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Obama's triumph, heavy setback for majoritarianism and racial bigotry
By Lynn Ockersz
Quite understandably, a celebratory, festive atmosphere prevailed at a banquet hall at the Colombo Hilton, on the morning of November 5, where the US embassy in Colombo conducted an exhilarating event to telecast, via CNN, the results of the recently concluded US presidential election which has quite rightly been described as 'historic'. The joyousness of the Obama victory, apparently, was uncontrollably infective because more than a few Sri Lankans too attending the occasion, cheered lustily as the results poured in confirming an Obama triumph.
[Democratic Presidential Nominee, Barack Obama and his family on election night in Chicago, IL on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)]
It is not the aim of this columnist to throw the proverbial wet blanket over the near-revelrous welcome some of his compatriots accorded the final election results but one only hopes they did not cheer for the wrong reasons. Was it the 'black' identity of Barak Obama which triggered the cheering? If so, my compatriots have reveled for the wrong reasons. If so, the good cheer is a cause for regret because these Sri Lankans have only uproariously endorsed ethnicity – a political scourge of our times, which is bleeding Sri Lanka and many other Third World countries white. It is this columnist's hope that the cheering was occasioned more by an endorsement of the political principles and policies of Obama and not predicated on the naive belief that one of 'our men' was now the 'most powerful man on earth'.
Woe unto us if we are endorsing Obama on account of his ethnicity, for, the wasting separatist rebellion in Sri Lanka's North-East is also basically fuelled by ethnicity, race-hate and partiality. Rather, the Lankan public needs to see in the truly historic electoral triumph of Barak Obama a still more drastic qualitative improvement in democratic governance in the US. This is the true significance of Obama winning the US presidency.
We need to see in this polls triumph by a member of the Afro-American community, which was at one time in the history of the US a desperately powerless and depressed social entity, a further maturing of the 'world's oldest democracy'. To be more specific, the pinnacle of political power in the US could no longer be accessed by only a single ethnic group which happens to be numerically superior to all other communities. This is , essentially, what the political phenomenon of majoritarianism is all about. Rather, from now on the highest political office in the US will be accessible to anyone of ability and resourcefulness who professes and practises the creed of democracy, as conceived in the US.
Accordingly, from this point of view, the arresting opening to Obama's acceptance speech acquires a supreme profoundness; 'Tonight because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America'.
A 'defining moment' indeed. American democracy from now on will never be the same. American democracy has developed and progressed to the point where the colour of one's skin or one's ethnicity and other 'cultural markers', would no longer be a barrier to one's advancement in public life. As the winning and losing candidates conceded in their speeches on receiving the election result, the US has more than adequately proved a land of tremendous 'opportunity', and more significantly, this 'opportunity' could be accessed by almost all.
Another vital dimension in the steady democratic development of the US is the ability of the average US voter to now base his political preferences almost entirely on perceived merit and not on extraneous considerations, such as, ethnic and cultural identity. The vote for Obama, which transcended racial, regional, cultural, class and even political considerations, proves this adequately. He has received the endorsement of not merely Wall and Main streets but of the whole of the United States.
The 'bloodless revolution' triggered by Barak Obama ,while being significant for the fulfillment of the 'dream' of Obama's forefathers, which showed initial signs of realization with the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln, declaring all slaves in America's confederate states free, is of enhanced importance to us in South Asia because the event has emphatically underscored the standing of the US as a benchmark in democratic development.
This is an occasion for earnest soul-searching for us in Sri Lanka. How do we compare as a democracy to the US of today? This is the question. Could we also proclaim, as the US could today, that we are a 'land of opportunity' for everyone in this country, regardless of ethnicity, creed and other cultural markers? Would the extremists of numerous kinds make it possible for anyone in this country, who possesses the required capabilities to vie democratically for the highest public offices in Sri Lanka, regardless of these cultural markers? Rather than get carried away by sentimental swoons about the US presidential election result and 'the man of the moment' Barak Obama, it would be more worth our while to probe these issues and find out where we have gone wrong as a polity.
"Do unto others as you would have them do to you'. This scriptural injunction forms a bedrock principle of all successful, vibrant democracies, although the principle may not be laid out in identical terms in all democratic constitutions. Sri Lanka and many other countries of the Third World which are today described as being 'conflict-ridden', have, apparently, not found this principle to be of any significance in nation-building. However, it is patently obvious that if this principle is observed more in the breach or callously cast out in the belief that it would get in the way of particular communities exercising hegemonic control over states, it would be only a matter of time before social discontent possesses them and begins to tear them apart.


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Traders may be punishing Apple (aapl) for Steve Jobs' decision to skip his annual Macworld keynote -- rekindling fears about his health in the wake of his 2004 surgery for pancreatic cancer -- but analysts who follow the stock closely generally agree that those fears have been overblown.
Kaufman Bros. Shaw Wu is the latest to weigh in on the issue. In a note to clients Tuesday, he acknowledges that Jobs deserves a lot of credit for the "revival and success of Apple." In language that could have been written by Cupertino's PR department, he credits Apple's CEO with "helping revolutionize the world" with a long list of products and innovations, from the Apple II to the Apple Store.
But he argues that Apple doesn't need Steve Jobs to prosper, because his "spirit" has been "institutionalized":
"In our view, AAPL has an uncanny ability to attract and hire Apple 'fanatics' who are entrepreneurial, work hard, and are looking to change the world. The difference with AAPL today is that in addition to being innovative, the company has world-class operations and execution. We believe for a company of AAPL's size, ... there are a lot of other people besides Steve Jobs driving success including members of its senior management team down to its 32,000 individual employees."
As proof, Wu ticks off a list of hit products that Apple introduced when Jobs was no longer there to drive innovation: the Macintosh Quadra, QuickTime, PowerMac and PowerBook, and Apple IIgs.
Okaaaay. But none of those products quite rises to the level of the iPod, iTunes, Mac OS X, the iPhone or the App Store.
In any event, Wu is sticking with his $12o price target. "With the pullback in the shares," he writes, "we find the risk-reward favorable for longer-term investors."
Apple closed at 86.38 Tuesday, up 0.75% for the day.

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Middle school teacher loves to make music
Beth Durbin lives life at full speed.
"That's who I am. I'm not doing anything half way," she said.
That can be seen by reviewing her teaching career.
Posts at O'Hara Elementary, Fairview Elementary, North Allegheny, Pine-Richland and nine years at the Carnegie Mellon Music Preparatory School led to her teaching position at Dorseyville Middle School.
The road has been long, but Durbin, who has received the Betty Abbott Award for Teaching Excellence, said she has been happy at every stop.
As she looks forward, Durbin knows she wants to remain in the classroom — working to create something that will help all students.
"I want to make students' weaknesses invisible," she said, "to eliminate fear to try new things."
Durbin said she remembers wanting to be a teacher when she was a child.
However, her goals changed when she was an elementary student in Mt. Lebanon.
She started playing the double bass.
Playing the largest string instrument, also called a bass violin, became the focus of her world.
"When I play, I don't hear music, I feel music," she said.
Following her muse, she earned a bachelor's in fine arts and then a master's of music degree in 1992, both from Carnegie Mellon University.
Durbin has played at Carnegie Hall in New York; Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Symphony Hall in Boston; and the International Music Festival in Scotland and London.
She keeps friendships made with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony with whom she played.
Durbin remembers the last note she played professionally was at the end of the 1812 Overture.
At that time, she decided that she wanted to teach instead of make music.
So Durbin went back to school and earned another bachelor's and then master's degree.
"I always knew it would come," Durbin said of becoming a teacher.
"I have these moments when it's time to turn the page. I don't have one single regret.
"It worked out."
Teaching has taught Durbin a number of lessons.
At the same time, she emphasizes developing character in her students along with teaching the curriculum.
Her dedication has been acknowledged with awards.
More importantly, said Durbin, is the acknowledgement of her students.
"They're the ones who truly know me," she said.
The person who probably knows Durbin the best is her husband of 27 years, Mike, whom she met when they were teenagers.
Together they built their home in West Deer and then a home at Conneaut Lake.
The couple picked every faucet and fixture as they worked to create homes that reflect their style and personality.
The home in Conneaut provides the couple a place to wind down when the school year is done.
They enjoy boating, tubing and walking in the woods.
Their favorite time is the peace and quiet of sitting on their porch watching the water.
There are times when Durbin does like to pick up the pace.
She admits to loving high-performance vehicles and she got a red Corvette for her 40th birthday.
After a day of working, she loves to put the roof down and let the wind lift her "like angel wings."
Sharon Drake is a freelance writer with Trib Total Media.


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Hello fellow members of the Gravity Falls Wikia community. I am here today to ask you about your theories around what is shown in the intro of the show, the pyramid formed icon with the eye in the middle.
If you would like to know what this particular symbol represents, it is known as the Eye of Providence.
The Eye of Provicence is often used as a representive of the 'all-seeing eye of God'. Eyes are more commonly used in representation of gods or deities. As example, you will all be more familiar with the Eye of Horus, from the Egyptian mythology.
Now, will this top-hatted and bow-tied figure be a real part in the story? Could this maybe be the thing having 'watched' the writer of book 3, and the cause of Dipper's feeling that he is being watched as well? As you watch with your eyes?
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Angels in America is a play written by Tony Kushner.
- Louis Ironson - A "word processor" who works at the federal appeals court in Brooklyn. Louis embodies all the stereotypes of the neurotic Jew: anxious, ambivalent and perpetually guilty. Yet that guilt does not prevent him from leaving his lover Prior when he contracts AIDS. Louis's moral journey, from callous abandonment to genuine repentance and sorrow, is one of the key maturations in the play; his awakening of responsibility parallels the awakening that the play seeks to awaken in its audiences. Louis's idealistic faith in American democracy, while often naive or self-absorbed, is similar to the faith Kushner himself manifests, so much so that some critics call Louis a stand-in for the playwright.
- Prior Walter - The boyfriend Louis abandons after Prior reveals that he has AIDS. Prior becomes a prophet when he is visited by an Angel of God, but he eventually rejects his prophecy and demands a blessing of additional life. The Angel is drawn to Prior because of his illness, which inscribes a kind of ending in his bloodstream, and because of his ancient Anglo-Saxon lineage, representing the notion of being rooted and stable. But he proves wiser than the Angels in rejecting their doctrine of stasis in favor of the painful necessity of movement and migration. Prior is as genuinely decent and moral as Louis is flawed. His AIDS infection renders him weak and victimized, but he manages to transcend that mere victimhood, surviving and becoming the center of a new, utopian community at the play's end.
- Joe Pitt - A Mormon, Republican lawyer at the appeals court, Joe grapples with his latent homosexuality, leaving his wife Harper for Louis and being left in turn by Louis. Louis is at first drawn to Joe's ideology but ultimately turns on him because he is a conservative and an intimate of the hated Roy Cohn. His initial naiveté is challenged by Roy's unethical behavior and his painful love affair. Joe's path in the play (from self-sufficient and strong to helpless and dependent) is in some ways the opposite of Prior's trajectory. The play finally seems to abandon Joe, excluding him from its vision of the good society because of his ideology—an omission that comes off as uncharacteristically narrow and intolerant.
- Harper Pitt - Joe's wife, a Valium-addicted agoraphobe trapped in a failing marriage who hallucinates and invents imaginary characters to escape her troubles. The perpetually fearful Harper obsesses about knife-wielding men and the ozone layer as a subconscious stand-in for her own difficulties. But through an inexplicable dream encounter with Prior, she learns that her husband is gay and begins to take control of her own destiny. Of all the major characters, Harper ends the play the farthest from where she began: as an independent, confident woman newly in love with life and setting off to build her own life in San Francisco.
- Roy Cohn - A famous New York lawyer and powerbroker, Roy Cohn was a real-life figure whom Kushner adapted for his play. Roy is the play's most vicious and disturbing character, a closeted homosexual who disavows other gays and cares only about amassing clout. His lack of ethics led him to illegally intervene in the espionage trial of Ethel Rosenberg, which resulted in her execution. Roy represents the opposite of community, the selfishness and loneliness all too endemic to American life. However, his malevolence goes beyond mere isolation to actual hatred and evil. He is forgiven (though not exonerated) in the play's moral climax, after his death (from AIDS) unwittingly reconnects him to the gay community from which he always distanced himself.
- Belize - A black ex-drag queen and registered nurse, Belize is Prior's best friend and—quite against Belize's will—Roy's caretaker. He is the most ethical and reasonable character in the play, generously looking out for Prior, grappling with Roy and rebutting Louis's blindly self-centered politics. At times Belize feels less like an individual than a symbol of marginalized groups, particularly since most of his history and personal life are hidden from the audience. But despite these omissions he remains complex—full of hatred for Roy, yet possessing sufficient character and morality to forgive him.
- Hannah Pitt - Joe's mother, who moves from Salt Lake City to New York after Joe confesses he is gay in a late-night phone call. Hannah tends sternly to Harper but blossoms after she encounters Prior, becoming his companion and friend. Her chilly demeanor is melted by Prior and by a remarkable sexual encounter with the Angel.
- The Angel of America - An imposing, terrifying, divine presence who descends from Heaven to bestow prophecy on Prior. The Angel seeks a prophet to overturn the migratory impulse of human beings, believing that their constant motion and change have driven God to abandon creation. Her cosmology is disturbingly reactionary, even deadly, and Prior successfully resists it in a visit to Heaven. This reactionary nature is rather surprisingly blended with a dramatic, Whitman-esque speaking style and an overpowering, multigendered sexuality.
- Ethel Rosenberg - A real-life Jewish woman who was executed for treason during the McCarthy era. The Ethel of the play returns as a ghost to take satisfaction in the death of her persecutor, Roy. Ethel hates Roy with a "needlesharp" passion, yet on his deathbed she musters enough compassion to sing to him. Her recitation of the Kaddish with Louis indicates her forgiveness.
- Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz - An elderly rabbi who delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Sarah Ironson, Rabbi Chemelwitz describes the conservative process by which Jewish immigrants resisted assimilation. Louis seeks spiritual guidance from him, and Prior later encounters him in Heaven on his way to confront the Angels.
- Mr. Lies - A travel agent who resembles a jazz musician, Mr. Lies is one of Harper's imaginary creations. She summons him whenever she wants to escape from her present surroundings, though Mr. Lies cautions her that there is a limit to her ability to flee from reality.
- Henry - Roy's doctor, whom Roy threatens with destruction lest he refer to him as a homosexual. Henry recognizes the folly of Roy's self-delusion but ultimately gives in to it, agreeing to set down his official condition as liver cancer.
- Emily - A nurse who attends to Prior in the hospital. Emily is one of several characters who give voice to the same anti-migratory impulse as the Angel, she tells Prior in no uncertain terms to stay put.
- Martin Heller - A Justice Department official and political ally of Roy's. Martin is fundamentally spineless, allowing Roy to manipulate him in order to impress Joe and then taking the abuse that Roy heaps on him along with a blackmail threat.
- Sister Ella Chapter - A real estate agent who handles the sale of Hannah's house in Salt Lake. Like Emily, she urges her friend to settle down and remain at home.
- Prior I and Prior II - Prior's ancestors who are summoned from the dead to help prepare the way for the Angel's arrival. Prior I is a medieval farmer, Prior II a seventeenth- century Londoner who is more sophisticated and cosmopolitan in outlook. Both men died of the plague.
- Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov - The World's Oldest Living Bolshevik, who delivers the tirade that marks the beginning of Perestroika. Prelapsarianov criticizes the pettiness of modern American life, the pointless quality of life in the absence of a governing theory.
- The Mormon Mother - A dummy from the diorama at the Mormon Visitor's Center who is silenced while her husband and son speak. The Mormon mother comes to life, however, and accompanies Harper while sharing painful truths about life and change.
- Sarah Ironson - Louis's grandmother, Sarah's funeral takes place in the first scene of Millennium. Prior encounters her in Heaven, playing cards with Rabbi Chemelwitz.
Angels in America focuses on the stories of two troubled couples, one gay, one straight: "word processor" Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter, and Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt and his wife Harper. After the funeral of Louis's grandmother, Prior tells him that he has contracted AIDS, and Louis panics. He tries to care for Prior but soon realizes he cannot stand the strain and fear. Meanwhile, Joe is offered a job in the Justice Department by Roy Cohn, his right-wing, bigoted mentor and friend. But Harper, who is addicted to Valium and suffers anxiety and hallucinations, does not want to move to Washington.
The two couples' fates quickly become intertwined: Joe stumbles upon Louis crying in the bathroom of the courthouse where he works, and they strike up an unlikely friendship based in part on Louis's suspicion that Joe is gay. Harper and Prior also meet, in a fantastical mutual dream sequence in which Prior, operating on the "threshold of revelation," reveals to Harper that her husband is a closeted homosexual. Harper confronts Joe, who denies it but says he has struggled inwardly with the issue. Roy receives a different kind of surprise: At an appointment with his doctor Henry, he learns that he too has been diagnosed with AIDS. But Roy, who considers gay men weak and ineffectual, thunders that he has nothing in common with them—AIDS is a disease of homosexuals, whereas he has "liver cancer." Henry, disgusted, urges him to use his clout to obtain an experimental AIDS drug.
Prior's illness and Harper's terrors both grow worse. Louis strays from Prior's bedside to seek anonymous sex in Central Park at night. Fortunately, Prior has a more reliable caretaker in Belize, an ex-drag queen and dear friend. Prior confesses to Belize that he has been hearing a wonderful and mysterious voice; Belize is skeptical, but once he leaves we hear the voice speak to Prior, telling him she is a messenger who will soon arrive for him. As the days pass, Louis and Joe grow closer and the sexual tinge in their banter grows more and more obvious. Finally, Joe drunkenly telephones his mother Hannah in Salt Lake City to tell her that he is a homosexual, but Hannah tells him he is being ridiculous. Nonetheless, she makes plans to sell her house and come to New York to put things right. In a tense and climactic scene, Joe tells Harper about his feelings, and she screams at him to leave, while simultaneously Louis tells Prior he is moving out.
The disconsolate Prior is awakened one night by the ghosts of two ancestors who tell him they have come to prepare the way for the unseen messenger. Tormented by such supernatural appearances and by his anguish over Louis, Prior becomes increasingly desperate. Joe, equally distraught in his own way, tells Roy he cannot accept his offer; Roy explodes at him and calls him a "sissy." He then tells Joe about his greatest achievement, illegally intervening in the espionage trial of Ethel Rosenberg in the 1950s and guaranteeing her execution. Joe is shocked by Roy's lack of ethics. When Joe leaves, the ghost of Ethel herself appears, having come to witness Roy's last days on earth. In the climax of Part One, Joe follows Louis to the park, then accompanies him home for sex, while Prior's prophetic visions culminate in the appearance of an imposing and beautiful Angel who crashes through the roof of his apartment and proclaims, "The Great Work begins."
In Part Two, Harper indulges in the fantasy that she is in Antarctica with her imaginary companion Mr. Lies. But Antarctica turns out to be Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and she is picked up by the police. With Joe nowhere to be found, Hannah comes to her rescue, tending to her in the depths of depression. She finally insists that Harper join her at the Mormon Visitor's Center, where she has begun to volunteer. Meanwhile, the increasingly sick Roy checks in to the hospital where Belize works as a nurse. Roy insults him with cutting, racist remarks, but Belize, angry but filled with involuntary respect, gives him valuable advice on his treatment. Their relationship is always bitter but heated and icy by turns. Belize, however, demonstrates his considerable compassion for Prior, who tells him the full story of the Angel's visit. After her dramatic arrival, she gives Prior a prophetic book and explains that she seeks his help to halt the migratory tendency of human beings, which the Angels in Heaven believe tempted God to abandon them. God, she explains, left Heaven forever on the day of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, and since then his Angels—whose vast powers are fueled by constant sexual activity—have been rudderless and alone. To reverse the trend, the Angel says humans must end their constant motion, their addiction to change. Not surprisingly, Prior is aghast at her words and vows to flee from her at all costs.
Roy learns that his political opponents plan to disbar him for an ethical lapse, but he vows to remain a lawyer until he dies. In a friendly rapprochement, he gives Joe his blessing, until Joe reveals that he has left Harper for a man—he has been living for a blissful month with Louis. Stunned and angry, he demands that Joe end his gay relationship at once. Ethel comes to observe him in his misery. Joe's wife, on the other hand, spends her days at the Mormon Visitor's Center watching a diorama of the Mormon migration featuring a father dummy who looks suspiciously like Joe. When Prior drops in to conduct research on angels, a fantasy sequence ensues in which Louis and Joe appear in the diorama. The formerly silent Mormon mother comes to life and leaves with Harper, giving her painful but valuable advice on loss and change.
Louis and Joe's idyll draws to an end when Louis says he wants to see Prior again. At their meeting, Prior coldly insists that he must present visible proof of his internal bruises. Belize later tells Louis about Joe's relationship with Roy, whose politics and personal history Louis despises. When Louis angrily confronts Joe, their fight turns physical and Joe punches him. He apologizes, horrified, but they never speak again. Roy nears his end as well, reeling from Joe's disclosure and from Ethel's news that he has been disbarred. He dies, but not before tricking Ethel into tenderly singing for him. After his death, Belize summons Louis to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, to demonstrate thanks (for his stash of AIDS drugs) and forgiveness. Ethel leads Louis in the prayer, the play's emotional and moral climax.
After Prior suffers an episode at the visitor's center, Hannah takes him to the hospital. There, the Angel descends, and Prior wrestles her. He succeeds, and is granted entry into Heaven to refuse his prophecy. In Heaven, which resembles San Francisco after the great earthquake, Prior tells the Angels that despite all his suffering he wants them to bless him and give him more life. The Angels sympathize but say they cannot halt the plague. He tells them should God return, they should sue Him for abandonment. Back on earth, his fever broken, Prior tells Louis he loves him but that he cannot ever come back. Harper leaves Joe for the last time and sets off on an optimistic voyage to San Francisco to begin her own life.
In 1990, four years later, Louis, Prior, Belize and Hannah appear in a moving epilogue. Prior says that the disease has killed many but that he intends to live on, and that the "Great Work" will continue.
San Francisco
The city of San Francisco symbolizes both the failed society that the Angels try to perpetuate as well as the promise of an ideal, gay-inflected community that the play's ending promises. Heaven resembles San Francisco after the huge earthquake of 1906, the day on which God abandoned his people forever. His departure is as devastating to the Angels as the quake was to the city. But while Heaven remains in a state of permanent rubble and decay, the real San Francisco was almost immediately rebuilt, becoming, as Prior tells Harper, a place of "unspeakable" beauty. The San Francisco metaphor thus contrasts the untenable stasis of the Angels with the ceaseless energy and determination of human beings. The city also represents the longed-for ideal society the characters attempt to build in the epilogue. Westward migration has always represented hope in America, but earlier migrations like that of the Mormons only replicated the emptiness and isolation they sought to leave behind. Now, in the last scene, Harper is migrating even farther west, as far west as she can go in America, to a place famous for its tolerance, loveliness, and left-wing politics, a city that is not coincidentally America's gay capital. The gathering on the rim of the Bethesda Fountain could have easily been staged in San Francisco's Castro District—both locations represent voluntary community, inclusion, civic participation, and personal promise.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – After two consecutive games with top-10 teams, the Saint Leo lacrosse team was able to flex its muscles against visiting Southern New Hampshire University as the Lions dominated the Penmen 17-4 in non-conference action from a cool University Field on Tuesday evening.
In their final tuneup before traveling to Limestone for the gigantic South Region matchup, the Lions saw Cole Seija score the games first three goals to set the tone. The Lions (9-1) would answer the Penmen's first goal with two more goals at they took a 5-1 lead into the second quarter.
Unlike their game against Mars Hills, where the Lions did not score in the second half, SLU would continue the pressure out of the halftime, scoring 10 times after the teams returned from the intermission.
On the defensive side, David Erdman was rock-solid in goal as he made 11 saves, with a number of shots coming point-blank, including another one-on-one opportunity as the game was winding down.
Seija was one of four Lions with three goals as he was joined by Kyle Marceau, Luke Baruch and Nick Bova as the game's leading scorers. Joe Guerin posted four assists and a goal as he finished as the night's point-leader.
A physical game that saw both teams combine for 22 penalties totaling almost 20 minutes, saw the Lions also score two goals with the extra-man advantage while only allowing the visitors from Manchester, New Hampshire one goal in nine chances.
The Lions' reigning Defensive Player of the Week, Mike Del Buono, went 13-for-23 on faceoffs and picked up seven ground balls.
Saint Leo now turns their attention to their biggest and most anticipated game this season as SLU will travel to South Carolina to face No. 4 Limestone on Saturday. The Lions and the Saints will get underway at 1:00 p.m. in Gaffney, S.C. in a contest that will determine the front-runner in the South Region of Division II.
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A hose is a flexible, hollow tube designed to carry fluids or gases from one location to another.
Hoses are made from one or a combination of different materials. Pneumatic applications mostly use Nylon, Polyurethane, Polyethylene, Nitrile, Neoprene or Rubber based on the environment and pressure rating.
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A length of hose, in particular rubber hose (usually of the typical red color), can be used as a spanking implement. Flogging with an approximately ten inches long heavy rubber hose from an milking machine with 1/4" inside diameter, 1/2" outside, no reinforcing cords, fairly firm but very flexible, will give little sting and lots of thud. The rubber hose leaves marks, but rarely bruises. If a flogging that tells is in order, the rubber hose is a perfect choice: it curles around the buttock, so that when the flogging is over, the entire buttocks hurts. It is an experience that lasts for seconds, but leaves memories for week.
In earlier days, some school science teachers would administer informal corporal punishment to the buttocks of erring pupils, using a length of rubber hose. Such hose was normally used to connect bunsen burners to gas taps and was freely available in science laboratories.
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For the second straight meeting, a request to enter into a contract to remove all liquid lime sludge at the city's Water Plant went without action from the council.
City Administrator Rick Childers pleaded with council members Wednesday night to accept a proposal from the company who is already removing half of the liquid sludge for $30,000. For less than $30,000, they will remove the other half of sludge and defer payment until next year's budget in October.
"I would very strongly recommend the council take advantage of them being on site."
Councilman Scott Marshall told council members that Rep. Bob Nance has set up a meeting in Jefferson City with someone from the Department of Natural Resources that can answer some questions concerning the sludge.
Councilman Dave Powell said the city will only save a minimal amount of money by doing the job now rather than call the company back later. Childers said bringing the company back later could cost more money but said he doesn't know.
Also removed from the agenda was an ordinance to change grave marker regulations in the city-owned Memory Gardens Cemetery.
The ordinance would require all new grave headstones to be made of bronze and eliminate the use of marble and granite for headstones.
The request was made last month by Cemetery Board member Levan Thurman on behalf of the board. He told council members that the board believed the cemetery needed a more uniform look.
Childers told council members that he has consulted with city staff and they have reported that more than 40 percent of the markers in the cemetery now are either marble or granite.
He said from a maintenance standpoint it does not matter as far as mowing and trimming are concerned. He did say that the bronze headstones require some maintenance because of dulling over time.
Councilwoman Beverly Gorham said she spoke to many people in the public and the consensus was against the ordinance.
"I did not get a lot of positive input from them," Gorham said.
Childers said the majority of orders in the last two or three years have been for granite or marble. The council decided to remove the ordinance from the agenda.
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2A Tourney Down to FinalsYakutat and Hydaburg, the top two seeds, will meet tonight at Mt. Edgecumbe High's gym for the 2A boys Region V title.
Yakutat beat Thorne Bay 70-43 Thursday in a semifinal game, and Hydaburg beat Klawock 46-40 on the other side of the bracket.
Klawock and Yakutat will play for the girls title tonight. In a re-match of the 2011 state championship game, Yakutat beat Skagway 48-36 Thursday; and Klawock beat Angoon 74-36.
Today, Angoon girls squeaked past Hoonah 48-47.
On Saturday, teams will battle for the region's second state berth.
In the 1:00 game, Hoonah defeated Klawock 34-26, advancing to play the winner of Thorne Bay vs. Angoon Saturday at 11:15 a.m.
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WSDOT moves traffic cameras to the cloud
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So many people use the web nowadays to check traffic conditions that the state Department of Transportation is taking extra steps to make sure its traffic flow maps and live camera feeds don't crash during the next big snowstorm.
That happened during a big storm in 2007. And WSDOT's site bogged down during last January's snowstorm, when it saw more than 12 million page views and 800,000 unique visitors in a single day.
But instead of building extra server space to handle all that web traffic, WSDOT has moved its traffic camera feeds and maps to the cloud. The agency has a contract with Amazon for server space and, in an emergency, can switch to the cloud so WSDOT's website doesn't slow down.
"Building the infrastructure that would be needed to handle these infrequent weather spikes just isn't a good use of taxpayer dollars," the agency said in The WSDOT Blog. "Over the years, we've made numerous improvements so that we can function during those types of bad weather days. However, to ensure the information that you need to make informed travel decisions is available whenever and wherever you need it, we need to think outside the box."
"So, we're doing what everyone else is doing and that is put that information in the cloud," spokeswoman Jamie Holter said.
It costs a few hundred dollars any time WSDOT activates its feeds from the cloud, Holter said. Figures on how much money WSDOT will save weren't available Friday, but spending on cloud storage would be quite a bit less than building new infrastructure, Holter said.
WSDOT tested the switch earlier this month. While there was some lag time in the beginning, it worked as intended, she said.
So what is cloud technology? "Think of it this way – if we use just one computer to provide information, it can only handle so many simultaneous requests," the agency said in its blog. "If instead, we put our camera images to a location that has access to a really big server we can ensure the images you want to see will be available when you need it."
And WSDOT's web traffic is increasing faster than gridlock on Interstate 5.
Between October 2011 and October 2012, the number of daily visitors increased from 78,000 to 98,000. WSDOT also has seen growth in people checking traffic conditions from mobile devices. From January to June, the number of mobile devices accessing WSDOT's website increased from 4.5 million to 8.7 million.


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TM: What did he ask you? How did the interview go?
CP: Well, he said, "When these terrorists come into the movie – that's where I want the pace of the movie to go. Once these terrorists arrive, the pace should really move fast." And he gave me an example: like "Robo Cop" at that time. And I got into the story of the characters, what they were like, Bruce Willis (what he was going for) and the kind of fights I'd choreograph (I laid all that action out). It was fantastic, and Joel Silver gave me the shot when Joel was producing it. Joel and I went to "Die Hard 2, Roadhouse."
TM: As Second Unit Director?
CP: As Second Unit Director but I did a lot of big first units with Joel too. You know, I mean, second units that were really big (like 200 people on my crew as Second Unit Director). So I was doing a lot of first unit stuff, too.
TM: What kind of money does that pay?
CP: Well, in those days I was making $500,000 – $600,000 a year. My biggest year was $875,000.
TM: As Second Unit Director?
CP: And Stunt Coordinator. In 1990 when I did "Hudson Hawk," I made $875,000. So I was doing pretty well, and I moved up. Joel was terrific; I really liked working with him. I had a lot of fun with him; he was a fun guy. I did "Demolition Man" with him, and then I just kept on moving up. Then, after I guess 1995, was the last movie I did with Joel. Then I did a couple of movies with Jean Claude Van Damme in "Maximum Risk," which was terrific. Those guys were all great. Duke Vincent really started me off; he was the guy that kicked off my directing career. Anyway, that was after I worked with Van Damme, around 2000.
TM: Wait a minute, let's go back. How did that happen? Who's Duke Vincent?
CP: Duke Vincent was the No. one guy for Aaron Spelling.
TM: How did you know him?
CP: He knew me from coordinating "Starsky & Hutch." I did a pilot around 1980 in Hawaii, called "Waikiki." It was a two-hour pilot. At that time, they had just finished doing "Hawaii Five 0," and every studio was looking for a new show to get into Hawaii – Universal and Aaron Spelling. I was on as Second Unit Director and Coordinator. Well, after the first three or four days, I guess Aaron didn't like what the director was doing, which was unfortunate because I thought he was great, and they fired him for some crazy reason. Duke Vincent said, "I want you to direct the next three days, First Unit, with the guest stars. We're replacing the camera guy, we're replacing one of the main actors and you're going to direct all the guest stars." So I directed about three or four days of First Unit. Duke gave me a shot, and it turned out great. The film went back to the studio and Aaron Spelling said, "Gee, who is the new director? The stuff looks great." Duke said, "Charlie Picerni." And Aaron said, "He's a stunt coordinator…" and Duke said, "Well he did it." After that, they gave me Vegas shows to direct. They also gave me "T.J. Hooker" to direct, and I was on my way to directing. But Duke started me off. So that was a strong period of my life, and then when I met Joel, that was another strong period because I worked up to doing the big, big second unit directors. I was in all the big action movies and Joel said, "After 'Die Hard 2,' I'm going to give you a movie to direct. You saved the movie, you did fantastic." I was doing all kinds of stuff like snow mobile chases. He said, "This stuff looks great. Without this Second Unit, we couldn't have done the movie." I felt terrific. In fact, he gave me a movie to direct around 1990-91. It was a movie called "Ricochet" with Denzel Washington. Unfortunately, when tragedy strikes in your life, it struck me and my second wife, Nancy, who I was married to. She was 35-years old, a trial attorney. She got into an accident on Sunset Boulevard and was killed. I was in terrible condition to direct a movie. So Joel said, "Come to Rome with me, and we'll do 'Hudson Hawke'. Then you'll come back and do the Second Unit on 'Ricochet', if you're in shape." I said, "Joel, I'll do it – I've got to work." So, I went along with him. And after that, I did a few more movies with him, and then getting back to the present time, after Van Damme movies, I started doing directing for John McTiernan at Paramount. I went back to television, and I directed a thing called "Seven Days." It was a T.V. series, science fiction, about eight shows. I did that in 2000. Then, I got into my own company. I started doing producing and directing, and I did a movie with Peter Falk and George Segal called "Three Days to Vegas." It was shot in Miami, New Orleans and Vegas. We raised some money. A good little movie that's on DVD now.
TM: So are you capable of making "Spaghetti Park" all on your own?
CP: I know a lot about packaging, breakdowns, scheduling and stuff like that. Like I say, I just about finished high school but when I came out here, I observed. So I know editing and cutting, etc. – it's like going to school. If I went to UCLA, I couldn't learn as much as I did on the set because I watched. I went into the cutting room. I know how to put movies together. I don't care what movie it is – a big multi-million dollar movie or a T.V. show. I know how to work with lighting. I know how to work with a camera. I know how to work with different things. A lot of years – 42 years. So the budget on "Spaghetti Park" has been broken down below the line. I could probably shoot for about, you know, without cutting myself short, maybe $5 or $6 million below the line.
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Tanner Ross' live ELITA set, Polar-prize recipient Chuck Berry, Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté and more in the music we tweeted this week
Clarens: Trust
A whirlwind tour performing with French synth-pop duo Juveniles prompted Senegal-born, Paris-based musician Ousseynou Cissé to create a song about his experience. The emerging artist—who now goes by Clarens—told Interview magazine his new track "Trust" is "a song about lost friendships." Set to a downtempo beat that feels like raindrops falling on a snare drum, his sweetly melancholic voice perfectly complements the lyrical sentiments of loneliness and life on the road. "Trust" will feature on the anniversary compilation album for indie dance label Partyfine, formed a year ago by French producer Yuksek.
Toumani & Sidiki: Rachid Ouiguini
The beautiful sound of West Africa's 21-string kora instrument is fully realized in a historic merger of father and son. Renowned Malian kora player, Toumani Diabaté—who learned from his legendary father Sidiki (senior)—has collaborated with his son Sidiki (junior) on an album of unrehearsed songs recorded at north London's RAK studios. Dubbing their musical relationship as master and apprentice, Sidiki tells the Guardian, "My father is my idol." Their intuitive and seamlessly fluid interplay can be heard throughout the entire 10-track LP, which is available for purchase from their website. For a peek at their brilliance, listen to "Rachid Ouiguini" on Spotify.
Harry Nilsson: Ain't It Kind of Wonderful
For this week's guilty pleasure song, Dennis McNany of Museum of Love revealed to CH: "I keep my Nilsson secret... When you listen to Harry Nilsson, he can put you in a melancholy mood. I like my melancholy." While "Ain't It Kind of Wonderful"—featured in the 1977 Gene Wilder comedy "The World's Greatest Lover"—is much happier than Nilsson's usual style, there's something too perfect and almost satirical about the lyrics that hides something darker within. As the bonus track off of Knnillssonn, purportedly Nilsson's favorite, this song (and the entire album) is one you play right before bedtime, with the doors closed and a glass of wine in your hand.
Tanner Ross: Live at ELITA Festival Milan
Milan Design Week isn't solely focused on showcasing the latest in furniture and decor; for the past eight years the ELITA festival (which stands for Electronic ITAly) has served as Fuorisalone's well-founded music component. The 2014 lineup had fair-goers cutting loose early to catch a range of international artists, like Moodymann, Todd Terje, Daphni, Tony Allen, DARKSIDE and so many more cult favorites. One such for CH is Boston-based Tanner Ross, whose dance-inducing Milan set is now streaming on SoundCloud via Soul Clap records.
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
One of the first musicians inducted into the Hall of Fame, Chuck Berry has long-been widely recognized as an arbiter of rock'n'roll. This week the trailblazing musician received another critical honor, the prestigious Polar Music Prize. The award is given to artists who "break down musical boundaries by bringing together people from all the different worlds of music" and nothing could be truer of Berry's legacy which includes turning the electric guitar into a mainstream instrument. Have a look back at a young Berry performing "Johnny B. Goode" live on the T.A.M.I. Show, where his stage energy is as charged as his guitar strumming.
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Last month I blogged about the surprising level of hypervisor diversity that we're seeing in use by customers – as shown by a report published by Gabriel Consulting and based on a survey of hundreds of IT professionals.

Now I want to discuss what's behind this – why are so many customers mixing x86 hypervisors, and what are their reasons?
In essence, it comes down to three factors – lower cost, technical differences, and customer ability to manage multiple hypervisors.
You can read more about what's driving hypervisor diversity in the second new Gabriel Consulting Report 'Hyperversity' Driven by Technical & Cost Differences.

Cost differences matter

The first and most obvious factor is cost. We're seeing the familiar cycle of high-priced proprietary technologies being challenged by lower-cost open source innovation – the same situation that played out with Linux, Eclipse and Apache.

Although the Gabriel Consulting report shows that customers value proprietary hypervisor technology, it also shows that the costs of implementing this everywhere can often be too high and half of the respondents agreed with the statement "Cost issues make standardizing on one suite too expensive…"

We're also hearing this from our customers, from large banks to cloud providers. Cost is one of the main reasons they're adopting KVM.

But according to the report, while cost is a driver for hyperversity, it isn't the major driver. Intriguingly, that's technical factors.

Technical differences matter even more

71% of respondents agreed with the statement "Technical differences between various solutions drive hypervisor diversity".

The first and most obvious factor behind this is affinity between the hypervisor and the operating system. This is clearly a major factor for KVM and Linux, as well as for Hyper-V and Windows. Hypervisors and operating systems need to perform many of the same tasks – starting processes, managing memory, accessing devices. If the Linux comes with the hypervisor already included, and integrated, and tested, then that's a strong reason for adopting KVMr.

The second factor is that hypervisors such as KVM which are based on an existing operating system don't need to reinvent the wheel and can exploit the scalability, security and device support that's already there. This is one of the reasons why KVM holds the top seven SpecVirt performance benchmarks – it's leveraging Linux which already has the scalability.

The final factor is how suitable the hypervisor is to supporting cloud computing. The Gabriel Computing report saw a data correlation between KVM and private cloud projects, and speculated on whether there is something about KVM that makes it more amenable to driving private clouds.

We think that the scalability and high VM density provided by KVM, along with its open approach and low cost, makes it a great choice for cloud computing. This is why IBM uses KVM as the hypervisor for both its public cloud, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, and also its largest internal private cloud, the IBM Research Compute Cloud.

Managing multiple hypervisors

Of course, the adoption of multiple hypervisors, like the prevalence of multiple operating systems, means that customers have to be able to manage the hypervisor diversity successfully.

In the early days of adoption, IT shops are likely to use the virtualization management tools most closely connected with the hypervisors – VMware's vCenter, Microsoft's Systems Center, and Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualization – Management.

As the hypervisor diversity trend continues, this means having multiple management tools and multiple skill sets.

The idea of managing a mixed hypervisor environment from a single pane of glass then becomes increasingly attractive – whether from ISVs in the Open Virtualization Alliance such as Zenoss and ManageIQ, or enterprise systems management vendors such as IBM with Tivoli and IBM Systems Director VMControl.

Whatever happens, it looks like hypervisor diversity is here to stay for at least the next few years – and that promises to make for interesting times.

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UN to question Iraqi scientist abroad
United Nations inspectors in Iraq say they are preparing to take an Iraqi scientist outside the country for questioning for the first time.
A spokesman told the BBC the interview would take place soon, but he would not say when or where it would be held.
A UN resolution gave inspectors the power to take Iraqi weapons experts out of the country to enable them to speak more freely.
Baghdad has continued to insist that it has no programme to develop banned nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
But pressure has been kept up against Saddam Hussein by the United States which has been pushing the UN inspections teams to take a more aggressive approach.
Washington has been encouraging the UN teams to use the full latitude offered them by the resolution which was passed in November. That allows scientists to be taken out of Iraq for questioning away from fear of being monitored.
The BBC's Caroline Hawley says the interview outside Iraq would be a significant development, a month after the inspectors returned to Iraq.
But there are unlikely to be any details made public until after the interview is completed.
Earlier this week, inspectors in Baghdad held their first formal interview with an Iraqi scientist - a man associated with Iraq's past nuclear programme.
They offered to talk to him in private, but he asked for an official Iraqi witness.
'Nothing to hide'
Iraq continues to comply with the demands of the UN resolution and has let inspectors go where they want as well as producing a 12,000-page document detailing its activities, all of which it says are innocent.
On Thursday, Iraq's chief liaison officer with the UN inspectors said the teams had visited 188 sites but had found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
He said scientists could go abroad to be interviewed, but he saw no need for such a move.
Meanwhile - as both sides continue to prepare for a possible conflict - the head of the UN's refugee agency told the BBC that the international community should do everything to prevent a war.
Ruud Lubbers said a US-led war designed to force Saddam Hussein to disarm could cause a humanitarian disaster.
The Iraqi Government has begun helping its citizens stockpile food in case of a US-led attack and Washington is continuing its military build-up in the area.
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The biggest myth about Apple
Since its inception in the late 70s, Apple has been a pioneer for a technological leap. For example how Apple created a computer product that can be used for household, then how Mac OS used GUI that lets you open the windows and icons on the computer instead of typed programming language, how to use the mouse as the Apple GUI technology supporting it, and Apple's ceaseless innovation with a concise but complete OS, developed the iPod which solves disputes between free song downloads with the artists who compose the song, iPhone, and iPad which became a pioneer for all modern tablets. Behind its stunning development, some myths have sprung up about Apple.
This article will discuss one of the biggest myths surrounding Apple is whether Apple products are immune to the virus. Are Apple products immune to the virus? This myth evolved from differences in OS used, in which Mac OS or iOS described as a different type of OS and superior also, which makes Apple products are immune to the virus.
But scientifically, the difference lies only in the 'how much' and 'what type of malware' that infects Mac. First of all, there is not a lot of malware that is designed for Mac OS. Malware developers typically want to reach the target as much as possible, and Mac users are not the target. The reason is as follows:
• Windows PC covers 90 percent of the quarter the market share of new computers sold by vendors in the US.
• Microsoft Windows can support a lot of cheap PC hardware.
• Optimization version for Windows server running thousands of servers worldwide, while Mac is rarely used as a server.
Secondly, the type of malware that infects Mac OS does not depend on the fragility and tends to attack its negligence. For example, malware disguised as anti-virus program for Mac, with the name Mac Protector, Mac Defender, Apple Security Center and other titles. This myth developed from mouth to mouth and causes a lot of misunderstanding, but now you have known the truth!


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(a) We will mail a written notice of our initial determination to you at your last known address. The written notice will explain in simple and clear language what we have determined and the reasons for and the effect of our determination. If our determination involves a determination of disability that is in whole or in part unfavorable to you, our written notice also will contain in understandable language a statement of the case setting forth the evidence on which our determination is based. The notice also will inform you of your right to reconsideration. We will not mail a notice if the beneficiary's entitlement to benefits has ended because of his or her death.
(b) If our initial determination is that we must suspend, reduce or terminate your benefits, the notice will also tell you that you have a right to a reconsideration before the determination takes effect (see § 416.1336).
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Flea circus freezes to death in Germany, but show goes on
BERLIN — An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures gripping Germany.
Flea circus director Robert Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box on Wednesday morning.
The circus scrambled to find and train a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the western town of Mechernich-Kommern.
Michael Faber, who organizes the fair, told The Associated Press that an insect expert at a nearby university was able to provide 50 fleas in time for the first show on Sunday.
Birk said it was the first time his circus had lost all of its fleas to the cold at one time.


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With Dussehra around the corner, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday said that he hopes to give the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a 'political death' in the Bihar Assembly elections as a fitting festive present.
"Dussehra is the festival celebrated to honor the killing of the demon army. We are going to do the same by ensuring the BJP's defeat in the elections. You can already see the Prime Minister changing his posters everywhere in a hurry. Amit Shah is seething with fury. It will be their 'political death' in the Bihar elections," Lalu told the reporters here.
Reacting to the ink attack on Jammu and Kashmir independent MLA Engineer Rashid, Lalu said the entire incident was the 'agenda of the BJP and the RSS'.
Lesser known right wing group Hindu Sena on Monday claimed the responsibility for the ink attack on Engineer.
Engineer dubbed the ink attack on him as 'undemocratic' and said this showed the ugly face of the radicals in India. (ANI)


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Phil Mickelson maintained a four-stroke lead at the Phoenix Open golf event on Friday, despite denting an otherwise strong second round with a double bogey at the 18th hole.
Mickelson, who missed shooting golf's magic number of 59 in the first round by only one shot, followed up with a six-under-par 65 for a 17-under total of 125.
His stumble at the finish, however, meant he missed out on the US PGA Tour's 36-hole scoring record.
Although he was disappointed to drop two shots at the TPC Scottsdale's par-four finishing hole - where he hit his tee shot into the water - Mickelson said the wobble could help him in the long run.
"It's very possible that's going to help me because it's got me refocused, that I cannot ease up on a single shot," he said.
"These guys are going to make a lot of birdies and I've got to get after it and cannot make those kinds of mistakes."
Mickelson was one stroke off the US Tour's record for 36 holes of 124, set by Pat Perez at the 2009 Bob Hope Classic and matched by David Toms at the 2011 Colonial.
His second round included six birdies and an eagle at the par-5 15th and left him four strokes in front of Bill Haas.
Haas carded a seven-under 64 that included seven birdies for 129.
Keegan Bradley had seven birdies and an eagle in an eight-under 63 that put him on 130, tied with Brandt Snedeker who posted a 66.
Argentina's Angel Cabrera (65), South Korea's Charlie Wi (63) and Brian Gay (66) were tied on 131.
The best-placed Australians were Aaron Baddeley and Greg Chalmers well back at six-under 136 in a tie for 38th, with Jason Day a further two shots back.
Geoff Ogilvy, Marc Leishman and Alistair Presnell missed the cut.


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nsFocusManager uses nsTreeWalker to locate next and previous nsIContents. This is overkill now that there are fast node traversal methods supported by nsINode. It should use GetNextNode and a new method to get the previous nsIContent. Patch coming soon.
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Created attachment 463996 [details] [diff] [review] Patch I've added an GetPreviousContent method to nsIContent. I can move it to nsINode if that is preferred, but since it only knows how to return nsIContent* I think you need to be in an nsIContent to even bother wanting to find a previous content. (My knowledge of nsINode vs nsIContent is very bad.) Not entirely sure how to test this. Is focus stuff covered by one of the test systems? I did run the built browser and made sure it still seemed to move forwards and backwards correctly.
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For what it's worth, the behavior of that function wrt aRoot doesn't match the documentation. Also, there's no problem using nsContentUtils methods in nsGenericElement; they just couldn't be used in nsINode....
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Oops I was going to fix that and forgot. I'll post a new patch later today.
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Created attachment 464305 [details] [diff] [review] Fixes for bz's comments
I think we want nsIContent* nsIContent::GetPreviousContent to be changed into nsIContent* nsINode::GetPreviousContent i.e. moved to the nsINode interface. We probably also want to keep it inlined such that it can be called from anywhere. This means that you won't be able to call nsContentUtils::ContentIsDescendantOf but unfortunately have to duplicate and inline it :( It's somewhat more ok though since it's DEBUG only.
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If we want to inline it, the right way to do it is to put the decl in nsINode and the impl at the bottom of nsIContent.h.
Sounds good to me.
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Created attachment 464710 [details] [diff] [review] Moved GetPreviousNode to nsINode
Comment on attachment 464710 [details] [diff] [review] Moved GetPreviousNode to nsINode Yay! Pretty!
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Jonas, should I ask for 2.0 approval or wait til we branch?
I'd say that we should wait. There's not much value for users here, just value for our continued ease of working with this code, so doesn't give us much to put in FF4.
I don't want to land this tonight as the tree is in a crazy state. I'll try to remember to land this tomorrow, otherwise please remind me.
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Created attachment 525323 [details] [diff] [review] Remove nsTreeWalker usage from nsFocusManager
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Four Past Midnight is a collection of Four Novellas - "The Langoliers", "Secret Window, Secret Garden", "The Library Policeman" and "The Sun Dog". Two of these have been made into movies - "The Langolier" as a 3 hour television movie and "Secret Window, Secret Garden" as a film starring Johnny Depp, shortened simply to "Secret Window" - I don't know maybe "Secret Garden" will come out as a sequel one day. Anyway, my favourite of all the stories is "The Langoliers" - the story of a group of people on a flight who find themselves slightly out of synch with time and having to find a way to escape before the creatures that munch through the past finally catch up with them. Okay as a concept it doesn't sound great but Stephen King reall carries this one off. Secret Garden is the tale of a writer accused of plaigarism by a psycopath with a difference. The Library policeman shows us a man forced to face the horrors of his past and the final story "The Sun Dog" tells the story of a boy who buys a camera with a difference. It also acts as an amusing prologue to Stephen King's next book "Needful Things". All Four stories are very good, however I am still not sure of the need to have bunched them all together in this way as they have no real common themes. But still a good read.
Idly flicking through the Stephen King section on Amazon, I happened to come across 'Four Past Midnight' - a collection of King stories I'd never read before. I purchased it, thinking that 4 stories would be a quick, but entertaining read. So, when it arrived on my doorstep I was somewhat surprised by the hefty packaging and brick shaped book.
At a total of 676 pages these stories can, in no way, pass off as 'short'. Realistically, if King had extended them slightly they could all have been sold as novels of a reasonable length. 'Four Past Midnight' allows King to prove to an audience that he can adapt his style of writing to almost any fiction genre. In these four stories, he focuses on his old favourite - horror, with an equally pleasing sci-fi interlude in the form of the first story, 'The Langoliers'.
The Langoliers -
This is the first book in the collection and aptly titled 'One past midnight; The Langoliers'. It begins from the view of an airline pilot, Captain Brian Engle. Just into the airport after a particularly rough flight, he is given the disturbing information that his ex-wife has been killed in a house-fire. Tired and unable to understand what has happened, the airport arranges a seat for him on the next aeroplane home. So he gets on board and falls to sleep fitfully.
When Brian awakes, he finds himself alone in his section of the plane but, as he walks into other compartments he realises that he's not the only passenger left. There's Dinah Bellman, a blind girl who's sight seems to extend past that of normal vision, Albert and Bethany - confused teenagers, Laurel - a young school-teacher on a strange mission, Jenkins - ghost writer and ageing scholar, Nick - an Englishman, and Craig Toomy, who's a little obsessed with getting off the plane...
As events begin to unfold, and the new crew decides to land, they realise there's something wrong with the world they're in. Where's the wind and birds and life? Why does food seem to have no taste? How are they going to refill the plane? And what's that buzzing that seems to be getting louder... closer...
'The Langoliers' is easily the best story in the collection - intelligent, interesting and exceptionally imaginative, King mixes the genre he performs best in with classic sci-fi. The transition is seamless, and the idea is highly original.
Character development is staggeringly good, as always. In particular, Toomy's slow descent into madness is as accomplished as Jack's in 'The Shining' - an effect that Stephen King seems to have perfected to a point where it almost sounds rational. The character of Jenkins as the wise writer with potential theories is excellent, as is that of Nick - the Brit with a mysterious background. In fact, all the characters in the story are very memorable and really stand up on their own - something you don't expect from what could be 'just another' Stephen King short story.
Based on idea, entertainment, character development and effectiveness of the story - 10/10.
Secret Window, Secret Garden -
The writer (There's a surprise!), Mort Rainey is taking some time off after a painful separation with his wife, Amy. He retreats to an old house he owns in the countryside and decides to start work on his new book. Soon, there's a knock at the door, and Mort makes his first acquaintance with the character of John Shooter. Tall, thin and wearing a black cowboy hat, Shooter claims that Mort 'Stole his story' and says that he must write another one in his name.
Certain that he stole nothing from Shooter, Mort refuses and the tall man leaves. Soon after though, he visits again and this time mysterious 'accidents' seem to follow him. Something happens to Mort's pet dog, his ex-wife's house burns to the ground, and all the while - Shooter is telling him to write his story. As events become more irrational and violent, Mort has to find some way of keeping Shooter from visiting again.
Largely based around the one main character, there's a strong claustrophobic atmosphere to this story. Again, King accomplishes character development very well and Mort's panic-caused deterioration is completely gripping. Not the most original of stories, King tackles the idea very successfully - leading to an unexpected ending. This one is more of a psychological thriller than a horror, although it does have its moments.
Based on idea, entertainment, character development and effectiveness of the story - 8/10
The Library Policeman -
This is my least favourite of the stories. It revolves around Sam Peebles, small business owner and normal American man. After one of his friends convinces him to fill an empty time slot by making a speech about local businesses, he goes to the library to see if he can find any books to help. Whilst there, he spots the 'Children's Library' - a small room where children can read. Initially charmed by the colourful display, he soon finds that he has a inexplicable fear of the small room, and the poster that says 'Avoid the Library Police! Good girls and boys bring their books back on time!'
The Librarian, Ardelia Lortz, has some peculiar views on children's tastes and Sam takes an instant disliking for her. She talks about the 'Library Cops' and tells him that if he forgets to bring the books back, they just might come for him. Sam thinks she's joking initially...
But then he misplaces the books, and when he returns to the library everything is completely different - the rooms are brighter, the disturbing posters are gone... but something knows Sam's lost them, and wants payment of a different kind...
Although my least favourite in the collection, this is an intriguing look into the childhood perceptions of a library and authority. At some points very creepy, this is more of the traditional King storytelling - horror and imagination. The reason this scores lowest is because each of the other stories in the collection has a defining difference to his usual style - this, although an excellent story, doesn't really stand out from other King works. Nevertheless, if you're reading for quality of story and atmosphere, this could be classed quite highly.
Based on idea, entertainment, character development and effectiveness of the story - 7/10.
Sun Dog -
The last in 'Four Past Midnight', 'Sun Dog' is the story of Kevin Delevan; a 15 year old from Maine. On his birthday, he gets exactly what he asked for - a Sun 660 Polaroid camera. After taking the first picture of his assembled family, his little sister knocks the camera off the table it's lying on and damages it. The first picture that comes out isn't of his family as expected, but of an old dog standing in front of a white picket fence. Naturally, he's a little surprised and takes the picture again - same dog, same fence. The family assume that someone involved in the manufacturing of the camera has had a little joke, and resolve to swap the camera on the following Monday.
Kevin, on the other hand, can't wait that long and he goes to see Pop Merrill (a recurring King character), who might be able to fix his camera. After taking a few more pictures, Pop and Kevin realise that the dog inside the picture is moving. It's becoming bigger, it's turning around to face the camera, and it seems to be aware that they are there. As the image changes and the dog becomes more horrifying, Kevin decides to destroy the camera. Merrill, however, decides otherwise...
What initially sounds like a cliché story becomes something very original and chilling under King's more-than-capable hands. In particular, the Polaroid world in Kevin's recurring dreams provides incredible imagery, and a sticking point for the whole story - something that will stay with the reader long after they finish reading. However, the lack of a completely solid conclusion may irritate some readers and the character development of Kevin and his father is lacking somewhat - it doesn't gain the full 10/10 because of this.
Based on idea, entertainment, character development and effectiveness of the story - 9/10.
So, overall - 8/10.
An impressive collection of stories, with an interesting mix of genre's and styles. King proves that he's capable of handling all fiction, and there's some excellent information included before each story - saying how he came up with the idea, when he wrote it etc. These are entertaining in themselves and are a good insight into how King writes his books.
Prices vary on Amazon of course, but it's likely that you'll get this book for under £5 used, and slightly more expensive new. Postage and packaging will be a couple of pounds as well, as it's a pretty large book.
Lastly, I'd recommend this to anyone who has read both short and full stories by Stephen King, and who would like to read something slightly different with all his usual style. If you're reading King for the first time, this is also a good way of reading concisely written not-quite full length novels, which exclude the 'padding' and unnecessary information you tend to get in some of his books. So really, it's a good all-rounder and well worth a read.
On the front cover of Four Past Midnight it says 'words are his power' - not in this book. Although Four Past Midnight is infinitely better than Nightmares and Dreamscapes its not up to Kings standard. It contains four long short stories - The Langoliers, Secret Window-Secret Garden, The Library Policemen and The Sun Dog. The first two stories are quite good, especially Secret Window-Secret Garden which has a neat twist at the end but I lost interest half way through the Library Policemen. The stories were readable but easy to put down as I discovered and definitely not as gripping as much of Kings other work. The writing style is also not a sleak and toned as his later work, to a certain extent the stories smack of first novels. I was disappointed by Four Past Midnight, its old but in a bad way, which books such as The Shining and The Stand are not.
This book, a collection of short stories contains one of my favourites - "The Langoliers". This tells a unusual story of a group of people trapped in, well Im not going to spoil the plot - its part of the fun! This is one book that sticks in my mind, there are some classic lines in it, but be warned it has a shocking event in it, that I did not expect. King can have that effect, he can get you to really feel for a character. Four past Midnight is worth the money just for this story alone, but even better, you get another 3 included!
Anyone who has read any of my opinions on Stephen King books will know that I'm a big fan - so much so that he is one of only two writers who's books I routinely by on the first day of publication. Although it's 10 years since Four Past Midnight appeared, I can still remember buying it and still remember the thrill of anticiaption of having almost 700 pages of 'virgin' Stephen King to look forward to reading. However, when I decided to write an opinion on it, much to my surprise, I couldn't actually remember anything about the book itself! So, having refreshed my memory... This book is actually four short novellas - hence the title Four past midnight. This is a format that King has successfully used before (Different Seasons) but sadly, in this book, he doesn't quite pull it off. The first novella,entitled "The Langoliers", tells of an internal flight in the USA in which ten passengers suddenly wake up from sleep and realise that all their fellow passengers - and the crew - are missing, and that the 'plane is busy flying along on auto pilot, taking them heaven only knows where. Of course, one of the surviving passengers is a qualified pilot ( a little too convenient,Mr. King!), otherwise there would be no tale to tell. When the plane is finally landed, the world as we know it has ceased to exist. The novella is the survivor's story, the account of how they try to get back to reality.Normally, King's strength lies in his ability to get his reader to believe that the horrific and supernatural events he is describing might just happen. "The Langoliers" stretched the imagination just that bit too far. Novella number two is called "Secret Window, Secret Garden". This is the tale of a writer who finds himself confronted by a mysterious stranger who claims that the writer has stolen his ideas. Anyone who has read King's book "The Dark Half" will instantly recognise this plot - in fact King admits in his introduction that "secret Window" is "The D
ark Half" from another perspective - sadly, it's not different enough. Number three, "The Library Policeman" is perhaps the best of the four, being a tale of the horrific consequences of not returning a library book. This is near to King at his best. Finally, number 4, "The Sun Dog" is the story of a polaroid camera which takes photographs of things that are not there. As the story progresses comes the realisation that the pictures are sequential - something is coming... and you ain't gonna like it! I can't really reveal any more without giving away the plot - however, I can say that, just when you think there's a happy ending,the plot twists. I feel that King could have developed any of these four novellas into a successful novel - yet, in shortened form, they seem unfinished. Anyone who likes King's unique writing style and his way with words will enjoy this book. However, it is not King at his best - a fact that may leave regular readers disappointed and wanting more.


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By Grant Bosse | New Hampshire Watchdog
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, New Hampshire's free-market think tank, today released a new study on the state's twisted history under the Medicaid Program. Meet the MET: New Hampshire budget writers grapple with a brand new tax that's been around for 20 years details the history of the Medicaid Enhancement Tax, how the current budget increased tax liability for New Hampshire hospitals, and how unrealistic revenue estimates could ruin Gov.Maggie Hassan's budget proposal.
"For the last two decades, the MET wasn't a real tax, so budget writers didn't pay close attention to how it worked," said Grant Bosse, the study's author. "By better understanding the mechanics of this complicated revenue stream, they can ensure that MET misunderstandings don't blow a multimillion dollar hole in the state budget."
Since 1992, New Hampshire has taxed hospitals under the MET, and then refunded the money in order to qualify for federal matching funds. The practice, known as MediScam, ended in the current budget, but left hospitals with a tax bill that they had been never really had to pay. MET revenues are at the center of the current budget fight, with House and Senate estimates off by nearly $200 million.


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what would you like to see in a clippings organizer application
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Thank you everybody for your feedback. It's nice to see there is a group of people out there that would find this useful. At the moment the application is fairly complete as far as core functionality goes so now its just time to fix a few small bugs and add some useful features.
The application should be ready to download in about a week to a week and a half depending on what kind of problems that could occur in development.
The first version will be classified as a beta and as such may have bugs that have not been spotted during development so just be patient and let me know so I can fix them as soon as possible.
Originally Posted by
Export clippings as XML would be awesome!
This is all ready in the application and working, glad to see people would like this feature.
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-Put automatically together all the clippings from the same book, sorting them by groups according to type; that is to say: notes, highlight and then bookmarks.
At current the application sorts all of the clippings into their respective books. I will look at adding in the grouping of notes, highlights and bookmarks and hopefully I can add it in before I release the first version.
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I NEED this app...to run on Mac. Please. :-)
The whole application is written in Java which is platform independent so I see no reason as to why it won't run on Mac, Linux or Windows. I even managed to get some of the code to run on the Kindle itself.
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I already wrote my own script to edit/manipulate "My Clippings.txt". Since I'm a programmer, any time I want to manipulate data, I do it myself.
Since, if you sync your annotations, the notes, etc. display on the kindle.amazon.com web site, it is already readily accessible by many people.
It's nice to see that there are other programmers out there that have done something similar to this as it shows that there is a need for manipulating the clippings in this way. It's is possible to sync the clippings to Amazon but to my knowledge only clippings associated with a book downloaded from Amazon get synced to their web page. I started writing this application because I use my Kindle at university and have digital copies of my notes on my Kindle. Any notes I make on these documents would not be synced to Amazon. For this reason there is a need for an application like this and I hope that people will find the application useful. The source code for the library I wrote to parse the clippings is available in the developers section although there have been quite a few changes since I posted them. Updated versions will be updated after this application is released. I hope that you will download my application when it's ready and just take a look to see what it can do. I'm always open to suggestions/constructive criticism from fellow developers.
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Grand Gestures
Dec 30, 2015 - Aug 26, 2017
- Location: Denver Art Museum
- 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, CO 80204
- Price: General Admission
- Starting: 10:00 AM
- Mile High Holidays, Museums, Visual Arts, Know Your Arts First Friday, Night At the Museums
- http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/grand-gestures
Pre-Columbian art is full of human and supernatural figures in dramatic poses.
Some clearly portray dance, while others appear to represent singing, oratory, drama, and ritual. This installation of 29 objects presents a cross-cultural selection of works from the Denver Art Museum's extensive collection.


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Nutty Barley Bake Recipe
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 cup medium pearl barley
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds or pine nuts
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) beef broth
- Additional parsley, optional
- 1. In a large skillet, saute the onion, barley and nuts in butter until barley is lightly browned. Stir in the parsley, green onions, salt and pepper.
- 2. Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Stir in broth. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1-1/4 hours or until the barley is tender and the liquid is absorbed. Sprinkle with parsley if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 262 calories, 13g fat (5g saturated fat), 20mg cholesterol, 678mg sodium, 31g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 7g fiber), 7g protein.
Reviews for Nutty Barley Bake
Average Rating
"Excellent and easy to prepare!"
"Very good recipe plus it's something different!"
"Made it several times. Makes a great and different side dish for a change."
"It was great! I added chopped carrots since the chopper was out for the onion. It was delicious!"
"I started making this many years ago when it was first published. My husband wouldn't have Thanksgiving without it!"
"I did not use the butter; but put all the ingredients into the microwave. I cooked it on a lower setting and it was delicious. I liked lowering the fat content and it was nice and moist without the butter."
"This is excellent! I served it for a group dinner party and everyone loved it!"
"Good recipe. I have successfully prepared this on the stovetop, adding a bit more liquid than the recipe calls for."
"Absolutely wonderful! I will be making this recipe many times in the future!Wonderful flavor! Redawna"