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D-Strong: Family asks for kindness on what would have been boy's 9th birthday
The family of a young Rhode Island boy who lost his battle with cancer last year is asking people to honor him with an act of kindness Thursday on what would have been his ninth birthday.
Dorian Murray, the inspiration behind the D-Strong movement, died in March.
"(Thursday) is Dorian's birthday. His first in heaven. He should be 9 years old (Thursday), instead he is forever 8," his mother posted on a Facebook page dedicated to Dorian.
She's asking anyone who would like to honor Dorian to perform a kind gesture toward someone else.
"Compliment a stranger on their sweater or scarf, purchase the coffee for the person behind you, call a friend and let them know how much you appreciate them. Make someone smile (Thursday), then look up to the sky and wish Dorian a very happy birthday," she wrote.
People are asked to post their good deeds on the Praying for Dorian Facebook page.
Dorian, of Westerly, was diagnosed with a rare and untreatable form of pediatric cancer, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, when he was 4. After cancer cells spread to his spinal fluid a few months ago, he and his family decided to stop his chemotherapy treatment so he could enjoy the time he had left.
Not long after, Dorian told his father he wanted to be famous in China before he went to heaven. His father, a police officer in Stonington, Connecticut, posted the wish on Dorian's Facebook page, urging people to use the hashtag #DStrong. It spread across the globe.
People from places as far away as Australia and Florida sent him photos and well wishes, and #DStrong became a trending topic on social media.

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Homes for sale in Fourways | Gauteng Real EstateIf you look out into the Atlantic, past the Scituate, Massachusetts, harbor you can see Minot's Ledge Light blinking 114 feet above the swell. For the past 150 years the lighthouse has warned boaters about the shallow, shipwrecking rocks close to shore, but recently the Coast Guard decided it wasn't relevant anymore, and this fall the light became private property.
My dad grew up in the harbor the light protects, and my grandmother trolled for striped bass with a handline out past the ledge. Stories about the lighthouse dovetailed with our family's history. Eight months pregnant with my father, my grandma pointed a skiff out into the teeth of a nor'easter to tie down her boat, the Little Gull, under the flash of the light. I get the lighthouse obsession from both sides. My mom did her architecture school thesis on lighthouses. She spent a summer visiting lights along the eastern seaboard. She started in Hatteras, North Carolina, near where she grew up and moved north, toward Hull, Mass., toward my dad.
Minot's blinks 1–4–3, so people call it the "I Love You Light," and before Ray J made it a bad R&B song, my parents would sign letters and then send texts 143. That lighthouse is part of our narrative, and I don't think we're the only weirdos who put emotional weight on places. I feel irrationally possessive of Minot's light, even though I've never been in the tower. The fact that it no longer belongs to the public — that it's owned by an individual who can turn it into a vacation house or tear it down — feels like a transgression.
Part of that is nostalgia. I think it's the same kind of analog fascination that makes people want to slaughter their own chickens, or take up sewing, but it feels a little more exciting than that. It hits deeper, because it draws back to when you could get lost in the ocean, when you needed a beacon to bring you home.Credit: Boston Public Library
But almost no one navigates just by visual markers these days, which is why in 2009, the Coast Guard decided that they didn't need to hold on to Minot's Ledge Light anymore. The U.S. General Services Administration, which is essentially the real estate arm of the government, was tasked with getting rid of it. That summer, they posted a notice of availability. No one bit on the original bid, and this June, they put it up again for $10,000. On October 13th, Bobby Sager, Polaroid's chairman, won the auction and bought the lighthouse for $222,000.
It's not just the Minot's Ledge lighthouse that's changing hands. The General Services Administration, which likes to call itself "The Nation's Landlord," is in charge of selling off any federal property that's deemed irrelevant. Their website is full of Black Hawk helicopters and former cop cars.
Among the federal detritus, lighthouses are a special case. As a whole, they're basically obsolete — they're only designed to do one thing — but they're also historically significant, so the feds don't just want to flatten them. In 2000, the GSA, the Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior passed The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act, an amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. It lets the federal government give away lighthouses to qualifying local governments, non-profits, or community development organizations. They try to put them in the hands of groups that will keep them open to the public, but sometimes, like in Minot's case, no public entity wants the responsibility. Then the property goes to a private auction. Since the act passed, they've transferred ownership of 68 lighthouses to non-profits and historical commissions for free, and sold 39.Credit: Boston Public Library
Minot's light has been giving people feelings since it was built in 1860. The ledge it's built on was notorious for wrecking boats because of its steep shelf and twitchy tides. Minot's was constructed to replace an earlier light, which was swept away in a storm. Two lighthouse keepers were killed when it went down and they're said to haunt the new house. I'm not sure if it's the romance, or the ghosts, but it's always drummed up a kind of fascination. The local brewery makes a Minot Light, Thoreau wrote about it, and it's been used in ads for Cape Cod Cranberries and American Tobacco cigarettes.
Minot's has a good story, but it's not the only one that's been celebrated. Artist, writers, and poets, from Marianne Moore to James Taylor, have canonized lighthouses. People name churches and rehab centers after them. "Beacon in a storm" might be one of the most overplayed metaphors of all time.Lighthouses aren't the only kind of obsolete public buildings that we put on a pedestal — I think people feel similarly about fire towers — but lights hit the crosshairs of history, design, adventure, and allegory.
The GSA says they're "a symbol of the strength and longevity of our country's trading practices and communal spirit." In less governmenty terms they're markers of a kind of simplicity and purposeful adventure, which is now all but obsolete. Unlike my grandmother, I'm not pulling bass into a boat by hand. I barely know how to read a nautical chart (although there is an app for that), and sometimes, even though it's irrational, that feels like a loss.
Some of the people purchasing auctioned lighthouses feel the same as me, and they're buying them to save them. Last year, in Boston Harbor, just north of Scituate, Dave Waller bought Graves Island Light, which is a direct design copy of Minot's, for $933,888. At the time it was the most anyone had paid for a lighthouse. To find the money, he and his wife mortgaged their house, as did his mom, to help them out. "We went all in," he says. He says he didn't have any solid reason for buying it, just that same deep-seated nostalgia and a long-standing but loose family tie. As a kid, he sailed by it in his dad's boat.
Waller has done a ton of work on the tower. He's rechinked the granite blocks to make it watertight, and put in running water and electricity. He's arguably made it better. He's says he's planning to open it up for occasional tours, and that the response has been really good. Lighthouse fanatics have reached out to tell him they're glad he's renovating it, and that they can see the good parts of private ownership.But, ultimately he's turning it into a vacation house. "I kind of feel guilty buying it, taking it, and making it mine, because it was built with public money, but it was put up for free to non-profits first and there were no takers."Credit: Boston Public Library
Minot's future is still up in the air. Sager hasn't officially said anything about what he's planning to do; he's actually been radio silent since the sale. But Waller, who has been in close touch with him because Sager was the other bidder for the Graves light, says that he's talked to him about his plans, and that, for now, he's going to leave it untouched. The light, which is powered by solar batteries, will still flash, and the Coast Guard will come by every once in a while to check on it. Sager grew up in Malden, on the North Shore of Massachusetts, so maybe he just has that same nostalgia-fueled fascination. Maybe he just wants to be able to see it flash.
No one in my family lives in the Scituate harbor anymore, and it's morphed from a fishing town to a summer vacation spot for people from Boston. Most of the boats in the harbor have the names of other places across their sterns, and the dock where my grandma used to drop her catch is now lined with tchotchke shops. Last summer we went back and piled cousins and aunts into a rented house. At night we'd take beers out to the back porch and count the pulses from the light, picking out which ones said "love" and which ones said "you."
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Hoboken is a small city in the Hudson County, New Jersey. It is an island surrounded by the Hudson River on the East and the tidal lands on the West. The city also has a close proximity to New York and the Jersey City. People looking for an easy commute to these places for work can easily do so. Luxury apartments in Hoboken, NJ can be a perfect match for your dream house. But, before looking out for the option remember to take care of these things.
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My first concert of 2008 was last Friday night…..IRON MAIDEN!!!!
Not a bad way to start the concert season. I had been planning to go to the show for months but I never picked up a ticket. Money has been tight lately so a $75+ ticket for Maiden seemed excessive so I waited until the week before the show to grab my seat. I had been checking Ticketmaster weekly to see what kind of seats were still available, mostly grass lawn. The view from the lawn has been awful since the Comcast Center (formerly Tweeter Center and Great Woods before that) put actual seats on the lawn area, now the general admission section is just a waste of time. So about a week before the show I hit up Ticketmaster and found a single seat in Section 1, Row S, Seat 18 for around $75 total…..done!
I went up to the Comcast a little early because I knew the show sold well (Maiden always do in New England) and I didn't know if there would be a long wait at the call window. No line, no waiting…..got my ticket and went over to the merchandise stand for a shirt. Most of the tour shirts were $35 but I need the fat size (2XL) because I'm a little out of shape so that cost $40. Nice tour shirt, has the front cover of the new greatest hits and all the countries on the back. There were some really nice trinkets there: Maiden soccer scarves, soccer jerseys for $125, a couple of pricey shirts over $50 and the usual assortment of tourbooks, keychains, and posters. I'm a KISS fan and they hit the fans with a wide array of goods that are not always of good quality and use. I've been a Maiden fan since the early days and I'm only now realizing what a true marketing goldmine the band has with the Iron Maiden logo, Eddie, and quality products…..people were buying 1, 2, even 3 shirts at a time because of the different Eddies.
Next on the pre-show agenda was to meet up with Justin and the crew from Raise Your Fists!. Found the guys easily and I joined them for some beer and BBQ in the parking lot. Very nice to meet everyone, forgive me for not remembering all the names! These four guys are hardcore Maiden fans: two of the gents flew in for the show (one from Texas, one from California) and the foursome made their way from Boston an hour away. Obviously seasoned veterans at travelling to Maiden shows, the itinerary for this tour included some of the guys attending shows in L.A., New Jersey, Texas, & Mexico! Now that's cool! Makes my trips around the Northeast following KISS look like a walk in the park! So after having a good time outside the arena, everyone went in. The Raise Your Fists! crew were in the pit in front of the stage (lucky bastards!) but I wasn't more than 4 rows behind them, good seats all around.
First up was Lauren Harris, Steve Harris' daughter. She opened with a cover of UFO's 'Natural Thing'…..very nice. The music was basically female fronted Hard Rock and Lauren gave a spirited performance. Aside from the UFO cover, I didn't know any of the material but if I find her debut disc for a cheap price, I'll check it out. One thing about Lauren Harris…..she's hot! Clad in a black tanktop, painted on black leather pants, and barefoot…..this chick was smokin' hot! She could have sang the telephone book and I wouldn't have taken my eyes off her! High energy, good effort, on to dad's band…..
Iron Maiden took the stage after their usual intro – UFO's 'Doctor Doctor'. The stage set was Powerslave themed with rotating backdrops (depending on the album), a moving lighting truss, and Eddie in his Powerslave & Somewhere In Time themes. My seat was on the right side of the stage in front of the riser/ramp that Bruce runs around on, I'd say I was about 25 feet from the stage with a perfect close view. Here's the setlist:
- Intro – Churchill's Speech
- Aces High
- 2 Minutes To Midnight
- Revelations
- The Trooper
- Waysted Years
- Number Of The Beast
- Can I Play With Madness
- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- Powerslave
- Heaven Can Wait
- Run To The Hills
- Fear Of The Dark
- Iron Maiden
- Moonchild
- The Clairvoyant
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
Now it goes without saying that the band played flawlessly, even if they made a mistake or their performance was off, I would have never known because I was having such a great time. Take a look at that setlist, now that is some great music. Getting 'Moonchild' was a huge bonus and a definite highlight, my favorites of the set were 'Fear Of the Dark', 'Aces High', '2 Minutes To Midnight', 'Powerslave'. Every song they played was a classic and, like everyone else, there were a couple of songs I wished they had played ('Die With Your Boots On' & 'Flight Of Icarus') but you just can't complain with a set like this.
I was sitting five seats in from the aisle so there was a group of four to my left. The girl sitting next to me was somewhere in her mid-20s and a pure Maiden diehard…..and also some sort of dancer I assume because this chick moved like she worked with a pole. I'm not being mean or anything but this girl was dancing it up like a stripper, bumping and grinding to the pre-Maiden P.A. setlist, and she was also extremely good looking and very talkative. I always make friends at concerts so she ended up being my concert buddy for the night even with her man a seat away. As soon as the band hit the stage and launched into 'Aces High', we both lost our minds! Two complete strangers, arms around each other's shoulders, metal horns up and screaming every word! This was the whole night until I blew my voice halfway through 'Can I Play With Madness'! After I took 'Rime' off, the two of us launched into the rest of the set with Bruce…..we had a pretty good harmony thing going there for a while. Seriously, nothing is better than enjoying great Heavy Metal with complete strangers. Metal is something that binds us all together and creates a comraderie among strangers, I think my concert experience was that much better because I had a cool time with my new Metal friend. The two of us got some strange looks from the other three people she was with but it was all good fun!
Back to the band…..obviously they played great. Bruce Dickinson was in fine voice and it's amazing really because this was the last North American tour stop and Bruce sounded like it was the first. I sat on the Janick Gers side of the stage so I got to see all of his flamboyant playing, as well as, a roaming Steve Harris. Unfortunately, Adrian Smith & Dave Murray kept to the other side of the stage most of the night. Too bad because I always like watching Dave Murray play, it's always so effortless and the way he stands sometimes reminds me of Ace Frehley. (Note — I'm not saying Ace is better than Dave, obviously Dave is better.) Of course the maniac behind the kit, Mr. Nicko McBrain, was in fine form again…..he even broke part of his kit early in the set and we had a couple minute delay while they switched it out. Back to Bruce…..high energy, running all over the stage, hitting all the high notes and screams…..I felt like I was watching Bruce from back in 1988. Solid performance by the band all around, if anyone is planning on seeing the band on the European Tour, go for it! I can't wait for another Maiden tour, they never disappoint.


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At a recent Apologetics Press speaking engagement, a Christian public school teacher related to me some distressing news about happenings at the elementary school where she teaches. She explained that reading is heavily emphasized, which is a good thing. However, because the students are being required to read so much material each month and take computer tests over the material they are reading, the students are running across more evolutionary propaganda in their school libraries: especially false teaching about dinosaurs, the evolutionary origin of mankind, and the Big Bang theory.
On a positive note, the students regularly approach this Christian teacher with questions regarding these issues. She requested some of our children's materials so she could have them on hand when students ask her such questions, and wisely made the suggestion that we consider highlighting such materials for other Christian public school teachers who are in the same situation as she. To that end, we want to make you aware of certain materials we have produced that would be excellent items to have on hand in elementary school classrooms.
"Journey #1" of our Explorer Series, recommended for 3rd-6th graders, provides the answers to the above questions and many others. There are 13 lessons in the journey, which are each 8-page, full-color lessons with professional artwork and illustrations that will definitely appeal to young readers. Activities, such as puzzles, word-finds, fill-in-the-blanks, true/false questions, and mazes are used to emphasize the material covered in each lesson. It would be difficult to conceive of a better way to combat the agenda of the atheistic community than to have such materials on hand for those children who innocently come to their teachers looking for answers to the complex issues being forced on their minds at such early ages. Such issues could destroy their faith in God and His word before it has even taken root, if we are not ready to combat them. The following link will take you directly to this product in the Apologetics Press Web store: http://www.apologeticspress.org/store/Product.aspx?pid=273. Feel free to call our offices, if you would like to speak with someone about this or other products (800-234-8558).
Also, please remember that there are a host of materials available—free of charge—on our Web site, which could be printed and handed out to children as needed. Several past issues of our monthly Christian evidences journal for kids, Discovery, would be excellent sources of information on the aforementioned topics. These are available on the site in PDF format where they can be downloaded with ease for your use. Consider, for example, past issues which address topics like:
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Not everyone needs a private gym in their home but one of our clients found a great way to turn their unused garage space into a year round fitness room. If you are a fitness enthusiast and lead a healthy lifestyle, get your garage working for you!
To learn more about this garage, read How To Turn Your Garage Into A Fitness Room.
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Luc running on his NordicTrack treadmill.
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Our slatwall organization system is designed to get things off the floor and onto the walls to give you more floor space.
Our slatwall system supports up to 40 lbs/sq. in. There are 40 slatwall accessories to choose from (hooks, storage bins, brackets etc.)
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From the series: Using Qualified Tools in a DO-178C Development Process
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This is an introduction to the use of Model-Based Design and formal methods in a process compliant with DO-178C, DO-331, DO-333, and DO-330. MathWorks tools may be used in both the development and verification phases of a DO-178C project. While MathWorks tools support a broad range of capabilities for both systems and software, there are recommended limited subsets for using the tools on embedded systems that need to be certified. Simulink®, Stateflow®, and Simulink Requirements™ are used to develop the design of the software in compliance with DO-331 Model-Based Development and Verification. Simulink Report Generator™ is used to provide a design description document and trace data, as required by DO-331 and DO-178C. The verification of the design is performed using Simulink Check™, Simulink Test™, Simulink Coverage™, and Simulink Design Verifier™. Simulink Design Verifier uses formal analysis in compliance with DO-333 Formal Methods. MATLAB Coder™, Simulink Coder™, and Embedded Coder® are used to develop the source code for the system. Verification of the source code is performed using Simulink Code Inspector™, Polyspace Bug Finder™, and Polyspace Code Prover™. Polyspace Code Prover uses formal analysis in compliance with DO-333 Formal Methods. Verification of the executable object code is performed using Simulink Test and Simulink Coverage in conjunction with processor-in-the-loop testing capability. To take credit for the use of these tools, they must be qualified under the guidance of DO-330 Software Tool Qualification Considerations. The DO Qualification Kit provides the necessary documentation and testing artifacts to perform tool qualification for the tools that require it.


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Our operating philosophy is as effective today as it was 40 years ago: Build or acquire high quality hospitals in rapidly growing markets, invest in the people and equipment needed to allow each facility to thrive, and become the leading healthcare provider in each community we serve.
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'The absence in his speech of any bellicose threats to Iran stands in stark contrast to his predecessor,' says a Muslim politician in Birmingham.
By Ben Quinn | Contributor 06.04.09 |Christian Science Monitor
LONDON – In Britain, home to one of Europe's largest Muslim communities, as well as many members of the Arab diaspora, there was a mixed but generally positive reaction to President Obama's speech.
"I think he has good intent but people do want to see action," said Yahya Birt, a trustee of the City Circle, a London-based networking group whose members are mainly young British Muslim professionals.
"He has to show that he really is an honest broker with regard to Israel and Palestine. People here are going to be talking about the speech, because he has been a transformative president and people had been looking forward to the speech," added Mr. Birt, an editor at a publishing house.
"One concern I would have would be in relation to this call for democracy. He was making that appeal in Cairo, in a country whose regime has been unelected for decades and is very repressive. Does realpolitik of security still trump the push for democracy?"
In England's second-largest city, Birmingham, a cultural melting pot where more than 16 percent of the population identify themselves as Muslim, the speech also received a cautious welcome from Salma Yaqoob, a city counselor for the left-wing, antiwar Respect Party.
"The absence in his speech of any bellicose threats to Iran stands in stark contrast to his predecessor, George W. Bush, as do his comments about the 'intolerable' situation facing the Palestinians," she said.
Many Muslims in Britain are of South Asian origin and are alarmed at how the US intervention in Afghanistan is also destabilizing Pakistan. "The sooner there is progress to redress the injustice of the Palestinians and end the occupation of Afghanistan, the quicker a new chapter can be written," Ms. Yaqoob added.
Ajmal Masroor, a London imam involved with the Islamic Society of Britain, said that Obama's address was a step in the right direction, commending the president for adopting a "reassuring tone."
"He made it very clear that the suffering of Palestinians must end. On balance, the speech was very fair, so I think that Muslims will now be prepared to give him a little more time to see if he can walk the walk as well as talk the talk," Imam Masroor said.
If he had a criticism, however, it was that Obama had failed to address the poor record on human rights and democracy by many Arab "dictators and despots," including the government of Egypt itself.
The speech also went down well among an invited audience at the US Embassy, according to Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent for the Guardian newspaper.
"I think that people were impressed and the reaction was generally positive, because he was basically doing something that Bush would never do," she said.
"For much of the first half of the speech, there were a lot of comments which were very general in nature, but then he started to talk about Al Qaeda, then about Israel and Palestine, and about Iran, which I thought he would not do."
Overall, she expected that British Muslims would take notice."I think that people here on the street will be talking about it because it has been very eagerly awaited. But how people judge what he had to say will ultimately come down to whether he follows through on his words with actions."
The Quilliam Foundation, a London-based counterextremism think tank made up of former Islamist activists, described the speech as "groundbreaking and courageous."
Welcoming a "nuanced but significant change" in Obama's language, it added that he "avoided any use of the term 'the Muslim world' and instead adopted 'Muslim-majority countries' and 'Muslim communities.' "
The statement continued, "There is no monolithic 'Muslim community,' nor is there a singular homogeneous entity known as 'the Muslim world,' rather there are diverse and distinctive Muslim communities that need to be reflected in our discourse. Using the term 'the Muslim world' only serves to bolster the Islamist and Al Qaeda narrative of 'the West' against 'Islam' – of a battle of 'us' versus 'them' or 'good' versus 'evil.'
"By omitting this, Obama has taken a positive step in the battle of ideas and in realizing his promise that America is not fighting a war against Islam."
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Register to vote by 5 p.m. 30 days before election day.
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If you are a student going to college in another county you can:
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- register in the county where you are going to college and vote in that county.
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- If your name does not appear on the register at that polling place, in order to vote in the election you must go to the county election office, update your registration information and cast a ballot based on your updated residence address, or go to your old polling place and vote one last time at the old polling place.
- Once you have presented ID, an election judge will have you sign the precinct register.
- An election judge will give you your ballot(s), and explain how to mark it and what to do with it once you have voted.
- Each polling place has a voting machine accessible to people with disabilities that allows them to vote independently and privately. If you wish to use this machine, known as an AutoMARK, let the election judge know.
- You will enter a private voting booth or station. Instructions on marking your ballot are posted in the booth or station, and are on the ballot.
- You do not have to vote on every issue on the ballot. However, if you vote more than once on a candidate or on an issue with only one choice allowable, the vote(s) in that race will not be counted.
- Turn the ballot over to see if there are candidates or issues on which to vote on the back of the ballot.
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- When you have finished voting, follow the instructions given to you by the election judge. Hand the voted ballot to the appropriate election judge or place it in the voting system if one is provided. Never hand your ballot to anyone besides an election judge.
Any registered voter may vote by absentee ballot:
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"Picture Me Gone," by
Meg Rosoff, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013, 239 pages
Mila, only child of professional parents, lives in London. Her
part-Portuguese, part-French father, Gil, translates books. Her
Swedish-Sudanese-English mother, Marieka, is a violinist in an orchestra
heading to Holland on tour. Mila is therefore traveling to America with her
father to visit an old and dear friend. As they are ready to start their
journey, the man disappears.
From the first chapter, when we learn that Mila was named after an
ancestor's dog and that she calls her parents by their first names, readers
become aware that the family dynamics may not be common ones. It also
explains why language plays such a large role in her life.
Mila herself seems much more in tune with the unspoken world around her,
finding clues to people's lives through observing the rooms in their homes
-- muddy shoes in the hall, change on a dresser, unopened windows on a
spring day -- and their interactions, or lack thereof, with each other. Even
body language expresses volumes to this intuitive girl.
Rosoff's story is structured around the disappearance of Gil's childhood
friend, Matthew, whom he and Mila are scheduled to visit over Easter break.
They decide not to cancel the trip to upstate New York. As Mila and Gil
search for answers about Matthew's disappearance, the reader literally
travels along on this story.
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The author uses very little dialogue, but the conversations
between father and daughter, friends, and people they meet along the
way seem more intense and informative due to the scarcity of spoken
The writing is leisurely. There is no sense of frantic tension or
immediacy as one would think there would be in a case such as this.
Instead, Rosoff treats the reader to a "Sunday drive" through the
events that transpire.
Mila, whose age is never revealed, seems both old and young at
different times, looking at and absorbing the world around her. Her
observations are quite accurate, filling in the gaps in the lives of
adults around her. This makes her appear more mature than an average
The novel also reveals the relationship Mila has with her friend
Catlin, whose family has been falling apart for some time. Through
understanding her relationship with her friend, she is able to
empathize with her father's situation and forgive him for
withholding information concerning Matthew.
"Picture Me Gone" is a most unusual story. It will not appeal to
readers who like action and suspense, or to those who require a
neatly tied up package at the end. But for those who want a story
that is read with both eyes and heart, Rosoff weaves a satisfying
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History of baseball in Colorado: 2 letters
Re: "A tradition of baseball in Colorado," Oct. 16 Ed Quillen column.
I was fascinated to read Ed Quillen's column. It reminded me of a later baseball craze that took place in Denver during the Great Depression (long before the Denver Bears). There were no professional teams here at that time, but semi-pro baseball games drew enormous crowds.
John Elitch, founder of Elitch Gardens and one of the founding members of the Denver Athletic Club, was a great baseball fan and planned to build a baseball field in the southwest corner of his new zoo and amusement park in time for the park's second season in 1891. Unfortunately, John died that winter, leaving his dream in the capable hands of his wife, Mary.
Baseball wasn't one of Mary's priorities, however, so the project was dropped until 1930, when Arnold Gurtler, whose father-in-law, John Mulvihill, had purchased Elitch Gardens from Mary in 1916, decided to re-establish the popular game and built a baseball field complete with grandstand in that same location. Baseball became so popular that there were often three games daily during the summer.
The M&O Cigar team was the perennial champ, but the home team, the Elitch Gardeners, won the engraved silver loving cups several seasons as well. It was quite a rivalry.
Betty Lynne Hull, Estes Park
The writer is an Elitch Gardens archivist and park historian.
I enjoyed Ed Quillen's nostalgic article on the 1882 Leadville Blues baseball team. It was a great sports history lesson. However, Ed needs to understand the best ever Colorado baseball team is here and now, with 21 wins in 22 games (.955 winning percentage) — your Colorado Rockies!
Jerry Witt, Wheat Ridge


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Matt Moore selected to replace Yu Darvish on A.L. All-Star roster
Rays Left-Hander Makes First All-Star Squad; Rosters Now Feature 31 First-Timers
Tampa Bay Rays left-hander Matt Moore has been named by 2013 American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland to replace Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish on the A.L.'s active roster for the 84th All-Star Game, Major League Baseball announced today.
Moore, who picked up the victory in a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins earlier this afternoon, is now 13-3 on the season with a 3.44 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 107.1 innings pitched over his 19 starts. His 13 victories are tied for the A.L. lead, and they are the most in franchise history prior to the All-Star break. Moore's teammate David Price held the previous mark of 12, set in 2010. The 24-year-old has permitted 83 hits and 55 walks while holding opposing hitters to a .213 batting average, which now ranks fourth in the league. Moore, who is in his third Major League season, is 25-14 in his career with a 3.64 ERA over 53 games, including 51 starts.
Darvish, a two-time All-Star, was placed on the disabled list on Wednesday with a strained trapezius muscle. Darvish will be recognized as an All-Star with full honors and plans to attend the festivities in New York.
With Moore's selection, the Midsummer Classic rosters now feature 31 first-time All-Stars, marking the third-highest total of all-time behind 2011 (35) and 2010 (33).
Other announcements regarding the All-Star rosters will be made as they become available. The current American League and National League All-Star rosters accompany this press release.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16th. The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS; and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m. (EDT). ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com or mets.com/asg.


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So two of my office mates are wearing pink today, and I was summoned to settle this argument that ensued over who wore what shade of pink. So I tell them that one of them was wearing salmon, the other carnation pink. Hey, I had a box of 64 Crayola crayons, how many did you have in yours? And Mr. Salmon replies that of course he had a box of 64, that's the one that comes with a crayon sharpener at the bottom of the box. And I tell him, no, that's a box of 48. The box of 64 has a sharpener in the middle of the giant box, with four mini-boxes of 16 crayons inside. Hah.
After all, you're talking to the kid who valiantly rescued a box of crayons during an intensity 7.3 earthquake (it was in 1990, and Cabanatuan City was the epicenter). I was in school then, and I had no idea what the hell an earthquake was. So the room was spinning, and I continued coloring away. I probably would have colored my way through the entire earthquake, never mind that almost all of the other kids have already left the room - I was that dense. So anyway, our house help at the time was also studying in the same school, and minutes later she barged into the classroom, screaming and crying, and dragged me to safety. But horror of horrors, I left my new box of erasable crayons all scattered on my desk. So I told her we had to go back. Of course she told me no, we can't go back. But my crayons are new and they're special (they're erasable), I said. I must have been such a brat because, in the middle of the friggin' earthquake we went back to my classroom to get the precious box of crayons, which I would discard soon after because in her haste to get us out of there alive, Ate Yolly broke quite a few crayons and dented the box. And we all know broken crayons do not look as pretty.


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Hey mate sorry about the late reply i have just seen your thread and went looking for the pm and have found it in the visitor messages so i am guessing it went there when i had inbox issues. I never knew there was a visitor message box either.
Do you have the yellow upgraded rotors at all? if so we have more stock coming as we have sold out and we have pads in stock. If it is only the 4 pot set up front and rear then we have front and rear curved slotted rotors and front and rear pads in stock from about $1320 upwards. The yellow 6/4 option is about $2250. We also have other options and fitting is also available.
Hi Matt, it's getting close to time for another order. I'll be after rotors around on my 2010 GTS and pads front and rear.
Could you please give me a quote for OEM gear. The car doesn't have the upgraded brake set.
Could you also let me know the front and rear minimum rotor thickness please.
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text: I know Jay Leno would die to have this kind of pictographic info for his show (in english... ) So this is a little compendium of funny signs, situations or WTF pics.... but only in México. So if you have some to share from your trip to México or while passing by my México, post it. FYI we Mexicans always find the easy and funny side of bad things. We laugh of our own death, misery, poverty, etc. But only because we at the end find the way to get away with our own. hope you find it amusement, (Since many of the pics have to do it with SPANISH TYPOS, which results very funny for we Mexicans, then try to learn some spanish, since will provide you much more fun while you ride thru México). to begin, if you do not speak a damn thing of spanish, there are bars that solve the problem for you. so just need to raise your hand... or if you decide is time to take some fresh air but do not want to resing on drinking... here is your solution.... a mobile bar and if by any chance you are riding along any road and see a trailer accident, stop by and see if you can help, perhaps you can get a six pack thanks. this is a TECATE Beer trailer accident, and people around are handy to carry all they can get before the trooper gets there. If you get hungry do not hesitate to stop at this food stand. Is less than 1 dollar!!! but before you eat, please wash your hands.... and after a good meal, you may want to get your self a good coffee, but be careful where you stop to get it.... you might end eating more...! at the end of your day journey, you will want to rest, so there are plenty of interactive hotels. (River Hotel) later you need to post your trip log, so look for a internet club or CLUD? ... MORE LATER


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Creating an Action for the Batch Process
- Open an image in Photoshop.
- Open the Actions tab by clicking on Window > Actions.
- Click just to the left of the trash can icon at the bottom on the Actions tab in Photoshop, and assign a name for your action.
- Click on the Actions tab to begin recording your action.
- Duplicate the image layer in the Layers palette, and ensure the new layer is selected.
- Edit the image inside Sharpener Pro 3.
- Click on the Actions tab. Your Action is now complete and can be viewed in the Actions tab.
Performing the Batch Process
- Create a new folder on your desktop labeled with the action name and the word "Processed" such as "Output Sharpener Processed." This folder will contain all of the images once the action has been applied to them.
- In Photoshop, navigate to the File > Automate menu and select Batch.
- Ensure that the action that was created earlier is indicated in the Action pull-down menu. If the correct action is not indicated, click on the pull-down menu and select the correct action.
- Under source, indicate folder, and then click Choose. Navigate to the folder that contains all of the images that you want to apply the Batch Process to.
- Under Destination, select Folder. Click Choose and navigate to the folder that was created on your desktop earlier. For example, navigate to the "Output Sharpener Processed" folder.
- Click OK.
The Batch Process will now begin and apply the filter from the Action to all of the images in the folder and save a new copy of the image with the filter applied to the folder that was created on the desktop.


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Latest PlayStation 3 Firmware Quickly Hacked, Again
Yesterday, Sony issued a new firmware update with a new encryption key. It would require users to run firmware v3.56 to sign on, disabling the custom firmware that spoofs v3.55. However, Edge reports that within hours, hackers had unlocked the new update. Now another piece of custom firmware is expected to spoof v3.56 soon.
To be fair, this is Sony's first attempt at sealing the recent flood of hacks, and the company could improve its methods in the future. For the time being, though, Sony's promise to secure its system through firmware updates seems shaky.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A senior Republican U.S. senator Wednesday dismissed a veterans jobs bill put forward by Democrats as just political posturing.
"What we're really doing is passing a bill for political reasons that's not going anywhere in the (U.S.) House so that we can say we're doing things," The Hill quoted Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as saying on the Senate floor.
Coburn said the bill didn't go through the committee process and the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hasn't investigated whether current veterans jobs programs work before proposing a new system, The Hill reported.
"Is this about veterans or is this about politicians? I suspect it's about politicians and not veterans," Coburn said.
The newspaper said the proposed Veterans Jobs Corps Act is designed to create new job-training programs to help veterans find work. The programs include training in such fields as national park conservation, historic preservation projects, police work and firefighting.
The cost of five-year bill is $1 billion, but it generates new revenue to pay for itself over 10 years, The Hill said.
The Hill said Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., are leading the effort to pass the legislation, and some suggestions by the committee's ranking member, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., were being included in the measure.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
Obviously, this article deals with the coverage of history on Wikipedia. This resource may not be the creation of professional historians but it is the most read history resource in the world. The author writes that Wikipedia surpasses other popular encyclopedias in breadth but is inferior in both depth and breadth to professional reference sources such as American National Biography. Rosenzweig argues for opening up these kinds of professional history sources so that the general searcher can find them.
This is an excellent and thought provoking article. I believe that it will cause many to rethink how the work of professional historians is spread to researchers.
From the site:
History is a deeply individualistic craft. The singly authored work is the standard for the profession; only about 6 percent of the more than 32,000 scholarly works indexed since 2000 in this journal's comprehensive bibliographic guide, "Recent Scholarship," have more than one author. Works with several authors—common in the sciences—are even harder to find. Fewer than 500 (less than 2 percent) have three or more authors.1
Historical scholarship is also characterized by possessive individualism. Good professional practice (and avoiding charges of plagiarism) requires us to attribute ideas and words to specific historians—we are taught to speak of "Richard Hofstadter's status anxiety interpretation of Progressivism."2 And if we use more than a limited number of words from Hofstadter, we need to send a check to his estate. To mingle Hofstadter's prose with your own and publish it would violate both copyright and professional norms.
A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture. Yet, quite remarkably, that describes the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia, which contains 3 million articles (1 million of them in English). History is probably the category encompassing the largest number of articles. Wikipedia is entirely free. And that freedom includes not just the ability of anyone to read it (a freedom denied by the scholarly journals in, say, jstor, which requires an expensive institutional subscription) but also—more remarkably—their freedom to use it. You can take Wikipedia's entry on Franklin D. Roosevelt and put it on your own Web site, you can hand out copies to your students, and you can publish it in a book—all with only one restriction: You may not impose any more restrictions on subsequent readers and users than have been imposed on you. And it has no authors in any conventional sense. Tens of thousands of people—who have not gotten even the glory of affixing their names to it—have written it collaboratively. The Roosevelt entry, for example, emerged over four years as five hundred authors made about one thousand edits. This extraordinary freedom and cooperation make Wikipedia the most important application of the principles of the free and open-source software movement to the world of cultural, rather than software, production.3
3 comments:
- EHT said...
Very, very interesting. Anytime I research something the Wikipedia link is usually in the top five hits. The whole process is absolutely amazing, however, while it is accurate and easy to correct when necessary, I miss the personal opinions, the slants, the point of view that makes reading history so appealing to me. It's great that we have two types of sources to go to depending on our need at the time. Good find!
- Museum Madness said...
Great post, thanks. I recently went off on a Wikipedia related rant on my blog - Museum Madness. I think the same thing is true with Wikipedia as is with any other reference source - it is great for general factfinding and quickly wrapping your mind around a certain topic, but if you really want to go in depth into a subject, you should leave the general references, and go to more in depth works to double check those things you've learned. On the other hand, I was double checking the dates of some Presidential administrations last week and where did I end up - Wikipedia.
- Jennie W said...
Thanks for the link! My students all LOVE Wikipedia...I also make sure to point out the flaws with it, but always encourage their use of it. I think I may be citing some of this article in the future!


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Stunning photos of last night's Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) have been captured in a time-lapse video by a talented Craigavon photographer.
Paul Wharton sat up for hours last night taking more than 1,000 images of the sky from Craigavon City Park, capturing the amazing phenomenon of the Northern Lights.
As an amateur astronomer, Paul has long held a fascination for the Aurora Borealis and often has to travel as far as Iceland to get a glimpse of the stunning spectacle.
However last night conditions in Co Armagh were perfect with an almost cloudless sky.
There was quite a strong solar wind which was behind last night's stunning phenomenon.
It is caused by particles from the Sun striking the Earth's magnetic field.
The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres but are much clearer the closer you are to each pole.
Capturing them with such clarity in Ireland is no mean feat.
Paul said he took 1307 shots on a DSLR sitting on a tripod and set to constantly fire off eight second exposures.
"There's about three hours worth of footage compressed to a 60 second time lapse.
"The arc that appears half way through and was easily visible as a grey/light green to the naked eye.
"The arc is actually a side on view of the auroral oval and is usually a good sign that spikes or pillars and the curtain effect will follow.
"When this happened I could make out green and purple to the naked eye," he said.


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