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April 17, 2002
Upcoming Schedule
* Apr. 19 vs. CSUF
R-Vasquez (4-5, 3.80) vs. R-Littleton (7-2, 1.37) 2:00 p.m.
* Apr. 20 vs. CSUF
L-Thompson (2-1, 4.47) vs. R-Merrell (5-2, 6.06) 1:00 p.m.
* Apr. 21 vs. CSUF
R-Garcia/Moran vs. R-DeJong (6-2, 3.69) 1:00 p.m.
Gauchos On The Air
KCSB 91.9 FM will carry all three games against Cal State Fullerton. In addition to the Fullerton series, KCSB will air live broadcasts of seven more Gaucho baseball games.
April 19-21 vs. Cal State Fullerton April 24 vs. USC April 25 vs. Westmont April 30 vs. UCLA May 17 vs. Sacramento State May 24-26 vs. Cal Poly
Broadcast times will begin five minutes before game times.
Back In SB
The Gauchos (15-21, 3-6 BWC) return home after six games on the road to take on 14th-ranked Cal State Fullerton (24-12, 7-2 BWC) for a three-game set, beginning on Friday, April 19 at 2:00 p.m. in the friendly confines of Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. UCSB is in a three-way tie for sixth place in the nine-team Big West. Gaucho ace Matt Vasquez (4-5, 3.80) will be going for his first Big West win on Friday against Fullerton Ace Wes Littleton (7-2, 1.37). Lefty Sean Thompson (2-1, 4.47), who held Long Beach State to one unearned run through seven innings will go on game two, against Darric Merrell (5-2, 6.06). The Sunday game will pit either James Garcia (2-3, 6.57) or Matt Moran (1-1, 6.56) against Jordan DeJong (6-2, 3.69). If Garcia's shoulder is still bothering him, Moran or possibly freshman Eric Posthumus (3-1, 7.31) will start on Sunday.
Remember The Titans
These Titans are not coached by Denzell Washington, but nevertheless they are very good. Cal State Fullerton, coached by George Horton (246-106, 6th season), is nationally ranked in several polls including a #14 ranking in Baseball America. The Titans are batting .302 as a team, .334 in Big West action, and have a team ERA of 3.81. Fullerton trails only Long Beach State for the top spot in the Big West. The Titans took two out of three over the weekend against Pacific and won in comeback fashion on Tuesday, 8-6 over Pepperdine, where the Fullerton pitching staff struck out a season high 17 batters. Former Titan Alumni include current major leagers Jason Giambi ('96), Phil Nevin ('92) and Mark Kotsay ('96).
Titans To Watch
The starting battery of Littleton, Merrell and DeJong are a combined 18-6 with a 3.52 ERA. Closer Chad Cordero, only a sophomore, leads the Big West with 10 saves and had a Big West freshman record 14 saves last season. Shane Costa is the leader of the Fullerton offense, batting .384 with 13 doubles, 34 runs scored and a Big West leading 18 hit-by-pitches. Jason Corapci leads the team with 27 RBI and three other Titans, Richie Burgos (.339), P.J. Pilittere (.325) and Justin Smyres (.306) are batting over .300.
Series Notes
Fullerton leads the all-time series against UCSB, 70-29 (.701). However last year, the Gauchos took two of three at Fullerton for the first time since 1996.
Gaucho Probable Starters
1B * Josh McCanne * Has a base hit in 13-of last-15 games. Batting .366 against Lefties. 2B * Chris Malec * Has a base-hit in 25-of last-28 games. 4 doubles and 6RBI in Big West. SS * Dave Licht * Tied for third on team with 29 runs scored. Also has six doubles. 3B * Nate Sutton * One of four Gauchos to start all 37 games. Walked 22 times. LF * Blair Havens * 11-for last-21 (.523) with eight runs scored in that span. CF * R.J. Smith * Had game winning RBI vs. Long Beach State.. RF * Ryan Spilborghs * Has had three 5-RBI games. Has 18 multi-hit games, 10 single-hit. C * Taylor Vogt * Third on team with .323 Batting Average, has 11 starts at catcher. DH * Matt Wilkerson * Team co-leader in home runs with ten. Second on team with 33 runs.
Weekend In Review
The Gauchos went 1-2 in the series with Long Beach State, making it the third consecutive series the Gauchos had gone 1-2. On Friday, Matt Vasquez had his worst outing of the season, giving up seven runs on six hits in 4.1 innings. Ryan Spilborghs went 2-for-4 hitting his tenth home run of the year in the loss...In game two the Gauchos came out swinging, pounding out 17 hits and scoring 13 runs to hand The Dirtbags their first Big West loss of the season. The Gauchos scored seven runs in the tenth inning on three hits, three errors, two walks and a hit by pitch. The 13 runs and 17 hits were season highs for Long Beach opponents...In game three the Gauchos jumped out to a early 2-1 lead, but the Beach clawed their way back while the UCSB offense failed to score after the second inning, ultimatley falling 4-2. The Gauchos had 11 hits in the game, all singles.
They Call Him Coach
Bob Brontsema is in his ninth season as Gaucho skipper. He owns a career record of 232-229 (.503). Brontsema is coming off his best coaching season at UCSB guiding the Gauchos to a 40-17 record, good for the best single season winning percentage (.702) at UCSB since 1986. The 40 wins were the most by a UCSB team since 1990. For his efforts, Brontsema was named Big West Coach of the Year for the second time in his career. Brontsema has posted three straight over-.500 campaigns, the school's first such achievement since 1992.
Pitching Notes
As a team, the Gaucho pitching staff has an ERA of 6.10, which is second-to- last in the Big West. However, the UCSB arms have improved of late, sporting a team ERA of 4.50 (27 runs) in their last six games. This number is a huge improvement after giving up 31 runs in the Northridge series...Junior Sean Thompson has been the Gauchos most consistent starter for the Gauchos in conference action with a 1-1 record and 4.37 ERA. Since joining the rotation due to injuries to James Dayley (Back) and James Garcia (Shoulder), the lefty from Redondo Beach has a 2-1 record and 3.86 ERA...After getting off to a scorching hot 4-1 start, sophomore Matt Vasquez has run into his share of troubles. The Santa Barbara native has lost his last four starts, giving up 15 runs in 21.2 innings pitched...Senior Matt Moran got his first start as a Gaucho last Sunday pitching effectively for four innings, giving up two runs on three hits...Lefties Mike Sutherland and Kevin Miller have given the Gauchos quality innings out of the pen. Sutherland, a freshman, has a 2.25 ERA in Big West action including 3.1 innings of shutout ball in relief for Moran last Sunday. Miller has appeared in five of the nine Big West games and has is fourth on the team with a 4.71 ERA.
Hitting Notes
The Gauchos are batting 289 as a team, good for seventh in the Big West. However, a better indicator of the UCSB offense, is their runs scored on the season, of 272, which is third in the Big West. The 37 home runs and 15 triples as a team is also good for second best in the Conference. The Gauchos are batting .278 in nine Big West games. That figure is not too shabby considering UCSB faced the top two pitching teams in the Big West,, UC Irvine and Long Beach State, the past two weekends. The Gauchos actually managed to raise both teams ERA's after each series...The hottest Gaucho hitter, Blair Havens, continues to swing a hot bat, going 11-for his last-21, including a 4-for-6 effort on Saturday against Long Beach, and a 5-for-6 performance against UC Irvine four games ago. Havens leads the team with a .385 average...Ryan Spilborghs is right on Havens' tail in terms of average (.376) but is second to none in most other offensive categories for the Gauchos. The only regular returning starter from the 2001 team, leads tbe Big West with 42 runs, five triples and 103 total bases. Spilborghs, another Santa Barbara native, leads the Gauchos with 45 RBI, 27 walks, a .691 slugging percentage and ten homers. The ten home runs is a ten-fold increase from his sophomore season, when he hit only one home run...Catcher Taylor Vogt also swung a hot bat in Long Beach going 4-for-10 with a run scored and two RBI.
Defensive Notes
The Gauchos are fielding .963 as a team, good for third in the Big West. UCSB is fielding .973 over their last nine games committing only nine errors in those games. The Gauchos have turned 36 double plays, which is good for second in the Big West.
Los Alamitos Thoroughbred
Ever since taking over the leadoff spot for the Gauchos 14 games ago, left fielder Blair Havens has done nothing but hit. The junior from Los Alamitos is 25-for-61 (.409) in those eleven games including a 5-for-6 performance on April 7, against Irvine, where Havens also smacked his first home run as a Gaucho. In addition, Havens has seven multi-hit games out of the 14 started.
Baby Boppers
Freshman Chris Malec and Matt Wilkerson have made the transition as teammates from Santa Margarita High School to teammates at UCSB with relative ease. Malec, the Gauchos second baseman, is batting .322 with six home runs. He also leads UCSB with ten doubles and is second on the team with 41 RBI and 13 hit-by-pitches. Malec has already had two six-RBI games this season and at one point, had a 14-game hitting streak. Malec has reached base in 35 of 37 games. Wilkerson, the Gauchos designated hitter, leads the team and is fourth in the Big West with ten home runs. Wilkerson hit two homers in the Gauchos 15-9 loss to Northridge March 30, and also slugged three against UCLA on February 26. Wilkerson is currently batting .283 with 33 runs scored and 31 RBI. Malec and Wilkerson were coached at Santa Margarita by Tip Lefebvre, brother of former Dodger and major league manager Jim Lefebvre.
If you come see the Gauchos this season it's a sure bet that #24 will be batting third in the lineup. Ryan Spilborghs, the Gauchos most explosive offensive threat, has been as good as advertised and even more. Spilborghs is batting .376 which is good for eighth in the Big West,and leads the confernce with 42 runs scored, five triples and 103 total bases, and is second with 45 RBI and a .691 slugging percentage. "Spilly", as teammates, coaches and friends call him, smacked his tenth home run against Long Beach State. Spilborghs homer was impressive because of the fact it was hit over the center field wall at Blair Field, a notorious pitchers park, and more impressive because it was done at night and further impressive becuase he recieved praise from the normally stingy Long Beach rooters in the press box.
Upcoming Schedule
Following the Fullerton series, the Gauchos will take a week off from Big West action before resuming conference play against UC Riverside on May 3. UCSB will travel down to Los Angeles on Wednesday April 24 to take on Pac-10 powerhouse USC for a 5:00 p.m. night cap. The following day, the Gauchos will return home to take on Westmont for a 2:00 p.m. showdown. UCSB will be off for the weekend before resuming play on Tuesday April 30 hosting UCLA at 2:00 p.m.
Big West Standings
Conf. Overall Long Beach State 8-1 24-10 Cal State Fullerton 7-2 24-12 Cal State Northridge 6-3 26-13 UC Irvine 4-2 22-17 Cal Poly 5-4 20-21-1 UC Riverside 3-6 22-17 Pacific 3-6 18-15-1 UC Santa Barbara 3-6 16-21 Sacramento State 0-9 15-19
More Gaucho News And Notes
* According to Boyd's College Baseball Publication, the Gauchos have the 11th toughest schedule in the nation.
* Ryan Spilborghs is the lone returning starter from2001 on the field for the Gauchos. UCSB had nine players drafted off last years 40-17 team.
* UCSB scored in every inning in their 16-5 win over Westmont. The last time that happenned was against Chapman College in 1985.
* The Gauchos scored 12 runs in the fifth inning against Creighton, in a 23-10 win on Feb. 23. UCSB also had 25 hits in that game.
* Josh McCanne hit a walk-off grandslam with two outs in the ninth, in the Gauchos 8-4 victory over Loyola Marymount, for their first win of the season on February 1.
* Ryan Spilborghs had a 35-game hitting streak in 2001. Earlier in 2002, Spilborghs had a 12-game streak. Spilborghs leads the Big-West with 39 runs scored.
* In 2001, James Garcia became the first Gaucho to win 10 games since Santa Clara pitching coach Tom Myers did so for UCSB in 1991. Despite Garcia's 6.39 ERA, opposing hitters are batting just .230 against him this year,
* Three teams (UCSB, Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State) made the NCAA regionals from the Big West in 2001, with Fullerton advancing to the College World Series in Omaha.
* Nine Gauchos were drafted off the 2001 team. Jared Schumaker (5th, St. Louis), Jim Bullard (9th, Chicago, AL), Jamie Gonzales (12th, Detroit), Dave Molidor (14th, Cincinnati), Tyler Von Schell (15th, San Francisco), Jeff Bannon (18th, Cincinnati), Chad Peshke (33rd, Cleveland) and Jed Stringham (36th, Detroit).
* Oakland Athletic Barry Zito pitched his freshman season at UCSB before transfering to Pierce JC and then finishing at USC. Current Texas Ranger second baseman, Mike Young, was a teammate of Zito's at UCSB in 1997.


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How dare Republican Sen. Marco Rubio pause during his speech responding to President Barack Obama's State of the Union and take a drink of water. This deplorable act of thirst proves once and for all that conservatives are inept, bigoted fat cats who refuse to pay their fair share and care nothing for the poor or the middle class.
Thank goodness the mainstream media has our back and exposed this outrage.
The fact that MSNBC broadcast the Rubio clip almost 200 times but Fox News replayed it only 12 times shows that Fox is biased and doesn't cover the really big news stories.
Fortunately, we have a president who not only doesn't need water, he walks on water. And, thankfully, he gave another perfect, fact-filled speech on his own that night. I hope that people in all "57" states were watching.
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Despite having spent an awful lot of time in theatres, I'm not a big fan of musicals, but Sondheim's work is an exception, and the performance at Symphony Hall was magnificent, because the songs were performed by Broadway veterans Marin Mazzie, Greg Edelman, and Faith Prince as well as five younger performers from the Tanglewood Music Center (two were excellent, one was good, two were pretty awful). The choice of material was particularly strong -- I've got a bunch of CDs of Sondheim retrospectives, most of which have one or two good performances, but are, as a whole, forgettable because they try to cover Sondheim's entire career and end up being stretched too thin to be coherent. The selection of songs here was brilliant: a few from Act I of Sweeney Todd, including both "The Worst Pies in London" and "A Little Priest" (I think the friends I was sitting with were a bit horrified by my maniacal glee during the latter -- but really, how can you not be delighted by lines such as "And we have some shepherd's pie peppered/ With actual shepherd on top!"), then a handful from Sunday in the Park with George, then a couple from Merrily We Roll Along, including the horrendously difficult "Opening Doors" to end the first half of the performance. The pieces from Merrily were particular fun for me, because I directed the show a few years ago, and some of the people who were in it were with us at Pops. The second half commenced with solos by Faith Prince ("The Ladies Who Lunch" from Company), Greg Edelman ("If You Can Find Me, I'm Here" from Evening Primrose), and Marin Mazzie ("Losing My Mind" from Follies). All were excellent, but Mazzie's was simply perfect, both musically and emotionally. Then came five songs from Into the Woods and the finale, part 2 of "Old Friends" from Merrily We Roll Along, an odd choice that they pulled off well.
Anyway, a phenomenal evening, and one I hope will makes its way to PBS's "Evening at Pops" series and perhaps even an album, because it deserves to be preserved. (Ed Siegel's review for the Globe seems mostly accurate to me.)
Then came Sunday, when I met up with Geoffrey Goodwin (who you might know from Bookslut) at Pandemonium Books in Harvard Square and we wandered off to Kendall Square to go see Howl's Moving Castle. This ended up being a bigger endeavor than we counted on, though, because neither of us knew how to get to the Kendall Square Cinema, and directions we got made it seem much farther away from the subway than it really is, so we ended up walking through Cambridge for a couple of hours on a quest for the theatre. By the time we found it, we were exhausted and famished, so we bought tickets to the 5pm show and then went off in search of food. You would not think this would be difficult in a city, but while Harvard Square had been bustling, Kendall Square was eerily empty of people and every restaurant we found was closed except for a pub that was too enamored with meat for two vegetarians to be able to get any food at. Finally, desperately, we ended up at an Au Bon Pain. So here's some advice: If you go to Kendall Square on a Sunday, bring your own food. And if anybody tells you the Kendall Square Cinema is really far away, don't believe them.
But we finally saw the film, and it was magnificent. It's not perfect -- the ending ties things up too hastily -- but it's richly detailed, mysterious, evocative, haunting, funny, touching, and endlessly inventive. Only about 15 minutes of the movie draw very closely from the original novel, which may disappoint some Diana Wynne Jones fans, but I loved what Miyazaki did with the material, and it actually made me appreciate some of the original elements of the book more, though I still remain essentially impervious to what I'm told are the novel's charms (well, I liked the first quarter or so of the book, but not so much after that). I expect to have something more here about Howl's Moving Castle in the next week or two, but for now I'll just say that while it's not Miyazaki's best movie, it's unlikely you'll find a better film in theatres this summer, so even if it takes time and sacrifices to go see it, you should.


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He said something like "he has yet to see big play ability from Wilson" - I assume he's talking about passing.
Not sure what's considered a big play (I assume 20+ yards?), but does anyone know what percentage of Wilson's total throws/runs would be considered "big plays", and where that ranks with other QBs?
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Jaromir Jagr scored in overtime, lifting the Dallas Stars to a 3-2 victory over the injury-riddled Edmonton Oilers for their first winning streak of the season.
Jagr beat Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk 1:46 into the extra period with a high wrist shot for his third goal of the season.
Jamie Benn and Derek Roy scored in regulation for the Stars, who improved to 5-5-1. Dallas has won two in a row.
Ales Hemsky and Justin Schultz scored for the Oilers, who were without three of their top four centers - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (day to day with a shoulder injury), Shawn Horcoff (broken knuckle) and Eric Belanger (broken toes).
Adding to their woes, center Anton Lander left the game in the first period with a foot injury.
The Oilers (4-3-3) are winless in their last four games.
There were few good chances in the first period, most of them belonged to the Stars while they were short-handed. Dallas had several odd-man rushes late in the first and almost converted on one of them when Cody Eakin had Dubnyk beat but hit the post.
Edmonton broke the scoreless tie three minutes into the second following a mad scramble in front of Dallas' net. Nail Yakupov hit the post behind Stars starter Kari Lehtonen before Hemsky banked the rebound in off a defender.
Sam Gagner had an assist to extend his point streak to 10 games.
The sound of metal clanging rang out through Rexall Place with seven minutes left as Loui Eriksson hit the post behind Dubnyk, leading immediately to a rush by Yakupov, who also hit the post on his shot.
A minute later the Stars tied the game as a shot by Benn appeared to deflect off Jeff Petry and into the Edmonton net. It was Benn's third goal in six games since ending his free agent holdout.
Dallas went up 2-1 with 1:16 left to play in the second period as Roy blasted a shot from the point during a power play that found the back of the net untouched. It was Roy's first goal with the Stars.
Edmonton tied it 2-all eight minutes into the third on a power play as Schultz let loose a slap shot from the point past Lehtonen. It was the third goal of the season for the Oilers rookie defenseman.
The Stars return home to take on the Ducks on Friday. The Oilers start a quick two-game road trip on Saturday in Detroit.
NOTES: It was the first of three meetings between the teams this season. The Star won all four meetings last season by a combined 14-4 margin, holding the Oilers to a one goal in each game. ... Stars D Alex Goligoski was a surprise healthy scratch. Goligoski is the Stars' highest paid defenseman at $4.2 million and is second on the overall team payroll behind Benna. ... With the three injured centers, Oklahoma City call-up Marc Arcobello made his NHL debut, playing on the Oilers top line between Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle. ... The latest injuries added to an already long list of hobbled players for Edmonton that includes Andy Sutton (knee), Ryan Jones (eye), Ben Eager (concussion) Mark Fistric (back) and Theo Peckham (hip) ... Stars F Ray Whitney is out with a broken foot ... The Stars came into the game having been short-handed a league-high 50 times this year.


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The snow was thick on the ground as I sauntered down Chausée d'Ixelles in Brussels, one crisp clear day last January. I stopped in at a familiar convenience store to pick up eight cans of Rodenbach. "These will do for outdoor drinking when it gets warmer" I thought.
Today, there's still a bit of a chill in the air but the sun has been shining warmly all day. It has been a long and arduous one for me, so I've come out back to celebrate my blog's fourth birthday with the first of the summer Rodenbachs, a beer I've not tasted in the years I've been writing this.
And it's still brilliant. It has a power to refresh and revitalise like no other beer I know. The lightness of touch is sublime: a fizzy cleanness that maintains the refreshment quotient, just enough sour woody flavours to keep the palate awake and interested, plus a dryness that leaves it begging for more. Cold from the fridge, Rodenbach is the supreme lawnmower beer.
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Talk:Linux System Administration class
we might take a look at these links for the iptables discussion:
re ssh tunnelling - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell#Forwarding_other_ports
also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell#Encrypted_SOCKS_tunnel
... don't know if this is as good as Daniel's, but there is also LLTHW's Exercise 27 and its Extra Credit links through http://nixsrv.com/llthw/ex27 . YMMV though.
random tangent (cf windows more than linux) - interesting bootkit info: http://go.eset.com/us/resources/white-papers/The_Evolution_of_TDL.pdf
There is a good addendum to Jim's net_config writeup that better explains why 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x networks are often used internally. It's entitled 'RFC 1597 - Address Allocation for Private Internets (RFC1597)' and its webpage is http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1597.html.
The most interesting section here is the one starting with
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
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Portland Timbers striker Kris Boyd had his contract terminated by mutual agreement, the club announced on Friday evening.
"We would like to thank Kris for his service to the club and we wish him well in his future endeavors," Timbers general manager Gavin Wilkinson said.
Boyd, 29, was signed by Portland on Jan. 30, 2012 as a Designated Player. He appeared in 26 matches, recording seven goals and one assist in his lone season in Portland.
Before arriving in Portland, Boyd spent 10 seasons in the Scottish Premier League with Rangers and Kilmarnock, during which time he registered 196 goals in 296 league appearances.


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Sakai Plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:sakai:0.4.2"
grails install-plugin sakai
IntroductionThis plugin adds facilities for running Grails apps inside Sakai, an open source collaboration system for educational institutions. See http://sakaiproject.org/portal
Unlike typical Java webapps, Sakai tools share a lot of third-party dependencies with each other, all in Tomcat's
/shared/lib. Because Sakai and Grails will share a single copy of Spring and Hibernate jars, their versions must agree. Sakai was patched to use Spring 2.5.6.SEC01 on July 3, 2009. Sakai's older releases, and trunk code before that date won't work with this plugin. Likewise, you cannot (yet) use Grails 1.1.1 with Sakai until Sakai is patched to an updated version of Hibernate. Sakai still uses Hibernate 3.2.5.GA.To summarize: use the sakai plugin with the trunk of Sakai and Grails 1.1.
Configuration OptionsThe sakai plugin adds three configuration settings which determine a little metadata about the tool. These settings should be added to Config.groovy.
grails.sakai.toolmode = true grails.sakai.tool.name = "Grade Calc" grails.sakai.tool.desc = "This tool calculates your overall grade for the term."
toolmode property informs the plugin upon building a war file if you intend to run this application as a Sakai tool (meaning it will be accessed within Sakai under the
/portal address). If you set
toolmode to
false it means you intend to access the application at its direct URL below the root.
War File for SakaiThe plugin adds a new script to grails,
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TODO: All of built-in grails tags should eventually have a Sakai version to enable correct links for things like
remoteLink etc. Even better would be if the sakai plugin can actually override the default grails behavior, rather than necessitate entirely different tags, but I haven't learned how to do this yet.The sakai plugin tag library also has an onload() convenience method to add the correct JavaScript calls to make the tool load properly in the portal (sizing the iframe, for instance). Here's how you would use that in your gsp:
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SiteService are available to call. The implementations are stubs only, so you won't get real, meaningful data from these "offline" services, but they will permit you to code as if the services were available. When you deploy your code to Sakai, of course, all of your calls will be directed to the real service.To access the Sakai context in your controllers, services, and taglibs, simply add
def sakai within the class. This is simply the standard Grails way of doing dependency injection. All of the Sakai services are then accessible by their names. Here's an example from a controller:
If you need a little more lifelike behavior from any particular Sakai service, you can create your own implementation that overrides the stub. For example, say I want the display name of the current user to come back as "Professor Plum." I can write an implementation to that effect (very succinctly I might add, thanks to Groovy):
class HelloController def sakai
def greetings = {
render "Hello, ${sakai.userDirectoryService.currentUser.displayName}!"
I would put that under
import org.sakaiproject.user.api.*class UserServiceFactory { static user = [ getDisplayName: { return "Professor Plum" } ] as User static UserDirectoryService getInstance() { return [ getCurrentUser: { return user } ] as UserDirectoryService }}
src/groovy and call it UserServiceFactory.groovy. Then I modify resources.groovy under
grails-app/conf/spring to specify my implementation of the service. Note that I specifically only want my implementation when I'm running in the development environment:
import grails.util.*beans = { switch(GrailsUtil.environment) { case "development": userDirectoryService(UserServiceFactory) { bean -> bean.factoryMethod = "getInstance" } break } }


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LOS ANGELES, June 30 (UPI) -- George Takei documentary To Be Takei has released its first trailer.
The 77-year-old actor, activist and pop culture icon provides insight and narration as the film delves into his life and career. Best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, the movie also explores his childhood in a Japanese internment camp and his relationship with husband Brad Altman.
To Be Takei was directed by Jennifer M. Kroot (It Came from Kuchar), and features interviews with all of the surviving main cast members of Star Trek's original television series. The movie will debut July 3 on DirecTV, and will be released in select theaters August 22.


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Personally, I think that the argument between god's existence v. no god exists is just, well, MOOT; who the hell cares? I really don't give a damn what other people believe and how they choose to spend their energies and lives on wasteful speculation on something that can never ever be proved or disproved. I'm not a true atheist because I fervently believe that I AM GOD. And no one can convince me that I am NOT. Further, no one knows anything at all in the first place. I only believe in facts and evidence as I come across it, and my not-so-subtle gut feeling about the matter is that every one of these filthy hypocritical organized MONEY-grubbing religions were created by man, thus it's all BALDERDASH. Furthermore, why on earth would, I, as a woman, choose to believe anything those wicked men wrote?
Mind control is a disgusting game in which I shall not participate. Further, my conclusion thus far about religious people of every stripe is that an overwhelming majority of them are the most unbelievable HYPOCRITES that I have witnessed in the history of the world. So, in the end, it's pretty simple to just say this:
Listen you filthy busybodies, mind your own goddamned business and get the hell out of my face.
I shall now leave a quote from an unknown source:
Religion is like a Penis.
It's fine to have one.
It's fine to be proud of it.
But please don't whip it out in public and start waving it around,
And PLEASE don't try to shove it down my children's throats.
Christ...ina Marlowe
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Ever think of changing your name????
I really like my name...In fact, my friends just call me Christ.
For my part, I've written a satirical fantasy about a god that I, as an atheist, wish existed. It's entitled Polly!, and it's available in both paperback and ebook editions for them as are interested.
Amazon U.K. only have it on Kindle and Amazon U.S. don't deliver to Europe :-( I'll have a look for it next time I'm in London though.
You write well and I appreicate the enthusiasm you share. Please keep it up.
Thank you very much, Mark!! Welcome!!
I don't think in a time when the three major religion of the world are bringing threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear war because of their beliefs is a good time for atheists...or anyone...to espouse the 'live and let live' policy. I don't think when the United States is being kept from signing the Kyoto Protocol to try and at least put a brake on Global Warming by the Libertarian/Anarcho-Capitalist/Christianity bloc with their isolationist policies and their 'God gave us dominion over the world to do with as we see fit' and 'No need to worry about Global Warming or Middle Eastern war, Jesus will be coming in our generation and will save our asses' is time for atheists to keep their mouths shut. I don't think in a time when atheists are hated by 97% of the US...a figure far lower than the hatred to Blacks even at the worst of the days of Slavery and Southern Apartheid that followed a Civil War that did accomplished nothing but the deaths of 100s of thousands young men...is a time to keep our mouths shut.
I know these people as only a person who spent 40 years in the Belly of the Beast can know. I know their plans, their intentions and, most importantly, their fanatical dedication to the establishment of a Kingdom of God out of Jerusalem that will last a Thousand Years. I know that Premillenialism with its 'the world cannot be saved by mankind and anyone who brings peace to the Middle East is the Servant of Satan, the Antichrist and the will of their God is for constant warfare that threatens the very existence of our species is the biggest threat to world peace in our time...beliefs that are shared by Christianity, and the ultra-right wing Fundamentalist Israeli terrorists they support with money and political clout much like the old Irish Catholic bastards and the IRA.
Worse, the switch that is going on right now in the US from Premillenialism to the Dominion Theology of Postmillenialism nobody has the balls to bring up in this election year. These Fascists aren't waiting for Jesus to come. They believe that Christianity is destined to conquer the whole world, create a kingdom to rule...no democracy hell, not even a dictatorship...an actual Kingdom like from 2000 years ago.
So we have Christianity in the US fighting for world domination in the name of Jesus and Islam fighting for world domination in the name of Allah while the Israelis are waiting for the Messiah to come back and make their nation the 'spiritual center' of the world.
Fuck live and let live.
It's time atheist moved from being Militant to being Paramilitary if we want to stop the madness of religion before it kills us all.
Another lot of guns and bombs only makes the problem worse. More and better education is what the world needs. Look at how a girl with a book has affected the Taliban and how their reaction has alienated the people they want to control. Subversion by knowledge is a damn good weapon.
Wouldn't it be nice to think so?
I'm not suggesting atheists should become terrorists. I am suggesting that any group that is so hated by such powerful forces of religion and politics might give some serious thought to having a few guns around for self-defense purposes. That may be because I live in West Virginia in the US. My grandfather fought with the miners at Blair Mountain, the last armed insurrection on US soil. I grew up in the Fifties back when the United Mine Workers still had some balls and weren't just paid scabs of the coal companies. I've been through some strikes when my uncles and grandfather sat on the front porch with their 12 gauge shotguns and thirty-aught-sixes across their laps or within grabbing distance of their rockers. I learned about the Molly Maquires and Matewan and what it was like before the mines were unionized by the likes of 'the most dangerous woman in America' Mother Jones. I was in Kanawha County during the Textbook Wars when Alice Moore protested against the new books the schools were buying because they taught about other cultures and about Christianity as just one religion among many in the world and...in her own words..."Took it too easy on the coloreds" back when my people still used dynamite to express their opinions. I was a Marxist socialist during the Sixties and learned street tactics from the Black Panthers and Karl Marx from a professor at WVU who had to lie to the administration and tell them he was teaching 'existentialism' in order to get a room to hold the class. As the Sixties were dying, murdered at Kent State in Ohio by the National Guard, I learned about what Stalin did during the purges and figured twenty million dead outweighed whatever justice was in his cause. I did an about face and became a Libertarian back when they were protesting the Vietnam War and burning draft cards and lobbying for the legalization of all drugs. From there, I got involved in Messianic Judaism and the shadowy world of the Underground Right that had always been there and still is beneath the surface of Fundamentalism. I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as the unvarnished truth when I was a kid in a small paper bound copy put out on a mimeograph machine in somebody's basement. Saw the Protocols again in Milton Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse, the Bible of the militia movement that inspired Tim McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, the greatest act of terrorism on American soil by American citizens of all time. Now those same bastards are running a Mormon...a racist misogynist, "believing the American Indians are the Lost Tribes of Israel" Mormon, for Christ's sake...for president and it looks like they've got a fifty-fifty shot of winning.
My point is, I've spent most of my life in the Underground Christian Fascist Right of this country. I still live in West Virginia. It's my home and, frankly, I've never been able to afford to get out of the US even though I tried during the Eighties and would leave now if everyone who ever told me 'love it or leave it' would give me a dollar towards my expenses. Things are worse now, in this country, than they have ever been in my sixty-two years of living.
No, I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who live in liberal states or university towns in Ivory Towers or in other countries where all they see is the media version of the US. They can afford to talk about knowledge and education as weapons, no offense to you in particular Ian, when our enemies have been stockpiling real weapons for over half a century. They just don't know what is really going on down there in the Underground. They're clueless and hopelessly naive.They don't think it will ever touch them. They don't think it will ever show up on their doorstep like a clown at midnight.
I'm a lot older than my years and a lot tireder. All I really want is to get out of this country, buy a nice place near Kyoto and make a pilgrimage to Hiroshima every year on their national day of mourning to ask forgiveness.
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Red-light camera tickets may be returning to a stop light near you with a reduced fine, and a likelihood that you pay no matter what if Assembly Bill 666 is approved in California.
AB 666 -- also known as the "Devil's Bill" by the opposition -- was introduced by Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski in Sacramento early February, and would make the process of settling a red light camera ticket a civil process rather than criminal, meaning a driver wouldn't have the right to a trial.
Last July, the red light camera ticket program through which tickets could get as high as $500 was shut down. Payment of the violations was already voluntary as of 2011.
With the new bill, a judge would not oversee the case, and the owner of the car would be responsible to pay the ticket regardless of whether the owner was driving or not.
"The problem is you don't have the same right in an administrative hearing as you would in a court of law," said Jay Beeber, an opponent of the bill and founder of the website www.StopAB666.com. "The ticket is the only evidence that has to be presented against you."
Supporters of the bill, however, argued that the objective is not to punish drivers, but to stop motorists from running red lights.
"Last year in California, probably 600 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents," said David Grant, of California Walks, an organization that advocates for safer walking communities. "Half those people would be alive today if we actually enforced the laws we've got."
Less than 40 percent of red light camera photos result in citations, Grant said.
"The current system just doesn't work," Grant said.
Another issue the bill would change is the current "snitch" ticket. As current law stands, a notice, not a ticket, is sent out to the owner of the car if the camera could not determine if the owner was driving. The owner of the car can inform on the person driving or simply ignore the citation, making it more difficult to collect a fine.
AB666 would change this provision, and the owner would have to snitch or pay, making someone responsible regardless of who was driving.
"You can make the owner of the car responsible for anything that happens in their car no matter what," Beeber said.
But supporters of the bill said the bill would make the red light camera ticket the same as a parking ticket. The owner of the car must pay, regardless if the owner -- or a friend -- parked the car illegally.
"But a parking ticket doesn't result in a point on your record," Beeber said.
Grant said that the problem is running red lights and committing "rolling stops."
"Two thirds of pedestrians hit are people hit in crosswalks," Grant said. "We want to cut the cost in half, increase the number of people who have to pay, and discourage people from running red lights."
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A Buxton man has been warned he could be sent to prison after admitting stalking his ex-partner.
Paul Wilson sent letters, text messages and voicemails to Cheryl Hardy and her family, some of which contained details of Ms Hardy's sex life, High Peak Magistrates' Court heard.
The stalking began after the couple split up last November, and Wilson, 50, of Solomon's Court, also threatened to contact social services about the care of her child, and tried to get her driving licence revoked by the DVLA, prosecutor Jennifer Fitzgerald said.
Chairman of the bench Michael Hilton told him: "From what this bench has heard about this offence it is likely you will go to custody."
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This easy going Jazz cafe piano bar music with a western touch includes a jazzy flugelhorn solo and an acoustic upright bass to take you right onto the stage.
In this download you will also find a version without melody which can be easily used as an underscore.
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Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-91)
Hugh Owen Thomas was one of the great early pioneers of orthopaedic surgery. Born into a family steeped in the secrets of bone-setting, Thomas introduced a series of treatments and devices - including the Thomas splint - that would help revolutionise orthopaedic practice. Unfortunately, the impact of these new ideas was limited in his lifetime. Instead it was left to his celebrated nephew, Sir Robert Jones, to further popularise the innovations originated with his uncle and mentor.
Unlike previous generations of his family, Thomas was medically qualified, and he combined this conventional training with the knowledge of bone-setting that was handed down to him. Establishing a practice in Liverpool, he began to treat the numerous local children left disabled and deformed, mainly by skeletal tuberculosis and polio, but also rickets. Working on the principle that rest and immobilisation was best for limbs and joints inflamed by these illnesses, he devised numerous adjustable splints and frames to apply to his young patients. These could be left in place for years.
Thomas's methods gained some acceptance, but wider take-up was slow. This was not helped by his abrasive personality. He was quick to criticise his peers, who in turn viewed him as a provincial upstart rather than as a gentleman like themselves. The result was numerous children left untreated and out of sight in homes and hospitals. It was only with the First World War - 25 years after his death - that Thomas's methods finally gained greater acceptance. Championed by Sir Robert Jones, the use of the Thomas splint alone is believed to have saved the lives of thousands of soldiers who would otherwise have died from their limb injuries.
Related Themes and Topics
Related links
A J Carter, 'Hugh Owen Thomas: the cripple's champion', British Medical Journal, 303/6817 (1991), pp 1578-1581
H W Orr, On the Contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London John Ridlon, M.D. of New York and Chicago to Modern Orthopedic Surgery (Springfield IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1949)
D La Vay, The life of Hugh Owen Thomas (London: Livingstone, 1956)
The branch of medicine concerned with the preservation and restoration of the muscular and skeletal systems in the body.
An infectious disease that is caused by a bacterium first identified by Robert Koch in 1882. The disease usually affects the lungs first, and is accompanied by a chronic cough.
An infectious disease affecting the central nervous system. Affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the polio virus enters the blood stream.


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Mama to five beautiful kids- 9, 8, 3, 2 and currently nursing our new baby girl born 1/20/2013
"It should not be necessary to tell reasonably intelligent mammals to suckle and not dismember their neonates." ~Susan Blustein
I bet your doctor (or should I say, your current doctor?) is used to formula-fed babies. If you compare formula-fed babies and breastfed babies, the breastfed ones gain weight more rapidly during the first 6 months or so, and more slowly during the second 6 months. It's actually very normal for a breastfed baby's rate of weight gain to decrease as time goes on, especially as the baby becomes increasingly mobile and starts to devote more calories to action than to fat stores. My pediatrician claims that this pattern happens in part because "breastfed babies can't walk around with a bottle hanging out of their mouth all day long".
If you check out this chart for breastfed baby boys: http://www.kellymom.com/images/growth/growth-bfboy.gif you will see that the slope of the curve really flattens out as time goes on.
Oh, and breastmilk never loses its nutritional value. In fact, at least one study found that after a year, breastmilk has increased caloric content: http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/con...16/3/e432.full
Neither of my girls were big eaters at 9 months. Nursing yes. Solids, no. I have no idea why your doctor would be suggesting you wean.
20 pounds = 9.0718474 kilograms which puts him at the 50th percentile as per the WHO growth standards. He's meeting his milestones. Why change anything when he's perfectly healthy?
Personally, I'd blow off the appointment and change doctors. Or, you could come to the appointment armed with the WHO growth charts and the various milestone expectations and have the doctor explain to YOU why you should change anything for a perfectly healthy child. Feel free to tell them that you think their advice is poor and that you won't be changing your childs diet at this time.
Mommy to our DD1 early bird (34 weeks, 2 days, 7lbs, 14oz)! Oct. 2nd, 2008 Emergency C-Section, Frank Breech, HEALTHY Girl!
Weaned @ 17 months
Our DD2 early bird (37 weeks, 3 days, 7lbs, 12oz) Aug. 10th, 2010 Our Successful VBAC, growing like a bad weed!
Weaned @ 15 months
Our DD3 early bird (37 weeks, 3 days, 7lbs, 6oz) Feb. 16th, 2012 Our 2nd VBAC and lightening speedy birth!
Loving being a Mom of 3, 40 months apart!!
I would suspect this recommendation is at least partly due to the mistaken idea that the baby is "filling up" on breastmilk and consequently would gain better if nursing less and eating more solids, and the idea that the weight gain for your baby is somehow inadequate. Even if (or perhaps especially if) your babies weight gain was slow, this would still be very questionable advice, as the calorie content of breastmilk is very high, higher than most suggested first foods.
This suggestion runs directly counter to even the mildly supportive of breastfeeding recommendation of most (all?) MAINSTREAM child health organizations recommendations on infant feeding. Including the AAP. Their 2005 policy on infant feeding reads (in part) (emphasis mine):
Exclusive breastfeeding is ideal nutrition and sufficient to support optimal growth and development for approximately the first 6 months after birth. Infants weaned before 12 months of age should not receive cow's milk feedings but should receive iron-fortified infant formula. Gradual introduction of iron-enriched solid foods in the second half of the first year should complement the breast milk diet. It is recommended that breastfeeding continue for at least 12 months, and thereafter for as long as mutually desired.
I suppose one could quibble with what "gradual" and "compliment" mean, exactly, I think it is left intentionally vague. However, I think "complement" was chosen specifically, rather than using "replace." Notice that it says "complement the breastmilk diet," implying that the mainstay of baby's nutritional needs will be met via breastmilk even after the introduction of solids. Notice also there is no specific suggestions on how much solid food or how many nursing sessions. So I am curious where those numbers you were given came from. Certainly suddenly reducing daily nursing sessions from 8 (a perfectly normal frequency) to 3 a day at this age could very likely lead to lowered milk supply and early weaning, even weaning prior to a year.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – After taking a memorable 2012 Conference Carolinas Tournament Championship as the sixth seed and advancing to the first NCAA Tournament as a NCAA Division II member, King Lady Tornado Softball is ready to get back on the field with their season starting at home this Friday (Feb. 9). Last year, the Lady Tornado had an overall record of 34-19 and a Conference Carolinas record of 13-9 in the program's first year as a member of the conference.
Head Coach Jenn Testa is excited about the upcoming season and stated, "Obviously, our expectations are high. When you do something like that one year, it really sets the bar up even higher. We're looking forward to getting started, and seeing what we've got and seeing how things pan out."
The Lady Tornado have also prepared well during the offseason for the 2013 schedule. "They've worked really hard in the weight room and conditioning," stated Testa. "They've done everything we've asked. We've gotten some good work in, even if we've had to go indoors."
King will have many key returning players, including junior pitcher Hannah Light (Coeburn, Va.) who led the Lady Tornado with 20 wins and an earned run average of 1.53. Light garnered All-Conference Second Team honors and was named Conference Carolinas Tournament Most Valuable Player as well.
In reference to Light, Coach Testa stated, "Hopefully, she continues to do what she did last year, especially at the end of the year. We look for her to have a big year. Having her all year will be nice too."
The Lady Tornado also have two returning All-Conference selections, sophomore shortstop Christina Melcher and junior catcher/outfielder Fallon Thomas. Coach Testa stated, "[Melcher] had a great year last year at the plate and in the field for us." Melcher had a terrific freshman year in 2012 as she hit for a .395 average (led team) with 6 homers and 43 RBI. Melcher also scored 50 runs and had 11 steals, both of which led the squad. Melcher was named to the All-Conference First Team as well as the All-Conference Tournament Team.
Thomas hit .311 to go along with a team-leading 8 homers and 47 RBI. Thomas joined Melcher in being named to the All-Conference First Team.
Lowe helped lead went to Holston High School to 74 wins over her four years and posted a miniscule career earned run average of 0.63. Lowe struck out more than 900 batters during her career and was named the Hogoheegee District Player and Pitcher of the Year twice. She led Holston to three district titles and two Virginia High School League State Runner-Up finishes. Lowe also was named Bristol Herald Courier Softball Player of the Year twice and was named to the Virginia High School Coaches Association All-Star Team in 2012.
White was a four-year starting pitcher for North Gwinnett High School and posted a 15-3 record with seven complete games over her junior and senior seasons. She finished sixth in school history in wins and posted a no-hitter against Duluth High School during her senior season. North Gwinnett went 23-10-1 during White's senior campaign, and White helped lead them to the first round of the Georgia High School Association playoffs.
Hannah Smith (Bristol, Va.) and infielder Amber Walker (Hoschton, Ga.) are two more freshmen Coach Testa had high remarks for. "She (Smith) has the ability to hit the ball a long way, so she'll see some time at catcher, designated player, or even some time at first base," stated Testa. "You'll probably see her somewhere in the middle of the lineup this year."
Smith helped Virginia High School to a three-year record of 61-20 which included three VHSL Final Four appearances and a state runner-up finish. As a sophomore, Smith hit .478 with three homers and 29 RBI. As a junior, Smith hit .469 with four homers, 16 doubles, and 15 RBI en route to being named to the All-State First Team and Region D Player of the Year. During her junior year, Virginia High went 19-8 and was the Region D Champions. White also garnered All-Clinch Mountain District honors three times and was named Clinch Mountain District Player of the Year twice.
"We've got Amber Walker at first base," said Testa. "We're excited about how she's developing. We still have some work to do with her, but she is coming along, even more so the past couple of weeks in practice leading up to opening day."
Coach Testa also hopes freshman outfielders Octavia Lewis-Rand (Columbus, Ga.) and Allie Spell (Lawrenceville, Ga.) will be able to return to action from minor injuries very soon. Spell should add some pop to the middle of the Lady Tornado lineup. Testa said Lewis-Rand will add speed and the ability to hit for power.
Junior transfer Macy Shupe (Toledo, Ill.) is another player Coach Testa is excited about. "[Shupe] is a very versatile player, so we could see her in a bunch of different capacities." Shupe also has great speed and will be a huge asset offensively.
King University will face many tough challenges to repeat as conference champions but are ranked third in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll.
North Greenville is ranked first in the preseason poll but King defeated them in the final of last year's conference tournament.
Coach Testa expressed that this season's schedule possesses some challenges for the Lady Tornado. "Our schedule is a lot different this year," stated Testa. "We've got a lot of tough teams, especially in the first part of our season. I think the first couple of weeks are going to be very telling for us. Great competition early on is going to prepare us well for conference play and the conference tournament, and then hopefully in the postseason."
KU will open the season this Saturday, Feb. 9 with a doubleheader against Young Harris. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the King University Softball Complex.


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Roundup: Bandana-Print Inspiration
House Beautiful recently alerted us both to Target's new bandana-patterned melamine plates, and also to David Stark's bandana-themed outdoor dining tablescape idea. Here are the sources from House Beautiful, as well as a few more of our own. Is the Wild West alive and kicking?
Here's our question: Is the bandana pattern making a chic comeback? Perhaps as a twist on the paisley revival? In addition to the first photo and resources from House Beautiful, there are a few other bandana-print items we found:
• 1 From House Beautiful — Bandana melamine plates, $19.99 for set of 12 at Target; Bandana beach towel-cum-outdoor tablecloth, $12 at Target; Yellow bandanas-cum-napkins, $2 at BandanaMan.
• 2 Bandana mural, $53.99 at Target
• 3 Bandana paisley percale sheets, $14-$68 at Garnet Hill
• 4 Garden bandana sink from Kohler
• 5 Bandana blue duvet cover and shams, $54-$188 at Pine Cone Hill
• 6 Tag summer tablecloth, $35.51 at Amazon.com
• 7 "Go West" bandana-print seven-piece kitchen towel set, $19.95 at Amazon.com
• 8 "Hyde Park" rug, to the trade, from Homefiresrugs.com
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CT: "The Most Redeeming Films of 2012"
Sure, there are the Oscars and Golden Globes, but don't forget "The Most Redeeming Films of 2012."
Christianity Today on Tuesday posted its list of favorites — billed as stories of grace and forgiveness. Over the years I've noticed that a surprising number of CT's picks overlap with those of Hollywood's and the foreign press. A great movie is a great movie.
At the top of CT's list is "Les Miserables," which starkly divided film critics into lovers and haters. It was deemed everything from a transformational movie experience to perfectly dreadful. I haven't seen it yet, but read the Victor Hugo novel and saw past movie adaptations. I know the power of the story.
I saw and really admired No. 2 on the list, the mesmerizing and moving "Lincoln," indisputably a great film. I haven't seen No.3, the French film, "Le Gamin au Velo," or, "The Kid with a Bike." Given the rest of this list, though, I will make a point to watch it.
Fourth on the CT list, "Moonrise Kingdom" is quirky and wonderful — I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. This is one of his sweetest.
I haven't yet caught "Life of Pi," No. 5 or "Undefeated," No. 6.
In spots 7 through 10 are "Argo," "Looper," "Brave" and "The Avengers." I enjoyed the last two and loved "Looper" and "Argo."
"Argo" somehow managed to be a masterwork of suspense, even though it is based on real events and I and most everyone else already knew how it ended. I was still on the edge of my seat the whole time.
"Looper" was the real surprise — a time-travel movie that wasn't cliche and just the right amount of mind-bending. This movie stayed with me. I spent more time thinking about his movie than any other last year.
I wonder if Oscar will get it as right as Christianity Today did.


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In January 1874, the Akron City Council passed an ordinance to create a free public library for the city. On February 27, 1874, the Board of Trustees of the newly-formed Akron Public Library met for the first time, with John R. Buchtel serving as the first Board President. The Akron Public Library officially opened to the public in a building at the corner of Mill and South Howard streets on March 1, 1874. A century later, in 1974, the Library became the Akron-Summit County Public Library, incorporating suburban branch libraries into its system.
Today, the Akron-Summit County Public Library's official service area includes the City of Akron and all of Summit County except for Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Peninsula, Stow-Munroe Falls, and Twinsburg, all of which are served by independent libraries. Anyone living, working, or attending school in Ohio is eligible to register for a free Akron-Summit County Public Library card.
The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich individual, family, and community life.
Adopted: December 14, 2006
The Akron-Summit County Public Library is recognized locally as an essential community asset and nationally as one of the finest public libraries in the United States due to its excellent customer service, collaborative community involvement, and high level of customer and employee satisfaction.
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Honour Is Dead - "Nothing More"
Young and talented - Honour Is Dead have made their name in the UK metal scene as a band that earned their place through intense, energetic and tight live performances, playing their unique mixture of melodic riffs, brutal breakdowns and powerful vocals.
'Nothing More' is the second release from the bands upcoming CD 'Bad Luck'. The first track was released in January 2012 called 'Betrayer'. The CD is due to drop early August and in support of this they'll be touring for the whole of summer. They start their first UK / European tour of summer on 3rd July, running through 29th July, playing over 9 countries with bands such as All Shall Perish, Soulfly, Defeater, Carnifex and lots more.
They'll follow up with another tour after the CD release in August, running from 19th August until 16th September, with dates to be announced. They've recently signed deals with Peavy Amps, Orange Amps, Atticus Clothing, Pfizi clothing and Atticus Beer supporting the release of the CD.
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Because the English word ketubah (plural is ketubot) is a transliteration
of the Hebrew word for Jewish marriage contract (lit. ³that which is
written²), it is sometimes spelled many different ways. For example, in
addition to the most common spelling of ketubah, you may find: katubah,
katuba, ketuba, ketubba, ketubbah, kettuba, kettubah, kettubbah, kettubba,
kutubah, kutuba, and more variations as well. However you spell it, a
ketubah is a piece of Judaica required for every Jewish wedding.
Although Kettubah does offer the option of typed
custom texts for those couples who want them, Melissa is a calligrapher
first and foremost, and she painstakingly letters all of her standard
ketubah texts by hand, letter by letter, stroke by stroke. It is these hand
lettered, calligraphed texts that are reproduced on Kettubah's ketubah
prints. If you order your ketubah personalized, Melissa personally
calligraphs your personal information into the blank spaces within the
calligraphy texts, so the entire ketubah text appears as if it flowed
directly from Melissa¹s pen at the same sitting. The difference is clear:
Melissa's calligraphy ketubah texts are beautiful works of art in their own
right, not secondary to the decoration.
Kettubah showcases the beautiful ketubah
and Judaica designs of Melissa Dinwiddie. Whether you are looking
for an interfaith ketubah, an egalitarian ketubah, a reform
ketubah, a Reconstructionist ketubah, a Jewish Renewal
ketubah, a ketubah with the Lieberman Clause, a ketubah for an Orthodox
wedding, an anniversary ketubah, a ketubah for a gay or lesbian commitment
ceremony, a ketubah with a custom text, or even a Quaker wedding certificate
or a non-Jewish marriage certificate featuring your wedding vows, plus other
Judaic art, Kettubah is the right place to look. You will find ketubot
(and other Judaica too) in a range of styles, all combining Melissa's
masterful artwork and calligraphy.
There is a precept within Judaism, hiddur mitzvah (sanctification of the
commandment) that holds that whenever an object is required for ritual
purposes, it is a good thing possible. This is why there is beautiful Judaic art in general, and also why
there are beautiful ketubot. In its most traditional form a ketubah is a
legal Jewish document, a prenuptial agreement, outlining the (mostly
financial) responsibilities of the groom to his bride, and required at every
Jewish wedding. Because of the precept of hiddur mitzvah, it has become
customary for ketubot to be made into works of art. Traditionally a bride
would keep her ketubah under her pillow, but nowadays wedding couples like
to frame their ketubah and hang it in a prominent place in their home after
the wedding. You can find the most beautiful ketubot in the world at
What makes a ketubah from Kettubah different? Every ketubah at
Kettubah is a piece of artwork, designed and created by Melissa
Dinwiddie, and featuring her hand-lettered calligraphy, elegantly integrated
with the rest of the artwork. Many ketubot you will find on the web or in
stores have typed texts, which often seem to be hastily added to the artwork
as an afterthought. Ask yourself, how well do the text and the rest of the
artwork fit together?


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Today's stock market fortunes undoubtedly rest on the government's April jobs report, due out at 8:30 a.m. ET. Ahead of that, however, the Street's bulls are no doubt happy with Thursday's performance, which essentially wiped out the sizable losses registered on Wednesday and saw the S&P 500 hit another record high in the process.
Some economists have scaled down their expectations for the jobs numbers following Wednesday's weaker than expected ADP report on private sector employment. The current consensus stands at 148,000 new non-farm jobs for April, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 7.6 percent.
Investors will have two other economic reports to consider, both out at 10 a.m. ET. The Institute For Supply Management's non-manufacturing index, a measure of the U.S. services economy, is expected to register 54.1 for April following a March reading of 54.4, while March factory orders are seen dropping 3.0 percent, after a February rise of 3.0 percent.
Rating agency Moody's (MCO) is among the companies out with quarterly earnings this morning, along with Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Duke Energy (DUK), Newell Rubbermaid (NWL), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), and Washington Post Co. (WPO).
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, BRKB) holds its annual meeting this weekend in Omaha, an event often referred to as the "Woodstock of Capitalism". CNBC will be covering the meeting, and will have Buffett live for three hours on Squawk Box on Monday morning.
AIG (AIG) is among our stocks to watch this morning, as it reports first quarter profit of $1.34 per share, well above estimates of $0.87. Revenues did fall short of estimates despite improvements at both of its primary insurance units.
LinkedIn (LNKD) registered first quarter earnings of $0.45 per share, excluding certain items, 12 cents above estimates, while revenues exceeded estimates as well. However, the business social media company projected current quarter revenue below consensus, disappointing analysts who were expecting LinkedIn's growth to continue at its recent pace.
Kraft Foods (KRFT) beat estimates by 12 cents with first quarter profit of $0.76 per share, while revenues were also above analyst forecasts. Kraft benefited from both cost-cutting moves and sales growth.
Gilead Sciences (GILD) earned $0.48 per share, excluding certain items, for the first quarter, two cents below estimates, with revenues falling short as well. Gilead did see higher sales of its newer products, but that was partially offset by a drop in revenue from its older HIV drugs.
Tempur-Pedic (TPX) reported first quarter profit of $0.62 per share, excluding certain items, one cent above estimates, while the mattress maker's revenues also beat forecasts. However, its full year revenue forecast is short of analyst consensus. The company completed its purchase of competitor Sealy on March 18.
OpenTable (OPEN) earned $0.45 per share for the first quarter, excluding certain items, two cents above estimates, but its current quarter revenue outlook falls slightly short of consensus. The online restaurant reservations provider saw growth in both its North American and international business, and CEO Matt Roberts is emphasizing a focus on growing mobile revenues.
Barnes & Noble (BKS) is adding Google's app store, Google Play, to its Nook HD products as of today, expanding the number of available apps from about 10,000 to more than 700,000.
Verizon (VZ) CEO Lowell McAdam does not plan to pay a premium for Vodafone's (VOD) 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless, according to JPMorgan Chase analysts who met with McAdam.