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This sermon was delivered by Rabbi Gordon on Rosh Hashanah, 2003 at Congregation Sukkat Shalom in Wilmette, Illinois.
Once more we turn to Abraham. I have explained a number of times how I have come to understand the nature of Genesis and the Biblical text. It is not theology. It tells us little if anything about God and nothing about how we are to believe in God. It is not science nor history nor objective biography. We make a grave mistake if we attempt to read Genesis as if it were journalism written by an accurate reporter.
Genesis is sacred text. It is a book of wonder. If it has one primary concern it is to impart a family story. Genesis is particularly rich as a tale of family dynamics concentrating on marriages, births, inheritance and the passing on of blessing. From Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and then on to Noah, we read about the generations and the begetting of offspring.
This pattern is truest beginning with the story of Abraham. Abraham is to be the patriarchal ancestor of a great people. We just read about God's promise to Abraham that he would be the father of a mighty nation. His seed would be as numerous as the stars in the heaven and the grains of sand upon the seashore. But there is tension in the story, for God commands Abraham to put this inheritance at risk. How can he be father of a great people if he is told to take his son, his only one, the one he loves, Isaac, and sacrifice him on an altar? Isaac was Abraham's hope of future generations.
After all, his other son, Ishmael, had "married out." Ishmael would be father to a great people as well, but God's promise to Abraham would be realized only through Isaac. Now that Isaac survived the trial on Moriah, Abraham had to insure that there would be a proper wife for him, so Abraham sent back to the old country to provide a wife, Rebecca, for his son Isaac from within the family. Isaac would marry his cousin.
The pattern repeated in the next generation. There were two brothers, Jacob and Esau. Esau married a Canaanite, but Jacob once again returned to the old country and fell in love with his cousin, Rachel. Of course before he could marry Rachel, he first had to marry her older sister Leah. There were two additional wives, and together they produced twelve heirs.
But Jacob's sons also married out. Judah, the one after whom the Jewish people is named, first married a Canaanite woman, then had a child with his daughter-in-law Tamar. Judah and Tamar produced Peretz who was the ancestor of Boaz, who married Ruth, the Moabitess, also an out-marriage, but from Boaz and Ruth comes Jesse, then David, and from David, the messiah.
Joseph in turn married Potiphar's daughter, and their sons were Ephraim and Menaseh. We still bless our sons each Friday night by invoking the memory of Ephraim and Menaseh. Even in the Book of Exodus, the pattern continues. Moses marries Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, Priest of Midian.
I said that the Bible is not intended to be a journalistic account. Even more, this is not a report of a sociological study by population statisticians. What would the statisticians have said or predicted? It seems from these stories that these early Hebrew Patriarchs were running an intermarriage rate around 50 percent or more. There was a 50 percent rate of intermarriage among Abraham's sons, then 50 percent for Isaac's sons. It was probably a much higher rate for Jacob's twelve sons, so we might assume that the statistician overseeing the 2000 BCE Jewish Population Survey would have concluded that Judaism was about to die out. For the past 4,000 years, one thing has always been true: for 4,000 years there have always been those "experts" who declared that the Jewish people was about to vanish.
There is an interesting book published by the Tauber Institute and edited by one of my teachers, Michael Meyer. All you need to know about it is the title, The Ever Dying People. Scholars have been predicting the demise of the Jewish people for thousands of years. We can indeed feel fortunate that there were no statisticians in the days of Abraham. We however, are not so lucky.
We are the victims of statisticians. In 1990, the Council of Jewish Federations published the much touted, studied, and disseminated Jewish Population Census or Survey. No one in this room escaped its blaring headline conclusion. Jews were marrying non-Jews at the rate of 52 percent. From this figure of 52 percent was built the conclusion that Jewish life in America was in danger of destruction from within. I do not need to tell anyone in this room how those figures were interpreted and used. You all heard the arguments that intermarriage equates with assimilation. Some of you may even have heard leading rabbis and scholars proclaim that intermarriage represented a new Holocaust. They all repeated the supposed "fact" that the grandchildren of intermarriage cease to be Jewish in the second generation. After all, this was proved by statistical analysis.
Thus was born the crisis of 52 percent intermarriage. American Jewish life was in danger of destruction and so was born the "continuity" movement. Let me take a moment to engage in a bit of Biblical etymology. There is a word, shibboleth, which has come to mean a commonplace, platitude, or truism. A shibboleth is a catchword or slogan. But the word has its origins in the Biblical Book of Judges. The word itself means "a grain of corn." But more importantly, it was a test word to distinguish between one group of people and their enemies. You see, in a war, the Gileadites needed to distinguish who the Ephraimites, their enemies, were from their own people. So the Gileadites devised a test. They demanded that everyone say the word, "shibboleth." Gileadites said "shibboleth." Ephraimites said "sibboleth."
A shibboleth then is an insider's word that helps distinguish your group for those outside. Throughout the 1990s, if you had attended any synagogue worship service or American Jewish Committee or American Jewish Congress meeting; if you had been present at a General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations or a UAHC Biennial; if you were present at a CCAR convention or of any convention of an American rabbinic organization, you would have heard little else but the term "continuity."
But "continuity" was a classic shibboleth because no one other than those in the Jewish world ever used the term. Catholics who out marry at a far higher rate than Jews never spoke of "continuity." No church or Christian seminary or Christian social organization was concerned with this term.
But in the Jewish world, continuity was the key central agenda of the 1990s. Careers and reputations were built on this one issue. We might call it the Continuity industry. Let me confess, I have made something of a career being a contrarian in this discussion, but suddenly I am not alone.
You see, CJF did another ten year population study--that is, they tried. No one agreed about its methodology or its accuracy, so it took them three years to publish the 2000 survey. And guess what: Remember that 52 percent intermarriage rate of 1990? Well, the number was wrong after all. It wasn't really true. It really was closer to a 43 percent rate, and the conclusions and extrapolations also might have been wrong. In the words of Emily Litella: "Never Mind."
All that energy, all that focus, all the resources devoted to the crisis of 52 percent intermarriage was based on faulty numbers. The Forward of September 19, 2003, said: "The 52 percent intermarriage figure fraudulently reported in 1990 rapidly became the best known and most quoted Jewish statistic in the world. It's been repeated in countless sermons, editorials and jeremiads, inspired millions of dollars of emergency spending and soured discourse within the Jewish community."
Let me be clear. I believe in Jewish Federation. I am a supporter and contributor. I want each of you to be contributors and supporters, but in this case they blew it. They cannot claim that their survey was a neutral, agenda-free study without any bias. Federation has a mission, and that mission is to raise money. They are very good at it. They are not an academic institution or think tank.
In raising money within the Jewish community, Federation has relied on the need to respond to crises and emergencies. The truth is, there have usually been plenty of legitimate emergencies and very real dangers facing the Jewish people. They need not manufacture one, but they did. The 1990 survey results conveniently gave birth to the "continuity" crisis.
But the most serious effect of this 52 percent intermarriage rate panic was not sociological, academic, or scholarly. The discussions that truly mattered were not held in conference halls, hotels, or Jewish communal boardrooms, rather there were difficult and painful conversations that took place in living rooms, dining room tables, and dens.
The continuity agenda and the 52 percent intermarriage crisis had an enormous impact on people's individual private lives. Many in the organized Jewish world sent a message to the intermarried of failure, abandonment, and rejection. Jews who fell in love with non-Jews were told that they were individually responsible for the decline of the Jewish people.
They were told with absolute certainty that the survey proved that grandchildren of intermarriages ceased to identify as Jews in the second generation. This supposed fact was repeated over and over again. Yet any statistician would have to question the extrapolation made by these interpreters of the survey. Even if the numbers were legitimate, and there is valid reason to question the numbers themselves, the truth is, any study of grandchildren of intermarriage must, by definition, reflect the results of intermarriages of the 1920s and 1930s. By definition, there are no grandchildren of intermarriages that took place in the 1980s.
The world of the 1920s and 1930s was a very different one from the 1980s and 1990s. It may be true that many who intermarried in the earlier decades had hoped to "escape" from their Jewish roots. The Jewish community at the time had no place for them and no programs to serve them. Often their families would reject them and mourn their "passing." There were no outreach programs before the 1980s.
By repeating the false data, and the even more erroneous extrapolations, families were told that they had failed as Jews. In many families the effects were serious. Conversations about marriage choices led to angst, anger, and accusations. When a Jewish young adult broke the news that he or she had fallen in love with someone not Jewish, parents asked themselves what they had done wrong. They had difficulty accepting their child's mate and partner in part because they we told that their grandchildren would not be Jewish. The non-Jewish partner was hurt that they were not accepted into the family and that they were viewed in such a negative light.
Non-Jewish family members would accompany their family to the synagogue, and the sermons they heard contained words of judgment and condemnation on the issue of intermarriage. Rabbis who worked with the intermarried were condemned as "enablers" of intermarriage. An enabler is a term borrowed from the world of twelve-step support groups. Using it implies that there is some behavior of pathology that is being enabled. Few people wish to consider their choice of mate to be an act of pathology.
Many Jews have painful memories of being judged in light of those intermarriage statistics--statistics it turns out that were wrong! They were told that intermarriage equates with assimilation. Every Jew who marries a non-Jew leaves the Jewish world behind. This was a test of loyalty for many, and they were told that they failed.
The truth is, I look around this sanctuary, and I do not see failure. I do not see a dying Jewish community. Here there is a sense of vibrancy, dynamism, and creativity. After all, what we so often see at Sukkat Shalom is the Jewish "adult survivor" of Sunday school and Hebrew school married to a person seeking authentic spiritual meaning. Here we welcome the non-Jewish entrant into Judaism who is turned on at an adult level to serious Jewish study, appreciation for tradition, ritual, and observance.
Here is the irony of the new numbers from the 2000 Jewish population study. There has been an increase in Jewish households even as there has been a decrease in the number of individuals identifying themselves as Jews. The increase in the number of Jewish households is ascribed to intermarriage. Jews who marry non-Jews are, in many cases, still creating Jewish households. The pool of potential mates is higher when you add in intermarriage.
Obviously I take a different view of the statistical studies. But there are many who used the false data to define a Judaism in crisis. They feared that any acceptance of intermarriage would send a message of normality and legitimacy. They believed that only a wall of condemnation would prevent further erosion of Jewish identity.
The Conservative movement went so far as to declare that any Jew who married a non-Jew would be barred from professional or lay leadership roles within their synagogues, seminaries, and schools. If you were a Jew married to a non-Jew you could not teach in Sunday school or Hebrew school, could not teach at a Schechter day school or be on staff at a Ramah camp. You could not serve on the board of directors of a synagogue. All of these rules existed because they believed that acceptance of intermarried Jews would lead to an increase in intermarriage which would lead to assimilation and thus the death of American Jewish life.
In this "continuity" crisis, others offered great programs guaranteed to prevent intermarriage. They promised that if only you did the "right" things you could inoculate your children against the virus. If your children went to Jewish day schools or attended Jewish summer camps, or went on free trips to Israel, then their Jewish identity would be strengthened, and they would reject the prospect of falling in love with a non-Jew.
All of that promise had some basis in fact, but not because these programs deepened one's Jewish knowledge. The programs worked because they became places to meet other Jewish singles. After all, the Orthodox community always knew that. The key factor in determining whom you will marry is propinquity, the people with whom you most often come in contact. Any statistical difference between Orthodox patterns of marriage and marriage rates among the more liberal groups was based first on Orthodox Judaism's chosen ghettoization. If you send your children to Yeshivah University and Stern College, their classmates are going to be far less diverse than the students at NYU, Columbia, or Yale.
Over these last thirteen years I have fought my battles with Sylvia Barrack Fishman, Steve Bayme, Jack Wertheimer and the other supposed experts on the destruction of American Judaism as a result of intermarriage rates. Contrary to their predictions of Jewish failure and abandonment, we are witnessing a dynamic growth in Jewish life. Many of us see a renaissance in Jewish thought and culture.
This is a different Judaism to be sure. It is uncomfortable for some, unfamiliar. Today's American Judaism is less ethnic and more spiritual. There is a certain fluidity to it. Professor Martin Marty has stated that 65 percent of all Americans change their religion at some point in their life. There are new Jews and former Jews. Within the Jewish world, people move in and out of the denominational branches. At any one time the affiliation rates are low, but over the course of one's adult life, the affiliation rate is high. The vast majority of Jews celebrate Passover and Hanukkah and attend synagogue services during the High Holy Days. Jewish books and films sell well. An increasing number of Jewish college students enroll in at least one course in Jewish studies.
The bottom line is that American Judaism is changing. Jews are reluctant to acknowledge that this faith and people are attractive to others. We suffer from a reverse Groucho Marx syndrome. Groucho said that he wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. Too often we cannot believe that anyone would really want to belong to our club.
Our task then is not to mourn the death of 1920s Jewish life in America. In these past thirteen years since the 1990 Jewish Population Study, American Judaism has not in fact declined. Contrary to the predictions, Jewish life is prospering in new and dynamic ways. The numbers were wrong. The prediction of crisis was wrong. Condemnation and rejection did not stem the tide of intermarriage. Those actions served only to further alienate. At Sukkat Shalom, our response is one of welcome. Our doors are open. Those who fell in love with non-Jews did not fail. Judaism is attractive, challenging, and engaging. This is a living faith and people. It has always been dynamic and creative. We will continue to build this Jewish world. Judaism will continue to be an enriching aspect of our lives. Our families will find within the Jewish world the warmth of tradition and the continuing story of a people's long history, from Abraham's day until today.


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I am using BCM4313 -- which is unlucky, because it's not supported by Hackintosh.
I installed Mavericks on my Acer Aspire E1-471G and patched my DSDT, everything works perfect, except ELAN Touchpad and Wi-Fi.
But that's not the main thing.
Can we just simply use Windows Virtual Machine that supports BCM4313 on a Hackintosh that does not support BCM4313.
Means that:
Hackintosh --> (inside Hackintosh) Windows VM (using VMware Fusion) --> (inside Windows) Recognize BCM4313 and use Drivers for Windows --> search for networks inside Windows --> and transfer the internetconnection host-only from Windows VM to Hackintosh.
Now the problem is Windows is not recognizing the BCM4313. Can we just make Windows VM directly check out our laptop specifications without having to read from Hackintosh's system specification (which happened not able to recognize BCM4313) ?
Thanks in advance.

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You have to give Witchburner their dues for sticking to it for this long. Now in their 21st year of existence they deliver their 7th album of strictly Teutonic-styled Black/Thrash, the first one not to be released on Undercover/Evil Spell Records for whom they have been something of a house band. Despite this longevity that alone gives them veteran status over their younger contemporaries like Nocturnal, Blizzard and Cruel Force though they are still in most people's eyes not in that second tier of Germanic Thrash bands beneath the big 3 that includes such acts as Protector and Desaster. The reason for this is simple- if you own any of Witchburner's 6 previous albums save yourself some money and just listen to that again, because this new effort is probably pretty much identical to it.
Frankly the fact they have been doing this so long is no excuse for being so stoic in their repetitiveness and dullness- if anything that makes any excuse even more untenable. Not only are most of the tracks on here utilising the same tempo, drum patterns and chord progressions, but they have all been done to death on those previous albums too. Aside from "Master And Slave" where they adopt a more Exodus/Dark Angel sort of vibe with the squealing riffs, any semblance of diversity on this album is whispered rather than screamed. This track could've become the sing-a-long centrepiece to the record, but instead that simple chorus refrain of "I am the master- you are the slave" just isn't given enough breathing space.
It's the same story on "Never Surrender" where there is a Nifelheim-esque melodic streak trying to break out and "Possession" which has some vocal lines more akin to Tankard than any of the German big 3. Sometimes this hardline devotion to the big 3 sound pays off, like on the Pleasure To Kill-worshipping "Path Of The Sinner", but on every other track it is a formula as immemorial as it is derivative. For an album that only clocks in at 35 minutes, Witchburner's shortest since 1998's Blasphemic Assault, it is almost ridiculous that their could be filler tracks like "Spirits Of The Dead" on here.
Again the argument that Witchburner have being doing this for so long that it doesn't matter is likely to surface, or even the claim that this is how Black/Thrash is supposed to sound and that formula shouldn't be tinkered with. There is ways they could shake up their sound though without ever going outside their key influences- for example, considering their biggest debt being owed to Destruction why is their no Shmier-like high screeches in the vocals? And if bands both older than they, such as Desaster, and younger such as Hellish Crossfire, can make killer and diverse records out of all the same raw elements then why can't Witchburner? The answer might simply be a lack of creativity and imagination. 21 years on and Witchburner haven't even come close to delivering a Black/Thrash genre-masterpiece, and that looks unlikely to ever change. [5/10]
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I haven't been this upset about a restaurant closing in a long time...if, in fact, ever. If this has been discussed on another thread, I apologize, though a quick search didn't yield anything.
I live in the south end so don't make it to that side of the river often, but whenever I do, I make sure to plan an East Asia trip, Their kung pao chicken was always one of my favorites, a deliciious sauce perfectly spiced with crunchy fresh vegetables, it was always consistently GOOD.
This week I found myself over there around lunchtime and called, only to have the number ring and ring and ring --no one picked up. Thought it was odd, but thought maybe, just maybe something was up with the phone. Then tonight...again....in the area....called and the same thing happened...endless ringing but no picking up and/or message. I was hoping against hope maybe they'd taken a summer vacation, but....drove by just to see...and.....there was a handwritten sign in the door...with a new name (which i don't remember) and something like "come back for our noodles or..." whatever..i honestly don't remember. I couldn't believe my worst suspicions had been confirmed. GONE.
Not sure if any of you guys know about this already (or know about the new place moving in) I can only assume the owners were simply done and sold the business --can't imagine business wasn't good as it was such a great spot for takeout. No idea, but feel free to shed some light if you know. Not that it'll make me feel any better...but still.
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Emptywheel dissects the excuse-o-rama that is Mark Halperin this morning:
Mark Halperin has a hysterical op-ed in the NYT today, designed to be a mea culpa for the failures of presidential campaign journalism. Halperin reveals the reason behind the press corps' obsession with horse race politics–they all read Ben Cramer's What It Takes–and then admits that success in a political horse race does not necessarily equip someone to run the country.
For most of my time covering presidential elections, I shared the view that there was a direct correlation between the skills needed to be a great candidate and a great president. The chaotic and demanding requirements of running for president, I felt, were a perfect test for the toughest job in the world.
But now I think I was wrong. The "campaigner equals leader" formula that inspired me and so many others in the news media is flawed.
Wow, Mark, that's one doozy of an insight. You mean all this horse race campaign journalism is counter-productive to choosing a good president? Who could have imagined that?!?!?!…
See where I'm going with this? Halperin claims that a guy who presided over tremendous economic growth, some innovative policy solutions (many of which I dislike, but admire for their pragmatism), and real success in foreign policy, had a failed presidency. He claims that a guy whose approval ratings stayed high during a trumped up impeachment "ran into trouble." Halperin clings to the Village's caricature of the Clinton presidency all so he can claim both Clinton and Bush failed. And in the process, he ignores a great deal of hard work and policy wonkiness that, in fact, made Clinton a successful president. Precisely the kind of characteristics you'd want good presidential journalism to cover–a candidate's comfort with the complexity of policy issues that translates into competent governance.
You see, Halperin tries hard to explain away his failures of judgment and discernment as failures of process. But in the process, he only emphasizes those failures of judgment. If Halperin really believes that Clinton and Bush experienced the same level of failure in office; if he remains ignorant of Clinton's considerable discipline (in all matters not involving his penis) and hard work and policy acumen, then he has proved his own failures of basic observation, not a failure to cover the right topics….
I especially like the part where Halperin discusses George Bush's problems as his reality not living up to his sales pitch on the campaign trail. Well….duh…his campaign trail persona was a facade wholly fabricated out of the minds of Rove, Hughes and Allbaugh, designed to sell the American public on a fantasy of their making — but anyone who looked at the reality of Bush's prior actions knew it was all fluff. Where was Halperin and the rest of the Village on that little nest of reality?
Isn't it high time we all walked away from the 8th grade class president popularity contest model of analysis? Honestly, the world is a dangerous place, and we should be treating the evaluation of presidential candidates as something more than whose personality is more chummy in their faux public put-on persona. But hey, who could have ever predicted that substance and issues and things that matter in the real world would be more important than fluff. Oh, wait…
Here's a thought: if the "wise elders of the Village" see a problem in what they are doing, how about doing their jobs better instead of just wallowing around in the descriptive and diagnostic phase? How about going out there and doing the jobs that the Fourth Estate used to do well — digging into the substance, the facts, the original sources on speeches and actions and legislation and such and doing some down and dirty real world comparisons on actions speaking louder than words? Now THAT would be something worth paying attention to — and it would be useful for all of us, wouldn't it?
UPDATE: Oh, hell. Just go read Krugman… (H/T to Joe Klein's conscience for the link.)
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Giants co-owner John Mara and Jets owner Woody Johnson are at odds over an important issue: What they hope the weather will be like for Super Bowl XLVIII, to be held next February in East Rutherford.
"Woody and I have a little difference of opinion on that," Mara said good-naturedly, at a press conference today announcing some of the plans for next year's event. "I'd love to see 50 degrees and mild; he'd like to see a little snow."
This week's frigid temperatures — today's high was around 22 degrees — have been a jarring reminder of the weather in which next year's NFL championship game may be played.
But the Northeastern climate was part of the Giants and Jets' winning bid nearly three years ago to become the game's first cold-weather, outdoor hosts at their shared MetLife Stadium. The NFL isn't spooked, either.
"We made this decision consciously," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said today. "Football is made to be played in the elements. It's obviously cold here this week, but next week were told it's going to be in the 50s. We're going to celebrate the game here, we're going to celebrate the weather, and we're going to make it a great experience."
The NFL and the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl Host Committee today announced some of their plans, just before the one-year-out mark. In addition to hosting the game, New Jersey has a stake in several events the week of the game.
Media Day, the first official public event of Super Bowl week, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 28 at Newark's Prudential Center — the first time the event will not be held at the game's host venue. The NFL's Tailgate Party will be at the Grandstand at the Meadowlands Racetrack the day of the game, and both participating teams will practice and stay in New Jersey.
There will also be a strong presence in New York City. One of the week's anchor events — the new "Super Bowl Boulevard," with the Lombardi Trophy display, live broadcasts, player appearances and nightly concerts — will be set up on Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. The Super Bowl Media Center will be at the Midtown Sheraton, and several parties and the NFL Honors awards show will also be in Manhattan.
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Nearly 400 firefighters aided by water-dropping aircraft beat back a wind-fueled wildfire that destroyed at least one structure in northern Los Angeles County on Tuesday.
The blaze, which burned through medium to heavy brush, was reported shortly before 4 p.m. near West Crown Valley Road in Acton. It was 30 percent contained by early evening with full containment expected later Tuesday, county fire Inspector Quvondo Johnson said. No injuries were reported.
The fire initially was pushed by northeast to east winds of 12 to 15 mph, with occasional gusts to 35 mph, the National Weather Service said. Winds decreased by early evening, but relative humidity remained in the single digits.
At least one structure was destroyed in the blaze, authorities said. Footage from television news helicopters showed several structures on fire at the height of the blaze, along with several spot fires and residents hosing down homes in the mountainous desert community about 50 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
The blaze disrupted Metrolink service in the area and forced the closure of Soledad Canyon Road, authorities said.
Firefighters from L.A. County, the city of Los Angeles and the U.S. Forest Service battled the fire, along with five helicopters, Johnson said.
The fire burned close to a mobile home park, authorities said. No official evacuations were called, but residents were urged to prepare to leave if necessary, Johnson said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation.
The sparsely populated area is located between Palmdale and Santa Clarita, near the Angeles National Forest.
Another wildfire destroyed about 52 acres near Acton in June. No injuries were reported in that fire.


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Winnipeg's Troy Westwood nailed a placekick into the teeth of a gale force wind at Canad Inns Stadium yesterday.
The ball was headed toward the middle of the uprights that were swaying in the wind like drunken sailors, then stopped in mid-air as if a force shield had blocked it five yards short of the intended target and dropped straight down to the ground.
That was the type of challenge all of the Blue Bombers faced during yesterday's practice in preparation for Sunday's Labour Day Classic at Regina's windswept Mosaic Stadium.
"It was great," said Bomber head coach Doug Berry. "Even though we may have been erratic in kicking, even though we may have been erratic in throwing the ball, these are situations that we can't duplicate -- getting a 60km/h wind even if we brought in helicopters. It was a good experience for everybody."
And Westwood firmly believes that playing in such inclement weather would give the Bombers an edge, even if the Saskatchewan Roughriders also practise in similar conditions.
"If every single game, the wind was blowing like that, we'd have a considerable advantage," he said. "Most guys hate kicking in it; I love it. If the wind's blowin', the snow's flyin', hail's fallin,' I don't care. The uglier it is outside, the better."
GOOD SIGN: The primary injured players returned to the secondary during yesterday's workout. Defensive backs Kelly Malveaux (groin), Anthony Malbrough (knee) and Stanford Samuels (ankle) practised with the No. 1 defensive unit after sitting out the day before.
"There's a good chance we could have all three back," said Berry, who declined to confirm their status until they responded from post-practice treatment.
Bomber tailback Charles Roberts also practised after resting a sore knee on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Aaron Fiacconi has been practising on the starting offensive line with guard Matt Sheridan (groin) gone again.
PRINTERS WATCH: Although there have been unconfirmed reports that QB Casey Printers will be released by Kansas City this weekend, Bombers GM Brendan Taman believes the Chiefs will move him to the practice roster. If Printers does get cut and returns to the B.C. Lions, who maintain his rights, Taman said he will "wait to see what develops."
Should Printers return to B.C., the Lions could either sign him to a contract extension and deal Dave Dickenson or trade Printers, who would become a free agent at the end of this season.
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Today, Ken Segall, a man who worked alongside Steve Jobs for over a decade, and the guy who put the "i" in iMac shared some thoughts on his blog suggesting that Apple's advertising is losing momentum to Samsung.
While you can still argue that Macs and i-devices have a ton of appeal, you can't argue that Apple is still untouchable when it comes to advertising…The fact is, it is being touched — often and effectively — by none other than Samsung…Samsung has made remarkable inroads in a very short time, for two big reasons.
The first of these reasons, Segall claims, is Samsung's advertising budget, which is, by all accounts, massive. With cash to splash on commercials, Samsung's adverts have really caught up with Apple in recent years, particularly in their quality and substance. However, that isn't the only reason. Segall reckons that Samsung's tactics have really boosted the power of their advertisements. Whilst Apple tends to focus its ads on the products themselves, in recent years Samsung has really taken to attacking Apple, using personal adverts that play on people's negative perceptions of Apple.
I'm not sure that I agree. Maybe its a personal thing, garnered by my hatred for Samsung, but I find it underhand creating an advertising campaign that attacks the weaknesses of your opposition. If Samsung can't sell its products using adverts based on those products, then clearly they aren't as good as Samsung want you to think they are. Let's face it, if Apple released and ad campaign attacking Samsung in a similar way, everybody would jump on their high-horses and claim that Apple was simply trying to hide the weakness of its own products. Whilst Samsung's ads may be more effective than they one were, Apple's adverts are totally unique, and can be recognised by anyone, regardless of how tech-literate they are.
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While we're less than a month away from the launch of the PlayStation 4, there seems to be a ton we still don't know about the console or simply don't realize. For instance, one of the features I didn't know existed, was that you can play games you own from your designated "home" console, while another console who is signed in as you, can access them as well.
In a tweet yesterday, President of Worldwide Studios Sony, Shuhei Yoshida, stated that very fact. Check out the tweet.
@atPeteDodd @feedmydolphin @amboyes @DangerWife so @DangerWife can play on your "home" machine and you can play on another at the same time— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) October 16, 2013
While it makes sense in theory, we can't quite wrap our heads around how it would work. If I'm signed in at home and playing my digital copy of Killzone Shadow Fall, and my buddy is signed in as me at his house and wants to play Sound Shapes, how on earth would PSN differentiate which one I'm actually playing?
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The purpose of this memo is to advise departments of the fringe benefit and payroll tax rates proposed for FY2014.
The FY2014 fringe benefit rate proposal has been calculated at 26.27% for general employees and 31.98% for uniformed employees of regular compensation (salaries expended under object codes A01, A07, A09 and AA1). Additionally, the FY2014 payroll tax rate has been calculated at 1.33% of gross compensation for regular and contractual employees (salaries expended under AA and CC object codes). These rate proposals are being submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for approval.
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Craig girls roll past Bradford
But that didn�t stop the Cougars.
Craig rolled past Kenosha Bradford, 71-41, as three Cougars scored in double digits.
It was the first game in 11 days for the Cougars, who improved to 14-7 and will host Westosha Central (16-5) in a regional final at 4 p.m. Saturday.
�We were a little sloppy, but I kind of expected that,� said Craig standout Kristy Benson. �We didn�t really finish everything we could have.
�It�s hard getting a little bit of the slop off.�
Craig coach Mark Marsden was a little nervous about how the team would perform after a week and a half break.
�We didn�t know what was going to happen,� he said. �And we showed it a little tonight with some missed layups and free throws right in the beginning of the game.
�It�s tough to prepare for a team with four wins. It�s hard to keep the team ready.�
Still, the Cougars led from start to finish, beginning with a shot from Whitney Storbakken at 7:15 in the first quarter.
Craig went on a 10-0 run to start the game and took a 10-point lead into the second quarter. The Cougars led 34-13 at halftime.
�I knew tonight was going to be a tough game,� said Bradford coach Matthew Hardy. �I knew they were going to get into our face and play defense.�
And the Cougars did.
Bradford�s first points came at 3:10 in the first quarter with a basket from leading scorer Olivia Hardy. The Red Devils only had three players with a field goal in the first half.
�I knew the key to tonight was going to be free throws,� cooach Hardy said. �If we could avoid fouling them, we had a shot. Sure enough, they hit most of their free throws.�
The Cougars finished 15-for-18 from the line.
And after a slim first half, the Red Devils more than doubled their score in the third quarter, thanks to a hot hand from Hardy and strong shooting from the field.
�We wanted to keep them under 30,� said Marsden. �But if you look at their average, they score about 40 points a game.�
Benson finished with 20 points to take game honors. Danielle Straw had 17 for Craig, and Storbakken had 10.
Hardy led the Red Devils with 19 points, including three goals from behind the arc.
And as the Cougars look to the rest of the sectional field, the focus right now is getting stronger on defense.
�Defense has been our Achilles Heel all year,� Benson said. �We need to fix our defense a bit.
�If we�re going to play man, we have to fix that. �If we are going to play zone, we going to have to work a little bit on that.�
Bradford (41)�Hardy 8-0-19, Barsuli 1-1-4, Fuhrer 3-1-7, Thomas 1-0-2, Hotchkiss 2-0-4, Wenberg 2-1-5. Totals: 17-3-41.
Craig (71)�Smith 1-0-3, McQueen 1-1-3, Benson 7-6-20, Sanchez 2-4-8, Storbakken 4-2-10, Straw 7-2-17, Morgan 4-0-8, Hilden 1-0-2. Totals: 27-15-71.
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Three-point goals�Kenosha Bradford 4 (Hardy 3, Barsuli), Janesville Craig 2 (Straw, Smith). Free throws missed� Kenosha Bradford 4, Janesville Craig 3. Total fouls�Kenosha Bradford 18, Janesville Craig 8.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Alison Sweeney announced Tuesday she is leaving the U.S. soap opera "Days of Our Lives" after 21 years.
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One full-time PhD studentship is available at the the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Kassel, Germany. The positions are funded by the ERC project "Model Checking Unleashed" and are initially available for two years with the possibility of extension for another year. There are no teaching obligations. Starting date is negotiable but the position must be taken up no later than December, 1st, 2012 in order to enjoy the full three years of funding. The project investigates applications of logical methods to various computational problems from diverse areas like database theory, graph theory, bio-informatics, computational linguistics, etc. but also in the classical domain of model checking, namely formal methods. Applicants must have an MSc / diploma in computer science, mathematics, or related areas, or should be very close to completion thereof. They should have a good background in theoretical computer science, with strong interest in logic, algorithmics, and/or possible application areas as mentioned above. The project is run at the Formal Methods and Software Verification group (FMV). Working language is English. Knowledge of German is not a requirement for these positions. Further information about the FMV group is available here: http://cms.uni-kassel.de/unicms/index.php?id=31745 For informal enquiries please contact Martin Lange via


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We get so many earthquakes in Southern California, we're on first-name basis with the world-renown seismologist at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, Dr. Kate (Hutton). She's become a local icon, popping up on TV the minute we start to rock and roll, keeping us cool, calm and collected.
While we have hundreds of small quakes every day, now and then we can actually feel one. That's when my mind naturally moves to thoughts of disaster preparedness. Now I'm not talking weird or paranoid kind of "prepper" stuff — just the basic, commonsense quick list of things every family needs to have on hand. It's good to be prepared because it offers peace of mind and a sense of calm.
Below is a list of basic emergency items. Use it to review your family's level of preparedness. If you come up lacking, start right now to get things in order. I can tell you from experience that being prepared brings with it a level of calmness and assurance that will help you think more clearly when disaster pays a visit, and sleep better, too.
- Water. One gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation. This is your most important consideration on this list. You can live without a lot of things, but water is not one of them. It takes only one quart of water or other fluid to sustain life, but not happily.
Drinking water should be stored out of direct sunlight in clean, non-corrosive, tightly covered containers. Stored water should be rotated every 6 months; prepackaged bottled water should be rotated once a year.
Because disasters can result in contaminated water, you need a water purification product in your supply as well.
Food. At least a three-day supply of non-perishable food
Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both
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6 months passes us by and I find myself rushing once more to complete another new army for an event. I began the journey with intentions of taking Dark Mechanicus to the event, but chose to take Sons of Horus, feeling my AdMech need a lot of work and effort, something I didn't want to rush. Marines are a lot quicker to do because there's so few of them!
I haven't yet decided the final line-up for all 4 missions, but I hope to use as many units as possible across them. The core of my force and most complete is currently:
5 Justaerin, including Falkus Kibre (hoped for 10!)
2x8 Bloodletters
3 Bloodcrushers
1 Khorne daemon prince
1 Khorne Soulgrinder
10 tactical marines
Venerable dreadnought
6 Vanguard, including Ekaddon
In addition to these I am pondering use of the following:
6/12 Scouts
6 jetbikes
Tzeench Daemons
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We are five PhD students who need to learn stats. There is no choice, we need to learn it. So we decided to create a 'stats club' where we will be studying Andy Field's book "Discovering Statistics Using SPSS". We are going to meet weekly from the 5th October until the 7th of December 2016 (the dates for 2017 will be decided soon). We have a room with capacity for 14 people (1 who is presenting + 4 of us and more 10 people who are interested in joining us): so we have 10 places available.
Are you a PhD student or ECR at IHW/MVLS? Don't you know anything about statistics? Do you need to learn it? So join us! We have already heard there are several people interested. So, if you are interested in joining us, please make sure you will be able to attend it.
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05.10.2016 – Chapter 1. Presenter: Tiago [10:00-11:30]
12.10.2016 – Chapter 2. Presenter: Karyl [10:00-11:30]
19.10.2016 – Chapter 3. Presenter: Emily [10:00-11:30]
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30.11.2016 – Chapter 9. Presenter: Tiago [14:30-16:00]
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Have you got an old Macintosh lying around at home, gathering dust in the corner? There wouldn't happen to be, say, a Dreamcast and monitor lying next to it, would there? If so, you're in luck! One member of the CGCC.ca forums decided to incorporate his Sega Dreamcast and a 15-inch LCD screen inside his old third generation Apple iMac. Can you guess what he called his creation? The iCast, of course!
I can't imagine that if Apple ever did create a gaming console, as Microsoft did with the xBox, that it would look anything like this iCast. I guess the iPhone is the closest thing Apple has to a gaming device, and there's no arguments with its capabilities on that front. I don't think Apple will ever venture into the game console market at all, but if they did, it would probably be one sweet looking device that would proudly hook up to your 54-inch HD OLED television and present you with the latest and greatest games around. What…we can dream, can't we?
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Vegetable Gardening: Part 2You're back? Have you found the perfect spot for your garden and gotten sufficiently inspired over the past week? If not, check out Part 1 of my Gardening Series.
Now we need to determine the size of our garden. I wanted to make this project pretty straight-forward so I let the size of my wood determine the size of my garden:
I purchased 8 foot and 10 foot lengths of pressure treated lumber from Lowe's:
This determined that I would build an 8x10 foot garden.
Now, we need to begin to clear the grass. Measure the size of the garden and mark it with stakes or even spray paint.
We need to remove the sod. I wanted to use a chemical-free method since I would be growing food in this space and many friends and family members described the newspaper method. Simply spread several thick layers of newspaper over the desired area, holding them in place with rocks or boards, and keep them soaked. Soon the grass will die in that spot.
I'm pretty impatient. I think we all know by now I need immediate gratification when I begin a project. I layered the newspaper and kept a sprinkler on them several times the first day to really saturate the ground and hold the moisture in.
Then with brute force only a deranged-woman-in-need-of-an-instant-garden can muster...I yanked the sod out with my
Your mission this week is to clear the sod / kill the grass from spot where you intend to build your garden.
Meet me back here next week and will construct the box to surround your garden!
Come on back tomorrow to link up your own tutorial for Tutorial Tuesday...
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moving sod is AWFUL....we had to move a huge section when we rebuilt our deck...seriously...hardest work ever...especially since we were moving pieces to relay in another part of the lawn...I don't really want to do that again...next time...we kill it and buy more for the other areas:)ReplyDelete
When I did mine for my flowerbeds I just dug it up and moved it to an area of the yard that needed some grass. Sod is really easy to transplant if you need to.ReplyDelete
Also, if you have or can borrow a tiller you can till up the ground where you want the garden to be, wait a couple of days for the grass to die and then pick out the clumps.
Neat tip! I wonder if the newspaper kills the weeds too? We used my FIL"s tiller for ours, but still had major weeds afterwards. :(ReplyDelete
Did you grunt and growl while you were ripping through the grass? RAWR!! ;-)~ReplyDelete
That's interesting how quickly that worked. I know of using newspapers as weed barrier but never heard of it used to kill grass. As aggressive as our Bermuda grass is and how deep the roots go around here, I'm curious if it would work for that and other aggressive plants.ReplyDelete
Along the same line, we have used black plastic which gets really hot and cooks everything including seeds and roots pretty deep. I'm not sure it works as quickly though.
Thanks for the tip.
I'm not sure how fast it would have worked - I never gave it a chance! I ripped it out by the roots instead :)
Jennifer Juniper
Thanks Jennifer.ReplyDelete
I understand what you said now. I re-read it. I guess you left it on 1 day...2 days? Other than tearing it out the way you did, there's probably not too much that works that quickly.
Still a good tip worth knowing if time allows.
Thanks again.


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A grandson of Comanche Indian Chief Quanah Parker shared a chant Friday with visitors to the National Cowboy Symposium that his grandfather composed for his tribe and three other tribes going into a battle in the Texas Panhandle.
About 100 people stood in respect as Baldwin Parker, 82, who was wearing a feather headdress, recited the three-minute chant at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
Baldwin Parker said the chant was composed by his grandfather before leading the tribes into battle in the Panhandle in the late 1800s.
''It is a sad song, a song of pride and memorial,'' he said later.
Quanah Parker became recognized as the leader and spokesman for other Native Americans in the Oklahoma area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, according to Jacquetta Parker McClung, who is Quanah Parker's great-granddaughter and Baldwin Parker's daughter.
McClung said her father believes the chant he performed represents the end of a beautiful way of life for the Comanche people.
''That's why he cries, and we all stand.''
McClung and her father said they enjoy coming to Lubbock's annual Cowboy Symposium because its purpose is to preserve the Western culture.
''Dad said that in preserving the culture of the American West you can't exclude the Native American because we were the American West,'' said McClung, who, along with her father, lives in Cache, Okla.
''So, he felt like it was good to come and share with them. We preserve the heritage of Quanah Parker and the Comanche people. So, the goals were consistent.''
According to Parker, his grandfather once gathered the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache and Cheyenne-Arapaho tribes for a battle with the U.S. Army at Adobe Walls near Palo Duro Canyon in the Northern Panhandle area.
''The buffalo soldiers in the Panhandle of Texas, they were needlessly slaughtering the buffalo, which was our source of food,'' Parker said.
''They sang the song of Adobe Walls as they went up, and on the way back. That's a song of pride and memorial because they knew some of them wouldn't come back.''
Quanah Parker, he said, decided that Indians would not be able to win wars against the repeating rifle of that day. So, he gathered his people and brought them in to Fort Sill, to show that the war was over.
McClung said, ''He gave us choice, but he forced us to be participants in the American culture, the American way of life.
''I think that is why many of the Comanche people are educated. As dad says, we have one foot in both worlds, and that is the way it should be. We can be professionals but never forget where we came from and our way of life.
''He was able to go to lobby for us in Washington and be a political statement, and at the same time come home and lead the people in our native way. I really think that when people understand the way he was able to do it, if all the Native Americans could have his vision, we would really all be better off in the world today.''
Baldwin Parker, who was born in 1918, never got to meet his grandfather, who died in 1911. But he grew up about a mile from Quanah Parker's home.
Turning to cultural issues that affect Native Americans today, Parker said, ''The government spends thousands and thousands of dollars trying to teach people how not to discriminate. But that's an impossibility -- I could tell the government that is impossible.
''During the time of my grandfather, he didn't know what discrimination was. He didn't know the word. He never had any use for it.''
When Quanah Parker's children were growing up in Oklahoma, he said, they were not permitted to attend the public school in Cache.
''But that didn't stop my grandfather. He went to the county superintendent, he wanted permission to build his own school. He hired his own teacher, and he had 12 white children and 12 Indians in that school. There was no discrimination. He was very wise.''
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Education reform panel meets today in Athens
The Governor's Education Reform Study Commission will hold a public hearing from 4-6 p.m. today in the Ramsey Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Complex on the University of Georgia's East Campus.
Members of the commission will be available to hear comments.
The hearing is one of several the commission has held throughout the state.
The commission is studying the issues of funding, accountability, school climate and providing a seamless education for students.
People wishing to speak at the hearing may sign up by calling UGA at (706) 542-8096, e-mailing the commission at gersc mail.opb.state.ga.us, or registering at the hearing.
Written comments may be submitted at the hearing.
State now handling tag expiration notices
The Athens-Clarke tag office is reminding area residents that notification of tag expirations is now being handled by the state Department of Revenue.
Individual vehicle owner registrations expire on the person's birthday, not at the end of the birth month, and tags may be renewed during the 30 days before the owner's birthday.
Deadlines for vehicles owned by businesses are based on the first letter in the business name, as shown on the title.
Renewal notices for vehicle owners with November birth dates/expiration dates should have been mailed by the state starting Thursday. The new state notices will look different from the notices that had been mailed by the Athens-Clarke tag office.
Watch for a legal-size, white envelope with black print on the front that states ''Open Immediately, Vehicle Registration Renewal Enclosed.''
Anyone not receiving a notification within three weeks of their renewal deadline should contact their county tag office (in Athens-Clarke, the tag office number is (706) 613-3130).
Family alcohol/drug class set for parents, teens
''Talking About Alcohol and Other Drugs'' a 12-hour class for parents and teens, is enrolling families for its upcoming sessions.
The course features a five-step process that will reduce the risk of alcohol problems; ways to estimate biological risk for alcoholism or addiction; information about factors that can change a response to alcohol and increase risk for an accident; what r esearch shows about alcohol tolerance and state-dependent learning; and ways for parents and teens to talk and listen to each other.
For class times, days and locations, contact Family Substance Abuse Prevention, 1077 Baxter St., Athens, GA 30606, or call (706) 583-8726.
American Red Cross plans blood drives this week
The American Red Cross will host four blood drives this week in Northeast Georgia.
Hospitals in the state need about 4,750 pints of blood each week to meet the needs of patients requiring surgery and suffering from accidents and diseases. Blood types O and B are in greatest demand.
Blood drives this week are scheduled:
n Today, 1-6 p.m., Watkinsville First Methodist Church, New High Shoals Road.
n Tuesday, noon to 6 p.m., ''University of Georgia Big Drive,'' Tate Student Center, Georgia Hall.
n Wednesday, 1:30-7:30 p.m., St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Barnett Shoals Road.
n Friday, noon to 5 p.m., B-J-C Medical Center, Commerce.
Driving course set for older motorists
An American Association of Retired Persons ''55 Alive'' driving course for drivers age 50 and over will be held Oct. 30 and Nov. 6 in Athens.
The class is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Athens-Clarke Police Department, 3036 Lexington Road.
Attendance at both sessions is required to receive certification, which may be used to gain a discount on automobile insurance.
The cost of the course is $8 and light refreshments will be served.
Pre-registration is required. For more information, call Bob Nicholls at (706) 353-0236.
Thornton Family Reunion schedule for Saturday
HULL - The Thornton Family Reunion will be held Saturday at Sanford Community Center.
Registration will begin at 10 a.m., a short meeting will be at 11:30 a.m., and a covered-dish dinner will begin at noon.
Participants should bring the family history book, family photos, documents, memorabilia and scrapbooks for display.
A photographer will be available for family pictures.
For more information, contact Brenda Thornton Lynn, 7881 Beaver Run Road, Blairsville, GA 30512, at (706) 374-4752, or Nona Thornton, Watkinsville, at (706) 769-7636.
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After a decade-long cancer battle, Good Morning America's film critic Joel Siegel died Friday in New York with friends and family by his side. He was 63.
"He was a brilliant reviewer and a great reporter," said ABC News President David Westin. "From the time he learned of his cancer, Joel demonstrated a remarkable courage and strength in reporting on his own disease in an effort to educate and help others."
As GMA's movie reviewer since 1981, the witty and insightful critic was as passionate with his praise for a good film as he was delivering a barb to a bomb. Rating The Pursuit of Happyness, Siegel said the film deserves "a C for spelling and an A for acting." And he said Matthew McConaughey had "constant ticks, bad hair and strained syntax" in We Are Marshall.
First diagnosed with colon cancer in 1997 – a week after he and wife, Ena Swansea, found out she was pregnant with their son, Dylan – Siegel wrote about his illness in his 2003 book Lessons for Dylan.
"I think of all the things I want to do with Dylan, and what I'd miss if I wasn't able to do them," he once told PEOPLE. "One is taking him to his first ball game. I want to be there for that. I want to be sitting next to him when he watches the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera."
Ten days ago, in one of his last public appearances, a frail-looking Siegel took Dylan to a screening of the soon-to-be released film Ratatouille at a Times Square movie theatre.
"He was a gladiator," recalled colleague Diane Sawyer on ABC's Web site. "Brave, wildly funny, passionate about Dylan, Ena and his family – and completely in love with every new day."


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It looks fun, but what's the parameter used to determine when a new car is generated?Every contraption I've seen so far seems to "survive" for a mere couple of seconds - IMHO the stopping parameter should be "hasn't moved for n seconds", whereas it seems to currently be pretty much random.
Scores are pretty meaningless, as everyone gets a random terrain. My terrain is an absolute pain - I ought to restart but I'm just curious to see if it ever passes its old record.
I was playing with this last weekend. I tried three times, for at least 8-10 hours each, and never was able to evolve something that could get past around 213.
Oh damn, so what's the point of that? There's a lot of potential for a "game" like this to become more competitive: one challenge, who can breed the best machine to stay the course?
Hey, my score just went down from 340-ish back to 230! I've devolving! Help meeee...
This reminds me of those old black-and-white movies you see of inventors rolling out their ridiculous-looking planes with about 20 wings that collapse as soon as the engine starts, set to jaunty music.
That said, I've got no idea what that parenthetic value really does mean. But it regularly shows an absurdly high value -- far higher than any of my cars have ever reached. And in the succeeding generation, it is *not* the case that my cars that all scored lower than this are discarded. They continue to evolve (generally) forward, using the rules I listed.
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Olympus 12 and 45mm lens review. And how to upgrade your m43 system (ThePhoBlographer)
I have two new lens reviews and a new article from ThePhoBlographer to share today:
The Online Photographer (Click here) tested the amazing Olympus 12mm f/2.0 and is surprisingly unsatisfied with it: "This is not a bad lens. But it is no better than merely good, and its performance doesn't come anywhere close to justifying an $800 price tag." This is probably the very first negative review of the lens. So it's worth to read it! They also reviewed the 45mm Olympus lens last week and that's a lens they absolutely like: "All in all, I think this lens is worth every bit of the $400 price tag. Even if it weren't a fast lens, it would deserve accolades. It is that good." And also SLRgear (Click here) highly recommends that lens "With excellent test results, this is a no-brainer of a conclusion – it's a great and inexpensive addition to your Olympus PEN kit, especially if you're a portrait shooter".
Here are the links to both lenses to check price and in Stock status:
Olympus 12mm f/2.0 at Amazon, B&H, Adorama, Olympus US store, FocusCamera, eBay.
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 at Amazon, B&H, Adorama, Olympus US store, FocusCamera, eBay.
ThePhoBlographer (Click here) explains you how to upgrade you Micro Four Thirds Camera System. It's a short guide for beginners!
P.S.: For european readers, the Nokton 25mm f/0.95 is in Stock for 719 Euro only on eBay France (Click here).


text: Hi, all I'm running standard UNIX FTP daemon server and have little problems with files upload: if a some file (for example 'a.html') in a some directory exists and you want to upload new 'a.html' file to that directory, the sarver says "550 a.html: Overwrite permission denied". FTP daemon couldn't overwrite file that already exist. Umask of the FTP server is set to 022 I'm appreciate for any suggestions/solutions. Thanks, Adam.


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An Arab satellite station on Wednesday, broadcast what it was claimed was an audiotape of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The speaker on the tape attempted to rally Iraqi resistance to the US-led forces that toppled Saddam and continues to occupy the war-torn country.
"Oh Iraqi people, I am telling you the good news," said the voice on the tape broadcast by al-Arabiya TV. "The fatigue is eating into the enemy's ranks."
"You mujahedeen (Jihad fighters), Iraqis and women, increase your attacks on your enemies," the voice said.
The voice urged Iraqis to protest against occupation in the streets, to "beat the walls in protest" and to donate money to the resistance.
"Saddam" called on U.S. forces to withdraw from Iraq immediately. "We call on you to withdraw your armies as soon as possible and without any conditions or restrictions, because there is no reason for you to suffer more losses, which will be disastrous for the Americans," the voice said, claiming the recording was made in "mid-September." (Albawaba.com)
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What a perfect christmas tea! Unfortunately I didn't read any of the caveats about oversteeping until after I committed the same sin. I typically like my flavored black teas a little stronger, and disregard steeping instructions, but this delicate blend would have none of that! Despite the bitterness, there was excellent deep, dark chocolately flavor mixed with caramel and a hint of nuttiness that made for a decadent indulgence, which helped get through today at work! After all, isn't that what the holidays are all about?
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At Gemvara, we believe that the jewelry you wear should be one of a kind, like you. That's why we make each piece to order, one at a time, just the way you want it. Choose fire opal and palladium or tanzanite and sterling silver: it's your choice. Mix and match gems and precious metals for a look that's exactly you. It's jewelry for all life's occasions, from an engagement or Mother's Day to your own personal milestones and celebrations. Gemvara uses only the highest quality materials to craft your palladium multistone quartz heart jewelry design with meticulous attention to detail. Our precious metals are recycled or responsibly mined. Quartz is the largest gem family, from purple amethyst to golden citrine and even onyx. This chameleon gem was the treasure of the ancient world, beloved by kings and queens. Today quartz is affordable and available and a favorite of jewelry designers. A platinum group metal, palladium has high purity and white tone of platinum but is less dense, making it more affordable. Our wide selection of palladium multistone quartz heart jewelry by David West, Gemvara Essentials, Damon Washington, and other talented designers means you can find jewelry that's exactly your style. You can also shop by style, choosing our Scrolls & Patterns, Vintage-Inspired, or Romantic Collections. Every gem in our lovely multigem styles is selected to perfectly complement the other gems in the design. Our romantic heart designs say everything without saying a word. Gemvara's fine quality palladium multistone quartz heart jewelry is designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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Superb design for regular movers by Brazil's Baita Design. The Broom Chair requires no nails, no nothing – the seat takes nine birch sticks to make up the legs and back. Both a plasitic and aluminum seat are possible. The plastic, with its terrific potential for color, gets my vote.
The chairs come packaged in an egg crate, as you can see above, for ease.
More looks at the Broom Chair after the jump.


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Hand Packed Gummi Red Raspberries Bags - 3 / Case
Hand Packed Gummi Red Raspberries Bags - 3 / Case
Are you ever in the mood for a candy that's both fruity and gummi? As much as we love chocolate, we can't help but look forward to a little fruit action in our snack time. And when we're craving something that checks off all of our sweet tooth boxes, we know we can count on Gummi Red Raspberries in 8 ounce bags to fit the bill! Sound good? Then you're in the right place!
The perfect way to have your sugary, fruity fix, and eat it too, our Gummi Red Raspberries are a shoe in! These are just about the best way to satisfy all of your sweet tooth cravings in a single go. They're ideal for people who are crazy for raspberry, and are the perfect snack for those among us who like to take a little chew out of life! So what are you waiting for? Get yours today!


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Mastering Exchange Migrations
Ensure a safe, secure and affordable migration to Exchange 2013
Are you ready to make the move to Exchange 2013 and enjoy its new, powerful features? In this new white paper, see if your company is ready for this important migration, the steps to take when planning your migration, and the 10 most common pitfalls to avoid. Read it today.
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Toys R Us $1 Board Game
If you haven't already been to Toys R Us this morning, you might want to get yourself over there. You can score Toy Story 3 Operation Board Game for only $1, yep, $1.
Check out what reader Sandra snagged this morning during her Toys R Us run:
8 Board Games
Total: $9.56 w/tax
Savings: $71.76


text: OverviewOriginal winter route up the East face, first climbed in 1978 by Joe Bajan and Ross Nicol. A long route, 1000 meters from Foster Lake to the summit. Direttissima follows a gully to the right of the main summit pinnacle all the way to the summit ridge. Depending on seasonal conditions a couple of small bivy sites are found on the route. Some parties have finished the route, summated and descended in long 27 hour pushes, others have opted to bivy on route. There are several descent options, the quickest is the west gully, located near the gendarme on the upper glacier. Colonel Foster's Direttissima Getting ThereDrive approximately 65 kms from Campbell River towards Gold River on Vancouver Island. BC parks maintains a great hiking trail in the Elk Valley, the Elk River Trail. Look for the Elk River Trail parking lot, and park there. Depending on snow levels, and amount of gear on your back, the 12 km hike may take as little as 4 hours or eat up an entire day. Snow shoes or skis may be required as per snow conditions. Colonel Foster Summit Route DescriptionFrom Foster Lake the route starts on a low angled snow field that rises out of the lake. Follow the gully to the right of the main summit tower and to the left of the North-East tower. If needed, a party could exit this gully and venture out right (towards the Summer route Into the Mystic). There are two crux ice sections- the first is lower down on the route, just above the low angled snow field, with the second crux high up on the route. The first crux requires at least 3 pitches of climbing until you once again reach milder terrain. The upper crux section, initially documented as being 500' required 10 pitches of climbing in 2014, (this could be cut significantly if climbed in daylight and under good conditions)- with the climbing mostly WI2/WI3. Both the lower and upper crux sections have sections of near verticle ice/snow, initially graded as WI5, in 2014 the route felt more like WI3+/WI4. In 2014 there were plenty of healthy run outs on milder terrain, fortunately when things did steepen up the quality of ice improved...To gain access to the summit ridge teams can either stay in the gully or venture out climbers right to avoid a tricky rock section 15 meters below the summit ridge. Once on the summit ridge moderate terrain, 4 Class/low5'th leads you to the summit. Climbing on Mt. Colonel Foster's DirettissimaA variety of descent options exist, with the easiest being the west gully, located next to the gendarme on the upper glacier, or the gully between the North-West and North East Summits. Rapping the route should be considered in worse case scenarios only. In 2014 we were fortunate to locate the first rap station off the main summit tower. Unless you've been on the traverse, or get lucky like we did, tis best to plan safe and bring a fair amount of rat tat....We ended up only needing 2 raps to get off the mountain. If you choose to go North, towards the North-West and North-East gullies, you may require a lot more. The West Gully is close by, and when in good shape, is a steep but doable down climb. Essential Gear60 meter Twin or Half RopesFull Rack of screws- depending on conditions teams probably will want to heavy up on shorter screws and pack one long screw for v-threads.Alpine rack of rock gear (this may not be needed for the route itself, but will be needed travelling to the summit and getting off the mountain)-Range of cams .2 thru #2-half set of nuts-handfull of pitons2 picketsFair amount of webbing for rap stations. (In 2014 we only needed to make one rap station, it was a low snow year and we were fortunate to locate some existing webbing that was in good shape. If you end up bailing mid-route, or are unable to locate decent rap tat, you'll potentially use a fair amount) External LinksPhil Stone's Island Alpine Images