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WTF is wrong with Melo's shooting....
WTF is wrong with Melo's shooting....
I guess Lin is the real deal.
He's still doin his thing. Dudes a flat out baller..
Look, Lin has had some faults this game but the guy above is right Melo is not making the effort to get open on offense, there are 4 players moving and 1 standing still.
Lin is the reason we are still ahead so please stop bashing on him, we all want Melo to play better but it ain't Lin's fault.
Lin is really hustling tonight.... rebounds, steals. He's trying to make it hard for Woodson to sit him on the bench
I knew Fields night was over when he talked back to Woodson.
Real Talk
You got to like this lineup creativity from Woodson. Keeping the strong defensive players on the court like Shump and Smith along with Chandler, Melo, and Lin. With a 14 point 4th quarter lead and only 4 minutes to go, I wouldn't hate seeing Jeffries back in the game at some point either just to ensure the defensive lockdown.
Lin's just making shots, it's some great team effort that allows him to get some space. Without screens and off the ball movement Lin wouldn't be able to do anything.


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Kristi Andreassen was part of the recruiting class that
changed the course of women's soccer at Northern Arizona University. Before her
arrival, the women's soccer team had never made a national tournament or
captured a Big Sky conference championship. Now, as she enters her second year
of the doctor of physical therapy program, she fondly looks back at being part
of two NCAA national tournament teams, and the 2008 Big Sky Championship squad.
Andreassen played centerback, and was captain of the
2009–2010 team that fell to top-ranked Stanford in the national tournament. She
was also named a first-team Academic All-American by ESPN the Magazine. As a high school
star from Tempe, Andreassen was drawn to Flagstaff for visionary and pragmatic
"Growing up, I always thought I was going to go to
Arizona State University, but I ultimately decided on NAU because I really
liked the coach, the team, and the goals the coach had set for the team,"
Kristi says. "And academically, I knew I eventually wanted to become a
physical therapist, and they had a great undergraduate program [in exercise
science] that prepared you really well for [physical therapy] school."
Coach Andre Luciano's goal to turn Northern Arizona University into a women's soccer powerhouse resonated strongly with her. Building something great has been highly rewarding, she says.
"In the past, [top soccer recruits] haven't thought about going to NAU as a number one choice, so [Coach Luciano] wanted to create a winning team—and a winning tradition," she says. "He wanted to make it to the NCAA national tournament every year. I loved being a part of it, in that our class was his first recruiting class, and was supposed to be a part of the turning point—we actually managed to do that, so it's been a great experience."
Andreassen fostered a winning culture with commitment and communication. She believes that when everyone on the team shares these values, great things can happen.
"Personnel plays a huge part of success—everyone has to have the same goal," she says. "Starting with my class, and with every recruiting class since, we have all been committed. If you're not committed, you're not going to be successful. I also try to be constantly communicating, and constantly supporting my teammates in any way possible. If you don't know what's going on around you, the chances of making a mistake are a lot higher, so I try to communicate a lot to help everyone around me."
Andreassen also wants to help others as a physical therapist, a career she was inspired to pursue after a physical therapist helped her recuperate from injuries in high school. As an undergraduate at Northern Arizona University, she majored in exercise science and excelled; she earned a cumulative 4.0 GPA. She says the experience was remarkable.
"Honestly, every professor I've had here has been great," says Kristi. "I feel like we have so many great professors here, and that people [outside of NAU] don't really know that. People who don't come here don't know how good our professors are."
Andreassen says the transition from undergraduate to graduate study was difficult, but has reaffirmed her career choice.
"It was the most challenging year of school that I have ever experienced, but totally worth the countless hours of studying and sitting in class," Andreassen says. "I have already learned so much, and I am very excited for the next two years and for all that I will learn in that time. Graduate school at NAU has verified that physical therapy is my passion."


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Top Items:
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Keeping It Rielle — John Edwards's confession was a little bit breathtaking. — Not the sex stuff. That happens here all the time. — And certainly not covering up the sex stuff. That happens here all the time, too. First people uncover; then they cover up.
Discussion: Right Wing News, I Don't Like You Either, Booman Tribune and The Huffington Post
Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
What Rielle Hunter Told Me — A seeker and a New Age spiritualist, John Edwards's other woman believed she could help him make history. — The Missing Webisodes — These 2006 promotional videos of John Edwards were produced by a company run by Rielle Hunter, who Edwards admitted to having an affair with in August 2008.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Jeralyn / TalkLeft: John Edwards' New Age Friends
Fox News:
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Discussion: The Moderate Voice, NewsBusters.org, KIKO'S HOUSE and Hot Air
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
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Discussion: Commentary, A Blog For All and TigerHawk
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary: The MSM's Latest Embarrassment
Lawhawk / A Blog For All: Small Lies and Big Lies
Satyam / Think Progress:
Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards' Affair — Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called "a state of war." Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war.
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The Age
Simon Scowl / Deceiver.com:
Five Questions About the Edwards Scandal, Now That It's No Longer "Alleged"
Five Questions About the Edwards Scandal, Now That It's No Longer "Alleged"
Discussion: Althouse, Hot Air, DBKP and Washington Post
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Edwards' affair could mean political free fall
Edwards' affair could mean political free fall
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots and PoliBlog (TM)
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: John Edwards Channels Nixon
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas lawyer Fred Baron paid for Edwards' mistress to relocate
Dallas lawyer Fred Baron paid for Edwards' mistress to relocate
Discussion: STRANAHAN dot com, Arizona Republic, Fox News, New York Times, The Charlotte Observer, NY Daily News and TalkLeft
Roger Friedman / Fox News: Who Is Rielle Hunter? — It's less than six degrees of separation …
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Craig Jarvis / The Charlotte Observer: 73° — Who is the elusive Rielle Hunter?
Jeralyn / TalkLeft: The Six Degrees of Rielle Hunter
Hindrocket / Power Line:
"MEANINGLESS STATEMENTS" — Barack Obama has been criticized for acting as though he is already President. That's natural, since the actions in question have been presumptuous: the pseudo-Presidential seal, the speech in Germany, and so on. Today, one might say that John McCain is acting …
Discussion: TownHall Blog, Bloomberg, Pajamas Media, Gateway Pundit, english.pravda.ru, Registan.net, Maggie's Farm, Yahoo! News and New York Post
Hugh Hewitt / TownHall Blog: McCain On Russia and Obama
Roger Kimball / Pajamas Media: The crisis in Georgia, 9/11, and the lessons of gratitude
Joshua Foust / Registan.net: Ignore the Day-to-Day, and also Bloggers
Ben Smith / Yahoo! News: 'Invasion of Georgia' a '3 a.m. moment'
New York Times:
Russian Troops Tighten Hold on Georgia — GORI, Georgia — Russian troops that had poured into the disputed territory of South Ossetia moved up to the border with Georgia on Sunday, as the conflict appeared to be developing into the worst clashes between Russia and a foreign military since the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
Discussion: A Blog For All, Eunomia, The Carpetbagger Report, TIME.com and The Belgravia Dispatch
Lawhawk / A Blog For All: War Intensifies Over South Ossetia
Daniel Larison / Eunomia: Do These People Even Know What Soviet Means?
Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch: GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
McCain, Obama step up criticism of Russia over Georgia — U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stepped up their criticism of Russia's military activity in Georgia on Saturday, calling for Moscow to withdraw its forces and the international community to facilitate peace talks.
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air, blogger interrupted and Pajamas Media
The Big Trunk / Power Line: GEORGIA ON HIS MIND — On Friday the Obama campaign issued …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama's 3 AM Breakfast: Waffles
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Candidates' Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs
Candidates' Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs
Discussion: The Road to Surfdom, Ben Smith's Blogs, American Power, Alas, a blog and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Donald Douglas / American Power: Russia's Correlation of Forces in the Caucasus
Agence France Presse:
Georgia to withdraw all of its troops from Iraq
Georgia to withdraw all of its troops from Iraq
Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times: Georgian force to leave Iraq
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008: 5th Generation Warfare in Georgia?
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money: Evening Update — Bringing you the news the other blogs won't …
Musa Sadulayev / Associated Press: Georgia: In 'state of war' over South Ossetia
Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. official: Russia's attack on Georgia is 'disproportionate'
U.S. official: Russia's attack on Georgia is 'disproportionate'
Discussion: MoJoBlog, Donklephant and Associated Press
Elizabeth Gettelman / MoJoBlog: Russia Attacks Georgia, Bush Attacks the Olympic Mountain Bike Course
Justin Gardner / Donklephant: Georgia, Russia And The Candidates' Diplomatic Style
Paul Alexander / Associated Press: All the World an Olympic Venue for Sportsman Bush
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Pres. Bush declines to slap Misty May-Treanor's bikinied butt — President George W. Bush, who played baseball, coached Little League, owned a big league team and watches the Texas Rangers at every opportunity, can't stay away from the U.S. teams at the Beijing Olympic games.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog, Little Green Footballs, Olympics blog and The LA Times President …
Fausta / Fausta's Blog: "WWBCD?", Olympic version
James Gerstenzang / The LA Times President Bush Blog: President Bush in Beijing: Biking, beach, bikinis
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
US Election 2008: The joke is finally on Barack Obama — Have you heard the one about the presidential candidate who was once so popular that comedians were frightened to make jokes about him? — The punchline is this: the more seriously he took himself, the more Barack Obama has become a laughing matter.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Gateway Pundit:
Barack Obama Is a Citizen of Kenya... Apparently, The One has two... Obama has Kenyan citizenship as well as US citizenship. — THE OBAMA FAMILY— back row from left: Unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Malik (Obongo or Roy), unknown, half-brother Abo, Bernard.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, American Power and Maggie's Farm
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway: Obama: Citizen of the World
Donald Douglas / American Power: Obama Throws Kenya Under the Bus!
Bird Dog / Maggie's Farm: Strangest News du Jour
New York Times:
Anthrax Case Had Costs for Suspects — When Perry Mikesell, a microbiologist in Ohio, came under suspicion as the anthrax attacker, he began drinking heavily, family members say, and soon died. After a doctor in New York drew the interest of the F.B.I., his marriage fell apart and his practice suffered, his lawyer says.
Discussion: Associated Press, Greatscat!, Emptywheel, TalkLeft, On Deadline and Prairie Weather
Mark Sherman / Associated Press: Analysis: Case against Ivins not airtight
TChris / TalkLeft: A Case Study In FBI Investigations
Mike Allen / Yahoo! News:
McCain mocks Obama oratory — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is mocking the oratorical gifts of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), recommending that he "should consider someone with a knack for brevity and directness, to balance the ticket." — "Taking in my opponent's performances is a little …
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Two legends conversing about the days that made them the legends they are now. Amazing. The last time these two were in the same place was at the Sacto Street Style Contest back in 1986. Just kidding, but still, it's probably been a while. Regardless, hearing these stories are so awesome especially when they're coming directly out of the Gonz's mouth. Listen and learn!
Gonz & Natas from Monster Children on Vimeo.


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The Ontario Wine Society (Toronto) Presents "A Taste of Québec's Tasting Soirée" with Tawse Wines will be held March 22 6:45pm Reception, 7:00pm Tasting at Taste of Quebec Shop, 55 Mill St., Building 32, Distillery District in Toronto, Ontario. This Tasting Soirée event promises to be a fun and educational evening with an assortment of artisanal Québec cheeses explained by fromager Thom Sokoloski from 'A Taste of Québec' complemented by an in depth exposure to Canadian Wine Awards' Winery of the Year for 2010 – Tawse Winery. Thom is also going to demonstrate to us how we can make cheese at home!! Admission is $45 Per Person + HST. For information, call Ken Burford at 416-921 9798, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.ontariowinesociety.com.
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Start Date: March 22, 2013
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Google today announced that it's retiring Melange, a website and a piece of software that it has used for many years to run the Google Summer of Code, a program that gives stipends to university students who work on open source software projects.
The Melange site is home to many, many projects that students have worked on over the years. Melange dates back to the Google Summer of Code program in 2009, and Google also used the software for the Google Code-in, a contest for pre-university students, in 2010-2014, Google open source team program manager Stephanie Taylor wrote in a blog post. The open-source source code for Melange will not be going anywhere, although Google will not be actively developing it, and the Melange website will also be changing.
"Starting on Thursday, March 31, www.google-melange.com will become a limited static archive of what projects and tasks were completed," Taylor wrote. "It will contain titles, descriptions, and display names, but no other project information. If there is any data from the site you wish to save, you should extract it now."
Many computer science students have gravitated toward Google because of the Google Summer of Code program, and Melange has come to represent a key place for such coders. More than 11,000 students have used Melange over the years, Taylor wrote.
The 2016 Google Summer of Code program will run on a different site; the same goes for the 2016 Google Code-in.


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How Diederick Kleynhans found his (mis)fortune in the big city
On the 60th anniversary of Herman Charles
Bosman's death, we publish 'Homecoming'
from The Complete Voorkamer Stories, edited by Craig MacKenzie (Human & Rousseau).
We wouldn't have felt quite that way about it, of course, if it wasn't that we had seen Diederick Kleynhans growing up in front of us, as it were. And we knew, naturally enough, what it was that spoilt him.
It was clear that Diederick Kleynhans had been undone by his own youthful vanity and by the way he had been praised for his drawings and compositions by the schoolmaster who had been schoolmaster at Drogevlei long before young Vermaak came. Anyway, that schoolmaster had left Drogevlei years ago. He was no doubt still teaching school, telling some standard five pupil—who otherwise had no real evil in him—how well he could recite.
One could readily picture that same schoolmaster in paradise, casually sauntering up to the nearest angel standing in a row and complimenting him on his outstanding talents as a harpist. And the angel—not knowing that it was the schoolmaster himself who was just harping on his one string—would start getting ideas in his head. There was really no end to the amount of trouble in paradise that that sort of thing could cause.
And now, that schoolmaster having long since left the Marico, here was Diederick Kleynhans sitting in Jurie Steyn's post office, back from a lengthy sojourn in the city of Johannesburg, whither he had gone to engage in those studies that would enable him to make his way in the world as a commercial artist. From his talk we could understand that Diederick Kleynhans had come back embittered. From other things we saw that he had come back a failure.
Diederick Kleynhans was not a bad-looking young man. There was an honesty about his eyes that were set far apart—as was characteristic in the Kleynhans family. From his hands, too, you could sense that he had a natural candour—not only from the shape of his hands, but also the size. To have hands like the thick end of a leg of mutton was another Kleynhans family trait, developed through generations of standing bent forward in Cape vineyards with a spade. "I am an artist,"
Diederick Kleynhans was saying in the voor-kamer. "And so my spirit revolted at the Philistine subjects they taught me at the commercial art school."
He spoke in a tired voice.
His soul rebelled at design, he went on. And at anatomy. Spending months and months at drawing from dead clay models and for no reason but just so as to learn to draw it right. That made him want to laugh, of course—not him, but his psyche. And portraiture, now. Going on and on painting a face just so as to get it to look like the person you're painting. Well, his genius couldn't stand for that, naturally. And wasting weeks and weeks learning how to mix paints—just so the paint wouldn't all crack off the canvas again, once you'd put it on. Well, his subliminal self could not but recoil from so low an idea of art.
While we could not understand very much about what Diederick Kleynhans was saying, it nevertheless seemed pretty awful, the things they had done to him at the art school. Once Chris Welman had opened his mouth as though to ask a question. We could guess what that question was. Chris Welman would have liked Diederick Kleynhans to have spoken in simpler language, using words we could all comprehend, in his vituperative references to the goings-on in the place where he had been studying. We had also heard a few things about the way artists lived, and all that. Just because we were farmers in the Marico, it didn't mean that a few hints and such like of what went on did not reach us from time to time.
Why, each time a theatre company visited Bekkersdal, Dominee Welthagen—without letting on that his sermon had any bearing on the red and blue placards prominently displayed in the town—would talk about wickedness and offending Adam and human frailty and lowest dregs. But we knew he meant the theatre company, all right. And it was sad, also, that more than one young person would, with a view to changing his profession, go and interview the producer of the play on the very Monday after the dominee had thundered against foibles and shortcomings and cloven hoof and irreclaimable. Sometimes that young person would not even wait until Monday. Sometimes that person would not be conspicuously young, either.
And we knew an artist lived in a way that wasn't very different from how a play-actor lived. We also knew that why Chris Welman hadn't interrupted Diederick Kleynhans was because of how tired Diederick Kleynhans sounded. It sounded as though what Diederick Kleynhans was saying consisted of nothing more than words, now. We had known our Volksraad member to talk just like that in the past. And it was at such times that we had not fancied our Volksraad member's chance of getting re-elected very much. The words the Volksraad member would use on such occasions would be good enough, no doubt.
Only, he wouldn't put the right sort of feeling into those words—as though he had said them too often, so that he had got a bit bored, saying them—just as though those words were making not only his audience, but also the Volksraad member himself, a bit drowsy.
"The same thing happened, afterwards, when I started working for a firm of advertisers," Diederick Kleynhans went on. "And they said I had to do a drawing of a nattily dressed man smoking a cigar that they wanted to go into a newspaper.
And then they said my drawing was no good. It wasn't the cigar they wanted to advertise, they said. It was the trousers. And, they said, what was the good of a drawing of a cigar that was so good, it looked almost as though it had been traced with tissue-paper from an overseas magazine, when the trousers seemed as though the man had slept in them in a tram shelter?"
Well, it was, of course, very hurtful to his artistic pneuma to be spoken to like that by those advertising people, and so he had to go to the library and trace a pair of smart trousers, also, out of an overseas magazine with tissue-paper. Endless trouble, they gave him.
That (even though it did not mean much to us) was still not the sort of thing we wanted to hear from Diederick Kleynhans about the life he had led, along with other artists, in Johannesburg. He had said nothing, as far as we could understand, about a den, so far. Nothing—as far as we could follow—about a couple of painted Jezebels. We started wondering if Diederick Kleynhans's real trouble wasn't, perhaps, that he hadn't got into the right sort of artistic circles. It looked like Dominee Welthagen was more enlightened that way. Gysbert van Tonder was the first to hint about it, quite openly.
"It looks to me, Diederick," Gysbert van Tonder said, "that you wasted your time not only in mixing paints, but in other ways, also. If you ask me, well, that's what I think."
Diederick Kleynhans looked somewhat surprised.
"Well, we also had to, at art school," he said, "study things like tempera and water-colour washes and—"
"That's what I mean," Gysbert van Tonder said, giving Diederick Kleynhans a man-to-man sort of look, "they never let you into the really plain part of it, did they? It was all just high-sounding things you learned. I mean, after your studies were over for the afternoon, and you had wiped as much paint as you could get off yourself with paraffin and sand—I've also done a bit of painting around the farm; like a door or a roof, say—and after you'd put the lid back on to the tin of paint, did you then go and spend the night in some low place? In some disgraceful haunt, like what Dominee Welthagen says play-actors frequent?"
Oh, that? Diederick Kleynhans asked. Why, yes, indeed, he said, the place he went to each night, after his day's work was done, was pretty low. If any of us were to have seen it we would have been quite shocked, he felt. Like the way the ceiling was falling down in one corner, and the landlord not prepared to do anything about it. And the flies that would come in, through the municipal mule stables being just across the way.
And how he had to keep his window shut, also, he said, against the dagga-smoke that hung about the place like a mist on account of the proximity of the ricksha yard. Where he stayed was not only low, Diederick Kleynhans said, it was actually a blot on the city of Johannesburg. But that was all he could afford in the matter of rent.
"My finances were also low," he said. "At a low ebb, ha-ha."
Ha-ha, several of us said, too, then, our laughter sounding almost as tired as Diederick Kleynhans's own laughter. But he was glad, Diederick Kleynhans proceeded, that Dominee Welthagen was exposing from the pulpit the impropriety of the way artists lived in a big city. He only hoped it would do some good. The kind of life artists led was a public scandal and of a sort that must bring a blush to the cheek of innocence.
"Oh, yes, and I almost forgot," Diederick Kleynhans added. "A lot of the floorboards were also loose."
Well, we knew, of course, that Dominee Welthagen hadn't meant about artists leading loose lives quite in that sense.
And from how he spoke was one way in which we realised that Diederick Kleynhans had come back home a failure. The other way we knew it was from how he looked and how he was dressed. For we had known many young men from this part of the Marico who had gone to the big city to seek their fortunes and, having achieved success, had returned to the Dwarsberge for a brief visit, just so as to have a bit of a look round before setting out again to make still more of a success of their lives in some great city, concrete-paved, where neon
lights winked.
There was Prinsloo du Toit, for instance, with his hair slicked back with hair-cream and with the striped socks above his pointed patent-leather shoes held up by suspenders. You could actually see the suspenders each time Prinsloo du Toit changed his position in the riempies chair and pulled his neatly creased trouser-legs up high. Why, if Diederick Kleynhans wanted a model for a smart pair of trousers to draw from, there would have been Prinsloo du Toit's trousers right away.
Diederick Kleynhans wouldn't have needed to go to the public library with a sheet of tissue-paper in his wallet and asking for an overseas magazine.
And what was more, with all his success, Prinsloo du Toit was amazingly modest about it all. If you asked him what he was actually doing in the great city, he would as likely as not just smile diffidently and puff a few more times at his cigar. It took quite a deal of straight-out questioning to get Prinsloo du Toit to confess that he had indeed in a few short years progressed as high as first-grade ganger on the railways.
Similarly, there was Frikkie Pienaar. Even if it wasn't for his talking noticeably louder than we had known him to talk in the old days, when he was still just a Marico farm-boy, there were other ways in which Frikkie Pienaar had success written all over him, on the occasion of his paying a flying visit to the Bushveld during his three weeks' leave from the Consolidated Goldfields mine where he was a rising young cocopan conductor. Just one way how you could see that Frikkie Pienaar had pulled it off was in his producing from his coat-sleeve, at intervals, a large white handkerchief with which he flicked at specks of cow-dung from the voorkamer floor that had landed on his pants.
And there were others like Prinsloo du Toit and Frikkie Pienaar. And so we knew the signs of success pretty well. And Diederick Kleynhans had none of those signs on him. For one thing, he wasn't slick and clean-shaven. Indeed, his beard was longer and more matted than almost any Bushveld farmer's you could think of. And his hair was wild: there was no hair-cream on it, smelling beautiful. And so far he was from flicking specks of cow-dung from his pants with a white handkerchief, why, he looked just about like he had no handkerchief at all—the way he would at times, while talking, pass, across the lower portion of his face, the sleeve of a corduroy jacket of a style and pattern that had long ago ceased being worn in even the more mountainous areas of the
Just from all that we could see that Diederick Kleynhans could not have made much of a success of his career as an artist. Another thing, also, was that he didn't talk loud. For we liked young men, when they came back to the Marico from the city, to talk loud. It showed they had got on.
We felt sorry for Diederick Kleynhans, of course. After all, he was no longer as young as he might be. And to think of all those years that he had wasted in the city. Good Lord, just look at Koos Pretorius. Koos Pretorius had been in the same class with Diederick Kleynhans, sitting at the same desk with him. And Koos Pretorius, just because he had had no nonsensical ideas about himself, was today a deacon. A thought like that must be pretty galling to Diederick Kleynhans.
After a long silence, young Vermaak, the schoolmaster, spoke.
"Kleynhans ... Diederick Kleyhans," the schoolmaster said. "It's not you that's been writing those poems in the Tydskrif is it? You're not that Diederick Kleynhans, are you?"
The note of admiration in young Vermaak's voice was unmistakable.
"Yes," Diederick Kleynhans said. "That's me, all right. You see, the schoolmaster that turned my head didn't say only that I was good at drawing. He also said I was good at writing composition. And I only hope you don't go and give any youngsters in your class silly ideas, also. That schoolmaster should have looked, not at my drawings, but at my hands. And I still believe I've got as good a pair of hands for holding a plough as anybody sitting here in this voorkamer."
Diederick Kleynhans suddenly did not sound tired, anymore.


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Spoof news snippets from Wednesday 10 November 2010
Bernanke Warns Against Inflation
Bernanke: If inflation takes over, you'll see many marriages split and former husbands looking to purchase inflatable dolls!
TV Reality Show Closes
New TV Reality Show "Men's Prison Riot" off to a bad start. Had many viewers but prison burned down, 252 escaped. 128 injured.
Everybody TALKS Alternative Energy
Joe Biden all for alternative energy but not in his state. "Let Al Gore place ten thousand windmills in the Great Smoky Mountains, there's plenty of air there."
Obama Reverses Bush
Reversing still another of the George Bush decisions, President Obama told Laura Bush last week that she could decide their sexual positions every other time.
No More Torture!
President Obama has signed an executive order banning torture in the United States. As of this weekend, no more games of the Dallas Cowboys will be shown until next season!
NPR says, "Juan Williams has gone to the Dark Side"
Recently hired by FOX, Williams, said, "NPR is so out of touch, they don't realize I am dark and was born that way."
$150 Million From US Taxpayers
Clinton announces $150 million to Palestinian Authority. Arafat's dead so who will stash these millions away?
Otherwise We're Bankrupt?
Obama Debt Panel Proposal Would Cut Social Security, Medicare...End Tax Deduction for Mortgage Interest...Raise the Retirement Age. "Something for everyone to get mad about!" says group!
NYC Secret Subway Stop!
"Secret" Subway Stop usually passed by underground stops to let passengers see it. "There were several people sitting around eating sandwiches", stated one on the train.
Betty White, Only "Honorary!"
Betty White has been awarded an honorary fireman badge. She showed up at a fire to see what it was like and stood on a hot spot, burning the bottom of her feet and both breasts.
Storms to hit Britain
Angry X-Factor fans have became so angry over Cheryl Cole not voting on last weekends show that the UK is expected to be hit with storms of stupid X-Factor viewers campaining for fairness
Attention Deficit..Look, There's A Squirrel!
US says proportion of attention deficit kids up to no good for you, looks like you might be a winner on TheSpoof. Congratulations!
White House Sets Pessimism Standards
Americans harbor doubts that President Obama & resurgent GOP can work together to solve the nation's problems, according to the latest Associated Press poll. White House biggest pessimist in the US!
Inspiration Must Be For Over-Crowding!
Indonesia's unity is an inspiration to world: Obama "With her sinking ferries with hundreds of people."
Wendy's Healthful New Meals
Wendy's sells new fries with potato skin, sea salt, kosher lard!
Iran Wants Talks
Iran won't talk about limiting nuclear program. Still want to talk. How about those Browns beating up on New England?
Nothing New About That!
Report: White House altered drilling safety report, President's birth certificate!
What A Wonderful Cruise!
Slow tow home for thousands on disabled ship now even slower with one of two towing it blows engine. Several aboard blow their cool!
Kids May Think It's Kool
Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels of smoker coughing up his lungs.
Lies From The White House
An inspector general says White House edited report about moratorium on offshore oil drilling to make it appear that scientists & experts supported idea of a 6-month ban on new drilling. Impeachment?
Mail Wars
A mail bomb intercepted last month at an English airport could have exploded over the East Coast of the United States, British police said Wednesday. US may respond by drone sent Special Delivery!
Black men don't have the biggest "balls", bushcrickets do!
Scientists have discovered that boasting black men can put the myth about having huge 'balls" to bed (alone). Bushcrickets have far superior "pieces" hanging and they don't boast about them!
Obama Says He Was Tired
President Obama says that he screwed up on going on that TV interview with the comedian. "I was tired but I even called Biden "Turd Blossom!"
Cheryl Cole takes a £6K custard pie in the face for charity.
Donations roll in for Gamu Nhengu and her bucket of horse manure.
We Are Amused
Thus far, all the Queen's photos on Facebook all show her either Smiling & Waving or Waving & Smiling!
Tighten Your Belts!
Tighten your belts for Christmas: Bank boss warns Britons! "In fact, a nice belt can be a grand present."
More Chance Of Dying As You Age!
Cocaine-users over 35 have SEVEN times more chance of dying than under 25s. "What is we have forgotten our age?", asks one.
First Test With French Military A Flop!
Perverse' defence cuts leave oil-rich Falkland Islands open to attack, ex-admirals warns as French say they know nothing about helping England protect the Islands.
Tuition Riots
Protesters smash way into Tory HQ and storm the roof as anti-cuts rioters hijack tuition fees march in London. "We will be able to afford to go to school here even if we have to burn it down!"
Michelle Handshake Costly
Michelle Obama shakes the hand of the late Indonesian Information Minister who was stoned to death this morning.
How's That Again?
Vice President Joe Biden meets on government transparency; Meeting closed to all "Outsiders".
Lots Of Invisible People
PENTAGON: TROOPS MAY STAY IN IRAQ. As Iran insist there is no Israel, Obama insists that we pulled out troops out of there.
The Madoff Social Security
TX GOV CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY BANKRUPT 'PONZI SCHEME'! There's been no money there for years! Obama promises to print more.
Mid-Term Elections Blamed For Delay
Muslims say Obama failing to keep Cairo promises to bring down the US by now!
We Fired That Missile!
Kids in California admit that they were the ones who launched the huge missile yesterday. "We learned how to make one on the Web", says 13-year-old science whiz.
Iran: No Discussion On Nukes
Who Was That Mosque Man?
Obama slams Israel from Jakarta while on the way to a mosque. Asked to condemn Christians next!
Bank Says Economy Still Uncertain.
"Yes... it's not sure what to do really... take a gap year... go to work... carry on at uni. Just wish it would make up it's mind - lolling around the bloody house all day."
Four Female Heads Of State
4 female heads of state will add luster to G20 summit. Italian leader Napolitano says that he can't wait!
GOP: Go For It, Nancy!
Bad news Dems - 2012 could be worse than 2010, as Nancy Pelosi says she may run for President.
US Also Cuts Energy Output!
Following England's example, US cuts outside security light output by ten percent, schedule all Cubs games in the daytime.
England Cutting Back!
BUDGET CRUNCH: ENGLAND TO DIM STREET LIGHTS, Half of police to be on bicycles once again.
England Cuts Back
BUDGET CRUNCH: ENGLAND TO DIM STREET LIGHTS To Curb Expense! Also, hold squalling cat out windows on emergency vehicles. Cats being trained at this moment.
That Would Be Fair!
Food price fears as feds warn on crop yields. Many here say we should match food for sale overseas to price of oil.
Sears Open Thanksgiving
SEARS to be open T-giving for first time in 124-year history. Say that this has been a real Turkey of a year!
China First! #2
CHINA TO OVERTAKE US ECONOMY 'WITHIN 2 YEARS'! Maybe six months as Obamas abroad tell invite tourists to India, Indonesia on trip but never mention the great things in the US for tourists to see.
China First!
CHINA TO OVERTAKE US ECONOMY 'WITHIN 2 YEARS'! Or one year at the rate President Obama is kowtowing around the world.
"We Need To Do That Again!"
Airport Screeners that touch passengers' breasts, genitals have been offered up to $100,000 for their jobs.
Today's Birthdays
Weatherman Willard Scott's "oldest American with birthday today" turns out to be Asian Youth in disguise.
Health and Safety enter The Priory for 'psychiatric evaluation'
"As suspected, they've gone mad." says specialist.
Good News For Folk In Nottingham
"Oh, yes... great - very exciting, so it is," said Irish community leader, Liam Tarradiddle.
Ireland Mess!
IRELAND MESS: INVESTORS DUMP BONDS BANK DOOM! A preview of things to come elsewhere?
Co. Kerry: Elderly Woman's Body Missing
"To be sure, she's sat roight here in me office but Oi'll be banjaxed if we can find her body - she says she's no idea where it is!" Says local police chief.
Favre Back In Sport Headlines
Sports: After having leg remove during emergency surgery, Brett Favre condition listed until starting line-up viewed as "Questionable".
Producer Claims New Song Is Michael Jackson
Jackson producer, manager vouch for Jackson song "Been".
Another Celeb Gone
Another celeb thrown off 'Dancing With the Stars' Couple land outside in the parking lot!
Closer Studies Needed!
Family health history: 'best kept secret' in care. If parents couldn't have children, chances are you and wife won' be able to either.
Family Health History Ignored?
Family health history: 'best kept secret' in care. If there's a family history of Lycanthropy, you may have it too. Doctors should observe patient during next full moon.
Beak Deformities
Scientists: Beak deformities increase in Northwest. "Many people here need plastic surgery!"
Along With Many bottles of Spirits
Ireland's crisis flares as investors dump bonds. Billions of potatoes being stocked in cellars.
Freaks Also Back At Work
Ohio amusement parks win industry awards. Income up 20% after they brought in the "Hoolie Hoolie Dancers".
Be Careful To Shred Everything
House veterans to newcomers: Sweat the small stuff but be open-handed with big contributors.
Citizens Hope It Doesn't Take Long
Review of Alaska Senate write-in ballots to begin. Everything on freeze for the moment.
Job Increases
Jobs That Are Hiring Now: #1 is for construction workers who are good at tearing down old manufacturing buildings.
Facebook Insults
Can criticizing the boss on Facebook get you fired? Study says: Maybe not...but don't expect any raise for ten years.
The Can Choose
British PM urges greater political freedom in China. China says they have freedom now to choose between loyalty and prison.
Just Needs Iron Thumb
Obama says Indonesia's unity is inspiration to world. Same for Cuba, North Korea.
Grooms In For A Surprise!
Saudi women eye lingerie shops looking for veils that can hide whole ugly face.
China Banks Increasing Reserves
Chinese banks ordered to increase reserves. Us e dollar bills to light cigarettes.
China R=Trying To Prevent Inflation
Chinese banks ordered to increase reserves. Build onto premises extra rooms to hold dollars.
Peyote Shortage
Scarcity of peyote means hard times for dealers, sacred Native American religious ceremonies.
Actually There Are Two Options
Talks 'only option' to end NKorea's nuke program. SKorea leader disagrees. "You can blow them up!"
Airlines Pull Planes
Singapore Airlines pulls 3 A380s due to engines full of gremlins!
Sarkozy signs the law: French retire at 62, not 60!
Sarkozy signs the law: French retire at 62, not 60. Thousands say they will retire at 60 and live on welfare for two years.
Election Results Probed
Myanmar's Suu Kyi set to probe election fraud but predicts that he will not find one.
Yep, You've Lost It
Can criticizing the boss on Facebook get you fired? Probably, especially those that ridicule small boob, penis.
"A Three Hour Tour!"
Spam and a slow tow for thousands on cruise ship as ten day tour becomes a month. Commodore Gilligan say they must hang on.
Stephen Fry launches new book tomorrow
Stephen launches new book in Piccadilly Circus. 100 frustrated females camp outside to have the first signed copy. Germaine Greer was seen in a balaclava. The book is titled 'Sex after Menopause'
Secred Subway Stop
Hidden deep under New York City, a "secret" subway stop is drawing visitors. Many see old immigrants stuck here many years like the Irish in Knee britches.
Sarah Palin gets a Brazilian.
"Read my lips - Bush is history."
Cruise Ship Stuck #3
Spam and a slow tow for thousands on cruise ship. 4500 aboard told they may get military rations next.
Stuck Cruise Ship #2
Spam and a slow tow for thousands on cruise ship. The Cruise Ship Company say "No charge for extra days aboard."
Wayne Rooney gets new ad campaign modelling cardigans.
"When you think Wayne, you think chunky nit", says designer.
Stuck Cruise Ship
Spam and a slow tow for thousands on cruise ship. "This whole voyage has been a SPAM", says passenger.
Obama: Us Needs Strong Economy
Obama: Strong US economy key to global recovery. Too bad the economy is sinking daily because of my programs.
And now for something completely different....
Mr Arthur Snetterton-Lewis of East Finchley has announced that he will push a wheel barrow from London to Bristol. Many people have asked the bleedin' obvious question: why?
Answer: who cares.
Qantas To Review How It Flies A380
Pilots thought to be top of thinking.
Mysterious Missile off California coast indentified as the 'Mystery Missile'
The Pentagon released a statement today revealing the identity of the mysterious missile launched Monday. "It's our new ICBM 'Mystery Missile', hence, all the confusion. Sorry about that."
Russian prisons offer same facilities as Beauty farm and much cheaper!
Russian prisons with 50 prisoners locked up in tiny cells without toliets, baths and beds are out. The latest prisons have facilities similair too the local beauty farm and their much cheaper!
Netanyahu: Issue of building plans in e. J'lem "overblown"
Adds: "It really does smell of shit there."
Bush, Obama Agree On Something
In an interview, George Bush had with George Stephanopoulos, he stated that he was glad to be out of Washington. Then Obama called to say that so was he.
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ATLANTA --- Legislation that would restructure the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority failed to pass on the final day of the 2008 General Assembly because members of the local delegation could not agree on the bill's wording.
As time ticked away Friday, Augusta legislators said they were waiting on others in the seven-member delegation to make the first move.
"Unfortunately, we haven't had any of our senators come by to talk about the bill," said delegation Chairman Rep. Quincy Murphy, D-Augusta. "This could have been worked out a long time ago."
Sen. Ed Tarver, D-Augusta, said he had attended delegation meetings and raised his concerns then, though they weren't included in the House version of the bill.
"He has the resources to call a meeting and to field out those questions. Mr. Murphy has not contacted or communicated with me," Mr. Tarver said.
Failure to agree -- or even to do much negotiating or communicating -- torpedoed chances that the lawmakers would solve an issue under discussion since December.
The Augusta Commission had adopted and sent to the delegation a resolution requesting reform. The authority has come under repeated criticism for personality clashes, allegations of mismanagement and poorly attended events at James Brown Arena and Bell Auditorium.
The House passed a bill that would have replaced the current 12 members with nine new ones with professional backgrounds in management, food service or entertainment. It would have also changed the name to the Entertainment Authority, opening up the possibility of it overseeing other venues, which might include a riverfront baseball stadium.
The Senate passed a different version Tuesday, one that changed the name to the Coliseum Commission and would have limited its scope and stripped it of its ability to issue bonds to raise money for construction projects. That version also would have given the delegation less say over the new board by giving the mayor an appointment and the other nine to the Augusta commissioners.
Rep. Gloria Frazier, D-Hephzibah, disagreed with giving up the legislative appointees.
"If we give up all of our appointments, then we really don't have any input any more and how if functions," she said. "My question is, why does the mayor need an appointment? And I have not heard from the mayor."


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Evaluating universities using simple scientometric research-output metrics: Total citation counts per university for a retrospective seven-year rolling sample
We advocate a scientometric, top-down and institution-based research-assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling seven-year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite 'revolutionary-science' institutions could be accomplished using a metric derived from the distribution of science Nobel Prizes. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.
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VDOT Leadership
Quintin D. Elliott
Chief Deputy Commissioner
Quintin D. Elliott was named Chief Deputy Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) by Gov. Terry McAuliffe in January, 2014.
Prior to that, he was the administrator of VDOT's Fredericksburg district. There, he oversaw VDOT's construction and maintenance on more than 11,500 miles of state-maintained roads in the 14-county region.
The Fredericksburg district spans from the increasingly urban Stafford and Spotsylvania counties through the rural Northern Neck to Gloucester and Mathews counties.
In Fredericksburg, Elliott directed approximately 460 employees.
He served as acting district administrator in VDOT's Culpeper District for a year and as VDOT's state asset management division administrator from 2002-2007.
In that role, he directed the maintenance and inventory of Virginia's nearly 58,000 miles of state highways and VDOT's assets in that system, such as bridges, tunnels and equipment.
He served as special assistant to the assistant commissioner for operations and the chief engineer in 2002.
After graduating from college and starting his VDOT career as a transportation engineer trainee in 1985, he served as assistant resident engineer in the agency's Franklin and Williamsburg residencies.
He was Williamsburg resident engineer between 1991 and 2001.
Elliott holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute.
During his VDOT career, Elliott served in the Virginia Air National Guard.
He retired in 2008 as Commander/Officer in Charge of the 192 Civil Engineering Squadron and the 203 Red Horse Squadron Heavy Equipment Flight.
He earned several awards and decorations for his military service, most notably the Meritorious Service Medal for his service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Originally from Natural Bridge, Elliott is married to the former Emily Simmons of Windsor, and has a son and daughter.


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Clear Creek
Partnering for Protection
Clear Creek is the only tributary to the main stem of the Carson River that flows year round, making its water very important for the entire Carson watershed.
The highlights of The Nature Conservancy's work at Clear Creek include:
- Permanently protecting 853 acres of some of the most ecologically rich and scenic stretches along Clear Creek–via conservation easement with partners Clear Creek Tahoe–on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada's Carson.
- Organizing hundreds of volunteers, with the Carson Valley Trails Association and many local businesses, who donated thousands of hours to build the 10.5 mile Clear Creek Trail, which takes visitors through a portion of the protected area. Go for a hike on the Clear Creek Trail >
- Partnering with federal, state and local agencies, as well as a private landowner, on a forest restoration project designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires in the forest surrounding Clear Creek, which helps protect water supplies for people and enhance wildlife habitat near Carson City.
The upper Clear Creek watershed area supports:
- 70+ mammal species
- 170+ bird species
- 20+ reptile and amphibian species
Important habitats found at Clear Creek include:
- Alder and willow riparian
- Montane meadow
- Jeffrey pine forest
- Bitterbrush and sagebrush scrub
How does the Conservation Easement work?
Clear Creek Tahoe donated the conservation easement on the 853-acre parcel in the Clear Creek watershed to The Nature Conservancy, ensuring that the land remains natural open space in perpetuity.
The easement safeguards a large swath of land around the creek that will help the water remain pristine and clean. The easement parcels combine with neighboring Forest Service and Washoe Tribal land to provide a large, intact corridor of habitat that is particularly important as winter range for the area's declining mule deer population (see map).
A conservation easement is a voluntary, legally binding agreement that limits certain types of uses or prevents development from taking place on a piece of property now and in the future, while protecting the property's ecological values.
"We are honored to have The Nature Conservancy as our conservation partner," said Jim Taylor, Managing Partner of Clear Creek Tahoe. "We hope that this project and the work we have done to include protected open space can become a model for how to balance development and caring for the environment in other projects in the future."
The conservation easement is adjacent to a project by Clear Creek Tahoe that includes a planned community and golf course, and is just one of the elements helping make the project more environmentally friendly. "I was expecting to see a sea of bright green when I arrived–golf courses and other artificial things, but you can't even see the golf course from here ... this is beautiful and natural," said Margie Evans, Clear Creek Watershed Council Coordinator, of the scenic ridgelines and open meadow protected by the easement.
Protecting important pieces of the Clear Creek watershed involves a diverse group of partners, including Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, Carson City and Douglas County, US Forest Service Carson Ranger District, Carson River Coalition and Clear Creek Watershed Council.
"We owe this great success and the protection of a crucial piece of the Clear Creek and Carson River watersheds to the work of many dedicated partners, as well as the citizens of Carson City and Douglas County who worked to see a portion of this landscape conserved," said Kathryn Landreth, the Conservancy's former Nevada director.
Clear Creek Trail
Hikers can enjoy the natural beauty along the southern and western portions of the easement area thanks to several miles of trails (see map) in the Clear Creek designed and constructed in partnership with the Carson Valley Trails Association. The new trails are now open to the public.
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Lucky Day's Wizard War! for Android development thread
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November 12th, 2012, 01:17
ok, last day before I start my regular job
This past week was spent trying to work out the inventory system. At first I developed a LinkedList and tried to store the items there but it kept crashing. I think the issue is I have instantiated the items on the list - a similar issue exists with arrays in Java I found out the hard way - but I don't know how to correct it. Its not like you can go through each item on an empty list!
So instead I've set the inventory to an array if my custom Item class instead. Weapons and Armor are subclasses of Item - probably scrolls will be later too.
The main issue with inventory is having to get it to work between three activities. A little research found where I can get a result back to parent activity from the child. This allows me to store the player variables from the child activity and then reload them in the parent. This is a good thing.
I was able to equip a new weapon in the Camp Activity so after I had to figure out how to get a drop list in multiple choice after I defeat a monster. Well I managed to do that but had some problems reading the selected. I eventually figured that out.
So now I am able to equip my enemies weapons that they drop. For the first time I am able to kill Skeletons.
For the first time this thing is just barely turning into a real game. I've even got my first design/strategy idea:
The skeletons are so much tougher than the player at first level the best thing to do is take out the Kobold or Goblin for their weapon, and then maybe, just maybe they may be able to take out the Skeleton for its sword.
In the meantime I've also added some nifty images for the weapons during an attack.
the sling was from a medieval painting depicting a battle - some of the background was painted with lapis lazuli. the others were modified public domain line art.
I still want to go to a linked list however. The prospect of creating a manual LL out of the array would just be a pain.
This inventory addition has made my loading and storage of the player variable more consistent across activities. I had hoped to make them into single class methods so all the need is a single update in true OO form but they give me fits when I add them to a custom class.
I can't seem to pass back the party object or somesuch - so its a bit of copying and pasting the same methods between activities. I don't have a lot of Activities so its not that difficult.
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Topic: BBB009 George Lukin - Insignia w/ RMX- Farace/Phunkae +more
New York City based, Badbwoy Bass Recordings, drop their latest release with George Lukin bringing us "Insignia" a progressive house tune with break beat and house remixes from Farace, Phunkae, Amauta and Beats Persona.
Opening the innings is the original mix from George Lukin itself a tight progressive track, with energy and a grooving feel good vibe definitely a track which could be slotted into the peak hours of a progressive set.
FEATURED ON TRACKITDOWN.NET BREAKS! Really cool re-rub here from Farace on Badbwoy Bass! He manages to fuse together a rolling breaks groove with what could be described as a progressive house vibe! Have a listen and you'll see what we mean, could this be a new sub genre of breaks? Progressive Breaks? Hmmm, we like it!
Up next remix number 3 is a remix from Memory Machine, progressive house with a bang to it. Loud drums and sick programming lead into a peak time performer of a song. Great ride and mixin/mix out easily drop this into any house set.
His third appearance on BadBwoy Bass Phunkae brings us a tech funk stomper that only he can deliver. His signature programming and rolling bass lines are all present here in this show stopping break
Number 5 we introduce Atlanta GA based Amauta with a dance floor ready progressive house remix. Taking the original to hear Amauta inserts larger drums and lush patterns easily mixed into your set.
London based producer and remix artist Beats Persona drops another amazing progressive break beat with a funky flare. Big acid bass and rolling bass lines flare over sophisticated break beat and chopped and screwed vocal samples.
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Nationals Will Enter All-Star Break in 1st Place, Will It Continue in 2nd Half?August 9, 2016
The Washington Nationals entered the final weekend before the All-Star break with a 4.5 game lead in the National League East. While the heat stays on the Nats with the surprising New York Mets and the rest of the teams in the East, the first half has been all about the Nats.
The Nationals have had a remarkable run this season, and are proving to be one of the most shocking teams in all of baseball. Most baseball fans thought it was a fluke a couple weeks into the season, but the Nats have continued to roll over the league.
The success of the Nationals is further surprising considering the injuries that they were forced to deal with through the season. From Drew Storen to Jayson Werth and Michael Morse, they have persevered and have maintained control of the East more than halfway through the season.
While big names went down for the Nats, they responded by bringing a big name up.
The emergence of Bryce Harper has helped the Nats battle through injuries and stay atop the division. His presence on the field changes the game for the opposition. Everything that he brings to the table, speed, power, tenacity, is a dynamic part of Washington's firepower on offense. His cannon of an arm from the outfield certainly helps as well.
As the first half winds down and the second half begins, many will wonder if the Nationals will be able to continue to storm through the division. There will be challenges along the way, including Stephen Strasburg's innings limit and the drama and controversy that will come along with it.
At the end of the day however, if the Nationals can remain focused on the task at hand, then they will be rewarded with a division title in October.
Baseball is alive and well in D.C. Nationals Park might prove to be one of the most electric parks in all of baseball if the Nats continue their success and make the playoffs.


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Former coal baron Donald Blankenship should face the maximum sentence of one year in prison for flouting mine-safety rules, prosecutors said, urging a judge to send a message to the coal industry.
The government asked U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in Charleston, West Virginia, to ignore defense requests to sentence the former Massey Energy CEO to probation and a fine for his misdemeanor conspiracy conviction. Jurors concluded in December that Blankenship had sought to ignore safety standards to speed up coal production at the Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 miners died in a 2010 explosion.
"A year for what defendant did is paltry enough," Steven Ruby, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a 12-page sentencing brief filed late Monday. The U.S. also is seeking a $250,000 fine.
"We have known for a very long time what makes coal mines explode," Ruby added in the filing, which lists more than a dozen fatal mine disasters over the past century. "And sadly, we have known for a very long time that some mine operators will ignore these hard-learned lessons until the law compels them to take notice."
Different Portrayal
Blankenship's lawyers said prosecutors unfairly sought to portray the former CEO as some kind of a monster who callously sent miners to their deaths to add to his personal fortune.
The former coal baron, cleared of felony charges involving securities fraud and making false statements, wasn't guilty of the "brazen lawlessness" described by prosecutors in their sentencing brief, Blair Brown, one of Blankenship's defense lawyers, said in a Monday court filing.
The defense team urged Berger to read the more than 100 letters filed on the former CEO's behalf, citing his charitable works in West Virginia and his emphasis on safety in Massey's mines.
"Without the kindness of Mr. Blankenship, one of my sons would not have been able to go to college to become an engineer," Dorothy Adkins, an 85-year-old mother of two former Massey miners, wrote to the judge. "His life was forever changed by this act of kindness."
Worst Disaster
Blankenship's conviction capped a five-year effort by prosecutors to hold the former CEO accountable for safety violations that led to the explosion at the mine, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Charleston. It was the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than 30 years.
The former CEO stepped down as Massey's top executive in December 2010 with a $12 million retirement package just before Bristol, Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources Inc., the second-largest coal producer by sales, acquired the company for $7.1 billion.
During the trial, prosecutors produced evidence showing that in 2009 alone, Blankenship made more than $18 million in salary and bonuses. That kind of income justified having him pay the maximum $250,000 fine, the government said.
The case is U.S. v. Blankenship, 14-cr-00244, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia (Charleston).
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Joe Kernan: Managers need to speak out to kick racist abuse into touch
Silence is golden — but not when condemnation of wrong-doing in any facet of life is expected
It would appear that many managers prefer to keep their counsel in relation to pinpointing the evil of racial abuse rather than make their views known publicly.
That's the only conclusion I can come too following what has been something of a muted reaction to the treatment to which Crossmaglen Rangers player Aaron Cunningham was exposed in the recent Ulster club football final against Kilcoo.
I think it is a great pity that more managers have not united in a public chorus of disapproval against what is undoubtedly one of the most insidious practices in our sport.
It is well-known that players in several county teams engage in verbals of one form or another and I would have thought that the opportunity now presented itself for managers to take a defiant stand against this.
The manner in which the Crossmaglen Rangers v Kilcoo match was besmirched was not that far removed from what happened last Sunday when Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was struck by an object thrown from the crowd following his team's win over Manchester City.
We certainly don't want this type of thing happening within the GAA but this cannot be ruled out given the tensions, friction and aggravation that verbal abuse invariably triggers. Referees are of course aware of what is happening but it is difficult for them to pick up every word that is uttered by players in the heat of battle and this means that a lot of players can go through their careers virtually unchallenged for their use of what can only be described as disgusting language in the extreme.
Obviously the investigation into what happened in relation to Aaron Cunningham is ongoing. In the meantime, I would like to think that when county teams come together for the new season shortly, managers will impress on their players the need for caution, respect and tolerance.
I have grave fears that if any more incidents of serious verbal abuse are highlighted the image of the GAA could be seriously tarnished at a time when it is fighting hard to win the hearts and minds of young people throughout the country.
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To accomplish its customer service goals, Grainger created the Custom Solutions unit, based in Gurnee, Ill., to serve customers that are streamlining their purchasing functions and lowering overall purchasing costs by buying from fewer suppliers. Custom Solutions covers seven product categories comprising two million separate items.
The goal of the Custom Solutions call center-which handles upwards of 20,000 calls per day-is to satisfy every client as soon as possible on the first call. A caller dials a toll-free number to connect with a customer service representative (CSR) preassigned to his account.
The technology in Grainger's call center quickly matches callers with service experts, dramatically reducing client wait times and, thereby, increasing long-term loyalty. Utilizing ArialView software from Arial Systems Corp. of Vernon Hills, Ill., Grainger's 100-plus CSRs can parse all 300 technical staff, product experts, marketing employees and corporate executives. The browser-based ArialView catalog boasts a knowledgebase of every employee's skills, contact numbers, e-mail, schedule and photo. CSRs can search the catalog by name, skill, department, location or even photo to locate needed resources. The system also sports a backup tree listing alternate sources for solving a particular problem. If one employee is out of the office, CSRs can contact the next person on the list, ensuring that no customer is left wanting.
Call center agents can also determine the exact location of their colleagues. Grainger's employees wear transmitter-embedded ID badges designed by ArialView that continuously signal a network of wireless receivers throughout their facility. The receivers are microprocessors that track the location of each staffer via the ArialView Access Engine server. Using the desktop Web interface, CSRs can immediately find a given technician, her closest telephone extension and use a directed-audio feature to announce the call and forward the customer directly to the expert.
ArialView figures that if its system can save CSRs 15 seconds per call multiplied by 2,000 calls per day, the reduction in customer wait times totals 40 hours a week. And at $40 per hour to maintain an average call center seat, Grainger could see an annual return of more than $83,000 in reduced search time alone.


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harrison said that players can communicate via preset phrases, on a virtual keyboard, or by voice chat. players can also decorate a personal room with their own wallpaper, furniture, and picture frames, which can be embedded with personal pictures or videos.
home will also feature different locations to visit, such as cinemas and sports arenas (sponsored by media companies and game publishers) that could contain trailers and mini-games. another location within home called the "hall of fame" contains a virtual exhibit that players can customize with personal trophies that show off their gaming prowess.
home is scheduled to begin full operation in the fall of this year; however, a beta test is expected to begin in april. the service will be free to playstation 3 owners, though some premium content will cost extra.
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|pretty cool (9:33am est thu mar 08 2007)
this sounds pretty cool. i really like the idea of embedding personal pictures and videos in the environment. if they do this right (and that's a big if), this could be the console version of second life (which i'm not a huge fan of, but i see the appeal).
big qustion will be how much of the content will be "premium" and how much will it cost? again, if they do this right, they'll could get droves of subscribers and charge next to nothing for the content and still generate a huge revenue stream.
so once again, ps3 has all the potential in the world. how will they manage to screw it up this time? – by chipt
|re: chipt (10:05am est thu mar 08 2007)
don't worry..they'll screw it up. – by baibbas
|useless? (10:38am est thu mar 08 2007)
i for one would never use this. then again, i'm over 30 and don't find myspace and second life appealing either. pure gaming for me.
as for others, i figure people would rather to stick with their computers and its online communities. why would one want to use their pc's for their instant msg'ing and myspace/second life, and then go to the tele and turn on their ps3 to engage with another community. i don't see it.
and thats my $0.02 – by edgey
|looks good (1:55pm est thu mar 08 2007)
i am interested in seeing it. look how many sims and second life people there are out there. this could be sweet if it is even 70% of what sony is aiming for. the rest will come with time. as for games sony is already starting to catch up on that end with a lot of games in the 07 bucket that look sweet. it won't be long if they manage to stick to it. – by blcskate
|re:pretty cool (7:57am est fri mar 09 2007)
from the demo that i've seen (kotaku.com has one up) this looks excatly like second life with sony achievments (ala xbox live)and game invites added in. microtransations for clothing and special objects, branded stores, plans for coporate meeting spaces, text entry system, voice (note: voice is being added to second life it's in beta now, but already in similar apps like "there"), emotes, 3d minigames, music jukeboxes, and video walls. yup it looks and feels just like second life, now one thing not mentioned is weather they'll give users the ability to create and sell their own objects like second life.
not that this is a bad thing, just not terribly original as some folks who don't know about second life are saying. – by notnormal23224
|booooooooooo! (2:58am est tue mar 13 2007)
get out and see the real world while it still exists!
word. – by the_real_mark
|re:booooooooooo! (12:34pm est wed mar 14 2007)
what is this "real world" you speak of? waht platform does it run on pc, 360, ps3? or is it multiplatform? can't wait to see the if graphics, audio and gameplay stack up. -) – by notnormal23224


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Cinema enters the contemporary art world in the new exhibition ''Perspectives 178: CINEPLEX,'' opening this week at CAMH, whose Zilkha Gallery will transform into a unique cinematheque space for a whole season. Expect projections, screenings and events, featuring a variety of experimental works, essay films, documentaries and live cinema events.
Among the screenings: a retrospective of assemblage artist Bruce Conner's complete body of work, made between 1958 and 2008, as well as award-winning director Sophie Fiennes's feature-length experimental film The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, which incorporates famous scenes from memorable films in a funny, thought-provoking manner. In addition, acclaimed group Musiqa will perform all-new scores for selected scenes from popular cinema, premiering new compositions written by Rice University and University of Houston students.
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At 08:14 AM 3/24/97 -0500, you wrote: >The recent thread regarding weatherproofing coax connectors is an interesting >one... > >What is the best method of installing a coax connector on RG11 or RG8? In my >radio career, I've probably experienced more failures from improper >installation of connectors than any other single flaw. And even some of my >friends who are *tm* engineers seem to have trouble installing these pesky >devices. > >Reply direct, I'll summarize responses in a few days.... > >73 - Phil, N6ZZ I cheat! I take a drill and drill out the solder holes. I then take a small file and file around the holes. I then cut about 1 and 1/2 inches back from the end of the coax, all the way through to the center conductor. I pull off the whole works. Now I just have center conductor poking out I them carefully take about another 1/2 to 5/8 inch to expose the braid. Now I use a finger nail clip amd make sure that there is an eight of an inch of center dialectric exposed past the braid. In other words, I cut the braid back with the finger nail clip. I then screw on the connector. I then use a hat pin (a large needle) and slip it under the braid in the enlarged holes snd bring the braid up to the surface of the connector. Sometimes I have even raised the braid through the holes. Solder quickly and use a wet rag to cool. I hate doing this because this could cause cold joints, but I would rather hit two or three out of four than melt the center conductor. I also use solder paster or flux. Radio Shack as little tins of it and comes in handy. Make sure your soldering gun's tip is clean and well tinned. Tighten up the screws on the tip connection too. You want to get real hot real quick. Make sure the tip is properly tinned. Close all four holes with solder and you should have braid up in all four holes. Finish with the center conductor...quickly. I found that cutting off the excess before solder speeds up the process because you don't have to heat up the excess. I then clean the tip using a little sandpaper, steel wool, a knife, or in case of field day my pants. Always check for shorts. I always attach a dummy load at the end and fire it up with a 100 watts. Interesting reading about this on the reflector. Lee email@example.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: email@example.com Administrative requests: email@example.com Problems: email@example.com Sponsored by: Akorn Access, Inc. & N4VJ / K4AAA
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Lupus group more than 'support'
When Dr. Marilyn Deutsch, clinical psychologist, met Paula Hannigan, research librarian, within minutes they knew they could complement each other and had a plan to give back to the community. Both have lupus.
Deutsch, who had been instrumental in starting the Lupus Foundation in Northeastern Pennsylvania 25 ago when she was initially diagnosed, had run traditional support groups over the years. However, says Deutsch, although the needs of those affected by lupus are the same, far less people find the time to attend support groups. Yet research has demonstrated educated patients, those with coping skills and those with support, tend to have a better prognosis … hence the group, which focuses on coping skills and education.
This group will be upbeat and not a whining session. Group members will be given homework, and articles to read. Support will come in the form of fun and interesting activities that may or may not relate directly to lupus, but will relate to better functioning.
Hannigan, who has background as a research librarian in a medical setting, will provide articles for patients and once the group gets started will provide opportunities to meet and do things outside of the traditional group. Deutsch, who has been a clinical psychologist with specialty training in disabilities, will focus on coping skills.
"I like to have patients and their families develop a 'coping tool box' so they can use a particular skill when they need it."
The group will meet at 5:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Lupus Foundation of Pennsylvania, Resource Center for Autoimmune Diseases at 615 Jefferson Ave, Scranton, PA 18510. For more information call (570) 558-2008 or 1-888-99-LUPUS.


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USC safety Su'a Cravens was selected to the CollegeFootballNews.com Freshman All-America team.
Cravens has intercepted four passes and made 51 tackles this season.
Trojans offensive tackle Chad Wheeler, a redshirt freshman, was honorable mention.
Sophomore Nelson Agholor was selected as a second-team punt return specialist for the Athlonsports.com All-America team.
Sophomore defensive tackle Leonard Williams was a third-team selection.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Solar-cell provider SunPower Corp. Friday (Sept. 29) announced that it will invest in a joint venture with Woongjin Coway to manufacture monocrystalline silicon ingots.
SunPower, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Inc., expects to purchase approximately $250 million of silicon ingot from the joint venture through a five-year supply agreement. This joint venture will operate in Korea, with polysilicon to be supplied primarily from DC Chemical, Korea's largest chemical company.
SunPower's joint venture partner, Woongjin Coway, is a Korean equipment manufacturer. SunPower, based here, and DC Chemical have previously announced a major supply agreement.
The venture is expected to begin manufacturing in the second half of 2007, and is projected to grow at a rate consistent with increasing polysilicon supply from DC Chemical.
SunPower will contribute approximately $5 million of capital and technology expertise, and will sell polysilicon to the joint venture, and procure silicon ingot from the joint venture. Woongjin Coway will contribute a similar level of capital, as well as operations and Korean marketing expertise.


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Over a decade since Jagged Alliance 2's release, the turn-based strategy series is poised to make a comeback. bitComposer Games revealed today that "preliminary development work" has begun on Jagged Alliance 3.
bitComposer is a Germany-based company who most recently published S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. They've purchased the full rights to the franchise from Strategy First and will publish the game worldwide. The press release off-handedly mentions that Strategy First is working on a social network-based Jagged Alliance game, though.
Little was revealed about JA3 in the announcement. The game is said to "preserve the popular basic concept of the previous versions and place it in a contemporary setting." bitComposer expects a 2011 release for the game on unknown platforms.
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