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Warney's Late Block Helps Stony Brook Hold Off New Hampshire
By Kevin Sweeney
Stony Brook stretched their win-streak, the longest in college basketball, to 18 games and remained undefeated in America East play with a hard-fought 59-58 win over New Hampshire on Sunday afternoon. Playing without head coach Bill Herrion, who was mourning the death of his mother, New Hampshire took the Seawolves to the final buzzer, but a late block by senior center Jameel Warney kept the Wildcats from bringing home an emotional victory.
With neither team effective from behind the arc, the game turned into a battle of big men, with Warney putting up 16 points, 8 rebounds, and 8 blocks, while New Hampshire power forward Tanner Leisner poured in 26 points and 9 rebounds. The Wildcats, who came in having won 4 straight games, trailed by two at the break despite holding the Seawolves to 31.3% shooting in the first half. In the second half, it seemed that the Seawolves were going to send home a sold out crowd at IFCU Arena happy, as they never trailed in the second half. A conventional 3-point-play by Stony Brook senior guard Carson "Tre" Puriefoy stretched the Seawolves' lead to 9 with 5:41 to go in the game. But the Wildcats never quit, knocking down 3's on their next 2 possessions to cut the Stony Brook lead to 3. In the final 5 minutes, Warney swatted 4 shots to protect the lead for the Seawolves, including one in the final seconds. Leading by one with 40 seconds to go, the Seawolves took nearly the entire shot clock before junior guard Ahmad Walker was fouled. Walker missed the front end of the one-and one, giving New Hampshire one last chance to win it. After a timeout, junior guard Jaleen Smith drove into the lane, but had his shot rejected by Warney as time expired.
Puriefoy scored 16 points and snatched 6 rebounds for the Seawolves, and Rayshaun McGrew added 14 points and 8 boards. Ronnel Jordan put up 12 points and 7 rebounds for the Wildcats.
Stony Brook will look to continue their nation's-best win streak when they travel to take on second place Albany on Wednesday night. New Hampshire will return home to take on UMASS-Lowell on Wednesday.
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INDYCAR – Jim Clark and The Wood Brothers Win in 1965
May 25, 2011 May 25, 2011 Shaun
FROM: Ford Racing As part of Ford Racing's continuing celebration of its 110-year anniversary, we present one of the most unique moments in open-wheel history.
In 1965, Ford Racing combined one of the world's greatest drivers with one of NASCAR's top crews to make Indianapolis 500 history. Jim Clark's win with the Wood Brothers was so memorable that when Indianapolis Motor Speedway celebrates its Centennial event on Sunday, Clark's No. 82 Lotus-Ford will run and be driven by Al Unser, Sr. as part of pre-race festivities representing the decade of the 1960's.
Ford Racing's open-wheel program was still in its infancy when the 1965 Indianapolis 500 rolled around, but winning one of the most prestigious auto races in the world had become a priority for all involved.
This marked the third straight season Lotus-Ford team owner Colin Chapman and drivers Jim Clark and Dan Gurney were representing the Blue Oval and while steady progress had been made the previous two years with a controversial car that saw its engine mounted behind the driver, there were still some missing pieces.
"What had happened to us was we had come close to winning it and then there was the big Parnelli Jones-Jim Clark conflict in 1963," recalled legendary Ford engine builder Mose Nowland. "They wouldn't black flag Parnelli for drizzling oil in a steady stream that covered the front of our Lotus, so we finished second but that was quite the controversy. That hyped the desire to go and win that thing."
Nowland, a Spirit of Ford Award winner, the highest honor the company can bestow in racing, was assembling and coordinating the build of the pushrod and then the new overhead cam engine during that time. He spent the entire month of May at the speedway in 1963 and '64, working with the teams on refining its state-of-the-art engine and race car.
"I believe that we set the pace for the future in 1963. We had the push-rod engine and our 'Cammer'. The '64 and '65 engine was on the drawing board in '63 and it was December of '63 that we took the Cammer for the first test trip out to Kingman, Arizona. Our driver at that time was Bobby Marshman, only because Jim Clark was tied up with some other commitments, but that was the beginning of the rear engine and V8s.
"When we led most of the '63 race and then Parnelli got ahead of us and had the oil leak, we had really showed our strength at that time and that was on a V8," said Nowland, whose career at Ford has lasted over 50 years. "Of course, '63 was on gasoline and not alcohol, so we had some more power and torque available to us by switching over to alcohol and we did that with the Cammer engine. There was a direct constant flow injection on that, so I would say we pretty much set the pace in '63 and '64 with the rear engine V8."
So with the '65 race drawing near everything seemed to be taking shape, but there was still an element that was missing. Leo Beebe, who was special vehicles manager for Ford Division at the time, decided to try something unconventional.
"As far as the car and the engine, they were both in order and ready for the win," said Nowland. "The one thing Ford Motor Company thought we could improve on was the pit stop, so who is the best pit stop team of all? The Wood Brothers. So that's who they went after."
With their well-rehearsed choreography and quick reflexes, the Wood Brothers had revolutionized the modern-day pit stop in NASCAR. Brothers Glen, Leonard, Delano and Ray Lee were the recognized leaders in their field and seeing if they could make the transition from stock cars to open-wheel models was a gamble worth taking.
The Wood Brothers crew arrived at the speedway a week before the 500, but did so with some initial trepidation.
"Are these guys gonna resent us being there," wondered Leonard Wood. "If they are, then it's not gonna work. But they were very nice and welcomed us with open arms. They were glad we were there, so that made it work. They turned us loose and let us prepare the car the way we wanted to and we began to streamline the system and make everything connect and disconnect easily so it didn't hang up."
Delano Wood summed up the way his brothers approached their open-wheel task saying, "I had never seen one, much less had anything to do with it, but we said if it could be done, we could do it." Now that the final puzzle piece of the pit crew was in place, all that remained was the race itself.
Since Ford debuted its rear-engine car two years earlier, the sport had rapidly shifted in a similar direction to the point where 27 of the 33 cars in the '65 race had their engines mounted in the back of the car. In addition, a new rule was put into effect for the race, making it mandatory for each team to make a minimum of two pit stops.
When the green flag flew, Clark and A.J. Foyt immediately engaged in a two-car duel
for the lead. The two swapped turns out front with Clark leading the first circuit and Foyt the second before Clark took control on lap three and began to dominate the field. By the time he was scheduled to make his first pit stop on Lap 66, he had a 10-second lead.
"My role in it was to hold the long hose that wound around to the far side of the car," said Delano Wood. "Leonard was working that and I was holding the hose."
After a 17-second stop for fuel only, Clark was off pit road and assumed the lead once again when Foyt had to come in for his intial service.
"Everybody thought we'd be in there for close to a minute," said Leonard Wood. "The commentator, Sam Hanks said, 'You can bet they didn't get it full with a green crew and all that. They'll be coming back in.' So time went on and we didn't come back in, so they questioned it and figured we must be running a mixture, where you don't have to put in half as much. So they went down and asked Chapman what he was running and he said, 'Pure alcohol.'"
The Wood Brothers had already made an impact and solidified Clark's lead. When
Foyt was forced to drop out with transmission problems 16 laps after the halfway mark, it left Jones as the only real challenger. Clark came in for his second and final stop on Lap 137 with a two-minute cushion and sat calm and collected while the Wood Brothers filled his greencolored No. 82 Lotus powered by Ford machine with fuel in 24 seconds.
Clark, who led 190 of 200 laps, cruised to victory by 119.98 seconds to give Ford Racing its first win in the 500 and the first victory for a rear-engine car. In addition, Clark was
the first driver to average more than 150 miles per hour in a 500-mile race (150.686) and became the first foreign-born competitor to win since 1916. He also went on to win the Formula 1 championship a few months later and remains the only man to win the Indianapolis 500 and F1 title in the same season.
Lost in all of the commotion of Clark's dominating win was the fact Ford swept the top four finishing positions as Jones finished second with rookie Mario Andretti, third and Al Miller (Kruloc), fourth. The win also started a run that saw Ford win 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing' three straight years and six of the next seven. Another streak was also started that day and it's still intact today. Every open-wheel race since that '65 Indianapolis 500 has been won by a rear-engine car.
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Inside Dogg Haus' Marquette location.
Wisconsin Avenue Dogg Haus moving to Water Street
Mazen Muna's first Dogg Haus restaurant opened April 1, 2005 and as he puts it "there hasn't been a dull moment for the last nine years." I caught up with him recently, and he provided some news on a new Water Street location and gave me his tips for making dogs at home.
By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer Published Nov 14, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Mazen Muna's first Dogg Haus restaurant opened April 1, 2005 and as he puts it "there hasn't been a dull moment for the last nine years."
The Dogg Haus consistently wins "best hot dog" in local media. In 2012 Mazen says he had a "clean sweep" with OnMilwaukee.com, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee Magazine, 4.5 rating on Yelp, Top 100 Milwaukee Restaurants on TripAdvisor, 90 percent on UrbanSpoon and nomination on WISN's A-list."
No doubt, he makes a good dog.
I caught up with Muna recently and not only did he answer the questions I asked, he gave us some big news on a new Downtown locations that's just steps away from CityCenter at 735, the home of OnMilwaukee.
OnMilwaukee.com: What's new?
Mazen Muna: Never a dull moment. The Dogg Haus has expanded greatly from within lately and we're getting more and more calls each day for catering. The catering aspect is great because we tailor each and every event to fit the customer's needs, aiding in brand recognition. We are also now part of a Marquette tradition as we are offering our food at Caffrey's and Murphy's Pub before every Marquette basketball game.
OMC: It seems that "gourmet hot dogs" are a bit of trend on menus, has this impacted your business?
MM: We didn't, obviously, invent the hot dog. Hot dogs have been on menus for a long time. Other restaurants may have them as an "additional" choice but it is our core business. From day one, I wanted to keep it simple. There have been many recommendations to expand the menu into other areas, but I would rather stick to my business model. Focus on one or two things and do them well. It helps a business stand out and for people to remember it when they are in the mood for our offerings.
OMC: If you had to eat just one brand of hot dog, what would you choose and why?
MM: I would choose Vienna Beef with my eyes closed. They use only quality cuts of beef, with no added fillers, which some of the competitors use. Vienna Beef is truly a great company. I have toured the factory many times, and taken my employees on separate field trips there. First, the factory is SQF Certified, which is the highest level of food certification in the industry. The factory has to close 2 times a day for a complete sanitizing from the ceiling to the floors. Besides all of that, quality is what Vienna represents and I wanted to partner with quality.
From a family aspect, I can call the owner or any of his VPs at any time for any reason, meaning they are within direct reach. They are a closely knit circle and very kind people from the office staff, to the factory workers, to the people working in the downstairs Vienna Factory Store. To summarize, they feed the same food that they produce to their families, as well.
OMC: Any expert tips for making/eating hot dogs at home?
MM: First, avoid the microwave. This will ruin the flavor, and make the hot dog chewy or just cook it inconsistently. Next, steam your buns. This is the biggest complaint when people buy food from us to make on their own. 'It just doesn't taste the same,' they say. That is because the buns must be steamed in order to get that pillow-like softness. Finally, avoid ketchup unless it's for a kid. Ketchup takes away from the flavor and hides the true flavor of dog. Cooking wise? Grill for robust flavor, fry for crispness, steam or boil for consistent soft texture.
OMC: You own a car wash/detail business in Downtown, too, right? How is that going?
MM: That is correct. I own Metro Car Wash & Detailing Centre and that is a fantastic business. This was a much needed service for the area. We see everything from Rolls Royces to boats to electric scooters. We offer everything from a basic outside only wash all the way to complete details, paint restoration, and dent removal. Metro has its arms in many buildings Downtown as well.
We take care of clients in the Milwaukee Center, City Center, MSOE, Department of Homeland Security, just to name a few of our contracts. Also, in 2014, look for stationary locations to be built inside of many of Downtown's high-rises, serving only the tenants of those buildings this year, as a value added service for residents of those buildings. Our first location will be within The Moderne.
OMC: Any plans for another Dogg Haus location in the near future?
MM: Yes. Within the next several weeks we will begin the move from the Downtown Dogg Haus on Wisconsin Ave to a new location on Water Street. Specifically, 755 N. Water St., next to Bruegger's Bagels.
Wisconsin Avenue has treated us well, but after a year long survey of where our customers are coming from, it only made sense to widen our stance in the Downtown market and move closer to our customers who may be crunched on time.
The Dogg Haus-Cathedral Square location performance is excellent, and is only three blocks from this new Downtown location so we will still have a close location for those on the east end of Wisconsin Avenue. This new location on Water Street will be nestled in a high density corner, where we are able to solidify our presence for the Downtown market. This leaves no holes.
In regards to other new locations, I cannot say until those deals are done.
OMC: If you could change one thing about the area dining scene, what would it be?
MM: I would love to see a more diverse, quality, affordable, quick serve collection of restaurants that are open late.
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Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer @ShermanJeff
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
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		private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tbG1;
		private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tbB1;
		private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tbR2;
		private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tbB2;
		private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox tbG2;
		private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnOK;
		private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnCancel;
		private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;
		/// <summary>
		/// Required designer variable.
		/// </summary>
		private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

		public ReplaceColorsForm(AnimDoc doc)
		{
			//
			// Required for Windows Form Designer support
			//
			InitializeComponent();

			//
			// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
			//
			m_doc = doc;
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Clean up any resources being used.
		/// </summary>
		protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
		{
			if( disposing )
			{
				if(components != null)
				{
					components.Dispose();
				}
			}
			base.Dispose( disposing );
		}

		#region Windows Form Designer generated code
		/// <summary>
		/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
		/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
		/// </summary>
		private void InitializeComponent()
		{
			this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.label2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.tbR1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.tbG1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.tbB1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.label3 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.label4 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.label5 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.tbR2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.tbB2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.tbG2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
			this.btnOK = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
			this.btnCancel = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
			this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
			this.SuspendLayout();
			//
			// label1
			//
			this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 43);
			this.label1.Name = "label1";
			this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(56, 16);
			this.label1.TabIndex = 0;
			this.label1.Text = "Replace:";
			//
			// label2
			//
			this.label2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 75);
			this.label2.Name = "label2";
			this.label2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 16);
			this.label2.TabIndex = 1;
			this.label2.Text = "With:";
			//
			// tbR1
			//
			this.tbR1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(72, 40);
			this.tbR1.Name = "tbR1";
			this.tbR1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbR1.TabIndex = 0;
			this.tbR1.Text = "0";
			//
			// tbG1
			//
			this.tbG1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 40);
			this.tbG1.Name = "tbG1";
			this.tbG1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbG1.TabIndex = 1;
			this.tbG1.Text = "0";
			//
			// tbB1
			//
			this.tbB1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(168, 40);
			this.tbB1.Name = "tbB1";
			this.tbB1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbB1.TabIndex = 2;
			this.tbB1.Text = "0";
			//
			// label3
			//
			this.label3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(80, 16);
			this.label3.Name = "label3";
			this.label3.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(16, 16);
			this.label3.TabIndex = 3;
			this.label3.Text = "R";
			//
			// label4
			//
			this.label4.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(128, 16);
			this.label4.Name = "label4";
			this.label4.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(16, 16);
			this.label4.TabIndex = 3;
			this.label4.Text = "G";
			//
			// label5
			//
			this.label5.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(176, 16);
			this.label5.Name = "label5";
			this.label5.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(16, 16);
			this.label5.TabIndex = 3;
			this.label5.Text = "B";
			//
			// tbR2
			//
			this.tbR2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(72, 72);
			this.tbR2.Name = "tbR2";
			this.tbR2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbR2.TabIndex = 3;
			this.tbR2.Text = "0";
			//
			// tbB2
			//
			this.tbB2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(168, 72);
			this.tbB2.Name = "tbB2";
			this.tbB2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbB2.TabIndex = 5;
			this.tbB2.Text = "0";
			//
			// tbG2
			//
			this.tbG2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 72);
			this.tbG2.Name = "tbG2";
			this.tbG2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 20);
			this.tbG2.TabIndex = 4;
			this.tbG2.Text = "0";
			//
			// btnOK
			//
			this.btnOK.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 112);
			this.btnOK.Name = "btnOK";
			this.btnOK.TabIndex = 6;
			this.btnOK.Text = "OK";
			this.btnOK.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnOK_Click);
			//
			// btnCancel
			//
			this.btnCancel.DialogResult = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel;
			this.btnCancel.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(136, 112);
			this.btnCancel.Name = "btnCancel";
			this.btnCancel.TabIndex = 7;
			this.btnCancel.Text = "Cancel";
			//
			// button1
			//
			this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 10);
			this.button1.Name = "button1";
			this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(32, 24);
			this.button1.TabIndex = 8;
			this.button1.Text = "Get";
			this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click);
			//
			// ReplaceColorsForm
			//
			this.AcceptButton = this.btnOK;
			this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
			this.CancelButton = this.btnCancel;
			this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(232, 142);
			this.Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] {
																		  this.button1,
																		  this.btnOK,
																		  this.label3,
																		  this.tbR1,
																		  this.label2,
																		  this.label1,
																		  this.tbG1,
																		  this.tbB1,
																		  this.label4,
																		  this.label5,
																		  this.tbR2,
																		  this.tbB2,
																		  this.tbG2,
																		  this.btnCancel});
			this.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog;
			this.MaximizeBox = false;
			this.MinimizeBox = false;
			this.Name = "ReplaceColorsForm";
			this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
			this.StartPosition = System.Windows.Forms.FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
			this.Text = "Replace Colors";
			this.MouseDown += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.ReplaceColorsForm_MouseDown);
			this.MouseMove += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.ReplaceColorsForm_MouseMove);
			this.ResumeLayout(false);

		}
		#endregion

		private void btnOK_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
			foreach (XBitmap xbm in m_doc.XBitmapSet) {
				int nR1 = int.Parse(tbR1.Text);
				int nG1 = int.Parse(tbG1.Text);
				int nB1 = int.Parse(tbB1.Text);

				int nR2 = int.Parse(tbR2.Text);
				int nG2 = int.Parse(tbG2.Text);
				int nB2 = int.Parse(tbB2.Text);

				bool fDirty = MainForm.ReplaceColor(xbm.Bitmap, Color.FromArgb(nR1, nG1, nB1),
						Color.FromArgb(nR2, nG2, nB2), true);

				if (fDirty) {
					xbm.Dirty = fDirty;
					m_doc.Dirty = true;
				}
			}

			// UNDONE: this is a hack. Decide on the right way to force selective refreshes

			Globals.StripControl.Invalidate();
			Globals.PreviewControl.Invalidate();

			DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
		}

		[DllImport("user32.dll", ExactSpelling=true, SetLastError=true)]
		public static extern IntPtr GetDC(IntPtr hWnd);

		[DllImport("user32.dll", ExactSpelling=true)]
		public static extern int ReleaseDC(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hDC);

		[DllImport("gdi32.dll", ExactSpelling=true, SetLastError=true)]
		public static extern Int32 GetPixel(IntPtr hdc, Int32 x, Int32 y);

		private void ReplaceColorsForm_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) {
			if (!Capture)
				return;

			IntPtr hdc = GetDC(IntPtr.Zero);
			Point ptScreen = PointToScreen(new Point(e.X, e.Y));
			Int32 cr = GetPixel(hdc, ptScreen.X, ptScreen.Y);
			tbR1.Text = (cr & 0xff).ToString();
			tbG1.Text = ((cr >> 8) & 0xff).ToString();
			tbB1.Text = ((cr >> 16) & 0xff).ToString();
			ReleaseDC(IntPtr.Zero, hdc);

//			tbR2.Text = ptScreen.X.ToString();
//			tbG2.Text = ptScreen.Y.ToString();
		}

		private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
			Capture = true;
		}

		private void ReplaceColorsForm_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) {
			if (Capture) {
				Capture = false;
			}
		}
	}
}

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Q: Meaning of a sentence in David Copperfield
The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to Doctors' Commons. There was a good deal of competition in the Commons on all points of display, and it turned out some very choice equipages then; though I always have considered, and always shall consider, that in my time the great article of competition there was starch: which I think was worn among the proctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.

Why is starch involved in dresses of proctors and their competitions? Thanks very much.

A: Before washable fabrics for stiffening shirt collars etc. were invented, smart men's shirts had starched collars and cuffs. At the time in which this story is set, high collars were fashionable, and they would have been quite uncomfortable to wear.  The proctors competed as to who could have the smartest carriage and the highest starched collars.

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Our notion of knowledge work is approaching its sixth decade. Having exhausted management fads and novel office furniture arrangements, attention has now turned to meditation as the next performance enhancer for cerebral endeavors.
Mindfulness meditation, a popular Buddhist-derived contemplative practice, has become a business buzzword over the past several years. You'll find mindfulness heralded in The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The LA Times, Forbes and The HBR again and again and again. Google has a famous mindfulness program. NYU is teaching mindfulness at their business school. Mindfulness will make you a better recruiter, a better CEO, and a better pro basketball player. There is an exclusive conference at which executives can explore the intersection of mindfulness and business. Here in Portland, a former Simple coworker has cofounded a meditation center aimed at professionals. Finally, from America's heartland, the Indiana Gazette says "meditation is settling into the mainstream".
It did help, and still does when I make time for it. I'm by no means an expert on mindfulness in particular or meditation in general, but I can say that I've had an on-again, off-again meditation practice for more than 15 years. I've read a lot on the subject, from research to scripture. I've taken classes, but never gone on a retreat. My personal practice is secular, yet my appreciation for meditation's unarguable religious roots is sincere.
When I read about the general spread of mindfulness, I'm gladdened and encouraged. It is a simple thing, available as freely as breath to practically every human, that can steady our faltering steps on the path of life. I would not begrudge anyone their mindfulness practice, no matter what form it takes.
The current adoption of mindfulness in business is wrapped up in the idea of the "quantified self", an individualistic outcropping of the corporate habit of foisting difficult decisions onto (often questionable) statistical models. Research has made discussing meditation socially acceptable amongst the self-serious. With data in hand, mindfulness is no longer woo-woo: there is a chart, and the line on the chart goes up and to the right, and so the monk is given a badge and pointed towards the office cafeteria.
I do not, as I said, begrudge anyone their mindfulness practice. If you are meditating because adding ten additional IQ points appeals to you, or you want to shave a few minutes off your daily programming tasks, there is no harm in those goals. I've enjoyed such benefits from my own practice.
As I've progressed in my career, my mindfulness practice has progressed as well. No coincidence, then, that I find myself more radical and questioning of our capitalist system at an age (and in a tax bracket) that's most commonly associated with creeping conservatism. I credit my practice not just for helping me to survive the stresses of work, but for putting that work in context. Sometimes, that new context has led me to serious reevaluations of my priorities.
One of the first things a new meditator learns is that sitting in contemplation is not always pleasant. Your body may ache, and you are forced to feel it. Your heart may ache, and there is nothing to distract you from it. We sit with our suffering, and in doing so we foster the empathy that lets us genuinely engage with the suffering of others. If you have not yet had that experience in your own practice, you are fortunate, because it is there, waiting to transform you, when you're ready.


Anaheim, CA and Luxembourg -- Panasonic Avionics Corporation announced today an agreement with Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, for capacity on the high performance Intelsat EpicNG platform. Panasonic has selected the Intelsat 33e satellite to provide coverage and capacity for its Global Communications Services over one of the fastest growing air travel regions in the world.
The agreement will enable Panasonic to deliver the industry's highest bandwidth service to airplanes traveling from Europe to South East Asia and Europe to North Asia. It also provides capacity and coverage for intra-region routes including missions over Russia and the Middle East.
This new service region complements the U.S. and North Atlantic services that will be provided by the first announced Epic satellite, Intelsat 29e. Intelsat 33e is the second of five announced Epic-class satellites, and is expected to launch in 2016.
Like Intelsat 29e, Intelsat 33e delivers high power Ku-band spot beams that offer extremely high data throughput for Panasonic's Global Communications Services, which include eXConnect in-flight Wi-Fi and eXPhone mobile phone services. It also offers wide beams that support Panasonic's unique global eXTV live television. The combination of coverage provided by Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 29e will provide spot beam service for heavily traveled air routes that account for more than 50% of the world's commercially scheduled flight hours.
"This is the second major commitment by Panasonic to the high throughput Intelsat EpicNG platform, and it will enable us to continue to provide unparalleled aeronautical broadband service to airline customers that fly missions all across the globe," said Paul Margis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Panasonic Avionics Corporation.
The Epic design, fully integrated with the Intelsat network, makes intelligent use of spectrum, delivering more bandwidth over the regions with the highest requirements while also achieving global coverage.
"This agreement will enable Panasonic to meet the growing demand for broadband connectivity to airlines, delivering the live television, phone and Internet services that today's travelers demand," said Intelsat President and Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Spengler. "As the need for these solutions continues to climb, the open architecture, backward compatible EpicNG platform, with its combination of wide beams and spot beams, will offer Panasonic the throughput and performance needed to meet tomorrow's communications requirements."
Intelsat 33e will be fully integrated with Intelsat's global communication infrastructure, including connectivity to Intelsat's teleport in Germany, part of the IntelsatOne network. Intelsat's terrestrial capabilities include international voice and data private line connectivity, direct access to the Internet backbone, and teleport co-location services for service providers such as Panasonic.
Intelsat EpicNG will serve as a complementary overlay to Intelsat's existing global broadband mobility platform, which consists of 11 beams on seven satellites covering all of the world's busiest shipping and aeronautical routes.


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American coach Dan Gaspar heads to third World Cup as Iran books Russia tickets
by Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla, Jun 13, 2017
By Mike Woitalla
@MikeWoitalla
Iran clinching a spot at the 2018 World Cup means American coach Dan Gaspar is heading to his third World Cup. Gaspar has for the last six years served as Iran's goalkeeper coach and assistant to its Portuguese head coach, Carlos Queiroz.
Iran's qualifying for Russia marks the first time Team Melli has reached back-to-back World Cups.
Carlos Queiroz (left) and Dan Gaspar. (Photo courtesy Dan Gaspar)
"It has been amazing coaching Iran to two consecutive World Cups," says Gaspar. "Over the past six years, we have seen the positive impact of our implementing our methods and system. That's very rewarding. We have been fortunate to have been allowed the time to make a difference, which often times coaches not have."
Gaspar, a Connecticut native who played goalkeeper at the University of Hartford in the 1970s and served as its head coach in 2005-2010, assisted Queiroz with the MLS's MetroStars in 1996.
He also served as Portugal's goalkeeper coach under Queiroz at the 2010 World Cup and joined Queiroz's staff with Iran for its successful qualifying campaign for the 2014 World Cup.
"I live in Tehran and visit my family periodically," he says. "That's the sacrifice my family has made to support my career and dreams. Living in Tehran gave me the opportunity to appreciate their fascinating culture and live among its proud people. I have grown to admire both. I've been treated with the utmost respect."
On Monday, Iran beat Uzbekistan, 2-0, to clinch first-place in Asia Group A, with two games to spare, and a spot at Russia 2018. Team Melli became the second team to book a ticket for the 2018 World Cup after Brazil, joining host Russia in what will be a 32-team tournament.
Iran conceded only two goals in its eight games (six wins, two ties) in Group A qualifying play.
"Iran goalkeepers have strong qualities," Gaspar says. "They are humble and hungry to grow and learn. Sound technically and athletically gifted. Great work ethic and brave.
"As with most goalkeepers at the highest levels, processing decisions, handling crosses effectively and positive distribution are areas we need to focus on. Since we have taken on this interesting project, we have had several goalkeepers who have been identified and are now performing overseas. That has never happened in the past. I believe that is a good sign that Iranian goalkeepers are earning respect internationally."
Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand and Dan Gaspar. (Photo courtesy Dan Gaspar)
Iran also qualified in 2006, 1998 (when it beat the USA, 2-1), and 1978 (with a team that included current Dallas Texans' coaching director Hassan Nazari, and future New York Cosmos defender Andranik Eskandarian, whose son Alecko played on D.C. United's 2004 MLS championship team).
At the 2014 World Cup, Iran exited in the first round but held Argentina scoreless until Lionel Messi connected in the first minute of stoppage time -- between a 0-0 tie with Nigeria and 3-1 loss to Bosnia & Herzegovina.
"I have enormous gratitude and admiration for the Team Melli players," Gaspar says. "Despite the many obstacles, they have played with courage, determination and love for their people.
"We create a team spirit where everyone is important within our group. We truly live the philosophy 'team above individual.' We focus on the process rather than the success. We believe the results will come. ... We pay extreme attention to detail. Coach Queiroz sees things that no one else does.
"The passionate Iranian soccer fans both domestically and internationally offered us unbelievable support during the entire journey."
In addition to Gaspar's coaching in the USA, including as head coach of the USL's Connecticut Wolves, he's coached in Japan, South Africa and Portugal, with FC Porto and youth national teams in the early 1990s.
Any difference in coaching Iranian players compared to his other experiences?
"Coaching U.S. players, it's normal in their environment to challenge the coach as to 'Why?'" he says. "The Iranian players execute what the coach demands.
"But soccer is soccer. I've been blessed to have worked on four different continents. Training players from different cultures has its uniqueness, but at the end of the day all players at the highest levels are hungry to succeed."
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3 comments about "American coach Dan Gaspar heads to third World Cup as Iran books Russia tickets ".
Carlos Rocha, June 13, 2017 at 7:34 p.m.
Good stuff Dan, congrats!
Nick Daverese, June 14, 2017 at 7:41 a.m.
That was interesting. I forgot Carlos was their manager. Remember when he wrote how the US was going to win the WC by 2010? I wonder when he will write another on when Iran will win WC. I could be wrong on this, but I don't ever remember Carlos smiling after a Metro star game even after a win.
Nick Daverese, June 15, 2017 at 12:05 a.m.
Well they certainly broaden their horizons working in Iran. I also see they beat Uzbekistan 2-0. I used to work in Uzbekistan years ago. Non football related their army basically runs the country. When we went out we had the army to protect us. I took my teenage son at that time he is 46 now with me on a trip. I told him to behave I wanted him to see their holy city Samarkand it is a wonder of the world.
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Q: I want to replace all the images embedded in various xlsx files with a different image currently the images are not being replaced in the modified xlsx files.
Also I would like some help in modifying this code so that it can find and replace the images in any cell and not just in cell A1
This my code:
import os
from openpyxl import load_workbook
from openpyxl.drawing.image import Image
from PIL import Image as PILImage

# Get folder path and image file path from user
folder_path = input("Enter path to folder containing xlsx files: ").replace('"','')
image_file_path = input("Enter path to image file: ").replace('"','')

# Load the image file using Pillow
image = PILImage.open(image_file_path)

# Loop through all xlsx files in the folder
for filename in os.listdir(folder_path):
    if filename.endswith('.xlsx'):
        # Load the xlsx file using openpyxl
        workbook = load_workbook(os.path.join(folder_path, filename))

        # Loop through all sheets in the workbook
        for sheet_name in workbook.sheetnames:
            sheet = workbook[sheet_name]

            # Replace the image in cell A1 with the new image provided by the user
            if sheet['A1']._value is not None and hasattr(sheet['A1']._value, 'img'):
                old_image = sheet['A1']._value.img
                old_image.ref = sheet['A1'].coordinate
                new_image = Image(image_file_path)
                new_image.width = image.width
                new_image.height = image.height
                sheet._images.remove(old_image)
                sheet._images.append(new_image)

        # Save the modified workbook in the same folder
        parent_folder_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.join(folder_path, filename))
        new_file_path = os.path.join(parent_folder_path, 'modified_' + filename)
        workbook.save(new_file_path)


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Ahead of bankruptcy exit, Windstream Holdings posts loss of $162 million in Q2
31 Jul Ahead of bankruptcy exit, Windstream Holdings posts loss of $162 million in Q2
With the expected emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late August, sunnier days are ahead for Windstream Holdings. In what most likely will be its last earnings report before becoming a privately-held company, Windstream reported a net loss of $162.4 million in Q2 Thursday morning.Windstream's quarterly revenues were $1.185 billion, which was down from $1.286 billion in the same quarter a year ago. On the other hand, Windstream's second quarter net loss of $162.4 million was a marked improvement from last year's loss of $544.1 million.
Windstream added 22,000 Kinetic broadband subscribers in the second quarter, which was the company's highest quarter net subscriber additions in over a decade.
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In the first six months of this year, Windstream has reeled in more than 40,000 net new subscribers. Based on those results, Windstream increased its 2020 full-year guidance to 60,000 net new broadband subscribers.
On the pre-recorded earnings call, Windstream CEO Tony Thomas said more Kinetic broadband subscriber opportunities were ahead across its ILEC footprint. Windstream is also aggressively building out its fiber footprint with the addition of $2 billion in capital in order to offer its 1-Gig broadband service in rural areas.
Thomas said 56% of Windstream's Kinetic customer base now has speeds of 25 Mbps or greater, which was up from 47% a year ago.
"While this is impressive year-over-year growth, we still have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to increase the number of customers that enjoy these faster broadband speed tiers," Thomas said on the earnings call. "Windstream remains the nation's largest SD-WAN service provider with 3,200 SD-WAN customers under contract representing over 29,000 endpoint locations. OfficeSuite demand also remains strong as we now have approximately 550,000 UCaaS seats installed."
For the first six months of this year, Windstream Enterprise's revenues increased 24% compared to the first half of 2019.
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Among other opportunities, Thomas said Windstream plans to participate in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction in October. In January, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its RDOF program for faster broadband speeds in order to help close the digital divide in rural areas. RDOF will push out up to $20.4 billion in funding over the next 10 years to build and connect gigabit broadband speeds in unserved rural areas.
RELATED: Windstream's restructuring plan gets green light from judge as it targets late August to emerge from Chapter 11
After a federal bankruptcy judge signed off on its re-organization plans in June, Windstream has lightened its debt load by $4 billion. Windstream also reorganized its governance, which included naming some of its creditors to seats on the company's new board of directors. Windstream announced its new board of directors earlier this week.
RELATED: Windstream builds new board ahead of exit from Chapter 11
The reorganization plan eliminated junior bondholders who were owed close to $2.4 billion, converted some senior debt to equity and made Elliott Management Windstream's largest shareholder.
Windstream has operated under of Chapter 11 bankruptcy since February of last year after it lost a legal battle with New York hedge fund Aurelius Capital Management over whether Windstream had defaulted on bonds by spinning off the Uniti Group four years ago.
As part of that spinoff, Windstream transferred copper-based network assets to Uniti, which Windstream leased back from Uniti to serve its 1.4 million residential and business customers across its 18-state footprint. Windstream was paying $54 million per month to Uniti for access to Uniti's network assets.
The master lease with Uniti was set to expire in 2030, and had an annual rent of approximately $659 million. Windstream filed a complaint against Uniti on July 25 that sought to re-characterize its relationship with Uniti from a lease to a financing arrangement.
For months, Windstream and Uniti couldn't come to an agreement on the terms of the master lease and were headed to a court date earlier this year before agreeing to new terms in early March. Windstream's plan for ditching Chapter 11 received a boost in May when Judge Robert Drain, of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, approved Windstream's settlement agreement with Uniti Group.
As part of a lease renegotiation, Uniti Group agreed in March to invest up to $1.75 billion in growth capital improvements, including "long-term fiber" and related assets in certain Windstream CLEC and ILEC properties.
Thomas has said that Windstream would use some of that investment to deliver 1 Gig internet speed to approximately half of its Kinetic broadband footprint that serves consumers and small businesses.
Uniti will also pay Windstream approximately $490 million and buy certain unused and underutilized dark fiber assets from Windstream for an additional $285 million rights of use (IRU) rights of contract, which currently generate about $21 million in annual EBITDA, and its rights to use 1.8 million fiber strand miles currently leased by Windstream that are either unutilized or utilized for the dark fiber IRUs being transferred.
"I am excited to report that our path to emerge from restructuring is clear," Thomas said on the Q2 earnings call. "Our settlement with Uniti enhances Windstream's cash flow profile by nearly $300 million per year from 2021 to 2024.
"As a private company, Windstream will have increased flexibility to invest in our network, accelerate our transformation and return to growth."


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'At 90, all your sins are forgiven'
George Seldes outlasts his critics
By Tom Hawthorn
George Seldes has been called every name in the book: scoundrel, troublemaker, Red. Sometimes he was called nothing at all. He swears that for 40 years his name never soiled the pages of The New York Times - and that was worse.
But Seldes outlasted every one of his critics and, at 97, is at work on his 22nd book. The recent publication of his memoir, Witness to a Century, even earned him a review in the Times. It was, of course, unfavourable.
Seldes has come to expect such treatment. He was kicked out of revolutionary Russia by Trotsky, and banished from Italy by Mussolini.
He fared little better at home, where his vociferous criticisms of the tobacco and newspaper industries led them to vilify his name.
For years no publisher would touch his work, and Seldes seemed destined to live out his life embittered and forgotten in a farmhouse in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
But after Warren Beatty interviewed him as one of his "witnesses" in the 1981 movie Reds, Seldes became the subject of newspaper and magazine profiles. Abigail van Buren, who writes the syndicated newspaper column Dear Abby, urged her readers to buy his books.
The old muckraker has lived long enough to see his reputation rehabilitated in his lifetime.
"At 90, all your sins are forgiven," says Seldes, who won a prestigious George Polk award for journalism six years ago. "I'm pushing 98. It's a little late for all this recognition and all this cash."
Ballantine Books will publish his current effort, which is tentatively titled To Hell With the Joys of Old Age. It opens with the sentence: "Retirement is the dirtiest 10-letter word in the English language."
Seldes, who has been a reporter for almost 80 years, is press critic and gadfly rolled into one. He led the way for both A.J. Liebling and I.F. Stone, who acknowledges his debt by calling Seldes "the granddaddy of us investigative reporters."
Seldes lives in a book-lined farmhouse in Hartland-4-Corners, where he pecks at the same 50-year-old typewriter he has used to write his last dozen books. On one wall hangs a portrait of Seldes done on the streets of Paris for a modest 10 francs. The artist was a yet undiscovered Alexander Calder.
Seldes says he owes his remarkable career to one simple ethic: Let the facts speak for themselves.
"I was trained that news is news no matter where it originates," he says.
Seldes was born in a Utopian colony founded by his father in New Jersey. The Russian writer Maxim Gorky was an early visitor, and the first of an impressive line of personages that Seldes would meet. He also recalls reading letters his father got from Prince Kropotkin, the anarchist, and Tolstoy.
He was hired as a cub reporter by the Pittsburgh Leader for $3.50 a week in 1909. The teen-ager soon won a front-page story when the politician William Jennings Bryan, clad in a one-piece suit of woolly underwear, evicted the pup from his hotel room for the impertinence of his questioning.
He interviewed Teddy Roosevelt and steel tycoon Andrew Mellon, but lost his reporting job after Rev. Billy Sunday visited Pittsburgh during a revivalist campaign. Seldes wrote that when Sunday called on sinners to come forward to repent, the first to do so were frauds paid to lure others from the crowd.
He was a war correspondent during the First World War and was later hired by the Chicago Tribune foreign news service. His beat stretched from Berlin to Baghdad, he liked to say, and he covered Balkan kings and Baltic presidents.
He was with Woodrow Wilson during the making of the Treaty of Versailles, knew Douglas MacArthur when he was still a colonel, and interviewed Hindenburg and Lenin. He met Hitler at a party in 1925 and found him insignificant.
Seldes covered the Spanish Civil War for the New York Post, and with his wife stayed in the same small hotel that housed Ernest Hemingway, who, though he fought with Seldes, called him "a damn fine newspaperman."
Seldes counted Theodore Dreiser among his cronies, and Sinclair Lewis bought him his first home in Vermont.
"Hemingway, Lewis, Dreiser, every one of them was a genuine newspaperman," Seldes said. "They became reporters not because they looked at it as a stepping stone to becoming novelists. They intended to make it their life's business, but something always stepped in and they went out."
Seldes briefly tried his hand at fiction, but declared his work a disaster and returned to what he felt so comfortable compiling - facts.
Near the end of the Depression, Seldes and Hemingway were hired by Esquire magazine editor Arnold Gingrich to write columns for a new publication to be called Ken.
"Ken magazine was one of the greatest disappointments of my life," Seldes says. "We would have had millions backing us in a big, illustrated publication like Life or Look. It was going to be called Ken: One Step Left of Centre. And the advertising agencies said, 'one step left of centre and you don't get one page of advertising.' And that killed it."
Soon after, Seldes founded his own magazine, a four-page weekly. It was to be a journal of press criticism and he called it In Fact: An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press. For a reporter who began his career during the final days of the muckraking era, the newsletter cast a much- needed spotlight on an industry too long free of criticism.
"You can't imagine the days when you could buy the editorial policy of any paper in Pittsburgh for a $2-an-inch ad," he says. "Things like that don't happen any more."
In Fact was launched with $1,500 raised by 6,000 labor subscriptions at 25 cents each. Seldes wrote every word, but he was aided by about 200 reporters working for daily newspapers who sent him stories they could not get published. In Fact's circulation grew to 100,000, before dropping to 57,000 in 1950 after a 10-year run.
Seldes is credited with being the first reporter to document in print the link between tobacco and cancer as revealed by research at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1938.
"That was suppressed by every newspaper in the United States," he says, his indignation years after the fact seemingly as fresh as it was that day. "Not a newspaper would touch it."
Seldes has long railed against newspaper owners who in his eyes betrayed the public's health because they feared losing advertising revenue from cigaret companies.
The matter infuriates him still. For Seldes, the good fight will end when he does.
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Master attends to a dying technology
Jes Vowles shows off a Hermes portable. Photo by Deddeda White.
This column originally appeared in the Globe and Mail eight years ago. It is being reposted on the sad occasion of the closing of Type'n Write, the last store of its kind on southern Vancouver Island.
The machines rest in tidy rows, silent slaves awaiting the touch of a master.
Most require electricity, yet a handful need only the thick-fingered thumping of well-aimed digits.
On any given day, customers enter Type'n Write and do just that.
They flick on a switch, or simply begin hammering.
"Now is the time for all good men. . . ." Or, "The quick brown fox jumped. . . ."
Errors are quickly, if untidily, dismissed by a row of XXXXXXXs.
The other day a feeble woman of advanced age braced herself before an IBM Selectric. Switched on, the machine purred. She rubbed her fingertips across the keys. Soon, the shop was filled with a staccato rhythm, stiff fingers repeating old familiar patterns.
To those of a certain age, the noise is the sound of a novel being composed, or a newspaper article being hammered out on deadline. It is the sound of work being done.
The typewriter is a 19th-century innovation overshadowed by a 21st-century communications revolution. It creates snail mail in an age of e-mail, making it the buggy whip of office machines.
Yet the old beasts have a romance to them. Those who persist in using clunky typewriters instead of a pocket BlackBerry regard their machines as a trusted friend, a companion for the most intimate confessions. Toss it on the rubbish heap for gadgetry? Impossible.
Type'n Write remains a refuge for those who prefer the old ways.
When owner Jes Vowles bought the business a quarter-century ago, the store was one of a dozen offering typewriter repairs. Today, his is the one of the last two listed in Victoria's Yellow Pages.
On average, a machine arrives for repairs every other day. Some weeks, a dozen will be stacked awaiting Mr. Vowles's restorative touch. Tourists passing through town drop their machines off at the store, then pick them up on their way home. Other machines arrive by courier.
The philosophy of the city's last typewriter doctor is a simple one: "Just do 'em. Get 'em done. On to the next one."
At 52, Mr. Vowles has spent half his life squinting at the bowels of most every model of typewriter.
The son of a carpenter, he worked as an auto body mechanic before buying his own shop on Quadra Street, north of Hillside. He is a shy, soft-spoken man whose workplace is full of the tools of a fading trade.
A crowded drawer holds files, brushes, screwdrivers and torque pliers. A vise and air gun share space on a workbench on which tools rest against forgotten cups of cold coffee.
He is surrounded by boxes of parts and a library of repair manuals. A nearby shelf holds cans of WD-40 and Brasso. A magnifying glass is within reach, as is a bottle of Windex.
He can take apart a machine with the light touch of a surgeon, yet most of his repairs are more mundane. The typewriter has a No. 1 enemy: "Dirt," he says. "Things get sticky. You get the odd part that breaks. Sometimes you have to file things to get them to work. Usually, though, it's dirt."
Gunk accumulates underneath the machine, where dust and grease create a sludge that sometimes gums up the works. Hands that work on typewriters seem to defy cleanliness, as anyone who has ever replaced a ribbon knows.
In the front of the shop, shelves groan under the weight of used machines for sale. The brand names are a challenge to even the most adept typist -- the Xerox 6010, Canon AP100, Sharp PA-3000II, Brother AX-400, Olivetti ET110, Underwood 5500, Panasonic KX-E4020, Smith-Corona XD 5900, Sears Correct-O-Ball XL-I.
They describe themselves as "memorywriters" and "personal word processors." One boasts a "Spell-Right Dictionary."
Each must have seemed like a gift from the Jetsons when they arrived in an office; yet all were soon made obsolete by the computer boom. From cutting-edge technology to museum piece, in the space of a generation.
Type'n Write has for sale a few manual typewriters, including a sleek, Swiss-made Hermes Baby portable and an Olympia Monica with a standard QWERTY keyboard supplemented by exotic Polish diacritics such as the kreska, ogonek and superior dot.
The shop can also be a magnet for typewriter aficionados on a quest to replace parts. (A box of metal printwheels for Wang Printers awaits what no doubt will some day be a most gratified and surprised customer.) The store's south wall is filled with dusty boxes of hard-to-find stationery supplies, including pen nibs, Ko-Rec-Type ribbons, and a rainbow assortment of Liquid Paper, including the elusive goldenrod.
Typewriter people come through the door full of apologies for relying on old technology. Here, they are among those who understand the appeal of the clack of metal heads striking silk ribbon and paper rolled on a rubber platen, not to mention the satisfying ding of a bell announcing the end of another line of prose.
"They don't think anyone's around to work on them any more," Mr. Vowles says. "They're surprised. And glad."
These may be the last of the typewriter people. Smith Corona, which once rolled off the tongue as a synonym for typewriter, has already lost its familiarity.
"I get people calling asking for Smith & Wesson ribbon," says Jo Miles, who handles customers while Mr. Vowles performs his wonders. "No one has asked for bullets yet, thank God."
The shop even sold atypewriter last week.
Why would anyone buy a typewriter in the age of wireless laptops capable of accessing the world's accumulated knowledge with a few keystrokes?
"NEWAC," Ms. Miles replies succinctly.
"Not Everybody Wants a Computer."
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Letters: Lumpen gangstas, Manilow's roadie and good parenting
Readers respond to recent articles about Snoop Dogg and Tom Waits. Plus: Robert W. Firestone on child rearing.
Published May 16, 2001 7:00PM (EDT)
This letter is regarding the article on the career of Snoop Dogg. I think it is sad that the series outlining the lives of brilliant careers should stoop to an essay on rap's place in society, instead of telling us where Snoop came from and what makes him tick. If there is little or nothing more to tell of his life than the few paragraphs that were written, maybe an article about him isn't warranted. I am a fan of all music, including rap, but an article on rap's place in society is hardly sufficient when a life story is what the article is supposed to describe. Save your soapbox for something else.
Also, as a fan of country as well, I think the statements you made about this genre are stereotypical and wrong. I know that rap fans are tired of hearing people complain that all rap is about "killin' and bitches" and whatnot, but these same people think that country is about "divorce and losing your tractor." I challenge you to listen to a country station and find one song that fits your extreme stereotype of song content. As far as stereotypes go, rap fits theirs much more than country does.
-- Jason Ellis
The author of this piece has a Snoop fetish and is hardly objective.
Snoop Dogg has flow, and lyrical wit. Unfortunately his consciousness is centered around survival, sex and power. Snoop offers no solution to the current "fucked up" situation. He offers no way forward. He merely places black men more strongly in place in the dominance hierarchy.
For clear conscious hip-hop I recommend an examination of KRS-One, a virtual prophet for the shift in consciousness we are in the middle of.
-- Siri Dhyan Singh
While Snoop Dogg is a very talented rapper, Stephen Lemons' profile really misses the mark. Lemons calls the music a "menace to authority" and supposes that it really constitutes some kind of meaningful rebellion against society's norms. In reality, this music is no more dangerous to society than nose piercings.
Ever since NWA hit big with songs like "F*ck the Police," there's been a big market for selling gangsta rap to white teenagers as carefully packaged rebellion. Now, that's all fine and well, and I don't begrudge Snoop Dogg his piece of the same pie that has gone to Kiss, Mötley Crüe and Limp Bizkit at various times. But to call it anything more meaningful than that is rather foolish.
-- Andrew Norris
Mighty puckering. Seems that Lemons thinks "literature" is all sputter. And that lumpen gangsta rappers are the real rebels. No rich guy ever overthrew any system in this neighborhood, no matter his color or whether his car hopped. And never will. They are rebels, bought and paid for by radio and MTV and a record company. Someone once said the "revolution won't be televised" and he was right. Rebellion, packaged and ultimately impotent. Rabelais, Bacchus and de Sade never overthrew anything ... except their lunch. Good reach though; got the story on Salon. You a real rebel! Ha!
-- Greg Gibbs
I used to be a roadie for Barry Manilow, back in the mid '70s and, FYI, his band would always listen to Tom Waits while waiting to go onstage. It seemed to have some kind of balancing effect for them.
-- Paul Brin
Kudos on a fine Tom Waits profile -- and I feel like I've read just about every damn one ever written. I am especially delighted that we are of the same mind about his raison d'être being summed up in the "Somewhere" cover -- my mom had the same gawdawful Streisand tape when I was a kid, and I felt the same feeling of satisfaction when I finally got my mitts on "Blue Valentine" years later. I also felt a similar relief when I discovered that Bette Midler hadn't written "Shiver Me Timbers" and "Downtown Train" wasn't Stewart's; I had been having a minor identity crisis due to my fondness for these songs, and I felt like my taste had been exonerated.
I am also pleased that you are of the "Swordfishtrombones" school, but why omit the effect that Kathleen Brennan has had on his recording career? It's no coincidence that his work took that wonderfully aberrant left turn after they got hitched.
-- Nicky
I'm deeply disappointed in your character description of Mr. Waits based loosely on song lyrics and old magazine interviews. What's next, an article on Sly Stallone praising him for really kicking the Russians' behinds? Or maybe you could discuss Britney Spears' love life based on the lyrics of "(Hit Me) Baby One More Time."
As most Waits fans know, his stories can be taken with a grain of salt, and his quippy one-liners are generally rehearsed, as being a talented performer can be listed under Waits' many assets. Most disappointing is that your journalist almost had an inkling that he was writing about a performer, but managed to stray off track. All in all, I would consider the article an online equivalent of writing KISS lyrics on your spiral notebook.
-- Dan Nawara
As a clinical psychologist who has devoted much of the past 40 years to promoting compassionate parenting, I understand too well that few subjects provoke more media distortion and parental defensiveness than exposing emotionally abusive child-rearing patterns in the nuclear family. We have as a society thankfully begun to challenge physical and sexual abuse, but emotional child abuse can be just as damaging. Only recently has the public become informed about how well-meaning parents often unintentionally harm their children emotionally by stifling their aliveness and feelings, mistaking emotional hunger for love or failing to understand or meet their need for respectful and affectionate treatment.
Even normal media caricature was exceeded, however, by this article's ridiculous claim that "parents should not be allowed to raise their own children." The truth is to the contrary. Encouraging parents to raise their own children with love and decency has been at the heart of my work and that of my colleagues at the Glendon Association, including the book "Compassionate Child-Rearing," nine videos, more than a dozen articles and a child-rearing curriculum that has been taught to thousands of parents around the country, and in Canada and Costa Rica.
It has never been my intention to participate in any form of parent bashing or blaming of parents that has been sometimes correctly and often mistakenly associated with the psychology profession. There is a great deal of difference between parental accountability and blame. First of all, as I have stressed throughout my work, "I am in no way opposed to families or familial ties; indeed, the close, harmonious, loving relationship with my wife and children is my highest value. My position is not that the nuclear family is inherently detrimental to human growth and development, but that in a large number of families in our society it has developed into a destructive institution." -- Preface, "Combating Destructive Thought Processes," 1997. My desire has always been to recognize and correct the flaws in our child-rearing patterns, not disband family values.
Secondly, my book "Compassionate Child-Rearing" (1990) was written for the express purpose of helping parents who are struggling to raise their children effectively. As I wrote in the preface, "There is no single cause of specific symptoms or mental aberrations. All psychological functions are multi-determined, and in some cases, hereditary characteristics and biological predisposition clearly outweigh environmental components in the etiology of ego weakness, maladjustment, and psychological disturbance."
However, in relation to the subject of genetic predisposition and its effects, there is little that can be done and it is far more productive to focus on negative environmental influences that are mutable. New information from neurological studies of early brain development conducted by Bruce Perry, Allan Schore, Daniel Siegel and Bessel van der Kolk show conclusively that unresolved traumatic elements in parents' own lives have adverse effects on the growth of aspects of the young child's brain, especially between birth and 3 years. Those areas have to do with the ability to regulate emotions and the capacity for empathy, crucial to the formation of a secure attachment between parent and child and to new persons later on. These findings tend to support my opinion that in most cases, the impact of the interpersonal environment on children in all probability exceeds the influence of innate predisposition. In other words, brain-imaging studies are beginning to show us how early emotional interactions impact the child's developing brain on a physiological level, and they emphasize the importance of an emotionally nurturing environment during the early years.
Our conclusion based on clinical findings and research on attachment theory reveals the fact that parents tend to reenact the destructive patterns that hurt them unless they develop insight and work through their emotional problems. Every psychologist knows that parents who beat their children were usually victims of physical abuse themselves, but it is important to realize that the same phenomenon occurs in instances of emotional abuse.
I have an understanding of Sweeney's disturbed reaction to my ideas in the Salon article. The discoveries I made about widespread damaging family practices were also disturbing to me as they opened up my own conflicts in relation to parenting. Originally, I had no intention of investigating the structure of the nuclear family. However, years of clinical experience with patients and their families have convinced me of certain unavoidable and painful truths about negative family interactions.
Despite my resistance, I had to question and break down my idealized perception of family life. As I explored the lives of my patients and the critical issues raised by parents, in a sample population of high-functioning individuals who participated in a longitudinal study of three-generations of family life, I became increasingly aware that the defenses that children form in an attempt to protect themselves against the interpersonal pain they experienced in their families were a primary causative factor in psychopathology.
In my research, there were several core issues that were found to cause children harm. Parental ambivalence and negative images of self were projected onto children and often led to excessive criticism or punishment. Emotional hunger or need on the part of immature parents led to excessive demands on the child. Personal contact with the child with an absence of appropriate feeling was particularly detrimental. The utilization of children as a way of living through them or as a defense mechanism against death anxiety required children to replicate their parents attitudes and behaviors in a manner that seriously impaired the child's autonomy. Parental role playing instead of simple human contact, failed to offer children an authentic role model.
It has always been my understanding that identifying a problem eventually leads to better solutions. We acknowledge the problems of violence, addiction, suicide, mental illness and the widespread use of dangerous drugs by our children. Why not attempt to get at the core of these concerns, seek the underlying truth, however frightening, and confront the myths of families in our society? Can't they afford to be scrutinized?
One interesting insight into family life was that we discovered that there was value in extending the isolated family unit. Many times children from dysfunctional families were spared psychological disturbance because of a positive relationship with a friend or family member who offered special love and support. Research has suggested that the extended family unit is more ideal, and the optimal number of people associated with the growing child would be anywhere between four and five adults. In communities and societies that were more social and less isolated there was a minimum of child abuse and a declination in the suicide rate. We suggest that parents sharing child rearing functions with close friends can be advantageous.
In a video documentary, "Invisible Child Abuse," broadcast on PBS television networks, 1994-1998, I described the two-fold purpose of our parenting groups: "One, for the parents to talk about their problems and behavior toward their children, a normal focus of such groups, but secondly for the parents to look into their own childhoods to see what hurt their development. Only by developing a compassionate attitude toward themselves and how they were treated were they able to improve their parenting practices." My colleagues and I see parents, as we see all human beings, as having experienced a certain amount of unnecessary suffering in their growing up. We are not pessimistic and believe that they can overcome their negative compulsions toward their children if they work through the problems of their own backgrounds.
The video ends with the following statement: "While it can be disturbing to closely examine our established child-rearing practices and their results, a more complete understanding of how these practices affect children and their future can offer valuable insight and enable us to have more compassion for ourselves. Perhaps in future generations, parents could learn to value their own lives and allow their children to preserve their human heritage rather than partially taking back the life they gave. Perhaps in future generations, parents would no longer be 'the lost children.'"
-- Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D.


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RESULTLoss Varsity baseball @ Lumberton.
The Seventy-First varsity baseball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Lumberton (NC) by a score of 17-0.
Drayton's baseball stats have been updated for the loss @ Hoke County.
RESULTLoss Varsity baseball @ Hoke County.
The Seventy-First varsity baseball team lost Friday's away conference game against Hoke County (Raeford, NC) by a score of 10-0.
Drayton's baseball stats have been updated for the loss vs. Hoke County.
RESULTLoss Varsity baseball vs. Hoke County.
The Seventy-First varsity baseball team lost Tuesday's home conference game against Hoke County (Raeford, NC) by a score of 14-0.
Drayton's baseball stats have been updated for the loss @ Pinecrest.
RESULTLoss Varsity baseball @ Pinecrest.
The Seventy-First varsity baseball team lost Friday's away conference game against Pinecrest (Southern Pines, NC) by a score of 13-1.