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Currently, I have them working on my system (Mac OSX) but I have yet to implement a GUI interface for adding/editing them. So at the moment, they must be manual written to the PMS.conf
To give you an idea of how I implemented them, here are a few code snippets: (Note: They are a little quick and dirty atm and need more error checking)
The virtual folders are stored (in the config file) using the syntax:
vfoldername:/path/to/folder1,/path/to/folder2; (Note: these paths are escaped in the real config file, ie \/path\/to\/folder)
This method reads them in: (Based largely off of the loadFolderConf method)
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public VirtualFolder [] loadVirtualFoldersConf(String vfolders) throws IOException {
if (vfolders == null || vfolders.length() == 0)
return null;
ArrayList<VirtualFolder> directories = new ArrayList<VirtualFolder>();
VirtualFolder vf;
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(vfolders, ";"); //$NON-NLS-1$
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
String line = st.nextToken();
String[] vfolder = line.split(":");
if (vfolder.length == 2) {
vf = new VirtualFolder(vfolder[0],null);
else {
PMS.error("Error Parsing Virtual Folders", null);
StringTokenizer stF = new StringTokenizer(vfolder[1], ",");
while (stF.hasMoreTokens()) {
String path = stF.nextToken();
File file = new File(path);
if (file.exists()) {
if (file.isDirectory()) {
File files [] = file.listFiles();
for(File f:files) {
vf.addChild(new RealFile(f));
} else
PMS.error("File " + path + " is not a directory!", null);
} else {
PMS.error("File " + path + " does not exists!", null);
VirtualFolder f [] = new VirtualFolder[directories.size()];
for(int j=0;j<f.length;j++)
f[j] = directories.get(j);
return f;
This code works pretty well but has some thumbnail issues i need to look into.
This is code I added to manageRoot so that the virtual folders are loaded alongside the regular ones:
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VirtualFolder vfs [] = loadVirtualFoldersConf(configuration.getVirtualFolders());
if (files == null || files.length == 0) {
else {
for(VirtualFolder vf:vfs) {
I would be happy to add the GUI part and finish it if the devs want to include this.


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You would have to work pretty hard to be Morrissey's friend so I think if David wants to be in Morrisey's good books he should give all of his money away, put on his Ziggy costume and go busking on the street."The sex is in the rhythm"
On Dave Fanning's radio show here recently, Fanning was interviewing people playing in Dublin soon. First up was Iggy Pop. After the perfunctory Stooges question, Fanning goes straight for it:"In the mid 70s, you worked extensively with David Bowie. Would you agree that he was using you and got a lot more from the relationship than you did?"Iggy's answer was basically - everyone uses everyone, and sitting around analysing whether you're using or being used more is a very sad way to live your life, and all that matters in the end is the work that results. With Bowie I recorded maybe my two best albums, so the partnership was a huge success for me. He also gave me some great tips and ideas on melodies, production and business. He gave me an entree to Britain, Germany and Europe. Before that, I just had America, and without Europe, I'd have been screwed, because since then it has been Europe that has sustained my career, not America. For that, I owe Bowie a big thank you.Undaunted, Fanning pushed on:"Yeah, great albums. At the other end of the scale, there's Blah Blah Blah, which I'm sure you would agree is not one of your best, and there's David Bowie again".Iggy's response was - Blah Blah Blah was the best album I could make at that point, it's foolish to blame it on anyone else, and I think there's some good stuff there. Real Wild Child was great, and massive for me, and again Bowie had some brilliant ideas there. It was his idea to have me sing it in a lower register, which makes it. I think it's very well produced, and Bowie deserves credit for that. It's not his fault I wasn't in a great place with the music business right then".After Iggy, Mozza was next up. Quelle contrast."You toured with Bowie but cut it short. Was that because you were embarrassed, or he treated you badly?"Mozza's answer was yeah, kinda, by then Bowie was an embarrassment, more David Showie (as in showbiz). He said Bowie wanted him to do a few Bowie songs in his set (which "I thought was wrong"), then a duet (ditto), then "I'd finish up by fading away while he came on" (ditto). He then said that when they played Dublin, the crowd was still baying for him during Bowie's set and Bowie said "Don't worry,. Morrissey will be back later".Needless to say, my memory of the Dublin gig is a lot differentSlan libh,DaraSo Levi's are called Levi's because the guy's name was Levi Strauss? Why didn't they call them strousers? - Fiona O'Kearney 6/5/2004


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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Looking Better?.....
Even though I haven't seen a full 90 minute performance, the last two games have been for me the best that we have played. There seems a bit more zip and purpose going forward.
I'm not sure about changing the back four though - to me, keeping a stable defence is a must - but as long as we're winning and starting to put in performances, what the heck.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Just dropped in to wish you lot all the best. It's an interesting progress, the team's starting to come out of their shell sort of and cause damage.
As regards up north here, it's all a bit iffy to say the least.
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Odd season so far H eh?
Toon looking a bit bleak after last season's flurry, and Sunderland playing in fits and starts.
I wouldn't bet on any of the bottom 10 staying up this season - a good or bad run of two or three games and the whole group changes. At this stage, Villa look a good bet to go down. And 'arry and QPR look doomed (especially given their lack lustre performance against Pool) already.
The Joys of Football Northern Style (to paraphrase Chris Rea)
PS For all those table football freaks out there - who remember their youth playing Subutteo - the old 4-2-4 has been relaunched. Brilliant game. Got a set for Crimbo - the last set I had was way back in the seventies...what a nostalgic pressie.
Hey JL,
Have a great New Year, If we don't converse before hand,
I agree regarding the back 4, I'd like to see BAE Vertonghen Kaboul Walker, taking current injuries into account I'd prefer us to keep Vert as a CB and Rotate Daws and Caulker, with Walker at RB and Naughton at LB, but if Gallas plays as he did against the Swans he deserves some football. I'm not sure if the rotation is through necessity or a new manager weighing up his options. We could call Rose back as cover for BAE?!
IMO we have played much better and actually pretty well throughout December, the Stoke game was frustrating but not unexpected.
Just how god is Bale? IMO he is the best 'fast' player in the league, the combination of speed, power and technical ability is very rarely seen.
Oh and he has been unfairly targeted by refs recently! Defoe's dive was awful, whereas Bale was caught!
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It will be interesting to see what AVB does when Kaboul and BAE are fit. Personally, I still like Daws and the way he dominates aerially - but it will be a long second half of the season and with the other competitions, plenty of pitch time is up for grabs. I'd just like to see a settled EPL squad.
Bale is quick with his feet, and good with his head. I can see him doing a Walcott at some point and looking to play a more central role. Big enough, strong enough and with the speed to scare a CB pairing to death.
I think they should get the refs on a pitch running at full speed, and then let Bale challenge them, and see if they can stay on their feet. It's odd isn't it? If someone aims a hand at your head, you automatically move your head out of the way - that's accepted - why can't the refs then see, that even if he doesn't get 'hit', that by trying to avoid a challenge he (or any other player) could lose his (their) footing. That to me isn't diving. Difficult for a ref to judge the difference though eh?
Here's to 2013 and Bale (and Lennon) scaring more defences to death and to Daffy scoring 20 EPL goals...!


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Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 16(n). Registration of Private Civil Litigation Evaluators.
1. Application For Registration as a Private Civil Litigation Evaluator. The Administrative Director of the Courts will compile a list of private civil litigation evaluators. Persons interested in being placed on this list must submit an application to the Administrative Director of the Courts on a form prescribed by the Supreme Court. Applicants shall furnish, in addition to information, proof that the applicant possesses the qualifications for registration on the Supreme Courtís list of private civil case evaluators as set forth in this rule. An applicant shall also be required to identify his or her area(s) of legal expertise and experience.
2. Qualifications of Private Civil Litigation Evaluators. In order for a person to be placed on the Supreme Courtís list of private civil litigation evaluators, a person must certify by application that he or she is an active member of the Idaho State Bar in good standing and has held such membership for a minimum period of seven (7) years; or is a justice or judge who has retired from the Idaho judiciary or who has been designated a senior judge by the Idaho Supreme Court pursuant to Section 1-2005 or 1-2221, Idaho Code.
In addition, an applicant must be familiar with the Small Lawsuit Resolution Act (Section 7-1501 et seq., Idaho Code) and the rules, practice and procedures of the Idaho Supreme Court governing proceedings in the district courts of the State of Idaho; and have the background experience and training to fairly, impartially and competently evaluate a civil case pursuant to the provisions of the Small Lawsuit Resolution Act.
3. Roster of Civil Litigation Evaluators. The Administrative Director of the Courts shall maintain a roster of civil litigation evaluators who meet the requirements of this rule. The roster shall indicate, in addition to other information, the county or counties in which evaluators will accept appointments. The Administrative Director shall publish a copy of the roster, including information relating to the evaluator, on the Idaho Supreme Courtís website.
4. Oath of Evaluator. In each case, prior to undertaking an evaluation, a private civil litigation evaluator must sign a written oath that he or she will faithfully and impartially discharge the obligations and duties of an evaluator in a timely manner as prescribed by law, and to represent that he or she does not have a conflict of interest regarding the parties or the subject matter of the dispute that would prevent him or her from rendering a fair and impartial opinion in the conflict.
The oath of the evaluator shall be substantially in the following form:
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The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews: Electronic Edition, by Heinz Peter LongerichTable of Contents
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3.3 Einsatzgruppe D
3.3.1The shooting of women and children in the area of Einsatzgruppe D is documented for the first time for the period at the end of August. Around 29 August in the region of Jampol, the Einsatzkommando 12 shot several hundred women and children from a convey of more than 11.000 people which the Commando was driving over the Dniester bridge into Romanian-occupied territories.167
3.3.2Shortly thereafter, at least three, probably however all four of the commandos of Einsatzgruppe D proceeded to systematically murder the entire Jewish population of different villages. The decisive order for the transition to this new stage of mass murder came at the end of August - or the beginning of September from Ohlendorf. Nosske, Leader of the EK 12, stated on this point in 1969 that around the beginning of September, Ohlendorf, together with Rasch, the Leader of EG C visited him and admitted upon this occasion "that from now there exists a Führerbefehl according to which all Jews are to be killed indiscriminately". Until then, the murder of the Jews had been "only in the context of a general order for the security and pacification of the area behind the lines".168
3.3.3A report of the Einsatzgruppe D of September 1941 reflected this new kind of procedure. Here it was stated that "the majority of the forces were employed for political pacification in places where the stirrings of Jewish and communists terror groups were to be noted, especially in the area of Ananjev and Dubossary. In this area the pacification was ruthlessly carried out".169 In fact, "ruthless" pacification meant the murder of the entire population of both villages.
3.3.4- In Ananjev, the SK 10B on 28 August "shot about 300 Jewish and Jewish women"170, i.e. all Jews who had entered the town.171
3.3.5- A sub-unit of Commando EK 12, which stopped in Dubossary at the end of August -beginning of September, killed small groups of Jews practically daily in that town.172 Around the middle of September on the other hand, the unit at first murdered all of the approximately 1500 Jewish inhabitants of the town and a few days later a further 1000 Jews from the nearby areas. Drexel, the Leader of the sub unit stated on this point that he had received orders from a member of the staff of Ohlendorf's group "to shot the Jews living in Dubossary".173
3.3.6- At the end of September, the SK 11a (together with a sub unit of the EK 12 and probably with support from SK 11 b) shot all inhabitants of the ghetto in Nikolajew, where the Headquarters of the Staff of EG D was located. This involved approximately 5000 women, men and children.174 Around the same time, probably a few days later, the entire Jewish population of Cherson was murdered by SK 11a.175
3.3.7The mass executions of Ananjev, Dubossary, Nikolajew and Cherson, which took place between the end of August and the end of September, marked the transition to the undifferentiated murder of the Jewish civilian population in areas of EG D. Also in this case, Himmler did not avoid the task of personally inspecting the mass murders, which now took on a new dimension: for the period from 30 September until 6 October, we have evidence that Himmler carried out an inspection tour in the Ukraine in which he also visited Nikolajew and Cherson, so that it is clear that he was present in both places either during or directly after the mass executions.176
3.3.8In the event report of 26 September177 the EG D reported in conclusion:
Working area of Commando made free of Jews: from 19 August to 15 October, 8890 Jews and communists executed. Total number: 13,315. At this time the Jewish Question in Nikolajew and Cherson is being solved. About 5000 Jews were seized.About a week later, the event report states:
The clearing of the area of Jews and communist elements by the commandos was continued. In particular, the cities of Nikolajew and Cherson were freed of Jews and the functionaries were handled accordingly.178
3.3.9Also in the following months, the EG D continued this murderous course: thus EG D reported for the first half of October:
The territories which have been recently occupied by the commandos have been rendered free of Jews.179
3.3.10In the October report of the group180 it was said:
The solution of the Jewish Question was energetically attacked by the EG, the Security Police and the SD, especially in the area east of the Dnieper. The territories which have been recently occupied by the commandos have been rendered free of Jews. 4891 Jews were liquidated in the process. In other locations, the Jews were marked and registered. It was thereby possible to make available Jewish work groups as large as 10.000 to the authorities of the Wehrmacht.
164. ZSt., 204 AR-Z 1251/65 D, vol. 15, District Court Regensburg, indictment
165. Statement, 11.3.69 (ZSt, 204 AR-Z 1251/65 B., vol. 7, pp. 1320ff).
166. ZSt., 204 AR-Z 1251/65 D, Concluding Report Bavarian Land Criminal Office 19.12.77, vol. 14, pp. 2742ff. See further the reports BAB, NS 33/22, telex HSSPF South of 21.8., 24.8., 27.8. with reports on the shootings of Bataillon 314.
167. Statement of Nosske, 9.4.62 (StA Munich, 119 c Js 1/69, vol. 4, pp. 482ff); statement of Max Drexel, 17.4.62 (vol. 2, pp. 132ff), statement of Karl Becker, 22.9.61 (vol. 3, pp. 274ff) as well as the statement of Erwin Harsch, 1.12.47 (vol. 7, pp. 1604ff). Cf. also Ogorreck, Einsatzgruppen, pp. 157ff.
168. ZSt., II 213 AR 1902/66 Main file XI, Taking of evidence of Nosske, 13.3.69, pp. 2610ff; similarily, ZSt., II 213 AR 1902/66, Correspondence-file, vol. 2, pp. 597ff, 24.5.71; on Nosske's statements see Ogorreck, Einsatzgruppen, pp. 207ff
169. BAM, RH 20-11-488, Report of the delegate of the head of the Security Police and the SD at the commander of the Army Rear Area South 11.9.41. ( Bericht des Beauftragten des Chefs der Sipo und des SD beim Befehlshaber Rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet Süd, 11.9.41.??)
170. IfZ, NOKW 1702, Report of 3.9.41.
171. IfZ, NO 4992, Aussage Robert Barth, 12.9.47.
172. StA Munich, 119 c Js 1/69, indictment of 28.10.70 as well as Verdict; statement of the inhabitant Ivan Andreyevich Jordanov, 23.7.69 (vol. 6, pp. 705ff); statement of Erich Rohde, 3.6.70 (vol. 5, pp. 584ff).
173. Ibid., statement of Max Drexel, 17.4.62 (vol.2, pp. 132ff); interrogation of Erich Rohde, 3.6.70 (vol.5, pp. 584ff).
174. Ibid., indictment of 8.3.66; statements of Zöllner, 28.4.62, 3.5.62 (vol. 4, pp. 934ff), Karl Heinrich Noa, 18.8.65 (vol. 11, pp. 2292ff) and Otto Eichelbaum, 25.6.64 (vol. 8, pp. 1888ff). For the participation of the members of EK 12 see STA Munich, 119 c Js 1/69, statement of Karl Becker, 22.9.61 (vol. 3, pp. 274ff). See also NOKW 3233, Report on the activities of the SK XI a in Nikolayev of 18.8.-31.8.41.
175. STA Munich, 118 Ks 2/68, indictment of 8.3.66; statement of Günther Kosanke, 12.4.62 (vol. 4, pp. 888ff); BAM, RH 20-11/488, Report of the activities of the SKdo 11a in Kherson from 22.8. to 10.9.41. On the involvement of the Police Bataillon 311 cf. Breitman, Architekt, p. 283.
176. Breitman, Architekt, pp. 279f; BAB, NS 19/3957.
177. EM 95. The number of 8890 is also already found in EM 89 of 20.9.
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Funeral services for Gene Wright Willingham, 75, will be 10 a.m. Friday, December 14, 2012, at the Centennial Chapel of the Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home with the Reverend Dan Patman officiating. Interment will be at 3 p.m. in Fairview Cemetery, Randlett, Oklahoma, with Military Honors.
Son of the late George Jackson Willingham and Lizzie Bell (Wright) Willingham, Gene was born on April 19, 1937, in Atlanta, Georgia, and passed away on December 11, 2012, at his Ardmore residence.
Gene grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated from Smith High School there in 1956. He entered the United States Army in 1958 and served his country until 1961 receiving an Honorable Discharge. Gene moved to Dallas, Texas, and worked with Tartan Sales and Watt & Company; both were electronic companies where he served as a manufacturer's representative. He and the former Mary Lou Ruffner were married on September 14, 1985, in Grandfield, Oklahoma. An Ardmore resident since 2001, Gene and Mary moved here from Dallas, Texas. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Ardmore and enjoyed playing golf.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Willingham of the home; a son, Michael G. Willingham of Dallas, Texas; two daughters, Lisa C. Willingham and Terri Van Hooser both of Frisco, Texas; a brother, George A. Willingham of Atlanta, Georgia; a sister, Barbara Morgan of Tucker, Georgia; an uncle, Wesley Wright of Rome, Georgia.; an aunt, Vera Stalvey of Covington, Georgia; two brothers-in-law, Boyd Ruffner Jr. of Bonham, Texas, and Stan Ruffner of Oklahoma City; numerous nieces and nephews; and other extended family.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Milton Isaac Willingham.
The family will receive friends from 6-7 this evening at the Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to a charity of choice or to the Hannah's Horseshoe of Hope, P.O. Box 587, Bonham, TX 75418.
Condolences may be made online to the family at www.hdouglasfuneralhome.com.
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Maya Angelou's 10 Most Memorable Quotes
The legendary poet and writer Maya Angelou died this morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.
Read more: Author, Poet Maya Angelou Dies
In a wide-ranging artistic career that spanned more than 50 years, Ms. Angelou worked as an actor, dancer, television and film writer, producer and most famously, as a poet and memoirist. She published seven autobiographies and several volumes of poetry, as well as essay collections. She also penned the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history, "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Clinton's first inauguration (you can watch the video below). Here is a collection of some of her most inspired quotes:
- "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- "Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
- "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- "If someone shows you who they really are, believe them."
- "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
- "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
- "Nothing will work unless you do."
Courtesty; William J. Clinton Presidential Library
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not as powerless as MindNote in the freeware version
It's pretty powerful and a decent way to represent things but is so slow to start up I'm currently looking for alternatives
Excellent tool: fast, stable, and really powerful
Here's an example: a software mindmap I did for my new laptop (hey, I had to keep busy until it arrived).
It is honestly great. I've tried some other mindmapping software, but this one is the first I've used to be very fast and intuitive - tab to make a child, enter to make a sibling. Very helpful for my studying.
Basically, you start with a main subject, and then sub-subjects branching out, and categories branching out from those, and categories branching out from those. Like this : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/PipsXD/mindmap.gif
I would love to see examples of how someone is really using this. I think with real examples it would make more sense to a noob like myself.


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Good Girl Gone Grunge at Berlin Fashion Week
After Hugo Boss stopped showing at Berlin Fashion Week last year, German designer Dorothee Schumacher became the most established designer presenting in a city known for cheap apartments filled with budding creative types.
With around 40 stores in the United States now selling her label, celebrities including January Jones, Kerry Washington, Julia Louis Dreyfus and Olivia Wilde have recently been spotted sporting her powerfully feminine designs.
Speakeasy met with Schumacher backstage before her Thursday show to discuss her punk-meets-preppy Fall/Winter 2014 collection.
Speakeasy: You just said your collection was inspired by the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith's former partner. Can you explain how, exactly?
Dorothee Schumacher: He had this broken beauty. His art had all these strong colors and patterns blocked together, and in this collection I wanted to pair strong materials and colors together in similar, unusual ways.
This grungy type of preppy look is quite a departure for you. Two of your most memorable collections have been 1970s Bianca Jagger-type frocks and neon, flirty pants and jackets inspired by 1990s workout gear. What made you want to employ such an edgier style today?
Women have come so far in expressing our femininity through style in the past several years that I think it's important that this femininity see a balance, a pushback through harder-edged touches of style. We have earrings with jewels and masculine rivets, or chunky heels paired with jewels–I like the idea of mixing opulence with down-to-earth rock booties. We still used the same suppliers for the materials like Craquelure-Lacquer, wool, or metallic Jacquard, we just asked them early on to "rock it up" a bit.
Part of the reason you've grown in exposure in the US is that you cut out your middle-man and now sell directly to stores. But you've also grown in China. Did the Chinese women who are fans of your clothing have an influence on this collection?
We've expanded into China in the past few years and have noticed that many women there are the type of women who inspired this season: they're looking to balance femininity and their country's tradition with a harder, modern edge.
Read WSJ's profile on Schumacher that traces the making of a dress from paper cutout to the catwalk //here//


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quote: ...a plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction "must establish that he is likely to succeed on the merits [i.e. win at trial], that he is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief, that the balance of equities tips in his favor, and that an injunction is in the public interest


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Prof. Susanna Siegel
Prof. Alex Byrne
Spring 2007
This course is a survey of recent philosophy of perception. The main topics discussed are the following: the transparency of perceptual experience, disjunctivism, the content of perceptual experience, perceptual consciousness, thought ownership and thought disorders (focussing on schizophrenia), introspection, and the perception of sound. Questions raised by these topics include "In what way is imagination distinct from perception?", "Is there a perceptual relation?", "What is the view that perceptual experiences have representational content?", "In what way is introspection distinct from perception?", "What does the phenomenon of 'thought insertion' show about the ownership of thoughts?", and "What is a sound?". We explore these topics through reading, writing, and presentations by the instructors and guests.
OCW has published multiple versions of this subject.
Susanna Siegel, and Alex Byrne. 24.500 Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Perceptual Experience, Spring 2007. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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SAN JOSE -- Droplets of sweat cascade down Matt Major's face as he thrusts his fists left, then right, into the boxing bag. He grunts in exhaustion, pausing momentarily to wipe his brow.
On the cusp of the fight of his career, and after a day of deep-scrubbing trash cans in downtown, Major is San Jose's Cinderella man. He's reaching for the glass slipper, but knows he might wind up with a pumpkin.
"If you don't know the art of dying, you'll never know the art of living," he said. "If you're not losing in here and getting beat up in here by people who are bigger and better than you, then you're never going to grow."
Major, 30, is familiar with hardship, both inside the cage and out on the street.
While he's training five days a week for his comeback fight on Sept. 13, his first mixed martial arts bout in four years, Major ends each day walking in the dark back to a camp beneath Highway 87 where he sleeps on a sofa bed, using only a blanket for warmth.
The camp is a stark contrast to the cleanliness and order that surround Major most of the day: Tents and a makeshift bathroom are spread out in no particular order over much of the area, while piles of debris are scattered on the dirt floor.
Homelessness is something Major has known off and on for 10 years.
"There is a time and a place to repair everything, and that is where Matt is now," said Ernie Ramirez, owner of Extreme Martial Arts, the gym where Major trains. "And he can do it. If I didn't think he could, I wouldn't be pushing so hard. Where he's at today, he has nothing to lose. He has everything to gain."
In 2004, Major made his way to San Jose to train at the well-known American Kickboxing Academy. With no place to live when he arrived, he took to sleeping above the gym while he trained, cooking his meals on a George Foreman grill.
But Major didn't mind his minimalist lifestyle. He said he was finally where he wanted to be, achieving a dream he had fostered as a kid in New Jersey, when he would peer through a window at a karate class he couldn't afford. He would visit the studio regularly, he said, then go home and practice in his backyard or on the playground after school. When Major watched his first Ultimate Fighting Championship bout on television, he said, he thought he was watching "superheroes."
In 2007, he shocked his opponent and trainers by winning his first professional fight. And he continued to win. He was even selected for the show "Tapout," which chronicled fighters in the UFC. Major became a fixture on the show, with his riotous antics and his Halloween-like costumes, complete with makeup.
But his winning streak halted in 2010, when Major lost two fights. In the second loss, he was knocked out in the second round. Soon after, frustrated and disappointed about his defeats, Major stopped training and then left American Kickboxing Academy.
"He lost his drive, his will to fight," said Major's friend and training partner, Mike Kyle. "He had a couple bad episodes. He was living on the street. It just wasn't good."
Major made ends meet for a time as a personal trainer at a gym in San Jose, using what money he made there to pay his rent. But his personal life soon spiraled out of control when he was arrested for assault, and he ended up serving two years behind bars. By January, he was out of jail but had no money and no place to live. Major admitted his life was in utter ruin. That same month, he was hit by a car while walking in downtown San Jose, and he ended up with a broken leg and chipped tooth.
Major said the accident capped the lowest point of his life, and he realized he needed to turn things around fast. An acquaintance mentioned Downtown Streets Team, a work-experience volunteer program that helps build self-esteem as well as providing assistance with resumes, housing placement and job hunting. On crutches, Major hobbled over to the organization's weekly meeting at Grace Community Church, where he met case manager Maureen Damrel.
Damrel said Major was earnest when he said he was tired of the way things were, that he wanted to change and to get back into fighting.
"He took complete ownership of his life," she said. "He had a lot of obstacles to overcome and he had to push himself. And he did."
Major also reached out to Kyle, who reached out to Ramirez. The veteran instructor agreed to train Major for free. The partnership, all three agree, couldn't be more perfect.
In the few months that Major has been rehabilitating and training, he has gone from slapdash to professional, adapting to a life of discipline and direction. He has also found a group of people who love him unconditionally and who are his biggest supporters, Ramirez said.
"Yeah, I want him to have his own car, to have his own house. I want him to have everything he deserves," Ramirez said. "But to get it, you have to go after it and you have to put in the hard work to get it. No matter what anyone says, you can't be happy waking up on the street every day."
While his camp mates spend much of their day lounging in and around their tents, Major volunteers five days a week at Groundwerx, an organization that partners with Downtown Streets Team to clean areas of downtown San Jose. Major recently interviewed for a paying job with Groundwerx, and both he and Damrel think he has a shot at getting the gig.
Damrel said she believes Major will move on from the life he has led and that he is already inspiring others who participate in Downtown Streets Team programs. She said she can see a change in him that is infectious. Simple things, like the way he makes eye contact when talking with others. Or buying food for someone who couldn't afford it one week.
"He has a lot of life ahead of him," she said. "He's proof that homelessness can happen to anyone. But Matt has gone through it gracefully. His story gives others hope."
Major says a hard life has actually brought out the best in him and the challenges he's faced have shaped him to understand and appreciate his second chance.
Major is ready to come back; he's ready to win.
"I measure myself on a different level," he said. "I will walk into your town and challenge you at noon. And we're going to see whose guns are faster. And it's probably going to be mine."
Contact Katie Nelson at 408-920-5006 and follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.
Do you think you want to be a part of Downtown Streets Team?
Weekly meetings are held at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Grace Community Church, 484 E. San Fernando in San Jose.
Matt Major is set to fight David Mitchell for the middleweight title at the West Coast Fighting Championship on Sept. 13 at the McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Ave. in North Highlands. The doors open at 5 p.m.
Tickets for the event can be purchased at www.westcoastfighting.com


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Topic: An anniversary (of sorts)
Greetings to everyone.
I presume that most of us on this site have special days of remembrance related to our disease -- those dates when we or loved ones were first diagnosed, first started treatment, and so forth. Unfortunately, for too many, there is that date when a loved one was lost to this disease.
Along with the other important dates in my life -- the day I met my wife (which was also the very day I knew I would marry her!), our anniversary, the birth dates of my stepsons -- these new dates crowd my memory: the day I first became symptomatic, learned there was a mass in my liver, was diagnosed with CC, was told I had only a few months to live, had my surgeries. Although I am intent on moving forward and not dwelling on the past (as best I can), these dates are very important. They represent times that changed my life in a most profound way. Suddenly, in a brief moment, there was a paradigm shift, and I had to begin think about the meaning of my life in new ways. I have come to accept many of the new probabilities in my new future. What I cannot accept, what I may never learn to accept, is that someday this disease might ultimately take away my ability to be with and care for my family.
I have reached the anniversary of one of those special dates. One year ago I became symptomatic. One day I was fine, the next day something was obviously very wrong. As with everyone fighting this disease, there have been ups and downs. Unexpectedly, early this year I was able to have two surgeries that greatly extended my life. I did, however, have a microscopically positive margin and extensive lymphatic involvement. So, I was put on intense adjuvant therapy. Unfortunately, for the last several months, I have struggled with treatment-induced liver disease with all of the fatigue and symptoms that come with it. This cut my adjuvant therapy short, which is a cause for concern. Still, a year after my first symptoms I am here thanks to skilled and caring physicians, the love of family and friends, and the support of a faith community. I am relatively healthy and currently tumor free (!), and able to be with my family and continue to work. This is so much more than we could have imagined a year ago. I am blessed.
Thank you all for letting me ramble on...and helping me to honor this date in my life.
Best wishes to all,


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Bring a whole new level of customization to your music library by putting the unused space of your menu bar to work. Barquee makes it easy to control iTunes with hotkeys and radically modify the appearance of displayed information to make your music look as unique as it sounds.
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Tags: barquee , itunes , music , mp3
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Barquee doesn't work properly in Leopard, but after much searching I have found a tiny program called iTunesMenu that does what I want -- which is a non-obtrusive static display in the menu bar so that I can look up and see what's playing.
Barquee scrolls the track/artist info continually (that's the whole point).
As does iController and Quicktunes
YoucontrolTunes does not do this, it only scrolls for the first 10s or so, meaning that if you miss this "window" it's not as usefull. The colour of the scrolling font is not configurable either.
If you want to be able to glance up and at any point in the song, easily see what's playing without having to move your cursor anywhere or clicking anywhere, then any of Barq/iCon/QuickT is the app for you.
Having said that, I completely agree that otherwise, the rest of YoucontrolTunes is a very slick app indeed, with only slightly more resource usage...very good for a freeware app
Try - YouControl Tunes. Its free and does the same.
Better scrolling in the menu bar (more customisable) than iController, but isn't free.


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Moderator Jim Lehrer addresses the audience before the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jim Lehrer says he accomplished precisely what he wanted while moderating the first presidential debate: He got Mitt Romney and Barack Obama to talk to one another.
The former PBS anchor took heavy flak on social media for his light hand during Wednesday's debate. He asked general, open-ended questions and let the candidates go at it.
Lehrer said in an interview that it was a conscious effort to encourage a different kind of debate, one he said Monday will be looked back upon as a watershed. He said his only regret was not getting to more subjects, but he didn't want to do that at the price of ending good discussions.


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STOCKTON -- Officers trying to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation around 1:45 this morning found themselves instead involved in a chase reaching speeds of 105 mph, police reported.
Officers tried to stop the vehicle at Aurora and Church Streets, but a 13-minute, 16-mile pursuit ensued onto Highway 99 and off again.
The chased vehicle collided with two parked vehicles near Belleview Avenue and 11th Street, where the driver fled on foot.
Eric Randle, 50, was found nearby. Police said he possessed a small amount of cocaine. He was arrested on suspicion of drug, DUI, resisting arrest and traffic charges.
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I use this PS3 MS for 2 Samsung tv's and my Ps3 - amazing server and amazing support community!!
I recently picked up a BB Playbook during their fire-sale. I have downloaded the TVersity renderer on the playbook and am able to get a connection to the PS3 MS - traces show the IP of the playbook as connected but its unable to identify the renderer.
Has anyone tried playing around with the playbook to see if the PS3 MS can stream to the TVersity app on the PB? (or any other means of streaming to the PB) - The TVersity app has a setting for"generic", i.e. that it does not have to be mated to the TVersity server that's why I was hoping that the PS3 MS could connect.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


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OnStyle Notebook: Peter Pilotto for Target and Peter Som
NEW YORK — Fashion week began, for me, with the Peter Pilotto for Target show at Gotham Hall. At the tail-end of the party — 9 p.m. — where models marched around a stage in the British label's stock vivid cut-up prints and sharp tailoring — the place was still a mob scene.
Target has another big hit on its hands — maybe not of Missoni-for-Target magnitude, but close. Designed by Mr. Pilotto & Christopher De Vos, those clothes are going to sell out within days when they arrive in stores Sunday.
At the invitation-only pop-up shop on Thursday night, two men, shopping for girlfriends, haggled over who would get a $69 size 4 dress with a built-in petticoat. Women swarmed over the clothes, trying them on by the racks over their street clothes and helping each other with zippers. The whole shop was like Loehmann's famous group dressing rooms. This morning, items were already selling on eBay for double the Target price.
It's a great collection with everything from swim suits and sneakers to tailored jackets, all with the label's eye-popping wake-me-up colors. Particularly amazing, for a label known for fabulous fabrics, is that Target managed to source cheaper materials that still have that electric Peter Pilotto vibe.
Peter Som stuck with the '70s vibe that has fascinated fashion for some time. It seems like a good omen, because designers are doing the '70s better now than they did back then. (Even polyester is so much better than back in the day.)
The strong points of his collection were the big-lapel trench coats, and blurry floral prints. But my absolute favorite look was a long-legged pantsuit with a belted double-breasted jacket, in a tweedy, ikat type fabric. The suit walked a fine line between louche and businesslike, and that's tricky footwork.
It's way too early in New York Fashion Week to start picking trends for the Fall 2014 collections, but I'm going to go out on a limb and make a couple anyway: metallic textiles and blurry prints. Write it down and hold me to it.


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Perhaps you sent a lovely card,
or sat quietly in a chair.
Perhaps you sent a funeral spray,
if so, we saw it there.
Perhaps you spoke the kindest words,
As any friend could say.
Perhaps you were not there at all,
Just thought of us that day.
Whatever you did to console our hearts,
We thank you so very much, whatever the part.
Special thanks to all our family and friends, the Shaw Cancer Center, Gypsum Urgent Care, Valley View Hospital, Valley View Oncology Department, Dr. Jaffrey, Dr. Martin McCarter of University of Colorado Hospital, Dr. Angela Ammon, Dr. Patricia Hardenbergh and Roaring Fork Surgical Associates for the tender love and care you gave our beloved wife, mother and grandmother.
With Gratitude,
The family of Florie Rodriguez


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If you saw 'American Idol' last year, this is nothing like it. The judges, Harry Connick Jr, Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban make the show enjoyable.
They don't steal the show with their presence but add to the prospective talent trying to make it to Hollywood. Their comments to the winners and losers show their professionalism in the world of music.


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As I'm interested in running while travelling, I was wondering what other folks think are the most friendly cities to run. With "friendly", I mean having ample public green-space, some real running/walking/biking trails, enough quiet streets, neighborhoods that you don't feel nervous about jogging through in the dark, and having enough scenic spots to keep it interesting.
An unfriendly city would be one full of freeways/railways/industrial areas blocking your way, few parks, loud traffic everywhere, dodgy neighborhoods: somewhere that you'd rather escape from to do your run.
To start it off, here's my humble opinion:
Most friendly: Sydney, AUS. Sydney has huge amounts of scenic, quiet waterfront, with little coves and parks, surrounded by pleasant neighborhoods, plus the entire beach coastline is connected by trails. And there are some large parks in convenient locations: Centennial Park, the Domain, etc. Beautiful Sydney is a running paradise!
Most unfriendly: Las Vegas. There are too many streets that dead-end at the I-15 freeway, many intersections have no pedestrian crossings, and it's really hot most of the year. Of course, most people aren't there for outdoor sports, are they?
A last note: I'll compile the results for my running-routes blog at www.joggingroutes.org
I travel a lot with my job, and run everywhere I go. Visit my blog, with running routes in cities all over the world --: images, maps and detailed descriptions: http://www.joggingroutes.org
Well, I live in the Phoenix area and would have to put my city down toward the bottom. Mainly because it is so hot for most of the year here. In the summer, it can be too hot alredy at 6:00 AM. Running from November to April is fine but we lack good scenic running trails, unless you like desert running.
I'll add the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Palo Alto, CA and its neighbors (Mountain View, Los Altos, etc.) to the running-friendly side. Flat terrain, nice wide bike lanes everywhere (great for both running and biking), sane drivers, lots of parks and pretty, safe residential neighborhoods. And there's always the Stanford University campus, very large, very green and crisscrossed with running/biking trails. I used to live in the area; now when I visit, I can't wait to get out and run.
2015 highlights...
@ 5K: New Balance Palm Springs 5K, Palm Springs, CA, 24:32
Angels Baseball Foundation 5K, Anaheim, CA, 24:24
Pride of the Valley, Baldwin Park, CA, 24:28
@ 10K: LA Chinatown Firecracker 10K, Los Angeles, CA, 52:15
Great Race of Agoura - Old Agoura 10K, Agoura Hills, CA, 51:40
Fiesta Days Run, La Canada, CA, 49:57
On a scale of 1-10 I'd have to give the Tampa Bay area a 7. You have the beaches and parks of St. Pete and Clearwater and the western suburbs of Tampa are very nice especially Westchase which I consider to be a runner's haven. Also the baywalk downtown is a great place and hosts a yearly marathon, I think they're scaling it down to a half next year though. However the central and southeastern parts of the city are bad neighborhoods for the most part and the northern emerging suburbs don't really have a good infrastrusture yet in place. Lack of parks and sidewalks in a lot of areas.
My hometown is very good Wilmington, NC. We have a race all most every week-end, and lot of places to run, Wrightsville Beach is amazing the numbers of bikers and runners you always have someone to run/bike with. Another place I love is Jupiter Fla, early morning always lots of runners and bikers and the beauty is stunning!
I also love running around Chapel Hill UNC, the hills are great.
My worst place is at my dad's house in Greenwood SC, love the hills but it seems I have a close call with a car everytime.
Clearly y'all dont live in the midwest. Talk about unfriendly temperatures-in the summer here in kansas it is 110 degrees, in the winter it is below zero. That is runner un-friendly!
"I've run a million hills... I have a feeling I'm not coming back up-and I'm going to miss the climb"
-Coach Jim Tracy (winningest HS XC coach in CA recently diagnosed with ALS)
i would have to say that austin tx is one of the most incredible running and biking cities in the world. there are great trail and road coarses with town lake trail gping through downtown austin that is a huge favorite among locals for the atmosphere. im starting to log some of the trails with maps and photos on my website at http://www.eliterunnersworld.com
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I have to agree with you on Tampa Bay! I live in Carrollwood and it's very runner friendly. I will take my long runs down to Bayshore- long and wide sidewalk right on the water. just a great feeling to run there.
fyi- I read that they are bringing a Rock n Roll full to St Pete in February!
I also have to second that the San Francisco area is gorgeous and very runner friendly
You have a choice- you can throw in the towel, or use it to wipe the sweat off your face
Crossed the line...
Komen Race for the Cure 10K: 1:08
Spartan Challenge 5K + obstacles: 33:05
Creaky Bones 5K: 30:59
St Pete Turkey Trot 10K- 1:07
Gasparilla Half Marathon (1st!)- 2:42
Coming up:
Oct- Chicago Marathon
Tampa Bay is super runner friendly. White sand beaches, tons of parks, planned communities with walking/running trails, races every weekend, etc make this a great area to live and be a runner. Hats off to Tampa Bay!
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Running Executive
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San Luis Obispo Co. Very friendly, We have beautiful running trails and beach to run through Pismo Beach and Avila Beach. Drivers are usually considerate of runners and bikers. Our climate is mild in Arroyo Grande our average temp year round is about 70 degree's. I never ran before we moved here and this place makes it very easy to get outside to exercise.
Austin is definitely friendly, as is San Francisco if you're not staying downtown, carless, as I was last time I was there. Dallas has made tremendous strides--used to be there was White Rock Lake and that was it; now they've added several trails, and most of the other municipalities have trail systems as well. Waco is very runner-friendly; above and beyond the park, you have the ability to run all the way from Baylor to MCC, and the suburb of Woodway just added some dirt trails at Midway Park. The streets are usually not too busy except during peak morning/afternoon drive hours.
The runners have spoken! The results of the The World's Most Running-Friendly City survey are in. Take a look at Running Routes and enjoy!
I travel a lot with my job, and run everywhere I go. Visit my blog, with running routes in cities all over the world --: images, maps and detailed descriptions: http://www.joggingroutes.org
I'm surprised no one has nentioned Boulder or Eugene.
Hendersonville NC. Hundreds of miles of trails and country roads where you seldom see a car,
Wrightsville Beach gets a thumbs up also.
I too travel quite a bit - my votes for friendly cities include La Jolla, Ca; Canberra Aus; Bergen Norway (personnel favorite)
unfriendly cities: Bangkok, Thailand - except for luipini park;
races in 2013 - Always trying to keep moving
31 Dec 2012: Fairfax 4 miler: 49:34
10 Feb 2013 Run your heart 2013 35:30
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Private tryouts are not required, but they are preferred. We are sponsored by Under Armour.
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On March 28, 2013 students and staff from Frontier High School will be shaving their heads to support cancer research and patient care programs at Roswell Park.
Cheektowaga High School is Goin' Bald For Bucks for the second year.
South Park High School is Goin' Bald For Bucks for the first time this year!
New York Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy was in Buffalo January 30 to announce the formation of Roswell Park's Center for Personalized Medicine, an effort that was launched with $5.1 million in state funding and quickly grew into a $23.6 million genomic-medicine facility boosted by public/private collaboration.
Roswell Park recently launched its Center for Personalized Medicine, a facility that will use genetic sequencing and detailed bioinformatic analysis to improve care for cancer patients, advance research and develop new therapies and diagnostic tools.
Although biological, genetic, and physiological factors play significant roles in who develops cancer, how it is treated, and who survives it, social, political, economic, and psychological variables also substantially contribute to cancer racial/ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes.
Goin' Bald for Bucks is a great way to raise funds for Roswell Park while having fun! Now, there are even more reasons to push your fundraising efforts to new heights.
On Wednesday, February 13, students from Heim Middle School visited DJ Anthony at the Kiss 98.5 FM studios to share why they are Goin' Bald for Bucks.
On Wednesday, February 6, students from Lake Shore High School joined the Yroswell Street Team at the Kiss 98.5 FM studios to share why they are Goin' Bald for Bucks this year.


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Bradenton firefighters rescue dog from burning house
Red Cross assisting family
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 10:51 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 10:51 a.m.
BRADENTON - The Red Cross is assisting a Bradenton family whose home was damaged by fire this weekend.
Shortly before 1:10 p.m. Saturday, city firefighters responded to reports of a blaze at 1615 18th Ave. W. A neighbor informed them that a pet remained inside. Firefighters rescued a small dog in the master bedroom.
Firefighters got the blaze under control in eight minutes. They estimate the damage at $25,000. They took the dog to an animal clinic for treatment.
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Fished at alarming rates, manta and devil rays line the streets of many fish markets around the world – sought primarily for their gill rakers – the feathery structures these filter feeders use to strain food as they glide through the water. At a one-time payout of about $250 per kilogram versus approximately $1 million in tourism over a manta's lifetime, is it really worth the destruction?
Unsustainable and uncontrolled international trade drives the demise of these gentle creatures. So Project AWARE and our partners worked hard and succeeded in helping to get mantas protected under CITES. But we're not stopping there. Check out Project AWARE's infographic Manta and Devil Rays at Risk, learn more and find out what you can do to help.
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KANSAS CITY, MO -- For the first time this season, the Lincoln Memorial University men's basketball team broke into the top-10 of the NABC/Division II Coaches Poll, moving to No. 10 in this week's rankings which were unveiled late Tuesday afternoon.
The Railsplitters moved into the top-10 nationally, jumping from No. 12 to No. 10, for the first time since February 21, 2012 after posting an unbeaten 2-0 mark over a pair of the top teams in the South Atlantic Conference this past week. Lincoln Memorial opened the week by traveling to Jefferson City, Tennessee where they came away with a dominating 80-63 victory over the Carson-Newman Eagles on Wednesday evening. The 'Splitters amassed as large as a 21-point advantage and never led by less than nine in the second half en route to handing Carson-Newman their first loss of the season in Holt Fieldhouse. LMU continued their stellar play over the weekend, as they returned to Tex Turner Arena to clip the Wingate Bulldogs, 60-58, giving WU their first loss in South Atlantic Conference play this season. The Railsplitters led 60-53 with 3:38 to left in regulation and withstood a 5-0 rally to edge the Bulldogs in Harrogate, Tennessee. In the process, the Railsplitters moved into a t hree-way tie atop the SAC standings with Anderson and Wingate.
A large amount of the credit for the Railsplitters' success during this four-game winning streak can be attributed to the magnificent play of senior Jake Troyli over the past week and a half. The 6'10" forward hailing from Largo, Florida currently leads the Railsplitters with 15.8 points per game and he is riding a streak of three-consecutive games in which he has topped the 20-point plateau. On January 19th, Troyli matched a career-high effort with 26 points in Lincoln Memorial's win over Lenoir-Rhyne before shattering that mark with 32 points in the win over Carson-Newman. Jake capped his week with a game-high 20 points to lead the Railsplitters past Wingate. For his efforts this past week, Troyli was crowned with SAC Player of the Week honors as well as Railsplitter of the Week laurels. The big man also ranks third on the team in rebounding at 5.7 per outing.
Troyli's partner-in-crime, Vincent Bailey, has also picked up his play over the past four games to serve a vital role in the Railsplitters' winning ways. Bailey, a 6'6" forward out of Jennings, Florida, leads the Railsplitters with 8.9 rebounds per game and ranks second on the squad with 13.2 points per. Dating back to his return from injury on December 2nd, Bailey has notched six double-double performances. Bailey has poured in double-digit points in four-consecutive contests for the Railsplitters.
Wally Jones, Cam Carden and Lorenza Ross are averaging to combine for more than 30 points for the Railsplitters this season, with Jones leading that group at 11.6 points per appearance. Carden is pouring in 9.4 per outing and leads the LMU back court in rebounding at 4.3 boards per. Lorenza Ross has been hampered by an injury over the past week and a half, however, he is still contributing 9.1 points and 1.9 rebounds per game for the Railsplitters.
Freshman Tim Pierce (Albany, Georgia) has stepped in to a larger role in the wake of injuries in the Railsplitters' back court, tallying at least seven points in four-consecutive games, highlighted by a 14-point outburst in the win over Brevard. For the season, Pierce is averaging 5.2 points per game.
Senior Dustin Craig (Knoxville, Tennessee) has provided a spark for the Lincoln Memorial front court off the bench this season, as the 6'6" forward boast a stat ledger of 7.9 points per and 6.2 rebounds per game. Craig reigned in nine rebounds and put in eight points in the win over Wingate on Saturday night.
As a team, the Railsplitters boast one of the most balanced attacks in the nation, as they rank 11th among all NCAA Division II competitors in field-goal percentage (50.1%) while also ranking 14th in field-goal percentage defense (38.9%). Those figures extend to the three-point arc with the Railsplitters sitting in eighth in three-point field-goal percentage (41.8%) and 16th in three-point field-goal percentage defense (29.5%). The Railsplitters are also outscoring their foes by a margin of 16.1 this season, which ranks sixth in all of Division II. Lincoln Memorial's positive rebounding margin of 9.3 per game ranks 10th in the NCAA.
Lincoln Memorial aims to extend their four-game winning streak this week with a pair of South Atlantic Conference contests on tap, beginning with a home matchup against in-state rival Tusculum College on Wednesday at 8 pm. On Saturday, the Railsplitters are slated to hit the road to Salisbury, North Carolina to take on the Catawba College Indians in a game slated for a 4 pm start.


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- Jun 4:
- Colin Kaepernick socks made of money
- 49ers stars Joe Montana and Steve Young meet again
- One 49ers great says of an aspiring 49ers great: 'More power to those guys if they can get what they can get.'
- 49ers: Colin Kaepernick's career stats
- How Kaepernick is paid among Bay Area athletes
- 49ers' Colin Kaepernick second-highest paid NFL QB
- Thompson: New deal for 49ers' Kaepernick comes with new expectations
- No Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50
SANTA CLARA -- Colin Kaepernick isn't planning a massive shopping spree now that the 49ers gave him a six-year contract extension with a record-setting $61 million guaranteed.
"The three most expensive things I own are my TV, my bed and my couch. I'm going to keep it that way for a while," Kaepernick said Wednesday upon signing a deal worth up to $126 million.
More urgent to him and the 49ers is securing the franchise's first Super Bowl championship in 20 years, then winning even more before his contract expires after 2020.
"That's your goal as a player, to win a Super Bowl every year you're playing," Kaepernick said. "Granted that's not realistic, to win it every single year, but that's what your goal is."
Each of the past two seasons have ended with Kaepernick & Co. close to snagging the Lombardi Trophy, only to lose in the 2012 season's Super Bowl and in last January's NFC Championship game.
"Colin's hard work and dedication have played an integral role in the recent success of the 49ers organization," general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "His work ethic, leadership and on-field production have positively influenced our team, and we look forward to his continued growth in all areas."
Kaepernick, a second-round draft pick in 2011 out of Nevada, was entering the final year of his rookie contract with a 2014 base salary of $973,766.
After nonstop negotiations from 10 a.m. Tuesday to 2 a.m. Wednesday, the new deal included a $12 million signing bonus and reduced Kaepernick's 2014 base salary to $645,000 with a $100,000 workout bonus, for a $3 million salary-cap figure this year, according to CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora.
Kaepernick's deal rivals that of a 2012 pact signed by the Baltimore Ravens' Joe Flacco, who scored big (six years, $120.6 million) after defeating Kaepernick and the 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII.
"We're just really thrilled for the Kaepernick family. They're amazing people," Kaepernick's agent, Scott Smith of XAM Sports, said. "And I'm grateful for all the hard work the 49ers put into it."
Kaepernick, 26, said he hadn't planned out his financial windfall, other than taking care of his family, including his adoptive parents, Rick and Teresa, who live in Modesto.
"The first thing is to make sure everyone in my family is set, and I guess go from there," said Kaepernick, who is single and has no children.
Kaepernick has been the 49ers' starter since midway through the 2012 season when he replaced a concussion-suffering Alex Smith, who signed a $49.5 million deal upon being drafted No. 1 overall in 2005.
Smith, traded a year ago to the Kansas City Chiefs, is among those Kaepernick thanked Wednesday in his contract-acceptance speech, because: "I wouldn't be at this point so quickly if he hadn't mentored me."
Kaepernick's payday, with an average of $21 million, puts him in a stratosphere shared by Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks such as the Packers' Aaron Rodgers ($22 million average), the Ravens' Flacco ($20.1 million), the Saints' Drew Brees ($20 million) and the Broncos' Peyton Manning ($19.2 million).
"I feel I'm always striving to be in that elite group in the NFL, not necessarily paid but as far as a player," Kaepernick said.
Kaepernick's deal figured to have stalled in recent months by a Miami police investigation regarding an incident involving a woman at his hotel suite. That case is being reviewed by the Miami-Dade State Attorney, and no crime has yet been alleged.
Kaepernick has insisted he did nothing wrong, and he said he was not worried how it would affect the contract negotiations he left up to his agents.
Helping create salary cap room was safety Carlos Rogers' April release, which was postdated to June and freed up $6.6 million in space.
Kaepernick said his deal was "written and negotiated" in such a way that it won't prevent his teammates from striking their own lucrative deals, players such as wideout Michael Crabtree, guards Mike Iupati and Alex Boone and tight end Vernon Davis, the latter two of whom haven't shown up for organized team activities because of contract dissatisfaction.
"Our organization always looks to reward our players for their contributions and commitment to the team," Baalke continued. "Colin's agents, Scott Smith and Jason Bernstein, along with (the 49ers') Paraag Marathe and Brian Hampton, should be commended for working diligently to reach an agreement."
Kaepernick is 17-6 in regular-season starts, and his play-making prowess has shined best in the playoffs. He's gone 4-2 in the postseason, losing 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII to the Baltimore Ravens and 23-17 in last year's NFC final at Seattle.
He's thrown for 1,374 yards and seven touchdowns in those postseasons while also rushing for 507 yards and four touchdowns, including 181 rushing yards in his playoff debut against the Green Bay Packers.
Fullback Bruce Miller, himself a recipient of an offseason extension (three years, $5.4 million), offered congratulations on Twitter, noting with hashtags that Kaepernick was "deserving" and the "hardest working dude I know."
Kaepernick said his extension didn't necessarily have to get completed now but was pleased it happened before training camp in late July.
"I'm very excited to have it done at this point," Kaepernick said. "We don't have to worry about talks. We can get back to football and focus on trying to win a Super Bowl."
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1. Global Network of Technology Evangelists - first conference: 00:46
The conference totally, totally rocked. I'll blog more about it when I have free time, but here are a few quick highlights.
Guy Kawasaki was surprisingly down-to-earth. =) Well, not surprising, I guess - he's known for being able to easily make that kind of a connection with audiences. Nifty. =) The panels were excellent, too. I liked the fast-paced panel discussion on the evangelist in you, and I'm looking forward to following up on that.
My favorite favorite favorite conference segment was when Matt Thompson (Senior Director of the Technology Outreach Group at Sun Microsystems) started talking about an example of ultimate evangelism: the Java Education and Development Initiative (JEDI). As soon as I heard the acronym for the project, I was riveted. When he mentioned PSITE (the Philippine Society for IT Educators]], I was, like, "I know those folks!" When he flashed pictures of the teachers from Baguio and Cebu and all these other places, I was, like, "The guy in the blue shirt in the background of the top photo is one of my best friends!" And when he waxed lyrical about the benefits of working with the Philippines to a hundred of Silicon Valley's evangelists, I was just *floating.* Very nearly literally, too. I was practically bouncing off my seat with barely-contained energy. I love my country. I really do. I want to tell more stories about it! =DMy favorite post-conference moment was chatting with Kiran Patel and a group of other people over dinner. During the round of introductions, I got to meet all sorts of fascinating people (including the guy who made Babelfish, Altavista's machine translation engine!). I told them how I had moved heaven, earth, and final exams to make it to the conference, and how I made room for it in my (grad) student budget. This was my favorite post-conference moment because it really brought home the fact that I *am* a technology evangelist. I have been a technology evangelist since third year university - since I was 17! (That's five years now!)
And I *want* to be a technology evangelist. I'm going to make that happen. I'm going to be one of the best they've ever seen. =) I want to become really really good at connecting with people, building and maintaining relationships. I want to become really really good at giving presentations and engaging people in conversations. I might even want to become really good at organizing events (best way to meet interesting people!). I want to scale up and outwards.So what did I take away from the conference?
I met lots of people and ended up with a stack of business cards, for one: lots of people to meet again and again, lots of notes I can now attach to their online personalities. I'll encode those tomorrow morning before heading out. If I feel diligent, I might even get them all encoded tonight before I forget anything. =)
They'll probably remember me for my energy and passion, my questions, my business card, my outfit (purple and tan malong, gold and brown scarf (thanks Simon!)!), or the distance that I flew. ;) There were a few people from even farther - Czech Republic and China! Wow... I was probably the youngest person there, too. =) Heh.
Meeting all these people made me realize that there are a lot of people out there who are passionate about evangelism. Sure, I've read people's blogs, but it's different when you *see* them. I *loved* hearing people talk about about what they do, even though many people have insane travel requirements. A room of evangelists - wow!
The best thing I took from the conference, though, is a better sense of what's out there, what people are doing, what skills people are using, what people love about their work. I *resonate* with their descriptions. I'll blog more about next week, after I finish a few more requirements.
I would *love* to do technology evangelism. Proper. Enterprise 2.0 stuff, maybe. Talking to developers, customers, etc. If IBM doesn't nab me, though, there are a hundred other flowers that can blossom, a million other opportunities to make or explore. =) Sun just got a *huge* positive karma boost with me for the JEDI thing - not just because they did it in the first place, but because they *bragged* about it. =D Awesomeness.
What a totally terrific conference. =D Well worth it!What could make an evangelist conference even *better* for me? Even more energy and practical tips. Let's talk about our favorite resources. Let's talk about how we can help our (future) managers write our job descriptions, and how we can manage the fact that our job descriptions keep changing. Hmm... I can make this happen on the mailing list. I'm definitely posting a list of my favorite things to the GNOTE mailing list. (Favorite communication blogs, favorite networking books, favorite contact management tips, etc.) In fact, I should blog that too. Handy stuff to have around. Weekend. More women. I don't know why, but I've become much more sensitive to this, even counting the number of women (1) in Microsoft's partner success stories brochure. Attendees: roughly 15% women. No female speakers except for one panel moderator (who did a very good job, mind you, but wasn't speaking). Lots of women in supporting roles (organizers, staff, etc.). I talked to the organizers, and they said they had such a hard time looking for female speakers given the schedule. I would've loved to hear Betsy Weber talk about her work as the chief evangelist at Techsmith, and how one of her personal metrics for evangelist success is the number of hugs she gets. ;) Heck, *I* would be happy to talk about bootstrapping yourself as an evangelist, even though I haven't quite Arrived yet. More perspectives! More diversity! =) Minor logistical tweaks: Nametags - larger fonts, smaller sponsor logo, consistent company identification. Also, should be there at the beginning of event, but delay was understandable. More support for networking, perhaps? Maybe that speed networking idea... ;) Slightly more notice so that people can book cheaper flights? ;) Now that we're on the mailing list, that should get sorted out. And something closer to Toronto would be nice, of course. I guess we'll just have to have an east-coast evangelism conference... ;)
But all in all - awesome, awesome, awesome!
2. Speaking of warm and fuzzies...: 01:07
I had two choices for my flight into San Francisco: arrive at 11:30 in the morning, or arrive at 11:30 at night. It is generally a good idea to arrive in the daytime when going to an unfamiliar city, or, well, anywhere, really. This meant, however, that I needed to fly out of Toronto at 8:40 AM. Getting to the Toronto airport by 6:40 AM (recommended two hours before departure) is Not Easy on Sundays, as subway service doesn't start until 9 AM.
Wayne Young had offered to give me a lift, but it was ridiculously early and out of his way, so I was figuring out where the best place to catch the Airport Express shuttle was. If I took a cab to the Westin and caught the 6:15 Airport Express shuttle, it would cost me less than a cab would. I wasn't quite sure how all of the timing would work out, though, and waiting in the chilly Toronto weather for a bus was not exactly my cup of spiced tsokolate.
I was really touched when Simon insisted on taking me to the airport. He had very little sleep from the party that had finished late the night before (that morning, really), but there was no sign of that as he whizzed me to the airport on the highways. It would've taken me at least three times longer to commute there, and I wouldn't have started my day so pleasantly.
He's wonderful. =)
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June 10 was a great Saturday to be out at the lake...and some very special kids took advantage of it.
Children with disabilities showed that fun in the sun isn't limited to just those who can walk.
11-year-old Haley Baer made a grand entrance into uncharted territory: the water.
Nervous and a little scared, she went through the hand signals one last time.
And then she was up and out like a pro--with no wheelchair or obstacles, just her and the open water.
"It feels like you're flying because you go so fast," Haley said afterwards.
It was a moment her mom said she thought she'd never see.
"It means a lot to me she's able to do things like that."
That's because Haley is paralyzed from the waist down.
"It's hard on her," says her mom, "but she's strong willed."
The program is called Wee Can Ski. Volunteers from Fort Gordon and the Medical College of Georgia help kids with special needs enjoy a day of fun in the sun.
Kids who aren't normally able to walk on their own are given a chance to try a sport their disability normally wouldn't allow: water skiing.
With the help of special skis, made with built-in attachments, they glide across the water with ease.
"So many times these kids have to sit out on the sidelines and watch, and today they can participate," said event coordinator Julie Moretz.
And it's run like a well-oiled machine, with more than 300 volunteers both in and out of the water to make sure the kids are safe.
"Everything is well calculated," Moretz said.
And to five-year-old Anayah...it's home.
"I like the boat," she said, and she wasted no time getting back in it.
"She loves it," said her mother, Kisha McCray. "She's beside herself right now. Since last week she's been asking, 'Are we going to the pool? So I can swim like a fish?' She said, 'I want to swim like a fish'."
It's a taste of independence in a world with no limits.
This was the ninth annual Wee Can Ski event. Organizers say it grows every year.


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Tim Burgess People do put you in a certain time capsule, or time spot. It definitely doesn't bother me on a day to day thing,and I don't feel I have to explain myself to anyone," says Tim Burgess. If there are any doubters remaining, Burgess has provided plenty of evidence to silence them. In the past two years, he's completed an autobiography, Telling Stories, for Penguin Books, launched the bold O Genesis label that has put out a series of 7″ singles that reflects Burgess' own diverse musical interests and his phenomenal crate-digging instincts. These have included singer songwriter Joseph Coward, the cult musician R Stevie Moore, an experimental noise piece from Factory Floor's Nik Void, contemporary post punk via Electricity In Our Homes, and a spoken word release from Jack Underwood. That's not to mention his presence on Twitter, where his Tim Peak's Diner has become a virtual meeting place for music obsessives the world over.
This, alongside his regular eclectic DJ sets,led Burgess to the attention of BBC 6 Music, who commissioned him to produce shows on Christmas and New Years Eve. And then, of course, there's his new solo album Oh No I Love You, which arguably features some of Burgess' finest music to date. It's been a long journey from Manchester to Los Angeles, to a grey part of North East London and Nashville… While so many of Burgess'contemporaries from the 1990s have disappeared to come back with lucrative reformations, he and his band have continued to evolve, with The Charlatans took the brave decision to release their most recent album online for free. You get the sense that if he didn't take these risks – or as he puts his "flip my life around", Tim Burgess might get bored. "I'd hope that I'd never stop being excited, because I've always liked the idea of doing new stuff and keeping doing things," he says. "The more things I've got orbiting around, the more excited I get. More is more. I want to keep myself busy and stimulated, and I did have quite a lot of time on my hands because I'd left Los Angeles and plonked myself in Seven Sisters."
This return to the UK after a few years spent largely based in California coincided with a decision to finally give in to pestering from Penguin that he put the story of his life into print. But Burgess wasn't content only to look into the past – he wanted to revitalise his present, and look to the future. "I thought when I'm doing a book I have to do a record at the same time," he explains, "It felt like I had to do that time to keep it all going." Yet the tale of Oh No I Love You begins halfway through Telling Stories, when Burgess carried Kurt Wagner's guitar to his van after a Lambchop gig in Manchester in the year 2000. "As I've said to many people I've enthused about along the way, 'hey we should write something together'. He said'sure, Tim, you write the music and I'll write the words'."
The idea lay dormant for a decade until the downtime after the last Charlatans tour, as Burgess was penning Telling Stories. "I thought maybe I should just go to Nashville and hook up with Kurt,no strings attached at all, and see what happens, maybe we can write a song together," he says. "I went to stay in a place called the Hotel Indigo, he lived a couple of miles away round the corner, we met up for coffee every morning and talked. I went back to my hotel room, wrote a song, and emailed it to him. We'd meet the next day, or he'd send some words. He said that he wanted to be my mirror. I found that very interesting." Back in the UK, Burgess thrashed out these ideas for songs into demos, and sent them back to Nashville,where Mark Nevers put together "a dream band" featuring Chris Scruggs (whose grandfather Earl Scruggs wrote the Beverley Hillbillies theme), Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket, members of Lambchop and 70-year-old saxophonist Denis Solee.
The recording process was very much of the Old School. "It was very regimented," Burgess explains. "They were paid by the half day, and we did the whole album in two and a half days. They learned the songs.It was very Nashville, and I found that very alien but also very 'oh my God,this is me stepped into a different world that I'd never seen before,completely out of my comfort zone.' I had great admiration for them." But Oh No I Love You is no Nashville pastiche, in thrall the country and western tradition.
Influenced by Arthur Russell, Bill Callahan and Bob Dylan as much as Lambchop and the local greats, it also features electronic input from Gabe Gurnsey, drummer with London avant-techno group Factory Floor.It's still very Tim Burgess, the sum total, like that autobiography, of his life and musical loves. As he puts it, "I wasn't trying to make a country record, though I knew there would be elements of that, and I wasn't trying to make an electronic record either. I wanted to make a record that was me, with all the information that I had at my age on my shoulders and in my head. It'sis very much a Manchester and Nashville," Burgess says. "It's a Venn diagram,the two cells with a little in the middle where we met. I tried to speak Nashville in a Manchester accent. If it were a film it'd be a North-Western."So the Tim Burgess of now, peering back to the 1980s and the Tim Burgess who was about to become an international popstar with the Charlatans, what would you think about what has come between? "I still think I'm a punk. In the beginning of the book, it starts with me going on holiday with my mum and dad,my dad giving me ten quid or something for my holiday money, and I didn't spend any of it, I kept scrounging, and then when I got home I cycled to the local record shop and bought the Great Rock & Roll Swindle. I was listening to the Great Rock & Roll Swindle, the same copy, as I was writing my book. I was reflecting saying 'Tim, what has changed?' Well I'm still a punk, I'm now in love, which is a great feeling, and I'm listening to the Great Rock &Roll Swindle. What's different? I'm friends with Steve Jones. He drew a cock on the sleeve next to him. But apart from that, nothing! I've been through all this shit, I've been through great stuff, I've been through drugs, death of a friend, ups and downs, but the record is still there. And then My Way came on,and I thought, that's the end of the book. Or not the end…


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Born: December 13, 1927, Vienna, Austria
Henry Otto Pollak is an applied mathematician who worked at Bell Laboratories for many years and a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.
At the annual meeting of the Michigan Section of the MAA in May 1975, Pollak gave an invited address, "On the relationship between applications of mathematics and teaching of mathematics."
On May 7, 1976, Pollak gave a talk, How Should Applications Influence Mathematics Education?, at a symposium for W.L. Duren on the occasion of his retirement.
1947 Yale University, B.A.
1948 Harvard University, M.A.
1951 Harvard University, Ph.D.
Pollak worked at Bell Laboratories from 1951 to 1983. He was director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center and published dozens of technical papers. Selected aspects of his research include band limiting, the loop switching problem, the shortest network problem, and the Steiner problem in various topologies. He also taught in the internal education program and found he preferred teaching in industry to teaching in a university, which he had done while in graduate school. In a 1984 interview, he said,
The big difference between industry and university is not whether or not you teach. The difference is that in industry you typically have more students who want to learn.
A strong interest in mathematics education has been evident throughout Pollak's career. He advocates including more applied mathematics in both general education and mathematics education. He is a visiting professor of mathematics education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also teaches graduate mathematics courses. Pollak contributed "Solving Problems in the Real World" to Why Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow's America (1997), edited by Lynn Steen.
Pollak was heavily involved with the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG), an attempt to improve primary and secondary American mathematics education. Invited by Edward Begle and Albert Tucker, he participated in the initial four-week writing session of the SMSG, creating new curriculum (1958-60). He later was a member of the SMSG advisory board (1961-64, 1967-72) and its chairman (1963-64).
In addition to the SMSG, Pollak has been active in numerous professional organizations. He was chairman (1959-60) and governor (1961-64) of the New Jersey Section of the MAA, the 1973 MAA Hedrick lecturer, and a member of the AMS Council (1962-65, 1977-78). He participated in boards and committees of the National Research Council between 1962 and 1989 and of the National Science Foundation (1970-73, 1978-80).
Pollak received the MAA Certificate for Meritorious Service (1990), the MAA Gung and Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award (1993), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics Education (2010).
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NCTM Honors Pollak and Tunis with the Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics Education Award
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2nd choice and now gone, until Jan when he will sign permanently....so much for the yanks knowing everything
Not really sure what you "Told Ya" but hey even a broken clock is correct twice a day!
But it seemed almost inevitable that Riena would be off soon with Simon coming in. I would have hoped he would have stayed for the season till he got his preferred move to Barca, but seems he wants to ensure he still gets plenty of football as a number one so he can stay in contention for the Spanish squad going to Brazil. Quite predictable really.
steerage wake up son, it goes back to him being dropped, yet media'd as injured last season.......what do you do over in scepticville, tug off to youtube clips off your players
get to a match son and be a real fan....#$%$


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Same thing as last year. I get to appoint one Iowan to send to the USDGC to compete in the Performance Flight. I want to hear from those of you who are interested in going. I'm going to make more announcements this spring to gauge interest and then come up with a plan to decide who gets to go.
For those of you who haven't been, I highly recommend it. I had a great trip (again) last year. There's a lot to do on the way and while you're there in addition to competing and seeing the most professionally run tournament in our sport.


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Tesco Drops Supplier Over Horse-Meat Scandal
Tesco has dropped the meat supplier that supplied it with beef burgers tainted with horse meat and will introduce its own DNA testing to ensure contamination doesn't happen again.
Two weeks ago Tesco and several other U.K. and Irish supermarkets removed beef burgers from their shelves after it was found they contained horse DNA. All the other supermarket burgers contained only trace amounts of DNA except for Tesco's Everyday Value Beef Burgers, which were found to be 29% horse meat.
An investigation has traced the source of the meat to three suppliers, and Tesco said in a statement Wednesday it will stop taking meat from one supplier, Silvercrest, because the "breach of trust is simply too great."
In addition to changing suppliers, the company said it will introduce a "comprehensive system of DNA testing across our meat products. This will identify any deviation from our high standards."
The supermarket added:
"These checks will set a new standard. It will be a significant investment for Tesco, borne by Tesco. We want to leave customers in no doubt that we will do whatever it takes to ensure the quality of their food and that the food they buy is exactly what the label says it is."
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STOCKTON - A lineup of 14 candidates vying for a single appointment to the Stockton City Council will answer questions Monday at a public forum at University of the Pacific.
The seat became open when Susan Eggman won a state Assembly seat in November's election, causing her to resign her Stockton City Council seat halfway through a four-year term.
The new City Council members will be sworn in Tuesday and begin their own public interview process Wednesday before making an appointment sometime thereafter.
Robert Benedetti, chairman of Pacific's political science department, will lead the forum, which was organized by the League of Women Voters of San Joaquin County and North Victory Park Neighborhood Watch.
The large pool of candidates will be divided into two groups. The first round of questions will begin at 6 p.m. and the second at 7:15 p.m.
The forum will be held at Pacific's William Albright Lecture Auditorium of the Wendell Phillips Center at the intersection of Dave Brubeck Way and North Kensington Way. For information, call Susan Mora Loyko of the League at (209) 943-1575.
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Old Souls and Spicy Dishes is husband and wife Howard (fiddle) and Cherie (mandolin) Davol, neighbor Rich Ugland (guitar) and longtime friends Tom (banjo) and Susan (stand-up bass) Daley, with son Chris Daley (mandolin).
Formed three years ago, the band plays the second Tuesday of every month at The Wild Goose Cafe & Bar, 2365 Ashland St., Ashland. Its next show is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Sets comprise a variety of bluegrass, folk and Americana, ranging from Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late" to the George Jones version of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." The group also covers songs by Bill Monroe and Jerry Garcia, as well as Ugland's originals, including the band's namesake, "Spicy Dishes."
There is never a cover charge at The Wild Goose. Call 541-488-4103 or see www.reverbnation.com/oldsoulsandspicydishes.
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