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Angie's List continues to celebrate the Summer of Small Business with weekly tips to help grow great service companies across the nation. This week, Angie's List Founder Angie Hicks talks about her own struggles to shift from her one-person shop to what has become a national consumer review organization serving more than 2 million paid households.
"You may run a business, but that doesn't mean you feel secure in your ability to manage and lead others," she says. "Many of us have to work at being an effective manager or leader."
5 Ways to Develop Leadership Skills:
1. Be patient with yourself. The process of becoming an effective manager and leader takes time and can be a real challenge. People used to achieving goals through their own efforts can be demanding and impatient with others, tempted to just do everything themselves. When I first became a manager, I had to teach myself to slow down, pay attention to others and be more nurturing with employees. I continue to work on those skills.
2. Be patient with others. It's been a process for me to move from a hands-on doer to a manager and leader of other people. I've made plenty of mistakes, so it's important that I give the people who work for me room to try things and to fail. But I make sure they know that I expect them to come to me if they run into a problem, so I can help solve it.
3. Accept your personal style. Even if you don't happen to be an introvert like me, you might also benefit from some of the techniques I've used to work through particularly challenging business duties:
a. Know the purpose. Being clear about the business reasons underlying your need to expand your comfort zone can be a motivator. That's how I summoned the courage to keep knocking on doors in our company's early days, and face my first TV reporter's microphone.
b. Set a time limit and do the worst first. For tasks I found especially difficult, such as making cold calls, I would set a daily numeric or time goal. Also, I'd get the toughest jobs done early in the day.
c. Do your research. Being well prepared helps me feel more at ease about doing something uncomfortable. I tend to be a numbers person, so I make sure to get the data and details I need in advance of making a speech or statement.
4. Manage your way. It took me some time to figure out my management style. I wasn't a commanding or charismatic person; what seemed most natural was to lead by example; in essence, to take a teaching approach. I'd say to my team, "I'm going to show you exactly how I do it. I'm going to stand right beside you and we're going to do it together."
5. Be willing to grow. Be humble enough to acknowledge your weaknesses and open to doing the work to strengthen them. Consider how the people around you might be able to teach you something. Observe and listen to others. Notice what works, and what doesn't.
Angie's List started out as a one-person shop and employs more than 1,300 people today and serves more than 2 million paid households. Hicks bases her advice on personal experience as well as on experiences shared with her from other business leaders.
Angie's Advice to Small Business is part of the Summer of Small Business at Angie's List. Follow Angie Hicks on Twitter @Angie_Hicks
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If President Barack Obama and Congress finally reach a budget deal that significantly reduces the federal deficit and invests in the future, it will be because voters and business leaders like Paul Stebbins are tired of gridlock and are demanding compromise. • Stebbins is executive chairman of the board of World Fuel Services, a Fortune 500 company based in Miami with nearly $39 billion in revenue last year. The company is involved in the marketing, sale and distribution of fuel products, and Stebbins became interested in the federal budget mess after Obama and congressional Republicans narrowly avoided a government shutdown in 2011. He stopped by the office the other day with the nonpartisan Fix the Debt, whose Florida steering committee includes former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis of Tampa. Instead of pitching a specific budget plan, the group wants to mobilize business leaders and voters from both parties to push the president and Congress to agree on a balanced long-term approach.
"Nobody gets a free pass here,'' Stebbins said. "We all own this. The question is, can we have an honest conversation.''
As dysfunctional as Washington appears, there might be an opening if voters keep up the pressure and don't allow the special interests on both sides to drown them out.
For the first time in years, everyone has put their opening bids on the table. The Republican-controlled House has approved a budget crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that reflects the most conservative approach: deep spending cuts, no new revenue, Medicare vouchers, Medicaid block grants and all of the rest. By one vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate approved a budget with significantly fewer spending cuts, nearly $1 trillion in new revenue and no serious entitlement reform.
Last week, Obama finally weighed in. The president's budget proposal lands somewhere between the House and Senate, recommending less spending than Senate Democrats but including new revenue rejected by House Republicans. Most significantly, Obama also takes a stab at modest Social Security reform and more aggressive Medicare spending reductions.
The president must have done something right. He was immediately criticized by Republicans for raising taxes and by Democrats for cutting growth in spending on entitlements. That's the sort of middle ground embraced by Stebbins and Fix the Debt, which was founded by Erskine Bowles, President Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, and former Republican U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson. Those are the Washington wise men who chaired a committee that recommended a balanced approach of spending cuts and new revenue that Obama abandoned and Congress would not touch.
"If we want to keep rebuilding our economy on a stronger, more stable foundation,'' Obama said in the Rose Garden, "then we've got to get smarter about our priorities as a nation.''
He's got that right.
Social Security and the two health care programs, Medicare and Medicaid, are the federal government's biggest expenses. Social Security is in better shape than Medicare, but the rising costs of both have to be slowed. Otherwise, this nation will not be able to invest in the future: younger Americans, education, technology and new infrastructure.
Just as Republicans cannot keep saying no to more revenue, Democrats cannot keep saying no to reasonable changes to Social Security and Medicare. Obama floated some modest proposals in a gamble to bring moderate Republicans to the table and demonstrate he is not hostage to the labor unions and other liberal interest groups.
On Social Security, for example, the president proposes changing the annual cost-of-living adjustment by using a different formula that some economists say is more accurate. I know how important that COLA is for seniors; my late mother would anxiously wait every year for the figure to be released and calculate what it would mean for her down to the penny. But that isn't the only change that likely will have to be made. Congress also needs to consider raising the cap on income that is affected by the payroll tax.
Don't get too hung up on the details of the various plans. None of them will become law as written, and there will be months of posturing before there are serious negotiations. But there is a ray of hope.
"I think there is reason for optimism,'' Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, said Friday. "There are still going to be a lot of bumps along the way.''
The Senate is days away from introducing bipartisan legislation on immigration reform. Last week, 16 Republican senators (but not Florida's Marco Rubio) voted with Democrats to clear the way for debate on gun control. If there can be movement on those issues, that could set the stage for a budget compromise.
For that to happen, the president will have to stay engaged and continue to demonstrate to conservatives he will not cave in to liberal interest groups. And business leaders like Paul Stebbins will have to keep up the pressure on Congress and remind voters why a balanced approach to a budget deal is the best approach.

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Shares of Dreamworks Animation (DWA) were up 3.2% in recent trading, following the company's conference call after hours Tuesday.
On Monday, Dreamworks announced it had inked a multiyear deal to provide original content to Netflix (NFLX), as well as an agreement with SUPER RTL, a German children's TV company.
On its conference call, the company said that it expects television to generate about $100 million in revenue in 2013, growing to $200 million annually by 2015. It sees gross margins of 30%, well ahead of current levels. Dreamworks noted that new televisions series could also boost merchandise sales, and also pointed to its acquisition of AwesomenessTV as another source of upside.
Cowen & Company's Doug Creutz reiterated his Market Perform rating on the stock. He notes that he sees "the television business is likely to be far less volatile than the feature film business;" but he remains cautious ahead of the release of Turbo: "We continue to be a bit concerned about the prospects for the company's next animated film, which will be released in four weeks, due to an extremely crowded summer slate both for animated films and blockbuster films in general."
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Benjaim Mogil also reiterated a Hold rating today, despite increasing his estimates. He notes that while management's commentary was positive, he is estimating the most pronounced bump to earnings not to occur until 2015.
S&P Capital IQ's Tuna Amobi was more optimistic, boosting Dreamwork's price target by $2 to $27 and writing that it "articulated a holistic strategy for global ramp-up of TV offerings, including newly acquired Classic Media, other licensed series (on Nick, Cartoon nets) and holiday specials."
In late April, Dreamworks reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings.


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Memphis drug kingpin Craig Petties has returned to the city after a brief stay in a federal prison transfer center in Oklahoma City earlier this week.
The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator shows Petties, leader of the largest drug organization ever prosecuted in Memphis Federal Court, is now in custody at the Memphis Federal Correctional Institution.
And his sentencing before U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays may be soon although there is no sentencing date on Mays' calendar for Petties who pleaded guilty to federal racketeering, drug conspiracy and murder for hire charges in 2009 in a secret hearing. The guilty plea was not revealed until court records on the plea were unsealed more than a year later.
As Petties returned to the city this week, prosecutors in the federal case filed their position with the court on a presentence report on Petties.
The report prepared by probation and sentencing officers in not a public court record.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney David Pritchard wrote in his July 18 filing that his office has no objections to the findings in the report.
Petties was moved to Oklahoma City and then Memphis from a federal prison in lower Manhattan after Pritchard filed a sealed motion earlier this month involving Petties.
Petties has been in federal custody since January 2008 when he was captured in Mexico. Petties fled Memphis following his indictment on federal drug charges in 2002 and ran the multi-state drug organization with direct ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel of Mexico from Mexico for six years.
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WHAT do immigrants want most from Canada? There are as many answers to that question as there are applicants, although freedom and prosperity are obviously top attractions.
But what does Canada want from immigrants? In the midst of an overhaul of immigration policy, Ottawa's unequivocal answer is skilled labour.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's response to skills shortages at home, and stiff global competition for skilled immigrants, has been to move from a "passive" system that operated on a first-come, first-served basis. Under the new "activist" paradigm, the priority is to receive, and even recruit, immigrants whose résumés correspond with Canada's economic priorities.
The transition has not been seamless. To clear the backlog, Ottawa jettisoned 280,000 skilled-immigrant applications received before 2008 and reimbursed $130 million in fees, exposing itself to a class-action lawsuit. But the government now estimates skilled-worker applications will be processed within a year, not the old norm of eight years.
Timeliness and convenience are crucial to attracting talent. The Conservatives have made it easier to retain foreign graduate students and white-collar skilled workers by allowing them to apply for permanent residency from within the country. Canadian work experience required to make that application has been cut in half to 12 months.
Ottawa is also paving the way for skilled tradespeople to supply the needs of the resource economy. Under this new stream, a job offer in Canada and a provincial certificate of qualification might get you in the door if you are in a sought-after blue-collar profession — an electrician or pipe-fitter, for example.
Sensibly, the threshold has been lowered for language proficiency and post-secondary education in this category. Only 3,000 such applicants are being accepted for now, but the plan is to ramp up this program.
The domestic labour pool cannot fix the skills shortage. Some 300,000 construction jobs will be begging to be filled over the next decade. Without importing skills, Canada's economic development will be severely hampered and labour costs for mega-projects like Muskrat Falls in Labrador will be driven up.
The government has shown both fortitude and foresight by tailoring immigration policy to the country's growing needs.


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HARTFORD — The mother of one of the children slain in the Newtown massacre says her son was shot after yelling for his classmates to run.
Scarlett Lewis says that when the gunman paused to reload, her 6-year-old son, Jesse, urged the others to run. The gunman then shot him in the head.
Lewis said Friday that investigators detailed what happened inside her son's classroom after gathering accounts from children who survived. Lewis says she is incredibly proud of her son and wasn't surprised to learn he tried to save his friends.
The boy's actions were first reported by The Hartford Courant.
The gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14 and killed 20 children and six women before committing suicide in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history.


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Firefighters battled a large blaze northeast of the Rotonda West subdivision, as officials caution that wildfire season is just starting
The morning after a large brush fire in Charlotte County forced the evacuation of numerous homes northeast of the Rotonda West subdivision, emergency management officials warn that the wildfire season is just starting.
Wednesday morning, county officials met and braced for the upcoming blazes. The area already had been declared under a "red flag warning" for the day, with dry conditions making brush fires possible.
Just hours later, the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office received a call about a fire in Punta Gorda about 2 p.m. Then, shortly after 3 p.m. another call came in reporting the even larger blaze at Rotunda.
This morning, firefighters are continuing to monitor both areas for any rekindling brush.
"This is the kickoff of wildfire season," said Wayne Sallade, Charlotte County's director of emergency management. "We have a very difficult couple of months coming up here."
There were numerous homes in the evacuated zones, with houses on four streets evacuated and additional streets closed off. None of the Rotunda homes were damaged and the residents were allowed to return Wednesday night after the fire was contained.
At the Punta Gorda fire, two unoccupied structures, a traveling trailer and a mobile home, were destroyed. Four or five units had responded to the fire, which covered over about 500 acres. By Thursday morning, more than 90 percent of the fire was contained.
Sallade said the crews broke command last night about 8 p.m. at the Rotunda site, although crews were on scene overnight. Additional crews will be in the same area again today, as the winds have picked up again.
The fire, which Sallade said was the largest they have fought in several years, drew crews from Sarasota and other counties, including a five-engine contingent from Collier County. More than 30 pieces of equipment, not including the helicopter, were on the ground during the fire.
The area that caught fire was a heavily wooded area. With winds kicking up and humidity dropping, Sallade said the drought index is indicating this will be just the first fire of the dry season. Water resource managers have warned the area may fall into drought conditions.
Sallade said the fire was "our biggest most dangerous" for several years. Luckily, no one was injured by the fire, with palm trees bursting into flames.
"We had some tired firefighters but nobody needed any transport," Sallade said.
Since there were no thundershowers, and lightning, Sallade said it is likely the fire was started by humans. Fire officials will continue to investigate the start of the fire.
Sallade said residents should be alert and "fire-wise."
"It's making sure that clearing out pine straw from the gutters, keeping the grass trim, watering the grass when you can," Sallade said. "This is critically important, having the fire department to have 30 feet of defensible area around your house."
Keeping yards clear of dry brush and debris, trimming back palmetto bushes and overhanging pines away from the roof of homes, he said, can protect firefighters and help them save homes.
"I saw some real heroic efforts of humans standing between houses to keep back the fire," Sallade said.
With emergency crews responding to two major fires, Dee Hawkins, spokewoman for Charlotte County Fire, said the county resorted to a "total recall" response, contacting all off-duty personnel to rotate with the fires and other emergencies. Even during two large fires, medical calls and vehicle accidents do not stop, she said. Nearly two dozen deputies were also called in to manage traffic for the evacuation and road closures.
Responding to two major fires is "very taxing" and resource intensive, Hawkins said, who was out at the scene of the Rotunda fire.
"Before crews even arrived on scene, they could see a large column of smoke," Hawkins said.
She said the blaze was in a unique area, with a number of brand new homes integrated into lots with empty spaces nearby, filled with dry debris and fuel.
She said the fire, and the response, was very, very rapid. By 6 p.m. the crews at the Rotunda fire had 50 percent containment of the blaze, despite 10 to 30 mph gusts of wind.
Hawkins said the overnight crews handled fires at Rotunda around 1 a.m. and another about 6 a.m., too small to even qualify as flare ups, with smoldering stumps sending up some flames.
EARLIER...Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday afternoon evacuated numerous homes northeast of the Rotonda West subdivision because of a large brush fire. The Sheriff's Office reported receiving a call about the blaze shortly after 3 p.m.
The fire grew to about 60 to 70 acres. Winds of 20 to 25 mph that caused the fire to spread phased out by early evening, helping firefighters gain control.
By about 6 p.m., the blaze was about 50 percent contained, Charlotte County Fire spokeswoman Dee Hawkins said.
The Sheriff's Office helicopter with a bucket assisted, as did firefighters from 13 agencies in Sarasota, Lee and Collier counties. The Red Cross also arrived.
"We've got considerable mutual aid," Wayne Sallade, Charlotte County's director of emergency management said.
Some of the roads blocked are in the area of Ingraham, Antilla, Antis, Apollo, Basswood and David. Drivers on Gasparilla Road are advised to use caution due to the smoke conditions.
ORIGINAL...Charlotte County sheriff's deputies are evacuating some homes northeast of the Rotonda West subdivision because of a large brush fire. The Sheriff's Office reported receiving a call at 3:08 p.m.
Charlotte County and Englewood firefighters are battling the blaze. The Sheriff's Office helicopter with a bucket is heading to the fire, which is west of Gasparilla Road. Some of the roads blocked are in the area of Ingraham, Antilla, Antis, Apollo, Basswood and David. Drivers on Gasparilla Road are advised to use caution due to the smoke conditions.


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Innovative leadership, First Hawaiian's support transform the CBA, the University - and the StateUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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On Wednesday, July 17, First Hawaiian Bank made the final quarter-million dollar installment in a million-dollar gift to the UH College of Business Administration.
The $1M gift, made in support of innovation and leadership at the CBA, endowed a professorship in Leadership and Management to be held by the Dean of the College of Business Administration at UH Manoa. Three years later, in the wake of the College's dramatic growth under Dean David McClain, the impact of the gift has been felt across the University--- and the state.
"The business community, led by First Hawaiian Bank, understands that the College of Business Administration is bullish on Hawaii's future. We hope more private investors will see the value of these partnerships, and will work with us as we help bring Hawaii's business community to the forefront of international commerce," said University of Hawaii President Evan Dobelle.
"First Hawaiian Bank's ongoing support for the College of Business Administration is invaluable," said McClain. "With this gift, First Hawaiian and the College created a partnership that signals the commitment of both institutions to Hawaii's economic future. We at the College are building a powerful knowledge-fueled engine of economic innovation in Hawaii. The investment by First Hawaiian in the College leverages our efforts and sends a terrific message to the community."
McClain's appointment as the First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Management in January 2000 marked the beginning of a period of dramatic growth for the College of Business Administration. In his first 2 1/2 years, Dean McClain raised over $3 million toward the creation of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business (PACE). PACE integrates entrepreneurship and e-business initiatives and provides outreach programs for the University and business communities, including the College's signature annual Business Plan Competition, an entrepreneurship course for scientists and engineers, and the current Hawaii Entrepreneurs' Bootcamp. In the process CBA has helped rekindle the spirit of entrepreneurship in the Islands, a sure prerequisite for the revitalization of Hawaii's economy.
McClain's passion for community outreach has led many local business leaders to volunteer their expertise in mentoring relationships with CBA students. This increased focus on business-academic partnerships is also evident in the dynamic internship program, which has tripled in the past few years.
The College has built on its strength in international business and recently received once again a Top 20 ranking in U.S. News and World Report's list of Best Graduate Schools for its graduate program in International Business. This year, it added to its global reach by offering a College of Business MBA degree in Vietnam, in collaboration with the Hanoi School of Business.
The gift installment was presented to University President Evan Dobelle by Mitchell Kaʻaialiʻi, manager of the Manoa Branch of First Hawaiian Bank. Mr. Kaʻaialiʻi holds a BA and MBA from the University of Hawaii, and is a former member of the football team. Dean McClain was also in attendance.


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AT 17 Robert Brand spent his summer holidays in Sydney wiring video and audio connections for NASA to relay Apollo 11's images from the moon to the world.
More than 40 years later, Mr Brand hopes to communicate with another craft destined for the lunar surface as part of an international race to land a robot on the moon by the end of 2015.
The Google Lunar X Prize will award $20 million to the first privately funded team to successfully land an unmanned craft on the moon.
The craft must travel 500 metres and send data and images back to Earth to claim the prize.
Mr Brand's Team Stellar, which comprises international space experts, including scientists who worked on Felix Baumgartner's freefall from the edge of space, plans to build a mission control centre in Sydney and Croatia.
''Australia is so ideal to be part of the whole process, we have the infrastructure and expertise,'' said Mr Brand, who runs an aerospace and underground communications company, and is the team's communications director.
Team Stellar plans to buy a spacecraft of similar size and shape to the 21-metre SpaceX rocket that supplied cargo to the International Space Station earlier this year.
It will house a rocket-powered lander and a combined battery/solar-powered rover to explore the surface, both of which team members plan to build themselves.
As the lander will detach from the rocket upon re-entry, it will need to withstand the sun's solar radiation as well as the heat that rises from the surface of the moon.
To communicate with the craft, the team will set up a deep space communications network comprising three 30-metre antennae at different locations around the world. One antenna will be bought and erected in central New South Wales.
If the lunar landing is successful, the Curiosity-sized rover (similar to the NASA rovers being used in the Mars missions) will capture high-quality video and audio, which the lander will beam to Earth via radio waves.
The team plans to conduct trial experiments from Australia and other countries before the final launch in mid-2014 in the country where they purchase the rocket.
Despite the complex nature of space travel, Mr Brand was confident his team will reach the moon.
''It's not beyond the capacity of a well educated person to make it successful,'' said Mr Brand, who was in Dubai this week for Team Stellar's first face-to-face meeting.
''If for some reason the rover fails, hopefully we'll have a secondary unit that will be able to send pics back [to Earth],'' he said.
Mr Brand estimates his team will be able to send a craft to the moon for less than $50 million.
Teams must raise 90 per cent of their funds from private companies or donors. Team Stellar has already secured some financial backing.
Regardless of the team's success, Mr Brand believes the competition, with 25 registered teams from around the world, will showcase the opportunities for private companies in space and expose school children to the wonders of space travel.
He hopes to involve Australian university students in the team's preparations as well.
''There's very little opportunity [in Australia] where people can get hands-on experience in space,'' he said.
Their deep space network of antennae will remain after the competition to be used for other space ventures.
''We're building an asset for the future,'' he said.


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Celebrating the publication of The Principles of Uncertainty, is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman. Her book, a compilation of her illustrated New York Times columns, is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, and part chapbook where she paints her inimitable combination of image and text. Her whimsical paintings, ideas, and images?which initially appear random?ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue. Kalman contends with some existential questions?What is identity? What is happiness? Why do we fight wars? And then, of course, death, love, and candy (not necessarily in that order).
The evening consists of gathering, ping pong, a conversation between Maira Kalman and Paul Holdengräber about life, love, yearnings, confusion with some visuals from the book Principles of Uncertainty. Julie Saul will be nearby. Small amount of questions. THEN the music. The questions from Principles of Uncertainty will be performed. Composition by Nico Muhly. Then all are invited for a refreshment involving Mocha Creme Cake.
Julie Saul owns the Julie Saul Gallery at 535 West 22nd Street where the paintings from Maira Kalman's book are now being exhibited.
A Note on the music: ?I wrote three sad songs filled with questions. Maybe later we will get some answers and then there will be more singing. But until then there are just these three songs and little interludes.? Nico Muhly
Caleb Burhans, countertenor & violin
Sam Amidon, banjo, voice
Brian Snow, cello
Nico Muhly, piano
Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author, and designer. Most recently, she illustrated a new edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. She has created many covers for The New Yorker, including the famous map of Newyorkistan (created with Rick Meyerowitz). Ms. Kalman's twelve children's books include Max Makes a Million, Stay Up Late, Swami on Rye, and What Pete Ate. She also has designed fabric for Isaac Mizrahi, accessories for Kate Spade, sets for the Mark Morris Dance Company, and, with her late husband Tibor Kalman under the M&Co. label, clocks, umbrellas, and other accessories for the Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Kalman's work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan.
In her own words: "born. bucolic childhood. culture-stuffed adolescence. played piano. stopped. danced. stopped. wrote. discarded writing. drew. reinstated writing. married Tibor Kalman and collaborated at iconoclastic yet successful design studio. wrote and painted children's books. worried. took up Ping-Pong. relaxed. wrote and painted for many magazines. cofounded the Rubber Band Society. amused. children: two. dog: one."
About Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly attended Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he studied composition under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano. Muhly's works have been premiered by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Clare College Choir, and New York's Saint Thomas Church Choir, among others. In 2005, with designer/illustrator Maira Kalman, he created a song cycle on Strunk & White's The Elements of Style that premiered at LIVE from the NYPL. He did film scores for Choking Man (2006) and Joshua (2007), and he has worked extensively with Philip Glass for numerous film and stage projects. He has also lent his skills as performer, arranger and conductor to such musicians as Bj?rk and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Speaks Volumes (2007), a disc of Muhly's chamber music with electronics, brought invitations for concerts at both Carnegie's Zankel Hall and the Whitney Museum. He lives in New York City.
Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs?now known as "LIVE from the NYPL"?for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.


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The brigadier general who investigated abuse at Abu Ghraib prison is heading the U.S. military's probe into how a suicide bomber infiltrated a U.S. Army base near Mosul and detonated a deadly explosion, authorities said Friday.
The team led by Brig. Gen. Richard P. Formica started its work in Mosul as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas Eve visit to the wounded soldiers at the base, part of a tour that also took him to Tikrit and Fallujah.
"Now we have a pretty good idea that it was a suicide bomber," said Lt. Col. Paul Hastings, a spokesman at the Mosul base. "(Formica) is going to investigate into the how's — how did that happen?"
Formica, an artillery commander, has already investigated detention practices by special forces in Iraq, including allegations of torture and mistreatment of prisoners linked to the Abu Ghraib abuses scandal.
Hastings said the Mosul investigation will be "conducted quickly and thoroughly" but that there was no deadline for its conclusions.
The Mosul blast killed 22 people, most of them American soldiers and civilians — the deadliest single attack on a U.S. base in Iraq. It has prompted the military to reassess security at bases across the country in light of the bomber's success in apparently slipping into the camp and entering a tent crowded with soldiers eating lunch Tuesday.
The suicide bomber believed to have carried out the attack was probably wearing an Iraqi military uniform, the U.S. military said Thursday.
On Thursday, U.S. Marines battled insurgents in Fallujah in the heaviest fighting there in weeks. The clashes erupted as nearly 1,000 residents returned to the devastated city for the first time since a major U.S. offensive last month that drove out most of the militants.
At least three Marines were killed Thursday's fighting, underlining the tenuous security situation as the United States and its Iraqi allies try to bring quiet before national elections Jan. 30.
On Friday, around 4,000 more displaced citizens returned to Fallujah to inspect their devastated homes. Iraq's interim security minister Kassim Daoud said people were insisting on returning despite sporadic fighting there over the past weeks and unexploded ordinance on the streets. Much of the city remains uninhabitable.
Returning the estimated 250,000 Fallujans is a key step in the attempt to restore stability in the city as the elections approach. American commanders have hailed the offensive to retake Fallujah as a major tactical victory. But pockets of insurgents remain in the city and many guerrillas apparently slipped out of Fallujah to operate elsewhere.
Meanwhile, a powerful Sunni Muslim group, the Association of Muslim Scholars, renewed its calls Friday for postponing the Jan. 30 elections and called for holding a national reconciliation conference.
"We are not against the elections, but we want fair elections that represent the Iraqi people. Since this is not possible at the time being ... we call for postponing it," senior cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour al-Samaraie told worshippers at Baghdad's Um Al-Qura mosque during Friday prayers.
Clerics from the association had urged Iraq's Sunni minority to boycott the election to protest the U.S. offensive in Fallujah, calling plans to hold the vote in January "madness."
In new violence Friday, U.S. troops and insurgents clashed in the city center of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, leaving four civilians wounded, police Maj. Saadoun Matroud said.
In Ramadi, an insurgent hotbed west of Fallujah, a group of gunmen stormed the mayor's office Thursday afternoon and blew it up, destroying a large part of the building, a U.S. military statement said. There were no casualties.
Elsewhere, a lawyer for Tariq Aziz, a former senior aide for Saddam Hussein, said Friday he had met his client, who has been in jail since April 2003.
Aziz, was among 12 defendants, including Saddam, who appeared before a judge to hear charges against them in July. He is expected to be interrogated by an investigative judge soon.
The first two top officials to be questioned — an early phase in the trial process — were Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali for his role in poison gas attacks against the Kurdish minority, and former Defense Minister Gen. Sultan Hashim. They appeared in court a week ago.
Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has been pushing ahead quickly to launch trials for Saddam's inner circle.


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High-speed motorcycle chase ends in arrest of Findlay man late Saturday
A Findlay man was arrested following a high-speed chase that began on the east side of Findlay Saturday night.
According to Findlay police, an officer attempted to stop a motorcycle driven by Kenneth H. Beasley, 20, of Findlay, in the 14400 block of Hancock County 212 at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Police reported Beasley, who was riding a 2003 Suzuki motorcycle, failed to comply with the officer and fled.
The motorcycle continued eastbound on Hancock County 212, turning south on to Hancock County 236 until reaching the parking lot of Walmart at 2500 Tiffin Ave. Police say the motorcycle traveled through the parking lots between Walmart and Kohl's Department Store at 2310 Tiffin Ave. before turning east onto Tiffin Avenue.
Beasley headed east out of Findlay on U.S. 224, reaching speeds in excess of 130 mph. He came to a stop in the parking lot of 2860 U.S. 224 at the intersection of U.S. 224 and U.S. 23 in Alvada, where he was arrested.
According to police, Beasley has been charged with failing to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony, and is being held at the Hancock County Justice Center.
The pursuit lasted about 9 minutes and covered 13 miles. No one was injured.


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Hampshire Nannies
Hampshire Nannies is a company that operated in America from at least 1992 most likely to a point in the early 21st century, specialising in nannies for children with parents at work. It was set up by Freddy from Grand Theft Auto III. Various radio commercials are played on the airwaves in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas advertising their services.
- Hampshire is a County in the United Kingdom, the choice of the county is probably a dig at American culture; as the suffix 'shire' is usually added to something to make it sound more English.
- The name of the services could also be named after the state of New Hampshire.


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Hindus celebrate Holi in burst of color
Hindus are celebrating the festival of Holi by painting each other in bright colors, distributing sweets and squirting water at one another. The holiday, celebrated mainly in India and Nepal, marks the beginning of spring and the triumph of good over evil. Bonfires were burned overnight, and on Monday, Hindus threw colored, dry powder and water in celebration. Here are some images from the festival.
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Hopefully I can get at least one more update in before the county seeding meeting, because after that, there won't be a point. The coaches will get together and sort out this mess that I've created. I'm still having trouble figuring out which weight wrestlers are going to end up at, figuring out who has head-to-head and common opponent over who from back in December, etc. Bleh, I just want to watch the Super Bowl and then I can focus on this stuff better.
Oh, and there's a really big match at Glenelg on Friday at 7 p.m. between undefeated River Hill and the undefeated Gladiators!
1. Michael Beck, River Hill junior
2. Tim Null, Glenelg sophomore
3. Josh Kendrick, Mt. Hebron freshman
4. Tyler Ponton, Reservoir junior
5. Dakota Thompson, Oakland Mills freshman
6. Romtin Habibi, Marriotts Ridge freshman
1. Taariq Mohammed, River Hill senior
2. Troy Kilcarr, Reservoir sophomore
3. Jeff Hayden, Mt. Hebron sophomore
4. Ronald Hindman, Long Reach senior
5. Noah Polonsky, Wilde Lake junior
6. Chris Winter, Glenelg senior
1. Zach Hensley, Oakland Mills senior
2. Trent Kilcarr, Reservoir sophomore
3. Parker Griffie, Glenelg freshman
4. Ethan Eckley, Wilde Lake senior
5. Nick Williams, Howard sophomore
6. Brandon Wilson, Mt. Hebron junior
1. Jordan Trinh, Wilde Lake senior
2. Patrick Linden, River Hill senior
3. Steven Sung, Mt. Hebron junior
4. Joe Quattrone, Reservoir senior
5. Zack Shackelford, Glenelg junior
6. Josh Pickens, Atholton sophomore
1. Mason Kilcarr, Reservoir junior
2. Lee Carter, River Hill senior
3. Daniel Andrews, Wilde Lake senior
4. Michael Budock, Glenelg junior
5. Bryan Crumback, Howard sophomore
6. Scotty DeJames, Atholton junior
1. Austin Kraisser, Centennial freshman
2. Ryan Carter, Glenelg senior
3. Hans Wicklein, Reservoir junior
4. Anthony Solis, Hammond sophomore
5. Tyler Anderson, Wilde Lake junior
6. Robert Bruffey, Howard freshman
1. Malik Jackson, Wilde Lake junior
2. Connor Strunk, Mt. Hebron sophomore
3. Hutson Baumann, Centennial junior
4. Austin Pagnotta, Glenelg junior
5. Bradley Montecino, Oakland Mills senior
6. Paul Quattrone, Reservoir junior
1. Joe Kendrick, Mt. Hebron senior
2. Sameh Boulos, Centennial junior
3. Joe Zoller, Glenelg junior
4. Raheem Brown, Wilde Lake senior
5. Stephen Sims, Reservoir sophomore
6. Donovan Delore, River Hill senior
1. Bryan Overton, Hammond senior
2. Jaron Smith, Oakland Mills sophomore
3. Pat Mullens, Atholton senior
4. Casey Guthier, River Hill junior
5. Nick Shearin, Centennial senior
6. Troy Walter, Glenelg junior
1. Tola Morakinyo, Wilde Lake senior
2. Anthony Pagnotta, Glenelg senior
3. Brian Kirby, River Hill sophomore
4. Wesley Beattie, Reservoir junior
5. Drew Williams, Howard senior
6. Josh Thibodeaux, Hammond senior
1. Dominick Clarke, Oakland Mills senior
2. Jared Rodriguez, Howard junior
3. Matt Baxter, Glenelg sophomore
4. Brian Glueck, Reservoir senior
5. V.J. Stout, Marriotts Ridge sophomore
6. Brian Rodriguez, Atholton junior
1. Cory Daniel, River Hill junior
2. Michael Sullivan, Reservoir junior
3. Austin Twigg, Glenelg sophomore
4. Chris Park, Marriotts Ridge junior
5. Robby Happy, Oakland Mills junior
6. Nathanael Haase, Wilde Lake senior
1. Logan Kirby, River Hill junior
2. Ryan Hassan, Mt. Hebron junior
3. Scott Desautelle, Marriotts Ridge junior
4. Craig Burris, Glenelg junior
5. Joseph Celtnieks, Oakland Mills junior
6. Deon Williams, Long Reach junior
1. Sean Twigg, Glenelg senior
2. Roy Kadje, Oakland Mills senior
3. Ne'co Jones, Wilde Lake senior
4. Justin Nestor, River Hill senior
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My favorite Flight Tracker story thus far the one on Friday about this plane...
...being spotted in Baton Rouge, home of LSU, before departing the same day.
The plane is owned by Richard H. Rogel, a financially well-endowed Michigan alum who personally donated $22 million to the school in 2004. According to the SportsByBrooks link above, Rogel is also a member of the U-M's "Director's Cabinet in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics."
Naturally, this meant the flight had something to do with Michigan pursuing Tiger coach Les Miles for its coaching vacancy. Just one little problem with that conclusion: Miles - along with probably anybody else in the LSU athletic department one would reasonably expect to discuss the matter with if it was true - was in Dallas for LSU's Cotton Bowl game that day.
But I'm more skeptical for a totally different reason.
I think we can all agree that Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon is playing this so close to the vest that his lips probably won't know the choice until the name of the new coach leaves his mouth. That's why I can't imagine anything close to this conversation taking place:
BREAKING NEWS: In addition to Les Miles and Jim Harbaguh, third generation wheat farmer Bill Simmowitz has also rejected an offer to coach at Michigan.


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Frankel Tribute 2012 [23:27]
Frankel is a magnificant horse I enjoyed watching him run One may get the impression Secretariat the way I defend him is my favorite he's not Dr Fager is Secretariat is however the best best horse Ive seen run in my 50 years in this game as an owner and punter At a mile distance Dr Fager Brigadier Gerard and Frankel would be my pick One must remember this is all subjective and degrading any horse to elevate another is shameful to the sport Honest comparison is quite different. Reply ...
Caulfield Cup Preview with Corey Brown [02:12]
Corey Brown gives his impressions after taking A Quest For Peace for a run before the Caulfield Cup, and looks ahead to the Cox Plate where he'll be riding Pierro.
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Shades Off 08 25 12pm [01:40]
Brad gives her early impression of Sunday's card.
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This is a 2 year old filly by Royal Blew Chew Chew out of a Barrymore mare, Its Almost Midnight. Shortly after Choo was born, my mom suffered a broken leg that had to be surgically reconstructed. The recovery time resulted in Choo's deprivation of hands on human interaction. The little interaction she did encounter during those most impressionable months was usually unpleasant thus creating an aggressive disposition towards her human cohabitants on Earth! The series of videos shows the progress I've made with her since I got her in December.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned 140
Maow writes with word that the U.S. Federal Appeals Court has reversed a sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone. According to the decision (PDF), "Regardless of the extent to which Apple may be injured by the sales of the Galaxy Nexus, there is not a sufficient showing that the harm flows from Samsung's alleged infringement. ...the district court abused its discretion in enjoining the sales of the Galaxy Nexus." The ruling also said Apple didn't do a good enough job showing that the allegedly infringing features were "core" to the Nexus's operation. The case centered on what is called "unified search," a method for bringing together search results from multiple places, such as a device's internal memory and the internet at large (U.S. Patent #8,086,604). "Apple must show that consumers buy the Galaxy Nexus because it is equipped with the apparatus claimed in the '604 patent—not because it can search in general, and not even because it has unified search."


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Whether it's responding to an accident, crime scene, or taking a complaint, Rockford Police often run into a language barrier with the Hispanic community, but the department is working to bridge that gap.
The Hispanic community has the same concerns as everyone else. They're worried about crime, drugs, and gangs. The difference is they don't always know how to communicate those fears to police. So Wednesday night the police department held a public forum, in Spanish, to answer some common questions like how to report crimes and what to do if stopped by police. Officers say many times crimes and problems within the Latino community go unreported because there's a fear of the police.
"A lot of Hispanic people, they are kind of scared of police because they don't have driver license or stuff like that," Hispanic Resident, Ana Rocco, explained.
Police spent about an hour answering specific questions. Some people said they'd been victimized but never reported the crime because they didn't know how. Other's wanted to know how to find out if criminals live in their neighborhood, and how to report neighbors who are noisy or causing trouble.
This was the third forum for the Hispanic community. Police plan on doing more over the next few months to continue improving their relationship.


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Senate Bill No. 7
(By Senators Stollings, Jenkins, Miller, Plymale, Foster, Klempa and Kirkendoll)
[Introduced January 11, 2012; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §15-2-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-4C-24, all relating to allowing police, fire and emergency service providers to possess Naloxone to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §15-2-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-4C-24, all to read as follows:
§15-2-10. Uniforms; authorized equipment, weapons and supplies; local headquarters; quarters for members; life insurance; medical and hospital fees for injuries and illnesses of members incurred in line of duty.
(a) The standard uniform to be used by the West Virginia State Police after the effective date of this article shall be as follows: Forestry green blouse with West Virginia State Police emblem on sleeve; black shoulder strap one-inch black stripe around sleeve, four inches from end of sleeve; forestry green breeches with one-inch black stripe down the side; trousers (slacks) with one-inch black stripe down the side for officers and clerks regularly enlisted in the State Police; forestry green shirts with West Virginia State Police emblem on sleeve; black shoulder straps; forestry green mackinaw with West Virginia State Police emblem on sleeve; black shoulder straps; one-inch black stripe around sleeve four inches from end of sleeve; campaign hat of olive drab color; black Sam Browne belt with holster; black leggings and shoes; the officer's uniform will have one and one-quarter inch black stripe around the sleeve of blouse and mackinaw four inches from end of sleeve circumposed with one-half inch gold braid, also black collars on blouse, with two silver shoulder bars for captains, one silver shoulder bar for first lieutenant, one gold shoulder bar for second lieutenant. For noncommissioned officers the uniform blouse and shirt will have thereon black chevrons of the appropriate rank.
(b) The superintendent shall establish the weapons, opioid antidote administration device, if the officer has received training in accordance with §16-4C-24, and enforcement equipment which are authorized for use by members of the State Police and shall provide for periodic inspection of the weapons and equipment. He or she shall provide for the discipline of members using other than authorized weapons and enforcement equipment.
(c) The superintendent shall provide the members of the State Police with suitable arms and weapons and, when he or she considers it necessary, with suitably equipped automobiles, motorcycles, watercraft, airplanes and other means of conveyance to be used by the West Virginia State Police, the Governor and other officers and executives in the discretion of the Governor, in times of flood, disaster and other emergencies, for traffic study and control, criminal and safety work and in other matters of official business. He or she shall also provide the standard uniforms for all members of the State Police, for officers, noncommissioned officers and troopers provided for in this section. All uniforms and all arms, weapons and other property furnished the members of the State Police by the State of West Virginia are and remain the property of the state.
(d) The superintendent may purchase and maintain on behalf of members group life insurance not to exceed the amount of $5,000 on behalf of each member.
(e) The superintendent may contract and furnish at State Police expense medical and hospital services for treatment of illness or injury of a member which shall be determined by the superintendent to have been incurred by the member while engaged in the performance of duty and from causes beyond control of the members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the superintendent has the right of subrogation in any civil action or settlement brought by or on behalf of a member in relation to any act by another which results in the illness, injury or death of a member. To this end, the superintendent may initiate an action on behalf of the State Police in order to recover the costs incurred in providing medical and hospital services for the treatment of a member resulting from injury or illness originating in the performance of official duties. This subsection shall not affect the power of a court to apply ordinary equitable defenses to the right of subrogation.
The superintendent may also consult with the Executive Director of the Workers' Compensation Commission in an effort to defray the cost of medical and hospital services. In no case will the compensation rendered to health care providers for medical and hospital services exceed the then current rate schedule in use by the Workers' Compensation Commission.
Third-party reimbursements received by the superintendent after the expiration of the fiscal year in which the injury, illness or death occurred will be deposited to a nonexpiring special revenue account. Funds deposited to this account may be used solely for defraying the costs of medical or hospital services rendered to any sworn members as a direct result of an illness, injury or death resulting from the performance of official duties.
(f) The superintendent shall establish and maintain local headquarters at those places in West Virginia that are in his or her judgment suitable and proper to render the West Virginia State Police most efficient for the purpose of preserving the peace, protecting property, preventing crime, apprehending criminals and carrying into effect all other provisions of this article. The superintendent shall provide, by acquisition, lease or otherwise, for local headquarters, for housing and quarters for the accommodation of the members of the West Virginia State Police, and for any other facilities necessary or useful for the effective operation of the West Virginia State Police and shall provide all equipment and supplies necessary for the members of the West Virginia State Police to perform their duties.
§16-4C-24. Administration of an opioid antidote in an emergency situation.
(a) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Opioid antagonist" means naloxone hydrochloride that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a drug overdose.
(2) "Opioid overdose prevention and treatment training program" or "program" means any program operated by a local health jurisdiction or that is registered by a local health jurisdiction to train individuals to prevent, recognize, and respond to an opiate overdose, and that provides, at a minimum, training in all of the following:
(A) The causes of an opiate overdose;
(B) Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation;
(C) How to contact appropriate emergency medical services; and
(D) How to administer an opioid antagonist.
(b) A licensed health care provider who is permitted by law to prescribe an opioid antagonist may, if acting with reasonable care, prescribe and subsequently dispense or distribute an opioid antagonist in conjunction with an opioid overdose prevention and treatment training program, without being subject to civil liability or criminal prosecution. This immunity shall apply to the licensed health care provider even when the opioid antagonist is administered by and to someone other than the person to whom it is prescribed.
(c) A person who is not otherwise licensed to administer an opioid antidote, specifically emergency responders covered under this article, State Police and both volunteer and paid firefighters, may administer an opioid antidote in an emergency without fee if the person has received the training information specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) and believes in good faith that the other person is experiencing a drug overdose. The person is not, as a result of his or her acts or omissions, liable for any violation of any professional licensing statute, or subject to any criminal prosecution arising from or related to the unauthorized practice of medicine or the possession of an opioid antidote.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow police, fire and emergency service providers, to possess Naloxone to administer in suspected narcotic drug overdoses.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
§16-4C-24 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.


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As you know, we sponsor Leidy Solis. However, trying to speak objectively, she delivered the best performance, so far, of women's lifitng in the Games.
She opened with an easy 104, then 108, then wicked easy 110kg snatch. Clean and jerks were the same story. With all other lifters finished in distant second and thrid places, she opens with an easy 130kg. Then an easy 135 then 138kg for good show. The crowd was wild. Even a Colombian presidential candidate was in attendance to see Leidy lift. Her performance was shown, again, on TV later that night.
248kg total in women's 69kg.
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Also of interest is the strategy used by the coach of the Argentinian lifter in 3rd place. A lifter from Ecuador and Chile seemed to be battling it out for 3rd with each taking 110KG. They both missed jertks, ecuasdor looked a lot stronger cleaning bothe Attempts.
BUT– low and behold, an ARG lifter had an attempt left at 111kg. How interesting. The coach let the other 2 lifters duke it out at 110kg and put his lifters attempt 1 kg higher. If either CHI or ECU were scuccessful, he could then raise his lifters weight to a higher number. I think the other coached may have written off the ARG lifter, as her opener at 106 looked weak. But, she really brought it when 111kg was put on the bar!!
Brazialian lifter in second almost bombed out. She only needed her openers to placxe a distant csecond from Leidy Solis.


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Submission + - Crowded U.S. airwaves desperately in search of spectrum breathing room (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Ahead of a major new spectrum auction scheduled for next year, America's four major wireless carriers are jockeying for position in the frequencies available to them, buying, selling and trading licenses to important parts of the nation's airwaves. Surging demand for mobile bandwidth, fueled by an increasingly saturated smartphone market and data-hungry apps, has showed no signs of slowing down. This, understandably, has the wireless industry scrambling to improve its infrastructure in a number of areas, including the amounts of raw spectrum available to the carriers. These shifts, however, are essentially just lateral moves – nothing to directly solve the problems posed by a crowded spectrum. What's really going to save the wireless world, some experts think, is a more comprehensive re-imagining of the way spectrum is used.


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Ojas Rege, VP of strategy at MobileIron, said in an email that WP8 is "a player," because "it has a compelling user experience ... and a seat at the table with IT." But he cautioned that "this doesn't guarantee success" so much as afford Microsoft an "opportunity to prove itself."
What must WP8 do to rise to this challenge? We break down the factors facing Microsoft's newest mobile OS.
1. Basic IT Tools Similar To iOS And Android
The number of third-party mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) vendors has exploded due largely to the remarkable popularity of iOS and Android devices. These consumer products weren't designed with IT friendliness in mind, so developers have had to add functions and controls that the native OSes lacked.
[ Microsoft has a home-grown tablet -- is a phone next? See Microsoft To Build Its Own Windows Phones? ]
MDM and MAM vendors say WP8 will similarly require their services. Given the vendors' self-interests, this argument is predictable -- but based on the WP8 feature set, it's also true.
Out of the box, iOS, Android and WP8 offer most of the same tools: support for Exchange ActiveSync, a controlled, certification-driven app environment, etc. Execution differs. Viruses can infect iOS but as long as the device isn't jail broken, it's pretty safe. Android's security, meanwhile, has been shakier. Time will tell how WP8 does, but it looks solid. Microsoft's BitLocker technology provides secure encryption, for example -- but iOS and Android support encryption, too. It's the method that differs in most regards, not the feature.
Zenprise CEO Amit Pandey said during an interview that he doesn't see "any additional control advantages" built into WP8, though he did mention it offers "a more seamless approach" to collaboration due to easier SharePoint integration. Nonetheless, "Most work around securing apps is done by [MDM and MAM vendors], and not by the vendor of the OS," he stated.
Indeed, MobileIron's Rege wrote that the company's approach to Windows Phone 8 is basically the same as it is for other OSes: "use the baseline hooks ... to provide the first layer of management (lock, wipe, encryption, install app, etc.) and then create a more advanced capability stack on top of that (app security, document management, certificate-based identity, secure tunneling, etc.)."
In short, making WP8 an enterprise-grade OS is pretty much like making iOS or Android an enterprise-grade OS.
Analyst Chris Morales of 451 Research suggested this isn't a bad thing. "Being late means they were able to learn from Apple and Google to adopt the best of both worlds -- a vetted app store and a compartmentalized OS architecture," he wrote in an email.
And why not follow a successful act? As Brian Duckering, senior manager for Symantec's Enterprise Mobility Group, remarked during an interview, "Apple designed with consumers in mind. Ironically, this turned out to be pretty useful from a security standpoint." Still, he said, the iPhone BYOD trend "really took hold as the MDM pieces came into being."
2. Microsoft Office And The Windows Ecosystem
Pandey said WP8 is exciting because of "the ability to use Microsoft applications on tablets and phones." Enterprises, he stated, want "to use apps from the desktop in a seamless way, and that's the big hope that people are holding their breath for."
Indeed, Office holds a preeminent space in the enterprise. One can view Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on iOS and Android devices -- but they don't always look like they're supposed to, and editing them can involve buggy workarounds. WP8 not only wipes away these frustrations but also promises automatic synching of docs across devices via Office 365.
In an email, IDC analyst Stacy Crook offered that IT managers "would welcome a mobile device from Microsoft because of the potential integration ... with existing backend systems." But most enterprises "aren't rushing to upgrade to Windows 8 just yet," she cautioned, "and the feedback to the user experience has been mixed." As a result, "there is a question of how soon" WP8 will help Microsoft implement fully cohesive Windows-only environments.


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On March 28, the Detroit Tigers closed out their spring-training season against the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium.
On March 28, the Detroit Tigers closed out their spring-training season against the Tampa Bay Rays at Joker Marchant Stadium. The 2014 season marked the Tigers' 78th year in Lakeland, the longest-standing spring-training relationship between a major league baseball team and a community in major league history.
The Detroit Tigers are a tremendous asset to Lakeland's quality of life, offering thousands of fans an opportunity to watch their favorite team play against other Grapefruit League clubs in one of the finest baseball stadiums in the country.
The Detroit Tiger's spring training brings a major economic benefit to our community, generating an estimated annual economic impact of $45 million. Lakeland also is home to the Lakeland Flying Tigers, the Detroit Tigers' Class A Florida State League team, which pumps an additional $18 million annual economic impact into our community.
To localize the important impact the Detroit Tigers have on our community, consider these facts:
Baseball fans numbering 116,226 attended 15 spring-training games this year at Joker Marchant Stadium, with 60 percent coming from out of the area.
In addition to an estimated 27,000 room nights booked by fans in local hotels and motels, 11,500 room nights were booked for major and minor league players, and staff.
Lakeland received daily sports coverage from numerous media outlets, both nationally and internationally.
More than 350 major and minor league baseball professionals came to Tigertown to prepare for their respective seasons. Year-round health care for major and minor league players, including annual physicals and rehab, is provided by Watson Clinic.
The Lakeland Convention & Visitors Bureau reported a dramatic increase in the number of out-of-state guests attending the chamber's annual Tiger Barbecue in February, as well as the number of visitors stopping in at the Visitor Information Center to gather information on things to see and do in the area. While the Tigers were the main reason they were here, the warm Florida weather was certainly a welcome change from what they left back home.
The city of Lakeland, Polk County Commission, Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce and the state of Florida have all played a critical role in maintaining the long-standing relationship Lakeland has enjoyed with the Detroit Tigers since 1934.
With the increased competition from other cities and states to acquire spring-training teams, the city of Lakeland and the County Commission are funding a $37 million expansion and renovation project out at Tigertown. Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature have committed as much as $20 million in matching funds to Lakeland and the 14 other spring-training cities in Florida to support their stadium improvements.
State House and Senate leaders are addressing legislation related to the disbursement of matching funds from the state. The language provides for a 30-year distribution period and also outlines strict penalties to teams who leave a host city prior to the end of that distribution period.
Proposed legislation would amend the disbursement to 20 years and lessen the penalties, or "claw-back," making Florida spring training more viable for cities and more attractive to baseball operations.
Our Polk legislative delegation, led by state Rep. Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, is to be commended for helping lead the proposed legislation toward final adoption by the full Legislature.
In the next few weeks, our legislators need to hear from concerned citizens to let them know how critically important the Detroit Tigers are to our quality of life and economic future.
Contact the chamber at 863-688-8551 to find out how you can express your support.
With everyone pitching in, Lakeland will be able to welcome the Detroit Tigers back to their spring-training home for years to come.
Play ball!
[ Kathleen Munson is president of the Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce. ]


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Cheers to you, Professors Emeriti!
Enjoy these quick glimpses of Merrimack life. Or, maybe you want to submit a photo of your own? Email photos to firstname.lastname@example.com or add #macksnap to your social media uploads!
April 20, 2013
Merrimack College recently honored their Professors Emeriti at a reception on campus.
Some of the Professors Emeriti in attendance were:
from left: James Corbett, Ph.D., Marketing; Elaine Huber, Ph.D., Religious Studies; Steven Lonardo, Ph.D., Chemistry; Dr. Christopher E. Hopey, Ph.D., President; Larry Kelts, Ph.D., Biology; John Warren, Ph.D., Philosophy; and Vin Lonardo, MBA, Accounting and Finance. Current faculty members enjoyed the opportunity to see and catch up with their former colleagues. Not present in the photo was Al Brenner, Fine Arts.


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Allentown teaming with Slopes to clean Arlington
The Allentown Community Development Corp. and the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Assoc. will be joining on April 27 to clean up and beautify Arlington Avenue.
Volunteers are asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the billboard near Newton Street. In addition to bringing themselves and a neighbor, volunteers are urged to bring trash bags, gloves, brooms, shovels, dustpans, buckets, boxes and latex gloves.
For more information, contact Ken Wolfe at email@example.com.
The clean-up is in cooperation between Allentown CDC, the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Assoc., Citizens Against Litter and the Clean Pittsburgh Commission.


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The offseason and time off is underway, but Andre Ellington is in the training room getting treatment on his knee.
The running back, who came off a dynamic and impressive rookie season, won't need surgery (even if, he acknowledges now, he was worried he tore his ACL that frightening Thanksgiving practice.) He probably could get away with not getting worked on at all right now.
"I'm getting rehabbed up because there is nothing else to do," Ellington said with a smile.
That's not entirely true. Ellington also wants to prep his body for the offseason to come, put on a little more weight and be able
"He's just scraping the surface," quarterback
Ellington was a little of everything for the Cardinals. The sixth-round draft pick, who missed a game because of that knee sprain that thankfully wasn't worse, cracked 1,000 total yards running and receiving, with 652 on the ground (averaging 5.5 yards a carry) and 371 on 39 receptions (9.5 yards per touch.)
He is already a proven playmaker. The knocks on him as a purely straight-line runner looked ill-informed at best when Ellington constantly turned handoffs trapped in the backfield into big gains by his whippet-quick slides outside.
It's the receiving part of the game that may hold the most intrigue, however.
"He is such a mismatch," coach Bruce Arians said. "If he is your running back and he's matched up on safeties and linebackers, he can really improve in that area. It's something that he's never done, and he got better and better all year."
Yes, Ellington caught some passes out of the backfield in his life, but lining up as a receiver? Arians was not exaggerating. Not only had Ellington not done it, but various issues during camp prevented Ellington from practicing it at all before the week of practice prior to the opener in St. Louis.
"Come Week One, (Arians) said, 'You're going to run a couple slants, I'm going to run you wide,' " Ellington said. "I was like,
"It wasn't easy. But it was kind of natural. It's weird. I watch some of the receivers and how they run their routes."
Ellington leaned on rookie receiver
"He doesn't know he's running into danger sometimes," Arians said. "He's just out there seeing if he can catch it."
Ellington would like to run it more too. That was another constant storyline of his season.
"Um, I would," Ellington said, hesitant to make a big deal about his carries. "Why wouldn't I? I just want the opportunities to make plays, regardless of handoffs or catching the ball."
Arians made it clear he didn't want his new weapon beat up, and even with that caution, Ellington ended up with enough nicks to slow him at the end of the season. He sprained his ankle late in the year, and he admitted he was favoring the knee he hurt on Thanksgiving.
At least it wasn't serious, however. Ellington hurt it making a cut, and "I know ACL (injuries) can happen from making a cut," he said. "So I was a little freaked out."
He's not freaked out anymore. Surgery isn't needed. Now it's about building his body so he can be an even bigger factor in 2014.
Besides, "there's nothing else to do," Ellington reiterated. "I'll get these minor nicks so I'll be ready to work."


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President Obama's decision to halt the deportation of illegal immigrants who were brought here as children is at best a rough and temporary remedy for a serious problem. I'm not entirely comfortable with the executive branch electing such broad non-enforcement of a valid law. I'd much rather see the law changed.
But the truly vital question in American politics today is whether you are fundamentally receptive to immigration or hostile to it. On that question, I'm on the same side as Obama. Republicans, increasingly, are not.
Conservatives often claim they are against illegal immigration, and opposed only to rewarding those who break the law. But the people who would gain from Obama's policy are people who didn't choose to break the law -- their arrival here was the decision of their parents. To deport them is not punishing the guity but victimizing the innocent.
The right often associates illegal immigrants with crime and violence, in the face of ample evidence to the contrary. But Obama -- like the sponsors of the Dream Act, which would offer these kids a path to citizenship -- includes only those who "do not present a risk to national security or public safety." The Dream Act would focus on youngsters who have finished high school, stayed out trouble with the law, and want to go to college or join the military.
Anti-immigration activists view these young people as a threat. Obama is right to see them as an asset.


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There are many types of self catering accommodation available for holidays in Warntirna South, but very few types come close to that of a new caravan. This article takes a look at five of the main reasons that static caravans are an ideal choice of accommodation for your next self catering holiday.
Choice of Locations Caravan parks are situated all across the Victoria and as such you a sure to find a holiday park in the area that you want to visit. If you want to just escape for a weekend away there is bound to be a good selection of parks within a 50 mile radius of your home. From beachside caravans to caravans hidden in valleys there is certainly a holiday park to cater for everyone.
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Caravans and motorhomes essentially let you go to many of the same places and do many of the same things, so a week's holiday to the Lake District or other UK destination will be fundamentally the same if you are looking at driving there, parking up and enjoying a week or so relaxing.
The big difference comes when you want to move around a bit more or simply 'park up and camp' in a more remote location, as this is where caravans and motorhomes really begin to act completely different. A motorhome gives you a greater amount of freedom to move from place to place and stay at a number of different locations within a relatively short space of time, whereas a caravan is better suited to being left in one location and used effectively as a holiday home for the duration of your stay.
Of course, don't forget that you can still explore the immediate area with the car you used to tow the caravan! In fact for many people this is the big advantage of caravans over motorhomes, the fact that you can unhitch the caravan and drive around in a more compact 'normal' car, rather than exploring in a larger motorhome. Some motorhomers do tow small cars such as 'smart cars' but generally this is only possible on larger, more expensive 'vans.
In summary, the decision boils down to how you intend to use the vehicle. If you simply want an affordable way to spend holidays in the UK and Europe then a caravan is a fantastic choice, and one which still gives you a huge choice of destinations to choose from. If however you want the freedom to be able to move campsite at short notice and spend time at a number of different locations during your holiday, or want to do a little more 'wild camping' whilst away, then a motorhome may be the better option for you.
Decorating the Interior of Your Caravan Or Motorhome
With so many Caravan Movers on the market right now, it can be a minefield when trying to decide what make and model to choose from.
There are a number of different manufacturers of caravan motor movers all stating that their particular models are the best on the market, but in reality they all really have the same function, which is to move your caravan for you. There are plenty of models to choose from which can cater for all your needs.
You will find caravan movers that are powerful enough to move double axle caravans weighing anything up to 2500kg and less powerful version that are suitable for moving single axle caravans weighing a great deal less. Most caravan movers now also come with a remote control, which makes moving your caravan not only easier but much safer too.
The majority of modern caravan motor movers all include some form of smooth stop and start to stop your caravan pitching forward or backwards. They function well on pretty much all types of surfaces even grit, snow, loose gravel and even muddy grass you might find on your caravan site, so you should never find yourself in a situation were you can not move your caravan. They have the power to pull your caravan up slopes and take them back down hills equally as safe.
Prices tend to vary depending on specification, however you are likely to get what you pay for. Some of the German manufactured caravan movers carry a higher price tag than most, but there build quality and reliability are second to none, and will generally last the lifetime of the caravan itself. Most also now come with 5-year warranties as standard for piece of mind. Caravan movers are constantly evolving with many new models appearing all the time. To find out more about particular models you can visit dealers or even go to caravan events where you will be able to see them operating live.


text: It was a tough weekend for stock car racing families in the Maritimes. Mike Stevens died after a crash with just two laps to go, in a Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour race at Oyster Bed Speedway on Prince Edward Island. Mike was well-known here at Speedway 660. I'm pretty sure he ran a Sportsman car with us before competing in our Pro Stock division and then moving on to the Maritime Tour.


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For today's topic, it's time to finally hit on something that broke last week. Now, I have never been a big fan of Big Ten Commish, Jim Delany, and I've said this quite often. I think that he's a fraud. He's greedy. He doesn't have the best interest of college football at heart (which makes sense though because that isn't his job) although he acts like he does. And every once in a while, he will talk about a playoff system even though he has no desire at all to see that happen. But Delany's recent outline for a playoff system has piqued my interest.
This plan gives a huge preference to conference champions (as it should). It is a four team playoff in which only the top 6 teams in the final BCS rankings of the season would be considered (as they should). Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, the top two seeds would get to host the lower two seeds in the opening round (which is really cool as that would make a team from the South potentially have to play an outdoor game up North in the cold and that is something that everyone has wanted to see for DECADES). If I was to finally weigh in on my own mythical college football playoff dream scenario, this would be pretty close to what I want.
First of all, and I screamed this a few months ago, conference champions should be playing for a title. If you can't win your own league, then you should need a ton of help for possible inclusion. Of course, Nick Saban came out over the weekend and was against this which makes sense because he is an asshole. This year, for example, #3 OK State would have hosted #5 Oregon and #1 LSU would have welcomed #2 Alabama as the Tide would have been the lone wild card included. Saban still would have been in which just goes to show that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Way to be against an idea that would not have negatively impacted you at all, jerk.
Now, how I would do it, is that you play the semifinals on the Monday night of week 17 of the NFL season and then the championship the following Monday. It would give the final four about three weeks to prepare for the semis and then a week for the big one and would, in theory, eliminate any sort of rust from sitting around for 6 weeks. Monday is a football night anyway so you might as well piggyback on the groundwork that the NFL laid out.
People who are clamoring for a 16 team, an 8 team, or a plus one (Herbie!) are being impractical. 16 and 8 for obvious reasons because there aren't that many teams worthy of the title shot and scheduling conflicts. The plus one MAY work but you would have to destroy the current bowl tie-ins and that doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon. The big money bowls aren't going to be too happy to get second rate teams every year. I think that this makes the most sense though even if it means weakening the current BCS bowls. Whatever, fuck them anyway. The Fiesta Bowl people are sacks of taint anyway.
The issue with Delany's plan is Delany himself. He will NEVER dump on the Rose Bowl which is exactly what would need to happen if you want to ever see something like this. I would highly doubt that the Rose Bowl would want the 2nd place Big Ten team buttfuck the 2nd place Pac-12 team every season. They want champions. Haven't they seen enough of Bret Bielema? Second, other than Ohio State, who else is the Big Ten going to send to this 4 team tournament every year? When was the last time that a non-Fuckeyes team finished in the top 4 of the BCS? Maybe Wisconsin once? Needless to say, Jim Delany would need to convince his schools to fore go a LOT of money for the sake of the betterment of the game. So, in essence, this is all posturing by the guy that holds the key to getting this done.
The SEC wouldn't have an issue with this. Neither would the Big 12 or the Pac 12 since they almost always have their champion qualify as well. The Big East and ACC aren't going to mind since this doesn't really effect them anyway. Delany is the lynch pin for the plan that he announced. It's time for him to put his (for lack of a better word) money where his mouth is. If he TRULY wants this to happen, then he has to make it happen. I actually like his outline though. It doesn't completely eliminate non-BCS schools or non-champion BCS schools, but it sure as shit makes it harder for them to get in. And that is just the way that it should be.
So there. I have always supported the current format of the bowl system but now I'm starting to lean toward a tournament featuring "The ELITE of the ELITE". They should TOTES call it that. It's time to get something done instead of just talking about how it's time to start talking about getting things done. Thoughts?


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Each joke and one-liner is a made-for-HBO zinger, each scene with Sandler a reaffirmation of the old friendship between the two successful SNL alums.
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That's what is missing from The Longest Yard most egregiously. Charm has been kept on the bench.
This agreeable remake still manages to go the distance.
The new version has the zip of a 96-yard punt return and all the ingredients to inspire the celebratory crushing of empty beer cans.
The Longest Yard more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect. Most of its audiences will be satisfied enough when they leave the theater, although few will feel compelled to rent it on video to share with their friends. So, yes, it's a fair example of what it is.
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Iffy for 14+
Poor remake pushes the edges of PG-13.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this film pushes the edges of the PG-13 rating. It features repeated crude language (including one "f--k" and several uses of the "N" word), frequent violence on and off the football field, including one character burning to death in an explosion, beatings and hard tackles, prison guards slamming their charges' heads and crotches with batons, and inmates assaulting each other. Prisoners are locked in a "hot box" as punishment. Characters drink, smoke, take steroids, and are extremely disrespectful to authorities (cops and prison officials who, according to this film, deserve disrespect). In addition, the movie includes sexual imagery (a woman's cleavage, a woman in her underwear being spanked, gaudy transvestite cheerleaders, implied homosexual activity), and gendered and raced stereotypes serving as "jokes" (an older woman in an ugly wig, a guard who takes estrogen unknowingly and starts behaving like "a girl," and hyper-aggressive black, Latino, and Indian inmates).
Messages: Repeated rude, violent, offensive behavior.
Violence: Hard-hitting football, beatings in prison, a murder by burning, car crashes.
Sex: Transvestite characters, implied sexual activity, characters in underwear.
Language: Pushes hard at the PG-13 boundaries.
Consumerism: Sports promotional contracts discussed.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking, drug use.
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Rock music on FM radio faces more competition than ever. With iPods, satellite radio and online streaming, many companies have given up on rock music to boost ratings and revenue.
But former Q101 Chicago DJ Christine Pawlak argues that there will always be an important role for rock on the radio, played by DJs rooted in their communities, not voice-tracked elsewhere and piped in.
In her piece for Slate, "We Won't Rock You," Pawlak says that in spite of our many options for music listening, traditional radio has an advantage. "Technology will change," she writes. But "the need to connect with each other through stories and songs won't."
Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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Quote from: LetTheRightLensIn on June 17, 2013, 11:28:37 PMYou don't need a quadro though. Nvidia and Adobe are just in bed so they try to make it seem like you need a Quadro.The Quadro is faster, but I have a 4000M not because of Adobe, but because I frequently use Vegas Pro.I have had machines without Quadro 4000M, that use GEForce or others and I can assure you that the Quadros are faster, especially if the rest of the machine is high spec.Just between the 5010M and 4000M is a 30% real world speed difference, and the difference is amplified with the newer cards.Your claim of there being little difference is a little like saying that there is little benefit buying a 1DX over your average P&S.
You don't need a quadro though. Nvidia and Adobe are just in bed so they try to make it seem like you need a Quadro.
They don't put busy cycles in the drivers for certain routines that tend to be used only by graphics apps so they can be faster for some stuff, but it's not like you HAVE to have a quadro or that geforce are so sketchy. If you read the Adobe stuff it was kinda misleading, ooooooh the gamer driver might not be reliable and ooo this, all nonsense, a good GeForce card did plenty of good (thankfully they made it so easy to hack them to work that you can scarcely call it a hack) an dnot everyone had the money to dump on a Quadro or wanted a Quadro and yet if you read the forums some got scared into it over nonsense.
I am sure there are plenty of benchmarks out there.


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Celebrity Chef
Food Network Chef Michael Smith
Three of his favorite recipes
-Francine Segan, Betty's home+food editor
Chef Michael Smith, popular Food Network star is host of a slew of Food Network TV shows – Chef at Home, Chef at Large, The Inn Chef, and Chef Abroad, where he travels meeting fascinating people who are doing amazing things with food in unique and unusual places.
Betty's food editor, Francine Segan, recently had a chance to chat on the phone with Chef Michael who shared three delicious recipes.
Prince Edward Island Smoked Salmon with Pasta and Simple Lemon Dill Cream Cheese Sauce
This is one of the most popular dishes on my table. Our friends love its bright, familiar flavors and we love how easy it is to make. You can toss steaming, wet, just cooked pasta with melting cream cheese to form an incredibly smooth luxurious sauce. The smoked salmon adds extravagance balanced by other familiar flavours: dill, lemon, onion, mustard and capers. A five star dish for sharing!
Serves 4
1 pound penne or your favorite short pasta like bowties
1 cup room temperature cream cheese
1 bunch of fresh dill, chopped
4 scallions (green onions), sliced
1 lemon, juiced and zested
1 heaping spoonful of Dijon mustard
1/4 cup capers
8 ounces smoked salmon, or more if you like
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Season it liberally with salt until tastes like a day at the beach on Prince Edward Island. As the pasta cooks it will absorb the salted water and become properly seasoned. Cook al dente, until the pasta is cooked through but still pleasantly chewy.
Scoop out some of the starchy cooking water. Drain the pasta but not quite all the way.
Leave it a bit wet. Toss the pasta back into the pot along with a splash or two of the reserved water, perhaps a half-cup or so in total then immediately add the rest of the ingredients. While the pasta is still steaming hot it will easily melt the cream cheese and form a rich creamy sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
Simply Steamed Island Blue Mussels with Three Different Flavours
Mussels are super simple to cook and travel with their own built-in sauce base. They're easy to steam and when you do, they release a flavourful broth that many connoisseurs swear is the best part. That broth can be flavoured any way you care too so mussels are also a great ingredient to freestyle with.
Serves 4
Five to six pounds of mussels, rinsed well with lots of cold running water
Choose ONE of the following three flavouring groups:
– 12 ounce bottle of your favourite local beer, a sliced onion, a tablespoon of butter
-1 cup of orange juice, 1 tablespoon of curry powder
-1 cup of whatever wine you're drinking, 1 tablespoon of mustard, 1 teaspoon of dried thyme, 1 tablespoon of butter
Wash the mussels very well and discard any that are open and won't close with a bit of gentle finger pressure.
Pour the liquid and other aromatic ingredients of your choice into a large pot with a tight fitting lid. Stir to combine and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Add the mussels and cover with the lid. Shake the pot occasionally and cook until all the mussels have opened, ten minutes or so.
Spoon out the mussels into a serving bowl. Strain the remaining liquid to remove any broken shell or lingering sand in it. Serve with the mussels and lots of bread for soaking up the flavourful juice.
Organic Prince Edward Island Field Greens with Apple Vinaigrette & Pumpkin Seeds
A simple greens salad is both healthy and tasty. When you toss it yourself with local organic greens and a homemade dressing it can also be a powerful way to support sustainable food choices.
Serves 4
1/4 cup of canola oil
2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon of local honey
1 teaspoon of any mustard
Four handfuls of local, organic field greens
1/2 cup of toasted pumpkin seeds, optional
salt and pepper to taste
In a salad bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, honey and mustard until they form a smooth dressing. Toss the greens in the dressing until evenly and lightly coated.
Sprinkle on the pumpkin seeds, if you like, and any other of your favorite locally and seasonally inspired salad garnishes!
Prince Edward Island hosts a wonderful festival in the fall called Fall Flavours, which packs over 130 culinary and cultural events into 12 days from September 25 to October 4. Visit a winery, join local fishermen and farmers as they work, taste artisan products, and much, much more!


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Every Thursday evening, from 6 to 9 p.m., Valerie's Lounge hosts a totally entertaining BINGO?session that helps a very good local musical cause, while players have an absolute BALL.
Be sure to stop by the local lounge and liquor store in the Indian Creek Shopping Plaza, 17264 San Carlos Blvd., for some classic BINGO, with proceeds of the event going toward the Lewis P. Tabarrini Foundation, a local group that enriches the lives of children through the power of music, for those who otherwise wouldn't have the chance.
Island local Lena Neroni is Queen of the BINGO?Balls that night, calling out each number, one by one, until someone shouts that coveted one-word phrase, "BINGO!"
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Lena Neroni and representatives with the Tabarrini Foundation, A200, and those that are just there to have a total blast! Photo by MELISSA SCHNEIDER.
A good six to 10 games are played each night, trying to match the required board coverage (like four corners, a captital H, capital I, top and bottom rows, etc.), where pots range from $20 to $60 and up. And, the final round is always the jackpot round, where players have to fill their entire board to win the bookoo bucks, which is usually well over $100.
"We have so, so, so much fun during our BINGO?nights," said Valerie Van Selow, owner of Val's Lounge. "We all have a blast, and it's for a good cause, so come enjoy the fun, win some money and contribute to the Tabarrini Foundation!
It doesn't cost much to play the game ($1 for a card of three games), and taking a chance to win while having a great time and helping a local cause just tops the FREE?SPACE?of a BINGO?board! For more information, call Val's Lounge, 466-7788.
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About the Tabarrini Foundation
To honor their late, music-loving father, Lew, the Tabarrini family set up the Lewis P. Tabarrini Children's Music Outreach Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide instruments and lessons to children who do not otherwise have the means to do so.
Lew believed that a boy or girl with an instrument in their hands is less likely to get into trouble, and he personally provided more than one child with their very first musical instrument.
The Lewis P. Tabarrini Children's Music Outreach Foundation's goal is to change children's lives, one guitar at a time, and provide instruments and lessons to children in Southwest Florida who want to play music but don't have the financial resources to make their dreams come true on their own.
For more information on the local organization, or to find out how you can help, call 980-4991, visit TabarriniFoundation.org, or find the group on Facebook.