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Dr. Denis Membreno, retired surgeon, died on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a brief illness. He was 81.
He was the husband of Else (Mulder) Membreno and the father of Poncho Membreno, Chico Membreno, Elseke Membreno-Zenteno and Denise Royer, and grandfather of nine grandchildren. His memorial service will be held at a later date on the Vineyard and a full obituary will appear at that time. Arrangements are under the care of the Chapman, Cole and Gleason Funeral Home in Oak Bluffs. An online guest book is available at ccgfuneralhome.com.


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Pitchers and catchers report to the Indians' spring training camp in Goodyear, Ariz. on Tuesday. One pitcher who won't is Scott Kazmir, who as a free agent signed a two-year $22 million contract with Oakland.
One pitcher who probably won't is Ubaldo Jimenez, a free agent who hasn't signed with anyone, including the Indians.
Team officials think (hope?) they have enough starting pitching to cover for the loss of their two best pitchers during their September stampede to the postseason last year.
They will either be right, or come September this year, they may look back on their we-can-do-this-without-them decision to let Jimenez and Kazmir walk as so much cockeyed optimism.
These were two tough high-stakes calls, the kinds of calls on which small-market teams invariably choose to err on the side of conservatism.
Jimenez (84) and Kazmir (72) pitched more innings after the All-Star break than any pitchers on the Indians' staff last year. In a combined 35 starts in the second half, they had a 2.54 ERA. In September, Jimenez's ERA was 1.09, Kazmir 2.57.
They were the leaders of the staff and both are now gone. Or almost gone. Jimenez is still unsigned but Indians officials seem to be more intrigued by the high draft pick they will get as compensation for Jimenez signing with another team than they are signing Jimenez themselves.
That's a dubious assessment of the situation, but this is also a thorny thicket of factors to consider.
The argument in favor of not re-signing Kazmir was that while he was a very productive pitcher for the Indians last year, he pitched only 158 innings and it took some careful handling — extra days off between starts, skipping an occasional start — to keep him sharp.
The Indians also apparently thought the two years and $22 million Kazmir got from Oakland were a little too rich for their tastes. I would argue that the shortness of the contract negates the riskiness of its dollar value.
The argument in favor of not re-signing Jimenez is that there is uncertainty about which way his career is trending. Will he continue to pitch over the next three years to the level he did last year? Or will he revert to the way he pitched in his first year-and-a-half with the Indians, when he was unwatchable?
The Indians' infatuation with the draft pick they are going to get as compensation for Jimenez signing with another team is baffling. Are they trying to win now or are they trying to win three or four years from now? The Indians are trying to win now. Having a draft pick in their hip pocket but a gaping hole in their rotation does nothing to help them win now.
That said, Kazmir and Jimenez are both tough calls, and, generally speaking, small-market teams tend to be cautious when faced with tough calls.
The dilemma now facing the Indians, however, is their inventories of potential replacements for Jimenez and Kazmir.
One of them is Danny Salazar. Nobody should have a problem with that. In his 10-start rookie season last year, he showed such electric stuff and tantalizing potential — how many rookies do you know who struck out Miguel Cabrera in each of the first three times he faced him? — that he deserves a full season's worth of starts.
It's the second vacancy in the rotation that's the problem. The three candidates for that spot, going into spring training, are Carlos Carrasco, Josh Tomlin and Trevor Bauer.
Reading between the lines being uttered by Indians officials, it seems like Carrasco has a slight edge on the other two. Everyone likes his big arm. Not everyone is sold on his makeup. He has twice been suspended for intentionally throwing at hitters, and he seems a bit overwhelmed by the responsibility that comes with being a starter.
His career numbers as a starter (10-19, 5.53 ERA) and as a reliever (1-0, 1.32). Make this a no-brainer. Or does it?
Tomlin missed virtually all of last year while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, while serial tinkerer Bauer, the mad scientist, is anything but a sure thing.
So assuming Jimenez lands elsewhere, the Indians will likely open the 2014 season with a rotation of Justin Masterson — in the last year of his contract (no distractions there!) — Salazar, Corey Kluber, Zach McAllister and (pick one) Carrasco, Tomlin or Bauer.
For a team that had to play out of its mind in September just to squeeze into the playoffs as a wild-card team in 2013, entering 2014 with an even thinner rotation is, at best, a gamble — at worst, a really bad gamble.

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While the encomia from world leaders and cultural figures continue to pour in after the death of Gabriel García Márquez at the age of 87 last month, a Charles Lane column in the Washington Post last week on the 1982 Nobel Prize-winning novelist threatened to reopen a 40-year-old wound. Lane recalled the Padilla Affair—the arrest, imprisonment, and show trial of a Cuban poet, an episode that once divided writers and intellectuals across the world, with García Márquez coming down on the wrong side.
In 1971 Cuban state security jailed the poet Heberto Padilla for a book that appeared to criticize the revolution and its father, Fidel Castro. Padilla was forced to confess his sins and denounce other transgressors, a handful of Cuban writers including his wife Belkis Cuza Malé, also a poet. Padilla apologized to Castro, to whom, as Padilla said, he had "been unfair and ungrateful [and] for which I will never tire of repenting."
Castro's subsequent speech underscored the purpose of the arrest and confession—a "rigorous alignment with the revolution and subordination to its political dictates," as one scholar put it, "was a precondition for intellectual activity." In other words, this socialist utopia would cut off the tongues of its subjects unless they sang its praises. Many literary figures, including a number of major Latin American novelists and poets like future Nobelists Mario Vargas Llosa and Octavio Paz, turned on Castro and withdrew their support for a revolution that they came to recognize as simply another color in the totalitarian spectrum. In response, Castro fumed in the clichéd rhetoric of revolution that these were "brazen Latin Americans" who "live in bourgeois salons 10,000 miles from the problems."
Living nearly 5,000 miles from Havana in Barcelona, García Márquez refused to sign a letter criticizing Castro—which is to say, he not only came out against a fellow writer, human rights, and free speech, but also on behalf of false imprisonment, torture, false confessions, show trials, and executions. The Padilla Affair was the most notorious moment in a long career of what Lane rightly characterizes as García Márquez's "political rottenness." In reward for his loyalty, as Lane explains, he "gradually rose in Havana's estimation, ultimately emerging as a de facto member of Castro's inner circle. Fidel would shower 'Gabo' with perks, including a mansion, and established a film institute in Cuba under García Márquez's personal direction."
His friendship with Castro, the Colombian novelist flattered himself, was based largely on their shared literary tastes. He never published a book without first showing the manuscript to the man who'd imprisoned dozens of Cuban writers. For Castro's part, it's not hard to see why he felt indebted to García Márquez—the great man of modern Spanish letters had not only proven his loyalty but had more importantly provided the revolution, and Castro himself, with invaluable legitimacy, without which the course of modern Latin American history might have turned out differently. In soliciting his friendship and continuing to make sure García Márquez remained personally invested in the revolution, Castro was feeding the ego behind what had become the happy and most famous face of a monstrous regime.
Years after the Padilla Affair, García Márquez defended his stance, arguing that it was by staying close to the revolution, as he hinted to the New Yorker in a 1999 profile, that he was able to work on Castro directly, and behind the scenes, to win Padilla's release in 1980. (Writing last month in National Review, another Cuban emigré poet jailed by Castro, Armando Valladares, charges that García Márquez in fact informed on dissidents to Cuban intelligence.) When asked why he continued to support Castro after so many of his friends and colleagues had seen the mask fall, García Márquez said that it was because "I have much better and more direct information, and a political maturity that allows me a more serene, patient, and humane comprehension of the reality."
Reality is a peculiar word for a writer whose literary reputation is tied to the genre he brought to a sort of perfection—"magical realism," a technique combining supernatural elements with the real world: blood that comes alive and slithers through the streets, for instance, old men with wings, and so forth. Some critics argued that García Márquez employed magical realism to critique the existing political culture of Latin America. However, outside his friendships with numerous world leaders (and a bizarre effort to facilitate negotiations between the Colombian government and the Cuban-backed terrorists of FARC who were trying to overthrow it), it's hard to see how the novelist had much connection with any political reality at all.
García Márquez was an opportunist; he enjoyed the proximity to power that his fame as an artist made possible. Vargas Llosa called him Castro's courtesan, but García Márquez's vanity made him indiscriminate in his affections; loving to be loved, he was available to any powerful suitor. The adolescent Marxist and lifelong anti-imperialist blushed to find himself befriended by Bill Clinton, a big fan who lifted the longstanding U.S. travel ban and facilitated his visa. Clinton gushed when he finally got to meet the author of what he said was his favorite novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, at a cocktail party hosted by William and Rose Styron in Martha's Vineyard. Later, García Márquez seems to have convinced himself that he was a go-between serving both Clinton and Castro as well as, from his perspective, the greater good of restoring relations between the United States and Cuba. In both his work and his political convictions, García Márquez was a fantasist.
Employed by García Márquez and other Latin American novelists, magical realism partakes of a tradition in Spanish letters that dates back to the renaissance. Gongorismo, named after the poet Luis de Góngora (1561-1627), is typically described as a literary style characterized by obscurity, extravagance, and violation of accepted laws of language, logic, and sentiment. The purpose of this stylistic shock treatment was to lay waste to a calcified classicism. From Góngora's perspective, the use of the same accepted themes, conceits, and language, rehearsed repeatedly by both genuine poets and their lesser imitators, had effectively drained the life out of Spanish verse.
García Márquez and other stars of what became known as "El Boom," the great late-20th-century flourishing of Latin American literature, were reacting to the novel, a European literary form that was invented and developed in tandem with Europe's changing political and social realities, especially the rise of the middle class. Since Latin America was the product of a different political and social reality, it called for a new interpretation of the novel. This is what gave rise to magical realism, a technique that, in the hands of García Márquez at least, also relied on a local oral storytelling tradition. The important point is that, like Gongorismo, magical realism's subversion of literary rationalism is a style, a technique for reviving and renovating a literary genre. However, García Márquez's international success depended in large part on the fact that his audience, especially in the United States, confused magical realism with Latin American political reality.
New York publishing legend has it that García Márquez owed his fame to a used-book dealer. The Strand has long been the first stop for the New York publishing set, book reviewers, literary critics, and underpaid editorial assistants looking to unload their unwanted review copies for a handful of fast cash. The story goes that when they came in to dump their copies of a new novel from a 33-year-old Colombian writer shortly after the 1967 Spanish-language book was translated into English in 1970, one Strand employee told them they were making a mistake-—they should keep the book and read it. When they heeded his advice, One Hundred Years of Solitude became a sensation, destined to reach every corner of the earth.
Regardless of this account's veracity, the fact is that it was America that made García Márquez a literary colossus. He was a terrific storyteller, and as a writer of prose fiction his Gongorismo was not vulnerable to the exigencies of translation that poetry in a similar mode cannot possibly survive. Instead, it was precisely García Márquez's magical realism that thrilled readers with the sense of the new, while adhering to standard novelistic conceits—beautiful and tragic women, serial intrigue, love, and family. One Hundred Years of Solitude was fantastic and familiar at the same time.
García Márquez is typically said to be an heir to Faulkner, whose Yoknapatawpha County, explained the Colombian novelist, was the model for his imaginary town of Macondo. But Salman Rushdie, citing Tolkien, Harry Potter, and other adolescent fantasies in a recent tribute to García Márquez, may have hit a little closer to the truth. García Márquez wrote escapist literature. As with all fantasy literature, the most significant feature is the locale, the world that fantasy, unchecked by reality, creates. The great psychological novels are studies in human character shaped by and responding to circumstance and fate. In fantasy, the characters are typically cut-out figures, allegories, embodiments of moral attributes, like virtue, courage, greed, and gluttony. It is place that breathes with the life of a unique individual, and it is the character of the place—Narnia, the Shire, Hogwarts—rather than the psychology of a human character, that tends to live on in the minds of readers.
García Márquez's great fortune was that his fantasy world happened to be set in Latin America. This fact could not help but appeal to a Vietnam-era audience certain that America was doing bad things all around the world and possibly much worse things in Third World countries even closer to home. Wasn't our adventure in Southeast Asia just the most recent iteration of what we'd been doing in Latin America for a century or more? Imperialism, colonialism, the subjugation of Third World peoples. Surely this was the grand theme of One Hundred Years of Solitude, as articulated by a genuine voice of the global South. Hidden under all the fantasy, his American readers were convinced, García Márquez must have a political message that indicts America for its criminal actions across the world.
Insofar as there are any real politics in García Márquez's books, they simply echo what any reader of the New York Times was already predisposed to think about Latin America or anywhere else in the Third World in the 1970s—the bad guys of course are right-wing, and the good guys are for overthrowing the system, i.e., revolution. He claimed that his grandfather, the model for the protagonist of the novella No One Writes to the Colonel, was the source of many of his political ideas. A military man and a liberal, García Márquez explained, his grandfather "would regale me with horrifying accounts of the last civil war that free-thinkers and anti-clerics waged against the Conservative government." García Márquez, according to one scholar of his work, held "socialist and anti-imperialist views . . . in principled opposition to the global status quo dominated by the United States."
The novelist's political commitments then were of the boilerplate left-liberal variety—as readily available in Parisian lecture halls as they were in Upper West Side living rooms. His political ideas were already part of the atmosphere of the moment. Accordingly, for his American readers, García Márquez's work offered something like an invigorating, albeit perfectly comfortable, vacation in a Third World theme park. And that's why he became so popular. An overtly political novelist who truly sought to unnerve his readership never would've gotten the same reception, and won the same wide readership, even in the 1970s. For instance, the struggles of the Palestinians and their war against Israel have long been of abiding interest to the international left, but a novelistic account of them, as depicted, say, by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group, while perhaps popular on some college campuses, was simply not bestseller material. It was not because García Márquez was deeply engaged in the revolutionary struggle that he was politically useful to Castro, but because his novels were international bestsellers, thanks to America.
It's worth imagining what might have happened had García Márquez come out against Castro over the Padilla Affair. In 1971, the year after the English-language translation to One Hundred Years of Solitude was published, García Márquez was probably the world's third-most famous Latin American, after the Brazilian soccer star Pelé and Castro himself. Had he joined his less famous Latin American colleagues as well as other writers like Susan Sontag and Italo Calvino in coming out against Castro, García Márquez would have stripped the revolution of any of its remaining luster. That's not to say that Castro would've fallen or that other revolutionary movements would've died in the womb, but the Cuban revolution would have been exposed by the continent's most popular spokesman, its greatest living writer, for what it truly was—a brutal dispensation that turned husbands and wives against each other, jailed dissidents, writers, homosexuals, and anyone who deviated from the strictures of Castroism, all in order to extinguish freedom. The issue then isn't simply that García Márquez made the wrong choice when he backed Castro in the Padilla Affair, but that he legitimized totalitarianism, in Cuba and throughout the rest of Latin America.
The fact that he continued to believe in Castro and the revolution until his death is indisputable, and it's perhaps not hard to find the reasons why. Like many writers he was vain and susceptible to flattery, especially that of the powerful. He was from a modest background and, compared with many other Latin American literary stars schooled in Paris or London, only moderately well educated, which is not to say that a lack of intellect played a part in his choice but rather that an abundance of resentment almost surely did.
But biography can't entirely explain his choices, and it may prove useful to turn to one of García Márquez's precursors, the greatest of all Spanish novelists, one of Góngora's contemporaries, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is a book whose hero is incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction, fantasy from the real world. In a sense, this theme is also that of García Márquez, a novelist who constructed an imaginary universe by combining and confusing the visible world and the supernatural. It is not always advisable to draw analogies between an artist's style and his beliefs, but it is difficult not to conclude that in his public life García Márquez lived like Quixote, and mistook fantasy for the real and visible world. He saw in Castro and the revolution something of wondrous beauty, his Dulcinea, when in fact it was coarse and violent. But if García Márquez chose to back Castro because of his fantasy-riddled political imagination, it turns out that the windmills the novelist tilted at were real. And those he sided against suffered deeply.


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CEO: Doug Brockett
Storage startup Exablox in April came out of stealth mode with a solution that brings the management of unstructured data, but does so with an eye on SMB customers and solution providers. The Exablox OneBlox is a 2U or 4U appliance that comes with eight drive bays. Customers can add any hard drive or SSD to the appliances, each of which is a scale-out node in an Exablox ring. As a drive is added to the ring, it is immediately available for use.
The Exablox OneBlox solution also includes deduplication, snapshots, failover, replication, ease-of-use, self-diagnosis, and self-repair. It scales to up to six nodes and a maximum of 192 TBs per ring. The Exablox OneBlox also features the company's own distributed object-base file system, which provides inline deduplication for primary storage and disk-based protection, continuous data protection, and encryption and replication of all data, all without the need to set RAID levels or LUNs.


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In a letter from FTA Regional Administrator Leslie Rogers, the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation was advised of the favorable decision in writing.
"This is great news for Honolulu," Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle said. "We are grateful to Senator Inouye and to our congressional delegation for their strong support. Entering into final design also allows us to begin the process of working toward our full-funding grant agreement with FTA, which solidifies the $1.55 billion in federal funds we expect to receive. We remain on track to complete that process next fall."
The Honolulu rail transit project's entry into final design demonstrates the FTA's continued acknowledgement that the project is progressing through the various FTA requirements toward a federal contribution of $1.55 billion. The Honolulu project's financial plan will be subject to an even more intensive review before FTA enters into an FFGA with HART.
"This approval serves as further confirmation that required steps have been properly followed and that the FTA believes this project should continue to move forward," HART Board Chairwoman Carrie Okinaga said. "It also means that the FTA has approved our updated financial plan and that the project remains on sound financial footing, which is good news for taxpayers. The HART board will continue to do its part to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget."
The Fiscal Year 2012 Transportation Appropriations measure includes a total of $510 million for those transit New Starts projects that will enter into an FFGA in calendar year 2012. When Honolulu enters into an FFGA with the FTA, it will become eligible for a portion of these funds in the year ahead.


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NEW YORK — Cliff Osmond, a prolific character actor on film and television and an instructor who estimated that he had taught more than 10,000 actors, died Dec. 22 at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. He was 75.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Margaret Ebrahim.
Mr. Osmond appeared in many films, most notably four Billy Wilder comedies.
Mr. Osmond played the private investigator Purkey in "The Fortune Cookie," the first film starring both Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau; the amateur songwriter Barney in "Kiss Me, Stupid," alongside Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston; a police officer in Wilder's version of "The Front Page," which also starred Lemmon and Matthau; and another police officer in "Irma La Douce."
Mr. Osmond wrote on his website that during the making of "Kiss Me, Stupid," while he struggled to carry a tune, Wilder remarked, "Cliff has the musical ear of van Gogh."
He appeared on television more than 100 times during four decades on shows including "Gunsmoke," "All in the Family," and a 1962 episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled "The Gift."
Mr. Osmond drew on his wealth of experience to become a well-regarded acting teacher.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident Park Chu-young will be available for tomorrow's Barclays Premier League clash against Swansea as the South Korea captain awaits his visa in Paris.
The 26-year-old signed from Monaco ahead of the transfer deadline and was away on international duty, scoring a hat-trick against Lebanon. Wenger confirmed the relevant paperwork had not yet been completed, but remained optimistic it would be in time for the striker to feature on Saturday.
Speaking to a pre-match news conference, the Arsenal manager said: "We have an uncertainty still with the visa of Park."
He added: "He is in Paris at the moment, but we hope it will be sorted out tonight (Friday). He has been away playing against Lebanon and Kuwait. From Kuwait he has flown directly to Paris and should come back tonight."
Arsenal's other deadline signings defenders Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos as well as midfield pair Yossi Benayoun and Mikel Arteta are all expected to be involved as the Gunners aim to kick-start their domestic campaign in the wake of an 8-2 mauling at Manchester United.
"I worked very hard after our last game to get the players in because I had to focus on something that was different," Wenger said.
"I feel it has given the team a lift because everybody knew we were a bit short of quality and number-wise with the number of players we have lost at the beginning of the season.
"Other players have left us too and we were too short to compete on all fronts."
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Macon Film Festival Features 87 Movies in 3 Venues | News
The Macon Film Festival kicked off its eighth year Thursday afternoon. Around 87 movies will be screened over four days at the Cox Capital Theater, Douglas Theater and 567 Cener for Renewal.
But for Marcus Sullivan, a student from Ottawa, Canada, this is his first film festival as a filmmaker. His movie "The Suicide Kid" will hit the screen Friday afternoon.
"What attracted us to this one is that there was a student category and in particular they accepted student features, which is our niche that we ultimately fell into so Macon was one of the few that accepted student features," said Sullivan.
The premise of his movie is a university freshman who starts a video blog on YouTube that takes a dark turn.
"Various circumstances in his life lead him to a suicide attempt that he films and the failed suicide attempt because a viral YouTube sensation, and so he becomes a viral video star. And his whole life changes, and we see how through his video blogs the affect of online stardom," said Sullivan.
Terrell Sandefur said it's films like Sullivan's and others from across country and around the world.
"When we first started we really were focused on Southern films," said Sandefur. "Now our special screens are coming in from wherever we chose they don't have to be anything to do with Macon or the state of Georgia."
Sandefur said what makes the Macon Film Festival stand out is that it focuses on those behind the scenes.
"We are known as a filmmakers film festival. A lot of filmmakers focus on their stars. We have special guests that come in, but our real focus are the filmmakers in action that have submitted and that have come to our festival," said Sandefur.
Sandefur says there are not only more films, but the quality is better. He said their ticket sales increase on average 30 percent each year.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox, facing the ebbing ratings power of "American Idol," is betting big on its first miniseries and shows from heavyweight producers Seth MacFarlane and J.J. Abrams to invigorate its schedule.
The network is making its largest original-programming investment yet with a crop of 11 new series along with the miniseries from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan for the 2013-14 season, Kevin Reilly, Fox Entertainment chairman, said Monday. That's more than double the five series it announced last year.
Fox was the second of the major broadcast networks to announce its schedule for next season, following NBC's unveiling Sunday of an even heftier load of 17 new series.
After changing the TV landscape with "American Idol," Fox is jumping on the miniseries bandwagon that started rolling with the History channel's hits "Hatfields & McCoys" and "The Bible."
"Wayward Pines," from Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") and based on the best-selling novel "Pines," stars Matt Dillon in what Fox called a "mind-bending thriller" about the search for missing federal agents in an Idaho town. It will air in midseason.
Other broadcast network miniseries reportedly are in the works, following cable's success with the genre that once was a TV mainstay but had gone dormant.
"American Idol" is staying put on Wednesday and Thursday nights when it returns for its 13th season next January. The same can't be said for its judges: Original panelist Randy Jackson said he won't be back, and speculation has newcomers Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban exiting as the aging series seeks a reboot.
MacFarlane, a key Fox supplier with the animated comedies "Family Guy," ''American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show," will be trying his hand at a live-action sitcom. "Dads" stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as best friends whose fathers (Martin Mull, Peter Riegert) become their new roommates.
Abrams ("Lost," ''Fringe" and the "Star Trek" movie franchise) is among the producers of "Almost Human," described by Fox as a high-tech action series set 35 years in the future, when officers are teamed with humanlike androids. The drama debuting this fall stars Karl Urban, Michael Ealy and Lili Taylor.
The second new fall drama is "Sleepy Hollow," a retelling of Washington Irving's classic 19th-century tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Timid schoolmaster Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected 250 years in the future and discovers he must save the world from destruction.
"The Following," the Kevin Bacon drama about an alliance of serial killers that proved a hit for Fox in its freshman year, will be back on the schedule in midseason.
Fox's Tuesday-night comedy block, introduced last year, will get two new occupants this fall, "Dads" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," which pairs Andy Samberg ("Saturday Night Live") and Andre Braugher ("Men of a Certain Age," ''Homicide: Life on the Street") as a hotshot detective and veteran captain.
"The Mindy Project" and "New Girl" will return to Tuesday, and the latter sitcom has earned the prized post-Super Bowl spot next February, Fox said.
Their block mate, "Raising Hope," is moving to Friday for its fourth season, where it will be paired with "Enlisted," about a man who returns home to reconnect with his two brothers and take charge of a group of misfits on a small Florida Army base.
Its cast includes Geoff Stults, who starred in the now-canceled "Ben and Kate."
Other series canceled by Fox include "Touch," ''Goodwin Games," ''Mob Doctor" and the long-running "Cops," which has been picked up by the Spike network.
One new reality show, a cooking competition for youngsters ages 8 to 13 and with the working title, "Junior Masterchef," will debut in the fall with Gordon Ramsey among its coaches.
In midseason, Greg Kinnear will take on his first continuing broadcast series role in "Rake," a legal drama based on a hit Australian series of the same name. The actor, whose movie credits include "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Baby Mama," starred in the cable miniseries "The Kennedys."
Fox's other new shows, all set for midseason, are:
"Gang Related," about a gang task force in Los Angeles confronting the city's most dangerous criminals, stars Terry O'Quinn ("Lost") as the task force's leader and rapper-producer RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Ramon Rodriguez as members.
"Us & Them," a comedy based on the British hit "Gavin and Stacey," stars Jason Ritter ("Parenthood") and Alexis Bledel ("The Gilmore Girls") as a young couple who find their relationship complicated by family and friends.
"Surviving Jack," based on Justin Halpern's semi-autobiographical book, is set in 1990s Southern California and stars Christopher Meloni ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit") in a coming-of-age sitcom about a man and his son.
"Murder Police," an animated comedy about an inept detective and his colleagues, features the voices of Will Sasso, Chi McBride, Jane Lynch and Jason Ruiz, one of its executive producers.


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Justin wrote:SuspiciousMind wrote:What butchering? We're not talking about a 'Viva Elvis' type of remix or remake. We're talking about a slight overdub that matches the original sound as it sounded live in front of a live audience. There's a lot that could be done with the 68 material that could draw new interest. But, that would be thinking outside the box. They do not do that at Sony. Too cheap.
Too cheap? Try, too "respectful." Sony is smart enough not to disturb the Comeback special by permanently marring it with cheap overdubs just to satisfy the few fans out there that are to dense to appreciate these wonderful performances exactly as they are. In the millions of words written, praising the Comeback special, no one has ever complained that drums were too low in the mix or that it was in need of overdubs to "enhance" the experience. It's kind of mind-boggling to think that any fan would suggest this.
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:10 am
Matthew wrote:C'mon Justin, you're not "thinking outside the box"!
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:11 am
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:16 am
SuspiciousMind wrote:Matthew wrote:C'mon Justin, you're not "thinking outside the box"!
Neither are you.
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:19 am
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:20 am
Matthew wrote:SuspiciousMind wrote:Matthew wrote:C'mon Justin, you're not "thinking outside the box"!
Neither are you.
One of these images represents the 68 Special material. The other represents the 68 Special material painted over with overdubs.
Can you guess which is which?
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:22 am
SuspiciousMind wrote:Please just be quiet. You have no idea what was being proposed. All you did like most, was jump to conclusions.
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:25 am
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:47 am
Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:50 am
Matthew wrote:You need to play ball if you're gonna be a team player SuspiciousMind - please answer the question, which image is which?
By the way, Prince From Another Planet was not just targeted at the general public. In either case, preserving the historical integrity of important recordings is more important here than tarnishing the quality of some of Elvis' greatest recordings. You may need to get over that.
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SuspiciousMind wrote:FYI, Prince From... was remixed. So there.
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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
I loved the Hallowed Ones, so I can hardly wait for The Outside by Laura Bickle. In stores September 2013.
After a plague of vampires is unleashed in the world, Katie is kicked out of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. Now in exile, she enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two "English" friends and a horse by her side. Together they seek answers and other survivors—but each sunset brings the threat of vampire attack, and each sunrise the threat of starvation.
And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can these new people be trusted, and are they even people at all?
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, it's up to one Amish girl to save her family, her community, and the boy she loves . . . but what will she be asked to leave behind in return?
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Contact Information For Leaders In Florida:
Senator Marco Rubio: 202-224-5274
Senator Bill Nelson: 850-599-9100
Congressman Steve Southerland: 850-561-3979
Contact Information For Leaders In Georgia:
Senator John Hardy Isakson: 770-661-0999
Senator Saxby Chambliss: 770-985-2112
Congressman Sanford Bishop: 229-439-8067
Press Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop (GA-02) released a statement regarding the failure of Congress to pass a budget or 'continuing resolution' to fund the government and keep services open for all Americans:
"As you may have heard, rather than seek a bipartisan consensus, a small minority in the United States Congress resorted to brinksmanship at the eleventh hour in order to achieve their goals, forcing the government to shutdown. Frankly, I do not believe the Founders of our great nation intended for Congress to shun its constitutional and moral responsibility to keep the government operating for all Americans. It's no wonder that the American people are mighty fed up.
"This partisan bickering is threatening the livelihoods of millions of Americans, rattling the stock market, threatening investments, and potentially disrupting our long-term economic recovery. Locally, many vital services that veterans, seniors, families, small business, and our communities rely on for healthcare, education, and economic development will be delayed. Federal offices have closed and many hard-working Americans are going unpaid.
"Everyday Americans employed by the Federal Government will be met with hardship at work and at home. Rent, taxes, mortgages, children's tuition, food, and travel all will be impacted as paychecks are delayed. As hundreds of thousands of employees wait for their pay, local economies and communities will feel the brunt of Congress' failure to pass a funding bill.
"Recalling the lessons we learned after the last government shutdown in 1995-1996, I remember first-hand how it affected Middle and Southwest Georgia. It didn't make sense then and it surely doesn't make sense now. I remain hopeful that we can stop this manufactured crisis and end this Republican government shutdown for the good of the American people."
As a guide on affected government programs, please note the designations below on what services will be affected during this government shutdown:
U.S. Military:
Nearly 1.4 million active duty military personnel deployed at home and overseas defending our nation's interests will be paid for their work during the shutdown, but civilian employees are subject to furloughs.
Federal Workers:
Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees are immediately and indefinitely furloughed, and many Federal employees and contractors that continue to work will not be paid during the shutdown, including many at Fort Benning, the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, and Robins Air Force Base.
National Parks and Museums:
All national parks and federal wildlife refuges are closed for the duration of the shutdown, including the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site and the Andersonville National Historic Site. About 9 million visitors were turned away from parks, museums, and monuments run by the National Park Service in the mid-1990s, the last time the government shut down temporarily.
Head Start:
19,000 children have been left without Head Start Services.
Housing loans to low and middle income families in rural and urban communities are put on hold, as will start-up business loans for farmers and ranchers.
Jobs and Small Business:
SBA will stop approving applications for small businesses to obtain loans and loan guarantees. In a typical month, SBA approves over $1 billion in loan assistance to small businesses. Army Corps of Engineers construction has stopped, hurting private companies, preventing job creation, and forcing closure or reduced hours for 2,500 Corps of Engineers Sites.
Veterans Services:
Most services offered through the Department of Veterans Affairs will continue, though they may be delayed due to furloughs. Additionally, VA claim processor's output could drop from 6500 to 4500 claims a day, decreasing the VA's effectiveness of cutting into its claims backlog. Operators will continue to staff the crisis hotline and claims workers will still process payments to cover disability and pension benefits. Those veterans appealing the denial of disability benefits to the Board of Veterans Appeals will have to wait longer for a decision because the Board will not issue any decisions during a shutdown.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security:
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other mandatory programs will not be affected for existing recipients, though providers' payments to doctors and hospitals may be delayed. Processing of new applications and other administrative duties may be delayed due to furloughs.
Important government research into life-threatening diseases, environmental protection, and other areas would be halted. NASA will furlough almost all of its employees, but it will continue to keep workers at Mission Control in Houston and elsewhere to support the International Space Station.
Deliveries would continue as usual because the U.S. Postal Service receives no tax dollars for day-to-day operations. It relies on income from stamps and other postal fees to operate.
Federal courts will continue to operate normally for about 10 business days after the start of a shutdown. If the shutdown continues, the judiciary will have to begin furloughs of employees whose work is not considered essential. Cases will continue to be heard. The U.S. Supreme Court also is scheduled to begin its new term on October 7. In previous government shutdowns, it continued to operate as normal.
For more information, please refer to the Congressional Research Service guide, "Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes, and Effects."
Press Release: Senator Bill Nelson
Nelson: There's no question ... we ought to be keeping the government open. ... This is doing harm to individuals and to the country. For example, 72% of all the people in our intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, are furloughed.
Q: The longer that the shutdown goes, what are the political implications, one way or the other?
Nelson: It is a small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives that want to shut down the government. They are irresponsible and reckless.
Nelson: If the Speaker of the House just brought up the funding bill it would pass overwhelmingly in the House, too.
Q: Senate Democrats seem united. Do you see that changing if the shutdown continues for longer than a week?
Nelson: What I see happening is that if it's more than a day or two, people are going to get so irritated that lives are disrupted, that they can't get the government services. ... I think people are going to get so upset that they're going to insist that the government should open up again.
Q: What do you think happens next?
Nelson: If reasonable people were doing this, there would never have been shut down in the first place.
Q: Are you going to get paid during the shutdown?
Nelson: I'm not shutting down. I'm going to keep fighting to get reasonable folks on both sides of the aisle to come together and to find a common-sense solution to this budget gridlock. And I will fight to restore the pay of the people who are furloughed.
Why is the senate refusing to go to a conference committee to resolve this?
Nelson: The Senate has asked to go to a conference to reach an agreement on government spending for the past six months. We are ready to meet right now, but after they open up the government.


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This newer version of the Babolat XCel Premium string offers everything that the older string had as well as more durability.
With a new construction phase that uses polymid binds instead of polyurethane, Babolat was able to increase the durability and tension maintenance of the string.
Plays very soft and natural gut-like, this is one of the better multi-filament strings available.


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The STEM AK program of the Juneau Economic Development Council brings an exciting lineup of summer camps to kids in Southeast. Camps are focused on cultivating curious minds in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math and are led by enthusiastic professional educators aiming to provide a camp experience that is safe, engaging, and full of hands-on learning and exploration.
2013 camp topics range from app programming and robotics to flight science and rocket building. New this year is a girls-only Build Your Own Skateboard Camp (there is one for boys as well) and a session focused on Geocaching and GPS. Eleven camps fit for a variety of ages will be offered in Juneau throughout the summer with Advanced Rocketry for seventh-ninth graders available in Ketchikan and Sitka. Camps are designed for kids entering fourth-12th grade, start June 10th and range from one to five days. Details of each camp and registration instructions can be found at www.STEMAK.org . The 2013 Summer Science Camps series is as follows:
Fly to Learn Ground School, June 10-14 in Juneau, grades 7-9
App Camp, June 17-21 in Juneau, grades 7-12
Geocaching and GPS Camp, June 17-19 in Juneau, grades 6-8
Advanced Rocketry Camp, June 24-28 in Sitka, grades 7-9
Sun to Sea, July 8-12 in Juneau, grades 7-8
Beginner FIRST Lego Programming, July 8-12 in Juneau, grades 4-9
Advanced FIRST Robotics Programming, July 8-12 in Juneau, grades 4-9
Advanced Rocketry Camp, July 8-12 in Ketchikan, grades 7-9
Girls-only Build Your Own Skateboard, July 22-26 in Juneau, grades 7-10
Boys-only Build Your Own Skateboard, July 29-Aug 2 in Juneau, grades 7-10
Kitchen Chemistry, August 5-9 in Juneau, grades 4-6
JEDC has a limited amount of funding for Summer Science financial aid. Aid is awarded on the basis of household income and in the order that completed financial aid applications are received until funding is exhausted for this year.
For more information on the JEDC STEM Summer Science Camps, contact Robert Vieth at firstname.lastname@example.com or 523-2342. For media inquiries, contact Marie Franklin, Communications Officer for the Juneau Economic Development Council, at email@example.com or 523-2323.


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Regarding "Raising a Risk Taker" by Kent Greenfield (Perspective, July 29), one of the skills I learned as the parent of a now 26-year-old born risk taker was to not project my anxiety and instead to urge her toward cautious decision making. When my daughter was not quite 2, she loved to climb to the top of the monkey bars at our local park, horrifying the other mothers. Her father and I both taught her to pay attention to how she climbed up, so she would know how to reverse her steps to go back down. Two dozen years later, she's into rock climbing, sky-diving, and base jumping and has learned the precautions of her interests well, so she is as safe as possible while enjoying her extreme sports.
Allyson D. Platt / Easthampton
Greenfield's comments on taking a risk with his son hiking in the Dolomites in Italy smack of elitism. There are thousands of poor and working-class families who would love to take that kind of risk but never get the chance to travel to Europe. And children younger than 14 have had to travel to school on public transportation either because of school assignments or economic necessity. The next time you feel compelled to boast about your child-rearing style, please stop and think about the children and families without such privileges.
Monica Benson / Somerville
I love Miss Conduct's columns, but her answer about reading 50 Shades of Grey at the hospital is so prudish (July 29)! I'm a 26-year-old who, along with all my friends, read these books because they were good — not to get off. I've read them at parks, on the beach, along with millions of other women. Who cares if people judge where we choose to read a book?
Amanda Jarvis / Allston
Read erotica, or whatever, anywhere you'd like. It will hopefully put a smile on your face and others'. Hot and bothered by what you read? That could also happen anywhere through sight, sound, or smell. As a 68-year-old mother and grandmother, I say go with it. Life is too short to worry about what other people think.
Susan Harrington / Manchester-by-the-Sea
Miss Conduct writes, "I pity the women whose lives are so tightly scheduled that they must pencil in their porn." Trust me, these women don't want or care about her pity. Is she so high and mighty that she is doling out pity and telling women when they should read? The person she attacked was reading in front of her (prude) sister in a hospital room, not on a public train.
Ann Powers / Lynnfield
Readers took to Boston.com to debate Billy Baker's "That Place We Call the Real Southie Is Gone" (July 29). Excerpts from the discussion:
SouthBostonResident wrote: Yuppie families . . . are staying and sending their kids to Boston public schools. Which means in 15 years there is going to be a bunch of teens from highly educated, respectful, and well-spoken households who are going to say "Southie is my hometown." More gentrification please!
Syrindge wrote: I've lived in Southie since 1997 (I was 27 years old). I'm male, have a good job, and like to go out to the bars to have a good time. I've never once been called a yuppie.
GretchenR wrote: Hey, Syrindge! You're a YUPPI!
The answer to the August 5 trivia question — "Which two actors were Steven Spielberg's original choices for the role of shark hunter Quint in Jaws?" —is . . . Lee Marvin and Sterling Hayden. Congratulations to Dan Boone of Harvard, Allison Goodchild of Beverly, Dave Malin of Boston, Dave Timmons of Methuen, and Frank of Melrose, who were the first five readers to e-mail us the correct answer. Each will receive the newly remastered Jaws Blu-ray from Universal Studios.COMMENTS? Write to firstname.lastname@example.com or The Boston Globe Magazine/Letters, PO Box 55819, Boston, MA 02205-5819. Letters are subject to editing.


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RelaxSing Holidays welcomes people from Australia, Europe and around the world to come together as a choir to relax and sing in spectacular locations.
We invite you to join us, meet new friends and feel the magic and exhilaration of creating beautiful harmonies as one.
RelaxSing Tuscany, Italy 2013 for one week from 14 September 2013. Relax with in a superb venue near the beautiful medieval town of San Gimignano and discover all the beauty that rural Tuscany has to offer. Sing an exciting repertoire of songs under the guidance of our gifted Musical Director and Accompanist and experience the joy of "harmonising relaxation with song".
The lovely accommodation is located within a 300 hectare authentically restored Tuscan Estate which has produced wine and olive oil for centuries. The Fattorie di Santo Pietro offers typical Tuscan style en-suite rooms in carefully restored apartments, surrounded by extensive manicured grounds. A wonderful pool with sun deck, a dedicated meeting room for singing, delicious food and wine served in the adjoining restaurant and wonderful scenic views all combine to provide the perfect setting for a most relaxing and memorable stay.
During the week enjoy singing a wide range of songs which have been carefully selected to include both classical and modern styles, some with an Italian theme. RelaxSing will provide the music to you in advance so that during the holiday we can work at perfecting our singing technique while continuing to focus on fun. The week will end with a public performance of our repertoire in the town of San Gimignano.
To complete the RelaxSing experience there are a variety of afternoon excursions to visit some of the most picturesque towns and enjoy the delightful scenery of Tuscany. There will also be an opportunity to participate in a free afternoon of wine tasting on the Estate and for a small additional charge, a Tuscan cooking lesson.
Interested? Visit our Events page and find out more about RelaxSing Tuscany 2013.
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onto Italia Mia
RelaxSing Holidays welcomes people from Australia, Europe and around the world to come together as a choir to relax and sing in spectacular locations.


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Forza Horizon's SmartGlass application, promised as one of the first to be supported in Microsoft's new initiative, has launched today. It's available now on Windows 8 PCs, and adds an interactive map of Colorado that interfaces with the game.
Players can pinch and zoom in SmartGlass to explore the map, and tap to set waypoints that will then be automatically routed in the game. You can also use the map to find special items, like the upgrade discount signs and race events. You can filter by content type on the map to find events easily, and play the full game without pausing to look at your map.
Others listed among the early SmartGlass-linked applications include Halo Waypoint, Kinect Sesame Street TV, and video apps like ESPN, NBA Game Time, UFC, the Elections 2012 app, HBO Go, MSN, NBC News, NOW TV, Slacker Radio, Today, and Univision.


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As reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on July 31, 2012
CBO estimates that implementing S. 3410 would have no significant effect on discretionary spending over the 2013-2017 period. Enacting S. 3410 could result in collections of additional civil and criminal penalties, which would affect both revenues and direct spending; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, CBO estimates that those effects also would be insignificant.
S. 3410 would reauthorize the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, and Fraud Enforcement with Enforcers beyond Borders Act, which will expire on December 22, 2013. The act provides administrative tools to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that augment its authority to enforce federal laws related to unfair and deceptive trade practices, such as sharing information with foreign agencies and investigating fraud that originates outside of the United States. The bill also would extend an authorization to appropriate $100,000 each year for the FTC to collaborate with foreign governments and to participate in multinational organizations related to law enforcement. Based on information from the FTC, CBO expects that enacting S. 3410 could change the types of fraud cases the agency investigates but would not change the agency's workload. Therefore, CBO estimates that implementing S. 3410 would not have a significant effect on discretionary costs over the 2013-2017 period.
Enacting S. 3410 could increase federal revenues and direct spending as a result of additional criminal and civil penalties assessed for violations of laws related to unfair and deceptive trade practices. Collections of civil penalties are recorded in the budget as revenues. Collections of criminal penalties are recorded in the budget as revenues, deposited in the Crime Victims Fund, and later spent. CBO estimates that the net effects of those transactions would be insignificant for each year because of the relatively small number of cases likely to be involved.
S. 3410 would impose intergovernmental mandates, as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA), by extending preemptions of state and local laws that prohibit individuals from disclosing information to the FTC and that require individuals to notify third parties if they disclose information to the FTC. Under current law, the preemptions would expire at the end of 2013; the bill would extend them until September 30, 2020. While the preemptions would limit the application of state and local law, CBO estimates that they would impose no duty on state, local, or tribal governments that would result in additional spending.
S. 3410 also would extend an existing mandate that exempts from liability private entities that voluntarily provide certain information about third parties to the FTC. The extension of such protections constitutes a mandate on those third-party entities because it limits their ability to file a claim for the disclosure or failure to provide notice of disclosure. The cost of the mandate would be the forgone net value of settlements and damages that would have been awarded. Based on information from the FTC, few such lawsuits would probably be filed. Therefore, CBO expects that the cost of the mandate would fall below the annual threshold for private-sector mandates established in UMRA ($146 million, adjusted annually for inflation).
On August 16, 2012, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 6131, a bill to extend the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, and Fraud Enforcement with Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 31, 2012. The language extending the act is identical in both the House and Senate bills, and the CBO estimates of the cost for each bill are the same.


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Be there on October 26th, from 9-11 pm ET. Also, you can stop by @DiaperShops early and enjoy some pre-party fun too! Remember to use the hashtag #FluffnTreat!!!
Who to follow: @DiaperShops, @EcoChicParties, @EcoChicSidekick, and maybe a few others
Tweetgrid: http://is.gd/gbbeg *Add your name in the last grid @USERNAME. Feel free to add additional names or columns to follow your favorite co-sponsors from the list below. Don't like the grid? Try TweetChat or TweetDeck.
New to Twitter? What is a twitter party? How do you use TweetGrid? In addition to checking out these great Twitter Tips; @EcoChicSidekick offers pre-party training on the party evening from 8-9pm ET. You can always ask questions on Facebook to both the Sidekick and myself.
Be sure you are registered to enter to win the grand prize of a Nintendo Wii plus games: http://ecochicparties.theecochic.com./fluff-n-treat-with-diapershops-102610/
We have some awesome prizes this year (YOU MUST BE PRESENT at the party to win)- many from really cool companies you may not have heard about before, including:
Diapering Products:
- 3-Rockin Green 45/90 load detergent (Follow @rockingreensoap on Twitter)
- 2-Tot Bots One-Size Diapers in print (Follow @bummis on Twitter )
- 1-Rockin Green FUNK Rock (Follow @rockingreensoap on Twitter)
- 6-FuzziBunz Perfect Size Cloth Diapers (Follow @fuzzibunz on Twitter)
- 3-FuzziBunz One-Size Cloth Diapers (Follow @fuzzibunz on Twitter)
- 3-Kissaluvs Anti-Bacterial Pail Liners (Follow @kissaluvs on Twitter)
- 5-Kissaluvs One-Size Marvel Covers (Follow @kissaluvs on Twitter)
- 1-PlanetWise Kit- Includes wet/dry bag with matching changing pad. (Follow @planetwise on Twitter)
- 2-CuteyBaby Zippered Dry Bags (Follow @cuteybaby on Twitter)
- 1-Thirsties Diaper Kit Bundle (Follow @thirstiesinc on Twitter)
- Bamboobies - 1- Multi-Pack of Bamboobies Nursing Pads. The pack contains 3 pair of regular heart-shaped milk-proof bamboobies and one pair of overnight bamboobies in a lingerie bag and retail for $29.99. (Follow @bamboobies on Twitter)
- MenuForTheWeek.com - Meal planning made easy. 2- 1 year subscriptions to MenuForTheWeek.com. Value is $40 each. (Follow @MealPlanningMom on Twitter)
- Monkey-Toes.com - 2- shoes: 1) Halloween shoes (Goin Batty shoes & Playful Pumpkins) $35 – they have glow in the dark eyes. 2) Holiday shoes - Rowdy Reindeer & Shivers the Snowman are $31. (Follow @monkeytoesshoes on Twitter.)
- 2- Text Message Baby onesies (in the style and size of winners' choice) - organic and so cute! Retail value $30 each. (Follow @textmessagebaby on Twitter.)
- 1 - UnderCover Mama Shirt (including shipping valued at $25 USD). Winner to chose size and color. (Follow @undercover_mama on Twitter.)
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Foodie Flashback: Nothing Says Lovin' Like Something From the Oven!
Foodie Flashback: Nothing Says Lovin' Like Something From the Oven!
At the age of 42, the Pillsbury Doughboy — aka Poppin' Fresh — is looking good for his age. He hasn't needed any Botox and looks just as good as he did when he first debuted on Nov. 7, 1965. Although his outside appearance has stayed the same — he's computer generated now, but was originally a plaster and foam-rubber puppet — his interests have changed. Over the years he's appeared as an opera singer, a painter, a sky diver, a skateboarder, an accordion player, and more.
If you're wondering what he was like when he started, check out an early commercial below. When you're done, jump to the next page for a few more.
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WOODSTOCK – Turning Point, McHenry County's only comprehensive domestic violence agency and shelter, will launch a series of informational evenings starting March 7 with "You Need to Know ... About Teen Dating Violence."
The event will be at 7 p.m. at McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.
Turning Point children's counselor Molly Horton will speak about the issue of domestic violence among teenagers, including dating violence and a parent's role in spotting and stopping abusive teen relationships, and then take questions from the audience.
Horton also will discuss the "Choose Respect" program, which brings together representatives from Grace Lutheran Church, Woodstock School District 200 and Turning Point to promote healthy relationships among teens.
Teachers, students, parents and interested members of the community are invited to attend this free informational evening.
Future "You Need to Know ..." sessions will address issues such as supporting victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, cyberstalking and online harassment.
"This series of informational evenings is an important part of our mission to confront violence against women and children in McHenry County," Turning Point Executive Director Jane Farmer said in a news release. "We are committed to educating the community as to ways to recognize, prevent and stop incidents of domestic violence."
For information, call Joe at Turning Point at 815-338-8081.


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Commercial Paper Contracts to the Least in Five Months, Fed Says
The market for corporate borrowing through commercial paper contracted to the lowest level in five months as issuers reduced offerings of short-term IOUs, instead extending debt maturities by selling corporate bonds.
The seasonally adjusted amount of U.S. commercial paper fell $10.2 billion to $964.9 billion outstanding in the week ended yesterday, the Federal Reserve said today on its website. It's the longest stretch of declines since the period ended Oct. 19, 2011 and the lowest level since the market touched $939.9 billion May 2, according to Fed data compiled by Bloomberg.
Issuers are concerned that Europe's persistent debt crisis may degrade credit quality globally, making it more difficult for companies to repay short-term obligations. Borrowers are seizing advantage of record-low interest rates to issue longer- term company debt.
"Commercial-paper issuers are mindful of the current world where investors can and have abruptly caused debtors to lose market access, and have opted in many cases to extend their maturities," rather than issue short-term IOUs, Tony Crescenzi, a portfolio manager and strategist at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, wrote in an e-mail.
Commercial paper issued by U.S.-based financial institutions fell for a sixth week, dropping $8.1 billion to $249.4 billion outstanding, the lowest level since January 2011. Short-term IOUs sold by non-U.S. banks rose for a third week, increasing $200 million to $234.9 billion outstanding, according to the Fed.
Global Weakness
Weakness in the global economy is also reducing issuance, as companies have less need to raise short-term working capital, Crescenzi wrote. Corporations sell commercial paper, typically maturing in 270 days or less, to fund everyday activities such as rent and salaries.
Companies have sold $3.1 trillion of bonds worldwide this year, a pace that's second only to the record issuance in 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Yields on global investment-grade company bonds fell to an all-time low 2.725 percent yesterday, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.
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Awwwww! Kirby you are a real little fur doll to have sent me such a nice gift. I am so tickled with my Gurdian Angel pin that I am going to wear it ever day!! That is to sweet.. A million furry scrtiches of THANKS!!
Look folks what Kirby sent me! (Thanks QSL)
(On the back was written "To Laura, with PURRS From Kirby! )
Kirby is such a special guy that he has captured my heart and stollen it from far away.


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Interim Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez boss watched Fernando Torres return to top form to hand him the first Barclays Premier League victory of his tenure.
The Spain international added two first-half goals to the Champions League double he scored against Nordsjaelland in midweek to end a two-month wait to find the back of the net in the domestic competition.
Benitez said: "It's fair to say that we are watching now a Fernando with more confidence and with more belief, and at the same time, the team is the same way. I was analysing his movement before and we were adjusting little things. It's a question of confidence and just little different movements."
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — William Reinhardt will give the talk, "A Tour of Real and Imaginary Universes: Jorge Luis Borges meets Stephen Hawking," Monday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Bucknell.
"The talk will include an illustrated tour of a real (our own) and an imagined universe (that of Borges...), and staged dramatic readings from texts by Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, Ray Bradbury, Paul Auster, John McPhee and J.L. Borges," said Jay Vaishnav, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell.
Scientific and mathematical images appear in serious literature, as in the works of Borges and Thomas Mann. According to Reinhardt, scientists writing for a general audience have a great challenge in presenting quantitative mathematical ideas in verbal (non-mathematical and even non-pictorial) form.
"In this talk, intended for students and scholars of all disciplines, some illustrations are given from physical, literary and mathematical points of view," said Vaishnav.
Some of the questions Reinhardt will examine include: What does it mean to be large or small? What is a long time? What is a short time? How big is the physical universe versus the universe of the imagination? What is the difference between information and knowledge?
Reinhardt is professor of chemistry, and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the associate editor for chemistry for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions project, and a frequent visitor to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory in Gaithersburg.
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Fireworks at Lake Ashtabula Set for July 5
The Lake Ashtabula Fireworks Association is planning another big show on the lake next Friday, and they're still taking donations to help pay for the ever-increasing cost of fireworks.
The fireworks association anticipates that boats will fill the water and people will line the shores Friday, July 5, at the Ashtabula Crossing at dusk while the sky lights up for the annual show.
The association has been selling raffle tickets for $5 a piece. Prizes include gas cards, grocery cards, cash and other prizes donated partially by some area businesses. Tickets are for sale until Saturday, July 13, and can be purchased at Brothers III or by calling Monte at (701) 840-2349 or board member Rick Anderson at (701) 840-5353. The drawing will be Saturday, July 13, at 7 p.m. at the Valley City Eagles Club. Participants need not be present to win.
The association is also still taking donations that can be sent to P.O. Box 12, Valley City, N.D. 58072.
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20 years back when I was working in a robot lab - we used to talk about autonomous water based robots for apps such as pollution detection and marine ecological mapping. 20 years later intelligent robotic fish that are capable of working together to detect and identify pollution in ports and other aquatic areas have been developed adn are being tested. Awesome article from the institution of Engineering and Technology. Learn more...
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More software for Enterprise Linux - the EPEL repo
Just curious if people use or contribute to the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository?
This add-on repository is a set of community-supported packages that are rebuilt from the Fedora software repository. It has packages for Drupal, Moodle, git, many Perl modules, and so on. There are over 4000 EL5 and ~1800 EL4 packages registered for i386, for example.
These packages are intentionally supported, that is, it is not just a rebuild of all Fedora packages with maintainers who don't care about Enterprise Linux users. Instead, these package maintainers specifically want to support software in a style similar to the RHEL maintenance.
EPEL tries to focus on stability, updating software in a similar philosophy with Red Hat around RHEL. This is different from the rest of Fedora, where updating to the latest from upstream is the norm. EPEL updates are more likely to be conservative, security and bug fixes over feature enhancements.
My favorite thing about EPEL is how it lets an organization directly contribute to an upstream about only the software that matters to them. If you have a set of Perl modules you use that are not in RHEL, put them in EPEL. You gain instant community collaboration, only have a small set of packages to maintain, and you get a ton of potential and real QA on those packages.
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Fiddler in my head
Guest posted by Brian Zimmerman
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, and to celebrate, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, where I work, is hosting a free screening of the 1971 film adaptation on their Feinberg Theatre big screen.
In preparation for the April 6 event, I've been listening non-stop to the Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack. As a result, I often catch myself humming "If I Were a Rich Man," or "Tradition!" in the most inconvenient situations, like during a meeting, or when I'm trying to fall asleep (not in a meeting). As I learned the hard way, these Fiddler songs sure are sticky.
Looking to clear my brain of Tevye's baritone voice, I turned to psychologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose book Musicophilia provided a handy explanation for why some songs are catchier than others.
Normally, writes Dr. Sacks, our brains perceive music in a passive state. They hear it, absorb it, then let it go. But for some music, that's not the case: "Sometimes normal musical imagery crosses a line and becomes, so to speak, pathological, as when a certain fragment of music repeats itself incessantly, sometimes maddeningly, for days on end," he says.
He calls these fragments "earworms," for the way they seem to bury themselves in our ears, and his book provides three theories on what makes them stick. The first is repetition.
Recalling the days of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing in England, Dr. Sacks describes a scene around his Seder table after the Passover meal when his family would sing "Chad Gadya," a traditional Passover song. As many of us know, "Chad Gadya" is a laboriously repetitive tune, with the chorus chanted up to 46 times. After so many repetitions, Sacks said the tune "would haunt [him] and pop into [his] mind dozens of times a day throughout the eight days of Passover, then slowly diminish throughout the next year."
I admit, in gearing up for our Fiddler event I've probably listened to "Sunrise, Sunset" more times than is healthy your average human being. But as Dr. Sacks notes, repetition isn't the only reason a song gets stuck in a person's head. The second is cultural association.
In his book, Sacks theorizes that the stickiness of "Chad Gadya" had something to do with the context in which the tune was sung. For him, the song represented his own Jewish heritage, as well as the feeling of warmth and togetherness of being with his family. Because his brain craved those warm feelings, it would play the song again and again in his head, much to the annoyance of his eardrums.
Which brings us to the last ingredient in the making of a good earworm: overstimulation.
In the pre-industrial age, if people wanted to hear music, they had to go to a house of worship, concert, or party to get their fix. But with the advent of broadcasting, the way society consumed music changed overnight. Music became available everywhere - in our homes, our cars, our workplaces, even our showers. As Sacks writes, we now live in an era when "half of us are plugged into iPods, immersed in daylong concerts of our own choosing, virtually oblivious to the environment." There's hardly a public place we can go to today in which we're not totally bombarded by music.
Sacks thinks this musical omnipresence is responsible for the mass outbreak of earworms. "This barrage of music puts a certain strain on our exquisitely sensitive auditory systems, which cannot be overloaded without dire consequences," he says. He has a point. Overstimulation adds stress to our mental faculties, causing them to react in all kinds of unexpected ways. That's part of the reason why we experience anxiety when faced with mounting deadlines at work, or panic when we're lost in an unfamiliar place. When our brains are stressed, our mental faculties become confused, and that's when earworms are most likely to strike.
So is there anything we can learn from earworms, knowing that they arise from overstimulation?
Absolutely. And lucky for us, some of the wisest words ever spoken about musical overstimulation came from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, an 18th-century Jewish sage and founder of the Breslover Hasidic Dynasty.
A music lover, he often explained the world in terms of song. Take this psalm for example:
Know that each and every shepherd has his own tune.
Know that each and every grass has its own song.
And from the song of the grasses the tune of the shepherd is made.
How beautiful, how beautiful and pleasant to hear their song.
According to Rebbe Nachman, we live in a world in which every living thing has its own melody. We might assume that all these sounds blaring at our eardrums would make for a miserable existence, stressing our nervous systems the way Dr. Sacks describes. But Rebbe Nachman says the opposite, suggesting that a life filled with music is "beautiful" and "pleasant." He goes on to say that it's this accumulation of songs that defines our identities. In other words, we are the songs we choose to hear.
This got me thinking about my Fiddler on the Roof earworm, and it led me to a change in perspective.
I love Fiddler on the Roof. It's one of my favorite musicals, and I have fond memories of watching it on my living room couch with my family. It also brings to mind the long and captivating history of the Jews, a history to which I am proudly tied. So the next time "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and "Wonder of Wonders" pop into my consciousness, I shouldn't get annoyed. I should think about how the songs remind me of my family and the Jewish traditions I hold near to my heart. After all, these are the "songs of the grasses" from which I am made. To that I can only say, "L'Chaim!" (Uh-oh, I think I feel another song coming on.)
If you want to join me at Spertus Institute on April 6 to see Fiddler on the big screen, reserve your seat at spertus.edu/fiddler or call 312.322.1773.Get ready to sing!


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I'm goin with my father. I am a little bit more excited for the game since we won today and if we win on thursday then maybe we can turn the season around but I highly doubt it.
I know of myself and about 15-20 people in our tailgate who will be there.
Sadly my family T-day dinner is in frigging Pittsburgh this year...
Happily though got 350 net for each of my three seats. One of the big plusses of having best value LSL seats with great views of the entire field
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I'll be there, 6 of us are driving all the way down from Nova Scotia, Canada in a RV. I'm super pumped up, can't wait! It gonna be a ****show!
Even thou the Jets are 4-6 I'm holding out hope for a repeat of 2009.
Any other Canadians going to be at the game?
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I'm planning on going but haven't yet figured out my detailed plan (arrival time, small tailgate vs. no tailgate, etc).
Does anyone know if the Holiday or lingering effects from the hurricane impact anything related to public transportation options for this game? The bus from the Port Authority or train options? I'm going to go look now but wondered if anyone knew off the top of their head.
On one of the other topics of this thread, I don't think this team is going to the playoffs, but technically it's not over at 6 losses. It will probably be over if and when loss 7 comes, and will near definitely be over if and when loss 8 comes.
With 6 losses, we're hanging on by a shoestring and probably need to run the table (yipes) or at best lose just 1 of their remaining 6.
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Opalesque Industry Update - BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported that the hedge fund industry took in a net $4.7 billion (0.3% of assets) in November, reversing a $10.3 billion outflow in October. The results are based on data from 2,935 funds.
The latest monthly TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Hedge Fund Flow Report notes that the hedge fund industry earned 0.6% in November, besting the benchmark S&P 500 Index's 0.3% increase and marking the second consecutive month that the industry outperformed the S&P 500.
"Two months of outperformance signal a notable shift from the dominant trend of the past 12 months, when the industry gained 6.2% while the S&P 500 rose 13.6%," said Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge.
Although returns and cash flow improved in November, the past 12 months have not been so kind. Industry outflows totaled $21.2 billion (1.2% of assets) from December 2011 through November 2012, a sharp reversal compared with the previous 12-month industry inflow of $61.9 billion. TrimTabs and BarclayHedge reported that while the industry lost assets last year, top-performing hedge funds continued to gain assets over the same time period.
The Hedge Fund Flow Report also noted that Emerging Markets hedge funds had the highest returns for the month, at 1.3%, among the 13 categories tracked by BarclayHedge. Distressed Securities funds netted the best 12-month returns at 10.0%.
"Emerging Market and Distressed Securities funds show that the riskier investments are generating the higher returns for a change," said Charles Biderman, founder and CEO of TrimTabs. "For much of the past year, safer Fixed Income hedge funds took in the most money by dollar volume and delivered the highest returns." Fixed Income funds took in $25.6 billion (12.5% of assets) and earned 9.0% over the past 12 months.
The December 2012 TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers found that managers overwhelmingly expect the S&P 500 Index to rise this year, but few expect a repeat of last year's strong performance. Managers expect financial and industrial stocks to be the top two sectors this year. Sixty hedge fund managers participated in the survey.
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I like things that cooperate, and I am getting just a little sick of a bunch of cows on a farm in Rutland.
Every time I go by them, they seem to be mocking me.
Last year in this kind of heat (you know: awful, life-sucking, oppressive heat that only a driver of a Subaru with defective air conditioning can really appreciate), I drove past a couple of long-horned cows standing waist deep in a pond.
I thought, �Cool. I want a picture.�
At the time, all I had was an iPhone for a camera. By the time I got done messing around with trying to zoom the phone and focus it and take the pictures, the cows got spooked and ran out of the water and into the field. They then stood there with simpering smiles on their faces.
Since then, I have tried several times to catch them in the water, to no avail. I go on the hottest days, and you would think wooly creatures like that would be dying in the heat, but they just stand there in the field chewing stuff.
I have since changed my focus. I now just want to get pictures of them in the field, but even that is proving impossible. Every time I approach them, slowly, patiently, camera in hand, they stare directly at me. At the last second, as I am about to click the shutter, they turn away. I can almost hear them snickering to each other, �Got him again.�
It was the same on Friday. I drove past them, stopped, snuck up and tried to photograph them. They again turned away. I think I actually heard a giggle from one of the younger ones. Eventually I gave up. It was too hot and humid. I will just have to find some nice short-haired cows to photograph.
I am beginning to lose my mind in this heat. It was awful Friday when I was writing this. I thought I was going to explode. By the time this has run, I may have exploded.
I know a lot of people just love the idea that summer is here and they can jump into their swim trunks and rush off to some lake to alternately bake and soak until they have an unhealthy looking skin coloration that is somewhere between fully baked and medium rare.
These summer people � yes, you know who you are � think they are just plain cool, striding around in their shorts and tank tops, mocking me like a pack of long-haired cattle. There could be a connection.
I really don�t like summer weather. I have never been fond of it. It is just not in my chemical make-up. Spring and fall are my favorite seasons; winter is third, and summer is to be endured. If I could have 75-degree or under weather, I would be thrilled.
Part of this is because a good portion of my ancestors came from the British Isles, where it is proper weather most of the year. We like moderation when it comes to weather. We are not weak or whiney, but we know that hot weather just brings pestilence.
Until this week, I had pretty much forgotten that summer was coming. Then Wednesday and Thursday, it hit me like an anvil. I don�t have air conditioning in my car. No car of mine has ever had good air conditioning, unless you count the newer car my wife has. I don�t have it because I just think it encourages the weather to be too hot. I also buy old, beat-up cars that once may have had air conditioning, but it was not working by the time I bought them.
I do love swimming, but never liked burning my feet on the beach when I got out of the water. I like going to get ice cream in the summer, but if I have to wait in line in the heat to get it, I get cranky.
When it is hot, I just want to avoid people and boil away in my misery.
I hear the heat wave will only last through Sunday, and that is a relief. Once it gets cold again, I will stop complaining and stop whining. But for now, you and the cows better stay away and let me fuss.
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An elderly man is suing the Richmond Police department after he was arrested and thousands of dollars of cash was confiscated from his car. When officers pulled Otto Wilhite over they claimed he was swerving. The 72 year old says it was because he is black and was behind the wheel of a Mercedes Benz.
When the officers asked Wilhite if they could search his car, he says he refused. But police did anyway and didn't turn up anything illegal. What they did find was $16,000 in cash. Money Wilhite says he needed to buy a car from a woman in Madison County.
When the cash was processed police recorded only 12 thousand dollars. They also processed a bag of marijuana, which, according to the complaint, the officer " found in the back of his cruiser" and "claimed that perhaps it belonged Wilhite."
Wilhite was charged with marijuana possesion, but all of the charges were dismissed with prejudice.
After the ruling, Wilhite tried to get back his money, he couldn't because the city turned it over to the DEA.
No one from the city of Richmond or the police would comment on the case. An attorney for the city says the case is a federal case and Wilhite should take up with the DEA.


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I know that people have teething problems with Linux, but I had NO problems with Windows installation.
but heck if support for modems is crap then you are going to alienate anyone who wants to migrate.
which Im taking back as it clearly ISNT compatible with Linux, it gets detected as a scanner!!
Quite frankly I don't care what the Linux community thinks about me using M$ (anyone who uses that phrase really discredit themselves on this forum).
Now I am on ADSL and both ADSL modems do not work with Linux.
With Linux I may fall into the trap that I think it is 100% secure and stable and so get lacks about security, backups, spam, spyware, hackwares etc.
Is the average user supposed to rebuild the linux kernel just to get one component to work?!
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Farmers Market is a family affair! Viola Shaw and family opened the Henry County Farmers Market on Saturday at the Courthouse in New Castle with a large variety of plants. Each week as we get further into the season there will be more and more farmers, plants and produce showing up! Support our local farmers and have a healthier diet by eating locally grown, fresh fruits and vegetables this summer!
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