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EDITORS NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series on sports and mentoring
How to get involvedLowcountry programs that stress or include mentoring kids:Be A Mentor (beamentor.org)Big Brothers Big Sisters (becomeabig.org)Carolina Youth Development Center (cydc.org)Metanoia (pushingforward.org)Mayors Office for Youth and Family (charlestoncity.info)Youth Power Initiative (youthpowerinitiative.com)Communities in Schools (cischarleston.org)Youth Empowerment Services (yescouncil.org)Louies Kids (louieskids.org)PlayToday!Foundation (playtodayfoundation.org)How mentoring helpsStudents who meet regularly with their mentors are 52 percent less likely than peers to skip a day of school and 37 percent less likely to skip a class.Nearly 18 million young Americans need or want mentoring but only three million are in formal, high-quality mentoring relationships.Youth who meet regularly with mentors are 46 percent less likely than peers to start using illegal drugs and 27 percent less likely to start drinking.Among the many dropout risk factors: no extracurricular participation and not living with both natural parents. Sources: Big Brothers Big Sisters national study, The National Mentoring Partnership, Clemsons National Dropout Prevention Center.
T.J. Figueroa, one of 10 children, was introduced to his new mentor last week at Riley Park. The 15-year-old from West Ashley was quick with a firm handshake.
Drew Ciccarelli detected an accent.
You from up north? asked Ciccarelli, 30, a Charleston business owner and volunteer mentor in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities youth baseball program.
Yeah, Figueroa said. New Jersey. We moved here two years ago because my mom didnt like all the crime up there. Someone got shot on our baseball field.
Ciccarelli spotted T.J.s New York Yankees T-shirt and threw the perfect first pitch.
You like the Yankees? Ciccarelli said. Im from New Jersey, too. I love the Yankees.
T.J. smiled.
The Yankees are my favorite.
What about football? You like the Giants?
Nah. I like the Cowboys.
Oh, no, Ciccarelli said. I hate the Cowboys. At least we both hate the Eagles.
A potentially great relationship is born, another clutch hit for one of two Lowcountry sports mentoring models. The Charleston RBI chapter and the First Tee golf program provide critically needed options for youth in neighborhoods statistically more likely to send kids to jail and rehabilitation facilities than golf courses or on baseball road trips.
We have to stop feeding kids into these systems, said C. Jama Adams, Chairman of the African-American Studies Department at John Jay College in New York City. We need more mentoring but that mission has to be done much earlier.
According to The National Mentoring Partnership, nearly 18 million kids in the U.S. need or want mentoring but only three million are in formal, high-quality mentoring relationships.
Boys ages 13-18 in the RBI program will break up into junior and senior teams for summer tournament play. Until then, Ciccarelli will help T.J. focus on his ninth-grade studies at West Ashley High School.
Its a win-win-win concept for the child, the mentor and the childs mother.
I love baseball, said T.J., who is a pitcher and catcher. And a mentor will help me stay positive about my school work so I can get into college.
Ciccarelli said he hopes to teach life lessons from obstacles he endured growing up.
I love it, said Melissa Gutierrez, T.J.s mom. (Ciccarelli) has already arranged to meet with T.J.s teachers so they can be on the same page. He plans to give T.J. a part-time job. This is a great way to use baseball as motivation.
That was part of the idea when RBI was founded in South Central Los Angeles in 1989. The Charleston chapter run by director Lerone Johnson is six years old, part of the Youth Power Initiative and sponsored by the RiverDogs, Charlestons minor league baseball team. The RBI alumni list includes 135 former players who have traveled as far as Jupiter, Fla., for tournaments.
First Tee has worked with 9,300 children in the Charlestonarea since its inception in 2008, executive director Ben Grandy said. Only one of the 10 children in the latest First Tee mentoring program had ever been on a golf course before.
For us, it was like, This is a tee and That is a green, Grandy said.
But several lessons in, kids ranging in age from 9-13 not only knew how to use a sand wedge, they went to Earth Fare to learn what makes a nutritious sandwich. They attended the PGA Championship on Kiawah Island in August, and have learned to make eye contact when shaking hands.
Great life skills
First Tee and RBI offer tried and true incentives. Keeping or making sports fun is one of the best ways to maintain a childs interest and present more mentor opportunities.
The flip-side is quitting, and remaining inactive in athletics.
Similarly, The National Mentoring Partnership points out that dropping out of school is not a singular event but rather the culmination of a long process of disengagement.
Identifying individual children or groups most likely to run afoul of the law, or most in need of mentoring, isnt an exact science. Even for the relatively privileged, good mentoring can fill voids for kids generally dealing with more adult-generated hurdles and temptations than a generation ago. Smart phones and home computers have created opportunities for inappropriate, illegal and dangerous behavior.
Risk assessment is part of the answer for predicting who will enter the juvenile justice system but its not a magic bullet, for sure, said Craig Schwalbe, an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
But sports can offer important carrot-and-stick tools for mentoring. Goals score, win are simple, and easily transferred to the teamwork of real life.
At Goose Creek High School, head coach Chuck Reedy insists on collaboration as part of the mentoring blueprint within his defending state championship football program. Player, coach and a parent or guardian meet to confirm goals on and off the field.
Were all in this together, Reedy said. So far, weve had 99.9 percent of the parents on board.
The First Tee program is partnered with the Charleston Development Academy, a Charleston County School District charter school on Line Street. The 10 participants, nine boys and one girl, are paired with 10 mentors, eight men and two women.
Our staff has been impressed with how fast the kids progress in golf, even including playing in various First Tee tournaments, Grandy said. But, more than that, what weve seen is great relationships that teach great life skills.
At Riley Park recently, Johnson was delighted as he observed the earliest stage of the newest RBI mentoring partnership.
Its so great to see something making a difference in a kids life, he said.
Chatting in the stands, Ciccarelli and Figueroa were already outlining a workout program and tutoring schedule.
And if youre grades are good enough, Ciccarelli said, then maybe we can work on you getting that drivers license.
Again, the enthusiastic kid in the New York Yankees T-shirt smiled.
Gene Sapakoff participated in a fellowship study at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York) and The Tow Foundation before writing this story. Reach him on Twitter @sapakoff.
Louies Kids fills mentor gap for those left out
While most children have reasonable access to school or recreation-level athletic programs, some kids are left out.Not the right shape, sex or economic status.Louies Kids, a Charleston non-profit organization Louis Yuhasz founded in 2001, aims at helping and mentoring children struggling with obesity. Fitness and nutrition are the main elements of a current Louies Kids program, including 25 kids and mentors at Jerry Zucker Middle School of Science.Yuhasz still wants a few good men as role models. These kids need male role models but they especially need male role models who are physically fit and are willing to share their passion, he said. Its time to step up and stamp out childhood obesity.Girl talkGirls are not getting as many mentor opportunities via sports because they generally are underrepresented as participants. The National Council on Youth Sports reports that 35 million youth between ages 8 and 19 take part in some form of youth sports, representing 66 percent of boys and 35 percent of girls in the U.S.But Lowcountry recreation departments reach out to girls with a wide variety of activities, and Big Brothers Big Sisters data indicates a greater demand for boys in need of male mentors. Our waiting list is much longer for boys and so are lists around the country, said Mandy Scherer, the Big Brothers Big Sisters program coordinator at the Charleston Youth Development Center. We never have enough male volunteers.Fatherless homes grew from 11 percent in 1960 to 27 percent in 2010, homes without biological mothers over the same period grew from four percent to eight percent.I think disparities in access to youth sports and the mentoring they provide fall more along socio-economic and ability lines than gender lines, said Dr. Conway Saylor, a Citadel professor of psychology and a clinical child/pediatric psychologist who also as experienced youth sports as a mom and swimming coach. Girls and women in this generation have much more equitable access to sports and opportunities created for good athletes. In contrast, I believe many youth of both genders from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds could benefit from sports and the mentors they might meet there, but they do not get the opportunities that their peers get.Travel costsSaylor says the high cost and rising popularity of youth travel sports is cutting disadvantaged families out of the game and away from potentially impactful relationships with mentors. To that point, she helped create Charlestons Healthyplay WIFFLEBall League.Fewer of the students in Title I elementary schools have access to team sports in their schools, Saylor said. Also, fewer of them have parents who can afford the fees, uniforms, time, and transportation to drive them to recreation department programs and support them as coaches/mentors, especially at higher levels.If they cant access some kind of exposure and skill-building at early stages, they may or may not be strong or confident enough to compete for team slots at middle and high school where longer-term commitments and opportunities are sometimes built. How many youth from disadvantaged backgrounds do you see for example competing in elite/travel soccer or baseball and competing for soccer or baseball scholarships?
First Tee of Greater Charleston participants hold signs showing the nine core values the program teaches. Photo provided.×
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Participants from the City of Charleston Recreation Department summer camp enjoyed participating in a First Tee of Greater Charleston program. Photo provided.×
Mentor Drew Ciccarelli (left) meets with T.J. Figueroa, 15, of West Ashley Thursday October 4, 2012 at Riley Park for the first time as the pair participate in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities Program.×


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Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, offers a breakthrough look at a secret world within the ocean that is perhaps the biggest story of all—that the smallest life in the sea is the mightiest force on which we all depend. Alongside marine biologist Holly Lohuis, he invites viewers to dive into this whole new world that will leave them in awe of the beauty and diversity of the oceans – the source of all life on our planet – and inspire an even stronger desire to protect what they have either seen for the first time or perhaps re-discovered along the journey.
Narrated by renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Oceanintroduces audiences to over 30 species, illuminating behaviors captured for the first time thanks to the development of new tools that allow underwater filming in 3D, ultra-HD 5K, slow motion, macro, and with motion control, and takes them to remarkable and vibrant environments such as the Bahamas, Fiji, and Bimini.
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Perfect Little Planet
Imagine the ultimate space vacation! Discover our solar system through a new set of eyes – a family from another star system seeking the perfect vacation spot. Fly over the surface of Pluto, our best known Dwarf Planet. Dive over the ice cliffs of Miranda. Sail through the rings of Saturn. Feel the lightning storms of Jupiter. And walk on the surface of Mars. Which destination would you choose? A solar system journey for space travelers of all ages.
Laser Galactic Odyssey
A musical tour of the galaxy that mixes stellar lasers with science fiction themes, rock and electronic music. Song selections include Peter Schilling's Major Tom, Jamiroquai's Cosmic Girl, ELO's Fire on High and others.
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Major Tom – Peter Schilling
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Explore the wilds of America in this new giant-screen film as big as the outdoors!
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, National Parks Adventure takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation's awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Immersive IMAX® 3D cinematography takes viewers soaring over red rock canyons, hurtling up craggy mountain peaks and into other-worldly realms found within America's most legendary outdoor playgrounds, including Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, the Everglades and Arches. Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the national parks with world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, adventure photographer Max Lowe and artist Rachel Pohl as they hike, climb and explore their way across America's majestic parks in an action-packed expedition that will inspire the adventurer in us all.
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A celebration of space exploration, Journey to Space is a tribute to international cooperation in space research and a vision toward our near-term future beyond Earth's orbit – a manned mission to Mars within a generation. Beautifully and inspiringly chronicling our history in space – including the shuttle program, MIR, the International Space Station and the Hubble telescope – Journey to Space recognizes these milestones in the context of our future in the cosmos, what we've learned, and how to apply this knowledge to deep space missions. The film takes audiences on a behind-the-scenes tour of the international effort to send astronauts to Mars within the next 20 years, culminating in a virtual voyage to the Red Planet. Dazzling and meticulous computer imagery depicts the new machines that will soon enter into our lexicon – Orion, Olympus, SLS rockets – spacecraft, habitats, landers, and vehicles necessary to achieve interplanetary travel, touchdown and colonization.
Journey to Space taps into the same human fervor and fascination that makes science fiction so popular, our unquenchable drive to explore and discover what lies beyond. This film, though, is not fiction. Mars is the next step in what will be an unending human odyssey to explore the cosmos. Journey to Space is about the next chapter, a vision certain to inspire today's young explorers and dreamers. It is time to take the next great leap into space. It is time for our species, in the words of Carl Sagan, to "set sail across the cosmic ocean." Next stop… Mars!
Duration: 40 mins. | Rating: All Ages
Presented by Toyota and Boeing, Journey to Space is an immersive film produced by K2 Communications and Giant Screen Films in association with the Giant Dome Theater Consortium. Additional production support and consultation was provided by The Smithsonian Institute, The Kennedy Space Center, the California Science Center and NASA.
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The friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. The trio navigate the Marine Life Institute and evade predators as Dory looks for her family and a place to call home. This sequel to the 2003 Pixar hit Finding Nemo features the voice work of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Diane Keaton, Ty Burrell, Hayden Rolence, Bill Hader and many more.
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Illustration of a fairground Freak Show
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This 19th century engraving features a fairground showman enticing an audience to a freak show, pointing at one of the painted canvas advertisements. Before the technology for printing large coloured posters was developed, images painted on cloth or wood panels were great publicity, but couldn't be mass-produced. They may also have been used to advertise attractions or performances before printing was invented. Freak shows were a popular feature of fairgrounds and circuses in the 19th century. 'Exhibits' would include people who could perform unusual physical feats, such as contortionists, or people with unusual physical appearance such as conjoined twins, dwarves, or unusually hairy people. Even people from other continents were exhibited, and fascinated those who didn't travel abroad, and didn't know what other races looked like. Exotic or unusual animals were popular exhibits too, such as a horse who could apparently count, or 'Learned Pigs' who were said to be able to read and write.


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Whether you're on a muddy quad bike or behind the wheel of a juiced-up sports car, there are certain things that are always on your mind while playing a racing game. There are your rivals to consider - particularly that persistent pest who always shunts you out of the way on the last stretch. There's that killer hairpin that always catches you out, and the constant tick-tick-tick of the clock as the potential for glory slowly ebbs away. In Split/Second you'll once again have to deal with these things, but you'll also have to deal with other problems: exploding roads, collapsing overpasses and jumbo jets that crash headfirst into your humble vehicle.
The concept behind Split/Second is fairly strange: while you initially appear to be racing through familiar real-world environments like highways and docklands, you're actually taking part in some form of futuristic gameshow, one where all the participants drive through enormous studios. As a result of this setup, the show's producers are able to lace their tracks with a selection of ridiculous hazards and special effects - over-the-top features that would normally kill the drivers stone dead. At crucial points during a race, you'll be able to trigger these traps, wiping out your opponents in spectacular fashion.
In essence this setup is just an excuse for some thoroughly over-the-top hijinx with a flavour that's not too dissimilar to the better moments of the Burnout series. Split/Second is the work of Black Rock Studios – the developer behind last year's excellent Pure. This game is being handled by a different team, but there's still the odd similarity – notably an emphasis on "look-at-me!" visual flair. Speed and style are everything, to the extent that your entire HUD - even the speedometer - is reduced to a simple little indicator that appears behind the back of your car. As you pull off drifts and other show-off manoeuvres, you'll gradually fill up a coloured meter; once this is partially full, you're able to use Powerplays - and it's here that that the real fun begins.
As with the rest of Split/Second, the system behind these attacks is elegantly simple. Once you've built up a degree of credit, you simply follow an on-screen prompt to hit one of the face buttons once you're in range of a specific spot on the track. Maxing out your bar grants you access to a second tier of Powerplays, but even the standard ones are hugely enjoyable - tearing apart the tracks in impressive fashion. During my E3 playtest I found that much of my early Powerplays were used to take out opponents directly ahead of me, but you can certainly also use them to dismiss people creeping up on your lead. And perhaps best of all, there are also Powerplays that allow you to reform the very track you're racing on, closing off paths and changing the very shape of the race.
The real cleverness behind this design is that it allows the tracks themselves to take on a new level of character. In many racers the scenery that surrounds you is little more than window dressing for the central act of whizzing around a circuit, but here you'll actually pay attention to the environment. There were two Split/Second tracks at E3 – one playable on the show floor, the other on display behind closed doors. In both cases the Powerplay hazards seemed to be a lot of fun: In the dock-set stage players were able to cause a hulking great boat to slide across the track like an unstoppable battering ram, while at another moment a helicopter arrived to drop explosive crates right on top of the leading racer. The course-morphing tricks were even better: one Powerplay caused a track-side cargo boat to keel over, destroying part of the track in the process. After this happened, players found that their new path carried them up onto the tilted deck of the wrecked ship – an excellent touch that underlines the OTT nature of the game in general.
As much as I like the idea behind Split/Second, there's no denying that the game's excellent presentation is a large part of the appeal. The final product isn't out till next year, but the build on show at E3 already looked pretty suave. There's a pleasant amber glow to the graphics, a subtle touch that gives the game a slightly unreal quality – which is fair enough, given that it's supposed to be a futuristic TV show. While we're on the subject, the full game will comprise of 24 "episodes" split across three separate seasons. It's not clear how many tracks there will be yet, bur expect to see several variations on the different environments. Vehicle types, meanwhile, are assigned by the game depending on the track. Apparently there won't be anything in the way of car tuning, but there may be some form of alternative customization: The Black Rock Developers were keeping relatively tight-lipped, but we should get an announcement or two later in the year. They were happy to confirm that the game will have two-player split screen, however.
Having seen and played the game for myself, only one minor concern remains lodged in my mind: the Powerplays look excellent, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to avoid them when someone springs a trap on you. Racing games are ultimately about striving for perfection, about mastering your skills so that you can score that elite, flawless lap – and that's going to be hard to do if a smokestack could collapse on you at any given moment. I'm told that most of the Powerplays will be avoidable if you're a careful driver, and that you'll be able to escape many of the threats if your reactions are quick enough; hopefully that will be the case, as it would be a massive shame if the Powerplays ended up as a flashier version of Mario Kart's infamous blue shells.
Aside from this worry, there's an awful lot to like about Split/Second. There were a lot of high-profile racers at this year's E3, but Black Rock's game seemed to carve a comfortable niche of its own. It even seemed to impress EA boss Patrick Soderlund, who praised the game in the middle of a disparaging rant about the competition for NFS Shift. There's some way to go before we can determine the absolute leader of this year's pack, but it's certainly fair to say that Split/Second is looking pretty darn classy. The full game is due out in the first quarter of 2010, so let's hope Black Rock keep up the good work in the meantime.
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The Colts added former Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski to their coaching staff today. Chudzinski and Chuck Pagano worked together at the University of Miami for 8 years, beginning when Pagano was a graduate assistant and Chudzinski was a freshman tight end.
"Chud" has coached in the NFL for 10 years, mostly bouncing back and forth between the Browns and Chargers, plus a two year stint as Carolina's offensive coordinator.
He has gone 80-80 overall in NFL games, which is respectable considering all the time he spent in Cleveland. The Browns (including the original franchise) have won 10 or more games just twice since 1989, and Chudzinski was their offensive coordinator for one of them.
From Colts.com:
Under Chudzinski, the Browns offense finished 18th in the NFL in total offense and 11th in passing yards, their highest finish since 1991. The team also finished ninth in total defense, marking their highest ranking since 1994. Cleveland recorded 40.0 sacks as a team and tied for the league lead with 16 total players with a sack.
Readers can either be impressed that Chudzinski was able to guide a team with serious problems at quarterback to finish just outside of the top ten in passing or sad for a franchise that hadn't finished that "high" in 23 years. Or both. It's perfectly acceptable to be both.
Chudzinski's title will be "Special Assistant to the Head Coach." That's right, assistant to the head coach. As much as that title might bring a smile to fans of The Office, Pagano's decision to give a position to an old friend could prove beneficial to the Indianapolis Colts.
A .500 record and some middling offenses doesn't look terribly impressive at first, but in the six seasons Chudzinski wasn't working for the Browns, the teams with which he was associated went 58-38 and ranked an average of 5.8 in scoring and 7.3 in offensive yards, including Chargers teams that led the league in scoring in 2006 and total yards in 2010 (they were 2nd in scoring that season as well).
Chudzinski is good with tight ends, which as Colts Authority's Kyle Rodriguez pointed out, could be beneficial to a team developing two very talented young players at the position in Dwayne Allen and Coby Fleener. He also seems to favor the downfield passing attack, which could add a nice balance of opinions to the offensive meeting room on West 56th Street.
Whatever his role ends up being, Rob Chudzinski looks like a good hire for the Colts and a nice opportunity for a guy who was let go suddenly after one season as a head coach.


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Get your geek on at the third-annual comic-book, anime and steampunk convention in the
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The Tex-Mex great and Dumas native returns for a show at Golden Light Cantina.
4. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
It's a jungle out there as the simians battle off some human holdouts in this sequel to the 2011 hit.
(Opens Friday)
Austin's top jam band returns to Golden Light Cantina with a set full of new songs.
Jason Eady and Adam Hood headline the annual music festival and German Fest in Nazareth.
The on-the-rise Austin rockers return to town for a Leftwood's show.
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Amarillo Opera's Summer Youth Musical performances of this theater classic continue in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
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The Lubbock-born legend hits town for a show in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
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Glennzone is : the individual from whom emanate these elements of aural surprise
Max For Live
Cubase 7 Elements
J74 (Fabrizio Poce)
Native Instruments
Vienna Symphonic Library
Vienna Ensemble Pro 5
Six months already since my last post here. These past few months have been, . . . interesting. I was laid off from my job at the end of October, but have managed to keep a flow of income, even if just a trickle at times; there, but for the grace of God, go I.
Things have been up and down, but I have managed to maintain my motivation and keep things going in a positive direction. I've made significant progress with the music technology, and it's being taken in three separate tracks.
The Fall has always been my most prolific, productive season. I'm not quite sure why, but as early on as we are into it, I'm not disappointed. Summer was quite productive as well, having recorded and produced a live video DVD of two more LICO performances, but I continue with every free moment to finely hone my workflow processes and production quality.
Using 3 iPhones to capture performances of my Live Improvisational efforts, I managed to go through all the production processes necessary (to completion), capturing the spirit of my dreams of LICO in motion; audio and video, and with
Productivity has been mild, but optimism has been high. There's a high pressure area circulating in the right side of my brain, and I'm looking forward to seeing some circulation in that area. What the heck am I talking about ? Inside, the weather's fine.
I'm working on a last little bit for the customized Live Remote Scripts for my Launchpads, but I'm just scratching the surface learning the programming language (Python) required to modify them this one step further. If I have the opportunity, I'll farm it out, as I did in the early stages when I designed my workflow process.
First thing this morning I posted two audio recordings from the audio/video recording session I mentioned. It was something I felt I had to do, and so released these two to the world. In general, I'm not interested in releasing things I don't feel I can be completely proud of. I'm comfortable listening to them anytime, and I'm their harshest and closest critic. There will be time, God willing, to shake the tree and release some choice fruits, but for me, it's the journey, not the destination; or the landmarks.
I can safely say there will be more than enough released along the way for all to
I have to be brief, but I am finally making recordings (video, MIDI and audio) of my improvised performances. One I made a couple weeks back is in the final stages before being posted online, and there are many more to come. I anticipate a veritable cornucopia of endless possibilities and variations, which will only get better with time as I hone my processes and workflows, and bring my musicianly skills up to my standards.
It's such a beautiful thing to be able to bring out what comes to mind and enters my heart, as it comes to me in the moment.
Forgive the reminiscence, but nearly in another life I was a Flight and Ground Test Instrumentation Technician; I worked on such fine naval aircraft as E2's, C2's, A6's and F14's. I was a "road warrior."
I worked with a crew that built up the instrumentation package on the test aircraft. We then tested the package, assured full functionality, and when all was ready to support the test program, I followed the plane wherever it went. I did this over and over, and enjoyed the heck out of it. During one particular test program, I was even out on aircraft carrier for week. What an experience.
Incredibly, it's been 5 months since my last post. Frankly, it's embarrassing. You'd never know how serious I am about this stuff, but I've had some income challenges, and they obviously take precedence. I will not betray my muse, and am facing and dealing with strategic initiatives to assure a solid foundation. Once the short-term plan is accomplished, I will continue on with the music initiatives at as full a pace as possible. Under such difficult circumstances, one could only hope to receive a portion of the support which I have received from my wonderful wife.
Minor setback : Serendipity rears its ugly head. Some issues I have had with the most powerful computer I've ever had the pleasure to use has resulted in an unanticipated upgrade to the most powerful computer I've ever had the pleasure to use. The story goes like this : with six months left on the warranty for my HP Elitebook 8460w, the ongoing problems I've had with the jack for the power on this wonder of a laptop had recently resulted in its total lack of cooperation in starting up.
Nice title; I feel a blues song comin' on. :-)
Just a short little update here. I've made the wise decision to ditch Logic, because it's just too squirrelly on Rube Goldberg workarounds to give me the warm-fuzzy in my environs. So I have been led unwittingly back into the Cubase camp; a wayward MIDI-ist in search of the muse.
So, I've discovered my Cubase history not recent enough to net me much benefit in the way of discounts, but the base Cubase product (Cubase 7 Elements) looks like it's going to fit the bill quite nicely.
Whoops !
Somehow, I seem to have overlooked one simple, and nearly insignificant element : digital audio recording. (Tongue planted firmly in cheek ! ) So, that's where things sit now; just some last minute touches on my template in Logic Pro 9, and we'll be good to go. Unfortunately without it, I'm pretty much dead in the water.
The unforeseen circumstance is the "oil and vinegar" -like mix of Komplete, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5, and Logic. Fortunately, being a Systems Engineer, my troubleshooting and technical skills are quite good.


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East Hardy has established itself as one of the top Class A teams in the state the past two years. Not only have Cougars been to the state playoffs twice during that span, but have also won 16 consecutive regular-season games.
Tucker County, which also knows a little bit about having a dominant football program, will look to put an end to East Hardy's streak when the two unbeaten foes meet for a Potomac Valley Conference clash tonight at R.H. Armstrong Memorial Field in Parsons.
"It's going to be a very big game for us," Tucker County coach A.J. Rapp said. "We're going to have to play our best football if we want any chance of beating East Hardy."
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Tucker County coach A.J. Rapp talks with his team during a recent contest in Parsons. The No. 1 rated Mountain Lions will entertain No. 6 East Hardy in clash between two unbeaten teams tonight.
Playing their best is something the Mountain Lions have done so far this season. Tucker County enters the game with a No. 1 rating in Class A and a perfect 6-0 mark.
"Our offseason work really helped us in starting the season off strong," Rapp said. "Plus we had a lot of kids back from last year's team, so we didn't have to do a lot of things from a teaching standpoint."
The Cougars, which also enter the game undefeated with a 5-0 record, rolled to a 20-0 shutout victory over the Mountain Lions last season.
"We just didn't play well over there last season," Rapp said. "Hopefully we can pull out a big victory this season."
East Hardy, which has won three consecutive games against Tucker County, is anxious to go up against the No. 1 team in the state, according to head coach Chad Williams.
"The kids are very excited about going to Parsons and going up against Tucker County," Williams said. "We've had this game marked on the schedule the last couple of weeks. If we play our game, we have a good chance of coming away with a win."
The Cougars, ranked No. 6 in Class A, is led by senior quarterback Shawn Skovron, who has thrown for over 1,000 yards this season.
"We can't allow Skovron to throw the ball all over the field on us," Rapp said. "And we can't let him get out and run us, either. Our defense is going to have to watch where he's at the entire game."
The Mountain Lions will counter with senior quarterback Derek Nestor, who has over 1,300 yards of total offense this season, Running backs Austin Zirk, Mikhail Lewis and Zach Armstrong will look to compliment Nestor.
"Tucker County has a lot of skilled players and they're very deep," Williams. "Our main goal is to try and stop Derek Nestor."
The contest will also feature steady crop of receivers on both sides. Tucker's Nathaniel Goldstein and Tyler Snyder will be Nestor's top targets, while Skovron will look to hook up with his top threats, Josh Parker and Cole Collier.
"We have to be aware of Tucker County's passing game, because they have some very good receivers," Williams said. "We also need our receivers to step up for us."
The Cougars are coming off a 39-18 win over Pendleton County last Friday in Baker. The Mountain Lions defeated Southern (Md.) 41-13 in Parsons the same night.
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Big fish on big pond
Dave Lefebre is no longer the young gun trying to make a name for himself on one of bass fishing's biggest pro tours.
The Erie native is 42 years old and has completed 10 full seasons on the Walmart FLW Tour. He's won five FLW tournaments on a variety of tours, has earned more than $1.5 million and has emerged as one of the FLW Tour's biggest names.
Later this week, Lefebre will begin his second decade as a regular on the FLW Tour. He will be in Clewiston, Fla., Thursday when the tour opens with a tournament on Lake Okeechobee. More than 150 pros will go for the $100,000 first prize and $25,000 Ranger Cup bonus.
Lefebre grew up fishing for smallmouth and largemouth bass in Lake Erie and every inch of Presque Isle Bay. It's a background that has helped him to success on the FLW Tour, which features six major tournaments that wind through the southern states before the prestigious tour championship, the Forrest Wood Cup. He will try to qualify for the Forrest Wood Cup for the 11th consecutive year this season.
Although he has tasted much success in pro fishing, there are two major accomplishments he has yet to achieve: Winning the Walmart FLW Tour Angler of the Year award and taking the top prize in the Forrest Wood Cup.
He has regularly finished in the top 20 in the FLW Tour standings -- his top finish was fifth in 2005 -- but he has not won the angler of the year award by placing first in the regular-season standings. Lefebre placed second in the 2008 Forrest Wood Cup tournament, but he is still aiming for that landmark victory.


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This is a discussion on Re: making telnet secure - openssh ; Thanks all for your valuable inputs. My telnet server application has its own way of handling authentication, commands supported,.. Hence i cant easily move to ssh. I know i can use SSH to use my own authentication using PAM, but ...
Thanks all for your valuable inputs.
My telnet server application has its own way of handling
authentication, commands supported,..
Hence i cant easily move to ssh. I know i can use SSH to use my own
authentication using PAM, but the other things such as commands
supported are all not easily done just by moving to ssh server.
Based on my requirements , i think tunelling(either stunnel or ssh
tuneling) is the best option to go with, if not please suggest any
other way you could think of?
With tunneling, Can i somehow avoid the client side setup of
specifying a non-standard port which will forward requests to sshd.
Can it be as easy as below: (I think its not possible, but i just want
to confirm that )
on the server:
- A tunneling port (7778) listens , which forward connections to my
application running at port 4050.
on the client:
use ssh to connect to port 7778. This will make the server port 7778
forward the connections to my application port 4050 and back in the
same way.
Please advice.
Best Regards,
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Bob Rasmussen
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Sudarshan Soma wrote:
>> I have telnet server implemented on the server. Now i want the ssh
>> client to connect to this modified telnet server by adding
>> encryption/decryption functions in it.
>> Can I do this easily by just putting the appropriate encrypt/decrypt
>> functions , session key establishment code from ssh server to telnet
>> server.
>> Tunelling is one solution , i can think of . Is there any other easy
>> alternative for this apart from changing the telnet server code.
> It is not a trivial thing to add encryption to the telnet protocol. It
> would have to be added on both ends (client and server), and it was not
> widely done. One approach was called SRP, from Stanford University. I
> haven't heard anything from them for a long time, since SSH became common.
> Other ideas:
> 1. Use telnet with SSL. I have heard that there are SSL implementations of
> the client and server sides of telnet, but I have not worked with them.
> 2. Use SSH to establish a secure connection to a) the same server, or b)
> one nearby, inside the site's firewall. Establish client-side tunnelling
> on port 23. Then on the client machine, telnet to localhost, so that it is
> tunnelled to the server.
> This can be useful for Windows-based server-side systems that accept
> telnet connections but not SSH connections. I have even considered adding
> a special telnet-over-ssh mode for our terminal emulation client, Anzio.
> Regards,
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Recursive Builder Pattern
In this Internet age, everybody publishes information and creates applications using HTML. And so do you. So you've got some interesting data to show the world, you read it from a database... and then? You find the
in the
book. And you decide that that's how you will build your HTML pages. Your HTMLPageBuilder class will have methods startPage(), endPage(), startForm(), endForm(), addSubmitButton(), etc. [Let's assume you're using Java.]
Then you notice that the builder has many startXYZ() / endXYZ() methods. Both of these usually need access to the same information; but whether they
need it at all depends on the specific HTML that is generated. And: you always have to make sure that you have an endXYZ() for every startXYZ().
In general, every time you build a recursive structure, the same thing occurs. Isn't there a nicer interface for the builder? Yes there is.
use the Command pattern, and pass the builder a Command object which builds the internals of a given part of the structure.
In the example, give the builder methods like "buildPage(String title, ICommand command)". (Here ICommand is a simple interface with just a single "void execute()" method.) At the place where buildPage() needs to build the internals of the page, it calls "command.execute()". This command then calls other buildXYZ() methods as appropriate.
When working in Java, this is nicely combined with the 'anonymous classes' feature of Java 1.1, where you can use expressions like "new ICommand() { public void execute() { /*some code*/ } }".
When working in Smalltalk, you of cource don't need an ICommand interface-- just use a Block. The message then becomes "buildPageTitled: aTitle around: aBlock".
And so you end up coupling shed loads of code to your current page layout, which marketing will want to change quite soon. XML/XSL parsers can help solve this problem, as can templating systems such as
In last case where I applied this pattern, this was exactly the concern. Yes, it was concerned with DHTML generation, and no, XML/XSL/
were not appropriate solutions. So what we did is that the builder just builds up an object structure representing the logical page structure, and have a separate Writer class that visits the logical structure and creates out the DHTML. When marketing or technology changed their mind again, it was often a matter of minutes to update the Writer. So why did we keep the Builder interface, and don't we build the logical page structure directly? For three reasons: (1) It seemed good to separate between the code that creates the logical structure and the code building it (
); (2) it turned out that for us it was easier to test through an abstract Builder interface, than to compare an expected and an actual object structure (see
); and (3) it takes effort to remove the Builder interface, with changes to numerous test cases, and the gain is not worth the effort. --
Related question:
I re-read the GoF
, and noted two related remarks which seem contradictory to me. In the "Implementation" section (p. 101) they say in point 2:
Tree structures such as parse trees that are built bottom-up are another example. In that case, the builder would return child nodes to the director, which then would pass them back to the builder to build the parent nodes.
Which is of course an alternative for the
. But then I started wondering about the datatype of the child nodes that the builder would return. And the GoF goes on to say in implementation issue 3:
In the common case, the products produced by the concrete builders differ so greatly in their representation that there is little to gain from giving different products a common parent class.
Eh? So what would be the type of the nodes that the builder creates? Isn't this a contradiction? --
I think it is extremely important in know when to use
Can you clarify this? --
Yes, sometiems instead of using Patterns, it makes more sense to use Perl, or XML, or grammer-generator. I love Patterns and use them all the time. But I'm also mature enough to know when not to use them.
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You want changes on the Syracuse Crunch defense?
Ya got em.
Out: Andrei Plekhanov. He was pulled off the ice during the morning skate on Tuesday and told he's being loaned to a team in Russia.
In: Dylan Reese. He was signed to a two-way deal on Tuesday.
In (or at least a little more in): David Liffiton. He, too, was inked to a two-way deal Tuesday.
Reese was packing up his car Tuesday and heading here from Pittsburgh. He should be here for tonight's exhibition vs. Roch, though obviously not playing.
"I was nervous the last couple of days, for sure,'' he said. "As the weekend approached, I didn't hear much. I thought it was a process that would be over in a couple of days. It took a week. I always believed Columbus' intentions were to add me. It was just a matter of finding room.''
Liffiton skated Tuesday morning. He had been here on an AHL pact.
"They (Columbus) said if I had a good camp, that's what I would be rewarded with,'' Liffiton said. "It's nice to have that and be in their system.''
Defenseman Nick Holden was down at the barn Tuesday morning, too. He looked pretty good in his recovery from mono. He said he's up to 203, just seven pounds under his normal playing weight.
He is allowed to practice for 30 minutes at a time right now, no more. He thinks he might be a couple weeks away from playing.
"I feel all right,'' he said. "It's more my recovery (that needs work). Throughout the day, I don't recover as fast as usual. I have to build my strength back up.''
Jonathan Sigalet was also hanging around the locker room. He could not skate because he hadn't cleared waivers yet. He said he feels ahead of schedule on his return from shoulder surgery last season.
"I felt way better than I thought I would. I'd say I'm 100 percent ready to go,'' he said. "I was worried about getting a feel for game skills, reading plays, making decisions. You can't practice making those game decisions in the summer time.''
-Forward Tom Sestito had 10 staples yanked out of his head on Monday (yuck), the aftermath of hurting his head in a preseason fight with Jordin Tootoo of Nashville. I asked Tom if he feels he needs to change his game at all because he gets hurt a bit.
"No, I'm fine,'' he said. "It's just a little bad luck. I'm just going to play hard, play with the puck more.''
- Forward Jared Aulin, on an AHL deal, had no update on contract talks with Columbus. He said he has a deal in place to play in Sweden, which is where he'll head if he doesn't get the two-way offer from the Blue Jackets.
- Forward Alexandre Picard and defenseman Mathieu Roy have been place on waivers by Columbus, to be assigned here if they pass thru.
- Both Sigalet and forward Derek MacKenzie cleared waivers on Tuesday, clearing their way to come to the Crunch.
- Also, Columbus has returned promising forward Matt Calvert to his junior team in Brandon. The Dispatch has a blog entry listing Columbus' opening roster. Good for ex-Cruncher Mike Blunden to make the team.
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If the Hatters are going to earn a fourth straight crown, they'll have to pull off a similar miracle finish on Wednesday at Venetian Bay Golf Club.
Stetson goes into the final round in fourth place, 11 shots behind Kennesaw State. The Owls took command of the team leaderboard on Tuesday with a score of 284 (-4), which set A-Sun records for lowest-ever team total and lowest second-round total. The Owls own a two-day team total of 576 – six strokes ahead of second place.
"Kennesaw State played a great round today," Stetson coach Floyd Kerr said. "We didn't play bad, but we didn't play great. We had some opportunities that we didn't cash in and there were two holes where we really had trouble. On the ninth hole we had two double bogeys and on 13 we had a double and a triple, so we lost a lot of shots right there."
ETSU's Gabriella Wahl remained out-front as the individual leader with a one-over-par 73, holding a one-shot lead going into the final round. Close behind the Buccaneer freshman are Mercer's Lacey Fears (141, -3) who fired a 70 on day two and Wahl's teammate Sian Evans, who also recorded a second-round 70.
Stetson's Alexandria Buelow and Kennesaw State's Ket Preamchuen are tied in fourth place (142, -2) following identical even par scores on Tuesday.
Kennesaw State's Ines Lescudier carded the low round in day two with a blistering 68, which included six birdies – four of which came on the opening nine holes. The four-under-par round moved the freshman from a tie for 25th to start the day into 10th place entering Wednesday's final round.
The Owls own four of the top-10 spots on the individual leaderboard going into the final round with Lea Charpier (+1; T6th) and Kaew Preamchuen (+1; T6th) joining Ket and Lescudier at the top of the standings.
The Bucs follow Kennesaw State in the chase for the team title with a combined 582 (+6) after shooting 292 on day two, while Mercer owns third place (587; +11) after the Bears set the program's 18-hole record for the second-straight day with a 289. The Bears' Sarah Louie Brown joined Fears with a second-round, 70, which tied the lowest 18-hole round by a Mercer student-athlete in A-Sun history.
Stetson, the three-time defending champions, dropped one spot to fourth place (588; +12) following a 295 in round two.
Jacksonville and FGCU are knotted up in fifth place (620, +44) after the Dolphins fired a 303 on day two, while the Eagles netted a 308. Lipscomb set the program record for lowest team single-day total with 308 to move into a tie with Belmont for seventh place (629, +53), while USC Upstate shot a 316 for the second-straight day to trail the Nashville programs.
Individually for the Hatters, Buelow is still in contention for her third consecutive individual title, but all five members of the squad will enter the final day with a chance at top 10 finishes. Senior Lauren Cate is tied for eighth after her second round score of 75 puts her at two-over par 146 for the tournament.
Sophomores Sammi Smith (75-74-149), Ryan Ashburn (77-74-151) and Mallory Viera (79-75-154) are all within striking distance, and will all need to make a major move on Wednesday if the Hatters are to have a chance at the title.
"The question is, is it doable? We'll certainly play," Kerr said.
"If we get hot early and make some birdies tomorrow, who knows. There will be three teams playing together tomorrow – Mercer, East Tennessee and Kennesaw State – who may start going head-to-head and forget that we are out there somewhere. If we can get on a run early we can get into it. I wouldn't say that our chances are legit, but we're going to show up and we are going to play."
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A woman carried a poster of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a rally Tuesday in Tehran, Iran, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled a U.S.-backed leader. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday Iran is ready for talks with the U.S., but demanded a policy change. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)
President Barack Obama held a note, passed to him by an aide, with the words "The Senate just passed the Recovery and Reinvestment Plan" after the $838 billion measure passed 61-37 Tuesday. At the time, Mr. Obama was at a Fort Myers, Fla., town hall discussion on the economy. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
Martinique residents rallied Tuesday for better pay for low-wage workers. An alliance of unions and groups known as "Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon" led the protest, which started on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and spread to nearby Martinique. The French government has rejected Guadeloupe's demands. (Julien Tack/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Delphin Kagushire, 10, talked to a friend Tuesday after they both had surgery to correct leg deformities at the Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, Congo. The charity Stand Proud is helping take care of Delphin and other children in the war-torn region. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)
A house was covered in mud after a landslide in Tartagal, Argentina, Tuesday. Officials said 12 people are missing and more than 1,000 residents were evacuated after the mudslide swept away a railroad bridge. (Lisandro Mansilla/Associated Press)
Gold pieces were melted down in Istanbul Tuesday after the Turkish Lira gained in value against gold prices, prompting a gold sell-off. (Mustafa Ozer/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Members of Neturei Karta, an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist movement, protested Tuesday in Jerusalem against Israel's parliamentary elections. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima Party was forecast to eke out a surprising victory. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
Spectators looked as German street performer Johan Lorbeer seemed to float up to touch a wall Tuesday at Madrid's Atocha train station. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
Handlers groomed a toy poodle that won the category during day two of the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden Tuesday in New York. More than 2,000 dogs from 48 states are competing this year. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
A burnt tree was pictured in Jeeralang West, Australia, Tuesday. Officials defended their preparation and actions over fires that swept through southeastern Australia last weekend, killing at least 181 people. The death toll is expected to pass 200. (Associated Press)
A cross-country skier followed tracks in Oslo Tuesday after heavy snowfall. (Lise Aaserud/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A tanker burst into flames Tuesday after colliding with a container ship off the coast of Dubai. Two of the tanker's crew who were pulled from the water suffered minor injuries, but no one died. The Maltese-flagged tanker was carrying about 30,000 tons of oil from Iran to the United Arab Emirates. (Seawings Dubai/Reuters)
A rice farmer sprayed insecticide on his crop in Reang Kesei, Cambodia, Tuesday. Last week, the United Nations asked donors to speed up farm aid to help Cambodia increase rice exports. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
China Central Television apologized Tuesday for organizing a massive fireworks display that caused Beijing's new Mandarin Oriental hotel to catch fire, killing a firefighter in the process. The pyrotechnics display was so large that a special permit was needed, but never obtained. (Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press)
An Israeli man tried to take a sticker off an election poster of hard-line Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday in Netivot, Israel. New polls showed moderate Kadima Party leader and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni closing in on Mr. Netanyahu in the prime minister race. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)
Hotel workers pulled back a barrier Tuesday after a cliff fell into the sea in Birling Gap, England, due to heavy rains that have pounded the southern coast. About 276 flood warnings were in place throughout the U.K. due to the rain and melting snow. (Gerry Penny/European Pressphoto Agency)
Filipino fishermen tried to rescue 200 stranded dolphins off the coast of Orion, Philippines, Tuesday. Officials said the dolphins may have become disoriented after a sea quake. (Dennis M. Sabangan/European Pressphoto Agency)
German actress Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen posed at the after-show party of the Cinema for Peace's gala at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival Tuesday in Berlin. Cinema for Peace promotes humanity through film. (DPA/Landov)
Bulgarian Orthodox Christians celebrated Mass Tuesday at a Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, church. The service was part of Saint Haralambos's Day, a day when the sick go to church to pray for healing. (Vassil Donev/European Pressphoto Agency)


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Congress on massive 'stimulus' waste: 'So what?'
Posted on Feb 6, 2009
Obama's $1.2 trillion welfare-and-spending package contains little direction on just how exactly your money should be spent.
Rightfully concerned about the possibility that billions of taxpayer dollars could be wasted, National Public Radio asked House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey about the potential for bureaucrats blowing unprecedented amounts of cash on wasteful items, or even themselves:
But, Obey says, "So what? This is an emergency. We've got to simply find a way to get this done as fast as possible and as well as possible, and that's what we're doing."
Not only is the Congressional Budget Office now reporting the government expansion plan will actually damage the economy, the politicians who put it together now admit they don't care if it's spent on the government programs they claim magically create jobs.
You can reach Congressman Obey's office 202-225-3365.


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Blue Bottle Beach by Amie Denman--Mitchell finds Jackie irresistible as he romances her on Blue Bottle Beach, but he has no idea she should be in her cubicle in Chicago balancing the sheets for one of his many companies. Amie is an Amazon bestselling author (Unforgettable Heroes).
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My Brother's Wedding by Jennifer Anderson--Allison Daughtry is catapulted into a past life when she returns to her childhood home to attend her brother's wedding. My Brother's Wedding received a StoryFinds.com cover award.
Double Dog Dare by Jennifer Johnson--When Cheris McDowell wakes up in a hotel room next to the husband she doesn't remember meeting, she decides the only practical solution is a quiet divorce. Jennifer is an Amazon bestselling author (Unforgettable Heroes).
Hard Candy Kisses by Maddie James--New Year's Eve is just around the corner and Patti Jo Baker has tried every trick in the book to land a date for the annual New Year's Eve Bash at The Lodge. Maddie James is an Amazon bestselling author (Love in a Small Town, Falling for Grace, The Heartbreaker, and more).
Building a Dream by Magdalena Scott--Chloe McClain is an artist, so she's used to creating something from nothing. This time, though, the project is bigger than her usual canvas. Magdalena is an Amazon bestselling author (Love in a Small Town).
Savvy Thorpe's brainy reputation is put to the test when her aunt and uncle hand over their shabby beach motel on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Between resisting her sexy neighbor, managing a motel, and unraveling a real estate scheme, Savvy has to find a way to keep her footing in hot shifting sand.
Savvy Thorpe needs a vacation. Finally finished with college, she heads to her favorite shabby motel on Florida's Gulf Coast where her aunt and uncle always save her room twenty-four. She quickly finds out, though, that The Gull Motel is not just her home away from home. It's hers to manage while her aunt and uncle take an extended trip.
Skip McComber, The Gull's former maintenance man, has been working on Savvy's nuts and bolts for years. Now the new owner of the bar next door, his mission is to renovate a pirate bar while being a walking temptation for the girl he can't get off his mind.
For Savvy, keeping her cool running a motel in Florida heat is one thing, but navigating the steamy waters of a former fling takes a whole other kind of savvy. In addition to the motel and the man next door, Savvy stumbles on a plot to swindle land from the residents of Barefoot Key. Devalued properties tumble like dominoes until Savvy musters her colorful crew from The Gull Motel to make the pillagers walk the plank.
Recently divorced kindergarten teacher Jazz Shepherd is starting a new life in the quaint lakeside town of Bluegill. After taking a summer job at the local marina to help make ends meet, she's stunned when the chief of police enlists her help in solving a crime.
Money has been disappearing from the city coffers, and a trail leads from Bluegill's mayor to Damien Cerberus, a rich boat owner—and possible killer. The police chief is short-staffed and in need of someone to keep tabs on the suspect. Jazz's job at the marina puts her in the perfect position to help—and puts her in the path of Kurt Reynolds, the hottie who mans the fireboat.
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Powerhouse performances and power struggles dominated the second night of The Voice's blind auditions Tuesday, which included two four-chair turns and even gave an '80s cult actress a second chance at stardom.
"The fabulous four," as returning coach Christina Aguilera dubbed the reunited coaching panel at the top of the show, duked it out throughout the night as they each vied to persuade their favorite singers to join their teams.
At the top of everyone's list was Tessanne Chin, a Jamaican singer who closed out the night with a fierce version of Pink's "Try."
"This is going to be a dirty fight," Adam Levine declared as the coaches made their pitches to the former backup singer for reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff. "You could easily win The Voice this year."
Chin chose the persuasive Levine, humbly explaining, "I am very interested in learning how I can better evolve."
Sweet and shy 19-year-old Holly Henry of Minneapolis provided the other four-chair-turning performance of the evening for her haunting, nuanced version of Coldplay's "The Scientist." Aguilera told the pancake-house waitress that she has a "beautiful, silky tone," while three-time Voice winner Blake Shelton, whose chair swiveled first, announced, "I almost broke my hand pressing this button" for you.
Henry chose Blake, who had earlier declared, "Because of you, I am officially excited about season 5."
The most unexpected performance of the evening came from E.G. Daily, who shot to fame in 1985 playing Dottie, the female lead in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Since then the actress has busied herself with voiceover work – most notably as Tommy Pickles in the Rugrats – but used the show to explore her long-held passion for singing.
Blake and Cee Lo Green helped make her dream come true when they pressed their buttons during her performance of Faith Hill's "Breathe."
Daily chose to join Shelton, who praised her ability to control her raspy sound.
All told, Team Adam, Team Christina and Team Cee Lo each added two singers to their rosters Tuesday, while Team Blake added three.
In addition to Chin, Levine picked up Barry Black, a quirky American Samoan who wowed the coach with his mouth trumpeting at the top of "What You Won't Do for Love."
Aguilera added New Jersey teenager Jacquie Lee, who gave a soulful performance of "Back to Black," as well as Destinee Quinn, an earthy country girl who showed off her chops with "Cowboy Take Me Away."
Cee Lo picked up Louisiana native Cole Vosbury, who offered a funky version of "Movin' On Up (to the East Side)!" (a.k.a. The Jeffersons theme song) and Johnny Gray, an Air Force veteran turned rock and soul singer from Austin, Texas.
In addition to Henry and Daily, Team Blake also added soulful Austin Jenckes, who performed Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man," a song he learned from his late father.
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I dreamt about a visit to the fortune-teller last night. It wasn't my love-life she was interested in, or indeed any other aspect of my personal situation. No, this was a political seer, looking to the future of the country.
There was the usual carry-on at the start with Tarot cards and she stared long and meaningfully into her crystal ball. Moaning quietly at first, then higher and higher, the beautiful gypsy lady intoned in the best traditions of her craft: "I see a tall dark stranger coming."
Noting my quizzical look she explained: "Micheál Martin will be leader of Fianna Fáil by Christmas."
"Good heavens," I gasped. "What about Biffo?"
"Social and Family Affairs," she snapped.
"Oh well," I said. "At least it's a Cabinet post."
She eyed me scornfully: "Who said anything about Cabinet, clunkhead? I'm talking Opposition Front Bench here."
"You mean there's going to be a general election."
"No, you fool," she barked. "When Fianna Fáil lose their seat in Dublin South and fail to take Dublin Central, the Greens will jump ship and get into bed with the Blueshirts, Labour and Sinn Féin. Do the math."
"Fine Gael will never stomach the Provos," I protested.
"That is being worked on at the moment. Power doesn't come gift-wrapped, boy."
"You're right. They wouldn't wear Democratic Left in the early '90s . . . and then they did," I admitted ruefully.
Staring into her crystal ball again, she shivered slightly and tightened the knot in her headscarf as though preparing for a great storm, before turning to me again with those dark, mournful gypsy eyes:
"I see a great shipwreck near a city on the Atlantic," she said. Peering further into the dusky glass she said: "It is called . . . Lisbon."
"Are many lives lost?" I asked tremulously.
"No, but a great many Eurocrat careers are sunk without trace. The name of the ship is Referendum Two."
Aghast, I begged for more information: "When does this happen, in the Spring or the Autumn?"
"It does not matter, dummkopf, either way the vessel will break apart on the rocks of a vengeful public opinion."
In an effort to change the subject to something less unpalatable I said: "So it's Enda for Taoiseach in a new rainbow coalition?"
"Enda who?" she said. "Have you never heard of Leo the Lion or James the Jaguar Reilly?"
"What about Richard Bruton?"
"Too soft. He is the Hamlet of the Fine Gael Party."
"But it's a Fine Gael Taoiseach anyway?"
She consulted the glass again: "I see a curly-haired fellow from the west coast who is now living on the east coast. His name begins with E … Eamon? The pair of them are rotating the job."
"Golly-gosh," I said. "Er, what about Dermot Ahern?"
"Opposition Spokesman on Finance."
"And Brian Lenihan?"
"The Law Library. We have a place for him beside Michael McDowell."
AND NOW THE SERIOUS BIT: Joking aside, today's Irish Times/TNS mrbi poll figures show that, barring some unheard-of political miracle, FF are in serious danger of being decimated in the local and European elections on June 5th, not to mention the by-elections in Dublin South and Dublin Central.
Probably the most significant result of the poll is that it may well put the concept of a government of national unity off the radar. The opposition parties now know they can get into office without making a deal with Fianna Fáil
The Greens, who are outdoing Bertie Ahern in the most skilful and most cunning of them all department, could in theory jump ship and go in with FG, Labour and SF, as the fortune-teller suggests. One to watch out for, because when the by-elections in Dublin are over there are likely to be two more non-FF TDs in the Dail than at present. This is just me speculating, but if I have my figures right, that opens up the real possibility of an anti-FF majority.
There was a feeling up to now that Lisbon would be likely to get through because people were frightened at the economic consequences of a No vote. But there is an increasingly bitter mood out there. The revelation by a senior banker on RTE that he got €2.9m last year and would get something less than €2m this year was a seminal moment in Irish public discourse.
The unions are being politically activated by the current crisis. The appalling sight of thousands of people losing their jobs – 2,000 yesterday alone – is sending shock-waves through public opinion and the body politic.
Taking the long view, if Labour had been in government instead of the PDs since 1997, one wonders if there would have been a different approach to the economy with tighter regulation and more account taken of union concerns? Perhaps not: Labour were in power in Britain during those years and look at the mess they're in.
In any case, there is no point trying to turn the clock back. We are in a right old mess now and social disorder on a fairly serious scale may be looming.
If I might be permitted to quote Yeats again, he summarised the current situation very well with his lines:
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Tsehlanyane National Park is blessed with an abundance of fresh clean water emanating from the pristine un-spoilt mountains. Many rock natural pools exist for swimming, exploring and relaxing by.
Plant species richness is very high within the park and provisional estimates are that in excess of 220 flowering plant species are present. Best time to view these is from spring to summer
Of some 24 mammalian species recorded in the Highlands area many are resident (although elusive) within the park.
Limited surveys undertaken by field staff on birds within the park show a provisional list indicating the presence of some 69 species. Any additions to this list are welcome.
Guided horse riding is available on local Lesotho ponies by prior arrangement, renowned for being firm underfoot even on the rugged slopes of the Lesotho mountainside.
One of the last remaining old growth indigenous Lesotho woodlands is to be found within the park
3km from the lodge are several natural Basotho villages where one can safely wander and explore everyday life. If you prefer to be shown around by an experienced local guide, guided walks can be arranged into this area
Situated at 3222m above sea level in the northern part of the Maluti Mountains, Afri-Ski the closest ski resort to Gauteng, Natal and the Free State, offers the longest ski slope in Africa with skiing and snowboarding for beginners to advanced skiers and snowboarders. Skiing in Lesotho is nevertheless a somewhat hit and miss affair. The best time to go is June through to August. Afri-Ski Leisure Kingdom offers skiing and snowboarding opportunities at a 3,000m (10,000-foot) altitude. There are three slopes and two ski lifts, while several alternative activities are on hand in the summer months. enjoyed to ski.
Afriski is situated 2 hours drive from the lodge and is Africa's highest ski resort (seasonal between June-September). Our reservations team can organize skiing packages to here when in season or just take a day drive and a picnic lunch.
Liphofung caves and museum is 1 hour drive from Maliba.Originally used by the San and other Stone Age people, the walls contain important rock art and a rich archaeological deposit of Stone Age implements occurs on the floor. Later, King Moshoeshoe "the Great" used the cave as a stopover when visiting that part of the kingdom.
Katse dam is 3 hour drive away and is the highest dam in Africa
Bokong Nature Reserve is roughly 2 hours away and is perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Lepagoa Valley, the visitor centre has a picnic site and interpretative trail to the top of the Lepaqoa Falls.
Fossilised dinosaur footprints are found on the banks of the Subeng River very close to Butha Buthe with is ¾ hour away.
Clarens is situated in South Africa just 1 hours drive from the lodge and is an artists' haven with many well-known artists either living in or frequenting the village on a regular basis with many art galleries scattered around the village square. The tranquil village ambience combined with scenic views and a mild summer climate makes for the ideal for a visit.