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After 33 years of continuous operation, the time has come to disband Dicapo Opera Theatre. When we began our journey in 1981, no one would have dreamed that our intrepid little company would have lasted for over three decades, or that it would have left such a mark.
I want to thank the many people who contributed their time, talents, and efforts to make this company the vibrant community it has been. First, thank you to my co-founder, mentor, partner, and life-long friend Diane Martindale. Without you Dicapo would have never come to be. To the seasoned performers who lent their big reputations to a small company; the young, ambitious artists looking for a break into the business; the directors, designers, crews, and staff, I can never thank you enough. Thank you to the parish and administration of St. Jean's for providing us with a home, to all of our donors who kept us going throughout the years, and to the volunteers who gave their time and efforts so generously. And, most of all, thank you to the heart of our company, our loyal audience.
As you know, Dicapo never achieved the type of financial stability that I so desperately sought for the company, but I can assure you that, as part of the wind-down, we will do our best to attempt to provide something to those of you who remain creditors of Dicapo. As we move ahead with the wind-down process, we will provide you with periodic updates regarding Dicapo's ability to do so in this regard.
One of my life's proudest achievements is the design and construction of the Dicapo Theater and I am comforted that it will remain as a performing venue even after the company for which it was created passes into memory. May it house great nights of theater for many years to come.
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|Hebrew: ראש השנה
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Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, literally "head of the year") is the Jewish New Year. The Biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (Hebrew: יוֹם תְּרוּעָה, literally "day [of] shouting/raising a noise") or the Feast of Trumpets. It is the first of the High Holy Days or יָמִים נוֹרָאִים Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe") which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere. Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish civil year, but the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year.
The day is believed to be the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, and their first actions toward the realization of humanity's role in God's world. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn) and eating symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey to evoke a "sweet new year".
Greetings and stages
The Hebrew common greeting on Rosh Hashanah is שָׁנָה טוֹבָה "Shanah Tovah", which, in Hebrew, means "[have a] good year" or similar greetings. Thus, in Yiddish the greeting is אַ גוט יאָר "a gut yor" ("a good year") or אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר "a gut gebentsht yor" ("a good blessed year"). Sephardic Jews traditionally say "tizku l'shanim rabot" or "munchos anyos", both of which mean "many years".
Serious greetings and blessings, based on the nature of the day, commonly used among religiously observant Jews are כְּתִיבָה וַחֲתִימָה טוֹבָה "Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah" which means "[may you be] written/inscribed and sealed [for a good new year i.e. by God]." After Rosh Hashanah ends, the greeting is abbreviated to גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה "G'mar Chatimah Tovah" ("[may you be] finally sealed [for a] good [year by God]") until Yom Kippur. After Yom Kippur is over, until Hoshana Rabbah, as Sukkot ends, the greeting is גְּמָר טוֹב "Gmar Tov" ("[a] good conclusion [of God's judgment]").
The above describes three important stages as the spiritual order of the Ten Days of Repentance (the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) unfolds: On Rosh Hashanah God "'opens' the 'books' of judgment" of creation and all mankind starting from each individual person, and in those books it is first "written" what will be decreed, hence the emphasis on the "ketivah" ("writing"). The "judgement" is then "pending" and prayers and repentance are required. Then on Yom Kippur, the judgment is "sealed" or confirmed (i.e. by the Heavenly Court), hence the emphasis is on the word "chatimah" ("sealed"). But the Heavenly verdict is still not final because there is still an additional chance and positive expectation that until Sukkot concludes there is hope that God will deliver a final good and favorable judgment, hence the use of "gmar" ("end") that is "tov" ("good").
The word "rosh" is the Hebrew word for head, "ha" is the definite article, and "shanah" means year. Thus "Rosh HaShanah" means 'head of the year', referring to the Jewish day of new year.
The term "Rosh Hashanah" does not appear in the Torah. Leviticus 23:24 refers to the festival of the first day of the seventh month as "Zikhron Teru'ah" ("[a] memorial [with the] blowing [of horns]"); it is also referred to in the same part of Leviticus as 'שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן' (shabbat shabbaton) or penultimate Sabbath or meditative rest day, and a "holy day to God". These same words are commonly used in the Psalms to refer to the anointed days. Numbers 29:1 calls the festival Yom Teru'ah, ("Day [of] blowing [the horn]"), and symbolizes a number of subjects, such as the Binding of Isaac and the animal sacrifices that were to be performed.[1][2] (The term Rosh Hashanah appears once in the Bible in Ezekiel 40:1 where it means generally the time of the "beginning of the year" or is possibly a reference to Yom Kippur,[1] but the phrase may also refer to the Hebrew month of Nisan in the spring, especially in light of Exodus 12:2 where the month of Nisan is stated as being "the first month of the year" and Ezekiel 45:18 where "the first month" unambiguously refers to Nisan, the month of Passover, as made plain by Ezekiel 45:21.[3])
In the Siddur and Machzor Jewish prayerbooks Rosh Hashanah is also called "Yom Hazikaron" ([a] day [of] the remembrance), not to be confused with the modern Israeli holiday of the same name which falls in spring.
The Hebrew Rosh HaShanah is etymologically related to the Arabic Ras as-Sanah, the name chosen by Muslim lawmakers for the Islamic New Year.
Rosh Hashanah marks the start of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years, shmita and yovel years. Jews are confident that Rosh Hashanah represents either figuratively or literally God's creation ex nihilo. However, according to Rabbi Eleazar ben Shammua, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man.[4]
Religious significance
The Mishnah contains the second known reference to Rosh Hashanah as the "day of judgment".[5] In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah, it states that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of an intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life and they are sealed "to live." The intermediate class are allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to reflect, repent and become righteous;[6] the wicked are "blotted out of the book of the living forever."[7]
In Jewish liturgy, Rosh Hashanah leads to Yom Kippur, which is described as "the day of judgment" (Yom ha-Din) and "the day of remembrance" (Yom ha-Zikkaron). Some midrashic descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne, while books containing the deeds of all humanity are opened for review, and each person passes in front of Him for evaluation of his or her deeds. The Talmud provides three central ideas behind the day:
"The Holy One said, 'on Rosh Hashanah recite before Me [verses of] Sovereignty, Remembrance, and Shofar blasts (malchuyot, zichronot, shofrot): Sovereignty so that you should make Me your King; Remembrance so that your remembrance should rise up before Me. And through what? Through the Shofar.' (Rosh Hashanah 16a, 34b)"[8] This is reflected in the prayers composed by the classical rabbinic sages for Rosh Hashanah found in all machzorim where the theme of the prayers is the strongest theme is the "coronation" of God as King of the universe in preparation for the acceptance of judgments that will follow on that day, symbolized as "written" into a Divine book of judgments, that then hang in the balance for ten days waiting for all to repent, then they will be "sealed" on Yom Kippur. The assumption is that everyone was sealed for life and therefore the next festival is Sukkot (Tabernacles) that is referred to as "the time of our joy" (z'man simchateinu).
Shofar blowing
Laws on the form and use of the shofar and laws related to the religious services during the festival of Rosh Hashanah are described in Rabbinic literature such as the Mishnah that formed the basis of the tractate "Rosh HaShanah" in both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud. This also contains the most important rules concerning the calendar year.[9]
The shofar is blown in long, short and staccato blasts that follow a set sequence:
- Teki'ah (long sound) Numbers 10:3;
- Shevarim (3 broken sounds) Numbers 10:5;
- Teru'ah (9 short sounds) Numbers 10:9;
- Teki'ah Gedolah (very long sound) Exodus 19:16,19;
- Shevarim Teru'ah (3 broken sounds followed by 9 short sounds).
The shofar is blown at various instances during the Rosh Hashanah prayers, and the total number of blasts over the day is 100.
Duration and timing
Rosh Hashanah occurs 163 days after the first day of Passover (Pesach). In terms of the Gregorian calendar, the earliest date on which Rosh Hashanah can fall is September 5, as happened in 1899 and again in 2013. The latest Gregorian date that Rosh Hashanah can occur is October 5, as happened in 1967 and will happen again in 2043. After 2089, the differences between the Hebrew calendar and the Gregorian calendar will result in Rosh Hashanah falling no earlier than September 6.[10]
Although the Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, so that the first day of each month originally began with the first sighting of a new moon, since the fourth century it has been arranged so that Rosh Hashanah never falls on a Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday.[11]
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The Torah defines Rosh Hashanah as a one-day celebration, and since days in the Hebrew calendar begin at sundown, the beginning of Rosh Hashanah is at sundown at the end of 29 Elul. The rules of the Hebrew calendar are designed such that the first day of Rosh Hashanah will never occur on the first, fourth, or sixth day of the Jewish week[12] (i.e., Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday). Since the time of the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE and the time of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, normative Jewish law appears to be that Rosh Hashanah is to be celebrated for two days, due to the difficulty of determining the date of the new moon.[1] Nonetheless, there is some evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated on a single day in Israel as late as the thirteenth century CE.[13] Orthodox and Conservative Judaism now generally observe Rosh Hashanah for the first two days of Tishrei, even in Israel where all other Jewish holidays dated from the new moon last only one day. The two days of Rosh Hashanah are said to constitute "Yoma Arichtah" (Aramaic: "one long day"). In Reform Judaism, some communities observe only the first day of Rosh Hashanah, while others observe two days. Karaite Jews, who do not recognize Rabbinic Jewish oral law and rely on their own understanding of the Torah, observe only one day on the first of Tishrei, since the second day is not mentioned in the Written Torah.
The Yamim Nora'im are preceded by the month of Elul, during which Jews are supposed to begin a self-examination and repentance, a process that culminates in the ten days of the Yamim Nora'im known as beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with the holiday of Yom Kippur.
The shofar is traditionally blown each morning for the entire month of Elul, the month preceding Rosh Hashanah. The sound of the shofar is intended to awaken the listeners from their "slumbers" and alert them to the coming judgment.[14] The shofar is not blown on Shabbat.[15]
In the period leading up to the Yamim Nora'im (Hebrew, "days of awe"), penitential prayers, called selichot, are recited.
Rosh Hashanah is also the day of "Yom Hadin", known as Judgment day. On Yom Hadin, 3 books are opened, the book of life, for the righteous among the nations, the book of death, for the most evil who receive the seal of death, and the third book for the ones living in doubts with non-evil sins. The final judgment is not done from Yom Hadin before the start of Yom Kippur, it is sometimes possible to receive the seal of life by asking for forgiveness.
Karaite Judaism
Unlike the denominations of Rabbinical Judaism, Karaite Judaism believes the Jewish New Year starts with the 1st month and celebrate this holiday only as it is mentioned in the Torah, that is as a day of rejoicing and shouting. Additionally, karaites believe the adoption of "Rosh Hashanah" in place of Yom Teruah "is the result of pagan Babylonian influence upon the Jewish nation. The first stage in the transformation was the adoption of the Babylonian month names. In the Torah the months are numbered as First Month, Second Month, Third Month, etc (Leviticus 23; Numbers 28). During their sojourn in Babylonia our ancestors began to use the pagan Babylonian month names, a fact readily admitted in the Talmud...As the Jewish People became more comfortable with the Babylonian month names they became more susceptible to other Babylonian influences." [16] "Karaites allow no work on the day except what is needed to prepare food (Leviticus 23:23, 24)."[17]
Rosh Hashanah eve
The evening before Rosh Hashanah day is known as Erev Rosh Hashanah ("Rosh Hashanah eve"). As with Rosh Hashanah day, it falls on the 1st day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, since days of the Hebrew calendar begin at sundown. Some communities perform Hatarat nedarim (a nullification of vows) after the morning prayer services during the morning on the 29th of the Hebrew month of Elul, which ends at sundown, when Erev Rosh Hashanah commences. The mood becomes festive but serious in anticipation of the new year and the synagogue services. Many Orthodox men immerse in a mikveh in honor of the coming day.
Prayer service
On Rosh Hashanah day, religious poems, called piyyuttim, are added to the regular services. A special prayer book, the mahzor, is used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (plural mahzorim). A number of additions are made to the regular service, most notably an extended repetition of the Amidah prayer for both Shacharit and Mussaf. The Shofar is blown during Mussaf at several intervals. (In many synagogues, even little children come and hear the Shofar being blown.) Biblical verses are recited at each point. According to the Mishnah, 10 verses (each) are said regarding kingship, remembrance, and the shofar itself, each accompanied by the blowing of the shofar. A variety of piyyutim, medieval penitential prayers, are recited regarding themes of repentance. The Alenu prayer is recited during the repetition of the Mussaf Amidah.
Symbolic foods
Rosh Hashanah meals usually include apples and honey, to symbolize a sweet new year. Other foods with a symbolic meaning may be served, depending on local minhag ("custom"), such as the head of a fish (to symbolize the prayer "let us be the head and not the tail").
Many communities hold a "Rosh Hashanah seder" during which blessings are recited over a variety of symbolic dishes.[18][19][20] The blessings have the incipit "Yehi ratzon", meaning "May it be Thy will." In many cases, the name of the food in Hebrew or Aramaic represents a play on words (a pun). The Yehi Ratzon platter may include apples (dipped in honey, baked or cooked as a compote called mansanada); dates; pomegranates; black-eyed peas; pumpkin-filled pastries called rodanchas; leek fritters called keftedes de prasa; beets; and a whole fish with the head intact. It is also common to eat stuffed vegetables called legumbres yaprakes.[21]
Some of the symbolic foods eaten are dates, black-eyed peas, leek, spinach and gourd, all of which are mentioned in the Talmud:[22] "Let a man be accustomed to eat on New Year's Day gourds (קרא), and fenugreek (רוביא),[23] leeks (כרתי), beet [leaves] (סילקא), and dates ( תמרי)." Pomegranates are used in many traditions, to symbolize being fruitful like the pomegranate with its many seeds.[24] The use of apples and honey, symbolizing a sweet year, is a late medieval Ashkenazi addition, though it is now almost universally accepted. Typically, round challah bread is served, to symbolize the cycle of the year.[24] Gefilte fish and Lekach are commonly served by Ashkenazic Jews on this holiday. On the second night, new fruits are served to warrant inclusion of the shehecheyanu blessing.
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Rosh Hashanah jams prepared by Libyan Jews
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Traditional Rosh Hashanah foods: Apples and honey, pomegranates, wine for kiddush
The ritual of tashlikh is performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah by Ashkenazic and most Sephardic Jews (but not by Spanish & Portuguese Jews or some Yemenites). Prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many also have the custom to throw bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. In some communities, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on Shabbat, tashlikh is postponed until the second day. The traditional service for tashlikh is recited individually and includes the prayer "Who is like unto you, O God...And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea", and Biblical passages including Isaiah 11:9 ("They will not injure nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea") and Psalms 118:5-9, 121 and 130, as well as personal prayers. Though once considered a solemn individual tradition, it has become an increasingly social ceremony practiced in groups. Tashlikh can be performed any time until Hoshana Rabba, and some Hasidic communities perform Tashlikh on the day before Yom Kippur.[citation needed]
Traditional greetings
- Shanah Tovah (pronounced [ʃaˈna toˈva]) is the traditional greeting on Rosh Hashanah which in Hebrew means "A Good Year" (Hebrew: שנה טובה).[25]
- L'shanah tovah tikatevu meaning "May you be inscribed for a good year" is also traditional.[26]
- Ketivah VeChatimah Tovah which translates as "A good inscription and sealing [in the Book of Life]" (Hebrew: כתיבה וחתימה טובה).[25]
- The formal Sephardic greeting is Tizku Leshanim Rabbot ("may you merit many years"), to which the answer is Ne'imot VeTovot ("pleasant and good ones"). Less formally, people wish each other "many years" in the local language.
- Shanah Tovah Umetukah is Hebrew for "A Good and Sweet Year" (Hebrew: שנה טובה ומתוקה).[25][26]
- L'shanah tovah tikatevu v'tichatemu meaning "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year".[26][27]
- G'mar chatimah tovah meaning "A good final sealing" (Hebrew: גמר חתימה).[25][26]
- On the first night of Rosh Hashanah after the evening prayer, it is the Ashkenazi and Hasidic custom to wish Le'Shanah Tovah Tikoseiv Veseichoseim (Le'Alter LeChaim Tovim U'Leshalom) which is Hebrew for "May you be inscribed and sealed for a Good Year (Immediately for a Good and Peaceful Life)".
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Russia, 1899
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United States, 1900
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Austria, 1904
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United States, 1908
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Germany, 1910
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Germany, 1914
- PikiWiki Israel 2022 Happy New Year Card שנה טובה תרפquot;ח.jpg
Tel Aviv, 1927
- PikiWiki Israel 219 Immigration to Israel שנה טובה.jpg
Poland, 1931
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Montevideo, 1932
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Israel, 2012
See also
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish greetings
- Rosh Hashana kibbutz
- Unetanneh Tokef
- Christian observances of Jewish holidays: Feast of Trumpets
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- ^ a b c Jacobs, Louis. "Rosh Ha-Shanah." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 17. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 463-466.
- ^ See Numbers 29:1
- ^ Mulder, Otto (2003). Simon the High Priest in Sirach 50: An Exegetical Study of the Significance of Simon the High Priest As Climax to the Praise of the Fathers in Ben Sira's Concept of the History of Israel. BRILL. p. 170. ISBN 9789004123168.
- ^ "OU on Elul". Ou.org. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
- ^ Tractate on Rosh Hashanah I,2
- ^ Tractate on Rosh Hashanah, I,16b
- ^ (Psalms 69:29).
- ^ ArtScroll Machzor, Rosh Hashanah. Overview, p. XV.
- ^ Tractate Rosh Hashanah 1:1
- ^ "Rosh HaShanah and the Gregorian calendar". Oztorah.com. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
- ^ a b Tractate Rosh Hashanah 20a
- ^ A popular mnemonic is "lo adu rosh" ("Rosh [Hashanah] is not on adu"), where adu has the numerical value 1-4-6 (corresponding to the numbering of days in the Jewish week, in which Saturday night and Sunday daytime make up the first day).
- ^ Rav David Bar-Hayim. "Rosh HaShanna One day or Two?". Machon Shilo website. Jerusalem: Machon Shilo. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
Includes link for Audio Shiur in English
- ^ Maimonides, Yad, Laws of Repentance 3:4
- ^ Jewish Law permits the Shofar to be blown in the presence of a rabbinical court called the Sanhedrin, which had not existed since ancient times. A recent group of Orthodox rabbis in Israel claiming to constitute a modern Sanhedrin held, for the first time in many years, an Orthodox shofar-blowing on Shabbat for Rosh Hashanah in 2006. TheSanhedrin.net: Shofar Blowing on Shabbat (translation of Haaretz article)
- ^ http://www.karaite-korner.org/yom_teruah.shtml
- ^ http://www.karaites.org/history.html#yom
- ^ Exploring Sephardic Customs and Traditions, Marc Angel, p. 49
- ^ Maimon Family Yehi Ratzones
- ^ The Orthodox Union Yehi Ratzones
- ^ Sternberg, Robert The Sephardic Kitchen: The Healthful Food and Rich Culture of the Mediterranean Jews, Harper Collins, 1996, pp. 320-321, ISBN 0-06-017691-1
- ^ Babylonian Talmud (Keritot 6a)
- ^ Rashi (ibid.) calls rubia by its Hebrew name "tiltan" (Heb. תלתן), which word he explains elsewhere as being fenugreek. However, Rabbi Hai Gaon, in one of his responsum in "Otzar Ha-Geonim," seems to suggest that "rubia" (Heb. רוביא) means cowpeas, or what others call, "black-eyed peas" (פול המצרי). Rabbi Hai Gaon's disciple, Rabbi Nissim ben Jacob (in his Commentary known as Ketav Hamafteah), thus explains the word לוביא, in our case spelled רוביא, as meaning non-other than cowpeas (פול המצרי), describing them as having a "dark eye in its center." Jews of North-Africa traditionally make use of stringed beans in place of rubia.
- ^ a b Spice and Spirit: The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, 1990, New York, p. 508
- ^ a b c d Posner, Menachem. "What Is Shanah Tovah? New Year Greeting Translation and More: The meaning of the traditional Rosh Hashanah wishes". Chabad.org. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d Bottner, Lauren (September 21, 2011). "From Selichot to Simchat Torah". Jewish Journal. TRIBE Media. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Jewish Holiday Greeting Chart". Patheos.com. 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- Angel, Marc (2000). Exploring Sephardic Customs and Traditions. Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV Pub. House in association with American Sephardi Federation, American Sephardi Federation—South Florida Chapter, Sephardic House. ISBN 0-88125-675-7.
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It was a team so powerful, so charismatic, that even the radioactive plaid of Norm Sloan's sportcoats didn't stand out. There was big Tommy Burleson and little Monte Towe and, above them all, dazzling David Thompson. N.C. State didn't need a coach in 1974. It needed a ringmaster.
Which may be how, 40 years later, the one critical member of that team who doesn't get the acclaim he probably deserves is the man who actually put it together.
Sloan, who died in 2003 at age 77, isn't in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame despite winning 627 games and a national title. Even among N.C. State fans, he ranks third behind Everett Case and Jim Valvano, even though only Case won more games for the Wolfpack (both went into N.C. State's own Hall of Fame ahead of Sloan). And on a team with players like Thompson, Burleson and Towe, even Sloan's outsized personality was in the shadows.
"It's hard to look past those guys to see Norm," N.C. State historian Tim Peeler said. "But he brought them all together. He used to say the only thing he could do with that team was screw it up, so he just sat back and watched them play, but that's very disingenuous."
Mixed reactions to Stormin' Norman
This area cherishes its coaches, from Case and Frank McGuire to Dean Smith and Valvano to Roy Williams to Mike Krzyzewski. It is perhaps the one thing that fans of all three teams have in common above all else, their reverence for the men who did so much to build these programs, who brought in the players who became legends.
So why doesn't Sloan get the same acclaim, here or elsewhere? He did have his run-ins with the NCAA – once at N.C. State while recruiting Thompson, which ended up costing the 1973 team its shot at postseason greatness, and later at Florida – but such travails only seemed to deepen Wolfpack fans' love of Valvano.
Is it because of Sloan's personality?
Sloan could be as abrasive as his wardrobe was loud. Officials typically bore the brunt of Sloan's fury – referee George Conley pulled the plug on a 1967 game at Maryland with more than a minute to go after Sloan picked up a double technical – but they were far from alone.
Sportswriter Mark Whicker once wrote a parody of the State fight song in honor of the late sports information director Ed Seaman that included the phrase, "I'm the SID from State and you can call me on the phone; if you're a guy I really hate, I'll line you up with Norman Sloan."
"He was forthright," former N.C. State player and Duke coach Bucky Waters said. "There was a Bobby Knight quality about him, in that the congeniality award was never on his priority list: 'There it is, take it or leave it. "
Which points directly to the other reason Sloan probably gets overlooked: Is it because he walked away from N.C. State out of pique, not just once but twice?
Sloan had come to N.C. State in 1946, one of Case's first recruits and one of many from Indiana. He quit the team as a senior when Case insisted on playing Vic Bubas instead. And Sloan, who had come to N.C. State from Florida to take over for Press Maravich in 1966, went back to Florida in 1980, largely for financial reasons. (He returned to the Triangle after leaving the Gators in 1989 and lived the rest of his life here.)
A Hall of Fame resume
But Sloan's resume speaks for itself: More than 600 wins at schools both large and small, at N.C. State, Florida, the Citadel and Presbyterian; three-time ACC coach of the year; coach of the year in three different conferences; a national title team in 1974 that not only won one of the greatest games of all time, the ACC tournament final against Maryland, but interrupted the greatest dynasty of all time, UCLA; and an undefeated team a year earlier, denied a chance to prove itself because of NCAA sanctions.
One of the Naismith Hall of Fame's great inequities was remedied last year when longtime Houston coach Guy Lewis, the house father of Phi Slama Jama, was finally inducted into the Hall. Lewis was an innovator and a great coach, a slam-dunk Hall of Famer, no pun intended, but he never won a national title.
Sloan's resume compares favorably in several respects, and yet there has never been the same clamor on behalf of Sloan. (Lefty Driesell, on the other bench in the overtime win over Maryland and Sloan's greatest ally in the fight against Smith's empire at North Carolina, has been similarly overlooked by the Hall of Fame.)
"He did it his way, sometimes a little abrasive," said Art Musselman, one of Sloan's assistant coaches in 1974. "It's a good question. I've quandaried over that, too. Sometimes when they say N.C. State won the NCAA title, it's Valvano's '83 team spoken to more than the '74 team, and that's because of personalities. I strongly believe that."
The same passion for the game that made Sloan both a great coach – and, when unchecked, a fiery figure – may be what stands in the way of his legacy truly being recognized.


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* Exported from MasterCook * Bread Machine Basic Bagels - Regular Size Batch Recipe By : More Electric Bread Serving Size : 5 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Abm Breakfast Electric Bread Bread Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 3/4 cup water -- lukewarm 2 cups white bread flour 2 tablespoons brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast 1. Insert ingredients in bread machine according to manufacturer's instruction s. Remove the dough from the machine after the first knead - approximately 20 to 30 minutes. 2. Place dough on a floured surface. Divide into 5 parts. Form balls, gently press thumb through center of ball and slowly stretch into bagel shape. 3. While bagels rise, bring three quarts of water and one tablespoon of sugar to a rapid boil in a large saucepan. Drop test dough (see hints below). 4. Using a slotted spoon, drop 2-3 bagels into rapidly boiling water. Boil on each side for 1/2 minutes. Remove and cool on rack 1 minute, brush with egg and sprinkle with sesame or poppy seeds, if desired. 5. Bake at 400 on a baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal, until golden - appro ximately 15 minutes. ** Bagel Success Hints ** When forming the bagels, set aside two 1/4″ balls of dough. When the bagels have doubled in size, drop the test dough into boiling water. The dough shoul d pop to the top right away. When this happens, it is time to boil the bagels. ** A quick spray of non-stick vegetable coating on the top of the bagel may be substituted for the egg wash. ** To make bagel sticks, cut bagel before rising and lay out in a straight line . Roll sticks in a combination of sesame and poppy seeds with a pinch of garl ic powder. Let sticks rise, boil, and bake as described in the above direction s. ** To make bagel chips, slice leftover bagels horizontally into thin slices. B ruish with butter or margarine on one side. Lay (butter side up) on an ungreas ed cookie sheet and bake at 325 for 12-15 minutes until golden brown and crisp. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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It seemed manager Mike Scioscia was adding another boo-boo to the Angels' list of injury concerns Tuesday when he revealed slugger Albert Pujols was dealing with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
In fact, Pujols has been dealing with the condition on and off for seven years.
"It comes and goes, feels good, then comes and goes," he said.
According to the Mayo Clinic website, plantar fasciitis involves pain and inflammation of a thick band of tissue called the plantar fascia that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain.
Pujols pledged to be smart about the condition and is trying orthotics this year for the first time, even though he's been resistant in the past.
Orthotics are custom-fitted arch support pieces that distribute pressure evenly around the foot.
"I think the whole reason it flared up this spring is because of my knee," said Pujols, who underwent knee surgery last October.
Pujols will be the Angels' designated hitter today against the Cleveland Indians after playing first base for the first time Tuesday against the Milwaukee Brewers.
"Right now I'm just focused on keeping my knee strong," he said.
Also …
Angels starter Tommy Hanson was removed after pitching three innings against the Cleveland Indians with tightness in his right tricep. Hanson later told reporters he was "fine" and came out of the game for "safety reasons." – Scioscia said pitcher Ryan Madson (elbow) is targeting a bullpen session in the next day or two after throwing off flat ground for the third consecutive day. – Angels pitcher Kevin Jepsen (triceps) could pitch in a game as soon as Friday, Scioscia said. –


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7. The Lysosomal Enzymes That Purify the Body
Over the course of a day, many processes of which we are totally unaware take place in our bodies. Our cells carry out these processes flawlessly. Inside these 100 trillion or so cells, there are many structures that know their duties very well. Some generate energy, others proteins, while still others engage in transportation or are used as storage depots.
One of these structures in the cell is the lysosome, which can be described as the cell's grinding machine. Thanks to the enzymes given off by this organelle, a number of degradation processes take place in the body. The enzymes released by lysosome destroy cells that no longer serve any purpose. Besides breaking down or puncturing the membrane surrounding a cell's structure, they also destroy down certain cells that constantly grow inside the body.
a. Lysosomes inside the cell.
b. Lysosome
Figure 37: Lysosomes break down useless elements by serving as the cell's waste-disposal system.
This degradation process that lysosome performs is of enormous importance to the body (Figure 37). As the baby develops in a pregnant woman, for example the womb expands many times larger than its original, normal size. This is essential for a healthy baby to be born. However, after the baby is born there is no further need for the womb to be so capacious, this excessively expanded organ now needs to be returned to its former size for the health of the body. The lysosome enzymes help carry out this process. When the birth process is finished, certain cell lysosomes are alerted and, since they have an excellent knowledge of their jobs, they immediately begin secreting the necessary enzymes, which rapidly shrink the womb to 1/40th of its former size in ten days following the birth. The womb thus begins to revert to its former dimensions (Figure 38).
There are also lysosome enzymes in the head portion of sperm cells. Sperms use these enzymes to degrade—and thus, to pierce—the microscopic protective sheath surrounding the egg, and allow the sperm to enter in and achieve fertilization. (Figure 39)
a. Mother's womb
Figure 38: The lysosome enzyme reduces the size of the womb by 1/40 in 10 days after birth, helping it to begin returning to its normal size.
As can clearly be seen from these examples, every mechanism in your body works in such a way as to complement the others. In addition to the system that permits the womb to grow and swell during pregnancy, there is also another one that returns it to its former state. Similarly, an enzyme that can dissolve the sheath protecting the egg has been especially located inside the head of each sperm.
Yet Darwinists have become so far removed from reason and logic that they can even claim that this interconnected system arose as the result of various coincidences—and then continued to function in its perfect manner. That these mechanisms, with their perfect workings, function in harmony with the systems in the body as a whole is just one of the proofs of the flawless nature of God's creation.
In Surat al-An'am God states that:
That is God, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything. (Surat al-An'am, 102)
a. Lysosome
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Figure 39: Lysosome enzymes, with their ability to break down organic substances, enable the sperm to pierce the sheath that protects the egg and enter to fertilize it.


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Aug. 28, 2005
The opening weekend of the 2005 soccer season was a dreary one all the way around for Lipscomb's Lady Bisons.
Sunday afternoon lightning and rain forced a delay of more than 1 ½ hours in the start of the Lady Bisons game with visiting Grambling State.
Despite the Lady Bisons keeping the ball in Grambling's end of the field for the majority of both halves, they lost 3-0 to fall to 0-2 on the season.
Grambling took a 1-0 lead in the first half when Ashley Bryant scored off a corner kick with 17:28 left on the clock before intermission.
In the second half Grambling rallied late with Rebecca Francis scoring off a pass from Obafemii Alao with 5:45 remaining in the game. Tiffani Brisco dribbled in the final goal of the game with 3:11 on the clock.
Bethany Copeland was in goal for Lipscomb. She made three saves. Grambling goaltender Sherrice Fox was kept busy making eight saves, four in each half.
Grambling is 1-1.
The Lady Bisons opened the season Friday night with a visit from Middle Tennessee from the Sunbelt Conference. After lightning stopped that game, the two teams played Saturday morning with Middle Tennessee winning 8-0.


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migya wrote:Quazza wrote:migya wrote:metalface wrote:I bet Horford will be really easy to get in the next few years. I see the Hawks going down hill after this season. I somehow dont think that Johnson is going to stay in Atlanta. I also dont think that Woodson will keep his job after this season. And we will see them sink into obscurity after that.
And then the Ws can remind them about how they gave Crawford to them on a silver platter and they can give up Horford. That would be pretty awesome.
Reckon JJ will stay in Atlanta, but if he leaves, that team does fall alot, unless they replace him, which would be real hard. Replacing Woodson is a step in the right direction though
I don't know why, but i've always had the feeling he'll leave.
At least one of the teams with big cap room, will miss out on the tier 1 FA's, so they'll throw money at the tier 2s(which i think of JJ being)
Just a hunch
Could be. Maybe New York will fail to get any of the top tier FAs and JJ will be waiting to pounce on a max contract. Just a hunch myself
I think JJ is gone. The pulse of the fans hate him much like Warrior fans hate Maggette. He certainly is one of the better scorers in the league but he is just such a selfish player and is unwilling to involve his teammates.


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Picture Perfect: Hubble's New Improved Optics Probe the Core of a Distant Galaxy
This comparison image of the core of galaxy M100 shows the dramatic improvement in the Hubble telescope's view of the universe. The new image (right) was taken with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2), which was installed during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission.
The picture beautifully demonstrates that the corrective optics incorporated within WFPC2 compensate fully for Hubble's near-sightedness. The new camera will allow Hubble to probe the universe with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity. The picture clearly shows faint structure as small as 30 light-years across in a galaxy tens of millions of light-years away.


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Top remaining: Lamar Odom, Stephen Jackson, DeShawn Stevenson, Dahntay Jones, Sam Young, Richard Hamilton, Daniel Gibson, Tyrus Thomas, Rodrigue Beaubois, James Johnson, Marquis Daniels, Jason Collins, Drew Gooden, Mickael Pietrus, Daequan Cook, Chris Duhon, Keyon Dooling, Leandro Barbosa, Terrel Harris.
Signed (2013-14 team): (Alphabetical) Solomon Alabi (76ers), Cole Aldrich (Knicks), Joe Alexander (Warriors, waived), Tony Allen (Grizzlies), Al-Farouq Aminu (Pelicans), Lou Amundson (Clippers, waived), Alan Anderson (Nets), Chris Andersen (Heat), Hilton Armstrong (Pacers, waived), D.J. Augustin (Raptors), Gustavo Ayon (Hawks), Renaldo Balkman (Mavericks, waived), Matt Barnes (Clippers), Michael Beasley (Heat), Marco Belinelli (Spurs), Chauncey Billups (Pistons), DeJuan Blair (Mavericks), Andray Blatche (Nets), Elton Brand (Hawks), Corey Brewer (Timberwolves), Ronnie Brewer (Rockets), Aaron Brooks (Rockets), Chase Budinger (Timberwolves), Rasual Butler (Pacers), Andrew Bynum (Cavaliers), Will Bynum (Pistons), Jose Calderon (Mavericks), Marcus Camby (Rockets, waived), Rodney Carney (Pelicans, waived), DeMarre Carroll (Hawks), Omri Casspi (Rockets), Josh Childress (Wizards, waived), Earl Clark (Cavaliers), Darren Collison (Clippers), Chris Copeland (Pacers), Brian Cook (Jazz, waived), Austin Daye (Raptors), Carlos Delfino (Bucks), Samuel Dalembert (Mavericks), DeSagana Diop (Cavaliers, waived), Ike Diogu (Knicks, waived), Chris Douglas-Roberts (Knicks, waived), Toney Douglas (Warriors), Mike Dunleavy (Bulls), Devin Ebanks (Mavericks, waived), Wayne Ellington (Mavericks), Monta Ellis (Mavericks), Melvin Ely (Grizzlies, waived), Tyreke Evans (Pelicans), Jordan Farmar (Lakers), Derek Fisher (Thunder), Gary Forbes (Nets, waived), Randy Foye (Nuggets), Dan Gadzuric (Lakers), Francisco Garcia (Rockets), Diante Garrett (Thunder, waived), Manu Ginobili (Spurs), Mickell Gladness (Magic, waived), Ryan Gomes (Thunder), Donte Greene (Celtics, waived), Ben Hansbrough (Europe),Tyler Hansbrough (Raptors), Josh Harrellson (Pistons), Al Harrington, (Wizards), Devin Harris (Mavericks), Manny Harris (Magic, waived), Lazar Hayward (Pelicans), Gerald Henderson (Bobcats), Xavier Henry (Lakers), J.J. Hickson (Denver), Justin Holiday (Jazz, waived), Ryan Hollins (Clippers), Dwight Howard (Rockets), Josh Howard (signed with Spurs, waived), Lester Hudson (Jazz,waived), Andre Iguodala (Warriors), Royal Ivey (Hawks, waived), Jarrett Jack (Cavaliers), Bernard James (Mavericks), Damion James (Nuggets, waived), Mike James (Bulls), Antawn Jamison (Clippers), Al Jefferson (Bobcats), Brandon Jennings (Pistons), James Johnson (Hawks, waived), Wesley Johnson (Lakers), Dahntay Jones (Bulls), DeQuan Jones (Kings, waived), Dwayne Jones (Jazz), Solomon Jones (Magic), Kris Joseph (Magic, waived), Chris Kaman (Lakers), Andrei Kirilenko (Nets), Kyle Korver (Hawks), Carl Landry (Kings), Jon Leuer (Grizzlies), Shaun Livingston (Nets), John Lucas III (Jazz), Scott Machado (Jazz, waived), Corey Maggette (Spurs, waived), Kenyon Martin (Knicks), Cartier Martin (Hawks), Kevin Martin (Timberwolves), Roger Mason Jr. (Heat), Jason Maxiell (Magic), Eric Maynor (Wizards), O.J. Mayo (Bucks), Josh McRoberts (Bobcats), Mike Miller (Grizzlies), Fab Melo (Mavericks, waived), Paul Millsap (Hawks), Nazr Mohammed (Bulls), Darius Morris (76ers), Timofey Mozgov (Nuggets), Anthony Morrow (Pelicans), Byron Mullens (Clippers), Gary Neal (Bucks), Patrick O'Bryant (Bobcats, waived), Greg Oden (Heat), Jermaine O'Neal (Warriors), Daniel Orton (76ers), Zaza Pachulia (Bucks), Jannero Pargo (Bobcats), Chris Paul (Clippers), Nikola Pekovic (Timberwolves), Jeff Pendergraph (Spurs), Dexter Pittman (Bulls, waived), Josh Powell (Knicks, waived, signed to play in China), A.J. Price (Timberwolves), Ronny Price (Magic), Pablo Prigioni (Knicks), Nate Robinson (Nuggets), Robert Sacre (Lakers), Josh Smith (Pistons), Marreese Speights (Warriors), Tiago Splitter (Spurs), Greg Stiemsma (Pelicans), J.J. Redick (Clippers), Quentin Richardson (Raptors, waived), Donald Sloan (Pacers), J.R. Smith (Knicks), Julyan Stone (Raptors), Jeff Teague (Hawks), Garrett Temple (Wizards), Adonis Thomas (Nets, waived), Lance Thomas (Pelicans), Anthony Tolliver (Bobcats), Ronny Turiaf (Timberwolves), Jeremy Tyler (Knicks, waived), Beno Udrih (Knicks), C.J. Watson (Pacers), Earl Watson (Trail Blazers), Martell Webster (Wizards), David West (Pacers), D.J. White (Bulls, waived), Damien Wilkins (Hawks), Elliot Williams (Cavaliers), Mo Williams (Trail Blazers), Reggie Williams (Rockets, waived), Shawne Williams (Lakers), Metta World Peace (Knicks), Brandan Wright (Mavericks), Dorell Wright (Trail Blazers), Nick Young (Lakers), Sam Young (Spurs).
Atlanta Hawks: Devin Harris (signed with Mavericks), Royal Ivey, Ivan Johnson (signed to play in China), James Johnson, Dahntay Jones (signed with Bulls, since waived), Kyle Korver (signed with Hawks), Zaza Pachulia (signed with Bucks), Johan Petro (signed to play in China), Josh Smith (signed with Pistons), DeShawn Stevenson, Jeff Teague (signed with Hawks), Anthony Tolliver (signed with Bobcats).
Boston Celtics: Kris Joseph (signed with Magic), Donte Green (signed to play in China), Shavlik Randolph (signed to play in China), Chris Wilcox, Terrence Williams.
Brooklyn Nets: Andray Blatche (signed with Nets), Josh Childress, Gary Forbes, Marko Jaric, Jerry Stackhouse, C.J. Watson (signed with Pacers), Adonis Thomas, D.J. White (signed with Bulls, waived).
Charlotte Bobcats: DeSagana Diop (signed with Cavaliers, waived), Gerald Henderson (signed with Bobcats), Josh McRoberts (signed with Bobcats), Byron Mullens (signed with Clippers), Patrick O'Bryant, Jannero Pargo (signed with Bobcats), Tyrus Thomas, Reggie Williams (signed with Rockets, waived).
Chicago Bulls: Marco Belinelli (signed with Spurs), Daequan Cook, Richard Hamilton, Dahntay Jones, Nazr Mohammed (signed with Bulls), Dexter Pittman, Vladimir Radmanovic (retired), Nate Robinson (signed with Nuggets), Malcolm Thomas, D.J. White.
Cleveland Cavaliers: Omri Casspi (signed with Rockets), DeSagana Diop, Wayne Ellington (signed with Mavericks), Daniel Gibson, Kevin Jones, Shaun Livingston (signed with Nets), Chris Quinn, Marreese Speights (signed with Warriors), Luke Walton (retired).
Dallas Mavericks: Renaldo Balkman, Rodrigue Beaubois, Elton Brand (signed with Hawks), Darren Collison (signed with Clippers), Devin Ebanks, Bernard James (signed with Mavericks), Mike James (signed with Bulls), Chris Kaman (signed with Lakers), O.J. Mayo (signed with Bucks), Fab Melo, Anthony Morrow (signed with Pelicans), Brandan Wright (signed with Mavericks).
Denver Nuggets: Corey Brewer (signed with Timberwolves), Andre Iguodala (signed with Warriors), Damion James, Timofey Mozgov (signed with Nuggets), Julyan Stone (signed with Raptors).
Detroit Pistons: Will Bynum (signed with Pistons), Jose Calderon (signed with Mavericks), Corey Maggette (signed with Spurs), Jason Maxiell (signed with Magic).
Golden State Warriors: Joe Alexander, Jarrett Jack (signed with Cavaliers), Dwayne Jones (signed with Jazz), Carl Landry (signed with Kings), Scott Machado (signed with Jazz, waived), Kevin Murphy.
Houston Rockets: Aaron Brooks (signed with Rockets), Marcus Camby, Carlos Delfino (signed with Bucks), Francisco Garcia (signed with Rockets), Reggie Williams.
Indiana Pacers: Hilton Armstrong, D.J. Augustin (signed with Raptors), Ben Hansbrough (signed to play in Europe), Tyler Hansbrough (signed with Raptors), Jeff Pendergraph (signed with Spurs), David West (signed with Pacers), Sam Young (signed with Spurs, since waived).
Los Angeles Clippers: Lou Amundson, Matt Barnes (signed with Clippers), Chauncey Billups (signed with Pistons), Ryan Hollins (signed with Clippers), Lamar Odom, Chris Paul (signed with Clippers), DaJuan Summers (signed to play in Europe), Ronny Turiaf (signed with Timberwolves).
Los Angeles Lakers: Devin Ebanks (signed with Mavericks, waived), Earl Clark (signed with Cavaliers), Chris Duhon, Andrew Goudelock (signed to play in Europe), Dwight Howard (signed with Rockets), Antawn Jamison (signed with Clippers), Darius Johnson-Odom (signed to play in China), Darius Morris (signed with 76ers), Robert Sacre (signed with Lakers), Metta World Peace (signed with Knicks).
Memphis Grizzlies: Tony Allen (signed with Grizzlies), Austin Daye (signed with Raptors), Keyon Dooling, Melvin Ely, Donte Greene (re-signed by Grizzlies, traded to Celtics), Jon Leuer (signed with Grizzlies), Fab Melo (signed with Mavericks, waived).
MIAMI HEAT: Chris Andersen (signed with Heat), Eric Griffin, Justin Hamilton, Juwan Howard (retired), Mike Miller (signed with Grizzlies), Jarvis Varnado.
Milwaukee Bucks: Gustavo Ayon (signed by Hawks), Samuel Dalembert (signed with Mavericks), Marquis Daniels, Mike Dunleavy (signed with Bulls), Monta Ellis (signed with Mavericks), Drew Gooden, Brandon Jennings (re-signed, traded to Pistons), Joel Przybilla, J.J. Redick (signed and traded to Clippers).
Minnesota Timberwolves: Chase Budinger (signed with Timberwolves), Mickael Gelabale (signed to play in Europe), Andrei Kirilenko (signed with Nets), Nikola Pekovic (signed with Timberwolves), Greg Stiemsma (signed with Pelicans).
New Orleans Pelicans: Al-Farouq Aminu (signed with Pelicans), Lou Amundson (signed with Clippers, waived), Lazar Hayward, Xavier Henry (signed with Lakers), Roger Mason Jr. (signed with Heat), Lance Thomas (signed with Pelicans).
New York Knicks: Earl Barron (signed to play in China), Chris Copeland (signed with Pacers), Ike Diogu, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Kenyon Martin (signed with Knicks), Pablo Prigioni (signed with Knicks), Josh Powell (signed to play in China), Quentin Richardson (signed and traded to Raptors, waived by Raptors), J.R. Smith (signed with Knicks), Jeremy Tyler, James White (signed to play in Europe).
Oklahoma City Thunder: Ronnie Brewer (signed with Rockets), Derek Fisher (signed with Thunder), Diante Garrett, DeAndre Liggins, Kevin Martin (signed with Timberwolves), Daniel Orton (signed with 76ers).
Orlando Magic: Mickell Gladness, Al Harrington (signed with Wizards), Manny Harris, DeQuan Jones (signed with Kings, waived), Kris Joseph, Beno Udrih (signed with Knicks).
Philadelphia 76ers: Andrew Bynum (signed with Cavaliers), Justin Holiday (signed with Jazz, waived), Royal Ivey (signed with Hawks, waived), Charles Jenkins (signed to play in Europe), Damien Wilkins (signed with Hawks), Dorell Wright (signed with Trail Blazers), Nick Young (signed with Lakers).
Phoenix Suns: Michael Beasley (signed with Heat), Diante Garrett (signed with Thunder, waived), Hamed Haddadi (signed to play in China), Wesley Johnson (signed with Lakers), Jermaine O'Neal (signed with Warriors).
Portland Trail Blazers: Luke Babbitt (signed to play in Europe), Terrel Harris, J.J. Hickson (signed with Nuggets), Eric Maynor (signed with Wizards), Nolan Smith (signed to play in Europe), Elliot Williams (signed with Cavaliers).
Sacramento Kings: Cole Aldrich (signed with Knicks), Toney Douglas (signed with Warriors), Tyreke Evans (signed with Pelicans), James Johnson (signed with Hawks), DeQuan Jones.
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The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail is an important component of the transportation network in the nation's capital and a priority project under President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative. The...
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The 11-mile Capital Crescent Trail follows the former route of the Georgetown Branch rail line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It begins in Silver Spring, Maryland, east of the Rock Creek Trestle,...
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The Klingle Valley Trail spans just shy of a mile in a leafy, residential area of northwest Washington, DC. The trail opened in June 2017 and is accessible to the neighborhoods of Cleveland Park,...
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The Marvin Gaye Trail offers a paved pathway through the Deanwood, Burville, Lincoln Heights, and Hillbrook neighborhoods of Washington, DC. Just shy of 2 miles, it runs from Minnesota Avenue NE, near...
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Following the route of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch rail line, the Met Branch Trail is a busy urban rail-with-trail that shares a corridor with Metro's Red Line, MARC commuter...
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Oxon Run is the name of a tributary of the Potomac River in southeast DC, which lends its name to both the trail system and park in which the trail loop is found. The trail on both sides of the...
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The Suitland Parkway trail is a short paved multi-use path that runs adjacent to Suitland Parkway in SE D.C. to the border with Maryland. Proposed construction may extend the trail to the Branch...
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Rode from Williamsport MD upriver to Ft Frederick in 2018. Same potholes and other trail safety issues (only worse) that we saw on our first ride in 2014. Shame there is no biking group in the area to take over and maintain what could be a fantastic ride.
I won't ride this part of the trail again.
I rode this from the entrance off K Street (under the Whitehurst Bridge) up to Bethesda, where work on the Purple Line interrupts it. It's a charming trail, well-maintained though somewhat narrow and overgrown-feeling in places. It winds along the river, has some bridges and tunnels, and offers some great views of the C&O towpath. The only negatives: the trafficking entrance to the trail, and the dank-smelling river at the beginning.
Towpath is nearly impassable from lack of basic maintenance over the past 20 years. Mud in places is over 8" deep. The tunnel has trees growing out of its face and the boardwalk has holes rotted through in many places. Such a shame that America can't maintain a simple bike path.
Rode about 7 miles of this trail with my son along the Anacostia River at sunset. The trail is wide and well maintained. Picked up the trail just south of Benning road and crossed the river at the Frederick Douglass bridge. It was a great ride and we are looking forward to coming back to ride the full length of the trail.
I've ridden the entire C&O Canal Trail three times and shorter sections several other times. It is a great trail for its natural beauty as well as historic significance, with one big caveat. You need to pay close attention to the weather and trail conditions because it can become an awful mess after heavy or extended rains and flooding. The first two times we rode the entire C&O (as well as the GAP), we had dry weather and the trail was very rideable except for occasional mud puddles. However, the third time in June 2018 followed several weeks of heavy rains and flooding, and the trail was impassable in many spots. We had to hire shuttles to carry us around two sections, and we were bogged down by thick mud and downed trees in some of the sections we rode. I will follow trail and weather reports more closely if I ride the C&O again.
I started at lock 6 and rode up to Great Falls Tavern. It was a great day. I saw a deer, a few herons, and the water was high on the Potomac. Trail was under construction in two places along the trail during my ride including at Great Falls. Still it is an enjoyable ride with lots of share on hot days.
Today I decided to try the trails I haven't ride in DC. Anacostia, Sligo, Takoma and Metropolitan Branch. The first three were a nice surprise. The last one, the MBT, was a disappointment. The first 3-4 miles until 8th street are a real trail. Then it becomes a loose segments on road with very poor signs and not well planned. I appreciate all the effort these guys have made but calling it a Trail is really misleading.
A lot of people think this trail ends at Bladensburg. In fact you can continue on beautiful bike paths all the way to Wheaton or almost to Greenbelt.
Technically, the "Riverwalk" trail ends at Bladensburg, but then the "River" trails take over. https://www.traillink.com/trail/anacostia-tributary-trail-system/
Lots of water views, not too many hills... lots little bridges. parked at Anacostia River Park, rode to Bladensburg Md.
The section between Bethesda and Silver Spring is closed until 2022 while the add a heavy rail transit.
This trail was expanded last year and i ride it but you end way before the end. Want to support but payment of fee demands currency on your end. The trail ends in bladensberg now. Please update.
I'm new to this app. It looks good but only shows nearby parking. How about those who can only come to bike trail via train or bus. Maybe useful to have nearest metro stops. ( or the number bus that runs by, though maybe that would be more difficult ). At least nearest metro would be helpful. Thanks.
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New processes extract high-dollar products from the practical legume.
The green alfalfa juice Richard Koegel concocts in his laboratory at the USDA's Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI, isn't some high-protein health drink, although it would probably be a fairly healthful, if not tasty, beverage.
Rather, this liquid and the fiber from which it is pressed contain a variety of valuable substances waiting to be distilled out, including lactic acid, protein concentrates and enzymes, worth the equivalent of $1,000 to $2,000/acre of crop.
Alfalfa has such good agronomic characteristics that it is logical to try to add more value to it, Koegel says. "It's a perennial, so you don't have to reestablish it each year, it fixes its own nitrogen, and its deep root system makes it more hardy to weather variations and has good long-term effects on the soil. It fits well in rotation with cash crops to break disease and pest cycles, and, of course, there are the soil conservation benefits."
He adds that other crops may be easier to modify genetically, such as tobacco and potatoes, but they don't offer the overall agronomic benefits of alfalfa.
Lactic acid from legumes. One of the most promising derivatives from alfalfa is lactic acid, a syrupy liquid formed by fermenting sugars, which can be made "organically" by enzyme treatment of crops such as alfalfa and corn or synthetically with chemicals. It is commonly used as a food additive to enhance flavor and increase shelf life.
But a new use for lactic acid is in the production of biodegradable plastics. A new process developed through a joint venture of Cargill and Dow Chemical has made the production of biodegradable plastic much more cost-efficient and flexible, allowing for the manufacture of such products as clothing fibers, clear film and food containers, along with the already common garbage bags and mulching film (see "Golden fields of plastic," February 2000).
Although the current Cargill/Dow process uses corn as its lactic acid source, alfalfa could be used as the base fiber, Koegel explains. The USDA-ARS agricultural engineer has devised a method of extracting the lactic acid by pretreating the alfalfa fiber for 2 min. in extremely hot water while applying 150 lbs./sq. in. of pressure. Then by adding some hydrolytic enzymes and special bacteria, he can get lactic acid yields as high as 60%. Koegel hopes to further refine the process to reduce costs and improve his yields.
The current U.S. market for lactic acid is about 50,000 tons, and half of that is imported. With the potential to supply more of that need from alfalfa and to further expand the lactic acid market through new applications such as in the production of biodegradable plastics, the market for alfalfa could expand significantly in the coming years.
Extracting enzymes. Another growth area for alfalfa involves genetically engineering varieties to produce enzymes, which are proteins that control biological reactions. These types of enzymes are currently used in a variety of products, including animal feeds and laundry detergents. Researchers predict that the market for this industrial enzyme will double in the next decade.
Plant biotechnologists at the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center have successfully engineered alfalfa to produce high levels of the enzyme phytase, which is used in poultry and swine feeds. Koegel and colleague Richard Straub have developed the process for extracting the phytase from the alfalfa plant. The result, again, is a potent juice that contains protein, enzyme and xanthophyll, all of which are valuable in poultry feed. "Once concentrated, the liquid can be sprayed on dry feed or dehydrated and incorporated dry," Koegel explains.
Only 1 to 2% of the crop is actually used in the enzyme-making process, but the leftover high-fiber by-product can be fed in cattle rations. The per-acre value of the phytase alone is between $500 and $1,000, Koegel says. But that doesn't include processing costs.
He estimates that 250,000 acres of the genetically altered alfalfa would be enough to meet current market needs for the enzyme. So although the crop return looks good, the amount needed is limited.
Currently, licensing of the genetic materials and transformation processes is holding up marketing of the phytase-producing crops. "Once that gets settled, things could move along fairly quickly," Koegel says.
In fact, one entrepreneur says he and a group of private investors could have an alfalfa wet fractionation (processing) pilot plant up and running in southern Minnesota as early as next summer. Although he declined to provide more details at this time, he said the technology is there and such a venture "looks very promising."
Beyond feed. But the possibilities for alfalfa use don't stop there. The crop also can be genetically altered to produce enzymes that would offer environmentally friendly options for the paper industry, as well as help break down oil in cases of petroleum spills.
And in the rapidly growing field of nutraceuticals, researchers say that alfalfa could be genetically modified to contain vaccines and later fed to livestock, providing more natural protection from disease. Research is also under way to explore the possibility of using this forage crop to grow insulin for human use, because studies have shown that alfalfa extracts have activities affecting insulin and the pancreas.
If any of these developments can help turn alfalfa into a high-value crop worth more than just its use as livestock feed, this lowly legume may not be so lowly after all.


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WASHINGTON -- BP and the oil industry drilling in the Gulf of Mexico lacked the proper safety attitude to handle the large risks of deep-water drilling, leading to the many bad decisions behind the nation's worst offshore spill, a panel of expert engineers said Wednesday.
Despite better safety practices, the experts worried that the improvements could fade without new steps. They pointed to NASA and how lessons the agency learned after the 1986 Challenger disaster eventually dimmed, leading to the 2003 Columbia disaster.
The report's release coincided with the government's announcement of the results of the first auction of offshore oil leases off the Gulf of Mexico since the April 2010 spill. They drew $337.7 million in winning bids for 191 tracts in the western Gulf off the coast of Texas. BP had the fourth most successful bids, 11 totaling $27.5 million, far behind ConocoPhillips' 75 winning bids.
The National Academy of Engineering, which advises the federal government, cited errors that combined to make the well platform explode and oil spill, but noted a problem with the safety culture underlying last year's 172 million gallon spill at BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
"The industrial management involved with drilling the Macondo well had not adequately understood and coped with the system safety challenges presented by offshore drilling operations," the 136-page report said. "This raises questions about the industry's overall safety preparedness, the ability to handle the complexities of the deep-water operations, and industry oversight to approve and monitor well plans and operational practices and personnel competency and training."
That's a problem because the report called drilling in the Gulf's deep waters "some of the most complex and most risky ventures conducted by commercial enterprises."
Experts said a deficient safety culture led BP to rely on blowout preventers -- a 57-foot-tall, 400-ton system of well control devices -- as equipment that just couldn't fail.
The trouble is that even before the well blowout, "there were numerous warnings to both industry and regulators about potential failures of existing" blowout preventers, the report said. The report pointed to studies in 2001, 2002, 2004, and a 1999 well blowout and fire off the Louisiana coast.
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A quick and easy method to fetch, compile, and run KBibTeX from Git, i.e. the lastest code from master branch, is to get the run-kbibtex.sh Bash script from Thomas Fischer's 'KBibTeX-related' Git repository.To run the script, either make it executable and run it via
./run-kbibtex.shor invoke it via
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The script will by default clone KBibTeX's Git repository into a temporary directory, compile it, install it in a temporary directory, and launch this temporary installation of KBibTeX.
The script does not need to be run as root or with sudo. It will not make any permanent modifications on your system. In order to compile KBibTeX, various tools and development libraries must be available beforehand, e.g. installed via the distribution's package management system.
There is a README.txt file explaining the script in greater detail.
KBibTeX's sources are available through KDE's Git infrastructure, the repository's name is kbibtex. How to clone a Git repository is explained in the Git Recipes in TechBase. In short, run the following command in your terminal:
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kbibtex
You can browse KBibTeX's source code at KDE's Git server.
Main development happens in the master branch (named master). It is an objective that this branch is functional and mostly stable, although it is not guaranteed. Use this branch to enjoy new features.
For releases, release branches are created. The naming scheme is kbibtex/versionnumber, where versionnumber may be something like 0.6. Actual releases are tagged commits ('tags') within such a branch, for example v0.5.1. There won't be branches for bug fix releases, e.g. no kbibtex/0.6.1.
For bugs or features that require multiple commits and where individual commits may break master or a release branch, so-called feature branches are used. These branches are supposed to track master (typical for features) or a release branch (typical for bugs). Branches for bugs are meant to be merged into the release branch where the bug was reported for as well as into the master branch (for future releases). Feature branches are merged into the master branch, in selected cases into releases branches where no release has been tagged yet, and only in rare cases back-ported to release branches with published releases. An example for a feature branch would be feature/zotero, which may contain the code for an improved Zotero support. Names for bug report-related branches are bugs/bugsystemnumber (for example bugs/kde338375) , where bugsystem would be kde or the name of a Linux distribution and number the actual bug number. Feature branches start with feature/ followed by a short descriptive name for this feature (all lowercase, no spaces). Merged branches will be delete after some time.
The following instructions provide information how to compile KBibTeX on the command line. Instructions are similar but differ slightly between KDE4-based builds (e.g. branch kbibtex/0.5) and KDE Frameworks 5-based builds (e.g. branch master). When compiling KBibTeX from inside of an IDE like KDevelop or Qt Creator, those settings have to be applied as well.
KBibTeX is configured using CMake. There are a few options relevant for the configuration of this project:
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH specifies the installation location. There are a number of choices available for this option:
kde4-config --prefix (compiling for KDE4) or
kf5-config --prefix (compiling for KDE Frameworks 5) print this location. Picking this option most likely will require root permissions (e. g. via sudo) for the actual installation. Caution: This choice will interfere with the package management.
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE determines the amount of debug information included in the final code. Regular users may set it to
release, developers to
debug, and for step-by-step debugging
debugfull works best. All available options are discussed in the CMake documentation in TechBase.
A complete example looks like this:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/tmp/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ../kbibtex
GNU Make is the default choice for source code compilation. The number of parallel processes should be specified to shorten the time to finish on multi-core systems. The priority of the compilation tasks may get reduced.
nice -n 16 make -j$(nproc)
To make use of ninja, the
cmake statement above has to include the argument
-GNinja. Combining both cmake and ninja may look like this:
cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/tmp/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ../kbibtex && ninja
KBibTeX uses KDE's KParts technology, which requires you to install some libraries. KBibTeX may not run properly if the following steps are omitted.
make install
will install KBibTeX into the directory as specified as installation prefix earlier. Depending on your choice of installation prefix, this statement has to be run with sudo or alike.
Unless the installation prefix equals the KDE install directory, the following environment variables have to be specified. You may set the variables temporarily in an active shell session, permanently setting them in your shell's configuration, or create a small shell script that both sets those variables and then launches your custom KBibTeX installation.
KDEDIRS to include the KDE installation directory and KBibTeX's installation directory, for example /usr:/tmp/usr
QT_PLUGIN_PATH to include the plugin directory inside the library directory of KBibTeX's installation directory, for example /usr/lib/plugins:/usr/lib/qt5/plugins:/tmp/usr/lib64/plugins/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the library directory inside KBibTeX's installation directory, for example /tmp/usr/lib64
XDG_DATA_DIRS to include the shared data directories of the KDE installation directory, KBibTeX's installation directory, and other relevant prefixes, for example /usr/share:/usr/local/share:/tmp/usr/share
kbuildsycoca4 (KDE4) or
kbuildsycoca5 (KDE Frameworks 5) to make the KDE subsystem aware of the new libraries.
|KBibTeX consists of the actual program and a number of libraries. To avoid undefined behavior, it is important to uninstall any other KBibTeX installations (e.g. those done via the Linux distribution's package management system) and to remove any remaining KBibTeX libraries (e.g. those files found anywhere under /usr) that match the pattern *kbibtex*.so*.
Now KBibTeX can be started, like shown in this example:
A number of pages in TechBase, UserBase, and Community discuss using Git for source code management. This section shows some examples how Git is used for KBibTeX.
In below example, replace xxxx with a short and concise name for a feature to be developed (as discussed above). Branches for bugs are created similarly, but follow the scheme bugs/kdeNNNN, where NNNN is the bug number in KDE's bug tracker. Bugs in other bug trackers such as Gna! or your distribution may use a different prefix such as bugs/gnaNNNN or bugs/gentooNNNN.
git branch --track feature/xxxx origin/master && git checkout feature/xxxx
To minimize polluting the official KBibTeX repository or when you do not have write access, you may push your local branches to another Git repository to allow others to inspect your changes. In below example, personalpublicclone is your personal, public Git repository where you want to push to.
To publish you changes, use a command like this:
git push personalpublicclone feature/xxxx:feature/xxxx
Others can add your repository to their local clone of KBibTeX's git and clone your branch (assuming in this example it is located on KDE's Git server):
git remote add someonespublicclone email@example.com:clones/kbibtex/NAME/kbibtex # run once git fetch someonespublicclone feature/xxxx && git checkout feature/xxxx # every time to get updates git remote rm someonespublicclone && git checkout master && git branch -D feature/xxxx # to erase branch
To create a release branch from master and push it to origin, run
git checkout -b kbibtex/0.6 master && git push origin kbibtex/0.6
To tag a release in a release branch, run the following commands:
git checkout kbibtex/0.6 # be in right branch git pull --ff-only # get latest changes from origin git status # just check that everything is ok git tag -s -u GPGKEY -m "Tagging 0.6" v0.6 # actual tagging, GnuPG signed git push --tags # explicitly push tag to origin
|This section describes how to create releases based on KDE4 (kdelibs4). It will not work for KDE Frameworks 5.
To create a release, use the Ruby scripts from the git.kde.org:releaseme.git repository. KBibTeX's package generation is configured through files kbibtex.rb and kbibtexrc. Configure those files or invoke kbibtex.rb with the correct arguments, such as:
./kbibtex.rb --src=file:///${HOME}/git/kbibtex --version=0.6.0 --no-doc --no-l10n
Fetching documentation and translation files is the most time-consuming part of this process.
Detached cryptographic hashes can be created and signed like this:
sha512sum kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz >kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz.sha512 gpg --default-key GPGKEY --output kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz.sha512.asc --detach-sign --armor kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz.sha512 gpg --default-key GPGKEY --output kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz.asc --detach-sign --armor kbibtex-0.6.0.tar.xz


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Herrington chosen to lead choral competition
Dr. Scott Herrington, professor of music at Wayland Baptist University, recently returned from leading the Texas Music Educators Association's Region 20 All-Region High School Mixed Choir, held Nov. 10 in Dallas.
The event is the culmination of several levels of competition within high schools, with All-State choir being the highest level of achievement. The All-Region choir, composed of 100-plus students, was chosen after a competition among Dallas area schools.
"These are the best of the best high school singers in TMEA Region 20," Herrington said. "They represented 23 different high schools in the Dallas area."
At the All-Region event, Herrington worked with the choir as a clinician for the majority of the day. At 7:30 that evening, the group presented a formal concert for friends, family and directors, an audience Herrington said numbered more than 1,500. The concert featured music by Ralph Vaughn Williams, William Byrd, Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, David Dickau, David Brunner and Franz Biebl.
Herrington said the event was a great recruiting opportunity and a chance to see 1998 WBU graduate John Wayman, who is a high school choral director in that region.
The opportunity was not a first for Herrington, who has been at Wayland for almost a decade. He conducted the Region 16 All-Region choir, which covers the Lubbock area, a few years ago.
Herrington has also been invited to conduct the Texas Baptist All-State Choir, an honor that rotates among choral directors at Texas Baptist Schools. Sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the ensemble is selected from audition tapes of 500-600 students statewide. The group meets for a week at a college campus to rehearse music then performs at the end for an audience. This year's camp will be at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall. Wayland has hosted the choir event three times previously.


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