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As its name suggests, two halves create Full Moon Asian Thai Restaurant. On one hand is a vibrant, bustling dining room that would not feel out of place in Manhattan. The sounds of lively chatter pervade the open space, hanging over rows of wooden tables where napkins stand upright on plates like swans engaged in staring contests. This electric atmosphere juxtaposes neatly with the quieter corners of the restaurant, where eyes are drawn to elaborate woodcarvings and ears perk up at the sound of water burbling across bricks and sandstones imported from Thailand.
This fusion between West and East—between fast-paced and meditative—carries over to the Zagat -rated restaurant's menu. Sweat-inducing spices strike a balance with the sweet flavors of papaya in colorful curries. Similarly, crushed peanuts and handpicked bean sprouts lend a pleasant crunch to the rice noodles of a traditional pad thai dish. Purple- and orange-tinged lamps dangle above guests as they sample the spread of Thai cuisine, giving them the appearance of tigers at a black-light rave.
Little Thai Kitchen's chefs decorate porcelain canvasses with a menu of marinated Thai edibles presented in harlequin medleys beneath sprays of decorative bamboo. Stone and dark-cherry walls sprawl behind symphonies of silverware that clink gently like a robot with a rock in its shoe. Sticky sweet rice, veggies, and a variety of meats and seafood bask alongside spicy curries, including a green-chili concoction that the New York Times called "fierce and delicate at the same time." Frosted glass and brushed-steel lights spill warm light onto diners as they chat amid pastoral accents and artwork with Eastern influences.
Geranium red walls and a seemingly endless supply of fresh Thai orchids contribute to the serene ambiance at Reka's Thai Restaurant, where the kitchen staffers create classics of royal-style cuisine. With a focus on subtlety of flavors, they fuse both imported ingredients as well as those from local merchants when creating dishes like Escargot Thai Style, Green Papaya Salad, Crispy Duck with Crispy Kale, and Wild Boar Jungle Style, all of which are plated with an artful flair. To complement the leisurely dining style, chords from a classical guitarist permeate the dining room on every Friday and Saturday evening.
With its menu of authentic Thai tastes, Thai Basil keeps taste buds and their corresponding bodies thoroughly sated and comfortably seated. While culinary classics such as chicken pad thai help diners reminisce about delectable meals past with its stir-fried rice noodles, scallions, egg, and ground peanut ($10), various wok-stirred ($12–$16) and duck ($19) provide the ground work for new eating experiences. After catching a movie or scenic glimpses of a fast-approaching asteroid, diners can stop by for bites of crispy red snapper ($20), or refuel midday with slurps of grilled-beef pho ($8).
The New York Times praised Tengda's Milford location—one of eight in a small regional chain—as "perfect for young-at-heart couples and groups," with a high-energy atmosphere bubbling around cuisine it called "very good." The chefs draw gustatory inspiration from China, Japan, and Thailand as they create their expansive menus of Pan-Asian fare, which include fiery stir-fries, grilled meats, and sushi and provide reading material for shy diners throughout a full meal. Moody red and yellow lights dapple sleek black tables and booths, and might occasionally catch knife-flipping and drink-slinging theatrics behind the sushi and cocktail bars.
Ai's menus are replete with classic and creative plates. A selection of traditional rolls, such as tuna or salmon ($4 each), will fill the usual sushi strongholds, but for hardened appetite bunkers, call in the game-changing bombs of special rolls such as the rainbow (a California roll topped with assorted sashimi and rainbow caviar, $9.95). There are also hearty chef's specials, including mango passion shrimp (sautéed shrimp and mangos in a special Thai pepper sauce, $13.95), and dinner entrees, including teriyaki beef negimaki (thin-sliced beef and scallions in teriyaki or Asian garlic sauce, $12.95).
Tom Yum's seasoned Thai chefs create authentic Thai dishes using trademark Thailand spices. The ingredient roster also extends to such flavor-enhancers as ginger, basil, and coconut milk, the kind of milk least likely to come out of a cantaloupe. Along with traditional rice, curry, and noodle dishes, they flame-grill and sauté exotic specialties, including a lobster pad thai and barbecue chicken with papaya salad.


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With President Bush's popularity rating still frozen under 40 percent, dismayed Republicans are already straining, should he fail to win re-election, for explanations. High on their list is that he broke his famous six-word pledge to the 1988 Republican Convention -- "Read my lips: No new taxes." If only he had held firm during negotiations with Congress in 1990, he'd be riding high today.
It's a furious but fanciful charge, which ignores reality. The problem with the "read my lips" pledge is not that Mr. Bush broke it; he had no choice. The problem is that he made it in the first place.
President Bush knew when he insisted on proclaiming those six words that they risked undermining his capacity to govern. In a revealing four-part series last week in The Washington Post, Bob Woodward described how Mr. Bush's closest economic advisers fought the no-tax pledge and warned that it would backfire.
Backfire it did. Less than two years later, forced by law to cut the bulging deficit, Mr. Bush acted responsibly. He renounced his pledge and agreed to a modest tax hike as part of a $500 billion deficit-reduction package. Had he done otherwise, the budget law would have forced amputating huge hunks of government.


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National Coming Out Day is part of LGBT History Month. As part of the LGBT History month the SCSU LGBT resource center is hosting multiple events throughout the month including a safe space training event which is designed to educate people who serve the general student population and build a network of allies across campus who are knowledgeable and supportive of the LGBT community. On October 18th, KVSC will also be presenting Hip Hop Against Homophobia, a concert that will be held on the Atwood Mall. Also, later in the month, "Does God Really Hate Queer People?" will be shown at the Atwood Theatre.
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25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut.
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In Crystal Beach Park Arena in the small rural town of Woodward, Oklahoma, population 12,000, the Freedom Ring 2009 festival was held. 9,200 tickets were sold. The organizers said that 14,000 enthusiastic supporters attended the event, and it was standing room only for President Bush's address to the crowd.
Bush spoke to thunderous applause and six standing ovations. Bush called the U.S. the ''greatest nation on the face of the earth." (Has Obama issued an arrest warrant for insulting other nations?)
Six standing ovations? I suspect it will be sixty in no time. If Obama has taught us anything, it's a terrible longing for what we've lost. A paradise lost, slipping so casually through our fingers.
The New York Times actually filed the following report. It makes you wonder who gets the pink slip for this one:
Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was ''the greatest nation on the face of the earth.''
Bush was given six standing ovations as he spoke on a warm, humid evening in GOP-friendly Woodward, a town of about 12,000 residents in northwest Oklahoma and the latest in a handful of out-of-the-way places Bush has visited since leaving office.
During a 30-minute speech mostly devoid of political references -- he mentioned his successor, Barack Obama, just once in passing -- Bush thanked members of the military, spoke about the bravery of injured soldiers he'd met and told stories of people in difficult situations helping others.
''Patriotism comes in all different kinds of forms,'' he said. ''Freedom is beautiful, freedom is precious, freedom must always be defended.''
After the speech, Bush waded into the crowd for a few minutes, giving hugs, signing autographs and shaking hands. ''I didn't think he'd do that,'' Fanning said. ''I told him he's welcome back any time.''
In 2004, Bush won 80.9 percent of the vote in Woodward County as he defeated Democratic challenger John Kerry.
''I came because George Bush was coming down here and I wanted to see him,'' said 48-year-old Douglas Stewart of nearby Freedom, who had a U.S. flag attached to his ballcap. ''I helped put him in office twice. I'm proud to say I did.''
The town welcomed Bush with banners on restaurants, hotels and a highway entering Woodward. Three protesters standing outside the arena with anti-Bush signs left by mid-afternoon. No protests were seen inside the arena.
City Manager Alan Riffel said it was the first presidential visit to Woodward since the late 1950s, when Dwight Eisenhower landed at the airport outside town en route to view drought damage in the area.


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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
"Each and every day's the same. Life has left you nothing new. Turn around and you will see what has become of you."
It is pretty early for me to say if this is true or not. But there are some who say that you feel this countinuosly as your life passes by.
I like how manga/anime statements are so applicable to daily life even though most of them are kind of discouraging.


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I'll put in another plug for Jeremy Cucco. I'm very happy with the cables and snakes I've gotten from him. Anytime I have a big order or something nonstandard I'm going with him.
Of the ones commercially available: I avoid Hosa. Cheap molded connectors - ok until they aren't ok - then they are garbage. I've been happy with the ProCo from Sweetwater. When I'm looking for one or two descent quality standard off-the-shelf cables and want it delivered the day after tomorrow, that's what I buy.
I'm not a big believer in really expensive cables. Cables (at least under, say, 30 ft.) sound very, very much the same until they break. (I'm excluding the really cheap cables with terrible shielding here.) Cables like Monster seem very well made, but not really that much better. If you are buying two or three cables it's not that much money and may help you sleep better. But to cable a whole studio?
You're right on Bob.
I have most of the cables you mentioned, and the only benefit I've found is that some brands offer a lifetime guarantee (replacement).
I know when I'm ready to upgrade my setup, I'll be getting a 24ch snake and some other cables for my rack from Cucco & Co.
Bad enough that we waste your time here, but now we've got you slaving to make us cables as well, Jeremy!
As of right now, I only need one or a few. If I ever need a big order, I will definitely consider Mr. Cucco.
If budget is not and issue, you will not go with the mogami.
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I have had good success with B.L.U.E. cables. Well made and they are always on sale for a good price somewhere on the internet.
It might depend on what you're doing with the cables.
If you need to solder the ends to very tiny connectors like Dsubs, Elco etc then I go with Mogami when possible. The wire is easy to work with,it goes where you want it, very flexible and not bulky so it doesn't get in your way when you need to bunch 24 into a cramped space. Very much like cooked spaghetti.
Proco on the other hand is a very sturdy wire, good for live applications or studio applications where the wire is exposed. (mike cables, trunk lines etc) where each wire needs to go to a separate jack or plug. Very Al Dente spaghetti.
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FORT SNELLING (AP) -- Two old U.S. soldiers stood before more than 300 people -- many of them old soldiers, too -- and told stories of discomfort, uncertainty, boredom, fear and exhilaration.
Toshi Abe, 81, of Bloomington, told about slogging with Merrill's Marauders 600 miles through the jungles of Burma, fighting the Japanese for every inch.
Tom Oye, also 81, of Edina, told about the fierce fighting in Italy and Germany, where incessant rain flooded his foxholes, causing his feet to swell so he couldn't walk.
He refused medical treatment. "I was afraid they would send me to a hospital in the rear and I'd lose my assignment with Company B," he said softly. "And I loved Company B."
Other veterans in the audience at Fort Snelling nodded in understanding.
But Oye also told how his 100th Infantry Battalion -- all Japanese-American -- broke through the gates at Dachau.
"I suppose there was some irony to the fact they were liberating a Jewish concentration camp," he said, even more softly, "while their parents were in concentration camps back here."
Since 1987, the Twin Cities World War II Roundtable has brought historians and veterans together. This year's programs will include the battle of Leyte Gulf, the war in the Balkans, the development of strategic bombing in the Pacific and the role of engineers in the Battle of the Bulge.
But the series began last month with rarely heard war stories from home: stories of people who felt betrayed by the only country they knew -- but who fought for their country anyway.
Oye (pronounced OH-yeh) and Abe (AH-bay) are Nisei (NEE-say), second-generation Japanese-Americans.
After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order to remove people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. During spring and summer 1942, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to 10 "war relocation centers" far from their homes and businesses. The camps were surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by armed guards.
In the war's next three years, more than 33,000 Nisei served in the U.S. Army, mostly in two all-Japanese-American units: the 100th Infantry Battalion, formed in Hawaii, and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of volunteers from the internment camps.
The two forces were merged in 1944 during the Allied campaign in Italy, and the combined unit sustained the highest U.S. casualty rate of the war.
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"These declines are the steepest we've seen since February, when global trade hit bottom, and would seem to confirm that American businesses have modest expectations for the coming holiday shopping season," said ceo Josh Green.
On the upside, the month-over-month decline was within range of declines during the same period in 2008 (7%) and 2007 (7%), "suggesting seasonality may be a key driver of this year's decline," according to the company.
In another bright spot, the number of "significant" manufacturers on the Panjiva Watch List declined from 38% in August to 27% last year. The list flags manufacturers whose shipping volume has fallen by 50% or more during the most recent three months. "Significant" manufacturers are those who have shipped at least 10 orders to the U.S. in the past 12 months.
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"You look marvelous!" Or, a time to revel in living large.
You might have funny discolorations in your skin. You look like you just swallowed a basketball and raided the bakery. You have no makeup on, your hair is unkempt, and you have the look of someone who just woke up groggy from a long nap. But people will run into you and gush that you're beautiful. And on some level you are. Hey, you're pregnant – and there's a beauty in that which isn't based on Vogue magazine standards.
And yet, it bears saying, something strange happens when you're pregnant. Suddenly, your body is public domain, and people feel free to act and comment accordingly. As I head into the home stretch with less than three weeks until my due date, people seem to feel more comfortable than ever in commenting on the state of my body.
Thankfully, it's all good – to the point where I'm convinced it's exaggerated and meant to flatter. "You look fabulous," friends coo. (Well, let's not get carried away.) "Your hair looks great." (Yes, it appears that raging female hormones have restored my hair to the thickness I had 15 years ago, but I'm sure it's temporary.) "Your face isn't big and puffy at all," one friend wondered yesterday. "In fact, you look like you lost weight."
And then there are the comments that I think are meant as compliments, but have a way of making me flinch. "I saw you from the back and couldn't even tell!" (Gee, so I can stop worrying about my butt also looking pregnant?) "You look kinda slim but with a nice round belly." (Slim? Really, save me the exaggerations.) "You're not even waddling." And my favorite: "You were much bigger last time, no? I mean, last time at this point you were huuuge."
It could be that I'm having a slightly less puffy pregnancy experience, or that this baby will be a little smaller than our son was – girls often are. Or maybe it's a seasonal thing. Towards the end of my last pregnancy there were a few days when the thermometer in Jerusalem neared 115 degrees, which meant 102-degree days were the norm. My hands and feet swelled up to the point where a friend remarked, with empathy: "Those don't really look like they'd be your feet. Does it hurt?" (Yes, it did.) My feet looked like the belonged on the body of an old lady – or even a fat baby. The swelling reminded me of how my foot looked when I'd broken a bone a few years back – no metatarsals in sight.
In comparison, it's nice reaching the home stretch of pregnancy in wintertime. Not the winter of New York, where I grew up, and where a friend slipped on the ice and broke her wrist while pregnant, but the relatively mild winter of Jerusalem. Here, on recent nights with the weather hovering at 4C (39F), the temperatures make for polite chit-chat about what an unusually cold winter we're having. A scarf is a nice thing to have, but with my warm pregnancy hands, I don't think I've put on gloves more than once the whole winter. We didn't even get the snow that was predicted this past weekend, and that would have been the first time in four years.
This means that I my spend days in marvelously comfortable pregnancy jeans or black pants and black t-shirts, capped with a long, colorful sweater. It's a lot more flattering of a look than the size XL white sundress I often wore in the record-breaking heat of August 2010. When it's that damn hot and you're that pregnant, a billowing muumuu that hardly touches your skin seems the only thing you want to wear.
But frankly, there are moments when I find this preoccupation with the state of my body to be disconcerting. Unless you're my doctor or my midwife – who has explicitly told me to watch my sugar and carbs this month to avoid letting the baby get too big and thus inhibit the natural birth I'm hoping for – the state of my size is probably not your business. Not long ago, my friend Nechama Malkiel crystallized what was troubling about the comments on her pregnant body. In a piece she posted on Facebook a while back, she wrote:
I have two problems with these comments.
1) They create an atmosphere of judgment that I am constantly subjected to – many people seem to think that because I am incubating a human being, my body has become public property and deserving of scrutiny. This is personally hurtful and makes me feel self-conscious.
2) These comments convey a societal preference for certain body types that is analogous to the one that non-pregnant women are classified by – to be a pregnant woman who gains little weight and/or who loses it quickly is seen as superior to being one who gains a lot of weight and/or takes a long time to regain her pre-pregnancy body, if she is ever able to (or even wants to) do so.
She concluded:
Why am I writing this and posting it on Facebook? I have two goals. One is that we pause before we consider commenting on our friends' and family members' pregnant and post-pregnant bodies (particularly mine). The second is that we, as a society, reevaluate the underlying messages we are giving women about pregnant and post-pregnant body image. I do not believe that we should impose a "one thin size fits all" standard to women who are gestating or have given birth. I look forward to a time when women of all shapes and sizes can bask in the beauty of their new, fabulous bodies.
Right on, sister. Of course, truly excessive weight gain is never good for mother or baby. But in neither my case nor hers were we in that category.
Of course, it might be that it's just hard for me to take a compliment. As a teenager, I never fully believed it when someone said I looked good. I struggled with my weight, and every pound gained or lost affected my mood. I either felt I had to negate every flattering comment in the interest of seeming modest, or I simply didn't believe that what people said was sincere; they were just trying to make me feel good. Maybe I'm still suffering from that same skepticism. All these years later, those struggles largely behind me, I vacillate. There are moments I feel proud, blessed and lucky to be so full-bodied and ready to bring a new life into the world – and moments in which the aforementioned social conditioning makes me think what they're really saying is, "isn't it fun to see you looking so fat."
This is perhaps the one time in a woman's life where she is truly welcome to take up all the space she needs and revel in being large. Fecund. Powerful. In the few weeks I have left of pregnancy, I'm going to try to enjoy that. Because hey, You look marvelous.


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I am delighted to tell you about a great new book that has just come out. It's called STOP EATING YOUR HEART OUT: The 21-Day Program to Free Yourself from Emotional Eating, written by former binge eater turned psychotherapist, Meryl Hershey Beck. I interviewed her on my radio show, The Vital Life, on April 6, 2012. Listen to the podcast at: http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/60876/stop-eating-your-heart-out
Meryl has developed a tried-and-true process for finally breaking the cycle of emotional eating, and dissolving its hold over you. Her book is as inspiring as it is practical, and I highly recommend it!
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Way back in May 2007, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Act was created to promote outside-of-the-box thinking for energy and climate related research. The excitement quickly died, though, as the Bush administration lost focus and never funded the project (there was never even real office space created).
Now, though, ARPA-E is back on track. Funding in the amount of $400 million was explicitly set aside in the recent stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), and on April 27, President Obama annuonced at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.:
My administration will pursue, as well, comprehensive legislation to place a market-based cap on carbon emissions. We will make renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. We will put in place the resources so that scientists can focus on this critical area. And I am confident that we will find a wellspring of creativity just waiting to be tapped by researchers in this room and entrepreneurs across our country. We can solve this problem.
In addition to funding new research, the President promised to further science education: "...my administration has set a goal that will greatly enhance our ability to compete for the high-wage, high-tech jobs of the future... we've provided tax credits and grants to make a college education more affordable." He also announced that the new budget triples the number of National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships.
As Obama has done so in the past, he ended with an allusion to the Apollo Project for which John F. Kennedy spurred funding and motivated a generation to strive for; quoting Kennedy: "The challenge, in short, may be our salvation."
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The Resort Municipality of Whistler is currently studying a potential new well supply source located along the Valley Trail (between Rainbow Park and Lorimer Road). Read more.
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On May 1, 2012, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) announced $143,700 in grant funding to Whistler non-profit organizations and societies through the 2012 Community Enrichment Program (CEP). These grants are important tools that help the RMOW to work towards key strategy areas identified in Whistler2020, Whistler's shared community vision and plan. Click here for the news release.
Whistler council awards financial grants annually to local non-profit organizations or societies that benefit the resort community. The amount provided to each selected organization varies, but represents a maximum of 50 per cent of their annual budget. Funding through this program is not approved for special events or for the rental of municipal facilities, which are already subsidized for non-profit organizations. Organizations receiving CEP grants must report back to council on the use of their funds by the end of the year.
The Community Enrichment Program has been created to support Whistler2020 - Moving toward a Sustainable Future.
Whistler2020 is a comprehensive sustainability plan describing what Whistler aspires to be in the year 2020 including values, sustainable principles, vision, priorities and directions that define success and sustainability for the resort. The Community Enrichment Program supports the plan by allowing community groups to bring forward and define their sustainable programs and explain how their initiatives help move Whistler toward a sustainable community.
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This year, 29 applications were received with a total of $323,494 in grant requests. One applicant received another source of funding early on and withdrew from the process, and the Mature Action Committee, indicated below, also withdrew from the process, after they confirmed receipt of other funding. This year, a total of $143,700 in grants was awarded to 27 separate programs or organizations. This amount is within the budget of $146,200 allocated for the CEP in the 2012-2016 Five-Year Financial Plan.
- Dance Whistler Association $2,000
- Get Bear Smart Society $5,000
- Howe Sound Women's Centre – Children Who Witness Abuse $5,200
- Howe Sound Women's Centre – Whistler Women's Drop-in Centre $7,600
- Mature Action Committee $0*
- Myrtle Philip Parent Advisory Council $3,700
- Sea to Sky Community Services - Whistler Parent-Tot Drop-In $7,000
- Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council $3,000
- Whistler Naturalists Society $4,000
- Spring Creek Community School/Ecole La Passerelle $2,500
- Whistler Adaptive Sports Program $26,850
- The Point Artist Run Centre Society $1,500
- Whistler Writers Group (The Vicious Circle) $2,500
- Whistler Blackcomb Freestyle Ski Club $2,000
- Whistler Community Services Society $5,200
- Whistler Firefighter's Association Extrication Team $2,250
- Whistler Gymnastics Club $4,000
- Whistler Minor Hockey Association $4,000
- Whistler Nordics Ski Club $10,000
- Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA) $15,000
- Whistler Sailing Association (WSA) $4,200
- Whistler Skating Club $3,500
- Whistler Valley Quilter's Guild $300
- Whistler Waldorf School Society $4,500
- Whistler Youth Soccer Club $9,500
- Zero Ceiling Society $4,400
- Whistler Children's Chorus $2,000
- Whistler Secondary School Scholarship $2,000
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I've been searching on and off for a few months for a solution to my problem. It involves assigning a header to specific items in a list. An example of how I want to end result to look like is how the Settings application separates options with headers.
If you open up the Settings app you are presented with a list of options, each of which opens up an Activity or Fragment. These options are grouped as follows:
Wireless and Network, Device, Personal, Accounts, and System.
I cannot find a view, or a style, with which I can reproduce those headers within my app. I've found a library called StickyGridHeaders (http://www.androidviews.net/2013/02/stickygridheaders/), which contains headers which look exactly like the ones I am trying to implement into my app.
Can anyone shed some light on this subject? Is there a particular view or library which I should be using or is this something I'll have to implement myself from scratch? Given the number of applications which use this style of categorization I find it very hard to believe that all of these devs have their own custom implementation, and yet look extremely alike.
A screenshot depicting what I'm after (the header listed under the "1" callout box):
Thanks in advance.
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Brown Jordan International and Hanamint Corporation have mutually agreed to discontinue their relationship for National Accounts and Direct Imports, but will continue to work together in the Specialty Retail channel.
"Hanamint has been a wonderful partner who we hope to collaborate with in the future," said Chris Carmicle, BJI's president, national accounts & direct imports division. "The dissolving of our relationship fits with BJI's initiative to consolidate and improve overall efficiencies and supply chain management. BJI's focus on product development is paramount to insure our success in this area."
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The British POW who stitched an insult to Hitler
A POW wiling away the war in a German prison camp delivered a defiant message insulting Hitler through the apparently innocuous skill of embroidery.
Major Alexis Casdagli, who was taken prisoner in 1941, had turned to embroidery as a way of protecting his sanity against the tedium of POW life but he also found it provided a means of covert resistance.
An innocent looking tapestry stitched by the officer in December 1941 bears the rather bland text stating the name and location of its creator and the date. But in a border surrounding the text Major Casdagli also stitched a series of dots and dashes, which in Morse code spelt out "God Save the King" and "---- Hitler"....
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Grant Lamond is University Lecturer in Legal Philosophy and the Felix Frankfurter Fellow in Law, Balliol College. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Law from the University of Sydney and took the BCL at Magdalen College. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, where he completed his DPhil. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law and the philosophy of criminal law.
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G Lamond, 'Persuasive Authority in the Law' (2010) 17 The Harvard Review of Philosophy 16 [...]
This article discusses the nature of persuasive authorities in the common law, and argues that many of them are best understood in terms of their (being regarded) as having theoretical rather than practical authorities for the courts that cite them. The contrast between theoretical and practical authority is examined at length in order to support the view that the treatment of many persuasive authorities by courts is more consistent with this view. Finally, it is argued that if persuasive authorities are best understood as theoretical authorities, this raises difficulties for both positivistic and interpretivist theories of law.
G Lamond, 'Precedent' (2007) 2 Philosophy Compass 699 [...]
Precedent is a central feature of legal practice, requiring courts to follow decisions reached in earlier cases, thereby transforming the decisions in individual cases into a source of law. This article examines two major questions associated with precedent: (a) how to characterise the way that precedent operates as a source of law; and (b) how to justify the requirement that courts follow earlier decisions regardless of the merits of those decisions. Precedents are often thought to create general legal rules, but it is controversial whether this is the best way to understand their role in legal reasoning. Equally, it is unclear that the most common justifications for precedent unequivocally vindicate the practice.
G Lamond, 'What is a Crime?' (2007) 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 609 [...]
DOI: 10.1093/ojls/gqm018
This article presents a philosophical account of the nature of crime. It argues that the criminal law contains both fault-based crimes and strict liability offences, and that these two represent different paradigms of liability. It goes on to argue that the gist of fault-based crimes lies in their being public wrongs, not (as is often thought) because they wrong the public, but because the public is responsible for punishing them, i.e. because they merit state punishment. What makes wrongs deserving of punishment is that they are seriously blameworthy, inasmuch as they evince a disrespect for the values violated. But they only merit state punishment when they violate important values, not simply due to the well-known pragmatic considerations against the use of the criminal law, but to the intrinsic expressive force of criminal conviction. Finally, the analysis of fault-based crimes points to a role for strict liability in regulating actions that are not seriously blameworthy but do increase the risk of values being damaged.
G Lamond, 'Do Precedents Create Rules?' (2005) 11(1) Legal Theory 1 [...]
This article argues that legal precedents do not create rules, but rather create a special type of reason in favour of a decision in later cases. Precedents are often argued to be analogous to statutes in their law-creating function, but the common law practice of distinguishing is difficult to reconcile with orthodox accounts of the function of rules. Instead, a precedent amounts to a decision on the balance of reasons in the case before the precedent court, and later courts are required to decide cases on the basis that the earlier decision was correctly decided.
G Lamond, 'Coercion and the Nature of Law' (2001) 7(1) Legal Theory 35 [...]
The main focus of the article is upon two major lines of argument that attempt to establish a link between law and coercion: one based upon the law's efficacy; the other upon the law's normativity. It argues that the claim that law is necessarily coercive because it must be efficacious is mistaken--not necessarily on sociological or psychological grounds, but because it identifies law with the preconditions for its existence. On the other hand, the argument that law's normativity is inherently linked to coercion contains an important truth--not because coercion is necessary to account for normativity, but because the scope of law's claim to authority encompasses the right to authorize the use of coercion.
G Lamond, 'The Coerciveness of Law' (2000) 20 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 39 [...]
DOI: 10.1093/ojls/20.1.39
One of the central features associated with law is its coerciveness. A major source of our interest in law's coerciveness is that the use of coercion is thought to require moral justification - hence the liberal interest in the harm principle. This article seeks to contribute to the debate about the justifiable grounds for legal coercion by clarifying the ways in which law is coercive and demonstrating that coerciveness is a highly complex phenomenon. It argues that the legal authorization of physical force and sanctions, rather than the existence of enforcement institutions, is the appropriate focus for these enquiries. It considers the appropriate methodology for understanding the nature of coercion and goes on to argue that there are a group of nested conceptions of coercion which perform different roles in different contexts. The differences between these conceptions help to account for some of the disagreements over law's coerciveness. There is also an important contrast between laws which aim to coerce and those which merely have a coercive effect. All of these internal distinctions within coercion matter because they have considerable significance for the justification of coercive legal measures. Finally, it is argued that sanctions are neither necessary for the law to be coercive, nor always sufficient.
G Lamond, 'Coercion' in Hugh LaFollette (ed), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell 2013) [...]
DOI: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee696
This paper provides an overview of issues raised by the nature of coercion. It outlines four major distinctions that are both important to understanding the nature of coercion and important to disputes about its nature: (1) coercion in the sense of actions that aim to force another to do something, as opposed to actions that simply have that effect (i.e. are "coercive"); (2) coercion by the use of physical force as opposed to coercion by the creation of a "forced choice"; (3) coercion as a factor affecting the liability of the person who succumbs to the force ("duress") as opposed to coercion as a means of making another do as one wills; and (4) distinguishing between proposals that are threats rather than offers. These distinctions all bear on the question of why the use of coercion is ordinarily regarded as requiring some moral warrant.
G Lamond, 'The Rule of Recognition and the Foundations of a Legal System' in Andrea Dolcetti, Lu�s Duarte d�Almeida and James Edwards (eds), Reading HLA Hart's 'The Concept of Law' (Hart Publishing 2013) (forthcoming)
G Lamond, 'The Rule of Law' in Andrei Marmor (ed), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (Routledge 2012) [...]
The central argument of this paper is that the rule of law is an ideal concerned with the conditions that are necessary for the law to succeed in governing a community. The influential views of Fuller and Raz which ground the ideal in the conditions necessary for the law to exist at all (Fuller) or for the law to be capable of guiding behaviour (Raz) are discussed and criticised. Four conditions are highlighted as part of the rule of law: (1) the law is effective; (2) the state is governed by and governs through law; (3) individual laws can be jointly and severally obeyed; and finally (4) those other legal and social arrangements whose primary rationale is to serve conditions (1)�(3). Condition (4) accounts for the significance of such arrangements as an independent legal profession. Condition (4) also helps to explain both the attraction of regarding other political ideals such as democracy and human rights as aspects of the rule of law, since their existence helps promote the other conditions, and the reasons for excluding them from the rule of law itself, since their primary rationale is not to ensure that the law succeeds in governing the community. Finally, it is argued that the rationale for the rule of law lies in the value of a law governed community. The rule of law itself, however, is not always morally valuable: not because it is purely of instrumental value, but because it is an inherently mixed-value good.
G Lamond, 'Coercion' in Dennis Patterson (ed), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2nd edition) (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) [...]
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320114.ch46
This article provides an overview of the key philosophical issues raised by the nature of coercion. It distinguishes two methods of coercion (physical force and �rational� compulsion�paradigmatically by threats); and distinguishes coercion as a means of making someone act from coercion as a means affecting the normative position of the coerced party (�duress�). It surveys analyses of what makes a proposal a threat, whether offers can be coercive, and why rational compulsion is per se morally problematic (if it is). It suggests that while all forms of rational compulsion have a common core, the conditions for duress depend on additional situation specific features (e.g. duress as a criminal law defence versus duress as a vitiating factor in agreements or marriage). It goes on to consider the sense(s) in which law can be regarded as coercive, and whether coercion is a necessary feature of law.
G Lamond, 'Coercion, Threats, and the Puzzle of Blackmail' in A.P. Simester and A.T.H. Smith (eds), Harm and Culpability ( 1996) [...]
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198260578.001.0001
This paper discusses the puzzle of blackmail, i.e. the way in which the threat of an otherwise legally permissible action can in some cases constitute blackmail. It argues that the key to understanding blackmail is in terms of coercion and threats, and the effect such threats have on the validity of a victim�s consent. The nature of coercion and of coercive threats is considered in detail to support the thesis that threats are prima facie impermissible, though often justified all-things-considered. The puzzle of blackmail arises due to the fact that the law rarely has regard to an agent�s motives in acting, whereas this is the focus of the puzzling cases.
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G Lamond, 'Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning' (2006) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [...]
Arguments from precedent and analogy are two central forms of reasoning found in many legal systems, especially Common Law systems. Precedent involves an earlier decision being followed in a later case because both cases are the same. Analogy involves an earlier decision being followed in a later case because the later case is similar to the earlier one. The main philosophical problems raised by precedent and analogy are these: (1) when are two cases the �same� for the purposes of precedent? (2) when are two cases �similar� for the purposes of analogy? and (3) in both situations, why should the decision in the earlier case affect the decision in the later case?


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The Ojai Parks and Recreation Commission spent four hours, of its monthly meeting Thursday, considering next year's budget.
Complicating the discussion about the future of the city's Parks and Recreation Department was the resignation of former director Dale Sumersille two months ago.
The commissioners expressed mixed feelings about the current state of the Department, believing it has been slow to respond to the community's desire for greater activity and involvement, but also that it has been hurt by recent cutbacks.
Two new members of the Commission, Robert Roddick and Sunday Rylander, both appointed in May, expressed surprise at the former director's salary, which was about $94,000, not including benefits.
The Ojai City Council has not decided whether to launch a search for a new director and while the commissioners did not vote to make a recommendation, they repeatedly stressed their desire to be included in the decision-making process.
"I'm not necessarily opposed to promoting someone from within the department, such as [acting director] Sophocles Cotsis, and then rewriting the position so that he reports directly to the city manager and makes a little more money but not as much as the former director," said Commission Chair Randy Haney. "But our attitude is that if you're not going to fill that position, then who is going to pick up the slack? Are we going to bring in some part-time people? We want to see how the city is going to take that revenue and redistribute it."
Since Sumersille's resignation, Cotsis has run the department with help from Steve McClary, the assistant to the city manager. Together, they are interviewing candidates for a counter person in the department offices at Sarzotti Park. They said they expect to hire one of six final candidates this month.
Further complicating the discussion was the use of a different accounting method, implemented this year, that allocates administrative time to particular tasks and responsibilities. It took Susie Mears, director of the city's Finance Department, two hours to explain the changes to the Commission.
Last year, it cost about $750,000 to run the Parks and Recreation Department. It recovered about 60 percent of its costs, according to McClary, meaning that the city is spending over $300,000 on parks and recreation.
"We're already subsidizing the department with $331,000 from the general fund," Mears said to the Commission. "It's going to continue. That's the way it's been budgeted for 12 or 13 years, and I don't imagine that's going to change."
At the Commission's request, McClary and Cotsis compiled statistics from about 20 other cities similar to Ojai, to see how it compares in terms of expenditures, cost recovery, money spent on staff as a percentage of the recreation budget and amount spent per person on the participants in the city's recreation programs.
With approximately 7,500 residents living within the Ojai city limits, and total city expenditures of $7,529,000, the city's recreation budget of $758,000 was in the middle of the pack. With its staff costs equaling 72 percent of the Department's total budget, Ojai was ranked 17th out of 22 cities. It's costs of $101 per participant also placed it at the higher end of the comparison. Wealthy communities such as Mill Valley, in Northern California, spend as much as $249 per participant, whereas poorer communities, such as Fillmore, spend just $23.
The Commissioners thanked McClary and Cotsis for the research, which they said would help guide their decision-making process.
"Right now, Steve is doing an incredible job interfacing with us and with management. I don't know what his position is on this responsibility, and I don't know his salary, but he would be a position I feel we should look at, if we want to hire a person without a degree in recreation management, but someone who understands the financial aspects," Haney said.
The Commission also heard of progress on a new "exchange of services" agreement, to allow community members to trade labor and material for reductions in fees.
"In the past, there was a lot of horse trading, and in a small community we feel that is pretty acceptable," Haney said. "When Dale came on board, coming from a larger department, she started changing polices and procedures regarding that, which I can understand, but the community would like to provide these kind of services to reduce their costs, which has been done in the past."
Haney explained that one group cut its rental costs by $1,500 this year by repainting and retiling bathrooms. The Department also had its horseshoe pits and seven picnic tables replaced by another group who rented the sports field this year.
5 comments on "Parks and Recreation Commission spends four hours on budget talks"
Directors of Parks and Rec make way more than that is other cities. I say promote Sophocles or take new applicants. Jayden is not the answer.
Sophocles should run it. He's a responsible adult, talented, HONEST and deserving of a decent salary. The commission should be very thoughtful as how they proceed with this all important position. The community has gone downhill since they started hiring outsiders to run things. Soph should run the rec department (fill Carol's shoes) and Jayden should come back to his old position! Both with healthy salaries that will be covered by the renewed enthusiasm in the departments programs. Think long term here people….
Bring Jayden back, the rec department was so much better when he was there.
Beg Jaydon to come back im sure the financial numbers were way better when he was incharge


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Premiere Global Services (PGi) founder and CEO Boland Jones received more than $8.1 million in 2010, about four times more than the $2.0 million he took home the prior year.
That increase in total compensation was one of the factors behind Jones' ranking as the second most overpaid CEO, according to the Obermatt/CRN Pay-For-Performance Index, with 411 percent excess pay.
In an email to CRN, Sean O'Brien, executive vice president of strategy and communications at PGi, noted that the CEO's total compensation in 2011 decreased 64 percent from 2010 while sales increased 7 percent and while non-GAAP diluted EPS and stock price each increased more than 20 percent. "Our total shareholder return for 2011 [outperformed] the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 3000 indices, as well as our compensation study peer group and stock performance graph indices," O'Brien wrote.
Also, 82 percent of PGI's shareholders approved the company's "say on pay" vote this year, he noted.
In a 2011 proxy, PGi noted that certain executive officers received a higher bonus payout in 2010 as compared with 2009 "as a result of our company's improved performance against established financial metrics." However, in 2010 the Atlanta-based developer of virtual collaboration solutions saw its stock, revenue and earnings all fall compared to 2009.
Boland's compensation appears to have been the subject of some debate between the company and two proxy advisory firms hired by PGi.
According to a proxy statement dated June 2, 2011, ISS Proxy Advisory Services and Glass Lewis & Co. both advised shareholders to vote against the compensation committee's recommendations for executive compensation, asserting that there was a misalignment between the compensation of the CEO and company performance.
PGi countered that the proxy advisory companies utilized a "one-size-fits-all" approach to evaluate stock price performance over a multiyear period but in contrast measured CEO compensation on a year-over-year basis.
Despite those claims, both proxy advisory firms maintain that PGi "significantly overstates" the valuation of Jones' long-term incentive (LTI) award, according to the proxy.
PGi argued to shareholders in the proxy to consider that Boland had not received a salary increase, an increase in bonus opportunity or a long-term incentive award since 2005.
"Unlike many companies, awards under our LTI program are made on a periodic basis, not on an annual basis. Our CEO had not received an LTI award since 2005 and was fully vested in his prior award," the company wrote in the proxy. "Our compensation committee looks at performance and compensation over time, and we believe that it is important for shareholders as well to look at our CEO's compensation over recent years and evaluate his 2010 compensation in that light."
PGi also argued that Boland's pay should reflect improved performance coming out of the global recession.
"For example, our CEO's 2009 total realized compensation was significantly lower than in 2008, reflecting pay for performance during the period PGi was hardest hit by the recession, with his 2010 realized compensation more comparable to 2008 pre-recession compensation. If our CEO's pay is evaluated on a year-over-year basis, we believe that it is most appropriate to compare his compensation in 2010 with that in 2005, which was the last year in which he received an LTI award," the company wrote in the proxy.
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Three teens are facing robbery and weapons charges after an alleged drug deal at an elementary school turned into an armed robbery.
The teens, ages 15, 16 and 17, all of Middletown, were arrested on Jan. 14, two days after they allegedly tried to rob two other teens, ages 17 and 18, both of Middletown, of marijuana and money, according to Middletown police reports.
The 15- and 17-year-old assailants were charged with aggravated robbery and the 16-year-old was charged with complicity to aggravated robbery. The 15- and 16-year-olds were also charged with conveyance of a deadly weapon onto a school ground.
The 17- and 18-year-olds who were robbed admitted to police they were there to sell drug, according to police reports. Police Lt. Scott Reeve said it's unlikely the two teens will face charges due to a lack of corroborating evidence.
On Jan. 12, the 17-year-old victim received a call from the 15-year-old about buying marijuana, according to reports. They decided to meet around 7 p.m. at Mayfield Elementary on Burbank Avenue, and said the victim's 18-year-old friend would allegedly be able to supply the drugs.
However, instead of an alleged drug transaction, the 15-year-old allegedly pulled out a .22-caliber revolver and demanded the marijuana and cash. The 17- and 18-year-olds were with their girlfriends.
The 17-year-old victim told the boy with a gun he had no money, and when he turned to ask his friend — who was in their car with the girls — for money, he was struck on the top of the head with the revolver, according to police. He struck him a second time on the right side of the head.
The 17-year-old accomplice of the boy with the gun attempted to grab the car keys from the ignition, but one of the girls in the car removed them first. The boy with the gun "started to point the pistol at everyone in the car," according to the police report.
The 18-year-old exited and gave up his wallet with $100 inside. The teenage assailants then fled the scene going northwest on Sheffield Street.
The boy that was twice struck in the head was transported to Atrium Medical Center by a parent after going to the house of one of his friends.
The three boys were arraigned last week and remanded to the Butler County Juvenile Detention Center. They are set to be in be juvenile court at 9 a.m. on Jan. 28 before Judge Ron Craft.
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This was my first marathon and it was great! There were so many aid stations, plenty of fruit and Gatorade throughout, and food at the end. The spectators were few and far between, but the ones there were so enthusiastic. The only room for improvement I would note is the non-chip timing. This was the first race I haven't had a chip and it was a little confusing at the end. I had a great time, though; I'll definitely be back next year!
I was so worried about the notorious weather conditions, but it turned out to be ideal. Wind was not a big factor this year as I heard it has been in the past. Course was fast and fairly flat with few steep inclines except for a few bridges. Scenery was beautiful! I finally broke 4 hours, so I am a happy camper. For anyone contemplating this marathon, here are my two cents: Pros: great course access for spectators; easy access to start line for Congress Hall hotel guests; nice, technical, long-sleeve race shirt (bird with legs is weird though); finisher's medal; good organization. Cons: no chip time; took a full 24 hours to get official results; post party was weak (only plain bagels, bananas, oranges, water, Gatorade and broth); didn't see any gels at aid stations; and I could't find a massage tent so I'm guessing there wasn't one. Also nobody directed you where to go once you crossed the finish line. All in all, if given the same weather conditions, I would return. I loved staying in Cape May! But most of all, I love my sub-4 marathon PR!!!
I enjoyed many things about this marathon. The course is very scenic - running through neighborhoods of old Victorian houses. Very punctual - the gun went off right at 9 a.m., as scheduled. Expo was better than I expected for such a small race. I have one criticism: there are not enough water stops - they're spaced every 2 1/2 miles. Fortunately for us, the weather was cool yesterday, but this would be very challenging on a warmer day. One other idea for improvement would be to reverse the course - start in Sea Isle, and finish in Cape May. It would be a better point-to-point. All in all, an OK race, but not one on my short list to run again.
Beautiful course with limited spectator support. The shuttles to the start were convenient and hanging out at Congress Hall in Cape May before the start was nice - so much better than waiting outside in the cold, or on the bus. The aid stations were friendly and well-stocked with fruit and Gatorade, and a few had gels. The post-race spread was completely underwhelming, but the free massage tent more than made up for that. I contemplated going into the ocean to ice my legs, but in the end was just too cold to make myself do it. Nice to have had the option, though! (The only bright side to freezing temps at the start and 35 degrees at the finish.)
We were worried about the weather - but despite a few flurries early on, the sun came out and the wind was very kind to us. Great, fast, course - bridges helped break up the flat course. The organization was fine, for this race - only gave it a 4 because I would prefer chip timing. And the only reason spectators got a 3 is because there just aren't very many people down the shore this time of year. But the ones who were out were very enthusiastic - kudos to the cow-bell lady who I saw at three separate mile markers and the girls with the "Chaffe now, brag later" sign hooting and hollering in Wildwood. Lots of fun for me and the 3 other friends who did the race with me. We're looking forward to next year's race. We'll all be back.
Fast course, and the spectators made you feel welcome; I'm just not happy with the end reward of not getting the medal and having the shirts at a different location. Speaking for myself, coming from CT, I would have liked to have left with those items. They seal the deal and stand as great memories for a day of joyful jogging.
This was my first marathon and it was an amazing experience. The scenery on the course was incredible even though the weather was pretty gloomy (we had light rain storms with clouds for a majority of it). Even though there were not many spectators, the ones that were there gave it 110%. There was one guy with a cowbell who was going wild, which, when I hit the wall at 22, gave me a great lift - and I think he (and other just as enthusiastic spectators) really helped me reach the finish. And despite my poor speed management, I still finished 15 minutes faster than I had thought I'd do even if everything went perfect, showing just how fast this course can be. The volunteers at the massage and food tents afterward were great too. I would definitely recommend this for first-timers or someone looking for a PR. My only complaint lies with the medal. It's got a pretty ridiculous emblem on it. If they got a different symbol for the marathon, I think it would really improve on an already great race.
There are 3 things going for this marathon - location, organization and the race director. First, Ed DePalma answered every question that I had promptly, and this is noteworthy in itself. Second, the course is so pretty that it made me want to move there. Running along the beach or across the salt marshes makes the miles go much faster. And finally, organization was close to perfect. Yes, I would have liked more Gatorade stops and a couple of aid stations ran out of cups, but maybe that made me faster, as I didn't have to slow down or stop! I've told all my running buddies to do ODM for their NJ marathon. And I liked that the race was in the off-season, as I've heard that traffic can be a beast in-season and I sure didn't want to dodge people on the boardwalk!
Let me start off by saying that I crushed my PR by nearly 20 mintues on this course, so obviously it's fast. As noted by several others, there were not a lot of spectators, but personally I actually like that - running for me in silence is great. The expo is quite small (something like 5 tables), so to rush to get there (I'm from NYC) by 5 p.m. to pick up my stuff only to find that was a bit disappointing. I was shocked to find out they would not be using a timing chip - I will say my Garmin showed my time was accurate - but I pushed my way to the front at the start to not lose seconds waiting to get to the line - something I would normally never do nor like, since I prefer to start comfortably and not feel rushed. Overall, it was a great experience, but I think timing chips are a must (I ran a marathon in South Dakota with about half as many runners and it used chips!), the course is great and scenic and the volunteers did a great job. Cape May was empty; perhaps they could do the race as a kick off to "the season" - many of the shops and whatnot opened the weekend AFTER the race. I'd suggest pushing it back a week, so people from out of town can enjoy the area. Part of the reason I run is to experience different places (hence my goal of 50 states), and I couldn't get a feel for Cape May at all.
The run goes through beautiful barrier island marshes, towns and fishing ports. Spectators were sporadic but loud and supportive. The race was well organized with a prompt start - a great first experience with a marathon. Wind, rain, and warm sunshine all had a shot at the runners, and in the end it was blustery but pleasant. Bridges are low elevation, providing minor challenges with awesome views. We are back in 2011!
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Remove Images Wicked Sounds San Franciscos DJ Garth keeps people dancing July 06, 2006 San Francisco is a cradle for diversity, openness and counterculture. So it's no surprise that the City-by-the-Bay's nocturnal set dares to push musical boundaries as well. B-boys laced with soul and finesse bust familiar power moves but to a faster tempo; women in stilettos display footwork reminiscent of a fitter James Brown. Like an orchestra in front of its conductor, each new blend of tunes sends the crowd's energy to peaks, valleys and eruptions in between. My ears and limbs have never been the same since I was treated to one of San Francisco's finest—the Wicked Sound System. A self-proclaimed hip-hop head at the time, it was my first all-nighter at the 1015 Folsom club. As the beats progressed, DJ Garth served a sonic soup of dub, acid rock, funk, electro, house, disco classics and everything in between, setting off an aural journey that stirred the eclectic crowd into a rhythmic frenzy. DJ Garth co-founded the Wicked crew in 1991 with fellow DJs Jeno, Markie and Thomas. Fresh from United Kingdom's acid house explosion, he moved to San Francisco "just to see how it went." With the weather ripe for outdoor festivities and a musical void ready for the filling, they organized underground full-moon parties that instantly gathered a following that was to last six years. "It was very raw," said Garth. "We would find a secluded beach, set up a small sound system and play records all night long. Nobody has done that before." At its peak, the party topped 3,000 in attendance. The full-moon gatherings, along with events Come Unity, Together and Roots, made this eloquent vinyl maverick instrumental to San Francisco's early rave movement. "We threw loads of after-hours," said Garth. "If we had a basement or a small club, we would quickly shuffle around the chairs, light some candles; put a strobe light on and, voila!" Garth's popular mixed tapes and live sets lured beat connoisseurs and massive promoters paving the way to 16 years of worldwide bookings. He made the leap to production in 1996 when he released Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory with E.T.I. to significant success. "He is definitely an inspiration to me when it comes to DJing as far as selection and technical abilities," said Jayvi Velasco, an up-and-coming DJ from the Bay Area. "He frequently would take chances during his sets that took the party to another level. He also put out a lot of ground-breaking music that are still relevant today." Prior to the release of Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory, the posse launched a whimsical tour in a restored 1947 Greyhound bus that housed a sound rig preaching the Wicked sound to the willing. The party bus inspired the name for Garth's own label, Grayhound Recordings, which he founded in 1998. Juggling entrepreneurship, DJ commitments, original production, remixes and compilations became the norm for Garth, while still squeezing in projects such as Om Records' house classics compilations, San Francisco Sessions Vol. 3 and AIDS benefit CD reBOOT: Notes for the Next Generation. Grayhound now boasts over 50 releases, all from the left coast's hottest selectors and bedroom producers including Doc Martin, DJ Rasoul and the rest of the Wicked DJs. August 2006 marks the release of this grassroots outfit's compilation, Unleash the Hound. "It's basically a snapshot of where we're at in 2006," said Garth. "Grayhound is predominantly a vinyl label so with this release on CD, we're giving something tangible to people who don't play records, obviously a far broader audience." Already well-received in Tokyo, Unleash the Hound features production by Nectar, Stranger and Michoacan. As always, it showcases a slew of music at a house tempo. "Electro, dub, jazz, blues, funk, techno, disco," said Garth. "Anything goes as long as you keep people dancing." MTW |