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Web applications, by definition, work in conjunction with a Web server to perform a variety of tasks, ranging from displaying basic customized greetings to performing complex transactions. Most complex Web applications also make use of a database to store information.
While none of the above are radically different when developing a traditional standalone application, a Web application developer might think CVS is designed for working on traditional offline applications. I know I thought like this until I realized how applicable CVS is to Web development and how useful it really is.
One of the more important differences between the two types of applications is the notion of a "working copy." A standalone application developer can usually transfer a set of source files to his own development machine, compile it, and expect it to work. There's usually minimal configuration required each time a new version of the source is used. On a Web development environment, however, there are differences, stemming from the client/server nature of Web applications. These applications usually require the presence of a certain environment. The environment can consist of the environment variables on the server, variables specific to the Web server application, and the database that is being used. Again, some of these also apply to standalone applications, but are more visible when programming for the Web.
It is possible to increase productivity and speed up Web development by making use of facilities that CVS provides.
This is a case study on how to make the most of CVS in a Web-application development context. What I will describe here is the environment that I have set up to satisfy our particular needs and, as such, does not cover all possible scenarios, nor does it go into depth about how to set up a CVS server or use CVS commands, for which there's a lot of documentation available (see links below).
Here is our scenario:
A Windows & Unix shop developing PHP and MySQL Web applications. Each employee has access to either Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, or all of the above.
Some developers are more familiar with Windows tools such as advanced text editors and graphical diff viewers, and they usually want to test their code on a Windows-only Web browser. These people should still be able to use their favorite development environment. On the other hand, if others choose to develop on Unix systems, they should also be able to do it without a problem. It is also desired that people can work from home or other offices with minimal hassle.
After initially toying with the idea of having one development environment on which all developers would work and test their changes, I've decided to create a separate working environment for each developer. My reasoning was: it is very easy to create a separate virtual host on the Web server and keep one developer's working copy separate from that of another's.
By its nature, Web development requires a lot of testing at each step. Even getting a page to display right might require an extensive amount of coding, testing, and recoding. Having a separate environment gives the developer the freedom to do whatever he wants, without causing other developers any trouble.
On our project, we opted for using the same instance of the database, because the code is not very dependent on the actual data in the database. As long as the database structure is the same, we can share the same database without a problem, since the actual data in it is test data anyway. If we need to, we can easily get the latest state of the database from whoever made the change by inspecting differences in the MySQL structure dump for the two databases.
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The repository can be on a separate server that doesn't have a Web server installed or it, can be on the development server itself. We have opted to run the development server and the CVS server on the same machine. Since the CVS repository is a separate entity, it will not be affected at all by this.
Although some of our developers work on the development server, I have placed my working directory on my Linux desktop, which I am also able to access via SAMBA from my Windows desktop. This way I have a self-contained development system and native access to both Windows and Linux tools. I have also set up a MySQL database and Apache with PHP on my Linux desktop.
If you're working on the same server as the CVS server, everything is straightforward. All you have to do is check out the source code into your working directory once. After that, you can update, add, and commit source code locally by running the appropriate CVS commands.
However, if you'll be placing your working directory on a different server like I've done, there are a few more configuration changes you have to make before you can successfully use CVS.
The optimum solution I came up with was to use SSH to talk to and transfer files to and from the CVS server. In order to do this, you should first install the SSH clients on your desktop. This will work both on Windows and on Linux, but I will talk about setting up Linux here. After installing the SSH clients, you'll need to set up a few environment variables so you don't have to enter the CVS server info every time you initiate a CVS command.
The first environment variable to be set is the
CVS_RSH variable that determines the transfer protocol to be used by CVS.
On a system using a BASH shell, this would look like:
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
The next setting is the
CVSROOT variable, which takes care of all the CVS server information, including the username, host, and the path to the CVS repository on the CVS server.
export CVSROOT=":ext:username@cvsrepos_hostname_or_IP:/path/cvs_project"
You can put the above in an initialization script such as
rc.local or a per-user login script such as
The same environment variables also apply to Windows systems (see links below).
After the SSH client and the above environment variables are set, all you have to do is go to the directory on your development server where you would like to place your working copy of the source code and run:
cvs checkout module_name
At this step, you will be asked for a password unless you set up a host-based authentication mechanism to the SSH server.
Related Articles:
Introduction to CVS -- Jennifer Vesperman explains CVS, the Concurrent Versioning System, which is a popular system for storing and version-controlling files. This first article is intended for folks who will be using CVS already installed on a system. Jennifer explains check-out, update, adding, merging, and other functions.
CVS Administration -- Jennifer Vesperman explains how to create and manage a CVS repository.
Setting up host-based SSH authentication is easy. All you have to do is generate a key for yourself using the
ssh-keygen command, making sure not to specify a passphrase or a password, and append the public key created to the appropriate
authorized_keys file on the CVS server. The
authorized_keys or
authorized_keys2 (depending on which SSH protocol you're using) file will be in the
~username/.ssh/ on the CVS server.
After the environment settings and the host-based authentication is in place, remotely using CVS is absolutely the same as using it locally on the CVS server itself, which is a real blessing.
If you've set up your working environment as above, you can edit your code on Windows or Linux, commit your changes to the CVS repository using the same commands as you would on a local CVS server, regardless of where you're executing the commands. You can also run the development environment on a Windows machine, but I'd rather not do that, since our production server is running FreeBSD. (Well, this is not the only reason but
You might be thinking "Why bother?, why not just keep developing without CVS?" Here are some real-world answers to these questions.
Any number of developers can be working on any file at any time. If more than one developer makes changes on the same file, CVS will either merge the changes or, in the case of changes that were made on the same file, it will prompt you to merge the changes manually. You will never overwrite somebody else's changes like you would if you were using regular FTP.
All changes made to any file are logged and you can revert to any state of the code.
If you decide you want to work from home, all you have to do is set up a similar working environment (maybe on an old computer lying around) and run
cvs update to get the latest version of the code as it was uploaded to the CVS repository by all other developers. You can submit your changes just as easily. You do not have to transfer files manually using FTP.
Since you'll be setting up SSH to access the repository, your transactions will always be secure.
You will code a lot more freely, because mistakes will not affect other developers; others won't be causing you any trouble, either. Furthermore, if either of these happens, you can easily recover the code from a clean state in the repository.
It will be a lot more convenient and fun to code. There's nothing more fullfilling than running
cvs commit and adding the log entry for the changes you have made. I have observed this positive effect on myself and others.
It will be much easier to publish your code. You can publish your Web applications by running native CVS commands.
You do not have to leave your native development environment. You can make use of SAMBA, FTP, SSH, SFTP, or any other method to edit your code on your working copy, and any of a number of different methods (such as SSH described above) to transfer files between the CVS repository and your working copy.
CVS eliminates the need to divide tasks between developers by page and allows developers to work on any file without notifying others to not touch that file in the meantime.
Here are some relevant links if you would like to go into the details of CVS:
Setting Up and Using CVS:
Setting up CVS with SSH Access on Windows:
Oktay Altunergil works for a national web hosting company as a developer concentrating on web applications on the Unix platform.
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Time: July 22, 2011 at 6pm to July 24, 2011 at 9pm
Location: Unit 102 & 201, Old Castle Brewery Building
Street: 6 Beach Road Woodstock
City/Town: Cape Town
Website or Map: http://www.capetown.startupwe…
Phone: 076 148 8966
Event Type: networking, entrepreneurship, skills, transfer
Organized By: Julian Parr
Latest Activity: Jul 23, 2011
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Startup Weekends are 2 day events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch a startup!
Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, half of Startup Weekend's attendees have technical backgrounds, the other half have business backgrounds.
Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees are encouraged to bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday teams design and develop business plans while constantly streamlining their startup vision. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes, listen to judges' feedback and win prizes.
Startup Weekends are specifically designed for people who want to learn more about becoming an entrepreneur, people interested in receiving feedback on an idea, looking for a business partner, or who want to learn a new skill. We also welcome anyone looking to test the entrepreneurial waters. Startup Weekends are risk-free environments where everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves and dive into the exhilarating world of startups
There is a minimal cover charge for the weekend of R500 per attendee - this covers things like wireless internet, 5 meals and refreshments and the Startup Weekend facilitator that has to be flown in from the USA.
The event organisers are all volunteers and will in no way benefit financially from this event.
This is the first Startup Weekend event that has been held in Sub-Saharan Africa and the third in the continent.
Tickets on sale here:
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Hi Peter,
Yes, do drop by and check us out....
Again, my biggest problem with all Ticket sites in SA is User Experience. Actually, it's a sever problem with 90% of SA sites. Perhaps one day we'll get there...
Tix been available for about a month and of course, on launch day - the site decides its no longer interested in working !
New interface Rob - want the job? I smell a startup!
There are so many poor ticket sites!
I managed to reserve fine. I assume that they closed online sales so close to the event. There will be tickets available at the door though.
Seriously, build me a good simple interface for registering for events and tickets!

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You don't think of video games as having "deleted scenes," but stuff gets cut from games at the last minute, the same as with movies. The difference is that once a scene is cut from a movie, you'll never see it unless they choose to throw it onto a DVD. Cutting scenes from games isn't so easy, so the code is usually lurking around in there for you to find, if it's not sitting right out in the open in some early or foreign edition of the game. This can lead to bizarre discoveries in games we thought we knew well, like ...
6EarthBound Had a Naked Level
EarthBound is the gift that keeps on giving. We've talked before about how this cutesy-looking RPG for Super Nintendo is all about abortion, and how it murders the soul of whoever tries to pirate it, but there's one thing we haven't mentioned yet -- the hidden child nudity.
Via Earthboundcentral.com
Americans would have given him a massive erection, twice the size of the rest of his body.
That's Ness, EarthBound's protagonist (who also appears in the Super Smash Bros. series), wearing his classic red hat and nothing else. This is from the Japanese version of the game, originally called Mother 2, and it's not some mistake with the colors where he's just supposed to be wearing a flesh-colored jumpsuit -- it's an area in the game known as Magicant, and whenever Ness goes there, his clothes instantly vanish. He just goes around showing his butt to everyone.
The U.S. version got around this by giving Ness some pajamas:
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Notice how the voyeuristic rabbit quickly loses interest in the second scenario.
But why the hell would Japan do this in the first place, besides, you know, because it's Japan? Well, in both versions of the game, an old man explains to Ness that Magicant is actually a world he created inside his mind; apparently in Japan, nudity symbolizes purity, so Ness' soul self or whatever is always nude (even though all the other characters still have their clothes on).
Via Earthboundcentral.com
There's something so unsettling about the shape of that snowman in this scene.
In the U.S., however, public nudity just symbolizes jail time, so they had to change the game.
5The Legend of Zelda Could Be Played by Screaming
Yes, there were enemies in the original Legend of Zelda that required you to scream them to death. The removal of this feature is the only reason an entire generation of NES consoles were not bashed to pieces by angry dads wielding claw hammers.
You can still see the remnants of this feature in the final game. The original 8-bit Legend of Zelda included one of the most misleading enemies ever, called Pols Voice. They were a pain in the ass, but they had one huge weakness, according to the game. It hints that they have huge ears, they have "voice" in their name, and even the instruction manual says they hate loud noises ...
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If the monsters in the game really looked like that, this would be an 8-bit Silent Hill.
So what killed them? Arrows. Making Link create noises doesn't do shit. You could play that goddamn flute thing until your "B" button fell off, but those things would still ... do whatever it is they're supposed to be doing that kills you. Poison or something.
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Razor-sharp whiskers?
So what's the deal? As we've briefly mentioned before, the Japanese NES included a microphone built into the second controller. In that version of the game, Pols Voice were immune to arrows. Originally, to kill these enemies, you had to scream into that microphone, like an 8-bit version of a Skyrim dragon shout. In fact, one yell could wipe out a whole room of them, as demonstrated by this video:
Since no one else got those microphones, Nintendo had to drop the feature for international markets, and apparently didn't have time or didn't think of changing the instruction manual. You know, because those things were normally so accurate anyway.
And speaking of weird things cut from Zelda games ...


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2010: Governmental protests begin in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, following 26-year-old street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. With the success of the protests in Tunisia, a wave of unrest known as the "Arab Spring" would strike Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen, then spread to other countries.
2009: The divorce of reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, who starred in "Jon & Kate Plus 8" with their eight children, is finalized.
2008: Mark Felt, the former associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who late in life revealed himself to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower known as "Deep Throat," dies at age 95 in Santa Rosa, California.
2006: Cartoonist Joseph Barbera, who co-founded the Hanna-Barbera animation studio with William Hanna in 1957, dies at the age of 95 in Los Angeles, California.
2003: In Santa Maria, California, Michael Jackson is charged with seven counts of molesting a child under 14 and two counts of supplying the child with "an intoxicating agent." Jackson's lawyer denounced the allegations and said they were driven by money and revenge. Jackson would eventually be acquitted of all charges in June 2005.
2003: A jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, convicts teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of murder in the Washington, D.C.,-area sniper shootings. Malvo would later be sentenced to life in prison without parole. He would eventually be sentenced to another life term for another murder in Virginia and six more consecutive life sentences for murders committed in Maryland.
2003: A judge in Seattle sentences confessed "Green River Killer" Gary Ridgway to 48 consecutive life terms. Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder as part of a plea bargain that spared him execution in exchange for his cooperation in locating the remains of his victims and providing other details. Ridgway murdered numerous women and girls, most of whom were also alleged prostitutes, in Washington state during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River.
2002: "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," the second part in filmmaker Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy, opens in theaters. The movie would go on to gross more than $926 million worldwide and earn six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.
1997: Actor and comedian Chris Farley is found dead at the age of 33 in his apartment in the John Hancock Center in Chicago. An autopsy would later reveal that Farley had died of a drug overdose early that morning.
1980: Singer Christina Aguilera, who released her self-titled debut solo album at the age of 18 and would become the second top-selling single artist of the 2000s behind Madonna, is born in Staten Island, New York. Some of her best known hits include "Genie in a Bottle," "What a Girl Wants," "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" and "Beautiful."
1978: Actress Katie Holmes, best known for her role in the TV drama "Dawson's Creek" and for movies such as "Batman Begins" and "Thank You For Smoking," is born in Toledo, Ohio.
1975: At a press conference, Rod Stewart announces he's leaving the Faces to go solo. Shortly thereafter, Ron Wood would depart the band to officially join the Rolling Stones.
1972: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States was engaging North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of bombings that would last through Dec. 29, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on Dec. 13. The operation would turn out to be the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the U.S. Air Force since the end of World War II.
1971: Bobby Jones, the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level, dies at the age of 69 in Atlanta, Georgia. During his peak as a golfer from 1923 to 1930, Jones dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers. In 1930, he won the U.S. Amateur Championship to become the only golfer to ever win the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam, or all four major championships in the same calendar year.
1970: Rapper and actor DMX, best known for his 2000 hit song "Party Up (Up in Here)," is born Earl Simmons in Mount Vernon, New York. He has appeared in movies such as "Belly," "Romeo Must Die," "Exit Wounds" and "Cradle 2 the Grave."
1969: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, premieres in London, England. It is the only movie in the film franchise to feature Australian actor George Lazenby, who signed on following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role. When Lazenby declined to return for a second film, producers would entice Connery back one more time for 1971's "Diamonds are Forever."
1968: Actress Rachel Griffiths, best known for movies such as "Muriel's Wedding," "Hilary and Jackie" and "Blow," and TV shows like "Six Feet Under" and "Brothers & Sisters" (pictured), is born in Melbourne, Australia. She earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in "Hilary and Jackie."
1966: The 26-minute animated short "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" airs for the first time on television.
1964: "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres with the release of the animated theatrical short "Pink Phink." The short would go on to win the 1964 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
1964: Professional wrestler Steve Austin, better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is born in Victoria, Texas. Described by WWE chairman Vince McMahon as the most profitable wrestler in the company's history, Austin gained significant mainstream popularity during the mid-to-late 1990s with the persona of the disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero.
1963: Actor Brad Pitt, whose best known roles include the movies "12 Monkeys," "Seven," "Fight Club," "Ocean's Eleven," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Moneyball," is born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He has earned Oscar nominations for "12 Monkeys," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Moneyball," and won an Oscar in 2014 as one of the producers of Best Picture-winner "12 Years a Slave," in which he also had a supporting role.
1961: The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" hits No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it will stay for three weeks.
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. SCORE, which stood for Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment, would later capture the world's attention by broadcasting a Christmas message via short wave frequency from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower through an on-board tape recorder.
1957: The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania goes online. It was the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States. It was taken out of service in 1982.
1954: Actor Ray Liotta, best known for his roles in movies such as "Goodfellas" and "Field of Dreams," is born in Newark, New Jersey.
1946: Steven Spielberg, the Academy Award-winning director of such movies as "Schindler's List," "Saving Private Ryan," "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park," is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1943: Guitarist Keith Richards, who would co-found The Rolling Stones in 1962, is born in Dartford, Kent, England.
1936: The first giant panda to reach the U.S. alive is brought back from an expedition in Tibet by Ruth Harkness, a young Manhattan socialite. A welcome diversion from the news of the Depression era, the lady and panda baby, named Su-Lin, were a media sensation. Su-Lin would eventually be acquired by Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, although he would die in April 1938. The body of Su-Lin is now on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
1932: The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL playoff game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards long. Although the game would later be described as the first NFL Championship Game, that name would not officially be used until the following year's championship game between the Bears and the New York Giants.
1917: The 18th Amendment to enact Prohibition is officially proposed when the U.S. Senate passes a resolution containing the language of the amendment to be presented to the states for ratification. The House of Representatives had passed the resolution the previous day. The amendment would be ratified on Jan. 16, 1919, with the amendment taking effect on Jan. 17, 1920.
1916: Actress Betty Grable, who would become as famous for her legs, once insured by her studio for $1 million with Lloyds of London, as for her movies, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Grable died in 1973 at age 56 of lung cancer.
1915: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before upon the death of his first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, marries Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington, D.C., home. Wilson is one of only three presidents to be widowed while in office, and also one of only three presidents who got married while in office. Wilson and Galt are seen here together in June 1920.
1892: Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" is first performed, as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, "Iolanta," at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1888: Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law, Charlie Mason, discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde, Colorado. The structure, built by the Ancestral Pueblo peoples, is the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
1886: Hall of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb, widely credited with setting 90 Major League Baseball records during a 24-year career spent mostly with the Detroit Tigers, is born in Narrows, Georgia. He collected 4,189 hits in his career and still holds the record for career batting average at .366. Cobb died at age 74 in July 1961.
1878: Joseph Stalin, the Premier of the Soviet Union from May 6, 1941, until his death on March 5, 1953, is born in the town of Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (now Georgia).
1787: New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1777: The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over Gen. John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October. The date was set earlier in the year by the Continental Congress' "First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving." It would be just one of several thanksgiving days the Continental Congress would appoint during the American Revolutionary War, each time recommending to the executives of the various states the observance of these days in their states.
1737: Antonio Stradivari, recognized as the most renowned maker of stringed instruments in history, dies in Cremona, Italy. He's seen here in an 1893 painting by Edgar Bundy.
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About the brewery
Two Brothers is a great, not-so-little-anymore brewery near my hometown in west suburban Chicago. As you might surmise, brothers Jim and Jason Ebel started the business together 15 years ago. Now their beers of witty name — including Domaine DuPage and Cane and Ebel — are widely available in the Midwest (and New York). If you're in suburban Chicago, a stop at the Two Brothers Tap House is worth your time: The food is excellent (try the fish tacos), and you can sit next to a big window to the brewery itself. Inspired imbibers can pick up anything they need to brew their own beer in the gift shop.
About the beer
Circus Penguin Brewer's Choice was created top to bottom by the Two Brothers brewers — they even chose the off-kilter label art. The limited-release beer hit the market at the end of February in 22-ounce bottles. It's brewed with organic beets and blood oranges, which appealed to the fruit and veggie lover in me. The beer didn't disappoint: In the nose and mouth, Circus Penguin is sweet, earthy, pleasantly bitter and hoppy and rich with citrus. There's a lot going on in there, but the beer stays balanced, much like its pals under the big top. Circus Penguin pours the color of late afternoon — slightly hazy, appropriately the color of roasted golden beets — and has a thin, creamy head that dissipates into something akin to beach froth.
This would be nice with some of those fish tacos at the Tap Room or, barring a 380-mile trip, alongside any firm, mild white fish and young, sweet spring vegetables.


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… according to the mailers I've received from proponents/opponents of Bridgeport's key charter revision question on tomorrow's ballot.
Here's an ad featuring a beaming President beside Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch sent out last month by the folks who want residents to vote "yes" for an appointed ed board:
And here's the mailer circulated over the weekend with a smiling First Lady:
Obviously these aren't official White House endorsements and the two sides have taken it upon themselves to use the First Couple's images to court supporters.
So confusing. At least we know that Obama, a Democrat, supports Republican Linda McMahon for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. Wait. What? I thought the President was all in for Democrat Chris Murphy…


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" I purchased these earphones a couple of weeks ago and have had the urge to write a review. However, I needed too make sure that they were fully "burned" and used in different environments to see how they performed before taking the plunge. This is my first ever headphone review, so please bear with me - I can't say that I know all the right terms or generate scientific diagrams and..." --mcook1970
Fanmusic MS-E1011
" Fanmusic is a distributor and a brand of Chinese audio-equipment which also has an eBay store. I was contacted by Tony, their manager a while ago and he informed me that they were working on an IEM (under their brand as far as I know), with a dual-dynamic setup in a metal housing with a user replaceable cable, simply named "MS-E1011". Tony offered to send me a..." --ItsMeHere


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Take a step back to 1978 and "Space Invaders" when music first began to color and create an emotional experience in games. Now fast forward to November 2012 when the "Halo 4 Original Soundtrack" debuted on the Billboard charts in America at number 50.
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner talks about how the game audio industry has changed and why he is excited about the new opportunities. Rimbaud is an artist, musician and composer working in London who was the keynote speaker at the Audio Engineering Society's 49th International Conference on Audio for Games.
Check out his observations in the article he wrote for PSN Europe.
What's your favorite video game music?


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Going to jail can be a terrifying thing. In fact, I take that back. Going to jail should be a terrifying thing. If you're on your way to jail and you aren't at least a little bit frightened, you probably belong there. As for the rest of you, should it come to pass that you find yourself on the business end of a cops-and-robbers transaction for the first time, you might find it comforting to have a few pre-memorized rules tucked away in the "going to jail" bag of your mind that you can use to make your stay a bit more tolerable.
Fortunately for you, I spent three days in jail back when I was barely legal, and the stay supplied me with all the data I needed to make an informed decision about whether or not I wanted to make getting locked up a regular thing in my life. And now, I'm going to share that information with you.
Here are four tips for surviving your first trip to jail.
4Don't Think What You're Doing Isn't Enough to Get You Arrested
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One of the first mistakes people make when it comes to jail is wrongly believing that their actions aren't extreme enough to warrant an arrest. That's how adorable little flowers like Reese Witherspoon end up with unfortunate mugshots like this one on their IMDb credits:
Copy Zooey Deschanel's quirky look by falling asleep while standing!
Much like Ms. Witherspoon's famous alcohol-drenched "Don't you know who I am?" traffic stop breakdown, I suspect that my first arrest also had more to do with my attitude that night than any hardcore criminal mischief on my part. I was 17 and, with the help of my mom and a few years of toil in the fast food industry, had just purchased my first car ever. It was a beat-to-shit Mustang that set me back like three grand because I bought it from one of those "We'll finance anyone!" places (they mean it) and didn't yet realize what kind of financial ruin comes with that sort of purchase agreement.
It also didn't matter at the time, because I finally had a car that wasn't embarrassing to drive in front of girls. So I did a whole lot of that stuff. Getting in your car and driving in the vicinity of where the opposite sex will be can keep teens entertained for hours, in no small part because kids are stupid and headlights are shiny.
It was during one of these pointless high school skirt missions that I was arrested for the first time. My crime? Driving without having my driver's license on my person.
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Ask me about my thug life!
Wait, driving without having your license on you, as in "I have a license but just don't have it in my pocket right now?" Yes, imaginary conversation partner, that's why I was arrested. You sound surprised in my head talks, because that probably doesn't strike you as the kind of thing you haul a minor to adult jail over, right? I mean, it's not like I didn't have a license. Not only did I have one, but I was able to produce a state identification indicating that I was who I said I was, making the task of verifying that I did actually have the license I claimed to a pretty simple one.
So why in the hell would I be arrested for something so minor? I can't confirm it for sure, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's because I acted like a cocky asshole during the traffic stop.
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Safety tip: If you leave your windows rolled down, cops can hear you being a prick from their car!
Correction: Me and three friends acted like cocky assholes during the traffic stop. After pulling me over and hearing my lame explanation about having left my license at home, the cop who stopped me returned to his car for a bit, as police officers often do in these situations. Realizing that being stopped in traffic by a law enforcement official to be told you're breaking the law (my headlight was out) is a situation worthy of at least a modicum of respect, me and my friends sat in nervous silence.
Ha! Just joking. We were dickhead teens. Instead of sitting there quietly and drinking in the gravity of the situation, we started cracking jokes. A lot of jokes. Loud jokes, accompanied by even louder laughter. Even better, a lot of the jokes centered on how hilarious it would be if I was actually put in handcuffs and taken to jail for something as stupid as not having my driver's license in my pocket.
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Get ready to laugh!
Needless to say, when the police officer came back to my car, I was promptly arrested. And, you know, why the hell shouldn't I have been? Put yourself in that cop's shoes for a second. You've just pulled over some punk kid who, on top of the crime that prompted the stop, also doesn't have his driver's license on him, and instead of taking it seriously, he's Def Comedy Jamming the situation.
Yep, you arrest that asshole, even if you don't charge him with anything, which they definitely did not. I wasn't even in jail long enough (that time) to leave the holding cell. The police eventually just let my mom come get me because I wasn't 18 anyway. The cop who arrested me knew I wasn't 18, though, so he also had to know that I wouldn't face any real justice for my crime once I made it to jail, so what was the point? It seemed obvious to me: Shut the fuck up when people who might arrest you are working. Or at the very least, don't break out into uproarious laughter at the mere mention of them doing so.
If that's more silence than your busy mouth can bear, don't be surprised if it gets you taken to jail someday. When that happens ...
3Save on Bail Money by Hunkering Down for a Night
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Upon being taken into custody, your thoughts will likely turn to the most Hollywood step in the arrest process short of the part where your manginity is taken in the showers on Day 4. I'm speaking, of course, about your "one phone call."
Well, relax -- we told you a long time ago that that "one phone call" thing is bullshit. I'm sure the rules and setups vary from place to place, but in "my" jail, there was a phone on the wall of the holding cell that looked kind of like the intercom outside of an apartment complex. You were encouraged to call as many people as it took as often as it took to raise the money to get your obnoxious, petty-crime-committing ass out of the jailer's hair.
For my part, during my two arrests, I never bothered with bail money. For one, I didn't have any. So there was that obstacle. Beyond that, I always figured that paying bail money is a waste when, in most cases, you're just going to be let out the next morning with the understanding that you'll return to face a judge at some point in the future. It's called a PR bond, which is short for personal recognizance, and if it's a concept you're not familiar with, for the love of God put the book down and turn on an episode of Law & Order once in a while. Or, you know, read a book about going to jail. Whatever.
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They're better on television, though.
The point is, if you just hold tight, the next morning a state's attorney or someone of the like will review all of the arrests from the night before, and most likely you'll be kicked out into the street so the police can turn their attention back to dealing with actual crime. Bail money is for rapists and murderers and people who have the money to flee the country and are willing to start the trip by just handing the police a few thousand dollars that they'll never see again. These are the bad guys of the world, the people who actually have a reason to run.
You're not a bad guy, though. You're a pussy. But not enough of a pussy that you can't stomach one night sleeping in jail, right? Sure, if you post bail and your case works its way through the system, eventually you'll get some of that bail money back. But since when is letting the government hold on to your money the winning option?
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That's probably not even the real Uncle Sam.
Sleep a few hours in a jail cell and use all that expendable cash on whatever gift makes your wife OK with the fact that you were arrested for "unknowingly" letting some dude in a Lady Gaga wig named Trevor (the dude's name was Steve) "help you relax" in the parking lot of a Home Depot for $50. That was a questionable decision. A little quiet time in a jail cell to reflect on it probably wouldn't be the worst thing, you know?
Waiting around for a PR bond is a great option, but it comes with the unfortunate catch that you need to be arrested between Sunday and Thursday, preferably late at night, to avoid any actual jail time. The people who make those decisions don't typically work weekends. If you're arrested on Friday night and you don't have bail money, it's not totally time to panic, but you should expect to spend a few days locked up. That's what happened to me the second (and final, Mom!) time I was arrested, this time for missing a court date related to the first incident.
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Still barely a crime!
I was taken in during a traffic stop on a Friday night. Because the only person broker than me was every single person I knew at the time, bail money wasn't an option. That meant I got to rot in jail (more appropriate than you realize, stay tuned) until at least Monday morning. A few hours in a holding cell is not really being arrested. The fun doesn't really start until you're actually given a place to sleep for a few days.
In those cases, if you can raise the bail money, do it. You don't want to spend an entire day in jail, ever. It's not fun. If you must, though, as I did, there is one thing that will make your stay infinitely less terrifying if you can get it ...


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Long before our Sun and Earth existed, or even the Milky Way galaxy, as we know it today, a planet formed around a sun-like star in one of the earliest homesteaders of our corner of the universe, a globular star cluster.
This planet, a few times more massive than Jupiter has survived the harsh conditions of a globular cluster, a gravitational collision with a binary system, and the death of its progenitor star.
The planet resembled Jupiter in several ways: its mass was only a few times that of Jupiter and its orbit was similar, somewhere between 250 and 750 million miles from its sun. The star and planet orbited untouched for almost 10 billion years as they fell into the dense heart of the cluster, where stars are so crowded together they are a fraction of a light-year apart. Like strolling into a crowded marketplace, this star system would not be independent for long without "bumping" into something.
As it passed by a binary system containing an old neutron star and a white dwarf, gravitational forces pulled the two systems together into a web of tangled orbits. Soon, the small-mass white dwarf was booted out of its original position and thrown into space by the more massive progenitor star. Meanwhile, the planet was thrown into a circumbinary orbit, a large orbit around both its original star and the neutron star.
The new system of the planet, its sun, and the neutron star recoiled from the ejected white dwarf, in much the same way a cannon jumps backwards when it fires a cannon ball. This gravitational recoil sent the new binary system out of the globular cluster's core into a less dense region of the cluster, reducing its chance for another such stellar interaction.
At its new position in the cluster, the planet slowly traced out a wide orbit around the neutron star and its progenitor star at a distance of approximately 2 billion miles, which is similar to Uranus's orbit around our Sun. From this vantage point the planet witnessed the death of its progenitor star over the course of the next billion years. The sun-like star aged into a red giant and poured matter onto the neutron star. The neutron star's acquisition of mass caused it to rotate faster and faster on its axis, eventually spinning up into a pulsar. Now the neutron star makes almost 100 rotations per second on its axis (that's 10 times faster than a humming bird flaps its wings!) Once all the excess gas left the star, it became a small, bright, helium-core white dwarf. All the while, the planet continued on its sweeping orbit. This is the state, established less than one billion years ago, in which astronomers discovered the planet.
So, how could researchers tell that this planet had survived such dynamic cosmic forces, or existed at all? Using Hubble data, scientists used the white dwarf's color and temperature to determine its age and mass, which they compared to the wobble of the neutron star. In addition, radio studies of the pulsar revealed irregularities in its signal that could not be caused solely by its white dwarf companion star. Putting this information together, researchers obtained a tilt for the white dwarf's orbit, after which they could infer the tilt of the third orbiting body. From there, astronomers were able to determine the mass of the third body, which is too small to be a brown dwarf or a low-mass star; thus, the planet revealed itself through its subtle tug on the system. "We probably would never have found this planet if it had just stayed with its original star," remarked Steinn Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania State University. "Its history put it in the right place; the interactions helped us see it."
Furthermore, the planet's orbit and place in the globular cluster give us clues to its past. For the proposed scenario to be plausible, the white dwarf must have lost its gaseous envelope after it and the planet joined the neutron star; therefore, the white dwarf should be young, bright, and low mass, which evidence suggests is the case. In addition, the planet's presence in a wide near-circular orbit reveals that the mass transfer from the progenitor star, now the white dwarf, to the neutron star, spinning up into a pulsar, did occur after the planet was in an orbit around the pair.
The wide orbit also makes the planet more vulnerable to the gravitational forces of nearby stars, in which case the planet's continuing presence suggests the system has been in the lower-density portion of the cluster since its current configuration was established. Because such a system would return to the cluster's core on a time scale of a billion years and we know that the system has not yet returned, we can establish the time scale for the current configuration, the tumultuous series of events leading to the present, and an age for the planet.
This planet's tale also gives astronomers an idea of where planets may reside and how many could exist. The planet was born before many heavier elements existed in space, such as oxygen, carbon and silicon. It's birth in such an element-poor globular cluster like M4 may imply that planets are more common in such environments than once thought. "This is a big hint that there are more out there," said Sigurdsson. "There are 100 pulsars like [the one this planet orbits] out there, this one was just extremely well researched." Having theorized the planet's existence 10 years ago, Sigurdsson says the discovery of this planet means that we must "overcome theoretical prejudices" and "suggests we should make more of an effort to look for [such planets]." Coming in at 13 billion years old, this planet also makes a case for planet formation occurring earlier and more abundantly than previously thought.
A British team finds pulsar, PSR B1620-26, in the core of M4, a globular cluster about 5,600 light-years away. It is suspected to be part of a binary system, with the companion a white dwarf star. But the team has to wait half the white dwarf's orbit time (200 days) to confirm it.
The team publishes the discovery paper. Since it is one of the first of its kind to be discovered, the pulsar sparks many follow-up papers describing how the neutron star became a pulsar and explaining the white dwarf's origins.
Using pulsar timing, three groups find an anomaly in the pulsar's signal indicating it is being gravitationally pulled by one or more unseen objects.
At a conference, Don Backer of UC Berkeley presents a paper contending that the anomaly discovered using pulsar timing is a third object in the system. At the same conference, Steinn Sigurdsson proposes that "it might be possible to see planets "stolen" from their parent stars by pulsars."
In just one year, four papers are published discussing possible explanations for the anomaly in the system. Theories for the object's celestial designation range from a black hole to a Saturn-like planet. Debates run high as this list of third-body candidates grows. At this time Sigurdsson presents his paper on the anomaly in which he rejects several different models to predict the exchange interaction scenario. Shortly afterward, scientists rule out the possibility of a black hole. This implies that it is a half solar mass star or a Jupiter-sized planet. Even more papers are now published, most concerning the orbits of the system's objects. Within the current scope of knowledge about the system, the white dwarf's orbit should be perfectly circular, but turns out to be slightly elliptical, like Earth's orbit, which is a great surprise. In addition, the eccentricity of the third object, predicted to be quite large, is instead rather small. Because of such ongoing uncertainties, many new explanations for the system arise, including reformed theories about the evolution of the system after it settled into its current configuration.
Multiple parties begin to look for a proposed third star in the system. One team claims to have found it, but it is discovered instead to be a nearby star that is not actually in the system. Following that close call, new theories about the possibilities of a faint cold star or a white dwarf arise.
After more than 10 years of perplexity over this system, a paper is published analyzing a decade's worth of data concerning this system. The system is subsequently observed in radio wavelengths, but scientists still possess no complete answer because there is no data about the system's tilt. An unknown inclination gives researchers a wide range of possibilities. Later, however, individual probabilities are calculated for different solutions. Researchers find there to be a low chance that the third body is a star; rather, they find a higher probability of the object being a low-mass object, like a Jupiter-mass planet or brown dwarf.
A student's theory paper suggests a mechanism for the planet being in the system. This is a well-known effect to explain the squished orbit of the white dwarf, but researchers had yet to apply it to this situation.
Hubble data sets, one taken starting in 1995 and another recent one, are compared to distinguish the movement of the white dwarf within the cluster. After a long wait, scientists are now able to determine the white dwarf's true mass, inclination, time of formation, and the age of the system. This new data boosts enormously the probability of the object being a planet. Determination of the planet's inclination is now possible, because all three components are not coplanar. From this calculation, the team is able to find the mass of the planet.
Harvey Richer
Dr. Harvey Richer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He studied at McGill University in Montreal and obtained his doctorate in physics and astronomy from the University of Rochester. His doctoral program supervisor, Dr. Stewart Sharpless, was one of the first astronomers to recognize that we live in a spiral galaxy. Sharpless also mapped out the distribution of ionized gas clouds by using a tiny wide-field camera. He was fond of simple experiments that had far-reaching consequences.
Richer has been at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver since the early 1970s. For the past three years, he has been the Gemini Scientist for Canada. Last year he was awarded a Canada Council Killam Fellowship that allows him to work full time on his research. His research is largely focused on stellar astronomy and on what resolved systems of stars can tell us about dark matter, the age of the universe, the dynamical evolution of stellar systems, and the formation of galaxies. To investigate these diverse subjects, he observes a wide range of objects, including nearby stars, open and globular star clusters, and the resolved components of our neighboring galaxies. To accomplish his research goals, he uses a variety of telescopes, particularly the twin Gemini Telescopes, the Canada-France- Hawaii Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The current result on the Hubble Space Telescope emerged from discussions at a meeting in Santa Barbara in January 2003 where the first 3 authors were present at a meeting on globular star clusters. However, it is actually the culmination of research started more than 20 years ago. In the early 1980s, Richer used photographic plates and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to identify the few brightest white dwarfs in Messier 4. This work continued from ground-based telescopes over the years and in other globular clusters until 1995, when Messier 4 was first observed with the Hubble Space Telescope by Richer and his collaborators. This provided, for the first time, a large sample of faint white dwarfs in an ancient star cluster. Second epoch images were secured in 2000 (by another group) and in 2001 (by Richer and his collaborators), which allowed for a clean separation between cluster members and non- members via their motion.
Steinn Sigurdsson
Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson received his B.Sc. in mathematical physics with honors from the University of Sussex in 1986. He earned his M.Sc. in physics and his Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1991 respectively. Sigurdsson was a research associate at the University of California's Lick Observatory in Santa Cruz from 1991 to 1994. He was a PPARC and Marie Curie Research Fellow from 1994 to 1998 at the Institute of Astronomy and a member of King's College in Cambridge, England. He is currently an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department at Pennsylvania State University.
Steinn's Ph.D. thesis was on formation of pulsars in globular clusters, working with Sterl Phinney at Caltech. The discovery by Alex Wolszczan at about that time of the first known planets orbiting PSR 1257+12 prompted him to consider how we could use the precision measurements possible with pulsar observations to constrain planet formation around solar-like stars. One way to do this is through exchanges of planets in regions of high density. Steinn works on the dynamics of compact objects and dense stellar systems, including planet dynamics, and relativistic binaries. Steinn is a member of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center.
Alan P. Boss
Dr. Alan P. Boss is a staff member at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM). Boss received his doctorate in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center before joining the staff of DTM in 1981. Boss's research focuses on using three- dimensional hydrodynamics codes to model the formation of stars and planetary systems. He has been helping NASA plan its search for extrasolar planets ever since 1988, and continues to be active in helping to guide NASA's efforts. Boss chairs the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Extrasolar Planets, the group charged with maintaining the IAU's official list of extrasolar planets.
The formation of giant planets like Jupiter has long been regarded as the foremost unsolved problem in the origin of our solar system. In June 1997 Boss published a paper in Science that resurrected a long-forgotten means for making giant planets, through a gravitational instability of the protoplanetary disk, showing that it could make giant planets around even the youngest stars. The alternative mechanism requires about several million years to operate. A paper describing the different predictions of the two competing theories of giant planet formation was published in the May 14, 1998 issue of Nature. Boss's mechanism for Solar System formation implies that planetary systems similar to our own, with habitable planets, may be much more prevalent than would be the case for the competing formation mechanism.
Anne L. Kinney
Dr. Anne Kinney is director of the astronomy and physics division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Previously, she was the director of the Origins Program at NASA Headquarters. As such, she oversaw the ongoing process of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the progress on upcoming missions such as SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility), the fourth of the Great Observatories; SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), a 2.7-meter telescope which flies above the atmosphere in a 747 airplane; ST-3 (Space Technology 3), a technology demonstrator for formation flying and space interferometry; SIM (Space Interferometry Mission); and ultimately, TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder), a mission to find and characterize Earth-like planets.
Kinney is originally from Wisconsin, where she earned her B.Sc. in 1975. She then studied in Denmark for several years at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 1984, she received her doctorate in physics from New York University.
Kinney is an expert in extragalactic astronomy and has worked on characterizing the optical and ultraviolet spectra of quasars, blazars, active galaxies, and normal galaxies. She has studied signatures of accretion disks in active galaxies and demonstrated that the disks lie at random angles relative to their host galaxies. She was instrument scientist on one of the original instruments to fly on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Faint Object Spectrograph. She worked in education and public outreach with the Hubble Space Telescope and was involved in creating the program Amazing Space (http://amazing-space.stsci.edu), an educational web site for children learning the basic principles of science, math, and astronomy.
Kinney served on the Council of the American Astronomical Society and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, UK.


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Seafood Special-Mayo Clinic Health System
Deviled Seafood Special
Time Prep: 20 minutes
Total: 50 minutes
Servings Total: 8 servings
What You Need:
1can (6 oz.) crabmeat, drained, rinsed
1can (4-1/4 oz.) shrimp, drained, rinsed
1/3 cup KRAFT Real Mayo Mayonnaise
1 cup thinly sliced celery
½ cup finely chopped green pepper
1 Tbsp. finely chopped onion
1 tsp. dry mustard
¼ tsp. salt
1/8 tspblack pepper
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
Make It:
PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Mix all ingredients except bread crumbs and butter in large bowl until well blended.
SPOON into 4 individual seafood shells or casserole dishes. Top with combined crumbs and butter.
BAKE 30 min. or until heated through.
Canned crab meat
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Fresh bread crumbs
Calories: 360
Total fat: 23 g
Saturated fat: 6 g
Cholesterol: 85 mg
Sodium: 660 mg
Carbohydrate: 22 g
Dietary fiber: 2 g
Sugars: 2 g
Protein: 16 g
Vitamin A: 8 %DV
Vitamin C: 15 %DV
Calcium: 10 %DV
Iron: 15 %DV
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May I have some cheese with my crackers please
That is what makes it all funny....in Donald Sterling 30 years of owning the
Clippers, he was proud to boast about being the cheapest owner in the NBA.
As I can recall Baron Davis is the only UFA Donald Sterling signed with big
cash out of the FA market in his 30 years.
Baron Davis home town being LA....knew what he was getting into when he
accepted the Clippers offer. NBA fans were not suprise when Elton Brand
refuse to resign with the Clippers. Sterling & Dunleavy shouldve took care of
home-first than go after Baron Davis.
Knowing Donald Sterling....the 2012 offseason will let us fans know what
market (Big or small) Donald Sterling will thrive to be in...
May I have some cheese with my crackers please
Now that Baron Davis has a couple of superstars on his team Rondo can finally stop making undeserved All-Star appearances (although the Celtics are declining so he might have not anyway).
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Just thought this was worth mentioning, there are early reports that the Lakers want to see what Baron can do, then they might make an offer to the Knicks.
Probably nothing but could be something.
Maybe Baron and Amare for Gasol
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A 14-year-old boy digging a trout pond in his backyard unearthed a 1,000-year-old mystery.
Ali Erturk had been digging the hole in his Salt Lake City backyard for about two weeks when he found a piece of bone. Then he found what looked to be a skull.
His father called police, who confirmed it was likely the remains of an American Indian.
"Humans have occupied this valley for up to 10,000 years," Utah Department of Heritage and Arts spokesman Geoffrey Fattah told The Salt Lake Tribune. "We do run into situations where progress runs into the ancient past."
Experts carefully removed the remains on Friday, and are now studying them to determine their sex and cultural affiliation.
The discovery is one Ali said he won't soon forget.
"When I saw it looked like a human skull, then it definitely was a bit creepy," he told Salt Lake City TV station KTVX. "I really do think there's other bones nearby, and I don't think that it's that unlikely or that lucky that I stumbled across this."


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Sheila Parks, associate professor of nursing at Bluefield State College, has been named the recipient of the BSC Foundation's "Outstanding Faculty Award" for 1997.
Parks, who has been a nursing faculty member since 1990, is a member of the West Virginia Higher Education HIV/AIDS Prevention Health Promotion Consortia, as well as the District 1 HIV Prevention Community Planning Committee. She has also served as chair of the Bluefield State College HIV/AIDS Awareness Committee and has taken an active role in HIV/AIDS education, presenting conferences to the BSC community, BSC students, and the community, at large.
A member of the West Virginia and American Nurses Associations, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Mercer County CPR Committee, Parks is a volunteer practitioner at Mercer Health Right, Inc., and is Nurse Practitioner at the Bluefield State College Nursing Health Center.
Parks has developed the course "Health Promotion and Wellness" for nontraditional delivery, including distance learning, and is editor of "Health Link," a wellness newsletter distributed to the BSC community, and to health care providers throughout the region. Later this month, for the third consecutive summer, Parks will work as a nursing health volunteer at an Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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In Billups we have a championship quality veteran and in Balkman we get a defensive center that we needed so badly. I like the guys we gave up but we are instantly a better team going into the playoffs.
Billups, Melo and STAT running a high ...post pick'n'roll will give teams fits. We got better in rebounding, defense, scoring, play making, AND we kept this years best draft pick Landry Fields (a shane battier type of hustle guy).
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We pored through the U.S. Constitution and just couldn't find the clause that says, "the president of the United States shall have the authority to fire the president of any corporation with whom he is dissatisfied."
Maybe it was an amendment that hadn't been printed yet in the edition we have?
We understand the argument that it wasn't quite stark. President Obama didn't quite fire Richard Wagoner as chairman and CEO of General Motors directly. People from the White House's Auto Task Force simply informed Wagoner that if GM were to have any hope of getting more loans from the government he would have to go, and so he resigned.
Others note that when a private lender gets involved with a troubled company the lender often has plenty of leverage and it's not all that unusual to make the resignation of certain top executives a condition of further assistance. So what's the big deal when the government as lender takes a similar stance?
It is a big deal. Government has the right to promulgate regulations that govern corporate conduct, and to charge corporate executives with criminal or civil offenses when they break the law. But deciding who is to hold certain executive positions in a private corporation is a dangerous precedent.
Even if it was done indirectly rather than by direct order, this was the occupant of the Oval Office making a core decision for a private company.
The government is not like a private lender. It has no money of its own so it must first take it from taxpayers or borrow it from moneylenders foreign and domestic before it can make a loan to a private company. Government uses money, but the true currency of government is power and the use of force — the authority to make others do what you wish or suffer severe consequences. When government expands its power, as it clearly has in this instance, the freedom of all citizens is diminished.
It was especially vexing to hear a president whose only experience in the private sector was as a junior associate in a law firm blithely asserting that the restructuring plans presented by GM and Chrysler simply didn't go far enough to suit him. He may be right, but he has no intellectual or experiential standing to make such a statement.
Quite frankly, based on what we have observed, if we were on the GM board we might have voted to fire Wagoner long ago. But we're not on the board, and neither is Obama, despite the power he wields as the apparent lender of last resort.
Whether the power the government has wielded over GM and Chrysler is constitutional or prudent or not, it is not surprising to see it used in such a cavalier manner.
When the auto companies came hat-in-hand (by corporate jet) to the government looking for a handout rather than making severe cuts or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they ceded a significant measure of control over their own destinies.
By asking the government to save their bacon after a combination of their own mistakes and changing economic conditions put them in deep trouble, they ceased to be fully private enterprises.
Did they know the result would be micromanagement of their businesses?
Did they expect a new president with such a serene and unquestioned faith that the answer to every problem is an expansion of government power?
Perhaps not.
But they shouldn't be that surprised.


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Last December the state put up signs along hiking trails in response to attacks by loose hunting dogs.
A year later, some residents still aren't following the rules designed to keep people and pets safe.
On a beautiful weekend, many hit hiking trails around Hawaii to get away from the crowds and civilization.
"We love to get into nature, get away from the hustle and bustle. Hiking is a great way to do that," said Manoa resident Ted Bohlen.
Humans don't always go it alone, pets are also found on popular paths.
Some of these trails are also used by hunters and their dogs.
Problems in the past prompted the state to put up the new signs so everyone would know what rules to follow, but not all are paying attention.
"Many pet owners don't realize it is important to have your dog on a leash, in and out of the forest. It's important to have control of your dog," said Aaron Lowe, Oahu's Trail & Access Specialist.
According to the rules, there is one type of dog allowed off-leash -- hunting dogs. Those animals play a big part in keeping the lush, forest areas pristine.
"Dog and knife hunting is very effective in eradicating pigs in our forests. Keeping those feral populations down is very important to us," said Lowe.
Not everyone is comfortable sharing the trail with a pack of canine hunters.
"I have a little pause being out on a trail with hunting dogs," said Bohlen.
That is why Lowe advises hikers to look around in active hunting areas and to check to see if pig hunter's trucks are at trail entrances. If they are, hikers may want to choose another place to explore -- especially if they trekking with a pet.
Over the past year, the state has taken in a number of complaints about animals on the trails and hunting dogs weren't the ones causing the most problems.
"Most of the problems, we found, was because the pet dog was off-leash in the incident," said Lowe.
Many hikers like getting in touch with nature, but for some a close call with a loose pet can turn a tranquil trek into a wild one.
"People who were more obnoxious were the ones who had dogs off leash. They were telling us 'My dog is trained, don't worry about him,' and of course that is the dog that is running off," said Tonya Youngberg, a visitor from Canada.
Before hikers head out for the forest, it's a good idea to know what they're getting into.
Find out how challenging a trail is, along with learning if there is legal hunting allowed in the area by heading to the state's Na Ala Hele website at hawaiitrails.ehawaii.gov. That is also where troubles on the trails can be reported.


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Sullivan to discuss ethics law
March 20, 2013 —
"Our number one priority should be the adoption of this ethics local law. I think it's shameful that this law, which was written by three distinguished wise citizens, Judge Anthony Kane, Judge Burton Ledina and John Konefal, has not yet been adopted."
Legislator Alan Sorensen began the discussion about the proposed ethics law, which members of the Sullivan County Legislature have had before them since August 2012, on March 13. Sorensen noted that concerns have been expressed by members of some county-appointed boards regarding filing of financial disclosure, which would be required under the new law. He said if such requirements trouble board members or others, "then perhaps public service is not for them; that is an individual choice that people have to make."
County chair Scott Samuelson noted that he attempted to set up a discussion about the law beginning in January with the men who proposed it, but that Kane was not available until the end of March. He said a discussion had been scheduled for the next week in the executive committee meeting, and added, "I appreciate your comments, but they could have been made in the appropriate committee rather than willy-nilly in this committee. I think it needs to be adopted and it will be adopted."
Lawmaker Cindy Gieger also said she was concerned that no action had been taken since August. She said, "I had similar concerns about moving forward without an ethics law, because once you have a public hearing and pass the ethics law, you set up a board, and if there is any violation against any person, you have to have a board in place to review the violation."
Lawmaker Kathy LaBuda said "In August and September, we were talking about the budget; I think that was our priority then."
After the meeting, Sorensen said the existing law involves a "convoluted process" for bringing a complaint against a legislator. He said, "The current procedure is, if there is a complaint, the legislators literally draw straws to pick three legislators to review the complaint and then decide if it should be forwarded to the ethics board. Just by stating the process, you can see that it's troublesome. We've had that in the past and then three straws are drawn and inevitably one of the three says, 'I have a conflict so I can't serve on this,' and it doesn't work."
The proposed law, in the case of a complaint against a legislator, would take the legislators out of the process of deciding whether or not a violation has been committed, and instead hand that decision to the ethics board.


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#106629 - 06/29/03 02:01 PM botanicals
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thought that the gardeners amongst us might find something worthwhile in this list. and Dr. Bill can have a field day!_________________________
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#106630 - 06/29/03 03:32 PM Re: botanicals
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Dear etaoin: I remember being told in biochemistry that "belladonna" the plant, was so named because Italian ladies thought that the atropine effect of dilating pupils made them more attractive. I am sceptical that this could ever have been popular, because those who took it would also have their vision blurred disagreeably. I once almost cut off a finger using a circular saw before the effects of
atropine given me for a refraction had worne off, and my depth perception was badly impaired. I went to pick up a cut piece, and put my hand right into the saw.
#106631 - 06/29/03 07:28 PM Re: botanicals
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Belladonna ladies operating circular saws? Try to get your teeth, if you can, into that scene. Belladonna ladies had to operate (at most) the draping of an arm across a dancing partner's shoulders or the lifting of that last glass of wine to their pouty, expectant lips.
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#106632 - 06/29/03 07:56 PM Re: botanicals
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it is normal for human pupils to dilate when they are sexually excited..
so i suspect the belladonna was used to make it seem like the ladies were enjoying themselves.. and looking excited, i suspect, also made them look more attactive.. (and by looking at them through bleary eyes, perhaps their companions, as well!)_________________________
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#106633 - 06/29/03 08:12 PM Re: botanicals
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#106634 - 06/30/03 07:47 AM Re: botanicals
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it is normal for human pupils to dilate when they are sexually excited..
You are speaking from experience as a teacher?
#106635 - 06/30/03 08:11 AM Re: botanicals
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it is normal for human pupils to dilate when they are sexually excited
This was confirmed in a study that was mentioned in Scientific American many years ago. I would also imagine that the helplessness engendered by the fuzziness of vision resulting from the use of belladonna was also a turn on for the gentlemen of the time.
#106636 - 06/30/03 08:30 AM Re: botanicals
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I searched for "belladonna aphrodisiac" and got a bunch of hits. Here's one:
You wouldn'catch me trying it. Anyway, I never needed any.
#106637 - 06/30/03 10:20 AM Re: botanicals
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Anyway, I never needed any.
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#106638 - 06/30/03 02:49 PM Re: botanicals
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Mentioned in Plutarch's Live of Lysander"
"the Cretan storax"
5ME < L storax, styrax < Gr styrax, of Sem orig., as in Heb tsori, terebinth resin6
1 the aromatic balsam exuded by liquidambar trees, used in medicine and perfumery
2 a fragrant, solid resin obtained from a small, E Mediterranean tree (Styrax officinalis) of the storax family, formerly used as incense
3 any of a genus (Styrax) of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs of the storax family, with drooping clusters of showy white flowers
designating a family (Styracaceae, order Ebenales) of widely distributed dicotyledonous trees or shrubs, as the snowbell
#106639 - 06/30/03 03:07 PM Re: Storax
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Wasn't the storax one of the members of Dr. Seuss's bestiary?
#106640 - 06/30/03 03:34 PM Re: Storax
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Buy "the Lorax" by Dr. Seuss at Barnes & Noble.com
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