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Our friends at The Pearl Golf Course in Ocean Isle Beach, NC are offering Winter Specials in an effort to help local charitable organizations this holiday season. Come on out to The Pearl for a round of golf and help the less fortunate at the same time!
The Pearl is participating in the Brunswick Family Assistance Can Food Drive by offering a special $35 rate to any player that brings in three canned or non-perishable food items. (Three cans per player. Dates can only be booked 48 hours in advance.)
They are also working with the local U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program this holiday season! Help children throughout the community experience the joy of Christmas by bringing in an unwrapped toy and receive a special $35 rate. (One toy per player. Dates can only be booked 48 hours in advance.)
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From Loop 1604, travel North on Bulverde Rd for 2.5 miles. Sorrento will be on your right (next to the entrance of the new Hill Middle School).
If using a GPS please use the following address: 21314 Bulverde Rd, San Antonio, TX 78259
This this beautiful 2-story, 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom, 2-car garage, 3,180 sq. ft. home features a gorgeous stone with brick accent exterior. Entering the home your greeted with a high 2-story entrance with a gorgeous stained wood and iron baluster railing balcony looking down to the entry. This home features a roomy secondary bedroom with adjacent bath. The formal dining room makes it appearance with a beautiful butlers' pantry tying it to the kitchen. The family room, accentuated by the 10 foot high ceiling with crown molding and gorgeous stone fireplace adjoins the roomy gourmet kitchen, featuring gas cooktop, divided by a large and very attractive granite island. Tucked around the corner from the living area is a large, roomy master bedroom with beautiful bay window with a tray ceiling. The master bedroom is trimmed with crown molding, highlighting the 10 foot ceilings. The master bath features a mud set shower and to help relieve the pressure of a stressful day, a Jacuzzi garden tub to massage the tension away. Upstairs features a large game room with tray ceiling. On one side there are two ample size bedrooms with a large bath dividing them on the other side of the game room you'll step down to a guest suite with its own bath and across form the suite is the media room for those weekend movie nights. The media room is prewired for 7.1 surround sound and has a chase.
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Library patrons in Strawberry Plains and surrounding communities will soon have a bigger and better library, thanks in part to a grant from the Secretary of State's office.
The office is providing a $5,000 grant to assist with the expansion and renovation of the Parrott-Wood Memorial Library in Strawberry Plains. Jefferson County government is also providing $5,000 for the project and Mossy Creek Network, a 501(c)(3) corporation, is contributing $35,000.
The project will increase the library's size from 850 square feet to 2,250 square feet. The renovated library will have room to expand the children's learning center and increase the number of bookshelves, computers and seats for all patrons.
The work will also update the building's electrical, plumbing and heating and air conditioning systems and bring the library into compliance with American Disabilities Act regulations.
Safer off-street parking will also be available after the project is complete.
"This is great news for our library," said Senator Frank Niceley. "This grant will allow us to almost triple the square feet to serve area citizens. I appreciate all of those who worked to secure this grant."
"Public libraries are a valuable resource for communities across Tennessee," said Representative Andrew Farmer. "We are truly fortunate in our state to have leaders who understand the importance of taking care of citizens and I look forward to seeing our library serve residents for many years to come."
"Projects like this one are very important because of the changing role libraries are playing in people's lives now," Secretary of State Tre Hargett said. "People don't just go to libraries to check out books any more. They also use libraries for computer access so they can get job training, search and apply for jobs or search the Internet for information. For people who don't have access to computers at home or work, libraries provide connections to the online world."


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Mithral, also known as mithril,[1][2] was a precious metal produced from ore found in mountain ranges in certain areas of Faerûn and in the Underdark.[citation needed]
Mithral was produced through a process similar to that of steel-smelting. Items cast from mithral weighed only half as much as similar items forged from steel.[3] Since pieces of armor made from this valuable metal were very light, they allowed the wearer to make better use of their natural agility and were less restrictive on spellcasting.[4]
Rumors and legendsEdit
Among some bardic circles it was said that mithral combined with steel could create adamantine, but according to dwarves, this was laughable.[3]
- For a list of mithral items, see: Category: Mithral items.
- "Mithril" is a metal in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth mythos.
- Throughout much of R.A. Salvatore's work, mithral is commonly used only by dwarves, and is deemed as rare and valuable.
- ↑ Gary Gygax (1979). Dungeon Masters Guide 1st edition. (TSR, Inc.), p. 164. ISBN 0-9356-9602-4.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (July 1987). Manual of the Planes 1st edition. (TSR), p. 43. ISBN 0880383992.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sean K. Reynolds, Duane Maxwell, Angel McCoy (August 2001). Magic of Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 180. ISBN 0-7869-1964-7.
- ↑ Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams (July 2003). Dungeon Master's Guide 3.5 edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 284. ISBN 0-7869-2889-1.


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DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) simplifies the management of IP address configuration by automating address configuration for network clients. All computers that participate on TCP/IP networks or the Internet need to have IP addresses assigned to them and have other IP information configured. IP addresses allow computers and other network hosts to communicate with other computers or hosts on the network.
Some of the additional information needed by network clients may include a subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server information. This information is needed in order for the computer to do things such as send data outside the network and resolve host names to IP addresses. Rather than manually inputting all of this information on each client, DHCP can do this for you automatically once its setup on the DHCP server.
In order for DHCP to work you need to have a device acting as a DCHP server. This device can be a computer, router or other type of network device. The DHCP server is configured with a range or ranges of IP addresses that can be used to give to clients that request one. It can also be configured with other network parameters as stated earlier.
For a client to be able to obtain information from a DHCP server it must be DHCP enabled. When it is configured this way then it will look for a DHCP server when it starts up. This process will vary depending on what implementation of DHCP is in use. For example in the Microsoft implementation of DHCP works as follows:
The amount of time a client keeps its lease on its IP address varies depending on how it is setup. The default Microsoft duration is 8 days.
If the client computer is setup to use DHCP to obtain its IP address and cannot find a DHCP server then it will most likely use an APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) address instead. When using APIPA, DHCP clients can automatically self configure an IP address and subnet mask for themselves when a DHCP server is not available. The IP address range used by APIPA is 169.254.0.1 through 169.254.255.254 with a class B subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. The client will use this self configured IP address until a DHCP server becomes available. So if you are trying to configure your new DSL router at home and notice your IP address is 169.254.x.x when running the ipconfig command then its most likely because it can't get an IP address from the router.
Related Computer Tips:
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How to Renew and Release an IP Address in Windows 95/98/ME
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In the not so distant past, when a Big Ten player decided to transfer, it almost always signaled the end of his Big Ten career.
The Big Ten's old policy stipulated that a player who transferred from one Big Ten school to another couldn't receive athletics aid at his new destination. While some players still made the moves and paid their own way -- Wisconsin-turned-Minnesota safety Kim Royston comes to mind -- the rules typically steered transfers to other leagues.
The league since has loosened its restrictions, and several players seem to be capitalizing. Four players transferred within the conference this summer.
Kenny Hayes, a former Ohio State defensive lineman who reportedly is transferring to Michigan State, is the latest player to make a move within the league. Illinois last week added Nebraska transfer Ryan Klachko, an offensive lineman who redshirted in 2011. The Illini also recently picked up offensive lineman Ryan Nowicki, one of nine Penn State players to transfer from the program after the NCAA leveled heavy sanctions July 23. Another offensive lineman, Brian Bobek, transferred from Ohio State to Minnesota in June.
Nowicki is eligible to play immediately, according to the relaxed rules the NCAA devised for players interested in transferring from Penn State. Klachko, Hayes and Bobek both must sit out a season before becoming eligible in 2013.
But all four can receive immediate scholarships at their new schools, thanks to a recent change in the Big Ten's transfer policy.
Beginning with the 2011-12 academic year, athletes transferring within the Big Ten can receive scholarships from their new schools as long as they receive their full release.
Bobek won't be on scholarship until January only because Minnesota is at its limit for the season. But if Minnesota had room for him right now, he could receive aid.
The highly publicized case of former Wisconsin basketball player Jarrod Uthoff this spring had more to do with Wisconsin restricting Uthoff's options than the Big Ten making it difficult for Uthoff financially. Uthoff transferred to Iowa in June and will pay his own way for a year before being put on scholarship.
It'll be interesting to see if the revised policy on intraleague transfers leads to more moves within the Big Ten. While the Big Ten doesn't want to see this become a major trend, the league made the right call in allowing immediate scholarships to kick in. It's one thing for schools to be childish and hypocritical about granting releases, but league should be looking out for the players.


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HUNTINGTON — They're reaching for the stars at Two Rivers Wildlife Park.
The Cape Breton Astronomical Society's new observatory building, which features a retractable roof, has been open since July 1.
John Fraser, co-chair of the society, has been involved in astronomy since 1989.
"I came out and saw (John Huntington, manager at Two Rivers Wildlife Park) sometime ago and thought we'd like to put a star party on here," Fraser said.
That event went well and the society was impressed with the site, believing it would be a good new home for an observatory. They approached the park's board with the idea and received permission to set it up.
"It's got a good view down the river, it's a good view to Sagittarius, which is in the centre of the universe, and you've got all-around dark skies here," Fraser said.
With the assistance of grants, fundraising and their own money, the society set about purchasing the necessary equipment, including computers and telescopes, and constructing the building.
"We had to come up with some kind of a system so that we could observe without taking our telescopes down, so we came up with this roll-off roof observatory," he said.
The society previously operated an observatory at the park site.
"This is our first year back here, we had an old observatory across the street and it got dilapidated and run-down and membership went awry and we had to start over again," Fraser said.
There's a good deal of interest locally in astronomy, he noted, and many park campers have approached to ask questions. Fraser noted he received a call this week from someone who recently retired and is interested in the science and plans to attend to see what he may have to invest in order to explore the new hobby.
Huntington noted a number of campers who were at the park on the weekend took advantage of the observatory to view the co-called "super-moon," a full moon that occurs when the moon is at its closest point in orbit around the earth.
"They went up to look at the moon, plus, they were looking at Saturn, also, the rings of Saturn," he said.
"It's a more fitting place for the observatory, nice dark skies ... It's another highlight for campers."
"It's a great chance to just come out at night and have a look at the stars," noted Anna Spencer, assistant events co-ordinator with the park.
Huntington noted it's another service the park is able to offer enhance the experience for visitors, in addition to wildlife exhibits, camping and beachfront activities.


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Apple, Banana, and Strawberry Froth
Recipe by Sharon123
This is a yummy concoction put out by the US Apple Consumers Association. Enjoy!
Top Review by UmmBinat
An interesting tasting smoothie, very cardamomy with fresh cardamom seeds from the pod. My banana was not really ripe (still had green on the tip), I used an apple from the tree outside, local strawberries (small so used more), a very good alcohol free vanilla, local honey, apple cider from the regular grocery store, & no ice per preference but it could have done with being a bit colder. Made for Veggie Swap 38 ~ September ~
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- 1 ripe banana, peeled
- 1 medium tart apple, peeled, cut into cubes
- 4 strawberries, capped
- 1⁄2 vanilla bean, split (or 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cardamom
- 1⁄2 cup fresh apple cider or 1⁄2 cup sparkling apple cider
- 2 strawberries, untrimmed, split almost in half
- 3 -5 ice cubes (optional)
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- Place the banana, cubed apple, and strawberries in a blender. Scrape the inside of the vanilla bean into the blender, or add vanilla extract. Add honey and cardamom and puree at high speed, while slowly adding the cider. Add ice if you would like it really cold! Pour into 2 champagne flutes and garnish glasses with split strawberries.


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Foursquare sponsored a worldwide hackathon last month with cash prizes to encourage developers to build using its API (application programming interface). More than 500 developers participated in the day-long hackathon. Foursquare highlights two of the tools that resulted from the hackathon. One was the hackathon grand prize winner.
API Highlight: Plan, travel, share, repeat.
Plan Your Next Trip was the grand prize winner. It builds a travel itinerary for your next destination by sourcing the best and most popular places. The web-based product's two-day agenda list of places to go and things to do at each of these places.
tripsQ is for jet-setters. It creates a map based on your airport check-ins and provides statistics like total miles traveled, number of trips, distance per month and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.


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Read Vulture's account of all this here [link].
Diversity is Chaos writes this [link].
And this question from SPBDL [link].
Now, then, will you SJW's out there explain to me how the beautiful diversity we enjoy by welcoming Muslims offsets the death and mayhem we suffer from them once they get here?
Oh, and here we have SJW idiots calling for gun control because the killer used a car and a knife. [link] There were no guns there, but there was a Muslim.


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BET Awards 2012: The Best and Worst Red Carpet Fashions (PHOTOS)
With music's A-list couple Beyonce and Jay-Z slated to attend, 2012's festivities is sure to be one of the year's biggest — and possible most well-dressed — red carpets around.
Click through the gallery above to see all of the fashions at 2012 BET Awards.
This year's show wil be hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, with special performance from Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, Usher, and Cissy Houston.


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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2016
A small asteroid that two years ago flew past Earth at a comfortable distance of about 1.3 million miles (2 million kilometers) will safely fly by our planet again in a few weeks, though this time it may be much closer.
During the upcoming March 5 flyby, asteroid 2013 TX68 could fly past Earth as far out as 9 million miles (14 million kilometers) or as close as 11,000 miles (17,000 kilometers). The variation in possible closest approach distances is due to the wide range of possible trajectories for this object, since it was tracked for only a short time after discovery.
Scientists at NASA's Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have determined there is no possibility that this object could impact Earth during the flyby next month. But they have identified an extremely remote chance that this small asteroid could impact on Sep. 28, 2017, with odds of no more than 1-in-250-million. Flybys in 2046 and 2097 have an even lower probability of impact.
"The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern," said Paul Chodas, manager of CNEOS. "I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more."
Asteroid 2013 TX68 is estimated to be about 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter. By comparison, the asteroid that broke up in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, three years ago was approximately 65 feet (20 meters) wide. If an asteroid the size of 2013 TX68 were to enter Earth's atmosphere, it would likely produce an air burst with about twice the energy of the Chelyabinsk event.
The asteroid was discovered by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 6, 2013, as it approached Earth on the nighttime side. After three days of tracking, the asteroid passed into the daytime sky and could no longer be observed. Because it was not tracked for very long, scientists cannot predict its precise orbit around the sun, but they do know that it cannot impact Earth during its flyby next month.
"This asteroid's orbit is quite uncertain, and it will be hard to predict where to look for it," said Chodas. "There is a chance that the asteroid will be picked up by our asteroid search telescopes when it safely flies past us next month, providing us with data to more precisely define its orbit around the sun."
For regular updates on passing asteroids, NASA has a list of the next five close approaches to Earth; it links to the CNEOS website with a complete list of recent and upcoming close approaches, as well as all other data on the orbits of known NEOs, so scientists and members of the media and public can track information on known objects.
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If you're one of the increasing numbers of people without cable service or even a TV, broadcasters are worried about you. If your ears are burning next week it will be because you're the topic of conversation in many of the meetings at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas.
The worrying trend for broadcasters is that your numbers are growing; from around 2 million in 2007 to over 5 million today. One of the problems broadcasters have is even how to count the shadowy numbers of those of you without cable, satellite dish or even a TV with an air antenna.
It's a given that cable and satellite are losing viewers to internet providers like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon but those numbers are harder to track. Many of the internet providers are stingy with their subscriber and viewership numbers as the media discovered after Netflix released its popular House of Cards series starring Kevin Spacey.
Phones are starting to become another broadcast outlet as mobile streaming gets better and bandwidth caps start to loosen in painful slowness compared to the demand from the market. Many are finding they can keep tabs on their favorite shows via mobile streaming, another razor cut to the broadcast audience. A few have even stretched that to adopt a completely mobile lifestyle; no cords and not even a permanent address.
Broadcasters are not losing sleep over you…yet. So far they've managed to keep revenues up by charging higher and higher ad rates for a declining market share. What that sounds counter-intuitive it makes sense when you realize that, even though the broadcast market is shrinking, it still represents a large, cohesive pool of eyeballs and advertisers haven't quite accepted the inevitability of chasing you around the internet and figure out how to get around ad blocking software.
Broadcasters will start to lose sleep if they can't figure out where the market…you…are going and figure out how to get ads to you in a meaningful way. There is evidence, presented by Nomura Equity Research's Michael Nathanson, (http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/tv-advertising-weakness-economy-internet-analyst-report/) that suggests ad revenue is leveling off and the days when broadcasters can charge more and more for less and less are numbered and they know it.
Interestingly I warned this very same group about the disruptive potential of the internet in a keynote address to NAB many years ago and they, literally, laughed it off. They didn't get it then and, even though some of them see their interns watching their favorite shows on smartphones and tablets, I'm not convinced they get it now. I'd like to tell you they were working on better, interactive ads and more sophisticated product placement, but the sad truth is they're still trying to figure out how to force you into their old revenue model. They're still mostly doing what they've always done.
I know among this group some of you are trying to remember the last time you did watch TV. How are you disrupting the broadcast television world and how long have you been doing it? Do you watch any live TV anymore or is all digital on your time? You're starting to trouble big shots at broadcast networks and they just haven't figured out what do about you.
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Thoughts on Product Management & Retaining Developer Talent
Tech companies are an interesting beast. Low barriers to entry mean that the "next hot thing" is always around the corner. Couple that with geek culture that is always lusting after the next awesome thing, and you end up with a company like Yahoo that goes from the hot place to virtually irrelevant in less than a decade.
So why does that matter?
Simple: Talent.
"Creator" talent (developers, designers, etc.) is undoubtedly key at any tech company. It is what allows a company to build their stuff. Most other industries have machines that build their stuff (cars, CPG, etc.), however developers and designers are core to a tech company doing what they do.
What I find myself asking is how to cultivate a culture at an established tech company where you keep talented, creative people but give them the freedom to create like at a startup.
The FrameThink blog recently covered how Facebook Ships Code. There were some excellent nuggets to dive into.
As of June 2010, the company has nearly 2000 employees, up from roughly 1100 employees 10 months ago. Nearly doubling staff in under a year!
At most companies, this would be a cultural nightmare. Not at Facebook:
All engineers go through 4 to 6 week "Boot Camp" training where they learn the Facebook system by fixing bugs and listening to lectures given by more senior/tenured engineers. Estimate 10% of each boot camp's trainee class don't make it and are counseled out of the organization.
After boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about "with great power comes great responsibility" and a clear list of "fire-able offenses", e.g., sharing private user data)
This is a lot like people rushing a fraternity in college – you spend "boot camp" time having new employees buy in to way a company works. Contrast that where you get maybe half a day going over HR policies and then it's pretty much up to the manager and group.
Zappos does the same thing, where they will offer their customer service people a fixed payment to leave on the first day.
This also means a company has to know what their culture is and be sure of it.
What's really fascinating is how Facebook manages their engineers:
Resourcing for projects is purely voluntary:
- A PM [Project Manager] lobbies group of engineers, tries to get them excited about their ideas.
- Engineers decide which ones sound interesting to work on.
- Engineer talks to their manager, says "I'd like to work on these 5 things this week."
- Engineering Manager mostly leaves engineers' preferences alone, may sometimes ask that certain tasks get done first.
- Product managers have a lot of independence and freedom. The key to being influential is to have really good relationships with engineering managers. Need to be technical enough not to suggest stupid ideas. Aside from that, there's no need to ask for any permission or pass any reviews when establishing roadmaps/backlogs. "My product director doesn't even really know all the things I have on my roadmap." There are relatively few PMs, but they all feel like they have responsibility for a really important and personally-interesting area of the company.
It's all about incentives! Project Managers are incentivized to come up with cool and useful projects, and there is a free market to decide what gets built. But PMs also have to maintain great working relationship with the development teams. This helps eliminate the us vs. them mentality that develops at many big companies where development plans are driven by many different teams (Customer Marketing, Product Marketing, etc.)
It also means developers will continue to love their jobs, when they're getting to work on great, interesting projects and move around. Their managers give them the space to grow and learn.
That's what smart people want – probably more so than money or prestige. They like to work on interesting projects. That will keep them around as long as they're challenged.
Engineers handle entire feature themselves — front end javascript, backend database code, and everything in between. If they want help from a Designer (there are a limited staff of dedicated designers available), they need to get a Designer interested enough in their project to take it on. Same for Architect help. But in general, expectation is that engineers will handle everything they need themselves.
Arguments about whether or not a feature idea is worth doing or not generally get resolved by just spending a week implementing it and then testing it on a sample of users, e.g., 1% of Nevada users.
No QA at all, zero. engineers responsible for testing, bug fixes, and post-launch maintenance of their own work. there are some unit-testing and integration-testing frameworks available, but only sporadically used.
Surprise at lack of QA or automated unit tests — "most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it's just that they don't have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there's a QA department, it's easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors."
Again – more incentives. The responsibility lies on the developers to write great code. Eliminating a step (QA) also means faster roll out of code and cost savings that can be funneled into more development.
I don't claim to know what it's REALLY like in a development organization, but these are some fascinating thoughts. The incentives built into how Facebook works seem like a great way to retain talent. More than that though, it's a very interesting way to build great projects and decide what gets funded. It ends up not being about the money, but instead, what's interesting and relevant.
You have to assume that the free market for development time & talent will win out in the long run. I may be wrong, but it's working for Facebook today. Other large companies might have something to learn from this Product Management philosophy. It helps retain talent in the process.


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In an official statement Amnesty International expressed its "shock," at the confirmation of Dr. Heinrich Spetter's death sentence and disclosed that the organization's secretary general, Martin Ennals, had appealed in a cable to Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria's head of state, to commute the sentence. Amnesty stressed that "the Bulgarian authorities had not released a single piece of evidence to justify the charge of espionage against Dr. Spetter," adding that "we believe the charge of spying is groundless."
The statement further noted the approaching 30th anniversary of the "Day of Freedom" which is an occasion when amnesties are usually announced in Bulgaria, and suggested that appeals for clemency to the Bulgarian authorities should "express the hope that such a great national festival should not be marred by a confirmation of the death sentence on an innocent man." Bulgaria's "Day of Freedom" will be celebrated Sept 9.
Meanwhile, a protest wave has been gathering momentum here this weekend against the Bulgarian Supreme Court's decision to confirm Dr. Spetter's death sentence. Several British organizations and individuals have already appealed to Zhivkov to exercise clemency. Others were expected to follow suit shortly.
Ian Mikardo, MP. Parliamentary chairman of the Labor Party, who has special connections with Bulgaria, sent an appeal to Zhivkov. At the same time, a group of British economists were meeting in London to consider joint action. British economists have already supported an appeal for clemency by several American colleagues, including Nobel Prize winners Paul Samuelson and Simon Kuznets.
Aware of the mounting indignation, Bulgaria's official news agency has issued a statement denying that the Supreme Court had already reached its decision on Dr. Spetter's appeal. The statement was monitored here by Radio Free Europe, but Amnesty international sources have dismissed the Bulgarian denial, stressing that they had ample evidence that the death sentence had indeed been confirmed.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews announced that it would act through all channels, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in an effort to get Dr. Spetter's death sentence commuted. Victor Lucas, the president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, sent a cable to Zhivkov saying he was "horrified to learn" that the death sentence has been confirmed by the Supreme Court and requested that the State Council "exercise prerogative of clemency."


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Brady Hoke Opening Statement: "You know, coming off – not the way you want to start the five game stretch in the meat of your schedule, Saturday, and that's something that we're all disappointed with and everything that we have to do from a coaching standpoint, and playing standpoint obviously is evaluated, and we all need to do a better job, and that's just part of it. We had some opportunities we didn't take advantage of during the course of the football game, and that's a credit to them, and we have to do a better job – too many chances – not enough – offensively, we have to give Devin a little more of an opportunity, because there were plenty of them down the field. Execution is part of that, always is, when you're sliding protections or whatever it might be. Defensively, I think our defense kept us in the football game for a long time, with bad field position. Needed to make some stops more in the second half; didn't get that accomplished on some third downs. The score right before half is never a good score, and then them taking the ball for, I think it was about six minutes, or five minutes and some, so start the second half, even though they got the field goal, again, it's possessions, and trying to get possessions. We had a really good day yesterday, which is a good thing. The attitude of our team, and how they came in, and worked like heck on the evaluation part of it, and worked like heck and went out and practiced and had some good activities that we needed."
Question: It seemed like you had success getting Funchess the ball. The only thing that stopped it was maybe him dropping a couple. Did you in hindsight wish you would have made some more quick drops and get him the ball?
Brady Hoke: "There were some quick throws in there, but more there were play opportunities I guess I wish we would have given Devin another half a click to step up and throw it, because there were a lot of opportunities down the field."
Question: You mentioned you have to give Devin a chance, give him more time. You talked about it after the game; you talked about it all year with the offensive line. You guys have done things in the past. How do you fix the issues here?
Brady Hoke: "Well, it's a youth problem as much as anything, and the only way to fix it is experience. You know, I wouldn't trade Bosch, Magnuson, or Graham, for anybody, or the other guys who are competing with them."
Question: You only got Toussaint eight carries throughout the game.
Brady Hoke: "Yeah."
Question: Not a ton of the other running backs were mixed in. Was it –
Brady Hoke: "Well, I think Derrick played two plays, and when you got into a protection game, for a young guy, not a great time."
Question: From a running standpoint, did you go into the game knowing you weren't going to give it to the backs that much?
Brady Hoke: "I don't think so. I think from a plan part of it, I really thought it was a very good plan. Would we have liked to have run the ball better, more? That's kind of dumb; yeah, we'd like to. I think we'd all like to do stuff better. As far as getting him more touches, it would have been great to."
Question: How is Devin's health?
Brady Hoke: "He's good. He's fine. I mean, he's like Andrew Luck is today. I'm sure he's beat up."
Question: Dileo as well?
Brady Hoke: "Drew is coming along. He's healthier every day."
Question: Do you think he'll play on Saturday?
Brady Hoke: "Yeah. I think so. I haven't gotten the full – you know, but knowing Drew, and how he's progressed, yeah."
Question: You mentioned a good day yesterday. To whom does it fall to make sure – and maybe it's a bunch of people – that you have kind of a carryover psychological impact from that game on Saturday?
Brady Hoke: "Number one it falls with me, that's why our Sunday was a little different in how we did some things, you know, the leadership, coaches, captains, seniors, the Desmond Morgans, guys who have played a lot of snaps. I think it's all of us, but it starts with me first."
Question: You said part of the problem on the offensive lineman is the youth. I mean, experience is what it needs, but experience is not a luxury you have at the moment.
Brady Hoke: "No, we don't."
Question: How do you – what is the challenge to get these guys to (get them to play better now)? Experience a year from now you might have, but you won't have it these next four games.
Brady Hoke: "Yeah, you just have to keep every day grinding. I mean, that's all, and showing them the looks, and doing everything you can, and at times, there's a comfort level. Sometimes guys in an environment may want to try to set – I'm talking pass protection wise – you know, a little further out than they should, or a little too far. They over-set. I'm just using that as an example. They really, fundamentally, if they'll just keep at what they've been doing, there's an excitement I think guys get, you know, and you see it in different guys, but we just have to keep grinding."
Question: After the game, you said the pass protection was more than just the offensive line. After having a chance to review the tape, what were some of the other aspects?
Brady Hoke: "Well I think, you know, the backs have to be able to pick them up a little better. I think there are probably one or two that the quarterback needs to step up and feel out a little better. There's sometimes the timing of a route; so it's hit or miss. You have ten guys good, one guy bad, it's like anything else, that's why it's a great team sport, you have to have them all on the same."
Question: The first day you got this job, the goal was always a Big Ten championship. Four games left, that doesn't really look like a possibility –
Brady Hoke: "Well, it's a possibility."
Question: Small possibility.
Brady Hoke: "Right. Is it possible though?"
Question: Yeah.
Brady Hoke: "Ok. I guess that's my point."
Question: But how do you – with those possibilities diminishing as the season goes on at this point, how do you get these guys to kind of gear up, even though their goal is not –
Brady Hoke: "I don't think you know our team very well, and how they feel about each other, and how they feel about Michigan, and how they feel about the personal pride that they have."
Question: What was different about Sunday?
Brady Hoke: "We just did some things differently that were good for us."
Question: In house?
Brady Hoke: "In house, yeah, it was in Schembechler."
Question: It seems at times this year that you guys got pushed around a bit. What can you do, or what –
Brady Hoke: "I don't know if it was pushed around. I think – I don't agree with that. He got ran over once, twice, with a mismatch, but other than that, it was just not being in the right place a couple times."
Question: In hindsight, was that one of the more demoralizing moments you've had as a head coach, in the aftermath of that game?
Brady Hoke: "No, I didn't feel demoralized at all. Disappointed; but demoralized, that's kind of a – I didn't feel that."
Question: Talking about pass protection, are there any other thing you can do to take the pressure of the offensive line, or is that something they just have to go out there and perform?
Brady Hoke: "Well, I think running the ball helps you anytime. I think that helps you in a lot of different ways, from your play action game and all that. I think there were enough guys to protect."
Question: You said a ton of times before that if you have to be the guy that beats his team, it's not going to go anywhere. Is this a challenge moment for your captains to say – 2011, you were in a similar spot, and finished pretty well. Is this a moment where these guys have to earn their distinction as captains?
Brady Hoke: "I think it will – not just the captains, but the whole group of seniors, to some degree, because of what we ask of them. I think, yeah, there's no question this is a time when your leadership always either steps forward, or stays the same, or steps back."


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In an affluent Toronto area, home after home boasts great carpets of lawn, trimmed and watered daily. But one yard stands out – with a sandbox, a butterfly garden, wild clusters of native plants and rusting steel fences. Some might call it weedy, unkempt and counter to neighbourhood standards. But for the owners, it's a passion project.
"We thought it would be great to have a homestead," one of them explains – a place for their four kids and eight grandchildren to gather. "Here you're looking at nature, with wildflowers growing on a riverbank, so it seemed in keeping with the environment all around us, as well as just better, to have native species that can live and live well – as we do."
Landscape architect Scott Torrance, who designed the garden with Levitt Goodman Architects, says the design makes a point: "Nature is luxury. … We took out a lawn and replaced it with a garden; it's filled with wildflowers and it's now a really rich place for nature. I'm amazed at how much life is going on."
The presence of two design firms indicates the serious means involved here – the owners bought and tore down the house next door so they could expand, and also built "green" roofs on both the garage and pool house. (They requested anonymity to preserve their privacy.) But similar elements are showing up in yards across North America.
Head to the nearest big-box hardware store and you'll find for sale native plants that used to be thought of as weeds, many lettuces for your kitchen garden, and rain barrels to help water them all with minimal waste.
It all reflects new ideals about not just how to landscape but how to live: outdoors as much as possible, with family, attentive to the natural surroundings and people's impact on them, even in the city. As Mr. Torrance says, "Being in nature doesn't have to be about going away to a faraway mountain or to a national park."
Wild lawns and gardens still draw the ire of some neighbours who prefer their domestic landscapes more domesticated. After a century in which a closely mowed lawn was both a product and a sign of a tight social order, such a visible change in values and style is by nature contentious. But lawns and gardens always reflect what is happening in the world outside the fence. They are fertile ground for debates about nature, God, beauty, food, class and leisure. And, as every gardener knows, a garden is never finished.
In the West, gardens and designed landscapes have grown in two genres for the past 300 years. The first is the formal garden, highly wrought and geometric, descended from those of the French aristocracy; the other is the English garden, designed to create a picturesque environment with compositions of hills, banks of trees and waterways. But the language of wildness, used to evoke the Romantic idea of the sublime in nature, is still a language. Lancelot (Capability) Brown, the 18th-century English garden designer, defined his work explicitly in terms of grammar.
As writer Hannah More reported: " 'Now there,' said he, pointing his finger, 'I make a comma, and there,' pointing to another spot, 'where a more decided turn is proper, I make a colon; at another part, where an interruption is desirable to break the view, a parenthesis; now a full stop, and then I begin another subject.' "
This rhetoric entailed moving huge quantities of earth and plants to achieve a simulacrum of nature.
For most people, though, such aesthetic concerns were secondary. Those who had land were mostly working it, and beauty was an appendix: The ornamental garden came last, after the food-producing kitchen garden and the cultivated fields or pastures that provided a living.
As geographer J.B. Jackson has written, the small ornamental garden in North America's colonies became a sort of quiet self-expression; it was private, but also viewable and therefore, in a sense public. It was a space in between. "This ambiguity of the lawn, of the threshold between the public spaces of the street and the private, familial domestic spaces, has remained a constant," he wrote.
And when the suburbs were born in the late 19th century, the tension between what is mine and what belongs to the community remained strong.
Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York's Central Park, also designed suburban developments – from the 1860s on – that democratized the great green lawns of European manors into small slices that were private but also collective in character. The front lawn was collective ground. As author Leonidas Ramsey wrote in 1930, "A man's home may be his castle, but his front lawn belongs to the public."
We care what our neighbours think of us, of course, and for most of the 20th century, that meant cutting the lawn. But those manicured expanses come at a price. Lawns, which in North America are most commonly made up of the thirsty species Kentucky bluegrass, suck up tremendous amounts of water. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that landscape irrigation consumes nearly 34 billion litres a day, much of it wasted in over-watering or runoff.
The first strong cries of dissent came in the environmentally conscious 1970s, with a movement in favour of the "freedom lawn," as activists began to resist the golf-course-like landscape.
A little later, Michael Pollan, now famous for his writings on how to eat, published an essay in 1989 called, "Why mow?" As he charted his own journey to planting vegetables and fruit trees, ripping up the carpet of turf, he reported a feeling of freedom. "For however democratic a lawn may be with respect to one's neighbours, with respect to nature it is authoritarian," he wrote. "Under the mower's brutal indiscriminate rotor, the landscape is subdued, homogenized, dominated utterly."
Where was the nature in this, he asked. Where was the sense? Today, these questions are everywhere.
Not that everyone agrees on the answers. In 2010, Vancouverite Ken Dyck complained to the city about the neighbours' practice of farming their yard on an East Side street. He argued that the metre-high plants grown by housemates Sara St. Vincent and Ander Gates, including herbs, vegetables and berries, were spilling onto his yard and reducing his property value. (Local officials weighed in with orders to clean the place up a bit and play nice: "The city fully supports the vegetation and garden," an inspector said. "Neighbours just need to respect one another … and work together.")
Most of the behaviour changes that people are making are more subtle, however. Almost everyone who plants a garden these days includes a kitchen garden; the idea of growing your own food, which once had disappeared from the mainstream of North American culture, is not just acceptable but fashionable, a logical extension of the local-food movement. And many garden designers favour "xeriscapes," or low-water gardens, with native species once mislabelled as weeds.
These developments feed off a larger theme: the reclaiming of the post-industrial city. For example, green roofs first became popular on public and commercial buildings, but now are suddenly fashionable for residences. Planted roofs are valuable for insulation and heat reflection, but aesthetically they also bring a wild presence to domesticated spheres.
In a similar spirit, perhaps the most well-loved bit of landscaping of our time is the High Line in New York, which opened just in 2009. The park is located on an elevated rail line in a formerly industrial neighbourhood, and it imitates (at great effort and expense) the overgrown state of the place when it was abandoned, with furniture, steps and bleachers that make a spectacle of the dense surrounding buildings.
"Whether you're thinking of formal gardens in the French style or making things look natural – those are the two expectations," said its lead designer, landscape architect James Corner. "But I think we've created a different genre. We've created something that is obviously living and dynamic but feels shaped and made."
The High Line's landscape reflects a bundle of ideas, aesthetic and ideological, and they are appearing in Canada as well, in public parks and gardens that use native plants for both environmental and design reasons.
A major new park, Corktown Common, which opened in Toronto in June, includes a recreated marsh and plantings to emulate forest, marsh and meadow conditions. A huge bank of earth, flood-protection infrastructure in itself, is covered with wild rye, black-eyed Susans and goldenrod. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park makes for a rich and complex experience for children to wander through, as commuter trains pass by and an elevated highway thrums nearby.
As Canadians increasingly live in urban regions, the transformation of such public and private spaces to green space becomes more important to us all. The blank slates that produced the great parks of the 19th century do not exist any more. And in a context where we encounter nature on the train tracks, Romantic ideas about an unspoiled landscape no longer make as much sense.
The plan for the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, completed in 2009, converted a former industrial facility into a place for community gatherings, food markets and ecological education. It's somewhat like Vancouver's Granville Island redevelopment of the 1970s, except for its powerful environmental agenda.
The buildings, formerly brick kilns, warehouses and related structures, were preserved, reused and only partly cleaned up; and the entire site is wrapped in bold expressions of nature, from its preserved wetlands to rain-fed gardens and the array of native ground covers, reclaimed-wood planters, wall-gardening accessories and heirloom raspberries that you can buy at its garden centre.
The crowds of people who visit every Saturday return home with ideals of combining food with nature and community, and of keeping it a little bit rough.
As Mr. Torrance, the landscape architect, explains, there is a quality-of-life argument that underlies the shifts that are happening.
"In garden design, a central idea is control," he says. "In the classic French garden, everything is controlled and it has to be maintained. There's a tremendous amount of energy and effort that goes into it. When you're looking at that, if everything is perfect, you might be relaxed – but more likely there's something that needs to be trimmed. In a garden, it's almost impossible to maintain that kind of expression."
Mr. Torrance's own "postage-stamp" front garden is now a mixture of native plants in three different zones: fertilizer-free, pesticide-free and largely sustained by the rain. Even to his professional eye, it's remarkable. "I popped those plants in and they're going like crazy," he says, "because you plant them in the conditions that they like." This is a pleasure that he can appreciate from the front porch as it fills in, changes with the seasons and grows richer by the year.Report Typo/Error
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who we areA bi-monthly print magazine with a constant online presence. The eyes/ears of Baltimore. Daring, energized, creative, passionate. Your friend at 3 AM, after the bars are closed and the scene is sparse. Lively. Curious. Inventive. 20-something years old. Intelligent and thoughtful. Sharp and often cynical – but never jaded. Loyal to Baltimore and ready to share its hidden gems.
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editorial board
Editors-in-Chief Stephanie Delman
Payal Patnaik
Photography Editor Daniel Litwin Website Director Elizabeth Fuller Advertising Director Carolyn Yi
Silky Glitz & Rowhouse Grit
Local fashion designer Michael Van Maele gives us an exclusive look at his Spring 2011 Collection. Read More →
Booda Monk: A hip-hop pioneer
He is a hip-hop jack-of-all-trades: b-boy, MC and DJ, as well as a graffiti, airbrush and tattoo artist. One of "Baltimore's first" talks to reporter Diana Stern about the old hip-hop grassroots style in the city. Read More →
Art 101: Jake Adams
Rebecca McGivney talks to local artist and MICA student Jake Adams about Frank Stella, affordable art, and finding beauty in surprising places. Read More →
Touch art: the BMA's new hands-on approach
In a community with such polarized demographics, how does the Baltimore Museum of Art appeal to the average working-class citizen? Read More →
Booda Monk: A hip-hop pioneer
By Diana Stern in the January 2011 issueDesigned clothing, boom boxes, vinyl records, and other creations pop and sizzle behind Booda Monk's tattoo shop window at 132 25th St. His palette takes from Baltimore's day and night sky, the colors of which he would study and compare when he was learning his craft. Booda paints koi fish on canvasses and laid-back yet [...] Read More →
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Filed under Investigations, Spotlight
Chatter: with Russ Smith
By Stephanie Delman in the January 2011 issueWhen I meet up with Russ Smith at his unassuming Falls Road cottage-cum-office, the season's first storm is raging with pride and gale-force winds. As rain thrashes at the windows and his two sleepy employees patter around downstairs, Smith spouts off on the irrelevance of print dailies, how he nearly flunked out of Johns Hopkins [...] Read More →
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Filed under Investigations
It's All About Bacon
By Alexandra Byer in the January 2011 issueWhen I was a child my parents forbade me to put maple syrup on my pancakes. But I loved the taste of the sweet, sugary syrup mixed with the crunchy, salty bacon. Maybe my parents saw the mixing of the two as a crude, or maybe they never tried it and didn't know how delectable [...] Read More →
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Overclocking…my favorite part! This is where the OC Formula is supposed to shine. Built for overclockers means built for me. Personally. That's right.
Like all other motherboards in the market at the moment, ASRock have provided a tool to overclock in the operating system. However, as a purist and also someone who doesn't break habits particularly easily, I like to overclock in BIOS. Whilst I'm sure you'd be able to attain a decent enough overclock from the software, the Formula Drive suite simply doesn't offer enough for me to use it as a true alternative to overclocking "properly."
First things first; I always update BIOS to the latest version. I used ASRock's Instant Flash utility within the UEFI to upgrade to BIOS version 1.40.
As I have previously attained stable overclocks and have the voltages required burned into my mind, I initially attempted to boot at 4.5Ghz. I was able to achieve this, stable, at +0.045v, which is between 0.005v and 0.010v better than previous boards I have used in this segment.
4.5Ghz is easy, though. With the ASUS P8Z77-V PRO, I was able to attain 4.8Ghz at +0.230v.. on the OC Formula, I hit this at +0.220v. However, due to the heat limitations of Ivy Bridge, I had to scale back my overclock to 4.6Ghz in order to benchmark without risking chip degradation. Of course, I could delid the chip – but the idea of these reviews is to give an idea of average user scenarios.
To keep everything stable, I opted to use a 4.6Ghz clock that I obtained by using an x46 multiplier as opposed to utilizing BCLK (aka FSB). This kept everything else at standard configuration, which made RAM overclocking easier.
When you overclock RAM, you start with frequency (speed) and voltage. If you're unable to POST, you relax timings. Eventually you will hit a wall where you can either: not go faster, or not relax timings any further. Then you find your sweet spot of lowest timings yet the highest speed.
The Samsung RAM I use for testing is capable of 2400Mhz – I know this as when I tested it, I hit that speed with the Z77 Extreme6, with timings of 10-12-11-24-2. I was not able to hit over 2133 Mhz on the P8Z77-V PRO. On the OC Formula? 2400Mhz at 10-11-11-24-2. It's not a huge improvement, but it IS an improvement, and I find myself impressed.
4.6 Ghz is a 1.2 Ghz (35%) overclock, which is great for a 24/7 overclock. As previously mentioned, we also managed to boot at 4.8Ghz, which is a 1.4 Ghz (41%) overclock – very impressive, and if heat weren't an issue for Ivy Bridge I'm sure we'd have been successful in benchmarking at this clock speed.


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Kelly Zion
The Day After Tomorrow - Poem by Kelly Zion
The 'Day After Tomorrow'
is such an awful movie,
but the day after tomorrow
is always a beautiful day.
It's your sweet birthday
the day after tomorrow
I wonder what I'll do to celebrate
maybe I'll bake you 46 birthday cakes
to give to all of your fans
maybe I'll get a stick of dynamite
and start an avalanche
of confetti
and streamers
and birthday balloons
and thousands
of screaming
people who love you
yes, I think that would do.
It's gotta be something drastic,
it's gotta be something great
it's gotta be better
then all the other days
after tomorrow.
It's gotta be sweet
as sweet as your smile
and it's gotta be as crazy
as a country mile
yes, my adopted baby,
I hope you have a great birthday,
the day after tomorrow.
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