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The big story in jazz in 2013 will be the Jan. 21 grand opening of San Francisco's SFJAZZ Center , a three-story, 35,000 square foot complex that may rival New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center as the nation's premier jazz venue.
The big story in jazz in 2012 in San Diego was the succession of jazz venues that opened, disappeared or were reborn at new locations, and annual events that moved forward or not at all.
The San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival celebrated its 33rd anniversary in Mission Valley, while the six-year-old Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival was sadly dormant this year, due to an apparent lack of funding.
After five years, Dizzy's left downtown's San Diego Wine & Culinary Center , and — after staging shows at Little Italy's Back Room@98 Bottles and McCrea Music Company in La Mesa — is now ensconced in its new home in Pacific Beach. To its credit, T he Back Room@98 Bottles is now hosting several jazz shows a month on its own.
Top trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos this fall began a Friday night piano trio series at the Westgate Hotel's Plaza Bar. One of the guests pianists was North Park's Geoffrey Keezer, who -- with singer Denise Donatelli --this month shared in his third Grammy Award nomination of the past three years.
In early December, the always in motion Castellanos moved his popular Wednesday night jam sessions from El Camino in Little Italy to North Park's new Seven Grand. The veteran trumpeter and band leader is now at work with San Diego Repertory Theater artistic director Sam Woodhouse and Culture Clash mainstay Ricardo Montoya on their "Federal Jazz Project" production, which debuts at the Rep in 2013.
Meanwhile, Fresh Sound — Bonnie Wright's cutting-edge improvisatory music series — was reborn at downtown's Space 4 Art, where she continues to showcase daring iconoclasts.
In the summer, a new series of mainstream and smooth-jazz concerts by national acts was launched in July at the Grand Del Mar.
Athenaeum jazz continues to thrive
Happily, the La Jolla Athenaeum's consistently superb jazz series stayed put for its 23rd consecutive season. So did the all-star Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium series, although that stellar venue this fall morphed into the Scripps Research Institute Auditorium (and began charging hefty rental fees, unlike the Neurosciences Institute, which made the auditorium available free to the Athenaeum and all other nonprofit arts groups).
Under any venue name, Athenaeum jazz program director Daniel Atkinson continued to do what he has done for the past three decades, booking some of the finest established and rising stars in the international jazz world to perform here.
Downtown's Anthology, which opened with a flourish in 2007, featured some major jazz acts among its eclectic pop offerings this year. But the recent news that Anthology will be dark for at least the first week of January, a month for which the venue's web site does not list a single concert, was met with understandable disappointment and some concern.
Also this month, just a few blocks away, 4th & B abruptly closed. While the 1,500-capacity venue focused on rock, hip-hop and EDM in recent years, concertgoers here still fondly recall 4th & B concerts by Ray Charles, Joe Henderson, the Kansas City All-Star Band, John Scofield and other luminaries.
Lowe, Wofford & White all thrive
On a far brighter note, San Diego-based guitar legend Mundell Lowe celebrated his 90th birthday in April. The following month saw him perform four concerts (three here, one at UCLA) in a single week.
In August, San Diego piano great Mike Wofford received the San Diego Music Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor came months after this constantly vital keyboard colossus and the quintet he leads with his equally talented wife, flutist Holly Hofmann, released "Turn Signal," one of 2012's standout albums,
Another superb pianist, North Park resident Geoffrey Keezer in December earned his fifth consecutive Grammy Award nomination since 2009. This time he's up for his work as the musical director on "Soul Shadows," the latest enticing album by Los Angeles singer Denise Donatelli.
It was also a fruitful year for fellow pianist Joshua White , who last year placed second in the 25th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.
The young El Cajon keyboard dynamo made his New York concert debut and performed locally and in Los Angeles with an array of different bands. Why he has not yet been signed to a record deal remains a mystery.
Farther afield, North County jazz piano virtuoso Chase Morrin , 19, last week made his concert debut at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' prestigious Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and the Henry Van Heusen Award.
Morrin, a graduate of Canyon Crest Academy, is currently enrolled at New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies Program and as a math and science major at Harvard University. A 2012 Yamaha Young Performing Artist, Morrin this year also received awards for jazz composition and jazz piano performance from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, as well as two more for arranging and composing from the Jazz Education Network and Downbeat magazine.
Morrin will, one hopes, return here when he's done with his schooling to pursue music full time. If so, he'll join a San Diego jazz community that includes fellow pianists White, Wofford, Milan Zlatkovich and Irving Flores, along with Castellanos, Lowe, San Diego music patriarch Daniel Jackson, saxophonists Charles McPherson, Anthony Ortega and David Borgo, guitarists Peter Sprague, Jaime Valle and Joey Carano, pianist/composer Anthony Davis, bassists Mark Dresser, Bertram Turetzky and Bob Magnusson, drummers Duncan Moore and Russell Bizzett, big band leader Ira B. Liss, pianist Rick Helzer, saxophonist Ian Tordella and an array of other notable artists who reside here.
Their presence ensures that, even without the national and international jazz stars who perform here each year, San Diego's jazz scene remains a potent and expanding one.
Favorite albums & concerts
Without further ado, here are my favorite jazz concerts and albums of the past year.
Favorite Jazz Concerts of 2012
Favorite Jazz Albums of 2012
Also highly recommended:
"Snakeoil," Tim Berne (ECM); "Duos III," Luciana Souza (Sunnyside); "1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project," Kurt Elling, (Concord Jazz); "90 Yrs.," Toots Thielemans European Quartet (Challenge Jazz); "Seeds from the Underground," Kenny Garrett (Mack Avenue)


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George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster
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Money Monster is several different movies rolled into one, all of them mediocre. It stars two of the biggest old school Movie Stars in the world, but only puts them on screen together for about eight minutes. It is directed by a celebrated actress-cum-filmmaker who cannot manage tension but who can frame the sh*t out of her stars. Full Story
First for Julia and Amal
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It's not only Amal Clooney's first time on the Cannes red steps, it's also the first time for Julia Roberts Full Story
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Amal's first Cannes
Amal and George Clooney have arrived in the South of France, ahead of the Cannes Film Festival opening tomorrow night. Full Story
George & Julia in the backseat
Gwen Stefani and James Corden. Carpool Karaoke. It's super cute, especially when James starts talking about the "truth". Full Story
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Money Monster is coming out next month. It'll be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. George Clooney is now starting to promote it with his 9th Esquire cover. And at the beginning of this interview, he's actually credited with the magazine's resurgence for the first time he was featured, in 1999. Full Story
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The Cannes Film Festival kicks off in a month with Woody Allen's Café Society starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg. It is expected that, one night later, it'll be Kristen's friend Jodie Foster Full Story
George Clooney and Josh Brolin in Hail, Caesar!
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After my review of The Choice, which I hated, I got a slew of "why do you even review movies if you hate everything" emails, including one from a person who suggested that I just "try and put a positive spin" on my reviews. Full Story
George Clooney's 25 minute proposal
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George Clooney broadcast his Venice wedding to Amal Clooney in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Hello!, and VOGUE. So, like, not exactly private. Now he's telling us via Ellen DeGeneres about how he proposed to Amal. It was 25 minutes long. At one point he uses the word "horrible". And at the end, because it took her so long to process that he was actually asking her to marry him, he had to tell her that he's 52 years old with a bad back and could she please answer? Normally when someone goes on a talk show, like, oh, say, Channing Tatum, and gives you all kinds of romantic details about his wife, by the end of the story, all the women in the audience are freaking out and crying and throwing themselves on the ground from all the longing. Full Story
Rihanna plays with George
Rihanna and George Clooney are on Ellen today. We'll get to him later. Right now, let's talk about her. And their game of Never Have I Ever. The video is below …and it's pretty cute. It's cute because whenever George claims he's never done something, usually sexual, she looks over him all like, whatever George, as IF you've never sent a nude selfie. Full Story
Are the Oscars "in crisis"?
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Exactly a week ago is when it all started. The Academy announced its Oscar nominees and #OscarsSoWhite has since dominated the conversation. You think Leo is pissed that the year he finally wins his Best Actor there might be an asterisk beside the achievement? Cheryl Boone Isaacs has already spoken out about her disappointment in the lack of diversity. Full Story

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On Jan. 3 four gifted vocal students in SUU's Department of Music took a second place victory in a competition sponsored by the National Opera Association at the organization's annual conference in Portland, Oregon. Alex Byers, Taliah Byers, Shaye Leavitt and Christina Meikle, accompanied by Sasha Bainson on the piano, impressed the panel of judges in the final round of the competition with their 10-minute scene from Gian Carlo Menotti's chamber opera "The Old Maid and the Thief. "
The opera was originally performed by SUU Opera in spring 2012. For the undergraduate division, the first round was a DVD submission of a 10-minute scene which was adjudicated by a separate panel of judges in fall 2012. After reviewing all 27 submissions, the SUU Opera scene was selected as one of the five scenes to be performed live in the conference competition.Professor Carol Ann Modesitt, SUU Director of Opera and Voice, said in a press release: "All of the other universities in the final round have considerably more students enrolled than Southern Utah University. Their enrollments ranged from 11,000 to 31,000 students. Two of the universities have Schools of Music instead of smaller Departments of Music. One of our students who competed told me that he felt that this competition was an excellent indication of the training and expertise of the faculty in the SUU Music Department. I am so proud of our students. They sang beautifully and represented SUU's mission, vision, and its commitment to excellence. The music department and the student senate provided monetary support to the students. This support is so vital in getting the university and its music department better known throughout the region and the nation."


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This article was published 1/9/2012 (1811 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Driving two of the most spectacular and scenic roads in the eastern United States takes time, but it's worth every minute.
One road is on a wilderness of sand banks -- connected by bridges and car ferries -- that runs down the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay along Cape Hatteras, a graveyard of shipping for centuries.
The other is through the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form part of the Appalachian range and extend northward from Tennessee almost to Washington, D.C.
My wife and I travelled both roads this year on a 13-day road trip that included sightseeing in Washington as well as stops at historic sites in Virginia and North Carolina, and four days of rest and relaxation in a beachfront condo in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
We went out of our way on the journey down to take the scenic route along the coast of Cape Hatteras. We made a detour on the way back to ride part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which connects the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee with Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, where the park's northern tip is less than an hour's drive from Washington.
For hour after hour on both roads, we drove through wilderness protected by the U.S. National Park Service.
On Cape Hatteras, the ocean is just a few steps away on either side of the road for much of the time. On the Blue Ridge, there are panoramic views of valleys far below.
You must not be in a hurry in either direction. There was little traffic when we made our trip, but there are spots every few minutes along both roads to pull over and admire the scenery.
Heading south, we spent about five hours driving along the Outer Banks of Cape Hatteras. Mostly there was no sign of human existence, although occasionally, we passed through a village of summer rental homes.
By the time we reached the first of two ferries on our route, it was late afternoon. We discovered we were too late to connect with the last trip that day on the second ferry -- so our decision where to spend the night was made for us. We found a nice motel near the ferry and enjoyed an excellent seafood dinner.
The following morning, we enjoyed a free, 40-minute ferry ride to the next island and then came one of the highlights of our trip: the ferry ride from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island. It takes about 2 1/2 hours and the total cost for car and passengers was US$15. The weather was perfect, sunny and not too hot. The occasional pelican flew powerfully past. We took in the views of islands and sand banks and dozed in the sun, carefree and sure that this was the way to travel.
Both ferries are operated by the North Carolina ferry system, which recommends reservations. We decided not to reserve because we were in no hurry and did not want to be tied to a schedule, but I recommend making reservations in the busy summer months.
Our northbound drive via the Blue Ridge Mountains was equally rewarding. It's called the Blue Ridge because of the blue haze that usually hangs over the mountains. The parkway runs along mountaintops the entire way from the Tennessee-North Carolina border to northern Virginia and consists of just one lane in each direction.
It was begun as a work project during the Great Depression and took more than 50 years to complete. At about 750 kilometres, it is the longest single planned road in the United States. It's possible to drive almost 1,000 kilometres of continuous parkway through forests and unspoiled mountain terrain, if you add the stretches at either end through Great Smoky and Shenandoah parks.
We joined the parkway near Winston-Salem, N.C., and took it as far as Charlottesville, Va., which is almost half its length. The speed limit is 45 miles per hour (or about 70 kilometres an hour) -- less on winding parts. My wife found it a bit scary, with nothing to stop us from plunging off the mountain if I swerved off the road, which is undulating as well as winding. For the first time I can remember, I repeatedly used the low-gear shift of our automatic car to slow us down and avoid wear on the brakes.
There are no services on the parkway, so we came down off the ridge to spend a night in a motel. Trucks are prohibited, and we met almost no traffic when we drove it in late spring. A park warden told us the busiest time is the fall, when the forests are a blaze of colour.
Usually it takes two days of 10-hour drives (plus rest stops) to travel by car between Ottawa and the South Carolina seaside resort of Myrtle Beach. We added about one full day's driving in each direction to take two of the most memorable drives in the world. In fact, those two scenic drives are what I shall remember most about our vacation, even though it was packed with enjoyable experiences.
We had started out in Washington, where we had timed our visit to coincide with the annual springtime Cherry Blossom Festival. As we strolled past the White House, a young person approached us and asked us if we'd like to see the gardens.
What a thrill! The White House is the most closely guarded place in the world, but, occasionally, the public is invited into the gardens. We joined hundreds of others strolling the grounds, including the Rose Garden outside the Oval Office.
The White House gardens are opened to the public only rarely, and without advance notice -- for security reasons. It is sometimes possible for the public to get a tour of the White House. Canadians must request a White House tour through the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
We also visited the National Gallery of Art, which is free and has one of the finest art collections in the world, and the privately owned Phillips Collection near historic Georgetown, which has Renoir's painting of a boating party on the Seine.
Mostly, we just soaked up the atmosphere, sightseeing, strolling the streets of Georgetown and visiting my favourite Washington pub and restaurant -- the Old Ebbitt Grill, on 15th Street, one block from the White House.
We stayed two nights in a Hyatt hotel in Washington's Virginia suburbs (cheaper than staying in Washington; easier access to the city than from the Maryland suburbs).
Then we headed for one of the most charming and historic places in the United States, just three hours from Washington -- Colonial Williamsburg, which was Virginia's capital at the time of the American Revolution in 1776.
We are enchanted every time we visit. A visit to Williamsburg is like stepping back in time by more than two centuries.
Over the past 80 years, Williamsburg has been restored and rebuilt -- at huge expense -- to the way it was at the time of the revolution. The restoration is due largely to the wealth of John D. Rocke feller Jr. and his family, who decided early on to make preservation and restoration of Williamsburg one of their largest philanthropic ventures.
Visitors are greeted by tradespeople in period dress, doing everyday jobs -- weaving, baking, making items to sell, driving the well-to-do about in horse-drawn carriages -- just as they did in the 18th century. In the evening, we visited a tavern, where singers and musicians in period costume entertained us.
We stayed in a modest motel outside the historic area, but had breakfast at the very grand Williamsburg Inn, where you step outside the front door and back into the 18th century. It's about $45 for two and worth the splurge. The Queen stayed at the inn when she visited in 2007 to mark the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first successful British colony in North America at nearby Jamestown.
From Williamsburg, we headed for Cape Hatteras -- with a stop at Kitty Hawk, near the northern end of the Outer Banks. There, we visited the site of the first powered flight in history by American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. The Wright brothers chose the site because of strong prevailing winds that they thought -- correctly -- would help get their primitive, heavier-than-air craft off the ground.
The Wright brothers monument is a towering stone memorial on a sandy hillock close to the spot where they made the historic flight (lasting 12 seconds) over sand dunes. More impressive, I found, was a full-sized sculpture, created to mark the 100th anniversary in 2003. The sculpture, at the foot of the hillock, depicts the aircraft with the Wright brothers and others present on Dec. 17, 1903.
After three days of driving and three days of sightseeing, we were ready for some rest and relaxation in Myrtle Beach, which we had never visited. In North Myrtle Beach, we found exactly what we wanted -- a studio condo on the beach called the Peppertree Ocean Club. It cost us a little less than US$100 a night, including taxes (but that was mid-April; I hear rates double in summer). I figure about half the cost is for the location: all we could see from our window were palm trees, the beach and the ocean. It was heavenly and relaxing.
After for four days and five nights on the beach, we started our return journey home via the Blue Ridge Parkway, even though it required a large detour west.
Partly we decided to go this route in order to visit the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, near Charlottesville, in Northern Virginia. Jefferson, who served as president and spent much of his life in politics, said he was happiest at the home he designed for himself on a mountaintop near the Blue Ridge.
In all, we covered about 4,500 kilometres on our road trip. People complain about the cost of gas, but car travel is still the cheapest way to go. We spent about US$325 on gas.
The total cost of our trip was a bit more than C$2,000, not bad for two people for almost two weeks' vacation. We found we could get reasonable accommodation for US$75 or less per night, and only came close to spending $100 a night for our beachfront condo in Myrtle Beach.
We kept costs down by having picnic lunches and buying food (and wine) in supermarkets for some evening meals. When we went out for dinner, we found we got excellent value in restaurant chains like Applebee's and Bob Evans.
When next we plan a road trip, it will be a challenge to find an itinerary that matches the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Outer Banks of Cape Hatteras.
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... Well, new to me in my town at least. As I stopped by the local Trader Joe's to pick up my dark yolk eggs, I met with a huge stack of these 18 pound bags of all natural hardwood charcoal briquettes at $6.99/bag. 100% hardwood, high heat, long burn, very low ash intrigued me. Some of you might be interested to know that this charcoal is made in Mexico. Here is a pic:
The reverse side of the bag describes the virtues of this charcoal as you can read for yourself. Interesting, yes?
I bet you would like to see a side-by-side comparison between one of these briquettes and a Kingsford. So here it is. See that it is significantly larger and heavier than a Kingsford. I also smelled the two. I discerned a subtle but more salty and sour aroma from the Kingsford, and a rather neutral unscented quality about the TJ's.
I'm excited to give this TJ's charcoal a tryout. I am hoping to come up with the strength to do some pizzas this weekend. Of course, I'll also be injecting some hickory smoke into the works. Meanwhile, may the Q be with you!


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Irene devastates Southeastern Bahamas
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Published: Aug 25, 2011
Irene devastated portions of the Southeastern Bahamas over the past 14 hours, leaving several islands flooded and homes damaged. But the category three hurricane also reportedly wiped 90 percent of the settlement of Lovely Bay, Acklins off of the map.
As Irene crept into the Bahamas it packed winds sustained at 90 miles per hour as a category 2 storm. However, as it progressed into the island of Inagua it grew into a category three – a major hurricane – and began to wreak havoc in the small settlements on the small island in the south.
Owner of a radio station in Exuma Dwight Hart said the island has shown signs of flooding and is experiencing an island-wide blackout.
He explained that Sandal Emerald Bay flew many of its guests out of the island prior to the storm, even as Exumians rushed to prepare themselves for the first storm in almost ten years that has threatened the entire Bahamas archipelago.
In clarence Town, Long island the roof of St Paul's Anglican church was torn off as the category three winds of Irene moved in.
And as the storm continues traverse the archipelago, meteorologist predict it could grow to a category four storm and then on to a category five as it moves out of the Bahamas.
According to the latest update by the National Weather Center the storm was located 150 miles outside of New Providence and had maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour.
As the intensifying storm approaches the Central and Northern Bahamas, island residents told the Nassau Guardian that it is now just a waiting game for them.
Marine Operator Stefan Newbold said fishermen in Spanish Wells have run their boats aground and tethered them with at least 120 ropes in some cases, to keep them safe.
Newbold said Spanish Wells residents are prepared for Irene, which he predicted would pass directly over the island in the next few hours.
"If it stays at its current speed, between eight and nine o'clock we should have the eye of the storm," he said.
Irene is predicted to be out of the Bahamas and the islands given the all clear by Friday.


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WORCESTERConcert Club presents Michael Bochmann and Michael Blackmore on violin and piano at the Huntingdon Hall on Sunday, January 26 and the 'Two Michaels' have given numerous recitals throughout England.
The concert starts at 3pm and tickets are £15 or £5 for students.
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Tre Trattoria chef shares secret of golden beets dish
Updated 9:30 pm, Friday, October 26, 2012
Dear Pat: I attended an anniversary celebration recently at Tre Trattoria in Alamo Heights. Among the many excellent antipasti we enjoyed was a platter of golden beets. Safe to say, I have never had a better beet dish — ever! Would chef Jason Dady be willing to share that recipe? I'd love to make them at home. Thank you.
Dear Chris: Executive chef of Tre Trattoria, Jason Dady, immersed himself in the traditions of true Italian cucina when he created the menu for his restaurant. His exceptional beet salad is among the many tempting appetizers, or antipasti, on his menu. In Italian markets, beets are sometimes found already roasted, ready to be taken home and used in antipasti, side dishes or salads.
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The antipasto course can be as effortless as a bowl of olives or as elaborate as the array of items offered at Tre. Dady serves vegetable-based items such as asparagus topped with earthy salsa rustica, legumes such as cannellini bean salad and whole-grain farro salad. His house-made ricotta and ultra-fresh pulled-to-order mozzarella turn up in various guises on the antipasti menu, along with cured meats including prosciutto di Parma and house-cured specialties. You could make a meal of Tre's antipasti, but you'd be wise to pace yourself.
The Roasted Golden Beets with Orange antipasto is stellar — tender, silken cubes of golden-hued beets and juicy segments of orange are quickly dressed with a simple herb-flecked vinaigrette. Roasting beets is the very best way to cook them. It concentrates their earthy sweetness, and though they take some time to roast, they don't require watching. The citrus note of the orange is the perfect foil for the sweet beets. You can roast the beets ahead if desired, so the final assembly takes very little time. Note that if the leafy beet tops are very fresh, you can cook them as well.
Tre Trattoria in Alamo Heights is at 4003 Broadway in the Boardwalk on Broadway shopping center. Tre Trattoria Downtown is at 401 S. Alamo St. in the Fairmont Hotel.
Pat Mozersky is a freelance writer for the Express-News. You can contact her at chefssecrets.pm@ gmail.com.


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I am a big fan of C.S. Lewis (C for Clive, S for Staples). When I read his books I tend to get the feeling that they were written for me personally. I suspect they were not, but I can't prove that. When my wife and I were thinking of names for our latest child, I tried to convince her that Clive Staples Throneburg was very sophisticated and commanded respect. She then commanded me to be quiet.
I have recently been reading Lewis' "Screwtape Letters." The book is a collection of letters written by a high-ranking demon to an underling. The underling has been assigned to a human and is working diligently to bring him into the Devil's fold. The letters reveal the strategies and tactics he employs to complete his assignment. It's a unique, and at times, amusing look at the struggle for our souls.
The thing that strikes me over and over as I read the book is its relevance in our modern time. At one point Lewis even comments on the media and the way they can distract and distort. He wrote the book 70 years ago! In one chapter the human subject finds a girlfriend, which we all know is an experience that can be soul-changing, for better or for worse. The demons discuss whether this is a positive development for them or a setback to their efforts. They conclude the new relationship is indeed a setback in part because the girl comes from a home "where there is only life and therefore all that is not music is silence." The head demon, Screwtape, speaks to the dangers of such a home and goes on to promote the various benefits of noise to their diabolical cause.
It is here I should mention that I can be susceptible to rash decisions based on perceived epiphanies. For example, I donated to Jon Huntsman's campaign this year after hearing him give a rational and reasonable speech to his supporters, and back in college I immediately asked a girl out after finding out she had watched the NHL Draft. I should sleep on things sometimes.
I read that chapter with the house of music and silence and immediately told my wife we should get rid of our television. We discussed it and decided to keep it, but with closer monitoring of how frequently we watch it. I agreed to this, largely because I secretly enjoy Chuggington and Doc McStuffins on the Disney channel, and because those shows keep my son entertained long enough for me to take a shower in the morning.
I think about Lewis' quote often. We turn on some Gungor or Rend Collective Experiment in the morning at our house while we eat breakfast now, and spend less of our evenings watching talking heads, laugh-track driven sitcoms, and (gulp) sports. It's not that talking heads, sitcoms or basketball games are inherently bad, but they are mostly just noise ... and noise distracts.
The real question, then, is what am I being distracted from. What are the things I should be doing or experiencing that have been neglected while the noise has kept my attention? My answers would be different from someone else's answers, but the point is that there is an answer to begin with.
Lewis describes a home "where there is only life and therefore all that is not music is silence." Sounds like a nice place to live, so the next time you come to my house you really only have two choices: Sing or shut it.
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AMD possibly looking to sell
They're saying they're not looking to sell the company outright, but I'm still frowning at the situation.
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Hmmm. I could go Intel/Geforce for my last gaming pc then. I#m not sure I'd trust AMD (or any company) under a new direction a new owner could point it. Seen too many businesses bought just for a slash and burn investment. "Last?" You say. Well, I'll probably go linux after that, as Win8 and the entire industry seems far to lost right now. So my next purchase should hold out for a long time (as this generation is already holding out over 5+ years).
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The state of AMD has been a problem for a while now. They're firing engineering staff, have nothing major coming up in the near future. Their PC level CPU lineup has fallen out of it's niche and the GPUs aren't really trashing NVidia right now. There's still room to recover, especially on the back of decent server hardware that's a good chunk of their revenue, but it better happen fast. We really can't afford to loose them.
I sure hope AMD doesn't close shop and instead finds some way to become again a significant player. If nothing else, because it's too early to take seriously into consideration a platform switch.
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Of course they're looking to sell. They've totally cratered, they already sold off their manufacturing, and that hasn't seemed to given them the breathing space to needed to get their tech competitive.
Intel own the CPU space, Nvidia have their ARM designs as a hedge, AMD looks isolated. There are rumors over next-gen console tech wins for AMD, but right now, the company does not look good.
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Dark times ahead for pc gamers should AMD go down the drain,the thought of intel and nvidia monopolies makes me shudder.
We've had a thread on the decline of AMD in the CPU sector, and I'll repeat what I said then - I won't lose sleep for a company that's putting out an inferior product. They can't compete, their CPUs aren't as good, they couldn't identify a niche, there's nothing really to lament here.
Their GPUs on the other hand... now that's a bit of a problem, but given how bad their drivers have been (particularly with new-release games) I'm not 100% certain that they've been doing a great job there either.
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AMD offer mobo/CPU packages which cost half what that costs and give somewhat more than half the performance (a cheap mobo+965 Phenom is a decent enough gaming platform for a little over £100ish)
They also offer consistently better value GPUs if you're not looking at high-end stuff - if your budget is under £150 (and a LOT of people's budget is in there) you get FAR FAR more from AMD than you would from nVidia (and have done for years)
Even if their stuff isn't brilliant - do you think Intel would have made the stuff they've made if they had no competition at all - of course they wouldn't have. They'd have made inferior kit which cost more money - and if AMD drop out of the CPU/GPU market that is EXACTLY what will happen.
Problem is, the PC market is already dangerously stagnant - people aren't upgrading/kit isn't getting cheaper (indeed a lot of things are actually increasing in price) - this could easily trigger a massive bubble to burst in the PC hardware market and a return to laptops which cost £600+ and gaming desktops which cost £1000+ for everyone.
I don't think anyone fancies that do they?
AMD have consistently been putting out CPUs that underperform in comparison to Intel CPUs, and sometimes the price difference isn't enough to excuse it. Hell Bulldozer was a major disappointment, Piledriver isn't much better. Really some of their older CPUs are the better pick, and that's not a good thing. You can argue about software not making proper use of so many cores etc but it's irrelevant if you buy the product today and it's useless.
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"Save up and get something which is better and lasts longer" is "man maths" and you're missing the possibility people don't NEED anything better. You're also missing the key point - that if AMD didn't offer these cheaper alternatives, Intels' stuff would be less-good and cost more...
Right now I can build a basic 'games capable' PC for £300ish using AMD bits - an i5-2500K/nVidia system may 'rock' but realistically it's going to be north of £500 (perhaps more if you're going to balance all the bits) and I might not have that extra £200+ - might not even want to spend that much on a PC - I might not even need the extra oomph.
My PC is a tool - I create things with it. Truth be told tho, I could do that on my £200 refurb laptop (which I only use for fixing stuff on-site and a bit of writing) so every penny I spend on my desktop has to be justified in some way and, frankly, it's not easy to do that (esp as my most demanding software tool is single threaded - I'd be better-off with a really BIG 1 core CPU!) :)
Example: Many people believe the current "stupidity pricing" of HDDs has nothing to do with Taiwanese floods/earthquakes etc. - it was simply the aftermath of 2 HDD makers being absorbed into another 2, removing competition in a trice. SSDs leapt in and, whilst cheaper, are taking chunks of money from people over-and-above their HDD budgets (e.g. it's "new" money).
Laptop sales are dropping too - people are switching to smartphones and iPads or just sticking with their old laptop which isn't really much worse than the new ones. The speed with which places like Asda completely revamped their range of laptops bang-on the Win8 release (W7 machines returned to warehouses the day before) shows how desperate they are to generate sales on these - and unless laptop sales do pickup, you can expect significant rises in the cost of those too (and I can remember when a decent laptop cost over £600 - it wasn't funny).
I can't actually believe you'd think stagnation is a good thing in a field like computing - without better hardware people can't make more demanding software and that's what we're all about here isn't it?
AMD not competing in the CPU or GPU marker is a disaster, frankly - it would be the end of Moores Law (if that's not ended already).
Important to remember that Intel used illegal tactics to destroy AMD slaes when AMD chips were the better alternative. AMD never got the increase in market share and their due rewards in the form a big profits from their work.
AMD could not beef up their R&D, and when Intel decided to squash them by devoting resources to x86 performace chip design, AMD couldn't fight back. it is a pretty good example of how a company that dominates a market can kill off competition with virtually no consequences.
Intel is run by immoral people who have no problem with breaking laws if it means more money, so if AMD leaves look for some real expensive stagnation in the desktop space.
Stagnation isn't a bad thing, but you haven't demonstrated how not having AMD making their (inferior) CPUs would cause stagnation. The demand for more processing power is driven by software demands, not competition from AMD because they're not putting up much of a fight as it is in the CPU sector. Software keeps getting more and more demanding, and hardware manufacturers have to meet that demand. Intel was largely unopposed in the 90s until AMD got their Athlon chip out. Did we stagnate in the 90s? Not if you listen to RPS posters - it was the golden age apparently.
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This is true. But that said I have to question why AMD decided to go off and release CPUs with lots of cores when their single-threaded performance was so terrible. It may be forward thinking, but software support is so limited that it's pointlessly crippling the system.
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If you can agree with the above, why would intel being the only chip maker for desktop computers not be a bad thing? Even the milquetoast competition from 2012 AMD is better than nothing.
Further, where is Intel spending their r&d money now? On power efficient chips & graphics. Why? because there is competition from ARM and Nvidia. The enthusiast desktop space is going to be ignored by Intel because there is no competition.
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Good enough on this context means you wouldn't see any benifit from going for anything more expensive...
Until the 2500k was released amd offered by far the best value for your money in gaming WITHOUT compromise.
A phenom II 955 BE was massive overkill for gaming until battlefield 3 was released, and even then it was and is enough to maintain good framerates.
A 3 core phenom II (which had the full cache amount and features of the 955BE, and is the single highest bang for buck cpu ever released) with unlocked multiplier and a matching motherboard with crossfire support and all the connections and ports you could need cost less than 200 euros combined in 2009.
These cpus overclocked extremely well to and beyond performance similar to a stock i7 920 (the point being, since you'll be drinking the 800x600 low settings benchmark Kool aid too vigorously to notice, that you could get more perfomance than you needed for gaming and then some for under 200 euros).
You could go comfortably go AMD from 2008-2011 and spend less than half than you would on an intel setup without sacrificing a single frame in games.
Amd offered stiff competition for intel in the market that mattered for gamers (not synthetic benchmark egos)
The i5-2500k is a fast, nicely overclocking, expensive cpu that is an attractive buy for those willing to spend more, but even today a phenom II is still a capable cpu that is a valid budget option.
Amd did not butcher their yield increasing mid range parts (e.g by locking the ability to overclock, or cutting cache) and they were able to compete in the gaming market (not in the photoshop/video editing one, but this is a gaming forum).
Hardware in 2009 was dirt cheap because both ati+nvidia and amd+intel were in HUGE price war over the midrange market. The value back then was amazing for gamers, 600 euros bought you a kickass high end gaming pc that chewed up all games at 60+ fps.
You've seen what happens once amd can't compete anymore (bulldozer) and when they choose not to compete (500 euro high end cards in 2012 vs 300 euro high end cards in 2009), prices go through the roof and value is impossible to find.
Either you don't understand how competition works, or you are desperately trying to justify buying an i7 for gaming (you're probably one of those people who bought a 600W psu while the rest of us who lived on planet earth were running a 180W gtx260 on a 400W psu) or you are just retarded.
i'm going to go with the intel fanboy Kool aid option since that is the least insulting one.
The games where my budget phenom II can't maintain a minimum framerate of over 60 fps can still be counted on one hand (ns2, bf3, sc2 ,gw2 -i5 2500k @4Ghz still drops to 20 fps in wvw btw , shit game is shit-), and while I'd like to get an ivy bridge or SB 2500k to get higher minimum framerates in those games, it's a poor value proposition when the entry price for that is 350 euros right now...
You may not want to hear it after spending so much money but even 4 years later these value range cpus are still good enough for gaming at 3-4x the framerate you'd get on consoles.
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edit: just for reference I run finicky's listed games (mostly high settings, a few medium) at about 40 FPS on a phenom II x4 paired with an HD6950. Total price of those two things was about $250 US. Probably less now. I don't think anything from Intel/Nvidia will compare without spending almost twice as much.
And Catalyst drivers have been flawless for years now. At least in the hundreds of games I play.
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A Core i3-3220 is as good for gaming as anything AMD sells.
On the other hand, for non-gaming workloads, AMD offers more bang for the buck than Intel. The FX 8350 slots in between the Core i7-3770k and Core i5-3570k in most multithreaded workloads.
I heard a rumor that Apple intends to develop their own chips for all their computers and mobile devices, owing to disappointment in rather high power consumption of intel chips. Is that possible Apple and AMD would shake hands?


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Really?SHOCKING that this guy has never been the same since being busted for PEDs.
He did get hurt, but he should be fully recovered from Tommy John by now. The guy just has terrible command and I would be surprised if that ever changes. I would love to be wrong, believe me. '
And it's not just about this game, so don't suggest this is some overreaction based on two innings. It's about everything I've seen out of this guy, save the one good season he had. Heck, he was so bad with the Rangers they had to send him all the way down to low-A to get himself straightened out. The guy is a head case and I will be surprised if he's ever consistently a good MLB pitcher. And we traded a flat out stud to get him. Depressing! (Just being honest here. I'm sure there are those that agree and disagree. That's fine. That's what message boards are for.)
The guy falls asleep on the mound all the time. Example: The double steal in the first inning when he was ignoring the runners. (Including one of the best base-stealers in the game in Bourn.) Then he balks the next inning. So, he even struggles with the small stuff. Good pitchers don't do stuff like that.
And youth can't be an excuse any longer. The guy is 28 years old. He's no spring chicken.
All that Blitz has said here has my full backing, FTR. I'm done with EV... to think some people still try to justify The Trade.
I'd rather listen to Kelch read the phone book than suffer through Thom Brennaman's attempt to make every instance on the field the most important event since the discovery of manned space flight. -westofyou
Was that a sarcastic claim of sarcasm? I'm lostNo, not really. It was sarcasm. Volquez has one good year (his only good year), then gets busted for PEDs ... and now he's struggling. Hmmm. Don't need to be a private investigator to figure out that one.
And a haircut wouldn't hurt! Haha.
BTW, on a serious note, did you miss it when Volquez struggled big time with command during his minor league days (and even to an extent during his one good year with the Reds)? You are being disingenuous pretending like the command issues only came after Tommy John. You don't really believe that, do you?
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A LEISURE development in the centre of Yeovil will boost the town and create more than 100 jobs, the construction firm Peveril Securities says.
Work on the new Premier Inn-anchored development on Middle Street started this month.
In addition to a new 80-bedroom Premier Inn and linked Beefeater Restaurant, the project will provide space for three more restaurant units.
Collectively, this represents a total of 17,000 sq ft of new restaurant space across the four restaurants and is expected to deliver a significant boost to the town's economy.
The Premier Inn and Beefeater Grill will create approximately 50 new jobs with the potential for a further 60 new jobs across the three additional restaurants.
The three restaurant units (10,000 sq ft) will be going onto the market in April looking to attract top name brands and quality occupiers.
The restaurant space available is flexible and the units can be adjusted to accommodate interest from occupiers from around 2,750 sq ft and upwards.
The site is the former Somerfield and YMCA building on Middle Street and located directly opposite Cineworld, MFA Bowling and Nuffield Health Club on the Yeo Leisure Park. It is also close to existing restaurants Pizza Hut and Frankie & Benny's so will create an even more vibrant restaurant and leisure scene in this part of town.
Ralph Jones, Managing Director of Peveril Securities, said: "This scheme will be the first major leisure development in the town since the Leisure Park opposite was built in 2002 which, given Yeovil's catchment population of around 125,000, is something of a surprise.
"We are therefore expecting strong interest in the restaurant units from some of the national restaurant chains as well as regional restaurant groups who know the potential for business in Yeovil and want to be part of an exciting town centre leisure scheme like this."
Richard Pearson, Acquisition Manager for Premier Inn, said: "We are delighted to be bringing a brand new Premier Inn and Beefeater Grill to Yeovil. Our investment, which exceeds £5 million, will provide our customers with another great location, create 50 new Premier Inn jobs and underpin this important leisure development for the town.
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The new Premier Inn and Beefeater Grill are – together with the new restaurant units – are expected to open at the start of 2015.


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Mean Betty on Madonna's Unapologetic Peep Show: Rebellious or Predictable?
Was Madonna's surprise peep show during last Thursday's concert really a surprise? Mean Betty investigates!
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Oh, kittens! Between Jersey Shore's Deena Cortese getting arrested for disorderly conduct, Lindsay Lohan crashing her car into the back of an 18-wheeler, and Lady Gaga giving herself a concussion during one of her concerts, Meanie almost missed this delightfully little tidbit of celebrity naughtiness! Of course she had to share in case you, too, missed the story. Feast your eyes on this, though be warned that it is most definitely NSFW:
Yes, kittens, this is Madonna. Yes, she still plays sold-out concerts. And yes, that was the entirety of her left breast you just saw. So: Thoughts on this perhaps not altogether unexpected event, kittens?
For the curious, here is the full story: Last Thursday night, darling Madge, who, at 53, is alternately praised and shunned for how toned she still manages to keep her body, put on quite the show in Istanbul, Turkey—though as you can see, no one realized exactly how much of a show it would be until it was over. During her rendition of her 1995 tune "Human Nature," the singer, in typical Madonna fashion, began turning her performance into a striptease. Off went the shirt… undone went the pants… and finally, out popped Lefty to say hello. The crowd, of course, went wild. Is this just Madonna being Madonna? Is she a rebel even now? Does she have any business revealing her northernmost ladybits in public? Or is this a sad and desperate bid to keep the spotlight on her as other, newer stars threaten to usurp her throne?
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Unlike Janet Jackson in the aftermath of the infamous Super Bowl incident, Miss Madge clearly has no intention of passing off her peep show as an accident. In some ways, this is perhaps admirable; as always, Madonna does what Madonna will do, and damn all the naysayers. But at the same time, Meanie somehow can't shake the feeling that Madge is no longer breaking the rules in order to shake things up; rather, she is breaking them for her own gain. And something about that just feels sort of… blah, rather than rebellious. Does it not, kittens?
Of course, it might also be argued that the only reason Madonna has ever broken the rules is for her own gain; such is the nature of superstardom. Her endgame, insofar as she has had one throughout her long and varied career, has always been to stay on top; consequently, perhaps Meanie shouldn't be as surprised at this blatantly gratuitous move.
Gasp! Kittens! Meanie has struck upon a contradiction in terms! If, as Meanie believes, we shouldn't be surprised when Madonna does something surprising, then this means that in attempting to remain unpredictable, she has somehow come right back around to predictability. Is Madonna therefore defeating her own purpose by pulling these sorts of stunts?
Perhaps Madonna should pretend that it's opposite day for a while. If we expect her to do things like this, then if she wishes to shock us once again, she must refrain from doing them. Surprise is created by setting up the expectation, then breaking it instead of delivering on it. If she learns this very lesson, Madonna could go so far as to create a whole new phase for her career. How fascinating would that be?
Clearly Meanie should be working as an image rehabilitator to the stars. Hollywood? Meanie's phone lines are open; feel free to call should you wish to employ her services! (Meanie is looking at you, Lindsay Lohan!)
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Flash Builder 4 (previously known as Flex Builder) and the open source Flex 4 Software Development Kit were released last week. This is a significant update that features over 70 new enhancements to the development environment and programming language. Some of the most notable enhancements for me are the new skinning architecture, enhanced data integration, and FXG support. I'm also very happy to learn the Adobe is continuing to offer Flash Builder for free to students, faculty, and for lab settings.
Flash Builder offers a great environment for student programmers to become familiar with classes, objects, methods, inheritance and other important concepts of object-oriented programming. Actionscript 3 is the programming language for Flash Builder. It is an ECMAScript based programming language that is similar enough to JavaScript that, I've found, most web programmers don't have much trouble getting up to speed with it. Flash Builder also makes a great learning environment for budding programmers because it uses the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is widely used for developing in other programming languages. By combining Actionscript 3 with the pre-built components available in Flash Builder, students can quickly get simple applications up and running which can motivate them to dig deeper and learn more.
Flash Builder is also a powerful tool for creating rich educational content. Here are just a few ideas where Flash Builder really shines in developing engaging content:
Interactive Data Visualization
Allowing students to see charts of complex datasets and allowing them to interact with those visual components can be a very effective learning activity. From a programming standpoint, binding datasets to charting components is incredibly easy and fun! Adobe has announced that the charting components are now free and available in the Flex SDK. We should see a lot more use of these great libraries in education!
Interactive Video and Audio
The Flash Platform has a great API for interacting with web video and audio. Combining text, images, with a video or audio stream can aid in learning new concepts. Being able to auto stop a video at a specific time, jumping to a specific point in a movie, using cue points to fire off events during a movie, or even applying advanced filters on a video are all possibilities inside the Flash Platform.
Flash Builder with Flash Media Server
Coupling Flash content with Flash Media Server can be a tremendous tool for language learning and performance analysis. Having the students listen and compare their recorded voice to a voice of an expert, or having them view their own performance in a video can be very effective.
I'm definitely excited about the release of Flash Builder 4 and the Flex 4 SDK. I think there are some great new enhancements in the update that can help developers in education. If you feel like I missed a home-run quality of Flash Builder in education, please add it to the comments below. I'm looking forward to seeing how these enhancements take the Flash Platform to the next level.


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Our Pups returned to the Target Center to take on the Nuggets Wednesday night, kicking off the Thanksgiving weekend! As an added bonus, the Timberwolves showcased their new "sleeve jersey" for the first time. They will wear these jerseys in 10 games over the course of the season, per the FSN broadcast.
Once again, no surprises or changes in the Wolves' starting five – Rubio, Martin, Brewer, Love, and Pekovic. The Nuggets opened the game with Ty Lawson, Randy Foye, Wilson Chandler, Kenneth Faried, and JJ Hickson.
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Wednesday night at Target Center was full of exciting plays and mounting comebacks, only to see the Wolves fall short in their efforts. The loss drops the team to 8-9 on the season and you can find the negativity all over Twitter. While a few numbers are below to prove it, the Pups desperately need to get more out of their bench. (You already know this) [Read more…]


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AFTER suffering defeat to first division runners-up Westbury United Reserves in this season's A&B and Knockout Cup finals, Joe Martin will be hoping that it will be third time lucky for his Lacock FC side on Friday evening when they take on Trowbridge Town Reserves at Westbury United's Meadow Lane ground in the final of the EJ Shanley & Son-sponsored Spring Cup.
Lacock, who were still in the hunt for an unprecedented four trophies when the match was first scheduled a fortnight ago, will arrive at Meadow Lane looking to salvage something from a campaign that has somewhat come off the rails in the last seven days.
Another defeat would be unbearable for the villagers who were confident that their trophy cabinet would be bulging, the Division Two winners cup being all that graces it before tonight's final.
The Spring Cup, which this season was open to teams from both Division Two and Three, went ahead despite the appalling weather conditions from December to early March which almost caused the league to abandon it.
Trowbridge Town's route to Meadow Lane saw them paired with the then third division leaders Holt in round one. Goals from Dan Barnett and Ben Winn earned the Bees a 2-1 win in the first leg tie. The second leg was more convincing as manager Dave Jenkins helped himself to a hat-trick and Barry Holloway added a single to give their side a 6-1 aggregate win.
Next up for Trowbridge were third division Polenez Westbury, who were expected to suffer a heavy loss in the quarter-final tie, but eventually lost out to goals from Dan Barnett who scored twice and Craig Neate once.
Town's semi-final opponents were local rivals Trowbridge Wanderers Reserves, who they had already beaten twice this season.
The match that was played at Stanley Park was a thriller which the Town eventually won 2-1 after falling behind to a Steve Jackson goal.
Zack Manna restored parity for the Town on the stroke of half time when he drove home direct from a free kick.
Keeper John Wiltshire kept the Bees in the tie with some fine stops before Kieren Mills netted their winner.
Lacock's route to the final was a easier one in comparison, the draw being kind to Martin's side in the first round as the villagers were handed a bye into the quarter-finals.
There they entertained third division United FC, who were lucky to get away with a 6-0 drubbing despite having two players sent off. Craig Burge and Adrian Webb scored two each with singles for Simon Gray and Darrin Moss making up the half dozen.
Westwood News stood in the way of a third cup final appearance of the season for Martin's side and although Lacock took an early lead through Jake Marshall's second-minute scrambled goal they were made to work hard for the 3-1 win.
Trowbridge are making their first cup final appearance since they beat Lavington to lift the Division Two Cup in 2007.
TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE ROUNDUP, STATS AND PICTURES IN THURSDAY'S GAZETTE & HERALD AND FRIDAY'S WILTSHIRE TIMES AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @gazsport and @WTSport


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The Oakland A's general manager defies conventional wisdom and outsmarts his competition when forced to reinvent his team with bargain players.-MA
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KERSHAW – The fifth-ranked Andrew Jackson Lady Volunteers are using a familiar formula to fuel their Class AA Upper State playoff run.
The usually noisy Lancaster High Lady Bruins' basketball locker room area was silent Thursday night, Feb. 20.
INDIAN LAND – Third-ranked Indian Land took control in the second quarter and cruised to a solid 76-44 win over Eau Claire of Columbia in the opening round of the Class AA Upper State boys basketball playoffs on Thursday, Feb. 20.
The Warriors, 18-4, held a 20-14 lead on the Shamrocks after the opening period, but they got rolling in the pivotal second quarter on the way to the 32-point win at the IL gym.
Sophomore guard Darnell Rogers, IL's top scorer, provided the spark, hitting 14 of his 24 points in the second period.
The sixth annual Gameday at Doomsday high school baseball jamboree is Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Lancaster High School baseball field.
The field includes varsity and junior varsity teams from the four county high schools, Andrew Jackson, Buford, Indian Land and host Lancaster.
The Indian Land High School wrestling team, coming off a strong showing in the Class AA Upper State duals tournament, leads the Lancaster County contingent to the Class AA Upper State individual tournament this weekend.
Lancaster High senior wrestler Quinshun "Bubba" Evans captured the school's first Region III-AAAA wrestling championship in over 10 years Feb. 1 at Fort Mill High.
PAGELAND – Andrew Jackson capped the Volunteers' regular-season in splendid fashion, a road hoops sweep of Region IV-AA rival Central of Pageland on Monday, Feb. 17.
The No. 5 Lady Vols rolled to complete a perfect region championship basketball season with a 72-42 win over the Lady Eagles.
The Region III-AAAA champion Lancaster Lady Bruins, with a solid second-half charge, put the finishing touches on a perfect region basketball campaign with a 59-51 win over South Pointe of Rock Hill on Monday, Feb. 17.
BUFORD – Strong finishes propelled Indian Land to a regular season-ending hoops sweep of Region IV-AA rival Buford on Monday, Feb. 17 in the BHS gym.
The Warriors completed the hardwood broom job with a 60-43 win to give the third-ranked IL boys a perfect finish in region play with a 10-0 record.
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This is a loaf of Maison Kayser's Pain d'épices ($5), outfitted in a simple glaze and sized for one. The crumb is much lighter and softer than the classic, but no less rich in flavors with all the warm winter notes of cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. I like to devour it by the thick slice with plenty of fresh, softly whipped cream on the side. Kayser also recently introduced a set of petit fours exclusive to NYC; keep your eyes out for the little tartlets in yuzu, chocolate, lemon meringue, and raspberry-almond.
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About Google's collection of 2009 Doodles.
Some of the birthdays celebrated with Doodles this year were: Dr. Seuss, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Charles Darwin, Jackson Pollock, Igor Stravinsky, Mary Cassatt, Samuel Morse, Michael Jackson, LL Zamenhof, E.C. Segar, Mahatma Gandhi, Confucius, H.G. Wells and more.
There were Doodles celebrating anniversary's for Tetris (25 Yrs), Galileo's First Telescope (400 yrs), Moon Landing (40 yrs), fall of the Berlin Wall (20 yrs), Sesame Street (40 yrs) & Wallace and Gromit (20 yrs).
Other Doodles:
- Google celebrate numbers? The Unix time of 1234567890 hit February 4th 2009.
- On January 19th Martin Luther King Day was celebrated.
- Nothing is too far out; crop circles had a Doodle on Sept 15.
My Top five Doodles from 2009:
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
March 2nd 2009
NPR: Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat' by Lynn Neary
Hans Christian Ørsted
August 14th 2009
National Geographic: Hans Christian Orsted: Who He Was, and Why You Owe Him by Ker Than
20th Anniversary of the Wallace and Gromit Characters
November 4th 2009
Wallace & Gromit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Wallace & Gromit!
Google Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street
November 10th 2009
Sesame Workshop: It's All New and Better Than Ever as Sesame Street turns 40!
inspired by the classic cartoon Peanuts.
November 26th 2009
Time: A Brief History of Peanuts by Megan Friedman
Very Best Google Logo Doodle Montage Ever
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Among the various new features in InDesign CS6, Grayscale Preview and Export should come in really handy to all print designers. For any print jobs that also need a grayscale output, you no longer need to maintain a separate file. You also don't need to send the full color PDF to the printer and cross your fingers that they'll do a proper conversion. This feature gives you proper control on your design, and reduces extra work for maintaining different layouts.
Grayscale Preview
Several Dot Gain profiles are available with InDesign CS6 that you can use to preview your layouts. Using this feature you can avoid maintaining different layouts for full-color and grayscale outputs.
- Use Proof Setup (View > Proof Setup) to specify grayscale proof options, and choose a Dot Gain or Gamma destination.
- After you've setup the proof, choose View > Proof Colors to toggle between grayscale and color output.
Export Grayscale PDF
When you export a grayscale PDF all page items, irrespective of their original color space, are converted to grayscale while exporting to PDF.
- Export document to PDF (Print)
- Click the Output tab in the PDF export options dialog box.
- From the Color Conversion list, choose Convert To Destination.
- Under Destination, choose a Dot Gain or Gray Gamma destination.
Have you tried out this feature yet? Let us know what you think. Do you think that you can use it for other workflows as well?
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Cramming for a test usually results in very short lived learning. After cramming, you can almost feel the material leaking out of your brain! This is because you have under-learned the topic and your mind has very little reinforcement of the facts.
Suppose that you study something just to the point where you can recall it without aid and let's say that this takes 1 hour. These facts have barely made it into your long-term memory. If you want to keep them there, you'll need reinforce them with a little over-learning. Aiming for at least 50% over-learning will give you a much better chance at recalling the facts correctly. 50% over-learning in this case would be an additional 30 minutes of study.
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Serg. Samuel Lape
Samuel Lape, born December 29, 1751, and baptized at Christ's Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Germantown, NY, on January 01, 1752, was sponsored by Samuel Schurtz and Anna Hagedorn. Samuel Schurtz was born December 1, 1731 at East Camp, Columbia, NY, the son of Valentin David Schurtz and Anna Catherine Müller (sister of Anna Margaretha Müller) of Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. Anna Hagedorn was the wife of Andreas Müller (brother of Anna Margaretha Müller).
Samuel Lape moved from Claverack, Columbia County, NY, to Greenbush (later named West Sand Lake), Rensselear County, NY, about 1770, marrying Anna Elizabeth Heidley, daughter of John and Anna Catherine Hideley, in Greenbush, NY, about 1772. John Heidley (Heidle, Hidley) immigrated to America in 1754, to Germantown, NY (East Camp), settling in Greenbush, Rensselaer, NY, just North of Aries' (Snyder's) Lake in 1769.
Samuel Lape and his twin brother, Thomas, served in the Albany County militia during the Revolution. Samuel served in the Revolutionary War from about 1777-1785 in at least two regiments, for which he was paid. Samuel Lape was a Sergeant in the Captain De Forest's Company, Captain Husted's Company, and Captain Fraist's Company, 6th Regiment (4th Rensselaerwyck Battalion), Henry K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment (Albany County), New York Militia and shows up on a list for the Land Bounty Rights as a member of the 6th Regiment, Albany County Militia (as Samuel Leap). He was paid as a soldier on January 14, 1785, £3.4.9 and on another date, £4.12.10. He was also on the payroll of Captain Cornelius Noble's Company, in Colonel Stephen Schuyler's Regiment of the Albany County Militia, August 11, 1777.
Henry Killian Van Rensselaer (1743 - 1816) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Albany County, NY Militia, Sixth Regiment and later advanced as General. "He was in several engagements, during which he uniformly discovered the greatest coolness and courage. In July 1777 he was attacked by a large body of the enemy at Fort Ann, but with an unequal force he resisted them with great obstinacy and success until he learned that Ticonderoga had been abandoned by our troops, when he brought his men off. On that occasion he received a wound from a musket shot, the effect of which he severely felt throughout the remainder of his life."
Samuel Lape did not file for a Revolutionary War pension, but his name does show up on the Sixth Regiment, Albany County Militia, Land Bounty Rights as Samuel Leap. The Sixth Regiment engaged in skirmishes with the Tories along the Mohawk River and the Hudson River, but were not engaged in any conventional battle. The Sixth Regiment, and other militias in the area, formed a core of protection for the Albany area that helped keep the British Army and the Loyalist Militias from establishing a base of operations there. If a base were to be established in Albany and in the Hudson River Valley as a whole, it would serve to cut the colonies in half. This would cut the New England colonies off from the rest of the colonies, greatly strengthening the British and Loyalist cause. The Sixth regiment did participate in the Seige of Fort Ticonderoga in July 1777.
Samuel Lape, Sr. moved to the "Upper Manor" of Rensselaerwyck, later to be known as West Sand Lake, Rensselaer, NY, in 1770. Although Samuel is believed to have lived at Greenbush (West Sand Lake) since 1770, the date of the lease is listed as August 22, 1791. He would have officially settled on the land in 1784, seven years before the "durable lease". It appears that Samuel may have lived with the John Hideley family between 1770-1784. Samuel would have been busy as a Revolutionary soldier during most of these years, and when not soldiering he probably worked for his father-in-law, John Hideley, especially during spring & fall harvest times. Samuel and his wife, Elizabeth Hideley, were also busy starting their family during these years.
Samuel Lape held a lease from Stephen Van Rensselaer for 222 acres. Samuel Lape's neighbors were the Charles Neer family, the Andreas Weatherwax family, the Laurence Weatherwax family, the John Feller family, the Johannes Kilmer family, the David Calkins family, the Jonas Kenter family, the Henrick Mueller family, the Edenent Campbell family, the John Strope family, and a little farther to the North, the John Hideley family. Like his father Andries Lape and his neighbors, Samuel Lape was a farmer.
Samuel and Elizabeth Lape were active members of Trinity Lutheran Church, West Sand Lake, NY. Originally known as the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rensselaerwyck & Greenbush, it became the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1825. The original church was located on the Glebe Farm, southwest of the present location in the village of West Sand Lake. Samuel Lape was a witness to the choosing by ballot of the following church officers on January 25, 1791: Barent Uhlein, Andreas Wederwax, and Andreas Miller. Samuel Lape gave an affidavit of the proceeding, dated March 15, 1790, and the certificate is recorded in Albany County, in Church Patents, Volume I, page 38.
The Samuel Lape homestead, built in 1797, was located in the Town of West Sand Lake, on Barnes Road, which is located south of the village of West Sand Lake, and which intersects County Route 150. In the late 19th Century, Barnes Road dead-ended at the Samuel Lape Farm and did not continue through to Parker Road and end at NYS Route 152 as it does today. Samuel Lape shows up on the first U.S. Census of 1790 in Rensselaerwyck.
Samuel Lape, Sr., and Elizabeth Lape last received communion together at Trinity Lutheran on July 8, 1799. Elizabeth Hideley Lape died on October 05, 1799, in West Sand Lake, NY; Samuel's father, Andries Lape, died on July 07, 1800, in Claverack, NY; and Samuel's mother, Anna Margaretha Muller Lape, died on October 05, 1804, in Claverack, NY. Samuel (Loeb) last received communion at Trinity Lutheran Church, West Sand Lake, on October 29, 1808, and we "engage and bind ourselves to pay the sums opposite to our names for the building of a new church on the old place where the church now stands", February 21, 1815: Samuel Loeb ($50.00) and Andrew Lape ($15). Samuel Lape was envisioning another adventurous journey.
Samuel Lape, Junior, the youngest of the eleven children of Samuel and Anna Hidley Lape, was born on April 12, 1796. Samuel Lape, Jr., served in the War of 1812. He served in Hardenburgh's Regiment, of the New York Militia, from September 10, 1813 to October 27, 1813. In the Spring of 1814 Samuel Lape, Junior, was unable to take an active role in manual labor due to a (possibly war-related) leg injury, but was able to ride a horse. As a mission, which he willfully accepted from his father, Samuel traveled northward in search of new land. When Samuel searched Saratoga County, he appraised the agricultural promise. He carried back to his father a discouraging report. His father then dispatched him westward to Schoharie County, New York, somewhat west and south of Cobleskill, near Summit Four Corners, in the hamlet of Lutheranville, NY. Samuel's destination was the home of one, Charles Neer, a Revolutionary War veteran and an uncle.
Charles Neer was the son of Barent Neer (and Anna Barbara Treber), and the grandson of Johann Karl Neher (and Anna Constantia Reickert), a founder and builder of the "Old Stone Church", in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY. Charles Neer married Catherine Hideley, a sister to Anna Elizabeth Hideley (wife of Samuel Lape, Sr.), and moved to Lutheranville, Schoharie County about 1795. Wallace C. Van Houten, the Schoharie County Historian and overseer of Vroman's Nose, of Middleburgh, NY, is a descendant of Mary Barbara Neer, daughter of Samuel Neer, and granddaughter of Charles Neer.
It happened that in Lutheranville, of the six Charles Neer children, there was one, Lany, who was comely, sixteen and single. Imagine the pleasure of Samuel Lape, Jr. returning on a long trip back to his father with news of available land, both "neer" and far. Also imagine how young love made him see charms in a country heavily wooded and far above the settled valleys.
Samuel Lape, Sr. moved to Lutheranville in 1814-1815, at age 63 years, with his son Samuel Lape, Junior, his son Andreas Lape, and a grandson Samuel Andreas Lape (also known as Samuel Lape, 2nd or III). Andreas Lape, born December 24, 1777, married Elizabeth Schauerman who died in 1815. Andreas Lape purchased 143 acres of land in Lutheranville, NY, at a cost of $750, on October 27, 1825, from Susan Ogden, Hannah Murray, and Mary Murray, of New York (K-235).
Samuel Lape, Sr., and family settled in Lutheranville, NY, upon a farm which he originally leased. The family lived in a log cabin near a spring and the present Lape homestead. Samuel was a self-supporting farmer and a God-fearing man. Samuel Lape, Sr., was a trustee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheranville, NY, where he served for the first two years of the church's foundation in 1822.
The Lutheran Church of Summit, Lutheranville, NY: "The edifice in which this society worships is at Lutheranville in the west part of the town, in the midst of an industrious and prosperous community. The organization was effected in 1823 through the labors of its first pastor, the worthy George Lintner. In 1836 the church building was erected and remodeled in 1858, and will seat three hundred and fifty. The first officers were from the Neer, Lape, Fredindal and Morrison families, the first settlers of the neighborhood. The pastors were as follows: Rev. George Lintner, P. G. Cole, --- Slimser, Nicholas Van Alstine, Benjamin Diefendorf, (eighteen years), Samuel Bruce, J. S. Paul, and S. W. Young."
Lutheranville, NY: "This hamlet was for a long term of years called 'Tar Hollow', We are assured by Jacob Wilcox and others, although we have no official proof of the fact, that a Deputy Sheriff by the name of Mr. Whittaker, during the anti-rent troubles of 1844 and 1845, was taken by the anti-rent settlers, while in the performance of official duties, in the collection of a debt, and treated to a good coat of tar and feathers. Our informants assure us, the tar and feathers were placed upon a stone-boat and taken to a convenient place, where the deputy was stripped of his clothing and besmeared with the tar, from head to foot, and then covered with feathers. We believe it was the only instance in the County, where such measures were taken and carried out. Since those exciting times, no place can be found, where more law-abiding citizens reside, than throughout this neighborhood."
Samuel Lape, Jr., married Lany Neer on November 16, 1817 in Lutheranville, NY. He purchased 144 acres of land at a cost of $720, on October 27, 1825, from Susan Ogden, Hannah Murray, and Mary Murray, of New York (H-106). Samuel Lape, Jr., also purchased sixty acres of land at a cost of $250, on November 13, 1828, from Lucads Elmondorf of Livingston, Ulster County, New York (K-237).
Samuel Lape, Sr., died on March 13, 1831, aged 80 years, his interment in the Lutheranville Church cemetery in an unmarked grave. He had finally reached his resting place.
If you love me then you will obey my command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you for ever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him; for He lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.
-John 14:16-18