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Winners and losers of 2012
We run through 2012's biggest success stories and find out who's had a year they'd rather forget
It's been a great year for little Pi makers, and a truly awful year for one global tech giant. Yes, you can probably guess which one.
Join us as we pick out our tech winners and losers of 2012.
Winners of 2012
Raspberry Pi
There have been few more heartening 2012 success stories than this one. The Raspberry Pi has been in development since 2006, but this year saw it finally move from dream to reality in truly spectacular style.
After the first ten Raspberry Pi boards fetched more than £16,000 on eBay in January, the public got the opportunity to buy their own a month later – and buy they did, in numbers so large that the Raspberry Pi Foundation could barely cope. Despite reports of shipping delays the orders just kept coming: sales topped half a million in September, prompting the Raspberry Pi Foundation to move production from China to the UK, and the big millionth sale is expected before the year is out.
Schools are buying, kids and parents are coding together. Mission accomplished? They're only just getting started.
Click here to read our Raspberry Pi review
BDUK is doling out £530 million of public investment in broadband, with the aim of giving 90% of homes speeds of at least 24Mbits/sec by 2015. So far every penny that's been allocated has gone to a single company: BT.
The only approved rival, Fujitsu, has yet to win a bid, and has dropped out of the running in several areas. Which effectively means BT is getting taxpayer help to expand its fibre network, with the long-term profits going in its own pockets. Nice work if you can get it.
Tablet readers
Amazon has done something amazing over the past year or so with the Kindle Fire. It's found a way to turn a tablet into a shopfront, complete with annoying adverts, without consumers violently objecting. It's also found a way to take a poorer user experience – reading a book on a colour screen – and make it more popular than the alternative. Add in the Nook HD, Kobo Arc and – to a lesser extent as the book store isn't the main focus – the Nexus 7, and the previously popular monochrome ebook reader is under real threat.
Click here to read our Kindle Fire HD review
Microsoft pulled off one of the few genuine surprise launches of the year when we were first introduced to the Surface back in June. All of our concerns about the Windows 8 beta were put to one side as we marvelled at this lovely piece of innovation from a company that isn't supposed to do consumer hardware. Microsoft's partners were seemingly as shocked as the rest of us.
Okay, the Surface didn't end up being perfect, but it's a nice piece of kit and Microsoft has backed it with a truly monstrous marketing budget. We always said Windows 8 needed the right device to show it in its best light, so bravo to Ballmer et al for accepting that a big change was necessary if Windows tablets are to compete. (see also: Losers of 2012)
Click here to read our Microsoft Surface RT review
Losers of 2012
Oh, HP. Where to start. A company with so much going on, so little of which has gone right this year. A company whose share price hit a nine-year low in October, after warnings of an impending crash in earnings. A company almost totally absent from the booming mobile market, but also losing its crown as the world's biggest PC maker to Lenovo – if not already (HP disputed it), then probably by the time the next figures come out.
But most of all, it's the astonishing case of Autonomy and the missing billions that has made HP something of a laughing stock. Writing down $8.8 billion – almost 80% of the purchase price – was one thing; accusing Autonomy's founder Mike Lynch of "accounting improprieties" is another entirely, and he hasn't taken it lying down. The case has already seen the disclosure of embarrassing information about HP's inner workings, and it's not over yet by a long chalk.
If Surface was Microsoft giving everyone a nice surprise, it's safe to say Windows 8 proved more divisive. Now, here at PC Pro we've grown to quite like the new OS, which has some excellent new features and cleans up a lot of mess from old versions. But boy did we take some persuading.
You could argue The Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM) was another necessary gamble by Microsoft, a radical shift in focus to belatedly join the tablet march. But it didn't go down well with a PC crowd furious at the loss of its beloved Start menu. "You didn't even use it," said Microsoft, seemingly unaware most of us steer well clear of its Customer Experience Improvement Program. Sales haven't exactly been stellar so far. (see also: Winners of 2012)
Spare a thought this Christmas for the poor inkjet. A few years ago we feared for the existence of the standalone printer, as all-in-ones rapidly pushed them off shop shelves. Now those all-in-ones look to be heading the same way.
This year saw both Lexmark and Kodak announce plans to end all inkjet production, with insiders conceding that there simply isn't room in a shrinking market for more than a handful of players. It's unlikely Canon, HP and Epson will be dumping their inkjets just yet, but the future competition looks more likely to come from new technologies than from traditional rivals.
"Windows 8 pricing will be the final nail in the coffin of netbooks," we were warned by a leading PC manufacturer in May, but in truth the netbook was dead long before Windows 8 arrived without a Starter edition. In fact, it's tough to think of another recent product that's arrived, been universally loved, then disappeared again quite as rapidly as the netbook (2009-2012, R.I.P.)
It showed us that laptops for basic functions – which, if we're honest, is all many of us need – could be ultra-cheap, small and light enough to sling in a bag. We all bought one. Then Apple launched the iPad, the tablet movement sky-rocketed, and we all put our dusty netbooks on eBay. We haven't reviewed a netbook now for over six months, and no one's asked us to.


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"The standard of sports at international competitions such as the SEA Games is continuously rising and we are keen to support Malaysian athletes as they strive to achieve their best," said Mr. Robertson. "The RM40,000 cash incentive is Manulife Malaysia's way of rewarding those excellent performances. We hope the incentive will further motivate our Malaysian athletes to achieve success and recognition at the SEA Games. "
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Publishing | The penultimate issue of DC Comics' Blackest Night miniseries led a weak February in the direct market, which saw comic-book sales slip 3 percent from the same month a year ago. Sales of graphic novels, on the other hand, actually rose 1 percent — the category's first increase since March 2009 — which the retail news and analysis website ICv2.com notes is "somewhat remarkable given that over 12,000 copies of Watchmen were sold in February 2009, over 10 times the number sold in February of 2010."
Blackest Night #7 sold more than 130,000 copies, followed at No. 2 by Marvel's Siege #2, with about 108,400. They were the only titles to break 100,000 in February. ICv2 notes that sales of Blackest Night increased some 30 percent from the previous issue's first month while those of Siege were virtually unchanged. That seems like an impressive performance for both titles.
The 13th volume of Vertigo's Fables topped the graphic-novel chart with sales just shy of 12,000, followed by the Kick-Ass Premiere Hardcover with just over 9,000. [ICv2.com]
Publishing | Deb Aoki speaks with Gary Groth, president and co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books, about the company's newly announced manga line. [About.com]
Publishing | Mark Siegel, editorial director of First Second Books, talks briefly about the publishing imprint's moves into webcomics with his Sailor Twain, or, the Mermaid in the Hudson, Amir and Khalil's Zahra's Paradise, and Derek Kirk Kim's Tune. [ICv2.com]
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Publishing | U.K. publisher Titan Books is searching for a senior acquisitions editor for "illustrated books in the art, comics reference and related categories, plus graphic novels." [The Bookseller]
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Thanks team! I enjoy reading this every day. One funny note, in my RSS feed, the last sentence switched from "Plus much more!" to "Plus more!" Didn't want to get everyone's hopes up too much?
That note about sales of Blackest Night being " up 30% from the previous issue's first month sales" is kind of misleading, considering the previous issue's sales were split between December and January because of some retailers not signing up to sell BN #6 during the post-Christmas skip week. The total then is 135,985 (although that includes reorders in January, too, so it's not apples-to-apples either), meaning BN #7 was down about 4%. Which is still pretty dang impressive.
More impressive given that BN is a ripoff of Secret Invasion with zombies instead of skrulls essentially 130K people are shelling out money to buy the same product twice.
Comics have been recycling ideas for decades now. Get a relevant point or stop trying to think.
"More impressive given that BN is a ripoff of Secret Invasion with zombies instead of skrulls essentially 130K people are shelling out money to buy the same product twice."
That is possibly the worst comparison i've read on the internet ever.
No offense, but why does a column dedicated to the "comics internet" have no mention of the Amazon/Barnes and Noble Glitch? That's some of the biggest comics news so far this year.
Thanks for the mention but you linked to the wrong article. My STAPLE coverage can be seen here: http://www.sacurrent.com/arts/story.asp?id=71005


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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:34 am
Post subject: Next steps in weaning
Okay, so my 6 month old daughter has been having tastes since she was 4 1/2 months old, she would literally have a tiny amount of fruit/veg puree when we had our dinner. She has also had lumps of banana, strawberry (other relative soft fruit/veg) for the last month or so.
She loves her food and I try to give her various combinations (Mashed up roast dinner, yoghurts, as well as purees) so she can experience lots of flavour, but I am a little unsure of how to proceed with finger foods for her.
She loves her puree and is happy to try lumps of food, she will use her sippy cup independently but needs help once it needs to be tipped up more. She will feed herself with a small spoon but wont put it into the bowl to add more food. I have tried leaving lumps of banana on the tray for her but she hasnt tried to pick them up.
She is very dextrous and has been able to pick things up/pass them from hand to hand etc since she was 2-3 months old, so its not a matter of co ordination, is the banana too hard to see? What else can I try?
Sorry for the long ramble I just wanted some ideas of what to do next
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 5:51 pm
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Yes - she has lumps of banana all the time and has also tried: cucumber, tomato, lettuce, strawberry, nectarine, plum, raspberry, carrot etc.
I tend to use a ricer rather than blend everything now too. Can she have bread yet?
I just feel like I'm not encouraging her to try eat things herself - I know she wont be able to finger feed for a while but I dont think I'm giving her the opportunity.
I am also unsure of what things she should be trying - she has a huge range of fruit and veg but not much meat and 'meals'.
Thanks for the response
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She can have pretty much anything you have. No whole nuts or Honey though.
She should be able to finger feed, try toast fingers (George loves marmite on his yuk). I found to begin with you needed to do quite big bits that they could fit in their fists with a bit poking out.
Chunks of cheese are also good, George preferred a stronger cheddar.
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With Lola I would give her a meal then the finger foods as I felt you could never really tell how much she took in from it but gradually swap that over so she ended up completely self feeding.
I would suggest giving her whole things too. I know people say cut everything into bite size pieces but I found Lola couldn't pick up banana . . . but she can a whole one and can take her own nice sized bites from it. Obviously not with things like grapes or tomatoes but I just found Lola choked more when I gave her bite size things, so I'd give her a stick of cheese to nibble on or toast in the mornings.
She's also at the perfect age for raisins and she'll LOVE them! dried fruit too . . .
It really helped Lola to develop her skills!
You could try bread sticks, pasta, slices of meat, bits of chicken, biscuits, rice crackers, crackers, I could go on haha. I'd give her pretty much anything by now xx
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Thanks Hayley - I just felt really unsure as to what she could have. I tried her with a whole banana, as she loves to be independent, unfortunately she has eyes bigger than her belly and takes huge bites out of things! I think the fact that she already has 4/5 teeth is actually unhelpful, as she doesnt gum things, she does actually take a bite!
I am trying to encourage her putting food on the tray for her to play with (so some mashed up banana), she does seem to take food off her fingers. I just still feel a bit worried about giving her chunks as she is such a greedy guts. She happily has lumps in her food and I tend to put food through a ricer rather than pureeing it, she will have lumps of food individually too. She will hold and eat off a spoon herself but obviously I have to show her how to put in the bowl at the moment.
She has shown signs of lactose intolerance, she had colic until 4 1/2 months and colief was the only thing that worked and more recently I have tried yoghurts and if she has them too regularly she comes up in a rash on her face. So although I will continue to give her some dairy I dont want to over do it.
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Of course, you could go and have her tested and find out what it is in particular she is allergic to as it may not be the obvious and you could then just find yoghurt, cheese, etc which does not contain this ingredient. For example my friends little boy was only allergic to the egg white :/ strange haha!
I understand completely what you mean. I think you should get a video up on youtube of how to relieve your daughter from choking if you don't know already, I watched one a while back through 'millies trust' and I think it really helps you to feel confident in giving your child whole foods. I'm tipping Lola upside down regularly and smacking her back to dislodge one thing or another as she is very greedy also but I cant deny her!
I forgot to say, soreen do a banana bread type thing, try that ...and their malt loaf! If Lola is poorly its all she'll eat xx
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Thanks - I'll have a look online at a video. Its just a bit scary when she takes such huge bites!
When I have said about allergies to the doctor they are very dismissive. I was worried about having her vaccinated, as my brother had a huge reaction years ago and to be honest they couldnt give a monkeys - they just said they have the equipment in case she does have a reaction. So its OKAY that she might have a reaction in the first place and when I asked them to prescribe colief - which is £11 a bottle and lasts 1 week they refused flat.
My doctor even refused to believe that the eczema I got on my legs was allergy related - but it stopped as soon as I used non bio . . .
To be honest I listen to drs but dont believe everything they say.
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I wouldn't believe a thing doctors say!! I'm not sure if you said that because you'd read my post a while back or not but . . .
I took Lola to see a doctor around 8 weeks back as she was on her third virus in 3 weeks, hadn't been eating due to catarr (or however you spell it) previous to this and wouldn't drink despite being a big drinker. Anyway the doctor said she was fine despite me making it clear how much liquid came back up without even reaching her stomach and that I was worried about dehydration. long story short I took her to a&e not long after because she sicked up another load of water and next thing I was being told she may not make it due to dehydration, had to drill a line into her shin bone and they began to treat her for meningitis as a precaution!
So if you think you different i'd trust your instinct!!
As for the reactions, you could insist they're done at the hospital which is where they immunise my friends little boy as they use egg to make them!
Also, i'd ask to see someone else and insist you get what you need!! good luck xx
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:15 am
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I did see your post - shocking isnt it! I'm glad she's okay, poor little girl (did you commplain?).
Well I have refused to have any vaccinations done since her 9 week one, as she came up in a rash immediately afterwards and since has had rash after rash (she'd never had a reaction to anything before, which is why I decided to have her vaccination done). I dont disagree with vaccinations in general but have just found that the drs have been completely uninterested in her reaction to it (despite the fact they are supposed to report any reactions!!)
She was a small baby and I just feel that shoving 5 vaccinations into her in one go is not great but it is pretty impossible (unless you're wealthy and live in London) to get them done separately. I have chosen to wait until she is older to have them done - because I have no faith in drs or the government when it comes to vaccinations or even my baby's health in general.
I dont personally believe that all the children who have got measles werent vaccinated - its seems highly unlikely in my opinion (but the government wont report that info - so its just speculation)
BTW I'm not trying to be controversial and I am not judging people who have/do get their child vaccinated - its just how I feel about my child specifically. All my friends have had their children vaccinated with no issues.
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hay raspich hun just read your post hun
my LO was lactos intolrance for a while but was caused by a virus (could of caused your LO's aswell) this may sound mad but try stopping all dairy for 1 week and put her on lacto-free baby milk as well for the same week (same as what i done to see if LO was but continued the rest of my LO diet) she has since grown out of it thank good
signs of lactos-intolorance
being hungry all the time
some times a rash and nappy rash (can last months and be really bad)
diarreah (cant spell the word sorry)and i dont mean a little bit and caqn be around 4-5 nappies like it a day
gripy tummy (sorry if spelt wrong) like colic/reflux
my little had all these and was bad for months she is now 16months and doing a lot better and now back on normal milk
if you dont want to remove the dairy completly try just removing odd ones for a week or 2 and see witch one that is causing LO's rash
as for finger foods hun go by what you think ur LO can cope with rusks are a good finger food and they melt in the mouth but all meals you have should be alright for little one apart from (no nuts) from what i remember cooked carrots broccoli coliflour sprouts potatos ham (jam sandwiches cut in to little triangle's) but watched while eating them might work hun hope some of this helps you out xx
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I'm planning to Bf still she is 1 and the gradually introduce cows milk. She has yoghurts but gets a rash if she has too much dairy and suffered from colic until 4 1/2 months old ( (colief was the only thing which helped as it breaks down the lactose - rather than getting rid of wind)
She is now storming ahead with finger feeding - she picks up and eats allsorts. I just needed to get confident with letting her try stuff!
She is now also eating the same food as us - just passed through a potato ricer.
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The purpose of this seventh annual Paintball Trip was to build relationships and create great memories for boys in foster care. Paintball is a great way to build these bonds, as it's safe, organized, and it doesn't require athletic ability. Plus, getting dirty is an instant way to get guys to spend time together.
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WWQR > Vol. 1 (1983) > No. 3
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Celebrates Whitman's "Patroling Barnegat" as perhaps the last of Whitman's first-rank poems and describes the "unusual darkness" of its tone and impact.
Copyright © 1984 R. W French
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French, R. W. "Whitman's Dark Sea: A Note on "Patroling Barnegat"." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (1983), 50-52.
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DANVILLE -- William Veazey has owned three guitars in his life -- but the one he prizes the most is the one he built with his own hands.
He recalls every step of the labor of love: how he picked out each of his parts -- the body, the neck, the headstock and all of its other essential pieces. And he still remembers how at first the wooden parts were still rough and unhewn, so he had to sand them down and round out their edges.
"We've literally bled on these guitars, some of us," said Veazey, 17, a Monte Vista High School junior, laughing. During the sanding itself, fingers and fingernails sometimes hit the splintered wood, he explained with pride: "We literally put our sweat and blood into the process. ... They are like our babies."
Veazey is one of 30 students enrolled in the high school's Physics and Engineering Technology class, which teaches them all about the physics of sound and sound waves, electricity and magnetism by allowing them to build their own electrical guitars.
Started in February, the three-month program is partly funded by a National Science Foundation grant, which allows students to build the guitars step-by-step as they also learn lessons in physics and engineering. Kids also have an option to buy their guitar-making kits for about $200 apiece so that once they complete them, they can decorate their very own guitars and take them home. Rodger Johnson, who teaches the physics portion of the class, said that the hands-on approach really appeals to students.
"I think it really helps to tie into student interest -- and it makes it real for them," he said.
And by the end of the course, "they're stunned," he said. "Literally, every year, we'll have one or two kids who come in and say, 'this is amazing, and I'm so proud.' "
Mike Huntsman, who teaches the engineering portion of the class, said that many shop classes have been eliminated in the district and others, so for many students it's their first real experience building something with their hands in school.
On a recent Friday morning, the students were buzzing about their workshop and classroom, putting finishing touches on their newly-crafted guitars, putting in the last of their frets and strings and testing them out. Some had lasered on designs, a dragon, initials or cityscapes, to the bodies of their guitars.
Others were gathered in a mini-jam session outside and testing out their newly made axes, with mini-amps. They were playing some of their favorite ballads, a little Shins here, a little Modest Mouse there.
Noah Congdon, 17, a junior, sat in the circle strumming his guitar with classmates Gabe Velasco, 17, Jordan Tam, 17, Brian Cheng, 16, and David Hungerman, 18. They said that most of them already knew how to play guitar but not how they make sound -- at least according to the laws of physics -- so the class has made playing guitar an even richer experience for them.
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Pfizer Steps Back to the Future With AstraZeneca Bid
For Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read, the drug company's nearly $100 billion pursuit of AstraZeneca is like going back to the future.
Since 2000, Pfizer has relied on three huge mergers to bolster its top line, plug holes in its product portfolio and appease investors. But those deals—in which Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia and then Wyeth—mostly bought time as the drug maker cut costs, narrowed its R&D focus and then began raising its dividend.
Since being promoted to CEO three years ago, though, Mr. Read repeatedly has promoted the idea of splitting the drug maker into three separate units and pooh-poohed the notion that huge deals would be pursued in order to chase revenue. Specific financial details for those entities are, in fact, due to be released next month.
In comments this morning, though, Mr. Read insisted that "we've always said we never say never to any larger deal." One thing is clear—by pursuing AstraZeneca, he is relying on the playbook espoused by his mentor, Bill Steere, a former Pfizer chairman and CEO who pushed for those big acquisitions and was Mr. Read's mentor.
Indeed, some analysts see the bid for AstraZeneca as nothing less than a reversal in strategy, even though Mr. Read maintains that plans are intact to create the different units. Just the same, familiar questions are being asked about whether the end game will achieve its goals, assuming an acquisition occurs.
"We see some logic to this deal and assume Pfizer can make the numbers work in the short term, but we wonder about the long-term rationale of yet another mega-merger by Pfizer, given these sorts of large deals have generally hindered innovation as opposed to having fostered it," wrote Credit Suisse analyst Vamil Divan in an investor note.
Unfortunately for Mr. Read, the chief executive faces a stark reality—patents are continuing to expire for some important Pfizer drugs. These are medicines that generated more than $1 billion each in revenue last year and accounted for 51% of total biopharma revenue, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Some names are familiar and include the Lipitor cholesterol pill and Novasc heart drug, which already have lost patent protection in important markets. The painkiller Celebrex goes off patent this year, the antibiotic Zyvox goes off patent next year, and the impotence pill Viagra faces the same fate by 2017 and possibly sooner.
In short, a big revenue gap is looming. And there is no assurance that splitting into three units will unlock shareholder value as hoped. For instance, an established products unit would include some of the above-named drugs that offer diminishing returns. And the synergy in combining vaccines, oncology and over-the-counter items into a unit is uncertain.
In effect, Pfizer is juggling different types of financial engineering since its pipeline can't compensate fast enough for patent expirations. And since Mr. Read needs to move faster than he may have thought a couple of years ago, he is trying to apply the lessons learned from Mr. Steere.
Corrections & Amplifications: Pfizer's pursuit of AstraZeneca is valued at about $100 billion. An earlier Corporate Intelligence post said the value was about $100 million.


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Henry IV Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 Rules and Order Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition.
Quote #1
What think you, coz,
Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners
Which he in this adventure hath surprised
To his own use he keeps, and sends me word
I shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife. (1.1.90-94)
King Henry admires Hotspur's courage on the battlefield and his taking of noble prisoners, despite the fact that Hotspur is insubordinate by denying the king's rights to the captives. (Kings had first dibs on all war prisoners, especially those who could fetch a hefty ransom.) A few lines later, King Henry will lament that his son, Prince Hal, acts like a rebellious brat whose embarrassing antics threaten the safety of the kingdom (the prince is set to inherit the throne). Henry, of course, doesn't realize that Hotspur is the real threat. As we know, the young Percy will lead the rebellion against the king.
Quote #2
This is his uncle's teaching. This is Worcester,
Malevolent to you in all aspects,
Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
The crest of youth against your dignity. (1.1.95-98)
Henry believes Worcester's a bad influence on Hotspur and we think he may have a point. Although the young Percy challenges King Henry's authority all on his own (by denying the king his war prisoners, by talking back, etc.), Worcester seems to manipulate his nephew's penchant for honor at every turn. So, what do you think? Is there evidence in the play that Worcester plays puppet master? Take a very close look at Act 1, Scene 3 (where the Percys first talk about rebellion) and get back to us on this.
Quote #3
Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old
sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and
sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast
forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst
truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with
the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of
sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues
of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses,
and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in
flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou
shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time
of the day. (1.2.2-13)
When Hal berates Falstaff for asking what time it is, he points out that Falstaff spends all his time eating, drinking, whoring, and sleeping. In other words, Falstaff is the very embodiment of riot and disorder. Literary critics frequently link Falstaff's character to "carnival." Carnival is a religious festival season that celebrated the inversion of social order and the indulgence of unruly and riotous behavior. Like Mardi Gras, it was seen as a temporary way for commoners to cut loose and thumb their noses at authority, without getting into trouble. In Elizabethan England, during the Feast of Fools, a "Lord of Misrule" was often appointed to reign over the festivities, which included drinking, eating, and raucous theatrical productions, much like what goes on at the Boar's Head Tavern, where Falstaff reigns supreme.


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Sport is the new Budo
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Aiki Liu
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Sport is the new Budo
Hello all, Id like to open a perhaps controversial topic if I may which hopefully will provoke some thoughtful conversation.
Ive practiced Shodokan Aikido for 15 years and for the last 6 Ive also been boxing. In this time Ive got up to a pretty good level and am now a sparring partner for a number of low level professionals. When people ask me questions about the effectiveness of Aikido I always respond that its pretty much like boxing -- my exact words are "Its essentially a sport, but it will give you an edge in a fight". Now, following some of the threads on here, I notice many people getting very upset when Aikido is referred to as a sport, and a number of people saying "MMA and Boxing are sports, not Budo" as if somehow Budo is a level above these sports, but to my way of thinking, is it not better to be a sport than Budo these days? People talk of sport "diluting" martial arts but I believe that these changes are a natural evolution and should be embraced rather than abhorred.
Let me explain, another question Im frequently asked and a thread Ive seen frequently on here is "Whod win in a fight, a boxer or an aikidoka?". Whilst the answer, of course, depends on a billion variables I always favour the boxer and the reason is simply because of the way they approach their training and their attitude. A boxer, when not training in boxing (shadow work, bag work, sparring etc) will be training in other ways. Building up his strength, going on exacting runs to build up his fitness etc How many aikidoka do that? We shouldnt have to I hear you say because Aikido should not rely on these variables but is this not a dishonest answer? Surely of two equally skillful opponents the fitter, stronger one will triumph. If I am unable to grip an opponents wrist with sufficient strength to turn it or am too unfit to fight a man for more than 30 seconds then my technique is worthless. If we do not have the honesty to admit this then we do not train efficiently and we lose the edge of having a slightly more dangerous art.
Sparring is another essential. Believe me when I tell you that to climb through the ropes of a boxing ring at any level takes a tremendous amount of courage and a boxer will quickly learn to control his own fear to some extent. In a street fight a boxer is a tremendously dangerous opponent due to this because you cannot intimidate them. Most boxers will have been in the ring with guys who can punch harder, faster and more accurately than the majority of street fighters and so there fear is controllable to a great extent. How many aikidoka can claim this? Shodokan Aikidoka are virtually the only Aikido faction to practice against resistance and, to be brutally honest, I think it is the most essential part of what we do. In 15 years ive learned that many aikido techniques would be virtually impossible against someone with even a reasonable appreciation of how to keep his balance. But with the right training in a sporting environment (tanto randori) against a competitive opponent, one can quickly streamline their repertoire to the most effective techniques. What Traditional Aikidoka may also be missing out on is renzoku or combinations. Boxers know that to throw one punch is only good to search for an opening, what works best is using combinations so your opponent finds it difficult to know where the next punch is coming from and therefore how to defend it. Aikido is no different, when one technique fails, for effective Aikido you must be able to flow effortlessly from one technique to the next using your opponents resistance in your favour -- this is not something you can just assume you can do, it must be practised hundreds upon hundreds of times until it becomes smooth and fluid with a genuine resisting uke.
Attitude. I read a posting on here the other day that turning Aikido into a sport would bring in an influx of competitive, egotistical types who would have the wrong attitude for the art. I cant honestly say that ego does not exist in boxing gyms, but many of you may be surprised to hear that the arrogance in an Aikido dojo is far worse. In Aikido, stay at any dojo long enough and manage to show a set number of techniques and youre given a belt. The colour of that belt shows how highly you "rank" above other students. Ive seen many, many instances of people of a certain "rank" who have never had a fight in their lives, order around "lower grades", threaten to "put them in their place", refuse to train with people below a certain standard and be generally patronising and rude to people who dont wear a certain coloured belt. In boxing there is none of this. If you want to talk to people like that, youd best be ready to prove yourself in the ring. There are no gradings and no one assumes your skill based on anything other than watching you. A man with 3 months boxing experience can beat a man whos boxed for 3 years and no one thinks anything of it. World Champions such as Clinton Woods, and formerly Naseem Hamed, regularly spar with kids from his gym -- going at their pace and helping those youngsters improve and I would never have reached the level I reached was it not for an extremely patient and giving heavyweight who brought me along gently working me at just above my level even thought he could have easily beaten me with one punch. Compare this attitude to a post I read on here the other day that stated "Why on earth would a sandan train with an orange belt?". In a competitive, sporting environment such horrific ego is not allowed. You are judged on your skills alone and nothing else.
So what are the arguments to still classifying ourselves as a budo rather than reevaluating ourself as a sport? Some may be tempted to say that a sport is for fun whereas a budo should be about life and death. Anytime a boxer goes into a ring he is aware of the fact that he could die. One of my gym mates was left severely handicapped after a fight. Surely then a boxer has more of a "budo" attitude in facing down these fears than an aikidoka who never trains against a "live" opponent?
Budo has no rules? This is no longer true. I read posts on here that MMA does not represent a real fight because it has rules but this is ludicrous -- the street also has rules, called laws. No one wants to train at a dojo where there are literally no rules but no one can seriously argue that a MMA practitioner would be less well prepared for a fight than a "budo" practitioner from a traditional dojo??
Budo is more traditional? Many sports, particularly boxing, have been around for longer than Budo. The only difference is that theyve changed and redefined themselves. Where would football, cricket or boxing be now if there had been no changes to the rules in the last 80 years? Of course each generation thinks that their way is the "right" way but change is the nature of things. My Dad still asserts that the old 40`s boxers wouldve beaten their modern day counterparts but with new training methods, dietary supplements and so on its simply unthinkable -- despite the fact that those guys were all tough as hell and still deserve tremendous respect.
Ill leave you with one final analagy to think about. Swordfighting -- back in the day a fairly regular occurrence but now pretty highly illegal. Take two groups of people who loved swordfighting, one -- realising that they can no longer practice with live blades -- decide to use Bokken so they can keep their speed, still feel that fear and perform all the techniques exactly as they were back when it was legal, just without one man dying. The other group are traditionalists, they wont use anything but the original swords, however as they can no longer cut each other they have to stop each cut 2 inches from their opponent and slow their techniques down so they can be sure they wont cut each other. Who is practising the real art and who is practising a diluted version?
Your thoughts on the differences between sport and budo and why its better to be one than the other please.
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
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The ANX 1500 is so much more than a cache appliance; it is an NFS throughput accelerator. Almost anyone can put SSDs and DRAM into a server chassis, but most system designers can't match Alacritech's ability to move data in and out of caches with both speed and maximum efficiency.
The ANX 1500 addresses the real business problems associated with NAS scalability. Achieving a record setting SPECsfs2008* NFSv3 overall response time (ORT) of .92ms was no accident, Alacritech's TCP Offload technology is a significant element of the system design, but isn't the entire story. The integration of a single-stack processing model, NFS data acceleration integrated into the underlying Sahara hardware, a sophisticated cache management system, an extremely low latency write-through model designed to ensure data consistency with the NAS, and a significant amount of software to bring it all together in a compact, highly scalable design, is what really defines the product. Alacritech was in the best position to harness the potential of SSD technology to deliver exceptional throughput and minimal latency, with minimal burden on the customer's compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.
What's In the ANX 1500 NFS Throughput Acceleration Appliance?
The ANX 1500 is equipped with 20 200GB SSDs (4TB capacity) and 48GB of DRAM. Using a LRU model, the most active data is stored in DRAM and as requests for the data subside, data is moved to SSDs; then, assuming fresher data is competing for space, data is ejected. When a request is made for data stored on SSDs, data is moved back from the SSDs into DRAM—based upon an initiated DMA—and out to the requesting clients. Alacritech's technology quickly moves data with minimal processor intervention. With years of experience designing TCP/IP Offload Accelerators, Alacritech has mastered the art and science of moving data with minimal server resource consumption. When Alacritech designed the ANX, the objective was to create a performance acceleration layer to sit alongside existing NAS, making use of on-board cache and Alacritech's acceleration technology—which resulted in greater processor, memory, and networking efficiencies. With the ANX taking on the task of satisfying client read and most NFS metadata requests, these efficiencies directly benefit the supported NAS resulting in overall higher performance and scalability. The ANX 1500 makes use of two Alacritech 10GbE Network Accelerators. This technology represents Alacritech's six generation design. While the design of these products has historically been focused exclusively on TCP/IP Offload, Alacritech made some notable additions to the accelerator logic executed in its Sahara on-board silicon and developed a fair amount of new software, both optimized for NFS acceleration.
Alacritech's Dynamic TCP Offload is a "stateful" offload model. The host operating system, with its own network stack, transfers connection state information to a network accelerator (NIC) designed to assume the state from the host and process TCP/IP. After a connection is passed, the network accelerator examines the header information of incoming frames and moves the associated payload with very little host CPU intervention. The ANX 1500 leverages this base technology plus additional enhancements. What enhancements? First, Alacritech's software executes a single-stack processing model. No interrupts or context switches take place in the data path. Second, Alacritech added logic embedded in its Sahara custom silicon to buffer and read NFS RPC headers and transport the corresponding NFS event to an assigned processor core. Each of the 16 processor cores is capable of processing NFS requests, generating NFS replies, and when necessary, forwarding requests in the event of a cache miss. This virtually eliminates processor stalls associated with spinlocks and processor cache thrashing. Third, Alacritech built a custom Cache Manager that tracks what is in each cache location and for how long, in addition to providing housekeeping functions. Fourth and last, the ANX 1500 was designed to pass writes through to the NAS with single-digit microsecond latency. The data is held by the ANX in DRAM, but not made available to satisfy a subsequent read until an acknowledgement is received from the NAS.
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Honda two-stroke technology dominates GP racing, Wayne Gardner winning seven 500 GPs to take 500 title, German veteran Toni Mang winning the 250 crown with his NSR250. Computer-controlled variable exhaust valve developed. Hi-tech NR750 racer with oval pistons contests Le Mans 24 hours, scoring pole position. Up-and-coming Californian talent Wayne Rainey wins US Superbike crown and Daytona 200 with VFR750. Eric Geboers scores Honda's first 250 MX world success. Dirt track legend Bubba Shobert completes hat-trick of US Grand National dirt track crowns, riding an RS750D. Takeo Fukui is new president of HRC.
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Master of smoothness Eddie Lawson joins Honda and carries off the 500 World Championship with his NSR500. Honda wins tenth 250 Constructors' World Championship. Merkel, Fogarty and their RC30s repeat their World Superbike and TTF1 titles. Privateer John Ashmead wins Daytona 200 aboard an RC30. Frenchmen Dominique Sarron, Alex Vieira and RVF750 win Suzuka Eight Hours. Gilles Lalay proves Honda power in the most gruelling of conditions by winning Honda's fourth consecutive Paris- Dakar race aboard his NXR750. Jean-Michel Bayle and David Thorpe win 250 and 500 MX titles. Takeo Fukui begins second term as HRC president.


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Writing better software: 30 years of UNIX development wisdom
In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how these are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and Linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and longer-lived.
Raymond incorporates commentary from thirteen UNIX pioneers:
- Ken Thompson, the inventor of UNIX.
- Ken Arnold, part of the group that created the 4BSD UNIX releases and co-author of The Java Programming Language.
- Steven M. Bellovin, co-creator of Usenet and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security.
- Stuart Feldman, a member of the Bell Labs UNIX development group and the author of make and f77.
- Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, principal architects of the X windowing system.
- Steve Johnson, author of yacc and of the Portable C Compiler.
- Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, The UNIX Programming Environment, The Practice of Programming, and of the awk programming language.
- David Korn, creator of the korn shell and author of The New Korn Shell Command and Programming Language.
- Mike Lesk, a member of the Bell Labs development group and author of the ms macro package, the tbl and refer tools,lex and UUCP.
- Doug McIlroy, Director of the Bell Labs research group where UNIX was born and inventor of the UNIX pipe.
- Marshall Kirk McKusick, developer of the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and a leader of the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD teams.
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BIT provides students with a highly developed skill set in Information Technology. The program provides a general understanding of creating software applications, building and upgrading websites and administering and supporting networks. Students receive training in Application Development, Database Management, Network Management, and Web Development.
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Issue No.09 - September (1970 vol.19)
pp: 859
S. Hedetniemi , Dept. of Computer Sci. University of Iowa
A stationary maximin automaton is a system A = <S, U, f, h, F>, where S and U are finite nonempty sets of states and inputs, respectively; F?S is a set of final states; f:S ? U ? S ?[0, 1] can be imagined to be a transition relation which associates with every state s E S and input u E U a measure, 0= f(s,u,s') = 1 that the next state is s', there being no constraint, for example, that th
S. Hedetniemi, "R70-36 Maximin Automata", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.19, no. 9, pp. 859, September 1970, doi:10.1109/T-C.1970.223064


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Restoring Earth-The Film
10 August 2016
Let's get one of Australia's most heated conflicts on the dinner table: let's talk land clearing. From paddock to plate, more and more consumers are looking to know where their food comes from, and will be surprised to know that Australia ranks third among developed nations for land clearing globally.[read more]


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BERKELEY -- Elizabeth Echols, of Oakland, took an early lead in voting for Assembly District 15 Tuesday night, ahead of her nearest challenger, Tony Thurmond, of Richmond.
Showing up close behind Thurmond in third place with very early returns from absentee ballots was attorney Pamela Price, of Oakland. The only Republican in the race, Rich Kinney, of San Pablo, showed up in fourth place.
The top two vote-getters in Tuesday's election for state Assembly District 15 will go on to the November election, leaving behind six others who put their names on the ballot.
The district, which stretches from Oakland to Hercules, has no incumbent because Democrat Nancy Skinner is termed out.
"We have a long way to go still," Echols said Tuesday evening shortly after the polls closed. "It's very early. We've stayed very focused on our game plan and worked hard on our message about creating more equal opportunity in education and jobs and protecting our environment. Those are the things we've really been talking about."
Thurmond was positive early in the night that his second place showing would hold and take him to the finale in November.
"I'm optimistic and grateful to the voters to have us in position to be in second place," he said. "This is a testament to the great grass-roots campaign we ran, powered by people who care about making positive changes in the community."
The field of candidates is diverse and includes Thurmond, a Democrat; Price, a Democrat; Clarence Hunt, a Democrat from Berkeley; Kinney; Sam Kang, a Democrat from Emeryville; Eugene Ruyle, a Peace and Freedom Party member from Oakland; Echols; and Bernt Wahl, an independent from Berkeley.


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Reviews of Oliver's Camp
They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
Oliver's Camp review
Lovely place to stay. Great food and people.Read more about the whole safari
Oliver's Camp review
see above [Ed: see below!]Read more about the whole safari
Oliver's Camp review
Camp was a bit too groomed for my taste - too many other guests with the usual "where do you come from, what is your profession..." conversations. The prior experiences were a bit more privateRead more about the whole safari
Oliver's Camp review
This was a very good camp with magnificent accommodation and superb staff. It is a pity that the first and last half-hour of each drive were a bit thin of interest (other than tsetse flies!) - if only the camp could be moved to overlook the Silale swamp.
The manager Salim looked after us very well, including a champagne supper which made a memorable experience.
a true bush safari experience
Remote bush area of Tarangire Park. A long winding exciting ride to camp with loads of animals sited along the way. An elephant lovers heaven. Perfect introduction for a first time safari.
We were greated warmly by the staff and treated like we belonged!
We 3 shared a very large tent with an attached bathroom that was quite comfortable for 3 with room to spare. The beds were comfortable with nice linens and pillows. The view from the tent and even the shower was fantastic. We could watch the parade of elephants morning and night. Plenty of hot water for showers. The wait staff were very eager to please and hot coffee and clean laundry delivered every morning! The staff could not have been better!
This camp was probably the most remote for access to civilization. How they were able to deliver such service under these conditions left all 3 of us in awe and appreciation. We 3 have camped in the US many times and appreciate all it takes to provide for guests.
This camp is not fussy fancy but rather ruggedly beautiful. A true bush camp!
Breakfast and lunch served buffet style. More than adequate in taste and quantity. 2 lunches packed for us while on long day drives. Best chicken curry hands down. Wish I had the recipe. Dinner was served gathered around a large table for all guests to join in on the days conversations. We had a great mix of guests from around the world which made for great variety and fun. The food was very good.
Highlight was the 2 walking safaris. Alex our expert guide was beyond description in knowledge and had an eagle eye for spotting. He took great care in assuring our safety at all times. A park ranger also accompanied us and both carried large guns which we felt quite safe! We would reccommend this walk to everyone!!!
We take away a fantastic experience from this camp.
Oliver's Camp review
An overall good experiance. Good guide and game viewing and excellent room service from Robert.
However, although the food was good, the quantities were minute. When helping yourself at the buffet, you had to look around to see how many guests were to follow as there was a distinct shortage of food.
Great start to our safari
We both loved Oliver's Camp, it was so remote that we really felt that we were away from it all. The amount of game in Tarangire makes it an excellent first safari experience, on the day we arrived I counted 110 elephants walking along beside the river while we drove to the camp. We also saw wild dogs which we were told are a rare sight, our guide having only seen them once before in 8 years of guiding.
Our guide Stanford was fantastic. He went out of his way to meet our expectations and was personable, knowledgeable and friendly. We appreciated the opportunity to invite him to join us for dinner on some evenings. On the way from the airport he took us to have lunch at the Shanga River House, a really worthwhile stop which was included in our package, where the food was delicious and we were pleased to support the workshop by buying jewellery made there.
The camp was great, we loved the way the tents were set completely apart from each other and that we could watch elephants and giraffes pass while we sat at the front of ours. We had everything we needed and the bed was the most comfortable on our trip (and quite possibly in the whole of Africa!)
The food was of a very good standard, particularly the breakfasts with eggs cooked to request in front of you and home-made bread. The early morning coffee was the best we tasted in Tanzania. The staff couldn't do enough to make our stay comfortable and hot water for showers always appeared quickly when requested.
The only thing that we would change about the camp are the shower heads as we discovered at our next camp that a bucket shower can have a good flow of water but the one we had at Oliver's produced rather a trickle.
Oliver's Camp review
Slightly disappointed at the lack of small intimate camp. We had the most wonderful guide (Armi) for a few days who did everything he could to make our stay enjoyableRead more about the whole safari
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The welcome given to us by Helen and Rudolf was wonderful. We were weary after a long and tiring journey and they did everything possible to help us relax. Again the staff were brilliant, being helpful and very friendly.
We continued to be pleasantly surprised at the continuing high standard of all the meals that we enjoyed there.
We went to Olivers for the walking safaris and enjoyed these under the leadership of Alex, another star. He was quiet and extemely informative, in the absence of animals he was a mine of information about their droppings. we were very confident in his leadership.
A real wilderness experience
We really loved Olivers camp. What makes it special is that it is spread out so that once you are in your tent you can't see another tent - it feels like it's just you and the bush. As we got to our tent when we arrived there was a dikdik outside!
As with Olakira we really loved the drinks round the campfire. The food was absolutely fantastic - really excellent! The egg chef did the very best scrambled egg that I have ever tasted. As at Olakira hot water arrived on time as did the drinks we asked to be brought to our tent in the late afternoon.
The only negative comments we have are that they didn't do the 'cool flannels' when we got back from game drives as was done at Olakira and that when we arrived no-one warned us to book our 'pick up' time for dinner so we ended up using the emergency whistle - to evryone's consternation!
We were warned that the game viewing wouldn't be so good in Tarangire at that time of year (Febuary). We didn't see much in the way of predators, but the elephant viewing was terrific. We saw one enormous herd and had an exciting experience with the. A bull was in must and was very irritable and was winding the rest of the herd up. The herd split in two and started to try to surround us - the driver said 'this is serious' and we got out of there pretty quickly!
We also surpised a bull elephant by the side of the road and really jumped when we heard his trumpeting.


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The AAGL–formerly known as American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists–faces increased public attention because of the controversy over a device called the power morcellator. The Food and Drug Administration says the tool can spread hidden cancer, but AAGL has been a staunch defender of the device. AAGL, which trains doctors in tiny-incision surgeries, has historically had corporate partnerships. But it has also adopted new conflict-of-interest policies as the medical field has faced calls for more transparency. These policies have caused tension in the group's leadership, The Wall Street Journal reports. Read More »
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WHEATON, IL – Maranatha posted nine team points, in three different sessions, and opponents, receiving a solid decision win by junior wrestler Ricky Warren (Watertown, WI), who handed Bryce Roberts (Manchester), a loss to the tune of 9-4, at the Wheaton Dual on Saturday.
Warren wrestled in the 149 weight-class, and helped Maranatha post three points against Manchester University. Saturday also witnessed the return of Ricky's brother, James, who finished with a 12-5 decision loss in the 141 weight-class, against Josh Juarez (Manchester).
For James Warren, it was his first action since last season, as the sophomore from Watertown took losses by fall in his two other competitions, but provided a spark in his match against Juarez.
Jesse Gjefle (Ontario, WI), the team's 184 wrestler, put up two points in three decision losses, holding Dubuque's Derek Minch to just eight points, while Dan Kiesling and Oliver Klein each suffered defeats in their three matches, in the 285, and 157 weight-classes.
Maranatha moves forward with anticipation, as they travel to Lakeland College, on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m., in Plymouth, WI.


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There are four members of
the Struthers family represented in Hannah's
album: Stephen, shown here; Agnes Struthers at
the beginning of this set of four; Mary Rich
Struthers; and Mary Struthers, who later became
Mrs. Robinson.
Stephen Rich
Struthers was born in New York City on 26 Jun
1838, the son of James Struthers and his wife
Mary (Rich) who was the much older half-sister of
Hannah Rich, which would make Stephen Hannah
Richs half nephew, though almost exactly
her age.
Stephen's wife was
Sarah Ingraham Penfield (b. 1848, d. 1940 ), also
of New York; they were married in New York City
on 09 April 1874. Stephen died 08 May 1913 in
Planfield, Union Co., New Jersey. Sarah died on
16 Jan 1940 and both were laid to rest at
Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, Union Co.,
New Jersey.
Struthers is not a
common name in the United States - it originated
in Scotland - and scouring New York State's
online county records in 2005 yields only a short
list of people surnamed Struthers or its variants
Struther, Strothers, and Strother. A few more
Struthers can be found in New Jersey, although
New Jerseys records are not as complete as
New Yorks. The greatest number of Struthers
references is concentrated in Brooklyn County - originally known as
Kings County - and it is there, on the Brooklyn
genealogy site that the marriage of Stephen
Struthers and Sarah I. Penfield is recorded,
along with the marriages of Henry, Jessie,
Joseph, Joseph again, and Robert Struthers.
How is it that
Stephen Rich Struthers, whose Rich Family
relatives lived in Delaware County, NY, appears
in New York City records? It turns out that from
the late 1700s on, many Riches began life in New
York City and never left, while others moved
west. A Rich was among the first settlers of
Kortright township, Delaware County, where there
are a Rich Hill and a Rich Road. Stephens
in-laws, the Penfields, followed this same
pattern: most of the Penfields remained in New
York City, but a Lewis Penfield is listed as one
of the earliest settlers of Harpersfield township in Delaware
County. The Delaware Woolen Factory
was run in the mid-1860s by a Penfield.
It does not appear
from available records that Stephen Rich
Struthers and Sarah Struthers ever lived in
Delaware County. Ten years before they were
married, Stephen R. Struthers, an insurance agent
with an office on the dock, appears in an 1864 Yonkers (Westchester
County, NY) Business Directory, now posted on the Connors
Genealogy site. At some unknown time the pair
migrated from New York City to New Jersey where
(according to FamilySearch) Stephen was
enumerated in the 1880 US census as married, a
bank clerk, and residing in District 2,
Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey. There is no
evidence they had any children.
But these are
later chapters in the life of Stephen Rich
Struthers. The picture you see here is Stephen at
the time of Hannah Richs wedding in July
1861, long before he himself was married.
About the
photographer: the raised stamp at the bottom of
this picture is J Brill: Julius Brill. According
to John S. Craigs excellent online Daguerreian Registry, Julius Brill was listed
as a daguerreian at 204 Chatham Street, New York
City, N.Y., from 1852 to 1860, which would have
been about the time this photograph was taken.
and Carolyn have attempted to identify all
persons in the album and learn more about them
through research of various records. If you can
help us identify or add further information to
this photo, please contact:


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From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:04:32 +1000
> Jochen Friedrich writes:
> > Fix build breakage introduced in commit
> > "[POWERPC] i2c: OF helpers for the i2c API".
> > If i2c-core is compiled as module, the helper needs to be
> > compiled as module, as well. Rename i2c.c to of_i2c.c to
> > avoid name space conflict.
> Actually, since only powerpc has irq_of_parse_and_map, I'm now
> inclined to think that drivers/of/i2c.c should live under arch/powerpc
> for now, or at the least its option should depend on PPC_OF.
I specifically asked for this to not be PPC only so that I
can make use of this infrastructure on sparc64 for I2C devices.
It's OK if this breaks the sparc64 allmodconfig build, I'll take
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Please merge the PPC tree to Linus soon, so that I can merge
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School Counselling Internship (EDMT6013)
The school psychology internship allows students the opportunity to learn about the profession and to develop further in the role of school counsellor/psychologist as part of the training program. The School Psychology Internship focuses on working as a school counsellor under the supervision of university staff, who are all registered psychologists, and experienced field school counsellors. The role of the school counsellor includes assessing and counselling children and adolescents with problems, developing intervention programs for students with learning, behaviour and mental health challenges, liaising with parents and teachers to enhance the classroom and home learning and psychological environments, and developing prevention programs for at risk students.
Further unit of study information
25-days in school placement, 1x2-hr seminar
performance ratings (2x30%) and daily activity records (10%) and professional portfolio (30%)
Faculty/department permission required?
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If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
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Globe Education Network is a consortium of private institutions committed to helping students achieve their personal and professional goals through career education. Network schools prepare students for immediate employment and future advancement.
Colleges, universities and training centers in the network have common ownership, receive operational and academic support from the network, and benefit from a wealth of shared educational resources.
Through consortium agreements approved by member schools' accrediting bodies, credits earned at one network school may be applied toward a student's program at another, subject to accrediting and licensing standards.


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The event is for those aged 18 and over. Tickets are $25.00 per person with a 2-beverage minimum per person. To purchase tickets, please click here.
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The Daily Docket: Arcapita Bank to Wind Down
Bahrain's Arcapita Bank is proposing to wind down and sell all of its assets as the Bahrain-based investment firm tries to emerge from bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Read The Wall Street Journal reports.
A federal bankruptcy watchdog is objecting to the liquidation plan for MF Global 's holding company, claiming the hedge funds behind the proposal haven't explained the benefits they are receiving from the plan. Read the story here in Daily Bankruptcy Review.
The potential deal to create the world's biggest airline likely would fly clear of government objections, WSJ says.
Foreign and domestic investors are preparing to pounce on bad debts held by Chinese banks, reports WSJ.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports home builder American West Development Inc. won court approval to exit bankruptcy protection.
Ally Financial Inc., the second-largest remaining investment by the U.S. Treasury's bailout fund, will repay the government by 2014 on the strength of its auto-finance business, Bloomberg writes.
The Washington Post reports an Obama for President sign that consumed Fairfax County town cost the community as much as $400,000 and left its homeowners association in bankruptcy.
The city of Harrisburg, Pa., is gambling that Wyatt Earp's poker table and other Wild West artifacts will ante up some cash to help the city get back on its financial feet, reports Reuters.


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Deficit Numbers Help Explain Focus on Poverty
Washington has pivoted quickly from pitched battles over government spending to a new focus on how best to address poverty. New data released by the Treasury Department Monday show one reason why.
The Treasury said the government ran a $53 billion surplus in December – meaning government revenue exceeded government spending for the month by $53 billion.
That brought the deficit for the calendar year 2013 to $560.6 billion. That's still large by historic standards, but it's relatively small compared with the past five years.
Here's deficit data from the past decade. (This information is for the calendar year, not fiscal year, and data are not inflation adjusted).
2004: $399.0 billion
2005: $321.8 billion
2006: $209.2 billion
2007: $364.8 billion
2008: $698.3 billion
2009: $1.471 trillion
2010: $1.275 trillion
2011: $1.250 trillion
2012: $1.061 trillion
2013: $560.6 billion
The deficit is shrinking, and it is expected to continue shrinking for the next several years. The main drivers of the contraction are recent tax policies and spending cuts, along with slow but steady economic growth. The medium-term and long-term fiscal outlook, however, is much worse, in part because of the aging U.S. population and the expected rising cost of health care.
But both parties are weary after the multi-year focus on shrinking the deficit, particularly after the government shutdown in October. A number of lawmakers from both parties have signaled that further tax and spending changes are likely impossible this year, and possibly even until 2017.
That has led both parties to focus on other parts of the economy. Democrats have begun a national push to raise the minimum wage, which they say will help address income inequality, and a number of Republicans have countered with proposals they say will help the working poor.
Deficit discussions are likely to flare up from time to time in 2014, possibly even during talks centered around the debt ceiling in the coming months, but both parties are girding for a larger battle over income, economic mobility, and economic growth.