its the tuesday double again. and i wish i was special.
Prince cover the great Thom Yorke and his band.
read about the 'bust up' Prince and Radiohead had over who owns this.
i have something really special coming up.
oh and to set the record straight, there is no cover of creep by muse. that is Thom Yorke.
billie jean is well alive and kicking.
show some response to the king of POP.
i loved young folks, i really did.
but there was also a time i couldn't stand the mere mention of it.
you could hear it on the radio after rihanna's umbrella was played, followed by some sean kingston.
the streets were flooded with boys and girls who wore PBJ tees like it was a badge of superiority.
then there was an instance when a few inebriated girls were spotted screaming that young folks was their favorite song of all time.
Suddenly, it didn't mean that much to me anymore.
Somehow, it didn't feel special.
Before you start mentioning those indie 'purists', i'm not one of them.
I dont wear skinny jeans as a staple or those v-neck cardigans, which in my opinion makes one look frail and sickly.
Neither am i one to judge a person by the music he/she listens to.
I appreciate too many genres to judge one by his/her preference.
I just hated the radio for destroying young folks, with others even calling them the wrong folks.
It was something special but just like canteen food, when some things are mass produced it just aint that nice anymore isnt it?
I dont think people should shun ubiquity, but rather appreciate things in their own space.
I'd rather not have PBJ-street teams in my face at every corner.
That being said, i have come a full circle and am beginning to appreciate young folks again, now that the out of control 'hipness' to it has died down.
here are 2 covers which helped me.
go on, dont be afraid, it really was a good song.
Massive Attack's teardrop is one of those tracks you just know will hold a place in history.
But with these 2 covers, it reiterated and sealed its fate as a cult track.
Remember to get elbow's recently released album, the seldom seen kid.
its one hell of a fight.
two incredible voices with 2 superb covers.
theres nothing much between them.
I cant decide! how bout you?
the queen of indie ballads vs the queen of mainstream ballads.
one has been nominated for a grammy while the other has a bag full of them.
but whos gonna win the best cover this time round?
feist goes on and covers the kinks while (surprise surprise) norah covers arcade fire!
tuesday double cover: Lily Allen and her covers.


Cowardly sheep farmer Albert has spent his entire life avoiding conflict at all costs, a feat not easily achieved living in the Old West of 1882. When he falls for a mysterious new woman who rolls into town, he catches the ire of the most feared gunslinger in the territory, who just so happens to be married to the very woman that Albert loves. Also, pooping in hats.
Seth MacFarlane has become pretty ubiquitous over the last decade or so, and it's tough not to compare anything new that he does with his previous works. In fact, he practically dares you to do it. Each new piece seems to try a little harder to break his typical mold, but ultimately succumbs to the urge to give us much of the same.
First and foremost, I should say that the most successful jokes in this film are those that have fun with the conventions of the western genre. When they are not being too obvious, and stick to the subtle route, they can be absolutely hilarious. But, these are too few and far between, leading me to believe that there is actually a much better movie in there somewhere if MacFarlane and his writers had stuck with their guns and risked not giving us a Family Guy retread.
Instead, MacFarlane does exactly what we expect him to do – he drives each joke into the ground until it's no longer funny. With Family Guy, this is also quite common, but in those instances, that actually becomes the joke and it finds its way back around to being funny again. Here, it just becomes repetition. There are a couple of jokes that start off clever, but once they've delivered the same without much variation, it becomes stale. We get it – Sarah Silverman's job description as a prostitute is certainly a crazy juxtaposition to her attempt to keep her real relationship strictly Christian. We get it – nobody smiled in photos in the 1800s (this one remained funnier a little longer than others, but was still overdone). Admittedly, the mustache riff is still amusing the entire way through (even warranting its own song and dance number), so what do I know?
The other old habit that the writers tend to fall back on here that poses an even odder problem is the reliance upon pop culture and anachronisms. MacFarlane's lead character seems to know that things are going to be much better in the future (a few times, you may even think he has access to Google) and oddly has to explain to others how things work in the "present." It would normally be nitpicking to point this out, but because it serves as the crux of so many gags, it calls attention to itself. A large portion of the jokes will elicit laughs, but just come across as too modern and don't fit in. It's hard to reference pop culture when your film takes place in a time period in which culture has not yet popped (one exception being a rather funny cameo by a character from a completely different movie that works if you allow yourself to put the pieces together, but you may not feel like bothering at that point). These types of bits work fine in a quick cutaway on Family Guy, but here they just come across as awkward (not funny awkward, though).
There's also a vexing timing issue with quite a few of the jokes that causes them to land flat (if it seems that I'm analyzing the humor too deeply, remember that this is a comedy and the jokes are what it is built upon). A bit involving something slipped into a character's drink doesn't pay off until a couple of scenes AFTER you expect it to, and even then it devolves into the easiest, most base joke possible. It could have been something predicated upon suspense of when it's going to happen, but comes across more as a last-minute rewrite or re-edit. Also, a late film scene involving Native-Americans is completely killed by the fact that they are making up their language as they go, while we have already read the punchline in the subtitles far before they get around to saying it, creating a distracting delay. They should have chosen for the laugh to be in the fake language (Mila Kunis) or its translation, but going for both makes it all fall flat. Again, timing.
Not all is bad, however. MacFarlane is a very likeable lead (even if he appears to always be on the verge of grinning at his own material) and has surprisingly great chemistry with Charlize Theron as his potential love interest. The rest of the actors, particularly Neil Patrick Harris, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Ralph Garman all seem to be having a great time, so you'll enjoy watching them. Also, as a director, MacFarlane has gone to great pains to create an authentic Western feel. Starting with opening credits that ape the traditional font and music to great looking sets to day players that look directly transported from a John Wayne flick, it all feels like the real thing. Oddly enough, it's MacFarlane's character that seems the most out-of-place, but that's perhaps part of the joke (that uncertainty is genuine on my part).


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Q: SSIS PACKAGE, Only want Derived Columns I have a SSIS Package that I have a For Each Loop which imports multiple txt files into a SQL Server table. That runs fine.
What I am trying to accomplish is to store the distinct filename and date it was imported into a separate table. I created a separate For Each Loop for this and then archive the txt file after it's complete with a File System Task.
The issue I am having is I put an event handler to invoke a SQL Task and Send Email task if there is a warning (I was hoping for a warning only if there were no files in the directory where the package is importing from).
However, I found a warning that a column in the Data Flow task was not being used and should be removed if not needed.  But the Data Flow task requires at least one field for me to put a Derived Column task
Derived Column Field1:  pulls the @User: CurrentFile  from the ForEachLoop Container.
Field2 pulls the current date.
Is there a way to perform this without the warning?

A: It sounds like you're over-complicating thing.
You have a ForEach loop and you're therefore assigning a value into some Variable to contain the file name, @User::CurrentFile. You can get the date it was loaded through either a call to GETDATE() or reference the system scoped variable, StartTime @[System::StarTime]
The most straight forward option would be to add an Execute SQL Task wired up to the OnSuccess Precedent Constraint from your Data Flow Task. The Execute SQL Task will then have a statement like INSERT INTO dbo.MyLog(FileName, InsertDate) SELECT ?, ?, assuming OLE DB Connection Manger, and then you map in your two variables.
Easy, clean, no warnings fired about unused columns in your data flow.

What I think you have is something like this, based on

I created a separate For Each Loop for this

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Answer: here are some natural remedies which should do the trick. 1: When you get up in the morning, drink a glass of warm water with lemon. 2: Take a tablespoon of coconut oil or olive oil before each meal. The oil which help soften and lubricate the stool. 3: Until you clear your bowels limit your meals to fresh fruits such as apples and pears with skins , soups, salad vegetables like grated carrots with skins, nuts, seeds like sunflower and pumpkin and legumes such as black beans and chick peas (think hummous), and other easily digested protein such as eggs. Once your bowels have cleared you can go back to a more varied diet with meat etc. 4: Go for a long walk (or a repetitive walk close to the toilet). 5: Take a glass of warm water or herbal tea with a tablespoon full of psyllium husks before going to bed. Psyllium husks are a natural fibre which will move through your digestive tract and soften your stool. 6: Stew on the stove half a cup of dried fruits such as apricots or prunes with a cupful of water. Cook till the fruit is soft and then mash it and eat the whole thing including liquids in the morning before eating anything else. 7: Have a tablespoon of molasses and raw honey every day. 8: Take a probiotic daily. 9: Avoid caffeinated drinks. Although they might help move the bowel initially, because they are diuretic, they compound the problem by causing dehydration. Diuretics can be dangerous in pregnancy. 10: Go to the toilet when you have the urge, don't put it off. 11: To ease the stool passing, rub some organic oil (e.g. virgin coconut oil) on your bottom area. Where to buy coconut oil? Drinking enough water (ideally filtered to get out the nasties) and having enough exercise are also important for keeping your bowels going. If you can go for a walk every day (even for 20 minutes), this can help quite a bit.


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Tee Time: How Fast is Your Golf Swing?
Areas of Science Sports Science
Time Required Average (6-10 days)
Prerequisites You will probably get the most out of this science fair project if you golf regularly. You will need access to golf clubs and a driving range.
Material Availability Golf clubs and access to a driving range
Cost Average ($50 - $100)
The goal of every golfer is to hit the golf ball as far as possible down the fairway. A key factor in determining the distance that the ball will travel is the velocity of the club when it strikes the ball. In this sports science fair project, you will determine exactly how distance is related to club velocity. Time to tee off!
Determine how club head velocity affects shot distance.
Science Buddies Staff. "Tee Time: How Fast is Your Golf Swing?" Science Buddies, 20 Nov. 2020, https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Sports_p056/sports-science/how-fast-is-your-golf-swing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.
Science Buddies Staff. (2020, November 20). Tee Time: How Fast is Your Golf Swing? Retrieved from https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Sports_p056/sports-science/how-fast-is-your-golf-swing
If you watch any golf on television, you have seen Tiger Woods drive a golf ball, often for well over 300 yards. What are the key factors that affect the distance the ball travels after Tiger, or any golfer, hits the ball? Some of the key factors are where the ball strikes the club face (preferably the "sweet spot"); the loft, or face angle, of the club; and the velocity of the club head at impact. But it is actually the momentum of the golf club head that really matters. Momentum takes the mass of the club head into account. The momentum of the club head equals its velocity times its mass:
Equation 1:
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P = Momentum
M = Mass of the club head
V = Velocity
When the golf club head strikes the golf ball, it transfers some of its momentum to the golf ball. Momentum has a very special quality: it is conserved. That means that the momentum gained by the golf ball must be accounted for in momentum lost by the golf club. In theory, there will be no overall loss of momentum in the process of hitting the ball, but in reality some momentum is lost to friction, the change of shape of the golf ball after it is hit, and other factors. But for the purposes of this science fair project, you will assume that the momentum of the ball equals the momentum change of the club.
The golf ball will go farther if the momentum of the club head is increased, either by increasing its mass or by increasing its velocity. Clearly, you can only increase the mass a certain amount before the club becomes difficult to handle (most modern drivers have a club head mass of around 200 grams). So increasing the golf club head velocity is the most practical way to increase drive distance. The video below shows how you can change your golf swing in order to increase the club head's velocity.
Watch this video to see professional golf coaches explain how to change your golf swing in order to increase your club head's velocity and, ultimately, your golf ball's drive distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thB87KAMT90
The goal of this sports science project is to measure the actual velocity of the golf head and determine how that velocity affects the distance the ball travels. You will use a specialized radar device to measure golf club head velocity. Luckily, the distance traveled by the ball is easy to measure if you have a driving range nearby! Let's tee off and get this project started.
Figure 1. A golfer gets ready to drive the golf ball. (Wikipedia, 2005.)
Based on your research, what are some other quantities, besides momentum, that are conserved in any process?
What is the mass of an "average" golf ball?
What is the definition of momentum?
Based on your research, what does the elasticity of a golf ball measure?
Bailey, R. (2002). Physics of the Drive in Golf. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
Fritz, J. (2002). Physics of the Golf Swing. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
Golf club. Use a driver if you are comfortable with it. You can also use a fairway wood (5-wood, for example) or a long iron (3-, 4-, or 5-iron).
Golf club radar, such as the Sports Sensors Swing Speed Radar; available from Amazon.com at www.amazon.com
Optional: Binoculars
Optional: Two experienced golfer helpers
Read the instructions that came with the golf club radar.
Go to a driving range and set up the golf club radar, as instructed.
Hit several golf balls.
Use a golf club with which you can consistently hit the ball in a straight line.
Practice using the golf club radar so that you can get good readings of your club's head speed.
When you're comfortable with your swing and the equipment, hit golf balls at various club head speeds, as follows.
Hit all of the balls in the same direction.
Use at a variety of club speeds, from slow to fast. Try to be consistent with each speed of swing.
Hit at least three strokes at each speed.
Record the distance at which the ball comes to rest.
Don't record the distances for balls that are shot far to one side or are otherwise "muffed."
Repeat the entire procedure two more times to demonstrate that your results are accurate and repeatable.
Graph the data.
Convert the distances to meters (m).
Convert the club head speed into meters per second (m/s).
Average the distances and club head speeds.
Graph the average distance the ball traveled on the x-axis and the average club head speed on the y-axis.
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Try different clubs. Does the loft (face angle) affect the results? Hint: You could graph the loft angle on the y-axis and the distance on the x-axis, keeping the swing speed constant.
How does club speed relate to the golf ball's time of flight (i.e., how long the ball is in the air)? Use a stopwatch to measure time of flight.
Devise a way to measure the velocity of the golf ball right after it is hit. Graph club velocity vs. ball velocity. Use this data to calculate the final velocity of the club head. Hint: See the equations in the websites listed in the Bibliography.
Have your helpers also hit golf balls and graph the data for these strokes too. Does the distance the ball travels depend only on the club speed, or do different people get different distances even when the club speeds are the same?
Measure the exact distance the balls traveled using a surveyors wheel. You will need to obtain permission at the driving range or perform the procedure in an open area where you can safely hit the golf balls.
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You can find this page online at: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Sports_p056/sports-science/how-fast-is-your-golf-swing

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Once again, the UK's home secretary Amber Rudd has launched an attack on end-to-end encryption.
Writing in the Telegraph ahead of a trip to Silicon Valley to speak with tech leaders, the government minister said "so called" end-to-end encryption is a problem as officials can't access the content of messages sent via platforms using the mathematical method. These include Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which has more than one billion daily users.
She says it is "true in theory" that end-to-end encryption stops content of messages being accessed, but "the reality is different".
In a separate interview with the BBC, Rudd expanded on what she is discussing with technology firms. She said she wants more metadata – the who, what, how, and when – of encrypted messages to be handed to law enforcement officials. Metadata can be highly revealing about a person and their activities.
"We want [technology companies] to work more closely with us on end-to-end encryption, so that where there is particular need, where there is targeted need, under warrant, they share more information with us so that we can access it," Rudd told the BBC.
Rudd's Telegraph opinion column says "real people" often prefer flashy features rather than privacy protections. The implication: people with ill intentions, including terrorists, prefer to use messaging services that stop their messages being snooped upon.
Rudd's statement is inaccurate. Many 'real people' do not want to see their seemingly harmless private information unprotected. In addition, those in sensitive professions and situations – journalists protecting sources, human rights defenders at risk of oppression, and lawyers conducting private discussions – need to keep information safe. As such, Rudd's comments have instantaneously been criticised by campaign groups and privacy advocates. Big Brother Watch said the home secretary's suggestions are "at best naïve, at worst dangerous".
"Suggesting that people don't really want security from their online services is frankly insulting, what of those in society who are in dangerous or vulnerable situations, let alone those of us who simply want to protect our communications from breach, hack or cybercrime," Renate Samson, chief executive of Big Brother Watch, said in a statement.
While WhatsApp's privacy record is not perfect – it's being investigated by data protection regulators around the world for its data transfers to Facebook – the use of the encryption protocol allows for messages to be secret unless a mobile device is directly hacked.
Here are a few groups of 'real people' that regularly use WhatsApp groups to keep their conversations secure. We're pretty sure they wouldn't want the conversations, or at least some of the information in them, to be made public.
In 2016, the Guardian published an article incorrectly stating that a backdoor had been discovered in WhatsApp and that it would be possible to access people's messages. In response, security experts and professional cryptographers responded in an open letter asking for the article to be retracted. Within the letter, they explained that those in countries where it isn't possible to speak freely need other ways to do so.
"Activists and journalists communicate a lot with ordinary people, and need to be certain that their messages are communicated as reliably as possible, using the same system as their recipient will use – hence the advantage of WhatsApp with its huge user base," the letter said.
While in many western democracies it is possible to legally protest a decision by officials, in other countries it is dangerous. In Zimbabwe, protesters organised a "national shutdown" of the country through WhatsApp. This was against alleged mismanagement of the nation by the government.
The sly, often backstabbing, dealings of the political world are increasingly being conducted within the safe confines of WhatsApp. Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been shown to be praising Theresa May in a Conservative WhatsApp group and it's likely that plotting also happens. The Guardian reports that politicians know which of their WhatsApp groups they can trust and which there are likely to be leaked from.
In London, there has been a spate of attacks on delivery drivers working for the likes of Deliveroo and UberEats. To try and avoid areas of higher risk the moped riders at these firms have setup WhatsApp groups to inform others of potential dangers. The Hackney Gazette has published screenshots from the WhatsApp groups sharing the sensitive information.
Sensitive information about the condition of patients and their possible diagnosis is discussed in WhatsApp groups by NHS doctors, one report from the BBC has claimed. While it is illegal to do this, if insecure platforms were used there would be a higher chance of patient information being exposed.
In India, reports claim that local networks of WhatsApp groups allow people to contact the police and alert them to ongoing crimes.
People plagued by burglars in Billericay, Essex, setup their own WhatsApp group to share information about suspicious activity. According to the Basildon Echo, residents were planning on using the secure messaging platform to let people know 'what is going on' and if burglar alarms had been set off. "You can't live in fear, you have got to try and get on with your life," one resident told the local paper.
According to Goal.com, Chelsea footballers who have been loaned out to other clubs have a WhatsApp group where they get information about their performances, and who may be likely to get a call-up to the first team.


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Firefox Developer Edition Launches
Mozilla's Firefox browser definitely doesn't have the popularity it once did. According to Adobe, Firefox was the second-leading browser behind Internet Explorer in U.S. desktop and mobile usage combined until around the end of 2011. At that point, Firefox was eclipsed by current leader Chrome, as well as Safari and Android browsers.
Experts attribute Firefox's downturn to the fact that they've been notoriously absent in the mobile sphere. However, Mozilla does seem to be coming up with ways to solidify their small but dedicated user base, such as the new Firefox Developer Edition.
A Browser Created Specifically For Developers
Mozilla's Firefox Developer Edition, launched this week, is intended to streamline workflow for developers. Instead of having to access multiple browsers, platforms and tools, Firefox Developer Edition attempts to address all of these needs in one place, regardless of whether a developer is targeting mobile, desktop or both. The new browser will not contain many of the typical safeguards common in consumer browsers, as these types of provisions often end up being frustrating workarounds for developers.
The theme of the browser is similar to Firefox developer tools in that it's dark, streamlined and designed to maximize screen size. According to the Mozilla Blog, Firefox Developer Edition contains the WebIDE feature, which allows developers to create, deploy and debug apps directly in the browser. The "Firefox Tools Adapter," renamed "Valence" in the new browser, allows users to test apps across multiple browsers including Firefox OS, Firefox for Android, Chrome, Android and Safari. Mozilla also provides a list of tools included in the Firefox Developer Edition that experienced developers are likely familiar with, including:
Page Inspector
JavaScript Debugger
Responsive Design Mode
Web Audio Editor
It's important to note that the Firefox Developer Edition is replacing Mozilla's Aurora developer channel. Check out what Dave Camp, director of Developer Tools for Mozilla, has to say about the new developer-friendly browser:
Other Updates Focus on User Privacy
Firefox is celebrating 10 years of existence, and they're adding some new features to their consumer browser. For example, users will be able to set DuckDuckGo as their pre-installed search option. For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo is a search engine that's increasing in popularity due to its strict policy of never tracking users or collecting user information.
Also, the new Firefox will feature a "Forget" option, which can help users easily clear out cookies, browser history and tabs opened during a specific time frame. For example, a user could have Firefox "forget" any cookies acquired and pages viewed in the last five minutes, two hours or 24 hours of browsing. According to Mozilla, these features represent their commitment to user choice and control.
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Believe it or not, we're already a quarter of the way through the 2019 short track racing season. While the intensity of the schedule will certainly pick up over the next few weeks, there's already been a lot of great racing to look back on. In this edition of "By the Numbers" on Speed51, we take a look back on the first quarter of the 2019 short track racing season.
2: Giovanni Bromante made some noise by winning his first two Super Late Model starts with the Southern Super Series. He kicked things off by winning the Rattler 250 at South Alabama Speedway and followed it up by winning the first Blizzard Series race of the year at Five Flags Speedway. By virtue of winning the first two races, he leads the Southern Super Series points.
4: Brandon Sheppard did something that had never been done before when he won all four of the World of Outlaws races during the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park during Florida Speedweeks.
5: Justin Bonsignore has now won five consecutive NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (CT). The feat is so special that we included a list of drivers who won four in a row but not five. He's also won seven of his last 11 at Thompson.
8: Casey Roderick gave car owner Ronnie Sanders his second win and eighth podium finish in the Baby Rattler at South Alabama Speedway. The impressive part is those eight top-five finishes have come from six different drivers including Sanders.
12: With his victory in the PASS North season opener at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, DJ Shaw has now won at 12 different tracks on the circuit. Add in his Eastern Bunny 150 victory at Hickory Motor Speedway and he has won at 13 tracks in PASS competition.
13: The Pro Late Models extended the streak of not having a repeat World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing champion since the division was established in 2007. That's 13 years with 13 different champions and 47 different winners at New Smyrna Speedway's signature event.
14: Connor Okrzesik, the driver of the No. 14 Super Late Model, grabbed the attention of the Super Late Model world when he defeated NASCAR Cup Series star Kyle Busch to win CRA SpeedFest 2019 at Crisp Motorsports Park.
18: Bubba Pollard won the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing Super Late Model week-long championship, marking yet another historical milestone in his career and an 18th straight season with no repeat SLM champions at the World Series.
22: Bubba Pollard recently added to his Late Model win list with victories at Southern National and Hickory Motor Speedway. With those two victories, he has now won races at 22 different race tracks during his Late Model career.
26: By our count, Matt Hirschman has now won at 26 tracks in his career after he picked up a win at Richmond during the PASS Commonwealth Classic.
31: Ronnie Silk broke a 31-race NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour winless streak with his victory at South Boston Speedway at the end of March. It was the 11th career victory for the 2011 tour champion.
64: A rich part of racing history will die in 2019 as the Hoosier 100 will be held for the 64th and final time at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. USAC officials have announced that the event will potentially shift to another venue.
85: Brett Hamm has led 85 of 90 laps thus far in the 2019 Carolina Clash Season.
172: The number of laps completed in the Winter Showdown at Kern County Raceway. The race was originally scheduled to be a 300-lap race; however, the mixture of a local power outage and darkness forced officials to call the race off and declare Ty Majeski the winner after 172 laps.
1991: The year that Tour-type Modifieds and Super Late Models last ran a doubleheader at Richmond Raceway. PASS pulled off the feat 28 years later during the Commonwealth Classic at the end of March.
Big Shows: It's only fitting that Lee Pulliam scored the win in the Old North State Nationals. With previous wins in the Martinsville 300, Myrtle Beach 400 and Hampton Heat 200 he has now won just about everything under the sun in Late Model Stock competition.
Like Daddy: It only seems fitting that Tony Hirschman won his final start at Richmond in 2001 and his son Matt Hirschman got the job done in 2019 in his first start at the track.


Bransgore's new gym opens on Tuesday!
We're so pleased to tell you about the gym sessions that will be taking place at St Mary's Church from this Tuesday (26th Feb). The amazing Gym Tin, led by Rob and Jenny, welcomes everyone, regardless of your fitness. Rob and Jenny are amazing coaches who will make sure you get everything you need out of a training session. Take a look at the program … Continue reading Bransgore's new gym opens on Tuesday!
Come to Church this Sunday!
Sailor Sargent (the vicar, employing one his limited number of questionable accents – west country/farmer/sailor) returns to St Mary's All Age Service at 10.30am and gets himself into a tricky situation! There'll be great music, time to reflect and pray, lovely warm welcome, all within about 40 minutes and then refreshments after. Just after the service, there'll also be a briefing about our Three Peaks … Continue reading Come to Church this Sunday!
3 Peaks in 48 Hours: Have you got what it takes?
If you think you have got what it takes, or would like to find out exactly what it takes, come along to the briefing session at 11.30am on Sunday 3rd Feb at St Mary's Church (just after the service). The epic adventure will be taking place on the 20th-22nd September this year (the weekend before the beer festival, don't worry). It's definitely going to involve … Continue reading 3 Peaks in 48 Hours: Have you got what it takes?


Iran's foreign ministry has sharply contradicted recent claims by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that an agreement on the legal status of the Caspian Sea is "practically ready".
The body of the deceased Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had contained radioactive elements "10 times more than the allowed level", his daughter Faezeh Hashemi has said.
The United States has concrete evidence that Iran was supplying weaponry to the Huthi rebels in Yemen, in violation of United Nations sanctions, the U.S. ambassador to the world body has charged.
As the Islamic Republic of Iran continues efforts to secure license and financing for its purchase of Boeing aircraft, members of the U.S. Congress are ramping up pressure to make sure Tehran stops the use of commercial planes to transport weapons and fighters across the Middle East.
In an unprecedented move, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly praised an Iranian wrestler who recently threw a match against a Russian peer and feigned injury to avoid facing an Israeli athlete in the next round.


Ken Hunts Food: Azuma Japanese Restaurant @ Queensbay Mall, Penang.
Azuma Japanese Restaurant @ Queensbay Mall, Penang.
I am pretty sure many have walked pass or at least have seen this eatery located on second floor of Queensbay Mall Penang (right beside Harvey Norman). It was "Chap Goh Meh" the other night and naturally we had planned for a family dinner. To my surprise, the place was very crowded and some diners were even queuing up for the numbers by the time of 6:30pm (for dinner). Azuma offers authentic Japanese cuisine, one may requests for a table near the Kaiser belt should you have any interests on their Sushi displayed. I would not say they have too much of variety but should be decent. We did make a list to try their Uni but we were told that it was not available on that night. What a disappointment! Nevertheless, Edo Ichi will be still on my top list although both of these restaurants are being managed under the same management company. Price-wise, I'd say affordable and service was great. My only complaint is about their seating, where three of us were escorted to a tiny table (barely can fit in with extra orders apart from mains), they should literally take note of this since diners these days are looking for a more comfortable environment and sufficiency of spaces does play an important role.
Sashimi Moriawase Take (Rm 70++) comes in a very big portion to satisfy our cravings for Sashimi. This Sashimi Moriawase Take consists of Salmon Belly, Tuna, Butter Fish, Prawns, Octopus and Mackerel etc. All of them were very fresh and generously sliced (3 slices for each type) and I'd say it worth every penny spent, I enjoyed particularly the Salmon Belly Sashimi the most and I would definitely come back just for these.
Sanma Shioyaki Set (Rm 23++) comes with a perfectly grilled Sanma Fish, a small cup of Chawan Mushi (Japanese Steamed Egg), 2 slices of Honeydew, a bowl of piping hot Miso Soup and Japanese Rice. The Chawan Mushi was perfectly steamed, it was very smooth and flavorful to my liking. The only complain about this set was about the fish where we find it a little bit too dry to our liking. No doubt the Lemon juice helps but it was not suppose to be served that way (with Lemon).
The portion of this Unajyu (Rm 23++ for Medium) was pathetic. Despite the fact that we had opted for the Medium one but we were not expecting it to be this small. The Large one costs Rm 33++ and it is advisable to go for the Large one. It comes with a bowl of Miso Soup too. On the other hand, the Unagi (Japanese Eel) tasted alright but it was way too dry and we had to ask for more sauce to complement with the rice. There were some sliced Tamagoyaki (Japanese Sweet Egg) but again, they tasted sweeter than the usual Tamagoyaki we can get out there.
My order of Miso Ramen (Rm 11++ for Medium) was a huge disappointment. Firstly, the Egg served was a mere Hard-Boiled Egg where it meant to be Onsen Tamago (Hot Spring Eggs) with some custard-like gooey yolk just like Soft-Boiled Egg. Moreover, the replacement of Chashu (Japanese Roasted Pork Roll) here was Chicken Roll where bones were found! The soup was very boring and lacks of a "kick" either, it tasted just like any other Ramen eateries next door. The only thing that comforts me was the texture of the Ramen (luckily it was bouncy and springy to my liking). Nothing much to brag about this Ramen.
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Toyota to pay $3.4bn over corrosion in 1.5 million U.S. trucks and SUVs
Staff Writer | November 14, 2016
Toyota Motor has agreed to pay up to about $3.4 billion to settle claims that certain of its trucks and sport-utility vehicles lacked proper rust protection, leading to premature corrosion of vehicle frames.
The deal, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles this week, settles litigation in two states over problems with Toyota Tacoma trucks from model years 2005 to 2010, Tundras from 2007 to 2008 and Sequoias from 2005 to 2008.
Around 1.5 million vehicles in the U.S. are covered by the settlement, court filings show.
The agreement represents a significant settlement for the auto industry and follows several costly agreements auto makers have forged in recent years to address quality, safety or emissions issues in vehicles.
General Motors Co. recalled millions of vehicles in 2014 and spent billions of dollars to address ignition-switch problems linked to 124 deaths; Volkswagen AG forged a $14.7 billion deal more recently to settle with U.S. drivers of diesel-powered cars affected by an emissions-cheating scheme.
Several auto makers, including Toyota, continue to work with Takata Corp. to repair tens of millions of air bags in the largest automotive safety campaign in history.
"We want our customers to have a great ownership experience, so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles," Toyota said.
The settlement was reported by The Detroit News. Toyota and plaintiffs' lawyers said the deal, which is still subject to court approval, reflects months of negotiation. As part of the agreement, Toyota doesn't admit to any wrongdoing. ■


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Hurricane Florence: Airbnb offering free shelter for evacuees, relief workers
Vehicle traffic travels along US 501 as the government ordered that traffic use all the lanes leading away from the coast ahead of Hurricane Florence on September 11, 2018, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Posted Sep 13 2018 10:11AM CDT
Updated Sep 13 2018 11:48PM CDT
WASHINGTON (FOX 5/FOX NEWS) - As Hurricane Florence bears down on the Eastern Seaboard, Airbnb announced it's offering free shelter for evacuees and relief workers.
Airbnb announced it has launched its Open Homes Program, which offers "displaced neighbors and relief workers" a safe place to stay through the worst of the storm.
RELATED: Atlantic City casino to shelter Hurricane Florence evacuees for free
Airbnb hosts in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are allowed to offer their homes for evacuees and relief workers to stay, free of charge, through Oct. 1.
Multiple hotel chains announced they're waiving cancelations fees throughout the region as Hurricane Florence prepares to strike. USA Today reports Marriot Hotels and the Intercontinental Hotel Group (whose portfolio includes Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Kimpton) have waived cancelation fees and relaxed pet-stay rules throughout the Southeast.
RELATED: Anheuser-Busch sending 300,000 cans of water to Hurricane Florence victims
Florence's outer bands of wind and rain began lashing the Carolinas on Thursday and forecasters expect it will blow ashore Friday afternoon. The monster storm is expected to hover along the coast on Saturday before slogging over the Appalachian Mountains. Florence is expected to impact more than 10 million people.
The Associated Press and Fox News contributed to this report.
The father of a pregnant Chicago postal worker says police have hit a "brick wall," and he's urging the public to share any information about his daughter's disappearance last fall.
Kierra Coles had called in sick last Oct. 2, but she was last seen that day wearing her U.S. Postal Service uniform.
Coles' family and the Postal Service are offering more than $46,000 in rewards for information that reveals her whereabouts. Police suspect the 27-year-old was the victim of foul play. Her phone and purse were inside her car in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.


I sing in the SAS-sponsored VocalMotion show choir. It's like an adult version of Glee, except we have more pregnancies and fewer slushie attacks.
For many musical numbers, the choreographer arranges the 20 performers on stage in an orderly manner, such as four rows of five singers. But every once in a while the director wants to create a disorganized look for a portion of a song (for example, a free-form '60's segment). She tells the performers to "go to random positions."
The choir always has problems achieving the look that the director wants. We end up in positions that are equally spaced from one another, but to the audience it often looks like we tried to arrange ourselves in rows, but failed miserably!
Since I know what a random point pattern looks like, I try to help. I whisper "clump more" and "vary the sizes of the gaps between performers." I tell my fellow performers, "random uniform does not imply uniformly spaced, " but mostly they just ignore me or roll their eyes.
This year I took it upon myself to solve the problem, and I discovered that it led to some interesting statistics.
My first attempt to help the director was to generate many examples of random point patterns. Our stage is approximated by the rectangle S = [0, 2] x [0, 1]. It is easy to generate 20 points that are uniformly distributed in S. My idea was that the director would have 10–12 of these patterns. When she wants a random configuration, she can hold up a pattern and say, "go to this configuration." I sent the director the patterns on the adjacent image.
I was quite proud of myself. But guess what?
Large areas of the stage are devoid of performers, which I translate to mean "the point patterns have too many gaps."
Some of the performers are too close to one another, which I translate to mean "the point patterns have too many clusters."
From her comments, I conclude that I have been wrong all these years. She does not actually want the performers in random uniform positions on stage! The characteristics that she mentions are intrinsic to random uniform point patterns, so if she doesn't want those characteristics, she doesn't want uniform random.


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Two volumes bound into one, this mammoth volume by one of the world's foremost practitioners is both an historical survey emphasizing decorated bindings and an eminently practical guide to hand bookbinding. The author examines many national styles and the work of Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Le Gascon, Samuel Mearne and others. 93 plates, 242 figures.
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More than a corporate headquarters building, Eneco World reflects a philosophy about bringing people together to collaborate and innovate. To improve productivity and efficiency, Dutch energy supplier Eneco turned to Macaw—a trusted Microsoft Gold Partner—for help in developing an app that would provide an easy way for nearly 3,000 employees to find the space they needed to meet and work together. Eneco met that challenge with Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based services, using PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI to develop the RoomFinder app that now connects people and ideas.
Eneco provides energy to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Netherlands. To keep the lights on in people's homes and offices, the organization needs to run efficiently. Until recently, however, the 3,000 employees who work at Eneco headquarters in Rotterdam were constantly competing for private meeting rooms and workspaces.
Partly owned by the state, Eneco is gradually moving to privatization, which has created a need for a more modern workspace. The headquarters building was designed in 2012 to provide employees with a dynamic and sustainable environment. It brought together workers from six locations, reducing travel between offices and the company's carbon footprint. The open floorplan provides employees with a flexible space to maximize creativity and encourage innovative thinking and collaboration.
Although Eneco employees benefited from having everyone in the same office, it soon became difficult to find available conference rooms and quiet workspaces. Eneco employees were using default room booking functionality in Microsoft Exchange to book the official meeting rooms at the headquarters building, but there were also approximately 200 smaller rooms for which employees need access on a daily basis. These include concentration rooms for one or two employees to use for quiet work or collaboration, small meeting, and scrum rooms for project teams.
Until recently, employees would search the 14 floors to find open meeting rooms and put their names on sheets of paper to reserve them. "It's a big building," says Ferry Bouwman, Technical Lead for Office 365 at Eneco. "If I'm on the second floor, I don't know if there's a room available on the thirteenth floor, for example." Another challenge was that only rooms on the three floors, which the company calls Eneco Village, could be reserved for meetings with colleagues outside of Eneco. Rooms on other floors were set aside for internal meetings, but they could not be reserved.
The solution was the result of a collaboration of Microsoft Partner Macaw, Eneco's Office 365 Competence Center, and end users. Macaw used Microsoft PowerApps in Office 365 to design a custom app for Eneco and Microsoft Power BI to support reporting and predictive data analytics.
It took about five weeks for the team to develop and deploy the app, and that included adding the custom Eneco design. After the app was launched, van der Burg published an announcement on the company's SharePoint-based intranet and Yammer. "After the first week, people realized they didn't have to put paper notes on doors anymore," he says.
Convenience is one of the biggest benefits for employees using the RoomFinder app. "Now, when I'm at home at 7:00 in the morning, I can check to see if there's a room available for later in the day and reserve it on my mobile device," says van der Burg.
The feedback button was an essential function in the first version of the app. "There was a lot of positive feedback," says van der Burg. "Many of our colleagues said, 'This is great. I've been waiting for this for a long time.' And others made suggestions for improvement." By the second version, there were even more positive reactions.
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In the past, we had to go through the whole building to check whether a room was available. Now, we can use our mobile devices to reserve a room before we even get to the office."


Today was a good day off, slept in, did laundry and ate a lot.
Didn't do much until the afternoon, when Alison and Bret's friend Micheal came over and we went out to get some food for dinner and cooked up some brats, and played pool. After we ate, Alison and Bret drove me around and we did a sight seeing tour of Savannah before the sun went down.
That's it! Like I said, pretty chill, do-nothing day. Tomorrow is my last night walking!


We arrived on Thursday to set up our tents which actually turned out to be a bit of a disaster to be honest since it took us over an hour to actually find a space! Now I know why you all got early bird tickets! Lugging heavy bags across fields of tents is not fun, especially when it's boiling hot. Eventually we found somewhere though which was close to the main arena (debatable whether that was a good idea or not.) Then it was the struggle of putting tents up which was resolved by the guys in the tent behind us doing literally all of it so no effort on our part haha.
Food was needed so it was off to Tesco which was an experience and a half! It was absolutely packed and I'm pretty sure most of the festival was in there so queueing was a bit of a nightmare. Amusing though.
Friday was when everything started and we kicked off by seeing Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance who sung a few new songs which were really good. On the main stage we saw Deaf Havana who I really enjoyed and will definitely be listening to more of in the future. Sigma was also good in the dance tent with their hit 'Nobody To Love'. I found the dance tent was always good for warming up when the weather got colder later on as it was packed haha. Little tip there for any festival goers!
My favourite bands of the day though had to be Vampire Weekend who were vocally brilliant and the incredible Paramore who battled through three sound cut outs and still managed to deliver a fantastic set. Hayley Williams was looking pretty cool with her turquoise hair and belted out all the favourites such as 'Misery Business' 'That's What You Get' and 'Still Into You'. What made it so amazing though was when the sound cut out and they played an acoustic version of 'The Only Exception' which had the whole crowd joining in. My favourite act of the whole festival.
Then it was back to the tent for another night of camping. Now, I don't actually mind camping but Reading is a whole other experience. Some people just don't sleep which is plain irritating, hygiene is like a foreign concept and the unpredictable weather makes for an interesting experience to say the least! You would go to sleep freezing and wake up boiling! There was practically no way to get out of it. I won't even mention the toilets. Luckily the arena had cubicle toilets but let's just say if you needed it in the middle of the night, you wouldn't think twice about doing it outside of the tent to avoid the dreaded campsite ones!!
Back to the festival, on Saturday I saw Imagine Dragons who are one of my favourite bands and they did not disappoint. Their biggest hit 'Radioactive' was brilliant and they performed their whole set so well. Again, the headliners Arctic Monkeys were a highlight of the day for me and gave off such an air of coolness that it was hard to resist their northern drawl. 'Do I Wanna Know?' and 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor' were my favourites.
Sunday was the last day and we really made the most of it! We watched Clean Bandit perform their whole set including the well-known 'Rather Be' which although is overplayed, was actually incredible live as you can probably imagine. The rest of their set was lyrically strong and they did a cover of 'Show Me Love' which was nearly as good as the original. We then saw The Kooks who I was a little disappointed by since they were only on for forty minutes! 'Naïve' was good and 'She Moves In Her Own Way' but overall I wasn't that impressed.
I surprised myself by really enjoying The 1975 as I find them to be a little pretentious but they were brilliant. 'Girls', 'Heart Out', 'The City' and 'Chocolate' were the best in my opinion. However, the best act of the night had to be Disclosure who were absolutely incredible. We also managed to get three rows from the front! 'Latch' was the last song of the set and in fact the whole festival. I can't explain how good it was without blurting out a tonne of adjectives but it was pretty damn good. It was such a great atmosphere and end to the weekend even though I felt like I was being pushed from every angle and overheating in the crowded tent. Totally worth it in my opinion.
Overall, it is an experience I will never forget and I'm glad I got the opportunity to go. Although the camping was pretty bad, it didn't deter from the brilliant music or festival atmosphere I got to enjoy all weekend. Now there's something I can tick off the bucket list.
I just typed "Music" in the tags and your post came up. Wow, I actually thought it had something to do with reading, you know like a book festival maybe but it's more like Coachella. Am I right? I live in Pakistan so I have never really attended one of these amazing Coachella things and such likes.
Oh! England? I know Reading because of the club, football club Reading!


"Unexpected Joy", a new musical that recently opened at Off-Broadway's York Theatre Company, does, in fact, contain several unexpected joys—among them a groovy, folk rock score, an intriguing original story mining contemporary themes, and a quartet of strong female vocal performances. Regrettably, they are balanced by some unfortunate faults: a script and direction lacking dynamism, stereotypical characters and sitcom-deep dialogue, and a pat ending.
Set in present-day Provincetown, Massachusetts, leading lady Joy (Luba Mason) is the remaining half of fictional musical duo "Jump and Joy", a successful act from the 1960s. Strong minded, free spirited, and flighty (imagine if Cher and Barbra Streisand had a baby who sang like Carole King), Joy has spent a lifetime rejecting convention, including her refusal to marry her long-time partner, Jump.
A year after his death, Joy's estranged daughter, Rainbow (who prefers Rachel) (Courtney Balan), and beloved granddaughter, Tamara (Celeste Rose, who would make a good Zoe Murphy replacement in "Dear Evan Hansen"), arrive from Oklahoma to participate in a memorial concert. Then the clashes begin. Though harboring an unknown Jewish heritage, Rachel—who resents her boundary-free, hippy childhood—married a crusading Christian televangelist, singing on his television program, and adopting his right-wing views ("homosexuality is an abomination!") and warped sense of victimhood (the "liberal media" and "entertainment conglomerates" "run by Jews" have a bias against Christians! Sure.).
Tamara is rebelling against the strictures of her own upbringing, secretly writing and performing songs at local coffee house open mic nights. For her part, Joy has one big, "unexpected" surprise to share with everyone: she's engaged ... to a woman—fellow rocker, Lou (Allyson Kaye Daniel), who happens to be African American—and plans to get married the day after the memorial concert (convenient scheduling).
Inspired by disparate real stories collected by book writer and lyricist Bill Russell ("Side Show", "Elegies"), and featuring music by Janet Hood ("Elegies"), it is refreshing to see an older female character onstage who is not a doting grandmother, but rather a confident, sexually fluid, rebellious, aging rocker known, instead, as "glamma". While there is much talk of Rachel's unseen husband, no men appear onstage, and the focus of the story is the relationships among the women. Again, refreshing—and admirable.
This family of singers, not surprisingly, sings, as the action switches back and forth between the memorial concert, and scenes at Joy's house in the days leading up to it—a concept that works well; as a result, most songs occur in the reality of their situations, as either performances or rehearsals, so it is odd when Rachel suddenly starts singing in Joy's living room. More unrealistic, still, is how everyone suddenly and effortlessly knows all their lyrics, arrangements, and harmonies, like an episode of "Glee".
The largest fault, however, lies in the lack of dynamism to the tone of the script and direction of Amy Anders Corcoran. While the songs are good, the scenes in between them are often cringe-worthy. The whole story exists in one mode, which makes it hard to engage with the characters and their drama. Each character roughly fits a trope, their fault-lines predictable, and their resolution not too "unexpected"—much like in any sitcom.
Joy is frustratingly conciliatory with Rachel and shockingly flip about her relationship with Lou. The musical ends with a rousing call to bridge differences and find "common ground"—with all four women joining in song. Without, however, a concomitant charge to also stand your ground when it matters, the closing message amounts to a disquieting "agree to disagree" point of view regarding pressing questions of equality—as if "both sides" in the debate over LGBT equality are on equal standing in a pluralistic democracy premised upon individual liberty.
There is something very attractive to a representation of a family not letting political differences shade personal affections. But, how can they not? It's painful, and perhaps too unrealistic to watch Joy not stand up for herself in the face of her daughter's bigoted behavior. Her casual disregard for her relationship with Lou, one supposedly on the precipice of marriage, is also troubling to observe. Rachel never accepts Lou, and that refusal forms the basis of a jarring laugh line in the final moments of the show.
In an author's note in the program, Mr. Russell openly muses whether the rapidly changing legal and cultural environment in which this musical arrives might make its conceit "feel dated". It does. The central tension of the story is easily solved in my mind: Rachel needs to get with the program or go. Having it both ways left a poor taste in my mouth.
Bottom Line: "Unexpected Joy", a new musical at the York Theatre Company, contains several unexpected joys: a groovy, folk rock score, an intriguing original story mining contemporary themes, and a quartet of strong female vocal performances; and some unfortunate faults: a script and direction lacking dynamism, stereotypical characters and sitcom-deep dialogue, and a pat ending. The whole show feels dated and unrealistic, with an "agree to disagree" closing message about LGBT equality that I found troubling.


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Please contact Ms. Anne Spear at 819-684-7472 (2118) or by email at annespear@wqsb.qc.ca to set up an appointment.
The Benjamin Girls Volleyball team are Champs!
The team defeated Grande-Rivière in two straight sets by the score of 25-12 and 25-19 to win the Regional Championships in front of a packed crowd at the CEGEP de l'Outaouais. The team has finished their R.S.E.Q season as the top female Benjamin squad out of a field of over 50 teams. They will now represent the Outaouais area and the school in Sherbrooke at the Provincials April 12th-14th.
The Track & Field Team invites all athletes to join!
Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 7-8:15am, and Tuesday afternoons, 3:45pm. The RSEQ meet is Fri., May 17, at Mont Bleu High School.
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Lunde (westelijk deel) (Zweeds: Lunde (västra delen)) is een småort in de gemeente Timrå in het landschap Medelpad en de provincie Västernorrlands län in Zweden. Het småort heeft 77 inwoners (2005) en een oppervlakte van 15 hectare. Het småort bestaat uit het westelijk deel van de plaats Lunde.

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Joe Ferebee honored on 99th birthday
Published 10:55 am Thursday, March 1, 2018
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Coach Joe Ferebee is flanked by former players Tommy Eaton of Salisbury and Billy Wynne of Jacksonville, Fla.
By Sandy Hatley
Coach Joe Ferebee, retired Pfeiffer University athletic director and baseball coach, still impacts his former players, even at 99 years of age.
A resident of Spring Arbor Assisted Living in Albemarle, the beloved coach was treated to a birthday celebration on Feb. 17 with some of his best players in his 31 years at Pfeiffer University including a major leaguer, Bill Wynne, who pitched for the New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and California Angels.
A native of Mocksville, Ferebee began his coaching career in 1947 at Salisbury High School after service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1955, he coached Salisbury to the state 3A championship. The same year, his Salisbury-Rowan American Legion team won the state crown, finishing third in the national playoffs. Ferebee led them to three North Carolina state titles, four second place finishes, and 15 area championships.
In 1969 and 1971, Ferebee received the Governor's Award for his contributions to youth baseball; in 1988 hae was honored by the Raleigh Hot Stove League. Including 13 years as a professional baseball scout, Ferebee spent a total of 41 years in the game of baseball.
Ferebee holds two state achievements. First, as the winningest baseball coach in North Carolina history with 1,438 victories. He coached Pfeiffer's baseball program from 1956-1987, winning 677 games, and an additional 694 with American Legion teams. While at Pfeiffer, he led the Falcons to 10 conference championships and five NAIA District crowns; in 1968, Pfeiffer's baseball team was ranked number two in the nation.
Over the course of his career, he coached 42 Pfeiffer ball players to professional contracts.
Secondly, he has been elected to more Sports Hall of Fames than any other sports figure in the state. With his induction into the N.C. Hall of Fame, he now is a member of eight Hall of Fames including becoming an inaugural class member of the Pfeiffer Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. Others are Catawba College, North Carolina American Legion Baseball, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, American Coaches Association, Stanly County and Salisbury-Rowan.
In May 2013, Pfeiffer University officially retired Ferebee's #23 baseball jersey.
Bob Gulledge, class of 1968, spearheaded the annual gathering of the athletes with their former coach.
"The older I got, the smarter he got," the Camden, S.C., resident said. "He positively impacted the lives of hundreds of boys and young men from the late '40s to the '90s
Those in attendance came from four states to help celebrate the legacy of a man they all fondly refer to as "Coach"
Tommy Eaton of Salisbury, who played for Ferebee in high school, legion ball, and college, acknowledged his beloved coach's longevity. "He's in better shape than any of his players."
Wynne of Jacksonville, Fla., former pitcher for the New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and California Angels, said: "We have been doing this since he was 90."
All praised their former coach for his mild mannered approach to the game.
Griggy Porter of Matthews, class of 1969, played for the Chicago Cubs. He stated: "He was a great man to play for. He knows so much about the game of baseball. Thanks to him I got to play professionally."
In 2005, nine of the players took Ferebee to Cooperstown, N.Y., to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. As their small group toured the facility, the coach would elaborate on the lives of those immortalized in bronze. Soon spectators gathered to hear Coach's narratives.
"He knew more than anyone there," Gulledge said.
During the birthday celebration, Ferebee was presented a baseball signed by all the players in attendance.
Gulledge summarized the event. "Says a lot about the man for guys to attend his birthday party up to nearly 60 years from when they played for him."
Hatley is a free-lance writer and graduate of the Pfeiffer Class of 1979.
Contact Ferebee at Spring Arbor Assisted Living, 315 Paqrk Ridge Roadf, Albemarle, 28001; or 980-581-9928.
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Prvi in drugi razred ljudske šole je obiskovala v rojstnem kraju. Leta 1918 se je družina preselila v Ljubljano. Tu je nadaljevala šolanje. Končala je Srednjo glasbeno in baletno šolo. Klavir se je učila pri Lucijanu Mariji Škerjancu, balet pa pri  Petru Gresserovu. V letih 1933−1944 je bila honorarna baletka v Operi SNG v Ljubljani, od februarja 1944 do 1953 pa stalna članica baletnega ansambla. Od 1953 do upokojitve 1971 pa je poučevala balet in klavir na Srednji glasbeni in baletni šoli v Ljubljani. Pod njenim mentorstvom so se izšolale nove generacije slovenskih baletnih plesalcev.

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Kenneth Wayne Lanier (born July 8, 1959) is a former offensive tackle in the National Football League who played 14 seasons, 13 of those for the Denver Broncos.

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Domenico Riviera (1710–1730)
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Carlo Nocella (1892–1903)
Gaetano de Lai (1908–1928)
Carlo Perosi (1928–1930)
Raffaele Rossi (1930–1948)
Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1948–1957)
Marcello Mimmi (1957–1961)
Carlo Confalonieri (1961–1965)
Francesco Carpino (1965–1967)
Ernesto Civardi (1967–1979)
Lucas Moreira Neves (1979–1987)
Giovanni Battista Re (1987–1989)
Justin Francis Rigali (1989–1994)
Jorge María Mejía (1994–1998)
Francesco Monterisi (1998–2009)
Manuel Monteiro de Castro (2009–2012)
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EdMedia
Students Taking Charge of their Learning in Digital Environments
Roberta Hammett, Memorial University, Canada ; Deborah Toope, Eastern School District, Canada
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, Jun 27, 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal ISBN 978-1-880094-89-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
This paper will present data collected in university-school research partnership in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The paper draws on 9th grade students' digital compositions, blogs, and group threaded discussions as data which were analyzed to answer the over-arching research question: "What is the impact of digital technologies for pedagogy and literacy learning?" The presentation will focus on students' learning, in particular on themes of creativity, self assessment, collaboration, technological skills and peer affirmation – all of which were topics introduced by students as they interacted on the Ning, a private social networking site. Taking advantage of the affordances of the site, the students went far beyond the assignment, as this paper explains, and used the site to build community, exchange ideas, reflect on learning processes, and express feelings about the central text, Romeo and Juliet, as well as similar-themed texts they had read and viewed on their own.
Hammett, R. & Toope, D. (2011). Students Taking Charge of their Learning in Digital Environments. In T. Bastiaens & M. Ebner (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2011--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2457-2462). Lisbon, Portugal: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved February 1, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/38204/.
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Enhancing Online and Face-to-Face Teaching with Social Networking Sites and Digital Literacy Activities
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Amanda Bender - Contributor
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Her Dark Materials: Raising Inner Demons To Craft Complex Villains
An analysis of Mrs. Coulter in the recent TV adaptation of "His Dark Materials" shows writers how to craft complex villains.
#FollowFriday and #WritersLift: Don't Just Follow, Engage!
A look at how #FollowFriday and #writerslift are promoting a follower-focused mentality and overshadowing the real purpose of Twitter: engaging and connecting with the writing community.
The Great Game of Balancing Character and Plot
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Medical Policy Revision: Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block for Headache
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Access our Medical Policy Manual to review this medical policy content.¹
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Regardless of the submitted diagnosis code(s), CPT® code 64505 will be denied as an experimental or investigational, non-covered service.
Unless Horizon BCBSNJ gives written notice that all or part of the above changes have been canceled or postponed, the changes will be applied to claims for dates of service on and after May 27, 2019.
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Bristol Palin returns to TV
The 'DWTS' alum is getting her own reality show
James Hibberd
By James Hibberd Updated May 13, 2011 at 04:00 AM EDT
The country's best-known teen mom is getting her own reality show. Having boosted the ratings of ABC's Dancing With the Stars into the stratosphere last year, Bristol Palin, now 20, has made a deal with cable network Bio for a 10-episode series. The Palin show will launch later this year and will aim for the success of hits like MTV's Teen Mom and her famous mother's caribou-capping Sarah Palin's Alaska on TLC. On the as-yet-untitled series, Palin will move from Alaska to Los Angeles with son Tripp and bunk with her DWTS castmate Kyle Massey and his brother Chris while spending time working for a charity. So it's sort of like The Hills — if you kept the fame-seeking but replaced the hookups and club hopping with abstinence lectures and social work.


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Illinois Replacing PARCC Test For High School Students
The Illinois State Board of Education says it will no longer administer the Partnership for the Achievement of Readiness for College and Careers standardized test to high school students.
The board announced Monday the controversial test will be replaced by a redesigned SAT test.
Board of education officials say the dumping of the test came after conversations with parents, administrators, unions and others. The test, known as PARCC, is supposed to measure college readiness with in-depth analytical questions. In Chicago alone, about 10 percent of eligible students didn't take it last year.
The board is touting the decision as a cutback on standardized testing while providing equitable access to a college entrance exam required for admissions applications.
Third- through eighth-graders will still take PARCC in the spring.
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Is McCain Trying To Kill Debate?
I don't buy this entirely, but it does worry me that we get closer and closer to the election and we have had no substantive debates and no meaningful interaction with one vice-presidential candidate:
McCain's let's-postpone-the-debate idea may not be a real possibility now that Obama has indicated he won't play ball. But here's a factor to consider with the proposal itself: by the time the next scheduled (or, as McCain would have it, "first") presidential debate takes place, 16 states will already be voting. That includes battlegrounds like Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
It's bad enough that voters in a half dozen states are casting ballots right now, before a single debate has been held and after only one opportunity to hear one of the vice-presidential candidates field questions from a reporter.
McCain cannot face the actual campaign on this issues - because he's on the losing side of almost all of them - and so it's all about bells, whistles, shiny objects, drama queen spectacles and propaganda. And in McCain's rattled head, he tells himself that he's pure because he once offered a series of public debates with Obama and Obama turned him down. That's enough for McCain to launch into this totally bizarre and unstable fall campaign. Yes: I said "unstable." What other word currently describes him?