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Cassadaga man ticketed after motorcycle-car accident
State Police at Fredonia have released more information about Monday's motorcycle-car crash on Route 60 near the Cassadaga Shurfine.
A motorcycle operated by Doug Goodwill, 49, of Sinclairville was following a car that was uninvolved in the accident north on Route 60. The car turned right into the Shurfine store. The motorcycle passed the car. A car driven by Adam Walsh, 29, of Cassadaga was turning out of the Shurfine and struck the motorcycle. Goodwill and his passenger on the motorcycle, Cassandra Goodwill, were taken to Brooks Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Walsh and his passenger Jeffrey Birath declined treatment. Walsh was ticketed for failing to yield.
The car sustained damage on the door on the driver's side. The motorcycle was loaded on a trailer by Cassadaga firemen and removed from the scene.
According to Tim Cobb, Jr. First Assistant Fire Chief for the Cassadaga Fire Department, the first on the scene were the New York State Police from Fredonia. Cassadaga Fire Department as well as Alstar transported those injured from the scene. The Fredonia Fire Department also reported to the accident site.


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Tenney, Tabitha Gilman
Tabitha Gilman Tenney 1762-1837
(Born Tabitha Gilman) American novelist.
Tabitha Tenney is known to have published only a single work, the novel Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (1801), which is considered both a parody of the sentimental novel and a satire of the social and political inequities that existed in the United States during her lifetime. Tenney has been noted for exposing the socially restrictive roles to which women were expected to adhere, as well as for her ability to combine comic elements with an unsentimental view of life.
Biographical Information
Tenney was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on April 7, 1762. The eldest child of Samuel Gilman and Lydia Robinson Giddings, she was raised in an educated, religious, and politically active household. While there is scant documentation of Tenney's life, biographers speculate that as the oldest child in the family she stayed at home to help care for her six siblings after her father's death in 1778. The diaries of Patty Rogers, who also lived in Exeter, provide the principal source of information regarding Tenney's character. Rogers described Tenney as someone whom she found particularly repellent, although the diarist admitted that she could not fully explain her opinion of Tenney. This characterization may have been colored by the fact that Rogers was a rival for the affections of Dr. Samuel Tenney, a surgeon who became Tenney's husband in 1788. The couple moved to Washington, D.C., after 1800, where Dr. Tenney served as a congressman until his death in 1816. Public records and family histories describe Tenney as "accomplished" and, as evidence of this, Tenney edited a textbook of writings for young women entitled The Pleasing Instructor (1799). This volume covered such subjects as literature, music, and geography. In 1801, Tenney published Female Quixotism, which was well-received by contemporary readers and reviewers. Tenney returned to Exeter following her husband's death. She died in 1837 after a brief illness.
Major Works
Tenney's Female Quixotism is modeled after both Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605) and Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1762). The novel centers on Dorcasina Sheldon's romantic entanglements with different suitors. In all these relationships, Dorcasina is guided by a desire for the kind of romantic love that is exhibited in the sentimental novels she reads. By the end of the narrative, Dorcasina is an old maid who has knowingly traded opportunities for marriage and a conventional life in order to pursue an unfulfilled, idealized romance. Tenney's depiction of her protagonist and her refusal to supply the novel with a redemptive ending have led critics to view Female Quixotism as both a parody of the sentimental novel of the eighteenth century and as a work that cautions readers against the romantic illusions encouraged by the genre. At the same time, Tenney's novel exposes the limited options for women in Jeffersonian America and suggests the ambivalence of the period regarding class and racial issues.
Critical Reception
Female Quixotism was a popular work during Tenney's lifetime and went through five printings between 1801 and 1841. Based on this single novel, Tenney has attained a reputation as a significant early American novelist. Scholars assert that her work contributes to a greater understanding of the genre of the sentimental novel and serves as a critique of early American society, particularly concerning the limited prospects for women during this time. Cathy Davidson argues that one of Tenney's primary goals was to promote critical reading for women when such literary endeavors were not encouraged. Davidson explains: "Female Quixotism is a more subtle how-not-to-read-a-novel novel. Tenney allegorizes the reading process and turns it upon itself; one must be a resisting reader, a critical reader, … able to read the context in which the text is read." Cynthia Miecznikowski, however, suggests that Tenney's novel should be read as a parody of the romance novel rather than simply a satire of the reading and interpreting processes themselves. Miecznikowski reasons that "if we read Tenney's novel as parody …, it unmasks its own textuality, suspending satiric judgment, deferring moral didacticism, and leaving its readers to judge the text on its own terms." Given Tenney's adept use of humor in her novel, critics also find that Female Quixotism serves as an example of an emerging comic sensibility in American literature. In the late twentieth century, several new editions of Tenney's novel were published. Critics Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins conclude that Female Quixotism, while popular in its own time, still offers an enlightening look at eighteenth-century literature and contemporary social issues.
Principal Works
*The Pleasing Instructor [editor] (drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) 1799
Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (novel) 1801
*This work was compiled as a textbook for female students.
Henri Petter (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: Petter, Henri. "The Pernicious Novels Exposed: Female Quixotism." In The Early American Novel, pp. 46-59. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
[In the following essay, Petter emphasizes Tenney's didactic tone in Female Quixotism.]
Mrs. Tabitha Tenney published in 1801 a novel modeled after Don Quixote and meant to be a warning against romantic fiction: Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon. Dorcasina has been reading too many novels ever since she was a young girl; as a result she has imbibed notions difficult to conciliate with the demands made on her by a normal existence among people not similarly influenced by novel-reading.1
From the outset Mrs. Tenney's heroine is predisposed to respond to all the dangerous influences that may be conveyed by fiction. Her romantic turn of mind2 conditions her attitude toward novels and, through them, toward sober life. This peculiar receptivity of Dorcasina was of course purposely invented and exploited by Mrs. Tenney to achieve her didactic aim. It is this intention of hers, to expose the dangers of novel-reading, that is first to be considered.3 Her purpose is very much a reality throughout the book, however rewarding and enjoyable writing the burlesque may have turned out to be.4 Mrs. Tenney's message may therefore be dissociated from its comic literary form, as indeed it must have been by the contemporary readers who welcomed her indictment of the modern novel.5 Her lustily exaggerated attack on fiction can easily be corroborated and supplemented by references to the writings and opinions of others more directly and sternly hostile to the novel.6
Mrs. Tenney dedicated her book "To all Columbian Young Ladies, who Read Novels and Romances" (1:iii).7 Her heroine is, at the beginning of the novel, just such a young lady: the dedication, and the choice of the heroine, are not accidental or mere matters of convention. It was the ladies who were commonly held to constitute the body of novel-readers,8 and especially the young ladies who had leisure and opportunity to read much fiction. Moreover, being young, they were liable to be strongly impressed and possibly lastingly influenced by their reading.9 Being ladies, they were per definitionem romantically inclined, that is, open to suggestions and appeals to the imagination, the fancy, the feelings.10 Being young ladies, finally, they were thought to respond with particular warmth to the subject of love, so much in the foreground of novels and romances.11
Novels and romances were lumped together by Mrs. Tenney, as they were by most opponents of fiction among her contemporaries.12 There is no need for a detailed discussion of the terms here; it may be stated generally that the criticism of the novel took mainly the form of an attack against the romantic and sensational treatment of the theme of love in the fiction of the day,13 and that other strictures were subordinate to, and a consequence of, that fundamental objection. Mrs. Tenney's Female Quixotism clearly illustrates this attitude of disapproval.
The novels of the day were often declared by their authors to be based on truth.14 Mrs. Tenney did not miss her opportunity of making fun of the pretense. The story of Dorcasina is "a true picture of real life," "a true uncoloured history" (1:iii); at the same time Mrs. Tenney testified to the authenticity of her tale only by referring to a fictional precedent, the authority of Don Quixote. In other words, her book is as little a report from life as the writings of other authors who rely patently on literary models or on pure invention.
Just as Don Quixote set out to realize ideas and ideals fashioned out of the romances he had made himself so thoroughly familiar with, Dorcasina expects to find life a counterpart of the versions of it offered by the novelists. For her head "had been turned by the unrestrained perusal of Novels and Romances" (1:iv),15 and she is governed by the "Romantic Opinions" so acquired. How has this come about? Handicapped by the romantic inclination already referred to, Dorcasina is also the victim of circumstances beyond her power to control. She early loses her mother and is then brought up by her father in a remote Pennsylvania village. Her mother's death is a crucial calamity: "At the age of three years, this child had the misfortune to lose an excellent mother, whose advice would have pointed out to her the plain rational path of life; and prevented her imagination from being filled with the airy delusions and visionary dreams … with which the indiscreet writers of that fascinating kind of books, denominated Novels, fill the heads of artless young girls, to their great injury, and sometimes to their utter ruin" (1:5).16 Since Mrs. Tenney was speaking to young ladies and future mothers, her stress on a mother's educational role was an absolute necessity. It is also clear that Mr. Sheldon is found not to have attended to his duties properly.17 He has failed to make up for the maternal advice Dorcasina did not receive; he should have pointed out to his daughter not just her everyday duties but the part that novels are allowed to play in a girl's life. This specific error of Sheldon is accounted for, though it cannot be excused: a great reader himself, Sheldon reads novels as a relaxation from studying history. When his daughter follows his example, he does not make sure that she observes like himself the relative importance of the departments of instruction and entertainment. Dorcasina is quickly fascinated18 by novels and, as she later confesses, becomes quite incapable of more serious and informative reading.19
Her reading shapes her imagination according to definite patterns that are basic to romantic fiction but, from the point of plain common sense, mere "airy delusions and visionary dreams." Dorcasina's other faults combine with her romantic inclinations to render her particularly vulnerable: she is vain of her appearance and sensibility, and she is stubborn. It is due to her vanity that she likens her position and appeal to that of many heroines of romances (with whom she may well have in common the pathetic attribute of being motherless); her principal vision is that of being swept off her feet by a perfect lover. It is owing to her obstinacy that, when convinced of having met that ideal lover, no reasoning, and not even the evidence of her senses, can make her realize that she may, after all, be terribly wrong.
Having once envisioned herself as a young lady compelling love20 and merely waiting for the all-accomplished lover to turn up, Dorcasina no longer heeds her very real qualities. Yet they are by no means negligible: "She had received from nature a good understanding, a lively fancy, an amiable cheerful temper, and a kind and affectionate heart" (1:6). This is confirmed by Mrs. Stanly, a neighbor and faithful friend, long after Dorcasina has started making a fool of herself by trying to translate her romance-formed notions of love into principles of practicable social behavior: "Miss Sheldon is possessed of an amiable disposition, and an excellent heart; and, on every other subject but one, her understanding is strong, and her judgment good; and in her youth her person was tolerably pleasing" (2:37).
Dorcasina's appearance is pleasing enough, though Mrs. Tenney could not keep from poking fun at the superlative beauties of the conventional novel-heroine:
Now I suppose it will be expected that, in imitation of sister novel writers (for the ladies of late seem to have almost appropriated this department of writing) I should describe her as distinguished by the elegant form, delicately turned limbs, auburn hair, alabaster skin, heavenly languishing eyes, silken eyelashes, rosy cheeks, aquiline nose, ruby lips, dimpled chin, and azure veins, with which almost all our heroines of romance are indiscriminately decorated. In truth she possessed few of those beauties, in any great degree. She was of a middling stature, a little embonpoint, but neither elegant nor clumsy. Her complexion was rather dark; her skin somewhat rough; and features remarkable neither for beauty nor deformity. Her eyes were grey and full of expression, and her whole countenance rather pleasing than otherwise. In short, she was a middling kind of person, like the greater part of her countrywomen; such as no man would be smitten with at first sight, but such as any man might love upon intimate acquaintance.
The first part of this passage contains something like Dorcasina's own estimate of herself. But when her first lover comes, he sees her as she is in reality and conforms to the pattern of behavior predicted by Mrs. Tenney—which is to say, too, that he disappoints Dorcasina.
The poor girl feels all the more painfully let down as she has experienced contrasting emotions since she first heard of Lysander's coming. At first she was rather chilled at the businesslike way in which their meeting was arranged for by their fathers: "She would, to be sure, have been better pleased, had their acquaintance commenced in a more romantic manner" (1:8). The reader, who does not know what the "more romantic manner" may be, will learn by reading on: he will then see Dorcasina respond most warmly to a handsome stranger playing the flute all by himself in Dorcasina's favorite grove; he will find her moved and interested when discovering in the wood a letter addressed to her by an adorer she has not yet met; and he will see her fall in love at merely hearing that a gentleman has arrived at her father's house, an officer wounded while fighting the Indians and unable to pursue his journey home.
There is, in addition to the initial disappointment just mentioned, another feature about her designated fiancé that is unpleasant to Dorcasina's sensitive nature: she surmises that, coming from Virginia, Lysander must be a slave-holder, and her humanitarian notions revolt at the very idea of the sufferings he must cause and tolerate. The idea of a young girl compassionately suffering with the slaves is not necessarily to be ridiculed; it soon becomes plain that Mrs. Tenney is not criticizing that particular emotional reaction but rather Dorcasina's tendency to sentimentalize all subjects and to take herself too seriously in the role of the sorrowing sympathizer. The consequence of feeling in extremes is naturally a blunting and leveling of the emotions.21 When a clandestine suitor of Dorcasina is described as looking very much the worse for wear because of a drubbing he has received, the girl's grief is therefore described as follows: "Dorcasina had taken to her bed, with marks of as great sorrow as ever was experienced for the death of a lap-dog, or favourite parrot" (1:67). Dorcasina's maid Betty, a commonsensical creature who knows her lady quite well, is shrewdly aware of the heroine's tendency to play her emotional roles. She quickly transforms Dorcasina's misgivings at the prospect of marrying a withholder of freedom into the anticipation of turning into a giver of freedom herself: why shouldn't she emancipate the slaves, once she has become Lysander's wife?
So it is with high expectations restored that Dorcasina meets Lysander. Her hopes seem about to be fulfilled, for this is what meets her eye: "His person was noble and commanding; his countenance open and liberal; and his address manly and pleasing" (1:8). What with her opinion of her charms, she now fully counts upon love taking its course, a course that she will outline on a later occasion: "… The man to whom I unite myself in marriage, must first behold me, and at a glance be transfixed to the heart, and I too sir, must conceive at the same time a violent passion for him. In short, our love must be sudden, ardent, violent, and mutual. Matches made upon this foundation can alone be productive of lasting felicity" (2:66). Events do not conform to this pattern, however. Lysander is formal and respectful but not ardent, and Dorcasina is at first so taken aback that she appears unduly reticent and laconic. Yet all is not lost. Dorcasina regrets her coolness, and in the course of his stay with the Sheldons, Lysander evidently falls in love with the girl. Dorcasina, an obedient daughter who loves her father truly, might now reasonably be expected to accept the offer of a young man who has much to recommend him. She is very eager to have his first letter, in which Lysander is sure to ask for permission to write to her as her accepted suitor. But the letter is another blow to Dorcasina's image-making. It is true to the young man's qualities: "His understanding was rather solid than brilliant, and much improved by education and travel. His ideas of domestic happiness were just and rational; and he judged from what he had observed, that an agreeable matrimonial connexion was much the happiest state in life" (1:8).
Dorcasina, who has been seeing and talking to Lysander for weeks, should by now know what he is like, but she does not because she relies only in part upon her observation and much more on the rules of behavior as taught by the romantic novelists. This reliance explains Dorcasina's reaction to Lysander's letter:
Upon the perusal of this letter, Dorcasina experienced but one sentiment, and that was mortification. She read it over and over again; and was, to the last degree, chagrined at its coldness. She compared it with various letters in her favourite authors; and found it so widely different in style and sentiment, that she abhorred the idea of a connexion with a person who could be the author of it. What added greatly to her disgust was, that he said not a word of her personal charms, upon which she so much valued herself. Not even the slightest compliment to her person; nothing of angel or goddess, raptures or flames, in the whole letter.
The girl clearly sets great store by the forms of courtship. Conventional clichés, expressions, and ideas are to her the sum of an emotion, and the closer they approximate the precedents of romance, the more genuine she judges them to be. The protestations of love have an absolute value; if those addressed to her are very much below par, that is an offense against love and an indication of inadequacy in her lover. Moreover, Lysander insults her personally by neglecting to flatter her.
The Lysander episode is dealt with in the first two chapters and sixteen pages of Female Quixotism, which runs to twenty-six chapters and nearly four hundred pages. The twenty-year-old Dorcasina is there shown renouncing common sense with regard to love and marriage. We are to understand that she could, by marrying Lysander, easily have overcome her...
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Sally C. Hoople (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Hoople, Sally C. "The Spanish, English, and American Quixotes." Anales Cervantinos 22 (1984): 1-24.
[In the following essay, Hoople traces the influence of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote on Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote and Tenney's Female Quixotism.]
Tabitha Tenney's novel Female Quixotism, which was published in Boston in 1801, is, as Duyckinck says, "one of the numerous literary progeny of Cervantes' immortal satire."1 Moreover, in many ways Tenney is closely related to two other early authors whose work reflects the influence of Don Quixote. Although Charlotte Lennox was born in New York in 1720, she...
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Cathy N. Davidson (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Davidson, Cathy N. "The Picaresque and the Margins of Political Discourse: The Female Picaresque." In Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, pp. 179-92. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
[In the following excerpt, Davidson examines the female picaresque novel and its appropriation of a literary form which celebrates male social mobility, claiming that Tenney's employment of the picaresque and her marginalized status as an author expose the restrictions of women of the period.]
A woman on horseback, presents her form to advantage; but much more at the spinning wheel.
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Cynthia J. Miecznikowski (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Miecznikowski, Cynthia J. "The Parodic Mode and the Patriarchal Imperative: Reading the Female Reader(s) in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism." Early American Literature 24, no. 1 (1990): 34-45.
[In the following essay, Miecznikowski considers the parodic functions of Female Quixotism in relation to the eighteenth-century sentimental novel and Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote.]
Tabitha Gilman Tenney's novel Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon, first published anonymously in 1801 and widely reprinted thereafter, is underestimated by twentieth-century scholars of early...
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Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Nienkamp, Jean, and Andrea Collins. Introduction to Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon, by Tabitha Gilman Tenney. 1801. Reprint, pp. xiii-xxviii. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
[In the following essay, Nienkamp and Collins provide an overview of the historical and cultural influences on Tenney's novel as well as a biographical sketch of Tenney that offers insight into her literary achievement.]
When Female Quixotism was first published in 1801, the United States was engaged in building a national identity. All aspects of life—not just the laws inherited from England—were...
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Sevda Çaliskan (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Çaliskan, Sevda. "The Coded Language of Female Quixotism." Studies in American Humor 3, no. 2 (1995): 23-35.
[In the following essay, Çaliskan considers the subversive humor of Female Quixotism.]
In her witty article titled "What Can a Heroine Do? Or Why Women Can't Write" (1972), Joanna Russ, the author of the highly provocative The Female Man, makes a list of very familiar situations or story lines which seem very funny when "the sex of the protagonist (and correspondingly the sex of the other characters)" is changed. Here are a few examples of these odd transformations:
- a. Two strong women battle for supremacy...
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Sharon M. Harris (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Harris, Sharon M. "Lost Boundaries: The Use of the Carnivalesque in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism." In Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers, edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, pp. 213-28. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Harris argues that Tenney's employment of the carnivalesque in Female Quixotism exposes the limitations of the purportedly democratic government of the United States during the early years of the new nation.]
When Tabitha Gilman Tenney's novel Female Quixotism was published in 1801, it joined a national voice of lament over the dangers of novel reading. The typical...
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Bryce Traister (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Traister, Bryce. "Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic." American Literature 72, no. 1 (2000): 1-30.
[In the following essay, Traister compares some of Tenney's male characters in Female Quixotism to the stereotypical American libertine male and his representation in Charles Brockden Brown's novel Arthur Mervyn.]
Late in the first book of Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism (1801), the novel's heroine, Dorcasina Sheldon, "calling herself the most wretched of women" because her unreasonable father has prohibited her marriage to Patrick O'Connor, rejects the novels "in which she had formerly taken such delight" and turns...
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Further Reading
White, Devon. "Contemporary Criticism of Five Early American Sentimental Novels, 1970-1994: An Annotated Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 52, no. 4 (December 1995): 293-305.
Provides an annotated bibliography of scholarship pertaining to five early American sentimental novels, including Tenney's Female Quixotism.
Brown, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America 1789-1860. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1940.
Defines and contextualizes the sentimental novel with references to Tenney.
Frost, Linda. "The Body Politic in Tabitha...
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Six candidates for District 88 superintendent named
NEW ULM – Six candidates will be interviewed Monday for the position of District 88 superintendent, according to a school board decision made during a work session Wednesday.
The job is being vacated at the end of this school year, by retiring District 88 Superintendent Harold Remme.
The board approved the following six candidates (or semi-finalists), listed alphabetically by last name:
Jeff Bertrang
Bertrang is the current superintendent of Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (GFW) Public Schools. He has one and a half years of experience as a GFW superintendent; 13 years of experience as a principal/dean at GFW; and 13 years as an industrial tech teacher at GFW and Northwood.
Jean Broadwater
Broadwater is the Superintendent of Schools in Houston. Broadwater has four years of experience as superintendent at Houston and Kewaunee, Wis.; six years as a high school principal at West Bend, Wis.; and eight years as an elementary teacher in Milwaukee, Wis.
Karen Coblentz
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Jeremiah Olson
He is the superintendent in Underwood. He has five years of experience as a superintendent in Underwood and Pingee, N.D.; seven years as a principal in Underwood, Pingee and Timber Lake, N.D.;, and two years as a social studies teacher in Four Winds, N.D.
Gregory Schmidt
He is the superintendent in MACCRAY (Maynard, Clara City, Raymond). He has seven years as superintendent in MACCRAY; seven years as a charter school director at RiverBend in Mankato; and four years as a teacher and site leader in Mankato and Le Sueur-Henderson.
Kevin Wellen
He is the superintendent in New Richland, Hartland, Ellendale, Geneva (NRHEG). He has nine years as a superintendent in NRHEG and Melrose; eight years as a high school principal in Walker and Sartell; and eight years as a teacher in Sartell and Waukegan, Ill.
Consultant Butch Hanson of the South Central Service Co-op, who recommended the approved list of semi-finalists, noted that about 15 people applied for the job.
"The pool isn't real deep, but we have a good, strong slate," he added.
Most of the people on the short list have superintendent experience, added Hanson.
The consultants evaluated the documentation submitted by candidates, matched their qualities against a list of desired attributes developed with help from the community, and also followed an evaluation form that takes into account the veterans preference process, explained Hanson.
The consultants conducted a 45-60-minute phone or face-to-face interviews with each candidate and, thanks to their own professional contacts, were also able to "visit with people outside the candidates' reference pools" about each candidate, said Hanson.
The six semi-finalists on Monday will go through two interviews each: one with the school board, and one with an 11-member community committee. The interview questions have been prepared by the consultants, for consistency reasons. After each interview, each school board and community committee member will complete a feedback sheet on each candidate.
The community team includes teachers chosen by the teachers' union, an administrator and community volunteers. The community committee members will not rate candidates – that is the board's job, stressed Hanson. The community committee members will, however, list what they see as a candidate's strengths, as well as their concerns and comments, and also state if they feel a candidate deserves further consideration.
The board will review the community feedback sheets and also be given time for individual rating of candidates. The board will then hold a discussion and zero in on approximately three finalists.
The finalists will be asked to the next round of interviews, one per day, at the end of March. On their respective day, each finalist will tour the school buildings with the current superintendent (while their spouse is offered a guided community tour), meet with administrators (who will also fill out a feedback form), then attend a one-hour open community forum to introduce themselves and answer questions from the audience. The candidates will round off their day with dinner with the school board. At the end of this round, the board will meet to deliberate its final choice.
During its work session, the school board also heard two presentations from Remme: about possible uses of funding generated in a successful local levy referendum last November and about implications of the federal Affordable Care Act. No decisions on these matters were made.


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Following today's historic declaration of liberation in Libya, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released statements congratulating the people of Libya. President Obama said:
"On behalf of the American people, I congratulate the people of Libya on today's historic declaration of liberation. After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise.
"Now that the fighting in Libya has reached an end, the Transitional National Council (TNC) must turn its attention to the political transition ahead. We look forward to working with the TNC and an empowered transitional government as they prepare for the country's first free and fair elections. The Libyan authorities should also continue living up to their commitments to respect human rights, begin a national reconciliation process, secure weapons and dangerous materials, and bring together armed groups under a unified civilian leadership. As they take these steps, the United States will continue our close cooperation with our international partners and the UN Support Mission in Libya to help advance a stable, democratic transition."
In her statement, Secretary Clinton said:
"The United States joins the Libyan people as they celebrate liberation from more than four decades of Qadhafi's brutal dictatorship. The Libyan revolution was the work of ordinary, brave Libyans who demanded their freedoms and dignity. The United States is proud to have supported them in those efforts and we are committed to their future.
"This is a historic moment, but much work remains to be done. The process of forming a new representative government that is accountable to its people must reflect the same spirit of the revolution and the Transitional National Council should work to announce this government as soon as possible. The transitional authorities can build on this movement by promoting reconciliation and respect for human rights across Libyan society, while helping to prevent reprisals and ensuring the justice and due process that the Libyan people expect and deserve.
"The path to democracy is a long-term process that requires the participation of all Libyans. Just as the Libyan people led the revolution, they will also lead the process of transition and government formation. The United States remains deeply committed to the Libyan people who can now look forward to a new era of freedom, dignity, and security."
Ljiljana T. in Serbia writes:
Not very convincing story about freedom and democracy. Bitter taste is the idea of lynching people such methods as the most recent form of struggle for human rights and freedom, even worse is a way to judge someone's life and death. Bitter knowledge that the politicians in the media today, judge someone's guilt without a trial and verdict. Probably the courts and the rule of law is revoked in developed countries, but we, underdeveloped people, still not informed
Saurabh in India writes:
So when is US going to help Tibetans or Palestinians? No guts or is it simply that there is no oil there??
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
Add Libya, Egypt, and Iraq to the list of disasters which this administration has created for the Middle East as the rebels announce Libya will be an Islamic state governed by sharia law. So you've done it again -- Libya is one more country where people of other religions can expect to be murdered.
Tibet and Palestine are better off without U.S. assistance. Things only get worse under the Soros "Reponsibility to Protect" doctrine.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
If the Soros doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect" was even remotely valid, the U.S. would apply the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine to civilians in Mexico, where almost 40,000 Mexican civilians and public officials have been murdered by the drug cartels in the past 3 years.
Narco-terrorists kill journalists, police chiefs, bloggers, innocent bystanders, even people at random just a few miles away from Senator McCain's and Governor Perry's home states.
So when will NATO begin bombing the drug cartel bosses in Mexico?
Why does the State Department avoid criticizing the genocide next door?
Shouldn't Mexican officials be on the no-fly list for allowing narco-terrorists to cross the border into America?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Well it would never serve to allow folks to party all by themselves,...when a toast to their noble efforts is appropriate;...and the fact that boys will be boys in the heat of battle not withstanding;...it's no reason to rain on their parade or doubt their commitment to justice,...even if immediate and graphic.
I mean some folks just don't get it about the "hidy-hole" thing..., and still insist on being dragged out of them. Only to be rudely awakened to the fact that they ain't as loved by the people as these dictator's often blindly assume.
I think those beating their moral platitudes to death over the form justice took forget that istant karma is served up cold and without delay to those who've had no empathy for others over a lifetime of achievement torturing those who begged him for mercy; and that if the finality put on this sad chapter of Libyan history is not to their liking and offends their delicate sensibilities of civilized behavior,...I hope they remember that the alternative these folks were asking for was to subject the Libyan people to more of Ghaddfi's insane ranting for the next year or two in a court, only to be executed upon conviction with 99.99% probability that folks would be delayed in having closure; spending a lot of time and money obtaining the same utimate justice that was meeted out,...whether in "crossfire" or no, and that his ultimate demise was not a long drawn out affair in the end...and that was most merciful;l of all. I mean hell could have been his every day for months on end,... for he could have been kept alive long enough to let everyone in Libya take turns and beat him with their shoes..., until every bone in his body was broken..., so in the end everybody got what they wanted I think, and Ghaddafi also got what he wanted..., to die in Libya.
It was a little too late for second thoughts when he said, "Don't shoot!".
And that too would be in keeping with instant karma's true nature.
Forest Gump was right.


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According to Adam Caplan of thesidelineview.com and Sirius Radio, the Atlanta Falcons have cut former Auburndale defensive end Chauncey Davis. Davis had played six years with the Falcons after getting drafted out of Florida State in the fourth round. Caplan said he expects Davis to be picked up.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (98 votes).
In short: ExcellentIn full: Great day out with two brothers and best pal ! We all got PBs and enjoyed the entertainment and banter. Stewards were very helpful and the email comms were a nice touch. Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Great funDate of review: February 12, 2013
In short: A very welcoming race run by super people and enjoyed by a group of happy runners.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Absolutely the best race of the year bar noneIn full: Once again, the Round Table put on an amazing specatacle. The Mad Dog series simply goes from strength to strength. There was a slight problem (completely beyong the control of the organisers) as the local authority sent one single person to collect the £1.50 car park charge with an expected 2000+ cars due to arrive. Brilliantly dealt with as the runners were given regular updates to the situation. (If anyone is marking down on that, please note that the weather wasn't perfect either!)Once again, the Goodie bag was awesome and the sponsor's seriously generous in giving away drinks before the event too!The tech shirts are one of the best designs I've seen and are high quality - you'd pay more than the entry fee to buy something similar in the high street.And the Bling! Big, heavy, high quality medal. You need to come get one next year! Mad Dog, I salute you!Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Wouldn't normally do a run a second time but this was so good, I will be backIn full: Great run, great organisation and just a full attempt at adding some extras to it that made it even better. This included some amusing themed signs, a cracking medal and a great T-shirt.I loved it.The Facebook page was a great pre and post race touch as well.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Fun, speedy, sand and sea.In full: A welcoming and well run event with a great sense of humour. Excellent for beginners and experienced runners alike.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Fantastic!In full: Very well organised, great medal and technical tshirt, brilliant goody bag, flattest course around!Date of review: February 12, 2013
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In short: Brilliant race. Excellent entertainment around the course, friendly, supportive marshallsDate of review: February 11, 2013
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SANFORD - Come join the Central Carolina Community College family and get in the Christmas spirit!
CCCC hosts its first Christmas Tree Lighting and Photos with Santa event from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Lee County Campus Plaza at the main campus entrance.
The event is free and open to children of all ages.
The Southern Lee High School Marching Band will get everyone in the spirit as it parades through campus, leading Santa into the plaza. The jolly old elf will ride in on an antique Deep River Fire Department fire truck since his reindeer are resting up for their big trip on Christmas Eve.
The excitement will grow as the lights on the college's 18-foot Christmas tree are turned on and Julian Philpott, chair of the CCCC Board of Trustees, reads the holiday classic, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." Hot cocoa prepared by CCCC's Chef Gregg Hamm's Cafe 21 and cookies prepared by student inmates at the Harnett Correctional Institution will be served to all. Ornaments made by HCI students will be distributed to children while the supply lasts.
Santa will be eager to meet all of the children and take their Christmas wishes back to the North Pole. He and the college's mascot, Charlee Cougar, will be available to pose for pictures with visitors. The pictures will be uploaded at the CCCC Foundation's website, www.cccc.edu/foundation/ and can be downloaded for free starting the following day.
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Not so much discovered, but REdiscovered - THE KINKS
I've always been a Kinks fan, but never really ventured far beyond their best known hits.
I've been getting into some of their lesser known material lately, and they just blow me away.
Ray Davies is a genius.
"Village Green Preservation Society" is perhaps the most overlooked classic album in history.
Other great Kinks albums I've been discovering, "Arthur - Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire"(I'd only ever known the song 'Victoria' until now) and "Muswell Hillbillies".
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A small, family-run winery has the luxury to hand-craft every step in an ancient process. We at Dunning vineyards hope to delight you with our fine estate wines and give you a chance to learn our style of wine-making.
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Harmony Cellars Winery offers award-winning artisan wines and picturesque views of the surrounding countryside. Owners Kim & Chuck Mulligan built their winery to reflect the serene and unpretentious beauty of Harmony. Established in 1989, Harmony Cellars now sits on land that has been in the family since 1910.
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Make no bones about it, the challenge of developing wine grapes into the best tasting wine the Paso Robles region has to offer has been no easy task. Rob and Paula Campbell-Taylor, owners and caretakers of Graveyard Vineyards, bought the beautiful hilltop property in 2003 when the vineyard was in its seventh leaf and they set their goals firmly in place to create wines that memories are made of. Paula says, "I want to know that our wine is served at memorable occasions with families and friends and enjoyed with the comfort foods of that occasion. Comfort food and comfort wine—a match made in heaven!"
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The vision of three motivated people helped make Calcareous Vineyard a reality. Lloyd Messer sold his wine and beer distributing business in Sioux City, Iowa, to search for the ideal growing region for his vineyard sites. He recognized Paso Robles, California, as an emerging premium wine producing area. Daughter Dana Brown sold her Iowa wine distributing business to partner with Lloyd and shape the dream with her passion and classic style. We hope you will join us as we embark on an adventure into the wonderful world of wine. Calcareous Vineyard possesses all of the ingredients necessary to reach our goal of producing one of the highest quality wines in the state. We have the land, weather, sunshine, vines, and winemaker, creating the optimal conditions for the development of the best possible wines. Most importantly, it is our pleasure to offer you what the ancient Greeks called "the gift of the gods".
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Our vineyard is planted to many different grape varieties – both Bordeaux and Rhone-style, plus Zinfandel, Tannat and Tempranillo. The vines are planted on steep, south-facing slopes reaching 1800 feet in elevation and boasting soils rich in limestone, a feature of many of the world's finest vineyards. High-density plantings, multiple clones and rootstocks, and low yields enable us to produce fruit of superb quality. We are committed to the environment. In 2008 Halter Ranch earned the SIP Certification, (Sustainability in Practice) in all our farming and winemaking operations.
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Grey Wolf Cellars winery and tasting room is located on Highway 46 West, 2.5 miles off of Highway 101 in beautiful Paso Robles, California. Family owned and operated, the winery facility and tasting room lie on approximately 12 acres of land overlooking rolling hills, pastures, and oak studded meadows, formerly known as Green Valley.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo Vineyards and Winery is one of Paso Robles' most exciting and innovative wineries. Victor Hugo Roberts is the owner/ winemaker of the small family operated vineyard and winery. The family legend has it that he was named after a great uncle and a great grandfather (the man who Anglicized the family name from the French name Robert to Roberts), with no reference to any literary connection. Victor Hugo Vineyards and Winery utilizes grapes from the estate (Templeton Hills Vineyard) as well as selected neighboring vineyards chosen for their commitment to quality. The estate vineyard is located in the Templeton Gap with warm days, breezy afternoons, and cool nighttime temperatures. Planted on the rugged, shale hillsides of the property the vineyard receives meticulous care including vertical shoot positioning, shoot thinning, cluster thinning, and leaf pulling. The vines are grafted on four different root stocks (phyllexora and nematode resistant) specifically selected for drought tolerance which allows the use of mild deficit irrigation to concentrate flavors and further improve quality. Production is limited to retain outstanding quality and detail in all aspects of the process. Victor Hugo is a small family owned and operated winery specializing in small hand crafted lots of wine with intense colors and flavors. The winery is dedicated to producing elegant, rich wines exhibiting excellent longevity.
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Adelaida's wines begin at the roots, pushing through the rocky limestone soils on the west side of Paso Robles on California's Central Coast. The winery, which originated in 1981, is located 14 miles east of the Pacific Ocean at an elevation of 1,800 feet in the Santa Lucia mountain chain. The winery is a vineyard driven operation that considers itself a foremost proponent of the potential of west side Paso Robles. Adelaida's wild and rugged mountainside vineyards are loaded with limestone and calcareous shale. According to winemaker Terry Culton, "these characteristics cause the vines to strengthen. This results in added stress on the vines, which lowers the yields but produces more intensely flavored fruit". In keeping with the winery's sustainable philosophy, the vineyards are not tilled, encouraging native grasses, wild sage and rosemary to flourish between the rows. Adelaida produces from its own Estate vineyards and a select group of contracted vineyards on the west side of Paso Robles. Amongst its holdings are the two principal estate properties, Viking Vineyard and HMR Vineyard. The mighty Viking Vineyard was planted in 1992 and is now producing great Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The historic HMR Vineyard was pioneered by Dr. Stanley Hoffman in the early 60s. Devoted care and substantial investment have returned these 40+ year old vineyards to their former glory. Intense, high quality wines are convincing first-time tasters and experts alike.
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Environmental policy has emerged as a central organizing principle of economic growth at the metropolitan level in America."encouraging green retail development; and creating new neighborhoods that feature ecologically sensitive condos built in areas that were once off limits. It began, though, with Mayor Richard M. Daley's politically popular decision in the early 1990s to plant more trees, mulch more gardens, and build a green roof on City Hall, a tiny and inexpensive public works project that has become a signature of the Windy City.
It used to be that people defined sustainablity as a place far away from the city... Today that vision isn't sustainable for all kinds of reasons."formidable government wealth, competitiveness in core industries, and moderate population growth. The drive-through economy and the culture of convenience and plenty that it fostered were possible because families could afford the homes and cars, and government built the highways and water lines that tied it all together. The big losers were cities, which hemorrhaged jobs and marooned millions.


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This February 1865 report of teachers H.M and H.S. Barstow includes numbers of students taught, the number of hours spent teaching, and the condition of the school. The Barstows were affiliated with the Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission (NFAC) and were required to abide by that organization's rules of conduct. Teachers, for example, were required to instruct their students for six hours a day and could be dismissed for filing false reports.
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I'm looking for recommendations for a recipe for dough that can be risen in the fridge for however long and then stretched and topped and put in the oven immediately (ideally), or let sit on the counter at most 15 minutes. Any type of pizza, just looking for something that I can throw into the oven asap when we get home and are starving and exhausted and don't wanna wait an hour to rise/warm on the counter before baking it. Thank you!
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It is halftime in the Minnesota-Dallas game, Anthony Randolph has played 19 minutes and has 23 points and 6 rebounds. Thank you Mike D'Antoni. You are truly a coaching genius.
One thought on "We don't need no stinkin' Anthony Randolph"
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Distributors and specialty flooring dealers are utilizing the quality, styling and availability of American-made laminate flooring to counter price-driven imported product carried by home centers and mass merchants.
And, American laminate floors can now compete with Chinese product on price due to rising overseas freight rates and advanced automation at American production facilities. But that's not the point, said Bob Weiss, president of Illinois-based All-Tile.
"We're using American-made laminate to move our dealers into an area they can be more successful in. We're not looking at price. During the recession, a lot of people went with the cheapest product they could find and they've learned the error of their ways when the product didn't perform as expected. Now the American consumer is shopping for the best overall value and not the best price," he said.
Nowhere is low-cost Chinese imported laminate flooring more prevalent than on the West Coast, according to Stephen Kellogg, owner of Modesto, Calif.-based Flooring Liquidators. However, he said that domestically produced laminate flooring originating from the East Coast allows him to remain price competitive and provide a distinct Made in the U.S.A. advantage.
"There is actually a price advantage with product coming from Kronotex USA's East Coast facility but that gets diluted a bit with the freight coming out to me," he said. "When someone comes from a nearby Chinese importer or Home Depot or Lowe's and sees American made product highlighted in my store, it's a real advantage. I have Kronotex private label handpicked American designs, put them in my own white box and then I stick an American flag on each one."
Avalon Carpet Tile and Flooring only carries domestic laminate brands in its 14 locations scattered across New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The decision is not based on pricing but advanced styling and dependable supply, according to Sean O'Rourke, vice president of hard surfaces, Avalon Carpet Tile and Flooring.
"We never did well selling low-priced laminate, that's not our customer. Now we only deal with Armstrong, Mannington, Mohawk, Quick-Step and Shaw," he said. "The benefits of working with American suppliers are the styling and colors which are made specifically for this market. I couldn't imagine being an independent dealer and not supporting American-made product. There's a lack of consistency with imports. You might hit upon a real winner but its not selling well in Europe or Asia and all of a sudden you can't get it anymore. Domestic suppliers provide inventory control."
There is simply more money to be made with American laminates, even if the margins are lower, said Hoy Lanning, CEO of North Carolina-headquartered CMH Space Flooring Products. He developed a simple Turn & Earn equation to compare the profitability of domestic laminate and imports.
While margins on U.S. laminate tend to be lower, about 20 percent, product flowing from nearby Kronotex USA and Quick-Step allows Lanning to flip his inventory six times annually. A 20 percent (Earn) multiplied six times (Turn) equals a combined Turn & Earn of 120 for American product on Lanning's scale. Lanning's minimum is a score of 100.
A 35 percent margin on imports is impressive but when achieved only twice a year it only earns a 70 on his Turn & Earn scale. "You don't want to deal with product that you're not making at least 100 on the Turn & Earn scale. I can go pick up a truck from Quick-Step every day and my service level to dealers is so high price is not an issue."
Jeff Hamar, president of Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based Galleher Corporation, said, "The laminate consumer has made a decision to save money and not buy real wood. It's a cost/value compromise. By having a well-recognized brand like Formica, it reinforces in the consumer's mind that they're buying a quality product from a reputable manufacturer. And the high-end styling associated with American brands only aids that perception," he said.
Dealers like Avalon Carpet and Tile are committed to top domestic brands.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Michigan coach Brady Hoke made it clear Friday he is not satisfied with his team finishing 8-5.
The Wolverines coach, speaking to reporters after a speech at a Michigan High School Football Coaches Association clinic, said of the season: "We had a (expletive) year, to be honest with you. Eight wins, it's not good enough."
Hoke went on to say he was "extremely proud" of the effort his players gave in an season that ended with a last-second loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl.
He was asked about his characterization of the season after his speech to coaches that described how he prepares his football team each week.
"I mean, it was, for the expectations (we had)," Hoke said. "It was probably an improper word to use. But, you know, I love how the kids worked, and they helped grow us. But it's not the expectations."
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This document mainly describes a statement's query processing from parsing to result fetching with specified scenario. The whole procedure includes:
CREATE TABLE wish (DB_year INT, nation CHAR(3), gold INT, silver INT, bronze INT); CREATE TABLE wish1 (DB_year INT, nation CHAR(3), gold INT, silver INT, bronze INT);
INSERT INTO wish VALUES (1988, 'NZL', 3, 2, 8); INSERT INTO wish VALUES (2004, 'JPN', 16, 9, 12); INSERT INTO wish VALUES (1996, 'KOR', 7, 15, 5); INSERT INTO wish1 VALUES (2000, 'RUS', 32, 28, 28); INSERT INTO wish1 VALUES (1996, 'KOR', 7, 15, 5);
SELECT wish.DB_year,wish.gold, wish1.DB_year, wish1.gold FROM wish, wish1 WHERE wish.gold<wish1.gold
Parsing is the first step for query processing. This module uses lexer to scan statements input by user and then creates parse tree to store the statements' information. Parse tree is identified by parser_ID. At the beginning of procedure, the parser_ID is initialized to 1 and increased by 1 according to each statement's commit. Parser tree is stored in PT_NODE structure which is located at parser_Node__free_lists. The stack is as bellow:
'Session' is created at beginning of query processing. 'Session' saves all of processing information including parsing and semantic check. 'Session' includes 'dimension', 'parser', and 'statements' and other fields.
Bellow is 'session' whole picture.
We can see the detail 'session' structure. In our scenario, the 'dimension' is 1, 'parser_id' is 9, and 'node_type' is PT_SELECT. According to 'node_type', we can find 'select', 'from', 'where' segments which locate in statements.info.query.q.select.list (or from, where) as bellow.
Below is the detailed structures for 'list', 'from', and 'where':
The first line is linked from 'list' point. Each attribute has PT_NODE structure and each attribute is connected by each other. Attribute includes 'next', 'node_type', 'parser_id', 'info' and other fields. In our scenario, the attribute 'node_type' is PT_DOT_ and attribute is located at 'name' of 'info' field.
The second line is 'from' segment. Each class also have PT_NODE structure and each class connected by next point. Class structure includes 'next', 'node_type', 'parser_id', 'info' and other fields. In our scenario, the class 'node_type' is PT_SPEC and class name is locate at 'name' of 'parts'.
The third line is 'where' segment. It includes 'next', 'node_type', 'info' and other fields. In our scenario, the 'node_type' is PT_EXPR, and the 'dot' structure of 'info' indicates 'where' condition. 'op' is PT_LT which means that 'less than' and 'arg1' and 'arg2' are the comparative objects that gold of wish and gold of wish1.
For summary, in PT_NODE, 'Info' includes detail SQL info. In case of SELECT statement, list, from, where, group_by, having field saves 'SELECT', 'FROM', 'WHERE', 'GROUP BY', 'HAVING' info.
After parsing process, PT_tree will be generated without syntax error. Then PT_tree will execute semantic check process. The detail is as bellow:
According to semantic check process, stack status is as bellow.
Pt_apply_select() function executes 'select' statement's name resolutions. In function, successively walk through 'list', 'from', 'where' node to fix schema info after semantic checking.
For example, in 'from' node walking procedure, class object will be found out from schema with class name and check user authentication for current class, etc.
After name resolution, the 'statements' structure has the fixed schema info. The 'list' structure has fixed attribute name such as 'DB_year' at 'original' field, 'wish' at 'resolved' field. The 'from' structure has fixed class info such as 'oid_info', 'class_mop', 'object', 'lock', and other info. In our scenario, 'select' operation needs to 'IS_LOCK' objects. Detail is as bellow:
After parsing and semantic checking the query statement input by user is changed to augmented parse tree which includes the catalog info. Based on augmented parse tree, query plan will be generated in this step. Before query plan generation, we need to mention some terminology for CUBRID. In CUBRID plan, there are several parts such as 'join graph segments', 'join graph nodes', 'join graph equivalence classes', 'join graph edges', 'join graph partitions', 'query plan', 'query stmt', etc.
Segments indicate attributes and classes after 'select', 'from' and 'where'. In our scenario, the segments are as bellow:
seg[0]: [0]
seg[1]: DB_year[0] (f)
seg[2]: gold[0] (f)
seg[3]: [1]
seg[4]: DB_year[1] (f)
seg[5]: gold[1] (f)
Other 'seg' can be explained the same way.
Nodes mean that class's info.
node[0]: wish wish(3/1)
node[1]: wish1 wish1(2/1)
Equivalence class is for equal condition after 'where'. In our scenario, there is no equal condition.
Edges mean that comparison between two or more classes.
term[0]: wish.gold range (min inf_lt wish1.gold) (sel 0.1) (rank 2) (join term) (inner-join) (loc 0)
'term' is a statement condition which appears after 'where'. For only one class 'term', we call it 'scan term' and for the two or more class 'term', we call it 'join term'. In our scenario, it is join term. 'sel' is selectivity which means that the probability of tuples to be scaned out.
As mentioned in 'join graph edges', there are 2 types of terms: 'scan term' and 'join term'.
This is for scan group. Classes in one partition will be scaned together. We will provide more detail further.
The Query Plan is the best execution plan for the current query which was selected based on the lowest cost. In our scenario, the best query plan is as bellow: nl-join (inner join)
edge: term[0]
outer: sscan
class: wish1 node[1]
cost: fixed 0(0.0/0.0) var 1(0.0/1.0) card 2
inner: sscan
class: wish node[0]
sargs: term[0]
cost: fixed 0(0.0/0.0) var 1(0.0/1.0) card 3
cost: fixed 0(0.0/0.0) var 2(0.0/2.0) card 1
'nl-join' means nested loop join and 'inner join' is based on user input. In our scenario, there is no index file, so, it can just use a nested loop join. And the whole scan will execute outer loop scan for wish1 and inner loop scan for wish. In each scan, the scan method is sequential scan (sscan). For the outer loop scan, the cost can be split to 'fixed cost', 'var cost' and 'card'. Each cost consist 'CPU cost' and 'I/O cost'. 'card' means expected tuple count. Two class's 'I/O cost' of 'var cost' are 1.0 according to the distribution of page count. And 'wish1' expects 2 'card' and 'wish' expect 3 'card'. So set the less tuple class to outer loop considers of the less disk access cost.
This is the rewritten statement.
SELECT wish.DB_year, wish.gold, wish1.DB_year, wish1.gold FROM wish wish, wish1 wish1 WHERE (wish.gold<wish1.gold)
mq_transalte() function translate the views or virtual classes into base classes. Qo_optimize_queries() checks all subqueries for rewrite optimizations. And qo_optimize_query() function optimize a single select statement.
'QO_ENV' is the repository of all optimizer data structures. 'QO_ENV' includes 'PT_PARSER' which contains parsing info, 'PT_NODE, 'QO_SEGMENT', 'QO_NODE' which is related with query graph, 'QO_EQCLASS', 'QO_TERM', 'QO_PLAN' tree which is the final execution plan.
In QO_ENV's init steps, parser point and pt_tree point will be set. Nnodes is the count of classes which indicated after 'from', nodes is assigned to classes indicated. Nsegs set to couple of Nnode and segs is assigned to QO_SEGMENT. Nterms is count of terms which are indicated after 'where', and terms are assigned to QO_TERM. After init the QO_ENV is as bellow:
QO_PLAN is generated after query optimization. In QO_PLAN sarged_terms is scan condition. Vtb1 is pointed to functions which handle temporary result tables. In QO_PLAN, 'plan_type' indicates QO_PLAN's type which has union value of QO_PLANTYPE_SCAN, QO_PLANTYPE_JOIN, QO_PLANTYPE_SORT, QO_PLANTYPE_FOLLOW, QO_PLANTYPE_WORST. When plan_type is QO_PLANTYPE_SCAN, we call this QO_PLAN as scan node which indicates the way of one class scan. In our scenario 'plan_type' is 'QO_PLANTYPE_JOIN'.
The plan_un is scan type and when the value is sequential scan we set it as QO_SCANTYPE_SEG_SCAN, and when the value is index scan we set it as QO_SCANTYPE_INDEX_SCAN. When the plan type is QO_PLANTYPE_JOIN, we call the QO_PLAN as join node. Join node's plan_type is Join type which value is union of QO_JOINTYPE_NL_JOIN, QO_JOINTYPE_MERGE_JOIN. And outer is the pointer of outer loop class and inner is the pointer of inner loop. Join_term is scan condition for two QO_PLAN's join result. The QO_PLAN tree structure for our scenario is as bellow:
Query Manager execute XASL tree from client. In query processing, client send XASL tree to server through socket. Server execute statement through XASL tree and in case of select statement, the execution result will be stored in the list file.
Qexec_execute_mainblock() is the key function to perform scan process. In this key function, the XASL tree content will be analyzed to generate SCAN_ID which is sent to storage function to read data.
This module fetches tuples from result file (list file).


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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
I have viewed 180 blogs so far. So much inspiration and so many wonderful people. Many I am now following and read their new posts every day. I try to leave a message at each of the blogs I visit. For some reason I decided to go back and look at some of the other comments left on those same blogs and none of my comments are there. Over a hundred comments are lost in the black hole of the Internet. I'm mostly upset because I really wanted these wonderful artists to know they are appreciated.
So now I have to figure out what I'm doing wrong before I continue the tour. Another question I have had since I started on this journey into Blog Land. It's kind of an etiquette thing but my guess is others wonder about this too...
When somebody leaves a comment on my blog should I answer them through my blog or send a personal e-mail or just visit their blog. I've done all three but sometimes I don't think the emails reach their destination. The have gone in to that same black hole.
So please share your thoughts and answers to these problems. I can't be the only one with these questions/problems.
Thank you, and have a blissed day.
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Oh I hear you on the frustration with leaving comments and I hate to say it...but I have the most trouble with blogger type blogs...all the extra steps you have to jump through, the coded words, etc. Then it says that you comment will be visible and you check back and it doesn't show up...ugh! As far as responding to comments, I like to respond to the emails because unless that person has subscribed to the feed for that blog post, then they will never know if you responded. AND I leave a lot of comments so I don't want to have to go back and check to see if the blog owner responded. Hope this helps, fondly, RobertaReplyDelete
Rita-are you sure you typed in those weird letters that some blogs have. Sometimes they don't show up right away-you have to wait for them. That might be part of it.ReplyDelete
I follow lots of blogs and I visit new posts daily and try to leave messages, so I don't try to visit those who leave comments--most are from people whose blogs I follow and I usually catch up with them. There just isn't enough time. I check new blog posts in the mornings and evenings and it takes at least an hour or more each time!!
I've never checked back to see if my comments were posted. I return the gift of comments and time required by going to the person's blog and leaving a comment. I've disabled the "wierd letters" but do moderate all comments. If I want a response or answer, I will try to track down the email address for the person.ReplyDelete
Hi Rita! Sorry about losing some of the comments you've left on other blogs from the hop, but the one you left on my blog is still there! Thank you for your sweet words. I also get confused about responding to comments. I usually visit their blog and leave a comment back, but if it's more personal I try to email. Hope this helps, I'm still figuring these things out for myself!ReplyDelete
Let's just face it, computers can drive one nuts.....sorry about all your missed comments...ReplyDelete
I really appreciated your visit and your sweet comments.....
I try to visit those who leave comments but don't always have time..I have blogs I read everyday and then I have some blogs I enjoy when I have extra time....It varies with me from day to day according to what's on my schedule..but I so appreciate everyone's comments that I really try to follow up....there are so many wonderful and talented people out there sometimes I feel I could blog all day.......
Rita, it's so nice of you to leave comments on my blog and I appreciate them so much. I did notice that for one post, you left two very similar comments a couple of days apart, and I'm wondering if for some reason you couldn't see the first comment and so tried again. I don't know what could have been wrong -- I don't have this blog thing fully figured out yet! But I hope these little glitches won't make you stop leaving comments.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad I'm not the only one with the same thoughts...it is rather frustrating to find the emails of some....but I am enjoying the blog hop.ReplyDelete


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"Anyone concerned with the future," wrote Sergius Bulgakov,
is most anxious about the younger generation. But to be spiritually dependent on it, to truckle to its opinions and take it as a standard, testifies to a society's spiritual weakness. In any case, an entire historical period and the whole spiritual tenor of intelligentsia heroism are symbolized by the fact that the ideal of the Christian saint, the ascetic, has been replaced here by the revolutionary student."
Bulgakov is writing in 1909 about the young, sectarian intellectuals of Russian society, who according to Nicholas Berdyaev were "artificially isolated from national life." They had taken upon themselves a sort of megalomania, assuming to be the heroic saviors of Russia, a sort of atheistic incarnation of Providence. The student, full of passion and idealism, had become the Übermensch for educated Russians, only barely subdued by the failed revolution of 1905. To Bulgakov, this idealizing of the youth amounted to a "spiritual pedocracy." Russian society looked to the youth—the least experienced and therefore least wise—for spiritual leadership. Are we making the same mistake in America today? (more…)


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Whatever the market is, it is important to provide functionality not available on competing solutions, claims Nvidia Corp. With the approaching first breed of tablets as well as smartbooks based on ARM microprocessors and system-on-chips (SoCs), Nvidia will be able to finally show why its Tegra is better than the rivals.
For several years now Nvidia has been claiming that it has value-adding differentiators on the market of graphics processing units for desktop and mobile computers, including 3D Vision technology for creation of stereo-3D effects on special screens, CUDA-exclusive software that can be accelerated using Nvidia GeForce chips, processing of physics effects using GPU PhysX technology to create better image quality and so on.
But while Nvidia has numerous benefits on the personal computer market, it remains to be seen what kind of advantages will be offered by systems powered by Tegra SoC. Apparently, there will be a number of differentiators when it comes to Tegra-based devices as well.
"PCs have been the seat of entertainment innovation for decades. But they have always had limited mobility. Tegra is now leading the way with mobilizing the full web experience and full HD content that were only possible on high-end PCs just a few years ago. Tegra differentiators today include the first dual-core CPU for mobile applications, 1080p HD capabilities, and console-style game support," said Bill Henry, director of Tegra products at Nvidia.
It appears that computing and graphics performance will not be the only advantages that Tegra-family SoCs may bring to mobile devices. Nvidia does have a lot of intellectual property and leverage usage of existing technologies onto mobile devices. Going forward the SoCs may integrate even higher computing power, which will allow mobile devices to further obtain desktop functionality.
"Nvidia is the only company in the mobile industry with the experience and IP to bring the most advanced 3D, CUDA and PhysX capabilities to market, but these things do take time. Stay tuned," said Mr. Henry.


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DIM® is a standardized, bioavailable form of diindolylmethane, a phytonutrient found in vegetables such as broccoli. As a patented formula, DIM® promotes women's metabolism and cellular health.** Each capsule contains 100 mg. of the DIM® Blend Complex which provides 25 mg. of DIM® (Diindolylmethane).No Artificial Color, Flavor or Sweetener, No Preservatives, No Sugar, No Milk, No Lactose, No Gluten, No Wheat, No Yeast, No Fish, Sodium Free.


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Alumnus Jeff Ball '89, chairman of the California Bankers Association (CBA), was recently featured in the association's magazine, California Banker.
"The current environment presents many challenges for banks of all sizes and we can best address these challenges as a unified industry," said Ball regarding his role as chair of the CBA. "The California Bankers Association represents banks of all sizes and the diversification of our volunteer leaderships team puts us in a unique position to improve the status of our overall industry. That is my priority for the coming year... Together we can achieve more and play a key factor in improving the economic environment for all segments of our state."
Ball, is the founder of Friendly Hills Bank in Whittier, CA and currently serves as president, chief executive officer and a director of the bank. Ball has more than 25 years of banking experience, having spent the majority of his career in both commercial and investment banking for Bank of America. He began his career as a management trainee at Southern California Bank which was a local community bank based in Downey, California.
Ball has been active in a number of community and civic organizations with board experiences that include the Whittier Area Chamber of Commerce, Orange County Business Council, Junior Achievement and the Whittier Host Lions Club. He serves by appointment as a commissioner for the Legal Services Trust Fund of the State Bar of California and the Bond Oversight Committee for the Whittier Union High School District. In addition to his role as treasurer of the California Bankers Association, he is also chairman of CBA's Federal Government Relations Committee.


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Sony Corp. has spoken with major recording companies in regards of music download service for PlayStation Portable video game console, a media report claims. While it does make sense to listen to music using PSP, the move may actually involve adding online music store to the PlayStation Network.
According to Cnet News.com web-site, the talks between Sony and music labels are preliminary and no deals have been signed so far. Nevertheless, making PlayStation Portable a rival for iPod or, in case future versions support telephony and data transfer using GPRS/EDGE/3G, music oriented cell phones, including Apple iPhone, Nokia MusicXpress, Nokia N-series or Sony Ericsson Walkman, is a very serious move from Sony.
"This makes total sense that Sony would try to get content for the device. If Sony is smart, they would manage it the same way iTunes has and be device-agnostic. Whatever you get on a Sony site should play on an iPod as well," said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities.
Sony is rumoured to unveil a new version of the PSP in the coming months. The revamped Sony PSP will ditch UMD media, but will feature a built-in 8GB or 16GB flash drive for storing games on board of the console. The design of the new PlayStation Portable will also be considerably dissimilar from the available system: game controls will be located on a special sliding keypad beneath the screen. Since the new PSP will be dramatically different, albeit it is not projected to be Sony's second-generation portable console, it is also expected to get a new name: PlayStation Portable Go!
Sony may easily position its PlayStation Portable Go! as a rival for various popular gadgets, including Apple iPod, Nintendo DSi and so on. Adding GPRS/EDGE/3G connectivity will even allow PSP Go! to rival multimedia rich cell phones.
Adding the music to PlayStation Network will allow to listen to music not only to PSP owners, but also to owners of the PlayStation 3 video game system, further transforming the PS3 from a game machine into a multimedia center.
Sony did not comment on the news-story.
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October 25, 2010 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) Exam Preparation – Save the Date
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center Peer Counselors
- Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) Exam Preparation – Save the Date: The state WIC office will be hosting an International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) Exam Preparation course on April 11-15, 2011 in Jefferson City. This course will meet the 45 hours of lactation specific education needed to be an exam candidate by the International Board Lactation Consultants Examiners (IBLCE). Details about this course are forthcoming and will be posted in the WIC Updates. The state WIC office would like to know who is sitting for the exam in July to provide guidance on the application process. If you are planning on sitting for the exam, please email Kathy Mertzlufft at email@example.com or call her at 573-526-4792 to let her know.
WIC Positions
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center Peer Counselors Needed!
12-16 hours per week; flexible days/times
This position will counsel pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers by telephone and in the WIC office at scheduled intervals; teach prenatal and breastfeeding classes with approved lesson plan provided by the health center; organize breastfeeding mother support groups; make contact with designated caseload of WIC participants on a monthly basis; provide information and support for women managing common breastfeeding problems and refer participants to a nutritionist or lactation consultant when situation occurs outside of scope of practice. Will update and maintain records for breast pump program and keep accurate records of contacts with participants on the logs and in the WIC computer system. Must have H.S. Diploma or GED, good communication skills, breastfed a child for at least six months, is enthusiastic about breastfeeding and has a desire to share that enthusiasm, working knowledge of computers, must be able to take phone calls after regular business hours and on weekends. Current or previous enrollment in WIC preferred. Must be able to speak Spanish or Vietnamese. Position requires three days of training to become a peer counselor. Send your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com, apply in person at 825 Euclid Ave, KCMO 64124 or fax to 816-474-4914.


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Spectacular views, breathtaking scenery & unmatched attention to detail await you on your wedding day at Powderhorn Mountain Resort.
We specialize in personal, intimate weddings for up to 250 guests. Let us help you plan your special day. We will work with you to create the perfect mood in our incredible setting. We can assist with all aspects of the ceremony, meals, reception, lodging, rehearsals, and more. If you've been looking for a unique, affordable Rocky Mountain location, book your celebration at Powderhorn.
For more information and reservations, please contact Joe Shero, Powderhorn Food & Beverage Manager at 970-268-5700 ext 2066 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. "
A Tropical Find
On the opposite side of St. Lucia from Castries, the capital, up some bumpy roads, sits the tucked-away paradise of Cap Maison. Located in the hills and perched on a ledge above the azure Caribbean, this luxury boutique hotel is a lovely retreat; and its casual yet elegant indoor/outdoor restaurant, the Cliff at Cap, is a tropical find.
Friendly servers dish out tasty rum punches and cool beers as guests admire the view of the Caribbean down below. You might see the occasional flying fish, someone learning to sail, the island of Martinique or a cruise ship in the distance. And at the Cliff at Cap, the food is as magnificent as the view; chef Craig Jones expertly combines superb flavors, colors and textures.
Sample the tapas-style Dorado sliders with fresh micro greens and pickled lemon mayo or the sublime pumpkin soup. Or go for succulent jerk chicken satay with Caesar salad and mango chutney, braised Kobe short rib with parsnip puree and pumpkin ballotine or the corn-fed chicken with caramelized plantains in a Creole sauce. If you have room, try the iced coconut parfait with berries.
Lucky hotel guests, day-trip visitors and discerning locals all dine here for the gorgeous cliff-top views, the excellent cuisine and the Caribbean vibe.
Cap Maison, Smugglers Cove Drive, Cap Estate, St. Lucia, (758) 457-8681, thecliffatcap.com
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Orchestra at MC and Community Chorus present holiday concert Dec. 1
Orchestra at MC and Community Chorus to present holiday concert
Nov. 15, 2013
Contact: Chloe Kennedy, News and New Media Writer
865.981.8209; firstname.lastname@example.com
The Orchestra at Maryville College, under the direction of Bill Robinson, and the Maryville College Community Chorus, led by Alan Eleazer, will present a concert of seasonal songs and carols on Sun., Dec. 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Clayton Center for the Arts' Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre.
Joining the orchestra will be the handbell choir of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Maryville, directed by Sam Wagner. During the concert, the handbell choir and orchestra will perform two pieces written by Steven Amundson, conductor of the St. Olaf Orchestra at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Several carols arranged by John Rutter will also be performed.
Tickets for the Dec. 1 performance are $5 and can be purchased at the Clayton Center for the Arts Box Office or by calling 865.981.8590. The performance is free to MC faculty, students and staff with ID, although a printed ticket is required for admission.
For more information, please contact the College's Division of Fine Arts at 865.981.8150.
Maryville College is ideally situated in Maryville, Tenn., between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Knoxville, the state's third largest city. Founded in 1819, it is the 12th oldest institution of higher learning in the South and maintains an affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Known for offering its students a rigorous and highly personal experience that includes an undergraduate research requirement, Maryville College is a nationally ranked institution of higher learning that successfully joins the liberal arts and professional preparation. Total enrollment for the fall 2016 semester is 1,197.


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I've got the perfect 5K for you. It's called The Rose Run, and it takes place on Saturday, July 17, 2010 in Petersburg, Michigan. Well, that's one place it takes place. It also happens wherever you'll be on that very day — Cleveland, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, heck, any location in the United States, really. You name it, you can run (or walk) it.
Call it a virtual run, a run from a distance, whatever you want — just gather a few of your friends, form a team, and plan to participate, because I promise you it will make Race Director Jessica Cribbs one happy girl. You see, Jessica lost her mother to breast cancer in January 2009, and this run is in honor of the brave and courageous Rose Hunt. It's also in support of everyone out there fighting the same disease, and the money raised through the event will benefit breast cancer research. Last year, Jessica raised more than $10,000. Her goal was $2,000.
If you're game for helping Jessica raise a bunch more cash this year, check out this scoop on registering. And if you do register, leave a comment and let us know from where you'll be pounding the pavement. We'd love to know.