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Braun homers twice, rallies Brewers over Pirates
Submitted: 04/19/2014
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- Ryan Braun hit two homers, including a two-run shot with two outs in the ninth inning that sent the Milwaukee Brewers over the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 Saturday night.
Braun has five home runs this season after being suspended for the final 65 games last year in the Biogenesis drug scandal. The other three homers came in one game on April 8 at Philadelphia.
The go-ahead drive came off Pirates closer Jason Grilli (0-1), his second blown save in six opportunities. Jean Segura's two-out single kept the inning going for Braun, who had three hits and three RBIs.
Jonathan Lucroy hit three doubles and drove in two runs for the Brewers. Mark Reynolds hit his fourth homer.
Ike Davis doubled, singled and walked a day after the Pirates got him in a trade with the Mets.
Jim Henderson (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth and Francisco Rodriguez got his sixth save.
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Kids learn how to stay safe on the way to school
Submitted: 08/23/2017
- Kids all over Wisconsin will head back to school soon.
However, workers at a Rhinelander bus service say knowing bus safety skills could safe your child's life.
"The song Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round inspired me so much. That's why I became a bus driver," said Jake Kriesel a Rhinelander bus driver who never puts a break on fun.
But Kriesel says bus safety is no laughing matter.
"Bus drivers only have one thing in mind and that is your safety," said Kriesel.
Kriesel drives for Bowen's Bus Service, and Thursday he will be a part of a School Bus Safety Open House.
"Making sure there're safe. That's really our number one job," said Kriesel.
The open house will have three bus emergency scenarios for kids to learn how to evacuate safely.
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Car crashes into Rhinelander business
Submitted: 08/23/2017
- A car crashed into a store on Brown Street in Rhinelander today around 5 p.m.
The driver started to back out of a parking spot near the intersection of Brown and Davenport when she hit another vehicle.
An officer at the scene said the woman was startled and hit the gas instead of the brake.
The car crashed into Diane's Frame Shoppe.
There were no injuries but the car and the wall of the building were both damaged.
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The Northwoods Land Trust hosts a Paddle Day
Submitted: 08/23/2017
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- Wednesday's weather made it the perfect day for a group of people to grab their paddles and explore some Northwoods waters.
The Northwoods Land Trust invited the community on a tour of private and protected waters.
People met up to paddle down Deerskin River in Eagle River.
Executive Director of the Northwoods Land Trust Bryan Pierce said Deerskin River is special because it's a trout stream and known for its resources.
"Our intent is to try and keep it that high quality keep the water quality protected and also provide for both fish and wildlife habitat," said Pierce.
Wednesday was also a celebration.
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Trees for Tomorrow receives $14,000 donation to help bring kids to the Northwoods for classes
Submitted: 08/23/2017
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- A $14,000 donation will help bring kids from urban areas to the Northwoods.
Baden-Powell Northwoods Experience donated the money earlier this month.
The Milwaukee-based group tried to use that money to save a Laona Boy Scout camp last year, but it wasn't able to raise enough money fast enough.
So, the group decided to donate the left over funds to Trees for Tomorrow.
Executive Director Robin Ginner said the two groups missions line up well.
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Northwoods business works together as a team, thanks to University of Wisconsin program
Submitted: 08/23/2017
- A local Northwoods business works together to make better products than it did when it first began in 1925.
Tomahawk Live Trap has grown and even relocated to Hazelhurst since then.
Greg Smith and his wife Jenny bought Tomahawk Live Trap about seven years ago.
And the company has been growing ever since.
Sales have more than doubled since Greg and Jenny took over. But it's not just the sales that have grown.
"When we first came in here, the culture, I'm going to say was toxic," said Greg Smith.
But it's not toxic anymore. Tomahawk Live Trap has worked with UW-Stout and its Manufacturing Outreach Center to form a better team.
"You treat people like people, you empower people so they can do their jobs and you listen to them," said Smith.
Operations Coordinator, Chris Powers was there when the Smith's took over and has noticed the big improvement with the environment.
"We work together as a team to put out the best product we can, as fast as we can," said Powers.
The program uses a "lean" philosophy which helps trim unnecessary portions of a work area.
"Only using and having what you need in an area versus a bunch of clutter and stuff in an area," said Powers.
The biggest customers for Tomahawk Live Trap are mainly animal control companies. They sell to not only American companies, but also around the world.
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Eagle River couple teaches local history with boat house tours
Submitted: 08/23/2017
- Most of us go out on the boat for a day of fun and relaxation. But to Gary and Shele Fawcett, a trip out on the water means a chance to teach history.
"The Eagle River Chain of Lakes alone is about 350-400 miles of water," said Shele.
"We talk about Eagle River and the things that used to happen up here, but nobody knows the stuff that's going on on the lakes," said Gary.
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Second annual Leaderfest returns to Northwoods
Submitted: 08/23/2017
- More than 50 people from Vilas, Forest, and Oneida counties came together Wednesday to learn leadership skills.
Northwoods United Way hosted the second annual Leaderfest at Rondele Ranch in Harshaw.
Executive Director Nancy Sattler was excited to present this opportunity to people in the area.
"We want to offer the opportunity for enrichment, learning, and growth and the opportunity also to network with other people from the Northwoods and to learn from them and maybe they can help them in the future," said Sattler.
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A9 TV; October 16th, 2011
In the past Muslims remained weak and were oppressed due to some ignorant preachers who told of superstitions. But now there is a very concerted movement that silences disbelief by means of science and philosophy. Now Muslims are able to debate disbelievers with pride and in the same manner speak of whatever they want. In the past, they remained disabled in this obscurantist mindset because a Muslim feels a respective shame for each and every superstition. How can a Muslim ever dare to speak of them? Each and every superstition was a deadlock itself, each and every superstition was a matter of humiliation and each and every superstition was a no-way-out. But because we have eliminated these superstitions and we have revealed rationalism, the facts of the Qur'an and the hadith, Muslims have started to speak about everything with ease.
In every corner of the world we carry out a tremendously effective, splendidly beautiful and beneficial work, masha'Allah. The heavens and earth are cracking up. Every person who has learned from us turns into an atom bomb in the scientific sense. He simply takes that city under his sway. Even a person with whom we have a few-hours discourse attains the power that can enlighten a whole city and put an end to the system of the dajjal (anti-Christ) in intellectual terms. This is so fine because there is no superstition while there is rationalism, sincerity and satisfactory information. At the end of the day, we accomplish very good results, masha'Allah.
Because my love is for Allah's good pleasure, it is seated on very sound grounds. In my mind, I make these grounds very clear.In my case, compassion, respect and appreciation flourish in line with love.This aside, when I love, I love for a lifetime; that is to say, my love is not temporary. Mine is a love that strengthens very steadily and flourishes on good grounds. Ifeed the grounds of my love very well. For instance, I steadily make an assessment in my mind and make those grounds more solid by considering the reasons of my love. I also do not take any steps backward.For instance, I erase any unfavorable incident from my memory right at that moment; I simply avoid thinking over it.I do not let anything remain that will tarnish my love. If there is something wrong, I am not offended or get angry; I correct it and then go on loving.I do not allow acts that will harm my love. That is why I have a love that is very consistent, resolute, strong and progressive.
A family with moral perfection is blessed. The phrase, "Every family is blessed" is not true. There are those imposters, those who try to push their daughters into illegitimate acts, those who try to reap benefits from them. There are those parents who are the members of the terror organization (PKK), those who push their daughters into immoral acts, into drugs. We can not call these parents to be "blessed". They are simply immoral. Not every mother or father is blessed. We call only those parents of sound mind who are pious, respectful to ideas and faiths as blessed parents Insha'Allah.
There is no severity in Islam. A Muslim forgives but a father rapes his daughter and there are thousands, tens of thousands of cases. An uncle or a brother attempts to rape. One finds a reason to stab his wife or to throw nitric acid to her face. They say, "That family is blessed; do not say anything." So what is blessed about it? A blessed family pays meticulous attention to his religion, faith, morality; they are full of love and they are democratic and loveable. They do not intervene in people's opinions; they have respect and love for people. He loves a human being only because he is a human being; for Allah's good pleasure. These are the people who we call a blessed mother or a blessed father.2011-11-08 12:20:32

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Have you tried the snort site? or installing it yourself?
I know BT3 is still in BeTa and may contain SNORT in final release. Is there a way to install snort on BT3 BeTa?
Any info, steps , or link will be appreciated.
Have you tried the snort site? or installing it yourself?
Yes, i tried that.
I am able to complete Step 3 without any error but i cannot find
where it is installing snort as it states at the end of step 3.
I was following the following steps.
1. Download the latest source from Snorts Web Site
2. Unzip and Untar the source file. This will unpack the tar file to a snort directory
[root]# tar -zxvf snort.tar
3.Compile the source
[root]# cd snort-
[root]# ./configure
[root]# make
[root]# make install
[root]# make clean
This will install snort /usr/local/bin/snort by default
4. Create the configuration directory and copy the configuration files over. This assumes you are in the snort directory
[root]# mkdir /etc/snort
[root]# cp -rf etc/* /etc/snort
[root]# cp -rf rules/* /etc/snort
5. Customize your snort.conf to meet your needs. This is a configuration I have found to be useful
[root]# cd /etc/snort
[root]# vi snort.conf
What about "updatedb" follwed by "locate snort | more" ?
i get nothing..


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Zeller and Cavs pound SixersFeb 19, 2014 - 4:30 AM Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Tyler Zeller scored a season-high 18 points and pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers continued where they left off before the weekend break, with an easy 114-85 drubbing of the lowly Philadelphia 76ers.
Kyrie Irving, fresh off his MVP performance in Sunday's All-Star Game, was one of seven Cavaliers to score in double figures as the club rolled to its fifth consecutive victory.
Irving provided 14 points, Luol Deng chipped in with 13 and Tristan Thompson and Anthony Bennett each recorded double-doubles for the victors.
"You give the guys in the locker room credit. They've done a heckuva job throughout the course of the year. It's been a year of some ups and some downs and our guys just keep fighting," Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown said.
The Sixers were never in contention from the opening tip. They have lost nine in a row -- their longest skid since the 2009-10 campaign -- and have dropped eight straight at home for the first time in a single season since 1996-97.
Thaddeus Young and Michael-Carter Williams led Philadelphia with 15 points apiece.
"I think that when you're losing games and at this stage of the year, there is a beat down effect that we're trying to avoid," Sixers coach Brett Brown said.
A Jarrett Jack floater just over five minutes in already had Cleveland ahead by double digits, 18-8, and the closest the Sixers got from there was five.
Young scored off an offensive rebound with 8:41 remaining in the half to bring Philly within 38-33, and Cleveland answered with 13 of the next 15 points to go in front by 16.
Cleveland's Dion Waiters, who grew up in Philadelphia, recorded 13 points in the half but hyperextended his left knee when he threw down a tomahawk slam over Spencer Hawes and Lavoy Allen in the final minute. He limped down the court before being looked at by trainers and did not return.
Still, the Cavs had more than enough firepower to keep the Sixers at bay. Zeller's dunk near the midway point made it a 25-point game, 77-50, and it was an insurmountable 85-62 differential heading into the fourth.
Game Notes
Before the game, the Sixers celebrated the heartwarming two-day signing of Kevin Grow, a local 18-year-old from Bensalem High School who was born with Down syndrome and made four 3-pointers during a high school game last Saturday ... Thompson finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds while Bennett had 10 and 11 ... Philadelphia has lost by an average of 21.4 points during its skid ... The Cavs won the season series 3-1 ... The 76ers had won five consecutive home contests against Cleveland.
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Havana Film Festival New York
A project of the American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, the Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) presents prominent and emerging Cuban filmmakers as well as screenings of award-winning classic and newly-released Cuban films. This year the festival will pay tribute to filmmaker Gerardo Chijona with the New York premiere of his new film Boleto al Paraiso (Ticket to Paradise) along with a retrospective of his work. HFFNY will also present Q&A sessions with additional filmmakers offer viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the voices and visions driving the burgeoning Cuban film industry.


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Families flocked to the inaugural scarecrow hunt at The Grove Primary School in Trowbridge, and there are already plans to make the event even bigger next year.
The Friends of Grove School organised the trail, which featured 49 scarecrows around the school and in neighbouring streets, to raise funds.
Scarecrows were themed around animated characters, including those from Disney films and cartoon TV shows, and were made by pupils and local people.
The event raised more than £700, with the prize for the best scarecrow going to pupils Amy and William Self, who dressed their scarecrow as a minion from Despicable Me.
Kathryn Curtis, who helped organise the event, said: "It was absolutely fantastic and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. The children loved making the scarecrows and we are definitely going to do it again next year.
"It was so successful that next year we are looking at holding it over two days. We want to thank everyone who came along or made a scarecrow, especially St John's Church, which provided refreshments and the Sunday club which made five scarecrows."


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Bear Bones and Hormones?
May 2, 2006—
Black bears sometimes snooze away almost six months out of the year. And while many of us humans would love to spend the winter curled up in a warm den, doctors tell us that's a terrible idea. Our bones aren't designed for constant bedrest and would quickly deteriorate to the equivalent of peppermint sticks.
Bears, however, typically emerge from hibernation with bones as strong as two-by-fours. Why bears are able to dodge the osteoporosis">osteoporosis bullet has been a puzzle. Now, a MichiganTech scientist may have solved the mystery.
During and right after hibernation, bears have a much higher concentration of parathyroid hormone in their blood than they do during the rest of the year, says Seth Donahue, an associate professor of biomedical engineering. And parathyroid hormone is key to bone formation.
Bones are constantly being broken down and rebuilt, in both people and bears. Osteoporosis occurs when bone loss outpaces bone formation, weakening bones sometimes to the point that they fracture.
In people, staying active promotes strong bones. So does parathyroid hormone, but when people are sedentary, parathyroid hormone production doesn't increase as it does in hibernating bears.
"We can't say for sure at this point that parathyroid hormone is what protects bear bones from osteoporosis during hibernation, but the results are very provocative at this point," Donahue said.
Donahue has identified the bear gene responsible for making parathyroid hormone and has synthesised the hormone in the lab. "Our next step is to sprinkle it on bone cells and see if we get activity related to bone formation," he said.
The work holds promise for developing a new drug to reverse osteoporosis, prompting the university to enter into an agreement with Apjohn Group LLC. The Kalamazoo-based business development advisory firm specializes in commercializing life sciences technology.
"Their role is to assist us in developing the commercial potential of this work," said Jim Baker, director of technology and economic development. "They will assist us in seeking research funding and other capital to develop its potential. Ultimately, Apjohn will form a start-up company to commercialize the drug."
"The collaboration with Apjohn is really exciting and will be a useful model for us, since we don't have a medical school," Baker added. "Hopefully, it will result in commercial opportunities that we wouldn't have been able to act on independently."
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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MARK Cooper thought his Swindon Town side only played "for 20 minutes out of 90" during their limp 2-0 defeat to Gillingham at the Priestfield Stadium on Saturday.
Goals from Leon Legge and Michael Harriman handed the Gills victory and ensured Town's winless run in Kent was extended to 26 years, while the Robins are also without a victory on the road in two months this season.
After the game Cooper suggested Swindon were below-par for the vast majority of the match, saying in the post-match press conference: "I thought we had a spell for 20 minutes in the second half where we played well and we needed to score.
"We had them on the rack and we had two or three really good chances and we need to score one of them.
"When you're on top you need to score and if we score I think we've got a chance of going on to win the game.
"We only played for 20 minutes out of 90 and that's not good enough. We were aware of (Adebayo) Akinfenwa's threat.
"They get a lot of free-kicks off him, we gave a silly free-kick away and nobody picked up their man for the first goal.
"It's a free header. It's a soft goal.
"In the first half we huffed and puffed without really having too much up front and in the second half we came out and I thought we played really well for 20 minutes.
"We're not getting enough from the front of the pitch at the minute.
"We were gambling and we put four up front to try to get back into the game.
"You're conceding a bit of ground and you're hoping that you defend and get a bit of a break and get the ball to our four strikers.
"It never happened."
It was a familiar story for the 372 Town fans who braved the trek to Gillingham. Swindon have struggled to find any sort of fluency away from home for some time and Cooper again gave his team's youthfulness as a possible reason for avoidable errors.
"I think we controlled the second half but if you don't defend the ball when it comes in your box and you don't score when it goes in their box you're not going to win many football matches," he said.
"We're conceding too many and not scoring enough at the moment.
"They're young, they're learning and they're only going to keep learning by playing and making mistakes.
"I think they're just individual errors.
"It's simple – you've got your man and you're told that before the game, you don't pick him up and he scores, it's your fault."
Cooper is loathed to change the way he sets his team up away from home, suggesting that the more direct route is not a feasible option.
"We went three at the back to try to make sure we could get the ball out from the back," he said.
"We had a spare man with them having one up and one in behind.
"We tried to get the ball out from the back, which is what we're all about, and we've got a group of players that have to play.
"It's no good for the goalkeeper to keep whacking it down the middle because when he did whack it down the middle their centre-half dominated Nile Ranger today and we have to try to play out.
"We played three centre-halves to try to outnumber them and at the start of the second half we passed the ball really well without scoring.
"I thought (Raphael) Branco was very good again, I thought (Alex) Pritchard was lively again, Jay (McEveley) did fine but it's not enough when we need to be getting points away from home."


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Barbara Park
Photo: © PamelaTidswell
About the Author
Barbara Park was best-known as the creator and author of the New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones series, the stories of an outrageously funny kindergartener who has kept kids (and their grownups) laughing—and reading—for over two decades. Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, the series has sold 55 million copies in North America alone, has been translated into multiple languages and is a beloved and time-honored staple in elementary school classrooms around the world.
The series was consistently a #1 New York Times bestseller, spending over 180 weeks on the list, and Barbara and her books were profiled in such national outlets as Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, and Today.
Park died on November 15, 2013 after fighting ovarian cancer heroically for seven and a half years.
Barbara Park arrived at the writing profession through an indirect route. Before becoming a bestselling and beloved children's author, she originally intended to teach high school history and political science. She got her secondary education degree but quickly realized that her calling was to be a writer. She said, "My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor and see if I could be witty enough to make some money."
After several rejections, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers acquired her first manuscript, Operation: Dump the Chump and two others. Don't Make Me Smile was published first in 1981, followed by Operation: Dump the Chump (1982) and Skinnybones (1982).
She went on to write over fifty books, from the picture book Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here!, a love letter to her grandson, to middle grade novels such as Skinnybones, The Kid in the Red Jacket, Mick Harte Was Here, and The Graduation of Jake Moon. Barbara won more than forty children's book awards, including several Children's Choice Awards.
On writing books for kids, Barbara once said: "There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge."
Every bit as funny and as outrageous as her best-known character, Barbara shared a special connection with Junie B. Jones. She once said of the series, "I've never been sure whether Junie B.'s fans love her in spite of her imperfections . . . or because of them. But either way, she's gone out into the world and made more friends than I ever dreamed possible."
Barbara Park was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, on April 21, 1947, and spent most of her adult life in Arizona. There she, with her husband, Richard, raised her two sons and spent time with her two young grandsons.
Throughout her life, Barbara was passionate about supporting many causes. She was a "wish" for several children participating in the Make-a-Wish Foundation and would dedicate her upcoming books to kids whose dying wish was to meet her. Barbara also founded her own charitable organization with her husband, Richard—Sisters in Survival ("SIS"), a nonprofit organization dedicated to offering financial assistance to ovarian cancer patients. SIS is an all-volunteer organization, and all donations go directly to women struggling with ovarian cancer. Barbara's family will continue to run SIS. (www.sistersinsurvival.org)


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HOUSTON - A tentative trial date has been set for a woman charged in the deaths of four children.
Jessica Tata is being held in the Harris County Jail on four counts of felony murder, three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child.
On Friday, a judge set a tentative trial date for March 23.
Shomari Dickerson, 3, Elizabeth Kojah, 20 months, Kendyll Stradford, 20 months, and Elias Castillo, 16 months, died in the fire at Tata's home on Crestpark at Waypark shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2011.
Three other children were also hurt in the fire.
The house was used as a day care facility called Jackie's Child Care.
Arson investigators said the fire started in the kitchen after a pot of oil was left on a hot burner.
Tata was supposed to be watching the children, but Houston Fire Department officials said she was grocery shopping at a nearby Target store when the fire started.
Witnesses said Tata returned as smoke began billowing out of the home.
A few days after the fire, Tata left the country for Nigeria. She was later arrested and returned to Houston.
Tata has also been accused of stealing between $1,500 and $20,000 worth of food stamps between September 2007 and February 2011. She has pleaded not guilty to that charge.
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text: Daughter of Jeremiah J. Chamberlain and Elizabeth C. Carrigan. A son, Jacob Britton Chamberlain, was born to Margaret in 1892. "Geo. Chamberlain" is listed as his father on Jacob's 1920 death certificate. Maggie married J. H. Snapp, of Knox Co., c1922. The couple resided at 2405 Lawson Ave. from 1922 until Maggie's death in 1935.


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The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern Publication DayJune 14, 2011 • 31 Comments • category: Algonquin Books Blog, News and Publicity
When I was five, I developed a morbid fascination with the chicken fillets in my grandmother's freezer. I was absolutely sure that they were the remains of her late, misanthropic cat Griffer. I was denied animal companionship for the first five years of my life because we lived in a no-pets apartment. Luckily, I was an inventive kid. I had a slew of imaginary pets, Dead Griffer included. I don't think my grandmother was particularly attached to Griffer (not enough to store him in the freezer, anyway), but I was convinced. I distinctly remember sneaking out of bed at night to pay my respects to the frozen chicken breasts.
In The Frozen Rabbi, the basement freezer houses something even better than cat fillets: a cryogenically preserved, nineteenth-century rabbi. Steve Stern cavorts across a century of Jewish history, through a pogrom, and across the Atlantic to tell the story of how Rabbi Eliezer ben Zephyr ended up in a freezer, where he is discovered by a hapless fifteen-year-old boy named Bernie. "Some people got taxidermied pets in the attic, we got a frozen rabbi in the basement," says Bernie's father. Bernie unwittingly thaws the rabbi during a blackout and unleashes him on Memphis, setting off a chain of mayhem and miracles that will keep you on the edge of your beach chair until the last, scintillating sentence.
Steve Stern is a born storyteller. He lets absurd situations carry the plot while downplaying their absurdity. The result is understated, hilarious, and bursting with Steve Stern's uncorked enthusiasm. I'd like to imagine that most authors have fun writing their books, but rarely have I seen such tangible evidence as in The Frozen Rabbi. Better still, it's now out in paperback! Get thee to thy local bookstore.
We're giving away three copies this week. To enter, just leave a comment on our blog or our Facebook page.
— Jordan Castelloe, Intern
Praise for The Frozen Rabbi:
A New York Times Editor's Choice
"[An] extraordinary story… recounted by Stern with manic virtuosity. The voracious pace lets Stern spill a hundred years of vivid Jewish history onto the page… He writes with piercing zeal."
"Among the wonders awaiting the reader of Steve Stern's exuberant new novel . . . is one of sheer logistics: How did he get all of this in here? The book's 370 pages are packed to bursting with epic adventure and hysterical comedy, with grim poignancy and pointed satire, as Stern repeatedly shifts time and tone to craft a wildly entertaining tale." —The Washington Post Book World
"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . In Jonathan Safran Foer, you see Stern's fanciful English, in Nicole Krauss his magic realism, in Michael Chabon his updated golems and gun-toting shtarkers. But Stern was there first, and with The Frozen Rabbi it feels like he may be last too: this is a novel so rich, full, funny, dense and exhausting, it feels like there may be no more Steve Stern books left to write—by him, or anyone else." —The Toronto Globe and Mail
"[A] wonderfully entertaining, inventive new novel that evokes Amy Bloom, Michael Chabon and Isaac Bashevis Singer . . . Laugh-out-loud funny, the sort of humor that takes you by surprise." —NPR.org
"A funny, profound and virtuosic work . . . This fast-paced romp through history . . . is a rare enchantment." —San Francisco Chronicle
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Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
December 10, 2010 – March 2, 2012
Read more about media arts in the collection
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has assembled a collection of video and time-based artwork that examines the history as well as latest developments in the art of the moving image. A newly installed permanent collection gallery dedicated to media arts, located on the museum's third floor, extends the range of contemporary art on display and allows for the presentation of the full range of media art practices.
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image, the first in a series of installations, takes stock of the cutting-edge tools and materials used by video artists during the past forty years. The installation features key artworks from the history of video art as well as a new generation of artists on the cutting edge of new media art practices. The works on display range from Nam June Paik's early, innovative experiments with video to Cory Arcangel's reworking of Nintendo games and obsolete computer systems. The nine featured artworks are: Cory Arcangel, Video Painting (2008); Jim Campbell, Grand Central Station #2 (2009) and Reconstruction #7 (2006); Peter Campus, Three Transitions (1973); Kota Ezawa, LYAM 3D (2008); Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky, Yellow Sound (2005); Nam June Paik, 9/23/69: Experiments with David Atwood (1969); Bill Viola, Surrender (2001); and Marina Zurkow, Elixir II (2009). John G. Hanhardt, senior curator for media arts, selected the works. The majority of these artworks are recent acquisitions, with five entering the museum's collection in 2010. The works by Viola and Campbell's Reconstruction #7 are on loan.
Dedicating a permanent collection gallery to time-based art is an important new aspect of the media arts initiative at the museum, which includes acquisitions, exhibitions, educational programs, and archival research resources related to film, video, and the media arts. In 2009, the museum acquired the complete estate archive of visionary artist Nam June Paik. Hanhardt, the leading expert on Paik and his global influence, is organizing the archive. Research into the archive will be the basis for a series of publications of Paik's writings, exhibitions, and a catalogue raisonné. In 2012, the museum organized the exhibition Nam June Paik: Global Visionary, the first to draw on the resources of the Nam June Paik Archive.
Read More About Media Arts at the Museum
Washington City Paper, March 31, 2011, " Rediscovering Paik: A Chat with Smithsonian Curator John G. Hanhardt" by John Anderson
The Art Newspaper, March 4, 2011, "Fast forward video art" by Anny Shaw
The Washington Post, December 17, 2010, "Watch This! at Smithsonian American Art Museum worth a look" by Michael O'Sullivan; also "The Story Behind the Work: Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky's Yellow Sound in Watch This!"
Smithsonian magazine, Around the Mall blog, December 10, 2010, "New Video Art Show Opens at the American Art Museum" by Jesse Rhodes
Read More on the Museum's Blog Eye Level
Read This! Five Questions on Media Art with John Hanhardt, February 4, 2011
The James F. Dicke Family Endowment generously supported Watch This!


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Slimbridge 0 Forest Green 1
JAMES Norwood's strike six minutes before half-time gave Forest Green a narrow victory over Slimbridge, who did themselves proud with an impressive display against their illustrious opponents.
The Western League Premier Division side restricted a very strong Rovers outfit to just one goal and could even have taken something from the game with Adam Mace and Jamie Hammond, who was at Cheltenham Saracens last season, both going close to finding the net in front of a healthy crowd of 362 for this traditional pre-season friendly at Wisloe Road on Tuesday night.
New signing Jon Parkin was handed his first start for Forest Green and he wasn't the only giant on the Forest Green team sheet with defender Luke Oliver making his return from injury at the back, but Lee Hughes was ruled out after picking up a knock.
Forest Green almost went ahead within the first minute when they won a corner and Elliott Frear whipped a delivery that Adam Baldwin headed powerfully towards the top corner, only for Dave Evans to superbly tip the ball away with his outstretched left hand.
Parkin showcased his talent in a sweeping Forest Green move by bringing the ball down well and spreading the play wide with a lovely pass, matched by sublime control and an inviting low cross by Frear, but Norwood fluffed his lines as he missed the target horribly.
Slimbridge saw little of the ball in the opening stages but kept plugging away and created a clear cut chance on 28 minutes when livewire striker Sean Lawson, who caused the Rovers defence problems throughout, wriggled away from Oliver on the byline and sent in a cross with the unmarked Mace heading narrowly over from ten yards.
Just as it looked like Slimbridge were going to survive until half-time, Norwood was afforded a bit of space on the edge of the box to receive the ball from Rob Sinclair, turn and drill a left-footed shot into the bottom corner.
Ten minutes into the second half Rovers captain David Pipe made a charging run down the right and his deep cross reached Frear, whose thumping shot stung Evans' gloves as he tipped the ball round the post.
Norwood almost managed a repeat of his goal as he made space for himself again 20 yards out but this time he dragged the shot wide.
Sam Russell made a fine stop to prevent Slimbridge from equalising in the 74th minute, though, diving to his left to get a hand to Hammond's first-time volley after Jamie Martin's ball over the top caught the Rovers defence out.
Rovers finished the game with 11 Academy players as the first-teamers made way and Joe Stokes almost added a second when he fired just wide from the edge of the box.
Slimbridge: Evans (c), Preece, Ry Thwaite, Ri Thwaite, Tunnicliff, Ward, Fahy, Twyman, Lawson, Martin, Mace. Rolling subs: Robinson, Cole, Turner, Parrott, Hammond.
Forest Green: Russell (Meare, 76); Pipe (c) (Langman, 76), Oliver (Ripley, 46), Baldwin (Heather, 76) Jennings (Talbot, 76); Sinclair (Mundy, 76), Kamdjo (Stokes, 76), McGrory (Cook, 76), Frear (Thompson, 76); Norwood (Youngsum, 76), Parkin (Richards, 46).
Ref: Steve Glyde.
Att: 362.
Star men: Sean Lawson (Slimbridge), James Norwood ( Forest Green).
Forest Green sent another squad to Gloucester City on the same night and came away with a 5-3 win.
Danny Wright bagged a brace with other goals coming from Luke Rodgers, the returning Chris Stokes and Kurtis Guthrie.
Rovers' next game is away to Brimscombe and Thrupp next Tuesday night.
Slimbridge are at home to Southern League side Shortwood United on Friday night before visiting Fairford Town on Tuesday (both 7.30pm).


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House plants are among the few decorating items that combine aesthetics and functionality. Not only indoor plants a touch of natural elegance to any indoor space, but they also provide benefits to homeowners.
First, they reduce the presence of pollutants and toxins in the air and provide fresh, clean oxygen. Second, they balance the internal humidity of any room. Third, certain house plants provide simple and quick home remedies.
Here are a few wonderful plants that add a lovely and healthy dimension to your own living space:


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Brother Outsider: The life of Bayard Rustin
February 15, 2013
Pathways to Peace Film Series
This film explores Bayard Rustin's seminal contributions to the civil rights movement and his marginalization as a gay man and conscientious objector.
6:30 p.m.
Hill University Center
(Nacny Kates and Bennett Singer, 2003, 83 min)
Bayard Rustin was a fervid orator and incisive rhetorician who served as a key figure in the civil rights movement for more than 60 years. He introduced Mahatma Gandhi's principles of nonviolence to American activists, and he organized the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. So why doesn't Bayard Rustin receive equal standing with King in American history? It's a question of considerable debate, but Rustin's status as an openly gay man who served jail time as a conscientious objector during World War II guaranteed his marginalization during the 1960s among civil rights leaders, who feared such traits could be used by opponents to discredit their movement.


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The DMNS conchology (shell) collection includes nearly 18,000
lots (or groups of shells). The first donation of shells was
recorded in 1904 and the collection has grown primarily through
donations from collectors. Most of the specimens represent marine
species with a smaller number of freshwater and terrestrial
animals. The shells come primarily from the Caribbean, western
Mexico, and the South Pacific.


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A MAN who was discovered with a serious head injury in a Grays street has died.
The man, who is believed to be in his 60s, was found on Hathaway Road, near to the junction of Ward Avenue last Thursday (20) shortly before 3am.
He died in Basildon Hospital on Saturday, March 22.
The police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Officers and paramedics were called to the scene following reports of man lying injured near a bicycle with a head injury.
Detectives carried out a series of enquiries to find out whether he had been subjected to an assault. The road was reopened at 7pm later that day.
A file will now be prepared for the coroner ahead of an inquest which will take place in due course.
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GOLETA, Calif. (AP) -- The Internet videos posted by Elliot Rodger are filled with threats and bitterness, but sheriff's deputies didn't become aware of them until it was too late.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kelly Hoover says the agency "was not aware of any videos" until after Rodger went on beach-town rampage that left six dead and 13 wounded.
Authorities believe the 22-year-old died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
A Rodger family attorney says they called police after being alarmed by videos "regarding suicide and the killing of people" that Rodger had posted.
Deputies visited Rodger last month after being alerted by local health officials, who had been in touch with the family. They concluded he posed no threat.
It's not clear why the sheriffs did not see the videos.


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Last night grilled up some grouper, just a light rub of Cumin, black pepper, all spice, salt. Oil up the grates and lay this puppy on there.
Plated it up with some veggies and rice noodles thrown in the wok, also blended up a little yellow pepper sauce to sit the fish on.
Not a bad little Monday night meal.


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The suspense will end as the Career Center will unveil the
winner of this semester-long Career Center contest and present the
iPad 2!
The Career Center Apprentice competition is winding down.
Students have worked all semester earning points by attending
Career Center events, programs and workshops. The five finalists,
those with the most points, submitted their resumes and cover
letters and interviewed with a panel of employers. The employers
chose the student who will be named the 2012 Career Center
Apprentice. The finalists are:
Why all the fuss? The winner not only gets the recognition, but
they will also win an iPad 2 donated by Advanced Coating
Technologies of Middletown, NY! There are monetary prizes for 2nd
and 3rd place, and Fr. Kevin will treat the top 3 to lunch early
next semester.
So, please join us to see who the Season 2 Career Center
Apprentice will be! The ceremony is Tuesday, November 27 from 4 –
4:30pm in the Aquinas Atrium. All are welcome.
Here are last year's (2011) Apprentice winners!
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Hautes-Alpes (05)
Prefecture : Gap
Subprefecture : Briancon
Population : 140,000
Website : www.hautes-alpes.net
Hautes-Alpes (High Alps) is the highest department in France in average. The Durance river is the backbone of its territory, on which live a population of 118,000. Isolated until the arrival of the train, the department has learnt through history to live on its own resources, which helped in hard times. It is a mainly farming area – forests, pastures, fruit, milk – but tourism has been developing quickly thanks to the ski resorts of Serre-Chevalier Vars, les Orres or Montgenevre and in the summer to the many campsites around the Serre-Poncon artificial lake.
Isère (38)
Prefecture : Grenoble
Subprefectures : La Tour-du-Pin, Vienne
Population : 1,190,000
Websites : www.isere.fr ; www.isere.tourisme.com ; www.cg38.fr
A mere three hours from Paris by TGV, Isere is a very diverse department, from the mountains of Oisans to the almost Mediterranean flavour of Vienne, the "Roman city". Among the many monuments to discover, the domain of Vizille is worth the visit with its huge park and its castle hosting a permanent exhibition on the French Revolution. The medieval village of St Antoine l'Abbaye is also extremely picturesque. Vienne's Roman theatre is every year the home to a famous jazz festival while the bustling Grenoble is impossible to miss with its lively student life and long history. Wtih three natural parks, Isere is an ideal destination for tourists and nature lovers, but it is also a pleasant place to live for its population of 1.2 million.
Km 10.5 : La Rochette
The small village overlooking Gap is now famous for the climb bearing its name on which Joseba Beloki crashed heavily in 2003.
Site internet : www.ville-la-rochette.fr
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Prefecture: Marseille
PACA is the third biggest region in France. Its population of nearly 5 million mainly live in or around its four major cities, Marseille, Nice, Toulon and Avignon. Comprising most of the South-East of France, it is bathed by the Mediterranean in the South and bordered by the Alps in the East.
Website: www.regionpaca.fr
Tour de France of the Monuments Nationaux
Mont-Dauphin: Fortified town
A remarkable defensive site.
Dominating the valleys of the Guil and the Durance, which was based on designs by Vauban, was constantly perfected from the 18th to 19th century. Mont-Dauphin is perhaps France's finest example of military architecture in the classical style.
Designated world heritage site by Unesco.
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I have been working quite a bit this week with the Android Emulator that ships with the Android SDK. Works really well and is great for testing my AIR/Hero applications.
One interesting tidbit: I had a local web server installed on my PC and my Flex application called a Remote Object from this server. Everything worked fine in the AIR tools that shiped with Burrito. However, the application would not work at all in the Android emulator, I finally figured out that the emulator calls localhost from 10.0.2.2 instead of 127.0.0.1!! I changed all the references from localhost to 10.0.2.2 in the application and everything worked great in the emulator! Hopefully, this will save folks some time as it cost me about three hours! Ugh….


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To much of the population, stock investing has remained a source of both mystery and intrigue. While very few people actually understand stock market investing, the idea of getting a return by investing in companies is an idea that appeals to many individuals. In this quick guide based on the resources at HowtoInvestHQ.com, we will be covering the best ways to enter and exit the stock market to gain the most out of your investment.
Entering the Stock Market
One of the most important things new investors will need to learn is the importance of timing when entering the stock market. If you entered the market at the highs of 2008 before the crash, you would have had to wait nearly 5 years just to get back to even. Your return can go from barely beating inflation to making massive returns depending on the timing of when you purchase your stock.
The truth is no one can predict exactly when the best time to buy stock is going to be. As a result, the top strategy is to just buy stock slowly over time rather that all at once. That way, you get an average entrance price into the market. If you entered the market during times when the prices were average, you would have done very well with stock investing over the past few years, so this strategy does really work. You do not need to get in at the absolute bottom of a stock to make money – you just need to make sure you are not buying at the top!
If you are worried about how exactly how to buy stocks – that is easy. Just open a brokerage account through your bank or a brokerage site like Scottrade. Once you set up an account, you can deposit money and buy your first stock in just a few day's time.
Exiting the Stock Market
Exiting the stock market is much easier than getting into it. If you make a big profit on a stock and sell the position entirely, you have made your profit. That is all there is to it – you do not have to move out slowly like you did when you entered the market. Sure, the stock may go higher, but hindsight is 20/20. Once you make your profit and a happy with current levels, sell the stock and move the money somewhere else. One method for maximizing the gains of a stock while protecting yourself from future loss at the same is to set a stop loss order. You can set this just under the stock's current prices.


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Recently while doing a bit of impulse shopping I picked up some boneless, skinless chicken thighs, some regular bacon, and some Canadian bacon to go with the blue cheese I already had in the fridge.
I used a piece of Canadian bacon to wrap some cheese, put the assembly inside a thigh, and then wrapped the whole thing with bacon as a kind of chicken cordon bleu.
They were cooked with indirect charcoal heat until done and because of the bacon I decided to not add any additional smoke.
I plated them with some steamed cauliflower (with cheese, of course).
To keep from losing too much cheese I grilled the thighs with the opening facing up, and it seemed to work OK. They had good flavor and the cheese and bacon eliminated the need for any additional salt. I took a lot of the recipe from an episode of America's Test Kitchen where they used ham to thoroughly wrap the cheese and eliminate leakage, but since the Canadian bacon was thicker the best I could do was fold it over.


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Happy Days are here again.
Barbra Streisand is set to perform at the Oscars on February 24, 2013 - her first time Academy Awards show performance in 36 years, USA Today reports.
"In an evening that celebrates the artistry of movies and music, how could the telecast be complete without Barbra Streisand?" said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron in a statement. "We are honored that she has agreed to do a very special performance on this year's Oscars, her first time singing on the show in 36 years."
Streisand has had a long relationship with the Oscars, beginning with her best actress win for Funny Girl (1968). She also was nominated for her lead in 1973's The Way We Were as well as for producing the best-pictured nominee The Prince of Tides, in which she co-starred and also directed. She first sang at the Oscars in 1977. That night, she won the best original song award for Evergreen from A Star Is Born.
The show will air live on ABC with comedian Seth McFarlane as host.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 25/4/2013 (1579 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Cindy Little was 36 and a mother of two when her husband, Chris, died. A diabetic, he'd developed a slight infection and gone to bed to nap. When she came to wake him, holding their daughter, he was blue. An autopsy showed his cause of death was pulmonary heart disease.
Her life crumpled. Their son, Zachary, was four. Holly was two.
"Chris looked after the finances. I looked after the house. I had to figure out how we were financially. Chris wasn't insured because his health meant it was so expensive."
Her children were in a home daycare she couldn't afford on one salary. She needed to go back to work, but didn't know how to find alternate care. She called the Family Centre, a non-profit agency offering a wide range of services in Winnipeg.
They set her up with a person who came into her house for a month and looked after the kids while she worked. The agency helped her find subsidized daycare. And they offered grief counselling, both to Cindy and Zachary. It's been five years and they still use the service.
"Not only was I grieving, my child was grieving," says Cindy, adding Holly is too young to remember her dad.
The Family Centre recently rebranded itself as Family Dynamics in an effort to raise its public profile, attract donations and make it clear they are not a government agency. Most of their budget comes from United Way and the province. They were founded in 1936 and help over 6,000 clients annually.
They may be Winnipeg's best-kept, well-used secret.
Valerie Christie became a client nine years ago when her triplets were born. Her husband has MS and she realized she wasn't going to be able to handle things alone.
The agency sent a caregiver in from 8 to 4, five days a week for the first year-and-a-half.
"Whatever I needed, she was there," says Christie. "It was such an incredible resource for me."
Executive director Holly Puckall says the board is making its first attempts at fundraising because, while their revenues have flatlined, their expenses continue to grow. All of their funding is tied to specific programs, so there's no extra money to meet emergency needs.
They needed to install a new phone system recently. It came with a $45,000 price tag. The Winnipeg Foundation helped with most of those costs.
"We don't have a building, we don't have anything we can mortgage," says Puckall.
What they do have are scores of programs helping Winnipeggers in need. There is in-home family support, like Valerie Christie received. There are "parent coaches" who step in when parents need urgent help with their kids. They run six family centres in Manitoba Housing projects where kids can come for breakfast or homework help and parents can connect with community resources.
There are dedicated programs for new Canadians and schoolchildren. The idea is to give people a hand when they need help.
"The community of Winnipeg is an interconnected community and we need to be there for each other," Puckall says. "You never know when you might need help."
Family Dynamics is looking for altruistic people.
"Why is this your problem?" says Puckall. "This person is in Winnipeg. Doesn't it matter that this person is hungry or struggling?"
Rhonda Chegus, program director for the Counselling, Families & Schools Together program, says Canadians are often unaware of the needs in their own communities.
"People are isolated. They may not understand the language. They may be affected by the trauma of war. They're doing their best as parents. We need to support those efforts."
If you'd like to make a donation to Family Dynamics or think you could use their services, call 204-947-1401 or go to the website at familydynamics.ca.


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2013 Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition is a national program that challenges teams of students and their mentors to design and build a 130 pound robot in a six-week time frame using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in a series of robotics competitions designed by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers. The Long Island Regional has grown from 8 teams (school districts) in 1999 to over 47 teams. The increase in participation among high school students and local business demonstrates the importance of supporting the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. The International Competition has grown to more than 1,303 teams competing in 37 Regional Events, including Israel and Brazil.
April 4-6, 2013
David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University
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April 4:
Practice rounds begin at 10 a.m.
April 5:
Opening Ceremony at 9 a.m.
Competition begins at 9:30 a.m.
Awards Ceremony begins at 4:30 p.m.
April 6:
Opening ceremony begins at 9 a.m.
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Playoff matches and awards ceremony begin at 1 p.m.
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I guess it shouldn't come as any surprise that the same person who believes Grant Balfour is a good acquisition, and would be willing to see Oliver Perez get another chance to play for the Mets, is in favor of Francisco Rodriguez coming to New York, since that's basically a combination of the Balfour idea (taking on money in lieu of dealing good prospects for bullpen help) and the Perez idea (return of an embattled pitcher who left as a wildly unpopular Met).
But it's still nice to hear that both Ken Davidoff, one of the wise men who writes about New York baseball, thinks this is a good idea. And it is even better that the Mets do, since it suggests that they are looking to intelligently leverage their first half of 2012.
Rodriguez has been okay, but not great so far in 2012 as the setup man for John Axford in Milwaukee. It is easy to foresee a scenario where Rodriguez, returned to a pennant race and a closer position, becomes far more effective.
Here's what's basically impossible to see: a scenario where the Mets acquire Rodriguez, and he isn't an enormous upgrade over the pitchers, such as Miguel Batista and Jeremy Hefner, who have made up the bottom of the team's reliever corps this year.
So if the only thing it costs is some salary and a negligible young player, this is a deal the Mets certainly ought to make. It is the easiest way to maximize the 2012 Mets. The starting pitching is sound. The offense is fine, and the defense cannot really be upgraded without, in all likelihood, compromising the offense. (Same players are both helping and hurting: Lucas Duda merely the best example of this.)
But the bullpen, worst in baseball, could use an upgrade. And in a year when no one is really standing out- the Dodgers are currently a half-game ahead of the Mets for the final wild card spot, and that was no team of world beaters- the Mets would be remiss not to take their shot.


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IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) HSM for Windows® Version 6.4 Fix Pack 1 Known Problems and Limitations
Technote (FAQ)
This document describes the known problems and limitations for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4 Fix Pack 1 HSM for Windows product.
- Compressed files are uncompressed after recall.
- Encrypted stubs are decrypted after restore.
- Subfile backup and stub file backup are not supported together.
- Some client operating systems like Mac OS utilize alternate data streams. These are not migrated by the HSM for Windows client, and hence are not retrieved. They are tolerated and handled correctly with recalls. However, alternate data streams of stubs are not backed up by the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client and cannot be restored. Alternate data streams are also not moved with the stub moving tools.
- The HSM for Windows client uses a regular archive pool on the Tivoli Storage Manager server and uses the standard management class. The default retention period for files in the archive copy group is 365 days. With the default value, migrated files are deleted from Tivoli Storage Manager storage after 365 days and stub files cannot be recalled after that. If you want to keep migrated files in Tivoli Storage Manager storage for more than one year, configure your migration to use a management class with the appropriate retention settings.
- Due to a restriction of the NTFS file system, extended attributes and reparse points are mutually exclusive. Because the HSM for Windows client uses reparse points, files with extended attributes cannot be migrated.
- Some messages may contain nouns in plural although singular should be used. So you may find expressions like "1 files" or "1 servers".
- Hardware volume mapping can only be applied for volumes with a drive letter. For more details see the TSM HSM for Windows Administration Guide (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4).
- Installation in a path with national language characters:
The HSM for Windows client cannot be installed in a path that contains national language characters. Only installation paths with English characters are supported.
- Restoring previous stub file versions from within Windows Shadow Copies is not supported. The Windows operating system stores Shadow Copy snapshot data in a format different from the NTFS format. Some of the NTFS features are not supported by Windows inside snapshot data. Thus stub files cannot be restored in current HSM for Windows versions from snapshot data.
- Copying HSM for Windows migrated files (stub files) using the Microsoft Robocopy tool is not working as expected. Some attributes might not be copied correctly. For example the copied file appears to be offline although the file is resident.
- Stub files on a shared file system cannot be recalled using a MAC OS X 10.6.7, 10.6.8 or 10.7 connecting to the shared file system over SMB.
- If cluster services are not running when you install the HSM for Windows client, you might not be able to configure reconciliation and threshold migration. To resolve the problem, run the installation again with the 'Repair' option on all cluster nodes where you cannot configure reconciliation and threshold migration.
- Since Windows Server 2012: Files that are processed by the Windows Data Deduplication feature cannot be migrated by HSM for Windows. The Windows Data Deduplication process replaces the file with a reparse point. Only files that are not deduplicated by Windows can be migrated. The Windows data deduplication feature is distinct from the Tivoli Storage Manager data deduplication feature.
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• FASEB's joint letter to the House of Representatives concerning the Great Ape Protection Act can be found at http://bit.ly/6aPRSc.
• If you would like more information on this legislation and its status, contact Carrie D. Wolinetz at email@example.com or 301-634-7650.
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is leading opposition to the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326), a bill that would end all invasive research on great apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons. (Note: Gibbons are not technically great apes, but they are defined as such in the legislation.)
In a letter sent to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives, FASEB, along with other scientific organizations, patient-advocacy groups and research institutions, expressed concern that the bill would "harm medical research that helps both humans and great apes." The legislation was reintroduced in the 111th Congress after failing to gain support in the previous Congress and has rapidly gained more than 100 co-sponsors. Passage of the legislation is considered a high priority by a number of animal-rights groups, including the Humane Society of the United States and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
The joint letter of opposition emphasizes "that the research community is strongly committed to ensuring that the highest quality of humane care is maintained for all animals used in research, that animals are housed and maintained under conditions appropriate to their species and that research involves only the minimum number of animals required to obtain valid results."
Unfortunately, if the Great Ape Protection Act is passed, it could halt a number of ongoing biomedical research studies, particularly on hepatitis C, for which chimpanzees are currently the only existing animal model. "Chimpanzees are a unique and invaluable resource for ethically conducted biomedical research, particularly translational research through which scientific discoveries are advanced into treatments and cures," the letter continues. Chimpanzees serve as models in studies investigating malaria, human cytomegalovirus, rotavirus, norovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, prion diseases and monoclonal antibody development, among others. Under the existing research system, chimpanzees no longer used in research are not euthanized; rather, they are humanely maintained in retirement facilities until their natural deaths.
The Great Ape Protection Act has a broad definition of "invasive research," including "any research that may cause death, bodily injury, pain, distress, fear, injury or trauma." This includes testing of any drug or other substances, research that would involve restraining, tranquilizing or anesthetizing the animal, removal of the animal from its social group or taking tissue samples, including blood, outside of necessary veterinary care. FASEB is concerned that this broad definition could not only have a negative impact on biomedical research on human diseases but also research that is designed to benefit the great apes themselves, such as the development of an Ebola virus vaccine for wild chimps or the treatment of heart disease in captive gorillas. This also could limit relatively noninvasive work, such as genomic or cell culture studies, which require tissue collection.
In addition to the joint letter, FASEB has been working with its member societies and scientists to educate policymakers about the potential consequences for research under the bill, as well as raising awareness about the multiple legal and regulatory protections that exist for animals used in research, particularly nonhuman primates. The Great Ape Protection Act has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has not held hearings on the subject and is currently quite busy dealing with health-care reform legislation. A companion bill has not yet been introduced in the Senate.
Carrie D. Wolinetz (email@example.com) is director of scientific affairs and public relations for the Office of Public Affairs at FASEB.
Having a Master's in biological science, a Bachelor's in cellular and molecular biology, almost a third Bachelor's (in philosohy), and a love for studying cognitive biases and principles of critical thinking, I know way more than the vast majority of the U.S. population about this type of issue. However, I am still unqualified to feel comfortable taking a position on this bill. For one thing, the bill does not permit "death" to great apes. Does the destruction of chimpanzee embryos or infants count as a death? Since we lack artificial wombs, I would think that the destruction of chimpanzee fetuses would be outlawed by the bill, because surgically-induced abortion invades the mother chimp. I am clearly in favor of using chimpanzee embryos, but obtaining chimpanzee gametes may be invasive. Concerning chimpanzee infants, I think self-awareness is a very relevant trait, and we are a very irrational species in many ways. There is feeling pain and feeling that ... [exceeds word limit]
I feel I am uniquely qualified to comment on your opposition since I have Hepatitis C. There are enough people infected with HCV to try any drugs you come up with.It amazes me that the scientific community still insists that they need to conduct this research since they are 98.7% genetically like humans. I recently learned that CWU chimpanzees have a concept of time,ie the chimps that use ASL know when the holiday of thanksgiving is coming by signing Bird meat day, when they watch movies of themselves they sign to their caregivers "that's me when I was a baby" when the matriarch Washoe died they signed "hurt" and crying.Do you not see that you all clearly illustrate Stanely Milgram's Obedience Experiment by insisting this is necessary?? There is no "humane" way to keep apes caged. Even the ones at CWU are in too small of a facility. Please reconsider your position. Thank you Karen Purdom
I don't understand must about science in generally and using chimpanzee in medical purpose especially. But I think that if chimpanzee is the only hope for cure the most deadly diseases such as HCV, ebola, some kinds of cancers, we should let the medical experts to do researches they need to find cures for those diseases. Those research will be done in a balance of ethicality, money, no invasive,...It looks like when you get sick and doctor need to deliberate the side effects of the medicine before giving you a prescription. And I wonder if the animal activist love chimpanzee, they must their parents, children, relatives more. What happen if their loved once get sick, and chimpanzee is the only hope for that cure. Will they regret because of supporting the GAPCSA?
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The sole way to attain true happiness is to have faith in Allah. This truth is revealed in the Quran by the verse, "Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured." (Surat ar-Ra'd 28). One can only save himself from the unhappiness and boredom he experiences when he grasps Allah's Mercy and Grace. He can only take real pleasure from the life of this world and have real grasp of the blessings in this way.
As Allah reveals us in the verses; "Good!' There is good in the world for those who do good, and the abode of the Hereafter is even better. How wonderful is the abode of those who have fear of Allah" (Surat An-Nahl, 30) "So Allah gave them the reward of the world and the best reward of the Hereafter." (Surah 'Al`Imran, 148), Allah grants a beautiful life only to those who have faith. For unbelievers, on the other hand, there is absolutely a "depressed life", as is stated in the verse:
"But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will be a dark and narrow one and on the Day of Rising We will gather him blind." (Surah Taha, 124). No way other than having faith saves these people from this distressed life; they can not attain real bliss. Even if they have all the material opportunities available to them, they can not enjoy them in the real sense of the word. That is because a person must be able to appreciate these beauties in order to take pleasure from them. For instance he must recognize the flawless sequence in the leaves of a carnation, its scent, the softness of its texture and, more importantly, understand that this beauty is created as a blessing and a manifestation of Allah. It is only people of faith who can understand them in the true sense. That is because people who have faith in Allah are aware that evey detail in this world is a blessing of our Lord and think about Allah's infinite might of Creation in every beauty. This adds to their love and devotion to Allah.
An individual who sees these facts and sincerely submits himself to Allah by "holding on to the rope of Allah" must be aware that he has "bonded to an unbreakable solid bracelet" and that, by Allah's leave, nothing can ever give any harm to him. He must also know that he will enjoy Allah's blessings to its full extent both in this world and the Hereafter. Almighty Allah reveals in the Quran:
If Allah afflicts you with harm, no one can remove it except Him. If He desires good for you, no one can avert His favour. He bestows it on whichever of His servants He wills. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat Yunus, 107)


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Good to know, I'll revert the edit then.
Another question.. Id like a script that allows me to move alternate power bar, i know there are many addons for it, but i try to avoid addons, have only few. I already have few scripts that i run every time i log in that changes my default UI a bit. I expect that there will be coordinates somewhere and ill be able to write in and choose location, but i have no idea how to write a script. Could anyone help me?
Is there any way to have a macro (or addon) announce who you are ressing?
And not "/ra Ressing xyz", because I tend to spam the res button and I don't wanna flood the chat.
Death is the winner in any war.
I want a really simple macro that flirts then cuddles with whomever I have targeted.
I thought it would be
but it wasn't. It only cuddles.
Originally Posted by Aired
There's a cooldown on chat emotes now. Try getting something that enables /in (one of them is called SlashIn I believe), then do
Code:/flirt /in 2 /cuddle
Hello I need help with a macro.
I want
#showtooltip Innervate
/cast [target=mouseover] Innervate
to whisper my mouse over traget
Howdy folks,
I'm looking for a macro that can swap between farclip settings. When I'm outside instances, I can easily run my view distance all the way up, however inside instances, anything other than a low view distance makes things feel laggy. So far I've been changing the setting through the menu, but that's getting old. I know I could create individual macros for each setting, but that's a total waste of macro and bar space, and I don't want to run an addon to manage a single setting.
So, anyone have anything that can swap between low and high farclip in one macro, either a toggle, or right/left click/modifier?
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I couldn't find it within a few pages, but is there a way to make a cast sequence show tooltips for both abilities used?
IE (if this doesn't paste as code, I'm so sorry)
/castsequence Ascendance, Stormlash Totem
It shows the tooltip for Ascendance, but not for stormlash. Also, using this as an example again, how would I make this and other macros avoid use outside of combat. Thanks in advance.
<-- That is otterly adorable.
For the second question, add:
(before the /castsequence, but after the #showtooltip).Code:/stopmacro [nocombat]
I'm looking for a macro that will summon my companion pet, "Disgusting Oozeling" and then mount in 1 click.
What I've tried so far is;
/use Disgusting Oozeling
/cast Venomhide Ravasaur
This did however, not work...
EDIT; If possible, make it so that you unsummon the pet when I press my macro again to dismount. This is not a must, tho.
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<-- That is otterly adorable.
I'm trying to fix my Heal / Flash Heal / Smite Macro.
/cast [nomod, @mouseover,help] Heal;[mod:shift, @mouseover,help] Flash Heal;[nomod, @mouseover, harm][@target, harm]Smite
This works fine but I would like to add the ability to cast heal/flash heal on my current friendly target as well as cast those heals on myself when I have no target selected. Right now I can only get the mouseover to function on the heals. The smite does work correctly. I have auto self cast enabled as well.
Any help would be much appreciated.


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coveted Eileen Fisher Seasonless Silk Comforter
GAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! This is officially my MUST HAVE LIST. I crave this comforter like coffee in the morning. I covet the silk, the shape, the feel, the colors. I want the brown, the icy blue, the bright white, the dusty purple, and all the sheets and blankets. This I must have. ThisNext, here people!!!
Another gorgeous layering piece for your bed. If you could feel this through the screen, you wouldn't choke on the pricetag. Covet!!!Added 9 Years Ago from Garnet Hill


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On the Bay with Vince Leggett
This publication is the second in a series planned over the next few years. It is a sequel to Blacks of the Chesapeake: An Integral Part of Maritime History. That book's purpose was to introduce people to contributions that Blacks have made to maritime and seafood processing industries throughout the Chesapeake region.
Many people's concept of Blacks in these fields is that of crab picking and oyster shucking. The first book's objective was to graphically depict blacks in the widest expanse of the maritime trades.
Blacks were shown hand-tonging and dredging for oysters, making sails, pound net fishing and commercially steaming crabs. The initial research took approximately 12 years and included over 60 field visits throughout the Chesapeake watershed.
Some of the points of interest on Maryland's Eastern Shore included Oxford/Belluvue, Unionville/Cooperville, St. Michael's/Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, Crisfield, Nanitcoke, Quantico, and Kent Narrows.
The Fells Point and Inner Harbor areas of Baltimore, Eagle Harbor in Prince George's County, Longview and Mill Point Shores in Charles County were also researched.
The Talbot County Historical Society, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Calvert Maritime Museum proved to be excellent sources of information.
A special debt of gratitude is due Eva Slezak of the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore. She provided some extremely useful information about how Blacks used the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways to escape the gripping jaws of Maryland slavery.
The Virginia Tidewater area was also included in our field visits. Trips were made to the old Mehandden fishing grounds of Reedsville, Richmond, and other locations along the James, Rappanhock and Tappanhanock Rivers. Extensive time was spent in the Portsmouth, Hampton Road, and Norfolk areas and at the Mariners Museum in Newport News.
The Blacks of the Chesapeake Project is based in Annapolis. Therefore, the state's capital became the last area that we surveyed for black maritime history.
Within Anne Arundel County, we visited Oyster Harbor, Highland Beach, Deale, Churchton, Galesville, Shady Side, Columbia Beach, Clay Street and Eastport in Annapolis.
Over the past fifteen years we have lectured and displayed our exhibit throughout the Chesapeake region. We have provided middle school teacher training at the National Aquarium in Baltimore for the past four years; and lectured to historical societies, schools, colleges and universities, and senior citizen centers.
The Eastport Yacht Club, The Severn River Association, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Historic Annapolis Foundation, The United States Naval Academy and the Captain Salem Avery House Museum have supported the Blacks of the Bay Project.
In September 1997, the inaugural exhibit was featured at the Deep Waters Conference in Fells Point in Baltimore. The conference was sponsored by the Greater Fells Point Alliance and the Living Classroom Foundation. The book, Blacks of the Chesapeake was released at the event.
Fell's Point has a rich Black maritime history. In the 1830's, Frederick Douglass, slave-abolitionist, worked as a ship caulker who repaired wooden sailing vessels at shipyards in Baltimore.
We are including the words Frederick Douglass penned as a 16 year old boy standing on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay, when he was a slave on a Talbot County plantation. It is entitled, "Frederick on the Chesapeake."
Issac Myers, a Black man, owned and operated the Chesapeake Marine Dry Dock and Railway Company in Fells Point. This cooperative business provided work opportunities for blacks and whites, something unheard of during the 1860's.
During the 1997-98 year, the eyes of the sailing and maritime community have been focused on the Chesapeake Bay area because of the Whitbread Round the World Sailing Race.
The Blacks of the Chesapeake exhibit and book are now in hands and minds of people throughout the world. The exhibit was included in the U.S. Sail Boat and Power Boat Shows in Annapolis. Letters have been written by wonderful people from all over the world expressing their delight in the exhibit and the publication. Members of the New York Executive Yacht Club, the Detroit Sailing Club, and representatives from the British Virgin Islands have requested additional information about the subject.
In addition, Black yacht clubs, sailing clubs, and scuba diving clubs throughout the nation have expressed interest in the project. In the Baltimore and Washington areas, organizations such as the Annapolis Seafarers, the Neptune Yacht Club in Baltimore, and the Washington, D.C. Seafarers have shared information about their clubs to be included in future publications.
However, the most exciting times for us were as part of the Whitbread Round the World Sailing Race. The Blacks of the Bay Project tacked into position and received a favorable trade wind; the Blacks of the Chesapeake exhibit became part of the Race Start festivities broadcast live at City Dock in Annapolis.
In similar fashion to the Whitbread captains, crew and sponsors, the Blacks of the Bay Project charted a parallel course through the Chesapeake region.
The Blacks of the Chesapeake exhibit went on a nine month tour. One of the exhibit's ports of entry was at the Annapolis Children's Museum "Around the World Festival at Anne Arundel Community College. It was there that Gary Jobson, ESPN's Sailing Commentator for the Whitbread Race, took interest in the project. He has recommended the project to officials at Hampton University in Virginia, which recently started the first intercollegiate sailing program at a Historically Black College.
The Living Classroom Foundation in Baltimore has also supported the project. George Collins, the captain of the boat, Chessie, brought pride to the Baltimore and Annapolis community by sponsoring the local boat.
The excitement of the Whitbread Race began to build as the local entry, Chessie, had some good finishes. The boats left Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, heading for the Chesapeake Bay, and all hands were on deck.
We spent four beautiful days in Baltimore's Inner Harbor serving as host to millions of visitors. Our project was featured on a regional television station and a local cable show as a "must visit" exhibit. Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke came by to experience our exhibit and share in the festivities.
We packed up our exhibit and headed to Annapolis for the Whitbread Race's restart. The Blacks of the Chesapeake exhibit was set back up at the Volvo Race Village at Sandy Point State Park.
At the site were thousands of pleasure boats, large and small, on the Bay that Sunday morning in May with the U.S. Coast Guard's battleship gray fleet protecting the expensive sailing vessels and maintaining order on the Bay.
The Bay Bridge formed an excellent backdrop, and those courageous sailors in beautiful sleek ocean sailing vessels tacking for position is etched in my mind. I still hear echoes of the cannon fire announcing the start of the race. Governor Glendening received an autographed copy of our book before he left the exhibit.
Future books and exhibits will include other stories and photographs produced during field visits and special events. The Blacks of the Bay Project will continue seeking out the roles that Blacks have played in maritime related endeavors, including scenes of the many wonderful views of the sun rising and setting on the Chesapeake.
The Blacks of the Chesapeake exhibit and book has matched my dreams and exceeded my expectations.
Please enjoy Black Watermen: Saved by Grace.
This Very Bay Shall Yet Bear Me Into Freedom
Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sail from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition.
I have often, in the deep stillness of a summer's Sabbath, stood all alone upon the lofty banks of that noble bay, and traced, with saddened hear and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. The sight of these always affected me powerfully. My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but he Almighty, I would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:
"You are loosed from your moorings and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free! O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing! Alas! n betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. O that I could also go! Could I but swim! If I could fly! O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute!
The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance. I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O god, save me! God deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught , or get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever. I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God help me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave. I will take to the water. This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom."
Frederick Douglass
The Library of America
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. 1994


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I finally got the Macromedia Developer Relations Podcast submitted to iTunes. The documentation Apple provides for the special iTunes meta-data tags has some inconsistencies, and I found at least one major bug in their submission process, so it took several hours for me to finally get it submitted. In case you're having problems, as well, it seems you can't add iTunes category tags at the channel level (even though the docs say you can). For some reason, if you use bogus or incorrect categories, the feed is accepted (but the categories ignored), but if you use real and current categories, you get back an error saying that the iTunes Store is experiencing technical difficulties, and to try again later. The work around seems to be to remove the category tags at the channel level altogether (they seem to work at the item level), and just pick a category and sub-category through the feed submission interface.
Anyway, the feed hasn't shown up yet. After you submit your feed, it tells you that it may not show up right away, and it might need to be reviewed or something, so I'm not sure how long that will take. If anyone notices that it has been added, please drop me a comment. It's in the category "Technology" under the subcategory "Developers".
In other news, I'm about to move yet again, so I'm going to be offline most likely until next week. This is the third time I've blogged about moving in about 2.5 years, which isn't a good sign. I'm staying in San Francisco, but moving from a rental into a house that I bought, so hopefully I'll actually plant some roots and stay in one place for a while.
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A Kingston choir founded in wartime is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
Kingston Orpheus Choir was founded in 1944 after an appeal calling on singers by musical director George Anderson was put into the Surrey Comet.
Its first meeting was attended by 35 nervous singers at the Zeeta Cafe in Clarence Street where John Lewis now stands.
The group's first performance led by Mr Anderson was a Christmas carol concert that same year with money raised for the Army Benevolent Fund.
Today, more than 50 singers including 17 sopranos, 20 altos, five tenors and eight basses aged from their 20s to 70s meet weekly to practise for performances at All Saints Church and St Andrew's Church.
Jon Fray, who sings with the choir, said: "There is a love for music in the borough. People do come and go but there are always people who love classical music.
"The choir has performed all the major choral works including Handel's Messiah, Mendelsohnn's Elijah, Brahm's Requiem and Fauré's Requiem, many times over during the seventy years, but has also found time to perform opera choruses, show tunes and even Abba's greatest hits.
"The lovely thing about a community choir is that you meet people that you might not otherwise meet and we are all working towards a similar goal. It's very friendly."
The tenor singer added his highlight of all the years was the moment in a concert when the dramatic music and audience reaction led to that "tingle down you back".
An exhibition to celebrate the choir's long history which includes old programmes, posters and photos dating back to its origins is currently on display at the community display at Kingston Museum until the end of the month.
The Kingston Orpheus Choir can be heard this weekend performing a concert titled England's Finest directed by David Condry on Saturday, July 12 at St Andrew's Church in Maple Road, Surbiton.
For more information visit kingstonorpheuschoir.com.