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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Secular Community Steps Up For South L.A. Scholars
Over the past week, members of the secular community have stepped up mightily and helped Black Skeptics Los Angeles exceed its fundraising goal for the First in the Family Humanist scholarship fund. Because of the generous sponsorship of individuals and organizations like Foundation Beyond Belief, the American Humanist Association, Black Non-Believers of Chicago, Debbie Goddard of African Americans for Humanism and Ian Cromwell of the Crommunist Manifesto, BSLA will be able to offer four $1000 scholarships to college-bound South Los Angeles students. We at BSLA also appreciate the tremendous boost given to the effort by blogs from Skepchick, PZ Myers, Crommunist and others. For our recruitment outreach we are proud to partner with exemplary teacher-resource providers like Dr. Melanie Andrews, Angela Rodriguez and Shirley Van der Plas of Washington Prep High School; Debbie Wallace and Diane Schweitzer of Gardena High School; Tabitha Thigpen and Yvonne Divans Hutchinson of King-Drew Medical Magnet and Marlene Carter of Dorsey High School. It is largely because of the efforts of these unsung teachers, mentors, health providers, and scores like them, that homeless, foster care, undocumented and LGBTQ seniors make it to college. Scholarship awards will be awarded and celebrated in June in Los Angeles...More @ http://www.freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/2013/02/06/secular-community-steps-up-for-south-l-a-scholars/
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Women And Football: The Legacy Of Andy Gray
I think it goes without saying that the decision to dismiss Andy Gray from Sky following his remarks regarding a female linesman was correct. The fact that he and his co-commentator, supposedly refined journalist Richard Keys, decided to have a dig about the young female referee was pretty shocking to the football world as a whole, and not just the women. It may be an exaggeration to say that their behavior sets women in sports back 50 years, but it might not be far off. Fortunately for the women in football today, there are enough people in power to not let two big-headed presenters get the best of all those women that have worked so hard to get where they are in such a male dominated arena.
I can pretty much guarantee that when 25-year-old Sian Massey took to the pitch at Molineux Stadium, she never envisioned herself becoming the catalyst for the sacking of one of Sky Sports' most well known commentators. I imagine that she woke up that morning, ate a healthy breakfast in preparation for the game, had a cup of tea to relax, and then proceeded to go about her business on the field as an official for the match. Ninety minutes later and she was most likely headed home, feeling very confident in the fact that she did a fine job officiating a big Premier League contest. And to her dismay and bemusement, she awoke the next morning to find her name branded all over the print, online, and television media. Not for her laudable performance as an official, but because she is a woman, and according to Keys and Gray, women don't know enough about football to be anywhere near it.
Understandably the chain of events that followed, first the suspension of Keys and Gray followed swiftly with Gray's sacking, had very little to do with her in the end. She was merely the focal point for a couple of over-the-hill chauvinists who believe they are living in the 1950s, a time when it was perfectly acceptable to chastise women all in the name of being manly. And what makes the whole situation even more comical is that Keys and Gray, who are not well liked by many viewers, are often questioned about their knowledge of the offside rule. Something they ignorantly believed Massey was incapable of knowing simply because of her gender.
Kenny Dalglish, whose own daughter works in the field of football as a presenter, first on Sky Sports and now on ESPN, claimed he didn't even know a woman was officiating until after the second half began. As the whole situation gathered momentum, the Liverpool boss was then questioned about his thoughts on the matter. Ever the intelligent diplomat, Dalglish simply replied, "I don't know what Sky's attitude is towards women, but certainly for me if you're good at your job I don't think your gender should be a restraint. If they're there, then fine. As I said, I didn't even realize until the second half that there was a woman running the line. It didn't bother me in any way, shape, or form. The most important thing is how they see and interpret the laws of the game. The fact that we never knew tells you something. And, by the way, I never noticed if it was a guy on this side either."
Dalglish has since poked fun at the situation by asking the press before his press conference, "Is it OK for a lady to be here? It doesn't affect Sky?" His daughter Kelly followed suite and supplied her own quick-witted response to the inanity of Keys and Gray's comments. She said on Twitter: "Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called 'the offside rule.' Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes."
I can say as a woman who has played, watched, and analyzes football that I've never understood some men's obsessions with constantly wanting to remind women of their inferiority. Many men, such as Keys and Gray, take some kind of pleasure in making others feel subordinate. Anyone with an ounce of self-confidence knows that the best way to make themselves feel better about their own self-image is not to degrade, but to enhance. With Keys and Gray, it seems a clear case of projecting their own inferior lack of knowledge onto someone else.
In all honesty, despite the prevalence of men like Richard and Andy in the world and especially the world of sports, I've rarely come across such antiquated attitudes in my personal life. As a kid, I played on official league teams with all girls, but spent the rest of my time playing with the boys. They always picked me for games and I was often one of the first to play. Was this because I was a girl? Was it because I wasn't a boy? Or was it simply because I could play and no one gave a toss what I was as long as I contributed to the game?
This being the twenty-first century, I assumed people would be able to notice that one person can do anything just as good as another, no matter what their gender, race, or beliefs are. Perhaps it was naive of me to think that Keys and Gray's sexist opinions were a thing of the past. I can only hope, along with the rest of the intelligent football community, that with Gray now out of the game for the foreseeable future, it will send a message that such behavior is unacceptable. That, and maybe Sian Massey can become a shining example of just what women can do in football when given the chance, despite what some people might say about them.

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Oscar Award-winning director Roman Polanski might have escaped the U.S. before his 1977 rape trial was completed, but it seems he can't escape a case of the blues.
After his lawyer, Herve Temime, visited Polanski in a Swiss jail, he reported the director was tired and depressed.
Temime now says Polanski has been removed from the Zurich jail and is currently undergoing medical treatment.
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"All I know is that he has been taken from prison for medical attention. I don't know where he is or when he will be returned to prison," he told Reuters.
Polanski is wanted in the U.S. for a 1977 court case where he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage girl. Believing the judge would throw the book at him, Polanski fled the country before the case was officially closed and lived on the lam in Europe.
Until now, that is.
Polanski, 76, was arrested in September while accepting a lifetime achievement award at a Swiss film festival. He is being held in Switzerland pending extradition to the U.S.
According to Reuters, the U.S. has 60 days to complete a firm extradition request. If Polanski challenges it, though, it could take years to get him back into the States.


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Date: April 6
Her story: Chrissy Bielot, 35, grew up in Pikesville. She works as a payroll analyst for an information technology staffing firm in Hanover.
His story: Jeff Marshall, 36, calls Blackfoot, Idaho, his hometown, but says his family moved frequently while he was growing up because his father was an aircraft mechanic. Jeff moved to Maryland in July 2005 for his job as a conductor for CSX and is now a train dispatcher for the company. His parents, Chuck and Connie Marshall, are retired and live in Arimo, Idaho.
Their story: In early 2013, Jeff and a co-worker joined Meetup.com, a website to meet people who share the same interests. They created a board game club and hosted meetups for several months before Chrissy joined the club.
That July, the group organized a board game barbecue, which was Chrissy's first time attending a get-together.
Throughout the evening, Jeff and Chrissy say they unintentionally kept finding themselves next to each other in a group of about 20 people.
"At the end of the activity, you get a little email listing everybody at the event, and you can click on the link and it just sends everyone a quick 'nice to see you' email," Jeff says.
Being new to the site, Chrissy got Jeff's message and didn't know he had also sent it to the rest of the group.
When Jeff followed up with a personal message to Chrissy saying the group would be glad to have her again, she thought he was flirting. But when he didn't ask her out, she decided to make the first move. They met one day in Glen Burnie for dinner, followed by a walk on the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail.
The proposal: In December 2013, Jeff and the board game club members arranged a holiday game night with prizes.
With the other group members aware of his plan, Jeff rigged the prize selection process so that when Chrissy won, she would draw from a bag holding paper slips for only "big" prizes, one of them being a proposal and engagement ring.
"The problem was, I won the first game," Chrissy says. Jeff hadn't had time to switch the normal prize bag for the special, "big prize" bag. Chrissy was determined to claim a board game called King of Tokyo as her prize and ignored Jeff when he tried to sway her decision to choose another.
He left the room and came back with a box, saying that she forgot to consider one prize. He then got down on one knee and proposed.
Chrissy and her son, Cole, live in Parkville but will move to Jeff's house in Severn this summer when Cole finishes school.
Venue: About 75 guests attended the ceremony and reception at the Elkridge Furnace Inn. Officiant Joel Lessard presided. Jeff and Chrissy included Cole during a sand ceremony in which the three of them poured colored sand into a glass frame to signify the joining of their families.
Flowers and decor: The colors of the wedding were red, white and navy. Because Chrissy is highly allergic to live flowers, she ordered wooden flowers online to use instead. Her bouquet consisted of wooden red roses, and the centerpieces used wooden white and blue flowers.
Tables were named after board games, such as Power Grid, the first game Chrissy and Jeff played together.
Her dress: The bride wore a strapless ivory ballgown with floral beading by Oleg Cassini from David's Bridal. She wore a matching beaded veil and red peep-toe high heels.
Bridesmaids' dresses: The women wore strapless, knee-length navy satin dresses from David's Bridal with red peep-toe high heels.
Men's attire: The men wore gray tuxedos from the Vera Wang collection at Men's Wearhouse. Jeff wore an ivory vest and tie, and the groomsmen wore navy vests and ties. Cole, the ring bearer and Jeff's junior groomsman, wore a gray tuxedo and ivory vest and tie to match Jeff.
Music: DJ Bill Marsh of Carlysle Entertainment in Savage played music. Jeff and Chrissy's first dance was to "Love of a Lifetime" by Firehouse.
Food and dessert: Chef Daniel Wecker at the Elkridge Furnace Inn made roasted New York strip steak, turkey breast, salmon, rockfish, artichoke cheese dip and mini quiches.
A three-tier cake with caramel pecan, vanilla and chocolate raspberry layers was served for dessert. Tye's Mud Hut in Severn made a cake topper featuring two meeples — board game pieces in the shape of miniature people.
Favors: Guests received a pair of red-white-and-blue dice engraved with Chrissy and Jeff's names and wedding date.
Special touches: Jeff's brother, Rob Marshall, made a woodwork box decorated with Chrissy and Jeff's names and wedding date to hold the rings for the ceremony. Guests signed Jenga tiles instead of a traditional guest book.
The couple hosted a second reception in Idaho for Jeff's family members who couldn't make it to the wedding.
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Ever wondered what it was like to be a police officer before computers, political correctness and health and safety? How it felt patrolling a beat after dark? What went through a police officer's mind when confronting an armed criminal or attending a fatal accident or messy post-mortem?
Now retired Thames Valley Police superintendent, turned crime novelist, David Hodges, lifts the lid on it all, putting together his own recollections of a job he knew so well during thirty years of intense change – from the swinging sixties to the radical mid-nineties.
In his candid description of life on and off the beat, he uses a mix of drama, pathos and humour to illustrate the journey of a naïve twenty year old, who had never even seen a dead body before, to a fifty year old cynic, who, by retirement, had seen a bit too much of everything.
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The life story of thriller writer and film star Shane Briant. Working with 10 Oscar winners. The British Royal family and the Picasso heirs. A THRILLING and AMUSING ride, containing THRILLING anecdotes and 160 photos.
'Shane Briant was semi adopted, living in the country, mixing with the English Royal family, Graham Greene, Pablo Picasso's children. He became a movie star in 1972 and has worked with 10 Oscar winners. His stories have never been told and are both fascinating and hilarious. This is a must read.' –The Australian.
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L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and the author of the bestselling Detective Jackson mystery/suspense series: The Sex Club, Secrets to Die For, Thrilled to Death, Passions of the Dead, and Dying for Justice. I recent caught up with her to discuss her latest book.
The Arranger is a thriller set in a futuristic world in which contestants enter a national endurance competition called the Gauntlet. What is the Gauntlet?
The Gauntlet contest is co-sponsored by the federal government and a giant media/technology company called AmGo. A representative from each state competes for a grant that will allow its cash-strapped state government to rehire public employees, such as police officers and teachers. Part of the prize is that AmGo will also build its next fulfillment center in the winner's state, bringing in even more jobs. The contest, broadcast live to a global pay-per-view audience, consists of five phases: the Challenge, the Puzzle, the Battle, the Obstacle, and the Marathon. In each round of the Challenge, two competitors race against each other, with the loser going home. The 25 remaining contestants each have a chance in the Puzzle, a locked-room scenario, with only the 16 fastest times going on to the Battle, a hand-to-hand combat tournament. Writing those scenes was so different from anything I've ever done. It was challenging and fun, and several beta readers said the competition scenes left them breathless.
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John Cheever says that "a collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies." Since Mr. Cheever won the Pulitzer for his own collection of short stories, I rather think this statement was a demonstration of his humility more than it was his prosclytization of any truth.
So why did I do it? Why have I written a clinker, shown my trout fly collection, decided to dust off tarnished and battered short stories? Why am I enforcing a courtesy to my fans, friends and fellow writers? It's because I love the short story so much and I can't let go. I think Wild Bill Faulkner's said it best. When describing his thesis on the short story he wrote "I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing."
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By Jeff Ayers
Daniel Polansky's first novel is a genre blending mix of the best crime fiction and fantasy. Daniel took some time to answer questions about LOW TOWN for the Big Thrill.
Talk about developing the writing bug.
I've always been a pretty compulsive reader, down to my early childhood, so I guess it just was an outgrowth of that. Put enough other people's words in your head and you start spitting out your own. I was never really one of those people who dreamed of being a writer, but on the other hand I was always writing. A few years out from college I started putting more serious effort into it, trying to place articles and short essays at various small internet publications. All non-fiction though, at that point.
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By Rick Reed
The newest graphic novel from mystery and crime writer Gary Phillips revolves around what is believed to be a racially-motivated shooting inside a fancy restaurant/nightclub. The victim is a young black man named Deke Kotto. The suspect is white undercover FBI Agent Tim Brady, and the meeting of the two men is the formula for a heart-stopping race to find the truth. Cowboys will be released by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics on July 13th.
Gary Phillips is best known for Ivan Monk Mystery series and the Nate Hollis Investigations series set in Los Angeles. He is also the author of the Martha Chainey Mystery series.
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By Cathy Clamp
Authors around the world, and across the centuries, have spoken the name Shakespeare with a reverence reserved for a true master . . . an icon. Because truly, love the plays or hate them, there's no denying that the man had a way with words. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and, of course, Macbeth.
Or are they? Above all, the plays of Shakespeare are thrillers. Life and death. Passion and hated. Drama . . . terror. What's not to love for thriller readers? So why shouldn't these thrillers of old take on new life and, in fact, be reimagined in a new form that's both familiar and alien to readers?
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Royal Pains jumps from the small screen to the page as disgraced and blackballed ER physician Dr. Hank Lawson finds himself exiled to a concierge practice in the Hamptons. There, he confronts money, power, and a dangerously incompetent medical practitioner. He finds many patients from both sides of the track in need of his own brand of clever, personal, and compassionate medical care. Dr. Hank Lawson (played in the series by Mark Feuerstein in the TV series) is a disgraced New York City emergency room doctor exiled to the Hamptons, after being wrongly accused in a patient's death.
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Nick Kismet will go anywhere, do anything, to protect the treasures of the ancient world. But to stop an ancient symbol of power from becoming a weapon of unimaginable terror, he'll have to go further than he's ever gone before… from the deserts of North Africa to the urban jungles of Manhattan to the snow covered mountains of Georgia…but to keep the Golden Fleece from falling into the hands of his greatest enemy, Kismet will have to go…Into the Black.
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Action should be Raymond Benson's middle name. When you write six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories about this legendary spy otherwise known as Agent 007, you must know how to write great action. But that's not all Benson knows. His thrillers Dark Side of the Morgue and A Hard Day's Death immerse readers into the world of rock n' roll. And Benson is on top of his game (and the New York Times best-seller list) when it comes to writing successful videogame novelizations.
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By Brett King
Twenty-two thriller masters. Two masterful thrillers. One fascinating experiment in creativity.
It was a bold idea. Gather many of the world's finest thriller writers and challenge each one to compose a chapter during a two-week window before handing it off, no questions asked or advice given, to the next author. Based on an idea by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Watchlist blends two novellas, The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet, into a single book, available in paperback on December 7th. Brimming with explosive twists, one novella deals with a mysterious manuscript containing a deadly secret while the sequel centers on an international terror plot that threatens to escalate into the next world war.
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By Aaron Brown
With his new novel, Narrows Gate, author Jim Fusilli has blazed a path that may open up a bold new outlet for writers to share their stories. He's done so by becoming the first writer to sell a book to Audible (a large audiobook publisher and distributor) without the book first appearing in print. And it's fitting that the book treading this new ground is one described as "outstanding in every way" and "a big, broad-shouldered novel, equal parts Ellroy, Puzo and Scorsese."
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From bestselling, award-winning author, Thrillermaster, and "father of the modern action novel" David Morrell comes a brand new, never-before-published gripping international thriller — exclusive to Amazon Kindle. Contains a special Afterword, and a photo insert displaying the knives of The Naked Edge.
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Anthony E. Zuiker is known to millions of fans as the creator of the CSIfranchise. His show and its wildly successful spin-offs, CSI Miami and CSI New York, have won six Emmys and a host of other national and international awards and have a worldwide audience estimated at more than 75 million viewers. The show has spawned a generation of imitators, revived and recast the police procedural and become a brand recognized around the world.
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Imagine a literary jam session with 22 of your favorite masters of pulse-pounding fiction and you have WATCHLIST: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book.
Jeffery Deaver conceived of the characters and put the plot into motion and Jim Fusilli leant a sharp editorial eye, finely orchestrating this chorus of suspense that includes such top writers as Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, Gayle Lynds, P.J. Parrish and many others.
In the first novella, The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that not threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy figure from his past: the man known only as Faust.
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15 Thriller Masters, 1 Masterful Thriller
Harry Middleton's first adventure globetrots from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of a priceless manuscript. This first, unique collaboration by 15 of the world's great thriller writers won the coveted Audie® Award for Audiobook of the Year. Download the complete, unabridged audiobook today.
Thrilling Sequel to The Chopin Manuscript, Audiobook of the Year Winner
Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton must once again crack a secretive global conspiracy in this new international thriller penned by a dream team of top-selling authors, including Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Scottoline, Lee Child, and Joseph Finder. Download the complete, unabridged audiobook today.


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Image SEO Basics - Whiteboard FridayBlog Post: October 14, 2010
To confirm Google's ability to OCR images. In Google docs there is an option to upload a file from your PC. After selecting the file there is a check box with the following question "Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents" . Well if they do it in Google Docs I'm sure they are/will do it for Google images too.


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Firetruck Chef's Apron for Kids
When my nephew Carter was little, he loved all things related to machinery. Still does, in fact. Though I could find all sorts of tractors, backhoes, emergency vehicles, construction toys, etc., what I couldn't find were kitchen items that allowed him to express his boyish side while experimenting with cooking and baking alongside his sisters. It set me thinking about a line of vehicle-based kitchen aprons for boys and tomboys (because I didn't like frilly things either).
I hope your little boy or tomboy loves them as much as ours do!
I can add your child's embroidered name for an additional $6.00. Just choose the option for name above and make sure to include the child's name in the notes section of the order.
Two Large Pockets, Non-Adjustable Neck Strap, Unisex Styling - Suitable for Boys or Girls.
Durable 65% Poly and 35% Cotton 7 oz. Weight Twill. Restaurant Quality, Washable, Soil and Wrinkle Resistant Finish. Proudly Made In The USA !!!
Size Specifications:
Regular : The height of this apron ( from the chest down) is 20" and the width ( from side to side ) is 15" with a non-adjustable neck strap and long finished waist ties. This apron will fit most children ages 3 to 8 years old.
Extra Large: The height of this apron (from the chest down ) is 24" and the width ( from side to side) is 16" with a non-adjustable neck strap and long finished waist ties. This apron will fit most children ages 9 to 12 years old. (Extra Large aprons usually take an extra 3-5 days and currently cost $1.50 more).
Please Note: The apron sizes noted above are measured without the waist ties or neck strap. The long waist ties are about 18 inches long on each side of apron. The neck strap and waist ties are made in the same fabric and color of the apron.


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Creating Get Found Menu or Price List
Once you enter your basic business information, you can add a list of your offerings by clicking on Menus Lists or Price Lists in the left-hand toolbar. The choice depends on the category you chose when creating your Profile. If you chose Restaurants as your Primary Category, the toolbar displays Menu Lists. If you chose a service-oriented business, Price Lists displays.
Like your other business information, a Menu or Price List is published to all of Get Found's partners, including Google, Bing, Yelp, TripAdvisor, YP, Foursquare, Citysearch, and many other smaller sites. When you change your menu or price list, Get Found automatically sends the new version to those partners. Since 97 percent of consumers search online for products or services in their area, having your menus or price lists appear on multiple websites is critical for attracting new business.
Note: Auto imports are no longer available.
To Add a Get Found Menu or Price List
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Get Found, and then click Manage.
- Click Menus or Price Lists in the left-hand column.
- If you choose Create Menu/Price List, enter a name for your menu and click Submit.
- Your new menu displays four choices below its name. Click New Item or New Section, depending on how you want to organize your menu/price list.
Note: After creating your first menu/price list, you can add others simply by clicking Add Menu/Add Price List at the top of the window.
- Use the Name, Price and Add A Description fields to enter the item or section information.
- Press Enter/Return to add another item/section or click X to delete an existing item/section.
- To move an item into a section or rearrange the order of any items, click the left-side triple bar and drag it to a new position.
- Click More to Add Choices for such things as side dishes or Add Additions for add-ons.
- To add a photo to a menu item, click the camera icon next to the menu item, then Upload A Photo and browse to the photo you want to use. Use the resize/crop overlay if the image needs adjustment to fit.
Note: The image you choose to upload cannot be larger than 10MB and must be formatted as a .jpeg, .jpg, .bmp or .png file. It will be automatically resized as a thumbnail image.
- Click Accept to add it to the item in the menu/price list.
- Click Save Changes to add the menu/price list to your site. It will be sent to Get Found's partner sites. (Publishing times vary based on the partner and state of the business profile.)


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Escaping Marxist Myopia
A spectre haunts the left. It is the ghost of Karl Marx and the suffocating presence of the archaic ideology which bears his name. The essence of Marxism is the seizure of political power based upon the committed solidarity of the factory workers (proletariat). Supposedly, everyone (except the bourgeois) would benefit by having the international order run by the equivalent of a huge international labor union. Commissars apparently more benign than oligarchs. It was a reworking of classical economics by Marx to highlight the failures of capitalism in order to justify a revolution which would replace the capitalists with the Marxists. It was promulgated at a time when factories were the very symbol of rising Western economic might, the control of which would provide the Marxists with considerable social power. Since Marxism is based upon a reworking of classical capitalist economics, and since capitalist economics is mostly an ideological rationalization of capitalist economic power-seeking, Marxism is, in effect, a different way of organizing the political economy to the benefit of a different set of elites.
Because the success of Marxist power-seeking was based upon the recruitment of the proletariat (factory workers), Marxism verbally panders to the biases of the laborers, creating a glorifying imagery whereby all value is a consequence of labor, all other functions being essentially parasitic in nature. Profit is regarded as basically a theft from the producers (labor). The notion that the "rentier" does not really earn his money is analogous to the religious prohibition against charging interest. In short, Marxism is not so much a realistic description of political economy or organizational effectiveness, as it is an ideology with which to attract, organize and motivate factory workers. Likewise, the development of class analysis is a tool to imply some sort of organizational affinity among the proletariat which did not exist, but which the Marxists sought to develop. The use of class analysis may provide some benefit as a crude approximation of power relationships within society, however, it misrepresents the organizational reality and dynamics which existed at the time, and is so out of synch with our modern political economy as to be a joke. Also, it seeks to obscure the power relationship between the Marxist elite and the Marxist cadres. In similar fashion, modern international labor unions suffer from the fact that that the union leadership are effectively "bourgeois" whose "class interests" differ significantly from the workers they supposedly represent.
With factory labor an increasingly small segment of the modern political economy, one would think that an ideology based upon organizing the proletariat to overthrow the bourgeois would have been abandoned long ago. Think again. Marxism is best understood as a form of secular religion. Marx was the Prophet, "scientific" historical determinism the surrogate Deity, and a classless utopia the promised land. Like all successful ideologies, Marxism has a demonstrated ability to unite the faithful in solidarity, something which purely rational analysis is incapable of doing. Unfortunately for the Marxists, the disconnect between the ideology and observable reality has widened to the point where it is obvious to all but the diehard faithful that Marxism significantly misrepresents reality. As such, it hinders essential progressive social analysis, hence, is counterproductive.
If one bases one's analysis on observable reality rather than Marxist ideology, several things are apparent. The first is that factory labor (not to be confused with total employment in the manufacturing sector) has declined in importance and power. Folks, 1850 came and went a long time ago, consequently, the notion of organizing society around a glorified image of factory labor is ludicrous. Furthermore, the notion of a worker "class" (the proletariat) always was more of a hope than a reality, "class" being a convenient grouping of people based upon similar demographic factors, which does not imply any sort of organization relationship or organizational solidarity. The reality is that society is composed of many different types of workers performing many different types of functions, organized in many different discreet organizations, employing varying degrees of hierarchy, with loyalty and solidarity occurring in varying degrees internal to the organization. There is negligible solidarity to others outside the organization who happen to be part of the same statistical grouping known as class. This is one reason why the "middle class" police can be counted on to suppress the "middle class" protesters. Loyalty (to the degree that it exists) is to the organization, class solidarity being virtually non-existent except in the minds of Marxist ideologues. The one exception would be the upper-level ruling elites, who are at least somewhat united in their desire to maintain a society in which wealth and power accrue primarily to themselves.
Unlike the simplistic dichotomy of "bourgeois" and "proletariat", modern capitalist societies are complex and are controlled primarily by directing the flow of money, buttressed by massive propaganda, backed by coercive force. Capitalism, in essence, is the rule of money, that is, all of those who control and direct the spending of significant sums of money. This is possible because of the expansion of the market to the point where virtually everyone is dependent upon market transactions and the financial system to obtain the necessities of life and, if lucky, the stuff of dreams and induced wants. Much of political economy is hidden from view by an economics profession which largely exists to misrepresent reality in service to power. Economists narrowly focus on markets as mechanisms of distribution, exaggerating their efficiency while ignoring externalities, all the while denying the existence of market power, where the strong devour the weak, and where the market is an extremely effective means of social control.
Marxism would be a joke in analyzing our globalized world if not for the fact that much of the left, or at least the influential left, relies upon the scripture according to Marx to the exclusion of more common sense interpretations of observable reality. The reality is that our large population requires a complex society which can only be organized around money. This form of social organization has been extended globally whereby local autonomy has been destroyed and trade oriented interdependencies established. Trade dependent nations are linked globally through the global financial system in order to obtain the trade acquired means for economic survival. Failure to play by the rules usually results in severe consequences. The global financial system is an integrated network of private banking institutions that profit from their effective control of the global system. In these circumstances, to talk about ownership of the means of production is to ignore reality in favor of ideology.
A significant flaw of Marxism is its depiction of industrialism as a liberating force and capitalism as a precondition for communism. One consequence is that the Marxists generally welcomed the globalization of production as a means of eliminating Third World backwardness and traditionalism, and creating a global proletariat to be organized by international communism. Marx was no friend of the "ignorant" peasants, and Marxists in general have favored industrialism as a solution to all problems, the manufacture of "things" and material abundance being central to Marxist ideology, environmental consequences largely ignored, and local autonomy and self-sufficiency opposed in favor of a centralized Marxist bureaucracy. The glue which binds the Marxist intelligentsia together is fealty to Marxist ideology, which, in turn, precludes any honest evaluation of current reality.
The essence of capitalism is the rule of money, more specifically, the rule of private capitalists and their agents who control the flow of money. Currently, the economic activities of our modern society, and much other dependent activity, is controlled by capitalist spending and investment. Of critical importance is our financial system, more or less controlled by our private banking system, with the huge investment banks of Wall Street guiding the course of events. It is a debt based monetary system whereby the wealthy have a legal claim on future earnings. A system driven by unsustainable compound interest. A system which, to perpetuate itself awhile longer, has created neo-liberal globalization, trade enabled interdependencies held together by a corrupt financial system which seeks to eliminate local autonomy, local self-sufficiency and, hence, local survivability. An unsustainable system headed for collapse which will take the whole world with it. The response of the Marxists? Ritual incantations about ownership of the means of production and eternal class conflict. This at a time when it is imperative to end empire and undo neo-liberal globalization, to significantly reduce imbalances in wealth and power, to stress local autonomy and sustainability, to work to replace our debt based money with sovereign money, to eliminate private control of the financial system, and to deal realistically with organizational hierarchy and power in a highly monetized society. The "left" will never again be a credible force for change as long as it is significantly influenced by Marxist ideology. Time to move on.


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March 17, 2001
QUARTEIRA, Portugal - Norway scored three unanswered goals in the final 17 minutes, all after their star midfielder Hege Riise had entered the match and after the USA's midfield general Aleisha Cramer had exited, coming from two goals down to defeat the U.S. Women's National Team, 4-3, in a wild 5th place match at the Algarve Cup.
Washington head coach Lesle Gallimore helped coached the U.S. Nationals, serving as an assistant on the coaching staff. Husky sophomore goalkeeper Hope Solo, who played in previous Algarve Cup games, did not participate in Saturday's match.
Norway fielded 13 players from their Olympic gold medal winning team, but an inspired effort from a U.S. squad that averages 19 years of age had the Olympic champions reeling, as three Americans scored their first-ever international goals. After Norway scored first in the 21st minute, the USA scored three consecutive goals to build a 3-1 lead. Norway then showed the mettle that made them Olympic champions, matching the USA's feat by scoring in the 73rd, 86th and 88th minutes to hand the Americans a bitter loss and a 6th place finish.
'It's a huge understatement to say that we are disappointed,' said Cramer, the U.S. captain who had leave the game in the 72nd minute after she collided face first with defender Amy Steadman's head. 'We had them beaten and somehow we let them get back in the game. On the soccer field, we outplayed them. Mentally, I guess they outplayed us.'
In a match chock full of twists and turns, the Americans once again blew a golden chance for an early goal when in just the 6th minute Christie Welsh got behind the Norway defense on a breakaway after a U.S. clear had sailed over their last defender. Norwegian goalkeeper Bente Nordby, who will join the Carolina Courage of the WUSA next week, retreated and then held her ground. Welsh, who battled hard the entire game, hit her shot five yards wide of the goal from the top of the penalty box.
Two minutes later off a U.S. corner kick, the ball bounced to Cramer after a scramble inside the penalty area, but her left-footed cracker hit the left side netting.
As always, Norway fed a steady diet of long balls to the U.S. defense, which led by Catherine Reddick and Anna Kraus, did a fine job of winning service in the air as well as running down through balls to clear. Cramer and Devvyn Hawkins were also dominant in the air against the Norwegians in the middle of the field. In fact, the USA got off to a great start, playing many direct balls themselves and kept the pressure on Norway in the early going.
In the 18th minute, Schott did well to collect a long ball and then played Welsh in middle of the field, who brought the ball down, held off her defender and turned toward goal on the right side, but her whistling drive was pushed over top by Nordby.
In the 20th minute, Norway scored in typical fashion, winning the ball in the midfield and releasing a player down the left flank with one touch. The cross into the middle was not particularly dangerous, but the ball bounced around and the USA failed to clear. Ragnhild Gulbrandsen accepted the gift by shooting through traffic from eight yards out into the left corner past the screened U.S. goalkeeper Emily Oleksiuk.
The USA tied the game three minutes later when it finally caught a break for the first time on the five-game tour of Europe, courtesy of an uncharacteristic blunder from Nordby. Defender Ally Marquand collected a throw-in and hit a driven cross from the flush on the right sideline that swerved toward net. Nordby seemingly had an easy grab, but apparently lost concentration for a split-second as the ball dipped. It slapped off her hands and she batted the ball straight into the right corner of the net. The U.S. players paused for a moment in disbelief, as did Nordby, before realizing that the ball was actually in the goal.
The USA absorbed a Norway flurry at the end of the half, including a near miss from young superstar Dagny Mellgren of the Boston Breakers, who otherwise had a quiet game, and went into the break with a well-earned 1-1 tie.
Norway kicked off to start the second half and of course sent a long ball down the field. The USA won the ball and sent a long service back over the defense. Welsh corralled it and slipped a short pass to the hard luck Laura Schott, who had missed more than a half-dozen great chances to score during the tour. Schott came through this time, rounding Nordby to the left and sliding to slot the ball home, giving the USA the lead just 46 seconds into the second half.
'We scored a couple of great goals and at least after five games we were able to finish some chances,' added Cramer. 'I guess as painful as it is, we just have to be happy about the positives and learn from negatives. We did a lot of learning on this trip.'
Two minutes after Schott's goal, she could have added another when Alyssa Ramsey beat Nordby to a through ball, but dribbled too wide. Ramsey recovered the ball and rolled a cross into the middle, but Schott could only get a small piece of the ball on her shot attempt.
In the 49th minute, Norway captain Goril Kringen dragged down Welsh at the top of the box and received a yellow card. Kringen then encroached on the free-kick, blocking it about five-yards off the foot of Reddick.
In the 56th minute, Kringen once again fouled Welsh, this time on the left side of the penalty area. Kringen tried to encroach again, but Reddick held her shot. Reddick lined up again to shoot and again Kringen came running at the ball, drawing a warning from the referee. As the Norwegians were just settling back into their defensive wall, Reddick took the kick quickly just as the referee blew her whistle and stuck her shot into the left corner past the flat-footed Nordby.
At that point, Norway head coach Age Steen had seen enough and inserted Riise into the match. Riise added a bit of spark to the Norway attack, but the U.S. was settled in and was poised to play out the match before inexperience once again did the young team in.
Cramer and Steadman both jumped for a ball in the U.S. penalty area and cracked heads, with Cramer's front teeth leaving a small gash over Steadman's left eye. Cramer got was worst of the collision and had to leave the game as her two front teeth were bent back and had to be pushed back into place by team doctor Bill Heinz. With momentum lost, Norway scored seconds later as Gulbrandsen volleyed a Riise cross into the right corner of the net, and then pounded away at the U.S. goal for the last 15 minutes.
Keisha Bell came in for Kraus in the 57th minute and won numerous balls in the air, but Norway's direct style eventually wore the U.S. down and forced mistakes. In the 62nd minute, Riise was at the heart of a great series of passes up the middle, but Gulbrandsen hit her shot right into Oleksiuk's stomach. Oleksiuk did well on numerous Norway services, but was under a lot of pressure from the Norway attack in just her second ever match, and was not able to keep the ball out of the net in the final five minutes.
In the 63rd minute, U.S. head coach April Heinrichs changed two forwards, sending on Kristen Weiss and Stephanie Rigamat for Welsh and Schott, and the USA had its share of chances to put the game away. In the 66th minute, Weiss pushed through the defense off pass from Rigamat and managed to get a shot off, but the charging Nordby deflected the ball and it rolled slowly just wide left of goal for a corner kick.
In the 80th minute, Riise hit a screaming volley that went wide left of the goal, but the USA came right back as Lori Chalupny, who had come on for Cramer and added a spark in the midfield, freed herself on a great dribble and played Ramsey on the left flank. Ramsey played a nice cross to Weiss, but she headed the ball wide left of the goal.
With four minutes left in the game, Weiss fouled a Norwegian defender at midfield and Norway got its equalizer, sending a long ball to Gulbrandsen, who lofted her header over Oleksiuk and under the crossbar.
The game totally unraveled two minutes later as the USA gave up another foul, this time on the right flank. The ball was headed up in the air and Anne Tonnessen was on the spot to volley into the left corner from a sharp angle to give Norway two goals in three minutes.
'We played another good 70-minute game, but the game is 90 minutes long and Norway just didn't quit when they went down 3-1,' said U.S. defender Jena Kluegel. 'The best thing about the tour was that we ended playing our best soccer and we scored some goals. It's a great feeling to know that we were just minutes away from beating the Olympic champions with such a young team.'
The USA had one last chance to tie and send the game to penalty kicks as Reddick lofted a free-kick from the left sideline, but Nordby was solid this time, making a clean catch to send the USA to 6th place. The USA has now failed to defeat Norway in the last four matches between the two teams, compiling a 0-3-1 record in those games. In the other placement games, China pounded Canada 5-1 to take 3rd place while Finland defeated Portugal, 3-1, for 7th place. The Sweden-Denmark championship game will take place later this evening.
Participants: U.S. Women's National Team vs. NorwayCompetition: 2001 Algarve Cup - 5th Place MatchVenue: Municipal Stadium (Quarteira, Portugal)Date: March 17, 2001 - Kickoff 10:00 a.m. local (5:00 a.m. ET)Attendance: 100Weather: 71 degrees (Sunny, Breezy)
Scoring Summary: 1st 2nd Final
United States 1 2 3
Norway 1 3 4
NOR - Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (unassisted), 21.USA - Ally Marquand (unassisted), 24.USA - Laura Schott (Christie Welsh), 46.USA - Catherine Reddick (unassisted), 56.NOR - Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (Hege Riise), 73.NOR - Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (Anne Tonnessen), 86.NOR - Anne Tonnessen (unassisted), 88.
Lineups:USA - 1-Emily Oleksiuk, 5-Ally Marquand (19-Amy Steadman, 65th), 3-Anna Kraus (6-Keisha Bell, 57th), 4-Katherine Reddick, 2-Jena Kluegel, 15-Devvyn Hawkins, 17-Aleisha Cramer - Capt. (13-Lori Chalupny, 72nd), 11-Mary-Frances Monroe, 9-Laura Schott (16-Kristen Weiss, 63rd), 12-Christie Welsh (20-Stephanie Rigamat, 63rd), 8-Alyssa Ramsey.
NORWAY - 1-Bente Nordby, 3-Goril Kringen, 4-Anne Tonnessen, 5-Bente Kvitland, 13-Henriette Viker, 7-Margunn Haugenes (6-Hege Riise, 57th), 8-Solveig Gulbrandsen, 10-Unni Lehn (11-Anita Rapp, 89th), 14-Dagny Mellgren, 18-Linda Ormen (16-Christine Boe Jensen, 75th), 9-Ragnild Gulbrandsen.
Statistical Summary
Shots: USA 15, Norway 16
Saves: USA 3, Norway 7
Corner Kicks: USA 7, Norway 6
Fouls: USA 15, Norway 16
Offside: USA 1, Norway 1
Misconduct Summary:
USA - Ally Marquand (caution), 29.
NOR - Goril Kringen (caution), 49.
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2017-04-28: Kea 1.2.0 released!
Kea 1.2.0 brings new set of control commands and REST API for them. Control Agent can connect to DHCPv6 and DHCPv4 servers using HTTP interface to relay JSON commands. For detailed information please check Release Notes.
Tarball package is available on the ISC.org downloads page or ISC ftp server.
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The following major features are working:
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- Leases can be stored in a CSV file, MySQL, Postgres or Cassandra (experimental) backend
- Host Reservations can be stored in MySQL, Postgres
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- On-line configuration. It is possible to update the configuration file and tell the servers to reload configuration without restarting the system.
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Known Issues List - known issues for current release.
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Contact us via the Kea mailing list if you think you might be interested in working on Kea and sharing that work with the community. We have a Github site for working on technical contributions. We are a small team, so please be patient - it may take us a while to code-review unexpected contributions.
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Current collaborators
The best way to see who is currently contributing to Kea is to check the Github repo. Here are some of the early contributors:
- ISC Forge - A Python/Lettuce/Scapy DHCP validation environment under development by students of Gdansk University of Technology.
- DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 - A Tsinghua University team are developing support for draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-over-dhcpv4 in Kea. See ticket #3357.
How to participate in this project
1) Subscribe to the Kea developers mailing list.
2) Read the User Guide (sections 16,17,18 and 19) and the Developer's Guide.
3) Download and build a KEA instance. Released, supported versions are available here and on the ISC web site. For the latest KEA code, please use our public GIT repository.
4) Give us feedback via the mailing list or submit a bug (sub-project=dhcp). See below for information about the known issues.
5) A description of the workflow can be found here Kea Git Workflow
- User Guide (Stable) (development snapshot) (see sections 16,17,18 and 19 in the stable version, all sections in development snapshot).
- Manual Pages - a directory will some documentation (User's Guide, list of all messages Kea can print and more).
- Developer's Guide - addressed at developers and contributors.
- Intallation and system specific notes for building Kea
- Commands - Planned and currently support Kea commands (available through REST API or control channel).
- Designs - see how existing and upcoming features will look like.
- Kea coding guidelines - Please read those before you start writing code.
- Host reservations howto - Tips for using Host Reservations in Kea 1.1.0, especially with MySQL.
Known Issues
- Known Issues - This is a list of known issues with the current and previous releases
- Outstanding tasks - this is a list of tasks that we are planning to do. Sometimes the difference between a bug and a missing feature is thin.
- Submit new bug - setting the milestone as Kea-proposed is appreciated.
- Known System Issues - list of all detected issues related to specific system configuration.
- Our milestones - list of all milestones. KeaX.Y milestones contain the tickets we're planning to do in specific releases. Usually only the current milestone is up to date. Future milestones tend to fluctuate a bit.
- Test Plan
- build-bot - Kea is being built and unit-tests are being run on great variety of platforms.
- ISC is using Jenkins and ISC Forge system/conformance tests to validate Kea.
- Reports of manual and automated tests of Kea components: TestingKeaComponents
- Report of the July, 2016 test of Kea with a MySQL Cluster backend
Kea and BIND10
Kea was initially developed as an application within the framework of the BIND10 project. In 2014, ISC decided to discontinue active development on BIND10 and continue development of Kea as a standalone DHCP server. As a result, the BIND10 components were be removed from Kea to simplify long-term maintenance and reduce the footprint of Kea.
Getting in touch
- Kea mailing list - feel free to post any Kea questions here
- Kea developers list - for development discussions
[xmpp://firstname.lastname@example.com DHCP Jabber chatroom] - if you want to chat with developers.(Temporarily unavailable for non-ISC people)
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Join us for the 33rd annual Candlelight Tour with luminaria-lit paths and historic buildings and trees aglow with Christmas lighting. Stroll through restored historical buildings adorned in period décor and staffed by park docents. Listen to Victorian carolers and enjoy live entertainment in each building, storytellers, visits with Santa, and refreshments.


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Supposedly neutral journalist Barbara Walters dropped all pretense of objectivity on Wednesday, praising guest Anita Hill as her "heroine." The View co-host gushed over how "honored" she was to meet the woman who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991. Walters allowed no tough questions of Hill, just queries about the "cost" of speaking out.
The veteran journalist introduced her guest as though she were speaking of a world leader: "I would just like to say that I'm honored to be meeting you. I watched those hearings as did so many other people. And to so many of us, you were our heroine." [MP3 audio here.]
Hill returned the compliment, extolling, "It's an honor to be here. I mean, I watch your show. You're always covering the important issues."
Speaking of the Senate hearings in which Hill accused now-Supreme Court Judge Thomas, Walters sympathized, "...You were questioned so aggressively...People criticized" and "all but tore you apart."
A tough journalist might have pointed out that Hill has since written a book, become a professor at Brandeis University and has starred in a documentary. The book deal came with a reported $1 million payday. If the cost of the hearings on her life is fair game, what about Hill's enrichment?
Walters closed by complimenting Hill's "wonderful legacy."
The ABC journalist appeared on the October 13, 1991 edition of This Week With David Brinkley to defend Hill and argue that Thomas should be defeated. Praising Hill, she promoted the raising of "a larger issue in general: the whole sexual issue, the whole woman's issue. That's the consciousness that's raised."
At no time on Wednesday did Thomas's side get any consideration. Earlier in the show, the View crew brought on Nancy Grace to talk about the 1991 hearings. Grace proceeded to convict Thomas:
NANCY GRACE: She stood up for women and minorities and made an example. And let me just remind everybody, the evidence against him. They worked together at the EEOC, equal employment. And he was accused of putting a pubic hair on her soda. He had a unique interest in a character, Long Dong Silver, and he still got sworn in!
A partial transcript of the March 19 segment is below:
11:44am ET
SAGE STEELE: Please welcome Anita Hill to The View. What an honor. What an honor it is to have you here. I – I – I – The documentary, I watched it last night, absolutely riveting. I think so many of us remember where we were all those years ago. In 1991, I sat on the floor of my dorm room, missed classes, skipped classes, sorry, because it was that important. It was that important to see where this went. It's been more than 20 years. You have been living a relatively quiet life since then, trying. Brandeis University currently. Why did you decide to do this documentary now?
ANITA HILL: The point that you raised about being in your dorm room watching it is in part why I'm doing the documentary now. Because an entire generation of people have gone into the workplace or are going into the workplace, don't really know the history of the issues of sexual harassment and misconduct. And I think with 22 years perspective in hindsight we can learn a lot today and figure out how we can create a better environment for the next generation.
BARBARA WALTERS: I would just like to say that I'm honored to be meeting you. I watched those hearings as did so many other people. And to so many of us, you were our heroine.
HILL: Well, thank you. Thank you. It's an honor to be here. I mean, I watch your show. You're always covering the important issues, and I am just so happy to be here.
WALTERS: Thank you. At your confirmation hearing, I mean, you were questioned so aggressively and, and, and the sexual harassment that you brought up, people criticized for you [sic] and all but tore you apart. What has it cost you going through all that?
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Looking back on this, then-Senator Joe Biden led that Senate judiciary committee that questioned you for the nine hours. And I'm looking at it. This is an all-male, all -white panel that you were in front of for nine hours. Did the full impact of what I'm seeing hit you then?
HILL: So many women said, "if you don't understand this thing that happened to us in our work lives, in the military, then you don't represent me well." And that's why so many women got involved and went into politics and ran for office and got engaged in the process.
WALTERS: That was a wonderful legacy, but I want to bring it a little more into the present. In October of 2010, Clarence Thomas' wife Ginny left you a message on your voice mail. She asked you to apologize. You refused. Did it end there? Have you ever had any discussions with either of them?


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Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on a single or more worker servers using multiprocessing, Eventlet, or gevent. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready).
Celery is used in production systems to process millions of tasks a day.
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Celery is written in Python, but the protocol can be implemented in any language. It can also operate with other languages using webhooks.
The recommended message broker is RabbitMQ, but support for Redis, Beanstalk, MongoDB, CouchDB, and databases (using SQLAlchemy or the Django ORM) is also available.
Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery
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A Celery library that makes your user-responsive long-running jobs totally awesomer.
Jobtastic is a python library that adds useful features to your Celery tasks. Specifically, these are features you probably want if the results of your jobs are expensive or if your users need to wait while they compute their results.


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10.5 Regional Climate Models
Since the SAR, much insight has been provided into fundamental issues concerning the nested regional modelling technique.
Multi-year to multi-decadal simulations must be used for climate change studies to provide meaningful climate statistics, to identify significant systematic model errors and climate changes relative to internal model and observed climate variability, and to allow the atmospheric model to equilibrate with the land surface conditions (e.g., Jones et al., 1997; Machenhauer et al., 1998; Christensen 1999; McGregor et al., 1999; Kato et al., 2001).
The choice of an appropriate domain is not trivial. The influence of the boundary forcing can reduce as region size increases (Jones et al., 1995; Jacob and Podzun, 1997) and may be dominated by the internal model physics for certain variables and seasons (Noguer et al., 1998). This can lead to the RCM solution significantly departing from the driving data, which can make the interpretation of down-scaled regional climate changes more difficult (Jones et al., 1997). The domain size has to be large enough so that relevant local forcings and effects of enhanced resolution are not damped or contaminated by the application of the boundary conditions (Warner et al., 1997). The exact location of the lateral boundaries can influence the sensitivity to internal parameters (Seth and Giorgi, 1998) or may have no significant impact (Bhaskaran et al., 1996). Finally, location of boundaries over areas with significant topography may lead to inconsistencies and noise generation (e.g., Hong and Juang, 1998).
Surface forcing due to land, ocean and sea ice greatly affects regional climate simulation (e.g., Giorgi et al., 1996; Seth and Giorgi, 1998; Wei and Fu, 1998; Christensen, 1999; Pan et al., 1999; Pielke et al., 1999; Rinke and Dethloff, 1999; Chase et al., 2000; Maslanik et al., 2000, Rummukainen et al., 2000). In particular, RCM experiments do not start with equilibrium conditions and therefore the initialisation of surface variables, such as soil moisture and temperature, is important. For example, to reach equilibrium it can require a few seasons for the rooting zone (about 1 m depth) and years for the deep soils (Christensen, 1999).
The choice of RCM resolution can modulate the effects of physical forcings and parametrizations (Giorgi and Marinucci, 1996a; Laprise et al., 1998). The description of the hydrologic cycle generally improves with increasing resolution due to the better topographical representation (Christensen et al., 1998; Leung and Ghan, 1998). Resolving more of the spectrum of atmospheric motions at high resolution improves the representation of cyclonic systems and vertical velocities, but can sometimes worsen aspects of the model climatology (Machenhauer et al., 1998; Kato et al., 1999). Different resolutions may be required to capture relevant forcings in different sub-regions, which can be achieved via multiple one-way nesting (Christensen et al., 1998; McGregor et al., 1999), two-way nesting (Liston et al., 1999) or smoothly varying horizontal grids (Qian and Giorgi, 1999). Only limited studies of the effects of changing vertical resolution have been published (Kato et al., 1999).
RCM model physics configurations are derived either from a pre-existing (and well tested) limited area model system with modifications suitable for climate application (Pielke et al., 1992; Giorgi et al., 1993b,c; Leung and Ghan, 1995, 1998; Copeland et al., 1996; Miller and Kim, 1997; Liston and Pielke 2000; Rummukainen et al., 2000) or are implemented directly from a GCM (McGregor and Walsh, 1993; Jones et al., 1995; Christensen et al., 1996; Laprise et al., 1998). In the first approach, each set of parametrizations is developed and optimised for the respective model resolutions. However, this makes interpreting differences between nested model and driving GCM more difficult, as these will not result only from changes in resolution. Also, the different model physics schemes may result in inconsistencies near the boundaries (Machenhauer et al., 1998; Rummukainen et al., 2000). The second approach maximises compatibility between the models. However, physics schemes developed for coarse resolution GCMs may not be adequate for the high resolutions used in nested regional models and may, at least, require recalibration (Giorgi and Marinucci, 1996a; Laprise et al., 1998; see also Section 10.4). Overall, both strategies have shown performance of similar quality (e.g., IPCC, 1996), and either one may be preferable (Giorgi and Mearns, 1999). In the context of climate change simulations, if there is no resolution dependence, the second approach may be preferable to maximise consistency between RCM and GCM responses to the radiative forcing.
Ocean RCMs have been developed during the last decades for a broad variety of applications. To date, the specific use of these models, in a context similar to the use of nested atmospheric RCMs for climate change studies, is very limited (Kauker, 1998). Although the performance of ocean RCMs has yet to be assessed, it is known that a very high resolution, few tens of kilometres or less, is needed for accurate ocean simulations.
The construction of coupled RCMs is a very recent development. They comprise atmospheric RCMs coupled to other models of climate system components, such as lake, ocean/sea ice, chemistry/aerosol, and land biosphere/hydrology models (Hostetler et al., 1994; Lynch et al., 1995, 1997a,b, 1998; Leung et al., 1996; Bailey et al., 1997; Kim et al., 1998; Qian and Giorgi 1999; Small et al., 1999a,b; Bailey and Lynch, 2000a,b; Mabuchi et al., 2000; Maslanik et al., 2000; Rummukainen et al., 2000; Tsvetsinskaya et al., 2000; Weisse et al., 2000). This promises the development of coupled "regional climate system models".
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The Amiga-Link is a networking solution which uses the external floppy drive port of the Amiga. It uses the same coax cabling as 10Base2 Ethernet (RG-58U/50Ohm) but is NOT compatible. The Amiga-Link is capable of transferring at about 50k/sec and supports up to 20 machines on a maximum cable length of 100 metres. The Amiga-Link requires at least Kickstart 1.2, but Kickstart 2.0+ is highly recommended. The external floppy drive can still be used, providing that it has a pass-through port. One exception to this is the A1010 because its pass-through port is not powered. The Amiga-Link is also not compatible with SX-1
The AmigaLink may be the same device as the Disknet, but this has not been confirmed.
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Fangraphs' David Laurilla has a nice interview with Terry Doyle, the White Sox pitching prospect that the Twins selected in the Rule 5 draft:
Doyle:"Being a math guy, I always look at numbers. Strike percentages and ground-ball rates are things where, if you can get the odds in your favor, you're going to be more successful. That's what I do when I pitch. I try to get as many small edges as I can."
A lot of people aren't good at math, especially in baseball. People struggle in math, so coaches usually keep it simple. They just say, 'We want first-pitch strikes and we want 1-2 counts versus 2-1 counts.' They hammer that into us every spring training. Then, during the season, if we have a stretch where we're falling behind hitters, they'll step up and say, 'Look guys, we're doing a crappy job of getting ahead; we're trying to be too cute and we're trying to spin off too many breaking balls. We need to get back to basics and get ahead in the count.'
"Stats are always helpful, but there are some you don't know how to change. You can't change something like opponents'-batting-average-on-balls-in-play. You look at it, and it's helpful to know what it is, but at the same time you can't really control how they hit the ball or what happens once they do. All you can do is throw the pitch. There are small alterations that you can make — small changes — but you can't try to reinvent the wheel. You have to go with what you've been successful with, and for me that's been throwing strikes."
Doyle was also interviewed on the Seth Speaks podcast (minute 4 to minute 24).


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Rob Ryan is awfully proud of his "vehicle of choice," which, truth be told, looks pretty much like you'd expect it to look. The Dallas Cowboys really did post the video you see above on their website. At one point, Ryan says, "It's got a few, uh, stains in there, probably." Which is pretty much what you'd expect, too.
Update: The Cowboys asked us to remove the video. Here are a few screen grabs instead:
You still see the actual video on the Cowboys' website by clicking here.


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Sister Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson was called as second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency in 2007.
Prior to her call, Thompson worked as the executive director of an international assessment center for abused and neglected children. She has also worked in the social services field directing a number of state-level human and family services departments.
She received a bachelor's degree in social work from Brigham Young University and has a master's degree in social work from the University of Utah.
General conference talks
Personal Revelation and Testimony
And of Some Have Compassion, Making a Difference
I Will Strengthen Thee; I Will Help Thee
Full Name Barbara Thompson
Place of Birth San Luis Obispo, California, United States