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1. Re: how to put lists in the session or application scopebart king May 20, 2010 7:28 PM (in response to bart king)
Got it:
@Out(scope=ScopeType.SESSION, required=false) List<SelectItem> list1; @Factory(value="list1") public void getList1() { list1 = return em.createQuery(queryStr).getResultList(); } <h:selectOneMenu value="#{val1}"> <f:selectItem itemLabel="-- Select --" itemValue="#{null}"/> <f:selectItems value="#{list1}"/> </h:selectOneMenu>
2. Re: how to put lists in the session or application scopeRohit Kamboj May 1, 2012 4:25 PM (in response to bart king)
I am facing an issue with any scope greater than EVENT.
I had this
@Factory(value="allDistinctDwellTypes", scope=ScopeType.EVENT)
public List<DwellType> getDistinctDwellTypes(){
//code to get the list
On my UI I had this:
<h:selectOneListbox id="dwellType" size="1" value="#{allDevelopmentsAction.developmentSearch.dwellType}" required="false">
<s:selectItems value="#{allDistinctDwellTypes}"
label="#{dwellType.description}" var="dwellType" noSelectionLabel="Choose" />
<s:convertEntity />
With EVENT scope every thing works fine. However if I change the scope to say APPLICATION, then the list box is populated fine with the options but as and when I choose an option and submit the page, I get an error saying value is required. This does not occur with EVENT scope.
I have also tried your suggestion by using @Factory method which returns void and then using @out and setting the scope of the variable as APPLICATION. But same thing happens.


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The Pros: Mouse pointer integration is built-in, so you don't have to deal with reinstalling Guest Additions every time you do a kernel update.
The Cons: Since Maverick started using a new X-Server (1.9), Guest Additions no longer do their acceleration and resolution magic. This includes manually adding resolutions to the xorg.conf, so until something changes, it's 800x600 all the way...
UPDATE (9/30/2010): Looks like the open source edition of VirtualBox has us covered now. Just open up a terminal and type (all one line):
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) ; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
Thanks for the tip, Anonymous!
I'm putting this here for my own reference, but if you want to automatically mount your host's shared directory in your Linux guest OS, you can edit /etc/fstab thusly:
[host's name of directory] [mount point] vboxsf defaults 0 0
which, for me, translates to:
vbox_share /media/vbox vboxsf defaults 0 0
No more tedious mounting and no mucking around with startup scripts running as root...
Something else I've encountered, not specific to Maverick, but I figured I'd share it here anyway:
I decided to give BTRFS a shot, so I formatted my partitions with it (it still won't support booting, so I had to make a small boot partition with ext4, but / and /home are BTRFS). Unfortunately, there is a hellacious bug somewhere that causes apt-get update/upgrade to be godawful slow (like, 4 hrs. for a big-but-still-reasonable upgrade) with this FS. However, I came across this blog post that suggests using a patched copy of dpkg, which is available from this ppa, which specializes in BTRFS-optimized packages. To add the PPA, add it to your sources in Synaptic or open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/btrfs
Then just update/upgrade as usual. The package comes with a pretty scary warning about how it can hose your system, so you should take frequent snapshots (that's why you're using BTRFS anyway, right? Right??). Unfortunately, this didn't really fix my problem, so it's back to ext4 for me. :(
Once perk of reinstalling using the latest Beta release package is that I got to check out the new installer. It looks really nice and they've done some really smart things with concurrency whereby it starts installing your system before it asks you all of the time-consuming personalization questions. All in all, installation was easy and fast, fast, fast!
Everything else appears unchanged since Lucid.
I'll update this post as I find anything else out. If anyone has anything to add, feel free to leave a comment.


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Fast Legendary Cloak
Have a raid or PvP obligation the night of the patch release? Well, if you do and you already have your epic cloak, this is the guide for you.
Edit: Verified 100% Working on Live servers! Completed my Legendary cloak in 30 minutes 50 seconds from login to finish!
Brief Checklist
Total time commitment: 45 mins to 90 mins
- Turn in A Flash of Bronze… (Alliance / Horde) to Chromie at the Seat of Knowledge in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and pick up the followup.
- Go to the Veiled Stair and turn in Preparing to Strike to Wrathion. Pick up A Timeless Discovery.
- Use the item Curious Bronze Timepiece.
- Turn in the quest you have to the NPC in front of you, grab the nearby flight point, and head to The Celestial Court in the center of the Isle.
- Turn in both quests you have and pick up three new ones: Secrets of the Timeless Isle and The Emperor's Way from Wrathion and A Timeless Tour from Kairoz.
- Defeat the four Celestial world bosses to complete The Emperor's Way. (Time commitment: 20 min to 40 min)
- Head to the Misty Strand in the NW part of the Timeless Isle to complete part of A Timeless Tour.
- Go to Old Pi'jiu, located south of the Celestial Court, to complete another part of A Timeless Tour.
- Head east up the road to the Firewalker Ruins to complete yet another part of A Timeless Tour.
- Jump off the cliff to the east (carefully) so that you end up in the "Croaked Hollow" with all the Gulp Frogs.
- Retrieve the majority of the chests from this map. Check the other section for a code box with a TomTom macro to make this easier. You can also just stop and go to the next step once you have 3500 coins because the rest of the guide will get you an easy 1500. (Time commitment: 10 min to 20 min)
- Go into the Cavern of Lost Spirits, located NE of the Celestial Court, to complete the last step of A Timeless Tour.
- Turn in A Timeless Tour and pick up its followup, The Essence of Time.
- Kill a few nearby elite cranes and yaks to get an Epoch Stone.
- Turn in your quest and then Wrathion's quests and pick up the followup, A Pandaren Legend.
- Hearth back to Vale and get your Timeless Essence of the Black Dragonflight (!) from Wrathion at the Seat of Knowledge, where Chromie was originally.
Detailed Guide
Assuming this is your first time logging in after Patch 5.4.0, start off by turning in the quest A Flash of Bronze… (Alliance / Horde), which was added to your quest log when you logged in. The turn-in NPC is Chromie, who is hanging out on a balcony of the Seat of Knowledge in the Vale. She will give you another quest and an item, but ignore those for a moment. Head east to the Veiled Stair and pay a visit to Wrathion. Turn in your old quest, Preparing to Strike, and pick up A Timeless Discovery. Now, use the item that Chromie gave you earlier, Curious Bronze Timepiece, to teleport to the Timeless Isle.
Turn in your quest from Chromie to the NPC in front of you when you zone in, and pick up the followup quest, which is just a redirect that points you towards the Celestial Court. Grab the flight point, and follow the quests you have towards the Celestial Court in the center of the Isle. Turn in both quests you have and pick up three new ones: Secrets of the Timeless Isle and The Emperor's Way from Wrathion and A Timeless Tour from Kairoz. Do NOT accept and complete the other quest offered called "Time In Your Hands". It will cost you 1000 Timeless Coins to complete, and that's the opposite of what you want right now since you need 5000 Timeless Coins for Wrathion. I totally recommend you do that quest at some point in the future since it opens up several other quests, but just… not right now.
The main goal here is to get 5000 Timeless Coins and the four Celestial world boss kills as soon as possible because that is the only thing standing between you and your legendary cloak now. There should be constant raid groups forming for the Celestials, and the Celestials cycle in order so you can fight them all quickly, one at a time. The only issue is that they are faction-tagged, which means that you will have to wait until your faction gets the tag. If you're on a realm and faction that suffers from a massive population imbalance, this could be a major pain and vastly increase the required time for completion. Otherwise, you should at least get one out of every two Celestial spawns and should get the four you need within a half hour tops since players will be killing them very quickly, eager to get their cloaks and/or a shot at ilvl 553 T16.
I recommend joining up with active raid groups who are also fighting the Celestials. Even though you can complete the quests without them, you will want the extra healing from raid healers to stay alive. There is a LOT of AoE damage that goes out on the Celestial fights. Most of it is avoidable, but you likely don't know the specific animations to watch out for yet, and even if you do, some of the damage isn't avoidable.
After beating the four Celestials, head around to the various areas of the Timeless Isle for your other quest. Start by heading up to The Misty Strand, which is in the NW part of the Timeless Isle. After you get there, head south to Old Pi'jiu and then follow the road to the east through Firewalker Ruins to until you reach a bridge. Instead of taking the bridge, jump off (carefully so you don't die) to the east into the area below with a bunch of frogs (don't pull them all and die that way either).
Now, ignore the quest for now and focus on these chests' coordinates because you'll complete more of the quest automatically while following this bit. Here's a map for the chests, all of the "2"s mark a chest with a high amount of Timeless Coins.
To use the code below, you must have TomTom installed. Simply select the text in the "code" block and press CTRL+C, then go into WoW, type /m and hit "New" to create a new macro. Name the macro whatever and leave the icon blank (doesn't matter), and then press CTRL+V in the text box there to paste the code into the macro. Hit save and drag the macro to your bar somewhere and click it. Clicking the macro should add all of the waypoints to your map, and afterwards, you can remove the macro.
There are 13 chests in total in that list/map, but you only need to get to up to a total of 3500 Timeless Coins for this step. Each chest will give a minimum of 250 Timeless Coins. These specific chests were selected because they provide the most Timeless Coins per time spent on the entire island, so you can get 5000 as fast as possible. After you've looted 12 of the chests, head into the last unexplored area (The Cavern of Lost Spirits) to complete A Timeless Tour. Now, head back to the Celestial Court and turn it in.Code:/way 63.8, 59.2 /way 65.6, 47.8 /way 58, 50.8 /way 55.6, 44.4 /way 51.2, 46 /way 46.8, 46.8 /way 47, 53.7 /way 44.2, 65.2 /way 52.8, 63 /way 53, 70.8 /way 49.8, 65.8 /way 60.4, 66.2 /way 65, 75.6 /cway
You will get a follow-up quest, The Essence of Time. This quest is absurdly easy. It requires a single Epoch Stone, which drops about 50% of the time from elite mobs on the Isle and about 10% of the time from non-elite mobs on the Isle. Just kill a few nearby elite Cranes or Yaks to get the stone you need. Turn in that quest to get a weekly version you can do later and more importantly, 1000 Timeless Coins.
Quick Timeless Coin Recap
- Time Keeper Kairoz (Alliance / Horde): 100 Timeless Coins
- Celestial World Boss kill: 100 Timeless Coins (200 Total)
- High-Coin Chests (x13): 3300 Timeless Coins minimum (3500 Total minimum)
- A Timeless Tour: 500 Timeless Coins (4000 Total minimum)
- The Essence of Time: 1000 Timeless Coins (5000 Total minimum)
You should now have enough Timeless Coins to give to Wrathion, so walk over to his location on the Timeless Isle and turn in both quests to him. He will then give you the legendary cloak quest itself, A Pandaren Legend. Hearth back to your capital in Vale of Eternal Blossoms and head to the Seat of Knowledge to turn it in, receive your Timeless Essence of the Black Dragonflight, and have your character displayed in the air in the Vale for a little while after the turn-in.
Congratulations on your new legendary cloak, and I hope this guide was helpful in quickly achieving the final steps of the quest line.


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Israel's English On Stage to Host National Glee Plus Competition 2013; Registration Deadline Feb 1
A unique event celebrating song, dance, and theater will take place once again in Israel, shining the spotlight on performances created and presented by kids and teens, completely in English: The National Glee Plus Competition. This co-production of Bimatron-Mofet Hod Hasharon and English On Stage, Israel's premier mobile professional English-language theater, will host teams from across Israel competing for the coveted title of Glee Plus National Champions.
Based on the "glee clubs" or "show choirs" of American schools and the widely popular television show "Glee", the Glee Plus format combines singing, dancing, and original theatrical skit performances, completely in English. The Glee Plus format was developed by Meirav Zur, American actress, producer, and founder of English On Stage. The theater was founded in 2005 and includes a repertoire of original English-only productions, workshops, and events for all ages, including Glee Plus.
The First National Glee Plus Competition was held in May 2012, and was a remarkable success. Aside from the direct added value of the competition, participants benefited from the creative production process, cooperation, self-management, and self-confidence, especially while using a foreign language (most participants were not English-speakers). Competitors and audience members alike were also exposed to guest performances by professional English-language singers and actors, such as Theater in the Rough who presented works of Shakespeare.
Following the success of the first competition, new sponsors have shown their support for this year's important event, providing free entry for schools who wish to compete, free workshops for all competing teams (including English-only prep-workshop and House of Colour team styling workshop), and several perks during the event itself as well as valuable prizes. The deadline for teams who wish to register for the National Glee Plus Competition is February 1, 2013. Prepare to celebrate song, dance, theater, and English!
National Glee Plus Competition 2013 will feature teams from across Israel, ages 8 - 15, competing with song and scene performance in English. Anyone can compete! The competition will take place at Bimatron-Mofet, Hod Hasharon in May, 2013. The deadline for teams who wish to register and compete is February 1, 2013.
Teams must create an English-only song performance (singing + choreography) and original English-only skit or scene related to chosen song.
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Since Vogt's Hometown Market closed Feb. 2 and Heartland Foods moved into the building, the Heartland brass has had to wait a little longer than expected to begin business.
The grocery chain, which also has a store in Herington, wanted to begin business Feb. 17 in Hillsboro, but paperwork issues pushed the opening date to Friday.
"We just want to bring it up to a first-rate grocery store like it once was," Barnes said. "They (Vogt's) had some difficulties of whatever nature that caused things to kind of go downhill here and we want to get it back up to speed and offer a good grocery store for this community."
Barnes said not much would change except for an alteration in the store's chicken program in the deli, switching to Chester's fried chicken.
"We'll still offer fresh produce, meat — things like that," he said.
One challenge Hearland may face in the beginning is finding new employees in certain areas.
"We have to re-hire everybody that worked here originally, then we interview for new help," Barnes said. "We're still looking for some full-time daytime help — checkers, cashiers, and department heads — so we'll be limping along for a little bit at first."
While landing new help is a priority now, Barnes says he is confident in the current staff and hopes all former customers will return to support the new store.
"If there's anything people want to see us do differently, we're always willing to listen to opportunities," he said. "It might be something we could look into."


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Stephen Stuart, a Palo Alto resident who has provided the City of Palo Alto with a free connection to the Internet for 17 years, gave notice on Tuesday (March 29) that a nonprofit organization he works with, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), will sever the city's connection in two weeks.
The decision is a consequence of the planning department's conditional approval last week of a 50-foot cell tower, to be erected across the street from Stuart's home. The permit is scheduled to be considered by the Architectural Review Board on April 7.
Stuart maintains the planning department chose to ignore city laws when it approved the AT&T tower. City planners have said they have little legal leeway to deny the permit and cannot under federal law deny the permit on the basis of radiation levels, so long as those levels are within federal guidelines.
But Stuart and his wife, Tru Love, said that the city is misreading the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and ignoring ordinances it has in place that would protect residents.
"This is not a threat. This is not a punishment. This is the consequence of the city not enforcing its laws," Stuart said.
That failure "has vaporized 17 years of good will in one thoughtless act," he said.
"This e-mail is to inform you that ISC, which provides the City of Palo Alto with Internet connectivity via the I-Net, is going to terminate transit service for the City (the service of announcing the City's IP prefix to the Internet)," the e-mail to City Manager James Keene reads.
"Additionally, the fiber connection between the Arts Center and ISC at PAIX (Peering And Internet eXchange -- formerly Palo Alto Internet Exchange) will be physically disconnected." Stuart founded Palo Alto Internet Exchange.
Unless the city finds another transit connector, e-mails to and from City Hall would not go through. Any e-mail systems within city departments would also shut down, he said.
Keene said Wednesday he called Stuart after reading the e-mail, which did not mention the cell tower as the reason for terminating the service. He asked Stuart if they could continue to discuss the cell-tower issue, he said.
"That application has not reached the end of its review in the city," Keene said, indicating that the city will look at all issues related to the tower and that there could be opportunities for appeals.
"I understood his concern. This will be pretty tough for the city," Keene said, adding that the city is looking for another service provider. "There will be a cost as far as us scrambling."
The city has used the free service since launching its website around 1994, Keene said. Stuart said he developed the service while working as a researcher for Digital Equipment Corporation, which ran Palo Alto Internet Exchange. He built the first Web server for the city, he said.
When Digital Equipment was purchased by Compaq in 1999, the city risked losing the service, Stuart said. He moved it to ISC. ISC provides Internet connections for the city, the Palo Alto Unified School District, the Media Center, Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park City School District and Sequoia Union School District. Those services won't be affected, Stuart said.
The city cannot grant a conditional-use permit to AT&T because such permits are granted to utility facilities that are essential services to the neighborhood. Wireless facilities are not essential neighborhood utility services, Stuart said.
The tower is also not compatible with the city's Comprehensive Plan because the church property is to be considered for future residential development, not for a commercial tower, Stuart and Love said in a March 22 letter to the city.
"Cities can deny facilities for any grounds except for on the basis of environmental effects if the facility complies with emissions regulations. This proposal must be rejected because the Municipal Code says it must be rejected, and there is case law that supports this conclusion," Stuart and Love wrote.
Keene said he did not consider the cell tower and the city's Internet service linked issues.
"I wish we weren't dealing with this in this context," he said.
Even if the city were to deny AT&T's permit, Stuart said he would not reconnect the city.
When the city failed to exercise its own laws, "it discouraged people from investing in the city. I have invested my time. I'm done," he said.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- An agreement that would end the litigation opposing Georgia's harbor deepening began gathering its required approvals on Wednesday.
The S.C. Savannah River Maritime Commission and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control signaled their support for the proposed settlement.
The settlement must be approved by all the parties involved in the litigation that had sought to stop the Georgia Ports Authority's $652 million harbor dredging project.
On one side is the S.C. Coastal Conservation League, the Savannah Riverkeeper, S.C. Wildlife Federation, the commission and DHEC. The environmental groups are represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center. On the other side is the corps and the GPA.
Earlier this week, the parties concluded the mediation that U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in the District of South Carolina Beaufort Division had ordered in August.
Wednesday's settlement, which also takes steps to develop a shared Jasper Ocean Terminal, is expected to go before the judge next week, following all parties' approval.
Georgia has been trying to deepen the channel from 42 feet to 47 feet for more than a decade but ran into heavy opposition from environmental groups, members of the S.C. Legislature, and the commission. The purpose of the expansion is to accommodate the larger ships that will be traveling through the expanded Panama Canal.
The current cost of the deepening project allocates about $311 million to mitigate environmental damage, or 48 percent, and $341 million for construction.
During a conference call Wednesday, DHEC director Catherine Templeton told board members and staff that she would sign off on the settlement that day.
The Associated Press reported that Georgia port officials also approved the settlement Wednesday afternoon.
At the S.C. State House, S.C. Savannah River Maritime Commission attorney Randy Lowell laid out the terms of the proposed settlement.
Among them:
- The Georgia Ports Authority agrees to pay $33.5 million for additional mitigation measures. DHEC would receive $3 million to monitor water quality in the Lower Savannah River Basin and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources would receive $3 million to devote to the shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon. A $15 million chunk will be divided evenly between the S.C. Conservation Bank, the S.C. DNR, and Ducks Unlimited with a focus on wetlands.
- GPA will undertake a cadmium deposition study on the site of the proposed Jasper Ocean Terminal, and provide additional effluent monitoring for cadmium on the disposal site.
- The commission and DHEC will issue conditional permits and authorizations for the harbor deepening to proceed.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will undertake two additional tests for the oxygen-injection system.
"The key condition of the permits and authorizations by DHEC and the commission is that if the corps cannot demonstrate that the dissolved-oxygen system will mitigate for the impacts of the project, DHEC and the commission both reserve the right to revoke the permits, terminate the settlement agreement and reinitiate and re-file the litigation," said Lowell.
- The Georgia Department of Transportation will transfer 2,000 acres in Japer County to the commission, land valued at $10 million. An earlier agreement had won South Carolina 1,690 acres as a concession, but the S.C. Supreme Court threw out the agreement in November on the ground that DHEC had overstepped its authority.
- GPA would also establish an annual $2 million fund for dissolved-oxygen maintenance for 50 years.
On Tuesday the bi-state Joint Project Office of the Jasper Ocean Terminal was given an updated report that the cost had dropped from about $4.5 billion to $3.3 billion.
Negotiations over the shared terminal, technically an entirely different project from Georgia's harbor deepening, had come to a halt because of opposition to the deepening.
The settlement would give the proposed port another boost.
"The resolution of this litigation will allow the Joint Project Office to move forward with navigation studies and channel capacity studies to move the ball forward in getting a Jasper Ocean Terminal constructed."
The proposed outlay totals about $43.5 million, including $10 million in property, additional testing and monitoring costs, and a potential annual recurring cost of up to $2 million for a period of 50 years.
The deal would raise by 14 percent the amount spent on mitigation, tipping it to slightly more than half of the overall project cost.
The proposal requires DHEC to issue a 401 water quality certification for the project. Members of the Savannah River Maritime Commission, which includes legislators and agency officials, declined to speak on the document afterward, citing legal constraints.
Assistant Attorney General Ignacia Moreno would ultimately approve the settlement agreement, following actions from all parties.
"It's really just a question of the Department of Justice working it through their approvals. I understand that ball has started rolling," said Lowell after the meeting.
As for whether the parties were likely to sign on, he said he's not assuming anything.
"I've been doing this long enough to know I don't count it done until I've got the blue ink from everybody," said Lowell.


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Contemporary Romance. To pay her tuition (and keep her dachshund, Colin, in dog biscuits), veterinary student Piper Summers works three jobs -- and loses them shortly after delivering a sexy singing telegram to billionaire CEO Aiden Caldwell. Impressed by Piper (and her cowgirl costume), Aiden hires her as his personal dog walker. From that point on, both find it difficult to separate business and pleasure in this 1st heartwarming installment of the Rescue Dog romances, which continues with
Beauty and the Wiener
Rachel Lacey
Contemporary Romance. After battling leukemia as a teenager, Cara Medlen vowed to avoid all long-term commitments -- marriage, children, even pets -- until she'd been in remission for ten years. Casual dates, working as a nanny, and fostering rescue dogs fulfill her emotional needs...that is, until she meets sexy private investigator Matt Dumont, who makes her reconsider her stance. With its charming North Carolina setting and sympathetic, down-to-earth characters (not to mention an adorable canine supporting cast) this opening installment of the Love to the Rescue series should please both romance fans and animal lovers.
Only Yours: A Fool's Gold Romance
Susan Mallery
Contemporary Romance. Training therapy dogs is what Montana Hendrix was born to do, but when one particularly rowdy pup named Fluffy gets loose in a hospital burn unit, a tongue-lashing from Dr. Simon Bradley convinces Montana that her career has just gone up in smoke. Simon, a pediatric burn specialist who bears physical and emotional scars of his own, has spent his career moving from one hospital to the next without getting attached. However, for the sake of his young patients, he's willing to let Montana and her dogs into his ward -- and, possibly, his heart. Opposites attract, then find love and mutual respect in this moving 5th novel in the Fool's Gold series.
Shelter Me: A Second Chance Ranch Romance
Catherine Mann
Contemporary Romance. When Colonel Allen McDaniel is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Staff Sergeant Mike Kowalski brings his fallen commander's dog, Trooper, to the Second Chance Ranch Animal Rescue center. There, he's reunited with his old flame Sierra, who happens to be McDaniel's daughter. Sierra tries to resist Mike's charms, as she has no desire to follow in her mother's footsteps and fall in love with a military man. Fortunately, Trooper is willing to do whatever it takes to make the couple see that they're perfect for each other. Author Catherine Mann's experiences as a military spouse and a dog rescuer inform this heartwarming series opener.
Animal Magnetism
Jill Shalvis
Contemporary Romance. Lilah Young is one busy lady. Between running Sunshine, Idaho's only kennel, rescuing strays, and pursuing her animal science degree, she doesn't have a moment to spare for romance --especially not with commitment-averse Brady Miller, whom she meets when she rear-ends his truck. An ex-military pilot turned freelance aviator, Brady is used to navigating dangerous territory -- but nothing prepares him for his feelings for Lilah, the first woman to make him seriously question his solo lifestyle. If you enjoy small-town settings, likeable characters, and adorable critters, pick up
Animal Magnetism
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Website named as honoree in Webby awards 2014
9 April 2014 by Lynn
We are delighted that our website has been chosen as honoree by this year's Webby awards, in their cultural institutions' website category. With over 12,000 entries to the Webbys, this is no mean feat!
We redesigned the site last year, trying to make it easier to use and better looking. We think it's a bold and beautiful design and much clearer than it used to be and it sounds like the Webby's agree.
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Junior Andy Nguyen was one of five Harvard players to record wins in singles action last night, as Harvard won its 10-th straight match, and improed to 14-1 this season. (Gil Talbot)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The No. 16 Harvard men's tennis team improved to 14-1 on the year, winning its 10th straight dual match, as it downed cross-town rival, Boston College, 6-1, at the Murr Center tennis courts, Wednesday night. Harvard took the doubles point and won five out of six singles matches to earn the victory.
The doubles parings of junior Andy Nguyen and freshman Denis Nguyen along with senior Jonathan Pearlman and freshman Alex Steinroeder tallied wins in doubles play, winning their matches, 8-6 and 8-1. The Eagles were able to get the best of sophomore Casey MacMaster and Alistair felton as Akash Muppidi and Alex Skinner won, 8-5.
In singles competition the Crimson got wins in the No. 2 through No. 6 positions as D. Nguyen, freshmen Shaun Chaudhuri, Henry Steer, Steinroeder and junior A. Nguyen all recorded victories. D. Nguyen downed Skinner, 6-4, 6-4 while Steer was victorious against Jonathan Raude, 6-4, 6-2. Chaudhuri, was promoted up to the No. 3 position and was victorious against Philip Nelson, 6-4, 6-2. Steinroeder was entrenched in a battle with Michael McGinnis but came up with a win, 4-1, 6-1, 6-0 while A. Nguyen upended Klaus Puestow, 6-2, 6-0. The Crimson tripped up the Eagles 6-1.
Harvard will now prepare for a weekend matchups against Binghamton and St. John's on March 30 and April 1, respectively. Both matches are slated for 2 p.m.


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LocationHongqiao Railway Station, Shanghai, China
ArchitectImagine Native
ClientPass Plus Restaurant Management Co. Ltd.
Firm PrincipalEdmond Tse (HKIA), F. Fung (HKIA), C. Lai
Area140.0 m2
Project Year2011
Text description provided by the architects. Pass Plus Café is located at the recently completed Hongqiao High-speed Railway Station in Shanghai. The distinct site feature is the long and narrow space with the glass wall along the long side of the shop. We took this feature as our major design driven force.
The solution for the long and narrow site involved a careful division of operation area and the seating area. Several seating zones were created with different seating arrangements, and they are mostly placed along the window wall to take the advantage of the natural light. The size of the kitchen was minimized and located at the dark side corner of the site. To create more spacious interior, part of the kitchen is also opened up for drink preparation, food display and cashier counter.
The space is flooded with natural light and window wall which captures the view to the sky and the surrounding area. It is one of the few shops in the whole railway station with such a great view to outdoor. Our concept is to create a simple, warm and natural interior, which is completely in contrast with the general atmosphere of the Hongquiao Railway Station, it is busy, tensioned, congested and cold interior space. Most materials used are in timber in order to create a natural atmosphere with the help of natural light.
We want to create an interior to be an oasis for the passengers to visit before and after their journey in this vast transportation complex.


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March 14, 2007
The Lady Bisons showed flashes of power, but they couldn't produce enough runs.
Wednesday night at Greenbrook Park in Southaven, Miss., the Lady Bisons lost a doubleheader to Memphis, dropping the first game 13-4 and losing the second game 9-5.
In game one the Lady Bisons opened with a run in the first inning. Leigh Little reached base on a single to left field and then reached second on passed ball. Heather Collins drove in Little with a single to right center.
Memphis came back in the second to take a 2-1 lead. The Lady Bisons came back in the top of the third with three runs. Collins, the only Lipscomb batter to record two hits, blasted a two-run home run to center field. Kellie Sirus followed with a solo shot to left field.
The Lady Bisons pounded seven hits in the game, but did not score after the third inning. Memphis answered with four runs in the third, four in the fourth and three more in the fifth. The game was called after five innings.
Christen Campbell started the game for the Lady Bisons. She pitched 3 1/3 innings, scattering seven hits and giving up eight runs, all earned. She walked five and struck out one. Kim Jacobson relieved, pitching one inning. She gave up three hits, five runs, four earned. She walked two and struck out one.
In the nightcap the Lady Bisons scored one run each in the first, second and third innings and added solo runs in the fifth and sixth.
Memphis opened with three runs in the first, added one in the second and then finished with one run in the fourth, two in the fifth and two in the sixth.
Kellie Sirus hit her second home run of the night, a solo shot to right field to open the fifth inning. Sirus also drove in a run with an infield out in the first.
Campbell was the only Lady Bison with two hits in the second game.
Christy Grisham pitched five innings. She allowed seven hits and nine runs, six of them earned. Campbell threw an inning of relief. She did not give up a run or a hit. She walked one and struck out two.
The Lady Bisons open the Atlantic Sun portion of the schedule Saturday at 1 p.m. with a doubleheader against Belmont at Draper Diamond.
The Lady Bisons are 9-13 overall. Memphis is 16-7.


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September 2009 Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundle Released
Today we announced the September 2009 bundle of Cisco IOS Software Security Advisories. In line with our previous announcements, this grouping of advisories discloses security vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software.
Information on the vulnerabilities disclosed today can be found at the Cisco Security Advisory listing page. Additionally, we create an Event Response Page (ERP) for our advisory bundles as we've done for Microsoft vulnerabilities since June 2007. These Event Response Pages are designed to be a starting point for your vulnerability triage needs. The pages contain links to important documents as well as the assigned CVEs and CVSS scores. The ERP for the IOS vulnerabilities disclosed today can be found over at our Security Intelligence Operations portal.
The bundling concept was implemented in response to feedback that the lack of an announced schedule for Cisco IOS Software vulnerability disclosure was not allowing customers to appropriately plan for and integrate security advisories into their management processes. As a general rule, our advisory bundle timelines are limited to Cisco IOS Software and do not include any other Cisco products or operating systems. However, if the same vulnerability exists in Cisco IOS Software and another product—for example Cisco IOS-XE or Unified Communications Manager—we will work to release the corresponding advisories simultaneously. In fact, this was done today and in September 2008 when we disclosed SIP-related vulnerabilities that affected both Cisco Unified Communication Manager and Cisco IOS Software.
It is also worth noting that we may release out-of-cycle advisories as needed to reduce your risk to vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software. As I've discussed before, this flexibility is exercised with your needs in mind, and I believe it's a good thing.
Although it is becoming less common now that people are more familiar with Cisco's security advisory bundling—as this is our fourth official Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory bundle—we often receive a similar set of questions from folks in the field. Here are a few of those questions, with answers, in case you are wondering about any of them yourself.
- Question: If Cisco knows about vulnerabilities, I need to know right away, not wait for six months. Does this mean that Cisco will be withholding issues that can impact my network for up to six months?
- Answer: The actual public disclosure of vulnerabilities is the end of our vulnerability management cycle. Our Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) works with our engineering organization to address vulnerabilities as quickly as possible. Software releases are patched, tested, and posted to Cisco.com as soon as possible.
- Question: Does Cisco IOS Software advisory bundling mean that there will be a PSIRT announcement only twice per year, in March and September?
- Answer: There will be a Cisco IOS Software advisory announcement twice per year, in March and September. There will continue to be occasional Cisco IOS Software advisory announcements published out-of-cycle in cases warranted by extraordinary circumstances. Furthermore, the advisory announcements for all other products will continue unchanged, without a specific schedule.
- Question: What will happen if someone outside of Cisco releases information that puts my network at risk?
- Answer: Cisco will publish information in an out-of-cycle advisory if increased public awareness or active exploitation of vulnerabilities is observed. Cisco's disclosure policy has not changed as a result of advisory bundling for Cisco IOS Software. Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory bundling aims to streamline the public announcements where possible to allow our customers to more effectively manage their network.
Once you have an understanding of advisory bundling, it is important that you take advantage of the scheduled dates to plan security and software deployment work appropriately. For example and ignoring all other factors, it is best to avoid performing Cisco IOS Software planning or deployments during the weeks leading up to a bundle announcement date. Time and money spent to deploy an IOS image in early March or September may very well be lost only to find on the fourth Wednesday that the deployed image contains one or more security vulnerabilities.
There are several resources that can help you learn of new advisories when they are released. This includes the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations portal and the security advisory listing page at http://www.cisco.com/go/psirt as well as more proactive services such as the PSIRT RSS feeds, the Cisco Notification Service, and the Customer Security Announce mailing list.
The next Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory bundle will be released on the 24th of March 2010. Mark your calendar!
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Dark Elf
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When Melian set her Girdle around the land of Doriath, Thingol's kinsman Eöl left that land, and dwelt instead in the forest of Nan Elmoth. Living under the dark shadows of that ancient forest, and preferring the night to the day, he came to be widely known as the Dark Elf.
Eöl's epithet was no doubt influenced by the fact that the Sindar to whom he belonged were of the Moriquendi, the Dark Elves who had never seen the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. It is debatable that the Dark Elves referred in the case of Eöl not to the Moriquendi but to the eastern elves who hated the sun.
The question of Eöl's title is addressed in the following margin note by Tolkien:
- "[Concerning the name Eöl] Another name from prim[itive] FG - meaningless then and now. But it was not intended to have any meaning in Q[uenya] or S[indarin]. For Eöl was said to be a 'Dark Elf', a term then applied to any Elves who had not been willing to leave Middle-earth - and were then (before the history and geography had been organized) imagined as wandering about, and often ill-disposed towards the 'Light-Elves'. But it was also sometimes applied to Elves captured by Morgoth and enslaved and then released to do mischief among the Elves. I think this latter idea should be taken up. It would explain much about Eöl and his smithcraft. (I think the name might stay. It isn't really absolutely neccessary that names should be significant.)"
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"NEWS flash," says director Spike Lee, grabbing the digital voice recorder that's on the table before him, placing it to his lips. "Spike Lee does not assume that every white person is racist. I do not feel that way. And I have not felt that way in the past. Are there some people who are like that? Yes. But I am not going to assume they are."
Lee is sitting at a large conference table in Disney's Touchstone offices in New York City's Times Square, surrounded by posters of his latest film, "Miracle at St. Anna," which opens Friday. The movie follows the grim fate of four black soldiers from the 92nd Infantry Division -- which consisted of 15,000 African American men, also known as Buffalo Soldiers -- who are caught behind enemy lines in Italy during World War II. Crouching over the table in a coiled position that suggests lack of sleep more than a readiness to pounce, Lee is fielding the question of whether he dares to think that the United States, with a population that is nearly three-quarters white, could soon vote for Barack Obama to be the first African American president.
"It's going to happen," the 51-year-old director says with a giddy rap of his fist on the wood table. Lee cites an emotional exchange from his film to explain his own state of anticipation: "There's a scene between two of the leads, Derek Luke, who plays Stamps, and Michael Ealy, who plays Bishop. It's an argument that's been going on for years, from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on through Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Bishop asks, 'Why are we here? This is not our war.' And Stamps says, 'I am doing this for the future. I am doing this for my children.'
"People like Stamps have so much faith that one day America would deliver on its promise that everyone is created equal. And we are now closer to that than any other time in this country. In 2008, we are on the verge of having a black man as president. I think that that is a sign of the greatness of this country."
Being on the cusp of a possible "seismic change" has Lee in a good mood, no sign of any soreness from the salvos he traded in May with Clint Eastwood after he criticized Eastwood's exclusion of African American soldiers in his pair of World War II movies from 2006, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima." Eastwood went so far as to respond, "A guy like that should shut his face." But Lee still refuses to back down: "In World War II movies, rarely do you see black men in the picture at all, never mind being heroic," he says. "I have problems with this mythology. To this day, I still do. And if people have a problem with me because I have a problem with that, I don't know what to say, because I am not lying."
But now Lee can let his work do the talking, and his message comes through loud and clear, just as it did in his 1989 racially charged landmark feature "Do the Right Thing." In one of the first scenes in "Miracle at St. Anna," a black man watches John Wayne in "The Longest Day" on television, and whispers, "Pilgrim, we fought for this country too," a line that Lee himself wrote into James McBride's screenplay.
Growing up in Brooklyn, Lee loved watching movies about the Second World War, but his awareness that black people weren't showing up on screen didn't jibe with his own personal experience: Two of his uncles had served in the war as part of the Red Ball Express, the supply line that helped fuel Gen. George S. Patton's march toward Germany.
"I've wanted to make a World War II film since I wanted to be a filmmaker," says Lee. "Everything I have done up to this point has prepared me to make something this epic in size and scope."
He also needed the right source material, which came along in McBride's 2002 book, a fictionalized account of four Buffalo Soldiers that was based on McBride's extensive research. On the heels of his 2006 commercial success, "Inside Man," Lee enlisted McBride to write the screenplay. McBride found his director to be very demanding. "But he's very demanding of himself," says the writer, who adds that Lee pushed him most of all to create "multidimensional" characters, whether they were African American, Italian partisans or Nazi officers.
Production on the $45-million film began in October 2007 in Florence, Italy. Unable to secure higher-profile talent, including Terrence Howard (who had a scheduling conflict) and Wesley Snipes (who was in the middle of his troubles with the IRS), Lee settled upon four relative unknowns in Luke, Ealy, Laz Alonso and Omar Benson Miller.
Luke says he sees Lee as a "mediator of history" and was impressed by his director's rabid commitment, to the point of putting the actors through a two-week boot camp before shooting began. The fact that the African American actors were bunked in lesser quarters than the German actors -- intended to parallel how African American soldiers were actually given worse facilities to live in than certain German POWs -- impressed upon Luke how "the enormity of this film was as enormous as the history," he says.
Lee even shot a pivotal scene, the murder of more than 500 women, children and elderly Italians, at the actual site at Sant'Anna di Stazzema, where the Nazis had committed a massacre in 1944. "We could feel the spirits and souls while shooting," says Lee, who emphasizes that as much as "Miracle at St. Anna" is about reclaiming African Americans' place in history, it's about more than that. "This film is about many different things. It's framed in a murder mystery. It's about the Italians, some of whom followed the fascist regime and the others who wanted democracy."
Lee describes his prolificacy -- he turns out at least one feature every two years, along with a trail of critically acclaimed documentaries and commercial work -- as "shedding," a jazz term. "Got to get in the woodshed. Got to keep working on the craft," he says. He currently has three films in different states of development -- a sequel to "Inside Man," a film about the L.A. riots, and a biopic about James Brown.
But would he be ready with his camera should Obama win his bid for the White House?
"The Obama camp has my number," says Lee, who proudly adds that he had been flying an Obama-Biden flag outside his brownstone in the Upper East Side. But he recently had to take it down. "People were ringing the bell, thinking it was Obama headquarters," Lee says, with a laugh that turns into a cackle of glee.


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Philosophy is about as broad a subject as you can find in a university curriculum. It addresses a wide variety of questions, some quite familiar (Does God exist? Why should I be moral? What does it take to make a just society? How is the mind related to the body?), others less so (What is time? What is space? Is it rational to rely on past experience as a guide to the future? If so, why, and under what circumstances?). Philosophers also raise questions about the methods and assumptions of the other disciplines. (What role do values play in scientific theories? What assumptions lie behind the conception of "health" that guides most medical practice?)
Because philosophy covers such a wide range of subjects, philosophers are affiliated with a wide range of intellectual inquiries. Some philosophers work on issues in linguistics. Others address questions in mathematics, political theory, theology, law, or cognitive science. This means that students with an interest in philosophy can also pursue their more particular interests. With this in mind, the department offers many courses without prerequisites; and many of these courses focus on particular subjects (e.g. bioethics, law, religion).
What all these philosophers have in common is a commitment to subjecting the views they consider to rigorous critical examination. The only way to know what it is like to engage in this sort of inquiry is to give it a try.


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|Memphis, Tennessee
I may not feel entirely at home, but lately I feel at peace. We've just had three days of severe afternoon rainstorms, which hasn't bothered me, it's just life, going on. I no longer feel utterly lost, not knowing what the fuck I was doing in life's every category of living.
So, here's one thing: on the whole, lately -- I've just been happy. Not the young, high-energy kind of happy, but the quiet kind, the kind that soothes and calms and contemplates and doesn't have a lot to say among the farm fields and cotton gins and the river and the trees.


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Akihko Mizuno, Ari Druker hired to leadership roles for Japans Capital Markets
SINGAPORE, JULY 7th, 2010— Jones Lang LaSalle has hired two Capital Markets experts to further enhance its 185 strong Capital Markets professionals in the region, in a move which will help drive further expansion of the firm's overall Asia Capital Markets business.
Mr. Akihiko Mizuno will join the firm in August as head of Capital Markets Japan from Spring Investment Co. (formerly Babcock and Brown). He brings with him a deep understanding of market dynamics and has a proven track record in buy and sell side having previously worked within the real estate arm of foreign investment banks Merrill Lynch and Citibank.
Mr Mizuno has an Economics degree from Keio University and a Masters from the American Graduate School of International Management and has accumulated over 25 years of real estate experience covering development, acquisition, sale and leaseback, advisory, asset management and M&A.
Ari Druker will be joining as an Associate Director in the Regional Corporate Finance team in Tokyo. Mr Druker has spent the past 10 years at Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, with the last 3 years in the Commercial Real Estate finance group as Portfolio Manager. He will be focused on executing debt and equity related mandates as well as supporting the regional corporate finance business, advising capital domiciled in Japan on offshore indirect investment opportunities.
These appointments follow the recent hire of Alistair Meadows who will take on the role of Director, Asia Pacific International Capital Group (ICG) and Dr. Megan Walters who joined the firm to head up the Asia Pacific Capital Markets research capability. Both will be based in Singapore.
Alastair Hughes, Chief Executive Officer for Jones Lang LaSalle Asia Pacific comments, "With Asian economies first to emerge from the downturn, we are seeing increased demand for advice from both potential sellers and buyers. The investment we continue to make in our Capital Markets business has enabled us to grow our cross border capability and further strengthen our position."
"Our business is growing and we are winning more mandates and closing more landmark deals. These appointments will further strengthen our capability, driving performance and growth so we can maximize market share and leverage on gradually improving market conditions," added Mr Hughes.
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GPS systems are getting more user-friendly and an increase in the number of satellites will make these systems more reliable, according to North Carolina State University Extension Farm Equipment Systems Specialist, Gary Roberson.
GPS currently comes in three flavors he notes: autonomous, differential, and RTK. If you take away the two correctional features, or enhancements, there is not a lot of difference between the differential system that most farmers use — the RTK correctional system and the basic hundred dollar autonomous system that can be purchased at most any electronics store.
"What we've done is to take the basic structure and add these special features to them," Roberson says.
"Today, there are millions of users worldwide and the simplicity of the basic system makes its future in agriculture very bright," he adds.
GPS is a military satellite system that allows civilians to tap into a small portion of it for commercial use. Every year the government and private enterprises send up more and better satellites, making existing systems much more reliable, the North Carolina State professor says.
WAAS (wide area augmentation system) is the most common system that farmers use. In the summer of 2007 many of those WAAS systems didn't work too well.
The reason, Roberson says, is that new satellites were launched this past summer and though some of the new technology carried by these satellites was self-correcting, some required minor tweaking of current equipment.
Once corrections were made, the older WAAS systems worked better, he says.
RTK (real time kinematic) systems require a base, or access to somebody else's base. RTK systems are line of site with limited range — 6-8 miles. The good news is that a number of very good RTK networks are being developed by equipment dealerships. These subscription services are being offered to growers.
By subscribing to one of these subscription services, growers can reduce the price of a RTK system from about $30,000 to $15,000. These subscription services typically cost from $500 to $700 a year and provide accuracy of plus or minus one-fourth inch.
"Another option is to have GPS correction delivered by cell phone. Surveyors in North Carolina already use a RTK network that covers about 70 percent of the state. Surveyors pay a one-time $500 fee to tap into the network, then pay whatever is their monthly cell phone data plan service," Roberson says.
"We don't see that in agriculture because our corrections are delivered by short-range radio. These GPS receivers are coming from the same company — the only difference in the equipment used by surveyors and farmers is the box that contains it. If we can convince these companies to deliver information via the cell phone, it will revolutionize the way agriculture uses GPS," Roberson says.
Growers who have already invested in an RTK system with a base unit can easily reconfigure their system to tap into one of these subscription services. The corrections are identical, but it would give a grower some insurance should either of the systems go down.
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Ramonia Benitez said she felt lucky and Pocono Mountain West coach Stacy Perryman knows her team has to play better, but the good news is the Panthers have another chance.
BRODHEADSVILLE – Ramonia Benitez said she felt lucky and Pocono Mountain West coach Stacy Perryman knows her team has to play better, but the good news is the Panthers have another chance.
The top-seeded Panthers led by just one early in the fourth quarter before a 16-5 run finally put pesky Northampton away as West captured a 46-38 victory in the quarterfinals of the District 11 Class AAAA girls basketball playoffs at Pleasant Valley High School on Friday.
PM West (22-3) will play No. 4 Bangor, which beat fifth-seeded East Stroudsburg South 57-37 in another quarterfinal at PV, in the semifinals Tuesday.
Also tonight in girls AAAA, Bangor defeated East Stroudsburg South, 57-37, while Parkland ousted Pleasant Valley, 49-30.
In the first quarterfinal, defending District 11 champion Bangor (19-5) was too much for the Cavs.
The Slaters led 18-4 after the first quarter and 24-13 at the half before scoring the first eight points of the third quarter to stretch their lead to 19 with 5:45 to go.
"Coach said at halftime that it was the first four minutes that were going to be the ones that counted and put them down," said Bangor senior guard Brianna Bisci, who scored 11 points and had six assists. "And that's what we came out and did."
Morgan McCollian, the Slaters senior center who recently went over 1,000 points for her career, scored 12 of her game-high 18 points in the third quarter.
Brittany Poje led the Cavs (15-9) with 13 points and All-Mountain Valley Conference first-team guard Cy Lippold added 12 points. All-MVC first-team forward Hana Swinton had eight rebounds and six blocked shots for South.
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BELMONT � Hickory Post 48 American Legion baseball coach Fore Rembert knew Tyler Pait had pitched a lot for Hickory High in late May as the Tornadoes advanced to the Western N.C. 3A championship series.
Rembert also said he felt like Pait would be ready in the Legion playoffs for an important game.
Friday was that contest at South Point High against the Gaston Braves in Game 3 of their best-of-five North Carolina Area IV quarterfinal series. And did Pait ever deliver by striking out 10, firing an eight-hitter and scoring the game�s winning run in a 4-2 win that puts Hickory one victory away from the Area IV semifinals.
Post 48 (19-8) can wrap up the series Saturday night at 7 p.m. at Hickory�s Legion Fairgrounds. A Gaston Braves� (15-7) victory would force a decisive Game 5 on Sunday at 7 p.m. back at South Point.
�Tyler Pait was unbelievable tonight,� said Rembert, whose team rallied from an early deficit to win its second straight game in the series. �He�d pitched seven innings all year so this was his first start. We�d rested him hoping we�d get to use him in a big situation.�
That effort puts the Braves and first-year coach Mark King in �win-or-go-home� mode.
�They�re a great ballclub and it�s been a well-played series,� said King, whose team Wednesday�s series opener 5-3 at home before losing 2-0 at Hickory on Thursday night. �I expected a high-scoring series, but it�s been nothing but good pitching and good defense.
�I didn�t see where we played bad tonight. They just got two more runs.�
The Braves actually scored first and twice had the lead.
Tanner Muse doubled to lead off the second inning and scored on a Nate Buchannan�s one-out groundout.
After Hickory scored in the fifth off Gaston starter and loser Aaron Biggerstaff, Sawyer McGraw�s leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning gave the Braves a 2-1 advantage.
But Hickory scored twice in the sixth and once more in the eighth for the victory.
Zack Jarrett�s two-run double accounted for the sixth-inning runs � and chased Biggerstaff in favor of reliever Andrew Locklear. And Jordan Eckard�s one-out RBI single drove in the final run.
The rest was up to Pait and his defense.
�We had good defense, so I knew that if I threw strikes and let them make plays, I�d be alright,� said Pait, the son of Catawba Valley Community College coach Frank Pait. �Plus, we�d been here before in high school and knew they had good team.�
Pait was referencing the familiarity between the two sides in recent years.
Not only is this the fourth straight season in which the two Legion teams have met � Hickory won 2010 and 2011 first-round series with the Braves winning in last year�s quarterfinals � but Hickory and South Point had met twice in the last three seasons.
South Point High won 5-2 at Hickory in the third round of its 2011 N.C. 3A title run, with Hickory winning 3-0 at South Point in May in the N.C. 3A quarterfinals.
Phillip Carroll�s four hits led Hickory�s 10-hit offense, with Jarrett adding two doubles. Muse�s two hits led the Braves.
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22
N.C. Area IV playoffs
First round (best of 5):
Gaston Braves d. Rutherford County 3-0
Hickory d. Kings Mountain 3-0
Asheville d. Union County 3-1
Shelby d. Haywood County 3-0
Mint Hill d. Burke County 3-0
Cherryville d. Huntersville 3-0
Lincoln County d. Henderson County 3-2
Caldwell County d. Gastonia 2-1/rain-shortened
Second round (best of 5): July 9-13
East-2 (Gaston Braves) vs. West-3 (Hickory)
Game 1: July 10 at GB (GB 5-3)
Game 2: July 11 at H (H 2-0)
Game 3: July 12 at GB (H 4-2)
Game 4 (if necessary): July 13 at H
Game 5 (if necessary): July 14 at GB (SP)
West-5 (Asheville) vs. West-1 (Shelby)
Game 1: July 10 at S (suspended)
Game 1: July 11 at A (S 6-0)
Game 2: July 11 at A (S 13-10)
Game 3: July 12 at S (S 5-2, S wins 3-0)
East-1 (Mint Hill) vs. West-4 (Cherryville)
Game 1: July 10 at M (C 7-4)
Game 2: July 11 at C (ppd., rain)
Game 2: July 12 at C (C 6-5)
Game 3: July 13 at M
Game 4 (if necessary): July 14 at C
Game 5 (if necessary): July 15 at M
East-3 (Lincoln County) vs. West-2 (Caldwell County)
Game 1: July 10 at C (L 12-7)
Game 2: July 11 at L (ppd., rain)
Game 2: July 12 at L (L 14-3 in 7)
Game 3: July 13 at C
Game 4 (if necessary): July 14 at L
Game 5 (if necessary): July 15 at C
Semifinals (best of 5): July 15-19
East-2/West-3 vs. West-1 (Shelby)
Game 1: July 15 at S
Game 2: July 16 at H or GB
Game 3: July 17 at S
Game 4 (if necessary): July 18 at H or GB
Game 5 (if necessary): July 19 at S
East-1/West-4 vs. East-3/West-2
Game 1: July 15
Game 2: July 16
Game 3: July 17
Game 4 (if necessary): July 18
Game 5 (if necessary): July 19
Finals (best of 3 or 5): July 20-23


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Most California schoolchildren learn the basic facts about the state's mission history in the fourth grade. Established from 1769 to 1823 by Franciscan monks from Spain to spread the Roman Catholic faith among the area's Native American population, the series of strategic-religious outposts spanned 650 miles of California coastline, from San Diego to Sonoma, providing Spain with a powerful presence on the Pacific frontier. Today, these monuments are among the state's oldest buildings and most popular tourist destinations.
Yet despite the importance of the missions to California's development, relatively little is known about the music that formed the backbone of Franciscan rituals and teaching. "The repertoire that was jotted into the mission choir books still remains largely unknown, even to musical historians," says Craig Russell, an expert on Mexican Baroque music at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. "Similarly, the musical archives in Mexico City Cathedral preserve stacks of gorgeous and erudite sacred music that are largely neglected but worthy of professional attention and performance."
This month, however, many Californians' knowledge of this music is due to expand, courtesy of Chanticleer, the San Francisco-based 12-member male vocal ensemble. Beginning Thursday in San Luis Obispo, the Grammy-winning group is undertaking a tour of eight of the 21 missions on the California coast's legendary Camino Real, including two concerts in San Francisco's Mission Dolores, where it made its inaugural public appearance in 1978.
"This music is part of both our history and California history. It forms the artistic and musical fabric of the West Coast," says Joseph Jennings, who joined Chanticleer as a countertenor in 1983 and became its music director in 1984. "The mission composers were way ahead of their time," says Chanticleer vocalist Eric Alatorre. "While on the East Coast people were writing hymns and part songs, in the Latin parts of the country they were composing full Masses and venturing into Classical terrain."
The roots of the Chanticleer tour were unearthed a few years ago in the vast archive at the Mexico City Cathedral, where musicologists discovered close to 50 lost manuscripts by Manuel de Sumaya, the most famous Mexican composer of the colonial period of New Spain. Sumaya (1680-1756) is credited with, among other groundbreaking achievements, being the first American to compose an opera. The cache of manuscripts, known as the Estrada Collection after cathedral organist and musicologist Jesus Estrada, consisted of a unique collection of Sumaya's villancicos -- folk-tinged church songs of a type popular in the 17th and 18th centuries that were a staple on Catholic feast days in the California missions.
"The find was a godsend," says Russell. "Sumaya is the American Handel. He was responsible for introducing many of the most up-to-date trends of the High Baroque into the New World. Like Handel, he was a spectacular keyboardist and mastered both sacred and secular genres with apparent ease."
In October, Russell brought facsimiles of the Estrada Collection to San Francisco to show to Jennings. The men had previously collaborated on several Mexican Baroque projects, including a Gramophone Award-nominated Mexican Baroque album in 1995, featuring the music of Sumaya and fellow New World composer Ignacio de Jerusalem, and a follow-up recording in 1997 of Jerusalem's Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe. Together, Jennings and Russell sorted through stacks of music with a view to bringing the sounds of the California missions back to life.
A potent blend of Catholic and Native American traditions distinguishes California mission music from European musical trends of the day. Just as a striking ceiling at Mission Dolores depicting Ohlone Indian basket designs painted in ocher, red, green and white vegetable dyes offsets the florid European-style carved altarpiece, Chanticleer's Camino Real program reflects these dual influences. Parts of the "Missa en sol," a Mass in G minor attributed to Friar Juan Bautista Sancho, sound as if they could have been composed during the Classical period; the work features many of the qualities commonly associated with the music of Haydn and Mozart, such as varied surface rhythms, unstressed cadences and a top-dominated texture. Sumaya's villancicos, on the other hand, sung in Spanish and flavored with folk motifs, are ethnic in feel. The same goes for some of the processional pieces, such as "Para dar luz inmortal," transcribed by the renowned musician Father Narcisco Duran during his time at the Mission San Jose.
"This is sacred folk music," Jennings says. "It was written to appeal to the people." Some of the works on the program also feature very un-European-like percussion markings. The manuscript of the Feast of Pentecost piece "Alleluia & Veni Sancte Spiritus," for instance, goes as far as to ask the congregation to kneel "until the drum makes a ruckus like the big metal organ stop of the organ."
Russell sees the inclusion of percussion in mission music as a small sign of cultural exchange. "Apparently the drum was not discarded from Native American worship but instead was folded into the Christian liturgy at the appropriate moments," he says. Jennings, for his part, is still debating whether to reproduce that effect in Chanticleer's concerts. "It may be a bit much," he says.
Figuring out how to transform this utilitarian church music into a concert program was one of the biggest challenges facing Chanticleer. The group has performed in some of the world's grandest venues, among them the Musikverein in Vienna, London's Barbican Centre, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the adobe-walled California missions are much more modest structures, requiring a sensitive vocal approach.
"We're not attempting to re-create an entire religious ceremony, but we need to perform this music with regard to its original purpose and surroundings," says Jennings. "The trick is to let go of our grandiose ideas about huge cathedrals and opulent chapels." To that end, the singers are honing their Spanish pronunciation and working to match their sound with the space.
"The missions have very simple architecture, and the composers wrote music to fit the specific atmosphere of these structures," Alatorre says. "The buildings give you lovely, hard, reflective surfaces to play with. Music that's too busy for the echoey, light acoustic sounds like mush. But when things move a little slower harmonically, as they generally do in this music, you can pick out individual tints among the wonderful washes of color."
An inspired pairing
Known both for its peculiarly American countertenor-centric sound and its Mexican Baroque recordings, Chanticleer may be uniquely capable of connecting 21st century audiences with this historical repertoire.
"There's a kind of translucency to the ensemble's texture that allows you to hear the counterpoint that is at the heart of the music," San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman says. "The group doesn't produce sound in big, weighty blocks like a 'Hallelujah' Chorus. Each of the 12 parts can be heard and has a distinctive character. When the singers are on their game, they simultaneously enable us to picture the individual threads that make up the musical tapestry and the tapestry as a whole."
The irony contained in the idea of a group of mostly white choristers performing music in the very settings where European settlers once foisted that music on the native population is not lost on the missions' staffs. Andrew Galvan, Mission Dolores' curator, is a descendant of a Bay Miwok Indian who was baptized in the church -- the oldest intact mission in California and the oldest building in San Francisco. Galvan acknowledges the double-edged legacy of the Franciscan missionaries' use of music to "civilize" the local tribespeople. But he's enthusiastic about Chanticleer's efforts nevertheless.
"Mission choirs typically consisted of Native American men, so hearing an all-male choir sing this music is appropriate," he says. "It'll be great to hear the mission voices that have been silent for so many years once again."
'Chanticleer Travels the Mission Road'
Where: Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Price: $25 to $44
Contact: www.chanticleer.org
8 p.m. Friday: Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel)
5 p.m. next Sunday: Mission San Juan Bautista
8 p.m. May 19 and 30: Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores)
8 p.m. May 27: Mission Santa Cruz (Holy Cross Church)
8 p.m. May 28: Mission Santa Clara de Asis (University of Santa Clara)
8 p.m. May 29: Mission San Jose (Fremont)
Special Non-Ticketed Event
1 p.m. Friday: Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel)


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Submitted to: Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
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Interpretive Summary: Fusaric acid is a toxin produced by several molds and is found in corn, corn based foods and feeds and cereal grains. Research suggests fusaric acid, in conjunction with other Fusarium toxins, may be especially toxic to young animals. To define the effects of fusaric acid on young animals, the toxin was mixed with rodent chow and fed to pregnant rats. Maternal feed consumption and milk production along with weight gains and neurochemistry in the offspring were studied. Pups from dams fed fusaric acid gained less weight than controls. Fusaric acid was found in the stomach milk taken from 4 day old neonates. The quantity of the toxin in milk was related to the amount consumed by the dams. The toxin decreased serotonin and tyrosine in the pineal gland of the offspring. The study shows fusaric acid passes from the food eaten by nursing dams into maternal milk and then to the offspring. The toxin decreased weight in nursing neonates and affected neurochemical parameters responsible for growth and behavior in the offspring. Since fusaric acid lactationally passes from the feed of nursing dams to the offspring, the toxin may act in combination with other mold toxins found in corn, wheat, and other cereal grains.
Technical Abstract: Fusaric acid (FA) is produced by Fusarium and found in corn, corn based feeds, and cereal grains. FA in a rodent chow diet at 10, 75 & 200 ppm was fed ab libitum to pregnant rats (FO-dams) from the 3rd wk of gestation, through parturition (F1-gen.), and pup weaning (d 21 post partum, PP). F1-pups were culled d 4 PP to 9-10 pups/litter, stomach colostrum (cls) collected and analysed for FA. FA in cls was proportional to FA consumed by nursing dams (ng FA/100 mg cls; 200ppm/pups=3547; 75ppm=1449; 10ppm=80; controls=18). FA pups gained less than controls (weight:200ppm<75pm<10ppm<controls). Day 21 F1-pups were divided: group-F1A for reproduction and FA effects on F2-gen.; group-F1B for neurochemical analyses. At age 13-14 wks on the each group diets, F1A-control males were bred to control females, 10ppm to 10ppm, etc., and F1A-dams and F2-pups monitored as above. Milk production, d 5-8 PP, was measured in F1A-dams by weigh-suckle-weigh (F2-control vs F2-200ppm pups). Similar results were observed with F2-pups as F1-pups for weights and FA quantity in stomach cls. Milk production in F1A-dams as weight gains in F2-200ppm pups on days 5-8 PP decreased 30%. No difference was observed in pineal neurochemicals for F1-pups but serotonin and tyrosine were decreased in F2-200ppm males and females. FA in diet of nursing dams at 0.3ppm, lactationally passes to neonates; at 200ppm, FA decreases pineal serotonin and tyrosine in offspring. Limited neonate weight gains may be related to decreased milk production in dams or FA effects on the neonate.


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Tractor Trendsetters: International 656 Hydro
Written by Larry Gay
The earliest tractors were built with one forward speed and one in reverse. Soon the tractor manufacturers upgraded their transmissions to provide two or three forward speeds to provide a more optimum speed for different field operations. Rubber tires in the mid-1930s enabled the tractor to travel faster on the road and a "road speed" was added. Over the years the number of forward speeds continued to increase to 10 or 12. International Harvester introduced a hydrostatic drive for its 656 tractor in the summer of 1967. The ability of this tractor to provide an infinite number of forward speeds between 0 and 20 mph made the 656 Hydro a tractor trendsetter.
The hydrostatic transmission consisted of an engine-driven piston-type pump which delivered pressurized oil to a piston-type motor. The motor was connected to a 2-speed transmission which provided speeds of 0 to 8 mph in the low range and 0 to 20 mph in the high range. The Speed Ratio lever, mounted on the left side of the dash, controlled the volume of oil being pumped and thus the speed of the tractor. Moving the lever forward from the neutral position increased the forward speed and moving it rearward from the neutral position increased the speed in reverse, up to 4 mph in low range and up to 9 mph in high range.
The infinite number of speeds provided the exact desired speed for planting and applying chemicals. The ability to change speeds easily and quickly worked very well to match the speed with varying crop conditions when the tractor was used with PTO-driven harvesting machines. The hydrostatic transmission was convenient for loader work as the tractor could be shifted from forward to reverse without using a clutch. The Foot-N-Inch pedal was not a clutch pedal, but it acted as one, allowing easier hookups with implements and stopping the tractor for emergencies.
The 656 was built as a Farmall (row crop) version and as an International (utility) version. Both versions offered a choice of a gear-drive transmission or the hydrostatic transmission. Those with the hydrostatic transmission had "Hydro" written on the sides of the hood. The 656 was powered by 6-cylinder International engines, with a displacement of 263 cubic inches for the gasoline engine and 282 cubic inches for the diesel. Both engines of the Hydro version produced about 66 PTO horsepower at the Nebraska tests.
By 1970 International Harvester had four models of farm tractors with a hydrostatic transmission—the 544 Hydro, the 656 Hydro, the 826 Hydro, and the 1026 Hydro. Today hydrostatic transmissions are used in lawn tractors, compact tractors, and the New Holland TV 145 bi-directional tractor.
Larry Gay is the author of four tractor books and the "Machinery Milestones" articles in Heritage Iron magazine. To learn more about this magazine which focuses on the 1960-1985 era, go to heritageiron.com or call 1-855-old iron.
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Telling Stories of Women at the Department of State through the U.S. Diplomacy Center's Collection
By Matthew Pickett on March 27, 2017
The U.S. Diplomacy Center is dedicated to telling the story of American diplomacy. Each item in our collection of over 7,200 artifacts has a story to tell and sheds light on a unique moment of diplomatic history.
Our mission is to help domestic and international visitors understand what diplomacy is, who does it, and the critical role that diplomacy plays in securing America's peace and prosperity. Visitors will experience the world of diplomatic engagement through state-of-the-art interactive exhibits, role playing exercises, and our unique artifacts. As part of the Bureau of Public Affairs, we also embrace efforts to showcase aspects of diplomacy that are as diverse as America -- ensuring audiences that visit us in-person or online experience inclusive, innovative, and diverse stories and conversations.
To celebrate Women's History Month, we are featuring some of our favorite artifacts to tell the story of memorable diplomatic moments in the careers of women at the Department of State.
These objects shed light on some memorable diplomatic moments for women at the Department of State.
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About the Author: Matthew Pickett serves in the U.S. Diplomacy Center in the Bureau of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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