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Johannesburg - Athletics South Africa (ASA) distributed the final list of nominees to its members on Monday for the federation's vacant positions of president and vice-president.
There were no changes to the list that was sent to the provinces and board members at the weekend, which was later withdrawn.
The two positions, previously held by former president Leonard Chuene and vice-president Kakata Maponyane, who were both banned by the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee in February, will be filled at a special ASA general meeting on July 30.
Incumbent ASA chairman James Evans emerged from the list of nominees as the front runner in the early stages of the race for the president's post. He received six nominations.
"It is encouraging that so many people are standing for election and showing the willingness to sacrifice their time for the sport," Evans said.
"As long as everyone has accepted nominations in good faith and the elections are fair, it bodes well for the future of the sport."
Evans, also the head of Western Province Athletics (WPA), received nominations from WPA, Eastern Province Athletics (EPA), Athletics Griqualand West (AGW), South African Masters Athletics (SAMA), University Sport South Africa (USSA) and a member of the road running commission.
James Mokoka of Athletics Gauteng North (AGN), Hendrick Ramaala of Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA) and Harold Adams of Boland Athletics (BA) each received three nominations.
Adams, the official ASA team doctor at a number of previous global championships, was nominated by BA, North Western Cape Athletics (NWCA) and an ASA board member. His name was also put forward by the same group for the post of vice-president. Mokoka was nominated by AGN, Athletics Free State (AFS) and a road running commission member.
Marathon runner and assistant ASA administrator Ramaala received nominations from CGA, fellow board member Geraldine Pillay, 3000m steeplechase athlete Ruben Ramolefi and a member of the cross country commission.
William Mokatsanyane of the SA Schools Athletics committee (SASA) received the backing for president from SASA and Athletics Vaal Triangle (AVT).
KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA) president Aleck Skhosana, together with Motlatsi Keikabile of Athletics North West North (ANWN) and Tshifiwa Makhoshi of Limpopo Athletics (LIMA), each received nominations from their respective provinces.
Among the nominees on the list for the vice-president's seat were ASA athletes' chair and former sprinter Geraldine Pillay, who put forward her own name and received the backing of AGW.
Ramaala received five nominations for the vice-president's position, the most of all the nominees.
His name was put forward by EPA, SAMA, CGA, WPA and a cross country commission member.
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Many of you know by now that I have, surprisingly, become a sports fan. Although I played sports as a youngster, I've never been a fan of any sport, until recently – thanks to my son's enthusiasm and nuanced knowledge of profession basketball and now soccer. We hold season tickets for Bobcat (oh yeah, Hornet) games in Charlotte and we drive down regularly to pull for our favorite team (though I'm still getting my head around my team without Josh McRoberts).
Even though there are still aspects of sports fanaticism that bother me, only one thing truly offends me. It's when the arena features, during timeouts, court competitions for attendees, sponsored by the "North Carolina Education Lottery." It's that name, Education Lottery, that sends needles through my soul.
It's no surprise to the thinking citizens of NC, that our nine year old state lottery has done nothing to improve the state's education – nor, in my humble opinion, was it ever intended to. Even though our education budget, in dollars, has risen in the last three decades, its percentage of the states general fund has declined for the past 30 years, according to today's WRAL.com article, NC education spending on decades-long slide.
In the 1980s, 44¢ of every dollar was spent on education. Today only 37¢ goes to schools. One would hope that a North Carolina Education Lottery would have at least slowed this decline, if not brought it to a haul. But, in fact, the rate of decline has accelerate. More than half (57%) of the 30-year decline occurred in just the last decade, since the Lottery's passage in 2005.
The true effect (and intent) of the North Carolina Education Lottery is enabling an increasingly corporate-sponsored General Assembly to provide more tax relief to the state's wealthiest and most privileged.
But what truly offends me every time I hear those four words, is how the lottery is perpetuating a myth, that in America, anyone can excel to the 1%, can reach a place of wealth, power and privilege – and therefore, we should all support any legislation that empowers, protects and advances the state's (and nation's) richest,
..and becoming a member could be as easy as a few dollars and the right set of numbers.
…and algebra is not required!
Browder, C. (2014, July 8). NC education spending on decades-long slide. WRAL.com.
Public Education in North Carolina Deteriorates Further
My daughter just alerted me to a 10:42 AM article appearing on the WRAL.com web site, Lawmakers Propose Dumping Common Core Standards in NC.
Not surprising.
The puppet-masters of the Tea party have effectively used the Common Core standards to create a flashpoint for generating emotional energy against government regulation. North Carolina is not alone in struggling with the politics of CCSS, as several states have abandoned the Common Core – as a title.
But the arrogance of NC's General Assembly demands that we go further.
Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, said that other states, such as Florida and Indiana, had merely renamed Common Core in their repeal bills. Indiana, he said, "didn't totally devolve itself from Common Core. This bill does that."*
The clincher, and what provoked me to write this article, was that the proposed bill assigns the writing of a new, North Carolina curriculum to an "Academic Standards Review Commission," which would be part of the state's Department of Administration not the Department of Public Instruction.
In an effort to find any logic in this, I found, not without difficulty, an organizational chart for the N.C. Department of Administration. Its offices include:
|Motor Fleet Management
|Purchase & Contract
|State Construction
|State Property Office
|Historically Underutilized Businesses
|Mail Service Center
|Surplus Property
|Facility Management
|State Parking
|Council for Women
|Human Relations Commission
|Commission of Indian Affairs
|Youth Advocacy & Involvement Office
|Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation
And, here it is…
-> Non-Public Education <-
Binker, M. (2014, April 24). Lawmakers propose dumping common core standards in nc. WRAL.
What's Happening at Home
- Raleigh is No. 1 place to live in U.S. - Businessweek 2012
- No. 3 Best Places for Business and Careers - Forbes 2013
- No. 1 Best Places to Retire - CNNMoney 2013
- No. 1 America's Best City - Bloomberg Businessweek 2011
These are only a few of the accolades layer at North Carolina's capital and surrounding Wake County. So why are the county's teachers resigning from their jobs in record numbers this year, a 41% increase over last year's mid-year resignations, according to an April 17 article in the News & Observer.
In a recent press conference, held at Underwood Elementary school, district leaders reported that 612 of the county's 9,000 teachers have resigned during the current school year (that's 1 out of 14 teachers). By this time last year, only 433 teachers had resigned. The most mentioned reason in the News & Observer article was money. North Carolina is 46th in teacher pay. Teachers in this state have received one raise since 2008.
The upcoming Speaker of the House, of the "most arrogantly conservative state government in the country," Paul Stam, wrote in an email message that, "There is nothing particularly alarming in this report, other than WCPSS cherry-picking numbers to fit its narrative."
Stam mentioned an increase in teacher retirement as a big reason for the increased resignations. True that 142 of the 612 mid-year resignations were taking early retirement — experienced teachers leaving the profession.
Where's the good news in that?
Regardless of the claims of school officials, politics almost certainly played in to the press conference. Teacher raises will be part of the General Assembly's (re-election) business this term, even though the newly adopted state tax plan leaves little room for higher salaries for NC teachers. Governor Pat McCrory (Rep) has proposed a $2000 raise for first year teachers, quickly touting the $200 million it will cost tax payers.
Underwood Elementary has lost five teachers this year. Two had lost their homes to foreclosure and one was living on food stamps.
As we lose record numbers of experienced professional educators, the number of students entering the UNC system's schools of education declined 7% in 2013. Raleigh's North Carolina State University expects 18% fewer enrollments this year in its school of ed.
There is simply nothing good about this –
..unless dismantling democracy-born public education is the plan of a conservative government–supported big business desire to turn our children's education into a profit-driven market place.
Hui, K. (2014, April 17). Wake County sees 'alarming' increase in teacher resignations. News and Observer.
The Decline of a Great State
In early 2012, Public Policy Polling ran a national survey to determine the favorability of each state in the union. Not surprisingly, Hawaii was number one with 54% of those polled giving it a favorable rating and only 10% an unfavorable. Southern states, North Carolina and south, generally did not fair well in popularity. Exceptions were my state (NC) and Tennessee, both landing among the top ten. All others, except for Florida, were in the bottom half, four of them in the bottom 10.
Later that year a new government took control in North Carolina, Republicans winning 65% of the seats in the General Assembly based on only 52% of the citizens' votes (see the Best State that Money can Buy). Since then, this arrogantly conservative body has?
- Denied access to federal emergency unemployment benefits
- Blocked access to federal Affordable Care Act health care benefits
- Increased taxes for low-wage workers
- Lowered taxes for millionaires
- Did away with 5,200 teacher positions and 4,580 teacher assistants
- Canceled salary incentive for educators to become more educated
- Are giving away $10 million in public funds to private schools
- Closed 15 of the state's 16 abortion clinics
- Suppressed voting rights
- Enacted policies policies that make millionaires more important to candidates and voters less
And the word is out thanks to the New York Times (here and here) and even the Colbert Report, here (starting at 4:10).
On September 5, PPP reported a re-assessment of the states' favorability and wrote,
North Carolina's national image has seen a strong shift in a negative direction since that time. Its favorability has dropped from 40% to 30%, while the share of voters with an unfavorable opinion of it has more than doubled from 11% to 23%. Its +7 favorability rating would have ranked it 40th in our national study of state popularity in 2011, rather than its top 10 popularity at that time.
I fail to see how this points to improved economy, more good jobs, safer and healthier citizens, more tourists or new businesses.
Best State That Money Can Buy
Scaling down the travel part of my work has provided me with weeks at home instead of days or hours. This leaves me with time to play/learn more about some tools I've only been tinkering with in the past. In addition to that, it's given me time to pay more attention to some topics that I've ignored for way to long – politics. I've especially become interested in the politics of my state, North Carolina, as has much of the rest of the country and parts of the world. I've already written a bit about it here (Will Public Education in North Carolina Rest In Peace?) and here (In Defense of Liberal Arts – Sort'a).
Click here to download the large PDF version. The spreadsheet can be seen here.
As many of you know, my daughter has been contributing semi-regular blog posts here, featuring selected infographics and some data visualizations. It's of particular interest to me and one of the few topics I continue to present on in conferences – and with the benefit of time, I'm learning more about working with vector graphics.
Making an infographic is fairly easy. Making one that effectively conveys a message is hard. As an IT guy at a local CityCamp said, "Don't try this on your own." Well that's the kind of challenge that inspires me, not to mention the message that our state has been hijacked by corporate concerns, masquerading as social knee-jerk issues.
For this project I dug into the North Carolina election results for 2012, the year that it happened. I created a spreadsheet that tied the election results (North Carolina Board State of Elections) in with the costs of the campaigns (Follow the Money) for our governor and General Assembly elections. It revealed some pretty interesting facts about who elected who, how much it cost and who paid for it. See full size infographic here.
Of note:
- All fifty seats of the North Carolina Senate were up for election. Democratic candidates received 1,854,358 or 47.22% of the votes cast. Republicans received 2,072,984 or 52.78% of the votes cast. Yet, Democrats won only 17 seats compared to 33 seats to Republicans. I'd like to know what math we teach in schools that reconciles that.
- Even though Republicans won 76 seats to only 42 seats going to the Democrats, 48% (1,842,541) of the state's votes were cast blue while only 52% (1,998,155) cast red. Again, an interesting Algebra project.
- Democratic Senate campaigns spent $3,257,182 (25% of total spending) while Republican campaigns spent $9,602,925 (75% of total spending). In the House, Democratic campaigns spent $6,021,281 (34% of total spending) compared to $11,762,624 (66% of total spending). There seems to be a closer correlation between dollars and who governs than votes. How did this happen?
- What surprised me was the money spent on campaigns compared to the number of votes. In the state Senate races, each vote cast for a Democratic candidate cost $1.76 in campaign spending. Republicans spent $4.63 for each vote cast for their candidates.
- For the House races, Democrats owe somebody $3.27 a vote while Republicans own somebody $5.89 per vote.
- I've listed the top contributors to both parties, not including candidate and party committees. These are organizations that contributed more than $100,000 dollars. The red bar shows the portion going to Republican candidates and the blue indicates investments in Democrats. As you can see, most contributed to both parties, though most gave most of their money to Republicans.
- Looking at specific campaigns, it was a shock to me how much money some of our democratically elected representatives paid for their campaigns. Pat McCrory paid $5.00 ($12,202,756) for each of his 2,440,707 votes. Walter Dalton, the Democratic candidate paid $2.09 ($4,044,750) for each of his 1,931,580 votes.
- The obscenity is in some of the General Assembly campaigns. Thomas Tillis (Rep), the Speaker of the House, paid $59,15 for each of his 27,971 votes. Phil Berger (Rep), the Senate's president pro tem, paid $38.59 for each of his 58,276 votes. Tim Moffitt (Rep) spent $23.61 for each of his 21,291 votes and John Szoka (Rep) paid $21.87 for each of his 16,208 votes. To be sure, the Republicans were not the only ones spending obscene amounts of money for their votes. William H. Battermann (Dem) spent $61.30 per vote, getting only 38% of the vote. Rick Glazier (Dem) won, spending $14.47 for each of his 17,266 votes. Jane Whilden (Dem) spent $13.84 per vote, trying to defeat Tim Moffitt (Rep).
My question is, "How are they earning that money?"
Downloads: Infographic (http://goo.gl/He1ICB) • Spreadsheet: (http://goo.gl/60MqZw)
Will Public Education in North Carolina Rest In Peace?
You may see more politically-focused writing from me in the near future. Though I'll continue to write about education, certain developments here in North Carolina and in the United States have me concerned about the future of public schools and the future of democracy.
Suffered from the decline of tobacco and cotton, and local manufacturing, the town of Wilson (pop 50,000) decided to reposition itself for the emerging digital economy. With a long history of investment in local infrastructure and utilities, the town built Greenlight, a municipally owned and operated fiber-to-the-home optic communication network. The decision and its subsequent implementation earned the town recognition and praise and, according to a recent ILSR paper, "
People and businesses have moved to Wilson to take advantage of the new network and even some who initially opposed it are now strongly supportive.
One of its most avid and vocal supports has been Branch Bank & Trust (BB&T), a major employer in the town.
Wilson had long been frustrated by the poor service provided by CenturyLink and Time Warner and tried for years to work with the incumbent providers to improve the town's and county's broadband service. CenturyLink (then EMBARQ) worked with the city for a time, but then backed out. Time Warner had literally laughed at the idea. (O'Boyle, 2001)
By 2011, customers of Greenlight were the first in the state to enjoy 100 Mbps home service. Businesses could purchase up to 1 Gbps with existing equipment and even higher speeds could be accommodated. The price for home service was less than what families in neighboring communities were paying for a tenth of the speed. (O'Boyle & Mitchell 2012)
That same year, North Carolina's legislature, which had just won Republican control for the first time since reconstruction, passed House Bill 129, called "Level Playing Field/Local Gov't Competition." The law effectively stops local governments from competing with telcos by preventing them from establishing their own common-good broadband services. Backed by Time Warner, AT&T, CenturyLink and the North Carolina Cable Television Association (NCCTA), and more than a million dollars ($1,159,930) that they donated to state legislative campaigns – and supported by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (O'Boyle & Mitchell 2013), the law follows a disturbing trend in this state – the legislative takeover of local governments' authorities to implement taxes, enact environmental regulation and manage their own landfills, water infrastructures and airports, to mention only a few.
On another front, our General Assembly, further empowered by the obscenely funded 2012 elections (infographic to come) that resulted in a Republican Governor and more conservative ALEC influenced legislators, has set about what I can best describe as the systematic discrediting and disassembly of public education in North Carolina.
Ironically, the Fayetteville newspaper web page cited here also displayed this Google ad urging readers to consider becoming school teachers.
They have dramatically cut funding and vital programs, eliminated class-size caps, phased out teacher tenure, eliminated higher pay for teachers who earn graduate degrees and eliminated more than 5,000 teaching positions and nearly 4,000 teacher assistants. (Hasty, 2013)
During the same legislative session, state law makers, seeking to save deserving children from our "failing public schools," appropriated $10,000,000 of taxpayer money to award $4,200 vouchers to families so that their children can attend private schools. The program grows to $40,000,000 the second year. Portrayed as a "way out" for low performing public school children, a fiscal note that accompanied the original bill (House Bill 944) showed that 30% of the children receiving the vouchers were going to be attending private schools, even without the vouchers.
If we might follow the purpose and practice of this regressive regime down a few more legislative sessions, it may not be too extreme to envision a law that prohibits local towns and counties from providing public schooling for their children.
The tax which will be paid for [the] purpose [of education] is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
–Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 1786. (Coates)
Coates, E. R. (n.d.). Favorite jefferson quotes: From the writings of thomas jefferson. Retrieved from http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff5.htm
Hasty, K. (2013, July 26). Partnership for children luncheon: Governor's education advisor says there's hope for n.c. schools. The Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved from http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/07/26/1272034
O'Boyle, T., & Mitchell, C. (2013). How national cable and dsl companies banned the competition in north carolina. Retrieved from Institute for Local Self-Reliance website: http://www.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nc-killing-competition.pdf
O'Boyle, T. (2001, April 19). Interview by Grant Goings
O'Boyle, T., & Mitchell, C. (2012). Wilson gives greenlight to fast internet. Retrieved from Institute for Local Self-Reliance website: http://www.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wilson-greenlight.pdf


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Why was Ramanujan interested in the his tau function before the advent of modular forms? The machinery of modular forms used by Mordel to solve the multiplicative property seems out of context until I know the function's use and value to Ramanujan at the time.
All questions of the form "Why was such a mathematician interested in such a subject?" are difficult, and have a tendency to becomes metaphysical ("why are we doing mathematics in general?", and then "why are we here, anyway?"), but they are even harder when they concern Ramanujan, who had a nonstandard mathematical formation and a very original mind.
You're right that Ramanujan could not have been influenced in his interest in the tau sequence by our modern vision of this function as the prototype of the general sequence of coefficients of modular forms, with all the connections to algebraic geometry and number theory that are now familiar, since on the contrary the modern theory of modular forms was developed by Mordell and Hecke after and motivated by Ramanujan's results and questions about the $\tau$ function.
So how could Ramanujan have been interested in the $\tau$-function? Well, Ramanujan all his life, and well before he came to England and met Hardy, was interested in $q$-series, roughly the study of certain formal power series in one variable ($q$), and he valued very much his results that took the form of non-trivial identities between two $q$-series. It is an old subject, which begins with Euler (for example his "pentagonal number theorem" for $\prod_n (1-q^n)$), and is deeply connected to combinatorics, yet it was at the time of Ramanujan (and to some extent still is) a little bit outside of mainstream research. But from this point of view, the study of the $\tau$-function, defined as the coefficients of $q \prod (1-q^n)^{24}$ fits well into Ramanujan's lifelong interests. And if you're worried about the exponent $24$, remember that Ramanujan dealt with much more baroque formulas.
There is another reason to be interested in the $\tau$-function, namely that it is the sequence of Fourier coefficients of the Weierstrass Delta-function $\Delta(z)$. Now the function $\Delta(z)$ was extremely important (and mainstream) in the mathematics of Ramanujan's time, being central in the theory of elliptic functions (or integrals or curves) and interconnected with the work of many mathematicians of the nineteenth century on complex analysis, Riemann surfaces, and algebraic geometry. Ramanujan was not aware of all these connections before he met Hardy (at least according to the latter, who said Ramanujan had almost no knowledge of complex analysis and the theory of elliptic functions) but after that he become very interested in the subject.
Well, it certainly is difficult (and probably, as far as I am concerned, a bit immodest...) to try to understand the motivations of the greatest mathematical genius of the last millenium, but, long before him, Euler had studied the expansion of $~\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-x^k),~$ Dedekind had defined $$~\eta(\tau)=\exp(i\pi\tau/12)\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-\exp(2i\pi k \tau)),~$$ and the formula $$~\Delta(\tau)=(2\pi)^{12}\exp(2 i\pi\tau)\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-\exp(2i\pi k\tau))^{24}=(2\pi)^{12}\eta^{24}(\tau)$$ $$= (2\pi)^{12}x \prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-x^k)^{24}~,$$
with $~x=\exp(2 i\pi\tau)~$ was assuredly known. So, Ramanujan, whose computing abilities were truly amazing, maybe considered the expansion of $~x\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}(1-x^k)^{24}~$ as beeing worth the effort, and thus discovered that his ``$\tau$-function" was multiplicative and seemed to satisfy marvellous identities...
But maybe I'm just tasseographing ("tea-leaves reading") the mathematical past.


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Have you ever wished you could be part of the team that investigates haunted castles and manors? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a night in a haunted house?
Well now you have the opportunity to find out and to fulfill your dreams as we offer you the chance to visit many of the most haunted locations in the UK.
The only thing left now is
"Do you have the nerve to do it"?
Some of the sites we visit:
Galleries of Justice, Nottingham
Alton Towers
Ye Olde Salutation Inn
The Falstaff Experience


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8th Annual Harvest Celebration was a stomping good time!
The 2015 Harvest season is in full swing here at the Castello, and on Saturday, September 21st we celebrated our newest arriving vintage with our 8th Annual Harvest Celebration and Grape Stomp Competition! Wine Club members and their guests enjoyed delicious food paired with Castello wines, live music in the courtyard, winemaking demonstrations in our fermentation rooms, and of course, our annual Grape Stomp Competition! Check out our photos of the evening below:
Our enthusiastic Grapes were a hit with our guests!
Guests were able to sample freshly fermenting Gewurztraminer, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Malbec in the Red Wine Fermentation Room
The calm before the storm on the Crush Pad...
Team #6 cheering on their bottle filler to the finish line!
Congratulations to Team #1, our First Place Stompers!
Thank you to everyone who attended this great event! We hope you had a "grape" time!
Midsummer Medieval Festival 2013
We hosted our annual Midsummer Medieval Festival on June 22 this year, and our guests (and staff) had a fantastic evening filled with wine, food, and a whole array of medieval games and entertainments. Please enjoy a few of our favorite moments from the event below, and we're looking forward to next year's festival already!
It was a perfect June day in the Napa Valley as our guests arrived for a glass of wine on our Il Passito patio before the Joust
Our president, Georg Salzner, graciously welcomed our wine club members and their guests to the festivities (and even found a fair maiden whose costume matched his!)
A few of our guests in their medieval finery welcoming the knights to the Joust!
Sir William and his companions, our noble knights of the Joust
Everyone eagerly awaiting the start of the Tournament
A fair guest was invited to challenge one of the knights, whom she soundly defeated in battle
He graciously gave her a rose in thanks for not being too rough on him
The knights displayed their skill on horseback in a number of Tournament events
The highlight of the evening: the Joust!
Noble Lords and Ladies of the Tournament
Our guests were enjoying the chance to be noble (and not-so-noble)
A talented troupe of singers entertained as our guests learned the "latest" dance steps
Fire Dancers mesmerized the audience with a spectacular evening finale in the Courtyard
Even the Supermoon made an appearance above the Castello as the festivities drew to a close.
Want to see even more pictures from this great event?
Check out our album on our Facebook page, and see even more photos on our Flickr feed!
Ragin' Cajun spices things up at the Castello
On Saturday, April 20th, New Orleans came to the Castello for our Ragin' Cajun party. As the sun went down, the beads and beats came out, and the Castello was transformed into a sizzling scene full of live music, tarot readings, and hot and spicy Cajun foods paired with our Castello wines!
The main event featured Gator Beat, a high-energy Zydeco and New Orleans R&B band based out of Sonoma. They kept the Cajun beats going throughout the evening out in our courtyard, where guests dressed in their best Creole "style" danced the night away.
In all I'd say it was a "ragin'" success, but you can see for yourself in the photos below!
You know it's going to be a great night when Fantasia is flowing!
Gator Beat getting the party started out in the courtyard.
A few of our favorite Wine Club members with the Voodoo King.
Guests enjoying some of the delicious Cajun cuisine (and Castello wines!) in our Great Hall.
So many good things in one pot!
All of the delicious Creole cuisine at the party was provided for our guests by Oak Avenue Catering. Ca c'est bon!
Way to rock that New Orleans style!
The featured cocktail of the evening was the "Hurricane di Amorosa," a tantalizingly effervescent mix of our Fantasia with orange sorbet. Santé!
Who wants to hear their future? Tarot card readings in the chapel.
Feelin' the love!
Ragin' Cajun Ladies
Willard Blackwell on washboard keeping the Zydeco beats bumping through the night.
Out on the dance floor. Laissez les bon temps roulet!
Il Barone himself, Dario Sattui, made an appearance later on in the evening.
Our wonderful events team celebrating the fruits of their labors. Merci boucoups for throwing such a great party!
Another fantastic Wine Club event at the Castello. We're looking forward to next year already!
Photos by Raymond Ibita Photography. Check out his album here or visit our Facebook page!
Pagan Ball Rocks the Castello
A Stomping Good Time at the Harvest Celebration
Hot Havana Nights was HOT!!!!
The Midsummer Medieval Festival
Stomping at the Harvest Celebration
The Amici Del Barone, Castello di Amorosa's Wine club gathered to celebrate the fruits of the harvest. It is common that celebrations at the Castello often take on a life of their own and last Saturday's Festa del 'Uva was no exception.
While the Grape Stomp Competition was the featured event of the evening, there was plenty more to see including demonstrations featuring cooperage, hand-waxing of Il Barone bottles and cork manufacturing demonstrations by Scott Webster of Portocork. The entire Castello was open and alive with celebration.
Wine club members came from as far away as Hawaii to the Festa to eat the great food, drink great wine and stomp the heck out of some real nice Napa Valley grapes. Teams were formed with names like, FOTY, Nutmeg Alohas, Grape Nuts, Janie's Jumpers, First Crush, Oceans 11, The Grapes of Wrath, Just Juicin', The Grape Ape, The Big Squeeze, Buffalo Warriors, Purple Grape, Grape Crush, Team Squeeze-a-lot, Grape Gatsby's and Polish Power.
A picture is worth a thousand words so please enjoy the photo montage below.
The Grape Stomp Competition
First, grab as many grapes as you can and put them in huge baskets!
And then dump the Napa Valley grapes into the destemmer... carefully.
Hey, watch your head. And turn that crank, fast.
For most it was all about stomping the grapes, and for others, well....
Stomp, stomp, stomp and keep stomping.
Smiling, stomping, laughing, smiling, stomping... I think you get it.
Some stomped so hard, they lost their shirt, so to speak.
When you're done stomping, pour the Napa Valley grape juice into a bottle.
And look out for this team; obviously, they've done this before! Look at those beautiful faces of experience and the power in them legs!
However, the team with the most juice- the Grape Nuts pictured with Castello di Amorosa owner, Dario Sattui.
Hungry? How about some pizza from the Outdoor Oven
Shannon Kelly of Knickerbockers' catering putting the finishing touches on the pizza. http://www.knickerbockerscatering.com
Making a French Oak Barrel by Nadalie Cooperage
It takes great skill to make a French Oak barrel. http://www.nadalie.com/
And the perfect amount of heat provides the toast necessary to make great Castello di Amorosa wines.
Scott Webster of Portocork demonstrating the origin of cork. http://www.portocork.com/
The Torture Chamber -- Il Barone 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and chocolate
Castello di Amorosa's Il Barone was poured in the Torture Chamber that featured chocolate- tons of it. It was affectionately know as "Death by Chocolate" although no one actually died.
You see, she survived "Death by Chocolate."
One of favorite comments on the Castello di Amorosa Facebook page summarized it best:
"It was the best thing you could do, with clothes on. My thanks to Dario and all the great staff at the castle."
Let the Harvest Celebration Begin
Race to be the winner at the first annual Grape Stomp team trials.
Enjoy the aromas of freshly toasted French Oak!
The Castello's wood-fired outdoor oven cooks some awesome pizza served hot and paired with the Castello's Sangiovese.
The Castello in all of it's 13th century Tuscan glory!
Elegantly crafted Italian-style wine paired with gourmet food. Let your palate guide you from one tasting to another.
A Chance to get all Medieval at the Castle
Let the games begin. The Midsummer Festival at Lake Mario.
Jousting, falconry, archery, bocce and wine at the Midsummer Festival.
Merrymaking in the Castello's Courtyard where the games continue and...
... the feast begins. Seating is available at this premiere Castello di Amorosa
Amici del Barone wine-club event. Not a wine club member? Not a problem.
Come to the event and sign up for the club on the spot.


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As part of installing proxmox on a dedicated server running Debian, it installed a new kernel. As part of the install instructions, I am supposed to choose the new kernel in grub. However I dont have a virtual console for accessing the server at the time of boot. The only thing I can do, is to run an ssh console to the server after it boots. How can I select the pv kernel as default for boot time?
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I grew up in Texas, a native Texan and proud of that heritage. Texan's have a unique way of viewing the world around them. From a young boy, hunting and fishing was a way of life and I was taught to appreciate the values and integrity of the outdoors.
My photography reflects my inner feelings, "Everywhere I Look, I See a Picture". In my daily comings and goings, I look at scenes and situations with an eye towards how that would look in a photograph. I crop the image in my mind's eye, do the layout and snap, another picture.
I draw on a lifetime of events and experiences, I'm old (old in years, but young at heart). I look at life with a sense of humor and enjoy the daily ups and downs. I always enjoy a rainy day as much as a sunny one, they all have another photo to take. I would rather be outdoors, whether at work or play.
My portfolio consists of those images I envisioned to share with others. Each subject and each image has its ties to that inspiration. The vast array of textures and colors that make up every image reflect my feelings about nature and what it takes to be a steward of the environment.


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Every time you do an image update, OpenSolaris, via Sun's super duper "ZFS" filesystem, will, before you are aware of it, create a new "snapshot" for the newly updated system, and very smartly make it your new default boot system.
But more importantly, OpenSolaris will also save your old system as another snapshot, and allow you to select and boot back to your old system in case anything goes wrong in the update.
In today's complicated computer system, this is the best system I have ever seen.
But OpenSolaris does much much more than that. You can constantly create snapshots with very little overhead or penalty. Even if you are too lazy to create snapshots (or should I say, when I am too lazy to . . .), and godforbids you screw up your system, you can ALWAYS go back to exactly the state when your system was first created (no need to re-install from CD/DVD). This is almost like an insurance policy (life or health), eventually we will all realize that no one can afford not to have one.
But, again, OpenSolaris does much much more than that. :-)
Posted by guest on June 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM JST #
hey ... thanks for those thoughts. Hopefully I won't need the backup, but if so I'm glad it's there. :)
Posted by Jim Grisanzio on June 23, 2008 at 04:20 AM JST #
There's no doubt about it, zfs + ips for to upgrade the system have been a great idea, one that shows the potentiality and advantages of opensolaris over other OSs, but I think that ips need some improvements: for USA and europeans users is not problem, but for us where the internet connections are at 768/512 kbps is a disappointment to see the following message:
playa@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg image-update
Completed 533/533 13882/13882 1172.63/1172.63
Removal Phase 3109/3109
Update Phase 614/13792 Action upgrade failed for 'SUNWiiimf-ja-anthy.copyright' (pkg:/SUNWiiimf-ja-anthy):
NameError: could not retrieve file '07678ff1b262d6c504f88c52238ab18eed3d56f0' from 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80'
pkg: An unexpected error happened during image-update: could not retrieve file '07678ff1b262d6c504f88c52238ab18eed3d56f0' from 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80'
The running system has not been modified. Modifications were only made to a clone of the running system. This clone is mounted at /tmp/tmpk-0lBz should you wish to inspect it.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1440, in ?
ret = main_func()
File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1404, in main_func.............................
After four hours of downloading time (each attempt), just to see that the upgrade failed at the final stage.
We'll be glad to see the PKG xxxx RESUME feature.
Posted by Raul on June 23, 2008 at 04:42 PM JST #
Though I like the direction of IPS and OpenSolaris 2008.05, today I was doing my upgrade from b86 to b91 which didn't go so well. After download about 2.4 Gb for the upgrade, only after some time during the install phase did it fail due to insufficient disk space. Sure would have been nice if IPS checked the free disk space prior to the long download.
Posted by Wes W. on June 23, 2008 at 07:33 PM JST #
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Geel, Regula; Backes-Gellner, Uschi (2011). Career entry and success after tertiary vocational education. Swiss Leading House Working Paper 52, University of Zurich.
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Using the Swiss Graduate Survey, we study how the type of tertiary education an individual chooses (i.e., vocational or academic) influences career entry and labor market success after graduation. Our results show that vocational graduates face less risky career entry than academic graduates. Considering endogenous educational choice by using parental education as an instrument, we find higher returns for vocational tertiary education. In the longer term, initial educational type effects disappear, so vocational and academic graduates face the same risk and return. Therefore, career entry for vocational graduates compares favorably to that of academic graduates, while career success for both educational types equalizes over time.
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Running back Chris Ivory remains the only unsigned restricted free agent for the New Orleans Saints, and the reason is that he's testing his options. The bruising tailback visited with the New York Jets on Friday, according to a source.
The Saints issued Ivory a second-round tender, which would be a one-year, $2.023 million contract. It's the same offer center Brian de la Puente signed earlier this week. Ivory is in a much different situation than de la Puente, though, as the Saints possess a clogged backfield with Ivory, Mark Ingram, Pierre Thomas and Darren Sproles.
If Ivory signed an offer sheet with the Jets, the Saints would have five days to match the contract to keep him in New Orleans. If the Saints decide not to match an offer, the Jets would give the Saints their second-round pick (No. 39 overall). Of course, the Saints don't have a second-round pick in this year's NFL draft as the league took it away as punishment connected to the bounty scandal.
The New York Daily News reported the Jets aren't going to give up their
second-round pick with so many holes to fill on their roster, but the Jets will make the Saints an offer for lower draft pick compensation in a trade for Ivory. It's highly likely the Saints would be interested in acquiring a draft pick considering the team only holds five picks in this year's draft.
Ivory tallied 217 rushing yards last season and two touchdowns while only receiving 40 carries as he was a healthy inactive for much of the first half of the season. But despite leading the Saints in rushing in 2010, Ivory has been hampered by numerous injuries during his three seasons in New Orleans.


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Wikipedia defines Internet dating as an experience that allows individuals to contact and communicate with one another online with the goal of developing a personal or otherwise intimate short- or long-term relationship. Online dating services usually provide mostly un-moderated matchmaking through the use of PCs and cell phones.
Marlborough, MA-based FriendFin is a completely free dating site that helps people find others with whom they are compatible for friendship or love. FriendFin has no hidden fees and vouches registrants will never be asked to pay to see their match interests, to update profiles or to read messages from other users.
In addition to traditional private messaging and classifieds, FriendFin allows users to post videos to accompany their profiles. Users can also participate in audio and video chats without having to leave the site. In this way, FriendFin combines the concept of 100% free dating sites with Skype or instant messengers. Singles in search of successful matchmaking online can view the profiles of thousands of active members.
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This dedicated group funds many projects that benefit the residents of Moorestown. Your tax-deductible membership gives the library:
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"Meet the Experts" at OOW
By blogsadmin on Sep 20, 2006
The "Meet the Experts" schedule for the OTN Lounges at OOW is now available here. Here's a sampler plate:
Monday - Tom Kyte, Tim Hall (Oracle ACE of the Year), Dave Shaffer/Harish Gaur/Markus Zirn (Oracle BPEL Team), Doug Clarke/Debu Panda (EJB3 experts)
Tuesday - Steven Feuerstein, Chris Schalk, Duncan Mills, Michael McLaughlin, Greg Marsden, Mary Ann Davidson, Peter Koletzke, Ed Whalen, Arup Nanda
Wednesday - Alex Keh/Christian Shay (.NET Team), Chris Jones (PHP team), Michael McLaughlin, Oracle Fusion Middleware Directors
Thursday - Tom Kyte, Andrew Clarke
The is the best MTE lineup I personally have ever seen at OOW.
I hope to see you there!


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Go back to Flash Reviews
Flash Dispatch, 3-9:
Dancing Vietnam
From the Traditional to the Experimental, a Highly Subjective Guide
to Dance and Dance Funding
By Maura Nguyen Donohue
Copyright 2001 Maura Nguyen Donohue
VUNG TAO, Vietnam --
Please disregard all previous commentaries from Vietnam. Okay, not
entirely, but at least regard my earlier dispatches with some amount
of objective disbelief until you can come here and distinguish for
yourself. Like a travel guide's, consider my opinions -- and that's
all they are -- a springboard for your own in-depth explorations.
And not, as I've told too many complaining "Lonely Planet"-wielding
tourists, The Bible. Of course, discerning Dance Insider, you already
know to read these Flashes as such anyway. All opinions are subjective
and likely to change.
I come to you now reflectively
gazing towards the late afternoon sun as it sets over the South
China Sea -- well, really, where the Saigon River meets the South
China Sea. I'm enjoying a Sunday off at a backwater beach in Vung
Tau, an easy day trip for city-weary Saigonese. It was once a favorite
R&R spot for American soldiers, and the Vietnamese women who liked
American soldiers, as photos of my young mother can attest to. It
was also from here that thousands of South Vietnamese fled to the
sea at the end of the American War. My gracious host, Mr. Mau, an
old diver for the South Vietnamese Navy, tells me that until about
eight years ago no one would walk in these parts. You never knew
what would float ashore here.
Now most of Vung Tau
is something of a carnival, Mau points out from his Honda as the
two of us whiz by the newly developing areas that he calls "Corruption
Town." But here at the less populated, rocky Mulberry Beach cove,
overlooked by benevolent Christian and Buddhist statues built into
the mountainside, we are nestled amongst deteriorating French villas
built right up to the water. I can squint my eyes and almost imagine
myself on a quaint Greek isle in the Mediterranean, except for the
unfortunate signs of offshore drilling and Saigon garbage that float
by on occasion. But, hey, it's a $7-a-night room for two (or three)
with my tabletop desk sitting on a terrace just a few feet from
the lapping waves. It ain't CNN's "Hotspots" but it sure as hell
allows me some space to reflect on a very full, albeit soggy, week
in Hanoi.
We'd skipped Hue, the
old Imperial City, and survived a crowded and bumpy 23-hour bus
ride. Somewhere on the trip I remembered an imperial dance form
that I should have been looking for. I have yet to see any representation
of it but looked for it four years ago when I first came to Hue.
I'd since forgotten about it entirely, having only glimpsed about
30 seconds of it in an Anthro & Dance class film in college and
a few photos in my National Geographic Vietnam War collection from
the early 1960s. Hue's fading Imperial Tombs, considered feudal
and politically incorrect, were saved by UNESCO. I wondered if they'd
managed to retain any of its Imperial performing arts. It's certainly
not in the standard mua dan toc (traditional) dance repertory anywhere
I've been and I've seen enough mua dan toc for a few lifetimes.
Alright, I'm being dismissive
again. Which brings me back to my original point. Some of my opinions
have changed since my last two dispatches. I still don't care much
for mua dan toc as it's offered today, but after seeing it taught
and practiced in Hanoi by the best of the best I can at least respect
it in some way. Though as sister Eirene asks, how can it take seven
years to learn this stuff? This is based on training in Hanoi's
Dance College, which offers seven, four, and two year programs of
study with daily mua dan toc and ballet classes. But no matter how
much more I appreciate the mastery of technique, it still irks my
feminist sensibility to watch a form that's all about pretty, pretty,
pretty. Pretty girls in pretty costumes gently stepping or rocking
or shuffling along with the loveliest of hand movements, the simplest
smiles and any of an array of props. I just want to tear this shit
up. Dig? It rankles every ounce of my half American, women's college,
deconstructive anthro & dance major, righteous babe self. But that's
my issue. You might like it.
So...suddenly, four weeks
into our trip, we were on OFFICIAL BUSINESS after a fruitful, though
slightly-harrowing-at-moments, meeting with Mr. Nguyen Van Tinh,
Deputy Director General and head of the International Cooperation
Department for the Ministry of Culture and Information. Every time
the smiling Mr. Nguyen would begin a sentence with "Yes, but first
there is something I must tell you..." I thought we'd blown everything.
But instead I found him, his assistant Mrs. Le Ngoc Thuy (U.S. specialist),
and our assigned guide/translator (a.k.a. 'minder') Tuan all to
be extremely interested in developing projects with the U.S. and
facilitating any introductions necessary. I had unsuccessfully tried
to get in to see the Dance College on my own and found it wasn't
so easy in the seat of government, and thereby the land of red tape
and proper papers. With their assistance we were able to visit the
country's premiere traditional performance troupe, Vietnam National
Music, Dance and Song Theatre (Nha Hat Ca Mua Nhac Vietnam) at its
great facilities, watch several rehearsals of dance and music, and
attend an event intended for ambassadors. Though U.S. Ambassador
Pete Peterson didn't show, I managed to meet someone from our embassy.
The company is receiving a significant amount of support from the
M.C.I. with ambitious plans to build a 1,000-seat theater on its
grounds and hopefully, with help from some of its audience, to bring
this company to the world. It is considered to be the country's
premiere traditional performance troupe, with all of the dancers
recruited from the Dance College.
At the Dance College,
which, I'm told, is like everything in Hanoi far superior to Saigon's,
we're witness to the effort of maintaining tradition through the
study of mua dan toc. But, after watching a run-through of several
dances, I can hardly distinguish between a standard traditional
Vietnamese dance and one that is supposed to be from one of the
ethnic minorities in Vietnam's Highlands.
The ambassadorial performance
of the musicians from Vietnam's National Music, Dance and Song Theater
reveals the unfortunate gulf between maintaining and assimilating
traditional material, once passed on by elders and now taught conservatory
style. Musicians led by "Eminent Artiste" Xuan Hoach shift between
common traditional Vietnamese and rarer Highland instruments and
compositional styles, with dramatic and contextual but easy shifts
in a single performance. Familiar works are transformed by these
artists. Xuan Binh interprets a famous Southern lullaby (also performed
by Hanoi's water puppet musicians at each of their three daily shows
and used in my "SKINning the surFACE") on the dan bau (monochord)
in a perfect union of skill and personal style. Quoc Hung astounds
the polite audience when he performs a Highland piece on the K'ni.
It's a kind of wooden instrument held with the left hand, bowed
with the right but also with a string running from its base into
Hung's mouth. Somehow he uses this to control pitch. The effect
is electric, like the beginning of Frampton's live "Show Me the
When the group gathers
under Xuan Hoach and Quoc Hung's guidance for a Gong Concert from
the Highlands, we are treated to a rip-roaring time. Several percussion
instruments are played while the concert staging includes a fake
campfire, traditional barelegged garments and hoots and hollers
from within the semi-circle of men and women. Next to these impassioned
and inhabited performances, the dancing is contrived and insipid
within the 2-hour program. As Eirene points out, musicians seem
to be the only ones allowed to jam. The entire company is highly
skilled. But while the dancers seem to only be doing what they've
been told to, the musicians seem to be doing what they love.
But, I've gotten drastically
ahead of myself. Before all of this happened we first met with Oscar
Salemink at the Ford Foundation. He is an excellent resource and,
as I mentioned in my last dispatch, the
Ford Foundation is supporting some of the most important contemporary
arts efforts here. Any focus on international exchange comes only
if it is for the benefit of the arts back home. Salemink points
out that too many Vietnamese artists who begin to have more international
exposure are losing contact with the public here, and thereby not
benefiting Vietnam at all. This sentiment is echoed by Tran Luong,
a visual and installation artist and a leader of a vibrant and exciting
group of young, educated and experimental artists around Hanoi.
He, like Minh Ngoc in Saigon, though very interested in international
exchange and also well traveled, is keen on bringing whatever he
encounters back and sharing it with his community.
Salemink offers an interesting
perspective on the Hanoi vs. Saigon dynamic. He points to the unfortunate
mindset of too many VN art organizations who cite poverty as a reason
for their minimal public outreach. They see or hear of foreign,
state-of-the-art facilities and don't see the small beginnings for
most artists in the U.S. and elsewhere. They are entirely unfamiliar
with the little day-to-day activities that any artistic director
must undertake to keep the work seen, produced, reviewed, financed,
housed, costumed, rehearsed, etcetera. Members of the National Drama
Company visited the U.S. as part of an exchange with the Pacific
University in Oregon, funded by Ford and by the U.S. Embassy, which
led to a successful bilingual, bicultural performance of "Midsummer
Night's Dream." One incredulous actor noted how much effort the
director of the theater had to put in, personally calling people
to ensure attendance.
According to Salemink,
and not surprising considering that the arts moved from being State
sponsored (and dictated) into a market economy, the subsidy system
has created a mindset which makes artists dependent on outside financial
support rather then on their own talents, capacity and relationship
with the audience. This makes for an interesting side effect to
the overwhelming disparity between governmental support to the North
and South that I bemoaned two dispatches ago.
Salemink reveals that this actually has freed the Saigon arts community
in a way I didn't recognize. Without the support, artists in the
South have been forced to develop organizational alternatives. Small,
semi-independent groups thrive in Saigon at IDECAFE or San Khau
Nho (Small Theater Co.), etcetera. Because these organizations are
dependant on box office proceeds, the artists themselves are growing
increasingly involved in their own management and in meeting the
needs of an active, young audience.
So, though it is Hanoi
which has many young artists who are experimenting with form via
exposure to Western ideas and methods supported by official international
exchanges; and Hanoi which boasts a burgeoning contemporary dance
community led by Australian- and Russian-trained Pham Anh Phuong
and developing within the National Opera & Ballet Theater; and around
Hanoi that I met some of the freshest, most exciting artists that
I'd want to collaborate with; it is the Southern artists who are
making things happen for themselves versus those in the North who
must wait for foreign and state support before branching out. An
interesting juxtaposition to my view of the arts scene just a few
weeks ago. There's always another way to see the picture. A lesson
well learned once again.
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What to keep and what to shred
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Using SQL SERVER 2005, I have a couple of questions on Replication and referential integrity.
1) Does Replication handle referential integrity?
2) If I do an Insert to Parent table and then to Insert to Child table, in one transaction, on Source DB - will Replicated DB also behave in the same manner? I.e. In Replicated DB record must be present in Master table, before it is referenced in child table?


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Tomorrow night starting at 7 pm central time, TCM will be airing Charlton Heston movies. The popular actor is getting a TCM star tribute with the pick of five of his diverse films. Heston starred in plenty of movies, he's known for his bible epics like "Ben-Hur" to his 70s sci-fi films like "Omega Man," or "Soylent Green."
These films that will be airing tomorrow night are:
- "Ruby Gentry" (1952)
Heston and Jennfier Jones starred in this melodrama that had been directed by King Vidor. It's about a poor woman, who marries not for love, and how it affected her in a society that she never was given a chance in.
- "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965)
Carol Reed directed Heston and Rex Harrison in a film about Michelangelo, and his painting of the Sistine Chapel.
- "55 Days at Peking" (1963)
Nicholas Ray, known for his film "Rebel Without A Cause," and several films directed Heston and Ava Gardner in a film about an American Major who leads against Chinese revolutionaries in 1900 Peking.
- "Soylent Green" (1973)
"Soylent Green," is a film that needs no introduction. It's a cult classic that many like to quote! Also this was Edward G. Robinson's last film!
- "Skyjacked" (1972)
Heston and James Brolin starred in this thriller about a mad bomber, who forces the jet to take him to Moscow.
So that's the five films that will be airing tomorrow. For those who are interested in Charlton Heston's films should not miss this. Once again the movies will be starting at 7 pm on the Turner Classic Movies channel. For a complete schedule: TCM Heston Schedule.


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Huawei is working on 7″ MediaPad X1 tablet, plans on unveiling smartwatch at MWC
Huawei is apparently prepping a new 7-inch tablet to add to its portfolio. It's called the MediaPad X1, and you can see it below in some leaked renders that portray it from all angles.
Luckily, we also have its specs to speak of, so here goes. The MediaPad X1 will come with a 7-inch 1,920×1,200 IPS touchscreen, a 5 MP rear camera, a 1.3 MP front camera, a 1.6 GHz quad-core HiSilicon Kirin 910 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, and it will run Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean – undoubtedly with Huawei's very own Emotion UI sprinkled on top.
It sounds like a decent enough upper-midrange offering, and could be a worthy competitor to the 2013 Nexus 7 – but if and only if it can match that tablet in price (or be cheaper). Otherwise it will undoubtedly find its own niche, but won't be able to get out of it.
It's also unclear whether we'll ever see the MediaPad X1 outside of China, but perhaps Huawei needs to push its tablets more internationally.
The Chinese company will be present at MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month, and it's there where it's going to unveil its first ever smartwatch. Two new tablets will also be shown there, one of which could (hopefully) be the MediaPad X1.
Alongside all of this gear, Huawei will announce a brand new smartphone as well, but it looks like that won't be the successor to the Ascend P6 from last year (tentatively referred to as Ascend P7 is past leaks). So what could it be? An Ascend D3, perhaps?
Anyway, the Ascend P7 (or whatever else it will end up being called) will be introduced by the company later in the year at a dedicated event. We'll let you know when we find out more.
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Member Raspberry dies at 76
This story was posted on July 19, 2012.
Raspberry, who was inducted into the hall of fame in 1993, wrote an opinion column for the Post for nearly 40 years, and more than 200 newspapers carried his column in syndication.
Raspberry won the Pulitzer for commentary in 1994, becoming the second black columnist to achieve the honor. His winning columns covered topics including urban violence, the legacies of civil rights leaders and female genital mutilation in Africa.
From 1956 to 1960, he was a reporter-photographer-editor for the Indianapolis Recorder. He then joined the Army and was hired at the Post in 1962.


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Audio in emails: any ideas?
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"What about audio in e-mails? Is there a good technology that you know of to embed automatic audio in e-mails? Something that works in Outlook as well as Google and Yahoo mail?"
I've covered video email technology in the past, but anybody have any answers on audio email? Do the same issues apply?
Answers in a comment, email or postcard: all appreciated!
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I seem to be in the minority on this question. Although I am a professional marketer, I believe there's a special place in Hell reserved for marketers who embed automatic audio and video in web pages, and it's a level just above those who would do it in email.
In the modern cubicled workplace, automatic audio is an affront. It is embarrassing at the very least to have one's machine suddenly give out a noise or a soundtrack you didn't ask for. When one's employer has bandwidth-inspired rules against watching video or listening to audio at your desk, it can be worse than embarrassing.
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Not in the minority I suspect: it's a good point. I'm all for audio and video but there are many issues around having either play automatically.
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The White House has responded to a petition urging the government to remove ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after a sketch featured a child suggesting to "kill everyone in China."
The official White House response stated that "the federal government cannot force ABC to remove this show" because "the Constitution protects free speech."
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel came under fire on Oct. 16, 2013 after airing a segment called "Kids Table", where he asked children how the U.S. government should pay back its $1.3 trillion debt to China.
A six-year-old boy suggested to "kill everyone in China" as a solution, to which Kimmel replied: "That's an interesting idea."
Three days after the episode aired, a petition was created on whitehouse.gov calling for a "sincere apology" and for the show to be "cut."
The petition slammed Kimmel and ABC's management for airing the program because it promotes "racial hatred."
It quickly garnered more than 100,000 signatures, which is the minimum amount required for a White House response.
In the statement, the White House noted that ABC and Jimmy Kimmel have apologized and removed the segment from future broadcasts.
The White House also stated that the comments "do not reflect mainstream views of China in the United States."
"As the President has stated publicly, the United States welcomes the continuing peaceful rise of China," the White House said.
This wasn't the first time Jimmy Kimmel apologized over controversial events.
In 2004, Jimmy Kimmel appeared on ABC's halftime show during the NBA Finals, saying if the Detroit Pistons defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, "they're gonna burn the city of Detroit down… and it's not worth it." The halftime show did not air and Kimmel later apologized.
In a separate incident, a skit on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" involving children reenacting a bizarre Kanye West interview prompted West to demand an apology. Kimmel invited West onto his show and apologized to him.
The White House press office is well versed at responding to impractical petitions.
In 2012, a petition called for a Death Star to be built as a way of stimulating the economy and strengthening defense. A response released in January 2013 rejected the idea, noting that "the Administration does not support blowing up planets" and that a Death Star would cost more than $850 quadrillion to build.


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Safety Committee Training
Tuesday October 12, 2004 8:00am to 5:00pm
This workshop gives safety committee members, especially new
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ergonomic nightmares into modern solutions for preventing employee injuries. An emphasis is placed on reducing back injuries, musculoskeletal disorders and cumulative trauma disorders.
To register for the training workshops, fax your request on company letterhead to (503) 947-7462 or register on the Oregon OSHA Web site, www.orosha.org under "Education."
For questions about Oregon OSHA training, call (503) 947-7443 or call toll-free within Oregon, (888) 292-5247, Option 2.Oregon OSHA is committed to partnering with employers and workers to keep
Oregon's injury rates low, and workers' compensation costs under control. One of the best things an employer can do to prevent injuries is to properly train employees. Oregon OSHA offers free training,
free safety and health consultations, and education and training materials from the OR-OSHA Resource Center. Keep your employees and workplaces safe through a commitment to training, education
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As Oregon's economy improves, safe jobs are smart business. More information and resources are available on Oregon OSHA's Web site, www.orosha.org
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roots and branches
Posting a verse a week was one of my new years resolutions. I did it for a few weeks and then life got crazy and some of my other blogs started to consume my time and majority of posts on This Ones For You got pushed to the side. But, I'm going to attempt this again. It may not happen every week, but I'll do my best.
Romans 11:16b-24 "...if the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!"
I love this entire analogy. But the words that stick with me throughout my day are "if the root is holy, so are the branches." To me it is a reminder to everday be concious and intential of where I am rooted, remember what I am working for, and living for. And when you live with God as your root it will effect who you are in your decisions, thoughts, words, actions, and passions. You can't help but be consumed by it. I can't think of any better feeling.


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Cats, Devils Duel on the Diamond
Arizona State (22-16, 11-8 Pac-12) @ Arizona (17-24, 6-13 Pac-12)
Saturday, April 26 // 7:30 p.m. (MST)
Sunday, April 27 // 4:30 p.m. (MST)
Tucson, Ariz. // Hi Corbett Field
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Game 1: Arizona State 2, Arizona 1 (Final)
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Arizona State capitalized on a bizarre defensive miscue by Arizona to escape with a 2-1 victory in the opening game of a three-game conference series between the in-state rivals. Leading 1-0 in the seventh, the Wildcats brought in closer Bobby Dalbec, the starting designated hitter, to try and limit the damage in a one-out, bases-loaded jam. RJ Ybarra, the first batter Dalbec faced, lined out to left field allowing Johnny Sewald to tag up from third and score the tying run. Third baseman Willie Calhoun called for Dalbec to appeal the tag-up at third base, but the pitcher threw wildly. The ball rolled toward the third base dugout, and Drew Stankiewicz advanced to third on the throwing error and was awarded home when the ball went out of play into the camera well. Arizona threatened in each of its three trips to the plate after losing the lead, but the Sun Devil pitchers thwarted each attempt to escape with the victory in front a season-high crowd of 5,188 at Hi Corbett Field.
Probable Starters
Game 2: LHP Ryan Kellogg (5-2, 3.61) vs. RHP Cody Hamlin (5-2, 2.32)
Game 3: RHP Darin Gillies (1-3, 3.96) vs. RHP Tyger Talley (1-1, 4.38)
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Television/Live Stream
The Friday & Saturday games will be televised by the Pac-12 Network with Jim Watson and Eric Byrnes providing the commentary (Pac-12 Network stream available). Sunday's game will be televised on ESPNU with Roxy Bernstein and Mike Rooney on the call (Watch ESPN).
Arizona Baseball on the Radio
The Arizona IMG Sports Network will have a live radio broadcast on 1290 AM in Tucson for all three games this weekend. The Voice of the Wildcats, Brian Jeffries, will provide the live play-by-play descriptions. The broadcast can be heard online here.
On Deck: Arizona Hits Road For Three Games at No. 7 Oregon
Arizona will hit the road for a three-game set at No. 7 Oregon (31-10, 10-5 Pac-12) next Friday-Sunday (May 2-4). All three games will be televised by the Pac-12 Network live from PK Park, including at 7 p.m. (PDT) on Friday, 3 p.m. on Saturday and 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Arizona Baseball Tickets
The Hi Corbett Field gates and ticket office will open 90 minutes prior to first pitch this weekend for the three games against Arizona State.
General admission single-game tickets for all home games are on sale through the McKale Ticket Office, which is is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in-person or by phone (520-621-2287). Tickets also can be purchased anytime on www.arizonawildcats.com. For all home games, fans are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance as tickets purchased the day of the game are $2 more. Complete ticket information can be found here.
Print-at-Home Tickets
Print-at-Home is the quickest and recommended method of ticket delivery. When fans purchase single game tickets online or over the phone, they can choose print-at-home and the tickets will be emailed directly to the customer. Tickets can be printed on a home printer and bought straight to the entrance gate to skip any ticket lines.
Social Media
Follow @ArizonaBaseball on Twitter for continual updates on the Wildcats at home or on the road, including score updates, news, facts and other pertinent information. Interact with @ArizonaBaseball for chances to win prizes and participate in promotions throughout the season. Be sure to "like" Facebook.com/ArizonaBaseball for stories and behind-the-scenes updates on the club, including photos and videos. Check out YouTube.com/ArizonaAthletics or YouTube.com/UAWildcatBaseball for the most recent videos and Instagram.com/ArizonaBaseball for candid photos throughout the season.


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Get ready to bundle up today. Highs will only reach the upper 20s with wind gusts up to 30 mph. Wind chills will register in the single digits to teens. A mix of sun and clouds will build in for the afternoon, with a chance for a quick dusting of snow in some areas as a cold front moves through.
Overnight temperatures will be chilly with lows down to the single digits in some spots, with Indianapolis down to about 12 degrees.
Tuesday looks to be the best day of the week with highs in the mid 20s with partly cloudy skies. It will be cold, but dry.
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This one hurt. The Red Sox-- winners of three in a row -- were surging. They were playing the Houston Astros. They were facing a pitcher with a 2-7 record.
As the game unfolded, the eventual loss became harder to stomach. They would get eleven hits through six innings off said Houston Astros 2-7 pitcher. The Astros would get two runs on a home run which ticked off the outstretched glove of 5'8" right fielder Mookie Betts. The Red Sox would get seven solid innings (season-high nine strikeouts) from Jake Peavy. The Red Sox 6-7-8-9-1 hitters would go 10-for-21. The Red Sox would have the tying and lead runs on in the 9th inning with one out and Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz due up.
That's just the way this season has gone for the Boston Red Sox. It's been a season of missed opportunities. Their failure to cash in on Saturday may have been the final straw.
I've been holding firm these last few weeks saying that the season is not over. The Red Sox still had a shot in the AL East. I've been ridiculed for my position. This loss might be the one that makes me lock up the bandwagon as I am the last one to step off. The first-place Orioles had already lost today. When you are almost ten games out of first place, these things start to matter.
This game was on Dustin Pedroia and manager John Farrell. The eventual game-winning run scored for the Astros in the 8th inning when Pedroia missed by an inch of keeping his heel on second base as he outstretched for a flip by shortstop Brock Holt. But I don't blame him for that. He made a heck of a play bare-handing the throw, and almost (almost) kept his foot on the bag. It's just too bad that he wasn't an inch taller. And if Betts was an inch taller on the Jason Castro home run... if.
I do blame Pedroia for grounding into a double play with runners on first and second in the ninth inning to end the game. I know it's unfair to blame a hitter for not producing in one specific at-bat. But I hold Pedroia and Ortiz to a higher standard. They are supposed to be the "stars" on a team which has no stars. But here we are in mid-July and Pedroia has only four home runs and 36 RBI. Betts and Holt set the table for the big guns. This was Pedroia's chance at redemption. Again, he failed. He failed so bad that he didn't even give Ortiz a chance to hit.
John Farrell takes blame for leaving Peavy in too long. Towards the end of the seventh inning, as Peavy approached 100 pitches, it was obvious Peavy was tiring. The Red Sox were lucky to get out of the seventh inning tied when -- with a runner on second -- Mike Napoli made a stellar play on a hard hit ball down the first base line.
Farrell allowed Peavy to go out for the eighth inning and major league baseball hit leader Jose Altuve promptly doubled. Relievers Andrew Miller and Junichi Tazawa couldn't prevent Altuve from scoring.
The loss drops the Red Sox record to 42-52. They remain 9.5 games back of the Orioles with one game left before the All-Star break. It is evident the Red Sox need to add a right-handed power bat during the break if they still hold out any hope of saving the season. They can't afford to wait until the trade deadline at the end of the month. It may already be too late.


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Jan. 30, 2010
Final Stats
DEKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois women's track and field team boasted 13 first-place finishes at the Carthage College Tadd Metzger Invitational in Kenosha, Wis., as the Huskies won Saturday's invitational with 244 points. Carthage College (148) and Saint Xavier (56) rounded out the top three schools at the invitational.
"The coaching staff is extremely proud of our athletes," head track and field coach Connie Teaberry said. "The girls competed very hard and earned not just first and second place finishes but multiple personal best times and marks. The girls came in calm and confident and that translated into a great performance."
NIU raced to a great start at the invitational, when the Huskies took home the top-three spots in both the 55-meter dash and 200-meter dash. Rhonda Lee (Flint, Mich./Carman-Ainsworth) broke a 31-year old school record in the 55-meter dash, when she raced to a first-place time of 7.16 seconds. Lee's time broke the previoes record of 7.24 set by Cheryl Johnson at the Eastern Illinois Invitational in 1979.
Rasheta Butler (Chicago, Ill./Percy L. Julian) set a personal-best record in the 200-meter dash with a first-place time of 25.82.
Racing to a first-place finish of 8.44 in the 55-meter hurdles, Megan Gregory (Chicago, Ill./Plainfield North) broke a NIU school-record in the event. Gregory now holds the NIU 55-meter hurdles and the 60-meter hurdles record.
The Huskies finished first and second in the 400-meter dash, when Camille Smith (Calumet City, Ill./Seton Academy) claimed first place with a time of 1:00.73 and Brittany Houghton raced to a second-place time of 1:01.07. Jenelle McCalla (Whitby, Ontario/Father Leo J. Austin) won the 600-meter run with a time of 1:41.89. Recording a personal-best mark in the 800-meter run, Courtney Oldenburg (West Salem, Wis./West Salem) crossed the finish line in a first-place time of 2:21.65.
In the 1-mile run Breanna Brevitt (Dixon, Ill./Dixon) and Jessica Troike (Tuscola, Ill./Tuscola) each recorded personal-best finishes. Brevitt placed third in the event with a time of 5:29.86, while Troike finished eighth with a time of 5:50.41.
The Huskies notched a season-best performance in the 4x400 meter relay when they finished the race in a time of 4:00.57. Butler, McCalla, Rochelle Muskeyvalley (Rock Island, Ill./Rock Island) and Brittany Houghton (Freeport, Ill./Dakota) comprised the relay team that took home first place. The Huskies also earned a season-best finish in the distance medley relay, finishing the event in a first-place time of 12:39.29.
NIU carried its success into the field events, as four Huskies recorded first-place finishes in their respective events. Jenner Sio (Rockford, Ill./Christian Life) won the triple jump with a personal-best mark of 37-06.50, while Tiffany Wallick (Fisher, Ill./Fisher) garnered a first-place performance in the shot put with a throw of 40-04.25. Teammate Mary Bull (Peoria, Ill./Lewiston) finished second in the shot put with a personal-best mark of 39-08.50.
NIU took the top five spots in the long jump. Deidra McIntosh (Rockford, Ill./Christian Life) and Houghton tied for first with leaps of 18-01.00, while Muskeyvalley finished third with a finish of 17-11.50. McIntosh and Muskeyvalley each recorded personal-best performances in the event. Earning a personal-best performance in the high jump, Kelly Moser earned a second-place finish of 5-03.25 in the event.
"The girls showed a tremendous amount of heart today," said Teaberry. "They brought intensity into the competition and it showed in their results. They did a great job today and they have a lot to be proud of."
The Huskies will take a week off from competition, before returning to action Feb. 12-13 when the Huskies will travel to Ames, Iowa to compete in the Iowa Classic.


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