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Hangover Helper: Country Ham and Cornmeal Cakes at Pancake Pantry in Nashville, TN
Just what the doctor ordered.
Eating your way down south, somewhere around Virginia you start noticing "city ham" on every menu, even at Waffle House and Cracker Barrel. If you're a Northerner, you might think it's some sort of obscure regional delicacy. It's not. It's the same pink, wet ham that we eat all the time, and maybe came from a can. In the South, this stuff is labeled as "city ham" because the word "ham" alone means Country Ham—a delicious, salted, dry-cured (and often smoked) American cousin to prosciutto.
In the wrong hands, country ham can be a leathery salt-bomb, but this massive bone-in slab from The Pancake Pantry in Nashville was incredible. Salty and fatty like the best thick cut bacon you've ever had, but still moist with a touch of prosciutto-like funk. It's even better when served with two absolutely perfect over-easy eggs.
Of course, you can't come to the pancake pantry without also ordering pancakes. I'm not a big fan of the things, probably because I haven't been eating the right ones. The Pantry's "classic Old South water ground cornmeal pancakes" were like the lightest, fluffiest cornbread you could imagine. Perfectly golden brown and delicious with the whipped butter, and would have been fine even without a drizzle of hot maple syrup or the Pantry's signature cinnamon cream syrup.
Be warned: you're going to be waiting in a line out the door on the weekends, although it moves pretty fast. The Pancake Pantry restored my faith in pancakes, and was definitely the best breakfast I had—not only in Nashville but during an entire week long trip through the south.
Pancake Pantry
1796 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN (map) 615-383-9333; thepancakepantry.com
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Why do I need to enroll in person at the Enrollment Center?
We require in-person (with parent/legal guardian) enrollment in order to help ensure your student's smooth transition to school.
Do I need an appointment?
You don't need to make an appointment; we are first-come, first-served.
What do I need to bring?
Please see our enrollment checklist.
What is acceptable photo ID and/or address verification?
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Can I drop-off, mail, or fax the enrollment forms?
Kindergarten enrollment documents may be taken (not emailed or faxed) to your student's elementary school or brought to the Enrollment Center. All other grade levels require in-person enrollment at the Enrollment Center.
Do I need to bring my student with me to enroll?
Can I have someone else bring in the enrollment forms for me?
No. A Parent/legal guardian must meet with Enrollment Center staff, unless a parent assigns enrollment rights via Policy 515 Appendix E.
Why do I need to complete a new enrollment packet for an address change?
In Minnesota, enrollment in a public school is based on a parent/legal guardian's address. Therefore, whenever a parent/legal guardian's address changes, the parent/legal guardian completes the enrollment process again under the new address.
When can I start the enrollment process for my student?
You may enroll now for the current school year or next school year; we encourage you to enroll as soon as possible.
What immunizations are required?
Minnesota is a "No Shots, No School" state; in order to enroll, students must be up-to-date on required immunizations.
When and how will I know if my student was accepted for open enrollment?
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Good planners recognize that the path to growth is leverage: having the right people, structure and processes to serve a larger number of more profitable clients. Many firms reach a point at which maximizing that leverage requires the attention of a full-time office manager.
The responsibilities of an ideal office manager include people, processes and projects. In each of these areas, there are a number of duties:
Office Manager Responsibilities No. 1: People
- Hire new staff : identify strong candidates, coordinate interviews, extend offers and generally manage the hiring process (including termination, when necessary)
- Provide staff training for both new hires and existing staff
- Manage performance: in addition to coordinating, and in some cases conducting, individual performance reviews, the office manager must be prepared to deal with difficult or poorly performing employees
- Rewards and incentives: manage the compensation of the staff, including incentive plans; ensure that all employees receive the appropriate recognition and encouragement
- Communicate: ensure full, open and efficient communication
- Coordinate: ensure that tasks are assigned and completed, that staff is meeting expectations and fulfilling their roles on a daily basis
- Serve as a resource, including being available to answer questions from staff and help resolve problems
Office Manager Responsibilities No. 2: Process
- Design and develop efficient work processes
- Manage the development and delivery of the client experience – all the things the practice does to deliberately make a strong, positive impression on the client
- Compliance and risk management: ensure that compliance requirements are strictly adhered to
- Oversee marketing processes: for in-house and/or agency initiatives
- Ensure that the right technology is in place, i.e., that it is working properly and being used to its full benefit
- Conduct periodic audits or checks of all systems and processes to ensure everything is working properly
- Manage to the budget
Office Manager Responsibilities No. 3: Projects
- Ensure any non-routine task is completed correctly, on time and on budget. (This doesn't mean the office manager necessarily does it, but assigns projects appropriately and monitors completion.)
- Projects can include organizing client events, implementing new technology or software, or selecting vendors and coordinating their activities.
- The office manager must be forward-thinking, focused on determining how to make the business more efficient and cost-effective.
In addition to the above duties, a good office manager is basically the planner's right hand. He or she is the person in your business who will tell you the blunt truth, especially when you are doing things that inhibit the efficiency and success of the business. This person represents you and your values to the entire staff and serves as an additional voice, reinforcing what is important about your business, your profession and your clients. The right person should be a sounding board for you—and someone to whom you can offload every non-goal-oriented, non-revenue generating task that you would otherwise have to do.
How to Select an Office Manager
Given the responsibilities of this position, it's important to hire the right person. While it is helpful for them to have industry experience, it is more important for them to have strong business and people management skills. If candidates with leadership and financial experience are not available, look for strong leaders from other service industries. Leading and managing the staff of a CPA firm, a law firm, a dentist or physician's office or a real estate agency is 95% the same competencies as managing a financial planning practice. The other 5% can be learned on the job.
Finally, keep in mind that this person is a manager, with an assumed mandate to manage people and processes. As the planner, it is your role to empower him or her to do that. In other words, set a clear direction, then get out of their way.


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Thursday, 3 March 2011
Clinical governance
'Silly nurses' I thought, 'policy indeed!' Now, officially, I'm supposed to have read all 30 of the clinical policies (and the other non-clinical ones too), I've never had the time set aside to do this but the trust have told me to do it so that's their arse covered. They're each 20+ pages long and written in a dreary bureaucratic speak that makes it impossible to easily extract the approximately one line that is actually relevant to clinical practice.
Having a few minutes of downtime I thought I'd check the relevant policy, and sure enough, there it was, an explicit instruction that in these circumstances a doctor should do something both illegal and likely to get them struck off. I looked at who wrote the policy, a nurse and an admin person (sorry, 'organisational risk lead'), no doctors seem to have been involved.
So, feeling like a good little boy, I contacted the 'Risk & Clinical Governance Department' to point out this gross oversight - 'oh yeah, someone mentioned something similar in 2008 but the policy isn't up for review until 2012 so we'll take a look at it again then'. Fantastic.
4 comments:
- teekblog said...
luck you had your wits about you - wonder how many people would have just followed 'trust policy' and landed themselves in hot water...?
- 3 March 2011 at 13:44:00 GMT
- pj said...
Well, from asking around, a few people had done the same as me - luckily on this particular issue anyone who has worked in another trust (which would be everyone doing SHO jobs) will have come across the right way to do it, it's also something taught at medical school - funnily enough the consultant only didn't do it due to a technicality which is quite worrying.
What worries me is the policies that I don't know about which are illegal or at least very poor practice that I've got less familiarity with.
- 3 March 2011 at 15:40:00 GMT
- Ruth Livingstone said...
hmm, interesting. Can you tell us a bit more?
- 4 March 2011 at 12:15:00 GMT
- pj said...
I could, but I'm not going to because I'm a junior doctor - see the post below.
- 4 March 2011 at 17:08:00 GMT


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I was disheartened to see LewRockwell.com columnist and Loyola University Professor Walter Block's newly-launched tirade against renowned libertarian/anarchist individual feminist Wendy McElroy in his LRC piece today entitled "Is Wendy McElroy Still A Libertarian?: No; She Opposes the Ron Paul Candidacy." (It's a shame that Lew Rockwell himself has even allowed this putrid, disgusting, preposterous, and outrageous filth to be housed and archived on his popular website, let alone its own server.)
I encountered this putrid, disgusting, and outlandish drivel when fellow left-libertarian/agorist/voluntaryist Edgardo Peregrino posted this on his Facebook wall a few hours ago.
Edgardo posted the following with Block's article on his wall, which caught my eye instantly:
I hate to disappoint Dr. Block, but not everyone who opposes Ron Paul is a bloodthirsty neocon or progressive.
Since then his wall has been hit with a few comments which have been largely negative about Walter's hit piece:
Caleb McGinn As brilliant as Walter Block is he sure writes some stupid shit sometimes. Lew Rockwell probably wrote it for him.
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Edgardo Peregrino I'm a big fan of Dr. Block but sometimes I wonder what's going through his head when he writes shit like this.
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Bryan Tint What about Patrick Buchanan?
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Steve Lolyouwish Maybe not but they're certainly not helping.
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Wendy has responded to her old friend Block's knee-jerk hit piece on her website with the following post:
Apparently the litmus test for being a libertarian is whether you support a particular political candidate or not. At least, that's the message of Walter Block's article today on LewRockwell.com: Is Wendy McElroy Still a Libertarian? No; She Opposes the Ron Paul Candidacy. The attack is odd...for a few reasons. Just one of them is that I have not written of Ron Paul for over four years now. Indeed, I am ignoring almost everyone's political campaigning from now 'til November for the sake of my digestion. Ah well. Clearly, and especially from the last paragraph, Walter is trying to bait me into some sort of exchange. Alas, Walter, old friend, I am not a puppet and I do not jump to the jerk of a string.
UPDATE: My indefatigable husband just sent me a link from the past, a link to the 2007 blog post in which I responded to a similar article Walter wrote in a similar view years and years ago. I don't have anything to add. It is well-trodden territory.
(The article that Wendy wrote in response to Walter in a similar fashion some years ago over her August 1997 commentary titled "Ron Paul or Antiwar.com?" can be found here. Her commentary on the same piece before Block responded at that point can also be traced to here.)
I have responded to the entire affair on my Facebook wall in defense of McElroy, which I will post in a separate blog posting of my own. In another separate blog posting, I will be commenting on the entire matter, which will enable me to put my thoughts in correct order before I begin.
UPDATE (12-12-2011): A Facebook user identified as "Eric Lau" wrote a scathing attack on Wendy McElroy on Edgardo's post in which Block attacks her for opposing his campaign (while apologizing for and defending Ron Paul) in a pathetic, snarky attempt to discredit her:
Erik Lau What Wendy McElroy is writing about Ron Paul is ridiculous rant or outright lies. How can any libertarian accuse Ron Paul of not being a libertarian, but an enemy to freedom. She might really dislike most political action and especially from GOP but her factual opinion of Paul is savagely wrong - and that is very damaging.
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Why are Bloggers' the Rodney Dangerfield's of Journalism ?
I was sitting here thinking today as it was raining, what do real "journalists" think of bloggers. I got to attend the NFL's Media day this week as a non- media credentialed spectator. I saw members from some of the world's best news organizations from the 4 corners of the earth trample and exhaust player after player with great, and also stupid questions about the upcoming Superbowl game. I even heard some questions that got me to thinking that the average "Joe/Jane" would be able to decipher this media frenzy better than some of the high priced talent I saw hanging on some player's every word looking for a lead or a sidebar story.
It was at that moment that I wondered why there were not more credentialed bloggers with established sites or even talented new bloods with fresh outlooks in attendance. Now I am currently trying to find a way to get credentialed by a major league team, and I do have a journalism background, and at least 4 years in the industry, but I am also a blogger, and that has put me at a disadvantage. Even some of the media giants do not have respect for blogging, and in some cases it is totally warranted to think that way. ESPN's " Pardon the Interruption " co-host Michael Wilbon said, ""The notion of blogging scares the hell out of me, and … this is why. There's no accountability … stuff isn't edited. It just goes out there as gospel. What it is is opinion, there's way too much rumor."
And with this fact comes the question, If I am qualified and able to produce a good article, or even submit a entry to get out another aspect of the team without bias or prejudice, shouldn't I have the opportunity to showcase my talents too ? Why do I have to work for a large Fourth Ward employer to even get a taste of a pregame or post-game interview. I may not want to ask a single question, but it would be nice to get a quote, or even a comment from someone and fashion it into a great blog piece for everyone to enjoy.
A great example would be doing a piece on Scott Kazmir and why he felt the Rays had the right stuff in Spring Training to go to the playoffs. Or maybe even survey the players and get their favorite cities, or activities on the road and transform it into a nice article for traveling fans. I know in the future, every so often I am going to write a fan-based travel blog on the stadiums I have been to in the MLB. It is more for my enjoyment, but could benefit someone down the road. Okay, lets get back to the issue here.
Blogging is not found to be totally ethical at this time. That might be another reason that Mark Newman, our MLBlogs.com professor is doing the Jblog school of learning for us. If we are to put blogging up there with the media, we have to adjust our thinking and educate ourselves to bring reliable blogging to the forefront. We are not held to the copyright or even basic fact gathering guidelines that the media must endure and do daily. We are our own editors and copy clerks, and in that some people become nervous about blogs. We gather, interpret, and send the articles to the Internet without remorse or consequences. We can harbor frustration and lash out without worrying about the pulling of our credentials or sanctions from the league or team. But is it right that the big guys get all the fun ? I know I got into a Rays staff party after Game 2 of the American League Divisional Series .
I was given a wrist band to attend the open bar event, and I saw people from the Rays executive offices who could not figure out how I got into the event. But could it also be the fact that a blogger was there and might have dealt out falsehoods or even misconceptions without a PR department there to do positive or negative damage control. I was there like them to celebrate, but a few people did phrase their words differently to me that night.
So why not let bloggers have limited access, or even day-today credentials to help demonstrate and produce articles about the games and team that can be viewed in a positive nature by the Public Relations department that most of us are not looking to do hatchet jobs on the team or players'. But that might be the reason we have a bias, or a lack of trust towards the blogging community. There are people out there who are waiting for the bad news and pounce like a cat on a mouse. Also the fact of "on the record" and "off the record" comments can be confusing to someone who doesn't have the experience.
That is a good example for reasons not to give credentials right there. A player joking about a situation could be written as a credible quote, when in fact it was sarcasm or even a comment made in anger at the moment. That is why I love the fact that Rays manger Joe Maddon, and a lot of team have a "cooling off" time before the media hits the clubhouse or interview room. I know personally I got hoodwinked one time on a story by a guy looking to make bulletin board fodder for a team. It never happened again, but I lost a little credibility with myself and that team.
Just because I want to cover your team does not mean I want a seat in the Press box. I love my seat at the Trop., and would love to casually stroll up there, but I do not want to sit up in the Press box. I would enjoy using the Wifi so I can rewrite and retransmit by blog throughout the game. To be able to get a printed copy of the pregame notes that other journalists get on a game basis would be a blessing. Even the option to contact the P R department and request an interview with a player would be a great step in the right direction.
ESPN's Basketball guru, Stephen A Smith also had a comment about blogging, he stated "And when you look at the Internet business, what's dangerous about it is that people who are clearly unqualified get to disseminate their piece to the masses. I respect the journalism industry, and the fact of the matter is …someone with no training should not be allowed to have any kind of format whatsoever to disseminate to the masses to the level which they can. They are not trained. Not experts." Okay, here lies the full ruse for all of us. Since we are considered unreliable and unbiased by politics, are we the new evil to teams, or just a fresh alternative to the newspapers and media giants?
I understand Smith's comments, I truly do. I have said the same thing when I was younger working on an afternoon newspaper writing human interest and in-depth stories on sports. The fans always have an opinion, that is true in any circle of life, people love to give their opinions. But why is it that in sports blogs we are more condemned, less of a reliable source. I have a journalism background in the media, but I am still considered to be unqualified. I would think that being in the top 25 on an MLB-supported website for blogging shows I might have some sense of credibility or even popularity.
But the end result is that teams and the media now have their columnists and staff " blogging " and writing about the team in their daily editions. Is the fact they have a banner above them proclaiming they work for a Fourth Ward credentialed media member make them anymore reliable, or that their opinion is gospel. I understand that blogging can be viewed as a new and unreliable source of journalism. I also think personally that most sports bloggers do perform a simple set of journalistic reporting methods, and adhere to principles in their submissions.
But should they be biased based on age, content or even views. Do people really read blogs with the same intensity that they do their local medias stories? I would hope that they do. Sometimes we can hit upon issues and also events that happen away from the reporters eyesight. We are the ones in the stands and know if the energy is out of this world ,or it is just the anticipation of the free concert after the game. We are the ones who speak to other fans and team personnel and hear and see things that the Press box crowd never get to know before we write about it. Some of my best blogs and ideas have come after in casual after game conversations with fans and team members.
In past few years, blogs have become a media giant that has not been regulated to the satisfaction of the journalistic giants. More and more people are reading blogs, and some bloggers have been granted the access to cover live sporting and news events. Blogging is not the true vessel of journalism, and it should never attempt to be. It's a completely different media outlet that has absolutely nothing in common with the current media sorts. They aren't the same types of writers, and they aren't supposed to be.
Here lies the true evil or good of the news source. A blog is a blank website entry until we write our words and post them to the Internet. We can post personal events, activities, or even that trip to your favorite ballpark, but we still are not held liable for a fraction that the media is in real life. No ethics, no A P style book, and a basic empty space to be filled by any array of words. In this way, blogging is not journalism, we are not held to time tested sets of rules dictating how to practice the art.
The basic reason for journalism is to inform, and also interpret. But why is blogging not offered the same sources and be able to grow to be a Fifth Ward, or protector of the journalistic integrity of the media. Maybe it already has reached that point, and that is why it is feared vy some. Sam Smith, of the Chicago Tribune might have a point, "How is it I can work for decades developing contacts around the NBA and traveling regularly around the NBA and talking with the decision makers and some guy in his basement in his underwear is writing something that has credibility?"
But in the age of computers and instant connectibility, can't we evolve the blogging community to become more accepted and viewed as a possible public relations marvel. MLBlogs.com's Jblog school is a great start in the right direction for blogging online. With more reliable and more concise blogs, the sky is the limit in the future for blogging and sports. There will always be blogs that want to tear apart a team or bring out negatives. But should this hurt those of us who can bring insight and afresh spin on a team? Maybe not in the future, but right now, being in the stands and believing in the team is the closest some of us will every get…………..and I am not fine with that, but I understand the rule and will play the game by them.
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Blogging is an interesting animal. And it is something that the news media is going to have to learn to deal with. I think whether the established media likes it or not, blogs are the future. Much as "web address" and "google it" are part of the language of the younger generation – and all of us who are computer literate – so is the blog. Our society wants information faster and faster and the blog is the perfect medium to do that. But as you raised in your blog – the blog writer is not held to the same standards as the writer for the "established" newspaper or website. I don't know what the answer to this is because a huge portion of what makes blogs so attractive is that they are "opinion" pieces. Yes – we like to read them to see what others are thinking; feeling; ranting about. And the problems arise when that opinion is taken for fact. How do we prevent that from happening? I don't know. Maybe we do need some sort of credential process. Maybe we need some way to identify which blogs are based on fact and which ones are based on opinion. Thanks for raising these questions and getting us to think of ways to improve the quality and reliability of our chosen medium.
I was thinking about this while waiting for the concert to begin tonight. If I wrote a book on the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays season, since I am a blogger, will the media and the industry consider it a fictional or non-fiction book.
I know what I would consider it, but the media might have their own ideas. I do agree that we need to find some sort of guidelines before a blogger finds themselves in a libel or slander suit beyond their control.
But like the people in the late 1700's who gave out pamplets by the curbs in major cities like Boston. Are we totally held under the law because we are trying to establish a new medium of communication. I guess we will find out soon.
Rays Renegade
I think one problem is logistics, Renegade. With the Yankees, for example, they have a huge media contingent and couldn't possibly fit every blogger into the press box. There are too many of us. How should they decide who gets into the clubhouse and who doesn't? And whom do they trust to write an accurate story that's based in fact, not personal opinion? That said, I think blogging is the medium of the future and media relations directors will need to come up with some criteria for granting us access. I'll happen. I like your idea of the part-time credential. Let us sit in the stands with the fans, but also let us have an interview with a player every so often.
I was told by an old time sports columnist years ago teams would " throw sportswriters a bone" every once in a while for being loyal and writing good things about a club. You know, get that interview no one else can..or maybe even talk to that rookie first before the rest of the media horde.
There will be some form of redemption in the future for people who write blogs, but hopefully it will be while I am young enough to want to trek on up to the Press Box and say Hi, then stroll down to the clubhouse to hear the manager chat a bit about the game.
Honestly, I remember in journalism class back in college, they never predicted the computer taking over newspaper like they have. Probably because the Internet was just and infant then, and they could not see the possibilities.
Rays Renegade
Bro, we are so with you? Doesn't make sense. Bloggers are the future of this industry. We know a very prominent blogger in the NY area who was shut out of the stadium of the team he covers. Go figure.
Now I know I have made it…………..The Max guys have commented on my blog. Hey, sometime you roll doubles six's and they stick. Seriously, the future will be better for the blogging world. My daughter's will have a better chance at credentials than me right now.
But that is fine, if I can help get something done, I am happy. I am not asking for full on access to everything but the coffee Matt Silverman drinks in the morning, I just want to cover the team I have followed since we came into the MLB……….plain and simple and without all the bells and whistles.
Rays Renegade
in general i agree with your premise, but i have a few comments.
1. I am still checking but i am pretty sure it is still MLB that regulates the credentials and a couple of years ago they ordered the teams not to hand out credentials to bloggers. Just saying it is not necessarily the Rays that are saying no.
2. The "printed copy of the pregame notes that other journalists get on a game basis " are available on the team's website day of games. As far as i am aware, the credentialed journalists receive the exact same thing. I could be wrong.
3. I am a Rays blogger and even though MLB has stopped blogger credentials, I was fully-credentialed for the ALCS.
4. And while I am not a blogger that has much desire to conduct interviews, I have never been denied access by the team. They have always been helpful and open to any questions/requests that I did have.
Like anything, it was just a matter of building up trust with the team. And it has nothing to do with ***-kissing. I have been as hard as anybody on the team and players at times. But they also know from reading my site over the years that I am not going to make stuff up and I am fair.
There has to be a limit somewhere. Professional journalists are granted access because supposedly they have already been vetted by the organization that hired them. And the organization is trusted by the team.
There is not vetting process in place for bloggers. Maybe there should be. But you can't just start a blog and say you want access. You have experience in the industry. So maybe you get to go to the front of the line. I don't know.
But in the end, no team is going to let just anybody cover and have access to their product unless they know you or the organization you represent.
Great article! Totally agree…bloggers, especially those like us on an established MLB site, should get some respect. I too have a writing backround (freelance for magazines, short stories in books, manuels…) but still, the big media types do not take us seriously. Fear not though…the "blog" is the future. I think if we establish that we are truthful, accurate and entertaining all at once, eventually, someone has to stand up and take notice.
I agree with you about the future……….but would love for it to be the present. Your line about truthful, accurate and entertaining is totally true, and might be too true to get us that notice any time soon.
But worst thing have happened in life then I can't write what I want.
Rays Renegade
Believe me, I know who you are Corky. You have a great site there. Been around a long time too, which is another eason for them to know you and trust you.
They know me more from my vendor days with the team. I was with Pepsi for 5 years covering the stadiums needs, and they got to know me that way, but over the last year I have tried to establish a blog that shows I have a true feel and want to praise and raise the Rays and not bury them like some sites have done in the past.
It a nice thing to know that you have had that type of access already. that means that as soon as Chris Costello, Carmin, and Rick Vaughn know I am for real, I might have a chance. Thank you for stopping by, your site is one of the reasons I decided to start up my writing again.
Rays Renegade
This is great. Thanks so much for posting it!
I, too, believe that blogging is here to stay. It'll gain some sort of acceptance in the future, I'm sure, just like other "controversial" things have in the past. One example that comes to mind is from the world of music: Rap. I can remember a time when hip-hop had no respect. Now look at it!
Let's keep our chins up, guys!
Wow, guess I should rock the boat more often. I have gotten a huge amount of great comments and responses from the MLBlog community on this blog.
I am going to do some research and see if I can do something else along this line before Spring Training. Again, thanks for the great comment and I still have my Sugarhill Gang record I used as a rollerskating rink DJ a long time ago.
" This is not a test, we are rapping to the beat……………"
Rays Renegade


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Another underutilized prayer of the catechumenate period involves the use of oil of catechumens. Unlike the exorcisms, blessings, or word services, one does need an ordained cleric, a priest or deacon to lawfully celebrate this rite. Let's read:
98. During the period of the catechumenate, a rite of anointing the catechumens, through the use of the oil of catechumens, may be celebrated wherever this seems beneficial or desirable. The presiding celebrant for such a first anointing of the catechumens is a priest or a deacon.
99. Care is to be taken that the catechumens understand the significance of the anointing with oil. The anointing with oil symbolizes their need for God's help and strength so that, undettered by the bonds of the past and overcoming the opposition of the devil, they will forthrightly take the step of professing their faith and will hold fast to it unfalteringly throughout their lives.
The standing question among some catechumenate directors and liturgists is that tricky "first" anointing. Does this mean that a priest or deacon anoints the "first" time, but a lay person may anoint subsequently? In the parallel practice of infant anointing, the ritual is optional for the priest or deacon, but is prescribed to be omitted when a lay person baptizes.
Understandably, an anointing of catechumens should be preceded by appropriate catechesis, as well as a personal commitment by the newcomers to rely more deeply on God.


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FRA will host an expert seminar on 'Future perspectives on legal capacity law' in Dublin in partnership with the Irish Department of Justice and Equality, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Irish Equality Authority, on 9 October.
The seminar will bring together Ministry of Justice specialists from each EU Member State to discuss in concrete and practical terms the obligations deriving from Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the legislative reforms underway or planned across EU Member States. FRA's report on legal capacity, which will be presented at the seminar, will provide an overview of the current legal situation in the European Union. Member State representatives will illustrate the different aspects of reform processes taking place in the EU by giving examples of what is happening in their countries. Participants will also discuss in depth the issues that need to be addressed to give supported decision-making a clear and effective legislative basis. French and German versions of the FRA report and accompanying easy read version will be made available on 9 October.


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A key Western ally in the fight against al-Qaeda in north Africa was shot on the weekend and airlifted to a Paris hospital, in what could spell trouble in an already precarious corner of the world. The President of the huge desert nation of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who has ruled since a political coup in 2008, reportedly had a bullet removed from his stomach late Saturday after what the government-controlled press said had been an "accidental" shooting by a military patrol. Although it appeared on Sunday that Aziz was not critically injured, his evacuation to Paris leaves the country temporarily leaderless at a time when the old colonial power France is considering military strikes just across Mauritania's border against al Qaeda–linked Islamists who seized control last March in the vast Sahara Desert areas of northern Mali. Since then, about 100,000 Malian refugees have poured into Mauritania.
In order to show that he was still in control, Aziz went on national television on Sunday, fresh out of surgery and lying in his hospital bed. With his clothes and the bedsheet covering his injuries, he appealed for calm, saying, "I want to reassure everyone about my state of health after this incident committed in error." There was no word on Sunday about the whereabouts of the soldiers who had shot at Aziz's convoy. The incident occurred near the President's country ranch about 30 miles outside the capital Nouakchott, according to the government's account.
(MORE: North Africa: Empire of Sand)
Among Mauritanians, there had been deep skepticism over the official version that the shooting had been an accident, and they were just as inclined to dismiss reports that Aziz had been only lightly wounded. Mauritanians quickly concluded that Saturday's shooting was likely a failed coup. The country has suffered four coups in 24 years. "We don't know who is running Mauritania now, the military or the civilians," tweeted Nasser Weddady, a prominent Mauritanian activist who lives in the U.S. and whose Twitter feed provides a kind of online news service on his country, with a stream of information reported from contacts back home.
Indeed, despite Aziz's reassurances, removing the President from the scene seems likely to complicate an already dangerous situation. Mauritania earlier this year launched attacks against the Islamist forces in northern Mali, in a failed attempt to dislodge them from power. Now, French President François Hollande is believed to be considering sending in French forces to help, and French officials have broached the idea of a West African military force, believing that negotiations with the Islamist powers in northern Mali would likely prove fruitless, and that the longer their rule is left unchallenged, the tighter their control will grow. The U.S. seems to agree. Earlier this month Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson told reporters that "there will have to be at some point military action" against the militants in northern Mali.
(MORE: The Cocaine Crisis: How the Drug Trade Is Ruining West Africa)
At stake is the fate of Mali — a country now split in two — which is a far bigger economic power than its poor neighbor Mauritania and which had been one of the region's most stable countries until this year's coup. Since then, the Islamic militants have installed a hard-line autonomous government run along purist Shari'a lines, raising fears that they could inspire similar movements in the rest of the region.
Openly supportive of al-Qaeda, they have threatened to launch attacks against Western interests, particularly those of France. The French government and French mining companies have huge investments in the area. Islamist groups are believed to be holding six French hostages in northern Mali, including four workers for the French nuclear-energy giant Areva, who were kidnapped in 2010, and two other French citizens kidnapped last November.
On Saturday, hours before Aziz was shot, the Islamist organization in control of northern Mali vowed to attack French citizens across West Africa if Hollande approves military action in the area. "We will send him the pictures of dead French hostages in the coming days," Oumar Ould Hamaha, spokesman for one of the Islamist groups controlling northern Mali, said in a statement. "He will not be able to count the bodies of French expatriates across West Africa and elsewhere."


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More Americans today hold academic degrees than ever before. The percentage of U.S. adults who completed a four-year college degree has steadily increased over the past 75 years — from 5.0% in 1940 to 30.6% in 2015, according to new data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The college attainment rate increased in 19 states in 2015. Only Iowa reported a statistically significant decline. Most states reported no change in the education levels of their population.
The likelihood of having attained a bachelor's degree varies considerably by demographic and social characteristics such as age and sex as well as — notably — by geography. The college attainment rate ranges from 41.5% in Massachusetts to 19.6% in West Virginia.
States with well-educated populations tend to share certain socioeconomic characteristics. Because holding a bachelor's degree grants access to a wider range of higher-paying jobs, states with the highest college attainment tend also to report relatively high incomes. Nationally, the typical college-educated worker earns $50,930 a year, about $14,000 more than the median wage for all U.S. workers with any education.
> Pct. of adults with at least a bachelor's degree: 27.8%
> Pct. of adults with at least a high school diploma: 90.1%
> 2015 median household income: $51,084 (18th lowest)
> Median earnings for bachelor degree holders: $49,839 (19th highest)
Michigan's annual unemployment rate fell by 1.9 percentage points in 2015 compared to 2014, the largest improvement of any state. The 2015 jobless rate of 5.4% was still just in line with the national rate of 5.3%. The percentage of Michigan adults with at least a bachelor's degree also increased slightly over that time. At 27.8%, the college attainment rate still trails the national percentage of 30.6%.
In the 10 most educated states, the typical household earns an annual income well above the national median of $55,775 a year. The opposite is the case in the 10 states with the lowest college attainment rates.
To identify America's most and least educated states, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the percentages of adults who have completed at least a bachelor's degree in each state from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2015 American Community Survey (ACS). The percentage of adults who have completed at least high school or its equivalent also come from the 2015 ACS. Median household income, health insurance coverage rates, employment by industry, food stamp recipiency, poverty rates, and income inequality also come from the 2015 ACS. Income inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient, which is measured on a scale from 0 to 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 representing total inequality. The Gini is also published by U.S. Census Bureau. We also reviewed annual average unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for 2014 and 2015.


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HOUSTON — The Houston Texans now own the AFC South, and they have a message for the rest of the NFL: Last week's debacle against New England was not the real Texans.
The real Texans, they claim, clinched the division for the second straight year with a 29-17 victory over Indianapolis.
"A lot of people were wondering how we were going to respond," Andre Johnson said. "I think a lot of people doubted us after what happened last week. We (felt) like we had to show people what we were really about."
They believe they did so against the Colts, a team that dominated the division for years before Houston's recent rise.
But Sunday's celebrations were more subdued than last year's. This time the Texans expected to win the division, and have much bigger goals ahead.
"It's awesome," J.J. Watt said. "But there's a lot more fun ahead, so I hope everybody is not celebrating too early."
Johnson gained 151 yards receiving and a touchdown, Bryan Braman had a special teams score on a blocked punt, and Shayne Graham kicked five field goals.
The Texans (12-2) grabbed their first AFC South title last season after the Colts nosedived without injured quarterback Peyton Manning. Manning is gone to Denver and rookie Andrew Luck couldn't do much against the inspired Houston defense.
The Colts (9-5) had won three straight games and needed a win to clinch a playoff berth a year after going 2-14 in 2011. Before that, they took the division seven times since Houston entered the league in 2002.
"It was a tough loss for us in that we came here with one idea and that was to win the division, and we're not going to win the division — they did it," Indianapolis interim coach Bruce Arians said.
Thanks in great part to three sacks from Watt, Houston bounced back six days after the 42-14 loss to New England on national television. The Texans will have home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs if they win out.
Luck threw for 186 yards with two touchdowns in the return to his hometown. He had led the Colts to a rookie-record six wins on drives in the fourth quarter or overtime this season, and he got the Colts within six points late in the third quarter.
"We came here to win, not put up a respectable showing," Luck said. "We'll move on to next week and hopefully get better."
Houston's defense shut Luck down after he made it close, and the Texans used Arian Foster to eat up the clock. Foster ran for a season-high 165 yards to leave him with 1,313 yards rushing, giving him his third straight year with at least 1,200.
"It's not really that we bounced back," Foster said. "It's that we played the football that we know we're capable of playing. We feel we're a team that if we play how we know we can ... it's going to be hard for us to get beat."
Watt increased his AFC-leading sack total to 19 1/2 — the NFL record for a season is 22 1/2 — and finished with 10 tackles. He also forced a fumble for the third straight game.
"I don't even know the stats," Houston coach Gary Kubiak said. "But it seemed like every time I looked up, he was making a play."
Luck was sacked five times playing behind a makeshift offensive line missing center Samson Satele (ankle) and right tackle Winston Justice (biceps) .
Johnson, who has 11,008 yards receiving in his career, scored on a 3-yard reception to make it 10-0 in the first quarter. The Texans didn't score a touchdown on offense after that, but were helped by Braman's special teams effort.
Braman blocked his second punt of the season, recovered it and returned it 8 yards for his first career touchdown to make it 20-3 just before halftime.
Vick Ballard had 60 yards rushing on a Colts drive that ended with an 8-yard touchdown reception by Dwayne Allen to cut Houston's lead to 23-17 in the third quarter. Ballard finished with a career-high 105 yards rushing.
Houston couldn't do anything on its next drive and punted. But Indy sputtered, and interim coach Bruce Arians even drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a punt, giving Houston the ball at the Colts 39.
Graham added a 46-yard field goal to push the lead to 26-17 and made his fifth field goal with about a minute left.
Rookie T.Y. Hilton and Luck connected on a 61-yard touchdown pass just before halftime.
Watt's forced fumble on Mewelde Moore on the Houston 1 was recovered by Tim Dobbins early in the second quarter, robbing the Colts of points. And the Colts stalled inside the red zone again and had to settle for Adam Vinatieri's 26-yard field goal to cut Houston's lead to 10-3.
The Texans had set the tone as they got to Luck early, sacking him twice on the Colts' second drive. Antonio Smith got to him first, and Watt put a move on backup tackle Jeff Linkenbach and took him down for a 15-yard loss.
On offense, Johnson was dominant. He put Houston up 10-0 when he waltzed into the end zone for a 3-yard touchdown reception. Johnson kept things going earlier in the drive when he caught a pass, lost it and then grabbed it again just before it touched the ground for a 10-yard gain on third-and-9.
NOTES: Luck needs 74 yards to break Cam Newton's rookie yards passing record of 4,051 yards. ... Dobbins has recovered four fumbles this season, a franchise record. ... Braman's two blocked punts this season are a single-season franchise record.
Texans clinch AFC South with 29-17 win over Colts
HOUSTON — The Houston Texans now own the AFC South, and they have a message for the rest of the NFL: Last week's debacle against New England was not the real Texans.


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Chancellor Joe May discusses the district's Regional Integrated Higher Education Network at Eastfield on Nov. 3. Photo by David Sanchez/The Et Cetera
by Andrea Carrizales, Eastfield Et Cetera
The Dallas County Community College District wants to create a "network" that will connect colleges and businesses for the benefit of the students, District Chancellor Joe May said at Eastfield on Nov. 3.
The concept of a Regional Integrated Higher Education Network was introduced by May at the district's 50th anniversary at the beginning of the academic year and is a fundamental part of the widely advertised DCCCD Way.
May said that this "way" is based on four principles: prepare the community to succeed, help businesses to prosper, inspire individuals to achieve and improve the quality of life for all those involved in the district.
With its development, the district is hoping to create relationships between organizations where talent, resources and facilities of the DCCCD will come together to meet the needs of individuals and employers.
"Some people are coming to us and they create their own networks," May said, adding that about 40% of students in the DCCCD make their personalized higher education networks by attending different colleges.
However, May said that a rudimentary network is already in place, it can become more effective in addressing the ever-changing needs of the community by taking a proactive approach.
Eastfield College is an example of how all these elements are already in place, May said.
High school students can become involved by taking dual-credit courses or attending Early College High School.
College students are able to transfer once they complete their associate degrees or their core classes. The Honors Program has an existing partnership with the University of North Texas and Texas State University that allows members to transfer directly into the honors programs at those universities.
For students who are seeking to enter the workforce immediately after college, Eastfield offers two factory-sponsored automotive programs from partnerships with Toyota and Honda. The programs are designed to allow students to enter the workforce upon completion — although many students get hired before that and leave college without their certificates.
Eastfield's partnership with Global Corporate College seeks to provide training for employees in order to improve performance in the workforce.
Another example of the college meeting community needs through infrastructure is the agreement that allowed Amazon to use the Pleasant Grove Campus for hiring during September and October.
Additionally, the Pleasant Grove campus recently hosted the Univision newscast after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, and last Saturday was the third year that the regional Robotics Competition was hosted in the Eastfield gym.
The creation of a network will enhance these partnerships and provide more opportunities for students to be involved in the community, May said.
There are some challenges preventing the incorporation of a successful network.
Audience members mentioned students leaving college before completion, colleges not offering certain programs of study and technology failing to meet districts plans.
"We think that getting a job is important," May said in regards to completion. "But this network is about lifelong engagement."
By creating an interconnected network of colleges and universities, May said that DCCCD colleges are looking toward becoming "access points" for students, in which a student may start his or her studies at one college and then transfer for specialized education.
"It seems to me that's an idea a long-time incoming," Matt Hinckley, president of the faculty association, said.
"Too often it is very intimidating, especially for a brand new student, just to work up the nerve to come on the campus to speak with someone." Hinckley said. "And then to be told 'We don't have that program here, but you could try somewhere else,' that can be very deflating to a student. A lot of prospective students might give up at that point."
In order to connect students to different colleges and universities, Eastfield College President Jean Conway said that additional training on academic advising would be necessary, as well as an agreement where Eastfield won't lose funding by referring a student to a sister college.
Retaining the talent of professors and staff at colleges is another concern. At the end of the presentation, May addressed the new raises for full-time faculty and staff as a way to stay competitive in the higher education system in North Texas.
"We've had a profound effect on the quality of life for just about everyone in this county," May said, adding that the DCCCD has served more than 3 million people since its conception in 1965.
With the creation of an inclusive higher education network, the DCCCD is looking to reach into the great variety of people in the Dallas county and North Texas.
"We want to be defined by whom we include," May said, which in the new network plans, is the whole community.


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Study: Limiting Meal Intake in 10-Hour Gap May Boost HealthSeptember 03, 2018 12:07
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Following a humble lifestyle such as intake of all food within 10 hours can reinstate balance, stave off metabolic diseases and uphold health, suggests a study led by one of an Indian-origin.
The study, led over mice, suggests that the health glitches associated with disruptions to animals' 24-hour rhythms of activity and rest - which in humans is linked to eating for most of the day or doing shift work - can be modified by consuming all calories within a 10-hour gap.
"For many of us, the day begins with a cup of coffee first thing in the morning and ends with a bedtime snack 14 or 15 hours later," said Satchidananda Panda, Professor at the Salk Institute.
"But restricting food intake to 10 hours a day, and fasting the rest, can lead to better health, regardless of our biological clock," he added.
The researchers demonstrated that the circadian clocks strike a balance between adequate nutrition during the fed state and essential repair or transformation during fasting.
When this internal timepiece is disturbed, as once people do shift work, or when it is compromised due to hereditary flaws, the balance breaks down and diseases come to stay.
The study appeared in the journal Cell Metabolism.
For the study, the team incapacitated the genes accountable for maintaining the biological clock in mice, including in the liver, which controls many metabolic functions.
They at that time put the mice on one of two high-fat diet regimes: one group had access to food around the clock, the other had access to the similar amount of calories only through a 10-hour window.
As predicted, the group that could eat at any time became obese and developed metabolic diseases.
But then the group that ate the similar number of calories within a 10-hour window endured lean and fit - in spite of not having an internal "biological clock" and thus genetically programmed to be morbidly sick.
"Many of us may have one or more disease-causing defective genes that make us feel helpless and destined to be sick. The finding that a good lifestyle can beat the bad effects of defective genes opens new hope to stay healthy," Panda said.
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It looks great, the eggs and bacon looks amazing! your photographs are really good and really help promote the place.
hi john, thanks for the compliment. i hope my photos do justice to the food :-)
169 is a pretty decent impersonation of Clodeli, with a couple of little extras thrown in for good measure. Here's hoping it does well enough so that the bad ikea furniture and the other furnishings can be updated soon.
hi Anonymous, i've still yet to try Clodeli. i don't mind the ikea furniture, it's pretty clean and simple :-)
Hi Anonymous, don't see any real resemblance to Clodeli at all, but thanks because they are a busy thriving eastern suburbs cafe. BTW Ikea is my best friend ;)
...And yeah thanks Simon the photo's are great even the bad furnishings look good! And yes the courtyard is NOW open!
hi callan, good to hear the courtyard is fully open now which i've noticed advertised. a rare commodity to have in Randwick. hope to check it out soon :-)
Corn Fritters have been the special over the past couple of weekends - very tasty, light & yet filling! (with just enough sweet chilli in the sour cream to give a little bite to it)
Cafe 169 has become my favorite in Randwick. The staff is friendly & helpful, the food is consistent, tasty, & good value for money. The plate reflects what the menu says, & it's always well presented.
Callan's Hollandaise is second to none. I've spent many a weekend over the years trying to find one to come close, & have not succeeded.
You will now find me there most Saturday mornings. It's a nice routine when you know that the coffee & food is up to expectation.
hi scott, good to hear it's been good for you. BTW did you know there's a special $5 deal on http://www.jigocity.com.au at the moment for the cafe. i hope to visit again soon with it in hand :-)
I missed that special Simon, but I don't mind paying good money for good food!


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Realistic Watercolor for Beginners
Instructor: Kelly Eddington
Starts: March 5, 2018
Week 1: Card with Spring Landscape
Week 2: Bubble Gum Still Life
Week 3: Practicing Facial Features
Week 4:Limited-Palette Portrait
What do you love to paint the most? You'll never know until you explore a wide variety of subject matter. This workshop presents a sampler of popular watercolor subjects: landscapes, still life, and portraits. Kelly will show you how watercolor's unique properties can do the heavy lifting in each painting. Watch it create a serene blue sky, a soft shadow defining a cheekbone, and reflected light on a shiny surface–all in seconds. You'll paint a card with a spring landscape that you might like so much you won't want to send it, followed by a colorful still life painting of gum balls. Next you'll practice painting a series of facial features in anticipation of the final project, a limited-palette portrait that is easier than you might imagine. Watercolor is challenging and can take decades to master, but this medium's special quirks are so seductive you might find yourself under its spell for the rest of your life.
Week 1, March 5: Card with Spring Landscape
Masking fluid is a watercolor artist's secret weapon, and we will use it to create a painting of a flowering tree in a spring landscape. And if you would like to paint multiple cards, you'll see how easy it is to develop variations on this tree to suit your color preferences. Magnolia? Red bud? Apple? Forsythia? The choice is yours.
Week 2, March 12: Bubble Gum Still Life
This workshop is about something most beginning artists don't consider: reflected light. We'll learn how colorful objects can influence each other. This effect is surprisingly easy to replicate with wet-into-wet watercolor, and we'll practice that by painting a few gum balls. We'll also learn how to create the candy's shiny surface using masking fluid.
Week 3, March 19: Practicing Facial Features
How do you paint something difficult? It helps if you break it down into small parts and tackle them one at a time. We will practice painting a sheet of individual eyes, noses, and mouths in various positions. Feeling scared? Paint with a single color. Feeling brave? Try full color. It's the easiest way to dip your artistic big toe into the ocean of portrait painting.
Week 4, March 26: Limited-Palette Portrait
We'll use skills learned in Week 3's workshop to paint a limited-palette watercolor portrait using your choice of colors. After drawing a pencil outline of our subject's main features, we will use masking fluid to establish highlights. Then comes the fun part: we will coat the entire sheet of paper with several analogous colors. Once that is dry, we will work on the features using a darker color. This colorful twist on an old-school exercise is popular for a reason: it makes portrait painting a lot less intimidating.


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Two Palestinians were arrested last night after being caught red handed in the commission of an act of vandalism in the Cave of the Patriarchs. The two were recorded on security cameras as they were ripping a Mezuzah off the wall in the hall of Ya'acov and Leah.
Superintendent Barak Arusi, commander of the police unit guarding the site, stated that the two, aged 20, were charged with attempted theft and with an attempt to offend religious sentiments. During their questioning one of the detainees denied his involvement, but the confessed to the charges and implicated his accomplice as well. They are both held in custody.
This is the fourth reported act of desecration by Muslims against Jewish religious symbols over the month of Ramadan. Tazpit News Agency reported yesterday that Mezuzahs were desecrated for a third time by Muslims frequenting the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Following the incident Sunday, Muslims age 18 – 35 were barred temporarily from entering the Tomb of the patriarchs, but Major General Nitzan Alon, chief of the IDF Central Command, rescinded the directive. A short while later, the two vandals were caught in the act.


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There probably is only one food truck in the world where the owner will take a break from slicing Baltimore pit beef to edit and post articles on irregular warfare for a website featuring contributions by the likes of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The food truck is called the Old City Grill. It's a 32.5-foot-long custom-built rig complete with a refrigerator and freezer, deep fryer, steam table and oven, four large grills, a griddle and a high-end slicer to get the meat just so.
The website is called The Small Wars Journal, an offshoot of a Marine Corps compendium of online information about what was once termed urban warfare. It contains articles about "counterinsurgency, foreign internal defense, support and stability operations, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and many flavors of intervention."
Both the food truck and website are operated by Dave Dilegge, a retired Marine Corps intelligence officer who sold his 4,000-square-foot home in Virginia and came to Largo in January looking for a new life at the Bay Ranch mobile home park on Ulmerton Road.
"It was like going from living on an aircraft carrier to living on a submarine," says Dilegge, about the sea change of his life.
For Dilegge, combining the Small Wars Journal and Old City Grill was a matter of melding two of his life's passions -- food and irregular warfare. This is Dilegge's second journey to the Tampa area. In the 1980s, he worked at U.S. Central Command in the Afghanistan Fusion Cell back when the command "was a backwater."
In the mid-1990s, as the Marine Corps began looking at the way war was fought in urban environments, Dilegge volunteered to help lead its efforts on the intelligence side. There was so much interest in what he was finding out that Dilegge created a home page for something called Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain.
That led him to create the Urban Operations Journal, which morphed in 2005 into the Small Wars Journal, a nod to the Marine Corps' Small Wars Manual for fighting local insurgencies.
Dilegge, who starts his days at 3 a.m. compiling the journal's roundup of items from publications around the world, says that over the years, he and publisher Bill Nagle, have "put in thousands of dollars and thousands of hours" into the journal. He says they rarely make much, if any, money.
"It is a labor of love," he says.
Dilegge may not be making money, but The Small Wars Journal has helped change the way future military leaders are taught.
"The Small Wars Journal has been an invaluable resource as the U.S. military struggled to understand and prevail in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," says John Nagl, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and an expert on counterinsurgency who helped Generals David Petraeus and John Mattis write the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Small Wars Journal, Nagl says, "helped the U.S. military adapt more rapidly and learn more effectively than in previous conflicts; I believe that it saved both American and host nation lives in the process."
After checking out SWJ at the recommendation of another officer, Nagl "quickly became hooked, becoming first a daily user and then a contributor to the discussions that I found there. Dave and Bill have done the nation a great service."
Reading the website helped introduce Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, commander of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, to the power of social media.
The journal "is that proverbial 'directed telescope' -- a way for senior leaders to gain exposure to those views and opinions that might not make their way all the way up the chain of command," Caldwell wrote in an email to the Tribune.
Dilegge "is the heart and soul of Small Wars Journal," said Nagle, the Small Wars Journal editor. "Dave is a workhorse and cranks out SWJ at crazy hours around the demands of the Old City Grill. Both are very demanding."
The idea for the food truck, said Dilegge, who retired from the Marine Reserve in 1998, came about as his contracting work for the Joint Forces Command dried up when the Virginia-based command was eliminated in budget-cutting moves last year.
"I always wanted to own my own restaurant," said Dilegge, who said he worked in the food service industry as a busboy, waiter and cook during high school and college.
He almost bought a restaurant in Virginia but decided to live a more mobile and debt-free life.
So he sold his big house and paid cash for his mobile home and about $60,000 for the food truck, built by a Miami firm.
Life is in flux for Dilegge.
The food truck, with its Baltimore favorites like pit beef and crab cakes, has proved challenging. While giving kudos to state officials for expediting the paperwork he needed to set up -- even coming in on weekends in some cases -- finding the right location has not been easy.
"We were doing food truck rallies, markets and other special events," Dilegge said. "We've done that and late night in front of bars."
Pinellas County rules, he says, have complicated things.
"You can't open until 10 p.m.," he says, which necessitates staying open until 3 a.m. "That's grinding."
So for the past two months, the truck has been in mothballs, parked on a grass field at the back end of the mobile home park until Dilegge can figure out his next move.
"I either want to sell it and open a brick-and-mortar restaurant," he says, "or find a spot in Hillsborough County, which is far more accommodating to food trucks."
As for Small Wars Journal, Dilegge said even with the end of the war in Iraq and the looming end of the war in Afghanistan, there will always be a place for it.
"I am 57 years old and I have been hearing there will be no more Vietnams, no more Somalias, no more Iraqs and I sure hear there will be no more Afghanistans," Dilegge said. "But sure enough, we seem to find ourselves in these messy situations. These small wars. We will stick around as long as there is a mili-tary."


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The iBuildApp mobile application-building platform has launched a beta version of its API for remote app management. The developer proposition here is a gateway for programmers to manage their apps built using the iBuildApp platform without needing to log in to the iBuildApp platform itself.
Offered as an API web service, the API is intended to allow developers to create and update application content such as photos, news, or events. The project aims to facilitate the development of mobile cloud apps that can access services on the iBuildApp cloud platform.
"If you're already using a content management system to update your website or database, now you can push your content directly to your mobile app," says iBuildApp's CEO Rafael Soultanov.
Developers can also evaluate the API Web Service for App building Services by managing their apps stored on the iBuildApp cloud.
The API is currently in beta and the company "looks forward to seeing how iBuildApp will innovate around its API in the future, and what kind of interesting apps developers will come up with," says Soultanov.


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Wade Garrett laments one thing.
Softball doesn�t get much attention these days. It�s primarily a high school and college sport, especially since it was removed from the Olympics following the 2008 Summer Games.
Garrett played it during a time and at a place that it was huge.
And he was pretty good. Good enough to be inducted into the North Carolina Softball Hall of Fame in 1984 and selected for the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame and, most notably, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame this past May.
Seated on a platform beside Hockey Hall of Famer Ron Francis and former University of North Carolina men�s basketball coach Bill Guthridge, Garrett�s shadow is much smaller. But that doesn�t diminish his accomplishments on a softball diamond, mostly the 43 feet between the pitcher�s spot and home plate.
It was something to do in Liberty when Garrett was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. Out in the country, there weren�t many sports to play, so he picked up softball.
�All our cousins were baseball players, they wanted to play baseball. It was hard to get an organized baseball team, so they got into softball,� he said.
At the time, church leagues were popular. Garrett�s older brother Bill Garrett was a good pitcher on their church�s team, and Wade wanted to follow in the footsteps of his older brother. So he taught himself how to pitch in his backyard.
�We had a concrete building right beside the house,� he said. �And I used to stand behind the house and throw up against that. I practiced pitches that I learned on my own.�
And he got pretty good, good enough that he took his brother�s spot as his church team�s pitcher.
Garrett had five pitches: drop, rise and left and right curves, along with a change-up �that could make a grown man cry when he looked so foolish missing it by a mile,� Garrett�s N.C. Sports Hall of Fame biography says.
The 1950s were a popular time for amateur softball, and Garrett was one of the best in the Guilford County area. He played for the Western Auto amateur team in Greensboro and led it to the North Carolina state championship in 1955.
His team moved onto the regional tournament, where he pitched 15 innings of shutout softball against the national champion team from Clearwater, Fla., before a home run ended his dominance in the 16th inning.
�After that, everybody was wanting to call me,� he said, chuckling. �I just enjoyed it, it was a good thing. It was a very competitive game in those days.�
Garrett, 81, compared the buzz around local amateur softball to minor league baseball and that hundreds of people would come to games.
After attending Elon College from 1951-55 on a basketball scholarship (coach �Doc� Mathis told him he was too slow to be a good basketball player), Garrett accepted a position with the Canton YMCA as the assistant athletics director for all youth sports. He also played on the Champion Paper of Canton softball team, described as the New York Yankees of North Carolina amateur softball.
In 1972, Garrett and his family moved back to Guilford County and Garrett taught in the Randolph County School System until 1995. He spent time at Eastern Randolph High School, where he was the coach for the girls� slow-pitch softball team and the assistant coach for the fast-pitch team.
Garrett pitched his last softball game in 1978. All told, his statistics were impressive: a total record of 358-83 with 40 no-hitters, a 78-inning scoreless streak and 10 world tournament appearances. He�s also in the Guinness World Book of Records for pitching 22 consecutive innings in a single game.
Why would he do this?
�Why does anybody enjoy a team sport?� he said. �I guess it�s just the involvement with other people and the acceptance and the ego boosting and all that. At least that�s the way I look at it.�
Garrett said his inductions into the various halls of fame were a �delight,� but there was something missing.
�The only thing about it is, they inducted me into the sports hall of fame of the state at a time when nobody still played the game and so few people are around that played it,� he said. �I was really surprised because of the fact that anybody considers it anything but a high school or college sport anymore.�
Softball as a sport awaits re-recognition. The men�s game is mostly relegated to church leagues. And earlier this month, women�s softball was among the sports beat out by wrestling, the sport the International Olympic Committee reinstated for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
�We feel that our sport resonates globally and deserves to be in the Olympic Games,� Ron Radigonda, the executive director of USA Softball, said in a press release. �Softball provides more women around the world an opportunity to participate in sport and those women deserve the right to an Olympic dream.�
While Garrett�s playing days are well past him, he reminisces fondly of his playing career. He proudly displays gloves, balls, photos and awards in a display case in his room at the Cedar Ridge retirement home in Burlington, about 30 minutes from where his pitches stung with intensity.
His hearing and his mobility is failing, and those pitches are no longer possible. But one can only imagine how electric that change-up was, how wicked the rise ball. But for Garrett, it wasn�t the pitches or the victories or the no-hitters or the tournaments or the records. He said he doesn�t know exactly how the N.C. Hall of Fame figured out all those statistics. What he remembers is this: it was family.
On Western Auto in Greensboro, he said: �Everybody on the team was related to me. (Softball) was the only activity we had. Everybody was really behind it in our community and all the cousins and brothers and relatives were behind it in a very big way.�
For Wade Garrett, that�s what sport is all about.


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Ancestry.com has updated their app to version 5.0 (iTunes App Store). I like their newest effort. It looks nice and the User Experience (UX) is improved for the most part. I miss having a button for showing just the lineal line (not siblings) to save space on the iPhone. Also the UX does not provide ways to go up or down your family tree other than what is displayed on screen (5 generations on iPhone). Why no arrows on top/bottom rows. You can of course click on someone higher up in the tree and see further back generations from that person, but you may not realize that there are prior generations unless you know your tree well. No visual key that more generations exist.
When you upgrade you will need to download your whole tree again (does that imply their local db changed and needs to be reloaded?) and that takes about 30–45 seconds for a tree of 1,142 people. Small price to pay. I do wonder if the new app is causing problems for the Ancestry.com web site. It has performed slowly and sometimes the app says Ancestry.com is not available. Perhaps mobile app users are putting a bigger strain then online users.
It integrates more closely with Facebook. That did not appeal to me, but for some people it may be just what you want. As a result I do not know what happens when you connect your Facebook profile to a person in the tree (does it post the timeline to your Facebook timeline?).
Besides, Facebook, the app now integrates with Ancestry.com more completely. The app now works a lot like the web site. It does not appear to be missing any features. I like the new Timeline view of a profile … very nice.
The Gallery button on the bottom of the profile view quickly loads your images (much faster). It also automatically searches for hints too. Finally this view has a new feature to find sources (from Ancestry.com?) for your facts. Very nice.
The tight integration to the web site does mean the app switches control to a Safari web-app but the integration is so tight you might not notice the switch to Safari and back to the App


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DND officials said there had been consultation about the move with local politicians. 'It's totally not true,' said local MP David Yurdiga
Feds to move military aircraft testing from Alberta to Ottawa, but Cold Lake politicians say they're in the dark
The federal government will create a new centre of excellence in Ottawa to support aircraft testing, but it will come at the cost of relocating staff and shutting down existing military facilities in Alberta.
The move affects the Canadian military's Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, or AETE, which has been at Cold Lake, Alta. since 1971. Under the new plan AETE would be relocated to the international airport in Ottawa and partnered with the National Research Council Flight Research Laboratory and Transport Canada Aircraft Services Directorate to create a centre of excellence for flight testing and evaluation. The move would affect almost one-third of the unit, which employs 166 military personnel and 22 public servants. The remaining two-thirds would be reassigned to other air force functions, said Department of National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier.
Moving AETE will save $14 million a year and free up space for the arrival of more fighter jets at Cold Lake. Canada is in the process of purchasing used fighter aircraft from Australia and the federal government has committed to buying 88 new jets to replace the existing fleet of CF-18s.
"This partnership will streamline our flight testing and evaluation capability, while ensuring sufficient space is available for the arrival of additional fighter aircraft in Cold Lake," Le Bouthillier said.
This partnership will streamline our flight testing and evaluation capability, while ensuring sufficient space is available for the arrival of additional fighter aircraft in Cold Lake
The move, however, is not sitting well with local politicians.
David Yurdiga, the Conservative MP for the area, said he'd heard about the move on Monday when it was raised at the House Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts. DND officials briefing the committee said there had been consultation about the move with local politicians. "It's totally not true," said Yurdiga.
Craig Copeland, the mayor of Cold Lake, said the city hasn't yet received a briefing from officials in Ottawa. "It's been sort of verbally mentioned over the years that there would be a re-org," he explained. "We're hoping to get somebody to brief us."
Details about the exact number of jobs that will be moved from Alberta are still not clear. It is not known how many of the air force personnel who will be reassigned to new jobs would continue to operate from Cold Lake.
Yurdiga said the loss of jobs would hit the community hard but he added that defence minister Harjit Sajjan had assured him there would be a "net benefit" to the community. "Cold Lake can't afford to lose even one position," Yurdiga said.
"There are so many unanswered questions and uncertainty is what the community is facing," he added.
Copeland said he had heard an estimate of 50 jobs being lost. That would be a real blow to the area, already suffering from depressed oil prices, and with a home foreclosure rate, he said, of around 10 per cent. "That is concerning to me," Copeland said. "On the one hand it's tough to see people leave our community but on the other hands, we are hopeful — and expecting — that the Canadian military's going to be investing (locally) for the new fighter jet program."
AETE currently occupies the second-largest and newest hangar at Cold Lake, which will be repurposed for other air force needs, including the new fighter program.
The final details of the move are still being worked on, including costs, Le Bouthillier said. DND is in ongoing discussions with the Ottawa International Airport Authority regarding the location of the new centre, he added.
The costs for relocating AETE are included in the $470 million the Liberal government has set aside for buying the used Australian F-18 fighter jets, and would not take place before summer 2021.
The Cold Lake location was primarily selected for AETE because of the large evaluation range nearby and its favourable climate for flight testing. AETE employs test pilots, flight test engineers, qualified systems evaluators, specialist engineers, and technologists.
Postmedia first revealed the proposal to move AETE in April 2016. The plan first started under the Conservative government but the Liberals continued with the relocation initiative. At the time the Canadian Forces said it would still use the bombing ranges associated with the Cold Lake installation but other test work could be moved.
At the time, the military told defence industry representatives the remote Cold Lake location made it challenging to attract or retain people and that relocating could save money.
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The largest union of state workers, the Service Employees International Union Local 1000, struck a deal in the middle of the night that has significant concessions on pensions: Current employees will contribute 3 percent more to their pensions and take a 5 percent pay cut, according to news reports. And pensions will be lower for future employees.
Setting aside the instability of such two-tier pension systems (they tend not to last, because of political pressure to treat everyone the same), this seems at first blush like a deal that will produce savings for the state.
The question becomes: will this stop the bashing/criticism of state employees' unions on the right (and by centrists like, ahem, yours truly)? It should. Or at least Meg Whitman's next comment about the unions should come with a strong caveat that some unions have been willing to make sacrifices.
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You might have surgery if your back problem is caused by a tumor or infection.
Spinal tumors can be cancerous (malignant) or not (benign). During surgery, the doctor removes the tumor and any bone that it has damaged.
If surgery or disease has weakened part of the spine, the doctor can make it more stable using metal implants, bone
grafts, or bone cement.
Certain types of tumors grow on the spinal cord or
nerve roots. In some cases, surgery to remove the tumor could cause more harm to the spinal cord than not removing the tumor. Talk to your doctor to make sure you understand the risks involved. Get advice from a surgeon who is an
expert in treating spinal cord tumors.
This surgery removes bone and other infected or abnormal tissue. It's usually done
to treat an infection or an injury.
The doctor removes infected and damaged or dead bone.
The area is then cleaned with a sterile solution that contains
antibiotics. If the doctor removes a lot of bone or entire vertebrae, he or she may use spinal fusion (arthrodesis) to make the spine stable.
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Boog Powell makes Athletics debut a day later than expected
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Boog Powell made his Oakland Athletics debut a day later than he planned. He wound up in the emergency room Friday night instead when he struggled to breathe before the game.
Powell, acquired from the Seattle Mariners last Sunday for Yonder Alonso, was fighting a cold and experienced an asthma attack he said had him breathing at about 50 percent. He received a breathing treatment and was able to recover quickly. He arrived at the Coliseum about noon Saturday, ate and began testing himself with some game-speed running.
"Yesterday I was so let down with myself not being able to make my debut with the A's. Today's the day," Powell said.
The breathing issue was the worst Powell could remember, and he only had a couple of asthma attacks as a child.
"I think it was just a mixture of being sick, just a bunch of stuff stuck," he said. "I don't know what it was, yesterday during BP I honestly couldn't breathe. I was breathing like 50 percent. I went to the ER and had them take a look at me. They gave me a breathing treatment and I started coughing up all the stuff that was in me. Woke up this morning and felt better, came here at 12 and ran outside — ran as much as I would in any game and I could tolerate it."
Manager Bob Melvin wrote him into the lineup leading off and playing center field for the middle game of a series against the Baltimore Orioles, and Powell's parents stayed in town for his second try after the scare. He hadn't experienced an asthma attack in at least 10 years, though keeps an inhaler with him at all times just in case.
"Obviously yesterday didn't go the way he wanted it to, a little bit of a respiratory infection and had some asthma issues," Melvin said. "Just didn't feel like it was right thing to do. But he feels good today, he was out here running and he's ready to go."
Now, Powell's primary goal is to stick in the majors so he can play at Camden Yards when the A's visit Baltimore from Aug. 21-23. There, he plans to meet the other Boog Powell, a 17-year major league first baseman and left fielder who will be 76 years old next week and running "Boog's BBQ" along the ballpark's outfield concourse.
"I'm going to meet him when I go to Camden Yards and play there. I haven't played there," the A's Powell said. "I'm going to go out to his barbecue either before or after the game, go out there and introduce myself and talk baseball. There's been fans and stuff that come up to me, 'Oh, I just met Boog Powell the other day, the real one.' I'm like, 'I'm real, too, not original.' Boog's his nickname, too. I'm excited to play there hopefully one day and meet him."
The elder Boog Powell was a 6-foot-4, 230-pound power hitter as a player. Oakland's Powell finally began to accept his name
"He's up here and I'm down here," said the younger version, formally Herschel Mack Powell IV and nicknamed by his father. "Maybe in a couple years gain some weight and start hitting a lot of homers."
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A few years ago, Katie and I went to Spain. We now purchase about 20,000 gallons per year (1 gallon per tree = 20,000 trees!) of Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil and we felt that it was important to know both the producers of this oil and the land that it grows on.
Enrique, his brother Manolo and his two sisters Anna and Isabella, are from a family that has been cultivating this same land for 7 generations. In line with "modern methods" of olive tree cultivation, this orchard, like most of the orchards of southern Spain, began employing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides back in the 60's to support "good yields and good economics". But about 30 years ago, Enrique looked at the water and the oil and the land and said, "No more." They returned to traditional methods of olive cultivation that had been sustainable and successful for 1000's of years. The initial result was reduced contamination, along with more labor costs and lower income. But the world is catching on and now the grove is able to command top dollar for the superior quality and the uncontaminated nature of this fabulous oil.
Enrique says, "The only thing we bring onto the farm now, is goat manure from my sister Isabella's 1000 goats. And the only thing that leaves the farm is oil. The rest we recycle and compost." They combine the goat manure with the left over pulp from olive pressing, along with the leaves and stems from the gathered olives, and along with the water used to wash the olives. They produce rich dark compost that they apply to the soil. There is more. It is now traditional in Spain to work the soil around olive trees until it is bare of all growth. Modern farmers believe that this allows the little rain water that falls to water the olive trees alone. On this grove however, they encourage the growth of a cover of native herbs and grasses. They believe that this stabilizes the soil to prevent erosion, and that there is a synergy…that the herbs and the trees exist in harmony. Certainly, the herb cover helps to sequester water and prevent rapid evaporation of the rain when it does fall. One result is naturally healthy trees, healthier workers and a safe, tasty, and therapeutically superior oil for use in our healing balms.
I thought they might be critical of our using this food-grade oil for a product that you put on your skin. But they said no. "Everyone knows that Olive Oil heals. You get a cut, you put Olive Oil on your skin and it will heal. You apply it to babies to heal a rash, and adults use it for beautiful hair and for healthy skin. We laid out a selection of Badger balms and explained that they were composed of 75% of Soler Romero's precious oil. They joked that the balms had "Come home to their parents!"
Depending upon the age and size of the tree and upon other factors such as yearly rainfall and temperature, the average yield of a tree is about a gallon of oil. Think about it. 10,000 gallons equals 10,000 trees. Someone has to harvest the olives from each of these trees. They need to get the olives to the factory as soon as possible as freshness equals quality. They need to clean, crush and separate oil from water and pulp. 10,000 gallons represents extensive work and care by many people over time and this is to be honored and respected! Plus, we are very proud that our purchase of this oil at a fair and increased price allows and supports this organic cultivation. This means, clean ground water, improved worker health, healthier environment, and a quality product for our Badger fans to apply with confidence.
Badger believes in "The Natural Way." This means, we walk a healthy trail from the source of our raw materials, through the Badger place of healthy business, and out into the world again as Healing Balm, filled with magic, power, and light. We are trying to find a new way, similar to an ancient time when life was more in harmony with nature. Yet we are trying to walk a new path too where modern intelligence harmonizes with this true path of nature. This is a long trail, and we are committed to walking it.
We will try to visit and get to know all of our suppliers over the years. We feel this is more important than just having the letters of certification and scientific analysis we conduct. Mutual knowledge, respect, and care for each other and for the land is the basis for long standing relationships and for developing ecological and ethical business far into the future. That's what we're all about. Having fun, being kind and generous, living ecology, finding fanatical quality and devoting total commitment to rediscovering "The Natural Way."


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Laurie Cournoyer Faces Drug Charges
LAKE ANDES - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says one of two adults arrested after a 2-year-old girl was found dead in their Wagner home has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine, keeping a place for use or sale of drugs and failure to report the death of a child.
Jackley says that 28-year-old Laurie Cournoyer entered the plea Tuesday. He says it marks the first conviction under South Dakota's version of Caylee's law, which became law July 1.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 14 in Charles Mix County.
Prosecutors say the 2-year-old girl's body was in a closet for nearly two days in July before Cournoyer and her husband, Taylor, reported her death.
Taylor Cournoyer pleaded guilty to drug charges as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
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I am excited to announce the formation of the Perl 5 Documentation Team. Our goal is to have the best, most current, and easiest to use and understand documentation of any programming language. Why settle for small goals?
Since the success of this team will depend on having both expert and novice points of view, membership is open to all, regardless of experience level with Perl. This is an excellent opportunity for people who would like to make a contribution back to the Perl community to do so in a way that doesn't require expert programming abilities.
If you are interested in being part of the team, please subscribe to the Perl Documentation mailing list, as future discussion will occur there (look for the thread named "I want to sign up"). If you know of other people who may be interested in being part of this effort, please pass this message on to them.
Areas where the team will be active include:
- Reviewing and updating documentation to ensure that it is friendly to new users
- Updating examples in documentation to a style compatible with Modern Perl practices
- Updating the documentation so that all examples longer than one line contain a
usestatement indicating the minimum version of Perl 5 required to run the example
- Monitoring p5p for incoming documentation patches, ensuring they contain a patch against the current delta, and forwarding them to committers as needed
- Monitoring p5p for patches that will require modification of documentation, and ensuring that the documentation is modified appropriately
- Verifying that perlglossary contains current accurate definitions for all jargon terms
Goals to be met for the Perl 5.14.0 release include:
- Recruit novice and experienced Perl programmers to the team, and create a Perl module (a la Perl::Staff) and a Perl 5 wiki entry listing the team members
- Finalize perlopquick as a replacement for perlop and modify the new perlop so that perlop and a shorter perlopref can be generated from a single source document
- Extend perldoc to use the new perlop to provide documentation on operators (tenative proposal: perldoc -O "^=")
- Create a perlfuncref, a series of short summaries of information in perlfunc, analogous to perlopref (Again, both of these will be generated from a single source document for ease of maintenance)
- Define a policy for documenting documentation changes in the Perl deltas (e.g. perl5133delta.pod)
- Define a set of documentation style guidelines, covering structure, style, and content
- Formally define the Perl 5 Documentation Team functions
- Set deadlines for the defining of longer term goals
- Create a logo for the Perl 5 Documentation Team
- Find a better name or nickname for the Perl 5 Documentation Team
Potential longer term (post-5.14.0) goals:
- Clean up perlre
- Extensive review and Modernization of all examples
- Develop a plan to integrate with the Pod2 translation project