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MilfordInsider wrote:Being from Milford it feels really weird cheering on Blum but heck throw me a green jersey! Spread those big Aquilla boys out and use your speed. When in doubt throw it deep! Go big green???
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I wasn't talking to any "Milford folks", I was replying to a post on this site from someone who claims they know all about other teams . If you represent Milford's team, they need a new mascot....tdog5344 wrote:Cougar you constantly cross the line and the b.s. you said last time to the milford folks was not acceptable. Truth hurts apparently but it's easy to see where they get it from
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22 Recommendations for Building Effective High Traffic Web Software
This is a guest post by Ashwanth Fernando, Software Engineer from the trenches at large scale internet companies.
Inspired by the book "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch, I wanted to share my holistic recommendations on building high traffic web software (i.e. web applications/services that serve high traffic loads). Some of these items may not be just about software design but also around surrounding areas such as the engineering organization, culture etc.
Two disclaimers up front:
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There have been numerous horror stories about businesses, ahem going out of business because they just had a single datacenter. Its really important to have more than one data center if you want to protect yourself from natural disasters or electrical supply failures. Run all your datacenters in active-active configuration. It may cost extra money, but its well worth it rather than having an active passive configuration and then finding out at the end that for some pieces of data, your passive hardware was not consistent with the active one.
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Playoff series openers have been kind to Houston in 2012. Whether against the Chicago Fire, Sporting KC or D.C. United, the Dynamo have found a way to come out on top.
Sometimes it's been by pushing players forward, other times by switching formations to create favorable matchups or putting more players behind the ball to preserve a lead. No matter what the game plan, the Dominic Kinnear and the Dynamo have come up with the right in-game solutions to walk away with the necessary result in all four of their postseason games.
With a return trip to the MLS Cup on the line, Houston are looking for a similar formula in the second leg of the Eastern Conference Championship on Sunday (3 pm CT, NBCSN, live chat on MLSsoccer.com).
WATCH: D.C. lineup uncertain after rash of injuries
Dynamo set for DC gameplan: "We know what to expect"
"We don't know how they're going to play until the game starts," Brad Davis said after training Friday. "Our mentality to every game, and I don't think that changes from game to game, is to go there and start off trying to win the game. Then you play the game as it comes to you."
If possible, the Dynamo want to avoid getting into the same situation they found themselves in a week-and-a-half ago in Kansas City. Sporting forced Houston to defend for more than 70 percent of the second leg and were one touch, one accurate finish away from sending the series to extra time.
So how can Houston dictate the pace and flow of the game against a D.C. squad playing for their season? Simple: Stay composed and force United to defend.
"I just think matching the tempo and giving it everything we've got if they do come out firing," said Adam Moffat. "That and keeping the ball better and getting guys in behind and just trying to turn them around a little bit. We know we're capable and they'll be pushing guys forward, so there will be space to exploit."
Moffat and Clark return
Houston got some relief in the injury department with Moffat (pictured, above) and Ricardo Clark rejoining training Friday. On Thursday, Moffat received clearance to return from the concussion he suffered in a collision with Robbie Russell during the first leg and reported no ill effects from the two-hour session. For Clark, the session was about testing his physical limits.
"It sucks just being in the physio room, so I'd rather be out here playing," Clark told MLSsoccer.com. "I wanted to test it out a little bit and see how it would react and so far it was pretty good."
A return to action for the pair on Sunday would be good news for the Dynamo as they have provided solid cover – and occasional attacking punch – for Houston's defense since being paired together.
"Obviously, it's going to raise your confidence because you know what kind of players those guys are," Davis said. "Those guys are two good, hard players and every time they step on the field they give everything they've got. When they're not available we definitely miss them."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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NHL lockout: NHLPA considers steps to decertify union, report says
Following another week of fruitless negotiations with the NHL for a new collective bargaining agreement, the NHLPA is weighing its next move.
According to a report on Twitter from TSN's Aaron Ward, a former NHL defenseman, the NHLPA executive board voted on Thursday night to put a vote before the full membership on whether the union should file a disclaimer of interest in negotiations. Ward reported that there was "no indication†of when such a vote would occur, or even if it would.
In the ongoing chess game between the league and union, there is some hope that the threat of the NHLPA disclaiming interestâ€"a step below full decertificationâ€"will spur the NHL to compromise on some of its demands. The players already have agreed to the concepts of a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue and term limits on contracts, both of which are major victories for the league, but the sides have not reached agreement on the specifics of getting to 50-50 (players received 57 percent of league revenue previously, and existing contracts are an obstacle) or of the term limits (owners have proposed a five-year limit for players switching teams, and seven years for players remaining with the same team; players have asked for an eight-year across-the-board limit).
Filing a disclaimer of interest would allow NHL players to file antitrust lawsuits against the league, as happened during the NFL lockout last year. A disclaimer of interest during the NBA lockout came shortly before a deal was struck.
Given the numerous parallels that have been drawn between the NHL's lockout and the NBA's a year ago, the threat of a disclaimer may actually be good news if it indeed spurs action to avoid legal battles and get the game back up and running. At the same time, the NHL has hinted that a move by the NHLPA to decertify would put the 2012-13 season in jeopardy.
The NHLPA knows this, just as the NHL knows that going to court against Donald Fehr is a risky exercise. So, for the time being, the game of chicken continues, with both sides knowing that a deal must be reached by early-to-mid January in order to have a season of at least 48 games, the minimum length publicly set by Gary Bettman in a press conference after talks broke down last week.


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POMONA >> Leave it to a couple of local guys to steal the thunder on a perfect day of drag racing down the famed Pomona strip.
Shawn Langdon, who returned to Mira Loma Jurupa Valley High School on Friday for the first time since his 2001 graduation, put the finishing touches on initial Top Fuel dragster championship Saturday afternoon when defending champ Antron Brown fell 104 points back after qualifying.
Since 100 points is the most a driver can earn during today's final eliminations, Langdon gave Al-Anabi Racing team manager Alan Johnson his 11th Top Fuel championship with five different drivers.
"This is one of the proudest moments of my life," said the 31-year-old Langdon. "This is the single moment that I worked for my whole life. I'm very thankful to be part of such a great team.
"The first championship is such a great feeling. I don't care if I had to drive down the track backwards to get it."
Langdon has special memories of Pomona, He was on tip toes trying to look over fences before he competed in Jr. Dragsters and then sportsman Super Comp, where he won two NHRA championships. It's been a weekend of family and friends for Langdon, and young racers.
"It means a lot to me when Jr. drag racing kids come up to me because they're all like I was," said Langdon. "All I had was a dream. and didn't realize what had happened until I turned the corner.
"I saw (NHRA president) Tom (Compton) with the big trophy and the big check after the run, and I knew where to go."
The new champ didn't mind that his championship appeared to be anti-climatic. He smoked the tires on his last qualifying run. As for John Force, returning to Auto Club Raceway at Fairplex is always a highlight for his huge fan. Already the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion, Force recorded the first three-second pass – 3.995 seconds at 319.37 mph – to wrestle the top qualifying time away from Matt Hagan. It kept alive the hopes of his daughter Courtney and son-in-law Robert Hight finishing behind him in the standings.
There was another former SoCal resident that stood out. Brandon Bernstein, sidelined three times this year with back issues, won the Top Fuel pole in his class with a 3.74 pass at 325.37 to knock Langdon off the top.
"It hooked up and had the front end up," said Bernstein. "When it's like that, you know it's going to be a good run. Pomo na is one of those tracks that just feels right when we come here to race. It has a good vibe for me."
In Pro Stock, the only pro class championship to be decided today, Mike Edwards continued his strong showing by taking the pole, a 6.530 pass at 212.23. He's third in points behind Jeg Coughlin and Jason Line going into the final day of the 2013 season.
"I hope I can make the best of it," said Edwards, working shorthanded since crew member Alan Lindsey returned home to Oklahoma for a family emergency. "I'm a little short-handed now with just three guys on the crew, and it felt today like I was working in the Top Fuel pits."
Couglin will face Mopar teammate Vincent Nobile, driving for Upland-based Mountain View Tire Racing, in the first round. Nobile has won all three NHRA events this year on the West Coast.
Hector Arana Jr. and brother Adam were the top two in Pro Stock Motorcycle, with their father in fifth. The junior Arana covered the quarter-mile distance in 6.818 at 195.31.


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Though small, Tiffara Steward plays big for Farmingdale State
At 4-feet-6 and 90 pounds, Tiffara Steward sometimes is given the
children's menu at restaurants or can get into movies at the
12-year-old rate despite being 20. Born three months prematurely,
she's blind in her right eye, has hearing loss in both ears,
battles scoliosis, has a leg length discrepancy and underwent six
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So what's she doing on the basketball team at Farmingdale (N.Y.) State, a Division III school on Long Island less than an hour from New York City?
She's doing the same things she has been doing since grade school while playing on teams her parents coached — starting and helping her team.
"When I'm in the stands, I hear people say, 'What is she going to do?' " says her mother, Vanessa Steward, of typical fan reactions to Tiffarra's height. "I kind of chuckle like 'You'll see in a minute.' "
A junior guard believed to be the shortest college player in the country, Steward averages 6.4 points and 2.5 steals while shooting 38.3% from three-point range for the Rams (13-4), who are in second place behind Mount Saint Mary in the Skyline Conference.
"She's our best on-ball defender," says Farmingdale coach Chris Mooney. "She's quick; she's all over the ball all the time. She picks up a lot of charges because she's so little.
"She's a really good three-point shooter. She's really small so she needs space to get it off — she always seems to get it off."
Bard (N.Y.) coach Jen Watson was a typical skeptic the first time she saw Steward play: "I think everyone when they first look at her think it's going to be easy. But she works very hard, and you definitely can't rest on her. You have to work hard against her, because she doesn't take it easy on anyone.
"She's a great example of what people can do when they're determined to do something they love. I really enjoy watching her. She's a very talented athlete. You know what? We don't think of her any differently than anyone else."
That's the way the youngest of Vanessa and Gregory Steward's four children was raised after weighing 2 pounds, 15 ounces. at birth. "I didn't want her to have the mindset of having disabilities," Vanessa says. "I treated her like the average, normal kid."
Tiffara has one complaint about her size: "When we go to an amusement park, I can't go on some of the rides because of my height."
The lack of a cornea in her right eye has led her to being crunched by screens occasionally. "I guess I have to turn my head more," she says of compensating. "Truthfully I can't explain it. I've never had the right (eye). Other senses kick in."
Yes, her opponents try to post her up. "Even point guards," she says. "Just like a big man, coach wants us to get in front down low. I try to get in front. If they lob it, hopefully I'll have help or I'll jump up and get it."
The Rams will have to assume Steward's mentality when they play at Division I Rutgers on Feb. 11.
"If I can play and not let anything hold me back," she says, "hopefully that will push someone else to not let anything hold them back as well and play as hard as they can. Because I'm going to give 110%, and I'm hoping they will, too."


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If you're in Murwillumbah, or feel like a jaunt to a beautiful part of the world, be sure to check out another very clever designer and artist Belinda Smith's new work in her exhibition Sewing Circle at the Tweed River Art Gallery. December 3 - January 23.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sewing Circle
Posted by Mel Robson at 7:00 AM
2 comments:
- Andrea said...
Funny how small the world is! I just stumbled on your blog via some link love - and then this post. Belinda is good friends with my neighbour, and we were at the opening t'other night!
- December 29, 2010 at 4:39:00 PM GMT+10
- B I R C H s e e d said...
this gets funnier... i am the neighbour Andrea speaks of & i just stumbled upon your blog (& this post) via Kylie Johnsons article on the design files.
Belinda's exhibition was amazing. She now has some of her tea towel component of this show exhibited in New York!
- May 14, 2011 at 7:48:00 PM GMT+10
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Updated cast for the Korean movie "The Journals of Musan"
"The Journals of Musan" (2010)
Directed by Park Jung-bum
With Park Jung-bum, Jin Yong-wook, Kang Eun-jin, Park Young-Duk, Kwon Kwi-deok, Kim Min-ho,... More
Jeon Seung-chul defected from North to South Korea to find a better life. Although he does all types of menial jobs such as taping up posters on the street, he is armed with a can-do spirit. But he often finds himself being beaten or bullied by his neighbors because of his status as a North Korean defector.
Life is even more difficult because the first three numbers of his citizen identification number, "125", mark him as a defector, often drawing a sharp line between him and his fellow Koreans.
Things become more complex when he falls in love with a South Koran woman at his church who works at a noraebang (Korean singing room). In order to win her heart, Jeon even lands a job at the same noraebang but the woman asks him not to tell anybody at the church where they work because she believes it is a shameful job for Christians.
Meanwhile, Jeon has to contend with his roommate, fellow defector Kyung-chul, who often steals and cheats on his compatriots. Jeon's only comfort in his life is an abandoned dog.
Inspired by director Park Jung-bum's friend Jeon Seung-chul, a North Korean defector who died of stomach cancer at the age of 30, rookie director Park wrote the screenplay and also played the lead role. Even before its official release in Seoul, the film received more than five international film awards.
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CHICAGO (AP) Forward Taylor Twellman and defender Tony Sanneh are among five first-time eligible players on the ballot for the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame.
Twellman, now a broadcaster for ESPN, scored 101 league goals for Major League Soccer's New England Revolution from 2002-09 and retired after a series of concussions. He had six goals in 30 international appearances. Sanneh made 43 appearances for the U.S. national team, and his cross led to Brian McBride's goal in the 3-2 upset of Portugal at the 2002 World Cup.
Also eligible for the first time on the ballot announced Friday are current D.C. United coach Ben Olsen, a former midfielder who was MLS Rookie of the Year; and midfielders Wade Barrett and Angela Hucles.
Among the 22 players on the ballot, Mauricio Cienfuegos, Roy Lassiter and Tisha Venturini-Hoch are in their final year of eligibility.
Voting runs through Feb. 22. Voters include coaches, executives and media, and a player needs to be on at least two-thirds of the ballots to gain election.


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Phone: 773.508.8302
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External Webpage: http://www.michellebolinger.com
Michelle Bolinger received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2005, and her BFA from Indiana University in 2003. She has had solo shows at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle, WA, The Presidents Gallery at Harold Washington College and DIG, both in Chicago, IL. In addition, she has shown at Roots and Culture Gallery and The Swimming Pool Project Space in Chicago, and The Henry Art Gallery and Crawl Space, both in Seattle, WA. She has been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Artists Assistance Program. She has taught at Northwestern University, Lake Forest College and Harold Washington College and was Visiting Professor & Artist in Residence at the University of South Florida in the Fall of 2012.
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Calling on the Collective Brain
Please post your questions with which you would like help. The ALSC ChildTech Listserv was discontinued as of April 1, 2007, because it was fairly inactive. We'll use this spot to fill that need, if it is indeed needed.
Teresa Walls 13:07, 29 March 2007 (CST)
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Question: Here at San Francisco PL, we have computers that are specifically loaded with children's software programs for kids to use while in the library. We are looking to update them, and as CD-ROMs continue to decline, we are not sure if we should still use this as our source for the computer programs we offer. We are looking into the Games on Demand service offered by Exent and are wondering what other libraries are using Games on Demand, or some other provider for appropriate, often educational, programs for children? What are you using, and are you happy with it?
denise schmidt, Children's Librarian, SFPL. email@example.com
Response: The Johnson County (KS) Library discontinued our CD-ROM computers several years ago and are phasing out our CD-ROM collection altogether. Currently we are not using any subscription provider for games but are providing links to Internet-based games from sites like http://www.funschool.com and http://www.prongo.com. Back in January, OverDrive, Inc. launched downloadable games similar to their downloadable audiobooks. The sales representative I spoke with said they were planning to add educational games in the near future. Sadly, I don't see anything on their product website (http://www.dlrinc.com) that tells what's happening with their game collection. - Bradley Debrick, Johnson County Library Youth Services
Question:Scholastic Inc. has a new product - Bookflix that seems fairly child friendly. It doesn't go live until June and we do not subscribe at this time, but those of you who did buy the advance subscription - what was your rationale? www.scholastic.com/bookflix. Lisa Hamrick Manager, Children's Learning Center Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County


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This is the first of what I hope is an ongoing series on the Underhill-Lounge.
I experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2 earlier this year; but, this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact some local bartenders and give them a choice of one of the 5 of the Savoy Cocktails that might be coming up in the next week.
Surprisingly, some actually seemed game.
Victoria Damato-Moran's Bio:
I was born and raised in San Francisco, North Beach, daughter of a bartender and craftsman.
Dancin' Danny, they called him, the original bar top dancer !
We had a family bar called Damato's on Broadway St, back in the 60's, Dad was always tending bar, so I grew up in the business, watching him make the best Manhattans,
Side Cars, Pink Ladys, Grasshoppers, etc…….
At the age of 21, I thought that my Manhattans should be made in a bar legally, so in 1984,
I was hired by Jeramiah Tower as a cocktail waitress at Stars Restaurant and tend bar once and a while.
I really loved bartending and danced like my Dad, so I continued to work in the restaurant/bar biz.
I enjoy all forms of art, though creating cocktails in my art form now, in my spare time I make jewlery with vintage beads from my collection of beads from around the world.
Chanticle(e)r Cocktail
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
1 Tablespoon of Raspberry Syrup (Victoria made from scratch)
The White of 1 Egg
1 Glass Dry Gin (2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass.
This seems to be a variation on the Breakfast or Pink Lady Cocktail with Raspberry Syrup instead of Grenadine. As Chanticleer is a rather well known rooster, (Nun's Priest's Tale from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales",) I suspect this particular cocktail's DNA comes from the Breakfast Cocktail. I have to say, even if raspberry syrup makes this a bit girly-er than the Grenadine version, the flavor of the fresh raspberry syrup definitely made this cocktail a keeper. Now if I can only get her to give me the recipe for the syrup…
Champs Elysees Cocktail (6 people)
3 Glasses Cognac (3 parts Hennessy Cognac)
1 Glass Chartreuse (1 part Green Chartreuse)
1 1/2 Glasses Sweetened Lemon Juice (A little more than 1 part Sour Mixer)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
Shake well and strain into cocktail glasses.
There was some discussion here about which Chartreuse to use. Victoria thought yellow would probably make a more attractively colored cocktail with the Cognac. Unfortunately, we only had green on hand. With Green Chartreuse, the herbal character is pretty out front, overshadowing pretty much everything else in the cocktail.
All the same, if you like Green Chartreuse, this isn't a bad cocktail at all. If you don't know if you like Green Chartreuse, it may not be the best place to start.
While I was there, she also made me a really tasty tequila and watermelon smash with a touch of cayenne. Mmmmm!
If you're lucky enough to find Victoria behind the bar from you, ask for one of her original cocktails. She is one of the rare bartenders who brings both the people skills to make anyone feel comfortable on the other side of the bar from her and the taste to make truly outstanding original cocktails like the following Valentino, which won her a bartending competition at Rye.
Makes 1 drink
1 ounce Aperol
1 ounce reposado Tequila
1 ounce rhubarb juice*
1/2 ounce Agave Pomegranate Ginger Syrup**
3 ounces grapefruit juice (Ruby Red or Texas)
1 fresh lime
Splash club soda
Grapefruit and lime garnish
Instructions: Pour the Aperol, Tequila, rhubarb juice, Agave-Pomegranate-Ginger syrup and grapefruit juice into a chilled tumbler. Shake and strain over ice into a chilled double-rocks glass (8 to 9 ounces). Add a slight squeeze of fresh lime juice. Top with a splash of club soda.
*To make rhubarb juice, cut fresh rhubarb into chunks, parboil, then steam, until the rhubarb is tender. Extract the juice by mashing the pulp through a fine-mesh sieve.
**Agave Pomegranate Ginger Syrup
2 cups agave nectar
1 cup pomegranate juice
1 large finger of ginger, sliced
Instructions: Pour agave nectar and pomegranate juice into a pot. Add ginger. Bring to a boil. Turn off and let steep until cool. Remove the ginger and store in a glass bottle in the refrigerator.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Everyone loves a good prank, but when it comes to your finances, mishandling your hard-earned money is no laughing matter.
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People make foolish mistakes and oversights regularly that hurt their cash situation just by doing simple things like not checking receipts and statements. Being more diligent may save more money than you realize.
In honor of April Fool's Day, here are seven foolish financial moves people often make:
No. 1: Paying for things you don't use. Andrea Woroch, personal finance expert, says many people automatically pay for things they don't use like unlimited call and text options on their phones but never really use all their data. "If you aren't using it, you should look into downgrading," she says, also pointing out this motto should be applied to your cable and utility bills. "If you cut them down, you may save up to $50 a month."
No. 2: Not shopping around. Failing to compare prices can be costly for impulsive buyers, Woroch says. "This can cause you to overspend by a lot." She advises using a price comparison tool to help find the best deals.
No. 3: Not using your employer's 401(k) plan. Not putting money into a 401(k) account is a big mistake, according to financial planner Lauren Lyons Cole, especially if the employer has a match system in place. This is throwing away free money for your retirement. "A lot of times people just haven't gotten around to it, that is a good spring cleaning note for yourself to set it up."
No. 4: Sprinkling your debt payments. If you are working to pay down various debt but don't' have a specific re-payment plan, you could be making the situate worse. "This is good intentioned, but it's foolish," Lyons Cole says. "It's better to come up with an exit strategy or use an online calculator to pay it down." Typically hitting the biggest debt or the debt with the highest interest rate will bring down your costs more strategically.
No. 5: Overdrawing your account. With all the apps and free services from banks that help monitor your cash reserves, you should never get slapped with an overdraw fee, says Woroch. "What banks charge is ridiculous, it may be $5, $35 or $100, but there are so many things that can help you to not do this."
No. 6: Not checking your charges. If a charge on your card or bill looks off, speak up. "Follow up on pricing, especially if you have someone who pre-charges your card," Lyons Cole says. It may be awkward to speak up, but those dollars are yours, and they belong in your wallet.


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Hello ABC'ers,
I have used ABC for notating GHB and whistle tunes for many years. I have a need to score some piano+guitar+bass jazz themes, and since I know and like ABC, I am planning on using it to typeset the arrangements.
However: I am not sure how to show a simple 'beat mark.' This is normally a slash, with or without a stem. They are very common on rhythm and lead sheets for guitar players to follow.
Could someone advise me on this? From doing some quick internet searches, all I am seeing are some posts regarding some PS extentions. Is this the best way to do this? Could someone post a quick example?
Background: For the last few years, I've simply used the online 'Tune-O-Tron' when I've needed to bang out a tune. Please advise if I'd also need to get something newer than whatever is running on the Tune-O-Tron website.
Thanks for the help folks!


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Scotland's Andrew Oldcorn cruised to his first European Senior Tour title with a closing round of 70 to win the De Vere Club PGA Seniors Championship by an astonishing nine strokes.
In so doing, Oldcorn became only the sixth man in history – after Ken Bousfield, Neil Coles, Brian Huggett, Dai Rees and Charlie Ward – to complete the PGA double, having won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club ten years ago.
The man from Edinburgh started the day with a five-stroke lead over his nearest challenger, Gordon Brand Jnr, and promptly extended that advantage to six shots when his playing partner bogeyed the opening hole at De Vere Slaley Hall in Hexham, England.
Brand Jnr rallied with three successive birdies from the second hole to close the gap, but Oldcorn immediately responded with a hat-trick of gains to regain the initiative, and when his nearest rival followed a double bogey on the testing ninth with a bogey at the tenth, the back nine became a victory procession for the champion.
Oldcorn eventually signed for a round of 70 for an 11 under par winning aggregate total which earned the 51 year old €45,646 and moved him to second place behind American Tom Watson on the Senior Tour Order of Merit.
The victory continued a superb season for Oldcorn, who has now finished in the top five in four of his six appearances so far this campaign.
His winning margin was the largest at this event since Seiji Ebihara won by ten strokes at De Vere Carden Park in 2002.
Oldcorn said: "I can't tell you how much this means to me. I couldn't have picked a better event for my first victory on the Senior Tour. It's a very special day in my career, and the first time I've won a tournament since that day at Wentworth ten years ago, so I couldn't be any happier. All the pressure was on me today, and Gordon started well as I knew he would. But I hit back well and then had a huge slice of luck on the ninth, where I could've lost my ball but it bounced back into play off the trees. But you need that sort of fortune to win any golf tournament.
"When I birdied the 15th hole and Gordon three-putted for bogey, I knew it was in the bag then. That gave me enough breathing space and even though I was disappointed to double bogey the last, I'd already done all the hard work. My first goal this year was to win, and now that I've done that I've got to set my sights a bit higher and think about winning the Order of Merit. Tom's unlikely to play in five events and I've stolen a bit of a march on Sandy [Lyle] here, so I've just got to keep doing what I've been doing and hopefully I'll get my rewards."
Brand Jnr's round of 74 left him nine shots adrift of the winner, but the Scot could take consolation from a cheque for €31,952.
He said: "I started off quite well and put a little bit of pressure on him, but then on the ninth I let Andrew off the hook by making a double bogey when he'd been in trouble, and there was no coming back from that. But credit to Andrew, because he's played very well this week and deserved to win."
The Australian duo of Mike Harwood and Peter Fowler finished in a tie for third place on level par after shooting respective rounds of 72 and 69.
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|OLDCORN, Andrew
|BRAND JNR, Gordon
|FOWLER, Peter
|HARWOOD, Mike
|CAMERON, Bob
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Capella Flavor Drops from (You guessed it) capellaflavordrops.com were recently tested out to see what all the hub but was… One of our interns thought it would be cool to bring in small bottle which was immediately consumed and returned to her empty. I felt bad for the intern because… well… they don't really get paid (just a small stipend to cover traveling expenses and lunch). I had to do something about it… so we called up the folks at Capella and got a whole gaggle of their flavors.
So the way it works is they come in little bottles. The bottles last quite awhile (unless you have a dozen people hitting them a couple of times an hour). You can take just about any drink and flavor it with these flavorings. You put about a drop per ounce in the beverage, stir and you are good to go. I found that I like about half that much in my coffee. You can use the flavors in smoothies, milk shakes, mixed drinks, whatever you want… I like mine in coffee 🙂 Capella definitely has the goods, the price is pretty reasonable, and I heard from some pretty reliable people that a lot of folks are using these drops in their e-cig liquid too!
We got to check out a number of flavors from hazelnut to chocolate glazed doughnut. They are all very tasty and don't give off a weird after taste which was a pretty big factor and why we thought the Capella Flavor drops were worth writing about. It's hard to find good flavor drops that add good flavor without an after taste. I love to mix the flavor drops with a good cup of coffee fool coffee. I know I'm throwing a lot of brands out here, but this is what we use here in the office and I think they are so good I really want to share this information with you.
All in all I give Capella Flavor Drops 10 big stars out of 10. They are absolutely great!


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(CNN) -- In April of this year the world was shocked to learn that Boko Haram had abducted 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their boarding school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria. Dozens escaped, but more than 200 are still missing.
Despite international outrage and a viral campaign calling for action, the girls remained missing.
CNN's Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon reflected on traveling through West Africa and meeting Boko Haram's terrified victims.
Two months after the kidnapping, CNN asked you to share your messages of hope for family and friends of the missing schoolgirls.
While some tweeted messages of support, others expressed frustration over the Nigerian government's handling of the situation.
From Africa and beyond, here's a roundup of some tweets you sent us along with other messages from the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
@cnnivideo @wongiwongi The hope is the Chibok girls will return soon..challenge is family must be ready to accept what's left of them— Solomon paul (@soloetic) June 14, 2014
@cnnivideo just to tell the love ones of each of the #BringBackOurGirls that they re not in the struggle alone,myself and many are with them— Ochedi lawrence (@Lawrence4law) June 14, 2014
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014
Is there anything hopeful to share? Is there any reassuring news or word from the government? & it's 61 days. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS @cnnivideo— 'Seun Fakuade (@seunfakze) June 14, 2014
@cnnivideo @cnni #BringBackOurGirls My hope is that Nigeria finds a way to overcome the sectional interests within it to save these girls.— God's Own (@nwosunnaemeka) June 14, 2014
#Malala stands in solidarity with Nigerians & people around the world calling for action to #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/VbnRePSDhd— Malala Fund (@MalalaFund) May 3, 2014
@cnnivideo @cnni unfortunate girls in this 21st century, this could happen with world acting as spectator.— shakil aslam (@nigaraslam) June 14, 2014
The clouds will clear and d sun will shine again...#BringBackOurGirls @cnnivideo— Ozohu Anne Otonoku (@sweetzowiee) June 14, 2014
@cnnivideo @cnni You are baits of peace.— Lincoln Sayuni ® (@LincolnSayuni) June 14, 2014
#RealMenDontBuyGirls pic.twitter.com/4bNqjYll8u— Steven Tyler (@IamStevenT) May 10, 2014
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Adopt a Gluten-free Blogger: February 2012 Signup
Well, we took a month vacation from Adopt a Gluten-free Blogger but now I'm back, and we're ready for you to pick your favorite gluten-free blogger and adopt the heck out of them! Want to join us for this month's event?
Here's how you participate.
1) Pick a gluten-free blogger whose recipes you admire and adopt them by commenting on this post with your name, blog name and their name and blog name.
*Blogger's recipes must all be gluten-free or have a way to sort and read ONLY gluten-free recipes
*Please pick a different blogger every time you participate
*Please pick a blogger that has not been adopted yet this month!
2) Pick one (or two!) of your gluten-free blogger's recipes to try.
3) Make the recipe, photograph it and write a post in your blog introducing the blogger and their recipe.
*Follow the recipe as written, as closely as possible. And, please don't print their recipe on your post- just provide your reader a link to their original recipe.
*Provide a link to this event announcement page
4) Email me at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com with your photo of the recipe, the URL of your post, name of the recipe and the URL of the original blogger's recipe post. PLEASE SIZE PHOTO TO BE A MAXIMUM OF 500 pixels wide. Otherwise I will have to resize it manually and after the first one or two I start to cry sad tears of weary despair. You don't want me crying while I post, do you?
5) Post YOUR POST's URL in a comment to this post, and if possible please try to visit two other blogger's posts that are posted here (and comment!).
*The goal is to make this event more interactive and fun!
Sign up BEFORE February 29(loose deadline; late sign-ups are ok)
Post your Review and Email me by March 9th (firm deadline, no foolin')
If you don't have a blog, you are still welcome to adopt a gluten-free blogger. Sign up to adopt a blogger, write a review of one of their recipes, including your name (or pen name), the recipe URL and recipe title. Then take a photo of the completed recipe (if you can) and EMAIL ME the review and photo. I will create a special page just for our non-blogging participants and post it for you.
I'll start the adoptions by adopting Maggie of She let them Eat Cake. Now it is your turn!
Adoption Sign-Up Sheet:
1) Maggie of She Let them Eat Cake (adopted by Sea of Book of Yum)
2) Wendy of Celiacs in the House (Adopted by Cheryl of Gluten-free Goodness)
3) Iris of the Daily Diatribe (adopted by Ellen the Gluten-free Diva)
4) Cassidy from Cooking Gluten (& Dairy) Free (Adopted by Paula Decaria (Live Free, Gluten Free))
5) Zoe from Z's Cup of Tea (adopted by Kalinda of Wheat Free Meat Free)
6) Lori and Michelle from Pure2Raw (adopted by Desi the Palate Peacemaker)
7) Kalinda of Wheat Free Meat Free (adopted by Alta)
8) Ali at the Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen (adopted by Sunita of Growing Healthy)
9) Stephanie O'Dea of stephanieodea.com (Adopted by Shannon of Enjoying Gluten free Life)*adoption changed
10) Sea of Book of Yum (Adopted by Kim of Welcoming Kitchen)
11) Shauna of The Gluten Free Girl and Chef (adopted by Alma of Me Living Gluten-free)
12) you pick!
If you sign up and cannot complete this event by March 9th for any reason, please email me immediately at adoptaglutenfreeblogger[at]gmail[dot]com and let me know. Please ONLY use this email account for Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger relevant emails.
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April 12, 2013 at 04:28 PM
By jim g
jim g
just out of nowhere I started hitting it off the heel, with every club in the bag... including more than a few sssshanks!!.... Ive tried standing farther away with no help.... feel like my weight is balanced well, over the balls of my feet... Im at a loss!! I play to a 7 hdcp.... any advice or suggestion would be appreciated
Connor I.Maysville, OK
Make sure your arms are fully extended at address because you could have your hands to close to your body and extending them on your way down. And you could try putting your weight more on the heels of your feet. Last thing you should try is setting up with the golf ball on the toe of your club at address. Hope this helps!
Joe B
Padraic Sspanish fort, AL
try standing more stable youre clubs might be a problem as well address the ball at the toe is another quick fix but you re best tip is to go to a local pga professional they will fix you up
Tony CVadnais Heights, MN
Another idea is choke up on the club. This way you don't mess around with you swing too much.
Tony C.
Lou GSan Diego, CA
If you are setting up to the ball properly, it should appear that your nose and first knuckle of your right (for righties) line up. arms should be extended slightly.
Also make sure your weight is balanced between the balls of your feet and heels. Losing balance by falling forward is a cause of a shank and this happens by standing TOO FAR from the ball.
Main problem is arms too close to the body and standing too close to the ball.
One of the other teaching pros on allexperts.com (John Brott) mentioned to have an "athletically ready stance". This is something we learned on the 'rasslin team in school.
I've noticed a few have almost no knee flex and the arms appear to be tucked into the chest.
James frussellville, AR
I also have trouble with this sometimes. I will go to the range and hit every club just fine and i pick up a 3 iron or even a wedge and every one is a hosel rocket. it usually happens when i try to hit a punch shot with a long iron. not sure why. it comes and goes too. one day it wont happen once and another day it will be every shot. I try o self diagnose it but i cant seem to figure it out.
Curtis Mmoline, IL
"Tie your left shoe tighter, move everything to your left pocket, stick a tee behind your left ear, and turn your cap around backwards" - Romeo
Mike CDallas, TX
April 16, 2013 at 10:40 AM
"Tie your left shoe tighter, move everything to your left pocket, stick a tee behind your left ear, and turn your cap around backwards" - Romeo
I think Curtis has it figured out with his advice!!! Finally, something that should work!!!
In all seriousness, I think this is something everybody has gone through at one time or another. If I start hitting balls like this in practice and I can't seem to correct it, I just walk away. It usually has something to do with my setup that I just cannot diagnose myself at the time but is just a little tweak. When I come back a day or two later with a fresh mind, the issue usually corrects itself. If I every continue to have a swing issue after a break like this, I seek professional helps (i.e., PGA Professional, not the head kind, although I probably should at times). Seems the more I try to think about it in these situations, the worse it becomes.
Keano26Port Jervis, NY
It's funny, because I had just begun to do that. My first month of the season was the best month of golf ever. Then for the whole month of May, I absolutely stunk. Couldn't hit anything. Hardly played. This past week, I began getting my swing back with my driver and long irons. Then, suddenly- Bam. Heel hits. Shanks. I've always been one to stand very close to the ball, and it worked for me for a long time. I just stood a little further from the ball, and put some bend in my knees (tried not to stand so straight up). Last thing I did was concentrated in keeping my spine angle and shoulders level throughout my swing. It's helped me. The shanks aren't 100% gone, but much more cleaner hits. But it's tough to give or even take tips on this forum because 1. We don't know your swing; and 2. What works for me may not work for you.
Gale GMany, LA
Lots of good tips already. Some of the best/most famous instructors talk as if there is just one cause for the shank. "You hit it on the hossle really does not help. Haney, Peltz and others suggest putting a row of tees or a board about an inch above your ball as you address it which creates a barrier that will prevent you from shanking---but you might hit the board! But the board will help to ingrain in your mind where the target line really is since the board is parallel to the target line. With most clubs you would not want the tip of your club going beyond the target line that is firmly implanted in your mind as you address the ball. The club face will be closing as it approaches the target line, will be square to target at impact, will start closing to the inside after impact. No chance for a shank exists if you can do this.
Some things I learned that were causing my own shanking spells included having my shoulders open when I thought they were parallel to the target line as my feet were. Not shifting weight to left (front) foot to begin down-swing which allows you to drop club into slot making the attack of ball from inside possible. All causes of shanks have something to do with getting the clubhead a tad closer to the ball than you want, so that contact is made with hossle rather than the middle of clubface. Bad sequencing that leads to the over-the-top first move down will have you fighting for your life to get the clubface square by impact and you can just as easily make contact with the heel, middle, or toe of the club. Have someone make a simple video of you with the camera looking down the target line, or do it yourself with a camera, tri-pod, and timer. Watch for anything that is getting closer to the ball than it was at address. I mentioned the over-the-top move. Also, look at what your back knee (right for right-handed) does. If it does not move pretty much at your left or lead knee, it will move towards the ball, and that can easily be your problem.
Lastly, we have all heard of the X-factor. Lower body resists; upper body turns. The more the upper body turns relative to the lack of turn in the lower body (hips), the greater your potential power. Great, but if your right hip does not turn some going back, you have blocked out the space to which you would like to drop the club down into the slot. Put another way, you have moved the slot out towards the target line, and here again you have a shank making situation----something getting the clubhead out too far.
Double check ball position, body alinement, posture (balance), sequencing of swing. Last point, I promise. Keep your eyes level and parallel to target line which greatly improves the mind's ability to connect to the real target line. Get that target line in your mind, get a fundamentally sound set-up, add the right sequence with some good rhythm and tempo---hey, do all that, and all of your shots will be just fine. No shanks. CP
scott asouderton, PA
This creeps into my game at the start of each season. For me, it means I'm not turning and finishing my swing.
My swing thought for all irons is keep turning.
Fred CMansfield, TX
Jim, it's a common issue, as you can see. Fortunately, the solution is easy. Your downswing is starting with your upper body (arms and shoulders) causing your hands to move away and crating an "over-the-top" swing path. this also happens a lot on punch shots as they are very arm dominate swings, Work on starting down with your hips and feeling the arms and club lagging behind just a bit. Your swing will then return to the inside and your "hosel rockets" should disappear. Let me add, don't get in too big of a hurry to start down - give the "lag" time to form before you hit the ball. Too many people swing entirely too hard and start too quickly.
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December 06, 2016 at 04:36 PM
Now get ready, this may sound crazy, but it works. If you are hitting towards the heel or if you are shanking the ball line up with the ball off the hosel not the toe. Lining up off the toe on exacerbates the problem because you feel as though you have to reach and when you do you hit hit the heel or hosel again. Many tour pros align the ball off the hosel, John Daly for one. Try it, you'll be amazed.
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State TV broadcast live footage yesterday of the first meeting between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and newly appointed "Wisdom Advisor" Yoda.
It remains unclear why Yoda has decided to join the dark side of the force at this time.
Questions are also being raised about how the green sage -- long presumed to have died in a galaxy far far away -- made his way to Cairo in the 21st centry.
Currently, all that is known of the meeting is that when SCAF members informed Yoda that they were trying to stop citizens from protesting, the Jedi master solemnly replied, "Do. Or Do not. There is no try." At this point the SCAF reportedly erupted into awed applause.
Seek to disrupt the darkside from within, Yoda does.
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If I understand it right, the U.S. military lifted its ban on women fighting on the front lines earlier this year. But, of course, women have been fighting in American battles since at least the Civil War. And the Revolutionary War, too, if we throw in Molly Pitcher.
If I understand it right, the U.S. military lifted its ban on women fighting on the front lines earlier this year. But, of course, women have been fighting in American battles since at least the Civil War. And the Revolutionary War, too, if we throw in Molly Pitcher.
Regimental camps were littered with women. Camp followers, officers� spouses, cooks and, of course, those members of the �oldest profession,� were mixing with the men, surreptitiously or otherwise. Washington, D.C., during that war was the brothel capital of America.
The ladies who showed up on the battle lines were occasionally loyal wives refusing to leave their husbands and sometimes ladies just seeking adventure. Almost always they signed up as men, living with cropped hair, desperately pretending to be men. Because medical examinations were extremely simple and because it was not the cleanest of times, they had a fair chance of getting away with it.
Some women were not found out until they were wounded or died of some sickness. Once found out, they were generally dismissed. A few made it all through their service with the none-too-bright soldiers around them believing they were �one of the boys� to the bitter end.
A friend of mine, the inestimable Jerry Shake � assuming �inestimable� means what I think it means � pointed out a heroic Yankee lady who took part in the Battle of New Bern, and this got me thinking about women warriors of that war who had ties in some way to North Carolina.
We had women on both sides of that war. So I thought maybe we could take a look at a couple of them over the next couple of weeks.
Let�s start with a lady we have almost no information on, since I�ve already used up half my column space. If anyone out there has further information on her, I�d love to hear it.
Lucy Berington was probably a Craven County resident and was actually enlisted as a first-class boy with the Union Navy. According to the North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial, a site I think was named by the Committee for Developing Really Impressive Names, they knew she was a woman when they signed her on in 1864.
Perhaps, the site suggests, this was a financial move: Lucy, an African-American and possibly an escaped slave, was made a washerwoman at New Bern�s Navy hospital. Washerwomen were paid $15 a month, but a first-class boy only got somewhere between $7 and $9 a month.
The author of the site I referenced apparently dug around and found only hints about who she was. Pointing out that slaves often took the last names of their masters, it noted that there was a slave-owning Nancy V. Barrington in Craven County in 1860. The problem is that Lucy was listed as being 45 years old, and Nancy�s female slave was listed in the census as being 54.
I don�t know how much of a problem that is to me: When in history have women not lied about their age? And note the ages: 45 and 54. Maybe there was a dyslexic clerk hanging around.
Anyway, our Lucy did not fare well: She �died of disease in the spring of 1864,� the site says. This would have been a few months before the yellow fever epidemic that did such slaughter through the Union ranks that year, but there were plenty of other diseases that could have carried her off. Dysentery was a huge killer. More military personnel died of disease than ever went by way of balls or bullets in those days.
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The British army suffered 57,470 casualties on the first day (1 July) alone while 19,240 of this number were killed or died of wounds. I have taken a look at what this battle meant for the members of the Surveyors' Institution, as the RICS was then known.
By the end of the war we had lost 309 members. During the Battle of the Somme (1 July – 18 November 1916) we lost 66 men, 21% of our total losses during the whole First World War and 1.2% of our total membership at the start of the war (5481).
30 of those surveyors who died are listed on the Thiepval Memorial, the memorial to the missing of the Somme who have no known grave. This will be the site of one of the main commemoration ceremonies this year.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme alone we lost eight members as listed below, six professional associates, one student and an examinee. Their ages ranged from 22 to 32.
Sadly it is hard to find detail on the lives of many of the surveyors that died in the battle but I have uncovered a few interesting stories which give a glimpse of the profession in the Edwardian period.
Leonard was professional associate, an assistant to G.W. Atkinson in Leeds, at the start of the war and became a Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment. On the 1911 census he is living on North Parade in Leeds with his sister and brother-in-law, Harry and Frances Russell. Leonard was single and listed as an architect's assistant.
He was wounded in the battle and transferred to the Empire Hospital, in London however he died from these wounds on the 13 August 1916 aged 27. He is buried at St Wilfreds Churchyard, Poole in Wharfedale.
De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, a memorial book produced after the war quotes from the letter sent by his Colonel to the family:
"I knew him intimately. He was adjutant to me for a while, and I never met a man I could trust more. Duty was his watchword and high principle guided all his actions. I lost in him one of the best officers any commanding officer could wish to have, and a dear friend and comrade.
"I loved him and admired his splendid qualities, which I had every opportunity of realising during the many years it was my good fortune to be associated with him. His unfailing personal charm and absolute reliability made him what he was, one of the most charming, capable gentlemen in the world."
John was a professional associate at the outbreak of the war and joined the Royal Fusiliers. On the 1911 census his is living in Croydon with his widowed mother, Mary, and his two sisters, Mabel and Winifred. His is listed as a surveyor however he seems to have made some changes in his life as records at the time of his death show him on the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight Mercury reported his death on 25 August 1916 under the heading "Local contractor killed in action".
"Our readers will learn with regret of the death of Private J.S. Shotton, of the firm of Ridley and Shotton, Rew Farm, Ventnor, who are contractors to the Ventnor Urban District Council. Private Shotton joined the Sportsmen's Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, in the autumn of 1915, and after taking part in several engagements, he was killed in action in Delville Wood on 27 July. Private Shotton was an old Tonbridge School boy and was 38 years of age. During his residence in this locality he made many friends by his genial and kindly disposition, and his death will be sincerely regretted."
Frank was a fellow at the outbreak of war working for his family firm Chesterton and Son. On the 1911 census he is listed as living at Scarsdale Villas in Kensington with his wife Nora and their one year old daughter Joyce. He is listed as an architect surveyor.
Frank Sydney Chesterton, a very promising architect, whom it was said, rivalled Edwin Lutyens. Frank was responsible for the designs of a number of buildings in Kensington, including Nos. 12-54 Hornton Street in 1903 and Nos. 35-43 Holland Street. Frank Chesterton, in collaboration with J. D. Coleridge, also designed Sundial House in 1908 and Hornton Court in 1905-7, where the offices of Chesterton & Sons have been based since 1907. The Kensington branch of Chesterton Humberts is still located there today.
Also from "The Committee Club : the first one hundred years" by James Offen (2006)
Word was received of the death of Frank Chesterton. The secretary wrote a letter of condolence to his widow and her "dignified" reply was put in the minute book. In it she records that he had only joined his battery on 9 November, was wounded on 10th and died just 24 hours later.
Frank was 39 when he died and a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Horse/Field Artillery. His is buried in the Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte.
Hugh was a professional associate at the outbreak of war. The 1915 yearbook gives his employment as Peniarth Estate Office, Town, Merionethshire however the record in June 1917 when he is listed on the Roll of Honour says he was working for Eden, Bains and Kennaway in Sherbourne.
On the census of 1911 he is living in Brentford with his parents, Christopher and Cecilia and his brother, Christopher. All the family have "private means" as their occupation and there are twelve servants in the house.
In a journal called Flight from 5 October 1916 I found the following (thanks to the Flight Global website) which reported that Hugh was "officially reported missing but believed to have been killed in action in air combat in France on 19 September aged 30"
Henry was an examinee at the outbreak of the war and was attached to the Aspatria Agricultural College. His is also listed as living there on the 1911 census with his mother, Ann, his step father John Smith Hill, the principle of the college and three step sisters. Henry is shown as a student of agriculture and there are 14 other boarding students.
His death was reported in the Times of 18 November 1916.
"Captain Henry Carlyle Webb , Border Regiment, commanding a trench mortar battery, killed on September 19, was the only son of the late Dr. H. J. Webb D.Sc., the Agricultural College, Aspatria, and nephew of Mrs Edward Moul, of Woking. He was educated at King's College and Christ's college, Cambridge. He passed the professional examination of the Surveyors' Institution, and obtained the college diploma, first place, at Aspatria. In 1911 he received his commission in the Border Regiment, T. F., entering Cambridge the same year. He was a fine athlete and won four events as a Freshman for Christ's College. In 1912 he gained the Diploma of Agriculture, and in 1913 played tennis against Oxford."
On mobilization in August, 1914, he became lieutenant, and proceeded to the front in October. He was gazetted captain in May, 1915, and in the following August he was given the command of a company. He volunteered for and was appointed brigade wiring officer, and subsequently was given the command of a trench mortar battery.


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The Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), an IUCN Member, and the Pitcairn Islands Government have announced that the ground-breaking rat eradication operation to restore Henderson Island, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in the South Pacific, has been successfully implemented. The final result as to whether all rats have been successfully removed will be known in 2013.
At 43km², Henderson is the largest tropical or subtropical island ever to be subject to a rat eradication operation, and the third largest island yet treated in the world. The project was also the first time an aerial eradication operation has been conducted from the deck of a ship, and saw Henderson rails successfully bred in captivity for the first time.
The RSPB formed a unique international partnership with two other island restoration projects in order to share equipment and expertise. The partnership involved a number of organisations, including IUCN Members: The Nature Conservancy and US Fish & Wildlife Service.
In May, a single vessel, the MV Aquila, was loaded with two helicopters in Seattle, USA, before setting out to complete a remarkable 27,000km voyage of conservation. Sailing first to Palmyra Atoll (USA), the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA, Kiribati) and then Henderson Island, the MV Aquila worked to restore crucial seabird habitats at every stop by removing the introduced rats that have proved so devastating.
On Henderson Island, rats have been killing over 25,000 petrel chicks a year and driving the Henderson petrel towards extinction. Seabirds, which would have numbered in the millions before rats arrived, have been reduced to just 40,000 pairs. Rats have also been limiting the populations of other endemic bird species, altered the forest through seed consumption, and preyed upon marine turtle hatchlings and Henderson's unique invertebrate populations.
This was one of the very first times that such a boat-based operation had been implemented and it is hoped that this success will lead to many more similar operations both in the Pacific and elsewhere in future. The possibilities to link up future island restoration projects and achieve large-scale conservation benefits is significant.
Read the latest issue of the Henderson Island Project Newsletter for an update on operations, news of a number of world-firsts achieved by the team and a selection of photos from this remarkable UNESCO World Natural Heritage site.
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text: North America 17 July 2013 We Need To Talk About Zimmerman In reality, nobody alive but George Zimmerman knows exactly what happened the night that Trayvon Martin was shot. In all the speculation, nobody is talking about the real problem: guns. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up At Louie's Bar in midtown Miami, about three and a half hours south of the Sanford, Florida courtroom, the verdict in George Zimmerman's trial caused very little storm. As MIA's Paper Planes, with its simulated rhythmic gunfire, played over the bar's sound system, CNN, on silent with subtitles, strove in vain to whip the patrons into a frenzy of something. Outrage, perhaps. Or sadness. Or maybe: excitement. Network news is entertainment, after all. It's a dog-and-pony show. There have been protests in Sanford, outside the White House in Washington DC, and in Los Angeles, all calling for "justice for Trayvon", the black teenager shot and killed by Zimmerman last February. The Rev Al Sharpton is coordinating around 100 "Justice for Trayvon" marches for this Saturday. But they all have the wrong word. What they want is something more than mere justice. People want revenge, restitution, closure, and not just for Trayvon, but for the thousands of black kids and young adults killed every year – in 2010 black people constituted 55 per cent of the victims of firearm homicide, according to a recent paper by the PEW Research Center, despite being just 13 percent of the population. His parents want their son back. They did not get him back this week, and the man who shot him walked free. It is impossible to imagine how that felt for them. But justice, court justice, isn't the opposite of injustice. It is just a process. After the shooting, campaigners sought their moment in court, and got it. But there simply wasn't enough evidence for a jury to find beyond all reasonable doubt that George Zimmerman had not been acting in self-defence. Witnesses on both sides gave contradictory and confusing testimony, muddying even the shreds of evidence available to the jury. So they did the only thing they could in all conscience do: acquit. Under Florida's ludicrous Stand Your Ground law, Zimmerman at first was not even charged. A young man lay dead, and Zimmerman had been acquitted without facing trial. But when the – absolutely righteous – outrage at that law, by local civil rights groups and, eventually, even President Obama, led rightfully to a trial, everyone seemed to take the message that it was their right to demand Zimmerman's eventual conviction, too. And it just was not to be. But the problem is that, in reality, nobody alive but Zimmerman knows exactly what happened that night. He claims to have been acting in self-defence. To assume he is lying is perhaps almost as much an act of prejudice, though of a different sort, as to assume that Martin was attacking him. I am not speculating either way. I do not know. Neither do you. But the burden of proof was not with Zimmerman. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty; and there just wasn't the proof. All else is speculation. Maybe the jury – on which it is true that no black person sat – acquitted George Zimmerman because they all felt that it is a white man's inalienable right to shoot a black kid. Maybe the system still remains racist to the core. Maybe. But more likely, faced with the vast responsibility of coming to a decision in full view of the might of the American media, the jury came to the conclusion that there was not enough evidence to convict a man of murder, or even manslaughter, beyond reasonable doubt. Of course America is a country still riven by racial tension. It would be stupid to pretend otherwise. Perhaps Zimmerman truly was, as many claim, a murderous racist. Perhaps, as his defence claims, he was a scared man under attack. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere inbetween, a man whose racial prejudices led him to read violence and malice into the hooded face of a young black man. But there just wasn't the proof. The root cause, whether accident or self-defence or racism, is secondary. In the end, Trayvon Martin was killed because Zimmerman had a gun. He had a gun, and he had, as many do, an understanding given of long national experience that the law affords him impunity to use it. President Obama gave a statement in response to the verdict. He said that people ought to honour Trayvon's memory by asking "if we're doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence". The answer is no. The administration's current efforts to impose even small measures of gun control are proving a Sisyphean task, because somehow after each tragic shooting, after a while, America fails to muster the outrage to overcome the gun lobby. Despite the public outcry around the trial, despite the thousands of other shootings this year, and last, and the thousands that there will be next year, few protesting the court's verdict seems to be calling for gun control. Just nebulous "justice". And at the bar in Miami, the patrons shrugged into their beers. There was baseball on the other screens. › Here's what the perfect women's magazine would look like A poster about the verdict in midtown Miami. Photograph: Nicky Woolf Nicky Woolf is the editor of New Statesman America. He has formerly written for the Guardian and the New Statesman. He tweets @NickyWoolf. Subscribe £1 per month


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Our opinion: Whether you have kids or not, school boards and budgets matter. Yet turnout is typically low.
Of the more than 500,000 registered voters in the four-county Capital Region, only about 11 percent cast a ballot in their local school elections in 2013.
The turnout is all the more dismal when you consider what's at stake.
A school election is the essence of local control over education. It directly affects the quality of the education of our children. What could be more important?
Even for people without children, the outcome still matters. It affects the amount of property taxes we pay and the caliber of our schools. Those are major factors determining the value of our homes. People want to live where the good schools are.
Most districts will be voting on proposed school operating budgets and filling seats on local boards of education. Some districts will also ask voters for consent on bond issues to finance school building upgrades and the purchase of new buses.
This year's proposed budgets, for the most part, reflect modest increases. Districts are under pressure to stay within a state imposed limit. In return, any school property tax increase will likely be offset by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's election year tax rebate program. But the modest increases don't cover the rising costs, which commonly translate into cuts in programs and staff.
School elections are also when voters have the important task of choosing who will serve on their local school board. Regrettably, in some districts this year, there is little or no choice. The number of candidates in many districts is equal only to the number of vacancies. In some cases, as in Schenectady, there are fewer people on the ballot than there are openings on the school board.
These boards also hire the superintendent of schools, who in more and more cases seem to be ending up in conflict with the board. On Sunday, the Times Union's Brendan Lyons and Lauren Stanforth documented several recent cases in Capital Region districts in which discord between the school board and the district's top administrator resulted in firings that carried six-figure severance packages. Annual salaries locally are also well into that range, between $150,000 and $190,000, with contracts usually running from three to five years. Choosing the right superintendent and judiciously handling his or her contract is a key task of the school board.
When you consider these unpaid boards oversee operations with multimillion dollar annual budgets and with hundreds of employees, it underscores the importance of turning out to vote today.
Hours when polls are open vary, with some starting as early as 6 a.m., others waiting until noon or 1 p.m. A summary of area ballot information and voting hours can be found at timesunion.com or on your district's website.
Regardless of how you vote, by participating in the democratic process you profoundly demonstrate the importance of our educational system — to yourself, your children, and your community.