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Gaules, NBA on Bringing Pro Basketball to Brazil Through Twitch
byJames FudgeandVictor Frascarelli
Credit: Victor Pollini
On Monday, popular Brazilian streamer Alexandre "Gaules" Borba Chiqueta announced a co-streaming deal with NBA Brasil and Budweiser (an official sponsor of NBA in the country) that will see him broadcasting NBA games via Twitch beginning Wednesday evening with a doubleheader — the Atlanta Hawks vs. New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks vs. Los Angeles Clippers.
NBA Brasil partnered with Budweiser in February, and since that time it has utilized the partnership to identify new areas of growth, particularly viewers of gaming content and top streamers. Gaules was of particular interest to the league due to his popularity and his regular NBA 2K21 streams, Rodrigo Vicentini, head of NBA Brasil tells TEO's James Fudge.
"Gaules was truly a natural fit as we identify creative ways to reach younger viewers," he said. "His content makes fans feel like they're a part of an immersive experience and we hope to deepen that connection with viewers during his NBA live streams. Gaming has also been a priority of ours for quite some time as its popularity has grown incredibly in Brazil and around the world, so the timing couldn't be better. As we initiated conversations and gained a better understanding of what Gaules is all about, it became clear our visions were aligned. "
The former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) pro turned content streamer is immensely popular on social media and streaming platforms. He has 715.8K followers on Twitter, 2.7M on Twitch, 629K subscribers on YouTube and is regularly found at the top of TEO's top channels by hours watched. Riot Games recently signed Gaules to co-stream the Valorant Masters matches on his Twitch channel.
The deal made a lot of sense, Gaules tells TEO's Victor Frascarelli, because he works closely with Brazilian entertainment firm Omelete, who in turn has an existing relationship with NBA Brazil.
"We had already seen that basketball had many fans in Tribo [what he calls his community] and that it would be an incredible service to provide this content for free for everyone to enjoy, Gaules said. "We took advantage of the relationship that Omelete already had with the NBA to open conversations about the popularization of basketball and they joined us with Budweiser, which brought in the Playoffs rights."
Gaules added that basketball in Brazil is second in popularity only to soccer and he believes that the "professionalization and quality of the NBA" has contributed to that and will ultimately "attract more and more fans" in Brazil.
Vicentini claims that nearly 44 million people watch NBA content in the country currently and that "in-language, localized content" created across various platforms and social media channels are helping to drive growth.
"This partnership offers opportunities to not only reimagine how fans consume NBA games, but merge their passion for basketball with other sectors such as lifestyle and gaming," he said.
While Gaules announced that he will have his own special guests during his streams, Vicentini says that the NBA isn't opposed to helping out on that front in the future: "we're always looking to enhance the viewing experience and if we identify a potential guest who complement the live stream, we will evaluate that opportunity."
Finally, while Guales is the first to partner with the NBA, Vicentini sees a future where other content creators in regions around the world will be brought on board, where it makes sense, to help drive growth.
"Gaules is the first streamer we've partnered with in Brazil, but gaming will remain a focus of ours moving forward and we'll continue to explore opportunities in the space if they make sense for us and our fans. He's the second most popular streamer in the world in terms of watch hours and we look forward to bringing the excitement of the NBA to a wider audience."
Tags: Alexandre "Gaules" Borba ChiquetaBrazilbudweisergaulesInterviewsnbaNBA BrasilpartnershipsRodrigo VicentiniStreamingtwitchViwership
James Fudge
James has been covering the video games industry for nearly 23 years. He currently serves as The Esports Observer's senior editor.
Victor Frascarelli
Victor Frascarelli is a Marketing and PR professional living in Sao Paulo who developed his career in the gaming industry.


July 2018 Newsletter: Is Your "STUFF" Holding You Back?
Has your personal property or "stuff" taken over your space? It may be time to clear the clutter from your home. Sometimes, we can become immune to the number of items we accumulate over time because it's always been there. The articles in this newsletter will help you clear space to enjoy your home or prepare for your next move.


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YA author event with Jeff Zentner, author of Rayne & Delilah's Midnight Matinee
Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome Nashville YA author Jeff Zentner for a celebration of the release of his third novel, Rayne & Delilah's Midnight Matinee. Zentner will appear in conversation with YA author David Arnold. Read on for important event guidelines, as well as more information about Jeff and his new book!
This event is free and open to the public. To join the signing line and have books signed by the author at this event, please purchase your copy of Rayne & Delilah's Midnight Matinee from Parnassus Books, either in-store, over the phone, or online (scroll down). Rayne & Delilah's Midnight Matinee will be published on Tuesday, February 26, 2019.
The best way to support an author featured at a Parnassus event, as well as to support Parnassus for hosting the author and the event, is to purchase the author's new book from Parnassus. Your purchase also demonstrates to publishers that they should continue sending authors to Parnassus.
Video recording, audio recording, and/or live-streaming during author appearances and signings is not possible without prior written permission from the publisher and Parnassus Books.
Can't make it to the event, but still want to purchase an autographed or personalized book? Place your order below, enter "signed copy" plus any personalization details in the comments section of your order, and we'll have Jeff sign your books and ship them to you after the event!
More about Rayne & Delilah's Midnight Matinee
"Anyone can break your heart. Jeff Zentner can also make you laugh out loud!" - Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carry On and Eleanor & Park
"A testament to the power of friendship and big dreams, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee had me laughing aloud on one page and sobbing on the next. A resounding triumph." - Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
From the Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King comes a contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures -- and the TV show they host -- in their senior year of high school.
Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six.
But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and chase her dream career in mainstream TV. And Lawson, one of the show's guest performers, a talented MMA fighter with weaknesses for pancakes, fantasy novels, and Josie, is making her tough decision even harder.
Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he'll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too. As the tug-of-war between growing up and growing apart tests the bonds of their friendship, Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous ... and momentous.
More about Jeff Zentner
Jeff Zentner is the author of The Serpent King, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the William C. Morris Award, and recipient of many other accolades; and Goodbye Days, named an ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults title. Jeff was a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and an Indies Introduce pick. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee is his ode to best friends who make things together. He lives in Nashville with his wife and son.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 6:30pm
Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee (Hardcover)
By Jeff Zentner
Published: Crown Books for Young Readers - February 26th, 2019

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The 2017 YZF-R3 is the easiest way to enter the world of Yamaha R-series superbike performance.
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The theater critic, Ben Brantley, wrote recently for the New York Times on the exhibit of Tennessee Williams memorabilia at the Morgan Library in New York. It's a wonderful piece of writing and well worth your time for its own merits, to say nothing of the electricity surrounding the subject, Mr. Williams himself. His eccentricities and passions released in his edgy approach to writing make wonderous anecdotes inspiring us today. But what caught me in particular was the discussion about the playwright's passion for…blue.
It opens the essay (and exhibit) in the form of his blue Olivetti typewriter, and continues to descriptions of his appetite for the color in all forms, "chromatic, spiritual, emotional", and gives examples of his characters carrying his craving for him; such as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," describing her gown as "della Robbia blue", or her speculation that she'd be buried at sea in "an ocean as blue…as my first love's eyes." Those shots of his favorite color show up in his paintings and diaries as well, and when combined with the hue of his beloved typewriter, there can be no doubt about it's importance to him. Ordinarily, I'd pay little attention to this fetish, but it jumped out at me, or rather I jumped when I read it because describing blue in my own work has been a personal sore point for a long time.
My first novel had a male protagonist whose eyes I described as cerulean blue. That unusual quality of depth was important to me to give them a shocking penetration, and I didn't want to weaken the description using a simile to help it along. Frankly, I've never found Mr. Williams' padding of the "della Robbia blue" with "the blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures" effective. And as we never knew Blanche's first lover, the color of his eyes still seems a mystery. 'Cerulean' stands on its own, I thought then, and still do now. However, one of my first writing teachers did not. She crossed it out with an aggressive 'X', announcing it was ineffective, as no one would know what it was. The inference was that I'd used it only to impress, rather than inform. I took it out but have since found numerous instances of other authors using it, running into it with an outrageous regularity. My writer's serendipity was in full force, dumping torrents of cerulean blue at me from every direction, including the back of a saltine box, urging us to consume the biscuits on board ships on 'cerulean oceans'. Other authors also sent me examples of it, stumbled over in their own readings. It became a shared joke that seemed to make my point even sorer, so I eventually put it back in my novel, forever to be remembered as an example of how important it is to follow one's own original instinct.


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import { Component, PropTypes } from 'react'
import UserListContainer from 'containers/UserListContainer'
import MessageList from './MessageList'
import MessageForm from './MessageForm'
import classes from './ChatView.scss'
import Video from 'components/Video'
import peer from 'peers'

class ChatView extends Component {
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    remoteBlob: PropTypes.string,
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cHolly & Adam could not be more perfect for each other! He makes her laugh, she grounds him. Together, they are ready to take on this big world, and all it has to offer! Our session took us from the beautiful campus of Hollins University, where to fall colors were just starting to emerge, to Holly's parents house, to the tennis court that was the sight of their first kiss. I cannot wait for their wedding in July of next year!! I had so much fun and I'm so excited to be a part of their day!! Thanks guys!


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Q: distributed database replication design: efficient network transfer I am developing a distributed database system, suppose each table has 3 copies on different machines, if a write request comes in, the replication layer's work is to replicate that write data to other to nodes. The question is how to make the replication efficient in terms of throughput? The network bandwidth is 10Gbps.
Example:
cmd1: write on table 1
   -> send to node A and node B
cmd2: write on table 2
   -> send to node B and node C
cmd3: write on table 1
   -> send to node A and node B
cmd4: write on table 3
   -> send to node B and node D
cmd5: write on table 2
   -> send to node B and node C

The above example shows the replicating command queues. To achieve high performance, what about use mulit-thread network replication? But if there are two writes to the same node, it would be better to combine the two and send altogether?
And suppose those writes will be stored on disks eventually (think of spinning disk), so to speed up the storing process, is there anything can be done when doing the replication? (if each table has been mapped to store on a specific disk on a node, writes are append-only).

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From on-farm dinners to petting zoos, agri-tourism takes many forms. As more farmers explore additional ways of generating income, owners must consider the logistics and legal risks in addition to possible profit. What will agri-tourism look like for you? Join local farmers, Maryland Extension, Frederick Economic Development, and the Agriculture Law Education Initiative for a half-day look at how local farmers are opening their doors to the public.
Speakers include Marijke Torfs of Zigbone Farm Retreat, Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm, Jo-Ann Coates-Hunter of Fox Haven Farm and Retreat Center, and Sarah Everhart of the Agriculture Law Education Initiative.
The event will begin with a potluck: please bring a dish to share.
Questions? Contact Caroline Selle at caroline@futureharvestcasa.org.


"Reawakening Memories" deals with Akane suddenly remembering a trip to Ryugenzawa when she was a small child. While there she was saved from a giant platypus by Shinnosuke. Akane travels back to Ryogenzawa and once again meets Shinnosuke, who falls in love with her. Akane blames herself for Shinnosuke`s life-threatening injuries, and decides to stay and help out. This irritates Ranma, who thinks that Akane has fallen in love with Shinnosuke, and will do what it takes to get her back.
This is a lovely episode that really gives Akane some shining moments. Ranma has a few as well, which makes everyone happy, but this is really Akane's story with Ranma and Ryoga along to support.
#02: "Us From Now On (English Version)" by DoCo USA (eps 7-11).
The side characters and setting are what really create a fun mood with a bit of sentimentality and someone who actually appreciates Akane's cooking for once! This is a fun take on a well know legend.


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Fear in the shadows
A series of murders puts writers and bloggers on edge
AsiaNov 7th 2015 edition
IN BANGLADESH, the killing in broad daylight of progressive, secular members of the intelligentsia has become almost routine. On October 31st, assailants burst into an office in the capital, Dhaka, armed with machetes and hacked to death Faisal Arefin Deepan, a publisher. On the same day, another publisher was critically injured, as were two other writers present.
Ansarullah Bangla Team, sometimes known as Ansar al-Islam, a banned group inspired by al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for this and most other killings of secular thinkers in Bangladesh. It has published a "hit list" of those deemed to be critics of Islam and vowed that "no one who supports atheists will be spared".
Ever since partition in 1947, when it was known as East Pakistan, Bangladeshi politics has had a radical Islamist fringe. But, as during its war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, the fringe is growing in strength. The ruling Awami League (AL) remains the country's only mainstream secular force, but the obsession of its leader, Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, with destroying the opposition alliance—made up of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by her nemesis, Khaleda Zia, and the BNP's Islamist ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party—is weakening Bangladesh's secular, tolerant traditions.
Sheikh Hasina has rejected claims that the Islamist fringe is linking up with international terrorist groups such as Islamic State (IS). Instead, her party has accused the BNP and Jamaat of being behind the recent killings.
Yet the AL appears to be emboldening some Islamist radicals, too. Critics say its crackdown on opposition politicians and other opponents is pushing some towards more extremist groups. And in trying to avoid being seen as unpious—which could spark demonstrations against the government by the devout—the AL is appeasing Islamist conservatives by caving in to pressure not to pass secular laws. It is also selectively using defamation laws only to target critics of itself and of Islam.
The latest machete attacks came only weeks after two foreigners—an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer—were shot dead, in attacks claimed (on Twitter) by IS. Dhaka's diplomatic area has been turned into a high security-zone. The murder of foreigners may be unrelated to the killings of secular publishers, but shoddy, politicised policing means that neither locals nor foreigners trust the authorities. The Italian was killed just as Australia pondered whether the country was safe for its cricket team to tour, and his death was an important factor in its decision to cancel the visit.
Other murders have added to a climate of fear. On October 24th two people were killed and scores injured in a bomb attack on Bangladesh's small Shia community in old Dhaka—the only attack on the group in memory. Followers of Sufi Islam, a moderate branch, have come under attack. Writers, bloggers, as well as female journalists, some of whom appear on television unveiled, have also been threatened.
It could get worse. Sheikh Hasina has continued to pursue war crimes trials, aimed at settling scores from the struggle for independence. Top leaders of Jamaat have been sentenced by a self-styled International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and two senior Islamists are now being prepared for execution.
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was sentenced to death for crimes, including murder, committed by a pro-Pakistani paramilitary group for which the prosecution said he was responsible. Salauddin Quader Chowdhury is a wealthy former adviser of Mrs Zia who has close links to Pakistan. At his trial he mocked and interrupted the judges as they sentenced him. On November 17th the ICT is due to review an appeal by the two men. If it upholds their death sentences, they may be executed by the end of the year, an act that could lead to unrest in cities across the country.
Amid all the fear, the battling begums continue to trade insults. On a long visit to London, Mrs Zia recently referred to Sheikh Hasina as "Lady Hitler". Of the four pillars of the 1972 constitution—nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism—the last three appear to be collapsing or threatened. Under the Awami League's control, Bangladesh is moving further and further away from the country imagined at independence.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Fear in the shadows"


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BEWARE PARKING FINES. A camera clocks you entering and leaving. No longer can visiting climbers sleep in the car park!
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, NOVEMBER 2018 UPDATE: The latest in a series of rockfalls has made the original finish of swimming the cave to the Promontory impossible since it is now impossible to safely scramble back onto the mainland. All future ascents will need to finish through the very excellent Blue Grotto via excellent climbing or failing that, by swimming.
Amazing and surprisingly sound rock which creates both epics and magic days. Perhaps best known for Moonraker (HVS 5a) - is it the best HVS in the country? - Dreadnought (E3 5c), Caveman (E6 6b) and the vast sea traverses of Magical Mystery Tour and Rainbow Bridge.
PLEASE CHECK THE ACCESS NOTES BELOW FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BIRD BANS.
BIRD BAN MARCH 1st TO JULY 31st. nb. the start date is now earlier than that published in the 1995 South Devon & Dartmoor Guide. There is a £1,000 fine for breaking this, and a camera monitors the cliff, so don't hope. There is a variable access agreement for some parts of Rainbow Bridge but there is no access by the Great Cave. Check the details here http://www.javu.co.uk/Climbing/News/Rainbow-Bridge-access.shtml. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE PLEASE DON'T CLIMB.
DWS : The BMC now requests Deep water soloists to phone Brixham Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre before starting on (01803) 882 704. In 2009 climbers have caused a number of false call outs - this creates significant problems for the rescue service and may jepordise future access on the Nature Reserve.
Park as for Berry Head Quarry.
Footpath from the seaward end of the car park leads down a steep grassy slope to the sea. Take the rocky scoop to the R, leading to the easy (but very exposed) sea traverse to a non-tidal platform. Don't fall off.
It is important that climbers wanting to deepwater solo on these crags MUST call Brixham Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre on (01803) 882 704 before descending to the base of the cliffs. Climbers have caused a number of false call outs in the past - this creates significant problems for the rescue service and may jepordise future access on the Nature Reserve.
1) The Great Cave and pitch 1 of Rainbow Bridge is still covered by the restriction (1st March to 31st July) and NO ACCESS is permitted. This is because the birds frequent the large platform. The standard approach for Rainbow Bridge (and The Great Cave) crosses this platform and will disturb the birds so climbers must choose one of the following options: a) Abseil from the metal post en route to The Great Cave (just beyond a red access notice) to an in-situ thread at the end of pitch 1. b) Down-climb HVS rock just to the left (looking out) of the post. This is not recommended for those who don't know the route.
2) The final Terminal Zawn (pitch 11) is still restricted. A marker just before this shows the extent of the ban. Climbers should exit up VS territory above the marker.
3) Access restrictions still apply to the following: - White Rhino Tea Buttress (Barnacle Traverse Continuation) - The Oz Wall - The Ledges above the Oz wall, beyond the Terminal Zawn. - The Great Cave and Bismark Wall. Markers have been positioned at both ends of the "open" section and these will show whether or not you are allowed on the traverse. This can be checked by contacting the Berry Head Rangers office (01803 882619).
Please contact the ranger if you are confused about cliff accessibility. A few other considerations: If you fall into the sea (during the restricted nesting season) getting out is now much more problematic as you must NOT get out at the Great Cave ledge (doing so would disturb the nesting birds). Those concerned by this should opt to abseil in (see b above) - doing this allows you to leave a rope through the in-situ thread at the base of the abseil to facilitate pulling out of the sea....or make the big swim to the ' Red Walls' area.
The Cauldron Rope Bridge (Rainbow Bridge cliff) is back in place Sept 2016. Inspect it and form your own opinion of its safety before using it.
August 2016 - The Hood has been cleaned and restored to its former glory. See logbook notes.
Car Park - Watch out for the new hostile car registration recognition system. You risk a fine by simply entering the car park. It would be nice if the machines were simpler to use and didn't reject half your coins.
Top pitch of Dreadnought cleaned and Melinda cleaned, regraded and re-described - see logbook.
Goddess of Gloom cleaned Sept 2014. I have exhumed holds and gear placements from the soil on pitch two. Get on it whilst it's in good nick. A superb adventure route a little harder than Moonraker.
Terminal Zawn DWS has suffered from much misreporting. Rockfax Deep Water has several errors. Comeback Kid is Up Yer bum (sorry about that). Terminal Viscosity is really only an inferior RH finish to A Tear Drop in the Sea. Terminal Twelve has possibly never been climbed - there is an awesome line there if you fancy it. I have updated the logbooks accordingly.
In case anyone is planning a climb in the Great Cave before the official bird ban; we went to climb Goddess of Gloom today but lots of Guillemots have started to nest already. So wise to make different plans.
https://vimeo.com/52489663 Our ascent of Moonraker.
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Thomas Hardy wrote the tragic novel The Mayor of Casterbrige (1886), setting it in the fictional town Casterbridge which was based on his childhood town Dorchester. Hardy's novel explores the life of a rural hay-trusser, Michael Henchard and his rise and fall in Casterbridge. It was set in 1846, before the Corn Laws, when England was experiencing scientific and technical advancement and new ways of working. In addition, social values were also changing. Hardy is well known for his very pictorial descriptions and was a writer in the realist/naturalist tradition and used real places in Dorchester to describe rural Casterbrige. The functions of Hardy's descriptive language creates a vivid picture; illustrates and reflects the personality of the characters concerned; creates a strong sense of atmosphere often using pathetic fallacy and gives a sense of social history. Throughout the novel, Hardy describes many exterior settings such as Casterbridge and its surrounding area including Weydon Priors, The Ring and the market-place. Interior settings include Henchard and Lucetta's home and the three public houses, the King's Arms, the Three Mariners and Peter's Finger. What would the modern reader think about the vivid descriptions Hardy creates that contribute greatly to the novel? ...read more.
"It looked Roman, bespoke the art of Rome, concealed dead men of Rome." This location is filled with a lot of secrecy, privacy and where some of the key events in the novel take place, when Henchard is reunited with Susan after their long absence and when he meets Lucetta returning from Jersey. The atmosphere of The Ring has a negative impact as this is where violent fights and deaths would take place in Roman times as it used to be used by the gladiators and for public executions. This contributes to the sense of inevitable doom and eventual death of Henchard. As well as the exterior settings that Hardy intensely describes throughout the novel he also includes a range of interior settings such as Lucetta's home and the three inns Hardy uses to show class divisions within society in Victorian England. The King's Arms, the gathering place for higher class citizens play an important setting. At the beginning of the novel we meet the wealthy Henchard here, when Susan and Elizabeth-Jane return to find him. "The interior of the hotel dining room was spread out before her, with its tables, and glass, and plate, and inmates." ...read more.
The description builds a personality for one of the main characters and illustrates what women were expected to be like in former years. Hardy shows how Casterbridge is being influenced by outside factors. The young reader may consider The Mayor of Casterbridge to be a long winded novel with endless amounts of description that could be considered to be too excessive. Nevertheless the descriptions contribute to the novel by adding a vivid picture, exemplifying character's personalities, creating a strong sense of atmosphere and using pathetic fallacy and giving a sense of social history. Hardy creates a genuine and believable world for the characters by setting it in an existing town that he could relate it to. The descriptions in the novel are vital and without it, The Mayor of Casterbridge would be no different to other novels. Hardy is able to create bonds with the reader and the characters in the book by using description to demonstrate their personality, for example Lucetta's house and use different settings for different classes of people - the three public houses. The exterior settings give the novel an overview of the time period for example the detailed descriptions of Casterbridge, which makes the reader's ability to associate with the novel stronger. ?? ?? ?? ?? What contribution is made to The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Hardy's description of the settings in which the actions take place? Jagjoth Vasir ...read more.
This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our GCSE The Mayor of Casterbridge section.
The first was Susan who had aged significantly and now was an old women of about 40 whose "skin had undergone textural change" demonstrating the number of years that had passed. The other was Elizabeth-Jane who was now of a similar age to Susan when she'd last walked along the road.
However, when Farfrae was at Henchard's store, he lightly mentioned what has and will trouble Henchard for much longer: "Should a man turrun against fate?" As Henchard's dealings with Farfrae grew stronger and more frequent, Henchard began to unmask his true feelings and unlock stories of the past.
Henchard seems more interested in Elizabeth Jane having her surname changed "You'll take my surname now - hey" than the welfare of his daughter, again showing a very self-centered side of Henchard. After Henchard opens the letter from Susan he realises that he has been too hasty but keeps the letter safe and decides not to tell Elizabeth Jane.
However, towards the end, he is crippled by the events that took place in the furmity-woman's tent; he sets out to punish himself again and again. He ends up losing his daughter, EJ for his deceitful lies and saying that Newson dies.
Other faults in Henchard's temperament include his egotism, a touch of vindictiveness, jealousy, and low self-esteem at times. His arrogance, along with his bad temper, is displayed at times; Abel Whittle, for example, who is consistently late for work is made to go to work wearing nothing but his underwear.


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Q: Sql server reporting service not showing report data I created a report project in sql server business intelligence developement studio and deployed successfully with sql reporting service url(Webservice url).It work fine but when i browsing my  report application through reporting service url and result like this.
This  first image  report service deployed successfully

when i click report just loading but no report
data

A: Have you tried using IE?
I think you need Javascript enabled and maybe something else to make SSRS Report Manager work with Chrome.
Apparently other browsers have compatibility issues:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511.aspx
There is also IE Tab for Chrome to fix some issues:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ie-tab/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd?hl=en-US

A: If you want a quick fix for this problem, and if you are browsing using Chrome, you can add the IE Tab in the settings, extensions for chrome and it will render the report as it loads a version of IE and the Report Server will allow the report data to load.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that after President Trump tweeted an inflammatory video against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Friday, she ordered Capitol Police to conduct "a security assessment to safeguard" Omar, her family, and staff. In the edited video, Omar is superimposed over scenes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; Trump added the caption, "We will never forget." In a speech last month, Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, said the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded "because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." Conservatives have since jumped on the remarks, accusing Omar of trivializing the attacks.


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Q: How do I properly call netapi32!NetSessionEnum()? I'v been trying to play with netapi32.dll, but I'm having mixed results.
The following works as expected
type SERVER_INFO_101 struct {
      PlatformID   uint32
      Name         *uint16
      VersionMajor uint32
      VersionMinor uint32
      Type         uint32
      Comment      *uint16
}

func NetServerGetInfo() {
      info := &SERVER_INFO_101{}
      ret, _, err := procNetServerGetInfo.Call(0, 101, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&info)))
      if ret != 0 {
              log.Fatal(err)
      }
      spew.Dump(info)
}

However, I'm not sure why info has to have & inside the unsafe.Pointer also.
The following does not work, and I can't seem to find out why. No error codes get thrown. Neither the struct or variables gets filled out.
type SESSION_INFO_10 struct {
      Cname    *uint16
      Username *uint16
      Time     uint32
      IdleTime uint32
}

func NetSessionEnum() {
      info := &SESSION_INFO_10{}
      var prefmaxlen int32 = -1
      var entriesread uint32
      var totalentries uint32
      var resumehandle uint32
      x, y, z := procNetSessionEnum.Call(0, 0, 0, 10, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(info)), uintptr(prefmaxlen), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&entriesread)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&totalentries)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&resumehandle)))
      fmt.Println(x, y, z)
      fmt.Println(entriesread, totalentries)
      spew.Dump(info)
}

A: …because you're not supposed to pass a pointer to your memory block there—to cite the manual:

This buffer is allocated by the system and must be freed using the NetApiBufferFree function.

The type of that pointer is misleading but you're supposed to pass a pointer to a pointer there, something like this:
func NetSessionEnum() {
      var pinfo *SESSION_INFO_10
      var prefmaxlen int32 = -1
      var entriesread uint32
      var totalentries uint32
      var resumehandle uint32
      x, y, z := procNetSessionEnum.Call(0, 0, 0, 10,
          uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&pinfo)), uintptr(prefmaxlen),
          uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&entriesread)),
          uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&totalentries)),
          uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&resumehandle)))
      fmt.Println(x, y, z)
      fmt.Println(entriesread, totalentries)
      spew.Dump(info)
}

// Now use `*pinfo.Cname` etc
// Don't forget to later call `NetApiBufferFree()` on that pointer.

What happens here:

*

*The variable pinfo is a pointer to a value of type SESSION_INFO_10.

*You take the address of the memory block occupied by the value kept in that variable (which is a pointer) and pass it to NetSessionEnum().

*That function allocates the buffer by itself and writes its address to the memory block pointed to by the address you have passed to the function.
Since you've passed an address of the pinfo variable, the address of the buffer ends up being written into the variable pinfo.

*You then use that address stored in pinfo to access the memory allocated by NetSessionEnum().
That's called "double indirection" and is used in quite many places of Win32 API. Please read the manual page and study the code example it includes.
Update: as it turned out, there were more problems with the original code so I've took time to provide full solution—here is the gist (tested with Go 1.6 amd64 and i386 on Windows XP 32-bit, Windows 2003 R2 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit).


Festival of New German Theater at the Stadttheater Aachen.
roles to the fiery Carmen, and Musetta from La Boheme.
and Requiem, all at Carnegie Hall. She has sung with Music of the Baroque, Princeton Pro Musica, the South Bend Symphony, the Bach Society of St.
Mahler to Verdi, and many more.
an active performer in both concerts and recitals.


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Lake Garda is located in northern Italy and is shared by three regions: Lombardy, Veneto, and Trentino-Alto Adige. It is one of the best known tourist attractions in the country and comprises many villages as well as excellent hotels, charming restaurants, fascinating monuments and historical buildings. Here are a few suggestions for dining on Lake Garda.
This small shop in Peschiera specializes in sandwiches and panini stuffed with various cheeses, vegetables, and sliced cold meat, such as ham, prosciutto, mortadella, and salami. It offers a perfect lunch or a quick dinner for visitors and undoubtedly showcases some essential characteristics of food in Italy. It perfectly summarizes what an Italian bottega is like: a little shop where people can go shopping or directly eat the fresh food that is on offer. Customers are served at a counter which is full of enticing foodstuffs and are generally seated in the midst of shelves displaying typical products for sale. The atmosphere is genuine, cozy, and simple.
This restaurant offers five different fixed menus; "Vegan Meetings", "Vivace", "Amarone", "Ef the Fusion", and "A Gem", all including different courses and high-quality, gourmet foods. Alternatively, you could opt for one of the four surprise tasting menus, which take patrons on a five or seven course culinary journey and include a bottle of exquisite wine. This restaurant specializes in seafood, both local and imported, but it does not neglect meat choices, as the carnivorous Amarone menu demonstrates. This includes home-made pasta filled with duck, small plum, and Valpolicella wine reduction, as well as rack of lamb with creamy green peppers, potatoes, and figs. And if you're looking for something a little more exotic, Ef the Fusion will surely do the trick; a menu paying homage to Oriental cuisine.
Situated on the shoreline of the wonderful Lake Garda, this restaurant has been a household name in Desenzano for decades. Its menu embraces many different dishes, ranging from pasta to fish and meat, whilst keeping the quality of food and ingredients extremely high. There are also set menus on offer for customers up for a special treat. This makes it the perfect choice for an extravagant evening with loved ones, not to mention a fine way to see the waters of the lake up-close-and-personal. Oh, and their Michelin star speaks volumes too!
This restaurant specializes in bruschetta (plural: bruschette), a flat-bread that is covered with various ingredients, herbs and extras. Whether you're looking to sate your appetite for Italian food or just want to swing by during a leisurely stroll on the lakeside, this bruschetteria will offer hand-picked combinations which do well to showcase Mediterranean cuisine at its best. The owners are more than happy to help customers with the menu and can recommend combinations that are best suited to their individual palates. A series of organic beverages and hand-crafted beers are also on the menu.
This cozy little place on the lake is owned by Livio and Rosaria, a couple who have spent their lives in the region. They are experts when it comes to the fish of the lake and how to cook them properly. There is no set menu, because everything that is served here depends on what's been caught that morning. This guarantees the freshness and authenticity of the dishes on offer throughout the year. They have also published several volumes on the cuisine of Lake Garda – so come expecting the best!
This restaurant is part of the Color Hotel in Bardolino. In 2013 it was included in the Michelin Guide, and it offers a 'design cuisine' aiming to satisfy both the eye and the mouth. All the dishes served here are created with color or other aesthetic features in mind, binding the ingredients, flavors and appearance of each plate together harmoniously. Alongside classics such as carbonara, you can enjoy a red-dominated plate of fusilloni with red mullet, red peppers and olives, while the menu also comprises a series of gluten-free options which appeal with their creative additions and ingredients.
A restaurant which has been owned by the same family since 1977, Al Cardellino is both elegant and rustic and features a wonderful garden where customers will find the perfect atmosphere for candle-lit dinners. Amongst the specialities are black truffles, home-made pasta, an extensive selection of quality wines, fresh-water fish with sauce and polenta, and peaches and cherries in syrup. The restaurant also offers a delightful view of Lake Garda as well as hospitality for short and long stays alike.
This restaurant is part of a bigger building which functions as a B&B. It offers pizza 'al tagliere': larger pizzas served on a round wooden chopping board. The ingredients are all locally sourced and the choice is diverse, enabling customers to have a pizza with toppings to fit their tastes perfectly. These pizzas are best enjoyed when accompanied by one of the regional wines offered by the drinks menu, while gluten-free pizza dough can be requested at ordering.
This restaurant is run by the Michelin-starred Executive Chef Giuseppe Sestito and is part of Lido Palace, a refined and long-established hotel in Riva del Garda. It serves both sea and lake fish dishes accompanied by a selection of delightful wines. It features a terrace where customers are invited to have candle-lit dinners whilst admiring the beautiful garden of the hotel and the swimming pool below. The cuisine is traditional, with a particular focus on local food and wine whilst at the same time endeavoring to be creative and worldly at every turn.
This bar features a very trendy and atypical interior and offers a series of pre-dinner drinks, such as different sorts of Spritz – a classic Italian mix of Prosecco and soda. Expect a complementary dish of nibbles with every tipple, along with an extensive counter buffet for something more substantial. There is also live music every night to spice up the evenings in Ritmo DVino just a little bit more!


A muzzle is an essential accessory for Belgian Shepherd Tervuren. It is needed when you're going to visit a vet, to wean the dog away from eating or picking up from the ground, in some cases during walking (when it is forbidden to walk the dog without the muzzle) and for training, or course. Dogs don't like to be muzzled, that is why we designed such a model that will give maximum freedom and no discomfort to your canine! Be sure, your Tervuren will be able to open its mouth, to pant, to lick the nose, to breathe freely, to bark and even drink with this wire cage dog muzzle! Your pet won't hate wearing this muzzle, be sure!
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The possibilities of discriminating between the Venetian D.O.C. wines Soave Classico (S), Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (P), and Verduzzo del Piave (V) are tested on the basis of the following analysis determinations: sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, pH, total acidity, phosphorus, ash content, and alkalinity of the ashes. Comparisons are drawn by the statistical method of linear discriminant analysis. Optimal discriminant functions and the threshold values are reported for the comparisons of S-P, S-V, and P-V; the probabilities of classification errors are also estimated. For the comparisons of S-P and S-V a considerable discriminating power (error 1.4% and 3.7%, respectively) is obtained by combining the parameters pH, ash content, and alkalinity of the ashes. The comparison of P-V is tentatively achieved by combining the parameters sodium, potassium, and chloride; however, the result has shown that the discriminating test is not satisfactory.


I really don't know where the character of Crystal Steele came from. Her name is a dichotomy, pretty and feminine, yet hard and aggressive at the same time. She was great fun to create. I had done a sketch in 1982, based loosely on the character of Rachel, played by Sean Young in the movie "Blade Runner", and from one of the scenes in the movie when Rachel is introduced this "retro" cybercop emerged. I found a very accurate Poser prop of the standard-issue Blade Runner weapon on the Internet for her to hold, and she developed from there.
Being the cool, sophisticated character that she is she had to have some sort of adventure, and her foil/partner was my "anti-Indiana Jones" character, Manfred von Högenbüsem loosely based on a mixture of Arthur Suydam's comic character Cholly from "The Adventures of Cholly and Flytrap" and the movie "Rocketeer".


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A look at rain gardens
June 14, 2009 · Filed under Cindy's posts	· Tagged Cedar Rapids, Coralville, dwarf arctic blue willow, flag iris, flood, flooding, flowers, Forever Green, gardens, good for, images, Iowa, landscaping, list, Lucy Hershberger, North Liberty, photos, plants, rain garden
Gazette photographer Brian Ray takes photos of Lucy Hershberger in the rain garden at Forever Green Garden Center near North Liberty (photo, Cindy Hadish)
Our flood anniversary tribute continues with a look at rain gardens. Several people I interviewed for the article in the Sunday, June 14, 2009, Gazette said while rain gardens would not have prevented last year's devastating floods in Iowa, they could have helped. Lucy Hershberger, co-owner of Forever Green Landscaping & Garden Center in Coralville showed me the well-kept rain garden in front of their site on Forevergreen Road, near North Liberty. Yellow and blue flag iris, native grasses, coneflower, liatris and dwarf arctic blue willow were planted when the rain garden was installed in September. It's obvious that Hershberger's enthusiasm goes beyond trying to sell customers on a new fad. She has conducted free seminars on rain gardens for people to learn more and to better take care of their little corner of the environment. Hershberger remembers the interest in rain gardens and rain barrels in the early 1990s, at that time because of costs associated with watering. "Now it's because of the awareness of stormwater management," she said. "It's not cost-driven."
The following list of plants is from Iowa's Rain Garden Design and Installation Manual Native Plant Favorites for Soils with Good Percolation Rates:
Common Name Height Comments
Blue grama 1-2 ft makes a good border
Bottle gentian 1 ft novel purple flowers
Butterfly milkweed 1-4 ft emerges late spring; no milky sap
Columbine 1-2 ft orange flower stalk may add 1 ft
Culver's root 3-6 ft can get tall; for moderatley moist soils
Fox sedge 1-3 ft may not tolerate drought
Golden alexander 1-3 ft yellow dill-like flower, mod moist soils
Little bluestem 2 ft nice rusty color all winter
Mountain mint 1-3 ft for moist soils
Nodding onion 1-2 ft for moderately moist soils
Pale purple coneflower 4 ft most overused native; only in S. Iowa
Prairie blazing star 2-5 ft for moist soils
Prairie smoke 1 ft makes a good border
Sideoats grama 2-3 ft red anthers; not as tidy as little bluestem
Silky aster 1-2 ft loved by rabbits
Websites with native plant lists for rain gardens:
• http://prrcd.org/inl/recommended_plants.htm
• http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/runoff/rg/plants/PlantListing.html
2009 Farmers Market list
May 1, 2009 · Filed under Farmers Markets	· Tagged Allamakee, Amana, Belle Plaine, casino, cedar, Cedar Rapids, Central City, Coralville, downtown, Dyersville, Eighth Avenue, farmers market, fruits, Greene Square Park, Guttenberg, Harpers Ferry, Hiawatha, Iowa, Iowa City, Kalona, Marion, Mechanicsville, Mount Vernon, Noelridge Park, produce, Riverside, seasonal, sell, Shellsburg, Springville, Sycamore Mall, Toledo, Traer, Urbana, vegetables, Vinton, Washington, Williamsburg, Winneshiek, Youngville Cafe
Following are some of the seasonal farmers markets that operate in Eastern Iowa in 2009. If you have updates to this list, add a comment below, or send an email to: cindy.hadish@gazcomm.com
For more information, see the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship Web site at: www.iowaagriculture.gov/iowaProducts.asp
Allamakee County
Allamakee Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, June 1 through Oct. 5, Allamakee County Fairgrounds, Waukon, contact Teresa Wiemerslage, (563) 568-6345.
Harpers Ferry, 5 to 7 p.m. Fridays, June 5 to Oct. 2, at Bluffview Park, contact Connie Benedict, (563) 586-2297.
Belle Plaine Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m. Fridays; May 29 through Sept. 25, 13th Street and Sixth Avenue, west of the Pizza Hut, contact Becky Poduska, (641) 489-2107.
Urbana Farmers Market, 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, May 23 through Oct. 31, Legion Pavilion on Wood Street, contact Eileen Schmidt, (319) 443-5620.
Shellsburg Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, May 13 through October 14, city park on Sells Street, contact Joyce Pence, (319) 389-8714.
Vinton Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, June 4 through Sept. 24, BCHS Railroad Depot, 612 Second Ave., contact Duane Randall, (319) 472-4164.
Youngville Cafe Farmers Market, 3:30 to 6 p.m. Fridays, May 29 through Oct 16, junction of highways 30 and 218, contact Richard Grovert, (319) 223-5465.
Cedar County Farmers Market, 7:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, May 16 through Oct. 3, south side of the county courthouse in Tipton, contact Yvonne Gregory, (563) 946-3551, or Evelyn Walshire (563) 432-6983.
Mechanicsville Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, May 26 through Sept. 29, on Main Street across from the fire station, contact Linda Coppess, (563) 432-7756, or Evelyn Walshire, (563) 432-6983.
Guttenberg Farmers Market, 8 to 11:30 a.m., Saturdays, May 30 through Sept. 26, 400 S. block of the park in downtown Guttenberg, contact Tara Dykhuizen, (563) 252-2323.
Dubuque County
Dyersville Farmers Market, 2:30 to 6 p.m., Thursdays, May 21 through Oct. 8, Commercial Club Park, contact Karla Thompson, (563) 875-2311.
Amana Farmers Market, 4-8 p.m. Fridays, May 29 through Sept. 4, in midtown Amana. Contact Amana Farmers Market, (319) 551-4464.
Williamsburg Farmers Market, 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, May 8 through early October, at the northeast corner of the downtown park, contact Elaine Wardenburg, (319) 668-1288.
Coralville Farmers Market, 5 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, May 4 through Oct. 1, in the parking lot at the Coralville Community Aquatic Center, 1513 Seventh Street, contact Matt Hibbard, (319) 248-1750.
Iowa City Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:30 to noon Saturdays, May 2 through Oct. 31, on lower level of Chauncey Swan parking ramp between Washington and College streets, contact Tammy Neumann, (319) 356-5110.
Sycamore Mall Farmers Market, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, May 5 through Oct 27, in the parking lot at the theater end (west end) of the mall, 1600 Sycamore St., Iowa City, contact Candy Norris, (319) 338-6111.
Noelridge Farmers Market in Cedar Rapids, 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, May 1 through Oct. 23, corner of Collins Road and Council Street NE, contact Teresa White, (319) 286-5699.
City parking lot at Eighth Avenue and Second Street SE in Cedar Rapids, 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays, (except during the Downtown Markets) and 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays, May 2 through Oct. 24. New Greene Square Park market will be 4-6 p.m. Thursdays from June 11 through Aug. 27, contact Teresa White, (319) 286-5699.
Downtown Farmers Market in Cedar Rapids, 7:30 a.m. to noon on June 6 and 20; July 18; Aug. 1 and 15; Sept. 5 and Oct. 3, contact Jill Wilkins, (319) 398-0449.
Central City Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, May 21 through Sept. 24, Courtyard Park on South Fifth Street, contact Central City Mainstreet office, (319) 438-1761.
Hiawatha Farmers Market, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays, April 19 through Oct. 25, in the Guthridge Park parking lot at 10th Avenue, contact Angie Cole, (319) 393-1515.
Marion Farmers Market, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays; May 2 through Sept. 26, at the East End Shopping Center, 3375 Seventh Ave., contact Pat Carlson, (319) 377-4846, e-mail pcarlson@cityofmarion.org
Mount Vernon Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, May 7 through Oct. 8, at Mount Vernon Visitors Center, 311 First St. W, contact David or Mickey Miller, (319) 310-6399.
Springville Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, June 2 through Aug. 25, at Cox Lake Pavilion, contact Lena Gilbert, (319) 854-7097.
Tama County
Toledo Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m., Fridays, May 1 through Oct. 30, on the east side of the courthouse square, contact Dawn Kupka, (641) 691-9710.
Traer Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesdays, May 6 through Oct. 28, at the junction of highways 8 and 63 in Traer, contact Marlus Svoboda, (319) 479-2279.
Kalona Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays, April 25 through mid-October, corner of C Avenue and Fifth Street, Kalona; Laurie Coffman, (319) 656-5252.
Riverside Casino Farmers Market, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 28; July 26, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, parking lot of Riverside Casino & Golf Resort; contact Jessica Athen, (319) 648-1234, extension 1975.
Washington Farmers Market, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, May 14 through Oct. 29, at Downtown Central Park at Washington Street and Iowa Avenue; contact Bob Shepherd, (319) 653-4888.
Winneshiek County
Winneshiek Farmers Market, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 to 11 a.m. Saturdays; May 2 through Oct. 31 (no market July 25); at the Municipal parking lot at Heivly Street and Claiborne Drive in Decorah; contact Steve McCarger (563) 382-2451.
Iowa City Home Show going green, too
February 20, 2009 · Filed under Gardening events	· Tagged builder's, building, Coralville, designer, environmental, geothermal, green, home, Iowa City, Kevin Monson, Leigh Bradford, Mark Vitosh, Marriott, Mary Crooks, Mary Lou Gray, Ralph Palmer, Robb Rood, seminars, show
Robb Rood posted a comment in response to "CR Home Show going green" (Feb. 17) to note that the Iowa City Home & Builder's Show is going green, as well. Because not everyone looks at the comments, here is the info that Robb provided about that show, coming the weekend of Friday, Feb. 27, to Sunday, March 1, 2009.
The Iowa City Home & Builder's Show being held at the Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center is also going "Green" this year.
The show is Feb. 27-March 1 and will include "green" building educational seminars, Designer Showcase Rooms with Meta Home designers discussing incorporating "green" alternatives in interior design projects, a visit from Alliant Energy's Powerhouse TV program hosts Pete Seyfer and Megan Turner and Alliant Energy's Geo-1 traveling exhibit about geothermal heating and cooling technology.
Anyone interested can find more info. in the special section inserting in the Gazette on Sun., Feb. 22 and Wed., Feb. 25 or by logging on to http://www.iowacityhomes.com.
Educational Seminars
Sat, Feb. 28
10 am – 12 pm "Building a Sustainable Iowa"
by Marc Richmond, President of Practica Consulting
1 pm "15 Ways to Green Your Home"
by Kevin Monson, Neumann Monson Architects
2 pm "What's Green in Interior Design?"
by Leigh Bradford, Meta Home
3 pm "Saving Money and Energy with Shade Trees"
by Mark Vitosh, District Forester, Iowa Department of Natural Resources
4 pm "Continuous Garden with Color"
by Mary Lou Gay- Master Gardener
10:15 am "Natural Landscaping – design, low maintenance, environmentally friendly gardens"
by Mary Crooks, Master Gardener
11:15 am "Energy efficiency for the homeowner" (energy audits, rebates through residential program and other resources)
by Alan Dornink, Energy Auditor, MidAmerican Energy Co.
12:15 pm "Green Building – What's new"
by Bob Lackman, Beisser Lumber Company
1:15 pm "Doing it Right – Saving Money and Energy" (LED, Energy Star, Compact Fluorescents)
by Ralph Palmer, The Ar-Jay Center
2:15 pm "Rain Gardens – Living and Functional Landscapes"
by Kelly Swenson, Engineering Inspector, City of Coralville
Hosta lovers alert!
September 28, 2008 · Filed under Gardening events	· Tagged American Hosta Society, Bob Solberg, Coralville, Corkscrew, Ginsu Knife, Guacamole, Harshbarger, hosta, hosta society, hostas, image, Iowa, Judi Pohorsky, Orange Marmalade
Hosta - Guacamole
Hosta lovers won't want to miss a talk by Bob Solberg on Saturday, Oct. 4 at the Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St., sponsored by the Harshbarger Hosta Society.
Bob has introduced more than 50 hostas to date and has plans to add five or so to that number each year. His speech, "Hostas the past 10 years," will be 1-4 p.m.
'Guacamole', introduced in 1994 and Hosta of the Year in 2002 is probably his best known cultivar and is probably in your garden.
'Orange Marmalade' PP#16,742 is his first patented hosta and destined for a wide distribution. 'Corkscrew', 'Ginsu Knife,' 'Baby Blue Eyes,' 'Coconut Custard,' 'Cracker Crumbs,' 'Barbara May' and 'One Man's Treasure' are some of his other introductions.
Bob has been very active in the American Hosta Society, serving as editor of the Hosta Journal, the principle publication of the American Hosta Society, (1988-1990) and Vice-President for the Genus Hosta,
(1998-2001). He was the recipient of the 2003 Alex J. Summers Distinguished Merit Award.
Bob is a nationally known lecturer on the subject of hostas and author of many articles on hostas. He has edited the "Green Hill Gossip" for the past 13 years and the "Gossip Jr.", a twice yearly subscription newsletter since 2004. When the hostas are up and glowing in the garden you may find him on the road, bringing hostas and hosta stories to a town near you.
For questions, contact Judi Pohorsky at (319) 396-6116.
September 2, 2008 · Filed under Gardening events	· Tagged Coralville, flooding, Forever Green, Iowa, Lucy Hershberger, plants, pollution, rain gardens, rainfall, rivers, runoff, streams
Presented by: Lucy Hershberger Forever Green Inc.
Sat. September 6th 10 am
Rain gardens are gardens designed with a purpose: they reduce runoff into our rivers and streams, which reduces pollution and flooding. Participants will learn what a rain garden is, how it works, and how to determine the location, size and best plants to use in their rain garden.
The near record rainfalls we had this year demonstrated the need to manage surface runoff help reduce flash flooding and pollution in our rivers and streams. Rainfall used to be absorbed into the ground as it fell. Now roads, parking areas and buildings channel water and the pollutants it carries into storm sewers that drain directly into streams and rivers. Rain gardens can absorb most rainfalls and reduce these problems while enhancing the appearance of your yard.
Lucy Hershberger, Forever Green Inc., will show you how you can plant a rain garden that will help reduce the runoff problem. This hands-on seminar will offer participants an opportunity to see a rain garden under construction, learn what a rain garden is, how it works, and how to determine the location, size and best plants to use in their rain garden.
Location: Forever Green Garden Center
125 Forevergreen Rd. Coralville, Iowa
Lucy Hershberger Forever Green Inc.
319-626-6770 or e-mail forevergreen@southslope.net
This event is free to the public.
www.forevergreengrows.com
Farmers Market list
April 26, 2008 · Filed under Farmers Markets	· Tagged agriculture, Allamakee, Amana, Belle Plaine, cedar, Cedar Rapids, Central City, Coralville, Farmers Markets, Harpers Ferry, Hiawatha, homegrown, Iowa, Iowa City, Marion, Mechanicsville, Mount Vernon, noelridge, produce, Springville, Sycamore, Toledo, Traer, Urbana, Washington, Williamsburg, Winneshiek, Youngville
(Note: this list is from 2008. Look for the 2009 list on this blog – Cindy)
Following are a sampling of farmers markets that operate in Eastern Iowa. A list of markets across the state is available at the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship Web site at:
http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/iowaProducts.asp
Allamakee Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, June 2 through Oct. 6, Allamakee County Fairgrounds, Waukon, contact Teresa Wiemerslage, (563) 568-6345.
Belle Plaine Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m. Fridays; June 6 through Sept. 26, 13th Street and Seventh Avenue, west of the Pizza Hut, contact Becky Poduska, (641) 489-2107.
Urbana Farmers Market, 9 to 11 a.m., Saturdays, May 24 through Oct. 25, Legion Pavilion on Wood Street, contact Eileen Schmidt (319) 443-5620.
Vinton Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, through Sept. 25; BCHS Railroad Depot, 612 Second Ave., contact Duane Randall at (319) 472-4164.
Youngville Cafe Farmers Market, 3:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 30 through Oct 17; junction of highways 30 and 218, contact Richard Grovert at (319) 223-5465.
Cedar County Farmers Market, 7:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, May 17 through Oct. 4 or 11, south side of the county courthouse in Tipton, contact Yvonne Gregory, (563) 946-3551, or Evelyn Walshire (563) 432-6983.
Mechanicsville Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, May 27 through Sept. 30, on Main Street across from the fire station, contact Linda, (563) 432-7756, or Evelyn Walshire, (563) 432-6983.
Amana Farmers Market, 4-8 p.m. Fridays, May 23 through August 29, in midtown Amana. Contact Kristie Wetjen (319) 622-7624.
Williamsburg Farmers Market, 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, May 9 through October, at the northeast corner of the downtown park, contact Elaine Wardenburg, (319) 668-1288.
Coralville Farmers Market, 5 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, May 5 through Oct. 2, in the parking lot at the Coralville Community Aquatic Center, 1513 Seventh Street, contact Matt Hibbard at (319) 248-1750.
Iowa City Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays, May 3 through Oct. 29, on lower level of Chauncey Swan parking ramp between Washington and College streets, contact Tammy Neumann at (319) 356-5110.
Sycamore Mall Farmers Market, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, May 6 through Oct 28, in the parking lot at the theater end (west end) of the mall, 1600 Sycamore St., Iowa City, contact Candy Norris at (319) 338-6111.
North Dodge Ace Hardware — no longer has a farmers market.
Noelridge Farmers Market in Cedar Rapids, 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, May 2 through Oct. 24, corner of Collins Road and Council Street NE, contact Teresa White at (319) 286-5731.
City parking lot at Eighth Avenue and Second Street SE in Cedar Rapids – 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays except during the Downtown Markets; other days moved to Noelridge site for this season – 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; May 1 through Oct. 25, contact Teresa White at (319) 286-5731. Closed June 7 and 21, July 5, Aug. 2 and 16, Sept. 6 and Oct. 4 in deference to downtown market.
Downtown Farmers Market in Cedar Rapids – moved to the area of Greene Square Park for Aug. 2 and subsequent markets due to downtown flooding – 7:30 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, June 7, June 21, July 5, August 2, August 16, September 6 and October 4, on Second Avenue between Third Street SE and First Street SW and on First and Second streets between First Avenue and Third Avenue SE, contact Jill Wilkins at (319) 398-0449.
Central City Farmers Market, 4-6 p.m. Thursdays, June 5 through Sept. 11, at Courtyard Park on East Elm Street, contact Doris Nordstrom, (319) 361-6621.
Hiawatha Farmers Market, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays in the Guthridge Park parking lot at 10th Avenue, April 20 through Oct. 26, contact Amy Holecek, (319) 393-1515.
Marion Farmers Market, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays; May 3 through Sept. 27, at the East End Shopping Center, 3375 Seventh Ave., contact Pat Carlson at (319) 377-4846, e-mail pcarlson@cityofmarion.org
Mount Vernon Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, May 8 through Oct. 9, at Mount Vernon Visitors Center, 311 First St. W, contact David Miller, (319) 895-0177.
Springville Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, June 3 through Aug. 26, at Cox Lake Pavilion, contact market manager Lena Gilbert, (319) 854-7097 or Springville Economic Development Corp., (319) 854-7016.
Toledo Farmers Market, 5 to 7 p.m., Fridays, May 2 through Oct. 31, held on the east side of the court house square, contact Dawn Kupka, (641) 484-2177.
Traer Farmers Market, 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesdays, May 7 through Oct. 29, at the junction of highways 8 and 63 in Traer, contact Marlus Svoboda at (319) 479-2279.
Washington Farmers Market, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, May 8 through Oct. 23, at Downtown Central Park at Washington Street and Iowa Avenue; contact Bob Shepherd at (319) 653-4888.
Winneshiek Farmers Market, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 to 11 a.m. Saturdays; May 3 through Oct. 29; at the Municipal parking lot at Heivly Street and Claiborne Drive in Decorah; contact Cindy Ballard at (563) 382-6385.


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BU Students Face-to-Face with Voting Dilemma
By Hannah Allen
BOSTON–While the buzz from today's presidential elections focuses primarily on issues facing the nation, one traditional, timeless question still faces Boston University students: absentee vs. live voting?
At the university, where approximately 80% of students come from out of state, and many of those count themselves as first-time voters, their choice of voting venue comes down to their judgments about issues, post-graduation plans and the power of their vote in home states where the election may very well be a close call. Many choose based on where they feel most invested, where they feel most knowledgeable about the candidates, or where they plan to live permanently.
For Hannah Walters (CAS'13), a second-time voter and native of Raleigh, North Carolina, voting absentee was a choice she made based on the weight her ballot would carry.
"My choice to vote absentee was 100% because I am from a swing state. If I had been from some other typically blue state, I would have just voted in Massachusetts," says the Environmental Policy and Analysis major who adds that the local issues back home are "still very important to me" and that even though it's difficult she does try to stay informed about political developments in North Carolina.
Alexandra Kramer, a Health Science senior hailing from California, who also voted as an absentee, agreed, commenting that even though her vote would carry as much weight in Massachusetts as in her strongly Democratic home state, she wanted to vote on pressing local issues back home.
Ms. Kramer, a first-time voter in a Presidential Election, says that, "Local issues did play a part, especially on things like education propositions. I think I just know more about the California local issues because I can talk about them with my parents," she says.
For many BU students, however, the decision to register and vote in Massachusetts was an easy one.
One female CAS Biology student, who asked to remain nameless, says that she wasn't registered in her home state of New York, and wasn't even sure of how to register, until a friend offered to register her through an internship assignment she was given. "She told me it was much easier to do it here [in Massachusetts] since I was a first time voter, so that's why [I registered in-state]."
Andonica Camp, a BU freshman studying Graphic Design and Computer Science, came to a similar decision. "I was a little worried about absentee ballots and it was my first time voting, so it seemed like it would be a lot simpler to come here," she says, as she gestures towards 11 Cummington Street, where many of the university's students are registered to vote. "And since it is where I'm going to live [for the next four years] I think the laws will probably affect me more."
Leah Roh, a senior at the College of Communications, who plans to live and work in Boston post-graduation says that, "I chose to register here because, not for any election-type reasons, but because I know that I'm not going to be home for a very, very long time."
Both the Supreme Court and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have ruled that students have the right to establish their voting residency at the place they consider "home," whether that is the last place they lived before arriving at college or their new place of residence at a university.
For many students though, the excitement of being at the polls is enough of a reason to claim Massachusetts registration. Ms. Camp, all smiles after her first time at the booths, says, "Now I get the excitement of Election Day, going in and filling out the ballot [as opposed to absentee]…I was kind of nervous, but I did it!"


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