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"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Article comments
1 - Dawn
Well, thanks for all of those nice things you said. And you are not at all biased.
Does this mean I am allowed to have some cake?
2 - Al Barger
34? Dang, you're old. Are you going to spend the day shopping for one of those motorized scooter things for you old folks?
3 - Dawn
I may be old, smelly and pregnant, but Al, I can so take your sorry butt.
With or without a scooter.
4 - Corinna hasofferett
Hi Dawn,
Reminds me - once an Israeli poet complained to me, "Corinna, I'm old, I'm 69."
I told you, when you'll be eighty you'll look back and say, "How young I was when I was only 69 yrs old."
And guess what: He's now indeed 80 and in a newspaper article it said he's running up and down the stairs as easy as said.
Happy Birthday Dawn. Savor the day.
(By the way, what day in December?...)
5 - Temple A. Stark
Dawn - truly a gifted person. and a perosan easy to care for because of her "i-don't give-afuck-ok-i-really-do vulnerability and parallel strength.
6 - Dawn
Thanks for the kind thoughts Corrinna and Temple, although I may not be old, I just feel old.
And yes, I do indeed give a fig.
7 - Natalie Davis
Dawn, you rock. Happy belated birthday. And don't fret -- some of us are older than you.
8 - Dawn
Yeah, but they all look better ;)
9 - David
Happy b-day Dawn...anywhere in your thirties is Y-O-U-N-G! Trust me...I've got the big 40 staring me down next year. Still feel 29 of course...
BTW, is Eric Olsen the same Eric Olsen who worked as a promo rep for a major labels in the '90s?
Enjoy your day.... | http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/if-you-think-34-is-old/ | 2013-05-18T10:43:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The entire city center in Birmingham has been evacuated and there are reports that the police have conducted controlled explosions.
The evacuations were the result of "intelligence." The controlled explosions suggest that it was not a false alarm.
Blog posts from the area:
Birmingham Evacuated after Terror Threat
Panic in the streets of Birmingham
I am in Birmingham … sirens are wailing … again!
I finally made it back from London to Birmingham and the breaking news here is that the Broad Street area of the city has been closed off and thousands of people have been evacuated.
Do these incidents signal further terror attacks in the UK?
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Jusrene, suggest moving this to politics - I can, but on a PDA now
Hope things are fine in Birmingham
2 - Aaman
Spoke to family in Birmingham - they say things are fine - Better to be safe than sorry
3 - Justene
Good news Aaman | http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/terror-interrupted-in-birmingham/ | 2013-05-18T10:16:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
After a five years absence from the red clay of Berlin, Martina Hingis made a successful return by beating 11th seed Flavia Pennetta 7-5, 6-3. This straight-set victory also allowed Hingis to avenge her loss to the Italian Pennetta in the semifinals in Gold Coast this January, when she was playing her first tournament of the season and lost in three sets.
After being broken in the first game of the opening set, Hingis managed to quickly reel off four games to lead 4-1. In what appeared to be a momentary lapse of concentration, she lost three breakpoint opportunities and saw Pennetta level the set to 4-4. With both players winning their next service games, Pennetta was unable to hold her serve and surrendered the first set to Hingis at 7-5 on her third set point.
Martina Hingis won the first two games of the second set, only to be broken twice in a row by the Italian’s strong service returns. Tied at 3-3, she won her service game to love, broke Pennetta to 15 and never looked back. She sealed the match after 1 hour 25 minutes, with 80% of first serves in (but was still broken 4 times), 1 ace, and a total of 76 points to her opponent’s 59. While it was not the best match from Hingis, getting over this first hurdle against a seeded player was what she needed to bring her confidence back up after her meltdown against Venus Williams in Warsaw.
Hingis will face local favorite Julia Schruff of Germany in Wednesday’s second round. Scruff, ranked #60, scored an impressive straight-set victory over Emma Laine earlier today. Should Hingis get through what, on paper, looks like a match that should not pose too many problems, she will face a series of revenge opportunities from 3rd round onwards: Elena Dementieva, Amelie Mauresmo, Justine Henin-Hardenne.
Hingis’ results in Berlin are crucial. They will tell a lot about her current condition, her ability to play among the best women’s tennis, as well as her chances in Roland Garros, which begins on May 29.
Article comments | http://blogcritics.org/sports/article/martina-hingis-wins-berlin-opener/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Meet political thriller author Gary Grossman.
Meet Stefan Vucak, who says that "writing has always been a passion and a drive."
An exhilarating debut thriller by FC Etier introduces readers to a memorable cast of characters.
If you're not yet watching ABC's new series Last Resort, you should be!
What happens when a pillar of the medical community goes on a murder spree?
A traditional high-stakes thriller with deep characterization and literary quality narrative.
Steve O’Brien compelling conveys the danger of homeland terror - taking a group from our own foundations, and giving it a face we may see in any area of the country.
Suspense novel that doesn't let up until the last page.
A gripping political thriller set in a Turkish frontier pitting radical Islamists and secularists on the issue of headscarves.
A stern reminder that the world of politics is about as reliable as an auto mechanic’s estimate. | http://blogcritics.org/tag/political-thriller/ | 2013-05-18T10:14:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The latest in the ever-expanding world of remakes gets set to premiere on ABC this week.
An inside look at the Cylon plan comes to Blu-ray.
The conclusion to The Fourth Realm trilogy raises more questions than it answers.
Jim Henson's classics come to Blu-ray. Time to upgrade your collection?
Make room for forgotten dramas, classic (unintentional comedies), and B-Westerns galore.
In a world where no one lives their own lives, what could go wrong?
All your deepest nostalgia won't salvage this mess.
A fresh look on the surprise blockbuster of the summer.
ABC gives the world a sneak peek into its near-future.
This release is, in every practical sense, definitive. | http://blogcritics.org/tag/sci-fi/page-17/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tracey Ullman is one of the few British female comedians to truly make the jump to the US (or America, as they call it). This four-disc DVD set collects the complete third and fourth seasons of her hit, Emmy-winning show which was broadcast on HBO in 1998-1999. I did not see these skits during their initial broadcast, but I find them terribly amusing, another great example of her talent. It's no wonder Tracey came back with her State of the Union… series.
After watching the DVDs, it's clear that many British mimics and character comedians have nicked her style and made it their own. Ullman does it best, however, and this set clearly demonstrates the talent that this woman is in the end. It's rare that I actually laugh out loud these days at a telly show, but her "make-up artist to the stars" character is hilarious. Of course, being in the US she gets all manner of stars to show up, including Billy Connelly and Helen Mirren. Hugh Laurie, of House fame, appears as does Cheech Marin (playing a stoner, naturally).
If you are a fan of mimicry and character driven sketch comedy then this is a DVD set for you. And we all need a good laugh now and again.
Not surprisingly, it's rated TV14 for language and drug references.
Article comments | http://blogcritics.org/video/article/reviews-in-brief-tracey-takes-on/ | 2013-05-18T10:45:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
First of all, let me apologise for writing the review of the Undercovers episode "Assassin" two weeks after it aired. Still, the episode is worth exploring.
In this new adventure, Agents Samantha (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Steven (Boris Bodjoe) Bloom must travel to Lima (Peru) in order to prevent the assassination of the new president of the country, Alberto Loya.
The opening teaser shows us Steven aiming a gun and ready to shoot the president of Peru but, wait a minute, wasn't Steven a good guy? At this point, the episode goes backwards so we can all get an explanation to why Steven is in this situation. This strategy of storytelling was greatly used in Alias as well. I think it's a good cliffhanger for the audience.
As in every episode, we get to know how the Bloom Catering is doing. This week, the catering's new client is Jennifer Anthony, an old friend of Sam's who opens Pandora's Box again when she mentions a former college professor with whom Sam had a special friendship.
Agent Shaw (Gerald McRaney) pays his weekly visit to the store so he can debrief the couple about their new mission. Shaw tells them about Victor Guzman, a very dangerous hitman who was recently caught by the authorities and who had confessed he was hired by a guy called Ivanov to assassinate Loya.
Sam infiltrates in a junket as a reporter in order to talk with Loya and warn him about being in danger. Like in almost all J.J Abrams' productions, Abrams likes to give small roles to friends or actors who have previously worked with the director. Here, the familiar face is David Anders. Probably if I say he played Sark in Alias, you'd quickly remember him, right?
Article comments | http://blogcritics.org/video/article/tv-review-undercovers-assassin/ | 2013-05-18T10:17:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
some context for the event. See the Q&A below.
Q: Thanks for talking with us, Chris. Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your role with the City & County of San Francisco?
A: Currently, I wear three hats: I am the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City and County of San Francisco (City) and also the Director of the Department of Technology. In addition, I chair the City’s information and communications technology governance organization.
Throughout my career, I’ve been blessed with an amazing number of opportunities in the public, private, and non-profit sectors working with wonderfully talented people on projects where creativity was required. As a facilitator of change, I enjoy taking a bunch of different and disparate parts and creating a sustainable solution.
Q: For folks who aren’t familiar, tell us a bit about the City’s open government efforts. How long have they been in place and what is DataSF?
A: The City’s Open Government initiative is all about creating through collaboration a more transparent and accountable government using all sorts of innovative measures and tools. of the Initiative was to focus on the release of government data. One of the first projects, DataSF is a Web 2.0 clearinghouse for sharing data with the public. Anyone can visit the website; once there, they will find links to raw, structured and machine readable datasets created and maintained by the City and County of San Francisco. Additionally, visitors to the website can comment, rate, vote and request new datasets and applications, mashups or wikis made with the data.
Q: Can you highlight a few of the apps that have been created by developers as a result of DataSF?
A: San Francisco is home to a large and vibrant developer community. The City is committed to helping this community to create new jobs in San Francisco by building mobile device applications through leveraging government data.
You can find over 40 applications on the DataSF showcase. We attempted to group them in categories of similar applications. One of our most popular categories has to do with transportation..
Another is Mom Maps.
Mom Maps – Mom Maps is a new iPhone application that helps you find kid friendly locations in San Francisco. It contains an extensive list of parks, playgrounds, restaurants, museums and indoor play areas that are kid friendly and fun. Using GPS you’ll see results which are close to you, plus a map to get you there.
Crime Visualizations
As a testament to how interested citizens are with government data, someone even developed a series of graphical representations of crimes in the form of peaks and valleys over San Francisco. The practical application is deeper understanding of where crimes are committed and what types of crimes happen in various areas of the city.
Q: GovFresh is hosting an event on Sept. 1 for citizens, developers and public servants to discuss the City’s open government initiatives. How did the City get involved and why?
A: The City has been working with GovFresh to support our collaboration goals. GovFresh is an amazing tool to bring together people interested in finding new and innovative ways to provide government services.
Q: Who will be speaking from the City, and can you give us a preview of what we can expect to hear?
A: The City’s Chief Information Officer Chris Vein will be representing an amazing group of City staff committed to making government more collaborative and transparent. He will provide some context for why and how the City is leading the country in these areas, preview some cool projects the City is working on, and preview where we are going next.
Q: What does the City hope will be the outcome of the GovFresh event?
A: A whole lot more excited people will want to work with the City in transforming government as we know it. We believe that closer ties between our constituency and the City will allow us to better serve their needs and develop relationships with those willing and able to help build a the responsive government that they deserve.
Q: Before we let you go, we wanted to ask about the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative. In your view, how has it influenced what we’re seeing from local governments in terms of open gov efforts? Interested both in terms of your specific experiences in San Francisco, but also what you’ve seen and heard from peers in other parts of the country.
A: In my view, the Obama Administration became the catalyst for all government to more quickly and effectively move forward. San Francisco is working closely with government at all levels across the country. We are taking advantage of the Administration’s vision and projects to guide our own. What is really interesting is the discussion of integrating data and applications collectively at all levels of government. I think we really are seeing the potential for creating a truly integrated government that can focus on delivery of service and not organizational silos.
[...]). [...] | http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeingovernment/2010/08/chris-vein-san-franciscos-cio-on-sf-govfresh.html | 2013-05-18T10:55:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This post shows simple Collaborative applications that were built using the LCCS Flash-Only SDK. The Flash-Only SDK has been a recent addition this article is an attempt to improve the examples of the SDK.
The applications are
Just to highlight, the apps FlashSimpleChat and FlashWebCamExample were built using the Flash builder and they are flex-less or mx-free applications. The source for the applications can be downloaded here.
Snapshot of the apps,
Please feel free to extend the app,or suggest better examples. | http://blogs.adobe.com/arunpon/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Chick spotter
April 14th, 2010
11:58 am
I like the talent behind the glass in that pic on the front page accompanying this story. Hope they’re staying!
WOW
April 14th, 2010
11:59 am
There is a Hockey team in Atlanta? WOW
East Point Bob
April 14th, 2010
12:00 pm
No change here, Waddell still in charge and will be making or approving all moves, nothing has been resolved, not one damn thing except the inept Don Waddell continues to collect a fat paycheck for doing nothing and after watching his end of the season interview on the Thrashers site…
He never looked straight at the camera once and kept closing his eyes after and during every question. Talk about someone who is on drugs or needs to be in Milledgeville best mental hospital, it is Don Waddell, the most worthless person in the entire world of hockey !
The Real Thrash
April 14th, 2010
12:01 pm
Wendell People who call people gay for being better educated than you are homo-phobic. Not that’s prettty bad. You probably wanted Waddell and Anderson to stay too.
Cliff Fletcher
April 14th, 2010
12:04 pm
Sorry folks-
WOW-you are original, we have had idiots here before
Facts-you and WOW must be the same person
You guys need to stay on the Hawks’ blogs, where stupidity and idiocy reign supreme
The Real Thrash
April 14th, 2010
12:05 pm
Good post on ESPN.com:
JS
April 14th, 2010
12:06 pm
Let’s hope the Thrashers have the same luck the Falcons had when they moved their boob upstairs. It worked once, hopefully it will work again.
The Real Thrash
April 14th, 2010
12:08 pm
Cliff Fletcher Anyone who uses the screen name of the GM who helped move the Flames to Calgary cannot call anyone an idiot or stupid. You are the epitome of dishonesty however.
Happy Fan
April 14th, 2010
12:08 pm
YESSSSSSSSS! This would be even better if Ilya was still here though!
Cliff Fletcher
April 14th, 2010
12:15 pm
Real Thrash-That was 25+ years ago-get over it
TURBOURBO
April 14th, 2010
12:21 pm
So let me get this right… 10 Years… Little Success… Promote the only consistent level of leadership that has had direct responsibility for this failure. So the leadership qualities that Spirit and Wadell exhibit… Promote Failure… Hmmmmmm…. Sounds a little bit like Enron to me!
I’m not sure John Anderson was the best coach for the Thrashers. But I do appreciate what he put on the ice this year. They were an exciting team to watch.
I don’t know what to think about this. I am an avid Thrashers watcher, but I am tired of writing these comments. Same theme as last year! Right now, I feel like in 365 days, I’ll be writing these same comments again. It’s time for a change… and just changing the coaching staff isn’t going to do it!
The Real Thrash
April 14th, 2010
12:21 pm
Cliff Fletcher It was 1980 and you’re the one using his name. Unless you are a Maple Leafs, Lightning, Coyotes, and then Maple Leafs again fan. In which case you’re on the wrong blog.
Cliff Fletcher
April 14th, 2010
12:23 pm
Thrash-get over it.
Dudley is the new GM and we should all be happy about it.
Have a great day.
Joe Friday
April 14th, 2010
12:25 pm
Well, there’s good news and bad news here. Good news first. Anderson isn’t an NHL coach, it was patently obvious to me from the first time I saw his system that it wouldn’t work in the NHL. It was rinky dink and reeked of Don Waddell’s minor league handling of this club from Day 1, minor league players, hiring minor league coaches in Fraser and Anderson, the one strong guy, Hartley, got the boot because he was given young players, and he’s not a veteran player guy.
Good news also is that we have a new GM, but please be realistic. This is a PR move that we, the fans who have boycotted and left as season ticket holders forced the owners to make, but they didn’t go all in, they did this as PR to blow more smoke up our rears. Waddell is the problem, promoting him to team President is a joke, a horrible business decision further proving these guys have no ability to run pro franchises.
I do not suffer under any delusion that Waddell is going to out of the personnel decisions. Read Dudley’s own words “I look forward to building this organization even further and working closely with Don”
Dudley himself said he’ll be working closely with Don, and that’s the bad news. Waddell is still going to call the shots, all they did was change the title of Dudley by removing associate from the front of GM and they changed Don’s GM to President, but the hierarchy remains the same, Dudley still reports to Waddell and Waddell is still in charge.
Now most of you fellow astute hockey fans also noticed what I did in the past year, and that’s some better personnel decisions being made and we figured it was Dudley giving Waddell some better advice, but some of the same dumb decisions were made (not trading Kovy when it was obvious to everyone but Sara that he was out of here, and it ruined our season, letting the minor league coach run his minor league system, allowing dissent in the locker room).
Mickey Mouse got promoted, and the new GM is still reporting to the same guy and states today that he’s looking forward to working closely with the guy that is the problem.
Oof.
Hotrod
April 14th, 2010
12:26 pm
Another rebuild to look forward to. I hope the new coaches will be told in the interview process that there is no time for chemistry (system) gelling. Right out of the box first game next fall , we need positive results. 1 year contract only, earn your extension.
I just hope NHL stays behind the Atl. market. There are alot of great youth programs feeding
off the NHL association. Its great for the kids.
kracker
April 14th, 2010
12:30 pm
Did Dudley make the call on Anderson and his staff?
Arthur Blank
April 14th, 2010
12:32 pm
It doesn’t matter if it is a business or a sports team, if your organization doesn’t meet expectations, throw somebody under the bus and pat top management on the back.
j
April 14th, 2010
12:37 pm
Cliff & Chppierslovechild, won’t matter what you say … there are people on the blogs who will complain regardless (some of which haven’t even been to a game this year). besides, it’s their own decision if they don’t want to come out and support the team. it won’t affect me on my decision to go to games or not, and this move is a HUGE improvement. If it wasn’t for dudley, we wouldn’t have even sniffed playoffs this year. Looking forward to see what he can do now with a full summer, free agency & the draft.
j
April 14th, 2010
12:42 pm
real thrash – great ESPN story on Dudley, thanks for the post
kracker
April 14th, 2010
12:42 pm
On Kozlov: I love him, I thank him for the years but he was through. If he had had anything left he would have been picked up at the TD. Zero interest.
I definitely did not like him ripping the team in the press. No class at all in that instance. JMO.
Jack
April 14th, 2010
12:43 pm
Sounds like they are copying the Falcons, hopefully they will have similar results.
Hey Facts, other than line item 5 you need to get a clue.
Sorry to see JA, and Weeks gone, Waddell is like that inlaw that will never leave
chris
April 14th, 2010
12:44 pm
So was the new GM tutored by Waddell?? If so, is the move really going to make a big difference because obviously the mindset Waddell used in signing players, trading players, drafting players, etc was not working.
Joe Friday
April 14th, 2010
12:48 pm
“Don has been an important part of this organization since its inception, and in shifting his focus to concentrate primarily on all business aspects of the organization, he will continue to work closely with Rick and play a vital role for our Thrashers franchise.”
That’s from the press release from the team. They say Waddell will still work closely with Dudley. Those of you who are thinking that Dudley will have sole control now of hockey operations are delusional. If that was true, they would have fired Waddell. Dudley and Waddell are buds, all that was done was shifting titles but Waddell is still Dudley’s boss and the owners and Dudley both said today that they’ll work closely together. Reshuffled the deck chairs, is all they did, but let’s hope a new coach can at least help next year.
For the Record
April 14th, 2010
12:54 pm
****ATLANTA THRASHERS WIN 2012 STANLEY CUP****
BOOK IT! This is freakin AWESOME NEWS for all Thrashers Fans!!! DUDLEY IS THE BRAINS…He needed to get out from under DW’s shadow to really take control and put the Thrashers at the top!
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what Rick Dudley DOES…..It’s who he IS!!! He’s the mop-up guy who takes the going-nowhere NHL team to the TOP in a 2-3 yr time frame. This is honestly the BEST NEWS to hit Blueland since they made the playoffs….Even bigger and better than Kovy packing his bags and leaving!
Get your season tix early. This team will COMPETE next year. They won’t win The Cup but they’ll certainly make the playoffs, possibly even get through the 1st round. I can’t wait to see what Duds does in the off-season. I’m telling you…..He’s the one that’s gonna take us to Stanley Cup Land! Nobody believes it…..Not yet anyway.
Mark
April 14th, 2010
12:55 pm
If you think the business decisions that Waddell will make will not impact the hockey decisions that Dudley will make, you are the absolutely foolish Thrasher fan that keeps this team in business. Waddell will continue to tie Dudley’s hands and this will not turn out like the Falcons did – no Blank and lot’s of Spirit owners!
upsetfan
April 14th, 2010
12:55 pm
I don’t care if he isn’t involved in hockey operations (not that I trust Bruce Levenson anyway), he is still technically getting a promotion.
drsoul
April 14th, 2010
12:55 pm
What do you expect out of Waddell when you really evaluate this ownership???? when he is GONE, then a lot of us will buy tickets again and support the franchise… this is like watching the Falcons…!!!!
NewCoach
April 14th, 2010
12:58 pm
Bring back BOB HARTLEY. Why they ever fired him after two season of over 90 points, I will never, ever know.
Hockey Biltong
April 14th, 2010
12:58 pm
A solid move. It will be interesting to see the new coaching staff….
Spud Webb
April 14th, 2010
12:58 pm
H&LL YEA WADDELL IS OUT OF THE DECISION LOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
World Be Free
April 14th, 2010
12:58 pm
I kinda expected this to happen when Dudley was hired. He has a proven track record as a contributor to other NHL organizations. Whether he is working with or alongside Waddell is really not material, because Dudely will make the moves that he believes is in the best interest of the team.
Sounds like the Falcons? I guess, but Dudley is his own man. I have to assume he’s the one who made the decision on the coaches. How let’s see who he picks as his new coaching staff. As long as it is not Curt Fraser.
Dudley was a character player, I expect him to be just that as a general manager.
Wayne stuck in AL
April 14th, 2010
1:11 pm
I think the only reason Waddell was bumped up to team president is because with Atlanta Spirit being (mostly) absentee owners, they needed someone the knew and trusted…But trust me, had Bernie Mullin still been point man for AS, Waddell would’ve been gone some time ago.
Former Flames Fan Club member
April 14th, 2010
1:12 pm
I’m glad they made some moves although I would rather see Don Waddell go. I do agree with the person who said “Quit wearing other team jerseys to the games” and “sit down when the puck is in play”! Also, can we get someone at the AJC to give the Thrashers more coverage?
I hope the changes will bring championship hockey to Atlanta! Go Thrashers!!!
To those who commented “Who are the Thrashers?” – stay off the hockey blog.
thrashfanmax
April 14th, 2010
1:22 pm
Hate to see Anderson go. He really did get a raw deal, and he knew what style of hockey these guys needed to play. Injuries and prima-donna attitudes early on doomed them. Kovy never intended to sign and just played them along to force their hand. Good riddance to bad rubbish. JA I hope you land on your feet running, and show the asses the problem was/is in Waddell’s office. DUH….
Pete
April 14th, 2010
1:22 pm
Look, it’s only a matter of time till the Thrashers leave Atlanta. Ninety percent of the population of metro Atlanta don’t have a clue what or who the Thrashers are. Today more than ever, the average fan can only afford so many tickets to sporting events.
Currenty, in Atlanta, the Thrashers would be DEAD LAST on their list.
End of story.
Empty Netter Assists - 04-10-11 - Empty Netters - post-gazette.com
April 14th, 2010
1:22 pm
[...] -The Thrashers moved general manager Don Waddell from general manager to team president, promoted Rick Dudley from associate general manager to general manager and fired head coach John Anderson and his assistants, Randy Cunneyworth, Todd Nelson and Steve Weeks. [...]
alex
April 14th, 2010
1:25 pm
waddell needed to be fired first, be on list of ten most wanted and prohibited to been at least 500 miles from atlanta. there is most probably going to be situation with hiring head coach. rick made his choice, but the key of the purse still in don hand. he going to say “no we can’t afford” and rick would be forced to hire someone like ja, cheap but not nhl calibr coach. it’s not in dw interest now to turn this organization so everybody pointed “see rick in one year did what clown dw faile during 11 years” i am pesimistic until dw totally concentrate on bar-mitzva arraingment for mr. levenson.
Jo Ann
April 14th, 2010
1:28 pm
Once again ownership shows its incredible stupidity and distain for Atlanta Thrasher fans. Let’s see: John Anderson brings an essentially talentless team to the brink of the playoffs; ownership trades away the only talent he had and gets nothing in return, making the team totally talentless; Anderson keeps the team in playoff contention until the final week; Anderson gets fired. Where is the sense in that? Anderson did an OUTSTANDING job given that he had nothing to work with. Plus, Waddell’s promotion confirms the Peter Principle is alive and well and living at Phillips Arena. No wonder Phillips wants out of the contract to name the arena — I wouldn’t want to be even remotely associated with such stupidity either.
NHL Ready
April 14th, 2010
1:32 pm
Good move on the Thrashers by cleaning all the bench coaching staff. Start fresh let Rick setup what he needs and he will be accountable. The DW move makes since get him out of the player/coaching decisions and just do corporate Hockey from his desk.
Don’t get to excited we still need players to many excellent players have come and gone. Also we have some key players who are unsigned for next year (hope they resign since changes were made). We are finally getting bigger on D. Toby is a weak D man like to see him go and fill his spot with a bigger body who can hit the forwards and make them think about zone entrance.
Big key for me for this team is getting a qualified coach (NO MINOR LEAGUE CRAP) and spend, spend and spend some more for a Goalie. Pav’s is not the answer right now we need a kick $ss tender in net. Then we roll 3 lines with a fourth line of pounders when we need a spark.
I hope it happens.
Kunkel
April 14th, 2010
1:33 pm
It’s not a bad thing. I’m just not sure if it’s a good thing.
Fortunately they finally give Teflon Don the same “Peter Principle” treatment that Arthur gave to Rich McKay. That alone is cause for celebration!
Mifield
April 14th, 2010
1:36 pm
This would have been a perfect move exactly one year ago. No – I’m not so sure. Could be a little too late and a little too little – no pun intended in relation to Little. I hope that Bettman will monitor ASG closely now, especially after Kane doing the job the league neglected to do with respect to Cooke.
You Can Take the Girl Out of Detroit… « 929 davefm | Atlanta
April 14th, 2010
1:41 pm
[...] other hockey news, the Thrashers announced some big changes [...]
ChrisWoW
April 14th, 2010
1:44 pm
Wow cleaning house I think they should give anderson one more year. I will say this in finding a new coach they better not hire someone who has coached a southeast team.Don will be with this team until we move to canda or he is hit by a bus.
Tom
April 14th, 2010
1:45 pm
Who cares?
DWTOO
April 14th, 2010
1:56 pm
OK – All you pinheads, like Tom, please get off the blog. If you don’t like/don’t care – fine. But, this is for hockey fans. Let us know where your passions are so we can come and make fun of you.
With the change in GM – taking into account what WBF has said about Dudley – he’s going to want his man behind the bench. For that reason alone JA was doomed.
MB
April 14th, 2010
1:58 pm
Argh, sooo close, yet so far away.
“Promoting” DW – BOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Don really needed/needs to go, but clearly the ASG just isn’t willing to make that move. I can only hope beyond hope that he stays out of the way and gives Dudley the resources to do his job well.
On to Dudley, I’m optimistic. In general we’ve made some better decisions in his time here, though most have still been on the cheap (which I fear will always be a concern with the ASG). Good track record, character guy, yada, yada, yada…fingers crossed.
JA…never got any real traction here. For those saying he kept us in the playoff hunt, I disagree. The collective ineptitude of the Flyers, Bruins, Canadiens, and Rangers kept us in the race, and every time we had a chance to jump the field, we spit the bit. My hope for Anderson is that at some point in his career he’s able to look back at this experience and point to it as valuable learning for his future success.
And finally, I am SO happy that Steve Weeks is finally gone! He was the Teflon Don of our coaching ranks.
Needless to say, this is going to be an active off-season for the Thrashers…let’s hope the hockey gods are smiling on Rick Dudley and that Don Waddell takes a loooong vacation somewhere with very, very bad phone connections.
World Be Free
April 14th, 2010
2:03 pm
DWTOO-I am just ignoring the idiots. Duds is the man now!
Will
April 14th, 2010
2:03 pm
An NHL franchise MUST be recognized and run as any other multimillion dollar business.
The bottom line in this business is that revenue was being negatively impacted by management. Certainly additional variables were present but when the business is failing, the buck stops with top level management.
This is a very postive sign, one that, unfortunately has most likely come much too late to save the franchise.
You can call Don Waddell anything you want to, just don’t let him have significant input in the general management of the franchise. He does not deserve to do this nor has his actions since the inception of the franchise warrant his input.
Laura
April 14th, 2010
2:09 pm
Waddell gets to stay????? That is disappointing! Guess I will keep driving to Columbus to watch the Cottonmouths. Same distance (for me), tenth of the price, more entertaining!
We us to go see the Thrashers every time they had a Sunday or Monday game and all of the 2007 Playoffs, but since then it is not worth the time or money. Very boring, the one game I went to this year I actually fell asleep at!!! Third row center Ice and I fell asleep; SUCH a WASTE!!! Hope next season is better.
Kaniac
April 14th, 2010
2:09 pm
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DE Will Cunningham
Georgia State has picked up commitment No. 10, Will Cunningham, despite the fact that he’s never seen the school.
The 6-foot-2, 255-pound defensive end from Cape Coral, Fla., picked Georgia State over football scholarship offers from Ball State, Bowling Green, Western Michigan, Fordham, and Holy Cross.
“I just thought Georgia State was a good school for me,” Cunningham told the AJC. “I talked with my parents about everything, including the education. I thought it would be a good school for me to attend.”
Cunningham, who has a 3.8 GPA and wants to study something in the medical field, projects to play defensive end or defensive tackle at Georgia State.
He will make his official visit to Georgia State on Dec. 8 – and it will be his first trip to the college.
When asked about committing without ever seeing Georgia State, Cunningham replied, “I just thought it was the right choice for me to make after discussing it with my parents. I’m going there in December. I just wanted to make an early decision because it was the right choice for me and my future.”
Perhaps most importantly, Cunningham also didn’t want his scholarship spot going to somebody else before he could visit.
He is commitment No. 10 for Georgia State’s 2013 recruiting class, according to PantherTalk.com
19 comments Add your comment
Dog 6
November 19th, 2012
7:22 pm
why does Ga state keep that money losing football team???
Bitter goin-a beat trailer tramps in the SEC final
November 19th, 2012
7:52 pm
uh——–dog 6——-you su_ck
—nice pick up panthers
EKY Panther
November 19th, 2012
7:58 pm
Quality commitment. Nice going
The Truth
November 19th, 2012
9:18 pm
Wow. I wonder how quickly he will decommit once he steps on the “campus”…
The Truth
November 19th, 2012
9:37 pm
Enter your comments here
hammer22
November 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
Welcome to GSU
Steve Nash's Pick and Roll
November 19th, 2012
10:58 pm
Welcome to GSU Will!
jadams
November 19th, 2012
11:17 pm
GT needs to adopt GSU academics so it an compete for recruits with the big SEC schools
itsmeagain
November 20th, 2012
1:21 am
@thetruth
I’m pretty sure a lot of kids want to come to state because of our campus
ajg-marietta
November 20th, 2012
8:10 am
Sounds like a very good pick-up. Welcome, Will!
DAWGFAN
November 20th, 2012
8:41 am
Best of luck at GSU. That program has risen to Division 1 football extremely fast. They have everything they need to become relevant failry quickly. Playing in the Dome is a big plus…….being located in the heart of the recruiting hot bed of the south is not bad either.
Go Panthers !
The Great Swami
November 20th, 2012
9:26 am
An upcoming headline “DE decommits from Georgia State after seeing college”
CARDIO/MD
November 20th, 2012
11:42 am
WOW!! BIG MISTAKE…. HOLY CROSS HAS ONE OF THE BEST PREMED PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTRY. YOU SHOULD VISIT AND MEET THE PROFESSORS WITH OUTSTANDING FACILITIES.
STATEment
November 20th, 2012
12:19 pm
Seems like a solid pick up even though he hasn’t seen the campus and we don’t have a coach…hope he likes what he sees! Nothing better than going to school in downtown atlanta, walking distance from anything you could ever want as far as entertainment goes. I picked up two degrees from State and loved every minute of it!
BravesFan79
November 20th, 2012
1:53 pm
upcoming headline “DE decommits after parents carjacked by 3 black men in ski masks in parking lot”.
Walking with a Panther
November 20th, 2012
2:27 pm
Actually trolls, he’s gonna walk on campus, see the women and get down on his hands and knees and thank God he commited!! That is one of the best kept secrets about GSU. The pickings are even better now than when I went there. Thanks dawgfan for the support hope you guys win it all this year.
Bad Dawg
November 20th, 2012
4:40 pm
Ga. State has a “campus”? Everyone I know calls it downtown Atlanta.
GA State Fan
November 20th, 2012
9:34 pm
He obviously is a smart, level headed young man with parents that support his decision. For Braves Fan79, your comment could be taken as a threat so watch yourself. Why can’t people just be happy for this guy and wish him well at GA State? Lets do this Will!!!!!
To GA State Fan
November 23rd, 2012
2:21 pm
I believe what you meant to say is Braves Fan79, comment could be taken as racist | http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/11/19/de-commits-to-georgia-state-without-ever-seeing-college/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Two very different Bahrains, 10km apart
I'm writing from A'Ali, a predominantly Shiite village in the centre of Bahrain, which was the site of clashes all morning between anti-government protesters and the police.
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This year’s National Genealogical Society Family History Conference is being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. If you’re planning on attending the conference or live nearby, you’ll want to visit the exhibit hall—it’s free and open to the public. At the Ancestry.com booth you’ll find experts who can answer your Family Tree Maker questions. And you can even sit in on a demonstration of the software. We hope to see you there!
Exhibit Hall Hours and Demo Schedule
Love to be there but a bit too far to get to from Oz
Have a good NGS
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Posted By Alesha Williams Boyd On December 11, 2012 @ 8:06 pm In education | No Comments
The U.S. Department of Education announced today that 16 applicants — Jersey Shore area districts that applied not among them – have won a competition that will avail them to a total of nearly $400 million in funding.
In the federal Race to the Top-District competition, districts were invited to demonstrate how they could personalize education and provide school leaders and teachers with tools that help them meet students’ needs for a shot at the funding.
Neptune Township schools – in a coalition with Belmar, Bradley Beach and Neptune City schools – had an impressive run in the competition, ranking 33rd of 372 applicants, according to Neptune Township schools Superintendent David A. Mooij.
Mooij said the plan would have helped the district prepare for new Kindergarten through 12th grade assessments known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, that are expected to be ready for use in U.S. schools by 2014.
“PARCC, although a small piece of this plan, is a reality we all are facing and preparing for it by establishing a learning laboratory of approximately 5,300 children across these four districts would have had great statewide benefit with little or no cost to local or state taxpayers,” Mooij said.
The plan included proposals to personalize learning, create a district data warehouse, employ hand-held technology for students and expand professional development, Mooij said.
He said he expects to continue to explore ways the involved districts could make the reform plan a reality.
“Obviously we are disappointed in not being selected as we did feel the application proposal was worthwhile and would provide our students, and indeed any researchers and observers, a real-world setting for top-notch, technology-based learning,” Mooij said. “Notwithstanding, I can say as far as Neptune Township is concerned, and no doubt the other consortia Superintendents would agree, there is a need for this initiative in our districts and we will explore ways to make it happen.”
Newark schools also applied but were not selected as grant winners.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is encouraging districts to continue working to move forward with their proposals.
The Race to the Top grant program, launched in 2009, inspired education reform nationwide, according to the department, leading 45 states and the District of Columbia to pursue higher college- and career-ready standards, data-driven decision making, greater support for teachers and leaders, and turnaround interventions in low-performing schools.
“Race to the Top sparked as much reform.”
Proposals included using technology to personalize learning for each student, giving students opportunities to learn beyond the traditional school day and expanding partnerships with community organizations to provide students with targeted social services like crisis intervention, according to the department.
Winning applicants, who will share funds to support their locally developed plans, are:
For more information about the program, visit the Race to the Top-District website [2].
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It’s hard to believe that, right here in the United States, one in five children do not have access to nutritionally adequate food. One in five! And that number is worse during the summer months when children don’t have access to the National School Lunch Programs.
This summer, Juicy Juice and Feeding America have partnered together to help fight child hunger through their Fruit For All campaign.
For the remainder of August, every time a Juicy Juice product is purchased or an online challenge is completed, a piece of fruit is donated to a hungry child or family via a local food bank.
And between today and Monday, August 13th, you can help right here on BabyCenter! Just leave a comment below thanking all of the volunteers and employees at your local food bank who dedicate their lives to feeding hungry kids and families. For every comment posted on this blog post before Monday August 13 at 11:59 PM ET, our friends at Juicy Juice will donate one piece of fruit to a child in need.
Recently, five BabyCenter Moms decided to do their part by volunteering to help their local food banks. Here are a few photos and stories about what they learned.
Kimberly Rutt
This week, I had the rewarding experience of volunteering at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. My friend and I arrived at the food bank in downtown LA at 12:30 where a group of 8 of us where introduced to the charity, given a tour and directed to a gigantic walk-in cooler where we would be working for the next three hours.
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Our fearless leader for the afternoon was “Carlon” who works in the cooler most days and doesn’t seem to mind. He works with a different group of volunteers twice daily and is probably sick of explaining about the intricate organization system needed to fulfill the orders of the various charities.!
The time flew as we sorted food including fresh fruits and vegetables and checked expiration dates. I was amazed at how many beautiful plums, pears, and tomatoes. I thought it would just be canned goods.
Unfortunately, the minimum age to volunteer is 12 at this food bank which means I can’t bring my 8-year old twins, who I know would benefit from doing something where they knew they made a difference. Regardless, I plan to go back, although this time I’ll heed the warning and bring a sweater.
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: (323) 234-3030
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Michelle Zarate Kneen
On Sat, July 14th, my group visited the Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank to pack and label cans. It was a time of serving, learning, and having fun as a team.
I brought six others, five of whom are between the ages of 15-18. There is something beautiful about young people giving back to their own community (and being excited about it), and I love being a part of that.
The community that we live in has a big problem with hunger and lack of nutrition, and it was awesome to watch the kids who came with me show genuine concern.
After our morning of volunteering, we went to Dairy Queen and talked about the hunger problem in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/Saint Paul). My team of young people expressed their desire for awareness to be raised, for more volunteering to happen, and to always keep our eyes open and to be generous with those around us – because the snack that we share with them could quite possibly the only real food they’ve eaten that day.
Our group, together with another volunteer group, labeled a total of 9,700 lbs of food (almost 5 tons) in just over two hours. We worked hard and helped in our own small way to make the statistics of hunger get smaller and smaller until they disappear.
a href=””>Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank – (888) 339-3663
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Jeanine Schneider’t volunteer. Instead, we organized a food collection drive. We made up some flyers and went out asking our neighbors to help. Every time that someone was home and we got a donation, my girls eyes would light up as they thanked that person. Those that were not home received a flyer on their mail box. The girls cannot wait until we drop off all the food they gathered.
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We had 4 people volunteer, Michael Keller, Aaron Tennis, Tricia Mailloux and myself. The day went well, We waited for about 30 minutes to get back and go through the training session about safety but once that happened we were asked to go in the back and get all dressed up for working with food (see pictures).. It looked like all would need to be tossed.
Everyone had a great time. We were a little sore after it but saving all that fruit and veggies was wonderful. Had we not been there, because they were so busy, they wouldn’t have gotten to it in time. After we left, they said they would freeze the items so that didn’t go bad.
All in all, it was a great experience. It was nice to see local places as well as national places donating to them. It really shows you how the community comes together to help those in need.
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Mandy Hansen
I did the 5-7pm shift and it was at a huge warehouse. We had a small meeting first to learn about the organization. The warehouse only has 8 full time employees and everything else is done by volunteers and we were told that just this year they have done 73 million pounds of food! There were only 13 of us that night and nine were part of a 12-year old birthday party. The birthday boy decided he wanted his party to be volunteering. It was really fun to watch the boys learn about people in need and learn how to package food.
We were put into a room connected to the warehouse that was set in stations. In the middle was a big box of pasta, to the sides were tables with scales, and heat sealers to seal the bags with. Somehow the adults got stuck with the boring job of putting pasta in bags and the boys got to do the weighing and sealing. We got through the pasta in about 45 minutes and then the employee brought us a huge bag of rice that held about 150 pounds of rice that had started out at 2000 pounds! We did the same thing, poured, measured, sealed and then we helped tear down the room for the next day prep.
We all chatted a bit though it was very loud with nine 12-year old boys having fun telling us adults, “Hey, these bags are really off on weight you know … it just makes our job harder.”
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If you’re interested in donating your time, visit JuicyJuice.com to find a local food bank near you.
Dislaimer: This post is part of a Juicy Juice sponsorship on BabyCenter.
Just sitting at my computer, helping feed children! Thanks for the information!
Thank you food bank peeps! Kiddos need food in their bellies before you can feed their minds. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the wonderful work!!
Thank you
Thanks for caring & helping ;0)
Thank you! You all help make this a better place!
Volunteers make the world go round. Thank you!
Thanks to the special people who help our children!
This is amazing! Thank you for all your hard work!!! <3
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I’m very upset over this. We use Nature’s One baby only formula (lactose free) for my son and I would like to know if this formula is the one 6x the legal limit. It is our right as parents to know!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Same here, no doubt many of us organic bown rice syrup parents are asking this question…. Anyone figure out the one with 60 ppb of arsenic?
erin, i agree. We use Similac Advanced and think we deserve to know which formulas tested so high!
We use baby’s only too. I think we need to find out where their rice is grown. Down south has a higher level of arsenic than California. We have a right to know what we are putting in our bodies.
You can’t throw an article like this out there and not specify which formulas contain the high levels of arsenic – that’s just wrong!
I am also very concerned we do deserve a right to know!! We use Natures One too and the very first ing. is brown rice syrup!
I have been feeding my 7 month old son Baby’s Only Organic Dairy formula for six months. I want more information now. This is awful.
Is the “brown rice syrup” listed by that name on the ingredients list of the formula? How far down the list would it be? I agree that they need to let us know what formula it is that tested so high. How disgusting.
I have been feeding my 6 month old the baby’s only formula whose first listed ingredient is brown rice syrup. This upsets me extremely. I pray this hasnt affected her. I expect to hear a response from nature’s one on this. What is another formula we can use that doesn’t have this contamination or any DHA in it?
Anybody heard if Baby’s Own has been tested?
We also use Nature’s One and this news is very disturbing. Reason we buy organic is to avoid toxins like this!
I think that it is irresponsible to throw out this type of information excluding the most important factor. Which formulas had a high volume? If alot of the formulas have this ingredient as a sweetner all of them will list it as an ingredient, how will the consumer know if it is a main ingredient or not. If you are going to give the information, please give the information.
So 1 out 17 brown rice syrup formulas has 6 times the federal legal limit but the 1 isn’t told to us on what brand it is. Instead, brian jackson says “In the absence of regulations for levels of arsenic in food, I would certainly advise parents who are concerned about their children’s exposure to arsenic not to feed them formula where brown rice syrup is the main ingredient.”
Either you tell us what brand has the high levels of arsenic or stop selling us propaganda.
When there was the asian dairy scare we weren’t advised to stay away from all dairy…instead we were told, its ok, baby formula is regulated, you’ll be fine, continue to use dairy based formula.
But now there is 1 brand with lots of arsenic and holy sh*t lets ban all formula with brown syrup.
Sketchy
Additionally, when i go to the dartmouth site from the link in this article the only article I can find related to arsenic and rice is regarding fetal exposure to arsenic from the mom eating rice with no mention of formula. Wtf is going on?
Was there been some sort of change in formula standards or reduction in oversight? It seems like there have been several recalls or potentially dangerous findings in the last year and I don’t recall it ever being a problem before. | http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/02162012high-levels-of-arsenic-found-in-baby-formula/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
RCOG – Abortion Guidelines & Honorary Fellowships
25 Nov, 11 | by shellraine, e-Media Editor in the RCOG press release.
Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) – based in the US, is a non-profit organisation recognising the need to create abortion providers for tomorrow:. They aim to try and correct the drastically falling numbers of providers in the US and Canada – 57% of current providers are over 50. This along with targeted violence, restrictive legislation and medical schools not addressing the issue means doctors are qualifying with little knowledge of abortion.
RCOG Honorary Fellowship
Our friend and colleague, Toni Belfield, has, today, been awarded an RCOG honorary fellowship in recognition of her long service in the field of contraception and sexual health and passionate dedication to providing accessible, evidence-based information for men and women. Included in the citation Professor Janice Rymer noted responses from colleagues who said Toni is “One of the most knowledgeable people in women’s health” and “Her contribution is always very sound”. Her many friends in the field know, love and respect her as an ardent advocate for service users (never patients or clients!) and as someone who always keeps us on our toes when it comes to accurate use of terminology – we always fit IUDs never coils! Congratulations Toni.
Take Action! Respond to the PSHE Review – Deadline 30th November
The Department for Education is running a Review of PSHE including Sex & Relationships Education with a view to improving its delivery in state funded schools. You can read the review and respond online by following the link. The British Humanist Association has succintly summarised the situation and the fears of many in its statement to accompany its own response. | http://blogs.bmj.com/jfprhc/2011/11/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
G8 rant
What is the matter with the G8 protesters? Don’t they know where Gleneagles is? Now they are rioting in Stirling of all places. Doubtlessly, they have made Sheriff Wyllie Robertson’s day—finally he gets to fill up his jails—but some of them will be in for a shock, for the wheels of justice grind slowly in Stirling…
The protesters seem confused; are they groping their way across Scotland in the vague hope of stumbling across the meeting venue? No, from what I can make out the police, in true style, has cancelled a legitimate protest march in Auchterarder—something that my former MSP called: “…a serious indictment of British democracy”. To which I have to say ‘what democracy’? There seems to be precedents galore. Protests are only permitted where they don’t interfere with business and preferably out of sight of world leaders. Gleneagles, next to the village of Auchterader, half-way between Stirling and Perth is easy to fence off but not easy to get to by public transport. Which is the point of having the meeting there rather than, say, in Holyrood Palace.
I just marvel at the fact that most people really seem to think that there is a right to protest in what remains of this ‘democracy’.
It’s funny to see Gleneagles at the centre of all this furore. If I was still working there, I think I would have made Chef de Partie by now but I would be junior enough to be stuck with the graveyard shift: cooking burgers for Mr. Stupid and his fat bodyguards into the small hours. The temptation to spit into the food (or worse) must be overwhelming…
While we are on the matter of G8 and ‘legitimate’ protests, what exactly is Bob Geldof hoping to achieve with his Life8 concerts, other than rocketing album sales for his mates? A few weeks before the gigs, he dissed African musicians for ‘not being mainstream enough’ and therefore not welcome on the main stage (although African tracks currently feature in a major BBC drama series and an advert for roof windows or something, so go figure!). Africans, he said, don’t have a voice (and presumably therefore he should not give them one). Forced to back-track, he hurridly put on a concert in an oversized greenhouse on the western tip of the country and filled it with Z-listers and guest-list rejects. I don’t know why the musicians rose to this insult, but it is good that they played beause it adds to the embarrassment for Gelfdof when you contrast their well-received ten hour concert with such mainstream highlights as an addled Pete Docherty, a fat comedian belting out a vulgar novelty song and Bill Gates looking somewhat out of place. What I don’t understand is what the hell makes Bob Geldof think that he has a voice? The man is a megalomaniac soaring on the inflated egos of his popstar-friends. The eight men at Gleneagles may feel vaguely flattered by the attention lavished on them but it won’t make a bit of difference to this meeting—Life8 is doing nothing that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are not doing already and the sentimental outpouring just gives Bush another tool to bully them with. The whole exercise has left me with a strangely cloying, yet vacant feeling, like eating too much candyfloss instead of a proper meal. It is usually a good idea to combine protest with music (it gets a bit boring otherwise, what with all the speeches) but not to replace it with a couple of gigs. 99% of people who attended the concerts did it for the acts that were playing and could not care less what it was (supposed to be) about. Most of the people in Paris did not even know anything about it. It was just another free festival; publicity for the artists and various attention-seeking hangers on. Who wouldn’t play to an audience of billions?
Good on Pink Floyd though for promising to donate their extra profits to charity.Tags: Neither here nor there, Tag Index | http://blogs.bootsnall.com/denni/g8-rant.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Dear Academy Families,
With exams beginning next week, and winter holidays starting the week thereafter, this is my last weekly letter of the fall semester. Where did time fly?
Speaking of time, my 9th grade English class has been wrapping up The Odyssey just in time for the exam. One of the fascinating beauties of this classic epic involves the manipulation of time, which our class has been mulling over for several weeks. The first four books take place in a few weeks, involving Odysseus’ son Telemachus, who leaves home to find his father by visiting the courts of Nestor and Menelaus. Next, from Books 5 to 10, we learn the details of Odysseus’ 10 year journey trying to return home to Ithaca, mostly in flashbacks told to the king and court of Phaeacia – and often jumping between broad sweeps of many years when he was imprisoned by the goddess-nymph Calypso, to details from a few days to a few months describing other adventures and challenges Odysseus faced.
What is most remarkable, however, is that by Book 13, the narrative flip-flops between Telemachus returning to Ithaca and Odysseus having just arrived there, in disguise, being hosted by a loyal swineherd. The text reads “just that night” and “that hour” to juxtapose the two characters as they converge. Finally, Telemachus stands in the doorway of the swineherd’s hut, while his father sits inside – a father the son cannot remember from 20 years before when Odysseus left to fight at Troy, as Telemachus was just a toddler then. Even at this moment of reunion, however, when Odysseus reveals himself to his son, Telemachus refuses to believe this stranger could really be his father, returned at last. It takes much of Book 16 for them to reunite.
The two men have journeyed long to arrive at this moment – the son maturing along the way, the father learning to shed his warrior habits and become once again more human. In just such a convergence, I enjoy the generational perspectives of my 9th grade class, as they mature and I learn to become a better human being. Like father and son, teacher and students circle each other warily at first, then realize they are much more closely related than they had previously thought (Telemachus has even been told by Menelaus that he has his father’s feet – who knew?)
So as time flies, and converges, and forces us all on a journey of experience to mature into our better human selves, I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a very happy, healthy New Year!
Warm regards,
James S. Berkman
Head of School | http://blogs.bu.edu/academy/2012/12/07/a-journey-of-experience/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Getting in on the deal is fairly simple. Cars showing up with every seatbelt in the vehicle being used by a person will be eligible for the Mohegan Sun 200 tickets and the discount coupon. Lime Rock officials will make exceptions for what they term "those odd, uncomfortable, rarely used middle seat positions." Two seat sports cars are not eligible for the program.
To get the deal the loaded up car must roll through the main infield entrance between 7 a.m. and noon on the race weekend and someone must inform the ticket seller that they're participating in the Carpool Kickback program.
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Since it is impossible to get to Lime Rock Park unless you drive, would it not be even "Greener" to run some kind of shuttle service for those of us who would like to attend but cannot drive? It might encourage more people not to drive if there was any way in heaven or on earth to get there without the car. (I cannot drive because I have limited vision, not because I am a Greenie. When I tell people I can't drive, right away they say "Why don't you learn?" Nobody understands the difference between "can't" and "don't want to".) | http://blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2009/06/full-cars-will-earn-free-ticke.html | 2013-05-18T10:54:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Gov. Malloy has ordered that Connecticut rejoin a regional marketing campaign that markets New England to European travelers.The cost was $100,000 and I'm told the money was already in the Commission on Culture and Tourism's budget.
"It's an investment the state needs to make. We market the state as a destination,'' said Karen Senich, director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. More than 100,000 jobs depend on a healthy tourism industry, she said,
Not long ago, Discover New England removed Connecticut from its map and marketing campaign. The regional initiative targets Europeans. Today, DNE's map has added Connecticut back.to its website.
I strongly doubt that the state's coffers will see at least $100,000 more in tax receipts (either income or sales, or even property tax to the towns/cities) based on this purchase.
What a colossal waste of 100 grand. Did the state ask this website for ROI reports? Did they bother looking up its traffic ranking on Alexa.com? Did they not think that this trite and spiteful little scam site were the ones who looked stupid with their petty little decision to "drop" Connecticut?
Even with all the publicity discovernewengland has gotten recently, they rank around the 1,331,000th most trafficked site in the world. Only 42% of their traffic, which is so low that Alexa doesn't list it, is from foreign countries.
It just took me 3 minutes to do that research, but the state couldn't see it fit to do so? REAL travel sites don't make states disappear willy-nilly. No one uses this stupid site that has been ripping off stupid states for years.
And now they just scammed another 100K from us. Pathetic.
Ok, so we're in the map picture, but nowhere else on the website at this point.
It cost $100,000 to get us on the map only?
--- A conversation that WON'T happen in Europe ---
Oh Franz...I just looked at the Discover New England website map for our upcoming trip to the USA and they have added another state to New England. It's called Connecticut...how wonderful. We will have even more fun in American now that they have added Connecticut! I wonder what the people of Connecticut are like?
If people had actually looked at the website instead of just its Alexa rankings, they would discover that the organization does a lot of things -- the Web site being the least of them. See for details.
Of course, it's much more fun to fulminate about government spending than it is to make an effort to find out whether the spending is worthwhile.
Ok, Jon, fair enough. They hold conferences and promote New England in other ways besides the website. So can we see some reports? Some survey data showing the numbers of visitors to Connecticut (not Boston, but Connecticut) as a results of DNE?
With over 600 grand per year, I expect some healthy results.
And I didn't make my point clear. I'm 100% for spending 100 grand on tourism and culture in CT. And I'm not saying give it to the CCT! They are worse than DNE. But there are better uses of money for what I DO think is a worthwhile pursuit.
The simple fact that DNE is so petty as to REMOVE an entire state from the map speaks volumes. Also, I think they should hurry up and update their whole website with CT added back in. I wonder if their printed materials mention CT? If not, why didn't we get a discount.
it's all so ridiculous.
100,000 in todays money is chicken feed. Use it. If it works to get tourists--fine. If not, not much lost. The income tax and property taxes and gas taxes WILL be raised, because that's what our legislatures do. Do you thing they are in office to help or support the average person?? No special interests and re-election are what's important.
Connecticut is represented in the movies and TV big time. So you get PR from them for free.
Maybe they could actually cut spending--a novel idea maybe hereacy. Could I be tried for treason recommending such and outrageous idea???
Hooray!!!
Thank God they put Fairfield County back into New York where it belongs.
I would be infavor of a regional transportation planning initiative....then the EUROs will have a better time in tour.
Except that there is still no link at the bottom of the page. I still only count 5 states. | http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2011/01/connecticut-returns-to-new-eng.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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DCTC Communication
Beginning Fall Semester 2010, email is the official communication medium for Dakota County Technical College. Previously, DCTC asked students to use their MetNet email. This is NO LONGER required. You can use ANY EMAIL that you check on a regular basis.
To ensure we have the most current email in our system:
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Thank you! | http://blogs.dctc.edu/dawnbraa/page/86/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Denver Art Museum to follow van Gogh with Monet, Cezanne and Degas this fall
Claude Monet, “The Beach at Trouville,” from about 1870. Image from the Denver Art Museum.
The Denver Art Museum, just closing out its sold-out, blockbuster exhibit of Vincent van GoghSunday, announced today a trio of shows featuring French artists this fall that could prove just as poplar with the crowds.
Among the painters to be featured: Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne.
The suite of exhibits included in DAM’s “French Fall” include:
1. “Court to Café: Three Centuries of French Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum.”. | http://blogs.denverpost.com/artmosphere/tag/cezanne/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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After the Connecticut school shooting: “I am crying for our children.”
My day has been entirely shattered. I don’t know what to do with myself. What happened in that classroom in Newtown, Conn., is too painful to contemplate. I don’t want to turn on the news in my car because what I hear is too devastating. Neither am I in the mood for music. But in silence the thoughts running through my head are just as distressing. So I turn to writing — maybe there will be some catharsis here.
I weep as I write this post. There is no way to not imagine my own 11, 9 and 6-year-olds sitting in their classrooms at this very moment. As a parent, I am so full of hope for them. They brim with potential. Children are so pure. They love with abandonment and dream with no limits. Yet, they are so vulnerable. We adults are charged with the awesome responsibility of protecting our children and nurturing them so that they grow into healthy and productive grownups.
Yet we have no choice but to send our children to school — into the care of others we place our most precious possessions. When we look into the eyes of our children, we see the trust they place into us. They have faith that we will protect them, save them from harm and guide them in this journey of life. The moment our child is born we accept upon ourselves this solemn responsibility.
How, then, are we to respond when 20 pure, innocent and holy souls, full of potential and life, are taken senselessly? How is one to react when unspeakable evil extinguishes the hopes and dreams of 20 sets of devoted parents? There can only be one response: intense pain and anger.
Pain at the loss of life, pain for the parents and pain to have to live in a society where this has happened too many times. But there is a huge sense of anger, too. Anger toward the shooter, anger toward a society in which this can happen, and anger at ourselves for being helpless in the face of such horrible evil.
As times goes on we will need to channel this pain and anger to ensure this never, ever happens again. But for now, in the aftermath of this terrible and unspeakable act of evil, we need to be allowed to feel the intensity of the pain and anger.
Our hearts, souls and tears are with the victims’ families — may they be comforted in knowing that we are all crying with them. | http://blogs.denverpost.com/hark/tag/school-shooting/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Set received the New Artist of the Year Award by the Gospel Music Association Canada last week. The song “Manifesto” won for Recorded Song of the Year and Modern Worship Song of the Year.
The band is currently on tour and will be joining the Newsboys on their God’s Not Dead tour next year. Here’s a link. | http://blogs.denverpost.com/highernote/tag/song-of-the-year/ | 2013-05-18T10:54:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Fox GM to Tampa; reorganization due at KDVR-KWGN
After almost six years in Denver as GM of Fox’s KDVR-Channel 31, steering the station to a strong No. 2 in key news demographics, Bill Schneider moves to Tampa to head Fox station WTVT there. No successor has been named, and probably won’t be until the dust settles surrounding the sale of the Fox station group and subsequent reorganization.
Which is where fact turns to rumor… meetings with visiting Tribune Co. chiefs have local employees buzzing.
Meanwhile, over at KWGN, Channel 2 is launching a 5:30 p.m. newscast on Monday, opposite the affiliates’ network newscasts. (Story here.)
The circumstances of Schneider’s ascension aren’t exactly being trumpeted by Fox higherups. At WTVT, Schneider follows Robert Linger, who faces charges of lewd behavior and indecent exposure.
On Thursday, TVNEWSDAY, an industry publication, ran a story noting the ascention of Local TV LLC, now that it has acquired the Fox station group, and noting that Local and Tribune now operate under a single management. In Denver, sources say the combo would work something like the newspaper JOA–combined business operations, independent and competitive editorial functions.
Here’s an excerpt:
In building a Top 50 chart, some analysts would combine Local TV and Tribune into one super group with total revenue of more than $1.5 billion. Such a group would rank No. 4 on the chart, just behind CBS.
That’s because Local TV and Tribune are now under common management.
After investor Sam Zell acquired Tribune and took it private last year, he recruited Randy Michaels to help him run the multimedia giant.
Unwilling to leave Local TV behind, Michaels formed a management company that runs the Tribune and Local TV stations as one. | http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/tag/joa/ | 2013-05-18T10:43:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Drink this from Michigan: Braganini Reserve Pinot Gris
St. Julian’s Braganini Reserve Pinot Gris 2011,$15, is a knockout. It’s a juicy, delicate, elegant dry white, redolent of mango, apricot, pineapple and tangerine with a tart lime twist threaded through the flavors. It has soft, viscous texture in the mouth from oak fermentation. All of the fruit was fermented in neutral oak, which tells me … Continue Reading → | http://blogs.detroitnews.com/wine/tag/st-julian/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It Is Easier to Clone a Human Than to Blend One With an Animal
After years of fiddling with human, mouse, rabbit, and cow cells, researcher Robert Lanza has declared that it’s impossible to create human-animal hybrid embryos, but that human cloning appears to be eminently doable.
Lanza wasn’t trying to create some freakish chimera, nor did he intend to bring forth a squalling baby as the world’s first human clone. But ever since researchers cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996 by transferring the nucleus of one of her cells into the nucleus-free egg of another sheep, scientists, ethicists, politicians, and the public have wondered whether a person could be cloned in the same way [ScienceNOW Daily News]. While human cloning has largely been rejected as unethical, many researchers are excited by the idea of “therapeutic” cloning, in which the same technique could be used to create embryos that would be harvested for medically useful stem cells. Those stem cells would have the same genetic profile as a patient and would thus avoid immune-rejection issues [ScienceNOW Daily News].
Because of the shortage of human egg donors, the hybrids were proposed as a way of creating large numbers of human embryo clones to harvest stem cells in bulk [Telegraph]. Lanza’s stem cell company, Advanced Cell Technology, has spent several years inserting human nuclei into egg cells from mice, rabbits, and cows, but all of the thousands of embryos they created in this way failed to develop. “At first we thought it would just be a matter of tweaking the culture conditions,” says Lanza. But “the problem was far more fundamental” [Nature News].
The hybrid embryos looked fine initially, but they quickly fizzled, Lanza reported in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells. A mouse-human hybrid petered out after just one [cell] division. The cow and rabbit human hybrids went further, but stopped at the point when maternal DNA is supposed to kick in and turn the ball of cells into a proper embryo, Lanza said [Reuters]. However, some stem cell researchers say that Lanza’s results don’t definitively prove that hybrid embryos are a dead end, and say that a hybrid using two closely related species, like humans and primates, might fare better.
Finally, about that human cloning: in the same study,.
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- Tom | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/04/it-is-easier-to-clone-a-human-than-to-blend-one-with-an-animal/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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This morning’s launch of SpaceX’s third Dragon capsule has the twittersphere all a-flutter. Falcon 9′s blastoff from Cape Canaveral initially appeared to be a success. . be illuminated by the sun, even though it will no longer be visible from ground level. Assuming a clear night, the vapor trails should be visible to the naked eye along the length of the East Coast, from Canada to Florida, for a short time..
Schematic. | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/category/technology/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Many of these paranoid nitwits marched past Bob Dole with a smile on their face.
No Steve most of them gave Mr. Dole a handshake looked him in the eye and then voted with the parinoid teabaggers and there black helicopter idiots that run that party…!!
I think Rubio or Mr. Earth Science will regret his no vote and as for McConnell and Grassley they’re already a few steps from a walker and cane.
just when you thought they couldn’t get any dumber….these 37 Morons voted against G.Bush Senior the republican that first introduced the Americans with Dissabilitys act.
Do they even realize everybody is laughing and making fun of them…?
Conservatives will always screw over the people. Bob Dole gets to see them for what they are, as did Nancy Reagan when they continuously voted againt stem cell research, that may have revealed something that of kept Ronnie from wasting away mentally. Im glad the real Republican/Tea Baggers/ Conservative Christians have been showing who they really are, chances are they will lose more and more support. | http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2012/12/06/tea-party-movement-is-to-blame-for-senates-disgraceful-defeat-of-the-disabilities-treaty/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Well Rockford, after a year of open mikes and tireless involvement, I am takinga break and heading back to school in Memphis, TN. It is the love of writing, performing,and hosting open mikes that has kept me away from completing my bachelor’s degree. However,Rockford has had a great year of poetry, spoken word, and open mikes. Over a year ago when Ireturned, there was very little going on. I had come back home from the east coast, where open mikesand poetry take place on an every day basis. I was not used to seeing this, and had to add on to whatwas going on here – an open mike and readings by the Poetic Justice League 4 America that took placeat the Lyric Lounge. I succeeded by approaching two venues here, and since then we have not lookedback. Open Mike Night at Katie’s Cup is the premier open mike in Rockford. IGNITE, the local youngadult group for networking and community involvement is having their first this Thursday at Meg’sDaily Grind on N. Alpine. It’s an all poetry open mike. Hopefully it will be a success, and they willcontinue to have it after I leave. There is still a lot of potential for open mikes in this area. I encourageother poets, writers, etc. to approach coffee houses and the like to start more. I look at them as communitygatherings where we share art, discussions, and networking takes place. In these rough economic times, webenefit from gathering and art. Open Mike Night will continue at Katie’s Cup. Justin Saichek, a local poet whoI’ve groomed and supported will take over as the host their. Continue to show up and be apart of something special. Look out for IGNITE (They have a facebook page) and their open mikes in the future. I’ll be here inspirit. | http://blogs.e-rockford.com/arts4all/2010/03/02/a-years-worth-of-open-mikes-poetry-continues/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Thank you Vio :) I remember I have had hard time when I was asked to put more detailed info about saree because of my previous post.. The content is not mine but I have to work to arrange all the info with right images of sarees . Thanks for your appreciation and am glad that you thinking to add it .:)
I've enjoyed watching this post, I love India, and especially these beautiful saree, I think in another life I lived there.
congratulations for your work, and success in the future, I'll retire now, other blogs will follow them the other day. good Night.
Thank you Vio for your beautiful words I hope you have had a good sleep . tc bless you. :)
Nice Sarees I love them
It is very nice to learn of all the many types of sarees there are. We wear sarees in Trinidad and Tobago but I am not sure that we are aware of the great varieties that exist. They are really beautiful
Oh I was not aware of that it was a known dress there in Trinidad & Tobago. I hope you have enjoyed these so many varieties of Sarees . Thank you and all the best.
I thought a woman wrote this......Arun....well expressed....tying the saree......have you tried tying a saree for someone...heeheeeheee
Oh really, Thanks Shobhana ji, :) Thanks and I have never..:) but I love to see women in traditional sarees in functions.
Beautiful picture, beautiful dresses, cute women :)
Thanks marta, am glad you liked it.
looking at the pictures, really beautiful! still can't figure out how they wrap them :) thanks for the share, good post! :)
Thank you Deborah, yes it is difficult to wear and to carry but looks good on women in functions specially. Thanks again. :) | http://blogs.fanbox.com/SinglePost.aspx?pbid=1897641&post=2427674&bts=29&apid=2427674&aid=0 | 2013-05-18T10:22:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Posted by Christopher Andrews on June 30, 2010
Attend Forrester's Forum for Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals EMEA, June 10-11, London UK. Learn more and register. | http://blogs.forrester.com/christopher_andrews/10-06-30-understanding_evolving_ecosystem_innovation_service_providers | 2013-05-18T10:16:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Big data haute couture roughly illustrates the state of the market. The question is: does a big data market exist? “Good morning I’m the global waiter at IT infrastructure solutions I was following up on your attendance at the hi dude summit that was held June 13 and fourteenth,” — I love my email for [...]
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I Wanna Be Your Dog (Or Cat): Back To School Edition Miss Barkington's class at Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care -- all of whom are available for adoption -- had to write a one-page essay on what they did over summer vacation. Here are some excerpts.
For my summer vacation, I fulfilled a life-long dream of seeing the mighty redwoods in northern California. I walked for hours through Los Padres National Forest, gazing in awe at the majestic sequoias. I got goosebumps as I stared up at 380 feet of coastal redwood, feeling tears well up behind closed eyes as I imagined the history behind this miracle of nature. Then I peed on it.
BUFFY A1032689 (1-year-old stray bull terrier mix)
My summer vacation wasn't anything special. Typical stuff - dug a few holes, sniffed a couple crotches, growled at a cat. One day, I chased my tail for six hours straight. Man, I gotta get a life.
VIDA A0921451 (4-year-old Staffordshire terrier, owner surrender -- no reason given)
I spent my summer vacation wondering why my owner surrendered me. I'm not kidding -- I actually had a brainstorming session where I wrote "Reasons Why My Owner Would Give Me Up" on a dry-erase board, but I got positively stumped after Reason Number 1, which was "Because he's a huge douchebag."
DEMPSEY A1033854 (1.5-year-old stray pit bull mix)
I
spent my summer vacation waiting for my man, with $26 in my hand. Went up to Lexington, 125. Felt sick and dirty, more dead than alive. Oh, wait -- that wasn't me. That was Lou Reed. Never mind. I went to Disneyworld.
MARTIN A1032582 (6-month-old lab/retriever mix, stray)
I just got neutered, so I spent three months missing my balls.
SHADOW A1033607 (2-year-old Finnish spitz, owner surrender -- "landlord")
For my summer vacation, I started work on a screenplay, tentatively titled
Kicked to the Curb: The Shadow Story. It opens with my owner, to be
played by Hayden Christensen, cowering like a little bitch as his landlord, to be played by Mel Gibson after a few martinis, tells him he needs to get rid of me, to be played by the dog who played Air Bud. Instead of standing up for himself, finding a new place to live, or placing the dog somewhere he's not likely to get the needle, the owner wets his pants and takes the dog to the pound. Later, the dog escapes with the help of the A-Team and kicks his former owner's ass. It needs a little work, but that's basically chapter one.
JAX A1032953 (2-year-old lab-retriever, stray)
I spent all summer trying to get out of this ridiculous bandana.
Thanks again to the inimitable Robyn Arouty, whose photos bring out the best in these beauties. You know you want to adopt one. Now get to it! | http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/08/i_wanna_be_your_dog_or_cat_bac.php | 2013-05-18T11:02:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Eldorado Ballroom To Receive Texas Historical Marker
A year ago, Third Ward had no music-related official Texas historical markers. Soon, it will have two.
Last month, the Texas Historical Commission approved a marker application filed by Project Row Houses for the Eldorado Ballroom, the historic music venue near Elgin and Dowling. Project Row's board of directors raised the money to pay for the marker, said Eric Davis, who spearheaded the campaign for the Lightnin' Hopkins marker on the Project Row grounds and now director of the Texas Blues Project.
Erected in 1939, the Eldorado was the centerpiece of its neighborhood and hosted top names in blues, jazz and R&B - Count Basie, B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Guitar Slim, Etta James, Jimmy Reed - from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many local bluesmen also played there, owner Anna Dupree intended the Eldorado to have a more upscale clientele than the many nearby juke joints.
Dupree died in 1977, a few years after the Eldorado shut down. Project Row Houses bought the building in 1999 and reopened it in 2003 after a $75,000, four-year renovation. Today it again hosts community events and concerts such as the recent Ethnic Heritage Ensemble show and Soul Nite.
No word on when the marker will be installed. Rocks Off has a call out to Project Row director Linda Shearer, and will update with more information.
Follow Rocks Off on Facebook and on Twitter at @HPRocksOff. | http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/03/eldorado_ballroom_to_receive_t.php | 2013-05-18T10:53:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It seems with each passing day, Louis Leterrier again raises the stakes on his high concept heist flick "Now You See Me." With a cast that already includes Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher, Melanie Laurent, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco, it's now getting a dose of English class.
We've confirmed the report from Moviehole that Michael Caine is joining the film. Penned by Boaz Yakin (”Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” “Fresh”) and newcomer Edward Ricourt, the story follows a crack FBI squad in a game of cat-and-mouse against a super team of the world’s greatest illusionists, who pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances and shower the profits onto their audiences..
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Bee | November 1, 2011 1:15 AM
Great cast. So far everything we've heard is shaping up tp be great so why have Summit given it such a crap release date. Isn't early January the dumping ground for movies? | http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/michael_caine_joins_louis_leterriers_now_you_see_me | 2013-05-18T10:53:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Everyone Loves Clifford!
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of accompanying Clifford the Big Red Dog to the Sioux City Public Museum!
Any time I get to do story time with the world’s most beloved canine, he is always the center of attention.
I don’t mind that he steals the stage. I’ve never really developed a taste for dog bones!
Before I left, I was given a sneak peek of their new dinosaur exhibit!
Dan’s Wise Advice of the Day: If you’re going to make faces at [...] | http://blogs.iptv.org/blogs/dantastic/2012/08/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
#jpod – Gender and conflict journalism: How far have we come?
This week’s podcast was prompted by an event held by the International News Safety Institute, to mark the launch of their new publication ‘No Woman’s Land’, which addresses the issues facing women journalists reporting from the frontline across the world.
After the event Journalism.co.uk spoke to a number of women journalists – those who have experienced life as a local journalist in a conflict zone as well as the women in senior roles on international news desks in the UK – to find out their past experiences and assess where we are today and what still needs to be done.
Interviewees include:
- Shahira Amin, Egyptian freelance journalist and former journalist for Nile TV
- Liliane Landor, controller of language services for Global News at the BBC
- Florentine Kwizera, producer on the Great Lakes service on the BBC World Service
- Sarah Whitehead, head of international news at Sky News
Read Frances Harrison’s feature on life as a mother and foreign correspondent here.
You can hear future podcasts by signing up to the Journalism.co.uk iTunes podcast feed.
Similar posts:
- #jpod – Dying for the story: Citizen journalism and the Arab spring
- #jpod: The top news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 15 April 2011
- #jpod: Broadcasters reflect on the challenges of 2011
- #jpod: The week’s biggest news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 10 September 2010
- Details of BBC funding cuts leaked ahead of spending review | http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/03/16/jpod-gender-and-conflict-journalism-how-far-have-we-come/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When it comes to campaign cash, you can always count on the Wichita Country Club — or at least those who live near it. As they have in past elections, residents in the 67206 zip code are pouring money into presidential campaigns at a rate rivaled only by the Shawnee Mission area and Olathe. But, as of late October when the latest finance reports came out, most of that money has been spent in vain on Sen. Sam Brownback, who withdrew from the race.
Of those remaining in the race, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is getting the biggest boost from Kansans, according to Opensecrets.org, a site operated by The Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit and non-partisan group. Here’s a look at the rest, as provided by Opensecrets.org:
- Sam Brownback -$382,477
- Rudolph W. Giuliani -$100,500
- Barack Obama -$95,004
- Mitt Romney -$83,100
- Hillary Clinton – $82,895
- John McCain – $82,490
- John Edwards – $42,950
- Fred Thompson – $40,501
- Ron Paul – $40,255
- Bill Richardson – $24,350
- Joseph R. Biden Jr. – $22,700
- Christopher J. Dod – $11,200
- Tom Tancredo – $4,760
- Mike Huckabee – $4,235
- Ralph Nader – $1,100
- Duncan Hunter – $1,000
- Dennis J. Kucinich – $200
- Alan L. Keyes – $200
- Susan Gail Ducey – $172
The figures above reflect fund-raising through Oct. 29, 2007. Candidates file their year-end reports Jan. 31. As it stands today, Kansans’ political donations are split roughly 70 percent to Republicans and 30 percent Democrats. | http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2008/01/21/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When I was growing up, every kid I knew chewed bubble gum. We were either trading Topps baseball cards and chomping on the thin slice of gum that came in every package, or peeling the paper off a chunk of Bazooka just before heading out to second base.
Now, according to the New York Times, bubble gum has fallen on hard times. But, the gum brand of Bazooka Joe and his sidekick Mort, is planning a comeback.
Kids aren’t chewing as much gum as they used to. A marketing company told the Bazooka folks that only 7 per cent of children aged 6 to 12 were aware of Joe and Mort, the cartoon characters who starred in the sometimes corny comic inserts that hugged the bright pink squares of gum inside the outer package.
Maybe Bazooka Joe, who always wears a ball cap and eye-patch and his pal Mort — always with his turtleneck up over his mouth — could use a makeover aimed at elevating image awareness with this current generation of gum poppers.
Instead, Joe and Mort are all but disappearing into the background in the brand revamp. Never fear, though. They’ll make occasional appearances on the new inserts, but not in comic strip mode. They’ll simply be illustrations. Instead of comics, chewers will get brain teasers and activities and codes which — you guessed it — can be entered at the brand’s website to see videos and games.
Bazooka, the chew choice of boomers, was introduced in 1947. How can any of us forget the deep pink, white, and blue color scheme and geometric design? The new, re-imagined Bazooka will have new colors and design—fuchsia and yellow, with the splattered-paint look of graffiti.
When my dad sold it at the Goodman Candy Company in Glasgow, Ky., each single square piece of it cost a penny; the new package will feature 10 pieces of gum, five each of the original flavor and a new flavor, blue raspberry. Cost? Who knows?
Good luck, Bazooka Joe, hope we’ll see you at the ballpark! | http://blogs.ket.org/billseye/?tag=baseball | 2013-05-18T10:41:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Racist slurs and drug nods: more Amy Winehouse home video horror
This abject Amy Winehouse video surfaced on the Internet today, a viral outbreak that started with British tabloid News of the World posting it to their site. The video, shot by Winehouse's continually-incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, shows Winehouse and a friend singing a song that delivers slurs to all sorts of races, sexual orientations, and even the handicapped. Later, Winehouse is shown passed out. Here is the video:
And here is a video of Winehouse's apology, delivered amidst a lightning storm of paparazzi camera flashes, indecipherable blabber, and talk about other things like how Blake is her James Bond and they're gonna have lots of kids:
--Niki D'Andrea | http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2008/06/racist_slurs_and_drug_nods_mor.php | 2013-05-18T11:03:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
WMC 2010: Q&A with Seth Troxler, Playing Electric Pickle, Ice Palace and More
But despite his playful and laissez-faire approach to music-making, Troxler is by no means unselfconscious or unaware of the more solemn influences that have shaped his sound: the aesthetic foundations of classic house and techno from his native Detroit and the cutting-edge new forms shaping EDM in Berlin. In this regard he brings an uncanny maturity to his work, considering his young age -- a reverence for dance music's past and an intuition for its present that keeps his output sounding fresh yet vaguely classic.
His DJ sets have become widely-anticipated events which people will continue to buzz about for months after, and in 2010 he is ranked among the Top 10 DJs in the world by Resident Advisor, while staying firmly rooted in the underground. This week we caught up with Troxler during his stop in Tulum, Mexico for the 2010 Crosstown Rebels label "Rebel Rave" tour and en route to Miami for Conference. And despite his occasional signature impish interview answers, he shared his profound and insightful views on the state of contemporary dance music.
Read the full Q&A after the jump.
Crossfade: As a Detroit native now living/working in Berlin you're sort of straddling the two transatlantic EDM capitals. How much of what you do and who you are as an artist can you attribute to your Detroit background and how much of it to your life as an expatriate in Berlin?
Seth Troxler: I think I can attribute 80% of my artistic ideology to the two. In many ways my Michigan upbringing shaped my personality like anyone's, however there is something special about Detroit. I think the way people interact in Detroit, and the sense in the city that there is nothing more, is real. It's a tangible quality of the place that has made the city a hot bed of creation in the arts for such a long time. I think Berlin is some ways has that same feeling. I think both cities have seen so much, and its people have been through so many hard times it makes people more real. However I don't feel Berlin is what it was like 3- 5 years ago. Its still happening, but in a different way. Detroit is harder then ever, I was just recently there and cant wait to go back in May to work on music, I really felt a lot of emotion and lot of tension.
Your DJ sets can vary from dark abstract minimal tech to buoyant melodic disco-house. Clearly you're a DJ of eclectic tastes. But what seems to strike a lot of people the most is that you're somewhat of an "old soul". Considering you're in your early '20s, there's a certain seasoned maturity to much of the stuff you play, e.g. your set at the 2010 Electric Zoo Festival in NYC, much of which had the flavor of a bygone era in house music. Did you grow up listening to old school house and techno, or do you simply go digging deep into the crates?
Ha, thanks. I guess that's growing up in Detroit. I was so luck to be at the tale-end of a generation where a lot of the people who really defined and created the Detroit dance music scene were still around. I worked at this amazing record store Melodies and Memories when I was in high school and was able to get a great amount of knowledge from customers like Keath Worthy, Omar S, Norm Tally or my old boss Gary Koral, or go to the old Record Time and talk to Mike Huckabey or Vince Patricola and hear a lot of the old stories about Detroit dance music and get a lot of the old jams. This was also a time where Magda and Matthew Dear and the Spectral and Minus crew were coming up, and I was fortunate to be taken under the wing of these people, so growing up in many ways I was raised by all these old "heads" and that attitude just stuck. Right place, right time I guess.
By this point you've played in cities all over the world. When push comes to shove, what is your favorite spot? What's the most memorable live experience you've had?
Wow, that's a really hard one. I would say my favorite is WMC! *winks*. Maybe sometimes at Watergate or Club der Visionaire in Berlin in the summer, or Detroit during the music festival, there are always a lot of emotions coming home. But I do always have a blast in Miami.
You recently mixed Vol. 5 of BPitch Control's Boogybytes series. What can you tell us about this mix?
Well it's a journey into space time, and the idea that dark matter both binds and pulls apart our galaxy. It's also about love, dreams, uh, carrots and hot dogs, and the idea that your soul's forever existing without bounds. Oh, and pixie sticks too.
The same eclecticism we used to describe your DJ sets seems to also be seeping into your production work as of late -- the minimalism of your earlier tracks giving away to more elaborate synth-pop forays like your remix for Fever Ray. Is this just a personal inclination, or do you think it reflects a general current in EDM, with so many producers returning to a more melodic songcraft?
I think you're right on target. I really like melody right now. I feel I am in many ways a minimalist: my nature, my dress, my taste in art, my general lifestyle. However I'm really into having fun right now. I'm in love, work is great, and it's like, hey, its a new decade. Minimal isn't dead, it's not going anywhere, just being lame and boring is. Open up, try something, maybe enjoy life. I think the term minimal was overused and overextended, and a lot of people weren't adding anything to the pot but just taking ideas. I'm into ideas and I want to add my own.
Where do you see EDM going in the next decade? Is the house/techno form here to stay?
I think house and techno are here forever. I feel in many ways in the next year the same thing is going to happen to "house" as what happened to "minimal" -- too many people jumping on to something and not adding to it. I'm really into the idea of tasteful crossover right now. It's cool in some ways to see this David Guetta thing happening. It may sound bad but, hey, at least pop is somewhat ready to dance again. It's not my idea of a tasteful crossover, but it's a start. I just hope that people want to go out and enjoy themselves for another 10 years, occasionally get off their head (or not) and dance to enjoy life. If techno and house are involved, perfect. Let's just enjoy.
How's the Rebel Rave tour going so far? Any favorite moments or interesting anecdotes?
I can say Rebels be ravin' it up 4 realz yo. Really, it's been great. We're having a blast together it's fun to travel and see your friends. Detroit was amazing, I'm just out of the beach in Tulum now, perfect.
What else do you have going on 2010?
Shameless self promotion time =). Well I just became one of the new residents for Circo Loco's season at DC 10 this summer in Ibiza. I'm also touring to present this Boogybytes CD as well as Rebel Rave in Europe. Starting a label with Ryan Crosson, Shaun Reeves and Lee Curtiss, Visionquest, as well as turning it into a crazy live PA. I just made a new bomb with Deetron called "Each step" coming out really soon on Circus Company. And trying to find time to sleep. | http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/03/wmc_2010_qa_with_seth_troxler.php | 2013-05-18T10:53:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It may be much ado about nothing, but Jerry Seinfeld can still pack any concert hall on the continent. And he will likely sell out Place des Arts in minutes, when tickets for his two Dec. 1 shows go on sale Friday.
Yup, Seinfeld addicts can rejoice. It’s been two years since he played to sell-out crowds in Montreal. And fans here were a little miffed when he did Toronto last May.
The Montreal concerts are being held in conjunction with the Just for Laughs Festival’s ongoing.
Though its original run ended in 1998, the sitcom continues to provide massive dividends for Seinfeld in syndication. Which begs the question: Why is Jerry Seinfeld still touring? Clearly, Seinfeld is bored merely buying stuff. It’s all about the thrill of walking that comedy tightrope and making audiences convulse.
But Seinfeld is not oblivious to his good fortune, as he pointed out in a 2005 concert in Montreal: “Everyone’s life sucks,” he announced. “Mine sucks, too – just not as much as yours.”
Seinfeld performs Dec. 1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Place des Arts. Tickets are $65.50 to $99.50 and go on sale Friday at the Place des Arts box office. Go to or call 514-842-2112.
.bbrownstein@montrealgazette.com
Twitter: @billbrownstein | http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/09/12/jerry-seinfeld-returns-to-town-that-helped-launch-him/?postpost=v2 | 2013-05-18T10:53:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Here is an example of how to create something both in XAML as well as code behind (C#). I see a lot of questions from people who know how to create controls in XAML but not programmatically. So, here we will create a ScatterView with a single ScatterViewItem and a SurfaceButton with a Click event handler.
XAML:
<Grid Background="{StaticResource WindowBackground}" Width="1024" Height="768">
<s:ScatterView x:
<s:ScatterViewItem
<s:SurfaceButton
</s:ScatterViewItem>
</s:ScatterView>
</Grid>
Easy enough, right? But what if I asked you do do this programmatically? Would you know how to write the code to create those controls, set their properties, and set up the heiearchy correctly? If you don't then keep reading.
The SurfaceButton we created has an event handler for the Click event, SurfaceButton_Click. Lets write a method that will create an exact duplicate of the ScatterViewItem, its contents, and wire up the Click event so that it can do the same thing. In that method we will create a new ScatterViewItem and SurfaceButton control, set their properties, add some color just for fun, wire up the event handler, and set up the hierarchy. Something like this:
CS:
private void SurfaceButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//create a new SVI and button control
ScatterViewItem svi = new ScatterViewItem();
SurfaceButton sb = new SurfaceButton();
//set the width and height
svi.Width = 100;
svi.Height = 100;
sb.Width = 50;
sb.Height = 50;
//generate a random color for the background, expanded for readability
Random rand = new Random();
byte red = (byte)(rand.Next(0, 255));
byte blue = (byte)(rand.Next(0, 255));
byte green = (byte)(rand.Next(0, 255));
Color c = Color.FromRgb(red, blue, green);
svi.Background = new SolidColorBrush(c);
//add the event handler to the button
sb.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(SurfaceButton_Click);
//add the button text
sb.Content = "GO!";
//add the button to the SVI
svi.Content = sb;
//add the SVI to the ScatterView
SV.Items.Add(svi);
}
Run the project and click on the button a few times. You should see a new SVI created each time you click on it. Now, click on the button on one of the newly created SVI's, the behavior should be the same. | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dssurface/archive/2010/02/24/how-to-create-a-self-replicating-scatterviewitem.aspx | 2013-05-18T10:16:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Virtualisation technologies help customers’ lower costs and deliver greater agility and economies of scale. Either as a stand-alone product or an integrated part of Windows Server, Hyper-V is the leading virtualization platform for today and the transformational opportunity with cloud computing.
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More important for my work | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukfe/archive/2012/10/01/why-hyper-v-new-whitepaper.aspx | 2013-05-18T10:32:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
If it’s Tuesday in Albany, you know something is going on. During legislative sessions, Tuesdays are packed with people at the Legislative Office Building and the Capitol eager to speak with their representatives. This Tuesday (tomorrow), there will be also be a statewide rally to raise New York’s minimum wage. It starts at noon.
It’s shameful how low our minimum wage is.
At $7.25 an hour, New York’s minimum wage totals $15,080 for a full-time, year-round worker. That’s before taxes, of course. Just to give you an idea of what that means, today I polled six office colleagues who rent apartments. Their monthly rent ranged from $725 to $1,150, all within a radius of about 20 miles of the capital of New York. That’s an average rent of $928 per month. The lowest rent totals $8,700 a year and the highest is $13,800. That’s just for a roof over their heads, and does not include heat. (It’s been mostly in the teens for the past week, with temperatures often dropping near or below zero). It also doesn’t include gas to get to work ($3.65 a gallon is the average price here) or bus fare. Then there is food. (Peanut butter averages $3.29; jelly about $3; and a loaf of whole grain bread is about $4.) Of course, there is still insurance (renters, car, life) to pay and cleaning supplies and … well … you get the picture.
So come rally and share your voice and your concern. This event is being hosted by the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition. Participants can meet at 11 a.m. at the Westminster Presbyterian Church and proceed to the Capitol. There will be an interfaith prayer service and rally on the Capitol’s “Million Dollar Staircase.” Buses are coming up from New York City and Long Island.
Unlike New York, 10 states automatically update their minimum wages to keep pace with the rising cost of living. If our state had done this and kept up with inflation, the minimum wage would be about $10,80 per day. But New York’s minimum wage has only gone up 10 cents in the last five years.
Shameful! | http://blogs.nysut.org/blog/2013/01/28/dont-dally-%E2%80%94-rally/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
OC Music Awards 2012 Nominees Announced: How the Process Works, asking about the OC Music Awards nomination process. In his email, he says, "The problem is when I went to research how this was done of course its a panel of promoters, venue owners, music critics etc. That's all fair, except on closer examination two groups nominated this year, I and I and Speach Impediments are on a record label AcroplisRPM, owned by panel member Daniel Park. Now if this is not a conflict of interest, then I don't know what is."
Again we asked OC Music Awards head honcho Ashley Eckenweiler to comment on this, and here's what she has to say: "Speaking further to my initial response, we asked those directly involved with musicians to not nominate the artists that they are directly working with as a member of the Academy. Our entire Academy is involved in the music industry. Multiple members are affiliated with local record labels. They are on the Academy because they have a knowledge of the local music scene in OC."
Original post, Jan 3, 3:59 p.m.: Speaking of the OC Music Awards, the Awards Academy released the 2012 OC Music Awards nominees today. Musicians were nominated in 21 Academy-selected categories, such as Best Album, Best Song, Best New Artist and more.
That there are more than a few nominees from the 2011 list on this year's selection is expected. Some are understandable (Thrice put out a great album this year, and Young the Giant definitely established themselves as a brand in 2011); others, not so much. (C'mon. BLOK again? Aren't there any other hip-hop acts from OC?) And aside from newcomers Jeramiah Red, I don't see a lot of new names spanning the categories. (See the whole list after the jump.)
A few people have questioned the fact that a few Academy members were also on the nominee list. Danny Mihai, AKA DJ Thrifty Lips (who is a talent buyer for the Continental Room) and Robert McLaughlin (aka DJ Bobby Soul) of Boogaloo Assassins were nominated for Best DJ and Best Latin, respectively.
Ashley Eckenweiler, who heads the OC Music Awards, says this doesn't damage the award body's credibility: "Academy members that are also musicians were asked to not nominate themselves upon joining the Academy," she says. "No one has yet to excuse themselves for any reason."
According to the press release, the Outstanding Achievement Awards for OC Impact and Lifetime Achievement will be announced the February 1. The Best Live Band and Best Live Acoustic Showcase Series finalists will be announced after the last Showcase on February 15. The People's Choice Award nominees will be announced on Monday, February 27.
(You can cast your FARMER JOHN FAN VOTE for your favorite Showcase artist to help them advance to their category Finals, and vote online for your favorite band in Orange County to receive the People's Choice Award.)
2012 OC Music Awards Nominees
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Last month’s article focused on marinomycin, a cyclic polyketal with rather obvious symmetry – and the synthetic strategy hinged on that feature. However, symmetry in natural products isn’t always so apparent and it is uncovering such ‘hidden symmetry’ that forms the core of this month’s column.However,. | http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/erlenmeyer/2012/08/29/amphidinolide-f/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
From the Orlando Sentinel:
• The NBA lockout is impacting the city of Orlando’s coffers (Josh Robbins)
• Orlando businesswoman tries to help NBA arena workers tell their stories (Josh Robbins)
• Video: Dwight Howard teams with Big Sean for new Foot Locker adidas ad (Josh Robbins)
• What lockout? Magic add a new role player (Brian Schmitz)
• Dwight Howard visits “The Tonight Show” on Wednesday (Hal Boedeker)
Magic-related news:
• Nelson still king of the hill at St. Joe’s (Dei Lynum, CSNPhilly.com)
Around the NBA:
• Hunter expects court to mediate NBA lawsuit (Rachel Cohen, The Associated Press)
• Both sides in NBA battle reach out to previous deal-broker Quinn (Ken Berger, CBSSports.com)
• NY Senator Malcolm A. Smith launches own Occupy NBA movement to get lockout settled (Stefan Bondy, New York Daily News)
• Heat’s James, Bosh, Haslem, Wade finish week of workouts (Ira Winderman, South Florida Sun Sentinel) coach Stan Van Gundy has lost 22 pounds in his new fitness program. And he's not panicking about the Magic's recent woes. (Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel)
There’s something a bit taboo about using the word “panic” in the Orlando Magic locker room, since the biggest knock on Stan Van Gundy, fair or not, is that he tends to panic in pressure situations. At least that’s what Shaq says.
The Magic, however, made it very clear they aren’t panicking after four consecutive losses. And I hope you didn’t panic that the links are a little bit late today. Let’s get straight into them.
1. Slumping Magic say they aren’t hitting the panic button, Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: A team coached by the ‘Master of Panic’ isn’t get too worked up over this rough stretch.
2. Stan Van Gundy: Chris Duhon needs to be more aggressive, Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: Van Gundy benched Duhon because Jason Williams can provide an offensive spark. Duhon’s assertiveness on offense needs to increase.
3. Magic’s Van Gundy benefits from new fitness program, Brian Schmitz, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: The coach has lost 22 pounds since beginning to focus on his health earlier this year.
4. Knicks fans keep eyes on Carmelo Anthony, Benjamin Hochman, Denver Post
The Buzz: Carmelo visits New York today to take on the Knicks. He’d probably prefer just stay in town.
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Sunday, Dec. 12 »
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Sunday, Dec. 12 »
Can the Heat keep Dwight Howard away from the basket? (Jeffrey M. Boan/Associated Press)
Orlandoans see the highlights, read the Heat Index and like to chill, but we don’t know nearly as much about the Miami Heat as a Heat beat writer does. So I called on the Sun-Sentinel’s Shandel Richardson — who’s in town covering the game — to answer a couple questions about the team down South before tonight’s contest. Here’s what he had to say.
The Heat are 8-6 and have dropped consecutive games to Memphis and Indiana. Obviously, the Heat are playing below expectations. What’s been the main problem so far?
Shandel Richardson: The main problem is obviously cohesion. Yes, it’s been their excuse thus far, but it’s not easy for a team with so many new parts. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have yet to gain comfort on the court together. As Wade pointed out today, this is not the Olympics. This is the NBA, so it will take time. When the players get a better feel, then you’ll see an improved team.
Chris Bosh is widely considered to be a bit of a disappointment thus far. Is that a fair assessment?
SR: If the Heat were winning, Bosh wouldn’t be considered a disappointment. That’s the bottom line. Major expectations were placed on the Heat before the season even began. Let’s be honest, anything less than a 12-2 start after 14 games would likely have drawn criticism. Bosh just so happens to be third-most popular superstar on the roster, making him an easy target. His rebounding numbers could improve, but he’s actually put together a solid string of games the past week.
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Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Tuesday, Nov. 23 »
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Hedo Turkoglu gets why he'd booed in Toronto, but he doesn't understand Orlando. (Gary W. Green/Orlando Sentinel)
It wasn’t a very welcome homecoming for Hedo Turkoglu or Grant Hill, as both players were booed — Hill moreso than Turk — and the Suns lost big.
About the boos: I think everyone understands the boos for Hill. He set the franchise back years with his crippling (pun intended) contract, and despite how nice of a guy he is, fans feel he should’ve came back to Orlando and played for the minimum instead of bolting for Phoenix.
But Turk? He wanted to stay in Orlando. The Magic chose not to pay him the money, and he had to get paid elsewhere.
I know many fans get their jollies by booing and shouting obscenities, and it’s perfectly within your right to do so. I just don’t really understand it.
Neither does Turk, apparently. The story leads our links.
1. It’s time to move on from Hedo Turkoglu, Grant Hill sagas, Brian Schmitz, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: No one seems to understand why Orlando fans boo Hedo Turkoglu, who wanted to remain with the Magic. But if booing strangers lets you release your stresses from the day, then more power to ya.
2. A little insight into Hedo Turkoglu’s non-stop, incoherent trash talk, Zach McCann, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: The trash talk never ends from Turk, even if you can’t understand it.
3. Magic Turn It Up On Defense, Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com
The Buzz: A story about the Magic’s rejuvenated defense leads the Daily Dime.
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Friday, Nov. 19 »
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Friday, Nov. 19 » »
Mickael Pietrus took over Daniel Orton's Twitter on Sunday. (Stephen M. Dowell, Orlando Sentinel)
The consensus around the NBA seems to view contraction as a last-ditch resort in next summer’s labor negotiations. The NBA is looking to cut costs, and with the labor agreement ending after this season, all options are being explored. Not many want to eliminate teams — especially the struggling teams themselves.
But Magic Johnson sees contraction as a potential positive.
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Read more from Johnson at the link below.
1. More from Magic Johnson, Woody Wommack, Naples Daily News
The Buzz: Johnson also says the other MJ, Michael Jordan, could score 100 points in today’s NBA.
2. Magic rookie Daniel Orton tries to be patient, Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel
The Buzz: Orton’s playing catchup after missing the entire preseason.
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Monday, Oct. 25 »
Continue reading Orlando Magic and NBA News: Monday, Oct. 25 »
Many people are speculating that Carmelo Anthony, shown here earlier this month in New York City, will not play with the Denver Nuggets beyond this upcoming season (Chris Trotman/Getty Images for Nike)
Are Carmelo Anthony’s days with the Denver Nuggets coming to an end?
The consensus throughout the NBA seems to be that Anthony will not be with Denver in 2011-12. The Nuggets have offered Anthony a three-year, $65 million contract extension. But the possibility that Anthony will not re-sign with the team might compel the Nuggets to trade him before this season ends.
Speculation about Anthony dominates our daily links this morning.
1. Former Magic center Adonal Foyle decides to retire after 13 seasons, Orlando Sentinel, Josh Robbins
The Buzz: An injured right knee often prevented Foyle from practicing with the Magic last season. Because of his retirement, he’ll likely resign in the next few days as first vice president of the National Basketball Players Association.
2. Magic sign 2nd-round pick Stanley Robinson, Orlando Sentinel, Josh Robbins
The Buzz: Robinson signed a non-guaranteed contract.
3. Magic want Lee back, HoopsWorld, Bill Ingram
The Buzz: Ingram writes that the Houston Rockets, who acquired Courtney Lee in a four-team trade last week, could be major players at the 2010-11 trade deadline and possibly could send Lee back to the Magic.
4. Sources: Carmelo Anthony likely to go, ESPN.com, Ric Bucher
The Buzz: Bucher writes: “League sources say it is now a matter of when, not if, Anthony and the Nuggets will go their separate ways.”
Continue reading Top Magic and NBA news: Tuesday, August 17 »
Continue reading Top Magic and NBA news: Tuesday, August 17 »
Stanley Robinson (left) and Daniel Orton (right) were drafted by the Orlando Magic in the 2010 NBA Draft. The Magic announced Monday that Robinson signed a deal.
Indeed it’s a slow news day when a second-round Orlando Magic draft pick tops our morning NBA news and links roundup, but that’s OK.
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1. Orlando Magic Sign Robinson, OrlandoMagic.comM
The Buzz: The Orlando Magic’s second-round draft pick is signed to a deal.
2. Qualifying Round Day 5: POLAND – BELGIUM 93-73, Eurobasket
The Buzz: My apologies for this being a a day late and a dollar short, but Marcin Gortat scored 35 points on 12 of 14 shooting against Belgium on Saturday in a EuroBasket 2011 qualifier.
3. Advanced Metrics Handbook, Vol. 2: True Shooting Percentage, Orlando Pinstriped Post, Ben Q. Rock
The Buzz: Break out your slide rules. BQR of the OPP breaks down the mathematics behind a stat he often references.
4. Heat forward Haslem arrested on marijuana possession, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Ira Winderman and Akilah Johnson
The Buzz: Udonis Haslem got busted for pot possession during a traffic stop in Miami-Dade County. Guess he was a little too fired up for LeBron James’ arrival in South Beach.
Continue reading Top Magic and NBA news: Monday, August 16 »
Continue reading Top Magic and NBA news: Monday, August 16 »
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Party at The Blind Monk Tomorrow in Downtown WPBby M.M. Cloutier
The Blind Monk—a beer, wine and tapas bar on Evernia Street in downtown West Palm Beach—opened late last August, but tomorrow (March 12), the city will officially welcome it during a ribbon-cutting ceremony and block party.
The Blind Monk’s “opening celebration,” 6-9 p.m. and sponsored by the West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority (DDA), will include a complimentary glass of wine at 6 p.m., followed by a “blind” tasting competition, live music and an ongoing raffle with prizes every half hour (at 9 p.m., for instance, someone’s gonna walk away with a bottle of Dom Perignon).
The ribbon-cutting is at 7:45 p.m., with remarks by Mayor Lois Frankel, who has attended countless such affairs, but this one is special. Sure, it will be her last ribbon-cutting as mayor of West Palm Beach, but The Blind Monk also is the brainchild of her son, wine connoisseur and Marine Corps veteran Ben Lubin.
Ben figured downtown, awash in high-energy restaurants and clubs, needed something low-key and sophisticated, featuring the decorating fancies—including a chandelier of “champagne bubbles” (glass spheres) hanging above a white-quartz bar faced with splintered wine crates—of Nate Galui, a former HGTV Design Star and producer for ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Ben and Galui will offer up their own brief remarks.
The Blind Monk, located in a 900-square-foot space in The Whitney Building, offers varietals from around the world and pours more than 90 wines and 25 crafts beers by the glass, and offers another 300 wines on its list of bottles.
Among the tapas, which start at $6: smoked salmon, meats (prosciutto, salami, sopressata, etc.), cheeses, olives, roasted red peppers, fruit and chocolate.
FYI: To enter the tomorrow night’s raffle, guests are asked to “check in” at The Blind Monk’s Facebook page ().
For more info, call The Blind Monk, open daily, at 833-3605.
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West Palm’s hundreds of priorities for 2013 and 2028by Andrew Abramson
West Palm Beach commissioners and top city staff are meeting today for a day long retreat at Gaines Park. Commissioners also met yesterday.
Here’s a list of upcoming priorities for the city, per it’s Leader’s Guide 2012. Of course, the funding might not be here for all of these projects, but these are what commission and staff laid out as priorities.
Action ideas for 2013 (city commission perspective)
1. Northwest Neighborhood Revitalization Action Plan
2. Long Term Water Supply: Independent study, options analysis, direction, actions, funding (including Florida Crystal and Lake Point)
3. South Dixie Corridor Revitalization Plan/Strategy
4. Five Year Financial Plan/Blueprint (including five year projections for revenues and expenditures; operating expenses and capital)
5. City Financial Policies: Review, development revision (including reserves)
6. Coleman Park Community Center Expansion/Renovation
7. Community Center West
8. Pleasant City Revitalization Action Plan
9. Palm Coast Revitalization Action Plan
10. Gateway/Entrance (north/south) Beautification Plan
11. African American Museum
12. Art in Public Places
13. Proactive Crime Prevention Strategy/Program
14. Broadway Corridor Redevelopment/Business Development Action Plan
15. Economic Development Policy and Strategy
16. Waterfront Comprehensive Development Plan
17. Community Events Strategy
18. Overall Labor Policy Direction
19. Neighborhood Code Enforcement: assessment of policies, actions/processes and enforcement/compliance, report with options, direction, city role, specific actions, funding
20. Youth Programs: evaluation/needs assessment, report with options, directions, specific actions, funding
21. Convention Center Hotel Development
22. “Old City Hall Site” Development Projects
23. North Lake Fire Station: construction
24. Fire Training Facility
25. Fire Suppression for Waterfront (including a fire boat)
26. Community Foundation: development, city role, direction (particularly for parks and cemeteries)
27. Oliver Park Tennis Building
28. Water Amenities (private/public) along C51 Canal
29. 811 (sic) Property Development Project
30. City Employee Diversity Plan
31. Pre-School Direction: needs assessment, goals/desired outcome, dialog/partnership with the schools, city role, direction, specific actions, funding
32. Partnership strategy with Palm Beach County Schools: identification of issues/topics, dialog with school board/administration, specific actions
33. Library Services, Programs and Staffing: market analysis, direction, funding
34. Arts Programs: best practices, report with option
35. Old Northwood Area Improvement Plan
36. Street and Sidewalk Improvement Master Plan
37. Neighborhood Parking Policy
38. Homeless Strategy
39. Employee Morale Survey
40. City Housing Plan/Programs
41. Parks Master Plan
42. Outsourcing City Services: identification of opportunity areas, direction (including solid waste collection, landscaping/mowing, etc)
43. Golf Course Redesign
44. Cemetery Fence
45. Artists in Residences Program
46. Housing Development along South Dixie Highway
47. Drought Management/Water Conservation Plan
48. Public Outreach and Engagement Survey
49. People Mover Options
50. Parental Involvement/Responsibility Strategy
51. Showcasing Local Artists
52. Senior Housing and Services Strategy
53. City Services Priority and Staffing
54. Alternative Revenue Sources
55. Downtown Parking Master Plan
56. Flagler Bridge (over Flagler)
Action ideas for 2013 (administration perspective)
1. South Dixie Highway Development Project
2. Northwest Neighborhood Revitalization Action Plan
3. Five Year Financial Plan/Blueprint
4. Communication Audit and Plan
5. City Webpage Expansion
6. ECR Project
7. Old City Hall Site
8. Building Height along the Waterway
9. Mall Redevelopment Project
10. Outsourcing City Services
11. Employee Compensation Policy
12. FSU Film School Project
13. Broadway Corridor Redvelopment
14. Neighborhood Team Action Plan
15. Charter Schools
16. Emergency Radio System/P25: report, direction, funding (including OpenSky)
17. Long Term Water Supply
18. Community Foundation
19. Waterfront Development
20. Sister Cities Program expansion
21. Employee Clinic: direction
22. “Telling Our Story” Action Plan
23. Succession Planning and Process
24. Sanitation/Solid Waste Contracting
25. Financial Policies: direction (including reserves)
26. City Asset Inventory
27. Financial Software Upgrade
28. Park Mowing/Landscaping Outsourcing
29. City Volunteers Program
30. Fleet Inventory and Replacement Policy and Program
31. Street and Sidewalk Condition Assessment and Master Plan
32. Rutland Road Redesign
33. Stormwater Management Master Plan
34. Water Plants/Infrastructure Master Plan
35. Wastewater Plant/Infrastructure Master Plan
36. Dashboard for Performance and Project Management
37. Public Works/Utilities/Maintenance Performance and Organization Analysis
38. Flagler Street Improvement Project
39. Performance Metrics and Management System
40. Storm Water Utility
41. Non Ad Valorem Assessment for Sanitation
42. Sanitation Fleet Assessment
43. Sign Inventory
44. Streetscape Maintenance
45. Road Condition Assessment
46. LED Street Lights Project: completion
47. Flagler Bridge Project: completion
48. Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard Improvement Project: landscaping, traffic flow
49. Unified Land Development Code
50. Prevention Maintenance Plan for Garages
51. Banyan Garage Replacement
52. Parking Meter Replacement
53. Wayfinding Signs
54. Mobile Apps for the City
55. Parking Master/Strategic Plan and Rates
56. Utility Rates: market analysis, cost analysis, report with options, direction on rate structure
57. Pelletizer: evaluation, direction
58. Drought Management and Water Conservation Plan
59. Utilities Asset Management Assessment and Plan
60. Force Main Replacement
61. Water Reuse: direction
62. Fire Training Facility
63. Fire Station Replacement (fire stations 4, 5)
64. New Fire Station 9: direction, location, funding (Roebuck/Haverhill)
65. Fire Equipment Replacement
66. Fire Assessment Fee: evaluation, direction
67. Chronic Nuisance Calls: implementation
68. City Cemeteries: evaluation, direction
69. 811 (sic) South Development Project
70. Palm Beach Atlantic University Ballfields
71. Golf Course Outsourcing
72. Mizner Lakes Devleopment
73. Hotel Development
74. Employee Diversity Plan
75. Police Building: condition assessment, direction, funding
76. Police Strategic Plan: development, potential reorganization
77. Proactive Crime Reduction Strategy
78. City Business Image and Branding Campaign
79. Gaines Park Improvements
80. Waterfront Renovation Phase II
81. Southern Boulevard Bridge
82. Playground Equipment Upgrade
83. Parks and Recreation Master Plan/Strategic Plan
84. Westside Parks Facilities Plan
85. Social Services: inventory, needs assessment, city role, community partners, direction, funding
86. Parks Parking
87. Tennis Center Replacement
88. Pleasant City Community Center Replacement
89. Athletic/Multi-use/Ballfields Plan
90. Facility Rental Policy and Fee Structure
91. Hillcrest Open Space: development
92. Enterprise Agreement
93. Major Software Upgrades
94. Five Year Technology Plan
95. Wastewater Tower
96. Time/Attendance Software
97. Technology Replacement Plan
98. Work Flow Database
99. Emergency Generators at City Hall
100. Fleet Management Software
101. Diesel Storage Capacity
102. City Buildings Maintenance Plan
103. Waterfront Hotel Development
104. Sail Club Demolition
105. Villages of Palm Beach Lakes: condition, city role, action plan
106. West Broadway Development
107. Marine Business Expansion
108. Helen Wilkes ‘Hotel’: direction
109. Aged Motels Strategy: problem analysis, direction, city role, action
110. Community Policing Plan
111. Emergency Action Plan
112. Neighborhood Development Plan
113. Affordable Housing Plan
114. Retail Development Plan
115. Environmental Resources Plan
116. Education Plan
117. Healthcare Plan
118. Community Outreach Plan
119. Community Volunteer Plan
120. Annual Citizen Survey
VISION 2028 (West Palm Beach 15 years from now)
Unsurpassed Beauty
1. Attractive gateways and entrances
2. Well designed, well maintained streets, streetscapes and corridors
3. Well designed, well maintained parks, cemeteries and public green spaces
4. Public art throughout the city
5. Preservation of historic buildings and homes
6. New buildings designed for enduring character and quality
7. Well designed, well maintained public buildings
8. Preservation of our trees and natural environment
9. Great vistas for enjoying sunrises and sunsets
Safe and Clean
1. Feeling safe and secure anywhere in the city
2. Proactive crime prevention based upon data and analysis with involved businesses and residents
3. Minimal visual blight and trash
4. Clean streets and public spaces
5. Low crime rate
6. Reputation: break the law, you will get arrested and go to jail
7. Everyone sharing responsibility for maintaining a safe, clean city
8. Timely response for emergency calls for service, especially EMS calls
9. Effective emergency plan, response and recovery to a major disaster
10. Buildings, homes and signs meeting/complying with the city appearance and property maintenance standards and codes
Waterfront with worldwide recognition
1. Destination for the world, region and residents
2. Active, successful marine industries
3. Place for community activities
4. Beautiful Flagler Drive for walking, running biking and driving
5. Hotels attracting worldwide guests
6. Homes and condos providing housing choices
7. Deep, navigable waterway
8. Marinas for private and public access
9. Eating and entertainment along the C51 canal
10. Canals providing easy access to the Intracoastal System and Atlantic Ocean
Vibrant/alive downtown
1. 24/7 community
2. Range of shopping choices: daily needs to small shops providing personal service to boutique shops carrying unique products
3. Range of restaurants providing choices for food and price points
4. Regional center for performing and cultural arts
5. Variety of museums showcasing history and culture
6. People living in downtown with service necessary for daily life
7. Easy access and movement through an effective wayfinding system
8. Convenient and safe parking: garages and on street
9. Walkable and pedestrian friendly
10. Clematis Street closed as a pedestrian mall
11. Center for local governments
Great neighborhoods
1. Each neighborhood having its own unique character and sense of pride
2. Range of neighborhood choices offering different life styles: urban, historic, gated
3. Older homes restored, renovated or replaced
4. Range of housing options: type and price points
5. Housing choices for all family generations
6. Neighbors knowing and helping neighbors
7. Strong neighborhood and homeowner associations working with the city
8. Well designed, well maintained, neighborhood infrastructure
9. People feeling and being safe in their homes and in the neighborhood
10. Convenient access to parks and public green spaces
Sustainable community
1. Environmental stewardship by the city of the community’s natural environment
2. Preservation of natural species
3. Responsible use of water resources
4. Clean surface water and effective stormwater management system
5. Effective, efficient recycling program and process
6. Conservation of energy resources by the city and the community
7. Use of LED lighting and other low impact lighting
8. Designing new developments and buildings for sustainability
9. Well informed residents and businesses on their responsibilities for creating a sustainable community
10. Reducing the city’s carbon footprint
Regional Employment Center
1. Diverse local economy
2. People coming to the city for work
3. Businesses investing and reinvesting in the city
4. Regional medical and health service center
5. Entrepreneurial opportunities to start and grow a business
6. Small, locally owned retail shops
7. Commercial development along major corridors: Broadway, South Dixie Highway
8. Destination for quality shopping experiences
9. Retention and growth of local business
10. Range of marine based businesses
11. City livability contributing to business investment
12. Quality education opportunities for lifelong learning
13. Workforce prepared for 21st century job opportunities
Fun: Place to Enjoy Life
1. Top quality parks offering a variety of amenities throughout the city
2. Sidewalks and trails for walking, running and biking
3. Athletic and ballfields for recreation and tournaments
4. Well designed, well maintained community centers offering a variety of facilities, programs and services
5. Library with a variety of programs and services responsive to the needs in the community
6. Wide range of arts and cultural facilities and programs
7. Exciting entertainment for all generations
8. Strong community events and festivals offering free/affordable activites with high level of community involvement
9. Community foundation(s) supporting events, programs and facilities
10. Recreational programming and service for a lifetime
Easy Mobility
1. Effective regional transportation system for moving people and goods
2. Reputation: pedestrian friendly and walkable community
3. Predictable and acceptable travel times within the city
4. Effective public people movers connecting destinations within teh city
5. Effective regional public transportation with ridership by choice
6. Convenient, safe parking throughout the city
7. Rail services to Orlando and the East Coast
8. Wayfinding signs facilitating easy movement within the city
9. Well designed, well maintained streets and sidewalks meeting defined city standards
10. Well designed, well maintained bridges
11. Convenient access by boats
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Let’s pull up the blog in 2028 and see if the city lived up to its vision.
November 10th, 2012 at 8:46 am
I read nothing concerning eliminating corruption, graft, irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars, meetings held in secrecy, refusing to impliment voters wishes, taking advantage of political position.
November 10th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
i concurr with Citizen 101, i but you a million tax dollars that none of these are implemented or done….
November 10th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Sounds like someone with champagne taste on a beer budget. How about pay cuts for ALL administration and reduce management level employees as the City has had too many chiefs and not enough Indians. In the Building department they had supevisors in plumbing that went like this: One plumbing inspector overlooked by one supervisor and the same for mechanical inspectors, electrical, and building. Eliminate Historical department and planners. Reduce or eliminate special events people or out source that dept. Get rid of Ed Mitchell. Demand drug testing for ALL administration, Commissioners and Mayor as they are just as likely to use drugs as are employees at other levels. One previous Mayor ( a couple of Mayors back) quit alcoholism by replacing alcohol with pot use. Cut Police over time and make them contribute to their pensions like anyone else and test police officers for steroid use. One narcotics undercover officer died you a few years ago despite the fact he looked to be in perfect physical shape and worked out daily at a gym across from Howard Park. Eliminate the waste aka traffic calming and road paver bricks. These changes mentioned here would save City tax payers million$ of dollar$.
To the voters: Vote out all incumbents.
Have the IRS look into past corrupt Mayor Nancy Graham and her fellow commission members who skimmed a huge amount of cash when Nancy raided the general employee’s pension funds. There is no statute of limitations on Federal tax evasion. The stock broker who worked for Dean Witter at that time knows all the details.
Raise taxes on folks who live along Flagler Drive and between Flagler and Olive Ave or equivalent by 15%.
Put cops and Code officers and other inspectors on scooters and bicycles and on walking beats to cover more areas with greater scrutiny and save on fuel.
Raise water rates on Palm Beach residents who can easily afford to pay for all that water they waste on their lawns.
Make Floritam grass ilegal as it wastes huge amounts of water and the fertilizers and pesticides that are required for this high maintenance grass are poison to the environment.
Establish tolls for the bridges to Palm Beach.
Actually collect the fines levied in all Code Enforcement cases.
Buy only the smallest fuel efficient cars for ALL City staff.
Charge impact fees on all residential and commercial construction.
Stop wasting money sending Code Officers and others to classes where they learn to not return tax payer’s phone calls and how to obstruct enforcement of the Codes rather than to facilitate the same.
No City employee should be paid more than $60 K including top administration.
Have volunteer lawyers and other legal staff who are fresh out of school handle the legal work.
Put prisoners to work cleaning up the City and collecting trash and mowing grass.
Eliminate sign codes that restrict the ability of any business to advertise.
Legalize pot and tax the slae of same.
Allow only one term for Mayor and commissioners.
Cut back on all department meetings as they usually are a huge waste of time designed to stroke the egos of the incompetent administrators conducting them.
Take away Rick Green’s collection of mirrors so he won’t waste so much time primping and admiring himself in front of them.
November 10th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
How about Director of Parks & Recreation, Christine Thrower answering the audit report that everyone’s waiting for? How about demanding Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell Take care of her own Comcast Cable issues.
November 10th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Northwest Neighborhood Revitalization Action Plan is first on the list.
During Lois Frankel’s first campaign, she stood in the Northwest neighborhood saying, “this is the reason i want to become mayor, to help these poor neighborhoods”
She sat in the mayor’s seat for 8 years and the conditions in that neighborhood is the same. Devious Deputy Administrator, Dorritt Miller unintentionally exposed Frankel, in a going away ceremony saying, “within 48 hours of Mayor Frankel taking office, she started working on downtown and haven’t stopped since”. Now this neighborhood is number one on the list.
It is unrealistic to have 214 goals on their plate as opposed to a dozen which means, very little of the above will be accomplished with them or in the future.Their last retreat at Gaines Park cost tax payers $32,000. What vendor was granted the contract to supply the food & other necessities for this retreat? Was there an opportunity for vendors to compete for the contract or was the one chosen, somebody’s friend or relative?
November 13th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Maybe they’d actually be able to fund this wish list if they’d approve some projects instead of kicking the cans down the road….
November 14th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Does it get any funnier? It’s nice to have realistic goals. It’s a waste of time to be so naiive.
November 28th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Clematis street needs to be closed. That’s a given.
There needs to be a bridge or tunnel below okeechobee. Screw trying to run across it.
Traffic intersections need to be timed at 0.9 m/s not 1.2
We are going to have a bikeshare program and we need protected cycle paths throughout the city to bring it up to the rest of the world standards. You will get more business from pedestrians and bicyclists than from people in cars.
Put light rail trams in the streets instead of those trolleys. Making it a permanent feature has an added effect of bolstering business by eliminating car traffic, bringing in more people, and giving them a sense of permanence and establishment here with a solid foundation. They would be more inclined to stay.
Put a light rail train route to PBIA and the racetrack. Buses are ok but reliable train ridership actually brings in wealthier visitors and commuters. It’s proven by studies in Chicago.
January 16th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
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Triumph of the Swill: White-pride poster boy J.T. Ready rocks the rabble at Saturday's anti-immigrant fest. rabble-rousing speech by none other than the Ernst Roehm of the East Valley, the Martin Bormann of Mesa, everyone's favorite fat-boy fascist, J.T. Ready.
Yep, despite the fact that Ready's been outed by the Anti-Defamation League, and my print cohort The Bird as a white supremacist who's kept a page on the neo-Nazi Web site Newsaxon.com (now Newsaxon.org), a racist MySpace "for whites by whites"; despite the fact that Ready reportedly attended last year's Winterfest event in Phoenix hosted by the neo-Nazi National Vanguard; and though Ready's posted white supremacist messages on my blog and others; he was welcomed, cheered and embraced Saturday by a crowd of 300 or so on the capitol lawn, a crowd angered whenever the term "racist" was raised in regards to their movement.
His massive frame shoved sausage-like into a dark suit, the former Mesa City Council candidate palled around with good friend state Rep. Russell Pearce both before and after Ready spoke during the five-hour prejudice powwow. On the podium, Ready was easily the most popular speaker that day, aside, perhaps, from the Yosemite Sam-like Buffalo Rick, a gimpy, grumpy ol' coot who every day looks more and more like he, in the words of the classic SNL skit, "lives in a van, down by the river." Yeah, Rick may not in actuality be a crazy homeless man, but believe me, he could pass. (More on Rick's antics at the shindig in a moment.)
Goering-esque gasbag J.T. whipped the audience of white trash wackos into a frothing-at-the-mouth furor, denouncing Republican Senator Jon Kyl as a traitor for supporting immigration reform, and giving the audience his four-point program for an all-American authoritarian state, presumably with Ready as its ready-made fuehrer:
"All the politicians wanna say it (immigration) is a complex problem," yelled Ready into the mic. , the military-lovin' Ready never mentioned that he was court-martialed twice and kicked out of the Marines with a bad conduct discharge. Or that in 2006, he was replaced as the master of ceremonies for Mesa's veteran's day parade once vets there discovered the truth of his piss-poor service record. He's also had, and continues to have, run-ins with the police.
Even more disturbing, on his Newsaxon Web page, Ready listed National Alliance founder William Pierce's The Turner Diaries as one of his favorite books. I know it's just a book, but so is Mein Kampf, people. The Turner Diaries is an apocalyptic tale of race war, one that inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. So when someone says that's their favorite book, I'm hoping like hell that the police have got that bastard staked out.
Ready also took a moment to briefly denounce his nemesis, Mesa police Detective Matt Browning, who's spent 12 years in law-enforcement infiltrating skinhead and border patrol groups. Exactly why Ready hates Browning so much has yet to be revealed. True, Browning drew the ire of many anti-immigrant groups when he appeared at a forum at the state capitol earlier this year with members of the ADL, and described his work in detail, talking about how skinheads and neo-Nazis were present on the border. But Browning never mentioned Ready directly. This was done instead by the ADL's Mark Pitcavage, who, in descibing the overlap between white supremacist groups and anti-immigrant groups, used J.T. Ready's Newsaxon Web page as an example. Posts on other Web sites have stated that Browning once interrogated Ready, but I have no proof of this as of yet.
After Ready's speech, he worked the crowd, hanging out A LOT with Russell Pearce, which does make one wonder. Pearce got in trouble last year for cutting and pasting an article off the Web site of the neo-Nazi National Alliance and e-mailing it to his supporters. He later claimed an unnamed friend forwarded it to him, so he didn't vet it properly. Hmmm. Wonder if that friend was present Saturday?
I approached J.T. a couple of times and threw some questions at him, each time he walked away, once making a comment to a pal about "Bird shit," a reference to my column. He once ran off to some bicycle patrolmen to complain about me, even though all I was doing was taking photos of him and trying to get a comment. What a wuss! Naturally, the police did nothing. And soon he was jawboning with his fellow fatheads.
Buffalo Rick, always a class act.
After J.T., the fun continued, with scraggly snagglepuss Buffalo Rick taking to the podium and shouting at the top of his lungs like some deranged lunatic. He recognized me standing in the crowd and gave me a shout out:
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The lynching reference got a cheer from the crowd, and a chuckle from me. But I think Mr. Buffalo Chips was sincere. He followed me around some, trying to provoke a fight, spitting nearby, though not on me. Then he'd get right behind me and shout "Down in front," shit like that. I laughed it off. What am I supposed to do, beat up a cripple in front of a crowd of witnesses? I can just see the headline now: "New Times reporter assaults gimpy geezer."
For the rest of the event, I concentrated on challenging people about Ready's presence. A lot of people claimed not to know who he was, though he'd just been up there leading them in chants of "U-S-A, U-S-A." Others defended him, saying there was no truth to his ties to neo-Nazi types. And still others seemed to think it didn't matter. I missed a chance to buttonhole J.D. Hayworth, as I arrived too late to hear him speak, and he apparently skedaddled post-haste. But I did get to chat with two other pols there, candidate for Mayor Steve Lory and PHX City Council candidate Jack Watson. Both men said they were not aware of Ready's racist activities, and surprisingly both said they would have taken to the stage and spoken even if they'd known.
"I have limited resources to get my name out there," explained Watson. "I guess for the lack of a better term, it’s the lesser of two evils. Because I’ve got to do everything in my power to get my name out there, if I hope to stand a chance to get elected."
Lory, who was there with his sister, had been gathering signatures to get his name on the ballot. His remarks to the crowd almost sounded like something out of the mouth of an ACLU attorney, as he talked about the erosion of our civil liberties. When I asked him about J.T., he claimed it was a freedom of speech issue.
"You’re gonna get that at any event," he told me. "What are you gonna do if you’re organizing this event? You say to someone like him, I don’t like your views, you’re out?"
Um, yeah, that's exactly what you would do if you don't want your name or movement linked to him. Look, I like Steve Lory, and I don't believe the guy's a racist. The nightclub he ran until it was forced to close by the city, Blaze nightclub, catered to a black and Hispanic crowd. And he strikes me as sincere. But if you're appearing at a rally that features a guy like Ready who's an unabashed white supremacist, that begs the question -- at what point do you say it's over the line? What if Ready showed up in a brownshirt and swastika armband? Would you speak at the same event as someone like that? If you think I'm exaggerating, take as an example, this comment J.T. made to one of my blog posts:
New Saxon is accomplishing the one thing that the anti-whites hate. Unity of our racial family. Good. I will keep my page on New Saxon as I planned to anyway. The leftist vitriol spewed forth by malcontent anti-socials is just a further endorsement of a job well done for our just cause. Thank you Buster and all the staff of the New Saxon who are helping make the dream of a safer world for white children possible.
JT Ready- Author of the 18 Words:
"The Purity of the Aryan Race is the most precious resource Nature has to offer All of Humankind."
Interestingly, Ready's e-mail and his phone mail message service reference the "Eagle's Nest," Adolf Hitler's famous Alpine retreat. Sounds like someone's been watching too much of the History Channel.
A lot of people kept coming up to me saying, "I'm not a racist," or "We're not racists," etc. Fine. So why were you cheering J.T. Ready? Indeed, why did you let the guy within 500 yards of your podium if you're concerned at all with the anti-immigrant movement being called racist?Hey, you absolutely have the right to have J.T. Ready there if you want. And I would do nothing to curtail Ready's freedom of speech. On the other hand, I'm going to call it like I see it, and expose the guy for the scumbag he is.
If David Duke had been on the list of speakers, for instance, what would people say about those who remained and continued to participate in the same demonstration as Duke? At the very least Lory is naive. Nor can he say that Ready was the only one there espousing such views. I spotted skinheads in attendance, and there was one Scottish bloke present, wearing Doc Martens, natch, who praised J.T. to the high heavens. They guy even defended the racist shorthand of 14/88 (88 being code for HH, or Heil Hitler, and 14 being the famous supremacist slogan uttered by neo-Nazi David Lane). And he said he believed the Holocaust was a "Hollow-hoax."
And these idiots in the anti-immigrant movement can't figure out why they get tarred with the racist label? Sheesh. Someone please draw 'em a map. | http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2007/06/triumph_of_the_swill_white_pri_1.php | 2013-05-18T10:41:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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12 Favorite Spots to Score Tamales in Greater Phoenix.
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Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding with Johnny Depp, Sebastian Bach, and More, Comerica Theatre, 12/8/12
Local shock rock legend and all Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper hosted his 12th annual Christmas Pudding holiday bash at Comerica Theatre in downtown Phoenix last weekend. All proceeds benefited.
Read the full review and see more photos of Johnny Depp jamming with Alice Cooper.
--Jim Louvau
Top 5 Genre-Bending Electronic Albums of 2012
I initially conceived this list as a starting point to further explore.
--Chase Kamp
Rock.
--Jason P. Woodbury | http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2012/12/top_phoenix_music_stories_1213.php | 2013-05-18T11:02:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Race/Gender-Based Abortions: GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Provide any Evidence They Even Happen in Arizona
The Arizona House of Representatives voted yesterday to send a bill penned by Montenegro to the desk of Governor Jan Brewer that would force proposed law would be a class 3 felony.
"This legislation really is needed. Sex-selection abortions are happening in this country, and it's time that we address it head on," Barto told Cronkite News Service yesterday.
Prove it, Nancy.
So far, there's been no evidence to suggest that abortions performed for either of those reasons are even a problem in Arizona.
"There is no indication that this is even an issue," Planned Parenthood Arizona spokeswoman Cynde Cerf told New Times.
Cerf, rather, feels that the bill "is just to further damage the reputations of women who get an abortion."
Rather than simply take Cerf's word for it, we e-mailed both Barto and Montenegro demanding just a sliver of evidence to validate their claim that these types of abortions are enough of a problem in Arizona to justify the proposed law -- and the amount of their time (and your money) they spent pushing it through the legislative process.
See an excerpt of the e-mail below:
i have sent each of you e-mails in the past asking for a single shred of evidence that suggests abortions being performed for either of those reasons is even a problem in arizona. neither of you have gotten back to me. sen. barto, you recently said "This legislation really is needed. Sex-selection abortions are happening in this country, and it's time that we address it head on." do you have any information whatsoever to back that up? i'm not sure if you've seen anything i've written about this, but i'm very critical of the bill because i've seen absolutely no evidence suggesting it's a problem. my problem with this bill is not that you want to prevent these types of abortions from happening, my problem is that it seems like you're wasting your time, and my -- and every other taxpayer in arizona's -- money by even discussing it when there's no evidence to support your claims that it's even an issue..if you have any evidence to support your claim that abortions being performed for either of these reasons is a problem in arizona (not china), i'm all ears. and you may even change my mind. if people are actually doing this, it is a problem that needs to be addressed. that said, i've seen no evidence suggesting it's a problem, and my guess is you haven't either.
please get back to me.
thank you
The lawmakers' response: crickets.
Neither Barto or Montenegro bothered to get back to us.
The bill now heads to the desk of Brewer, who -- based her strong stance against abortion, and her proclivity for ignoring common sense -- will probably sign it. | http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/03/racegender-based_abortions_gop.php | 2013-05-18T10:12:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Washington Post: Robert Lefkowitz of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University and his former postdoc, Brian Kobilka of Stanford University, are the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The two researchers work on one of the most important problems in biology: How cells receive and act on information from their environment. Using a range of experimental methods—including radioactive labeling and x-ray crystallography—Kobilka and Lefkowitz have elucidated the structure and function of a class of proteins known as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs span cell membranes. When, say, a hormone molecule on the outside of a cell binds to a GPCR, the protein’s structure changes such that the part of it that protrudes into the cell’s interior becomes more attractive to G proteins. The double-binding process then sets off a chain of signaling reactions that are ultimately manifested in a response. | http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2012/10/chemistry-nobel-honors-work-on-signaling-proteins/ | 2013-05-18T10:11:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Two-timers - 5-27-09
The Penguins have a chance at a little bit of history. Should they be able to claim the Stanley Cup, they will make Pittsburgh one of four cities/markets to claim two championships in the supposed four "major" sports leagues within the same calendar year at least twice. (If you can follow that) Right now, Pittsburgh is one of six cities to have pulled off at least once:
We're assuming Pittsburgh won't be the first city to pull off a three-peat within the same year.
**-We know any self-respecting Devils fan would puke at the idea of being lumped in with New York teams, but if the Giants and Jets can play their "home" games in New Jersey, the Devils can be considered a New York team.
*-Ditto with the Los Angeles/Anaheim and San Francisco/Oakland dynamics. | http://blogs.post-gazette.com/index.php/sports/empty-netters/14484-two-timers-5-27-09 | 2013-05-18T10:32:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Is President Barack Obama good for black people? While Obama heads into Election Day with strong support from black voters, some black intellectuals are pressing that question.
In a reproachful op-ed article in the Sunday New York Times, flanked by a large drawing of a black man literally muzzled by an Obama campaign placard, Columbia professor Fredrick C. Harris proposes that “black elites” and voters have effectively conspired to mute criticism of the president because of his race. This argument is plain wrong.
Obama’s presidency, Harris argues, marks “the decline” of a politics devoted to “challenging racial inequality” — a failure facilitated by black America itself. “Black elites” and black constituencies, Harris asserts, have capitulated to a president who does little for them — simply for the “pride” of “having a black family in the White House.”
That is strong stuff. Let’s begin with Harris’s analysis of black Americans’ relationship to Obama — which doesn’t reflect political reality.
There is scant evidence that successful black political figures receive automatic racial support. For example, since replacing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas has never been welcomed, let alone celebrated, by the black community. Other prominent black figures, from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Artur Davis to Representative Allen West (R-Fla.), have not engendered anything close to the enthusiasm that Obama inspires. As for Harris’s depiction of “black elites,” the fact is that many did not back Obama in the first place. | http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/tag/black-voters/ | 2013-05-18T10:16:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Cairo, Egypt
By Amr Abdallah Dalsh
I was on assignment on the Turkish-Syrian border when I was asked to come back home to help the Cairo team as the situation in Egypt developed with protests and clashes.
I arrived in Cairo early yesterday morning and planned to go to Tahrir square later in the day. When I reached the scene of the clashes near the square, which has witnessed a lot of clashes in the last few days, I found some members of the riot police coming close to reaching protesters. The police and the protesters normally do a tit for tat (cat and mouse) sort of thing. Police sirens blared. Usually the protesters run away quickly when they hear that sound. It was obvious that there were about five or six riot police to the left of the vehicle and they wanted to hit back at protesters with stones the protesters were hitting them with. Those few riot police entered a building near the protesters.
The police vehicle started to go back, I guess without noticing that they’d left some of their officers behind. The protesters, noticing that those few police were far from their group, started to beat them very hard. I heard the protesters saying they’d got three of them, but I only saw two. The protesters threw everything they had at them – stones, glasses, logs – they were also slapping their faces. I could see blood coming out of policemen’s head. The protesters also started stripping them of their clothes and their vests and shields, helmets and shoes.
A few protesters tried to defend the policemen and told the other protesters that they should leave them alone but the rest of the protesters continued to beat them saying: “let’s take our rights”.
During the attack, the rest of the police who had left could hear the protesters saying “beat him, beat him.” They realized that they had comrades in the hands of the protesters so they returned with three vehicles and started to throw a lot of tear gas to disperse the protesters. | http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/tag/clashes/ | 2013-05-18T11:06:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Are Democrats trying to soften the blow for President Barack Obama if the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, Creigh Deeds, loses in the November elections?
The Washington Post thinks so. It says in a front page story that top Democrats sense that Deeds is likely to lose in the key swing state so they’re trying to distance Obama from him.
The article cites senior administration officials who are frustrated with the way Deeds has handled his campaign, saying he refused some strategic advice. They also say he did not reach out to some key constituencies that helped Obama win Virginia in the 2008 presidential race — the first time in decades that a Democrat won in that state. to the newspaper.”
So will this prep work help shield Obama from any fallout if the Democrat does not win the Virginia governorship? | http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/tag/president-barack-obama/page/9/ | 2013-05-18T10:25:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Job Bank – Oct. 17
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 17, linked where possible to personal profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
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The unit of Deloitte LLP said it is expanding its real estate consulting practice with the addition of Constantine Korologos, who will be based in New York. He is also a managing director for Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC. | http://blogs.reuters.com/trading-places/tag/deloitte/ | 2013-05-18T10:54:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Receiver Marcus Davis brushes off Internet infamy after video of his lackluster blocking makes Deadspin
While Virginia Tech practiced Monday night, wide receiver Marcus Davis achieved some Internet infamy, when a video of his lackluster blocking effort against Florida State that had been making the rounds on Hokies message boards found its way onto the national sports blog, Deadspin.
Here’s the video in question:
Asked about it after practice, Davis brushed it off.
“I really don’t think too much of it,” he said. “I think somebody was a little bored and had a little extra time on their hands and figured they can go out and make a video. But like I said earlier, they don’t know the half of what actually went on.”
Davis said a number of the plays in the video were passing plays, adding, “You can’t block in the back. That’s obvious.”
He also admitted to getting the signal wrong on one play and didn’t realize the play was coming to his side, a mistake that got him chewed out by receivers coach Kevin Sherman.
“He said, ‘We can’t have those mistakes in this game.’ We was playing a great team,” Davis said. “At the same time, learn from it. It was one time in the game. It really wasn’t a big deal. We corrected it this morning on film. So we’re not going to let it happen again.”
The video brought swift and, at times, vicious commentary on blogs and Twitter about the mercurial fifth-year receiver. ESPN NFL analyst Trent Dilfer wrote on Twitter that it “was a disgrace to all the Hokies that invest so much.”
“From the first game to now, I’ve made great improvements in my blocking,” he said. “It’s not always perfect. It’s not always pretty. But at the same time, I can say that I’ve gotten better from it, which is a plus.
“I’ve still got things that I need to work on being a receiver in general. That’s just one thing that I want to continue to work on.”
He tried to put it out of his mind.
“It is what it is,” Davis said. “I hope everybody gets what they want from it. It really doesn’t faze me.”
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- In the scrum of interviews tonight, I didn’t get to receiver Demitri Knowles. But former News & Advance compadre Chris Lang did and tweeted that Knowles has been told he’ll start against Boston College. This echoes Frank Beamer‘s statement earlier in the day that Knowles will get more playing time the last two games. Tech has used multiple receiver packages to start games all season, so it’s unclear who, if anybody, he’d be displacing in the starting lineup. Knowles and Dyrell Roberts are listed as co-No. 1′s at the flanker spot.
- I have searched for video of the Hokies’ final scoring drive and, alas, have not found it anywhere online. I guess I’ll have to wait until FrenchWasp does his always-enlightening breakdown of the FSU game on The Key Play for exact video. But quarterbacks coach and play-caller Mike O’Cain seemed very confident with how he called plays down the stretch against the Seminoles, even though the Hokies didn’t get into the end zone on their second-to-last drive and had to settle for a field goal. (I’m taking his word for his recollection of the plays here without having seen the video.)
- First, O’Cain said the plan was not to run three straight times near the goal line right before the field goal. The Hokies had a wrinkle that they had run a couple times earlier that they were going to call if Florida State showed them man coverage. The Seminoles instead gave a zone look all three times near the goal line. “One out of three times I’m going to get man coverage down there,” O’Cain said. “Well, I never got it. … If I got man coverage I was going to throw it. That’s what we wanted to do. But zone coverage we were going to run the football.”
- O’Cain said the third-and-three from the FSU 6 that got stuffed a yard short of the first down marker was the same play the Hokies had run for a touchdown in the third quarter, when quarterback Logan Thomas barreled in behind a pulling Michael Via for a touchdown. (Check the video here at 7:27 for that play.) The Hokies went back to that same play late in the game. “And it would have been cleaner this time,” O’Cain said. Except that the pulling guard, Brent Benedict, missed a block. “[He] couldn’t locate the linebacker,” offensive line coach Curt Newsome said. Had that block been made, O’Cain said, Logan would be “going to be 1-on-1 with a safety at the 1-yard line. I’ll take that matchup every time.”
- Despite the result, O’Cain didn’t second-guess himself about the play-calls at the end. “If I had to do it over again, if I had to make the same call on third down and three, I’d make the same call on third down and three,” he said. “Because I think we had what we wanted. Now, had they out-numbered us and had more than we can block, that would not have been good. But we had just what we wanted. As good a situation as we could have. And that’s kind of how the season has gone. We’ve had situations like that. Just not cashing in, in all areas.”
- O’Cain said he was nevertheless encouraged by the offense’s performance. The Hokies put up 385 yards and 22 points against an FSU team allowing much less than that coming into the night. “People are going to be saying he doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about, but we’ve played better than what has shown at the end,” O’Cain said. “We played better in Miami than to have 12 points. Better at Clemson than to have 17 points. … And really better the other night than to have 22 points. … Yes, we feel like we played better. The bad thing about it is it just doesn’t show up anywhere, except us when we come in Sunday to watch the film.”
- Despite Thomas’ struggles this year — his 14 interceptions are tied for the second most nationally — O’Cain’s confidence in his quarterback has not wavered. “I’ve called the games just like I would have called them if he completed every pass he was throwing,” he said. “Nothing has changed.”
- In fact, O’Cain said Thomas, who was 19-for-34 for 298 yards and accounted for two touchdowns last Thursday, played “tremendous” against Florida State, despite the two interceptions that proved critical. “Other than about two throws, he played as good as he’s played since he’s been here,” O’Cain said. “In everything you ask him to do. Running the football. There were probably eight times that he had to get us in the right play — did a great job of that. Effort. In every area. Played tremendous. The only thing people see are the two interceptions he throws. That’s the only thing they remember. And they don’t see all the other little things that have to take place for us to even have a chance to win it at the end. If he’s not out there, we probably don’t have a chance to win it at the end.”
- Does it bother him, the criticism Thomas has taken? “Of course. But that comes with the territory,” he said. “You understand that when you play that position, you coach that position. … You live with that if you play that position, because it goes the other way. A lot of times you get a lot more credit than you deserve when things are going well. That’s one of the only positions that everybody thinks they know what they should be doing. Because they see him every time. He’s out there and he’s on an island. So yeah, it bothers you, but at the same time, you move on and keep going.” | http://blogs.roanoke.com/andybittervirginiatechfootball/category/florida-state/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Today’s Maven users have two solid choices when it comes to repository managers: Sonatype’s Nexus and JFrog’s Artifactory. While we are convinced that Nexus is the better choice, we’re especially happy to see that there is competition in this market. Competition leads to more efficient markets for software and more “accountability” to the end-user. Nexus and Artifactory have much more in common than not, but we think the differences are important to understand as they have dramatic impacts on performance and scalability. In this post, I contrast some of the design decisions made in the construction of Artifactory with the design decisions we made when developing Nexus.
Contrast #1: Network: WebDAV vs. REST
The first major difference is that Artifactory uses Jackrabbit as a WebDAV implementation for artifact uploads. Nexus implements a simple, lightweight HTTP PUT via Restlet instead. We had a WebDAV implementation in early Alpha releases but found it to be far too heavy and slow. Switching to a simple REST call improved our performance and significantly decreased the memory footprint. A profile of the memory use in Artifactory that I ran on previous versions showed that the majority of the object creation and memory allocation is related to Jackrabbit. Sure, you can’t mount a Nexus repository with a webfolder using WebDAV, but is that really what you need a repository manager to do, or would you rather it be blazingly fast doing Maven builds? It is possible to use the lightweight wagon against Artifactory (http vs dav:http), but the choice of Jackrabbit in our opinion is overhead that isn’t needed.
Contrast #2: Storage: Relational Database vs. Filesystem
The second major difference is that Nexus deliberately chooses to use a regular Maven 2 repository layout to store the data on disk. Doing this effectively isn’t always easy and we’ve had many discussions about it amongst the team, but I hold fast to this approach for several reasons:
- It makes importing and exporting the repositories a no brainer. Simply copy the data into the correct folder in the Nexus work folder and you’re done, import finished. Copy it out, export done.
- The incremental nature of the file changes in a Maven 2 repository layout makes it extremely well suited for incremental backups to tape or other archiving medium.
- Nexus also keeps its metadata (not to be confused with the maven-metadata) separate from the artifacts, and the data is rebuilt on the fly if it’s missing. If you are unlucky and have some hardware or disk error, you will likely only get one file corrupted, not the entire repository.
- Having the metadata separate means Nexus upgrades don’t have to touch any data in the repository folder. Upgrades and rollbacks of the system can happen as fast as you can stop one instance and start the next.
Artifactory takes the polar opposite approach and stores the metadata and the artifacts themselves in a huge database. The reason they claim it’s needed is for transactional behavior. Using a database doesn’t guarantee transactionality and it certainly isn’t the only way to get transactional behavior.
In order to use a database, Artifactory needs to have import and export tools. The imports and exports of this data are reported to take a significant amount of time (). Some upgrades require a full dump and re-import of the database, taking out large systems for a significant amount of time. Also, what happens if you need to tweak or repair a file in the system? Break out your dba books and go to town. How about incremental backups? Would you be happy if a single disk error made your entire repository garbage?
We feel strongly that introducing a repository manager into your system shouldn’t require a dba to manage the data. Quite reliable backups can be performed with Nexus using robocopy or rsync tools and a simple script, and transactions can be obtained with much less overhead. In fact, with the Staging plugin, Nexus is able to turn an entire multimodule build into a single transaction. There are ways to implement “transactional” interactions in a piece of software without having to throw everything into a database. We think that loading the entire contents of a repository into Jackrabbit and modelling the repository in a relational database is introducing much more complexity into the problem than is necessary.
Contrast #3: Storage Size
It has also been reported that the indexes and metadata introduced by Artifactory can double or triple the size of a repo. See this thread for real examples. Perhaps that’s manageable on a 1gb repo, but how about something like Central at 60+ gb? Nexus uses the Nexus-indexer (Artifactory uses it as well to provide search capability) which is just a Lucene index. We can provide indexes of Central that are only 30mb…not double the size of the repo itself. Note that the Nexus indexes also include cross references of the Java classes contained in the jars. Once again, we think involving a relational database into this problem is an unnecessarily complicating factor.
A preliminary test import of a 116mb release repo took 5 minutes and the resulting data size was 323mb (2.78x the original size). Extrapolating that out to a 4gb repository gets you about 3 hours of import and a total data size of 11gb. Sure disks are cheap these days, but still tripling the size of your data has many long term ramifications when you consider backups, replication etc.
Note: The actual import I ran failed 3 times on data from central due to too strict checking, I had to prune or repair the files just to get it to import. Fortunately that didn’t happen midway through a 3 hour import…. which leads me to the next point…
Contrast #4: Nexus Doesn’t Interfere
We believe that Nexus shouldn’t interfere with your builds. We all know that the data in remote repos like Central can be incomplete. However, if Maven is able to use it, then we make sure Nexus won’t get in the way. Artifactory proactively blocks any data that isn’t parse-able as it comes through as a feature. This means you may have a build that works without Artifactory and breaks with it because it refuses to proxy (and apparently import) any files it doesn’t like. Nexus will report that there’s a problem to the admins to deal with, but won’t cause Maven to blow up for the developer. Nexus favors stability over correctness for proxy repositories.
Download Nexus Today
Nexus is available as an open source project for free. There is also a Pro version that includes additional commercial level functionality and professional support and for only $2995 per server. While the Open Source version is capable and popular, Nexus Professional adds some new features that are targeted at Enterprise Users: staging, procurement, and LDAP integration. | http://blogs.sonatype.com/people/2009/01/contrasting-nexus-and-artifactory/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
We’ve all heard it before – when you attend The College of Saint Rose, there is something called the “Saint Rose Difference“. Those of us who have been here for a long time already know about the negative aspects of the Saint Rose Difference – the times in the dining hall when things go wrong, or the mailroom when things get misplaced. And then there’s the infamous one: Fear The Knight, our mascot, is a silver knight (and we’re the Golden Knights).
But all joking aside, when you get right down to it, there really is a Difference at Saint Rose. I felt it the minute I came on campus. There’s a sense of friendliness here that you don’t get at many other colleges. At the Scholarship Brunch yesterday (an event held for all scholarship recipients for incoming students), many students came up to me with their concerns about negativity, seeing as they had seen it at other campuses. At Saint Rose, that’s not the case. To be honest, I have not met one single negative professor or professional here. As for the students, well, everyone is supportive and loving. Those who you may feel negative vibes with are very rare; the friends you make here are true, and they love you unconditionally. There are no negative feelings at this campus (other than at the crows who sometimes creep around campus and who poop on you).
So, what is the Saint Rose Difference? Is it the positive feelings you get from the people? Is it the small class sizes, or the individual attention received from professors? Is it the awesome Social Media department?? (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Or, is the Saint Rose Difference the love you feel for this campus and for it’s people? That’s what it is to me.
Let me know in the comments what you feel the Saint Rose Difference is! Have a good week everyone!
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Kaylee says:
February 11, 2013 at 1:57 PM (UTC -4 )
The Saint Rose Difference is meeting amazing lifelong friends like Genevieve!
You really haven’t changed… » The College of Saint Rose says:
February 15, 2013 at 12:11 PM (UTC -4 )
[...] guess that’s the Saint Rose difference for me, I am me and here I don’t have to change into anything different, just make myself the [...] | http://blogs.strose.edu/the-saint-rose-difference/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Is an injunction the right remedy to stop abusive HOA resident’s behavior?
Behavioral.
Dead Eye Dick:
May 28th, 2012 at 4:27 pm.
Jean Winters, Esq.:
May 28th, 2012 at 5:30 pm.
Gary:
May 29th, 2012 at 12:36 am.
Rudy:
June 1st, 2012 at 10:59 am
Perfect DED,,,perfect! | http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/condoblog/2012/05/is-an-injunction-the-right-remedy-to-stop-abusive-hoa-residents-behavior.html?wpmp_switcher=mobile | 2013-05-18T10:13:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This blog is in continuation of the blog () where we had discussed on syncing password changes from Unix to Windows.
Based on our testing and research, we did find some additional steps which need to be done to propagate the password changes from UNIX toWindows. However, this would not be a very much recommended scenario and may be not that smooth as syncing password changes from Windows to UNIX password changes sync. The password changes made from UNIX are synced properly to Windows inspite of getting some error messages in the event logs.
The steps below are environment specific; we tried to keep it generic; mostly applicable to other similar environments as well.
Environment:
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Syncing one way password (Windows to UNIX) on a NIS environment is discussed on this blog.
Steps to sync password from UNIX ==> Windows on a NIS environment
Configuration required on Windows side:
Installation of the Password Synchronization daemon on Solaris:
ENCRYPT_KEY=encryptionKey ( as mentioned on the Windows DC)
PORT_NUMBER=portNumber ( as mentioned on the Windows DC)
SYNC_HOSTS=(domainController[,portNumber [, encryptionKey]]) ...
Note:Each entry in the list must be enclosed by parentheses and separated from the next entry by a blank space.
Configuring the Solaris NIS Client (reproduced from a third party link):
1. Configure a domain name:
#domainname <domain name>
Forexample:
#domainname mydomainname
#domainname > /etc/defaultdomain
#domainname
2. Configure the NIS configuration file:
# cd /etc
#cp nsswitch.nis nsswitch.conf
3. Configure the host file:
#vi /etc/hosts
Add theNIS server's information. Always use the server's name in the NIS configuration.
4. Start the YP service:
#/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart (to stop the service /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop)
5. Configure the slave server as an NIS client first:
#ypinit - c
(Select n to avoid stopping the process in an error.)
Provide the name of the NIS masterserver. Press 'Ctrl + d' and then press 'y'.
6. Check the NIS database:
# ypwhich -m
the link to the blog in the first line doesn't work
Pasted the correct link. | http://blogs.technet.com/b/sfu/archive/2012/03/13/using-two-way-password-sync-windows-and-unix.aspx | 2013-05-18T10:32:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Stay at home Friday: don't make us feel bad about taking time off
So it's all back to work today. Except it isn't. Hands up who hasn't quite managed to make it into the office? Hands up who has feigned a nasty bout of norovirus, or some flu? Hands up who has phoned their boss to tell them they might just spend the day 'working from home'?
Um, at this point I should probably admit to holding my hand up, as I am writing this on my BlackBerry from a pub in a Cotswolds village, where I have spent the last few days with friends celebrating the onset of 2009. It seemed silly to head back to London on the first train of the morning when we had the cottage until tomorrow, when I rarely get a chance to escape London, when there was a laptop, when there probably wouldn't be anything to do in the office anyway…
And lo, so it was that my boss kindly allowed me to stay… With the caveat that I write about employees bunking off work today, and how they will cost the economy an estimated 250 million. I say 'they' but obviously I mean 'we'.
My absence? I imagine it will wipe about 20 pence off the value of the UK economy. And anyway, how on earth do they estimate these values? Have we not got enough on our impoverished plates without being made to feel bad about taking a day off? So to everyone, whether at work or not, I wish you a very happy new | http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/bryonygordon/6114767/Stay_at_home_Friday_dont_make_us_feel_bad_about_taking_time_off/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Eagles are continuing to do more than just revamp their defense during free agency. They’re pretty much creating a whole new defense, and preferably one that isn’t horrendous and gashed in every way imaginable.
It started with the signings of Kenny Phillips and Cary Williams earlier this afternoon, and they now join a shiny new defensive backfield alongside fellow signees Patrick Chang and Bradley Fletcher. This is what an implosion and immediate rebuild looks like, and it’s why in the NFL, bad teams usually aren’t bad for long. Unless, of course, they’re named the Jaguars.
The latest signing is Connor Barwin, the defensive end who leaves the Texans to bring a pass rushing presence to an Eagles front four that brought the quarterback down only 30 times in 2012. But the cost to bring him in is…woah.
Barwin reportedly received a six-year contract worth $36 million, and that base salary could be pushed to $40 million if certain incentives are reached. Even though he has youth on his side and is only 26, both the length and value of that contract is downright monstrous and potentially embarrassing for an edge rusher who’s put together just one outlier of a season in 2011 when he recorded 11.5 sacks with the Texans. But then this past season that number fell to only three sacks over 1,137 snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. That decline is especially glaring when we remember that opposing offensive lines were primarily worried about containing J.J. Watt on the other side (Watt had 20.5 sacks, and challenged the single-season sack record).
The most haunting reality of that contract is if Barwin repeats his 2012 season of woe next year, he’ll be paid $2 million per sack. However, before we go too much further with the outrage, it’s important to note the reported guaranteed money ($8 million), or rather the lack of it. That’s key, and it’s how the Eagles have both given Barwin incentive to produce and return to optimal performance, while protecting themselves if he sputters and fails. Guaranteed cash will always be the crucial element in any NFL contract, as it represents the true investment a team is making in a player. That overall $36 million figure will draw your eyeballs and ire, but it could be irrelevant. If he keeps sucking, Barwin would be cut and see only a small fraction of that.
What’s odd, though, is his fit. The Eagles are maybe, likely moving to a 3-4, and they have a young and budding Brandon Graham at one defensive end position, and an overpaid and perhaps fading Trent Cole at the other. Barwin can play outside linebacker, which is where he was often featured in the Texans’ defensive front. Cole, meanwhile, has never played in a 3-4. That means he’d either block Barwin at defensive end and force the Eagles to pay a backup far too much money, or Cole would be used in an unfamiliar role. Either way, they’d be overpaying someone. | http://blogs.thescore.com/nfl/2013/03/14/connor-barwin-on-verge-of-deal-with-eagles/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Last night, Dirk Nowitzki went for 33 points in 31 minutes in the Mavericks’ game against the Nuggets. Unfortunately for everyone’s favorite rookie, Kenneth Faried was the main recipient of those points as Dirk knocked down fadeaway after fadeaway after fadeaway over the super athletic Predator clone. It had to be the most frustrating thing ever, which is probably why Faried eventually just accepted his fate and laughed things off after yet another crazy Dirkus Circus shot.
After the game, Faried let everyone know just how pointless guarding an on-fire Dirk can be. From the AP:
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Sounds about right. You don’t see many nearly unblockable fadeaways from 7-footers when you’re playing college ball, especially not when you’re at a small school like Morehead State. Some of Dirk’s best fadeaways are mind-melting just to watch from home, but having to guard shots like this has to be so infuriating. What are you supposed to do? I know Inspector Gadget extend-o-arms is the logical solution, but not everyone can afford those.
Still didn’t get some calls once they were up so much, even the misses were sooo close. Coulda had 40 if Denver wasn’t getting carved up by who? Roddy B! Denver moves off the ball well, but Mavs came out matching Nugs intensity. Carlisle was right-on saying this was a smartly played game.
This was playoff Dirk; it was great to see him make an early season appearance, when the Mavs needed a road win the most, not to mention missing two starters in Marion and Haywood, and a third sometimes-starter with Delonte.
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My paternal grandfather came from Zhitomir in the Ukraine and my maternal grandfather from Amsterdam, Holland. My parents lived in London, where I was born. My wife and I moved to Bethesda MD, and our children grew up there. Our son lives in California and our daughter in Beersheva, Israel. And now we live in Netanya, Israel. If you map it out that’s quite an arc of Jewish voyaging, a long and perilous journey from persecution to freedom, but not very unusual among Jews. Most of us derive from Eastern Europe, those who managed to leave before the Holocaust traveled to the west, as far away as possible. Some took two or three generations to get to America or Israel. Currently there are just about the same number of Jews (6 million) living in these two countries, although Israel is growing in population while the number of Jews in the US is decreasing.
I don’t know where my great-grandparents came from, but we can be sure that my ancestors on my father’s side came from around Germany (Ashkenaz), while my ancestors on my mother’s side came from Spain (Sepharad). Frankly now I don’t care that much, we have returned to our ancestral homeland and we plan to stay here. I am a true Zionist, Jewish sovereignty means more to me than Jewish religion. So when our elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invokes Israeli sovereignty to justify Israeli freedom of action in defending itself against those who brag that they are going to “wipe us off the map,” we take it serisously. And we don’t have much room for error, as the US does. If we hesitate then all could be lost. We more than hesitated over Hitler, we Jews didn’t take him seriously, we didn’t prepare for the onslaught that was to come and we paid dearly.
This time we are prepared, we are strong and more than capable of meeting the challenge. People have brought up possible difficulties, the Iranians have underground facilities that we can’t reach, our planes can’t carry heavy bunker-buster bombs, Hamas and Hizbollah will retaliate with many rockets, etc. etc. Don’t underestimate us, with or without US coordination. This is where we live and “the buck stops here.” | http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arc-of-the-covenant/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Peter the Great set a new style. He wanted Russians to look more European and not so “old fashioned.” The move of the capital to the western area of Russia emphasized connection with Europe. And so he taxed beards to dissuade men from wearing them. Many portraits of Peter shows him without beard, but sporting a fashionable mustache:
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
UT Study Abroad Office has moved!
After occupying Wooldridge Hall (located at 600 West 24th Street) since January of 2005, the International Office has relocated to 2222 Rio Grande Street, Suite 200, Building C on the second level. All units formerly located in Wooldridge Hall including the Study Abroad Office, International Student and Scholar Services, ESL Services, Passport and ID Services, [...] | http://blogs.utexas.edu/intl/2011/06/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This is the second in a series about our visit to Action Aid Senegal.. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack).
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By Laurence Norman
After weeks of speculation and an offer from Washington for bilateral discussions about its nuclear program, Iran did sit down with Western powers this week for one-on-one talks but it was with the U.K. and German negotiating teams, not the U.S.
The nuclear bilaterals with the U.K. in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, were the first in about three years, according to a British official. A German foreign ministry spokesman was not immediately available but a Western diplomat said the German team has had no bilateral talks with Iran since nuclear talks picked up again in April 2012.
In the three rounds of talks last year, Iran routinely sat down with Russia and China - its two closest partners among the so-called P5+1 group it negotiates with–the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany.
Iran’s nuclear negotiators also have regular contacts and meetings with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and her officials, who chair the P5+1.
The British talks are especially noteworthy. The U.K. has maintained a strong line on the Iran talks–open to a diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue but pressing for talks to move quickly. London has said repeatedly that all options, including a military one, remain on the table.
U.K.-Iran ties are also at their lowest level in years. The British shut Iran’s embassy in London and pulled diplomats out of Tehran after Iranians attacked and stormed the British mission in Tehran in November 2011. At the time, U.K. officials said that attack came with the support of Iranian authorities.
U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague has since held informal discussions with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi and Mr. Hague has made it clear he is willing to discuss important matters of concerns with Tehran, including the nuclear issue.
A Western diplomat said Monday’s bilateral shouldn’t be described as a sudden thawing of relations. But the diplomat said it was certainly a “good” and “interesting” sign. Iranian officials approached the U.K. to request the talk, the diplomat said. The diplomat didn’t comment on the length or content of the discussions.
A UK foreign office spokesperson confirmed the meeting and said the two sides discussed the nuclear issue. An Iranian official at the talks did not respond to a request to comment.
On Tuesday evening, a second Western diplomat said Iran had used its bilateral meetings with Germany, the U.K. and Russia to probe the new offer the P5+1 made Monday to Iran to persuade Tehran to scale back its nuclear activities. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili met with Baroness Ashton on Wednesday.
While the U.K. and German bilaterals seem a positive signal, U.S. officials said Monday the odds of direct talks soon between the U.S. and Iran–seen as key to eventually resolving the nuclear dispute–look slim.
Last month, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. was ready for bilateral talks if the Iranians would engage seriously, a message repeated by U.S. officials since.
However, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has dismissed this–at least for now. He said earlier this month Iran won’t negotiate while the U.S. is “pointing the gun at Iran.”
A senior U.S. official welcomed Iran’s decisions to broaden its bilateral dialogue. “Any modality for having a conversation to getting a better understanding… pick up nuances is helpful,” the official said.
The U.S. official said U.K.-Iran talks were also “valuable” because they involved former British ambassador to Tehran, Sir Simon Gass, who heads the U.K. team at the talks.
But there was no bilateral meeting with French officials, whose country takes one of the hardest lines in Europe on the nuclear program.
British Get Out of Iran.
For as a long as British run the shows in Iran from behind, the relationship between Iran and US will remain hostile. For 300 years the British have been interfering and controling Iranian affairs and supporting the clergy as a winning card against central regimes. Iranian are united in the opinions that every single British element in Iran must be identified and expelled (which basically means the entire top 400 Iranian officials in cluding Khamenei). Khomeini and every powermonger character in Islamic Regime has been nurtured and supported by the British. American are so naive that they think of British as an ally. Russia is also conspiring with the British in Iran and China is basically a silent trade partner. If US wants to have a good relationship with Iran, it must openly discuss the British attrocities in Iran and their full covert support for Khamenei and his gang of 400.
The Iranian Gov’t will never have direct talks with the US because their legitimacy is solely based upon their “hate” of all things American.
These nuclear talks with Iran are nothing but a grand dance (Same with N Korea). It’s shameful that the Western diplomats get paid soo much money for showing up just to place another finger in the leaky dike. The constituents in The West are not amused.
Sadly, American Farmer, you seem to know very little about Iran-US relations. I suggest you look at 19th August 1953 in Iran’s history and US involvement in the events. Maybe then, you’ll understand that things don’t occur out of nowhere and trust is not something you easily develop towards a nation that firstly removed your democratically elected government, and then used the puppet government to control your country for 26 years, profiting from 80% of your country’s oil wealth. To be objective, both countries deny history – let’s be honest here. The difference is that one just talks about denying it, the other seems to have a mental block of any misdoings in the past. Educate yourself, American Farmer.
Disturbingly, apocalyptic Shiites who deny history and currently run this militant, ISLAMIC Republic can NEVER be trusted. I predict that overwhelming military force will be required by a coalition of Western Nations along with continuation of economic sanctions to eliminate any threat of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon! I also predict that behind the scenes, Islamic, nations like Saudi Arabia will staunchly support such a move ! | http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2013/02/27/iran-sits-with-europeans-not-u-s/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Samuel Rubenfeld
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources.
Bribery:
- Mike Lucas
The long-awaited U.K. Bribery Act is now in effect. Everyone has something to say about it. Are you ready? Even if you’re not, here it comes. Here is a Q/A, an overview and a video on the law. Another video is available here. Here is a review and a roundup of reactions to the law by experts, and one lawyer says the SFO has its hands tied behind its back while trying to enforce it. Transparency International writes on why we need the law, and a press release they put out on it. (The Construction Index, WestLaw, BBC, BBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Complinet sub req, TrustLaw Complinet sub req, Transparency International, news release)
Thebriberyact.com has its top-five predictions for the law’s first year. Tom Fox on the Bribery Act, and the FCPAProfessor weighs in as well.
The FSA will also have a role to play in enforcing the Bribery Act. (Financial Times sub req)
Retailers have to adapt. (Retail Gazette)
Some are still calling it “confusing.” Companies are going to have to start making decisions fast on whether gifts they give in risky countries are actually bribes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Jeremy Cole, a partner at Hogan Lovells, writes in an op-ed that there are still gray areas. (Evening Standard)
Why should businesses care about fighting corruption? (Guardian)
The SFO will use the law to go after foreign firms, though it could set up a clash with the Ministry of Justice. (Dow Jones Newswires, Daily Telegraph)
On the other side of the Atlantic, a review of the second quarter of 2011 in FCPA enforcement. (FCPA Blog)
The Justice Department is investigating whether a prominent billionaire bribed a Middle Eastern government, according to an allegation in court filings in Florida. The filing was made by the Jordanian king’s brother-in-law, who is suing the billionaire and his business partner for allegedly cutting him out of a share in their oil company. The Justice Department did not respond to inquiries from Corruption Currents. The man’s lawyer said to MSNBC “you shouldn’t know about that,” and then claimed to know nothing of it and declined further comment. Another lawyer for the billionaire did not respond to requests for comment. (MSNBC.com)
Former Hillsborough County, Fla. Commissioner Kevin White appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to federal bribery and corruption charges. (St. Petersburg Times)
The corruption trial against an Indonesian prosecutor who allegedly took bribes from a graft convict should go on, a judge ruled. (Jakarta Post)
A suspect in the corruption trial over the South East Asia Games said he will fight his case and disclose everything. (Jakarta Post)
A Miami police chief said he was offered $400,000 to leave the city. (Miami Herald)
The former mayor of Secaucus, N.J. ended his three days of testimony in his bribery trial, insisting he did nothing wrong. (NorthJersey.com)
Money Laundering:
A Mumbai court rejected the bail plea for money laundering suspect Hasan Ali. The Enforcement Directorate added properties to its case against him and a co-defendant. More here and here. (Daily India, Hindustan Times, NDTV, The Hindu)
Kenya’s finance ministry set up a money-laundering board. (CoastWeek.com)
The FATF released the executive summaries of its reports on Kuwait and Oman, and put out a guidance on helping countries and financial institutions design measures that meet the goal of “financial inclusion.”
A look at money laundering in Canada. (I-Sight)
Finance companies, casinos, financial advisers and a host of other types of entities have two years to comply with new anti-money laundering rules in New Zealand. (National Business Review)
The Czech National Bank highlighted flaws and other problems with anti-money laundering and terrorism finance safeguards at financial institutions in the Czech Republic. (Czech Position)
Sanctions:
The U.S. is stepping up its sanctions regime against Syria. (Financial Times sub req)
The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported it hasn’t found any government-contracted information technology companies selling censoring gear to Iran. (Wall Street Journal)
Maersk line, the world’s largest shipper, said it stopped business at ports operated by Tidewater Middle East Co., which was recently placed under U.S. sanctions. (Reuters)
Iran warned it will stop oil shipments to India starting in August if it doesn’t pay long-pending bills and develop a favorable method for future payments. (Wall Street Journal)
Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, doesn’t appear to have been very good at picking money managers. Further, until last year the Libyan Investment Authority had never audited its financial statements or investments. (NY Times, Wall Street Journal)
Vitol Holding BV, one of the world’s largest oil traders, said it is in full compliance with U.S. laws banning trading with Iran. The remarks came after U.S. Energy Department expressed concern about the trader’s dealings with Iran. (MarketWatch)
Countries are cooperating to freeze the assets of Somali pirates. (Korea Times)
Whistleblowers:
OSHA has awarded 21 out of 1,211 whistleblower complaints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act since its 2002 passage. (iWatch News)
General Anti-Corruption:
Pakistan’s government prevented the local chapter of Transparency International from producing its annual national corruption perception survey this year. (Daily India)
China’s president said corruption threatens Communist Party rule at the party’s 90th anniversary. More here and here. (Voice of America, AFP, Guardian)
What makes a good code of conduct in the defense sector? (Transparency International Blog)
Whitey Bulger’s arrest may unearth corruption of the law enforcement officers who protected him going back decades. (NY Times)
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou rejected accusations that he was behind a corruption case implicating an ex-president in a bid to manipulate next year’s presidential polls. (AFP)
The head of the UNODC met with Panama’s president to discuss issues ranging from anti-corruption to organized crime and human trafficking. (news release)
About 2,000 people demonstrated in Jordan calling for the dissolution of its “parliament of shame.” (AFP)
The Sri Lankan government dissolved the country’s cricket board amid claims of corruption and mismanagement. (BBC)
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Good Bribery Act analysis. Today I interviewed one of the top architects of the law, Charlie Monteith, about the implications. You can hear it here: | http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2011/07/01/high-tide-uk-bribery-act-now-in-effect/ | 2013-05-18T10:44:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Matthew Lynley
- Tinder
- Sean Rad, co-founder of Tinder. dating. Instead of showing you photos of other random individuals, it connects to your Facebook profile to deliver more targeted results in the hope that it’ll connect you to someone you are actually interested in dating.
Here’s how the app works: You connect to your Facebook profile, and it grabs four photos to use as your profile photos on Tinder. It then shows you photos of other members, and you swipe left to say you don’t like them, or right to say you like them. If you and the other Tinder member both say you like each other, it’ll open up a chat prompt.
Around 70% of the time, that connection leads to a “meaningful conversation,” said CEO Rad. So far, there have been more than 10 million matches in the app.
According to AppData, the app has more than 100,000 users connected through Facebook checking the app every day, though in reality the number is much higher than that, Rad said.
It’s certainly not Snapchat, which is at the top of the Apple App Store. But right now it’s in the top 100 apps and continues to slowly climb the ranks, according to AppData.
There are some weird parts. For example, the app currently shows some members who are 17 years old for matches. That’s changing soon, and was originally instituted as a way for college freshmen to see their friends, Rad said. But the idea is that only minors will see other minors, and those over 18 will see others over 18 — designated by your profile. Tinder is piggybacking on Facebook’s privacy scrutiny to ensure it remains a safe environment.
“If someone is trying to do something malicious, Facebook has probably caught that person already and they probably won’t be on Tinder,” Rad said.
To find out more, we spoke with Rad to see how quickly the app is growing. Here’s an edited transcript of the interview:
WSJ: What is the background on the new app?
SEAN RAD: We launched in early September. The idea behind Tinder is, basically, we’re solving a few main issues that we find with dating for our generation. Today open an app like Blendr and immediately you’re struck with profiles that don’t look genuine, so many question marks like “is this the person i’m talking to,” et cetera. The user experience on dating apps is also fairly weak. You’re liking all these people and they rarely respond. As a girl, you’re getting all these messages and you’re getting bombarded by people you don’t want to talk to. There’s this big sense of rejection from everyone because you have to do so much to get a response. We’re constantly approaching people and doing things with some sort of fear involved.
If you look at online dating apps, they have a very long on-boarding process. You have to fill pages and pages of information about yourself. It also creates this sense of desperation for users, you’re going through leaps and bounds to join something. Tinder took all those problems we were facing and created a user experience that addressed them. When you’re looking at people, these are people we think are relevant to you based on a variety of metrics. We immediately show you people we think you are going to like. If someone you like happens to like you back, we create a match. If you can create that context for people and take down the barrier, you’re starting that relationship or conversation at a whole new level.
- Tinder
WSJ: How big is Tinder? AppData says you have more than 100,000 users.
RAD: It’s far, far greater than 100,000, AppData isn’t really accurate. We grew by 700% last month. We’ve grown over 750% in the last 30 days, and we’re right now seeing about 50 million daily profile reads. 50 million times a day, there’s a unique incident of a like or dislike. To date, we’ve created about 10 million matches. There’s millions of messages being exchanged every single day, they’re deep connections leading to some serious conversations. It started as sort of an experiment, but to our shock it’s working much better than we ever anticipated.
WSJ: Are some regions faring better than others?
RAD: We have a fairly distributed user base, San Francisco is actually a pretty large market for us. We’re all over the U.S., we have pockets of users in every major city. Our top cities are Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Dallas and San Francisco. Boston’s grown big time in the last 30 days, particularly among the college crowd. We have a fairly large presence in San Francisco.
WSJ: How many of those “matches” end in a conversation?
RAD: Our conversion from match to meaningful conversation is very high, it’s a little more than 70%. A little more than that results in a two-way exchange. I will say, metaphorically we could be compared to a hot-or-not app, but there’s a massive difference between Tinder and Hot-or-Not. The people you see in hot-or-not apps are entirely random. With Tinder, you see relevant data points. Whether it’s profile pictures only based on Facebook, that creates that sense of legitimacy and trust…The most important thing at end of day is people are looking for a match, that’s the holy grail of any dating experience. Part of the reason we’re growing so fast is, we are creating meaningful matches. They result in stories, friends meeting friends, and that helps it spread.
WSJ: Is there any risk to connecting individuals who are under 18 to those over 18?
RAD: We restrict everything to Facebook. Whatever you put on Tinder, whether it’s your age or picture, has to coincide with something you advertise on Facebook. It helps you stay honest. We’re also piggybacking off measures Facebook takes to monitor its user base. If someone is trying to do something malicious, Facebook has probably caught that person already and they probably won’t be on Tinder. If you’re under the age of 18, we won’t show you to anyone over the age of 18. Minors see minors, and everyone above sees that.
We are showing 17-year-olds to older demographics right now but we’re gonna do away with that very soon, the only reason we were doing that was because freshmen in college couldn’t see their friends initially. Though, through the inherent activity of Tinder, it’s a self-policing environment. We don’t allow anyone to message anyone, you have to approve that person and that needs to be a two-way exchange. Just by limiting conversations to mutual connections, it drastically reduces the chance of malicious behavior. You can like who you want but that person doesn’t have to like you back. With our security measures, we haven’t had one problem or one report of malicious activity.
WSJ: Are there other matching algorithms?
RAD: We’re looking at implicit behavior on Tinder and creating more relevant suggestions based on who you’re liking and not liking. Aside from that, as relevant as we can get with algorithms and computers. At the end of the day, whether someone is attracted to you and whether you have common friends, that’s going to be the key differentiation. We compare Tinder to the experience walking to a bar. You see someone, there’s an attraction based on their personality and looks and the way the move, and you decide to talk to that person based on the fact you have mutual friends or are in the same social groups. We’re trying to emulate that behavior and movement.
WSJ: Are you always serving up new people? A lot of users seem to be complaining about duplicates.
RAD: It wasn’t intentional, it was a result of stuff going too fast. The team has been awake for pretty much two weeks now trying to scale. It wasn’t a bug, it was design limitation. Things were hitting their peak in the back-end which was causing duplicates, that should all be resolved now.
WSJ: How big is the market for an app like this?
RAD: I would say is helping people meet new people is in my opinion the biggest, most untapped opportunity that exists today when it comes to social. Facebook has done a phenomenal job to help you manage relationships with people you know. The holy grail, though, is how to solve that natural human loneliness problem.
In our context it’s the case of dating. But that’s the single biggest purpose of meeting new people outside of business. There’s over 1 billion on Facebook and let’s assume 50% of them are single. If you look at the market of single people on Facebook and compare it to the market of people using dating apps, there’s a massive, massive discrepancy there. The actual market goes way beyond that.
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Really ding dong, they make money the same way as every other free app. They sell your private information or sell ads.
How about a basic interview question for a founder of a business: how do you make money? | http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/02/06/why-you-are-seeing-this-dating-app-popping-up-everywhere/?mod=WSJBlog&mod= | 2013-05-18T10:42:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Poland’s Heated Row Over Cross Reaches Boiling Point
- Commentary
- By Marcin Sobczyk
Four months to the day after the April plane crash that killed Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other officials, crowds still gather in their thousands before the presidential palace in Warsaw. But the spirit of unity of a nation in mourning is no longer there, replaced with deep divisions over the role of the Catholic religion in the formally secular country.
Thousands of mainly young secularists protested Monday night against a wooden cross that stands in front of the presidential palace as makeshift commemoration of the victims of the April airplane crash. The police separated them from a group of Catholics that, calling themselves “defenders of the cross,” have held vigil day and night after they prevented the removal of the religious symbol a week | http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/tag/cross/ | 2013-05-18T10:34:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Sarah Rubenstein
We’re taking out the ax again.
GlaxoSmithKline said today it’s expanding an ongoing restructuring program, more than doubling the projected savings it had been shooting for by 2011.
Glaxo wouldn’t provide any numbers on the new round of cuts. But the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph put it around 6,000 and the Guardian predicted around 10,000.
Glaxo has cut 10,000 position since September 2007, but also added about 1,300. The company employs about 100,000 people.
“The restructure is part of our ongoing focus on evaluating our business and investing and refocusing our resources on growth areas for the company,” Glaxo spokeswoman Sarah Alspach tells the Health Blog. “While there will be cuts in some places, there definitely are opportunities in the areas of growth for our business.”
Like other major drug makers, Glaxo has been trying to find ways to reinvent itself in the face of serious pressures on traditional pills. The company’s fourth-quarter earnings decline brought to light some of those pressures: Sales of diabetes drug Avandia, which has been the subject of a safety controversy, dropped 24%, while epilepsy drug Lamictal dropped 57% in the face of generic competition.
So the company is trying to move its business more toward emerging markets, vaccines and consumer-health, which includes over-the-counter weight-loss drug alli.
Yes, we hired and then would immediately fire people in endless waves of reorganization that are never more than two years apart. Not only are mergers and acquisitions a mess, but endless, nonstop, never ending reorganizing is destroying anything that’s left. It’s all an illusion of increased efficiency and even if you think its a great idea it is mute proof that management cannot plan more than 6 to 12 months ahead. Plus, its all encouraged by the consultants that actually run the entire industry and make money of this year’s newest fashion in organization. All these companies need to invent new meds that survive the FDA and class action lawsuits. Do that and you’re brilliant. Don’t do it and you’re doomed no matter what you/we do. Good luck to all the folks at Glaxo, a great company.
Key positions seem to be at the Managerial/Director level everywhere you look in big pharma these days. These pricks are like the mob. They only take care of their own. Everyone else is cannon fodder.
Sure, there are always “essential” positions in a research organization that must be filled – no matter what. But the key here is that nearly every pharma R&D group out there is laying off far more people than they are hiring. The future for pharma researchers (like myself) sure looks bleak.
From your HR group at GSK, they continue to source candidates in particular functional specialties. Without question, the organization is getting smaller, as GSK has taken the alternative path to Wyeth/Pfizer. But along with Merck, Schering Plough, BMS, Glaxo is by no means in a hiring freeze right now.
Just because you’re decreasing the size of the R&D infrastructure of a company doesn’t mean you’re not adding new or key positions to the organization.
which planet are you on? There have been, and will continue to be, large cuts in R&D staffing at GSK | http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/05/more-job-cuts-are-coming-at-glaxo/ | 2013-05-18T10:57:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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If BJP bring in Ayodhya issue, Modi WILL not become the PM. This time around, it is the urban India that will decide who wins and Urban India does not care if there is a temple or not. Development is our only worry. BJP is doing itself a big disservice | http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/02/07/bjp-looks-to-ayodhya-to-energize-its-base/tab/comments/ | 2013-05-18T10:14:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Sam Favate
Recently, we’ve told you about anti-abortion measures being considered in Virginia and Pennsylvania, but now it’s Tennessee that has a new angle.
A bill being considered in the state’s House of Representatives would require publishing names of doctors who perform abortions, and, critics say, potentially reveal individual women who have one, The Tennessean reports.
The bill would require the state’s health department to list a report on every abortion, including identification of the physician, and the office, clinic or hospital where it was performed, as well as the woman’s county of residence, age, race, marital status, number of prior pregnancies, prior abortions, gestational age of fetus and her pre-existing medical conditions.
The bill, known as the Life Defense Act of 2012, can be seen here, and its official summary can be seen here.
“In an environment where doctors are victims of violence — and we’ve had physicians who provide abortion care murdered in the past few years — I think this is an attempt to intimidate and allow for providers to be terrorized,” said Jeff Teague, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, according to Ms. Magazine.
The bill’s sponsor is Rep. Matthew Hill, a Republican, who said that the Department of Health already collects the data in question, but doesn’t publish it. “All we’re asking is that the data they already collect be made public,” Hill said. The bill was suggested by Tennessee Right To Life, an anti-abortion group.
Rep. Gary Odom, a Democrat from Nashville, said the bill “puts a target on women’s and physicians’ backs. I think it’s a very dangerous piece of legislation and serves no purpose I can tell other than trying to intimidate women and physicians,” according to Huffington Post.
The bill states that women won’t be named in the reports, but with all the corresponding data provided, critics say it could be a simple matter to identify them, especially in sparsely populated rural communities.
The Tennessee House Health and Human Resources Committee is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, and it is anticipated it would pass the House, which is dominated by Republicans. It would then move to the state Senate, which is also majority-controlled by the GOP.
So much has been accepted, until we stop accepting it – rev. Al Sharpton
What the hell? Women should be treated equally and this Bill is a pathetic way of showing how we’re not. Women should have the right to chose if they want a baby or not. Put how many girls a guy has had intercourse with and show it to the world too.. including his parents.
Since this is the first time since Reconstruction that Tennessee Republicans have controlled the House of Representative, the Senate, and the Governorship, should anyone be surprised?
Freedom and liberty brought to you by the neocon whackjobs voted into office by lunatic reactionaries in 2010.
How about a law requiring all members of Tennessee Right to Life to have their IQ’s published and the average for the group. I bet that they would all be on the wrong side of the Bell Curve.
For the men their organ size should be published and a study done to see if there is any correlation between that and their IQ. | http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/03/20/tenn-bill-would-reveal-names-of-abortion-doctors-and-more/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Our colleagues Giles Turner and Harriet Agnew at Financial News preview Goldman Sachs's biannual partnership selection this week. U.S. presidential elections in years, and as sandbags were piled up to protect Goldman Sachs’s headquarters in downtown Manhattan from Hurricane Sandy, the biannual partnership selection process continued uninterrupted. This week, the chosen few will get the call.
But has partnership status at Goldman Sachs, long considered the pinnacle of a career in finance, lost its luster? Our colleagues at Financial News have spoken to nearly two dozen of the bank’s past and present partners to find out.
Don’t you mean leadership at the publicly traded co. GS? Or is this part of the problem. | http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2012/11/12/goldman-sachs-protecting-the-partnership/?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_LatestHeadlines | 2013-05-18T11:05:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Story: We go behind the scenes of the popular NPR show, Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!
Behind the Story: When we shot this story back in 2006, it was just after we decided that I would start appearing on camera. Until then, I would either give the script to someone else to read, or if I read the script myself, I wouldn’t appear on camera. Anyway, I hadn’t really figured out how to appear on camera. So the only shot of me in this piece (at about 2:20) is really just a shot of the back of my bald head talking the front of Peter’s.
More Info: Wait, Wait… website
Want to see a live show in downtown Chicago? Click here. | http://blogs.wttw.com/jayschicago/tag/peter-sagal/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I was at Liang Court on Saturday arvo, on a mission to get a wire cable for Mr Bb, and decided to pop into Kinokuniya to scout for Sentimental Circus things. There, I spied a Shappo dressed in the little concert tuxedo amongst the Shappo crowd!
It was the same Music Shappo I bought for Vi a little while ago and have yet to send to her. I love the 10″ Shappos. I think they are the best size, and look the cutest too. They also have the best fur. <3
He stared at me hopefully.
So I had to give him some attention, regardless of whether I would bring him home. But when I grabbed him off the shelf, he escaped from the clear plastic bag and landed onto my lap. I think he really wanted to follow me home.
I’ve been bugging Mr Bb to buy me a Shappo, and I also wanted either the classic Shappo or the Shappo in red cape (Candy Shappo) to be my first, so I didn’t bring him home. But I couldn’t just leave him there either, after his efforts in reaching out to me, so I put him on reserve under my name. And off I had to go to Sim Lim Square to find that elusive cable, before the rain came down.
I couldn’t help thinking about him though. Mr Bb reinforced by saying it would be a rescue.
The next day, while Mr Bb was working (on a Sunday!), I had to go and rescue him. <3
And so… I finally have my own 10″ Shappo. After staring at Vi’s for the longest time. LOL!
Hanging out together before Vi’s Shappo embarks on the long journey to NH.
Yay.
I also caved and ordered a Candy Shappo. I think he will arrive mid-week. More yay.
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OPINION: One Building on One Campus is the Right Thing to Do
The vote on May 8th will determine the structure of the school and the reputation of the community for generations to come.
I just spent more on stationary and stamps to send my neighborhood a letter about the school bond than what it will cost more a year in taxes to appropriately right-size our high schools. Bloomfield Hills High School, home of the Black Hawks, opens in the Fall of 2013 regardless of the bond's passing. The vote on May 8th will determine the structure of the school and the reputation of the community for generations to come. Voters will decide if all students will be on one campus in one renovated building OR if the student body is divided into two old and out-dated buildings (with 9th graders permanently alone in one of those buildings). The one building on one campus solution saves the district $2.4 million in operating costs annually.
Residents in Bloomfield Hills have the 3rd lowest school property taxes in
Oakland County and will continue to do so even after the bond passes. Anyone
interested in protecting and increasing their property values should know
that Bloomfield and Pontiac are the only districts in the area that have not
made significant improvements to their school buildings in recent years.
Voters should consider that the district's declining enrollment requires that
students are shuttled back and forth between Andover, Lahser and Model (52
times a day at $150,000.00 a year) in order to fill classes and offer desired
courses.
Even after right-sizing the district, Bloomfield Hills High School will only be the 65th largest high school in Michigan. It's clear that voting YES on May 8th to keep Bloomfield Hills High School in ONE building on ONE campus is the right thing to do.
Kelly Gould,
Bloomfield Hills
Casey
11:09 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
Vote Yes - Thanks Kelly I agree... point of clarification are the suttles really 52 times a day?
Shawn Bolton
11:58 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
The current Lahser Shuttle schedule indicates that there are 42 shuttles from Lahser on Even days and 36 on Odd days. In most instances, a student needs to leave their class about 10 mins early to catch the shuttle to another building. The same thing occurs to return to their home school...they miss approximately 10 mins of class time. I do not see how this benefits our children...if they were located in one building, this would not occur. We are fortunate that we allow the shuttles back and forth, otherwise students would not be able to take classes that have lower enrollments at individual buildings. Voting no will perpetuate this situation...there will always be a number of freshmen who will take advanced classes that will not necessarily be offered at the Ninth grade building. So, the cost may be reduced, however it will not be eliminated. Students will potentially still lose class time. There are some teachers who travel between buildings, however, they may be delayed as well...so more students could miss class. Our best option.......Vote "YES" on May 8 !!!
Casey
12:19 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Thanks for the clarification Shawn - Not only is this a waste of the students education time - It seems like this is a waste of operation dollars not to mention the additional $ 1,400,000.00/ year we can save by voting Yes. We are voting to maintain our support of the schools (our taxes do not increase over current levels) while the money is going to be for the "building" it will save us from WASTING education dollars on the buildings and keeping our current offerings. VOTE YES
Ken Jackson
3:48 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Charles K,
I don't follow you. I see above that Mr. Bolton lists concerns about excessive shuttling between Andover and Lahser but I don't see how that relates to making strawman arguments about YES voters or your claims that Mr. Glass and the school board will act differently than they say they will. Plan B, by definition, is a "fall back" plan, something Mr. Glass and the board have said is the best they can do under the circumstances if the bond fails. Neither the current board nor Mr. Glass brought us to the point where we can no longer afford two comprehensive high schools. Declining enrollments and changes to state funding in education did. The MAY 8th vote, contra to what many no voters and 2020 folks have led many to believe, is not to choose between two equal, comparable options. Is that what you think?
Shawn Bolton
10:01 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
The need for shuttles arrises from the decrease in our student enrollment. The number of students that may elect a particular class at either high school has decreased. In order to continue to provide the academic opportunities we have come to cherish, and expect our high school administration and transportation department have worked out the best possible solution, combine students at one or the other school. This allows for greater academic access. However, if the entire student body were located on one campus, this situation would no longer exist. It is ridiculous to continue to think that the state of our buildings have nothing to do with how our children learn and excel. Our current high school students travel to other schools, for sporting events, academic clubs, orchestra and band competitions, forensic competitions and numerous other activities. Do not think for one moment that they don't see the difference. From theaters to cafeterias to classrooms and sporting venues, our facilities are well past their prime. It is time to move ahead and reinvent our community, starting with our high school. To Charles K,
my daughter was a member of the first class of 5th graders at East Hills, and her experience was amazing. The 5th grade teachers, UA teachers and administration made the year memorable and the kids had a great year! The kids handled the transition far better than most parents. Our children deserve the support of their community, Vote "YES" on May 8!
Ken Jackson
11:01 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Charles K,
You guessed wrong. I am sorry to hear about your son's experience. I am voting YES not because I am blindly trusting a district or an administration. I understand very much the frustration of a parent when it makes decisions that does not work for your kids. But, again, the YES vote is for me the way to go with the option on the table at the moment. I simply don't believe a no vote will send any kind of positive message or force anything but an eventual decline in the district.
Patty
12:18 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Charles K, my son also had a great 5th grade year at East Hills, He couldn't wait to get to the big school, actually, and looking back on it, I can't imagine him spending 5th grade in the elementary school. The sports, clubs, activity nights, etc that he got to participate in were great experiences. Your son's experience is the ONLY negative one i have heard. | http://bloomfield-mi.patch.com/articles/opinion-d83bbacf | 2013-05-18T10:53:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I see only the gray Thickers in the Little Bo Peep collection in your store ... are the other colors sold out already?
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Meet Mrs Hanatu Bitrus. She hails from Niger state and is married with five children. She says she believes in reincarnation and would change a lot of things if she were to be the president of the country Would you like to be born to the same parents, have the same siblings and other relations? [...] | http://blueprintng.com/category/arts-books/life/if-i-could-live-my-life-again/ | 2013-05-18T10:20:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
[Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.]
This memorial volume celebrates Alexandrian-born scholar Soheir Bakhoum (d. 2003), a numismatist specializing in Roman Alexandria. Initially educated at Alexandria University and later at l'École des Hautes-Études, Ms. Bakhoum was at one time on the staff at the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, and later a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. Her writings include many articles as well as the 1998 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum catalogue of Alexandrian coins (Augustus to Trajan) in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the 1999 book, Dieux égyptiens à Alexandrie sous les Antonins: recherches numismatiques et historiques.
Festschriften often provide an opportunity to publish articles around a theme. In this case, the theme is Alexandrian coinage, particularly of Roman Egypt, an apt choice which commemorates Ms. Bakhoum's interests and accomplishments. Roman emperors until Diocletian maintained Egypt as a closed currency system, and under them, the mint of Alexandria irregularly produced large quantities of partly silver coins (now called Alexandrian billon tetradrachms) that were periodically debased to cope with succeeding economic crises. Bronze coins were also made. Modern numismatic studies have concentrated on identifying and dating the coins, understanding their iconography, and analyzing ancient hoards discovered in the last two centuries. Extrapolating from the foregoing, some studies have also used coin hoards in particular to argue broader conclusions about ancient economic policies and events. This Festschrift touches on all of these areas, but one of its main strengths is the original publication (or re-publication with amplification) of coins from hoards, excavations and museum collections (particularly those in Egypt). This material comprises the bulk of the volume.
This seventh volume in the Collezioni Numismatiche series contains 22 articles by scholars from Europe, the U.K. and Egypt and a preface by Jean Leclant. Each article is self-contained with its own bibliography, illustrations and tabular format. The contributions are aimed at specialists. The articles are highly technical and they publish new material or add new arguments to the body of existing scholarship rather than provide an overview of numismatics in Roman Egypt or make more encompassing conclusions. New finds from the exciting archaeological work now underway at Alexandria and nearby Canopus are also selectively included. The numerous black and white illustrations are of good quality. A caveat from the editors at the front of the volume notes that the bibliography may be out of date for some articles completed in 2005 but not published until 2008 because of general delays in the receipt of articles and in their subsequent preparation for publication. This is a common challenge for many Festschriften that may be solved in the future through more strategic and innovative use of Web-based publishing.
The book is divided into five sections: personal tributes to Ms. Bakhoum, questions of identification, hoards and excavations, iconography, and historiography.
André and Étienne Bernand lead off the collection with separate remembrances of Ms. Bakhoum. As part of his dedication, André discusses a significant temple foundation plaque made of gold, discovered by Franck Goddio's team in 2003 in the bay of Aboukir to the east of Alexandria. The plaque records Ptolemy III's establishment of a Herakleion. Étienne overviews the history of publications on Alexandria and provides Soheir Bakhoum's full bibliography. A third dedicatory article, by Dominique Gerin, publishes Ms. Bakhoum's small collection of ancient coins, of which five examples are now kept in the Cabinet des médailles in Paris. Andrew Burnett identifies one of these as an unusual example belonging to an undated series of Alexandrian coins from the time of Augustus.
In the second section, three scholars explore selected problems of coin identification. Olivier Picard discusses some examples of Alexandrian pentadrachms that he believes are of a type that activated an ancient holy water dispenser described in Heron of Alexandria's Pneumatika. Andrew Burnett convincingly sorts through Alexandrian coins sometimes attributed to the reign of Caligula and he concludes that only one rare type can be securely assigned to this emperor. Barbara Lichocka publishes an unusual Roman numismatic find from the Kom el-Dikka area of Alexandria, which she speculates could have served as a small portable mirror.
Hoards and excavations are the themes of the third section, the longest in the book. In the lead article, Michel Amandry argues that 33 Alexandrian coins from the second half of the third century A.D., now in the Musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain of Épinal, likely come from the same deposit. Rodolfo Martini publishes a group of 40 Alexandrian tetradrachms from the time of the Emperor Probus, which were inadvertently omitted from the third Aegyptus volume (Commodus-Galerius Caesar) of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum publication of the Civiche Raccolte Numismatiche in Milan. Mervat Seif el-Din, Mona Shahin, and Thomas Faucher write about a group of 80 early Ptolemaic bronze coins, which reportedly came from an undocumented find in the Nag Hammadi area in Upper Egypt and are now kept in the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria. Because of the homogeneity of the group of coins, they reasonably conclude that the coins comprised an entire hoard, or part of one; they propose a burial date of around 205 B.C., coincident with the timing of an Upper Egyptian rebellion against Ptolemaic rule. Mervat Seif el-Din and Faiza el Maghrabi publish a group of 264 bronze coins, also reportedly found in Nag Hammadi and housed in the Graeco-Roman Museum, of which most date to the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century A.D. Though most coins are from the Alexandrian mint, other mints including Rome and Ostia are represented as well. The authors conclude that the entire group of 264 did not comprise a hoard, but that the late Roman coins in the group may have been part of a hoard.
Hans-Christoph Noeske republishes a hoard of 233 Alexandrian billon tetradrachms, found in Abu al-Gud and now in the Graeco-Roman Museum, and uses it as stepping stone to address some broader questions of hoarding behavior in Egypt. Mona Shahin discusses a hoard of 1005 Alexandrian billon tetradrachms, which date from the early to mid-first century A.D. (Tiberius, Claudius, Nero), were found in Kom Aushim, and are now kept at the site's museum. Anna Rita Parente comments on 122 coins discovered during the 2003-2007 excavation seasons at Bakchias in the Fayoum, which range in date from Ptolemaic through Byzantine periods. Finally, Marie-Christine Marcellesi publishes six late Roman coins found in recent excavations in Alexandria, which show a bust of Serapis on one face and a reclining figure of the Nile on the other face, and compares them to issues of Antioch showing Tyche and Apollo and of Nicomedia showing Ceres and Tyche.
The fourth section contains six articles on a variety of iconographic subjects. The first article explores the origins of the known portraits of Cleopatra the Great, particularly focusing on a well-known marble female head found in the House of the Diadoumenos on Delos. François Queyrel dates the latter head prior to 69 B.C., i.e., before the time of Cleopatra, and concludes that the queen's portraits must reference a style prevalent in the late Hellenistic Period that emphasized severity and gravity. Laurent Bricault and Richard Veymiers publish a gem showing a draped, laureate male bust and sistrum that they attribute to Nero based on comparisons to the emperor's known portraits. Absent explicit evidence of a connection between Isis and Nero, they suggest that the sistrum is indicative of Egyptian manufacture or the original gem owner's beliefs, rather than a reference to an explicit connection between the emperor and the Egyptian goddess. Angelo Geissen clarifies some points on the Alexandrian coinage of the Empress Sabina in a short article. Giovanni Maria Staffieri and Mario Tosi write about depictions of the sacred bark on Alexandrian coinage. Fatma Barakat gathers together representations of the god Agathos Daimon now in the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria. Manfred Weber presents interesting new interpretations of two numismatic details: a ram's head on the reverse of some coins of Alexander the Great as a reference to the god Amun of the Siwa Oasis; and a structure on the reverse of some coins of Trajan as a representation of the tomb of the god Osiris.
The final section has two articles on the history of Alexandrian studies, focusing particularly on the work of Giovanni Dattari, a major Italian collector of Alexandrian coins in the early 20th century. Erik Christiansen carefully reconstructs the history of several hoards initially owned by Dattari and eventually acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford or the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Adriano Savio assesses Dattari's scholarly contributions.
This review only briefly touches on all of the ideas expressed in this collection of articles. Numismatists specializing in Roman Egypt will definitely want to consult this volume and there are some papers which will have interest for the scholars of Greek and Roman Egypt in general. The book is a fitting recognition of Soheir Bakhoum in that it both acknowledges and extends her work.
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2nd Bulbaversery!!
by, 11th January 2013 at 11:59 AM (107 Views)
Yes, today marks my second year having a Bulbagarden account. It feels like I've been here longer though even though I don't post much. Too think I never planed on posting much after finishing up the first trades.
Considering what I had to offer I'm surprised I was able to find someone willing. Also taking a look back, I can't believe I actually typed 2morrow. I also never made a topic in the The Garden Grotto to introduce myself.
This year however I won't be spending as much time on Bulba as I would like once everything is taking care of I'm going to try and spend more time here. Most likely try jumping back into the RP section. Maybe I should actually make a topic in the Grotto when I'm able to post again.
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Lately there have been rumours about the liberalisation of the .al extension (Albania).
If you currently wish to register a domain name in Albania, you need to own a local address. However for a while now, there have been rumours that this local presence will soon no longer be a restriction to register a domain name [More...]
Today DNS.be (.be registry) published a press release showing that 2012 was a great year for .be registrations.
In 2012 over 300.000 new names were registered during 1 year for the first time. In 2012 306.341 new .be names were registered to be exact. Because of those new registrations the .be extension enters the top 10 [More...]
A while ago the univerity of Harvard registered the domain name harvard.xxx
Harvard mainly did this to prevent that someone else would register this name and put ‘adult’ content on this website. Harvard isn’t the first to do so, many other universities and large companies already registered their domain name under the .xxx extension.
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Google recently bought the domain name yt.be. This domain will be used by Google as an URL shortener for YouTube, Google’s own video service.
Currently Google uses the domain youtu.be as an URL shortner for YouTube but now they became the owner of yt.be, a domain that was already registered since 2003. Those URL shorterners [More...]
TradeMark ClearingHouse (TMCH), the party via which trademark holders need to file an application first if they wish to register a name during a sunrise phase of a new gTLD, is about to perform a test run.
At the end of May, the sunrise phase for 2 subdomains will begin, radio.fm and radio.am. The registry [More...]
On March 26th 2013 TradeMark ClearingHouse (TMCH) opened its doors. TMCH will play an important role during the sunrise phase of the release of the new gTLD’s.
The release of the approved extensions will happen in the 3 well known phases: sunrise, landrush and general availability. During the sunrise, owners of a registered mark are given the chance to register their mark under one or several extensions. If you’re a mark owner and you wish to do so, it’s necessary you first register your trademark at the TradeMark ClearingHouse. TMCH is the party who will check whether you definitely are the owner of this mark. Moreover they’ll also keep you posted for at least 90 days after the release of a new gTLD if someone else tries to register your mark under this new gTLD. | http://bnamed.net/en/index.jsp?tiucsib=7n475i18p5fk | 2013-05-18T10:41:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Up until today I’ve been telling everyone looking to apply for a US Airways credit card to not go through my affiliate link and instead use an offer that was out there for 40,000 Dividend Miles after the first purchase with no annual fee for the first year. The terms and conditions suggested it was only intended for Chairman’s Preferred members, though it seemed to work for everyone, at least up until today. As a matter of fact I was just working on a post for this evening about how to maximize credit cards with the “new American,” and applying for that card was going to be one of my suggestions. However, as of this morning that link seems to be expired, as I get the following message when following the link:
I figured we’d have a bit more time before they change credit card offers, though maybe that’s not the case, and I guess I can understand why.
Anyway, it seems like the best available sign-up bonus for the US Airways Premier World MasterCard is now for 40,000 Dividend Miles after the first purchase, though the $89 annual fee isn’t waived. I doubt we’ll see the other deal return, so this is probably as good as it gets.
Keep in mind that this card probably has a very limited life, given that the “new American” will have to choose between Citi and Barclay. It seems that American’s relationship with Citi is much stronger than US Airways’ relationship with Barclay, so I think it goes without saying that the Citi co-branded card will survive while the Barclay card will get the boot. Furthermore, AAdvantage will be the surviving loyalty program, so I think that makes the choice even more obvious.
Anyway, this is very much a “use it or lose it” situation. I’m not sure how much longer Barclay will offer a sign-up bonus on this card given that they may only be able to keep these customers for another few months. This is much more complicated than the United and Continental merger where both airlines already had their co-branded credit cards with Chase, so “converting” customers was easy. Credit card companies offer sign-up bonuses in hopes of earning long term business, and the reality is that any new members likely won’t be sticking around for very long since the card will be discontinued in a matter of months.
Also keep in mind that this card is churnable to some extent. Many report being able to apply for this card as often as every 90 days, though reports are very mixed on this. Some have no problem being approved for a US Airways card when they already have one, while others are rejected, so it very much is a case of “your mileage may vary.”
Anyway, if you don’t yet have a the US Airways Premier World MasterCard this is probably a good time to apply for it and claim your 40,000 bonus miles before it’s too late. In the interest of full disclosure that’s also my affiliate link, which is also for the best available bonus I know of for the card.
(Tip of the hat to The Points Guy)
February 14th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
HikerT said,
Hat tip really goes to FT thread.
February 14th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
Richard said,
No worth it if you have to pay the annual fee upfront.
February 14th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Randall said,
Is there a better US Air business card offer than the 25K points for $79 after first purchase?
February 14th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Scott M. said,
Okay, how can you churn this by applying every 90 days? I got one a couple of months ago, back when the merger was not a definite thing. I wouldn’t mind getting another before the merger, if that is possible.
February 14th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
bludevil said,
This may be a stupid question, but theoretically, one could apply for this card, get the US Airways miles and then transfer them to AAdvantage once that is allowed, right?
February 14th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Will said,
Glad I got my chairman MC 2 nights ago!
February 14th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Diamond Vargas said,
@ Richard — I don’t ever like the idea of purchasing miles, but in my mind 0.22¢ per mile for the upfront fee is worth it in this instance. Hopefully still around in another month after my 15k miles post from one of those ongoing 3-month spend bonuses on my current card — will cancel and re-apply within the few weeks after that.
February 14th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
DBest said,
Diamond, its not really 0.22¢ per mile, because the publicly available offer from Barclay’s own website provides 30k miles with the first year fee waived. So the incremental cost of the extra 10k miles is really ($89/10000) 0.89¢ per mile. Still not a bad deal…
February 14th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
lucky said,
@ Richard — You don’t value 40,000 US Airways miles at $89?
@ Randall — Unfortunately that’s the best business card offer I know of.
@ Scott M. — Many report applying again and then getting approved either instantly or by phone (by explaining a second card is wanted to separate business expenses from personal expenses, for example).
@ bludevil — Correct, once the points become transferable you could do that.
February 14th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Maury said,
I have been approved for the US Airways card three times and received the 40k each time.
February 14th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
Jeff said,
I am a Silver Preferred member and this offer was still available in my account so I applied today and got approved. The offer is 30K with first purchase and 10k anniversary bonus. The fee was also waived for the first year.
February 14th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
lucky said,
@ Jeff — That offer is a bit different than the one that was initially available for Chairman’s Preferred, which was 40K after the first purchase and a 10K anniversary bonus.
My bigger concern would be that I doubt the card will be around for another year, so I wouldn’t be too confident about getting the anniversary bonus.
February 14th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Coutureguy said,
Does anyone know if Barclays will approve applications for the consumer and business cards at the same time?
February 14th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
lucky said,
@ Coutureguy — Yep, they definitely will.
February 14th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Coutureguy said,
Great to know. Thanks!
February 14th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Dan said,
Man… I was thinking about applying under the old offer. Oh well. But 40,000 “AA” miles are definitely worth $89 in my book.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
Richard said,
My point here is, is it worth spending $89 to acquire 40,000 miles? Because if I apply for the Chase Sapphire Preferred for example, I will get 43,000 UR points after I spend $3000 by buying 6 $500 Vanilla Reload for the cost of $3.95 x 6 = $23.70. It is even better with the 50,000 miles United MP Explorer offer for only $1000 spending.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
lucky said,
@ Richard — Right, absolutely, there are more lucrative sign-up bonuses out there, but:
a) Many of us have already applied for the best offers out there
b) The Chase Sapphire Preferred will probably still be around with a sign-up bonus next year, while this card probably won’t be
February 14th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Brian L. said,
@Richard – You’d have to spend $3000 to get those 43,000 UR points. With the US card, you’d have to spend the $89 annual fee, plus maybe $1 on a candy bar or something.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Jason said,
For those of you looking to churn, I just did and it worked!
I got the US Airways MC about 6 months ago and received 60,00 miles. I decided to try it again since it is about to end at it worked with instant approval.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
JH said,
Thanks Lucky for information. Just apply one for me and one for my wife. Got instant approval for each one of us. Hoping when it is merged with American Airlines FF, we will have enough point to claim those coveted Cathay Airlines F/B class
. Thanks again for the posting.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Angela said,
Lucky, I found other offer link, 35k bonus with fee waived. Would you still recommend 40k with $89 annual fee?
February 14th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Jorge said,
I think that those US Airways buy/transfer promotions are now history.
But if I am wrong, would you consider buying US Airways miles knowing that they will end up as AAdvantage miles?
And sooo sad the Glam Slam is history as well. I enjoyed it so much…
February 14th, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Tim said,
@Angela – Please share the no-fee link.
February 14th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Carl said,
damn, i was looking forward to my anniversary bonus
February 15th, 2013 at 12:21 am
lucky said,
@ Angela — Mind sharing the link? You’d be getting an extra 5,000 miles for $89, which is about 1.8 cents per mile. That would be about the breakeven cost for me.
February 15th, 2013 at 9:24 am
Rachel said,
Do you think it’s too soon to cancel a card that’s been open six months and then reapply? I know you’re usually supposed to wait closer to a year, but this is an interesting scenario!
Also, Mommy Points posted the no fee 35K miles link:
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05-20-2012 11:35 PM
...ok, now that the Upfront in NY has made it official, next theme to get the RC treatment is the delightful DC universe!
Yep, Superheroes is gonna get it.
So here's a thread for people to post about their DC favorites, maybe even post about their currenty aired favorite superhero related clips or suggest their hopes for what new may be in the special. Cause there will be new in there. Can't all be Robin in the closet with a car battery or Reverse WonderWoman blurring up the screen.
For myself, favorite already-been is the Arkham Redemption skit where the Joker fakes his escape and gives a sewer-stuck Batman a 5 flush salute.
The sound effects are just so wrong in that one...I laugh far too much when it's on.
As for favorites, I'm partial to Catwoman.
But I think it would be funnier if they did something about Cheetah. There's just something off about a peanut butter-based superpower that needs to be brought to everyone's attentions.
So how about ya'll?
Discuss!
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ATTENTION: If you care about DC continuity but are behind on certain MAJOR story arcs, POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD.
For those of you not in the know/care, I have provided links for explanation. A few are for laughs, though, FYI.
Okay...
The OPost:
The DC Nation shorts about Animal Man and Plastic Man are great. I know it would probably be (whatever word I'm looking for here, taboo, cliche, etc) for RC to use Weird Al and Tom Kenny (respectively), but I would enjoy seeing either of the characters in the show (and with their current voice actors to "seal the deal"). Al has already (as most know) done work for RC and other [as] shows, so it doesn't seem too implausible/impossible for him to reprise his role as Buddy Baker... but Spongebob might be a different story, nevermind the impracticality of a Plastic Man bit (outside of cartoon animation).
Aside from that fanboy bs...
1) Green Arrow REALLY NEEDS to be called out for his being the Batman version of Robin Hood. I love Ollie, but he knows what he did.
2) With the release of Batman's "Wanted" poster for tDKR, RC should put Batman on trial for his crimes, or (possibly) just show the world that THEGODDAMNBATMAN is the very criminal piece of #### he is trying to stop through some ludicrous ploy by several villains ala the Arkham game plots (i.e. Batman, recently alerted to rising criminal activity by several groups/gangs, breaks into someone's home trying to find the Mad Hatter and just beats the crap out of a family because they have a copy of Alice in Wonderland on the shelf).
3) How about Wonder Woman tells a joke by (and I mean just dub the audio in) Lisa Lampanelli.?No, seriously, wouldn't it be funny to hear WW talk about black guys reaming her gaping ####? NO. No it wouldn't.
3) (for real this time) The fanboys WILL NOT shut up over the pants/no pants debate in regards to WW, so how about a "Women of the DCU Fashion Show" explaining to these neckbeards why Power Girl's #### slit isn't practical or sexy (nevermind WW's star-spangled granny panties). I'm aware of World's Finest #1 (of the DCnU) and PG's new uniform, but I think if they are going to address any DC continuity post August 31, 2011 (the day Flashpoint #5, Justice League #1 came out and changed DCU to DCnU) then they should address the inconsistency in which time is presented throughout ALL the titles - is it NOW, FIVE YEARS AGO, or someone unspecified time before that (Action Comics taking place before JL #1-6 which is "five years before" the other titles, yet Superman is also 5-6 years after Action Comics... What?)?
4) A Murder of Crows, A Parliament of Owls/Rooks, A Gander of Geese... An awkward evening with Robins? What if all the Robins (####, Jason, Tim, Steph and Damien) meet each other in some a-temporal location. Damien: [to Jason] Aren't you dead?
6) The Anti-Monitor and Darkseid have tea to discuss the best means for acheiving Universal Dominance.
7) Swamp Thing/ Alec Holland (embodiment of The Green) as a college stoner (a little obvious, but they do quick throwaways I feel this would be perfect for).
8) (This will seem similar to 4, but fuuuuuudge Final Crisis) The Supermen of the Multi-verse ride an interdemensional Yellow Submarine (IN 3D!!!!!!HOLYfuuuuuudgeING####BALLS!3D!!!!).
9) The Spectre Spectates...
10) Booster Gold doing anything. Also, I see what you did there Dan... (yes I know that accusation is loose, but they are phonetically similar and both are time-travelling products from the 80s). Also
UGH,
11) The Guardians (or Booster and Rip) discuss all the ways in which they could have saved the DCU from experiencing such bat#### crazy occurrances like Superman and his Multi-verse equivallents riding on a goddamned yellow submarine. Or Batman shooting Darkseid with a radioactive bullet before being sent back in time causing the bullet to kill the God that was dead from the start. Or Cain being Vandal Savage (VS being Cain, whatever). Seriously #fuuuuuudgeFinalCrisis #WTFGrant
Honestly, if they just spent the entire thing pointing out the insanity of FC or the relaunch ("Don't call it a reboot" or I'll cry harder - Didio) would be great (read: perfect).
Reply to katt_goddess - Message ID#: 64937766
06-28-2012 08:01 AM
Reply to KuudereKirie - Message ID#: 65338390
09-10-2012 12:18 AM
they #### on firestorm
i expect but am still saddened by the ####ting on of the successor of Ch'p
i was like firestorm is super popular
I love how firestorm voiced that
Reply to songokuh14no12 - Message ID#: 65963346
09-10-2012 08:06 PM
songokuh14no12 wrote:
they #### on firestorm
i expect but am still saddened by the ####ting on of the successor of Ch'p
i was like firestorm is super popular
I love how firestorm voiced that
I kinda think that that was exactly the reason they went with Firestorm as part of that little bit - because he does have a fan base but he's not exactly the first [or even 20th] DC character that most people might be able to name. But he's still a million times better than that frickin' banjo hillbilly and green fuzzball so he was the perfect one to take them out.
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