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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Everybody, have a seat, have a seat. I've just got a few things to say here. Welcome to the White House, first of all.
AUDIENCE: Thank you. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: You're pleased to be here, aren't you? (Laughter.) I think we should give it up for the men's and women's national college basketball champions, the Connecticut Huskies! (Applause.) Now, I have to say that, as President, one of my goals has been to eliminate waste and cut out duplicative programs to make things a little more efficient, but this might be carrying things a little too far. (Laughter.)
We have, as you might expect, some big Huskies fans here today, including some outstanding members of Congress. I also want to recognize your university president, Susan Herbst -- (applause) -- your athletic director, Warde Manuel, and Larry McHugh, the chairman of your board of trustees. Give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) And of course, you've got a couple of great coaches in what I called when we were meeting back there the grizzled veteran, Geno Auriemma -- (laughter) -- and the new blood, Kevin Ollie, both in the house. (Applause.) I can make that joke now that I've got gray hair. (Laughter.)
Only once before, in 2004, has one school won both the men's and women's Division I titles. And of course, that was who?
AUDIENCE: UConn.
THE PRESIDENT: It was UConn. This is the women's 9th national title, more than any other women's basketball team in history. (Applause.) For the men, it is their fourth title in the last 16 years, which is twice as many as anybody else during that same span of time. (Applause.) Which makes me think, what's up with you guys? Why aren't you sharing? It is just a remarkable thing what these two programs have accomplished.
Of course, this season the women went a perfect 40-0, won their games by an average of 34 points -- so there was not a lot of suspense during their season. (Laughter.) In a championship game billed as one of the biggest in women's basketball history, the Huskies routed the previously unbeaten Notre Dame -- and gave me bragging rights -- it gave me bragging rights to pick them in my bracket. This was not hard. (Laughter.) I mean, me and 95 percent of the country. And this marked the 5th time that UConn has finished a season as undefeated national champion.
Of course, a lot of this success belongs to Coach Geno, who has cemented his place as not only a legend in women's basketball, but one of the best coaches that we've ever seen at any level and any sport, period. (Applause.) So we are grateful to have you. Congratulations. (Applause.)
But I think Coach Auriemma would be the first to tell you that the credit goes to the players. And these were just some outstanding young ladies. You've got Breanna Stewart named the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player two years in a row. You've got Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who overcame injury and illness during the season, and came up big -- as she is prone to do -- during the tournament. You've got Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley, who went on to become top-10 picks in the WNBA draft.
And Stefanie, I did not forget that you challenged me to a dance-off last year. It is going to happen. It is going to happen. (Laughter and applause.) Don't think that I -- don't think that you're going to beat me on that. (Laughter.) I also appreciate that you told the world about it after the title game. I have daughters in junior high and high school, and for their sake, I will not be dancing too much while the cameras are around. (Laughter.)
Now, I also have to confess, I did not pick the men to win in my bracket. (Laughter.) Of course, neither did anybody else unless you went to UConn. (Laughter.) Look at these guys, they're all raising their hand. (Laughter.) Come on now, tell the truth. We were not counting on Shabazz Napier leading the way as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, and hitting big shot after big shot and locking down the perimeter defensively. The Huskies also had huge contributions from guys like Ryan Boatright, DeAndre Daniels, and Neils Giffey, who's not here because he's playing overseas.
After the tournament wins over Villanova, Iowa State, Michigan State, Florida, and Kentucky, UConn became the first seven-seed ever to win the title. (Applause.) And afterwards, Coach Ollie said, "Somebody told me we were Cinderellas" and I said, "no, we're UConn" -- that's "what we do, bred to cut down nets." That's Coach Ollie. He's always confident and calm and collected. In fact, a sportswriter once referred to him as "our future President." (Laughter.) I don't know with a name like "Kevin" whether that's possible. (Laughter and applause.) But who knows, anything could happen.
Now, Coach Ollie is doing one other important thing -- he's making sure his team hits the books as hard as they hit the boards. And this season, both the men and the women ranked among the nation's best academically and that's worth applauding. (Applause.)
Both teams have also done tremendous work in the community. They've raised awareness for cancer and autism. They've volunteered at senior centers, spent time with underprivileged youth. Coach Ollie and Coach Auriemma spoke at the Pentagon last month as part of our Hoops for Troops program. And last year, after the tragedy in Newtown, the men put on a clinic for kids at a local rec center -- and they asked the media to keep it under wraps so the kids could just have a good time.
Finally, I want to take a moment to single out the women here, because I could not be more proud of the example that they present for my daughters. They're showing that just like the boys, girls can be tough, athletic, beautiful, successful, competitive and make fun of me, which is what my daughters do all the time. (Laughter.) So thank you guys for the outstanding example. (Applause.)
Congratulations to your championship Huskies. (Applause.) And this really isn't goodbye probably, because I suspect I'll see some of these folks again before I leave office. So let's strike the podium. We'll take some good pictures. Come on. And I know we've got some jersey presentations here. Where's my jersey? (Laughter.)
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/09/remarks-president-honoring-ncaa-champions-university-connecticut-huskies


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One day there will be a gay Jackie Robinson. An openly gay athlete in a major American sport who's a great and popular player who helps revolutionize the way Americans view gay people. Knowing a gay person, even if only via TV, is a strong predictor of accepting gay people and gay rights so well known people coming out is an important part of making life better for others. But for now there are gay men in the NFL, NBA, and MLB who feel they're unable to come out. The NFL seems a particularly complicated place for this to change given the extreme masculinity and the physicality of the sport. But an openly gay NFL star would destroy perceptions that gay men aren't real men, aren't tough and strong. Recently at a party I fell into a fascinating conversation with Wade Davis, a former NFL cornerback who earlier this year came out of the closet after his playing days. He told me that there are gay men in the NFL now who one might call, semi-open: they are known to be gay by their teammates who are accepting because their homosexuality is not well-known and thus not something they must answer questions about. Davis said the reason why gays are able to exist in the NFL is because of the camaraderie that exists among all athletes.
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Girls Night Out: Midtown West
Friday, I enjoyed a girls night out with my Starwood colleague and friend Anna.
Anna introduced me to Gaonnuri, an upscale Korean barbecue restaurant located on the top floor of 1250 Broadway with stunning city views. She read my mind when suggesting it as the perfect date venue (especially the drinks-only window seating area). I may have to return here if my tentative date with a recent Speed Dating bachelor comes to pass.
While enjoying white wine and beef bibimbap (served with rice in a traditional hot stone pot), we talked about being true to where you are in the single versus settling down trajectory, the allure of living abroad and the good fortune of working for a company that is rich with opportunity.
That last tangent of conversation continued over Cosmopolitans at Hotel Metro's rooftop bar. I confided in Anna about the challenging first few days of my new job – Marketing Manager of the Sheraton New York Times Square. I'm now a two-hotel girl, dividing my time between the Sheraton and my beloved Westin New York Grand Central.
They're very different hotels so, inevitably of course, I felt somewhat overwhelmed at first. I started to settle in, though, as soon as I received words of support from both my Westin and Sheraton colleagues. For the first time ever in my long and winding career, I finally feel like I'm in a place where I can truly grow and stay put. The management at Starwood Hotels & Resorts is that rare breed capable of pushing you beyond your comfort zone while ensuring you are ready for it.
I've said it many times but it bears repeating here. Professionally speaking, I've gone from kissing a frog to finding Prince Charming. I was so miserable in my last job that I never thought I would find this kind of career fulfillment again. I can't help thinking that's also a good metaphor for dating too. There is always the possibility for something really wonderful to happen.
With an out of town old flame heading this way in a few weeks, I'm looking forward to some kind of wonderful becoming a reality.
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Without knowing much about its its previous owners, browsers of the auction site eBay might have deemed a light aircraft that went under the hammer last week for just over £17,000 as remarkable only because of its selling price.
Until, that is, closer attention was paid to the identity of the seller, Leicestershire police, who were selling a plane that was once used by a drugs gang to smuggle cocaine into Britain from France.
The Zenair Zodiac, which was seized under the Misuse of Drugs Act, found a buyer after the force offered it for sale on eBay on behalf of Northamptonshire police.
The money raised from the unusual lot, described as needing "considerable work" to make it airworthy, is to be put back into funding policing activities and community projects.
Accompanying details stated: "There are no keys. This item is collect only."
They added that, when "new and complete", the aircraft was priced in the region of £30,000, and that the preferred method of payment was cheque or banker's draft.
Northamptonshire's police and crime commissioner Adam Simmonds said: "The sale of the plane and the interest from the public we've seen has been tremendous.
"It sold well above the reserve price and more than we expected to get. This sends a strong message to criminals that we will seize and sell their assets."
Other items put up for sale on eBay by Leicestershire police included mobile phones, a replica second world war German motorbike and sidecar, military toys and a volume called The Book of Muscle: the World's Most Authoritative Guide to Building Your Body.


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On feud between Bradley T. Johnson and Frederick Schley
Ode for the formal opening of the William Enston Memorial Hall
Daily menu and wine list, Arcade Hotel, New Orleans, 1859
Funeral notice, John McKee
Funeral notice, Margaret C. Simpson
Le bon ton, journal de modes
To the public by James M. Lamdin
Lincoln's birthday party!
Grave of Henry Timrod
Regular toasts
Funeral notice, Alfred Lacroix
Proclamation by the governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Headquarters, First Division, S. C. V. T.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Sen. Saxby Chambliss is fighting an attorney's subpoena seeking to question him in a lawsuit by victims of the deadly explosion at a Georgia sugar refinery, prompting fresh attacks by Democrats hoping to oust the Republican senator in a heated runoff.
Savannah attorney Mark Tate - who calls himself a "partisan Democrat" - has subpoenaed Chambliss to submit to questions Thursday about whether Imperial Sugar executives enlisted him to help the company avoid blame in the Feb. 7 explosion that killed 14 workers and injured dozens more.
Chambliss campaign spokeswoman Michelle Hitt Grasso said Monday that Senate attorneys are asking a judge to throw out the subpoena, arguing that federal law and Senate rules not only make Chambliss immune from testifying in the case, but prohibit him from doing so.
"According to Senate legal counsel, the senator is prevented from sitting for this deposition or providing documents," Grasso said. "They will be filing the motion to quash the subpoena."
Chambliss faces a Dec. 2 runoff election with Democrat Jim Martin after neither candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election Nov. 4, in which they shared the ballot with a Libertarian candidate.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying to make the civil case an issue in Chambliss' runoff - one of three undecided races, including Senate seats in Alaska and Minnesota, that Democrats need to win to gain a fillibuster-proof majority of 60 seats.
The DSCC posted a new online ad Sunday on the Web site YouTube.com accusing Chambliss of trying to duck the subpoena. "Saxby Chambliss is refusing to testify," it says. "What are you trying to hide?"
Grasso said Senate attorneys have told Chambliss he's immune from submitting to a deposition under the "speech or debate" clause of the Constitution, which shields members of Congress from testifying about legislative business in private lawsuits. Senate rules also prohibit disclosure of some documents given to senators without a waiver, she said.
"I totally disagree with that," said Tate, who represents families of two refinery workers killed by the blast and two employees who were injured. "I don't think, because some issues are related to the speech-and-debate clause, that the entire deposition can be precluded."
Tate says he wants to know if Imperial Sugar executives persuaded Chambliss to sharply criticize a company whistleblower during a July Senate hearing on the explosion. He says he also wants the senator to respond to plaintiffs' claims that the company arranged a meeting between Chambliss and victims' families to dissuade them from suing.
Grasso said Chambliss denies both accusations.
"It is a new low for the Democrats to try to politically manipulate this tragedy," she said. "In regard to the tragedy at Imperial Sugar, Sen. Chambliss has never been anything but heartbroken for the families and an advocate for them to make sure this type of accident never occurs again."
Tate initially sought to take the senator's deposition five days before the Nov. 4 election. Tate says he agreed to postpone until Thursday.
Campaign disclosure reports back up Tate's claim that he hasn't given money to Martin's campaign, though he contributed to Democratic Sen. Max Cleland in 2002 - the election year Cleland lost his seat to Chambliss.
This year, Tate made campaign donations to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Savannah, as well as presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards and President-elect Barack Obama. He also hosted Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean for a July 25 fundraiser at Tate's Savannah home.
"I am not motivated to see Jim Martin get elected; I'm motivated to represent my clients who have lost loved ones," Tate said.


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Did Mitt Romney's failed bid for the presidency effectively end the "Mormon Moment"? No, because he was not solely responsible for creating it. Indeed, his 2012 candidacy was but the last in a series of events that gave Mormonism unprecedented prominence in the United States--and gave unprecedented acceptance to a religion that has been described as the most vilified and persecuted in American history. The earlier events included:
· The national broadcast, in the spring of 2007, of Helen Whitney's 4-hour PBS series, "The Mormons," that was viewed by a record audience.Read Full Article »


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Thursday, October 18
Julia Vinograd
Julia Vingorad has published
over 50 books of poetry.
She is the recipient of Berkeley's Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a PushCart
Prizewinner for Young Men Who Died of Aids. Recent books include:
Cannibal Casserole New & Selected Poems, 1996-2006; Skull and Crosswords,
2005; Step Into My Parlour, 2002; Ask a Mask, 1999 –
all from Zeitgeist Press.
"She gives us a voice when ours vanishes. She gives voice to the homeless, the street performers, the merchant, the coffee drinker, friends and foes alike, and her words, like a sharp knife, cut deep into the truth. She describes us as full of life, and love, and heartache. She makes us honest. We, the eccentric, the lonely, the broken are given a voice." – from the City of Berkeley Proclamation Honoring Julia Vinograd With Lifetime Achievement Award
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Sunday, November 18
Douglas Goetsch &
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass's fourth book of poems,
The Human Line,
was published by Copper Canyon Press in June 2007. She co-edited
(with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology
of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973), has published several previous
volumes of poetry, including Mules of Love
(BOA, 2002) which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have
appeared in hundreds of journals She was awarded the Elliston Book
Award for Poetry from the University of Cincinnati, Nimrod/Hardman's
Pablo Neruda Prize, The Missouri Review's Larry Levis Award, the Greensboro
Poetry Prize, the New Letters Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Poetry Prize,
a Pushcart Prize, and a Fellowship from the California Arts Council.
Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include Nobody's Hell (Hanging Loose Press, 1999), The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State, 2004), winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and three chapbooks. He is the recipient of the Aldrich Award, the Paumanok Prize, the Permafrost Prize, awards from Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, The Chautauqua Literary Journal, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, ONTHEBUS, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at PoetryDaily and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in many anthologies.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Thursday, December 20
Holiday Potluck / ReadAround
Come celebrate the hoidays in poetry style!
Bring a a poem for the read-around (25 lines max!) .
And a dish to share:
A – H: Salad
I – P: Main dish
Q – Z: Dessert
Thursday, January 17
Kathleen Fraser &
Steve Dickison
Kathleen Fraser's
books include essays
Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity,
Stilts, Somersaults & Headstands
and 20 poem collections, including collaborations with painters JoAnn Ugolini,
Sam Francis, Mel Bochner, Hermine Ford, Mary Ann Hayden and Nancy Tokar Miller.
Fraser translates and lectures in Rome each spring where her wall texts for
ii ss --a collaborative series with Ford's drawings--were shown in April, 2007.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim,two NEA fellowships and the Frank O'Hara
Poetry Award.
For twenty years Fraser taught as a Professor of Graduate Writing at San Francisco State University, where she directed the Poetry Center (1972-1975) and founded the American Poetry Archives. She co-founded the journal HOW(ever), later revived as How2. Fraser's recent poetry titles include: hi dde violeth i dde violet (Nomados, 2003); Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling and W I T N E S S (CHAX, 2007). Her Selected Poems 1970-1995, il cuore : the heart, is availablefrom Wesleyan.
For a recent interview, see: http://jacketmagazine.com/33/fraser-ivby-rosenthal.shtml.
Steve Dickison has directed the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University since 1999. A poet, writer, and publisher, he edits the small poetry press Listening Chamber, with offshoots Rumor Books and Parrhesia Press. With David Meltzer, he co-edits and produces the irregular music magazine Shuffle Boil. He curated the art exhibition "Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004" at the California Historical Society during Winter 2005, and the book exhibition "Recent Visitors: Poets and Publishing on the Bolinas Scene in the Seventies," Winter 2006 at the Book Club of California. Disposed, a book of poetry, was published by The Post-Apollo Press in Fall 2007. He lives in Berkeley.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Thursday, February 21
Panel Discussion on
The Professionalization of Poetry
David Alpaugh,
Michelle Bitting,
Rebecca Foust,
Robert Sward
David Alpaugh's essay
"The Professionalization of Poetry" was serialized in the Jan/Feb
and March/April 2003 issues of Poets & Writers Magazine and drew hundreds of emails and
wide discussion on the Internet. Alpaugh's fiction, drama, and criticism have
appeared in more than a hundred literary journals and anthologies. His first collection,
Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press, and his chapbooks
have been published by Coracle Books and Pudding House. One of the Bay Area's most popular
featured readers, he has taught at the University of California Berkeley Extension and hosts
a monthly reading series at Valona Delicatessen in Crockett. His second collection
Heavy Lifting appeared earlier this year from Alehouse Press.
"The Professionalization of Poetry" is available on-line at
Huston Poetry Review.
Michelle Bitting has work forthcoming or published in Glimmer Train, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Small Spiral Notebook, Nimrod, The Southeast Review, Passages North, The Comstock Review, 2RiverView, Valparaiso Review, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Southeast, Rattle and others. She has won the Glimmer Train and Rock & Sling Poetry Competitions and been an award finalist multiple times. Recently, her chapbook "Blue Laws" was published by Finishing Line Press and her full length manuscript "Good Friday Kiss" was chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the inaugural DeNovo First Book Award through C & R Press. She is a candidate for an MFA in Poetry at Pacific University, Oregon. Visit her at: www.michellebitting.com.
Rebecca Foust, a former activist and grassroots political organizer for students with learning disorders, is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry in Warren Wilson's low residency program. Her book about raising a son with Asperger's Syndrome, Dark Card, won the 2007 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Award (Texas Review Press), and her full length manuscript was a finalist in three national book competitions, including Poetry's 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Also in 2007, Foust's poetry won two Pushcart nominations and several other awards and distinctions, appearing in Atlanta Review, JAMA, Margie, 2007 Marin Poetry Center Anthology, North American Review, Nimrod International Journal and many other reviews. For more information or to order Dark Card (after May 2008), please visit www.rebeccafoust.com
Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and UC Santa Cruz. A Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he was chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His many books include "Four Incarnations" (Coffee House Press); "Heavenly Sex," "The Collected Poems," and "God is in the Cracks" (Black Moss Press). "The Collected" and "God is in the Cracks" are now in their second printing. Please visit: www.robertsward.com
Thursday, March 13
Parallel Verse Poets
Reading - 7:30 PM
Pot Luck - 6:30 PM
Eleven Marin poets will be reading from the recently published
anthology "Parallel Verses" (Richard Brown, Ella Eytan, Susanne Himmelwright, Blossom Plumb,
Yvonne Postelle, Angelika Quirk, Ann Robinson, Phyllis Teplitz, Sandy Scull, Sim Warkov,
and Joseph Zaccardi). Stellasue Lee, Ph.D. writes:
"It is a celebration in words as individual as the people themselves, and at the heart of these poems the reader can feel the passion for the written word, for the poetic process and that dear reader, produces a dramatic power for clarity. This work should be read again and again."
Thursday, April 17
Performance Poets: Claire Blotter & Carla Shawanee Heins
Performance - 7:30 PM
Pot Luck - 6:30 PM
Carla Woshawnee Heins
is a poet, actress, visual artist, and musician. Her work has appeared in numerous
unordinary publications, among them Poetry from Violence, edited by the film maker
and writer, Allie Light. Ms. Heins has performed her work throughout California.
Her one-woman shows and performance pieces include The Smell of the Dress Healing
the Slender Heart, and Woman in the Natural. Ms. Heins has written a number
of children's
stories, among them The Tree That Belonged to the Earth, Rosalita and the Tragic
Summer, and The Hip Attached to the Cell Phone. Her books include "Guiding the Heart
Thru This House, The Ball, The Cat, The House. She is currently developing
an arrangement of her written work for performance
Claire Blotter is a writer, director and teacher who also performs poetry and monologues with movement, body percussion and music. She has received two Marin Arts Council Individual Artist's Grants in Poetry, won the Bay Guardian Poetry Contest and the 1992 and 1993 S.F. Performance Poetry Slams, placing second in the National Team Competitions in Boston and Chicago. She has taught writing and theater at S.F. State University, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the College of Marin. She has also published two poetry chapbooks and received numerous grants for poetry, theater and video. Her award winning video documentary, Wake-Up Call: Saving the Songbirds, has been screened in eleven film festivals from Mill Valley to Chicago.
Thursday, May 15
Thomas Centolella & Ellery Akers
Thomas Centolella
is the author of three collections of poetry: Terra
Firma, selected by Denise Levertov for the 1990 National Poetry Series, Lights
& Mysteries, which received the 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth
Club of California, and Views From Along the Middle Way. Mr Centolella
was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship,
the American Book Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and the Poetry Medal
from the Commonwealth Club. He has taught creative writing for many years in the
Bay Area, and has been a California Arts Council Artist in the Schools and a California
Poet in the Schools. He is currently a staff member at the Institute on Aging (Center
for Elders and Youth in the Arts), and teaches at the College of Marin.
Ellery Akers is a writer, artist and naturalist living in Northern California. She has won five national awards for poetry, including the John Masefield Award and the Gordon Barber Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 1996, she won the Paumanok Award from SUNY for "the discovery of the finest new poets now writing in English." Her book of poems, Knocking on the Earth, was published in 1989 by Wesleyan University Press and was named one of the best books of that year by the San Jose Mercury News. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in APR, Harvard and Ploughshares. Her nature essays have appeared in Sierra, Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine) and other anthologies. She has received fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Since 1989 she has been teaching at the Bay Area Women Poets Workshop, Squaw Valley (Art of the Wild); Foothill Writing Conference and Humboldt State University Writing Conference. Her play, Letters to Anna, won an award at the Dominican University One-Act Play Festival in 2003.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.


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You're welcome, Starmom! We were all newbies at some point.quote:Originally posted by starmom:
Thank you Mominbiz for your always excellent advice. It's SO helpful to us newbies!
I've seen so much here and on PARF of parents asking about specific projects, if anyone has had CBs. So, you're saying this too shouldn't be happening?
You're welcome, Peanut! Wishing you good luck in your career!quote:Originally posted by Peanut:
Thank you soo much for posting this! I found this extremley helpful for myself being 14 and just starting out... I am homeschooled so I can be very flexible with my schedule which I love! I will definitly keep all of this info in mind as I move along in my career. Thanks!!


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The Best Life Diet (Revised and Updated) : From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step. Unlike a celebrity, however, you don't need to hire a staff of experts to aid and advise you, because Bob's plan, easily tailored to an array of tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels, acts as your personal trainer and private nutritionist. Just open the book and let Bob help you get started down the path toward your best possible life. NOTE: This is a Scratch and Dent book and may have noticeable dents, scratches and various other cosmetic issues as well as torn or missing dust jacket. These items are only guaranteed to be structurally complete and readable and therefore are sold as is.
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|From: Anton van Straaten (anton at appsolutions.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:21:29 EST 2003
I'm trying to use SchemeQL, but I'm probably either doing something dumb, or impossible, or both. I can't get even a simple example to work, e.g.: (require (lib "schemeql.ss" "schemeql")) (define conn (connect-to-database "mydb" "sa" "the-actual-password")) (schemeql-execute (query ALL companies) conn) => #<sql-hdbc> SELECT * FROM companies uncaught exception: #2(struct:schemeql-unknown-error (("HY090" 0 "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Invalid string or buffer length"))) I've checked that SrPersist is working, with the exact same connection info and queries that I've tried with SchemeQL. I don't see any problems there, but I haven't tried any substantial test. I'm using the official distribution of DrScheme v202, on Windows 2000 Server SP3. The database is MS SQL Server 6.5 (kinda old, but also pretty standard). The ODBC About pane reports version 3.520.6200.0 for all ODBC core components. The SQL Server driver is version 3.70.09.61. The following are returned by the various version functions: (version) => "202" (sister-ver) => 3.51 (schemeql-version) => "SchemeQL v.0.05" (srp-version) => "202" (compiled-odbc-version) => "3.51" Could the fact that my ODBC version is 3.520, whereas SrPersist is compiled for 3.51 be an issue? But as I said, SrPersist seems to work for simple tests. BTW, I noticed in searching for an answer that someone in the Sourceforge SchemeQL Help forum reported an identical problem with an MS Access database on Monday: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=832407&forum_id=62865 ...but no replies yet. Suggestions? Anton
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Fashion on the Fly: JWoww Wears Short Shorts & See-Through Top at LAX (PHOTOS)
Jersey Shore star Jenni "JWoww" Farley and her boyfriend of about a year, Roger Williams, were seen jetting out of LA on Monday, and were their usual awesome, guido selves. In true Jersey fashion (literally), JWoww was rocking some teeny jean shorts and a tight top, while Roger kept it classy in a plaid shirt and jeans.
The two were in town for the VMAs, and it looks like there is one person that left JWoww starstruck!
"I can't believe I met @ladygaga… I'm in tears."
Having your own reality show has its perks!
JWoww was also seen wearing a sparkler on her ring finger, but a source told Celebuzz that it's just a promise ring. We have to admit, we would love if these two really did tie the knot!


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Why do things always seem to take much longer than they should? We went to the Christmas tree farm yesterday and the kids picked out our tree, which took three hours. Apparently everyone was out doing the same thing before the weather turned bad around here. It's our biggest tree yet. We had to cut it down to fit it in the living room. We had high hopes of decorating it last night, but after dinner, baths, and Rudolph's New Year movie extravaganza, we were lucky just to get it in the stand.
So we had high hopes of getting the tree decorated this morning. However, our daughter knows how to sleep. While we were all waiting for her to wake up my husband and I managed to get the lights on the tree, which in our house in no small task and took much longer than it should after we untangled the lights, fixed loose or missing bulbs, and manged to agree on a way to simply put them on the tree. Apparently I don't stretch them out enough. I've been told I have a tendency to cluster them in order to give them a more random look as compared to a certain someone's preference for the appearance of a straight line winding itself around the tree. Who knew!
As we waited for our sleepyhead so we could decorate the tree, we also managed to make breakfast, assemble another Lego airplane, play a game of Uno, do the dishes, wash the laundry, and take out the garbage. While we were still waiting for her to wake up, my husband decided to go to the gym. So, our son and I decided to make some biscotti. We actually had enough time to make three batches. Over twelve hours after first laying her head on the pillow, have I mentioned she knows how to catch some winks, our sleepyhead emerges and we loaded on the ornaments. We had plenty of close calls, but only one casualty…a moose loss its antlers. Mission accomplished.
Cracking the pistachios in these Lemon Pistachio Biscotti was a good stress reliever after hanging the lights. And now we have a little something to share with our friends and snack on the next time we are waiting…for anything really.
Lemon Pistachio Biscotti
YIELD: approximately two dozen
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup finely ground cornmeal
1 cup granulated sugar, plus 1 tablespoon for the topping
2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
Zest of 3 lemons
1 teaspoon lemon flavored oil
1 cup roasted pistachios, plus ¼ cup ground pistachios for the topping
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and place the rack in the middle of the oven.
2. In a large flat-bottomed bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the eggs, lemon zest, and lemon flavored oil.
4. With a rubber spatula, stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture until the dough just starts to come together. Dust your hands with flour and knead the dough in the bowl until all the ingredients are incorporated and the dough is tacky.
5. Add the pistachios. Knead the dough until incorporated, about 10 – 20 times.
6. Separate the dough in half. Form two logs, approximately 3 inches wide and 1 inch high on a parchment lined baking sheet. Leave several inches between the logs, the dough will spread as it bakes.
7. Drizzle the top of each log with agave.
8. Mix 1 tablespoon sugar with ¼ cup ground pistachios. Sprinkle the sugar and pistachio mixture onto the top of each log and press down firmly with your hands to ensure the mixture sticks to each log.
9. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, or until the tops begin to crack or split. Transfer logs to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
10. Transfer biscotti logs to a cutting board. Slice the biscotti on a diagonal and place cut side down on the same parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for an additional 20 minutes, turning the biscotti once halfway through. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
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By Michael Connelly
Orion, $29.95
Bosch is back and so is the Poet, Rachel Walling and heart-transplant patient Terry McCabe, in spirit if not in person.
Indeed, there are so many familiar faces from Michael Connelly's previous 13 crime novels that The Narrows might well be called The Convergence.
We originally encountered Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch in The Black Echo, Connelly's dark and dense debut crime novel, which won the 1992 Mystery Writers of America Award for best first book.
A Los Angeles Police Department detective, Bosch has since retired and gone private, although by the end of The Narrows it looks like he'll be returning to active duty.
The LAPD want him back, as well they should. Bosch usually gets his man - although, as is the case for many of the middle-aged policemen who have moped through the police procedural in recent years (Rankin's Rebus, Mankell's Wallander) - the woman tends to be more elusive.
FBI agent Rachel Walling thinks Bosch has got "seen-it-all-before eyes". Bosch, on the other hand, believes there is a "deadness" in hers that is probably a consequence of the fact that for the past eight years she has been in the FBI equivalent of Siberia, working a bureau in Rapid City, South Dakota, where serial killers like the Poet don't come along too often.
Indeed, serial killers as a whole seem to be rather out of fashion, as one FBI agent notes somewhat regretfully in The Narrows, post 9/11 it's "terrorists 24/7 and we can't even get overtime".
The Poet was the eponymous serial killer anti-hero of Connelly's fifth crime novel, in 1996. Written in the first person from the point of view of Jack McEvoy, a journalist working the crime beat in Denver, The Poet was a late entry into the sub-genre of serial-killer crime novels that got going with Thomas Harris's Red Dragon in 1981 and peaked with his Silence of the Lambs in 1988.
Connelly's Poet is in the Hannibal Lecter mode of evil genius. Like Lecter, the Poet has an eerie connection with the woman who has studied his every move. Rachel Walling, however, is no Clarice Starling.
Even though Connelly established Rachel as a complex and conflicted character, he simply doesn't do enough with her in either The Poet or The Narrows to raise the emotional stakes, to make us really care about her or her fate.
This remoteness may well be a consequence of narrative strategy. While in The Poet it is McEvoy who tells the story, in The Narrows the point of view alternates between Bosch, who is called in by McCabe's widow to investigate his suspicious death, and that of an omniscient narrator who describes what Rachel and the Poet are up to as they embark on a collision course with Bosch's investigation.
We spend a lot of time inside Bosch's head, sharing his perspective on the world, while Rachel and the Poet share the same narrative space, as characters we observe mainly in action but don't really know.
What we do know is that since eluding capture in 1996, the Poet wants to call Rachel out, and that the latest wave of killings are calculated to bring her and him face to face in a final showdown.
The murders are, therefore, totally perfunctory. The Poet is simply playing mind games with Rachel and the FBI, a fact Bosch figures out pretty swiftly once Rachel and he team up.
This is not a whodunnit, or even a whydunnit, it's more of a when will they finally meet and will it all end in tears? No spoilers here and not a lot of tension either.
The Narrows is a capable but uncommanding crime novel. Connelly is coasting on a tide of self-reference and knowing winks to his fellow crime novelists, which undermines the seriousness of his work. Watch out for the references to Rankin, McDermid, Koontz and Pelecanos.
Right up front, Bosch tells us that former FBI agent Terry McCabe was played by Clint Eastwood in a movie that was "a modest success at best", and that Eastwood attended his funeral. This is a reference to the film version of Connelly's seventh crime novel, Blood Work.
Connelly's not above playing mind games either.
Michael Connelly will be a guest at this year's Age Melbourne Writers' Festival.
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of August 5
The earnings season is beginning to wind down, and much of the focus this week will turn to central bank meetings and economic data from China and the United States.
But, there are still plenty of earnings reports on the schedule this week, including those from Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR).
Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from these and some of the week's other, most prominent earnings reports.
See also: Weekly Preview: Earnings Season Nears The End, China In Focus
This entertainment giant is expected to say that earnings came to $1.02 per share for its third quarter of fiscal 2013.That would be up from $1.01 per share in the year-ago period. Revenues for the quarter are estimated to be about five percent higher to $11.65 billion.
Note though that the consensus EPS estimate has slipped over the past 60 days from $1.04. However, analysts underestimated Disney's EPS in five of the past six quarters. Look for the earnings report Tuesday afternoon.
Time Warner
In its report before the markets open Wednesday, Time Warner is expected to post second-quarter earnings that were more than 22 percent higher than in the year-ago period to $0.76 per share. That the consensus estimate has not changed in the past 60 days. This media giant has exceeded consensus EPS expectations in the past eight quarters.
Revenues from the home of Warner Bros., HBO and Sports Illustrated are predicted to total $7.11 billion for the most recent quarter. That would be more than five percent higher than in the same period a year ago.
CVS Caremark
Second-quarter earnings from this pharmacy services provider are forecast to come to $0.96 per share in Tuesday morning's report. That would be up from $0.81 per share in the year-ago period. Earnings results were better than expected in the in the previous four periods.
The revenue forecast for the quarter calls for marginal year-over-year growth to $31.13 billion. Both revenue and EPS for the current quarter are expected to be higher sequentially and year-over-year.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Third-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from this specialty coffee and coffeemaker company are expected to be $0.77 per share, on revenues of $981.9 million. In the same quarter of the previous year, the maker of Keurig and K-cups beat consensus EPS estimates when it posted $0.52 on sales of $869.19 million.
The consensus EPS forecast has ticked up by a penny in the past 60 days. Note that earnings have not fallen short of consensus estimates in the past six quarters. The earnings beat was by more than 25 percent in the second quarter. Look for the earnings report late Wednesday.
See also: Green Mountain Offers Statement Related To SEC Insider Trading Action
Archer Daniels Midland
Global food-processing and commodities-trading company Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) is expected to report Tuesday before the opening bell that for its second quarter it had $0.44 EPS and $22.87 billion in revenue. In the same period of the previous year, it posted $0.38 per share, while revenue totaled $22.68 billion.
ADM missed consensus EPS expectations in half of the past four quarters. Also, the consensus EPS estimate has slipped in the past 60 days from $0.45. For the current quarter, the forecast so far calls for year-over-year EPS growth of about 18 percent, but only marginal revenue growth.
Marathon Oil
In its Tuesday afternoon report, oil and natural gas producer Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) is expected to say that second-quarter EPS grew from $0.59 a year ago to $0.71. That consensus estimate ticked up by a penny in the past 60 days, but per-share earnings fell short of consensus estimates by more than 15 percent in the past two quarters.
Revenues from this Houston-based company are forecast to total $3.84 billion for the most recent quarter. That would be up less than two percent year-over-year. So far, revenue is predicted to have declined about seven percent in the current quarter and to be down about one percent for the full year.
And Others
Others predicted to report year-over-year earnings growth this week include Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF), Michael Kors (NYSE: KORS), Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN), Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU), Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC), Transocean (NYSE: RIG) and Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN).
But earnings declines are expected from AOL (NYSE: AOL), Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ), NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) and T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS).
The following week, keep an eye out for quarterly reports from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Deere (NYSE: DE), Macy's (NYSE: M), Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and more.
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New Music with the "Daily Ukulele"
The purpose is to spend the entire time practicing and learning just two or four new songs from the Daily Ukulele. If time permits we will play songs from previous weeks.
Jim and Liz Beloff have come out with a book - The Daily Ukulele: 365 Songs For Better Living .
We will be using this book for this meetup. Compiled and Arranged by Liz and Jim Beloff, The Daily Ukulele features 365 well-known songs with easy ukulele arrangements in a easy to read 9X12 format.
The Daily Ukulele offers ukulele fun all year long! 336 pages.
Jim and Liz Beloff have come out with a new book - The Daily Ukulele Leap Year Edition: 366 Songs .
Attendees are encouraged to obtain a copy of this book as soon as possible. We will begin using this book as part of this meetup as a majority of people obtain it. Compiled and Arranged by Liz and Jim Beloff, The Daily Ukulele Leap Year Edition features 366 additional well-known songs with easy ukulele arrangements in a easy to read 9X12 format.
Note: A purchased or shared copy of BOTH the books is strongly recommended for this event. Sam Ash has agreed to offer the first book for $23.00 plus tax to our group members. You will need to ask for the discount at the register. The new Leap year book is available from Amazon.com for the same price. We are hoping Sam Ash will stock it soon.
Copyright laws clearly prohibit the photocopying of current publications.
Plus, Jim and Liz did a lot of work on this volume, and deserve to have some money coming back to pay for crumpets and Mai Tais
Song List TBA
You can find all of these songs on You Tube if you are not familiar with them
Note to baritone players: Like most ukulele books, the chord shapes in this book are for standard ukulele GCEA tuning. If you need help converting the shapes for the baritone John or one of the other experienced baritone players can help you.
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Featured chef: The Blind Horse's Nathan Goetsch
Nathan Goetsch of The Blind Horse Restaurant & Winery, 6018 Superior Ave. in Kohler, is young for an executive chef. But, his work history belies experience in both the front and back of the house at some of Sheboygan's best restaurants.
"This career really chose me," he says, as he reflects on the last 10 years of his career, which started with a job as a banquet server and dishwasher at Seabird Restaurant in Sheboygan.
Goetsch, who has been working in the industry since the age of 15, gained experience in management at Sheboygan's Elk's Lodge, worked in the kitchens at Bo Mallies in Plymouth and Seabird, and spent time on the line with Chef Stefano Viglietti at Trattoria Stefano and The Duke of Devon.
"My mother owned a diner in Sheboygan when I was a kid," he says. "And that's how the bug bit. She is a great cook, and I've learned a lot from her."
But, it was eating, drinking and working in restaurants that really inspired Goesch to turn over a new leaf.
"I was a picky eater growing up," he says. "But now I'll try anything."
When asked which food flipped the switch for him and got him to be more adventurous, he says it was an unbelievable experience with scallops.
"I was afraid of them and afraid of them and afraid of them," he explains. "And then I ate this pasta dish with scallops, rock shrimp, mushrooms and chorizo. I was blown away by it. And after that I thought 'everything is possible.'"
As it turns out, "everything" includes being the executive chef at The Blind Horse at the age of 24.
I sat down with Goetsch to chat about his experience as a young chef, his approach to cooking and his favorite dish at The Blind Horse.
OnMilwaukee.com: Who has been most influential for you in the kitchen? Which chefs have inspired you most?
Nathan Goetsch: Chef Marc Ehler – I worked with him at Bo Mallies and Seabird – really showed me everything about bringing color to the plate and designing and presenting dishes for the eyes.
And Chef Mike Lynn was the one who saw something in me and helped me decide my course of action with regard to my career. He saw a passion there that I didn't even really know existed.
OMC: How would you describe your style of cooking?
NG: It's constantly changing. But, color is definitely a part of everything I do. I use colorful vegetables in simple preparations. And it's all about the ingredients.
OMC: When you talk ingredients, are you generally working with locally grown produce?
NG: Yes, and no. The goal for the restaurant moving forward is to pull in more local produce, though. In fact, Restoration Farms here in town will be growing produce for the restaurant beginning this year.
OMC: You're just 24. How does it feel to be at the helm of a restaurant?
NG: Well, at times it's really surreal to sit back and see where I am… I get phone calls, and do interviews like this one, and it really hits home.
But, I couldn't do it alone. I have a kitchen full of great people – people I've worked with, who I really trust.
And it can get hectic. But, it's one day at a time.
OMC: What's the biggest thing you've learned about yourself working in kitchens?
NG: I'm actually a natural leader. There's still a lot of work for me to do to develop my skills, but I'm level and calm.
Someone asked me once if I wanted to lead with fear or with love. I told them I wanted to lead with respect. It's a nice middle ground. You have to value your people and keep them happy.
OMC: When things get hectic, how do you deal with stress?
NG: I sing, I dance. No, seriously. There is always music on in the kitchen, and the staff sometimes picks up where I leave off, depending on the song. It takes my mind and refocuses it.
OMC: Every chef has a favorite gadget. What's yours? What can't you live without?
NG: My sharp knife. I love Japanese blades; they have finer points and softer metal, and I couldn't live without it.
Also a dry towel, because nobody wants to burn their hands taking a dish out of the oven.
OMC: You have a new menu coming out soon, yes?
NG: Yes, we're releasing a new lunch menu on April 25. I'm excited about it.
OMC: Do you have a favorite dish on the menu?
NG: Yes, it's definitely the scallop appetizer. It's three scallops wrapped with pancetta, seared and crisped and propped up on snap pea pods with sage creamed corn underneath and a drizzle of bourbon maple syrup.
It's a favorite here, and some people come in for dinner and order two of the appetizer portions for their main entrée.
OMC: And you also came up with the menu for "One Bite Food & Wine Pairings" at the winery. How did you approach those?
NG: The way I wanted to approach them was to go a little bit obscure. But, there were some limitations. Because we have to prepare the food in the restaurant kitchen and bring it over, I had to design dishes that were cold or could be served at room temperature.
So, I started playing around with salads – and came up with dishes like the watermelon salad with feta. It goes great with the wine, but it's also different and really flavorful.
OMC: How much did you know about pairing food and wine when you started?
NG: Honestly, I didn't know much. But, at this point I've tried just about all the wines we make, and it's a good sort of challenge.
I've learned that it's all about being creative, and not being afraid to take risks. I really enjoy it and I view it as an ongoing project, not a challenge.
OMC: What's the most exciting thing about what's happening at the restaurant, with the opening of the winery?
NG: It's big; it's exciting. And people are so excited about what's happening. Ultimately, that's what matters. I don't cook for me; I cook for others, so it's great to see how happy everyone is.
I'm also excited that I can begin to learn more about wine making from a great experienced wine maker; it extends my education.
I was actually saving to move away when all of this started, but this is such a great opportunity. I'm really looking forward to everything that's coming.
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Congrats are in order for singer Monica and her husband NBA baller, Shannon Brown on the announcement of their new baby girl. This will be Monica's first girl as she has 2 boys from a previous relationship and a first for Shannon as he has boys too. The couple who we're hearing is ecstatic over their news sent out their baby shower invites last week. Monica is due in September.
Monica's baby shower for family and close friends will be held at a private residence in Atlanta next weekend. Monica's sons, Romelo Montez Hill, 5, and Rocko Ramone Hill III, 8, are so excited. They can't wait for their baby sister to arrive! The proud parents are said to have chosen the name Laiyah.
Monica and Shannon were photographed exclusively by celebrity photographer Derek Blanks.


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QUICK FACT: Big Peace Falsely Claims Obama Is "Making Us More Dependent On Foreign Oil"
Research ››› ››› CHELSEA RUDMAN
A post on the conservative blog Big Peace falsely claimed that President Obama is "making us more dependent on foreign oil." However, statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that imports have declined faster than domestic production in the past several years, and current projections show that our dependence on foreign oil will continue to decrease through 2035.
Big Peace: "Obama Making Us More Dependent on Foreign Oil"
Big Peace Claims Obama Increasing U.S. Dependence On Foreign Oil. A March 3 post on Andrew Breitbart's blog Big Peace claimed that Obama is "making us more dependent on foreign oil." From the post:
Is the Middle East the only reason gasoline prices are rising and how much damage will they do to our economy?
Gasoline and diesel prices are going up. That is a certain. The issue is how high is high and how long is long? Why?
Expectations of political instability in the North Africa and the Middle East are factors which cause the price of crude oil to rise, but the reality is the Obama Administration is doing serious damage to our essential domestic oil industry. The Administration is making our nation more and more dependent on imported foreign crude oil through increased regulations, taxes, and litigation.
The Obama Administration has in effect shut down exploration and drilling off the Atlantic, Pacific, Alaskan, and Eastern Gulf of Mexico coasts. The EPA is studying restrictions on shale oil and gas fracing. The Administration is also planning massive tax increases on "Big Oil," which is owned by many little stockholders and service individual consumers. Under the Obama Administration prepare for much higher fuel costs. Our nation is highly dependent on foreign crude oil, in the range of 60% of our crude oil is imported. [Big Peace, 03/03/11]
But EIA Says Imports Have Declined And Project They Will Continue To Decline
EIA Brief Shows Net Imports Declined More Than Domestic Production In Past Few Years. A November 29, 2010, brief from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), titled, "How dependent are we on foreign oil?" shows that U.S. imports of petroleum have been decreasing in the past few years, and that imports have decreased faster than domestic production. The following graph was included in the brief:
EIA: Lower U.S. Petroleum Imports Expected In the Future. The EIA also projected that "U.S. petroleum import dependence [will fall] from 51% in 2009 to 45% by 2035." From the brief:
Lower U.S. Petroleum Imports Expected in the Future
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that net imports of U.S. crude oil and petroleum products will slightly increase from 9.7 MMbd in 2009 to 10.0 MMbd in 2035.2 Following decreases during the period 2006-2009, total U.S. liquid fuels consumption is expected to increase steadily through 2035 driven primarily by an increase in biofuels. Meanwhile, the increase in U.S. crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere, combined with increasing biofuel and coal-to-liquids (CTL) production and decreasing petroleum-derived fuel demand, is expected to reduce the need for imports over the longer term. U.S. petroleum import dependence falls from 51% in 2009 to 45% by 2035 in EIA's reference case projection. [EIA, 11/29/10]
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I liked the ball pressure we applied in the fourth quarter led by numerous Thaddeus steals. It made it difficult to get Yao the entry pass and we ran at every opportunity. Willie Green had a nice game and Andre Miller kept us afloat before our run. Big win!
"Mo Cheeks brought Thad Young into the game with 2:20 left in the game and the Sixers trailing 83-67. From that point on, the Sixers outscored the Rockets 44-24"
I don't think we were down that much with 2 minutes to go.
Good catch, it was 2:20 left in the third, it's fixed.
Miller took over for a long stretch, he made Brooks and Alston look stupid out there. This was a huge win, hopefully they carry it over to Boston.
Hey man, Lee from the TheDreamShake here. A couple of things. I did like Thad Young's game, good one for him and he did help some of the tempo. But to put this win on him is not what really happened. Rafer Alston is what happened.
To recap the fourth:
Rafer Alston bad pass (Thaddeus Young steals) - Yes, young got the steal, but he'd have to be an offensive lineman not to catch that horrible pass
Rafer Alston misses 25-foot three point jumper - Why from 25 again? Who knows
Rafer Alston bad pass (Louis Williams steals)- Again, just horrendous, no part of Williams caused that, it was all on Rafer
Rafer Alston misses layup
Rafer Alston offensive rebound
Rafer Alston misses layup
That's right, two missed layups in 5 seconds.
Rafer Alston shooting foul (Andre Miller draws the foul) - Couldn't stay in front of Andre for his life
Rafer Alston offensive foul (Thaddeus Young draws the foul)
Rafer Alston turnover
Down 2 he decides to "take over"
Rafer Alston misses 26-foot three point jumper- Taking 7 seconds off the clock, good shot asshole
In short, fuck you Rafer Alston, and Luther Head had almost as bad of a fourth quarter, and a worse shooting one.
Oh, and Sam did not play good defense on Yao. He played, I got away with pulling and hacking Yao defense on him. Actually, that's the only real defense there is for Yao, so maybe he did play good defense. I liked his tenacity, but if Luther Head could throw an entry pass, none of that "defense" could have happened because with the way he was grabbing he would have been fouled out in the first 15 minutes.
Can you tell I'm still pissed ;-)
Most of those bad shots by Alston were caused by Dalembert's aggressive fronting of Yao. They were letting both guys play down there, I'll give you that, but Sammy really stepped up in the fourth. You can't take that away from him.
Stop inserting logic into an argument Brian!


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I'll be honest with you. I am ready for fall weather and cooking! There is something so wonderful about a roaring fire on a rainy day while dinner is roasting in the oven. Even though it was warm outside today, I decided to roast our dinner. I made chicken, potatoes, and these veggies. Our entire dinner was made by what I had on hand so I didn't have to go to the store – I love that! I had some beautiful heirloom tomatoes that I picked up from the farmer's market this weekend, some asparagus that needed using up, a 1/4 of an onion, and fresh green beans from my friend's garden. I tossed them in some good olive oil then seasoned them with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste. Once they were nearly roasted, I tossed them with a bit of minced garlic and continued to roast for a few minutes to prevent the garlic from burning. The green beans, asparagus, and onion were crisp-tender while the tomatoes were sweet and juicy. My kids drizzled balsamic vinegar on top to make them extra tasty. These veggies were delicious and disappeared quickly.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with tin foil then coat with cooking spray.
Place the veggies on the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle with the olive oil then season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste; toss to coat evenly.
Place into the oven and roast for 13 minutes. Remove from the oven and toss with minced garlic. Place back into the oven and roast for 2 minutes or until done. Remove from the oven and serve immediately. Enjoy.


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|New Life
Wildcats put non-district record behind them with exuberant win
|Bobby "Butch" Burney | News-Telegram Sports Editor
Oct. 15, 2006 - MOUNT PLEASANT - New life in a new season.
The Sulphur Springs Wildcats went from the bottom of the standings to the top of the mountain Friday night.
The Wildcats cranked up the defensive intensity in the second half and had enough big plays in the offense to get Jon Holt in position to knock through a game-winning 21-yard field goal with less than a minute left in the game to send SSHS to a 31-28 victory over Mount Pleasant.
The victory not only ended a three-game skid for the Wildcats and gave them an exuberant win over their arch rivals at Sam Parker Field, it also got them off on the right foot in the District 11-4A race.
The Wildcats are now 2-4 overall, 1-0 in district, joining Texas High (a 30-21 winner over North Lamar) and Paris (35-10 over Lindale) atop the 11-4A standings. Mount Pleasant is 3-3, 0-1.
"We just made plays tonight. We've taken baby steps to get here," said SSHS head coach Greg Owens. "We got emotional. When we play with emotion, we're pretty decent. We can play pretty good when we play like that."
It was the most well-rounded Sulphur Springs effort since the win over Whitehouse a month ago.
Quarterback Brittan Diamond ran for 126 yards, including a key 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter that set up Holt's field goal, and threw for 133 more, including two touchdowns to DaQualin "Boo" Evans. He found more running lanes in part due to the success of the running backs.
Jeff Pitts rushed for 38 yards and caught two passes for 27 more, and Christian Person and Stephan Petty combined for 30 yards on the ground. Petty had a pair of rushing TDs in the Wildcats' heavy "Bulls" formation.
Defensively, the Wildcats allowed Mount Pleasant just one second-half touchdown, set up a TD with a fumble recovery and twice stifled the Tigers on fourth-down conversions.
"It was definitely the intensity the whole time. We just kept it going," said offensive tackle Colt Hooten, who also got in some time on the defensive line. "It was probably mostly because it was Mount Pleasant and it was district, and we were just tired of losing every week and having that same feeling in our guts."
It was certainly a different feeling on Friday when Holt knocked through the chip shot field goal with 48 seconds remaining. Mount Pleasant had one final chance, but on fourth-and-4 from midfield, SSHS cornerback Ryan Gibson broke up a short pass and the Wildcats took over with eight seconds remaining in the game.
It ended what turned out to be a back-and-forth contest full of emotional and momentum swings.
The Tigers came out in their usual two tight end, veer formation, featuring the running of speedy Jonathan Aguilar, who ended with 108 yards on 18 carries and bruising Derran Franklin (92 yards on 22 carries). That combination enabled them to take a 14-0 lead on Aguilar's 26-yard run in the first quarter and Franklin's 4-yard scoring jaunt early in the second period.
But, the Wildcats responded with two TDs of their own, in no small part due to the kicking game. Sophomore sprinter Quinten Long returned MP's second kickoff 40 yards to near midfield and the Wildcats capitalized, though it was tough.
The Cats had to convert a fourth-and-3 near midfield when Diamond found receiver Jeff Beck on a short crossing pattern. Right after Beck grabbed the ball, he got pounded by a MP linebacker, but held on for a first down. Beck grabbed five passes for 43 yards and four of his catches went for first downs.
Then, on fourth-and-8 from the 11-yard line, the Wildcats went for it again, and this time Diamond was under heavy pressure when he spotted Tyler Rhoades near the goal line. Rhoades made a sensational adjustment to come back for the ball and lunge down to the 2-yard line. From there, Stephan Petty ran behind the "Bulls" lineup for a 2-yard TD.
Person ran in the conversion and the� Wildcats had cut the lead to 14-8 with 4:18 left in the half.
Then on the ensuing kickoff, SSHS sophomore Darrell Franklin recovered a pooch kick that Mount Pleasant failed to cover, and the Wildcats had the ball right back on the 34-yard line. Four plays later, Petty had his second TD, this time from 5-yards out. Holt's extra point gave the Wildcats a 15-14 lead.
Mount Pleasant quickly answered, though, on a 74-yard drive that culminated in a 7-yard run by Aguilar and a 20-15 halftime lead for the Tigers.
"We knew we were in a dogfight in the second half, too," said Owens. "I was as nervous as all get out until we finally got a turnover, got some stops, and we converted some fourth downs.�
"We finally stepped up and made some plays. When we did that, things kind of started rolling for us."
The Wildcats received the second-half kickoff, but had to punt after one first down.
Mount Pleasant, though, fumbled on its second play from scrimmage and Petty gathered the ball in at the MP 18-yard line.
Three plays later, Diamond rifled a 6-yard slant to Evans, who got inside the cornerback for a TD and a 21-20 Sulphur Springs advantage.
The Wildcats had scored off a turnover, now came time for them to get a fourth-down stop.
Mount Pleasant drove the ball down to the SSHS 31-yard line, where the Tigers faced a fourth-and-1. A pitch to Aguilar went right, but SSHS noseguard Rodney Evans trailed the play and when Aguilar tried to cut it up, Evans hammered him for a 3-yard loss.
"I kind of figured they'd run it, and I just did what coach told me to do," Evans said. "I think we played with more emotion tonight. The coaches got our heads pumped up."
The Wildcat offense then took advantage, driving 66 yards, the final 21 coming on a Diamond-to-Evans fade route in which the 6-1 wide receiver jumped over the defensive back to haul in the pass and get a foot down in the end zone. Holt's extra point gave the Wildcats a 28-20 lead.
Mount Pleasant came right back with an impressive 72-yard, 15-play drive powered by Franklin, who carried 10 times on the series including a 2-yard TD run. Aguilar's two-point conversion run tied the game at 28-28 with 9:17 to play.
After exchanging punts, the Wildcats got the ball back at their own 26-yard line with 3:54 to play. They converted a pivotal third-and-7 with a 13-yard completion from Diamond to Rhoades. Then, Diamond made the play of the game.
On a lead draw, he ran up the middle, slipped a tackle at the the line of scrimmage and then bolted 47 yards down to the 11-yard line, where he was finally tackled. It ended up being a good thing he didn't score, because the Wildcats were able to run another 90 seconds off the clock before Holt came in to nail the game-winning field goal.
Defensively for the Wildcats, safety Tanner Higgins had 12 tackles, but none more important than the last one he made with 31 seconds left in the game.
Mount Pleasant's Trenston Hill caught a short hitch pass, but faked out one SSHS defender and might have scored if Higgins had not been able to grab his jersey and sling him out of bounds after a 15-yard gain.
That was all MP would get on their final drive.
Linebacker Josh Dunn led the Wildcats with 14 tackles, while defensive linemen Evans, Tyler Francis and A.D. Miles had eight stops each. The Tigers accumulated 274 yards rushing on 55 carries, but the Wildcats made the stops at the end.
"We started making plays, playing with some emotion and started scoring points. That was a big difference," Owens said. "We didn't turn it over, we kept battling and we finished the fourth quarter finally."
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City boys behaving badly. Photograph: Getty
What is it with bad behaviour and restaurants? Admittedly, with the country's most successful chef effing and blinding his way towards a hundred million, nicking Marco Pierre White's reservations book and spitting food all over Graham Norton's carpet along the way, I'm not surprised we're a bunch of ill mannered louts when it comes to dining out.
I'm certainly impeccably behaved at all times* but I have had occasion to witness the odd act of culinary indecency.
Late one night, a charming young lady of my acquaintance threw up in a curry shop in Glasgow. At the table. She lifted the (circular) woven placemat, deposited a matching circle of what appeared to be tinned tomatoes and diced carrot, then replaced it neatly just as the waiter appeared.
"Lamb bhuna?" he inquired.
"Mine" she said, without so much as a blink.
He deftly put her plate down on the floating mat, smiling. She smiled back, wiping the corners of her mouth.
A group of sales-execs I know - think turbo-charged Lee McQueen to the power of six - have a highly amusing trick. They order, then if one of them is idiotic enough to go to the loo, they all scarper. The poor chump emerging from the gents then has to explain (a) why the table now appears to be deserted (b) how he's going to pay the full bill. Then he has to find his mates in whatever restaurant they've repaired to. If they're feeling particularly mean, they switch their mobiles off.
Only last night I was told by an executive of a manufacturing company about the time he did a "runner" - only he'd left his jacket behind, complete with wallet and passport. He went back gingerly, only to find his jacket still hanging where he'd left it, so he did another runner, and got away with it. He found this side-splittingly funny.
I doubt the restaurateurs share the hilarity with which these tales are generally told. But I suspect that we Brits have always been a bit wanton in the manners department since eating out was democratically extended to the lower orders, although Lord Snooty and his pals have always been prone to launching the odd bread roll.
Before Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares transformed "Loves" in Brighton from idiosyncracy to bleached-blonde uniformity, those same premises once housed Le Café de Paris, where the food was generally used for target practice by revellers who'd clearly necked too much of the house vino. Sunday lunchtimes were always the best, if you liked to order while dodging olives and baguette slices, but I always advised guests to settle up and depart before the jelly and ice cream was served.
And they're not so genteel in next door Hove either. At dinner in a delicate establishment there one evening the general happiness of the evening was spoiled when a woman arose and threw her plate of food at a diner on another table, breaking the gentle buzz of couples' contented chatter with the words "you fucking tart" just as the spaghetti and meatballs connected with their target, apparently the mistress of the plate thrower's husband. The ensuing fight was a messy affair, accompanied by much screaming, crashing and smashing. I suspect the staff weren't all that enamoured.
Petty larceny, throwing up, we haven't even got to screaming children, marital rows, and drunken brawls. Are we really just uncivilised, uncouth vandals? The epicurial hooligans of Europe's dining rooms? Is it fun, bad manners, or criminally offensive?
What customer incivility have you witnessed in a restaurant? (I'm assuming all Word of Mouth readers are paragons of virtue when dining out, but you may have seen something). A memory of irresponsible behaviour from your youth perhaps? The editor of this blog confesses a blurred teenage memory, skedaddling from a restaurant without paying. Just a chain though, she pleads, as if that would make a difference in court. Shame on her.
But what about you?
* Full disclosure. When I claimed to be impeccably behaved at all times, I may have missed a detail or two - I have a collection of antique nicked ashtrays (yellow Ricard, metallic Quaglino's) from the days when it was de rigueur to snaffle them (Conran caught on and started to sell them, Nicole Fahri has taken it one stage further and sells everything on your table) but that's small beer. Isn't it?


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review by Graham Greenlee of
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Film Rating: B-
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): C+/C/D
Specs and Features
108 mins, R, full frame (1.33:1), single-sided, single layered, Amaray keep case package, theatrical trailer, film-themed menus, scene access (28 chapters), languages: English (DD 2.0), subtitles: Spanish
"Hollywood doesn't so much want writers, so much as secretaries with a flair for dialogue."
Kenneth Branagh has narrowed his acting range down to two types. One is the great Shakespearean Branagh, where he spouts out classical dialogue. The other is where he basically rants on about everything. In his latest film, Kenneth uses the latter type to great effect, as a writer who's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. But since that title has already been used, I guess it's only obvious to call this film
How to Kill You Neighbor's Dog
Peter McGowen (Branagh), a semi-famous playwright, can't get a break. He's been unsuccessful for the last few years. He's currently working on his new play, and is tormented by his alcoholic producer (Peter Reigert), the flamboyant director (David Krumholtz) and the bad actors. Add to that pressure the failed attempts of his wife (Robin Wright Penn) to get pregnant, a dangerous stalker and a bad case of writer's block. And in the night, the only time he can rest, the neighbor's new dog won't stop barking. Needless to say, Peter is about to go off the deep end.
Enter into the chaos a new neighbor, a recent divorcee who's brought along her emotional baggage and a seven-year-old daughter named Amy (Suzi Hofrichter). Amy suffers from cerebral palsy, and has been reaching out for a friend in the wake of her parent's divorce. Peter, unknowingly, becomes very close to the little girl, and she soon begins to act as a muse for Peter, allowing him to get past the writer's block, deal amicably with the stalker and come to terms with his wife's desire to have a child. But, what is he going to do with that pesky dog?
There are moments where this film reaches absolute hilarity, including a television interview with Peter answering inane questions like, "All your latest plays have failed! Do you think the magic is gone?" Kenneth Branagh owns this movie, as he should. He drinks, he smokes and he spends most of his time ranting on in tirades about the smallest of details like he's the UK version of Woody Allen.
And most of the supporting cast does a very good job. Suzi Hofrichter is perfectly cast as the little girl. David Krumholtz comes off a bit TOO flamboyant at first, but earns your love by the end of the film. And Robin Wright Penn is excellent as Peter's sweet wife, who can trade barbs as well as he can.
There is however some detractors for the film. Too often it gets bogged down in trying to use EVERY joke writer/director Michael Kalesniko can think of. A lot of the material doesn't really work well into the film. And Lynn Redgrave is TOTALLY misused as Peter's invalid mother-in-law.
But even as the film does get a bit long, and the material begins to drag, something new or funny gets swept in to give it new energy. It's a bit unfortunate that the film does feel long in some places, but this is only Kalesniko's first film as a director (he also co-wrote Howard Stern's
Private Parts
) and some credit should be given. With the film's numerous great moments, I'm sure we'll see more and better out of Kalesniko, and
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
isn't bad for a night's entertainment.
For a film that's practically straight-to-video, the audio and video is good. Video-wise, the transfer is quite clear with only marginal amounts of film grain and no compression artifacts. However, there's an excessive amount of edge enhancement, and my biggest gripe is that it's in cropped full-frame (when it's obvious that it was shot in 1.85:1).
The audio sounds pretty average. The dialogue is clear and the score is balanced. It's only in 2.0, so it's nothing special. Extras are very thin. You get a bad trailer and Spanish subtitles.
If you've pretty much seen everything else at your video store, or if you're looking for something a little different, be sure to check out
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
. It's a surprising little movie that's had the few people I know who've seen it raving about it.
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World Eskimo-Indian Olympics athletes soar through competition
Getting from your knees to your feet in one quick jump sounds challenging. Athletes say it is — until you get the hang of it.
"I went backwards when I first tried it," said Fairbanks competitor Amber Vaska. "But now it's like, 'pssh, kneel jump, I could do that any day.'"
Like many of the games at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (WEIO), the kneel jump has an important cultural significance.
"When you would be ice fishing you would need that strength in case the ice broke and it gives you the speed and the agility to go from ice floe to ice floe," Vaska explained.
Sam Strange, the WEIO vice chair, said the skill was also needed in case the hunter was surprised by a predator.
"You had the core strength to be able to go from a kneeling position to pick that meat up and then be able to haul it out," he said.
On Wednesday, Judges kept a close eye on how each competitor was positioned to make sure they had the correct form. They had to start on their knees with their feet flat on the floor, then jump to a standing position with both feet landing at the same time.
"It's an amazing feat coming from a kneeling, bum position, jumping out five feet out onto the floor and landing. They're like Superman across the floor until they land on their feet," Strange chuckled.
Some of the men will jump as far as five feet, the women about four. Vaska said she came close to beating the women's record last year. She jumped 55 inches — the record is 55 1/4 inches.
Even if she doesn't beat it, in the end it's really all about sportsmanship, she said.
"Though these are sports, they're competitive by nature, it's really about helping everyone do their best. It's not really about winning," Vaska said.
It's about trying your best and representing your culture through an impressive feat of strength.


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Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2014
Chris Ferguson, Boeing's director of Crew and Mission Operations and commander of the final Space Shuttle flight, virtually returned to space recently in the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 simulator to satisfy a NASA testing requirement for the spacecraft.
Ferguson performed manual piloting activities including on-orbit attitude and translation maneuvers, docking and backing away from a virtual International Space Station and a manual re-entry to Earth in the simulator.
"It was great to be back in the pilot's seat, even if I didn't leave the ground," Ferguson said.
"It's important for the spacecraft to have manual controls because although it's designed to be largely autonomous, the pilot should always be able to back up that autonomy. Manual flight controls provide a sort of a belt-and-suspenders capability for piloting the spacecraft."
The testing for NASA officials satisfied a CST-100 development milestone known as "Pilot in the Loop." It is the final milestone before the spacecraft's critical design review.
Ferguson, a veteran of three shuttle missions and commander of STS-135, the final shuttle flight, has logged more than 40 days in space and 5,700 hours in high-performance aircraft. He now oversees the crew interface of the Boeing CST-100 spacecraft and plays a key role in development and testing of system concepts and technologies for the vehicle and integrated launch and ground systems.
"This was the one opportunity to really show off, from a user's perspective, just how real our vehicle is becoming," said Ferguson. "We demonstrated that the CST-100 is on track to return Americans to space in an American spacecraft."
The simulator will be used for preliminary astronaut training while Boeing builds additional units dedicated exclusively to training astronauts and mission controllers.
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the shape of a mother
March 16th, 2011
Remember this photo? The post I wrote to go with it a few days before Elliora was born, about why I don't do belly shots, was cross-posted at my friend Bonnie's fabulous site The Shape of a Mother today. Please go check it out!


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Intro to Neo4j – Madrid
Thursday, September 25, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CEST)
Event Details
Course Code: Intro to Neo4j
Duration: 8-hours/1 day
Skill Level: Beginner
Delivery Type: Classroom delivery with instructor
- Developers, Administrators, DevOps engineers, DBAs, Business Analysts and students.
- Executives and others who want an overview of the Neo4j technology.
Skills taught:
- An understanding of graph databases
- How to use graph databases
- Introduction to data modeling with Graph databases
- How to get started working with Neo4j
- Build confidence in building a graph enabled application
You don't need any previous experience with Neo4j, NOSQL databases or specific development languages
Course Description
This course helps build a good knowledge of graph databases. It also teaches the core functionality of the Neo4j graph database. With a mixture of theory and hands-on practice sessions, you will quickly learn how easy it is to work with a powerful graph database using Cypher as the query language
Course Outline
- Introduction to Graphs
- Introduction to Graph based Modeling
- Neo4j and Cypher
- Advanced Queries with Cypher
- Real-world implementation use cases with Neo4j
Technical requirements
You will need your own laptop. Please arrive early to quickly install the product and labs used in the class.
Class Instructor
Alberto Perdomo, Founder & CEO of GrapheneDB
Alberto Perdomo is co-founder and CEO of GrapheneDB, the leading hosting solution for the Neo4j graph database.
Alberto is an experienced software development consultant and entrepreneur. For the last 7 years he has been running Aentos, a consultancy company that develops web & mobile apps for clients in Spain, Europe and USA.
Alberto has spoken at high profile international conferences and events related with Nosql, graph databases and web development. He is fluent in German, English and Spanish, and loves traveling and visiting new places.
What should I bring to the event?
Please bring a laptop with Neo4j installed and a power cord. We will supply breakfast, lunch and refreshments.
Will this class be taught in English or Spanish?
This class will be taught in Spanish
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
For any questions about the event, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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28002 Madrid
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