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Jenn wrote:Good to hear Joyce. Harley taking a liking to him yet?
Malli wrote:I'm actually surprised that Truman and Astro get along so well, somehow I thought he would be jelous...
Maybe Harley is the jelous one?
pitbullmamaliz wrote:Did you have on your catcher's outfit along with the stick and water bucket? Joyce, your neighbors must adore you.
BullyLady wrote:iluvk9 wrote:And I have high fences and lots of trees, so my neighbors just think I am a "regular person".
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Unfinished Business
Two nongrads returned to IC this spring to complete their degrees.
By Gary E. Frank
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. . . .
And we must take the current when it serves,
or lose our ventures." — William Shakespeare
Beryl Macmillen Anderson, M.M. '11, and Devon Glover '11 likely have never met. The difference in their ages spans nearly six decades, with Glover being the younger of the two. Anderson, a widow and retired music teacher with three children and four grandchildren, grew up on a farm in upstate New York. Glover, the eldest of three boys, grew up in Brooklyn and is immersed in introducing urban youth to William Shakespeare through the prism of hip hop as the "Sonnet Man."
But right now they have this in common: both returned to IC this spring to finish what they started — 54 years later in Beryl's case, five for Devon. At the age of 86, Anderson completed the master's degree in music education that she began working on in 1951. Glover, originally scheduled to graduate in 2006, earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics this summer.
A mother's promise and a friend's prodding
"My mother always talked about how she had wanted to learn how to play piano, but they didn't have one when she was a child," Anderson recalls. "She decided that if she ever had children, they were going to take piano lessons."
While growing up in the small town of Knox, New York, during the late 1920s and early 1930s, the local school bus dropped off the two Macmillen sisters at the home of a local piano teacher for a one-hour lesson at a fee of $1 per hour. When the teacher raised her fee to $1.50, there were some anxious moments, says Anderson, but her mother said. "Don't worry, we'll find the money." And they did.
"Each night when I got home from school I had to practice from four to five o'clock, nonstop" says Anderson. "We had Sundays off."
Anderson went on to earn a bachelor's degree in music and music education from Houghton College in 1949, with a concentration in piano. One of her two best friends, both of whom studied piano, suggested the trio enroll in Ithaca College's master's in music education program.
"I thought, 'Oh, okay,' so we went to Ithaca College for four summers, from 1951 to 1954," says Anderson. "I had never been to Ithaca College before. It was downtown in the middle of the city. I remember it was very, very hot."
In the meantime, Anderson had started her teaching career. She worked at two elementary schools in Beacon, New York, for two years. Late in her second year, the school superintendent called Anderson to his office.
"Someone on the school board had a son who had just graduated from college," says Anderson. "He wanted a job, and his mother wanted to give it to him. I didn't have tenure because I had been there only two years." So, Beryl lost her job.
From Beacon, she landed work in Sullivan County, New York, teaching at elementary schools in Liberty and Livingston Manor. Returning to Ithaca in the summer of 1954 to work on her master's thesis, she admits that a course titled "Bibliography and Sources" had intimidated her.
"I got the thesis all put together pretty well, but I didn't finish the bibliography," she remembers. "It was the end of summer, and I was tired. I thought, 'I'll do this later,' but it never got done."
By the following year, Anderson had begun a marriage and soon after gave birth to the first of three children. She continued to teach in a variety of elementary school positions in Liberty and Livingston Manor until retiring in 1984. Five years later her husband died.
For several years after retirement, Anderson taught private lessons and eventually built her clientele to as many as 30 pupils. Last May, she decided to clear out some old boxes and came upon one filled with academic memorabilia. Inside the box, under a textbook, was an envelope containing her unfinished master's thesis.
When her daughter visited for Mother's Day, Anderson showed her the unfinished thesis. Anderson's daughter read the paper and said, "Mom, you should turn this in. You might get credit."
"I pooh-poohed the idea, but last June I heard a news report about a 94-year-old lady who got her master's, and I thought, 'Oh gosh, 94,'" says Anderson, who decided to reread her thesis. Toward the end of last summer she heard another news report about an 88-year-old man who decided to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Although Anderson hadn't thought about her thesis for many years, one of her Houghton and IC classmates she had stayed in touch with always encouraged her to complete what she had started. What finally moved her to act was prodding from another friend who works at the Rescue Mission in Schenectady, New York, where Anderson plays piano once a week.
"He asked me, 'How old was Moses when God sent him to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt,'" says Anderson. "I answered, 'About '80,' and he insisted that I call someone at Ithaca College on my cell phone right then."
Her inquiry made its way to Keith Kaiser, interim associate dean of the School of Music and chair of the Department of Music Education.
"When I got the first phone call about her I was ecstatic," he says. "I thought, "'What a great thing to do.'"
When Kaiser's work-study assistant, Dana Arbaugh '12, a music education major, read Anderson's thesis, titled "The Administration and Direction of Elementary School Choruses," she told him she thought it was "ahead of its time," and after Kaiser read it, he agreed.
"The mid 1950s was a time when music education was starting to find its ground as a profession," says Kaiser. "In the thesis, she talks about all-inclusive ensembles for students and about enrichment experiences for the students who may need additional musical experience, either because they are very talented or they need extra time to attain the skills."
During the spring 2011 semester, Anderson received support from a variety of offices at IC to complete her degree and prepare to defend her thesis, Kaiser explains. The graduate office had to look up her transcript (handwritten in the 1950s) in order to see what courses Anderson had completed. Kaiser served as a thesis advisor. Because Anderson doesn't use a computer, her thesis, partly typed and partly handwritten, was digitized into a Microsoft Word document with the assistance of the Information Technology Services office. Anderson wrote the additions and corrections to her thesis in longhand and mailed them to Kaiser. Arbaugh transcribed the notes.
"This was truly a exemplary effort," says Kaiser. He also credits Rob Gearhart, associate dean of graduate and professional studies, and Timothy Johnson, chair of graduate studies in music, with contributing extensive support, time, and energy in assisting with the logistical and administrative aspects necessary to see Beryl complete her degree.
After her thesis was accepted, Anderson traveled to campus in April to defend her thesis, returning in May to receive her degree.
"It's been wonderful," she says. "I've been out of the academic world for so long I had to get myself worked up for all this. But I must say it's been fun to get back here after all this time."
Urban beats meet the bard
Since he left IC in 2004, Devon Glover has realized that being a teacher is what he wants to do.
"There are a lot of hurdles to becoming a teacher, and the first thing you need is that degree," says Glover during a visit to campus in late March.
When he left Ithaca, Glover was only three credits shy of his degree in mathematics. He admits he had a lot on his plate between a heavy course load, two jobs, and a variety of extracurricular activities. While struggling to pay his tuition bills, he learned that his younger brother had been admitted to college. Things had reached the point where Glover could pay either his rent or his tuition, but not both. He decided to drop out of school and return to Brooklyn and work to help pay for his brother's college tuition.
"It was just too much," says Glover. "While my friends were gliding, by which I mean they did their course work in the right way, I was struggling."
Glover worked at a variety of jobs, most of them connected to education in some fashion. He worked as a booking agent for a company that organizes spring break travel packages, a teacher's assistant, a program leader and assistant for a youth program, and a mathematics tutor for students from elementary school to high school. In February 2009, he became a workshop facilitator for a program called Flocabulary, for which Glover composes, records, and performs hip-hop songs about educational topics and current events for various schools in greater New York and New Jersey.
Every so often, after someone observes Glover at work, they inevitably ask him why he isn't a full-time teacher. The answer is always the same: "No degree." For Glover, those three remaining academic credits have loomed larger with each passing year.
In late 2009, Glover was intro-duced to playwright and producer Arje Shaw by a mutual acquaintance, Melissa Guttman '05. For nearly 20 years, Shaw had been looking for a way to put Shakespeare's sonnets into a medium that might appeal to young people. The sonnets are 154 poems about love, nature, beauty, and the passage of time, almost all of which are constructed from three four-line stanzas and a closing couplet in iambic pentameter.
"What attracted me to the son-nets is they are all just 14 lines long, containing pearls of wisdom, and all that gorgeous language," explains Shaw. "'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day . . .' reflects values like beauty, nature, and respect for women."
Glover, Shaw, Guttman, and a recording engineer named Daniel Lynas gathered in a Greenwich Village studio to attempt to set six sonnets to hip-hop rhythms. "We didn't know what we'd get, but what we got was beautiful," says Shaw.
To those who may blanch at the thought of setting the Bard of Avon's oeuvre to 21st-century urban rhythms, Shaw and Glover believe that presenting the sonnets through a medium young people are familiar with — hip hop — is a way to open kids up to Shakespeare.
"If you introduce it to them in rhythms they can dance to or groove to, they may not know what they are saying, but they do know the words," says Shaw. "And as they grow and mature in their lives, they eventually start to understand those words. The richness of Shakespeare — the beauty of it — is that it needs time to grow. It will flow as you flow."
What makes Glover wonderful as the Sonnet Man, Shaw says, is the "same thing that makes him great in anything he does artistically. Devon has a phenomenal sense of compassion for people. He just embodies it. He's a very modest kid, and he's out there struggling, trying to make the best of everything, and he never complains."
Late last year, Glover's story caught the attention of singer-actress Kathie Lee Gifford, now a co-host of The Today Show. Gifford has introduced a segment titled "Everyone Has a Story," which showcases inspiring examples of individuals who have overcome personal obstacles. On January 6, Glover performed live on The Today Show with Broadway star and singer, Darius de Haas.
Shaw confesses to being shocked when he learned Glover had not finished his degree at IC. He talked with a friend who was an administrator at City College of New York (CCNY), who in turn contacted IC. Glover thought he owed IC several thousand dollars, but the CCNY administrator learned that the actual amount was about half that. With Shaw's help, Glover was able to get started clearing up those last three credits.
Jim Conklin, associate professor of mathematics, had worked with Glover a few years earlier to develop an independent study course that incorporated elements of a 300-level course, Introduction to Real Analysis, but Glover wasn't able to complete the course because he lacked the funds. The concepts of real analysis are applicable to the music world, Conklin says, especially the digital technology so widely used in recording.
"It's great that Devon can come back and finish his degree," says Conklin. "He is eager to be back, especially because he's seeing how the mathematics relates to his music."
Glover is grateful for the guidance and academic support he's received, but just as important for him are the messages of encouragement he received after he left school from Conklin; Louise Mygatt, a lecturer in music theory, history, and com-position; and others.
Glover is on track to complete the independent study course by August and hopes to attend graduate school, with the eventual goal of teaching in college. In the meantime, he is optimistic about the doors his role as the Sonnet Man is opening for him.
"I hope the Sonnet Man brand inspires new approaches to education, whether through hip hop, a new 'schoolhouse rock,' or something else," says Glover. "In New York City, all I hear about is the decline in the schools or the decline in student performance. Well, sometimes it's not just the students; it's how they are taught. Students have to be taught in a way in which they can learn."
But after his experiences in gaining an education, Glover also believes the way students are taught doesn't absolve them of their responsibility for their own success.
"A closed mouth doesn't get fed," he says. "You have to try."
In a paraphrase of Shakespeare, the Sonnet Man sings the rewards of making that effort when he says, "Open your mind, and see/what you can get accomplished./It's a time-less pleasure unmeasured."
Learn more about Devon as the Sonnet Man and view his Today Show interview here.


text: The Museum of Fine Arts this week unveiled "The Capitoline Brutus," a rare bronze sculpture dating to 300 BC and on display for the first time in the United States. A crowd of onlookers, including MFA director Malcolm Rogers , congressman Michael Capuano , Italian Consul General Giuseppe Pastorelli , and Filippo La Rosa, diplomatic adviser to the Mayor of Rome, all applauded. Brutus remained stone-faced — OK, bronze-faced.


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From last few weeks I have been facing a cluster of ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError while setting up a new project in Java. This new java project has lots of dependency on various jars and some of the jar even contains the same name of file which makes my problem even more problematic. While working with NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException I thought to document my experience and I have already shared some on 3 ways to resolve NoClassDefFoundError in java and how to resolve ClassNotFoundException in java. in this article though focus will be on similarity and differences between java.lang.ClassNotFoundException and java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError in Java.
NoClassDefFoundError vs ClassNotFoundExceptionBefore seeing the differences between ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError let's see some similarities which are main reason of confusion between these two errors:
1) Both NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException are related to unavailability of a class at run-time.
2) Both ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError are related to java classpath.
Now let's see the difference between NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException:
1) ClassNotFoundException comes in java if we try to load a class at run-time using with Class.forName() or ClassLoader.loadClass() or ClassLoader.findSystemClass() method and requested class is not available in Java. the most of the time it looks like that we have the class in classpath but eventually it turns out to be issue related to classpath and application may not be using classpath what we think it was using e.g. classpath defined in jar's manifest file will take precedence over CLASSPATH or -cp option, for more details see How classpath works in java. On the other hand NoClassDefFoundError is little different than ClassNotFoundException, in this case culprit class was present during compile time and let's application to compile successfully and linked successfully but not available during run-time due to various reason.
2) ClassNotFoundException is a checked Exception derived directly from java.lang.Exception class and you need to provide explicit handling for it while NoClassDefFoundError is an Error derived from LinkageError.
3) If you are using classloaders in Java and have two classloaders then if a classloader tries to access a class which is loaded by another classloader will result in ClassNoFoundException.
4) ClassNotFoundException comes up when there is an explicit loading of class is involved by providing name of class at runtime using ClassLoader.loadClass, Class.forName while NoClassDefFoundError is a result of implicit loading of class because of a method call from that class or any variable access.
Please let us know if you are aware of any other difference between NoClassdefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException in Java , I would be happy to incorporate those.


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I am a SAHM to 4 lovely girls and total Twilight addict, all thanks to my little sister. She forced me to read Twilight and nothing has been the same since. Now I forced her to read fan fiction!
All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the intellectual property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of Stephenie Meyer. No copyright infringement is intended.


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The Levy Soil & Water Conservation District (LSWCD) recognized three Levy County School teachers on Dec. 6, at the Levy County School Board meeting for "2011 Conservation Teacher of the Year". The LSWCD sent out applications at the beginning of the school year for those teachers interested in receiving funds of $1,000 toward a conservation project funds would be allocated for. The LSWCD received three applications with conservation programs that are being implemented in the classrooms everyday and choose to allocate funds to all three recipients.
Ms. Lita Weingart, a science teacher at Chiefland High School is planning to utilize the funds toward purchasing materials and travel to the Regional Envirothon Contest at Lake City Community College. Funds will also be allocated to create an outdoor environmental education area with native plants and trees and an interpretive guide to educate students about environmental issues.
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By Matthew Heimer
The number of U.S. users of iPads and other tablet computers should crack the 70 million mark this year, according to the research firm eMarketer—and among adults, those aged 65 and over make up the fastest-growing customer group. Overall, people 55 and over account for about 19% of tablet owners, and tech analysts are fairly sure that tablet users in general skew older than smartphone users.
That's partly a function of disposable income: Tablets are generally more expensive than phones, and a pricey iPad can seem like a luxury to an up-and-coming 20-something. But if you believe that small screens and keyboards are a significant obstacle for baby boomer tech users, the maturity surge among tablet users makes even more sense; after all, reading and sending email on a tablet feels positively liberating after you've done it on a teeny touch-screen.
As though to underscore the graying of the tablet market, Kevin C. Shelly of the New Jersey Courier-Post writes this week about attending an introductory iPad class at a suburban Apple store. The presence of the word "gizmos" in Shelly's title might tip you off to the demographic of his subjects: Of the four people taking the workshop, Shelly explains, "The youngest person in the class was 59, the oldest was well over 70." Each had gotten an iPad for Christmas before getting stuck and seeking help. Later in the article, three of the four students say that their plans for the iPad revolve around email, and three out of four admit being coached by their grandchildren on how to use their device. Still, the most digitally savvy of the bunch is a video editor who's already mastered Final Cut Pro–not exactly a guy sitting on the wrong side of a digital divide.
Correction: An earlier version of this post misspelled Kevin C. Shelly's name and gave the incorrect age for the video editor that Shelly interviewed. This post has been updated.


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The new (Summer) issue of the Claremont Review of Books is hot off the press. The CRB is the flagship publication of the Claremont Institute and my favorite magazine. I want to persuade you to subscribe to it, which you can do here for the ridiculously low, heavily subsidized price of $19.95 a year and get immediate online access thrown in to boot.
Our friends at the CRB have let me pick pieces from the new issue to preview on Power Line. I have sought to select pieces that would give a representative sample of the riches on offer. I have of necessity passed over many truly outstanding pieces. Please check out the table of contents at the link above.
This years marks the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, an event the CRB recognizes in this issue with a review by Michael Burlingame, Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield. In "The Great Emancipation," Burlingame asks: were Lincoln and the Republican Party "reluctant emancipators"? The impetus for Burlingame's question is James Oakes's "strikingly original" book, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865, winner of the 2013 Lincoln Prize. Burlingame judges Freedom National to offer "a fresh, convincing reinterpretation of the emancipation policies and practices of Abraham Lincoln and his party."
Burlingame's review represents the perfect marriage of book and reviewer. Burlingame is the author of the monumental two-volume biography of Lincoln that Johns Hopkins University Press has just published in paperback. There is no living scholar who knows more about Lincoln's life than Burlingame.
Against those who argue that the proclamation marked a change in the purpose of the Civil War — from preserving the Union to abolishing slavery — Burlingame finds that Oakes marshals a wealth of evidence to show that it is better seen as the culmination of Republican policies that had already liberated tens of thousands of slaves. Following Oakes, Burlingame sets forth for us the emancipatory path: from the pre-war anti-slavery platform of the Republicans, through the commencement of the war and the gradual emancipation of slaves throughout the hostilities, up to the great emancipation.
At the same time Burlingame finds that Oakes convincingly explains Lincoln's apparent hesitations and demurring. As Oakes writes, Lincoln "was always less concerned with how slavery was abolished than with ensuring that it was abolished." It is in this light that Lincoln's actions must be understood. "Lincoln," writes Burlingame, "realized that millions of Northerners as well as Border State residents would object to any steps that might be construed as helping to change the war into an abolitionist crusade. Those men were willing to fight to preserve the Union but not to free the slaves. As president, Lincoln had to make the mighty act of emancipation palatable to them."
Were Lincoln and the Republican party "reluctant emancipators"? Not at all.


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BANGKOK (AP) -- World stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Japan's central bank promised open-ended monetary easing like the U.S. Federal Reserve but said it won't start for a year.
The Bank of Japan concluded a two-day policy meeting by setting a 2 percent inflation target and announcing open-ended asset purchases that will pump money into the financial system.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pressuring the central bank to take aggressive new measures to reverse years of economically debilitating deflation.
Markets appeared underwhelmed by the BOJ announcements. Analysts at Capital Economics called the asset purchase program "pretty timid" since it will not be introduced until January 2014. An existing asset purchase scheme will continue until then. The yen rose against the dollar as expectations of significantly easier monetary policy in the near term were diminished.
European stocks were muted in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 was nearly unchanged at 6,180.74. Germany's DAX lost 0.1 percent to 7,7376.81. France's CAC-40 fell 0.1 percent to 3,759.70.
Stocks on Wall Street, which was closed Monday for a public holiday, appeared set for gains. Dow Jones industrial futures rose 0.1 percent to 13,587 and S&P 500 futures added 0.1 percent to 1,480.80.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index shed 0.4 percent to close at 10,709.93 after a day of volatile trading. Markets elsewhere were less affected by events in Japan, and less cautious.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose marginally to 4,779.10. Hong Kong's Hang Seng reversed morning losses to rise 0.3 percent to 23,658.99. Mainland Chinese shares fell. The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.6 percent to 2,315.14. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index lost 1.4 percent to 928.90.
"The losses were a technical correction. There is some room for gains in the near future based on the brighter economic outlook," said Peng Yunliang, an analyst based in Shanghai.
China Vanke, the country's biggest real estate developer by market value, gained 5.7 percent after announcing plans to shift trading of its foreign-currency shares to Hong Kong.
South Korea's Kospi rose 0.5 percent to 1,996.52 after Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan said the country will help exporters struggling with the rise of the won, Yonhap News Agency said.
The remarks come amid worries that quantitative easing moves by the U.S. and Japan could result in the further appreciation of the Korean currency.
The announcement helped some of the country's key exporters, including Samsung Electronics, which rose 1.8 percent. Hyundai Motor Co. rose 1.9 percent.
U.S. stock and bond markets were closed Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which coincided with the inauguration ceremonies that launched President Barack Obama's second term in office.
Concerns linger about the U.S. economy, with lawmakers wrangling over spending cuts and the nation's debt ceiling, which limits the amount of debt that the government can take on. The government has hit its $16.4 trillion debt limit and is expected to run out of ways to meet all of its obligations around March 1, perhaps earlier.
Although Republican lawmakers were expected to accept a temporary increase, a final deal is still not in sight.
Gary Yau of Credit Agricole CIB said that "any further news on the US debt ceiling after Obama's inauguration will again be closely scrutinized."
Benchmark oil for February delivery was down15 cents to $95.41 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 9 cents to settle at $95.56 a barrel on the Nymex on Monday.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3356 from $1.3320 late Friday in New York. The dollar fell to 89.03 yen from 90.03 yen.
AP researcher Fu Ting contributed from Shanghai


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Anne Hathaway wrote spy movie for Field
ANNE HATHAWAY once attempted to write a screenplay for a film she hoped would feature SALLY FIELD.
The two actresses recently met up for a roundtable discussion organised by The Hollywood Reporter and Hathaway told the veteran of the project.
The Devil Wears Prada star said, "You don't know this, but I tried to write a movie for you, about a spy.
"I thought, 'Sally would be amazing, because who would ever think she was a spy?'"


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A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Looking for a hip younger looking t-shirt somthing like what you would see from the UFC or AFFLICTION t-shits we want some guns and some text make it look great...
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It's Not Just the U.S., the Entire G7 is Stagnating
Congratulations, America. You're halfway to a recession. You'll have company if and when you get there.
Yesterday's fourth-quarter GDP report, representing the first contraction in more than three years, got the brush-off from the hoi polloi. "Once you take a deep breath, read past the headline, and delve into the numbers, you'll see that this is actually a pretty good (though not great) report," economist Justin Wolfers wrote, and that pretty much sums up how must people are treating it.
Without the massive drop in government spending — defense spending specifically — GDP would have been positive. That's the market's takeaway, at least, and if anybody's worried about lower government spending going forward, they aren't copping to it. Consumers, too, might produce a bit less spending, what with the higher payrolls taxes this year. Maybe gas prices will rise, too; that'll be great for the economy.
Look, the U.S. isn't alone in its malodorous state. Most of the world's major economies are bordering on or in recession, too.


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Jet Blue canceled two New York-bound flights from Bob Hope Airport on Monday as Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Eastern Seaboard.
Flight 350 and 358 to John F. Kennedy International Airport were canceled, as were flights 355 and 359 coming out of New York, Victor Gill, a spokesman for Bob Hope Airport, said in an email.
Jet Blue also canceled Flight 350 to JFK on Tuesday.
Scores more flights – about 130 – had been canceled at Los Angeles International Airport as of Monday, The Times reported. Officials warned that additional flights could be affected by the super storm, which was expected to force more than 60 of those cancellations Monday. The others came Sunday.
Many of the flights were into New York City's JFK airport, although airports were affected all along the East Coast, according to a breakdown provided by LAX.
American Airlines had the most Monday cancellations, with about 15. United and Continental had 10 each.
-- Jason Wells, Times Community News, with reporting by Kate Mather at the L.A. Times
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Our paleontology team – led by Dr. Robert Bakker – is back in Seymour, TX this week, digging for Dimetrodon at a site they've now been working for several years. (You can read more of what's been found already in our daily blog from the field in 2007).
Today's update comes David Temple – our associate curator of paleontology and a one of our BEYONDbones bloggers – he fills us in on the progress from yesterday – including a discussion of what will happen with the fossils that have been discovered this week once the team gets them back to the Museum.
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You can also check out earlier updates from this dig trip:
Day One: Live from the Fossil Field
Day Two: The Smoking Gun
Day Three: New Discoveries
Day Four: Secondontosaurus Found?
Day Five: Mad Max


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by JIM HARRIS
Over the past five years or so, chalk seems to have become the graphic media of choice for street artists and protesters all across the U.S. It was much in evidence at all of the Occupy encampments last year and is undoubtedly present on the streets and buildings surrounding this week's Republican Convention.
Locally, you may have heard or read about 18-year-old Connor Logan and his 17-year-old friend who were recently charged with criminal mischief for drawing with chalk on a street in Doylestown. According to the police report, the boys had drawn "a large whale and several sea turtles on the street."
The drawings were quickly washed away by rain despite police attempts to keep it from raining by shooting at the sky and yelling "Halt!" The cops did take numerous photos of the fishy frescos, though, which they expected to use as exhibits in a high-profile trial.
An inside source, who asked not to be identified by name on account of he didn't want people to think he was a complete idiot, said that chalk drawings of genitalia, song lyrics and other symbols had previously been found in other locations around town, and that if Connor and his friend could be linked to those as well, the charges would be upgraded to a misdemeanor, possibly even domestic terrorism. Housekeepers might even be putting new sheets on a bunk bed in a cell at Guantanamo Bay Prison that's waiting for them.
Asked if any of the previous drawings were specifically of "whale or sea turtle genitalia," the source said that forensics was looking into it, but that drawing an anatomically correct whale would require a huge amount of chalk. "We certainly don't have that kind of chalk here in Doylestown," he said. "They'd have to bring it in from Philly. There's always plenty of chalk in Philadelphia because they need it to outline all the dead bodies in the street."
Addressing the hordes of media outside his house the day after his encounter with police, Logan said he was not a part of any gang and that on the night in question, he just happened to see a piece of chalk lying on the ground, so he "picked it up and started to draw."
All of the media frenzy and public interest suddenly came to a halt on Aug. 17, however, when police abruptly withdrew the charges. This was unexpected and left a number of heavily invested organizations in the lurch. For instance, the ACLU, Amnesty International, Move On, Act Up, Act Out, Act Out Some More and the Chalk Manufacturers of America were all busy mounting campaigns, circulating petitions and mailing out fundraising letters related to the case.
Additionally, the Philadelphia Museum of Art had already scheduled a retrospective exhibition, "Connor Logan: My Life in Chalk," for next month. According to the show's curator, Jean-Claude Fondue, it was to have been promoted as "A collection of drawings (three, to be exact, but with a lot of accompanying documentation) created amidst a backdrop of unrelenting censorship and persecution."
"Now we're stuck," said Fondue, "with 7,000 tee shirts and coffee mugs with drawings of whales and turtles on them. I hope we can sell them to the Zoo."
Also in the works was a film documentary, "Connor Logan: Never Sorry," billed as "The inside story of a young dissident who inspired a global audience and blurred the boundaries between art and politics and whales." The film's director, M. Night Shyamalan, had unprecedented access to Connor for almost 11 minutes when he stopped in Doylestown to get gas on the way to New York.
So anyway, life in Doylestown is now slowly returning to the way it was before the incident — kind of like 1952, except with computers and cell phones — and the most exciting thing going on in town these days is the Backyard Garden Tool Expo down at Borough Hall. For his part, Connor Logan is heading off to Penn State where he plans to study engineering and the history of chalk and make way more money than a policeman ever could.


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I can't help but enjoy Ys. It's more than ten years old, and it certainly shows its age, both in character designs and animation. Its characters don't really develop much, either, and the story and villains possess more potential than they actually live up to.
Yet, thanks to some nostalgic madness, I thought this series was a lot of fun. I've never played much of the Ys games save for a brief run through Ys III on the SNES. However, I have listened to some of the classic Falcom game music soundtracks, so perhaps that's what generated such an unusual amount of affection for this series.
In case you're worried about my judgment, my girlfriend enjoyed the series as well, and she's not quite into video game music as much as I am.
Ys is the story of Adol Christin, a young man said to be the "legendary brave soul" destined to save the land of Esteria from the resurgence of monsters in Esteria. Generations ago, the continent of Esteria was once known as Ys, and it was peacefully ruled by a group of wizards and two sorceresses. Suddenly, however, the realm was overtaken by monstrous beasts, and a golden age of prosperity was ended in bloodshed and misery. After wreaking havoc throughout Ys, the monsters eventually faded away, passing almost into legend. Yet prophecies foretold the return of the beasts, but also spoke of one who could end the nation's strife once and for all. As noted above, Adol is that one. The story for this disc begins with him searching for the Books of Ys, which will hopefully give him clues telling him how to put an end to the rising threat of the monsters.
This is essentially a fantasy story that will remind you of every RPG you've ever played, which can either be a good thing or a bad thing. As I mentioned, the characters won't really surprise you too much (even the plot twists appear in exactly the way one might predict them), but they are likable people, at least.
Exaggeration aside, the animation isn't really sub-par. It gets the job done for a video game inspired anime series, and while it may be a bit better than TV series of the time, there were OVAs being produced with more impressive visuals. The design of the actual environments may be the most admirable aspect of the show, for the backgrounds look like scenes straight out of The Lord of the Rings, and this was produced more than a decade before the epic trilogy was filmed (not counting the earlier animated version).
The voice acting for both versions is good, and while it may be a bit corny at times, it's more a result of the source material than any reflection on the actors' abilities.
For me, the best part of the series is the catchy background music, which takes me back to the days when game music was good even on an 8-bit system. As one of the first games to come out on a CD-ROM based system, the music for Ys was far better than average, and the anime series does a good job of matching the quality of the games.
If you pick up this series and decide you want more, then check out the rest of this tale in Ys II, the sequel OVA series, which is available now.
In the end, this is a fun diversion for those of you who like fantasy stories or older RPGs. It won't have the greatest storyline you've ever encountered, and the animation won't floor you, but then again, the show doesn't promise to, either. With Ys, you get exactly what you pay for, and for some of us, that's all we desire. Shows like this are a nice break from mind-bending series such as Evangelion or emotionally charged as long running romances such as Kimagure Orange Road, but it does hit the spot for my monthly fix of just plain fun fantasy adventure. Really, after reading Battle Royale, a trip to the land of Ys is exactly what I need.


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"By You" (お前に, Omae ni, Viz: Because of You) is chapter 614 of the original Naruto manga.
Though Chōji tries to console his best friend, Shikamaru reminds him and Ino that they were in the middle of war and that there was no time for unnecessary conversation, and that they had to carry out his father's strategy. Confused, Naruto begins to question the situation, but before they can explain that Inoichi and Shikaku had been killed, the Ten-Tails attacks once more. Leaping into action, Neji and Hiashi are able to deflect the beast's attack, and as everyone begins to praise the Hyūga clan, Hiashi tells Naruto that he had to focus and that in war people might die, but if they lost the war, everyone would die. As he assures them that Inoichi and Shikaku were proud as shinobi to have died before their children, Neji echoes his uncle's sentiments, referring to his own father's sacrifice. With this Neji, Hiashi, and Hinata declare that they would protect him until the very end. Meanwhile atop the Ten-Tails, Madara and Obito discuss how to proceed with their plans and the fact that in order to become the beast's jinchūriki, Madara required a living body which could only be given by Obito sacrificing his own, which left the legendary Uchiha, at the mercy of his descendant. With Obito deciding to teach the Allied Shinobi Forces despair, the beast begins to attack again, sending wooden projectiles flying towards the shinobi. As the attacks are being deflected from Naruto by the Hyūga, Kitsuchi builds his chakra in preparation to use his signature technique. With the beast's hand itself bearing down on the group, Hiashi uses the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Wall Palm to deflect it. The beast then uses a pin-point attack which Hiashi realises they could not deflect in time. As Hinata throws out her arms to protect Naruto, Neji actually intercepts the attack, and while Naruto calls for the medics, Neji notes that it was already too late. As Hiashi looks on in horror and Hinata cries openly, Naruto questions why a genius from the Hyūga clan would throw away his life for him, and Neji, who notes that he finally understood his father's feelings, states that it was for that exact reason that he did it: because Naruto called him a genius. With this, the juinjutsu on Neji's forehead disappears as it seals away his Byakugan. Obito then taunts Naruto, questioning if it had not been him who stated that he would not let his friends die.
- In the top panel of page 6, where Madara and Obito discuss their situation, they lack the tendrils connecting the Ten-Tails to the back of their necks.


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an older Pastafarian who could play a noodly pastor for us (think John Cleese, Stephen Fry)
some FSM animations of any sort, specially floating noodly dynamics
some pirates to come to a London gig in full regalia
any props local pirates moight lend us
an amiable church we could rebrand and shoot in (!)
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What is she thinking?!
The story just broke on People.com and TMZ has confirmed, the couple has reconciled and they are "together." According to the report, the two are hanging at one of Diddy's homes.
The L.A. County D.A. is expected to get the case from cops soon and then decide whether to charge Brown for the alleged beating earlier this month.
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Meeting for Victoria County Farmer's Market is Friday
Crossroads residents interested in Victoria agriculture or in joining the Victoria County Farmers Market are in luck. Information is on its way. The Victoria County Farmers Market will host its annual meeting at 1 p.m. Friday inside the 4-H Activity Center, 259 Bachelor Drive.
Tom Isakeit, a plant pathologist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in College Station, is the event's keynote speaker, Market Manager Noah Thompson told the Victoria Advocate. Members will also use the meeting as a chance to elect new officers. The meeting is open to the public, Thompson said, noting the market hopes to bring on new members for the upcoming season. "It always helps to have more vendors," he said. "We're looking for new recruits."
For more information, call Thompson at 361-277-2268.


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A fall favorite is the savory radicchio and prosciutto crostini topped with sweet syrupy sapa. This is a great example of balancing flavors: the fat of the prosciutto will cut the bitterness of the radicchio, while the sweet component, sapa will round out the flavor. To achieve a balanced result - all three ingredients should be in balance not tasting one single ingredient but a rich flavorful bite. Sapa is a has been used since Ancient Roman cuisine and is made by slowly reducing grape must in large kettles until it had been reduced by one-third. Sapa is common used in Italy, especially in Le Marche, Emilia Romagna and Sardinia, where it's considered among the traditional flavors of fall.
Our friend Marco has a vineyard and make his own wine (lacrima). He recently gave us a bottle of his homemade sapa - its dark syrupy sweetness is topping everything from crositini to fish, fruit and gelato!
Crostini of Radicchio, Prosciutto and Sapa
Serves 4-6
Head of radicchio
clove of garlic
2-3 slices of pancetta, prosciutto, bacon, speck - whatever fatty component you want.
spoonful of sapa - grape must or if unavailable, you can you balsamic vinegar with a tiny bit of honey
toasty bread
salt & pepper
1-2 glugs of olive oil
optional - few slices of soft cheese - we use sheep's milk (pecorino)
In a pan, heat the olive oil on low heat, add in the clove of garlic. Cook until lightly brown on all sides.
Turn up the heat, rough chop your head of radicchio, removing the core and cook down for a couple of minutes until the radicchio wilts.
Turn the heat down, chop up your prosciutto or bacon and add to the pan. You want to render the fat of this slowly - if you have the heat too high, the pork will crisp up & become chewy - you don't want this with the soft radicchio.
Allow to cook until most of the moisture in the pan has cooked out. The radicchio & pork should still be soft. Season with salt & pepper. Remove the clove of garlic and drizzle over the sapa or balsamic & honey mixture. Check your seasonings.
Toast the bread, top with a slice of pecorino then a spoonful of the mixture and serve immediately. Goes great with a glass of red wine.


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I am so happy to say that I now have a "Stand-alone" Bitville where I've placed all my lots and sims into an existing (not empty) world - replacing those that were there, rather than just using an empty world or creating an empty world. This is how I generally always do it and that makes me happy!!
So I can play it as a set, or each on their own - whatever I'm in the mood for that day.


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Oral history in the news
News stories pertaining to oral history
Oral History helps reveal how Connecticut town influenced young Martin Luther King Jr.
Early life influences on Martin Luther King revealed through oral history and research in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut. What was already known: MLK spent part of his youth working in the tobacco fields in Connecticut to earn money for school. What was recently discovered: his leadership among his peers and the experience of equality shaped his life. High school students researched how their home town played a key role in shaping the life of this Atlanta teenager.
[Simsbury High School students John] Conard-Malley and [Nicole] Beyer led the research project, which included going through books and old articles, and gathering oral history from people like 105-year-old Bernice Martin who says King went to her church in Simsbury.
"He had a good voice," Martin said. "He sang in the choir."
They put their findings in a video. It tells the story of King's two summers in Simsbury - at the age of 15 and again at 18 - when he lived here in the dorms provided by the tobacco company.
Today in Simsbury, the video was premiered for the town in its local commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Tying together news accounts from ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 17, 2011 in
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Saturday Evening Post: Interviewing Family During Holidays
Whee! I'm in America's oldest magazine. The cover story of the November/December 2010 issue of The Saturday Evening Post is about finding out more about your family's history over holiday visits.
The five pages of the magazine covers ways to explore your family's history, from asking questions of family members to genealogical research, in an article by Doug Donaldson, and one by Stephen C. George.
Plus there's helpful advice. In a sidebar. I'm quoted there. About avoiding "Why?" when talking to family (more on Why Not Why here) and your seating arrangements when asking questions about pictures in photo albums. (More on that here and [new!] here.)
Some fun stuff: Donaldson's article and sidebar highlights family gatherings recorded using the built-in video camera on a laptop—that's a new one on me! Among the experts interviewed is oral historian Stephen M. Sloan, a fellow member of the Oral History Association (too, I read his emails from time to time on the Oral History email list). Two fellow members of the Association of Personal Historians, Jennifer Sauers, and ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 17, 2010 in
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Survivor meets Oral History
The last survivors. Last ones alive, who experienced… what, exactly? That's the subject of a book by Stuart Lutz. Lutz interviewed 39 last survivors of many different experiences. The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors is the oral history of those 39 people, with each chapter combining background information with the first-person narratives of each Last Survivor's oral history.
So who were some of these people who witnessed amazing people and events?
- The last living soldier of the great war
- The last suffragette
- The last pitcher from whose pitch Babe Ruth hit a home run
- The last man to fly with Amelia Earhart
- The last three Civil War windows (one Union, two Confederate)
- The last survivor of the Lusitania sinking
- The last surviving employee of Thomas Edison
- The last man to live in the White House in the 1920s
And wouldn't you know it? Lutz got his interest in history from stories he heard from his own family.
Lutz, a Maplewood [NJ] resident in his 30s, has always been fascinated with the nearness of the past. As a boy, he listened rapt as his ...Read More
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Tonight on HBO - Studs Terkel: Listening to America
Just got word there'll be a documentary tribute to Studs Terkel, 1 day before what would have been his 98th birthday. The documentary by Eric Simonson looks at the man behind the oral histories of everyday people.
"What he did for a living is hard to describe to somebody who doesn't know his work," says Simonson, who spent numerous hours with his subject at Terkel's North Side home—a pack rat's paradise by the lake. " 'He's an oral historian.' Well, what does that mean? 'And he's a radio man.' Well, so what? What does that mean? It's really the force of Studs' personality that makes him who he was, so I was trying to sift through all this footage to find the most quintessential looks at Studs Terkel and who he was and why it is he meant so much to many people."
Terkel appears in it (his last interview for the film was recorded six months before his death in October, 2008). The Chicago Sun ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 15, 2010 in
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News Roundup
Recent news stories that caught my eye from Austin TX, Lewiston NY, San Diego CA, Washington DC. Capturing stories of aging Mexican-Americans, Archival treasure-trove at Odd Fellows lodge, call for Washington DC secretaries, and the dwindling number of holocaust survivors.
Austin, Texas: Austin history project aims to preserve voices of elders.
Mexican American Oral History Project held a workshop this last weekend to train people to conduct interviews. Interviews will be conducted throughout the month of May. The article opens with a nice description of "the problem" that these oral histories seek to solve:
Many of us have parents and family who are entering the twilight of their rich lives. They have stories to tell — tales of bedazzling beauty and joy, of profound loss and heartache, of the mundane moments that fill the in between. They bear witness to history.
Among Mexican Americans, that history usually gets passed along orally, says Gloria ...Read More
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High School students interview WWII vets
Reliving History My hometown paper, Daily Pilot's cover story on my rival high school's project bringing sophomores and World War II veterans together to share stories of the past.
Today, I'm visiting at a hospital near the home where I grew up. I go downstairs to the hospital lobby to post an update to a private family-only blog post about a certain hospital patient's progress. (No wi-fi in the rooms, yes wi-fi in the first floor lounge) There in the lobby are copies of today's paper. Shouting at me on the front page is a story about how students from my rival high school—Corona del Mar—has a project where students interview World War II veterans.
"History comes alive for the students through this project," [Corona del Mar community service specialist Denise] Weiland said. "For the veterans, tey get appreciation for their service and they realize that people ...Read More
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It's our past coming back to life
Wow. 32-page typewritten transcript – from 100 years ago – provides a description of a pictoral history of Sioux nation. The Twin Cites (MN) family finds it in a trunk of Grandma's old possessions (Great-Grandma typed it up), and gives a copy of it to members of the Lakota tribe.
Libby Holden [pictured with transcript, above] said her grandmother, who inherited the oral history, never spoke about it. It's possible she never knew she had the document. When she died, her possessions were stored at the family's printing company.
Last summer, Libby Holden and several other family members began sorting through the items. Holden says one big musty old trunk was especially interesting. [... It] contained the White Horse oral history. She said it's possible the items were packed away by her great-grandmother and left untouched by her descendants.
Holden's great grandparents had lots of contacts with Native Americans; their great grandfather was a lawyer ...Read More
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Rest In Peace, Studs Terkel
Curiosity did not kill this cat. Studs Terkel died this morning at the age of 96.
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StoryCorps for scientists
The PEW Scholars oral history program: "A rich history in the scientific process," is run by the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Scientist article (free site membership required to view entire article, fooey.) describes the project's background – originally run by UCLA – and its current state (digitization, full speed ahead!). Oral history captures essential information about what it takes to make and be a scientist– the stuff and ephemera and process that does not get recorded in scientific journal articles.
David Caruso, the project's director, has an office filled with cassette tapes.
[A] cassette player cabled to a digital recorder that runs almost continuously. [David] Caruso, who now runs the joint Pew-CHF oral history project, is digitizing the interviews sent from UCLA, but the recorder only works in real-time and each interview lasts from four to twelve hours. It is a monumental task, but Caruso believes it's worthwhile. "Science is not just produced in papers," he says. "There's a rich history to the scientific process," including the beliefs, personal experiences, and even misconceptions of the scientists, he notes. Oral histories let us capture those otherwise lost aspects, ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on July 23, 2008 in
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Highschoolers and historical society combine effort to preserve history of blacks in Mesa, AZ
This is so cool. This Mesa, Arizona oral history project is a cooperative effort of Westwood High School and the Mesa Historical Society. Why is it cool? Because I know Sarah Moorehead, who's named in the article. She's the chairwoman of the oral history committee for the historical society. All the interviewees live in the Escobedo housing project, which was originally built to house WW2 soldiers, and then later became a public housing project. The city-owned property will be sold, and residents will move. But first, their stories and memories of the place will be preserved.
Here's what Sarah Moorehead has to say about the oral history project:
Now that the city housing is closing, Moorehead said it's become more urgent to preserve its history, because departing residents are taking their memories with them.
"When you have current history, there's a limited number of ways to really save that history. Personal experiences are a very important part of that," she said.
So often, documented city history focuses on leaders, often white males.
"But they have little to say about the average person and what the everyday life of an average person was like," she said. "Our society is so much more than what our political leaders are doing."
Other coolness:
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Schenectady, NY: Feb 21 Intro to Oral History + Folklore
Schenectady Gazette: Feb 21, 2pm (Thurs) at the Schenectady County Historical Society, there'll be a presentation on how to conduct oral histories. The presenter is Ellen McHale, executive director of the Folklore Society, located in Schenectady. The Folklore Society participates in the Veterans History Project, too. Oh, and she's taught workshops at the Erie Museum, Apple. (tee hee!) Small world.
I'm very stoked to see this Schenectady mention. My Mom grew up in Schenectady; her parents both worked at the General Electric Co. I'd been aware of the Schenectady Museum (lots of GE archives there, including some of my grandfather's papers), and I've seen the Schenectady History site run, in part, by the library.
Thanks to this story, I've found a couple of new, Schenectady-related links:
Folklore Society. Man oh man, their links page is mighty rich.
Schenectady County Historical Society
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 11, 2008 in
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News Roundup
Here's a roundup of stories about oral history in the news. One is for an event that takes place in Syracuse, NY, tomorrow at the Erie Canal Museum. Wish I could be there.
Syracuse, NY, Saturday, January 19, 1pm: Erie Canal Museum's speaker series starts off with a session I'd like to attend: "Robert Arnold kicks off the series with "Myth and History: Distilling the Truth." Sometimes accidentally and sometimes purposefully we mythologize our family and community histories, offering the future no service by doing so."
Daily Mail (UK) reviews Studs Terkel's book, Touch and Go, and gives a bit of profile of the man, telling how interactions with the residents of his parents' boarding house shaped him: "These waifs and strays were the making of Terkel, teaching him how to listen and how to feel empathy."
Now there's a forward-thinking Grandpa: Winchester ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 18, 2008 in
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Library's digital storytelling station
Covina library has digital storytelling station to collect stories about city's 125-year history. Cool. It's local, very local. I'll go and see. It's from a grant award. If it goes well, more of these may pop up in libraries in the State of California.
After winning a competitive grant from the California State Library this summer, the Covina Public Library received a "digital storytelling station," a massive cabinet full of digital equipment valued at about $3,000.
The equipment, which includes a new Apple iMac computer, a digital camera, a printer, a scanner, a tape deck, a record player and a DVD player, was awarded to the library with the hope of documenting Covina's history through the eyes of those who lived it.
"We are very excited about this great library program that uses cutting-edge information technology to explore and preserve California's untold history," said Susan Hildreth, state librarian of California. "We look ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 13, 2007 in
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Two Companion Web Sites to Ken Burns's The War
The Veterans History Project's companion site features stories from its collection about the events described in each episode. Episode 1 covers Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Guadalcanal and Japanese American internment camps. And I've linked to it before, the PBS Site for The War… the site got a revamp and facelift. Happy to see a prominent link from the PBS site to the Veterans History Project site.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 24, 2007 in
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• Online Oral History Collections
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Veterans History Project Medal Controversy: Fraud or Clerical Error?
The Veterans History Project's web sites posts stories from its collection. An independent Medal of Honor watchdog fact-checks the recipients listed on the Project's web site against the official records. Watchdog finds discrepancies, notifies Project. Vets History Project scrubs the bad records. Investigates. Is this a case of Lie-induced Nausea or Unfortunate Clerical Error?
Test yourself. Quick: Which of these is the true Medal of Honor? the Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal or the Medal of Honor (Air Force)?
This week, MSNBC reported that the Veterans History Project (VHP) took down listings of veterans whose reports receiving the Medal of Honor were false. And here's the tricky bit. Were those listings fraud? Exaggeration? Error? Doug Sterner, who operates an independent web site honoring those who have received the Medal of Honor, fact-checked the Veterans History Project's site and database and found the errors and reported it to the VHP. The Project notes that many of the false listings are due to clerical errors.
The accusation: "Gross Negligence"
Doug Sterner's efforts are devoted to debunking false claims to receiving medals—and honoring the known recipients of the medals. He ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 22, 2007 in
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Here at Washington and Lee University the fiscal year ends June 30. In going with that schedule, that means it is time for us at CKWL to reflect on another year gone by. This year has seen some incredible milestones, and the future continue to looks bright. So let's reflect on 2011-2012 and look to the future.
Last year started out great. We'd just received news that CKWL was receiving a $25,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to support our Weekend Backpack Snack Program and the purchase of a vehicle to call our own. Tomas and Sarah shared in the excitement when we purchased a new to us 2009 Volkeswagon Routan.
In September our Weekend Backpack Snack Program was able to expand to include both Central Elementary and Waddell Elementary School. Manly Memorial Baptist Church adopted Central Elementary School to pack and deliver backpacks weekly. The youth group from Lexington Baptist Church packed all the rest!
In October our CKWL contingent hit the road. Alvin Thomas '14, Jenny Bulley '14 and I drove to St. Louis for the Campus Kitchens Project Conference jointly hosted by CKSLU and CKWashU. We just so happened to overlap with the World Series.
In November AmeriCorps *VISTA member Stephanie Furlong joined our ranks just in time for Turkeypalooza. There's nothing quite like jumping right in by serving 468 pounds of turkey!
December is slower at the Campus Kitchen as we prepare for our holiday break. Of course, a highlight every holiday is the Magnolia Center's Christmas play. Mark your calendars for this coming year, it is always a hit!
In January our Backpack Program expanded once more to include Mountainview Elementary School. This was made possible by grant support from the Gadsden Fund. January also brought Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital on board as a food donor.
In February we explored the color spectrum of fruits and veggies at Rockbridge Area Occupational Center, the Magnolia Center, and the Lexington Office on Youth. Do you eat the rainbow?
In April we served our 100,000th meal in the Rockbridge area. We are so grateful for the opportunity to serve our partner agencies and spend time with our clients. We look forward to continuing to serve in years to come!
And finally, our year has concluded with the construction of our new (and permanent) home in the Global Service House.
Looking Forward
And so, as we look into 2012-2013, we foresee:
- A move into the new Campus Kitchen in August 2012, with a dedication later in the fall.
- A partnership with the Buena Vista elementary schools through the Weekend Backpack Program beginning in September 2012.
- Increased student voice on our blog.
- Another conference road trip, this time to CKLEE in Tennessee.
- Continued expansion of our services as we grow into our new space.
Think back on your year with the Campus Kitchen. What sticks out to you? Share your favorite CK memories in the comments!


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See MillionDollarCarShow.com for our current logo. We like the design we currently have, it's ok, but we think it can be improved upon. Plus, we don't have a large high resolution vector version, so what you see is all we have and we need a high res version for banners, posters, etc, etc. So, we would like a design that is simply a more polished version and similar to what we have, and we're also open to a completely new design that may surprise us and be better.
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We need a convenient, uniform way to build contrib projects. Problems are
- Team will work across many projects and will not want to lean a different approach to building each one.
- Projects will need to work with a variety of tools: Hudson, leiningen, maven, and IDEs at a minimum. (Note that these are to some degree overlapping.)
- Users will want an easy way to find released versions.
- Users will want sufficiently fine granularity of releases to get things they need, without a ton of stuff they don't.
- Team will need automation: one step to trigger an entire push/build/release cycle when necessary.
- Clojure/core will probably want to package multiple libs into easy-to-consume distributions.
- Treat the pom.xml as the data of record. All the other tools listed above are capable of producing/consuming this as necessary.
- Register all projects with build.clojure.org to get CI and snapshot builds.
- Builds must target Java 5
- Nice to have: facilitate source-only jars whenever that can possibly work
- No Inventing / reinventing any tools. There is a consensus among lib authors that using existing tools, while not perfect, is desirable.
- We will use a "parent pom" approach
- Neither build box or clojars are good maven repos
- ...Chas: please describe Sonatype OSS release process here...
- Document everything and verify that a new contrib author can get started easily.
Building Clojure Itself
Switching to Maven would be acceptable if it could support the following things that Rich needs (and already has via ant):
- Rich please fill in the blanks...
Supporting Leiningen
Another option: configure Hudson to build using "lein test, deploy"
- This would require adding a "deploy" task to Leiningen, but I don't think this would be difficult
- It will allow Leiningen plugins to be used at test time, which some contrib authors may want?
- Allows autogenerated pom.xml files to not be checked in
- But the first option above may be the simplest solution.
- Perhaps we should only consider "lein test, deploy" if issues arise with the pom or if contrib authors want specific lein features at build time?
- PNH: It sounds like Leiningen can produce a pom.xml file that should be capable of driving a Hudson build via Maven; if we run into missing features needed, I'd be willing to work towards adding them. It would also be possible to run Leiningen in the Hudson build as well, but it would require adding a "deploy" task. (should not be difficult)
Everything below here needs editing...
True or False?
- Properly formatted pom.xml required
- Hudson polls master branch on git repo hourly and runs tests.
- Nightly Snapshots are built at 2:00AM ET
- Releases are built as requested (see below)
- Must have groupId of org.clojure
- artifactId is the remaining package name hyphenated (e.g. data.finger-tree is data-finger-tree). Should there be a "clojure" prefix in artifactId, e.g. clojure-data-finger-tree? Could matter if artifactId ever travels alone.
- Must have version which is the current SNAPSHOT version number. (X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT where X.Y.Z is greater than last release's version)
- Must have `test' and `package' goals.
- This (and any additional requirements as of yet undetermined) will be validated before maven touches the file. Failing validation fails the build. This (and possibly some other items) could be missing in the initial release. So long we requirements are documented, enforcement can always come later.
Comments on mvn repository management (Chas)
There's no good reason to not deploy artifacts to a proper repository. AFAIK, the only advantage to e.g. clojure's scp deployment to a filesystem location is that it helps to avoid running a repository app.
If we deployed project artifacts to a repository like Nexus (free version will do, though I suspect sonatype would set us up with a free "Pro" license), then we would gain:
- a passable artifact discovery UI (and various web services that would make building a more attractive frontend ostensibly straightforward)
- ability to proxy third-party artifacts (important insofar as contrib projects may have external dependencies)
- ability to provide artifact indexes to downstream proxies (aids in visibility of artifacts in users' repos as well as in IDEs)
- all sorts of user management facilities that would allow for the delegation of management activities (e.g. no need to chase down the one or two guys that have access to the build box if there's a problem, when there's a reasonably-sized group of trusted folk that have various admin rights on the nexus).
If that's convincing, then there's the further question of whether we'd like to deploy artifacts to Sonatype's OSS repo (which provides for easy syncing of releases to central) rather than to our own nexus install. I think one will be necessary eventually anyway – assuming we want to provide a saner community repository – but that's a separate topic.
If we decide that getting artifacts into central is important (I think it's hard to argue that it's not), then that makes the question of supporting lein-driven build processes a difficult one. The entire OSS deployment toolchain is maven-based. There may be a reasonable way to connect the dots, but someone will have to do some serious digging.
Given the options considered above for deploying artifacts directly on build.clojure.org, I'd vote (if I were to have a vote) for doing it right from the start, and getting a nexus set up before we deploy any artifacts anywhere.
- Consider a pre-release "staging" repository (supported by Nexus Professional)
November 3, 2010 (Chas)
Snapshots of parent POMs and nREPL are now deploying to Sonatype OSS.
Other contrib projects can use the parent contrib POM as nREPL is now doing to get there as well; the respective Hudson jobs just need to invoke the deploy phase (ideally,
clean deploy). I can help lib authors with the former as needed.
This is a good intermediate stable state, presuming contrib projects stay on Clojure 1.2.0.
I have yet to look at what's needed to get clojure proper going into OSS. That, and getting releases staged and pushed out to central are the next steps. There's a number of issues and process questions that need to be resolved before that can happen though. Here's a list of those questions, as well as basic TODOs:
- Need to gpg key info to sign artifacts for staging of releases into OSS (and thereby into central). Key info is of the form "Name Here (some comment) <firstname.lastname@example.com>". This information will be available to anyone inspecting clojure/contrib releases, and will be pushed into pgp.mit.edu. What name, comment/org, and email should I use? SDH: What's the convention here? Do other people use the project lead's name, or an org name? Assuming the latter, then Clojure/core (the Clojure/core team) <email@example.com> would be fine.
- That looks about right, based on Sonatype's keys (assuming they know what they're doing!). I'll use: Clojure/core (Clojure Release Key) <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Chas
- All hudson builds currently use the user-local maven repository. I would recommend that at some point we configure all jobs (or twiddling this globally) to use a private m2 repo during their build. This will eliminate the potential for contaminating builds with dependencies available locally, but not available given the repositories defined in each project's POM. (This is actually the only reason why core.unify will build right now, as it is depending upon a contrib 1.3.0 alpha
- Doing this will require having a local nexus instance to cache external dependencies.
- SDH: ok, let's do it
- This will probably be the last thing we want to focus on; the worst case scenario here is a failed promotion to central, which would be more of an irritation than a serious problem. - Chas
- SDH: ok, let's do it
- Doing this will require having a local nexus instance to cache external dependencies.
- We need to settle on the release process for artifacts.
- Contrib:
- Assuming we're still "meeting at the POM", the discussion above about using tags to drive releases, git attributes to update pom.xml version numbers, etc. seems crazy to me. SDH: agreed.
- Use the tools we've got: release and versions plugins, with the attendant Hudson frontends.
- This requires the hudson user to have a proper rsa key that is granted access on the various repos in github, so it can push released version tags and incremented version numbers. SDH: agreed.
- Slight tangent: worth noting is that breaking apart contrib – while making for a much more pleasant/accessible development process – implies that coordinated releases will essentially not be possible anymore. i.e. contrib lib A depends on B; the latter needs to be released before the former can be released using the latter's released artifact as a dependency, and since everything's a separate project, there's no reactor or other coordinating mechanism to properly order each project's release process. SDH: Ok for now.
- Clojure core:
- IMO, the existing release process is not going to cut it anymore; given the credentials needed to deploy to OSS and the gpg key needed to sign all released artifacts going there, having deployed releases (or snapshots, even) happen anywhere other than build.clojure.org seems like a horrible idea.
- The easiest path (from a build & CI perspective) would be to replace ant with maven. I'll assume that's not going to happen (Rich, I've got a crate of monkey-picked oolongs for you if we can switch! ;-) ) SDH: Let's switch to Maven.
- Short of that, I would recommend using the promotions plugin for hudson to drive whatever scripting we put together to twiddle the necessary version (version.properties?), run an ant build, sign jars as necessary, deploy the result to OSS, and push the released version tag and incremented version numbers back into github.
- Contrib:
- We need to be ready to proxy or redirect to
repo1.maven.orgfor future requests to
build.clojure.org/releases, once Clojure core and "classic" contrib artifacts begin flowing into their new homes.
- The simplest option is probably to promote the 1.3.0 alphas into central, and send 301 redirects for all requests. Even if build.clojure.org hosts a repository at some later date, it almost certainly won't be available via
/snapshots. SDH: Ok.
- The simplest option is probably to promote the 1.3.0 alphas into central, and send 301 redirects for all requests. Even if build.clojure.org hosts a repository at some later date, it almost certainly won't be available via
- build.clojure.org/snapshots is defined as an always-available repository in
settings.xml. I suspect this was to avoid having parent POMs; in any case, surely we can eliminate that now? SDH: I don't know the issues here but am willing to take your word for it.
- There is no JDK 1.5 on build.clojure.org. Obviously needs to be there, and set as the default JDK; hudson install OK here? SDH: Ok.


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by Lou Mancinelli
Skyline is an original rock band composed of five young Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy teenagers who already know what it is like to perform in front of a big crowd. At its Aug. 23 show at the Mt Airy Train Station, the band played for about 200 people.
Its next show is at the Greene Street Friends School Fall Fair on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m.
"We were not really nervous for the most part," said Henry McDevitt, lead singer and rhythm guitarist, about playing for such a large crowd. "We're getting really comfortable with it now, and dealing with [the shows] one by one."
Bassist Graham Arms and drummer Matthew Overholser, of Chestnut Hill, and McDevitt and guitarist Jackson Craig, of Mt. Airy, are all 13 and in eighth grade (except for Overholser, who is in seventh grade). They started the band at the beginning of 2013.
But the four have known each other for years, and have played together under different band names like Nuclear Takeout. McDevitt and Craig have essentially known one another their entire lives because their parents were friends.
When three of the four went to Settlement Music School summer camp this August in Queen Village, they met Gabriel Garcia-Leeds, also 13, an eighth grade student and Chestnut Hill resident.
McDevitt already knew Garcia-Leeds from school and played with him previously in a band called Aquahead. They all got along to the point where they invited Garcia-Leeds to join the band this August and play lead guitar.
Before that, Skyline made its debut in the spring of this year at a Memorial weekend barbecue at Silk City, 5th and Spring Garden Streets, where a few nights each week college-aged and older bands play.
Since then they have been as busy as many local indie bands. They have played five shows in all. In June, they played the Plymouth Meeting Friends School Strawberry Festival. In July, they performed at the Walk a Crooked Mile Books weekly concert series in Mt. Airy.
"It's hard to imagine something like that happening, and then it's there," said Garcia-Leeds about the band's recent reception.
Skyline writes songs that are sneakily mature for a group of songwriters who have yet to experience high school. One can watch performances of live songs like "Sailor" on YouTube. On the song "Shivers," there are well-placed harmonies, sung by Craig. Garcia-Leeds adds a lead guitar line that's at the level you'd hear any day on WXPN. They also have songs true to their age about things like waffles.
The way the band finds new shows is by talking to musicians in other bands and by keeping their ears open for any opportunity that surfaces. Based on the band's performance at their 200-person show, they were invited to perform the following week for a Finally Friday event at the Sedgwick Theater in Mt. Airy.
Some of the band's song writing stylings come from McDevitt's background with classical piano lessons. He studied piano for five years but wanted to play guitar. He begged his mom until she agreed to let him play.
Skyline's members have written nine songs the band performs at their shows, which have also included covers like "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes. They point to influences like the Beatles, alternative rock bands and blues revival-duo The Black Keys.
Overholser, Arms and Craig attend Germantown Friends School, and McDevitt and Garcia-Leeds are Greene Street Friends students. McDevitt, Garcia-Leeds and Craig have been playing the guitar for three years. Arms picked up the bass three years ago, and Overholser took to the drums last year.
The callow band members book and promote their shows, conduct interviews and arrange schedules for practice and transportation. And they are saving up for their own public address system for live shows. Of course, they will still depend on their parents, who have thus far played manager, for rides to practice and gigs.
"We're guiding them into taking ownership over their skills," said Jonathan Leeds, Garcia-Leeds' father.
For more information, look for Skyline on Facebook or YouTube. Greene Street Friends School Fall Fair will take place at the school at 5511 Greene St. on Oct. 19. For more information, visit greenestreetfriends.org.