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Karrie Webb is forecasting a stern examination for the field in this week's Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale.
"I think it's the hardest set up I've seen at Birkdale over the four times we've been here," said three-time champion Webb ahead of Thursday's opening round.
"The long stuff off the fairways is as thick and penalising as I've seen."
World No.7 Webb heads a nine-strong Australian contingent which includes Sunday's Ladies European Masters runner-up Nikki Campbell and teenage world No.1 amateur Minjee Lee.
They're joined by Sarah-Jane Smith, Sarah Kemp and qualifiers Stacey Keating, amateur Su-Hyun Oh, Stephanie Na and Bree Arthur.
Arthur got in the hard way, winning a seven-way playoff for the final spot with a birdie at the first hole.
Webb has a great record in the championship, having won in 1995 and 1997 before it became a major and again in 2002.
The seven-time major champion is coming off a tidy 20th placing at five-under in the Ladies European Masters.
While praising the condition of the English course, Webb warned the field could struggle if the wind gets up.
"The game plan is a little different on some holes because where we've been able to bail in the long stuff in the past now it's really not a great option."
"My game is in pretty good shape. I need to trust and believe in what I'm doing."
Campbell, 33, is appearing in only her fourth major, having played the majority of her golf in Japan.
"I have never made the cut in the British Open, so that obviously would be great," said Campbell.
"I just want to play well and try to use the experience that I have had in the last couple of majors that I have played.
"The US Open was the first major cut I made. It is different golf in the majors, so I just want to keep getting better and hopefully improve each time I play in one."
She agreed with Webb on the task ahead at Royal Birkdale.
"It's tough, the start is tough, the first three or four holes are brutal and if it the wind blows it going to be really tough. It's long and it's very punishing if you are off line."
The defending champion is the world No.1 Stacy Lewis who will start favourite, having won three times this year and amassed a tour-best $US1,881,227 ($A2 million) in prizemoney while racking up 13 top-10s.
Fellow Americans Lexi Thompson and Michelle Wie, the season's first two major winners, will expect to give Lewis a run for her money.


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If experience matters in the real estate market, then the Ryans have it covered. More than two decades ago, when John Ryan teamed up with his mother, Anne, he brought about 15 years of prior experience in commercial real estate. "We both brought a lot of diverse talents to the table," John Ryan says. Today, the team focuses its efforts on upper-end residential properties, with an average sale price of about $1.6 million. "There are no other agents with that kind of an average," he says. "We know the properties and the clientele. We approach it in a very businesslike way and our clients like that."
So when they were approached about the estate property at 13398 Conway Road in Town & Country, it was a perfect fit. The original Maritz & Young home, built in the French Normandy style, is situated on 5.58 acres. At approximately 6,500 square feet, it was made for entertaining. "The current owner has retired from his business, which was event-planning," Ryan notes. "He designed it so he could have large events here, especially outdoor parties." The grounds feature multiple terraces, along with a newer saltwater pool and a tennis court. The outbuildings include a six-car garage and workshop, as well as an 80-foot fire engine garage. "The last owner had two fire trucks," he explains. "But it could be used for storage, four-wheelers or anything else."
The interior of the home was fully refurbished, and the current owner also built a substantial addition, Ryan notes. "It has everything people look for in this kind of house, including a lighting system—you flip one switch and all the lights in the house go on—and a whole-house music system with controls in many of the rooms." The remodeled kitchen features a center island and breakfast bar, along with custom cabinetry. Finishes throughout the home pair antiques with high-quality replicas, and murals painted by Claude Breckwoldt adorn many of the walls. "Some of the rooms look almost like wallpaper, but they're actually murals," Ryan says. "Several ceilings have artwork, as well. It's much more than a little faux painting here and there."
Another highlight is the home's library, which boasts a 12-foot ceiling with French doors on three sides. It opens to a limestone terrace that steps down to the lawn. "It's very elegant with a European feeling. The room itself is very warm and inviting," Ryans says. The lower level likewise is a perfect gentleman's retreat, with a wet bar, secondary kitchen, wine cellar and family room all featuring custom casework and finishes.
Conveniently located near St. Luke's Hospital and Maryville University, the home is on Conway Road between Highway 141 and Mason Road.
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At 6,420 square feet and surrounded by 5.58 acres, the home at 13398 Conway Road in Town & Country is listed at $3.895 million. Unique features of the completely refurbished property include a gated entry, custom mural paintings in many rooms, a saltwater pool and tennis court. For more information call John Ryan and Anne Ryan, The Ryan Tradition, at 993-8000 or visit theryantradition.com. Cover photos by Steven B. Smith and Steve Stelzer: Eye in the Sky

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There is an image that the US has become an nation of shopaholics driven primarily by consumerism. Lee Eisenberg, the author of Shoptimism, believes that this is not truly the case. He sees that the average person still retains some of the frugality on which the US was founded and believes that most people that spend still struggle with the feeling of guilt..
What do you think? Are we a nation of shopaholics, a nation of closet frugalistas or a combination of the two?


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Meet the Models — Gabby Westbrook-Patrick
Gabby is 16 and likes maths and Rihanna.
It's kind of depressing that Gabby Westbrook-Patrick is more of a woman than I'll ever be, and that she is many years my junior. She is insane looking. Like, insane-beautiful, not insane-crazy. I caught up with her at the MBFWA casting we held with our contributors Mark Vassallo and Yimmy Yayo and tried to bond with her over liking Rihanna.
Ingrid Kesa: How old are you?
Does that mean you're in year 10 at school?
Year 11.
Are you from Sydney?
I was born in New Zealand but I've lived in Sydney since I was three so I'm practically Australian.
Where abouts in Sydney do you live?
Paddington; just around the corner.
Is this your first time walking at Fashion Week?
That's exciting. Have you walked in any shows before?
Well, I did LIFEwithBIRD this morning, and that was really amazing. The people were so lovely as well.
So it was a good first time?
Yeah, it was really good.
What Australian designers do you like?
I really like Kirrily Johnston's stuff. I like Bec & Bridge too, they have some cool things for my age as well.
What other jobs have you been doing lately?
I did an editorial for Black Rainbow which is a French magazine, and I did some stuff for Dion Lee and then a Mink Pink campaign.
Is it hard to juggle modeling with school?
Yeah, it's really hard to balance everything.
Are your teachers cool with it?
Yeah, my school's pretty flexible but it is hard to manage everything especially going into year 12 at the end of this year.
Do you know what subjects you're going to do?
I'm going to do French, economics, English obviously, 2 unit maths, and bio.
What's a band that you really like at the moment?
I like Rihanna.
Me too.
I like festival music as well.


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Business Leadership Roundtable
Business Leadership Roundtable is an invitation-only luncheon that serves as a hub for breakthrough thinking for top-tier members of Orlando, Inc. The focus of the Roundtable is to connect decision makers and successful leaders with each other, provide a forum to sharpen leadership skills and gain insight into the practices that will help them achieve success within their organization, the community and the world.
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Like a tongue for computers, printer ink is the only way your electronic companion can properly communicate with the outside world. Keep your printer pontificating with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of ink and toner refills at Cartridge World in Creve Coeur. This deal is not valid for OEM cartridges.
Cartridge World, which has been in business for more than 20 years, is one of the world's biggest ink and toner retailers, and it reduces waste by allowing you to refill and reuse well-loved printer cartridges. Roy G. Biv-ify your printer with black or color ink for assorted printer types. Based on the original condition, inkjet cartridges can be refilled up to four or five times, with laser cartridges enjoying many more happy returns.
Refills are usually completed on the spot with the swiftness and agility of a well-trained pit crew, and the Cartridge World experts are happy to field all questions within the bounds of the cartridge universe. Cartridge World offers in-house recycling programs for spent ink pouches, and by keeping almost nine million cartridges out of landfills, it clears junkyard room for failed fork/napkin prototypes and last season's feather boa craze.


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Octaspire Crates! is a scriptable, skinnable, extensible, and relocatable 3D action puzzle game. All the missions, game entities (or crates), game states, and configuration of the game engine are implemented as plain text Lua-scripts. So, if you know Lua, you can write new game entities, game states, missions, and levels with any text editor, without any special development tools. New skins can be created with any image editor that can save .png images, dropped into a new subdirectory under the resources/textures directory, and changed in the configuration file config.lua. Crates has also its own (simple) implementations for all the different container classes it needs (like vector, string, and so on) to keep the external dependencies fewer.
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Release Notes: The NSIS installer script for Windows has been modified.
Release Notes: Four new game entities (or crates) have been added: activeenemy.lua, ambushenemy.lua, passiveenemy.lua, and switch.lua. Seven new levels to the tutorial mission have been added: 3 more for enemies and 4 for switches.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.


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Traffic Signal Installation at Aurora Avenue and Webster Street Begins Week of May 16
Signal to Improve Access to Water Street District and New Parking Deck
(The new traffic signal went live on August 11, 2016. )
Pending weather or unforeseen circumstances, work is slated to begin the week of May 16 to install a new traffic signal at the intersection of Aurora Avenue and Webster Street. The new traffic signal will improve access to the Water Street District and new parking deck, both of which are currently under construction, as well as better pedestrian access to Naper Settlement.
Work will last until approximately mid-August. Daily lane closures from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aurora Avenue will be necessary to install the signal; two-way traffic will be maintained throughout construction. Flaggers will control traffic during some of the operations.
Motorists should use caution when driving through the work zone and expect delays. For their safety, pedestrians should cross Aurora Avenue using the signalized crossings at Main Street or Eagle Street.
For more information on the Water Street District development, please visit www.naperville.il.us/waterstreetdistrict.aspx. For more information on the City of Naperville, visit www.naperville.il.us. To sign up for the City's notification system Naper Notify and receive important information via a phone call, text message, email or smart phone app, including traffic alerts, visit www.napernotify.com.
About Naperville: Located 28 miles west of Chicago, Naperville, Ill., is home to approximately 145,000 people. This vibrant, thriving city consistently ranks as a top community in the nation in which to live, raise children and retire. The city is home to acclaimed public and parochial schools, the best public library system in the country, an array of healthcare options and an exceptionally low crime rate. Naperville has ready access to a variety of public transportation, housing and employment options. The city's diversified employer base features high technology firms, retailers and factories, as well as small and home-based businesses. Residents also enjoy world-class parks, diverse worship options, the opportunity to serve on several City boards and commissions, a thriving downtown shopping and dining area, a renowned outdoor history museum known as Naper Settlement and an active civic community. For more information, please visit our website at www.naperville.il.us.


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Reader submitted photos of San Francisco Country Club in Chihuahua
in this hole you have a nice view of the city of Chihuahua,this is a difficult hole because its a hole with hazzards in both sides and you can see just a little bit of the fairway and the green down the hill.... I love this HOLE!!!
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Uploaded by: Gustavo Coss
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YAD VASHEM/ The Jews are starting to change their minds about Pius XII
Pius XII (1876-1958)
Everyone has been emphasizing the decision of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to change the caption under the photo of Pius XII, mitigating and historicizing the historical judgment of him, and it undoubtedly represents a significant piece of news. First of all, it contributes, in the meager smallness of a caption in a museum, though an important one, to the relocation of an undisputed protagonist of the events of the twentieth century and an extremely important pontiff for the history of the Church to his proper historical dimension. Then, it also helps to crack the "black legend" that has accompanied the public image of Pius XII since the early sixties, roughly since the performance of the drama by Rolf Hochhuth, "The Vicar", which staged an indifferent and silent Pope in the face of persecution and extermination of Jews.
Much has been written and said on the "political" and "religious" silence of Pius XII. Today, however, a large volume of studies has allowed the image of guilty silence with which he had been branded to be overturned, revealing, perhaps, the conscious and responsible silence of a Pope who strove to save the lives of thousands of human beings. On this issue, in the coming years, a key contribution will be provided by the Vatican archives, as soon as they are put in order and made available to scholars.
Beyond this, however, there is still another, and perhaps more important, factor that arises from changing the caption of the Holocaust Museum. It is an aspect that refers directly to the way in which modern man places himself in the world: how he lives in it and talks about it; how he goes through it and describes it; the way in which he makes it his own and reshapes it according to his perception. It is an aspect that refers, therefore, to that specific relationship that exists between the narration of events and their public representation, between what happens and what appears to have happened, or in other words, the relationship between the facts and the images of the facts in the minds of men.
It is a decisive relationship, especially in reference to the events of the Church and its public perception, a perception that, not surprisingly, was strongly modified in the course of the twentieth century and with great intensity in the sixties, with the Second Vatican Council. The Council was a unique and resolving event, according to some, that broke the historical continuity of the Constantinian church. The fact is that, well beyond any academic dispute, a new way of looking at Christianity and its history was forged among the educated and intellectuals from around the world, and even among large groups of believers. What emerged was a kind of symbolic-moral watershed through which to reinterpret the "old" and the "new", "conservation" and "progress" and, perhaps, even the "past" and the "future".


text: Image Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE), has picked up all U.S. rights to Mandate Pictures' Paradise , the much-anticipated directorial debut of Academy Award ® winner Diablo Cody. Based on her original screenplay, Paradise stars Julianne Hough ( Rock of Ages, Footloose), Russell Brand ( Rock of Ages, Despicable Me), Octavia Spencer (Academy Award ® winner for The Help), Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") and Holly Hunter ( The Incredibles, Academy Award ® winner for The Piano). Bill Bromiley, Chief Acquisitions Officer for Image Entertainment, made today's announcement at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival. "Diablo Cody is a terrific storyteller and her gift is evident in this film, Paradise ," commented Bromiley. "It has a talented cast and we know audiences will love the film. We are thrilled to be in business with her and the Paradise team." "I'm thrilled to be able to share our labor of love with the world," added Cody. "I had such a great cast and crew to work with and it shows." The comedy follows a sheltered young woman (Hough) who loses her faith after a plane crash and decides to go to Las Vegas to experience the wild side of life. On her journey, she meets unlikely companions (Brand and Spencer) who inadvertently help her find her true self. Mason Novick ( 500 Days of Summer) produced the film. Executive producers include Nathan Kahane ( Hope Springs), Nicole Brown ( 50/50) and Diablo Cody. Matt Leonetti, Jr. and Dave Koplan co-produced. The deal was negotiated by Bill Bromiley, Mark Ward and Michael Bayer on behalf of Image Entertainment and Liesl Copland of WME Global along with Dan Freedman on behalf of Mandate Pictures. International sales are being handled by Lionsgate.


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Yesterday the second official teaser trailer for the upcoming X-Files 2 film was uploaded to YouTube (above), churning Files fans' stomachs with the possibilities for the hugely-awaited film. Snow! It has snow! What does that mean? Ooh, Scully looks gorgeous with long hair! Wow, Billy Connolly looks even more insane than normal! Amanda Peet – oh noes! Wait, was that Xzibit?!
To celebrate the film getting a release date of July 25th, I've rounded up some of the best X-Files related products and applications available on the internet. It's what Mulder would've wanted.
1.) Fanmade PC tower case on eBay – currently on $50 with no bids, the tower has six drive bays and two floppy bays, plus several carefully-chiseled see-through bits. Plus a big 'X' etched into that metallic green spraypaint, which, as the seller says, is 'great for THE X FILES Fan!'
2.) Scully autopsy figurine – man or woman, I'm sure you'll agree with me that Scully is completely and utterly gorgeous. I once dressed up as her for a fancy-dress school disco when I was 12, such was my love for her. I'm sure you'll agree she is most attractive when donning her autopsy garb, so for £24.99, you can reenact those scenes with this figurine. And then some. Ahem.
3.) X-Files: The Game – I remember playing this on the PlayStation when it came out in 1999, but don't think I ever got around to finishing it. If you never played it, or just want to give it another go, it's only £2.99 on eBay.
4.) Addicted To The X-Files Facebook application – 469 people on the 'book use this application daily, which puts a daily quote onto your profile, displays your level of geekdom, and all sorts.
5.) Chillpak – bizarrely, Dean Haglung, who played Ringo from the Lone Gunmen, fancies himself as an inventor, and way back in 2004 once comic-con signings dried up, he created this Chillpak device, basically a gel pack which you rest your laptop on, to cool it down. $24.95 for helping an out-of-work actor.
6.) X-Files complete box-set – with all nine series on DVD, you need not ever leave your house again. I started re-watching the show from the pilot episode a year ago, and am almost ready to begin watching series four. It takes ages! And at £179.99, you'd hope so.
7.) Sony Discman – given to the crew who worked on X-Files as a Christmas present, it's got the logo on it, and comes with a matching CD wallet. Not bad for $3.25.
8.) X-Files 2 Twitter – they just added me five minutes ago, and it appears they've only just signed up today. Still, they're bringing fresh news and spoilers on the new film, so worth an add.
Circle July 25th in your diaries, folks – THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the question, though I suspect I may know the > answer. Could you be a bit more specific? > Yes - definitely. See below. > I'm not sure what you mean by "optimized away so they won't show up on a > call to eval". And what, spoecifically, are "lexical variables"? > Variables that have scope determined lexically? > Yes I mean variables with scopes determined lexically - I thought that's what they are called - is there another term for them? lexically-scoped variable/identifier, local variable? So what I am trying to do is to build an interpreter, hopefully a metacircular one so I can leverage racket as much as possible, but without using the built-in eval, i.e. I need to construct my own lambda, etc. In this interpreter, identifiers are resolved against a custom environment made of an immutable hash table. This works well for toplevel calls, but when coming to lexically-scoped variables the choice isn't as certain. The simplest approach I can think of is to put it into the same environment. This also work nicely w.r.t. shadowing since they effective overwrite the local copy of the environment (it's an immutable hash table so other references are not affected). But what I've read about lexical scoping is that the variables do not really exist since they are substituted away - they do not leave trace on the namespace: (let ((a 2)) (eval 'a)) ;; => Error: reference to undefined identifier: a So I am trying to figure out what is a better representation. What I can think of so far all involve some sort of activation frame for holding the values. That basically means I will need to maintain my own stack, and I was trying to see if there are simpler ways to approach the problem. Please let me know if this is still being unclear. Thanks. yc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20101201/82bda480/attachment.html>
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|From: Benjamin L. Russell (dekudekuplex at yahoo.com)
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Two sites that have interesting programming exercises are the following: Project Euler: http://projecteuler.net/ Problems: http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=view Rosetta Code: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page Solutions by programming task: http://www.rosettacode.org/rosettacode/w/index.php?title=Category:Solutions_by_Programming_Task Of the above two, I would first recommend Project Euler because of the following reasons: * Each problem is stated succinctly. * It offers a list of problems listed in progressive order of difficulty. * Each problem has been designed according to the "one-minute rule," "which means that although it may take several hours to design a successful algorithm with more difficult problems, an efficient implementation will allow a solution to be obtained on a modestly powered computer in less than one minute" (courtesy of http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=about). * For registered users, the site keeps track of the number of users who have solved each problem. Useful programming references for these exercises would probably be the following (in addition to the PLAI book (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/) already mentioned in another post): How to Design Programs (a.k.a. "HtDP"): http://www.htdp.org/ Concrete Abstractions: http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html You may also wish to consult the following reference for language-specific questions on the Scheme programming language (as opposed to questions on programming in general): Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html Eventually, once you are up to the challenge, you may wish to try the following classic as well: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ There is another interesting programming challenge I discovered recently as well, but because I myself am currently working on this project, please let me solve it first before I post it here. Benjamin L. Russell --- Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten <joseph at josephholsten.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm an undergrad. I have learning to do, and would > like to get on > with it. > > I want to get into the more esoteric side of scheme, > and hopefully > strengthen my knowledge of current programming > language research. > I've got the Lambda the Ultimate blog in my feed > reader, but most of > the stuff is over my head. Coq and provability have > been know to > cause my eyes to glaze over for 20+ minutes. > > I thought I might port some of my current ruby code > into scheme to > fiddle with any new techniques I find. It's a > Genetic Programming > framework, but that's irrelevant, I just want a > decent sized project > to see the effects of. I'm open to alternate > projects so long as I > can wrap my head around them. > > I'm looking forward to trying contracts and > laziness, but am not sure > what else to play with. Anything else I should > investigate? > > Joseph Holsten > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Jon Jaques is Back Home, Joins the Cornell Coaching Staff
10 comments:
Please show Courtney how we used to run an offense with ball movement. Thank you.
- August 28, 2013 at 8:37 PM
Hmm... how did this not occur to me... why was I bizarrely hoping for Geoff Reeves for absolutely no reason whatsoever when Jaques now seems completely obvious... alright then... I hope those initial three years on the bench before his breakout as a senior meant he had a lot of time to pay attention to what Donahue and Spiker were doing.
- August 28, 2013 at 8:39 PM
awwww yeaaaaa
- August 28, 2013 at 8:51 PM
Welcome back! He never belonged in Lion blue.
- August 28, 2013 at 9:22 PM
- The Cornell Basketball Blog said...
Bill has tried to run a system the last three years that require five super athletes on the floor.
To play Bill's style, you need speed, stamina and strength. It requires running the floor and reacting. Only athletes with great body control can play the system the way it is meant to be played.
To play in Donahue's system, you do not need to be an athlete, but you must be fundamentally sound.
Bill was trying to win with Donahue's guys. Good shooters, but mediocre to below average athletes.
It did not work.
Now... an argument could be made that Bill's system will never be effective in the Ivy League because the Ivy League does not attract good enough athletes.
But Cornell's recent struggles have had nothing to do with Bill's knowledge of the game or his ability to teach. He has a vision and he wants to implement it.
He needs players that can run his system.
He might never find them.
But he deserves the time. He deserves the time to set up the chess board with his pieces.
Jon Jaques was a 4-year Donahue guy. But he also played 4 years at Harvard-Westlake High School, played 1 year pro in Israel, coached 1 year at Stevens and 1 year at Columbia. POINT BEING... Jon has had many influences and experienced different coaches.
He will be a great ambassador, coach and recruiter for Cornell.
He can share a vision with high schoolers. He has experiences as both the 20th man as well a starter. He is a Cornell graduate, knows the academic programs, he played on a top 25 and Sweet 16 team here, he played professionally and coached in the Ivy League. He can say, "If I did it, you can do it too."
And there is no better sales pitch than that...
- August 29, 2013 at 8:41 AM
JAQUES! Passing will now return to cornell basketball, no more (literal) run in circle offense until 5 seconds left on shotclock and then hope for the best.
With all this recent recruiting talk nonsense, it is great to get a Win on board to start the season with a proven winner in Jaques.
- August 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM
I would take ball movement and high iq players over athletic average iq players any day of the week. I've heard enough excuses about Courtney and his style of offense and players he needs. Time to execute an offense that looks like it has a plan and purpose or move on.
If you're not getting the kind of players you want, then adapt your freaking offense.
- August 29, 2013 at 10:46 AM
- The Cornell Basketball Blog said...
Your second paragraph is a good point. But it is a premature suggestion.
Bill's guys were just frosh and sophs last year. (And he had injury issues) Now he has another class in the door (he owns the frosh, sophs and juniors).
So... with Bill's young athletic guards, Onuorah, Miller, Cherry, Cressler, Giddens, Lamore et al, we will see if this team can become what he wants it to be.
(Although having his own senior class would be more fair).
The fact of the matter is that you are impatient and Andy Noel is very, very patient.
Scott Thompson left Steve Donahue very little (basically just Ray Mercedes, Wallace Prather and Ka'ron Barnes) and Steve Donahue left Bill Courtney very little (basically just a young Errick Peck and Chris Wroblewski).
Andy gave Steve 5 years to show some evidence of life, and by 2004-2005, we are very, very average, but the ship seemed to be headed ever so slowly in the right direction.
I'd say the same applies here.
Bill will get his 4-5 years to show life and if we can put together a .500 record this year and show signs we are ready to make an upward move next year, Bill should be in a good place.
This team could be good enough to win 14 games. Obivously we are counting on two frosh big men a crew of frosh guards to play big roles.
- August 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM
Congrates to Jacques!
Go Red!!!
- August 29, 2013 at 3:46 PM
- Just because it took Donahue 4 to 5 years doesn't mean that's how long it takes. There are many coaches who have to basically scrap their teams down to nothing and yet manage to put up a great performance by their 3rd year on a team composed primarily of freshmen and sophomores (see Amaker, Donahue at BC, and even, to a certain extent, Cormier, who truly started with a steaming pile of crap on his plate). As has endlessly been said, even if you leave out the 4 injury ridden games, Courtney got worse every year, not better. He got some over-hyped wins over teams like Yale and Penn who had real, recent losses to rebuild from, while Courtney was still getting excuses from losses we suffered 3 seasons prior. That 5-3 start didn't mean he had improved, it meant the lower Ivy was lingering around a 250 that season that year and that while Yale and Penn and Brown and Dartmouth had reasons to be there, be it rebuilding or just plain building up from a 300 ranked team, we most certainly did not have reasons to be there, and were there because of ineffective coaching.
- Donahue did not inherit a team with as much name recognition to use in recruiting as Courtney did. You keep claiming that the # of Cornell players with other Div I offers got higher in recent years, implying that Donahue probably didn't start with as many guys with Div I offers, but you still want to insist that Donahue and Courtney began in an equivalent situation or environment. They did not.
- You act like it's a rule that a coach can't work with someone else's recruits when this bull is refuted every day. You want to say that Year 1 Martin > Year 3 Courtney because Martin inherited talent, but (a) Agel clearly didn't know what to do with that talent, apparently, and (b)you're basically claiming that Agel outrecruited Courtney and that Courtney can't recruit. Can't coach, can't recruit... what can he do then?
I personally believe he wasn't suffering a talent deficit and landed excellent recruits in his first two classes, but can't coach and can't develop players, hence these poor kids are forced to read horrid comments about how Brown players are just more talented than them and it's not the coach's fault.
Bill Courtney is going to have to change, and immensely. HE is the root of the problem, not anything else.
- August 29, 2013 at 5:04 PM


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Interview with Dugald Higgins
Mortgage funds analyst Dugald Higgins talks to Lateline Business about the mortgage trust redemption freeze.
TranscriptPHILLIP LASKER, PRESENTER: Attempts by the Government to prevent panic undermining the banks has undermined other areas of the financial sector.
An increased number of mortgage trusts have been forced to freeze redemptions as nervous investors flee to the relative safety of bank deposits guaranteed by the Government.
Policy makers are in the process of fine tuning the guarantee but the mortgage fund analyst with Property Investment Research, Dugald Higgins, says it won't remove pressure.
I spoke to him a short time ago.
Dugald Higgins, welcome to Lateline Business.
DUGALD HIGGINS, PROPERTY INVESTMENT RESEARCH: Thank you.
PHILLIP LASKER: What's the state of play at the moment as far as property related vehicles are concerned? Do investors want out en masse because there's no Government guarantee?
DUGALD HIGGINS: Essentially there's a lot of fear and uncertainty happening within a very wide range of property vehicles, largely as a result of the global credit crisis.
Now, a lot of investors are currently feeling a lot of pressure because they've seen banks and other authorised deposit institutions get the guarantee from the Government.
And so they're really in a position of saying if some of the property vehicles that are out there are offering a roughly similar rate of return such as things like mortgage funds and their unguaranteed, and bank term deposits are, why wouldn't I shift, particularly when there's so much negative sentiment and uncertainty in the future?
PHILLIP LASKER: So what's the solution? Is it simply that these property related vehicles need a government guarantee; a riskier vehicle gets a government guarantee?
DUGALD HIGGINS: Putting together wholesale guarantees on such a wide range of vehicles, while it may be useful from the point of view of calming nerves, it may not be essentially practical.
We are obviously talking about a very large number of funds. Within the property funds universe, which ultimately is quite a small part of the investable universe as whole, we're certainly talking about hundreds of vehicles and the collective value of those vehicles is in the hundreds of billions.
So, it's going to become a question of do we put guarantees across all of it, who's going to foot the cost of doing so.
PHILLIP LASKER: Well, it's been suggested that the funds themselves pay for that sort of protection. Could that work?
DUGALD HIGGINS: It certainly could work if the level of pay is judged on a reasonable basis.
One of the realities is that some of these funds, just depending on the exact nature of them, are themselves investing in fixed interest loans.
Now while they may be looking uncompetitive, some of them at the moment, as interest rates trend down, which looks like happening over the course of the next short to medium term.
Because those loan portfolios cycle through relatively slowly, they'll probably end up being more competitive with banks and they'll follow the bank interest rates down at a later point.
So what is not competitive today may not be necessarily be uncompetitive tomorrow.
PHILLIP LASKER: Do you think these funds should get a government guarantee?
DUGALD HIGGINS: I don't necessarily know whether it's our place to say who should get a government guarantee or who shouldn't, because this issue is much bigger than property funds.
If these funds do not get a guarantee they will not find themselves on a level playing field with the banks and investor fund inflows will be very difficult to come by.
That said, however, bank interest rates are trending down at the moment. Long-term term deposit rates are trending down.
And ultimately I think what would happen if the state of play was left as it is with banks getting the guarantees and nobody else being in that same position, we would ultimately get to the point where bank interest rates are not going to be competitive enough to hold investors attention against other investment products.
And yes, they'll have to make a trade-off between what level of return are they willing to accept in exchange for no guarantee. But a crossover will start to ultimately occur.
PHILLIP LASKER: What do you think is going to happen? How do you think this is all going to pan out?
DUGALD HIGGINS: If the effects are not as prolonged and deep as people think, the recovery will come.
We have asset values having been driven down to very low levels for thing likes the property trusts. If that recovery is deferred by two or three years and the economy here really starts to slow, we're going to have a lot of funds that are in trouble.
DUGALD HIGGINS: We've seen some property, some listed property trusts, pretty well smashed by investors on the stock market. Does that faith await the unlisted property trust sector?
The reality of it will be that we will see unit prices in unlisted trusts start to come off a bit as the underlying real estate valuation start to unwind.
The asset levels were driven up to costly levels and the free for all over the last couple of years of trusts competing for assets and buying them on increasingly lower yields will have an impact.
There were a lot of funds out there that pushed the envelope very hard and now they'll have to have a reckoning on that as asset values start to slide a little bit.
We don't think it will be as severe a crash as the early 90s; we had a lot of funds at that stage that were getting frozen as well.
At this point it's not a real estate crash; it's a finance crash, so the drivers of it are materially different.
And we don't think that the flow-on effects will be as bad as they were in the early 90s but that's predicated on the fact that Australia doesn't go into a major prolonged recession.
PHILLIP LASKER: And does the industry face decimation if it doesn't get access to government guarantees?
DUGALD HIGGINS: I think the problems that the industry is facing potentially as a result of this, although I suppose we have to remember that the Government guarantees didn't cause these funds to freeze, the majority of the funds that are frozen now had already been frozen before the Government guarantee came into place, just purely as a result of negative investor sentiment out there in the market.
Does something need to be done? I think it certainly needs to be looked at but I think not all the consequences that have occurred as a result of this decision perhaps were foreseen when the decision was made.
Is it going to be a decimation? Probably not. It's certainly going to create some problems for some funds and some funds will be more affected than others.
I think it's just a time for steady reflection on what perhaps might be a useful way of reviewing and making some adjustments to the processes that've been currently put into place.
PHILLIP LASKER: Dugald Higgins, many thanks for talking to Lateline Business.
DUGALD HIGGINS: Thank you.


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Frequent flyer enjoys attentions of geisha
A recent business meeting in Tokyo took an unusual twist for Allister Daly.
The New Zealand general manager for Danish technology firm GN ReSound, which specialises in manufacturing hearing aids, has made numerous trips to Asia in his 11 years in the role.
But during a visit to Japan this year Daly and a group of 10 managing directors were hosted at an exclusive restaurant where each guest was assigned a geisha - a Japanese hostess who entertains men with conversation, dance and song.
"It was like stepping back 200 years," Daly said. "She poured my drink, checked my cushion, tried to teach me how to use chopsticks and when she saw I wasn't that confident with them was prepared to feed me all night."
The geisha sat beside Daly for the entire dinner, performed a dance and even cleaned his shoes, he said.
"The Japanese took it all very seriously and it required every ounce of restraint for my colleagues and me to contain the laughter."
Worst flight?
An Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Sydney. By the time we made it to Sydney we circled the airport for a while, flew to Canberra and sat on the tarmac for two hours before going to Melbourne. Arriving well after midnight, we were put up in a hotel near the airport with rooms that looked like a prison cell and were taken back to the airport at 6am to fly to Sydney, which was also delayed. We finally arrived in Sydney at midday having left Auckland the day before at 9am.
Best flight?
Emirates business class on the A380 from Brisbane to Prague. Fantastic service, fantastic aircraft, brilliant experience.
Best person you've met while travelling?
A guy in a small village in India who gathered up the male villagers for a cricket match against my colleagues and me in the dirt and squalor of a park the bus stopped in. He was the nicest, most sincere and genuine guy you could imagine meeting. He treated me like some kind of god, simply because I bought some of his homemade artwork as a thank you for being so kind to us.
Favourite international dish?
Wild venison in Bavaria. Truly exceptional.
Must have travel item?
iBooks on my iPad.
Most underrated city?
St Petersburg or Berlin. Very different but both underrated and visually gorgeous. Plus they have a wonderful ambience.
How do you avoid jet lag?
Suck it up. Push through when you land to force yourself into the local time zone. Get a solid eight hours' sleep the first night and then you're fine.
Top travel tips?
Plenty of time between scheduled arrivals and meetings and lots of water. There's nothing worse than stressing because of the inevitable flight delays that will happen.
One place you want to visit before you die and why?
Antarctica. Who wouldn't want to see that for real?
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Students have the opportunity to go through 3 different levels of Television Production. Intro to TV, Intermediate, and Advanced.
In Intro to TV you learn the basics of camera use and shots. You also learn the basics of television production, script writing and how the things we see on tv are made and chosen to put on air for the world to see.
In intermediate students learn and focus on the studio and the news. Students use news broadcasting styles, interviewing techniques, the crew positions, lighting, and news writing.
Advanced kids run their class. They chose what they produce and show on the morning news. The class consists of teams that rotate weekly on creating the morning news that the school and Channel 21 see. They also chose anything school related to create documentaries, show opens, and short films on. They can then be selected to send them out to a film festival.
After advanced few students are chosen to be a Independent study to continue their start of a Television Career.
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Under the auspices of the Board of Education and the guidance of the Administration, it is the mission of the Southern News Network to provide the viewing public of our District with high quality informative and entertaining programming. This mission will be accomplished in conjunction with a second charge; namely, the development of our Television Broadcast students' ability to competently perform the "on air" and "off air" tasks related to the production of the programming viewed by our public. These responsibilities direct the energies of everyone involved with the mission of the Southern News Network.
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Cargo Eye Shadow (Pasadena)So, I tried the color Pasadena (pinkish color). I liked the color, the way it blends, and I also wear a lot of pinks- so this color worked fine for me. I love the packaging and metal tin because it unique. The tin is not good if your in a hurry- because it is in a tin and you do have to flip it over to get the color. It went on smooth and lasted all day. I have no real complaints because it is good quality and does what I expect from a shadow. — 2 years, 1 month agoamanda_bowers | 5 reviews
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Vaunder Mitts by Sarah Jordan
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These mitts are a perfect use for that leftover sock yarn that's not quite enough for a pair of socks but too much to just toss. The twisted ribbing that's a key feature of the mitts provides both visual interest in the form of texture and a snug fit.
Sizes: Women's Small (Medium, Large), to fit hand circumference of 7 (8, 9) in./18 (20.5, 23) cm
To knit this pattern, you need to know how to:
- work in the round,
- knit and purl
- knit twisted stitches (ktbl) and decreases (k2tog tbl), and
- do yarnovers.
Directions for the thumb gusset are both written and charted.
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HMI Everywhere
There's a Difference Between Monitoring and Interacting or Controlling. Effective Control Requires an HMI
Last month, I talked about how RFID and IPv6 make "lick-'n-stick" sensors possible, driving the adoption of real-time measurements, such as energy usage, in the consumer market. Though not yet mainstream, there are simple sensor products on the market today that allow you to remotely monitor conditions in such places as a boat, a hot tub, pool or other parts of your home, including your IP-based security systems, over your smart phone or tablet. (See Opto22's Groov—ed.)
However, there is a difference between monitoring and interacting or controlling. Effective control requires an HMI. Now that most HMIs are web-based, the power of open standards is once again being demonstrated in the industrial sector.
The critical open standards defining today's web browser are continuing to evolve with development and adoption of revised standards, such as CSS3, SVG and HTML5, that support scalable graphics in any browser, solving an important piece of the future HMI puzzle.
Also Read: Best Practices in High-Performance HMI Design
What will these new standards bring to the scalable HMI equation?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting (presentation semantics) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML or XHTML, but it can also be applied to any kind of XML document.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics that includes support for interactivity and animation. SVG defines the image's behavior in an XML text file.
HTML5, as the name implies, is the fifth generation of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) used for structuring and presenting content for web pages. HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML4, but also XHTML (eXtensible HTML) 1.1 and Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML.
HTML5 includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations. Many features of HTML5 have been built to run on low-powered devices such as smart phones and tablets.
In particular, HTML5 adds many new syntactic features designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the Web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs. Other new elements are designed to enrich the semantic content of documents. HTML5 also defines in some detail the required processing for invalid documents, so that syntax errors will be treated uniformly by all conforming browsers and other user agents.
A recent ARC report cites nine automation industry technologies to watch. These are intelligent devices and the Internet of Things; predictive analytics for big data; cloud computing and services-based solutions; virtualization; 3D simulation and augmented reality; mobility-enabled applications and "wearable" technologies; bring your own devices (BYOD); remote operations/asset management; and additive manufacturing/3D printing.
Notice that all of these imply more openness, tighter integration of control and business networks, and access to any data, anywhere, anytime. To deliver on this promise obviously requires security and, I believe, the associated move to HMI on a broad range of platforms (BYOD). Moving to smaller screen sizes makes following principles of high-performance HMIs more important than ever.
The recent announcements by Apple of its new iPhones and the unveiling by Samsung of the Galaxy Gear smart watch reinforce how easy it is for us to always remain connected and to access the Internet, thus increasing the pressure to further open the enterprise to beam us data on demand when, where and how we want it.
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Star Wars.com has officially announced the game, giving fans a slideshow of screenshots, more details on the game itself, and the announcement trailer itself. Be sure to check the official Clone Wars game site for all the information about the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes.
Original Story:
A few weeks ago, EUCantina.net reported on the possibility of a new Clone Wars game entitled Republic Heroes. Apparently being developed by Krome Studios, the game would be a 360/PS3 co-op experience.
EW.com was informed that Star Wars: The Clone Wars– Republic Heroes is indeed coming, with a release date of September 15, 2009. Republic Heroes takes place between seasons 1 and 2 of the animated Clone Wars series and will feature a wide range of playable heroes, including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, other Jedi, as well as some of the clone trooper characters such as Rex and Cody.
You'll be able to play around with lots of force-enhanced powers and, as previously thought, work your way through the game cooperatively with a friend. The game will be available on the 360, PS3/2, Wii, DS, and PC.
Be sure to check out the Announcement Trailer for a look at the gameplay and graphics for Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes. Also, keep checking theclonewarsgame.com for more information about the upcoming game.
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Shaded Shawlette by Erika Flory
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Shaded Shawlette
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Shaded is a top-down triangular shawl based on the classic Faroese shape.
Sections of Stockinette stitch and purl ridges offset the center lace panel, and a band of eyelet finishes the garter stitch edging.
Worked in fingering weight yarn, the shawl takes approximately 400 yards (one skein!) and measures, after blocking, approximately 48" at the wingspan and approximately 20" along the back length.
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A huge event that occurred in Deaf history was the Deaf President Now (DPN) movement. When I first started learning American Sign Language, this was the first event in Deaf history I learned about. I didn't know whether it was because the event was fairly recent, or because it was such a big deal.
It was such a big deal.
DPN was a huge protest at Gallaudet University that started in March of 1988. The students, faculty, and staff at the university as well as the national deaf community were united and fought together for one clear goal…
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Gallaudet University
To finally have a deaf person run the world's only deaf university–Gallaudet.
When it came to election time, the University's Board of Trustees chose a hearing candidate, Elizabeth A. Zinser, as Gallaudet's seventh president. After six hearing presidents, the staff, faculty, students, and alumni of Gallaudet were ready for a deaf president.
However, the Board of Trustees chose a hearing candidate over two qualified deaf finalists instead.
Everyone was stunned. Including me, when I learned about it. They immediately demanded that a deaf president replace Zinser. A protest broke out. The protestors shut down the entire campus during this movement. They blocked campus entrances; no one could enter the school. Many were arrested and put in prison. These protestors made national headlines. As a united group, the deaf were going to do everything possible until they got their way.
Zinser finally resigned after a week of these protests. I. King Jordan, a faculty member of Gallaudet, became the first deaf president of the University.
The DPN movement unified deaf people of every age and background. They collectively fought until they were heard. They triumphed and proved that they don't have to let society take control of their culture.
That is why this was the first event I learned about.
For more in-depth information about the protests in 1988, visit this DPN section of the Gallaudet University website. That part of the Gallaudet website is the most informational piece I have ever seen about DPN.
The Best DPN Book
"Introduction." DPN Anniversary. Gallaudet.edu. 22 Aug. 2008 (https://pr.gallaudet.edu/dpn/issues/HISTORY/newhistory.html).


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Calfire issues evacuation order for Easter border of Lodge Lightning Complex Fire near Laytonville
Laytonville - Calfire officials have ordered evacuations for the Lodge Lightning Complex Fire near Laytonville.
Calfire authorities issued the evacuation order for the eastern border of the over 54-hundred acre fire. The order signifies immanent threat to life and property and people are advised to leave immediately.
This order affects the following areas: Camp Seabow, Bowman Ranch rd, Peterson and Grubb Creeks along with Big Bend, Grizzly Creek, Cedar Glat – Hermitage, cummings, Little Red Mountain, Little Dann Creek, Dann Valley and Tan Oak Park.
The Red Cross has set up a shelter for those effected by the fire. It is in the Harwood Hall in Laytonville at 44400 Willis Avenue.


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Posts Tagged 'Broadway'
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you"*…
For your holiday listening pleasure, from Studio Puckey, live radio streams (and more) from around the world: radio.garden.
* David Byrne, How Music Works
As we touch that dial, we might recall that it was on this date in 1880 that New York's "Great White Way" was born when Charles F. Brush successfully demonstrated his arc lamps along Broadway– two years before Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station began lighting New York.
(Coincidentally, on this date 20 years later, Nature reported the invention, by William Du Bois Duddell, an English physicist, of the Musical Arcs– the first fully electric musical instrument.)
Ex post facto salvation…
Candy Barr (July 6, 1935 – December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque exotic dancer, actress in one pornographic movie, and model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century.
Born Juanita Dale Slusher in Edna, Texas, the youngest of five children, at age 16, she appeared in one of the first [full length] pornographic movies, Smart Alec (1951). Later, Barr established herself in burlesque and striptease with her trademark costume—cowboy hat, pasties, scant panties, a pair of pearl handled cap six-shooters in a holster strapped low on her shapely hips, and cowboy boots. Married three times, and widowed once when she shot her second husband, she was also involved with Jack Ruby and Mickey Cohen. Later in her life, she was honored by Texas Monthly as one history's "perfect Texans," and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Exotic World Burlesque Museum.
Ms. Barr shares another distinction with the likes of Groucho Marx, Truman Capote, Frank Zappa, and rapper Eazy-E: they were all posthumously baptized into the Mormon Church.
Some time in 1842, the prophet Joseph Smith introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints a temple ceremony called Baptism for the Dead, followed shortly by a full complement of salvific ordinances-by-proxy for dead ancestors, which he justified again in 1844:
A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for.
Joseph Smith on May 12, 1844
History of the Church, 6:365–66
But the original spirit of the ordinances seems to have given way to a general enthusiasm for conversion, and members of the Church began trying to 'redeem' everyone they could identify. Some members took a shortcut and performed proxy baptisms and other ordinances for any name they could find– which meant that a lot of famous people got baptized. Indeed, it appears that some time in the early 1990's there was a fad, or at least a hobby, of finding famous people to baptize.
Famous Dead Mormons is both a tribute to the practice and a catalogue of celebrity souls– like Candy's– saved after the fact.
As we wonder if this amounts to an E Ticket to the Rapture, we might wish a patriotic birthday to George M. Cohan; he was born on this date in 1878. A playwright, songwriter, dancer, actor, theater owner, and producer, Cohan is best remembered as the composer and lyricist of songs including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag" (which may explain why some sources strain to locate his birthday tomorrow– on July 4). Cohan is not believed to be a baptized Mormon.
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How to prepare for a *real* emergency…
That readers are perusing this missive suggests that The Rapture did not in fact happen as advertised. But that humankind (well, the sinners among us anyway) dodged a bullet today doesn't mean that the threat of Apocalypse isn't real. Indeed, no less an authority than the CDC has weighed in with a Twitter Alert:
Of course, the Law of Unintended Consequences being what it is, this Tweet seems to have created one kind of disaster even as it attempted to ameliorate another: the response to the message– clicks through to the featured URL– immediately crashed the CDC's servers.
Some semblance of normalcy has been recovered; readers can once more reach "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse."
As we reconcile ourselves to the fact that the Zombie craze may well last at least until after the release of Brad Pitt's upcoming World War Z— and that's not yet even in production, we might recall that on this date in 1972 Heathen! (an original musical with music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon, and book by Magoon and Sir Robert Helpmann) both opened and closed on Broadway.
Broadway's newest and biggest spectacle appears also to be it's baddest: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark isn't even officially up; still critics tired of waiting for the now thrice-postponed opening night have broken with tradition and begun to file reviews…
The most enthusiastic reaction has been from political pundit Glenn Beck, whose love for the show moved him to suggest
…give a kidney to go see 'Spider-Man.' I'm telling you, mark my words, it's being panned right now, nobody's saying good stuff about it. I'm telling you, you go buy your ticket — you buy your ticket now, if you're thinking about coming to New York, because when this thing opens and it's starting to run, you will not be able to get tickets to this for a year. This is one of those shows, this is the 'Phantom' of the 21st century. This is history of Broadway being made. I sat next to the casting director, by chance, and I said, 'You, sir, are part of history.'
One thrills to imagine the show's creative team, director Julie Taymor and composer Bono, reconciling themselves to that unlikely ally, as they face the reactions of more established theatrical observers– reviews that range from bad to excruciating.
But for your correspondent's money, the best line is from Amy at the always-enlightening Amy's Robot: "This show looks like what you get when you spend most of your $65 million budget on insurance."
As we hear the greasepaint and smell the crowd, we might recall that it was on this date in 1924 that a young man known at the time as a composer of Broadway tunes premiered a more serious piece: George Gershwin accompanied Paul Whiteman's Palais Royal Orchestra in the first performance of Rhapsody in Blue. Gershwin's piece concluded an "educational event" Whiteman staged to try to demonstrate that the relatively new form of music called jazz deserved to be regarded as a serious and sophisticated art form.
Just five weeks prior to the "Experiment in Modern Music" concert, Gershwin hadn't agreed to compose for it. But when his brother Ira read a report in the New York Tribune that George was "at work on a jazz concerto" for the program, he was painted into a corner. Gershwin pieced together Rhapsody In Blue as best he could in the time available, leaving his own piano part to be improvised during the premiere. In the event, of course, Rhapsody has come to be regarded as one of the most important American musical works of the 20th century. It opened the door for a whole generation of "serious" composers—from Copland to Weill—to draw on jazz elements in their own important works.
UPDATE 2.12.11: Our ecstatically well-informed friend CE writes with a critical clarification:
Of course, old George forgot the main requirement of the assignment for the "Experiment"- that it be composed for orchestra with strings. The "Rhapsody" he turned in, three weeks before performance, was written for two pianos!
What we mostly hear and identify with Gershwin- the clarinet call, the surge of strings, the honking brass- was largely written by Paul Whiteman house arranger FERDE GROFE who went on to have a celebrated career as a composer in his day. His GRAND CANYON SUITE was the theme music for The Chesterfield Hour (cigarettes) and a later Walt Disney film. He was commissioned to write large orchestral pieces for The World's Fair and for the opening of Niagara Falls power plant in 1964 and soundtracks to the likes of ROCKETSHIP X-M. Now of course, he is mostly a forgotten man. But from the 1930s to the early 1960s, glory was heaped on him as it was on few native born San Franciscans. A few years back, Dutch group The BEAU HUNKS recorded a lovely album of several of his least famous works THE MODERN AMERICAN MUSIC OF FERDE GROFE which is now available on iTunes.
(Your correspondent can attest: CE's recommendations are always worth taking.)


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He has has promised to start monthly breakfast forums if elected as MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East on Thursday, and Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has pledged to chair the first meeting.
Mr Critchlow and Mr Shapps met business owners on Saturday in Sale to get them to back the forum, and said they had a very positive response to the scheme, with a raft of firms signing up to attend.
Mr Critchlow said: "It was great to be able to show Grant Shapps around Sale Town Centre and meet lots of local businessmen and women and get them signed up to my business forum.
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Known as the "Friendliest Restaurant in Town," Bette's Place has been a Hood River landmark since 1975. Our menu ranges from breakfast to specialty burgers and homemade soups, or try our legendary cinnamon rolls and prize-winning pies made by Bette herself.
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great vacation!: Carnival Splendor Cruise Review by surfer_00
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great vacation!
Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
PRE CRUISE: we decided to fly in a day before the cruise and would suggest everyone do this as a precautionary measure, plus you can start vacation that much sooner!! after a lot of hard research we decided to fly into lax and stay in long beach. i researched every hotel in long beach it seemed until finally i found one that had everything i wanted at the right price. the Hilton Long beach was the winner. they had a special carnival rate that they dont offer online. we arrived at the hotel at around 1pm and were weary if they would be able to accomidate us so early. They got us right in and in a beautiful room. i have never ever ever ever stayed More in a hotel with such excellent customer service. i have not one bad word to sya against this hilton!!
EMBARKATION: we arrived at about 930am to check in and recieved boarding zone 1. extremely fast and smooth check in. we then sat around until about 12 when they were ready to start boarding. pretty easy and effortless. i was anxious to see what the buzz was on all the pink. to be honest i didnt even notice all the pink at all. what i did find an issue with though, was all of the circles and small dots EVERYWHERE you turned. it got a bit overwhelming especially the first day when you didnt know where you where going. kind of felt like a fun house.
SHIP: this was not the prettiest ship i have ever seen. it was very big and had a lot of people on it. for us personally, we didnt see a lot of activities that really interested us so i cant really comment on that. however there was always a lack of chairs by all of the pools. it seemed very over crowded on the lido deck the majority of the time, which for me is a turn off. the adult only pool always seemed to be filled to capacity anytime we wanted to go for a dip so we were never able to swim. i dont like a pool where there is standing room only. not to mention we caught a man blowing his nose in there....eww! navagating around the ship is a bit tricky as a lot of decks dont go from one end to the other and u had to go up to get back down if that makes sense? lol
ROOM: after several upgrades we got an 8B category balcony room. we were in room 6288. our first balcony and we lovvvvvved. we did have some unruley neighbors and without them our stay would have been a lot more enjoyable. our room steward was a funny little man. on my past cruises i have never even met my room steward because i NEVER saw them, not once. however, almost every day, morning and night, we would get back to our room after being gone for an hour or two, sometimes more, and run into him cleaning our room. kind of boggled my mind and for that reason i think he was either new or not on top of things. however personality wise he was great! also we never could figure out what our towl animals were supposed to be which always made us laugh!!!
FOOD: not the best or worst ive had. a lot of the buffet itemes were not what i normally eat so i was kind of picky. we only went to the dining room once as our waiter and table location were both duds, but we didnt mind. and i have to say....the warm chocolate melting cake was not so great. i mean it wasnt even really cake, more like choclate soup with a crust. to rich for me! lol
PORTS: in PV we did not have anything planned so we took a yellow taxi to the malecon(shopping) for 6 dollars for 2 people. we stayed out for about 4 or 5 hours and had a very nice time. we ate lunch at bubba gumps....ooooohhhhh my it was the best shrimp ive ever eaten!! In Mazatlan we had booked an independent excursion with randis happy horses. it was such an awesome experince and i would reccommend it to anyone!! randi is a hoot and my horse chokey was a funny one!!! in cabo we got off early and decided to do our own thing. we went to a nice vendor and took a private glass bottom boat tour. we negotiated to 15 dollars for two of us for a 45 minute tour. i would also reccomend everyone do this. it was so cool to see the fish allllll around you.
ENTERTAINMENT: we went to almost all the shows on board. the female dancer were really great and in shape unlike some others we have seen lol. the male dancers....eeeeeekk. they could use a little help but it was funny to watch them, so either way we had a good time. both singers were really great but it always sounded like they were screaming and i dont know if it was them or the microphones? but the absoloute best singers i heard throughout the whole cruise were the 2 lobby singers. there voices were phenominal!! i got goosebumps everytime they started. i never caught their names but they were fabulous!
SUMMARY: all in all my husband and i really enjoyed our vacation. and no matter what the circumstances or decor....we will never have a bad cruise. could some things have been better? yes. but could things have been a lot worse? yes. a cruise is what you want it to be and each one is so unique from the next. we have taken a lot of memories from this vacation and hope to be able to cruise carnival again! Less
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Monday, November 12, 2012
T.P. Blog Lesson #8- Something A Little Different...
It is that time once again!!! Today's lesson is a little different (Correction, this is Lesson #8, not 7 as I said in the video!). We are discussing music programs in schools and the state of the American Symphony Orchestra.
Enjoy the conversation, and as always, feel free to leave your comments! A super HUGE thank you to Katie Ammann of The Music School of Roanoke Rapids and Marilee Teasley from MSU for dropping by and making this hangout a reality!!!!
If you want more information about specific orchestras and the current situation, check out the OrchestraPlayers website on Facebook.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
T.P. Blog- Lesson #7- Thompson Double Traditional Grip?
WOW!!!! It has been incredibly too long since my last lesson! So much has happened in the past year... Let me take a hot second to fill you in!
After the last post, The Music School Of Roanoke Rapids had an amazing inaugural summer! I am so fortunate to have been asked to be involved there. After a crazy trip back to Indianapolis, I began my push to finish my masters at Butler. I ended up participating in so much amazing music there and finished with an amazingly fun recital! (if you want to catch the live-stream recording... you can here!!!)
After graduation, I got a job with Apple and moved to Chicago! YEAH ILLINOIS!!! Life is super exciting right now, and I wanted to try and devote more time to the blog. So, without further a due, here is a video shot while finishing up at Butler and is mostly a parody... Or is it??? I want to thank a very special guest for this episode (all the way from Canada) for lending his expertise and insight on the technique that he single handedly developed... on the spot. So, thank you Francois (aka Brendan) for demonstrating the amazingly useful Thompson Double Traditional Grip! Don't forget to work on those ETT's!!! Enjoy!
Monday, June 13, 2011
T.P. Blog- Lesson #6- Starting Your Own Private Studio
This summer, I am teaching at The Music School of Roanoke Rapids, in Roanoke Rapids, NC! This lesson is a little different in that the topic is not anything specific to percussion, but rather dealing with starting your own private music studio. I will show you around the Music School and show you what we have created here.
I also got a chance to interview the owner, Katie Ammann. If you have any more questions about opening up your own studio or about what is going on with the Music School, please post in the comments section! The website for the Music School is http://www.themusicschoolofroanokerapids.com
Thanks for tuning in!
I also got a chance to interview the owner, Katie Ammann. If you have any more questions about opening up your own studio or about what is going on with the Music School, please post in the comments section! The website for the Music School is http://www.themusicschoolofroanokerapids.com
Thanks for tuning in!
Friday, January 7, 2011
T.P. Blog- Lesson 5- Toys in the Orchestral Percussion Section
Today, we discuss some accessories in the orchestral percussion section, specifically: finger cymbals, triangle, and castanets. There are many different techniques to play these instruments, and I am going to detail the ones that work for me.
I would love to hear your comments about the lesson, and if you have any suggestions about what you would like me to cover next! Thanks for tuning in!
(I apologize for some of the sound distorting in a few places!)
Monday, December 20, 2010
T.P. Blog- Lesson #4- Crash Cymbal Basics
Today I discuss my crash philosophy and detail the "Coda" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet. I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the lesson.
I also would love to hear if you have experienced any situations where the conductor has asked you to do something "out-of-the-ordinary" or requested you to play a part differently than you had prepared? I would love to hear your thoughts about these situations, because they happen all too often! What was requested of you? How did you react? Was this a valid musical suggestion, or was it outlandishly CRAZY??
I think in the end, we are just the performers. The "big picture" is larger than, say you or me as individuals. It is our job as performers to do what we are told, especially on the spot. Then, I believe you have the right to question the maestro in private, and/or make a different suggestion. Nothing should be questioned during a rehearsal, especially in front of the ensemble! You need to find a happy medium of being professional, yet not being pushed around.
As always, thank you for watching! And I encourage you to leave comments here or at http://totalpercussionblog.blogspot.com.
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday!
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