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Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution's archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October's American Archives Month. See additional posts from our other participating blogs, as well as related events and resources, on the Smithsonian's Archives Month website."
You know when you're packing up for a move to a new house — boxes everywhere — frantic activity to get everything stored away before the movers arrive, and you still have to clean out the fridge. Suddenly you come across an old family treasure — a photo album, your old baseball cards, or maybe your raygun collection — and everything stops while you rummage nostalgically for a few minutes. That's what's been going on from time to time in the Museum's Archives Division offices, as we prepared for our move to the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center this month. We would pause from time to time to appreciate some of our favorite things — our chief photo archivist Melissa Keiser tells the story of one such artifact:
One day I was in the Archives storage box at the Paul E. Garber Restoration and Storage Facility in Silver Hill, Maryland looking for something in the Basil Lee Rowe Collection (NASM Accession XXXX-0019). The large 20 x 24 inch flat box I needed to check was under another big box; when I moved the top box, something inside the flat box slid heavily and went "Clunk!" Fearing some damage might have occurred to the contents, I opened the box to check. The box, labeled Aircraft Recognition Training Materials, NASM Accession XXXX-0158, seemed to be full of a variety of manila envelopes, but on top of everything was this great big colorful circular thing with a World War II vintage P-39 screaming through the clouds — wow!
(It's a wheel chart, also known as a volvelle, a device with a rich history, still used for pilots' flight computers like the famous E6B "Whiz Wheel".)
I've seen lots of aircraft recognition training aids in our collections, but they're usually black and white silhouettes, or sober halftone photographs. This thing was more like a giant cereal box prize or a secret decoder ring! Obviously intended to appeal to a more general audience, I could picture Dad coming home from work one day with this spiffy doodad to share with the kids. Now we can ALL have fun watching the skies for enemy aircraft!
And on the back, there's a selection of colorful US Army Air Forces squadron insignias. Melissa passed it around, and we all admired it for a minute or two, and then we got packing once again. Because the moving van is already at the door.


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Lady Dixie Bowen (our principal) remained strong, as she read to us kids, a letter that she had written to her one true love, expressing her most deepest thoughts. We were all very touched. She told us, that Barry had said to her, "No one will remember me if I die", and today Lady Bowen told us "He was wrong". We do remember him, and she loves and misses him every day.
Barry & Dixie Bowen have done many wonderful things for this country. They have started and contribute to many schools, hoping to offer the children of Belize, a better future, by educating one child at a time.
SIR BARRY BOWEN, WE DO REMEMBER YOU - THIS DAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011. We sang songs together, Lady Bowen read a letter to us about you, and we all marched to the sea, and tossed a flower into the water - to remember you by.


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Jim Nagengast, chief executive of Securities America, gives advisers tips on how to be a successful acquirer and target. Wealth Management at WSJ.com's Veronica Dagher has the interview.
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Capcom is unlikely to revive its Dino Crisis & Onimusha franchises, telling VideoGamer.com that it believes it is "more important to focus on creating new IP" than look back at its classics.
Talking to VideoGamer.com yesterday about the prospect of returning to the two classic series, Resident Evil Revelations producer Masachika Kawata (who previously worked on the two IPs) said:
"Capcom has obviously never shied away from bringing back our older IPs to new generations, but I do think it's more important for us to focus on creating new IP as we move forward."
Besides Onimusha Soul, a browser-based game released by Capcom last summer, both series' have been on hiatus since the mid-noughties.
The last core game in the Onimusha series, Onimusha 3, released on PS2 in 2004, with Dino Crisis remaining absent since 2003.
It was speculated last year that Lost Planet 3 developer Spark Unlimited had been developing a new game in the Onimusha series.
That game, however, turned out to be Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, a zombie-themed spin-off of Team Ninja's hack & slash series.
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Those idols -- Cochran, Vincent, Elvis, Carl Perkins -- loom large in Setzer's oeuvre, but as a kid growing up in Long Island he initially fell for big-band jazz. His first instrument was the euphonium and he played brass in a variety of jazz bands while in school. He'd sneak into classic clubs like the Village Vanguard but he also developed a taste for blues-rock and punk, which led him down the road to rockabilly. Picking up a guitar, he formed the Tomcats with drummer Gary Setzer and Bob Beecher in 1979, the latter also being a running mate of Brian's in the Bloodless Pharaohs. As his infatuation with rockabilly intensified, Setzer devoted himself to the Tomcats, which evolved into the Stray Cats when bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom entered the lineup in late 1979.
Sensing the U.S. wasn't quite ready for their rock & roll, the Stray Cats departed for London in June of 1980, hawking their instruments to get across the Atlantic. Within a few months, they earned the attention of roots rocker Dave Edmunds -- who just happened to appear in the 1973 film That'll Be the Day, playing in a band called the Stray Cats -- and he took them under his wing, producing their 1981 eponymous debut for Arista. Thanks to the singles "Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut," it was a hit, but its 1982 sequel, Gonna Ball, didn't do as well, but highlights from the two LPs were culled for the American album Built for Speed. Thanks to those aforementioned singles, which both received heavy MTV airplay, Built for Speed turned the Stray Cats into stars in the U.S., paving the way for 1983's Rant n Rave with the Stray Cats, which had another major hit in the form of "(She's) Sexy + 17" and a minor one in the form of "I Won't Stand in Your Way."
Success came to the Stray Cats but the group fractured in 1984 and Setzer responded by acting as a sideman for a variety of rockers, most prominently playing in Robert Plant's oldies band the Honeydrippers on a tour. Setzer launched a solo career in 1986 with The Knife Feels Like Justice, a record that found him right in line with the heartland rock of the mid-'80s but didn't generate any hits and, perhaps coincidentally, Setzer returned to the Stray Cats fold that year for Rock Therapy, a reunion that also failed to stir sales. Next up was 1988's Live Nude Guitars, a record that moved him closer to Stray Cats territory but also failed to gain an audience. Next up was another reunion with the Stray Cats, one that lasted for three albums over four years. First was 1989's Blast Off!, which they supported with a tour opening for Stevie Ray Vaughan, but the record reached no higher than 111 on Billboard and EMI dropped them in America. Undaunted, they teamed with Nile Rodgers in 1990 for Let's Go Faster!, a record that appeared on Liberation to little attention; then they returned to their roots for 1992's Choo Choo Hot Fish, a final record recorded with their original producer, Dave Edmunds.
This was the last go-round for the Stray Cats and it was time for a reset for Setzer. He found one with the Brian Setzer Orchestra, where he refashioned his rockabilly boogie for the neo-swing era. Their eponymous debut appeared on Hollywood in 1994 and it did OK on the charts, reaching 158; then corporate restructuring pushed him over to Interscope Records, which put out Guitar Slinger in 1996. That record failed to chart but it laid the groundwork for 1998's The Dirty Boogie, which was a smash hit thanks to a hit cover of Louis Prima's "Jump Jive & Wail." The single peaked at 23 and the record went all the way to nine on the Billboard 200 and if Setzer never scaled those heights again -- the 2000 follow-up, Vavoom!, reached 62 -- he nevertheless found his niche and he ran with it, releasing all manner of swinging big-band records in the new millennium, ranging from a series of Christmas albums (there are at least five seasonal albums in his discography) to swinging covers of classical compositions, most released on SurfDog Records. At times, Setzer would step outside of the Orchestra to return to his rockabilly roots, beginning with 2003's Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy, running through Rockabilly Riot, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records in 2005, and extending to 2014's Rockabilly Riot! All Original. Setzer celebrated the 25th anniversary of forming the Brian Setzer Orchestra with the release of 25 Live!, a limited-edition Record Store Day 45 of "Gene & Eddie" and "Let There Be Rock," in November of 2017. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi


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Standing just a few feet from an 8-foot-tall pile of debris at the end of Louisiana Street, Cheryl Ives paused for a moment as her neighbors carried large pieces of sheetrock, soggy insulation and endless bags of trash from water-logged homes on a bright Saturday afternoon.
Residents described a frightening, 10-foot wall of water that flooded the West End in seconds when Hurricane Sandy hit last week. Many took refuge on the second floor of their homes, only to watch their belongings float away.
On Louisiana, a sand hill blasted ashore by the storm surge buried cars on top of one another. Like many residents of the street, a small enclave with a high concentration of police officers and firefighters, Ives faced the daunting task of cleaning out her home.
"We waited the storm out, and when the storm was over, we assessed the damage, and we just don't truly yet know what all the damage is," she said, adding that more than anything, residents are looking for answers. "We've been frustrated, without any communication from the outside world because we have no cell or computer. We need communication, we need gas and we need our water back."
With no word on when power would be restored — especially in the West End and the Canals — and unsure of the extent of the damage to her home, Ives grew teary-eyed. "Trying to get in touch with FEMA … your flood, your homeowner's [insurance], makes it very difficult," she said. "My basement … I don't know. I keep hearing stories, and it's frightening because we're hearing stuff like, 'Are they going to level the town? Are they going to condemn your home? You're going to be out of here for three months.' Three months is OK, I can do three months — I can do something temporary — but it's our town, it's our block."
Nicole Pelletiere, 25, who lives on Vermont Street with her fiancé, said that her home is "unlivable." "At the brunt of the storm … the water started to come into the house through the floorboards," she recounted. "It rose pretty quickly, and it was very dark outside. You could actually hear the water guzzling into the house. As frightened as we were, we said to each other, 'Well, we aren't going anywhere, so let's just throw on wetsuits, hunker down and wait for the water to recede.'"


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[Intro: Freeway]
Man if I get rocked, this shit for my kids nigga
(Even though what we do is wrong)
[Verse 1: Freeway & (Jay-Z)]
We still hustle 'til the sun come up
Crack a 40 when the sun go down
It's a cold winter, y'all niggas better bundle up
And I bet it be a hotter summer, grab a onion
Just to rock it down; you hot now, listen up
Don't you know cops' sole purpose is to lock us down?
And throw away the key
But without this drug shit your kids ain't got no way to eat, huh
We still try to keep mom, smilin'
Cause when the teeth stop showin'
And the stomach start growlin' then the heat start flowin'
If you from the hood, I know you feel me (keep goin')
If a sneak start leaning and the heat stop workin'
Then my heat start working, I'mma rob me a person
Catch a nigga sleeping while he out in the open
And I'mma get him (keep flowin')
We gotta raise our kids while we livin'
Make a million off a record, bail my niggas outta prison
Fuck a Bentley or a Lexus, just my boys in the squadder
Nigga talk reckless then I hit 'em with the Smif 'n
But I'm never snitching, I'm a rider
If my kids hungry, snatch the dishes out ya kitchen
I'll be wilding til they pick me outta line-up
(Even though what we do is wrong)
We keep the nines tucked, chopped dimes up, rap about it
Wild out, fuck niggas up, laugh about it
I'm not trying to visit the morgue
But Freeway move out 'til I sit with the Lord
'Til I, get my shit together, clean up my sins
Freeway got it in like 10 in the morning
And I can get it to ya like 10 while you yawning mang
(Even though what we do is wrong)
Still deliver the order mang
And I ain't talking bout chicken and gravy mang
I'm talking bout bricks of yayo, halves and quarters
Fou and a halves of hash, you do the math
Swing past us, scoop up your daughter
She wanna roll with a thug that rap, you do the math
He gon' blast 'til my stacks in order mang!
[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
Mang, let me get 'em Free
Hov never slacking mang, zipping in the black Range
Faster than the red ghost, getting ghost wit' Pac-Man
One-time know I got a knack to get that change
Leader of the black gang, R-O-C mang
Bang like T-Mac, ski mask air it out
Gotta kill witnesses 'cause Free's beard's sticking out
Y'all don't want to witness shit, we squeeze hammers mang
Bullets breeze by you, like Louisiana mang
But I gotta feed Tianna mang
So I move keys you can call me the Piano Man
Rain, sleet, hail, snow man
Slang dope, E, hydro man
[Verse 3: Beanie Sigel]
You, know, B. Sige in the third lane
Gramps still praying, working on my nerves man
Like, "Son you gotta get your soul clean
Before they blow them horns like Coltrane"
But still I cry tears of a hustler
Wipe tears from my mother, pour out beers for our brothers
That's above us, make beds for the babies
Tuck kids under covers, buy cribs for their mothers
Shit I'll probably be wilding with their fathers
Tell Ms. Robert, tell Anajmah that I'm riding for her father
That's like my brother, like same mother, different father
Any problems dawg, know I got 'em
And still we grind from the bottom
Just to make it to the bottom, sold crack in the alleyways
Still gave back Marcy on Dollar Day
Real gangstas make hood holidays
They ain't thank us but we still paid homage mang
Soul Food Sunday looking like Big Momma's mang
Tell the gang I never break my promise mang
Mang, uhh!
Even though what we do is wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Even though what we do is wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong


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Buffet buster: Golden Corral rounded up
After 15 years the Golden Corral Buffet & Grill restaurant on Route 29 North headed for the big round up in the sky last Sunday, joining Ponderosa as the latest buffet-style feed barn to close shop. Indeed, the familiar sign along the road has already been removed.
The chain is owned by Frisch's Restaurants, Inc., which also operates Big Boy. Golden Corral was characterized by its all-you-can eat buffet for under $10, a cooking station where steaks were grilled to order, and the hard-working drink servers and plate clearers who probably made very little in tips. It was a favorite among C-ville's working-class folks.
Sources who had family and friends working at the restaurant say the closure announcement was a surprise for many employees, some of whom had been working there since the restaurant opened. Severance packages were offered, but the sources say they didn't amount to much.
Apparently, the closure isn't the result of any problems on the corporate end, but with the lease agreement with building owner Irving Brownfield. Brownfield could not be reached by the time of this post, but he recently told the Daily Progress that the space has already been re-leased; however, he declined to say who was leasing it. Sources suspect that Golden Corral closed because Brownfield simply got a better lease offer from another chain, which they suspect is Denny's.
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I actually kind of like Denny's.
Don't get me started on Moons Over My Hammy.
See, Obama's obesity campaign is working.............
Wait until the people who thought Golden Corrall was bad get a taste of Denny's! Worst restaurant in America.
Mmmmmmm.... Maybe an angry carnivore used this as an excuse to ram their truck into the intragal yoga store?


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We're just nine days away from the General Election, one in which we'll elect the next president of the United States and every single member of Congress, the Illinois General Assembly and the McHenry County Board.
Yet last week, much of the discussion was about a political race that's more than a year-and-a-half away.
McHenry County sheriff's Sgt. John Koziol saw to that when he filed an affidavit in Illinois' 22nd Circuit Court seeking a special prosecutor to investigate Undersheriff Andy Zinke, who has announced he will run for sheriff in 2014, when his boss, Keith Nygren, retires.
As if our recent history with special prosecutors weren't enough to create some buzz, the allegations contained in the filing sure were.
Koziol accused his superior of interfering with a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into the transportation of thousands of pounds of marijuana. Specifically, Koziol, who was working in partnership with the DEA, claims that Zinke improperly tipped off his good friend and campaign manager, Crystal Lake-based RITA Corp. owner Brian Goode, to the investigation.
The court filing says that a truck intercepted by DEA agents and heading to RITA was carrying 4,000 pounds of marijuana. In a statement released Friday, Goode said "... the truck in question belonged to a common carrier who was transporting a load of cosmetic raw materials purchased by RITA Corporation from a supplier in Mexico. The truck did not belong to RITA Corporation and the driver was not an employee of RITA Corporation."
In other words, RITA had nothing to do with the shipment of illegal drugs, it just got swept into an unfortunate set of circumstances.
No one is denying that Zinke met with Goode at some point after the undersheriff learned about the investigation. Zinke even brought Goode to Koziol. What's not clear is whether the DEA gave Zinke the OK to meet with Goode, or whether the DEA thinks Zinke interfered with the probe.
If the DEA does think Zinke improperly interfered, my guess is it will undertake its own investigation or ask the FBI to investigate, not count on a special prosecutor to be appointed locally – especially with the success rate of special prosecutors around here.
Knowing that federal authorities wouldn't allow such an alleged impropriety go unchecked, what other motive would Koziol have to file the special prosecutor request?
After learning more about the players and circumstances involved in the filing, I have little doubt that it was political in nature and the main purpose was to embarrass Zinke and his campaign contributor. Zinke has said Koziol is a disgruntled employee who is trying to get payback for being transferred from narcotics to patrol. And the attorney who Koziol hired to file the request for a special prosecutor has close ties to one of Zinke's two Republican challengers for sheriff, James Harrison.
That doesn't mean that the allegations contained in the filing are false. I don't know one way or the other on that. The allegations should be investigated, but by the aggrieved party, the federal government. Nygren also needs to conduct an internal investigation to determine whether any department policies were violated.
Bottom line? It's a long way to the spring 2014 primary. The way this race has started, it might make Obama vs. Romney seem tame by comparison.
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Big oops: Bob Anderson of Wonder Lake called me Wednesday morning to let me know about a "big mistake" on that day's Opinion page. The Editorial Board had weighed in on a couple of referendums that will be on McHenry County ballots Nov. 6. One is an advisory referendum asking voters whether citizens should be able to hold more than one elected office at a time.
The Editorial Board, of which I am a member, discussed how state law should not allow citizens to hold more than one office. It can limit the amount of time an officeholder spends performing the duties of each office, and it also allows an individual to double-dip on public salaries, pensions and other benefits.
The Editorial Board recommended a "yes" vote, meaning yes, the state should not allow a citizen to hold more than one elected office. But the question is not phrased that way. The question asks whether citizens should be able to hold more than one office. Our intention was to recommend a "no" vote. We apologize for any confusion.
We'll be publishing a roundup of the Editorial Board's endorsements a week from today on the Opinion page.
In the meantime, visit NWHerald.com/election for questionnaire responses and videos of candidates in contested races answering our questions.
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Deadline passed: We no longer are accepting election-related letters to the editor. The deadline for submitting them was Friday.
We need to impose a deadline because we receive so many of them. If we accepted the letters up until just a few days before the election, we wouldn't be able to publish them all.
Of course, we still are accepting letters on most any other topic, so fire away.
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Trick or treat: Don't forget that Halloween is Wednesday. That means there will be a lot of children going door-to-door and crossing streets in the dark.
Please be careful on your way home from work.
For a list of trick-or-treat hours, see page B6 of Sunday's Local & Region section.
• Dan McCaleb is senior editor of Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at email@example.com.


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Beeson: 'Pennsylvania is very fertile ground'
The political director for Mitt Romney's campaign argued on Sunday that Pennsylvania is still winnable for the Republican presidential nominee.
"Pennsylvania is very fertile ground for us," Rich Beeson said on "Fox News Sunday."
Noting that Barack Obama lost to Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, Beeson pointed to a recent poll showing the president and Romney tied.
"President Obama is well under 50 in a state that he should be well over 50. There are a million more Democrats in Pennsylvania than Republicans," Beeson said.


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Jennifer Loven, the AP reporter who wrote the absurd "President Bush Twists Kerry's Words on Iraq" story dissected below, has a history of writing hit pieces on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Such as this July 2003 outrage, a "news story" titled "White House can't make the questions go away". Here is how Ms. Loven begins her "news story" on the famous "sixteen words" controversy:
The White House defense of President Bush's now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.
So far, none has worked.
Now, that's not a bad beginning for a DNC press release. But for a wire service news report, it's ridiculous. Ms. Loven continues:
The flap started on July 6, when an envoy sent by the CIA to Africa last year to investigate the uranium claim contended that the Bush administration ignored his findings. In a New York Times op-ed article, Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, said it was highly doubtful that any transaction took place.
We know now, because of the Senate Intelligence Committee report, that Joe Wilson lied about what happened in Niger. Wilson was assigned to the Niger investigation at the urging of his wife, Valerie Plame. The Committee's report says that Wilson went to Niger and was told by that country's former Prime Minister that Iraq had, indeed, tried to buy yellowcake uranium there. Note the Wilson lie that Loven repeats in her AP article: "it was highly doubtful that any transaction took place." Right. But, of course, that wasn't what Bush said in his State of the Union address. He said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." And Wilson's report to the CIA confirmed that Saddam had "sought," but not obtained, uranium in Africa, specifically Niger.
Such nuance, needless to say, is completely beyond Ms. Loven. Her interest is in slandering Republicans, period. She continues:
That changed with Wilson's statements. Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail demanded an investigation into whether Bush purposedly exaggerated intelligence.
With its press staff unable to quell the controversy, the White House brought in Secretary of State Colin Powell, Rice, the president himself and even, later, British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But, after two weeks, a White House usually adept at controlling stories by dismissing questions and waiting them out has had no luck.
The key questions — asked over and over — were not changing:
-Who knew what when — especially the president?
-Why was it so important to include the statement in the speech?
-Who was responsible for putting it in?
-Why has the president refused to take responsibility for uttering it?
Only the White House's explanations shifted — often contradicting itself in the process.
Ms. Loven's animus against the Bush administration helps to explain why a complete non-story, Bush's sixteen words, which, as we have argued, were almost certainly true, turned into a mini-"scandal" that ended only when Joe Wilson was exposed as a liar.
But the facts don't matter to Ms. Loven and the Associated Press. What matters, to them, is electing a Democrat as President.


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They walked into a Manhattan hotel, knowing they were running out of time to save their season.
After 16 hours of tense talks, the NHL and its players finally achieved their elusive deal early Sunday morning, finding a way to restart a sport desperate to regain momentum and boost its prominence.
Ending a bitter dispute that wiped out a large part of the hockey season for the third time in less than two decades, the league and its union agreed to the framework of a 10-year labor contract that will allow a delayed schedule to start later this month.
On the 113th day of a management lockout and five days before the league's deadline for a deal, the bleary-eyed sides held a 6 a.m. news conference to announce there will be a season, after all.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union head Donald Fehr both appeared drained, wearing sweaters and not neckties, when they stood side by side at the hotel and announced labor peace.
"We have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper," Bettman said. "We've got to dot a lot of Is, cross a lot of Ts. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the basic framework of the deal has been agreed upon."
Lawyers will spend the next few days drafting a memorandum of agreement.
The stoppage led to the cancellation of at least 480 games — the exact length of the curtailed schedule hasn't been determined — bringing the total of lost regular-season games to a minimum 2,178 during three lockouts under Bettman.
The agreement, which replaces the deal that expired Sept. 15, must be ratified by the 30 team owners and approximately 740 players.
"Hopefully, within just a very few days, the fans can get back to watching people who are skating, and not the two of us," Fehr said.
Fehr became executive director of the NHL Players Association in December 2010 after leading baseball players through two strikes and a lockout.
Players conceded early on in talks, which began in June, that they would accept a smaller percentage of revenue, and the negotiations were about how much lower.
"It was a battle," said Winnipeg Jets defenseman Ron Hainsey, a key member of the union's bargaining team. "Players obviously would rather not have been here, but our focus now is to give the fans whatever it is — 48 games, 50 games — the most exciting season we can."
With much of the money from its $2 billion, 10-year contract with NBC back loaded toward the Stanley Cup playoffs in the spring — and now perhaps early summer — the league preferred to time the dispute for the start of the season in the fall. Management made its decision knowing regular-season attendance rose from 16,534 in 2003-04 to 16,954 in 2005-06 and only seven teams experienced substantial drops.
Flyers chairman Ed Snider told The Associated Press he was glad a partial schedule had been salvaged.
"I'm thrilled for our fans, I'm thrilled for all of our people that work around our sport that have been hurt by this," he said. "I'm thrilled for the players, for the owners. I'm just sorry it had to take this long. The great thing is, we don't have to look at it for hopefully 10 years, or at worst eight, and that's good stuff."
Still, the lockout could wipe out perhaps $1 billion in revenue this season, given about 40 percent of the regular-season schedule won't be played. And while the stoppage was major news in Canada, it was an afterthought for many American sports fans.
"They could have gotten here a lot sooner," said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based sports business consulting firm Sportscorp Ltd. "They didn't hear a hue and cry from the fans, especially in the United States, when hockey wasn't played. That's very distressing. That indicates there's a level of apathy that is troubling. In contrast, in the NFL when there was a threat of canceling a preseason weekend, the nation was up in arms."
At downtown Detroit's Rub BBQ Pub, manager Chris Eid said he was "ecstatic" when he heard the news. He said the settlement was a big topic of conversation among his afternoon customers.
"Everyone misses hockey," Eid said.
Hockey's first labor dispute was an 11-day strike in 1992 that led to 30 games being postponed. Bettman, a former NBA executive under David Stern, became the NHL commissioner in February 1993. He presided over a 103-day lockout in 1994-95 that ended with a deal on Jan. 11, then a 301-day lockout in 2004-05 that made the NHL the first major North American professional sports league to lose an entire season. The NHL obtained a salary cap in the agreement that followed that dispute and now wanted more gains.
"It was concessionary bargaining right from the beginning," Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan said. "As the players, you kind of understand that and you accepted that. As much as you didn't want to, we understand that the nature of professional sports has kind of changed with the last couple CBAs starting with football and basketball."


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Susan Johnston has written for AOL Jobs, The Boston Globe, Mediabistro.com, Parade Magazine, and SELF, among other places.
Blogs are a powerful way to engage customers and attract new ones. But with so many businesses turning out blog content, it's not enough to throw up a few quick posts and hope for the best. Here's how to ensure that your blog posts stand out.
- Craft an Enticing Headline
Without an eye-catching headline, it's unlikely that people will even read your blog post. That's why it's worth spending the time to brainstorm a headline that will pique curiosity and encourage clicks. Blog headlines should be short, specific (don't make readers guess), and make the reader want to know more. For instance, "How I Doubled My Twitter Following in Two Months" is better than "How to Build Your Brand and Attract New Customers With a Strong Twitter Presence." But remember that your post should deliver on the headline's promise, so don't go overboard with the hyperbole.
- Incorporate Relevant Keywords
The goal with SEO is to mention your target keywords while still sounding like a real human being instead of a spambot who spews out keywords by the minute. Try to include your most important keyword or phrase in your headline and a secondary one in the first paragraph of your post but keep it natural and conversational. This may mean trying a few different combinations before you find the right balance, but the pay-off is that readers will understand immediately what your post is about and search engines will correctly index your content so future readers can find it.
- Turn Your Topic on its Head
One way to create irresistible blog posts that attract comments and links is by taking the opposite point of view from the crowd. If everyone is blogging about how to grow your circles on Google+, you might blog about why having smaller, but more engaged circles is actually more valuable. Or you could draw surprising comparisons between your topic and some aspect of pop culture. Is there some parallel between SEO and your favorite TV program? Does Lady Gaga teach us something about building a brand? Get creative to find ideas that go beyond the obvious.
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Blog readers expect posts to be formatted differently than a book or newspaper article. Keep paragraphs short and use sub-headlines, numbered lists, or bullet points to add white space between each point and make posts more skimmable. Also include a call to action and encourage readers to leave comments or ask questions.
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For sale: Social network, recently renovated, barely used. $580 million OBO.
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired the beleaguered Myspace for over half a billion dollars to complement a media empire comprising newspapers, a film studio and TV channels, including Fox News. News Corporation continued to spend millions on Myspace to capture a finicky youth market, only to find itself groping for relevancy as Facebook came to dominate the social space.
One shouldn't expect Murdoch to understand kids these days, seeing as he hasn't been a teenager since 1950, which not only predates the notion of a mass "youth culture," but its original soundtrack, rock 'n' roll. But the site's current woes go beyond bridging a simple generation gap, and not for lack of trying.
These days on Myspace, one is presently greeted by a video of the Black Eyed Peas pontificating about how they would "rock it" if they "hijacked" Myspace (Fergie is apparently into rainbows). This attempt by Myspace to lease some cred from the band diminishes both the reenvisioning of the site and the musicians themselves, who do their best to inject enthusiasm into the prospect of a "social entertainment" destination with little more substance than their own lyrics.
The whole premise seems nebulous, which is underscored by the fact that the site doesn't even have its own name in the masthead. Rather, the page is helmed by "my_____," which invites the user to fill in the blank. You know, like Mad Libs. Perhaps Rupert's reads "my $580 Million Write-Off."
With its "we beat Friendster" sheen long worn away by Murdoch's fretting fingerprints, Myspace, some speculate, is headed to the bargain bin. An acquisition, however, likely won't make much noise in a social space dominated by Facebook and Twitter. Big spenders like Google come to mind, though it's already in the social space (Orkut, right? No, wait, Google Wave? Um, Google Buzz?). Still smarting after being left at the altar by Microsoft, Yahoo isn't in a shopping mood but is working on its own Twitter clone, Yahoo! Meme. Theoretically, Microsoft could graft Myspace into its search initiative Bing so one could search for friends and find them, well, on Facebook.
Perhaps the best possibility for Myspace is to be acquired by Elon Musk, cofounder of PayPal, electric carmaker Tesla Motors and SpaceX, the independent aeronautics company. Call it "MyspaceX," which would combine all of Musk's business pursuits into the first off-world colony. Recruit the outer-space colonists on Myspace (yes, that's why the sign-up is so damn inquisitive—they're gauging your space-worthiness) and catch a ride on a SpaceX rocket. The colony itself would be powered by Telsa Motors technology since, in space, there are no countries to exploit for natural resources (yet).
Tickets would be paid for through Paypal, unless the underground hacker horde Anonymous launches another denial-of-service attack, which they unleashed upon the online payments site, as well as the respective sites of Visa and Mastercard, after the creditors rescinded service to Wikileaks in the wake of Cablegate.
What's a denial-of-service attack? Ask the former chief security officer for News Corporation's digital properties, Hemu Nigam, who once ridded Myspace of pedophiles and warded off other online miscreants before splitting six months ago to start his own internet security consultancy.
"If you are a home-computer user," Nigam says, "the only way denial-of-service attacks succeed is if the consumers are allowing their computers to be used as a zombie so that it wakes up and turns it into an army soldier at the command of a hacker out there."
To prevent you computer from joining the undead, Nigam suggests you actually click "OK" the next time your computer suggests a security update. "A hacker group like Anonymous will go out there and find computers that are not updated, drop a little code in there that basically owns the computer and that sits there waiting for a command from the mother ship to these zombie computers, thousands of them in all parts of the country or the world, that says 'Wake up. It's your time.'"
Perhaps this is Murdoch's evil plan for Myspace—he's using it to create an army of zombie machines to launch a massive attack on his many rivals. But isn't that what his Fox News is for?
Daedalus Howell has his own zombie army at FMRL.com, the Future Media Research Lab.


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YMCA to close 3 centers in metro
Organization will renovate 2 facilities, build new one.
The YMCA of Greater Kansas City announced Tuesday that it would close three facilities next month.
Officials said the closures are part of a 10-year strategic vision plan.
The facilities to close are the Independence Family YMCA at 14001 E. 32nd St., the Richard C. Green, Sr., Family YMCA at 10301 E. Highway 350 in Raytown, and the 8th Street Family YMCA at 900 N. Eighth St., in Kansas City, Kan.
The last day of operation for the centers will be April 12. Members will have the option to transfer to a neighboring YMCA.
The YMCA will also transfer operations of the Miami County Family YMCA to the Osawatomie School District, which owns the building.
Part of the YMCA's plan includes revitalization projects. Officials said the Linwood and Atchison YMCAs will be renovated and a full-service YMCA will be built at 10th Street and Grand Boulevard.


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Top 10 Natural Wonders
Let nature's wonder reveal itself, from mountain peaks penetrating the clouds to tiny rainbow-colored fish weaving between coral reefs.
By: Jessica Behrens
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Glaciers and Icebergs, Greenland
Combine the world's largest island with a total population of only 55,000 and Greenland provides the perfect backdrop for a true bonding experience with nature. Rent a kayak, originally invented by hunters here, and row arctic waters past towering icebergs and glaciers. The waters provide a home to many whale species, including humpbacks with tails up to 16 feet wide. Outdoor excursion opportunities abound, from mountain climbing to hiking and angling -- just be sure to bundle up! Temperatures range from 20 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and much colder in the winter. Experience round-the-clock daylight during the arctic summer or watch the Northern Lights paint dazzling colors across the dark autumn skies.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef's vibrant coral and fish form an underwater tropical paradise that promises the best scuba diving and snorkeling in the world. Spanning more than 1,200 miles of crystal waters along the coastline, the reef system is the largest and healthiest anywhere. Its isolation from the mainland will put you one-on-one with marine life, seemingly cut off from human contact. Australia offers countless other natural gems in the raw wilderness of its outback, so after exploring the depths of the sea, you can hop in a four-wheel drive and adventure in a totally different world.
Grand Prismatic Springs, Yellowstone, Wyoming
More than 1,000 miles of backcountry hiking trails through Yellowstone lead travelers to pristine areas rich with extraordinary wildlife and steaming, bubbling hot springs. Your chances at spotting an endangered grizzly or elk are pretty good -- the park is home to the largest elk herd in North America and one of two grizzly bear populations. You'll no doubt leave with everlasting images of the grand sweep of the rugged Teton mountain range and nature's fireworks leaping from the geysers.
Redwood National Park, California
Visitors here cannot help but feel awestruck by the unbelievable enormity of the coast redwoods, the tallest and oldest trees on earth. The tallest redwood on record, known simply as "the Tall Tree," is 600 years old and stands more than 350 feet. These majestic examples of nature, which can only be found in California and Oregon, take 400 years to mature and can live to be 2,000-plus years old. Emerging from the darkened paths on foot, bike or horseback, visitors may be shocked to find it is still daylight, and still the 21st century, in a place where time seems to stand still.
Mt. Everest, Nepal
The Sherpas and Tibetans worship Everest as Chomolongma, or "Mother Goddess of the Earth." Luckily you don't need to actually climb the 29,000 feet to the "Top of the World" to experience its magnificence and the beauty of the surrounding valleys and forests.
Emerald Landscape, Ireland
Though all of Ireland's landscape is stunning, the southwest region shows visitors at first glance why this is called the Emerald Isle. Lush green pastures stretch as far as the eye can see, and the colorful hills are cut with winding streams. The Lakes of Killarney offer some of the most refreshing natural scenery in the south, which can best be explored by bike or on foot. Take the time to visit the picturesque small towns and villages, like Adare and Kinsale, whose charm and tranquillity will soothe the soul.
Diverse Ecosystem, Costa Rica
Thanks to the biological influences of neighboring North and South America and the Pacific and Caribbean oceans, this small mountainous country is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Thousands of miles of roads and nature trails make it easy to experience the wide spectrum of habitats, from steaming volcanoes to the cloud-shrouded jungles and deserted beaches. A model National Conservation System protects Costa Rica's invaluable natural heritage, including 9,000 different kinds of flowering plants and more species of birds than in the United States, Canada and northern Mexico combined.
Gran Sabana, Venezuela
Located within Canaima, a national park the size of Belgium, Gran Sabana is the plateau region between Venezuela and Brazil. The hauntingly beautiful landscape is dominated by the unique "tepuyes" -- flat-topped mountains with steep vertical walls. Tours by jeep and canoe are popular ways of seeing the most scenic spots, but to get the full experience, guided walking tours are the way to go. The dense jungles house exotic plant life, some 20,000 species of orchid alone, and several species of endangered animals, including jaguars and giant armadillos. The rock is some of the oldest on Earth, dating back two billion years, making it one of the nine most ancient geological regions of the world.
Desert Sand Dunes, South Africa
The southern states of Africa have been the most successful in not only conserving its diverse wildlife, but also in offering visitors the privacy and isolation of intimate camps apart from the mass tourism more common in the north. You'll surely want to plan a safari in one of these regions where more than 90% of the continent's rhinos and the largest herds of elephants can be found. Africa's stunning landscape of coastal cliffs, enormous desert sand dunes and magnificent waterfalls have been shaped by over four billion years of geological activity.
Galapagos Islands
A trip to these enchanted islands puts humans in a unique and humbling second-place position to the untamed plant and animal life. Here we are mere visitors to the inhabitants of the protected national park that covers 97% of the land area. The islands were named after the giant tortoises that bask boldly on the sandy beaches and mingle with their reptilian brethren, most notably the marine iguana -- the only aquatic iguana in the world. Birds are the most diverse and abundant on the islands, many having evolved into unique species that can only be found here.


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DENVER, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Wednesday's debate between U.S. President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney wasn't really a debate.
The former New Mexico governor said in a statement Romney and Obama's debate in Denver provided "two slightly differing versions of defending the Republican and Democrat status quo that has given us war after war after war, a $16 trillion debt, and a government that is the answer to everything."
"Nowhere was there a real plan for reducing government, balancing the budget any time in the foreseeable future, or a path that will actually put Americans back to work," Johnson said. "We heard two politicians arguing over which of their plans for government-run health care is less bad. We heard fantasies about balancing the budget while not reducing Medicare costs."
Johnson said the two candidates were merely "nibbling around the edges of the nation's problems."
"We don't have time to nibble -- we need to devour them," he said. "Americans deserve real debates and a voice who will actually tell the truth about what it will take to put this great nation back on track."


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Cryin' time: Notebook brings out the hankies
I've got to get in touch with my feminine side for this one because we "real men" don't like romantic tearjerkers– unless there's a football involved.
The Notebook could be one of those classic American screen romances that resonate with viewers, if not always with critics. It belongs up there with An Affair to Remember, The Way We Were, An Officer and a Gentleman, Love Story, and Sleepless in Seattle, if not Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.
If nothing else, it brings new meaning to the idea that you never forget your first love.
The Notebook unfolds in two periods, more than half a century apart. The connection isn't made clear until more than an hour into the film, but it's probably not much of a spoiler to give it away. If you still want to avoid it, I'll tell you when to stop reading.
James Garner is introduced as "Duke." He's living in a nursing home and is preparing for a "big day." He dresses up and goes calling on an old woman (Gena Rowlands) who doesn't know him from Adam.
He's there to read to her, he says, and he reads a love story from an old notebook. We see it as flashbacks that make up the bulk of the picture, beginning on June 6, 1940, when Noah (Ryan Gosling) meets Allie (Rachel McAdams) and falls in love with her at first sight.
He's a country boy, she's a city (Charleston, S.C.) girl; but more importantly, he doesn't have two dimes to rub together and she comes from a long line of dime-rubbers.
Noah's not stupid– he likes poetry, especially Walt Whitman– but he works in a lumberyard and has none of what the rich call "prospects." Allie is starting at Sarah Lawrence College in the fall.
Director Nick Cassavetes doesn't rush it. In an unfashionable (but most welcome) pre-MTV manner he lets their love develop slowly, sometimes in conversations that go on for minutes. Allie meets Noah's father (Sam Shepard) but puts off introducing Noah to her parents (Joan Allen, David Thornton with a strange, unreal-looking mustache) as long as she can. Though he's totally endearing, they see only a lack of dollar signs when they look at him.
The summer romance ends abruptly when Allie's parents take her away. Noah writes every day for a year, but Allie's mother intercepts his letters. Years pass: the war years. Noah survives and realizes his dream of acquiring and restoring an old plantation house.
The next time he sees Allie, she's engaged to Lon Hammond (James Marsden) of Hammond Cotton, a man her parents approve of and even she can find no fault with.
This is where you stop reading if you don't want to know how the past and present link up.
Before "Duke" finishes the story we spend more time with him and the older Allie and learn she's suffering from senile dementia (possibly Alzheimer's, but that's not specified). He goes through this whole process in hopes of stimulating her memory to give her a few lucid moments.
The film toys with a couple of possible endings before getting to the right one; but it's from New Line Cinema, distributor of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the ultimate "But wait– there's more!" movie.
The screenplay, adapted by Jeremy Leven and Jan Sardi from a novel by Nicholas Sparks (it's hard to believe there was no female input in the process), makes some arguable choices about what to reveal and when, and there's some questionable math when Allie tells Noah she waited "seven years" for him.
But the classic glitch in The Notebook is an outdoor scene on a hot August night in South Carolina where you can see the actors' breath as they talk! And this is 1940, the day before yesterday, not The Day after Tomorrow.
It's sad that a woman of Rowlands' brilliance has to give birth to the director to get a role like this, but she and Garner should be in the running for Oscars next year.
If you're shy about showing emotion in public, you'll want to wait for the DVD of The Notebook, but make sure you've got a big screen to appreciate the gorgeous cinematography. Whenever, wherever you see it, be certain to have a large box of industrial-strength tissue on hand. I'm still choking up thinking about it 24 hours later.


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As part of a larger Framework Agreement, the tie-up will boost inter-agency cooperation and foster additional cost-saving activities in the future.
In November 2005, ESA and DLR, the German Aerospace Centre, successfully initiated an innovative and deep-reaching technical interconnection in which, for the first time, the two agencies will share network facilities, including ground tracking stations, communication networks and flight management data.
The cooperation is part of a cross-services Framework Agreement aimed at enabling the two to share infrastructure, resources and expertise. Specifically, this will provide reciprocal telemetry, tracking and telecommand services to respective spacecraft using each agency's network of ground tracking stations. The Framework Agreement was concluded in July 2005.
In the first implementation of the agreement, DLR's Weilheim ground station, controlled via the German Space Operations Centre (GSOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen, will start this month to provide routine tracking services to ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, now orbiting the Moon. Both GSOC and the Weilheim station are located near Munich, Germany.
In a first for the two agencies, the respective networks are now able to 'talk' to each other, allowing the DLR ground station to receive science data from SMART-1 and transmit flight control signals to the spacecraft. Weilheim will transmit data from SMART-1 via GSOC to ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany, where it will be transmitted to mission scientists exactly as if it had come from one of ESA's own ground stations.
Later, DLR is expected to support ESA's Integral mission as well.
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SLE was developed by ESA in cooperation with NASA, DLR and CNES to enable just this sort of network sharing. The main difference with respect to previous interfaces is that there is much less of a need to exchange hardware, thus avoiding the high costs incurred in the past.
Similar reciprocal services based on SLE had been successfully implemented in the past between ESA and NASA for missions such as Integral, Rosetta, Mars Express, SOHO and Ulysses.
Based on this positive experience and the availability of reusable software components from the earlier implementation, it was decided to base the ESA/DLR cooperation on the SLE standard as well. The maturity of the SLE software permitted SMART-1 mission controllers to implement it operationally in a record time with a minimum effort. "It only took 24 hours to turn the system on once we had agreed on the SLE configuration," says Wolfgang Hell with a lot of satisfaction. Hell is ESOC's project manager for the initiative.
He adds that teams working at ESOC and GSOC established the first communications between Weilheim and ESOC in November 2005 using a single leased telecom line. The ground station tracked SMART-1 during several live passes later in the month, and in January 2006 the link will be expanded to two lines to provide redundancy.
The two agencies had to install some new hardware at the ground station, which made use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) TT&C equipment instead of custom-designed devices, providing significant cost savings.
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The benefits of the cooperation go beyond mere technology sharing, however, and provide significant support to respective missions that each agency would be pressed to achieve individually.
"ESA's Malinda station is a good ground station to use for Teressa-X due to its near-equator position; in fact, separation of the satellite from the launcher is planned to occur right over Malinda," says DLR's Martin Pilgram, the project coordinator for GSOC. He points out that DLR does not have a ground station of its own in a suitable location.
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The ESA/DLR cross-services agreement is consistent with the Network of Centres (NoC) initiative, a grouping of mission control facilities belonging to ESA and space organisations in France, Germany and Italy. The NoC concept aims to share expertise, facilities and resources and avoid duplication, thus strengthening Europe's overall space operations capability.
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Almost as soon as the event was over, this blog post appeared on the NY Times site:
The author neglected to mention that in addition to the fact that "The audience was a cross-section of the computer industry's best and brightest", it also included regular people, like me. I flew down to the Bay Area on Friday with my husband, and spent the day on the UC Berkeley campus, where I had been a student for 8 years, and lecturer for another 4. Although I was not there concurrently with Jim, we had many professors and colleagues in common. Attending the tribute and the technical sessions afterwards was an awesome experience.
At end of morning, we had about 15 minutes before lunch, right after a couple of speakers were sharing about Jim's early days at IBM and Tandem. The moderator, Mike Stonebraker, asked audience members to share their stories and recollections of Jim from the 70's and 80's. I assumed there would be another chance in the afternoon for people to share stories from the 90's and beyond, but that didn't happen. So I will share my story here.
As I was finishing my first book (upgrading Ron Soukup's Inside SQL Server, from version 6.5 to version 7) I needed to find someone to write the foreword. Jim Gray, who I only knew about from his book, had written the foreword to the 6.5 edition, and I asked a few colleagues at Microsoft if they thought he might agree to write a foreword for me. I was encouraged to contact him, and right after I sent the email to him, I discovered that he had just been awarded the Turing Award! Well of course, I couldn't expect that a Turing Award winner would respond to an email from a nobody like me, so I started looking around for someone else. I didn't spend long in the search, because Jim responded in a day, saying he'd be delighted to write the foreword, and also asking if I was going to be at the PASS conference.
This was in 1998, and the very first PASS conference was being held in Chicago. I told him I was going to be there, and he suggested getting together for coffee. What could I say but "OK"?
I arrived in Chicago late in the evening and stumbled into a strange hotel and went to bed. Chicago was 2-hours earlier than my normal time zone, so I planned on sleeping until 8:30. At 7 AM, the phone rang. To the day, I clearly remember my impulse to shout into the phone "What in &#%* do you want at this ungodly hour in the morning?" But I stifled that impulse, and to this day I am grateful to my guardian angel for that decision. Because, as I'm sure you guessed, it was Jim. In a bright and chipper voice he asked "Would you like to go get a cup of coffee now?". Of course, I REALLY needed some. So we had coffee. And a wonderful meeting. I still think about that phone call, and try to remember to always answer the phone cheerfully, because you never know who is calling. I'm not always successful, but I try. And knowing Jim, and based on what I heard about on Saturday, I would guess that even if I hadn't stifled my first impulse, Jim would have forgiven me. He would have just apologized for the early call, and asked me out for coffee anyway.
I met with Jim several more times after that over the years, including once by accident in the Microsoft cafeteria. He asked me to join him for lunch. I imagined he would be lunching with a group of people and was asking me to join the group, but it turned out he was by himself and just wanted someone to sit with. I was glad I was there. We talked about teaching and training, and how amazing he found it that some people could actually type while they talked!
I just searched and found over 20 emails from Jim still in my Outlook folders, and in fact he's under 500 in my Xobni rankings. I doubt I'll ever be able to delete those mails.
So Jim did write the foreword for my first book, as you can see:
He also wrote the foreword for my next 2 books. But by the one after that, he was gone. So I dedicated that book to him.
You can read about Jim's accomplishments on his site at Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/
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Thanks for sharing your personal experiences with Jim Gray. It was good to see you at the tribute.
I, too, was just one of the regular people attending along with some of the industry and academic luminaries. I was generally aware of Jim's contributions prior to the event, but was taken back by the level of attendance. One news report said it was close to 1,000 people.
I was always impressed with his writings and the topics he chose to discuss. He had an ability to describe complex things clearly, and to choose topics that were most appropriate for pragmatic use. In contrast, my experience has been that many research papers tend to be narrowly focused on topics that may not be immediately (or sometimes ever) applicable to real-life situations.
Beside reading his papers and following his work over the years, I had the chance to meet and talk with Jim on two occasions: first at a Microsoft conference about ten years ago and most recently at a talk he gave at Georgia Tech a few years back. In both cases, he was very approachable, genuinely interested in what you had to say, and willing to share his perspective on topics or questions you posed – a theme that was echoed many times by people at the tribute. As David Vaskevich said at the tribute: for most people, the smarter they are, the more anti-human they are. No so with Jim - very smart and very human!
I also enjoyed the notable quotes at the tribute:
- Jim Gray – responding to someone's statement / concern about being overshadowed by famous industry people around them: "It's cooler in the shade!"
- Pat Helland quoting Jimi Hendrix: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
During a lunch discussion with others around the table at the tribute, it occurred to me that the day's recollections of Jim's accomplishments were much like the Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life":
- What would the world be like had that person never existed?
- You don't realize how much a single person can contribute to others until they are gone
We all could learn a lot from Jim and the way he lived his life.
I am glad I could attend the tribute.
Scott R.
Update: I recently learned that UC Berkeley has webcast and podcast versions of the Jim Gray Tribute sessions at the following link:


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I have two that pop into my mind quickly, although I'm sure they have been many more. When I was subbing right after I graduated in December, I was in an art classroom. The teacher had all the desks around the outside of the room, facing into the center. I was propped up against a desk as I was explaining things, and all of a sudden the desk collapsed. I quite loudly yelled an expletive as I fell. Embarrassing!
Later in my teaching career, I had taken my class to their "specials" class and walked back into my room. I had been holding one in for a little while and when I got to the safety of my empty classroom, I let it rip, and did it ever. It definitely would have been heard had there been anyone else around, but I knew my room was empty. Except it wasn't. A poor student from another class had come in looking for something, and as I turned to go to my desk I saw him, bright red and booking it for the door.
When I was student teaching, one day we didn't have a normal schedule, so of course the 7th graders were restless and off-kilter. They just couldn't settle down, but saying "Shut up" was something that students could get suspended for, so faculty, of course, avoided saying it. I finally had just had it with them, and being so careful to avoid "shut up," said, "Be quiet, damn it." Stunned silence. I apologized to them. They were definitely quiet after that.
So, a few years ago, I was in the middle of teaching using a PowerPoint. Since I rarely stand still when I am teaching, I was moving around my room really getting my point across. My students were really engaged and right with me. At one point, I was walking quickly to the front of the room to emphasize a point on the screen. As I walked to the front of the room, I tripped on a cord and literally flew 5 feet. I landed flat on my stomach, hit my face on the floor, jumped up, and just kept on teaching. There were several gasps in the room, not a single snicker, and then suddenly one of my 9th grade football players said, "Wow! You're tough!" I then laughed and the WHOLE class broke into laughter and several kids sweetly asked, "Are you okay?" For the rest of the day, kids were coming in and asking if I could fall again they heard it was "really cool"! Ugh! Gotta love freshmen!
I was teaching a grammar lesson a few years ago and had sentences written on the board. I try to use silly sentences to keep it somewhat entertaining. I think the sentence was "Joe Bob was eating squirrel stew." It was at the end of the day, and I was tired. I also talk fast, and as I read the sentence, instead of saying "Joe Bob," I said "Boe Job." Let's just say I do not use that name anymore.
I have a knack for falling. In the third quarter of my first year of teaching, my coteacher was giving a lecture while I patrolled, making sure our freshmen were being good humans. I told one student to scoot in or someone might trip and, you guessed it, my foot got caught and I starfished on the ground.
The following year, I took my creative writing students to our wetlands and attempted to jump over a puddle. I missed. I taught the remainder of the day, three more periods, with mud caked from mid-back to toes.
Thankfully, I have a great sense of humor and no pride left, so I'm still teaching.
Last year, I started teaching high school English. I had one student bring in stress balls. He was continuously bouncing them off of the walls in my classroom. I told him if he did it one more time I was going to take away his balls. Not only did my class enjoy this, my boss overheard this and took away the stress balls while chuckling herself.
My first DAY teaching at my first job, after literally months of planning, I finally take a seat in a student desk to see what the room would look like for a student. Five minutes before the bell rings, I realize the text books are blocking the welcome message on the chalkboard. I panic, and start moving stacks of textbooks from the table to the floor. As I squat down to move the first stack, my pants rip! And, pretty majorly, too. I was so nervous that I just had to laugh, because if I had cried, I wouldn't have stopped all day. I tied a sweater around my waist, and told my 7th graders at the end of the week the story. It always reminds me to not take things too seriously.


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1 garlic clove, sliced
1/2 cup feta cheese
1/2 cup parsley, chopped
2 tbsp basil, chopped
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp peppercorn
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Recipe from Sara Williams of Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Total Time: 25-30 min
Ground beef
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1. Cook the ground beef, drain well.
2. Add the corn, kidney beans, tomato sauce, and seasoning, mix together.
3. Using a baking dish use for first layer.
4. Place tortilla on top.
5. Add cheese, then repeat as may layers as you would like.
6. Place in oven at 325 for 10-15 mins.
Serves: 4-8
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