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• One of the West Coast's most potent hitters at the top of line-up, she is equally adept at slapping, or lining multi-base hits to the gaps.
• Enters senior season ranked top-10 all-time for Ducks on for triples in a season (fourth, 6-tied, 2010), and hits in a game (10th, 5-tied).
• Defensively, has played both left and center field the past three seasons.
• Like the rest of Duck's heralded frosh class in 2010, showed no intimidation in debut season with a host of clutch, late-inning hits (including wins over Oregon State and then-No. 19 Texas A&M).
• During 2010 season was rewarded with Pac-12 All-Freshman Team, All-Region and Pac-12 Player of the Week laurels.
• Ended freshman campaign only .01 shy of Duck top-10 ranking for top season batting averages (.387).
2012 SEASON (Junior)
One of the team's most experienced outfield returnees, started +50 games for Ducks for the third straight year, including 48 in left field and two at designated player. Ranked among team leaders in sacrifice bunts (second, 7) and steal attempts (fourth, 9). Rapped multiple hits in six games, including four vs. NCAA advancers - at #14 Stanford (2-for-3), Portland State (2-for-3), at #11 Arizona (2-for, 3-for-3) - and the season opener vs. UCSB (2-for-2). Kicked off slate as key part of line-up and hit .409 through team's first three tourneys and 15 games. A month later, connected on a five-game hit streak in late April against NCAA advancers Portland State, #1 California and at #11 Arizona (10-for-14, .714). Her other multi-hit game came in March vs. Virginia (2-for-2, 3 RBI). Her second-inning, two-out triple vs. the Cavaliers was the game-winner, and helped avenge a loss from the year before in Orlando. Defensively, she logged an .886 fielding mark (38 putouts, 1 assist, 5 errors). Drew cheers from Duck crowd in 5-3 win over #7 Washington with her sixth-inning sliding catch. An inning later, she retired the final out helping to nail the potential tying runner on a 7-5-4 play who had singled and tried to advance to second base.
Season Highs
Runs scored: 2 - vs UC Santa Barbara (2/10/12); 2 - at #11 Arizona (4/28/12)
Hits: 3 - at #11 Arizona (4/29/12)
RBIs: 3 - vs Virginia (3/4/12 at Orlando, Fla.)
Doubles: 1 - vs Boise State (3/28/12)
Triples: 1 - vs Virginia (3/4/12 at Orlando, Fla.)
Total bases: 4 - vs Virginia (3/4/12 at Orlando, Fla.)
Walks: 1, 10 times, most recent vs #5 Tennessee (6/2/12)
Sac hits: 1, Seven times, most recent at #14 Stanford (4/7/12)
Stolen bases: 1, Five times, most recent at #14 Stanford (4/7/12)
Putouts: 4 - vs San Diego State (3/11/12 at Fresno, Calif.)
Assists: 1 - vs #7 Washington (4/10/12)
2011 SEASON (Sophomore)
The speedy outfielder and slap-hitting threat started 52 of her team-high 58 games played, including 25 opening nods in left field and 27 in center field. Ended season ranked third on squad in stolen bases (12) and starts (52), fourth in multi-hit games (9-tied) and fifth in hits (39). In non-conference action, hit .337 and led team in hits (31) and stolen bases (12). Split time between center field (27 starts, mostly in opening months of season) and left field (25 starts). Saw most of her time batting in the second and ninth slots in the line-up (29 / 21 starts). Cracked her second career home run – a three-run home shot in win 10-0 win against Boise State the second week of the season. Stole a team season-high three bases in a six-inning, 11-3 victory over Utah State in mid-March.
Season Highs
Hits: 2 Nine times, last at Cal Poly (3/25/11)
RBIs: 3 vs Boise State (2/20/11)
Doubles: 1 Three times (last at PSU (3/23/11))
Total bases: 4 vs Boise State (2/20/11)
Stolen bases: 3 vs Utah State (3/20/11)
2010 SEASON (Freshman): Pac-12 All-Freshman Team / All-Region Second Team / All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention
Right from the start, validated herself as one of the Pac-12's top newcomers and ultimately finished eighth in the Pac-12 in batting (.387). Also paced the squad in triples (4) – second-best in the Pac-12 – and multi-hit games (19-tied), and ranked second for UO in hits (63) and longest hitting streak (9 games). In other offensive categories, she stood second on the squad in stolen bases (7); third in on-base percentage (.429) and walks (12); and fourth in multi-RBI games (6). On NCAA season-ending rankings, ranked top 100 nationally in categories for triples (45th, 4) and batting (72nd, .387). One of four Ducks to start at least 56 of the 57 games in '10 (and played all 57), with 53 opening nods in left field, two in center field and one at designated player. One of four Ducks to receive Pac-12 Player of the Week laurels after she led UO in batting the Cathedral City Classic Palm Springs in late February (.800, 8-for-10), hits (8), total bases (8-tied), slugging (.800) and on-base percentage (.818), and had the game-winning RBI vs. then-No. 19 Texas A&M. In first weekend of Pac-12 play, hit .462 at Oregon State (6-for-13, triple, homer) to give UO the series for the first time in three years. Her first round-tripper at any level, a three-run shot to right field, came in the seventh inning in the finale and clinched a 6-5 win. In that same Civil War contest, also had a two-out, two-run triple in the fifth inning as part of her team-season 5 RBI game. Her other three game-winning RBI's came vs. Fullerton (second-inning single in 6-0 win), at Portland State (second-inning 2-run single in 2-0 win), and vs. Long Beach State (fifth-inning bunt single in 1-0 win). In the Atlanta NCAA regional, she paced the team in hitting (.545), hits (6), triples (3), slugging (.727) in the three-game regional. Went 3-for-5 in the finale over No. 7 Georgia Tech, and lined a go-ahead RBI triple in the fourth inning, then singled again in the sixth inning. Over 10-game spring break span, hit .500 (12-for-24, double 8 RBI, 4 walks) vs. Boise State, Idaho State, North Dakota, Portland State and Seattle. Opened collegiate career with .389 hitting mark in Kajikawa Classic (6-for-16, 1 double, 1 triple, 3 RBI). In final non-conference road tourney, opened March with team-high .500 batting mark (3-for-6, 1 RBI) in three games in San Diego Classic. Started career with a five-game hitting streak, then in late February and early March rattled off a nine-game streak that included five multi-hit games (and a season-high three hits twice). Two weeks later, added another seven-game streak that included five straight multi-hit games (the last four of which came vs. Oregon State and California). Defensively, logged a .982 fielding mark with 52 putouts and two assists.
Season Highs
Runs scored: 3, vs Idaho State (3/26/10)
Hits: 3, Four times (most recent vs Ga. Tech (5/23/10))
RBIs: 5, at Oregon State (4/3/10))
Doubles: 1, Three times (most recent vs Idaho St. (3/26/10))
Triples: 1, Four times (most recent vs. Ga. Tech (5/23/10))
Total bases: 7, at Oregon State (4/3/10))
High School: 2008 and '07 Louisville Slugger Regional and National All-American. Was a first-team all-state and Greater Spokane League (GSL) outfielder as a junior and sophomore. Also a 3A all-state honorable mention pick and GSL first-team honoree as a senior. Led the league as a sophomore in stolen bases, and ranked second in runs and sixth in batting (.547). As a freshman, was a first-team all-league infielder and hit .453 with a .586 on-base percentage, and stood second in the league in stolen bases and walks. Helped her team win the state title her sophomore season, advance to the championship finale her junior year and state tournament her season campaign.
Personal: Sports Marketing / Business Administration major. Parents are Luke and Shan, and has one younger brother, Caleb.
Year Avg GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP OB% SF-SH SB-AT PO A FLD%
2010 .387 57 56 163 36 63 3 4 1 26 77 .472 12 1 .429 1-1 7-9 52 2 .982
2011 .273 58 52 143 25 39 3 0 1 12 45 .315 6 2 .311 0-3 12-14 40 1 .976
2012 .241 57 50 108 18 26 1 1 0 4 29 .269 10 0 .305 0-7 5-9 38 1 .886
RBIs: 5 at Oregon State (4/3/10))
Triples: 1 Five times (most recent vs. Virginia (3/4/12))
Total bases: 7 at Oregon State (4/3/10))
Stolen bases: 3 vs Utah State (3/20/11)
Runs scored: 2 - vs UC Santa Barbara (2/10/12 at Tempe, Ariz.); 2 - at #11 Arizona (4/28/12)
Hits: 3, Six times, most recent at #11 Arizona (4/29/12)
Doubles: 1, Eight times
Triples: 1, 5 times, most recent vs. Boise State (3/28/12)
Home runs: 1, at Oregon State, Apr 03, 2010 ; vs Boise State, Feb 20, 2011
Runs scored: 3, Three times; Utah State, (3/20/11) ; vs UNLV, (3/25/11); Idaho State (3/26/10)
Walks: 2, vs Mississippi, (2/11/11)
Hit by pitch: 1, Three times, Utah State (3/20/11); Seattle (3/25/10), UNLV (3/26/11)
Sac flies: 1, Missouri (5/30/10)
Sac bunts: 1, 11 times
Field chances: 5, at Oregon State, Apr 03, 2010
Putouts: 4, 6 times
Assists: 1, 4 times
FUN FACTS (& My Favorites)
Nicknames: Alpal, Allie B, Cheese, Burger B, Bacon, Sugar Buns, B.
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Stuffed animal: My kitty, that never left my side when I was younger.
Pets: Missy and Gabby (dogs) Tanner (cat)
If I got a tattoo: I would get the Kansas state sunflower.
Favorite Saying: "Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can't stop you. " - Jeffrey Gitomer
If I could go back into time: I'd go to the 70s
Hobbies: Arts and crafts, shopping, decorating
Greatest Accomplishment: So far, signing with Oregon :)
Something most people would be surprised to know: I want dreadlocks!!!!!
Personal Hero: Parents
What did you want to be when you were little: A jolly rancher flavor inventor haha hence the nickname "sugar buns"
Career Profession: Sports Business
If I could have dinner with anyone: Lil Wayne
I'd die without my: Ipod
First car: 1997 Chevy Cavalier
Favorite Place Visited: Mazatlan, Mexico
Favorite Place you want to travel: I want to travel the world, but for now I would like to go to Australia.
Favorite place to take visitors: Howe Field; the walk to Autzen Stadium
Food: Any seafood
Favorite dish: Salmon and veggies
Favorite snack: Wheat thins and cheese
Pizza: Pepperoni
Drink: Dutch Bros
Best Dish I can make: Homemade macaroni and cheese
Favorite movie: Christmas Vacation, Legally Blonde
Favorite actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Favorite actress: Reece Witherspoon
Favorite comedy tv show: Entourage
Favorite drama: Bones, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars
Tv reality show: Biggest Loser
Cartoon character: Tweety bird
Singer/Band: Carrie Underwood, Shaina Twain, Drake, Lil Wayne
Karaoke song: Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Favorite book: Anything - John Wooden
Favorite Board Game: Yatzee!!!!!
I chose Oregon because: Close to home, school is beautiful, amazing atmosphere, && of course SOFTBALL
Funniest thing a coach has said: (with his New Zealand accent) Y'all are out there playin like a bunch of kitty cats... Coach White :)
Special item when I travel: Ipod
Most embarrassing athletic moment: Trying to go up to bat when i was actually just being called in to be a pinch runner... I got the funniest look from Coach Allister when i got on first base to run :)
Biggest Pranksteron the team: Mo
Funniest person on the team: Ashely Kivett
Biggest Fans: Parents
Q: How long have you been a Duck fan or wanted to come to Oregon?
AB: "I knew I wanted to become a Duck when I started coming to the camps at age 13. So you could say that i have been a fan since then!"
Q: When you talk to others about how you love being a Duck, what are the first things you talk about?
AB: "How lucky I am that I get to be a part of a program like this one. Not everyone is chosen to be a Duck and I was and thats a great feeling."
Q: Besides athletics, what things initially attracted you to the University part of U of O?
AB: "I am a business major and we have a great school here so that got my attention. The surroundings and atmosphere here are amazing, with great school spirit!!"
Q: What things do you remember from your Oregon recruiting trip?
AB: "I remember eating all the time! I was stuffed the whole trip :) and getting to hang out with the team at night and get to finally meet them. I was nervous initially, but the the girls made it fun!"
Q: In what ways does playing in the Pac-12 Conference prepare you to be your best?
AB: "The Pac-12 is definitely the most challenging softball conference. Playing against the best teams all season makes us physically and mentally stronger for entering the post season. We know that we have played against the greatest competition and are prepared to just go out their and just play ball when the postseason comes!"
Q: What are some of the things that the coaches emphasized in the recruiting process?
AB: "They emphasized that our team is "family." We are with each other for numbers of hours a day. We eat, sleep, practice, travel, have fun and play ball together so we are a softball family."
Q: What are the special parts about playing in a college town like Eugene?
AB: "This town is committed to Oregon sports 100%. Fans recognize you off the field and love you because Oregon Athletics are their entertainment. We have a great support group of fans called the Daisy Ducks and they are at every game, they bake us goodies before every trip we go on, and just live for the game of softball."
Q: Talk about the team's chemistry, and what sets it apart from other programs?
AB: "I think what sets our team apart now after this fall, is that have more fight in us. We know our potential, and we know what we're capable of and this year and were not gonna go down with out a fight."
Q: Describe Coach White's mission statement or general philosophy to being successful, both as a team and as an individual.
AB: "Coach White has always said from day one to never give up! Even if your at your lowest of lows, just think about the next pitch, not the last error, or the last at-bat. To think about the next pitch and move on and let the other stuff go. This can bring success, because you have to leave behind selfishness in the game. Instead of thinking about batting averages, you don't see a "ground out to second," you start to see moving the runner from 2nd to 3rd and now the next batter is going to score that runner."
Q: When you work with Coach White, what elements of his coaching style do you appreciate the most?
AB: "I appreciate that Coach White can get out to the field and actually show my what we wants. He throws to us like he's facing an opponent back when he played and doesn't take it easy on us."
Q: Oregon's state-of-the art facilities are a big thing in the recruiting process - what were your impressions of various ones?
AB: "The Casanova Center is drop dead amazing. Everything about it screams Oregon and its top of the line stuff. The Jaqua Academic Student Learning Center is the most beneficial. That place just makes you want to go in and study :)"
Q: What's your major, and what led you to pick it?
AB: "I am a Sports Business/Marketing Major and a Communications Minor. I picked this because I want to keep the sports alive in me after I graduate. I wanted to make sure that I am going to have a job when I am done and Oregon has so many other great avenues for opportunities to succeed that its almost impossible to not."
Q: What extra academic resources do you take advantage of, and how do they help you be your best in the classroom?
AB: "We have tutors available to us for every class we take. They are an hour a time, and you sign up as many times a week as you need. Having the opportunity to have tutors is great , especially during travel season when you might miss a lector or two and they can help you get caught up or just explain something that you didn't quite get in class."
Q: Do you have a special pride to wearing the 'O', and why?
AB: "Of course. I realize that there is only a handful of athletes that are chosen each year to be a part of this program, and get to represent Oregon and eventually graduate with a degree. Wearing the "O" was my dream and now it's reality, so I take great pride in that!"
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Oh, lovely. Exactly the question that ought to be asked. I'll post it to my writing group, too.ReplyDelete
In college in the early 1990's I did a poll for a class that aimed to determine if there was a correlation between the enjoyment of writing (the intellectual activity) and the enjoyment of writing (the physical activity). Hardly anybody I was in school with had a computer at the time, and nobody had a typewriter. We were at that odd in-between moment when our work was expected to be executed on computer, but almost all of that work was done on borrowed (library or communal dorm) computers. Consequently, we all did work by hand and also on the computer, depending on the level of procrastination we indulged in.
At that time there was indeed a correlation between the enjoyment of the physical act and the enjoyment of the intellectual act. But I don't know if that would be the case now. More than half the members of my writing group (which is more than 30 people) bring their laptops whenever we gather.
For what it's worth, Virginia Woolf hand-wrote her novels, edited in process as she typed them out in the afternoons, and then retyped a page or so at a time as she edited the typed drafts (rather than retyping the entire typescript to see the impact of a changed paragraph). It was a messy process, and after her death, when her husband went to gather up her legacy to honor the gifts she specified in her will, he had great difficulty finding whole manuscripts with which to honor her requests. But it worked for her...
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What made you think about that? What was the impetus?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Personally I enjoy writing with a pen, my laptop and also my typewriter. I've found that with every method I get a different 'sound' to my writing. I keep journals filled with my scratchy handwriting of new ideas, questions to myself about my characters, and dialog that pops into my head when I'm going about my life. The laptop is where I write my novels, mostly because the way I write requires a lot of editing and Copy&Pasting plus it is what I started my adventure as an author on so I am most comfortable working on it. The typewriter came much later; I had always liked them and played with them when I was little, but one day after weeks of writer's block everything started pointing to typewriters. So of course not wanting to deny the voices in my head, I found one on EBay and fell in love with it. When I started doing some stream-of-consciousness typing on it my words turned into one of my books I hadn't written in in months!ReplyDelete
So what I guess I'm trying to say is that I believe all forms of writing have their places in this world and you just have to find the right way to express your soul and even if you want to carve it into slate you should do it how you want and not care about what others think because as long as you are happy with what you have written, nothing else matters.
Okay, well I got a little off track cause when I clicked REPLY I was only planning on telling you that the way you write is so poetic and a real inspiration for me even when you only post a question to your blog, but I got a little carried away . . .
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One day the transference of plots and images and characters will occur seemlessly, one would hope, between humans, although given the current state of affairs more likely between human and machine. Still, given our long history of oral traditions and the face to face communication that formed such a vital part of humanity, there is always a chance. My stories sometimes come in dreams. I once dreamt I was a temp queen and when my castle was overrun with zombies (my fault, I was a lousy temp worker), the cure was in the form of a potion I had to drink and then "administer" by allowing them to eat me.ReplyDelete
It's interesting you said that. When I was 13/14 my parents got me my first computer (I'm 30 now), up to that point I wrote everything, all my stories in diaries and notebooks. Anyhow, I decided to start writing a new story to on my computer to celebrate the fact that I got it. I was very happy with my story and probably more that half way through it when my computer died a horrible death. Since I didn't back my story up to ( get ready for this) a floppy disk I have lost my story forever. I never actually got over it. I still remember the story and I use laptop all the time now but it's like something's been taken away from me. My characters died that day. I think that really did affect me. Sounds silly I know but it was traumatic. A little part of me disappeared that day. As a psychology student I could really overanalyse this now so I will stop. Going back to it it's convenient, useful, can't imagine how they used to do it but its not the same to write on the computer. AReplyDelete
I was infected with the writing bug when I was eight years old. Wrote a story about Jesus being a robot with intentions to rule over the earth. Subsequently my teacher sent me to the school counselor.ReplyDelete
On that note, I can recall working through most of the various methods of writing. Longhand, Shorthand (which I can no longer read any of my notes that I took in this manner), typewriter (IBM Selectric II, I think. weighed more than me.), a KayPro portable computer, and many others.
Of all of these, the one that I had the most hope for and what let down the hardest on, was speech to text. I remember watching Adama (in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica) dictating his reports into the computer and looking forward to that day. Fast forward a couple decades and Dragon Naturally Speaking is good, but there are more times than I care to mention that I will look at what was typed and think, "WTH was that???"
Today I am happy sitting on my PC, aggravating my newly found arthritis, and trying to get some foothold in the writing industry.
There are times that I do miss that "clunkity-clunk" of my old IBM and Sears typewriters. They were good beasties for the time they worked for me.
One event that pops into mind when I think about those days is when I was writing a term paper at about 2am. The next afternoon I had a letter stuck to my apartment door from the manager that said that my typing was keeping the neighbor below me and next door to me up at night and to please refrain from typing after 10pm.
Ah... the good old days.
Sorry of this was a little off topic or wandering. You just caused me to have some good memories.
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Been emailing Sam Strano. Here is what he said about the sway bars.
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Subject: Sway bar size questions
Hey Sam,
I have a really quick question. Ive been looking all over the internet including your site for a good setup on my V6, 28mm and 15mm is stock for my 01 V6. I have relative stock suspension except a STB, SFCs, and LCAs & PHR. Ive read on V6 camaro forums that it seems that 32mm and 17/19mm. It seems like everyone has their own opinions lol. I drag race my car on weekends and like taking corners fast. Not sure if that helps you out much. Any suggestions would be awesome.
Subject: RE: Sway bar size questions
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I run 35/22 hollow bars (fwiw, all GM fronts are already hollow). 32/19 is balance very similarly, but about 30% softer in comparison. Nobody who has switched from the 32/19 to a 35/22 has been sorry they did. Also it might be worth noting that LS1 SS's and WS6's had a rare option called Bilstein Ultra Suspension that had a 35 frotn/21 solid rear as original equipment, so did the SLP built 2001 and 2001 1LE's.
32/19 would be better than stock, I'd never recommend 32/17 that's silly. But if you are going to do it, I'd do the whole deal. And remember a set of bars comes with all new bushings and links... if you get old GM take offs that stuff would cost you some $80 on top of the bar cost and never be as good on roll control.
Sure would.. same chassis and all. What works on the V-8's works on the V-6 (remember your 6 is all cast iron, an LS is all aluminum.. very little actual weight difference. Most all difference is in if you have a 5 speed vs the T56 6 speed. If you have an auto... there is no difference to speak of period.
My bars are a bit more than 20 pounds lighter as the set and cost slightly less to ship. In the end the to the door difference is about $30 between both sets, but you save 20 or more pounds. That's a CHEAP weight savings, nothing else compares to the weight saved for the money.
I carry both because I know that sometimes that $30 matters, but I think it's a bit funny when the price difference is the equivalent of 7.5 gallons of gas, one time and with a tangible savings on weight.
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First-year players, freshman Katie Ralph (Port Orchard, Wash.) and sophomore Marty Irvin (Knoxville, Tenn.), earned dean's list honors, while freshmen Meghan Connolly (Solon, Ohio) and Renee Vesey (Paw Paw, Mich.) and juniors Katie Steidle (Waynesboro, Va.) and Rachel Shifflett (Axton, Va.) were named to the honor roll.
"I'm very proud of these girls and the work they have put into being successful in the classroom," said head coach Deane Webb. "Having half of our team recognized in this manner indicates the focus and priority these players have placed on their academics, and also speaks highly for Shannon Mincey, our assistant coach who works diligently with them on their academic success and progress."


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Okay, so yes, we love to shop, but don't think for a second that everything out there is worthy of our glorious rave reviews. Doubtblush is here to remind you that although we seem to gush over a lot, there are certain things out there that leave us scratching our heads and asking, "But why?"
Oh boy, where do we begin? How about with the fact that Tweety Bird is a character you (should) outgrow by the time you're ten. Or maybe with the garishness of pairing hot pink with electric yellow? Oh, we know! we'll point out the fact that this dress looks like a shapeless nightgown starring a creepy, flattened bird head that's staring you down with several dozen pairs of cartoon eyes. We'll stay far, far away from this one, thanks.
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Cakes, Spades and a Sanatorium as Stanley Ho Turns 90
Turning 90 was not a piece of cake for Stanley Ho — it was several. And he had to eat them in the hospital.
With four women he's called wives and at least 16 surviving children, the Macau casino king has a lot of people who want to serve him birthday cake — and plenty of media who want to take pictures of them doing it, even if the backdrop is medical equipment instead of balloons.
Photos of him posing with various family factions were splashed all over the local media last week as reporters camped out at the Hong Kong Sanatorium, the upscale hospital where Mr. Ho was being treated in a top-floor suite as he celebrated his Lunar and Gregorian calendar birthdays Nov. 21 and 25, respectively. Mr. Ho wore the same tan sweater and sat in the same reclining chair in all of the shots.
Pansy and Daisy Ho, born to Mr. Ho's second wife, were seen beaming at their father's side with an enormous cake that resembled a traditional Chinese bun. They stood in front of a giant photo of a younger Mr. Ho dressed as a ship captain with a fleet from his ferry and property company Shun Tak Holdings — fitting as the daughters, executives at the company, look set to inherit it.
Angela Leong, Mr. Ho's fourth wife, was captured in a series of photos kissing the magnate in front of a traditional Western cake her family brought. Managing director of her husband's casino empire SJM Holdings, she has been amassing a greater interest in the company. SJM is the biggest casino operator by revenue in by far the world's largest casino market.
But the cake that got the most attention seemed to be the one designed by the 22-year old daughter of Mr. Ho's third wife. Florinda Ho hand-drew designs for a roulette wheel-shaped cake and casino chips.
She was photographed helping Four Seasons pastry chef Gregoire Michaud assemble its 40-pound chocolate truffle base, adorned with sugary symbolism. Though roulette wheels are normally numbered 1 to 36, Florinda's read 64 to 90 and had a silver ball on her father's age. The three dice on top of the cake all showed 3s, adding up to 9, an auspicious number for Chinese signifying longevity. Florinda also ordered playing cards with her father's face on the king of spades and her mother's on the queen of hearts.
The cake was supposed to be served to 300 guests at the opulent Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong, but Mr. Ho's third family had to call off the party that morning after doctors recommended he be hospitalized for a fever, according to a family representative. Media, undaunted by the change of plans, shot photos and videos of Ina Chan, Mr. Ho's third wife, and her three children arriving at the hospital dressed in lucky red.


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St. Augustine joined hundreds of other cities Monday in a national program that works to eradicate homelessness.
The City Commission adopted a resolution to become part of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which says it will partner with St. Johns County to create a 10-year plan to address homelessness.
Commissioner George Gardner was skeptical that will happen any time soon.
"We all know we've had this political rift between the city and county (over who needs to step in and address problems with the homeless)," he said. "I want this resolution adopted by the county, too."
John Regan, city chief operations officer, said that would be the next step.
Regan said the resolution shows the city is committed to the problem to motivate residents to give funds for homeless programs.
The U.S. Council of Homelessness plan says the city will pursue 12 points to help the homeless, including getting the chronic homeless off the streets, especially veterans, and recognizing punitive responses are often expensive and ineffective.
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Our grandmother taught us a few things, like "wear a bra to bed to keep your boobs from drooping", or "brush your before breakfast so your husband doesn't think you've been keeping garbage in there". Wise old gal. We do have to thank her for her beauty wisdom. She taught us that Estée Lauder was a reliable brand and that whatever they released was worth the investment. She was proven right, once again, with the launch of their Limited-Edition Pure Color Eye Shadow ($20). Each of the four shades is a testament to their knowledge of what women want, and that's to look good at a reasonable price. These colors may be a little dark for spring, but we're not waiting until fall to buy them. Like our grandma always said, "the early bird catches the worm, and if you ain't there to eat that worm, you better be big enough to eat the bird."
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Crepidula: gender bending gastropods
"The gastropods exhibit nearly every possible modification of sexuality."
R. Tucker Abbott American Seashells (1954)
The marine snails with limpet-like shells in the genera Crepidula, Crucibulum and Calyptraea make up the family Calpytraeidae. They are all protandric hermaphrodites: young snails are males that may grow larger and change into females.
And that isn't the only unconformity the calpytraeids are known for. They also spend their lives in tall stacks with the females on the bottom followed by piles of males on top of them patiently waiting for their turn to mate and then change into females to mate again. How is that for kinky sex?
"Girls will be boys and boys will be girls.The picture above shows the intertidal snail Ilyanassa obsoleta from Chincoteague with a couple of Crepidula on its back. Presumably the larger Crepidula on the bottom was a female, while the one on top a male. The drawing below is a simplified rendition of the sex life of Crepidula.
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola."
Kinks, Lola
From Mark D. Bertness, Atlantic Shorelines-Natural History and Ecology, 2007.
That the calpytraeids are gastropods, that is, snails, is hard to tell without a close scrutiny. Their shells have all but lost the characteristics spires of ordinary snail shells. It would not be possible for ordinary gastropods to pile up on top of each other for more than 2 or 3 snails before they turn into a rather unstable tower. So I suspect the flattened shapes of the shells of the calpytraeids must have coevolved with their sexual habits.


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India doesn't have a team coach culture. It has a culture of batting and bowling coaches – you've heard of Tendulkar's coach Ramakant Achrekar, Kapil Dev's coach Desh Prem Azad and other coaches who have coached individual players. #Cricket #Duncan Fletcher #India coach #InMyOpinion #Sourav Gaguly


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Yoenis Cespedes could be the next Miami Marlins target
Now that Carlos Zambrano has been added to round out the Miami Marlins rotation, what's next on Larry Beinfest's shopping list?
Could be submitting a bid for Cuban center fielder Yoenis Cespedes, who is expected to establish residency in the Dominican Republic in the coming days.
While Beinfest, speaking on a conference call with South Florida reporters this afternoon, expressed confidence in Emilio Bonifacio as the team's potential Opening Day center fielder, the Marlins President of Baseball Operations also was very complimentary toward Cespedes.
"We really liked him when we saw him at that workout [in November]," Beinfest said. "It's something we're continuing to monitor, and we'll kind of leave it there. But we were very impressed. Obviously, as a Cuban we think it would be an interesting fit in this market and on this ballclub. It's something we continue to monitor and stay up on."
Cespedes is represented by Adam Katz, who also counts Hanley Ramirez among his many clients. Once Cespedes establishes residency in the Dominican, Major League Baseball will start the bidding process sometime shortly after.
Teams will submit sealed bids to Katz through MLB, then have an opportunity to up those offers for the power-hitting center fielder. (Check out the attached 20-minute video. Apologies in advance for the Christopher Cross song choice.)
The latest speculation has Cespedes seeking up to a six- to-eight-year deal for as much as $6 million to $8 million per year. That could push the total package to nearly $65 million, which likely would eliminate the Marlins from the process.
Reds lefty Aroldis Chapman holds the record for largest contract granted a Cuban defector after signing for $30.25 million over six years in early 2010.
Asked about an expected time frame Thursday, Beinfest sounded like he was in wait-and-see mode like all the other expected suitors (Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Pirates et al).
"It's hard to say," Beinfest said. "The player has not been unblocked by MLB. You cannot contract with the player or do anything, so it's hard to put a timeline on it. I'm sure teams are doing monitoring like we are. I couldn't come up with a better word other than that's what is going on because the player is not available to sign at this point."
It will be interesting to see if the Marlins' geography will work in their favor and enable them to sign Cespedes for less than other teams would offer or if he'll simply go to the highest bidder.


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Opening: Alexander James Adams – Faerie-Tale Minstrel
March 2007 unleashed from the land of Fae, a minstrel named Alexander James Adams.
The gender-opposite twin of Heather Alexander, he has continued her music and magic for all old friends of the Heatherlands while earning new ones of his own. With fiery fiddle and compelling voice, Alexander inspires his audiences to make their dreams come true and look for the wonders within. From tender love songs to rowdy brawls, gentle Irish airs to rockin' reels, Alec brings ancient legends to the mortal world in true bardic style, proving once and for all, the magic never dies!
Feature (13+) – Athens Boys Choir
Ok, so the name Athens Boys Choir can be a bit deceiving but you can't blame a Jewish transsexual man living in the Deep South for having a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. Harvey Katz (aka Athens Boys Choir) has spent the good part of the last ten years on the road, bringing his unique blend of spoken word and parody videos to eager queers worldwide.His performance poetry is rapid-fire word-play that shines light on lives that rarely get airtime. Katz gives voice to a community that needs to be heard; he is an artist who knows the power of word and uses it wisely. His aim is to build community and change the world one poem at a time, and his aim is steady. His heart-on-the-sleeve linguistic exploration is matched by his enthusiastic, potent performances. Through the course of one poem, he manages to bring the audience to the verge of tears and turn them on their heads with laughter. Katz is a compassionate, complicated and seasoned performer.


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Our facility is accredited by the American Academy of sleep medicine. Our center has private "hotel-like" bedrooms; our sophisticated control area utilizes the most state of the art technology to monitor your sleep. A technologist is always available to assist you, our staff will do everything possible to make you comfortable during your stay at our Sleep Center as stay combines comfort
How are we different than other clinics?
• Personalized mask fitting
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The Sleep Disorder Center is a two-part facility - one for appointments and one for the sleep study. For appointments, report to the Cumberland Medical Plaza, 49 Cleveland St., Suite 200, Crossville, TN 38555. To schedule a sleep disorder consultation, call (931) 459-7249.
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Common Sleep Disorders
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder. People who have insomnia have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both. As a result, they may get too little sleep or have poor-quality sleep. They may not feel refreshed when they wake up. can be acute (short-term) or chronic (ongoing). Acute insomnia is common and often is brought on by situations such as stress at work, family pressures, or a traumatic event. Acute insomnia lasts for days or weeks.
Narcolepsy is a disorder that causes periods of extreme daytime sleepiness. The disorder also may cause muscle weakness.Most people who have narcolepsy have trouble sleeping at night. Some people who have the disorder fall asleep suddenly, even if they're in the middle of talking, eating, or another activity.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Obstructive sleep apnea , OSA is a sleep related breathing disorder that causes your body to stop breathing during sleep. OSA occurs when the tissue in the back of the throat collapses and blocks the airway. This keeps air from getting to the lungs. This is a very common sleep disorder. Blockage of the airway can happen a few times a night or several hundred times per night.
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disorder that causes a strong urge to move your legs. This urge to move often occurs with strange and unpleasant feelings in your legs. Moving your legs relieves the urge and the unpleasant feelings.People who have RLS describe the unpleasant feelings as creeping, crawling, pulling, itching, tingling, burning, aching, or electric shocks. Sometimes, these feelings also occur in the arms.The urge to move and unpleasant feelings happen when you are resting and inactive. Thus, they tend to be worse in the evening and at night.
Periodic limb movement disorder is described as repetitive limb movements that occur during sleep and cause sleep disruption. The limb movements usually involve the lower extremities, consisting of extension of the big toe and flexion of the ankle, the knee, and the hip. In some patients, the limb movements can occur in the upper extremities as well.
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PSG Studies (Baseline Diagnostic)
A PSG usually is done while you stay overnight at a sleep center. A PSG records brain activity, eye movements, heart rate, and blood pressure. A PSG also records the amount of oxygen in your blood, how much air is moving through your nose while you breathe, snoring, and chest movements. The chest movements show whether you're making an effort to breathe.
CPAP Studies (Apnea Treatment)
This is similar to the PSG sleep study in addition to the CPAP/Bi-level therapy this is a study used to set the right level of continuous positive airway pressure for a person who has a type of sleep disorder breathing and will receive therapy.
SPLIT Studies (Diagnostic / Treatment)
During the first half of the night your sleep is assessed to determine whether you have sleep apnea and if so, the severity will be determined. During the second half of the night, you may be asked to use a CPAP machine. A technician will adjust the settings on the machine so the flow of air therapeutic for your sleep disorder breathing.
MSLT Studies (Night / Day Diagnostic)
This daytime sleep study measures how sleepy you are. It's typically done the day after a PSG. The MSLT records whether you fall asleep during the test and what types and stages of sleep you're having. Sleep has two basic types: rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM. Non-REM sleep has three distinct stages. REM sleep and the three stages of non-REM sleep occur in regular cycles throughout the night. The types and stages of sleep you have during the day can help your doctor diagnose sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia .An MSLT is repeated four or five times throughout the day. This is because your ability to fall asleep also changes throughout the day.
MWT Studies (Night / Day Diagnostic)
The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) measures a person's ability to stay awake in a quiet, dark and nonstimulating room for a period of time. This test is usually given to a person receiving therapy for conditions causing daytime sleepiness which have been diagnosed i.e. sleep apnea.


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Ravi Chandra Nallan (Comments) https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/feed/comments/atom 2015-05-04T14:52:35+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/creating_hadoop_pe_under_sge#comment-1289519470000 Re: Creating Hadoop pe under SGE kasim 2010-11-11T23:51:10+00:00 2010-11-11T23:51:10+00:00
Hi Ravi

I am novice in grid and cluster. I want to ask you something.

1)Cluster and SGE are same if not then what is he difference.
 2)I want to make a grid,can you guide me through that.
 i want to use Hadoop cluster then SGE then, Globus . Is hadoop have compatibility with Globus.
 Looking forward for your positive response.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1288885207000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images Jan 2010-11-04T15:40:07+00:00 2010-11-04T15:40:07+00:00
I guess it is more suitable to use the clone method, to convert your VDI to a new disk, instead of breaking the partitions
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1283527118000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images jose 2010-09-03T15:18:38+00:00 2010-09-03T15:18:38+00:00
Aaron, you are daemn right!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1277348500000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images Aaron 2010-06-24T03:01:40+00:00 2010-06-24T03:01:40+00:00
Just an idea, what if you used the command: >vboxmanage clonehd hd1.vdi hd2.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G --type normal --remember
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1265688399000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images Ravi Chandra Nallan 2010-02-09T04:06:39+00:00 2010-02-09T04:06:39+00:00
Alan, I wanted to use my external drive (out of the box!) with my existing OS installations, esp. Solaris, apart from Linux and Windows. Hence preferred FAT32 over NTFS.
 Solaris FAT32 (pcfs) support is much more stable vs the NTFS support, via ntfs-3g (FUSE).
 Yes ZFS compression does help reduce on-disk usage, but I need to finally store the VDI on a FAT32 disk!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1264762083000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images W. Wayne Liauh 2010-01-29T10:48:03+00:00 2010-01-29T10:48:03+00:00
Thanks for posting this very useful info.

A couple of comments:

1. My experience is, ntfs-3g is quite slow (even relative to vfat/FAT32) in Solaris, is this the reason you want to use FAT32 instead of ntfs?

2. Have you tried to use the zfs compression option to create your Solaris vdi?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/split_virtualbox_vdi_images#comment-1264757602000 Re: Split VirtualBox VM disk images Alan Steinberg 2010-01-29T09:33:22+00:00 2010-01-29T09:33:22+00:00
Thanks, I didn't realize that was an option either. My external drive is actually formated for ntfs, so can store the full 16GB VDI. But I'm sure it will come in handy at some point.

I'm curious why you don't format your external drive to ntfs, especially if you ever want to keep large videos in AVI format on it (another use for my external drive).
 https://blogs.oracle.com/ravee/entry/creating_hadoop_pe_under_sge#comment-1218039702000 Re: Creating Hadoop pe under SGE Yih Sun Khoo 2008-08-06T16:21:42+00:00 2008-08-06T16:21:42+00:00
Hi I was hoping to find out if you knew how to configure this property such that

<property>
 <name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name>
 <value>file:////cygdrive/e/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value>
 <description>A base for other temporary directories.</description>
 </property>

My hadoop temp files will go to the e drive as opposed to my local c directory. You see, everything works fine if I don't change that configuration. But I'm dealing with more data and my C directory is running out of space. I want to switch over to my E directory (just the DFS)

I've tried all these values:
 <value>file:////cygdrive/e/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value> -- zilch!
 <value>cygdrive/e/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value> -- creates this local in my local hadoop directory
 <value>E:/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value> -- works until I start my jobs which results in a ConnectException (ConnectException doesn't occur if I don't configure this property)

I'm using a Windows OS combined with cygwin.

Any ideas?


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The big question to this song is whether Phife is calling out Q-Tip on "Flawless". His slams are nameless and trans-gender (since he's talking about halter tops and purple bras) but listen to this dis-laced tirade and you gotta cock your head and say..hmm, "go 'head/play yourself with those ho' like hooks/sing ballads if it's all about that Maxwell look…now tell me what you're rhyming for/this sh*t is all about skills/f*ck a fashion show." Either way, "Flawless" is a tight song – one of Phife's better outings in a long time, nicely complemented by Hi-Tek's closely wound track. Phife's swears a little much for my taste – what's the point in a radio edit if 30% of the dialogue is blanked out? (which is why I think it's hilarious that radio stations are playing radio edits of Eminem and Dr. Dre songs – you might as well just rock an instrumental). Anyway, I'm one of those divisive MF's so I'm all for a post-Quest dis-war to go down b/t Phife Diggy and the Abstract Poet. Q-Tip might roll with furs now, but I still think he'd fly Phife's ass in a rhyme squabble.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - After outstanding play during their senior seasons, Fordham placekicker Patrick Murray, Georgetown linebacker Robert McCabe and Colgate quarterback Gavin McCarney continue to reap the rewards with postseason honors.
The latest came on Wednesday as each player made the Associated Press Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) All-America Team. Murray and McCabe were each on the first team, giving them three major first-team All-America nods already this fall. McCarney earned a third-team selection at quarterback.
Murray and McCabe keep their hopes alive for consensus first-team All-America honors. Each player was previously selected by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), which chooses only one team, and also took first-team honors from The Sports Network earlier in the week. There are 12 FCS players nationally who can still earn consensus All-America honors, with only the release of the Walter Camp squad left to determine that status. Nine Patriot Leaguers have earned consensus FCS All-America honors from the four major awarding organizations, including seven who were designated with consensus first-team recogntion.
Murray had the best year for a field goal kicker in Patriot League history, going 25-of-30 to shatter the single-season Patriot League record of 19 made field goals and come within just one of the FCS record. He had four field goals of 50 yards or longer, including a Patriot League record and FCS single-season high 55-yarder against Cincinnati on Oct. 13. No other FCS kicker hit more than twice from 50 yards and beyond. Murray was nearly as proficient as a punter, placing second in the nation with a 46.0 average. He earned first-team All-Patriot League honors as both a placekicker and punter and was named the Fred Mitchell Award winner as the top placekicker outside of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Murray earns All-America honors from the AP for the second year in a row after making the third team as a punter last season.
McCabe was named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team All-Patriot League selection at linebacker after leading the nation in tackles with 159, finishing the regular season with 28 more than any other FCS player. He is a candidate for the Buck Buchanan Award given to the Top Defensive Player in the nation. McCabe also added 14.5 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks for the season to wrap up one of the top careers for a defensive player in Patriot League history. He concludes his time at Georgetown with a school-record 407 tackles, placing him tied for fifth in Patriot League history with the top mark for any player since 1997. His 159 tackles this season also stand tied for fourth in League annals and mark the highest total for any player since 1995. McCabe had 19 consecutive games with double-digit tackles to finish his career.
He is Georgetown's second AP All-American after former teammate Andrew Schaetzke was a second-team pick last year.
McCarney finished the year completing 159-of-256 passes for 2,372 yards with 16 touchdowns and eight interceptions and rushing 193 times for 1,406 yards and 23 touchdowns. He leads the nation in scoring with 11.67 points per game, is fourth in the FCS in points responsible for, seventh in passing efficiency, ninth in total offense and 12th in rushing. McCarney set a Patriot League single-season record for rushing yards by a quarterback, with his 288-yard performance against Lafayette on Nov. 3 standing as the second-best rushing day by any player in Patriot League history. He led Colgate to a top-five mark nationally in rushing, total and scoring offense, and the Raiders averaged 49.3 points and 576.8 yards of total offense per game during Patriot League play. McCarney finished fifth in the voting for the Walter Payton Award.
McCarney is the third Patriot League quarterback in the last four seasons to earn AP All-America honors, as Lehigh's Chris Lum was a second-team pick last season and Holy Cross' Dominic Randolph made the second team in 2009.
It is the seventh straight year where multiple Patriot Leaguers made the AP All-America Team, and third in a row with at least one player on the first team.
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Walking 6,000 steps per day reduced the risk of functional limitations in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a new study published recently online in Arthritis Care & Research. Functional limitations are the kinds of mobility problems that affect day-to-day life, such as trouble getting out of a chair or bed, climbing stairs or even walking down the street.
Exercise in general is known to be beneficial for people with OA, and walking, specifically, has long been recognized as being among the best type of exercise. Among its many benefits, walking has been shown to reduce pain, increase flexibility and strengthen the muscles around the joints. It also increases blood flow in and around the joints, and it helps nutrients circulate into knee cartilage.
But many people with arthritis don't walk enough. According to a report published in May 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two-thirds of U.S. adults with arthritis report walking (for exercise) less than 90 minutes per week.
But what about "unstructured" walking – the steps people accumulate in the course of an average day? Does that help people become physically active enough to avoid functional limitations and live normal, active lives? And if so, how much unstructured walking is enough? That's what the researchers wanted this new study to resolve.
"We have numbers in our society for cholesterol, blood pressure, weight – all these numbers we're supposed to target. But for physical activity, it's a little unclear," says lead study author Daniel K. White, a physical therapist and research assistant professor at Boston University's College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. "Anecdotally, 10,000 steps a day is a number floating around, but for someone with painful knee OA, that could be quite a daunting task."
For their research, White and his team examined data from a previous study, called the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. That study involved a large number of people who had knee OA or were at high risk for it. At one point, the participants were given an activity monitor to wear for one week so the researchers could track how much they moved.
White and colleagues focused on almost 1,800 participants who started out with no functional limitations and noted how much each walked. Two years after their activity level was measured, the researchers looked at how well the participants were doing. It turns out that between 4 percent and 8 percent had developed functional limitations. Those who walked more were less likely to be in that group, and the "magic number" of daily steps that divided the two groups was 6,000. Taking even more steps yielded additional benefits.


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Since Matt Barber started his new website, BarbWire, it has become most predominantly represented on this column, not by Barber himself, but by Gina Miller, a woman marred with severe mental instability and a habit of responding to literally everything by screaming her head off about Satanism.
Now we see where she gets it. As a guest of fellow American Taliban conspiracy theorist Cliff Kincaid on his "American Survival" program, Barber was asked why he felt the need to open his new website.
Barber responded (yes, you guessed it), that it was needed in the war against Satan.
"We are going to take a firm position," said Barber. "We're not going to take even an inch step backward in this culture war. We recognize that we are at war here with the radical progressive left in the United States of America and so we are going to cut through all of their nonsense, all of their propaganda, the lies of the enemy; you know, as a Christian site, the enemy being the Prince of the Earth, Satan himself, that's what we're up against here. And this is very much spiritual warfare."
In reality, the "culture war" was lost long before Barber had even been born. Liberals and progressives have advanced equal rights for women, minorities and the LGBT community while Barber clings to legislation that expired in the 19th century.
It isn't Satan to which Matt Barber and his cohorts are going to war. It's reality.


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Our brains were a little scrambled when we first looked at the KnoWhere Cosmos Clock ($19), but once we figured it out, we were pretty impressed that one clock could tell you the time in multiple locations. Sure, it'll take getting use to, but with the landmark hands you've got a good visual cue of what time it is where.
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Ricki-Lee Coulter
Auckland, New Zealand
"I look at people like Kylie Minogue and Madonna and all these people who've done album after album after album and I feel like I'm 80 years-old after doing two. I don't know how they do it."
- Ricki-Lee Coulter
Ricki-Lee Coulter is living proof that there's life after Australian Idol. This curvaceous cutie has turned her seventh-place finish on the show into a thriving career highlighted by seven top 20 singles and a pair of gold certified albums. Her already enviable profile should continue to grow in the year ahead with the release of her third studio album, Hear No, See No, Speak No. Look for it in stores everywhere on November 20, 2010.
Ricki-Lee Coulter BiographyRicki-Lee Coulter has always wanted to be a singer. "As a little kid I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit," she admits. "I used to dream that one day that would be me." This buxom brunette took the first step toward realizing that dream in 2004 when she auditioned for the reality TV series Popstars. Ricki-Lee's strong vocals and powerful presence helped her stand out from the crowd and she made the show's top 60 before being sent home following a subsequent round of cuts.
ricki-lee coulter appears on australian idolUndeterred, Ricki-Lee auditioned later that year for the second season of Australian Idol and this time around she wouldn't be denied. Her stirring renditions of "Work It Out" and "Proud Mary" transformed her into an overnight sensation and she finished in seventh place after being favoured by many to win the competition. Outspoken Idol judge Ian "Dicko" Dickson even went so far as to declare the results a "scandal," and encouraged Australians "to get off your arses and vote."
ricki-lee coulter signs with shock recordsAlthough the results may have been disappointing, Ricki-Lee Coulter still managed to cash in on her fame by signing an exclusive recording contract with Shock Records, Melbourne's largest independent label. The company gave her the space and encouragement she needed to succeed and she responded in 2005 with "Hell No!" and "Sunshine," a pair of catchy top 10 singles that received heavy airplay throughout Australia.
ricki-lee coulter releases her first albumRicki-Lee Coulter continued her hot streak on October 3, 2005 with the release of her eponymous debut album. The upbeat 14-track compilation received glowing reviews from the press and went onto to become the country's third most successful independent album of 2005.
ricki-lee coulter joins the young divasBy now a certifiable star, Ricki-Lee Coulter took a break from her solo career in 2006 to join the Young Divas, a fabulously foxy quartet featuring fellow Australian Idol contestants Paulini Curuenavuli, Emily Williams and Kate DeAraugo. The group's pedigree attracted immediate attention and their first two singles, "This Time I Know It's For Real" and "Happenin' All Over Again" became top 10 hits. Emboldened by their success, the group embarked on a three-month tour of Australia and later released a double platinum-selling self-titled album featuring classic disco and pop covers.
ricki-lee leaves the young divasAlthough Ricki-Lee enjoyed performing with the Young Divas, she also longed to return to her own projects and she announced on June 23, 2007 that she was leaving the group. "I just couldn't do it all - I really had to get back to doing what I love doing, and that was my solo career," she says. "The girl's were great, they understood completely."
ricki-lee coulter releases brand new dayAny disappointment her fans may have felt was alleviated on August 11, 2007 with the release of Brand New Day, Ricki-Lee's second solo album. An arresting blend of pop, R&B, soul, and dance, the record climbed to No. 8 on Australia's independent charts thanks to hit singles like "Can't Touch It," "Love Is All Around" and "Can't Sing A Different Song."
"A lot of my songs on the album were about things that happened on my journey -- all the ups and the downs," she explains. "Everyone thinks that it's all so glamorous [but] I'm like everyone else. I go through things that everyone else does."


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You don't have to use Halloween as an excuse to dress up your kiddo. The Superhero in Disguise onesie ($46) by Mini Shatsu will make her look like she has a secret superidentity any day of the year. The utility belt, mask, and faux costume under everyday clothes will have your baby hero-in-training ready for leaping tall buildings and disarming bad guys.
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Liam Hemsworth and Nina Dobrev were spotted at a Georgia bar/restaurant called The Corner Tavern in Edgewood. In fact, one Twitter user decided to post his involvement with the couple who may or may not have been on a hot date by saying on Feb. 8, "I kept my cool and partied with two movie stars." Then this social media reporter mentioned Liam and Nina by their Twitter handles.
The hangout, located near Atlanta and close to where "The Vampire Diaries" is shot, is hopping every Friday night. That happened to be the night Liam and Nina were said to be canoodling with each other while having drinks.
The pair may have also had crab legs too, since that's the special at The Corner Tavern on the day of the week that Hemsworth and Dobrev stopped by.
That said, this hot spot is busy on Saturday nights, too, because thats when a band shows up or at least a DJ to spin some discs and get the party started.
And too bad Hemsworth and Dobrev didn't head to this fun-filled outlet on Sunday, because that's when karaoke takes over the place so the critics would have come crashing onto the Internet to talk about this celebrity pair's singing skills.
No matter.
The fact that Liam Hemsworth and Nina Dobrev were out and about in Georgia on the weekend is exciting enough. So does this mean the pair were on a hot date? Do Miley Cyrus' ex and the best friend of Julianne Hough seem to be hooking up?
Well, Hollywood Life seems to think so. In fact, the celebrity site says that the pair were reportedly producing some PDA in between conversing and drinking at The Corner Tavern this weekend.
Liam Hemsworth and Nina Dobrev, sitting in a tree in Georgia. Has kind of a nice ring to it, don't you think?


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I currently have a webserver with MySQL set up on an AWS micro EC2 instance. If I wanted to migrate from AWS to another provider, or even stay with AWS and scale, what are some things to keep in mind so my web app don't break? Does a direct image duplication work on AWS with a more powerful EC2 instance? Since the performance specs have changed, what type of tweaking do I need to do on the instance OS?
If I choose to migrate to another provider like Linode or GoGrid, how can I make sure my system is fully duplicated over to the new provider? Is it possible to get an image transferred from AWS to an external system?


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You can now nab yourself two vintage bits of Crimso history via DGMLive. First up is the historic Hyde Park gig which helped bring the band to much wider world, and their next-day gig at the Marquee from their legendary run at the London club. Please note both of these gigs (with bonus tracks) are available as part of the King Crimson Collectors' Club series via the mail order shop.
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Guestbook Reprieved
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 12, 2015
Just when you thought it was all over - the guestbook has received a last-minute stay of execution! Check out David Singleton's updated diary for the details.
Mister Stormy's Monday Selection
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 12, 2015
Mister Stormy has blown the dust off Robert Fripp's appearance on the Mark Radcliffe Show on Radio 1 back in July 1995 There's nearly 25 minutes worth of witty banter and three soundscapes (including the legendary No Pottyflushing) to tickle your earbuds. Tune in to the fun right here.
King Crimson & In C
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 12, 2015
Composer Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner was talking about the influences upon his work, including King Crimson, on BBC Radio 3s concert of minimalist music last night. The programme was a celebration of Terry Rileys seminal work In C and as well as containing a performance of the piece it featured the work of other composers. You can hear Robin talking about his own new work, Unsleeping, here receiving its world premier, at around 18.00 minutes into the broadcast.
Rolling Stone: KC is best new touring band of 2014
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 12, 2015
King Crimson made Rolling Stone critic David Fricke's highlights of 2014 as you can read here.
All About Live At The Orpheum
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jan 11, 2015
Here's a review of Live At The Orpheum from John Kelman over at All About Jazz.
Starless In Situ 9
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 9, 2015
How about this photo sent in from New York by ace bassist and much else besides, Clint Bahr, who writes: "The Starless box meets my 'tron..."
Adrian's Music Talk
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 9, 2015
Following on from their recent interview with Pat Mastelotto, the Riff & Ralk website chatted with Adrian Belew which you can listen to here.
Cat Food Again!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 8, 2015
Over the last 24 hours theres been an understandable flurry of excitement online and across social media at King Crimsons 1970 Top of the Pops appearance turning up on Youtube featuring Keith Tippett, Michael and Peter Giles, Robert Fripp and Greg Lake playing Cat Food. Up until then the only known documentation of the band's appearance to lip sync their single on the show were Harry Hammond's photographs. DGM were alerted about the existence of the video at the start of the week just before it went online and immediately entered into
discussions to have the footage returned to the KC archive.The original footage had indeed been wiped by the BBC. However, foreign TV stations who bought the show were able to record their own continuity and insert them into BBC footage for transmission in their countries. In this instance the host is Joe Berger for the German show Hits A Go Go. The lost footage was the source of a spoof news report on this site back in 2006 for April Fools Day. The DGMLive prankster team were considering another pass at the story later this year but will now have to come up with another wheeze!
St.Vincent Loves Insane Fripp
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Jan 7, 2015
As weve highlighted previously on these pages, Annie Clark, better known as St.Vincent, has long been a fan of Robert Fripps guitar work. Here she is discussing what in particular she likes about the guitarists solo on David Bowies Its No Game Pt 1 from the Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) album. (scroll to 3.40)
The Best Feeling A Drummer Can Have
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 6, 2015
That's the verdict of Pat Mastelotto, talking about working with the three-drummer incarnation of King Crimson in this new interview. You can also check out a review of Pat's album with Adrian Belew Trio drummer, Tobias Ralph, ToPaRaMa, at All About Jazz.
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The end is never the end is never the end....
The demo for The Stanley Parable is probably the best game demo I've ever played. It's its own separate entity, a self-contained experience that captures the spirit and tone of the main game without "spoiling" the specifics of the content.
In much the same way, it's hard to review a thing like The Stanley Parable, because discussing its structure and charm in any detail can rob them of their impact. Really, the best way to figure out if the game is for you or not is to just play the demo. It's free, it takes less than thirty minutes, and even if you don't play the full game afterwards, it's a cool little thing by itself.
you haven't really finished The Stanley Parable once until you've finished it ten times.
Anyway, you are Employee #427. Stanley, an office worker who literally just pushes buttons for a living. You're fairly happy with your tedious job and life, until one day you discover that all of your co-workers have mysteriously vanished. Guided by the instructions of a pleasantly British narrator, you explore the empty office building for clues, and well, that's when things get weird.
The narrator is very proud of his story, and if you let him guide you through it, you'll walk away with a very basic, yet relatively satisfying narrative.
But you haven't really finished The Stanley Parable once until you've finished it ten times. That simple story is just one of many layers - and it's the least interesting one. Disobey the narrator's instructions, and he'll berate you, complaining that you're ruining his carefully constructed experience.
And therein lies the fun: the game is all about breaking the game. It rewards experimentation at the expense of the fourth wall, so be as creative as you can in not playing along. Poke at the seams of game design: stand in that broom closet for ten minutes (really, do that, it's great), or incessantly click something trivial. In one playthrough, I closed Stanley's office door and refused to go out and investigate at all. The narrator commented on me being afraid of choice and responsibility, and promptly restarted the game.
Finding these little secrets, scattered throughout the single small(ish) environment, is the game's greatest pleasure. You might find "glitches", only to realise the game is aware of them and ready to make fun of you for bothering to seek them out. The same goes for its Achievements: are they really worth it? What satisfaction do you get out of them?
The more of the dozen or so endings you reach, the more The Stanley Parable will make you question the motions you always go through in video games. What is the nature of player choice? What is the relationship between the player and the character they control? How much control do you actually have? How far are you willing to go for fleeting in-game glory? What IS game? Is game art?
And while it does so in a mostly playful manner, there are some dark undertones at times. A genuine kernel of thoughtfulness lies underneath it all, approaching or on par with the "Would You Kindly" scenario of the original Bioshock.
Often humourous and always clever, The Stanley Parable does a fantastic job of tearing down the walls that all-too-often funnel us down the same old video game paths.
The more you poke at it, the deeper the rabbit hole goes, and there are some absolutely delightful Easter eggs to find, if you have the patience (or Google).
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A Transformed Obama Is a Fighter, Not a Dreamer
Obama minus idealism.
The most telling line of President Obama's convention speech was "Times have changed, and so have I." Obama used it to segue into the grim burdens of sending soldiers off to war and consoling the parents of those who died. But it also seemed to symbolize his broader transformation. Very much like an idealist who enlisted in war and has now seen its ugliness, Obama approaches his job now with more depth, less hope, and more determination to see it through.
The speech came, by and large, as a disappointment to political journalists and other campaign junkies. We have heard almost all of it before. The speech was probably aimed at undecided voters, who spend almost no time following politics. They received the paint-by-numbers outline of the election choice.
Obama correctly presented the Republican demand for reducing taxes on the rich as the central conflict of the election, and of American politics as a whole. Regressive tax cuts are the GOP cure-all for any and all economic and fiscal circumstances. (Obama: "Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning.") They are also the main cause of partisan discord. The president signaled his willingness to compromise in all sorts of areas, but drew a line at cutting taxes for the rich while imposing sacrifice on the non-rich:
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Wrapped around this specific policy fight, Obama weaved a larger communitarian theme. In his broadly accurate telling, he stands for a mix of individual and collective responsibility against a Republican Party that holds everybody responsible for his own fate. It might sound like a straw man, except that the GOP has, in both its fiscal blueprint and its rhetorical embrace of Job Creators Who Built That, actually fulfilled the stereotype. Obama poured vast swaths of American society and history into the communitarian frame – soldiers, teachers, public-spirited business owners, and so on – all in some sense emblemizing shared responsibility.
[T]he election four years ago wasn't about me. It was about you. My fellow citizens – you were the change. You're the reason there's a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix who'll get the surgery she needs because an insurance company can't limit her coverage. You did that.
You're the reason a young man in Colorado who never thought he'd be able to afford his dream of earning a medical degree is about to get that chance. You made that possible.
This theme appeared in Obama's rhetoric four years ago, too. If there's a difference between now and then, it is this: During his first campaign, Obama saw the blend of individual and communal responsibility as the obvious, shared belief of the entire country. Now he has come to see it as the belief of an embattled half of America.


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The 25th annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival will take place from Thursday, January 23 to Saturday, January 25. The festival will show films made by undergraduate students during 2013 as class projects created in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT), which is part of the College of Arts and Letters.
Aside from entertaining the public, the festival is a means by which students can launch their careers in the film, television and entertainment industry. For example, 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award winner, Peter Richardson, and 2012 Sundance Film Jury Award Winner for Short Filmmaking, John Hibey, both had their first films featured in the Notre Dame Student Film Festival.
This year's festival features 14 short films that range from three to sixteen minutes long. Screenings will be held in the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. throughout the festival. The running time is approximately 122 minutes.
After each show, audience members will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite film via text message. The student director(s) of the winning film will be awarded the Audience Choice Award before the final screening.
The complete list of films, the director(s) and a brief description may be found online. Tickets may also be purchased online, by phone at 574-631-2800 or in person at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center ticket office. The films from the 2013 Notre Dame Student Film Festival can be viewed online.
Originally published by Arts and Letters at Notre Dame News on January 13, 2014.


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