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May 7, 2011
Box Score | Notes | Highlights
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Wilpon Complex)
Score: Minnesota 11, Michigan 10
Records: U-M (15-30, 6-11 Big Ten), Minnesota (18-18, 10-7 Big Ten)
Attendance: 1,397
Next U-M Event: Sunday, May 8 -- vs. Minnesota (Wilpon Complex), 1 p.m.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Down 11-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth, the University of Michigan baseball team came up with six runs in the inning, but the furious rally fell one run short as the Maize and Blue lost to Minnesota, 11-10, on Saturday afternoon (May 7) at the Wilpon Complex, home of Ray Fisher Stadium.
Freshman Alex Lakatos (Grand Rapids, Mich./Forest Hills Central) started the ninth with a walk and went to second on a single from sophomore Derek Dennis (Ada, Mich./Forest Hills Central). Both runners moved up a base on a groundout by freshman Adam Robinson (Northbrook, Ill./Glenbrook North). Freshman Michael O'Neill's (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy Liberty) two-run single cut the Minnesota lead to 11-6. The Maize and Blue then had a two-out rally. A walk to junior Coley Crank (Pinole, Calif./Pinole Valley) and a single from freshman Brett Winger (Orlando, Fla./Olympia) loaded the bases. Redshirt sophomore Kevin Krantz (Traverse City, Mich./Central) drove in two runs with a single to right. Junior John Lorenz (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) made it 11-10 with a two-run single up the middle. Minnesota brought in closer Scott Matyas, who got redshirt junior pinch hitter Garrett Stephens (Davison, Mich./Davison) to ground into a fielder's choice to end the game.
Junior Kevin Vangheluwe (St. Clair Shores, Mich./Lake Shore) retired the first two Golden Gophers to start the game but then gave up five straight singles, scoring three runs. Minnesota then put up three more runs in the third with the big blow coming on a two-run single.
Michigan trimmed away at the lead with a two-spot in the third. Dennis singled with one out and went to second on a Robinson single. O'Neill scored Dennis with a double to left and sophomore Patrick Biondi (Woodhaven, Mich./Divine Child) plated Robinson with a groundout to second base. Michigan made it 6-3 in the fifth as a Biondi double drove in Dennis.
However, Minnesota answered with two runs in the sixth with two outs.
The two teams both scored a run in the eighth. After Minnesota led off the eighth with a home run, Biondi led off the bottom half with a single and went to third as Crank reached on a throwing error. Winger then reached on a fielder's choice, scoring Biondi.
Minnesota's two-run ninth proved to be crucial, with the tallies coming on a homer and a run-scoring single.
The two teams combined for 33 hits. For Michigan, O'Neill was 4-for-5 with three runs batted in, while Dennis was 3-for-3 with three runs scored. Biondi and Winger had two hits apiece. For Minnesota, Justin Gominsky and Nick O'Shea had four hits apiece.
Phil Isaksson earned the win for Minnesota. He struck out five and gave up seven hits and three runs in six innings of work. Matyas picked up his eighth save of the year for the Gophers. Vangheluwe was tagged with the loss, allowing seven hits and five runs in two-plus innings.
Michigan and Minnesota will conclude the series Sunday afternoon (May 8) at 1 p.m. It is Military Appreciation Weekend at the Wilpon Complex. All military personnel -- active military and veterans -- and their families will receive free general admission seating while supplies last. Fans will just need to show their military ID at the Wilpon Complex ticket office.
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Their first sail on 40 Degrees was – predictably – into the wind, but after an initial period of upwind sailing spent experimenting with water ballast and sail configurations, the breeze vaporised dropping to below two knots and swinging from all points of the compass. Cabin fever and sunburn soon set in:
'We spent the first three days as two individuals finding their way around their new world,' Jenner explains.
'Of course, we were a team, but we had not yet begun to develop that partnership, we had yet to find our team rhythm,' she admits. However, any attempts at team bonding were soon postponed as conditions quickly developed into strong breeze reaching over 30 knots with constant rain squalls. The duo changed down through the sail plan rapidly; first to one reef and staysail, then one reef and storm jib as the wind built rapidly.
'It felt like we were sitting on a raging bull, bucking and rearing up then rolling and lurching,' says Jenner. 'The cockpit was awash as each wave piled down the side decks and – periodically - a nasty bang could be heard as the boat dropped off a misshapen wall of water. I can't say it was particularly pleasant, but a few years of experience tells me that all you can do is set the boat up properly, sit tight and try to keep smiling.'
After 2,300 miles and two weeks at sea, Jenner and Renken reached Horta in the Azores and successfully completed their GOR qualifier. 'Ultimately, we became completely at ease with the lack of privacy on a Class40!' confirms Jenner. 'Very early one morning, as we sailed at some hideous angle beating to windward, Anna laughed as she was sat on the bucket just opposite from where I was pulling on wet clothes and said:
'If only people could see us now, looking like such an old couple!',' she recalls. 'We became aware of the challenges that we will face in the GOR and know that it will not all be smiles and laughter, but the qualifying sail gave us a very good taste of what is to come.'
The next target for the team was the 2011 Normandy Channel Race, a 1,000 mile double-handed, Class40 event starting from Ousitreham on the coast of Normandy on May 22. 'We entered the Normandy Channel Race having heard the tales of last year's light winds marathon,' says Jenner
'We're cool with light winds; after all, races are won and lost in light airs, so they say!' 40 Degrees raced against 16 other Class40's, including two GOR entries: Michel Kleinjans on the new BT Boats Kiwi 40FC, Roaring Forty 2, and the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton Squire with 2006 Akilaria, Phesheya-Racing. 'What perhaps none of us expected was 40 knots plus of the stuff and even more rude, that for a good part of the 40 knot experience the wind angle was unsociably forward of the beam! Still, we went with the aim of seeing just how fast the good guys go and we can report that it is pretty fast.'
Jenner and Renken took 11th place out of the 12 eventual finishers: 'We never expected to be on the podium,' Jenner admits. 'We wanted to finish and finish having learned a great deal about the boat, about sailing together tired and stressed and to come away with many new ideas for setting the boat up for the GOR,' she continues. 'Well check, check and check, as we did all of that and we managed to beat the only other all girl team despite being a little hampered in the heavy downwind airs sail wardrobe department.'
Overall, the race was an invaluable experience: 'We did well upwind, had a great fully-powered beam reach around Guernsey and got wet - very, very wet,' she reports. 'Sure, a few things broke, a halyard which meant we dabbled in a little underwater gennaker flying and we had to remove the radar after the bracket broke,' Jenner lists.
'The B&G's displayed some rather nonsensical wind information, but let's face it, when you're exhausted and hallucinating, you can't process all that information anyway, so we didn't let that little hiccup get in our way.'
For Jenner's co-skipper, the race was a considerable boost to team morale and confidence: 'We made a couple of tactical mistakes, but for a first race we are proud of what we achieved,' says Renken. 'Proud that we didn't quit when the forecast showed we were in for a beating; proud we fought the physicality and proud to be the first all-female team to ever complete the race,' she continues. 'We now have an even bigger shopping list for the boat and notebooks bulging with ideas,' confirms Renken.
'It was a fantastic preparation race, we loved our boat before, we love it more now, even though we know we have quite a beast on our hands.' For both sailors, the final stages of the five-day race were critical: 'On the speed front...let's just say a few things 'clicked' in that last 24 hours,' adds Jenner. 'Next time we won't be shy with the vitesse!'
Returning back to their homeport in Haslar Marina, Gosport, the duo continue pre-race preparation with 40 Degrees including structural work to install watertight bulkheads and ballast tank plumbing. In the past week, 40 Degrees has been out of the water and the unpleasant task of completely removing the existing antifoul has been completed.
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Colleges offer graduates help repaying loans
Law schools have done it for years. Now, some private liberal arts colleges are experimenting with the idea: They're offering upfront to help students pay off their loans after they graduate.
The financial-aid benefit, which targets students who expect to pursue careers in low-paying public-service fields, aims to help colleges attract and retain students who might otherwise enroll somewhere cheaper, or nowhere at all.
"When we have an excellent student we know will be successful here (but) who has that anxiety about student loans, this is one more tool for us," says Jeff Abernathy, president of Alma (Mich.) College, which is testing the concept with about 10 students this fall. "We are making myriad attempts to help our students find their way to a private liberal arts education, (particularly) students who might feel like they've got to go to a lower-cost public institution."
At least seven other schools — mostly small Christian colleges — offer the option as a strategy to boost enrollments in tough economic times. A growing number of college freshmen say they aren't attending their top college choice even if they are accepted there, often because of cost, says an annual survey by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. In last fall's survey, 62% said the economy affected where they enrolled.
A number of wealthy colleges, including Amherst and Pomona, in recent years have eliminated loans from financial-aid packages. Private schools with small endowments rarely have that option and are more likely to lose students to lower-priced public universities.
The loan program gives students a safety net. "I don't have to worry about how much money I'm going to be making. It frees me up to do what I feel I'm called to do," says Erica Harris, 22, a May graduate of Huntington (Ind.) University, which offered her the option two years ago when she nearly withdrew because of finances.
Loan burden
Average debt of graduates with bachelor of arts degrees in 2008 (most recent data) from four-year colleges. Percentage with debt:
Sources: The Project on Student Debt; U.S. Department of Education
Harris, whose degree is in family and children ministries, accrued about $40,000 in debt and isn't sure where she'll work after her summer internship at a Christian youth camp. If the job pays less than $20,000 a year, the loan repayment plan will cover that year's payments. The Huntington plan will help cover up to $90,000 in student or parent loans when borrowers earn less than $40,000 a year.
Participating students pay nothing for the benefit. The college pays a fee — on average about $1,200 per student per year — to LRAP Association, a 3-year-old company that uses the pooled funds to repay loans for graduates who qualify. Company president Peter Samuelson projects that no more than 20% of participating students will need the money or will need it for more than a few years.
Tufts University in Medford, Mass., created a repayment program universitywide in 2008. Funding comes from donor gifts.
Matthew Osborne, a vice president at Michigan's Spring Arbor University, which expects to add 20 students this fall to its program, says it's "a matter of time" before more colleges offer similar relief. He sees a longer-term payoff if recipients look kindly on their alma mater for doing so. "Gratitude allows for a better relationship," he says. "And better relations allows for the opportunity for better alumni donations down the road."
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RE: st: Looping within a subset under a certain condition
"Gerard Solbrig" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: Looping within a subset under a certain condition
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:10:43 +0200
Pengpeng, thanks for the reply.
What you pointed out is somewhat of a special case I included in the
For my understanding, as Stata works its way through all observations in
every group of 'firm_id' and encounters a rep = 1 case, it'll just check on
whether all other observations in that group (starting with the next
observation, `i'+1) have a 'trandate' within the the range 'wind_start' and
Thus, if it encounters another rep = 1 case (which are generally missing a
'trandate'), it should set 'rep_ins' = 0 for that case and continue to go
through all other observations. I try to correct that by including the line
'replace rep_ins = . if rep == 1' after my loop.
As for the possibility that there are multiple rep = 1 cases for one firm:
ideally, the loop would indicate for each rep = 0 case within which of these
different and possibly overlapping windows the observation's 'trandate'
lies. But I assume that would add a whole lot more complications to the
code. So for now, I'm just trying to get it to work so that it set's rep_ins
= 1 if any observation's 'trandate' lies within the range 'wind_start'
'wind_end' of one or more rep = 1 cases for that firm.
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Hi Gerard,
I thought your problem might be very similar as what I encountered before.
You said that you attempted to indicate whether the date of all other
observations of this firm (where rep = 0) lay within the range determined by
'wind_start' and 'wind_end', but in your data, the firm2 had two set of
'wind_start' and 'wind_end', (03jul1999 - 27jul2000 and 09jul1999 -
02aug2000), so which one should be used in the determination?
Thank you.
Best wishes,
At 2012-09-29 04:45:06,"Gerard Solbrig" <email@example.com>
>Dear Statalist-Members,
>I'm encountering a problem for which I seek your help.
>Let me start off with an example from my data (what I want it to look
>like in the end), before I explain my particular problem.
>firm_id date rep wind_start wind_end
>firm1 01jan2000 0 . .
>firm1 05apr2004 0 . .
>firm1 01nov2004 1 05may2004 30may2005
>firm1 10dec2004 0 . .
>firm1 01jan2006 0 . .
>firm2 30dec1999 1 03jul1999 27jul2000
>firm2 05jan2000 1 09jul1999 02aug2000
>firm2 06jun2000 0 . .
>Each firm in my data has a 'firm_id'. Variable 'date' refers to an
>event date. The 'rep' dummy indicates the type of event.
>I set 'wind_start' and 'wind_end' as period around the event
>(-180days,+210days), in case it's a rep = 1 type event.
>Now, I would like the 'rep_ins' dummy to indicate (i.e., rep_ins = 1),
>whether the date of all other observations of this firm (where rep = 0)
>lies within the range determined by 'wind_start' and 'wind_end' (which
>is conditional upon the 'rep' dummy).
>I've come across looping over observations and tried to design a
>solution for this problem based on that, but failed to do so. I assume
>the solution also depends on sorting the data in a special way.
>Here's the first part of my .do-file:
>gen wind_start = date-180 if rep == 1
>gen wind_end = date+210 if rep == 1
>format wind_start %d
>format wind_end %d
>gsort +cusip6 +date +trandate
>gen rep_ins = 0 if rep != 1
>I tried to come up with a solution by adding variables 'per_start' and
>'per_end' for all rep = 0:
>gen per_start = date-180 if rep == 0
>gen per_end = date+180 if rep == 0
>format per_start %d
>format per_end %d
>To mark the period within which the rep = 1 event can lie. Maybe this
>could contribute to finding a solution as well.
>All input is welcome. Thanks in advance.
>Gerard Solbrig
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February 15, 2013
Columbia Management and the Carlyle Group both priced collateralized loan obligations this week in line with initial guidance; the senior tranches of both deals had spreads of Libor plus 130 basis points.
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Matthew McConaughey was one of the stars of last night's Oscars award ceremony, taking the hotly-contested Best Actor gong and delivering one of the evening's longest and most eclectic acceptance speeches.
But while his performance in Dallas Buyers Club got the critics talking, responses online were largely focussed on the fact that he named himself as his own "hero".
Delivering his speech like a three-point plan, McConaughey said everyone needs "something to look up to, something to look forward to and someone to chase".
For the third, in something of a maverick move for an Academy Award winner, he thanked the spectral figure of himself "in 10 years'" time.
To his credit, McConaughey handed first mentions to God, his late father and the other members of his family, before finishing (eventually): "And to my hero. That's who I chase.
"Now when I was 15 years old, I had a very important person in my life come to me and say 'who's your hero?' And I said, 'I don't know, I gotta think about that. Give me a couple of weeks.' I come back two weeks later, this person comes up and says 'who's your hero?' I said, 'I thought about it. You know who it is? It's me in 10 years.'
"So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, 'So, are you a hero?' And I was like, 'not even close. No, no, no.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because my hero's me at 35.'
"So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero's always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna attain that. I know I'm not, and that's just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing."
On Twitter, viewers responded with a mix of admiration and bemusement. Court Hamilton wrote: "Did anyone else find it strange that McConaughey thanked himself last night? Essentially said 'I'm my greatest inspiration, so thanks me.'"
Garon Deo wrote: "Matthew McConaughey is such a smooth dude that he thanked himself and got away with it."
An apparently angry US comedian Jim Norton, meanwhile, said: "McConaughey's hero is himself in 10 years? F****** YUCK."
If there was a Best Self-Appreciation award in the alternative Oscars, the actor could consider himself a shoo-in.
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"If you look at what a lot of composers in the 20th century did — Bartók, Schoenberg, Webern — what I'm doing on Codebook is not particularly groundbreaking." But Mahanthappa is drawn to his puzzle problems as a way of thinking outside the box at the same time that he delves into material that really interests him. And he's drawn — like earlier modern composers — to creating his own self-contained systems. "Say you decide that the piece is always going to go minor third, half step, major third, in any direction. Some really amazing music can come out of that because each note carries more weight — whether to go up or down becomes much more serious than in another circumstance."
If that makes Mahanthappa sound forbiddingly dry and theoretical, the music on Codebook belies any such conclusion — the funk of "Enhanced Performance," the swing of "D (Dee-Dee)," the hook of that alternating third-sixth-seventh bass line on "Wait It Through," the soaring Coltrane balladry of "My Sweetest." If there's any complaint, it's that sometimes those odd meters — combined with Mahanthappa's heavy attack — can become wearing. Too much heavy sauce, without a steady-groove breather. "D (Dee-Dee)" arrives just in time.
Now Mahanthappa has been using his Guggenheim to do more research in India. "I want to go over there and find out, 'What is this called?' I hear this thing all the time, I can actually do this thing, but I don't know what it's called, and I don't know what the rules are. Is this wrong, is this right, why do you guys always do this and never this? I want to know some of these rules so I can know why I'm breaking them." He'd like to use his research in compositions for saxophone, electric guitar, percussion, laptop, and electronics.
"I never claimed to be playing Indian music, but it's a significant part of what I do, as much as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and Duke Ellington. It's part of expressing my Indian-American identity. I don't claim to be speaking for this generation of Indian-Americans, but I think we're all trying to make a statement of sorts — if nothing else: 'We're here, we're part of the American cultural landscape, of what it is to be American.' "
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Open Letter: Let's Save Japanese Game Development
Posted on Monday, June 18 @ 15:34:25 PST by Daniel Bischoff
Be Japanese.
I want Japanese games that aren't straddling some awkward cultural line. I want Japanese games that can't have their inherent culture localized out of them. I want a game based in a foreign culture because far too many games are making me disgusted with my own culture.
I know first-hand that at face-value, Eastern and Western cultures lack little commonplace between them. I know that business people, the men and women who talk dollars and yen behind their suits and desks will say those face-values are too strong to break. I know they're wrong.
Games involve players on a deeper level than music or movies or TV shows. Players grow deeply intrenched in character and story and conflict and interaction in games. Those face-values don't matter as much when you're speaking to everyone in town to find out what the shopkeeper wants for a birthday present or why the enemy boss wants to destroy the world.
And that's how I think Japanese game development can fix itself. I know a lot of this might sound like detraction, but I remember what you were, and I know what you're capable of. I buy lots and lots of Japanese games, but I'm not motivated to finish them when I don't enjoy them.
That can change, and I'll keep buying to see what you come up with.
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Police say the murder of an Auckland man may be the result of a debt recovery "gone wrong".
Lee Ross McMurdo, 32, was found dead at his Helensville home by his 12-year-old daughter in July.
Police started a homicide investigation and said Mr McMurdo, a father of three, died violently between July 26 and 29 but have refused to give the exact cause of his death.
A team of 25 police are still trying to piece together what happened to Mr McMurdo, and Detective Inspector Greg Cramer said hundreds of inquiries had been made.
However, he said, the circumstances of the murder were baffling.
"At this stage, this is a true whodunit ... It's possible that his death was an unintended consequence of a burglary or debt recovery which may have gone wrong."
Property missing, believed stolen, from Mr McMurdo's State Highway 16 home includes a 50in plasma television, three gaming consoles, a cellphone and a wallet.
"We'd very much like to hear from anyone who saw a four-wheel-drive or utility vehicle at the victim's address on any of three days between July 26 and 29," Mr Cramer said.
"This blue vehicle was parked either in the driveway near the house or at the bottom of the driveway.
"It is possible that someone was present when Lee was assaulted and had no direct involvement in the events that resulted in his death.
"I encourage and appeal to any such person to come forward."
Mr Cramer said Mr McMurdo was well known in the community.
"He was a family man who enjoyed numerous friendships ... However, he had become involved in the local drug scene. He attracted police attention and he was charged with cultivating cannabis. He was a known user and dealer of illicit pills.
"We know there are individuals in the local Kaipara region who have a relatively minor involvement in the local drug scene. We're encouraging them to contact us and tell us what they know.
"Someone is bound to have the precise piece of information we need to advance our inquiries."
Soon after the killing, Mr McMurdo's father, Bruce McMurdo, made an emotional appeal for information about his son's murder, saying: "Lee died a violent death and, although he appeared to be on the wrong side of the tracks when he was killed, it wasn't always so."
"He fathered three wonderful children, was a skilled golfer and was well loved and liked by many. But, like many others these days, he got caught up in a drug scene ...
"That doesn't mean he deserved to die the way he did."
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The great outsourcing story used to be from Europe to India (IT) and China (manufacturing). But now southeast Asian countries are the preferred destination, and not just for western companies. India and China are outsourcing to their Asean neighbours too.
That's according to Adecco, the world's largest provider of HR services, which says its clients increasingly want to hire in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
That Chinese and Indian companies are outsourcing to the same destinations as western multinations might seem odd, as the services outsourced to Asean are exactly those in which China and India used to be strong. But it fits into a broader logic.
"As Indian and Chinese companies grow bigger and climb up the value chain, they too look for affordable and available talent to perform their work," Patrick De Maeseneire, chief executive of Adecco, told beyondbrics in Davos at last week's business forum. And as the Chinese population grows older, and wages rise, and India has more demand for IT-skilled workers than it has supply, they too move to Asean.
For western multinationals, the move towards Asean – as opposed to staying at home or moving to the China or India – is straightforward, De Maeseneire explained: "At home, the workforce is ageing. In China and India the labour cost is rising, and the availability of skilled workers decreasing. That leaves Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines as an option. There, they find available workers who are at the same time skilled and affordable."
Within southeast Asia, the preferred destination for call centers and IT is the Philippines, with its good education system and plethora of English-speakers. Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, on the other hand, do well in manufacturing.
"Our clients that want to set up manufacturing, temporary call centers or IT outsourcing in EMs increasingly do so in countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia," said De Maeseneire. In the portfolio of Adecco are companies such as Volkswagen, Google, P&G, and many other multinationals.
As a consequence of their clients looking to Asean, Adecco itself is considering expanding in southeast Asia. So far, it has no presence in these countries, but that could change within the next two to three years. "If we haven't already opened an office in two years, for sure our plans to do so will be concrete," De Maeseneire said. "We have no choice but to be where our clients are."


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In true Shimer fashion, I jumped straight into writing without giving you an inkling of why. I'm an early entrant, and being here is incredibly unexpected. You see, I was what adults like to call "precocious." Personally, I prefer "ambitious." In the fall of 2009 when I began my junior year of high school in Texas, I had a plan for myself in place. I wanted to graduate high school, go to the University of Chicago, continue on to a top tier law school, and become a prosecutor for the state of Maryland (yes, Maryland: it's a cool state!).
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By December of junior year, I was exhausted. I was dragging myself to school at 7:00 every morning to learn subject material that I either already knew or had no interest in memorizing. My goals were to pass a myriad of tests (that I didn't believe would show any indication of my intelligence) to gain entry into prestigious schools (that cared little about my actual comprehension ability and more about my 2070 on the SATs). I was quickly losing sight of the things I wanted to do and turning into little more than a walking test score.
In January, I took action. I had been getting letters from early entrant programs across the country, and after doing some research, decided to take the plunge. I applied to two schools: one solely for early entrants in Massachusetts, and as an early entrant to Shimer College. After interviewing at Shimer last May, my decision was made by the morning I left: I knew I wanted to go to a school where I was asked less about my ACT score and more about what I wanted to do with my life.
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There's just never a dull moment with Alfredo Aceves, is there?
Away from spring training to play for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic, Aceves still managed to make himself the talk of Red Sox Nation when he became involved in an all-out brawl in Saturday night's game against Canada.
The altercation started when Canada's Chris Robinson laid down a bunt single to lead off the top of the ninth inning with Canada up 9-3. Mexico third baseman Luis Cruz immediately signaled for pitcher Arnoldo Leon to hit the next batter. After two inside pitches, Leon planted a fastball square in the back of Canadian batter Rene Tosoni, and both benches cleared.
In the ensuing melee, Aceves, who came charging off the bench, was thrown to the ground by minor leaguer Tyson Gillies, and when he went chasing after Gillies to retaliate, the enigmatic Red Sox reliever ended up surrounded by Canadian players and received multiple haymakers to the head. But don't take my word for it. Check the brawl out for yourself after the jump (video courtesy of ESPN):
Aceves eventually had to be held back by Canada first base coach and former NL MVP Larry Walker, who said, "I had a hold of him, and I thought I saw Satan in his eyes."
In all, seven players were ejected for their roles in the altercation. Other significant major league players playing in the game included Justin Morneau, Joey Votto, Sergio Romo, and Adrian Gonzalez, who Walker also said he held back from the fray.
Fans also became involved, as Walker was nearly struck by a baseball thrown from the stands and a Canada coach was hit in the head by an unopened water bottle. Canada shortstop Carl Iorg hurled the bottle back into the crowd, and one Canadian player had to be restrained from entering the stands, according to the ESPN report. Police officers had to come onto the field to try to keep the situation from escalating further.
Both teams blamed the incident on the WBC's tie-break rules, which make run differential the first tiebreaker.
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We had company yesterday. Our friend Bubba's mom came over for lunch. They live just two doors away from me and Fargus, and she brought her brand new baby with her! At first I thought she was holding a really nice smelling package, because he was all wrapped up and I couldn't see him very well. When Andie finally unwrapped the blanket, I couldn't believe what I saw: There was a teeny-tiny person inside! He had little arms, little legs, and little tiny hands, and he made the funniest gurgling noises!
I've got to tell you, I was awestruck! I just couldn't stop sniffing him and looking at him. He was so ridiculously cute, and seriously: Who knew that people came that small?! I couldn't stop smiling when I was around him -- unless I was busy sniffing him, because that takes concentration -- and everywhere he went I went, too, because I wanted to be close by in case he needed anything. He seems to sleep a lot (just like me), but before he fell asleep for his last nap, I kissed him on his ear.
Bubba's so lucky to have a little baby brother! The whole time the little guy was at our house I kept looking at Mom and smiling, then looking at him, then looking back at Mom with another smile. She knows that means "I really, really, REALLY want one of those!"
Mom said she'd buy me a new treat ball instead. *sigh*
That's it for now, Dogster.
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Holy-moly, I am such a busy guy these days. In addition to going for chiropractic manipulation every three weeks with my favorite girlfriend Dr. Julie (she gives me LOTS of treats and makes my creaky old bones feel young again), I'm doing hydrotherapy, too. I had no idea what it was, but it's supposed to help make my back legs work better (because lately I've been feeling kinda shaky and falling a lot).
I had my first visit last Thursday, and it was definitely strange, but not in a bad way. Mom and Dad got to be there with me, and even Fargus came along for moral support. I met Alexia, my hydrotherapist, and she gave me treats and put this groovy yellow vest on me. I generally like clothes, so the vest made me feel quite stylish. Anyway, Mom helped my butt climb up a little ramp and into this tiny glass room. I got another treat from Alexia, and when I turned around, Mom was on the other side of the glass. I was a little confused, but I wasn't scared; I could see Mom and hear her talking to me, so I knew everything would be okay. Then I noticed my feet were getting wet, and then they were completely covered in water! Now I usually prefer my water in a bowl, but this water was nice and warm... but it was getting higher! My ankles were wet... and then my knees... and then my elbows... and then my shoulders! This is very odd, I thought to myself, but it's not entirely unpleasant. Then just when I started getting comfy in the water, the floor started moving under me! I tried to swim but the water wasn't deep enough, so I started walking (I didn't want to float away from Mom!). Alexia held on to me so I wouldn't slip and fall under while everyone cheered me on (Dad said, "Go, Jake!," and Mom told me, "Jake is strong and beautiful!"). After a while I got the hang of it and really started motoring along. I was so proud of myself!
It turns out that water-walking is surprisingly hard work. When I was finished my legs felt like jelly, but I got to rest for a while while I got a warm, soapy shower from Alexia. She even let me lie down while she was scrubbing. (Thanks, Alexia!)
Looking forward to my next visit...
Jake (Just Call Me Hydro Dog) Ortolano
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On Saturday we walked through the park. I like our little park just fine -- there's lots of grass to romp on and lots of trees to sniff -- but this weekend it was very different. The first thing I saw was the big cart full of hay and the two giant black dogs pulling it. They were HUGE and very quiet, and they had really tall legs and long faces. Mom said they're called "horses," and I say they're the strangest looking dogs I've ever seen! I could have watched them all day -- until I found THE PETTING ZOO, that is! A chicken stared at me and I stared back (Mom made me leave when she saw me lick my lips), then I said hello to a little black goat and saw a long-necked furry thing that Mom said was a llama. Just when I was too excited to ever want to leave the petting zoo, I saw them: PONIES.
For those of you that don't know what they are, ponies look just like horse dogs, but they're smaller and cuter and they walk in a circle with little kids on their backs. I was mesmerized! I pulled at my leash to get closer to the mysterious mini horse dogs, but Mom would only let me watch them from a few feet away. I wanted to meet them so badly I was shaking. I kept smiling at them with my ears perked up to try to get their attention, and when they started walking, I tried to follow along. Mom says I made quite a spectacle of myself because I dug in and refused to leave. (She had to almost pick me up and point me in the right direction.) When we finally got going and I saw Dad and Fargus wating for us at the corner (Fargus isn't allowed to be around horse dogs), I ran as fast as I could to meet them so I could tell them about all the neat things I saw. When I finally got there, Daddy said he could tell from the look on my face that I'd had a great time.
The next day we went to the park again. Although I could still smell them, the ponies and all their friends were gone. It made me sad, because I really wanted to talk to them and find out how I could become a pony and give rides to little kids all day. Mom says I'll just have to wait 'til next year. 8O(
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Chapter 5: The Bible – A Hyper-dimensional Document
The Christian Bible, as we know it today, was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
It contains 66 books written over a period of about 1,600 years and had at least 40 authors.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and also contains some books that had sections
written in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek and although the New Testament
is rejected by the Jewish faith, it forms the crux of Christian belief.1 Most Christians believe that
both the Old and New Testaments were verbally inspired by God. Some Jews, after studying
specific aspects in the Old Testament, have also come to accept the New Testament as being
supernaturally inspired, based on similarities that are found in the design of both these texts.
The Old Testament of the Christian Bible is similar to the Jewish Bible (Tanakh) except that the
order of the books differs. You may wonder why I am specifically referring to the Christian Bible
here and not just the Jewish Tanakh (which excludes the Christian New Testament), or the
Roman Catholic Bible (which has additional books as part of the canonical structure) or any
other version of the Bible. The reasons for this will become evident as we progress.
The Christian Bible today consists of the 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New. It
was written between 1,500 BC and 90 AD.2 When considering the structure of the Tanakh in its
original Hebrew form, it is divided into three parts: It starts off with the "Pentateuch" or Torah.
These first five books are known as the "teaching" or the "law". It comprises of the creation of
heaven and Earth, the Flood and the origins of the Israelite nation and God's covenant with
them. It is traditionally believed that the Torah was given to Moses letter-by-letter during the
wanderings of the nation Israel in the Sinai Desert. Many scholars today dispute this fact and
speculate that the Torah was written by various different people and that it could not have been
written by Moses alone. One of the reasons for this is that Deuteronomy contains information of
Moses' death. The next section is the Nevi'i or "prophets" containing the historic account of
ancient Israel and Judah and the works of prophecy that are today known in the Christian Bible
as the Major and Minor prophets. The last section in the Jewish Bible is the Ketuvim or
"writings" and contains the poetic and philosophical works such as Psalms, Proverbs and Songs
of Solomon. These three sections also make up the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and
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New evidence published in mBio this week provides strong evidence that United Nation's peacekeepers brought a cholera epidemic to Haiti.
Haiti has had a terrible history of hardship, but 2010 was an annus horribilis. In January of that year, an earthquake laid flat many parts of Haiti killed hundreds of thousands of people and devastated the country's already fragile infrastructure. In October, a cholera outbreak turned matters from bad to worse. The outbreak sickened nearly 250,000 and resulted in a reported 4,670 deaths, causing widespread panic and complicating relief efforts. Rumors quickly spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, but until now the suspicion remained unconfirmed.
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something I did to understand if it was a hard- or soft-ware problem was to plug a microphone in. For me the external microphone doesn't work either so I really think it's a software problem. Well, it could also mean my card has a problem, but at least it's not my internal microphone..I still have no microphone working for now.
I had a problem with a Dell xps. When upgrading from Vista to W7, the internal microphone wouldn't work with the W7 driver, and one had to get the vista driver to solve the problem. But it doesn't work here.
good luck
Can you steer me to the generic driver?
I record audio in software, and it is horrible. I've done everything I can think of.
After reading all the messages on the loss of the microphone... and trying everything listed... except for downloading the driver for Vista and XP (I'm using Win 7).... and finding that none of these things worked for me, I deleted the Conexant 20561 driver and reinstalled it. After doing this, the microphone is now working in Skype, but the voice quality is somewhat raspy, like the microphone is driving too hard. But at least it's now working. If others have this problem, you might try the same.
If Lenovo is reading these messages, I think they need to investigate this problem and possibly release a new (better) driver for the Conexant 20561 thats designed for Win 7.
Hi All,
Finally I call Lenovo hotline in France, and after 1 hour installing/uninstalling drivers for sound card and video card, the sound card drivers didn't seem to update. They adviced me to reinstall windows with factory setting and update with latest drivers again, but the microphone level still was dropping during the first seconds of recording, and the driver wouldn't update.
I had to send my PC (still under warranty) back to Lenovo repair center with my own ways and money at the north of Paris. The parcel was lost for a week before it was finally checked in somewhere in Germany.
They changed the LED board and it was back to me in the middle of the second week. The microphone is working fine.
I asked them exactly what was changed and what they answered is underneath.
The drivers still don't update correctly.
Good luck to you all !
Cher Monsieur,
Pour voir exactement la piece remplace sur votre poste veuillez entrer sur le site internet de Lenovo et voir la graphique complete du kit LCD sur votre poste. La piece LED board c'est la piece qui contient le microphone de votre pc.
Dans la photo on a ecrit a cote de la piece en question - inverter card - mais pour votre poste qui utilise une technologie LED pour le LCD panel, on doit mettre la LED board.
Veuillez verifier des informations aussi dans le manuel du poste:
Support Technique Lenovo.
P.S: Nous vous prions d'utiliser l'adresse firstname.lastname@example.com
Les courriers envoyés directement à l'agent ne pourront être traités.
Merci de votre compréhension.
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you WIN!!!! thank you thank you thank you.....i have searched far and wide for an answer and this finally worked.
I (W7, T400) have tried a number of solutions, some proposed in this forum, some found on my own. While some appeared to help for a while, the problem (cannot talk to skype) re-appeared soon. Only fix that appears to help is to uninstall the lenovo supplied conexant driver, then reboot W7, as proposed in above post. Things now seem to work (hopefully for more than a few times).
Fantastic ! thanks it worked perfectly - said the audio service was disabled - it re enabled it and now all's fine.
Possibly a security patch disabled that service (so noone can eavesdrop on you w/o your knowledge or some other virus). In any case, kudos to Microsoft, this automated troubleshooter would make Steve Jobs proud.


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Hating Christmas songs can make you seem like a Scrooge, but as we become once again bombarded by them, there are a handful of carols that are so bad that all we want for Christmas is to never hear them again,
A variety of reasons make these songs some of the Worst! Christmas Songs! Ever! By artists ranging from Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Madonna to New Kids, Destiny's Child and, er, David Hasslehoff, these holiday tunes are too cheesy or too self-serving, others are overly dramatic or just outright awful. No one needs to hear Cyndi Lauper sqeak: "Bonga, bonga, bonga! Do the Christmas conga!"
In fact, considering how many great Christmas songs there are -- as we recently rounded up for you -- there really is no excuse for anyone one to stuff our metaphorical stockings with these musical lumps of coal. Dreck the halls, indeed.
The words "terrible" and "awful" aren't often associated with any of the former Beatles, yet those adjectives are sadly appropriate for Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime." From the kitschy keyboards that open the song to the dreadful lyrics that permeate it, please forgive us, Sir Paul but this was not one of your finer moments. We'll take "Spies Like Us" over this any day.
Mariah Carey tries to maintain relevance than to have Justin Bieber, one of the world's biggest pop stars, bring her along for the ride in a re-vamping of her early holiday hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on his 2011 Christmas record? The relationship between the two in the video is best oedipal as Carey is six years older than Bieber's own mother. This, paired with Carey's XXXmas outfit, is enough to re-title the song "All I Want For Christmas Is Ewww!"
What says "Funky Funky Christmas" more than five middle-class white kids? We can think of many things, actually. From the embarrassing intro where "Santa" is pretending to dig the New Kids through to regrettable lines like "Kick the ballistic Santa Claus" and faux British accents, it isn't hard to tell the New Kids were willing to do just about anything to stay in the spotlight to help keep the momentum of "Hangin' Tough" moving forward. Makes us wish that "New Kids Got Run Over By a Reindeer" parody was non-fiction.
I'd love to know what Madonna was thinking when she decided to really pour on that New York by way of Betty Boop accent for "Santa Baby." Maybe she took the title too literally? Her cutesy vocals are so put on, and pale so much against Eartha Kitt's original, it renders the rest of the song guilty by association. And by guilty, we mean awful. How can you even notice the song's decent string arrangements with Madge's pouting, annoying vocals laid over top?
Who has time for 12 days of Christmas? Not Destiny's Child, apparently. By lopping off a quarter of the days of Christmas, it allows us to hear all about what Destiny's Child received for each of their eight days of Christmas while also injecting some originality into the song via the chorus. On the plus side, it's not as superficial as it could be. On the negative side, there's everything else. Guess not everything Queen Bey touches turns to gold.
If you are prone to sad feelings over the holidays, you had best stay away from Dwight Yoakam's song "Come On Christmas." The song is arguably one of the most depressing holiday songs of all time. If Christmas is a time of celebration, Dwight missed the memo -- it's downright morose and highly unlikely to put anyone in the Christmas spirit.
For better or worse, David Hasselhoff's music career never gathered steam on the North American side of the Atlantic. Just kidding, it was definitely for the better based on this Christmas medley. Starting off with "Jingle Bells" before moving into "Chestnuts," the Hoff's enthusiasm isn't quite matched by anyone else in the video, even the kids. No, especially the kids.
While their intentions were good (money raised went towards eradicating famine in the Darfur region of Sudan), this attempt by the likes of Coldplay's Chris Martin and U2's Bono to modernize this song reeks of trying too hard to recapture the magic of the original version.
The late Gary Coleman is arguably the best part of this holiday stinker from N Sync. And his only part is in the video itself. Truth be told, as far as original holiday songs go, at least N Sync didn't follow the New Kids down a road of complete cheese. Although this track's mid-song breakdown could have been done away with, the video for "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" is completely responsible for the cheese factor being upped. The video's terrible green screen "action" shots of the boys traveling the world on their sleigh (and feeding the homeless!) are a bit over the top.
Sadly, what could have been a really great opportunity for the undeniably talented Christina Aguilera to shine became an exercise in overdone, overwrought vocal runs. While it is important to acknowledge that subtlety has never been one of Christina Aguilera's strong suits, "O Holy Night," especially the last two minutes of the song, border on the ridiculous, even by her standards.
It should be fairly obvious that this song is in jest. And since we cannot find any actual records of Grandma in fact getting run over by a reindeer, let's contemplate how lucky Grandma might have been spared needing to hear this song. Is that a little too harsh to say? Maybe so. Is listening to the story of Grandma being run over by a reindeer really any better though? Pick your battles.
Although there may be many that find this song of a boy hoping to purchase shoes for his dying mother touching, we actually find it anything but poignant. Christina Aguilera can be over the top but this is a whole different kind of over the top. If the song's intent was to teach people the true meaning of Christmas, we believe that even the most generous, most caring individuals would have a tough time swallowing this story as told by Newsong.
Because it is easier to beg for forgiveness, please pardon us for not seeing the legendary Bob Dylan as the holly, jolly, holiday type of person. The whole notion of Bob Dylan doing a holiday record is a bit of a strange thing in itself. Although he gets a solid "E" for effort, this song's upbeat, accordion-driven melody would have been better suited to the Shane MacGowan-era Pogues.
Wham!, it feels like we hardly knew ye. Based on this song alone, we don't feel as though that is such a bad thing. Any 80's music fan should be able to appreciate the duo's pop hits from their "Make It Big" album but this tale of "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart" only to have it thrown away the very next day is a little on the melodramatic side. Heartbreak sucks; we get it. But it's the holidays, so move on and don't wake us up before you go-go.
We are still trying to figure out what is more cringe worthy in this song: Cyndi Lauper's rhyming of "longa" with "conga" or the truly awful line "Bonga, bonga, bonga! Do the Christmas conga!" Around the two-minute mark of the song, Lauper has a small spoken-word piece where she wishes listeners a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. But then, almost ominously, Lauper says "And by the way, have a nice life." You know how you can hear some people smile when they sing? You are not hearing any of that Christmas cheer here.
At first listen, Justin Bieber does a respectful job interpreting this Christmas classic. It all goes downhill after the first verse however when Bieber starts rapping about playing for the title, being bad like Michael Jackson and expressing surprise that this isn't all in the Bible. Christmas is a great time to be thankful, many of us do reflect on our lives at this time of year. And while Bieber's impression of his self-worth might fly at almost any other time of year, it comes across as tacky and self-serving at this most wonderful time of the year.
The intent behind "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" was comical and John Denver seems like he was a good sport, having played on "The Muppet Show" and all. The lyrics to the song are just plain sad and depressing. Rather than making us chuckle, they paint what is probably an all too real picture for many people all over the world.
Let's face it, Aqua were never revered for their inspiring lyrics (or, y'know, songs) so it should be little surprise that their contribution to the niche of Christmas songs would do anything to change that. This video has it all: Provocatively clad vocalist Lene Nystrom. A pervy Santa. Uncomfortably forced smiles from the male members of the band. It is, like the bulk of Aqua's career, a bad memory.
The slick, R&B infused "Sleigh Ride" incorporates almost every Christmas cliché in the book, taking lines from numerous holiday classics and funking them up, T.L.C.-style. We aren't sure whose job it is to convince musicians that recording a Christmas song (or entire Christmas album) is an important way to stay in the spotlight, but some artists, like T.L.C., should never have gone there.
The Spice Girls' "Christmas Wrapping" just might be the least terrible song in this list of Worst Christmas Songs. With its easy to digest, bounce-along melody, the song is actually well suited to the pop group. Does that necessarily mean it is good, however? Not really. A Spice Girls record by name only, the track only actually features contributions from Sporty Spice (Melanie Chisholm) and Baby Spice (Emma Bunton).
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At first glance, the pairing of traditional crooner Bing Crosby with the man behind Ziggy Stardust might seem like the ultimate odd couple especially considering Bowie was in the midst of the prolific Berlin phase of his career. In England to film his 1977 special "Merrie Olde Christmas," Bowie was enlisted to appear in the special. It is reported that Bowie was hesitant to perform "The Little Drummer Boy" and so the show's producers wrote "Peace On Earth" in a mere 75 minutes.
Undoubtedly one of The Pogues best-known songs, 'Fairytale Of New York" has also come to represent a seasonal favourite among music fans. The 1987 single, a duet between Pogues vocalist Shane MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl, has proven its appeal year after year in the two and a half decades since its release. The song consistently re-enters the charts at this time of year and would earn the No. 1 position of VH1's Greatest Christmas Song Chart in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
In 1984, after seeing a news report of highlighting a famine that was gripping Ethiopia, Ultravox's Midge Ure and the Boomtown Rats Bob Geldof teamed up and wrote this song with the intention of releasing it as a benefit single. The song was rushed to market; only four days passed between the time the song was recorded to the time of its release. The track, featuring some of the biggest pop stars from England and Ireland at the time, sold more than one million copies during the first week of release.
There are times that the origins of songs that people associate with the holidays are not rooted in the Christmas spirit at all. Take this 1971 single from the late John Lennon: The song was originally conceived as a protest song against the Vietnam War. Produced by the eccentric Phil Spector, Lennon enlisted the help of The Harlem Community Choir to help fill out the song's chorus.
First released in December 1963, in the shadow of the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy, this holiday favourite from California's Beach Boys borrowed heavily from their hit single "Little Deuce Coupe." Clocking in at just under two minutes, The Beach Boys' knack for melody and impeccable vocal harmonies help make the song one of the best original (i.e: non-traditional) holiday tracks of the last century.
The Beach Boys weren't the only act to look towards their own catalogue to find musical inspiration for holiday material. Chuck Berry's upbeat and bluesy "Run Rudolph Run" bears a striking resemblance to the guitarist's "Johnny B. Goode," bearing many of the same sonic hallmarks of his previous hit.
Some things are better left unsaid. Or in the case of legendary group Booker T & The MG's, some things are better left unsung. With fairly minimal instrumental backing, Booker T. Jones' organ handles the vocal line melodies, helping the track fluidly bounce along. I dare you to try to keep your toes from tapping along to the group's upbeat take on this Christmas classic.
The only musician to appear in this Top 20 more than once, Bing Crosby's version of this Christmas classic is positively stunning. Listeners are treated to Crosby's rich baritone vocals while a selection of strings lushly provide background accompaniment. Crosby performed the song publicly for the first time on his radio show on Christmas Day, 1941.
While "Sesame Street" might have been instrumental in helping children learn the basics of speaking Spanish, it was Puerto Rico's Jose Feliciano that taught just as many to say Merry Christmas in Spanish. In spite of the same two lines being repeated throughout the song, this 1970 single is a staple of holiday gatherings worldwide.
Having made his recorded debut the year prior to the release of Elvis' "Christmas Album," that same excitement running throughout his first three full-length albums can also be found on Elvis' "Christmas Album." Undoubtedly one of his best-known Christmas songs, the danger that drove his earlier hits has been muted here in favour of a song that shone a spotlight on Presley's incredible vocal talent.
One of the swingiest, most jazzy, most original holiday songs on our list, the Louis Prima-written "What Will Santa Claus Say When He Finds Everybody Swingin'" is a breath of fresh air for those who can't stand to hear the same tired holiday standards. Despite the almost primitive sound that the song boasts in terms of recording quality, the track remains one of the holiday's most under-appreciated songs.
In 1987, as they toured their mega-selling album "The Joshua Tree," Irish rockers U2 cut their version of this song which would go on to become the arguably best-known version of the track. The song was included on the 1987 compilation "A Very Special Christmas," a project spearheaded by industry veteran Jimmy Iovine to raise funds for the Special Olympics. This remains one of the sole holiday-themed songs that U2 has recorded.
Whether or not you've seen the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, there should be no denying how poignant the Vince Guraldi Trio's performance of "Christmas Time Is Here" is to the listener. With minimal backing from the other members of his trio, Guraldi's minimalist approach to the song really lends power to the whole concept of "less is more."
You can practically hear the smile in Andy William's voice In almost every note sung in "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year". Written in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle, Williams recorded the song for his first Christmas album, the appropriately named "The Andy Williams Christmas Album." In 2010, the song was the fourth most played holiday track on radio in the United States.
Perhaps one of the most left-field contributions in our Top 20 Christmas Songs, this song was, thankfully, The Ramones sole contribution to the crowded field of holiday-themed music. While it would have just come across as total cheese had the group chosen to perform a traditional holiday song, penning their own original tune (complete with sleigh bells) was a much more logical (and cool) thing for the punk legends to have done. Hey ho, let's go Christmas shopping!
Considered one of the finest female jazz vocalists to ever walk the earth, Ella Fitzgerald's animated take on this classic song shows why she is held in such high regard. Her vocal delivery is warm but lively enough to hold your attention throughout. The origins of the song date back to the early 1940's. It was introduced by actress Judy Garland in the 1944 musical Meet Me In St. Louis. Fitzgerald featured the song on her 1960 album "Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas."
If there was one area that it could be argued that the late Perry Como knew well, it would be the field of Christmas music. During his prolific career, Como recorded numerous Christmas efforts but this song has consistently been an audience favourite. While his music might have been closer in spirit to Bing Crosby than Sinatra (primarily because Como got his start before Sinatra), Como's warm baritone vocals on "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" lend a jovial feeling to the song.
What Christmas list would be complete without the inclusion of a song from one of the Rat Pack? Dean Martin's vocals on "Winter Wonderland" are the very embodiment of laid-back. Without even trying, Martin brings elegance and class to the song that few others have been able to do quite as successfully. Sorry, Ozzy Osbourne and Jessica Simpson, but your version of the song has nothing on the King of Cool.
While the bulk of Christmas and holiday songs are built upon a foundation of happiness, "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is undoubtedly one of the more somber holiday songs. Like practically everything he touched in song, Ol' Blue Eyes sings from the heart on this holiday standard, doing such an amazing job that this rendition is bound to stir up the emotions of even the most cold-hearted scrooge.
Two of Canada's favourite hosers proudly tackle what is undoubtedly one of the longest Christmas songs ever written. Luckily, Bob and Doug deviate from the original version of the song. Instead of singing about golden rings, turtledoves and a partridge in pear tree, the McKenzie brothers instead sing of their true love's bestowing of beer, turtlenecks, toques and more upon them. Don't take the holidays so seriously, eh?


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Cebit 2006 Preview
Some great motherboards with AM2 socket realy makes me want to buy one
but it will take 3 monthes....
read here
We should wait for the platform to mature before buying one, we have all the past examples before our eyes. I gues socket 939 cpu's will slowly vanish, just like socket A cpu's...
939 is a very good platform but the intruduction of NF5 maybe will show some very needed features like WORKING hardware FW ie ActiveArmor
so it may be faster gone then Socket A
this year seems to be quite an exciting year from both amd and intel. Though more on intel as it has so many good cpu coming out to the market. It's also interesting to see the amd64's am2 and how it can top intel's great performance in their new chips.
Intel have a realy great CPU coming but the pricing is the big question
will they make it so expensive it would be impossibl to get or will they let out budget CPU with great OC options...
well, it's unlikely as intel really needs to compete with amd. I think like intel has always done, they will have so much cpu with diff specs to saturate the whole segments.
if it would be like the DualCore P4 the the lower clocked CPU are worthless look at the 820D
Well I can honestly say, that for the first time in *years*, I am actually excited to see Intels new products released. The Conroe benchmarks have had be quite impressed so far.
i agree Intel has decided to fight amd with somthing diffrent then pure speed
the leaked benchmarks concern me. The chip is not final, and the machine that was tested on was not allowed to be investigated. The whole "we'll test this for you, here's your numbers... next in line please" just smacks of a bad scenario.
Time will tell though what AMD's plans have instore for us, as well as what Intel will be able to do.
Either way, we all win!
well, yeah until we see the actual product, it's still hard to tell the real world performance but based on the specs and everything, it does seem that intel has good chip.
i hope they will keep the beta runing as long as possible it will delay the first SP because more things will be fixed.
and they have so many version to test....
I don't know that it will necessarily affect many here, but the new chips are going to start implementing hardware level Digital Rights Management (DRM). Personally this concerns me because I use my current computer as a DVR/PVR/HTPC (call it what you want, it's all the same) as well as normal gaming, etc. I think it's part of Intels Viiv. It's not something they want you to know, but there you go.
Other than that, I'm very excited about these new systems coming out. My plan was to upgrade the summer, but I may have to hold off a little longer and do it this fall when more options are available.
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New Zealand's place on the world cricket rankings has plunged to the point that Bangladesh threaten to pass them at both one-day international and Twenty20 level.
A disastrous tour of the West Indies saw the Black Caps lose the ODI series 4-1, the Twenty20 series 2-0 and the Test series 2-0.
The West Indies pushed New Zealand back to eighth place on the official ICC world Test rankings released on Thursday.
The Black Caps also reside in eighth spot on the ODI ladder and are seventh as a T20 nation.
In the two shorter forms of the game, Bangladesh sit just a handful of points behind the Black Caps, having climbed considerably in both.
The only consolation for New Zealand supporters is that Australia are ranked behind both the Black Caps and Bangladesh in Twenty20 cricket following a poor series of results.
New Zealand's highest rated players in any form of cricket are Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum, who are deemed the second and third best Twenty20 batsmen respectively.
Nobody makes the top-10 in Test cricket while Daniel Vettori and Kyle Mills are the ninth and 10th ranked ODI bowlers.


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Dojo, Flock go 1.0
November 6, 2007 at 2:20 AM
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Both these projects sound great on first reading, but somehow have failed to inspire me to give them more than a cursory glance, and I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has chosen either Dojo or Flock for their day-to-day work and/or play – are they worth a second look now they're over 1.0?
I don't know about Dojo, but I've been using Flock as my primary web browser for several months now, and I find it a bit of a pain to have to use something else.
What's the main draw? The integration of bookmarking and blogging right into the browser itself. Sure, I could use bookmarklets for bookmarking, but then I wouldn't get the cool little star indicator that I've bookmarked this site before. That's especially important since I've started using del.icio.us to keep track of hundreds of links.
Other than that, it appears a bit cleaner than FireFox does (at least to me) but still has all the power of FireFox extensions (hurrah for Firebug!).
I've used Dojo over the past few years on a few projects. I have also used JQuery as its forced upon you by Drupal and looked into Prototype, and of these I would say that Dojo has the better of the three architectures. None of the other offer an aspect orient API which alone makes it stand out and which is a tool for building serious frontend applications. It also has a farily serious widget API which kicks butt as well.
I think a lot of the widget demos that these Javascript APIs include are faddy, gimmiky junk that people will look back on in 5 years and roll their eyes at. Dojo did have more of these sorts of demos but the API has been changing so much up until this point they have to be redone. This changing API has also meant their documentation was always all over the place which has made adoption very slow in the developer community. These things look to be righting themselves and the demos are coming back slowly. Their Simple Grid example is also up and quite a useful UI widget
But if you want to see that Dojo is more serious than the rest just look at Open Laszlo which outputs in both Flash and DHTML (via Dojo).
Dojo also has backing from IBM, Sun and AOL to name a few so its going to be around for awhile. Its API for serious developers rather than a collections of scripts for DHTML effects.


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I have a free day tomorrow as plans changed so challenge for the day: Make some Rhonda blocks!
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I have a free day tomorrow as plans changed so challenge for the day: Make some Rhonda blocks!
I made the first 2 but have had to do other things since. I am watching and wanting though....
Oh Rhonda, how can you be so cruel? I am trying so hard to finish some of my UFOs. I love scrappy and I love your block. Maybe just a few hours spent with the scrappy club...., darn here I go again.
well I did forget to post one a week ago! Does that help?? LOL
Here you go. Hope you like it. This is one of my favorites. I use it alot.
this one uses my Boston Blocks and HSTs
If you want a 12 1/2" unfinished quilt block then you need to use a 2 1/2" template
I send them out for free if you need one. Just send me your postal address in a pm.
Boston Directions
I showed 2 diff ways you can use this.
controlled or totally scrappy
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You can lay them out and sew them in rows or
you can sew 4 - 9 patches and then join them
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this is the 9 patch and it's layout
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What nice instructions Rhonda. I can see why you use that block a lot.
Thanks Foxflower. I use to make lots of hotpads for the gift shop and i used this one alot. I can do it without having to look at the pattern. PLus the bostons are my favorite block to use in designs.
This is one of my favorite traditional quilt blocks to work with. the center of this quilt block is called an Anvil. It has been around a long time. I don't always know the names of blocks but this one I do.
I also don't usually include any borders with my blocks but this one the border strips are part of my block.
You can piece the blocks for a border strip or you can cut the strips in 2 1/2" blocks to make those.
If you use a 2 1/2" template you will get a 12 1/2" quilt block unfinished
I send out free templates so if you need one just let me know.
Just a thought here - if you use a plain square for the corners instead of an HST you can add the borders and just trim to size. or you can forget the HSTs or plain squares and just use borders all the way around.
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Here is the next quilt block! Hope you enjoy it!
This one uses HSTs.
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This week's quilt block uses Kansas Dugout blocks. this is a traditional block but as always I have my own way of making them with my cut down method.
Here is my tutorial for making kansas dugouts my way:
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