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It was a Sunday, recalled McJunkin, 68, who is left to wonder whether his miniature poodle might have survived had he not had to wait until Monday to take it to a veterinarian.
"Our local veterinarians take the weekend off," he said. He has not gotten another dog since.
Emergency veterinary care is in fact available in the far western part of the state, if you have the right relationship with the right vet who is willing to give their home or cell phone number out.
But for pet owners here who, like McJunkin, might not have such ties, the prospect of round-the-clock care for their animals is dim.
"It's been a problem here for a long time," McJunkin said. It could be a lifeline for pets who fall ill or sustain injuries.
While there is no shortage of vet offices in the region, few are open on weekends, partly as a result of limited staff.
"We do have to sleep," said Dana Lee, a veterinary technician and receptionist at the Sylva Animal Hospital, where a total of three veterinarians take turns scheduling appointments for Saturday mornings. The clinic is one of at least two in the region whose hours extend to the weekend, albeit for a brief period. "We're only able to handle so many clients."
Offering after-hours pet care takes more than just one vet or two holding office hours.
"You really need more than a couple people," said Christy McLean, who manages the Animal Hospital of Waynesville. "You need a staff."
The Waynesville Animal Hospital is one of the few west of Asheville open on Saturday, during morning and afternoon hours. It operates with a handful of veterinarians, three of them full-time, who determine the extent of their availability after-hours on a discretionary basis. It is among others in the region offering walk-in service and extended hours at least one evening per week.
For some pet owners in the region, the nearest source of emergency veterinary care in Asheville might seem out of reach, especially if their pet is in critical condition.
Even so, many here regularly make the trip, said Christy Reeves, operations manager at the Regional Emergency Animal Care Hospital, or REACH, located in Asheville.
Being hit by a car is the leading cause of visits there, given that pets in rural areas are more likely to roam free.
The animal hospital emerged in the late 1990s, after dozens of veterinarians from across the western part of the state formed a group to expand emergency veterinary care here. It has grown to include dozens of workers, including eight veterinarians, offering round-the-clock and specialty care such as surgery.
Officials at REACH are aware of calls to consider building another animal hospital further west, Reeves said.
"There's a lot of people, unfortunately, that don't have a regular vet," she said.
Having a regular vet is the first step, but is sometimes one taken too late.
"When they do need something, then it becomes an emergency," said Ted Rowe, who manages Shearer Pet Health Hospital in Sylva, where his wife is a veterinarian. He noted that he returns to the clinic on Monday sometimes to find voicemail messages left by pet owners who had sought care over the weekend.
It is a precaution pet owners sometimes fail to take even for themselves, with doctors recommending regular medical checkups regardless of apparent health conditions.
"It's the same thing," Rowe said of scheduling veterinary checkups for pets, "the patients just have four legs instead of two."


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Are you ready to inject some "soul" into your jazz playing? "Soul jazz" is a sub-genre of jazz that became prominent in the late 1950s with the arrival of the Hammond B-3 organ. Jazz clubs were beginning to install "in-house" organs, and such artists as Jimmy Smith created a new ensemble—the organ trio—to perform in these venues. This ensemble generally consisted of organ, guitar, and drums, but also included a horn player or two on occasion. Because of the more groove-oriented sound and styling of this "new" ensemble, which placed a high emphasis on slower tempo shuffles and the 12-bar blues progression, the soul jazz genre was born and rose to popularity during the '50s and '60s. In this Style Guide, we're going to examine concepts to help put you on the path to playing some righteous soul jazz!
We will focus on comping concepts—guide tone voicings, the "Charleston" rhythm, and four-note block chord voicings. We'll also examine such improvisational devices as three-note repetitive patterns, organ-like double-stop licks, Grant Green-style "turns," and octave/block chord call-and-response.
I've compiled a sample list of guitarist and organist teams I associate with the soul-jazz genre. In no particular order, these are classic groups that are sure to inspire you to further explore soul jazz.
- Grant Green with organists "Baby Face" Willette and Larry Young
- George Benson with organists Jack McDuff and Dr. Lonnie Smith
- Kenny Burrell with organist Jimmy Smith
- Pat Martino with organists Jack McDuff and Trudy Pitts
- Wes Montgomery with organist Melvin Rhyne
- Peter Bernstein with organists Larry Goldings and Melvin Rhyne

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I can't… I don't… I can't even. Here's a clip of Breaking Bad's breakout star Aaron Paul making a surprise appearance on The Price is Right waaay back in the year 2000. He was psyched to be there.
Back in 2000, Paul was going by his actual last name, "Sturtevant." He's just so friggin excited to be on The Price is Right that I can't stop smiling while watching him. I, along with the rest of the world, also can't stop hoping that he'll throw a "…bitch" in there somewhere.
You know, like this:
I love these old-school Aaron Paul appearances, from Corn Pops to Juicy Fruit. He was so young! So fresh-faced! Curse that Walter White for ruining such a nice-seeming young man.
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Water-Wise: Building a Rainwater Collection System
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We are all familiar with the nursery rhyme, "Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day...", or the song "Singin' in the Rain." Numerous songs and stories describe our feelings about rain. Why so many? Because we humans understand how important rain is to our well-being. Rainfall, as part of the water cycle, brings water back to Earth that had previously evaporated or transpired from the surface. When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and falls back to Earth as rain, it lands on oceans, lakes, and the ground, where it soaks in and recharges the groundwater supply. Groundwater serves humans, animals, plants, and microorganisms alike.
For the people who live in the Thar Desert of India and in the western part of the semi-arid Sahel and Sudan belt that crosses Africa, the rain that falls during the monsoon season is especially important because it is often the only source of water. The monsoon occurs in certain parts of the world when seasonal winds reverse, bringing in dramatic weather changes. Summer monsoons usher in heavy rains while winter monsoons can result in drought. In these parts of the world, collecting rainwater is an important task, one that provides both drinking and cooking water. For hundreds of years, the people living here have developed different methods of collecting water. Watch this video of a talk given by Anupam Mishra, a founding member of the Gandhi Peace Foundation. He travels across India studying and sharing rainwater harvesting techniques.
You may think that collecting rainwater is an ancient art practiced only by people living in arid and developing regions of the world, but this is not true. People in urban areas collect rainwater, too, although it is a non-potable water source. This means that it is not safe to drink. However, it can still be used to water landscaping and to flush toilets. While this rainwater may contain contaminants, such as chemicals, molds, dirt, bird feces, and leaves, consumers can take measures to clean and disinfect the water, with ozone or chlorine, and then they can drink it. Using rainwater is a way to reduce dependence on the municipal water utility, alleviate runoff, and live a sustainable, "green" life.
One common way of collecting rainwater is to divert the rainwater from a rooftop. Simply, the rain flows down the roof, into a gutter, and then into a holding tank. Holding tanks can be made from clay, cement, wood, or plastic. Figure 1 shows a concrete rainwater tank in Kerala, India. Notice the gray pipe that connects the tank to the roof.
Figure 1. A 35,000-liter rainwater harvesting tank in the state of Kerala, India. (Wikipedia, 2011)
The tank is covered to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in it, and to keep leaf litter and other large foreign objects from falling in. Toward the bottom and on the side of the tank is a spigot, to which a hose can be connected. Some complicated systems have first-flush valves (to discard the water from the first rainfall, which likely has roof debris and particles in it), filters that remove particulates and harmful substances, and disinfection systems that kill bacteria. Disinfection occurs as the last step, just before ingestion of the water.
For your science project, try designing and building a rainwater collection system for non-potable water use. Remember that the collected water is not for drinking. The Engineering Design Process guide can help you organize your thoughts on how to get started. In addition, there are several sources online from which you can get ideas and plans on how to build a collection system. The references in the bibliography are a good starting place, but make sure to do your own research. You will have to take several issues into account, the most important being that the collection of rainfall in some states in the United States is subject to water-rights limitations. Look into your state's water laws prior to starting this project. Another issue to consider is the kind of roof you will be collecting the water from. What kinds of roofs add contamination to the water? Is one type of roof better for collecting rainwater than another? What is the average rainfall in the area in which you live? How much water can you harvest in a month? In six months? How much money can your household save? Is collecting rainwater useful for your household?
- Pushard, D. (2005). Rainwater harvesting: Frequently asked questions. HarvestH2O.com. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
- TED Conferences, LLC. (2009, December). Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting. Retrieved December 20, 2011, from https://www.ted.com/talks/anupam_mishra_the_ancient_ingenuity_of_water_harvesting
- NSF. (2004). Rainwater collection. Retrieved December 20, 2011, from https://www.nsf.org/knowledge-library/rainwater-collection
- Moseman, A. (2009, December 18). Who owns the rain? Hint: it's not always homeowners. Popular Mechanics. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
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On this page, I wanted to pay a tribute to all people who released, on the internet, some videos or music compositions made with Arachno SoundFont.
Being either original stuff, covers or video game recordings, these releases contribute to the promotion of Arachno SoundFont and are the most beautiful reward I could ever expect after having spent so much time building this soundbank.
This list is sorted by author, with the most active ones appearing on the top. You can also find the exact same list, sorted by release date, on my User arrangements page.
In addition, don't forget to check the YouTube playlist dedicated to all stuff made with Arachno SoundFont, as well as some articles focusing on Arachno SoundFont on internet.
If you've also created something with Arachno SoundFont, I invite you to contact me so I can feature your work on this page.
Thanks to all users for their support and creativity!
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Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love to cook and bake. And boy howdy! Am I ever having a blast doing that here!
I was concerned about cooking on a gas stove- but I love it. I was concerned about cooking at high altitudes- but I really haven't found much difference to tell the truth.
Rich bought me subscriptions to Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines and I go through them cover to cover. I cook things out of them regularly. Rich will often choose something he wants to try and then together we make it on the weekend.
The thing about the recipes in those magazines is that they usually feed a small army! However, though it increases the prep time and ingredients to have, the cooking time is the same, and then I have an extra meal or two for the freezer for those days that I am at a quilt class or otherwise occupied. So I love that they make a lot!
Today, I am making a dish called Sunday Ragu, with Polpette as an appetizer- though I have no idea why you would need an appetizer before this dish. Polpette are torpedo-shaped meatballs- and they are made from the same meat mixture as the big meatballs. I guess it is to tease you a little before the main event. The ragu is basically a bunch of different meats prepared, browned, and then cooked in the tomato sauce, then you take the meats out onto a platter and serve them with a side of pasta and the sauce.
I am including a bunch of photos because I don't believe I have ever cooked- or eaten- a dish with so many meats in it! There is a total of NINE pounds of meat! This will be at least three meals for the four of us, and a couple of lunches for Rich too. The frying pan holding this meat is a 5.2L pan...
The list of meats is: beef braciole (bra-chee-oh-lee), which is top round cut thin, pounded thinner, filled with a mixture of garlic, parsley, romano, and pancetta then rolled into little parcels; sweet Italian sausage; hot Italian sausage; pork shoulder; country-style pork ribs, and huge meatballs made from veal, beef, and pork.
This house smells SOOOO good right now! So, the sauce is simmering and now it is time to make cookie dough for lunches this week- chocolate chip cookies and also some almond biscotti. Later I will bake enough just for tomorrow. After a 3+ mile hike this morning and cooking so much of today, I am getting a bit tired.
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Gets First Trailer, Watch it
Marvel Entertainment has released the first teaser for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and everyone is looking good.
Released just hours after director James Gunn tweeted the first poster of the movie, the trailer features just about every major character you've come to expect from the series, including Yondu and Nebula, both of whom seem to be less antagonistic than they were in the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
Watch it and let us know what you think …
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 stars Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Michael Rooker (Yondu), Kurt Russell (Ego), Bradley Cooper (Rocket Racoon), and Vin Diesel (Groot). It hits theaters around the word beginning April 25, 2017.
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Here's Why Carnage Wasn't In The Venom Movie
Most comic book fans expected Carnage to be the main villain.
The nut job villain was originally intended to be in the Venom movie, but director Ruben Fleischer chose to exclude him in favor of another symbiote, Riot. There is a reason for that.
In an interview with CBR, Flesicher admitted that its the keenness of fans to see Carnage that led Sony to keep him out of the first movie and save him for the sequel. He stated:
"I think, you know, there's a certain symbiote spawn that I think fans are most excited to see. So that one was off the table. Hopefully at some point in the future they will. So we wanted to save kind of the most anticipated one for the future. And not just that, but because we really wanted this movie to be about Venom."
As for why he chose Riot over the dozen or so symbiotes that exist in the Marvel universe, he explained:
"…it was just honestly kind of like, who's the coolest looking spawn who isn't that one? The most badass, you know? That's where Riot came from. He's the biggest of the Life Foundation symbiotes, he's got that gun metal grey. I don't want to say it was purely an aesthetic decision, but the aesthetics definitely played a big part."
Cletus Kasady, Carnage's host, actually makes a very brief appearance in the mid-credits scene of Venom, setting the symbiote up for a starring role in the sequel. And speaking to CinemaBlend about the cameo, Fleischer stated he couldn't envisioned anyone other than Woody Harrelson for the role:
"He was the first person I thought of to play Cletus Kasady. And what will be fun is, if you think about Woody in Natural Born Killers, and that darkness and that menace that he can bring to a serial killer like Cletus Kasady, you know, he can go real dark and explore that."
Like most comic book fans, we can't wait to see Venom and Carnage clash on the big screen, but leaving out the crazed symbiote in such a pivotal movie for Sony was a risky move. It's a good thing Venom was a box office hit, surprising as it may be, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics.
How do you envision Carnage in Venom 2? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Critics Hate The Venom Movie, But You Loved It
Your appreciation and enjoyment helped make Venom a surprising hit in theaters.
Despite less than stellar reviews from critics — it has an average score of 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and 35% on Metacritic — audiences certainly reacted positively to Venom. The Tom Hardy-starring solo movie opened at $205.2 million worldwide, beating expectations.
Venom's success is more a testament to the badass comic book anti-villain's appeal to the masses and Hardy's acting chops than the movie's plot, direction or production value.
Venom pulled in $80 million in the United States, well above tracking estimates of between $55 million and $65 million, and ahead of the $75.8 million grossed by Marvel Studios superhero summer blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp.
That figure also sets a new October record, which was previously held by Gravity ($55.7 million).
Factor in the addition $125.2 million garnered internationally (not including China, where it hasn't been released as of the time of this writing) and a modest budget of around $100 million, and it's easy to see why Venom 2 is already in the works.
Have you watched the Venom movie? If so, let us know what you think about it in the comments below.
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Watch The First Trailer For X-Men: Dark Phoenix
The Dark Phoenix has arrived to instill fear and wreak havoc.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix has received is first trailer, and it sees the X-Men forced into bring down one of their own. Consumed by the Phoenix Force, Sophie Turner's Jean Grey is their most formidable and powerful foe to date.
Check out the trailer here, and let us know what you make of the first trailer of the latest X-Men movie in the comments below…


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Step 1. Go to 'http://whos.amung.us'
If there are no any changes, you will see as the screen below. There is 3 lines code under '107' picture. Copy all that codes.
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Step 3. Scroll down, find 'Text' widget and click 'Add' button.
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Ozzie Newsome joined the Baltimore Ravens' front office in 1996, the team's inaugural season, two years before the Colts drafted Peyton Manning and four seasons ahead of Tom Brady's arrival in New England. Newsome helped guide the Ravens to a Super Bowl victory after the 2000 season, then Brady took the Patriots to three titles in four years. As the general manager of the presiding Super Bowl champions, Newsome has only two more weeks to savor last year's win over the 49ers before another team -- quite possibly led by Manning or Brady -- ends the Ravens' reign.
Late last week, after a series of grinding personnel meetings, Newsome pondered this deliciously hypothetical question: How would NFL history have been different if Manning had gone to the Patriots and Brady had worn a Colts jersey before a rebirth in Denver?
"Oh, man," said Newsome, laughing in his Maryland office. "Let me think about that."
He paused, then started running through the scenarios: Manning paired with Bill Belichick's defense; Brady teamed with executive Bill Polian and coach Tony Dungy. Manning to Randy Moss and Rob Gronkowski; Brady to Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne. Wes Welker, of course, accepting passes from both, just in a different order.
"Having watched both of them over the years, it's tough," Newsome continued. "There are so many variables. I'm going to say ..."
Hold that thought, Ozzie.
We took this intriguing premise to more than a dozen NFL aficionados, including a two-time Super Bowl coach, a Heisman Trophy winner, a pair of Hall of Famers plus former teammates and league officials and analysts. They spoke on and off the record, not wishing to offend either quarterback with purely theoretical conjecture. Most of them were unabashed Manning or Brady guys, and it's a slippery slope: If you praise one, you might inadvertently bury the other.
We're the first to admit it's a far-fetched concept, latching onto this week's big headline with an eye toward generating page views. We wrote thousands of words when they met in Week 12. What possibly could be left to say?
This is what we came up with. Cheesy, you say? Fair enough. It's a free country. Stop reading.
Trading places
On the other hand ... isn't this really what fantasy football is all about? Suspend your disbelief, dear reader, and imagine a ubiquitous Brady shilling on television for cars and pizza, while Manning lounges at home with his supermodel wife -- because she makes more than he does.
Let's mull these mind-melting possibilities:
If Manning had spent his career with the Patriots, would Bill Belichick be considered the towering genius he is today? Or might he have five Super Bowl rings as a head coach? Some among our experts insist the answers are no -- and yes.
If Polian and the Colts had gotten Brady with the 199th pick of the 2000 draft, would Brady be destined to finish as the most prolific quarterback of all time, somewhere well past Brett Favre? Yes, a number of our experts believe.
Most important, what would the bottom-line championship count be? Would Manning have locked down those three Super Bowls for New England? Would he have achieved a different result against younger brother Eli in Super Bowls XLII and XLVI? Would Brady's tenure in Indianapolis have produced more than one title? There is a sharp division in this category.
NFL Network analyst Charley Casserly, who has three Super Bowl rings from his 23 years working in Washington's front office, thinks that Manning -- who has a famously spotty 10-11 playoff record -- has sometimes been a victim of his own spectacular ability.
"Peyton's unique," Casserly said. "He's usually flawless at executing, OK? But the Achilles' heel he faces comes in playoffs. My feeling is that too many times it comes down to Peyton to make the right read and the receiver to make the right cut. It's tough when you're in the playoffs and you are slicing it that fine.
"There's been too much on Peyton's plate, too much responsibility. Brady never had that kind of pressure in New England. He always had a defense and a running game to support him."
In other words, Manning would have done just fine in New England.
Polian, who ran the Colts from 1997-2011 and is now an ESPN analyst, made the ultimate decision to draft Manning.
"Teams win football games, not individuals," Polian said. "The Brady teams that won the Super Bowl were the preeminent teams of the era. Hard as it is for me to admit it, they were just better than we were.
"The Patriots are decimated on defense, but week in and week out they have the best game-specific plan of attack. Under Belichick, they are the best-prepared team in the league. That might have more to do with the final outcome than who the quarterbacks are."
Tom Manning? Peyton Brady?
What if it had been Tom roughhousing with his brothers, Cooper and Eli, in the front yard of the Manning's grand, yellow house in the Garden District on New Orleans? What if Tom had received the DNA of a gifted NFL quarterback and gone to Tennessee instead of Michigan? Would he have developed into the No. 1 overall pick?
How would it have gone if Peyton was a Bay Area kid, weaned on Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers? If he'd scuffled and strained at every level to develop a football IQ? Been drafted after such legendary players as Hofstra's Giovanni Carmazzi and Southwest Texas State's Spergon Wynn? Would he have developed the fierce fury to prove everyone in the NFL wrong?
Cornerback Ty Law was a Brady teammate for five years and finished his career with nine interceptions of Manning, the most by any player.
"In the beginning, we weren't expecting Tom to play well," Law explained. "The defense just told him, 'We got this. Just don't turn the damn ball over.' I think if Tom's on the other side, we would have shown him what defense was.
"Peyton would have more support on our team, and that would have leveled the playing field. We had so many leaders, particularly on defense. Tom didn't have that pressure to lead. On our team, Peyton would have relaxed a little bit more.
"What drove Tom was being the forgotten guy, and that's why he approaches the game the way he does. When we need one play and you ask me, 'Who do you want to have the ball?' for me, Tom has the edge."
Through the miracle of cinematic license, imagine that the Patriots hooked up with Manning in 1998 and the Colts took Brady two years later.
"Well, I do know they would be facing each other in this championship game," said Herm Edwards, an ESPN analyst and former Jets and Chiefs head coach. "Both of these guys have the ability to elevate their teams, get them to the playoffs time after time.
"It's who you got around you. I say Peyton wins those three Super Bowls in New England."
Some of our experts, at the very least, agree.
A shared work ethic
Under Belichick, the Patriots have always tooled their offense to fit its particular parts. With a terrific defense, Brady didn't have to throw as much. When that defense deteriorated, he compensated in 2007 by setting a league record with 50 touchdown passes, breaking Manning's single-season mark at the time by one. Then, the Patriots featured Moss and Welker. Now Brady's back to handing the ball off, to LeGarrette Blount.
Manning has always been a passer first. As a rookie, he threw for 3,739 yards and set a rookie record (since tied by Russell Wilson) with 26 touchdowns. It is worth noting that for the seasons the Patriots won their second and third Super Bowls, 2003 and 2004, Manning was the league MVP. This year, Manning reclaimed the touchdown record with 55 and likely will wind up with all the important career passing marks; Brady, by a wide margin, should finish with the best winning percentage ever by a quarterback.
In the comfort of the Belichick cocoon, Brady won each of his first 10 playoff games, but he is 8-7 since. Manning started 3-6 and has gone 7-5 since. If Manning had been a Patriot, would early success have created a different postseason mindset? Would he have thrown those four interceptions if he had been playing against the Colts instead of for them in the 2003 AFC title game? With that database of confidence, could Manning have found a way to beat the New York Giants in one or both of those Super Bowl losses?
Choosing sides
"Wait, I know the answer to this," said Doug Flutie, the 1984 Heisman Trophy winner. "All the people in New England would hate Tom Brady, and all the people in Indy would hate Peyton Manning. All by itself, that would be kind of weird."
Then he laughed. Flutie played professional football for 21 years and finished his career with the 2005 Patriots.
"Bill always had a knack for getting there," Flutie said of Belichick. "Maybe he would have gotten there with Peyton. Maybe."
Off the record, anyway, most of our experts chose sides.
"Peyton the Patriot gets five Super Bowls rings," said one particularly emphatic participant. "Four at the worst, six at best. Brady maybe doesn't get any without Belichick."
"Wrong," said another. "Brady doesn't throw four picks in the 2003 championship game. The Colts win with him in there. Give them both two rings. Hey, maybe Brady gets three if he beats the Saints in the Super Bowl."
One panel member wondered, "What's the count right now, Brady three, Manning one? I'd say it would be exactly the opposite."
"If they'd switched," said Dick Vermeil, who coached the Eagles and Rams to the Super Bowl, "you might have seen a couple of 19-0 seasons."
He wouldn't say if he was referring to a Manning-led Patriots team or the Colts with Brady.
Newsome, who opened this piece and had a Hall of Fame player career in Cleveland, thinks it would be a wash.
"Nothing would change," he said. "They are who they are."
The last word goes to Polian, the architect of those great Colts teams.
"When you think about it," Polian said, "it's almost as though the two quarterbacks cancel each other out. They [the Patriots] were ascendant when they won their three. We [the Colts] were ascendant when we won our one. Not sure there would be any difference at all."


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Here's another long-lost cassette from the "Derg years" in Ethiopia. Bati (Ambassel Music Shop, ca. the early '80s), by Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh, was apparently quite popular in its day, and perfectly illustrates the confluence of the ancient and modern that is so typical of contemporary Ethiopian music.
Rahel Yohannes (right) began her career not as a singer but as an entrepreneur. In Addis Ababa she managed a restaurant and often entertained the customers with impromptu a capella vocal performances. This led to her introduction to the late Ketema Mekonnen, a singer and player of traditional musical instruments. A professional career, and ten albums, soon followed. To this day she is both a performer and a restaurateur, entertaining audiences at her Fasika Restaurant & Nightclub in Addis.
Shambel Belayneh (left) is a master of the Masinko, the traditional one-string Ethiopian violin. He has performed with the greats of Ethiopian music, including Aster Aweke, Mahmoud Ahmed and the Roha Band, among many others. He currently lives in the United States.
Rahel Yohannes and Shambel Belayneh both have CDs available from AIT Records.
As I discussed in my last post on Ethiopian music, music distribution in Ethiopia during the '80s was a "do-it-yourself" affair, cassettes being duplicated one-by-one by various music shops. Bati is no exception, and it shows in the recording quality. The musical quality is another matter. I'm sure you'll agree with me that this is an outstanding work of art.
Our opening tune, "Bati," is one of the standards of the Ethiopian repertoire, and has been recorded by innumerable artists. An exceptional version opened 2001's Éthiopiques 15: Jump to Addis (Buda Musique 82264-2). From the liner notes of that disc I got these lyrics:
Like the road to Bati, deep in the gorge,Unfortunately I have no idea what the other songs on Bati are about. If anyone out there knows Amharic, I'm sure we'd all like to know.
I wonder if your love will last,
He ate a fruit in Dèssié and went crazy,
He saw a beauty in Kombolcha and went crazy,
I want to leave him before he gets what he deserves.
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Bati (Bähäbrät)
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Änta Aynama
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Endenäu (Bähäbrät)
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Leqerbwe Leraqwe
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Änaznegahe Hody
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Bale Dere (Bähäbrät)
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Zenay (Bamebele)
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Klelelaye
Rahel Yohannes & Shambel Belayneh - Yedaoo
The tracklist on the cassette lists ten tunes in all. The ninth, "Anejetyne Balakewe," is missing. The song titles were transliterated by myself from a photocopy of the cassette inlay card (below) using the Geez syllabary, so I can't vouch for their accuracy. Anyone with a knowledge of Amharic is invited to correct any errors.
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Adds tags to support fully-customizable & dynamic scaffolding
compile "org.grails.plugins:scaffold-tags:0.7.5"
Provides a new set of scaffolding templates as well as a supporting tags that simply creating and modifying views through additional coding conventions, even as domain classes are modified.The tag library makes it possible to apply inheritance, reuse, and dynamic generation to how views of domain objects are generated. Skin support makes it possible to transition between multiple views of the application.
ScaffoldTagsThis plugin provides an 'automatic' component-like rendering infrastructure to Grails. It combines the ease of use of scaffolding with the flexibility to change the resulting views via custom renderers. This also allows you to change what tags you use to render an object without having to worry about consistency across views. Write it once, and be done with it! {toc:minlevel=2}
- Automatically-updated views as you modify your domain class.
- Renderers to support all of your views- not just your edit/create views.
- Customizable views for any given data/domain/relationship type, either application-wide or on a per-controller level.
- Render domain objects or beans on your GSP pages using a single tag call.
- Inherit views through inheritance
- Auto-link your list items, and create action renderers
- Installable skins
First timeTo install the ScaffoldTags plugin type this command in your project's root folder:
grails install-plugin scaffold-tags
If you're modifying an existing application, backup any scaffolding templates you've already established now; you can use them later but you'll want to see how it looks first.You'll then want to choose what type of scaffolding skin to use (no-img-skin is currently the best-maintained skin).
grails install-skin
Upgrading an application from a previous release
- Install scaffold-tags.
- Move any existing custom ScaffoldTags skins from APPHOME/scaffold-skins to APPHOME/src/skins. (This step needs updating for current Grails release)
- Then go on with business as usual.
Quick-start Walkthrough (needs updating)
The following assumes you're using Grails 0.5.5+.
- Create an application and install scaffold-tags. For now, we're not going to use an AJAX UI.
grails create-app sample cd sample grails install-plugin scaffold-tags grails install-skin no-img-skin
- Create a Book class.
grails create-domain-class Book
- Add a name property to the Book
class Book {
String name
- Now generate your controller and views.
grails generate-all Book
- Run your app, and check out the various views. Looks kinda simple, right? Oops, we forgot to add a description to the book! Without stopping your app, let's add it (sample/grails-app/domain/Book.groovy).
class Book { String name String description }
- Re-load your pages. The description field is added automatically. So what? We could've done this with regular scaffolding, right? Well, let's add more (don't stop running the app!). Create sample/grails-app/views/book/editor/java.lang.String.gsp and put in the following:
or replace it with a rich text editor, if you have the FCKEditor installed in your app (see note below):
<textarea rows='5' cols='40' name='${name}'>${value?.encodeAsHTML()}</textarea>
<g:richTextEditor basepath="js/fckeditor/" name='${name}' value="${value}" />
- Re-load those pages. Bet you couldn't do that with scaffolding! But wait! We only wanted to do that for the description field. Rename sample/grails-app/views/book/editor/java.lang.String.gsp to sample/grails-app/views/book/editor/Book.description.gsp.
- View that page again. We now only have the description field using the bigger field editor. Now if we were to want to change it for all controllers, you would place it under sample/grails-app/views/scaffolding/editor/Book.description.gsp (or java.lang.String.gsp, if you wanted to change it for all strings).
- Download FCKEditor (http://www.fckeditor.net/)
- Unzip the content then copy the fckeditor folder to sample/web-app/js/
- Edit sample/grails-app/views/layouts/no-img-skin.gsp and add within the <head></head> tags :
Switching skins (Needs update)
There's a bug in 0.5.5/0.5.6 that doesn't download Dojo properly. You'll need to edit GRAILS_HOME/scripts/InstallDojo.groovy and change the dojoVersion variable to be initialized to 0.4.3. If you're using a recent 0.6-SNAPSHOT or later, then you'll probably have the fix.
- Let's take that example above, and say that we wanted to use AJAX in our UI. Let's install Dojo and the Dojo skin. It will ask if you're okay with overwriting each type of element. Say yes to each.
grails install-dojo grails install-skin dojo
- You'll need to regenerate your views and controller for the Dojo skin. It'll prompt you to overwrite each file.
grails generate-all Book
- Now re-run your app and go to the list view. The list view supports AJAX paging now. That's it!
- Well, ok, we can show one more thing. Date and Calendar objects now will use the date/time widgets of Dojo.
class Book { String name String description Date writtenOn }
- Re-load your app and go edit a book.
- Hmm, we don't want a time widget here. We can override how Dates are rendered in all cases by changing it to render only the date picker. Let's make it use the Calendar renderer everywhere it'd normally use the date/time widget. Create samples/grails-app/views/scaffolding/editor/java.util.Date.gsp.
<% def c = new GregorianCalendar(); if (value != null) { c.time = value } %> <g:renderType template="editor" name="${name}" style="${style}" value="${c}" />
- Re-run it again. Done!
Creating your own skin (Needs update)Most things can be done w/o needing to create your own entire skin. You can override existing scaffolding by adding the corresponding files to your app's view directory and changing the contents. You can also override the templates, just as you can normally under Grails. However, sometimes you'd like to go for a completely different look.In that case, you may want to take a look at the skins available under the plugin's src/skins directory and potentially copy one into a src/skins directory under your application's base directory.
- More walk-throughs (relations, skins, widgets, types, beans, styles, except, only, order).
- Creating a full application.


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Q-Games' oeuvre may be currently Xbox-phobic, but, if comments made by PixelJunk Shooter director Shouichi Tominaga are any indication, there's hope for 360 titles from the Japanese developer yet.
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This section has been written by Jonathon Worton who is a studying for a PhD student at the University of Chester looking at the English Civil War in Shropshire.
Shropshire at War: July 1643 – March 1644
Between July 1643 and March 1644, during the First English Civil War, the military situation in Shropshire changed radically as the war became increasingly hard-fought on Shropshire soil.
Since the beginning of the conflict between King Charles I and his political opponents, the king's supporters in Shropshire had been active and by September had effectively neutralised parliament's following in the county. On 20 September King Charles, his court and elements of his army entered Shrewsbury. Considerably reinforced, the Royal army marched from the county in mid-October – to fight the first major battle of the Civil Wars at Edgehill in Warwickshire on the 23rd – leaving Shropshire under Royalist control.
When in March 1643 the Royalist general Lord Capel took command in Shropshire, there were still no Parliamentarian forces or garrisons in the county. Whilst skirmishing and raids by both sides took place along the Cheshire border – with fierce fighting occurring at Whitchurch and Market Drayton – most of Shropshire was at relative peace. The county was, however, being increasingly exploited to provide money, resources and recruits for the Royalist war effort. In May, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian army captured Hereford, and Shropshire's Royalists feared a Roundhead thrust into the south of the county. Whilst the London press reported the fall of Royalist Ludlow, in reality Waller's expeditionary force soon withdrew back into Gloucestershire without having ventured onto Shropshire soil.
Royalist control in Shropshire was seriously threatened for the first time in September 1643, when a group of local Parliamentarian activists who had been driven into exile in 1642 returned to the county with military support from Cheshire and London. This county committee established a garrison at Wem and fortified the minor market town with earthworks and artillery. The threat to the Royalists' headquarters at Shrewsbury some eight miles to the south was clear, and on 17-18 October Capel's army repeatedly attacked Wem. Although greatly outnumbered, the Roundheads beat off the Cavaliers, who withdrew to Shrewsbury having suffered heavy casualties. Defeated in battle, Capel had also become unpopular with Shropshire's populace – Royalists and neutrals alike – for whom wartime taxation, conscription and other military demands had become an unacceptable burden; after the defeat at Wem, one London news book (the equivalent of the modern newspaper) reported that Capel feared to leave Shrewsbury in case the townsmen barred the gates behind him!
Whilst the situation of the Parliamentarians at Wem remained precarious – they complained they were isolated, short of arms and ammunition and had few local recruits – psychologically they held the upper hand. Lord Capel was recalled to the king's headquarters at Oxford in December 1643, and there is evidence that without effective local leadership, Royalist support, morale and administration in Shropshire began to crumble. One Cavalier colonel described how the defences of Shrewsbury were in 'great neglect'. By January 1644, the Parliamentarians were strongly fortified at Wem and had established lesser garrisons in north Shropshire. On the 12th, led by Colonel Mytton, they inflicted a significant defeat on the Royalists at Ellesmere, capturing a munitions convoy, routing the escorting cavalry regiments and capturing a number of high-ranking Cavaliers. To the south of the county, just over the Herefordshire border, was the small Parliamentarian garrison at Brampton Bryan Castle. Having successfully withstood a siege the previous summer, in the New Year the Roundheads at Brampton Bryan raided and plundered Royalist territory and succeeded in establishing an outpost in southwest Shropshire at Hopton Castle.
The Royalist high command at Oxford now turned to their most famous general, King Charles's half-German soldier-nephew Prince Rupert, to restore the military situation in Shropshire. The prince is largely remembered as the most dashing of Cavaliers, famous for his good looks and hell for leather cavalry charges. In reality, Rupert was sober in his habits and suffered fools not at all; a careful administrator as well as a skilled tactician, Rupert was a professional soldier and a charismatic leader who attracted a following of like-minded energetic and ruthless young officers. Appointed by King Charles in January to the regional command that included Shropshire, Prince Rupert arrived in Shrewsbury on 19 February leading at least 700 experienced cavalrymen. Other Royalist reinforcements, from as far afield as Bristol and Ireland, were not far behind. The arrival of the charismatic prince no doubt heartened loyalists and swayed others to the Royalist cause. At Wem, Colonel Mytton feared the power of the prince's persona, as much as his reinforcements, 'in regard of the reputation of the man, whose name shouts loud in the ears of the country people'.
The influence of the prince was soon felt, with a series of Royalist successes. On 23 February he despatched one of his protégés, Major Will Legg, with a task force of cavalry and infantry to seize supplies of food and fodder from the countryside around Wem, thereby denying it to the Parliamentarians. On 4 March a Roundhead supply convoy was captured near Tong, and the next day Rupert led a raid on Market Drayton, taking by surprise and routing a Roundhead cavalry force encamped there, including a regiment from Yorkshire. Around 18 March the Parliamentarians had established a garrison at Apley Castle near Wellington, but on the 24th a Royalist force, including a Welsh regiment, occupied the town and captured the castle. The following day at Longford, near Lilleshall, 600 Parliamentarians under Mytton were defeated by a similar number of Royalists. With their last mobile force defeated, the Parliamentarians were pinned down in their garrisons. On 24 March Hopton Castle was surrendered after a hard-fought siege, and the Roundhead garrison massacred. In co-operation with Royalists from Cheshire led by Rupert's deputy, Lord John Byron, the prince's forces took the minor enemy garrisons in north Shropshire; and by 30 March at Ellesmere, 600 Royalist soldiers from Shrewsbury had joined forces with Byron's men to threaten Wem. The same day another Royalist officer wrote from Shrewsbury, with obvious enthusiasm, that 'we shall not be long troubled by our neighbours of Wem'.
By the end of March 1644, Royalist supremacy in Shropshire had been largely restored, and the Parliamentarians were contained in their garrisons at Wem, Tong and Longford, and over the Herefordshire border at Brampton Bryan. These remaining outposts soon came under Royalist pressure, and by the end of April, Wem remained once again as parliament's sole stronghold in Shropshire.
Reflections on the Bitterley Hoard – from a County perspective
From the above, it is difficult to attribute the deposition of the Bitterley hoard to a specific military event during this period. Whilst the Parliamentarian garrison at Brampton Bryan was stubborn and determined, it lacked the manpower and resources to range widely into south Shropshire, and would have been checked by the Royalist garrison at Ludlow. For this period of the Civil War in the county most of the fighting occurred in the northern half. Thus, with the exception of the perceived influence of the Parliamentarian garrison at Brampton Bryan – and that of the lesser, short-lived outpost at Hopton Castle – and the 'scare' engendered by the brief Parliamentarian occupation of Hereford in May 1643, for much of the period July 1643 to March 1644 south Shropshire must be considered to have been relatively safe for Royalist supporters, with the direct threat of Parliamentarian military action fairly minimal – although of course it is easy to state this with the hindsight of history!
There may have been Royalist soldiers from Shropshire who had served in the garrison of Bristol since its capture in July 1643, and later returned to serve in the county. A locally recruited regiment – Colonel Richard Herbert's – had fought at the capture of Bristol, and may have been part of the garrison for a while. After fighting at Newbury in September, it returned to Shropshire and was, at least in part, in garrison at Ludlow from October. Prince Rupert's own regiment of foot had been part of the Bristol garrison, and marched from there to Shropshire when the prince assumed command at Shrewsbury. Rupert's 'Bluecoats' may have been in action at Hopton Castle, but were more likely at Brampton Bryan. An officer of the regiment who having been quartered at Bitterley and had hidden his monies there, before leaving to be killed or fatally wounded at Brampton Bryan? – tenuous, perhaps! Bristol was also a source of Royalist war materiel that found its way to Shropshire via Monmouthshire and Herefordshire.
As mentioned, Royalist military taxation became increasingly oppressive. Although in March 1644 Rupert reformed the system set up by Capel, if anything the demands became greater; and doubtless Rupert's tax collectors were not adverse to seizing what they thought was due and considered had not been paid under the formal collection process. Parliamentarian sympathisers would of course have been under closest scrutiny for concealed wealth, but neutrals and Royalist supporters would not have been immune from these demands, the grinding financial severity of which should not be underestimated. Perhaps the Bitterley hoard is a classic case of wartime tax avoidance?
A summary of Jonathon's current research can also be seen here:
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A 22-year-old man who breached layers of airport security before boarding an empty plane was too drunk to recall how he did it.
Lee Jezard pleaded guilty today to getting aboard a Lufthansa plane and evading security measures at Birmingham Airport by climbing through a baggage carousel, on July 17.
Appearing at Birmingham Magistrates Court, Jezard - who lost his job as a hotel manager when his employer found out about the incident - also admitted stealing £36.45 worth of foodstuffs from the airport's Caffe Nero.
David Devine, prosecuting, said that despite reports Jezard was at the airport after missing a flight to the holiday island of Ibiza, a study of all plane manifests revealed "he was never booked onto any flight".
He described the actions of Jezard, of Jubilee Avenue, Redditch, Worcestershire, as a "drunken escapade".
In mitigation, Jezard's solicitor Tariq Khan said his client "really had very little idea how he arrived at the airport" after going on a drinking binge with friends in Birmingham city centre.
It emerged in court that police had already spoken to a "wandering" and "clearly intoxicated" Jezard, after spotting him in other parts of the airport in the hours before the security breach, added Mr Khan.
It was the same police officer who later "frog-marched him off the aeroplane" following his discovery on board.
Mr Khan added that in a further "bizarre" act, Jezard was seen on CCTV behind a coffee shop counter at the deserted airport "charging his mobile and checking it".
Jezard was discovered aboard a Lufthansa Embraer 195 by cleaning staff, and initially told them "I'm the co-pilot", said Mr Devine.
"When they asked him for ID, he had none, and then told them 'I work for the Navy'."
"He then said: 'I'm breaking into places to see if people can catch me - I go to prisons and other places'."
Airport police arrived and the man was arrested, and interviewed.
He told officers: "I was trying to show how easy it was to get on that plane - and I did it. I told the cleaners I was the co-pilot."
Jezard struggled to recall everything that had happened, telling police he "wanted a walk around and thought it would be a good idea".
Security cameras showed Jezard crawling through the opening of a baggage carousel, getting on to the airport's tarmac apron, and then getting aboard the plane.
Mr Khan said his client "really had very little idea how it was he arrived at the airport, but the guess is it was by train".
Although a relatively low-level security breach, Mr Khan said the incident had implications beyond Jezard's drunken activities.
"I am sure airport staff and management will have been having a close look at events and security will have been tightened up, because of the implications this could have been a more serious breach than it was in this case," he added.
His solicitor said Jezard's crimes had left him "ostracised" by his own family, who were "not impressed" by his night-time escapades.
"He had a very good job as a manager in a hotel and has lost that job and is now without employment," said Mr Khan.
Jezard was fined £95 for each of the three offences, ordered to pay full compensation to the coffee shop, together with £185 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
Following the hearing, an airport spokesperson said: "The safety and security of our passengers is our number one priority.
"The individual penetrated the terminal boundary and was subsequently arrested by the police. A full investigation has taken place."


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some missions in ExtBasics require you to decipher an unknown programming language.
Can someone describe a realistic situation, where you might need that skill?
sanddbox wrote:It's not encrypted, it's an unknown language. The point is that you should be able to look at a relatively simple piece of code written in a language you don't understand (Let's say you're a C/C++ guy and the code is in Java) and be able to use common sense/comparing against other languages to figure out what the code is doing.
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A tree in Potsdam, Germany, looks like it has been cut in two, with the top hovering over the trunk, and it's thanks to a simple but clever artistic technique.
Daniel Siering and Mario Shu wrapped this tree in foil, and then employed trompe-l'œil, a technique that makes painted images appear three-dimensional, when painting on the foil. The video above deliberately ruins the illusion, but the effect of painting the cuts of the trunk and the background behind the tree is particularly wonderful when seen photographed from a particular distance and angle:


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EVERETT — Last fall an 11-year-old girl sat in a Snohomish County courtroom recounting how she repeatedly was whipped with electrical cords, burned with lit cigarettes and starved for days.
It took the child two hours to detail all the abuse she suffered at the hands of the Mukilteo woman who was supposed to care for her.
The girl was not alone up on the witness stand. She had a friend.
Stilson, a gentle 80-pound black Labrador, was lying at her feet. For two hours Stilson held command, not moving or making a sound. He didn't even stir when the defense attorney accidentally knocked over a cup of water on the witness stand.
Stilson had a job to do. He was there to offer the brave girl some comfort, to remind her that she wasn't alone and to reassure her that she was safe.
"I love that dog. I love what he has done for kids and victims. He helps them face what they have to face in the criminal justice system," said Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul, who secured a conviction in the abuse case. "With that girl I know that Stilson was so important to her. He was like a life ring, something she could hold on to."
In 2006, Stilson became the first service dog used by the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office. He was the second in the nation to be employed by prosecutors. King County had the first courthouse dog, serving crime victims and witnesses.
Stilson is retiring Friday. His handler and owner, Heidi Potter, the lead victim-witness advocate, is leaving the prosecutor's office for other opportunities. They are moving to California. Stilson likely is going to become a beach bum, spending his days playing in the ocean and people watching along the California coast.
"He's burned out. He's almost 9 years old and he's worked with hundreds of children. He's had hundreds of kids crying on him and climbing on him," Potter said. "It's time for him just to be a dog. It's time for him not to always be on his best behavior."
Stilson came to work at the courthouse after then-prosecuting attorney Janice Ellis had her friend, Ellen O'Neill-Stephens, a King County deputy prosecutor, give a presentation about a service dog being used in Seattle.
Ellis remembers Potter staying behind, telling her boss she was interested in getting paired up with a service dog. She agreed to undergo the training and have a dog live with her full time. She'd pay for his food and medical bills.
"That was fundamental. If we were going to do it, we needed someone in the office to volunteer," said Ellis, who is now a Snohomish County Superior Court judge.
Potter applied to be matched with a dog provided by Canine Companions for Independence, a private nonprofit group that breeds and trains dogs mainly for people with disabilities.
Volunteer puppy trainers receive the dogs when they're a couple of months old. For about a year the volunteers teach the dogs basic obedience and expose them to social settings, such as malls and restaurants. Then the dogs are sent to a facility for extensive, professional training. The dogs usually are about 2 when they are matched with a handler.
Stilson first was trained to be with a person with physical disabilities, but he once broke command to go buddy up to a smaller dog. Trainers decided he was better suited for the job at the prosecutor's office.
The trainers saw that Stilson was the kind of dog that wanted to love on people, Potter said. He was willing to receive their stress and let it go, she said.
Stilson helped Potter build rapport with people in tense and stressful situations. Often times the people Potter met through her work had been through a tragedy. Stilson helped her break the ice and connect with people. And Stilson often was the only comfort children victims had as they were asked to talk about physical and sexual abuse.
He'd nuzzle up to them on the couch. They'd pet him and giggle over his cool tricks. Some children talked directly to Stilson about the abuse.
Potter remembers that his first six months of being in interviews with children Stilson would come home dog-tired. He'd eat dinner and sleep the rest of the night. He absorbed the grief and hurt, Potter said.
Prosecuting attorney Mark Roe was skeptical in the beginning about having a dog work with victims.
"I thought our circus was enough of a zoo already without adding animals," he said.
Then he saw Stilson interact with child victims. The dog changed the prosecutor's mind.
"Stilson is the least we can do for those kids," Roe said.
The easygoing lab was so good at his job that people were convinced that Dawson Place also should use a service dog to help child victims. The child advocacy center provides medical and counseling services to young crime victims and their families. The center also houses detectives and prosecutors who investigate crimes against children. A dainty blonde Labrador named Harper works out of Dawson Place these days.
The prosecutor's office is planning to get another dog as soon as one becomes available and the handler can be trained with the dog, Potter said.
"It has worked beautifully. Heidi has a lovely demeanor and good nature. Stilson has an equally lovely demeanor," Ellis said. "(Potter's) initiative was very much appreciated. It was a huge gift to the office and the work of the office."
Stilson also has been a faithful pal to Potter's co-workers. He often made his rounds in the morning, soaking in the love. Potter said there often was a steady stream of visitors to her office. Mostly, people were there to see Stilson, who often was dozing in the corner, waiting for his next job.
Potter expects Stilson will do a lot more napping and playing, but mostly napping, once he's retired.
"He deserves to just be a dog for the last few years of his life," she said.
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Outwitting Evil
When Sam Harris '58 was a student at Grinnell, he did not talk about the first 12 years of his life.
At Grinnell, Sam was a popular, well-liked, social kind of guy. He studied hard, having transferred from the University of Michigan after just one year because fraternity life there left him with a less than stellar grade point average.
"I worked pretty hard at Grinnell, because there was nothing else to do," Sam laughs. But still, he says, "It's very close to my heart, Grinnell. It was the best place in the world for me—I could be me."
But still, he kept his secrets.
"I wanted to put a cement wall around my head," he says.
Behind the Wall
What—or who—did Sam keep locked up behind that cement wall?
A little boy, ragged, thin—starving, in fact. A little boy named Sammy, Sam's younger self. A four-year-old boy whose life changed forever when he looked up into the sky above his little Polish town of Deblin to see Nazi aircraft overhead.
"The planes started shooting at us," Sam says. "That's when my life began to change."
Sammy's sister Sara saved him then, pulling him to safety when he would have continued staring at the planes, fascinated. It was the first of many times one of his sisters would save him.
The little Polish town where Sammy had been so happy living with his family changed dramatically when the Nazis arrived. The Germans brought with them brutality and hate. "They particularly picked on my father because he was a holy man," Sammy says. His father was a scribe who spent his days painstakingly copying the Torah, letter by letter.
Life within the Jewish ghetto in Deblin was appalling—crowded, isolated, and hungry. The Jews were forced to wear yellow stars on their clothing, and if they were caught outside the ghetto without the star, it meant almost certain death. But without food, death came as well.
"You had to be brave," Sammy says. He and his brothers and sisters would sneak out of the ghetto to find food, mostly potatoes. Sammy, being small, became an expert at potato stealing. He could fit into small places where older people could not.
In 1942 the Germans rounded up the Deblin Jews who had not starved or died of disease and lined them up to board the cattle cars that would carry them to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Sammy and his family were packed into those lines, with little Sammy pressed so tightly in the crowd that he had to look straight up in order to breathe.
Sam later wrote, "As I stared into that sky, I remember thinking and praying. Something told me that I would live and be okay. This is the only time I really prayed so deeply and felt some communication and assurance. It was as though an angel was reassuring me."
Sammy's father pushed the little boy out of the line and urged him to run and hide with his sister Sara, who was crouched behind some bricks. The two children watched as almost everyone they knew trudged, crying and wailing, onto the cars.
It was the last time they saw their father, two sisters, and a brother.
Rosa, the Angel
Sammy and Sara's older sister Rosa became their savior. Smart, strong, and resourceful, Rosa was chosen to work in a nearby slave camp. Although the work was brutal and conditions were dreadful, it was actually a relatively good place for a Jew to be in those times. "She would share her food—very little—with us," Sam remembers. "She's the one who saved me—without her, I'm dead."
At first, Sammy and Sara tried to hide from the Germans outside the camp. The murderous Nazi sweeps through the community left piles of the dead lying in the streets, and Rosa, who now lived inside the concentration camp, smuggled Sammy inside to comparative safety. Since children could not work, he spent his days and nights hiding from the guards, who would shoot children on sight.
Jews who tried to escape were hung, their bodies left swinging as a warning to the others. Those hanging bodies frightened Sammy so badly he was afraid to leave the barracks at night to use the latrine. Bedwetting was nothing compared to confronting the dead bodies outside. But lying on the wet burlap and straw, dripping on the bunk underneath, brought Sammy lice, pain, and infection, as well as the wrath of the person beneath. "I do not remember the physical pain, but the fears and embarrassment I felt then were the worst of my life," Sam later wrote.
Sammy was able to put his skills as a potato thief to work in the camp as he had in the ghetto. Occasionally a freight car full of potatoes would roll into an area just outside the barbed wire gates. Sammy could slip through the barbed wire, climb to the top of the potato car, and bring back as many potatoes as he could carry. Of course, the risk was great.
Sam later recalled, "Suddenly from nowhere a soldier yelled, grabbed me by the arm and held his revolver right in front of my eyes. I was shaking frantically, filled with fear. Looking into his eyes, I saw the most cold, reptilian look I had ever seen in a human being. I didn't know what to do. Then the soldier let go of my arm. His revolver was still pointing at my eyes. I wondered if I would die. Instead, I turned and ran as quickly as my feet would carry me. He chased me. I ran into a wide and deep ditch and had trouble climbing out at the other end. The soldier stopped in front of the ditch just as I made it over the other side. He must have decided to let the little scared fellow go. I can still see the barrel of his revolver. I shake to this day when I think of it."
One of Those Lucky Guys
In 1944 the Germans moved the Jewish workers from the camp at Deblin to Czestochowa, where they worked in a bullet factory. As 1945 arrived, the Jews could hear the fighting outside the camp and see the Germans inside becoming nervous and uncertain. On Jan. 17, 1945, Sammy and his sisters were among those lined up to board the cars to Auschwitz and almost certain death, farther from the fighting. At that moment, the Russian army arrived, led by a general who pushed farther and faster than his comrades. The Germans had to run.
Sammy and his sisters were liberated.
"The luck is so phenomenal," he says. "Maybe I'm one of these lucky guys."
Certainly he was one of very few children to survive the Holocaust.
Sammy, Sara, and Rosa survived difficult times after the liberation, but nothing like what they had already been through. Reluctantly, Rosa put Sammy and Sara in an orphanage in Lublin, promising to come back for them as soon as possible. She made good on her promise after she saved enough money to bribe the Russians to get them out. They were smuggled out in a truckload of barrels of oil and gas.
The two children lived for a time with Rosa and her husband, Walter, in Vienna. But again, Rosa unwillingly decided that it would be best for Sammy and Sara to leave post-war Europe, which was anything but kind to the Jews.
Sammy was 12 when he left for the United States to be adopted under the auspices of the U.S. Committee for Care of European Children. He arrived in New York City knowing three words of English: yes, no, and Coca-Cola.
An American Kid
Sam was adopted by a Jewish family in Northbrook, Ill., Dr. Ellis Harris and his wife Harriet Golden Harris. He had a little sister, Sue, and a dog, Jimmy. Sam describes the first time he saw his new home in America: "We walked around the beautiful grounds. Many tall yellow daffodils were blooming in the wooded lot next to dense forest. Other spring flowers were beginning to bloom. The air was cool and crisp. I was walking with my new dad, trying to stand tall and pretending to understand what he was saying. I walked around my new home. It was a piece of heaven.
"It's like a bird being kept in a cage," he says. "Suddenly you're out—wow!"
At that moment, Sam left his old life and the poor hungry bedraggled little Sammy behind. "I was like other children at last."
His new mother wrote to the social worker: "He unpacked his clothing with dispatch, showed us his few treasures and pictures brought from Europe, gave to Susan little things he said he didn't want, and when he was finished, gave me his two suitcases with instructions to throw them out because he never wanted to see them again. He definitely was locking the door to his past."
That's when Sam erected the cement wall around his head, around the part of him that had lived through worst the Nazis could devise.
From then on, nothing could stop 12-year-old Sam. He quickly learned English, made friends, and became good at sports. He studied hard at school. "I had a lot of catching up to do," Sam says.
He excelled in Boy Scouts and won the coveted American Legion Award at his school. Sam went on to attend New Trier High School, in Winnetka, Ill., a school of excellent reputation. "I took advantage of everything the school had to offer," Sam says. He played sports, appeared in plays, and served on the student council and as president of his class.
After graduation and a one-year stint at the University of Michigan, Sam arrived at Grinnell. He worked hard and flourished, but told no one of his early life. He read and wrote a bit slower than some of his classmates, since English was not his native language, but none of his professors knew why. Sam recalls an essay exam he took in Darby Gym in which he revealed that he was not originally from the United States. Upon reading it, the professor remarked, "Ah ha! So that's why you have trouble with essay tests!"
I Owe It—I Survived
After Grinnell, Sam says, he wasn't quite sure what to do with himself. After losing one job opportunity because a written test was required, Sam applied for a job with the Equitable Life Assurance Company. "Don't give me a test, and I'll be the best guy you have," Sam told the interviewer.
He got the job, and made good on his promise.
Sam rose from agent to district manager and eventually agency manager. He became a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table and qualified for the Equitable Hall of Fame.
"I had goals big enough to get excited about," Sam says.
But business did not consume his life. Sam and his wife Dede raised a family, David and Julie, and later became grandparents. They have been married 39 years.
Sam remains extremely active in his community. "I feel I owe it. I owe it—I survived," Sam says. He served on the boards of Spertus College, Forest Hospital, and South Central Bank. He was an active Rotarian and president of Northbrook United Way. He was a commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America for the northern suburbs of Chicago and vice president of the local chapter of B'nai Brith. Sam is vice president of the board of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, and has recently been elected to be in charge of creating a Holocaust museum in the Chicago area.
I'm Here, I'm Happy
But through it all, little Sammy remained behind the cement wall. Sam never spoke of him. Sammy was left behind.
It took Dede, Sam's wife, to reunite the man and the little boy. Dede, a social worker, teacher, and artist, recognized that something was missing in all Sam's success. She gently asked Sam about "little Sammy," carefully probing behind and beyond the wall.
"She asked me about 'this little Sammy I never liked,'" Sam remembers. "She kind of put together the little boy and the man."
With Dede's help, Sam was able to look beyond what he saw as the ugly, pathetic, skinny little wretch and recognize the bravery, heroism, and perseverance of the little boy. "He became sort of a part of me," Sam says.
Sam's sisters, Sara and Rosa, both survived the war. Sara was also adopted by a Chicago-area family. She still lives there today with her husband Herb, with whom she raised three children. They have five grandchildren. Rosa still lives in Vienna, and although her husband Walter is dead, she is near her two sons and her grandchildren.
Sam went on to write a book for children about his experiences, titled Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust. He frequently speaks to young people at schools and other organizations, and his message is poignantly clear: Life is good if you let it be.
In 1985 Sam attended a gathering of Holocaust survivors in Philadelphia, and he was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report. "America made everything possible for me. I wrestled in high school and college, played football and baseball. I was an American kid. It was easy for me to forget, and I did for 40 years. But I really care that it should not happen to other children—Jewish, black, or Christian. Democracy is the only thing that can help us prevent it. When I went to Philadelphia, I went to mourn the deaths of 6 million—but also to celebrate for those of us who are alive. I feel we outwitted the evil that always tries to win over good but never seems to in the long run.
"If any SS are still around—tell them I'm here, I'm happy."
Sammy tells the story of the move to Czestochowa in Chapter Five of his book Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust.
Originally published as an online web extra for The Grinnell Magazine, Summer 2008


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|Ironpaw Token Shuffle - Veggies, Meat & Fish
I went back to The Undermine Journal, to the Cooking section under the Gathered category & just stared at it a while. I realised that for me, at least, it didn't go far enough so I built another little spreadsheet for that extra step. This screenshot (from The Undermine Journal) shows how much it would cost to make a container of meats/fish or vegetables from each material available on the Auction House. In effect, it's the cost of an Ironpaw Token, dependant on which raw material you use. I've included the 100 Year Soy Sauce & Black pepper section because those are still selling well on my server & from this screenshot, you can easily see that there is profit to be made just by converting the cheapest raw materials to Ironpaw Tokens.
|The Undermine Journal, Cooking page, Ironpaw Token Calcs
|Calculate Ironpaw Token Shuffle Costs
It's going to be fairly rare for 100 vegetables of any sort to be a cost effective way of buying just 5 meat or fish - Giant Mantis Shrimp are just exceptionally expensive on my server today but using a single 20 stack of meat or fish can easily be cost effective to buy either 5 meat/fish bundle or a 25 vegetable bundle.
You can see that the Raw Turtle Meat & the Reef Octopus (red dots) are both really cheap today & in column F, it shows them at a converted price of 1g66s & 1g59s respectively - that means using either of these to buy a vegetable bundle (25's) will be the cheapest way to buy any of the vegetables except Pink Turnips & Mogu Pumpkins. The Reef Octopus is so cheap today that it's also the cheapest way to buy Wildfowl Breast, Raw Crocolisk Meat & Raw Crab Meat as well as all the fish below Jewel Danio in the fish section!
I've added this spreadsheet onto Google Docs & fingers crossed, in an editable, downloadable form. Just click Ironpaw Token Conversion spreadsheet and you should go straight to it. Feel free to edit it to suit yourself but please, only edit a downloaded copy. I tried to put a macro in for easy sorting but it didn't work (or I couldn't make it work!) so don't worry if you get a 'contains a macro' warning - I couldn't find it to get rid of it!
I hope this helps make the Ironpaw Token Shuffle a little easier & quicker for you. If you have any problems downloading or editing it, let me know either in comments, by email (top right under profile) or on Twitter @NevAHAddict & I'll do my best to help.
Edited: I had to change to Google Docs link above to return the file to it's original format. Please, please, download a copy before you edit anything. Thank you :)
Edited yet again! Following some feedback, I've extended this spreadsheet & uploaded a version 2 to google docs - I've also added some more analysis in a second post Ironpaw Tokens & Cooking Materials Shuffling - Revisited so to make sure you've got the most up to date version, pop over to the Revisited post & click the google docs link there :)
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Play my free web game Space Taxi! I actually made it a month ago but did some bug fixes today.
Click here to play (Unity web, PC or Mac only)
It's just a test - please let me know if it doesn't work. You should be able to fly around and pickup/dropoff passengers as well as kill other taxis.