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Explore Musicals
Boosey & Hawkes represents a wide range of musicals and shows, light opera and operetta, and music from the movies.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein is one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th-century whose music successfully bridges the gap between classical and popular idioms. His scores combine jazz-inspired energy, memorable melodies and theatrical panache, nowhere more so than in his works for the musical stage.
On The Town
Leonard Bernstein's 1944 musical On the Town, originally elaborated from the Jerome Robbins ballet Fancy Free, soon won its place as one of the most popular and successful musicals of all time. Its story of three sailors with only 24 hours to enjoy the delights of New York, combines a racy score by the young Bernstein, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. Hit songs include New York, New York, Come Up to My Place, Some Other Time and Lonely Town.
Staged performances of On the Town are licensed by Boosey & Hawkes throughout the world except the United States and Canada and first-class productions in the British Isles. A concert version is also available from Boosey & Hawkes worldwide.
Wonderful Town
This second theatrical collaboration between Bernstein and lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green proved to be another hit on Broadway with Rosalind Russell in the central role. Set in 1950s New York, Wonderful Town tells of two small-town American girls from Ohio who move to a bohemian neighbourhood in Manhattan to pursue their dreams. Though down on their luck, they find the Big Apple soon works its magic through a breathless sequence of musical numbers, including Ohio, It's Love and 100 Ways to Lose a Man.
Staged performances of Wonderful Town are licensed by Boosey & Hawkes throughout the world except the United States and Canada and first-class productions in the British Isles. A concert version is also available from Boosey & Hawkes worldwide.
Crossing the boundaries between opera, operetta and stage musical, Bernstein's Candide journeys through Voltaire's 'Best of all possible worlds' with verve and satirical humour. Over recent decades the work has been staged internationally with great success, attracting star performers, and is now lauded as one of Bernstein's most characteristic theatrical creations. Highlights include the energetic overture and the aria Glitter and Be Gay. A version for concert performance with narrator is also available upon request.
Peter Pan
Bernstein's music for JM Barrie's play Peter Pan was adapted and cut beyond recognition for the Broadway production in 1950. Thankfully the score was restored in 2007 with the composer's original instrumental music and songs, and is now available for stage production. Songs include Dream with Me, Who Am I, and Captain Hook's Soliloquy. A 65-minute version with narration for concert performance is also available.
West Side Story in concert
A number of authorised selections with orchestra from Bernstein's most famous stagework, West Side Story, are available from Boosey & Hawkes for concert performance such as:
Concert Suite No.1 (20 mins) emphasizes the love story between Maria and Tony. It contains arrangements for soprano, tenor, and orchestra of the following numbers: Maria; One Hand, One Heart; Somewhere; Balcony Scene.
Concert Suite No.2 (15 mins) includes many of the ensemble numbers with arrangements for soprano, three mezzo-sopranos, tenor, and two baritones and orchestra of I Feel Pretty; Jet Song; America; Tonight Quintet.
Symphonic Dances (23 mins) is an orchestra-only suite with non-vocal arrangements of music including Prologue; Somewhere; Scherzo; Mambo; Cha-Cha; Meeting Scene; Cool Fugue; Rumble; Finale.
Vocal selections: a restricted number of vocal items with orchestra may also be performed upon application.
Offenbach Operetta
Boosey & Hawkes publishes the new authoritative Offenbach Critical Edition edited by Jean-Christophe Keck, including acclaimed performing editions of his most popular operettas. Offenbach's ever-popular stageworks, returned to their original glory and now performed internationally using the OEK editions, include Orphée aux Enfers, La Belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Périchole and many more.
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Our sister company The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization owns the rights to the world's most popular stage and film musicals. More than 60 years since the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began, the catalogue is now home to shows of the golden age (Carousel, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, South Pacific), standards of the Great American Songbook and exciting contemporary talent.
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Coffee & Sticky Buns: Menu for a Cozy Saturday Potluck Brunch
The only possible cure for the late-winter blues is brunch. A big brunch. One with friends dropping by, trays upon trays of sticky buns, mimosas and coffee, and muffins for nibbling when you think you're almost full. Oh, yes! Let's do this.
The Menu
- Roasted Vanilla Orange Juice
- Masala Chai Tea
- Chemex Coffee (Or read about brewing coffee without a coffee maker)
- Grapefruit Mimosas
- Make-Ahead Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole
- Slow-Cooker Spiced Porridge (Steel-Cut Oats)
- Apple Cinnamon Mini-Monkey Breads
- Banana Bread Scones with Brown Sugar Glaze
- Lemon Sticky Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze
- Spiced Pear Muffins
- Sausage Artichoke and Goat Cheese Bake
- Crispy Brown-Sugar Glazed Bacon
Banana Bread Scones with Brown Sugar Glaze
The Scene
Make-Ahead Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole
The Plan
This being a potluck brunch, your own work should be minimal. I'd recommend taking charge of the beverage situation yourself and letting your friends pick the dishes they'd most like to bring.
Before your friends arrive, be sure to clear space on the dining room table or a counter top for everyone to arrange their brunch offerings. Set a stack of plates and bowls, silverware, and napkins at one end so that people can help themselves when they're ready. Put the beverages somewhere close-by, but out of the way of the main food line. You might also want to have the oven on low so that people with hot dishes can warm them up again before they go out on the table.
After that, your primary responsibility is kicking back and enjoying a cozy morning with your friends! Put on some good tunes in the background and let the brunch take care of itself.
What's your favorite dish to bring to a potluck brunch?
Related: How to Host a Brunch Party: 5 Tips
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Am I a New Media Douchebag?
Someone called me a New Media Douchebag today...jokingly of course. (I hope...)
I posted the video to Twitter and Kris Rice didn't think I complained enough to meet the 3rd requirement. I suggested that I'd be the Susy Sunshine of the New Media Douchebags...or something like that.
I've definitely embraced the idea of the New Media or Social Media or whatever you want to call it. It seems kind of natural to me. I've always been the social butterfly at work, the "nice" IT guy and I love to talk. My old manager struggled with whether this was good or bad. He saw the good of building solid relationships with business types but also the amount of time. I'm sure he wasn't the first manager to be concerned about my talking.
I've become an advocate of the New Media as well.
I think everyone and their mother should blog.
I think everyone should use Twitter.
I created a group on LinkedIn for ORACLENERD(s).
I scored a pass to COLLABORATE 09.
I received detailed instructions on migrating my rpd (OBIEE) file to production from Christian Berg.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
This write about this crap all the time now.
I've even discussed doing some sort of presentation on the value of New/Social media.
Am I a New Media Douchebag? Should I relinquish ORACLENERD to someone more deserving? Tell me what you think. Some guy at work said I come off as "Extreme" (I think he meant as a future Exadata team member) in my database ramblings...so I can take it.
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- Noons said...
In the web1.0 era, you'd need to run a website called www.something-or-other_SUX.com.
In this day and age of web2.0, I wouldn't have a clue but I'm sure it'd involve the word "sux", written or implied.
C'mon, you gotta "hate" properly!
- June 4, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- Kris said...
now you are just missing the "smart phone"...get that, and your transformation into new media douchebag is complete!
- June 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- oraclenerd said...
I recently purchased a domain with sucks in it...maybe I'm there?
At least this one has merit (I'm sure all the rest said the same thing)! :)
- June 4, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Yes dear. Thanks for reading and calling me a douchebag. ;)
- June 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Tom said...
Kris Rice is your dear? Yikes! I didn't know lol
- June 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- oraclenerd said...
If I had said @krisrice, then yes. In my interactions with him so far, he has been a "dear" though. ;)
- June 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- John T said...
I just checked. The url
oracledouchebag.com is available...
- June 6, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Ted Simpson said...
It seems that you do too much substantive work to claim the title. Most NMDs that I know don't really do much work. I guess being a NMD is a full time job. ;)
I also don't think you complain enough. You would need to start writing more open letters to software on twitter or something, too. (e.g. "Dear IE8, work it out.")
- June 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- oraclenerd said...
@john t
i hate you
- June 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- oraclenerd said...
It feels like I don't post enough substantive material. Especially the last couple of months. Mostly me complaining about this or that or writing on COLLABORATE 09 (albeit I believe I earned my free pass to the conference in volume alone).
I want to get back into the coding side of things.
- June 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- LewisC said...
I don't know anout the new media part but otherwise, sure. ;-)
- June 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM


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Not long ago, I flew up north to visit my son and his family. I chose one of those airlines that offer open seating. You know the carriers – they're cheap. Passengers are herded together at the boarding area, then an attendant opens a door to a narrow passageway that acts as a funnel to give ticket holders access to the plane, one person at a time. It's a joyous exercise. Cattle going through the chute at a slaughterhouse are treated more humanely.
I admit, I couldn't resist. I had to moo. Then everybody started mooing. The airline personnel looked a bit panicked. Try it sometime. The experience is funny and kind of satisfying in a perverse way. As far as I know, legislation has yet to be passed against mooing, so they couldn't do anything about it.
Anyway, I was one of the first passengers on the plane, so I chose a seat halfway down the aisle that appeared to have extra legroom. The window seat was about a foot from the side of the fuselage, which provided even more space. However, the window was a small square in the emergency door. I didn't care. The more room the better.
As expected, the flight was packed. After everyone boarded, not an empty seat was available. Before departing, the stewardess gave her little oxygen mask demonstration and pointed out emergency exits in case of an "unscheduled" landing.
Then she said, "Passengers seated next to emergency doors must be at least 16 years old and capable and willing to open the door should the need arise." She looked directly at me as she said this. "If you do not want this responsibility, I will be happy to arrange another seat for you," she added.
I looked around. The only person who might be willing to take my seat was sitting between two large women, both of whom had babies. Although I wasn't thrilled with being the first one out in case of an emergency, I decided to take my chances.
As we taxied down the runway, all I could think about was what would happen if the plane had to make an emergency landing like the one that landed in the Hudson River not too long ago. If I opened the door at the wrong time, I would be blamed for letting the water in. That was upsetting. So I pulled out that emergency booklet they provide for neurotic paranoids such as myself, and read about the procedures in case something like that happened.
After reading the first couple of pages, I was really sorry I did that. I couldn't find anything about "when" to open the door. The instructions were explicit, and the word "should" was used a lot more than I would have liked. "Should" the cabin lose pressure, an oxygen mask "should" drop down in front of you. Put the mask on and breathe normally. Oxygen "should" come out.
Then it said something about using the seat as a floatation device and it "should" keep me buoyant until help arrives. I wanted to read things like, "If this plane so much as burns out a light bulb, a starship will come down and swoop it from the sky and park it in a safe place where no harm will come to anybody." I wanted to read, "If this plane makes an emergency landing in water, do not open anything. It will float." But the safety booklet didn't say any of those things.
All of this reading about what to do in case of this or that failing was very disturbing. I just knew the next paragraph would mention something like, "Should you expire from fright," when the man next to me tapped my arm. He spoke with a heavy Russian accent.
"Don't read that, he said. "It will just frighten you." He was right.
"Me, I am a cab driver," he continued. "When I come to this country, I think I should learn to read and speak English. Worst thing I ever did was learn to read. Now I know that all the signs on the road are intended for me. If I read all the signs, I wouldn't have time to drive. I would go three miles per hour. People would be mad. So I stopped reading."
He made sense. So I stopped reading and immediately felt better. Emergency doors are just another part of that system we can't understand.


text: TMA - It feels like it's 1985 again with this week's lead-in, Back To The Future Ep. 1 HD (yeah, you thought I was going to mention that silly RTS first, didn't you?) I was a huge fan of the series that spawned this adventure game, and the inclusion of Christopher Lloyd to reprise his role as Doc Brown is just icing on the cake. Oh, and I suppose there's that Starfront: Collision that's been making some waves as well, huh? If you're into RTS games, this is probably THE iPhone game to get right now. On the other hand, if you like your games a bit more simple and lighthearted, you'd do well to check out Zombie Runaway or Pixel Pig, a couple of casual games that could bring out the juvenile in all of us.


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William "Bill" Wisener, 56
William "Bill" Wisener, 56, of 904 Tecumseh Drive, St. Marys, died suddenly at 11:57 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 in the emergency department of Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, after suffering an apparent heart attack.
He was born June 4, 1956, in Lima, the son of Mark and Mary (Edmiston) Wisener.
He married Marty Fry on May 19, 1984, and she survives at the residence.
He is also survived by his mother, Mary Wisener Pruitt of Wapakoneta; by his three children: Emily (Joe) Chilcoat of Beavercreek, Brian (Amanda Frey) Wisener of St. Marys, Nichole "Nikki" Wisener of St. Marys; by his siblings, Wanda Edmiston of Wapakoneta, Mark Wisener, Jr. of Wapakoneta, Deb Shaner of Russells Point, John Wisener of the Dominican Republic, Tilly Tirado of Tampa, Florida, and Gary Pruitt of Tampa, Fla.
He was preceded in death by his father, Mark Wisener Sr.; by two brothers, Terry Edmiston and Kent Wisener.
Bill was a 1974 graduate of Wapakoneta High School. He was an HVAC Technician, employed at Quality Plumbing and Heating in St. Marys.
He was a member of First English Church in Wapakoneta. He loved going hunting with his son, fishing, making and flying remote control airplanes and going camping with his family.
He was very proud of his annual Christmas light display at his home, and he put many hours into the process each year.
Funeral rites will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Miller Funeral Home, 1605 Celina Road, St. Marys, Pastor Jim Swaggart and Brian Wisener, officiants.
Friends may call from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, where memorial gifts may be given to Operation Christmas Child.
Condolences may be sent to Bill's family via MillerFuneralHomes.net.


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The beating the Dodgers took Saturday at Dodger Stadium wasn't as bad as the one Canelo Alvarez got in Las Vegas. It was worse.
Way worse.
Historically bad, in fact, with the Giants setting a Dodger Stadium record for runs in a 19-3 rout. The last time the Dodgers lost by that much at home they were still in Brooklyn and they had a rookie infielder named Jackie Robinson.
The Giants also coaxed six Dodger pitchers into giving up a season-high 22 hits while the Giants' Hunter Pence set a career high with seven runs batted in and teammate Brandon Belt added career highs of his own for hits (five) and RBIs (six). By the time it was over, 40 players had taken the field, making the game look more like a spring training exhibition than a mid-September matchup between a division leader and the reigning World Series champions.
For good measure the Dodgers made three errors, walked seven batters, committed a wild pitch and struck out 10 times in losing for the seventh time in 10 games.
Not exactly the way to peak for the postseason.
Yet as ugly as it was, the game may soon prove far costlier than a couple of lines in the record book and a game in the standings.
The Dodgers started the game without Hanley Ramirez, who needed two cortisone shots to quiet an irritated nerve in his back, and Andre Ethier, who left the stadium wearing a walking boot after hurting his left ankle Friday. Then, in less than six innings Saturday, they were joined in the trainers' room by Yasiel Puig, who left the game after being hit by a pitch and landing awkwardly making a diving catch, and Carl Crawford, who has a stiff back.
Puig is expected to be available Sunday. Crawford's status is unknown.
"Carl had a little back soreness or stiffness, he's been battling off and on over the course of the year," Dodger Manager Don Mattingly said. "It was something he went to the trainers with. Anytime a guy goes to the trainer and says he's stiffening up and tightening up, it's something."
As for the game, catcher Tim Federowicz said the only thing the team can do is forget it ever happened.
"We have to turn the page," he said. "I guarantee you it won't happen tomorrow. The ball just found the grass for them."
Well, the grass and the other side of the wall with Pence hitting a fifth-inning grand slam off reliever Stephen Fife and Belt adding a three-run home run off Onelki Garcia two innings later. But the game was over long before that with Dodger starter Ricky Nolasco retiring just four of the 15 batters he faced, equaling the shortest start of his career.
By the time he left with one out in the second, the Giants led 7-1 – and it just got worse from there.
"It was just a sloppy game all the way around," said Nolasco, who hadn't lost in two months and 10 starts. "Things like this are going to happen. It just wasn't my day. It wasn't the team's day from the start."
But it was the Giants' game, with the 19 runs marking the most they've scored in a game in 23 years -- and the most they've scored against the Dodgers since 1962. Six Giants scored at least twice while five players had two or more hits. Starting pitcher Tim Lincecum (10-13) had two of each while holding the Dodgers to three runs and five hits in six innings, striking out six.
"This is one of those games," Mattingly said with a sigh. "It's probably a lot easier to wipe one of these off than it is to blow a two-run lead in the ninth. We didn't really have a chance to win this game."
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Sunday, Dec. 23, about noon, a Beaumont Fire Department new release reported that Centerpoint Energy workers had gained control of the natural gas leak in the 4300 block of El Paso street. Just before 9 a.m. that morning, a city of Beaumont crew hit a natural gas line, causing a leak.
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To meet the demands of fast-growing markets like Kenya and Nigeria, deal-hungry executives are increasingly looking toward Africa, hoping to cash in on a rapidly expanding middle class.
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Mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions in the region are now growing at a faster pace than they were three years ago, and M&A experts at Ernst & Young predict the trend will continue as the broader deals market recovers.
"Africa is at the top of everybody's mind," said Bryan Pearce, director of the Venture Capital Advisory Group at Ernst & Young. Kenya in particular, he says, is "growing very rapidly."
"African consumers want the same as consumers elsewhere – a mobile phone, a bank account, and the latest Beyonce CD."
Roughly 850 M&A deals were struck in Africa last year, an increase of 52% from the same period in 2009, while their total value climbed by 61% compared with three years earlier, according to data from Dealogic. Globally, deals volume was up just 16% during that same period.
Northern and Western Africa as well as Southeast Asia have been the biggest targets for M&A in emerging markets as of late, with the energy, commodity, financial as well as consumer and retail sectors leading the charge.
Consumption of goods and services has grown in Africa -- now comprising two-thirds of its GDP -- amid a rapidly expanding middle class, which has tripled over the last 30 years to 313 million in 2010. A reflection of higher wages and increased access to technology, the middle class is expected to grow to 1.1 billion by 2060, making it the world's fastest growing, according to a recent report by Deloitte.
"African consumers want the same as consumers elsewhere – a mobile phone, a bank account, and the latest Beyonce CD bought in a store at a shopping mall," Deloitte said.
Africa's Deal Frenzy
Some of the continent's biggest deals so far this year were in Egypt, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Morocco and Nigeria, including the $6.1 billion purchase of Egypt's Orascom Telecom by Russia investment firm CTF Holdings and the $4.2 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets by China National Petroleum.
"We're anticipating more cross-border activity, that's where private equity is chasing deals," said Steve Krouskos, Ernst & Young's global markets leader in its transaction advisory services group, adding that "more activity" is expected in emerging markets.
Mobile companies and financial services firms like electronic payment providers Visa (NYSE:V) and MasterCard (NYSE:MA) have in many ways led the charge on the consumer end to meet growing demand. Both have been heavy on the ground inking private and public partnerships with African governments as well as local nonprofits and merchants in an effort to meet a rising need for more advanced financial services.
The best way to accelerate investment in emerging markets is to work with local governments that have crucial sway in these markets while cultivating partnerships with third parties embedded in the region with established distribution routes and supply chains, according to M&A executives and emerging markets heads at both Visa and MasterCard.
Visa, for example, worked in tandem with local clients and sovereign parties like the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Central Bank and even launched a financial literacy campaign to educate hundreds and thousands of locals. After striking a deal with the Rwandan government in 2011, Visa has now licensed every commercial bank in the country, infusing the nation's largest banks with Visa-capable ATMs.
"If we hadn't aligned our interest, or even formally combined [with the government], I don't think we would have had nearly the same impact or certainly as quickly as we did," said Gordon Cooper, head of emerging markets solutions at Visa. "We ended unexpectedly with a much larger opportunity at play."
MasterCard, meanwhile, scored a deal earlier this month with the Central Bank of Nigeria to roll out 13 million smart identity cards that have electronic payment capability, and both have also joined Citi (NYSE:C) on the Center for Financial Inclusion's FI2020 initiative, an effort to drive greater access to financial services in emerging markets like Africa.
As the population in Africa becomes more affluent, there has also been an increase in family businesses and even mid-size African companies leading transactions. Rwanda's major banks, for example, have secured deals with merchants in rural areas, enabling customers located out of cities to make transactions locally. Rwanda's national airline, RwandAir, secured a deal with Visa and can now accept electronic payments on its website.
"You have to really, really get down and understand what people's burning needs are" Cooper said. "If successful, we can export it to other emerging markets because we have similar dynamic in those countries."
Lessons Learned
Yet, investing in emerging markets carries significant challenges, especially for companies less familiar with the region's cultural norms/clashes, systems and policies. As companies push into Africa, there are lessons to be learned and hurdles to clear.
"Companies have to recognize that there are going to be risks in a lot of these countries," said Ed Brandt, managing director of MasterCard's government services and solutions business. "It's a longer term investment … it takes an entire ecosystem."
Not having the right systems in place, for example, has 'killed a lot of deals" in the past, added Herb Engert, Americas Leader of Strategic Growth Markets for Ernst & Young at a recent roundtable, as does not having the right leadership or being flexible enough to handle even the most unpredictable situations.
"There are always localization issues that are not obvious to people, certain complexities people always underestimate," said Pete Pizzutillo, product manager of portfolio analysis solutions for CAST, a software analysis and measurement company.
During a merger or acquisition, for example, combing global IT systems like payroll has proven to be a major challenge even for the world's largest and most advanced companies amid cultural and language barriers, Pizzutillo said. Companies also need to figure out how to fund the business abroad and understand the local tax structure, which vary pretty drastically in every region.
"There are many things that we take for granted in the U.S. in terms of logistics that can be much more difficult in emerging markets," Pearce said.
If done right, though, it is a challenge worth taking.
Krouskos notes there is a "tremendous window of opportunity" in the M&A market over the next 6-12 months in both the U.S. and in rapidly growing emerging markets.
"Many of these emerging markets are growing much more rapidly than the U.S." Pearce said. "The good news is if you do it right, you can catch the tiger by the tail."


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Broadband tax scrapped in 'wash-up'
Celebrate with cider
The Tories forced the government to drop a 50p-a-month tax on every landline last night as ministers made deals to get their budget plans through before the election.
The levy had been intended to pay for rollout of fibre optic cables in rural areas.
The Conservatives hailed the outcome as a "victory for consumers". The measure had been the centrepiece of last year's "Digital Britain" report.
The government folded because it is under pressure to pass remaining legislation this week in a bout of legislative horse-trading known as the "wash-up". Opposition parties use the scramble to win concessions, although it is unusual for the government to drop parts of the Finance Bill.
The Tories want market forces to have more time to spread faster broadband technologies. They have suggested that part of the BBC licence fee - the surplus from the digital switchover - could be diverted later.
The government had planned to use the broadband tax to create a £175m-a-year subsidy pot. BT has claimed there is not enough demand in about a third of the country to justify a commercial rollout.
Both parties aim for ubiquitous fibre optics by the end of the decade.
The Treasury was also last night forced to abandon plans to raise the duty on cider, announced only two weeks ago in Alistair Darling's last budget of this Parliament. ®


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Congratulations to Anith Sen, an independent database consultant in Cordova, Tennessee, and Ken Haley, manager of development for SPECTRUM Human Resource Systems Corporation in Denver. Anith won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the April Reader Challenge, "Data Export." Ken won second prize of $50. Here's a recap of the problem and the solution to the April Reader Challenge.
Stella is a database programmer for a company specializing in hosting publishing information. The publisher database contains tables that store information about authors, publishers, and titles. On its Web site, the company displays a table containing information about publishers. Assume that the table schema is the same as the schema for the pub_info table in the Pubs database. The table includes the pr_info column, a text column containing detailed information about each publisher. Stella is trying to export data from this table for a proprietary application that can't handle text data. She needs to export the data so that the value from pr_info is split across multiple lines, each having no more than 8000 characters. The following example shows how the exported data should be formatted:
Column #1: pub_id Column #2: line_num (from 1 through n) Column #3: line_text Order of rows: pub_id, line_num
Help Stella write the code that will export the publisher information in the desired format efficiently and with minimal coding. She wants a set-based solution to her problem, not a user-defined function (UDF).
Stella can use the built-in SUBSTRING() function to retrieve a portion of the value from the pr_info column. For example, the following query returns the first 500 characters and, if available, the next 500 characters from each row of the Pubs database's pub_info table:
SELECT p..pub_id, SUBSTRING( p.pr_info, 1, 500 ) AS pr_info_1, SUBSTRING( p.pr_info, 501, 500 ) AS pr_info_2 FROM pubs..pub_info AS p
Next, Stella can use the built-in SUBSTRING() function again to extract a portion of text for each pr_info value, then split the value based on its length. She can split the value by using a Numbers table to generate the starting-position parameter for the SUBSTRING() function based on the length of the data. The following code shows the set-based approach of using a Numbers table to split the text column into several lines, each with no more than 8000 characters:
SELECT p..pub_id, n.Number + 1 AS line_num, SUBSTRING( p.pr_info, (n.Number*8000) + 1, 8000 ) AS line_text FROM pubs..pub_info AS p JOIN Numbers AS n ON n.Number <= DATALENGTH( p.pr_info )/8000 ORDER BY p..pub_id, line_num
The Numbers table contains numbers from 1 through some maximum value, n, depending on the supported length of the text value. For simplicity, assume the table contains numbers from 0 through 100. The code to generate the Numbers table is:
SELECT TOP 100 IDENTITY(smallint,0,1) AS Number INTO Numbers FROM sysobjects AS o1 CROSS JOIN sysobjects AS o2
The query logic works by determining the length of the text data in the pr_info column for each row, then dividing that number by 8000 to get the number of exported data rows. Stella can use the built-in DATALENGTH() function to get the length of data in the text value. Then by dividing the value for each row by 8000, she can determine the number of rows required for the text value. The Numbers table provides an easy mechanism for generating the starting position for SUBSTRING() and, thus, the line numbers for the text value.
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Maria is the database developer for a company that analyzes Web data and provides reports based on the traffic. One such report provides a list of the most popular URLs, based on number of hits. The company's databases run on SQL Server 2000. Maria has a QueryStrings table that contains query strings from various URLs and a Urls table that maps the query strings to specific URLs. The schema for the tables and some sample data follows:
CREATE TABLE QueryStrings ( QSID int NOT NULL IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, QSVal varchar(8000) NOT NULL ) INSERT INTO QueryStrings VALUES( 'a=1&b=2&c=3' ) INSERT INTO QueryStrings VALUES( 'a=1&b=4' ) INSERT INTO QueryStrings VALUES( 'b=2&a=1&c=3' ) INSERT INTO QueryStrings VALUES( 'a=1&b=24' ) INSERT INTO QueryStrings VALUES( 'a=11&b=24' ) CREATE TABLE Urls ( UrlID int NOT NULL IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, QSID int NOT NULL REFERENCES QueryStrings( QSID ) ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 1 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 1 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 2 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 2 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 3 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 4 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 5 ) INSERT INTO Urls VALUES( 5 )
Maria uses the QueryStrings table in several queries and JOIN conditions to filter the URLs based on the search string specified by the user requesting the report. The following sample query joins the QueryStrings table with the Urls table:
DECLARE @SearchString varchar(8000) SET @SearchString = 'a=1&b=2' SELECT u.UrlID, u.QSID, q.QSVal FROM Urls AS u JOIN QueryStrings AS q ON q.QSID = u.QSID WHERE '&' + q.QSVal + '&' LIKE '%&' + @SearchString + '&%'
In the sample query, Maria searches for URLs that contain only certain query-string parameters and values such as a=1&b=2. Given the sample data, the query will return two query-strings with QSID=1 and QSID=3. Now she wants to modify the query so that it returns all query strings that contain the parameters being searched for irrespective of their order. Help Maria find a set-based solution for her new requirement.


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One of them will play Sunday; the other isn't expected to be ready.
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Riders in the 7th Annual NYM Missions Bike Ride came from five states, and included Broken Bow natives Jon Miller and his sister, Jen (Miller) Busch. The group made an overnight stop in Broken Bow Thursday, Sept. 6. Pictured, from left, are: Pastor Rob Conner, Nebraska City; Dale Ackerman,Grand Island; Pastor Kelvin Nygren, Omaha; Brian Korel, Youth Alive Missionary; Pastor Chuck Davis, Omaha; Pastor Dave Busch, Burwell; Pastor Luke Storher, Mullen; Kent Anderson, Rural Compassion Missionary; A.j. DeWitt -Master's Commission, Rapid City; Pastor Kevin Roach, South Sioux City; Rebecca Eggburt, Master's Commission, Rapid City; Pastor Dan Oneil, Grand Island; Jason Townley, Grand Island; Shane Bappe, Cozad; Pastor Toby Schneckloth, District Youth Director; Jon Miller, Des Moines, Iowa; JJ, Missionary; Bethany Nalley, Master's Commission, Rapid City. Not pictured, David Stitt, Retired Missionary For the past seven years, bicycle enthusiasts from the Midwest have come together for a special ride to enjoy a passion they all share, and to raise money for a good cause. It's called the Nebraska Youth Ministries Missions Bike Ride, and this year featured 22 riders from five different states. The 500-mile ride runs from border to border, with the cyclists beginning their journey at the South Dakota border north of Chadron, and finishing at the Iowa border east of Nebraska City. The group traveled along the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway, more commonly known as Highway 2, between Alliance and Grand Island, making an overnight stop in Broken Bow last Thursday. It was a special stop for two of those involved with the ride - Jon Miller and Jen (Miller) Busch - as this is their hometown. The group met at the Assembly of God Church in Broken Bow, Jon and Jen's home church, where they were fed supper and given an opportunity to rest, regroup and perform any necessary repairs or maintenance on their bikes. After spending the night in a local motel, the cyclists reconvened bright and early at the church Friday morning to continue their journey, with a planned ride from Broken Bow to Grand Island Friday. Seven years ago the annual ride began with just six bicyclists. Throughout the years it has continued to grow, as has the amount of money raised. Last year the group raised $34,000 for various missionaries around the world. The border-to-border trek is split up into day long rides, with the shortest day being the last day with 65 miles from Lincoln to Nebraska City. The longest day of this trip was 100 miles. The riders break every 10 miles, and some of them say that can be a very long 10 miles sometimes. The cyclists vary in age from 19 to 71. The day-long sections for this year's trip were: 20 miles north of Chadron to Alliance; Alliance to Thedford; Thedford to Broken Bow; Broken Bow to Grand Island; Grand Island to Lincoln; and Lincoln to Nebraska City. The missions bike ride was the idea of Scott Murrish of Kearney, but the group says it was Toby Schneckloth who ran with that idea and "gave it wheels." Each year a committee of five organizes this event; this year's committee leader was Brian Korell of Grand Island. Brian has participated in the ride for six of its seven years in existence. "I do it every year because of the relationships built with the other riders, and to support the missions," he says. One rider who has been along on all seven events is Kelvin Nygren of Pacific Springs Church in Omaha. He is also one of the five committee members. "It's a good way to raise money for the missions around the world," says Nygren. "I have built relationships with the riders - and I love biking!" With four children, Jen Busch does not get to participate in the full 500-mile ride. But she did ride the 10 miles from Merna to Broken Bow with the group, and she and Jon got to lead the group into their hometown - complete with a police escort. Jen's husband, Dave, is the pastor at the Burwell Assembly of God Church and a participant in the ride. "This is probably my favorite week of the year," says Dave Busch. "There is so much comaraderie and fellowship - I make new friends every year. And I like the physical challenge of the ride." Unfortunately, the group did not exactly get off to a good start Friday morning. As they were leaving Broken Bow, Kelvin Nygren hit a large crack in the pavement on Highway 2 near the SJSB Visitor Center, and crashed. Broken Bow rescue responded and checked him over for any broken bones or a concussion, and thankfully - though severely scraped up - he was cleared. He rode in one of the support vehicles for most of the day, but did join the group for the final 10 miles into Grand Island, and finished out the ride on his bike.


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Pomerantz, M.; Turkman, N. "A Facile and Improved Synthesis of 3-Fluorothiophene," Synthesis 2008, 2333-2336.
Turkman, N.; An, L.; Pomerantz, M. "One-Pot Desulfurative-Fluorination-Bromination. Synthesis of 2,5-Dibromo-3-(1,1-difluoroalkyl)thiophenes," Organic Letters 2010, 12, 4428-4430.
Magnusson, R.; Maldonado, T. A.; Priambodo, P.; Zhou, M.; Purvinis, G.; Pomerantz, M. "Nonlinear Optical Guided Mode Resonance Filter" United States Patent No. 7,218,817, issued May 15, 2007.
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Rain barrels save dollars and make sense
The drought of 2012 took a great toll, not only on the plants in the garden, but also on the gardener's wallet.
"It was tough for some gardeners to decide which plants to water and which to let survive on their own," said University of Illinois horticulture educator Candice Miller. "Unfortunately, if a gardener did decide that watering was absolutely essential, they likely saw an increased water bill the next month."
This year, putting in a rain barrel or multiple rain barrels could be an excellent way to reduce this rise in the water bill.
Rain barrels come in a variety of sizes, shapes and styles that are available in the garden center or from catalogs. All are basically the same setup: a container to hold the water, a point into which water from the downspout can be directed, and a spigot to allow water to be removed. Connectors and diverters may also be included.
"These barrels can also range greatly in price, from as low as $50 up to more than $150," Miller said.
A more economical option is to make a rain barrel. For about $20 in supplies, one can make a rain barrel using a trash can or recycled plastic barrel, a spigot, washers, nuts, sealant, landscape fabric and some basic tools. All these items can be purchased at the local hardware store.
Drill a hole near the base of the trash can into which the spigot is inserted, using the sealant to ensure a good water-tight seal. The nut is then inserted onto the threads of the spigot from the inside of the barrel, ensuring that the spigot fits tightly. A hole cut in the top of the barrel's lid allows water from the downspout to enter. Landscape fabric can also be placed underneath the lid to prevent mosquitoes from entering and laying eggs.
"Various versions of assembly instructions for rain barrels are available online," said Miller.
Miller added that she recently spoke with a gardener who participated in Extension's rain barrel workshop last summer and has since put in five rain barrels around his house.
"This gardener was able to reduce his water bill significantly by using these barrels and has plans to put in more," said Miller. "The small amount of work expended to make a simple rain barrel can really pay off in the long run."
For more details and safety information regarding rain barrels, visit the U of I Extension website at http://web.extension.illinois.edu/state/index.html.


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Heather Marie Irvin and John Timothy Cheshire
Heather Marie Irvin and John Timothy Cheshire were married July 28, 2012, at Hilltop Christian Fellowship in Clear Spring, Md.
Pastor Scott D. Hose officiated the ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage by her parents, John Irvin and Robin Irvin of Clear Spring.
The matron of honor was Courtney Dowding, friend of the bride. The bridesmaids were Brittany Deener, friend of the bride; Julie Jenkins, sister of the groom; and Jennifer Washington, sister of the groom. The junior bridesmaids were Savannah Nichols, cousin of the bride and Alexis Washington, niece of the groom. The flower girls were Hannah Hose, cousin of the bride and Sadie Jenkins, niece of the groom.
The best man was John Yoho, friend of the groom. The groomsmen were Long Nguyen, friend of the groom; Keenon Jenkins, brother-in-law of the groom; and Boris Lethenstrom, friend of the groom. The junior groomsmen were Darien Cheshire, nephew of the groom and William Washington, nephew of the groom. The ring bearers were Tanner Bartles, cousin of the bride and Kasen Jenkins, nephew of the groom.
A reception was held at the Clear Spring American Legion.
The bride is a 2003 graduate of Clear Spring High School, a 2007 graduate of Shippensburg University with a bachelor's degree in social work and a 2008 graduate of University of Maryland Baltimore with a master's degree in social work. She is employed as a school social worker at Northern Middle School in Hagerstown.
The bridegroom is the son of John Cheshire and Phyllis Cheshire of Martinsburg. He is a 1997 graduate of Jefferson High School; a 2001 graduate of Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary with an associate degree in Bible; and a 2005 graduate of Mid-Atlantic Baptist School with a bachelor's degree in pastoral studies. He is pursuing a Master of Divinity from Andersonville Seminary. He is employed as a behavior specialist with Northwestern Community Services Board in Front Royal, Va.
The couple honeymooned in Williamsburg, Va.
They have moved into their new home in Spring Mills.


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It is important that teach your children to show their appreciation and love to pastor by unique gifts at Christmas, although gifts for pastor appreciation are generally expected from adults in the congregation. Kids might not have a lot of money to spend, but they do have genuine gratitude and love to show and a variety of mediums from which to choose. Teach your kids to made simple but cute homemade Christmas gifts for pastor and I am sure your pastor will love them very much.
Footprint/ Handprint Christmas Cards
If your kid is too young to make the pastor Christmas gift, you can help him/her to make the personalized handprint or footprint cards. My daughter is 4-year-old, and handprint/footprint card is interesting homemade gift for 4 years old girl or boy.
Cut a piece of cardstock in half and then fold in half. Rub the baby's hand or foot in ink or paint and press onto the cardstock, you just wipe baby's foot or hand with the inkless wipe & then gently press the foot onto the coated paper. Within seconds a black footprint develops with an amazing amount of detail – every wrinkle & fold can often be seen. The wipe has no visible ink on it so no messy black marks are left on the hand or foot – amazing!
Christmas Stocking
Christmas stockings are a traditional holiday decoration used hold small presents and decorate fireplace mantles, I am sure kids' homemade Christmas stocking will highlight pastor's family. And a stocking craft is easy enough to share with your kids and it requires just a few basic and inexpensive materials to complete.
Snowmen Craft
Making a dangling snowman to decorate the Christmas tree of pastor's family will be wonderful. It doesn't take a single flake to build this frosty character – your kids can round him up with white foam, buttons, and ribbon.
- Using the round objects as patterns, cut out 2 white foam circles in each size.
- Place one set of the circles on a flat surface, spacing them 1/4 inch apart. With glue dots, glue a 12-inch piece of monofilament across the circles as shown, then firmly press the matching circles on top.
- Use more glue dots to attach buttons and an orange craft foam nose. With a permanent marker, draw on eyes and a mouth.
- Finally, tie a ribbon scarf around the monofilament at the neck, and then knot the line above the head to create a loop for hanging.
Christmas Message in Bottle
Write a Christmas appreciation note, letter or poem for your pastor and put it into the bottle as the personalized message in a bottle, and it is also unique ornaments to decorate pastor's Christmas tree.
Article Source: http://www.pastor-gifts.com/homemade-pastor-christmas-gifts-ideas-for-kids


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Bridge Collapse Survivors Request Mementos
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Survivors of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis may be able to keep a piece of scrap steel as a reminder of the historic event.
About 25 to 30 survivors of the 2007 collapse have asked the state for the mementos now that the legal issues have been resolved. Minnesota Department of Transportation spokesman Kevin Gutknecht says the state hopes to honor those requests, but will need to make sure they are doing so according to the law.
Thirteen people were killed and 145 were injured when the massive bridge over the Mississippi River gave way. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the bridge fell largely because of a design flaw.
Besides survivors, the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering has requested some steel scrap to remind students of their professional responsibility.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)


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I am a principal research program manager at Microsoft Research, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My office is located at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center near Kendall Square in the MSR New England lab. The lab is pursuing new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model and enable the computing and online experiences of the future. My role in the lab is focused on enabling technology transfer between Microsoft Research and Microsoft product groups.
Prior to joining MSR New England I was a member of MSR external research group where I was the co-chair of the Microsoft/MIT alliance (iCampus) which had the goal of enhancing university education through the use of information technology. In 2006 I helped launch the Microsoft Pen Centric Computing Center at Brown University and in 2007 I launched the Center for Collaborative Technologies at the University of Washington to continue the development of the ConferenceXP platform.
My professional interest is in ubiquitous computing and how we can communicate instantly with each other without limitations of time and/or location. Today mobile devices are helping us be connect no matter where we are.


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Yesterday during lunch break one of my friends started discussing her young sons new fascination with genealogy. Recently they took a trip to the old family homestead visiting a church and graveyard. In a small Virginia town many branches of the family settled and flourished. On this particular trip young Alex began to ask questions about the family immigrating to this country and why they selected this region.
How exciting to watch the beginning stages of genealogy curiosity catch hold to a young mind! All I could think was how wonderful to become interested at such an early age. Alex is the type of child to catch hold of an idea and investigate every aspect in the quest to uncover answers.
My friend wanted to know if there were sites or programs her son could use to research his family line. To be honest I have not spent time researching this subject never encountering a young person asking about their family tree. Last night in a quest to help my new genealogy buddy with kid friendly links and websites I was pleased to discover many tools to help Alex.
Here are several of these sites:
About.com. Genealogy: Genealogy for Children
Allen County Public Library: Genealogy For Kids Reading List
America's Story from America's Library : The Library of Congress
Boy Scouts of America Genealogy Merit Badge
Cyndi's List: Kids & Teens
Family Tree Kids: making family history fun (Family Tree Magazine)
Getting Kids Involved in Genealogy (YouTube)
Kids' Turn Central : Genealogy for Kids
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: Childrens Games
PBS Kids: Big Apple History Immigration
Preserving Your Family History: Teaching Kids Genealogy
U.S. Census Bureau FactFinder Kid's Corner
US GenWeb Kidz
WorldGenWeb for Kids
These sites are very helpful for a young person showing interest in their family history. I can't wait to follow Alex's progress as he travels along this new adventure called genealogy.
Here is an additional site contributed from comment to this post:
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ST LOUIS, Mo. - Beginning in 2010-11, the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Sports trophy is given to the institution accumulating the most points, determined by final standings in the 12 SLIAC championship sports. Through the winter season, Greenville leads all member schools with 50.5 overall points.
To this point in the athletic year, Greenville boasts three SLIAC championships (men's cross country, men's soccer, and volleyball) and has qualified for all five of the year's men and women's conference tournaments. Greenville won the men's soccer and volleyball conference tournaments, placed first in the men's cross country conference meet, finished second at the women's soccer conference tournament, and ranked third at the women's cross country conference meet. In addition, the Panthers qualified for the men's and women's basketball tournaments.
Not included in the SLIAC as of 2009, but worth mentioning, the Greenville College football team captured its second straight UMAC title, going 7-3 overall and adding to the fall and winter season success.
The remaining spring sports that will count toward the overall institution point total include softball, baseball, men's tennis, and women's tennis. In addition, Greenville track and field is favored to win its second consecutive SLIAC invitational.
The complete scoring and standings list with numerical breakdown can be found at http://www.sliac.org/information/Awards_Honors/All-Sports/2010-11.


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March 8, 2005
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The Schedule
Game No. 28 - Big West Tournament First Round
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 8:30 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Long Beach State 49ers
at The Anaheim Convention Center
Radio: KIST 1340 AM
The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters the Big West Tournament with an overall record of 10-17 and a league mark of 7-11. The league record will remain the same for eternity, the overall mark will change. UCSB also enters tournament play having lost two games in a row. In the last weekend of the regular season, the Gauchos dropped both of its games. Losing at UC Irvine on Thursday night by a score of 72-63, and then dropping a heartbreaker at Long Beach State on Saturday night, 58-57. Santa Barbara won just three of its final 12 games during the regular season.
UCSB Gets A Quick Rematch With Long Beach State
UCSB lost its regular season finale in heartbreaking fashion, 58-57 at Long Beach State on Saturday. The Gauchos led by as many as 13 points int he second half, but lost on a high-arching lay-up by Kevin Houston with 2.5 second remaining. UCSB won have to wait long for a rematch with the 49ers. The Gauchos take-on Long Beach in the Big West Tournament on Thursday night at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Oliver, Harris Earn Big West Honors
Senior guard Chrismen Oliver, a walk-on when he came to UCSB in 2000-01, was selected Honorable Mention All-Big West by the league's coaches. Oliver finished the regular season as the Gauchos' leading active scorer at 10.3 points per game. He also leads UCSB in assists (3.1 per game), steals (46), and he is second in three-point baskets (39). Guard Alex Harris was chosen to the Big West's All-Freshman Team. He enters the Big West Tournament ranked third among active players in scoring at 7.8 points per game. He made 21 three-point baskets, averaged 3.0 rebounds per game, had 24 steals and he ranked second on the team in free throw percentage at 75.9%. Harris becomes the first Gaucho to make the Big West All-Freshman Team since 2000-01.
Picked Fourth, Injuries Short Circuit UCSB
At the Big West Conference's annual media day, Pacific was selected to win the league crown, Utah State was picked second, and Cal State Northridge was chosen third. UCSB, in its preseason incarnation, was selected to finish fourth by both the media and the coaches. Things, however, started going awry early as key player, after key player went down. This marks the first year in Bob Williams' tenure as head coach at UCSB that the Gauchos have not finished over .500 and in the upper-half of the league standings.
About Those Injuries...
Alright, let's get right to it. The following players are definitely out for this weekend and any postseason games UCSB will play. Junior guard Cecil Brown, senior forward Casey Cook, freshman forward Chris Devine and freshman forward Todd Follmer. Brown has not played this season. He missed the first six games of the year with a partially torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee, and he has missed the rest of the games with a stress fracture in his lower right ankle. Cook played in the first ten games of the season, but in game 11, on January 2 at Cal State Northridge, he fractured a bone in his right foot. Initially, it was believed that he would possibly return for the final week of the regular season and the Big West Tournament, but the injury has not sufficiently healed so Cook will spend his final games as a Gaucho sitting on the bench with a walking boot on his foot. Devine had knee surgery prior the start of practice in October. It was originally thought that he too would return at some point, but the injury has not healed sufficiently to allow his return, and he will not make his UCSB debut until the 2005-06 campaign. Although he is not injured, Follmer will redshirt the 2004-05 season. The two biggest question marks entering the stretch run of the season are junior forward Cameron Goettsche and sophomore forward Glenn Turner. Goettsche missed four games earlier in the year with a severely strained groin, and then on February 10, in the first half of a game at UC Davis, he strained his lower back. He missed the second half of that game, and he has missed all of the last six games. Goettsche the Gauchos' leading rebounder at 6.9 per game, is very doubtful for the Big West Tournament. Turner, who played in all 27 regular season games despite a gimpy ankle and fractured finger on his right hand, went down hard with about 10 minutes left in the season-finale at Long Beach State. He strained his lower back in the fall, and with little time to recover, he is questionable for the league tournament. In addition to the six players listed above, sophomore forward David Kennedy, freshman guard Derek Rasp, and freshman forward Chris Moore have all missed games due to injuries this year. In all, Gaucho players have missed 117 games due to injuriers this season. That, of course does not include Follmer.
The Week That Was
UCSB dropped its final two regular season games. On Thursday night, the Gauchos were outscored 32-13 over the final 12 minutes and lost at UC Irvine, 72-63. Santa Barbara was paced by Chrismen Oliver, who scored 18 points and made a career-high four three-point baskets, and Derek Rasp, who had 15 points for the third game in a row. On Saturday night, UCSB lost a heartbreaker, 58-57 at Long Beach State. The Gauchos led the game by as many as 13 points in the early part of the second half, but the 49ers came back. A free throw by Josh Davis with seven seconds left in the game gave the Gauchos a 57-56 lead, but Long Beach in bounded the ball to Jibril Hodges near mid court, he pitched a pass to Kevin Houston who scored on a high-banking lay-up with 2.5 seconds remaining in the game. A last-second shot by the Gauchos did not fall, and UCSB lost 58-57. Rasp had 12 points to lead the Gauchos. Michael Chambers added 10, all in the first half.
Possible Starters - Notes
G - Chrismen Oliver - Leads all active Gauchos at 10.3 points per game.
G - Alex Harris - Has made just four of his last 24 shots, 16.7%.
G - Josh Davis - Has played 30 or more minutes 20 times. Only Gaucho to start all 27.
F - Derek Rasp - Is the only Gaucho this season to score 15 or more in three straight games.
F - Glenn Turner - If he plays, he'll start. Strained lower back at LBSU on Saturday.
Possible Reserves - Notes
G - Joe See - Has reclaimed the team-lead in three-point baskets with 40.
G - Michael Chambers - Has hit 14-of-27 shots in his last seven games, 51.9%.
F - David Kennedy - Had career-high six points at LBSU. Has made last five shots from field.
F - Chris Moore - Has 22 points in last five games after scoring 11 in first 10 games.
F - Derek Wheeler - Has played 10 or more minutes in back-to-back games for first time ever.
The Sideline - Notes
G - Cecil Brown - Stress fracture in lower left leg has sidelined him for the season.
F - Cameron Goettsche - Has back strain and is not expected to play in Big West Tournament.
F - Casey Cook - Injured right foot has him sidelined the remainder of the season.
F - Chris Devine - Knee injury has not healed enough. Will miss remainder of year.
F - Todd Follmer - The seven-footer will redshirt his freshman campaign.
The Bob Williams File
Bob Williams is in his seventh season as the head coach at UC Santa Barbara. On December 30, when the Gauchos defeated UC Irvine, he became the fifth UCSB coach to record 100 wins. Last year, he guided the Gauchos to a 16-12 overall record and a 10-8 mark in Big West Conference play. He has also guided UCSB to three straight winning seasons, the first time the program has accomplished the feat since 1987-88 through 1989-90. In 2002-03, Williams' Gauchos went 18-14 overall and 14-4 in league. The 2002-03 Big West mark earned Santa Barbara its first-ever Big West regular season championship along with a postseason trip to the National Invitation Tournament. In addition, the success earned Williams his second Big West Coach of the Year award, his first coming after an impressive 1999 campaign. In 2001-02, Williams guided UCSB to its first Big West Conference Tournament Championship ever and first NCAA Tournament appearance in 12 years. Including this season, Williams' UCSB teams have posted a 106-96 (.525) overall record and a 72-47 (.605) record in Big West games. Prior to his arrival at UCSB, he spent eight years at UC Davis and in those eight years, his teams recorded 20 or more wins five times and a 158-76 record. In Williams' final season, the Aggies went 31-2, won the NCAA Division II National Championship and he was named NABC Division II Coach of the Year. Including two seasons at Menlo College, Williams has a record of 295-196 (.601) at four-year schools.
UCSB In The Big West Tournament
The Gauchos have posted an all-time record of 10-20 in the Big West Tournament. Last season, as the third-seed, UCSB dropped a quarterfinal game to Cal State Northridge, 61-58. In 2003, the Gauchos defeated Pacific in the first round before losing to Cal Poly in the second round. In 2001-02, UCSB won its first Big West Tournament title ever, defeating Cal Poly, UC Irvine and Utah State on consecutive nights. Since Bob Williams became head coach in 1998-99, the Gauchos have gone 5-5 in Big West Tournament games. UCSB and Long Beach State have played in the league tournament on two other occasions. In the first round of the 1989 Big West Tournament played at the Long Beach Arena, the Gauchos topped the 49ers by a score of 69-57. In the first round of the 1995 league tournament, in Las Vegas, Long Beach returned the favor with a 67-64 win.
The Gauchos & 49ers
The Gauchos and Long Beach State have played 96 times in a series that dates back to 1952. The 49ers hold a 50-46 lead in the series, including Saturday's 58-57 win at the Pyramid. UCSB took the first meeting between the schools this year, winning on December 28 in Santa Barbara, 54-47. The Gauchos have not had much luck playing at the Pyramid in recent years. Losing on the final shot this past was nothing new. Last season, the 49ers came back from a 20-point second half deficit to beat UCSB on a buzzer-beating three-pointer, 63-62. In 2002-03, Long Beach made a pair of free throws with two seconds left to escape with a 68-67 win. In 2001-02, a three-pointer with just seconds remaining gave the 49ers a 77-74 win. In Bob Williams' first season, 1998-99, it was also a buzzer-beating three-pointer that led to a 63-62 Long Beach win. The last time UCSB won at the Pyramid was during the 2000-01 campaign, when it posted a 78-71 win. On the bright side, the Big West Tournament is played in Anaheim, not in Long Beach.
UCSB Away From Home
UCSB is 2-13 in road games this season. The Gauchos have not played a neutral court game this season. At one point this season, UCSB had an 11-game losing streak in road games. After winning their season-opener at in overtime at San Diego State, the Gauchos rattled off 11 straight defeats. On February 19, Santa Barbara recorded a 78-66 win at Cal Poly. UCSB went 1-8, in Big West Conference road games. Last season, the Gauchos went 6-10 in road games overall, and just 3-6 in Big West Conference road games.
Close Games Rare For UCSB
UCSB has had few close encounters this season. Of the Gauchos 27 games, 14 have been decided by 10 points or more. The closest game that UCSB played this season came in the regular season's final game when Long Beach State used a lay-up with 2.5 second remaining to hand the Gauchos a 58-57 defeat. Prior to that one-point margin, the closes games that UCSB had played this season were a pair of four-point games against UC Riverside. The Gauchos and Highlanders each won one of the two games. Santa Barbara also played an overtime game at San Diego State back in the season-opener, but that won wound up with the Gauchos posting an 80-72 win. The Gauchos' largest margin of victory this season came on January 13 when they defeated Cal Poly by a 76-56 score. The largest margin of defeat was their 80-50 loss to Utah State on February 6. The 30 point loss to the Aggies was, in fact, the second-largest margin of defeat ever suffered by a Bob Williams-coached Gaucho team.
Walk This Way
Primarily due to the rash of injuries that has beset them this season, the Gauchos have been forced to use an multitude of walk-ons. Of the 10 players who played in the regular season's final game at Long Beach State, five originally came to UCSB as walk-ons. Chrismen Oliver, Derek Rasp, Michael Chambers, David Kennedy and Derek Wheeler were all, originally, non-scholarship players. Two of the five, Oliver and Chambers, now have scholarships. Still, the five have combined to score 545 points for the Gauchos this season, 33.9% of the team's total of 1,608 points. In addition, the five, actually just Oliver, Rasp and Chambers, have combined for 83 three-point baskets, 48.0% of the team's total of 173.
Frontcourt Blues
While injuries have taken their toll on both the UCSB frontcourt and backcourt, the forwards have been hit particularly hard. The losses of Casey Cook, Cameron Goettsche, Chris Devine, Chris Moore, David Kennedy and Todd Follmer have limited the Gauchos' flexibility in the frontcourt. Bob Williams has been forced, at times, to play five guards, and more often than not, he has been forced to use walk-on freshman guard Derek Rasp or junior guard Josh Davis at the four spot. Twice this season, in games at Utah State and Idaho, the Gauchos had just seven players available, and of those seven just one, Glenn Turner, was listed as a forward. In fact, if you go by the roster in the media guide, which has been outdated since just about the start of practice in October, players listed as guards have scored 1,212 of the team's 1,608 points, or 75.4%. Goettsche, who has missed 10 games this season, has more points than any other player listed as a forward in the media guide. He has 129, a figure that is not likely to change. Cook, who has missed the last 17 games, is second among players listed as forwards, with 108. That figure won't change either. One final note, a UCSB frontcourt player has scored in double-figures just one time since a February 3 home win over Idaho. Moore scored 10 points against UC Riverside in the Gauchos' last home game and that is the only time in the team's final eight regular season games that a forward scored in double-figures.
Shooting Woes
UCSB's has struggled with its shooting all season. The Gauchos enter the Big West Tournament shooting 40.9% overall and 34.2% from three-point territory. UCSB actually closed the regular season on a high-note by making 20-of-41 shots at Long Beach State, 48.8%, the fifth-best mark on the season. Santa Barbara made 50.0% or better in a game just twice. The Gauchos shot a season-best 55.0% (22-of-40) on February 19 at Cal Poly. In the season-opener, an overtime win at San Diego State, UCSB made exactly half of its shots, 30-of-60. The Gauchos followed-up the solid effort in the opener with another good effort, 49.0%, at Wisconsin. After that, it was downhill as the team shot 42.9% or less in 10 straight games. In 27 games this season, the Gauchos have shot below 50.0% 25 times, below 45.0% 19 times, below 40.0% 13 times, below 35.0% four times, and below 30.0% once. None UCSB's top-five active scorers are shooting better than the 43.4% mark that freshman guard Derek Rasp is shooting.
They're Anything But Free
Not only has UCSB been struggling with its shooting from the field, it has also had its problems at the free throw line this season. Despite making 22-of-27, 81.5%, in the last two games, the Gauchos closed the regular season at 64.8% from the charity stripe. Before making 80.0% or better in the last two games, UCSB made fewer than 70.0% in nine straight games and 12 out of 13. Interestingly, Santa Barbara actually started the season shooting the ball well from the free throw line. In the first 12 games, the Gauchos made 70.0% or better nine times. In 2003-04, the Gauchos shot 66.0% from the free throw line.
A Nice Turnabout
One thing UCSB has done fairly well this season is protect the ball, particularly in recent games. Overall, the Gauchos are averaging 12.6 turnovers per game. Through the first 10 games, they averaged 14.6 turnovers per outing, but in the last 17 games, they have turned the ball over an average of just 11.4 times per game. UCSB has had 10 or fewer turnovers 10 times this year, all in the last 20 games.
Take Me To Your Leader(s)
If you include the injured Casey Cook, UCSB has three players averaging 10.0 per game or more. For better or worse, the Gauchos have spread the scoring around this season and each of their top seven scorers have led the way at least one time. Chrismen Oliver has led the team in scoring more than anyone else, doing so on nine occasions. Also, eight different players have led the team in rebounding with Glenn Turner leading the way 10 times.
Block Party
In 2003-04, UCSB produced a total of 58 blocked shots in 28 games, an average of 2.1 per game. Cameron Goettsche led the way with just 14. This year, things have changed. As a team, the Gauchos has swatted 85 in 27 games, an average of 3.2 per game. In fact, the team-leader, Glenn Turner, has 39, 25 more than the team-leader last year. Turner and Goettsche have combined for 63 blocked shots this season, five more than the team had all of last season.
On The Rebound
UCSB outrebounded its final regular season opponent, Long Beach State, by a 29-24 margin. That was quite a turnaround from the first meeting between the teams. In the Big West opener on December 28, the 49ers walloped the Gauchos on the boards, 49-31. On the year, Santa Barbara's opponents have collected 107 more rebounds than the Gauchos, an average margin of 3.96 per game. In 27 games, UCSB has outrebounded its opponent just 10 times. In the last five games of the season, however, the Gaucho rebound books weren't quite balanced, but they were closer to the black than they were for much of the year. In the last five games, UCSB was outrebounded by a total of just five rebounds, 1.0 per game.
Men Of Steal
The Gauchos enter the Big West Tournament with 190 steals on the year, a figure that ties for the 10th most ever in a single-season. If UCSB can get two steals in Wednesday night's tournament game against Long Beach State, the 2004-05 team would pass the 2003-04 Gauchos for ninth on the school's all-time list. If Santa Barbara could muster four steals, this team would move into eighth on the single-season list. Last year, UCSB's steal leader had 37. This season, two Gauchos have produced more than 40 steals. Senior guard Chrismen Oliver leads the way with 46 steals, 1.7 per game, and junior guard Josh Davis has 41, 1.5 per game. In all, seven Gauchos have at least 10 steals on the year.


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Do All Modern Sedans Look the Same?
Have you ever walked out of the store to a sea of clones in the parking lot, wondering why your Toyota Camry looks like a Honda Accord, which looks like a Nissan Altima, which looks like an Audi A4? If you remember the good old days of being able to spot the difference between… Read more


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Hi.This thread is running for almost 2 years now and I would be glad to know if anything has been changed in the meantime on MMV2...I like the basic sound of MMV2 but I have to say I still can confirm some of the more simplistic bugs with the current demo version. I won't take the effort to check all of what was initially said but I believe it is true as well.So Arturia, has anything changed, fixed with MMV2 in current version 2.2???MMV2 would be wonderful if everything would work proper!
Hi.I am still around the corner... sitting here in doubt how serious to rate some of the issues.One is the pronounced popping or clicking in polymode... but stop... I tweaked some envelope attacks slightly and it seems to disappear... so it's just about fast envelopes that produces such punchy effects on every other fast synth too?...Maybe there are some stupid issues in MMV2 - especially for guys who do extensive patching - but how "unusable" is it really? Isn't it still the better "Mini" for the same price?