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email@example.com writes:
> Greetings!
> Is there a way to leave a connection open in SSH, something as a
> 'session' which can be restored later?
I think you're about to fall in love with Gnu screen.
> My scenario is the following: I connect to a remote machine (which has
> sshd) via SSH, run octave, run a long script (which will probably take
> about a month to complete), hit Ctrl+Z, type BG. So far so good, my
> application goes to background.
> What I would like to do next would be to log out of this ssh connection
> and, when I return (with the same user), be able to fg %1 and return to
> the running program. Right now when I try to do this I get a message
> saying I can't, because there are jobs running on the background.
> Is there a way to accomplish this? Some configuration in sshd perhaps?
> I wouldn't like to have to leave two machines turned on whereas one
> would suffice.
ssh blah@remotehost
remotehost$ screen
[hit enter after swcreen's introductory comments]
remotehostinscreen$ . .bash_profile (if ya need to, screen doesn't always
fork as a login shell, so you may need to source this)
remotehostinscreen$ myfunprocess&
remotehostinscreen$ [Ctrl-a d]
remotehost$ exit
Days later, from some completely different machine, reconnect to
remotehost via any method.
remotehost$ screen -r
you'll be right back where you were.
Think of screen as VNC for tty's. -r reconnects you. Ctrl-a
followed by d disconnects you. Or hell ust kill the terminal.
Screen is still there.
Enjoy! Screen rocks.
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Day 10: Trial of Brett Peter Cowan, 44, aka Shaddo N-unyah Hunter, accused of killing teenager Daniel Morcombe
- From: The Courier-Mail
- February 25, 2014
IT is day 10 of the trial of Brett Peter Cowan, 44, also known as Shaddo N-unyah Hunter, who stands accused of murdering Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe.
Cowan has pleaded not guilty before Supreme Court Justice Roslyn Atkinson to murder, indecent treatment and misconduct with a corpse on December 7, 2003.
Follow our rolling coverage of today's proceedings here:
4.30pm: The 107th witness is Detective Sen-Constable Ross Hutton, who was stationed at the Sunshine Coast CIB in December, 2003, and worked on the Daniel Morcombe investigation.
He said he drove and timed points of interest on the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday, August 9, 2011.
Sen-Constable Hutton said he replicated as closely as he could what the roadway would have been like in 2003 when he drove from Alfs Pinch Rd to the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass as 35.1km.
He said he went to Kings Rd at the Glass House Mountains on August 11, 2011.
Sen-Constable Hutton said he recognised two undercover officers called ``Fitzy'' and ``Ian''.
He said he returned to Kings Rd on August 13, 2011.
``We were in the main area above a section which can lead down to the dam area, behind a metal structure, a square metal bin which may have been used for sand blasting or something similar,'' he said.
He said soon after a Toyota Hilux appeared and he approached the vehicle and arrested Cowan at 11.15am.
Sen-Constable Hutton said the police drove Cowan to the Brisbane headquarters at Roma St.
He said they allowed Cowan to have a cigarette in the car park basement.
``He went and leant up against a wall which backed onto the elevator shafts. He then had one leg bent at the knee, so that foot was flat against the wall and was just standing on the other foot,'' Sen-Constable Hutton said.
4.15pm: The 106th witness is Katherine Reynolds, who drove from Eudlo to Nambour via the Nambour Connection Rd between 1-2pm on Sunday, December 7, 2003.
She said she drove near the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass.
``I seen a young boy standing there,'' she said.
``He had basketball shoes on and a red top and shorts, he looked very much like my brother.''
She said the boy looked about 12.
She said a car was parked about 35m away towards Nambour, coloured blue, with a man leaning against the boot and the passenger side door open.
She agreed she told police the man was about 180cm tall, slim with sandy and scruffy hair to the shoulder.
``Long hair, a Rod Stewart look back in the 1980s, kind of scruffy,'' she said.
Ms Reynolds said the man was wearing a surfer's singlet and jeans.
Ms Reynolds said there was no interaction between the man and the boy.
She said it looked like the man was watching the child.
In cross examination by barrister Angus Edwards, for Cowan, she said she was driving behind a Sunbus that day.
She said she didn't see the boy hail the bus.
She agreed the car was blue and a 1980s model and that the car's number plate was from Western Australia and had the letters WBX in them.
She told the court her statement to police, taken in 2003, would have been incorrect when it recorded that the man she saw was standing just 5m away from the boy.
In her statement, the court heard, she could not remember the number plate and said it was from New South Wales.
Ms Reynolds said she now knew ``in her heart'' the plate was from WA.
In re-examination by Crown prosecutor Glen Cash, Ms Reynolds said she did not see any tattoos.
4pm: In cross-examination by barrister Angus Edwards, for Cowan, Jackway agreed he was worried police would plant something in his car.
``There was nothing in the car to find,'' he said.
``I had nothing to do with the abduction of Daniel Morcombe.''
Jackway told the court he knew another inmate at the Wolston Correctional Centre called Trevor who he was accused of assaulting in 2006.
``I never spoke to the person, I bashed him and was transferred to Arthur Gorrie,'' he said.
Jackway denied referring to Daniel Morcombe as ``Christmas cake'' in the inmate's company.
He also refuted laughing about Morcombe family's efforts to start an organisation helping people with their grief.
``I never spoke to the bloke,'' Jackway said.
Mr Edwards suggested otherwise.
``I suggest you spoke to him and said: `he's no one's Christmas cake no more','' Mr Edwards said.
Jackway said it was untrue.
He agreed police got in touch with him in December, 2010 to try and work out exactly where his car had broken down.
Jackway agreed he went for a drive with police and showed them a location as you head towards Nambour past the Big Pineapple.
``I said it was roughly behind the Big Pineapple and that's where I showed them,'' Jackway said.
He agreed the place he broke down was near to the Woombye Garden Caravan Park.
Jackway said he went to trial for the rape of a girl in 1990 or 1991, when the child was 9 or 10 years old.
``I still contest it,'' he said.
Mr Edwards detailed the allegations against Jackway for the rape, which took place when he was a teenager.
The court heard he spoke to his sister on October 20, 2004 and threatened to hurt the woman he allegedly raped.
``Maybe when I was dirty I might of, but I can't recall,'' he said.
He said he had nothing to do with Daniel's disappearance.
``I had nothing to do with the Daniel Morcombe case,'' Jackway said.
3.24pm: In cross-examination by barrister Angus Edwards, for Cowan, Jackway said he was spoken to again by police on December 12, 2003.
He agreed he was at his friend Paul Carrington's house at the time.
The court heard Jackway told police he was at home mowing the lawn and putting new spark plugs in his car on December 7, 2003.
It heard Jackway told them he bought the spark plugs with cash from Supercheap Auto, although it would later be revealed to police he stole them.
Jackway also told police he bought blue paint for his bonnet scoop.
He told police he went to Mr Carrington's house after having dinner about 5.30pm.
Jackway said he told police he drove to his sister's place at Tewantin around 7.30am the next day.
The jury was shown a photo of Jackway's blue sedan.
He agreed he told police on another occassion he caught a train from Goodna to Brisbane and on to the Sunshine Coast, finally hitch-hiking to the place where his car was impounded, on Friday, December 5, 2003.
He agreed he told police he went to Supercheap Auto for car parts on Saturday December 6, 2003.
Jackway agreed it was on that occasion, January 9, 2004, he told police he stole the spark plugs from Supercheap Auto.
He agreed he told police he went to Paul Carrington's home on the Saturday night.
Jackway also told police he argued with his girlfriend at Bertha St for most of Sunday, December 7, 2003 and didn't leave except to visit Michael Harbon's parents around 11am.
He told police he called his sister around 8pm that night and told her he wouldn't be coming to her house at Tewantin.
``Honestly, I can't recall… I know I rang her to say I wasn't coming,'' Jackway said.
Jackway agreed he told police during the interview with them that he knew Nambour Connection Rd past the Big Pineapple.
He told them he drove down that road on December 8, 2003.
Jackway agreed he told police his car broke down that day at 7am, just before he got into Nambour near to a KFC and a service station.
``Near the pineapple, back from the pineapple, as you turn off,'' Jackway said.
Jackway denied telling police he had a goatee or a ``f*ckin Billy Goat'' in December 2003.
``Nah, I'm always clean-shaven,'' he said.
He agreed the police showed him a map during that interview and he told them he never stopped in the area near the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass.
The court was told police seized Cowan's car that same night, January 9, 2004.
But Jackway denied getting violent and threatening police when they came to his house.
``I told them I couldn't care less, they could take it,'' he said.
Jackway said he couldn't recall threatening to knock ``the whole lot of youse out'' when the police arrived and yelling ``I'm not going with no pig'' if they took his car down to the station.
12.50pm: In cross-examination, Jackway said he couldn't remember taking money from his bank account and his mobile phone at the time had no sim card on December 7, 2003.
He said he drove to the Goodna Shopping Centre with his mate's father, who gave him petrol for his car that morning.
Jackway said he had a fight with his girlfriend and then went to Paul Carrington's house.
He said he did not know how long it took to drive to the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass from Goodna.
Mr Edwards put to Jackway that he left in his blue Commodore and was gone between 11am and 4.30pm.
``I suggest to you when you returned hom in the afternoon at 4.30pm you were in an agitated state and you went to your bedroom for a period of time before you… went to Carrington's place,'' Mr Edwards said. Jackway: ``That's incorrect.''
Mr Edwards put to Jackway that he warned Michael Harbot police might come and question him about where he was that day, sometime between December 7 and December 11, 2003.
``I'd never say that, that's incorrect,'' Jackway said.
He denied asking his friend Michael Harbot to give him an alibi for the day Daniel Morcombe went missing.
He also refuted Mr Edwards' suggestion he warned a female friend about giving him an alibi by telling the police he was at home.
``I never said that to her. I never said anything of the sort to her,'' Jackway said.
He agreed he went to Michael Harbot's parents house to collect bedside drawers and a mattress at 4.30pm on December 9, 2003.
Mr Edwards: ``I suggest to you, you dyed your hair sometime over the 7th to the 8th of December, 2003.''
12.10pm: In cross-examination, Jackway said his blue Commodore was seized and impounded at Kunda Park, outside Maroochydore, after the pursuit on November 22, 2003.
``I don't believe I was actually (taking drugs), I was intoxicated,'' Jackway said.
``I would have been charged if there were drugs in my car ... ''
He disagreed he told police on March 30, 2011 that he had drugs in his car, as well.
Jackway agreed he previously gave evidence that he drove along Nambour Connection Rd on December 8, 2003.
He said he was with a man called Fred Smith on December 2, 2003.
He said two days later, Mr Smith was supposed to drive Jackway to the Sunshine Coast to pick up his impounded car but he instead dropped him at a Goodna service station and ``took off''.
Jackway said he stole a car and drove it to the Sunshine Coast to pick up his own impounded vehicle on December 5, 2003.
He agreed he used the wheels from the stolen car on his own car to drive it away.
Jackway said he was bleaching his hair within the first week of getting out of prison in 2003.
``I had short hair, I've never had long hair in my life,'' he said.
He agreed he had a number of tattoos, including one on his left shoulder, one on his left calf saying ``hectic'' and one on his right arm.
Jackway said early in the morning of December 7, 2003, his girlfriend returned home after spending some time with another man.
He agreed that when he spoke to his girlfriend that morning, he drove to the other man's house.
Jackway said he visited the man for around 15 minutes and returned home, calling his sister at 7.45am and asked to stay with her at Tewantin that night.
He did not agree he drove from his home on Bertha St at Goodna to Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast via the Nambour Connection Rd.
Jackway agreed he drove to the home of his friend's parent's to top up the oil in his blue Commodore, staying for around half an hour.
He agreed he was wearing blue shorts and a white singlet and told them he was on his way to the Sunshine Coast.
11.25am: In cross-examination by barrister Angus Edwards, for Cowan, Jackway said he was sentenced to eight years in jail.
He agreed he did not complete a sexual offenders program while incarcerated.
Jackway agreed he assaulted another prisoner on August 8, 1997 and was dealt with for wilful damage for destroying a television.
He agreed he moved to various prisons, including Rockhampton Correctional Centre, Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, Woodford Correctional Centre, Moreton Correctional Centre and Wolston Correctional Centre.
He agreed he was at the Moreton Correctional Centre from September 24, 1996 to October 20, 1997.
He said he did not know a prisoner named Les McLean, who also went by the name of Billy Jo McLean, Bobby Jo McLean, Melissa McNickel and various others.
Jackway denied telling another inmate he would abduct, kill and rape a child and bury them in a place they would never be found.
He said he did not see a psychologist on his release from prison on November 7, 2003.
Jackway said he was smoking pot at the time he was released.
He agreed he went to live with a woman and her daughter's and began associating with a man called Paul Carrington, who passed away on June 26, 2009.
Jackway said he did not know Carrington had a history of sexual offending when he met him in jail at Woodford.
He agreed he met a young man named Michael Harbot, 15, who had dropped out of school in Grade 9, 2003.
``Yes, he was going out with my fiance's daughter,'' Jackway said.
He said Harbot moved in with him at Goodna until just after Christmas in 2003, when he moved in with Mr Carrington.
Jackway denied telling Harbot he was in jail for armed robbery, not sexual offending.
``When I first met him, he asked me if I could steal cars ... ,'' he said.
He disagreed a woman confronted him about his criminal past.
``I remember the afternoon, the first time I was questioned about this case, she called me and my fiancé Debbie and my daughter around the house and said `I do not want you hanging around my son','' he said.
Jackway said he bought a blue 1980 Holden Commodore SL with Queensland registration number 996HKL about three weeks before he was released.
He agreed he was involved in a police pursuit on the Sunshine Coast in the car on November 22, 2003.
Jackway agreed he drove along the Nambour Connection Rd when he went to the Sunshine Coast. `` On occasions, yes,'' he said.
10.55am: In cross-examination by barrister Angus Edwards, for Cowan, Jackway agreed he was sentenced in the Gympie Magistrates Court to nine months behind bars for a number of offences on October 25, 1994.
``Yes, I think so, it was so long ago,'' he said.
Jackway agreed he was released on March 3, 1995 and committed further offences on April 1, 1995.
He said he was staying at his sister's place at Moura, southwest of Gladstone, the night before and agreed he stole his sister's car, a Ford Falcon, and drove two-and-a-quarter hours to reach Boyne Island or Tannum Sands on the coast.
He agreed that at 1.15pm he was driving that car on a bike track towards three boys.
``And they appeared to be about 9 or 10 years old?'' Mr Angus asked.
Jackway: ``Yes, I think so.''
He said he parked his car in an open area like a park in the middle of the day and approached them, asking for directions to Gladstone.
``You punched one of them in the face, knocking them backwards and you were subsequently charged with assault occasioning bodily harm for that punch, weren't you?'' Mr Edwards said.
Jackway: ``Yes, I think so.''
Jackway agreed he struggled with one of the boys and drove off with him in his car until he crashed into a footbridge nearby.
He agreed he told the boy to get out of the car and they went into some nearby mangroves.
``I don't think I told him, I'm not too sure, I can't remember much of the events,'' Jackway said.
He agreed he told the boy to take his clothes off, touched him and dealt with the boy indecently and swore at him.
Jackway: ``Can I ask a question? Who's on trial here?''
``I pleaded guilty to all of it,'' Jackway said.
He agreed he told the boy to stop shaking and threatened him with violence if he didn't.
Jackway agreed he kissed and bit the child on the back and made a second attempt to penetrate him.
He said he pleaded guilty to the incident in the Mackay Magistrates Court on December 11, 2005 and was sentenced to eight years jail.
Jackway agreed he grabbed the child by the throat and threatened to cut it with a knife, although he did not have one.
He agreed he was restrained in the mangroves and taken to a police car.
``I'm not too sure, I can't remember,'' Jackway said.
10.30am: The 105th witness is Douglas Brian Jac kway, 37, who gave evidence via video link.
Jackway told the court he was not on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday December 7, 2003 and had nothing to do with Daniel's death.
Crown prosecutor Glen Cash: "Did you abduct Daniel Morcombe?''
Jackway: "No I did not.''
Mr Cash: "Were you in anyway involved in the abduction of Daniel Morcombe?''
Jackway: "No I was not.''
Mr Cash: "Did you kill Daniel Morcombe?''
Jackway: "No I did not.''
Mr Cash: "Were you in anyway involved in the killing of Daniel Morcombe?''
Jackway: "No.''Originally published as Daniel was near man with '80s hair

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Is Cricket Boring
This summer (year 2000) the English side (Scotland have their own cricket team) which is known as the MCC (
) have been playing the West Indies. They played 5 Test Matches, which are five day matches starting on a Thursday. There used to be a rest day on Sunday, but not now.
Cricket matches can finish early, or end in a draw if the match is not completed. Often in England time is lost because if it rains or the light is poor, the cricket cannot continue.
England won the penultimate match in two days, which was more or less unheard of , and wrecked the TV schedules for the channel showing the match.
England went into the last match leading 2-1 with one to play, having not won a series against the West Indies since 1969.
The last match finished yesterday. England won on the last afternoon, and the cricket ground (The Oval, London) was full on the last day.
Part of the fun of cricket is that you cannot predict when the critical moments will come, and in the meantime there is a battle for the initiative between the batting side and the bowling side.
Cricket is not
. It started there, but these days it's a commonwealth sport played throughout the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and every other beknighted spot on the planet. Indeed the greatest knighted cricketer isn't British nor fond of 'em - Sir Don Bradman is his name.
As to whether the stuff is boring, it is if you watch it wrong. To watch it right what you do is leave it on in the background and check it every hour or so to see how it's going. If something's happening then you spend a few minutes to see how it turns out. The correct protocol makes of the game a thrilling, nail-biting epic between titans of Homeric stature. Watching cricket progress moment to moment just isn't what's intended, unless you happen to be particularly pedantic or slow of mind. It'd be like watching Odysseus spending days becalmed, or Achilles getting his pedicure.
That said, cricket can still be boring if the players have no sense of fun. But even the dullest cricket match is more exciting than baseball, which is only entertaining to gamblers. --
I find baseball quite entertaining. The game itself is dull, but those hunky guys and their tight uniforms... Woof!
[While Americans and others do gamble on baseball; football and basketball are better sports for wagering. And don't forget that baseball is an international sport, too - while not popular in much of the Old World, it's popular all throughout the Americas and much of Asia as well. It ain't just a sport for yankees]
Test cricket can be watched for hours with the right players and the right attitude. What may seem uneventful to the casual observer is often an intense battle of will, tactics and talent between a batsman, and the bowler and captain of the fielding team. If you walk away from the TV and just wander in to check the scores, or when you hear a wicket fall, you lose all of the subtleties that make the game. Of course, you're not supposed to pay attention the whole five days, but if you don't put in a few long spells, you may as well have just read the result in the paper.
The pyjama game can be watched from start to finish, but only in the spirit it was invented - with loud company and a lot of beer.
This is generally how cricket is viewed as well, although some still prefer a glass of Pimm's instead of beer.
I used to be that the best way to follow a test match was to have the TV switched on with the volume down whilst listening to the Test Match Special commentary on Radio 4 (or the World Service if that was unavailable).
That used to be the case when the BBC TV commentators rarely said anything. Since the TV coverage has been taken on by Channel 4 there is a great deal more to see in the way of analysis of what is going on. In recent days they have been comparing the way the same batsman got out in different matches, or comparing the bowling actions of different bowlers. The only snags are the adverts and the occasional breaks for horse racing on Sunday afternoons.
Cricket above all is a social game. It is supposed to be played on the village green with a pint of beer afterwards. Although it has been some years since the the GentlemenVsPlayers
debate was raging most cricketers in England and the
see the game as social.
From many years of living next to a cricket green I would say that one of the important points about the game is the time it gives the spectators to sample a number of pints of beer. Also the mid game lunch can often involve a number of bottles of Port, making the second half quite interesting to watch. I've always found having a game of Cricket going on in the background when you are having a pleasant meal is very relaxing.
"The game you know as cricket," [Slartibartfast] said, and his voice still seemed to be wandering lost in subterranean passages, "is just one of those curious freaks of racial memory which can keep images alive in the mind aeons after their true significance has been lost in the mists of time. Of all the races on the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game.
"Rather fond of it myself," he added, "but in most people's eyes you have been inadvertently guilty of the most grotesque bad taste. Particularly the bit about the little red ball hitting the wicket, that's very nasty."
Note: cricket is not to be confused with Brockian Ultra Cricket(*). Unless you had to play cricket at school, after taking off your glasses.
(*) A curious game which involves suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away. --
Although it may just be the media blowing up a couple of incidents, this seems to have entered modern life as "Happy Slapping". The name seems on par with "Joy Riding", which in truth means stealing a car and committing lots of offences.
Note that Cricket is not such a major thing in England, compared to association football. It probably ranks about the 4th or 5th sport. But it is the biggest in India and Pakistan, and therefore, probably, one of the world's biggest sports in terms of numbers of fans.
it probably ranks at least 3rd now we are doing well at it again (football and rugby union being probably more popular)
If you find { Cricket | Baseball | ( { Association | American | Canadian | (Australian Rules) | Rugby } Football) | Basketball | ( { Ice | Field | Floor } Hockey ) | Golf | Tennis | Ping-pong | (Team Handball) | ( { Indy | NASCAR | F1 | Dragster | Horse | Greyhound } Racing) | ... } boring, then don't watch or participate. I find some of those boring, others not so. I'm not going to tell you which, as I ain't gonna debate the merits of baseball vs cricket vs soccer vs American football vs whatever-else here on Wiki.
(Actually, I'd pay money to see a Greyhound race. Not the dogs. The busses.)
And now the way cricket should be played, from the safety and comfort of the gaming platform of your choice
A good way to get to know the game for those not yet acquainted.
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On Monday, the Buffs continued implementing their game plan for Saturday's game with the Rams. Barnett said that after Sunday's day off, the team was showing a lot of enthusiasm because Game Week had officially arrived.
"This'll carry them through Tuesday and then they'll be tired of it," Barnett said. "After tomorrow's practice, I will have fooled them as long as I can fool them. And then we'll just be ready to go play somebody else.
"But right now, the guys that are playing the game know how important these three practices are for the game plan. They know we're not ready to play and that we need these days to get ready."
Aye, aye, Captain
Their teammates elected Joel Klatt, Bobby Purify, Matt McChesney and Sam Wilder team captains on Friday night.
Two of the players, seniors McChesney and Wilder, are testaments to perseverance and the maturity process that so many Colorado players go through, but that often gets overlooked in the public's eye in favor of attention paid to the occasional player who leaves the program for one reason or another.
Both McChesney and Wilder were suspended from the university, and the team, during the spring 2002 semester for violating the university's code of conduct. But rather than hang it up, McChesney, from Longmont, and Wilder, from Dallas, took care of business and worked themselves back into good standing with CU, and the football team, the following fall.
Nowadays, both have the respect of their teammates and coaches for their play on the field, and demeanor off.
"When I got here five years ago I never thought it would happen," McChesney said about being named captain. "But it's the way the cards played out. I've really tried to be a good leader, just a model of perseverance and inspiration for this team. And that's what they saw."
Wilder also said he was honored with the duty.
"I've got to produce on the field, and do everything right in the classroom and in the weightroom," Wilder said when asked what the role entailed. "It's a responsibility."
McChesney is the lone defensive player among the four captains. But he said that doesn't mean anything.
"We've got other guys on the defense that may not wear the C, but they play just as big a role as I do," he said. "There's a lot of captains on this team. Not just the four of us."
Crosby kicking with more confidence
Sophomore placekicker Mason Crosby has a big leg, no question about it. But there's more than leg strength that goes into being a successful kicker.
The mental aspect of kicking in a major college football contest is often just as important as having the physical part down. A year ago, Crosby had a solid season as a true freshman. But if he's to live up to head coach Gary Barnett's preseason proclamation that the youngster from Georgetown, Texas, has the chance to hold all the CU placekicking records before he's done, Crosby has to make some strides forward in 2004.
Crosby says he's a more confident kicker these days, and he's getting the ball higher as it leaves the holder's hands, two issues that he had to deal with last season.
The sophomore spoke with BSN about how things are going, what he's looking forward to in 2004, and some of his preparation process as a placekicker.
Q: How has your preseason gone?
Mason Crosby: It's been going pretty good. I'm looking forward to the CSU game.
Q: Last year you played as a true freshman in front of 70,000 fans at Invesco. Do you prefer playing this game in Denver, or at Folsom?
MC: It was kind of crazy freshman year playing down at Invesco. But I love being here at Folsom. It's kind of hard to explain which one's better. But I like that we're staying here.
Q: What do you do as a kicker to tune out the noise in a big game?
MC: I don't ever look up into the stands. I try not to see any people. It's one of those things, when I'm on the field, all I hear is field noise. I try not to pay any attention to anything that's going on in the stands.
It's all a focus thing, something I start before the game.
What do you do to help get that focus? Do you have a routine?
MC: Yeah, I go out and jog around the field before anyone's in the stadium. Whenever I'm kicking, there's hardly anyone in there. So the only time that I see the stadium full is after I'm done warming up, and when we come running in behind Ralphie.
It's just a process. I focus, I don't see any crowd, and then by the time we come out I'm ready for the game.
Q: How has this August been for you compared to a year ago?
MC: I feel way more confident. Every time I go out there, I don't think about kicking the ball, I just feel confident in everything that's going on. I like not having to think about it and just going out there and having it feel more natural than it did last year.
I feel a lot more confident in how my leg's feeling. I have more strength than last year. I'm getting good height on the ball. Hopefully, all of them will go through.
Q: How has the transition been getting used to the new holder, Nick Holz. How is that relationship?
MC: It's good. He's really filled (John Donahoe's) shoes pretty well. He'll be around a couple more years too. Hopefully we'll work together for that long.
It was kind of difficult at first. I had gotten used to Donahoe, but it's been a good transition. I worked with him and Dusty (Sprague) in the spring. Dusty's a really good holder, too, but Holz kind of felt like Donahoe did last year.
Q: Did you grow up with the typical dreams of being the guy that goes out and kicks the game-winning field goal?
MC: Oh yeah. I don't want to have to, because we kind of want to win the games before that. But in the back of my mind, if I have that chance I dream about making the game-winner.


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This mural depicts Streetcar 504, which runs on Roncesvalles Avenue. This street is a center of Polish neighbourhood and was recently rejuvenated!
Some people call this streetcar Desire, because it never comes, when you need it! (Tennessee Williams wrote even a play about it) ;- )
It is in my old neighbourhood, I used to live there for about 5 years. There are several large murals on this short main street, this one was there at least since 2006!
That`s nice, Tomas...like56...Many Greetings and best wishes from Germany to Toronto!
Fun, nice shot!!
Best wishes, :)
How nice looks real, before you open the picture, beautiful colors of the mural great shot greetings * *LIKE from the Hudson River, Rebeca
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Very nice graffity – Friendly regards from Athens.
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Remember Adventure on the Atari 2600? That was one of those games in the early 80s that critics called mature and a little too frightening for children. The theme of the game was similar to Dungeons and Dragons where you would enter a "hi-res" dungeon to fight 3 dragons of successive difficulty. The object of the game was to collect the Grail and return it to your castle.
If you want to try play the game, a developer named Scott Pehnke recreated it and made it available on his site.
My friends and I spent countless hours exploring the dungeons of the game, trying to find hidden areas and treasure. All the while avoiding the dangerous dragons and dealing with the nuisance bat that would fly by and steal things from you. The confounded bat would fly up and swipe your sword and trade it for a bridge right as you were fighting a dragon. Or it would grab the grail and carry it back into the depths of the dungeon just to get on your nerves.
But headaches like that aside, it was my favorite game on the 2600, for nowhere else at the time in history could you experience such an adventure with only your TV and a game console.
As I was talking about Adventure with a friend recently it occurred to me the game is a lot like life. Here are the 4 ways personal success is like Adventure on the 2600:
1. To Succeed You Must Face Dragons – To get your grail, you do have to get past the pixilated dragon that guards it. But first you must identify your dragon. Is it fear of public speaking? Fear of change? Fear to take the first step? All of our dragons are frightening, but in life, like in the game, you must face them in order to succeed.
I remember some kids who would come over to play didn't like the game and would quit on the second level because the dragons were too tough. If you look around at life you can see people everywhere who see their own dragons as being too tough to slay. Only the people who see the fear and continue anyway find their grails.
2. Bats Will Get In The Way – Whether you are an entrepreneur, gardener, spouse or student, bats will get in your way. You'll have a week or two of flawless results when suddenly; the bat swoops in and crashes your computer. A few weeks later, you find your car won't start. The bat must have drained your battery overnight. Still other times, the bat will swoop in and trade your contentment for a bounced check or seemingly insurmountable argument with a boss or coworker.
The key to dealing with bats is not wishing they weren't there, but instead handling them as they swoop in. Bats happen. They do get in the way, there's no avoiding them (at least on this planet). It is best to plan for them and not give up when they do their damage. Hint: Without the damage that bats inflict, there is no adventure. A "bat free" life would mean you are not challenged. So it is ok to hate the bats as they wreck their havoc, but appreciate them because they make your story complete.
3. Creativity Can Be Better Than Fighting – In the game Adventure, you were often on the wrong side of the dragon with your sword. This usually resulted in the dragon eating you and you ending up in his belly for evermore. However, instead of fighting, you could simply outwit it. One way you could outsmart the dragon was to grab the bridge, tease the dragon so he'd chase you. Lead the dragon into a small room, and then run out carrying the bridge behind you. That way, the dragon would lock himself in the room.
This trick took much skill and practice to master, but it was immensely satisfying. The only downfall was the bat would usually pick up the dragon and drop it on you – trading the dragon for the grail. Blasted bats! Gotta love 'em.
In life, there are many times you'll endlessly fight and struggle, when if you stopped a second your thinking and creativity would lead to much easier paths. An employee finds that instead of fighting his boss for 6 hours that simply doing the 45 minutes of busywork leaves his schedule free for more fun stuff. An entrepreneur finds that instead of fighting to get her commercials on TV and ads in the newspaper, that by giving away 1000 of her widgets and letting the media know, that both TV and newspaper coverage happen free.
So like Adventure 2600, if you find yourself fighting, look for another path. Use your brain and come up with other solutions. You are likely fighting because of blindness. Open your eyes and see the problem from another angle and you might just find the bridge you can use to get to the other side.
4. Persistence Leads To the Secret Dot – Many players never realized there was a secret hidden in the deepest and darkest dungeon in the game. If you placed the bridge over a small square room in the middle of that dungeon and then crossed it, you could find a bonus secret called "the dot".
The Dot was a 1×1 pixel which was barely visible, yet it was powerful in that it allowed you to walk through a wall in the game for another secret. The other secret was a revelation of the game's creators in flashing text. You'd call the dot an Easter Egg these days, but back then, it was really something special.
In life as you quest for your grail you'll too find these powerful secrets along the way. What appears small as a dot to the untrained eye will be of great value to you as you continue down your path. Words that reach deaf ears 98% of the time will give you hope. Tools that lie rusty and disused in other's sheds will be well oiled fortune makers in your hands.
So keep your eyes peeled for the dots sprinkled along your way. They are always hidden where you least expect them.
Begin Your Adventure
Before you can meet your dragons, endure the confounding bats, use the powerful dots and eventually find your grail, you must first begin your journey. Like Confucius said, "The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step." Choose to take this step today. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but today. One step is all I ask. After that first step, then you can worry about the second and third.
Making your life an adventure means starting. Getting past the first simple dragons and facing more challenging ones later in life.


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Cincinnati Council's Budget and Finance Committee holds a public hearing Monday on a plan to let a federal judge mediate a solution to the city's pension crisis.
Cincinnati Council could vote next week on an ordinance that would essentially let a federal court mediate a permanent solution to fix the city's currently under-funded pension system.
Mayor John Cranley introduced the idea Tuesday during a city hall press conference.
One item up for negotiation could be the compound cost of living adjustments some city retirees now enjoy. Changing that has been a thorny issue.
Ohio's top court says Hamilton County must amend its ballot language on a Cincinnati charter amendment ahead of the November election.
The Supreme Court Thursday ruled the county must include omitted sections of the proposed amendment to reform the city's employee pension program. The group Cincinnati for Pension Reform put the issue on the ballot but objected to the modified language adopted by the Board of Elections.


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[QUOTE=Zach;1168699]Yes hes using metabolism in the old school way where burning calories raises metabolism. So things like eating tons of protein, cold water theropy, hiit, etc are all metabolism boosters. But someone like Matt Stone would say that these are all stressors that while they do burn more calories, they actually harm the body long term and lower metabolism. So while they are both using the term differently, they actually agree that less stress is better.
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- On Myers Farm, 'We're constantly looking for ways to do things better'
- Dropped cotton for corn, more rice
- Much greater efficiency of water use
- A family farming operation
Whether it's land forming and straight levees to increase efficiency of water handling, reduce pumping costs, and conserve water, or buying seed, fertilizer, and fuel in bulk to reduce handling and save money, or utilizing smart phones and laptops in the field to save time and money, Abbott Myers and his son, Ransom, make efficiency and long-term planning guiding principles for their 6,700-acre grains operation at Dundee, Miss.
Much greater efficiency of water use
"The way we used to grow rice was very labor-intensive; with zero grade and straight levees we're much more efficient. The work my father started all those years ago has really been beneficial to us, and Ransom and I want to continue to make the land better for the generations that follow us.
"We catch all the rain that falls and we have tailwater recovery systems — rice loves that warmer water. We'll average about 1.2 acre feet of water on rice in a season, compared to 3.5 to 3.8 acre feet for conventional levee fields. And there is a significant energy savings for pumping water; we'll fill a diesel tank only one time, assuming we get some rain during the season. The air-cooled Deutz power units we use are very reliable and very fuel-efficient, a major consideration with today's high energy prices."
Power units are electric wherever electricity is available; they are more cost-effective than diesel, he says.
"Irrigation on our buckshot soils is not an exact science," Abbott says, "but with water we can grow very productive grain crops. We're blessed with abundant water at only about 14 feet, and can easily pump 2,500 gallons per minute. Also, there are a number of bayous and sloughs running through our farms, and where we can, we pump from them."
Most of their irrigated land is either flood or furrow, Ransom says, but they also have two center pivots; one covers about 200 acres of beans, the other 200 acres of corn.
"One was badly mangled by a recent tornado," he says, "and is currently being reworked." The same storm put sizable dents in a couple of grain bins, broke restraining clamps on one and lifted it an inch or so up from the foundation.
Ransom maintains water on the zero grade rice fields during the winter and leases out duck hunting pits. This has been very popular and generates additional income.
Harvesting of corn starts about mid-August, rice about the first week of September, and soybeans the last of August or first of September.
They have 480,000 bushels of capacity in on-farm grain storage bins, but Abbott laughs, "No matter how much storage we have, we always need one more bin. We store all our rice and some of the corn. We don't have any 18-wheelers; we have only 10-wheelers to bring grain in from the fields. We contract all of our grain hauling — we don't want to tie up our people driving trucks."
They have six full-time employees, most of whom have been with them for many years.
He says "We're great believers in co-ops, and we market our rice through Producers Rice Mill. Ransom handles marketing of the soybeans and corn.


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jobi mogado: Another Clinton lie discovered in last Friday's email dump: Hillary has long maintained that the emails her lawyers unilaterally deleted were personal emails pertaining to "yoga routines, family vacations" and other matters that had nothing to do with government. She repeated the same nonsense to Congress while under oath. In August of 2015, she signed a statement to a federal judge declaring "under penalty of perjury" that she turned over all work-related emails. Now we find out that 1,000 emails between Clinton and General Petraeus were not turned over. This should be a bigger story. Petraeus started out as the leader of U.S. Central Command and then became the director of the CIA during Clinton's tenure as secretary of State, so not only were those emails obviously work related, they very likely were highly classified. The implications here are staggering.


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B-ball on ice: The Harlem Globetrotters took to the ice Monday, playing a basketball game at The Ice Rink at Millennium Park in Portage as a tuneup for Tuesday's 7 p.m. game on the hardwood at Wings Stadium.
Charges: Rodney Moore, a 23-year-old Kalamazoo man was arraigned on charges of second-offense domestic violence and resisting and obstructing police Monday in connection with a shooting over the weekend.
Dream come true: Blake Dudley, 14, of Dowagiac, will take in tonight's Notre Dame-Alabama national championship game in Miami. Blake was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and has been wheelchair-ridden for three years. A Twitter campaign helped get him tickets to the game.
Sewer spill: City and county crews on Monday tested water impacted by a 300,000 gallon sewer overflow detected Friday in wetlands near Nazareth Road in Kalamazoo. The results of the testing for E. coli will be available Tuesday.
New Bell's beer: Bell's Brewery will release a new spring seasonal, Smitten Golden Rye Ale, in early February. The beer is based on one of Larry Bell's oldest recipes, the release said, and has an alcohol-by-volume of 6 percent.
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If Columbine could've started its first-round boys lacrosse state playoff game with Littleton any better head coach Dan Geiger probably doesn't know how.
LAKEWOOD — It wasn't a matter of if Columbine would score. It was just a matter of when.
And how many times.
Ralston Valley's girls lacrosse team held the ball in a watching-paint dry stall to open the May 8 game at Trailblazer Stadium. But like the Rebels had done 14 times previously this season they took control of the regular-season finale — a 14-5 victory over the host Mustangs — which served as little more than a postseason tune-up for Columbine.
LAKEWOOD — When Columbine and Chatfield play each other, you can throw the record book out the window. This was evident on May 4 as the Chargers beat the Rebels in every aspect of the game in a 6-0 girls soccer romp at Lakewood Memorial Field.
For the Rebels, the loss snapped a 12-game winning streak while the Chargers played their most complete game of the season, constantly applying pressure on Columbine.
Chatfield's four doubles teams and No. 2 and 3 singles — Katrine Ross and Rachel Frisz — qualified for the 5A state girls tennis tournament at the Region 2 tournament, hosted by Chatfield, on May 5.
Ross and Frisz took second place, while the doubles teams — Kimberly Arfsten and Molly Reynolds (No. 1), Sara Palmer and Madi Mamaghani (No. 2), Carrie Ford and Lindsie Ford (No. 3) and Stephanie Watson and Kathleen McGuire (No. 4) won regional championships.
Andrew Edwards may never again have a game like he did May 5 against Dakota Ridge. But for one day the Chatfield first baseman was swinging the bat as if he were the second coming of Barry Bonds.
And, oh, what an appropriate time to do that.
Edwards homered three times in four at-bats, driving in six runs as the host Chargers scored a 9-5 victory in what turned out to be an elimination game to determine which teams would qualify for the 5A state baseball playoffs out of the Jeffco League.
Columbine swimming head coach Kristi Marosy knew her team was in for a long day against a very good Lakewood team.
"They're probably in the top three of the league this year in 5A," Marosy said. "It's gonna be a good meet and the guys are gonna give it all they got, but Lakewood's a tough squad."
Columbine fell behind early, trailing 70-32 at the diving break and couldn't catch up, despite a late charge, as they fell to the Tigers 152-121 on April 30 at Ridge Recreation Center.
ARVADA — Kristen Hamilton was either going to break something or break free April 30 against Ralston Valley.
It turned out to be the latter.
Hamilton highlighted a physical 80 minutes of soccer with a breakaway goal six minutes into the second half as the shorthanded Rebels held on for a 1-0 Class 5A Jefferson County League victory over the Mustangs at the North Area Athletic Complex.
"I knew coming in it was going to be a physical game," Hamilton said.
LAKEWOOD — If it were baseball, Chatfield's Greg Kelsic might have gotten a shaving créme pie in the face from his teammates for his standout performance and subsequent media attention.
As it were, the senior just had to struggle through the sight of senior Nick Nedeau's bare chest squished and rubbing up against the locker room window at Trailblazer Stadium.
"We're a real loose bunch," Kelsic said.
The Chatfield Chargers swim team is enjoying one of their finest seasons in recent memory.
The boys can now add another feat to this year of memories — going undefeated in dual meets.
In their last dual meet of the year before leagues, the Chargers edged out Green Mountain 159-153 on April 29 at Ridge Recreation Center.
Looking for a quiet place to relax this spring? Try the Chatfield dugout.
The Chargers didn't show much fire, conserved their voices while their teammates batted and were hammered late in the game April 20 for a 15-4 loss to Ralston Valley.
The skill of the two teams was much closer than the score suggests. What was not close, however, was the spit and fire.
"They played the game harder than we did on our home field, and I'm more disappointed in that than anything," Chatfield coach Mike Yansak said.
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Conrail yesterday came to the end of the line in its long search for a corporate headquarters and announced it will lease a new office tower to be built at 20th and Market Streets.
After a 2 1/2-year search during which the freight railroad company was courted by nearly every major developer in the city and suburbs, Conrail said it would lease 27 floors of a 41-story building to be built at the Commerce Square development.
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Performance-Based Organizations: Assessing the Gore Plan
Alasdair S. Roberts
University of Missouri at Columbia - Truman School of Public Affairs
June 30, 1997
Public Administration Review, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 465-478, December 1997
In March 1996, Vice-President Gore unveiled a plan to "dramatically change" parts of the federal bureaucracy by converting them into "performance-based organizations", or PBOs. PBOs would be given more freedom in operations and held accountable for the achievement of specified results. While the PBO plan may improve effectiveness in some parts of the federal government, claims about its significance have been overstated, and it will encounter serious challenges in implementation. The PBO model is not likely to be applied widely. The paper also assesses the significance of the PBO proposal as a part of a larger battle to preserve the administrative capabilities of the federal government. Finally, it is argued that the proposal is evidence of the increasing internationalization of the "reinventing government" movement. The weakness of the PBO plan reflects some of the weaknesses of the larger international reform movement.
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Any team needs to become a dominant force… to become the kind of team that can get a win on any given day, against any other team…
Obvious, right? You need your players to be able to put the ball in the hoop. Consistently, in a variety of situations, and under any kind of pressure. Jumpers, layups, free throws, threes, dunks, whatever. They just need to be able to fill it up.
Also obvious. You need to stop the other team from scoring. Sure, you're not going to shut them down every time, but if you make every shot they take as tough as possible, you'll lower the chances of them winning the game by a bunch.
If your team outruns and out jumps the other team, you've got a big advantage, but physicality goes beyond


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SALEM - U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, described protestors outside his office open house in Salem as more like a cheering section because they're asking the same question he's asking of the administration.
"Where are the jobs?" they chanted over and over again while holding signs asking that same question.
About 30 to 40 people gathered on the sidewalk to protest on State Street outside the congressman's district office.
Salem resident Chrissy Heineman said they weren't affiliated with any one group, but said they're "just a bunch of folks who live in the area, union and non-union, who are just fed up. Just a bunch of concerned citizens."
The Salem News received several notices about the protest from Anthony Caldwell, the media relations liaison for the The Service Employees International Union District 1199 covering West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.
"He needs to be voting for his constituents, not for big business. We put him into office and we can take him out," Heineman said, adding they weren't happy with his vote in favor of the debt ceiling deal.
She claimed that a town hall meeting was supposed to be scheduled for Monday night in Salem and that it was canceled, but no notice about any kind of town hall meeting had been sent to area newspapers.
When asked about the claim, Johnson said no town hall meeting had been scheduled. One was already held in Salem when he first took office and he's been trying to hold more of them in areas where none have been held. The next town hall meeting is set for Thursday in Monroe County. The Sixth District includes 12 counties all up and down the Ohio River.
Salem resident Bill Gray said Congress wants to tax the middle class, but the people can't afford to pay more taxes because they don't have jobs. He said it's a vicious circle.
Tom Underwood, a representative of the Laborers International Union of North America, out of Warren, said he was there trying to get support for the Senate version of the highway bill, saying nearly half a million jobs could be lost if it doesn't go through.
The group of protestors tried to enter Johnson's office, requesting to speak with him, with Heineman saying he wouldn't talk to them, although she did say he agreed to speak to one or two of them, but not the whole group.
"We don't do things behind each other's backs. It's all or nothing - we stand together," she said.
A pair of Salem Police officers responded after receiving a call about too many people out front. They said the group members just needed to keep the sidewalks clear and remain peaceful, which they had been doing.
Johnson said he would have been glad to meet with some designees for their group, but there was limited space inside which couldn't accommodate the whole group.
"I'll meet with anyone when we can sit around the table and have an adult conversation. I'm not going to get into a shouting match on the street corner," he said.
He said he's willing to meet with them, but an all or nothing approach isn't going to work. Compromise was built into the country's system from the get-go.
The open house attracted about 100 visitors, some who received invitations and others who walked in off the street, with representation from both Republicans and Democrats. Jim Beardsley, a dairy farmer from Damascus, said he just stopped in to talk with Johnson about "trying to get the country back from the people that have it now."
In an interview with the Salem News, Johnson touched on the need for jobs and a need to change what he called "the job-killing policies of this administration" and the refusal of the Senate to take up the House's jobs bill. He said they need to create some economic certainty so businesses can feel confident about investing in jobs and not worry that the government's going to raise their taxes. He said they need to reel in the regulators.
When it comes to the debt and the economy, he said tax reform is needed to help taxpayers keep more and give incentives to businesses to grow.
He said the right people are on the committee to make the $15 trillion in cuts that need to be made in the wake of the debt ceiling legislation. He said there will be some tough decisions in the future, but the committee is a step in the right direction.
Johnson described Social Security as a complex problem, but said he wanted to make one thing very clear.
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Johnson said what the country needs is a national vision for energy independence, saying if the president handled that the way President Kennedy handled space exploration, it would do a lot for the country. The country needs to send a message that it's not longer going to sit on the sidelines when it comes to energy, striving for independence from foreign entities.
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Two sets of dies were used to strike 1865 Philadelphia coinage. This date comes well struck when it can be located. Business strikes are currently in strong demand and are difficult to locate.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. — More than 1,000 entries were received for the fourth annual Thomas Built Buses Children's Choice School Bus Driver of the Year national essay contest.
This year's winning essay was submitted by 8-year-old Luke Stehr of Trussville, Ala., who nominated Renea Cataldo, a bus driver for Trussville City Schools.
"What really makes her special is her inside kindness," Stehr wrote in his essay. "Mrs. Renea, hands down, should be bus driver of the year."
Cataldo has been driving a school bus for nearly 16 years. She started by driving high school students and now transports elementary school students. She remembers their birthdays, celebrates the last week of school and brings holiday treats for her passengers.
"These kids make my day. They definitely make me feel special," Cataldo said upon learning that she was this year's winner.
As the 2009 grand prize winner, Cataldo will receive a $1,000 Visa gift card. Stehr will receive a $1,000 education savings bond and a laptop computer, and both will receive Thomas Built Buses jackets and Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus lunch boxes.
Runners-up were Chase, who nominated driver Sam McGroom from Hillsborough, N.C., and Suzanne, who nominated driver Sheree Cook of Trussville, Ala. Honorable mentions went to Aldo, who nominated Joe Cimmarrusti of Saint Charles, Ill., and driver Walter Ritchea of Wheeling, W.Va., who was nominated by more than two dozen students.
These finalists and the drivers they nominated will receive Thomas Built jackets and Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus lunch boxes.
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"This Theatre was first opened by Sir William D'Avenant (at whose sole expense it had been erected), in the spring of 1662, as an author well-acquainted with it assures us: Downes, who was book-keeper and prompter here, from its first opening until its close, and who afterwards held the same situation at Dorset Gardens, on the uniting of the two companies (the King's and the Duke's), until the year 1708 . He was employed in writing out parts, attending rehearsals, &c. This theatre was the first regular theatre built after the Restoration; the first at which scenes and decorations were brought into use; and the first visited by King Charles II. on his return to England, who honoured its opening with his own presence, and that of his court.
"When this theatre opened in 1662 one of the first performances was of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which had been some time in preparation, and was produced with a considerable degree of Ă©clat. On this occasion the celebrated Betterton made his first attempt to represent that difficult character, in which he afterwards obtained such high celebrity, as to put all competition at defiance. His success has been ascribed in a great measure to the instructions of Sir William D'Avenant, who taught him the part as he had seen it performed by Taylor of the Black Friars playhouse, who was the original Hamlet of the author, Shakespeare's, own instructing. Betterton, however, possessed all the requisites of a great actor, as he afterwards proved in the long course of his life."
Text and image from Wilkinson, Robert, Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historical Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places of Early Amusement, and Modern Present Theatres, in the Cities and Suburbs of London and Westminster, 1872-78. Courtesy of Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University, Medford, MA.


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FAO/UN-REDD Programme Collaborates on Draft Protocol for Measuring and Assessing Forest Carbon
September 2009: Gill Petrokofsky, FAO/UN-REDD Programme, and external experts have produced a draft protocol for a project aimed at comparing methods for the measurement and assessment of carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools.
The project will systematically analyze literature on methods for carbon measurement using an evidence-based process. It is hoped that the project will lend scientific credibility to the guidance given to countries participating in a future REDD mechanism.
The UN-REDD Programme is a collaborative partnership between the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP). [The draft protocol][Project website]