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Machado's big blast wasted as A's rally off 'pen
Britton allows three straight hits in ninth, including a walk-off homer
OAKLAND -- The storyline seemed perfect for the Orioles heading into the bottom of the ninth at the Coliseum on Friday night. Manny Machado, who had been bombarded with boos all night long, was positioned to be the hero after he ripped a two-run homer in the seventh inning to give Baltimore a 4-2 lead. The O's looked poised to improve to a season-best 11 games over .500.
But with two bloops and a blast, that all fell apart in the blink of an eye. Closer Zach Britton gave up a walk-off, three-run homer to Josh Donaldson, and the A's snatched the series opener out of the All-Star break, 5-4.
The final inning began with two soft hits off Britton -- an infield chopper by Yoenis Cespedes and a broken-bat blooper by Brandon Moss. Then, Donaldson crushed Britton's first-pitch offering over the left-center-field wall, sending the Coliseum crowd of 27,232 into hysterics and handing the O's a stunning loss.
"Sinker -- that's my best pitch," said Britton, who had tossed 10 straight scoreless innings since his previous blown save on June 20 at Yankee Stadium. "He put a good swing on a good pitch. You kind of just tip your cap to him."
"That's the life and world of a pitcher," said Orioles manager Buck Showalter. "It happens, they're a good team. We've done it to other people before."
Donaldson, who was at the center of the first of several incidents involving Machado last month in Baltimore, wasn't thinking too much about revenge.
"I try not to get caught up in all that jazz," Donaldson said. "He had a really good day today, but we're trying to win the game. Fortunately enough, my teammates put me in an opportunity where I could win the game."
It's been six weeks since Machado's controversy in Baltimore, but the Oakland faithful made it clear on Friday that they are not quite ready to forgive and forget. With signs and costumes in tow, the fans expressed their heartfelt disapproval of Machado throughout the night.
But the 22-year-old responded with a crucial home run against Jeff Samardzija on a slider in the seventh. He went 2-for-4 and has now reached base safely in a career-best 17 consecutive games.
"Real proud of him," said Showalter. "I think it was expected in some ways, but he had fun with it. He responded the only way that the best players in the world can."
"Felt great," Machado said of the home run. "I hit the ball well finally, and I've just got to continue doing it, continue hitting the ball well and making some good at-bats, and everything else will take care of itself."
Right-hander Chris Tillman limited Oakland to two runs in 6 2/3 innings, giving up four hits and one walk and tallying six strikeouts. It was his eighth straight outing of three earned runs or fewer.
The A's struck first in the third inning on John Jaso's RBI double, but Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run blast in the fifth to put the Orioles ahead. Derek Norris proceeded to tie the game with a homer in the bottom of the fifth.
Tillman was relieved by Tommy Hunter, who tossed 1 1/3 scoreless frames, and Baltimore appeared well on its way to victory. But the A's -- who boast the Majors' best record -- had the last laugh against the American League East leaders.
"Two good teams, small margin of error," Showalter said. "I thought Tilly presented himself well against a good team, Tommy threw the ball well. Zach made one bad pitch."
Samardzija, whom the A's recently acquired from the Cubs, looked comfortable for much of the night, but the O's managed to touch him up for four runs, the most he's allowed in his three starts with Oakland.
Nonetheless, a victory was not in the cards for Baltimore on Friday night. The A's showed their ability to strike at any moment.
"Britton ... throws probably the best left-handed sinker in the game," Donaldson said. "He's throwing 96, as well. Honestly, I'm just trying to get a pitch that I can hit in the air."
Donaldson got that pitch, and the O's fell to 42-4 when leading after eight innings.
Aaron Leibowitz is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Heat oil in a soup pot, sauté garlic and onion for 2 to 3 minutes. Add all remaining ingredients except the parsley. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer for 20 minutes. Mash the potatoes slightly with a potato masher to thicken the soup. Serve and garnish with parsley.
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Archie A. Dalton
27 Nov 1943 — Epperson, Tn
Madisonville Democrat, Jan. 12, 1944
Cpl, Archie A. Dalton has been reported missing in action in the north Africa area since Nov. 26, his mother, Mrs. Bessie L. Dalton of Epperson, has been notified by the War Department. A letter said it was hopeful that Cpl. Dalton is a prisoner of war. The last letter from him dated Nov. 19 and enclosed a postal money order for $60 for the family to buy Christmas gifts. He carefully instructed his mother to select a gift for his friend, Miss Dorothy Davis. Cpl. Dalton has been in service a year. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton have two other sons in service, Enos Dalton tank driver, and Cecil Dalton, truck driver in the Air Corps, both overseas.
One Monroe County serviceman was a passenger on this British transport ship – Pvt Archie Arlie Dalton. Archie Dalton was born in the community of Epperson in 1923 to John Ervin Dalton and Bessie Lucinda West . On January 11th, 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was proudly serving his country with the 853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation.
On November 25, 1943 at Oran, Algeria, Archie boarded the Rohna headed for the China-Burma-India theater. Destination was Port Said, Egypt. There was a crew of 195, along with 1,981 American troops and 7 Red Cross personnel. The Rohna sailed along with four other ships and joined a convoy that same day; she was the second ship in the port column, for a total of 24 ships. The following day the USS Pioneer joined the convoy. According to 2nd Officer Wills of the Rohna, there were no warnings of enemy aircraft received.
A total of 1,015 American troops, 3 Red Cross personnel, and 120 crewmen perished.


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I was looking at GitHub Explore, and in the Policies showcase I found this, which got me wondering if we could actually have a meta policy similar to the one laid out in the README (without all the House and Senate stuff, of course).
The code (as in rules) documents could be written in Markdown.
Of course, there would be a few issues; for example, what if somebody on the forum uses Mercurial or SVN, and wants to contribute? We'll have to talk it over.


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Live crashes at startup due to outdated Melodyne
- Live Versions: 1 - 9
- Operating System: OSX 10.5 - 10.8
- Live crashes during startup while ReWire is initialized
- Melodyne is listed in the crashing thread
- OS was upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5, 10.6., 10.7. or 10.8.
- An outdated version of Melodyne (prior v3.2.2 of Melodyne Studio and Melodyne Cre8, v1.8.1 of Melodyne Essential and Melodyne Uno) is installed, that is not compatible with the latest versions of OSX.
- This version will crash all ReWire master applications at start-up.
- Updating Melodyne to its latest version or removing it from your computer solves the problem.
- To remove it, drag any files into the trash bin which have "Melodyne" in their name and which are located in these folders:
- /Applications/Melodyne 3.x
- /Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/MelodyneRewireDevice
- /Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/ MelodyneRewireDevice.plugin
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/MelodyneBridge.vst
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/MelodyneBridge.component
- /Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug Ins/MelodyneBridge.dpm
- /Users/"your username"/Library/Preferences/Melodyne Preferences
- /Library/Application Support/Celemony/Licenses/MelodyneStudioCre8.license
- /User/Library/Preferences/Melodyne License
- /Applications/Melodyne plugin
- /Users/"your username"/Library/Preferences/com.celemony.melodyneplugin.prefs
- AU: Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Melodyne plugin.component
- VST: Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/Melodyne plugin.vst
Note: If you have an older version of Melodyne Essential, the path name can slightly differ
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We should be yawning by this point, but instead, some of us are yearning.
Will we get to talk to him this time?
Manti Te'o should be getting boring by now, but with this embargo, there remains a tint of bizarre.
Really, McCoy is shutting us out?
It is completely understandable that Chargers coach Mike McCoy would want to shield his celebrity of a linebacker from prying media members, and if the request came from Te'o, one can empathize with that as well. But this story isn't like a headache or a bruise that will go away if you just leave it alone. It's more like an anxiety disorder – the only way to kill it is with exposure.
You got the feeling that Te'o was beginning to realize that last week when he attended the Maxim Hot 100 party in Hollywood. Earlier this month, the men's magazine ranked Manti's fake girlfriend as the 69th hottest woman in the world on its annual list, and you have to credit the rookie for showing up as the butt of the joke.
Any middle school kid can tell you that, if you're called a name, smiling and saying "good one" is a much better repellant than getting mad. And if you're Te'o, every film session of yours should include a Conan O'Brien monologue so you can learn how to make fun of yourself.
Obviously, answering reporters' questions isn't always conducive to self-deprecation. But it still seemed like an ill-advised strategy on the Chargers' end last Monday when Te'o was deemed unavailable to talk.
Isn't that, in effect, singling Te'o out because of his celebrity status? Isn't that an indication that the player who wants nothing more than normalcy isn't quite normal?
Terrell Davis disagrees. Playing in the Marshall Faulk Celebrity Championship golf tournament in Carlsbad Saturday, the former Broncos running back said that McCoy was simply establishing trust with his new linebacker, and that the effort to protect him from "the hounds" was the coach's way of saying "I got your back."
Perhaps. Given how McCoy witnessed the Tim Tebow tomfoolery in Denver first-hand, he may be as qualified as any figure in the league when it comes to quelling a media circus. But might not a more effective approach have been to pull Te'o aside, say "I know you don't like doing this, I know you're ready for all of this to be over, but like wind sprints or power squats, enduring the pain is the best way to get the results you want."?
Besides, inquiries pertaining to Te'o's personal life have started to grow tired anyway. This guy was an All-American who went 38th overall in the draft. Believe it or not, local reporters are much more interested in asking him football-related questions at this point -- and hasn't Manti said from Day 1 that he wants the focus to be on football?
The Te'o factor will no doubt add an enduring storyline to the Chargers' season. Not even Tebow entered camp this transcendent a figure. But once Te'o figures out the schemes, once he masters the formations and hones his NFL instincts, his next step will be to endear himself to the public.
That only happens if the public has a chance to get to know him.
Organized team activities resume at Chargers Park Monday, and Te'o will again be a subject of curiosity for anyone with a notepad, camera, or microphone. We'll want to know how he fared against the veterans, how he's adjusting to the Bolts' system, and, quite possibly, how he enjoyed the Maxim party.
Te'o may not want to field the questions, but he should. Oddly enough, sometimes talking is the best way to stop a conversation.


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I made a turkey several weeks ago. It turned out wonderfully moist. I doubled glaze and butter rub recipe because of the size of the bird (the recipe called for a 12 lbs turkey, but I had a 23 lbs turkey) The glaze was good. It was sweet.
Anyway, the recipe is below the picture:
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon House Seasoning, recipe follows
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
2 tablespoons minced shallots
2 teaspoons minced garlic cloves
1 (12-pound) turkey
Stuffing, if desired
2 sticks butter
2 cups pecan halves
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup bourbon
For the turkey:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a small mixing bowl combine all ingredients
Thoroughly rinse and dry the turkey well. Tuck the wings underneath the body and place the turkey in a roasting pan. Rub the butter mixture all over the turkey. Stuff, if desired. Roast for 18 minutes per pound (including stuffing weight, if using). The turkey is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh and deep into the stuffing registers 165 degrees F and the juices run clear. Remove from the oven and loosely tent with foil. Let rest for 20 minutes before carving.
For the glaze:
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat. When the butter just begins to bubble, stir in the pecan halves. Let the pecan halves gently fry in the butter until they take on a lightly toasted color. Then add the sugar, molasses and honey and stir until the sugar melts. Pour in the bourbon, raise the heat and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes until the glaze is smooth, except for the pecans, of course, and syrupy.
Let the glaze cool slightly and then pour it over the roasted turkey. Serve any extra glaze in the side at the table.
House Seasoning:
1 cup salt
1/4 cup black pepper
1/4 cup garlic powder
Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.


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Green Tree Apple Chips
These chips are a great, healthy and filling snack. They're 100% dried, pure apple chips (the Fiji variety). They're crunchy and sweet, and a typical potato-chip sized bag has only 80 calories! You can buy them at various corner stores and supermarkets in the NY metro area, or online at certain retailers. Give em a try!


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Lakeland, Fla. (August 25, 2006) - The Saint Leo University volleyball team (1-1) split its first two matches of the new season on Friday at the Florida Southern Volleyball Tournament in Lakeland, Fla. The Lions dropped their season opening match to Texas Woman's University in a five-game thriller (30-25, 13-30, 19-30, 30-19, 6-15) before rebounding with a four-game win over Angelo State University (30-20, 24-30, 30-19, 30-20).
Saint Leo was led by sophomore Audrey Starkebaum (Sterling, Colo.) who totaled 24 kills on the day along with 17 digs defensively. Sophomore setter Jessi Lynn (Brandon, Fla.) had a total of 79 assists in the two matches while both Erin Oberlin (Sr. Naples, Fla.) and Emily Frey (So., Mason, Ohio) had six blocks each.
The Lions lost their opening match despite a strong performance by Starkebaum, as she totaled 10 kills and 12 digs against Texas Woman's University. The five-game encounter saw SLU take a 1-0 lead after a 30-25 win in game one. Texas Woman's University then won the next two games before the Lions forced a fifth game with a 30-19 win in game four. However, it was TWU who came away with the victory, as they won game five by a score of 15-6.
The Lions picked up their first win of the new season by outlasting Angelo State in the second half of Friday's doubleheader. After the teams split the opening two games, SLU took control to win the final two games in comfortable fashion by scores of 30-19 and 30-20.
The SLU volleyball team will return to action next weekend, as it will travel to Valdosta, Ga. For a second tournament in as many weeks. The Lions will play four matches over a three-day period, beginning Friday, August 31 against tournament host Valdosta State University at 6:00 p.m.


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A federal judge has ordered the county to resume a civil $18 million racketeering suit against three defendants after they were convicted of criminal charges.
The county's attorneys are pursuing a case that seeks to collect as much of the money as possible from attorney David Escobar, former state Rep. and County Judge Luther Jones, and former County Commissioner Betti Flores. Each has been convicted of public corruption and the county is seeking to recoup funds from what it says were their corrupt schemes.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone stopped the case in January 2010 as criminal cases against Escobar and Jones made their way through the courts. But in October, after Escobar -- the last of these three defendants -- pleaded guilty, Cardone issued an order to re-start the racketeering suit.
Several developers, whom the county had accused of paying Flores in 2007 to support selling them land for less than it was worth, have been dropped from the suit. The developers, who admit no wrongdoing, settled the case in 2010, after paying the county $600,000 and going through court-ordered arbitration.
Also in 2010, the county dismissed its suit against local lawyer and former County Commissioner Martie Jobe, although it reserved the right to refile the suit if "significant admissible evidence of Jobe's culpability comes to light during the trial of the criminal cases or the ongoing federal public-corruption investigations..." the settlement agreement says.
The county is suing Jones, Escobar and Flores over four separate matters:
The developers "have adamantly denied any and all alleged liability or wrongdoing, and whereas the county maintains its claims were brought for the benefit of its citizens and in good faith..." the Oct. 10, 2010 settlement agreement says.
Since the suit is filed under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, it's entitled to treble damages -- or $18 million -- the suit says. It's unclear, however, whether any of the remaining defendants in the suit has that much money.
Flores pleaded guilty in July 2007 to six counts of mail and wire fraud and admitted trading her votes for money. She has not been sentenced.
Jones was convicted in 2011 of attempting to rig the digitization contract. Jones was sentenced to six years in prison.
Jones and Escobar also pleaded guilty last year to their roles in a scheme to corruptly steer $100 million in government-employee health insurance business to Access HealthSource. They'll be sentenced on Feb. 20.
Marty Schladen may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com; 546-6127.


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I am missing NYC soooo much right now. The Plus Model Magazine blogger conference was so much fun. There's just something about being around a group of women who love fashion as much as you do. Nevermind the fact that we all love and appreciate our curves. Everyone looked so beautiful and the confidence was beaming from that room. Once again, a BIG thank you to Plus Model Magazine and Just As You Are for inviting me.
Erica Watson was hilarious, as always, and the models were beautiful. Unfortunately, my batteries and back-up batteries died. I didn't get any photos after the Just As You Are fashion show. I wanted to take photos of all the bloggers too. Boooooo! to dead batteries.


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|Senior Woman Administrator/Assistant A.D.-Sports Medicine
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Wilson was hired as the head athletic trainer at Saint Leo in August of 1999 and is now in her 16th year of service. During her time at Saint Leo her duties and responsibilities have grown considerably, now governing over a staff which oversees the health of 19 men's and women's sports.
The Binghamton, NY native graduated from Cortland State in 1988 with a Bachelor's in Physical Education and a minor in Athletic Training with a concentration in Adult Fitness.
She proceeded to earn her master's degree in Physical Education with a concentration in Sports Medicine from Western Michigan in 1990.
Prior to her stay at Saint Leo, Wilson was the Head Athletic Trainer at Kalamazo College in Michigan. She also worked in a sports medicine clinic in Binghamton, NY.
Her husband, David, is an Athletic Director and teacher at Wiregrass Ranch HS. She has three boys Kyle, Bryce and Payton.


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The University of Mount Union had 26 winter sports student-athletes recognized as Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference.
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I confess
posted January 24th, 2013 at 4:56 PM
4 CommentsPost a Comment
Chin Up
Jan 24, 2013 at 6:25pm
There is nothing bad or wrong about who you are. A starting point is to know that everyone has hang-ups about themselves - even the people you think have no reason to. I'm very doubtful that most others' reception of you would be as negative as you predict. Treat yourself respectfully and try to outwardly behave like a person who truly likes him or herself. This may feel inaccurate given how you tell us you inwardly feel, but it will likely have an overall positive effect on your self-image. Remember that you are important and worthwhile. If there is something about you that you are ashamed of, you'd probably be surprised to learn that others will nevertheless accept you. If this is the case, why not post separately about this? Ignore the one-line remarks and pay attention to genuine and thoughtful responses. People, at least worthwhile people, value things like honesty, kindness and integrity - features which may animate you or anyone, regardless of superficial flaws.
Jan 24, 2013 at 8:46pm
shit ya! I am so strange and awkward, but we all are, don't try to hide it anymore...think of the last time when you felt so free, so happy, now let that take you away...into yourself...don't try and match the clones of todays world...be different, thats who you're meant to be...
"those who mind, dont matter, but those who matter don't mind"
now get up and dance! yes by yourself in your computer room and don't give a f**k..it will be a beautiful thing :)
Jan 24, 2013 at 10:17pm
b.dylan - "but even the president of the united states sometimes must have to stand naked"
Jan 25, 2013 at 7:57am
Sometimes ( likely most ) when people seem confident they are fakin it they are just nervous and worried as you are!


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I've been trying to solve this problem for a long time…
I can't find a solution for simple CD ripping (tracks to mp3 or wav) using Python on Windows 7 (no CYGWIN) - either directly in Python or using a subprocess.
Yes, there are solutions for Linux.
Good old PyMedia doesn't seem to want to install correctly…
Windows Media Player 11 has command line control… but not Windows Media Player 12 (installed with Win 7)
CueTools Console ripper only seems to want to rip the CD as one giant track
PyGame doesn't appear to have ripping capability
Definitely keen to here how to do it!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - People who live around a nightclub in Grand Park were not shocked to hear there was a quadruple shooting there New Years morning, but they were stunned to learn the part owner of the business was killed in the gunfire.
James Darren Graham, 45, died at the hospital after the shooting outside the Chicago Club, a business he co-owned.
Friends, who knew Graham by the nickname "Chuck," are devastated.
"You know, he tried to keep the guns and all that out the club," said neighbor Brett Brown. "It's a tragedy.... He's a good friend."
"It's so rowdy over here," neighbor Winfred Noisette said. "I knew something was going to happen, sooner or later somebody was going to get really hurt."
Neighbors are hopeful the shooting is a wake-up call to the community, arguing the business should be turned into something safer.
Living just a few houses down from the club, Noisette says her car was shot up in a different gunfight weeks earlier. She's working to get the Chicago Club shut down.
"It's not going to get better as long as it stays open a club, and I don't want to see nobody else get hurt," Noisette said.
Channel 4's crime analyst Ken Jefferson says closing the club would be a good idea.
"You can't not do anything, or not say anything and say it doesn't affect you, because it does," said Jefferson. "This murder affects everyone in that area."
No one from the business was available for comment on Monday.
Police have released few details about what led to the altercation and no arrests have been made. The names of the other shooting victims were not released.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call the police at 904-630-0500. To remain anonymous and perhaps earn a cash reward, call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
Copyright 2012 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Topic: Hello from ASCO, Chicago
Stella, as you may remember is roma's (Barbara) Mom. Stella has shown to be a fantastic advocate for our Foundation. Considering that we had a prime location and plenty of advocates to interact mainly with physicians and researchers, I would have to say that this has been one of the most (if not the most) exciting conference we have attended.
Stella would like to share a few thoughts with you.
Hi everyone,
I would like to extend a warm hello to all of you, my dear friends.
It has been a busy conference for us. Many people stopped at our booth, taking brochures, and retrieving our famous wristbands. There were many interactions with physicians, researchers, and other advocates. I actually was able to practice my Italian with some of the doctors. I had the pleasure of working with Barbara and Percy and also see Marion and Patty again as well as meeting Stacie, Sara, Seth, Dawn and Rick for dinner, on Saturday night. It has been a memorable experience and I am looking forward to our next conference.
Love to all,


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Australian golfers Greg Chalmers and Aaron Baddeley blitzed the La Quinta Country Club course to be one stroke off the lead after the first round of the PGA Tour event in California.
Chalmers and Baddeley fired eight-under-par 64s while fellow Australian Stuart Appleby is well placed after shooting 67.
Robert Allenby and Matt Jones returned 68s, Geoff Ogilvy shot a two-under 70, Steven Bowditch a 71 and John Senden an even-par 72.
Roberto Castro, Jason Kokrak and Tour rookie James Hahn all shot nine-under 63s to share the lead on the par-72 course.
Rookie Russell Henley, coming off a three-stroke win in the PGA event in Hawaii on Sunday, joined Chalmers, Baddeley and Dough LaBelle on eight-under.
Phil Mickelson launched his 2013 season with an inconsistent even-par round of 72 to be nine off the pace.
Mickelson, recovering from flu-like symptoms, had three birdies, one bogey and a double-bogey at La Quinta - one of three courses used in the tournament in which the opening rounds are played in a pro-am format.
Kokrak had two eagles and five birdies, while Castro had nine birdies at PGA West's Jack Nicklaus Private Course and Hahn sank nine birdies on PGA West's Arnold Palmer Private Course.
"The course over at La Quinta is in great shape," Kokrak said. "Greens are not overly fast, so you can be somewhat aggressive out there. The greens are holding. So you can be aggressive with the iron shots out there."
Castro capped his round with a birdie putt of more than 40 feet. He was pleased he was able to take advantage of the good scoring conditions offered in the balmy California desert.
"This tournament you kind of got to get it going and keep it going," he said.
Hahn's round included two chip-ins for birdies, something he said hadn't happened for him since he was nine. He said not knowing the course was actually an advantage.
"I think a lot of the times, we as professionals, try to take in too much information," he said. "Some of my best rounds have come from not even seeing a golf course for the first time. It gives me tunnel vision ... I just know fairway, green and try to make a putt."
Henley posted his 64 on the Nicklaus course.
"I'm feeling very confident," Henley said. "I definitely wasn't going to be upset either way ... The last thing I want to do is waste any energy and be emotional right now. I think I've got to conserve all my emotions and my energy as much as I can so I can play another full golf tournament."


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 23/9/2011 (2153 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NO one can deny that Bob Rae, the interim leader of the once mighty Liberal party, has his work cut out for him. This summer, he criss-crossed the country speaking at breakfasts and barbecues trying to solve the conundrum he has faced since the May election left the Liberals for the first time as the third party in the House of Commons, with only 34 seats: How to rebuild the party and reconnect it with Canadian voters.
The popular vote numbers are telling. In the 2004 federal election, the Liberals, who won a minority government led by Paul Martin, received 4,982,220 votes. With Michael Ignatieff at the helm in May 2011, that figure was reduced almost by half, to 2,783,175.
Much of this loss was in the West and Quebec. In the four western provinces, the Liberals won 14 seats in 2004, averaging 28 per cent of the popular vote, yet only four seats in 2011 with an average of 12 per cent of the vote. In Quebec, a Liberal stronghold for much of the 20th century -- and where Jack Layton and the NDP won 59 of 75 seats with an impressive 42.9 per cent of the vote -- the Liberal demise was much more decisive. In 2004, Liberals won 21 seats with 33.9 per cent of the popular vote versus seven seats in 2011 and a mere 14.2 per cent of the popular vote.
So where do Bob Rae and the Liberals go from here? "Rebuilding," he said in July, "means figuring out how to make ourselves into a better fighting machine, which cannot just survive, but grow stronger even while we're out of power, and come back with the best, most modern techniques for winning the trust and support of Canadians."
The solution is not he argues merging with the NDP. "The Liberal party is a broad-based, progressive-centrist party that has historically been, you know, different than those two other parties," he has said.
As a former NDP premier of Ontario, Rae knows what he is talking about. Indeed, this dreamy notion that a new Liberal-NDP party could easily defeat Stephen Harper and the Conservatives ignores the die-hard loyalty of many Liberals and the party's long history. The assumption, moreover, that right-leaning Liberals and left-leaning NDP voters would automatically embrace a Liberal-NDP union is fallacious.
Several times the Liberals faced similar rejections at the polls. They subjected themselves to internal dissections, regrouped and won over Canadian voters again.
In the spring of 1930, Rachel Bleaney, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's soothsayer, had assured him that should he call an election, he would be successful. Several months later, the spirits and Bleaney were proven wrong. R.B. Bennett and the Conservatives, promising to solve the developing economic crisis, won a majority. Most shocking of all to King was the loss of 20 seats in Quebec, where the Liberals had been very strong since the 1890s.
In the ensuing five years, as Bennett grappled with the Great Depression, the Liberals gradually reorganized. But it was by no means a smooth transition. King and the party were humiliated by a scandal involving secret deals and payoffs over the massive Beauharnois hydroelectric project and many high-ranking Liberals and Liberal newspaper owners and editors whispered among themselves that King's day was over.
King, who had a stubborn resolve, ignored the rumblings. He convinced business magnate Vincent Massey to head the newly revamped National Liberal Federation. Massey, in turn, with help from Norman Lambert, built up the Liberal coffers and held a conference near his estate in Port Hope, Ont., in September 1933 where an impressive group of speakers (among them Winnipeg Free Press editor John W. Dafoe) met with members of the Liberal caucus to fashion a progressive Liberal party platform. By the time of the next federal election in October 1935, King, who did not adopt as progressive polices as many Liberals wished, easily trounced Bennett and the Conservatives, the start of more than 20 years of uninterrupted Liberal rule.
Again in 1960, the party, now led by Lester Pearson, after having been beaten badly by John Diefenbaker and the Conservatives in the 1958 election, met for five days in Kingston for a "Study Conference on National Problems." The intensive get-together, engineered mainly by Toronto businessman Walter Gordon (a future Liberal finance minister), provided the framework for a revitalized Liberal party platform. Gordon also raised funds, shaped policy and hired Keith Davey, an imaginative sales and ad man, to rebuild the party's organizational and public relations structure. As Diefenbaker self-destructed in 1962, the Liberals were prepared to take advantage and did so, winning a minority government in 1963.
In 1933, and particularly in 1960, the Liberals were able to rebound because their attacks on the government were complemented by a "positive plan... informed by a coherent philosophy and a clear narrative," suggests Thomas Axworthy, the Winnipeg-born political strategist and Pierre Trudeau's principal secretary. "Serious thought, new voices and party engagement committed to improving the life chances and choices of every Canadian were the strength of Kingston," he adds. "It is a formula still relevant today."
History is not static, of course. Stephen Harper has seemed to have found the winning policies and state of mind to appeal to a broad cross section of Canadians, though his support in Quebec has yet to materialize. This might be the first area the rebuilding Liberals should target.
It is true that neither Mackenzie King nor Pearson had to worry about a nationalist party such as the Bloc Québécois taking a majority of the province's 75 seats. But the recent showing of Jack Layton and the NDP proves that with the right combination of personality and policies, it is possible for a non-nationalistic party to once more capture the hearts and votes of French-Canadians. Figuring out how to take advantage of this new political reality might just be the initial step towards yet another reincarnation of the Liberal party.
Now & Then is a column in which historian Allan Levine puts the events of today in an historical context. Levine's latest book, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, is published this month.


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I have some checkboxes that are used to show or hide the columns of an HTML table. These checkboxes are present on every page of the site. Is there a way to "remember" the state of the checkboxes while going from one page to another?
Cookies are how to remember information.
See this cookies documentation page which goes through the issues, and gives you functions to manage them.
Thanks for the link, that page explains cookies very well.
Only thing I'm trying to understand now is: what's the best way to use them in my case (I ask you because you already have an idea of the other javascript files I'm using )? Should I create a cookie for each checkbox (keeping info about their state) and then check their state before initializing the checkboxes to the standard checked/unchecked configuration?
What is your case?
Sorry I don't remember.
It's likely to be better to store all checkboxes values as a single cookie value.
You could use something like this to bring all of the checkbox values together in to one string:
var checkboxSettings = $(':checkbox').map(function () {
return this.value;
// gives "0,0,0,0,0,1,1"
// then save as a cookie
And you could use this to extract those values back out to the checkboxes
var checkboxSettings = '0,0,0,0,0,1,1'; // or retrieve from a cookie
$(checkboxSettings.split(',')).each(function (i) {
$(':checkbox:eq(' + i + ')').attr('checked', (this.toString() === '1'));
// sets the checkboxes according to the values in the string
Thanks for your help, I'm getting close to a solution here.
So, first of all I had to change this part of your code
var checkboxSettings = $(':checkbox').map(function () {
return this.value;
var checkboxSettings = $(':checkbox').map(function () {
return $(this).attr("checked");
to see if a checkbox is checked or not, otherwise, with your code, I would receive its the value of the value attribute (sorry for this sentence ).
Now I can succesfully create cookies but I have a problem restoring the checkboxes to the correct value. This code doesn't seem to be working:
$(checkboxSettings.split(',')).each(function (i) {
$(':checkbox:eq(' + i + ')').attr('checked', (this.toString() === '1'));
I also tried changing it to
Since "this" now is either true or false, based on if the checkbox is selected or not.
When this script runs, all the checkboxes become unselected :shifty:
What does the updated cookie string look like?When you updated the code, you may have changed it from storing '1' to storing 'true' or something else.
The restore process needs to check against the expected value in the cookie string, which may be 'true' or something else now.
So, what does the updated cookie string look like?
It's a series of true and false, separated by a comma.
I just realized that I had made a mistake in my previous post. This is the correct code.
You'll have to clarify.
Is that is the correct code that works, or that is the correct version of the code that you're still having trouble with?
That is the correct version of the code I am having trouble with
Currently you are assigning a string value of 'true' or 'false' to the checked attribute.Things may work better if you assign a boolean value there instead.
The code I was using used (this.toString() === '1') to convert it to a boolean value.Given that your cookie stores variations of 'true' or 'false', you could check against 'true' instead:
(this.toString() === 'true')
The reason for using this.toString() is that jQuery provides an object to the this keyword, so it needs to be converted to a string if you desire an exact match.
It is also possible to use the jQuery val method too, which could look like:
($(this).val() === 'true')
Thank you very much for your help
PS: how did you learn all these things?
Mostly by solving problems. I didn't know about jQuery passing the this keyword as an object until I tried to solve your problem.
I set a breakpoint in the function itself, checked the this keyword to find out why it was not equalling a string.
Once it became clear that the this keyword is not provided by jQuery as a string, but instead as an object, it became clear that we need to handle that in some way.
A lazy way would be to use the equal operator with only two equal signs:
(this == 'true')
but Douglas Crockford would yell at me for that
So, the this keyword needs to be treated instead, resulting in the previous post's solution.
Understood. And why wouldn't it be good to use the == operator?
The == operator is quite loose in what it allows. It can be very difficult to even remember what is and what isn't allowed as an equal comparison. Just look at what happens when comparing a == b
Source: MDC Doc Centre - Comparison Operators
> When type conversion is needed, JavaScript converts String, Number, Boolean, or Object operands as follows.
With a === b you have a much better chance of ensuring that what you are comparing are actually equal. It's much better to know when things aren't matching as they should, than for loose comparisons to allow through things that you didn't intend.


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It's my pleasure to announce the Member of the Month for April, 2013.
This month, the award goes to TomB, who has been a member of these forums for quite some time already. Tom's enthusiasm for and knowledge about the more "advanced" sides of PHP programming (OOP, design patterns, MVC) make his posts an interesting read.
We are really grateful for Tom's contributions to the forums, and recently asked him a few questions so we could get to know him a little better.
Tom, congratulations on being awarded the MoTM badge for April. Were you surprised?
Thank you! Yes, I'm very surprised! Especially given how little I've posted in the last 6 months or so.
We always ask where the username comes from, although I have feeling that this time it might be your real name?
Unfortunately yes, there's no amusing or interesting story behind my username, it is just my real name. However, despite the obvious privacy implications, I was at university when I registered here and I figured it wouldn't hurt if future employers found me or I could even link them to my profile here so they can see my level of interest/knowledge first hand. I don't think it's really worked like that but I'm happy to post here under my real name! I'd happily point potential future employers to my profile here, I don't think I would if I had a cheesy alias!
You've been around these forums for a very long time, but maybe you still remember: what brought you to Sitepoint, what made you stay?
Looking back at my first post here, I remember exactly why I registered on the forums. I'd been a lurker for some time and used sitepoint.com as a learning resource quite extensively over the years. My first post was about registering .eu domains which were just about to launch at the time. During my time at university I made a little bit of cash on the side doing development work as well as buying/selling domain names. I was trying to purchase some premium .eu domains at launch and asked here about people's knowledge on the subject. I never did make much money on a .eu domain but shortly afterwards I sold di.gg which basically paid off my student loan!
I stuck around asking questions as my programming ability improved. I mostly lurked around the now long gone PHP Application Design forum as it was a nice archive of discussions on advanced topics. For the most part I was a lurker but I discovered the best way to improve my own knowledge was posting there and then having the intellectual heavyweights that posted there shoot me down and tell me what I was doing wrong as well as slowly developing my own ability to answer questions there constructively. You'll still most likely see me pop up in threads discussing best practices or OOP theory.Looking at your blog, your signature and your activity in these forums, PHP in general, and MVC in particular seems to be a very big part of your life/passion, can you tell us what got you interested, where it all began?
I've been programming in PHP since late 1999 and have been working as a professional PHP developer since I left university 6 years ago. I work with it every day so I've hit every possible gotcha from PHP bugs, to poorly designed code from others and my own where I've gone back and thought "Why did I do it like that?" I've learnt the hard way but I enjoy the self-improvement aspect of learning and genuinely being able see my code improve over time.
On MVC in particular, funnily enough, it was discussions on sitepoint which got me interested that, design patterns and the more advanced topics. I had looked at CakePHP and the other popular frameworks of the time and I always found myself thinking "There must be a better way to do this." After a lot of research into software architectures I learned that what I and everyone else in the PHP community was calling MVC wasn't MVC at all and realised that there was a much better way. After several long discussions on here where I found myself making the same points repeatedly, I condensed everything into a few posts on my blog to save repeating myself every time the topic arose.
There seems to be a lot of confusion around PAC versus MVC, would you say either are worthwhile to a developer regardless of the differences between them? Is it worthwhile for a developer to truly understand which they are using if the abstraction occurs making their development more flexible?
My biggest issue with this scenario is that we have two different architectures sharing the same name. Irrespective of any benefits of one over the other, this causes confusion for anyone attempting to look up the definition and hurts the community as a whole. Separating the components in any non-trivial application is vital. It makes your code flexible and easier to maintain. Choosing how to split up the various components and how they relate plays a very large part in how flexible and maintainable the end-product is. Code is split up solely to make it easier for the developer to manage, neither the computer or the end user care if you're using MVC, PAC or a single 10,000 line file that just gets processed line by line. As such, it's in the developer's own interest to make their code as flexible and easy to work with as possible. We've all worked with horrible code, it's not an enjoyable task.
In terms of PAC vs MVC specifically, most PHP developers default setting is PAC (Which has been wrongly labelled as MVC throughout the community) because it's just a way of joining an entry point, a template system and a database layer. Components which have been around years before the term "MVC" was being thrown around the PHP community. I can see why this is a logical progression but with progressive learning like this, it's difficult for people to take a step back to the beginning and think about exactly what it is they're trying to achieve. It's hard for anyone to realise there's a better way because they have a complete understanding of current methods and very little of any others making any comparison very difficult in people's minds. Nobody has really chosen to use what they call "MVC", it's just something which we ended up with as PHP developers. My question to anyone who's using what the frameworks call "MVC" is: How do you know you made the correct choice if you never made a choice?
What are some of your biggest irks with PHP and do you know how you would correct them?
Although there are many things PHP does well, there are some things it does badly. I have to look up the parameter order for strpos() every time I use it because it's the opposite order to most of the other functions. As well as inconsistent function names, htmlentities() and html_entity_decode(), nl2br() and strtolower(), etc. And whoever decided the parameter order for mktime() deserves to be shot, there's no sense of logic to it at all.
But these are all fairly trivial in the grand scheme of things. Most of my irks aren't with PHP itself, it's with the way the PHP community use it. There have always been fad-of-the month trends/buzzwords among the high end/professional level PHP Developers over the years. Database abstraction, template systems, using mysqli instead of mysql, the singleton pattern, MVC, using pdo instead of mysqli, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing. Some of them come and go, some of them stuck around, some, like the singleton pattern, we're regretting to this day. Currently, there's a growing trend for using Annotations for configuration. This is easily the worst trend to hit PHP applications since the singleton pattern and something we as a community are going to regret for years to come. I won't go into detail here but I've covered it extensively on my blog. Let's put a stop to it before it hurts the entire community.
With the ever growing number of new PHP developers what advice would you give them so they get off the ground in the right direction?
There are hundreds of ways to solve any problem. Some solutions are better than others. When starting out you just want something that works. However, once you begin realising "this can be done better" you quickly realise that programming is more of an art than a science. As such, my biggest tip for anyone is that when you look up how to do something is always to look for reasoning behind the decisions made. If the tutorial writer has only provided "how" but not "why", firstly you won't learn very much but more importantly, their reasoning may not be sound. Look for tutorials and articles which provide a level of discussion "This method is chosen because..." rather than just "Here's how it's done". The "Here's how it's done" article might give you some working code but it may also be teaching you bad habits or outdated practices. Secondly, as a rule of thumb, newer is better. Things change, the language evolves and best practices change over time. If you see two articles covering the same topic, one from 2011 and one from 2001, pick the one from 2011, it's almost certainly going to be more relevant today. We still get posts in the PHP forum where people are using the now very out of date mysql_* functions because of this.
If you could change one thing about SitePoint Forums ... what would you change?
The admins will probably hate me for saying this but I'd bring back the PHP Application Design forum. Even though it was rarely used it was still very useful to me to have an archive of discussions on advanced topics easily accessible in one place. I learnt more from lurking in there than I did from any book or online tutorial and because it was its own forum I could very easily just go through a long list of old topics which contained excellent information. A lot of very intelligent people posted in that forum over the years and the discussions that took place there are still relevant to programmers today.This is your chance at blatant self promotion. Is there anything that you would like to promote?
For a change, yes! I don't often release code because either it would take too much support or there are a thousand other projects doing a similar thing. However, I recently released Dice ( http://r.je/dice.html ), a Dependency Injection Container for PHP. It's different from the others that are around because it focuses on minimising the configuration needed by the application developer. I've been developing it while using it in my own projects for the last 3 years and it has really helped me take a whole new approach to the way I look at dependencies in code. It's made my life as a programmer a hell of a lot easier and it's mature enough that it's very stable and it really does fill an otherwise empty niche so I thought I'd share it with the world. So, to all the PHP developers out there, give it a try, I'm sure you won't look back!Is there anything that hasn't been asked that you would like the Sitepoint community to know?
Only thank you to everyone for being part of the community. I've learnt so much from discussions here on the forums, both topics I've participated in and ones I've lurked around and read. I certainly wouldn't be half as good a programmer as I am if I hadn't ever joined sitepoint. Thank you all, special thanks to the old posters from the PHP Application Design forum!
Well, if you made it this far, please join me in congratulating Tom with his well deserved award
Well done Tom - it's great to see that you're being recognized for your efforts here.
Congratulations, Tom. Thank you for the tremendous contributions that you make to these forums. You're practically a legend!
Nice one Tom!I enjoy reading your posts. This is very well deserved.
Definately a great read and lots to learn. Well done Tom clap clap clap
Don't worry, I don't hate you for wanting the PHP Application Design forum back... @HAWK;, on the other hand, as the administrator of this forum, might
Well done to you too, Guido
Excellent interview and congratulations @TomB ; you deserved it!
Thank you all!
What a great read! Really interesting thoughts on PHP, Tom. Well done, and thanks for your contributions.
Well done bud
As a former luker of the old PHP Application forum to another, great interview and thanks for making such an excellent contribution to SitePoint!
Congratulations TomB.
I took a quick look at Dice at it looks good. I will have to try it soon. Thanks
Congratulations Tom.
You know, I always though the moniker meant 'sepulcher' as it seemed kinda goth! Anyway , congrats TomB... and thanks for all the great posts.
That badge looks good on you.
Congratulations Tom! :tup:
Maybe if those interesting posts are still archived somewhere, a separate read-only section could be tacked on to the PHP section as a resource.
Well deserved and keep up the informative posts.
good job man
They do still exist - I just merged them back into the PHP forum.
Congrats Tom , You are really deserving person, keep writing


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A search party assembled in the New Forest village of Frogham yesterday to hunt for 17-year-old Ross Haughey, 48 hours after he was last seen by his parents.
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I have recently had an MRA/MRI of the Brain after episodes of facial numbness around my mouth on the right side, which resolves in minuets but raises my BP from anxiety of an impending stroke. I am trying to understand when to go or if to go to the hospital. Also when it is time to seek a second opinion. I have had on Internist and one neurologist but unclear how to prevent further episodes. I am down to 124# from 137# in weight, Cholesterol from 232 to 152 with Mediterranean.diet, walking, 325 aspirin,Zorcor 20mg,Diazide 37.5, Norvasc2.5 and still having the numbness occur about once a month I am afraid each time I am having further brain damage and don`t know where to turn next, any suggestions please?
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Behind a double-double performance from Christina Granville on Monday night the Saint Leo women's basketball team (4-2) beat the Warner University Royals (3-3) by a score of 92-43. The Lions' performance marks the first time since Nov. 21, 2009 that the team reached the 90-point plateau, and is the largest margin of victory since Nov. 19, 2008.
For the first time since 2008, five Lions finished the game in double-figures. Granville notched her first double-double of the season when she recorded 14 points and 11 rebounds in the Lions' dominant performance. Chelsea Williams led all scorers with 19 points, despite playing just 20 minutes, and was one rebound shy of reaching a double-double, with nine. Kinara Lewis contributed 16 points, going 3-4 from beyond the arc. Going 6-13 from the field, Teresa Manigrasso added 14 points of her own to reach double figures for the fifth time in six games this season. Elise Clyburn added 10 points and three assists in 25 minutes of action.
Saint Leo jumped out to 21-8 lead in the first half after quickly establishing their presence in the key. The Lions were too much for the Royals to handle down low—outrebounding Warner 57-20 and outscoring them 48-2 in the post. In the lights-out shooting performance, Saint Leo shot 56.9 percent for the game, and 34.8 percent from behind the arc.
Leading 45-25 at the half, the Lions went on a 14-3 run to start the second half to stretch their lead to 59-28. Behind a 60 percent shooting performance in the second half, the Lions continued to pack on the points. The Lions were able to score 14 points off of forced turnovers and scored 17 second chance points, while holding Warner to zero.
Allison Porter led Warner in points and rebounds, collecting 13 and nine, respectively.
The women's basketball team gets back in action on Saturday, Dec 1, when the Sharks of Nova Southeastern University come to town for the first Sunshine State game of the year. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m.


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Chefs' Secrets: 18 Oaks' Ranch Dressing
Published 12:03 am, Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Dear Pat: I was writing to inquire about getting the recipe for the house-made ranch dressing at 18 Oaks restaurant. We loved the food and service at the restaurant, everything was amazing. In addition, I thought the kids' menu was very clever because they had tasty and healthy choices (no chicken fingers) and also starters and main courses for kids. My daughter had carrot and celery sticks with ranch dressing for the first course and pasta with cheese and butter for her main course. The ranch dressing is great and does not have all the preservatives, etc. in store-bought dressing and most importantly, she loved it and was eating her vegetables. I asked for the ingredients, and they very nicely wrote them down for me, but unfortunately I misplaced the list. I remember it has buttermilk, sour cream and mayonnaise and a lot of different herbs and other ingredients? I wanted to make it at home so she will eat more carrots! Thanks!
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Dear Christine: Good for you for preparing salad dressing at home! With the right recipe, such as this luscious Ranch Dressing from the JW Marriott Hotel's restaurant, 18 Oaks, you are way ahead of the game. It's incredibly easy to do, and its taste is so superior to the store-bought kind, it would be hard to go back in any case. Using wholesome fresh ingredients, including fresh herbs, lends added health benefits in addition to great taste.
The spacious JW Marriott boasts seven dining rooms, and 18 Oaks is situated in the Club House overlooking the 18th greens of their two TPC golf courses. Chef Jeffery Surprise heads the kitchens at 18 Oaks, and he was kind enough to convert the recipe down to a reasonable size for us. Surprise prepares grilled steaks and seafood and plenty of other sophisticated fare at dinner, and he incorporates a wide variety of local ingredients sourced from ranchers and farmers in his breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch menus. But as you mention, he hasn't forgotten the kids. Providing fresh vegetables (not just french fries!) is an example of his thoughtful attention to all of his customers.
So stock up on the carrots — and any other good veggies you'd like to introduce to your daughter. It's a great strategy for broadening her horizons, and for starting her eating habits off right.
18 Oaks is at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa at 23808 Resort Parkway. It's about 20 minutes from San Antonio International Airport.
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'Vicious' Battle of Gainesville re-enacted
Published: Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
Johnny Reb drove the Blue Bellies out of Gainesville on Saturday morning, much as they did 149 years ago to the day.
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This time, however, they were Civil War re-enactors dressed in authentic Confederate and Union garb who followed a carefully choreographed script, portraying as accurately as possible the Battle of Gainesville.
And they acted it out on the same spot where the Union made its last stand before being ousted by members of a local militia and Confederate troops.
"You're actually standing on bloody ground, people," said John McLean, a sixth-generation Floridian who lives in Gainesville and narrated the play-by-play for the spectators. "This is the only battle in town that you can actually participate in."
For the third year in a row, the Matheson Museum commemorated the Battle of Gainesville, the second and larger of two battles fought here during the Civil War. The re-enactment coincides with an exhibit at the Matheson that's on display through Sept. 22 called "War Torn Lives: The People of Civil War Gainesville."
Alicia Antone, the Matheson's executive director, said the goal was to show "the good, the bad, and the ugly" of the battle as it really was in the hopes that the community could learn from this living history.
"The battle that took place here was a vicious one," Antone said.
On Saturday, Sweetwater Park thundered with the sound of rifles ripping through the silence and cannon fire concussing the air as about 300 onlookers watched soldiers streaming across the south field on foot and horseback.
Large palm fronds camouflaged park benches, and an authentic wagon was hauled onto the field to give a sense of realism. A fife and drum corps played Civil War songs.
In about an hour, or about half the time the actual battle was waged, Confederates had broken through the Union ranks, surrounded their enemy and pushed them to Sweetwater Branch.
"It's so realistic — the rounds, the horses, the regalia," said Marvin Green, a longtime Gainesville resident who said he came out of curiosity to watch the re-enactment.
"This is my home, but I never dwelled on the fact that there was a battle here in Gainesville," Green said. "I care about the history of my town."
Gainesville was a major food distribution center for the Confederate Army during the Civil War, with the second largest warehouses in the state, McLean said.
On Aug. 17, 1864, 342 Union soldiers marched into Gainesville and set up camp, said Keith Kohl, an Ocala historian and one of the battle's choreographers. The Confederates, with only 175 troops (including a Home Guard militia made up of retirees, the wounded and boys), launched a surprise attack and overwhelmed the Union occupiers, driving them out of town.
The Confederates had three dead and five wounded that day, while the Union lost 28 and had 188 captured, McLean said. About 40 Federal soldiers escaped to Magnolia and returned to Baldwin.
"We used the original battle as a blueprint," Kohl said, to ensure that the re-enactment was as accurate as possible.
It was the only battle in Florida fought entirely by native Floridians, McLean said, which he said is why they were so tenacious. For the rest of the war, Gainesville remained in Confederate hands.
Before and after Saturday's re-enactment, visitors could examine clothing and artifacts on display in the park. The re-enactors had set up a camp on the museum grounds using period tents, trunks and lanterns.
Anna Hackel, one of several women in period garb, said her role was as a seamstress. "I sew for the soldiers," she said. "I do a lot of research on my clothing."
Gene Honeycutt said this was the second year he and his family had come to see the battle re-enacted.
"It's very educational and fun," the Gainesville resident said. "It's interesting to see all the period's accoutrements and to see one of the few battles that took place in Florida."
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Lainie Schweickert struck out 23 batters Monday evening against Putnam County. She could have used one more.
The St. Bede ace dueled Putnam County's Shelby Yepsen (10 Ks) in a 1-1 deadlock through nine innings in Granville. In the 10th, the Lady Panthers pushed across the winning run on a two-out single by Lauren Colby with two strikeouts for a 2-1 win.
Talk about your hard-luck losses.
"Yes it was. I feel bad for her," SBA coach Bill Prokup said. "We couldn't get a timely hit. We had runners on third a few times but always with two outs. They played good defense."
"We just needed to hit at the right time," Schweickert said.
She had no idea she had that many strikeouts during the game and said it was "awesome to hear that afterwards." At the same time it was disappointing, to come in defeat.
Schweickert knows she's always in for a battle when she squares off against PC and Yepsen. Both have worked with the same pitching coaches and have very similar pitching mechanics, she said.
As a curious sports writer and softball fan, I was curious to see how Schweickert's outing stacked up in the IHSA record books. Her 23 Ks don't even show up as a blimp on the IHSA radar.
Two pitchers have struck out 38 batters in an IHSA game, both in multiple innings. Karen Marie Pena of Rock Island Alleman fanned 38 East Moline batters in a 22-inning game in 1999. Lemont's Suzie Rzegocki whiffed 38 Oak Forest batters over 20 innings in 2007.
There have been 19 pitchers strike out 29 batters, all, obviously, in extra-inning games. The IHSA records do not go any deeper.
Schweickert has added her name in the IHSA record books for most perfect games in a season with two this spring, a figure ranked 12th best and shared by 23 pitchers. Two girls have thrown seven in a season.
• On the rise: Flood waters are rising and so are the spring sports cancellations.
On March 28, as reported by the BCR, 111 of the 113 area events had been canceled due to the extended cold/snowy weather. That figure has only continued to rise with the recent rains.
Putnam County High School has seen 16 cancellations/reschedules for baseball and 13 for softball and three cancellations for track. In a word, PC athletic director Dave Garcia said that sum is "unreal." PC has managed to get in 18 baseball games and 14 for softball, however.
At Princeton, rookie AD Jesse Brandt has had a busy first spring season on the job. For varsity events only, PHS has had 11 baseball games canceled or rescheduled along with 13 for softball, seven for soccer, three for tennis and five between boys' and girls' track.
When asked if it was too many to count, Brandt said, "absolutely."
I couldn't get a figure from other area schools, but I know their numbers are rising as well.
It's no wonder the two key words to sum up the 2013 springs season are: "weather permitting."
The BCR Text Alerts have sure been lighting up many an area cell phone this spring.
• Sign here please: St. Bede senior Lydia Stariha, a multi-purpose standout, will continue her playing career in basketball and softball for Grinnell College for next season. She will have a signing ceremony Thursday the Academy. Congratulations, Lydia.
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'Game of Thrones' Recap: A Promise is A Promise is A Promise
Weddings, wildlings, and water — oh my! After a walloper of a Game of Thrones last week, Sunday night's episode could've easily fallen by the wayside and disappointed. But luckily this isn't just any TV show, it's an epically-scaled magical fantasy sojourn about power, family, and dragons. And it rules. Allow me to introduce myself — my name is Alicia, and I am a huge nerd for the realm. Old gods, new gods, or no gods. As long as it keeps going as well as season three has gone, I'm game for you, whether you're iron born or dead and can never die.
"Kissed by Fire" took a step back from the theatrics and got in heavy with the dramatics. And what's more dramatic than the words of others? Everyone loves to make a promise, but nobody loves to keep a promise unless it gives them an edge. Politics be political, my dudes. Maybe if people in Westeros took their promises as serious as their hot tubs, we'd have a much higher-functioning monarchy on our hands.
I mean, seriously though, if this episode was made as an 80s movie, this would be the soundtrack:
But let's get down to it, shall we?
Boyz in the Cave
We start off the episode in one of the best places to be: by Arya's side. Because no matter what happens — and crazy shit, when it happens on this show? It HAPPENS — she's going to be fine. Arya is just fiiiiiine. We worry so much about her, but she's the one on this show that feels most likely to survive anything. Poor Arya. She is getting the s**t end of every stick. First, The Hound gets set free, then her Baratheon bastard boo has decided to bro out with the Banner Free Boyz. Maybe in a few years when Arya's a teen she'll be gettin' a kiss on the mouth from Gendry, but for now he's really into eyepatches and immortality so he has to go on with the dudes. No wonder the poor gal's all hoo-hum thinking about her dead dad (can't get any sadder for this girl) next to the dude who keeps on living, despite all odds.
Not having the best day ever was The Hound: off to be be judged by the one true god, thanks to the Brotherhood Without Banners. Only things didn't go as well as the bloodlusty Ms. Arya Stark seems to have wanted, because this one true g.o.d. is apparently more of a watcher than a doer, so The Hound may have gotten himself a notch on the Beric Death Belt, but he was ultimately released.
Ain't no firesword gonna hold him down! No siree. Ain't nobody got time for that! That's just some predated technology for the lightsaber s**t. But Beric sure does have a fun lil party trick on his hand (pun intended, obviously) if he can light s**t on fire with his own blood. Tip for all you folks ready to hop on the Banner-less bandwagon: never hang around a firesword fight in a cave (That's like rule number one), because odds are you're going home at least seriously maimed. Not that a critical injury ever kept Beric down — and with such panache, to boot!
Well, Jon Snow Know at Least One Thing…
The Wildings and Mance were on their way south to The Wall at the beginning of this episode. But the only thing we really want to talk about is Ygritte gettin' some of that vow-broken Crow wang — not any of that strategy talk. And does she ever! Jon Snow just might be a magical being after that "Oh, I know nothing, do I?" tonguing. I mean, he must be magical because that's the only explanation that would give him some sort of tonguework superpower out the gate. I mean, Ygritte might be a lady in the streets, but she's a wildling in the sheets, y'all. She's seen things. Penis things. But somehow Jon Snow has the ability to turn this seasoned pro into a quivering mess.
Which means two things: 1.) most people watching this show are so jealous right now, and 2.) can this show stop glorfying the sexual abilities of male virgins? Podrick was one thing, but Jon Snow knows nothing — how you gonna try and tell me that he suddenly knows a thing or two about goin' down on a lady? Also pretty sure "kissed by fire" isn't a code for redhead, it's a code for "please get yourself checked out at the ye ole STD makeshift tent." And while we're at it, that bath should've definitely happened before the sexy times that weren't nearly sexy enough. Give us naked Jon Snow or give us death, HBO! What are you good for if not for giving us all of the skin?
Also, how was that magical hot spring grotto (you takin' notes, Hefner?) packed with people? You are Beyond The Wall up there: warmth is hard to come by (ba-da-ching)!
Kingslayer: An Origin Story
Jaime and Brienne ended up at the doorstep of Roose Bolton's pad and are also getting in on the naked hot water times. Not sexually, though, guys: these two don't ride that way. But back to this Roose Bolton guy. I'm not sure how to feel about him, but he l-ov-e-d twisting Jaime around on that sister tip.
Jaime was taken to Qyburn, that one guy who was the only one found alive at Harrenhal. He was formally a maester now stripped of his license because of his love of radical medical experiments. The interaction of distrust between the two over the Milk of the Poppy was a fun one, eh? Man, that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has had one hell of a season; somebody get him a nomination when that stuff gets started. Also, at Qyburn's hand Jaime might end up with new missing parts so I'm sure he was more than keen on staying awake rather than pain management.
But back to that bath. Unpopular opinion alert: not as great as it could've been. Ugh, I don't know, it started so strong, but I just sort of hated how hokey it drew to an end. For me it felt like a loud ending when it should've been soft. Especially because Jaime spent his time opening up more than just his pores (C'mon! Bad jokes are my thing) in that hot water. The relationship between Brienne and Jaime just continues to develop in complex and interesting ways. I mean, to make Jaime Lannister come across as someone worthy of sympathy and respect? No easy feat, my dudes. And Brienne! Poor Brienne, really rung through the ringer. She's so fierce and fearless, but the horror on her face as she listened to Jaime's take on the true story of how he got his Kingslayer moniker almost made her look as though she was losing her innocence. Turns out Jaime is one parfait of a person, and I am thoroughly confused as to how I should feel about the Lannisters. Brilliant. But yeah, the cutaway felt a bit over the top.
It's a Tyrell World, You Just Live in It
Every week someone new gets to bask in the glory that is Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell. Homegirl has no shame and ain't scared of s**t. I mean, literally: she talked about her pooping habits with Tyrion about 13 seconds into their first conversation. If that doesn't show you this woman means the bidness, I don't know what will. She gives none of the f**ks because she's a boss b**ch, y'all. She knows her worth and she knows what she's giving the Lannisters by hopping on board. Which is why she was able to so brilliantly remind Tyrion of all her family has given the castle right before graciously accepting taking on half the cost of the royal wedding and insulting him for not being who she hoped he'd be. She's not the Queen of Thorns for nothin', y'all.
Robb's Feelin' Punchy
The young Lannister squires held captive at Riverrun went and got murdered. It was a really crazy scene that was masterfully played: you really felt how scared and unsettled it was to be in it, from the kid's point of view.
But seriously: what was up with Robb Stark tonight, huh? Is someone feeling slightly emasculated? Whatever the case, homeboy wants to make sure everyone knows he's the king, and that means he's in charge. Why else would he change his tune of rational thinking just to behead Karstark? Robb, feeling fiesty and kingly in his power decides that all the henchmen involved in the murder of the Lannister boys get the noose as well. One whiny little brat gets all "Oh, but I just watched!" and Robb's all "This one is the watcher… hang him last so he can watch the others die." Drop the mic, walk out the room: damn son, you tell 'em how to run that Realm! Too bad it looks like he totally f**ked himself over with that move in the end. Hello big Frey showdown on the horizon.
Stannis Baratheon, Tea Party King?
Feeling like he's betrayed is wife, Stannis takes a trip to visit the locked-up-in-a-cell wife and daughter. (It's so totally weird that he would think they feel betrayed, right? When he's kept them in such posh, befitting-of-a-royal-family digs!) Not that she seems to mind, it seems. Yep, Stannis' wife is a stone cold fanatical weirdo that's totally OK with her husband having smoke babies with Melisandre. Excuuuuuse me with your unborn babies in canister bulls**t right now, Selyse Florent?! Seriously? These two. These f**king two, am I right? They're downright terrifying with their fanatical misinterpretation of religion. And while we're at it, way to enforce that "gingers have no souls so they feed on the souls of others" stereotype, Melisandre. The only takeaway I have from all of this is if you want to start a fanatical cult, Stannis' family should be stop number one on your tour of potential converts.
Their daughter seems like a sweet little thing, though lord knows how that's possible with those two cuckaroos they call her parents. Shireen has remnants of her battle with the greyscale on her face, which looks more brown and tree bark-esque than I imagined it would be. Her desire to teach our fair Onion Knight how to read is precious. I like you, girl, but I worry about you and not because of your face.
Khaleesi's Got Game
Good LORD I love me some Daenerys. After last week's truly outrageous (might as well call her Jem) — in the BEST way — episode, it was a bummer to see so little of her this go-around. You're giving us blue dragon balls, HBO! The moment she had tonight was worth it, though: her continued compassion for the Unsullied (and all slaves/innocents, really) soldiers is good stuff and continues to push her narrative towards what I am hopeful is a dragon-filled long game. I mean, Beyoncé has a poster of his b**ch on her wall — that's how serious this is. Oh and blah blah, Ser Jorah and Barristan Selmy had a nice little talk there, too.
Loras Gets Some
Littlefinger got a favor asked of him because Cersei is on the warpath against the Tyrells, so he used a lil fella named Oliver to get close. The two have a knightly romp betwixt the sheets pretty quickly thereafter. There was one very naked man… and Loras clothed in the nudity clause held within his contract. Loras doesn't seem to be too concerned about modesty in any other instance of his life, so I'm not sure why he's being so tame now behind closed doors. But while his pants might not be loose, his lips sure were: he was pretty quick to point out that his wife-to-be (Sansa) doesn't even know he likes dudes. What Loras doesn't realize is that she's literally the only one. But with the beans spilled, the stage is set for…
Big Daddy and His Issues
Man, that Tywin Lannister is one motherf**ker of a father, eh? What a ruthless, power-hungry manipumonster. No wonder these Lannisters are so messed up (excluding you, of course, Tyrion, because you're perfect but I'm also convinced you're not a Lannister because I don't want you to be). And his obsession for power and control certainly isn't for his family (as evidenced by, oh, every single action he's ever taken) since he clearly hates his children. I guess that fancy lion on the family crest and its legacy are far more important than everything else in the world.
So in order to beat the Tyrells at their own game, Tywin decided that Tyrion should marry Sansa and have it announced before Joffrey's wedding. All smug and chuffed, Cersei looks on at Tyrion, so happy to have orchestrated his good news. But shocker of all shockers, something Cersei pushed for ended up biting her in the ass. In one of the most perfect TWIST! moments, Tywin casually mentions that Cersei will also get tossed aside — as scraps for Loras. Because nothing says "let's try and convince everyone you aren't f**king your brother" by marrying you off to the gayest man within the walls of the Red Keep. She went from ain't-havin'-none-of-this-s**t to are-you-serious-right-now in nanoseconds. It was AWESOME.
So…we've got some weddings on the horizon, eh? Next week's looking pretty serious, too — the episode is titled "The Climb" and something tells me Miley Cyrus won't be in the soundtrack.
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The head teacher of Illkley Grammar School has spoken of the "sad and tragic" death of former pupil Joseph Preston who died of a suspected drugs overdose after apparently taking ecstacy at a Leeds nightclub this weekend.
Head teacher Gillian James said she remembered Joe, 17, as a quiet, but popular student with a large circle of friends.
She said Joe showed a natural flair for joinery and was continuing to successfully develop his skills at Craven College after leaving Ilkley Grammar School at the end of Year 11.
"It is a very sad and tragic case," she said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Joe's parents, family and friends.
"So many people have been touched by Joe, and will be affected by his death: it is a terrible waste of such a young life."
Joe is thought to have attended Canal Mills, a dance music venue in Armley, Leeds, on Saturday night.
Afterwards he is thought to have headed to a friend's house in Shipley. Officers were called at 9am on Sunday and Joe was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
The idea of the unique selling proposition (USP) isn't new; it's been around since the 1940s. But don't brush it off as being out of date. This is a relevant and powerful tool for today's marketing professional, CEO or Entrepreneur.
You are not the only person or company that does what you do. That's a problem, isn't it? Inevitably, there will be other talented capable companies in your market, claiming to deliver the exact same thing you provide. It does not matter whether or not these folks actually provide what they promise. It only matters that they create awareness. They create so much "noise" that unless you have a very distinctive "sound" yourself, no one will hear you over the crowd.
Your marketing efforts have to break through the noise; rising above the clamor. You have to literally toot your own horn and at the same time play a Pied Piper's tune. You have to find a way to create for your company a position in the market that is desirably distinctive. In order to do a better job of delivering your message, turn to a time-tested business axiom, and create a truly meaningful unique selling proposition.
A bold USP enables you to differentiate your company. With access to such a huge market via the Internet, it's more important than ever to differentiate. Your Unique Selling Proposition comes from within. Who are you? What makes your company unique? How can this be a direct benefit to your clients? Think of your own brand as a franchise.
When you think of Subway, you think sandwich; McDonalds and you think burgers. What do you want your prospects and customers to think when you or your company's name is mentioned?
Keep it simple. We can't expect prospects to remember too much. They already are overloaded with too much information! Make it easy for them to know what you do and to remember what you do and how it is unique from your competition. This is the power of a good USP!
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