardian and Sentinel
Jedi Consular; Shadow and Sage
Bounty Hunter; Powertech and Mercenary
Sith Warrior; Juggernaut and Marauder
Imperial Agent; Operative and Sniper
Sith Inquisitor
And unlike most MMORPGs, all dialogue will be fully voiced and you'll be able to choose your responses to dialogue like in all Bioware games.
Now keep in mind, this footage was from December 2010.
I don't like MMORPGs. They just take too much of your free time.
Time management. :derek:
I work a full-time job, play WoW, Minecraft, and whatever suits my fancy, and still have plenty of time to go out and get drunk at bars watching basketball games, UFC, go to concerts, and go on random adventures to Indian Casinos out of state and California for less-than-reputable reasons.
Master Cody finds the single blade+double blade implausible...
As the resident uber-SW nerd here, fluent in all things OT, Prequel, and EU, I say it's not implausible.
I remember this one from last year
And this one from 2009
If you've played SWKOTOR or SWKOTOR2, you know roughly how SWTOR will play. Just imagine more people and a bit more strategy involved.
The original Kotor was one of my favorite games of all time, the settings were great, plot was good. The second was good, but of course unfinished, the second half of the game left a lot to be desired.
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The Deep South Steel Guitar & Musicians Association was founded the first saturday of June 2002. It started with a formal meeting around 11.00 am. A president (Hal Higgins), a vice-president (Ben O Dell), and a treasurer (Bill Stafford) were elected. After the official program it all continued with a bang of great steel guitar music, BBQ, boiled crawfish etc. in the park outside. Lots of players attended this first meeting.
Among players who attended this first meeting were Jerry Jaye, Autry Rutdledge, Bill Stafford, Ben O Dell, and many more. One month later the second meeting was held. Players from all around visit the association's meetings, even as far as California. Many players play universal. It turns out the DSSG&MA meetings gather most universal players at one place. More than other clubs/associations do. Although this is not the main target of the association. Fun, playing music, steel guitar (also Hawaiian lap steel players attend these meetings) is what the DSSG&MA is all about.
Association membership is open to all musicians, not only steel guitar players. Everyone who feels related to steel guitar music is welcome. Bassplayers, drummers, guitarists, keyboardplayers and singers, all attend these meetings. And when you do not play any instrument but just love to be there, drop in when there is a meeting planned.
Goal of this association is to expand the musical possibilities of the pedal steel guitar. To beginners and newcomers to get them started on the PSG. To avarage players to advance their abibility of playing. And to veterans on the PSG to jam and get together.
Association meetings are held 6 times per year, on the first saturday of every other month, although since the club is growing rapidly in near future this scedule might be changed to 12 times a year. Meetings are held at the local VFW on Dedeaux Road in Gulfport, Mississippi, USA.
Meetings are announced in the association's website. Click the link to learn more. Also there is a registration form you can print and fill out and mail. The DSSG&MA's registration fee is 25= USD per year. This right moment the association counts 55 members.
Pictures published were taken during the 7th of June 2003 meeting. They show Sarah Buras, R.J. Buras, Ivan Reddington, Ed Clark, Larry Moore and John Heinrich.
Future plans are to invite Louisiana based Jazz musicians to show them the pedal steel guitar is a perfect instrument to add to their music. It seems the DSSG&MA still have many goals to target in its need to promote steel guitar. But that's only a matter of time.
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I wish I could argue like Penn. I tend to agree with a lot of things that he says.
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I wish I could argue like Penn. I tend to agree with a lot of things that he says.
Hot talk: Newtown School Shooting
Oh my God... All three of those women. Completely insane. They base everything they say on pure emotion with a complete disregard of facts. No wonder two of them were from CNN.
I was completely slack jawed watching that exchange.
These 3 would loose an argument with Teller, that is how clueless they are!
Hes an outspoken libertarian. Very intelligent.
Penn is a very smart man, and articulates his points quite well. Thank's to years of stage performance.
Did she seriously claim that the CT shooter would only have been able to kill two people if he'd only been armed with a handgun? That all semi-automatic firearms can easily be converted to "machine guns"?
Wow. Just...wow.
I created a twitter account just to tell him I was inspired and he replied to me publicly and said thanks! I feed pretty cool now.
Penn is very liberal but is also one of the smartest and most intellectual men I have ever seen. If people really cared about kids they would try to fix all the the other sad ways that kids die. I am pretty sure we loose more kids to drowning in buckets then we do to gun deaths.
Penn is great. I don't always agree with everything he says but he always seems to have a well thought out argument.
I was on a plane the day after it happened and had the unfortunate experience of staring at the news for 3 hours. It was communicated multiple times that the AR was found in the trunk of his car, however now I am hearing un-confirmed reports that it WAS used. In other words I have no idea.
I'm glad he stood up against the raging lunacy of those emotionally-based idiots, but it would've been nice had he spoken to the point of assault rifles in particular. He seemed to be having a hard time getting a word in, though, between the dumb statements and clapping by the sheep in the audience, but he made some good points when he spoke.


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May 21, 2012 - Craig Lord
European Championships, Debrecen, Hungary, day 1 finals:
On the first day of the continental long-course showcase event, Paul Biedermann (GER), on 3:47.84 in the 400m freestyle, and Katinka Hosszu (HUN), on 4:33.76 in the 400m medley, claimed the first two titles up for grabs at the seven-day meet.
France claimed the men's 4x100m freestyle crown in 3:13.55, while Germany claim the women's sprint free relay in 3:37.98.
Race reports
Men's 400m freestyle
Paul Biedermann (GER) put in a last-lap spinet to edge past 1500m men Gergo Kiss (HUN) and Samuel Pizzetti (ITA) for a 3:47.84 victory in the 400m. Kis took silver in 3:48.09, Pizzetti broke in 3:48.66. No others cracked 3:50, Britain's Robbie Renwick fourth in 3:50.46.
Pizzett held a 1.16sec lead over Biedermann with 100m to go, with Kis splitting the difference. By the last turn, the world-championship bronze medallist coached by Frank Embacher in Halle had clawed back touch to sit on the shoulders of the men flipping over first, Pizzetti still in lead, though now by just 0.36 over Kis.
Biedermann then put in a 26.82 last lap for victory, no others capable of getting inside 27sec, Kiss the swiftest of them on 27.29. The champion's winning time is his season best and 12th fastest in the world so far this year.
Biedermann established the world record at 3:40.07 at Rome 2009 world titles before the ban on booster bodysuits. Sun Yang (CHN) leads the world rankings this year with a 3:42.31 at Chinese nationals last month. It is for the clash in London with the likes of Sun and defending 400m Olympic champion Park Tae-Hwan that Biedermann is working.
Women's 400m medley
Katinka Hosszu, world champion in 2009, and Hungarian teammate Zsuzsanna Jakabos got the hosts off to a great start with a 1-2 victory on 4:33.76 and 4:35.68 respectively, the bronze going to Barbora Zavadova (CZE) in 4:38.07, Sweden's Stina Gardell locked out by 0.39sec.
Hosszu led on 'fly, Jakabos took over on backstroke, their rivals 3sec away as the race turned to breaststroke, by the end of which Hosszu had reclaimed a lead of 0.47sec over Jakabos. Just 50m later, the champion-to-be, coached by Dave Salo at Trojan in California, held a lead of almost 2sec, her mission all but accomplished.
The splits compared:
Hosszu stands at world No2 so far this season with a 4:32.82 effort from the US Grand Prix in March, the same month in which Hannah Miley (GBR) took the helm on 4:32.67. Jakabos moves up to 7th so far this season.
Women's 4x100m freestyle
The German quartet of Olympic 100m solo champion Britta Steffen (54.21), Silke Lippok (55.07), Lisa Vitting (55.33) and Daniela Schreiber (53.37), took gold in 3:37.98.
Silver and bronze went respectively to Sweden (Marko-Varga, Coleman, Sjostrom and Fagundez), on 3:38.40, bronze to Italy (Mizzau, Pellegrini, Buratto and Ferraioli) in 3:39.84.
Men's 4x100m freestyle
The French quartet of Amaury Leveaux (48.59), Alain Bernard, the Olympic solo champion who will not defend his crown this summer (48.29), Fred Bousquet (48.40) and Jeremy Stravius (48.27) took the crown in 3:13.55.
The minor spoils went to Italy (Rolla, Orsi, Santucci and Magnini, the latter on 47.97, best split of the day), in 3:14.71, the bronze to Russia (Syrnikov, Tikhobaev, Konovalov and Andrusenko) in 3:15.13, 0.21sec ahead of Belgium.
Triin Aljand (EST) led the way into the women's 50m 'fly final in 26.20, 0.02sec ahead of Sarah Sjostrom (SWE).
In the men's 100m backstroke, Helge Meeuw (GER) booked a ticket to lane 4 in 53.80, 0.09sec ahead of Aristeidis Grigoriadis (GRE), Yakov Toumarkin (ISR) next through on 54.26, world champion Jeremy Stavius in 7th on 54.79, 0.11sec inside the safety zone.
Damir Dugonjic (SLO) led Italians Mattia Pesce and Fabio Scozzoli to the centre lanes for the final of the men's 100m breaststroke in 1:00.64 to 1:00.72 and 1:00.90.
In the women's 200m backstroke, Alexianne Castel (FRA) and Jenny Mensing (GER) once again finished top 2, after having done so in heats, their respective efforts of 2:09.03 and 2:09.49 a touch ahead of two others who threaten for places on the podium, Daryna Zevina (UKR), on 2:10.17, and former champion Alessia Filippi (ITA), working her comeback way back to best on 2:10.89.
Milorad Cavic, the US-based Serbian who came closer than anyone else to toppling Michael Phelps (USA) at beijing 2008, claimed lane 4 in 23.41, Andriy Govorov (UKR) just 0.02sec away, with Amaury Leveaux (FRA) on 23.51.


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This is a comedy about a disabled musician who gains power to heal others. I think that the film was alright but it was too crammed with too many ideas and even though the ideas are beautiful and interesting, there are too many of them for one film. Christopher Thornton, who plays the main character Dean, did a very good job with his role and made the character interesting, intriguing and lovable all in the same time. The film is not very logical most of the time and i could not figure out the main idea of it. the film is also a bit depressing and it made me feel sort of sad. Overall, I do not recommend seeing it in the theaters.
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M. Rudin gave a triangulation of a tetrahedron with the property that after any small tetrahedron removed, the remaining part is not homeomorphic to a ball (An unshellable triangulation of a tetrahedron, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. (64), 1958, pp.~90--91). This example is not compatible with the tetrahedral rotation group $T_{12}$. Is there an unshellable triangulation invariant under the rotation group's action?
Some information (maybe usefull): P. Alfeld told me that RH Bing had another unshellable triangulation example using knot theory (Some aspects of the topology of 3-manifolds related to the Poincare conjecture, in "Lectures on Modern Mathematics", vol. 2, pp. 93-128, Wiley, New York, 1964). Bing's example is to prove that such triangulation does exist, but not a plicit construction.


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Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush explains some of the history of that unfortunate land.
Barry Lando's journalistic experience includes 25 years as a producer with CBS "60 Minutes", which he left in 1997. Prior to that he was a correspondent for Time-Life in South America. He has also freelanced articles over the years for a large range of North American and European publications.
Lando received a B.A. magna in History at Harvard and an M.A. in political science from Columbia University. A Canadian citizen (born in Vancouver), he currently lives in Paris with his wife and 14 year old son. Two older children live and work in the U.S. and Canada.


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Some bill this show as the 'best show on earth.' Considering the price of admission ($10 per day), they are right on the mark. Where else can you learn how to cook gourmet delicacies, rub elbows with travel guru Rick Steves, climb a rock wall and meet a ton of travel providers from around the world? And don't have to board a plane to do so?
It's all happening at the 2014 Bay Area Travel Adventure Show in Santa Clara the weekend of January 25 and 26.
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By Staff Reporter / 2009-04-16 16:12:27
The Torrevieja Salt Refinery will be the second biggest in the world and the biggest producer of drinking water in Europe, when completed. Finally, after a month's delay, permission has been granted to link the pipelines from the new desalination plant to the sea.
The Regional Valencian Government and the Town Hall couldn't agree on the pipe work going from the sea to the plant, but the matter was resolved last week. The Poniente Port will be where the pipes will start from. Two will be laid, one to take the water from the sea, and the other to return the salt sludge back into the Mediterranean. This pipe work will have to cross the town centre, including the old heart of the town. This has been the main cause of concern for the local and regional government, and the reason for the year's delay on the project. However, the public company, Acuamed have finally been given the go ahead. This company had already invested 300 million euros into the project and were just awaiting this final permission to be able to finish. The town should have been drinking water from the plant last year. It is expected that 80 cubic hectometers of clean water will be produced annually.
Over the past weeks geotechnical studies have been carried out to guarantee the viability of the project. Local residents can now look forward to huge ditches being dug along streets and throughout the town, into which the pipes will be laid. The route will go from the Poniente Port to Acequión Sur and along Las Lagunas Park. It has been proposed that a raised platform will be built along the Poniente Beach to enable visitors to avoid the disruptive building work.
The pipes used will be big, so the streets along which they are to be laid have to be wide. Calle Maestro Quino has been chosen. They will all be placed underground. The drinking water will then be transported towards the Pedrera lake. Over 215 million euros are budgeted for the building work. If all goes to plan the desalination plant should be ready by 2010.
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Dedicated golf fans found themselves at a loss as to what to watch this Memorial Day weekend, that is, unless they had three TV screens and a lot of available space on the DVR.
The three biggest men's golf tours all had notable events underway – the PGA Tour's Colonial Invitational at historic Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas; the European Tour's PGA Championship, at Wentworth Golf Club in England; and the Champions Tour's Senior PGA Championship at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton, Michigan. On the distaff side of the game, the ladies of the LPGA Tour were playing the LPGA Airbus Classic on the Crossings Course at Magnolia Trail Golf Club in Mobile, Alabama.
Scott silences doubters with win at Colonial
The 2014 Colonial Invitational marked the first competitive rounds for new World #1 Adam Scott since he ascended to the title last week, despite not having played in the May 15-18 HP Byron Nelson Classic. Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, was the beneficiary of both the injured Tiger Woods' absence from PGA Tour play and the Official World Golf Rankings computational algorithms, which made it inevitable that one of two or three of the players in the ranking spots immediately below Woods would take over the top spot if Woods stayed out long enough. Scott outplayed the likes of Henrik Stenson, who has inherited the #2 spot, slipping Woods to #3; Matt Kuchar; and 2014 Masters champion Gerry "Bubba" Watson to take over the top spot in the rankings.
The handsome young Aussie got off to a slow start at Colonial, opening with a 1-over 71, and at one point in the second round was two over par and in danger of missing the cut, before rallying back with three birdies in his last seven holes for a 69, making the cut on the number. A pair of 66s on the weekend saw him into a playoff with 2013 PGA champion Jason Dufner. The closely-fought playoff came down to the two men's approach shots to the 18th green on the third playoff hole – Scott stiffed his second shot into the 18th green to inside eight feet while Dufner's second left him a long, left-to-right sliding downhill putt for a chance to extend the playoff. After Dufner's putt slid well past the hole, Scott, wielding his familiar broomstick-length putter, swept in the winning putt.
Montgomerie tastes victory for the first time on American soil
Despite years of success on the European Tour and a distinguished Ryder Cup record, Scotsman Colin Montgomerie had two large gaps in his résumé – he had never won a major tournament, and he had never won a regular PGA Tour event. This weekend he closed those two gaps, after a fashion, by winning the Senior PGA Championship at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Leading by one stroke over Bernhard Langer after three rounds, Montgomerie sealed the win with a 6-under 65 in the final round, holding off a charging Tom Watson – a renowned champion who is nearly 15 years his senior – to win by four strokes.
Montgomerie played all four rounds of the tournament with Langer, with whom he has shared may Ryder Cup experiences over the years. The prickly Glasgow-born, Yorkshire-raised Montgomerie threw a few thinly-veiled barbs at Langer's slow play while being interviewed after the completion of the third round, but the disparity in the two men's style of play didn't impede Montgomerie in the final round, when he outpaced Langer by five strokes.
Though not carrying quite the cachet of a PGA Tour victory or a win in a main-tour major, this senior tour victory may help put to rest some of the disquiet over Montgomerie's 2013 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Both he and fellow 2013 inductee Fred Couples were controversial choices for the honor, mostly because of their shortfalls in the area of major victories – Montgomerie with none, and Couples with a lone Masters win, in 1992, to his credit.
McIlroy sets aside personal upheavals, takes British PGA title
In the wake of yet another tabloid-style revelation in his often-controversial professional and personal life, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy set aside personal upheavals to claim the British PGA Championship title last weekend.
McIlroy's high-profile romance with former World #1 tennis star Caroline Wozniacki came to an abrupt, and very public, end last week when the 25-year-old Ulsterman announced that he had broken off their engagement. Spooked by the startling reality of seeing wedding invitations going into the mail – yes, he called it off after the invitations had been mailed – McIlroy broke off the engagement, announcing the news in a press conference just days before the opening round of the British PGA Championship.
The breakup appeared to take a weight off of the young pro's shoulders, as he told the press that he found solace on the course, where he had only to concentrate on playing golf. The last few years have seen McIlroy frequently at center stage in the golf world with two major championship victories; six regular PGA Tour wins; the same number of European Tour wins, a high-profile, and very high-dollar, sponsorship agreement with Nike; and some controversial changes in his professional management relationships.
McIlroy overcame a 7-stroke deficit to take the win after trailing early leader Thomas Björn of Denmark 208 to 201 at the start of the final round. Björn, who opened the tournament with a course-record 62, staggered to an even-par 72 in the second round but recovered with a 5-under 67 to lead after 54 holes. McIlroy carded an eagle and six birdies against two bogeys in the final round, outpacing Björn and Ireland's Shane Lowry to win by a single stroke.
Jessica Korda claims 2nd title of 2014 season at Airbus LPGA Classic
Coming out on top in a birdie-fest that saw 25 players finishing in 11-under or better, 21-year-old Jessica Korda claimed her second LPGA tour win of the 2014 season last weekend at the Airbus LPGA Classic at the Magnolia Trail Golf Club in Mobile, Alabama.
Korda, the blond, 6-foot tall daughter of former Czech tennis star Peter Korda, carded four rounds on the sunny side of 70 on her way to victory, including a clean-card final round 65, overtaking and ultimately overcoming Sweden's Anna Nordqvist, Scottish veteran Catriona Matthew, and 18-year-old English wunderkind Charley Hull for the win. Michelle Wie was tied with Korda after 54 holes, but fell two strokes back due to desultory play on the back nine while Korda was closing with a 6-under 30.
The excellent play that prevailed over the weekend on the LPGA's latest stop is typical of the level of play that has been in evidence in the distaff game in 2014. No longer a parade of seemingly interchangeable Asian – and those mostly South Korean – winners, this year the LPGA has seen Michelle Wie (OK she's Asian, but Asian-American…) start to step up with the level of play which she has promised, but seldom delivered, over the last decade, and names – and personalities – such as Stacy Lewis, Nordqvist (with two wins this year), SoCal success story Lizette Salas, and now Korda, with her two wins, making news for the LPGA. The ladies' tour has put up some of the most exciting and competitive golf to be seen this year, which bodes well for a rebuilding LPGA.


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Saudi Arabia denies rumors regarding travel restrictions on US citizens
June 24, 2011
Saudi Arabia Embassy denied news reports being circulated on the Internet regarding restriction on US travellers to the Kingdom.
"Rumors being circulated via the Internet regarding passenger flight restrictions on Saudi Arabian Airlines are completely false. The Government of Saudi Arabia does not deny visas to U.S. citizens based on their religion," the embassy said in a statement issued today.


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*.shp file which contains only polyline features. How can I iterate over all the point features. Given ESRI Polyline example only uses already defined points to make polylines. But I want to iterate over all the polylines found on a shape file. How can I do this using arcpy?
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This is directly from the ESRI Help File: Accessing Data using Cursors
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You have a cursor that will iterate through the rows that represent the features in the shapefile. I encourage you to search through the ESRI Help files for Accessing Geographic Data with Python. Describing Data is the first section.
This example allows you to directly access the geometry of each feature and returns the length.
The previous example was from the help file on Working with geometry in python
beside @Get Spatial solution, you should check out Iterate Feature Selection (ModelBuilder) here.
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Cheapo Ebay triggers and Batteries
I bought some of the cheap pt04 ebay triggers a while ago and they worked fine at first (with the supplied alkalines). however I then got some rechargable AAAs and am now having problems triggering with them, they only work at a very close range.
The rechargables are rated at 1.2v and standard AAAs are 1.5v, do you think it is this that makes a difference?
Anyone else had similar issues?
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Michigan based producer Sango mashes together Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" with Aaliyah's "One In A Million" for the killer dubbed out "BB Don't Cry (It's Gon' Be Ok)."
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Michigan based producer Sango mashes together Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" with Aaliyah's "One In A Million" for the killer dubbed out "BB Don't Cry (It's Gon' Be Ok)."
Following the release of her Kiss and Run EP, we caught up with the lovely Jenna Andrews for the second installment of our Covers series hosted by miss Maiya Norton.
Jenna shares where her love for soul music is rooted from, her experience working with legendary producers, what songs she sings in the shower, and boardroom performances. And of course, we share some resonant covers with Jenna for her reaction. As always, we close out with a live cover performance, this time of Jenna's personally selected cover of Aaliyah's "Hot Like Fire." Loving Jenna's unique spin on this classic.
Shouts to Rashid and Dave for holding down the video production!
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Mark de Clive-Lowe's live performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic a couple weeks ago was quite the treat. Featuring the intoxicating Nia Andrews on vocals, MdCL on keys, piano, Maschine drums, electronics and fx, Tim Lefebvre on bass and Dexter Story on drums, the appearance included performances from Renegades as well as a sparkling cover of Aaliyah's "More Than A Woman."
Below, you can stream Mark's entire appearance on the show. Or, simply cut to just the tracks on Soundcloud!
Our boy Nicholas Ryan Gant is one pretty darn rad vocalist – slept on highly, in fact. What we also love about this dude is his lightheartedness and willingness to just have have some fun. And his appreciation for food. Ok, we're done.
What's happened here is that homeboy took Aaliyah's "One In A Million" and flipped it just a tad to share with us the boundless depths of joy that is "Cereal Love." Act like you don't just adore it. Try.
Marques Toliver for Bounty from BOUNTY TV on Vimeo.
The Florida born Marques Toliver has heart; he escaped his family's grave digging business to pursue training as a classical violinist, which he then later abandoned for the thrill of making music in New York City. Recently, he released his debut EP, Butterflies Are Not Free on Bella Union (April 26th). Blending classical violin with R&B songwriting, the young artist's passion is palpable to the listener. And he's also just so darn adorable. Don't you just wanna give him a hug? We promise you will after you see the above video with him doing a cover of Aaliyah's "4 Page Letter." And of course we can't leave you without a treat to take home; after the jump you can stream and download "Deep In My Heart" from the latest project and check out the newly released video!


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I wonder how that works, exactly.
Posted by David Kennedy
When the Dolphins cheerleaders introduced their 2006 squad in April, there were 49 women. When they put up the squad photo on the website in August, there were 46 women. Now, if you look at their squad photo, 4 of the links are disabled, presumably indicating those women are no longer on the squad.
So, we dropped from 49 to 42 women since April. Where'd they go?
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After dual-booting Ubuntu 11.10 successfully on another computer, I finally decided it was time for me to make the leap from Windows 7 to Ubuntu. However, the installation on my Dell Inspiron Laptop did not go as smoothly as the HP laptop I installed Ubuntu on previously.
When I began to install Ubuntu, I got past the screen where it checks that you have the laptop plugged-in, and Internet connection and etc. The deviation from the previous installation came at this point. When I installed Ubuntu last time, there was a partition tool and a recommended partition already established and I simply accepted, installed and within 30 minutes was able to boot into Ubuntu and Windows 7, it was lovely!
This time, however, I selected "Something different," having that option and deleting the entire hard drive. I selected the 50 GB of free space and selected add partition. I even added a second partition for swap. Installation continued smoothly and Ubuntu came to life brilliantly. Only problem was, Windows 7 is nowhere to be found...
I am pretty sure I did not delete Windows, but I cannot see the Windows partition under the disk check and it does not show up under Grub. I have tried updating Grub and using command lines to generate the Grub list, but hd #'s are absent and root folders are just a series of letters and numbers.
I am not that upset over losing Windows, other than not having it available if I must use it as well as not being able to retrieve files. I appreciate any help.


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Radiation leaks in Japan raise eyebrows in the U.S.
More questions arise as Americans reconsider the risks of nuclear energy
By Shane Cohn and Michel Cicero 03/16/2011
Japan's magnitude 9.0 earthquake last week was the fifth-largest ever recorded. At press time, the death toll had climbed to more than 3,000 on the Japanese coast, where entire towns were washed away. Adding to the calamity there, and of some concern to residents on the West Coast of the U.S., are the explosions at nuclear reactors near the city of Sendai, which have released enough radiation there to justify mass evacuations of personnel and residents nearby.
As sketchy information from the Japanese government circulated this week and rumors made the rounds online, Americans struggled to get accurate data concerning the potential risk here, should prevailing winds push the radiation to our coast.
But as of Wednesday morning, major news outlets were reporting that there was virtually no threat to the U.S. — for now. Given the fluidity of the situation, that could change in the event of a complete "nuclear meltdown" similar to what happened at the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
According to Susanne Garfield-Jones, a spokesperson for the California Energy Commission, the term "nuclear meltdown" is not actually recognized by the International Atomic Energy Agency. But what it essentially means is a "severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor." When the core loses coolant, she explained, there is no way to keep the rods in the reactors from overheating, making it possible for them to burn or even "melt." When this happens, radiation escapes.
Garfield-Jones said the best-case scenario during an incident at a nuclear facility is a "partial melt," which happened at Three Mile Island in 1979. "The primary containment or the steel casing surrounding the reactor core held the overheated rods intact," during that accident. Worst case, she said is when the rods breach the casing and become entirely exposed. Japanese officials have admitted to a partial exposure of rods in one facility but are still in the process of containing the situation, using sea water to keep them cool.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services remains in contact with state and federal officials regarding the continuing developments in Japan. According to a press release from the Sheriff's Office earlier this week, "All the available information indicates weather conditions have taken the small releases from the Fukushima reactors out to sea away from the population. Given the thousands of miles between the two countries, Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. Territories and the U.S. West Coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity."
Meanwhile, the disaster in Japan has not only raised questions as to the safety of nuclear energy, but also about the placement of these facilities, which typically need to be built near large bodies of water. It's now known that Japan's reactors were not damaged by the massive earthquake, but by the tsunami. The two power plants situated on the West Coast — San Onofre and Diablo Canyon — are built to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 7 and 7.5, respectively. Both plants are near earthquake faults that aren't known to generate quakes any larger than that, but there is always the possibility of previously undiscovered faults both on- and offshore.
Were either of the reactors to fail completely, it's been reported that the residents within at least a 30-mile radius would be at risk for radiation poisoning. The likelihood of this happening, officials have stated, is very slim and there would be some forewarning.
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I'm reasonably surprised that the events in Japan haven't restarted discussion about long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. Since Congress evaded the Yucca Mountain permanent solution, what is the new plan? I believe that keeping spent fuel in water pools at nuclear plants has now been demonstrated to be suspect.
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No Kenyan artist has done more globe-trotting on the planet than Elkana Ong'esa. The Kisii stone sculptor whose seven tonne 'Bird of Peace' known as enyamuchera stands at the UNESCO entrance in Paris and has done since 1976, has literally let his art take him all around the world: from Canada and the US, to Europe, China and Japan several times, to most corners of Africa, including Uganda where he studied fine art at Makerere University.
Mr Ong'esa even represented Kenya in New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games in 1990.
Yet to this day, the former university lecturer cum ad hoc arts ambassador for Kenya has never been paid one single cent by the Kenya Government who gave Enyamuchera as "a gift" to UNESCO.
What's worse, UNESCO's secretary general Amadou M'Bow had originally planned to pay the artist since it was he who asked for the Kisii stone bird when he first saw the one Mr Ong'esa had made for Joseph Murumbi in 1976.
"But the government told UNESCO not pay me as they would 'take care of it', but they never did. To this day, I am still waiting to be reimbursed," said Mr Ong'esa, who was in Nairobi to bring his and his students' sculptures to display African Heritage's 40th anniversary celebrations at Alliance Francaise.
New institute
Mr Ong'esa didn't stay in Nairobi long as he had to return to his newly established Africa Institute for Culture and Development, based in the quarry-rich region of Tabaka in Kisii County where he's training skilled stone carvers in new techniques and trade 'secrets' of entrepreneurship.
Having taught fine art for years in many places, including Kisii Teachers College, Baraton University, YMCA Craft Training Centre and Lingnan University in Hong Kong, Mr Ong'esa chose to establish his own art school in the heart of Kisii stone country for several reasons.
"One is because I want to teach survival skills to artists so they will be able to market and sell every item they create," he said.
"I don't believe artists can afford to create 'art for art's sake'; it must be able to earn them their daily bread or it doesn't help them at all," said Mr Ong'esa who disagrees with critics of Kenyan artists who claim they shouldn't care about sales but only focus on their art.
"Those critics don't know how we Africans struggle. If they did, they wouldn't call us mercenary. They don't appreciate the fact that a hungry person cannot create works of art," he said.
Working with a wide variety of material—from granite, basalt and wood to sandstone and various shades of Kisii stone, as one can see right now at Alliance Francaise, Mr Ong'esa says stone carving itself is physically taxing.
Up until recently, only men were artists and artisans in Kisii. Women were only involved in washing, sanding and polishing artworks made either by brothers, fathers or spouses, since stone carving in Kisii is still a family affair.
But at his Africa Institute, Mr Ong'esa has already begun training women stone carvers, two of whom are exhibiting their sculptures at Alliance's ground floor: Pamela Otieno and Miriam Nyasita Okondo.
Upstairs one will find Mr Ong'esa's latest works, 'The Prophet and the Crow' carved in basalt and 'The Masked Hero' in granite.
His wood sculptures are older, carved during the 2007-8 post-election violence.
To see his more monumental sculptures, one must go either to Nairobi's American Embassy to see his "Dancing Birds" or to Paris or to China where his 10-foot tall bronze piece entitled "Her Mother" stands in the Open Air Sculpture Park since 2005 when he first went to China on a six week artist's residency.
Meanwhile, Mr Ong'esa's pieces are scattered all over the planet, in Uganda where he got his bachelor degree at Makerere and in Montreal, Canada where he completed his masters while researching Inuit soap stone carving and their cooperative operations.
By that time, the Kisii Soapstone Carvers Cooperative Society had already been established.
But once Mr Ong'esa returned to Kenya in the late 1980s, he helped restructure the Society using his knowledge of the Inuit cooperative model.
"The Canadian model cut out the middle man, so the cooperative markets Inuit carvings directly to buyers, leading to improved conditions for the artists," Mr Ong'esa said.
Boost living standards
His commitment to upgrading living standards of Kisii artisans has been a central incentive for Mr Ong'esa.
It's what got him involved in the Fair Trade movement, the Kenya Gatsby Trust and most recently the Lake Victoria Research Institute, all of which share his concern to see that artists be remunerated fairly and equitably.
The Africa Institute has essentially grown out of Mr Ong'esa's travels and seeing artists all over Africa need more control over how their works are marketed and sold.
"Otherwise, the middle man will continue to take the lion's share of profits and the artists will remain poor," he said.
So despite his own success, Mr Ong'esa remains grounded in Kisii County and in his concern for carvers to not only improve the quality of creative expression through learning new techniques and tools, but also he's committed to seeing they also learn entrepreneurship and other survival skills.
His one stipulation for admission to his institute is that applicants already work in the realm of stone carving.
"Our students will be welcoming sculptors from all over the world in August for the second International Stone Sculpture Symposium entitled 'Talking Stones'," Mr Ong'esa said.
Promising no luxury hotels for visitors coming from Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, he says everyone will be living in the village near the quarries.
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One of the few things we remember our parents teaching us when we're children is to respect your elders. I would say that, that lesson is even more important when it involves a blood thirsty Sith Lord. Directed by Sean Soong, 'SubWars' is an animated short about an Force and lightsaber wielding old man who isn't offered a seat in a fully packed subway. Unfortunately, for everyone in that subway, the shit hits the fan.
Hit the jump and check out the video for SubWars!


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Join forces with thousands of communities nationwide for the "31st Annual National Night Out" crime prevention event. National Night Out, which is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch and co-sponsored by Morro Bay Police Department and Morro Bay Neighborhood Watch, will involve over 16,124 communities from all 50 states. In all, over 37.8 million people are expected to participate in 'America's Night Out Against Crime'.
National Night Out is designed to: (1) Heighten crime awareness; (2) Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime efforts; and (3) Strengthen community-public safety partnerships.
From 5 to 7:00 p.m. on August 5th, residents throughout Morro Bay are invited to stop by and spend the evening with the police and Morro Bay public safety teams including the fire department, harbor department, coast guard, American Red Cross, parks department and CERT. Morro Bay Neighborhood Watch will be hosting a barbecue at Del Mar Park in North Morro Bay. There will be crime prevention information, displays and demonstrations, as well as activities for the youth.


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In 2003, after it became clear that nothing would stop the US march to war in Iraq, and the failure of political action turned to despair. Art Hazelwood turned to engraving to focus his bile at particular details of the corpulently hubristic government that the US had become.
These images are not by a witness to war and its horrors, but by a witness to home front jingoism, hypocritical cheerleaders, fantasy projections, and monumental stupidity.
Ten engravings, and five exhibition posters are reproduced. Introductory essay by art critic DeWitt Cheng.
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JBW TO THOMAS CARLYLE; 25 October 1825; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18251025-JBW-TC-01; CL 3:393-398.
Templand—Tuesday [25 October 1825]
My Dearest,
Your letter was very consolatory to me; and much do I stand in need of consolation: for since you departed this life, I have been the forlornest, most dispirited of creatures. "What can be worse than to dwell here, driven out from bliss,"1 amid wind and whist and ill-humour? Is there any livelier image of hell? Oh Time bring the roses2 as fast as you can; for the winter of our discontent3 is ill to bear!
It was on the day after your departure, that the storm, which has been brewing in my Mother's mind for many weeks, broke forth in copious eloquence. Oh mercy! what cruel, unreasonable things she said; but nothing distressed me so much as her bitter reflections against you, whom she accused of having "bewitched and poisoned my mind." She was unjust, I told her; my connection with so wise and honourable a man could be attended with no ill consequence; and, any way, such language, now, was out of time,—particularly, since it was with her knowledge and consent, that I had come to look upon you as my partner for life. She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of duty; and took much bootless pains to explain the inconsistency of her conduct towards you. "She had, indeed, given her consent to our union" (she said) "when you should have made yourself a name and a situation in life [entire phrase underscored twice]; but only because I asked it, with tears, upon my bended knees, at a time, too, when my life seemed precarious!!" (to the best of my recollection I was enjoying tolerable health)[.] "Afterwards, however, when you came to Haddington, when she watched your temper, and perceived its effect upon me, it was then her soul was torn &c &c &c" "A pack of damned nonsense, the whole of it!["] "Temper!" "effect!" Truly, she has seen her own temper have a hundred times worse effects upon me than ever yours had, without being troubled with such tender solicitude. No! my own Darling! we shall not be parted on this account. Your irritability is the very natural consequence of continual suffering; when you are well, and happy (oh that you were!) you will be the best humoured man alive. And tho' you should never be good-humoured, what then? Do we not love each other? And what is love if it can not make all rough places smooth! Nein! I am not afraid that my happiness will be wrecked upon this rock; nor is my Mother either if the truth were told. I could lay my life this grand objection never entered her head, till she was sitting with the pen in her hand, hunting after an excuse for so much caprice.— Another cause of offence is my intimacy with Mrs Montagu, "a woman whom I never saw, whom I know nothing about, and for whom nevertheless I have the most unbounded love and admiration"— Now Heaven grant me patience! for this would have made Job himself cry "Damnation"! and gallop half a mile! What! my honest esteem for a clever, high-minded woman, who has offered herself to me as a friend, with the most captivating grace and frankness, is to be looked upon and persecuted as a heinous fault! But it is to no purpose! I will go on corresponding with Mrs Montagu as long as I have ink and paper; and no man, woman or child shall prevent me from loving and admiring her as ardently as I please. You too, my Dearest, I will continue to love and admire tho' the whole Earth should blame my choice; for I know in whom I have put my trust, and my resolution is s[t]eadfast as a rock— I have told this to my Mother, once for all, in a tone of decision, which should prevent further remonstrance—
Nevertheless I am any thing but insensible to her displeasure; and rather than be under it I would make every sacrifice consistent with reason. But it would be folly to make myself the slave of her variable humour— Oh it is heart-breaking, shocking, to live in this manner, with one to whom I am bound by the holiest tie! deprived of her sympathy in the matters which lie next my heart! obliged to be silent on my dearest hopes, except when I am called upon to defend them! How different it would be, if there were that cordial, trustful affection betwixt us which ought to be betwixt parent and child!—but, alas! alas! we understand each other no more!4
What will become of me until I have you again? Tell our worthy Doctor to write me out a recipe for patience, the stock which I received from Nature being well nigh exhausted, or converted into furor5— Our departure has been already talked of for one week; in another, perhaps, with the blessing of God, it may be executed—but decision is a thing which has nought to do with our proceedings—
I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness: but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins— She says "Mr Carlyle ought not to have stept in between you and your kind intention; nay more, he ought himself to have seen my boy— How many miles I should have gone willingly to pleasure him or ought belonging to him!— But a man is always—a Man—a fine animal in his way, yet selfish withal"— Do now lay this to heart "Dear"; and be tolerant of Mr Charles, cub altho' he be—
So Edward Irving is gone! gone without seeing me! Well! times are changed and we are changed in them!—but it matters not!— I pity the poor man for the loss of his little boy; it is well, however, that he bears it so manfully. According to Mrs Montagu's account of the matter, I was imagining him "in the most awful distress, quite overwhelmed by the sudden stroke": but our fair friend is a lover of the pictureesque— You might have read his letter to me, en passant, a constrained, affected, extraordinary performance as may be! Poor Edward! poor white man! Let us pity him, as you observe, and be thankful!——Oh Lord!
I was interrupted yesterday by furious rapping at the door— It was my Lancer-Cousin!6 arrived in a fine emblazoned chariot with four horses; and all glittering in jewels, from the gold pendant of his rosecoloured cap, to the ruby buckles of his slippers. You never saw such a man! He is, if possible more Adonis-like, witty, and elegant than ever. Such an air! such a voice! such a profusion of little dogs! I wish, in my heart, he were returned, to the place whence he came; for I will confess to you, dear friend, that—you have not the slightest cause to be jealous—jealous!—oh mercy! when I compare this fine gentleman with the man I love; what is he after all? A mere painted butterfly, fluttering over the flowery surface of the Earth—the creature of a sunshiny day! while he—my own—is like to the royal Eagle, who soars aloft thro' the regions of ether, and feasts his eye on the glories of the sun. "Zwey unverträglichere Gegentheile fand die Natur in ihrem Umkreis nicht"!7—but "ohe jam satis!"8
We have had another visitor of an altogether different species— the old woman of Craigenputtock, who came riding on the "ill, thrawn [stubborn, misshapen] beast," bringing "a wee compliment" along with her, in the shape of a pair of black, silk mittens. Poor old Nany! she had got them, I suppose, at some funeral, and laid them by, to make me wae for a whole evening.
Pity you did not see Dr Badams! and ten thousand pities Dr Badams did not see me! Suppose, now, that Mrs Montagu and I had been of the party; and that your friend had fallen in love with me, and rolled on the floor.9 I could never, certainly, have withstood such a demonstration; but must have gone off to Birmingham on the spot— and what would Mr Wisdom10 have said then?—that "I was squirting a syringe in the face of an admantine rock"? or would he not rather have rolled upon the floor in his turn? You will tell me when I am gone to Birmingham—
"Tell our Brother John to write us,"11 as soon as he arrives in Edinr; that I may know what house in what street contains the best of Doctors—and tell him, moreover, that "every thing in the world is made up of heaven and hell" or he would be oftener at my side, to gladden me with "the broad Atlantic of his countenance"— Most excellent Doctor! I have a real affection for him— My kindest regards to all the rest, not excepting even wee affectation12— I have been twice at Dabton and have not executed your commission— Nevertheless you must not think me cold in the service— To get your people into a good farm, I would readily give one of my fingers (with your permission) but I found it impossible to overcome my horror of asking anything like a favour— You will write early next week to George-Square (the Glasgow project is given up) and you will bear in recollection that a fortnight used to be the time, which ought not surely to be lengthened now—now that we are more to each other than ever— I hope in Heaven you may go to London. I like the idea of it more than any scheme you have proposed to me— London must surely be a far finer place to live in than cold Edinr. But you are talking young Lady, of matters which you do not understand, and besides it is time you should make an end of your letter— Eh bien! plan as your reason and the Gods direct you—so that the thought of me gives vigour to the execution it is enough. My will is cast into fusion— "Was sind die Haupttugend[en] der Weiber? Geduld und Gehorsam" ["What are the chief virtues of women? Patience and obedience"].— This will cost you double postage, but if I choose to write two sheets, you cannot choose but pay for them— I am done— "console toi [console yourself]!["] God bless you my dearest—I am yours all
Jane B Welsh
Have you heard of Mr Gillespies13 death— He was married but a few weeks ago to a young Lady whom he was engaged to for years— This is truly awful— Oh that I could believe like Mrs Strachey! for except the word of God there is no stronghold here on earth—
Should the words Libertas &c begin all of them with capitals? Write them down for me, and also the motto round the candle,14 tho I rather think I shall fix upon damnation after all—it is short and expressive


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IN the world of crossovers and off roaders, the Vauxhall Antara is the motoring equivalent of the Beast of Bodmin.
We are told it is out there, but just how many of us have seen it?
At least the beast is reckoned to have left some footprints.
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Seriously, I think I could count on two or maybe even the one hand just how many I have spotted on the road in the last 12 months.
To my mind, that, for a great many people, represents a missed opportunity.
Not like missing the Beatles playing atop the Apple Building in London in1969 or even Clive Mendonca's hat-trick in the 1998 play-off final, I grant you, but still something that might be regretted all the same.
You see, while the Antara might not be the best car in its class, it is also a long way off being the worst.
Given an overhaul last year, there's a new look on the outside and new equipment on the inside. Admittedly, it's not been subjected to the major surgery, but there's a new grille, fog lights, rear lights and a panel to protect the front and rear while off-roading.
Under the bonnet are two new diesel engines, both 2.2 CDTi units, but with differing levels of performance. The lesser of the two puts out 161bhp, while its bigger sibling offers 182bhp.
We were given the keys to the bigger of the two. Smooth and powerful, it had grunt both low down and high up the range, but I am sure I could have got by just as well with the smaller one.
What I couldn't get by with, however, was the gearbox, which wore me out every time I used it. I've heard it described as notchy, but to me it was like to hadn't ever seen a drop of oil. It's no exaggeration to say I felt physically exhausted after a trip to town and back.
The Antara's steering's a little light and the ride won't be to everyone's liking, but while it is true it's a little on the firm side, it's not exactly jarring. The car's 4x4 system ensures there's plenty of grip to be had and you can get a little playful with it if the mood takes you.
The interior, meanwhile, is nice to look at it, but investigate it a little closer and the quality lets it down a little, when compared with some of its rivals.
Things aren't exactly going to fall off in your hands, but the likes of the heater controls and a few of the other switches are a little lightweight in their construction.
The Antara has a decent sound system, which combines a bright and modern-looking satellite navigation system. However, the unit itself, a touchscreen affair, is a little overly-complicated to operate.
When it comes to space, you can seat five in comfort. We went on quite a long journey with my two kids and mother-in-law in the rear and, unlike with some other cars, where the middle seat is just for decoration, she never complained once about being poked in the ribs by the little ones.
The boot has quite a high floor, so that impinges on the amount and size of things you can load up with, but we still managed to get two bikes and related paraphernalia in without much fuss. In any case, if you need extra room, you can just drop the seats down, as was the case when I took a washing machine to the dump.
While the Antara doesn't tick all the boxes in the way some of its rivals might, if you want something a little different that has more pluses than minuses then I don't think you would have any real regrets. The only issue might be tracking one down first.
ENGINE: 2.2 CDTi MAX POWER: 184bhp MAX TORQUE: 295lb/ft MAX SPEED: 124mph 0-60MPH: 9.6 secs AVERAGE FUEL CONSUMPTION: 42.8mpg (combined) CO2: 175g/km EQUIPMENT (includes): Switchable Electronic Stability Programme (ESP); Anti-lock Braking System (ABS); Descent Control System (DCS); Traction Control (TC); Hill Start Assist (HSA); Airbags; Electronic climate control; Electrically heated front seats; Three-spoke leather steering wheel; Front fog lights; Dark-tinted glass; Automatic self-levelling suspension; Electric parking brake; Touchscreen MP3 compatible CD player with satellite navigation; 19ins alloys; Remote control alarm; Xenon headlights; Leather seat facings.


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- Chaos Orbs will no longer be soulbound. If Wrath is any indicator, this means everyone (not just crafters who can use them) will be able to roll on the orbs. Watch for them to start appearing on the Auction House shortly after the patch hits live servers. If you have a good stash, I would try using them up now while they're more valuable. I also won't be surprised if more recipes start requiring the orbs, which could bolster prices.
- Raw gems are no longer vendorable. Flux at Power Word: Gold posted about it recently. You should read his post for more analysis and information. My hunch is this is an oversight/bug by Blizzard, but maybe not. Perhaps the Jewelcrafting nerfs are not finished yet. I'm not panicking about it, but if you have a large stash of raw commons that you don't have anything else to do with and don't feel like cutting, you might want to vendor them before the patch if this goes live. For ideas on how to use the raw gems, check out Shockkmaister's post on the Obsidium Shuffle.
- Epic gems transmutable? Dataminers discovered that there will be alchemy transmutes for the epic gems. However, Kaliope logged in and couldn't find the spells on the Alchemy trainer, nor did they appear as a discovery from an existing transmute. Either Blizzard hasn't connected the dots yet, or the spells are in and won't be added until after a few months on live servers. Keep your eyes on this.
- PVP armor sets are being automatically upgraded again. Kaliope also confirmed that our existing PVP starter sets are being automatically upgraded to the new iLevel 377 versions. These are usually pretty solid sellers during the opening week, then settle into a sometimes profitable price point. Stock up the materials now and be ready to craft them upon logging in.
- Tier Gear is only available from raiding. The best armor for your class, that gives you a bonus based on wearing 2 or 4 pieces from the set at the same time will only be available as boss drops from the new Dragon Soul raid. No more buying that armor with Valor Points. However, to compensate for the lack of tier gear, more VP items will be available to cover the missing slots. Non-raiding characters will have the same number of items to gem/enchant as before, but raiders could conceivably enchant a non-tier chest, followed by their tier drop.
- Looking For Raid will be added. Much like the dungeon finder, people will be able to join a queue to do a random Dragon Soul raid. More raids might be added later, but for now it's just the "current" raid in 4.3. Gear progression will now go Regular Dungeons >> Heroic Dungeons >> 4.3 Heroic Dungeons >> Raid Finder >> Normal Raid >> Heroic Raid. This adds a level of gearing that should help stabilize the gem/enchant market later into the patch. This is good news.
- Gear from the new dungeons will be iLevel 378. The linked article has an up-to-date as of posting list of gear in the new dungeons. These will be upgrades for anyone not raiding Firelands. All those troll pieces people have been getting will need to be upgraded. Even some normal Firelands raid gear might be "sidegrades" for people and will need enchanting and gemming.
- Valor Point rewards are changing again. The current plan is to give 150 VPs from any heroic dungeon (from the original Cataclysm dungeons through the new 4.3 dungeons. Troll dungeons will be shortened to 4 bosses from 6 and placed in the same tier as the 4.0 dungeons. The new dungeons seem to be designed to be shorter as well. All this adds up to faster dungeon runs and more people capping Valor Points for the week, which will lead to more gear purchases. Initially, we'll also see a larger influx of Maelstrom Crystals from the new dungeons, which will lower the prices. The new Maelstrom Shatter spell for enchanters will allow you to convert each Maelstrom Crystal into two Heavenly Shards. After people get tired of the new dungeons, however, many will return to the older ones and the supply of Heavenly Shards vs. Maelstrom Crystals will start to balance out.
- New crafted epics were added, then updated. Mostly this is just an update to the existing items that were found and mentioned in Mommar's post linked above. Sockets have been added and their stats are a little higher. The patterns look to be obtained in the Dragon Soul raid and will require a raid-drop material to create, much like the patterns from Firelands did.
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What opinions does everyone hold about this? I was recently exposed to Waiting for Superman, a video on our government/public school system (part one linked here).
This is a discussion on Why are US government schools so bad? within the The Debate Forum forums, part of the Topics of Interest category; What opinions does everyone hold about this? I was recently exposed to Waiting for Superman, a video on our government/public ...
What opinions does everyone hold about this? I was recently exposed to Waiting for Superman, a video on our government/public school system (part one linked here).
My favorite part of Waiting For Superman was in the first 15 minutes the narrator says "for a long time it was thought that poverty was one of the primary reasons for failing schools in America, but now many experts are saying that's not the case." Then the film went on to be an advertisement for charter schools without actually explaining who these experts were or why poverty actually doesn't matter with regards to school performance. Also one of the film's big heroes is renowned cheater and school "reform" failure Michelle Rhee. I thought it was a great comedy though.
Here's a couple articles that pretty thoroughly debunk this propaganda piece:
Rick Ayers: An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform
The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books
And if you don't feel like reading those whole articles, the film's Wikipedia page has a good summary of the many problems with the film's argument. Basically many of the "facts" presented are distortions and half-truths at best and outright lies at worst.
All I see there is rhetoric, not one single argument of any kind of substanceAuthor and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions."[24] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations."[24] The film does, however, note that since 1971, inflation-adjusted per-student spending has more than doubled, "from $4,300 to more than $9,000 per student," but that over the same period, test scores have "flatlined." Ayers also critiqued the film's promotion of a greater focus on "top-down instruction driven by test scores," positing that extensive research has demonstrated that standardized testing "dumbs down the curriculum" and "reproduces inequities," while marginalizing "English language learners and those who do not grow up speaking a middle class vernacular."[24] Lastly, Ayers contends that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that in his view, "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized."[24]
AS for public education, I can't say it has been a success here, 1 out of 5 citizens here are almost totally illiterate, and my generation has very poor reading/writing/critical skills in general, and this was before the new reform here, which dumbed the curriculum down even further, they keep trying to sell the ''access to school'' myth but this stuff is getting really old..
I saw an interesting video on stumble upon in the past year that I thought hit the nail on the head. The school system in the U.S. was based in the Germans school system that led to the nazism. It's first objective was to teach kids but also to indoctrinate them into their nation. Thus 50 years later when Nazism arose the citizens of Germany gave it their full support.
Another goal of it is to break family ties, so the student feels like he is more a part of his country than his own family in a sense.
Lastly they don't want to teach you livable life skills in school they just want you to have an idea. It's more about who do you know than what you know and the weaker the school system are the more inefficient it's education will be. The goal is to educate enough to where they think they know but have than dumb enough where they don't understand the real machinations of society.
I don't mean to be rude, but the Ayers article is painful to read, assertions, ad homs, emotional manipulation and the ever-present justification that 'oh the school system isn't the problem, we just need more money', reading it feels like a GOP debate completely turned on it's head, I'll be sure to check out the other article, but I'm far from convinced so far, since the same tune is being sung here with our public schools, with little concrete results to show for.
Low expectations from parents, low scores from kids, low reputation from schools, low support from the community at large. It's a vicious cycle. Once people start to care after the sensationalism has passed then we can finally start to make some real progress.
is a fact for example) have plenty of facts, including the following:
-Only 17% of charter schools are superior to matched public schools in math performance
-That charter schools are allowed to expel students for low academic performance, so statistics on the "success" of well-performing charter schools are misleading
-The film claims that 70% of 8th-graders cannot read at grade level, which is a bald-faced lie, because the NAEP, the source of this "statistic," does not measure performance by grade level
-As the film points out but doesn't dwell on, only one in five charter schools reach the levels of success enjoyed by the charter schools profiled in the film. The film completely ignores the majority of charter schools that perform the same or worse than equivalent public schools. As the Ravitch article points out:-The film completely ignores poverty and income correlations and focuses almost completely on the quality of the teachers, even though, as the Ravitch article states, studies have found that about 60% of achievement is attributable to nonschool factors, primarily family income.The propagandistic nature of Waiting for "Superman" is revealed by Guggenheim's complete indifference to the wide variation among charter schools. There are excellent charter schools, just as there are excellent public schools. Why did he not also inquire into the charter chains that are mired in unsavory real estate deals, or take his camera to the charters where most students are getting lower scores than those in the neighborhood public schools? Why did he not report on the charter principals who have been indicted for embezzlement, or the charters that blur the line between church and state? Why did he not look into the charter schools whose leaders are paid $300,000–$400,000 a year to oversee small numbers of schools and students?
-The film points to Finland as an example the US should emulate and then goes on to bash teacher's unions for most of the rest of the film, despite the fact that Finland has a fully unionized teacher workforce. I didn't even need to read the article, I picked up on this when I was watching the movie and guffawed heartily.
Also, finland's a small, fairly monoethnic country. Both these things matter. It's just unfair. (btw, china's numbers always bug me since their rankings are based on shanghai. Include tibet and the further out provinces, I don;t think they're stars anymore).-The film points to Finland as an example the US should emulate and then goes on to bash teacher's unions for most of the rest of the film, despite the fact that Finland has a fully unionized teacher workforce. I didn't even need to read the article, I picked up on this when I was watching the movie and guffawed heartily.
I would ask why a documentary filmmaker would lie so blatantly but after seeing the reactions other people have had to this film (not in this thread I should say, no one's really weighed in on the film itself besides me so far) I can see why, most people won't bother to look further into the "facts" presented in the film. Film is truly a wonderful medium for propaganda.