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If you have ever been in a serious relationship, you know how the song goes. You have your good moments and you have your bad ones. At times you might feel the good moments don't last long enough. You might think your relationship is one long highway of problems and arguments. As they say, after the rain comes the sun. For any serious relationship to work you need to work at it. You could also sing at it, if that works for you. When you have such a strong feeling for someone, your mind gets saturated with thinking about that special person. You probably spend your time daydreaming. It is a wonderful feeling and you enjoy that feeling of complete and utter contentment. This new love of your life is like an extension of your body. After a while, you come down from your love cloud and have to deal with real situations. That is when you have to prove your love for the other. It is at times like this that you know if it was real love or just a fantasy.
When you spend so much time with someone, the inevitable will happen, you will have arguments. It will be a case of break up and make up. A quick kiss doesn't always fix long standing problems. You will have to talk or should I say, you will have to listen and understand your other half. What if your words are just not enough? You could sing. It doesn't matter if you don't sing like Celine Dion or like Michael Jackson. You just need to put your heart into what you singing. As long as you don't start some heavy metal tune, you should be ok. Here is a list of songs you could sing to woe back your wife or girlfriend and find solace in the arms of you lover.
Change the world: this is a great song because it states the effort you are prepared to make to get back with your spouse. "If I could reach the stars, pull on down for you". How sweet is that? You have to prove you really could reach the stars and change the world of your spouse. Another line says, "if I could be king even for a day, I'll take you as my queen and I'll have it no other way" Everyone woman would love to be a queen, with this song, you are on your way back
Unbreak my heart by Toni Braxton: If you've really messed up, this is the way to go. You have a broken heart that needs to be mended but you don't know how. Let Toni Braxton help you with a few words " take back that sad word, goodbye and bring back the joy into my life, don't leave me with these tears, come and kiss this pain away". The message is clear that your heart needs fixing. You are also throwing in some hints about how to fix your heart. The part that says come and kiss this pain away will tell your spouse what she needs to do just in case she is left speechless after your flawless rendition of the song.
Please forgive me bryan adams: Still feels like the first night together. Those starting words show that you are still into her. You still have vivid memories of the lovely moments you've shared together. The first kiss and the sweet little nothing you whispered into each other's ears. There is no shame to say the words "please forgive me I know not what I do" It is obvious you are clueless. You need to drum to words home to her. She wants to know you need her to forgive you. So sing it out loud, "please forgive me".
Waters run dry by Boyz to Men: "We don't even talk anymore, we don't even know what we argue about" that is called analysis. You've taken the time to meditate on what is going on in your relationship. You want to save your love and give it a second chance. Once you've laid the foundation and have figured out what is wrong, you need to offer the solution. Here is how it goes "let's not wait till the waters run dry" That is the message and your love has got a lot of juice left, so sing your heart out while there is still moisture left in your vocal chords.
I Just Called To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder: After you have been apart for a while you need to remind her that she is still your one and only. You could just burst out in tune by saying 'I just call to say I love you and I just call to say how much I care" If she is still in doubt, go one octave higher by singing "and I mean it from the bottom of my heart" Yes, let that last note ring in her ears. You need to show her you are the real McCoy and that your love is just a hot as day one.
Purple Rain by Prince: It doesn't matter if her favorite color is not purple. "never meant to cause you any sorrow, never meant to cause you any pain", those words alone will make her heart stand still and listen to what you are saying. If you know her favorite color which you should know, just change the rest of the lyrics to match the color. Yellow rain Yellow rain! You will show her you've done your home work and ready to grovel if that is what it takes.
I miss you like the desert by Everything but the girl: There is nothing that will melt the heart of a girl than to tell her you really miss her. If you were to set these words to music, how delicious will that be? "the years have proved to offer nothing since you've moved. You're long gone but I can't move on, and I miss you like the deserts miss the rain". You feel so dry like the desert without your sweetheart. She will definitely get the message with this song.
Cry for You by Jodeci: "It's been an hour since you've been gone, and that is too long so come back home, I can't live without you so I cry for you" That is enough to tell your spouse that you can't handle living without hear. You have been without her for an hour and your life has already fallen apart. Sing and let those words come right from your soul. You can't go wrong with this love song.


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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Un Guerrero Nunca Muere, Says the Slogan. That's Great, But Hopefully He Can Also Bring Home a Title.
Santos has once again reached the final of the Liguilla, for the third time in four tournaments, and therefore the third time in two years. Hopefully, they can avoid the pattern of heartbreak of the previous two.
The opponent is Tigres of Monterrey, who employs Carlos Salcido and Jonathan Bornstein. In the few games of theirs I have seen, Tigres have been horribly boring and very stingy on the defensive side, which probably has a good bit to do with Bornstein not playing. Santos provides quite a contrast; they light it up.
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Fans flock to Bobby service
Filed: Sunday, 24th February 2013
By: Staff Writer
There was an emotional gathering at the World Cup winners statue this morning as a large crowd congregated to remember Bobby Moore, who died 20 years ago today.
Scores of fans gathered on the corner of Barking Road and Green Street to observe a minutes' silence in honour of former West Ham United and England legend Moore, who died from bowel cancer aged just 51.
Accompanied by members of Bobby's immediate family including daugher Roberta and her children, plus Martin Peters and David Gold, the crowd listened to a service by West Ham United chaplain, Reverend Alan Bolding.
"It was a lovely service and it is an honour for us all to remember Bobby today, on what is the 20th anniversary of his sad passing," Gold told whufc.com. "He was our England World Cup winning captain, but also more personally for us all here at West Ham, a legend at our club and always will be.
"Bobby will continue to be remembered at our club. Greats are almost immortal and he is one of those greats. I am quite sure that Bobby will be continued to be remembered for another century and more."
Gold also revealed that West Ham will be led out against Tottenham in tomorrow night's Premier League clash by Moore's grandchildren, Poppy and Ava - a match that promises to be an emotional affair.
"We take our tributes into our game with Tottenham Hotspur tomorrow," he said. "We will have a minute's applause and much more. Tomorrow's game will have it all for Bobby; I think it is just fitting for him."
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South Bend has hipster potential. That is what Mayor Pete Buttigieg thinks, stemming from comments he made in a recent NPR segment.
So we asked readers Tuesday what they think: How could the city attract more young, bohemian types who embrace individuality, progressiveness and sustainability?
Here are the highlights from our live chat. The full transcript is available at http://www.southbendtribune.com/chats.
Sam222: Two things that I think could greatly help out with "hipster appeal" would be 1) food trucks, to see how they can complement things like First Fridays and local businesses and 2) more restaurants should use local food sources -- farms in particular -- and also advertise it in their menus.
Guest: Hipster? This is a dying city, Heidi. Not sure we have hipster potential.
Heidi Prescott: Well that's not being very optimistic.
Sam222: I think South Bend has huge potential -- look at the success that Durham, N.C., has had in the last 10 years or so. Repurposing old buildings for mixed use spaces (businesses, living and artists studios) is well within the realm of what South Bend could do. And there is already a good local food movement.


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- Install
- Build status
- Sparrow plugins
- Sparrow client
- Sparrow basic entities
- Tasks
- Projects
- Task Boxes
- Projects API
- Plugins API
- Tasks API
- Task boxes API
- Sparrow plugins
- Developing sparrow plugins
- Publishing public sparrow plugin to SparrowHub
- Publishing private sparrow plugins
- Declaring dependencies
- Disable color output
- Sparrow client configuration file
- Environment variables
- Remote Tasks
- Home page
- Copyright
- See also
- Thanks
Sparrow - multipurpose scenarios manager.
$ sudo yum install git # only required for installing private plugins
$ sudo yum install curl
$ cpanm Sparrow
Build status
![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/melezhik/sparrow.svg)
Sparrow plugins
Sparrow plugins are shareable multipurpose scenarios distributed via central repository - SparrowHub. Every single plugin represents a various scripts to solve a specific task. Plugins are easily installed, configured and run on dedicated servers with the help of sparrow console client.
The notion of sparrow plugins is very close to the conception of CPAN modules in Perl or Ruby gems in Ruby. It's just a small suites of scripts to solve a specific tasks.
Supported plugin types.
Sparrow supports two types of plugins depending on underlying runner to execute plugin scenarios. They are:
Outthentic Plugins
SWAT Plugins
To find a specific sparrow plugin say this:
$ sparrow plg search nginx
To install a sparrow plugin say this:
$ sparrow plg install nginx-check
See sparrow command line API below.
Sparrow client
Sparrow is a console client to search, install, setup and run various sparrow plugins.
Think about it as of
cpan client for CPAN modules or
gem client for Ruby gems.
Sparrow basic entities
Sparrow architecture comprises of 4 basic parts:
Task Boxes
Task is configurable sparrow plugin. Some plugins does not require configuration and could be run as is, but many ones require some piece of input data. Thus sparrow task is a container for:
plugin configuration
Plugin configuration is just a text file in one of 4 formats:
Config::General format - consumed by Outthentic plugins
YAML format - consumed by both Swat and Outthentic plugins
JSON format - consumed by Outthentic plugins
Config::Tiny format - consumed by Swat plugins
Projects are logical groups of sparrow tasks. It is convenient to split a whole list of tasks to different logical groups. Like some tasks for system related issues - f.e. checking disk available space or inspecting stale processes, other tasks for web services related issues - f.e. checking nginx health or monitoring http errors in web server logs, so on.
Task Boxes
Sparrow tasks boxes are JSON format files to describe sequential tasks to run.
You could think about sparrow boxes as of multi tasks. Sparrow runs tasks from the box sequentially.
This is a sparrow command line API documentation.
Projects API
Sparrow project is a logical group of sparrow tasks. To create a project use
sparrow project create command:
sparrow project create $project_name
Command examples:
# system level tasks
$ sparrow project create system
# web servers related tasks
$ sparrow project create web-servers
To get project information say this:
sparrow project show $project_name
For example:
$ sparrow project show system
To get projects list say this:
sparrow project list
To remove project data say this:
sparrow project remove $project_name
For example:
$ sparrow project remove web-servers
NOTE! This command will remove all project tasks as well!
Plugins API
To search available plugins use
sparrow plg search command:
sparrow plg search $pattern
Where $pattern is Perl regular expression pattern.
# find ssh-* plugins
$ sparrow plg search ssh
[found sparrow plugins]
type name
public ssh-sudo-check
public ssh-sudo-try
public sshd-check
# find package managers plugins
$ sparrow plg search package
[found sparrow plugins]
type name
public package-generic
To list all available plugins say this:
$ sparrow plg search
Index API
Sparrow index is cached data used by sparrow to search plugins.
Index consists of two parts:
private plugins index , see SPL file section for details
public plugins index, PUBLIC PLUGINS section for details
There are two basic command to work with index:
sparrow index summary
This command will show timestamps and file locations for public and private index files.
sparrow index update
This command will fetch fresh index from SparrowHub and update local cached index.
This is very similar to what
cpan index reload command does.
You need
sparrow index update to get know about updates, changes of SparrowHub repository. For example when someone release new version of plugin.
See public plugins section for details on sparrow public plugins and SparrowHub.
Installing sparrow plugins
sparrow plg install $plugin_name
For example:
$ sparrow plg search nginx # to get know available nginx* plugins
$ sparrow plg install nginx-check # to download and install a chosen plugin
$ sparrow plg install nginx-check --version 0.1.1 # install specific version
To see installed plugin list say this:
$ sparrow plg list
To get installed plugin information say this:
sparrow plg show $plugin_name
To remove plugin installed use
sparrow plg remove command:
sparrow plg remove $plugin_name
For example:
$ sparrow plg remove df-check
Getting plugin man page
If plugin author supply his plugin with man page it could be shown as:
sparrow plg man $plugin_name
For example:
$ sparrow plg man df-check
info and
help are just aliases for
plg man command:
$ sparrow plg info df-check
$ sparrow plg help df-check
Tasks API
Create tasks
To create a task use
sparrow task add command:
sparrow task add $project_name $task_name $plugin_name [opts]
Tasks always belong to projects, so to create a task you have to create a project first if not exists. Tasks binds a plugin with configuration, so to create a task you have to install a plugin first.
Command examples:
$ sparrow project create system
$ sparrow plg install df-check
$ sparrow task add system disk-health df-check
--quiet - suppress output of this command.
For example:
$ sparrow task add system disk-health df-check --quiet 1
--host - pass hostname parameter.
It's useful when create tasks for swat plugins
$ sparrow task add web nginx-check swat-nginx --host 127.0.0.1:80
Getting task list
To list all the task with projects use:
sparrow task list
Run plugins
There are two ways to run sparrow plugins:
as tasks
The first one is simplest as it does not require creating a task at all. If you don't want provide a specific plugin configuration, you may run a plugin as is using
sparrow plg run command:
sparrow plg run [ parameters ]
For example:
$ sparrow plg run df-check
Sets verbose mode to get some extra message when running plugin
The second way requires task creation and benefits in applying specific configuration for a plugin:
sparrow task run $project_name $task_name [ parameters ]
For example:
$ sparrow task run system disk-health
See configuring tasks section on how one can configure task plugin.
Setting runtime parameters
NOTE! Runtime parameters are only supported for Outthentic plugins.
It is possible to pass whatever runtime configuration parameters when running tasks or plugins:
$ sparrow plg run df-check --param threshold=60
$ sparrow task run system disk-health --param threshold=60
# or even nested and multi parameters!
$ sparrow plg run foo --param foo.bar.baz=60 --param id=100
Runtime parameters override default parameters ones set in tasks configurations, see configuring tasks section.
Setting plugin runner parameters
When executing sparrow plugin sparrow relies on underlying runner defined by plugin type. There are two types of sparrow plugins:
Outthentic Plugins
SWAT Plugins
Both runners accept specific parameters.
For outthentic runner parameters follow Outthentic documentation.
For swat runner parameters follow Swat documentation.
Here are some examples:
# outthentic plugins:
$ sparrow task run system/disk-health --format concise --purge-cache
$ sparrow task run system/disk-health --debug 2
# swat plugins:
$ sparrow task run web/nginx-check --prove -Q
Running tasks with cron
When running tasks with cron it is handy only have an output if something goes wrong, f.e. if plugin failed for some reasons. Use
--cron flag to enable this behavior:
sparrow task run $project_name $task_name --cron
Running task with --cron flag suppress a normal output and only emit something in case of failures.
$ sparrow task system disk-health --cron # pleas keep quite if disk space is ok
Configuring tasks
Task configuration is a some input parameters consumed by plugin binded to task. User should consult plugin documentation to get know a certain structure of configuration data to feed.
Sparrow supports two configuration formats:
Config::Tiny ( Swat plugins )
Config::General ( Outthentic plugins )
YAML ( Outthentic and Swat plugins )
JSON ( Outthentic plugins )
task ini command to set task configuration:
sparrow task ini $project_name $task_name
For example:
$ export EDITOR=nano
# Config::General format
$ sparrow task ini system disk-health
# disk used threshold in %
threshold = 80
# JSON format
$ sparrow task ini system disk-health
"threshold": 80
# YAML format
$ sparrow task ini system disk-health
# disk used threshold in %
threshold: 80
Having this sparrow will save plugin configuration in the file related to task and will use it during task run:
$ sparrow task run system disk-health # the value of threshold is 80
User could copy existed configuration from file using
task load_ini command:
sparrow task load_ini $project_name $task_name /path/to/ini/file
For example:
$ sparrow task load_ini system disk-health /etc/plugins/disk.yaml # load from YAML file
$ sparrow task load_ini system disk-health /etc/plugins/disk.json # load from JSON file
$ sparrow task load_ini system disk-health /etc/plugins/disk.conf # load from Config::General file
To get task configuration use
sparrow task show command:
sparrow task show $project_name $task_name
For example:
$ sparrow task show system disk-health
Alternative way to configure sparrow task is to load configuration from yaml/json file during task run:
$ cat disk.yml
threshold: 80
$ sparrow task run system disk --yaml disk.yml
$ cat disk.json
"threshold": 80
$ sparrow task run system disk --json disk.json
sparrow task ini/load_ini command saves task configuration and makes it persistent,
sparrow task run --yaml|--json command applies plugin configuration only for runtime and won't save it after plugin execution.
For common usage, when user runs tasks manually first approach is more convenient, while the second one is a way automatic, when tasks configurations are kept as yaml files and maintained out of sparrow scope and applied during task run.
Removing tasks
Use this command to remove task from the project container:
sparrow task remove $project_name $task_name
# remove task disk-health project system
$ sparrow task remove system disk-health
Alternative task names notation
When working with task you may use an alternative task names notation:
$ sparrow task run system/disk
$ sparrow task show system/disk
$ sparrow task remove system/disk
$ sparrow task ini system/disk
# so on ...
Dump task configuration
You may dump task configuration using
--dump-config flag, no action will be performed, just task configuration data will be printed out in JSON format:
$ sparrow task run system/disk --dump-config
Dump-config could be useful when copy some task configuration into other:
$ sparrow task run system/disk --dump-config > /tmp/system-disk.json
$ nano /tmp/system-disk.json
$ sparrow task load ini system/disk2 /tmp/system-disk.json
Task boxes API
Use this command to run task box
sparrow box run $path [opts]
Where $path sets the file path to task box json file. A structure of the file:
"task" : "task_name",
"plugin" : "plugin_name",
"data" : {
: plugin parameters
// another task
Command example:
$ sparrow box run /var/sparrow/boxes/nginx.json
Thus task box files should hold a list of sparrow tasks. Here is example:
"task" : "install favorite packages",
"plugin" : "package_generic",
"data" : {
"list" : "nano curl mc hunspell"
"task" : "setup git",
"plugin" : "git-base",
"data" : {
"email" : "email@example.com", "name" : "Alexey Melezhik"
To suppress some extra message from this command use
--mode quiet:
$ sparrow box run /path/to/my/box/ --mode quiet
Sparrow plugins
Sparrow plugins are shareable multipurpose scenarios installed from remote sources.
There are two type of sparrow plugins:
public plugins are provided by SparrowHub community repository and considered as public access.
private plugins are provided by internal or external git repositories and not necessary considered as public access.
Both public and private plugins are installed with help of sparrow client:
sparrow plg install plugin_name
Public plugins
The public plugins features:
they are kept in a central place called SparrowHub - community plugins repository.
they are versioned so you may install various version of a one plugin.
Private plugins
Private plugins are ones created by you and not supposed to be accessed publicly.
The private plugins features:
they are kept in arbitrary remote git repositories ( public or private ones )
they are not versioned, a simple `git clone/pull' command is executed to install/update a plugin
private plugins could be used by two methods:
1) by SPL file 2) by custom sparrow repository ( aka remote SPL file )
SPL file
SPL file is located at `\~/sparrow.list' and contains lines in the following format:
$plugin_name $git_repo_url
Is a remote git repository URL
A name of your sparrow plugin, could be arbitrary name but see restriction notice concerning public plugin names.
Example entries:
package-generic https://github.com/melezhik/package-generic.git
Once you add a proper entries into SPL file you may list and install a private plugins:
$ sparrow index update
$ sparrow plg show package-generic
Custom sparrow repository
Custom sparrow repository is abstraction for remote SPL file.
To use existed custom repository add this to sparrow configuration file:
$ cat ~/sparrow.yaml
repo: 192.168.0.1:4441
This entry defines a custom repository accessible at remote host 192.168.0.1 port 4441
Once custom repository is set up you search and install custom repository plugins the same way as with private plugins defined at SPL file.
To run your own sparrow custom reposository use Sparrow::Nest module.
Developing sparrow plugins
As sparrow support two types of plugins - swat and outthentic, follow a related documentation pages on how to create scenarios suites to gets packaged and distributes as a sparrow plugin:
For developing outthentic scenarios suites follow Outthentic documentation.
For developing swat scenarios suites follow Swat documentation.
Publishing public sparrow plugin to SparrowHub
Once a plugin is create you should do 4 simple steps:
get registered on SparrowHub and create a token
setup sparrowhub.json file
create a plugin meta file - sparrow.json
upload a plugin with the help of
sparrow plg uploadcommand
Get registered on SparrowHub
Go to https://sparrowhub.org/sign_up and create an account
Generate a token
Login into SparrowHub, go to Profile page and hit "Regenerate Token" on https://sparrowhub.org/token page.
Setup sparrowhub.json
Once your get you token, setup a sparrowhub credentials on the machine where you are going upload plugin from:
$ cat ~/sparrowhub.json
"user" : "melezhik",
"token" : "ADB4F4DC-9F3B-11E5-B394-D4E152C9AB83"
NOTE! Another way to provide SparrowHub credentials is to set
$sph_user and
$sph_token environment variables:
$ export sph_user=melezhik
$ export sph_token=ADB4F4DC-9F3B-11E5-B394-D4E152C9AB83
Create a plugin meta file sparrow.json
Sparrow.json file holds plugin meta information required for plugin gets uploaded to SparrowHub.
Create sparrow.json file and place it in a plugin root directory:
"name": "df-check",
"version": "0.1.1",
"plugin_type" : "outthentic"
"description" : "elementary file system checks using df utility report ",
"url" : "https://github.com/melezhik/df-check",
This is description of sparrow.json parameters:
name - plugin name.
Only symbols `a-zA-Z1-9_-.' are allowable in plugin name. This parameter is obligatory, no default value.
version - Perl version string.
This parameter is obligatory. A detailed information concerning version syntax could be find here - https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/version/lib/version.pm
plugin_type - one of two -
outthentic|swat- sets plugin internal runner.
This parameter is obligatory. Default value is
url - a plugin web site http URL
This parameter is optional and could be useful when you want to refer users to plugin documentation site.
description - a short description of a plugin.
This one is optional, but very appreciated.
python_version - sets Python language version.
If you install pip modules targeted for Python3 you may set python_version in sparrow.json file:
python_version : 3
That makes
sparrow plg install command use
pip3 ( not
pip ) to install dependencies by requirements.txt file
sparrow_version - sets minimal version of Sparrow required by plugin.
This is mostly useful for Sparrow developers. Some plugins may rely on the latest versions of Sparrow and couldn't run correctly on the older versions, to avoid any confusion plugins developers may declare a minimum version of Sparrow so that if the target machine does have it an exception will be raised instead of plugin execution when
sparrow plg run command is invoked.
Upload plugin
Install sparrow client on your machine
$ cpanm Sparrow
Go to directory where your plugin source code at and say:
$ sparrow plg upload
That's it!
Publishing private sparrow plugins
The process is almost the same as for public plugins, except you don't have to provide SparrowHub credentials and gets registered as you host your plugin at remote git repository.
You have to do 3 simple steps:
create a plugin and commit it into local git repository, plugin root directory should be repository root directory
create plugin meta file - sparrow.json and commit it into local git repository ( sparrow.json file is the same as for public plugins )
push your changes into remote git repository
Declaring dependencies
This is the way how one can declare dependencies for sparrow plugins:
| Language | File |
| Perl | cpanfile |
| Ruby | Gemfile |
| Python | requirements.txt |
You should place a dependency file into a plugin root directory.
Disable color output
To every action you may optionally add
--nocolor flag to disable color output:
$ sparrow plg run df-check --nocolor
Sparrow client configuration file
This file should be placed at $SPARROW_ROOT/sparrow.yaml path ( see next section on SPARROW_ROOT ).
Configuration options:
Custom sparrow repository
Defines format for outthentic reports, possible values are:
Environment variables
Sets sparrow root directory.
If set than sparrow will be looking sparrow index, SPL and configuration files at following locations:
As well as projects, tasks and plugins data will be kept at $SPARROW_ROOT directory.
For example:
$ export SPARROW_ROOT=/opt/sparrow
Disable color output.
$ export SPARROW_NO_COLOR=1
Also see "Disable color output" section.
If set defines an alternative location for sparrow configuration file.
Remote Tasks
WARNING! This feature is quite experimental and should be tested.
Remote tasks are sparrow tasks SparrowHub users could bind to theirs accounts:
$ sparrow project create utils
$ sparrow task add utils git-setup git-base
$ sparrow task ini utils git-setup
email firstname.lastname@example.com
name 'Alexey Melezhik'
$ sparrow task run utils git-setup
Ok, now we could "wrap" our task and upload to our account:
$ sparrow remote task upload utils/git-setup
NOTE! to upload remote task you need a SparrowHub account.
Then I ssh-ing to another server to re-apply my git configuration:
$ ssh some-other-host
$ sparrow remote task install utils/git-setup
Now I can:
$ sparrow task run utils git-setup
Pretty cool, huh? :)))
A shortcut for
sparrow remote task install ... & sparrow task run is:
$ sparrow remote task run utils/git-setup
Share your task
By default remote task uploaded to SparrowHub is only accessible by task author. This is so called private remote task. What if you want to share some fun stuff with people? - Share your task:
$ sparrow remote task share utils/nano-rc
Now users can use your remote task:
$ sparrow remote task install melezhik@utils/nano-rc
$ sparrow task run utils utils nano-rc
or using shortcut in single step:
$ sparrow remote task run melezhik@utils/nano-rc
NOTE! you don't need a SparrowHub account to use public remote tasks, even unregisters users can use public remote tasks.
Hide your task
Want to hide your task again? Not a problem:
$ sparrow remote task hide app/passwords
Now only you can use app/passwords task.
Add useful comments to task
When doing remote task upload you optionally can add a comment which will be show when task gets listed with
sparrow remote task list command:
$ sparrow remote task upload utils/nano-rc 'makes nano.rc setup'
List remote tasks
To list your remote tasks ( both private and public ) say this:
$ sparrow remote task list
List public tasks
To get a list of available public remote tasks say this:
$ sparrow remote task public list
Remove remote task
And finally you can remove remote task:
$ sparrow remote task remove app/old-stuff
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See also
SWAT - Simple Web Application Test framework.
Outthentic - Multipurpose scenarios framework.
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Shares of Angie's List
I hadn't heard of this consumer reviews website before last week, and that's only because I was checking an IPO calendar for new issues. My wife, a diligent shopper of services, also hadn't heard of the site.
Angie who?
Yet visibility is only part of the problem. Angie's List is a 16-year-old dot-com survivor that still isn't profitable. Operating losses have ranged from $8.6 million in 2009, to $23.1 million last year, and $38.8 million through the first nine months of 2011.
Cash flow has also proven elusive. "Since inception, we have financed our operations primarily through private sales of equity and, to a lesser extent, from borrowings," management says in the prospectus.
Numbers back this up. Cash from operations, or CFO, has run negative in each of the past three fiscal years, while the latest numbers show the burn rate increasing. The company's CFO deficit increased more than four times over the trailing nine months, to a loss of $23.7 million.
This means Angie's List doesn't generate enough cash to fund everyday needs, let alone pay for capital improvements to grow the business. Investors and debt holders are footing the bill for keeping the lights on.
By contrast, HomeAway
Hello? Competitive advantage? Are you there?
To me, these numbers suggest heavy investment in a business that possesses no discernible competitive advantage versus Google
Angie's List differentiates itself in two ways. First, the directory is focused on service providers and medical professionals. Second, Angie's List doesn't allow companies to buy premium paid listings, nor does it permit anonymous reviews. Both features are surely useful to the 1 million paid subscribers to the service. But do they represent a sustainable edge? I'm not so sure.
For one thing, I don't care if the first listing at Google is a sponsored link. If customers post positive reviews regardless, I'm interested. And negative reviews are just as valuable whether they come anonymously or not. What matters is how business owners respond.
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Randy Nolen, May 18, 2014 in Picture and History Archives
How many people can you identify for us?
I see Mark O'kane (Waterworld and Mr and Mrs Smith to name just 2 of thousands of jobs he did)
middle back row and Jesse Garfield front row left whom the Garfield adapter was named
A few othe faces look familiar but names are lost to me.
Ron Vidor, far right in light colored jacket.
I think that's Kyle Rudolph way down front, leg stuck out.
That's Garrett's wonderful wife Ellen Shire just in front of Garrett and to Garrett's left, hiding behind his fingerless glove is Ted Churchill.
Every four years we should revisit this thread to update names !!! :)
Randy didn't self-identify, but I do believe he's the handsome devil down front, right end of 2nd row, moustache, light jeans, beaming grin. ( That grin says, " Oh MAN. Now I'm in it ! " )
I also think that's Jeff Zachary upper right corner, last row, hands on hips, behind Ron Vidor who is in the jacket. I think that's also Alain Anesto back row center with thick dark beard and round glasses frames.
Was this the 1st Steadicam Workshop? I thought it was at Image Devices in Miami. A rental house owned by David Haylock. (The place is still there and still open under the Budget Video Rentals now, same owner). Dan Kneece I believe was in attendance.
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Happy Halloween!
Let's skip the candy, and the bullsquat and I'll just offer you a Halloween razor blade straight up.
Trick or treat, smell my feet!
The quotes in my header?
Roll roll roll in ze hay - Young Frankenstein
With you, never a quickie, always a longie - Love at First Bite


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Star is recruiting for a Key Account Manager to join a market leading company. The applicant will be responsible for achieving sales and activity targets in the territory, while meeting all relevant standards set by the company. The Key Customer Manager's customer base will include Hospitals in Ireland that specialise in Oncology and Pain Management.
The Key Account Manager's key responsibilities include:
* Achieve or exceed sales targets and client objectives on your territory * Make full use of the company's contact recording and reporting systems in order to maintain accurate customer records and complete administration within the required timescales * Build and maintain a strong customer database * Remain up to date with changes in the HSE * Develop and maintain therapeutic and market expertise within your therapy areas and ensure your manager is kept up to date with this information * Actively manage your territory budget and adhere to company and IPHA codes when organising meetings
Applicants should have/be:
* MRII Qualification /Affiliation preferred * Hospital sales experience is preferred - an understanding of the hospital contracting sequence and main departments involved * Oncology and Pain Management experience * Excellent selling and networking skills * Hospital Pharmacy experience
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If you thought the Dolphins game versus Kansas City was a good game for any reason other than it brought Miami a victory, you are not alone. The NFL Network apparently agrees Miami's 38-31 victory over the Chiefs is good enough for an encore.
So NFL Replay will air the game again Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Sure, the Network dissed the Dolphins when they upset of New England in September. That game was no re-aired and I ain't letting that go. But at least the folks at the Network are figuring out the Dolphins are a pretty compelling story now.
Welcome to the bandwagon.
NFL Network maintains the replays offer new and insightful angles from NFL Films, as well as sideline and on-field sound. The broadcast also includes bites from post-game press conferences.
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Cannonball Adderley Quintet, You Got It!
Modern Jazz Quartet, Odds Against Tomorrow.
Throughout October 1959, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet was in residency at a club called the Jazz Workshop, in the North Beach district of San Francisco. One night Dmitri Shostakovich, looking to hear for the first time "authentic American jazz," walked into the club and sat with his entourage for an hour, listening to the quintet. He said nothing, but sometimes clubgoers saw him smiling, and during a Louis Hayes drum solo Shostakovich leaned forward at his table, as if drawn to the stage by sheer magnetism.
Shostakovich wasn't the only one -- on the weekends in particular, the crowds for the Adderley Quintet were such that you couldn't physically get into the club unless someone else left, and so people stood in the street, blocking traffic, trying to hear the band.
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley had spent much of 1957 through 1959 playing in the Miles Davis Sextet until he left to form his own group, which consisted of his brother, Nat Adderley, on cornet, Bobby Timmons on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Hayes on drums. Observing Davis, with whom he recorded such records as Milestones and Kind of Blue, Adderley had increased the use of space in his performances, and narrowed the scope of his solos while deepening their intensity. In Cannonball's composition "You Got It!" rhythmic drive and ambition (the way Hayes seems to be a beat away from veering off into his own world) is matched by solos that, while still intricate, seem to be striving more for emotional resonance than sheer exuberance. (Nat Adderley's cornet solo in particular.) Night after night at the Jazz Workshop, the entire club would be stomping along with the beat.
Recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco on October 18-20, 1959. On the essential In San Francisco.
A world away, the Modern Jazz Quartet was making music for bad dreams. "Odds Against Tomorrow," written by John Lewis as part of his score for the Robert Wise film of the same title (a strange late noir starring Harry Belafonte), is the MJQ at its most austere, haunting and sublime.
Many of the MJQ's tracks could be described as extended conversations between Lewis on piano and Milt Jackson on vibes, and "Odds" begins with Lewis ruminating, repeating the same figures over and over again, while Jackson bends notes, as if he means to interrogate Lewis, or muse along with him. (As Gary Giddins wrote, Jackson began his career as a singer, and there's a haunting vocal sound to his vibes playing in this performance.) Percy Heath on bass and Connie Kay on drums testify quietly. The whole piece is a crystalline marvel.
Recorded October 9, 1959; on the film's soundtrack.
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A concept for positive action in Chester
What we did
A while back a small collective of us started using the #makechester hashtag on social media to keep track of conversations when discussing projects in Chester.
We collaborated with Sam Ryley on a pop-up project in Chester, a combination of his photography exhibition; the OneChair Project, and our free coworking space; INDUSTRY. I had the idea of using the hashtag concept as an overarching moniker for the joint project.
The concept clarified in the middle of the night, a design based on the hashtag that represents people coming together to create something in a central space; social or physical. A unifying hashtag mark, nobody owns it but everyone can add to it. The initial 4am sketch from my phone App is below.


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Vatican City, 8 December 2013 (VIS) – This Sunday, 8 December, was the first time that Pope Francis has paid the traditional homage to Mary Immaculate in Rome's Piazza di Spagna. During his journey by jeep from the Vatican to the centre of Rome, the Holy Father was warmly received by Roman faithful and greeted the thousands of people gathered in the streets near the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, opposite the statue of the Virgin, to which the Pope offers a floral wreath on the day of the Immaculate Conception.
As is traditional, the Pope stopped briefly in front of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity where he received the tribute from the Via Condotti Storeowners Association, and proceeded on foot to the Square, where he embraced several children and patients in wheelchairs, and shook hands with many people. After greeting Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general of the city of Rome, and Ignazio Marino, mayor of the capital, he recited the following prayer, composed specially for the occasion:
"Virgin most holy and immaculate,
to you, the honour of our people,
and the loving protector of our city,
do we turn with loving trust.
You are all-beautiful, O Mary!
In you there is no sin.
Awaken in all of us a renewed desire for holiness:
May the splendour of truth shine forth in our words,
the song of charity resound in our works,
purity and chastity abide in our hearts and bodies,
and the full beauty of the Gospel be evident in our lives.
You are all-beautiful, O Mary!
In you the Word of God became flesh.
Help us always to heed the Lord's voice:
May we never be indifferent to the cry of the poor,
or untouched by the sufferings of the sick and those in need;
may we be sensitive to the loneliness of the elderly and the vulnerability of children,
and always love and cherish the life of every human being.
You are all-beautiful, O Mary!
In you is the fullness of joy born of life with God.
Help us never to forget the meaning of our earthly journey:
May the kindly light of faith illumine our days,
the comforting power of hope direct our steps,
the contagious warmth of love stir our hearts;
and may our gaze be fixed on God, in whom true joy is found.
You are all-beautiful, O Mary!
Hear our prayer, graciously hear our plea:
May the beauty of God's merciful love in Jesus abide in our hearts,
and may this divine beauty save us, our city and the entire world.
After the act of veneration, the Pope went on to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where, as announced during the Angelus, he prayed before the image of Mary "Salus populi romani", for all and especially for the inhabitants of the capital.


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Bronco Moncrief, a former mayor and councillor of Cumberland, is regaining some strength after suffering a stroke early Thursday morning that affected the left side of his brain.
The 85-year-old has paralysis down his right side, but with time and physiotherapy he is regaining some strength, his daughter Julie Smith and family members said Tuesday in a statement.
"His speech is the most affected. He knows us all and is quite emotional. We all cry and laugh with every visit. He's as sharp as a tack, and has so much left inside. He's just having trouble getting the words out."
Bronco contributed to the statement.
"Being on the inside of the health-care system is very interesting, and just like others in the Comox Valley, I'm sure dad will have a lot to say when the words come back. The odd swear word comes out quite clear, and repeatedly he says, 'Don't forget.' "
The family thanks everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers. A special thanks goes to St. Joseph's General Hospital staff for their care and hard work.
For the time being, Bronco needs rest. Visitors will be restricted to family.
"Thank you so much to everyone," the statement said.


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Recently I conducted a survey of "former members" of networking groups. I personally spoke with about 89 people who once belonged to business networking groups but eventually dropped out.
I wanted to know why they dropped out and how much time they dedicated to actually looking for qualified business referrals for others in the group?
The results: 9 out of ten former networking members admitted that they did not consistently dedicate their best efforts toward looking for and "giving" qualified business referrals to other members!
Sadly, I was not surprised. Networking only works for those who "give" business referrals to others. Once you become known for giving, that's when other members will trust you enough to begin giving qualified business referrals to you.
I also asked how many members they invited to join their groups. Only 2 out of 89 said they had. It's no wonder the others didn't want to share their group with their friends. It's impossible to get excited about your group when you think it isn't working. They blamed the group, but I pointed out that the person they should blame is the one that looks back at them in the mirror every morning.
Another question was, "Did you note the meeting day and time on your weekly schedule?" and "Out of 10 meetings, on average, how many did you miss?" These answers were also disappointing. I believe that many times it's better to schedule your business appointment with your client around the day and time of your networking meeting! (Do I hear a few groans?) For me, if that was not possible, my next suggestion was to invite them to my networking meeting and get together with them after the meeting. I also believe it is important for your business clients and customers to get a better picture of who you are, what you do to attract new business and that when you make a commitment to attend a networking meeting, you do everything possible to keep your commitment. Along the way, I actually recruited a few new members that way.
You may notice that I seldom talk about business leads anymore. Business leads often come as a last minute effort to give a lead at the meeting because the member forgot to focus on looking for leads for other members until the last minute. They are casual or random referrals. It's usually just a name and maybe a phone number with no previous contact… just a name. It's like a cold call. These leads are usually "time-wasters!" If you mention the person's name that it came from, they may or may not know them. These kind of referrals are pretty much worthless, low quality and rarily work out.
That is another reason networkers drop out!
Networking members must learn to collaborate with other members. Make time to visit other members outside of the meetings to get to know them better.
Smart networkers schedule time to arrive early and stay later at networking meetings and events. The benefits to being early include exchanging business referrals with other members, getting to know them better, discussing new ideas, scheduling a breakfast or lunch with another member and much more. I like to stay late to have the opportunity to introduce myself to those who were attending the meeting for the first time and – if they were someone I saw as a good connection – I might even set up a time to get together outside of the meeting. Your primary intent should be to solidify business relationships with other members. Arriving early and staying late demonstrates the value you place on your time and the time of others.
For those who say, "Better late than never," I say… "Better never late!"
I understand that there are times when being late is unavoidable, and I also understand that if being late is a consistent problem, being aware of the problem will help you look for and implement a solution.
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The government has intervened dramatically in the row over spiralling energy prices by urging consumers to desert companies, such as Scottish Power, that impose substantial increases in the cost of gas and electricity.
As concern grows that the other five major energy companies are preparing to follow Scottish Power and announce big rises within weeks, the energy secretary, Chris Huhne, told the Observer that consumers should not accept the increases "lying down" but "hurt" their supplier by finding cheaper alternatives.
"Consumers don't have to take price increases lying down," he said. "If an energy company hits you with a price increase, you can hit them back where it hurts – by shopping around and voting with your feet."
Last week Scottish Power raised gas prices by 19% and electricity tariffs by 10%, adding 48p a day, or £175 a year, to the average daily combined gas and electricity bill of its 2.4 million customers.
Now millions more consumers are expected to be hit by imminent rises as the other big suppliers follow suit.
At least one of the other so-called "big six" energy companies is understood to be preparing to announce a significant price increase in the coming days, and the rest are likely to follow over the next few weeks."There has been a lot of waiting for somebody to go first. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we didn't see the other five big energy companies putting up their prices pretty quickly. And I couldn't rule out us doing it soon," said a source at one of the big six.
Huhne's intervention is the latest sign of concern in the coalition about the impact of rising prices on consumers as they face what Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King has called the most prolonged decline in living standards since the 1920s. Ministers are also understood to be seeking powers to force companies to reveal to every customer on their bills whether they are on the cheapest tariff, amid concerns about lack of transparency.
In a further attempt to ease pressure on prices by increasing competition, the energy secretary will this week announce new measures to make it easier for smaller companies to compete in the market by easing the costs and red tape that prevent them from doing so. Around 99% of people currently get their energy from one of the big six. "Right now, only one in five people switch suppliers. I want to see more switching, more competition and more companies in the market," Huhne said. "The big six only have a few minnows snapping at them, who are kept artificially small. By scrapping red tape for small players they can become serious challengers and help keep bills down."
The move comes as chancellor George Osborne prepares to defend his handling of the economy in his annual Mansion House speech on Wednesday.
Official figures to be published on Tuesday are expected to show that inflation remains above 4%, more than double the government's target, and adding to pressure for a rise in interest rates.
Rocketing utilities bills will pile on the pain for households already struggling under the weight of public spending cuts and tax increases, including January's VAT rise.
Analysts are now warning that if the other energy suppliers follow Scottish Power, it could cause a fresh spike in inflation later this year. "Since prices usually jump in August anyway, following the end of the summer sales in July, we could be facing a sharp jump in the inflation rate in late summer which will take it well above 5%," said Peter Dixon, chief UK economist at Commerzbank.
A string of retailers have reported that sales on the high street are flagging as consumers tighten their belts. Research by insurance group Axa suggested last week that up to 20 million people have cut back on spending this year.
A spokesman for Consumer Focus added: "The big six tend to hunt in a pack. When one goes, they all go. Consumers need to brace for across-the-board increases. On past experience the energy providers tend to introduce very similar price increases. We are concerned about competition in this market."
Scottish Power blamed last week's price rises on soaring wholesale gas and oil prices, which have risen by nearly a third this year on the back of Middle East unrest, the weak dollar and continuing demand from emerging countries.
Further measures to address a lack of competition in the market are expected to be announced by energy regulator Ofgem. The changes, which could be announced as soon as this week, are expected to force the big six – which have their own power stations – to auction up to a fifth of their generated output on the open market to make it easier for new players to enter the market.
The new measures are also expected to ensure that the huge array of tariffs – which has grown by 70% since 2008 to nearly 350 – are dramatically reduced so that customers can more easily compare prices between suppliers.
Ofgem first announced these proposals in March, following a four-month investigation. The regulator gave the big six – Scottish Power, nPower, EDF, Scottish and Southern, E.ON and British Gas – until 1 June to "engage constructively" with its proposals or face a referral to the Competition Commission.


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Decoded Fort Knox Episode Guest Speaks Out
David Ganz was a guest on Brad Meltzer's Decoded. The episode discussed the "gold" in Fort Knox and Ganz was featured as a guest who was part of the 1974 inspection of the gold. He has an interesting behind the scenes article about what it was like filming the show.


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Hoping someone can help me. I am running Windows 2000 on a PC.
The PC turns on as normal and both fans run. The computer starts up normally until the page with the Windows logo and the loading bar. The bar goes all the way across but instead of then going to the normal 'press ctrl, alt, delete' to log on page it reboots the machine and goes through the whole process again. I have left it for over an hour and it just sits and does this repeatedly.
I can get the computer into dos(?) and tell it to reboot in safe mode etc although this has not helped and it just goes through the same process again and again.
I've tried cleaning both the fans/indie the machine, removing and reattaching the RAM and have checked all the connections are plugged in.
I'm now stumped as to what the problem is or how I might go about solving it.
Any help would be much appreciated.


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Following the launch of NikeLab's 'Bespoke' program, Rocky Xu designed his own version of the 'Air Force 1' model which draws on the design of the Coogi sweater which was first presented in the very end of the 1960s and gained popularity in the decade after.
The resulting look is incredibly eye-catching, with the myriad of vibrant colors coming together for a playful pattern that takes its wearer back in time.
The vintage appearance in given a modern twist with Nike's sleek silhouette however, especially with the clean while sole that helps to balance the whole thing out. While Nike's iconic Swoosh logo is there, it's somewhat lost under the Coogi sweater camouflage -- only its raised design making it evident.
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Congratulations to the Excellence in Tourism Award Winners
Release Date: Feb 07, 2017
During the 2017 Explore Minnesota Tourism Conference, several individuals, organizations and tourism businesses were recognized at the annual Excellence in Tourism Awards banquet for their contributions to the state's $14.4 billion travel industry.
Steve Markuson, director of Twin Cities Gateway, was named "Outstanding Individual in Tourism" for his long-term work on behalf of the Minnesota tourism industry.
Linda Jurek, executive director of Visit Cook County, was named "Rising Star" for her strong work in promoting the area.
Additional awards presented were:
Attraction of the Year:
- Award of Excellence: Glensheen, Duluth
- Award of Merit: Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, Granite Falls
- Award of Merit: Spam Museum of Austin
Event of the Year:
- Award of Excellence: Lutsen99er, Cook County
- Award of Merit: Lake Superior Storm Festival, Cook County
- Award of Merit: Middle River Goose Festival, Middle River
Marketing Awards of Excellence:
- Minne-Roadtrip: Multi-community branding effort featuring Faribault, Owatonna and Northfield
- Otter Tail Lakes Country Tourism Association: Video marketing campaign
- Visit Bemidji: New website
- Visit Winona: Branding effort featuring videos
New this year, the Minnesota Signature Event Award was presented to TBEX (the world's largest gathering of travel bloggers, writers, new media content creators, and social media savvy travel industry professionals) and the Ryder Cup of Minnesota (a biennial golf competition between teams from the United States and Europe) for the broad coalitions they brought together, significant travel dollars generated to the state of Minnesota, and the substantial national and international media exposure these events generated.


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Qatar, July 15, 2011
Azkals United
Iraq, the former 2007 Asian Cup Champions were outclassed by Kuwait in their Invitation friendly match in Jordan on Wednesday. Kuwait won 2- 0 Vs The Iraqis on a friendly but very physical game, The first Half saw good action from both sides, creating passes and chances but led to well defined defense. However the 2nd half was another story.
The Iraqi Goalkeeper stopped shots and kept the ball out all night from an aggressive Kuwaiti offense, but couldn't hold more as Kuwaiti's Fahad Awadh stroke a perfect angle from a picture perfect pass fed by Bader Al-Mutwa coming in the box that had Kuwait leading on the 65th Minute. Hussain Fadel sealed the victory on 85th mark striking from a cross received by a teammate wildly passed to him and he made no mistake kicking it on the top right of the net. The Iraqis tried to score a goal on a break away attacker but was pulled literally from behind by a Kuwaiti defender.
Kuwait invested on deadly crosses and superior physicality vs an Iraq defense that was sloppy coming in the 2nd half.
The battle looms ahead for Kuwait Vs Philippines, The Azkals will leave today, 15 July 2011 to Bahrain as part of their 2nd round preparation, They will be without Jerry Lucena, who suffered a slight foot injury last June 30, Paul Mulders is another player the team will surely miss if Club fixtures forbids. Ray Jonsson's Club currently suffers from the list of injured players, but all hope is high that he can join in with the team in Bahrain. Jason De Jong was called up to the squad along with Patrick Hinrichsen and Yannick Tuason, who last saw action in the AFC Challenge Cup in Myanmar. Aly Borromeo and Schrock will not play on the first leg due to suspensions from acquiring 2 yellow cards vs Sri Lanka.
"We will go 4-5-1," said Weiss, the formation he intends to use when the Azkals play the Kuwaitis in the opening leg at the 22,000 Seating Capacity of Mohammad Al Hamad Stadium on July 23.
"Defense is key" says coach and will try to control the Mid Field and Solidify the defense hoping to make a 0-0 Draw and bringing the match home in Leg 2 come July 28, 2011 in Rizal Memorial Stadium.
While the team prepares rigorously, Michael Weiss knows that they are truly the underdogs VS a powerhouse like Kuwait, but as our coach would tell FIFA "With solid preparation, good performance and perhaps an extra ounce of luck, it's possible for us to turn the corner." and that corner is just around the bend.
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This is what Roan has to say about Rubbish Tuesday:
|the original metal fixings are rusted but still strong
|inside you can still see the marks where
the cider bottles were
|There is a little damage to the base of the crate
Coates Cider
Altogether now "Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow"
"It's more than 75 years since the famous Coate's cider was first made in the village of Nailsea near Bristol - and a quarter of a century since of a century since production ended".
By the end of the Great War, cider was in decline. In 1887, Parliament had banned the traditional practice of paying farm workers in cider (two quarts a day) and the growth in French wine drinking was hitting sales hard. Coate, a graduate of Bristol University was looking for a job in 1924, a time when Gloucester, Devon and Herefordshire ciders were being nationally marketed but Somerset products were scarcely known outside the county.
He knew little about cider making so worked unpaid for a year at the Long Ashton Cider Research Institute before borrowing enough from family, and friends to open a cider works at Nailsea. He was just 23 years of age.
The staff comprised Coate, foreman Charlie Higgins from Williams Cider, Backwell; Cooper Sid Summers, cellar man Jack Allsop, clerk and later company secretary, Frank Matthews, Bill Baker and a man called Iles.
Redvers Coate had installed the most up to date equipment in his one sheds, including three glass lined vats holding 10,000 gallons each. The expensive gamble paid off at the end of the first year, Coate's cider took three first prizes at the National Cider Competition.
There were problems, of course. The new company was beginning to build up a market in local pubs when the big breweries extended the tied house principle from beers to ciders as well. That meant Coate's having to negotiate new contracts with the major suppliers. Apples were bought from local farmers who usually made their own ciders, but they had to be persuaded to grub out centuries of old trees and replace them with new varieties.
But by the start of the Second World War, Coate's was beginning to make a name nationally Sales rose in wartime thanks to beer rationing and Coate's was soon employing up to 125 staff at busy times. Every day at 12.30 p.m., there was a tasting session when the product was checked against previous years' ciders and against competitors' drinks. It was that kind of quality control which led to a Brewers Exhibition Champion Gold Medal and further growth to become the second largest cider producer in Britain.
By 1956, Coate's was enjoying a record year and the Showering brothers of Shepton Mallet, who had really hit the jackpot by selling pear cider (perry) as trendy Babycham, took over the company. Redvers Coate, then chairman of Somerset Cider Makers, stayed on as managing director as Showeringstransferred all cider production to Nailsea and invested in new buildings and machinery on the 13 acre site.
"For the first time in the centuries of long history of cider making, it can be said that never again will one vintage Somerset cider apple be wasted" said Showerings boss Herbert Showering. Redvers Coate described the merger as "a dream come true for me" and added: "This is a really big event in the history of Somerset cider". "We shall now see to it that good advertising and marketing support is used for Somerset cider which is one of the world's most natural and healthy drinks".
Production and staff both doubled and by the 1960s, Coate's was exporting worldwide and buying apples from more than 1,000 Somerset farmers. Redvers Coate retired in 1969 and two years later, Showering merged the company with Gaymers and Whiteways. Then, in the early 1970s, production was switched to a new plant at Shepton Mallet employing just 70 people. By 1975, the Nailsea factory was closed and the site was eventually sold to Marconi Avionics.
Redvers Coate, master cider maker, died at his home in Abbots Leigh on June 13 1985, after a serious illness. He was 84 years of age.
He had lived and developed the cider orchards in Manor Road.


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The 2014 Oscars Recap: A Glamorous Evening Of Selfie-Loathing
It's hard not rehashing all the glorious moments of this year's most glamorous awards show, but if I did, they would find my skeleton hunched over a dusty Macbook three weeks from now, bangs still intact. Especially considering that _E! _started their red carpet coverage a few days after Truman died. So we're giving you just the highlights:
The red carpet had some classic moments, including June Squibb and Jared Leto being interviewed together, a pair I'm calling my:
Squibb made her way down the carpet, giving Leto and Ryan Seacrest some room to breathe in each others' musks and mutually admire their tus, which, should be noted, were exactly the same. I wouldn't expect anything less from my:
Elsewhere, Jennifer Lawrence was:
But on to the big show! Hosted by the hilarious Ellen DeGeneres, bedecked in a sparkly velvet jacket/vest situation:
Ellen's gift is that she can pretty much put anyone down without it sounding super-offensive, like making fun of Squibb's age, or having an Uma-Oprah moment with Captain Phillips' Barkhad Abdi, who remains my favorite. Here he is pretending to understand what a Wine Captain is:
Don't feel bad, Barkhad—_none of us _know. Ellen moved on to delicately mentioning Jonah Hill's big debut, well, not BIG: his first frontal nude scene in Wolf of Wall Street.
Martin Scorsese, as per usual dies, laughing in the background, and I'm hoping he brought his own paddles this time. Because, let's face it, he only has a few couple of decades left knee-deep in "movie" coke before one of these monologues will do him in. That being said, until then…keel LOLing, big M.
Nearby, Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted with his date. Not a foreign-born, incubator-raised model, but a woman who looks strangely familiar, in that she's a regular Leonarda DiCapria. Aw, Leo brought his mom, a sweet gesture! But guys. They are identical fucking twins. I've been Beautiful Mind-ing this GIF for the past 20 minutes and don't know who is who anymore.
Perhaps the only celebrity in attendance offended by Ellen's opener was the legendary and fabulous Liza Minnelli, who, to be fair, got the worst burn of the humor when Ellen confused her for an impersonator in full drag. While Liza panted for oxygen, her date had already Yelped the joke in at five stars.
Meanwhile, across the aisle, Fassbender leered at his 12 Years A Slave costar Lupita Nyong'o. The moviegoer inside of me is disgusted by this glance, but JKs all around, because the lady inside of me has already cast him as King Leer in all of my future erotic fantasies.
Luckily, there were some Fassbender-sized condoms within a short sprint's distance, right behind Ellen. And oh, look!! They're themed.
The first award of the evening is Best Supporting Actor, and all is well because it goes to your favorite Friend, Courteney Cox!
Wait, I meant Vampire Jesus Jared Leto.
Good news for me in the 6th grade… but also bad news for me in the 6th grade. For those wondering, here is:
One of my favorite films this year was Captain Phillips, and I remember thinking that if each and every one of those Somali pirates wasn't featured prominently on the Oscars red carpet I would lose my mind. Well, we didn't get all of them, but I was happy to see the other guy there. It's the other guy!
Remember when Jim Carrey went through his "dramatic phase"? Well everyone can breathe easy because he's fina-fucking-ly back to Ace Ventura impressions.
Jim is there to bring us Pharrell's Hat, which puts on the kind of show that gets people out of their seats. Here is future Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o dancing with Pharrell's hat:
Not to be outdone ever, Meryl Streep kicks up the sex appeal a few crotches by laying down some of her signature moves from the hit movie Mamma Mia:
Harrison Ford then rolled in to introduce three out of the 47 nominated movies for Best Picture. Harrison keeps getting better with age…unlike his chicken.â��
Let's take a moment for a FUN SURPRISE GIF:
One thing about this year's awards: they were ultimately extremely predictable, and if you won your office's Oscar pool, it either means you have an insider's knowledge of the entertainment industry or you just followed the pics from USA Today. And as we all figured, Best Supporting Actress went to Lupita for 12 Years A Slave. Have you ever been this happy? I honestly don't know if I have been.
After hugging her co-stars and director Steve McQueen, Lupita makes her way towards the stage, but not before being bodyslammed by my new favorite American Gladiator, Liza Minnelli.
Lupita's acceptance speech is sincere and teary and, if you listened closely enough, you could almost hear the sound the Titanic made when it broke in half, which was actually the sound of Anne Hathaway's teeth grinding backstage from envy. THIS is the speech she wanted give. THOSE are the tears she wanted to cry. That's HER ribcage she wanted America counting! Life is not fair to Anne Hathaway.
But Anne needn't worry, because Lupita and all actresses everywhere—OK, maybe not Lupita—are going to one day lose their looks and fame. And as a helpful reminder of this fate, the Academy sends out classic screen siren Kim Novak to present the animated awards with Matthew McConaughey. Look, the woman is 81, and considering this, she looks pretty good. But it is a tad ironic that they have her presenting animation when the surgery has left her with only two expressions:
Best Animated Feature went to Frozen. Kim Novak's face accepted the award.
Moments later, a slick looking Zac Efron takes to the stage to introduce our next Academy Award nominated song, "New Girl" by the band Tonight At 8 On Fox.
Time for a Stamos break:
Best Documentary went to 20 Feet From Stardom, a movie you need to all force your parents to see because it is simply amazing. The acceptance speech alone with the movie's director and legendary singer Darlene Love should have done the convincing, as Love belted out "His Eye Is On The Sparrow" for a few fleeting moments:
The crowd went nuts, including Bill Murray, who I didn't even know could emote like this:
As well as Ethan Hawke, who should put a clause in his audience-participation contracts that the camera remain at least 10 feet away from his mouth:
While these awards were being handed out, Ellen was on a roll. A Totino's Pizza Roll that is. (My _GQ _bonus just went up $300.) First, she has two large pizzas delivered to the audience from an actual pizza delivery guy who, I am not lying, has DEFINITELY delivered pizzas to my apartment before.
Watching pizza be handed out in a room full of starving actresses was some Planet Earth shit, save for an eagerly starving Kerry Washington who had the lucky excuse of being pregnant. The boys, on the other hand, went for broke, grabbing slices as the bos made their way around the audience. Scorsese, Pitt, honorary bro Meryl Streep all got their grubby little mitts on a slice.
Ellen also made history last night as she took a celebrity selfie, now the most retweeted tweet of all time. Hint:
It's not this one.
No, it's a selfie, snapped by one Bradley Cooper, featuring the biggest stars in that audience: J-Law, J-Leto, L-Nyong'o, J-Robs, Random-Guy-In-Glasses, Branj…. Don't stare at this meta version of it too long or you'll burn your hotness fuse and no one will ever be attractive to you again:
The photo currently has 2.7 million retweets.
Whoopi Goldberg appeared to present a special tribute to my least favorite movie of all time, The Wizard of Oz. And it looks like the Seinfeld low-talker has struck again:
In Memoriam was a real downer this year. Oh, right, no, 'cause of the dead people OBVIOUSLY.
(Secretly it was a double-downer because the Academy decided to stop offending the families of recently deceased sound mirs and get rid of the Applause-O-Meter, the sound of the audience clapping to the dead people they cared about most. A classy move? Maybe. But it was really hard to know who to care about without those claps triggering me to feel sad. I will tell you this: No applause was needed for me to know that one of my biggest life regrets was not being able to hang out with this dude:)
The eyeglass lens. I must know.
John Travolta's plugs were implanted a little too close to his brain as he introduced the next performer for Best Original Song, Idina Menzel. But in the heat of the moment, the prompter staring at him like Nic Cage in Face/Off, Travolta did as best as he could with her name, introducing instead the unknown singer Adela Dazeem (unknown as in, she does not exist.) But really can you blame him? How is he supposed to see anything through those eyes?
Idina was there to sing "Let It Go" from animated winner Frozen. She's usually an amazing talent and singer, but girl was pushing it so hard her song sadly ended in tragedy:
Jamie Foxx did his best to infuse some life into the show. Sadly, human Prep-H pad Jessica Biel put that fire out immediately:
We are almost done!!! The show is roughly as long as Dr. Zhivago at this point but Ellen plows ahead. Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier present the Best Director statue to Alfonso Cuaron, well deserved for Gravity. I attempted to get a screengrab of Angelina looking even remotely unattractive but guys, it can't be done. Eyes closed, mid-speech, the woman cannot not look perfect. I bow to her and Brad.
The only award I was slightly concerned about was the one for Best Actress. Cate Blanchett deserved it, but all the recent drama surrounding Woody Allen put her statuette in question. Gratefully, the Academy didn't hold Woody against her [shudder] and Blanchett won gold. As my mother so eloquently put it, "She didn't rape anybody, why shouldn't she get it?" Here she is Captain and Tennilling it with Daniel Day-Lewis:
Jennifer Lawrence manages to not face-plant and presents Best Actor, but not before "Try The Vealing" it with some random star in the first row. I know we all love her, but I'm beginning to reach Maximum Quirk Capacity with this one.
Best Actor was a lock for Matthew McConaughey, who is having maybe one of the best years of any actor in recent memory, between Dallas Buyer's Club, Mud, Wolf of Wall Street, HBO's True Detective and his new Cinemax After Dark show starring him and his wife_._
For God's sake, even Leo wants a piece of the action:�
Last… Award… Best Picture.
12 Years A Slave. I'm not sure if anyone "enjoyed" seeing this movie as it is absolutely brutal to watch, but it certainly deserved this win. Director Steve "Not That One" McQueen literally jumped for joy on stage, as ecutive producer Brad Pitt kicked off the speeches. Which… did he really need to? Brad? Let McQueen take this one and walk away.
And here we are, nearly four hours later, and the show is over. Those of you with Adderall prescriptions may have stayed up an extra seven hours to watch the after-party happenings on E. Those of you with "jobs" or a "family" hopefully went to bed way, way before this show was even over.
Ellen was fantastic as always, but the show overall was missing a touch of old-school glamour, and I found it to be slower than usual. If you missed it, fear not: There is really only one thing you need you to take away from the experience.
And that is Liza Minnelli's nipple.
Enjoy the rest of your lives, but before that, follow me here. If you're lucky, I may or may not throw a nipple outline your way.


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BOISE -- Two Boise girls are safe, and their father is in custody in Nevada, after an AMBER Alert was issued Monday, Eureka County Sheriff Keith Logan said Monday night.
"Girls are safe with us, he is in custody," Logan told KTVB in an email Monday night.
Boise police said 7-year-old Madison Ann Dundon and 6-year-old Jaylynn Dawn Dundon were found in Eureka County, are being taken to an Idaho hospital and are being treated for exposure. They are also being reunited with family
The alert was issued for the girls after the burned shell of their father's pickup was found in Eureka County.
Boise Police said Madison and Jaylynn were last seen May 10 at 10 a.m. when their father, 29-year-old Joshua Dundon, picked them up from school. Family members called police Friday after becoming concerned that no one could get in touch with Joshua.
Police say they originally received "third-hand information" suggesting the three had gone camping.
The AMBER Alert was issued at 1:28 p.m. Monday. According to Boise Police, Joshua Dundon's pickup truck was found burned in a rural part of Eureka County, Nevada Thursday.
It was not until Monday morning that authorities were able to dismantle the 2005 Chevrolet Silverado and found a partial VIN number tying it to the missing children.
Multiple sets of footprints were found in the area, but police have not said whether any of the prints belonged to the missing girls.
Earlier, police said Joshua Dundon may have been armed. Investigators say he may have taken a small dirt bike or motorcycle with him in his pickup.
According to the AMBER Alert, Madison and Jaylynn Dundon were believed to be in danger.
The AMBER Alert listed the girls as "abducted."
PREVIOUS: Search underway for missing father and two children
Joshua Dundon has joint custody of the girls. According to Ada County court records, he has a scheduling conference in a child support and custody case set for June 20.
Madison, Jaylynn and their father disappeared five days after a family intake screening was ordered in the case.
Court records show Joshua Dundon has a handful of misdemeanor convictions in Idaho spanning the last decade, but no felonies or crimes of violence.


text: DETROIT (AP) -- With all the hype and all the attention, it sometimes seems as if DeAngelo Williams will be alone on the field at the Motor City Bowl. The Memphis tailback is the NCAA's career leader in all-purpose yards, finishing the season with 1,726 yards and 15 rushing touchdowns. The next test for the second-team All-American comes today against Akron at Ford Field. "He's an incredibly dangerous back," Akron coach J.D. Brookhart said. "You know he's going to bust a couple big runs during the game, but you have to try to limit him." The Zips (7-5) beat Northern Illinois 31-30 in the Mid-American Conference championship game, but allowed 270 yards to Huskies tailback Garrett Wolfe in the process. That worries Brookhart because while Wolfe was one of the nation's leading rushers, he isn't considered the same kind of NFL prospect as Williams. "Wolfe is a good runner, but DeAngelo is special," he said. "Garrett will be an NFL draft pick, but DeAngelo will be a high pick." Akron defensive end Brian White agrees. "He's going to be tough to stop," he said. "He reminds me a lot of Barry (Sanders)." The Tigers (6-5) face a team on one surprising run. The Zips were not highly regarded going into the season, but they won a tiebreaker to win the MAC's Eastern Division, then beat Northern Illinois on Luke Getsy's 36-yard touchdown pass to Dominik Hixon with 10 seconds to play. The win gave Akron its first championship in 105 years of football and put the Zips into their first Division I-A bowl game. "All we know is that we're playing a championship team, and that's exciting. ... We know what the MAC is capable of them. We'll be ready," Memphis coach Tommy West said. On offense, Akron is led by Getsy and Hixson. The junior quarterback threw for 3,000 yards and 19 touchdowns while Hixon had 1,147 receiving yards and seven scores. Brett Biggs led the Zips in rushing with 1,184 yards and 10 scores.