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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 9/12/2011 (2083 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It is the season of giving so I'm ready to share the truth.
Ten years ago, I stole my husband's dog.
No, I didn't raid his man-cave/garage and take the dog to make him come out.
When we got our Angus, a dog that was supposed to be for him, Angus bonded with me.
Last month Angus, our large mixed-breed Rottweiler family member, had to be euthanized just a few weeks shy of his 10th birthday. Our whole family misses him but I miss him fiercely.
It was my husband's idea to get a rottie because he likes the breed, but it was my idea to get this dog who was a five-week-old baby born in the home of a local rescue for Rottweilers.
"We'll take him," I famously said, as he fit into the palm of my husband's hand.
It was a great plan. I was at home on maternity leave with our newborn second child at the time so we'd raise the baby and the puppy at the same time. Except that it was February and minus-30 outside. Getting up multiple times in the night to feed and change the human baby as well as take the dog baby outside, not such a good plan!
Within a few months, it turned out Angus and I were a match. It also turned out that Angus, my fired-up four-legged friend, looked nothing like a rottweiler.
When our youngest child was just a toddler, I once saw her feed him a Cheerio, change her mind, pry his huge jaws open and reach in to take it back. Our gentle giant just let her take it. He patiently wore bonnets during tea parties. He was kind to our cat and tolerant of our little pug dog. He rolled in the grass every day he could and went camping with us every summer.
I loved it when people would see him with us, notice his rottie markings, long hair and docked tail, and say, "What kind of dog is that?"
Angus was a high-energy, lively, loyal and joyful creature who got old too fast.
I wanted to tell you Angus's story because this is also the season to remember what we are thankful for and share blessings with others.
In the Free Press sports department, we're inviting you to share what you can in support of the Cheer Board to bring hampers to needy families at this special time of year.
Executive director Kai Madsen of The Christmas Cheer Board said the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association is collecting pet food donations which families can access at 550-1395 Ellice Ave.
If you can help deliver hampers, call 989-5680. Delivery begins today.
Sports editor Steve Lyons told you last week The Christmas Cheer Board will need to raise $840,000 to break even this year. Last year, with your help, our Spirit of Christmas campaign was able to contribute $149,432 to The Christmas Cheer Board.
Please join us and send your donations to The Spirit of Christmas, c/o Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, R2X 3B6.
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Joseph Marble, American Revolution Veteran
27 Nov 2013 — Fayston, Washington, Vermont
Joseph Marble, American Revolution Veteran
Joseph MARBLE, son of Benjamin Marble and Martha Goss, was born November 24, 1752. He married Susannah BUTLER, who was born March 20, 1759, They came from Winchester, N. H., to Fayston, in 1809, and located in the northern part of the town, where he built the first saw-mill (1816 on the banks of Shepard Brook) in Fayston. The place is now owned by Mary J. FISHER, and passed out of the possession of the MARBLE family in 1882. Joseph MARBLE served in the war of the Revolution, and his grandson, Joseph D. MARBLE, now has the powder-horn which he then carried. He reared six sons and five daughters, viz.: Joseph, Elijah, Emery, Benjamin, John, Jacob, Susannah, Sylvia, Martha, Polly, and Cynthia. Jacob and Benjamin settled in Fayston. Jacob married Sarah MAY, and reared two sons, Joseph D. and George L., both of whom served in the late war. Joseph D. lost a leg at Gainsville, and George L. died in Libby prison.
Source: Gazetteer of Washington County, Vermont, 1783-1889, edited by William Adams, compiled & published by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, N. Y.
TIMELINE for JOSEPH MARBLE: {The Revolutionary Marble}
====Military Service====
{1775, April 28 - Dec;)(residing at Templeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts), joined the Militia at Cambridge, Massachusetts and served as a private for 3 months and 11 days under Capt. Joel Fletcher's Company within Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops. Dismissed at Winter Hill, near Boston. Doolittle's Regiment authorized 23 Apr. 1775 and disbanded 31 Dec. 1775 at Cambridge, Mass.
Note: Period of 19 April 1775 - 17 March 1776, Campaign: "Siege of Boston", the British occupation of Boston. {1775, June 17}; fought at "Battle of Bunker Hill" Breed's Hill, Massachusetts. The American forces Commanded by General Irael Putnam lost to the Bristist forces commanded by General William Howe. "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Source Information: {Private Joseph Marble's enlistment in Massachusetts Continental Army} (the name and age of the individual, town of residence, the date and location of enlistment, areas and length of service, date of discharge)
Marble, Joseph, Templeton, Private, Capt. Joel Fletcher's Co., Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 28, 1775; service, 3 mos. 11 days; also, company return dated Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775.
Volume 109, Pg. 506, Biographical Info: priv., Reference: soldiers and sailors of the Rev. War. Comp. By secy. Of the commonwealth, Ms. Boston. 1896-1908. (17v.):10:214-215 or
Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution", Vol. I-XVII {17 Volumes}, Volume 10, page 215, Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896
Note: The following are approximate dates derived from JOSEPH MARBLE's sworn testimony as to his military service while applying for the military pension, (provided by the Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832) before Paul Dillingham Jr., Justice of the Peace, Court at Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont on 12 December 1832.
{1776, Sep - Dec}; The Fall of 1776, Joseph Marble served three months under Capt. Jotham Houghton's Company within Colonel Hutchins (Hutchens) Regiment of the New Hampshire troops near White Plains. Also dismissed at White Plains.
{1777, Jan;) served one month as a teamster under Capt. Lamb of the Staff Department. Joseph drove a team for the transportation of a piece of Ordinance.
{1777, Jan - Mar;) served two months as a private under Capt. Putnam's Company at Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Also dismissed at Bound Brook.
{1777, Aug - Dec:) In the Fall of 1777, Joseph Marble served 4 months under Capt. Alexander's Company within Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment of the N. H. troops at Charlestown, New Hampshire.
====End Military Service====
1776, JOSEPH migrated from Templeton, Massachusetts to Winchester, New Hampshire. 1777, September 26; JOSEPH at the age of 25 married SUSANNAH ELIZABETH BUTLER age 18 in Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hamshire across the border from Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.
Between 1778 and 1804, JOSEPH MARBLE and his wife, SUSANNAH ELIZABETH BUTLER had 11 children in Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
1801; In 1801 a list of SOME of the citizens of the town can be found in a document protesting the hiring of a preacher, and the names include: Joseph Marble, Oliver Marble, Levi Marble, Source: History of Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis Co., 1886, 1073 pgs. Gazetteer of Cheshire County, NH, 1736-1885 by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, NY:
1812; JOSEPH MARBLE at age 60 and his wife, SUSANNAH ELIZABETH BUTLER migrated from Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire to Fayston, Washington County, Vermont and located in the northern part of the town, where he built the first saw-mill in Fayston. The place passed out of the possession of the MARBLE family in 1882.
1820; Census Place: Fayston, Washington, Vermont; Roll: M33_128; Page: 22; Image: 25.
000201 0110101
Same census page: Joseph Jr. and Stephen Laws and Nathan Haskins
1830; Census Place: Fayston, Washington, Vermont; Roll: 183; Page: 283.
Males: 0000001001 One male age bet 40 to 50 and one male age bet 70 to 80
Females: 00000001 One female age between 70 to 80
Same census page: Joseph Jr., Benjamin, Jacob,
1832; December 2; A revolutionary pensioner, JOSEPH MARBLE, (still residing at Fayston, Vermont, at the age of 80) was placed on the Vermont pension roll for his service during the American Revolution.
1836, February 01; JOSEPH MARBLE died at the age of 84 in Fayston, Washington County, Vermont and buried at North Fayston Cemetery.
1837, September 21; SUSANNAH ELIZABETH BUTLER MARBLE, aged 78 years applied for her husband's pension at the Probate Court, in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont. Three years later, SUSANNAH at the age of 81 died June 29, 1840.

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The Alzheimer's Association will hold a town hall meeting on Friday, Aug. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m., at St. Joseph Parish (732 18th Ave. E.) to solicit feedback on public policy priorities.
These include the National Alzheimer's Plan, an Alzheimer's Disease Plan for Washington State, and Voices for Better Health in Washington State, a new initiative to improve health care for "dual eligible," older and disabled Washingtonians who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.
The town hall will include a panel reflecting the Alzheimer's experience. All public input will be recorded and used to inform the Association's work in advancing public policy priorities.
Alzheimer's disease is the third-leading cause of death in Washington state and sixth nationally. More than 5 million Americans, including 100,000 Washingtonians, are living with Alzheimer's disease, and as many as 16 million Americans will have the disease in 2050. The cost of caring for those with Alzheimer's and other dementias is estimated to total $214 billion in 2014, increasing to $1.2 trillion (in today's dollars) by mid-century.
Nearly one in three seniors who dies each year has Alzheimer's or another dementia.


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AN early goal from Mike Perrott and resolute defence for much of the match gave Frome Town an excellent away victory at St Neots Town last weekend.
The fourth minute saw Frome take the lead as a Dean Evans ball was chipped into the area, Jack Giddens failed to gather cleanly and Dave Gilroy cleverly rolled the ball into the path of Mike Perrott, who fired home cleanly to give the visitors a great start.
St Neots' first chance of the match came in the 12th minute as Ben Mackey let fly from outside the box but Darren Chitty was quickly down to save comfortably.
Lewis Hilliard was causing problems on the left and Tom Evans had to be quick and decisive to intercept and clear in the 26th, and a minute later a Hilliard free kick landed on the roof of the net.
A golden chance presented itself for the hosts in the 34th minute as Hilliard produced a perfect cross that saw Mackey hit the side netting from close range, but then Frome almost increased their lead on the stroke of half-time as a Josh Brigham free-kick just cleared the far post.
The second half started with Matt Smith hitting a curling shot that was just deflected wide, and the midfielder headed home a Darren Jefferies cross in the 56th minute only for the goal to be disallowed for offside.
Finally, after a even second half that saw both sides have their moments, Dan Jacob could have pinched a point for St Neots in the 90th minute as a through ball put him clean through on goal, but his shot went wide and Frome celebrated a hard fought win.
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The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is pushing satellite technology to its limits, says an Australian satellite expert.
At any given time there are over 1000 active satellites hurtling around the earth but when it comes to locating a specific object, even one as big as a plane, it isn't simply a matter of pointing the satellite in the right direction.
While the majority of satellites in the sky are for communication purposes, orbiting at a height of tens of thousands of kilometres in order to maintain a static position relative to the earth, there are a few dozen that have the right sensors and suitable orbit radius to capture images of the earth at a level of detail that can be suitably analysed.
According to university researchers, the most able satellites for a search-and-rescue task hover at an altitude of around 700 kilometres and move at a pace of six to eight km/sec or tens of thousands of kilometres an hour, circumnavigating the earth several times a day.
However, being in the right place at the right time isn't enough, said Matthew Adams, manager at Landgate's satellite remote sensing services, who said that despite their celestial presence satellites can still be obscured by worldly elements.
"You can't see through cloud with an optical satellite," Dr Adams said. "It's like if you're flying on a plane when it's foggy: you look down but can't see the ground."
The other factor that determines the image quality is the resolution, with some satellites capable of producing images where a single pixel (dot) represents 25 cm on the ground. This is about the same scale of a thumbnail image, smaller than a passport photo, which become grainy as you zoom into a particular area.
And before producing a complete image, satellites must complete several passes of an area spanning several kilometres.
It's far from a perfect science, he said.
"This effort is really pushing technology to its limit because you're not expecting to find a whole plane, you're looking for debris of various size," he said.
It's like if you're flying on a plane when it's foggy.
It also helps to be looking in the right spot.
On Friday the Australian Maritime Safety Authority announced the search was being redirected 1100 kilometres north to a 319,000 square kilometres patch of ocean about 1850 kilometres west of Perth.
The Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, formerly the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, would re-task satellites to the new image area, identified based on new credible leads in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Dr Adams also said a similar co-ordinated effort took place a few weeks ago via the international charter: space and major disasters' network.
Days after the plane went missing, the Chinese requested the Charter's 20-plus member countries, including Australia, redirect their satellites to the region to locate the missing aircraft.


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Banged-up Reds band together for late rally, win
Pena's RBI caps comeback after Latos' injury; Aroldis sets K mark
CINCINNATI -- Call them the Comeback Kids. Even if so many of them are injured.
For the second time in the span of four days, the injury-ravaged Reds erased a deficit of four or more runs as they came all the way back to beat the Pirates, 6-5, after trailing 5-1 as late as the seventh inning in their series opener at Great American Ball Park on Friday night. With the Brewers' loss to the Cardinals, Cincinnati is now 1 1/2 games behind first-place Milwaukee in the National League Central.
With the Reds down, 5-3, in the eighth with two outs and nobody on, Devin Mesoraco crushed a 419-foot homer into the second deck in left field off All-Star reliever Tony Watson to bring Cincinnati within a run. The next two batters, Ryan Ludwick and Chris Heisey, hit singles before they each scored on two more consecutive singles by Ramon Santiago and pinch-hitter Brayan Pena to make it 6-5.
"That's why the Reds got me, and it's one of those things that I really feel like every time that I've got the opportunity to do something to help my team win, I'm prepared mentally and physically for it," Pena said. "And tonight, it was a very exciting 'W' for us, because it was totally a team effort."
"I just couldn't put anybody away when I needed to," Watson said. "Too much of the plate, bad location. I put it on myself. Two out, two strikes -- I have to put those guys away and put us back in the dugout."
The comeback was made complete by a record-breaking performance by Aroldis Chapman.
The flame-throwing closer came on in the ninth and picked up his 20th save. In the process, he broke Bruce Sutter's Major League record of most consecutive relief appearances with a strikeout since 1900, notching his 40th in a row by fanning Jordy Mercer.
"I'm proud and happy that I've got the record," Chapman said through translator Tomas Vera. "[Since Thursday] when I learned that it was a record that I tied, it was on my mind, and now I feel happy that I have it, and I pray that I have the ability to extend the record."
Things looked bleak early on, as Reds starter Mat Latos left the game after five innings due to back spasms, but not before surrendering home runs to Andrew McCutchen and Pedro Alvarez in the fourth. McCutchen hit a solo shot, and after an error by Jay Bruce at first enabled Neil Walker to reach, followed by a Russell Martin walk, Alvarez hit a three-run shot to make it 4-1.
"After I got the first batter of the third inning," Latos said, "I was just standing on the mound and I got in my ready position like I do to receive the sign, and it just felt like as if [Zack] Cozart or Santiago came up behind me and stabbed me in my lower back. It was real tight."
Latos didn't want to come out of the game because the bullpen had been taxed so much earlier in the week with a doubleheader on Tuesday and a 12-inning marathon against the Cubs on Thursday that resulted in Cincinnati using six relief pitchers.
Latos had the team's chiropractor work on his back, which helped him get through five.
The heroes for the Reds in this game were many, but a central theme that emerged with the victory was that bench players continued to come through amid a lengthening list of injuries. Before Latos had to leave the contest early, Skip Schumaker was placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list before the game.
Santiago, who is now the everyday second baseman moving forward, not only tied the game with his single in the eighth, but also knocked in a run in the seventh with a double and was 3-for-4. He has an RBI in each of his last four games and is batting .429 (9-for-21) over his last six games.
"He's always ready, and his time is here to play, and not only is he playing well, but he's stepping up offensively, which is obviously such a big part of what we need right now, especially down at the bottom of the order," Reds manager Bryan Price said.
Martin tacked on another run for Pittsburgh with an RBI single in the sixth against reliever Carlos Contreras.
The Reds scored in the first, when Billy Hamilton pushed a bunt up the first-base line and made an incredibly acrobatic move, lunging away from first baseman Gaby Sanchez to elude his tag and diving into first for a single.
Zack Cozart followed with an RBI double to make it 1-0.
The Reds got two more in the seventh on the Santiago RBI double and, after a single by pinch-hitter Donald Lutz, a groundout by Hamilton to score Santiago and make it 5-3.
Prior to this week, the Reds hadn't overcome a deficit larger than two runs. Now they've overcome double that deficit twice and have won 15 of their last 21 games. For a team that has been snake-bitten by injuries all season, they're still where they hoped they'd be as the All-Star break nears.
"There's just never been a theme of, 'We're not supposed to win,'" Price said. "We hung in there for two months, we've played great baseball for probably 40, 45 straight games, and I just think everybody is completely in. I think they believe a lot in this club, believe in each other, and it's really showing up now, even though we've got a few guys banged up."
Manny Randhawa is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sling, and as an extension, CQ, both use a model for internationalization that is very similar to the one used by Java and Flex. Java and Flex store translations as key/value pairs within properties files. Within Sling, translations are stored within the repository as key/value pairs. Once defined, the developer is able to use the key/value pairs stored in the repository to populate strings used in a graphic interface such as a Web page.
CQ has additional tools for internationalization than those provided by Sling. The CQ additions are not part of the scope of this article.
Before using internationalization within Sling the developer must be knowledgeable about the concept of locale. Locales within Java can be defined by three different properties: the language, the region and the variant. The primary defining property of a locale is a human language. Regions are used because each language can have several dialects and usage of the language varies greatly based on the region it is spoken and written. For that reason, a region code can be associated with a language. In that way, Canadian French may have its own definitions and translations and European French a different set. Additional information about the locale can be defined in the variant property. This property can contain information about a specific locale that is not covered by the other two properties. Examples of variant information for a locale is type of the language used, the target operating system or the text encoding.
Sling uses a standard representation of locale. The language is represented as the ISO 639‑1 code for the language in lower case. This is usually a two letter code. English, for example, would be represented as en. If needed, a region code can be specified. This is done by adding an underscore plus the ISO 3166-1 region code in upper case to the language code. So for English as spoken and written in the USA, the full locale code would be en_US. Very rarely would there be a variant defined in a locale for Sling.
Sling uses this standard because browsers use this standard for locale. Within Sling, the typical usage of internationalization would be to return the content of a Web page using the default locale of the Web browser. The default locale or locales are passed to Sling as part of the request. The site developer has the choice of respecting the locale of the Web browser and sending back content appropriate for that locale.
Key/value pairs
What do key/value pairs define? I call them translations but technical they are translation segments. Translation implies taking a word or phrase and finding the best match in another language. Translation segment is what you get after someone has done the translation for a specific use and the results are saved in a look-up table. The value of translation segment has a very specific meaning. When the phrase, OK, is used on a button the translation segment in another locale for that phrase is not necessarily a direct translation of the word, OK, but what the OK button is called in the target locale. Translation segment is very context driven. Because of that it can contain style information or substitutions indicated for data set at run time. It can even be a pattern for how information, such as a date or number, is rendered in a locale.
Within Sling, key/value pairs are organized by locale. If a site supports two languages, matching key/value pairs should exist for both. The locales CQ defines key/value pairs for can be seen at /libs/wcm/core/i18n.
Those keen of eye may notice that the locale code, en, is not there. In Java, if the value of a key is requested for a locale and that key does not exist, an exception is thrown. Not so in Sling. If a key is not defined in a locale Sling does not throw an exception. Instead, the key itself is returned. The keys for the key/value pairs in /libs/wcm/core/i18n are the translations in English. Since the locale for English does not exist the key is returned when the value of a key for the locale, en, is requested.
In CQ, the default for a key is the English phrase. The key and the English phrase are the same. Using the English phrase as the key for the key/value pair is an architectural decision and is not the only way to build translation memory in CQ.
I prefer to not use defaults for the phrases as keys. One thing that is constant in development is change. And it is likely that the text for the user interface will change. If it does, the key must be changed in all instances in the code and for each locale. Where multiple teams edit each of these items this can get to be a logistical challenge. I would use, hello_world, as a key versus the default, English, value for the phrase, Hello World! Doing things in that way allows the translators and the developers to work relatively independently of one another once the key/value pairs are defined.
Using the English phrase as the key does have its advantages and this is the reason this is the convention CQ uses. The advantage to using a default phrase as key is that the keys themselves will show up in the interface when the translation does not yet exist in a locale. Having non-phrase keys within a user interface does look like a mistake. When the phrase in English is the key and the translation does not exist in the target locale then the English phrase is shown.
Which convention to use is a matter of preference and the specific use case.
Translations in the repository
As can be seen for the CQ translations at /libs/wcm/core/i18n, the key/value pairs are stored by locale. The locale node must use the mixin, mix:language, and have the property, jcr:language, defined with a locale. In addition, the locale node may have the property, sling:basename. The sling:basename property is either a String or String array of names that can be used a labels or tags to filter translations with. The name of the locale node is not significant and can be anything. Be nice to others who have to edit what you have done, though. Name the locale node to match the locale within jcr:language or name of the language. For example, name a locale node for English either English or en. The primaryType of the locale node is not significant for translations.
Within the locale node are key/value child nodes, each one containing the information for a single key/value pair. These child nodes must either have the primaryType of sling:MessageEntry or they must have sling:Message as a mixin. The key/value node must contain a property, sling:message, that is the value for the key. If the property, sling:key, exists then that value is used as the key. If the sling:key property does not exist then the name of the node is used as the key. Following the Be Nice Rule, name the key/value node the name of the key. If you do that, the sling:key property is redundant.
Here is an example of key/value pairs for both English and French:
/apps/myapp/i18n +-- en (nt:folder, mix:language) | +-- jcr:language = "en" | +-- hello_world (sling:MessageEntry) | | +-- sling:key = "hello_world" | | +-- sling:message = "Hello world!" | +-- goodbye (sling:MessageEntry) | +-- sling:key - "goodbye" | +-- sling:message = "Goodbye!" +-- fr (nt:folder, mix:language) +-- jcr:language = "fr" +-- hello_world (nt:unstructured,sling:Message) | +-- sling:key = "hello_world" | +-- sling:message = "Bonjour tout le monde!" +-- goodbye (nt:unstructured,sling:Message) +-- sling:key - "goodbye" +-- sling:message = "Au revoir!" -
Using internationalization within JSP
Within this blog post I will only give an example of using key/value pairs for locales within JSP. They can be used elsewhere in Sling, as well.
When the <sling:defineObjects /> tag is used within a JSP page, the slingRequest value is created. The slingRequest implements the SlingHttpServletRequest interface and has a couple of very useful methods for internationalization: getLocale(), getLocales(), getResourceBundle(Locale), and getResourceBundle(String, Locale).
The getLocale() method gets the default Locale of the request. The getLocales() method gets all of the methods for a request. Typically the value for these come from the browser.
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The origins of Saint Valentine and the lovers' holiday associated with him are debated but some believe Valentine was an Italian martyr and the first mention of Valentine's Day appeared in a Geoffrey Chaucer poem.With that European ancestry, it's surprising to learn that according to Thierry Fischer, the Utah Symphony's Swiss music director, Europe doesn't celebrate Valentine's Day with American-style intensity.Fischer said orchestra administrators advised him to select a romance-themed program in February. (Toby Tolokan, the symphony's vice president of artistic planning, added that he worked with Fischer on programs for Thanksgiving.) He received the message, designing a "Romeo & Juliet" program for the weekend of Feb. 15-16, with a rare third concert added on Feb. 14.Which leads to a gift suggestion from symphony CEO and president Melia Tourangeau: "You can't get more romantic than 'Romeo and Juliet,' " Tourangeau said. "If any man wants to please his lady…" The program will feature Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy Overture and selections from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet." Also on the program is Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto featuring Nicholas Angelich, the 1994 gold-medal winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City.Shakespeare's familiar 1597 tragedy of star-cross'd and death-mark'd lovers, "Romeo and Juliet," is set in fair Verona, and tells the story about duels among the Montague and Capulet families. Spoiler alert: Juliet, before being forced to marry another man, takes a drug that puts her into a deathlike coma for "two and forty hours."When she lapses into a coma, Romeo thinks she is dead and drinks poison after killing the man Juliet was supposed to marry. Juliet then awakens and, finding Romeo dead, stabs herself with his dagger. (Why do people think that bloodbaths are romantic?)Regardless, Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" score was written in 1935 for the Kirov Ballet and included a happy ending (which ultimately changed), and Tolokan said it contains his "favorite ballet music of all time."Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy Overture is a symphonic poem in sonata form and contains one of the most recognizable love themes in history. (That is, until "Titanic"and Celine Dion came along.)But the most hauntingly beautiful composition of the evening is Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto. Fischer termed the work a "love letter" from the tortured Robert Schumann to his beloved wife, Clara. (After an attempted suicide, he spent the last couple of years of his life committed at his request to an insane asylum.)"It is passionate, genuine, noble," said Fischer of Schumann's composition. "He is putting respect, adoration and passion above all else."At the piano will be Angelich, who has worked with Fischer in Europe for years but hasn't performed in Utah for about two decades. "It's taken a while to get him back," Tolokan said. Fischer called Angelich's playing nothing short of "phenomenal." Angelich returned the compliment in a phone interview, calling Fischer a great friend whom he looks forward to working with again.Since winning the Bachauer, Angelich has gone on to an acclaimed career but is more well-known in Europe than America, Fischer said. Angelich made his debut at New York's Lincoln Center in 2003 with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, and in 2004 toured Japan with Masur and the Orchestre National de France. He has great interest in chamber music, and Angelich's discography shows a long affinity for Brahms, whose mentors were, coincidentally, Robert and Clara Schumann."They mutually inspired one another," Angelich said about Brahms and the Schumanns. Angelich has been playing Schumann's Piano Concerto frequently this season, including during a three-night gig with the The Seattle Symphony that concludes today.Angelich remembered clearly performing the technically challenging Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 during the Bachauer competition, and then returning to Utah a year after his win to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Utah Symphony, a famous composition that Chopin himself performed in one of his last concerts in his native Poland before he became a member of the Polish Great Emigration. Angelich said he regrets not returning to Utah for two decades, and recalled the "nice quality of attitudes" of Utahns he met. 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As hot as the Rays have been, manager Joe Maddon admitted it's "unusual" that they just had their best month in club history while their best player - third baseman Evan Longoria - has struggled.
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What board games are you playing?
It's a shame that there isn't a currently-running thread on this topic, so I figured I'd start one.
My group manages to get together weekly, though we have wildly inconsistent numbers. We get at least 4 and as many as 15+, and play from 8pm to around 2 or 3am, depending on how long it takes things to wrap up.
This last Friday we had a smaller gathering (only 6 players), but we were able to get in three good games.
First, my friends Elliott and Adam played a game of The Valkyrie Incident while they waited for everyone else to show up. Neither had played before, and they both agreed it's the best of the recent trio of Small Box Games releases (the others being Shadow of the Sun and Stone & Relic). I recently agreed with their assessment in my review. They were highly involved in it, and they're both our resident Analysis Paralysis sufferers, so it was quite a long game around an hour, despite a regular playtime of about 30 minutes. Elliott won by a sizable amount because Adam had significantly flubbed his first draft phase, but they still both had a good time.
Once people arrived, we played a quick game of Master Plan from the recent Minigame Library from Level 99 Games while we waited to see if anyone else was going to show up. Lots of fun and laughter, and we all agreed that it's a really fun filler game held back a bit by its lack of variety. My review here. It's the first "real-space" game I've played meaning that you can place cards anywhere on the table, as they're the spaces your pieces move between as you play.
Lastly, we played a lengthy session of Space Cadets. We all liked it, though it was a learning session, so it took longer than it's supposed to and we're still not entirely sure quite how everything works together. I started out as taking the Helm (and steering the ship into all sorts of asteroid fields) and working the Jump Drive, but an early Shift Change put me as acting Captain. We barely jumped out after scooping up our objective (three crystals) and weathering a strong assault very gripping, very tense. I suspect I like Space Alert a bit better for my real-time space-disaster gaming goodness, but it was still a lot of fun, and we'll try it again in the future.
Has anyone tried any of these? What board games are you playing?
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The Resistance: Avalon got a few plays recently and I thought it was ace, the Merlin mechanic really improves on the game by giving the spies something to actually figure out during the game, rather than just be focused on lying. Now the good guys are trying to figure out the spies, and the spies are trying to figure out Merlin.
Played a first game of Libertalia which... is a strange game - hard to explain why, though it's very good. It's sort of a vastly simplified deck-builder with tons of player interaction thrown in instead. You're looking for combos for cards, but getting those cards out safely requires reading and bluffing your opponents.
Finally got the Fantasy Flight edition of Cosmic Encounter on the table and it's just as crazy as ever. Never have I seen a game with so many possible combinations. There were four of us, and by the end of the game I could see 2 or 3 different strategies I could have taken to do better under those circumstances. Circumstances that will never occur again, as the four of us each randomly chose one alien (each with their own power) from a deck of (currently) 110 aliens. And that's even before you add in other stuff from the expansions like rewards deck, tech and hazards. If your group like talking loads, and seeing crazy weird interactions of mechanics happen then it's well worth it.
Speaking of crazy weird stuff, we're 9 games in to Risk: Legacy, the game that re-started my board game obsession and got this current game group together. That game is wonderful - lots has been written about the stuff you do to permanently mark the board, and the unlocks that completely change the rules when certain stuff happens, but what's not mentioned much is the 15-game campaign for ultimate naming rights on the board. It adds a level of investment to the whole thing (especially if you can play with the same group the entire campaign) and you'll end up spending time after the game or the following day thinking and planning on just what you can do or how you can approach the next couple of games to do something surprising and manage a win.
With the exception of Risk Legacy, I've played and enjoyed all of those. The Resistance: Avalon is definitely excellent with the right group, and I agree that the Merlin mechanic gives the spies something interesting to do (and gives a much-needed boost to the good guys). It occupies a funny place with my group because they prefer the theme of the original Resistance, but can't stand to play without the various boards and character cards from Avalon.
Libertalia is indeed a strange one. I never feel the urge to play it, but when I get talked into it I always have a lot of fun. I always find myself wishing it had more though.
I have Risk Legacy but I haven't found the time to play it yet. I play with two gaming groups, one with four players (consisting of me, my wife, and my two friends who rent my basement, so they're always available for games) and an every-Friday gathering that fields anywhere from 6 to 15, so I don't have that sweet spot 5-player number that I'd want for a Risk Legacy series of games. What I really need to do is figure out a fifth person who can play with my regular 4-person group, but the two people I've recommended have been vetoed by the other members of the group.
I'd say you'd be best trying to play it on your Friday group, unless you actually play a game with that many at once?
If you brought a 5th into your four man group, what do you do when everyone wants to play but it's only a four person game?"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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We're playing Risk Legacy with five, but there's nothing I've seen that would throw of the game balance playing with four instead. There's more room to spread out, so potentially bigger armies, but it's offset by having one fewer HQ on the board, making it tougher to get VPs that way.
7 Wonders (Leaders expansion now) is still the game of choice among my people, though. There's so many clever ways to try to win, and not having to wait for your turn to come around again because they're simultaneous is really nice (also a nice thing about the character-selection part of Libertalia).
I also randomly found some Fantasy Flight games "Inkognito" and "King's Gate" at Goodwill for <= $2 apiece, and I will just say...they were alright for the price. =P Inkognito is like a less-awful version of Clue without dice-rolling, for 4 players (it says you can play with 2 players but NEVER DO IT, it's THE WORST)...the deductions are kind of fun but sometimes you can go 4 or 6 or 8 rounds without even getting to do anything (as happened to my mother the one time she played). King's Gate is actually pretty fun if you're up for staring at a chaotic board covered in numbers, doing a bunch of basic arithmetic in your head and occasionally being clever -- but it feels like a game that you break out when you want to play something novel after 100 games of 7 Wonders, rather than a game that becomes a regular part of the rotation.The Secret of Gargoyle Manor, a browser point-and-click adventure about retrieving your lost hat whatever the cost, is something you could play!
I'm sure it would be fine with 4, but I can't escape the feeling I'd be missing out on something. Five players sounds like such a great dynamic for that game (I've read the rules and seen it played a couple times), I'd be afraid playing with four would be dominated by two rough alliances. At any rate, I need to either figure out a fifth player or just shut up and settle on four.
In other news, last night I had a great Summoner Wars match with my wife. SW is easily my favorite board game out there, and it's the one that got my current group together it still makes it to the table about half of our game nights. This time it was Phoenix Elves vs. The Filth. The Phoenix Elves are punks who have loads of precise attacks that get guaranteed hits instead of rolling dice; the Filth are cultists who mutate their troops into hideous new forms. The elves were keeping ahead by killing off all my expensive mutations, though at the end I managed to create a powerful combo by mutating two cultists intoa fast Bestial Mutant and a Flying Mutant, who proceeded to gang up on the elven summoner to barely win the game. Very close, the way SW often is, and very fun.
How easy to pick up is SW? I've been meaning to get it but my LFGS has been out of it for a while and they can't get an order in just yet.
It looks very entertaining. Me and my girlfriend are trying to find card and board games that work well with two players"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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over on my blog. You can also play with 4, but then it kind of drags.
If you're interested in picking it up, any of the three starter sets are pretty good. Phoenix Elves vs. Tundra Orcs is probably the most immediately balanced, since the goblins in Guild Dwarves vs. Cave Goblins are a little tougher to learn. The Master Set comes with 6 full races, and many of them are good for beginners (the Mountain Vargath, Sand Goblins, and Shadow Elves being the best options, while the Benders, Swamp Orcs, and Deep Dwarves require a good grasp of some strategy).
I definitely recommend it. I've never had quite so much fun with a two-player game.
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Due to some personal home problems I am not playing any game. But to be honest I am trying to complete "The habbit". I really like to play this game "the hobbit" game is not just the game is also like a movie and have so many thrills.
Last edited by Carver; 15-01-2014 at 07:51 AM.Have a wonderful day!
Anyway, to veer more on-topic, today I played Smallworld (+ Cursed mini-expansion) with my two sons (6 and 9). I lost. And I didn't even 'let them win'. I did realise half-way through that my in-decline Underground Dwarves should still be earning me tokens, but the margin was still big enough at the end for that not to have mattered. Will ask for a rematch tomorrow!
A thought occured to me after playing, and that was recording the game (players, races used, end points total etc) for future geeky stats usage. Do any of you guys do that?
As for recording my games... Not sure how many people go to the effort, but I'm one of them. I probably focus on it too much, tbh there are a few games that I like doing it for, like DungeonQuest, where it's rare enough for anybody to win that writing their name, score, and the date on the inside of the box feels right. Or for Summoner Wars, where we keep a running tally of who's ahead. Though for most of the games I play, there isn't much point. It's not like I look back on those records and sigh at what good times we had. Well, not often, anyway. :)
Anyway, this week's game night was another smaller one. I suspect the end of the semester is taking its toll. Even so, we were able to play four rad games.
I'm fascinated by deckbuilding games that aren't only about the deckbuilding, so I've been playing quite a lot of Core Worlds lately. It's a cross between "pure" deckbuilding games like Dominion and "deckbuilding-plus-boardgame" stuff like Mage Knight and City of Remnants. And I really like it. Thematically, each player is a barbarian star kingdom encroaching into the power vacuum left by the collapse of a major Galactic Empire. You travel through different sectors, from "barbaric" and "frontier" worlds through "industrial" and "luxury" and beyond, conquering planets and laying claim to massive capital ships, elite infantry squads, experimental projects, heroes, etc. It's simple to learn but it can be quite tricky to strike a balance between maintaining your space power, ground power, abilities, and an economy, all while generating victory points.
Next we played City of Remnants again. It's the new game from Plaid Hat Games, and it comes out later this week (I managed to get it about a month early because I preordered). This was my seventh game, and I finally felt like I'd figured it out well enough to write a review. Overall I enjoy it, though it's definitely a bit fiddly it kind of reminds me of the type of stuff Fantasy Flight Games was putting out a few years ago: big, ambitious, and it has some really, really weird rules. It's one of the few games that my group has ever been divided on, which is unfortunate because I want to like it. Probably more than I actually do.
We also played Blades of Legend from the Minigame Library from Level 99 Games. Of the six games in the library, this is the one with the lowest ranks over on The Geek, but I wanted to review it anyway , so we soldiered through (I have no choice, I'm a completionist, and we'd already started with Master Plan last week). The concept is cool: it's a hidden teams game where two players are warring Masters and everyone else is a Wielder caught between, and other than your own allegiance, you're never sure who's supporting which Master. Lots of colorful weapons and an interesting idea didn't save this one from being sort of boring. The rules are illogical, you don't do much during your turn, there's lots of downtime, and there's no reliable way to deduce who's allied with whom. I'm hoping the others turn out better; I'm hopeful because next week we're doing Infinity Dungeon, which Rab Florence absolutely loved.
Finally, we played Infiltration again. It's awesome. And fast. And thematic. And has a great risk-vs-reward mechanic. And really nothing else but for some reason that's enough.
I'm assuming you guys have played Citadels, that's my favorite.
Tzolk'in, which is a rather clever worker placement game with cogs and corn. What more do you want? Well, I'd like to actually win a game, but that's a matter of time I guess, right? Nothing to do with strategies and bad timing. None at all!
Also looking to buy Libertalia!, which sounds great. But I have to be careful not to have another backlog with boardgames as well, so I'll wait some more.
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Halo is designed to make the player think.I like to play it due its licensing and having proper trade mark and copyrights.
Citadels is good to play but Halo is simply the best.
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I've heard Tzolk'in is really great, but I hate worker placement. How would that affect it?
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It won't bring you around if you dislike the basics of low interaction and high optimisation. If you're just tired of the mechanic from over-familiarity then the cogs add something but you're still going to be staring at the board working out whether it's better to place on cog A or cog B. I enjoy it plenty, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't like worker placement.


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Volusia County sheriff's deputies found 50-year-old Danielle Halverson dead in her bedroom Monday after a friend got worried when he couldn't reach her. He called the sheriff's office, reporting that Halverson had been depressed lately and had spoken of suicide.
Investigators say Halverson left a suicide note.
She was arrested in October and charged with leaving the scene of a March 17 crash that killed 14-year-old Juliana Taylor Hobbs. She was also charged with tampering with evidence.
Records show she told deputies the crash might have happened when she reached for her cellphone.
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I have been a stay at home mum for a long time. I would like to help my hubby out financially but my youngest childwho is now 6 years old doesn't like me to go to work. I wouldn't want to come out as not listening to her. How do I go about this?
I have been a stay at home mum for a long time. I would like to help my hubby out financially but my youngest childwho is now 6 years old doesn't like me to go to work. I wouldn't want to come out as not listening to her. How do I go about this?
Dear MumR,
Thank you for your question - it's one which many mums ponder at some point.
I think you are absolutely right to prioritise your family. Only you and your family can really decide what works best for you. Sometimes both parents have to work out of financial necessity but, if you have flexibility with this, then it is worth bearing in mind that you can never get back these precious years with your children and it is clear that you have a wonderful bond with your daughter. Of course, working parents can also have a wonderful, strong attachment with their children but this may take more planning compared to a parent who is home all of the time.
Will your youngest be going to school? Are you considering home schooling? What age do children start school where you live?
Alternative options to both parents being away from their children include:
- working from home (in the evenings, when the children are in bed, often works best)
- a job that involves your children such as childminding another child at the same time
- sharing the work with your partner so that one of you is with the children in the daytime
- flexible work such as dog walking and babysitting
Do you have any extended family who can help with your children and who your children are happy to be around? Does your daughter go to any sort of kindergarten that you could work around?
I know it's not easy juggling things but I think you are starting off wisely by prioritising your family life.
Warm wishes,
It is my wish that I can be a stay at home mum. But my husband is against it for financial reasons.As best as I could, I take care of our daughters whenever I can and even though I am exhausted from work. I have been applying online for 4-5 months now looking for a stay at home job, to now avail. Any suggestion on how to balance work and family? or where to look for an online permanent job? Thank you.
Dear 2jhoan,
Thank you for your post. That must be difficult. What work sector are you working in at the moment?
You could try looking at online employers such as elance or odesk.
Have you considered being self employed or working freelance? Popular jobs for mums at home with children include: childminding, proofreading and selling crafts as a work at home mum. Obviously some of these options depend on your previous work experience and skill set. But I would encourage you to keep looking and searching through other possibilities to get the work-life balance that you hope for.
Another option is working in the evenings or perhaps on at least one day of the weekend when your husband is able to look after your children.
In the meantime, take heart that you are providing financially for your children and enjoying spending time with them when you are home from work.
Best wishes,
I'm a stay-at-home mum for 2 years now and my kids are 5 and 2 years old. I actually love staying at home with my kids and share great moments with them. My husband is working but, of course, I have to prepare for my children's future. It is okay now for me to get a job? or it's too soon?
Dear Leslie,
I would say that each family situation is unique and only you and your husband can really make this decision. Some of the factors to consider are:
- Do you need the money now or are you managing on one income?
- What would your financial situation be like if you went back to work taking into account childcare costs? Do you consider the extra finances worth this amount of childcare time?
- What childcare arrangements would your children have? What are your feelings about this?
- How well do you think your children would adapt to the new childcare arrangements?
- What would the impact be of you working on family life?
- How much would you want/need to work? (e.g. could this be part-time/ around your husband's work, in the evenings etc)
Warm wishes,
My husband and I are both working before my younger child was born. It was my mother-in-law who took care of my child. It's different now because my mother-in-law is no longer here. So our choice is to get someone to babysit our children which I'm not comfortable with. So I think I should wait for them to grow older?
I think you have probably answered your own question there Leslie
I do think we need to be comfortable and happy with every parenting choice that we make. If you feel uneasy about something relating to your children then there probably is a good reason. You and your husband know them best of all!
Good luck with whatever you choose but please post back if you want a 'listening ear'.
Best wishes,


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This class section (CRN 312130) is conducted on the Internet. This class section has a 16-week schedule and is not self-paced.
Upon completion of MKT 120, MKT 130, MKT 150, students are eligible to apply for the Certificate of Competence in Retailing.
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>General Running>Weirdest thing you've ever seen on the ground during a run..?
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I find all kinds of neat stuff when I am running. Let's see, this year I have found $20, a machete, a golf club (pitching wedge), a slightly banged up pocket knife, and a nice Surefire flashlight that works great and is super light. And I have come across lots of women's underwear. Not certain why, but I think there may be a fair amount of fun happening on the back roads of Georgia besides my running. Oh, and last year I came across a deer that ran across the road and into the pasture, and then it's fawn came out in the in the middle of the road. The little thing was brand new, and hunkered down like it was trying to hide from me but it was in the middle of the road. I heard a car coming so I scooped it up and put it quickly across the fence in the direction of mama. if it weighed 10 lbs that is all. It ran off towards mama and hid in the thick johnson grass.
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My friend and I saw this on a run and stopped to look at it for like 15 minutes because we could NOT figure out what it was and we were flipping out!!! I finally got home and googled "weird cricket roach" and it ACTUALLY CAME UP.
Okay so maybe we were overreacting but it was HUGE...
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I hope you flipped it back over to save it from sure death in the sunlight.
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Today I found someones set of top teeth. How is it possible to not notice your teeth falling out?
One day I decided I wanted to become a runner, so I did.
It was already dead
I think if I saw that on the ground outside, I would be so scarred that I would stop leaving the house. That is legit disgusting.
This morning I ran past a little white teddy bear lying on the side of the road. Maybe not weird, but rather sad. I wondered if the kid that lost it was as upset as my daughter would be if she lost hers.
This probably does not count as "weird" but the most "useful thing I have ever seen on the ground when out for a run was a tissue! I was jogging on when my nose started bleeding quite profusely I saw a lovely white and hopefully clean tissue picked it up plugged my nose and continued normal jogging. My better half was mortified when I told her.
So apologies to Zoom Zoom but how about the most useful thing you found out on a run?
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I'm trying to think of useful...not coming up with much. I need to find some money!
I've seen half-empty water bottles while thirsty, before, but I've never been desperate enough to go there.
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Can't tell you how many times I've seen a big jump on the HR graph that correlated with me seeing a dead animal on the ground...
Proboscis Colossus
Every once in awhile, I'll run by a fence that has catfish heads stuck on top of the posts. Like, more than one fence. Even living here as long as I have, I've never understood this. Are they there as a warning against future catfish intruders?
"God guides us on our journey, but careful with those feet." - David Lee Roth, of all people
imagine what your HR would do if you saw that dead animal in the air?
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I have seen a dead squirrel with all the guts and brains along the road (I have seen that multiple times). Another weird thing I saw was a squirrel and a bird playing together. The squirrel was on the ground and the bird was flying low near the squirrel.
I've found anything from a cell phone to a slice of pizza to a pair of poopstained underwear.
Thought of this thread while on my run today as I was passed by a motorcycle towing a coffin. Not sure if he was taking a buddy for a last ride or it was his idea of tow behind storage.
Technically it was on the ground and the weirdest thing I have seen on my runs to date.
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Regarding the sound you hear with this video - provided you are listening to the video through decent ear-buds or head phones or decent speakers connected to your computer, you should be able to hear a reasonable audio recording based off of the Zoom Q3HD which was one of three cameras used to record this. The other two cameras are the Go Pro Hero 3 Silver edition model. Their audio is nowhere near as good as the Zoom Q3HD, so that is why I went with it for the sound.
As for the sound, all members of Ghost B.C. use in-ear monitors, so there are no wedges on the stage for the Zoom to have picked up some guitar, bass, vocals, keys from. Also, there are no amps/cabinets on stage either, so again, no band mix for the Zoom to have picked up. In situations such as these, where set up and tear down is not something where I am afforded the luxury of time, I have to move quickly. That is why I have so far chosen to go with the Zoom Q3HD for the audio. I am always on the lookout for making improvements, but for now, this is as good as it gets for having a VERY mobile unit to capture video and audio. I have mentioned before that I am always open to any suggestions for how to make the sound better. But for what this is and for how quickly I have to get set up and tear down, this is not that bad. Thanks for reading


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Greetings from Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. As the new Global Engagement Manager of MOPA, I'll be reporting to you from here about the new programs we're developing as part of MOPA's global engagement initiative.
But first, what is global engagement? Photography is now part of our everyday lives, worldwide. As such, it has a power role to play in the ways we understand the world, express ourselves, and decide where and when to act on behalf of others. Accordingly, the global engagement initiative intersects participatory photography programs with global concerns in three realms: Social Justice and Human Rights, International Development, and Cross Cultural Understanding. MOPA's global engagement initiative explores these concerns both in San Diego and abroad with comprehensive photography and film programming.
Second... Rwanda? Simply the name of this country elicits powerful emotions like few others in our world. The 1994 genocide, in which 800,000-1,000,000 people were killed in just 100 days, is indisputably one of the most tragic disasters that recent decades have ever seen. Since then, however, the people of Rwanda have been working hard toward a stunning revival. Economic, social, and gender development have made remarkable strides, and Kigali, the capital city, is the crown jewel of Rwanda's accomplishments. Without question, it is one of the most orderly, clean, and safe cities I have ever stepped foot in.
Rwanda still has a very long road ahead, but optimism is felt in most aspects of life. The organizations that I have started to partner with here are enthusiastic to incorporate photography programs into their work. We'll developing collaborations with a spectrum of organizations, including orphanages and HIV/AIDS clinics.
I look forward to sharing more with you about the Global Engagement Initiative. As you see the work that is produced, I think you'll agree too that photography is more important than ever.
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WANDERERS legend John McGinlay has stoked up the FA Cup fires, insisting Wanderers can claim another Premier League scalp on Saturday.
After dumping Sunderland out of the world's oldest football cup competition in a third round replay, the former Scotland international sees no reason why Dougie Freedman's men cannot get a result at the first time of asking against Everton.
And McGinlay reckons Wanderers' fans could hold the key to unsettling a team that has been held to goalless draws by Swansea and Southampton in their last two outings.
"This is a proper cup tie," he said. "I've spoken with people this week and there seems to be a bit of excitement in the air.
"Those who maybe haven't been down to the Reebok for a while are thinking they'll give it another go. There's something special about the atmosphere for this kind of game.
"That's great. Everton are bringing a lot of fans, so we'll need to match them.
"It has been a difficult season, particularly at home. And for some games you've been able to sense that even before kick-off.
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Welcome to Tuesday's The Crap We Missed where we learn from Snooki & Vinny how genital warts become a hindrance to walking if left untreated, Kelsey Grammer isn't even bothering with pants anymore, Ryan Seacrest just plays it cool and casually scans his surroundings for a public restroom, and apparently Mike Tyson gets to be famous all over again. That means public appearances and faces like this just before a reporter gets mauled, all because you couldn't stop high-fiving each other and yelling 'He was fucking HILARIOUS in The Hangover, bro!'
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It's 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller's old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the Committee on Organized Crime to put the squeeze on the mob - and anyone who ever associated with them. Heller tries to lay low, but when ex-cop Bill Drury cooperates and mafia moll Jackie Payne sings, Heller finds himself catapulted into the middle of the investigation.
Quick wits and tough talk swirl in the middle of Kefauver's senatorial charade as Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction to stunning results. When Drury is murdered and Jackie disappears, Heller decides it's time for a little payback - and maybe some ice cold justice. With the mob and Kefauver's crime committee hot on his trail, Heller mixes with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jayne Mansfield, and Senator Joe McCarthy on a wild Windy City ride.
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Galicia is right on the Atlantic. This remote region has a coastline with many small islands, inlets, beautiful white sandy beaches, but also rugged rock formations. La Coruña is the only sizeable coastal town with some beautiful beaches. More inland you will find oak, pine, and eucalyptus forests, undulating farmland and many natural areas. Here, you will also come across ?hórreos?, traditional granaries. You can visit a number of monumental cities in this region. The main attraction is the pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela, a listed UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Cantabria borders on Asturia. Its diverse scenery offers green valleys, high mountain peaks, forests, rivers, and beaches. The southern part of this region borders on the high mountains of the Cordillera Cantábrica. This region has no fewer than six protected nature reserves, the most important of which is the fabulous mountain area of Picos de Europa, partly a national park. It is an interlinked area of gorges and ravines - a walkers? paradise.
Spain?s largest reservoir, the Ebro reservoir, can also be found in this region. Along the coast you will find monumental seaside resorts, such as Santander, and small fishing villages. Santillana del Mar is of the major coastal towns. This mediaeval town has a beautiful historic centre. It is not far from the famous prehistoric caves of Altamira. The diverse scenery has many opportunities to offer for the sporty type: mountain climbing, sailing, walking, caving, horse riding, golf, parapente, and even skiing.
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Derek, that chart is awesome. I didn't even realize there was a group for newer runners aiming for less than 1000 miles/year. My estimated "goal" for 2007 is 720 miles (appr 60 mi/mth). I see there is a group for 621 Miles (1000 Kms). I'm not familiar with the groups, but if I wanted to join a pace group is that the one I'd join? Considering I may have some months I don't reach my goal, 621 miles may be about right for me. Great work!
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New PSA Bylaws will take effect on October 14, 2017, after the PSA International conference: Download the PSA Bylaws that will take effect on October 14, 2017
ABOUT PSAThe Photographic Society of America (PSA) is a worldwide organization for anyone with an interest in photography. Founded in 1934, the Society is for casual shutterbugs, serious amateurs, and professional photographers.
PSA has members in over 80 countries. Individual and photo organization memberships offer a wide variety of services and activities: a monthly journal; online photo galleries; image evaluation; study groups; courses; competitions; an annual conference; opportunities for recognition of photographic achievement and service; and discounts on photography-related products and services. To learn more about PSA and its activities, visit About PSA.