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Review: Immortal Cowboy by Alexis Morgan
While discovering a new story about werewolves or vampires always makes me a happy reader, finding an innovative paranormal story featuring a ghost is equally gratifying. The most recent Nocturne story by the gifted Alexis Morgan is particularly original in numerous ways, where the supernatural aspects are cleverly depicted and the romance is enchantingly believable. IMMORTAL COWBOY has countless fascinating details and an exceedingly strong-willed couple.
Although Rayanne Allen once enjoyed visiting with her uncle and exploring a local ghost town called Blessing, a strange incident stopped her from ever going again. When he passes away, she must follow a few special stipulations to inherit his home and land. Now she will be taking a leave of absence from her teaching job at the university and will live in the remote cabin for the summer. Rayanne is excited because she loves history, yet she is also wary because of how the area changed her life. But there also might be some answers as to what has caused her to repeatedly dream about an old-west gunslinger.
After arriving at the cabin, Rayanne begins fulfilling the wishes of her uncle. All seems to be going as it should until a bizarre event happens, leaving her with even more questions. Wyatt McCain has been confined to the area for many years because a past deed will not let him be eternally content. Being able to truly communicate with the man she once saw may bring Rayanne some much needed answers, but soon just talking with him is not enough.
There are not nearly enough books written about the mysterious appearance of ghosts, and IMMORTAL COWBOY satisfied my craving for this genre. Alexis Morgan has constructed a very sound reason for the hero of the story to not be at rest. Yet not every fact is known about what causes his current circumstances, and I think this confusion adds to the mystic about the manifestation of someone long dead, especially those who are aware of their surroundings. These unknowns left me speculating about what would ultimately happen by the conclusion of the book, and several starling surprises do take place. A ghost town is the perfect setting for all the occurrences to happen, and the history discovered about the locale makes the story even more interesting. The western part of America has a really colorful past, and Ms. Morgan takes some facts of life back then and interweaves them with a paranormal romance to create a noteworthy novel.
The two main characters seem very different from each other, yet an apparent connection was made when their paths crossed on that long ago day. The uncle of Rayanne may have first triggered her love for the American West, but it was her fateful encounter with Wyatt that filled her teenage dreams with realistic scenarios and she has never been able to forget him. Her response to coming in contact with him when she is an adult is totally unlike her previous reaction, as she feels compellingly drawn to the sexy gunslinger. When they realize each has similar feelings for the other, regardless of how they can actually interact, the atmosphere between them is packed with lots of sexual tension. I ached for this couple when all seemed hopeless, and rejoiced over even a small glimmer of optimism. IMMORTAL COWBOY is an imaginative ghost story with endless possibilities.
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The Saudis have indicated that they'll increase petroleum production by 200,000 barrels a day in July -- on top of an increase of 300,000 barrels a day this month -- a move that may moderate the rising price of gas. Mind you, no one is predicting gas prices falling back to $1 a gallon.
Good thing, too. Perversely, the long-term problems that stem from seductively low oil prices are as serious as those from freakishly high ones.
Drivers flock back to gas-guzzling big cars, trucks and SUVs. They move farther away from work, so commutes lengthen. Businesses and ordinary citizens don't bother turning down the heat or dialing back the AC. The impetus for more mass transit disappears. Dependence on oil from the Mideast and other unfriendly places grows.
Worst of all, research into the alternative energy that could get us out of the oil mess evaporates.
Americans proved all this and more between 1973 and the mid-1980s. Remember the vows of energy self-sufficiency? Cars that would get 50 miles a gallon? Advanced solar technology?
Major efforts were made and significant progress was achieved (including a near-doubling of average gas mileage), but it all stalled, even reversed, when the price of a barrel of crude fell to the teens and stayed there for a decade.
The Saudis aren't planning to increase production because they sympathize with the average American -- or any other oil consumers around the world, for that matter. They understand that oil at current levels will fuel an international economic slowdown. That's bad for their business.
But Americans should remember that the Saudis and other oil producers also fear that record-high prices will refocus the U.S. and other nations on the need to cut petroleum use. That would be even worse for their business. It also would cause instability at home, where oil is the only thing fueling the economy as a source of jobs and revenue.
The Saudis would love to bring prices down just enough to lull Americans into forgetting about gas costs again. The falling-prices part would be a wonderful economic boost. Forgetting would not. We did that once, and it is costing us dearly.
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CHICKASAW, Alabama – The Chickasaw school board has approved a scholarship program for nonresident students that offers free tuition to those who make good grades and follow attendance and disciplinary guidelines.
The school system charges an annual tuition fee of $650 for nonresidents. Under the scholarship program, parents of nonresident students will set goals for academic performance with one of Chickasaw's two principals, then meet with Superintendent Kyle Kallhoff to sign off on the agreement.
At the end of the first quarter in mid-October, school officials will evaluate the student's performance. Those who do well will have the tuition waived; those who do not meet the agreed-upon goals must either pay the $650, or withdraw, Kalhoff said.
The student's grades, attendance, and discipline will continue to be reviewed quarterly, and transportation will be the responsibility of the parent, according to the guidelines.
The school board approved the scholarship incentive program at its meeting Thursday night. "We're excited, because it's going to help us entice quality students and make our goal of 900 students this year," Kallhoff said. The schools had an enrollment of about 825 in 2012-13, he said.
At the meeting, the board also approved the hiring of four teachers and seven employees and approved changes to the salary schedule. Kallhoff said the school system was nearly finished with hires, but is still seeking a full-time speech teacher because of last year's heavy caseload. The high school also needs a driver's education/P.E. teacher, he said.
Chris Arras, chief school financial officer, gave a budget update that showed that through the end of June, of three-fourths of the way through the fiscal year, the school system has received $6.7 million in revenue, or close to 80 percent of the total, and spent $6.6 million, or 70 percent.
The budget for the 2013-14 school year is still in progress until hiring is complete, but budget hearings should be scheduled soon, Arras said.
The city and school system will have a fish fry fundraiser at the rededication of Dotson Park on Aug. 24, when the community will meet the schools' Chieftains teams and cheerleaders.


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West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero has launched a fundraising campaign to help the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes. Called "Oklahoma, We Understand,'' the effort will run through June 21 and turn over proceeds to the American Red Cross, the hospital said in an announcement.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Steel said the fundraiser was prompted by hospital employees' desire to help in the aftermath of the storms, which killed 24 people in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
"You want to help. We understand,'' Steel said in a letter to the hospital community. "Many members of our hospital family have been on the receiving end of aid from others around the country in times of need, such as during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.''
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The White Tiger
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A stunning literary debut critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India's caste society. "This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before" (John Burdett, Bangkok 8).
The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China's impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society.
Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut.
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An entertaining, easy read of hard topics set within India's many vivid layers. The charming narrator serves up harrowing tales with casual grace. His clever style makes this book a page-turner. Also, he makes you question not only him but the morality of it all.by Gwenamon on November 01, 2014
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A strange ambivalence: a very different perspective on India than the romanticized one I read in Shantaram. Still a good read, if you don't mind feeling dirty at the end of it. More and more I find myself choosing to read books that are so very grey: full of questionable characters... Who do morally questionable things. But who is to say whats right or wrong? Is it wrong to live a servant's life, even if that's what you born to, even if that's what you want and crave? Is it wrong to aspire to more? Is it right to force people who don't aspire to more to aspire to more? Is my version of success the same as yours? I think we may all live in cages of our own making: we fly from cage to cage because we are afraid of the emptiness in between... Like my mother's pet canary, who was born in my parents house, who has never known freedom, we get scared and fly into our cages, shiver and look into toy mirrors and wait to be fed. Pensive and rather morose, that's how I feel after reading this book: book it speaks to how I felt after I visited India. So many of my colleagues were so proud of Indian democracy.... But it's as if they didn't seen the hordes of poor people sitting under the concrete bridges. I almost felt ashamed to not be as proud of my own Canadian democracy. I digress, a good read: be nice to have a frank discussion, if you have read this book too.by Meg on April 29, 2013
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... uh uh, was quite interesting start, but then, the repeat came in... I made it to page 76... and just lost interest of this repeating it self story essay. Sorry. Not my type....by The Intruders on July 19, 2014
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A very interesting story that highlights the struggle of the down-troddens in a rapidly developing society, and how some can succeed through determination and ruthlessness.by coconutleave on January 24, 2014
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The annual Poor People's Dinner at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield, will give Staten Islanders a chance to meditate on the meaning of need and of charity, over a simple meal of bread and soup.
Funds raised from the Nov. 22 event will help Project Hospitality continue to provide services geared to ease the suffering, which seems, these days, to be on display almost everywhere.
"We are gathering in a year of unprecedented economic suffering in our country and in our borough," said the Rev. Terry Troia, executive director of Project Hospitality, during a meeting yesterday at the agency's Stapleton center, citing statistics that unemployment on the North Shore is at about 21 percent.
"Why are people hurting each other in Staten Island across the different religious racial communities? One in five people is unemployed ... that makes people very wary of the next person who doesn't look like or seem like or act like them, because everybody's vying for a place to survive. At the root of much of what separates us as a community, is the very suffering, economically, of the people in our community. That casts our Poor People's Dinner in a different light."
As she spoke, volunteers stood behind her preparing to serve lunch in the food pantry. Already, hungry crowds had gathered outside on Bay Street to wait for what, for many of them, would be their first, and only meal of the day.
"It's the turning of the season; We need to get food out to people in the pantry and money into the pockets of people facing eviction," said the Rev. Troia.
The annual Poor People's Dinner has, since its origin in the borough in 1998, raised thousands of dollars for programs and services geared toward people in need.
Tickets for this year's dinner are $75 for the general public and $35 for students. Manhattan Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch will be the keynote speaker.
"There is a need of offering our community, from people who live on the hills to people who live in the valleys as a way to help our brothers," said Joe Madory, who has been behind the event since the beginning. "It is the week of Thanksgiving, the week of opulence. Start by having a simple meal of bread and soup."
Between July of 2009 and 2010, Project Hospitality served 1,238,492 meals to the hungry, more than ever in its history.
For reservations, call 718-448-1544 or email email@example.com. People are encouraged to bring cans to the event to stock the borough's food pantries.


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By NATE OWEN
SPRINGFIELD – While nerve-wracking at times, it was hard to challenge the Falcons' aggressive penalty kill Friday night against Worcester.
Springfield entered the night having killed off 33 straight penalties over their last nine games, and ran that streak to 37 before their luck finally ran out midway through the third period, as the Sharks scored two goals in five minutes to emerge with a 3-1 win over Springfield before 3,799 at the MassMutual Center on Friday night.
Leading 1-0 midway through the third period, the Falcons faced an extended penalty kill session, as Ben Guite was given a five minute major for boarding, having slammed Worcester's Chris Lawrence to the ice at 10:22.
As they had done through the night, the Falcons churned out another shorthanded chance, but this time it came back to haunt them. Dane Byers broke down the slot, but was denied by Worcester goalie Alex Stalock, who came out of the net and made a cross ice pass to Jonathan Cheechoo, who found Cam MacIntyre for the equalizer at 14:22.
Worcester quickly converted again while still on the power play, as former UMass defender Matt Irwin unleashed a bomb from just inside the left blueline that Cheechoo was in position to tip in from the right post past an exposed Gustaf Wesslau, who had crept up in the crease to play the intital shot.
"I didn't get a good look at the hit, so it's hard to say whether [it should have been] a major penalty," Springfield head coach Rob Riley said. "We had people saying he was rolling around like he was hurt, but then two shifts later he was back out playing. I won't know for sure until I see the tape, but that five minutes really changed the game."
The Falcons were forced to play shorthanded without one of their penalty killers in Mike Blunden, who left the game after his shoulder popped out of its socket.
Dan DaSilva's goal at 14:57 came just after the conclusion of the penalty and completed the Worcester onslaught.
A chippy first period saw plenty of action after the whistle but no scoring for either team. The Sharks churned out the better chances early, but were undone by turnovers and poor decisions with the puck, which neutralized any threat in the Falcon zone and gave Springfield the chance to go on the attack.
Wesslau made fifteen saves in the opening period, several of the highlight reel variety, including denying the Sharks' Tommy Wingels on a shorthanded breakaway. Wingels broke in along the boards and deked to the open slot, but Wesslau was there to cover the puck late in the period.
"He was able to see most of the [shots], and if he can see them he's very quick," Riley said of Wesslau. "We almost got through the five minute major. If we just could have gotten through that, we would have been in good shape."
The physical behavior after the whistle continued in the second, as Springfield's Steven Goertzen and Worcester's Joe Loprieno were each given five minutes for fighting coupled with a slashing penalty on Loprieno that initiated the get together in the first place, and gave the Falcons their second power play of the night.
Springfield wasted no time converting, as Guite won the faceoff and Tom Sestito took advantage, grabbing the puck and stuffing in the right post past Stalock just five seconds in the power play at 3:21.
Worcester gained two more power play opportunities in the second, but Springfield's swarming penalty unit denied the Sharks for the time being, while creating several shorthanded chances.
Wesslau finished with 39 saves, while Stalock turned away 20 shots.
NOTES: The game marked the 1,000 career game behind the bench for Worcester head coach Roy Sommer. Sommer is currently the longest tenured coach in the AHL and ranks fourth in league history with 461 wins over thirteen seasons, all with the San Jose organization ... Sunday's game against the Portland Pirates has been pushed up from 3 p.m. to 2 p.m. in order to give fans time to watch the New England Patriots' playoff game at 4:30 ... The Sharks feature a large contingent of players and a coach with collegiate ties to Massachusetts as Nick Petrecki (Boston College), Sean Sullivan (Boston University), Ryan Lannon (Harvard), Joe Loprieno (Merrimack), Nick Schaus, Carton Hutton (UMass-Lowell), Cory Quirk, Irwin, James Marcou, Justin Braun (UMass-Amherst), and assistant coach Dave Cunniff (Salem State) each played their collegiate pucks in the state.


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A proposal to strengthen Louisiana's ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide will be debated by the full House. The measure by Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, would spell out that someone authorized to approve medical procedures for another person may not approve any procedure that would be considered assisted suicide or euthanasia.
That prohibition also would be extended to include surgical or medical treatment for the developmentally disabled or nursing home residents who may be unable to make their own medical decisions.
The bill was supported without objection Wednesday by the Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee.
Louisiana already has a prohibition in criminal law against euthanasia and assisted suicide. But Seabaugh said he wanted to make sure it was clear in the state's medical consent law.
"It makes it very clear that in this state we do not condone euthanasia," said Jeff White, a Shreveport cardiologist who supported the bill on behalf of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation. He added, "There are always concerns in the medical community as to the rights of the disabled and how their care is handled."


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The second airing of a TV segment produced by the "Designing Spaces" television series on Lifetime to explain to homebuyers the closing process and the importance of purchasing an owner's title insurance policy will air at 7:30 a.m. Friday, June 1.
You can click here to view the segment, which is titled "Protecting Your Best Investment."
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Last night at Citi Field
A.J. Burnett took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and combined with two relievers as the Yankees one-hit the Mets. Nick Swisher and Jorge Posada belted opposite-field homers to power a 5-0 victory as the Bombers secured the season series.
Random statistical minutia: The Yankees' one-hit shutout at the Mets on Saturday marked the club's first one-hitter since 6/30/06 vs. the Mets at the original Yankee Stadium, when RHP Mike Mussina (4.0IP), LHP Ron Villone (2.0IP), RHP Scott Proctor (1.0IP), RHP Kyle Farnsworth (1.0IP) and RHP Mariano Rivera (1.0IP) combined to hold the Mets to 1H in a 2-0 shutout…last night's win was the Yankees' first one-hitter thrown on the road since 4/27/02 at Seattle when Ted Lilly lost a 1-0 complete-game…the last time the Yankees won a one-hitter on the road came on 9/2/01 at Boston when Mike Mussina came within one out of a no-hitter in a 1-0 Yankees victory.
Johnny Damon and Derek Jeter were idle observers for this one, and Phil Hughes also has a touch of the flu bug as well. That brings the Yankee traveling party sick bed to 10, at last count.
Tonight Chien-Ming Wang looks to score that elusive first victory as he gets the ball in the ESPN game, with Livan Hernandez on the hill for the Mets.
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Cano. The guy has a problem, as in hitting the ball up the center every time and either banging into a double play (with runners on, of course) or worse. He has NO business batting after A-Rod. Don't we have a bat to protect A-Rod?
Girardi is a poor manager. Sorry, but he is.
Why in the name of all that is holy does Girardi have old "bang into a double play" or "hit it up the middle to end the inning" CANO batting after Alex? Cano should bat last. Period.
Girardi can't manager his way out of his shoes, let alone this team!
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Scranton/WB 5
Rochester (Twins) 6
W: Lahey (1-0, 8.18); L: Claggett (3-4, 2.68)
HR: ROC: Huber, Ju (10), Plouffe (6), Valencia (2).
Reading (Phillies) 2
Trenton 8
W: Schmidt (6-1, 1.48); L: Walls (0-1, 9.00)
HR: TRN: Vazquez, J (10).
Reading (Phillies) 7 (7)
Trenton 2
W: Worley (5-4, 3.63); L: Johnson, Ja (0-1, 10.80)
HR: REA: Slayden (3).
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Savannah (Mets) 3
W: Nolte (1-0, 3.24); L: Allen, K (5-3, 4.26); SV: Ortiz, J (1)
HR: CSC: Joseph (1). SAV: Gronauer (4).
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W: Marte, R (1-0, 2.08); L: Colome (1-1, 3.72)
HR: None.
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Tampa 4
W: Kaplan (1-2, 3.12); L: Zink (4-7, 4.41); SV: Alvarez, Ma (7)
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Savannah (Mets) 2
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Editor's note: Bernardo Baca refers to a newspaper story promotion that referenced zoo animals and jail inmates being watched and fed on Thanksgiving.
Paper's zoo animal reference insensitive
A recent inference that inmates are equal to the animals at the zoo is an outrage! I am very offended and cannot believe that you could be so shallow and insincere to not even consider the feelings of not only us inmates but also our loved ones at home.
Classifying inmates with beasts of burden or just plain burdens is how your comment made us feel.
Contrary to popular belief, many of us "watched and fed" do possess the ability not only to write but read as well. Only a few of us inmates have been tried and convicted and those of us who have would relish the opportunity to rectify and redeem our past mistakes. Without the possibility of redemption, rehabilitation cannot and will not be achieved.
Worse than a slap in the face, the next time you decide to insult our integrity as well as our virtues, please allow us the opportunity to speak on our own behalf. We are not proud of what we have done nor do we condone anyone who breaks the law — we are only human.
You should check to see how many inmates currently subscribe to your newspaper. I am pretty sure we beat the spider monkeys hands down!
I feel an apology or, at the least, an explanation is in order.
Bernardo Beau Baca III
Best solution for Iraq is to leave now
The president's political free-fall comes with a growing consensus that Iraq is a monumental mistake that will haunt us as much or more than Vietnam. So now the talk is turning to the circumstances of withdrawal.
So far the emerging idea is that we can't just cut and run, having invested so much blood and treasure; we must train the Iraqis to handle their own security. But I think the reality of the situation does not support that ideal, and that in fact the best thing to do is to get out now.
Point: There is going to be civil conflict in Iraq with or without us; it's out of our hands.
Point: Most, although not all of the armed insurgency is directed at us, which means that when we leave, most of the insurgency will evaporate, leaving a fledgling democracy free to innovate within the norms of their culture, not ours. It will indeed be messy, but far fewer innocent people will die in the streets every day.
But of course it's unlikely this will happen. Why? Because the timetable for withdrawal is in my view not particularly based on who suffers and dies, but the completion of the dozen-plus permanent American military bases along the oil supply lines. Being built, by the way by Haliburton and others who should be rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure.
But it's their country. Their oil. By what right can we do this?
And of course, what part of "stop this insanity" don't we understand?
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This will be the second game played on the Rebels' FieldTurf surface in Vaught-Hamingway Stadium. The artificial turf cost roughly $500,000 and was paid for by two anonymous Ole Miss donors.
Ole Miss is the first school in the Southeastern Conference to install the trendy FieldTurf on its game field. Some schools in the conference have the turf on practice fields. Alabama has a new Polytan synthetic surface in its Hank Crisp indoor football facility.
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It was one of the first toswitch from artificial turf back to natural grass in 1984. It went back to an artificial surface in 2003 when it installed AstroPlay.
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A New Look for Oracle Technology Network
By Justin Kestelyn
From a fixed width to a new header, design changes provide a consistent user experience across Oracle Websites.
We've made several important changes to the Oracle Technology Network Website since the last issue of this magazine, and I hope you like them as much as I do.
First of all, there's a new URL for the Oracle Technology Network home page: oracle.com/technetwork .
One of the biggest changes came in April, when we went fixed width. This means that the borders of the Website no longer dynamically change to accommodate your browser window. There are several reasons for this change, including easier content management.
You can access the fly-out menu from any page on oracle.com or the Oracle Technology Network site. And for the first time in several years, you have direct access to the Downloads index from anywhere on oracle.com.
The new "I am a . . ." menu takes you directly to resources specifically for DBAs/application developers, Java developers, architects, and system administrators/developers. I'm especially excited about this role-based navigation feature.
If you like, you can now directly access product overviews, Oracle University and Oracle Support information, the Oracle Store, Oracle partner information, Oracle corporate information, and more from the Oracle Technology Network site. This is also a first.
Keep in mind that we didn't just make this stuff up. Our new approach was validated in extensive user testing. And although any new design takes some time to get used to, I'm confident that in the long run, you'll be more satisfied with your Oracle Technology Network experience.
You will soon see even more dramatic changes, involving not only the move to a new content management system (Oracle Universal Content Management) but also the incorporation of a massive new content store from Sun. If you're a Java developer, every piece of information you need to build an application—from downloading the software to exploring the Java APIs and learning coding practices—will be available from Oracle Technology Network. This represents major new value for the community.
It's not just about Java, of course; Oracle Solaris has also become a first-class topic area for us. Thus the content formerly residing at sun.com/bigadmin is joining the Oracle Technology Network family. And if you're an Oracle Solaris admin or developer, you should subscribe to our new Oracle Solaris Community Newsletter this very second, at oracle.com/newsletters .
All in all, it's a great time to be an Oracle Technology Network member. The horizons have expanded, and the possibilities are endless.
Justin Kestelyn ( email@example.com ) is senior director, Oracle Technology Network and developer programs, as well as Oracle Technology Network editor in chief.


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When the recent storms shut down the 520 bridge and the 124th Street Bridge, the police realized that a monumental traffic jam would ensue if they permitted the traffic light at Main and Virginia to operate on its programmed cycle during rush hour. They wisely shut off the traffic light and stationed officers at this intersection and at the intersection of West Snoqualmie Road and Woodinville-Duvall road, to direct traffic.
In my judgement, the traffic flowed smoothly with very few delays. I did not envy those officers standing out in the rain. My hat's off to them.
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Have you ever had that feeling - the one way down in your stomach that says you don't quite fit in? The one that whispers in your ear while you're busy pretending everything is fine? That feeling that says you're not quite big enough, or small enough. You're not quite smart enough, or you're too smart. You're not quite pretty enough, you're not quite athletic enough, you're not straight enough, you're different, whatever it may be.
That feeling, that if people knew the real you, knew the secrets that you don't tell anyone, no one would like you. The feeling that no matter how hard you try, you'll never be quite perfect enough.
If so, congratulations. That makes you just about normal. If not, congratulations, you are immortal. You are one of the golden ones.
The golden ones have their own special table at lunch in school, where it is never stated aloud, but everyone knows, that mere mortals will never be invited to tread. They never have bad hair days or get blemishes right on the tip of their nose so the whole world can see them or wear jeans that went out of style last year. They never worry that they will not be asked to prom or that someone will push the books out of their arm when they are walking to a class in which they will get an excellent grade without seeming to have to try too hard. They will graciously smile when the less glowing students congratulate them on a touchdown catch or a cheerleading back handspring or the lead role in the play or another offer for a college scholarship, but they will probably never ask that mortal student how she or he is, or what they might be feeling.
The rest can't help but look at the golden ones - take note of how they talk and dress and that smooth, effortless way they move through the world without ever stuttering or blushing, or seeming to feel anger or worry or fear. Some will try their best to emulate their clothes, movements, opinions and expressions, though it will never quite get them a seat at that table. Others will do their best to look as opposite from the elite as they can.
What one doesn't realize at junior high or high school age is that the golden ones are usually a little more tarnished than they appear. That great cheekbones or big biceps do not mean that a person doesn't have problems and fears - perhaps more fear, because that image of perfection is a tough act to keep up. Luckily, they are not yet aware that beauty, athleticism, popularity may be fleeting currency, it does not necessarily last forever.
The golden ones aren't out to hurt anyone, they are just so used to being admired that it may not occur to them to think much about other people. If they have a sin, it is one of omission - they don't usually speak up for those who could use a hand, because, they usually don't see them.
Then there are the bullies, whose job it is to loudly remind us of our every imperfection, magnify our fears, and more or less generally make life miserable for anyone they can get to.
I feel as sorry for these kids - and the rotten adults they may well grow into - as I do for their victims.
I know how pathetic and weak and insecure bullies are, because I was one of them - for about three minutes.
It was fourth grade at old Hawley School in Fort Dodge, I think. There was a kid named Kevin in class who got made fun of a lot. I wanted to fit in, so one day I made a joke of his surname too, which happened to be much too similar to a species of primate for a bonehead like me to resist.
I don't think I realized that what I thought was funny would hurt Kevin, but that's a lousy excuse. Apparently I was the last of far too many straws in his world.
When I was leaving the classroom that day, Kevin snuck up from behind and gave me a hammer fist square in the middle of my back.
He was a pretty solid kid, and anyone who has ever been hit in that particular spot knows that it kind of knocks the life out of you temporarily, and worse, creates a big echoing boom sort of sound that will have half the school looking around to see what happened, and of course laughing their butts off.
I remember to this day the thoughts as I laid there on the floor, my books spilled out all around, with everyone looking at me:
1. They've done some beautiful grout work on the tile floors of this school. People really should get a close up look at it.
2. As soon as I get some breath back into my aching lungs, I should get up and beat the snot out of Kevin.
3. On third thought, no - I deserve every bit of this. I want to remember what this feels like so I'll never be tempted to be mean to anyone again.
And so I laid there, not really as hurt as I let on, and gave Kevin his moment, and hoped it made up a little bit for my stupid thoughtlessness.
Because Kevin, wherever you are, you gave me much, much more that day. It was probably the best thing I ever learned at that school.
We all need to learn that when someone is getting teased, or abused, or threatened - that not physically hurting someone isn't enough. That not even silence is enough. You have to try to do something. You have to step between the bullies and their victim, you have to ask people if they are OK. Just like I should have done for Kevin.
No piece of writing, no awards, no business success, these days, gives me the pleasure that I get from working with a couple of charities for troubled families and children, teaching the littlest kid in the class my business adopts how to hit a basket, writing on behalf of fundraisers and projects to help those who are need a hand. That's you, Kevin. I'm still trying to push myself up on that smooth, chilly tile, get some air back in me, and make up a little tiny bit for all of my shortcomings.
If I knew nothing else about our governor, the fact that he put together the state's first Summit on Bullying recently would be enough to tell me he is a good man. It's a silly political move - getting caught up in a children's issue, knowing nothing you do will really stop bullying, and knowing when the next tragedy happens, people are going to scoff at you for trying and failing in public. I'm sure you party swanks warned you it was a fool's errand. But it is a brilliant human errand - doing what little you can as a person, in whatever position one has in life, to help. It's a step. Thank you, Terry Branstad.
Truth is, it won't be enough. No conference or expert speakers or prominent authors or slick video package will ever be enough to stop bullying, because it isn't in that world of campaign slogans that bullying is born.
What will stop it is the kids. They bring the change. Always have. An old generation that has fallen short shuffles grumpily aside, and a new one brings a new attitude.
Many of our forms of discrimination have died out or are being rendered extinct in this slow, patient, youthful fashion, turning over a new generation. In a generation's time, people will be amazed that we didn't let gay people marry, or let bright immigrant children achieve a path to citizenship, just as we are now amazed that women once couldn't vote, or blacks ride in the front of the bus.
When their peers look down on bullies for what they are - weak excuses of human beings who take out their own insecurities on others - bullying will begin to disappear. Because the one thing a bully can't live with is being pitied. When kids create an environment where it's OK for someone who is troubled - bully or bullied - to reach out for the help they need, they will find it.
I'm told that in local high schools, it's not the highly trained staff and counselors who are killing bullying, it's kids who see other kids suffering and stand up to it, or report it to someone who can help. We should be proud of them for that. It takes a hell of a lot more courage to stand up to a bully and say, "That it isn't right," than it does to be a shove a smaller kid against a locker.
We can't all be golden ones. We can't all be the biggest and strongest, kings and queens of the school and whatever world eventually waits beyond it. But we all can seize the moment when we are needed, when we can ease someone's pain, reach down to help someone up, just as we hope someone will do that for us when we need it. "Here, grab my hand. Let's get out of here. It's going to be OK." To be a friend to someone totally needs one - that might be the best stuff a kid ever learns.
Funny thing about the golden ones, and the bullies. There are a whole lot more of us than there are of either of them. We're the ordinary people - but we are capable of doing extraordinary things when we need to.
Thank you, Kevin. Wherever you may be tonight, I wish you happiness.
Oh, and ...
Nice punch.
Dana Larsen is editor of the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune and a former staff writer at The Messenger.


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While you were Dean of Graduate Studies at Yale, you also tried to foster more communication between disciplines. Could you tell us about that?
The other program we started when I was Dean was a lecture series called "In the Company of Scholars." Jonathan Spence gave a lecture yesterday morning -- he's a historian of China. Arguably, certainly, the nation's best Chinese historian. So I had a thought. I was walking down the street one day. Remember, I was in the Neurobiology Department in the Medical School -- I knew the name Jonathan Spence -- and I walked by the Yale bookstore and there was a display of his most recent book. And I looked at the book and I thought, "You know, if Jonathan Spence passed me on the street, I wouldn't recognize him, because as a neurobiologist I know many of the neurobiologists. I don't know any of these historians." And it struck me that this is another necessary consequence of graduate education being narrow and deep. Necessary, but not exclusionary. And so I started -- I and my colleague started -- this program "In the Company of Scholars," where three times a semester I would invite a faculty member from science, the humanities or the social sciences to give a lecture to the graduate school community. The graduate school at Yale had 2,200 students and roughly 600, 700 faculty were affiliated with the graduate school. So these lectures were expressly for the graduate community: graduate students, faculty in the graduate school. And the charge I gave to each of the faculty speakers was, "Tell us about your topic, but in a way that an intelligent person from another discipline can understand it." Well, this became a wonderfully exciting series of lectures. Of course, the first person I invited to give the lecture "In the Company of Scholars" was Jonathan Spence, and he gave a magnificent lecture. And I don't know, there were over 100 people in the audience, and then we had a reception afterward. And as I went from group to group around the reception, they were talking about the lecture, and that continued, as I said, three times a semester. It was a wonderful way of bringing the graduate community together, and giving students and faculty an opportunity to hear from the masters outside of their own disciplines.
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What does it take to make a university competitive?
MIT was founded in 1861 to serve the industrializing nation. It was founded with a very practical ambition, which was to prepare engineers and scientists to provide the kind of understanding and technology that the nation needed. By the middle of the 19th century we had colleges that were in place from early in the 18th century and before that. But by the middle of the 19th century, graduate education was not available in the United States. It was only available in Europe, and frankly, technical education was not really available in the United States. There was a brain drain of U.S. intelligence -- intellect -- to Europe. What's happening then was actually what we see in the United States today -- they would go and stay. Now people come to the United States and they stay, and I wish we had made it easier for them to stay from all over the world -- brilliant people around the world who want to come and study and work in the United States at our research universities. In any case, around the middle of the 19th century the first graduate schools were started in the United States, and MIT and a number of technical universities were also established to begin to serve this industrializing nation's needs.
You've maintained some programs at MIT to extend science education beyond the university itself. Would you like to talk about that?
One of the things we do at MIT, as you may know, is we put all of our courses online, a program called Open Courseware. We don't give any credit for it, but the materials for all of our courses are online. Some of the courses are present in full video. Most of them not, but you could take a course just using those materials rather than going to a textbook. In the fall, we launched a new portal for Open Courseware called Highlights for High School, because we learned that many high school students and teachers are accessing the Open Courseware site. So high school students and teachers around the world, where the high school curriculum has been exhausted and they want to go a little further, were turning to MIT's materials. The Open Courseware site is not so easy to navigate. It's targeted, at the lowest, for a freshman at MIT, and the freshmen at MIT, let's just say, are pretty advanced. So we opened a portal to make it easier for high school students and teachers to navigate the site. As I said, it's called Highlights for High Schools. But one of the things on the site that I particularly love is that we've taken three of the AP courses -- biology, I think it's chemistry and calculus, I think those were the three -- and mapped the curriculum for those courses to Open Courseware material. And again, I just feel enormously envious of the students who were like me in high school, who want to take AP biology but their school doesn't have an AP biology course, and so instead of trying to figure it out on their own, they can actually go to MIT and access all the marvelous materials that we have so that they can study what's equivalent to AP biology with our stuff.
Was that your idea, because it's something you had to do without?
Susan Hockfield: Open Courseware was an idea that came about long before I was at MIT. It's really brilliant. It came from a brilliant insight. What years must it have been? Probably the late '90s. A lot of schools were concerned about the impact of distance education on residential education, and a lot of schools embarked on various experiments in distance education. People were concerned about what it would cost, or interested in whether these could be revenue-producing enterprises.
My predecessor, Chuck Vest, convened a group of faculty to think about how MIT should approach distance education. So this very extraordinary group of faculty went off and thought about it and came back and the report was "Oh, we've looked at it every possible way and we've concluded that you can't make money at it, so we should give it all away for free." And so MIT embarked on what has become Open Courseware, and it is a really quite remarkable force for the democratization of education. We get emails from people all over the world who have used it and describing how it's changed their lives. Then, when I arrived, there was information coming from people who had used the site, and we discovered that there were a lot of high school students and teachers using it. And there were faculty and staff at MIT who were anxious to provide an Open Courseware opportunity that would be actually targeted to high school students and teachers, and I encouraged that development, because I think it's so important. I think that there are a lot of students who have interests in the kinds of things MIT does -- science and engineering -- and yet because of a paucity of educational materials or educational insight, while they're in high school, lose that passion. And it's very important for our nation that we help those young people understand just how wonderfully exciting and rewarding advanced science and engineering are, and how important it is for them to keep their interests focused, and graduate from high school, and then aspire to study science and engineering at the college level.
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Today we conclude our interview series with Polly Shulman, author of the Truman Award-nominated book, "The Grimm Legacy." To read the first chapter online, be sure to visit Polly's website at www.pollyshulman.com. For more great reading recommendations, don't forget to check out the full list of 2013 Truman Award Nominees. The Daniel Boone Regional Library thanks Polly for taking the time to chat with us, and we'd also like to give a shout out to Hayden and Garett Ballard for being great interview hosts!
Hayden: What advice do you have for an aspiring author?
Polly: The most important thing is to read. Read, read, read! Read a book you think you're going to like. Read books you think you're NOT going to like. Read books that are different from anything you've ever read. That will help you learn about how other writers approach their stories and it will give you a ton of ideas.
Then, once you start writing, don't be too hard on yourself. It's important to step away and come back to your writing even if you think it's terrible. Even the best authors write a lot of stuff that's terrible.
Another very helpful tip is that if you do get stuck, take a break. The best kind of break to take is one where you move around and get a little exercise. Go for a walk, a swim, or a bike ride. It's important to get yourself moving and get a change of scenery.
You might also have a friend who loves to read and write who could be your writing buddy. You can read each other's work and encourage one another. My best friend and I read each other's work and it's really inspiring.
Garett: Are you working on another book right now?
Polly: I just finished the second Repository novel, "The Wells Bequest," and it will be published next summer. It involves objects from classic science fiction including time machines and death rays. So, now I'm thinking about the next book and trying to decide what to write next.


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Angelina Jolie won the award for her directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey. The event took place on the fifth day of the Berlin International Film Festival during Cinema For Peace Gala ceremony.
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Are you talking about building a 'disaster kit' using primal foods. It's pretty depressing how all of the really cheap foods that preserve for years are on the 'bad' list.
Rice is about all I have. And grow your own veges.
I gotta admit. One of my guilty pleasures is the National Geographic Channel show Doomsday Preppers . . . some of them are just nuts - but some of them are just impressive and inspiring. It makes me want to make an effort to be better prepared in case of disaster - even if not an apocalyptic one - living where I do, wildfires, blizzards and floods are real and presents threats at any given time.
But how does one prepare and stay primal, especially as concerns putting food by? Most canning recipes call for lots of sugar or salt. And grains are one of the easiest foods to store for longer periods of time, but the need to rotate things in and out of what you have in stock means eating those grains before they go bad . . .
Any thoughts? Or am I the only one weird enough to think about these things?
(Though you can't get much more primal than being forced into a hunter-gatherer lifestyle following an apocalypse, right?)
Healthy Bucket List:
- Summit all of Colorado's 14-ers
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- Do a real pull-up
- Run a 5k
- Be "Hot For Training Camp"
Check out my journey at Outdoor Amy's Blog.
Are you talking about building a 'disaster kit' using primal foods. It's pretty depressing how all of the really cheap foods that preserve for years are on the 'bad' list.
Rice is about all I have. And grow your own veges.
Disclaimer: I eat 'meat and vegetables' ala Primal, although I don't agree with the carb curve. I like Perfect Health Diet and WAPF Lactofermentation a lot.
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5,000 Cal Fat <> 5,000 Cal Carbs
Winterbike: What I eat every day is what other people eat to treat themselves.
TQP: I find for me that nutrition is much more important than what I do in the gym.
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Essentially, yes . . . and you've hit right on the problem I'm having - jerky will last for a while, rice (not the best choice, but it's gluten free at least) and home canning, but recipes without (or with low sugar) sugar and high salt don't last as long, as those ingredients provide preservative benefits . . . and since you have to rotate things out to keep them from going bad, that means you have to eat whatever you store eventually - so you don't want to get too many non-primal foods to preserve or you'll just be wasting your money or wrecking your diet.
Healthy Bucket List:
- Summit all of Colorado's 14-ers
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- Do a real pull-up
- Run a 5k
- Be "Hot For Training Camp"
Check out my journey at Outdoor Amy's Blog.
I still think canning on your own (with organic/locally grown produce) is better than depending on the grocery store's options. Sugar would probably be the least of your worries if something happened that warranted breaking out the rations.
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Ha, I was going to post this exact thread earlier this week and hadn't gotten around to it. I like the idea of prepping, we recently had one of our major cities in NZ totally out of action due to a major earthquake so its something quite real for us at present.
Some of my friends are stocked up with a years suply of wheat, rice, salt, sugar and the likes, and I think it only works if you are constantly using these items and replacing what you've used every month or so, that way it keeps fairly fresh. This to me is the major flaw of currently living primal, because in an emergency situation I won't care what I eat, but to cycle the stored food through with minimum of waste you'd need to eat it all regularly.
I need to put together a bit more of a kit and I was going to focus on water stores, tinned products, powdered milk etc. I suppose coconut products would store well also, coconut cream in a tin, desicated coconut, coconut flour. EVOO kept in dark, airtight containers would probably last a while too. Oh and of course a years supply of dark chocolate would be the minimum for any household surely?
Watching this thread with interest for other ideas.
Yo preppers beez wacks, son.
Instead of prepping you should be strength training, because if a meteor drops on me, I won't need any canned tuna.
Dude! Laugh all you like.......Feb 2011 my SIL found herself in an unlivable home, with a year old baby and dog, no electricity, no running water, no toilet, two days worth of nappies, no dog food, all supermarkets in her city closed/destroyed, car that she couldn't get out of the garage. This went on for weeks.........
I'll be prepping thanks all the same.
Lots of canned fish and vegetables. I am not sure I would be so concerned with optimal health in such a scenario. Besides, my teen sons get in a frenzy about World War Z if I mentioned anything that is remotely close to a survivalist situation. (World War Z is about the zombie holocaust...)
Check out Jack Spirko's podcast called (appropriately enough) The Survival Podcast. He's a prepper without falling into the "tin hat" insanity, and he's Paleo too. I found him when he had Mark on his podcast maybe as much as a year ago.


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Thank you to everyone who responded to the 2011/12 budget consultation.
The final budget proposals for 2011/12 were approved by full Council at its meeting on 24 February, with 34 councillors voting in favour of the budget and 29 voting against.
The Council approved the following with no amendments:
- the Budget 2011/12 with revised proposals following the consultation
- the Capital programme for 2011/12 to 2014/15, which sets out the money allocated for Council building and maintenance projects over the period including £100m over the next four years for school refurbishment schemes
- the medium-term financial strategy, which outlines the authority's finance plans up to 2014/15
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The Council made a number of changes to the budget proposals in the light of feedback received during the five month consultation period. They included:
- reducing the Supporting People budget by £10m over four years - the least critical option
- putting an additional £70,000 back into the budget to lower the planned opening hour reductions at smaller libraries. A further £406,000 will be ploughed back into the pot to buy new library books
- keeping all the county's household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) open seven days a week with no changes to their opening hours
- adding back £200,000 to the country parks budget
- a lower cut to grant aid budgets by reinstating £450,000.
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