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Vol 7 No. 47 - August 15, 2007
West Manatee Fire & Rescue: The stories of C shift
By Pat Copeland
sun staff writer
Most of us see our firefighters when we are in trouble – in a car accident, a fire or a similar emergency event.
We thought our readers would like to know a little about these men who come to our aid quickly and unfailingly to rescue or revive us or to save our property. They do it without fanfare because it is their job and one that they are extremely proud to perform.
There are common threads that run through the stories of the firefighters of the West Manatee Fire & Rescue District – they get immense satisfaction out of helping someone in need, they relish the camaraderie of their fellow firefighters and they have tremendous love and devotion to their families.
The fire district has three shifts, A, B and C, of 11 firefighters each. They are stationed at one of three fire stations in Holmes Beach, Cortez or west Bradenton. They serve 24 hours on duty, and have 48 hours off duty. The first shift featured is C shift.
Here are their stories.
Battalion Chief Rich Losek, 47, was one of the first two firefighters hired full time by the Anna Maria Fire District in 1989. Anna Maria merged with the West Side Fire District in 2000.
"I had a painting business and I got a job doing maintenance at Bridgeport in Bradenton Beach," he explained. "I asked about being a volunteer at Cedar Hammock, but they said I lived out of the district, and told me to go to Anna Maria. There were about 50 volunteers then and they had to vote you in, then you got your gear and were running calls.
"This is the only job I've ever had that I like coming to work. I like helping people, and it's always something different. We have a lot of good guys with a lot of education compared to what we had in the past."
Losek has two children, Elizabeth, 26; and Matthew, 24; and three grandchildren, Caleb, 10; Josh, 8; and Abbagale, 3. In addition to playing with his grandchildren, he enjoys playing softball, running and competing in triathlons.
Paul Hopkins, 31, has been a firefighter for six years and was a volunteer for several months prior to being hired.
"Firefighting is in my family – my grandfather and my uncle," he said. "I like the job, the hours. It's a fun place to be with good people to work with. It's not your nine to five job."
Hopkins and his wife, Famerra, have two boys, Nicholas, 3 years; and Christian, 7 months. He enjoys spending time with his family and hunting, fishing and boating.
Keith Miller, 48, has been a firefighter for three years and was a volunteer for 6 months prior to being hired.
"I was a commercial fisherman and then came the net ban," he said. "I was struggling with age and running out of money and a friend told me about the fire service. It's pretty frightening trying to do a life change at 45."
Miller likens the closeness of the firefighters to a family and said he'd only been with the district one year when he fell out of a tree and broke both feet.
'"These guys covered my shifts for me and made sure I had money," he recalled. "They saved my job for five months. You don't get that anywhere else."
Miller and his wife, Del, have five children, Seth, 8; Noah, 7; Mason, 4; and twins Greydon and Blake, 23 months. He enjoys hunting, but from the ground only, he emphasizes, and fishing and still does some commercial fishing.
Lt. John Flinn, 42, has been a firefighter for 23 years and was a volunteer for one year prior to being hired.
"I like the challenge," he said. "Every day is different. Helping people makes you feel good about yourself. I like the shift work because it gives me time to spend with my family.
Flinn and his wife, Jacquelyn, have three children, Thomas, 22; Scott, 19; and Colby, 13. He enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors activities.
Dan Tackett, 37, has been a firefighter for six years and was a volunteer for several months before being hired.
"I was in the Air Force for 10 years, so I liked getting back to the paramilitary atmosphere," he said. "I like getting two days off for every day I work, so I can spend time with my children."
Tackett and his wife, Brandy, have three children, Logan, 6; Brandon, almost 5; and Carson, 11 months. He enjoys coaching his son's T-ball team, helping with his daughter's soccer team, camping, canoeing, kayaking and cooking seafood and barbecue.
John Stump, 35, has been with the district for 6 years and was a volunteer for eight years prior to being hired.
"When people are in need, they call us and look to us for answers," he said. "When you can help someone, it gives you a good feeling."
Stump and his wife, Pam, have seven children, five of whom are adopted. There are four girls, Chelsea, 11; Casey, 7; Madison, 5; and Miley, 2; and three boys, Austin, 8; Evan 7; and Brandon, 6 in December. They enjoy family activities such as bicycle riding and movies.
Regarding his large family, Stump explained, "In 2000, when I was in paramedic school, my wife said she wanted to be a foster parent. We took classes and here we are seven years later. These children don't have anything else. We were able to give them a family.
"My wife is the biggest rock I have. I couldn't do what she does on a daily basis. I get to come to work and do what I love to do because of her."
Ben Dillon, 38, has been a firefighter for one-and-a-half years and was a volunteer for one year prior to being hired
"The work is gratifying; it's the best job I ever had," he said. " Some people are meant to do certain things. I enjoy making people happy and helping them when they need it most.
"Family is very important to me and it's important to be a good father. With our schedule, I can spend two days with my family."
Dillon and his wife, Laurie, have two children, Molly, almost 2; and Brody, 3 months. He enjoys fishing and family activities such as going to baseball games and the beach and taking walks.
Captain Rich Jasinski, 42, has been a firefighter for 13 year and was a volunteer for four years prior to being hired.
"I was living in the area and need to find a profession that would allow me to stay," he said. "Firefighting looked interesting. It's something different all the time. You never know what will happen."
Jasinski, who has been battling Hodgkin's lymphoma since February 2006 and is being treated at Moffat Cancer Center, said he plans to be back to work in September.
"It's been a great career choice for me, especially with what's been going on with my health," he noted. "Everyone looks out for me. I hope to have a sense of normalcy soon."
Jasinski and his wife, Kim, have three children, Randy, 20; Ash, 13; and River, 9. They enjoy family and school-related activities and traveling.
Lt. Tom Owen, 47, has been a firefighter for 15 years and was a volunteer for five years prior to being hired.
"I wanted to be more of a part of the Island, so I joined the fire volunteers and the next thing I knew I was hired," he said. "It fits my personality.
"I get to do all these interesting things and get paid for it. I like to help people, but the true heroes are your neighbors who see smoke and call 911 or see an accident and pull someone out of the car."
Owen and his wife, Janet, enjoy outdoors activities such as camping and back packing, and he also does fishing charters and remodeling. His stepson Bryan Mikolay, is a firefighter with the district on the B shift.
Jeff Taylor, 29, has been a firefighter for more than two years and was a volunteer for nine months prior to being hired.
"I figured it would be an exciting job," he said of firefighting," and I enjoy helping people. I like doing something different every day. You never know what's going to happen. I also enjoy the camaraderie with the other guys and the 24/48 schedule.
Taylor and his wife, Sadie, have a chocolate Labrador retriever named Jammer. He enjoys outdoors activities including hunting, fishing and camping.
William "Buddy" Bowen, 38, has been a firefighter for four years and previously worked at a fire department in the Keys for six years.
"My family was in the farming business in Polk County – citrus, cattle and hay – and I wanted something different to do," he explained. "The schedule gives me a chance to spend a lot of time with my kids.
"I like the physical part of it, working with my hands, but I don't like seeing people's faces when everything they have is ruined or destroyed."
Bowen and his wife, Christy, have two children, Erin, 7; and Buddy, 9. He said he likes to hunt and fish, but most of his spare time is spent working on his house, which he calls his 30-year project.
Next week: Part II, B shift.
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In some respects, the pterophorid plume moth is fit to a 'T.'
"The T-square shape is classic," says butterfly expert Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis.
"They always sit with their wings stuck out to the side like that," says Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis.
At rest, the plume moth (famlly Pterophoridae) holds its slender wings at right angles to body, giving it a T-shaped profile.
In his book, California Insect, UC Berkeley entomologist Jerry Powell explains why they're called plume moths..."because the forewings are deeply notched and the hindwings are divided into three linear parts, each with long scale fringes. When perched, the insects roll the forewings around the folded hindwing plumes, resulting in peculiar sticklike or craneflylike appearance, unlike any other moth."
Most are noctural and are attracted to lights, Powell adds.
Scientists report some 159 described species in North America alone and more than 30 in California.
In their larval stages, some plume moths are beneficial as biological control agents. And some are pests, such as the artichoke plume moth, the geranium plume moth and the snapdragon plume moth.
When you see them resting on a plant, however, the adults look a little like those wind turbines that stretch out in the hills of Rio Vista, Solano County.
If you're looking for a cause to support, consider the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis.
The museum crew, led by director Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, is enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and dedicated.
They have gained a state, national and international reputation as a key source of information. The museum houses nearly eight million insect specimens, collected from all over the world. In addition to the insect specimens, they maintain a "live" petting zoo that includes Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks, praying mantids and tarantulas. A year-around gift shop is stocked with t-shirts, sweatshirts, jewelry, books, posters, insect nets, butterfly habitats, and insect-themed candy.
"Every year we have new insect adventures and those head-slapping moments when you think 'insects do that, really?'" Kimsey wrote in a recent letter, adding that "2013 has been a very active year, with our staff and students strengthening our efforts to provide services and educational programs to the public. We are very proud of our dedicated group of volunteers and staff who bring insect-based programs to schools and public functions throughout northern California."
As in the past, long-time supporters Marius and Joanne Wasbauer have given the Bohart Museum another challenge grant of $5000. "They hope that their gift will inspire others to give and they will match your gift, one-for-one, up to $5000," Kimsey wrote. "Funds from the campaign will be deposited in the museum endowment, which provides invaluable operating support to the museum, its collections, programs and staff."
Folks can donate online at http://www.bohartmuseum.com.
Folks can also sign up for a sponsorship of $2500 to be eligible to participate in the Bohart's BioLegay program and will be able to name one of the new species listed on the BioLegacy website, http://biolegacy.ucdavis.edu. This contribution could also be counted toward the Wasbauer challenge grant.
The insect museum is located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge building on Crocker Lane, near the LaRue Road intersection. It's open to the public Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Special weekend hours are also offered, as are group tours. Contact Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator, at email@example.com for more information.
Photographers never tire of capturing images of ladybugs, aka lady beetles.
First of all, they're beneficial insects. You know when you photograph them that they're about to scoot, crawl or fly off to grab a tasty lunch--an all-you-can-eat aphid buffet.
Second, they're colorful. They brighten a garden, standing out like red Corvettes on a freeway.
Third, they're among the most recognizable of insects. Halloween costume companies relish in creating polka-dotted attire for the 5-and-under set. Nobody will ask "What are you supposed to be?"
Fourth, they're quite common. California alone has some 125 species of Coccinellids.
Worldwide, there are some 5000 described species.
Not too many people know, however, that many species in the family Coccinellidae secrete a nasty fluid. As UC Berkeley retired entomologist Jerry Powell writes in his book, California Insects, "...when disturbed, many species secrete a bitter, amber-colored fluid that is believed to have poisonous effects on vertebrates..."
Indeed, their red and black coloring warns "Leave me alone!"
Collembola! Watch the springtails spring!
Over the last several days, Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at the University of Caifornia, Davis, has patrolled a UC Davis sidewalk checking out a huge volume of springtails.
"Literally millions of little buff-colored springtails," he related Monday, "have been swarming for the past three days on the sidewalk and adjacent strip under the oak trees on the east side of Howard Way, about halfway between the parking garage and Russell Boulevard, mostly around 7 to 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. I've never seen such numbers, except for the snow springtails in winter in upstate New York."
I trekked over to Howard Way at 7 a.m. today and it took awhile to find these little buff-colored organisms. That's because they're oh, so tiny! They're less than six millimeters long--that's 0.24 inches in length. And they move fast.
Obviously, Art Shapiro has the eyes of an eagle. I don't.
Springtails (order Collembola) are those primitive, wingless six-legged critters you find in soil, leaf litter, decaying wood and other damp places. Basically, they're known for working the soil. However, some springtails, such as Sminthurus viridis, are agricultural crop pests.
Why are they called springtails? Retired UC Berkeley entomologist Jerry Powell writes in California Insects (a University of California Press book co-authored by entomologist Charles Hogue): "Most springtails are readily recognizable by a forked, tail-like appendage (furcula) which arises toward the rear of the abdomen and which the insect snaps against the substratum, springing itself into the air."
California has about 130 species that spring themselves into the air.
Frankly, it's a wonder anyone can see them, springing or not springing.
Forceps, please!
Have you ever stopped to admire a blossom and seen forceps protruding?
We were walking near Mrak Hall, UC Davis, on a hot summery afternoon and spotted a tell-tale sign: abdominal forceps, aka pinchers or pincers.
We unfolded the blossom and an earwig crawled out. "Female earwig," said Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis. "Young female earwig."
In a male earwig, the forceps are more widely spaced.
The most abundant earwig in California is the European eartwig, Forficula auricularia (family Forficulidae), according to entomologists Jerry Powell and Charles Hogue in their book, California Insects. However, it was not known in the state until 1923.
They describe the adult as about 12 to 22mm long, mostly brown with pale forewings and antennae. "The immatures and adults feed on a wide variety of substances, from flowers and green foliage near the ground to living and dead insects, including aphids."
This one seemed to be escaping from the heat.

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Entries in 'Season Two' (3)
The Walking Dead to make next-gen debut later this month
Telltale's acclaimed The Walking Dead will arrive on PS4 and Xbox One later this month.
Monster fest as The Walking Dead: Season Two and Silent Hills are dated for Vita
What do vegan zombies eat? Graaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnns.
Second chapter of The Walking Dead Season Two 'just around the corner'
The next chapter in the new season of The Walking Dead is likely to arrive sometime later in February.


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Mencap wins national award for rebrand
Friday 21 November 2008
Mencap has won a national charity award for its new brand. The UK's leading learning disability charity, celebrated winning the Brand Development category at the Third Sector Excellence Awards (Tuesday 18 November) against tough competition, including Leonard Cheshire and Alzheimer's Society. The charity rebranded in April 2008 to reinforce its values about putting people with a learning disability in the centre of everything it does.
Mencap research showed that a lot had changed in the sixty years since the charity started. Changes in attitudes and in legislation meant that people with a learning disability, their families and carers have different needs now.
The change of strapline, from 'Understanding learning disability', to 'The voice of learning disability', better demonstrates Mencap's commitment supporting people with a learning disability to have their own voice.
Neville Short, corporate director, Mencap, comments: "The creative team at Mencap continue to work extremely hard at managing and developing our fantastic new brand. We've had great support from all parts of the organisation and it is wonderful to have external recognition for this."
The Third Sector Excellence Awards, now in their fourth year, recognise and celebrate the work of the voluntary sector.
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LeBron James leads Miami Heat over Milwaukee Bucks and into next round
Jeffrey Phelps, Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — LeBron James can cross another item off his to-do list.
James scored 30 points, Ray Allen had another big game against his old team and the Miami Heat got their first playoff sweep in the Big Three era, advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 88-77 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday.
"It was our next big step as far as our growth," James said. "It's so hard to win on the road in the playoffs, in someone's building — especially when someone is playing for their last life. It's a big step for us."
And now the Heat have some much-needed time to rest. Dwyane Wade sat out Sunday's game, only the second postseason game he's missed in his career, because of his aching right knee. But with Miami not playing until next Saturday, at the earliest, he'll have plenty of time to treat the three bone bruises that caused him to miss six games near the end of the regular season.
Miami plays the winner of the Brooklyn-Chicago series. The Bulls lead that series 3-1, with Game 5 on Monday night in New York.
"It's big," Wade said of the time off. "Obviously, we're one of the oldest teams in the league, maybe the oldest team in terms of rotation players. Guys have some bumps and bruises coming out of this series, so it's going to be great to get some rest. But also we have to take this time to continue to stay sharp, to continue to stay in shape as well."
Judging by the clinical way in which the Heat dissected the Bucks in this series, that isn't likely to be a problem.
The defending NBA champions won each game by double digits, getting contributions from their stars and subs alike. Allen finished with 16 points, the third time in the series he scored in double figures, and was 4 of 7 from 3-point range.
Udonis Haslem added 13 points and five rebounds, and Mario Chalmers kicked in eight rebounds and six assists for Miami, which never trailed Sunday.
"They had the whole package," Bucks coach Jim Boylan said. "When you can afford to sit guy like Dwyane Wade and perform at the level they performed at, that's a championship-caliber team."
Monta Ellis led the Bucks with 21 points, and Larry Sanders had 11 rebounds to go with seven points.
But Milwaukee got almost nothing again from Brandon Jennings, who didn't even play in the fourth quarter. Jennings, who had guaranteed the Bucks would win the series in six games, finished with three points on 1-of-7 shooting.
After scoring 26 points in Game 1, Jennings had 27 total in the final three.
"Frustrated, a little down because I came into this season with so much confidence," he said. "I thought we had a chance to steal a game in Game 1, Game 2. We let that slip away from us. Game 3, we came back home. Had a 10-point lead, lost that. I mean it's frustration all around."
The Heat had chances to sweep their first-round series in each of the last two seasons, taking 3-0 leads on Philadelphia (2011) and New York (2012). But they couldn't close it out, losing Game 4 each year.
That wasn't going to happen against the Bucks. Even with Wade reduced to a spectator.
Wade got treatment "around the clock" the last two days in hopes of playing Sunday, and he tested his knee before the game. But he and the Heat decided it wasn't worth risking aggravating the injury further, and he spent the entire game on the bench in his warmups.
"He gave me the nod saying he wasn't going to go, so I knew had to pick it up a little more and try to bring us home, bring this win home for us," James said.
That he did, adding eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals to his 30 points.
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Are you from Mars or something? Because I dont believe you hit some of these shots you hit, asked caddy Ted Scott after Bubba Watson unleashed yet another preposterous, well-over-300-yards-long drive on the 72nd hole of the Augusta Masters earlier this month. The ball soared over the woods on the right only to swoop back 40 yards to the left, finally coming to rest in the middle of the fairway. An easy approach and two putts later, Watson was being helped into his second Green Jacket in three years by defending champion Adam Scott. The 2014 Masters will be remembered in the annals of the hallowed tournament for one of the most audacious, devil-may-care performances by the eventual winner. This is not how the script is supposed to run: you dont win Augusta by playing like a swashbuckling pirateflailing and swinging hard, going for every pin, and throwing the last vestiges of caution to the wind. You can certainly lose Augusta by playing like thatRory McIlroys final-round meltdown in 2011 comes to mindbut you dont stand a chance of donning the Green Jacket without a judicious mix of conservative and aggressive golf. Unless you are Phil Mickelson that is, or as it turns out, Watson.
Gumption, bravado, call it what you will, Watsons choice of shots during his final-day duel with Jordan Spieth defied convention, rationale, and what most could consider plain common sense. The massive drive on the par-5 13th, which cut the corner a bit too close (and clipped a few branches along the way), could have easily been out of bounds. Instead, it ended up bang in the centre and set up an easy two putt birdie, which pretty much clinched the tournament for the southpaw. In trouble from the woods two holes later, Watson manufactured a miraculous escape through a sliver of a gap that most golfers wouldnt have seen, let alone attempted a shot through. That shot was reminiscent of the swooping hook he hit from the pine straw to win the playoff at the 2012 Masters. This time though, he got home with three shots to spare.
A sustained, inspired barrage of this nature would have broken any opponent. But the precocious Spieth, astoundingly a mere 18 months past his amateur days, turned in a gallant performance: fighting tooth and nail until it became apparent to the rookie that he was


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I have to create few forms and give it as direct EXE (instead of installer, which installs .NET framework, which the end user is not happy, they want something they can directly open and work).
I know it can be done as web, but am looking for winforms?
Please suggest which tool/technology can handle this?
Thanks, Karthick


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This week in Gotham, the New York Film Festival was in full swing with its 45th annual run of being the most prestigious act around, offering up a bumper crop of contemporary cinema alongside a 25th anniversary screening of "Blade Runner" and a coinciding academic panel. Away from the hubbub, Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Strange Culture" infuriated viewers at MoMA, while at the IFC Center, Jennifer Vendetti's "Billy the Kid" delighted them.
The 45th New York Film Festival opened last Friday night with a screening of Wes Anderson's latest painterly ode to adult adolescence, "The Darjeeling Limited," kicking off one of the more impressive line-ups of recent years. The praiseworthy films of the first week include Christian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"; Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", based on a true story about a man who manages to communicate after being paralyzed everywhere but one eye; and Carlos Reygadas' "Silent Light", a hypnotic tone poem about a muted love triangle in Mexico's Mennonite community.
On Saturday, the Film Society showed "Blade Runner: The Final Cut," in celebration of that film's 25th anniversary and recent, purportedly final restoration. In what has become by now a familiar story, the studio worried that audiences might not warm to Ridley Scott's grim, atmospheric spectacle of a hellish Earth in 2019, infiltrated by human-like Replicants, homicidally frustrated by their abbreviated life-span, and Blade Runners assigned to find and "retire" them; consequently, the film was released with an odd film noir voiceover and a tacked-on happy ending, where it failed both critically and commercially. It became a cult hit, and when the director's version was released in 1992, sans voiceover and with the original ending, was now considered a classic.
The event was further commemorated with an invigorating academic panel on Saturday morning (which stayed lively for its entire three-hour duration, even after the opening night's festivities ran very late), which was clearly a personal satisfaction for program director Richard Pena, who introduced the panel by saying "'Blade Runner' is a film that was to a certain extent saved by academics; long after the critics had passed on the film... 'Blade Runner' remained alive because it excited so much academic interest."
Harvard University professor Guiliana Bruno gave a terrific comprehensive critical overview of the film, discussing the setting for the film in a city that holds immense futuristic buildings alongside the familiar buildings of today (and yesterday), all of them dilapidated, an effect which Bruno says "makes a statement about the future as it involves the decay of modernity, the ruins of modernity".
"This was all too smart for me," said "Blade Runner" screenwriter Hampton Fancher, who attended the panel alongside several other production team members and Philip K. Dick's daughter Isa. "I remember writing... feeling... 'will anybody get this?", and here you guys are actually saying those things. It's like I've died and gone to heaven." "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" opens in a limited theatrical release on Friday.
MoMA eyes some "Strange Culture"
A dystopia of a more familiar stripe was on view at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday night, for the premiere of Lynn Hershman Leeson's documentary hybrid and Sundance entry "Strange Culture". The film concerns conceptual artist Steve Kurtz, who was arrested in 2004 after his wife Hope died suddenly of cardiac failure, and a police sweep of the house revealed suspicious bacterial cultures and several flyers with Arabic writing. While subsequent investigations revealed that the bacteria was both legal and harmless--Kurtz and his wife were using them for an art installation on organic food--and the Arabic writing turned out to be a party invitation, Kurtz' legal nightmare only deepened, as the FBI set out to make an example to other potential dissident artists; they concocted a convoluted form of mail fraud in order to charge him with a felony, despite the fact that he had clearly committed no crime.
"This has given me a good crash course in civics," said Kurtz after the screening. "The deck is very much stacked against any defendant, and they can indict anyone."
As Kurtz is still going to trial, the filmmakers were limited in how much of his story they were allowed to tell (or how much they should--his lawyers advise against him speaking to the camera directly), an obstacle she got around by recreating Kurtz' story with actors Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan and Peter Coyote. After the screening, the always fantastic Swinton reflected on the importance of the movie as it related to artists, saying "Artists, in a very real way, are the canaries in the coal mine.... they reflect what is happening in a culture. That's what makes this movie so important." The film opens in New York on Friday at Cinema Village.
IFC Center finds a "Billy" silver-lining
After a week full of movies about abortion in fascist states, full-body paralysis, nightmarish future worlds and scary government actions, audiences in search of something more life-affirming were welcome to come to the IFC Center on Tuesday night, where director Jennifer Venditti was present for a screening of her winning documentary "Billy the Kid" as part of the third run of that theater's "Stranger Than Fiction" series--co-presented by SXSW, where the film won the Jury prize for best documentary. The movie shows several days in the life of teenager Billy, a sweet-natured but misfit kid whose blunt demeanor and abrupt temper often prove alienating; after the film was completed, Billy was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism that manifests itself as a particular type of social awkwardness.
For Vendetti, a casting director looking to make a series of character portraits, the entire film fell into her lap. "I met Billy in a lunch room, he was the kid that was being bullied," said Vendetti in the Q&A which followed the screening. "When he opened his mouth, I was in heaven. I was, like, 'are you kidding? Who is this person, and why isn't everyone interested in him?"
While portraits of endearing oddballs often find themselves subjected to accusations of exploitation (see: Al Maysles, Errol Morris, et al.), what impresses most about the film is how overwhelmingly humane it is. Said Vendetti, "my goal with this film was to understand someone for who they are, and how they see the world, not how other people see them and define them". "Billy the Kid" will open in theaters in late 2007/early 2008; Stranger Than Fiction continues weekly at IFC through the end of November - next week's screening of Andrew Rossi's "A Table in Heaven" comes complete with a reception afterwards, catered by Le Cirque.


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I'd love to take credit for this, but it was an accident. My LBS ordered me
a Thompson, wasn't sure of the length, got me the longest one.
It was too long.
So they cut 1/8" off and now I have a post that will never, ever slip.
I feel more connected to the bike. Which is good, it feels more efficient.
Who would have thought a seatpost could bob a little? However, I feel the bumps
a little more.
Slipping seatposts has been a problem for me for years. If you remember the Italy pics I threw up, the darn seatpost has slid down in a couple.
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Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) Director Greg Ibach announced the theme for the annual NDA Agriculture Week in Nebraska Poster Contest.
In its eighth year, the contest is open to all Nebraska youth in first through sixth grade.
This year's theme is: "Nebraska Agriculture: Caring for Animals and the Earth Every Day."
"Agriculture is Nebraska's number one industry, and this poster contest is a way for our students to have an opportunity to have a discussion about the importance of agriculture," said Ibach. "We are always encouraged by the roles that the teachers play in this poster contest. Each year, we hear of teachers who invite farmers and ranchers into their classrooms, or plan field trips to local farms to help their students learn more about agriculture."
The entry deadline for the contest is March 1. The winners will be announced during National Ag Week (March 13-19).
The contest is broken down into three separate age groups: First and second grade students, third and fourth grade students, fifth and sixth grade students.
The winning entries will be featured on the NDA web site, as well as in promotional materials and other publications.
"We encourage teachers, parents, 4-H, and FFA members to get involved in helping to educate Nebraska's youth about the importance of the agricultural industry in our state and for those youth to participate in this year's contest," said Director Ibach.


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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed BJP president Amit Shah as the man of the match at the BJP national council meeting in New Delhi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday that the BJP won the Lok Sabha elections because people wanted change, and not because of its leaders.
Some people are giving credit to the party while others are giving credit to some individuals for the victory. But the organisation and the party were there earlier too, and so were the individuals. What happened then? It is the people who wanted change during the elections, who brought the party to power, said Bhagwat, addressing a function here on Sunday.
He, however, refrained from taking any names.
Bhagwat also emphasised the need to inculcate spiritualism to protect the countrys culture and traditions. An honest interrogation of the role of tradition in our rapidly changing lives is the need of the hour. We should take a pledge to protect our tradition and start a new life over the foundation of the old tradition, he said.
Addressing the BJP meeting on Saturday, Modi had praised captain Rajnath Singh, and man of the match Amit Shah for the BJPs Lok Sabha victory.


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Jeff Roberson is no longer "the most hated man in Folk," as he was dubbed by former WNKU program director Dan Reed, since he hasn't really done anything lately to reinforce the characterization. In fact, since Summer's Here, the former Len's Lounge frontman's 2008 sophomore solo effort, he's been preoccupied with matters decidedly unrelated to Folk.
"Kids mostly ... fabulous kids," Roberson — whose solo work is released under his full name, Jeff Scott Roberson — says from the kitchen of his Colerain Township home. "My wife works for P&G and her job for the last three years, up until this spring, was a water project in Kenya, so she was traveling a lot. Literally, I couldn't get anything done."
Roberson's position might change dramatically with his third solo release, The Incredible Parade of Cool. Other than the stellar line-up of guests that pepper the proceedings (Afghan Whigs bassist/Ultrasuede knobbist John Curley, Wussy's Chuck Cleaver, Lisa Walker and Joe Klug, Sparrow Bellows/Goose/Generals bassist Sammy Wulfeck, ex-Plow On Boy vocalist Niki Buehrig and drummer extraordinaire Kendall Davis, among them) the nine-track disc is a complete DIY project for Roberson, from recording in his newly completed home studio (christened the Barn on Murder Creek) to conceiving and implementing the album's packaging.
"I had a backlog of stuff all stored up and I've found a good working method to get people to play with, and I've got a studio out in the barn," Roberson says. "So everything's back in-house. I even pulled out my old letterpress in the basement."
For Summer's Here, Roberson relied on several songs that had been worked up with Len's Lounge, the much loved local band he founded in the early '90s and played with sporadically until officially shuttering it two years ago.
For The Incredible Parade of Cool, Roberson wrote everything fresh (except for a great cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine"), although inspiration stretched from Lens's Lounge experiences all the way up to his current domestic status.
"Part of the record is about transitioning from being a full-time musician to trying to find a balance between being home, which is very exciting, and being a musician," Roberson says. "That's the last three years — deciding I didn't really want a band anymore because I was tired of relegating myself to people who were just available instead of people I like hanging around with a lot."
The song "Dave Long Ain't Nobody" was inspired by a Len's Lounge incident that Roberson described as "very boring" but which resulted in an atmospheric track that suggests Bob Dylan produced by Brian Eno.
Len's Lounge and former Cincy band The Stapletons were playing at Puckett's Farm Equipment in Charlotte, N.C., and a couple of exchanges (and perhaps psychedelic enhancements) ultimately led Roberson to pen his epic.
"That was like a five-minute snippet in time that is now a 10-minute song," Roberson says with a laugh. "I said to this redneck, 'Is Dave Long here?' And he was like, 'Dave Long ain't fucking nobody.' I said, 'That's fine, but he booked us here and I need to speak with him.' Then, the next morning, Lance (Stapleton) left his jacket at the bar and we go to pick it up and this guy, Gary Puckett, comes floating out and he's green and he's got the jacket and it's 9 a.m. and he's smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer and I'm like 'Whoa.' It was a weird scene, as you can imagine."
Roberson's ultimate decision to officially dismantle Len's Lounge came a couple of years ago at a Northside Tavern gig, when an inebriated patron clarified his priorities.
"Victor Strunk was the bass player, right before he moved to Brooklyn," Roberson recalls. "This drunk guy is standing at the bar, requesting songs. I'm like, 'Man, we don't really do requests and if we did, I don't know any of those songs.' He's getting drunker and I'm getting more volatile and saying shit to him and he's about to get mad and I turned to Victor and said, 'You got my back?' And he's like, 'Fuck no, I don't have your back!' Whereas Sammy Wulfeck would be like, 'Fuck yeah, let's roll!' That was when I was like, 'Maybe I should find something else to do with my nights.' I was having more fun baiting drunks than I was being in a band. And you've got to get up at 5:30 a.m. and tend to the daughters and that's a whole other kind of baiting. They're baiting me."
Although Roberson plans few live dates to support Parade of Cool, it could be the album that exposes him to a wider audience. "Ain't No Sunshine" sounds like Fleetwood Mac circa 1974, "Dusk to Dawn," featuring ethereal vocals from Lisa Walker, is heartbreakingly gorgeous ("That song is about the tension at night between being a family dude and a musician …") and the title track suggests a soulful reworking of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." Stylistically diverse, ranging from Ambient Folk to Americana to Country Rock, The Incredible Parade of Cool is reminiscent of Mike Nesmith's groundbreaking post-Monkees rootsy '70s Country Pop.
"It is a little all over the map, and I'm not really sure why … I didn't plan it that way," Roberson says. "It just kind of evolved like that. It was hard to arrange to get them to flow, so I ended up going for a more phonetic flow than a musical flow."
Even with the murderer's row of musical talent present on the album, a good deal of Parade of Cool is performed by Roberson alone. And while some of it was played, layered and arranged into the form on the album, many of the songs featuring guest artists were played live in the moment. That mix of thoughtful creation and intuitive spontaneity reinforces the theme of tension between two extremes.
"There really was no plan, other than I wanted to play with a bunch of people that I like a lot," Roberson says. "I had eight or nine songs that I loved and that seemed to fit together thematically. Like with 'Dusk to Dawn' — it was originally me fingerpicking a guitar, singing the part and everything was layered in. That song came together when John Curley put that massive bass down and it rides underneath. Lisa's part and that fiddle is beautiful, but the thing that holds it together is John on the bass and Sammy bowing the bass. Listen to that with headphones on; there's a lot of shit going on side to side."
Just like Jeff Roberson's life.
Here's the title track from The Incredible Parade of Cool. Click "Buy" to purchase the album on Bandcamp.
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For the last few weeks, I've been scouring real estate sites on the lookout for properties that might make good rentals. With all the stories about foreclosures and short sales, you'd think that good deals could be had at every corner right? One of the benefits of being smart with credit and not accumulating a lot of debt is being able to put that to good use in the darker times. I was hoping this was one of those times (as the stock market was a year ago).
Unfortunately, while there seem to be decent deals out there, the struggle I have with investing in real estate is that it comes with significant transaction costs, significant time requirements, and significant risks because it's difficult to diversify.
There are two ways to make money when it comes to investing. You either earn a nice return every month (or quarter, or year) off the cash flow or you earn a nice return on the sale of the asset (or some mix of both). With a rental property, you can earn it off the rent you collect each month or you can earn it off the gains when you sell the property. A common strategy is to just have the rent cover the mortgage and then bank the gains when you sell the property. With stocks, you can make your money off dividends or you can make it off appreciation of the stock's price. Once you boil down any investment into those terms, it becomes easy to figure out which you're more comfortable with.
With real estate, the cash flow is taxed at ordinary tax rates as income (whatever you don't offset with expenses). With stocks, the cash flow is taxed at long term capital gains if they are qualified dividends. On the sale of either asset, it's short term capital gains if you've held it for less than a year and long term if you've held it for more than a year.
We're in a unique point in time when real estate and stocks are relatively cheap. Real estate prices were walloped, and continue to be depressed, following the economic meltdown and the "Great Recession" that followed. Stocks, as much as they've soared in the last year, are still much lower than their peaks right before the banking crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 14,168.53 on October 9th, 2007. It's barely over 11,400 today. Relative to their highs, both are much cheaper than a few years ago.
Here's the big difference between the two and why I think dividend stocks trump real estate. The cost to buy and sell stock is $5 and the market is liquid, which means you can get into and out of a position within minutes. That and the stock market provides far more information than the real estate market because of sheer transaction volume and SEC reporting requirements.
Have you ever tried to sell a house? First, you need to pay 5-6% to the seller and buyer real estate agent. The process takes a long time, the asset is huge (relatively), and the marketplace just simply doesn't provide as much information as you'd probably like (annual report for a property showing income? assets? cash flow?).
Leverage is often touted as the reason why real estate investing is so powerful. You can put 20% down and reap the benefits of renting out 100% of the home. While that's certainly attractive, you can get that kind of leverage (and more) on the stock market as well through options. Leverage is not something only available in real estate.
When I compare the two, it just seems like investing in the stock market is the winner?
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Looking over some real life city population density stats i have come up with a approximation that may help you out.
Boston is a busy but not too crowded city. It has a population of 589,141 a land area of 48.43 square miles and a population density of 12,165.8 per square mile. But if you think about the taller buildings which allows for more people to live on top of each other it is easy to see that the city would feel much more crowded if it was limited to single family dwellings. (I lived there in my youth and three story houses divided up into apartments is common as well as apartment buildings of four or more floors with multiple units on each floor.)
So i would suggest for the sake of argument we cut it down to 5,000 people per square mile which would give you something in the range of five or six square miles for your city if you want it to seem to be teeming with people. (People ready to slit each other's throat just for some breathing room.)
I live in Las Vegas and we have a bit more room here, but there are certainly people everywhere you go. We have about 2000 people per square mile, but keep in mind there is plenty of undeveloped land here in the city. You can drive down a street inside the city and be looking at desert.
When you see these people they are usually in their cars going someplace else. I imagine if they were walking on the street it would look like a festival was in progress.
All this is a round about way of saying i think your city would do well at about 5 by 3 miles and be busy without driving people into the wild surroundings. Six by four would also seem good. The other alternative of course is to keep your original size and increase the number of inhabitants. (Besides, what would people do in their spare time stuck inside an isolated city with danger outside the walls but get to know each other?)


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The Alabama women's tennis team evened its record up on Sunday with a 4-3 win over the Rice Owls (6-3) at the UA tennis complex.
Robin Stephenson clinched the match for Alabama (3-3) in the final match of the day with a gutsy three-set match victory over Rice's Blair DiSesa. Stephenson took the opening set by winning the tiebreaker 7-3. DiSesa then fought back to even the match at one set a piece, however Stephenson put the pedal to the floor in third and final set, winning it 6-0 and clinching the match for Alabama.
"This was an important match for us today," Alabama head coach Jenny Mainz said. "We needed to prove to ourselves that we could win a big match against a solid team. Rice is very good and I'm proud of how this team battled."
Ashley Bentley rolled to an easy 6-0, 6-0 victory over Kimberly Pentanaude at No. 2 singles to give Alabama a 2-0 lead. After Rice claimed its first victory of the day to move to within one point, Mari Muller stretched the lead back to two with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win at No. 5 singles.
In an attempt to reverse the Tide's luck in doubles, Mainz changed up Alabama's double's line-up Sunday. All three of Alabama's doubles teams on Sunday played together for the first time and it paid off as the Tide won all three doubles matches to jump out to an early 1-0 lead. Stephenson and Natalie McElveen cruised at No. 1 doubles winning 8-1. Melissa Minor and Sonja Nikolic then clinched the point for Alabama with an 8-5 victory at No. 3 doubles.
"We changed things up today because we want them to learn to play as a team and work together," Mainz said. "I feel like we did that. We adjusted well and communicated well today."
Alabama is now 2-0 at home this season and will have a chance to extend that record to 4-0 with a pair of matches in Tuscaloosa next weekend. Miami will roll into town on Friday, February 25 and Murray State will be the opponent on Saturday, February 26.
Tennis Match ResultsRice vs AlabamaFeb 20, 2005 at UA Tennis Complex
#37 Alabama 4, #39 Rice 3
Singles competition:
1. #8 Robin Stephenson (BAMA) def. #89 Blair DiSesa (RICE) 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-02. #75 Ashley Bentley (BAMA) def. Kimberley Pentenaude (RICE) 6-0, 6-03. Tracie Chong (RICE) def. Melissa Minor (BAMA) 6-4, 6-44. Dominique Karas (RICE) def. Anrdea Brenes (BAMA) 6-1, 7-55. Mari Muller (BAMA) def. Christine Dao (RICE) 6-4, 3-6, 6-36. Medeja Egic (RICE) def. Natalie McElveen (BAMA) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
Doubles competition:
1. Robin Stephenson/Natalie McElveen (BAMA) def. Kimberley Pentenaude/Blair DiSesa (RICE) 8-12. Ashley Bentley/Mari Muller (BAMA) def. Tracie Chong/Dominique Karas (RICE) 9-73. Melissa Minor/Sonja Nikolic (BAMA) def. Christine Dao/Medeja Egic (RICE) 8-5
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Rice 6-3; National ranking #39Alabama 3-3; National ranking #37Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (2,3,4,5,6,1)


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There's a scene in the Eddy Merckx documentary movie, La Course en Tete, where Eddy's soigneur Guillaume Michiels and another Molteni helper are in a kitchen preparing the team's ride snacks. They move with practiced ease, a steady succession of tiny bread rolls carefully cut in half, spread with jam and butter, or ham, then reassembled and individually wrapped. Repetitive work, but the end result appears to be literally hundreds of the rolls all ready for a race or training ride.
The rolls looked pretty tasty, but the job of preparing the ride snacks these days can be much less laborious – just grab a handful of gels and energy bars and one is good to go. But a steady diet of modern ride food gets boring rather quick, which is why we often prefer to reach for the Fig Newtons, some dried fruit, or pastries for those with a more continental bent.
But what is it we're actually trying to achieve with ride snacks and what are the nutritional principles to be kept in mind? What can be on, and what should be off, the menu. To get some professional answers, your author earlier this year asked Team Garmin-Slipstream's ace physiologist Allen Lim to offer some suggestions.
"The basic principle to keep in mind with ride snacks is simply to replace what your body is losing," Lim explained. "That loss essentially comes down to water, electrolytes (salt, potassium, calcium, and magnesium), carbohydrates, and a little bit of fat and protein – fluid and energy."
That seems straightforward enough, but how much replacement is enough?
"The amount, of course, depends on the duration, intensity and environment," Lim said. "But as a general rule, I like to encourage the guys to replace at least half the energy they are burning per hour during racing (or as much as they can handle without throwing up) and to drink enough so they don't lose more than 3% of their body weight in fluid loss over the course of a race. The best way to teach this is to weigh the guys pre and post race so they get a sense of how they're doing and can self learn for any given situation."
Racing has its own special demands, of course. Most of us who ride and race way more casually don't have to face a six-hour Grand Tour mountain epic. But even the pros have different snacking requirements depending on the length of the race.
"Yes, absolutely, the length of the ride and or race makes a difference in the volume and type of snacks," Lim explained. "In shorter, more intense events we rely more on simple sugars like the Clif Blocks or Gels and a carbohydrate-electrolyte drink. While in longer and less intense events we'll rely more on solid foods like Clif Bars and savory rice cakes that contain a bit of protein and fat. Over the course of a race, riders will also modify what they eat according to the intensity, switching between highly processed foods with very high glycemic indexes (i.e. simple sugars) during very intense portions, and foods that are less processed with lower glycemic indexes that sit and digest a little more slowly during less intense portions."
It's clearly a very scientific process, and Lim explained that even the weather can determine the type of food and drink given to the team's riders.
"Beyond volume and length, the temperature also makes a big difference in what the riders eat," he said. "On very cold days, we shift to a higher carbohydrate intake in the form of Clif Blocks and Gels and on very hot days more energy is replaced through fluid. We also give the riders hot tea mixed with sugar, salt, and potassium on the really cold days. In contrast, the key on the hot days is to make sure the drink is ice cold. The cold helps absorption, improves thermoregulation, and helps to encourage the riders to drink more."
The intensity of racing means that we all have to pay extra attention to keeping topped up, especially for the final sprint or even following the attacks in between. But when out for a training ride the goal of snacking might not just be energy replacement.
"For a typical training ride, or if a rider is trying to lose weight, we might restrict the amount of food eaten during a ride and just stick to a diluted energy drink (2 to 3%)," Lim noted.
But while he had already pointed out the value of gels and energy bars for racing, he suggested that the food for training rides was not necessarily so different from a normal healthy diet – no special ingredients required.
"I know the riders on Garmin-Slipstream eat a whole lot of different foods when they train," Lim said. "What you need to imagine is that they're on their bikes for 3 to 6 hours a day and that what they might eat on the bicycle is no different than what some people might eat at the office over the course of a work day. It's just probably a lot more. That said, I really encourage the guys to eat real whole foods as much as possible, to not eat too much in training but to over-eat when racing, and to not forget about the benefit of your basic fruit or vegetable. A great general book with this in mind is 'In Defense of Food' by Michael Pollan."
Your author was heartened to hear that more 'normal' foods should be on the menu for the long training ride – perhaps some bread rolls with butter and jam would be just fine. But what to drink?
"There is no situation in racing where water alone is better than a carbohydrate-electrolyte drink (5 to 6% carbs or 5 to 6 grams per 100 ml of fluid)," according to Lim.
But this rider seems to have an aversion to energy drinks and has experimented with a range of homemade concoctions, including flat cola, orange juice and cold tea, or even chocolate milk. I wanted to get some feedback who might also have wide-ranging (and wacky) drinking tastes on what Lim thought of making your own 'energy' drinks.
"It's all fluid and it's all energy," Lim responded. "If you like the taste and you don't puke on my shoes when I'm drafting behind you then it's all good."
Fair enough. Looking back at the history of food in the pro peloton, Eddy Merckx might've had tasty bread rolls during his career in the 1970s. But in the 1950s, at the Tour de France, all the logistics were taken care of by the race's organizers. During one edition, riders had a choice from two different musettes. The first had a quarter chicken, ten prunes, and ten sugar lumps. The second left out the chicken and doubled the prunes. It certainly seems that drafting behind someone who had just ingested those snacks could've indeed been hazardous!
For a more modern and nutritionally consistent version, what was in a typical Garmin musette?
"2 Clif Bars, 2 Clif Blocks, 2 or 3 Clif Gels, 2 rice cakes, 1 small can of ice cold Coke, 1 ice cold bottle with a 5% carb-electrolyte solution; sometimes, just sometimes, a little candy bar or piece of chocolate as well," Lim replied.
Lim has a reputation for his home cooked rice cakes, with the cakes having become somewhat of a valuable trading currency in the peloton.
"The guys like the rice cakes," Lim explained. "Basically, sushi rice mixed with eggs, gluten free soy, some balsamic vinegar, a bit of olive oil and some sugar on top. This is all smashed in a big pan and cut into little squares. So good. We also do boiled potato slices with salt, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top. Sometimes if the potato is still hot, the cheese will melt over it and encrust it in a glorious shell of flavour."
Brilliant! Now, if only us amateurs could find someone to cook up a steady supply.
"The key with those snacks is to keep the ingredient list really minimal and simple and to focus on the more savoury side of the palette as most snack products that you can buy are on the sweet side," added Lim. "I've also been known to feed the guys plates of lasagne, pasta, Spanish Tortillas (potato and egg), and bowls of risotto, and the occasional rotisserie chicken you find at food stands on the side of the road in Spain on training rides. It's all good."
It does sound all good – and maybe that quarter chicken would not be so bad after all!
Many thanks to Allen for his insights. He was interviewed for a PEZ article that never quite made it to press. Now, how about some of those rice cakes or cheesy potatoes on your next ride…


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Fresh off being named to the shortlist for PFA Player of the Year, Luis Suarez continued his history of bizarre and vicious in-game violence during Liverpool's match against Chelsea on Sunday by biting Branislav Ivanovic on the arm like a giant, rabid zombie squirrel. Suarez conceded a penalty and earned a yellow card for a handball in the box in the 56th minute, which allowed Eden Hazard to score a go-ahead goal for Chelsea.
Less than 20 minutes later, a seemingly innocuous battle for position between Suarez and Ivanovic led to the Liverpool striker burying his face in Ivanovic's arm and taking a bite before the Chelsea defender shoved him off. Despite Ivanovic's brief protest, the referee apparently didn't see the incident, but it will surely be reviewed by The FA in the coming days.
(UPDATE: Suarez apologizes after the match.)
Showing the full spectrum of his ugly behavior and undeniable talent, Suarez went on to score an equalizer just before the final whistle to end the game at 2-2.
This, of course, isn't the first time Suarez has bitten an opponent during a match. In 2010, while he was with Ajax, he bit PSV's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder. As with the Chelsea incident, he wasn't booked at the time, but he was eventually banned for seven matches. Last season he was banned eight matches for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
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Whether blinded by the gobs of talent that the team acquired or reminded of the instant returns of the super teams assembled in recent seasons, the expectations set forth for the 2012-13 L.A. Lakers were more than impossible to reach.
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As Dwyane Wade reminded nba.com's Fran Blinebury, the star-studded South Beach trio experienced their own trying times when they were assembled just two seasons ago. Like the Lakers, that Heat team took their own lumps in the season's early stages.
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Given new coach Mike D'Antoni's history with Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard, it looks like Brown's termination was more the result of a better fit for D'Antoni and less of a depressed panic ...
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You could use this to target peds, but it's very ineffective. It's more useful for extinguishing the flaming trail of mess you've left in wake of your rampage. Chances are you don't particularly care much about the environment. Where you might want to use one of these is in missions where you're forced to run and jump through burning buildings.


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Minnesota Monthly's food editor Rachel Hutton joins the Current's Morning Show to talk about the latest trends in the Minnesota dining scene.
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Oh no, they didn't! Remember months ago when rumors were buzzing that Kim Kardashian was actually planning to give her baby a kooky moniker? Well, it looks like that may have been the case after all. Rumor now has it that the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star and Kanye West have gone ahead and named their baby girl…North West! Read on for more, if you can stop laughing long enough!
Yeah, we knew that Kanye West was a little "out there" with his choice of baby names when it was revealed months ago that he wanted to name his daughter North West, but who really thought the rapper would go through with it? Well, it looks like he may have gotten his wish. According to TMZ, birth records from the recent birth of Kim Kardashian's baby girl have North West listed as the baby's name.
No, we're not kidding folks – wish we were! It would definitely make sense because earlier in the week, rumors were flying that Kim and Kanye chose the name Kaidence for their daughter, but then an insider came forward and adamantly denied that the baby's name even started with the letter K.
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Most major American jazz presenters outside New York City fill their festivals with out-of-town talent, leaving local players to grumble over crumbs. By contrast, the Earshot Jazz Festival's animating principle can be summed up as: Think global and book local.
Running Oct. 12-Nov. 4, Earshot's 24th edition features 52 concerts at more than a dozen Seattle area venues. More often than not, boldface jazz names and international talent share a double bill with progressive Seattle artists.
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Revisiting one of last year's signature performances, the all-star quintet Human Spirit reunites trumpeter Thomas Marriott, alto saxophonist Mark Taylor and drummer Matt Jorgensen, all busy bandleaders responsible for essential Seattle ensembles, with the East Coast rhythm section of pianist Orrin Evans and bassist Essiet Essiet. The concert celebrates the release of the eponymous Origin Records CD documenting 2011's searing Earshot show.
Conducted by Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble notoriety, Seattle trumpeter Samantha Boshnack's sonically expansive B'shnorkestra brings together a volatile 14-piece ensemble of horns, drums and capaciously creative strings.
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The German label ECM is also well represented. Albanian vocalist Elina Duni makes her Seattle debut accompanied by labelmate Colin Vallon on piano, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Norbert Pfammatter. Her recent release "Matanë Malit" (Beyond the Mountain) is a ravishing collection of Balkan folk themes transformed via a probing jazz sensibility. And Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, well represented by several incantatory ECM albums, delivers dark and rumbling cadences that key on the bass and contrabass clarinet.
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This isn't a post about optimizing databases or anything. I don't do that, unless someone else has already figured it out. I use well supported open source and libre software like WordPress and Drupal. That means that hundreds of other people are optimizing the database for me. It also means that best practices for me mean using sane naming schemes.
I know it can be confusing when you first start using software that requires a database. I remember trying to be clever when I named things, and created passwords that were hard to guess but were somehow connected to whatever I was making it for. It always seems neat at first, but that wears off when you have to actually deal with those databases and passwords. So, what follows is just a few tips to help you cut a lot of future work out. It may not make sense, but you will get it, eventually.
The Big Four (plus one)
For most web software you will need to know four bits of information to install it. There may be other things, like installation paths or something, but as far as the database goes, you will need to know the hostname, database name, database user and database password. The other thing that software sometimes ask for is a table prefix.
The hostname is the server address of the database. This is used because sometimes the database is on the same machine as the web software, and sometimes it is on a different machine that the web server will connect to. For simple setups this will be localhost, which is to say the same machine.
When I am given the choice to choose my own sub-domain for a database server I choose "db", as in db.interi.org. Other popular choices are "mysql", or even "database". Whatever you choose, stick with it. When it is 3AM and you are trying to restore a nerfed site, having to track down that address is a major pain.
database name
The database name is straightforward, it is how the software knows which database to connect to. This used to trip me up, but now I use a simple design pattern to name them. Since most of the software I use lives on a domain somewhere, I used the domain or acronym for the first part, and then I use the software's function as the second part. For instance, my weblog's database is interi_blog, whereas the forums' database is interi_forum.
Keep reading, because I have a particular and easy way to create databases and users at the same time.
database user
The database user is like other kinds of user accounts, it has a password and a set of permissions that dictate what it can do to a database. Some complicated software requires this kind of functionality, but for most blogging/forum/wiki software, we only need a single account that has most or all permissions to a single database.
I name users the same way I name databases; in fact, I name them exactly the same, meaning that the user for interi_wiki is also interi_wiki. This makes it super easy to remember! Below I describe how I create databases really quickly, using this method.
database password
The database password is how the user is able to log in. This is pretty straightforward, but used to cause me the most trouble. I used to have this crazy scheme for creating partially meaningful passwords that were still random-ish, so I could log into the database later on.
Don't do that.
Just randomly generate a password. The deal is this: you are hardly ever going to use it again. Most web software keeps it in a single text file, which means you can always look it up if you need, and you will never need to change it in multiple places. So relax. Below I will show you how to take care of all this stuff with no worries.
database prefix
A database prefix (the plus one) is what software will ask for when creating tables for itself. This derives from the idea that you can have multiple types of software all drawing from the same database. WordPress suggests you use wp_, other software will have different suggestions. Generally you can just use the default, or ignore this. Very rarely will you want to actually use a database with different prefixes, and if you are doing that you won't be reading this.
In case you were wondering, one reason for using the same database to for two different web applications would be to share certain tables between them, such as user information. This makes it easier to enable single login functionality; i.e. using the same username and password to log into your blog and your forums.
In the past it may have also been required due to resource limitations. Some people only had one or two databases available to them. That really isn't the case anymore, and now even the most basic web hosting plans have a lot of databases available. If your host doesn't, they are antiquated and you should drop them as soon as possible.
Setting up a database
I am spend a lot of time in a commandline shell. However, I hate connecting to MySQL databases from the commandline. I don't know what all the commands are, even the ones that I supposedly use all the time. Screw it. I use phpMyAdmin, a web interface that makes enough sense to me that it is usable. Of course you will have to learn the specifics of that software, but it is generally pretty easy once you learn just a few actions, which I am about to go over with you.
One user to rule them all
Instead of remembering all the different databases, users and passwords, I only track one. Sometimes it is root, sometimes you have to create a new user (for web hosted instances), but with just one user that have privileges for all the databases, I can remember one secure password and do all the work I need.
Seriously, this is awesome. Of course you need to remember the password, and it should be very secure; if it isn't your life will be ruined and you probably shouldn't be working with websites and databases.
This is also the reason you don't need to remember passwords for all the different websites, you don't need them to access a database if you have to.
Database creation
You may find that your needs are different, of course, but this is what works for me. This method allows me to get a site up and going nearly as fast as an automated script can.
- Log in with your privileged account
- Go to the Privileges tab; below the list of users is "Add a new User", that is what we are doing.
- The first field is the username, follow a pattern: ex. interi_blog
- Hostname may be complicated, but if your database is on the same machine as your web server choose local from the drop-down; this will put "localhost" in the field.
- The password is super easy, click the button that says Generate right below it; copy that text somewhere, you will need it when you install your software, you can delete it afterward.
- Important: Before creating the user, in the next field group there is an option that says: "Create database with same name and grant all privileges". Check that radio button, it will do the rest for us.
- Now hit the Go button somewhere near the button of the page. I know, it is kinda odd, but it is an indicator of what is happening to the database (you are running queries and stuff). Maybe one day it will become Submit and render this entire post invalid.
Now you have all your info. It will really pay off as your collection of databases scale, and if you spend any amount of time working on website, they will. Databases are like Pokémon, except not as interesting.
I value my mindspace, and I don't want to hold a bunch of useless data in my head on the off chance that I will need to log directly into a database for some kind of emergency work. Instead, I would rather be clever, make backups compulsively, and employ Vancian methodology to my databases: study, fire and forget.
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Amid repeated reports of possible release of PlayStation 4 in the coming weeks, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai hinted that the company may not reveal PS4 unless Microsoft unveils Xbox 720. Hirai seems to be in no hurry to unveil the next-gen PlayStation and defiantly, does not want to give its competitors a chance to come up with something better.
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Talking to a Spanish Web site last week, Sony's vice president of home entertainment, Hiroshi Sakamoto had confirmed that PlayStation 4 will see an official release at or before this years' E3 Gaming Expo.
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I am using a function to trigger when any of a particular set of anchors are clicked.
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They don't exist when the page first starts loading as they are being created by XML+XSLT using client side transformation, just in case this is relevant some how.
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