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Tiger Woods was the most dominating golf player of this era. Notice I said, "was."
Where there once stood a solid rock of golf granite, a mythic god firing at hole locations and curling putts into the hole with the calm, cool precision of a surgeon, there is now merely a man.
A man with faults and flaws, just like the rest of us.
Where there was once the fiery titan, expressing emotions on the course and swearing like a sailor on a three-day shore leave bender, there is now a guy who gets fined for spitting, and then admits that he was right to be fined.
Where once there was the impenetrable facade, a shadowy veil that hid all but he wanted us to see, there is now the bright, harsh light of exposure and in that light is the soft belly, unprotected by the armor of mystery he once wore.
Tiger will win again. Of that I have no doubt.
But he will not win another major golf championship again, and here's why.

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In 2010, Methodist Hospitals posted a 1.9 percent operating margin and 10 percent operating EBITDA, which compare favorably with Fitch's BBB medians of 1.7 percent and 8.5 percent , respectively. Methodist Hospitals' total revenues in 2010 were $289.9 million, according to a news release. The hospital said results for 2011 will exceed its 2010 performance.
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I am looking for papers of varying lengths (1000-1500, 5000 or 8000) on re-evaluations of the histories of Eastern European countries following the collapse of communism.
The papers will be published in the major new electronic journal History Compass, recently launched by Blackwells Publishers in association with the Institute of Historical Research (London). The longer articles are fully peer revieed. Examples of the types of articles published by History-Compass can be found on the demonstration website (below). The target audience is fellow academics who specicialise in other fields.
The articles might cover new developments in the historiography of individual states, the legitimation of democratic national states, re-interpretations of particular topics, the importance of newly opened sources, and exchanges with Western countries.
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Creating Star Trail Images (Part II)
It's time for the second installment on shooting star trails. In Part II I explain how to take the group of images you captured in your camera (from Part I) and put them together into one complete image. Before we start, I would like to point out that while this is the way I like to do this process, there are many methods out there and everyone has their own opinion on which works best. As I said earlier, you will need Photoshop CS5 and you will need to have your images in one folder on your computer desktop. Before I go any further, I'd like to state that this is a very technical article, and the technique explained requires some computer skills. I will try, however, to make it as basic as possible.
Loading the Action:
To begin, I need to teach you a little bit about a function we will be using in Photoshop called "actions." If we were to do the process of creating a star trail by hand, we would need to click the very same buttons for all 400 of our images. With actions, we can have Photoshop apply those same changes to all our images for us…..AWESOME! An action is simply a little set of instructions that tells Photoshop what to do in a certain sequence of events.
We could build our own action, but a much easier way to go about this is to download one already made for this purpose. A very simple one that I have found is available here.
Once you get this action downloaded, you will need a place to put it. Photoshop really doesn't care where this action lives, but if you plan on downloading different kinds of actions, you might want a place that you store all of them. To keep things simple, lets make a new folder in our "Documents" folder and store them there. I am going to call mine "My Photoshop Actions." Once you have created that folder, simply drag the downloaded action into that folder for safe keeping.
So, let's review what you should have right now. You should have a folder of star trail images (in JPEG) sitting on your desktop. If your images are in the RAW file format, you can run them through Photoshop or Lightroom to convert them to jpegs. You should also have a folder in your "Documents" folder that has your action that we just downloaded inside of it. Everyone up to speed?? Great.
Next we need to actually load that action into Photoshop. Open Photoshop and make sure that your "Actions" palette is opened. If it's not, go Window —> Actions.
Next, click on the button in the upper right-hand corner of the Actions palette, choose "Load Actions…" A browser window will pop up and you will need to go to your "Documents" folder, then find that action that we moved in there, hit the "Open" button. We have just loaded our action!
Running the Action:
We're almost to the fun part! First, we need to do a couple more steps before we can see the stars move before our eyes. In order for this to work, we will create a new document where the computer can place our star pictures. This blank image must be the same size as our original images that are in the folder on our desktop.
To determine the size of the images, take out a pencil (or pen) and a piece of paper (I know…..low tech) and open your first star image in Photoshop. We need to find the exact size of this image, go Image —> Image Size. Inside the Image Size dialog box, write down the pixel "Width", "Height" and "Resolution"- we will need this for later. Now close the image you just opened because you are done with it.
Next, go File —> New we need to create a new blank document to paste our star images onto. There is no need to name your new document at this point, but we must put our width, height and resolution setting into the box. Hit "OK" to create your new document. Now we need to fill this new blank document with black (the action only works with a black background). Go Edit —> Fill, where it says "Contents" choose "Black," your new document should now be entirely black.
Now for the fun part! Go File —> Automate —> Batch and in the top section of this box, choose the action that you just loaded into Photoshop (mine is called "Action 1"). Where it says "Source" hit the choose button and navigate to that folder of images sitting on your desktop. Leave "Destination" set to none. Hit "OK" and watch your computer do the work magically before your eyes. After about an hour (on my computer) you should be left with a beautiful image of the night sky. You can now save that image or work on it a little more in Photoshop.
That's all there is to it. Ok, I know that's a lot of steps, but I have tried to provide you with enough detail to get you through it. This might be a little hard if you are new to computers or Photoshop, in which case I encourage you to consider one our courses to help you become familiar. Anyway, I hope that this whole process goes smoothly for you!
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Tried the manual way and ended up with this.
Opened all my raw files in CS5 and layered them using the lighten blend mode.
Trying your method now using the action.
My manual process was the same as Tom's. Open images as layers, set blend mode to 'lighten' or 'screen' (depending on preferences) on the first one, copy that layer style, select all the other layers, and then paste the style into all of them.
I'm very curious if the 'action' method produces significantly different results, and if so, what it's precisely doing.
Running it now. One thing. Be certain you don't has CS5 set to open JPG file in ACR. If you do you'll have to click 'Done' on ACR for each file. Mine started that way but I was able to change it in Bridge and it is continuing with out that annoyance.
Oh my. That was much easier. Thanks. Here are the results.
Chuck Lucas
I use a free program specifically designed for this purpose. Just wondering if anyone else has tried it. I've only used it a few times, but it seemed to work, and was fairly quick.
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INWOOD - West Virginia State Police are still looking for a suspect involved in a bank robbery that occurred Wednesday, according to a press release.
Members of the State Police as well as the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department responded Wednesday morning to a report of the robbery at the BB&T in Inwood, the release said. A supervisor at Berkeley County Central Dispatch said the call was received around 9:57 a.m.
The suspect, who fled from the scene, was described by witnesses as male, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing dark jeans and a hooded jacket, according to the release. A facial description could not be provided.
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The West Virginia State Police issued images of a bank robbery suspect Thursday from a surveillance video at the Inwood BB&T. The incident was reported around 9:57 a.m. Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Central Dispatch. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the West Virginia State Police at 304-267-0001.
"The suspect had the hood draped over his head, and it appeared there was a screen covering his face within the hooded jacket," the release said.
Video surveillance confirmed witness descriptions.
The suspect demanded all of the $100 and $50 bills, which totaled $6,000, and placed the money in a clear zip-close bag, the release said.
Officers were advised the suspect left the bank on foot. The suspect did not brandish or state he was in possession of a weapon at any time during the incident, according to the release.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the West Virginia State Police at 304-267-0001.
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A police K-9 helped nab a burglary suspect at what appeared to be a vacant apartment building in Manchester on Sunday afternoon.
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Banks surf cross-border M&A currents
For two of America's best-known advisory houses, mergers and acquisitions work has become a little bit more international this year.
Cross-border activity has been a driving force behind mergers and acquisitions activity so far this year, accounting for about 40% of total global M&A deal value, according to Thomson Reuters.
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding's deal to buy US-based InterMune, announced over the weekend, added to the boom. The $8.3 billion deal took total announced cross-border M&A deals to $916.1 billion year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters, the highest level of cross-border activity since 2007.
As the total value of international transactions has swelled, cross-border deals at the two advisers ranked top by Thomson Reuters – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — exceeded 50% of total M&A deal value. It is the first time in at least a decade that cross-border work has accounted for more than half of the deals by value at the top two ranked advisers, according to Thomson Reuters.
While it's common for cross-border deals to account for the majority of European banks' advisory work, international deals often account for a smaller percentage of overall activity at the US banks that have historically dominated the very top of the global advisory ranks.
For Goldman Sachs, the No.1 global M&A adviser so far this year, cross-border transactions have represented 50.8% of total deal value year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters.
During the same period last year, when Goldman was also ranked first, those deals represented 32.7% of deal value.
Cross-border activity has also accounted for more than half of overall M&A advisory work at Morgan Stanley, the No.2 adviser, so far this year. Cross-border deals accounted for 50.5% of global deal value at the US bank, compared with 39.4% during the same period last year.
On the Roche deal, Citi advised the Basel-based firm while Centerview Partners and Goldman Sachs advised California-based InterMune.
Tax inversions – in which US companies buy all or part of a foreign firm in order to move to a jurisdiction with lower taxes – have been one driver of cross-border deals this year, bankers and lawyers say.
Most recently, US fast food chain Burger King confirmed that it is in talks to buy Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons, which would allow it to relocate its corporate headquarters.
Eric Shube, an M&A partner at law firm Allen & Overy, said beyond inversions, a number of deals were driven by companies sharpening their focus on businesses in which they are the number one or two player and exiting non-core areas to avoid approaches by hedge fund and activist investors.
He said: "A lot of companies are already under pressure or are trying to get their houses in order [to make sure that they don't face such pressures.]"
David Warburg, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, said cross-border deals have spanned big ticket and middle market deals with US companies shopping in areas like Europe where they still see "good pickings". He added that dry powder from private equity firms was also driving deals on both sides of the Atlantic.


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-Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 for 200 (could be higher depending on skill)
-Offline: 20/20 (200)
-Online: None
-Approximate amount of time to 200: 10+ hours (could be higher depending on skill)
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Full House Poker is the follow-up to 1vs100. Like 1vs100, Full House Poker features Avatar support and features scheduled TV-Style Texas Heat Online Tournament. The Texas Heat tournaments takes place on certain days with at least four events on each scheduled day. ***Note this is for the WP7 phone. If you are looking for the XBLA version, please click here for that guide***
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Starting Off
I would suggest starting out the easiest achievement: Stylish Host. After this, I would go start a tournament game to earn Bucket List #12,472. During this game you might also earn the following achievement:
Pay the Mortgage
Mile High Club
Hero Call
Ding! Grats!
Gone Fishing
I Hate ATM Fees
Pull The Trigger
Pro Takedown
You should be leveled up enough to unlock your first Pro Takedown after one game (if not, just play a few more games). Now go for Took Down a Pro and Big Dog
Clean Up
By now, you should have most of the achievements (if not keep playing games and focus on doing the achievement). The only ones you should have left are the following:
Ding! Double Digits! (Level 10)
Your Not The Boss of Me
The Final Table
Player of the Century
Ding! Top Dog! (Level 50)
Just keep playing games to earn XP and money completing the Pro Takedowns as you go.
Full House Poker has easy but time consuming achievements. Luckily the game is fun and addicting, so you shouldn't get bored with it.
Big Dog 10
Win a tournament.
Start up a new game. On the rules selection menu select tournament. You can make a tournament with just two players to make it go faster. You can also get this achievement by simply playing any Pro Takedown.
Bucket List #12,471 10
Complete a tournament game of Full House Poker.
Start up a tournament game and win. Also will unlock by playing a Pro Takedown.
Cardrack 10
Win two consecutive hands in the showdown.
Showdowns occur after the river. If there are atleast two players at the end of the betting, they will go into a showdown where they show their cards and decide a winner. You will have to win two in a row and this is based off of luck. Should be able to win after playing a few games. I would keep the betting down low or checking to avoid the other players fold.
Ding! Double Digits! 10
Level up to 10.
See Ding! Top Dog!
Ding! Grats! 5
Level up to 2.
See Ding! Top Dog!
Ding! Top Dog! 20
Level up to 50.
Achievement will unlock eventually after playing a while. XP can be earned in Single Player, Multiplayer, and Pro Takedown. Pro Takedown is the easiest way to earn XP as you will gain a lot of XP just for beating the Pros and you can keep replaying them. Here is a list of the XP you can earn
Dealt In - Varies (You will get XP just for being dealt in)
Showdown Winner - 100XP (Winning the showdown)
Got Out Free - 250XP (Did not put any money in the pot; folded early *can not get if you are the one of the blinds)
Smart Fold - 500XP (Folding on a hand you would have lost, if it is revealed that you would have lost if you stayed in)
Winning Spree - 500XP (Win 2 or more games
Beating Sonny/Rachel - 5,000XP
Beating Larry - 7,500XP
Beating Mel/Rai - 10,000XP
Beating Lily - 12,500XP
Beating Johnny/Marshall - 15,000XP
Beating Daisy - 17,500XP
Winning the All Pro Tournament- 25,000XP
Gone Fishing 10
Win a showdown with a hand you made on the river.
This one will be random but shouldn't take long. You will have to be losing the hand up to the last card and then win it on the River (last card before the showdown). If you do get a good hand on the last card, I would not raise the bet unless another player does because if you do and everybody folds, you will not have a showdown and you will not get the achievement.
Headshot 10
Bust another player in a tournament.
Just have to eliminate a player from a tournament. Should be easy as long as you play it smart. Pro Takedown also count.
Hero Call 10
Call, raise, or go all in on a bet of half the pot or greater and then win the showdown.
Like the achievement description says, you will have to get an opponent to bet an amount that is half of what the pot is then call, raise, or go all-in then win it after the River. You have to let them make the bet. You can not make the starting bet half the pot.
I Hate ATM Fees 5
Play 50 hands in a row without taking a cash advance.
Should be easy if you play smart and conservatively. Just play 50 games without losing all of your bankroll.
Mile High Club 5
Won a hand with suited King-Queen hole cards.
A suited King-Queen hole is when you are dealt a King and a Queen of the same suit. The odds of getting this are very slim, so it may take you a few games. After getting it, you will have to win. My best suggestion for this is to bet high or all-in to try to get the other players to fold.
Pay the Mortgage 10
Take a pot equal to twice the starting chips or greater.
Starting chips are the number of chips each player starts out with. All you have to do for this one is to have the pot doubled that number and win it. The best way to get that is to go all-in and hope somebody else takes you up on it.
Player of the Century 10
Play 100 hands.
Simple enough. You don't have to win all the games, just finish them.
Pull the Trigger 10
Bet or raise on every street in a hand and then win the showdown.
For this achievement, you will have to place a bet on the Flop (first three cards), the Turn (fourth card), and the River (last card) and then win. Best advice I can give is go with the minimum bet to avoid from having the other players fold before the showdown.
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Dear Abby: Several salespersons recently have ended our transaction by saying, "Have a blessed day." The last two times it happened, I asked, "What do you mean by that?" Both of them stammered and didn't know what to say.
One said, "I'm sort of religious." I replied that I'm atheist. I don't think these folks realize what they're saying. The next time it happens, I plan to respond by asking Zeus to bestow blessings upon them as well. Why do people feel they have a right to force their religious beliefs on customers?
– Annoyed Atheist in Texas
Dear Annoyed Atheist: I seriously doubt they are trying to proselytize. The expression may be regional. Or the person may feel that "blessed" is synonymous with "good." If you wish to invoke the blessings of Zeus upon them, feel free to do so. But don't be surprised if you have a heck of a time getting waited on the next time you visit the establishment.
Life of the party
Dear Abby: I have been in a relationship with "Ward" for two years. I love him and everything is great except for one thing. He refuses to compromise when it comes to his family functions.
He's very close to his extended family, and every time there's an event like a recent graduation party for a cousin, he never wants to leave. We were there for 10 hours, and I spent more than half of it either alone or talking to someone I didn't know well because Ward had ditched me.
I have spoken to him about this, but he's unwilling to compromise. He says his family knows him as "the social guy" and expects him to stay late and be the life of the party.
We have had big fights over this. I'm not sure what to do. This has caused a rift in our relationship.
– Family-Functioned Out in Minnesota
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COLUMBIANA — A possibly dangerous situation was averted Friday afternoon when a teenage girl left her sleeping 7-year-old brother in a car with the windows rolled up while she shopped in a nearby......
This seems to me to a case of an overzealous cop with Barney Fife syndrome. This kid was 7, not 1,2, or even three. I was cutting the grass and feeding all the critters on the farm at his age. I always thought many of the people in Columbiana had Nazi like tendencies but this is ridiculous.
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A 58kg skier is coasting down a slope inclined at 35degreesabove the horizontal. A kinetic frictional force of 90N opposes hermotion. Near the top of the slope the skier's speed is 3.6 m/s.Without using Newton's 2nd law or kinematic equations, find herspeed at the point which is 57m downhill?
Hint: kinetic energy is 1/2mv2. Use thework-energy theorem.


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Police apprehend man wanted in Erie homicide
A Berwick man wanted by Erie police for the second time on charges in a July homicide was again apprehended from an area hotel.
But this time law enforcement found more than just their suspect.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force took 29-year-old Michael R. James into custody without incident from the Wingate Hotel on Oliver Road in Summit Township on Tuesday at about 4:15 p.m., after receiving information that he might be there.
They then called in the Pennsylvania State Police to seize money and suspected drugs that were found in the room, along with a woman who was reportedly there while out on work release from the Erie County Prison, officials said Wednesday.
James was later jailed without bond on charges of murder, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering, illegal possession of a firearm, kidnapping, conspiracy and terroristic threats in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Teverous G. "Gooney" Williams on July 13.
The woman found in the room was identified by U.S. Marshals as 23-year-old Deshuna Crosby. She is the mother of James' 5-month-old son, officials said.
Crosby was found in possession of $2,595 in cash and 7.02 ounces of suspected powder and crack cocaine, according to task force members. The child was also in the room, in a baby carrier where investigators said they found the suspected drugs hidden.
The suspected drugs have a street value of at least $20,000, according to state police.
Crosby was taken from the hotel room to the Erie County Prison, where she was reportedly away from on work release when she was found at the hotel, according to U.S. Marshals.
Officials at the prison on Wednesday referred questions on Crosby's status to Warden James Veshecco, who could not be reached for comment.
The child found in the hotel room was turned over to a relative, officials said Wednesday.
Members of the state police Vice Unit are investigating the drug discovery. No charges had been filed in the case Wednesday.
James had been wanted by Erie police since Monday, when detectives refiled charges in the fatal shooting of Williams at East 19th and Ash Streets.
James was identified as a suspect in the shooting shortly after it happened and was charged July 23. He was taken into custody from the Downtown Erie Hotel, 18 W. 18th St., on July 27, after a three-hour standoff with U.S. Marshals and Erie police.
The case against James stalled when a district judge withdrew the criminal charges against him in late October, after the main witness against him at first refused to testify, then failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing.
The witness, 25-year-old Christopher Barnes, was apprehended and jailed on charges in an unrelated case in January.
Law enforcement continued their search Wednesday for 26-year-old Cedis R. Martin, who is wanted on a conspiracy to commit kidnapping charge that Erie police refiled against him on Tuesday. The charge, which is connected to the Williams homicide case, was initially filed against Martin in July, but it was dismissed in court in October because of Barnes' failure to appear for the hearing.
TIM HAHN can be reached at 870-1731 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNhahn.


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You are invited to share in this spectacular evening of firsts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23. Join ProMusica Arizona Chorale & Orchestra (PMAZ) in its first concert at the historic Orpheum Theater, located at 203 W. Adams Street in Phoenix. PMAZ is thrilled to be sharing the stage with one of America's most celebrated violinists, Elizabeth Pitcairn, performing in partnership with one of the world's most legendary instruments, the "Red Mendelssohn" Stradivarius of 1720, said to have inspired the Academy Award-winning film "The Red Violin."
Ms. Pitcairn has earned a reputation as one of America's most beloved rising soloists. Many have said that the violin has finally found its true soulmate in the gifted hands of the young violinist, who is the first known solo artist to ever bring it to the great concert halls of the world, and who has made it her goal to share the violin's magical beauty of sound with people of all ages, professions and cultures. Ms. Pitcairn will perform works by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and the "Red Violin Suite" by John Corigliano, as well as works with PMAZ Orchestra and Chorale.


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GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI – The man accused of drunkenly running a red light and smashing into another car at the intersection of Cascade Road SE and East Beltline Avenue will go to trial.
Ferndale resident Ryan Christopher Waters waived his probable cause hearing Monday before Kent County District Court Judge Steven Servaas.
Waters, 28, was driving east on Cascade Road SE around 2 a.m. on July 21 when he failed to stop for the blinking red light at the intersection, according to the Kent County Sheriff's Department.
Waters' SUV crashed into the northbound vehicle driven by 24-year-old Heather Lingbeek of Grand Rapids.
Waters suffered airbag burns to his arms while Lingbeek suffered internal injuries and fractured ribs, according to police.
Related: Man, 28, crashes SUV into traveling vehicle; faces drunken driving charges
Waters' case moves on to Kent County Circuit Court where Waters faces up to five years in prison if convicted on a charge of driving while intoxicated causing serious injury.
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The Seventh Court of Appeals has overturned a judge's order allowing a teen-ager who violated the Friona district's alcohol policy to play baseball this season.
Friona Superintendent Jim Parker said the district was happy with the outcome of the ruling but decided to let the teen play his last regular season baseball game Tuesday.
"He has one game this afternoon, and due to some paperwork constraints, we will not be able to remove him from the last regular season game," Parker said Tuesday. "We were delighted with the ruling, and we really felt like the issue was a lot more important than one ball game . . . He'll play today. Were we to get into the playoffs, that will be another question."
On March 6, 287th District Judge Gordon Green issued a temporary injunction that prohibited the Friona Independent School District from keeping Nathan Jared King off the baseball team. On March 10, Green denied the school district's motion to dissolve the temporary injunction.
In seeking the injunction, King and his parents claimed the boy would have no further opportunity to play baseball, and that the district's decision to keep him off the team dampened his chances for college and a possible scholarship, court records show.
The school district then appealed Green's decision to Seventh Court. The district claimed the decision to keep King off the baseball team was not an arbitrary one and that King had a pattern of defying authority.
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In December, Parmer County authorities cited King for minor in possession of alcohol, and he later refused to follow the basketball coach's punishment for the offense. King then quit the basketball team.
King later wanted to join the baseball team instead, but coach Mike Scott decided King could not participate in extracurricular sports because of his prior disciplinary problems
King and his parents, D.T. King and Cynthia King, appealed to the school board, which upheld decisions by Scott and other district officials to exclude the boy from baseball.
On Feb. 7, the Kings sued the school district and won their temporary injunction against the school district.
The district then appealed that decision to the Seventh Court of Appeals.
On April 20, the Seventh Court ruled the trial court abused its discretion in granting the injunction, dissolved the injunction and referred the case back to the trial court.
In its ruling, issued April 20, the appellate court said the trial judge abused his discretion.
"Schools are to be operated by school administrators. And, before a trial court can interfere with an administrator's authority and decisions via injunction, more is needed to illustrate imminent harm than that appearing in the record before us," the court's ruling states. "Because no evidence of such harm existed here, the trial court abused its discretion in preliminarily enjoining the FISD and its trustees from removing (the student) from the baseball team."
The Globe-News was unable to reach Jack Nelson, a Lubbock attorney representing the Kings, on Tuesday.
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From the IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal.
The Internet Engineering Task Force approved Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as a formal Request for Comments (RFC) in 1999. Originally intended for use as a medium to negotiate video and audio media streams, SIP has become useful in many more scenarios, and has evolved to handle all sorts of rich collaboration, mobility, and media streams. SIP is gaining momentum as one of the most widely used standard protocols. This article includes an introduction to SIP, an introduction to the SIP Servlet 1.0 (Java™ Specification Request (JSR) 116) programming model, and a summary of the function that is now available in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.
This article is targeted to audiences with a basic understanding of protocols over Internet Protocol (IP), particularly HTTP and SIP. Background knowledge of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and HTTP servlets is helpful to understand all of the concepts discussed here.
Executive summary of SIP
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard protocol that is defined in Request for Comments (RFC) 3261, and is quickly becoming the protocol of choice in many areas. SIP is being adopted as the control plane for the next generation of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony, instant messaging, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and many real-time collaboration activities. This protocol is part of the foundation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) / IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions for telecommunication carriers. SIP is also being evaluated as the control plane for many online gaming engines and other collaborative applications.
People often talk about triple or quadruple plays in the telecommunications-meets-enterprise realm. Triple play is the common term for the discussion of the voice, video, and data networks converging on Internet Protocol. Adding mobility as another factor makes it a quadruple play. SIP has become the popular protocol for convergence, as all of these networks converge onto IP. Using SIP, you can interconnect with others in new and exciting ways.
In the following sections, the high-level details of what the SIP protocol does are presented, with some illustrative sample flows. Also, a discussion of the extensions to SIP, which has helped to make the protocol more powerful, is also provided.
Introducing SIP
SIP was outlined in 1996 through a SIP charter and was formalized in RFC 2543 in 1999. When SIP was designed, the positives and negatives of the popular HTTP and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) were clearly considered. From those considerations, SIP was created as a text-based protocol to help negotiate interactive communication channels from one peer system or user to another. Expanding beyond connection negotiations, SIP is used to introduce new and exciting capabilities in the control plane.
Some of these new capabilities are vital to many uses of SIP today. Through the SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) IETF working group, SIP now has new capabilities to do presence and instant messaging. Presence is the function needed to publish a user's access points on the network and the capabilities of that user at each point of presence. Users and services can subscribe to the presence and capabilities of another user or group of users. These subscriptions enable the initiation of communication to the correct access point over the correct medium, based on capabilities.
For the core SIP capability, the flows around the INVITE method are the most frequently used and therefore, are perhaps the most important to the base product. The idea is that one entity wants to initiate communication to another entity, and sends an INVITE to a communication session (Figure 1).
Figure 1. INVITE method for initiating communication
Through the SIP messages, the two peers initiate a communication session. Often, these sessions negotiate another protocol connection using syntax such as the Session Description Protocol (SDP), as defined by RFC 2327. SDP is not really a protocol, but rather a message syntax that can describe another protocol connection. For example, in voice connections of applications such as IP telephony, the protocol negotiated with SDP in a SIP message is often Real-Time Protocol (RTP), which is defined in RFC 3550.
The SIP messages are transferred over User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), or Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) transports. Depending on the nature of the protocol and the reliability and speed required, different transports are used. Typically, select application types use specific transports as their de facto standard. For example, IP telephony applications typically use a UDP transport, whereas instant messaging typically uses TCP.
Basic SIP INVITE flows
To better understand the protocol, it is helpful to understand the basic INVITE flows to see how the messages are passed back and forth throughout the infrastructure.
This basic INVITE flow (Figure 2) has email@example.com initiating a call with email@example.com. Each SIP request, such as INVITE, includes a SIP address (or Uniform Resource Locator (URL)), which the INVITE is sent to. That URL is the primary way that the message is routed. For this example, the SIP address passed is firstname.lastname@example.com. The SIP address uniquely identifies a user during the creation of a communication session. The address normally resembles an e-mail address and includes the sip:prefix. For example, the actual SIP address that is used in the INVITE message shown previously is sip:email@example.com.
Figure 2. INVITE flows
The device that initiates this session for email@example.com is called a user agent client. A user agent client (UAC) is formally defined in SIP as an endpoint that can create and manage SIP sessions. User Agents (UA), either clients (UAC) or servers (User Agent Server or UAS), can be a SIP telephone or a server somewhere in the transaction, and can also independently negotiate session capabilities. The UAC initiates the session and the UAS will accept the session.
The SIP message is passed to the local SIP proxy at ibm.com. The SIP proxy at ibm.com has to locate the example.com server to forward the request onto example.com. The preferred way to do this task is described in RFC 3263, Locating SIP Servers. In this standard, a way to locate the SIP servers using Domain Name System (DNS) Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) records is described, which is similar to the way mail is routed with SMTP. The ibm.com server looks up the NAPTR record for example.com and forwards the INVITE message to that example.com server.
After the ibm.com proxy sends the INVITE, the proxy sends a provisional or information response. In this scenario, it is proper for the server to send a Trying response with a response code of 100. In this particular case, this Trying response indicates to the client that the ibm.com proxy has accepted the connection and will try to send the request on to the next location. The server uses these 1xx responses, called provisional responses, to communicate progress for a SIP transaction. In RFC 3262, a mechanism was developed to ensure that the responses are sent reliably and acknowledged alone so that the status of the call is not lost if the transport protocol is something like UDP.
After the INVITE message is received by the example.com proxy, the example.com server typically uses the entire Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to look up where the user is located or to find a registrar that provides an exact IP address to initiate a connection. In this case, the email@example.com defines a specific user that is invited to this session. In cases where this user is behind a Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall, Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs (STUN), Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN), and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Firewall traversal mechanisms are often used to create the connection from the example.com server to the client. After the connection is made to the client, the server sends the INVITE message to the client and a provisional response (Trying) back to the client that sent the message.
If the firstname.lastname@example.com UAS that is contacted is trying to alert the user, the UAS often responds to the INVITE request with a provisional response code of 180, which indicates this progress. This response is often sent all the way back to the client initiating the SIP transaction and might also be used by the email@example.com UAC to start a local ringback.
When the email@example.com UAS accepts the call, the final response code of 200 is sent back notifying email@example.com that the call is accepted. This message flows through each of the network elements that the initial INVITE came over.
After the email@example.com UAC receives the 200 OK response, the UAC sends an acknowledgement back to the email@example.com UAS so that it knows the 200 response was received. If the proxy servers in the initial transaction flows have added themselves to the transaction through requests to record the route, the acknowledgement is sent through those servers.
Assuming the use of a protocol like SDP, the two clients have negotiated a successful session with one another to communicate over another protocol. When that protocol session is complete, the user agents close out the SIP session with one another. The UAS initiates the closing by sending a BYE message over the same route that the acknowledgement came over and the other user agent acknowledges this message by sending a 200 OK response.
Introducing the SIP Servlet 1.0 (JSR 116) and comparing it to HTTP servlets
The SIP Servlet 1.0 specification is standardized through Java Specification Request (JSR) 116. The idea behind the specification is to provide a Java application programming interface (API) similar to HTTP servlets, which provides an easy-to-use SIP programming model. Like the popular HTTP servlet programming model, some flexibility is limited to optimize ease-of-use and time-to-value.
However, the SIP Servlet API is different in many ways from HTTP servlets because the protocol is so different. While SIP is a request-response protocol, there is not necessarily only one response to every one request. This complexity and a need for a high performing solution meant that it was easier to make the SIP servlets natively asynchronous. Also, unlike HTTP servlets, the programming model for SIP servlets sought to make client requests easy to create alongside the other logic being written, because many applications act as a client or proxy to other servers or proxies.
SIP servlets
Like HTTP servlets, each SIP servlet extends a base javax.servlet.sip.SipServlet class. All messages come in through the service method, which you can extend. However, because there is not a one-to-one mapping of requests to responses in SIP, the suggested practice is to extend the doRequest or doResponse methods instead. When extending the doRequest or doResponse methods, it is important to call the extended method for the processing to complete.
Each request method, which the specification must support, has a doxxx method just like HTTP (Figure 3). In HTTP, methods such as doGet and doPost exist for GET and POST requests. In SIP, doInvite, doAck, doOptions, doBye, doCancel, doRegister, doSubscribe, doNotify, doMessage, doInfo, and doPrack methods exist for each SIP request method.
Figure 3. Comparing HttpServlet and SipServlet
SIP servlets include the doProvisionalResponse, doSuccessResponse, doRedirectResponse, and doErrorResponse responses. Specifically, the provisional responses (1xx responses) are used to indicate status, the success responses (2xx responses) are used to indicate a successful completion of the transaction, the redirect responses (3xx responses) are used to redirect the client to a moved resource or entity, and the error responses (4xx, 5xx, and 6xx responses) are used to indicate a failure or a specific error condition. These types of response messages are similar to HTTP, but because the SIP Servlet programming model includes a client programming model, it is necessary to have responses handled programmatically as well.
SipServletRequest and SipServletResponse classes
The SipServletRequest and SipServletResponse classes are similar to the HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse classes. Each class gives you the capability to access the headers in the SIP message and manipulate them. Because of the asynchronous nature of the requests and responses, this class is also the place to create new responses for the requests. When you extend the doInvite method, only the SipServletRequest class is passed to the method. To send a response to the client, you must call the createResponse method on the Request object to create a response. For example:
protected void doInvite(SipServletRequest req) throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException { //send back a provisional Trying response SipServletResponse resp = req.createResponse(100); resp.send();
Because of their asynchronous nature, SIP servlets can seem complicated. However, something as simple as the previous code sample sends a response to a client.
Here is a more complex example of a SIP servlet. With the following method included in a SIP servlet, the servlet blocks all of the calls that do not come from the example.com domain.
protected void doInvite(SipServletRequest req) throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException { //check to make sure that the URI is a SIP URI if (req.getFrom().getURI().isSipURI()){ SipURI uri = (SipURI)req.getFrom().getURI(); if (!uri.getHost().equals("example.com")) { //send forbidden response for calls outside domain req.createResponse(SipServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN).send(); return; } } //proxy all other requests on to their original destination req.getProxy().proxyTo(req.getRequestURI); }
In the previous example, the INVITE request that comes in is checked to ensure that this request is coming from the example.com domain. If it is not, an error response is returned, indicating that this request is forbidden. If the request is coming from the example.com domain, the request is proxied onto the next application or host.
Another important point to realize from the previous example is that SIP servlets have the option of proxying a request instead of responding or creating a new request. This option is important when trying to quickly get into the flows of the message without significantly altering the behavior.
SipSession and SipApplicationSession classes
Possibly the most complex portions of the SIP Servlet 1.0 specification are the SipSession and SipApplicationSession classes. Both of these classes have some useful purposes and can act as the primary place to store data in applications that are designed for distributed or highly available environments.
The SipSession class is the best representative of a specific point-to-point communication between two entities and is the closest to the HttpSession object. Because historically no proxying or forking existed for the HTTP request in HTTP servlets, the need for something higher than a single point-to-point session did not exist. However, even HTTP users can see the growing need for this type of function, since portlets began essentially forking HTTP requests. The SIP users expect the proxying and forking activities that require multiple layers of SIP session management. The SipSession class is the lowest point-to-point layer.
The SipApplicationSession class represents the higher layer of SIP session management. One SipApplicationSession class can own one or more SipSession objects. However, each SipSession class can be related to one SipSession object only. The SipApplicationSession class also supports the attachment of any number of other protocol sessions. Currently, only HTTP sessions are supported by any implementations. The SipApplicationSession class has a getSessions method,which takes the requested protocol type as an argument.
You might find it useful for many applications to combine HTTP and SIP. The authors of the SIP Servlet 1.0 specification realized the advantages of this combination. For example, you might use this approach to tie together HTTP and SIP sessions to monitor a phone call or to start a phone call through a rich HTTP graphical user interface (GUI).
More from the SIP Servlet specification
The SIP Servlet 1.0 specification has a lot of pieces, which can be useful, depending on the goal of the application developer. Some of these sections include application composition, the SipFactory API, and a lot of event listeners to handle events in the protocol handling.
Application composition is a complex portion of the SIP Servlet 1.0 specification that enables multiple applications to run on the same request message. Like the HTTP servlet model, the SIP servlets include a deployment descriptor to define the servlet to the container within which the servlet runs. However, because the application does not map to a definitive URI, multiple servlets can run on one request message. Each initial message (one the container has no prior knowledge of) gets matched against the set of rules in the deployment descriptor and invokes the applications based on those configured rules. Responses and subsequent requests follow the same path of that initial request.
Another valuable API in the SIP Servlet specification is the SipFactory API, which provides access to create more requests and sessions from within a servlet. This API is useful when writing functions such as a back-to-back user agent (B2BUA). Unlike a proxy that forwards on the requests, a B2BUA acts as both a user agent server (UAS) and a user agent client (UAC) to further participate in the SIP transaction. The UAS portion can receive and process the requests, while the UAC determines how to initiate one or more associated outbound calls.
The SipFactory API is also useful for invoking new requests out of the container when accessed through another type of service. Although one current limitation of the SipFactory API is that it is only available in the ServletContext object, you can use the SipFactory API to perform functions as a UAC, such as third-party-call setup. Because the SIP servlet container typically resides within a Java EE environment, you can write a Web service or enterprise bean that uses the SipFactory API to create application sessions and requests for other SIP entities.
Other parts of the API include:
ServletConfig: A mechanism used by the container to pass configuration information to the servlet on initialization.
ServletContext: The primary mechanism to communicate with the container and store attributes for the servlet. Also, this is currently how you access the SipFactory API.
SipAddress: The address from the SIP From and To header.
Proxy: A useful API when trying to query or change how the container proxies on a SIP request.
SIP Servlet examples
SendOnServlet class
This class is a simple SIP Servlet which would perform the basic function of being called on each invite and sending the request on from there. Function could easily be inserted here to log this invite request or reject the INVITE based on some specific criteria.
package com.example; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.sip.*; import java.servlet.ServletException; public class SendOnServlet extends SipServlet { public void doInvite(SipServletRequest req) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { //send on the request req.getProxy().proxyTo(req.getRequestURI); } }
The doInvite method could be altered to do something such as simply reject the invite for some specific criteria. In the example doInvite method below, all requests from domains outside of example.com will be rejected with a Forbidden response.
public void doInvite(SipServletRequest req) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { if (req.getFrom().getURI().isSipURI()){ SipURI uri = (SipURI)req.getFrom().getURI(); if (!uri.getHost().equals("example.com")) { //send forbidden response for calls outside domain req.createResponse(SipServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN, "Calls outside example.com not accepted").send(); return; } } //proxy all other requests on to their original destination req.getProxy().proxyTo(req.getRequestURI()); }
SendOnServlet deployment descriptor
<sip-app> <display-name>Send-on Servlet</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>SendOnServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.example.SendOnServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>SendOnServlet</servlet-name> <pattern> <equal> <var>request.method</var> <value>INVITE</value> </equal> </pattern> </servlet-mapping> </sip-app>
Proxy servlet
This class is a simple SIP Servlet which would perform the basic proxy function and be included in the call path after the initial INVITE request. After the initial INVITE, this application will be called on every subsequent SIP message. For each Request and Response, this class will simply print out the action and who it is to or from.
package com.example; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.sip.*; import java.servlet.ServletException; public class ProxyServlet extends SipServlet { public void doInvite(SipServletRequest req) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { //get the Proxy Proxy p=req.getProxy(); //turn on supervised mode so that all events come through us //The default on this is true but it is set to emphasize the function. p.setSupervised(true); //set record route so we see the ACK, BYE, and OK p.setRecordRoute(true); //proxy on the request p.proxyTo(req.getRequestURI()); } public void doRequest(SipServletRequest req) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { System.out.println(req.getMethod()+ "Request from "+req.getFrom().getDisplayName()); super.doRequest(req); } public void doResponse(SipServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { System.out.println(resp.getReasonPhrase()+ "Response from "+resp.getTo().getDisplayName()); super.doResponse(resp); } }
Proxy deployment descriptor
<sip-app> <display-name>ProxyServlet</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.example.ProxyServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>ProxyServlet</servlet-name> <pattern> <equal> <var>request.method</var> <value>INVITE</value> </equal> </pattern> </servlet-mapping> </sip-app>
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 with SIP support
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 is an industry leading Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server with open standards-based extensions built on Java SE 5. These extensions include portlets (JSR-168), service data objects (SDOs), JavaServer Faces (JSF), asynchronous beans, caching support, and many other APIs bringing value beyond the base Java EE environment. Also included is IBM's industry-leading Web services support for many specific specifications, such as WS-Security, WS-TX AT, WS-N, and WS-BA. WebSphere Application Server also supports IPv6 and Common Criteria.
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 integrates SIP functionality into the foundation, providing industry-leading converged application support. The SIP application support in WebSphere Application Server is achieved through an implementation of the SIP Servlet 1.0 specification, as discussed in the previous session. In WebSphere Application Server, the Web container and SIP container are converged and are able to share session management, security, and other attributes (Figure 4). In this model, an application that includes SIP servlets, HTTP servlets, and portlets can seamlessly interact, regardless of the protocol.
Figure 4. WebSphere Application Server converged container handling HTTP servlets, portlets, and SIP servlets
High availability, offered by WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, of the converged applications is made possible because of the tight integration of HTTP and SIP in the base application server. In front of a clustered application sits the Proxy server, managing the traffic and workload of the SIP and HTTP traffic to the Container. This Proxy Server is a stateless SIP proxy and a HTTP reverse proxy together, which uses the unified clustering framework and high availability manager services of the Network Deployment package to seamlessly monitor the health of the servers and failover work, when necessary (Figure 5). The Proxy server also can act as a standalone stateless SIP proxy in front of the SIP container in the application server when no HTTP traffic is present.
Figure 5. WebSphere Application Server proxy server handles SIP and HTTP
With the converged proxy and converged container, session failover is done with affinity to the application, enabling the HTTP and SIP sessions to be tied together automatically. Having the SIP and HTTP sessions automatically tied together from the container to the Proxy is another way the WebSphere Application Server V6.1 solution excels in converged environments.
For the SIP function in the Proxy server, it is important to understand that it is stateless. The SIP RFC defines two types of Proxy Servers, one stateful and one stateless. Normally, a SIP Proxy is a stateful instance and stateless proxies are specified as such. A stateful proxy participates in the call flows as we had seen in the example from the SIP overview. A stateful proxy can be implemented using SIP servlets, as was shown in the a basic example in the SIP Servlet section.
The stateless SIP proxy functionality in the Proxy server enables the Proxy to handle the workload, routing, and session affinity needs of the SIP container with less complexity. Being stateless, the Proxy server can be fronted by a simple IP sprayer, such as the Load Balancer component included in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (Figure 6). If a Proxy Server fails, the affinity is to the container and not to the proxy itself so there is one less potential failure along the message flow.
Figure 6. Stateless SIP proxy functionality
WebSphere Application Server Development Tools
WebSphere Application Server includes an Eclipse- based Application Server Toolkit (AST) to meet all the basic development needs for Java EE applications. Support for developing SIP servlet applications is included in the AST for the Version 6.1 release. This toolkit provides graphical deployment descriptor editors and basic wizards to get you started writing SIP servlets (Figure 7).
Figure 7. SIP servlet development support in AST 6.1
AST also includes many other pieces that integrate well in WebSphere Application Server deployments, including the Unit Test Environment, which provides the WebSphere Application Server servlet container to run SIP servlets in the development phase of the product, plus other tools for server automation and application packaging.
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has grown a lot since it first became an IETF standard in 1999. SIP was originally intended purely for video and audio and now has grown as the control protocol for many interactive services, particularly in the peer-to-peer realm. SIP and the standards surrounding SIP provide the standards-based mechanisms to look up, negotiate, and manage connections to peers on any network over any other protocol.
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 delivers rich SIP functionality throughout its infrastructure. Using Version 6.1, you can write applications utilizing the SIP Servlet 1.0 specification, which was introduced to enable enterprise applications to use SIP and to support SIP predominant applications in the exploitation of the extensive work put into the Java EE environment.
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Pale yellow. Sexy, slightly exotic aromas of wild herbs, flowers, licorice, mint and spices. Juicy, saline and dry, with a subtly tactile mouth feel to the flavors of lemon verbena, lavender and botanical herbs. There's an enticing dusty impression of soil here but plenty of sweet citrus fruits too. Savory and serious but there's nothing austere about it. An outstanding example of Argentina's distinctive torrontes, which makes a perfect aperitif. (ST)
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Flash and the Pan
Flash and The Pan - the spoken vocals, the mysterious musical settings and unforgettable melodies - was never meant to last beyond a self-titled debut, but it did.
Formed as a creative release for writer / producers Harry Vanda and George Young, singles like "Hey St. Peter", "Down Among the Dead Men" and "Walking in the Rain", established a momentum that proved difficult to stop. Combining masterful song writing and a decidedly bent world view Vanda and Young managed to create a string of hit albums - attracting a vast and loyal international fan-base in the process.
The story began in 1964 at an austere migrant hostel in Sydney. It was there that George Young made friends with Harry Vanda. They were misfits, no doubt about it (Harry barely spoke a word of English, George's Glasgow brogue was so thick barely anyone understood him) but they formed a friendship that was to last through the decades
That meeting resulted in the formation of a great rock & roll band. The Easybeats created a string of classic hit records including "Friday On My Mind". Harry and George branched out as producers working with AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and the Angels creating the blueprint for a generation of contemporary rock & roll bands and with John Paul Young, William Shakespeare and Mark Williams writing and producing hit after international hit.
Alongside this body of work they maintained recording Flash and The Pan. Since the debut there's been Lights in the Night, Headlines (including "Waiting for a Train"), Early Morning Wakeup Call (an immense hit in Europe) and Nights in France (including two European Top 10 hits with "Money Don't Lie" and "Ayla".


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There's something about most bitter greens that gets in between my toes and under my fingernails and just rubs me the wrong way. Endives, escarole, radicchio. It's a pretty odd aversion, especially since two of my most favorite things on this earth are arugula and rapini. Both of which are beyond bitter. Bitter squared.
That being said, when my CSA hands me a bunch a radicchio, though I could throw it in the "leave one, take one" bin and take a tenth pound of zucchini in its place, I always try to put it in a dish that will coerce me into eating and enjoying it. This radicchio and haricot vert salad from Bon Appetit was my latest find. It pairs the bitter radicchio with sweet candied walnuts, which do well to cut the offensive flavor. I added some wheat berries and feta cheese to turn the dish from a side into a main, but feel free to add whatever grain and cheese you want – barley and goat cheese would also make for excellent additions.
Serves 4 as a main dish, 6-8 as a side dish, adapted from Bon Appetit's Fast/Easy/Fresh
Joanne Bruno is a food writer and second year medical student. Find more of her delicious ramblings over at her blog: Eats Well With Others. Joanne is also training for her third marathon with Team in Training, raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For more information or to make a donation, check out her fundraising website.
- 1 cup wheat berries, soaked overnight
- 3/4 cup walnut halves
- 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, pressed
- 1 large head of radicchio, thickly sliced
- 2 lb haricots verts or small slender green beans
- 4 oz feta cheese
1. Put wheat berries in a pot and cover with salted water by an inch. Bring to a boil and then simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
2. While wheat berries are cooking, combine walnuts, sugar, 2 tsp oil and 1 tbsp vinegar in a medium nonstick skillet. Stir over medium heat until syrup coats nuts thickly, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer walnuts to piece of foil. Separate walnuts. Cool completely at room temperature.
3. Whisk remaining oil, remaining vinegar, and garlic in a large bowl. Season dressing with salt and pepper. Toss with radicchio, haricots verts, walnuts, wheat berries, and crumbled feta cheese.


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Littered on the bottom of the Great Lakes are the remains of more than 6,000 shipwrecks gone missing on the Great Lakes since the late 1600s when the first commercial sailing ships began plying the region, most during the heyday of commercial shipping in the nineteenth century. The vast expanse of these inland waterways provided a natural transportation system linking the Midwestern states and portions of Canada to the rest of the world.
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Each year in the spring, MSRA hosts an annual film festival to share the latest stories of shipwreck exploration and documentation. The event brings together presenters from around the Great Lakes as well as talent from among the organization's board and members. It serves as the MSRA's primary funding activity. The 2016 show is March 26, 2016 at the Knickerbocker Theater in Holland.
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Nina Raine
Nina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, and the only daughter of the poet Craig Raine and Ann Pasternak Slater; she is also a grand niece of the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak.
She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1998 with a First in English Literature.
Life and career[edit]
She won the Channel Four/Jerwood Space Young Regional Theatre Director bursary in 2000 to train as a director at the Royal Court Theatre where she assisted on a number of plays including My Zinc Bed, Mouth to Mouth, Presence and Fucking Games.
She has directed plays in several other theatres since then, including Unprotected at the Liverpool Everyman and the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, for which she won the TMA Best Director Award, and Shades by Alia Bano as part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Festival in 2009, as well as Jumpy by April De Angelis at the Royal Court and in the West End.
Rabbit, Raine's first work as a dramatist, premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London in summer 2006.[1] The play, which she also directed, transferred to the Trafalgar Studios later that autumn. She won both the 2006 Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright and Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2006 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
Rabbit was performed in New York City in June 2007 at the Brits Off Broadway Festival.[2]
Raine's second play Tribes was produced by the Royal Court in London, in October 2010.[3] It had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2012,[4] and its North American premiere at New York City's Barrow Street Theatre, also in 2012.[5] It was then produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland in February 2015. [6] Tribes is about a deaf son in a Jewish family (Raine is Jewish on her mother's side).[7]
Tiger Country, commissioned by Hampstead Theatre and produced by Alcove Entertainment, opened in January 2011.[8]
Raine also directed and dramaturged Behind the Image by Alia Bano, which premiered at the Royal Court's 2008 Rough Cuts Season.
In 2013 she directed Longing, an adaptation of two Anton Chekov stories by novelist William Boyd.


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Energy giant BP has suspended plans to build a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal along the Delaware River in southern New Jersey, a project that was the focus of a U.S. Supreme Court fight between New Jersey and Delaware.
"We've been looking at the global market conditions surrounding LNG, and the timing for a terminal just isn't right, so we've put it on hold for at least two years," BP spokesman Tom Mueller said today.
"We will hold on to the property and look at conditions down the road," Mueller added, noting the company "believes New Jersey will need LNG infrastructure in the future, and we will position ourselves to do that."
BP's plans, initially announced in December 2003, called for a 2,200-foot pier to be built off Logan Township. It was designed to handle enough liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to serve 5 million homes and meet rising demand.
The company likely would have to redesign the project because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year allowing Delaware to block construction of the pier.
New Jersey had approved the project, with supporters saying it would create jobs and protect the region against rapid natural gas price increases. However, Delaware wanted it stopped because of safety concerns.
Delaware owns the river bottom most of the way across the waterway, including the portion of the riverbed on which the pier would be built, but New Jersey argued that each state controls piers on its side of the river.
The court ruled in March that Delaware has veto power over developments that extend into its borders on the river.
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The record based on surviving evidence of what man has done with the time God has providentialy given him.
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity.
2300 - civilization began
2200 - Old Akkadian Period
2100 - Third dynasty of Ur (golden age of Ur)
2000 - Destroyed by the Amorites and Elamites
the stages of Sumerian Civilization
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An Appetite for Lifeby Charles Ritchie
Charles Ritchie's first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford - the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a callow, blundering youth into a callow, blundering young man.As these diaries show, Charles Ritchie had a sharp eye, a keen ear, a highly developed sense of the absurd, and - despite his unhappy knack of landing ?at on his face - a thorough "appetite for life." This is not only a hilariously funny book, but it presents a vivid picture of two worlds - Halifax and Oxford in the mid-twenties - that are now long gone. It also introduces us to an astonishing range of characters, but the most astonishing of all is the young Charles Ritchie himself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Diplomatic Passportby Charles Ritchie
In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder - as an advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; as a Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, where his friends celebrate Ritchie Week - to the city's surprise; as Assistant, Deputy, and Acting Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs in Ottawa; as Canadian Ambassador to Bonn, where he finds himself reciting Little Red Riding Hood in German at a state dinner; and as Permanent Ambassador of Canada to the United Nations.
My Grandfather's Houseby Charles Ritchie
In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada's diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry "Bimbash" Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable mother; to his mad cousin Gerald; to the newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook; to his college friend Billy Coster, who threw away wealth and a secure future; and to a host of others. With his usual unerring eye and elegant prose, Charles Ritchie brings them all to life again, with affection and wit.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Siren Yearsby Charles Ritchie
Charles Ritchie, one of Canada's most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page. In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to observe both statecraft and the London social whirl that continued even during the war, Ritchie provides a fascinating, perceptive, and (surprisingly) humorous picture of the London Blitz - the people in the parks, the shabby streets, the heightened love affairs - and the vagaries of the British at war. There are also glimpses of the great, and portraits of noted artists and writers that he knew well.A vivid document of a period and a wonderful piece of writing, The Siren Years has become a classic.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Storm Signalsby Charles Ritchie
In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings - as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdotes rather than briefing papers (was JFK really "shooing" the new Canadian ambassador out of his office?), Ritchie's diaries are at their amusing best.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Rookie Sport ParentSummer Sanders
I may be an "expert" in swimming, but due to the time I spent acquiring that title, I'm quite clueless as to how other sports work and train…which makes me like every other parent, Olympian or not. I am a full-on rookie sport parent, and I'm loving every second of it. Well, sort of…
When I finally dropped my daughter off at her first gymnastics meet last year, I felt like I needed a drink. I arrived at the gym later than I should have, and my daughter's hair was nowhere close to "completely slicked back" as was clearly stated it should be in the handbook. I was walking around looking for someone, anyone, to direct me. Once I dropped her in the "gymnast only" area, I felt I could breathe again. And then I thought…this is crazy; sports have been my life. How do I not know what to do? I was a rookie with a capital R, and it was clearly painted really big in the middle of my forehead. Funnily enough, that idea made me smile.
I love the fact that every step of my kids' sports adventures are new to me.
From the tying of the karate belt and situating the shinguards, to the no-parental-contact in gymnastics, it is clear that I am venturing into uncharted territory… new waters, so to speak. I know how to get the green out of your hair and how to put on a swim cap, but that knowledge is as useless as a $100 bill at a vending machine. And in a way, that means the pressure is off.
When my kiddos are going for it in soccer, I have no clue what to yell other than "Get the ball!" In karate, I haven't even figured out what the words mean yet, let alone how the scoring works. And all this cluelessness makes the sport so pure to me. I get to see the courage and joy that is shining through with every kick, vault and HI-YA!
Of course there is the downside of being a rookie. For instance, I had no idea how necessary the butt cushion was at a gymnastics event, but after enduring the spectator pain for two hours, I would have given someone my gold medal for their little plastic pad.
Lesson learned. So as I sit there like this is "my first rodeo," slightly unsure when and how loud I can cheer, I am so proud. I am tears-in-my-eyes proud of every single kid out there on the field, the beam and the mat because the one thing I do know, which translates in every sport across the board, is how much guts it takes to get out there and try.
About every third day or so my husband and/or I are asked, "So, are your kids going to be swimmers or skiers?" It's an innocent question that I would probably ask myself if I didn't know me. Right now, Skye dreams of being an Olympic gymnast and memorizing the "Cup Song," and Spider dreams of breaking 1,000 pogos in a row and getting one step closer to a yellow belt with a stripe. "We" have no clue what our kids are going to be, we just hope they keep us around to enjoy the ride. So when you wonder if you're doing the right things, or trying to figure out how this sport your child's interested in works… remember you're not alone. We're all rookies sometimes.


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Your location: Troy, NY (soon to be El Paso, TX)
Age (If you want): 22
How Primal are you: 60-80% (I really cannot give an accurate gauge at the moment) I am a current college student and in the military...sometimes one cannot avoid the dining hall doldrums and/or those wonderful MREs plus, 500 bucks a month is not enough to cover going Organic yet. However, in about 2 months I will have a salary! Cannot wait for the grass-fed!
Do you consume dairy: Yes, during breakfast after PT sessions (Chocolate Milk and some cheeses here and there)
Do you drink coffee or tea: coffee and tea, no dairy mixers, no sugar, sometimes honey in the tea. (But that's a treat)
Motivator for switching to Primal: I have always been able to post an average score on the Physical Fitness Test and I could always lift great amounts of weight, moreover, I had to be taped with every height/weight record day to see if I passed the BF% test (Tell me about it, they still use a ratio to determine BF!) There were times when I barely passed and others where I had more than enough room, however, the readings were always around 19-20% BF; I was not too happy with that. Additionally, I have always had a constant cough, was prone to illness, was fatigued quite often, and had constant shin pain (Part of it was Compartment Syndrome, surgery fixed some issues, but now I run barefoot or use barefoot/minimalist shoes and the remaining pain has up and left.) So, I have thus picked it up after going through a ketogenic phase and I have dropped 16 lbs from 225 lbs to 209 lbs in about 3 months!
Favorite exercise: Full Body lifts and Circuit Training, plus free running.
Favorite Primal food: Bacon, steak, eggs!
Best part about being Primal: Eating as much as I want and feeling energized and on the go!
Worst part about being Primal: CW guides these massive dining services companies, so therefore, I cannot attain the proper nutrition all the time. The other day they served turkey that had 33g of Carbs?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! (I did not eat it, I had a salad instead and had to beg for extra virgin olive oil because the olive oil they have has soy oil in it! :O )


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Telephone: 315.731.5723
---M.A. SUNY Albany, Geography, 2003
---A.A.S. MVCC, Surveying Technology 1992
---B.A. SUNY Oneonta, U.S. History, 1981
Born in East L.A., but moved to upstate New York at age 9. I've been living here ever since. Upon graduation from SUNY Oneonta in 1981, I was commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, where I specialized in Infantry and Motor Transportation. Made it as far as Captain, whereupon, at age 26, I decided to try my hand at peace. Took a huge pay cut for that decision, but it was worth it. Got a job on a survey crew in 1985 and never looked back. Much better to use transits and theodolites to measure land than it was to use them to direct artillery and mortar fire. My graduate thesis involved using GPS and GIS to analyze a series of 1690-1730's surveys of a colonial Virginia town, with an eye towards re-interpretation of inter-racial settlement patterns.
My outside interests include motorcycling and folk music. I play the guitar, banjo, and mountain dulcimer. I'm also semi-fluent in the French language. My favorite authors are Henry Miller, Richard Russo, and Albert Camus, while my favorite musicians are Duane Allman, Dave Hum, and Keith Richards. I'm married to the most beautiful and interesting woman I've ever met, Teri, who is an author with over 40 published books. I have two grown stepsons, and a wonderful Golden Retriever.
Work Experience at MVCC:
16 Years as Assistant Professor of Surveying.
Industrial Experience:
29 Years experience in Surveying and Geography.
NYS Licensed Land Surveyor.
NICET Certified Civil Engineering Technician.
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