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Do you agree that AJAX is a real breakthrough, making possible things that were impractical, if not impossible, before? I believe that anyone would agree to this statement.
Do you agree that AJAX is quite difficult and bothersome to implement without (but often also with) ad hoc programming tools such as libraries and controls? All in all, this statement is also hard to contradict.
Today's Web pages are cumbersome (or "rich" if you want to be polite). Such pages take a while to download and refresh; and having a significant set of interactive features, they tend to refresh quite often. The waiting time would even be valuable if only the new content could justify it. Instead, for the most part of it, the new content is just like the old content except some very small fragments. Any Web developer would agree on this point too.
However, any further perspectives and viewpoints will generate discussion -- sometimes heated -- among developers. Some developers believe that all you need is a mechanism in the Web development framework of choice that lets you refresh only the portion of the page that really requires updates. Other developers believe that to achieve this you must redesign your pages and applications from the ground up to follow the AJAX paradigm literally.
As a matter of fact, the AJAX paradigm turns out to be quite expensive to apply all the way through. For this reason, a simpler postback-based mechanism like ASP.NET Partial Rendering is an effective alternate approach. But how effective?
On the server, the ScriptManager control overrides the rendering phase and writes to the output stream only the output of the controls in the AJAX panels being really updated. As a result, only the delta of the page that has changed is returned. The JavaScript code that triggered the process receives the response and updates the DOM tree accordingly.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the process, let's review the amount of data being moved in the roundtrip.
During the upload of the request, a partial rendering operation adds some extra information not found in a regular postback. In particular, it adds an extra HTTP header and a new parameter in the form collection. Not really a big difference. The downloaded response may be significantly shorter, but some conditions affect the real size. The response is made of some fixed components -- the viewstate and other helper hidden fields such as EVENTVALIDATION -- plus variable-length content. The variable-length content contains the markup for only the portions of the page that have been updated during the request. Here are a few considerations:
- For pages with a very large viewstate, the difference is not significant because the large viewstate counts more than anything else. The viewstate is always returned entirely and it is never limited to only the controls really updated.
- To get the most out of partial rendering, you need to optimize your use of the viewstate.
- The size of the returned markup depends on the number and placement of UpdatePanel regions. Multiple but smaller UpdatePanels are preferable because they ould allow you to better restrict the area subject to dynamic updates. If a button doesn't change during a request, there's no reason for including it in an UpdatePanel, even though the same button is responsible for triggering the refresh of that UpdatePanel.
- Ideally, you should try to partition your page in non-overlapping UpdatePanel. However, this is not always possible.
In summary, there are many ways to set up a partial rendering operation within an ASP.NET page and minimize the amount of data being moved around. Does it really make a difference for the end user?
Partial rendering delivers some of the key benefits of AJAX, but it is just plain ASP.NET with a smarter and script-based management of the request. Actually, for the end user the big benefit of partial rendering is the perception of performance they experience when the page content is refreshed without any flickering in the whole page. Partial rendering delivers this AJAX benefit regardless of further optimizations.
The bottom line is that using partial rendering is effective because it neatly improves the user experience without much effort on the developer's side. Spending much time trying to further improve partial rendering by minimizing data transfer may result in tricky issues and even recommend a significant rearchitecture of the pages. Partial rendering is really effective if it is cheap to implement.


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I was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that could allow me to send mails to (and cc and bcc) to specified people with predefined template, only some values changed, like changelog and so on. So I wrote a set of files and below files to achieve the same. Hope it helps you too 🙂
First we will have a file called \"fields\" containing all the variable that we intend to use:
cc=\"Amit Agarwal\"
Ok, so here we are defning the to field, cc field and the other fields along with the name of the file to attach. Next we need the template to use. Create a file called \"template.changelog\" as defined in the above file:
Please find the changelog for $tag for $product-$customer. Issue addressed : $issue .
Next we have a shell script called \"mail.sh\" to actually send the mail. Here is the script:
source ./fields
rm -rf .temp .temp1
touch .temp
sed \"s/\\$product/$product/g\" $template > .temp1
sed \"s/\\$customer/$customer/g\" .temp1 > .temp
sed \"s/\\$issue/$issue/g\" .temp1 > .temp1
sed \"s/\\$tag/$tag/g\" .temp1 > .temp
rm -f .temp1
sendEmail -xu user -xp pass -s server -f agarwal -t \"$to\" -cc \"$cc\" -u \"[$product-$customer]:$subject for $issue\" -o message-file=.temp -a $attachment
echo \"Mail sent with \\nSubject $subject \\nto $to \\nand copied to $cc and \\nattached $attachment\"
In the shell script I am using sendEmail, but you can use any MTA that you want. 🙂
Well, I think you get the idea, so you can modify the script to include the necessary checks and modify according to your needs.

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REAL NAME: Yoshihiro Tajiri
5' 7", 185 pounds
BORN:September 29, 1970 in Tokyo, Japan
NICKNAMES: Tajiri, Aquarius, the Japanese Buzzsaw.
A veteran of Mexico and Japan, Yoshihiro Tajiri certainly made a name for himself in North America, spewing his green mist and trapping his opponents in the Tarantula in ECW and later, both the Raw and Smackdown brands of the WWE.
Trained by Kendo Nagasaki, the native of Tokyo, Japan made his September 19, 1994 debut in his native country, battling Takashi Okano for IWA Japan. A year after his debut, having wrestled in Japan and Mexico, Tajiri traveled to Williamsport, New Jersey, where, on June 24, 1995, he wrestled Dan Severn for the NWA World Championship.
It was while competing in the EMLL promotion in Mexico that Tajiri faced the top junior heavyweights in the world. Tajiri quickly became adept with the high-flying Lucha Libre style and began to incorporate parts of it into his own ring style which relies heavily and Japanese shoot wrestling. Donning a mask, Tajiri went by the name Aquarius.
Tajiri would take the Aquarius gimmick back to Japan in 1996 where on July 19, he would defeat Dr. Wagner, Jr. for the EMLL/CMLL Light Heavyweight Championship. A subsequent loss in Japan forced Aquarius to unmask to reveal Tajiri.
Tajiri would remain in Japan for the prestigious three-week Super Junior Tournament, held in the spring of 1997 by New Japan Pro Wrestling. Tajiri competed in the tournament along with Jushin Liger, Chris Jericho, and Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Teaming with Ryuji Yamakawa, Tajiri would win the Big Japan Tag Team titles on two occassions, defeating Takashi Ishikawa and Kishin Kawabata on July 23, 1997 and then Gedo and Jado on January 2, 1998.
In the interim, Tajiri would return to North America to work several Raw TV tapings in the summer and fall of 1997, against Taka Michinoku and Brian Christopher. But Tajiri would return to Japan before the year's end, to regain the Big Japan Tag Team titles, and also to defeat Gedo in Tokyo on February 3rd, to win a tournament held to crown the first Big Japan Junior Heavyweight Champion.
Before the end of 1998, Tajiri was back in North America, signing on with Extreme Championship Wrestling. His debut came on December 11, 1998 when he defeated Antifaz Del Norte. Soon after, he began an incredible feud with Mexican luchador Super Crazy. The two stole the show at ECW's January Guilty As Charged PPV and have put on what many consider the best series of matches in the North America that year. After a loss at Guilty as Charged, Super Crazy got the victory in their subsequent meetings, but both men earned the respect of the crowd.
In addition to his program with Super Crazy, Tajiri battled the likes of Little Guido (Nunzio) and Jerry Lynn before finding himself facing ECW World Champion Taz in the summer of 1999, losing all three times that Tajiri battled for the ECW title.
When it came to championships, however, Tajiri was successful during a three-way dance against Super Crazy and Little Guido on April 8, 2000, in Buffalo, New York to claim the ECW Television Championship. Three weeks later, however, Rhyno defeated Tajiri to end his reign as TV Champion.
After several more months of battling Lynn, Crazy and Guido, (not to mention the occasional bout against Steve Corino and Psicosis, Tajiri teamed with Mikey Whipwreck and made their way through the tournament to crown new ECW Tag Team Champions on August 25th. In the finals, Tajiri and Whipwreck fought off the teams of Tommy Dreamer/Jerry Lynn and Simon Diamond/Johnny Swinger. However, the next night, the Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke) won the titles.
Whipwreck and Tajiri would continue to battle (unfortunately unsuccessfully) the FBI in an attempt to regain the titles and were aided in that cause by the Sinister Minister (Jim Mitchell). Unfortunately, Whipwreck and Tajiri would never regain the tag titles and ECW would close its doors in early 2001.
After a brief stint in Combat Zone Wrestling (where he crossed paths with Super Crazy again and claimed, for a few hours, the CZW Heavyweight title), Tajiri signed on with WWE.
He made his first TV appearance in May, 2001 and soon became a sort of "aide" to WWE Commissioner William Regal. On August 6, 2001, Tajiri defeated X-Pac (Sean Waltman) for the WWE Light Heavyweight Championship, only to have X-Pac regain the title at SummerSlam.
In September, as the Alliance began to assert its power, Tajiri formed an Alliance of his own, with Diva Torrie Wilson. Wilson helped Tajiri defeat Chris Kanyon for the U.S. title, a championship he lost to Rhino at Unforgiven.
Tajiri would rebound to defeat Billy Kidman on October 22, 2001 to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. However, after doing so, he turned heel and began to mistreat Wilson. On April 4, 2002, Tajiri lost the title back to Kidman, and dumped Torrie Wilson in the process. Tajiri wasn't without the Cruiserweight Championship for long, defeating Kidman to regain the title at Backlash three weeks later.
Tajiri would lose the title to The Hurricane in May but would remain in the title hunt for months to come, receiving several shots against eventual champion Jamie Noble. He also made a rather strange teammate of Brock Lesnar in the Smackdown Tag Team title tournament, but the unlikely pair lost in the first round to eventual finalists Rey Mysterio and Edge.
In the spring of 2003, Tajiri would get another run at those WWE Tag Team titles. As the surprise partner of Eddie Guerrero at Judgment Day, Tajiri would help upset Team Angle for the belts. Guerrero and Tajiri would retain the tag team titles until July 3rd when Team Angle regained the championships. Eddie would turn on Tajiri after the match.
In September 2003, Tajiri would turn heel himself, spewing mist in the face of Rey Mysterio in Tajiri's quest for the Cruiserweight Championship, a title he would regain on September 25, 2003. Tajiri would enlist the help of Akio and Sakoda. in retaining the championship over the next few months, only to lose the belt back to Mysterio on January 1, 2004.
Drafted to Raw in March, 2004, Tajiri earned the ire of Johnathan Coachman, leading to a bout at Backlash where Tajiri was defeated, thanks to interference from Garrison Cade.
In the summer of 2004, Tajiri began teaming with the man who had defeated him for the ECW TV title, Rhyno, and the team made a run at La Resistance's WWE Tag Team titles. While the Tajiri/Rhyno team never managed to overcome La Resistance, Tajiri had more success teaming with William Regal. On February 7, 2005, with Raw eminating from Japan, Regal and Tajiri finally ended La Resistance's title reign.
Tajiri and Regal would overcome La Resistance and the Heartthrobs before finally losing the Tag Team titles to Rosey and the Hurricane as part of a Tag Team Turmoil match at Backlash 2005. Regal would eventually turn his back on Tajiri due to the latter's involvement in ECW's One Night Stand pay-per-view. Tajiri would lose an International three-way dance to winner Super Crazy. (Little Guido was the third participant.)
Remaining on the Raw roster, Tajiri spent more time on Heat than on the live show itself, although he did have a brief program with Chris Masters, spewing green mist in Master's face during the Master Lock Challenge.
In late 2005, Tajiri signed a new three-year contract with WWE, only to ask for his release and leaving the WWE in December. He returned to Japan and began working for the HUSTLE promotion.
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Kiva training is done. My bags are packed. I'm about as ready as I can be to make it from San Diego, to LAX, to Houston, to Buenos Aires, and then on to Asuncion, Paraguay. So, here I am, ready to depart for another meet and greet with customs officials, and it seems appropriate to spend a little time thinking and sharing about why, exactly, I've decided to hit the road again. On Kiva's website, each lender creates a profile by providing his or her name, location, picture, and answer to the prompt "I loan because…" My lender page says that I loan because I believe in the power of empowerment. This idea, more than anything else, describes why I'm going to work for Kiva and why I wanted to learn more about microfinance.
Last year, when I was in Rwanda working for Orphans of Rwanda (ORI), it became very clear to me how microcredit could fill a critical niche in a developing economy. While ORI focuses on using university education to empower a small number of talented students to become competitive members of the country's educated workforce (very important work in itself), I knew that thousands of young Rwandans would never have access to the type of support that ORI provides. Instead, those who cannot afford secondary or tertiary education struggle to find a foothold in their local economy–some will succeed and others will not. The women who sold fruit and vegetables on my street, the drivers of the local motorcycle taxis, and the owners of the small specialty shops that line Kigali's downtown are all examples of people who have found a way to involve themselves in the local economy. But without access to credit, even the most entreprenurial-minded folks may not be able to endure setbacks such as a missed product delivery, a broken engine, or the appearance of new competition. A small loan can help those people stay afloat and out of poverty. When times are good it can help those entreprenuers grow their business, better support their families, and give themseleves the cushion they need to weather hard times. The concept is incredibly compelling, and the fact that Kiva lets individuals from all over the world empower one another by directly offering a loan to another person piqued my interest even more.
But does it always work the way it's supposed to? Are there other benefits that we should pay more attention to? By serving as a Kiva Fellow in Paraguay, I hope to find out. Over the course of my four-month fellowship, I will meet over 100 borrowers. I'll learn about Kiva's partner in Asuncion, Fundacion Paraguaya. And, most importantly, I'll do my best to share what I see, hear, and experience, with the rest of the Kiva community.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 3, 2008) – Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Bryn Kehoe (North Bend, Ohio) represented the U.S. Women's Volleyball National Training Team during an autograph signing session Feb. 3 at Colorado College as part of National Girls and Women in Sports Day festivities.
NGWSD began in 1987 as a day to remember U.S. Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman for her athletic achievements and her work to assure equality for women's sports. Hyman died of Marfan's Syndrome in 1986 while competing in a volleyball tournament in Japan. She had just been substituted out of a match when she had succumbed to the undiagnosed illness. Marfan Syndrome affects more than 1 in 10,000 people.
Since Hyman's passing, NGWSD has evolved into a day to acknowledge the past and recognize current sports achievements, the positive influence of sports participation, and the continuing struggle for equality and access for women in sports.
Hyman's achievements were numerous. She helped the U.S. Olympic Team to a silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, four years after her and her teammates did not have the opportunity to compete in the U.S.-boycotted 1980 Olympic Games. Among her achievements was being selected Best Hitter at the 1981 World Cup.


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Abstract: This paper describes and analyses preparations for the holding of an anthropologist potter's one-man show in a Japanese department store. Based on participant observation, it describes in detail the strategic planning of, and preparations for, the fieldworker's own pottery exhibition in a department store located in northern Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands and home to a long tradition of porcelain and stoneware production. The paper focuses on the main players in the ceramic art world; the social interaction underpinning an exhibition; the conflicting ideals of 'aesthetics', display and money (pricing); and the ways in which different sets of values, and evaluating processes, affected the reception of the author's work. It concludes by developing a theory of values in the light of recent writings in the field of cultural economics. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7942
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Got a dollar? Looking for a nice treat for yourself or a stocking stuffer for your electronic savvy reader? For a short time, Avon Books is having a sale, and Holidays are Hell is included! Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel revolves around Pierce and Rachel when Rachel was 18 and brought back more than she bargained for when her brother dared her. It's a nice glimpse into Rachel's world when she was still a little weak and struggling to fit in. Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel is also available in Into the Woods, but the reason I'm telling you is because of who I'm paired with in the original anthology. For .99 cents, you also get one of Vicki Pettersson's, Lynsay Sands's, and Marjorie Liu's gems. I've got links to most of the major e-retailers.
If you're not sure if you have this one or not, here's an excerpt: Holidays are Hell


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Welcome to the Moylagh Gaelic Football Team Home Page
Please Visit our Official Sponsor The Pallet Network www.tpn.ie
Gaelic football has been played in Moylagh in some shape or form for as long as the GAA has existed, however due to the ravages of emigration, amalgamation and famine the club only became successful from the late sixties onwards. This golden era culminated in the glorious intermediate success of 1975. The team competed in the senior championship before slipping back to junior where it plies its trade at present. We came close to glory in 1999 only to be denied by St Pauls in a classic final.
Our second team tasted success in 2006 when the Daire flood captained team won the junior d championship.
Officers Elected For Moylagh GAA 2017
Presidents: Paddy Briody,
Vice Presidents: Johnny Flood,Tom Gibney, Ned Boyle, John Martin, Paddy Traynor
Chairman; John Egenton
Vice Chairman; Declan Flood
Secretary; Colm Fanning
Assist. Secretary; Enda McNamee
Treasurer; Eamonn Campbell
Ladies Chairperson; Marie Masterson
Ladies Secretary; Suzanne Mullally
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Co. Board Delegates; Sean Dolan, John Egenton
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The very definition of a phobia is an "irrational fear." Phobias are always overreactions to mild dangers, constant fear of rare dangers, and outright terror of things that are not dangerous at all. Because of their irrationality, it seems like phobias can't have an evolutionary purpose. But why do we have them?
It's miserable researching an article on phobias because almost ever single source has a picture of a damn spider. I don't like them. In fact, I want to stomp them flat, and only fear of karmic retribution makes me collect them in glasses and toss them into the garden.
I have no reason to fear spiders. No spider has ever harmed me, and I'm pretty sure no spider in my neck of the woods could. Spiders are part of the "animal" class of common phobias (which include snakes and rats).
Another common class of phobias are spatial ones, such as claustrophobia, agoraphobia, and acrophobia. It's not strange that these things occasionally provoke fear. It's just strange that they provoke such massive fear in some people that they aren't, by any standard, reasonable.
There is a strictly biological component to phobias. A quick look at how the brain works when phobic people are triggered suggests the problem. When worrisome stimuli get into the brain, there are two ways they can go; to the amygdala and to the sensory cortex. The sensory cortex is a calm, rational part of the brain. It casts around the rest of the brain for more information and looks at general knowledge, present context, and past experience before it reacts.
The amygdala, on the other hand, is the part of the brain that gets an unpleasant stimulus and screams, "What are you doing? Run, stupid!" When people say that phobias aren't rational, they're right. The amygdala is not there to be rational. It's there to get results. And it does, often in the form of a panic attack.
When it comes to the reasons why the amygdala is triggered at the sight of, say, a rat, the psychiatric community gives a big shrug. The top four answers are genetics, trauma, overall stress, and a combination of the three. The way science arrived at these answers is much more interesting than the answers themselves.
Some scientists look to simple genetics to see if they can find the answer to phobias. It makes sense, to an extent. Most of the things people are afraid of things like creepy-crawlies, heights, or tight enclosures. All could have caused our too-bold ancestors to die off early. It makes sense that some extreme aversion would be hard-wired into certain people.
Pure nature is tough to establish independently of that pesky thing known as nurture, however. Families are raised together, and one person's phobia can affect another's likelihood of developing the same phobia. Researchers figured the most likely way to ferret out the genetic reason behind phobias was a twin study. In the nineties and early 2000s, a group of studies found twins raised apart tended to have similar phobias.
There was a catch, though. The twins had social phobias, all related to meeting and associating with people. These social phobias sprang from other genetic disorders, like anxiety disorder and extreme introversion. Although the conditions that contributed to the phobia might have been hard-wired into the twins, the actual phobia might have been a likely effect of the already present conditions. Hardly a genetic smoking gun.
A more interesting, and sinister, experiment makes the case for both genetics and traumatic conditioning. Martin Seligman, a psychologist who made a name for himself giving dogs electric shocks to show that helplessness can be learned, turned his eyes to bigger game. He applied shocks while exposing subjects to images of certain stimuli.
He found that spiders, snakes, rats, and other unpleasant images took only about four rounds of shock treatment to produce a phobic response, even without the shocks. That seemed very much like a conditioned response, until he did the same thing with pictures of flowers and other neutral things. Although subjects did eventually become phobic of flowers, it took a much longer series of shocks to knock the scare into them. It seems that we're primed to respond to certain phobias, and unpleasant events can set us off.
Another series of experiments were performed on rhesus monkeys. The monkeys were shown to be deeply afraid of snakes in the wild, but did not fear them when raised in a lab or a domestic environment. Domesticated monkeys were rounded up and shown films of their fellow monkeys in the wild reacting fearfully. The films sometimes made it look like the wild monkeys were reacting to a snake, and sometimes to a bunch of flowers. The domesticated rhesus monkeys developed a phobia of snakes, but didn't react similarly to flowers. There's clearly something that crawls around the brain clearing a path for certain things to trigger the amygdala, but other things are harder to develop into a fear. Something primed the monkeys, but it was social conditioning that set them off.
These kinds of common phobias, prepared by whatever murky genetics and brought to the forefront of the brain by sadistic psychologists, make sense. But then what about the many strange phobias that people develop? What about the woman in the UK who suddenly was so afraid of peas that she couldn't walk down the frozen food aisle and would run out of restaurants if someone near her ordered them? What about pogonophobia, the fear of people with beards? What about the infamous fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth?
The last one, actually, seems to trigger a fear of suffocation. Regular food can be swallowed or spit out, but peanut butter clings on, obstructing the mouth and making people feel like they're choking. The rest seem to be responses to a loss of control, and the stress that comes with that. When a person is put under a great deal of stress, especially if that stress comes with hormones — as with the case of the pea-fearer, who was pregnant — the mind casts around for something that has caused emotional distress. Whatever it seizes on — whether it's thunder during a storm or frozen peas or any other harmless object — triggers the amygdala and in turn provokes a panic response in the sufferer.
The list of fringe phobias is fun to scan. Aurophobia is the fear of gold. Auroraphobia is the fear of the Northern Lights. One of the more recently-named phobias is genuphobia, the fear of knees.
But are these fears as silly as they seem? A knee is more likely to do real damage to me than a spider. Peanut butter will put more people in the hospital this year than plane crashes. And at least you can slip on frozen peas, which is more than anyone can say about wide-open spaces. Some phobias, like escalators, are common, while some phobias, like pluviophobia (the fear of getting rained on) are uncommon, but they are about equally likely to hurt you. They are equally irrational causes for fear. And strangely, nobody has coined the term for a phobia of sadistic experimental psychologists and their pictures of spiders.
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Twenty-three year-old vocal powerhouse Liel Kolet began her professional career at the age of 12, after winning the prestigious European talent contest, Bravo Bravissimo. Blessed with extraordinary talent, an angelic voice and a magical persona that captivates audiences around the world, Liel has performed all over the world and has collaborated with musical greats, Andrea Bocelli, The Scorpions, Patti Labelle, Herbie Hancock and Slash, and has also had the honor of sharing a stage with President Bill Clinton.
Liel's career skyrocketed in 2003, after a landmark performance at Israeli President Shimon Peres' 80th birthday celebration, during which Liel spontaneously invited President Bill Clinton to join her on stage to sing one of history's greatest peace songs, John Lennon's "Imagine," along with a choir of 40 Jewish children and 40 Arabic children. The impromptu duet was broadcast via CNN/International, instigating a firestorm of publicity that elevated Liel's status internationally, making her a "highly sought after personality" for royal events, peace concerts and charity events throughout the world.
At the age of 15, Liel took Germany by storm, receiving awards and accolades for both her musical talent and humanitarian efforts including the prestigious German Radio Award. Two years later, in 2006 Liel released her first international album, "Unison," which included a blend of pop-classical songs wrapped in ethnic flavors, sung in both English and Spanish. In 2009, Liel released her sophomore album, "Be Free," a mix of upbeat pop-classical songs and strong ballads that boasts tracks featuring legendary musicians Patti LaBelle and Harbie Hancock.
Born to Indian Jewish parents on a Kibbutz in northern Israel, Liel's upbringing in one of the most war-torn parts of the world shaped her musical and personal goals, instilling a burning desire to spread the message of peace through her music and voice. Liel's personal crusade to promote peace and for the wellbeing of children all over the world has brought the singer-songwriter international attention as her generation's symbol of peace.
In 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert nominated Liel as Official Ambassador for Northern Israel. She has also serves as official ambassador for The Peres Center for Peace, Sheba Medical Center Children's Hospital and international peace organizations Seeds of Peace and Children of Peace. In addition, since beginning her musical career at age 13, Liel has performed to raise funds and awareness for a number of organizations, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNISEF), Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO), The Urban Zen Foundation, KidsRights, Save a Child's Heart (SACH) and Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
Liel currently resides in Los Angeles, California and will begin touring to promote the release of her forthcoming album, "Ray of Hope," produced by 16-time Grammy Award Winner Humberto Gatica, in September, 2013.
For more information about Liel Kolet, please visit www.LielKolet.com.
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I'm suffering from both a Kissaway Trail hangover and withdrawal after seeing the Danish band perform as the opening act for The Temper Trap this past Friday night in Columbus, Ohio. The five-piece (six if you count the bearded and dancing tambourine player) blew me away with a sound that was equal parts Arcade Fire, Mew, Snow Patrol, Sigur Ros, Long-view, Modest Mouse and Polyphonic Spree. Everything built up into huge anthemic crescendos that rained on the close-to-sold-out audience and kept me (and hundreds others) in a 45-minute state of bliss. After their set was done, I went backstage and threw a few questions at Rune Pedersen (bass), Hasse Mydtskov (drums), and Daniel Skjoldmose (guitars, keyboards). Apologies for the background noise (ie – Temper Trap performing), the dressing room walls were pretty thin.
Rune told me that after this run of dates with The Temper Trap, The Kissaway Trail is heading overseas but will be back in the States this summer/fall and will be performing at some festivals (hmm … maybe Lollapalooza?). You can pick up the band's U.S. debut release, Sleep Mountain (Bella Union / Yep Roc), on April 20.


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"Our view," said Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for state Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, "is the Legislature doesn't tell itself what to do by statute. It does it by rule."
That was Barankin's explanation,reported by the Los Angeles Times, of why the Legislature's upper chamber killed a measure by Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills, that would have statutorily required the salaries of all lawmakers and staff to be annually posted online.
Huber's measure, AB 2064, was prompted by recent revelations that city officials in Bell received ginormous pay and pension benefits, unbeknownst to residents of the small, working-class municipality.
Her colleagues were supportive of the provision of her bill that would have mandated that salaries of city and county officials throughout the state be published online. But they drew the line at her proposal that the Legislature be held to the same requirement.
What confounded was why Steinberg and his fellow Senate leaders found Huber's measure so objectionable. After all, salaries of lawmakers have long been available online on a website maintained by the California Citizens Compensation Commission.
Indeed, not until the state Senate "voluntarily" posted the salary information online – ostensibly to show Huber that her proposed statutory requirement was unnecessary - and the Assembly followed suit did the public get a hint of what Steinberg and other Legislative leaders really were trying to hide.
It was not the statutorily determined salaries of lawmakers, but the secret, unchecked salaries of the legion of staff working for the lawmakers. What we have in the state capitol is a patronage system financed by California taxpayers.
A case in point is the 24 individuals working for the Assembly's Democratic Caucus, averaging $135,000 a year. Fifteen of the high-paid 24 are listed as Chief Consultants; another five as Principal Consultants. If there really was transparency in Sacramento, they would be listed as political apparatchiks
Senate Republicans play the patronage game as well, although they generally do not pay the generous salaries the Democrats do. The GOP employs 34 individuals who are listed either as Policy Consultants, Fiscal Consultants or Caucus Staff.
The most egregious example of payroll patronage is Steinberg himself. He has 36 staffers at his beck and call, including not one, not two, not three, but four Executive Assistants. His bloated staff costs California taxpayers more than $1 million a year in salaries, not to mention benefits.
The Legislature has more staff than it needs and a higher payroll than the state treasury can afford. Only because Senate and Assembly leadership felt compelled to post staff salaries online has the public learned of that outrage.


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Adrian Mourby is an award-winning author and producer. He is also a journalist, novelist, hotel historian and columnist for Opera Now Magazine.
Among Adrian's recent books is an illustrated guide about places around the world that have inspired great works of literature. Rooms of One's Own was was recently Highly Commended as Narrative Travel Book of the Year by the British Guild of Travel Writers in 2019. A sequel, Rooms with a View was subsequently published by Orion Books. Rooms with a View tells the secret stories of 50 grand hotels around the world.
Reviews of Rooms of One's Own:
"What kind of place makes us creative? Adrian Mourby has examined the rooms where thoughts and characters were born that still resonate across the ages. A fascinating study." - Julian Fellowes
"If you're looking for a coffee table book in 2017, look no further than award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby, and his work Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History. Exploring locations such as Christopher Isherwood's Berlin and the Edinburgh Café in which Harry Potter was born, Mourby explores the places that have inspired some of our favourite reads. - Literature To Look Out For In 2017
"Adrian Mourby has a delightful way about him. His writing is warm and characterful - Outlet
"Adrian Mourby's books are indispensible holiday companions" -Monocle Magazine
"This is a book to keep securely on your shelf, until the chance re-encounter with it perhaps inspires a travel of your own.
The format of small essays is a mastery of concision, and you really can pick up a lot through just a few well-chosen words, as our author lucks into select rooms, or just pays the National Trust dues and ambles along on the industrial-scale tourism beloved writers can inspire. What we have here is a volume that really nails what it wants to set out and do – to such an extent it begs the obvious question, where was it written?"
This is a lovely little book to sit down with and fly around the world from your armchair - Butterfly Elephant
... this book is a must-have. Mr. Mourby has thoughtfully selected 50 authors–from Kipling to Kerouac, Pushkin to Proust, Runyon to Rowling–and escorts his readers on a journey around much of the world to visit where these literary giants lived, loved, and wrote their enduring works. The book is organized in orderly fashion, geographically, with a chapter of just a few pages (including a photo) for each luminary, making it ideal to consume in bites. But once you get a taste of this book, peppered with Mourby's wry sense of humor and personal asides, you'll want to devour this literary feast in one sitting" - Tricia Pimental
Adrian has lectured about Rooms of One's Own at the Ryedale and Oxford Literary Festivals as well as appearing at Dr Johnson's House in London to talk about the book.
Adrian also leads cultural tours in Europe. In 2019 you can join him in Italy with both Opera in Style and Prestige Travel:
Two tours in January 2019: Now completed. Two more tours are scheduled for January 2020
Puccini Festival in Torre de Lago July 2019 Two tours Booking now
Rossini Festival in Pesaro August 2019 One tour Booking now
Verdi Festival in Parma Otober 2019 One tour Booking now
Below you can discover more about Adrian's career as a writer and as a producer, as well as his work in opera, in travel journalism and as a hotel historian.
Adrian also organises the annual Freelancer's Christmas Ball in London, honouring talented writers who don't know where their next pay cheque is coming from - but who will spend it anyway.
Until 2018 Adrian published Mourby's List every December. This round up of the 10 Best Martinis that had ome his way in the previous year is now suspended to give his liver a rest. You'll still find it on Twitter @AdrianMourby
It's a busy life.
Adrian has published six books, including the novels We Think the World of Him (1996) The Four of Us (1997) Wishdaughter (2004). He wrote two series of BBC Radio 4's comedy Whatever Happened To...? the further adventures of various fictional characters for which he won the Sony Silver Award for Creative Writing on Radio.
In 1997, his book Whatever Happened to ...?: The Ultimate Sequels was published with more such tales. Adrian has also written the new AA guides to Venice (2007) and Brussels (2008) and contributed to Michelin's Singapore guidebook (2009). For Dorling Kindersley Adrian has contributed to the Eyewitness Guide to Brussels and Bruges (2009) to DK's Make The Most of Your Time on Earth (2010) and the new Eyewitness Guide to Great Britain (2014).
Wishdaughter is now available for download on Amazon Kindle. Two further novels Islands & The Desert and Faithful in My Fashion have been completed and will be published shortly. In total a five novel sequence is envisaged. Each book stands entirely on its own but the five can also be read in sequence.
In 2017 Adrian wrote two books, the first was about 50 places in the world that have inspired great works of literature. Rooms of One's Own was published by Icon Press in June 2017 and was Highly Commended in the 2018 British Travel Writers' Awards as Narrative Travel Book of the Year. A sequel Rooms with a View was published in November 2017 and republished in paperback in 2018.
Adrian was a BBC producer for twelve years, where, amongst various series and single plays, he produced the television adaptation of Kingsley Amis' The Old Devils.
For these productions, he won numerous national and international awards [Smith/Kline 1982 / Sony 1985 / BAFTA Cymru 1991 / Golden Gate 1993 / BAFTA Cymru 1993 / Celtic Film Festival 1994 / New York Festivals 1994 / Sony 1995], before turning to full-time writing and broadcasting. In 2007 he won the Special Award for Opera Journalism, given annually by the Fondazione Festival Pucciniamo, Italy. In 2013 Adrian won Runner Up in the Italian Tourist Board Awards for his travel journalism and in 2014 he won Best Travel Article in a Magazine. In 2018 Adrian's book Rooms of One's Own was Highly Commended by the British Guild of Travel Writers as Narrative Travel Book of the Year.
In 2008 Adrian produced The Grave's A Fine & Private Place a metaphysical evening in New College Chapel, Oxford with the actor Ian Hogg and full orchestra. Given its critical success, discussions are underway to revive this show in 2019/2020.
Adrian is a prolific programme essayist working with opera companies in the UK and Europe, including Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Wienerstaatsoper and Grand Theatre de Geneve.
His own opera productions include Semele (Malta 2002) Cosi fan tutte (Oxford 2004) Marriage of Figaro (Blewbury Festival 2006). He was also the creator and writer of Tristan and Matilda, a long-running comic strip in Opera Now magazine that came to end amid howls of protest from the readership. One correspondent called it, with admirable hyperbole, "a work of genius".
In 2010 Adrian took part in BBC Radio 3's A-Z of Opera contributing to the letters H (for Heroes) K (for Kings) M (for Mad Scenes) V (for Verismo) and X (for Censorship). He also was "in conversation" before a transmission of The Abduction from the Seraglio during Radio 3's Mozart festival.
For most of 2010 Adrian was part of an international panel, chaired by Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen, evaluating the work of Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre and its role as Denmark's national stage.
In September 2012 Adrian presented From Neptune to Nixon on Radio 3 from the BBC Proms. In 2013 he contributed to the Radio 3's coverage of the Wagner bicentennial and in 2014 he worked at Wienerstaatsoper as dramaturg on Kasper Holten's production of Idomeneo. [ http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJvxVzyZ14 ]
In 2015 Adrian's opera essays appeared in programmes for Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Kingdom of Mahogany) English National Opera (Mastersingers and Indian Queen) Welsh National Opera (Hansel & Gretl) Scottish Opera (Orfeo) Garsington Opera (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Wienerstaatsoper (The Tempest) and Grand Theatre de Geneve (William Tell).
In 2016 Adrian wrote for Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Boris Godunov and Cosi fan Tutte) English National Opera (Sunset Boulevard) Welsh National Opera (The Figaro Trilogy) Scottish Opera (The Mikado and Marriage of Figaro) Holland Park Opera (Die Fledermaus) Opera North (Gotterdamerung) Grand Theatre de Geneve (Alcina) and Goteborg Opera (Madama Butterfly).
The same opera companies have employed Adrian in 2017 and 18. He is currently writing for Royal Opera Covent Garden, Wienerstaatsoper and Opera North.
(2008 to the present - most recent travels at the bottom of this page in yellow highlighter)
In 2008 Adrian travelled to over 20 countries for a variety of British newspapers and magazines. His busiest month was August which took him to New York, Boston, Cortona, Lucca, Botswana, Zambia and Malawi.
In 2009 the workload did not diminish with longhaul trips to Hawai'i and Colombia as welcome return visits to Zurich, Brussels and Italy.
At the beginning of 2010 Adrian travelled to Istanbul, St Petersburg, Riga, Copenhagen, Quebec, Venice, Serbia, Morocco, Cairo and Brussels. In June 2010 he covered five countries and three music festivals in the space of three and a half weeks, flying directly or driving between Bologna, Rome, Sorrento, Puglia, Ravello, Almaty and Astana in Kazakhstan, Liepaja and Riga in Latvia, Tallinn and Paris. In September 2010 he travelled on the Orient Express from Istanbul to Venice from where he flew directly to the Arctic Circle and Copenhagen and then finally Curacao for its independence celebrations in October. In December he visited Shanghai, the Baltics and Helsinki.
In October 2010 Adrian appeared at the Appledore Literary Festival to help launch Make The Most of Your Time on Earth. He also completed an extensive Oxford guide for Simon Seeks and then immediately flew to New Zealand to board an expedition ship for Antarctica. New Year was celebrated by crossing into the Antarctic Circle.
After days at Cape Denison, Adrian returned to New Zealand via the Sub-Antarctic islands and then flew back via Hong Kong.
2011 included many trips to Amsterdam for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Brazil for The Independent on Sunday, Transylvania by train for The Standard and New York for various publications. His report on bullfighting in Portugal generated the biggest postbag of letters ever received by the Independent's travel desk. Another high profile moment was meeting Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma which he wrote up for three publications.
2012 began with New Year celebrations in New Orleans followed by visits to Flanders, Russia and Istanbul. Adrian and his wife were snowed in while visiting in Rome early in the year. In the spring they toured South East Asia visiting Bangkok, Angkor Wat and Ho Chi Minh City. Subsequent travels included Vienna, Munich, Prague and Milan. In June Adrian sailed from Spain to Italy on a five-masted clipper and recreated the course of the Mille Miglia from Brescia to Rome. In the Autumn he visited the Amalfi Coast and Peru, including a trip to Cuzco and Machu Picchu. Adrian was also the first UK journalist to visit Kosice, to discover its plans to be European Capital of Culture in 2013.
2013 involved more travels to Italy plus first visits to Scotland and Luxembourg. Return journeys included Santorini and Zambia where Adrian and his wife went on walking safari. Over the summer Adrian was in Bayreuth for its big Wagner anniversary year, reviewing the new Castorf Ring Cycle for the UK press. He followed this by a long drive round Turkey's Black Seas coast and a shorter cycle ride from Venice to Mantua. With the 400th anniversary of the Hanoverian monarchs approaching fast Adrian visited Hanover, Berlin, Potsdam, Regensburg and Nuremberg. He also spent time in Athens and Helsinki.
In 2013 Adrian was Guest Editor at Britain's Finest Hotels and in June 2013 he edited the hotels section of the new Dorling Kinderlsey Eyewitness Guide to Great Britian. "Where has this wonderful country been all my life?" he tweeted. Adrian is currently Contributing Editor to the international series, Famous Hotels (www.famoushotels.org).
2014 After beginning the year in Morocco and Gstaad Adrian won the award for Best Travel Article in a Magazine 2013 as presented by the Italian Tourist Board. Subsequent travels have included Berlin, Dublin, Athens, the Amalfi Coast, Santorini, Boston, Venice, Florence, Caligari, Vienna and Rwanda, India and Mantua.
2015 Having an extension built at the family home meant that at the begining of 2015 Adrian was only travelling short haul. 2015 trips included Paris, Gstaad, Zurich, Vienna, Geneva, Santorini, Morocco, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro and New England. But most of Adrian's travels were within the UK, including visits to Scotland, Suffolk, Essex and Oxford for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine.
Travels in 2016 and 2017 included familiar favourites like Rome, Venice, Santorini, Paros and Athens as well as Germany, France and Switzerland but also journeying further to Jordan, America and Madagascar.
Travels in 2018 included North Carolina, Rome,Venice, Scotland, Helsinki, Krakow and Florida. Adrian began 2019 as Writer in Residence on Ocean Drive, South Beach Miami.
Travels in 2019 will include Miami, Venice, the Cyclades, Athens, Puglia, Sorrento.
A long-held enthusiasm for hotels has resulted in Adrian being commissioned to write histories specifically for over 20 UK hotels.
Given his passion for old hotels this is proving a labour of love and fits in well with his work as Contributing Editor for Famous Hotels (www.famoushotels.org) for Britain's Finest Hotels (www.britainsfinest.co.uk/editorspick/index.cfm/profile/adrian-mourby)
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Outfit Details
Joe Fresh green jeans (similar), silk blouse (similar) and cardigan
Aritzia floral t-shirt
assorted bangles (InPink, Forever 21, J. Crew, H&M)
Stella & Dot Necklaces
Arturo Chiang snakeskin flats (similar)
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You always have the best accessories on! I love your spring time layering process--I'm in the same boat, and am just itching to have bare legs! Girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. ;)ReplyDelete
Love the colour of the pants!
Good for you for entering the run! Definitely stick with it; it took me a bit before the runner's high started to hit, but when it does it's amazing - you'll want to never stop running!! Good luck on the run!
I LOVE those jeans! I need a pair of coloured jeans in my life asap.ReplyDelete
Love the look, Ashley! Those green jeans are amazing, can't believe they're from Joe! I saw the Hunger Games before reading the books (though I knew the story because I got my friend to tell me)... I think I'll try reading them now and see if my feelings towards the movie change. I did like it though!
xo, alison*elle
I am soooo not looking forward to heading back to AB for the weird spring weather.
Good luck on your 10k (even though it's not for a while). I'm hoping to start training for the Seattle half as soon as I'm back in Calgary.
Also, love the jeans!
... I didn't know where to reply to you, so I guess I'll just leave another comment here, ha (is it even possible to reply to comments on Blogger??).
The Seattle half isn't until November 25th! It leaves loooooads of time to train.
I love the colour of those pants! Do you find Joe Fresh jeans comfortable? I love their tops and other products, but I have trouble with their bottoms.
Also, I'm with you on the running woes! I am not training for any particular reason other than to get in better shape, but I struggle with running for extended periods of time. It gets easier, but I can't imagine how it is even possible to run 10K at this point, so kudos to you :)
Good luck training for the 10k, that's amaaazing! I hope to one day be able to do that and a half marathon, so so amazing.
I love the green pants and all your arm candy!! I hate that it's supposed to snow tomorrow, ugh!! It better smarten up soon, I want sppppring
I'm ready for full blown spring too. We had amazing weather a few weeks ago, it felt like summer! But now it's been fluctuating, one day it's warm enough not to wear tights and the next it's not. Anyway, I love those green pants! Congrats on training for a 10K! That's awesome! Frank and I are doing the Insanity workout...so I feel your pain! ;)ReplyDelete
I'm the opposite - I was so happy that I read the book first, so that I could get the full suspense while reading it!
Good luck with the marathon - always envious of those people who get the high from exercise, have never happened to me! Always feels like work.
Gorgeous jeans. That color is so fitting for spring! Plus they look great with the yellow in your photos.
ohhhh i just love the colour of your jeans it is awesome!! and good luck training for your 10k run that is amazing ;)ReplyDelete
The pants have such a great color.ReplyDelete
You carry off colored jeans SO well!!! Wish I had the guts to do that!! And I love those accessories; they go together so perfectly :)ReplyDelete
I love those green jeans! Also - good on you for running a 10k! I am in the midst of working my way up to a 5k, and then continuing to train for the 10k during our PEI Race Weekend in October.ReplyDelete
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Father Brendan Lee: Still living? Then you have a future
You know, I only reminisce on my footy days to teach people about religion. So an old teammate and I were reminiscing on our time at the East Wagga Kooringal Hawks Football Club when I kicked yet another goal against Narrandera – a real David and Goliath match-up.
It was a wet ground, like in the days of Noah, but did that scare me? No.
I fought like Isaiah against the prophets of Baal!
How did I kick yet another goal? I saw a particularly tough ruck going on, but fearlessly went in like Daniel into the lions' den!
A couple of Narrandera players tried to shepherd me, and not like Jesus, but I pushed through them like Samson through the Philistines.
I dove in and picked off that ball like Eve picking off the forbidden fruit, splitting the fierce Narrandera pack like Moses parting the Red Sea.
After this heroic performance, of Biblical proportions, I kicked a goal like … hmmm, I can't remember anyone in the Bible who actually kicked an Australian Rules goal.
But I remember so very clearly kicking that goal against Narrandera … or did I only kick a behind?
While we may forget a few things here and there along the way – and some things perhaps are best forgotten – it is also true that, in serious matters, your past matters.
So we have a new Prime Minister … again. Why? I think in part because of the way our old Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull came to power.
Mr Turnbull was wrestled to the ground by Scott Morrison, using a similar move Mr Turnbull used on the then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
As Jesus said: "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Our past matters.
Consider the recent discovery of the horrible past of US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick that will continue to hurt people's lives well into the future. Our past matters.
But the fact that our past matters isn't always bad news. Of the 16 teams in this year's all-over-the-place season of the NRL, only one team has lost all of its last three games: the mighty South Sydney Rabbitohs.
So, why are they equal-second on the ladder and happily finals-bound?
Because up until July, the Rabbitohs were having their longest unbeaten run in 29 years. So the fact that our past matters can also clearly work in our favour.
But what can you do now if you have a past you are not proud of? I mean, you can't change your past, right?
Well, the good news is you can change your past … slowly.
I can think of mornings where I have hit that wicked snooze button just once and slept in for only 10 minutes, but it threw my whole day out.
It's not my fault – Sanyo should not have made it the biggest button on the clock!
Seriously, if you stop blaming Sanyo and start blaming yourself for past sleep-ins, you can start getting up on time tomorrow. And then the next day, and then the next day...
As the days clock up and you move more and more into the future, your past is now organised – not a series of sleep-ins.
We are creating the past of our future now, and this is an exciting possibility. Teenagers will sometimes tell me "Father, my life is ruined!" Or even "my life is over!" But nobody can honestly say this, not even the elderly – only the dead.
We are creating the past of our future now, and this is an exciting possibility.
Teenagers will sometimes tell me "Father, my life is ruined!"
Or even "my life is over!"
But nobody can honestly say this, not even the elderly – only the dead.
There's a saying "the pain of discipline weighs kilograms, but the pain of regret weighs tonnes."
Yes, your past matters. So you need to do the good and great things now.
Do them now while your future past is still your present, and so that you don't have huge regrets later in life.
If you're sick of having regrets and a dark past, then do something by brightening up your present.
If you see yourself as a failure, you may be accurate in your self-assessment. However, even losers still have a future.
Maybe right now you have a bad past. But whether you still have a bad past in the future is very much up to what sort of life you choose to start living now.
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I Prank You Not
In recognition of April Fool's Day I scored a rare opportunity to sit down with the God of Mischief, Loki.
HE: "Hello Loki. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to speak with me and my readers."
LOKI: "Hi."
HE: "Uh, that's it? 'Hi?'"
LOKI: "Well, I've got a lot on my plate. You do realize what day this is, right? Nice fucking time management there, Chickie."
HE: *looking at the calendar* "Well, since it's April Fool's Day I am going to assume you are joking."
LOKI: "You would think so, wouldn't you?"
HE: "I am guessing that April Fool's Day is the busiest day of the year for you."
LOKI: "No, that'd be Valentine's Day. People say a lot of shit they don't mean which makes for a lot of lies to distribute. Especially to the men folk."
HE: "That's just sad."
LOKI: "I'll tell you what's sad, having a God like Odin as your step-father. Growing up I never did anything right."
HE: "On that note, tell us about your childhood."
LOKI: "What's there to tell? I was always in trouble since my dickhead brother Thor is a cock-blocking douchebag. I got him back good by convincing Odin that his perfect son wasn't worthy of living in Asgard so he kicked him out. Now I got the big bedroom."
HE: "Holy crap! How did you manage that?"
LOKI: "Let's just say I hid some of our Mother's more "intimate apparel" in his sock drawer. You do the math."
HE: "It seems pranking and lying started at an early age. Have any of your lies ever backfired on you?"
LOKI: *laughs maniacally* "No, but the truth sure has."
HE: "Alright, you've GOT to elaborate on that."
LOKI: "Well, my mouth gets me into trouble, you see. One Thanksgiving I got ripped on Jager and told my whole family off, including my two ex-wives. Every word I spoke was the truth, but it didn't change the fact I had to transform into a fish and hide in a river to get away from them. Shoulda just stuck to lying."
HE: "You are known world wide for your practical jokes and pranks. Which prank do you consider your masterpiece?"
LOKI: "Pranks change with the times. I had a blast fucking with the Druids by stacking a bunch of rocks for no reason and then there were those IT virgins who blew their wads worrying about Y2K. That one was a double bonus because it also got the Military's panties in a bunch sweating random nuclear missile launches. But I'd have to say that the best has yet to come."
HE: "Come on, give us a hint."
LOKI: "Uh…I'll just say to keep a watch out for December 21, 2012."
HE: "Are all the pranks you do so grand or do you work on a more personal level with the public?"
LOKI: "At times I like to dabble in the everyday, like when one sock goes missing or when you 'accidently' hit Reply All on that email where you trash your boss. But remember, I still have to make a living. Right now I am the major shareholder in Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company that manufactures a little, blue pill."
HE: "Are there any pranks you regret?"
LOKI: "Non-Alcoholic beer and Star Trek. Never thought anyone would take that shit seriously."
HE: "What is the one thing you would like the world to know about Loki?"
LOKI: "That I am everywhere. I am a shape shifter, after all. That woman you meet in the bar that is too good to be true? She probably is. Just sayin'."
Return April 20th for our exclusive interview with The Easter Bunny!!!


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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive
Re: Witherspoon Cemetery (Black)
In Response To: Re: Witherspoon Cemetery (Black) ()
The Witherspoon cemetary no longer exist. Back in the early
They put a new road through the cemetery, which at the time I found
I also, have family that was buried there. I got the information from
I didn't want you to take a trip there and find it gone.
There is a Clinton cemetery behind Clinton Elementary School just up the street where the Witerspoon cementery once was. I was in Lancaster for the weekend right around the corner from both. Hope this helps.
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I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a reference on how to address the following problem. In my thesis work on lattice QCD many years ago I had to enumerate all possible paths of a given length on a 2D lattice, up to the symmetries of reflection and rotation (plus some other internal symmetries we won't concern ourselves with here). I've been wondering whether it would be possible to compute the number of such paths without explicitly listing them all, for example using generating-function techniques. The paths were used to generate coherent-states for fermionic operators. Each path had a quark at one end and an anti-quark at the other end.
To make this more concrete, I'll give some examples. Write the link in the plus and minus $x$ directions as 'x' and 'X', likewise use 'y' and 'Y' for the plus and minus $y$ directions, respectively. Note that these 'links' represent unitary operators so combinations like $xX$ and $Yy$ cancel, so are not counted. Then the first few examples are:
Length 1: $x$
Length 2: $xx$, $xy$
(note here, for example, that the other paths $yy$, $YY$, $XX$, $xY$, $yX$, $yx$, etc, are related to the two that I listed by symmetry, so are not counted).
Length 3: $xxx$, $xxy$, $xyx$, $xyX$
Length 4: $xxxx$, $xxxy$, $xxyx$, $xxyy$, $xxyX$, $xyxY$, $xyxy$, $xyyx$, $xyyX$, $xyXY$
and so on.
Let $A_n$ be the number of paths of length $n$. As $n$ gets large, it seems like there could be a simple asymptotic relation for $A_{n+1}/A_n$, since most paths would be extended by adjoining the three possible directional links (that don't cancel) to the end of the path, so maybe the ratio would go to 3 (NOTE - which it seems to from Liviu's result)?
Again, this work was done years ago, but this problem has stuck in my mind. I never had any formal training in combinatorics or graphs, but from what I've read this seems like it could be a tractable problem. For me, the issue of having to not count paths that are related by symmetries makes it quite difficult.
Thanks for any information/references/thoughts on this! I plan to write some code to numerically check the behavior of $A_n$. My goal is to have someone point me in the right direction to get started on an 'analytic' solution or asymptotic estimate. By the way, the same problem arises in 3D, but I will stick to 2D first.
EDIT: Using Liviu's solution I found this sequence in OEIS, related to bending of a wire in 2D (the same problem). It is here: link text
Regards, Tom


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Indonesian deforestation moratorium extended
"The most important thing is the need to set clear work targets, including creating a single, unified forest map; accelerating the completion of spatial planning bylaws in areas targeted by the moratorium; and synchronizing the central and local government regulations on natural resource management," according to WWF-Indonesia CEO Efransjah.
Enacted two years ago, Indonesia's forest moratorium has already made progress in improving forest management. The extension offers Indonesia the opportunity to reduce emissions, curb deforestation, and greatly strengthen forest governance in a country that holds some of the world's most diverse ecosystems.
Indonesia is one of world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, largely due to the clearing of forest and peat lands. The forest moratorium aims to address this problem by prohibiting new licenses to clear or convert primary natural forests and peat lands to agriculture or other uses. This will encompass an area of over 43 million hectares of land. Forest users with existing licenses are still allowed to operate in these regions, and there are several exceptions to the rule.
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The week in review
Worst blow to the local economy: Despite this area's much vaunted desirability, Technicolor, Greene County's largest employer, announces its manufacturing division is heading for the greener pastures (and cheaper labor force) of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Best economic news for Orange County: German-owned Lohmann Technology Corp. plans to build an adhesive coating manufacturing plant that will employ 30 people, reports the Daily Progress. Hey, we hear there's a soon-to-be vacant plant in Greene County.
Worst realization about eyewitnesses: They're unreliable as heck, as evidenced by the conflicting reports and downright lies of at least one sniper "witness" at Home Depot in Falls Church.
Best case for privatizing the state's liquor monopoly: The hours of the allegedly profitable ABC stores are being slashed as part of Governor Mark Warner's plan to save $858 million during the next two years.
Worst time to renew a driver's license: On Wednesdays, when Department of Motor Vehicles offices will be closed because of state budget reductions. Layoffs will further increase the agony of having to go to the DMV.
Worst reason to have your state job spared: The sniper attacks, which, for this round of cuts, are keeping state troopers off the chopping block.
Worst consequence of having an open honor trial: The world gets to watch when you're found guilty of cheating, as third-year UVA student Adam Boyd discovers on October 19.
Best news for oenophiles: The drought has improved the quality of this year's grapes, according to winegrowers. And Governor Warner announces that the Virginia wine industry is a $95 million business.
Worst results from air quality sampling for the Ivy Landfill's western neighbors: Two compounds methylene chloride and chloromethane are measured at levels above what the EPA considers safe.
Best reduction in wasted time: The interminable red light at the Water Street Parking Garage has been changed to a flashing red, the equivalent of a stop sign.
Best synchronicity on U.S. 29 north: Traffic lights on Emmet Street will be synchronized so that– in theory– drivers can make it from Barracks Road to the South Fork Rivanna River bridge without hitting a red light, Bob Gibson reports in the Progress.
Worst loss for country music fans: The Staunton-based Statler Brothers give up touring after 38 years. Their last concert is Saturday, October 26, in Salem.
Best elimination of stupid air security rules: The Transportation Security Administration claims it now allows nail clippers, tweezers, and shaving razors in carry-on bags in a Washington Post report. New TSA head James Loy also does away with the irritating "Did anyone else handle your luggage?" requirement, and deems it safe to let passengers carry coffee through security.
Best example of small-town government in disarray: Louisa, whose town manager George Morrison resigned two days after Town Council fired police chief John Cetrulo. Morrison says his resignation has nothing to do with Cetrulo's firing, while Cetrulo believes his firing came after he to an Austin Graham Progress story.
Worst news for UVA first-years: Starting next fall, they're no longer allowed to have cars on Grounds during the spring semester because of increased demand and fewer spaces, according to the Cavalier Daily.
Best bipartisan draw: The chance to roast Larry Sabato at an October 21 fundraiser draws Democrats like former and current governors Doug Wilder and Mark Warner, and Republican Senators John Warner and George Allen, among others.
Best showing in ultimate Frisbee: Charlottesville's Blue Ridge Ultimate team goes to the national championship in Sarasota, Florida, this weekend. The team finished second last year.
Best trendy Halloween costume: SpongeBob Squarepants.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says he has hired two veteran lawyers and critics of President Donald Trump as his committee begins to investigate the president and his administration.
The hiring of the two prominent lawyers, Barry Berke and Norman Eisen, comes as lawmakers from both parties are pressuring Trump attorney general nominee William Barr to release a full accounting of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe when it's complete. The new additions to Nadler's staff could also provide expertise for impeachment proceedings, if Democrats decide at some point to pursue them.
Nadler said in a statement that the panel is determined to "ask critical questions, gather all the information, judiciously assess the evidence, and make sure that the facts are not hidden from the American people."
He did not mention impeachment, but noted that Trump faces "numerous allegations" of corruption and obstruction.
"His conduct and crude statements threaten the basic legal, ethical and constitutional norms that maintain our democratic institutions," Nadler said. "Congress has a constitutional duty to be a check and balance against abuses of power when necessary."
Nadler said Berke and Eisen "have been retained on a consulting basis as special oversight staff" to the committee's Democratic majority. He said they would consult on matters related to the Department of Justice and Mueller's Russia probe.
Both men have been high-profile critics of Trump, and they co-authored a Brookings Institution report released last year that laid out a case for his impeachment. The report said "it has become apparent that the president's pattern of potentially obstructive conduct is much more extensive than we knew."
Eisen served as a White House counsel for President Barack Obama and has focused on government ethics and corruption as a co-founder of the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Berke is a top trial lawyer and white collar criminal defense lawyer who is based out of New York.
Democrats have been cautious in speaking about impeachment, with most arguing that they want to see the Mueller report before they would even consider such a step. Nadler has called impeachment a "trauma" that should be approached judiciously and with bipartisan support.
Still, he has said he believes Trump has engaged in a pattern of obstruction — one of the issues Mueller is investigating.
"This is a critical time in our nation's history," Nadler said in the statement.
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, criticized the hires and the "sharply partisan op-eds" that Eisen and Berke have written together.
"Looks like Democrats are staffing up for impeachment before Mueller's report is even out," Collins said.
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Three years and two months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has announced that "active cleanup operations" in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have ceased, leaving only ongoing operations in Louisiana. The oil company says it has spent more than $14 billion on its efforts to mitigate the April 2010 disaster, which killed 11 people and resulted in millions of gallons of oil being released into the Gulf ecosystem.
In a news release, BP says that under the direction of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Gulf of Mexico shoreline has been restored. "Due to the extensive cleanup effort, early restoration projects and natural recovery processes, the Gulf is returning to its baseline condition, which is the condition it would be in if the accident had not occurred," the release reads. BP says the cleanup effort required more than 48,000 people and 70 million personnel hours.
The Coast Guard will continue to monitor the region for any additional oil that pops up — a likely possibility, as environmental groups point out that more than a million gallons of oil remain unaccounted for — and will call BP back into action. "Should residual Macondo oil appear on the shoreline, BP remains committed and prepared to address it under the direction of the Coast Guard," said Laura Folse, BP's executive vice president for response and environmental restoration.
Environmental groups say BP still has a role in cleaning up its mess. "Tar mats and tar balls from the spill continue to wash up on the coast," David White, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Gulf of Mexico Restoration Campaign, told the Associated Press. "Regardless of how our shorelines are monitored, BP must be held accountable for the cleanup. We cannot just accept oiled material on our beaches and in our marshes as the 'new normal.'"
Another Associated Press article reports that tar ball sightings are still actively coming in to the federal National Response Center, which is responsible for collecting reports of oil and chemical spills. According to the AP, nearly 200 tar balls were reported in just two Alabama and Florida counties between April 1 and last week.
Casi Callaway, executive director of the coastal preservation nonprofit Mobile Baykeeper, told the AP that tar ball sightings would be even higher if people knew what they were seeing or how to report it. "Until you step on (tar) and see it on your skin, you don't know what it is. It looks like gum in the water. And nobody is doing an education campaign on, 'This is what a tar ball looks like; here's who to call if you find one.'"
For anyone visiting the region, you can report a possible oil sighting by calling the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802 or visiting the website.
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A pitcher perfect relationship
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems counterintuitive, but in rare cases carnivorous plants and herbivorous animals nourish each other in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Now, Monash University researchers have recently found that the carnivorous pitcher plant of Borneo takes the quest for nutrition a step further, establishing mutualistic relationships with more than one species of animal.
In research published in the journal PLoS ONE, Monash University biologists in Australia and Malaysia, have discovered an apparently unique situation where two species of small mammals, mountain treeshrews and summit rats, both feed on and feed pitcher plants.
Dr Rohan Clarke and Melinda Greenwood of the School of Biological Sciences, Dr Charles Clarke from the Malaysia School of Science, together with Chien Lee from Kuching and Ansou Gunsalam from Sabah Parks discovered the multi-directional relationship while undertaking field research on pitcher plants.
The pitcher plant, common throughout South East Asian tropics, tends to grow in nutrient-deficient areas. To compensate for this they grow large, jug-shaped leaf organs in which they trap and digest insects, spiders and other arthropods.
The treeshrews and summit rats are attracted to carbohydrate-rich secretions produced by glands on the pitchers lids. After feeding on the nectar, the mammals defecate in the pitchers, providing much needed nutrients to pitcher plants.
Dr Rohan Clarke said that the team was conducting initial investigations to expand on previous research that had discovered the relationship between pitcher plants and mountain treeshrews, when it became apparent that the summit rats were also engaging in mutualistic nutrient exchange.
What were looking at is a very specialised nutrient acquisition strategy on the part of the pitcher plants. That is, rather than just trapping insects, the plants seek a secondary food source in the form of scat from larger animals, which the plants lure with nectar secretions around the pitcher.
The cooperation goes further the rats and treeshrews visit the pitcher plants at different times, allowing them to exploit the same resource while avoiding direct competition with each other," said Dr Clarke.
Previous research had shown that this relationship existed between the pitcher plants and treeshrews. Our study is the first to show that the pitcher plants are engaged in this kid of mutualistic relationship with multiple species of mammal. Its a good example of just how adaptable nature can be.
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Brush's own John Hansen is no stranger to the rough-riding world of auto racing, earning several titles through his 13 years in the sport, most notably at Morgan County's I-76 Speedway.
On Saturday, November 10 Hansen took his talents to the next level, competing in Las Vegas during the 15th annual Duel in the Desert where the boy from Brush earned second place out of 253 IMCA (International Motor Contest Association) modified drivers.
This year's Duel in the Desert event enjoyed a record number of entries, from 24 states and two Canadian provinces, for the race held at the dirt track at the Last Vegas Motor Speedway and was the second year in a row that hometown hero Hansen competed.
The 40-lap race was broken down by one Las Vegas journalist on www.lvms.com who noted that with just 10 laps remaining, leader Jeremy Payne (Missouri) was cruising along as Hansen and Jeff Taylor (Arkansas) battled for second place.
"Hansen tried the middle and high grooves," reported lvms.com, "but he could only watch from second place as Payne scored his third Duel in the Desert victory."
Arkansas native David Murray ended up securing the third place spot.
With his Rage Chassey, complete with Glenn Doty engine, Hansen also managed to oust his fellow competitors to take first place in the first 8-lap heat race of Thursday to qualify.
"Payne is a tough racer, but we were happy for sure," said Hansen, a life-long resident of Brush. "We would rather have first," he jested, "but you can't always win."
Hansen competed with a few other Morgan County natives who made their way to Las Vegas including D.J. Banks of Brush, Jeremy Frenier, Mike and Mitchell O'Patik, all from Fort Morgan.
As the racing season winds to a close, Hansen will next gear up for the spring and plans to take to the Beatrice Speedway in Beatrice, Nebraska where four IMCA divisions will open up the season during the 18th annual Beatrice Springs Nationals on March 18-19.
Hansen also gives sincere thanks to his local sponsors in Temco Trailers of Fort Morgan and Schmeekle Brothers Construction of Fort Morgan for making his passion a reality.
Hansen takes second in 'Duel in the Desert' race
Brush's own John Hansen is no stranger to the rough-riding world of auto racing, earning several titles through his 13 years in the sport, most notably at Morgan County's I-76 Speedway.


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kids in history
Discuss Greece or ancient Rome - or maybe the history of the United States.
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I found these books and found them very interesting but they seem a bit to young for my soon to be 8th grader even though they are under the 7th/8th grade homeschooling section. Does anyone know of anything similar, a history book that tells a story rather than just a bunch of mundane information thrown on a page. There are a few books by this author like civil war, victorian times, world war 11 etc... And if you done the series of this book would this be something you would use for your history credit for your child or just a in addition to kind of thing? Do you also agree this is a bit young for 8th grade history. thanks
I really like the My America/Dear America/Royal Diaries series for slightly older kids. They're somewhat short (about the size of a Hardy Boys book) but written from a first person perspective they offer a valuable insight to the daily life.
I've used books similar to this with my 8yo, and yes - I do feel they're young for a 12-13yo. But I think as an addition, they're fine.
I've used books similar to this with my 8yo, and yes - I do feel they're young for a 12-13yo. But I think as an addition, they're fine.
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- M. Montessori
Proud non-member of the HSLDA
- M. Montessori
Proud non-member of the HSLDA
Christian Liberty Press has their history set up as a book rather than a text, Sonlight does the same thing. An option is to pick a topic and utilizing the library for regular books verses texts. Just last week I found a site for unit studies one of the links that I chose was for literature. I found two books on the site for the Civil War for my young boys. I liked it because there was a small excerpt from the book, I was able to find lesson plans for one of the books by doing a search. I have not searched for the other one yet. I also have a spiral bond book called "All Through the Ages," it lists in chronological order books for time periods in history. Books are suggested by either grade level or age I forget which. I'm including the link for the web site I mentioned.
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/schoolr ... tudies.php
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/schoolr ... tudies.php
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GreyDark: Can you give a more specific link?
I've personally always been partial to the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, that's the sort of thing you're probably looking for.
I've personally always been partial to the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, that's the sort of thing you're probably looking for.
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Google chief executive and co-founder Larry Page took a ride on one of the world's fastest sailboats while he mulled over investing in the part-boat, part-plane.
Page took a ride in the Hydroptere in San Francisco Bay last week, according to the Marin Independent Journal, while the boat's creator Alain Thebault hoped for a wealthy Silicon Valley sponsor. Thebault hopes to use the funds to try to break the trans-Pacific speed record.
In 2009, the Hydroptere broke the world speed record for 500 meters and hit a speed just over 52 knots. Thebault now hopes to ride from Los Angeles to Honolulu and needs about $3 million to do that.
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Apparently that means taking Silicon Valley moguls for a ride and likely hearing a pitch from Thebault. As Business Insider reported, Page said he was interested in high-speed sailing on his Google+ page a week before, so it seems as if Thebault could have been checking up on the billionaire.


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The winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has come under the burled arch in this western Alaska outpost, but that's just the beginning for this community, where every musher to finish the race gets a hero's welcome.
The town's sirens blare when each of the more than four dozen competitors is about a mile out, and the mushers are all treated like royalty as they cross the finish line under the famed arch on Front Street, and have their pictures taken with fans.
"People come running out of their homes, pouring out of the bars on Front Street, to all run down to the chute and welcome the next team in," said Laura Samuelson, director of the city's Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum and former official finish-line checker. "It's very exciting."
For more than three decades, residents of this old gold-rush town have greeted mushers at all hours of the day and night as they complete the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which spans two mountain ranges, dangerous Alaska wilderness and the wind-whipped Bering Sea coast.
"The tradition of welcoming mushers into Nome is very important because you figure anyone who comes this far on a team of dogs, from Anchorage to Nome, and takes 10 days to get here, or three weeks to get here, they all deserve the same recognition and the same appreciation for making it this far," Samuelson said.
This year's Iditarod began with 66 teams March 2 at a ceremonial start in Anchorage. The official 1,000-mile race for mushers and their teams of dogs started the next day about 50 miles north of Anchorage.
Mitch Seavey won the race Tuesday evening, edging second place musher Aliy Zirkle by 24 minutes. But the reveling will continue as the rest of the remaining mushers - 11 had scratched and one had withdrawn as of Thursday morning - trickle into town over the next few days.
The mushers, heck, even cruise ship passengers and other visitors, are always "heartily welcomed in Nome because this really is the edge of the earth, and it really is the end of the trail," Samuelson said.
Nome and dog mushing are part history lesson, part love affair.
The city - now with a population of about 3,500 - exists because of gold, and dog teams helped gold miners get to their stakes in the decades before snowmobiles. It also was the foremost mode of transportation for generations of Alaska Natives.
"The Iditarod, more so than anything I know, for me, is among the quintessential Alaska," said Richard Beneville, a tour company operator, school office and chamber of commerce officer.
"It's dogs, which are a tradition in the Native culture as well as the non-Native culture, it's the transportation, the communication, the social aspects of it," Beneville said. "And to see these men and women coming across the finish line - a 1,049 miles - to me is stunning."
The welcome process begins on a gravel road four miles outside town, where a spotter for the local radio station, KNOM, waits for each musher to hit Farley's Camp, a collection of cabins along the Bering Sea coast. The spotter alerts the station that a musher in on the way, then will broadcast live as they shadow the musher past the Nome River and into town.
When the musher is about a mile and a half out, the town's siren blows, letting everyone know the musher is on his way.
Once the musher comes off the sea ice onto Front Street a few blocks from the finish, a police car with its lights flashing takes over as the official escort. The weary musher then guides the dog team down the city's business district, sometimes slapping high-fives with fans lining the street.
The celebratory atmosphere is like "Mardi Gras with dogs," Beneville said.
Greg Bill is at the finish line this week like he has been for the past 40 years, and said it's an important tradition for the mushers.
"It's really heartwarming because they just traveled a thousand miles," said Bill, the race's development director. "Some of them have family here to greet them. Others don't."
Howard Farley, 80, is one of the founders of the Iditarod, first run in 1973. He helped organize the Nome finish, and placed in the second-to-last paying position in the first race - back when the finish line consisted of Kool-Aid sprinkled over the snow.
"We're not going across town. We're not going across the street. We're not going in a circle," Farley said. "We're racing a thousand miles over treacherous Alaska wilderness."
A former town official said at the very first musher's banquet that everyone who finishes the race is a hero.
"And I knew that," Farley said. "I was in the back, and I got a hero's welcome."