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The 9-3 New York Knicks face off tonight against the newly minted 8-4 Brooklyn Nets. This matchup brings us the first Knicks-Nets matchup since the Nets uprooted from Chris Christie-territory and made the magnificent Barclays Center their new home arena. What makes this matchup fun is that both teams are good. This isn't Knicks-Nets of the recent past, where New York has won 6 of the last 7 meetings between the teams. Brooklyn poses a formidable opponent for the Knicks and actually match up quite well with them. Taking into consideration that the Knicks are floundering as of late and that the Nets are 6-1 at home, we should have a good game on our hands.
Brooklyn and New York are pretty evenly matched across the board. New York boasts the NBA's most efficient offense with a 111.5 offensive rating, while Brooklyn rates 6th at 104.4. Defensively, the Knicks and Nets are incredibly similar as they rate 17th and 19th respectively in defensive rating. Both teams play at incredibly slow paces and rank 28th (Knicks) and 29th (Nets) in that category.
Here is what to watch for:
- The Knicks defense. New York's defense has fallen off a cliff over the past week after starting off the season historically strong. They don't play pick and rolls well, they've been obliterated by quick guards and Tyson Chandler looks like he's running with cement blocks on his feet. So far this season, New York has allowed 0.79 points per possession to opposing pick and roll ball handler. 0.79 PPP ranks 15th in the league, according to Synergy. Brooklyn hasn't gotten great use out of pick and roll ball handlers, producing just 0.61 PPP (29th in the league). However, expect Deron Williams to be on his A-game tonight. Williams has not had a good season, shooting just 27.3% from downtown, but I expect him to shoot the ball well in this game. Recall how last season Williams buried the Knicks in a mirage of three pointers in the second Williams-Lin matchup. He'll come out fired up tonight. I worry about this because New York really has struggled in the pick and roll as of late. Other than Tyson Chandler, the Knicks don't do a whole lot of hedging in the pick and roll. Often times, they'll either go under the screen or switch, neither of which is a great strategy against Williams. Although he's had his struggles shooting this season, and really the last couple seasons, Williams can absolutely light it up when he's on. If I was coaching Brooklyn, I'd attack Carmelo Anthony in the pick and roll. Apart from 95 year old Kurt Thomas, Anthony is probably New York's worst defender in the pick and roll. He never hedges and is quite slow to recover and pressure ball handlers. Assuming Anthony is guarding Kris
KardashianHumphries, I'd attack the Knicks with a plethora of Williams/Humphries pick and rolls. The Knicks have allowed 1.08 PPP (23rd in the league) to opposing roll men. Williams' 0.8 PPP as the ball handler and Humphries 0.9 PPP as the roll man seem to indicate the Nets would have success running this. Williams can pop the three if New York goes under the screen and he's quick enough to get in the lane of he chooses to do so. Humphries is capable as the roll man, as the stats indicate. The wild card in all this is Tyson Chandler. So far this season, even with the Knicks rolling on defense, he has looked nothing like the defensive goliath we saw last season. Whether his banged up knee is giving him trouble or if he's still recovering from his lingering illnesses, Chandler has not been the same. There is a reason he won the DPOY award last season. Chandler does so much for the Knick defense. His help defense is invaluable to the success of New York's defense and he makes everybody on that defense better. Without his presence down low, teams have feasted on the Knicks in the paint as of late which really has been a big part of New York's defensive struggles. Chandler has to show up tonight.
- Pace. Both teams play similar paces, but I think it is more imperative for the Knicks to keep the game slow. The Knicks really have gotten in trouble the past week or so when teams have sped up the pace of the game. New York ranks in the bottom half of the league in defensive PPP allowed in transition and are a much better half court defense. Especially with guys like Deron Williams and Gerald Wallace who can get out on the break, the Knicks must keep the turnovers down and keep Brooklyn's transition breaks to a minimum. Speaking of turnovers…
- Turnovers! The Knicks need to steal the ball and they need to not turn the ball over. The Knicks lead the league in not turning the ball over, while Brooklyn is in the top 10. I believe the team that wins the turnover battle will win the game, as is the case a lot of the time. With their recent defensive struggles, the Knicks need to get as many offensive possessions they can while taking away as many as they can away from the Nets.
- The Knicks must keep Brooklyn off the offensive glass. Kris Humphries and Reggie Evans are guys that can each go for 8 offensive boards a piece on any given night. I don't worry about Lopez's rebounding prowess, simply because it doesn't really exist. I do worry about Humphries and Evans though. With an offensive rebounding rate of 30.36, the Nets rank 7th in the league in this category. Carmelo Anthony is going to have to work extra hard on the boards, as will Rasheed Wallace, because they'll likely be the guys boxing out Humphries and Evans. Marcus Camby, the league leader in total rebounding rate last year, needs to see minutes in this game. In his limited time on the floor, he has impressed me with his prowess as a technician on the boards. As a 50 year veteran, Camby has become excellent at boxing out and getting great position to keep his man away from the boards. Those skills could definitely be used tonight.
- Three point shooting. Brooklyn has done well this season to limit teams three point shooting. According to Hoopdata, Brooklyn rates out 11th in the league in opponents effective FG% from downtown. On the contrary, the Knicks rate out second to last in that same category. This should make for an interesting contrast tonight as the Knicks have been the second best three point shooting team in the league while Brooklyn has been one of the worst. Despite their struggles, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams can get hot and so I'm still worried about those guys. Ray Felton has to be aggressive tonight and create drive and kick opportunities for open shooters. Hopefully Novak's strong performance yesterday will be a sign of things to come and he'll break out of his slump. ESIII (Earl Smith III) has cooled off after his incredible shooting start so he may be due for a big game tonight.
- The Knicks have to keep their composure. It hasn't just been Carmelo Anthony, although he has been the poster boy for this, but New York has not been good at keeping their composure in the heat of battle. Whether it's the Orlando game, the Memphis game, or most recently the Houston game, the Knicks haven't handled adversity as well as they should. Anthony is tied for the league lead with 5 technical fouls. JR Smith and Rasheed Wallace each have two. We've seen Mike Woodson get T'd up before. If the game is close tonight, there will probably be a bad call or a series of bad plays that go against the Knicks. They can't lose their heads. Anthony cannot let his man run down the court for an open dunk while he complains to the official. Woodson has to keep his composure. Tyson Chandler can't be elbowing people in the neck and drawing flagrant fouls. ESIII can't be getting in fights. In what should be a slower paced game, a few points off technical or flagrant fouls could make the difference. Cooler heads must prevail for the Knicks tonight.
I'm not feeling great about tonight's game. The Knicks defense has really been poor lately, especially against teams with quick guards who can get to the rim. Deron Williams is one of the most talented point guards in the league and is capable for going for 45+ points any night. I expect Carmelo Anthony to continue his uber-efficient scoring tear, but I worry about his pick and roll defense. Brooklyn does match up well with the Knicks. Brook Lopez has the ability to pull Tyson Chandler out of the paint which could open up the offense for the Nets. The Knicks aren't a great rebounding team and Brooklyn has some really productive offensive rebounders in their rotation. Deron Williams and Joe Johnson should both play well tonight and on paper would have an offensive advantage over the Knicks backcourt of Felton and Kidd. However, the Knicks aren't a scrub team. If they can get Tyson Chandler back on track and keep Brooklyn out of the paint on pick and rolls, they should be okay on defense. Offensively, the Knicks must continue to move the ball and get open looks for their three point shooters. Anthony should have a great game tonight, continuing his tear of offensive efficiency. All in all, it should be a really good game and a good test for this Knicks ball club. They seem to be slowly falling back down to earth after their torrid start, but they could change that narrative with a dominant performance tonight.
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U.S. Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., introduced the Deter Cyber Theft Act to combat the theft of computer data from U.S. networks.
Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, said the government needs the tools to fight against outside agents trying to target U.S. businesses and innovation.
"Some foreign governments, businesses and state-owned enterprises are today using cyber espionage to steal American intellectual property and rob U.S. ingenuity and innovation in order to gain competitive advantage," McCain said.
A report this week from the U.S. Defense Department accused China of using computer-based espionage against U.S. interests. China, through its official Xinhua News Agency, said the allegations were baseless.
A February report from cybersecurity company Mandiant said cyberattacks on U.S. companies and government agencies were traced to the Chinese military.
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Hello, Back in May I posted a "back-sock" backend to the openldap-software list: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200505/msg00343.html I didn't get any response, but in retrospect, perhaps openldap-devel would have been more appropriate. Anyway, it's attached again. Is anyone interested in doing anything with this? Regards, Brian Candler.
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- User-agent: KMail/1.8I have put together a new backend, 'back-sock', based heavily on back-shell. I invite people to look, test, and comment; if feedback is positive I'll submit it as a patch via ITS. The patch to openldap-2.2.26 is at http://psg.com/~brian/software/openldap-backsock.diff.gz The intention behind this backend is to give something with the flexibility of back-perl and the simplicity of back-shell, but with high enough performance for real world applications rather than just prototypes. back-perl is throttled by being single-threaded: each entry into the perl interpreter is protected by a mutex call, so that only one request at a time can be handled. back-shell is worse as it forks a new child for each request, as well as not supporting threading. back-sock attempts to address this problem by passing requests down a unix-domain socket. You can then build a pool of worker processes (e.g. with Net::Server in perl) each of which handles one request at a time. A trivial sample is included as servers/slapd/back-sock/searchexample.pl The protocol sent down the socket is the same as back-shell, with the addition of a blank line to indicate the end of the request. The worker process reads the request, sends its response in back-shell format, then closes the socket. These worker processes should be persistent and can each hold open a persistent database handle, so you should get decent concurrency on applications which query a SQL database for example. Sample performance results on a 2.8GHz Pentium4 running FreeBSD 5.4: - searchexample.pl as the server backend - 10 client processes in perl using Net::LDAP each to send 100 requests - total real time to complete those 1000 requests: 7 seconds -- back-sock, fresh TCP connection opened for each query 5 seconds -- back-null, fresh TCP connection opened for each query 4 seconds -- back-sock, each client holds open a single connection 2 seconds -- back-null, each client holds open a single connection This is with the clients and server all running on the same machine. Unfortunately, I was once able to make openldap crash: Assertion failed: (!FD_ISSET( s, &slap_daemon.sd_actives)), function slapd_daemon_task, file daemon.c, line 1604. Abort trap (core dumped) This makes me suspect I'm doing something in a non-thread-safe way. Any advice here would be much appreciated. Missing bits: I haven't written a manpage. Also, I re-used LDAP_DEBUG_SHELL rather than defining a new debug flag for this module. See comments marked "FIXME" in the patch for other areas I think could be improved. Regards, Brian Candler. -------- P.S. here's the test client program used above #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Net::LDAP; my $uri = "ldap://localhost"; my $concurrency = 10; my $numhits = 100; # per process sub do_kid(); for (my $i = 0; $i < $concurrency; $i++) { my $pid = fork(); if ($pid == 0) { do_kid(); exit 0; } } for (my $i = 0; $i < $concurrency; $i++) { $pid = wait(); print STDERR "Child pid $pid terminated\n"; } exit 0; sub do_kid() { for (my $j =0; $j < $numhits; $j++) { my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($uri) or die "$@"; $mesg = $ldap->search( base=>'dc=example,dc=com', filter=>'(objectclass=*)' ); $mesg->code && die $mesg->error; #foreach $entry ($mesg->entries) { print STDERR $entry->dn,"\n"; } $ldap->unbind; } }
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Estádio Milton Corrêa, commonly knwn (sic) as Zerão (Big Zero, as in zero latitude) is a multi-purpose stadium in Macapá, Brazil. It's mostly used for football... In itself, it wouldn't be special, but its location brought it a lot of fame.
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Abraham Lincoln's role in the eradication of slavery in nineteenth-century America and the specifics of his views on racial equality have always attracted controversy. While some celebrate him as the "Great Emancipator," others consider him an antislavery moderate who found himself with little choice but to embrace emancipation to appease his abolitionist supporters.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, just five years before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln said he could accept the continuance of slavery for another one hundred years so long as the institution was on its way to extinction. Other comments in the same year suggest his opposition to equal rights for African-Americans. Yet only seven years later, just days before his death, he declared his support for citizenship of African-American men.
Such contradictory statements and actions seem to call for a reexamination of Lincoln's thoughts about slavery and an NEH-supported traveling exhibition, "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation," does precisely that.
The exhibition consists of reproductions of rare historical documents – from the collections of the Huntington Library in California and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York – which illuminate Lincoln's thoughts on slavery throughout his political career. The exhibit is organized by John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, and by the American Library Association's Public Programs Office, with grants from NEH and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
According to its curator, "Forever Free" tells the story of how "Lincoln, a gradualist who had rejected immediate abolition, became the president who abruptly abolished slavery." The exhibition suggests that the notion that Lincoln was a reluctant abolitionist is false; it argues, instead, that Lincoln purposefully concealed the depth of his commitment to ending slavery in order to negotiate a delicate political balance.
From that perspective, Lincoln needed the support of northerners with bitter prejudices against African-Americans. Thus, regardless of his personal beliefs, a president whose ultimate responsibility was the union of country could not ignore these prejudices. Rather than alienate his supporters, Lincoln quieted their fears by publicly supporting such notions as colonizing African-Americans in Liberia, while working steadily towards emancipation. Of course, advancing such notions won him little favor among his abolitionist and African-American followers; and it is this slippery slope of political strategy that the exhibit aims to highlight.
Six thematic sections make up the exhibition, with each section consisting of a panel running seventy-five feet in length and containing reproductions of rare historical documents, period photographs, and illustrative material. The sections are organized chronologically and begin with "Young Lincoln's America," which introduces visitors to the contradictory legacy of freedom and slavery present at the founding of the United States, followed by "The House Dividing," which covers Lincoln's political career up until his election as president in 1860.
The next section, "War for the Union," documents Lincoln's attempts to prevent secession and Civil War. It is followed by "A New Birth of Freedom," which examines Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The fifth section, "War for Union and Freedom," examines the role of African-American fighting men in the Civil War. The exhibition ends with an examination of the final months of the war and Lincoln's life in the section "Legacies."
"Forever Free" originally ran on a forty-library tour that ended in November 2006. Sixty-three libraries were selected to host a new tour which began in September 2006 and will end in October 2011. The exhibition is available for public viewing and there will be a number of accompanying educational programs and receptions. For a view of the new tour itinerary, click here.


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Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale (Atari ST)
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DescriptionThe small country town Skara Brae was enjoying a peaceful life, until an evil wizard known as Mangar the Dark appeared. Monsters have invaded the town, terrorizing its inhabitants. Mangar cast the spell of Eternal Winter on the surroundings, isolating Skara Brae from any possible help. Guards that were entrusted with the task of protecting the town have disappeared within one night. Only a party of brave adventurers can save Skara Brae and defeat Mangar.
The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing game similar to Wizardry games, with first-person exploration of pseudo-3D maze-like environments, and turn-based combat against randomly appearing enemies. Unlike early Wizardry installments, the town can be explored physically, and parts of the overworld are accessible as well. Several dungeons must be explored before the player can tackle the final quest.
Six character classes are available when the player is prompted to create a party of six adventurers in the beginning of the game: Bard, Hunter, Monk, Paladin, Rogue, Warrior, Magician, and Conjurer. The last two can be promoted when specific conditions are met during gameplay. The bard class plays a special role, possessing magical songs that improves the party's performance in combat and are required to solve some of the game's puzzles.
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- "Shadow Snare" -- Working title
- "バーズテイル" -- Japanese spelling
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- Bard's Tale series
- Fantasy Creatures: Dragons
- Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
- Fantasy Creatures: Elves
- Gameplay feature: Character development - Automatic leveling
- Gameplay feature: Importable characters
- Games made into books
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Critic Reviews
|Retro Archives
|Aug 15, 2018
|19 out of 20
|Power Play
|9 out of 10
|ST Action
|Mar, 1993
|86 out of 100
|Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft
|76 out of 100
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Feb, 1988
|65 out of 100
|Popular Computing Weekly
|Dec 10, 1987
|# Posts
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|Bard's Tale Song remakes
|Pieces of 8-bit
Jul 30, 2015
|What advntages does the Hunter class have?
|Game Guesser (28)
Feb 17, 2013
|Indra was here (20912)
Dec 07, 2010
1001 Video GamesThe Bard's Tale appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
BuildingsWhile most of the buildings are empty and exist only to increase the size of the map, entering the building directly across from the guild shows the game credits.
NovelsThough any direct connection to the game series, setting and characters is slight at best, an officially-licensed Bard's Tale series of novels eight strong (!) were published by Baen Books over a six-year period in the '90s:
- Castle of Deception (1992), by Mercedes Lackey and Josepha Sherman;
- Fortress of Frost and Fire (1993), by Mercedes Lackey and Ru Emerson;
- The Chaos Gate (1994), by Josepha Sherman;
- Prison of Souls (1994), by Mercedes Lackey and Mark Shepherd;
- Thunder of the Captains (1996), by Holly Lisle and Aaron Allston;
- Wrath of the Princes (1997), by Holly Lisle and Aaron Allston;
- Escape from Roksamur (1997), by Mark Shepherd; and
- Curse of the Black Heron (1998), by Holly Lisle.
- Michael Cranford, a devout Christian, put many Biblical references into the first two Bard's Tale games. Most notable are a reference to the crucifixion in the first game and the Holy Spirit in the second. In fact, Cranford ended his video game career with the second game in the series and now programs web sites for religious groups.
- One of the more powerful shields in the game, the Ybarra shield, is in fact named after Joe Ybarra, a producer at Electronics Arts, who was directly involved with The Bard's Tale.
Skara BraeThe original Skara Brae is a well-preserved Neolithic village located in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The four thousand year old settlement was buried by encroaching sand dunes and uncovered a century ago when a storm exposed parts of the structures. Today it is a well known tourist site and undoubtedly inspired Michael Cranford (Bard's Tale) and Richard Garriott (Ultima series).
NES versionIn the NES version, the post-death screen was removed, the word "kill" was avoided and all alcoholic beverages were replaced with non-alcoholic ones.
- Commodore Force
- December 1993 (Issue 13) – #88 "Readers' Top 100"
- Commodore Format
- November 1994 (Issue 50) – #29 The All-Time Top 50 C64 Games
- Computer Gaming World
- March 1988 (Issue #45) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- November 1996 (15th Anniversary issue) - #89 on the "150 Best Games of All Time" list
- GameSpy
- 2001 – #17 Top Game of All Time
- Happy Computer
- 1986 - Best Role Playing Game of the Year
- Issue 04/1987 - #2 Best Game in 1986 (Readers' Vote)
- Power Play
- 1987 - Best Atari ST Game '87
Related Web Sites
- Bard Songs (An online collection of Bard's Tale music transcribed to MIDI format. All from the PC versions of Bard's Tale.)
- BardsTaleOnline (The definitive Bard's Tale CRPG online resource for references, guides, downloads, documents and more)
- The Bard's Tale (1985) FAQs & Guides (on GameFAQs.com)
- The Bard's Tale Compendium (Very complete site with lots of information, hints, downloads for every game of the Bard's Tale series.)
- The Bard's Tale walkthrough - solution (Text full solution posted on The Spoiler Centre)
Belboz (6582) added Tales of the Unknown: Volume I - The Bard's Tale (Atari ST) on Jan 25, 2003
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Michael Cranford, Bing Gordon, © 1985 Electronic ArtsAuthor and Screen Photography:
Interplay ProductionsManual Illustrations by:
David Lowery (the great illustrator [for fantastic monster pictures, city buildings and dungeon walls]), Lawrence Holland (my buddy [for such great music]), Brian Fargo (the devious [for the treacherous design of Harkyn's Castle and Mangar's worst two levels]), Rebecca Ann Heineman (as Bill Heineman [for data compression routines that allowed me to pack so much graphics and animation]), and the following play-testers who helped this program be its very best:, Caren Edelstein, Jay Patel


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The English duo of Matt Briggs and Bob Cameron, Paraguay's Angel Franco and Australian David Merriman were the only players to break par on a fiendishly tough opening day at the De Vere Club PGA Seniors Championship.
The quartet all signed for rounds of 71 over the superb Hunting Course at De Vere Slaley Hall in Hexham, England, where a stiff breeze and cold temperatures made low scoring decidedly difficult.
Franco, the eternal bridesmaid, and Cameron set the early pace in the morning, and they were later joined on one under par by Merriman and Briggs, who would have held the outright lead were it not for a double bogey on his last hole. But Briggs, who earned his place in the field after coming through a qualifying event on Monday, refused to let that disappointing finish mar what was an otherwise flawless exhibition of golf.
He said: "At least I kept the bogeys off my card – it's just a shame I couldn't also keep the double bogeys off my card! But the ninth is a very tough hole, so I can't be too disappointed. And I got lucky with a couple of putts earlier in the round, so it probably evened itself out in the end. I just played sensible golf all day and didn't get ahead of myself, so it was nice to find a little bit of form because it's been a pretty disappointing season overall.
"Because of my category I'm often relying on withdrawals, so I don't normally know until the last minute if I'm in the tournament, which doesn't make for the best preparation. It also means I'm under more pressure to perform well when I do get into tournaments, which is maybe why I haven't shown my best form so far. But this round was definitely a step in the right direction."
Merriman is a more established figure on the Senior Tour, having finished inside the top 20 on the Order of Merit for the past two seasons. The man from Sydney already has two top ten finishes to his name so far this season, and could be on course for another after mixing three birdies with two bogeys in a measured display.
He said: "My short game last week was phenomenal, and today it was pretty solid again. Any time I missed the green I tended to miss it in the right place, so I was able to get up and down more often than not, and I holed a lot of five to six foot putts. The wind was pretty fierce for most of the day, so a round of 71 was pretty good going in the conditions."
Franco has seven runner-up finishes to his name in three seasons on the European Senior Tour, including a pair in the past two editions of this week's £250,000 event. But the 53 year old will be hoping to cure his "seconditis" after signing for a round of 71 which included a run of three successive birdies from the seventh hole.
Franco said: "I played very well today, because the conditions were tough. It was quite cold and very windy – I'm not used to this type of weather where I come from! The three birdies from the seventh hole warmed me up – I holed a long putt from 15 feet on the eighth, then hit my best tee shot of the day on the ninth to set up another birdie. So that was a good run, but the back nine wasn't quite as good. It was disappointing to finish with a bogey on the 18th but it's a difficult hole, so I can't really complain too much."
Likewise, Cameron was disinclined to complain after matching Franco's round of 71 courtesy of four birdies and three bogeys. The 58 year old made his gains in two quickfire bursts, picking up shots at the third, fourth, 14th and 15th holes to get his quest for a third Senior Tour title off to a solid start.
Cameron said: "I'm extremely pleased with a 71, because it's very windy and the pins were quite tough, so anything on or around par is a pretty good score. The highlight of the round was probably my par save on the second hole, which was especially important as I'd just bogeyed the first.
"I found the bunker off the tee and had to lay up short of the ditch with my second, but then hit a nice wedge to six feet and rolled in the putt. I felt pretty pleased with myself walking off the green and then went and birdied the next two holes, so that really turned things around for me. It was a bit of a struggle to get going first thing, but gradually my round got better along with the weather."
Amongst the ten strong group one shot back on level par are Scotland's Sandy Lyle, currently second on the Order of Merit, and England's Carl Mason, who recently broke Tommy Horton's record of Senior Tour victories.
Lyle notched two birdies and two bogeys on both nines, whilst Mason looked on course to continue his dominance until dropping three shots in his last five holes, with a bogey at the 14th and a double from the middle of the fairway at the 16th.
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Washington - An association of US Catholics has launched a petition to keep a retired Los Angeles cardinal mired in a paedophilia scandal from taking part in the conclave that will choose the next pope.
The group, Catholics United, is targeting Roger Mahony, who last month was relieved of all church administrative and public duties for mishandling abuse claims against dozens of priests, dating back to the 1980s.
"Cardinal Mahony: Stay Home," the online petition reads.
"Your further implication in the church sex abuse scandal and being barred from public ministry in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles should be an indication to you that you should not attend the next Papal Conclave."
Mahony was stripped of his duties by his successor, Archbishop Jose Gomez, who took over for him in 2011.
"If a Cardinal is stripped of public ministry in his diocese, why should he be rewarded with being allowed to vote for the next pope?" the group asked.
"Cardinal Mahony would further increase the scandal and shame in our Church by attending the Papal Conclave."
According to Catholics United, Gomez is in favor of Mahony's attending the conclave that will choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned unexpectedly last week.
Mahony, who is now 76, took part in the vote that chose Joseph Ratzinger as pontiff in 2005. He took the name Benedict XVI.
And Mahony is theoretically still a member of the conclave made up of 117 cardinals aged under 80 who will meet behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel until a new pope is chosen.
This month the Los Angeles archdiocese released files on over 100 clerics accused of sex abuse, as required under a 2007 lawsuit deal, after records were published showing Mahony discussing how to cover up alleged crimes.
In 2007 the archdiocese, then run by Mahony, reached a $660 million settlement with about 500 alleged victims. Under the deal, the archdiocese agreed to release the personnel files of clergy accused of abuse.
Records published by the Los Angeles Times on January 22 showed church leaders including Mahony discussing how to cover up priests' alleged crimes in California in the 1980s. - Sapa-AFP


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For everybody who is finding American coins in their change ! Keep your eyes open for expenses " Error Coins " in your change ! I live in the States, ( Michigan ) I find a lot of Canadian coins in our change over here, some of the Canadian coins have some good errors on them, ( I've posted some on the site ) and some have value to them ! Here's one of the American Error Coins I'm talking about. it's a 1776-1976-D, Bicentennial Quarter ! This Error is known as, DDO-001, this Error includes: Strong Spread LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, and ribbon ! Its value in AU-CONDITION is 800.00 Dollars,or so, so keep your eyes open for theses types of " Errors " Here's a link to this DDO-001 http://varietyvista.com/Variety%20Maste ... tm#_1976-D
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thanks rick i will keep my eyes open for this one,,
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i found this one its a nickel 1985 i think its die damage
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"While Mitt Romney has done 20 debates in the last year, [Obama] has not done one in four years, so there's a challenge in that regard."—Obama campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki, Sept. 17
"President Obama is the most gifted speaker in modern political history, so it is hard to imagine anyone outscoring him in debate points."—Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul, Sept. 20
"Mitt Romney I think has an advantage, because he's been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over the last year. He even bragged that he was declared the winner in 16 of those debates."—Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs, Sept. 23
"The president is obviously a very eloquent, gifted speaker—he'll do just fine. I've, you know, I've never been in a presidential debate like this and it will be a new experience."—Mitt Romney, Sept. 25
"Mitt Romney, in his experience in business, is extremely well-prepared for the process of fielding ideas on the fly and, you know, responding to them off the cuff. Whereas the President has, for the last four years, he's been—you know, sometimes the only voice in the room, and I don't know that he's faced an adversary as strong as Romney during daily briefings."—Obama campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki, Oct. 1, 6:45 p.m.
"President Obama inspired a nation just four years ago. You think he's lost that magic? Hell no. Mitt doesn't have that kind of charisma, he just doesn't."—Unnamed Romney consultant, Oct. 1, 8:51 p.m.
"Mitt Romney is one of our generation's greatest orators. He has an uncanny knack for presenting his policies in a completely concise and straightforward manner. On the other hand, I tend to ramble a bit. I never give a 30-second answer where a two-minute answer will do, and I never give a two-minute answer where a 5-minute lecture will do. I often don't focus on the issue at hand, preferring to dwell on the big picture, a real detriment in a debate-type environment, where people are looking to you for sharp delineations in policy—maybe because Americans as a people have been trained by years of sound bites to mistrust complexity. It's interesting to consider. Because my extemporaneous style of speaking is heavily dependent on digressions—that is, moments when, not unlike former president George H.W. Bush, an underrated leader if ever there was one, who helped usher America from the Cold War to the modern era."—Barack Obama, Oct. 2, 8:45 a.m.
"I've barely prepared for this debate. Gonna wing it! Ha ha!"—Mitt Romney, Oct. 2, 11:20 a.m.
"I love Barack, but he really tends to freeze up when a lot of people are watching him. He's shy."—Michelle Obama, Oct. 2, 2:15 p.m.
"Mr. Romney has many talents, but debating under the hot lights of TV isn't one of them. It's not widely known that he lacks sweat glands, and so can only dissipate heat from his body by panting, like a dog. Needless to say, this is a manageable condition under most circumstances, but aides disclosed that the campaign should have done a better job preparing the nation for the sight of the Republican candidate for president standing at the podium, his long tongue lolling like a basset hound's."—Ramesh Ponnuru, "Privately, Romney Campaign Worries About Onstage Panting," National Review online, posted Oct. 2, 9:18 p.m.
"This morning the president played basketball for three hours, then drank about a quart of Scotch. He just really threw it back. Right now he is wandering the West Wing pantsing all the Joint Chiefs he can find. We hope he'll be ready for the debate tonight, but who knows."—White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Oct. 3, 10:15 a.m.
"Look, English isn't even my native language. President Obama is going to—¿cómo se dice?—wipe me all over the floor?"—Mitt Romney, Oct. 3, 11:20 a.m.
"If I can get up there and not literally soil myself, honestly, that's a victory as far as I'm concerned."—Barack Obama, Oct. 3, 1:45 p.m.
"Who knows what'll happen! Maybe I'll just get up there on the podium and start talking about a wonderful man named Joseph Smith!"—Mitt Romney, Oct. 3, 3 p.m.
"Yeah, I know I have a debate tonight, but that movie Looper sounds awesome. It's at Gallery Place at 9:10. I got tickets online just in case. Might do that instead. It's gonna be a game-time decision."—Barack Obama, Oct. 3, 4:28 p.m.
"Mr. Romney has told us that he will not be at the debate tonight. I can confirm that he is skipping the debate. Not even showing up or making an appearance in any way. Nope."
[QUESTION: "Do you know where he'll be instead?"]
"Mr. Romney told me he'll probably be crying somewhere because of how Barack Obama is better at debating than him."—Romney afternoon press briefing with spokesperson Andrea Saul, Oct. 3, 4:50 p.m.
"Hello, I'm Jim Lehrer and welcome to the first presidential debate of the 2012 campaign. Unfortunately, neither candidate is here. In place of Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee has sent comedian Elayne Boosler. Meanwhile, at Governor Romney's podium, there is in fact a large honey-baked ham. We'll see you on October 11 for the second debate, which will focus on foreign and domestic policy. Good night."—Jim Lehrer, Oct. 3, 9:04 p.m.


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edd_jedi wrote:Not sure if you have a Rancor Keeper yet?
I don't have one in the library and I don't own one myself anymore either Edd so you really are teasing with this lol
edd_jedi wrote:Not sure if you have a Rancor Keeper yet?
edd_jedi wrote:This just came up on Facebook, apparently it's a legit combo Key Bee were selling stuck together
edd_jedi wrote:I just picked up this hybrid Hammerhead which also has a Kay Bee sticker:
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Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is a subtype of adenocarcinoma of the lung. The term BAC, however, has been replaced since it was found to comprise at least five different types of lung cancer with different clinical and molecular properties. It became clear that certain forms of BAC were not invasive tumors, and these have now been renamed adenocarcinoma in situ (a pre-cancerous condition), whereas other types of BAC were found to be more aggressive and associated with worse clinical outcomes (such as the now renamed micropapillary adenocarcinoma). In general, though, BACs were distinguished from other adenocarcinomas in that BACs generally did not exhibit an invasive growth pattern, and they could present either as a solitary lesion or as a multicentric process (multiple patches of tumor in the lung). Specific treatment depends on the subtype of BAC and the stage of the tumor, but stage-by-stage, management and prognosis overall are similar to other types of non-small cell lung cancer.


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i feel that little bit closer to the people of britain this week. one hour closer to be specific.
so the clocks in great britain have already moved back. those in new york have as yet not. so for a brief moment in time, the time difference is one hour shorter. for me, this has already led to several near-misses in terms of getting to conference call meeting on times. imagine what the economic impact could have been. ok, almost nothing. but is was at least an inconvenience.
one of the driving forces of modernisation is standardisation. it seems bizarre to me that we can't all get together and agree to end this absurd practice. but how exactly would we 'get together'? i assume that the UN has no ministry of international administrative detail. but maybe they should.
CORRECTION – their IS a UN body responsible for the standardization of measures, processes and protocols. They need to pull their fingers out (and improve their web presence…) http://www.unece.org/cefact/
ok, so i don't think everything should be internationally standardised. the defiant (and ironic) defence of the imperial system of measurement in america seems to be somewhat noble. the realignment of the side of the road on which people drive would have so many implications in physical rebuilding that i can accept that getting everyone to drive on the left hand side of the road is probably not practical. but some degree of further standardisation would seem to be in order.
like phone chargers for example. don't even get me started on phone chargers. or indeed power points generally. grr.
and this is just the international problem.what about some of the little things. today, i had to fill in my personal details in two different formats. within one office. why is there not an internationally recognised layout for forms, in which the basic details are listed in the same order. or, again even better, a single 'personal detail' sheet that can be taken to any new doctor's office, or tax office, or HR department, meaning that all these different office need to do is produce a form for the supplementary information required.
(or, even better, allow me to email or submit an online form. that would really work well).
but how are we ever going to get to that point when we can't even agree what order to list day/month/year. and agree that it's definitely NOT month first.
to rescue myself from the pedantic whine into which i seem to be descending, there is a serious point here. whether on a national or an international basis, all societies are constantly stretching themselves to innovate: commercially, militarily, ethically. but who is taking care of innovating the boring stuff? to use our time more efficiently, with less stress and trauma, to allow us to focus our creative juices on the big stuff?
for a perspective on this in business, see the excellent rory sutherland (via dave ibsen's rather good blog. but is anyone covering this for government? and what about on an international level?
btw – i now have some handy social media buttons below. if you like it, 'like' it. if you don't, then leave me a comment as to why…


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The Corporate IT Forum's Education and Skills Commission is warning against the government's plans to withdraw the ICT curriculum from schools. The public consultation on the proposal closed yesterday.
The Corporate IT Forum, the body that represents the largest corporate users of ICT in the UK, fears the removal of the curriculum - in response to critcism that it does not meet future employers' needs - will result in some schools providing virtually no ICT education at all for two school years.
The Open University also criticised the government's plans last month. There are fears many schools may axe ICT altogether as classes will not be assessed whilst a new ICT curriculum is devised.
"The gap between the best and worst ICT teaching in schools will open to an 'unacceptable level' if the plans go ahead," the Corporate IT Forum's Education and Skills Commission says.
The Commission is responding to the Department for Education's public consultation on proposals to "disapply" the current ICT curriculum.
The Commission is urging the government to keep the current programme of teaching in place until a new, "more challenging" computer science based curriculum is implemented in September 2014.
There had previously been widespread criticism from employers, the British Computer Society and major technology companies like Google that students were mainly being taught basic office productivity applications, rather than programming skills and the science behind ICT.
Commission chairman John Harris, chair of the Corporate IT Forum, and chief architect and head of IT strategy at global pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline, said: "We agree that the current ICT curriculum is failing to meet the needs of employers and should be improved as a matter of urgency. But we are very concerned that the absence of a programme of study or attainment targets for any period of time will severely disadvantage large groups of children."
He said this would be as a result of significant differences in standards between the schools that put in place good quality replacements and those that do the bare minimum or, "in the absence of guidance", nothing at all.
In other words, he said, "we strongly believe that something is better than nothing and while the school curriculum content needs to change to prepare young people for study in IT related subjects at university, there should be no disapplication ahead of substitution".
Harris pointed out there was already an ICT skills crisis. He said: "These proposals, if they go ahead, could widen the gap between the best and the worst ICT teaching in schools to an unacceptable level, and lead to even greater problems by 2020."
The Commission is calling for a curriculum to be introduced in consultation with universities and employers. It wants ICT teachers to have regularly refreshed study materials, placements for ICT teachers within technology companies, and the recruitment of expert teachers pooled across school groups.


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Family affair (Disco re-edit)
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Flying Lotus stares moodily from the cover of The Wire's October issue, his third eye caught in a blur as it materialises in the region of his right temple. A neat/corny camera trick by photographer Jake Walters, you might think. But either way it feels like an appropriate representation – after all, FlyLo is a producer-DJ whose ancestors were cosmic visionaries.
As interviewer Britt Brown points out, but as all you Generation Bass cadets will already know full well, FlyLo's great aunt was Alice Coltrane, that divine messenger who appeared to us in the guise of a jazz musician – although Britt doesn't go on to state the next obvious but still rather mindnumbing fact that this meant his great uncle would have been John Coltrane himself, had he lived long enough to anoint baby Steven Ellison's head once he'd come into the world in October 1983.
Another of FlyLo's great uncles (a blood relative rather than in-law – he was Alice's half-brother) was the somewhat lesser known Ernie Farrow, a double bassist who was another family fixture on Detroit's vibrant post-war jazz scene. He might not be up there in the pantheon of black music mystics alongside John and Alice, but in the late 50s Ernie was a core member of the group led by Yusef Lateef, who definitely is. Lateef was one of the first jazz musicians to reject his given identity (William Emanuel Hudddleston – a slave name if ever there was one) and convert to Islam. A multi-instrumentalist who introduced strange new instruments and scales to hard bop, he was a significant influence on John and Alice's emerging concept of Universal Consciousness. Great Uncle Ernie's basslines and rebab playing were core components of Lateef's late 50s/early 60s jazz-exotica albums such as Before Dawn, Jazz And The Sounds Of Nature, Prayer To The East and Eastern Sounds. These were records which mixed modal jazz and Hollywood kitsch with pan-Africanisms and proto-New Age spirituality in a way that ensured they would become foundation stones of the fusion aesthetic that would underpin much of the advanced black music to emerge in the subsequent two decades – which is to say the traditon which lends FlyLo's Web 2.0 cosmogrammatic beat science the kind of historical weight that is both real and deep but also mediated and synthetic, predicated on a very conscious process of fabrication.
FlyLo is an industry player too, of course – recording for Warp, pulling down all those headliner DJ slots, mentoring the next generation of downtempo beatnutz via his Brainfeeder label. And as Britt also points out, he has some family precedents for these rather more pragmatic aspects of his operation too.
Even closer on the bloodline than Alice or Ernie is their half-sister Marilyn McLeod, aka FlyLo's granny, who in the 1970s was a songwriter for Tamla Motown. And if Marilyn wasn't exactly a one-woman Holland-Dozier-Holland, a handful of her songs found their way into the repertoires of some of the label's headline acts, as both they and Motown attempted to adjust to the seismic changes in black R&B precipitated by the rise of disco.
(There's a nice family photo on the site of photographer Theo Jemison which has FlyLo holding up a copy of Great Aunty Alice's A Monastic Trio LP, while behind him granny sits playing an upright piano).
In his article, Britt singles out Marilyn's big moment, Diana Ross's recording of "Love Hangover", which was co-written in 1976 by Marilyn and regular collaborator Pam Sawyer. This was the track that reignited the solo career of Motown's hottest property by propelling her into the realm of the glitter ball (literally almost, as during the recording sessions producer Hal Davis rigged the studio with a glitter ball substitute in the form of a strobe light to get Ross the Boss, initially something of a reluctant disco diva, into the appropriate mood of hedonistic abandon). Despite being issued six years into the disco decade, by which time the music had established an irresistible style and momentum that was all its own, "Love Hangover" is one of those cuts whose structure carries a trace-echo of disco's debt to Bronx salsa: watch out for the vertiginous moment around 2:50 minutes in when dreamy bliss turns to urgent desire as the sickly-sweet sentiments and structure of the song suddenly shift into a mantric bass-drums coda that builds and builds but never peaks.
Four years before "Love Hangover" yoked itself to the disco juggernaut to hit serious paydirt, Marilyn co-wrote "Walk In The Night" for veteran R&B saxophonist Jnr Walker. This was a proto-disco-cum-Easy Listening instrumental phantasia that predated by a year the records most commonly cited as the ones that ushered in disco as a musical genre in its own right, namely The Temptations' "Law Of The Land" and Eddie Kendricks's "Girl You Need A Change Of Mind" (both also issued by Motown). As well as having a melody that was somehow both ethereal and indelible (a classic Easy Listening strategy), "Walk In The Night" had the kind of propulsive mid-tempo backbeat that would ensure it would become a Northern Soul staple.
The same year she wrote "Walk In The Night", another of Marilyn's compositions (this one co-written with Berry Gordy Jr himself no less) was given to Marvin Gaye, who recorded it in the fraught interregnum between the post-civil rights laments of What's Going On and the carnal entreaties of its eventual follow up Let's Get It On. "The World Is Rated X" was originally slated for inclusion on the abandoned You're The Man album and has had something of a peripatetic existence ever since (it was included on the Got To Give It Up anthology and the expanded edition of Let's Get it On). So it's one of the lesser known tracks from the most feted period of one of the most conflicted artists of all. But it's an amazing performance by the singer, in terms of the timing and the flow, and the way he invests the rather parochial protest lyric with urgent beseeching drama. As the track progresses the arrangement thickens to add the kind of epic backdrop of strings and horns that would become a disco archetype. You can still hear it all percolating away beneath the rebarbative drum programming and EQing on this typical mid-80s remix (the original is nowhere to be found on YouTube's increasingly compromised archive).
In 1979, Marylin finally got to record and sing one of her own songs, though not for Motown. "(I Don't Wanna Dance Tonight) I Got Love On My Mind" was originally released as a Fantasy 12". The A side was reissued earlier this year on the American Hot volume of the Disco Discharge series. But whatever her talents, Marilyn was no Loleatta Holloway, and it's the instrumental B side that you need, a 144 bpm disco flyer in the style of Azymuth's "Jazz Carnival". The track has never been reissued, and its 'record spinning on a turntable' YouTube post has been wiped from the archive by the copyright lawyers (although you can hear it here courtesy of the Disco Delivery blog). Which is a double disservice, because while such posts are vilified by the record industry as pure piracy, their comments pages can serve as channels for the dissemination of some illuminating local history.
As an example, on that now deleted YouTube post someone called Charles had commented: "I had the pleasure of working with [Marilyn] on my group's first album Rare Gems Odyssey." This turns out to be Charles E Givings, an LA session drummer who, in the mid-70s, worked regularly with Marilyn when she was demoing her songs for Motown (the organisation relocated from Detroit to LA in the early 70s taking Marilyn with it – which I guess might be the reason FlyLo grew up in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley rather than inner city Detroit: what would his tracks have sounded like if Motown and granny had stayed put, I wonder?). The record Charles is referring to is the 1977 debut by his fabulously obscure Cali-funk troupe Rare Gems Odyssey. The album, which contained a number of Marilyn McLeod writing credits, disappeared without trace (although it seems the group is still a going concern). But a decade after its release, two of its tracks had a brief second life in the UK's Rare Groove underground, one of the incubator club scenes for the generation of Brit-hop producers and label runners who would emerge in the 90s to help define the jazzy downtempo loops 'n' beats aesthetic that would become one of the (unacknowledged) templates for FlyLo's jazzy downtempo hiphop-electronica fusions (if FlyLo doesn't owe props to Mo'Wax, then my name's James Lavelle).
Fast forward two decades to 1998, when time folded in on itself, and Marilyn and Pam Sawyer got paid twice over, by writing the cookie cutter R&B of Monica's "The First Night", which pivoted on a sample of "Long Hangover" (cute).
"The First Night" is one of those tracks which became a YouTube meme, generating multiple webcam karoake versions. I'm not saying it pre-echoes FlyLo's own cyber-soul productions with Erykah Badu on the new Until The Quiet Comes album, but I can't help flashing on one serendipitous correspondence. In his interview with Britt, FlyLo refers to the album as "a children's record, a record for kids to dream to". Meanwhile, one of the comments on that YouTube post states: "My mum used to sing this to me as a Lullaby... and I'm planning to do the same for my kids."
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Well the big day has finally arrived and the ceremony just finished and Prince William is walking his bride down the aisle as I post this. I am not the blogging blow-by-blow sort, but I can tell you I enjoyed every moment and the modern simplicity of the touches and service. I woke up at 5:00 am to see Prince William's arrival and Lily woke up just in time to see the Duchess leave the hotel. My littlest one woke up just after the vows were spoken. I will remember this morning, just like I remember getting up to watch the weddings as a kid.
Giveaway: today, Canada Post releases its official Royal Wedding stamp today. I have pre-ordered an extra keepsake kit scheduled to arrive next week - thinking that maybe someone who reads this little blog might like to win one. If you would like to win it, leave a comment on this post and how to reach you. I will pick a winner on Tuesday (open to any reader with a mailing address).
So, I have spent the last four weeks or so creating projects so that my girls would remember this moment in time. I have wanted to include a couple of boy-related projects to round everything out!
My sewing pal created this awesome Union Jack pillow for her sons using licensed Mickey fabric and red polka dots. The finished pillow is 13 X 21 inches.
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I worked backwards knowing that I wanted a quilt block that measured 13" x 21" (based on the pillow form size). I approached the project in stages. I first pieced together three long strips of white and red and white fabric, and cut it into 4 equal lengths. I then attached the triangles. I probably should have paid more attention to the angles at which I attached the strips to the triangles. I first tried measuring and cutting a triangle and sewing it to the red and white 'band'. That produced not so great results, so then I cut a big rectangle, sewed the strip to the rectangle, and cut off the excess. This method wastes a lot of fabric, but saved me some time (or so I think). A seasoned quilter probably has a tried and true method for sewing triangles; I clearly don't. Once the four 'quadrants' were assembled, the rest of the block fell into place. There were a few nervous moments when I went to attach the left side to the right side; luckily all the seams aligned. I probably would have abandoned the project altogether had the seams not lined up at this point. I quilted the block, and finally inserted a zipper.
I am somewhat pleased in the result, although a little disappointed in how two of the quadrants turned out (or didn't). Perhaps when Lily's Quilts' union jack block tutorial becomes available in June, all secrets will be revealed and I may toy with the idea of making a pillow for my older son. Until then, I will be making other things.
and I made this little Union Jack fabric bow tie (clip on) for my nephew.
Between my pal and I, much research has between my pal and I has gone into Union Jack Quilt Blocks, I thought I would share the links here:
Lily Blossom's Pillow pattern (not pieced - I posted about it here)
Shabby chic union jack over at Hayley makes it
Freezer paper stencilled over at Junkin Junky
Lily's quilts is full of inspiration, just start here
There is a free paper piecing pattern at Just Sew and here
Free tutorial over at the Giantess (not pieced)
Free tutorial over at Blu Babes Creates (not pieced)
Lady Sew and Sew has a free Red Rose Union Jack Quilt Pattern
Amy over at Diary of a Quilter's work using the Victory Garden pattern is mind blowing
I was just perusing my pal's copy of the May 2011 issue of the UK's Homestyle Sewing Magazine and there are three wonderful Union Jack projects (a pillow, tea cozy, and luggage tag)
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I know that a programming board composed mostly of 16 year old nerds in their parents' basements isn't the best place to discuss this, but I know there are some people around that can get involved in this.
I used to go the gym pretty frequently and be in reasonably good shape, but I've gotten lazy in the last couple years. Lack of time, having a girlfriend and relaxing, or being generally lazy can be blamed for this. Since I don't possess the first 2 anymore, I've decided it's time for me to get my fat ass in gear. My apartment complex has a free gym, after all.
So what do you guys do?
Today I alternated between a few sets each of preacher curls, pull downs (I think they're for lats? Where you bring the shoulder width bar down to your chest), inclined press, and tricep pulls. Between each of these, I did a couple minutes on the exercise bike. Afterwards, I ran about a mile or so. The whole thing only took me a little more than a half hour, but I kinda want to ease into it and not hurt myself. I'll probably figure out more stuff to do tomorrow, since the gym's got a pretty good sized machine with most of the stuff I remember doing.


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Lipscomb's Bisons soccer team did something the men's soccer team had not done since Oct. 19, 2003. They won a soccer game on their home field.
In the season opener for both teams the Bisons, under new head coach Charles Morrow, came rallied for a 3-2 victory over Trevecca Nazarene Thursday night. Lipscomb sophomore midfielder Kevin Terry scored the game-winning goal with 3:34 left to play.
The Bisons did not win a soccer game last season. Their last victory was a 3-2 win Atlantic Sun Conference win over Florida Atlantic on Oct. 23, 2003 in Boca Raton, Fla. The last home victory was Oct. 19, a 1-0 defeat of A-Sun foe Jacksonville.
Trevecca jumped out to the lead at 11:59 of the first half when midfielder Mark Foster scored on a penalty kick, the first of two goals for him. Lipscomb forward Ben Page answered with a header off a pass from midfielder Zander Vooys at 29:15.
With 31 seconds left in the first half the Bisons took their first lead of the game on a goal by Jorge Suarez, who was assisted by Page on the play.
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With the "Harry Potter" series finally wrapping, star Daniel Radcliffe has his sights set on a more musical career – one that includes his Broadway musical debut and even possibly "Glee."
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SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (UNN) – As millions of American's sit back and digest hundreds of thousands of pounds of triptafan laced turkey, Mrs. Edwin Standish of Shaker Heights, Ohio instead chose to relax with a copy of the newest edition of the Society of Colonial Dames Magazine in the Wintergarden room at her tasteful, yet quiet home east of Cleveland, Ohio.
"Overall I would say that this has been a pleasant day. The weather was lovely given the time of year, and the food was suitable for the holiday at hand," commented the wife of retired investment banker (and descendent of Mayflower guardian Miles Standish) Edwin Standish.
The family, which chooses to dine at the Shaker Heights Country Club instead of eating their Thanksgiving meal at their residence, welcomed their children Robert, Paige, Melissa and their respective families for the meal.
"Our son Charles, who is referred to as 'Chip' (as in 'chip' off the old block by his old man) also joined the family while taking a break from his doctoral studies in biomedical engineering from Harvard University," added Mr. Standish in a written statement prepared and read by his wife.
"With the exception of the surprise arrival of our son Bruce and his friend Master John, all went according to plan," stated Mrs. Standish. "Thankfully the Club was able to find seating for Bruce at the Teen Table; Master John made quite a splash at the Matron's Table.""
The family was seated promptly at 12:30PM (with Bruce and his surprise visitor arriving at 12:31PM) in the formal dining room at a table with a "splendid view of the course, and dined on watercress salad, crème of cauliflower bisque, roast turkey, baked potato, green bean almandine and cranberry relish. For desert, in lieu of the traditional pumpkin pie, the country club pastry chief offered the family a variety of desserts including pumpkin mousse topped with royal jelly infused whipped crème; Pecan tort, featuring tender sweet coconut flakes collected by Hawaiian virgins; or Jell-O jewels in the festive shapes of the Mayflower, a turkey and Squanto for the children.
"Those Jell-O jewels bring back all sorts to terrific memories," commented Bill Standish, the rakishly good looking eldest son.
Topics of conversation included the golf course redesign, daughter Melissa Standish Dalrymple's big news that another grandchild is on the way for Mr. and Mrs. Standish, and the effective use of black leather and chains on Master John's person. Only one sour note was struck when Paige Standish-Creighton spotted her sister-in-law Mrs. Robert Standish in the ladies room stuffing sealed toilet cake-odorizers into her purse. "I felt that it was best to pass Consuelo a small note informing her that I was aware that an instance of indiscretion on her part had occurred. Had I brought it up at the table it just would have resulted in a very unpleasant situation."
Afterward the men (including Master John) separated from the woman to enjoy a cigar in the Men's Grille, and the women retired to the Ladies Day Room to chat about whatever it is that polite women chat about. For the children, crafts were provided in the country club sub-basement, while son Bruce split off from the group to rekindle his friendship with Club Tennis pro Sven Svenson in the men's sauna.
At 4PM (EST) the family reconvened in the Hunt Room for their official Christmas greeting photograph. At 4:05, the family then visited the cloak room, and then the party moved to the Valet Waiting Lounge where they bantered in unscripted conversation and waited until each family member's car was brought for their departure.
Following a superficial kiss on each cheek or a manly slap on the back, the children and grandchildren left for their respective hotels and Mr. & Mrs. Standish returned to their home to call Mrs. Standish's mother who has been bedridden since 1950. "She really is a remarkable woman and knowing her has been very fulfilling," comment Mrs. Standish.
"It is pleasant memories such as this which will fortify both Edwin and I in the coming months," reflected Mrs. Standish. "In other countries other traditions such as head hunting or the overthrow of legitimate monarchies are followed, however we find that our approach to Thanksgiving just work best for us."
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5 minutes
(trying to find the reason why one would give a 5 minute test instead of a 30 minutes interview; it's elementary Sherlock: your gut feeling doesn't need more than 30 seconds to make that first impression, all the remaining time is spent thereafter reinforcing the initial feeling and/or ignoring later feedback)
Now that we have framed the problem, lets look into the smaller details.
Humans are not adapting, otherwise we would have grown wings or keyboards; a successful product needs to blend in, be transparent - like water or air. Recruiting had always relied on messaging (letter, email, voice) to reach the parties, so maybe pouring some "water" on top of this old medium would prove to be a good start.
If you want to hire someone, (s)he must be well above average*. Yes, there's good money to be made by hiring, selling/to idiots, but life is too short. "If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners!" (and pass losers to your enemies, they are in desperate need of it).
A 5 minute test is not guaranteed to work, but would skim the "milk" quite nicely.
In the grand picture of things, you always want to "delegate" the recruitment to someone else, someone who knows "a good guy/girl", someone who could recommend someone, you get the picture. Why not "delegate" it to a bot? At least it is impartial.
The world is becoming more connected. You have hundreds of "connections" that could recommend you hundreds of good matches. Do you really have time to veto/scan them all?
* in a startup you would need to hire people better than you. always.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
bits of wisdom
A biology teacher once said:
if you want to see how your wife will look after years, take a look at her motherI am saying:
if you want to see yourself after many years, take a look at your grandparents
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Friday, July 20, 2012
alpha and omega
When you thought it cannot go any worse, you'll see that it can actually go... way beyond.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
to TRIM or not to TRIM
If your freshly minted SSD drive starts eating free space without much reason, it must be the missing TRIM support. At least for Apple's Lion it's likely that your hack was overwritten by the latest (April 2012) OSX updates. Redo will do you only good :-)
Monday, December 26, 2011
the coming back
Unfortunately not much happening on this front for the last year or so, life has a talent of kicking you in a lower/higher gear every now and then. Luckily, I still get more ideas that I can chew at one time, so expect to see them floating again here.
Now I wish I had some Siri with me, maybe next time...
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I'm not dead. I know I've been MIA but packing and moving in 3 weeks is not an easy thing. We finally have closed out the old house and turned in the keys this morning.
Our apartment is working out well. It's crowded with boxes right now but it's slowly coming together. Just have to put in the time to make it perfect. Not to mention the storage, or lack there of.
We have downsized a ton, but may need to do more.
Will provide pics and more info soon..
An adventure through life requiring patience, humor, and being faster than my children. Follow me on my journey.
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