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SARAHSVILLE -- The Shenandoah Zeps struggled to contain the powerful ground game that was brought to the table by the Newcomerstown Trojans Friday night on the Zeps' home turf.
The combination of Jibril Dansby and Cody Hall ran over, around and through the Shenandoah defense, helping the Trojans to a lopsided 41-19 victory over the Zeps.
The duo finished the game with a combined 315 yards on the ground and five touchdowns.
"We are very happy with our ability to run the ball," offered proud Trojan head coach Eric Brock. "Dansby is a very hard runner, and the ability to pair him with Hall allows them to remain fresh and continue to run hard late into games."
Despite the lopsided loss, Shenandoah head coach Kaleb Lawrence was proud of his team's performance as a whole and their resilience despite being down early.
"There will always be nay-sayers", offered Coach Lawrence. "Tonight is the best that this team has played since I have been coach. They are beginning to stay together and finish games."
The Trojans wasted little time getting on the scoreboard after the opening kick-off.
Senior quarterback Austin Zufelt and the Newcomerstown offense marched 68 yards on five plays largely due to the success of Hall.
Zufelt and Hall hooked up on a 39-yard pass on first down, setting the Trojans up inside the Zeps' five.
Hall promptly responded with a three-yard touchdown run, putting his team ahead 6-0 with 10:15 remaining in the first quarter after Austin King's PAT sailed wide right.
The stingy Trojan defense forced a three-and-out on the first Zeps' possession which netted only a single yard.
Newcomerstown then composed a four-play 59-yard drive and found the end zone again with a heavy mix of its rushing attack, as Hall found the end zone for a second time from 19 yards out.
Hall also carried the two-point conversion across the goal line, extending the Trojans' lead to 14.
The Second Stanza saw a more balanced game as the tough Shenandoah defence slowed down the Trojan rushing attack.
However, the newly confident defense committed a critical penalty just before the half. After a 25-yard Dansby scamper, SHS was tagged with a horse-collar penalty moving the ball inside the 10.
Hall responded with his third TD of the game from one yard out, and King's kick went wide left leaving the advantage at 20-0.
An interception by Chase Eggleston put the Trojans' offense back on the field in Zeps' territory with a chance to extend the lead before the half.
However, on the ensuing drive, the Zeps' Tanner Moore made amends for his miscue by picking off Zufelt in his end zone and returning it 102 yards for the Zeps' first score. Ethan McKee booted in the extra-point, making it 20-7 at the half.
"I was happy that we were able to steal the momentum from then at specific points of the game," offered Lawrence. "This shows the team's resilience, I'm not sure if these plays would have been made last year and that shows we're moving in the right direction."
After the Zeps turned it over on downs to begin the third quarter, Dansby began a brilliant second half starting with a 41 yard TD run on the first offensive possession.
The missed King had the Trojans on top, 27-7.
Dansby wasn't the only back who had the ability to run the ball as the Zeps' Michael VanFossen tallied 141 yard on 23 rushes.
VanFossen found the end zone on the Zeps' next offensive possession from seven yards out capping a 45-yard drive. The failed two-point conversion by Moore left the score at 27-13.
The next Trojan drive consisted of more of the same as Jason Garlando took the opening rush 38 across midfield deep into Zeps' territory and Dansby capped the drive with a 15-yard TD run. King tacked on the extra-point, making it a 34-13 advantage late in the fourth.
After a third Moore interception, Dansby found the end zone for the final time from 30 yards out, and King's kick pushed the advantage to 41-13.
The Zeps, however, were not done yet as they moved the ball down the field on a six-play, 55-yard drive capped by an eight-yard Jacob Rossiter TD run.
The two-point attempt failed, leaving the advantage at 41-19 when the final whistle sounded.
"We need to establish a more efficient passing attack in order to maintain momentum," offered Lawrence. "We have the ability to start drive, but difficulty maintaining them once we get in the red zone due to the heavily relying on the run."
Aside from VanFossen's 141 yards, Rossiter was able to contribute 43 on eight carries.
For the Trojans, Dansby tallied 247 yards on 21 carries and three scores while Hall collected 68 yard on nine carries of his own.
NEXT-- Newcomerstown hosts United Local on Friday at 7 p.m.


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Film @ the WMML: "The Self-Made Man"
- Date: 01/23/2018 10:30 AM
- Location: Welwood Murray Memorrial Library - Cornelia White Community Room
100 S. Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, California 92262
Film @ the WMML:
The Self-Made Man
Join us to watch The Self-Made Man (CC not available) on Tuesday, January 23rd. Filmmaker Susan Stern (Barbie Nation) explores the right-to-die issue and difficult end-of-life decisions. The film will begin
at 10:30 a.m. in the Cornelia White Community Room at the Welwood Murray
Memorial Library (WMML) located at 100 S. Palm Canyon Dr., in downtown
Palm Springs. For more information, please call the Welwood Murray Memorial Library at 760-323-8296.
Is it ever rational to choose death? Is it ever right? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch, 77-year-old solar energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he's seriously ill—possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is dying on artificial life support. Bob decides to cheat fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. In The Self-Made Man, daughter Susan Stern explores rational suicide, the right-to-die and the difficult end-of-life choices faced by an aging population.
Bernal Beach Films founder Susan Stern has produced awarding-winning poetry, investigative journalism and films. Her documentaries Barbie Nation and The Self-Made Man played worldwide at festivals and on television, winning two Emmy nominations; the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award; a CINE Gold Eagle; and a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Susan's investigations of admissions at a University of California medical school unseated a bigoted member of the admissions committee. Her exposé of Bay Area military base closings was credited by the Wall Street Journal with "saving thousands of local jobs." Her 1980 cover story "Killer Cops" exposed the political underpinnings of police brutality.

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Raj Scorches Street For Evicting Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America.
The city of Philadelphia, under the leadership of Street, is now seeking to evict the Boy Scouts' Cradle of Liberty Council from its city-owned Center City headquarters because of their refusal to admit open homosexuals as members.
"This is probably the most ridiculous political action taken this year by any politician in America," said Raj Peter Bhakta, who is running for Congress in Northeast Philadelphia and Montgomery County. "While the city suffers its worst quality of life crisis in recent memory, John Street seeks to push a radical agenda rather than face the real problems."
Raj said he was particularly shocked that Street would take on a group that has done so much to help so many young people steer clear of criminal activity. The Boy Scouts Cradle of Liberty Council, which serves 87,000 scouts in Philadelphia, Montgomery County and Delaware County, has kept its headquarters on public grounds near Logan circle since 1928. In a more sane time, the City Council promised that the Boy Scouts may remain there with no rent charged "in perpetuity."
"The streets of Philadelphia are unsafe," said Raj. "So Mayor Street chooses to go after the one organization that has done so much to improve the lives of thousands of children in this region."
The Supreme Court said in 2000 that applying a state public accommodations law to require the Boy Scouts to admit a gay troop leader violates the group's constitutional right of expressive association.
"If crime and drugs persist in our neighborhoods, only God knows who the city will target next," said Raj. "Perhaps the Salvation Army."


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You may need to give 7 time (a few mins perhaps)to share your drive if it has a lot of 'stuff' in it.
On your se7en-pc right click on the drive or folder you what to share. Goto properties\security then click on edit. Click on edit and in the white box type everyone then ok. In the permissions box allow full control then apply, ok and ok. This worked for me in vista and 7. It workes by making a hole in the security.
You may also need to go to the sharing tab and click on the permissions button. From there, you will need to set the everyone permissions to read and write. With windows sharing security, that setting overrides everything on the security tab, so even if you give the user full control on the security tab, when access the share from another computer, if the sharing security is set to read only, then the remote user will only get read only.


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Anita is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Evidence-Based Interventions, She is a social psychologist working in both the UK and low to middle income countries on the following areas: 1) Promotion of child mental health within public health 2) Prevention of child abuse and neglect 3) Children with limited or no parental care, including street and working children, child migrants, and children in institutions, with a focus on family reintegration Anita combines the production of evidence base for public mental health of children in the UK, development of new approaches to work with families, with support to projects and research in low income countries. She has a background in cultural anthropology and social psychology and has worked extensively in Central and South America and more recently, sub-Saharan Africa on a series of research programmes. Her doctoral dissertation was on the impact of parent education on social capital in post-war Guatemala. This involved in-depth work in communities with high levels of violence and poverty. Before coming into academic life she worked as director of two NGOs and was for six years the director of the Consortium for Street Children. Anita is also committed to environmental conservation.
Primary current projects:
(i) Feasibility study – implementation of the "Steps to Safety" conjoint therapy for domestic abuse (NSPCC funded, ongoing to 2018). Anita is co-author of the Steps to Safety programme.
(ii) Impact evaluation of "A Better Start" (Big Lottery funded, ongoing to 2025)
Other current research projects: Early intervention Foundation, Local Government Association and NSPCC: Improving the Effectiveness of the Child Protection system. (2017) Oxford Policy Management & Oak Foundation: Integration of Child Protection in the Healthcare System, Eastern Europe and CIS counties. (2017) Toybox : Changing patterns of children's use of the street for survival – Guatemala 1996 - 2016. (2017)
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Schrader McMillan A, Borg L (2016) "Girls and young women with "street connections": broad themes to emerge from the academic and NGO literature, 2000 – 2013", Children and Youth Services Review
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Schrader McMillan A, Fabian A & Burton M (2013) ""Educando con Amor: La pedagogía crítica aplicada a la promoción de la crianza con cariño en la ciudad de Guatemala", Revista Venezolana de Psicología Clínica Comunitaria 8
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Obelisk represents a unique opportunity for those interested in the benefits that come from securing the Sia and Decred networks through the power of ASICs. We realize though, that not everyone has a suitable space that can handle the electrical and cooling requirements of mining hardware, especially when operating more than one or two units.
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After placing your order, you can login to the Obelisk Customer Portal, go to the details of your order and select a colocation facility from the Ship To Colo section. In the near future, you will be able to select the colocation facility when placing your order.
About every 2 weeks, we will send updates to each colocation provider with the list of customers who have chosen their facility. We will provide them with your contact info and the number of units in your order(s). The provider will then contact you to setup an account. If you wish to expedite the account setup process, you may contact the company directly and let them know you have selected them as your colocation provider.
When your Obelisks are ready, we'll ship them directly to your chosen provider. They will receive your Obelisks, unpack them, connect them to power & internet, then send you an email with information on how to login remotely so you can configure your mining pool and other settings and start mining.
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Data Center Support Technician 1
Job Summary
Perform all required tasks being the "hands and eyes" for remote support technicians within the data center. Execute physical activities as defined on the data center floor.
Primary Tasks
Installation and Removal of IT equipment
- Physical power down of equipment
- Install and remove cabinets and racks in the data center
- Perform activities to ground cabinets according to standard processes
- Dispose of all packing material and waste appropriately
- Approve/coordinate tickets to add or remove equipment from the data center
- Move equipment, racks, devices, and materials between physical locations in the same data center
Basic device configuration and OS Loads
- Install software CDs and DVDs
- Install, connect, and/or move USB devices
- Configuration of out of band (OOB) and remote management connections (i.e. DRAC, ILO, etc.
Device Validation
- Visual inspection of devices as requested
- Serial number validation
- Device Inventory capabilities and physical comparison to inventory lists
Basic troubleshooting and repair of IT equipment failures
- Power on/power off devices
- Relay LCD readouts
- Reset Remote Management connection ID's and Passwords
- Reseat cables
- General Troubleshooting and visual verification to assist remote troubleshooting efforts
- Test and troubleshoot problems
- Check power connections
- Provide feedback on console display (e.g. stop errors, blue screen, etc.)
- Assist with disaster recovery activities in the event of a complete system failure
- Assist with recovery of data center and equipment related to planned and unplanned power interruptions
- Identify and report audible errors and system failures
- Install and connect crash cart
- Attend conference calls for troubleshooting and recovery of client environments related to a reported client impacting incident
Cable Installation and Planning
- Physical installation and removal of patch cabling, and cabling components, and related material
- Removal of unused cable and cable components from racks, conduits and data center subfloor
- Connect communication copper and fiber cables between installed IT equipment
- Ensure that all links and communication cables have been tested, labeled, connected, and documented according to client standards
- Test all cables prior to installation and cable pathways end to end before and after installation to standards
- Identify unused system connections
Cable troubleshooting and repair
- Troubleshoot and repair system connections as needed
- Test all types of cables – Copper, fiber (MM/SM), dark fiber, DWDM, MPO, etc.
- Replace cables
- Check network connections
- Trace cables
- Clean and polish fiber ends
Media administration
- Mount/dismount of media
- Filing and Cataloging of media
- Scanning of media
- Shipping/Receiving of media and peripherals
- Inventorying of media and media related equipment
- Tracking of media and media related equipment
- Labeling of media and media related equipment
- Initializing of media and media related equipment
- Track onsite spares/scratch levels and report low volumes
- Perform all activities to prepare and package media for offsite vaulting
- Perform all activities to receive media from offsite vaulting provide and perform appropriate filing
- Execute commands on system consoles to perform standard daily tasks (mount, unmount, silo eject, etc.)
- Use of designated tools and processes to track client Media
Skills and Qualifications
- At least 2 years physical onsite Data Center experience supporting the Data Center equipment and/or infrastructure (Power, Space, Cooling, Equipment and Cabling)
- Knowledge of basic electrical requirements and conversions (i.e. Kilowatts, Amps, phases, etc.)
- Experience working in a Structured ITIL and or ISO environment utilizing Problem, Change, and Incident disciplines
- Quickly learn, adapt, and retain Data Center and Client specific information
- Great team work capabilities
- Ability to work multiple projects simultaneously
- Scheduling flexibility to complete assigned migrations/projects
- Excellent communication and written skills
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Capability to spend extended durations standing or walking
- Any Technical Certifications
- Security clearance may be required to be obtained if working in cleared areas
Data Center Support Technician 2
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All tasks and skills of the Technician 1 job description with additional capabilities and skills in some areas. Able to provide deeper technical assistance and have additional experience and/or certifications.
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Same as Technician 1 with deeper understanding and skills in each area
Skills and Qualifications
Same as Technician 1 with more years of experience and/or certifications
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Newport-Mesa's school board Tuesday will consider accepting $15,000 to study the feasibility of a proposed new sports facility at Costa Mesa High School.
Costa Mesa's City Council voted last week to provide cash that would start the design process for a lighted, all-weather track and field.
The city has proposed a preliminary concept and wants public access to the facility during non-school hours, justifying what could be a $3 million to $4 million final cost, city officials say.


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26 November 2012
As we move through November and get used to the time change, I am reminded of just how fortunate we are to live in such a beautiful part of California. I am also feeling very energized as I become more comfortable as your Executive Director. I have been warmly welcomed by the Board of Directors, the community, the staff and our membership. If you missed the last membership
meeting at the Petroleum Club, we voted in our 2014 Board Members and received some valuable information regarding all of our legislative successes in 2013 from our Lobbyist, Ron Kingston. I would hate to even guess at what could have happened to property rights if we had not had Ron
fighting for us.
An important note that we do not want you to miss is the change taking place regarding the smoke detector requirements. We will be addressing this issue in more detail in the December Apartment Journal so make sure you look for this
article from Mike Brennan. It is clear to me in the short time that I have been here that AACSC has two critical parts that are required for any team: passion for the organization and
collaboration with our community partners. Both of these parts are evident, and I hope you will be as excited as I am as we
improve upon the relationships already established and how we will raise the level of professionalism within our industry as we move into 2014 and beyond.
However, using collaboration to build upon a solid platform is not limited to staff alone. Collaboration takes a team, and as you will see in the coming months, I am asking our membership to re-engage and help us elevate, educate and move our association and members beyond the status quo. There is an old saying, that information is king. That could not be truer for our industry, and the more I read about all the potential roadblocks for property owners, the more evident it is that our members need to remain informed and collaborative. So, my first
question to you is this: How much do you know regarding the following issues? Water meters, jury trials, smoke detectors, landscaping reimbursement — do any of these issues ring a bell? Are you going to update your building and understand all the requirements or restrictions?
Someone, who shall remain nameless, said to me the other day that they do not believe they need to participate or contribute to our PAC (Political Action Committee), or know what is going on in Sacramento. Changes will happen with or without them. YEP! You are correct, they will happen, but my mother always told me that if something happens that you don't like and you did not get involved in changing, educating or proposing an alternative, you don't get to complain about it after the fact. In the short period of time that I have been your Executive Director I know this to be true — ignorance does not change what you don't want to happen, it just makes the outcome more painful when you realize that you "should have" cared earlier in the process.
My 13 year old son, Joshua, continues to learn this lesson, but it continues to be a process. He begins his school year thinking, and telling himself, that he is up to speed on all his homework. We, as loving parents, want to believe him, so we don't check out his story every night but choose to believe him because we want it to be true (silly parents, right?). Then the first test comes home, and, oops, not such a good score. Next thing he knows, computer time, game time and free time get severely limited and we go into homework and nightly checking mode until grades improve. He learns that he should have completed the work when it was assigned, that he can't go back and make up for what he did not do, and that there are consequences when you don't take ac count ability for your assignments.
Well, I think you get my drift. With all the economic issues and budget crises surrounding us, it should not be surprising that property owners, apartment owners and landlords are getting targeted or put in positions that will keep them from renting,refurbishing or updating without some sort of tax or fee attached. So, how can you offset this? GET INVOLVED! Support YOUR Association so that you remain informed, and when we send out notices that ask you to call or send a letter, understand that we are doing it to help you. What is the outcome? Well, we are helping you keep money in your pockets, not the government's. So, thank you to those who are contributing to our Political Action Fund (PAC), and for those of you who have not yet supported the PAC, I hope you will reconsider and realize that when you contribute to the PAC, what you are really doing is supporting yourself, your property and your industry.
On a lighter note, be sure to attend one of our many member events in 2014. These events are fun, sure, but they are also a great way to network with other members, vendors and uncover the amazing value that our members add to this Association. One such member is Virginia Ball, whom I met at the last membership meeting. She, or "we", as she kept telling me, is offering training in the Whittier area and has been doing so for quite some time. I also uncovered that Spencer Pabst of Pabst, Kinney & Associates has been a frequent speaker at these events and helps to offset printing costs. Thank you Virginia and Spencer for keeping our apartment owners involved, and AACSC is looking forward to working with you more in 2014. Look for our monthly
calendar for ALL of our upcoming education events, and if you would like to help us by becoming a speaker, please let us know. We are always looking for talented members who want to get involved. That, of course, leads nicely into my next invitation. We would like to invite you to be part of our Golf Committee and Trade Show Committee. This next year we are going to include some pretty exciting changes, and we want YOU to
be involved. Whether you just want to help out at the event, have some ideas you would like to share, or sit on the committee, we would love to have you as part of the event.
Here are some of the dates you should save:
Holiday Party for the Membership – December 5th, Long Beach Yacht Club.
Bring a toy (value $20 or more) to benefit Interval House.
Golf Tournament – April 7th, Sea Cliff Country Club. Sponsorships are going fast so call Tom to reserve your spot.
Trade Show – September 18th, Long Beach Convention Center. This year will be different,
interactive and a NOT TO BE MISSED EVENT (just a hint of what's coming).
Whether you are serving on a committee, contributing to the PAC (and now you know why), attending an event, sponsoring a lunch or just reading and staying informed, the common denominator is YOU. The key to our success is YOU and YOU are the reason we will elevate our Association image and purpose. Collaboration and working as a team is an amazing process that gleans great success. I hope to see you at our Holiday Party, and please come up and say hello. I can't wait to meet you.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving Holiday.


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Einstein said: imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
For today's post i'll let my imagination take over. Imagine what are my policies if i become the prime minister of Malaysia
- Let Malay be malays let chinese be chinese and let indians be indians. Let them improve themselves for the benefit of the country.
- I wont waste time trying to promote Bangsa Malaysia because it will never happen say wtv u want but right now the mindset of our people is still not up to that standard.
- Thats why each of the races have to resolve their internal prejudice first before we can start talking about uniting everyone.
- Policies implemented by my government should promote competitiveness among all the races.
- Wheter we like it or not thats the only way people will innovate. Improve themselves for their own benefit.
- Scholarships will be divided into two.
- Education and sports.
- Strictly Merit based.
- It ahould be based on true Islamic leadership.
- A true Islamic leadership does not discriminate it is colour blind.
- I did not say Islamic country because theres no point in becoming an Islamic country if its policies are un-Islamic.
- Free of corruption-this might be impossible therefore even if theres corruption it shouldnt affect the people in any way.
- Wth am I saying if thats what you are thinking now. Its reality! there are no country in this world that is free from corruption but with an affective ACA it will be kept at the most minimum level thus it shouldnt affect my people in any way.
- Conserving the environment should be the number one priority in any development plan.
- I dont want to pass down a country that is worthless to my successor.
- No ONE is guilty until proven guilty.
- Politician sets policies but based on research and development that are made by geniuses that specialist in specific fields. Professors,engineers,doctors in other words PROFESSIONALS.
- Im done imagining stuffz-all I can say is one day when the time comes VOTE FOR ME.
- A realistic change with a significant impact. I have a dream I want Malaysia to change the world.


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NORTH SEWICKLEY TWP. - The game between the Riverside and Mohawk High School baseball teams was played at Riverside Friday afternoon, but it seemed as if it could have been played at Chicago's Wrigley Field - the wind was definitely a factor.
And like games played at Wrigley Field, it was a nip-and-tuck affair until the final out with Riverside prevailing, 7-6. The Panthers are now 6-2 overall and 4-1 in Section 5-AA, and remain in a tie for first place. Mohawk is now 4-4, 3-2, falling out of a tie for first.
The wind's first effect on the game came in the top of the first as Mohawk grouped together a bunch of singles to score three runs.
"We were playing too deep," Riverside coach Dan Oliastro said. "With the wind blowing the way it was, we were too deep. We moved the outfielders up and we were OK."
Meanwhile, the Riverside batters were coming alive, and the Panthers scored the next seven runs. Five of those came in the third inning with Jake Thellman's two-run double the big blow in the inning.
Riverside scored two more in the fifth with both runs coming in when Thellman's hard shot to shortstop was mishandled.
Mohawk scored three in the sixth, aided by Riverside's only error, but the Panthers still held a 7-6 lead. In the top of the seventh, Mohawk got the tying run into scoring position, and the run looked as if it could be coming home as Johnny Beatty sent a high fly to centerfield.
But the win remained a factor and, this time, it was in the home team's favor.
"Beatty's ball looked like it was going to center field, but it ended up just inside the right field line and (second baseman) Devin Kelosky made the catch," Oliastro said. "That game was a heart stopper."
Weather permitting, the Panthers play at Shenango at 11 a.m. today. Monday, Riverside travels to Ellwood City and, before the possible Shenango game, the teams are tied for first.


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1/3 cup of potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca flour
1/3 cup of rice flour
1 cup of gluten free oat flour (I grind my own out of GF rolled oats)
2 ts. of baking powder (Hain brand-corn free)
1 ts. of baking soda
1 ts. of sea salt
1 1/2 ts. of pumpkin pie spice mix
1/2 cup of coconut palm sugar
1/2 cup of cacao powder (regular baking cocoa powder works too)
1/2 cup of date puree
1/4 cup of molasses
1/3 cup of pure maple syrup
1/3 cup of coconut milk beverage with 1 TB apple cider vinegar
3/4 cup of pumpkin puree (fresh or canned)
1/2 cup of melted coconut oil
1/4 cup of raw pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
1/4 cup of Enjoy Life's mini chocolate chips
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Then add in the wet and whisk together well. Let the batter sit and stiffen up while the baking powder ignites. Then use a 1/3 cup greased with extra coconut oil and scoop out the batter onto parchment papered muffin tin papers. You should get 12 large muffins from this recipe or at least 24 minis. Then use some melted coconut oil to brush over the tops before baking, and sprinkle with a mixture of pumpkin seeds and chocolate chips on top of the muffins. You may need to press them down gently to stick to all the tops well. Cover it as much or as little as you like. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes depending on your oven. Check the middles to make sure they are baked through and then serve after 15 minutes of cooling.
Gorgeous and tasty! The best combo of fresh and nutritious food! I hope you give these goodies a try, HAPPY BAKING, friends and much love as always, xoxo


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演講活動張貼人:李明芳 ╱ 公告日期:2018-02-12
Time:2018/3/21 (Wed.) 14:20~16:20
Speaker:Prof.葉乃裳(Nai-chang Yeh)
美國加州理工學院物理學系/Deparment of Physics and Kavli Nanoscience Institute California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Physics and Technology of two-dimensional van der Waals materials for novel nanoelectronics, valleytronics, spintronics and optoelectronics
Recent advances in the development of two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals from various van der Waals (vdW) materials have simulated intense research efforts and demonstrated great promises for a wide range of technological applications. Some of the representative vdW materials with honeycomb lattice structures and novel properties include semi-metallic graphene, insulating hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as MX2 (where M = Mo, W and X = S, Se and Te) that exhibit strong spin-valley coupling. To achieve scalable fabrication of high-quality 2D materials and heterostructures, we employ a single-step, room temperature PECVD method for growing large-area strain-free graphene, and use thermal CVD methods for synthesizing monolayer to multilayers of h-BN, TMDCs and heterostructures of h-BN, TMDCs and graphene. To explore the valley degrees of freedom in graphene and TMDCs, we employ nanoscale strain engineering techniques to induce giant pseudo-magnetic fields and/or apply circularly polarized light to achieve valley selection, and then investigate the resulting local density of states and electrical properties of these materials by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and measurements of longitudinal and Hall resistivity, respectively. We further compare our experimental findings with theoretical simulations and exploit designs of potential nano-electronic, valleytronic, spintronic and optoelectronic devices based on these vdW materials and their heterostructures.
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Gaurika Babal: Born on 6th December 1997 in South Delhi, the girl always had a keen interest in dancing, acting and sports. She had done her schooling from Amity international school. This gave wings to her passion and she started dreaming of a greater heights.
Let's talk about her higher studies. She is currently pursuing B.A psychology(honours) from Kamala Nehru College Delhi University. All she needed was a big start and college was ready to give chances. She grabbed all the chances and delivered the best. It all started with a keen interest in dancing.
The college club: ENIGMA THE WESTERN DANCE was the one that helped her pave the path. Their itself she learnt how to do urban hip hop, waacking, house, locking and all other forms of dancing. She is currently in third year of her college.
In June 2017 she received an email, to have been selected in Urban Singh Crew and to be a part of it . The second year of college was the turning point when she got an opportunity to give an audition to be a part USC for dancing. Then eventually she went on to become a instructor at the dance centre. URBAN SINGH CREW is the first ever crew to fuse Bhangra and Hip-hop and were in Top-6 at DANCE PLUS SEASON 2.
EXPERIENCE in dancing AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
At present she has a 13 year experience in Bengali folk. 5-7 year of urban dance moves. She is professional Bhangra artist too.She was a lead in the cover of 5 Taara by Diljit Dosanjh(Hip-hop Bhangra by SPEED RECORDS).
Talking about acting she has done a supporting role of a female cop in the Punjabi music video CASE BANDA. Then she started as an asisstant choreographer in very famous Punjabi music video – BOLLYWOOD by Akhil. She also played a same role in the latest hit by Jassie Gill – DILL TOH BLACK. Her Urban Singh Crew was a part of the latest hit BUZZ BY Aastha Gill ft. Badshah.
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- Currently in collaboration with two delhi based photographers as their model.
- managing college studies, college dance society and urban dance centre parallelly.
- On top of this she have done 2 internships in NGOs.
She plans to be a well established choreographer and also seeks an opportunity to be play a key role in Bollywood Movies. She always has received appreciation for her work. I a sure she must be a role model to many out there and she should be obliged with this.
We exchanged the thoughts and I was really happy to hear that she isn't going to stop here. It's just the beginning for her and she has miles to go. She is always thankful to her family and positive friends who always supports her. At last she said that, "everything is secondary but making my parents proud is always the first priority".
She has proved that girls aren't behind boys in any way. She is far better than boys in her field and made whole of the female community proud. I am sure that, in no time she will make the country proud by being at international level.


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Charlotte asks:
Dear Fr Anthony,
I am the mother of a 13 year old boy who is interested in attending a high school seminary. I just spent time with my pastor and he was very against it for many reasons. One was he didn't feel it would be healthy for him to be away from his family and in an all male environment (homosexual encounters very possible) and that his psychosexual maturity would be stunted without being a part of society. He also raised the question of being too young to discern such a call and if he were to change his mind later he would have missed much of his adolescence and normal opportunities he would have had at home. And he would have trouble acclimating back into society.
These were just a few of his concerns. How do I respond to him? And to others, and quite honestly to ease my own fears about these issues?
Dear Charlotte,
This is a very good question, and I hope I can do it justice.
When I was thinking of opening a high school seminary I asked an archbishop his opinion and he gave me this unexpected answer (everyone seemed to be closing their high school seminaries at the time). He said, "I went to a high school seminary myself and I don't regret it one bit, I may never have gotten to be a priest otherwise. High school seminaries when I was young were good things, today I think they are absolutely necessary!" He then went on to speak about his concern with the trend towards older vocations that was taking place at the time, "We don't get to know them well, there are things many don't seem to grasp, many come with baggage they could do without."
There are three elements or levels to take into account when speaking about high school seminaries. One is the viability and desirability of high school seminaries in the abstract (i.e: should there even be high school seminaries?), the second is the nature of a particular high school seminary (how this seminary is run, the level of formation there, the atmosphere, the order and discipline, the spiritual life... These are usually reflected in the boys that are studying there: if they are safe, happy and love our Lord) and the third is the individual boy (high school seminaries in the abstract might be a good idea, but is it a good idea for this particular boy to go to a high school seminary?)
I will run briefly through each one.
Recent Church documents, from Vatican II to the document on priestly formation called "Pastores Dabo Vobis", have all spoken positively about the place and role of high school seminaries in the cultivation of vocations and the formation of priests. The Church has always taught that some young people are called from an early age to give their lives to God, and they should be helped to do so. The question of being physically separated from the family has never been a major concern as long as there is a healthy communication and interaction, which today through email, telephone/skype and the ease of travel is more possible than in the past. Each school of course will have its own concrete policies and nuances. The question of psychosexual development, and possible moral dangers are more a question of the way a particular seminary is run, and not of high school seminaries in general, and also of the individual boy.
If a particular high school seminary lives up to what the Church has in mind when it speaks of high school seminaries, is something you or your husband will have to verify personally. Visit the school and see for yourself if the atmosphere in general is healthy, if the boys are happy and respectful, if the discipline is positive, and if the boys are busy. Speak to the teachers, speak to the formators, speak to other parents. See if groups of boys can visit, and if their fathers can go with them to have the opportunity to see everything on the inside over a period of days. Check out what prayer life is encouraged, what responsibilities the boys are given, if their life is balanced, if they play, if a sacramental life is encouraged, if there is devotion to Mary, if there is a spirit of charity and friendship among them, if there is self-mastery and high expectations, if there is love for the Church and for souls, if the atmosphere is one of joy.
Thirdly, you have to remember that even though high school seminaries are good in themselves, they may not be for every boy who is interested in the priesthood. The parents are an integral and necessary part of any decision in this regard, because of the boy's age. Parents are in the very delicate position of having to make a prudent decision as regards what is best for their son's vocation, so if they decide against the high school seminary it ought to be for reasons that are not selfish, and it ought to be in the best interest of his vocation. If a boy expresses an inclination to the priesthood at a young age and the parents for whatever reason decide against the high school seminary, they ought nevertheless to be conscious of the possibility of a vocation and resolve to do all they can to help and protect whatever vocation there may be there. It has been my unfortunate experience in many cases to see that parents out of misguided zeal for their sons to have "normal experiences" tend to push them into situations that prove destructive for their basic Christian life, not to mention a possible vocation. Kids are always going to have friends and do things together, coming under each other's influence, so when choosing for your son it is good to be very realistic about the atmosphere and circle of friends he is going to be immersed in either place, and the influences he will be under.
You may have further questions, but just to summarize: the Church is in favor of high school seminaries, you have to check out the individual school to see if it is well run, and to judge if it is the best for your child. The best way is to visit and speak to parents of other boys at the school. And if you are open to your boy going and he wants to, don't let him jump right into it, make sure he visits there and participates and does an introductory program so that the formators at the school have a chance to get to know him, see him in action and say if they think it is the place for him.
God bless.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Books from ALA
My thanks go most especially to Penguin for the wonderful selection of books they brought with them to the conference and to the generous discounts they provided.
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Greenwich Village, 1937, jazz, a chance encounter and the upper echelons of New York society feature in this novel by Amor Towles. Sounds like a fantastic period piece!
The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan
"A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances. The Odds is a reminder that love, like life is always a gamble" (from the book flap). I'm intrigued by the Niagra Falls setting and hope the story is beautiful rather than depressing.
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
"Welcome to Chromaticia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see" (from back cover of book). The Tuesday Next books have been so much fun! Hope this new series by Fforde is just as funny.
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Story about the Titanic published by Europa. I'm not familiar with the author, but I am familiar with the publisher so thought I'd give this one a try. "This remarkable, haunting tale reaffirms Bainbridge's lofty reputation as a consummate observer of the human condition" (from the book flap).
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Have I read A Discovery of Witches yet? No. But could I say no when the publisher pushed this ARC into my hands at ALA? Of course not! I did not know that the author is also a history professor at USC. Did you?
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
"Fans of Downton Abbey and Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden will absolutely adore The House at Tyneford" (from the book cover). Do I need to explain why I picked this book up?
The Widow's Daughter by Nicholas Edlin
"Spellbinding Story of love, war, and betrayal" (from the back cover). The synopsis leads me to believe this debut novel will be a mystery and a love story of epic proportions. We'll see, won't we?
The Orphan Master by Jean Zimmerman
Described on the back of the book as a "gripping historical thriller set in seventeenth-century Manhattan." This was another ARC pushed into my hands by the publisher at ALA. I think they liked me at the Penguin booth!
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
A "riveting, exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family" (from the back cover). I couldn't believe I actually got an ARC of this Erdrich book. This one shall happily join my collection of Louise Erdrich novels. Yes, I am an Erdrich fan.
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
I like what Michael Ondaatje has to say about Banks: "I trust his portrait of America more than any other - the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it." This one sounds like noir which is not my favorite, but it was a lovely finished copy that the publisher gave to me so I thought I'd try it.
Intruder by C.J. Cherryh
Wonderful science fiction. This title is part of the Foreigner series. I bought this one for my husband, but I'm sure I'll be reading it too.
Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull
"When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, a cryptic picture message from their mother leads young sisters Summer and Bird through a familiar gate and into the woods where the sad, electric song of a tiny patchwork bird draws them Down. In this ruined, frozen world of birds, their divided hearts will lead them in very different directions in a quest toward united goals: vanquish the ravenous, bird-swallowing Puppeteer and reveal the true heir to the swan queen's throne" (from the back cover). This is the only young reader/YA novel I picked up at ALA. The cover on this ARC is absolutely lovely. I would have picked it up for that alone, but the promise of a magical story makes it all the more appealing.
Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnett
"Our personal libraries reveal our true nature. Far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings" (from the book flap). Who doesn't like books about books? Well, some may not care for this category but I generally enjoy it. This is one of two non-fiction books I picked up at ALA.
Too Big to Know by David Weinberger
Weinberger can be described as a philosopher. He is also a Senior Researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He is also the author of Everything is Miscellaneous. I attended his lecture, at ALA, on the concepts of knowledge ... and IT WAS AWESOME! Of course I stood in line to get a signed copy of Too Big to Know.
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- Anonymous7/04/2012 12:11 AM
Great books you got! I really want to read several of these too - especially Jasper Forde, Deborah Harkness, Jane Zimmerman. And Phantoms on the Bookshelves really sounds great! Our book shelves really tell a lot about us. You are kind of making yourself an open book if you have your books prominently placed in your home!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/04/2012 1:04 AM
Love the new layout :) It's very light and easy on the eyes.ReplyDelete
I'll be curious to hear what you think of Shadow of Night. I thought A Discovery of Witches was okay (it had it's bad points but was also enjoyable to read), but I can't really say the same for the sequel.
Great selection of books :)
I like the colour combinations. Very restful and inviting. It must have been lovely to meet with other librarians and talk with publishers. You couldn't come away from there without a decent haul of books! They should keep you busy for a while. :)ReplyDelete
Christina: It is so true that our books say something about us. I love to see what others have on their shelves.ReplyDelete
Iris and Violet: Thank you for the feedback! I thought the color scheme was restful and pleasant to look at too.
I'm looking forward to these new books ... right after I read some more of Clarissa, Christina!
Congratulations on your society induction!ReplyDelete
Looks like an excellent pile of books. I'm especially intrigued by the historical titles.
I recently read A Discovery of Witches and loved it! I'm eager to read the next one, so color me just a tad jealous!ReplyDelete


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Friendship: Me & Mr. Smith
I've always considered myself mostly a loner – one of those guys with a lot of acquaintances but very few real friends. Though I can say (like my old man used to say) that I know people in every port I've visited, I've bounced around too much and traveled too much to really make good friendships. You know, the type of friend that will still be there for you after your wallet is empty. The type that you can always count on, not so much for big things, but just for a friendly word and smile when you need it most. I may not have many close friends but the ones that I have, I feel honored to know… from a childhood friend like Dominic Roggio, who was there for me throughout my cancer nightmare, to Nicky Kalliongis who befriended me right after my life came apart at the seams after AMERICADE broke up in 1984. Of course, my best friend is my soul mate, my wife Lisa and now, although I'm daddy first and always, I consider my four sons my best friends.
There are some friends though, that although you might not know them your whole life or have spent a whole lot of time with them, are just special to you… nothing heavy …just a friend that, no matter how much time passes since you seen them last, never makes you feel distant. Greg Smith has always been that kind of friend to me.
We met a long time ago in a place far, far away… a lot of beers ago! Even as I type this, a smile comes on my face, because Greg is that type of friend – someone who seems to always be happy with his lot (the Irish in him, I suspect) and always on top of his game. He's been a "professional" musician as long as I know him and in professional, I don't just mean he gets paid for playing, because all of us scrubs have done that. I mean, he's a rare breed that always carries himself like a pro. He can rock as hard as anyone I've ever seen or had the honor to perform with (Greg's the best bass player I've ever known and I've known my share); he can step off the stage and have a pint with you but then, usually while the rest of us become drunken fools (read: me), Greg is shaking hands and booking his next gig.
When a band, like the one I was in breaks up, you go from the spotlight to lights out with most everyone and in a heartbeat. The entertainment business can be brutal and the moment you're not engaged …your history. Like my cancer experience (which was 1,000 times worse) you become a social pariah, as if your being out of a gig (or having cancer) is contagious, but Greg's the type that never treats you differently …whether I was on top of the world or the "balls of my ass" (another "my Pop" expression, not sure what it means), Greg always treated me the same, with a smile and a kind word …it's funny how, out of all your life experiences …a smile and a kind word actually end up meaning the most!
I didn't write this to embarrass the happy Irishman or any of my other friends but something about my cancer battle makes me feel like - time is too short – and we seem to spend too much time on bs …and not enough time valuing and expressing what matters most to us. To me it's my faith, my family and my friends …and nothing else even comes close. The apostle Paul tells us:
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." (Phil 4:8)
I'm sure if any of you are reading this and know him, you probably have similar feelings toward Mr. Smith …he's just that type of guy …so I said it for all of us! It's where my head is at, on this beautiful Sabbath!
I really like the social networking (my website …Facebook …Twitter… etc) because it allows someone like me to stay connected …and I think for the first time in my life, I'm making more, real friendships with so many of you who may be reading this now …very cool!
There are a bunch of "Greg and me" tales to tell – maybe another time – another blog. For today - later on I'll be going out with my wife and when we raise our glass, we'll toast our friends and Greg Smith will be at the top of my list.
Going to the beach with your friends instead of your parents was sort of a rite of passage for most of us in Ridgewood in the 1970's. It meant traveling by bus and train (usually bumping into ½ the neighborhood on the way) each of us with our ghetto blasters (usually blasting the radio, sometimes cassettes), stopping at the dirty, grimy delis on the other side of the boardwalk to buy some ice cold beer (Buds, Miller, Michs were usually the choices) and then finding your own little space on the sand!
Now the beach most of us went to was Rockaway Beach in Queens, NY. In those days, Jones Beach was way too far for us to get to (without someone driving you), Staten Island Beaches were the same – you needed a car to get to them and Coney Island could be a …tough place to go and return in one piece …at least that was the rumor.
Its funny looking back ...there were two beaches at Rockaway that were most popular …they were named for the streets (which were numbered) that lead to them. One was "Beach 116" and the other was "108." Beach 116 was, by far, the most popular beach. I can still remember looking out to the water from the boardwalk and literally not seeing any sand …just one blanket next to the next blanket, next to the next blanket, etc. The sound …the sound was AMAZING! Try to picture hearing 1,000 ghetto blasters all tuned to the same radio station (usually 102.7FM) each blasting Led Zep's "Black Dog!" The smells were a mixture of hot dogs… hamburgers and wacky weed mixed in with the smell of the ocean. Of course most of us Italians would sometimes bring meatball heroes even to the beach …but that's taking this story in another direction.
"108" was a much deeper beach (measuring from the boardwalk to the water) and much less populated. It was known as the beach you would bring your girlfriend… or your girl that was a friend for a little heavy-petting beach-style! …my mind is drifting …back to reality!
We'd hang out… drink beers from our coolers… take an occasional dip in the water, most of us in cut-off dungarees with fringe hanging from the bottom. Some of the beach blankets were actually bed sheets with logos of bands on them… ZEP, STYX, QUEEN, TULL, FLOYD, THE DEAD, etc. …man everyone had their favorites but no one cared as long as it was rock and it was piping out of our radios.
Nothing tasted better than washing down one of the greasy hamburgers they sold there with an ice cold bottle of beer at Rockaway beach 116. I started my trek there when I was 13 or 14 years old …yes I was drinking already (so was virtually every other kid in Ridgewood in those days …legal drinking age was 18 back then, but the Korean delis in Ridgewood and the dirty delis at 116 would sell beer and cigarettes to infants that crawled into their stores.
By the time I was 16, I was already hitching rides with friends that had cars and moving onto greener pastures (one thing about Rockaway… it wasn't "greener pastures"), but the memories of the few years …the few summers …the few weekends …the few days, when I really look at it – that I spent there, left indelible memories. Even as I type this, I'm hearing echoes of "Stairway to Heaven" blaring for everyone's boom boxes as we all packed up and headed for home.
Anyone else out there have memories of Rockaway beach 116 or 108… leave a comment! Peace, g
From 1969 to 1975 along with Jimmy Wellinghoff and my brother Peter, I played solo soprano for the St. Aloysius Blue Eagles drum and bugle corps. The drum corps was the first entity to place a musical instrument in my hands (actually 3 instruments, first a G-horn, then a one-valve, then the prized valve & rotor bugle). To this day, I'm still not sure whether I want to thank them or blame them – but that's a story for another blog. I know this blog might not appeal to everyone, but to those who were part of drum corps, some of my memories might bring a smile:
- Saugerties for 4th of July - Every 4th the Blue Eagles used to travel up to Saugerties, New York. We would play a "round robin" in front of the firehouse and get to spend the rest of the day down by the water. Couldn't wait to strip out of our uniforms and put on our cut-off jeans and jump in! Two different years, one of the two buses that St. Aloysius owned and we used, broke down in the tunnel in New York (both times I was on it). They used to get us home just in time to shoot off fireworks.
- The Puerto Rican Day Parade – I marched in 6 of them and every single year something bad would happen. I remember some of the horn line dropping from heat exhaustion. I remember Mr. Scomma telling me that he would carry my helmet. I thanked him but told him, "No thanks" – after all, it was the only thing that protected my head from all the rocks and bottles that the Puerto Ricans would throw at us from their roof tops. I'm still not sure if that was there ethnic way of thanking us for traveling all the way to the city to march 5 miles in blistering heat. I remember one year, someone got hit with a bottle and his head was bleeding (anyone reading this that remembers, leave a comment and let me know who it was – it was one of the older guys in the baritone section or the double-bass player). That parade ended with our whole corps having to run for our lives a couple of blocks to our buses. Nothing like ending a few miles of marching with an all-out sprint in 90-degree humidity.
- Our band review down in the "Madonna" room – every year, the Blue Eagles would perform in a band review, held in the basement of the church, for the community. We would put our uniforms on downstairs in the school cafeteria, then walk up Stockholm St. and line up just outside the entrance to the Madonna Room. I used to think it was so cool because the drum line would play and we would march in single file to a room full of people for a rare indoor performance. Afterwards, we got to hang out while the room turned into a dance hall. It was our chance to hang out in our uniforms and try and attract a girl or two. It beat having bottles thrown at your head.
- Our competitions – the Blue Eagles was considered a "junior" corps. I remember competing against the Wynn Center Toppers – they were composed of mainly African-American kids …or what I thought looked like African-American adults posing as kids! They were unbeatable and some in their drum line looked older than my parents. I still remember their cadence "…dum da-da-da-da dum da-da ..dum da-da-da …Da-DA! We never placed very high.
- Our repertoire:
o They Called the Wind Mariah
o Big Country
o Man From La Mancha
o Marlboro
There were so many other memories. My brother Peter went on to play solo soprano for the Long Island Sunrisers (1974-1976). He had wanted to join the Hawthorne Caballeros but he couldn't find someone to drive him to New Jersey. As it turned out, he was very happy to join the Sunrisers – even though they weren't very good in '74-'76. I wanted to join them with him but I was too young – besides the minimum age requirement, it was all the nudity that was a regular part of being in a senior corps …but that's also a story for another blog.
If you read this and have your own drum corps memories – please, leave them in the comments! Peace! g
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My book, Principles of Big Data: Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information was published last year by Morgan Kaufmann.
There are three crucial topics related to data preparation that are omitted from virtually every other Big Data book: identifiers, immutability, and introspection.
A thoughtful identifier system ensures that all of the data related to a particular data object will be attached to the correct object, through its identifier, and to no other object. It seems simple, and it is, but many Big Data resources assign identifiers promiscuously, with the end result that information related to a unique object is scattered throughout the resource, attached to other objects, and cannot be sensibly retrieved when needed. The concept of object identification is of such overriding importance that a Big Data resource can be usefully envisioned as a collection of unique identifiers to which complex data is attached. Data identifiers are discussed in Chapter 2.
Immutability is the principle that data collected in a Big Data resource is permanent, and can never be modified. At first thought, it would seem that immutability is a ridiculous and impossible constraint. In the real world, mistakes are made, information changes, and the methods for describing information changes. This is all true, but the astute Big Data manager knows how to accrue information into data objects without changing the pre-existing data. Methods for achieving this seemingly impossible trick is described in detail in Chapter 6.
Introspection is a term borrowed from object oriented programming, not often found in the Big Data literature. It refers to the ability of data objects to describe themselves when interrogated. With introspection, users of a Big Data resource can quickly determine the content of data objects and the hierarchical organization of data objects within the Big Data resource. Introspection allows users to see the types of data relationships that can be analyzed within the resource and clarifies how disparate resources can interact with one another. Introspection will be described in detail in Chapter 4.
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Ok, I think that I figured out how to share the Character Creation Program via Google Docs. There are 3 files you need to download and then install in order before opening:
1.GURPS Character Assistant 4th
2. GCA Update
3. GCA Patch
Once you've installed all three look under the start menu for GURPS Character Assistant 4 and run it. The first time it will pop up asking you if you want to choose which files to install, click yes. It should pop up with a screen with a list on the left of different source material. It should by default have the 4th ed. characters book on the right side already, leave that and then add the space book and the Traveller Interstellar war books and press ok. When you first make a new character it will ask you how many points to use and TL limit and so on. Put in 120 pts for the initial, -40 for the disadvantage limit and TL 11 for starter TL. And there you go, now you can create your character using the program. It doesn't have descriptions of the advantages and skills or anything, but if you have the GURPS Basic Handbook 4th open while you're creating the character, you can look up what everything is. The Template feature is also pretty nice for getting you started. Just play around with it and see how it works.


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Failed Legal Maneuvers Against Sathya Sai Baba: PART THREE
Barry Pittard's Bold-Faced Lies About Justice P.N. Bhagwati:
On Barry Pittard's defamatory Anti-Sai WordPress blog, he said the following about Justice P.N. Bhagwati and Hari Sampath's writ petition:
"One of India's top advocates, Kamini Jaiswal, took the case on behalf of Hari Sampath, a noted dissenter from Sai Baba, formerly from the Security wing at Puttaparthi, and she and her assisting Counsel Prashant Kumar and Gaurav Agarwal and their client had to suffer the ignominy of a kangaroo court presided over by the profoundly compromised judges: S.P. Barucha, A.S. Anand, G.B. Patnaik (or G.B. Pattnaik), and R.C. Lahoti. Each one of these went on to become Chief Justice of India. Their CJ at the time was P.N. Bhagwati, a very active member of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, well known for keeping a damper on Sai Baba scandals over many years. As a number of us know personally, when the legal notes for this case are shown in legal quarters, including eminent ones, where mature democratic principles much more cohere, the lawyers are disgusted!"
Although it is true that Justice P.N. Bhagwati is a Sai Devotee, he never presided over (or exerted influence over) any court case pertaining to Sai Baba because no actual court cases ever involved the Guru. Furthermore, Justice Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati was a Chief Justice from July 1985 – December 1986.
Barry Pittard is adept in distorting the truth and is wholly incapable of conducting even the most remedial of research. For those who care for the truth, Justice P.N. Bhagwati retired from his Chief Justice position on December 20th 1986 (Ref), fifteen years before Hari Sampath filed his bogus writ petition. Therefore, Justice P.N. Bhagwati was not the Chief Justice at the time of Hari Sampath's writ petition (as erroneously claimed by Pittard). Because Barry Pittard was under the false notion that Justice P.N. Bhagwati was the presiding Chief Justice at that time, he trashed, bashed and smeared all of the Justices as being "profoundly compromised" and insinuated that they were favorably inclined towards Sai Baba. These are the typical gutter tactics that Barry Pittard can often be seen employing against his former Guru (after whom he named his own son, which he fathered with a 21 year-old when he was 58 years old and old enough to be her grand-father: Ref).
If Barry Pittard cannot get these basic facts correct about Justice P.N. Bhagwati (before peddling his disinformation as the truth on his Anti-Sai blog), what does this say about the integrity of his claims about Sai Baba?
"Justice P.N. Bhagwati is one of the most distinguished jurists of India since the independence of that country. He presided over the Supreme Court of India as its Chief Justice until his retirement. Under his leadership the Indian Supreme Court has developed comprehensive human rights jurisprudence for India . He, through creative interpretation, expanded the reach and context of human rights embodied in the Constitution. He developed the strategy of Public Interest Litigation with a view to making human rights meaningful for the large masses of poor and disadvantaged people. This is a strategy, which has won admiration in many common law jurisdictions.
He is closely connected with a large number of NGOs, both in India and outside, and has been motivating and inspiring grassroots human rights and development NGOs. Justice Bhagwati is the Chairman of the South Asian Task Force on Judiciary. He is Vice-Chairman of El Taller, an International Human Rights Development Organization located in Tunis . He has organized a number of judicial colloquia in different parts of the Commonwealth on "Domestic Application of International Human Rights norms" for judges in the Commonwealth. He has also promoted and participated in numerous workshops of lawyers and judges on the subject of human rights organized by NGOs and was Chairman of the World Congress on Human Rights held in New Delhi in December 1990.
He has been a member of the Committee of Experts of the ILO for over 15 years. For over 6 years he was the Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and he is now elected as the Chairman. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has taken him as Regional Adviser for the Asia Pacific Region. He has also carried out several missions for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the International Commission of Jurists. His services have been utilized by several countries, including Mongolia , Cambodia , Nepal , Ethiopia , and South Africa in framing their Constitutions and particularly the chapters on human rights. He was a member of the Goldstone Commission of inquiry in South Africa . He was also involved in finalizing the draft manual for training of judges in human rights prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Justice Bhagwati has been particularly active in the area of women's human rights. He has been the moderator and the main resource person for at least three judicial workshops of women judges for domestic application of international human rights norms in the jurisprudence of women's human rights, one in Victoria Falls for African judges, the other in Hong Kong for Asia Pacific judges and the third in Guyana for Caribbean judges. He presided over the Peoples Tribunal for Violence against Women at the Vienna Human Rights congress. This Tribunal was organized by International Women NGOs.
He has been responsible for a considerable amount of work in the field of human rights and development among tribals and particularly tribal women in South and East India and has provided leadership to the NGO, AWARE, in making 6,000 villages self-reliant. Two large complexes in rural areas have been named after him. He is a household name amongst the poor and underprivileged sectors of Indian society.
Justice P.N. Bhagwati was responsible for making a large number of innovations with a view to providing access to justice to the poor and disadvantaged. He enlarged the doctrine of locus standi before the Supreme Court and the High Courts for vindicating the individual and collective rights of those who were denied access to justice on account of poverty or social or economic disability.
He at the same time worked successfully to build up an elaborate legal aid programme. He is widely regarded as the originator of India 's legal aid programme, including setting up of legal aid camps in rural areas, working with NGOs, establishing legal aid clinics etc.
Numerous documentaries have been made on him and his work including one where he is one of six outstanding Indians on whose life the Indian TV has done a profile. He has been the most visible member of India 's Judiciary since independence. His reputation and his impact, through his judicial and legal aid work, is so enormous that the public response has been quite phenomenal, e.g., a village where the tribal people benefited from his judgement, renamed the village after him calling it BHAGWATI PURAM.
He has championed the cause of workers and labourers. His thought provoking judgements on bonded and unorganized labour and child labour have resulted in various legislations and government schemes in improving their social and economic conditions. He is also involved in the programme of sustainable development and has been responsible for developing poverty jurisprudence in India.
His services have been availed of by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He is the Chairman of Eminent Persons Group for Study of questions relating to refugees. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL) based in Geneva and as such he is associated with many of the activities of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva.
He has also been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague for the last several years. He was also a member of the International Mediation Team with Henry Kissinger and Lord Carrington for mediation between Inkatha and ANC before the elections in South Africa.
He is presently Chairman of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the United Nations. He is also the Regional Adviser to the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the entire Asia and Pacific Region. He is also a Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Bank for Legal and Judicial Reforms. He is also the Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is Chancellor of the Hyderabad University.
He is also Chancellor of Shr Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
He is also the Honorary Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York." (Reference)
This is the type of esteemed and well-respected individual that critic's casually defame, mock and trivialize to bolster their lamentable case against Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Also see:
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part One
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Two
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Three (You Are Here)
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Four
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Five
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Six
– Failed Legal Maneuvers: Part Seven
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From their MySpace...
Thanks to the almighty Seafood fans on this site and on our message board we won the playlist competition and got a slot at the Truck festival. We are now asking for your help once more. Despite releasing a great single which is getting great reviews and feedback daytime radio play still eludes Seafood even after 10 years of service.
The head of XFM claims he is not a fan of the band so won't playlist us, radio 1 don't think we are big enough yet to be played......This does not seem fair to us, so if you want to try and make a difference and rebel against the chosen taste makers and you would prefer to hear us on the radio as opposed to Keane then please email the names below and request they play the new Seafood single ''Signal Sparks'' As for all our international fans please do the same, you can listen to all these shows on the internet so get requesting!
The xfm links are direct ones to London/Scotland & Manchester playlist requests. So take 5 mins out of your day and email these people and hopefully they might sit up and listen.
Thanks to everyone for your support and see some of you on the UK tour next week.
Give the indie rock soldiers the support they deserve!
"not big enough yet"
bless them...
The first half of When Do We Start Fighting
is one of the best first halves of any album ever.
quite true
i still rate their gig at the Electric Ballroom (support from Snow Patrol, Jetplane Landing and The Rock Of Travolta) as my favourite gig ever. they were on fire, really fucking loud and David screaming lyrics like there was no tomorrow. amazing stuff.
i'm really looking forward to seeing them twice in a week :o)
I remember that Reading set when they threw water pistols into the crowd
That was a good show. Wish I'd have got one of those pistols though :(
What exactly have Seafood ever done that an already successful band haven't done better 5 years before?
Dear god they sound like 2001. All we need is Halo and Serafin supporting and you can have a proper party down.
Seafood have nothing to do with Halo or Serafin !
Great band that produced very good albums...
I like food!
haven't heard the 'food...
are wicked, canne wait for TrucK!
Did everyone do this?
just checking...
I did actually.
got 4 automated responses.