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Michigan Football: Jim Harbaugh releases 2017 roster, featuring only old players
Alex Butler
Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh kept it close to the khakis when it came to revealing the team's roster.
So much so that he wouldn't release a serious roster until Wednesday. Harbaugh revealed a position-by-position outline on Monday. The roster included Tom Brady, Chad Henne and Jake Rudock at quarterback. It also had Denard Robinson at running back and Devin Funchess at wide receiver, among many other alumni-turned-NFL players.
On Wednesday, Harbaugh posted an acutal roster to his Twitter account. That list of talent included only current players.
"Proud to announce the 2017 Michigan Football roster," Harbaugh wrote on the post.
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But on Monday, the Michigan coach was having fun. Harbaugh, who wore cleats up to the podium for his news conference, was asked who his starting quarterback will be.
Just got the UM-Florida notes. Here's a roster!!!!!! Lol lol pic.twitter.com/PFjVLvyJLX
— angelique (@chengelis) August 28, 2017
Michigan faces the Florida Gators at 3:30 p.m. Saturday on ABC in its first game of the season. The game is at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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Harbaugh told reporters that his quarterback decision has been "formulated and communicated" to the team's quarterbacks.
"Have not heard Florida announce who their starting QB would be," Harbaugh told reporters. "We'd love to have that information. No, we're not announcing our starting quarterback."
"People make a lot of big deal about our roster ... I haven't seen a starting QB come out of Florida. Never any mention of that."
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"Yes, we'd like to have that info from them, I'm sure they'd like to have that info from us. Neither has given any information."
Proud to announce the 2017 Michigan Football roster. pic.twitter.com/zc3VejbU1R
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) August 30, 2017
Michigan's Wilton Speight started 12 games last season. John O'Korn is also trying to win the job in 2017.
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Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Independence Community College football coach and Netflix star Jason Brown resigned Sunday after likening himself to Hitler while talking to a German player.
Mississippi State DL Jeffery Simmons suffers ACL injury during draft workout
Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Mississippi State standout defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons suffered a torn ACL in his left knee over the weekend.
Clemson football assistants get raises, now make $1M
Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Clemson Board of Trustees approved $150,000 raises for two football assistant coaches Friday, pushing their salaries to $1 million.
Florida State Seminoles QB Deondre Francois dismissed from team
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Florida State Seminoles head coach Willie Taggart dismissed quarterback Deondre Francois from the team, the coach announced Sunday.
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Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Shilo Sanders -- the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders -- made his college commitment and he's headed to the Southeastern Conference.
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Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Alabama quarterback Jaylen Hurts announced in a story in The Players' Tribune that he is transferring to Oklahoma.
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Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has offered a scholarship to a seventh-grade quarterback from Southfield, Mich.
Ohio State QB Tate Martell transferring to Miami Hurricanes
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ADCOCKS IN ATHENS
Guest of honour at the Athens Classic Marathon this weekend
Bill Adcocks will be the guest of honour at the Athens Classic Marathon this weekend, to watch the latest attempt to break the course record of 2.11.07 that he set on the original marathon course over 33 years ago.
On the face of it, that is one of the most unlikely statistics in world athletics, that after one World and two European Championships and a World Cup on the classic Marathon to Athens course in the meantime, the diminutive Coventry Godiva Harriers time has endured. But Adcocks, who now works for UK Athletics is not so surprised.
"Up until the 80s, nobody really paid (money), they just relied on invitations, and since then, the Greeks haven paid for the fastest runners of the day. And, in fairness, I ran in March/April, when the temperature was around 65F, while the championships have been in mid-August, and with those sort of temperatures, its bound to have an effect". But to be fair to Adcocks, Douglas Wakiihuri won the World Cup on a rainy Spring weekend in the mid-90s, over a minute slower.
Adcocks had finished fifth in the Mexico Olympic race in Autumn 1968, then won in Fukuoka, in a personal best of 2.10.48, six weeks later. His Athens run, in which he beat the four men ahead of him in Mexico, came another three months after that.
Adcocks, now a fit 60 year old will fire the gun at the start on Sunday morning in the village of Marathon, which gave its name to the race. And he may yet witness his record broken, for there is the inevitable group of fast Kenyans, headed by Keneth Cheruyiot, who ran 2.07.18 in Rotterdam last year. But in contrast to that flat course, the road from Marathon climbs for the first 20 kilometres.
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Welcome to the new A Group site! After launching 27 client sites this year, we decided to show ourselves a little love and rebuild The A Group site. The refreshed content and look is designed to make it easier to discover what we do, find and use our collection of marketing and technology resources, and get in touch with us.
Michael, our senior web designer and the man behind the curtain, explains why he designed the site the way he did, and how it reflects the overall trends in modern web design.
We started the site with a "mobile-first" mindset, first considering how it would look on a mobile device like a phone or iPad rather than starting with a desktop design and adapting that for a mobile device. This recent shift in design focus stems from the fact that 63% of adults say they use their phones to access the internet.
Of course, first priority is making the site responsive, meaning it adapts to the screen size on which it's being viewed. To see it in action, try dragging the corners of your browser window to change the size and watch the site shift to fit.
Next, minimalism is king. Not only is a busy site difficult to read on a smaller screen, but it takes too long to load. This is why we see more flat design today compared with dimensional design of several years ago.
Warmth comes from color and type rather than from effects. To keep a minimal design from being cold, we relied on images with strong colors and inviting typefaces to make the site attractive. We like to call it "warm minimalism".
Finally, the carousel gets cut. Until the last year or two, one of the most common features of a home page was a rotating feature that highlighted happenings, key projects and other recent events. Now, with a mobile-first mindset, we see sites with simple sections and more scrolling, since it's easy to scroll down on phone but much more difficult to flip through a carousel.
Messaging-wise, we start with a clear brand/overview statement above the fold that tells people who we are before diving into details such as our portfolio or method. First, audiences have to understand who an organization is before they can engage with the details of what they do, and this is a strong branding benefit of removing the rotating feature.
And of course, we moved our site to the latest version of TAG Tools, a powerful proprietary CMS that makes it easy for anyone in the office to update the site.
Our talented technology team puts this same brainpower and expertise into all sites we build, and we hope the TAG site is an example of how great web design can improve your audience engagement. What do you think of our new look?


Credits to MandeRek for the original models and idea. This map will feature a B3 droid factory which is currently (hopefully) in development. If anyone can provide any feedback judging from the six screenshots (I'll have more soon), please do. Thanks!
Wow, that's pretty impressive, AQT. I love the toasted gunship.
The toasted gunship somehow looks like a chesse gunship to me, no offense. there must be a way to make it more realistic.
The jedi temple there gives a BRIGHT beacon of what this map may be relating to other than the norm SWG Mustafar, more acurrately the south? reminds me of the scattered land south. There was a temple there.
Anyway, its a good map, can't wait for the debut!
CodaRez wrote: The toasted gunship somehow looks like a chesse gunship to me, no offense. there must be a way to make it more realistic.
I thought someone might say that. Yeah, I'll try to make it less "chessy" (reminds me of the old Mac & Cheese commericals with the cheesasaurus and volcanoes erupting melted cheese).
Trust me, it had jedi temples ALL over the place.
That's nice, I just thought a Jedi Temple would fit in there. Great job on the map AQT, this is really what I wanted it to be, a sortoff Kamino-on-lava-map. Nice use of the new props I've sent you, the factory IS in progress, only the B3s form a problem. Anyhow, you also had a story in mind with that factory? I could use it for ZERO Squad maybe..
It's looking amazing man, you're the best on the job!
Thanks, MandeRek, and good luck with the factory.
Anyhow, you also had a story in mind with that factory? I could use it for ZERO Squad maybe..
considering how powerful the B3 droids are and their main source of production being in the droid factories of Mustafar, ZERO Squad was sent in to basically blow everything up.
Hmm, sounds not bad at all! And not difficult too If you make some regions at important parts (factory, dome, jedi temple) and also spawn paths (dome_spawn, factory_spawn) I can basicly get an amazing mission!


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Leavine Family Racing to have enhanced alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing
By Dustin LongSep 24, 2019, 4:53 PM EDT
The President of Toyota Racing Development said Tuesday that the enhanced alliance next season between Leavine Family Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing and TRD will be "akin to what we had between TRD, Joe Gibbs Racing and Furniture Row Racing a couple of years ago."
Furniture Row Racing won the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship with Martin Truex Jr.
David Wilson, president of Toyota Racing Development, made the comment on a conference call with reporters after news that Christopher Bell will move to Cup in 2020 and drive for Leavine Family Racing. Bell will replace Matt DiBenedetto.
As for what will be done in the expanded relationship, Wilson said: "Enhanced hardware, enhanced communication, sharing of information, the tools that TRD provides will be further enhanced, time available on our sim (simulator) and everything that TRD brings to the table is going to be the same as what it has been with Joe Gibbs Racing."
Wilson said the move to strengthen the alliance between the two teams is because of Bell.
"It is a huge priority for us to make sure Christopher has what he needs to succeed," Wilson said. "This is a complete package. It is not being done piecemeal, and you can tell that by the names, having (crew chief Jason Ratcliff) follow Christopher over., etc. All those things are designed to give him the best opportunity to succeed and continue to meet and exceed our expectations."
Toyota has invested heavily in Bell's development since signing the dirt racer to a development contract in 2013.
Bell rewarded Toyota by winning the Truck title in 2017 and making the Xfinity playoffs each of the past two years. He has won 22.1% of his Xfinity starts (15 of 68) and his victory last week at Richmond moved him into the second round of the Xfinity playoffs.
The improved alliance should elevate Leavine Family Racing to a top-tier program in Cup. That is a reward to car owner Bob Leavine for his persistence. His single-car team made its Cup debut in 2011, did not run a full season until 2016 and had to buy a charter since it did not qualify for one.
"I can remember Jeremy (Lange, president of LFR) and I coming out of a meeting (about charters) and wondering how in the world we were going to continue to race," Leavine said. "We didn't, we weren't given a charter. It's been a long haul and a difficult one.
"Our biggest step and our biggest improvement was going to Toyota (beginning with this season) and the relationship base from David, Tyler (Gibbs) and Jack (Irving) and all the people at Toyota and TRD and then Coach (Joe Gibbs) and JGR and all of the support over there, that really was a breath of fresh air because it really was getting difficult to compete and try to get better."
Levine Family Racing has an alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing this season but it is not to the level that Furniture Row Racing had with JGR because Leavine Family Racing could not afford to pay for that type of support this year.
Along with the alliance, the team will benefit from additional sponsorship. Rheem will join Bell at Levine Family Racing and be a primary sponsor, along with Procore, which already with the team. Leavine said that his organization is further ahead on sponsorship for next season than it started this year.


We love hearing about casting news — but we were a little surprised when we heard that Milo Ventimiglia thought he wasn't the first choice to play Jack Pearson. This Is Us co-star Mandy Moore was quick to deny Ventimiglia's claims, and as expected, she did it with a smile.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Moore credited Ventimiglia's lack of ego for making the statement all together.
"He's Milo and he's sweet and has no ego," Moore said. "When I went in to test for it and there were a couple of other guys, I knew going in that he was the one that they wanted. So that's just Milo deferring -- he's just too sweet."
We love the fact that Moore seems to know Ventimiglia on a truly personal level. And, her comment wasn't just meant to boost her co-star's self-confidence — as a pro, she know that sometimes parts just don't work out.
For example, in Moore's eyes, she probably wasn't the first choice to play Jack's wife Rebecca.
"Auditioning for any project is such a crapshoot and I just feel lucky that, somehow, I lucked out and got to be a part of it," she said.
We can't imagine anyone else in either role. We think that a lot of the show's success can be credited towards Ventimiglia, Moore, and their unbelievable chemistry.
While an official date has yet to be set, fans are anticipating This Is Us to come back for season 2 in September. We're already going through withdrawals (and we still have so many questions that need to be answered) so we definitely hope it's sooner rather than later!


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We are now just 3 weeks away from one of the biggest Pay-Per-Views of the year, Survivor Series. As always with the big PPV's on The Wrestling Mania we like to showcase these events with our special countdown articles, and this is no different.
We tasked our team this week with coming up with their "Favourite Five" Survivor Series Cards and they certainly didn't disappoint. The following pages showcase the diversity of writing styles that we have at TWM so sit back and relax as the team bring you their Survivor Series Cards.
Look I'm not suggesting this was one of the best in-ring nights of action in the Survivor Series cannon. Lest we forget, it was also the night that the Gobbledy Gooker made his/its debut (and final appearance) in one of the worst segments you're ever likely to see. And yet I vividly remember the excitement that the idea of this show put into my young brain when I saw the WWF Magazine cover that had the picture of the "final" winners bout on it and as I read the magazine chronicling the card where the winners of each match were entered into a final battle for survival. It sounded and looked like an awesome concept, even if it's one that has never been repeated. But hell, I enjoyed it and the sights of The Ultimate Warrior teaming with Legion of Doom and Texas Tornado, the debut of The Undertaker and the ongoing Jake Roberts/Rick Martel storyline had me hooked.
Although this show only had one Survivor tag team match (and a pretty poor one at that) and a number of daft gimmick bouts, I actually have a sneaking fondness for this show. It has a fast-paced opener between the Headshrinkers and High Energy to kick things off, a super-charged tag team bout between Randy Savage & Mr. Perfect and Ric Flair and Razor Ramon in the middle and ended with a fantastic Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels match over the World Title. And ok, no-one ever wants to see Yokozuna Vs Virgil but as daft as the Nightstick Match pitting The Big Bossman against Nailz and the Coffin match pitting The Undertaker against Kamala were they added excitement to proceedings. The whole show just seemed like something different at the time, even if it was disappointing that the traditional elimination matches were cut adrift.
There was so much that I enjoyed about this show. The opener pitting The Bodydonnas against The Underdogs effectively highlighted the great under-card wrestlers the WWF had at the time, including two of my personal favourites Skip and Hakushi. This was then followed by the All-Japan Women's match which gave the likes of Aja Kong and Kyoko Inoue a chance to shine. It led nowhere (and wasn't a patch on what the women produced on their home territory) but it was a great little match, despite the referee's best attempts to mess it up. Sure Goldust against Bam Bam Bigelow and the Darkside versus The Royals matches weren't up to much but the "wildcard" match pitting HBK, Ahmed Johnson, Davey Boy Smith and Sid against Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon and Dean Douglas was a very entertaining affair which made great play of the "mixed" face/heel teams. Things ended on a very high note too with Bret Hart dethroning Diesel in an absorbing match (arguably the best of Nash's career) including early signs of Attitude with Bret being put through a table and Diesel mouthing obscenities I couldn't possibly repeat here after his loss. This was just a really well rounded card.
I will admit to a little bias here as I was in New York on the day of this show and met Sunny in MSG that afternoon whilst undertaking a tour of the famous old building. But this was an outstanding night of WWF action. As one of the few WWF fans at the time who had heard of them, I was delighted to see the debut of Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon and once the dead-weight (hello to you Godwinns) has been ejected from the opener, these two put on a great display opposite Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith. The Rock, as the laughable Rocky Maivia, made his debut on this night too, with the full backing of the booking squad given his win, and whilst the final of a trio of Survivors matches featured the fake Razor & Diesel and a way too old Jimmy Snuka, it was cool to see Flash "2 Cold Scorpio" Funk unveil some of his trademark aerials in his debut too. What really made the card were three excellent singles matches. The Undertaker and Mankind had a great hard hitting match, Bret Hart returned to the Federation after six months off to have an excellent match with Stone Cold Steve Austin (which whilst not as "dramatic" as their WM XIII encounter, just about shades it as a technical match for me) and in the main event Shawn Michaels carried Sid to his greatest ever bout, despite the New York crowd booing him out of the building. This was one of those rare shows were virtually everything had a point and reason behind it. Great stuff.
Another show that eschewed the traditional elimination matches, but boy I do love a good tournament. This one was by no means chock full of five-star classics but the storytelling was superb, specifically the Mankind/Rock double turn that no-one saw coming. It'd probably be "obvious" if done today but the show long story of Mick Foley supposedly being the corporate choice for champion and fan-favourite The Rock having everything obstacle thrown in his way only for that to be turned on its head by Mr. McMahon calling for the bell in an echo of the Montreal Screwjob from the year before was a classic WWF storytelling at it's peak. It made The Rock, it made Mankind and you can't say fairer than that can you!
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Ancient Asteroid Destroyer Finally Found, And It's a New Kind of Meteorite
By Becky Oskin 2014-06-27T12:31:56Z
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For 50 years, scientists have wondered what annihilated the ancestor of L-chondrites, the roof-smashing, head-bonking meteorites that frequently pummel Earth.
Now, a new kind of meteorite discovered in a southern Sweden limestone quarry may finally solve the mystery, scientists report. The strange new rock may be the missing "other half" from one of the biggest interstellar collisions in a billion years.
"Something we didn't really know about before was flying around and crashed into the L-chondrites," said study co-author Gary Huss of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The space rock is a 470-million-year-old fossil meteorite first spotted three years ago by workers at Sweden's Thorsberg quarry, where stonecutters have an expert eye for extraterrestrial objects. Quarriers have plucked 101 fossil meteorites from the pit's ancient pink limestone in the last two decades. [Photos: New Kind of Meteorite Found in Sweden]
Researchers have nicknamed the new meteorite the "mysterious object" until its formal name is approved, said lead study author Birger Schmitz, of Lund University in Sweden and Chicago's Field Museum. It will likely be named for a nearby church, the Österplana, he said.
Mysterious find
Geochemically, the meteorite falls into a class called the primitive achondrites, and most resembles a rare group of achondrites called the winonaites. But small differences in certain elements in its chromite grains set the mysterious object apart from the winonaites, and its texture and exposure age distinguish the new meteorite from the other 49,000 or so meteorites found so far on Earth.
"It's a very, very strange and unusual find," Schmitz told Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
The new meteorite was recently reported online in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and the study will appear in the journal's Aug. 15 print edition.
New kind of fossil meteorite (Image credit: B. Schmitz)
Until now, all of the quarry's fossil meteorites were L-chondrites. Schmitz, who has led the chondrite cataloging, admitted the rock hunt had become "quite boring."
But the rare find has not only revitalized interest in the quarry, it has also brought together the world's top meteorite experts for a global hunt through geologic time. Thanks to Schmitz's careful detective work on meteorites, scientists now know that each kind of meteorite leaves behind a unique calling card: tough minerals called spinels. Even if meteorites weather away, their spinels linger for hundreds of million of years in Earth rocks. Schmitz and his cohorts think they can pin down how many meteorites rained down on Earth in the past 2.5 billion years, as well as what kind fell, by extracting extraterrestrial spinels from sedimentary rocks. Their work may confirm suspicions that recent meteorite falls represent a mere fraction of the rocks drifting in space.
"I think our new finding adds to the understanding that the meteorites that come down on Earth today may not be entirely representative of what is out there," Schmitz said. "One thing our study shows is that we maybe don't know as much as we think we know about the solar system."
Ancient wreckage
The limestone quarry preserves the remnants of a cosmic cataclysm that took place 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician Period. Scientists think there was an enormous crash between two large bodies out in the asteroid belt. The crash blew apart two asteroids, or an asteroid and comet, slinging dust and debris toward Earth. One of the impactors was the source of all L-chondrite meteorites. But no one has ever found a piece of the rock that hit the L-chondrite parent, until now.
The Swedish meteorite's exposure age — the length of time it sailed through space — is the key to placing the fossil space rock at the scene of the crash. The meteorite zipped from the asteroid belt to Earth in just 1 million years. That's the same remarkably young exposure age as the L-chondrites recovered from the Thorsberg quarry, suggesting the rocks sprayed Earth in the same wave of space debris. [Infographic: Asteroid Belt Explained]
Meteorite expert Tim Swindle, who was not involved in the study, praised the team's careful analysis and said it was unlikely that any other meteorite but an Ordovician fragment would have such a short exposure age. "Very, very few modern meteorites have exposure ages that low," said Swindle, a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "Typically, it takes things longer to get here from the asteroid belt," he said. "It's a telling argument."
Fossil shell and chondrite meteorite (Image credit: B. Schmitz, Chemie der Erde 2013)
But because so little is left of the original meteorite — almost all its minerals have been altered to clay — Swindle thinks there's wiggle room for linking it to known classes of meteorite, instead of calling it a new find.
"I think it's entirely plausible [that it's a new kind of meteorite], and it's a great study, but that's not a guarantee they've got it right," Swindle said. "But if they didn't, it's because of new things we'll find out in future work, not because of their analysis."
The geochemical tests were performed on sand-sized chromite spinels, which confirmed the rock's extraterrestrial origin. The altered clay is also about 100,000 times richer in iridium than terrestrial rocks. Iridium is the element that marks the meteorite impact horizon when the dinosaurs went extinct.
Hunt for space history
Schmitz now plans to search for these strange achondrite spinels in the quarry sediments, as well as in other rocks of the same age around the world. Ordovician meteorite spinels from L-chondrites have been found in China, Russia and Sweden, and small micrometeorites have been discovered in Scotland and South America. Researchers think about 100 times as many meteorites fell on Earth during the Ordovician compared with today, but only about a dozen impact craters of the proper age have been identified. [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth]
A bigger quest is also in the works. Schmitz and his colleagues plan to dissolve tons of rock in acid in a global search for meteoritic spinel grains. This detective work will help researchers pin down the history of the asteroid belt and solar system. Spinels can provide an estimate of how many meteorites fell in the past, and what kind hit Earth. These tiny pieces of vanished meteorites may fill in missing history, because meteorite impact craters often vanish due to geologic forces.
"This can give you a ground truth for models for how the solar system may have evolved over time," said Gary Huss, a co-author on the Swedish meteorite study who will collaborate on the spinel search. "I think a lot of people have worried for some time that we don't really know what's going on in the asteroid belt."
Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @OAPlanet, Facebook and Google+. Original article at Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
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February's speeding to an end. March means two things: spring and the end of the first quarter of the year. This is a great time to review things – your health, how well you're organized, your vacation plans for the coming months. Have you thought about reviewing your business communication?
Feel free to pass this on to someone you know who could take advantage of it, too. You'll be a hero by helping them rev up their marketing communication in 2012!
This entry was posted in Blog, Social Media Marketing, Web Copy on February 23, 2012 by kellykoepke.
I was recently asked what commonly accepted business wisdom I though it was time to do away with. My answer? That you need to study a discipline or have a certification/degree in order to do something (that doesn't require it). That may fly in the face of all the wisdom you've read that certifications and degrees matter. I think they do. And if becoming a certified (fill in the blank) will advance your skill set, or give you more credibility in your field, then get it.
But don't wait for formal classes or a program to make it happen. If you want to be or do, then start. For example, I have no formal journalism or writing background, yet hung up a shingle as a writer, marketer and public relations person. I combined my skills and experience in business with my talent for putting words together, and made my career happen.
This doesn't mean you don't improve your skills all the time, or seek advice from mentors. Becoming better in your profession means constantly learning new skills, whatever field.
This entry was posted in Blog on February 2, 2012 by kellykoepke.


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Recruiting pendulum shift?
By John M. IU Jan 26, 2010, 10:44pm EST
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Like all of us, Gary Post-Tribune columnist Mike Hutton must be a bit bored during the week-long layoff before IU's next game, at Illinois on Saturday. He pivots off some comments made during the Purdue-Michigan game last Saturday to make some grand pronouncements about recruiting that are a bit of a reach. During that game, called by Brent Musberger and Bob Knight, Musberger attempted to recount a conversation he had with Knight and suggested that Knight had said that Purdue's role now in the state of Indiana is what IU's was in the Knight era. Knight backed away from Musberger's account of their off-the-air conversation, but was quite complimentary of Matt Painter's system and said that his system had quite a bit to offer to a player who wants to be successful. Certainly, it's hard to disagree with any of that, and it's not surprising that Knight would have nice things to say about Painter, who is the son of an IU alum and was a lifelong Hoosier fan until IU ran out of scholarships in the late 1980s. Further, few Hoosier fans would disagree with the notion that Painter's style of play bears more resemblance to Knight's than does Crean's. There are many ways to succeed in college basketball, and Knight's way isn't the only way, of course, but there are some similarities in style.
Still, from that Hutton jumps to some strange and even contradictory conclusions.
Don't expect Crean to win the battles for the players that aren't predisposed toward IU that live in state, something that was almost always a guarantee for Knight.
Painter has proven over and over again that nobody outworks him on the recruiting trail and he has the sales pitch tweaked perfectly. He is fanatical about being seen everywhere when putting the full court press on a kid.
They never go outside the Midwest to recruit a kid unless there is a reason (a legacy, a friend-of-a-friend or some kid who just happens to be perfect for the Boilers' system).
A few thoughts in response to this passage.
First, while the foundation for Knight's recruiting was in Indiana and the Midwest, I'm not sure that it's accurate to say that Indiana kids "almost always" were a guarantee for Knight. Certainly, Knight outrecruited Purdue during his glory days, but Knight lost kids to out-of-state powers, and not just in his later years (think Eric Montross, Kyle Macy, etc.). Also, Purdue always has recruited well in the Region (that's northwest Indiana, for those unfamiliar with the term). The current foundation of Purdue's success is the junior class, including Robbie Hummel, E'Twaun Moore, and JaJuan Johnson. When the class signed, Scott Martin, now of Notre Dame, was included. Hummel and Martin were teammates at Valparaiso and Moore is from East Chicago. That means that three of the four members of Purdue's best Painter-era class were from an area where Purdue has recruited well over the years. Also, IU did sign the best Indiana player from that class, Eric Gordon.
Second, while I don't doubt that Painter is an excellent recruiter, is there anything in the second paragraph of the quote above that couldn't be said of Tom Crean, that hasn't been said of him since long before he was IU's coach?
Hutton can't seem to decide what he thinks of Crean. Near the beginning of his article, he says:
IU is going to do just fine at snaring its share of talented players with Crean at the helm. He's a great salesmen, a great coach and he has a great product to sell. Hard to beat that combination.
Later in the article, he says:
Crean's recruiting approach is similar to the way that Mike Davis and Kelvin Sampson tried to recruit. Look where that got IU.
I guess I don't understand how to square these statements. Isn't he predicting both success and failure for IU within a few short paragraphs?
He complains that Crean, as did Sampson and Davis, tries to recruit both regionally and nationally:
Which comes first -- the regional part or the national part? National means you bump up against North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and Duke. The success rate is lower with that approach.
Regional means you go toe-to-toe with Painter and Ohio State and Illinois.
That's nonsense, of course. In the last decade or so, Duke has signed Josh McRoberts, North Carolina has landed Tyler Zeller and Sean May, and Kentucky landed the late John Stewart. In some of IU's successful recruiting battles (for Jared Jeffries and Dane Fife, for instance), Duke was the runner-up. National means national. The powers listed by Hutton don't observe some non-aggression pact toward Indiana and the midwest, and it required about 10 seconds of reflection to realize that. Plus, Ohio State and Illinois (at least briefly for the latter) have had success finding blue chip talent in Indiana. And isn't the whole point of the article that Painter is an invincible recruiter?
This is precisely the issue I see looming for the Hoosiers and Crean.
Why don't they just decide to wrap up the state? After all, they are the program with five national titles and an unsurpassed tradition. They should be Indiana's team. When Knight was around, he pretty much got what he wanted in-state, giving Gene Keady the leftovers.
The dicey problem with putting a lock-down on Indiana is Painter. He's pretty good and he knows exactly what he wants and he isn't going away.
Again, I'm not sure what Hutton wants. In the second paragraph, he suggests that IU should just "wrap up the state." In the third paragraph, he says that IU can't "wrap up the state" right now because Purdue has a strong coach. Hutton seems to have answered his own question, but doesn't realize it.
Knight's point about the Boilers: They have a system in place and you don't have to be a one-and-done guy to get a spot on the roster. I'd say Painter has done a little better than that. Hummell, Johnson and Moore will all get a least a sniff in the NBA.
As opposed to IU, which has had exactly one one-and-done player (Eric Gordon) since George McGinnis? Sweet fancy Moses, I want to live in Mike Hutton's world, where the problem with IU's recruiting is that you have to be a one-and-done guy to get a spot on the roster. Maybe he isn't talking about IU, but if he isn't, then why is this in the article?
Painter already has three kids signed for next year from Indiana (Travis Carroll, Donnie Hale and Terone Johnson) and another one from Chicago (Anthony Johnson).
And he has Rapheal Davis of Fort Wayne verbally committed for 2012.
That's fine. But it doesn't support the notion that IU doesn't care about recruiting Indiana or that recruiting Indiana is a sure-fire path to success. IU's current, top 10 freshman class includes two Indiana kids, Derek Elston and Jordan Hulls (Elston committed to Sampson and Hulls committed to Crean). Even Hutton acknowledges that IU's roster includes 7 kids from Indiana and 4 more from the midwest. Purdue's incoming recruiting class is good, but Carroll and Hale are not in the Rivals top 150 (the Johnsons are #46 and #100, respectively). Again, I think quite highly of Painter as a coach and as a recruiter, but I'm not sure the 2010 class demonstrates the sort of dominance that Hutton sees. Painter has signed three Indiana kids, one of whom is an elite prospect. That's not to say that Hale and Carroll won't be fine players. They certainly will be well-coached. It's impossible to say this without it sounding like sour grapes, but I can find no evidence on the Internet that IU even offered Hale and Carroll, although Crean showed some interest in both. To offset any bitterness concerns, I freely admit that IU coveted most or all of Purdue's current junior class, particularly Hummel and Moore. I just can't endorse the idea that Hale and Carroll mean that Painter owns Indiana. Also, why would Hutton mention sophomore Purdue commit Rapheal Davis (who admittedly looks to be a top shelf recruit) and not top 100 IU recruit Austin Etherington, who is from Hamilton Heights, just north of Indianapolis, and is a year closer to campus than Davis? This sort of cherry picking makes it appear that Hutton was simply searching for evidence to support his predetermined conclusions.
Obviously, Purdue is excelling on the court right now with Indiana players and is continuing to recruit well in-state. Still, I'm not sure that the current state of recruiting shows the seismic shift that Hutton wants to see. Recruiting experts suggest that the 2012 class in Indiana contains loads of talent, so at the very least, it will be easier to make an assessment next year. And, of course, ultimately both programs will be judged by where they rank in March, not November. In March 2010, obviously Purdue will have the upper hand, but the future doesn't look as dark to me as it does to Hutton.
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require 'forwardable'
require 'readline'

module Aws
  module SSM
    module Console
      class Runner
        extend Forwardable

        delegate invoke: :@command

        attr_reader :command

        def initialize(instance_ids)
          @command = Aws::SSM::Console::Command.new(instance_ids: instance_ids)
        end

        def run
          stty_save = `stty -g`.chomp
          trap('INT') { system 'stty', stty_save; exit }

          loop do
            cmd = Readline.readline('>> ', true)
            break unless cmd
            command.invoke(cmd)
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Not even a pair of goals and an away victory over Bayern Munich in the Champions League were enough to keep Cristiano Ronaldo happy.
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"He was happy, but not too happy because he could have scored the third goal, too," Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. "That is how ambitious he is."
Ronaldo's second-half goals allowed him to end a six-game scoring drought in the Champions League, and left Madrid on track to defend its European title. It also helped end Bayern's 16-match winning streak at home.
Madrid could have taken an even bigger advantage into next week's second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium if it hadn't missed so many chances. The team also had a goal from Sergio Ramos disallowed for offside not long before the final whistle.
Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was key to keeping Wednesday's game close as the hosts played the final 30 minutes with 10 men following the sending off of Javi Martinez with consecutive yellow cards.
"We did well to earn the comeback," Ronaldo said. "But we leave with a sour taste because we could have scored more goals. I think if Neuer hadn't been on such a good night we would have scored more."
Neuer made two remarkable saves on shots by Ronaldo and Karim Benzema a few minutes apart toward the end of the match in Munich.
Ronaldo scored in the 47th and 77th minutes after Bayern had taken the lead in the 25th on Arturo Vidal's goal. Vidal then missed a penalty kick late in the first half.
The goals were the 99th and 100th for Ronaldo in European club competition, giving him the milestone nearly seven months after he had scored his last Champions League goal in a 2-2 group-stage draw at Borussia Dortmund. He hadn't scored for Madrid in three matches, since a 2-1 win over Real Betis in the Spanish league last month.
"I trained hard to be playing well in this final month-and-a-half of the season," Ronaldo said. "The results are going our way and I'm happy for that."
Madrid has gone 53 straight games scoring at least one goal and is closing in on Bayern's European record of 61 consecutive games with at least a goal, from March 2013 to April 2014. The last time Madrid failed to score was in April, in a 0-0 draw at Manchester City in the Champions League semifinals.
Zidane didn't say whether he will rest Ronaldo or any other regular starter for the team's away game at relegation-threatened Sporting Gijon on Saturday in the Spanish league. The return match against Bayern is on Tuesday.
"Now we must rest because the game in La Liga is just around the corner," Zidane said. "We will suffer in the second leg and we know it."
Seeking its first league title since 2012, Madrid has a game in hand and a three-point lead over two-time defending champion Barcelona, which hosts sixth-place Real Sociedad later on Saturday. Barcelona is coming off disappointing losses at Malaga in the Spanish league and at Juventus in the Champions League.


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Q: Pegar valor em um iframe via Javascript Eu tenho um código que está em um arquivo externo e preciso carregá-lo via Javascript, porém não sei como fazer isso. Eu já tentei de diversas formas, e pelo visto a melhor seria com um iframe, porém nem isso.
A ideia era usar a função load() do jQuery, mas tem um detalhe: o código está sendo rodado localmente, então isso não funciona devido às permissões HTTP e afins.
Então eu pensei em fazer um iframe assim:
<iframe id="iframe" src="script1.html"></iframe>

Então tentei assim:
var text = $("#iframe").val();

Não me retornou nada, então fiz umas tags no arquivo e tentei assim:
$('#iframe').contents().find("html").html();

Mesmo assim, nada. Então tentei dessa forma:
var iBody = $("#iframe").contents().find("body");
var myContent = iBody.find("#myContent");

O problema é que o Chrome retorna um erro:

Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'contentDocument' property from 'HTMLIFrameElement': Blocked a frame with origin "null" from accessing a frame with origin "null". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.

Ou seja, será não tem como carregar um arquivo localmente? Eu apenas preciso de um arquivo limpo com os códigos para carregar depois, eu até colocaria diretamente dentro de uma tag dentro da página, mas isso ficaria muito sujo, visto que outra pessoa irá mudar o código.
Obs.: Esse código que deve ser carregado a que me refiro é um documento de texto, ou seja, você pode interpretar como quiser, simplesmente, são várias frases, nada de especial quanto a isso.

A: Isso não é possivel localmente por causa das proteções que os Browsers têm.
Podes conseguir pôr isso a funcionar se tiveres o ficheiro num servidor e se o servidor em questão aceitar pedidos de outros dominios, senão a regra é a mesma.
Esta regra de segurança é conhecida por CORS (compartilhamento de recursos cross-origem), uma recomendação de segurança da W3C que foi adotada pelos Browsers para impedir acesso a dados indevidamente.

A: O Chrome não permite carregar um arquivo do sistema de arquivos usando XmlHttpRequest (Ajax). Eu mesmo já tive esse problema ao testar arquivos HTML com chamadas Ajax.
Cada browser aplica diferentes regras sobre carregamento de arquivos de mesma origem (CORS), quando se trata de arquivos locais (carregados via file://..., que é o que ocorre quando você dá um duplo clique no documento HTML na pasta).
Achei algumas recomendações em rodar o Chrome com a flag --allow-file-access-from-files, mas não obtive sucesso.
Para resolver este problema, eu criei o meu próprio mini servidor Web que roda em uma pasta específica. Você pode tentar usar o Node.js para fazer algo parecido.
Você também pode tentar outro browser que seja menos restritivo.

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Italy: Fiscal Consolidation and its Legacy
See all articles by Fabrizio Balassone
Fabrizio Balassone
Bank of Italy
Daniele Franco
Sandro Momigliano
Daniela Monacelli
Balassone, Franco, Momigliano and Monacelli examine the process of fiscal consolidation in Italy during the Nineties. They highlight its success in reversing a trend that could have led to public debt default, and in ensuring the early participation of Italy to monetary union. The authors argue that some features of the process may have amplified its costs and may have left the country with a difficult legacy. The adjustment relied on significant tax increases, capital spending reductions and the rationing of transfers to local governments. Balassone et al. examine the reforms introduced in the pension system in order to contain expenditure growth, reducing distortions in the labour market and increasing the role of funding. They acknowledge that much has been achieved but point to some aspects that still remain problematic. They also analyse the changes introduced in the tax system and highlight the persistent contrast between the need to maximise revenue and that of minimising distortions. According to the authors, there is now a need to shift the focus of fiscal policy from the arithmetic to the microeconomics of fiscal sustainability. Sustaining high taxes and low investment may become difficult as the integration of the Single European Market goes further. Allowing for a lower tax burden, while complying with EMU fiscal rules, calls for expenditure control, a task made more difficult by the upward pressure on outlays exerted by the ageing process. Balassone et al. note that the current trend towards greater autonomy for local governments may require significant institutional engineering to ensure consistency with EMU fiscal rules. More generally, existing budgetary procedures and institutions will have to be reconsidered. Finally, with EMU macroeconomic stabilisation regains importance, while during the Nineties it was not the main focus of fiscal policy. Budgetary targets should allow sufficient room for manoeuvre. Size and quality of automatic stabilisers will have to be reconsidered.
Balassone, Fabrizio and Franco, Daniele and Momigliano, Sandro and Monacelli, Daniela, Italy: Fiscal Consolidation and its Legacy (March 21, 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2094455 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2094455
Fabrizio Balassone (Contact Author)
Bank of Italy ( email )
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Q: Is there a SE site where answers can consist of facts about Internet privacy, censoring the Internet and the consequences thereof to the avg. citizen? Is there a place on StackExchange to ask questions that can be responded with facts about things like Internet Privacy, censoring/blocking sites and the consequences of all this for the average citizen?
In my case specifically I would like to get some questions reliably answered on the subject of Internet Privacy, if it's true that e.g. every EU citizen is currently under surveillance by phone companies, who (more likely: which companies) requested these changes, what the pros and cons are of online censorship and similar subjects. All in an as objective and credible (verified by linked sources) way as possible.
I figure I wouldn't be the first to have this idea, so is there a subdomain on SE for subjects like these?

A: You can try asking your first question on http://skeptics.stackexchange.com, but read their FAQ very carefully first!  (every site FAQ is linked at the top of the respective site).
SE sites are not really the place to go for detailed, painstaking research.  For that, you have to use more primary sources, like libraries, online repositories, and experts.  In short, you'll need to do your own detective work.

A: Another site that might address some of your questions is IT Security as privacy and censorship are often closely tied up with security.
As with Skeptics, read the FAQ and previously asked questions before posting to try and get an idea of the community's interests.


ALBANY, N.Y. (December 17, 2018)—NY State of Health, New York's official health plan Marketplace, today announced that enrollment reached 4.7 million at close of business on December 15, the deadline for January 1, 2019 coverage. Enrollment volumes in Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) and the Essential Plan (EP) continue to outpace last year's levels with over 83,000 more people enrolled compared to the same day last year. In addition, over 16,000 people enrolled in QHPs and EP on December 15, bringing the combined enrollment in these two programs to more than 1 million consumers (1,023,892), which is the highest level to date.
In addition, enrollment among small employers has also hit a milestone, exceeding 10,000 employer groups with a SHOP eligibility determination through December 15, 2018. The Small Business Marketplace now offers more plan options than ever (over 2,000 products offered by 9 insurers) and new flexibility to enroll directly with NY State of Health certified brokers or directly with insurers.
Sidenote: Even I mostly stopped trying to track SHOP enrollments a couple of years ago; only a half-dozen states bother reporting the numbers and they've always been pretty anemic in most of the rest, never amounting to more than perhaps 200,000 or so nationally...but CA, NY, RI, MN, VT and especially DC (special case) still seem to be chugging along.
The NY State of Health website and Customer Service Center have both experienced high traffic volumes. Between November 1 and December 15, 2018, the Customer Service Center received over 820,000 calls, with more than 66,000 calls in the final two days before the December 15 deadline. Similarly, during the same period, on the NY State of Health website, there were over 45 million page views and over 1 million unique website users.
Enrollment in a Qualified Health plan continues through January 31, 2019. New York's enrollment window is twice as long as the federal marketplace, giving consumers more time to shop for the best health coverage for themselves and their families. Enrollment in the Essential Plan, Child Health Plus and Medicaid continues throughout the year.
For information on enrollment eligibility or to enroll in a health plan, visit nystateofhealth.ny.gov, call the Customer Service Center at 1-855-355-5777 or contact an enrollment assistor. NY State of Health representatives will be available at many events across the state to educate New Yorkers about the Marketplace, and to enroll consumers in health plans. A list of locations is available on the events map.
Wow! Not only are QHPs up 8% year over year, but BHPs (Basic Health Plan, called the Essential Plan in NY) are up 8.4%, Child Health Plus enrollment (NY-specific...this was the basis for the national CHIP program) is up a whopping 13.6% and Medicaid enrollment is up 14.4%!


ASP project. Problematics of dissolved oxygen. Theory and practice | V.20.Is.1.2018 | Archive | Journal "Georesources"
The article presents the latest results of studies of dissolved oxygen affect on efficiency of ASP flooding project being executed by Salym Petroleum Development N.V. Company. Pilot project associated with experimental injection of solutions of anionic surface-active substance (surfactant), soda and polymer into formation for enhanced oil recovery (ASP project) has been implemented since 2016. Stability of one of ASP components – polymer strongly depends upon presence of iron, hardness cations and dissolved oxygen in water. As long as polymer is used for injection on two project stages, which are the main and the most extended, at the stage of ASP unit design a complex of polymer protection from negative factors was considered, particularly impact of oxygen, which causes not only oxygen corrosion, but also irreversible destruction of polymer chains. The article describes studies of polymer solution stability, contains analysis of viscosity loss in the course of time in presence of iron and oxygen for polymer solutions. It justifies selection of chemical deoxygenation method for dissolved oxygen control. The article describes program of ASP laboratory studies and analytical instrumentation applied. It provides ASP process scheme and recommendations for technology implementation.
ASTM D 888-87, Dissolved Oxygen in Water, Test Method. A. Gilbert, T.W., Behymer, T.D., Castañeda, H.B. (1982, March). Determination of Dissolved Oxygen in Natural and Wastewaters. American Laboratory, pp. 119-134.
ASTM D 5543-09, Standard Test Methods for Low-Level Dissolved Oxygen in Water.
Erke S.I., Kostina M.Yu., Bondar M.Yu., Shuster M.Yu., Karpan V.M. (2018). Dissolved oxygen control specifics in ASP project. Neftyanoe Khozyaystvo = Oil industry, 1, pp. 66-71. [DOI: 10.24887/0028-2448-2018-1-66-71](http://oil-industry.net/en/Journal/archive_detail.php?ID=11220&art=230990 (In Russ.).
Isabel Vega, M. Isabel Hernández, Diana Masiero, Leticia Legarto, Silvana Gandi, Sergio Bosco, and Remigio Ruiz (2015). IOR: Improving Polymer Selection, Connecting Lab Results with Field Operation. AAPG Latin America Region, Geoscience Technology Workshop. Search and Discovery Article #41642.
Kai Fischer, Michael Wilken (2001). Experimental determination of oxygen and nitrogen solubility in organic solvents up to 10 MPa at temperatures between 298 K and 398 K. J. Chem. Thermodynamics, 33(10), pp. 1285-1308. doi: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcht.2001.0837.
Klaassen R., Feron P.H.M., Jansen A.E. (2005). Membrane contactors in industrial applications. Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 83, pp. 234-246.
Rubin Battino, Timothy R. Rettich, and Toshihiro Tominaga (1983). The Solubility of Oxygen and Ozone in Liquids. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 12(163). doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555680.
Seright, R. S., Skjevrak, I. (2014). Effect of Dissolved Iron and Oxygen on Stability of HPAM Polymers. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/169030-MS.
W. Rodgers Baird, and Robert T. Foley (1972). Solubility of oxygen in selected organic solvents. J. Chem. Eng. Data, 17(3), pp. 355-357. doi: 10.1021/je60054a029.
Wellington, S.L. (1983). Biopolymer Solution Viscosity Stabilization - Polymer Degradation and Antioxidant Use. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/9296-PA.


Time for a new addition to our youtube channel... From the Goodtime Hour (March 1970) Glen performing a wonderful and moving rendition of Marty Robbins' Lord You Gave Me a Mountain, in support of Marty who was recuperating from a bypass operation at the time. I feel he makes it an extra special performance because he is singing it for Marty.
Glen Campbell & Buck Owens ROCK on "Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy"
This music video is the premiere of a relatively unknown rockin' track now only on the Glen Campbell Forums' channel on YouTube! Glen Campbell and Buck Owens duet on "Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy".
We couldn't believe it had not yet been uploaded--and it's such a great song performed by two Country Music Hall of Famers, too!
Check out the fun cocktail of acoustic, electric AND bass guitars. Jeff Dayton, one of Glen's former band members for 15 years, produced and arranged this track for a 1997 limited release album sold as a fundraiser for United Cerebral Palsy of Central Arizona. See liner notes below. Enjoy!
Song - written by B. Owens and D. Rich, Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
From a Limited Edition, out-of-production album released on CD: "Merry Arizona 97" / "desert stars shine at christmas"
ALOHA! Presented by Glen Campbell Forums On The Net, this rare excerpt with Jack Lord is from a segment of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour filmed on location at Fort Derussy in Hawaii. Jack joins Glen after he and his guests had finished a live performance benefiting service men and women (reunited with family members) who had recently served in Vietnam and had been sent to nearby Tripler Army Hospital for rest and recuperation (R&R).
As you can see when the TV camera pans the audience, many of these Americans had sustained serious injuries. Jack Lord became obviously emotional when he looked out at the audience who had come to watch the show in the rain.
Note that in an earlier segment in this Glen Campbell Show episode, Glen had performed an abbreviated version of "Galveston" for this same audience.
Newly uploaded to Glen Campbell Forums On YouTube is this excerpt from the Hawaiian episode of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
I was struck by the appropriateness, I felt, of this lyric in Glen's cover of "Beyond the Reef": "There'll be no tears, there'll be no regretting."
We are deeply sorrowed by Glen's passing on August 8. 2017, and are yet committed to continue to honor his tremendous legacy.
We will continue to rejoice in his music for as long we can do so and hope you will too.
This video was planned for uploading to Glen Campbell Forums On YouTube on August 9, which turned out to be one day after Glen passed away and, also unknown at that time, the day Glen was buried at the Campbell Family Cemetery in Delight, Arkansas. I had reservations about posting it. After much thought, I decided this performance embodies the best of Glen as well as the best of Jerry Reed. Two ace guitarists doing what they loved to do. Living their passion. I hope you will enjoy it.
Here is another excerpt from the out-of-production Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour in Hawaii episode broadcast on October 19, 1971.
It premiered on our Glen Campbell Forums on YouTube channel tonight.
Please give the video a "like" on YouTube and post a comment. If there is interest from Glen's fans, I will upload more (really great!) segments from the same episode featuring Glen picking with Jerry Reed and also Glen's solos.
For Father's Day our video of Glen performing "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" with his father Wes and mother Carrie premiered on the official Glen Campbell facebook page (thank you TKO!).
Now we have also published the video on youtube.
You are right. I hadn't thought about that before about Glen using Jerry's lick like that. Well spotted.
For me, what I think is nice, is that Glen seemed so very happy and relaxed. He was in good voice and his playing was fantastic. considering he says he can not remember much of the eighties for various reasons, I think he still had much to be contented with, if not personally certainly professionally, he still provided great entertainment for all his fans.
Interesting clip. Interesting that Glen claims to have been the impetus behind Adamas. Additionally, when he starts jamming there at the end, I love how he throws the Reed walk down into the transition. He always seemed to like that lick for some reason.


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Q: Is it possible to put a data URL in a QR code? I have a small web app which would be cool to post on a QR code as it works offline. However it appears that data URLs don't work an a QR code. Does anyone know a workaround for this? I would like to have a QR code that delivers HTML to the user's browser with no network connection.

A: QR codes just contain text. A data URL is just text. There is no problem putting one in a QR code.
Assuming the data URL is valid, the problem likely springs from the particular software you are using to decode it failing to recognise the URL scheme.
There isn't anything you can do about that beyond using other software or copy/pasting the whole thing into a web browser.

A: It depends on the file size. If your data url is less then 255 characters, yes. Try minifying it and using link shorteners for resources. You just need a link shortener that supports 301 redirects. Here's an example. The content is a data url for a plain-text file with the content "demo". Here's the data url. data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,ZGVtbw== To test it, scan it with a phone, select the notification, copy the content, and paste it in Safari.


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Fill the cup with steamed milk and garnish with liquorice sauce.


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Peasant Pudding is presumably so called because it's simple and cheap to make. It's also quick to throw together and yummy to eat.
This version is heavy on the apples in proportion to the pudding side of things, and comes from an old notebook of my Mum's. The quantities are therefore British Imperial measures.
Peel, then stew the apples in a little water, sweetening with sugar to taste. Leave to cool.
Melt the butter in a pan, stir in the sugar, then stir in the oats till coated.
Layer the mix in a dish, either apple or oats uppermost – it doesn't really matter!
UPDATE: However, given the query below, here's a picture of porridge oats.
As the photo is of a brand (Morrisons), here's a link to that supermarket chain's website, as thanks for use of the image.
What are porridge oats? That sound like an apple pie without the pie. Some people like to put a bit of oatmeal in for texture.
I've added a pic, as I'd never really thought about 'what are?' before. Coarse oatmeal, I guess. It's like stewed apple with soft flapjacks (muesli bars), rather than a hard pastry crust.
I had to look it up, because it sounded interesting. They are cut up a bit more than oatmeal, so that they are cooked into a finer texture. Porridge is one of those things that I have heard of, but never actually seen.


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Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.
by Claire Voon October 19, 2016 October 18, 2016
Installation view of Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art at Magenta Plains (all images courtesy Magenta Plains)
In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) commissioned the artist Lillian Schwartz to create a public service announcement to advertise the opening of its newly renovated galleries. Her 30-second video showed the museum rapidly being built before your eyes in technicolor, with architectural elements recreated frame by frame and artworks popping up in and then disappearing from digital galleries in quick succession. It was a whirlwind tour that showcased the museum in a fresh dimension and as an institution striding into an era ripe with possibility.
Installation view of Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art at Magenta Plains, showing a still from the PSA "The Museum of Modern Art" (1984)
The advert exemplified Schwartz's revolutionary work as one of the earliest artists to use computer software to create visual images; it was even the first computer-generated film to win an Emmy. Although Schwartz, who's now nearly 90, has been producing computer art since the '60s — and winning awards for it — she is only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York. Celebrating her long and visionary career, Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art at Magenta Plains surveys Schwartz's major creations made between 1968 and 2013, from motion works to prints.
MoMA is actually where Schwartz — a member of Experiments in Art and Technology — was first exposed to computer art, as she says in "The Artist and the Computer," a short 1976 documentary that provides an overview of her work. The video, on view in the gallery, recalls those you might watch in drivers ed or a high school health class: it's educational but cheesy, scored by campy music, reminding the contemporary viewer just how new a concept computer art was to the public at the time. In it, a bespectacled Schwartz explains how computer scientist Ken Knowlton's work in MoMA's 1968 exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age caught her attention. Also included in that show was her own kinetic sculpture "Proxima Centauri" (1968), which in turn fascinated the visual perception expert Leon Harmon. He invited Schwartz to join Bell Labs, and it was there that she really began experimenting with the screen, finding novel editing techniques and creating expressive, animated artworks.
One advantage of showing computer art is that it doesn't require much display space. The exhibition provides the opportunity to view over a dozen of Schwartz's videos (including the MoMA PSA), almost all of which loop not on a computer monitor, but as projections on a giant screen in the gallery's basement. The smart, magnified display immerses you in her animated worlds, which, despite their careful coding, are wild. Bursting with color and ever-shifting shapes of all kinds, they introduced delightful rhythm and unpredictability to a system that was, in those days, mostly home to the linear and systematic.
Lillian Schwartz, still from "Pixillation" (1970)
Take "Pixillation" (1970), for instance, Schwartz's earliest work with Bell Labs, for which she combined black-and-white, computer-generated images with free, hand-colored animation. It's explosive: shapes like blood drops swirl, blossom, and transform into hard-edged, labyrinthine patterns that flicker like lights at a rave. The screen seems to be undergoing a seizure that escalates by the second, an effect heightened by Gershon Kingsley's thunderous, industrial, Moog-synthesized sounds that punctuate every movement. Your eyes will struggle to keep up with the frames; it's an experience both nerve-wracking and thrilling.
"Apotheosis" (1972), which draws on images made from radiation treatment of cancer, delivers a similar effect: it begins as a slow march of brain shapes filled with colors that pulse like lava-lamp blobs, then rapidly accelerates, with textured patterns tailing each other so quickly the frames become painful to watch. More entrancing is "Olympiad" (1971), which expands on Muybridge's motion experiments of running men. It's magnetic in its simplicity, setting athletes in an endless chase as they run back and forth across the screen and overlap with each other in glorious rainbow hues.
Lillian Schwartz, still from "Olympiad" (1971)
Schwartz's editing techniques may seem old hat to some 21st-century viewers, but her videos still consistently compel; many of them get their charge from familiar, organic-looking material manipulated to form highly sensory experiences. What's particularly remarkable, however, is that Schwartz arrived at some of her innovative techniques because of personal physical limitations. In 1955, she was diagnosed with chorioretinitis, which affects how she perceives color. It led her to devise methods of oversaturating her creations, ultimately enabling many of her films from the '70s to be seen in both 2D and 3D; they predated the development of pixel-shifting technology, which is required for such conversion. And earlier, after the end of World War II, Schwartz contracted polio while living in Japan and practiced Japanese calligraphy to recover from muscle weakness. The painterly elements evident in many of her works produce an expressiveness so unexpected of computer imagery at the time.
We can better appreciate such artistic strokes through Schwartz's still images, on view on the gallery's ground floor. Playful inkjet prints of computer graphics from the 1980s feature her illustrations of cave paintings and dodos, mingled with anachronistic HTML links and buttons. They're all rendered with smooth daubs of digital color, with pixels mixed and overlaid as a painter would handle pigments. In another series, from 1970, Schwartz experiments with etching, using lasers to embed Duchamp-inspired designs into gold circuit boards. Although frozen, these futuristic, figurative forms recall the running men in "Olympiad" — they're pregnant with energy, poised to stride out of their frames.
In "The Artist and the Computer," Schwartz says she must bring to her computer works the same imagination, intuition, and emotion as she would to any art form. Her handling of color and creation of complex optical effects in early videos proved that the computer is not at odds with art, but an instrument capable of showcasing creativity. It's a concept we're more than familiar with now, but Schwartz's worlds were truly pioneering for their time. Playing out on screens for over 50 years now, they speak to how strongly she imbues mechanical systems with spirit.
Installation view of Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art at Magenta Plains
Lillian Schwartz, "Cave Painting" (1983–84)
Lillian Schwartz, still from "Bagatelles" (1977)
Lillian Schwartz: Pioneer of Computer Art continues at Magenta Plains (94 Allen Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through October 30.
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Claire Voon
Claire Voon is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Singapore, she grew up near Washington, D.C. and is now based in Chicago. Her work has also appeared in New York Magazine, VICE,... More by Claire Voon