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The context, meaning and scope of tourism
A Travel has existed since the beginning of time, when primitive man set out, often traversing great distances in search of game, which provided the food and clothing necessary for his survival. Throughout the course of history, people have travelled for purposes of trade, religious conviction, economic gain, war, migration and other equally compelling motivations. In the Roman era, wealthy aristocrats and high government officials also travelled for pleasure. Seaside resorts located at Pompeii and Herculaneum afforded citizens the opportunity to escape to their vacation villas in order to avoid the summer heat of Rome. Travel, except during the Dark Ages, has continued to grow and, throughout recorded history, has played a vital role in the development of civilisations and their economies.
B Tourism in the mass form as we know it today is a distinctly twentieth-century phenomenon. Historians suggest that the advent of mass tourism began in England during the industrial revolution with the rise of the middle class and the availability of relatively inexpensive transportation. The creation of the commercial airline industry following the Second World War and the subsequent development of the jet aircraft in the 1950s signalled the rapid growth and expansion of international travel. This growth led to the development of a major new industry: tourism. In turn, international tourism became the concern of a number of world governments since it not only provided new employment opportunities but also produced a means of earning foreign exchange.
C Tourism today has grown significantly in both economic and social importance. In most industrialised countries over the past few years the fastest growth has been seen in the area of services. One of the largest segments of the service industry, although largely unrecognised as an entity in some of these countries, is travel and tourism. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (1992), 'Travel and tourism is the largest industry in the world on virtually any economic measure including value-added capital investment, employment and tax contributions'. In 1992, the industry's gross output was estimated to be $3.5 trillion, over 12 per cent of all consumer spending. The travel and tourism industry is the world's largest employer with almost 130 million jobs, or almost 7 per cent of all employees. This industry is the world's leading industrial contributor, producing over 6 per cent of the world's gross national product and accounting for capital investment in excess of $422 billion in direct, indirect and personal taxes each year. Thus, tourism has a profound impact both on the world economy and, because of the educative effect of travel and the effects on employment, on society itself.
D However, the major problems of the travel and tourism industry that have hidden, or obscured, its economic impact are the diversity and fragmentation of the industry itself. The travel industry includes: hotels, motels and other types of accommodation; restaurants and other food services; transportation services and facilities; amusements, attractions and other leisure facilities; gift shops and a large number of other enterprises. Since many of these businesses also serve local residents, the impact of spending by visitors can easily be overlooked or underestimated. In addition, Meis (1992) points out that the tourism industry involves concepts that have remained amorphous to both analysts and decision makers. Moreover, in all nations this problem has made it difficult for the industry to develop any type of reliable or credible tourism information base in order to estimate the contribution it makes to regional, national and global economies. However, the nature of this very diversity makes travel and tourism ideal vehicles for economic development in a wide variety of countries, regions or communities.
E Once the exclusive province of the wealthy, travel and tourism have become an institutionalised way of life for most of the population. In fact, McIntosh and Goeldner (1990) suggest that tourism has become the largest commodity in international trade for many nations and, for a significant number of other countries, it ranks second or third. For example, tourism is the major source of income in Bermuda, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and most Caribbean countries. In addition, Hawkins and Ritchie, quoting from data published by the American Express Company, suggest that the travel and tourism industry is the number one ranked employer in the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, France, (the former) West Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. However, because of problems of definition, which directly affect statistical measurement, it is not possible with any degree of certainty to provide precise, valid or reliable data about the extent of world-wide tourism participation or its economic impact. In many cases, similar difficulties arise when attempts are made to measure domestic tourism.
Reading passage 1 has five paragraphs A-E. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-E from the list of heading below.
i Economic and social significance of tourism
ii The development of mass tourism
iii Travel for the wealthy
iv Earning foreign exchange through tourism
v Difficulty in recognising the economic effects of tourism
vi The contribution of air travel to tourism
vii The world impact of tourism
viii The history of travel
Example Paragraph A viii
1 Paragraph B
2 Paragraph C
3 Paragraph D
4 Paragraph E
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 5-10 on your answer sheet, write
5 The largest employment figures in the world are found in the travel and tourism industry.
6 Tourism contributes over six per cent of the Australian gross national product.
7 Tourism has a social impact because it promotes recreation.
8 Two main features of the travel and tourism industry make its economic significance difficult to ascertain.
9 Visitor spending is always greater than the spending of residents in tourist areas.
10 It is easy to show statistically how tourism affects individual economies.
Complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.
11 In Greece, tourism is the most important…….
12 The travel and tourism industry in Jamaica is the major……….
13 The problems associated with measuring international tourism are often reflected in the measurement of………
A One of the most captivating natural events of the year in many areas throughout North America is the turning of the leaves in the fall. The colours are magnificent, but the question of exactly why some trees turn yellow or orange, and others red or purple, is something which has long puzzled scientists.
B Summer leaves are green because they are full of chlorophyll, the molecule that captures sunlight and converts that energy into new building materials for the tree. As fall approaches in the northern hemisphere, the amount of solar energy available declines considerably. For many trees – evergreen conifers being an exception – the best strategy is to abandon photosynthesis until the spring. So rather than maintaining the now redundant leaves throughout the winter, the tree saves its precious resources and discards them. But before letting its leaves go, the tree dismantles their chlorophyll molecules and ships their valuable nitrogen back into the twigs. As chlorophyll is depleted, other colours that have been dominated by it throughout the summer begin to be revealed. This unmasking explains the autumn colours of yellow and orange, but not the brilliant reds and purples of trees such as the maple or sumac.
C The source of the red is widely known: it is created by anthocyanins, water-soluble plant pigments reflecting the red to blue range of the visible spectrum. They belong to a class of sugar-based chemical compounds also known as flavonoids. What's puzzling is that anthocyanins are actually newly minted, made in the leaves at the same time as the tree is preparing to drop them. But it is hard to make sense of the manufacture of anthocyanins – why should a tree bother making new chemicals in its leaves when it's already scrambling to withdraw and preserve the ones already there?
D Some theories about anthocyanins have argued that they might act as a chemical defence against attacks by insects or fungi, or that they might attract fruit-eating birds or increase a leaf's tolerance to freezing. However there are problems with each of these theories, including the fact that leaves are red for such a relatively short period that the expense of energy needed to manufacture the anthocyanins would outweigh any anti-fungal or anti-herbivore activity achieved.
E It has also been proposed that trees may produce vivid red colours to convince herbivorous insects that they are healthy and robust and would be easily able to mount chemical defences against infestation. If insects paid attention to such advertisements, they might be prompted to lay their eggs on a duller, and presumably less resistant host. The flaw in this theory lies in the lack of proof to support it. No one has as yet ascertained whether more robust trees sport the brightest leaves, or whether insects make choices according to colour intensity.
F Perhaps the most plausible suggestion as to why leaves would go to the trouble of making anthocyanins when they're busy packing up for the winter is the theory known as the 'light screen' hypothesis. It sounds paradoxical, because the idea behind this hypothesis is that the red pigment is made in autumn leaves to protect chlorophyll, the light-absorbing chemical, from too much light. Why does chlorophyll need protection when it is the natural world's supreme light absorber? Why protect chlorophyll at a time when the tree is breaking it down to salvage as much of it as possible?
G Chlorophyll, although exquisitely evolved to capture the energy of sunlight, can sometimes be overwhelmed by it, especially in situations of drought, low temperatures, or nutrient deficiency. Moreover, the problem of oversensitivity to light is even more acute in the fall, when the leaf is busy preparing for winter by dismantling its internal machinery. The energy absorbed by the chlorophyll molecules of the unstable autumn leaf is not immediately channelled into useful products and processes, as it would be in an intact summer leaf. The weakened fall leaf then becomes vulnerable to the highly destructive effects of the oxygen created by the excited chlorophyll molecules.
H Even if you had never suspected that this is what was going on when leaves turn red, there are clues out there. One is straightforward: on many trees, the leaves that are the reddest are those on the side of the tree which gets most sun. Not only that, but the red is brighter on the upper side of the leaf. It has also been recognised for decades that the best conditions for intense red colours are dry, sunny days and cool nights, conditions that nicely match those that make leaves susceptible to excess light. And finally, trees such as maples usually get much redder the more north you travel in the northern hemisphere. It's colder there, they're more stressed, their chlorophyll is more sensitive and it needs more sunblock.
I What is still not fully understood, however, is why some trees resort to producing red pigments while others don't bother, and simply reveal their orange or yellow hues. Do these trees have other means at their disposal to prevent overexposure to light in autumn? Their story, though not as spectacular to the eye, will surely turn out to be as subtle and as complex.
Reading Passage 2 has nine paragraphs, A-l. Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-l, in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once.
14 a description of the substance responsible for the red colouration of leaves
15 the reason why trees drop their leaves in autumn
16 some evidence to confirm a theory about the purpose of the red leaves
17 an explanation of the function of chlorophyll
18 a suggestion that the red colouration in leaves could serve as a warning signal
Complete the notes below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage.
Why believe the 'light screen' hypothesis?
• The most vividly coloured red leaves are found on the side of the tree facing the (19)…………..
• The (20)…………………..surfaces of leaves contain the most red pigment.
• Red leaves are most abundant when daytime weather conditions are (21)………………and sunny.
• The intensity of the red colour of leaves increases as you go further (22)………………
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? In boxes 23-25 write
23 It is likely that the red pigments help to protect the leaf from freezing temperatures.
24 The 'light screen' hypothesis would initially seem to contradict what is known about chlorophyll.
25 Leaves which turn colours other than red are more likely to be damaged by sunlight.
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
For which of the following questions does the writer offer an explanation?
A why conifers remain green in winter
B how leaves turn orange and yellow in autumn
C how herbivorous insects choose which trees to lay their eggs in
D why anthocyanins are restricted to certain trees
Beyond the blue horizon
An important archaeological discovery on the island of Efate in the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu has revealed traces of an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of today's Polynesians. The site came to light only by chance. An agricultural worker, digging in the grounds of a derelict plantation, scraped open a grave — the first of dozens in a burial ground some 3,000 years old. It is the oldest cemetery ever found in the Pacific islands, and it harbors the remains of an ancient people archaeologists call the Lapita.
They were daring blue-water adventurers who used basic canoes to rove across the ocean. But they were not just explorers. They were also pioneers who carried with them everything they would need to build new lives – their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools. Within the span of several centuries, the Lapita stretched the boundaries of their world from the jungle-clad volcanoes of Papua New Guinea to the loneliest coral outliers of Tonga.
The Lapita left precious few clues about themselves, but Efate expands the volume of data available to researchers dramatically. The remains of 62 individuals have been uncovered so far, and archaeologists were also thrilled to find six complete Lapita pots. Other items included a Lapita burial urn with modeled birds arranged on the rim as though peering down at the human remains sealed inside. 'It's an important discovery,' says Matthew Spriggs, professor of archaeology at the Australian National University and head of the international team digging up the site, for it conclusively identifies the remains at Lapita.
DNA teased from these human remains may help answer one of the most puzzling questions in Pacific anthropology: did all Pacific islanders spring from one source or many? Was there only one outward migration from a single point in Asia, or several from different points? 'This represents the best opportunity we've had yet,' says Spriggs, 'to find out who the Lapita actually were, where they came from, and who their closest descendants are today.'
There is one stubborn question for which archaeology has yet to provide any answers: how did the Lapita accomplish the ancient equivalent of a moon landing, many times over? No-one has found one of their canoes or any rigging, which could reveal how the canoes were sailed. Nor do the oral histories and traditions of later Polynesians offer any insights, for they turn into myths long before they reach as far back in time as the Lapita.
All we can say for certain is that the Lapita had canoes that were capable of ocean voyages, and they had the ability to sail them,' says Geoff Irwin a professor of archaeology at the University of Auckland. Those sailing skills, he says, were developed and passed down over thousands of years by earlier mariners who worked their way through the archipelagoes of the western Pacific, making short crossings to nearby islands. The real adventure didn't begin, however, until their Lapita descendants sailed out of sight of land, with empty horizons on every side. This must have been as difficult for them as landing on the moon is for us today. Certainly it distinguished them from their ancestors, but what gave them the courage to launch out on such risky voyages?
The Lapita's thrust into the Pacific was eastward, against the prevailing trade winds, Irwin notes. Those nagging headwinds, he argues, may have been the key to their success. 'They could sail out for days into the unknown and assess the area, secure in the knowledge that if they didn't find anything, they could turn about and catch a swift ride back on the trade winds. This is what would have made the whole thing work.' Once out there, skilled seafarers would have detected abundant leads to follow to land: seabirds, coconuts and twigs carried out to sea by the tides, and the afternoon pile-up of clouds on the horizon which often indicates an island in the distance.
For returning explorers, successful or not, the geography of their own archipelagoes would have provided a safety net. Without this to go by, overshooting their home ports, getting lost and sailing off into eternity would have been all too easy. Vanuaru, for example, stretches more than 500 miles in a northwest-southeast trend, its scores of intervisible islands forming a backstop for mariners riding the trade winds home.
All this presupposes one essential detail, says Atholl Anderson, professor of prehistory at the Australian National University: the Lapita had mastered the advanced art of sailing against the wind. 'And there's no proof they could do any such thing,' Anderson says, 'There has been this assumption they did, and people have built canoes to re-create those early voyages based on that assumption. But nobody has any idea what their canoes looked like or how they were rigged.'
Rather than give all the credit to human skill, Anderson invokes the winds of chance. El Nino, the same climate disruption that affects the Pacific today, may have helped scatter the Lapita, Anderson suggests. He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicated a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion. By reversing the regular east-to-west flow of the trade winds for weeks at a time, these 'super El Ninos' might have taken the Lapita on long unplanned voyages.
However they did it, the Lapita spread themselves a third of the way across the Pacific, then called it quits for reasons known only to them. Ahead lay the vast emptiness of the central Pacific and perhaps they were too thinly stretched to venture farther. 'They probably never numbered more than a few thousand in total, and in their rapid migration eastward they encountered hundreds of islands – more than 300 in Fiji alone.
Complete the summary using the list of words and phrases, A-J, below.
The Éfaté burial site
A 3,000-year-old burial ground of a seafaring people called the Lapita has been found on an abandoned (27)……………….on the Pacific island of Éfaté. The cemetery, which is a significant (28)……………….., was uncovered accidentally by an agricultural worker.
The Lapita explored and colonized many Pacific islands over several centuries. They took many things with them on their voyages including (29)……………..and tools.
The burial ground increases the amount of information about the Lapita available to scientists. A team of researchers, led by Matthew Spriggs from the Australian National University, are helping with the excavation of the site. Spriggs believes the (30)……………….which was found at the site is very important since it confirms that the (31)……………. found inside are Lapita.
A proof
B plantation
C harbor
D bones
E data
F archaeological discovery
G burial urn
H source
I animals
J maps
32 According to the writer, there are difficulties explaining how the Lapita accomplished their journeys because
A the canoes that have been discovered offer relatively few clues.
B archeologists have shown limited interest in this area of research.
C little information relating to this period can be relied upon for accuracy.
D technological advances have altered the way such achievements are viewed.
33 According to the sixth paragraph, what was extraordinary about the Lapita?
A They sailed beyond the point where land was visible.
B They cultural heritage discouraged the expression of fear.
C They were able to build canoes that withstood ocean voyages.
D Their navigational skills were passed on from one generation to the next.
34 What does 'This' refer to in the seventh paragraph?
A the Lapita's seafaring talent
B the Lapita's ability to detect signs of land
C the Lapita's extensive knowledge of the region
D the Lapita's belief they would be able to return home
35 According to the eighth paragraph, how was the geography of the region significant?
A It played an important role in Lapita culture
B It meant there were relatively few storms at sea
C It provided a navigational aid for the Lapita
D It made a large number of islands habitable
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage 3? In boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet, write
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
36 It is now clear that the Lapita could sail into a prevailing wind.
37 Extreme climate conditions may have played a role in Lapita migration.
38 The Lapita learnt to predict the duration of El Ninos.
39 It remains unclear why the Lapita halted their expansion across the Pacific.
40 It is likely that the majority of Lapita settled on Fiji.
1. ii
2. i
4. vii
11. source of income
12. employer
13. domestic tourism
19. sun(light)
20. upper
21. dry
22. north
28. F


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Did You Know? Almost everyday in July, there's a historical moment in history. Without history, we cannot learn about our past. Without learning about our past and history, we are doom to repeat it.
Significant and Historical Days In July, by date:
1st, 1847 – U.S. postage stamps went on sale for the first time.
1st, 1943 – Taxes begin to be withheld from paychecks.
1st, 1963 – ZIP codes go into use.
1st, 1997 – Richard E. Baker. Richard created the National Postal Worker Day.
2nd, 1881 – President Garfield is shot. His struggle to survive lasted 80 days until his death on Sept. 19th.
2nd, 1955 – The Lawrence Welk show premieres on television.
3rd, 1806 – The first cultivated strawberry is displayed by Michael Kent.
4th, 1776 – The day the United States declared freedom from British rule for the 13 colonies.
4th, 1984 – After being displayed or over a century, the torch on the Statue of Liberty is removed so it can be replaced.
5th, 1937 – Baseball great Joe DiMaggio hits his first grand slam.
5th, 1946 – The bikini makes it's debut at a Paris fashion show.
6st, 1933 – In the very first All Star Baseball game, the American League wins 5-2.
7th, 1898 – The United States annexes Hawaii.
8th, 1796 – The U.S. State Department issues the first passport.
9th, 1956 – Dick Clark hosts American Bandstand for the very first time.
10th, 1985 – After an unsuccessful attempt to change it's formula, Coca-Cola brings back the ever popular original formula as "Classic Coke".
11th, 1792 – Robert Bailey Thomas publishes the first issue of the Farmer's Almanac. It is now called the "Old Farmer's Almanac".
11th, 1804 – Former Vice President Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
11th, 1979 – Skylab space station re-enters the earth's atmosphere. Pieces land in the Indian Ocean and in Australia.
12th, 1960 – Etch-a-Sketch goes on sale.
13th, 1898 – The radio is patented by Guglielmo Marconi.
14th, 1867 – Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite.
14th, 1914 – Liquid rocket fuel is patented.
15th, 1844 – Vulcanized rubber is patented by Goodyear. (1844)
15th, 1869 – Margarine is patented.
16th, 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard.
17th, 1867 – The Harvard School of Dentistry becomes the first dental school in the U.S.
17th, 1902 – The air conditioner was invented.
17th, 1955 – Walt Disney's Disneyland opens in Anaheim, Ca.
18th, 1925 – Adolph Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
19th, 1814 – Samuel Colt, invented the revolver.
19th, 1940 – Winston Churchill uses the two finger "V" for victory sign.
20th, 1969 – In "one small step for man, one giant step for mankind", Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon.
21st, 1873 – Jesse James and his gang rob their first train.
22nd, 1934 – Bank robber John Dillon was shot dead.
22nd, 1975 – An act of Congress restores Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee's citizenship.
23rd, 1904 – Charles E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri fills a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream, and the ice cream cone is invented.
23rd, 1999 – Air Force Colonel Eileen M. Collins becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle.
24th, 1929 – Pres. Hoover announces the Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war.
25th, 1814 – American forces defeat the British at the Battle of Lundy's Lane (also known as the Battle of Niagara Falls).
25th, 1978 – Louise Joy Brown, the First "Test Tube" baby is born in Oldham General Hospital, U.K.
26st, 1775 – Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General.
26st, 1952 – Mickey Mantle hits his first "Grand Slam".
27th, 1940 – Bugs Bunny debuts in Warner Brothers animated cartoon "A Wild Hare".
28th, 1914 – World War I began.
29th, 1928 – Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" premieres.
30th, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill.
31st, 1969 – Mariner 6 flies past Mars.
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Cette page présente la liste des épisodes de la série d'animation américaine Scooby-Doo : Agence Toutou Risques (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo).

Saison 1 (1988)

Le Voleur de vélo (A Bicycle Built For Boo!)
L'Œil monstrueux (The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core)
Quel fromage, Scooby-Doo (Wanted: Cheddar Alive)
Le Docteur Croquetout (The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book)
Au pied de la lettre (For Letter Or Worse)
Les zombies sont là (The Babysitter From Beyond)
Le Monstre des neiges (Snow Place Like Home)
Le Fantôme du musée (Now Museum, Now You Don't)
L'Ami Scooby-Doo (Scooby Dude)
Scooby-Doo bouh (Ghost Who's Coming For Dinner?)
Scooby-Doo le grand manitou (The Story Stick)
Robot chien (Robopup)
Un cinéma, monstre, moteur (Lights...Camera...Monster)

Saison 2 (1989)

Le Collier maudit (Curse of the Collar)
Le Retour du commandant Cool (The Return of Commander Cool)
L'Esprit du rock'n roll (The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll)
Poulestein fait la une (Chickenstein Lives!)
La Nuit des burgers vivants (Night of the Living Burger)
Un robot au poil (The Computer Walks Among Us)
Scooby-Doo fait une fugue (Dog Gone Scooby)
Zombo la terreur (Terror, Thy Name is Zombo)

Saison 3 (1990)

Le Motard mystérieux (Night of the Boogey Biker)
Le Fantôme intergalactique (Dawn of the Spooky Space Shuttle Scare)
Le Gala de catch (Wrestle Maniacs)
Et voici le Moumoute Show (Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece)

Saison 4 (1991)

La chasse est ouverte (The Mayhem of the Moving Mollusk)
Comment échapper à la fourrière en 10 leçons ? (Catcher of the Sly)
Le Fantôme de la bibliothèque (The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham)
Monsieur Mauvais Goût (The Wrath of Waitro)
Le Scooby-garou (The Were-Doo of Doo Manor)

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Scooby-Doo

Liens externes
Scooby-Doo : Agence Toutou Risques sur The Big Cartoon Database

Scoobydooagencetoutourisque
Série télévisée de Scooby-Doo

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package org.apache.zookeeper.client;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Most simple HostProvider, resolves only on instantiation.
 *
 */
public final class StaticHostProvider implements HostProvider {
    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
            .getLogger(StaticHostProvider.class);

    private final List<InetSocketAddress> serverAddresses = new ArrayList<InetSocketAddress>(
            5);

    private int lastIndex = -1;

    private int currentIndex = -1;

    /**
     * Constructs a SimpleHostSet.
     *
     * @param serverAddresses
     *            possibly unresolved ZooKeeper server addresses
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if serverAddresses is empty or resolves to an empty list
     */
    public StaticHostProvider(Collection<InetSocketAddress> serverAddresses) {
        for (InetSocketAddress address : serverAddresses) {
            try {
                InetAddress ia = address.getAddress();
                InetAddress resolvedAddresses[] = InetAddress.getAllByName((ia!=null) ? ia.getHostAddress():
                    address.getHostName());
                for (InetAddress resolvedAddress : resolvedAddresses) {
                    // If hostName is null but the address is not, we can tell that
                    // the hostName is an literal IP address. Then we can set the host string as the hostname
                    // safely to avoid reverse DNS lookup.
                    // As far as i know, the only way to check if the hostName is null is use toString().
                    // Both the two implementations of InetAddress are final class, so we can trust the return value of
                    // the toString() method.
                    if (resolvedAddress.toString().startsWith("/")
                            && resolvedAddress.getAddress() != null) {
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                                        address.getHostName(),
                                        resolvedAddress.getAddress()),
                                        address.getPort()));
                    } else {
                        this.serverAddresses.add(new InetSocketAddress(resolvedAddress.getHostAddress(), address.getPort()));
                    }
                }
            } catch (UnknownHostException e){
                LOG.error("Unable to connect to server: {}", address, e);
            }
        }

        if (this.serverAddresses.isEmpty()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "A HostProvider may not be empty!");
        }
        Collections.shuffle(this.serverAddresses);
    }

    public int size() {
        return serverAddresses.size();
    }

    public InetSocketAddress next(long spinDelay) {
        ++currentIndex;
        if (currentIndex == serverAddresses.size()) {
            currentIndex = 0;
        }
        if (currentIndex == lastIndex && spinDelay > 0) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(spinDelay);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                LOG.warn("Unexpected exception", e);
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I think we've finally reached a point where everyone realizes the benefits of whole wheat bread over white bread. Wheat grain can reduce the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Whole wheat flour also has higher antioxidant activities than white flour.
But what about baking with whole wheat?
The problem is whole wheat flour is more challenging to bake with. This is because bran from the wheat kernel is included in the flour. The bran interferes with the starch-gluten matrix, decreasing gas-holding capacity.
So whole wheat bread tends to have a low volume, a coarse texture and diminished viscosity and dough extensibility. Wheat bran decreases starch gelatinization and increases the firmness in the finished bread.
Don't let that stop you!
Baking organic whole wheat bread?
Rosehip is used to replace synthetic ascorbic acid. Cephalaria syriaca has positive effect in the extensograph characteristics of wheat flour. Malt flour is rich in amylolytic enzymes.
Dr. Lin Carson's love affair with baking started over 25 years ago when she earned her BSc degree in Food Science & Technology at the Ohio State University. She went on to earn her MSc then PhD from the Department of Grain Science at Kansas State University. Seeing that technical information was not freely shared in the baking industry, Dr. Lin decided to launch BAKERpedia to cover this gap. Today, as the world's only FREE and comprehensive online technical resource for the commercial baking industry, BAKERpedia is used by over half a million commercial bakers, ingredient sellers, equipment suppliers and baking entrepreneurs annually. You can catch Dr. Lin regularly on the BAKED In Science podcast solving baking problems. For more information on Dr. Lin, subscribe to her "Ask Dr. Lin" YouTube Channel, or follow her on LinkedIn.
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Always on fan from Duex?
So I didnt even think about this before I bought this 80mm 12v Noctua fan, but how would I go about setting a fan on one of the VFan inputs on the Duex to always on? My duet runs on 24v so I need to use the step down portion of the Duex to power it.
You could include M106 P# S1 in config.g, where # is the fan number, although this wouldn't prevent it from being turned off again.


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Review – Legend of the Blue Sea
July 6, 2017 July 8, 2017 / Lady Divine
A profoundly unspecial fantasy romance. Oh, how I wanted to love this show! But every little thing about it was so enormously contrived and flat. The "romance" was just a nonstop series of cliches and ridiculousness. Just like in the show Tomorrow With You, the writers and director seemed to think that putting two attractive people opposite each other is all it takes for everyone around the world to collectively sigh. Well, this gal groaned. Loudly. And because I wanted to like it, it just made it worse. It was like forcing yourself to enjoy a treat way past its expiration date… it was just dry and a bitter reminder of all the other dramas that have done this better in the past. You know, the fresh ones.
Plotline, basic version: A mermaid comes to land following her one true love… but if she doesn't win his affection in return, she will die.
Overall Rating – 5/10. A Can Of Anchovies When You Ordered Fresh Salmon.
More Grumbling and Ranting and Spoilers follow….
This is one of those shows were even the things that should have been great became some of the worst elements.
Example 1: The Cameos of Better Actors. There were quite a few cameos of great actors – dropping little lines and hints about other shows. What? Why would they do that? Is that supposed to be funny? In house advertising for the station? Please don't take us out of the story we are watching right now to remind us of better dramas. And more often than not, the cameo actors were far better than the principal actors… which also ended up working against the show.
Example 2: The backstory was more interesting than the current story. Sometimes. The younger versions of both our lead actors were captivating as young people falling in love in the Joseon era. They were soooo great!
Where this started to bit its own ass… Lee Min-Ho. He's not a believable Joseon scholar. He seemed too uncomfortable and out of place running around in those robes and swinging a sword. He's a much more believable charming con-man in modern times. Also… they never really developed the back story past the romance… it just felt like a light sketch thrown in for convenience. It felt like lazy writing.
Example 3: The mermaid in the modern world. Okay… there were so many inconsistencies with this it was blinding! The things she inherently accepts and understands as compared to things she doesn't make no sense if you scrutinize it. Most of her adorable "Oh, what's a television set?!" and "What is a family?" moments ended up coming across as lame. This actress is very lovely and pulls off the lulling voice of the sea mixed with the wide eyes of innocence… but she just seemed an awkward mix of naive and comfortable as a fish out of water. Let's face it… they didn't think too hard about it when writing this story. Her character was a mess. And nothing she did felt new or original… it was the same cheesy, corny "cutesy" stuff we see girls do, mermaid or no, in other dramas all the time. Like eating like a total slob. Oh how adorable, right? Wrong.
Example 4: The Con Men Roommates…. are both lovable and plastic. They have zero backstory. They have little personality outside of their blatant stereotypes. The only time they were really used to any good effect was when constantly acting as plot control for our lead lovers. I found them frustrating… mainly because I wanted to like them, especially the devious older ringleader, but was just left with this generic cut out character instead.
Example 4.5: The Actual Con Jobs… were horrible. Are we really supposed to believe that waving a flame in front of someone's eyes instantly hypnotizes them? And if this guy has this type of skills… why does he forget about them the rest of the show? The cons were ridiculous…. and the show didn't even try to bother explaining them, as they were obvious filler. Whatever. I mean… are they confidence men or hustlers or into heists? It seems far fetched that they do it all. And have a garage full of service vehicles of every kind. Just… so dumb.
Example 5: When our leading man could read our leading lady's mind. This was cute. And used, blatantly, to move the story forward as they couldn't seem to come up with a better way to do it. And yet it was also so stupid. She may be a mermaid… and otherwordly… but whose internal dialogue sounds like that? And who just stands around and thinks in these slow poetic sentences while the other person stares at them… and then thinks that's normal? How long does she think most humans wait for a reply? Apparently… twenty freakin' minutes of staring while she goes through her inner monologue. Ugh.
Example 6: The family plotlines. God. Just… stab me in the eye. It was so bad! Sooo bad. And such of waste of good actors. I'm all about some melodramatic ridiculous backstories involving evil stepmoms and abandonment and murder. Ya'll know I love melodramas! But somehow this show took what should have been a fun dramatic side story and made it so dumb. And not at all scary or engaging or interesting. I could not have cared less about the estranged family or the murder plots of the devious step kid or whatever else. Not to mention the social climbing family side story. I mean… at least they made sense in a generic way that better suited this generic storyline.
Esh. Anyways, I wasn't a fan. I watched the whole thing… by some freakin' miracle. But I probably should have abandoned this sinking ship somewhere around episode three.
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Stephenson County, Illinois — This Saturday is Customer Appreciation Day at the Stephenson County Farmers Market. The market says they want to show you how much they appreciate your patronage, especially in this year of transition to downtown.
Vendors will have raffles or door prizes for loyal and faithful customers. The municipal lot will be open for market customers only from 8-10am.


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Everyone has their own stipulation about peak oil. It can be interpreted as delayed or dead, depending on the factors you are referring to. Peak oil is a theoretical point in time when the global oil production starts to dwindle after reaching its peak. An excerpt from American geologist and geophysicist Marion King Hubbert's peak theory, the concept highlights oil production will hit an inevitable downfall at some point in time.
Let's expound on the following ideologies depicting peak oil.
All reserves have been maximized and are nowhere to find.
The first idea indicates this situation is not that bad as perceived by individuals who have greatly participated or invested a considerable amount of money in crude. Whether there are still reserves or not, expect the market to beef up peak oil. There's more to oil than a mere gasoline. Bear in mind chemical compounds and lubricants will keep oil pumping alive regardless if vehicles or vessels find other means. Unless there is a new technology which can turn the industry upside down, production is still on the safe side.
Now, on to the second situation. It is said there are only few cheap, huge oil deposits left here on earth. Good thing the technology unceasingly evolves, finding new ways to explore resources. In the United States alone, companies use fracking, which is not available in other countries yet. New trends mean greater investments. Hence, peak oil is not expected to be visible in the near future.
What if all crude reserves have been exploited? Far from impossible! Sure, we may run out of tools to make use of oil or options to dig deeper. But one thing is certain: oil will remain. Trust the market to come up, discover with alternatives, or mount various explorations.


Suresh Marisetty is a software and systems architect at Intel. Durgesh Srivastava is silicon and systems architect for Intel's Low Power Embedded Products Division (LEPD). Joel Andrew Hoffmann is the Strategic Market Development Manager for Intel's In-Vehicle Infotainment Group.
Automotive manufacturers face a tremendous challenge in trying to bridge the historically long development cycles of a vehicle to the ever-changing I/O and multimedia demands of the consumer. The main function of the car's entertainment system or the head unit is enabling a variety of functions like navigation, radio, DVD players, climate control, Bluetooth, and so on. Further, with the promise of the connected car becoming a reality enabled through broad deployment of multimedia-capable mobile wireless technologies, the automotive industry sees an opportunity to deliver new value-added services to the consumer. However, with today's proprietary head-unit solutions they have limited ability to offer such services. A cost-effective solution to address this need is to use standards-based platform technologies that can take advantage of the huge ecosystem built around PC standards and consumer-oriented applications and services. The platforms based on Intel architecture have been evolving in tandem with various I/O and multimedia technologies and have been adopting these technologies in a seamless way. An in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platform is an architecture based on these building blocks, but with optimizations for the automotive environment.
This article presents the architecture of this platform for the IVI market segment powered by the Intel Atom processor family of low-power embedded processors and standards-based platform hardware and software ecosystem. An overview of the key technology blocks that make up the Intel-based IVI platform is presented, followed by a brief description of the challenges faced in optimization and incorporating these into the Intel-based IVI platform. In addition, the opportunities presented by the Intel-based IVI platform for future usage models are also highlighted. The challenges and opportunities are presented both from a hardware and software perspective to meet the power, performance, size, differentiation, and other needs of the automotive environment and usage models.
The framework or stack for an Intel-based IVI platform consists consists of software and hardware components with well defined interfaces between them to boot an operating system (OS) supporting the key application functionality of an automotive head-unit, as in Figure 1.
Hardware Layer: The core part of the hardware layer is comprised of Intel Atom processor with all the necessary hardware and firmware to boot any off-the-shelf or embedded OS. This layer is further complemented with the inclusion of a set of automotive OEM-specific I/O devices, such as MOST/CAN buses, connected through an industry standard I/O fabric, such as PCI Express. The use of the Intel Atom processor-based SoC solution facilitates the inclusion of many other extended inputs/outputs available for the Intel architecture platform, without affecting the core platform functions. This allows the car manufacturers to be able to provide end solutions with many options with little to no additional cost or software development effort, facilitating product differentiation. A typical Intel-based IVI platform configuration built around the Intel Atom processor is as in Table 1.
OS Layer: Given the platform's Intel architecture compatibility lineage, a range of operating systems are enabled, including embedded real-time OS (RTOS) and commercial off-the-shelf operating systems that run on a standard PC platform. This layer also includes drivers that are specific to automotive I/O.
Middleware Layer: The Intel-based IVI platform middleware can include a rich set of components and interfaces to realize all functional areas of the application layer, such as Bluetooth with support for various profiles and CAN/MOST protocol stacks.
Application Layer: The applications include the ones designed into many mobile Internet devices (MIDs) or handheld devices like Web browsers, calendar, Bluetooth phone, vehicle management functionalities, multimedia entertainment system, and so on. This layer can provide a rich set of applications and many customization options that conform to Intel architecture binary format.
HMI Layer: The Human Machine Interface (HMI) is the central interface to the user of the IVI system. The HMI has control of the display of the HMI Head Unit and has the responsibility to process and react to all user inputs coming into the system, such as speech recognition and touch screen input.
In regards to the overall Intel-based IVI platform stack itself, the key challenges are the integration or seamless porting of various applications and middleware to the automotive-specific user interface standards. The ecosystem of this software includes independent software, OS vendors (ISVs/OSVs) or the Linux Open Source community.
The automotive environment requires hardware components that are highly reliable. Intel is now offering the Intel Atom processors with industrial temperature options (minus 40- to 85-degrees C). For further platform differentiation beyond the solution from Intel, the car OEM may be limited to picking third-party vendor hardware IP blocks that meet the reliability requirements.
ISVs and OSVs can provide powerful user interface (HMI) tools or development kits, to enable easy OEM HMI customization across their product line. Third-party hardware vendors can provide various automotive-specific I/O solutions to allow easy car OEM product differentiation. In addition, it is a new opportunity for application developers to port Intel architecture applications to the Intel-based IVI platform ecosystem and maximize reuse and applicability of their software across a number of Intel architecture platforms.


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Chiropractor in Charlotte, NC
Dr. Jeremy Arnold was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and, while he was a young child, his family moved to Conover, North Carolina. He was always involved in athletics. Baseball was his true passion and ultimately it lead him to pursue a career in chiropractic.
It was after an injury to his throwing arm in middle school that Dr. Jeremy's physician told him he would need surgery. After a consultation with Dr. Bruce Hilton in Hickory, he was able to undergo chiropractic care to rehabilitate his arm. Dr. Jeremy was able to return to the field at full capacity following his chiropractic treatment. After that season, he spent a week on the road in his father's eighteen-wheeler talking about what he wanted to be when he grew up. Chiropractic quickly moved to the top of the list.
Dr. Jeremy earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise and Sports Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was fortunate to be able to continue his baseball career in college, and his team won the National Club Baseball Association World Series during his sophomore year.
His goal was always to pursue chiropractic so after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, he continued on to Sherman College of Chiropractic in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dr. Jeremy graduated from Sherman in 2013 and moved with his wife, Meghan, to Winchester, Virginia where he took over a small family practice. Dr. Jeremy ran this practice on his own for almost two years. He enjoyed working closely with patients and learning what it took to run his own clinic.
Shortly after the birth of their daughter, Dr. Jeremy and his wife decided they wanted to move to Charlotte, North Carolina to be close to their families. After practicing in South Charlotte for two years, he was thrilled to join the Keith Clinic team in November of 2017.
Dr. Jeremy is a huge Tar Heels and Panthers fan and loves a good round of golf when he has the time. He is a self-taught guitar player, an avid gamer, and quite the talented dancer. He also enjoys long walks on the beach and having a nice little tea party with his daughter in the afternoons.
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Mike Kilkenny
January 4, 2012 /in BioProject - Person 1972-74 Oakland Athletics /by admin
Thomas Ayers
A cheerful southpaw from a small town in Canada, Mike Kilkenny determinedly forged an unlikely major-league career despite not having organized baseball activities in his hometown for most of his childhood. He was named Detroit's Rookie of the Year in 1969 and became known for his humor and community involvement. While his stubbornness may have cut his major-league career short, Kilkenny also made his mark in two other sports, as he had a stint as a harness racehorse owner and as a coach for a PGA tour golfer.
Kilkenny's forbears immigrated to Canada from Ireland in the 19th century and became lighthouse keepers in Caraquet, New Brunswick. After her husband and one of her sons were lost at sea in a storm, Kilkenny's great-great-great-grandmother moved west with her surviving son, who became a rider for the Pony Express and eventually settled in Bradford, Ontario, about 40 miles west of Toronto.
Mike's father, Keith, was successful in the furniture and appliance business established by the family. Keith and his wife, Gwendolyn, had two sons, Peter, born in 1941, and Mike, born on April 11, 1945. As a child Mike was much more focused on sports, particularly baseball and golf, than on academics. He developed a curveball in a childhood game by throwing a baseball over a hedge to his brother and trying to have it to drop to the ground before his brother could catch it.
When Mike was about 10, he pitched for a peewee baseball team in Bradford that went to the provincial finals in its division. The team disbanded at the end of the season. Mike was told he was too young to play in the Leaside Baseball Association in Toronto, but a team told him he could participate in drills and come to games. Toward the end of the season, Mike was allowed to pitch in a game the team was losing badly. He struck out the side on nine pitches, struck out the side again the next inning and was given the start in the team's next game.
The next season Mike joined another team and, at the age of 15, became their primary starting pitcher. Despite the fact that many players in the league were around 21, Kilkenny struck out 177 in 81 innings and in one game he struck out 22 batters over seven innings. This opportunity to play was critical to his development, because Bradford District High School had no baseball team. Kilkenny played on the school's golf team, and won the school's golf championship twice.
Word spread of Kilkenny's prowess through bird-dog scouts and Kilkenny received contract offers from 19 of the 20 major-league teams. He signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1964. At the time his $15,000 signing bonus was a record for an amateur Canadian baseball player. Mike left high school before graduating and soon married Carolyn Hughes, whom he had dated throughout high school.
Weighing 145 pounds, the 6-foot-3 southpaw began his professional baseball career as a starter for the Rookie League Cocoa (Florida) Tigers. Kilkenny was promoted to Lakeland of the Class A Florida State League midseason where, although he had a losing record at 3-4, he had a relatively low 2.47 ERA in 51 innings.
The next season, pitching for the Daytona Beach Islanders in the Florida State League, was a tale of two halves for Kilkenny. Midway through the season his record was 1-10. After a stern lecture from manager Al Federoff, Kilkenny had a much improved second half and finished with a 14-15 mark as the staff workhorse. In perhaps his finest game as a professional, he threw a no-hitter against Tampa on July 14, 1965. Kilkenny recalled that he got into a perfect zone during the game and "everything was in slow motion" for him; "I knew where I wanted to throw the ball and I knew exactly how to get it there."
In 1966 Kilkenny was promoted to the Montgomery Rebels of the Double-A Southern League. After injuring his left index finger fielding an infield fly in batting practice, he only pitched 21 games and had a 4.23 ERA, which was the highest of his minor-league career. Kilkenny recalled he had a difficulty regaining the feel of his pitches after injuring his pitching hand. He set a Southern League record by throwing five wild pitches in a game at Macon. Mike recalled that there was a foundry near the diamond beyond right field and, when the blast furnaces were cleared out, ash would sometimes drift into the playing field. During that game the ash covered the field and the game was delayed for an hour. Kilkenny attests most of his wild pitches resulted from the ash obstructing his catcher's view.
Kilkenny returned to Montgomery in 1967. His 39 relief appearances led the team and he posted an impressive 2.88 ERA. He struck out nearly a batter an inning, but continued to struggle with his control. That offseason, Kilkenny went to Florida for the second consecutive year to play in the Florida Instructional League.
Kilkenny returned to Montgomery in 1968. The players were given free tickets for friends and family members to the season opener. On a lark, Kilkenny sent a postcard to Alabama Governor George Wallace and his wife telling them he had left tickets for the governor at the ticket office. He was shocked when Governor Wallace came to the game. Governor Wallace left in about the sixth or seventh inning and, as he walked out of the stadium, he gave Mike a shout and a wave.
Kilkenny didn't mind spending a third straight season in Montgomery, as he loved the warm weather and played golf whenever he had the opportunity. His third stint with the Rebels was his best. He pitched in three straight games against the Evansville White Sox on June 16-18, and surrendered only one hit over nine innings. After posting a 1.20 ERA in 45 innings, Kilkenny was promoted to Triple-A Toledo. Mike posted a 2.32 ERA in 22 relief appearances with the Mud Hens. After the season, Kilkenny received a pair of World Series cufflinks; the Tigers had won the Series and Kilkenny had been at major-league spring training that year. After the season he worked as a furniture deliveryman in Bradford. He held a variety of odd jobs over the winters when he wasn't able to play winter ball, including one offseason he worked as a mail carrier.
Kilkenny made the Tigers out of spring training in 1969 and his major-league debut occurred on his 24th birthday, April 11, against the New York Yankees at Tiger Stadium. He came into the game with one out in the top of the ninth and the Tigers trailing 9-3. He said his most vivid memory of the moment was that, as he came onto the diamond and walked to the mound, third baseman Don Wert told him, "You're every bit as good as this guy or you wouldn't be here." This gave Kilkenny a boost of confidence and eased his nerves. He retired Gene Michael on a fly ball and then struck out Bill Robinson.
With Detroit's strong rotation, led by Denny McLain, Mickey Lolich, and Earl Wilson, Kilkenny pitched sparingly during his first few months in the majors. After his debut, he pitched only one inning in the next 13 days and he pitched only 1⅓ innings in May. He didn't give up a run until June 22, which was his 12th major-league appearance.
On July 10 Kilkenny had a 0.44 ERA in 20⅓ innings and had held opposing batters to a .130 batting average and a .174 slugging percentage. However, to that point he had been mostly utilized as a low-leverage reliever. He was given an opportunity to seize the fifth spot in the starting rotation and, after suffering two losses and a no-decision, on August 12 Kilkenny had one of the most memorable days of his life. Before the night was over, he had won a major-league start for the first time, thrown his first complete game, notched his first major-league hit, driven in his first run, and had become a father for the first time.
Kilkenny's wife, Carolyn, went into labor six weeks before their baby was due and gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named Rory Erin Kilkenny in the early afternoon. Mike stayed with Carolyn until about 4 P.M. and then, he recalled, "I sent my wife some roses, let the dog out — he hadn't been out all day — took a shower, grabbed a sandwich and came to the ballpark." He proceeded to pitch a three-hitter against the California Angels, striking out ten, and added a run-scoring single, which was his first major league hit.
Aside from one relief appearance, Kilkenny remained in the rotation for the rest of the season. In his last nine starts, he threw four shutouts, including a three-hitter against the Oakland A's. Over his final four starts, Kilkenny posted a 1.36 ERA over 33 innings. He struck out 24 batters and held opponents to a .164 batting average and a .224 slugging percentage. After finishing the season with a 3.37 ERA in 39 appearances, which included 15 starts, Mike was named the Tigers' Rookie of the Year.
Kilkenny ascribed much of his success to his curveball, telling a sportswriter, "When I'm right, I feel I can throw my curve on 3-and-1 and 3-and-0 without thinking twice about it." He attributed his improved command and control of the pitch to the lessons of Johnny Sain and Hal Naragon, who were the pitching and bullpen coach, respectively, for the Tigers for part of the season before Sain was let go and Naragon quit. Kilkenny said they both taught him how to pitch, instead of how to simply throw the ball.
During the season Kilkenny was part of a group of Tigers who visited the FBI Building in Washington, which led to him forging an unusual friendship. The group met with J. Edgar Hoover, who made an offhand remark to Kilkenny that he liked his blue seersucker jacket. A couple of months later, Kilkenny saw a similar blue seersucker jacket, which he bought and sent to Hoover. He was soon visited by an FBI agent who passed along Hoover's gratitude and extended an invitation for Kilkenny to meet Hoover for lunch. Kilkenny visited Hoover in his office in the FBI Building and the two got along very well. For the rest of Kilkenny's playing career, they would have lunch a couple of times a year when Kilkenny had a road trip to Washington or Baltimore.
With his exceedingly strong ending to the 1969 season, Kilkenny was given a larger role in the rotation in 1970 and made a career-high 21 starts. However, as the team's fourth starter, he still had to deal with periods of inconsistent usage. In April he went 22 days between pitching assignments and in August he threw 18 innings in six days, but then made only one appearance in the next three weeks. For the season, Kilkenny put up a 7-6 record with a 5.16 ERA in 36 appearances.
Kilkenny's repertoire consisted of a fastball, a curve, and a changeup. He could vary the speeds for each pitch and could also command them from three arm slots when he was going well. Mike primarily threw from a three-quarters arm angle, but could also throw straight overhand or side-arm. He enjoyed success against left-handed batters, whom he'd often attack with his strong curve. Kilkenny worked during the season on developing a screwball, but scrapped it after it didn't develop as he hoped.
In 1970, Carolyn gave birth to the couple's second child, a daughter named Dawn Michelle Kilkenny.
The offseason was also eventful in an unexpected manner, as on New Year's Eve Kilkenny went to Windsor Raceway with some friends. One owned a harness race horse and Kilkenny bet his friend that he could get a horse that could beat his friend's horse. He proceeded to buy a horse named Royal Pick, which he described as "a horse of little repute." He entered Royal Pick in a race in which his friend's horse was running and won the bet. This started Kilkenny's involvement in harness racing, which lasted for the better part of a decade. Kilkenny owned 31 horses at one point, before quitting the horse business in 1977 or 1978.
Just before spring training in 1971, Kilkenny won the Pasadena Major League Baseball Golf Tournament. He shot a 73 and tied Joe Horlen for the best score. Because of darkness, a playoff was impossible and Kilkenny was named the tournament's victor after a coin flip. He received a color television and trophy. Kilkennny also won the driving contest with a 310-yard shot, besting the more than 70 players in the tournament.
In 1971 Kilkenny continued to serve as a swingman for the Tigers. He started the fifth game of the year, but did not start again until the club's 43rd game. He picked up his first win of the year on June 11, when he limited the Minnesota Twins to one run in a complete-game victory. On September 13, he surrendered Frank Robinson's 499th major-league home run in a game against the Orioles. Over the season, Kilkenny threw only 86⅓ innings and posted a 5.00 ERA.
After the season Kilkenny went to Vietnam as part of a USO troupe, which included players Bobby Bonds and Jim Hannah and umpire Nick Colosi. At one point he was in a vehicle that was fired upon by the Viet Cong. As part of the tour, Kilkenny and the others were expected to return to the US and talk about how well the war was going, but after their firsthand experience they agreed amongst themselves to remain mostly silent about their trip. Kilkenny made a few brief statements about the hospitality and dedication of the troops. When he returned from the tour, Mike picked up his regular offseason community involvement, which included participating in the Tigers' winter tour.
Kilkenny's preparations for the trip to Vietnam revealed another reason why he may have struggled during the previous season. When he was receiving inoculations for the trip he was told by doctors that he was recovering from mononucleosis, which he didn't even know he had. "No wonder I was so tired last summer," he remarked. Kilkenny told a reporter, "I just didn't have any strength. I was always tired. Heck, I fell asleep a couple of times in the bullpen. But now … [a]ll I want is a chance to pitch."
Many trade rumors involving Kilkenny were floated that offseason, but they were consistently denied by Tigers general manager Jim Campbell. Despite that vote of confidence, Kilkenny only pitched in one game for the Tigers in 1972, which came on April 30 when he pitched an inning of relief and surrendered a homer. Manager Billy Martin was calling pitches from the dugout, which Kilkenny did not appreciate. After the game, Kilkenny and Martin, who didn't get along well, got into a shouting match in the clubhouse and Kilkenny threatened to punch Martin. He never pitched for the Tigers again.
On May 9, 1972, the Tigers dealt Kilkenny to the Oakland Athletics for first baseman Reggie Sanders. Kilkenny received news of the trade in a hotel room in Chicago, where he was napping after a long flight. When he went to the ballpark to get his belongings and say goodbye to his teammates, he found himself barred from entering and his bag waiting outside the clubhouse.
Kilkenny made his first appearance for the Athletics with a flawless inning pitched on May 13 against the Boston Red Sox in relief of his fellow ace golfer Joe Horlen. The two didn't get a chance to have a rematch on the links, as those would be the only batters Kilkenny faced wearing Oakland's green and gold. On May 17, only eight days after acquiring him, the A's dealt Kilkenny, Curt Blefary, and a player to be named later to the San Diego Padres for Ollie Brown.
Kilkenny made five appearances for the Padres, mostly in blowout losses. On June 11, the Padres dealt Kilkenny to the Cleveland Indians for infielder Fred Stanley.
Reflecting on being traded three times in just over a month, Kilkenny said, "It gets a little depressing to be moved along as much as I have been." He considered not reporting to Cleveland, but general manager Gabe Paul assured him that he wouldn't be dealt again. Reflecting later, Kilkenny said he felt that the Indians had wanted him all along and that his stops in Oakland and San Diego occurred as teams worked out other moving pieces in the trades.
On June 14, when Kilkenny entered a game against the California Angels, he tied a major-league record by pitching for four teams in a year. In a strange coincidence, the trivia question on the back of one of Kilkenny's 1972 baseball cards, which was printed before the season began, was: "How many pitchers ever pitched for four teams in one season?" Upon realizing the coincidence, Kilkenny remarked, "I can't believe it."
After joining the Indians, Kilkenny experienced immediate success and surrendered only one run in his first 14⅔ innings, including a start against the Yankees in which he pitched a four-hitter for a 5-1 win .Over the entirety of the 1972 season, Kilkenny totaled 64⅓ innings, all but 6⅓ of them for Cleveland, where he posted a 3.41 ERA.
Kilkenny got into a dispute with the Indians over money in spring training in 1973, which spiraled into a verbal battle with manager Ken Aspromonte, who was threatening to send him to the minors. Kilkenny felt that managers didn't give him as many chances as he should have been granted, as his biggest strength was his breaking ball and managers preferred power pitchers. Mike eventually signed with Cleveland, but was demoted to the minors in early May.
After refusing to accept the demotion, Kilkenny was placed on the suspended list by the Indians. This precluded him from playing baseball elsewhere and he was effectively left in limbo. The Indians refused to give up on Kilkenny and carried him on their minor-league roster for the whole year, hoping he might change his mind.
However, Kilkenny wouldn't budge and he turned his attention to harness racing. Kilkenny told a newspaper reporter that he had basically invested his life savings into his horses. "I'm in this right up to my neck right now and it's costing me plenty," he said. By April 1973, Kilkenny and his trainer, Tom Pederson, had 16 horses. Kilkenny spoke of hoping to purchase a farm in Ohio. "You can't make any money unless you have your own facilities, your own pastures. It just costs too much to stable your horses at somebody else's barn all year."
Kilkenny was finally released by the Indians in 1975 , although his career in major-league baseball was effectively over. By this time, he was managing the golf shop and happily working as a pro manager at Llyndinshire Golf Club, near London, Ontario.
After his release, George Hall, the owner of the London Majors of the Intercounty Baseball League, asked Mike to pitch for the club. Happy with his emerging practice at Llyndinshire, Kilkenny reached an agreement that he would join the Majors, but would pitch only Friday night games in London and wouldn't travel with the team. This unique arrangement paid huge dividends for the Majors, as Kilkenny posted a 9-0 record in the regular season with a 2.31 ERA and 129 strikeouts in 96 innings pitched. He won the Intercounty League's Most Valuable Player Award and led the team to the league title.
Kilkenny didn't return to pitch for the Majors in 1976. He had moved to the Maple Ridge Golf and Country Club and was busy giving golf lessons and repairing clubs. He became so busy at Maple Ridge that he began selling his horses and divesting himself from his harness racing hobby.
Kilkenny's business at the pro shop picked up substantially and around 1979 he started a business that was both a retail store and repaired clubs for golf shops across the province. It was focused on wood-headed clubs and, as metal heads became more popular in the 1980s, Kilkenny shut down the business at the end of 1984.
Meanwhile, Mike and Carolyn were going through a divorce. In 1983 he reconnected with Edie Hobbs, a woman he had met briefly while pitching for the Padres. A single mother of two children, Edie came to stay with him in March 1983. Despite the fact it was supposed to be a short trip, she didn't return to California until March of the following year.
That spring Kilkenny decided he could still compete in the Intercounty League, despite not having picked up a baseball in eight years. He threw a pitching session for the Majors and was invited to play for the team again. He had another undefeated season, posting a 9-0 record. Mike has fond memories of his second season with the Majors, as it was only time Edie and his children regularly saw him play baseball. In 1984, his divorce was finalized and later that year he and Edie were married.
After his golf business closed, Kilkenny took a job with Kert Chemicals in Toronto selling pool chemicals. Kilkenny described himself as a "nonresponsive employee." He would not complete paper reports or follow some of the company's other standard requirements, but he sold so much product that the company wouldn't do anything about it.
Kert was bought by a British company, Holt Lloyd International, which shifted him to selling bulk military specialized lubricants. After a couple of years, Holt Lloyd asked him to take over as head of its US division, which would have required Mike to move to Atlanta and spend about three-quarters of the year on the road. Mike and Edie turned down the offer. Mike felt that his career with the company was probably limited, so he resigned at the end of 1989.
In 1991, Kilkenny gave some golf lessons for a friend's clients. The lessons went well, and his reputation as a golf pro grew. He wound up spending nearly 20 years as a golf professional at the Fairview Golf Practice Facility, retiring for health reasons in 2010.
For the last 15 years, Mike has been a constant presence in the life of Ted Potter Jr., who has gone on to forge a professional golf career. After meeting Potter as a 15-year-old in Ocala, Florida, Kilkenny took him under his wing and began to help him with his golf game. Potter has been on the PGA Tour since 2011 and earned his first PGA tour win at the Greenbrier Classic on July 8, 2012.
Most memorably, Mike stayed with Potter for 13 days in August, Georgia, for the 2013 Masters. Kilkenny describes his relationship with Potter as "part-time swing coach, full-time mentor and all-time friend." He characterized the relationship as "very personal, but very low profile."
Kilkenny had left knee replacement surgery in 2008. That surgery did not go well, as he suffered an infection while recovering and he later had a mild stroke. Kilkenny also had a right knee replacement in 2012 and had his gall bladder removed in 2014. As of 2014, he was in good health.
Asked to reflect on the most memorable moment of his playing career, Kilkenny didn't respond with a specific moment, but instead recalled standing on the mound for the national anthem before a night game. He remembered those moments as wonderful and said he'd stand there and ask himself how a kid from Bradford, Ontario, could make it to start a game at a sold-out Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park.
Mike describes his father was the biggest influence on his playing career, given all the sacrifices he made to ensure that Mike had every opportunity to play baseball, such as driving him to Toronto multiple times a week to play in the Leaside Baseball Association during his childhood. "He took time out of everything," Mike recalled. "He was at every game, and he never got in the way, he never criticized me." Kilkenny's father died in 1988. His mother died in December 2005.
In February 2011, the Bradford West Gwillimbury Council renamed the main baseball diamond at Joe Magani Park the Mike Kilkenny Field. In 2012, the London Majors retired his number 17. "It means more than a lot to me," Kilkenny said.
As of 2014, Mike and Edie divided their time between their homes in Belmont, Ontario, and Ocala, Florida.
Last revised: July 1, 2015
This article originally appeared in "Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O's Three Time Champions: The Oakland Athletics: 1972-74″ (SABR, 2015), edited by Chip Greene.
Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations and attributable information relating to Mike Kilkenny come from an interview the author conducted with Kilkenny in Bradford, Ontario, on March 2, 2014.
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Crawford, Scott, "Baseball Night at the St. Mary's Lincolns Game," February 4, 2013; online: baseballhalloffame.ca/news/baseball-night-at-the-st-marys-lincolns-game/.
Green, Steve, "Majors Pay Tribute to Championship Legend," London Free Press, June 24, 2012 ,online: lfpress.com/sports/baseball/2012/06/24/19951746.html
Huff, Bruce, "Event Details: Oldtimers Sports Association Game," June 12, 2012; online: pointstreaksites.com/view/londonmajors/schedule/events_38278
Lang, Jack, "Kilkenny Shoots a 73 to Win Links Tournament," The Sporting News, March 13, 1971, p. 34.
Spoelstra, Watson, "Kilkenny Is Tough Pitcher in a Paradise for Swingers," The Sporting News, October 11, 1969.
Young, Rick, "Pitch and Putt Makes Great Team," London Free Press, July 18, 2012; online: lfpress.com/sports/golf/2012/07/71/19997567.html
"Bubble-Gum Kid Doubles A's Troubles," clipping from unidentified source dated August 28, 1969, in Kilkenny's file at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
"Former Major-Leaguer Mike Kilkenny to be Honoured at London Majors Game," London Metro News, June 18, 2012; online: metronews.ca/news/london/267428/267428/
"Has His Business Well in Harness," clipping from unidentified source dated January 7, 1973, in Kilkenny's file at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
"One Pitcher's Future Lies in Horsemeat, the Running Kind," clipping from unidentified sourced dated April 15, 1973, in Kilkenny's Hall of Fame file.
"Only a Job in Majors Could Pay for the Hay," clipping from undated, unidentified source in Kilkenny's Hall of Fame file.
London Health Sciences Centre, Orthopaedics Donor Update, "Former Baseball Pro 'Forever Grateful' to LHSC," September 2013.
Clipping from unidentified source dated July 1, 1972, in Kilkenny's Hall of Fame file.
The Sporting News, December 15, 1973.
Minor League Baseball, "This Day in Minor League Baseball History: April 25," milb.com/milb/history/tdih.jsp?tdih=0425&sid=milb
Michael David Kilkenny
April 11, 1945 at Bradford, ON (CAN)
1972-74 Oakland Athletics
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TIME to get zapped by the sounds of Africa.
That's what singing teacher Jenny Goodman has to say about an event at the Lawrence Batley Theatre on Sunday May 16. It's one Jenny can't wait to get cracking on.
On that day, Huddersfield will be treated to the harmonies and rhythms of Africa when Anita Daulne of Zap Mama arrives to teach a day workshop.
Zap Mama are one of the foremost acapella harmony groups in the world .
"They combine the scintillating music of their native Congo with European influences to create a unique sound they call "Afro-peon", " says Jenny.
Anita formed Zap Mama with her sister Maria but has now turned her attention to teaching, sharing her cultural heritage with people all over the world.
"Expect multi-layered harmonies and rhythms all taught by ear and accessible to everyone, " says Jenny of In Good Voice, who has organised the workshop.
"Anita is a fabulous teacher – warm, encouraging and funny – so it's a great opportunity to have her in Huddersfield.
"The first time I heard Zap Mama it blew my mind – I'd never heard anything like it.
So why not get yourself involved with this rare workshop. Numbers are limited so you need to book in advance by contacting Jenny on singing.jennyg@googlemail.com or on 07984 584923.
The workshop costs £25/£12.50 (concessions) for what sounds a very different vocal experience.