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The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup Finals was the best-of-5 championship series of the 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters and the San Mig Super Coffee competed for the 14th Commissioner's Cup championship and the 111th overall championship contested by the league.

This championship was also the first PBA finals series that aired in high-definition television for Cignal Digital TV subscribers.

Prior the finals series, Talk 'N Text had a 13-0 record, sweeping both the elimination (nine games) and playoff (four games) rounds. San Mig Super Coffee however won the championship after defeating Talk 'N Text in their finals series, 3-1.

Background

San Mig Super Coffee Mixers
San Mig Super Coffee finished 6th place after the elimination round with a 4-5 record. The team was pitted with the defending champions Alaska in a best-of-three quarterfinal series. Alaska won the first game, 86-77 and was on verge of eliminating San Mig Coffee. The Mixers managed to win the next two games to advance to the semifinal round against Air21 Express, an unexpected semifinalist after they had eliminated the second seeded San Miguel Beermen, who had a twice-to-beat advantage.

Led by the 41-year-old Asi Taulava, they won the first game against the Mixers, 103-100. San Mig Coffee went on to win the next two games to grab the series lead and was one win away in clinching a finals berth. However, the Express went on a three-point shooting spree on Game 4, and forced a rubber match. Game 5 was eventually won by the Mixers, 99-83.

Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
After missing the semifinal round in the previous conference, Talk 'N Text swept the elimination round, becoming the first team since the 1990 Presto Tivolis to become undefeated in the eliminations, which the Tivolis did in the 1990 PBA All-Filipino Conference. The Tropang Texters gained the top seed and a twice-to-beat advantage against Barangay Ginebra San Miguel. They easily defeated Barangay Ginebra, 97–84, in the quarterfinals and went on to face third seeded Rain or Shine in the semifinals. Talk 'N Text swept Rain or Shine in three games. This achievement gave them a chance to completely sweep the tournament, which was nearly achieved by the 1980 Crispa Redmanizers, who finished 20-1 in the tournament, after they were defeated by the Toyota Super Corollas in Game 3 of the 1980 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals.

Road to the finals

Head-to-head matchup

Series summary

Game 1

A first half run by the Coffee Mixers helped them gain the lead, and eventually won Game 1, giving Talk 'N Text's first loss in the conference.

Game 2

The Texters came back in Game 2 as they took the lead early on and led for most of the game. Near the end of the game, the Mixers, led by their import, James Mays, managed to close in on the Texters, but solid effort on both ends of the floor in the dying minutes helped Talk 'N Text knot the series up, 1-1.

Game 3

Game 3 was different for both squads, as the game went close up to the last minutes of the game. With Jimmy Alapag struggling, the Tropang Texters, led by Jayson Castro and Ranidel De Ocampo, took the lead 75-71. However, James Mays gave the Mixers a fighting chance after he knocked down a shot while drawing contact, getting the Mixers closer 74-75. With a possible 2-1 lead in the series, Talk 'N Text drew up a play that could run out the clock, however, De Ocampo turned the ball over after Jayson Castro failed to catch his low bounce pass. With a chance to win, the Mixers turned to James Yap, who drilled a long 2-point shot near the corner to give the Mixers the lead 76-75. Jayson Castro got open for a game winning three-point shot but his shot missed, handing the Mixers a 2-1 lead and a chance to close the series.

Game 4

In Game 4, Jimmy Alapag lead Tropang Texters to a 17-1 lead in the early minutes of the game. At the half, they led 52-38 after KG Canaleta drilled a three right before the buzzer sounded. A 16-0 run by the Mixers, led by rookie Ian Sangalang gave the Mixers their first lead of the game 69-68 near the end of the 3rd quarter. Jayson Castro and Ranidel De Ocampo knocked down 2 three-point shots to give the Texters the lead back, 74-69. The Texters regained momentum as they took the lead 80-71, just a few minutes into the 4th quarter. The core group of the Mixers, however, helped them rally once again to take the lead 93-89 and held on to win the game, 100-91. The Commissioner's Cup title gave the Mixers their 3rd consecutive championship and a chance to capture a rare season sweep, also known as a Grand Slam, with Marqus Blakely as their import. James Yap was hailed Finals' MVP.

Rosters

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Broadcast notes

Additional Game 4 crew:
Trophy presentation: James Velasquez
Dugout interviewer: Sel Guevara (only shown on the Cignal HD coverage)

References

External links
PBA official website

2014
2013–14 PBA season
TNT Tropang Giga games
Magnolia Hotshots games
PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals

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Before sailing the seven seas, I was privileged to be a steward of a 98 acre organic farm in south central Kentucky. Want to try this potato growing concept but what about potato seedlings. Any suggestions for potato starter seeding varities sources etc.
Can you just carve left over potato that came from supermarket allow to dry then plant. Can you start grow inside in say basement then move out doors as weather warms up.
Suggestions on seeding and seed preperation for best results. Store-bought potatoes have been treated with a growth inhibitor to keep them from sprouting. The absence of this inhibitor is what makes seed potatoes seed potatoes. I use organic potatoes from the store for my crops. In fact, if you leave an organic potato in the mesh bags they come in, they will all begin to sprout within 30 days.
My red potatoes from the grocery store were sprouting so I thought I would try cutting them and planting the eyes and sprouts in the container with my tomato plants. I now live in an apartment so I am limited in the space. I am delighted to see red potatoes popping up out of the top of the soil!
I am amazed at their size! I have no idea what may be developing below the surface. I guess I will find out when the tomatoes are finished producing and I pull the plants out. Simply put one potato in each pot. After the plants die back, I leave them in the pots until I need them.
But be sure to harvest them before a freeze or they will be ruined. Regarding seed potatoes, I used to buy them. Now I just use supermarket potatoes…. As long as they are not moldy, incredibly shriveled, dried up old potatoes will grow.
Regarding those compost bags some call them Smart Bags, you can make your own by taking landscaping cloth and sewing up the side to make a tube.
The wood seems like a better idea. I used plastic garbage cans med. Raise the bed as the plant grows. Add loses soil-basically mulch 3. Use late season plants. Dont use tires- could be toxic. Anyways just let them get about 6 to 8 inches tall and then cover with compost or straw and repeat.
When they start flowering i stop and let them finish making their taters. New to a town at the top of the coast of Maine, I decided to do it with truck tires and convinced my husband to get some for me.
Naturally all the potato farmers up there wondered what I was up to. Struggling we managed to get the first tire off, after that we just started toppling the stack. I harvested 5 potatoes, just 5!!! I even had a perforated pipe in the center for watering and aeration. I do think that was a good idea. Zero cost, lots of potatoes. Why must every blog or article on the Internet devolve into politicking? Politics are the duty of a responsible citizen. Apathy leads to fascism and slavery.
While politics may be the duty of citizens it does not need to be brought up in every discussion. Even easier to handle than soil, use straw! As the plants grow, add more straw. For harvesting, just push the straw aside, take what you want and put the straw back. No digging, no heavy soil to shift, and the straw beaks down over the winter to enrich your soil.
What i do not understand is if all you add is straw what is the potato plant going to FEED from? If there is not any dirt or compost and the straw is not going to be able to breakdown all that fast -does not the potato plant STARVE?? The plants use photosynthesis to make food, like most plants. Then you can add straw to encourage more potatoes. You can always spray with a foliar feed fertilizer, too, such as soluble kelp.
And water with compost tea every couple of weeks. The understanding I have, is that the roots stay at the bottom, with good soil, and straw or whatever it is, is just to provide a dark place where potatoes form.
It is still feeding on dirt and compost. You can also use pine straw to cover! You can also use it for mulch in your garden. Many of my neighbors in FL have pine trees and rake and throw the pine straw in the trash.
This way you can use things that would many would consider trash, and it makes your soil more acid for those plants that like acidity! I think I will try this in my poly tunnel.
We have three acres but this will allow for very early planting. Should get first new potatoes by mid Febuary. Much easier access to the potatoes and yams. Pantyhose stretch, you can cut with knife and then re-tie.
I am in Scotland and this sounds ideal for my small garden. I am definately going to try this. What variety for our climate. If not you will have straw growing everywhere and vigorously. The best sustitute for staw is Hay. Most hay is seedless when harvested. It has the same characteristics as straw for its use, breaks down at the same rate,is a great addition to compost and ammendments for your soil.
Plus in a vegetable garden it acts as a wonder mulch to help retain moisture, suppress weeds and helps deter some pests. Not to metion it looks good as well. I work at a state historic site and design and maintain the working kitchen garden and have been using hay for over 10 years.
You sterilize straw or grass trimmings, or lawn-grass cuttings, even leaves—by putting in a black garbage bag, tie it, leave it in the hot sun and any seed in the straw or grass will die, and then you can use it as compost for your potatoes or anything else without the danger of growing weeds in your garden. Any root crops do better in straw compost than in dirt, especially in hard clay or soil with poor drainage. I do the same, but the other way round. I use the spent straw from my coops to mulch with.
They say that you should not use straw for your chickens and hay is better. Only because straw is more tube-ish, and gives great hiding places to the bugs that are a nuisance to your chickens. Just some information I have run across. I use hay for my chickens. Here in Texas, the hay if full of grass and weed seeds. Straw is a by-product of raising grain such as oats and wheat.
The oat and wheat seeds have been removed. Eva, great advice except you are backwards. Hay has seed ie. I am not sure that pallets are a good idea. Many are soaked in chemical preservatives.
Years ago arsenic was the potion of choice but lord knows what is put on them in strange countries. A lot of them may be hardwood and Ok……………but then dont ever cut them indoors as the dust is hazardous. As I am already the prophet of doom could i also add its not a good idea to inhale smoke from burning pallets. Sometimes they have oil or other substances on them, so it is something to be careful with. But in general, pallets are safe to use. Actually they are treated.
All pallets are not treated. I work for a pallet company. Pallets being shipped from one country to another country must be treated or heated in a kiln. Most pallet companies I know heat treat the pallets in a kiln.
The reason for treating with a chemical or a kiln is to kill any bugs that might be hiding in the wood. This stops the transfer of bugs from one country to another. But pallets used exclusively within the US and not shipped outside the US do not need to be treated and are not treated because of the cost of the treatment.
I forgot to add, treated wood also has a green tint to it, so you can tell it apart from untreated. CCA, or, chromated copper arsenic, is the main culprit you all speak of. There are processes that do not use the heavier metals, and do not toxify. At one time, they were more expensive, but I think pricing has leveled out a bit.
Man, Its fun to finally use that knowledge. That seems like a lot of trouble, to dig out the potatoes from the bottom. Never any digging or hard work. Yes this works wonders. My Dad used to dig a trench then lay the potatoes in and just add straw, as the potatoes grew he added more straw. But very easy picking and no cleaning, they are already clean and seem to me to grow bigger. I have a raised vegetable garden bed. Once in awhile during the winter, the soil is turned over.
There are some leaves in the garden bed too. Wow, I had russet, red bliss, yukon gold potatoes and all from the peelings thrown into the vegetable garden bed. Bountiful supply in the spring. My great-grandparents never bought seed potatoes. They of course wanted to eat all the potatoes food was scarce in their day , so they would save potato eyes on the peelings to replant in the spring.
I always thought you had to have a chunk of potato with the eye, but not so. The peelings with eyes will regrow potatoes!
They also covered their potatoes lightly with soil and straw and just added more straw or lawn clippings. My father, raised in Mississippi, said his mother used to create a manure hotbed under a small area of the garden to start some vegetables early.
About a 4 foot thick bottom layer of hot manure, then add soil to plant on the top-most layer. The heat from the manure layer would warm up the planting soil enough to start earlier during cold weather. The older generations sure knew how to grow things! I grow organically and have always had bumper crops without fertilizing during the growing season by simply tilling in good organic fertilizer we have cow, chicken and pig manure mix on the farm in the fall or early spring.
Seems like the fall tilling of the manure works better—time to leach into the soil?? Thanks for the tips. The older generations are sages. I have a large back yard but everything I grow tends to spread everywhere and turns into a mess, so I like the confinement. The tire idea sounds excellent as well.
It sounds practical to me. And by the way — I could eat all pounds of potatoes. Good article, and good information — thank you. Even though regular pine boards get termites in them and rot rather fast, try not to use treated boards. The plants are supposed to be able to pull the chemicals out of the treated boards. Its better to replace rotten pine boards then to risk getting chemicals in your food. Have you ever tried the black landscape fabric? Lay it down put potato on top lay next fabric on top cut small hole on top of potato , put straw or hay on top water potatoes grow between fabrics.
Funny, there is a lot of cedar on the family land. Cedar is resistant to rot and insects. Good red cedar can last decades, Might want to try it.
Chestnut was good as well, but is almost extint, due to a disease. We have used the stainless steel tub from our defunct washer for growing potatoes for the past few years, although we have only planted one layer. I will be trying the suggestion of planting on the very bottom and then covering the plant as it grows. To stop the dirt from leaking out the holes, put a liner if weed barrier fabric around the inside of the tub. Hi, Thanks for the great info. I blogged about potatoes and included your link.
My customers love information and I love to bring it to them. This is something they could do on their own. Last year I build one of these potato wood bins as you called them. I went to my local builder store and had them cut the boards to the length that I needed and bought the screws.
I planted my potatoes and grew 40 lbs of them, the best tasting potatoes ever. Two things I noticed when I did not water them enough that layer had little to no potatoes, could estimate by my vacation time and where the soil had not been softened with compost that layer had few potatoes. I have had excellent potatoes all winter.
The funny part was I was gone and then got sick and forgot about picking them so after we had a major freeze here in Colorado I expected them to be mush but I needed to take my bin down so started digging them out and it turned out they had not been affected by the freeze at all. Excellent way to grow…how many different things. Just wanted to share this with others, I did not get my lbs but who cares and with paying more attention to them with regular watering and good soil who knows…I was thrilled for my first year it was GREAT.
Hardwood leaves, especially oak carry nematodes that will keep your crop on the smallish, disfigured side. A friend told me to buy a large bag of compost poke holes in the bottome for drainage and cut a slit on top and plant potatoes in the bag. To havest slice the side and pull out only what you need. This is the method I am going to use.
My cousin is a gardener and has been pyramid gardening. I am buying the garden soil.. Then cover that with hay. Compost would work too. I see no need for the box or container. I think potato plants are pretty. My mother use to grow sweet potato vines on her kitchen window sill. Place toothpicks closer to the bottom of the sweet potato as supports.
Then put in a glass container with enough water to cover the bottom third of the potato. It is grown for the foliage only and a very pretty vine. I did try planting some store potatoes once and they were a complete flop. If you save from your own potatoes each year you should only have to buy seed potatoes once.
I cut them in sections making sure each section had an eye or two. I had the best potatoes. Due to cold wet spring I was late getting to the garden and all the seed potatoes were sold out. Guy at the store suggested going to Whole Foods and getting small Organic potatoes as these supposedly are not treated with chemicals to retard sprouting.
They are in the ground in my box. How can I grow the same size potato tubers for minimmizing sorting needs. I do not see any post about actual yields. How accurate is the pound claim or even LB? Can anyone who has actually done a vertical potato garden with success say what variety of potato was used. I have read that these are definitely not good for vertical culture. Please, if you have actually have good success with vertical culture either wire cages, boxes, or pallets , could you post which variety you used?
My husband and I tried to grow potatoes in the boxes like above. It is about mid June and all of the potato plants died. We dug them all up and no potatoes at all. Can anyone tell us what happened? One inch left exposed is not enough to support a healthy plant. You were only overzealous.
Remember, the worst farmer is the one who doesnt try. Trying too hard is another issue. Youi just needed to let them grow a bit more, and cover a bit less.
I read the same thing. Plants still need sunlight….. My first effort failed because the spud had NOT been planted properly. TvI love this thread! If your potatoes turn green from the Sun they are poisonous!
I put grass clippings on. I had several levels of the wood added on. Straw would be be better. I agree with Kim. It sounds like they came off easily because the stem of the potato plant had rotted. Either too wet, which grass clippings really hold moisture, or possibly too hot as the clippings started to decompose. Ever reach into a pile of grass clippings and feel the heat, moisture and watch the steam rise up? This happened to one of my potato plants in a black container.
I overwatered it and then placed it where it was extremely sunny. It was smelly and rotten. Definitely the case of Bacterial Soft Rot. Car washes get their soap in plastic gallon drums. The soap is usually completely non-toxic and washes out completely. Trying it this year for a fall crop with Russets in a drum. My husband and I tried this method this year, growing the potatoes in wooden towers like this and building up as the plants grew.
To compare, we also put in some with the traditional mounded dirt method of growing. The traditional method of growing yielded a larger crop. Use a 5 gallon bucket with the bottom cut out.
Cut a vertical slit from the ridges down to the bottom. Put the bucket on a piece of plastic. Plant the first layer with six inches of soil. As the plant grows keep adding soil to cover about a third of the stem at a time. Let the plant grow to a foot over the soil when it gets to the top of the bucket. Depending on the variety the bottom will be about ready. The first harvest will give a good indication of how much time is needed for harvesting.
The growth rate varies widely with the variety. Pull up the bucket letting the soil slide down to expose some of the soil at the bottom layer. Tip the bucket and pick a few potatoes out to see how big they are. If the potatoes are not ready let them grow.
Remove all but a thin layer of soil from the plastic and tip the bucket upright. Add enough compost to make up the soil that was consumed and add it back into the top of the bucket. Repeat the process until the potatoes are ready. When the potatoes are ready pick out as many potatoes as will be consumed. Just keep adding more compost to the excess soil each time. Repeat the process as many times and as often as desired. Note that the sides of the buckets are slightly tapered.
Slitting the bucket makes it so the soil slides easily when you pick it up. This method allows for a continuous harvest without ever having to stop and start over, as long as there is sufficient light and water.
Only as many potatoes desired need to be harvested at a time. Storage problems are eliminated. Potatoes can be kept growing indoors in a window all year with enough artificial light to make about sixteen hours of combined natural and artificial light. The better the light the faster the yield but almost any light will do.
The duration is what is important. For more yield use more buckets. I always end up either screwing up and neglecting them or starting over with new varieties. We use a large trash can with the bottom cut out. Plant the seed potatoes…cover with soil and straw Some times I use grass clippings and as the potatoes grow tall- keep mulching it.
We use to do this with old tires stacking one on top of the other. Works well and much easier to harvest the potatoes. Put your starts on the SURFACE of the soil and pack the hay around the growing plants……the plants put out new stolons and potatoes into the hay……more hay, more potatoes…..
No digging, and your soil mulch is already in place. Has anyone ever tried this using vinyl fencing? We have a huge problem with termites, and I have left over fencing that I thought might work. What about just using plain old tomoato cages or a rolled piece of fencing held together with wires?
Maybe potatoes could still be easily harvest by reaching into the bottom as needed, you could still keep adding the layers as described. Just not sure it would hold enough moisture??? I had planned on using a barrel, now you guys have me thinking of all sorts of options. Maybe just use some 5 gallon buckets, without cutting out the bottoms, easy to dump out. Our local winery sets out boxes from all the grapes they use just for anyone, they are a lightweight wood, obviously must be OK for food, they held grapes, and they look moderatley nicer than tires to sit in the yard.
I have a lot of hay and stray from used bedding from goats and rabbits, between the hay and straw and the animal droppings I have HIGH hopes of bountiful harvest!!! So using straw around the outside of the plants up against the inside of the wire will probably work well.
Let me know how yours turns out? I use my husbands old racing tires for my potatoes. I start the potatos in the first tire, then add another tire and dirt as the plants grow. I also inherited his old tire holding rack so I put all the un-used tires on it for storage. This year I am using some of the tires to make mini raised beds in my larger garden. I have them spaced about a foot apart with metal stakes, in this area I plan on growing my tomatoes.
Doing this will raise the soil temp for my sun loving veggies, keep out weeds, roots from other plants such as my strawberrys and help with moisture. If you have a sawmill nearby, you can get cedar lumber for a low cost. I know I can buy it here for 50 cents per board foot. This is an excellent idea for people who have a limited amount of space to grow a garden.
I have had great success with this method of potato growing. I use recycled black plastic pots really big ones that I buy at OSH for a buck a piece. Then, when the potatoes are ready, I get my daughter to tip the pots over and find the potatoes. She does it with her friends and they have so much fun counting the potatoes, lining them up from biggest to smallest, and, of course, eating them!
A great project for kids and their grown-ups! I am using a tall Laundry hamper with landscaping fabric to block the soil from falling out!
This way the holes in the sides still let the light in! Hi all how about a complete organic way of growing potatoes …All you do is take straw lay it down one leaf at a time to make a row then set your seed taters on the leafs of straw then go back over them and cover with a leaf of straw or old hay even works….
I am trying straw bale gardening this year. I have the 4 bales placed in a square with the middle open. Thought I may try potatoes in the center. Does anyone have a list of what potatoes are good for this I have heard that some kinds are not very good at growing in a system like this? I made a potato tower this year for the first time. I used chicken-wire, straw and mulch.
I made an 18 inch diameter circle, used 3 stakes to stabilize it. Then layered the mulch and straw planting 6 potatoes eyes facing the outside. I planted 30 potatoes and it looks like most of them have grown. Not a very pretty thing but I cannot wait to have my own potatoes to eat. I simply took a piece of wire fencing and made a large circle with it.
I tried this technique for the first time this year, and I am not finding any potatoes. I did everything that I was told to do, but o potatoes. The plants are done flowering and starting to wilt. I like Mandy tried this for the first time and got 0 potatoes. Some on the ground but none up the stem, I just dug them today.
What did I do wrong? What the heck happened? I have nine stacks of tires with soil in only the top tire. I put a barrel lid in the top one. Growing seventeen different vegetables. All are doing great. Evidence shows some foods have many toxins from herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, etc. Do you hear of anybody having trouble from food grown in tires? I just started using gardenboxes last year and had overall good results.
My question is can the same method be applied to sweet potatoes? They last longer than the clear. Filled with peat moss and vermiculite. Got about a bushel of potatoes out of the 4 boxes. I could dig them out with my hands.
Just right for an 87 year old man. Going to try the above method next year. Some years ago, a radio call-in show horticulturalist advised putting old pine needles into the same hole with the seed potatoes when planting, to keep various plant fungi away. Worked pretty well for me, and helped adjust soil to increase acidity where I needed it. Would not advise using only pine needles. Also from my experience, although hay worked as well as straw for me in covering potatoes instead of hilling with soil as they grew, next year did I have weeds!
Grain straw a better option if you have a good, free, supply. Potatoes are not then as affected by soil borne diseases. We have used old tires the same way, and the plants grow, add another tire. Be sure to only water once when planted then wait. They can very easily rot with too much water. I give them a good drink then wait to see several leaves before another drink.
I have yet to see any method grow lbs of potatoes yet. I hope if someone gets it to work they post a video so we can all see it. Most pressure treated lumber now a days are much safer than then the old method. Have tried this in multiple bins and had good results in most, this is what I have learned so far.
Variety used makes all the difference with most maincrop varieties being the favored seeds to use for vertical growing because of their longer growing period. Using waste spuds or peelings from the kitchen will give a crop but unless you know what variety they are results will be unpredictable often only limited to bottom of bin. Two years ago, I ended up with very few undamaged potatoes red and russet varieties because the rodents had dug up under the rows and had eaten the potatoes during the growing season.
Many of the potatoes were completely hollowed out! In 35 years of gardening here in Idaho, I have never once had a problem like this with potatoes! We did have this happen to some carrots one year that we left to winter over in the ground. When we dug them in the spring, we discovered mice literally living inside of hollowed out carrots. The barnyard cats and our dogs had a great time chasing mice as we dug the carrots and stirred them up from their little carrot nests!
White potatoes set potatoes on the stems as they are covered with dirt. Sweet potatoes set sweet potatoes on the roots as they grow down into the ground. That is why traditionally, you plant white potatoes in a trench and fill in around the plants as they grow. You plant sweet potatoes in the top of a hill or long mound and they make babies on the roots as they grow downward; then you dig them up in the fall.
Any suggestions on keeping field mice out of the garden. Last year they destroyed my potatoes, watermelons and cantelopes. My husband and I tried growing potatoes in 3 layers of tires last year with poor results.
We started with 5 potatoes in the bottom tire, covered with soil. When the plants were about 8 inches high, added another tire and more soil. Another tire was added when the plants were 8 inches above the second tire. Then we watered and fertilized; there was an abundance of foliage so we were looking forward to a large crop of potatoes.
Unfortunately we got no more potatoes from the 5 than we would have from planting one potato.
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When I saw this RPPC I grinned. Rock solid, self assured, charming on the edges…this gentleman looks like a character I envisioned.
The lucky (diamond?) horseshoe tie stack brings it all together. And the chain hanging off the lapel buttonhole should be attached to a fob…Better pay up on time 'cause this guy's keeping track.
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The Dog Who Helped Her Hear
Whenever the doorbell rang, Spike would run up to Beverly, barking, bothering her, until she answered the door. Every morning, after hearing the alarm, Spike would put his paw on his owner, waking her up. At restaurants, he would sit under the table, quiet and polite, never begging for food.
Spike was a good dog, a black lab, friendly and loyal. He was also a service animal trained to help the hard of hearing.
According to Assistance Dogs International, Hearing Dogs are service animals trained to "make physical contact" and lead or alert their owners to a sound or event. Often they're mixed breeds, acquired at shelters and then trained with the help of specialized handlers.
Hearing-ear dogs have been around for a while. A New York Times article from 1982 wrote about ~2,000 dogs who were trained to assist the hard of hearing: "The animals communicate through eye contact, body language, and touch. Or they simply run between a person and the source of the sound. Tales of canine heroism abound, but the animals help most simply by enabling their guardians to overcome every day problems."
Meeting Spike
Beverly Medenbach first started looking for a hearing-ear dog years ago. At first, she was hesitant, realizing the process included a 6-month-long bonding process with no guarantee of success. But after some searching, she ended up at a local certified dog trainer, a friend of her mother's. She recommended Beverly see a colleague of hers, a Westminster Dog Show judge, who bred Labrador retrievers.
The breeder had a 6-month-old black Lab she could not breed because of elbow dysplasia, and she asked Beverly if she wanted him. Approaching the enclosure where Jolly Muff Spiker Driver Blue (AKA Spike) rested, Bev immediately felt a connection.
He went home with her soon after.
Training Spike
Beverly brought Spike back to the trainer and signed him up for obedience school, where he progressed through kindergarten, pre-novice, and novice levels. After "graduation," they enlisted the help of an acquaintance, a certified trainer of service dogs.
The trainer taught Spike specific behaviors, such as notifying Beverley of several sound-specific events, like a doorbell ring, a teapot whistle, the sound of someone coming down the driveway, or the cry of a newborn child. They also trained Spike to get Bev's attention if she dropped something, or left anything behind.
After his service training, Spike even learned to recognize some sign language. He understood "going to the store," "play with the kids," "come," and "sit."
Training a hearing dog is about finding the right fit. "A hearing ear dog and their deaf recipient need to be carefully matched to ensure the partnership will work well," says Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, a UK-based service.
There is no one way to get a hearing service dog. Some companies and charities offer to do the legwork, or you can go the route Beverly took, who found the dog on her own and hired a certified service animal trainer afterwards.
Life with Spike
Spike was a dominant, but not aggressive, dog. Kids loved him. Everyone he met was excited to get to know him a little bit better.
As a service animal, he had special permissions, and would go everywhere with Bev. He kept her company in restaurants, he visited her in the hospital after the birth of her child, and he hiked along the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive — where he would woo the park rangers — with Beverley and her husband.
One time, well into his service years, the Self Help for Hard of Hearing People convention in Arkansas invited Spike to their conference, where he immediately became their unofficial mascot.
Beverly had Spike for 14 years. They shared a life together. His family loved him, and he loved them back. He was good at his job.
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Tidewater (TDW) In A Perilous Reversal
Trade-Ideas LLC identified Tidewater (TDW) as a "perilous reversal" (up big yesterday but down big today) candidate
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
) as a "perilous reversal" (up big yesterday but down big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Tidewater as such a stock due to the following factors:
TDW has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $17.1 million.
TDW has traded 80,716 shares today.
TDW is down 3% today.
TDW was up 6.5% yesterday.
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Tidewater Inc. provides offshore service vessels and marine support services through the operation of a fleet of marine service vessels to the offshore energy industry worldwide. The company operates in Americas, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa/Europe segments. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 15.2%. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Tidewater a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Tidewater has been 2.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Tidewater has a market cap of $203.8 million and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. The stock has a beta of 1.85 and a short float of 24.5% with 3.11 days to cover. Shares are down 33.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow, generally high debt management risk and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Energy Equipment & Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 801.1% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from -$9.08 million to -$81.79 million.
The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Energy Equipment & Services industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, TIDEWATER INC underperformed against that of the industry average and is significantly less than that of the S&P 500.
TDW's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Despite the fact that TDW's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 0.51 is low and demonstrates weak liquidity.
Net operating cash flow has decreased to $61.97 million or 25.47% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite a decrease in cash flow TIDEWATER INC is still fairing well by exceeding its industry average cash flow growth rate of -36.18%.
Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 85.30%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 815.78% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
You can view the full Tidewater Ratings Report.
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Biografia
Si laureò con Pietro Toesca, discutendo una tesi sulle sculture del Duomo di Firenze; prese il diploma di perfezionamento a Roma con Adolfo Venturi. Iniziò la sua carriera nel 1933 come funzionaria di Soprintendenza, ispettrice prima a Napoli e poi in Emilia-Romagna, dove collaborò alla mostra del 1938 su Melozzo da Forlì, sotto le direttive di Roberto Longhi, affiancata da Cesare Gnudi e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti.

Le sue prime ricerche si rivolsero all'architettura e scultura fiorentina del Quattrocento e poi all'architettura e scultura italiane del Cinquecento. Nel 1939 tornò a Firenze, alla Soprintendenza ai monumenti, dove restò qualche anno dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale. In occasione della Mostra del '500 toscano tenutasi a Firenze nel 1940, scrisse una recensione sulla rivista Le arti. Avviò gli studi critici sul manierismo; nel 1943 scrisse un saggio sui disegni del Pontormo e nel 1944  Manieristi Toscanicorreggendone le bozze nei rifugi antiaerei di Palazzo Pitti.

Nel 1955 proseguì quel filone di studi con un saggio sui disegni di Andrea del Sarto e nel 1958 firmò la voce su "maniera e manieristi" dell'Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte. Giunta alla Soprintendenza alle Gallerie di Firenze, sviluppò un interesse alla museologia: diresse e riordinò sia il Museo nazionale di San Marco, allestendo nel 1955 la mostra sul Beato Angelico, sia la Galleria dell'Accademia. Infine nel 1957 subentrò a Roberto Salvini nella direzione della Galleria degli Uffizi e assunse la carica di soprintendente nel 1960 che mantenne fino al 1969, anno del suo pensionamento.

Sostenitrice del Progetto Grandi Uffizi, ne vide realizzata una prima tranche nel 1967 con la riapertura della Scala buontalentiana e, sensibile alle problematiche emergenti del turismo di massa, stese insieme a Nello Bemporad un piano architettonico per una migliore fruizione degli spazi museali, che prevedeva il recupero delle stanze del primo piano allora occupate dall'Archivio di Stato. Avviò restauri a capolavori, mostre antologiche, recuperi di opere costrette a forzati depositi. Ma avrebbe anche voluto, in una anticipazione moderna della fruizione museale, offrire un'accoglienza confortevole con sedili appropriati lungo il percorso, possibilmente progettati da designer in esclusiva. Gli Uffizi furono infatti il primo museo italiano ad avere un servizio pubblico di bar, situato al primo piano aggettante su Piazza Signoria.

Fu protagonista di episodi vistosi, quali il volo negli Stati Uniti nel 1963 con Rodolfo Siviero per il recupero delle due tavolette di Antonio del Pollaiolo raffiguranti le Fatiche di Ercole trafugate dai nazisti e portate negli Stati Uniti.

In occasione dell'alluvione di Firenze del 1966 accorse agli Uffizi nella notte tra il 3 e il 4 novembre per mettere in salvo dalle acque dell'Arno capolavori in pericolo e i preziosi originali degli inventari conservati nel mezzanino delle scale. Ne venne fatta una mostra di 43 pezzi dal titolo: Dipinti salvati dalla piena dell'Arno.

Si spense nel 1988 a Firenze. Nella sua casa di via Gioberti sono custoditi documenti e carte, insieme all'archivio di famiglia, una famiglia di imprenditori e commercianti di merce deperibile, attiva fino dalla fine dell'Ottocento nel commercio in tutta Europa. Legatissima alla sua famiglia, ne curò una Storia in un manoscritto autografo.

Carriera accademica
Divenuta nel 1967 la museologia materia di insegnamento universitario, Luisa Becherucci fu una delle prime docenti a impartirne i fondamenti nell'Università internazionale dell'arte (UIA) e nelle università di Pisa, Firenze e Urbino. Nel 1972 fondò e diresse insieme a Luciano Berti la rivista Museologia del Centro di ricerche dell'UIA. Ancora per un ventennio, insegnò e pubblicò. Fu docente prima alla Syracuse University a Firenze, in seguito all'Università di Pisa e poi presso l'UIA. Le sue lezioni di museologia furono pubblicate postume.

Nel Soroptimist
Nel 1949 fu tra le fondatrici del Soroptimist International Association, Club Firenze, ricoprendo la carica di vicepresidente dal 1949 al 1950 e quella di presidente dal 1952 al 1955

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Funzionari italiani
Professori dell'Università di Pisa
Professori dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
Professori dell'Università degli Studi di Urbino


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My core strengths are copy, strategy, problem solving and simplicity. A creative with a penchant for language, my interest in marketing stems from a fascination with the measurable interaction between messages, media and human nature. I play football, speak French and love Balzac. My portfolio is also here, as is my bio. Also, I love great dialog (see to the left :-).
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This is yet another long term project in study of my continuing landscapes and human landscapes. The human condition both by nature and the psychological. An attempt to bring a beauty to it all even though there is much suffering and questions. These scars are years in the making. We all have our own ways of dealing with what troubles us and or creating the trouble we have over and over. Some have in fact made this part of their lives and hold them close to their heart as memory and a reminder. The use of collodion, a process from the 1850's perfectly merges the mood and brings mystery, beauty and texture to an already full subject matter. The journey continues.


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7. There's No Place Like Rome (The Cast of Horrible Histories: The Movie) 2:21
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As the market falls in value to bitcoin, we have reached the point where BAT can test it's bullish trendline. If BAT falls through which I believe is likely , it should find some support on the way down to 5045 satoshi value.
Hello traders! In the last 2 and a half years the GBPCAD has created a really strong reverse level, that has been already tested 11 times so the chance of bounce of this line is about 75 %. Combined with the recent bullish trendline we should expect another bounce up. RSI is Oversold and MACD is forming a cross. I wish you the best of luck with your trading :) .
We see signaficant breal of the Bearish trendline.. and the price violating the bearish trend structure and start forming higher highs and lower highs to signify the UPTREND, I am interested to go long here provided that the price gives me a pullback a bullish flag.
D1 - Currently it looks like the price is breaking above the top of this channel. We have two false breaks with bullish divergence, followed by bullish convergence. H4 - We may now look for pullbacks to happen towards the uptrend line with bullish hidden divergence to form, we may then start looking for buys with bullish evidences.
D1 - Price reached the critical zone, potential bearish divergence. H4 - Price is nearing the uptrend line. If we get a valid breakout here, we may then look for pullbacks and sells with bearish evidences.
W1 - Price is moving lower towards the uptrend line. H4 - Price reached the critical zone, potential hidden bearish divergence. We may now start looking for sells with more bearish evidences. We may look to cash out once the price gets closer to the weekly uptrend line.


The controversial GOP front runner tells ABC television he sees it 'in Israel's interests' to make peace with Arab neighbors.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told ABC television on Sunday that in his AIPAC speech the following day he would pledge to try and broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, if he's elected in November.
Monday's planned speech by Trump has stirred some anxiety among many AIPAC supporters as he's seen his previous comments about Israel have not been as outspokenly sympathetic as those of his main rivals.
"A deal would be in Israel's interests," Trump said, according to Politico. He also asserted "there is nobody more pro-Israel than I am."
"I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal," Trump said. "If I win, I'm going to be giving that a very good shot."
When asked what kind of agreement he would seek, the billionaire declined to give details other than to say that a good deal is not like an "Obama-type deal," according to the Washington Examiner.
Trump said further he would likely go into more detail about the terms of a possible peace settlement when he speaks to AIPAC.
"You're going to hear what I'm going to say at the speech and I'll save it for that," he told interviewer George Stephanopoulos, as reported by Jewish Insider.
"We would like to see, and everybody would like to see, a real deal be made, not a deadl that's going to be broken, a real deal being made, something that can be lasting," Trump said.
Trump has faced attacks in the past for saying he would be neutral in negotiating between Israel and the Palestinians, and stopping short of voicing the same kind of outright support for Israel as some of his GOP rivals.
Jewish leaders have also voiced concern about his remarks disparaging Muslims and other minorities and the support he enjoys from anti-Semitic groups.


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Do you know why the pest control tyler tx is very popular today? You would probably end up screaming once you open up your cabinets and see cockroaches crawling unto your food stuff. Seeing ants in a corner of your house can be very annoying too. And when you decide to inspect your house, you will end up with frustrating discoveries of pest infestation. That will then answer your questions why you hear light scratching sound behind the walls at night. However, it is too late. Your house can be pest infested by that moment. As a parent, how would you deal with that? You know that pests can be very detrimental not only to your house, but to your family's health safety as well. You know that you need to come up with a fast solution.
Pest control may seem to be an easy task to do. People think of pest control products when they come up with an idea of controlling pests. There are several types of pest control items that can be bought in stores which made this process an easy one for many homeowners. There are insecticides, pesticides, pest traps and pest poisons. Yes, all the things that were mentioned are pest killers but they are not for a long term relief. Pest control products that we buy over the counter only last a short time. Once the effect of the product is gone, pests are free to invade the house again.
The best way to get rid of pests is to hire a professional pest control company They have the right people who can do the work reliably for you. They will send their contractors to your house to do the pest control job. These are knowledge, skilled and well-equipped individuals who are licensed and insured to do a pest control work. There are many pest control companies today. How to choose the right company? Some are illegally operating and their services will not do any good to your home. Therefore making a careful selection is very important. You do not need to go through a lot of processes just to learn how to do it. All you need is time to choose the right service provider that can stop your pest problem at home.
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The contrast could not have been starker. On one hand you have hope and on the other hatred. The petition of hope and positivity, now signed by nearly 1500 artistes and professionals cutting across various lines, pledged to re-elect our Prime Minister for a strong, forward looking, and prosperous India. It was issued in response to a highly negative and judgmental petition 'purportedly' signed by some well-known and much celebrated new age retards of the film industry.
Some of the 'hate petitioners' also brought out a video message, oozing with venom, bigotry, and baseless innuendoes against our Prime Minister. They claimed that there wouldn't be elections in India. If Narendra Modi won in 2019, the Constitution and various democratic institutions will be destroyed, and the country will turn into an authoritarian state. The regular refrain of 'intolerance', 'fascism' and all kinds of copycat vocabulary was used to draw a dismal picture of the state of our nation.
The state of despair these retards keep talking about exists only in their hate-filled heads. The nation is marching ahead; it's far more tolerant & inclusive than ever before in its history. How can we forget that in this industry actors and actresses had to change their names to find acceptance in the land of Gandhi, Nehru, and Abul Kalam Azad? Today, in Modi Raj, they flaunt their religions and lineage on their foreheads.
The Modi era has also seen the kind of democratic glasnost never seen before. All institutions of democracy, including the fourth pillar, acted freely, and even trampled upon the turf of the executive with impunity. The Prime Minister kept mum over such blatant subversion. The Chief Ministers of opposition run states create their own fiefdoms; let their murderous cadre lose on their political opponents. Yet Narendra Modi, the staunch federalist, didn't censure them for their heinous deeds. If you want to know what fascism actually looks like, go to West Bengal where the cadre of the ruling dispensation don the uniform of paramilitary forces, carry guns, and openly rig the election process.
The Supreme Court of India also exercised absolute freedom in Modi Raj, delivered one exceptional judgment after another; its Judges washed their dirty linen in public, feuded with the Chief Justice because he didn't let them adjudicate over the cases of their choice. An eminent jurist warned Narendra Modi that his opponents would try to use judiciary to destabilize his government. He still followed the convention and appointed one of the warring judges the CJI.
Both the houses of Parliament created history. They enacted path-breaking laws with TOTAL CONSENSUS. This included the passage of the GST Act that was called Gabbar Singh Tax outside the house by a worthy dynast after his party and he voted for it within the house.
No subject under the sun was taboo for film making under Modi dispensation. This was unprecedented. Bollywood filmmakers can make films with a Muslim hero romancing a Hindu heroine in their stories now. It was unthinkable just a few years ago. No writer and filmmaker were arrested for criticizing and abusing the Prime Minister of India. Actually, Modi critics are doing far better in his regime. Their films easily get CBFC certificates. It's the 'so-called' bhakts who have a hard time defending their freedom of expression.
The 'Hate Modi Campaign' didn't work in 2014. We hope and pray it fails yet again in 2019 far more resoundingly. The nation needs a strong government and a decisive incorruptible leader to lead our people to realising their glorious destinies.


Sick of the Windows Vista Press Coverage Yet?
Now, here are a few good sites that I find have good info on Vista.
I'll add to this list as I find more.
I know that in the past looking at our photos has been a bit of a drag, what with having to read every file name to see what the picture was about. I have finally installed a proper Photo Gallery package on my home server so that you will be able to browse the photo thumbnails visually to see what you want to expand to full-size. Take a look!
The photo album was created with Gallery2. I cannot say enough about this package. If you have any geek in you at all you can set this up on your server.
This site is built using a number of tools. Amazingly, most of the software tools are free/GPL/Open Source. I am very happy with this arrangement and can comfortably reccommend any of these products and services.
My hosting service is 1and1.com, and I am generally very happy with them. The same account hosts ArcadeReplay.com, Mamenation.com, and Hoyt-Baldwin.com, and Zacharysantoro.com. I have also parked bensantoro.com and emilysantoro.com here too.
The theme, which will vary depending on my mood, is identified at the bottom of the page. I will usually modify the theme with my own header photo(s).
ItunesSpy plugin for WordPress. This accepts information from ItunesWatcher3. ItunesWatcher3 sits in the system tray of my Vista machine and reports to my server when ever I play a song in Itunes. The ItunesSpy plugin takes that information and displays it in the side margin, along with links to the album on Amazon. Sweet.
Now Reading Plugin for WordPress allows me share my reading list. I just type the name of my book and the plugin gets all the info including cover from Amazon, similar to Itunesspy.
WP-Print, which may or may not be visible to you right now depending on the theme in use, is used on www.santoro.com and allows a text-only print view for posts or pages. I currently only use it on the Recipes and Directions posts.
WordPress Widgets. This plugin makes the side column much easier to configure.
The Photo Album on www.Santoro.com is hosted on my own Windows XP 'server' in my basement, which may be upgraded to Windows Server 2003 if I get some free time. My home network is at Orotnas.com (Santoro backwards…) I needed a separate domain name due the the fact that I use Dynamic DNS and 1&1 doesn't support it. Www.zoneedit.com does a nice job of handling that DNS for free.
The Photo album uses Gallery2 software to generate album pages and thumbnails on-the-fly. This is an incredible piece of software.
I am trying to keep up with our digital photos, so in that spirit I have posted a new batch of 2006/2007 pictures including Gray Rocks and Amagansett pictures.
Making the time to learn morse code was always a problem for me and I was therefore never able to upgrade to the "General Class" Amateur Radio License. That license is the one you need to work the world effectively. Well, it looks like my lucky year.
Windows Vista. Ignore the press and get it.
I have been running Windows Vista for a month or so as my main OS. I have to say that overall I truly like it.
The computer press has been down-talking Vista lately because it doesn't have dramatically new functionality. I generally agree with that sentiment, but it's not that black and white for me.
I am running the "Released To Manufacturing" or RTM version. I subscribed to Microsoft TechNet Direct in order to get it, along with test licenses for most other MS products, including Office, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Exchange Server. You get ten license keys for most products as long as you agree to use them 'for evaluation purposes.' This is an incredible value if you tinker with MS products at all. The software is not time-bombed or crippled in any way and is certified as "Windows Genuine" so it can get full security patches.
Certainly compatibility is an issue. MS has a tool to evaluate your machine to see if you can benefit from Vista. Make sure to use it.
If your PC and apps can handle it and you can afford the license, I think you will be happy running Vista.
Well, we had our Nintendo Wii for all of three days when the strap broke while one of my daughter's friends was playing. The controller flew into the screen of our new-ish Samsung DLP Bigscreen and cracked it.
You can't see it much unless the content onscreen is very bright, so we may live with it for a while. The parts to fix it alone are $400.


Update: Official news and information.
During the past month or so, activities and events have had to take a back seat on New Tome City, as our administration team have had to work on other projects.
We have tried to keep the forum as active as possible, and we are grateful that some members have found the time to post up entries and return feedback.
We apologise for any inconveniences caused from our downtime.
We feel that it is important to maintain an active presence on the forum and other pages, so that if there is ever a problem it will get resolved quickly. Although we have been around where possible, we know that the scattered posting isn't what Tome City is about.
We have always strived to achieve regular posting and feedback, both from regular members and the admin team itself. By trying to achieve this, we know that means there will always be something to do and see on the forum.
Our community has maintained a steady number of members for a while now, and it doesn't matter if someone hasn't had the time to post or go on in a little while. Tome City will always be there to welcome them back when they are able to.
Whilst we try to catch up with previous posts and start regularly posting again, we ask for a little more patience. We are working on becoming an active presence once more, but it will take a little time.
We have always encouraged replies to topics and threads, so if you do find yourself with a few minutes to spare, log in and have a look around. Several stories are in need of feedback, and there are always topics in the individual boards that can be revived by someone posting.
We are encouraging feedback and replies where possible, and we are always on the lookout for more ways to keep Tome City active.
-Our Top commenter is chosen from our 'Regular commenters' group. Anyone seen to be actively participating will be added to this group.
-Our Most thanked member is chosen by other members 'thanking' people's posts. The member with the highest number is then chosen.
We are hoping that over the next week or so, new competitions and events will be popping up on the forum. So make sure to log in and see what's going on, there may be something that interests you.
Hope to see you on NTC soon.


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Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell, Air Force Veteran
Chief Information Security Officer, Global Medical Response
The belief in service to one's country runs deeply in Mark Campbell's family. His father served in the U.S. Army, but the U.S. Air Force has been his branch of choice. Campbell, as well as one of his sons, his uncle and his nephew all have worn the wings that represent strength, swiftness and the obligation to secure freedom.
Campbell served for four years as the leader of a team that provided Desert, Water, Arctic and Prisoner-of-War survival training for pilots. Campbell conducted survival exercises for A-10 (Warthog) pilots, placing them in scenarios that reproduced the conditions of being shot down and having to evade capture.
When it came time to re-up, Campbell decided to put two degrees he had earned to use in the civilian world. He transitioned to the information technology field and cybersecurity, and he currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for GMR, protecting the company from enterprise-wide threats. Campbell credits the military for much of his civilian success.
"The armed forces will always be in my blood," said Campbell. "The military helped prepare me for all aspects of my life by instilling strong discipline and ethics at a young age.
I enjoy how my military experience in training pilots to survive in hostile situations has come full circle to work for a company that provides emergent care and is responsible for saving lives."
Campbell attained the rank of Sergeant and led a survival-training team for A-10 pilots. A-10 is known as the Tank Killer or Warthog, is the U.S. Air Force's primary low-altitude, close-air-support aircraft, and has a wide combat radius, as well as short takeoff and landing capability permit operations in and out of locations near front lines.
Campbell and his team traveled with the pilots they trained when on exercises, but he was stationed primarily at Myrtle Beach, SC Air Force Base (since closed). He did temporary duty stints conducting joint-country task force exercises in:
Favorite Military Memory
Campbell and his team trained the famous Air Force Thunderbird pilots.
He was selected as "Sergeant of the Quarter" out of three squadrons and received an incentive flight in an F-16, a ride he will never forget.


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Q: How ternary operator calls a function? Given following code:

const letters = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
foo = ((list, letter) => {
    if (list.includes(letter)) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
})(letters, 'c') ? 'letter in list' : 'letter not in list';
console.log(foo);

Output will be:
letter in list

How does ternary operator work in this example? Does it call foo with letters and c as parameters? How does it know to call this function?

A: You can split up the expression in several parts, and look at them individually:
foo = (
    (
        // Create an arrow function
        (list, letter) => {
            if (list.includes(letter)) {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    )
    // call the function
    (letters, 'c')
) /* ternary operator on call result */ ? 'letter in list' : 'letter not in list';

If you're unsure, you can usually replace expressions with variables to make it more clear:
const func = (list, letter) => {
    if (list.includes(letter)) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
};
const callResult = func(letters, 'c');
const foo = callResult ? 'letter in list' : 'letter not in list';

Most people would even say it should've used several variables anyway for readability.

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Actor Josh Radnor: Why We Should All Be "Perennials"
Timeless wisdom could be the antidote to what ails the modern soul. Here's why.
Josh Radnor
I can't remember the exact details of the conversation, but I was talking with Jon Marro about millennials. We found our way to the subject after I shared a tweet from Erin Haacker (@HydroHaacker) with him that I thought was really sharp and funny:"
Boomers: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Gen X: When life hands you lemons, create a startup to market lemon juice as a healthy, low-carb alternative to lemonade.
Millennials: Hahahaha, as if life would ever just *hand you* lemons.
And Jon — wordsmith extraordinaire — said: "What if, you know how there are millennials? What if there were 'Perennials?'" And I immediately was like "Yes! This should be a thing: 'Perennials.'"
In gardening parlance, perennials are plants or flowers that grow year-round. Annuals come and go. Perennials stick around rain, shine, or snow. Which leads to the broader meaning of the word: Continual, continuing, eternal, never-ending, recurrent, constant, everlasting, immortal, old, permanent, ceaseless, deathless, durable, imperishable, unceasing, unchanging, undying, unfailing, uninterrupted.
From a wisdom perspective, that which is 'perennial' does not change with the seasons or fashions. 'Perennial philosophy' — as outlined in Aldous Huxley's fantastic book of the same name — posits the idea that all religions, despite their seeming differences, are all pointing to the same Truth. That which once was true, is true, and will always be true.
What gives our lives meaning? What has stuck around? What would have inspired our ancestors that would still inspire us today?
One of the many wonderful things Rob Bell talks about is the difference between treble and bass. I reached out to ask him to clarify this for me and he did a much better job describing this than I would so I am — with his permission —turning over the text he wrote me:
Treble: the higher frequencies that pierce the air with their urgency and punch
Bass: the low rumble that you feel in your bones
Treble: the challenge, the question, the full inbox, the issue pressing for a response right now
Bass: the low slow intention and growth as you become more and more a certain kind of person
Treble: the latest presidential tweet
Bass: the marvel that humans evolved to the point of inventing something called democracy in which the president has to win a majority of people over again after four years or someone else gets the job [Note: I didn't challenge Rob on the fact that Trump lost the popular vote because of course I get his larger point and why get lost in treble at a moment like this…]
Treble: the barrage of articles and editorials and posts that were written yesterday
Bass: the ancient tradition of wisdom and insight and poetry and direction and sacred texts that people have been turning to for truth and guidance for thousands of years
Treble: people losing their minds on Facebook thinking that it's never been this bad
Bass: the awareness that millions of people have faced situations a thousand times worse and they didn't just survive they prevailed
How great is that?
Stephan Kaps / EyeEm/ Getty Images
We need both bass and treble. As Ram Dass says, "You need to remember your Buddha Nature and your social security number." But we're particularly hurting for those deep slower bass notes right now, which are missing from much of modern life. When we have too much treble in our lives and not enough bass, we need to adjust the knobs a bit. Perennial wisdom provides the bass notes. It grants up a much wider perspective — it slows us down, reminds us to breathe — so that we can access the better angels of our nature.
To be a 'Perennial' (since we're just now, like, inventing a thing) does not mean longing for some golden age or past era. It's not saying that things were somehow better long ago and that we must return to past modes of being and living. I want to be clear about this because it would be dangerous to conflate perennial philosophy with reactionary politics, which speaks to a misplaced desire to return to some status quo of old.
Reactionary politics is anathema to marginalized people who, obviously and understandably, do not wish a return to the status quo of yesteryear. So I would argue that one can honor both perennial truth and progress. The words of Jesus, for instance, are both incredibly progressive and perennially wise.
Often the most progressive revolutionary actions we can take is to return to first principles: the dignity of every human being, a mistrust of earthly power, reminding ourselves that spirit is naturally in sympathy with the wounded, the marginalized, and the outcast.
I sometimes notice myself falling into banalities, talking weather, sports, or politics with a kind of folksy detachment. I think it's fine to talk about these things but not to the exclusion of deeper, more meaningful topics. Poetry and philosophy from ancient wisdom traditions, for instance, put a brake on our narcissism. They remind us that people lived before us and concerned themselves with many of the same questions: How do we live a moral and ethical life? How do we forgive ourselves and others? How are we to connect with the numinous? I assure you noneof that will be covered in Trump's latest tweet.
There's a moment in Alan Bennett's play "The History Boys" when a character says: "The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."
That's perennial, that hand reaching out from another time and taking yours, assuring you that you are not alone in your thoughts, feelings, longings, aches, grief, and pain. To know that there are a chain of hands stretching impossibly far back that we are holding and that we are providing the link for future generations who will be as lost, hurting, grief-stricken, and triumphant as us.
A sacred map that is available to us, a storehouse of myths and parables and sacred texts to guide us, breadcrumbs left from earlier generations and times, saying 'This is what we learned, this is how we passed through the dark night and emerged wiser, saner, with more peace and gratitude.'
We've got to fight to be Perennials, to find those bass notes and allow them to echo. This kind of deep wisdom isn't introduced to us, it's remembered by us. There are cellular truths flowing through our bloodstream and our job is make them conscious so they're usable once again. Our bones know long before our brains.
Our culture is designed to distract and hypnotize us. Stretching our hands back towards our elders is a kind of revolution. To feel the embrace of timeless wisdom and infinite compassion, the unbreakable nature of love, is an antidote to what ails the modern soul. That which was, is, and always will be true. As St. Augustine wrote: "Ever ancient, ever new."
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Josh Radnor is an actor, writer, director, and musician originally from Columbus, Ohio. As an actor he has starred in long-running television shows (How I Met Your Mother), short-running television shows (Rise, Mercy Street), films (Jill Soloway's debut feature "Afternoon Delight"), on Broadway (The Graduate, Disgraced), and off. He is currently co-starring/hunting Nazis with Al Pacino in "Hunters" on Amazon Prime. He wrote and directed two feature films (Happythankyoumoreplease & Liberal Arts) both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before being released in theaters, the former winning the 2010 Audience Award. For the last few years he's been making music with the Aussie musician Ben Lee as Radnor & Lee. Their second album, 'Golden State,' will be released later this year. He lives in Los Angeles and New York.