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September 2012 4Word EditorialPosted in Features on September 1, 2012
This 4Word isn't about off-roading, but from your letters and emails, I know some of you have wider vehicular tastes than just 4x4s. I do, too.
You may remember my first vehicle, a '61 Chevy Apache 20 pickup. A '62 Chevy pickup with a 283ci V-8 was my second. In the summer of 1972, I went to Europe, spent some time there, and became enamored with the smaller vehicles plying the narrow, twisty roads and wide, fast autobahns and autoroutes. After returning home, I had to have one of those cars. I soon procured a new German-built 1972 Opel Manta Rallye (not to be confused with the Opel GT or the older Opel Rallye Kadett).
The Manta didn't take the place of a 1972 CJ5 that was in the garage, but going to the university a couple of states away made owning something that was more frugal a necessity. Gas averaged 36 cents a gallon in late 1972, but after the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), and Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia proclaimed an oil embargo in 1973, gas prices climbed to about 70 cents a gallon. This sounds cheap, but adjusting for inflation, $0.70 equals about $3.20 today, so it wasn't cheap at all — especially for a college student.
The Manta returned 28 mpg, had a perfect 50/50 weight bias, and handled as if it was on rails. For a relatively cheap rear-drive car, it had a great coil-spring suspension with A-arms and lower transverse links up front and a live axle with lower trailing arms and Panhard rod in back. The 1.9L cam-in-head I-4 motivated the car well, although it was a bit slower in a straight line than the BMW 2002. Note that I said straight line. Once the road curved, the Opel left the BMW, and everything else in that class, in the dust.
The Opel looked great, too. My bright orange Rallye model came with a blacked-out hood, fog lights (that were immediately changed to giant Cibie driving lights) and a simple, Spartan interior that sported all necessary gauges. The seats were better than most OE offerings of that day and were quite comfortable. If there was a cloud over Opel's U.S. presence, it was that they were sold by Buick dealerships that catered to people interested in cloud-soft behemoths built for silver-haired owners who couldn't afford Cadillac luxury. Most Buick dealers treated Opels with disdain.
My university had a sports car club, so I joined to participate in the autocrosses they put on. The Opel did surprisingly well, even with me, the off-roader, at the wheel. The SCCA had just started its Showroom Stock racing series, and the Manta was one of the cars allowed. Not for long, though. The Opel Manta did so well with its perfectly neutral handling, good brakes, and useable power, the SCCA banned it from competition to give other makes a chance to win.
That didn't stop the Opel from being a great car. I enjoyed it until I started trying to work on it. Jeeps were simple compared to this car (actually, Jeeps were simple). My fellow dorm residents laughed about seeing me working on the Manta with its hood up as I tried to fix something; then, seeing the car sitting there; then, seeing a tow truck towing it away to the Buick dealer.
Every time the Opel went to the dealer's service department, it returned more fouled up. Ultimately, I limped it home to Southern California and sold it. It had no heater, a wheezing, missing mill that needed a carburetor tune that no one, including myself, could get right, and numerous problems caused by the Buick dealership that had no idea how to fix a small German automobile.
The Opel Manta didn't deserve the lack of love it received in the U.S. from its dealerships. It was, and still is, a great car that was much better than its competition in the early 1970s, the beginning of a very bad time for the automobile. I can't remember all the vehicles I've owned, but my Opel Manta Rallye still holds a special place in my heart. Driving it was almost as fun as backcountry exploring.


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A 22-year-old Brooklyn college grad, who reportedly told his student paper, "money drives me completely," is now facing a lawsuit by Facebook Inc. over fraud related to the social network's ad space.
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When users clicked on ads Grunin placed on Facebook, they were redirected to third-party websites that paid him for the referral traffic, cutting the social network out of the transaction entirely, the lawsuit states. Grunin also sold Facebook accounts he'd created for up to $30,000 apiece to other marketers, the suit says.
Facebook has since shut down 70 accounts with ties to Grunin after discovering links to fake email addresses and falsified bank accounts. Facebook estimates Grunin pocketed nearly $350,000.
The New York Post is calling him a "Wolf of Wall Street" wannabe, who made YouTube videos, gloating about big trades and fast money, and posted in forums about going "from $10,000 to $100,000 in 6 months" by trading in the futures market.
The New York Post has also unearthed an interview Grunin did that was printed in the St. Francis College student paper last year:
"'I've gotten so used to just being able to go anywhere without looking at any price tags,' Grunin boasted to his college paper in an article that featured him looking every bit Gordon Gekko in suspenders and tie as he sat in a flashy orange Lamborghini he'd rented."
The newspaper reached out to Grunin; he lives with his father, who declined to comment on his behalf.
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La Crosse, WI -- May 2012 -- It's a dream home on water, a green machine and a luxury liner all rolled into one! Meet the "2013 SkipperLiner Commander 650 SL," a modern, customized "Spec Yacht" currently being created by one of the oldest, most reliable boat building companies in the country, SkipperLiner. The Commander will be among the Top Boats featured during the 2012 Progressive Insurance Chicago In-Water Boat Show June 7-10 at the 31st Street Harbor between J&K Demo Docks.
With more than 1,000 award-winning passenger vessels, custom yachts, houseboats and other boats produced since 1971, SkipperLiner's latest might just be the pinnacle of its 41-year production history. The Commander's many outstanding custom features include:
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"Who is the Commander being built for?" asks Griffith rhetorically. "It's an ideal second home for a retiring and/or adventurous executive who loves boating, and it would make a perfect family pleasure vessel in any climate or along any waterway except deep ocean faring. We know from a recent review of our customers over time that among SkipperLiner Leisure and Commercial vessel owners, they are often wealthy and educated retirement-age males 55-plus that make up the expansive Baby Boomer age group. Maybe the owner of this state-of-art craft is out there in that demographic. Whoever steps up to claim the Commander is going to get a piece of boating history!"
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SkipperLiner is the county's largest manufacturer of yachts, houseboats and passenger vessels in theUnited States, anchored on the banks of the Mississippi, in the largest yacht building and marine supplier state in the country, Wisconsin. It is also one of the only passenger vessel builders in the U.S.to manufacture the entire vessel, from fabrication to paint coating to final assembly, indoors. Its climate-controlled facility delivers efficient labor, tight quality control and timely delivery. TheMississippi River out its back door provides worldwide access to SkipperLiner, a key service feature.
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In Marvel's new superhero action fantasy "Ant-Man," Corey Stoll plays the brilliant but twisted Darren Cross, who battles with the film's titular hero in both human and insect forms.
It may be a comic book movie, but Stoll took his role as villain as much to heart as he does all his characters.
"You have to service this function as the villain in order to give the hero an obstacle to overcome," Stoll said in a recent interview at Disney Studios in Burbank. But that's just the start of it.
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btw if i do pause the unit that goes on the ice would it still move with your system?
EDIT: Oh yea, your system can turn off turning...
so if i wanted 2 different terrains with the same trigger
would i copy the trigger
then on the second one replace "Nice" with whatever i want then make it turn of sliding?
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EDITEDIT: when i copy it the variables aren't there =(
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EDITEDITEDITEDIT: When i went to save it so far, all the jass broke...
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, one of the (many) things my husband and I discussed and researched was whether or not we would allow our baby to be vaccinated.
We had friends with strong feelings on both sides of the fence. Many in the holistic community felt that most, if not all, vaccinations for children were not only archaic, but dangerous. I heard and read about how vaccines can damage children's immune systems, cause allergic reactions and have even been linked to conditions such as autism and MS. Scary stuff.
On the other hand, we had friends who felt very strongly that not only were vaccinations completely safe and effective, they were potentially life-saving.
There was certainly much to consider.
We opted not to have our baby vaccinated in the hospital when she was born. We waited until her two week visit with her new pediatrician to talk with the doc face-to-face the pros and cons of vaccinating before making any decisions.
What we learned is that children in this country still contract -- and even die from -- diseases that are preventable by vaccine. We mistakenly believe that whooping cough (also known as pertussis) and measles are diseases suffered only by children in old movies and television shows (remember the episode of "Little House On the Prairie" when poor Mary and Laura Ingalls got the measles?). In actuality, there has been a resurgence in instances of both diseases in the past few years. In fact, 2011 saw the highest number of measles cases in the US in 15 years.
Our daughter's pediatrician explained that as fewer children become vaccinated, these numbers will no doubt continue to rise. She also said that the parents who opt not to vaccinate their children are -- whether consciously or not -- relying on those parents who do to protect their own children. In other words, as long as the majority of children in this country are vaccinated, we are less likely to have outbreaks of these diseases in epidemic proportion. But what if everyone stopped vaccinating?
At the end of our investigation, we made the decision to vaccinate our daughter. And we felt good about it. At the time we made our decision, I was just a few days out from a major cancer diagnosis and I wasn't in the mood to take chances with anyone's health, especially my daughter's.
A couple of weeks ago, we took our daughter to the pediatrician for her one year check-up. During that visit, she received the scheduled vaccinations for chicken pox as well as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella). We were told that some children experience an allergic reaction to these vaccinations; and that if ours did, it would likely occur 10 to 14 days after she received the shots.
Well, exactly 10 days later, our daughter started to show signs that something was wrong. She had a low grade fever and was very fussy. We attributed this either to teething or the cold she had picked up at daycare. However, when the symptoms persisted and she began to develop a rash, we realized that she was likely having a reaction to one of the vaccinations. By the third day, she had spots all over her face and body, and she was miserable (as were we).
We confirmed with her doctor that our daughter was indeed experiencing a reaction to one of the vaccinations she received. I felt terrible, and began to question whether or not I had erred in allowing her to have the shots. I was almost afraid to tell my crunchy anti-vaccination friends about our girl's side effects, as I knew I would inevitably hear some (kinder) version of "I told you so."
As parents, my husband and I made what we felt was the best decision we could make about our daughter's health, based on the information available to us at the time. We did not blindly agree to take a step that would impact our child's health and well-being without thoroughly investigating the facts on both sides of the debate. And I don't regret it. Even though my daughter had a few fussy, blotchy days and I felt terrible watching her experience discomfort, I knew I'd feel worse if she contracted a potentially deadly disease that could have been prevented with a vaccination.
Now, I respect those friends who choose not to have their children immunized, and understand that they, too, are making decisions they feel are best for the future health and well-being of their children. And I would certainly never deride any parent for making choices different than my own.
I'll no doubt get shit for deciding to vaccinate my child, and be accused of exposing her to a virus to which she might not otherwise have been exposed. My hope, however, is to start a respectful, informed dialogue among the mom community. After all, we all love our children and want what's best for them. We want to protect them from harm and sickness and discomfort as much as possible. And we need to stick together, us moms. Because parenting isn't easy.
All of that being said, I'd love to hear from you.
Did you choose to vaccinate your children? Why, or why not? And do you regret your decision?
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Lady Miners lose to West Valley in playoff game
COTTONWOOD, Calif.—
The Yreka Lady Miners lost in the first round of the Northern Section Division 4 playoffs to West Valley on the road in Cottonwood Friday night.
Yreka, the No. 12 seed, fell to the No. 5 seeded Eagles 51-25. The Lady Miners ended the season 12-14 overall, while West Valley improved to 13-14 overall.
I'm proud of the seven girls and the young players that stepped up," head coach Ken Dysert said. For a good portion of the year the team had only seven girls on the squad before three players from the junior varsity team were recently called up. "We didn't play well tonight but we are still proud of the girls," Dysert said.
In other playoff action involving Siskiyou Country teams on Tuesday night, the Butte Valley boys squad, the No. 11 seed in Division 6, lost to No. 6 seed Greenville 65-62. In the girls bracket in Division 5, Tulelake, the No. 9 seed, lost to No. 8 seed Modoc 49-44.
More Siskiyou County teams set to begin playoffs this evening
– A number of Siskiyou County teams begin Northern Section basketball playoff play tonight.
In Division 5, the Mount Shasta Lady Bears, the No 3. seed, is set to play host to No. 14 seed Esparto at 6:30 p.m. Originally, the game was scheduled for 7 p.m. to Tuesday but was moved to today. The Mount Shasta boys , the No. 4 seed, will host No. 13 seed Durham at 8 p.m.
The Yreka boys team earned the No. 10 seed in Division 4 and will travel today to take on No. 7 seed Sutter. The game is set for 6 p.m. Orignally, the contest was set for 7 p.m. but was moved an hour earlier due to the long drive back home for the Miners.
The Weed boys, the No. 3 seed in Division 5, will take on No. 14 Quincy at home today. The Tulelake boys, the No. 9 seed in Division 5, will travel to No. 8 Biggs. Both games are tentatively set for 7 p.m.
Lady Lions upset Hamilton in first round playoff game on Tuesday
HAMILTON CITY, Calif.— The Etna High girls varsity basketball team upset Hamilton 44-34 on the road Tuesday night in the first round of the NSCIF Division 5 playoffs.
Etna was the No. 10 seed while the Hamilton Lady Braves came in as the No. 7 seed.
Jessie Eiler led Lady Lion scorers with 13 points, while Sara Hoyt finished with 11 points. Etna improved to 12-10 for the year while Hamilton ended the season 12-14 overall.
Now, Etna will face a familiar opponent in the second round of the NSCIF playoffs when they face fellow Shasta Cascade team Weed.


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coolriverjoe needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
My name is Joe. I am in the gold buying business. People come to me to sell their unwanted gold, platinum, and silver. Now, I am looking to establish a website presence. So I can bring my trusted name in the business to the internet.
I am targeting people who want to sell their unwanted gold, platinum, and silver to a trusted source. With gold being at all time highs, it is now worth while then ever before to sell your unwanted or broken gold jewelry.
I want the site to mimic the site: goldfellow.com. But I want you to be creative in the headers, and in the general layout. Make sure the what we buy, and what we pay is included. It is very important. As for colors, please try and stick to gold and like colors.


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Hi Everyone,I'm very new to this and have a question i can't seem to find an answer on.I have an LED aquarium project where strings of LED's are controlled by buckpacks / drivers. My drivers accept a 0-5V pwm input.Each of these drivers accept an PWM input to control the output current.My problem is, I have a lot of drivers.
Can i split a single PWM output from my Arduino Mega to drive two or three LED drivers? Or will this affect the 0-5v signal the pwm output each driver would receive if i was try and run more than one driver off one pwm output?
Thanks for the replies everyone.I'm planning on running a maximum of 2 drivers off one single pwm output.So will I need a buffer?As the PWM is a logic level input signal to the drivers I would think you would have no problems driving two such input pins with an arduino output pin, AVR output pins are quite strong compared to standard TTL output drive standards.I have the spec sheet for the drivers however there's no mention about the current draw on the pwm input.What you can't be certain of is if two different drivers will track identically over the 0-100% PWM range. That is a 50% PWM output may not give you 50% brightness when using two different driver modules wired to their LEDs. You can only try it and see if that might be a visual problem or not.LeftyRegardsDanAustralia
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The White House Press Secretary just openly mocked Sarah Palin -- and he delivered the blow with the palm of his hand.
Robert Gibbs just addressed the media with a mini grocery list written on his hand -- plus two smart-ass additions: Eggs, Milk, Bread (which was crossed out), Hope, Change.
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The Henry County Board of Commissioners, District V Commissioner Bruce Holmes, Nidus Development and the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) Department have joined forces for a groundbreaking ceremony on two transformative projects that will change the face of the Fairview area, serving to improve commute times, improve access to healthcare and stimulate commerce in the area.
The first project is the Fairview Road Widening Project, one of the biggest transportation projects remaining on the SPLOST III project list. It consists of widening to four lanes 1.85 miles of roadway from Anvil Block Road to just beyond what is now the newly realigned West Panola and Fairview intersection, the installation of eight foot wide, multi-use paths on both sides of the road, decorative stamped concrete crosswalks, mast arm signal poles, decorative lighting and enhanced landscaping.
Ground breaking was also held for The Fairview Medical Center by Nidus Development, a critical first healthcare foray into northern Henry County, which has been historically underserved by the medical community.
This facility by Nidus Development is the first phase of a major mixed-use campus planned for the area to include an upscale, village concept retail component. The project is currently in the planning, design and site development phase.
According to Nidus Development, preliminary plans call for approximately 88,000 square feet of medical office space and 80,000 square feet of retail space, with opportunity for additional development. The campus will feature a park-like setting with splash fountains, green spaces, and walking trails. Upon completion, the Fairview Medical Center is projected to employ over 1,300 persons directly and indirectly, with an estimated $185 million economic impact.


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Sterling A. Brown's Life and Career
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Sterling Allen Brown was born on May 1901 into some have called the "smug" or even "affected" respectability of Washingtons African American middle class. He grew up in the Washington world of official segregation, which engendered a contradiction between full citizenship and marginalized existence. The son of a distinguished pastor and theologian, Brown graduated with honors from the prestigious Dunbar High School in 1918. That fall, he entered Williams College on a scholarship set aside for minority students. By the time he left in 1922, he had performed spectacularly: election to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, the Graves Prize for his essay "The Comic Spirit in Shakespeare and Moliére," the only student awarded "Final Honors" in English, and cum laude graduation with an AB degree.
At Harvard University from 1922 to 1923, Brown took an MA degree in English. In retrospect, he always talked about his fortuitous discovery of Louis Untermeyers Modern American Poetry (1921). This anthology, more than any other single work he read, radically altered his view of art by introducing him to the New American Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and other experimenters in melding vernacular language, democratic values, and "the extraordinary in ordinary life." When he left, however, he left knowing what the illustrator of Southern Road (1932) would later observe about him: "Harvard only gave you the way to put it down, not how to feel about things."
The sensitivity to the philosophical and poetic potential in African American folk life, lore, and language was developed in Brown during a series of teaching assignments in Negro colleges, including Virginia Seminary and College (1923-1926), Lincoln University in Missouri (1926-1928), and Fisk University (1928-1929). In each of these locations, he set about absorbing the cultural and aesthetic influences that would define the folk-based metaphysic of his art. On numerous "folklore collecting trips" into "jook-joints," barbershops, and isolated farms, Brown absorbed the wit and wisdom of Mrs. Bibby, Calvin "Big Boy" Davis, Slim Greer, and many more actual persons who are refashioned into the many memorable folk characters of his poetry.
The poetry collected into Southern Road challenges James Weldon Johnson's dictum that the that the poetic and philosophical range of Black speech and dialect is limited to pathos and humor. Although the minstrel and plantation traditions had heavily burdened African American speech with the yoke of racial stereotypes, Brown, along with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, admirably demonstrated the aesthetic potential of that speech when it is centered in careful study of the folk themselves. Brown came to this conclusion, as he said in a 1942 speech, when he discovered the way folklore became a lens through which to view African American vernacular language. Taking the approach of a creative writer to folklore, he said: "I was first attracted by certain qualities that I thought the speech of the people had, and I wanted to get for my own writing a flavor, a color, a pungency of speech. Then later, I came to something more important--I wanted to get an understanding of people, to acquire an accuracy in the portrayal of their lives."
Brown found support for his vision of "folk" in the work of Benjamin A. Botkin, whose term "folk-say" suggested a profound shift in folklore studies that Brown knew and approved of. Folklore, as Botkin pointed out, was something more than collecting, verifying, indexing, and annotating sources; it was people talking, doing, and describing themselves. To underscore this new emphasis, Botkin published a series of regional miscellanies under the name Folk-Say beginning in 1929. Brown contributed eighteen poems and two essays to editions two through four of Folk-Say.
The success of Brown's "theory" of folklore is revealed in its implementation. Brown's poetry received its motivation from a need to reveal the humanity that lies below the surface racial stereotypes only skim. There he found qualities erased by racial stereotype: "tonic shrewdness, the ability to take it, and the double-edged humor built up of irony and shrewd observation." Structurally, he made use of, as he said, "the clipped line, the blues form, and the refrain poem." Those folk forms were complemented by his astute experiments with traditional forms, such as the sonnet, villanelle, and ballad. Brown's frequent allusions to Black folk heroes such as John Henry, Stackolee, and Casey Jones also raised ordinary experience to mythic proportions.
Recently, literary historians have acknowledged the persistence of Brown's folk-based aesthetic in his critical and editorial work, too. But despite its coherence, his approach has received little study. Beginning in 1931-1932, when he returned to Harvard for doctoral study, Brown focused his critical writing on examinations of representational issues. The result was "Plays of the Irish Character: A Study in Reinterpretation" (an unpublished 1932 course thesis), "Negro Character as Seen by White Authors" (1933), The Negro in American Fiction (1937), and Negro Poetry and Drama (1937). The connecting link in Browns editorial and research work for the Federal Writers' Project, the Carnegie-Myrdal Study, and The Negro Caravan (1941), the most comprehensive literary anthology of Black writing of its time, is also his folk-based aesthetic. Collectively, this work points to Brown's need to demonstrate the diversity as well as the complexity of African American life. Against the conclusion of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) that Black life was a "distorted development, or a pathological condition, of the general American condition," Brown presented evidence that African American folk humor functioned as a strategy for exerting control in an often hostile world. Or when the specious argument was made accusing African Americans of having contributed very little to American literature, Brown, with coeditors Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee, presented The Negro Caravan as irrefutable proof of Black literary achievement.
Brown also attempts to correct the myopic lens used to view African Americans by writing a number of prose sketches that were to be collected and published as "A Negro Looks at the South." These pieces included "Out of Their Mouths," "Words on a Bus," "The Muted South," and several more. The shared reference to speech tells us much about Brown's view of language as a vehicle for determining cultural authenticity. That Brown admits to viewing these pieces as poems reveals more about his aesthetic, too. Each dialogue or conversation was a unit of speech and thus needed, as he said, "counterpoint, cadence, rhyming, timing, etc. for impact and truth." Therefore, if cuts had to be made, whole units of dialogue should be cut, not cuts within the unit.
The careful reconsideration of Black speech as a viable medium of artistic expression became for Brown the predominant means for reclaiming the humanity of African Americans. This pursuit, of course, had social implications. Brown and others shared the view that "art is a handmaiden to social policy." Although a staunch believer in the promises of the Constitution, Brown was aware that such provisions as the infamous "three-fifths compromise" began a lengthy list of stumbling blocks to achieving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The American dream meant for Brown the addition of two-fifths more, making a whole number. The root word in "integration" is "integer," which means "whole or complete." As literary historians and cultural critics reexamine the value of the vernacular in their respective pursuits, Brown's daring efforts to make Black folk speech claim a rightful place for him and his people will be properly acknowledged.
From The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press.
Robert Stepto
Brown, Sterling Allen (1 May 1901-13 Jan. 1989), professor of English, poet, and essayist, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Sterling Nelson Brown, a minister and divinity school professor, and Adelaide Allen. After graduating as valedictorian from Dunbar High School in 1918, Brown matriculated at Williams College, where he studied French and English literature and won the Graves Prize for an essay on Moličre and Shakespeare. He was graduated from Williams in 1922 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a Clark fellowship for graduate studies in English at Harvard University. Once at Harvard, Brown studied with Bliss Perry and notably with George Lyman Kittredge, the distinguished scholar of Shakespeare and the ballad. Kittredge's example as a scholar of both formal and vernacular forms of literature doubtlessly encouraged Brown to contemplate a similar professorial career, though for Brown the focus would be less on the British Isles than on the United States and on African-American culture in particular. Brown received his M.A. in English from Harvard in 1923 and went south to his first teaching job at Virginia Seminary and College at Lynchburg.
Brown's three years at Virginia Seminary represent much more than the beginning of his teaching career, for it was there that he began to immerse himself in the folkways of rural black people, absorbing their stories, music, and idioms. In this regard, Brown is usefully likened to two of his most famous contemporaries, Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer (with whom Brown attended high school). Like Hurston, Brown conducted a kind of iconoclastic ethnographic fieldwork among southern black people in the 1920s (she in Florida, he in Virginia) and subsequently produced a series of important essays on black folkways. Like Hurston and Toomer, Brown drew on his observations to produce a written vernacular literature that venerated black people of the rural South instead of championing the new order of black life being created in cities and the North. And like Toomer in particular, Brown's wanderings in the South represented not just a quest for literary material, but also an odyssey in search of roots more meaningful than what seemed to be provided by college in the North and black bourgeois culture in Washington. After Virginia Seminary, Brown taught briefly at Lincoln University in Missouri and Fisk University before beginning his forty-year career at Howard University in 1929.
Brown's first published poems, frequently "portraitures" of Virginia rural black folk such as Sister Lou and Big Boy Davis, appeared in the 1920s in Opportunity magazine and in celebrated anthologies including Countée Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1927) and James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922; 2d ed., 1931). When Brown's first book of poems, Southern Road was published in 1932, Johnson's introduction praised Brown for having, in effect, discovered how to write a black vernacular poetry that was not fraught with the limitations of the "dialect verse" of the Paul Laurence Dunbar era thirty years earlier. Johnson wrote that Brown "has made more than mere transcriptions of folk poetry, and he has done more than bring to it mere artistry; he has deepened its meanings and multiplied its implications." Johnson also showed his respect for Brown by inviting him to write the Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes (1931), a teacher's guide to accompany Johnson's poetry anthology.
The 1930s were productive and exciting years for Brown. In addition to settling into teaching at Howard and publishing Southern Road, he wrote a regular column for Opportunity ("The Literary Scene: Chronicle and Comment"), reviewing plays and films as well as novels, biographies, and scholarship by black and white Americans alike. From 1936 to 1939 Brown was the Editor on Negro Affairs for the Federal Writers' Project. In that capacity he oversaw virtually everything written about African Americans and wrote large sections of The Negro in Virginia (1940), a work that led to his being named a researcher on the Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro, which generated the data for Gunnar Myrdal's classic study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944). In 1937 Brown was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which afforded him the opportunity to complete The Negro in American Fiction and Negro Poetry and Drama, both published in 1937. The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes (1941), a massive anthology of African-American writing, edited by Brown with Ulysses Lee and Arthur P. Davis, continues to be the model for bringing song, folktale, mother wit, and written literature together in a comprehensive collection.
From the 1940s into the 1960s Brown was no longer an active poet, in part because his second book, "No Hidin' Place," was rejected by his publisher. Even though many of his poems were published in the Crisis, the New Republic, and the Nation, Brown found little solace and turned instead to teaching and writing essays. In the 1950s Brown published such major essays as "Negro Folk Expression," "The Blues," and "Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs," all in the Atlanta journal Phylon. Also in this period Brown wrote "The New Negro in Literature (1925-1955)" (1955). In this essay he argued that the Harlem Renaissance was in fact a New Negro Renaissance, not a Harlem Renaissance, because few of the significant participants, including himself, lived in Harlem or wrote about it. He concluded that the Harlem Renaissance was the publishing industry's hype, an idea that gained renewed attention when publishers once again hyped the Harlem Renaissance in the 1970s.
The 1970s and 1980s were a period of recognition and perhaps of subtle vindication for Sterling Brown. While enduring what was for him the melancholy of retirement from Howard in 1969, he found himself suddenly in the limelight as a rediscovered poet and as a pioneering teacher and founder of the new field of Afro-American studies. Numerous invitations followed for poetry readings, lectures, tributes, and for fourteen honorary degrees. In 1974 Southern Road was reissued. In 1975 Brown's ballad poems were collected and published under the title The Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems. In 1980 Brown's Collected Poems, edited by Michael S. Harper, were published in the National Poetry Series. Brown was named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1984.
Brown had married Daisy Turnbull in 1927, possibly in Lynchburg, where they had met. They had one child. Brown was very close to his two sisters, who lived next door in Washington. They cared for him after Daisy's death in 1979 until Brown entered a health center in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he died.
Brown returned to Williams College for the first time in fifty-one years on 22 September 1973 to give an autobiographical address and again in June 1974 to receive an honorary degree. The address, "A Son's Return: 'Oh Didn't He Ramble' " (Berkshire Review 10 [Summer 1974]: 9-30; repr. in Harper and Stepto, eds., Chant of Saints [1979]), offers much of Brown's philosophy for living a productive American life. At one point he declares, "I am an integrationist . . . because I know what segregation really was. And by integration, I do not mean assimilation. I believe what the word means--an integer is a whole number. I want to be in the best American traditions. I want to be accepted as a whole man. My standards are not white. My standards are not black. My standards are human." Brown largely achieved these goals and standards. His poetry, for example, along with that of Langston Hughes, forever put to rest the question of whether a black vernacular-based written art could be resilient, substantial, and read through the generations. Despite his various careers, Brown saw himself primarily as a teacher, and it was as a professor at Howard that he felt he had made his mark, training hundreds of students, pioneering those changes in the curriculum that would lead to increasing appreciation and scrutiny of vernacular American and African-American art forms. In short, Brown was one of the scholar-teachers whose work before 1950 enabled the creation and development of American studies and African-American studies programs in colleges and universities in the decades to follow.
Brown's papers are housed at Howard University, chiefly in the Moorland-Spingard Collection. Joanne Gabbin, Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1985), is the sole book-length study of his work to date. Robert G. O'Meally's "Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Sterling Brown" appears in Brown's Collected Poems (1980) and in Callaloo 14/15 (1982): 90-105, an issue with a special section devoted to Brown. Robert Stepto assesses Brown in " 'When de Saints go Ma'chin' Home:' Sterling Brown's Blueprint for a New Negro Poetry," Kunapipi 4, no. 1 (1982): 94-105, and in "Sterling Brown: Outsider in the Renaissance," in Harlem Renaissance Revaluations, ed. Amritjit Singh et al. (1989). See also Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (1987). A later discussion is in Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (1991). An obituary is in the New York Times, 17 Jan. 1989.
Source: http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00200.html; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Access Date: Thu Mar 22 11:47:10 2001 Copyright (c) 2000 American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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Mount St. Joseph Academy swimmer Katie O'Connell made the most of her team's Senior Night, setting a school record in the 50-yard freestyle and establishing a new personal best in the 100 freestyle as the Magic defeated Gwynedd Mercy Academy last Thursday evening, 58-33.
The contest took place at La Salle High School, where both the Mount (4-2 in dual meets) and Gwynedd (5-3) host their "home" meets.
In the 50 free, O'Connell churned to victory in a time of 25.31 seconds, eclipsing the old mark of 25.34 set way back in 1998 by Katie Gottschalk. She also won the 100, turning in her fastest time ever, 56.27. The senior's primary sport is actually rowing, and she signed with Boston's Northeastern University in November. She earned a spot on the U.S. Junior Developmental Team last summer, and is a member of the Mount's highly successful varsity eight boat.
A Mount St. Joe swimming record of a more recent vintage had fallen in the Magic's road win over Nazareth Academy on January 20. Steph Eble, who has enjoyed an outstanding freshman season this winter, went 5:20.09 in the 500-yard freestyle, breaking the 2011 standard of 5:20.49 achieved by Alex Sullivan.
Last Thursday both teams honored their departing seniors in ceremonies prior to the actual racing. In addition to O'Connell, Mount St. Joe recognized fellow tri-captains Taylor Held and Dana Zielinski, along with classmates Miranda Rafferty, Laura and Yasmin Mahmoudian, and team manager Olivia Scanlon. Like O'Connell, Zielinski is a varsity eight rower for the Mount, and she accepted a scholarship to Clemson University back in the fall.
Gwynedd bid adieu to one of the largest senior classes in the history of its swimming program, a group consisting of Monica Bradley, Kathleen Cardell, Sara Cassidy, Meg Curley, Lizzy Hee, Rachel Tumulo, Meaghan Williams, and Annalise Zaengle.
The Mount's Zielinski was a very close second in the 100 freestyle and was also runner-up in the individual medley, and her classmate, Rafferty, placed second in the 50 free. The two seniors also raced in the medley relay and the 400 yard freestyle relay. Sophomore Christina Formica went double-gold, winning both the butterfly (1:03.86) and the 200 free (2:04.96).
The freshman class was well represented, with a triumph in the individual
medley by Eble (2:23.03), a first-place finish in the backstroke from Haley Sannem (1:08.90), and a victory in the 500 free by Georgia Kelly (5:53.40). Mount St. Joe picked up second-place points from four sophomores; Brynn McGovern (backstroke), Catherine Palmer (butterfly), Christine Sipos (200 free), and Julie Sowa (breast stroke).
Gwynedd's Zaengle, who aspires to swim in college, won the breast stroke in 1:14.09, and she placed third in two other events, the 100 free and the individual medley. MaryKate Curley came in second in the 500 freestyle, where third place went to GMA teammate Emily Fesnak.
Fesnak captured third place in the 200 free, as well, and Bradley also placed third in two different events, the 50 free and the breast stroke. Other third-place finishes for the Monarchs came from Cardell in the butterfly, and Tumolo in the backstroke.
At the beginning of the meet, the Mount's Eble and Zielinski joined forces with sophomore Jessie Dolan and junior Jen Lehman to win the medley relay (2:01.17). By the middle of the meet, the Magic's lead had reached a point where the Mounties decided to race the other two relays on an "exhibition" basis, foregoing any team points in those events. The official winners in the 200 free relay were Gwynedd's Tumulo, Katie Dunphy, Bradley, and Fesnak (1:54.70), and in the 400-yard contest the victory was awarded to the Monarchs quartet of Fesnak, Sara Cassidy, Molly Riemenschneider, and Zaengle (4:08.06).
The first two foursomes to actually finish the 400 free relay were one made up entirely of Mount seniors (Held/Rafferty/O'Connell/Zielinski) and another consisting of four MSJ freshmen (Maggie Schoeller/Kelly/Sannem/ Eble).


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The Parameter is incorrect - Job has been disabled!
We have been experiencing the following errors in our 24 x 7 Scheduler for the past 3-4 months
(Following errors taken from Event Viewer on the server)
NomQty.I2.3.M: Error: 87 - The parameter is incorrect.
following soon after with
NomQty.I2.3.M: Job has been disabled!
Now the obvious answer would be is the parameter correct?
These batch jobs run several times a day, every day of the week.
Mostly, they work perfectly but randomly we get these errors including the Job is disabled.
When checking the status of these jobs we find they have in fact run successfully and are not disabled.
Any thoughts as to how we can sort this out?
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Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:38 pm
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Error 87 is the exit code of your batch file. the default error returned by operation system for that error code is "The parameter is incorrect"
Please analyze your batch file for what could be causing that particular error.
Please be aware that version 3.6.8 is no longer supported, it's very old and not compatible with the latest Windows releases. Please upgrade to the current version 5.0
Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:13 pm
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These errors I list are not a normal occurance.
Only happen every now and then so my question is why? If there was a problem with the batch job configuration wouldn't you think it would be happening all of the time unless there was an issue with this version of 24 x 7?
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I think you are looking in a wrong place. The question about why your batch file returns exit code 87 should be addressed to the developer of that batch file. I have no way to know what the batch file is doing.
If you want us to take a look, please paste the code of your batch file
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Error 87: - The parameter is incorrect
I know this is an old thread but I did not see a final resolution and I am facing the same problem.
I am using 24x7 ver 3.6.10
The job is running a database command which is an Oracle Stored Procedure
I can pull the SQL out and execute it successfully in Oracle without any failures.
There are no Exception errors defined as 87 in the Oracle stored procedure.
This seems to be an error code internal to 24x7 related to execution of SQL codes.
This job runs sometimes and other times it gives me this error. I cannot pinpoint what causes this situation to occur.
Any ideas or thoughts on next steps would be appreciated.
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Error 87: - The parameter is incorrect
Found a resolution to this.
I had this job set as a detached process with a 2 min timeout.
I unchecked the detached process and ran the job again.
The job executed without issue.
I checked the detached process and ran the job again and got the Error 87 once again.
I have left the detached process unchecked at this point to resolve the issue.
Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:16 pm
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Thanks for posting the status and solution.
In the old version 3.6 that you are running, the detached option is for use with script type and database jobs (I mean SQL script jobs run by 24x7). the detached option when enabled option makes 24x7 run the job using a separate OS process to protect the scheduler process from job resource leaks and crashes. For regular processes such as as external executable files and batch files, the detached option is not needed and shouldn't be used.
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HIT: The Lake County Planning Commission unanimously supported a county project aimed at improving conditions along the South Main Street-Soda Bay Road corridor south of Lakeport Thursday.
MISS: Commissioners delayed deciding on a use permit extension for Bottle Rock Power, LLC after determining not enough neighbors had been notified of the public hearing.
Classes start at Lake Center
HIT: Students began their classes at the new Mendocino College Lake Center Tuesday.
HIT: Enrollment at the Lakeport campus is up 7 percent compared to last spring semester.
LPD makes assault arrest
HIT: Lakeport Police arrested Joshua Ray McLeod, 34, of Lakeport Wednesday on felony charges stemming from the assault of a teenager on a city street in December.
MISS: The department alerted residents and business owners that Lakeport has seen a rise in reported gas thefts in recent weeks.
City in sound shape
HIT: Cautious optimism was the theme Tuesday night as the Lakeport City Council learned from its staff that the city is in stable financial condition midway through the current fiscal year.
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The considerable thing is that is it the key point, will the next generation iPhones acquire the name like iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus. Can we carry the prediction that all these phones will be loaded with entirely new features like the new camera and with camera software that is overhauled? The rumors are already encirculating the users like the bumble bees in the air that a few design concepts or also there.
Let us have a look at the complete look at it and everything we can expect about.
What Lies In Name?
As per the company's CEO Tim Cook, the Apple especially names these generations by the flagship features or by the design change pertaining to these products. The instance speaks that the iPhone 6S Plus has a bigger screen. If we turn back, the iPhone 4S is in the acquisition of the S moniker as it made its debut with the Siri.
We are not event predictors, as everything flows in speculations. The conformation on the end of the Apple is awaited, until then we prefer to call the next iPhone an iPhone 6S. On the other hand the reports are buzzing relating to the iPhone 6S plus, now let us talk a bit and know that what is the legitimate.
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The launching of the two iPhones namely the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus were occurred the last September. If you are not getting me, let me be cleared the September 2014 carries the likelihood that this year will get the launch of the other iPhone, means another. The guess on our end carries an iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus.
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
Encyclopedia Dramatica on libertarianism
A lengthy, humorous take on libertarianism from many angles, and well worth chortling over.
7 comments:
- Joanna Liberation said...
Impressive, though only mildly amusing (still nothing can beat the Somalia video). The best part IMO is:
"43.Tell them you are a left-libertarian. Be sure to back this up by being liberal on any social issue."
It's psychologically interesting why statists, after having stolen "liberal" from classical liberals, now are going for libertarian. I guess 50 years from now I'll have to call myself classical libertarian to avoid ambiguity. But then it's true "libertarian" was devised by anarcho-capitalist. So basically, everybody is stealing from anarcho-capitalists. It's like as if all people subconsciously knew, even though they thought they reject something, that it is the only thing worth believing in.
- March 6, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- Mike Huben said...
Joanna, you are truly funny. Your ignorance is astounding.
If you knew ANYTHING about left-libertarianism, you'd know that left libertarians complain that they used the term libertarian roughly 100 years before right libertarians. They have always complained it was stolen from them. And here you come, ignorantly blaming the victim.
150 Years of Libertarian
- March 6, 2011 at 6:44 AM
- Joanna Liberation said...
Looks like you're right, Mike, my bad. So basically we stole "libertarian" from you after you have stolen "liberal" from us. Is that accurate?
- March 6, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Mike Bast said...
During a talk by George Smith, he kept going on about "liberal" being stolen by the "left" (he used it vaguely) and never once mentioned that libertarian had a use FAR older than that of the right-wingers who now use it. So, either ignorance or double-standards seem to be constantly in play.
- March 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Mike Huben said...
No, Joanna, nobody has stolen the word liberalism from libertarians. Libertarians simply are not liberals. Nobody has stolen it from "classical liberals" either: that is currently being used as a propaganda term to imply that there are some modern conservatives who are the same as early liberals, when they are not.
Why not read something on the subject.
Of Means & Ends
The Liberal Idea
- March 6, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Joanna Liberation said...
imply that there are some modern conservatives who are the same as early liberals, when they are not
Modern liberals criticize both classical liberals for "wild" 19th century capitalism and modern conservatives for "wild" 21st century capitalism, don't they. According to modern liberals themselves, classical liberals are pretty much the same as modern conservatives.
- March 7, 2011 at 2:58 AM
- Markus said...
Mike, did you know that it links your site on no. 33 on "How to piss off a libertarian"?
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I'm hoping Andrew doesn't read this post because then my secret will be out. I found this recipe in a back issue of Cooking Light and tweaked it here and there and now it's even better. Their secret ingredient? Tofu! I know, I know, I have a hard time with the stuff myself but with the sundried tomatoes and lamb marinara the flavors overpower the tofu so you can't tell it's there.
Sneaky, huh?
The recipe called for turkey sausage, which I used, but I also threw in lamb leftover from our Easter meal (see the recipe for rosemary-honey glazed roast leg of lamb) and it was a tasty addition. Gave the sauce a strong, hearty flavor and a meatiness that the tofu needed. Of course all the health benefits of the low-fat tofu were probably canceled out by the lamb, but then I never promised I was fat free.
So here it is, enjoy!
1/4 c boiling water
1 8-ounce jar sundried tomatoes
1 cup mozzarella
1/4 cup Parmesan
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon salt
dash of nutmeg
8-10 chopped Kalamata olives
1 16-ounce package silken tofu
1 egg, lightly beaten
18 cooked jumbo pasta shells
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 pound mild Italian sausage
3 cups diced lamb
1/4 chicken stock
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 6-ounce can tomato paste
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 small bay leaves
1 28-ounce can pureed tomatoes
2 cups grated mozzarella
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Meanwhile, pour the boiling water over the undrained tomatoes and let them set for 20 minutes until they are soft. Drain the tomatoes, reserving the liquid. For the filling, combine the tomatoes with the next eight ingredients (through the beaten egg) in a food processor and blend well.
For the sauce, saute the pepper, garlic and sausage in the oil, breaking up the sausage and cooking until it is browned. In a large saucepan combine the reserved tomato liquid, the sausage mixture and the rest of the sauce ingredients through the can of crushed tomatoes. Let simmer for an hour or more, remove the bay leaves, then pour a bit of the sauce in the bottom of a large, flat, greased baking dish and fill with the stuffed shells.
Carefully ladle the remaining sauce around and over the shells then top with the grated Parmesan and mozzarella. Bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes until the cheese is lightly golden and bubbly. Let stand 10 minutes then serve.
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We've done a decent amount of traveling and have made some classic travel mistakes in my time. Be smarter than us by following these tips!
- I know we've mentioned this before, but tell your bank and credit card companies that you will travel abroad. Make sure they won't block your accounts when they see international charges, and ask for phone numbers to call from abroad in the event you have any issues. The 1-800 numbers on the back won't always work from overseas.
- Do not plan to use your blow dryers and flat irons that you use here in the US. Even with a plug adaptor and converter, the higher voltage can destroy (as in burn to a crisp!) your appliances and could potentially knock out power in entire buildings, which isn't a great way to make friends abroad. If you're not willing to forgo the blow dryers and flat irons for a few months, then it's best to purchase local versions that operate on 220 volts once you get abroad.
- Bring a small weekend-size bag/backpack/collapsible duffle bag for trips you'll take during your time abroad. Pack it with everything you'll need for the first few days of your trip and bring it as a carry-on on the plane, so you'll be ready in case your baggage is delayed.
- Don't forget that you cannot bring more than 3 oz. of any liquid in your carry on for your flight overseas. Airport security can be very stringent. Make sure you follow all the rules when it comes to flying!
- If you follow a special diet (vegetarian, kosher, etc.) don't forget to inform your airline ahead of time. It's horribly unpleasant to be hungry and thirsty while you're on a plane and they control when you get meals, so bring some snacks (stay away from fruit, especially if you have a layover in a European airport, as some countries don't want you to bring perishable food into their airports). And make sure you have your own water on the flight (though you can't take any through security, remember).
- Make several photocopies of your passport ID page and credit/debit cards to leave with a family member or someone you trust. That way, if these items are lost or stolen, they're much easier to replace.
- Set up a plan of communicating with your family members while abroad—we recommend calling or e-mailing them only once or twice a week while abroad. Your parents will ALWAYS want to talk to you more often than that, but remember that part of studying in another country is putting some distance between you and your old life. You'll be better for it!
- Buy a journal. Study Abroad is a profoundly personal experience and Facebook updates alone won't capture the spirit of what you are doing. Keep a journal that is meant to be just for you.


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Huskers Power Past Jacks
Lincoln - Tommy Armstrong Jr. and Ron Kellogg III led Nebraska in place of injured starting quarterback Taylor Martinez, and the Husker offense produced the biggest total offense day under Bo Pelini in a 59-20 victory over South Dakota State.
The Huskers finished non-conference play with a 3-1 record, while the FCS No. 6 Jackrabbits slipped to 3-1 on the year.
Armstrong Jr., a redshirt freshman from Cibolo, Texas, earned the first start of his career and helped the Huskers amass 645 yards of total offense with the first 300-yard rushing/300-yard passing day as a team in school history. Armstrong Jr. completed 12-of-15 passes for 169 yards and a touchdown pass.
Kellogg III, a senior from Omaha, Neb., was equally productive, completing 8-of-9 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown strike of his own.
Armstrong Jr. and Kellogg III engineered scoring drives on eight of their 10 offensive possessions. The Huskers did not punt until Ryker Fyfe's opening possession as quarterback with just over six minutes left.
NU finished with 310 passing yards and 335 rushing yards, led by junior I-back Ameer Abdullah's 139 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries. Sophomore I-back Imani Cross added 60 yards and two scores on just 10 carries, while freshman Terrell Newby contributed 52 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries. Armstrong Jr. pitched in 38 yards on five totes.
Senior Quincy Enunwa led the Husker receivers with six catches for 78 yards. Abdullah contributed three receptions for 46 yards, while Tyler Wullenwaber added a pair of receptions for 47 yards, including his first career touchdown.
While the offense was firing on all cylinders, the defense also made some significant contributions. The Blackshirts forced a trio of Jackrabbit turnovers, including defensive end Randy Gregory's first career interception and touchdown, which came after a 33-yard return early in the fourth quarter. Gregory finished with five tackles, including two for loss and a half sack.
Stanley Jean-Baptiste added his fourth interception of the season and a 15-yard return, giving him an interception in each of NU's first four games of the year. Jonathan Rose added a fourth-quarter fumble recovery for the Huskers, who held a high-powered SDSU offense to just three points in the final three quarters.
Corey Cooper and Zaire Anderson shared the team lead with 10 total tackles apiece.
South Dakota State led 17-14 at the end of the first quarter thanks to the explosive running of Zach Zenner. The junior running back finished with 202 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries on the day. He had over 100 yards and both of his scores in the first quarter to help the Jacks take a lead to the second quarter.
But the Huskers dominated the rest of the way. NU outscored the Jacks 24-0 in the second quarter, capped by Mauro Bondi's 22-yard field as time expired to give NU a 38-17 halftime lead.
The Blackshirts shut out SDSU again in the third quarter, while Newby and Gregory contributed touchdowns to send the Huskers to the final quarter with a 52-17 edge after scoring 38 unanswered points.
South Dakota State did show balance of its own, compiling 465 total yards, including 227 on the ground and 238 through the air. Quarterback Austin Sumner completed 19-of-29 passes for 238 yards, but also threw a pair of interceptions. While Zenner rolled up 202 yards on 21 totes, the rest of the Jacks got just 25 rushing yards on 17 touches.
R.C. Kilgore led the Jackrabbit defense with 15 tackles.
Nebraska will enjoy a week off before completing their five-game season-opening home stand by opening Big Ten Conference play with Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. Nebraska will celebrate Homecoming in its first meeting with the Fighting Illini as Big Ten counterparts.
Scoring Summary
Final: Nebraska 59, South Dakota State 20
Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013
Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)
First Quarter (SDSU, 17-14)
NEB - 13:29 - Imani Cross 5 run (Pat Smith kick), 4 plays, 66 yards, 1:25 - NEB 7-0
SDSU - 12:10 - Zach Zenner 40 run (Justin Syrovatka kick), 4 plays, 75, 1:19, 7-7
NEB - 8:29 - Cross 2 run (Smith kick), 9 plays, 66 yards, 3:38 - NEB 14-7
SDSU - 6:45 - Zenner 3 run (Syrovatka kick), 5 plays, 71 yards, 1:39 - 14-14
SDSU - 0:05 - Syrovatka 48 FG, 11 plays, 24 yards, 6:02 - SDSU 17-14
Second Quarter (NEB, 38-17)
NEB - 12:30 - Ameer Abdullah 1 run (Smith kick) - 8 plays, 75 yards, 2:35, NEB 21-17
NEB - 7:10 - Sam Burtch 16 pass from Tommy Armstrong Jr. (Mauro Bondi kick), 11 plays, 80 yards, 3:22, NEB 28-17
NEB - 4:16 - Tyler Wullenwaber 23 pass from Ron Kellogg III (Smith kick), 2 plays, 32 yards, 0:35 - NEB 35-17
NEB - 0:00 - Bondi 22 FG, 9 plays, 79 yards, 1:29 - NEB 38-17
Third Quarter (NEB, 52-17)
NEB - 4:15 - Terrell Newby 10 run (Smith kick) - 9 plays, 80 yards, 3:23, NEB 45-17
NEB - 2:47 - Randy Gregory 33 INT return (Bondi kick) - NEB 52-17
Fourth Quarter (NEB, 59-20)
SDSU - 12:58 - Syrovatka 29 FG - 11 plays, 63 yards, 4:49, NEB 52-20
NEB - 9:15 - Newby 5 run (Smith kick) - 9 plays, 75 yards, 3:43, NEB 59-20
Final: Nebraska 59, South Dakota State 20
Attendance: 90,614
Time of Game: 3:11
Game Start: 2:42 p.m. (central)


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Warface Beta Is Up and Running. Just Like Your Opponents Will Be
You guys better sign up for the Warface closed beta, because it's happening now!
Show us your warfaces, folks! A new trailer for the game's beta launch has been posted and it's looking like an undeniably tasty first-person shooter.
We still can't get over the shock that this game will be free-to-play, because we'd gladly fork over our money to get more of it. Maybe that's Crytek and Trion Worlds' master plan in order to get us to buy premium items through the game? If it is, then we probably don't mind.
You can register for the beta here. After doing so, keep some hawk-like eyes on your inbox so you can jump right into the fray!
There's no word on a release date and whether or not the game will show up on anything other than the PC, but we'll let you know as more info about the game surfaces.
In the meantime, watch the trailer and let us know your thoughts on this amazing-looking FPS.


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CORRECTIONS- Wrong child, font, and Lincoln
• The short story by John Davidson published last week, "First Church," appeared in completely plain text, thus hindering the reader's ability to discern which passages were the flashbacks, which should have been set in italicized text. The story appears appropriately online.
• There were two problems with the caption of a photo accompanying the August 26 story, "Downtown attack: Man fights for life after brutal beating ." For starters, the photo was shot not in the 1990s but in the new century, and the little girl depicted is not Kartheiser's child but is Emilee Robinson.
• In the August 19 cover story, "Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR's Kevin Morrissey,"we gave the wrong location for Lincoln Center. It's in New York, not Washington.


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Jack Pardee died earlier this week. I remember Pardee not just for his great play for the Washington Redskins and his solid stint as our coach, but also for his remarkable football life — as rich as any I can think of.
That football life began playing six-man football for a small Texas high school (Pardee also worked in the oil fields throughout high school to help support his family). The next stop was Texas A&M, where Paul "Bear" Bryant was building his program.
Pardee was one of the "Junction Boys," the legendary collection of players who survived the hell Bryant put 100 prospects through, in the heat of Junction, Texas, to find out, as Pardee put it, "who wanted to pay the price to not only play football, but to win." Only 35 players passed that test. The ordeal became the basis for a made-for-TV movie starring Tom Berenger as the legendary coach Bryant
Pardee went on to become an All-American and co-captain of Texas A&M during the 1956 season. That team went 9-0-1 and was ranked No. 5 nationally in the AP poll.
Pardee, an outside linebacker, played most of his pro career for the Los Angeles Rams. After nine seasons, he missed the 1965 campaign due to life-threatening cancer. Pardee returned in 1966 and turned in five more seasons for the Rams.
In 1971, former Rams coach George Allen brought Pardee to Washington as part of his "Over the Hill Gang" (there's no truth to the rumor that John McCain and Lindsey Graham were part of it). Pardee captained the defense, which was Allen's core unit and the main reason why, after year of futility, the Skins made it to the playoffs in 1971 and to the Super Bowl the following season.
Pardee was 35 years old when he came to Washington. Nonetheless, he was selected for the Pro Bowl in 1971. That year, in my view, Pardee played outside linebacker as well as I've seen it played by a Washington Redskin. That includes Chris Hanburger, the Hall of Famer who played the other outside backer position in 1971-72.
Pardee, so obviously born to coach, began that portion of his career with the old World Football League in 1974. His first team made it to the championship game, which it lost by a point.
This earned Pardee the head coaching job with the Chicago Bears. In 1977, he led that struggling franchise to its first playoff appearance in 14 years.
When the Redskins ousted George Allen, Pardee was the natural choice to replace his former coach. Unfortunately, the team he inherited was aging and not exactly flush with draft picks, given Allen's propensity to trade them.
Pardee's first Redskins team went 8-8. But the next season, 1979, the Skins were on their way to an 11-5 record, the division championship, and a home field playoff game. All they needed to do was hold a 13 point lead in the late going of the season finale against the hated Dallas Cowboys.
Shockingly, they failed to do so. A fumble by one of Washington's most sure-handed runners did us in. There would be no division crown and no playoff game, home or away.
Pardee's final season in Washington was a disaster. The next year, he would be out. The Joe Gibbs era was upon us.
But Pardee was not without influence on this, the brightest era in Redskins history. Richie Petibon — Pardee's friend, former teammate with the Rams and Redskins, and the Redskins defensive coordinator under Pardee — would run the defense under Gibbs. And those underrated, mostly no-name defenses would play their part in bringing three Super Bowl victories to Washington.
Meanwhile, Pardee was far from finished as a head coach. In 1984, he returned to Texas to coach the Houston Gamblers of the USFL. Pardee installed an potent, innovative offense called the "Run and Shoot" with Jim Kelly at the helm.
Despite being an expansion team, the Gamblers finished the regular season with the best record in their conference. In the playoffs, Pardee went head-to-head with his old mentor George Allen, and his star-laden Arizona Wranglers. The Gamblers led 16-3 with only 7 minutes remaining, but lost 17-16 following a furious Wrangler comeback.
Thus, Pardee suffered a galling defeat similar to that inflicted by the Cowboys in 1979. An even more galling loss lay in the future.
The Gamblers made the playoffs again in 1985 and, after some great personnel moves, were poised (now as the New Jersey Generals) for a huge 1986 season. However, the USFL folded before Pardee's Generals could take the field.
In 1987, Pardee moved into college coaching, as head coach of the University of Houston. Shortly after his arrival, the program was hit with NCAA sanctions due to violations committed under the previous coach. But the sanctions didn't prevent Pardee from compiling a fine 22-11-1 record in three years with the Cougars. And under Pardee, Andre Ware became the first ever African-American quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy.
In 1990, Pardee returned to the NFL as head coach of the Houston Oilers. Led by Warren Moon, his Oiler teams made the playoffs in each of his first four years.
But Pardee's tenure with the Oilers is probably best remembered for a playoff loss to Buffalo in which the Oilers were the victims of the biggest comeback in NFL history. Early in the third quarter of that January 1993 contest, Houston led 35-3. But the Bills rallied to win in overtime, 41–38. You can read about this amazing game here.
After a terrible start to the 1994 season, Pardee resigned. But he wasn't finished. In 1995, he coached in the Canadian Football League. The twist was that he coached the Birmingham Barracudas, part of the CFL's attempt to expand into the U.S.
The Barracudas folded after one season. Naturally, Pardee guided them to the playoffs that season.
From 6-man football; to the Junction Boys; to an All-American college career; to a Pro Bowl NFL career; to mostly successful coaching stints in the NFL, the WFL, the USFL, the CFL, and college — as I said, Pardee's football life was as rich as any I can think of.


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This is what my neighborhood looked like this morning:
We're not complaining, really; south of us they got ten inches last night, and last week a foot of snow fell to our north. But this is starting to feel like the winter that never ends.
All of which is a reminder that the earth's climate has been cooling for the last decade, something that was not predicted by the global warming alarmists' computer models. When models make predictions that are falsified by events, it proves that the models are wrong. Someone tell the Democrats, quickly, before their slavish devotion to a discredited theory devastates our economy.


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CES 2013: Seagate Announces Central Shared Storage Backup and Streaming Box
Subject: General Tech | January 7, 2013 - 09:21 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: remote access, NAS, media streaming, DLNA, central shared storage, backup, ces 2013, CES, Seagate
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Seagate announced a new home backup and media streaming box that it is calling the Seagate Central Shared Storage. Featuring a form factor well suited to your AV rack in the living room or next to the PC, the Central Shared Storage box will act as a NAS and DLNA server with additional software that enables automatic backup of multiple PCs throughout the home and Facebook photos. The Seagate software will run on computers running either Windows or OSX and will organize audio, video, images, and documents for viewing and streaming on a variety of devices.
In addition, the Central Shared Storage box will also back up your photos stored on Facebook. You can stream or access multimedia on mobile devices (using the Seagate Media App), PCs, or Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players. ON the mobile side, Samsung supports IOS, Amazon (Kindle HD), and Android devices. You can also access your stored content from afar with the remote access feature. social network accounts. Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players will further offer up a customized interface for the viewing your music, movies, and photos on the big screen TV.
It will be interesting to see what the performance is like over the network, and whether the software required for auto-backup is worth using. Unfortunately, there is no word on Linux support, but it may still be possible to get Linux computers backed up to the NAS using something like Wine.
The Seagate Central Shared Storage will be available in March 2013 and will come in three capacities. The MSRPs are as follows:
- 2TB is $189.99
- 3TB is $219.99
- 4TB is $259.99
You can find the full press release here.
PC Perspective's CES 2013 coverage is sponsored by AMD.
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Published: 1st September 2010
Number Of Pages: 616
The sleek BlackBerry Storm is more than good looks - it also boasts a number of powerful features, including advanced SurePress typing technology, WiFi access, and video recording capabilities. With BlackBerry Storm 2 Made Simple, you'll explore all the features and uncover valuable techniques - from emailing and scheduling to GPS mapping and using apps - through easy-to-read instructions and detailed visuals. Written by two successful BlackBerry trainers and authors, this is simply the most comprehensive and clear guidebook to the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2 smartphones available. What you'll learn * Sync your Storm with a PC or Mac * Master the keyboard and trackpad navigation * Everything email: setup, basics, and pro techniques * Text messaging: SMS, PIN, and more * Set up a three-way conference call * Get work done: Manage your calendar, contact list, and memopad * Understand connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth * Use Google Sync for true ??Wireless Sync" without an Enterprise Server * Support for both BlackBerry Internet Service and Corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server * Have fun with music, photos, and videos * Explore the BlackBerry App World and utilize apps * Use GPS and mapping to get around * Update your Facebook and Myspace pages right from your Storm Who this book is for This book is for those who want to get the most out of the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2 devices. It is perfect for beginners but will also teach advanced users new techniques and shortcuts. Table of Contents * E-mail Setup * Windows PC Setup * Windows PC Media and File Transfer * Apple Mac Setup * Apple Mac Media and File Transfer * Typing, Spelling, and Help * Save Time with AutoText * Personalize Your Storm * Sounds: Ring and Vibrate * Phone and Voice Dialing * Advanced Phone * Social Networking * E-mail Like a Pro * Your Contact List * Manage Your Calendar * Get Tasks Done * MemoPad: Sticky Notes * SMS Text and MMS * Even More Messaging * Add Memory and Media * Your Music Playe * Snapping Pictures * Fun with Videos * Connect with Wi-Fi * BlackBerry App World * Connecting As a Tethered Modem * Connecting with Bluetooth * Web Browser * Adding or Removing Apps * Traveling: Maps & More * Other Applications * Searching for Lost Stuff * Securing Your Data * Fixing Connection Problems * Boost Your Battery * More Resources
Series: Made Simple (Apress)
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 616
Published: 1st September 2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 18.8 x 3.56
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(US) La Guitarre Royalle -- Les Délices Ensemble (2011 February 12-13)
(NL) Simon Polak - Words on the The Ehrenfeld Early Flute Collection
(US) Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) (2011 Oct 27-30) -- Call for Papers
(US) Early Brass Festival (27th annual) -- Call for Papers (2010 August 5-7)
(US) The Tudor Choir Highlighted by Harmonia Early Music (2010 Oct.)
(FR) Revue Muse Baroque Online Library
Let us stop a moment to discover the precepts of Couperin through a footnote on page in a scholarly work today and listen to the voice that we imagine shy, almost hesitant, from one of French harpsichordists' greatest. Let us stop bickering about the size of the chorus of Bach's cantatas in Leipzig and take a look at the key document that the passions unleashed and allows all the assumptions ...
(US) AMS (American Musicological Society) 2010 Awards
(US) Philip Brett Award 2010
(US) Aulos Ensemble Transports Listeners to 18th-Century France -- Review by By Thomas Busse (2010 Dec.)
(CH) Arounder Website -- 360 degree View of Your Destination
(DE) New Items Published by TREE Edition (Music for Lute)
New for Baroque Lute
"Wolff Jacob Lauffensteiner (1676 - 1754): Collected Works for Solo Lute" edited by Douglas Towne
This edition contains eight complete suites/concerts as well as fourteen single pieces for Baroque Lute, collected from libraries from all over Europe and overseas countries. The tablature has been set anew completely to present the pieces in an easy to read manner. Contains also an essay on Laufensteiners life (in german) by Michael Treder. 125 pages / French Tablature / Baroque tuning Euro 40.-
(US) Extraordinary Women From an Extraordinary Era (Magnificat) -- By Marianne Lipanovich (Concert: 2011 Feb 4,5,6)
(FR) St. Matthew Passion -- J.S. Bach (2011, March 23; April 2,3) -- Orchestre Les Passions
Orchestre LES PASSIONS
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano. Guillemette Laurens, alto.
Vincent Lièvre-Picard, tenor (Evangelist). Arnaud Richard, bass (Pilate).
Jean-François Rouchon, bass (Jesus). Antonio Guirao, bass (Peter,Judas)
chorus : ARCHIPELS (Joël Suhubiette) - A CONTRETEMPS (Guy Zanesi)
ARPEGE (J. Charpentier) – Maîtrise du CONSERVATOIRE de Toulouse (M. Opstad)
Musical Direction Jean-Marc Andrieu
Halle-aux-Grains, Toulouse (2011, March 23; April 3)
Palais des Sports, Bordeaux (2011, April 2)
(US) Handel's Messiah - A Conversation with Jeffrey Thomas (YouTube)
American Bach Soloists Music Director, Jeffrey Thomas, speaks about their annual performances of Handel's Messiah, one of the greatest oratorios of all time, in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Baritone Jesse Blumberg and the American Bach Choir are featured in performance clips.
(UK) "The Sacred Dance" (DanceBooks.co.uk)
Author: Oesterley, W O E
Published: 1923, 2010
This work surveys a wide spread of old rites, practised during initiations, puberty, marriages, burials, and other major events of life. Relying on ornamental artwork on pottery and on ancient inscriptions and literature, the author examines, among other topics, Old Testament terms for 'dancing,' and forms of musical accompaniment in the time of the Hebrews; the sacred processional dance, performed by Hittites, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other peoples; the ritual dance around sacred objects; and sacred dances performed during harvests and other festivals.
(US) Top Ten Discoveries of 2010 from Harmonia Early Music
(US) Arcimboldo's Feast for the Eyes -- Smithsonian Magazine
(Although not directly music related, this article may be of interest to some -- ed.)
The job of a renaissance court portraitist was to produce likenesses of his sovereigns to display at the palace and give to foreign dignitaries or prospective brides.
(FR) "De Paris à Versailles". Charpentier, Marais, Couperin -- Les Passions Orchestre Baroque (2011 January 22)
Église du Bouclier – Strasbourg
With Italian influence and in defense of the French style, these three composers entertained contrasting rapports with the Court at Versailles. The delicacy and richness of music by Charpentier regularly attracted Louis XIV in Paris, while Marin Marais, Lully's successor, enjoyed the grace of the King in the splendor of the Court. Couperin, meanwhile, sailed incessantly from Paris to Versailles and was able to skillfully combine French and Italian styles by the subtle and learned style of his writing.
(US) Johann Adolph Hasse: Antonio e Cleopatra - Review by Dr. Brian D. Stewart (Opera Today)
(US) Worth a Reprise at Age 401 -- Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 -- Review by Steve Smith (New York Times)
(US) GEMS Gala Showcase -- (Jan. 9, 2011)
Come to a gala showcase featuring 7 of the finest world-class early music ensembles, produced by GEMS Live! and Nancy Carlin Associates.
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(UK) Handel's Operas Workshop
(UK) Ten Years of Handel House
(UK) Dance Books retail closing sale
As many of you know, I've been in indifferent health for the last couple of years, and my doctors are now insisting that I must take life more easily. So, with enormous regret, I am closing the retail part of Dance Books and in future shall run the company solely as publishers. I have tried to find a buyer for the retail part of the company, but so far without success, so if there are any eccentric millionaires out there who've always dreamt of running an online dance bookselling company, do feel free to get in touch.
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