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We are going to be collecting all the opinions of journalists, bloggers, public figures (online as well as on air) to figure out who they think “won” . . . (www.unfold.com) will be updated throughout the night and the next day. Am curious to see if there is going to be general consensus or if the opinions generated will just be along party lines!
Here’s to hoping for some substantive dialogue!
Check out http://www.ratethedebate.org to rate the debate in real-time and see how the nation is rating as you watch.
Can I watch these links even though I am in Europe?
any idea about TV-broadcasting in Europe?
Really cool reblog! Also, later today I’m going to run out to DIA and take a pic of an empty chair strapped to the roof of my car with DIA in the background…a sign that says (needs some help here with sign) “OK… Obama has been picked up and is on his way to the debate at DU.” And take some pics along the way.
I think this debate is about domestic policy, not foreign policy.
That happens when you let immigrants write your blog posts (I’m talking about myself here). Of course it’s domestic policy. Will correct it right away.
Yeah I watched it two times,lol….
can’t wait to see mit make mote of a fool of himself.
Haha!!! looks like ur guy is the one who was a fool!!!
Dont forget about http://feedmonk.com/events/october-2012-presidential-debate they have a listing of live blogs that are covering the presidential debate.
Thanks for the info, really appreciate it.
A lot of streaming media doesn’t show up in Canada (it can read our Canadian ip address) – do you know of any live streams that can be viewed internationally?
Guys remember that you can watch over 50 live news channels (CNN, C-span, Bbc, Aljazeera, etc) globally and on any device on http://www.livestation.com. We were one of the few places where you could watch the previous debates a few years back!
Wow this is great, thank you for sharing!
What about the story GigaOM Ran yesterday about the Debates Commission Live Streaming through Yahoo, AOL & Yahoo.
That actually wasn’t about a live stream, but about something you could call an educational initiative around the issues that are going to play a role during the debates.
Awesome – just what I was looking for.
What about C-Span? IMO they’re the only ones who manage to provide a stream with decent quality and great stability.
Good point, I added a link to the C-SPAN live stream.
A. The song title is I Think of You, written in 1941 by Jack Elliott and Don Marcotte. It was based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. It was introduced and recorded by Tommy Dorsey, vocal by Frank Sinatra on Victor. This original 78 rpm recording can be put on a cassette tape for you at Records Revisited, 34 W. 33rd St., New York, NY 10001; 212-695-7155.
For Herbert Ettinger, Boynton Beach -- The music from the '30s and '40s that you are looking for is included in two songbooks titled Songs of the Thirties and Songs of the Forties. You can get them at Marathon Music, 552 E. Woolbright, Boynton Beach; 561-736-2525.
For Leonard Goodfriend, Boca Raton -- Thanks to one of our very knowledgeable readers, I am happy to report that Anita O'Day is alive and well and she is currently living in California where she occasionally performs.
Recommended: Sophisticated Swing, Engelbert Wrobel's Swing Society, featuring Dan Barrett. This superb CD introduces us to a swinging quintet making its American debut thanks to Dan Barrett and Arbors Records. To order call 800-299-1930. Lots of familiar golden oldies.
JOHN Williamson might be an Australian icon, but just don't say that to him.
"Icon. I don't know about that. I thought icons were made of steel," he jokes.
The softly spoken singer took time out of his busy schedule on Saturday night to talk to the Gympie Times. Click play on the video to the right to see the full interview.
This year Williamson has celebrated 40 years since he won New Faces with Old Man Emu and scored a recording contract. Old Man Emu went to number 1 and the record Gold.
But John says his favourite of his songs is probably True Blue.
"I've written 350, at least, songs. What is my favourite? Probably, I'll have to say True Blue because it's been my calling card."
And the reaction of the crowd when he performed it on Main Stage on Saturday afternoon only served to cement that statement.
Thousands of people stood shoulder to shoulder on the hill, singing that iconic song at the top of their lungs. It was an unforgettable moment.
Want to catch John Williamson live? Check out his upcoming tour date on his website.
It was back to protesting Sunday for the "Occupy Wall Street" folks after 700 supporters were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday.
"I'm back because I want to tell everyone: just because we're being arrested, we're not being silenced," protester Robert Grodt told the New York Daily News.
The protesters have occupied a park in Lower Manhattan for the past two weeks now, vernturing out to get arrested, as they take a stand against corporate greed, income inequality and tax breaks for the rich -- at the expense of everybody else.
Jamaica’s Oshane Thomas has the pace to hurry batsmen.
ONE AFTERNOON in mid-2016, Oshane Thomas came back from school to play a practice game at the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) ground in Kingston. In the audience were Chris Gayle and a couple of officials from CPL franchise Jamaica Tallawahs’ ownership group. Thomas, then just 18, bowled like he usually did, with a lot of pace and fire, and intimidated and bullied the batsmen into submission. His performance left Gayle so impressed that the West Indian batting superstar immediately recommended that the Tallawahs sign the teenager up for that year’s CPL season.
“I had just come back school, was bowling quick and next thing I know, I’m in the CPL,” Thomas recalls to The Indian Express. He played two matches that season, the preliminary final and the grand final, which Jamaica won to lift their second CPL trophy after the youngster got them going by dismissing veteran Dwayne Smith.
A year later, Thomas was back at a packed Sabina Park, where thousands of Jamaicans had gathered to welcome their beloved Gayle, who was now in a St Kitts & Nevis Patriots jersey.
And the tall, lanky fast bowler would provide the T20 phenomenon a personalized reminder of what had impressed him 12 months ago. Thomas welcomed his benefactor with two quick away-going deliveries before the third ducked back so sharply and so rapidly at nearly 150 kph, that the ball rammed into Gayle’s pads before he could even bring his bat down past his ribs. And the left-hander just stood there shocked at having been vanquished by the same bowler that he’d discovered. Thomas went on to dismiss Carlos Brathwaite and Mohammad Nabi too to be named man-of-the-match.
“It was a great ball but not my best ball. I liked how I set the wicket up. He was very appreciative though and gave a speech later saying I was one for the future,” says Thomas now with a chuckle from Guwahati, where the West Indies play India in the first ODI of the five-match series.
This is Thomas’s first tour with the senior West Indies team, and he’s yet to make his international debut. For now, he’s still getting acclimatized to the surroundings of the biggest stage having endured the “longest flight journey” of his life—“we left on the 13th and finally reached on the 15th but it felt a lot longer” as he puts it.
He’s no stranger to being the centre of attraction when he has a ball in hand or in showing off his pace in front of large crowds. “Jamaica people always love to see fast bowling, especially if someone’s bowling bumpers and hitting batsmen. A crowd used to gather around to watch me bowl, and they would get really excited when they would see me,” Thomas, now 21, reminisces.
The once brimming fast bowling cupboard in the Caribbean has been experiencing a serious drought, especially in the raw pace section, for over a decade now. The likes of Fidel Edwards, Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel have made their presence felt, but only intermittently. So it’s only natural that the emergence of Thomas—who took a wicket off his first ball in first-class cricket—has ignited considerable excitement around the West Indian islands. While he’s consistently hit speeds of over 150 kph, he’s flirted on occasions in the late 150s too, reportedly touching 160 kph in a domestic game.
Thomas, who grew up in a cricket-mad family playing in the backyard with his brothers, also recalls having watched a lot of footage of Courtney Walsh and Michael Holding—former MCC players themselves—as a kid. And he’s had the fortune of interacted with both his heroes, with Holding having personally sought the youngster out for a chat at the MCC ground.
The youngster displayed a lot of maturity and new-found control to go with the genuine speed during this year’s CPL, where he finished with the most wickets for a fast bowler—18 at 17.66—and overall second only to leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed. But despite the hype around his speeds, Thomas wants to focus more on maintaining control and “hitting the stumps”.
EVANSVILLE – While Kolten Sanford is recovering from a broken foot, older brother Jaelan has quietly skyrocketed to eighth place on the University of Toledo men’s basketball career scoring list.
But most of the buzz locally hovers around Kolten’s return to Bosse High School's lineup. If healthy, he gives the athletic Bulldogs an outside threat they need so badly in the half-court.
Jaelan, who is five years older than Kolten, doesn’t mind the attention focused on his younger brother. Through the first three years of his prep career at Reitz, Jaelan may not have been considered a Division I prospect. But that all changed when his stock rose before his senior year. Then, he led the Panthers to a berth in the Class 4A state championship game and became an Indiana All-Star.
Kolten, a 5-foot-10 junior, has another year to prove he can become a Division I player, despite his relative lack of stature. Former Bosse standout Mekhi Lairy, now a freshman at Miami (Ohio), was listed at 5-8. He overcame his lack of size through blinding speed with the ball and a smooth shooting touch.
But first, Kolten has to demonstrate he is fully healed from a broken foot suffered on Dec. 14 against visiting Washington. Sanford, who returned to full practice last Tuesday, scored two points in 12 minutes Saturday in an 80-54 victory over host Terre Haute South.
Kolten returned to full practice under the watchful eye of Bosse assistant LaMar Brown, who was leading the team in head coach Shane Burkhart’s absence. Burkhart was out briefly with a stomach issue, but returned to the sidelines at Terre Haute South.
For his part, Sanford has handled his injury better than any player Brown has ever seen. Trainer Jess Monroe said Sanford, who has been riding an exercise bike 20 miles before practice, said everything has worked out just right for him to be as far along as he is.
“His x-rays looked amazing,” Monroe said.
Kolten said he was on a fast break against Washington when disaster struck.
Fouled on the play, he knew something was wrong.
Shortly thereafter, he was on the trainer’s table and Monroe told him he had broken his fifth metatarsal.
In addition to riding an exercise bike 20 miles a day, he went on a diet so he wouldn’t put on weight. During his absence, he tried to serve as a tutor to Bosse’s young point guards.
Burkhart said Kolten has been working extremely hard with his rehab to get back well before the Class 3A Boonville Sectional, which starts on Feb. 26.
Burkhart couldn’t be happier for Sanford and has placed no expectations upon him.
It seems like only yesterday – as they say – that Jaelan hit a 3-pointer from the left wing at the buzzer in overtime, trimming Fort Wayne Homestead’s final margin of victory to 91-90 in the 4A state championship game in 2015 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Although the Panthers let a 10-point lead with four minutes left in regulation slip away, time and the emergence of Homestead’s Caleb Swanigan into an All-American at Purdue (traded from the Portland Trail Blazers to Sacramento Kings last Thursday), has taken a bit of the pain away. Maybe.
Kolten, who watches Jaelan play for Toledo in one media form or another, said he is devastated about the loss at state, but has moved on to new challenges.
University of Evansville athletic director Mark Spencer said part of the reason the Aces let Marty Simmons go as head coach was because he didn’t lead them to a tournament with an “N” at the front. Well, Jaelan has had the same problem so far at Toledo. Despite considerable success, the Rockets haven’t advanced to the NCAA tournament or National Invitation Tournament in Sanford’s first three years at Toledo.
“We have to stay solid. It’s what I have wanted to do my whole life,” said Sanford of gaining that elusive NCAA tournament berth. “I have to stay confident in myself."
Jaelan, who has lifted Toledo to first place in the MAC West at 8-3, was nicknamed “Jaypack” his freshman year at Reitz by then-senior Nate Tidwell and it stuck. Kolten, who has a more traditional nickname, “Kolt,” worked out frequently with his older brother despite their age difference.
Jaelan credited Pocket City AAU coach N.D. Kendrick and his father, Bryan, a former North standout, for helping him land a Division I scholarship.
Jaelan, who has 1,644 career points, 32 away from No. 7 Steve Mix on Toledo's all-time list, has a wealth of respect for Lairy, now his rival in the MAC.
Jaelan, who is averaging 15.8 points for the 20-4 Rockets, has been among the MAC’s top 10 scorers the past two seasons and was a second-team all-league selection last year. Majoring in business management, he has won the MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete honor.
Not only is Jaelan a senior at Toledo and Kolten a junior at Bosse, cousins Jacob and Kayla Sanford played for North Posey and are now playing for Oakland City University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, respectively.
Bailey, Jaelan and Kolten’s brother, played linebacker for Reitz’s football team and two years of basketball.
Bryan, their father, played for North and Olney Central, a junior college in Olney, Illinois. Scott, their uncle, was a member of North’s 1,000-point club and played for Danville Area, a juco in Danville, Illinois, and one year at Southeast Missouri State.
As a sophomore, Kolten averaged 16.7 points in helping spark North to its first 4A sectional title in 20 years last March. But he and his mother moved into the Bosse district last summer.
Coming from an athletic family, Jaelan said all of the Sanfords had a competitive edge growing up.
“That’s a big reason why we’re where we’re at today,” he said.
View full sizeRecent graduates should present themselves in the best possible light.
The caps have been tossed and “Pomp and Circumstance” has faded into memory. Now it’s time for new graduates to put their education to work. But with unemployment at 9.1 percent, even seasoned workers are having trouble landing a job. How is someone with little experience — aside from a stint scooping ice cream or lifeguarding — going to stand out?
What new grads may lack in experience, they make up for in their knowledge of new technologies and information systems, she added.
Volunteering, job shadowing or interning shows employers your level of interest. It is important to match activities to the desired career. Want a job in IT? Volunteer some data-entry time at a nonprofit. Interested in a medical career? Make yourself useful at a nursing home. Document your activities with pictures, samples of work and letters of reference. Also worth noting: Involvement in campus organizations and special projects grads may have worked on.
If a student is looking for a first job, they have to be able to talk to employers about what they are looking for.
. How you prove it, she said, is by recommendations. She recommends bringing a portfolio with samples of work to interviews and presenting a few relevant pieces.
Recent graduates also need to present themselves in the best possible light.
“The first thing is to smile,” Maciak said. Stand up straight, offer a firm — but not bone-crushing — handshake and banish “um” from your vocabulary. A mistake some new interviewees make is not dressing professionally.
“They think that because I’m young, it’s OK if I wear tennis shoes or I don’t need to have my fingernails manicured nicely,” she said.
Apply in the manner requested by the employer. Don’t show up in person when the employer has specified an online-only application process.
Once an interview has been secured, research the business.
College grads also should make sure to take advantage of the job-search services their alma mater provides — usually for life.
. Many universities also offer job sites like Grand Valley’s Lakers Jobs Online.
Becklin suggests checking prior to an interview to see if prospective employers have a Twitter or LinkedIn account and follow updates. Identify the skills and values you have that will fit into what you learn about the company culture. Be prepared to be able to tell them why they should hire you.
Once the interview is over, Becklin suggests sending a handwritten thank-you note within 24 hours.
With all of the changes in engine technology, telematics and state and federal regulations, having a fleet-management program that keeps up can be critical for successful fleet management. Now, add another factor to the equation — the electronic logging device mandate set to take effect at the end of this year and continuing through the first three months of 2018. (The ELD mandate takes effect Dec. 18 but enforcement agencies anticipate it will take about three months for the new regulations to be fully implemented.) While most of our customers already utilize ELDs in their operations, the overall impact to the industry is what now comes into play over the next several months.
A well-documented driver shortage already exists in our industry. American Trucking Associations predicts that shortage to be at 89,000 drivers per year over the next 10 years. Now, factor in the impact of ELDs. The fallout is certain to occur with some owner-operators and small motor carriers hanging up their keys. This escalates the driver shortage.
While fewer drivers will be a reality, so too will fewer miles logged. And don’t forget the ever-increasing problem of traffic congestion. It all adds to the crux of the problem for trucking: You’re not making money if your trucks aren’t moving. Drivers aren’t either.
As a result, you’re both looking at a pay cut unless new efficiencies (less detention time from shippers, for example) come to the forefront to offset lost miles. And with a driver shortage, drivers can’t afford the legacy “pay-by-mile” system if they’re running fewer clicks.
So, the question begs: how do fleets — and therefore drivers — increase revenue?
One trend we’ve seen over the past several years is “activity-based pay,” especially with dedicated carriers (for-hire is slowly catching on). Last year alone, we saw the number of customers implementing this method double, and we expect that to only increase until it’s the norm, not the exception. It’s the fairest way to get paid, and the fairest way to pay drivers. Plus, California now requires fleets to pay their drivers for breaks (depending on the number of hours worked) and to pay a specific hourly rate for any undocumented time.
What exactly is activity-based pay? Activity-based pay compensates drivers for required tasks other than driving, such as waiting to be loaded, loading or unloading trailers, washing trucks, or documenting their deliveries, to name a few. By using fleet management systems that can identify and track this pay structure, carriers can measure their drivers’ activities and compensate drivers at a level that’s fair to them and to shippers.
As one example of activity-based pay, we have a customer whose regional operation delivers up to 200 different types of product from its production facilities and can track the date, time and location of deliveries using GPS data from its trucks’ ELDs. The fleet then uses that information to determine different pay rates or segments based on factors such as the distances its drivers traveled or the time of deliveries and whether drivers were detained.