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Who Is Nick Foles' Wife? Tori Moore Was Also A College Athlete
By Michelle Stein
As the first half of Super Bowl LII came to an end, and the Philadelphia Eagles walked off the field with a 22-12 lead on the New England Patriots, many viewers were probably surprised that the underdogs were up. Who knows? Maybe quarterback Nick Foles could carry his team to a Super Bowl win, after all. The football star's wife would certainly tell you that's going to happen. But who is Nick Foles' wife? Tori Moore is apparently the Eagles' biggest fan. She's also a former volleyball player for the University of Arizona, according to Earn The Necklace.
Apparently the athletic duo were college sweethearts, the publication reported. Tori Moore was a setter for the University of Arizona volleyball team at the same time Nick played football there. And did I mention the story of Nick and Tori's first meeting is one for the books? Because seriously, these guys are too cute.
"She was the first person I actually ever saw at the University of Arizona. I was going to my [football] physical. I remember walking down the stairs and thinking, 'Wow, this might be the most gorgeous person I've ever seen,'" Foles told Press of Atlantic City back in 2014. Although Foles and Moore never actually dated while in college, they did hang out with the same group of friends.
It was one of those things where at some point the good Lord took the shades off both our eyes, and we just started talking and it grew into something that was always there, but we never knew it. It's crazy. I couldn't be more happy.
Not only are Nick and Tori Foles freaking adorable, but they're obviously totally there for each other. You see, Tori was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) in 2013, which ultimately led to a diagnosis of Lyme Disease, reported Newsweek. In a blog post she wrote for The Increase Women, Tori opened up about her health struggles.
"For me, this illness has been a journey of faith, hope, and trust in the process that God has set out for me," she wrote. "Through my writing and my blog, I hope to be able to give some perspective on how to view difficult situations and help inspire people to find purpose in what they are going through."
Not to mention, Tori has been the biggest supporter for her husband in his pro-football career. "We've been on a wild journey in this NFL life, but we are blessed to be in the situation we are in," she wrote in her The Increase Women blog post. "We've learned it is best to just embrace this crazy lifestyle and enjoy the process that God is constantly crafting."
Tori and Nick got married in 2014, according to Newsweek — and they had their first child together in 2017 — a daughter named Lily.
On Tuesday, Nick Foles got emotional about having his family supporting him during the Super Bowl, reported SB Nation. "That's the most important thing when I think about this journey and everything," he said. "When I get home, I get to see her and I get to see my wife ... I know she's going to grow up, and I want her to be proud of her daddy."
Following the Philadelphia Eagles' surprising 41-33 win over the New England Patriots, Nick Foles has much to celebrate. The MVP quarterback came in as a backup to Carson Wentz after he suffered season-ending injuries during game 14, reported NFL.com. And against the odds, he led his team to the Super Bowl — and they won! Tori and baby Lily even joined Nick on stage as the team accepted its hard-earned trophy. (Did you see Lily's adorable, pink, noise-canceling headphones? Too cute!)
With a Super Bowl win under his belt and the two people he loves the most in this world by his side, Nick Foles is clearly on top of the world right about now. Congrats to the Eagles quarterback and his beautiful family!
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Gregory S. Aldrete, Alicia Aldrete, The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?. London; New York: Continuum, 2012. Pp. xi, 365. ISBN 9781441162472. $34.95.
Reviewed by Stephen M. Kershner, Western Kentucky University (stephen.kershner@wku.edu)
This book is exactly what is needed for those who would attempt to re-introduce the Roman and Greek world and its legacy to a Western society increasingly less well informed about its heritage. For decades now, Classicists have tried to diagnose the decline in interest in our courses and studies (Hanson and Heath's Who Killed Homer? (1998) or Hanson, Heath, and Thornton's Bonfire of the Humanities (2001) are well-known examples of this trend) and the acknowledgement has been made that we, as purveyors of this knowledge, have overspecialized and have too often left Roman and Greek contributions to Western civilization to speak for themselves. The most frequent prescription for "saving the Classics" is to demonstrate how the Romans and Greeks can offer special perspective for 21st century life. In this spirit, Gregory Aldrete and Alicia Aldrete have offered a remarkable volume aimed at restoring the respect that the Romans and the Greeks deserve, while simultaneously avoiding the condescension or superficiality of similar, previous attempts, the suspect scholarship of a TV show like Ancient Aliens, or the gratuitous soft pornography of Spartacus: Blood and Sand. In this review, I will not address the book's arguments as it is not the sort of book that offers new and contentious readings of well-known evidence. Rather, I would like to briefly delineate the volume's notable strengths as an introduction to Rome, Greece, and their effect on Western heritage.
The authors have targeted the casual reader with an interest in ancient history and a "curiosity about the world he or she lives in" (x). Specialists and advanced students will find little new in this book, although academic libraries would do well to obtain a copy for those looking to learn something about the Romans and Greeks. What makes this book more successful than volumes with a similar purpose and audience is its forthright mission to help its readers "comprehend the complex culture we live in today… [gaining] at least some knowledge of how those individual strands that comprise our culture were formed" (ix) [my emphasis]. In essence, readers are encouraged to "know [themselves]" more fully as 21st century Westerners through an awareness of Greek and Roman contributions.
After a short "mission statement" introduction (ix-xi), the book offers seven chapters, each discussing a different aspect of Greek and Roman life, giving the reader enough substance to actually imagine life two thousand years ago. The coverage of topics is commendable, offering the standard topics for handbook volumes (i.e., food, housing, banquets, marriage, sexuality, stages of life, the calendar, religion, entertainment, and government) as well as topics less often included (i.e., architecture, science, law, and philosophy). Aldrete and Aldrete should also be commended for constructing a good balance in discussing Greek and Roman life; each chapter covers both civilizations with relatively seamless transitions in between. What is most noticeable about the discussions in this volume as opposed to similar ones (such as Philip Matyszak's two light-on-evidence, but otherwise attractive volumes: Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day and Ancient Greece on 5 Drachmas a Day) is the careful and moderated, yet full use of evidence. Sprinkled through the text the reader finds canonical authors like Vergil, Pliny, and Plato, non-canonical authors like Athenaeus, Aulus Gellius, and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, numerous inscriptions from the CIL and IG, and a modicum of numismatic evidence. In addition to the wide variety of literary evidence, which includes an extensive use of Greek and Latin words, a clear attempt is made in the volume to include extensive archaeological evidence, taken not only from mainstay sites like Pompeii and the Roman Forum, but also from collections of grave steles, sculpture, and ceramics.
The presentation of this material is, perhaps, the volume's greatest success, as this sort of book demands an intriguing and stimulating presentation for readers who could easily put this book down and pick something else up. The authors have remarkably avoided typical pitfalls in writing popular history texts (i.e., using too much jargon or writing in a patronizing manner), and have situated the volume's diction exactly where it needs to be: clear and jargon-free, but absolutely not condescending. The tone is friendly and conversational and in many places humorous; it avoids the sometimes off-putting and distant tone of the professor. In the numerous passages where Latin and Greek words or technical terminology are used (i.e., "Hippodamian" city planning, 176-177), it is not superfluous to the discussion and includes definitions and etymological explanations. For example, in the passage on the terminology of money and measurement (35-38), we find an interesting explanation of the etymological foundations of modern coin names, like "quarter" and "dime," as well as other relevant English vocabulary.
Considering the book's populist purpose, the volume is remarkably unencumbered by "filler," without being too dense for a reader to make sense of the material. That fact has much to do with the Aldretes' careful attention to the book's central theme: "know thyself." Each discussion makes a clear effort to connect modern life with ancient life. For example, in chapter one's discussion of food in a Roman city, the authors liken the popinae and thermopolia of the ancient world to our McDonald's, which seems a particularly apt and evocative connection (6). In the especially outstanding discussion of democracy and its effect upon the founders of the United States (152- 160), the authors have accomplished the effective teaching of ancient Greek democracy and Roman republicanism, while also presenting how the likes of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and others used their classical education to create the basis of a society we now enjoy today in the USA.
The frank, yet balanced honesty in which the authors couch discussions of unpleasant topics like slavery and misogyny is also quite welcome and notable. This book does not whitewash embarrassing facts or events. For example, the Mytilene incident in 427 BCE, during the Peloponnesian War, is used to illustrate the "enduring flaws" of democracy (138-139) and the ancient presumption of the legal, social, and intellectual inferiority of women is described as particularly unpalatable, though historical fact (44). The mature, informed, and candid discussion of ancient sexuality is another example of this welcome honesty (62-68).
Finally, in addition to the features discussed above, the volume also contains a full index of topics and a rudimentary bibliography, which a reader could use effectively as a list for further reading. The volume is ably edited with a negligible number of minor typographical errors. Overall, this volume is an excellent new addition to the list of popular introductions to the ancient world.

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Charleston/Carolina in the Morning
by James P Johnson and Cecil Mack/Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn
https://www.steynonline.com/8827/charleston-carolina-in-the-morning
This time last year, when Hurricane Irma swept up the spine of Florida, we tracked its progress in song, from "Key Largo" north to "The Swanee River". I'm not as familiar with the geography of the Carolinas, but, with Tropical Storm Florence afflicting our many readers in the neighborhood, I thought I'd take a trip to "Carolina In My Mind", as James Taylor put it. Which is not to be confused with "South Carolina On My Mind", which is the deputy state song of said jurisdiction. Carolina is one - or actually two - of the more hymned American states, in part because, like "Georgia On My Mind", the real estate can also double as a girl's name, even if in this case the states in question were named after a boy (King Charles I, or Carolus in Latin). Hence this song from 1914:
I miss you in the morning
When old bobwhite gives his call
Caroline, Caroline
And I miss you at the sunset
When the evening shadows fall
I miss you when the moonbeams
Out on the river shine
Oh, can't you hear me calling for you
Caroline?
Is the poor lad missing his gal? Or his state? Or his gal in his state? Don't overthink it. Carolina calls to many, including in 2004 Jimmy Buffett. I liked the opening couplet of his chorus:
Off The Coast Of Carolina
- which always sounds to me as if his heart's on the ocean floor in Davy Jones' locker. But, that aside, "The Coast of Carolina" doesn't have much else to say about the Carolina coast. If you want local color, try Josh Turner:
South Carolina Low Country
Southern words with an old Sandlapper tune
Palmetto trees swaying in that Atlantic breeze
Reaching up to touch the crescent moon...
I haven't done the math, but my sense is there are more South Carolina songs than North Carolina songs. So I was thrilled when a half-remembered semi-hit with North Carolina in the title popped into my head: "Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina". Except, alas, that the logic of the title is that, while it's named for North Carolina, it's actually about South Carolina - as the second line of the lyric confirms:
Sonny Skylar, Bette Cannon and Arthur Shaftel wrote that in 1941, and, while it's nobody's masterpiece, its easy swing retains a lot of charm. On the other hand, if it's masterpieces you're after, don't forget that Porgy and Bess, thanks to its librettist DuBose Heyward, was written just a little bit south of North Carolina:
In the summer of 1934, Heyward brought George Gershwin down from New York to Folly Island, a small barrier island ten miles from Charleston, in order that, as he put it, a composer from 'the most sophisticated city in America' could immerse himself in 'the music and bodily rhythms of the simple Negro peasant of the South'.
Musicologists claim that you can hear influences of the local Gullah music in Porgy, although it sounds mostly like Gershwin to me. But, speaking of simple peasant music and bodily rhythms, I thought I'd focus on what are respectively the biggest Carolinian song and dance hits, written within a year of each other at the dawn of the Jazz Age. As I mentioned in our Florida special, with city and state songs the location really has to be rhymed, and "Florida" doesn't rhyme with anything much except "I-4 corridor", where I passed a happy night in Lakeland a couple of months back. Indisputably the most famous rhyme for Carolina comes courtesy of Gus Kahn in 1922:
Nothing could be finer
Than to be in Carolina
In The Morning...
Gus Kahn has the distinction of having written our Song of the Week #1, "San Francisco", and amazingly enough our Song of the Week #2, "Dream a Little Dream of Me". Since then we've featured several of his other hits, including "It Had to Be You" and "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)". But we've never gotten around to any songs from his most productive partnership - with the composer Walter Donaldson (although earlier this year we celebrated Donaldson's blockbuster "My Blue Heaven"). The two men had a phenomenal run in the Twenties - "Makin' Whoopee", "Love Me or Leave Me", "Yes, Sir! That's My Baby", "My Baby Just Cares for Me", and a zillion other baby songs. Kahn and Donaldson had the good fortune to be pals with two of the biggest stars of the day, Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. (I had a slight acquaintance with Gus's son Donald, who had the distinction of having Jolson as his godfather.) One day Gus and Walter were round at the Cantors' house, and Eddie's little girl was playing with a mechanical pig: You wound it up and it waddled around the room to the same insistent two-note phrase, driving everybody nuts. So eventually Kahn started singing words to the two notes: "Yes, sir..! No, sir..!" He and Donaldson then went home and worked up the two-note phrase into one of those songs that defines the Twenties: "Yes, Sir! That's My Baby."
There were a lot of two-note tunes around in those days. A couple of years earlier Kahn and Donaldson had written "My Buddy", using the same two notes Jerome Kern and P G Wodehouse had previously deployed for the lesser known "Siren's Song". "My Buddy" was a much bigger hit, but I prefer the ethereal Kern tune and you can hear it on our P G Wodehouse, songwriter special from February. Kahn and Donaldson's two-note blockbuster to end them all was written shortly after "Buddy" in the same year - 1922. Had little Marjorie Cantor sat down at the keyboard and played D B D B D B D B D B over and over before modulating to E C E C E C E C E C, you'd have hoisted up the piano and tipped it out the window. And yet, when Gus Kahn put words on that unending seesaw, the country loved it:
Than to be in Carolina...
No one could be sweeter
Than my sweetie when I meet her...
Strolling with my girlie
Where the dew is pearly early
Butterflies all flutter up
And kiss each little buttercup
At dawning...
In the midst of all that teeter-tottering there is a comparatively legato middle section:
Where the morning glories
Twine around the door
Whisp'ring pretty stories
I long to hear once more...
But even so you're betting the farm on the appeal of two notes and some internal feminine rhymes. As the great musicologist Alec Wilder wrote:
Granted, it's monotonous, yet its very insistence was what caught the public's fancy.
The only thing he liked in it was the "unexpected caper" in bar 25:
After another to-and-fro restatement the song suddenly performs this little romp.
He means:
If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day
I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say...
Wilder loved the drop to the low note on "only a day", and I do, too. The two-note seesaw is ingenious, but that low "day" is a real pleasure to sing. I notice, though, that Jolson and almost every other singer tends to reprise that section with a martial beat, as if nervous it might lack the insistence of the rest of the song. And anyway, what is it the guy wants Aladdin's lamp for anyway?
I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say:
He doesn't really need Aladdin's lamp for that, does her? Just a Greyhound ticket. But then that's what makes it so dottily and delightfully American: the fancy of coveting Aladdin's lamp to facilitate the modest desire to wake up where the morning glories twine around the door.
Do you know who introduced "Carolina in the Morning"? Not Jolson or Cantor, but William Frawley - or Fred from "I Love Lucy". He sang it in vaudeville, and almost four decades later revived it for a "Lucy" episode in which Ricky loses his singing voice, and a few years after that dusted it off for Fred MacMurray & Co on "My Three Sons".
It is, of course, a much parodied song. If you caught the Rat Pack clowning around on stage, you'll know Dino was wont to sing:
Than to shack up with a minor...
There is also a rather obvious anatomical substitute for "Carolina". In my early days in radio, a colleague of mine - one of those older, cynical morning men ("feeling all of forty-five, going on fifteen", as Harry Chapin sang) - used to come into the studio fifteen minutes before his show and warble the gynecological variant as a kind of daily vocal exercise to get himself in the mood for opening the mike. Oddly enough, that's what sprang to mind when I was tuning the satellite radio dial on my return from overseas and noticed that Sirius had started a channel called "Carolina Shag".
As it turned out, it wasn't shagging in the Austin Powers sense, but in the beach-party dancing sense. You'll have heard me complain on a recent Clubland Q&A about all these themed radio channels that seem to have only twenty records on their playlist, and Carolina Shag was in that sense very typical. But it reminded me that Carolina is not just for singing but dancing. The Carolina Shag supposedly originated at Carolina Beach, North Carolina in the late Forties as a variant of the Carolina Jitterbug, which itself derived from the Little Apple, which was a modified Big Apple from Columbia, South Carolina in the mid-Thirties. But before any of that there was the most popular and enduring dance craze of all - one whose splayed limbs even today serve as instant pop-culture shorthand for the Twenties. Indeed, just about the only moment I enjoyed in Leonardo DiCaprio's ghastly witless film of The Great Gatsby a couple of summers back was the sight of Long Island partygoers doing the Charleston to all that gangsta rap on the soundtrack.
That's right: the Charleston, as in Charleston, South Carolina. If you're keeping score, the state is named for King Charles I, but the town for King Charles II. Who never Charlestoned.
If you've read Broadway Babies Say Goodnight (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available, etc, etc), you might recall that there's a moment therein in which Jule Styne, composer of shows like Gypsy and songs like "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", is denouncing rock music at some length, but feels obliged to let me know that it's not without its merits. And so he says, "I like rock because of its freshness - like when the Charleston came along." And at the time he said it to me, I thought, with all the arrogance of youth, that that was a pretty ridiculous comparison. I mean, Elvis and the Beatles versus a novelty dance craze? But Jule was eighteen when the Charleston was introduced on Broadway in 1923, and in nothing flat it swept America. It was a mania, with all the abandon and intoxication of "Rock Around the Clock", and then some. The Jazz Age was the heyday of dance crazes - the Shimmy, the Lindy Hop, the Black Bottom, the Varsity Drag - but none had legs like the Charleston. As The New York Times reported:
Debutantes are practicing it at the Colony Club; society matrons are panting over it in Park Avenue boudoirs; department store clerks are trying to master it in the restrooms at lunch hour; the models of the garment industry dance it together in the chop suey palaces at noon time...
Before it was a dance it was a song. Its composer was the great black stride pianist James P Johnson. He was New Jersey born and bred, but in 1913 was employed as the house pianist at New York's Jungle Casino. Many of its patrons were South Carolina longshoremen who'd come north for work and had a particular rhythm they liked to dance to. So Johnson started to compose tunes in what he called "that damn rhythm" and he named them, after their aficionados, Charlestons. A decade later, writing songs for an all-black revue called Runnin' Wild, he remembered one of them and pulled it out of the trunk. It was just another of those peppy tunes built around a two-note phrase, to which lyricist Cecil Mack set the obvious word:
Charleston!
The Charleston was introduced to the world on stage at the New Colonial Theatre on October 29th 1923 by my old friend Elisabeth Welch. She sang it, and then with the gentlemen of the chorus - the Dancing Redcaps - demonstrated the steps while the band stomped feet and clapped along. And once they'd seen the dance nobody needed the song - or, at any rate, not the lyric, which relied on exactly the same rhyme as the previous year's Carolina hit:
Made in Carolina!
Some dance!
Some prance!
I'll say there's nothing finer
Than the Charleston!
Gee, how you can shuffle
Ev'ry step you do
Leads to something new
Man, I'm telling you
It's a lapazoo!
Liz lived until the age of 99, and was singing until 93, and through all those latter decades looked beautifully ageless with china-like sculpted cheek bones. Like many black American performers of her generation, she found it easier to work in Europe, and so settled in London. If there was a piano to hand, I'd want to hear her sing "The Nearness of You" or a little Kern. So, if memory serves, the only time I ever brought up the Charleston was at a dinner party in the early Nineties. The theme of that year's BBC Red Nose Day (on which Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry et al inveigle celebs into being good sports for charity) was "The Stonker" - as in Brit slang for something humongous. So, for weeks beforehand, whenever you switched on TV, the announcers were warning of a stonking great this and a stonkingly huge that. And along the way the comedy duo Hale & Pace managed to have a Number One hit with a parody dance called "The Stonk". And that night over dessert Liz Welch, in a very ladylike voice, said, "What is this 'Stonk' that everyone's on about?" And I said it was a dance craze. And she replied in her best Lady Bracknell: "A dance craze?" And I said, "Oh, come on, you're the girl who introduced the Charleston..." And then I asked her whether a "lapazoo" was bigger than a "stonk".
And that was the only exchange we ever had on the subject.
Still, if you're going to launch only one dance craze, better the Charleston than the Hucklebuck. It spread across America and then the world, including Bristol, England, where the Vicar of St Aidan's, the Reverend E W Rogers, savaged its depraved rhythms:
Any lover of the beautiful will die rather than be associated with the Charleston. It is neurotic! It is rotten! It stinks! Phew! Open the windows!
The Bishop of Coventry demurred: "It is a very nice dance," he decided.
It sparked, inevitably, a zillion sequels and imitations, of which one of my favorites turned up in the pre-DiCaprio Robert Redford Great Gatsby:
I'm gonna Charleston back
To my old shack
In Charleston!
As the flood waters recede, if you're Charlestoning back to your luxury beachfront property I hope it's not reduced to a shack. Best of luck to Carolina in the morning after, and stay safe.
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Doug Lauder • Sep 17, 2018 at 15:05
As a grateful resident of the Isle of Palms SC who watched Florence's cone pass comfortably offshore , your deep dive into Carolinas music missed a local genre we know as Beach Music . The Shag is a dance style that Yankees never could master. The whole package is best experienced in daylight, on the beach, a crowd in the hundreds, with cold beer and a live band like the mighty mighty Tams. A Southern delicacy.
Calvert Whitehurst • Sep 17, 2018 at 09:33
My understanding is that the Carolina Shag - also known as the Carolina Shuffle - developed as a foot-sliding alternative to the Jitterbug or Lindy Hop for couples dancing either barefoot on the sand at a beach or in sandals or flip-flops at a club or pavilion.
Nigel Sherratt • Sep 17, 2018 at 07:57
This is what pops up when I have Carolina on my mind. Useful to help us over this side get the pronunciations right (or possibly not!). Joan Baez at first, I admit but The Carter Family now if possible.
I was born in East Virginia
North Carolina, I did go
There I spied a fair young lady
And her age I do not know.
Perry Pattetic • Sep 16, 2018 at 21:32
Well, I did not know that! (Carolinas, Charles 1 and all that). I assumed Queen Caroline.
Kim Rowe • Sep 16, 2018 at 19:48
Finally! A Jimmy Buffett reference in Mark Steyn column!!! :-)
Sol Cranfill • Sep 16, 2018 at 19:45
Topical song Charleston has made landfall. Bad weather seems to bring out extra goodness about songs, like this dazzling column. The Florida music special during Hurricane Irma was one of the standout musical highlights during the past year at SteynOnline for me, especially "The Swanee River". Another song mentioned here is one of my other favorites, "My Blue Heaven", but reminiscing over the past year of notes Mark has written about music reminds me of what a resplendent year it has been!
Robert Bridges • Sep 16, 2018 at 18:50
I'll add the original version of "Carolina on My Mind" by James Taylor to my list. Not the slow dragged out piece but the up tempo one. Be it Fall in the Blue Ridge or Summer in the Piedmont.... great memories and a great State.
Lawrence Brennan • Sep 16, 2018 at 18:46
Oh, gosh. When I was a kid, my parents had boxes and boxes of 78s -- close to a thousand, some dating back to the turn of the century -- the old turn, not the recent one I remember. Some were so old they were single-sided, and many had no starting or ending grooves for automatic record changers: You had to place the needle at the beginning, and lift the arm off at the end. My father's parents were Irish immigrants, so we had John McCormack disks, not Enrico Caruso. We had Broadway shows, on six or seven records inside a heavy album; my mother lived in Brooklyn and went to a lot of shows. We had comedy and novelty records; Irish music, big bands, and pop songs of the day. I can remember working my way though those boxes -- carefully! -- and playing favorites over and over.
One of these favorites was Paul Whiteman's "Carolina in the Morning" -- I loved it! It was totally instrumental, with no lyrics sung, but we all knew the words, anyway. I just loved to listen to Whiteman's orchestra. The song began with the verse, which no one knows or sings (I looked it up once, but can't recall it, beyond a reference to dreaming about Carolina.), and then the chorus, the part everybody knows. They played the chorus several times, but the last one delighted me then and still does -- Whiteman kicks it up and swings it, with all sorts of riffs on the melody by the clarinet and saxes.
Alas, the records disappeared years ago, when my mother sold our house after we kids had all moved away. Someone offered her a nice sum for the collection. I wish I'd known first; I'd've gone home and culled a few of my favorites, including some I had bought myself. (I tell people I am old enough to have bought 78s new!)
Thank goodness for YouTube. I've found some of these old records played there, including Whiteman's "Carolina". It still makes me smile to hear it again, as I did in my childhood, sixty years ago.
Kathy Shaidle • Sep 16, 2018 at 18:28
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Scotland is the biggest producer of whisky in the world, and has been for at least 100 years.
But while Scotland is synonymous with whisky, it isn't the only country to produce it. Others, such as the USA, Ireland and Japan, also have long, proud traditions of whisky-making. And the last decade has seen the return of whisky distilling to England and Wales for the first time in a century, while new distilleries have also been built in South Africa, Australia, Taiwan, Spain and Sweden, among others.
That isn't to say that each country is making the same type of whisky.
There are two main types of Scotch whisky: single malt and blended. Single malt has grown in popularity over the last decade, now accounting for 10% of global sales of Scotch by volume. But most Scotch whisky sold worldwide is blended. Made from a mixture of several different malt and grain whiskies, the biggest brands of blended Scotch, such as Johnnie Walker, Ballantines, Chivas, Grants & Dewars, are household names across the globe.
Overseas, Japan is the only other major whisky-making country to have adopted the same single malt-blended whisky model. Distillers in the United States, Canada and Ireland have all traditionally used other grains or methods to produce whisky.
The USA produce approximately 37 million cases of whiskey each year.
Jack Daniels and Jim Beam are the two most famous American whiskies: one a Bourbon, the other Tennessee whiskey. Together they account for 20 million cases, with exports a growing opportunity for both brands. The stand-out feature of American whiskey is the strong, sweet vanilla flavour derived from the obligatory maturation in new oak casks. While coke is the most popular mixer for American whiskey, the premium end of the category is developing fast and brands in this space, such as Maker's Mark and Woodford Reserve are appreciated neat or in traditional whiskey cocktails (Manhattan, Old Fashioned and Whiskey Sour being the most popular).
Barley, rye, wheat and maize are the cereals used most in American distilling.
Jack Daniels has had significant success in the UK market. Good marketing and clear targeting have boosted sales to over a million cases, propelling it ahead of Bell's and biting at the heels of Famous Grouse, the leading Scotch whisky in the UK.
Canada produces just over 21 million cases of whisky, with three high selling brands: Crown Royal, Black Velvet and Canadian Club representing half of all sales. Canada's whisky is noted for its light and smooth style, and most of it is blended. However, there is a broad range available and some brands, including those with a strong rye influence, are complex and rich in flavour.
Canadian whisky laws stipulate that the product must be aged for a minimum of three years, in oak casks, and it allows for caramel to be added. On these two counts it mirrors Scotch whisky.
Ireland currently produces 7 million cases of whiskey and sales are growing fast. The ten year forecast from The International Wine & Spirit Record (IWSR) shows the growth of Irish whiskey will continue to outstrip that of Scotch and American. And it's mostly about one brand, Jameson, which sells 4.5m cases, or 64% of the total Irish whiskey sales. The second highest seller, Tullamore Dew is growing at over 10% per annum but is still under the 1 million case level, which ranks it below 21 Scotch whisky brands in terms of sales.
Most Irish whiskey is distilled three times, while most (but not all) Scotch whisky is distilled twice. The use of peat is rare in the malting process, which means that Irish whiskey has a smoother finish as opposed to the smoky, earthy overtones common to some Scotches. There are, of course, notable exceptions to these rules in both countries.
Irish whiskey was once the most popular spirit in the world, and some say Ireland was the birthplace of whiskey. Unfortunately, a long period of decline from the late 19th century greatly damaged the industry. While Scotland can count over 100 distilleries, Ireland currently only has seven in operation and three of these are newcomers with no established products in the market yet. Irish whiskey has, however, seen a great resurgence in popularity since the late twentieth century, and has been up there with the fastest growing spirits in the world. The current growth rate is roughly 20% per annum, prompting the construction and expansion of a number of distilleries. Jameson is no doubt helping the overall Irish whiskey category.
Suntory's Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 was recently named 'the best whisky in the world' by Jim Murray in his annual Whisky Bible. This caused quite a stir but it was not out of the blue. Japan has been making whisky since the early 1920s when the Yamazaki distillery was built near Kyoto. In those early days Japanese whisky was modelled on Scotch. Indeed Suntory's master distiller studied his craft in Scotland for this purpose. He spent three years in Scotland, returning to Japan where he was instrumental in setting up Yoichi distillery.
Japan distils its whisky twice, in copper pot stills, and it recognises the very important role that oak plays in the maturation of the spirit. Considerable amounts of Scottish malted barley, some of it peated, is imported into Japan.
The 1970s and 1980s were boom time for Japanese whisky; many of their sake distilleries were converted to produce whisky such was the local demand. However, foreign producers were quick to spot the Japanese thirst for whisky; Scotch, American and Irish whiskies all began to compete with the local Japanese production. Unlike in many other countries, there were no major tax barriers installed to prevent imported whiskies competing on a level playing ground.
The recent revival of Japan's whisky fortunes has been built, more steadily, on export sales. The reputation of Japanese whisky as a high quality product has been further enhanced by many international whisky awards. The future looks bright for Japanese whisky.
Indian whisky deserves a special mention, as it's a huge category in India, selling over 120 million cases. The interesting point is that the majority of Indian whisky is not made from cereals but from molasses which is then artificially flavoured and not aged at all. This bars it from being sold as whisky in the EU. In India, many of the locally made whiskies have a top dressing of Scotch whisky to enhance their flavour.
At the top end of the quality scale India too is making headway. Amrut Distillers, amongst others, produce some excellent quality products which do meet European Whisky regulation standards. Indeed, 'several expressions by Amrut and Paul John have received high praise in the UK from a variety of whisky writers.


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Private Rocket Explosion Sparks Investigation by NASA, Orbital Sciences
By Miriam Kramer 29 October 2014
Rachel Kraft, NASA public affairs officer, left, Frank Culbertson, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Advanced Program Group at Orbital Sciences Corp., center, Bill Wrobel, director of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, right, take questions from the media after the explosion of an Orbital Sciences-built Antares rocket just after liftoff on Oct. 28, 2014 at Wallops Island, Virginia.
(Image: © NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The explosion of a commercial Antares rocket just seconds after lifting off from Virginia's Eastern Shore Tuesday night has touched off an in-depth investigation into the launch failure by NASA and the rocket's builder, the Orbital Sciences Corporation.
The Antares rocket exploded in a massive fireball just after its 6:22 p.m. EDT (2222 GMT) launch on Tuesday evening (Oct. 28) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket was carrying an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft — also built by Orbital — that was packed with about 2.5 tons of supplies for astronauts on the International Space Station.
Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Virginia, will lead the investigation into the Antares rocket launch failure, with the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA supporting the company's analysis. No one was injured during the rocket explosion, according to NASA and Orbital, and it is too early to tell what caused the failure. [See photos of the Antares rocket explosion]
An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes in flames during a failed launch on Oct. 28, 2014 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket was carrying an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft filled with 5,000 lbs. of supplies for the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA TV)
"As far as the next steps for Antares, we will not fly until we understand the root cause and the corrective action necessary to ensure this doesn't happen again," Orbital Sciences executive vice president Frank Culbertson said during a news conference after the rocket failure. "It's way too early to tell how long that might take. We will go through the proper processes. We will do it professionally and thoroughly … But I can assure you that we will find out what went wrong. We will correct it, and we will fly again."
The Cygnus spacecraft was carrying about 5,000 lbs. (2,268 kilograms) of food, science supplies and other items when the rocket failure occurred. If the launch had gone off as planned, it would have kicked off Orbital Sciences' third resupply mission to the space station under a $1.9 billion contract for eight flights to the orbiting outpost for NASA.
How Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft service the space station. See how Orbital's Cygnus spacecraft and Antares rockets works in this infographic. (Image credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist)
Another company, the California-based firm SpaceX, has a separate contract for $1.6 billion to fly 12 robotic cargo delivery missions using its own Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rockets. SpaceX has flown four of those missions so far.
Orbital Sciences representatives do not yet know if the failure is related to the failed test of an AJ26 rocket engine (the type of rocket engines used in the Antares first stage) last May.
While Tuesday's launch failure is disappointing, the crewmembers on the space station have more than enough supplies onboard the orbiting outpost, according to Mike Suffredini, the head of NASA's International Space Station program office.
"We did inform the crew immediately after it [the launch failure] occurred," Suffredini said during the news conference. "We actually had the feed up to them, so they were witness to it. They were disappointed … Of course, they are well aware that they have plenty of resources on orbit to get along for some time and the vehicles that are getting up there in the near-term."
Russian officials are planning to launch an unmanned Progress cargo ship to the space station from Russia in the wee hours of Wednesday morning (Oct. 29), and SpaceX's fifth cargo mission is scheduled to launch in early December.
Two members of Congress also expressed their feelings about the failed launch.
"We add our disappointment to the thousands in the space community who worked tirelessly in support of Tuesday evening's launch attempt at Wallops Island," Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) said in a joint statement. "We are relieved to hear there are no reported fatalities, and we anticipate learning more about the circumstances surrounding the launch failure in the near future."
Smith is the chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, while Palazzo serves as the chair on the committee's Space subcommittee.
Editor's note: NASA officials are urging residents of the area around the launch site to keep away from any rocket debris that might wash up on shore or be found on land. If you think you may have found pieces of the rocket, please call the incident response team at (757) 824-1295.
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When William B. Provine died earlier this year, I lost my last mentor. Since I'm 61 years old, I shouldn't complain. But I can mourn, which is just what I was doing on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago when I walked to the beach in Delray to go for a long swim in the ocean.
Will Provine, as everyone knew him, was one of the most popular professors at Cornell when I arrived to begin my doctoral work in sociology in 1977. His lectures were engaging and overflowing. Back then, he was a rising young star on his way to becoming a full professor, soon to earn two appointments, one in history and the other in science.
That suited Will perfectly, since he was an expert in the history of evolution—or rather, the idea of evolution as it itself evolved in the minds of scientists. To aid his research, he sought out, and often purchased, entire libraries of eminent evolutionists so that he could turn every page of their personal copies of scientific articles and books on the hunt for marginalia that would provide clues to their thinking. He wrote scholarly articles on his findings as he traced what one scientist really thought of another's work, and how he or she had been influenced by it.
Will was an unusual choice for my dissertation advisor, coming as I did from the sociology department. And I'm not exactly sure why I so badly wanted him to advise me. But I loved his playful, inquiring spirit. He was smitten with the love of finding things out. It was a game he played and invited his students to join.
He challenged but encouraged. He would question me and then toss me part of an answer, but never all of it. It was for me to find a way to the answers if I could.
After I finished my degree and left campus, we fell out of touch, but we reconnected some 10 years ago when I took my own sons to Cornell for a tour. In his office again, I witnessed my old professor engaging my own children. They had budding interests in history and science, and so he gave each of them one of his beautiful Victorian books that he inscribed for them. Watching my mentor teach my children sent a shiver through me, and I reached for Lori's hand, who was with us to witness the moment. Will's big smile was the same as I remembered, undiminished by the tumor that had been removed from his brain.
We stayed in touch after that. One year ago Will finally finished a book on genetic drift that he considered one of his crowning achievements. Since he knew I had some connections in publishing, he wondered if I might help get the word out. I sent it to my friend at Scientific American, to a high school buddy who is now a geneticist for the government, and to an eminent historian of science at Harvard, someone I've learned of while doing a fellowship here.
Coming home at the end of September to my temporary quarters in Cambridge after being away for two weeks, I found a fat envelope sticking out of my mailbox. It contained another copy of Will's book together with a glowing review that Will had printed out for me. His only note was his business card.
Later that day that I opened my computer to see the notice from his wife. Will had passed.
It is a week later when Lori and I are home in Florida and I am walking to the beach for my swim. I've been holding off thinking about Will's passing. Now I will have my own service for him as I swim through the warm water, seeing the lovely blues through my goggles, hearing the water rush past my ears, feeling the waves gently rock me, as if in a cradle. Can I find a bit of Will's spirit and say thank you? I hope to find a way.
As I walk in the sand through the sea grape hedges that border the beach, I see a Frisbee sail by, followed by a boy about 10 years old. As I come out in the open of the wide beach, I count a dozen or so discs on the beach that he has thrown at a target he made from a stick.
It is still early and there are few people on the beach, but beyond the boy is a woman sitting on the sand who I infer to be his mother, and beside her, a girl somewhat younger than the boy.
"Yes!" he says eagerly. And so we begin tossing one of his discs back and forth. He is good for such a young guy, and I know he appreciates that I can get it right to him, or make him run just a little, this way and that.
"What else do you like to do besides play catch?" I ask.
And so we play Frisbee golf, choosing targets among the Hobie Cats and recycling bins. We run to our discs for the fun of it.
At one point I run close to his mother. "Thanks for playing with him," she says. I say something about how I am the one to thank him.
I ask the boy if he knows how to spin a disc on his finger. He does not, so I show him how to practice it, handing him a spinning disc from my forefinger to his.
Finally, I see his mother and sister packing up to leave, and so I walk up to him to say goodbye.
We say goodbye. I exchange waves with his mom, and slowly walk into the sea.


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Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen was interviewed ahead of the 2017 tour and mentioned the late Steve Clark.
Phil spoke to Ken Sharp for Rock Cellar Magazine.
Phil talked about the first live concert he attended, the band's longevity, Def Leppard songs he'd like to play live, joining the band in 1982, his 2014 guest appearance with KISS, memories of Steve Clark, band working relationship/friendship, Mutt Lange, Tesla and Delta Deep.
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Why Canada is better than US?
Everyone likes to pick on Canada for being the overly friendly cousin of the United States. Mostly I think the US likes to create this image because Canada seems to have happier citizens. There has to be a reason why everyone seems so happy there. So what's your opinion on why Canada is better than US?
Canadian money might be super colorful and kind of make your wallet look like a Monopoly bank, but its cool looking! Canada is better than the US because their money just makes more sense. Forget about those annoying $1 bills that take up so much room. Canada has dollar coins instead and bigger bills.
Canada is better than the US because they don't wear shoes in the house! This definitely keeps your house a lot cleaner, and Americans tend to wear their shoes in the house a lot. All sorts of germs and gross things stick to the bottom of your shoes. This is why Canada is better than US!! And cleaner!!
Canada is better than the US because it has significantly lower crime rates. It's just a safer country, and there's a lot less violence in the streets.
Everyone has to agree with this reason of why Canada is better than US. Too many crimes are going on streets these days in America.
One of the biggest reasons people like to bring up this subject is that they have a universal health care system. That's something America is struggling with big time right now and still hasn't seemed to figure out. This is a major benefit of being a Canadian citizen.
Yeah it's become a big joke, but the friendly Canadian stereotype is pretty much true. We're not complete freaks who can't enter a building because we get stuck saying "no, you first," but the stereotypes started for a reason. This makes Canada better than the US though because everyone is so much nicer to each other. It makes life pretty peaceful.
Have you ever had a Canadian chocolate bar? If not, then you should! Canada is better than the US because they have all sorts of candy bars that you can't find in the states. One of the best candy bars they have is the creamy goodness of the Caramilk.
Is this why you think Canada is better than the US? Just because of candy bars? How old are you? 3?
One of the silliest American laws in comparison to other countries is the legal drinking age. You can make huge decisions at 18 like vote, join the military, and get married but can't drink until 21. Canada is better than the US because the drinking age actually makes sense! In Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec you only have to be 18 to drink, but everywhere else in Canada is 19. That still makes a lot more sense than 21!


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As a respected corporate counselor in the areas of securities and corporate governance, Justin P. Klein advises publicly and privately held companies on diverse securities matters, including day-to-day corporate governance and other transactional matters. His practice also encompasses representation of other firms in the securities industry, including investment advisers, banks, and investment companies.
Justin has significant experience representing both issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of common stock and debt securities. He frequently provides public companies and their boards and independent committees with both regulatory and strategic advice in merger and acquisition transactions, including going-private transactions. He also represents boards of directors and committees of public and private companies, as well as municipal issuers,in special investigations and parties in regulatory and enforcement proceedings before the SEC, state securities commissions, and securities industry self-regulatory organizations.
Justin has served as a court-appointed trustee in SEC enforcement matters. Before entering private practice, he spent nine years at the Securities and Exchange Commission, including as assistant director of the Division of Corporation Finance.
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Philadelphia Bar Association, past Chair, Business Law Section, Executive Committee; past Chair, Committee on Securities Regulation
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (now FINRA), past Chair and member, National Arbitration and Mediation Committee
Pennsylvania Securities Commission, Attorney Advisory Committee
Ballard Spahr's Diversity and Inclusion Council
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Chambers USA, corporate/M&A and securities law, highest ranking (band one); corporate/M&A and private equity law, 2003-2020
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Named "Highly Regarded—Pennsylvania" by IFLR 1000 for M&A, 2018-2020
Named one of Philadelphia Business Journal's 2014 Outstanding Board Directors for his service on the Board of Directors of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
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Q: pinging vs socket vs push notifications I develop mobile apps, now im working on a very big project building a tool for the employees to be heavily used. Now the app is on development mode, and testing with few users, but will need to be scalable and have a fast response.
So the question is about the way the thing is being constructed, how it updates the information on "real time".
so we have a list of jobs, in this list some jobs have different status,
the status changes on a job, so from created to submitted to sent etc.
The thing is that the app as is currently based on pings to the server for each job... so there is a lot of pinging...
I have done other kind of connections to avoid that with socket style real time, or with rabbitMQ.
There is also the option of using something like firebase to send "real time" changes, but i don't want to use their database...
The app is already using GCM for push notifications.
When the app is used, it pings the server for changes... So it can ping the server 10 times before getting a status change.
The user base is about 60k workers. Not all of them submitting jobs all the time, but for sure pinging parallel the service.
Now the question is if the ping strategy is correct, how to determine impact on server for the pinging, what would be the best [scalable, speed] approach to have the data sync?

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Name: rickie
Rickie - Meaning of Rickie
What does Rickie mean?
Rickie
[ 2 syll. ric-kie, ri-ck-ie ] The baby boy name Rickie is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is RIHK-iy- †. Rickie is largely used in the English language and it is derived from Germanic origins.
Rickie is a variant of the name Frederick (English).
Rickie is also an English pet form of the name Richard (Czech, Dutch, English, French, and German).
Rickie is also an English variant of the name Ulrich (English and German).
See also the related categories, english and germanic (german).
Rickie is an uncommon baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1954, 0.049% of baby boys were given the name Rickie. Its ranking then was #218. The baby name has since experienced a steep loss in popularity, and is now of very light use. In 2018, within the group of boy names directly linked to Rickie, Richard was the most frequently used. In the past century Rickie has predominantly been a baby boy name.
Baby names that sound like Rickie include Ricci, Richey, Richie, Richy, Rickee, Rickey, Ricki, Ricky, Rikki, Ritchie, Rachaud, Raghu, Raghyd, Rago, Rahas, Raja, Rajak, Rajas, Rajko, and Raju.
† Pronunciation for Rickie: R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"
More about famous people named Rickie:
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# NIMBLE
##### Currently this project is under heavy development...
Expect there to be a bit of version-itus until v1.0.0

## Required
* [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) (with NPM)
* [Mongo DB](http://mongodb.org/)

## Optional
* [Redis](http://redis.io/) (No longer a requirement unless you are using a session)
* [Rabbit MQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com) (Pub/Sub)

## Installation

* `(sudo) npm install -g nimbleservice`

## Running / Development

*  to create a new nimble service
 * Create a Folder Named foo: `nimble new foo` OR  `mkdir foo`
 * Go Inside the folder: `cd foo`
 * Generate a Service that listens to the route bar: `nimble api bar && cd src`
 * Start The Server: `nimble s` Or run the tests `npm test`
* Visit your app at [http://localhost:4242/bar](http://localhost:4242/bar).

## Some Built In Validations
Nimble comes packaged with some built in validations for your model. We use Google's Caja (the sanitize package) as the default sanitizer, furthermore we have built in some really nice features around the mongoose setter. So far we have provided some common transformations.
* sentence case
 * lor ipsom. dol amore. --> Lor ipsom. Dol amore.
* lower case
 * Myemail@Mail.com --> myemail@mail.com
* upper case
 * acme inc --> ACME INC
* title case
 * acme inc --> Acme Inc
* number
 * '1234' --> 1234
* sanitize

## Mimimal setup required...
### Open your config file...
```js
    module.exports = {

        port : 4242,  // <--------- What port should this service handle

        redis : {
          host: 'localhost',
          port: 6379,
          key : 'sess:' // <-------- Change this to match your session key in redis
        },

        cookie : {
          name : 'yourcookie.sid',  // <---- Change this to match your cookie name
        },

        mongodb : {
            host : 'localhost',
            port : 27017,
            database : 'yourdatabase' // <-- CHANGE THIS to match your database
        }

        // etc...
    }
```

### Now Open Up your Model File
(This will be pre-generated, all you have to do is define your model)

```js
    var Bar = new Schema({
        // <--- Define your model in here
        /* Example
            name : {
                type : String,
                set : setter.titleCase
            },
            address : {
                type : String
            }
        */
    });
```

### Lastly Setup your Policy,
(this is also pre-generated)
```js
module.exports = {

    onFailure : function (req, res) {
        res.json({auth : false, error : "Not Logged In"}); // <---- What do you do when they are not logged in
    },

    authenticated : function (req, res, accept, reject) {
        if (req.session) {
            if (req.session.loggedin) { // <--- what key on the session say's they are logged in ?
                accept(); // accept the request, all is good
            } else {
                reject(); // reject the request, this will end up calling the above onFailure method
            }
        } else {
            reject();
        }
    }

    // <--- add additional policies if needed
};
```

### More fine grained control.
The Hooks File Provides hooks that fire while your server is being constructed. You can acess the app object as well as the express object using these hooks. This way if you need to extend the app object before or after a specific "app.use" you can do this here. The hooks object will fire sequentially from top to bottom so it makes it easy to figure out in what order the app is being configured, as well as at what point you would like to extend the app object.

## Routing
Routing is centered around REST. In the routes.js file you will see the routes object. It is organized by request method. this will eventually make it's way to the express router.
```js
module.exports = {
    GET: [{
        path: '/users',
        action: 'getUserList',
        policy: 'authenticated'
    },{
        path: '/users/:id',
        action: 'getUserById',
        policy: 'authenticated'
    }],

    POST: [{
        path: '/users',
        action: 'createUser',
        policy: 'authenticated'
    }],

    PUT: [{
        path: '/users/:id',
        action: 'updateUser',
        policy: 'authenticated'
    }],

    DELETE: [{
        path: '/users/:id',
        action: 'deleteUser',
        policy: 'authenticated'
    }]
}
```
As you can see you have an array of Get, Post, Put, Delete methods. the combination of request method and url are used to determine the action to take, and the policy to implement.
* path : matching url
* action : the controller method to call when this route is matched
* policy : the policy method to call in order to determine if the action is allowed. * see policies.js

### Support for RabbitMQ / Wascally right out of the box
If you would like to use the Pub/Sub etc.. simple specify it when you generate your api.
```sh
$ nimble api foo rabbit
```
or the truncated version
```sh
$ nimble a foo r
```

Then in your hooks file or your controller require in rabbit.
```js
    var rabbit = require('./rabbit');
    rabbit.subscribe({
        type : 'message',
        handler : function (msg) {
            console.log("Message Received!");
            try {
                console.log(msg.body);
                msg.ack();
            } catch (err) {
                msg.nack();
            }
        }
    });

    rabbit.publish({
        type : "message",
        body : "Hello Pub/Sub"
    });
```
The basics are there for you, although you may want to extend this a bit further if you need a more complex pub/sub.
just open up the rabbit.js file and add any methods you need. Wascally will install as a dependency for your app, not nimbleservice. Lastly, You can manage the config for this in your config file.

### Nimble Service Exposes any of it's dependencies to you via the nimbleservice object.
This way we don't need to have duplicate dependencies.
```
    require('nimbleservice').mongoose  // <-- the mongoose ODM
    require('nimbleservice').colors    // <-- colors for your logs
    require('nimbleservice').lodash    // <-- similar to underscore, with a few enhancements
    require('nimbleservice').express   // <-- express js
    require('nimbleservice').promise   // <-- bluebird (async awesomeness)
    require('nimbleservice').moment    // <-- awesome date library
```

## Docker
If you are using docker, nimble will automatically generate a Dockerfile for you. If Not, Just ignore it.
## Vagrant
Nimble will auto generate a Vagrant file with Ubuntu as part of the default blueprint. It also includes a bootstrap.sh file that will run when Vagrant Creates your VM. By Default it installs docker.
## Stubs (Blueprinting)
With Nimble you can create stubs and generate new services based on any template you would like. The templating is very straight forward. See the blueprints folder to see what a blueprint looks like.
* To Generate a service from a blueprint
* `nimble stub /path/to/stub/ --model users`

This will (recursively) copy all files from the path given to the current working directory, and fill in all of the template variables with the name of the model given.

## Testing
Some basic tests are written for you, any route that you define in the router will be tested when running npm test. You should run your tests from the src directory.

## Additional Commands
`nimble set port 1234` will change the port to 1234 in your config file, (and your dockerfile if you have one). (you can pass in any number for your port)

## Common Mistakes
You must use a Content-Type header in your request, otherwise the body will never get parsed. (Talking to you POSTMAN people who forget to use headers)

## GITHUB
* [nimbleservice](https://www.github.com/charliemitchell/nimble)

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Nancy Pelosi Being Very Mean To Guns, Needs To Say Sorry Right The Fuck Now
Unkind to guns.
This morning, we wrote a VERY RUDE WONKET POST about how guns may have been involved in the mass shooting that, as of this reporting, took either 58 or 59 lives and injured 515 others in Las Vegas Sunday night. In that VERY RUDE POST, we mentioned that there's a bill to protect Americans' sacred right to kill people with guns, but very quietly, currently snaking its way through Congress. Because America was focused on Puerto Rico last week, we didn't get a chance to talk about this then, but it seems somehow pertinent to bring it up today.
When GOP Rep. Steve Scalise made his glorious return to Congress last week after being shot by an asshole who shot a lot of other Republican congressmen (and a couple police officers) too, he JUST SO HAPPENED to be coming back just as a couple of GOP-sponsored "Be Nice To Guns" bills were getting ready to go to the House floor for a vote. One, H.R. 367, is the aforementioned SHHHH MY GUNS NEED TO BE VERY QUIET, BECAUSE I AM HUNTING WABBITS bill. The other, H.R. 38, would make concealed carry permits carry over across state lines, because it's unfair for a man and a gun who love each other VERY MUCH to be discriminated against, just because the state they're currently in doesn't recognize their relationship.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was downright unkind about both bills last week, which is unfair because it's always #TooSoon to cast aspersions on guns:
Pelosi was asked at a news conference about GOP plans to soon bring two bills to the floor that loosen gun regulations, including one that relaxes rules on purchasing gun silencers. That bill — the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) — was expected on the floor this week but didn't come up for a vote. [...]
"Hunters need armor piercing bullets? They need silencers? They need conceal and carry to hunt?" she told reporters. "Silencers — even in the case of Steve Scalise — if you can hear, you can run to where the tragedy is emanating from. It's horrible."
Like we said, very unkind. We hope the guns couldn't hear her, because it would make them cry. (Very quietly, if they were equipped with silencers!)
In response, good Congressman Duncan from South Carolina invited Pelosi to a gun-shootin' range, so he could prove to her that silencers don't make all the gun noises go away, just some of the gun noises.
As Politico reports, Pelosi's office responded simply by saying, "This is not a sportsmen's package. This is an NRA wish list." They did not add, "Also no, we do not want to go on a gun-shootin' date with Jeff Duncan, because fuck that."
Of course, Duncan is technically right, that silencers don't completely silence guns. But Pelosi is completely and utterly right to note that being able to hear WHERE GUNSHOTS ARE COMING FROM saves lives in America's every-actual-day mass shootings. In Las Vegas, some people were able to see and hear that the shots were coming out of the Mandalay Bay hotel. Politico notes that Scalise said in his Welcome Back To Congress, Myself speech that after he was shot, he could HEAR WITH HIS EARS the sounds of a different kind of gun firing, which told him his security detail was firing back at the gunman. And now here goes Wonkette, Monday-morning quarterbacking our latest Sunday night massacre, twisting Scalise's words by quoting him verbatim.
Both these bills, as we said, are headed to the House floor for a full vote. Hell, the concealed carry one even has Democratic co-sponsors, because #BothSidesDoIt. (It has three Democratic co-sponsors. The other 209 are Republicans. Guess the parties aren't actually the exact same.)
Pelosi, for her part, issued a response to the Las Vegas massacre, and didn't even apologize for her cruel statements about guns from last week. In fact, she hardly mentioned guns at all, because all too often, even good Democrats err on the "thoughts 'n' prayers" side of the debate in the immediate aftermath of good old American as apple pie and baseball mass killing events.
Duncan also is doing thoughts 'n' prayers, and is DEFINITELY not pulling his gun-fellating bill or anything crazy like that. We imagine, as he prays for the victims and their families, that he's saying a few good words to Jesus about gun silencers, because everybody forgets to pray for gun silencers.
Guess who did mention Duncan's bill in her tweets about Las Vegas, though? OH HELLO THERE, MADAM SECRETARY AND POPULAR VOTE WINNER HILLARY CLINTON:
Some are suggesting people call Duncan's office to demand he pull his bill. (The sponsor of the concealed carry bill, by the way, is Rep. Richard Hudson.) Unfortunately, congresspeople don't pay any attention to people who aren't their constituents. But you can call YOUR senators and YOUR congressman and yell at them about how it's #TooSoon to be considering bills like this, just after a massacre.
Then go check out Mary Geren, the Democrat running to knock Duncan's ass out of Congress in 2018. Start with this article she wrote for Daily Kos about how both Duncan and his gun silencer bill are flaming pieces of shit. And then give money to her campaign! Then, if you haven't yet done so, click the links below to give dollars to all the great gun control groups fighting to actually do something to prevent the mass shooting horrors we witness so very often in the land of the free and home of the brave.
All right, those are your assignments, get off your asses and do them, please. Thanks in advance!
Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter RIGHT HERE.
You have our permission to skip today's tithe to Wonkette and throw some money at Everytown for Gun Safety, Gabby Giffords's Americans for Responsible Solutions, Moms Demand Action, and the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence. Be safe.
[Politico]
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File photo of a London Overground train.
It's already been a long summer of cell phone faux pas — and they're not letting up anytime soon.
A man was arrested on Friday for charging his iPhone on a London Overground train.
Islington-based artist Robin Lee was on a London Overground train traveling from Hackney Wick to Camden Road when his iPhone ran out of battery, as they often do. Lee saw a socket and took his opportunity, however outlets in carriages aren't for public use, they're for cleaners, and are clearly marked with signs, according to The Guardian.
Unfortunately for Lee he was spotted charging his phone by a police community support officer and accused of "abstracting electricity". When the train pulled into Camden Road, she called over four police officers and told them to arrest the artist.
Speaking to the London Evening Standard, Lee protested, "It was an overzealous community support officer. They should never have arrested me, they knew it was ridiculous. The whole thing was just ridiculous."
British Transport Police's Custody Record citation.
Luckily for Lee, he was "de-arrested" for abstracting electricity, which is a crime under the 1968 Theft Act, when he arrived at the British Transport Police base after being taken there by van.
Police told the Evening Standard they would would review Lee's behaviour before sending details of the case to the Crown Prosecution Service who would decide if any charges should be brought.
Last week, a 19-year-old was sternly reprimanded for leaping onto a Broadway stage in New York City to charge his phone in what turned out to be a fake outlet. In an unrelated incident, Broadway star Patti LuPone grabbed a phone out of a unrelenting texter's hand in the middle of a performance of Shows for Days, while Jonathan Groff recently hit back at Madonna for texting during his Off-Broadway show back in April.