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Canelo Alvarez confirms showdown with James Kirkland
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As children, we commit to memory that pleasant jingle "In fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," in order to remember the year in which Christopher Columbus "discovered the New World." We then spend weeks learning lessons about his journey, taught to feel proud that he settled this land for future generations / us. We even have an official holiday, today, Columbus Day, marked as an occasion to pay homage to this historic event. Yet, should we continue to celebrate the man?
Though there is value in celebrating the spirit of exploration, isn't the discovery and aftermath just as important as the journey to get there? We cannot overlook the good reasons that this holiday gets questioned:
- Columbus was not the first to discover the land, why continue giving him credit? The discovery was only from a European standpoint - they may not have known about the the "new" world, but other peoples were completely aware of its existence
- Native peoples inhabiting this land were brutalized, both by the men of the Columbus expedition, and of future colonization - a legacy worth celebrating?
President Obama has brought this second point back into focus today, commenting on the tragic burden the native Americans bore after colonization, brought on by European discovery of the New World. Good for you Mr. President! Discussing our country's history (pleasant or not) is the best way to progress as a nation. We need to scrutinize past behaviors, especially the atrocious ones, and discuss why we were wrong and how to do things differently now. Children need to learn these skills too - critical thinking and self reflection.
So, let's get the kids involved in this discussion! While you're making newspaper hats, wooden ships, or other craft projects, remember to throw some all-encompassing history lessons into the mix. Let's use this holiday as an opportunity to teach...begin posing questions to kids to see what they already know. Sometimes our children can teach us too! Undoubtedly, they've already been discussing this in school. (Questions/discussion should be age-appropriate and language should be tailored to your child's intellectual/emotional development.)
Sample Qs:
- What do you know about Columbus? Who was he? What did he do?
- Do you think his discovery was significant? Why/why not?
- Is it okay to take things that belong to other people (if you're given permission by a government to do so?)
- How would you feel if someone came and told you they'd "discovered" your home and thus they own it (as Columbus did to the native peoples)?
- Is it ever okay to enslave people? Did you know that slavery was accepted (even encouraged) by many cultures throughout history? Why do you think that happened?
- What do you think about that?
If we use this day as an opportunity to teach children that ours is not the only perspective, that others are living and experiencing life from their own realities/perspectives, this will improve the future for all of us. They will begin to understand that their notions of "right" are subjective, open to interpretation and influenced by the time period in which they live. They will learn that actions have long-lasting consequences, perhaps unintended consequences. Most importantly, they will learn to feel empathy for others, to be humane.
I say, embrace Columbus Day as a universal teaching day, not one explorer's day. This alone will make it a valuable holiday to keep celebrating.

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Scotty McCreery 'American Idol'
Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery on coming back to perform on the 'Idol' stage and touring with some of country's biggest names.
When asked about his recent tour, he added, "It's a dream come true it's a huge blessing we're out there with Brad Paisley and The Band Perry, The Band Perry is pretty new but I've been listening to them since they came out and Brad my whole life. So just to be on the road with them and listening to them every night and singing with them every night it's a blast."


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Nov. 23, 2008
Senior Tess Schofield finished fifth on the tower event on Sunday to wrap up competition at the Art Adamson Texas A&M Invitational. Schofield was UCLA's top finisher during the three-day meet and posted a score of 233.40.
Also competing on tower were senior Brittany Hill and sophomore Morgan Erpenbeck. Hill was 10th overall (207.80), while Erpenbeck was 12th (194.45).
The divers and swimmers will next head to the Texas Invitational in Austin, December 4-6, before taking a much deserved month-long break until January.


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The high-end indie beauty chain, founded by Lily Garfield in Aspen, Colo., in 1976, has just opened a 900-square-foot store at the El Paseo Shops in Palm Desert, Calif.
The new store — Garfield's second in California and 10th nationwide — carries a variety of high-end skin care, color cosmetics and fragrances. "Our aim is to make you feel like you're in our house," said Garfield, who said she tailors the appearance of each Cos Bar store to its location — with Palm Desert designed to be Rodeo Drive-style chic.
"When a customer walks in, we aren't accosting them. We're letting her browse in the candy store, and when she has questions, we steer her in suitable directions," she said. "In some stores, you might be pressured to buy an entire range from the same line — but perhaps it's better for the client's skin to cherry-pick from different lines. I make sure that every single person who works for me is well-versed on everything we sell, so we can help the customer make an informed decision."
Garfield instructs her staff to ask what products the client is already using before recommending anything new. "We want to know what she's happy with, as well as what she's not happy with — it's not just about selling another $500 cream," said Garfield. "If it doesn't work, she won't be back. While she may be ready to buy a whole line when she walks in, we may sell her one product that will improve the efficacy of everything she's already using. It's about asking the question."
Garfield's top skin care brands include Chanel, La Prairie, Cle de Peau, Kanebo and Sisley. Serums and creams, ranging in price from $125 to $650, account for a large percentage of that business.
Garfield also has a healthy color cosmetics business, which she sees as a purely impulse buy. "No one is loyal to color," she observed.
While Garfield declined to discuss sales projections for the Palm Desert store, industry sources estimated that it could do $1 million in its first year of operation.
The Palm Desert store is being run by Garfield's son, Oliver Garfield. "Oliver spent a year in Bloomingdale's management program and is a detail man on expansion," said Garfield.
Speaking of expansion, Garfield's not done yet with California. She plans to open a third California store (in addition to Palm Desert, there is a Cos Bar location in Carmel) in Malibu this summer. A second store in Scottsdale, Ariz., is planned for 2010. However, she is adamant on one point: "We will never go into big regional malls," she said. "I have no intention of competing with Neiman Marcus or other huge specialty stores. But I don't have a problem being in the suburbs."


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Author(s): Cornips L, Corrigan KP
Notes: This paper was commissioned by Auer/Hinskens/Kerswill - the recipients of an award funded by the European Science Foundation to establish a research network on social dialectology (1995-1998). 'Dialect Change' represents the culmination of the network's activities "distilling the essence of this new research area with a coherence that would not have been possible without the network and the many cross-national links it fostered". The collaborative research for our particular contribution (55% by me) was made possible by our award of a British Council/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Exchange Fellowship so that I could work with Cornips at the Meertens Research Institute, Amsterdam. The chapter was independently refereed and begins with a critical review of the most salient current theoretical frameworks for analysing processes of convergence and divergence cross-dialectally. Using data from microvariation in Dutch and English dialects, its main goal is to take up the challenge of Wilson and Henry (1998) to demonstrate that combining insights from generative syntax and sociolinguistics enhances our understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change. The new paradigm sketched in this paper became the cornerstone of the subsequent joint book project for Benjamins's CILT series also published in 2005.
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BACKGROUND: Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs for blood and oxygen. At first the heart will try to make up for this by enlarging, developing more muscle mass, and pumping faster. The body also tries to compensate in other ways. For example, the blood vessels narrow to keep blood pressure up, trying to make up for the heart's loss of power. The body diverts blood away from less important tissues and organs to maintain flow to the most vital organs, the brain and heart. These measures mask heart failure, but don't solve it. When heart failure continues, these processes no longer work. The body's compensation mechanisms help explains why some people may not become aware of their condition until years later. (Source: www.heart.org)
TYPES OF HEART FAILURE: The heart's pumping action moves oxygen-rich blood as it travels from the lungs to the left atrium, then on to the left ventricle, which pumps the blood to the rest of the body. In left-sided heart failure, the left side works harder to pump the same amount of blood. There are two types of left-sided heart failure and drug treatments are different for the two types, systolic failure and diastolic failure. Systolic failure is when the left ventricle loses its ability to contract normally. Diastolic failure happens when the left ventricle loses its ability to relax normally because the muscle has become stiff. The heart's pumping action moves "used" blood that returns to the heart through the veins through the right atrium to the right ventricle. The right ventricle then pumps the blood back out of the heart and into the lungs to be replenished with oxygen. Right-sided heart failure occurs as a result of left-sided failure. Finally, there is congestive heart failure. Congestive heart failure requires timely medical attention. As blood flow out of the heart slows down, blood returning to the heart through the veins back up, causing congestion in the body's tissues; usually resulting in swelling. (Source: www.heart.org)
NEW TECHNOLOGY: Hospital readmission rates are under increased scrutiny because Medicare payments will be cut for healthcare systems with higher than expected readmission rates for certain diagnoses, including heart failure. Recent studies show that the 30-day readmission rate after heart failure hospitalization was 24.8 percent across the U.S.; 61 percent of the cases were readmitted within 15 days of hospitalization. Cleveland Clinic researchers have now identified heart failure in patients by using exhaled breath analysis. They study revealed a non-invasive test based on patients' unique breath-prints is able to distinguish between people with heart failure and people without. The findings suggest a new way to understand heart failure and better identify people who may be at risk for hospital readmission. "While additional examination is needed to determine the true potential of breath analysis for heart failure identification in our patients, we're very encouraged by these results. The ability to identify patients with heart failure using a breath test has the potential for broad application due to its non-invasive nature and ease of application. These exciting new observations may lead to future studies to determine how to best utilize these information to reduce heart failure re-hospitalizations," Raed A. Dweik, MD, Director of Pulmonary Vascular Program, Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, was quoted as saying. (Source: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/media_relations/library/2013/2013-03-25-cleveland-clinic-research-uses-breath-test-to-identify-heart-failure-in-patients.aspx) MORE.
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Thanks for the update Dan, this is great info to have. Was the white graphite was the finishing coat on the hull, or was there some other coat added after the graphite? From the pictures it doesn't look like the discoloration is from scratching, but some sort of reaction or contamination. Just curious about the root cause…
I know… I've been promising to write an update on the Canoe and Kayak Coating Abrasion Test that I ran back in the Winter/Spring of 2008. In the past month or so there has been a lot of discussion about it on Björn Thomasson's website. Here it is… finally. This update mostly concerns the "white graphite." Actually there's not much more than what I wrote in a comment…
At this point we can not recommend using the white graphite (at least our version). We used the "Azure" Njord as a long term testbed for the white graphite. After a year of use in both salt and fresh water we came to the conclusion that although it worked great in regards to abrasion, it actually stained (fouled) quite easily. It was very difficult to keep white. Notice the staining in the images below.
The hull needed to be recoated. One option was to modify the white graphite (perhaps adding some dry Teflon would help?). Another thought was to add the white graphite powder into a topside urethane paint (something I may look into). In the end the hull was recoated with a hard epoxy-based bottom paint made by Interlux called "VC Performance Epoxy." It's designed for trailered sail and power boats and can be burnished. It sprays beautifully through my HVLP gun and has no nasty isocyantes like the urethanes. We did not make test samples of the bottom paint for the drag sled. We should have. It would have been interesting. It is now the standard for white-colored hulls.
The black graphite mixture using West 423 powder is proven and whole-heartily endorsed. The hull of the one commercial kayak I made last year (a real hybrid: strip hull and SOF deck) was coated with black graphite. From what I have heard it has held up very well.
In summary: All of our white-colored hulls will now be coated with either VC Performance Epoxy or a urethane. For now, I will not support or endorse the use of my version of the white graphite. Black-colored hulls can be coated in either graphite (preferred) or a urethane. All other surfaces (decks, accessories, etc) will be coated in a colored or clear urethane. Until we have a spray-booth Interlux Perfection urethane applied by rolling and tipping will be standard. As an option any urethane surface can be professionally sprayed with an automotive-style hi-performance urethane, for a slight increase in cost. Also, for those that prefer a traditional look and feel, I will gladly substitute the urethane with a one-pot marine varnish for any boats finished bright.


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Some URC-sponsored programs include supply or travel awards and others offer reimbursement for expenses.
For ASP funds awarded during the academic year, funds will be transferred to the mentor's department. Mentors, along with their Department Chairs and their Department Assistants, will be notified of the award amount being transferred and the name of the student who has received the award. Ideally, the funds will be spent by the department to procure the items required for the student project. If you are a student who has been awarded an ASP and you must personally purchase supplies or other items needed for your project, you will need to hold on to all original receipts or invoices and speak to your mentor (or departmental assistant) regarding reimbursement. If the department makes the purchase directly from a vendor, they will pay the invoice using these transferred funds. If the mentor makes the purchase on your behalf, s/he will complete an employee expense reimbursement form and be reimbursed using the ASP funds already transferred to the department. ASP funds, once transferred to a department, become the responsibility of the department. There is no need to involve the URC in the disbursement of these funds but departments should know that all funds must be used during the current fiscal year. There is no rollover to the next fiscal year.
Funds awarded for Richter-ASP and ASP Conference Travel will be issued directly to the applicant. Generally, the amount awarded to support this type of travel is taxable, but the College is not obligated to withhold taxes or send you a 1099, so please retain a copy of your award letter as part of your tax records. (Since individual tax liability depends on each individual's circumstances, you should contact your personal tax advisor with any questions or concerns.) The award recipient will be responsible for making his or her own travel arrangements. At the time of the trip or project's completion, award recipients will be required to fill out an (ASP Conference Travel) or (Richter-ASP) expense report and submit their airline boarding passes, hotel receipts, conference registration expenses [as applicable] directly to the URC. Award recipients are not required to return unspent funds as long as the trip or project was completed but, as previously stated, please keep in mind that any funds awarded are considered to be taxable income. If the trip or project was cancelled for any reason, award funds should be returned to the URC for use by other applicants.
Supply funds awarded for Science Scholar and Summer Research Program projects will remain with the URC and all invoices or reimbursements will be paid directly by the URC. An exception to this policy is if a Science Scholar or SRP student has received an expense award that they intend to use for subject compensation – if that applies to you, please skip ahead here for details about this process. All other Science Scholar or SRP project purchases being charged to a supply award must be approved in advance by the mentor and both students and their mentors are responsible for monitoring their own budget award, so as to not exceed the amount allotted to them. Mentors must approve the invoice(s) by initialing them and marking them with the name of the student whose award should be charged and then these invoices should be forwarded to the URC for coding, approval and payment. If the student or mentor has individually purchased items and requires reimbursement, s/he must complete an Employee Reimbursement Form, attach the original receipts, sign it at the bottom where the Employee Signature is requested, and turn it in directly to the URC. Department codes and approval signatures will be added by the URC.
For students in all URC-sponsored programs who have been awarded funds to use in compensating subjects or survey participants: You will receive an award check for these funds, which you may cash and use to pay your participants. Please be advised that the amount awarded to you for your use in offering subject compensation is taxable to you, but the College is not obligated to withhold taxes or send you a 1099, so please retain a copy of your award letter as part of your tax records. (Since individual tax liability depends on each individual's circumstances, you should contact your personal tax advisor with any questions or concerns.) Award recipients are not required to return unspent funds as long as the project was completed. If the project was cancelled for any reason, award funds should be returned to the URC for use by other applicants.
Cash Advances: The college is unable to extend a cash advance to students. If a project requires a cash advance, the mentor must request it in his or her name and take responsibility for clearing the advance. For more information about Occidental's cash advance policy, including forms needed to request a cash advance, click here. If the cash advance is being charged to a URC-sponsored program, the mentor or department assistant must work with the URC to request the advance and obtain the necessary department codes and approval signature(s).
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The Oscars
Who will win and why: place your bets
By Ivor Davis 02/23/2012
Aren't we all instant experts and Oscar oracles? We see a movie and we know instantly who will take home the gold on Academy Awards night. But having covered the Oscars for more than three decades, I can attest that all is not what it seems when the votes are cast and counted. There are a multitude of imponderables: popularity vs. performance chops and a soupçon of psychology and politics, all help determine who will win.
The one thing that becomes glaringly obvious is, the best doesn't always make it, thanks to rampant sentimentality along with the perennial question, "Have they paid their Hollywood dues?"
The skewering older voters often shun the obvious pop choice when voting. That's why the bawdy Bridesmaids will end up . . . er, just a bridesmaid. Tradition dictates that Screen Actors Guild winners are often mirrored by the Oscars, at least in the acting department. But this year is likely to be dramatically different. I mean, Viola Davis was great in The Help, but it was an ensemble piece, whereas Meryl Streep as the British prime minister was a tour de force. So taking everything into account, I would like to suggest where you place your bets for this year's winners. (Oops! To quote that one-time Republican presidential candidate: not winners, the Academy doesn't like to call them winners, even though we all know that's what it's all about.)
So this year, the Oscar goes to . . .
The Artist
A silent movie, no less. Black and white, no less. A French-made picture that cost $14 million and doesn't feature a single knock-'em-out-of-the-box. Hugo cost 140 million, was great, inventive, a knockout in 3-D, and if anything's going to sneak ahead of The Artist, it's this one.
Martin Scorsese for
Close, but no cigar for Alexander Payne, who directed The Descendants, and the French director Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist. Scorsese is such a hero in Hollywood and this is about his life's passion: the movies.
Meryl Streep in
The Iron Lady
There would be no movie without her. She's been nominated around l7 times, but only won twice: Kramer v. Kramer in l979 and Sophie's Choice in l982. It's time for No. 3. Michelle Williams was fine, but the Marilyn Monroe story was a bit thin — and those kinds of tales are not Oscar material. I'd love to see Glenn Close as Alfred Nobbs sneak in, but the film hasn't had wide recognition. And the cast members of The Help were all in it together, which works against Davis, fine as she was.
George Clooney for
The Descendants
Everyone loves Clooney. The role was good, and it wasn't typical Clooney material. One could argue it wasn't typical Oscar material, either, but the politics of Hollywood will fiercely kick in here to hand it over to George. I preferred Brad Pitt in Moneyball. And it is highly unlikely they'll award it to the first timer, dashing newcomer and French charmer Jean Dujardin for The Artist — no track record, at least on this side of the pond.
Christopher Plummer for
I hate to follow the Golden Globes' choice because, frankly, my firsthand experience and knowledge of those "journalists" has left me a huge skeptic when it comes to the Globes, but there's little doubt Christopher Plummer playing a gay 70- year-old father who joyfully comes out of the closet will win. It's a lifetime achievement award and an eye-catching role for the guy whom, you may recall, "sang" his way out of Nazi clutches with Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music back in 1965. I liked Jonah Hill in Moneyball, but not this season, and he's also too much of a newbie to win this time out.
Octavia Spencer for
The Help
This category is tricky and often unpredictable, but because Viola Davis will go empty-handed, it's between Jessica Chastain for her portrayal of Celia Foote in The Help (she's in everything these days) and Octavia Spencer. My money's on Octavia.
A Separation
In the film version of the Middle East wars, it's Iran vs. Israel. In any battle, my stake is with Israel, But not this year when it comes to the Oscars. Israel's entry, Footnote, from talented director Joseph Cedar, is brilliant, funny, authentic and inventive, and one not to miss, but Iran's A Separation will inch the Israelis out of the gold. Ahmadinejad 1, Netanyahu 0.
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Youngstown State's Kendrick Perry (3) drives against Wright State's Jerran Young (4) and A.J. Pacher (23) during a Horizon League tournament game Friday at Valparaiso. The Penguins lost, 66-59, but Perry and his teammates aren't finished. YSU has accepted a bid to the CollegeInsider.com tournament.
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Archive for Wednesday, September 29, 1999
Tonganoxie gets connected with cyberspace
Everything's up to date in Tonganoxie, and that includes the city's new website, www.tongie.org, which was unveiled Saturday and shown to city council members Monday night.
Tonganoxie resident Jim Morey designed the new Internet site, which includes minutes of city council and planning commission meetings, as well as photographs of Tonganoxie Mayor John Franiuk and all of the city council members.
"I think it's about time we got caught up with the technology of what's out there," Franiuk said.
The project was funded by Boeing, Wichita, Franiuk said. "By providing funding for this to Kansas towns, they wanted to help everybody be ready for the 21st century," he said.
Indeed, simply by logging on to the web site, an Internet user can easily learn about Tonganoxie's schools, housing, industry, the city library, parks, lodging and restaurants.
Also on the website are historical pictures from our city's past provided by local historian John Lenahan, details about recreation commission games and classes, a calendar listing local events and a bulletin board site.
The web site is an ongoing Internet resource, Morey said. "It will always be a work in progress. We're always going to be updating."
In the future, residents will be able to file applications for building permits and rezoning on the website, Morey explained.
Morey said the website serves two purposes: To provide information about Tonganoxie to people or businesses that might want to move here, and to be an informative tool for local citizens.
"People moving here aren't necessarily going to be coming from places just down the road," Morey said. "They're going to be coming here from all over the country. So we wanted to put our city in the best light from a national point of view."
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Western Kentucky University is setting big goals for the future.
WKU's President, Gary Ransdell, unveiled a new campaign Friday morning.
The $200 million dollar campaign will make WKU a leading American university with international reach by the year 2012.
"We truly are just getting started," said Western Kentucky University's President, Gary Ransdell.
There's alot that Western Kentucky University faculty and staff are looking forward to.
"A transformation is underway," said Ransdell.
The "New Century of Spirit Campaign" will raise $200 million dollars in the next five years.
A previous campaign raised $102 million dollars in that amount of time.
"The last campaign gave us the confidence that we can compete with the best American comprehensive universities. That we can build an endowment to recruit the best faculty and the best students and retain them here," said Ransdell.
They will continue to strive to meet those goals. The campaign will also include growth in enrollment, the campus budget, sponsored research and public services, graduation rates, student retention, and an improvement of facilities.
"Most of our growth will come in Elizabethtown, Owensboro, and Glasgow where we have regional campuses," said Ransdell.
For Gail Ledford, who works at WKU's Regional Center in Elizabethtown, she says she's ready for this new campaign.
"It's going to be a wonderful program. I'm very excited about being part of it," said Ledford.
She hopes in the future it will include a permanent building for students in that area.
"There was a donation of 20 acres to the Elizabethtown Center so we're hoping to do something with that," said Ledford.
President Ransdell says there aren't many schools in the state that are capable of achieving this kind of goal.
"Certainly other than the University of Kentucky or University of Louisville, who have long been involved in the philanthropic business. We're a little new to the game, but we're catching up fast," said Ransdell.
He plans to do that with this new campaign.
"A leading American university with international reach, with enough statistical measures to validate that claim," said Ransdell.
As part of the campaign, tuition will increase 6% each year for students, which President Ransdell says is less than the increase they've seen in past years.
Since the last campaign, financial aid for students has already gone up dramatically. This campaign has already raised $91 million dollars so far.
For more on the campaign, click on the following Western Kentucky University link:


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TC TO MACVEY NAPIER; 23 November 1830; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18301123-TC-MN-01; CL 5:195-197.
Craigenputtoch, Dumfries, / 23d November, 1830—
My Dear Sir,
I am much obliged by your favourable reception of the proposition touching my Brother; and no less so by your wish that I should write something for you in the Edinburgh Review.
I have already written in that Review, and should be very happy to write in it again; as indeed there can be no more respectable vehicle for any British man's speculations than it is and has always been. My respected Friend, your Predecessor had some difficulty with me in adjusting the respective prerogatives of Author and Editor:1 for tho' not, as I hope, insensible to fair reason, I used sometimes to rebel against what I reckoned mere authority; and this partly perhaps as a matter of literary conscience; being wont to write nothing without studying it if possible to the bottom, and writing always with an almost painful feeling of scrupulosity, that light Editorial hacking and hewing to right and left was in general nowise to my mind.
In what degree the like difficulties might occur between you and me I cannot pretend to guess: however, if you are willing, then I also am willing, to try. Occasionally of late I have been meditating an Essay on Byron; which, on appearance of Mr Moore's Second Volume, now soon expected,2 I should have no objection to attempt for you. Of Mr Moore himself I should say little; or rather perhaps, as he may be a favourite of yours, Nothing: neither would my opinion of Byron prove very heterodox; my chief aim would be to see him and show him, not, as is too often the way, (if I could help it) to write merely 'about him and about him.'3 For the rest, tho' no Whig in the strict sense, I have no disposition to run amuck against any set of men or of opinions; but only to put forth certain Truths that I feel in me, with all sincerity; for some of which this Byron, if you liked it, were a fit enough channel. Dilettantism, and mere toying with Truth, is, on the whole, a thing which I cannot practice: nevertheless real Love, real Belief, is not inconsistent with Tolerance of its opposite; nay is the only thing consistent there with, for your Elegant Indifference is at heart only idle, selfish, and quite intolerant. At all events, one can and should ever speak quietly; loud hysterical vehemence, foaming, and hissing least of all beseems him that is convinced, and not only supposes, but knows.
So much to cast some faint light for you on my plan of procedure, and what you have to look for in employing me. Let me only farther request that if you, for whatever reason, do not like this proposal, you will without shadow of scruple tell me so. Frankness is best met by frankness; the practice presupposes the approval.
I have been thinking sometimes likewise of a Paper on Napoleon, a man whom tho' handled to the extreme of triteness, it will be long years before we understand. Hitherto in the English tongue there is next to nothing that betokens insight into him, or even sincere belief of such on the part of the writer. I should like to study the man with what heartiness I could, and form to myself some intelligible picture of him both as a Biographical and as a Historical figure, in both of which senses he is our chief contemporary wonder; and in some sort the epitome of his age. This however were a task of far more difficulty than Byron, and perhaps not so promising at present.
For Byron, no Books were wanted except Mr Moore's two vo[lumes] to which Galt's might be added:4 except the Plays and Don Juan, which also would be needed, all his Poems are already here.5
Have the goodness to let me know by your first convenience what you think of this; not hesitating to say Fiat or Ne Fiat [Do or Do not]; and believe me always,
My Dear Sir, / Faithfully Your's
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Naming Parenting Blogs Is Hard to Do
Lisa Belkin and the Huffington Post's nightmare is over.
When Lisa Belkin moved her Motherlode blog from the New York Times to the Huffington Post, she changed its name to the clunkier Parentlode. Not feeling it was different enough, the Times sued HuffPo for trademark infringement, leading Belkin to acquiesce and admit she "frankly, never really loved" the name anyway. Instead she took submissions from readers, offering the winner a trip to lunch with Arianna Huffington, in addition to a Times subscription "to show there are no hard feelings." The very best idea was Parentry. Belkin says the name invokes ancestry, carpentry, archery, and pageantry. Plus, it combines parent and try, "which is as apt a summary of parenting as I've ever heard." Also pantry; kids love snacks.


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Just Plain Fancy - An Amish Unit Study
We are a homeschooling family of four living in Indiana. I have two girls who became intrigued with the Amish after seeing one drive through our neighborhood in a buggy (not a common sight in our part of suburbia). This fixation stayed with them and we decided to do a unit study on the Amish. I like to tie in character studies with our units. With this one we focused on family, equality and envy.
The unit study lasted about a week. Admittedly ignorant on the history of the Amish I began to gather some information. I found that the Amish religion began after a man named Jakob Ammann separated from the Anabaptist faith in Germany in 1693. Ammann and the leaders of the Anabaptist church disagreed on the practice of shunning and communion. Ammann supported shunning and also the washing of feet during communion. The Amish became persecuted in Europe. They decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean to live life in freedom. They settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1737. Today, ! the Amish live in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Ontario, Canada. Please forgive my ignorance if I have gotten any of this history wrong. This is my best understanding of it after only a short period of study.
Our first goal was to live as the Amish did for a week. We decided to still use our stove since the Amish use gas stoves. We also used our washing machine and air conditioning (we are too pampered to go back). We discussed that Amish don't believe that all new inventions are bad, just unnecessary. For example, they don't watch TV because they believe there's nothing good on to watch. Do you agree? Some Amish do have pay phones on their property to use to call for supplies and for 911 as needed. They believe that gossip is hurtful an! d prefer to talk and visit in person. Not a bad idea. We discussed why gossip could be hurtful as part of our character study. We did allow the liberty to use the phone only for necessary calls and then we had to pay $0.35. We agreed to no TV, computer or lights. I must admit that we only lasted one day. The children enjoyed it and I loved the peace, quiet and family time, but then nighttime came. The girls went to bed and my husband and I snuck down to the basement for a little Fox news. I turned on a light to better see my way down. My daughter who was supposed to be sleeping two stories above called out "Who turned on a ! light? Pay $0.35 (our agreed penalty)." Then we turned on the TV. Again came the voice "Who turned on the TV?" After an hour I was sure she must be asleep, so I turned on the Internet with the familiar alien phone noise. "Who's on the computer? Pay $0.35." To avoid modeling hypocrisy to our children we decided to call off our simple living. Obviously we weren't cut out for this.
To tie in geography, the girls found Switzerland (Ammon's birthplace) and Germany on the map. We also traced the route the Amish may have possibly used to come to America. Then to throw in a little math, we calculated how many years ago the Amish arrived.
For vocabulary we found the meaning of faith, envy, equality and persecuted. The best historical background information I could come up with is to tell them the story myself. We discussed why the Amish all dress alike. They believe that no man should be held higher than another. After all, they are all created equal in the eyes of God. If people were to dress in fancy clothes, envy would occur. It would not be right if one were proud because they had a fancier dress. The soldiers in Europe who had persecuted them wore uniforms with bright brass buttons and mustaches. For thi! s reason, the Amish don't use buttons. The men wear a beard after they're married but no mustache.
For language arts we read The Peacock and the Crane from Aesop's Fables. The girls narrated the story back to me. Then they wrote the moral of the story as their handwriting lesson. Then we discussed how this story reflected the Amish's beliefs regarding dress. I asked them if they thought dressing alike would be better. Later we read The Fox and the Grape from Aesop along with "Madame Rhinoceros and Her Dress" from Arnold Lobel's Fables. To tie in the envy theme we read A Bargain for Frances. Snow White and Cinderella woul! d also be good choices.
For science we read a book called Farming Today, Yesterday's Way by Cheryl Bellville. We discussed the different shape of the draft horse's body as compared to a race-horse. Simple machines could also be studied.
For math the girls went on-line to an Amish General store (at www.lehmans.com). They had $300 to spend on supplies for the week. This turned out to be very inadequate as a wooden wagon cost upwards of $150.
We found many delicious recipes by searching under Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch recipes at www.about.com. We made sour cream corn bread, chicken and dumplings and friendship bread.
The Amish don't say the Pledge of Allegiance, but they do sing "This Land is Your Land" everyday at the beginning of school. We used this for our music lesson each week, opening our school day with it too.
We really enjoyed our week. The perfect field trip of course would be to visit an Amish community. They are growing in numbers and may live in your state.
The following is a list of books we read throughout the week:
An Amish Year by Richard Ammon
An Amish Wedding by Richard Ammon
An Amish Christmas by Richard Ammon
Down Buttermilk Lane by Barbara Mitchell
Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polacco (a don't miss!)
Farming Today Yesterday's Way by Cheryl Bellville


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We love it when we can feature new talent and today is a very good day. We want to present a lady named Svitlana. She is so creative and the owner of the Art de Fete. She knew we were interested in entertaining and that is her forte—making things look beautiful and helping guests to feel both surprised and comforted. She is our "guest editor" and presents a great picture gallery on Easter—using photographs and some important tips for making the most of your table.
Following is a little about our guest in her own words. We know you will love her and will want her to come back again just as we do.
My name is Svitlana and I must confess, four years ago I didn't know what fennel was – or asparagus, kale, celery root, artichokes or cranberries, and could never have fathomed eating them.
I came to the United States in 2007 as a graduate student from Ukraine and earned a Master's Degree in Political Science. My food adventures began when I met my husband and we began exploring the food scene in NYC and other great cities around the world.
I quickly learned that cooking is an art form. I became inspired to create not only excellent food but also elegant, luxurious presentation – a Fete.
Sophisticated food, smart preparation, and elegant entertaining became my passions. I love to challenge myself in the kitchen and entertain guests at home. After encouragement from friends and family, I decided to start Art de Fete to share these passions.
I plan meticulously, research extensively, use interesting ingredients, and choose decorations and wine pairings. While the recipes featured on my blog are sourced from different cooking shows and magazines, I tend to add my twist discovered through trial and error. Because I am a visual person, I devote as much attention to the presentation of each dish as I do to ingredients and preparation. I never follow the rule of "do not test new recipes on your guests" but our friends and family have yet to complain. However, my husband is my ultimate guinea pig, as well as advisor, editor and best friend.
"I devote as much attention to the presentation of each dish as I do to ingredients and preparation."
I created Art de Fete with the hopes that I can help others who share my love for food and elegant home entertaining. I design full dinners and recipes with step-by-step directions and detailed photos, thematic décor and music – everything needed for a celebration at home! I'm confident that you will find Art de Fete useful in elevating the elegance of your dinners. With a bit of curiosity, some planning skills and desire to experiment, you'll never have a dull moment!
Cook, conquer, entertain, and enjoy – joie de vivre!
Easter Table Decor
1. This year's our Easter table décor was quite a departure from the traditional pastels and trappings - no baskets stuffed with candy and bunny displays. I set the ambiance and décor with jewel-toned color combinations and effortless sophistication. Deep fuchsia, dusty pink and golden-colored eggs are streaming down the center of our Easter tablescape while simple blooming plum branches finished the look.
Set Up Your Buffet
2. Set up the buffet on your credenza, console table or kitchen isle using nature as your inspiration and greet your guests in style with bubbly Champagne or chilled Californian wines. Use the abundance of spring flowers and green moss available now and improvise with objects you have at home like antique books, wooden boxes and jars to create a visually inspiring Easter decor.
Glass Bell Jars
3. Build you party essential pantry with various size and shape glass bell jars and apothecary jars. I filled my Apothecary Jars with natural green moss which symbolizes spring awakening and spray-painted eggshells for some Easter spirit and ambiance.
Use Iconic Elements
4. The bunnies so tastefully depicted on the salad plates, truly capture the spirit of the Easter holiday in a cultured way and in part served as an inspiration for this elegant tabletop décor.
Spring Branches Add Grace
5. There is something so graceful and simple about spring branches studded with little blossoms. As our Easter table centerpiece I chose light brown curly willow and plum branches with light fuchsia-colored blooms. This arrangement really added a dramatic visual element to the table busy with more traditional (albeit sophisticated) Easter trappings.
Traditional Eggs
6. What came first, the chicken or the egg? This rhetorical question which for centuries raised eyebrows of many philosophers and curious minds alike is finally answered here. The eggs - and lots of them, at least when it comes to our Easter table décor. I spray painted these hollowed-out eggshells (I bought them on EBay) with jewel-toned colors for some stunning effect!
Use Your Antiques
7. Bring in some cool antique pieces into your Easter table décor. I used Victorian mother-of-pearl steak knives and silver plated egg cup holders that I found in the amazing antique stores in New Orleans for my oh-so-devilish smoked salmon eggs with osetra caviar (the recipe is coming up soon on the blog).


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It's nice to see that mass-market daily drivers aren't the only vehicles going electric. Improvements in battery and materials technologies have opened the door for high performance electric vehicles like the Tesla Roadster, Li-ion Motor's Inizio, Mercedes Benz's all electric SLS AMG E-Cell Gullwing and Audi's e-tron series, just to name a few. Joining the expanding all-electric sportscar showroom is the Artega SE (Sports Electric) from Germany-based automaker Artega, which can go from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.3 seconds on its way to a top speed of over 250 km/h (155 mph). Read More
It's extraordinary what pops up in the in-box each week. Those with a keen eye for fashion will note that the picture is from the sixties – the Ford Comuta was a concept presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1967. It was all-electric, had a top speed of 40 mph and a range of 40 miles, and that was 40 years ago. The upcoming electric Ford Focus has more than double the range (160 km) and double the top speed of 84 mph (135 km/h), but surely the Comuta is worth digging out of the archives for a second look. With modern motors and advanced controllers and high density batteries, the Comuta might be quite suitable for European cities such as London where road speeds haven't progressed much since the horse and cart. Read More
Fancy a Porsche Cayenne crew-cab ute (1), a tastefully-elongated Audi R8 (2) or maybe a stretched Bentley (3)? How about an Aston Martin shooting break (4), a Toyota Landcruiser that seats an extra three people (5), or perhaps an altered roofline, respectfully modified or fully armored … well, anything? Xenatec is one of the places where people go when they have lofty desires and a matching bank balance. The company is now breaking out of its traditional custom niche and entering production of a 100-only limited edition EUR675,000 Xenatec Coupe (6 & 7) that captures the spirit of the many mouth-watering Maybach coupes across time (9) including the famous Exelero (8).Read More
We're a little non-plussed on Porsche's announcement of a reconstructed Semper Vivus, which it is claiming was presented at the Paris Show of 1900. There's a video of the construction of the vehicle, but the scant info available is at odds with previous Porsche historic information on the Lohner Porsche and the normally fastidious Porsche press department hasn't issued any details of the Semper Vivus yet. The Semper Vivus was a series electric hybrid with its two engines charging the batteries and Porsche electric hub motors delivering the power. It must be said the Porsche execs looked anything but comfortable driving the Semper on stage.Read More
Christian von Koenigsegg has once again created a hypercar of the highest order – the new Agera R is capable of approaching 400 km/h and features so much innovation that we're not going to even attempt to squeeze it all into the introductory paragraph. The 5 litre V8 bi-turbo engine is the lightest and most compact hypercar engine in the world, and produces 1100 hp on E85 bio fuel with peak torque of 1200 Nm spread over over a 3300 rpm rev range. It's most notable feature though, is a Thule Roof Box which ensures you can take all your gear as well as having a show car with the standard roof when you get there.Read More
There is no greater accolade than to be judged the finest by your peers. This year the car design fraternity has delivered an overwhelming verdict for the concept design of the year to the Pininfarina – 40% of all the voters (all car designers) voted for the Pininfarina 2uettottanta ahead of some quite outstanding competition in the form of the Jaguar C-X75 and Renault DeZir. The Car Design of the Year 2010 Production category gong went to Range Rover's Evoque ahead of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta and Audi A7. Read More
Well, it may not be able to fly, but it is nonetheless a car with wings ... or in this case, winglets. Unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, the Saab PhoeniX concept car pays homage to the automaker's roots in aviation with roof-mounted winglets designed to channel airflow from the sides of the car and across its rear deck, thereby reducing lift forces without increasing drag. Other notable features include butterfly opening doors, stalk-mounted rearward cameras, an electrically-driven rear axle and Saab's new upgradable Android-based IQon entertainment and communications system.Read More
In the 1970's, top of the line in-car entertainment systems consisted of a quadraphonic eight-track audio system pumping out music stored on cartridges – and maybe a strobe light. Since then, CD, DVD and Blu-ray players, touchscreens, integrated smartphone connectivity, GPS systems and more have all found their way into automobiles to provide increasingly powerful in-car infotainment systems. Saab is now looking to bring the versatility and personalization capabilities of Google's Android operating system to its vehicles with the development of its IQon infotainment concept that will allow users to download applications, online services and multi-media functions through a Saab IQon store. Read More
Volkswagen has had two of the most loved models in the history of the automobile, both originally built on the same chassis. It's not surprising then, that the company keeps reprising them, bringing their relevance into focus. The latest evolution of the iconic Microbus/Kombi wagon surfaced in Geneva. The new 'Bulli' concept offers a flexible layout, seating for six, a 40 kWh lithium-ion battery, an 85 kW electric motor with 260 Nm torque,140 km/h (87 mph) top speed and a range of 300 km (186 miles). There's still not enough range just yet for a serious escape vehicle – if there's no electricity available where you're going, you're on a 90 mile leash – but suitable as an urban electric all-purpose vehicle. Read More
Growing Indian powerhouse Tata emphatically announced itself a player in European personal mobility at the Geneva Motor Show when it announced the Tata Pixel, a car built for European cities based on the Tata Nano. Tata claims the Pixel to be "the most package efficient four-seater in the world". The company's use of high-tech in the new vehicle includes connected services and Tata's own human-machine interface (HMI) concept, an infinitely variable transmission from Torotrak and a 1.2 liter turbo diesel offering 3.4 l/100km, but its biggest point-of-difference is that it is ultra maneuverable thanks to moveable wheels which give it a turning circle of just 2.6 meters. Read More
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The dream of electric ducted fan flight has now come true.
This high performance ducted fan airplane proves sophisticated high-tech mechanics can be easy and fun to use. KYOSHO's many years of ducted fan airplane design experience and the latest brushless motor technology launches a new era in flight performance. The 300g of ultra-lightweight kit with beautifully fiberglass fuselage contains a built-in micro ducted fan unit that delivers awesome propulsion to fly exciting stunts such as loops and rolls. This almost fully assembled airplane requires only a few steps to complete assembly and linkage setup so you can experience the thrill of realistic jet flight.
Removable canopy (with screw) allows fast battery changes and easy access to servo linkages.。(*The photograph is 'No.10111R RED'.)
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I have a laptop running linux, and I've installed various bits and pieces into /usr/local/bin. Some software has created subdirectories (e.g. firefox & blender), some has just gone into /usr/local/bin.
Is this right, that software creates subdirectories in /usr/local/bin, or would it be better to create a subdirectory in /usr/local?


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The Red River Wine Trail features four wineries in the scenic Red River Valley. The trail runs for 72 miles along highway 82, starting in Muenster, going through Forestburg and Saint Jo to finish near Wichita Falls.
The first winery is a little more than an hour drive north of Fort Worth. Alternatively, the trail can be started with the last winery in Wichita Falls, about 2 hours and 15 minutes from Fort Worth. While the Red River Wine Trail could be traveled in one busy Saturday, why rush? Try breaking the trail into two trips, or even four, and enjoy the drive through the Red River Valley and linger in the vineyards.
Weinhof Winery of Muenster – The Red River Wine Trail starts at the Weinhof Winery of Muenster, which specializes in fruit wines and small batches of specialty grape wines. Weinhof Winery of Muenster is located at 123 West Division Street in Muenster. Call (940) 75-WINES for more information.
Weinhof Winery of Forestburg – Not far down the trail is the Weinhof Winery of Forestburg. This one is the original Weinhof production facility. Also produced here are fruit wines and specialty grape wines. Weinhof Winery of Forestburg is located at 16678 FM 455 in Forestburg. Call (940) 964-2552 for more information.
Arche – Outside the town to Saint Jo, sits an estate winery. Arche focuses on dry reds, whites, and roses. Arche is located at 228 Wagner Road in Saint Jo. Call (214) 908-9055 or (214) 536-6330 for more information.
Wichita Falls Vineyards and Winery – The last vineyard on the Red River Wine Trail is just south of Wichita Falls. Wichita Falls Vineyards and Winery is located at 3399 "B" Peterson Road South in Iowa Park. Call (940) 855-2093 for more information.


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New York, New York
Elected 2012 (Charter Trustee)
A.B. Dartmouth College
Laurel J. Richie is president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the longest-running women's professional sports league in the country. She oversees the league's business, operations, and marketing initiatives, and is the first person of color to lead a major national sports league. Prior to her appointment in May 2011, Richie served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Girl Scouts of the USA, where she led the development of a new brand strategy that helped revitalize this iconic brand. Richie spent more than two decades at Ogilvy and Mather, building brands for a host of blue-chip clients including Kimberly Clark, American Express, Pepperidge Farm, and Unilever. Richie's pro-bono clients included the Museum for African Art, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the New York City Commission on Human Rights. As senior partner and executive group director with a portfolio of global brands, her team was among the agency's most productive and profitable. She continues to work with the agency as a founding member of its Diversity Advisory Board, supporting efforts to attract and retain top talent. Richie was named one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Business by The Network Journal. She is a recipient of the YMCA Black Achievers in Industry award, Ebony magazine's Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications award, and Power 100 List. Most recently, she received the Shot Caller Award from Black Girls Rock. At Dartmouth, Richie earned her Bachelor of Arts in policy studies. She was a member of the Black Underground Theater of the Arts (BUTA) and Cobra senior society. She received the Randy B. Cardozo Memorial Award and was recognized as one of the top 10 graduates of the Class of 1981 by Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
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John Warren II (Johnny)
Position: Shooting Guard and Point Guard ▪ Shoots: Right
Height: 6-3 ▪ Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: July 7, 1947 in Sparta, Georgia
College: St. John's University
Draft: New York Knicks, 1st round (11th pick, 11th overall), 1969 NBA Draft
NBA Debut: October 14, 1969
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Monday in a 5-4 decision the United States Supreme Court ruled that opening town council meetings with prayer does not violate the U.S. Constitution, even when those prayers are expressly Christian in nature. The Court ruled that the prayers were not unconstitutional as long as officials make a good-faith effort to include all beliefs.
Ruling that the audience was not the public, but the lawmakers themselves Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion that "The prayer opportunity in this case must be evaluated against the backdrop of historical practice. As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition, part of our expressive idiom, similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, inaugural prayer, or the recitation of 'God save the United States and this honorable Court' at the opening of this Court's sessions."
The ruling came as a victory for the New York town of Greece, just outside of Rochester. In 2007, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens took the town council to federal court saying that the town council prayers aligned the town with Christianity. The town subsequently added prayers by a Jewish layman, a member of the Baha'i faith and a Wiccan priestess.
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The Washington Wizards dropped to 14-17 on the season Sunday in a 112-96 loss to Klay Thompson and the visiting Golden State Warriors. Much like their Friday night loss to the Toronto Raptors, Washington entered the second half by giving next to nothing throughout the third quarter. Washington's bench, however, provided quite a lift in the fourth, including some elevated play by one Jan Vesely.
"Until we can learn to play through missed shots and not zap your own energy and the energy of your teammates, we're going to play like that," said Wizards Head Coach Randy Wittman postgame, regarding how the Warriors out scored the Wizards 34-15 in the third period. "We're too much, right now, of a team of front-runners, where if things are going good, our energy level is really high. And when we don't make shots, the energy just zaps from our bodies." In the fourth quarter, however, Mr. Vesely looked much more energized than normal. He was blocking shots, he had active hands, and--perhaps most importantly for his development--he was initiating shots, to the extent of even driving to the hoop (albeit he didn't come up with much for his efforts on the offensive end).
Vesely is listed at 7-0 tall and 242 lbs. this season, although it's hard to imagine either is true. Vesely isn't one to body opponents, and he sure doesn't look like a true seven-footer. The slim, third-year pro also has yet to find his niche in the NBA, and the media--Washington Wizards Examiner included--has been fast to criticize the former 6th overall pick of the 2011 NBA Draft.
It's more than unlikely Vesely will ever measure up to the success of notable 6th picks in league history, such as Kenny "The Jet," Smith (1987), Shane Battier (2000), Damian Lillard (2012), or even current Wizards teammate Martell Webster (2005). For one, he didn't come into the NBA a scorer. Realistically, though, most 6th picks will be forgotten. When's the last time Jonny Flynn (2009) came up in a conversation, for example? And Flynn could actually shoot (35.8% from three-point in his rookie season after 81 games).
There is no doubt Vesely can make an impact on the defensive end. He's averaging 2.2 steals on a 36-minute upscale (1.0 steals per 15.8 minutes real) and he is, indeed, much faster with hands this season. Yet he is seldom rewarded on this Wizards roster, especially when Coach Wittman can start Trevor Booker and play Nene off the bench. Instead, Wittman wants to focus on scorers, interchangeable parts to keep the John Wall-led fastbreak alive. Right now? Vesely is a Dominic McGuire type who doesn't--if not can't--shoot.
Washington has four on the road starting tonight in Charlotte (7:00 p.m. ET). The Wizards are 0-3 overall in 2014 and likewise on a three-game losing skid, and they'll need to find a way to get their offense going. The Wizards are 5-0 this season when shooting 50.0% or better from the field, but the Charlotte Bobcats don't give it up that easy inside. Fans, and critics alike are waiting for Vesely to issue forth some Dirk Nowitzki roleplay, whether it's actually there or just another summer fantasy not yet ready for primetime.


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Hi,I m using a QRD1114 for my robot border line detection. The sensor has 50us response time
but when I actually put it at the bottom of my robot, the robot rush out of the border line in a speed of 80cm/sec and stop at the border line at 70cm/sec speed.
The border line is 5cm in width.5/70=71ms,5/80=62ms. So that the actual response time should be in between 71ms to 62ms.
My circuit is connected in this way:[Snip long link]Anyone know how to connect can speed up the response time?


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I've got two pairs of servers (each identical hardware and OS) with replication running on both pairs. Running MySQL 5.5.34 on Windows Server 2008 R2.
I'm trying to track down a problem that has occurred twice now on on of the pairs.
I get a 1366 error "Incorrect integer value '\x00' for column Flag at row 1" for the following call:
UPDATE mytable SET Flag = 0 where Id = 10
When I issue the
show slave status command.
On the other pair I don't ever get this error when replicating.
The type of Flag is
I haven't been able to identify any differences between the two pairs yet.
I posted an answer to this below. I believe it has something to do with the serialization of the value when sent from the master to the slave. The representation of the
BIT value when replicated is not in a form that can be applied to a column of type
In this case the stored procedure took a flag value as a
BIT and used that to update a
TINYINT column. While we can agree that those datatypes should match, it is the case that on the master a call to that stored procedure works just fine, meaning the
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What is the best way of doing case insensitive string comparison in C++ with out transforming a string to all upper or lower case?
Also, what ever methods you present, are they Unicode friendly? Are they portable?
Boost includes a handy algorithm for this:
Take advantage of the standard
The details are on Guru of The Week number 29.
Are you talking about a dumb case insensitive compare or a full normalized Unicode compare?
A dumb compare will not find strings that might be the same but are not binary equal.
Are all equivalent but they also have different binary representations.
That said, Unicode Normalization should be a mandatory read especially if you plan on supporting Hangul, Thaï and other asian languages.
Also, IBM pretty much patented most optimized Unicode algorithms and made them publicly available. They also maintain an implementation : IBM ICU
If you are on a POSIX system, you can use strcasecmp. This function is not part of standard C, though, nor is it available on Windows. This will perform a case-insensitive comparison on 8-bit chars, so long as the locale is POSIX. If the locale is not POSIX, the results are undefined (so it might do a localized compare, or it might not). A wide-character equivalent is not available.
Failing that, a large number of historic C library implementations have the functions stricmp() and strnicmp(). Visual C++ on Windows renamed all of these by prefixing them with an underscore because they aren't part of the ANSI standard, so on that system they're called _stricmp or _strnicmp. Some libraries may also have wide-character or multibyte equivalent functions (typically named e.g. wcsicmp, mbcsicmp and so on).
C and C++ are both largely ignorant of internationalization issues, so there's no good solution to this problem, except to use a third-party library. Check out IBM ICU (International Components for Unicode) if you need a robust library for C/C++. ICU is for both Windows and Unix systems.
The trouble with boost is that you have to link with and depend on boost. Not easy in some cases (e.g. android).
And using char_traits means all your comparisons are case insensitive, which isn't usually what you want.
This should suffice. It should be reasonably efficient. Doesn't handle unicode or anything though.
My first thought for a non-unicode version was to do something like this:
boost::iequals is not utf-8 compatible in the case of string. You can use boost::locale.
The Boost.String library has a lot of algorithms for doing case-insenstive comparisons and so on.
You could implement your own, but why bother when it's already been done?
Visual C++ string functions supporting unicode: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc194799.aspx
the one you are probably looking for is
You can use
One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far is that if you are using stl strings with these methods, it's useful to first compare the length of the two strings, since this information is already available to you in the string class. This could prevent doing the costly string comparison if the two strings you are comparing aren't even the same length in the first place.
I'm trying to cobble together a good answer from all the posts, so help me edit this:
Here is a method of doing this, although it does transforming the strings, and is not Unicode friendly, it should be portable which is a plus:
From what I have read this is more portable than stricmp() because stricmp() is not in fact part of the std library, but only implemented by most compiler vendors.
To get a truly Unicode friendly implementation it appears you must go outside the std library. One good 3rd party library is the IBM ICU (International Components for Unicode)
Also boost::iequals provides a fairly good utility for doing this sort of comparison.
Assuming you are looking for a method and not a magic function that already exists, there is frankly no better way. We could all write code snippets with clever tricks for limited character sets, but at the end of the day at somepoint you have to convert the characters.
The best approach for this conversion is to do so prior to the comparison. This allows you a good deal of flexibility when it comes to encoding schemes, which your actual comparison operator should be ignorant of.
You can of course 'hide' this conversion behind your own string function or class, but you still need to convert the strings prior to comparison.
I wrote a case-insensitive version of char_traits for use with std::basic_string in order to generate a std::string that is not case-sensitive when doing comparisons, searches, etc using the built-in std::basic_string member functions.
So in other words, I wanted to do something like this.
...which std::string can't handle. Here's the usage of my new char_traits:
...and here's the implementation:
I've had good experience using the International Components for Unicode libraries - they're extremely powerful, and provide methods for conversion, locale support, date and time rendering, case mapping (which you don't seem to want), and collation, which includes case- and accent-insensitive comparison (and more). I've only used the C++ version of the libraries, but they appear to have a Java version as well.
Methods exist to perform normalized compares as referred to by @Coincoin, and can even account for locale - for example (and this a sorting example, not strictly equality), traditionally in Spanish (in Spain), the letter combination "ll" sorts between "l" and "m", so "lz" < "ll" < "ma".
For my basic case insensitive string comparison needs I prefer not to have to use an external library, nor do I want a separate string class with case insensitive traits that is incompatible with all my other strings.
So what I've come up with is this:
A simple function with one overload for char and another for whar_t. Doesn't use anything non-standard so should be fine on any platform.
The equality comparison won't consider issues like variable length encoding and Unicode normalization, but basic_string has no support for that that I'm aware of anyway and it isn't normally an issue.
In cases where more sophisticated lexicographical manipulation of text is required, then you simply have to use a third party library like Boost, which is to be expected.
As of early 2013, the ICU project, maintained by IBM, is a pretty good answer to this.
ICU is a "complete, portable Unicode library that closely tracks industry standards." For the specific problem of string comparison, the Collation object does what you want.
The Mozilla Project adopted ICU for internationalization in Firefox in mid-2012; you can track the engineering discussion, including issues of build systems and data file size, here:
Doing this without using Boost can be done by getting the C string pointer with
Just a note on whatever method you finally choose, if that method happens to include the use of
Just use
apple and ApPlE are the same
a comes before b, so apple comes before ball
If you have a vector of strings, for example:
Late to the party, but here is a variant that uses
gives you a functor that uses the active locale to convert characters to lowercase, which you can then use via
This also works for
this could probably be made much more efficient, but here is a bulky version with all its bits bare.
not all that portable, but works well with whatever is on my computer (no idea, I am of pictures not words)
An easy way to compare strings that are only different by lowercase and capitalized characters is to do an ascii comparison. All capital and lowercase letters differ by 32 bits in the ascii table, using this information we have the following...
If you have to compare a source string more often with other strings one elegant solution is to use regex.


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PARMA — Gabrielle Bulic erupted for 21 points, 15 rebounds, two assists and four blocks Monday as the Brunswick girls basketball team rolled to a 53-33 Northeast Ohio Conference crossover victory over Normandy.
Behind the 6-foot-5 Bulic, the Blue Devils (7-5) jumped to an 11-0 lead against the Invaders (3-7) and never looked back. Brunswick also got 13 points from Brianna Moss and 10 from Paige Salisbury.
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Terrific. What were your expectations about going south again? How did you feel about returning, seeing friends?
To be very honest, I just did not, ah, plan on going south that summer. I had the two preceding summers and felt I had to good advantage, but, ah, things had begun to change. And, although it was already, what, June, I did not see myself going south because I wasn't sure that I still had a role to play down there. There are many activities, you know, in New York City that I could spend my time on equally as well. I, ah, when the march started, ah, I went down, ah, expecting to do nothing but what we've done on previous marches and that's provide medical presence: ah, conduct foot clinic at night, pass out salt pills in the morning, and take care of whatever occurs in between. And that's, I assumed that it would be very much like the other marches I had been on. It was not.
Can you tell me more?
The attitudes were much different this time when I got down there. There was some polar--polarization, I, I think, was the best way of putting it. Ah, to illustrate, I had been in Greenwood, Mississippi, ah, in the summer of '64 for some time. Made friends there because I didn't drive and I had, a, ah, Vietnam vet, who for gas and meals would take me where I had to go and help me with what I had to do, give me entree into those areas where I might not otherwise have gotten it. Ah, he and another young man, who had just been shot by a drive-by shooter, ah, outside of Lulu's Cafe in Greenwood, had a tracheotomy, a hole in his throat, that I had to dress every day. And the three of us just went round and round, ah, the county and the surrounding areas, in fact the whole central part of the state. On the first morning in Greenwood I was passing out salt pills and as I walked up to them, I recognized them and was ready to throw my arms around them, locked eyes with Jimmy and, ah, he said, "We don't need any of that White man's crap." And they both pivoted, he and the Egee boy, ah, McGhee boy, excuse me, ah, pivoted and turned their backs on me. And, ah, that smarted but it, it gave me a good indication of the winds of change, the directions they were taking.
Let's stop for a minute.